Ben Craven Architecture + Design Portfolio

Semester 2 – Hesketh Bank Outmarsh 

 

The site was Hesketh Bank Outmarsh, close to the area of Tarleton a small Lancashire town. The area is very much surrounded by agriculture primarily dealing with salad crops. 
 

To conceive a design on what appeared a blank canvas I engaged with the “Deconstruction” of the Architectural Plan as a lie. By creating a grid of the site from the movements of people and animals, the boundaries of land and protection by boarders, I deconstructed properties of the site into a building form, even the structural properties were created “Of the site”. 

 

 

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The Building consisted of five different programs that combined together to create one proposal :-



• Micro Dutch Auction House

• Seed Bank

• Intergenerational Community Hub

• Agricultural Research Centre

• Seasonal Workers Residency