Some final Year Images

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Studying Controversies

How successful will New Islington be?

One of the modules of my final semester required me, working within a team to investigate a chosen architectural controversy. In a group 5, we delegated roles for ourselves and set about creating a website that explained, via a visual diagrammatic output how the controversy of New Islington Manchester developed over time. 

List of team members:

Jonathan Carter (Project coordinator)

Benjamin Hale (Webmaster)

Tim Stephenson (Reporter/investigator)

Edward Kilvert (Reporter/investigator)

Matt Parsons Brown (Statistician)

INTRODUCTION AND LINK TO WEBSITE >>>>> 

NICE BLOG

http://supercolossal.ch/page/2/

Sketching Manchester...

Afew sketches from my first year at msa, the project required us to detail Manchester through a series of sketchs and diagrams. It was my first shot at working a sketchbook and discovered a way of looking at a city in a completely different light. 







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Barcelona Study Trip

Analysis of some spaces in Barcelona Autumn 09


Sketchbook work


_Placa Reial

U + L Unit at the University of Manchester School of Architecture

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CaixaForum, Barcelona

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Wish you all the best for the new year and the next decade !

CITY MOVEMENT_An some sausages to boot

A recent MSA Architecture trip to Stuttgart (late winter 2009) produced some interesting stuff:

Future of our City_Manchester city wall

DO WE REALLY NEED PUBLIC SPACE?

The scheme deals with the problem of, to coin the term 'inner city centralization' a common theme in many British and also post war European cities. I've discovered that Manchesters repeated attempt to reinvigorate the districts of Ancoats, Oldham road and provide a link between Picadilly gardens and New Islington have not been effective. The 'INNER CITY RIDGE' would provide the users with a green link into and out of the city, raised from the streets below.

Ossuary Orthen / Buijsenpennock Architects

When much needed landscape maintenance at the 150 year-old cemetery in Orthen required many graves to be emptied, a competition was held to design a new resting place for the remains of 12,000 people. Buijsenpennock Architects responded by designing an ossuary that can be seen as a series of walls, made by a mesh of rough oak columns and beams.

Grizedale Viewing Deck

Grizdale Viewing Deck, Lake District, England_

Architect: Benjamin Hale

The brief asked for a viewing deck/tower above one of three selected sites located in the Grizedale woodland area of  the Peak District, England.  The scheme proposes a hanging structure with a seated platform beneath that allows the user unobstructed views of the Northern Peaks aswell as a closer interaction level with the natural enviroment below.

Name: DIZZY HEIGHTS

Artist: Benjamin Hale
Status: FOR SALE
Year: 2008
Price: $154.99

City Pulse

Name: CITY PULSE

Artist: Benjamin Hale
Status: SOLD
Year: 2007