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2022, Events, Talks

Health, Habitats and Hubs

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Healthcare, Design, Sustainability, and the Natural Environment

An afternoon micro-symposium focused on the relationships between healthcare design and architecture and the built and natural environments.

A Fourth Door Micro Symposium – 14.00 – 18.00 – May 21st, 2022 at Fitzroy House, Lewes (10 High St, Lewes BN7 2AD)

Tickets £10/ £2.50 benefits/students – Register on Eventbrite

Speakers

Laura Lee – CEO of the Maggies Cancer Care Centres on human centred health environments.

Angel Tenorio – project architect, Heatherwick Studio of the Leeds Maggies Centre, which highlights and integrates natural building materials, a roof garden, and a crafted approach into their centre.

Sunand Prasad – Principal, Perkins&Will, Co- founder of Penoyre & Prasad, and Chair UK Green Building Council.

Meredith Bowles – Founder Mole Architects, responsible for the Phoenix site Foundry Health Hub.

Dr Gemma Jerome – director, Building with Nature – research and communications organisations highlighting the benefits of the nature in the built environment.

Ed Rosen – Lambeth GP’s Food Co-Op, part of the Gardening for Health network.

Enquiries contact editorial@fourthdoor.org

Cover Image: Maggies Leeds – Heatherwick Design

http://www.fourthdoor.org

2022, Design & Make, Events, News, Seminar, Talks

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2022 – THE XYLO SESSIONS

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We are pleased to be supporting Pioneering the Potential 2022 – The Xylo Sessions. 

The Xylo Sessions Wood+ evenings cast a spotlight on timber and post carbon natural building culture, highlighting projects, materials, research, and related initiatives, and building on previous Pioneering the Potential events in 2021 and 2019.

Cover image: Ferme du Rail, Paris – Grand Huit Architectes – Photo by Myr Murate

XYLO SESSION 0I – 19.30 – 21.15  APRIL 8TH 2022

Timber frame & carpentry renaissance @StudioHardie (details below)

Charley Brentnall – Founder of the original oak framers, Carpenter Oak & Woodland,instrumental in the British timber frame renaissance. And more recently co-founder of Xylotek.

Sally Daniels– from tangentfield, experimental community architects and live workshop specialist with the University of the West of England s Hands on Bristol, MakingLewes and Fourth Door’s Roots Architecture at WOMAD for the last ten years.

Dylan Walker and Paddy Cox, Built By Artizans –  traditional carpenters and timber framers from West Sussex, Walker and Cox will be talking about their latest project, Watersmeet Barn, Emsworth.

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

XYLO SESSION 02 – 19.30 – 21.15 MAY 13TH 2022

Hi tech & hand-made @ Human Nature (details below)

Peter Scully – from the Bartlett Architecture school’s B-made workshop and the Design for Manufacture course currently using Flimwell Park.)

Tom Bennett from Studio Bark and the U-Build modular open-source and prefabricated housing project

Karn Sandilands – from Brighton based Millimetre design engineers and makers

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

XYLO SESSION 03 – 19.30 – 21.15 JUNE 10TH 2022 

Post carbon cities and countryside – straw & timber @StudioHardie (details below)

Marine Kerbouaka – Grand Huit Architects, Paris, timber and strawbuild urban farm, Ferme du Rail

Steve Wallis from dRMM, the pioneering industrial timber and CLT studio, on their new Workstack makers and manufacturers building.

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can. Booking through Eventbrite

BOOKING, TIMES AND VENUE INFORMATION

April and June evenings at Studio Hardie workshop, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2PE map here (If inclement weather there is a back-up venue in hand.)

May evening at HumanNature – Phoenix House 32/33 North Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2QJ, map here

All evenings run from 19.30 to around 21.15

Cost: Donations – pay what you feel you can.

Booking through Eventbrite.

*Pioneering the Potential is hosted by Fourth Door in association with Making Lewes

For further information please contact Fourth Door:

Sam Jenner: 07884 006413

editorial@fourthdoor.org

www.fourthdoor.org

2021, Categories

PIONEERING THE POTENTIAL 2021

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Natural Building Materials across the Weald & Downland

We are pleased to be supporting this years Pioneering the Potential, an evening micro-symposium hosted by Fourth Door Research.

Talks, presentations and an exhibition focused on timber, demonstrating Sussex’s pioneering natural building materials role and potential.

Friday September 10th 2021, 18.00 – 21.00 at Studio Hardie Workshop* Studio Hardie, Unit 4, Phoenix Works, North St, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2PE

*Seating will be appropriately spaced. The studio workshop is large and well ventilated. We would prefer face coverings to be worn inside.

Booking through Eventbrite. Free/Donations – pay what you can.

Symposium Speakers:

Steve Johnson (the Architecture Ensemble) and Chris O’Callaghan – Flimwell Park a new all-wood development showcasing local timber in Flimwell village.

George Fereday and Nick Meech – Home Grown House + the Home Grown House demonstration projects exhibition.

John Russell (to be confirmed) – Foxwood Cruck Frame built from local thinnings.

Amy Hammond/Lantern – Re-using urban and roadside wastewood, ash dieback and other wood destined for burning.

Lukas Imhof live on Zoom from Switzerland – on his engineered ash Ekkharthof Community Centre building.

Plus:

Fourth Door’s Annular wood and timber culture website relaunch will be part of the evening. Revisiting The Bio Base – Another opportunity to view Making Lewes’s 2014 the Bio Base exhibition.

More detailed information available via Fourth Door.

For further information please email editorial@fourthdoor.org or contact Sam Jenner (07884 006413)

Pioneering the Potential is hosted by Fourth Door Research in association with Making Lewes http://www.fourthdoor.org.

Photo credit: Flimwell Park Roland De Villiers/ShootLab

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2019, Events, Talks

Pioneering the Potential

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Pioneering the Potential: Natural Building Materials across the Weald & Downland

Friday July 12th 2019 – Lewes, Sussex

A symposium and projects tour hosted by Fourth Door Research in association with Making Lewes 

A full day introduction to natural building materials featuring a morning symposium and afternoon coach tour visiting projects, and demonstrating Sussex’s pioneering natural building materials role and potential.

Friday – July 12th 2019 – Symposium at Lewes Depot – 9.00am  – 12.00 at Lewes Depot, Pinwell Lane, Lewes  BN7 2JS followed by a projects tour – 12.00 to 19.30pm

Cost £50.00 for full day symposium and projects visit (including lunch and coach tour)  £20 student concession, and a limited number of free tickets for Lewes residents. Booking through Lewes Depot.

Morning – Symposium speakers

Cany Ash – Ash Sakula Architects on their exemplar natural building materials housing and integrating green roof garden terraces at scale.

Ben Bosence – Barcombe’s Local Works Studio on taking a landscape-led approach to the design of buildings, places and materials – working with communities to uncover hidden resources and apply vernacular processes to modern problems.

David Saunders – from the Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, pioneer of Sussex based timber building materials.

Anthony Thistleton – WaughThistleton Architects, the leading Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) architects.

Craig White – from Bristol’s White Design and co-creator of Modcell straw cassette wall panels, on the expanding the range of Bio-based material.

Afternoon – Projects tour

Lunch and tour of Flimwell Woodland Enterprise Centre, plus visits to the Tobias

Green Community project by Nicolas Pople Architects, and to In-Wood Developments, leaders in the making of locally sourced timber-based construction materials.

The coach will return to Lewes Station by 19.30.

Further, more detailed about speakers, projects and the natural material’s revolution information can be found here.

Contact at Fourth Door: Oliver Lowenstein  0044(0)1273 473501 or Milly Manley 0044(0) 07956 580533

MLF 2018 Talks

Building With Water With Niklaus Graber

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Architect Niklaus Graber, curator of Bengal Dreams, the major Swiss Architecture Museum exhibition currently touring Europe, provided an in-depth exploration of the relationship of architecture and water in the Bangladesh delta, where, with the majority of this populous nation’s land sitting at below sea level, there is a need to work carefully with water at all levels of society, including the built fabric.

MLF 2018 Talks

Building With Water With Leon Radeljic & Leif Hinrichson

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Our final speakers were from Berlin. But they were presenting at Building With Water because of the consequences of what is happening upriver from other massive highland river damming projects, this time on the Turkish and Kurdistani Iraq border. Leon Radeljic from ZRS Architects/Engineers and Leif Hinrichson from the Jiyan Foundation, shared their story of a remarkable project, theChamchamal Healing Garden for Victims of Torture and War Trauma, in the city of Chamchamal, Northern (Kurdistani) Iraq. The project includes buildings using traditional rammed earth techniques, once popular, now perceived to be old fashioned, amidst a well-cultivated garden and animal sanctuary. The garden, and other aspects of the project are only possible because of the integration of a decentralised water purification system, which ensures water for the garden’s plants to grow and be cultivated. This in the context of Iraq facing water starvation, drought and worse because of the Turkish Government’s control of the dam’s in the upland border region of the two ancient rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. Once again the naked powerplay of politics was uncovered and visible, though with the Chamchamal Healing Garden an inspirational counter-example had been placed in front of the audience, graphically proposing the reach of the possible and a sign of hope in the future

As the symposium’s closing speakers ended the afternoon we had travelled from the low lying delta of Bangladesh, through the pragmatic concerns of sanitation, the technological adaptation of floating architecture, and the symbolic loss of water world’s embodied in performance art, to the highlands and uplands of Iceland and the Middle East, all connected to each other by the flow motion world of Planet Water.

Events, MLF 2018

MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018

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This September sees the return of Make Lewes Festival with another series of inspiring and informative workshops, talks and Symposia exploring the relationship between making, architecture, design and sustainability.

21st – 30th September 2018

Highlights include:

Friday, September 21

Collaborative Conspiracies

18.30 -21.30 at Fitzroy House, Cliffe Precinct, Lewes BN7 2AD
Talks by Fred Baier and William Hardie, two leading woody designers, and sit-down supper.

Talks, vegetarian mezze, cake and a complimentary drink: £22.50.
Places limited. Book via eventbrite.co.uk.

Friday, September 21 to Sunday, September 23

Collaborative Collisions III

10.00 – 17.00 at Depot Cinema, Pinwell Rd, Lewes BN7 2JS
Improvisations with Lewes makers and crafts-people.

Free.

Friday, 28 September

Makers Talks Evening

19.30 at Studio Hardie, Unit 1, Lewes, BN7 2PE
With Jim Keeling, Oxford Anagama Project, Barbara Keal, Felt Maker and Elaine Bolt, Ceramicist.

Free (donations welcome)

Saturday, September 29 

Pop-up Pottery & Kiln firing workshop

10.00 – 17.00 at Linklater Pavilion, Railway Land, Lewes, BN7 2FG
Family workshop with Martin Brockman making pots from local materials fired in a wheelbarrow with locally sourced wood.

Free (donations welcome)

Building with Water

13.30 – 18.00 at Fitzroy House, Cliffe Precinct, Lewes, BN7 2AD
Water, Building, Architecture, Material Sources and the Future – talks by international and national speakers

Talks and water tasting: £8.50 Concessions £6.50. Book via eventbrite.co.uk.

Sunday, September 30

FutureScoping

13.30 – 17.30 at Depot Cinema, Pinwell Rd, Lewes BN7 2JS
The future of Lewes’s cultural infrastructure provision: What do we want? What does Lewes need?

Tickets £6.50 Concessions £4.50. (available through Depot website here)

Further events to be anounced…

Any questions? Email: info@makinglewes.org

Image credit: S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, “Bengal Stream³ 2017/18, photo: Iwan Baan