SOLIDSPACE DEVELOPMENTS

Consultancy and production for Solidspace Developments Ltd on their emerging housing brand 'Solidspace', launched at the 2009 World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. Solidspace proposes a recipe for a new housing type in locations with strict regulations and high values. With Finn Williams.

OUTFALL

A road movie for a road that was never built.

Film documenting the Northern Outfall Sewer in East London. Super 8 film and digital video capture ad-hoc occupation and spontaneous activity on a ridge originally proposed as a "public road through the marshes." The film offers fragmentary evidence of a gradually evolved public space on the back of a sewage pipe.

03.05.2009 Blue Movies, London Festival of Europe (at Old Ford Lock)
20.10.2009 Kingston University School of Architecture and Landscape
05.03.2011 Wick Curiosity Shop, Hackney Wick. Hosted by Public Works.
Produced by Metropolitan Board of Works, 2004-9.

ART AT THE CENTRE PHASE II EVALUATION

The evaluation of a major cultural regeneration programme Art at the Centre, initated by Arts Council England South East, which took place in three local authorities: Isle of Wight, Swale and Maidstone and which aimed to place artists and arts practitioners in local authority arts or planning teams during major regeneration projects. David, as part of the team at General Public Agency, was project co-ordinator for the final two years of the three-year programme. 2005-8.

PARISH OF FONTAINHAS

An alternative masterplan for the Fontainhas area of Porto, chiefly concerned with the shifting of parish boundaries and exploring improvements to resident rights.

The masterplan is a sustained negotiation of arcane processes of land law and tenant rights, with the aim of advocating for a series of marginalised communities, literally clinging onto the physical edge of Porto but in an extraordinarily beautiful and spatially rich urban site. A pilot project, for the reorganisation of a Bairro neighbourhood through precise alterations to existing homes - exploiting density, quality of life and accessibility, was carried out, and the project involved physical and social mapping of an area that appears blank on official maps.

At London Metropolitan University. Winner of the School Prize for Social Entrepreneurship, 2008.

CARSTEN HÖLLER: TEST SITE

A feasibility study, 'Slides in the Public Realm', was commissioned by Tate / Carsten Höller to coincide with Höller's Unilever Commission in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London in 2006. Produced as part of the team at General Public Agency, the study was published in the installation catalogue, and investigated the potential of slides as public and private transportation across London. The document included a detailed case study located in Stratford, East London, undertaken in collaboration with engineers Adams Kara Taylor and George L. Legendre of IJP. Alongside this work, a proposal for a building made of slides was produced by Foreign Office Architects. Our report considered the social, psychological and regenerative potential of urban slides, and our proposal to connect Portcullis House to the House of Commons by a slide featured in The Guardian.