Thread by @robinmonotti

🧵I used to work as an architect, before becoming a film producer. Here in this thread are a few of my most known architectural projects. Below is me over a decade ago photographed through a porthole window I designed.

This is WATERING HOLES, a drinking fountain we designed for the Royal Parks. It was meant to be rolled out over all of London's Royal Parks, becoming as ubiquitous as the red phone box. One was rolled out so far in Green Park, near Buckingham Palace.

By pushing buttons on the side of the granite slab of WATERING HOLES water sprouts from recesses in the chamfered circular openings, allowing adults, children or wheelchair users, and pets to drink from the respective watering holes. The granite was sourced in Cornwall.

Here is a child having a drink from WATERING HOLES. The objective of this project was to reduce the amount of plastic bottles bought and discarded throughout the Royal Parks.

This is YACHT HOUSE a combined boat storage and holiday flats on the Black Sea coast. It was inspired by the history of Soviet Constructivism which is linked to the site it is in, and is an unapologetically modern yet playful building at the same time.

This is YACHT HOUSE seen from the approach road, with the break waves jetty where boats are hoisted back to land.

The pedestrian entrance of YACHT HOUSE only reveals two floors next to a stair tower, and circular windows.

The top floor balcony of YACHT HOUSE with the porthole windows recalls the experience of living on a boat.

The main idea of YACHT HOUSE was to provide a wide horizon view of the sea with 9 metre wide fully opening folding sliding windows. The horizon of the sea is the focus of the design.

One of my favourite spaces of YACHT HOUSE is the panoramic roof terrace, sea horizon on one side, and 1,234 metre tall mountain at the back.

And this (on the right) is the TBILISI SPIRAL TOWER, a design for a business centre in Tbilisi, Georgia, designed to offset its Soviet neighbour (on the left). In this Left-Soviet Right-Capitalist dichotomy we designed the building as a stack of coins placed on top of each other in a spiral form. The roundness is meant to soften the sharp rectangular edges of its late Soviet neighbour.

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