Title & Author:

Small : thoughts and projects / Carl Turner Architects.

Publication:

London : Artifice Books on architecture, [2013]
©2013

Description:

143 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Thought: Small is good -- Urban -- Jack Spade Store -- (A)Dressing The Street -- Thought: Thinking through making -- Frame House -- Thought: Four principles -- Crumbles Castle -- Design Council Offices -- Designer's House -- Thought: Living over the shop -- Suburban -- Slat House -- Thought: Home not house -- Slip House -- Slip Street -- Home From Home: Em Casa -- Opal House -- Thought: The conceptual detail -- Rural -- Ochre Barn -- Stealth Barn -- Magnificent Container -- Thought: Craft and materiality -- Great Fen Visitor Centre -- Great Barn Farm -- Thought: Collage.

Summary:

Carl Turner Architects was formed in 2006, and has established a reputation for high impact, low cost architecture. The practice works with a diverse range of clients including small non-profit and arts organisations, the creative industries, private residential, developers and commercial end users. Philosophies central to the firm's work are a belief in place-making and architecture's being both process and product. Their concerns encompass the mechanisms or organisations which produce both buildings and the spaces between, and how they can work with and influence them to produce an improved built environment. Both playful and experimental, the practice enjoys analysing and re-addressing the use of spaces, materials, structures, scale and landscapes, often creating unexpected outcomes. Internally, they are interested in the user and the psychology of space. Externally, emotional influences such as materiality, colour, and shape prevail. This desire to experiment is embodied by Slip House, whose construction was documented by Channel 4's Grand Designs. The house is being monitored by the practice for real time energy performance over a three-year period and has acted as a vehicle to test and learn about the Code for Sustainable Homes, Passivehaus and low carbon design in general.

ISBN:

9781908967374 (paperback)
1908967374 (paperback)

Subject:

Small buildings England Design and construction.
Architecture and Planning.
England

Added entries:

Carl Turner Architects.

Small thoughts and projects

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292752
Call No.: BIB 237179
Status: Available