Site Section Models

Site section models @ 1:200 from the December crits.

Billingsgate Market site with proposed interventions.

Telehouse site with proposed interventions.

Telehouse Site Visit

Atelier One at Telehouse, Docklands – 19th October 2009

New data centre under construction at the Telehouse site

Billingsgate Site Visit

Atelier One at Billingsgate Market – 6 AM on 6th October 2009

Bay 1 – cold storage at Billingsgate

Billingsgate and Telehouse

Billingsgate and Telehouse on the New London Architecture model at the Building Centre in Store Street – highlighted in yellow.

Energy Impact Discussion

On Friday 2^nd October, Atelier One met to discuss the energy impact activities that they had been asked to explore.

Activities included –

– Making a cup of tea

– Buying a computer screen

– Buying bread from a local newsagent

– Making fresh chapati bread

– Making dinner

– Cooking baked beans

– Selling t-shirts that are produced abroad

– Pulling a pint of beer in the student bar

– Playing the guitar

– Playing multiplayer video games

– Buying bread

– Buying cereal

– Creating a garden

– Baking a cake

Some of the issues associated with these activities included –

+ Distribution of goods from source to market, often returning to the source for sale.

+ Products created for a lifestyle of convenience vs. activities that are an integral part of a society’s culture.

+ Use of public transport to offset the energy footprint of a purchased product.

+ Importing goods and ingredients to serve a market created by people who have migrated.

+ Use of packaged ingredients vs. fresh ingredients for cooking.

+ International source of locally purchased foodstuffs.

+ International sources of energy supplies used locally.

+ Supply route of products manufactured abroad and sold locally, including packaging materials that are discarded at point of sale, and the impact of labels and brands on the purchase of these products.

+ Creating an experience around a social activity, the choice of local products vs. imported products, and the effect of advertising on this choice.

+ Quality of a product related to its performance (sound) requiring materials from international sources for manufacture, plus the energy requirements of a temporary activity such as performance – power, transport, lighting.

+ Network requirements for multiplayer games, and for daily tasks such as sending an email, and the energy impact of greater online social interaction.

+ Provision of local distribution for locally produced goods.

+ Packaging as part of the eating experience vs. functional refill packets, plus energy required for recycling of cardboard to create the box.

+ Creation of garden with plants brought from abroad, enabling local people to experience things that they might not have otherwise seen.

+ Transport of ingredients and processes required to make convenient pre-packaged ingredients for cooking.