With the brief set, and site study well under way, it was now time to start thinking structurally. My first concept model involved pouring plaster into a card board former made previously, mimicking, or implying a structure.
The leading idea behind this ties in with the concept of 'commemoration' which has been running through my project. The idea of respecting the sites past, and commemorating it in return through considerate transformation, allowing the existing structures to live on in their transformed state.
By pouring the plaster into my former, representative of the rooms, corridors and 'form' of the mills interior, the negative space of certain areas are cast in plaster, leaving others un-cast.
When the plaster set, and the former was removed, the result was a form dictated by elements of the original structure, yet manipulated and transformed into a unique structure.
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