ID:78 | Open in NocoDB | Type:Text | Themes:5 | Attachments:1 | Finding:45 chars | Connections:0→0 | Location:52.509293938192876, -2.0853948731047973 | Weather:2 tags | Date:Saturday 31 July 2021 | Press 'D' to close

Dudley Time Portal

Exposed brickwork where tiles have fallen off - 210731 1050.jpg
Exposed brickwork where tiles have fallen off
Added to Archive Thursday 21 October 2021
Experienced Saturday 31 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location 52.509293938192876, -2.0853948731047973
Season Summer
Type Text
Weather Overcast Cool
Themes Decay Care Material Broken Architecture
What was/is/if What is
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Wet grass smell - 210730 1515 Tiny Things.png
Roller shutters - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
(*imagining*) two Christmas spirited robins joining in with the festivities of the street, singing along with your Christmas joys. - 211110 1730 Hiding 3.png
Infrastructure - cladding falling off? - 211110 1730 Decay.png
There are ghosts here so I am told... Exposed, weathered concrete - 210731 1050.jpg
More tagged with theme Architecture
Cast iron railings good survival - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Building Deterioration There was a familiar aesthetic regarding the buildings during the initial site visit to Dudley High Street. However, a large proportion of the façades that look onto the street have noticeable damage, graffiti or structural issues. With that said, these images (right) are an insight into some of the damage. If the local authorities saw the high street as a priority, then damages and aesthetics would have been resolved and fixed. However, as there are multiple damages, this assumes that this high street is not one authority wish to preserve. That said, this opens an opportunity. Instead of being a conservationist and repairing these buildings to their former glory, why not make them a statement piece within the high street. Possibly by placing a blanket ban on all of the current materials seen on the street. Instead, any repairs must be in Zero carbon / Carbon negative materials. This could then become an educational street with great architectural character. Both combined may increase the high streets footfall. The first step would be to highlight any listed buildings or monuments within the high street. - Ryan Cooksey Building Deterioration.png
Explore The History Of Site Voids - This will provide an opportunity to reimplement these to allow vertical green corridors to occur. Explore Vacant Buildings - To avoid damaging an already deteriorating high street, I aim only to take over vacant plots. Investigate the opportunity for Miyawaki planting - understand the conditions required to grow a sustainable material source on-site, including ground, water, and space conditions. It takes over a building that leads directly to an open space where a community hub is the centre of the thesis, offering education, community engagement and material celebration. - Ryan Cooksey Material Celebration Hub 1.png
Here are a few pics from some Archeology taking place adjacent to Flood Street. Sadly the fencing wouldn't allow me closer to take better pictures. The excavations show the evidence of former back to back housing, floor tiling laid directly onto the earth, street or yard cobblestones, a coal hole/cellar and possibly a garden path? Then there's a mysterious line of embossed bricks. Tho' not to be seen there'd have been outside WC's. All rather romantic as the past is often portrayed but such housing tended to create insanitary conditions with rising damp, open indoor fires & lack of ventilation. - IMG_3698.jpg
This visual represents the vision for the thesis, buildings covered in lichens, air purifying plants and community activities held on the Highstreet. This visual focuses in on the proposed site for the building and shows expression of a raised new build component on site as well as a full and wild landscaping plan. - Michelle Gartside Visualisation.png
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Dudley was pretty much at the centre of the Industrial Revolution. It had many advantages like making things faster, leading to technological advancements, a wider distribution of wealth and the social changes that came with this. However, it also had its own set of problems that are still relevant today which we need to acknowledge and address to successfully move forward, mainly: overpopulation, housing, water, air pollution and depletion of natural resources. - 1_DKKRYjcJTsB-G2mICyI8qw.png
Layers of rotten board + weeds - 210731 1050.jpg
Figures taken from calculating the embodied carbon of the primary materials from each facade, tonnes calculated via the approximate amount per sqm from surveying building size. Data on trees needed to offset 1 tonne of carbon provided by https://treesforlife.org.uk/ - Michelle Gartside Embodied carbon.png
This visual represents Dudley High Street re-imagined; a new vision of a re-wilded, food-centric town centre. The green canopy will begin as a frame that will encourage the growth of plants. Smaller scale units will be integrated at the start and build towards the final vision. - 1_8oJ0eISAIDZ0uX4_VksliQ.png
Soft plastic - 211007 1500 Waste 14.png