STUDIO IN THE WOODS
JULY 2018
On the weekend of the 7th July Niall will be taking part in Studio In The Woods, a 3 day workshop that explores the testing of ideas through making with timber at 1:1. Over the course of the event workshops will be led by architects including Kate Darby, Meredith Bowles (Mole Architects), Je Ahn (Studio Weave), Lee Ivett (Baxendale), Gianni Botsford, Lynton Pepper (Architecture 00), Laura Mark, Charley Brentnall, Zoe Berman, Piers Taylor (Invisible Studio), Susanne Tutsch, Barbara Kaucky, and Erect.
NAZRIN SHAH BUILDING – STEELWORK
JULY 2015
Just over two years since our first tentative steps towards imagining what sort of space a new auditorium for Worcester College might possibly be like, we find ourselves enclosed within a spidery sketch, looking up to the trees through a skeletal enclosure of steel. We watched in excitement as our drawings were scribed across the site, first in neon spray paint and little red sticks, later excavated into deep ravines. We pick our way across the lines that had become so familiar on paper and are now concrete obstacles in a muddy field. The reality of this transition only became real as we stood looking across at the steel columns in this picture. They map out the positions of the stone fins that radiate around the curved facade of the new auditorium, with the sloping beams above us silhouetted against the bright July sky marking the future locations of the sculpted folds to the soffit.