A short film takes viewers through the ‘Together We Care’ installation. More than 100 people participated in this project. Refugee and non-refugee families, students and professionals from different countries made dolls’ houses that tell their stories of home, community and belonging. By linking the dolls’ houses with ropes and ramps and ladders the project aims to explore the meaning of home and community after a year of COVID19 restrictions and the isolation these caused, while highlighting the experience of being a refugee in an attempt to create solidarity and understanding across the political and socio-economic divide.
To see the film before 20th June 2021, click this link.
For more information about the Giant Dolls’ House project click this link.
We created this community arts initiative to raise awareness of homelessness and the refugee crisis, and with collaboration with Oxfam on projects since 2019. The project asks its participants to create a miniature roomscape in a box. The dioramas are then displayed en masse as an installation, linked by ropes, ladders and ramps in a colourful cardboard maze that muses on the meaning of home.
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To get involved this year visit www.giantdollshouse.org and submit your roomscape in a box, as part of Refugee Week (14 to 20 June), the deadline for submissions has been extended to 14th June 2021.
Burwood featured in the ‘Ways with Wood’ issue of Grand Designs
10 Terrific Timber Homes, written by Anna Winston
May 2021
The feature explores building a house with innovative materials such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and natural structural insulated panels (NSIPs) and how this satisfies a demand for more sustainable construction that’s not limited by the design constraints of traditional wooden forms. Illustrating how this versatile material can be strikingly contemporary, environmentally progressive and cost-effective.
Green Bridge Re-Imagining Railway Stations : Connecting Communities
Ideas — For small and medium stations
February 2021
The station and station approach are combined in a green pedestrian bridge that crosses the railway line creating a community garden close to the town. The bridge will serve three functions: it will link the station to the towns’ centre (many stations in small towns are outside of the centre). It makes crossing the railway line safe for pedestrians and it allows wildlife and flowers to cross. More information
The building needed to be finished in a short time and the client wanted to use a local builder with knowledge of traditional methods. The client loved the traditional Cornish slate and traditional cottages as well as Voysies buildings in the neighbourhood.
More information here.