A plan for an advanced educational industry in West Nottinghamshire

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Date: 1967-2020, predominant 2014-2016

Level of archival description: File 064

Extent and medium: conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, models, videos and textual records.

Scope and content: File documents the unexecuted project, Dukeries
Thinkbelt, conceived for West Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom.
The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000
students to be located over a 200 square mile area north of London.
Moveable components, including fold-out lecture/demonstration units,
rail-based teaching units, self-teach carrel units, faculty units, and
housing units, were to be dispersed along the rail system. Existing
conditions materials include regional aerial photographs with overlays
of the rail system, and photographs, photo collages and panoramas of
the region. Schematic sketches and drawings show the development of
the design. Regional plans examine links between new and existing
rail systems and national transportation networks and their projected
use. Diagrammatic plans illustrate the relationships between
recommended functions/activities attributed to specific areas. Detailed
plans, sections, elevations, and isometric drawings show housing
types (battery, capsule, crate and sprawl), faculty and transfer areas in
Teversal, Clipstone Colliery, and Hucknall. Other materials include regional
land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail
sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, ans aerial photographs.

Contains: S2.D064 Dukeries Thinkbelt

•  Sets 01-10 [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10]
•  Sets 11-20 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
•  Sets 21-30 [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

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Fellows, N. (2021) 'Portfolio: Learning' (p.1), Archiblog, WordPress