Seaside rendez-vous
This architectural investigation was prepared for the final project project/thesis of the PG Diploma in Architecture at Birmingham City University 2007-08. The project was awarded the Kinetic Innovation prize for ‘the student who has most effectively illustrated their ambition to question conventional aspects of the design process and demonstrated their capacity to develop these ideas through their work’.
The investigation is a critique of the post-war suburban home set against the ever changing dynamic coastline.
The hypothesis stems from a theoretical study into the gendered spaces of the post-war domestic environment. The proposed dwellings respond to the dynamic and complex site as opposed to dwellings based on national ideologies, conventions and patriarchal hierarchies.
Using the net curtain as an agent to explore the merging and separating of private and public spaces, layers of domesticity are pulled apart and redefined against the site. The position of a sustainable community on the coast is defined by the characteristics of the location and a critique of the spaces of domesticity that are passed down to us today.
