Selected Drawings
A Balloon View of St Andrews, Technicolour Experiment, Mount Chicago, Honey Run, Pier 39: Home of the Tourist
A Balloon View of St Andrews - 2020
This was a long diligent drawing which I selfishly enjoyed at its peak as my covid-19 lockdown pastime. The idea formed from careful research and drafting ahead of crafting the final hand drawing. Once finished, was digitalised, shrunk, (in reality was drawn at 1.5mx2.25m), a bit bigger than your average scanner and turned into manageable sized prints!
Capturing as much of the St Andrews coastline as possible was the plan since it is sandwiched between two stunning beaches. West Sands, which is famous for filming Chariots of Fire and stretches for what feels like miles to any runner. East Sands on the other hand I remember visiting and walking out on the stone pier to look back over the exposed rock edge and reefs at the cityscape with the wind and sea whipping around.
Technicolour Experiment - 2017
A 10 day workshop at the Bartlett Summer School that mixed a study of the design of extraordinary events with the implementation needed to organise these moments within the contemporary city. The idea was to emerge future architectural students in a process of how to analyse and propose various scenarios where the gathering of people creates different social and spatial environments.
In what is certain to be a first of its kind, this workshop accumulated into an event that combined the fleeting motion associated with skating with the act of painting. Together an exhilarating technological/analogical themed performance. Making it fun for people to try skating on the printing machine whilst painting it or it painting you!
Mount Chicago - 2016
Mount Chicago was a spectacular proposal that arose from a year’s exploration into the architecture of city life through an ethnographic perspective.
The aim of the exploration was to illustrate how a city space can become a well-known place, showcasing how tourists and residents simplify and map a city’s urbanism through spatially engaging events, social phenomena, and ephemeral activity. All of which are not directly visible on geospatial maps, yet evidence of their contribution to historical development in the context of urban form is plentiful and proved instrumental to a city’s success and development. An event, ‘a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance’ can change an open space within a city into a place that hold its own transient identity and visual meaning that when reinforced periodically also builds on people’s subconscious image of the city.
Honey Run -2016
A speed dating 5K on Valentines Day!
This was a live ‘design and build’ event undertaken from beginning to end in less than a month by Flick herself. It formed part of a research methodology for a master’s thesis to explore the form and design process of hosting a spectacle. It looked at how the real undertaking of a plural experience as an extraordinary event, defined simply as an activity which leaves a lasting impression on its participants could be achieved on a budget, with a defined time line, and what new architectural forms would arise from it.
Pier 39 : Home of the Tourist -2015
A proposal for a new amenity attraction in San Francisco.
PIER 39 is San Francisco’s most-visited attraction with approximately 15 million visitors a year. On average that is 2,000 tourists an hour, yet it has one of the city’s most uneventful public spaces. At it’s inauguration in 1978, a diving pool arena graced the public space, yet over the years with an increase in shopping the pier lacks spectacle. Now a carousel picks up the remaining merry-goers, yet a new ending to the pier could provide amenity facilities to cater for the needs of a tourist whilst fulfilling an experiential expectation and fantasy that would encourage them to stay longer. Here they could discover and observe the bay and waterfront activities at ease, from inside a heart shaped toilet, resting a moment in a painted lady, or whilst perusing from above the Lombard lock. Further re-appropriation of famous landmarks from around the city into useful and unexpected experiences offered tourist the chance to interact with icons that they previously looked at or referenced as building their image of the city.
