Projects undertaken at the Hull School of Architecture, UK 1997/2002

2000/01: Urban Design, Business Innovation Park, Hull, England.

This project was undertaken as an advanced Specialist Diploma in Urban Design, as part of my Bachelor of Architecture Masters Degree. This postgraduate diploma in Urban Design was achieved as a separate qualification to the Masters programme.

Community is a collective of kinship networks, which share a common geographic territory, a common history, and a shared value system, one usually rooted in a common religion. Typically, communities are rather homogenous, and tend to exist in the historical context of a simple division of labor. Most importantly, communities embrace non-rational components of life and consciousness. Social action is not carried out by means of contract, but by understandings, and life is certainly not fully mediated by technology (Critical Art Ensemble).

Relating the ideas of community and the experiences of living life on-line seems to be separated by quite a divide in light of the above quotation. In defining both the terms ‘virtual’ and ‘community’ together here I have highlighted the fundamental differences between what is being promoted by some as an effective mode of ‘virtual society’ and what is being highlighted by others as a return to the notion of community as a phenomena firmly situated in the context of the physical realm.

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industrial production unit eastern elevation
 
industrial production unit western elevation
 northern elevation southern elevation eye-level perspective 1   eye-level perspective 2
street-side perspective

 

     river-side perspective building perspective 1 building perspective 2 building perspective 3   main elevation