John Norman ‘Field Guide to Ansel’s House, National Park of the Interior’
Eva Baranyai ‘The City of London Cries, A Sonic Yarn’
This field guide is a reference for interpreting the features, scales, concepts and environments that can be found within the National Park of the Interior, a home for a photographer called Ansel, whose photographic expeditions explore the different scales and material qualities of his environment. The photographer is also the editor of the Park. He has designed the space by adding, removing, re-positionning or rendering objects unfocused in order to shift your attention elsewhere within the image. Thus, his park is a fiction that lives within his home, and his home becomes an enclosure for the author.
This project investigates the possibility of creating public and private environments, interwoven in particular acoustic qualities where the possibility of chance encounters between users and a tactile engagement with the surroundings is encouraged. I examine urban patterns and architectural design from an audio-cultural angle. My interest lies in redefining design parameters around the theme of audio performance, as opposed to concentrating solely on visual appearance (traditionally the realm of the architect) and to extend these perameters to the fabric of the city.
The guide has been designed to enable the easy addition of updates, for example, technological changes in observational techniques, which may lead to new discoveries or shifts in perceptions of the interior. Throughout the Park Guide the reader will move through a changing scale of observation, with optical and scalar thresholds. The guide will help the reader to navigate and explore the physical qualities of the photographic environment which its inhabitant has constructed.
The term London Cries refers to a peculiar conclave of inhabitants, now extant from modern London: street vendors, selling their wares from carts or baskets, and announcing their arrival by repeatedly singing, shouting, crying out a few musical lines so that in the eighteenth century, these London Cries contributed to the loudness of the City.
This page left to right: John Norman, Eva Baranyai, Jessam Al-Jawad
Jessam Al-Jawad ‘Angel Court-house’ This thesis is an investigation into the psychological effects that result from the interpenetrating relationship of body and space. Starting at the level of the body's direct contact with - and influence upon objects of everyday use, I became interested in ideas of the so-called 'uncanny' within the domestic interior. This evolved into a more strictly spatial examination of the 'uncanny,' and the psychological states induced by the intensified relationship between body and space that is found underground.
Developing from analyses on the body as an instrument, subterranean, domestic, metropolis subject, I have brought them to bear upon my design proposal for a courthouse on the site of the disused London Underground station at Angel. Accordingly, the last part of this study concentrates on certain fragments of this building, and discusses the way in which they embody these ideas as a Corporeal Cabinet.