Street Architecture - reclaimed materials used to reclaim a forgotten space. The folly is a 12 month installation that is being used and changed by artist residencies, local community groups and children with biros!
We designed the building as street architecture so that creatives and less-creatives could take ownership and update the building's form or appearance. We worked with local groups to engage with and encourage usage.
Entirely reclaimed materials apart from the rock panel cladding boards that were donated by rock panel for the project. The idea was to mine the building from other construction projects and then for it to be taken to bits at the end and reused in other buildings if no-one wants to find another life for it in its present form.
Sustrans and the Arts Council are both huge national charities working with them has been brilliant if a little challenging at points as we're such a small project but their support has helped make it possible
Unlike our larger construction projects this scheme could be free from many of the constraints for a conventional building, allowing us to remove portions in a Prouve style,mining of materials (timber) There is no concrete and no plastic involved in the scheme anywhere, each element is entirely demountable and built to be de-constructed at the end of their useful life.
To bring people into a forgotten garden in a disused railway station that is right between two cities on a famous Sustrans cycle path.
Carbon sequestration, Reclaimed/mined materials, it also incorporated bio-diversification features into the garden and station platform spaces. Demountable and reconstructible anywhere. No Concrete, No Plastic, no toxic materials or treatments.
Location - there was no water or electrics on site, access was down the cycle paths only, anti social behaviour.
Team:
Construction: Artel31
Engineer: Giraffe Engineering
Arts Project Manager: Suzanne Heath
Ecologists: Ellendale Environmental
Photographer: Charles Emerson
