Featuring Explorations and Stories by young people to shape ideas for the Museum of Brutalist Architecture
Authors and Credits
Students of Acland Burghley School and Parliament Hill School. Educators and Urban Learners
Location
Acland Burghley School and The Whittington Estate
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See work and analysis which helped evolve concepts and content for the Museum of Brutalist Architecture. 6th Form students from LaSwap (4 schools in North London) joined Urban Learners for a day of investigation and immersion into Brutalist Architecture. Their interpretations were wide ranging, inciteful and thoughtful.
“I like the feeling of Concrete _ Rough under my hand”
“It contains a sense of Comfort, Peace and Relaxation”
“Set in Past, Present and Future”
“The quietness of the building – sounds fade out quickly. It could be quite peaceful in here… the room has an ambient feel to it coupled with the dark materials that have been used”
“Like an armadillo… You could offend it, and therefore its cladding is quite defensive”
“Concrete is a marker for the time when it was built”
“The glass shaped ‘diamond’ that sticks out of the roof – sometimes hidden and then it juts out”
“Unfinished, like there is room to grow and change in time”
“Grey yet mixed colours”
“It’s cooler than it thought it would be”
“Windows highlight the sky and the canopy of trees”
“Nature and Organic Patterns on man made concrete contrast with one another”
“Centred on itself, many sides, suggests it has a central ‘security’, geometric and comforting”