A portfolio of urban design, 3-D, architecture, and graphics by Oliver paul Spratley

Monday 28 May 2012

http://sagespace.net

http://sagespace.net New website designed and developed 2012

Thursday 24 February 2011

U-FARM (Urban-Food Access Review by Morphological level): Urban Design for food cycles

Proposed urban design for Chapel Street, Salford. Design has been generated by the U-FARM (Urban-Food Access Review by Morphological level) framework developed as an output of the MA Urban Design dissertation 2011. Thanks to all staff – former and current at The Joint Centre for Urban design (Oxford Brookes University) in supporting my studies.

Integrated public art - designed as part of this dissertation December 2010 - symbolising the possibilities of a new acculturation with food as a community-based asset

Below: Example page from dissertation evaluating a case study: Arkwright Community Garden, The Meadows, Notts. Thanks to Cathy Symes and all at ACG. Case studies were audited for the presence of food cycle stages and categorisation formed as part of the post-analysis

Sunday 12 September 2010

Edible Places 2: Designing and building for an urban food cycle

Canopy re-purposed motor tyres Photo: Heena Mistry

Art Cycle remains a salient theme in my work, as recurrent to some extent in this workshop organised by ASF-UK. The week at the Eden Project covered the theory supporting a 'Rocket' composter and the action research approach used to support the implementation and the integration as a practicable community asset.

This account of a 'food loop' explained how The rocket composter working across a London housing estate plays an integral role in the process.

The second day delivered CPUL's – a presentation by the authors of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes.

Once the theory was installed so-to-speak we split into 3 teams and the practical work shop commenced for the design and build of infrastructure for a food cycle at the Eden Project. Thanks to the ASF-UK team. To view the food cycle infrastructure go to:

http://edibleplaces2.wordpress.com/team/

Sunday 25 July 2010

Urban design

This design rationale for Osney Community Gardens is centred on healthy active living with a range of accessible spaces for the equitable affordance of cognitive and physical needs for the individual, community and visitors.
Vital elements include community orchards and poly-tunnels for enhanced food production and an additional framework for the UK allotment model. In essence a festoon of community activity will be supported. A broad range of dwelling tenures is delivered within the schemes with 30% affordable housing (all with balconies) factored in the economic feasibility.

Food production is also integrated into the perimeter block courtyards as well as into the building envelope and every conceivable 'boundary' through the deployment of the espalier motif with the tangible formation of fruiteries strung on arbor, trellis and so on. Explicit segregation and polarised design of the past is addressed through shared surfaces and maximum traffic speed of 20 MPH over the entire masterplan. Cycle and pedestrian routes are abundant.

A car club with underground parking serves community use with a permeable integrated pedestrian network connected to wider Oxford. Workshops and a market square for selling produce and food festivals for healthy competition is also incorporated. The market square incorporates a water fountain that is driven via solar panels and energy from the soon to be built Osney Weir Hydro-electric cork-screw (The first on the Thames) purported to, or rather pertaining to deliver enough energy to support up to around 80 households.

This design is just 4.1 hectare of an overall masterplan with the 'community centre' design proposal winning the Urban Design Group Student Award 2009 that was produced by one of our masterplan design group members. Core principles were agreed upon to drive the overall Masterplan and the different schemes ensured a variegated architecure from one quarter to the next.

For a raft of other features please delve into the virtual design document above.

The Media Bus: promotional images created in 3D Max

Open publication - Free publishing - More bus conversion

I was originally commissioned by a Bournemouth film company operating from the campus of my former university (Bournemouth Arts University College, formerly AIB). I completed the promotional design for The media bus in September 2008.
Whilst completing my interior architecture degree I edited one issue of the student magazine Dingsdabumsda and also managed and produced the graphic reproduction of the book Unknown Bown. Unpublished photography by Jane Bown, Observer Photojournalist.
As for The media bus it has now been built and was launched this year - 2010 to view :

http://archive.themediabus.co.uk/index.php/services/mediabuseducation/

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100511084737/raceonline2012.org/stories/media-bus

"The Media Bus is an innovative state-of-the-art digital media facility that will bring formal, informal training and educational opportunities to rural and deprived communities"   
"The project aims to engage young people and local communities using digital media to deliver active and lifelong learning experience. Projects can promote a sense of place and identity, increase skills and confidence, capture and tell contemporary stories and improve cohesion, social inclusion and citizenship"

Saturday 24 July 2010

ART CYCLE MAY 2010

Music of astounding clarity by Cloudland Canyon, heres hoping for a show at this years Green Man Festival 2011
http://www.kranky.net/artists/cloudlandcanyon.html