Alec Temple Richards portfolio march 22 2019- 2022 1 M.O.T Community Arts centre 2020 Adaptive re-use of a light industrial unit as a community arts hub render in context m.o.t community arts 1 1 Artist in residence // Studio 1 Artist in residence // Studio 2 Canteen Kitchen Canteen & Shop Canteen & Collapsible Workshops Rubber Forming & Shredding Workshop Collapsible Auditorium & Event Space 2 Adapted Fuel Bowser Greenhouse Event Space 1 Collapsible Winter Greenhouse Public Allotment Units Public Comission & Display Space Formed Rubber Path // Demarkation Formed Rubber Path // Demarkation Public Comission & Display Space Public Allotment Units Moulded Rubber Path // Demarkation Public Comission & Display Space In the regional town of Lowestoft, the gradual decline of British holidaying and rural industry, commerical deep water shipping, and an internet ecoconmy, has resulted in a sea change; a steady commercial and creative decline since the Industrial Revolution. This concept presents a case for re-use of a semi derelict light industrial unit, to provide a community hub, mixed use arts centre and community garden. The mistakes of the past suggest grand schemes without site specificity. An un- involved community without the means to sustain the project results in the failure How might we foster community in a time of division, and co-create a space with its own grassroots output. This proposal asks questions about the model appropriate for a small urban area, by offering a mixed use, adaptive solution Collabortaive industries include allotments and community gardens with a permanent greenhouse in the fuel tank, and a collapsible one for the winter. Rubber waste left over from the sites previous use, can be re-crafted with a rubber crumbing machine, and casting facility to create terazzo like rubber-concrete composite, and rubber turf for architectural and interior use. With 2 resident artist studios, and 8 collpabsible ones, the arts is encouraged with different levels of commitment. The output can be sold at the shop, or displayed in the sites 3 changing display points. 3 events spaces, one with a collapsible auditorium, nother in the collapsible studios, can cater for community classes and events of varied types. concept motivation spatial utilisation communit y Alec Temple Richards 2 site plan & context Lowestoft - Norwich Road community Alec Temple Richards Norwich Rd. 10m Scale - 1:700 100m 3 Granby Four Streets // Assemble // Liverpool 2010 Image credit: Assemle Assemble’s project sets the precident for community projects by enabling both new and existing creative practices within the locality, to both build and sustain it long term. They installed a workshop, processes and shop, reusing site wastage into the structures, and saleable goods, thereby creating an enduring support model. The Antepavillion is principally an architecture competition, offering funding and annual plots over sprawling warehouses. On site studios, brewery and events spaces provide a support model and promtion for the project. Entrants are pushed for innovative circular thinking, with winners building recycled air ducts residences, through to inflatable barge theatres. Affordable studio and gallery space Studio Voltarie offers a cyclical support model for the community. Resident creatives can pitch for sites, and build installations to define the setting, with a guiding design language. Fostering a platform for the artists, and fusing local knowlege with subject matter experts, the result is a self perpetuating creative ecosystem. Antepavillion // Shiva, PUP Architects + // London Since 2017 Image credit: PUP Architects Studio Voltaire // Matheson Whitely // London 2021 Image credit: Matheson Whitely precident projects collapsible components material detail community Alec Temple Richards 6mm MDF Pegboard 4mm Toughened Reeded glass C oncertina steel frame on rollers Foldble 1 8 mm marine ply work desk Wheeled Aluminium truss 22 ° Pitched steel roof truss ( site reclaim ) Wheel tracking C lear Polythene sheeting 8 mm Tensile B raided Steel C able Sliding doors: 7 0mm Softwood & 4mm toughened reeded glass 7 0mm Softwood slatted screen S q uare profile steel Roller frame 1 8 mm B irch ply collapsible auditorium seating 2 8 mm toughened double gla z ing 7 0mm Softwood staggered stud Existing garage door frame Sprung garage door hinges 4 internal renders 2 3 5 4 community Alec Temple Richards Viewpoints marked on floorplan following 5 s/w elevation plan: ground & 1st floors plan: ground & 1st floors collapsible spaces closed 3 2 1 1 Scale - 1:180 Scale - 1:400 4 5 6 community Alec Temple Richards 6 external render community Alec Temple Richards 6 7 external render Old methodist chapel Old methodist chapel Adaptive re-use of a derelict Methodist Chapel in a depopulated hamlet in rural Norfolk residential Alec Temple Richards 2 2020 8 concept sketches 20 Primitivist - Hip Roof Weslyan - Gable All - Nave & Porch All - Trancepts & Porch internal render residential Alec Temple Richards methodism typology Since the 1730s founding of Methodism, its architecture has taken a distinct approach. As a functional tool for preaching as opposed to object intended for veneration in its own right, the buildings of Methodism took and abstracted the grecian style, as the original ‘Styling of christian architecture (FJ Jobson). High expenditure on architecture would be an ‘abuse of gods gifts’ (G Dolbey). As such any adaption of Methodist architecture should sway from unescessary adornment if it is to be true to its origins. A further dialogue when undertaking this project is that set out by Fred Scott in his ‘On altering Architecture’. The Ruskin ideology of any change to a building being utterly destructive to its identity, is at odds with that set out by Violet le Duc, that almost no building exists in its temporal vacuum once it has been built. As such restoration should be true to the style of the time, and honest with where change has been made. I came down on the side of Le Duc - alterations are unavoidable, but should be honest to the building, and obvious and contemporary where they have been made. FJ Jobson - Chapel & School Archiecture (Hamilton Adams 1850) G Dolbey - The architectural Expression of Methodism (Epworth 1964) Fred Scott - On Altering Architecure (Routeledge 2007) citations & sources 9 residential Alec Temple Richards 18mm Viroc panelling Concrete footing Thermafleece Hemp Insualtion 18mm Plasterboard EPDM Damp Proof Membrane 250mm Catnic joist 3mm Copper Damp Course Sill 70mm steel lintel 25mm Acoustic layer 10mm Glass balcony ballustrade Balcony bottom footing plate 100mm Treated timber stud Clay pantiles 18mm Plasterboard 3mm Copper Damp Course Sill 1200mm Hinged Ridgelight Thermafleece Hemp Insualtion Spacing tray EPDM Damp proof membrane Roofing batten Steel ridge flashing fig.1 Black terazzo composite Stained cherry cabinetry & carpenentry 10mm glass pane 250mm Catnic joist site plan & context 26m 27m 28m 29m 30m m aterial & f eat u re details 1 st & g ro u nd f loor plan E x tra length to project out from ea v es f.3 f.1 f.2 fig.2 fig.3 Scale - 1 : 3000 Set Aside / Verge Arable F ield 10 3 2021 internal render A residential bedroom in archway A multi functional bedroom for a private client in North London residential Alec Temple Richards a residential bedroom in archway proposed rear bay 11 textural moodboard residential Alec Temple Richards 12 Hinged Lid (Open) Rebated Equipment Enclosure Keyboard slide (Open) Hinged Lid (Closed) Rebated Equipment Enclosure Keyboard slide (Closed) 18mm Birch Ply Routed Hinged Lid 18mm Birch Ply Routed Compartment 18mm Birch Ply Routed Top Face 18mm Birch Ply Routed Bottom Face 32mm Softwood Routed Structural Front Face 32mm Softwood Slats 32mm Softwood Side Face 38mm Softwood Support Piles 18mm Birch Ply Routed Keyboard Slide Steel & Ball Bearing Drawer Slides 45mm Turned Oak Legs desk - open/close section desk concepts desk - exploded diagram residential Alec Temple Richards elevations & plan net Scale - 1:110 13 completed photographs residential Alec Temple Richards Role: Designer & Fabricator 14 4 2019- 2022 SELECTED OTHER WORK 2019-2022 commercial Alec Temple Richards micro housing unit - external mockup A selection of other projects and pieces from the last few years other work 15 glass half full - kitchen & bar on wheel ground floor plan open deck plan commercial Alec Temple Richards 16 commercial Alec Temple Richards rooms of led batons // production design feb 2020 3 Role: Designer & Fabricator Production design and installation for Bristol nightclub Lakota, exploring the sope of using LED batons across their 3 separate rooms, as scultpural ways to articulate the space. 17 commercial Alec Temple Richards london queer fashion show old crown courts, bristol ‘19 old crown courts, bristol ‘19 dropout disco, bristol ‘19 re:imagine, london ‘20 ‘19 stranglove, london ‘22 production design for events ‘19-’22 Role: Designer & Fabricator Production design and installation for concerts, events and nightclubs across the UK, designing, fabricating, sourcing and installing sets & lighting, at locations from London’s Young V&A to Bristol Old Crown Court CRT Television array 18 water city wood ensemble - crato portugal 2019 Role: Fabricator Interactive floating comission for a public arts festival, involving 3 separate units, with separate functions and a collective form: 1 central island, and 2 pulley operated ferry units which slotted together into a cohesive whole. competition Alec Temple Richards 19 In support of SLO Studio