069hil_DOG DAY AFTERNOON

Council rang to say that “animals are not permissible in school buildings”: belated thanks to Australia Design Review

000off_Forthcoming WHAT_architecture publication

Forthcoming WHAT_architecture publication with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology…

Now that’s what I call RRRchitecture. MELBOURNE’S 102.7FM says what!?

069hil_Construction News Awards 2011

Best Project Under £10m

Open to all UK projects with a budget value of up to £10m that achieved practical completion, or equivalent, between November 2009 and March 2011. Entrants are construction teams who deserve recognition for the high standard of work, adherence to budget and client satisfaction in a healthy and safe working environment (WHAT_architecture’s Cowley St Laurence Church of England Primary School and Children Centre)

Every Child Matters 1000-piece Lego ‘take home’ kit!

As part of the public participation in the design process, each child attending the school was given a 1000 piece take-home kit in which to develop their contribution to the Every Child Matters cladding system with their parents, siblings, grandparents…

Lego Façade studies

The project required in-house full-scale mock-ups of the façade!

You are an architect!

The project asked: how is it possible to engage the building’s users, that is children, in the design and build process.

069hil_Lego building in the snow!

WHAT_architecture and an array of community volunteers lay a million plus Lego bricks whilst it’s snowing and minus 10 degrees celcius! Every morning the studs had to be de-iced using a kettle: naturally a cup-of-tea was the way to start the day!

WHAT_architecture says Design and Build your own DIY School!

‘Every Child Matters’ Lego Façade Design Strategy

The Every Child Matters Lego façade design requiring the determination of: 1. brick length (1-10 stud) 2. brick width (1-2 stud) 3. brick colour 4. building function icons 5. a consented representation of Christ 6. Every Child Matters contributory designs 7. ventilation details 8. expansion joints 9. adjacent building interface details 10. Royal Mail postbox 11. the schools’ core values inscribed as a text wall