Deer Park Alpha

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.

PORTSMOUTH, UK: Our ‘The Route’ project featured in Portsmouth’s local paper The News on 18 October 2008. A most excellent article written by David Hurley gives a good and positive overview of the project. You can download a high resolution (6MB) version here

Our book ‘Where we live…..’ has been out for about six-months now. We have had some amazing feedback via the official feedback web form. A selction of readers comments are below:

“A CLEARLY SET OUT AND WELL WRITTEN BOOK”  

“IT IS OUTWARDLY APPEALING AND INWARDLY ENGAGING”

“With all the many urban design publications around, its nice to [...]

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 [...]

PORTSMOUTH, UK: We have spent some time helping five architecture students from the University of Portsmouth develop ideas for The Hard in Portsmouth. The Hard is an historic area and sits between the Historic Dockyard and Gunwharf Quays. The students proposal suggests a festival based around five events that are derived from the history of [...]

Why design more when plenty already exists? We can recycle and repackage.
Most things are valuable because of what they represent rather than how beautiful they are: photos of a loved one, memories of a summer romance……
Celebrity Selections brings your life closer to theirs: contact by association lends significance. By attaching significance we are generating desire for an [...]

‘The Route’ strategy presentation, 2008. Portsmouth, UK:

This project shows a proposed walking and cycling route that aims to invigorate and join together the places through which it passes.
The Route starts at Castle Road in Southsea, passes through Guildhall Square, and continues for 5km (3 miles) north to Alexandra Park and the new fifty-metre [...]

We propose that the technology for the shelter in a cart already exists and can be aquired cheaply ($199 in our estimate: less than an ipod). This system is made up from cheap, proven components that can be acted on now, and at minimal expense to the taxpayer or funder.
Being a human being means more [...]