About Me
- Simon Drayson
- Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom
- I grew up in a semi-detached 1930s house in Croydon with my policeman father, nurse mother and younger brother. Ever since my childhood I wanted a career, which like my parents' was people-centric whilst not suppressing my creativity; architecture seemed to offer the perfect balance, and so I relocated to Portsmouth in 2005 to study for my degree at the university there. After graduating in 2008, I moved back home for my year out at Bell Associates Architects and Designers. I returned to Portsmouth in 2009 to study for my diploma. For my thesis foundation I designed a Community Hospice on the site of the Hilsea Lido; affirming my interest in existential architecture. Around this time, I wrote my manifesto Out of the Ordinary, which called for architects to create an everyday architecture of simplicity and honesty; based not on quasi tradition or nostalgia, but rather a hidden reality that ought to be revealed.
Sunday 5 June 2011
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Friday 13 May 2011
North African Transgression | Children's Refuge (Studio Review)
My thesis project is a refuge for the street children of Marrakech in the Atlas Mountains. The architecture facilitates children to dwell poetically, encompassing opportunities to eat, bathe, sleep, and of course, play.
Three primary coloured courtyards - the altar, the vessel and the womb dedicated solely to the acts of eating, bathing and sleeping - terrace up the mountainside, containing gardens, fire and water.
The courtyards are connected by a central hearth where the adult carers dwell; the secondary coloured blocks metaphorically protecting and providing for the children whilst giving them enough independence to explore and rediscover their lost childhoods.
Monday 4 April 2011
Thursday 24 March 2011
North African Transgression | Precedents (Form)
The architecture of Alberto Campo Baeza, Josh Schweizer & John Pawson
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