Deer Park Alpha

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 [...]

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.

PORTSMOUTH, UK: We have spoken to a whole host of people since launching our Route project last October. We think about 300 people have sat through our presentation, it has appeared in the local paper and we have had around 2500 hits to the project on our website.
However, we do not really have any record [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]