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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 [...]
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 [...]
Portsmouth, UK: Another exhibition, but this time not of our work: We have been working with Portsmouth College this year on a project that links urban design and surrealism. There is currently and exhibition at the Pop-Up Shops in Commercial Road of the students work.
The work on display is the product of twelve workshops. The project [...]
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 [...]
We are pleased to be currently exhibited a current project at ArtSway. We have been collaborating with composer Hywel Davies and engineer Nick Gradidge on a small dwelling in the New Forest. The project is part of the Solent Centre for Architecture & Design’s (SCAD) Artchitecture project. More info here.
‘Artchitecture’ is a project SCAD are [...]
We haven’t updated this site for a while. We built a rod for our own back with this newspaper format. Well there is a new site coming soon, I am writing copy for it right now. The new site should be really dull and uninteresting. Look out for it.
Fortunately our current projects aren’t dull. And [...]
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: 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 [...]
Deer Park Alpha are working in partnership with the Design Commission for Wales (DCFW) on a project called Know Your Place.
Know Your Place is a pilot project of five workshops across Wales all about sense of place, how design effects how a place works and ask citizens to think about and articulate what they value [...]
Gosport, Hampshire: We have been working with Bay House School and Sixth Form on their cross-curricula project ‘One Life’. This involved Year 8 students designing a community centre and worship space in teams. We worked in the school for two-weeks running 22 lessons. We focused on introducing the ideas of light, shadow, material and texture [...]