Gateway - A Construction College & Community
A college that acts as a point of entry into the Eden Project: celebrating the idea of threshold through a building that floats effortlessly across the site.
The college is constructed through a collaboration of students and construction professionals: both benefitting from a relationship orientated around active learning. The scheme acts as a foundation for a wider campus of sustainable and innovative technologies: delivered through collaborative relationships that marry private enterprise and education. Click the images (right) to enlarge Ramp-up StudiosNicholas Shaw
The Ramp Up Studios is a proposal for a construction college on the outskirts of the Eden Project. The idea of visual learning by example is employed to train visitors in the art of self / custom build. A defined route of hands-on learning takes the student from a novice at the base camp to a trained graduate at the summit with a rewarding vista over the existing projects at Eden. |
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Think-to-MakeSam Clough
This proposal for a sustainable construction college ties vertical learning from thinking at higher levels, through testing and researching in central areas to making and implementing at the base of the building. This is illustrated in the montage, which demonstrates the sampling and testing to the making of components and systems at the lower levels. All departments teach and raise questions around the recycling of waste materials and the re-sourcing of materials from around Cornwall through workshop based activities and within a central space, where departments learn from each other in a construction-site like environment. |
A production line to self BuildingJoshua Wood
The UK government is encouraging self building. The problem is however, that not many people actually have the know how, funds or the confidence to give it go for themselves. The scheme at The Eden Project aims to bring more people into the community with the skills and knowledge to build their own eco-friendly, efficient and future proof houses. The teaching model is linear. Students of all ages will be taught how to fund, design, manufacture, build and maintain there houses. Central to the scheme however is the foundation; a research unit that ensures the housing being produced is pioneering in the areas of sustainability and efficiency. |