Public Lecture by Charlie Sutherland
An event of PAM Public Lectures program was held in Publika Black Box on 15th of March. The invited speaker was Charlie Sutherland, he had studied Architecture at the Mackintosh School in Glasgow. Upon graduating he joined the office of the late Sir James Stirling and worked on a number of international commissions and competitions including the Tokyo Forum, The Paris Library and the Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore.
In this lecture, he had brought through sharing about some of his project work within the last decade, Charlie Sutherland have completed a wide range of projects often within an art context. And the most latest that he recently completed working was on a large city museum in Chengdu, Sichuan (China) and a complete town master planning also in China.
THE NEW CHENGDU MUSEUM
The proposed site for the new Museum sits along the full extent of the west edge of Tian Fu Square to form one complete edge of the most important public space in the City. The singular facade on the West side of the square and maximises its profile to present a facade of commensurate scale and proportion to embrace and address the huge scale of this establishes a strong formal relationship to it by forming a simple enclosing rectilinear profile.
The building further enjoys and celebrates this relationship to this monumental public space by extending an internal promenade of public foyers and circulation behind the entirety of the veiled façade addressing Tian-Fu Square.
As picture shows below that how he manage the composition to creates an interlocking within this building to it's neighborhood context, and that's is only way to attract visitors go through the building while head to other historical place.
XILING NATIONAL PARK
Another project where set in China as well, the Xiling master-plan sets out to establish the National Park and its surrounding area as a major tourist attraction, to promoting a clear framework for the preservation of a vital natural ecosystem of national and international importance.
As part of this wider masterplan, he was asked to develop proposals for the future expansion of Xiling Town. These interventions weave in new routes and structures to extend and enhance the existing grain. It is a gentle architecture which respects the scale of the historic street pattern.
A pedestrian promenade was devised enabling people to walk a circular route around the town. This route constantly refers back to the river.
A new pedestrian bridge connect to the existing street pattern on the north bank.
Buildings cling to the south bank in order to reinforce the relationship of the town with the water. This accommodation comprises of small scale chalets and hotels with shops and restaurants at street level,
enjoying views over the river.
LAWSON PARK
Lawson Park Farm is the headquarters of Grizedale Arts, Situated in the Lake District National Park on the west side of Grizedale Forest the converted farm provides residential accommodation and research facilities for artists, curators and Grizedale guests, along with small scale conference facility, warden’s accommodation and site office.
The external wall of entire project house has used the grey natural stone as the main material for building facade surface. His approach is to creates exposure in the natural sense of building as same as the ground color, this goal is to suits the house to become apart of it's site ground.
Daylight is gained through glazed roof openings and also the gap opening from facade in to the building.
The internal wall is oppositely different, it comes with smooth white plastered wall, not less to exposed wood and natural finishes in shades of brown. instead of the same texture to external wall which rough surface.
The emphasis of Lawson Park is on trying new ideas and ways to use the landscape for productive and recreational purposes and ideally productive recreation. The principle aim being to generate new ideas and approaches to how the land may be developed in a constructive role for art and artists in a time of immense cultural change, both locally and internationally.
