smithfield fleshworks
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 001                                    This project combines a leather tanning facility, a glove making atelier and a bacterial leather producer. It uses both traditional artisanal methods and new emerging material practices to revive and preserve ancient crafts that are slowly fading from London's centre. The kombucha material possesses an extraordinary translucency with naturally occurring imperfections that act as patternation, and is used as an experimental material within the interior of the building

 002                                   
Initial models began to imagine a building multi-layered.

 003                                    The building is designed in the way that the nutrients of the kombucha and meat production travel from the basement of the building upwards in a movement of processing and 'de-fleshing' to the resultant finished gloves. The building is an attempt to make spectacular the process of making and the metamorphosis of flesh to leather.

 004                                    The building is situated inside of the rotunda that provides parking to the Smithfield meat market. It is a sloping and curved site The building is nestled inside of this space, providing minimum disruption to the parking inside.

 005                                   This model of the ground floor shows how the circulation is divided into multiple different layers, with the delivery zone on the ground floor and cultivation chambers, with a small passageway that leads to a viewing platform with escalators that lead up to the ground floor.

 006                                  The form and layout of the ulding was iterprtd through my various 'surgeries' of objects and fruits with skins, analysing the notions of direct cutting to unpeeled in certain directions

 007                                  The building is divided into four floors, the basement is concerned with the addition of nutrients, and the production of the kombucha. The ground floor shows the publicly viewable glove atelier. The first floor shows the escalator that moves out of the building, showing the second level of the aetelier, and the traditional beam house tanning process. The final floor is the traditional glove shop, with various products on display.