Initial concept design derived from the existing site, the Wessex Way is constructed from reinforced concrete. The ideas of ‘cradle to cradle’ to re-use the existing structures with the latest technology to de-construct, re-organise and construct with existing materials.
Above is one of the most significant sites along the Wessex Way, Horseshoe Common due to its central location and its well known dangerous surroundings.
By making 1:200 scale model of the concrete structure of the viaduct and exposing the internal steel reinforcement creates a concept model and aesthetic. The concept lead to look at Tschumi the theories of de-constructivism and mapping movement. Moving on to look at what happens around the specific site and the social problems that are created by activities or lack of activities. By taking Manhattan Transcripts by Tschumi as precedent to illustrate social use and activity in and around the immediate site of the viaduct to create and construct a new social inception of the site.
Each image is a symbol of the distorted reality and projection of architectural experience. The human experience is captured in stills, journey mapping and movement notation around the built environment. The notation of real movement and a projection of experience is subjective whereby using schlemmers dance notation to re-organise the way the Horseshoe Common is used. The projections of ‘real’ programme is a form of exploring the possibility of un-conventional uses of architecture.
Wessex Way 