Understanding Site and Explorations

Site Model

Selection of initial experiential drawings

How can the role of architectural process encourage stronger ties between the subject and their environments?

In light of reports suggesting that cities are having a negative impact on the well-being of their inhabitants, this thesis project interrogates our relationships with the spaces around us. Here, surrealist methods of automatic and experiential drawing become a language that reveal our existing experiences as we move through urban space – communicating both the conscious and unconscious conditions and relationships between the subject and the city.

Name: David Baldock
Instagram: @dr_davey
Project name: Socio-spatial manifestations
Site: King’s Cross and Caledonian Road
University name: Birmingham City University @bcu_march
Course and year: M Arch Thesis Project
Tutor: Matthew Lucas