A mural designed in consultation with the local residents.

A SEHCO and First Wessex project

Colour scheme for the interior of the Portsmouth Foyer new-build.

The wall, floor and ceiling palette is kept neutral and only elements such as the doors and handrails are vividly coloured. Each floor has its own colour which indicates the floor you are on. The bedsits have one colour-accented wall. The various colours were chosen in consultation with the centre’s future users, including staff and residents.

A community mural erected on the side of a 70′s housing estate block in the process of being demolished. It represents the Rowner Estate’s past (:it used to be an airfield), its present (:the excavators which demolish and rebuild anew), and its future , with a BMX expressing today’s youth.

Site: Gosport

Size: 28ft x 8ft

A webiste designed by myself and my Station colleague, Dan Alexander, for writer Bill Todd and his fictional character, Danny Lancaster.

See the site here.

This large mural was painted on the last survivng wall of the former East Southsea Railway station (1885-1914). The train depicted is taken from the only extant photo of any train at the station. The wall was in need of repair and repainting, but the residents went one step further, did all the research themselves and commissioned a mural when they could have just settled for a faceless blank wall: Good for them.

Funded by SEHCO, First Wessex and Portsmouth City Council.

This fullscreen website is to showcase photography of Portsmouth, taken by residents. A collaboration with Deer Park Alpha and Claire Sambrook of Portsmouth University.

Try some pictorial tourism and visit the website.

Using Surrealism to teach students in Hampshire about urban design and architecture.

The EPP was established to create a teacher focused approach to exploring ways that the designed built environment. As part of the Education Partner Programme, we have been working with Portsmouth College on a project that links urban design and surrealism.  The exhibition, the result of 12 workshops, ran at the Pop-Up Shops in Commercial Road, Portsmouth.

Starting with an exploration of Surrealist art and studying the work of artists such as Salvador Dali and Giorgio. The students then took a ‘virtual’ walk around the model and selected still images of interesting and inspiring viewpoints.  From these, they introduced texture and imagery that expressed the history of the site.  Some artworks are straightforward; some are mysterious; all tell an urban story and express the student’s interpretation of the powerful interplay of place and meaning.

A Deer Park Alpha project.

In a continued relationship with Bay House School in Hampshire we worked with the Geography department to design and run a series of lessons that enabled students to learn about the design of earthquake proof buildings.

We involved staff and students in the initial planning and together produced lessons that enabled the students to discover by themselves the four basic principles and then employ them in the design of an earthquake proof structure. The structures were tested on a seismic shaker and prices given to the team who designed a structure that not only stood up the longest, but was the tallest and the most elegant.

The project was a great success and we are working with the school again this year to roll the lessons out to a wider a group.

“It was a really successful project and this was principally down to your careful planning and superb contributions in the classroom.
I really welcomed your refreshing approach to include pupils in the co construction their learning. Their responses made me realise this is something that we should be doing more of this as a department.
I was also really impressed by the professionalism of your approach. You were always where you said you would be which was really reassuring. Your enthusiasm was deep knowledge of architecture was infectious and feedback from pupils was really positive.”

Moira Duffy,
Head of Geography