THE FRAME HOUSE

2011

 The Frame House is a reimagining of the Scouts’ contribution to the Festival of Britain. In celebrating of the 60^th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, The Frame House proposes the reconstruction of a temporary park to demonstrate the ideals and benefits of Scouting to the nation. The Frame House thus sets out to provide a contemporary demonstration of the central principles of scouting in structures that allegorically engage with this historical event at the same time as presenting a vision of how architecture for children can realise the Scouts’ ideals.

 The Halfway House is a private fraudster’s prison for offenders found guilty of serious corporate fraud. The prison has a capacity of twenty-eight inmates, who are employed in local maintenance. Sentences in the prison range between one and two years prior to release, having spent the majority of their sentences in a normal prison.

 The design aims to emulate some of the internal and external aesthetic of the banking sector and to combine cheap and expensive materials in order to produce a dialectic which refers to the prisoners’ previous lives.- Omar Ghazal

 The main objective of this investigation is to resolve some of the social dilemmas surrounding the treatment of children in prison by both the justice system and the media by challenging the way that such children are framed in society. These frames often tend to represent the children as evil and to blame the disintegration of the family. Architecture under such circumstances operates within this social imbalance by attempting to challenge and rectify external interventions in those children’s lives and the wider society. The architecture aspires to enabling the children to utilise this new context in order to reinvent themselves and build a new future in society.- Omar Ghazal

 SPECIMENS

  A collection of architectural sketches, Summer 2011.

- Omar Ghazal