The Missing Concept

So, a few days ago I posted Concepts and Masterplans but there was no concept.

A few weeks ago I started playing around with weaving, tri-axial weaving to be exact. It started with paper and then because I'm the sort of girl who has yarn hanging about the place I moved on to wool.

Originally, I think I was trying to weave together my 3 developments. The weaving was a mental exercise. But then it evolved into this idea of intersecting connections made by different landscapes elements. Although I could well be post-rationalising a spot of procrastination.

So Green is the doorstep landscape, Blue is the River and Black is the Urban Fabric. The nice thing about a weave is; when the strands are separated they're formless but weaved together they form a strong structure.

Next I started looking at other 3 stringed methods. The one I liked most is the fish tail plait, where one strand ties the other two together. Translated on my site this is the River bringing landscape and urban fabric together.

Moving into the realm of actuality: My aim is to use (for the most part) the historical template of farmland irrigation ditches to create a linked swale network connected to the River Stour. Therefore providing a linked, sustainable landscape.

Historical Map showing Highlighted Waterways