Skate on Kintsugi | Isle of Portland, UK | Unit 21 | 2022

archie.koe.20@ucl.ac.uk

A multi-storey skatepark in a quarry on the Isle of Portland. Providing the younger generation of Portland with a skatepark community to support troubled youths by giving them a place to belong, mitigating potential mental health problems. Kintsugi (the art of repair) informed materiality and skate-path informed pseudo-parametric design language.

Kensington’s Displaced Portland Stone WW2 Bomb Damage

A forensic architectural study into the displaced Portland stone in the Kensington and Chelsea area. A memorial installation in the form of a volume-consistent negative bomb damage cast on the east façade of the V&A museum.

Analysing skateboard trick intricacies using the artistic technique of Marchel Duchamp to extract information about the starting velocity and rotational speed.