Tues 17 June. Coffee in Costa’s to kick start thinking. We have yet to decide most of the parameters of the project – apart from working in Basildon and combining the hand-made with digital/virtual. We would like a web site to play with the material that comes out of the project.
We walk out into the town square which is reshaped by building works and has a wind break awning at its west entrance, then on through the rectangle of the market. Round to St Martin's Square with its adjoining enclosed garden and the concrete space of the church. Gordon remarks on the number of distinct spaces there are. We walk away and up Clay Hill Road to where housing starts and look back on the town. There, rising, are the backs of shops and offices. They divide spaces for people and transport and stand like contemporary city walls.
