DANIEL REYNOLDS
PLEATED COMPOSITES DS13 I 2012-2013 I ATTENTION ECONOMY UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT DESIGN TUTORS: ANDREI MARTIN ANDREW YAU
DANIEL REYNOLDS I PLEATED COMPOSITES BOOK 03 I DS13 I 2012-2013 I ATTENTION ECONOMY
The proposal conditions mental decompression, allowing the user’s stress and the pressures the congested site dynamics to be released in a controlled architectural stream in an attempt to redefine a sustainable public space infused with a program of retail, aquarium and public transport interchange. The hybrid program shares a central relaxation space called “the decompression chamber”. Here, the Atrium as a meme is appropriated and transformed into a performative space which conditions relaxation. Furthermore, the idea of the aquarium display and the idea of the window display become the same meme under the name “tank”. The tank is used as a mediator between the retail and shopping experience, conditioning fluidity and relaxation throughout the building.
DS13 I 2012-2013 I ATTENTION ECONOMY
PLEATED COMPOSITES AQUARIUM + RETAIL THERAPY ON OXFORD STREET, LONDON
BOOK 03 - FINAL PROPOSAL DANIEL REYNOLDS