Book Binding Vernaculars

Project details

Student Jack Traynor Powell

Programme

Unit UG2

Year 3

Award

First Class Honours

The LCBA Workshop is a public factory owned by the London Centre for Book Arts, serving as a hub for bookmaking, ideas, and art. Built by independent thinkers in East London, the building reflects the craft of bookmaking, while elevating everyday materials such as paper and thread. It’s part of a growing network of waterfront workshops, bridging canal-dwellers and bookbinders. These workshops and publishers protect against censorship, encourage free discourse, and foster intellectual and artistic expression.

The LCBA Reference Library

Nooks, niches and reveals sculpted from paper provide personal spaces to comfortably get lost in a book, whilst the translucent tensile canopy provides an abundance of diffused natural light ideal for reading.

Developing The Bookbinder's Vernacular

Using bookbinding materials, tools and techniques to craft 1:50 scale architectural models that explore potential typologies for the bookbinder's architectural vernacular.

Ground Floor Plan

The ground floor plan shows the overall layout of the new LCBA and the integration of the book workshop, library and canal boat moorings.

Site Section

View from The Canal

The new LCBA Workshop projects out onto the waterfront, providing mooring points for canal dwellers looking to explore the ideas nestled within the building's warm paper walls.

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