Craft and Dining
Whenever you go to a Feilden Fowles designed building you just want to touch all the surfaces. It’s all so tactile. At Homerton Dining Hall (for Homerton College) it’s the reddish concrete based and green ceramic tiles, the timber inside, handrails and door knobs. It’s the same at other projects of their’s I’ve photographed like the Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the new building and landscape at the Natural History Museum and their own studios on a city-farm.
I actually visited the project when it was still in the construction phase, to see some of the beautiful faience tiles being installed. When I came back months later, the building was finished and full of students studying, hanging out and getting their lunch.
This is a short film I made with FF about the project…
Laura Mark and I have been slowly working on a longer film about the practice and their low-tech approach to building. When I say ‘slowly working’, I mean really slowly as we’re doing it in our spare time around paid work, but in the interviews and conversations we’ve had with Fergus, Edmund and other members of the design team it’s clear how much they genuinely love the craft of architecture.