Architecture

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Presentation sketch. Artistic impression of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

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A quick sketch of the library door from The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake

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The Importance of Language

The written word has enormous power. It had the ability to give the reader a physical or emotional response with no other external stimulus. Literature is able to describe vast or minute architectural environments which could not physically exist, or could not be experienced any other way. This research explores the literary spaces created by Mervyn Peake in The Gormenghast Trilogy and the language he used to shape space. This understanding of literary language can then be used to further architectural communication and enhance and inspire architectural design, both in physical and non-physical environments. 

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A New Chapter in Architecture

I am currently doing a PhD in architecture at the University of Kent, researching architecture in literature and the literary language involved. I am looking at The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake and the spaces he created. There is a lot of visual work involved in my research and some of this will appear on here.

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Hand bound thesis document

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All 8 concrete blocks in front of the section. Part of my examination display.

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It's a long way up

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It's a long way down

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Within the Chapel 

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A Tower from street level

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The Reading Level

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The Towers of the Cemetery 

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1/8 of a sectional concrete model of The Sleeping Cemetery

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Books embedded in concrete

Mass market paperbacks, concrete, wooden shuttering

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Originally printed at 1:100 these portions of the section have been layered and coloured with shoe polish. 

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The Towers contain alcoved for books below ground level that can be accessed as they are climbed

AutoCad, pen and ink, shoe polish, on watercolour paper

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A reading room in a Tower

AutoCad, pen and ink, shoe polish, on watercolour paper