Jason Lecture at Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen, October 2010

3. SEARCHING IN PRACTICE
AN IDEAS EXCHANGE
A CHANCE OF VIEWING THE
WORLD DIFFERENTLY

4. MIXING DISTORTING
GENERATING UNCOVERING NEW POTENTIAL
PROVOKING CONVERSATION + QUESTIONING
CREATIVITY FARMING

5. I ‘M
COMFORTABLE
WITH
THAT

6. LESS
IS
MORE

7. MORE FAMOUS
LESS
RELEVANT

8. I AM
A
WHORE
JANUARY 8, 1979

9. LEWIS CARROLL: THE JABBERWOCK
IMAGINED REAL
FINDING WHERE THINGS MERGE

10. THE WORLD CONNECTED (ACCORDING TO iTunes)

11. THE WORLD REMAPPED (ACCORDING TO GaWC)
“In the medieval world, the famous Mappa Mundi had Jerusalem at its centre; our
contemporary Mappa Mundi has the USA so positioned. But for how much longer”?
CITY CODES :
AMS Amsterdam, ATH
Athens, ATL Atlanta, AUK
Auckland, BA Buenos Aires,
BAN Bangkok, BAR
Barcelona, BEJ Beijing, BOG
Bogota, BUD Budapest, BRU
Brussels, CAR Caracas, CHI
Chicago, DBL Dublin, FRA
Frankfurt, HK Hong Kong,
IST Istanbul, JAK Jakarta,
JOH Johannesburg, KAR
Karachi, KL Kuala Lumpur,
LA Los Angeles, LIS Lisbon,
LON London, MAD Madrid,
MEL Melbourne, MEX Mexico
City, MIL Milan, MNL Manila,
MOS Moscow, MUB Mumbai,
ND New Delhi, NY New
York, PAR Paris, PRA
Prague, ROM Rome, SGP
Singapore, SAN Santiago,
SEO Seoul, SF San
Francisco, SHA Shanghai,
SP São Paulo, STO
Stockholm, SYD Sydney,
TOK Tokyo, TOR Toronto,
TPE Taipei, VIE Vienna,
WAR Warsaw, WDC
Washington DC, ZUR Zurich

12. THE WORLD ACCORDING GaWC: ALPHA CITIES 2008 MAP_GAWC

13. THE WORLD ACCORDING GaWC
CARTOGRAM OF CITY LISTINGS 2008_GAWC
DUBLIN
ABERDEEN
CLASSIFICATION OF CITIES 2008
_GAWC
2000 2004 2008
ALPHA++ 0.988 0.992 0.998
AVERAGE CONNECTIVITIES BY ALPHA LEVELS ALPHA+ 0.686 0.699 0.734
ALPHA 0.577 0.548 0.617

14. WHAT OF IRELAND?
NEW NETWORKS:
PREPARING CONNECTED CITIES
LIVING/FARMING & WATERING
CREATIVITY RECYCLED
THE INVERTED CENTRE (+ other rotational strategies)
THE LIMINAL EDGES
FURTHER EXAMINING:
(i)SUBURBIA VULGAROPOLIS
(ii)SOFT vs HARD MESSAGES
(iii)ENGAGEMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
(iv)COLLECTIVE RESEARCH EVOLUTION
(v)GAPS/MIGRATIONS + VOIDS
ground water NEW CITY

15. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO iRISH
(DEVELOPER)
‘Kelly was not interested in putting
up standard box houses and had
also concluded that “modern
architecture didn’t pay’.
Fintan O’Toole; Rise and fall of a Tiger tycoon, The Irish Times - Saturday, July 17,
2010.

16. VINGINCE BEGAYSUS!..... land

17. SAMPLED- TECHNIQUES
LINKAGES/
COMBINATIONS/
SCALINGS/
ROTATIONS
IMAGINED REAL

18. In the absence of imperical
truths, we will have to be
discursive, enquiring &
questioning………..
developing
“WHAT IF ” SCENARIO’S
POROSITY WALL

19. “IT ONLY BECAME A DOOR WHEN I
PUSHED IT”
Ravin ponniah
MATERIAL ACTIVATION

20. DRAW, MAKE, RE-POSITION EXAMINE DEAD-ENDS

21. Site at Heywood, Laois, Ireland. A series of moves were created to isolated
key elements, waterscapes, roadscape and
folies, of the site at Heywood. These
elements were then placed on an imaginary
landscape which we were able to manipulate
to help develop the hotel landscape.

22. Site at New Delhi, India. Hybrid Moves between Heywood and New Delhi

23. Various axes existed between the sites which contained a
similar linear layout We began to look at potential
anchorages in which we could use to provide connections
between the details and axis which would provide a final
overlay of the two sites on one another.
Connections were made between Heywood House and the
Viceroy’s House also. We began to look at the scaling
factors between the two sites and further ways in which
we could combine the different elements.

24. A catalogue of architectural details were
then created through a similar method with
the Viceroy’s House. These details were used
to create a layout which would eventually
drive the placement and function of our
hotel.

25. The Reader’s Hotel - The Library Compartments.
Within the development of the Reader’s Hotel the
architectural elements which were created came through a
overlaying of spaces from the Viceroy’s house. These
spaces included bedrooms, libraries and office spaces.
The Readers Hotel is a hybridization of the libraries
within the Vicegral Palace, New Delhi and the garden
compartments present at Heywood House, Laois. A
collection of private library compartments will allow
spaces of recollection and thoughtfulness for the
guests, with books within the libraries providing the
gateway to these rooms. The compartments will depict
installations within the landscape, allowing for
internal and external reading spaces, bedrooms and
other rooms.
The final move within the development of the Reading
Hotel was to isolate the horizontal walls facing Heywood
House. The walls carried the architectural charge of the
connection between the two sites, framing the view of
Heywood House, while also housing the function of the
spaces they defined. They would become active in there
movement, enclosing and revealing spaces

26. The walls which defined the spaces were then isolated, and designed to include all the functions of the
hotel. They contained fold out beds, reading compartments and hinged bookshelves. A specific wall was
modeled at 1:2.

27. GAMEBOARD
NEW TRAJECTORIES SPECULATION

28. The Hallway of Newman House is
deconstructed it’s constituent
elements, namely:
table
Chimney (hearth) Ch H
Tile Floor Grid T/F Gr
Window Ope Win O
Window Arch Win Arc
Chimney Breast Ch B
Archway 1 Arc 1
Archway 2 Arc 2
Front Door FD
Apollo Room Wall AR W
Apollo Room Door AR D
Window Grid 9/6 Win Gr 9/6
Secret Door SD
1 SLOT1: ARCHITECTURE 53SEVEN

29. THE GAME
The premise is that throughout Carroll’s work, questions concerning the position of the body in relation to its surroundings— the possibility for one to forge a sense
of place—are recurrent; one is constantly reminded that one’s perception of space, as well as one’s understanding of where one stands, are phenomena
In order to make sense of such situating, we will establish a “GAME-BOARD” out of the elements of wood to be cut from the exhibition table (not literally), and
establish a matrix within the Hallway of Newman House that initially allows for the exploration of new trajectories and geometries within the Hallway itself, whilst
then forming a physical construct to sit within/on top of/below the allocated opening of the table itself.

30. EXERGUE
TO PRESENT,
MAKE EXPLICIT
UN-FOLD

35. ACTIVE MATERIAL
surface air

36. 1897
2008
1563
1800’s

47. TOOLING
excavating
civic offices & library

51. RE-SITUATE
OCCUPY
NEW FRENCH QUARTER, PORTARLINGTON

59. CITY CONNECTIVITY
OCCUPIED DISTORTED

73. inversion & hybridisation
BORD GAIS National Distribution H.Q

77. URBAN GRAIN
SPECULATION

78. SITE
MILK MARKET
N

88. CITY
CODE MIL Milan (Alpha+)
CITY
CODE MIL
Milan

89. AREA
CODE MER
Cascina Merlata

91. ORTH casina merlata geometry
cascina merlata
expo site
cemetery
rotating steps
(MIL) Milan
formation geometry