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DPA @ the RSA

PORTSMOUTH, UK: Deer Park Alpha’s Carl Leroy-Smith spoke to the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in Portsmouth at the Royal Naval Club & Royal Albert Yacht Club on Monday 30 March 2009.
Carl gave the talk on a vision for Portsmouth that connects communities and focuses on making a liveable city. He used John Ruskin’s five ‘life’ [...]

Carl Leroy-Smith Interview

A student from Solent University sent DPA director, Carl Leroy-Smith some questions to answer. We thought we would publish the Q&As here:
What or who inspired you to study Architecture?
I always loved designing things and drawing. When I was about 12 my parents bought a house that required complete renovation and meant they had to [...]

Big in Banbury

BANBURY, UK: Our definition of Urban Design has been quoted in the Banbury Civic Society’s newsletter. You can view it here. Next stop the LA Times.

Get on yer Racer

Portsmouth, UK: We have started a peleton cycling thing on Sunday mornings. Get a road bike, then look here:
portsmouthpeleton.wordpress.com

Urban Design Guide Book Review

Our little urban design guidebook ‘Where We Live….’ has been reviewed in the Autumn 2008 issue of URBAN DESIGN JOURNAL. By all accounts a very positive review.
You can download a copy (500K) of the review here or see the article on the RUDI website here.

A Place to Live

FAREHAM, UK: Deer Park Alpha are delighted to be working with VT Flagship on a project to develop advanced sustainable accommodation for the Royal Navy. 
One of the basic human requirements is the need to dwell, and one of the central human acts is the act of inhabiting, of connecting ourselves, however temporarily, with a place [...]

Projects

Putting the City Back Together

PORTSMOUTH, UK: We have been working on a new project recently. Another of our made up affairs that we will probably spend the next few months promoting. You can download a powerpoint presentation of the project here.

The project follows on the long term cancellation of the Northen Quarter development in central Portsmouth. A poor piece [...]

The Route: Up Close

Portsmouth, UK: We have created a new web page for our Route project. It enables you to see in detail the whole of the original ‘Poster’ we created.
You can visit it here: http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/theroute/
In addition there is an animated powerpoint presentation here
We are also setting up an online petition for the project. We have presented the project [...]

Comic Adventure

Portsmouth, UK: As previously mentioned on here we have been commissioned to design a new adventure playground in Portsmouth. We are nearing completion and have produced our first comic! The comic records our research, the clients’ brief and the results of our community involvement events. We asked local children to make a playground out of [...]

2.5m Wide House

Portsmouth, UK: We have recently obtained planning permission for this 2.5 metre wide house in Portsmouth. We are now working with the client to build the project.
Based on a concept derived from Italo Calvino’s ‘Baron in the Trees’ the house feels like climbing op through the tress to a view north of a single distinctive [...]

Adventure Playgrounds

PORSTMOUTH, UK: Deer Park Alpha are really pleased to have been appointed to work with Portsmouth City Council on a new Adventure Playground in the city as part of the Pathfinder programme. We are currently carrying out research into the subject and will be holding three hands-on community consultation sessions around christmas. Look out for [...]