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ALISON BROOKS, founder and creative director of Alison Brooks Architects London, is known as one of the most interesting architects of her generation. She was born in Ontario, Canada and finished her studies in architecture at the university of Waterloo.
Brook's architecture has been described as "a late flowering of the most elegant and sensuous modernism". Her architectural approach emerges from broad cultural research, with each project expressing a specific response to place, community and landscape. She is particularly known for designing intelligent and beautiful houses but has also moved into the cultural sector.
Brook's architecture has been described as "a late flowering of the most elegant and sensuous modernism". Her architectural approach emerges from broad cultural research, with each project expressing a specific response to place, community and landscape. She is particularly known for designing intelligent and beautiful houses but has also moved into the cultural sector.
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Here are some of the projects designed by Alison Brooks Architects
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The Smile
This was a hugely successful landmark project for the 2016 London design festival: a public pavilion that showcased the structural and spatial potential of cross-Laminated hardwood.
The design straddled architecture, sculpture, and public art. It could be described as an unidentified flying object: a 34m long, 3m high upside down arc poised on the urban horizon. Discovering a dynamically curved space that gradually rises toward light, The Smile created an immersive sensory environment integrating structure, surface, space and light.
This was a hugely successful landmark project for the 2016 London design festival: a public pavilion that showcased the structural and spatial potential of cross-Laminated hardwood.
The design straddled architecture, sculpture, and public art. It could be described as an unidentified flying object: a 34m long, 3m high upside down arc poised on the urban horizon. Discovering a dynamically curved space that gradually rises toward light, The Smile created an immersive sensory environment integrating structure, surface, space and light.
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Re Casting
Allison Brooks Architects has created a large-scale, site specific installation that simulated the critical free spaces of their work in housing as four inhabitable 'totems'.
▪ The Threshold totem - is huge arches that acts as structure, destination, shelter and landscape frame. In Re Casting, an arch has been 'dematerialised' so that it radiates light b/n thin sheets of plywood, within its cross-vault, parallel mirrors create the illusion of an infinite colonade.
▪ The Inhabited Edge totem - explores the potential to enrich the experiance of housing architecture with occupiable places between interior and exterior critical spaces.
▪ Passage - every corridor has a potential to offer an experientially rich journey and a memorable space.
▪ The Roof totem - explores the spatial and expressive potential of roof forms in urban housing. Angled mirrors reflect the simulated roofspace into an infinite curve.
Allison Brooks Architects has created a large-scale, site specific installation that simulated the critical free spaces of their work in housing as four inhabitable 'totems'.
▪ The Threshold totem - is huge arches that acts as structure, destination, shelter and landscape frame. In Re Casting, an arch has been 'dematerialised' so that it radiates light b/n thin sheets of plywood, within its cross-vault, parallel mirrors create the illusion of an infinite colonade.
▪ The Inhabited Edge totem - explores the potential to enrich the experiance of housing architecture with occupiable places between interior and exterior critical spaces.
▪ Passage - every corridor has a potential to offer an experientially rich journey and a memorable space.
▪ The Roof totem - explores the spatial and expressive potential of roof forms in urban housing. Angled mirrors reflect the simulated roofspace into an infinite curve.