Living with Living Machines

A UCL research project into Biohybridity has adopted this twitter logo designed by JIA:

The term ‘Living Machines’ has appeared in the last decade, announcing a science to understand and harness the convergence between biology and technology. This banner includes projects that create new technologies inspired by nature (biomimetics), projects that engineer/orchestrate living matter (synthetic biology), and projects that intimately couple biological entities with manufactured components for new biohybrid systems.

String Theory

 

Preliminary design for a guitar teaching and practice suite with workshop and storage for a guitar shop in Bristol.

A new courtyard will be formed at the end of the shop, which is currently being fitted out.

One Bedroom House

 This design for a one bedroom house in Brislington has just been submitted for planning approval. It works with the very tight constraints imposed by the site, sitting next to an existing house with a distinctive profile. The new dwelling would respect the amenity of its neighbour, while also creating a combined larger visual entity. 

The living room faces north. However, high level windows allow sunlight to enter from the south, also promoting cross ventilation.

 JIA have achieved Listed Building Approval with KB-2 structural engineers for extensive structural repairs to this historic Grade II* building in Bristol.

Soft Space Cubicle

JIA are developing a prototype design for a safe clinical room at Bristol Royal Hospital For Children. It is designed to be inclusive, catering for a wide range of patients, including those with challenging mental conditions.

The brief called for a calm, neutral space adaptable to individual needs. The scheme places all the usual clinical paraphernalia in smooth, laminate casings with flush, fob-operated doors. When closed, the equipment does not intimidate or present a ligature risk to young patients. The skin of the casings doubles as a screen for a video projector. Patient packs containing toys and sensory materials are stored on shelves, which also house phone-charging points, data outlets and other services.

Following sign-off by stakeholders it is proposed to progress through detailed design to tender and building out early in 2020.

Beach House

Proposals for a new structure to replace a dilapidated house on a site facing the sea at Sand Bay near Weston-super-Mare.

Views over the Bristol Channel are spectacular, especially from higher levels.

The client is keen to enjoy the outlook to a maximum, so living space is arranged on the top floor with a vaulted roof over. At the centre is a large roof lantern that also serves to drop light into a central staircase leading down to bedrooms.

The house is revealed to view through incisions in the land, as this massing study demonstrates.

Garden Room

This preliminary visualisation explores proposals to take down a rear kitchen extension (with a pitched roof and small windows) to replace with a new, wider structure with large windows and a roof lantern.

Walls would be constructed in timber frame with a rendered finish to keep construction thicknesses to a minimum. New windows and French doors would be powder coated aluminium.