Heygate Film School and Cinema Vlad Ion - Third year project
3rd year Unit 6 - Pleasure of ruins “The spectacle of ruined buildings” offers various kinds of pleasure to people based on their reaction to decay (Macaulay, 1953). This developed a particular interest to architects, artists and patrons that sought to create their own myths and vision of the ruins. This fascination comes from the fact that the ruins evoke a multitude of meanings: death, life, fear, wilderness, the past, the present and the future, the temporal and the incomplete. The unit is looking at the contemporary ruins of Heygate Estate. By exploring its stasis and looking into its past, the projects are meant to offer an alternative future for the estate and a new resource to London. ‘Ruin must be a fantasy, veiled by the mind’s dark imaginings.’ Rose Macaulay, 1953, The Pleasure of Ruins.
Heygate Film School and Cinema Drawing on the current use of the derelict Heygate Estate as a film set, the project proposes the site as a commercial film studio encompassing a film school and a public cinema. The existing Heygate blocks are punctuated to accommodate new functions including a large public auditorium cantilevered from the existing housing block and cinema screen which becomes part of the building’s new facade.
Claydon Block
Ashenden Block
Ashenden Block
Conceptual reanimation of Heygate through redundant machines.
Conceptual reanimation of Heygate through redundant machines.
Atmospheric fourth level plan
Long section.
Exterior view of the cinema seating.
Exterior view of the film school.
Night shot from New Kent Road.
Aerial view.
Aerial view with Heygate’s facade taken off for a better understanding of the spaces.
Structural strategy.