Images taken from: www.dhub.org/articles/835The Manchester Methodist Housing Project (part of the New Isslington Millinium Community) is an example of remix design through architecture. The roof can clearly be related to design reform the 19th century. It is easy to see Gothic styles in the design. For example the tall triangular steeple shaped faces and the intricate circular symmetrical shapes. These shapes and styles are also seen in Pugins work as he was interested in Gothic design. The use of the chapel style face and the cathedral like carvings is witty as the design was designed for Methodists, a type of christian religion.
However the designs haven't been used in their 'traditional' form, instead they have been 'remixed' into a more modern and forward thinking design. The designs sit atop an angular and geometric building and instead of being part of the structure seem to cover it. This makes them ornamental and not functional which mixes in another design style into the design.
Bright Orange is also used in stark contrast to the clean white. It is interesting as white is a clean and pure colour, it was popular in modernist design whereas colours like bright orange were popular among psychedelia which was part of post modern design. Post modern design was in direct contrast to modernist design and used the slogan 'less is a bore'.
It is also interesting to note that the architects for this project come from a company which goes by the name FAT which stands for Fashion Architecture Taste, fashion was also a big part of postmodern design as pop culture such as fashion and music was highly influenced/influential to postmodern/remix design. For this project FAT architects said they wanted to explore "British tradition" but in a way which was "different to what everyone else was doing".
A full view of the housing project
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