Superquadra model at the RIBA exhibition
photograph © Thomas Deckker 2003
Superquadras
This roof landscape seemed not only to be architecturally incomplete, but analogous to another very distant and supposedly natural landscape in England - that of Blakeney Point on the north Norfolk coast. The shifting sand dunes there are propagated and stabilised by rows of wooden stake fences; in other words, the landscape is formed by the architecture. The sand-fences formed spaces among themselves and between themselves and the landscape, a possibility of architecture I thought appropriate to investigate on the roofs of the superquadras.
Sand-fences, Blakeney Point, Norfolk
photograph © Thomas Deckker 1989
Thomas Deckker Architect: Superquadra Penthouse Project
Sketch model