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Studio @cta_studio Visiting @wsofarchi Mentor @rca
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[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@haeckels_ @bridgemonty Great, as ever - if you need some labour or space at Unit Five let us know - keep up the good fight.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@charlesjholland @danieljstilwell @Sam_McElhinney Can only strongly concur to this;
https://t.co/B54F7ltVFp

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@danieljstilwell Is that a euphemism.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@charlesjholland There seems a global shortage of tumbleweeds when one wants them.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@haeckels_ @bridgemonty Please (!)
Always happy to spread the word of another trying to do good work against the tide of mediocrity > let’s push things forward.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@chrisromerlee @tunnocksuk @brutus_beton A confluence of architecture’s demands, the need for warmth in a cold studio space, and admittedly one too many American legal dramas (!)

Always welcome Chris.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

We should talk @tunnocksuk

Fire up the caramel log robot - we could make incredible things together (!)

Photo: @brutus_beton for upcoming feature.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@stuartfinnie @WSofArchi Was a real honour to benefit from years of SC groundwork and contacts - it’s rare for a trip to be so immersive and so transformative.
Itinerary may be clearer here;
https://t.co/8rZ7bj6ltc

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

T007 WSA
A1 textual documentation of @WSofArchi collegiate tour across GER, AUS and SWI during 18.01.20 - 23.01.20.
With thanks to Dr Steve Coombs for the invitation.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Groupwork_arch @adamdgreenfield I suppose I am surprised at how on arrival I was ready to dismiss this-perhaps a lack of overt character or reference play or.. but maybe that is the point.
It is a beautiful(ly simple) way to build well, & a beautifully flexible host for a variety of uses.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Groupwork_arch @adamdgreenfield That’s it.
Thinking around future use and un-use was also sound; plan *and section* allows for stairs to be added and at the time we visited it housed a gallery, an office, a cafe, residential units.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Groupwork_arch @adamdgreenfield It’s apparent simplicity gets more interesting; internal LB element is circa 400mm then broken (though no cavity) with circa 300mm ‘insulative’ outer layer - slight change in internal webbing and blocks on shifted courses but still bonded as one. Self ‘cooked’ lime to externals.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Groupwork_arch Important part of rationale was often circa 1/3 of project spent on mech services - and what would happen if that 1/3 was reinvested back the architecture. All achieved for circa €1500/sqm.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Groupwork_arch Separately - but always relatedly - have just returned from GER, SWI and AUS; the latter involved a tour of House 2226 by Baumschlager Eberle.
Compelling argument made for sheer mass (and of course gutsy LB walls) whereby mass (and generous FCL heights) enables heating by users.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@PhinHarper @ArchFoundation Should of said, in light of the Enforcement Notice..

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@PhinHarper @ArchFoundation Suggest reading ‘Chelsea Vs Pope’ re houseboats and other non fixed items, conclusively defined as chattel, plus Elitestone Limited v Morris re attachment to site etc.

Both interesting cases re chattel.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

Yesterday, and sleeping beauty in Cliftonville:

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From Canterbury to Ghent, and Ghent to Canterbury.

An updated carrier of good news, that this set piece could grace any collage city.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@jalinsomaiya as the decade draws in and in homage to our Dartmouth Row odyssey - and your soundtrack-to - here we are in Ghent listening to Love Theme from Spartacus by Yusef Lateef.

Admittedly Hotline Bling preceded it but bon 2020; we move forward.

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Piers_Taylor Which of course you will !
Signing off shortly for 2020 so here’s to it..!

[• @Carl_Trenfield]

@Piers_Taylor @manonmollard @invisiblstudio @charlesjholland Piers will know my thoughts here and the reason why it is taken seriously @WSofArchi - its often worst in this shortened form (to ‘craft’ rather than ‘craftsmanship’)

Shabby thoughts here https://t.co/oxarLXhxzf but do it justice Piers - it really needs unpicking.