Position Statement

The hearth is revealed.

The dynamic, active environment that can be sculpted to the needs of the user is opened up. The rest of the superfluous operational aspects can be momentarily discarded to focus on the design of the arena that is specifically formulated for a client that cannot be pinpointed to one idea. The client is transient, more transient than perhaps understandable, yet this is not strictly the case. One who is so fleeting, one whose entire life possessions can be contained within a shopping trolley is does not necessarily desire that lifestyle. One does not choose the street in every instance. Maybe the one who is so flexible would rather the fixed sculpted life but cannot yet adapt to it. These questions are revealed in the section. These questions are revealed in the warmth of the flame, casting the ephemeral shadows on the wall to form the dim outline of the life less solid while they have the moment to be answered.

Operations and flow are opened up.

The living breathing nature of the built form can be found once again through the sinuous relationship between the hearth, the homeless and the office, the organisation. Ones rigidity meets the others ephemerality in the muscular space that lies between. Through this space the communication of the waste of each other is gleaned into a valuable commodity. The smoke and pollution that is gathered into the ceiling space of the hearth then becomes the screen, the privacy which is so valued in the corporate environment. The paper which is the pollution of the office is gathered together into a mass and compacted to form the literal fuel of the hearth. Each through its excess then can serve the other. In this exchange the continuance of this flow can be continued as the people from one side come to facilitate the other. Gradually the borders of each sphere become permeable forming the symbiotic relationship, two bones, integral structures, connected by living muscle.

As one removes from the built form and lets the skin once again hide the internal fluidity, it once again sits within its site and expresses itself, allowing those from the street to approach and discover what it contains. Addressing itself naturally to the street and to the alley it defines itself by both limbs in the one form. To the two clients in the one form. It becomes the meeting place, the heart, the hearth.

The hUB

DRAFT 1

Here it is

Compressed Paper Log Maker

So, one way of recycling to get the most for the fire in the hUB is to use the waste from the office component to burn. It is also a great way of employing the time of some of the homeless in a productive but not too intensive manner!

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First Draft musings

Looking at other posts around there is a trend towards innovation and new technologies. What I propose seems to be rather an evolution rather than a revolution. Rather than streak into the future with great abandon, I find myself stuck in an office block trying to solve the problems of the man who happened to find himself in the back lane, loitering suspiciously by my car...

While this may sound like a gripe, I actually relish this chance. I would rather be here than anywhere else. I want to find myself in the normal, have people able to recognise the work while still freaked out by the way it wraps itself to the needs of the client like they have not seen before.

Walk around it, touch it, it is recognisable, you have worked with this before. Yet... then again, I did not realise that that switch over there would control that. What, your smoke is my screen? It feels right and it is. And yes, you will have to help the man over there. You will be involved with your neighbour