turing’s wildest pipe dream

a museum centred around e-waste in kings cross london

a museum of digital waste: london

My final project of second year is of a museum in Kings Cross, London. The museum is to hold a collection of artifacts surrounding electronic waste, and more broadly, the digital revolution, and our future. The most ambitious aspect of the scheme is the novel circulation methods, which are based within the tubes, in a ‘mario-esue’ method, by which people travel from space to space.

This longitudinal section conveys the circulation around the museum, and in how the red and blue pipes circulate people through the various levels and exhibition spaces.

The structural solution for the museum consists of a parametric space frame which allows for the buildings, at times, more organic forms. The frame is reinforced with a corrugated steel skin, and then further accented with the ‘Digi’ solar paneling.

The roofing of the various exhibition spaces around the museum is designed so as to filter light around the edges of the space, whilst simultaneously allowing a steady stream of ventilation into and out of the building.

Visitors of the museum will choose between a number of circulation pipes which will lead to the various exhibits and rooms.

The blue routes are fully walkable and wheel chair accessable. The red routes are neccesary to move between levels, and therefore neccessitate a train/ pod transport system.

In 2020 Lancaster University opened a new Architecture school. As a member of the first cohort of this new school, I decided, along with a colleague, to found an Architecture magazine of Lancaster’s very own. The brief was self appointed, however the magazine had to appeal to the school’s student body. Moreover, we were working within the established framework of Architecture school magazines, and therefore there were elements to be expected, aswell as novel elements which we could introduce.

my role: co-founder and creative director

As Creative Director and Graphic Designer, I produced all of the visual design for the magazine. Opting for an alternating colour scheme on the RGB scale, the layout design is both eclectic and creatively varied, aswell as unified by consistant motifs. The pages are A5 sized, with varying font sizes and a healthy mix of font types. 200 copies of Burnout magazine were ultimately printed, with attention made to print using recycled, carbon nuetral, paper only. I handled all communications with the printing company we chose, and prepared the final file with regard to bleed widths etc.

The Magazine Layout and Contents

The magazine aimed to cover a number of topics within the Architectural sphere, and included articles, interviews and documentation of the various events which occured during the school year. I, myself, wrote a number of articles, and conducting 2 of the 3 interviews. The intention was always to aim the content towards new students and to provide information that we would’ve found helpful when starting.