ID:428 | Open in NocoDB | Type:Text | Themes:2 | Attachments:1 | Finding:27 chars | Connections:0→0 | Location:52.5086749932483, -2.086146568449763 | Weather:1 tags | Date:Saturday 31 July 2021 | Press 'D' to close

Dudley Time Portal

Limestone kerbs in Vicar St - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Limestone kerbs in Vicar St
Added to Archive Thursday 21 October 2021
Experienced Saturday 31 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location 52.5086749932483, -2.086146568449763
Season Summer
Type Text Drawing
Weather Cloudy
Themes Identity Material
What was/is/if What is
More tagged with type Drawing
Some good 18 + 19C facades but in poor condition - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
The classic Dudley view up to spire of Top Church - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Rubbish bags, drink bottles + cans, wooden cable spindle, but tidy'd up in a bucket 'Half-littering'? - 211007 1500 Waste 2.png
Our collective vision for Dudley is to support a creative community that is connected through our internet of things; creating spaces that allow for the collection and redistribution of materials that locals can use to construct products with. Community engagement is central to this design network with local businesses encouraged to get involved in manufacturing. We decided to bring alive this vision through a series of pavilions positioned through the High Street, following a process through recycling, storing constructing and manufacturing. To take this idea further, we allocated several empty units along the High Street to become spaces involved in the open factory, from workshops, educational centres and co-working hubs. Since we wanted to show the journey people would be able to take, we decided to create a storyboard for our final visual. These visuals show how the pavilions could sit in the High Street, starting at the market place, past CoLab Dudley’s base, and ending up at Top Church. We wanted to show how people would be able to interact with these different spaces and navigate between them. - 1_VMp1Jai-Vr7tZ4pe8U752Q.png
High Street Development The following images represent the high street development over the next 10 years. Green Corridor The hard standing throughout the high street is quickly converting a field of seeding of wild grasses and wildflowers, in the mix is also a high density of tree saplings. These will then grow to become the high streets Miyawaki forest and the centre point of Dudley’s green corridor. Vertical Farming Initially one vertical farm would appear on the high street and as the idea of urban farming becomes more widely accepted more and more buildings will either be converted, extended or built as new farms. Apartment Conversion As the population increases and more people are predicted to live in built up towns and cities, apartment blocks will pop up in new environments. As for the high street this will become a desired place to live as there are already most common amenities ready to use. As more blocks are created they themselves will become semi self sustaining. - Matthew Hewitt Green Corridor.png
More tagged with type Text
Old and abandoned - 210731 1335 Old.png
Beautiful flower display - 210730 1100.JPG
Slowly walking couple - man helping older woman - 210715 1600 Speeds.png
Industrial aesthetic functional utilitarian - 211110 1730 Aesthetic.png
Hardly any lighting -> scary - 211110 1730 Joy.png
More tagged with theme Identity
Cast iron railings lost on south side - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
This graffiti image is on the wall at ACCN- Dudley African Caribbean Network, I would like to know how and when this was created. One Love is a reference to a Bob Marley song and is written in the image. - ACCN Wall Art.jpg
Shop fronts are mostly reds and blues - 230720 Erica.JPG
Section loss of firm original enclosure - 210731 1403 Identity Section.png
The Gift represents the two different typologies of building and its facade located on the High Street. One resembles St. Thomas Top Church and the other is the common modern building facade. The design of High Street buildings has evolved throughout the period. Its use, materiality, construction technique etc. The High Street has always represented a role as a commercial and social hub. The concentration of public on the High Street provides the opportunities to designers to showcase creativity and innovation in design which impacts on visitors. We can say in other words, an ‘Exhibition’ of evolution of buildings in a row. So, facade plays a key role as it reflects the local identity of the town and its culture. So I did a little experiment to understand the street in the form of juxtaposition of facade by placing two different typologies of buildings located on the street. The voids on the facade have changed and adapted to more convenient rectilinear shapes during the past few decades. The model made of plain paper can represent the periodical difference in buildings to which people of the High Street can easily relate and take a place within their memory. - 0_VZnqEpx8xTTZXQdp.png