ID:114 | Open in NocoDB | Type:Text | Themes:2 | Attachments:1 | Finding:3 chars | Connections:0→0 | Location:52.50869107535056, -2.0867005854498517 | Weather:2 tags | Date:Saturday 31 July 2021 | Press 'D' to close

Dudley Time Portal

Old - 210731 1335 Old.png
Old
Added to Archive Wednesday 3 November 2021
Experienced Saturday 31 July 2021
Last Updated Tuesday 25 November 2025
Location 52.50869107535056, -2.0867005854498517
Season Summer
Type Text
Weather Cloudy Rainy
Themes Old Architecture
What was/is/if What is
More tagged with theme Old
Cast iron railings good survival - 210731 1403 Identity.jpg
Old cinema - lack of culture - pigeon's world - 211110 1730 Decay.png
Rubble + stone - 211007 1500 Waste 1.png
I was asked about what I was doing [asked them what they think is beautiful] Old lamp posts giving the town some character - 210730 1100.JPG
More tagged with theme Architecture
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
Localising Material Accessibility During my initial walk through the High Street of Dudley, I noticed an inevitable decline in the area. There were vacant shops, but those open had apparent facade damage. For the area to thrive, there needs to be an aesthetical uplift. Here I began to question how to make the repairs. On the one hand, one could complete a like for like repair with a deep clean to provide a new lease of life to achieve an aesthetical value. Alternatively, the repairs could be a status of where the street aims to be in the future. To achieve a statement, the implementation of repair work needs to stand out. It needs to be futuristic, a bold contrast to the existing. At this point, I decided that after being informed of the damage the built environment has on the climate crisis, only carbon zero/ carbon sequestering materials would be present during repairs. This does not aim to destroy existing buildings but instead carefully implement repairs creating a patchwork effect across the street. This would then grow over time as more repair work is required. Over time, the high street would transform into a zero-carbon environment. The manufacturing and growth of these materials need to be local, so consideration is vital. This provides an opportunity for the site to be a material producer itself. - Ryan Cooksey Ban Materials.png
We initially collaged together all the facade images taken and then annotated them with further reference to key areas. The right hand side looking at materiality, street furniture and observations of people. The left hand side looks at observing some of the most dominant features - the traffic, shopping centre and busy public market in the centre. - Michelle Gartside Initial response.png
More tagged with type Text
Ladies' perfume - 210731 1403 Smell.png
Peeling layers of paint grey, blue, red, green layers of the past revealing themselves... - 210731 1050.jpg
New barriers - 210730 1600 New.jpg
Up high buddleia + fern waving in gentle breeze - 210715 1600 Speeds.png
Mossy algae on wall below the windows - 210731 1050.jpg