Sinuate

This screen was originally designed to separate the kitchen from the living room. A prototype is now being developed. The system allows for variably spanning gaps that allows the user to store items in it from both rooms. Due to the thinness of the material, when viewed in front elevation the screen almost disappears back into the room yet when viewed at an angle and up close (like in this view), attention is called to its surfaces and what could be stored within it.

Location shot

 Other views of Milan

Renders

Below are some low res renders of the new rooms currently being constructed in the apartment:

View of main bathroom looking towards window 

Cross section view through bedroom, shower room and main bathroom

A opaque sliding glass door separates the bedroom from the bathroom area

  

View of bedroom looking from corridor 

towards sliding glass door into bathroom

View from lounge area towards kitchen (through sliding doors)

  

View of kitchen

December Updates

During our recent site visit the following issues emerged.

Firstly once the old plaster was removed the corridor wall was revealed to be too thin with a thickness of less than 50mm. This would be insufficient to accept cabling ducts, and also appeared fairly unstable when pushed. For such reason it was suggested to remove such wall and re-build a deeper one slightly offset towards the corridor. This would reduce the corridor width but at least it would succesfully hide the water risers in the corridor.

Secondly, the new brickwork walls had been erected; giving a perception of the new spaces and their dimensions.

When demolishing the existing toilet walls another soil vent pipe was discovered. Its dimensions are sufficient for servicing both toilets hence eliminating the necessity to open up the floor slab to remove the obstructed pipe.

This will require increasing the thickness of the shower wall to accept and hide the soil vent pipe.

Finally the walls of the living / kitchen spaces have been levelled and are ready to be rendered once cabling has been inserted.

This will be the next batch of information to be produced by mid January.

soil vent pipe in shower room

thin wall along main corridor to be demolished and re-erected

'Scrigno' System for sliding door being inserted inbetween bedroom and bathroom

new reception room

levelled brick walls ready for the kitchen

new brick wall being constructed in main bathroom

new brick wall being constructed between shower room & service bathroom

open living and kitchen room

November Site Progress

Once the suspended ceiling was removed it appeared that all the structural ceiling consisted of exposed brickwork, which would require re-plastering. For such reason it was decided to increase the extent of the new suspended ceiling to all the rooms of the house. It also became apparent that some of the perimetral walls were not straight and flush hence levelling work became necessary.

offset seam between adjacent walls

exposed ceiling revealing unrendered brickwork

New paintings, New ideas...

Have started on a new body of work themed Places: re-setting scenes.

The topic of the new series of paintings is a presentation of A SPECIFIC PLACE and AN EVENT within that place. The place can be real or imagined yet what makes that place become specific is the quality of its light and what makes up its landscape. What depicts the event or narrative occuring within that place is the presence of a person and/or a prop/s. Currently my locations for this body of work are suburban Sydney, Australia; Milan, Tuscany, Palermo, Italy and London United Kingdom. These will provide ingredients for the new scenes and places that I aim to re-present.

October Work Progress

The first set-back being the discovery of an archaic insulation system consisting of soot and soil upon which rested the floor-boards.

This requires replacing with an adequate concrete slab minimizing beam deflection and optimizing the floor stability

soot and dirt being dug out from in between the floor joists

all the old floor boards ready to go

The next set of photos are from the third on-site meeting at the end of October. The space in between joists has been filled with cement, hooks have been added to the joists to fix the wire mesh onto them, and secure the slab once it is cast. This should allow for a very stable floor with even loading of the floor beams.

cement & hooks

wire mesh welded to the hooks

rods will be cast in the slab and fixed with epoxy resin to the perimetral walls

The second set-back descovered during the demolition works, being that of the ceiling being entirely plasterboard rather than plastered brick-work. This requires removal in order to fix new soffit panels and insulation to the structural ceiling slab.

removal of the wood panelling from windows and doors to be refurbished

Doors waiting to be taken off-site for sanding and painting

examining the blinds enclosure panel to decide how it should be replaced

The last discovery to be made on site has been that of a narrow clogged up soil-vent pipe. The previous occupiers (dentists) having illegally poured alginate down the sinks causing the further reduction to the

diameter of the s.v.p which will need replacement. Possibly requiring access from the floor below to proceed with the works. Lets see what else remains to be discovered.

less than 90mm to start with, going down to 75mm further down the pipe