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View of one of the medium structures in use as a cafe. The initial idea has been resolved, in response to ideas generated by the sketches uploaded yesterday, by further articulating and expressing the timber box that forms the accommodation part of the structure as a series of planes that are extruded to provide solar shading and platforms. Shutters at each end can also be pulled shut for protection or opened to act as visual indicators or markers.

'Drawbridges' can be pulled out from underneath the main pier structures that provide access into the back of the buildings.

The next stage for this design will be to consider the construction detailing, detailed planning and materiality more specifically.

Viennese Kaffee.

Viennese coffee is always thoughtfully presented, such as this doppel mocca (triple expresso with cream) from Cafe Diglas in the first district.

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Rough sketch plans and sections at 1:200 considering the articulation of another of the medium sized structures. This example functions as an artists studio and exhibition space that can also be inhabited for short periods of time if necessary as a canter levered stair is added that provides access to a sleeping space in the lantern.

Additional considerations here include animating the basic, timber framed box structure by pulling several sides out beyond the current constraints to provide solar shading and exterior platforms as well as adding sliding screens to the two panoramic windows which would also act as visual markers indicating whether the space is inhabited or not.

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Rough sketch plans and sections at 1:200 considering the articulation of one of the medium sized structures within my proposed masterplan for Le Touquet that will be worked up to a more detailed level.

The example shown here is to be used as a cafe, the structures are deliberately compact, simple and semi temporary composed from reconstructed elements that can be easy removed from the landscape or replaced with a different function at a later date. A fully integrated service box slots into the main timber body also providing additional defused natural light through a north facing opening.

The structures are accessed from the main piers, see masterplan for details, via gangways that would slide out from under the pier or be lowered down from two of the vertical uprights that support the walkways.

Architecture and Music.

The subjective complexities reflected in the formulation of music is a useful analogy in relation to the general application of architecture. For example if one is to take a Haydn Mass and an Eric Clapton concert both may, depending of course on the quality of the performance, produce the same end result of a sublime musical experience. However despite similarities in the outcome and that they exist within the wider discipline of music and thus share similar basic rules, the processes of application in both examples are diametrically opposed, that is to say that the same end effect can be achieved but the means to that end differ significantly. Whether or not a concert is considered to be sublimely beautiful, whether it is classical or rock, also depends upon the subjective opinion and indeed training and social conditioning of the listener. It is impossible to predict definitively how music will be experienced and therefore define how it should be delivered.

As with music most practical elements that can be rationalised thus far in architecture have been, for instance floors ‘should’ be horizontal and doorways tall enough for people to walk through, however despite the existence of these practical objective standards there are no defined, objective processes or definite truths regarding how these standards are to be articulated; with the result that a doorway can be expressed in any way conceivable so long as it fulfills its functional purpose. Therefore different, subjectively developed discourses and approaches exist within architecture as they do within the discipline of music, each of which attempt ,in their own way, to produce a suitable and justifiable solution to the already rationalised and established pragmatic standards; whether these are doorways or musical notes.

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View along the promenade illustrating a tram stop concept in the foreground and one of the larger structures in the distance.