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.
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Difficult to put into words our experience in Denmark. Thatching with expert craftspeople; listening by candlelight to farmers, architects and artists; bare feet on soaped Douglas Fir boards; the dark sauna, freezing cold water; mist and mud. We learned a lot and came home with a rich store of new knowledge and inspiration to draw on when the spreadsheets and zoom calls get too much. #harvesttohouse #høsttilhus in the fine company of djernesandbell sommerskolen.info hanspeterdinesen nicholas___brookz jordbo_dk #lwsjournal #thatch #thatching #thatcharchitecture
localworkstudio Experiments with a technique based on vernacular Spanish rammed earth - Calicostrada (Lime shell or crust). This is a method of only using lime where it is needed - external weatherproofing of walls. The thin lime ‘shell’ was rammed in-situ into shuttering along with the thicker earth wall structure, creating a mass wall with different properties. Our version has plant-based insulation, capped with an external weathering layer of lime mortar. This is part of a wider body of research looking at the use of local agricultural byproduct for building insulation. The insulation layer in these test blocks contain no lime, cement or GGBS, but the material can be used like Hempcrete - which often is a concrete due to the addition of cement. Great to be finally using and testing local plant material collected at the end of the harvest in September 🌱 #architecture #plantbasedarchitecture #buildingcraft #sustainablearchitecture #materialdesign #plantpower #lwsjournal #hempcrete #plantinsulation #rammedearthwall #eartharchitecture
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
Chelsea Flower Show 2023: Canvas screens and paint 🎨 The Nurture Garden designed by @sarahpricelandscapes Sections of the boundary wall of Sarah’s garden were made of stretched canvas, painted with plant-based paints. We developed and made the canvasses and the paint for the garden, to provide a low-carbon wall that also referenced the paintings and colour palette of Cedric Morris @benton.end. The canvas material was sourced as waste from film studios, who use the materials for throwaway scenic backgrounds. The paints were designed and made by us, influenced by natural, historic Scandinavian paint recipes. The paint protects traditional timber buildings, and contains rye flour and linseed oil. We also added demolition waste as pigment and to add texture, combined with natural pigments from local sands (from @crocus.co.uk) and indigo plant 🌱 dye, for the blue and mauve colours. The canvases were undercoated at our studio, and the top-coats where applied by Sarah Price. We have tested this exterior paint for lightfastness, and are really enjoying the finishes, smell (!) and protection it can give to lower grade materials, to prolong their life in harsh exterior conditions. Plastic free! Petroleum free! Plant based! 🌱♻️🌳🎨 See our website (link in bio) for more on our contribution to the garden. @rachel_asl @gardenmuseum @thenurturegroup @garden_build @crocus.co.uk #plantpaint #plantbased #wasteisaresource #fineartpainting #chelseaflowershow #chelseaflowershow2023 #sustainablearchitecture #naturalbuidling #materialdesign #plantdye #plantpigment #plantcolour @beahemmings.designandcraft @matildagrover @ashleyjkempton #lwsjournal
Thanks to @carmodygroarke for including our work in their current exhibition @designmuseumgent. Describing the process of design for the new museum extension. Materials, bricks, tools and video document our collaboration with @bcarchitectsandstudies to develop external bricks made from excavation waste and other by-products from the city of Gent. 🧱♻️🧱🇧🇪🪨♻️⛏🧱…..also it’s been great to get out of the UK for a bit!!!#circularflanders #wasteisaresource #circulareconomy #europeanunion #materialdesign #design #architecture #lwsjournal #brick #brickdesign
Experiments with a technique based on vernacular Spanish rammed earth - Calicostrada (Lime shell or crust). This is a method of only using lime where it is needed - external weatherproofing of walls. The thin lime ‘shell’ was rammed in-situ into shuttering along with the thicker earth wall structure, creating a mass wall with different properties. Our version has plant-based insulation, capped with an external weathering layer of lime mortar. This is part of a wider body of research looking at the use of local agricultural byproduct for building insulation. The insulation layer in these test blocks contain no lime, cement or GGBS, but the material can be used like Hempcrete - which often is a concrete due to the addition of cement. Great to be finally using and testing local plant material collected at the end of the harvest in September 🌱 #architecture #plantbasedarchitecture #buildingcraft #sustainablearchitecture #materialdesign #plantpower #lwsjournal #hempcrete #plantinsulation #rammedearthwall #eartharchitecture
reposted from localworkstudio Bungaroosh block. Low-carbon building block ♻️🧱🪨. Bungaroosh is a Sussex vernacular wall building technique that uses waste masonry and lime mortar to create thick structural walls. Traditionally hidden behind render, it then became decorative with many different varieties of finish. We are prototyping a potential standard sized block that can be quickly constructed. ‘Cobbles’ of waste masonry are used alongside field flint. Flints are still picked ‘weeded’ from farmers fields on the South Downs in Sussex. An unwanted annual crop that appears after each ploughing. Made with 100% waste aggregates, low-carbon concrete and pointed with lime mortar. #bungaroosh #bungarooshblock #flint #sussex #southdowns #localrockscene #lwsjournal #architecture #design #wasteisaresource #landscapearchitecture #southdownsnationalpark #buildingcraft #limemortar #sustainablearchitecture #sussex #reusestudio d_a loves this
Paver tiles for a garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. Made by us from waste and excess construction materials ♻️ Looking forward to seeing these in-situ. #wastebrick #c.andre 🧱 #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #brick #bricks #architecture #landscapearchitecture #hardlandscaping #hardlandscape #paverbrick #wastebricks #wastebasedbricks #materials #architecturematerials
Fun project making window and door cills for @bakerbrown_studio using 100% waste aggregates from a construction site ♻️The bespoke mortar has been tested, and exceeds the appropriate British Standard for compressive strength 🏋️ #materialdesign #reuse #architecture #sustainabledesign #surfacedesign #circulardesign #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture #terrazzo #terrazzodesign #reusearchitecture #design
This is ‘Fleeting Forest’, this years winter art installation at Granary Square, Kings Cross that we designed with @assembleofficial in collaboration with @webbyates (engineers) @studio_dekka (lighting), @aswarm_works and Cameron Bray from @csm_architecture_march (sound), and @rebecca.heald (curator). The Fleeting Forest is an assemblage of trees, passing through the square on a winter stop-over, on their way to permanent homes in public parks, community gardens and schools elsewhere in London. The installation embraces the seasonality of the winter woodland - of bare branches, fallen leaves, berries and damp earth - as an alternative to the the traditional cut and decorated Christmas tree. We’ve tried to create a human scale square within a square. At the heart of the project is an exploration of how a temporary installation can positively impact communities and environments beyond its confines - through the way we sensitively gather and disperse materials. We’ll be sharing more insight into this as well as some stories of how the project has been designed and built, over the coming days. Photo credit: Images 1-5 and 8-9 by John Sturrock. #granarysquare #fleetingforest #kingscross #publicart #woodlands #lwsjournal
@museoguatelli ..............................thanks @nicholas___brookz for the tip-off. #toolbox #lwsjournal
Completed false reef structure for #heavygardening project with Andrew Merritt @somethingandson. This will be sited underwater at the bottom of Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. Hoping for maximum colonisation by shellfish and other sea life. The full sculpture will include 8 ropes for mussels to grow on 🐚 🦞 🦪 🦐 🐠 🐟. The reef structure ring is cast with our #shellcrete material using waste oyster shells from seafood restaurants. The outer shell decoration should mimic natural oyster reefs, and encourage different bivalve molluscs to grow on the shelly surface. #increasebiodiversity #shellcrete #oyster #oysterreef #mussels #liverpool #lwsjournal #falsereef #reef #oysters #oystershell #shell
Splitting sweet chestnut timber for a couple of our Sussex projects 🌰 🪓 🌰 We love everything about chestnut! It’s an amazing timber with so many qualities and potential applications. The cyclical felling and re-growth of managed coppice woodlands has huge benefits for the biodiversity of the woods and carbon capture. Thanks to @jsanders22 for his very fine lath making. #coppice #sweetchestnut #carbonsequestration #sustainablewoodlands #lwsjournal #buildwithwood #buildingcraft #landscapecraft #craft
Planning approved! We have designed a new Wash House building for our amazing (near) neighbours @thesecretcampsite. The focus of the building is to create an open, outdoor space providing toilets, showers and washing up facilities for the campsite. The new building will be constructed as a pole frame using second-hand timber telegraph poles, a mix of reused materials and new timber from nearby coppice woodlands. The design was developed in collaboration with @ruralworkshop & @alltenvironmental to be zero concrete and focus on locally available timber, and the creative reuse of materials already on the site. Images show the disused railway line that runs through the campsite that has provided some of the poles, and some early concept sketches. #architecture #construction #reuse #circulareconomy #drawing #architecturedrawing #sketchbook #lwsjournal
Traditional hay drying #faroeislands #landscapearchitecture #traditionalfarming #lwsjournal
Prototyping a new garden chair with attached side table for @maggiesinsouthampton. The finished piece will look quite different, but it’s great to realise in plywood first. Many thanks again to @jsanders22 #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
Prototyping for @assembleofficial. Waste-based lime mortars with tiles by @granbyworkshop ♻️♻️♻️#buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #architecture
Tile samples for a new floor on a current project. The tiles are a waste-based concrete, made using over-ordered building materials and other waste from the site ♻️. Part of a series of finishes designed, prototyped, fabricated and installed by LWS. #reuse #architecture #materialinvention #lwsjournal #materialdesign #materialdesigners #circulareconomy