{ - Final Crit Pin Up - }

{ - Crit 4 - Final Crit - }

After many a really late night and some lack of sleep...it suddenly dawned on us that tomorrow (Wed 16 May) is our final formal university crit...ever. We finished pinning up at about 11pm, after starting at 6pm.

Final submission in 3 weeks...so got a lot to do still and some models to make.

Here is a quick photo from my phone of what the pin up looks like...excluding the digital element and model.

{ - 1:200 Model - }

{ - Photo taken directly from the model - }

View down the Anti-room to the entrance to the Formal Ceremonial space in the Funerary wing

{ - The design process - }

For the last week we have been trying to get the proportions of the 'Memory Well' correct...(its now substantially bigger than we had initially (and timidly) drawn it...and 10 models later...we have a winner. Furthermore...some of the spaces along the public 'Capture' side and the Private Funerary side are becoming more exciting than we initially imagined. (Designing with models is great)

We have 13 days until the final crit... MUCH work to be done...but feeling more enthusiastic again.

{ - Interim Crit - }

{ - Interim Crit - }

The first crit with some sort of design proposal. (Rough pin up)

After a minor panic attack from the both of us in the morning, our crit went surprisingly well. The feedback on our ideas was positive, however (and ironically) our architectural creativity was lacking. This was something that had hit us like a ton of bricks the night before while pinning up.

{ - Aim for the next (final) crit - }

Define this new  architectural typology of an interface for remembrance and death and further explore and push the architectural design principles to make our intervention as exciting as the programme we are designing for. 

Lots of work to come in the next 4 weeks.

{ - Watch this space - }

{ - Crit 3 - Wednesday 18 April - }

{ - Article on 2 April - }

{ - Something to leave behind - }

Within the digital age, what is it that we are leaving behind physically?

 In the near future, we will no longer refer to BC and AD, but rather to pre-digital and post-digital. In a world where we have a second, digital persona, how do we deal with the inevtiable ending of life with regards to the relationship of our primary, physical self and our secondary, digital self? 

What will a cemetery of the future be like, if we, as a society, alter our perceptions of death through the influence of the instant gratification generation?

{ - Secret London - }

{ - Secret London - }

After a spontaneous decision to go back to site and try and get into Nunhead Cemetery before it closed this time, we tripped to London yesterday. Well worth the effort when we climbed to the peak of the (closed) water reservoirs adjacent to Nunhead to see the 180 degree view of the London skyline - a viewing spot not well known and not at all used...yet.