Interior Practices: Design Project

Wymering Manor is a Grade 2* listed building, which is the oldest in the city of Portsmouth, England.  (1) A Roman settlement existed at Wymering from 43AD to 408AD. A marshy coastline ran close to the present site of Wymering Manor, and a Roman outpost camp was located there to defend Portchester Castle.  (1) The first recorded occupant of Wymering Manor was William Mauduit, he was involved in local research for the Great Survey of 1086 – known as the Domesday Book. At the time of the Domesday Survey, the manor was owned by William the Conqueror in demesne as it had been by King Edward the Confessor, in connection with Portchester Castle.  (1) In the thirteenth century, the manor was granted first to Fulkes de Wymering and afterwards to William de Fortibus, and was held of the King by military service at Portchester. In 1285 Edward I gave the manor to John le Botelier, in whose family it remained for a century; it then passed to the Waytes, from whom it passed in 1570 by...

Inspired by Nam June Paik , S.A.H.R. is a combination of technology and architecture in the form of a stage set, presenting Wymering Manor as a stage. S.A.H.R. focuses on layering and creating depth, producing a layered performance space with the elements of the TV and Wymering Manor. Similar to Sarah Sze , S.A.H.R. is made mainly from an object (a TV) that is designed for human scale, producing a sense of familiarity and nostalgia. These senses are increased for those who have visited the manor, as some of the layering have design elements from the manor and some memorable parts of the manor presented in an artistic or architectural way. Like the Collective Network City Model , S.A.H.R. has a clear distinction between the materials used, with this artefact I challenged myself to reuse as much of the TV as possible before adding new materials to it, totalling at three different materials used. S.A.H.R. can also be viewed in different ways, and is an unconventional way to reuse a broken...

Wymering Manor is a grade two* listed building located in Cosham, and is the oldest building within Portsmouth. The manor was built in 1581, with later additions in the 18th and 19th century. (1) The manors history is very detailed and complex, the first known record was in 1042 when it was owned by King Edward the Confessor. The manor has a lot of folklore and legends surrounding it, there are claims that the manor is heavily haunted. (2)   I first visited Wymering Manor in October of last year. When walking around the manor, it was apparent that the manor is very run down, as seen in the photos above, parts of the manor have become warped, collapsed, and started to cave inwards. This is due to the age of the manor and the deathwatch beetles that live and eat the wooden frame of the manor. Below are other photos I took during my first visit: Initially, I found that the manor is at a state where not a lot could be done to protect and restore it, due to the deathwatch beetle infest...

 I decided to explore some of my thoughts for my project; I ended up deciding to chose Wymering Manor as my site, as my current thoughts and ideas for this project would work extremely well with my last project; S.A.H.R. ; I finished my S.A.H.R. project off with a development of floorplans for Wymering Manor to be developed into a museum with a small café. I used inspiration from the  14 Henrietta Street Museum  to propose the plans of restoring, protecting, and adapting the manor into a museum. At the time, I felt that my project was unfinished, and that there was more I wanted to explore and experiment with, this module gives me the chance to continue this, as well as that my current thoughts and ideas for this module link extremely well to S.A.H.R.; in my opinion, new materialist thinking, redundancy of function, and unconventional reuse work well together as they have the same fundamental ideas.  I am very interested in the idea of developing an installation...

In studio today Rokhshid Ghaziani gave a talk on  Materialism: Matter and Materiality. We discussed what materialism and materiality is and what is the impact in the design process, as well as tangible vs. intangible materiality, materiality in architecture, and the impact of multisensory experiences through different materials. We then discussed natural materials and their uses, such as rammed earth, hempcrete, and cork, and sustainability, green construction, and embodied energy of materials. Embodied energy is a calculation of all the energy that is used to produce a material or product, including mining, manufacture and transport;  Graph obtained from  Materialism: Matter and Materiality,  Rokhshid Ghaziani, page 41.  We compared different types of flooring on how environmentally friendly they were, how they are made, and how this impacts its life span. We then discussed the final principles for materials selection: Choose responsible suppliers who have...