Garden House, Glastonbury
During my fallow period, as a favour to a friend, I designed a Garden House to assist with their lettings business.
I made a simple model of the existing rear garden.
I proposed a simple cabin with a wrap-around porch, presenting drawings and a short design and access statement.
Planning permission for use in conjunction with the main house was granted by the local authority.
The project was not due to be built immediately, which gave me the opportunity to again use a vacant development site for one of my projects.
Mu project boat Arwyn had been stranded in a distant boatyard, but I now had her close to where I was living. I constructed an elaborate rigging of polythene and plastic tubing, to make a working tent. I made haste, and followed-though on my much planned decking-in of Arwyn’s cockpit. The complex task required the development of extremely fine making skills to shape sheets of closed cell foam into smooth curves, made bullet-hard with layers of fibreglass.
While I was pushing myself hard to make progress with Arwyn, and also navigating bureaucracy to receive Autism support, I found a friend. In solitude, I have always struggled to maintain my peace, with someone to hear my progress, and talk it through, things became much easier. I certainly surpassed any expectation of quality that I had going into the project. Wright means maker. My father with his tin trains, his father with his architectural model making, and Uncle Lawrence; gliding, filmmaking, writing. The purely theoretical is not sufficient, our hands need to live, as well as our vision.