Using Local Landscape Materials
We aim to create and sustain places that feel rooted in the landscape, that reflect and enhance the lives and pursuits of the people who inhabit them.
Reposted from localworkstudio Some samples leaving the workshop today. Internal plasters and external renders made from site-based materials 🌾🌱🌿for our project in #southdownsnationalpark with bbm_sustainable_design #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
WIP images of surface development for @assembleofficial using beautiful 100% waste-based tiles by @granbyworkshop. #wip #architecture #reuse #ceramics #architecturalceramics #lwsjournal
Despite lockdown chaos, really enjoyed an early morning/late night conversation with @molonglo @danihro @philip_christou @irenee.scalbert about risk, time, relational approaches to design and territorial urbanism. Thanks very much for the invitation @assembleofficial it made our week. #lwsjournal
Really enjoying our design and prototyping process for some external furniture for @maggiescentres with @sarahpricelandscapes. We are designing and making tables and benches using materials from the site and immediate local area. ♻️♻️♻️ #reuse #landscapearchitecture #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal @maggiesinsouthampton
Great to meet, talk and discuss with Rhode Island School of Design - Material Logic course @risdlandscape and @gavinz__ today. Landscape narratives, people, materials and processes. #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture @risd1877
@museoguatelli ..............................thanks @nicholas___brookz for the tip-off. #toolbox #lwsjournal
Some samples leaving the workshop today. Internal plasters and external renders made from site-based materials 🌾🌱🌿for our project in #southdownsnationalpark with @bbm_sustainable_design #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
We are working with @assembleofficial, on their amazing project at Durham Wharf, London. Developing bespoke materials for external and internal finishes. More to follow....#wasteisaresource #circulareconomy #architecture #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
Very grateful to @heritagecrafts for awarding us a generous grant from their latest round of funding 💥♻️💥@sussexheritagetrust #buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #learningfromthevernacular #lwsjournal
Lots of exciting and varied projects starting at LWS. designing - making - talking - thinking - repairing - collecting - testing - building - teaching. Big thanks to @thewoodentruth. #buildingcraft #jackofalltrades #lwsjournal
Our prototype waste bricks are heading off to mainland Europe, for further testing and experimental construction techniques. ♻️🏗🧱🔬Have a great trip! Wish I was going with you. #buildingcraft #lwsjournal #experimentalbuilding #brick #bricklove
Really enjoyed talking today to @aaschool Experimental Program, Unit 7. Focussing on using raw site-based materials, and a learning-through-making approach. #landscapearchitecture #localworksstudio #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Plaster samples for a current project in Sussex. Blends of chalk, clays and plant fibres. We’ve been designing, making and using natural plasters for 15 years. Inspired by historic vernacular UK processes and traditional Japanese plasterwork, which is exquisite. #plasterwork #buildingcraft #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #localworksstudio
Barley straw and 2 tons of lovely soft chalk picked up today from a farmer who works next to our current site in East Sussex. These materials will be processed into internal plasters. The barley is much softer than wheat 🌾 and a perfect plant fibre to reinforce our chalk plasters. The chalk is a soft, buff coloured material known as Marly Chalk, it contains impurity’s of clay, which make it softer than other chalks found in the South Downs. #landscapearchitecture #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
So happy to make a long-awaited design team visit to Barking Riverside yesterday with Xavier Llarch Font from @thedecorators and @anushkaathique. For the past month we’ve been busy reviewing the Placemaking Strategy for Barking Riverside and preparing to develop an implementation plan for placemaking interventions across this enormous site. Very exciting to be thinking at such a mind-blowing scale, at a very challenging time, that is nonetheless full of potential for positive change. #barkingriverside #placemaking #lwsjournal
Charcoal + chalk. We’re lucky to have a remote studio and workshop, allowing us to continue processing materials for live projects. Access to building materials is tricky at the moment, but we are able to make our own using previously gathered raw materials, waste and by-products. This black and white mix will become chalk plaster, required on 2 of our current projects. #chalk #charcoal #buildingcraft #procurement #materials #wip #architecture #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal
Testing waste materials. New samples for building projects. #wastematerial #architecture #newmaterial #building #ecodesign #sustainabledesign #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal
Samples for 2 new projects: making bricks and tiles from crushed bricks and tiles. Both sites involve the demolition of failing existing structures. #wip #sample #architecture #architecturesamples #brick #tiles #waste #material #building #lwsjournal
Blending materials for plaster samples #wasteisaresource #materialpalette #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
