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Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre
1948-[1975?], predominant 1949-1950
File 6
File documents a student project for a Plan of Town Centre and Development of Community Centre, in Newton Aycliffe, England, United Kingdom. Project was submitted in 1950 as Stirling's undergraduate thesis in his fifth year at the Liverpool School of Architecture. Material in this file was produced between 1948 and probably 1975.
File contains presentation drawings and panels, a publication drawing and a few working drawings. Photographic materials includes views of drawings and of study and presentation models. File also contains a bound thesis.
Newton Aycliffe Durham England United Kingdom
Document is in English.
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floor and roof plans, rendered elevations, several sections and two exterior perspectives for Community Centre, also photographs of the original presentation drawings for the Community Centre and of rendered plans showing the flow of "Public circulation" on each floor
9 presentation panel(s)
Ink and dry transfer on paper mounted on cardboard, gelatin silver prints mounted on cardboard
panel (smallest): 26 x 51 cm panel (largest): 76 x 51 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0472
Objects that have been catalogued:
2 presentation drawing(s)
sheets: 19 x 26 cm
drawings are signed and inscribed "Aycliffe 27.8.49"
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0856
Objects that have been catalogued:
incomplete set of reprographic copies of numbered working drawings, showing a foundation and drainage plan, floor plans and sections, details for the structural frame, window, and staircase, as well as a plan and section for a typical bay
10 working drawing(s)
sheet (smallest): 50 x 77 cm sheet (largest): 54 x 77 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0389
Objects that have been catalogued:
4 presentation drawing(s)
sheet (smallest): 25 x 38 cm sheet (largest): 26 x 39 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0389
views of presentation drawings and of the publication drawing, views of a preliminary model for the Community Centre which is otherwise not present in the project documents, views of no longer extant models and presentation drawings for the "Town Centre Lay-out" scheme, one mounted photograph originally bound in the thesis showing the presentation perspective for the community centre
1 photographic material(s)
Gelatin silver prints, negatives
photographic materials: 0,02 l.m.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 photographic material(s)
Gelatin silver prints
photographic materials: 0,01 l.m.
- All but one of the photographs are mounted on board.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Legs de la famille Stirling/
Bequest of the Stirling family
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 publication drawing(s)
Ink on translucent paper
sheet: 26 x 33 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0389
bound 88 page thesis includes historical, sociological and physical contexts, the programme for each project, "Town Centre Lay-out" and "Development of the Community Centre", a description and explanation of the design, a bibliography, and a list of buildings visited; content includes typescripts, mounted photographs of presentation drawings and models, reworked reprographic copies of maps, schematic master plans, preliminary schemes, samples for interior colour schemes, photographs of no longer extant models and of presentation drawings for the "Town Centre Lay-out" scheme, loose material consists of an original and a photocopy of half of page 71, and mounted photographs of a preliminary model for the Community Centre and of an unidentified building with its ground floor structure exposed
1 textual record(s)
book (closed): 26.2 x 21 x 2.8 cm sheet (irreg.): 14,7 x 18,2 cm sheet: 29,5 x 21 cm
- Several pages have been cut out of the bound thesis, including photographs of presentation drawings and models for the Community Centre. - There are four photographs mounted on both sides of a piece of cardboard which are part of the loose material included with the bound thesis.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
1 report(s)
sheets: 33.6 x 21.8 x 0.5 cm
- This report was bound with yellowed adhesive tape, but was unbound for conservation purposes. The original order of the pages is as follows: Title page; Submissions; Aims; Principles; 1) Groupings; 2) Disposition of groupings; Cultural Groups (contd); Circulatory System; From the shopping centre; Arts centre; Section through hall showing reflective properties; A provision of services; 2 ILLUSTRATIONS; and The dominant architectural theme.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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