Olivia Fellows

I am passionate about how Architecture creates dialogues with humans in the built environment. Studying feminist approaches and the work of Rosi Bradotti, Judith Bulter and Helene Frichot, alongside critical practice by Philippe Rahm and Tomas Saraceno has shaped my final thesis and professional positioning. Considering theories on the cyborg, abject and dirt, Vertical Folly aims to accommodate the untouched in the city of Ipswich. It aims to draw people to the terrain vague, the other, places that we disregard, to bring new life to these locations and use them as a connection between the waterfront and the town centre.

Vertical Folly is a temporary installation that occurs post covid-19 pandemic to bring the community back together through activity, work, rest, play. Sitauted paracitically on the facades of the docks along Ipswich waterfront the site adaptive installation is erected throughout the allies in our cities. The scaffolding structure is ’edited’ to allow activity to occur via three agents: infrastructure (energy), mobility (vertical/horizontal access) and activity (furniture/fabric).

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Computer-generated colour maps and diagrams, on white background

Programme mapping

Vertical Folly. Programme mapping of Ipswich showing events and activity opportunity.

Computer-generated colour maps and diagrams, on white background.

Site mapping

Site mapping of Ipswich showing site opportunities and allies along the waterfront.

Photographs of models, on white background.

Conceptual modelling

Conceptual modelling showing exploration of relationship between structure and infrastructure.

Line and colour computer-generated diagrams, on white background.

Structure and infrastructure

Diagrams of structure and infrastructure showing the scaffolding components and the sustainability approach.

Computer-generated colour diagrams, on white background.

Activity

Diagrams showing the components for accomodating the activities in the project.

Computer-generated white render of building with silhouettes in black.

Render

Render of structure attached to existing building between an ally on Ipswich’s waterfront.

Computer-generated coloured elevation of building, on colour background.

Elevation

Elevation of structure attached to existing building, showing activity taking place.

Computer-generated coloured render of building.

Internal render

Interior render looking towards the waterfront showing red linen fabric cutting through the structure and the plywood furniture.

Computer-generated coloured render of building.

Internal render

Interior render looking towards the waterfront showing red linen fabric cutting through the structure and the plywood furniture and the balconies for residents of existing