* Are you an architecture student at univeristy?

If YES read on >

* Realise your project will NEVER happen ?

If YES read on >

* Do you want to get your hands dirty and do something REAL?

If YES read on >

* Challenge the ordinary and become EXTRA ordinary.

ex·tra [ek-struh] adjective1.beyond or more than what is usual, expected, or necessary; additional: an extra copy of a newspaper; an extra charge.2.larger or better than what is usual: an extra binding.noun3.something extra or additional: the little amenities and extras that make life pleasant.4.an additional expense.5.a special edition of a newspaper, other than a regular edition.6.something of superior quality.7.Movies, Television. a person hired by the day to play a minor part, as a member of a mob or crowd.

* Want to work with a real site, research ideas, and design something that could be built and used?

* Follow my journey trying to challenge the role of a student architect and the boundaries of site analysis

ME

[1] Find a space that needs changing > look at your own environment and how YOU could change it.

YOU have trained to be an architect, put some of that training into practice

MY SITE

A forgotten space between two of the architecture buildings at Newcastle University

[2] WASTE* some time...... ON SITE

This might lead to > A chance encouter

Deeper understanding of the site inner workings

Finding gold [unlikely]

Unexpected look at ordinary space

Questing the way the site is used

MY Studies

creating ADDITIONAL studies with more of a humanistic approach to site analysis

[3] research | RESEARCH | research

because people are already doing this type of architectural practice and nobody wants to feel alone.

learning about the people who are already doing BETTER architecture, inspires YOU to go beyond what you are used to

MY research

[4] watch people.

see how a site really works, embrace the instability of human behaviour

don’t get arrested

my OBSERVATIONS

catalogue and reflect - knowledge is KEY

[4] create architecture for the average user.

ps. architecture is only not a building

mY dESIGNS

‘Beauty may be one approach to achieving betterment, but it is not a suffeicient one.’1

1 Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jerermy Till, Spatial Agency Other Ways of Doing Architecture, Oxon: Routledge, 2011, 37

[5] SHOUT about it.

> solicit and record

mY recordings

[5] most importantly is to enjoy the project

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