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Location - a pedestrian underpass, Paddington, London - under 'The Westway' motorway
Memory Museum
Final MA
architecture project :
Royal College of Art Old Students Association Annual Prize - 1996
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Location - a pedestrian underpass,
Paddington, London - under 'The Westway' motorway
This was my favourite place - so I wanted
to do a project that used all the qualities of the site and of architecture
but without changing it with a building design. It's a place where all you can
hear are the cars,
but you can't see any when you are inside - dissociated
sound.
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Arrival sequence and overview from the flyover
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Tourist brochures were spread around the city
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I installed proper street signs all around
London pointing to the 'museum'. These were located
in places like Picadilly Circus and outside Buckingham Palace [above centre
: where the police thought I was
trying to steal it!]. The last one to be removed by the Council took a eight
years on Waterloo Bridge [bottom right].
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the photo below was taken 10 years later - still standing on Waterloo Bridge !
Portraits of passengers in there cars travelling at 70 mph on the flyover.
Passing through the radio transmitter territory beamed from below.
As part of the campaign to spread the myth I put 'Maitland Island'
on the Tube map and produced postcards and placed them in shops secretly so
they were bought by tourists and sent around the world.
A little more background can found in my interview for M-Satation.