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Diagram showing territory between Newcastle and Morpeth.

Blue: Residential

Yellow: Private

Green: Farmland

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Newcastle to Morpeth

Taking underlining themes from Donald Judd and Marfa, our project involves a proposed scheme in the land between Newcastle of Morpeth.

The Brief: This year we will seek new ways to describe and design buildings in landscape by exploring what it means to design a Landhaus. Here, building and land enter into a ceaseless and reciprocally conditional dialogue with one another. We will seek to re-conceptualise the notion of the picturesque through the re-appropriation of ideas of land husbandry, land ethic, connection, improvement, reconstruction, time, decay, accident,variety, and intricacy. Rather than a site we will explore a territory that is loosely structured by the route of the railway between Newcastle and Morpeth. This territory is similar to so many of those places we experience by train in the West; a landscape between places, not beautiful, but with the power to move us just enough to be noticeable. The train moves from housing estates on the edge of farmland, to farm buildings in the middle of farmland, to industrial estates on the edge of water filtration plants, to retail parks on the edge of bastard-countryside and housing estates on the edge of park and ride plateaus.

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A slice.

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Marfa, Texas

Autocad and photoshop.

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Study of south artillery shed and aluminium installation; plan, elevations, long and short sections.

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Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

- Donald Judd

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Camp Marfa, 1932 and now. The two artillery sheds pictured bottom right house Judd’s 100 aluminium works. 

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Slice of nolli map, this highlights the position and arrangement of the concrete installation

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Nolli style map highlighting buildings in Marfa used permanently by Donald Judd foundations.

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Sketches exploring Judd’s works in concrete, their arrangement and relationship to each other. 

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Donald Judd, Marfa: An Art Oasis in a Texas Town

Permanent land art and installations, a reclaimed Army Camp, a town saved from turning to dust.. What happened and why Marfa? 

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6th year.. when did that happen?!

Well, here it goes.. 

This is a blog to run alongside my final year Architecture design thesis, documenting my discoveries and exploration as I move through the project and through to (hopefully!) graduation!