 THE
BIG DRAW 2004
As part of this year's National Big Draw Event, the Architecture
Centre, Bristol, ran two workshops involving local architects
and primary schools on the theme of ‘a home for a hero’.
Local architects Richard Trinick of Capti Symmonds and Geoff Smith
of Barlow Henley Architects worked with Architecture Centre Education
Officer, Amy Harrison, to inspire the pupils at St Mary Redcliffe
Primary School and Luckwell Primary School to design a home for
their chosen hero.
Pupils had the opportunity to view professional architectural
drawings, as well as images of more quirky works by Gaudi, which
inspired them to design their own very original house facades:
a turf-roofed mansion for Alan Shearer and a pink palace with
heart-shaped windows for Beyonce Knowles were amongst the designs.
The children also had to consider incorporating sustainable features
in to the design of their house, which linked in with their recent
curriculum projects on Settlements and Bio-towns.
The activity gave the children a really fun but meaningful reason
for drawing and enabled them to find out more about the work of
a professional architect. Workshops were interactive and the pupils
were really enthusiastic, coming up with some exciting and innovative
designs.
Links
The Big Draw
www.thebigdraw.com
Drawing Power (Campaign for Drawing)
www.drawingpower.org.uk
Luckwell Primary School
www.luckwell.bristol.sch.uk/projects/projects.index
St Mary Redcliffe Primary
www.st-maryredcliffe-pri.bristol.sch.uk
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