Clay Mines [Research and Mining]

The Clay Mines was my second year final project. The brief was to design a school or learning facility that the public in the area around Old Street could interact with. My idea was to design an area to mine London Clay and to use it to construct a building which would be made of a combination of the clay and fibber optics to create a see-through clay building. This building would constantly be transformed by the amount of prefabricated slabs there are in the basement of the building. The lift and concrete retaining wall are the only contents within the building – everything else could change. The clay slabs are held up by a complex set of scaffolding that can also be changed depending on the design of the building. To the back of the site there will be a building dedicated to leering and research on clay and fibber optics.