AA Diploma Honours 2006/07 Exhibition
Dan Marks (Diploma Unit 16)
Jesse Sabatier (Diploma Unit 11)
05/10/2007 -31/10/2007 10.00-7.00 Mon to Fri, 10.00–3.00 Sat
Each year exceptional Diploma School students are chosen to present for Honours awards. In 2006/07 Dan Marks and Jesse Sabatier were awarded AA Diploma Honours. The StormWatershed for Absorption and Redistribution of Monsoon Rains in Mumbai, IndiaDan MarksSituated on the banks of a storm-water drainage channel, prone to overbank flow and flooding, the StormWatershed works as a regulation device for water levels on and around the site. Water absorbed by the structure is used for the growth of crops on its upper surface. The spaces created below are suitable for market activities.Excess materialsJesse SabatierSituated within the post-industrial context of Battersea, a small oven house (incinerator) gathers, reuses and transforms excess materials from a wholesale fruit and vegetable market. This infrastructural piece operates as an ‘appliance house’; in other words, the facility serves as an appliance for the city. A key feature of the oven house is its horizontal chimney. In conjunction with its foundations as thermal mass, the chimney redistributes to the local community heat created from the burning of the excess materials. Available excess matter collected from existing market operations (wood, paper, plastic) is used to create new cement composites with which to build the oven house and the warmed spaces. These new materials are employed based on their ability to hold and release heat. A new public space is formed through the use of a sliding glass envelope which houses a small plant nursery and composting operations, utilising the available excess fruit and vegetables collected from the market. Opportunities for increasing public awareness of these industrial operations can be found by providing platforms to observe the shifting landscapes of accumulation within the market facility and spaces within which to feel the heat created between industry and domesticity. The oven house is integrated into its environment by using existing industrial by-products and transforming these materials in a way that can be directly perceived by local residents. Through the plant nursery and composting, the warm walls of the oven house and thermal mass foundations of the horizontal chimney, and through a gate into the market situated at the end of the chimney, industrial operations and their consequences are considered beyond the limited scope of a privatised service provision.On Wednesday 26 September the two will make a presentation about their work in the AA Bar, 6.00.
