KERICHO CATHEDRAL, KENYA JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS


Architect and Landscape Design - John McAslan + Partners Engineer - Arup


Modelmaker - John McAslan + Partners Scale of far right model - 1:200


2012 Index the lend lease / architects’ journal awards


The architectural challenge of this project is to ensure Kericho Cathedral embodies the Catholic liturgy and embraces its local congregation in a way that reflects both the historic gravitas of the faith and the special qualities of its location and its community.


Kericho is located in South West Kenya, approximately 250km from Nairobi. It lies to the west of the Great Rift Valley, enjoying magnificent views across the tea plantations and surrounding hills.


The premise of the design is a dramatic volume contained under a great inclined roof which will be a distinctive form in the rolling panorama of Kericho’s hills and valleys.


The building’s stone plinth and vaulted timber ribs will be exposed and articulated in a strikingly crafted manner, using local materials which reflect a sense of faith, simplicity and frugality. Key to the project is the encouragement and use of local artisan skills.


0 View looking towards the Sanctuary in the central nave 36 2.5m 5m 12.5m Exterior view looking south-west


N CONCOURSE, RESTORED BOOKING HALL WEST


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WESTERN CONCOURSE, DETAIL SHOWING CENTRAL ‘FUNNEL’ WITH NEW LINK BRIDGE BEYOND


WESTERN CONCOURSE, VIEW FROM MEZZANINE LOOKING TOWARDS RESTORED WESTERN RANGE BUILDING


Kericho Cathedral, Kenya (John McAslan + Partners, Millennium Models)


Card, timber, perspex John McAslan + Partners


Kericho is in south-west Kenya. Te premise of the design is a dramatic volume contained under an inclined roof. Te building’s stone plinth and vaulted timber ribs will be exposed and articulated, using local materials that reflect a sense of faith, simplicity and frugality.


1063 King’s Cross Station Paper, perspex John McAslan + Partners


Tis complex £547 million multi-phased project comprises substantial restoration and refurbishment within the existing Main Train Shed, Eastern and Western Ranges. Te centrepiece is the new 7,500m2 semi-circular Western Concourse. Rising some 20m, the concourse is one of Europe’s largest single- span railway structures.


WESTERN CONCOURSE, LOOKING TOWARDS SOUTHERN ENTRANCE


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Centro Artistico Carlos Acosta, Cuba. Scale 1:250


1064 Centro Artistico Carlos Acosta, Cuba Digital print Spencer de Grey RA


Te Carlos Acosta Foundation is seeking to refurbish the School of Ballet, originally designed by architect Vittorio Garatti. Te original building will be comprehensively restored and augmented by new facilities, including an education centre for dance and a 530-seat theatre. Te trade embargo meant that the original building was constructed entirely with local materials – the project aims to continue this tradition.


Timber and plastic Spencer de Grey RA


In refurbishing Vittorio Garatti’s School of Ballet (see 1064), the original building will be restored. Te project aims to use local materials for the reconstruction, in line with the building’s heritage – enhancing the sustainability of the building five decades after its completion.


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Creative Spaces: Central Saint Martins Students at the New University of the Arts London Campus (photographs by Maja Daniels)


Giclée print Stanton Williams


‘Te energy will come from the students, tutors and the work. Our series of spaces aim to liberate and make visible the energy’. Paul Williams, Stanton Williams.


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Te 100 Year Legacy; Recovery of the Euston Arch, 2061 (Tom Reynolds and James Church)


Ink and wash Tom Reynolds


Tis work investigates hybrid architecture, excavated from a critical analysis of the past, present and future. Tis drawing is a critique of the notion of legacy. It sees the recovery of Euston Arch 100 years after its demolition in the shadow of the deconstruction of the Olympic Stadium. Te recovered fragments from the lost monument inform the future station design.


Space Between; Wroclaw Opera, Poland Digital print Darren Furniss


Drawings submitted to the Royal Academy form part of thesis project Rooms for Music, a proposed extension to Wroclaw’s 17th-century opera house. Responding to a competition to create a new concert hall for the city, the design seeks to ‘re-define the opera’s physical and social relationship to the city’.


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Component One Series Two


Walnut and brass Zoe Fudge


Te Component Series is a collection of constructions exploring a single connection mechanism. A tension arises from the delicacy of construction and the inherent qualities of walnut and brass.


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