Sailing Through Time Project.

Sailing through time

Selby Town Council was looking to improve there Town Hall area, in a bid to create a more pleasant and inviting space. As when they have events on there are long cues, to help the solution seating and perching points to be involved in a appealing forms to encourage viewing. However the project design should have a link to Selby's past and it must involve the community make it there project too.

Being a local artist I was asked to come up with some ideas so I began with researching Selby I focused on its early Viking past, and its Famous Ship building Past of Cochranes and Son's shipyard from the late 18th  to late 19th century. With this past I fixated on ships, from the curvy sweeping shapes of viking longboats, to the robust large structural trawler ships from Cochranes. The Council liked this Idea of the two ship History's, so instead of showing the two pasts in one plot, there is plot at the back which is parallel to the front, so Viking at the front and Cochranes at the back plot. 

Below is the Front Viking Section. 

This one below is the back plot with the more modern Cochrane's ship. Originally designed to have the front of a modern ship, however to keep it more with the theme of Sailing through time, I have aligned it with the viking ship at the front and changed it to a rear of a modern Cochrane's ship. To help give the sense of it Sailing through time, and it also fits the site better allowin more seating and extra space for functions they may have. 

It got approved Woop!!! 

More detail scale drawings needed and 1 to 10 scale models to be made.

Here are 1 to 10 scale models of the viking inspired section.  

Here is the plan site drawing for the front plot (aka Viking section).

This is the plan drawing for the plot at the back of the town hall. (aka modern Cochrane's tail end ship)

This is Viking plot site. 

Plot at the rear where the Cochrane's ship will be.