DPA Projects
Portsmouth, UK: We have received consent for two new kiosks on Southsea Common. The kiosks use space within a 1950s electricity sub-station and will serve coffee, cakes and sandwiches under an A1 Use. We will source standalone kiosks made off-site and slide them into the building. A series of hardwood louvres around the kiosks create an attractive façade when shut and provide shade [...]
Devon, UK: The two new houses we have designed in Beer, Devon are nearing completion. Beer is a lovely village on the south Devon Coast. The houses sit up on the hill looking down at the beach and cliffs. We designed two quite traditional houses made of devon chirt flint. The plan is an exercise [...]
Portsmouth, UK: The adventure playground we designed to RIBA Stage C last year is nearly complete. It is looking like it will be open by the end of the month. The project was designed following some interesting research and public involvement. You can read more about this here: http://dpa-illustrated-news.org/Playground/
The design was taken on by the [...]
Online: Our small book ‘Where We Live: A Guidebook to Urban Design’ is now available to view online. Thanks to the Solent Centre for Architecture and Design. They have found some online viewer thing. Check it out here.
See the film (!) about the book in the top right of this web page.
Deer Park Alpha are [...]
Portsmouth, UK: We have just completed the fit out of three new shops in central Portsmouth. The formerly empty shops have been refurbished to our design by the Bionic Engineers, a social enterprise we helped establish last year through the Future Jobs Fund.
The shops have a rolling programme of exhibitions and traders. Indeed, we are exhibiting some [...]
Portsmouth, UK:
We started this morning putting up the signs for The Route project. Thanks to Portsmouth City Council (Jayne Rodgers especially) for sponsoring the production and fitting. More on the signs to follow later.
The Route links communities by connecting existing streets along a 5KM north-south section of Portsmouth, UK. It is a proposal we developed [...]
Portsmouth, UK: Last year we developed this proposal for a new football stadium and cultural buildings in the centre of Portsmouth. The idea came from a discussion with local planners, so we cannot take credit for the whole idea. However we thought we would do a montage to illustrate the proposal which has been put to the [...]
Southsea, UK: This July we put together three proposals for the Pyramids Centre in Southsea. Our first effort was to cover the broken glass with the largest community mural in Europe at a cost of £30,000 including design, production and installation. We made this proposal to the city council off our own back.
We then had [...]
Portsmouth, UK: We have been working with Admiral Lord Nelson School on a project through the Creative Partnerships programme.
A group Year 9 students spent the summer term 2009 exploring their school and city through a series of lessons that asked them to consider how the school and city worked and did not work. Using mapping, [...]
Portsmouth, UK: This is our recent proposal for illuminating the entrance to Portsmouth City Centre.
Light Rain: A shower of light greets motorists as they enter the centre of Portsmouth. Like gentle fireworks, a wave of light passes through the LED strips. All the strips are randomly timed and as a whole seem to produce a rain [...]