Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cedric Price, 1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
•    Série(s): Projects, 1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000
•      Projet: Potteries Thinkbelt, 1939-1987, predominant 1963-1967

Personnes et institutions:

• Cedric Price (architect)
• Frank Newby (consulting engineer)
• Douglas Smith and Ruddle Chartered Quantity Surveyors (quantity surveyors)
• Stephen Mullin (assistant)
• Aerofilms and Aero Pictorial Ltd. (photographic studio)
• Cedric Price (archive creator)

Titre:

Potteries Thinkbelt

Date:

1939-1987, predominant 1963-1967

Niveau de description archivistique:
File 56

Collation:

• 192 reprographic copies
  190 drawings
  3 panels
  0.15 l.m. of textual records
  0.04 l.m. of photographic materials

Présentation du contenu:
File documents the unexecuted project, Potteries Thinkbelt, conceived for North Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000 students to be located over a 100 square mile area northwest 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 Price's 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 axonometric drawings show housing types (sprawl, capsule, and crate), faculty and transfer areas in Madeley, Pitts Hill, and Meir. Other materials include regional land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, aerial photographs and reprographic copies, some rendered and annotated. Many of the drawings were published in Price, Cedric. "PTB, Potteries Thinkbelt: A Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in North Staffordshire." 'Architectural Design'. (October, 1966), 483-497; in Price, Cedric and Paul Barker, "The Potteries Thinkbelt", 'New Society' (June 1966) 14-17; and in Price, Cedric "Potteries Thinkbelt: Project for an Education Industry", 'Bauen & Wohnen', no. 9 (1967) 351-360. Material in this file was created between 1939 and 1987 but predominantly between 1963 and 1967.

File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.

Numéro de référence:

AP144.S2.D56

Mode de classement:
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.

Localisation:

Staffordshire Angleterre Royaume-Uni

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English, German

Sources complémentaires:

• For additional materials that relate to this project, see the following files in this fonds: File DR2004:0036 contains negatives; File DR2006:0077 contains a photograph; File DR2004:0787 contains drawings; File DR2004:0054 contains drawings; and File DR2004:0259 contains textual records. The following files in this project series contain materials related to other projects: File DR1995:0216:400 includes textual materials that relates to project series AP144.S22.D47 Tone Vale Hospital, project series AP144.S2.D46 Fun Palace, and project series AP144.S2.D53; and File DR1995:0216:398-399 includes materials that relates to project series AP144.S2.D74 Birmingham and Midland Institute.

Contient:

• DR2004:0087, Ordnance maps of Staffordshire, postcard, plans and sections of battery housing
• DR2004:0088, Aerial views, views of perspective drawings, photomontage of site views with perspective drawing
• DR2004:0089, 'Potteries Think Belt: A plan for the establishment of a major advanced educational industry in North Staffordshire'
• DR2004:0090, Axonometric drawing of Madeley transfer area
• DR2006:0019, Photomontage of a perspective sketch of Madeley Transfer Area for Potteries Thinkbelt, Staffordshire, England, 1966
• DR2006:0066, Potteries Thinkbelt: Perspective view for transfer area, 1965
• DR1995:0216:001-008, Site photographs some mounted on reprographic copies, two mounted on panels, and some showing panoramas of site
• DR1995:0216:009-013, Aerial photographs of region, three of which are fastened with acetate film containing drawings
• DR1995:0216:014-031, Diagrams of plans and sections showing housing units and stacking studies
• DR1995:0216:032-050, Sketch site plans, maps and key of transportation networks
• DR1995:0216:051-069, Sketches, plans and sections showing access, movement
• DR1995:0216:070-086, Site plan, plans and sections of transfer areas at Meir
• DR1995:0216:087-105, Site photographs, site layout plans and site axonometrics of housing areas
• DR1995:0216:106-122, Axonometric drawings, elevations, sections, thumbnail sketches, and sketch plans and sections at Pitts Hill site
• DR1995:0216:123-140, Sketch sections and plans with annotations, plans, sections and thumbnail sketches
• DR1995:0216:141-156, Sketch layouts of sprawl and battery housing, sketch plans
• DR1995:0216:157-173, Site plan, sketch regional map, plans, sections, and axonometric sketches of Madeley and Meir transfer areas
• DR1995:0216:174-188, Perspective sketch, sketch plans, elevations, and sections of Meir and Pitts Hill transfer areas
• DR1995:0216:189-189, Aerial photographs of Staffordshire showing transfer areas and housing
• DR1995:0216:190-205, Aerial survey of transfer areas at Madeley, Pitts Hill, and Meir, regional maps
• DR1995:0216:206-223, Master diagrams of regional maps showing national transportation networks, faculty and transfer areas, and housing sites
• DR1995:0216:224-234, Master diagrams regional maps showing elements, key and housing sites
• DR1995:0216:235-242, Master diagrams of regional maps showing elements and key
• DR1995:0216:243-261, Regional maps showing road network, various housing sites
• DR1995:0216:262-278, Exterior axonometric views, diagrammatic plans and sections of transfer areas at Pitts Hill
• DR1995:0216:279-306, Diagrams, layouts, plans, sections, and axonometric drawings of housing types
• DR1995:0216:307-317, Plans, sections, elevations, and axonometric drawings of housing types, and key sheet of elements
• DR1995:0216:318-336, Housing areas site layout plans
• DR1995:0216:337-355, Housing areas site plans
• DR1995:0216:356-371, Housing area site plans and site axonometric views of housing areas
• DR1995:0216:372-385, Photomontages of housing site, plans of transfer areas at Meir
• DR1995:0216:386-397, Sketches of transfer area, diagram of regional map
• DR1995:0216:398-399, Perspective of train arriving at transfer area, and panel of text for an unknown project
• DR1995:0216:400-550, Correspondence, some with N.B.L. Pevsner, Stanford Anderson, and Christopher Alexander, notes, sketches, clippings
• DR1995:0216:551-551, Potteries Thinkbelt: Photomontage of housing site 7, between 1963 and 1966
• DR1995:0216:552-554, Axonometric drawings, possibly of transfer areas