The Luthiers' Workshops

THE LUTHIERS' WORKSHOPS

Pavilion Gardens, Brighton

Site Plan with Contextual Elevations

Inhabited drawing exploring the boundary of Prince's Place and Pavilion Gardens.

Site Plan

Situating the intervention in Brighton's Pavilion Gardens, a short distance from the seafront

Site Geometry

From the perfected geometry of the instrument, this drawing speculates how a new design could visually frame the Pavilion's 'Porte Cochere' entrance.

Site Plan with Contextual Elevations

Inhabited drawing exploring the boundary of Prince's Place and Pavilion Gardens.

Brighton Taking precedent from the research based studies into acoustics and crafting, and observing the cultural and musical degeneration in Brighton, The Luthiers' Workshops and Salon is a public building designed to educate and enlighten and the public in the secluded world of crafting stringed instruments. It is to build upon the rich history of musical and entertaining spaces within Brighton, in what is becoming the city’s own theatre district.

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Exploratory Programmatic Drawing

Using construction techiques and materials, this drawing attempts to understand the linear process needed to achieve the harmony of the instrument.

Brighton thrives on the activity of it’s inhabitants, particularly musically through the buskers and performers that line the streets. Learning from the contrasting territories of St. Bartholomew’s Church, the proposal aims to rejuvenate a misused and undervalued part in one of Brighton’s busiest areas - Pavilion Gardens. During the summer months it is expected that the area would become a cultural base of the city.

Testing Device - 1:10, 1:20 and 1:10

Using the cast fragment as a base, this drawing integrates previous work and explores how the device can determine the structure and external skin of the building.

Wax Room Plan

1:20 Plan, based from abstract experimentation

Hidden Geometries

Understanding the complex geometric concealed within the instrument

Testing Device - 1:10, 1:20 and 1:10

Using the cast fragment as a base, this drawing integrates previous work and explores how the device can determine the structure and external skin of the building.

Cast Ambiguous Fragments

Breaking down the concepts and construction of previous work allowed for the fragmenting of the building into undefined scales. Each of the three components acts as machines, holding as much or as little detail as the reader desires. Whether being seen as a 1:50 external covering, a 1:5 arm rest or 1:1 door detail, they all start to explore the connection details of the plaster, timber and steel within the building. The examination of a suspended structure is started to be explored within the models, reflecting the lack of interference that the site deserves.

Developing the design in relation to small cast Fragment Models was an important aspect of the design, that they would both aesthetically re-create the delicacy of these items, and also act sympathetically to the spaces, cradling and nuturing the craft inside.