Grant Beaumont
Grant is an MArch student at the Bartlett School of Architecture (PG25) where he also completed his BSc (Unit 8). He has worked for architects in both London and Jersey. Grants interests in architecture merge material experimentation with the spatially uncanny. His proposals are testbeds for impositions, traces and revelations. His drawings and models aim to speak to these material conditions as much as his proposals, thus connecting phenomenal representation with its architectural index.
Grant currently lives and works in London, UK.
EXPERIENCE
Adams & Sutherland; BDK Architects
EDUCATION
MArch (2022) and BSc Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part I/First Class Honours) at Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2018)
CNC fragment studies of the Falconers lodge to explore how the envelopes of the building form a close fit to one another. These studies are designed to explore the limitations of CNC as a manufacture process, and use these constrictions as design tools. Stock tabs are repurposed to transition into architectural bulkheads, and sacrificial material becomes a key part of the architectures landscape.
+ Avoid overly humid environments. Small milled details are fragile.
+ Models being displayed in Bartlett show, so items will be shipped for delivery from 18th July 2022.
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Year: 2022
Size: Average 15 x 15 x 4cm
Materials: High density PU foam
A study revealing the approach to the Falconers lodge, positioned on the edge of a landslip on the East coast of the Isle of Portland. The drawing investigates the discrepancies emerging between the horizons of the falconer and her falcon. The building is shown in a state of anticipation, awaiting the landslip to continue, and preparing itself accordingly.
+ Glazing on back order, will be fitted on arrival.
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Year: 2022
Size:10.75 x 62 in cm
Materials: Graphite on 400GSM card stock. Birch frame, with glazing TBC.
The Brighton boat repair and decommission station is designed to be a simple testbed to explore ideas of belonging, shadows, and displacement leading to the alias ‘imposter’, a building that doesn’t quite belong in its context. Brighton provided the perfect context for this, and allowed for two site visits during the relaxation of lockdown.
This project explores displacement by testing how boats undergoing restoration or demolition can become embedded within the schemes architecture in fragments, and how this acquisitional act allows the architecture to claim experiences it never had; if a barnacle is earned through venture at sea, what right does the workshop have to exhibit one? The project then goes on to explore how these jarring moments may be experienced within the building, simulating and rendering how the hulls, workers, context and structure may homogenise during the restoration process, leading to a structure that doesn’t just encourage displacement, but is displaced itself.
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Year: 2017/18
Size: up to A1 in width
Materials: pencil on 200gsm cartridge paper
The Brighton boat repair and decommission station is designed to be a simple testbed to explore ideas of belonging, shadows, and displacement leading to the alias ‘imposter’, a building that doesn’t quite belong in its context. Brighton provided the perfect context for this, and allowed for two site visits during the relaxation of lockdown.
This project explores displacement by testing how boats undergoing restoration or demolition can become embedded within the schemes architecture in fragments, and how this acquisitional act allows the architecture to claim experiences it never had; if a barnacle is earned through venture at sea, what right does the workshop have to exhibit one? The project then goes on to explore how these jarring moments may be experienced within the building, simulating and rendering how the hulls, workers, context and structure may homogenise during the restoration process, leading to a structure that doesn’t just encourage displacement, but is displaced itself.
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Year: 2017/18
Size: up to A1 in width
Materials: pencil on 200gsm cartridge paper
This project is designed to investigate the spatial conditions of fishing processes in the design of housing for four fishermen immigrants from Kazakhstan, relocating to London. Research began investigating the Aral Sea and its impact on traditional fishing techniques as it enters states of flux. Currently the sea is in a regressed state from both natural land regressions and human intervention, meaning that all of the fishing that occurred has been halted, leaving skeletal remains of industry and large amounts of workers looking to outsource labour. Sited on the bank of regents canal in Haggerston, it makes use of the workers traditional fishing techniques to cultivate fish in the canal and bring them directly into the surrounding food markets.
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Year: 2017/18
Size: Up to A1 in width
Materials: Pencil on 200gsm Cartridge Paper