Enourmous inland lake

A quick beer at the castles lookout with party members in usual mode, Niall (left) sketching and Yan (right) fiddling with things that aren't his. Note the looming mountain again, now referred to as the 'Dutchkilla'.

Part of the Austrian Alps massif looming over the Salzburg Plataeux, taken from atop the Castle Hohensalzburg. Yan felt he could climb in one day; I reminded him that it peaks around 2,800 metres and that he came from the Netherlands, a place of no mountains, and that therefore his frame of reference was incredulous.

Yan and Niall overlook the City of Salzburg ... posers. I remember a photograph similar to this from my childhood - where I'm sitting on some wall somewhere. Father/Mother - any clues?

Popped over to Salzburg this weekend ... home of the Von Trapp family and a massive salt mine. The town borders Germany, which we accessed via a mine and for a lunch stop, but primarily we went for the mountain scenery. Its easy to forget, living in Vienna all the time, that I m in Austria and should enjoy the Alps more often ...

Versions of different forms with the same floor sizes



New images of form ideas for the Sur la Plage project - this is a retreat for an artist on the beach, hidden amongst the trees. Although conceptual forms at the moment, these will be worked up into constructive buildings as the project progresses.

Some more design work - sketching up floor plans and form ideas for some artist retreats along the beach in Le Touquet, France

Sketch work of the Master Plan

Masterplan first iteration .... will post some images and drawings as well.

Been a couple of weeks without an update --- so here is the Design Unit - 'Sur la Plage' (on the beach) with Prof. Will Alsop. This is the existing site plan and my first ideas of a masterplan
which repeats the grammar of the mixed styled chalets in the forest as a design model for beach
huts, artist retreats and viewing stations (light blue shapes on beach of the masterplan).

The existing car parking promenades will be torn up and the material, equating to around 30,000 cubic metres of rubble, will be spread along the sea front as a reclaimed garden, terraced and landscaped to create a hillock between the town and beach.

This mediating device is then fed by a new tramline (red dash on the masterplan) which serves all major junctions and the new landscaped beach via drop off points (red boxes on masterplan - akin to Vienna!).

This will be presented to the studio and Will Alsop in a few weeks ... wich me luck.

UN City from the lookout tower of the Danube River parkland - this is where the UN council meets.