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My Graduation, Ba (Hons) Architecture Part 1

A few photos from the big 'rainy' day, happy to get my Ba, but sad to say goodbye to some top class people, will really miss you all, 'We've only got each other' LADS ON TOUR !!

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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

msa UNIT U+L

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