Camellia house, Culzean Castle
- DC 121/1/7/10
- Item
- Sep 1974-May 1975
A free hand drawings consisting of some details of Camellia house and grounds: Culzean.
Platt, Christopher
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Camellia house, Culzean Castle
A free hand drawings consisting of some details of Camellia house and grounds: Culzean.
Platt, Christopher
A free hand drawings consisting of the longitudinal section and plan.
Platt, Christopher
Great pyramid of Cheops: Gizth
A free hand drawings consisting of the Great pyramid of Cheops showing a cross section of the pyramid and details of the Lotus bud and Papyrus capital.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: Site plan at Ailsa Craig
A tracing paper showing the site plan of Alisa Craig where the design will be built. The drawing is in 1:100 scale.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: First floor plan
A tracing paper showing the first floor plan of the design of the building. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and including the spaces and rooms and details of the walls and windows, steps, staircase, and furniture.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: Thrid floor plan
A tracing paper showing the third floor plan of the design of the building. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and including the main space of the observatory and darkroom with the details of the walls and windows, staircase, and furniture.
Platt, Christopher
Construction homework exercise 2: Floors 4
Construction drawings in axonometric view showing the details of:
Platt, Christopher
Construction homework exercise 4: Doors
Construction drawings in axonometric views showing the details of the door's frame built in a cavity wall, and the British standard door.
Platt, Christopher
The first Unitarian Church Wisconsin (1950)
A drawing sheet consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with some written information describing the design of the church's roof as the peaked roof centrally depicts the function of the building and what goes on outside, that is hands clasped and raised in prayer.
Platt, Christopher
The first Unitarian Church Wisconsin (1950), Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
A free hand drawing consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Platt, Christopher
Lindheimer Astronomical Research Centre
A free hand drawing consisting of the external view of Lindheimer Astronomical Research Centre at the North Western University, describing one of its telescopes in the 70 foot turrets which projected the heavens onto TV monitors.
Platt, Christopher
Details of Park Centre: Culzean
A free hand drawing consisting of some details of Park Centre: Culzean, showing some details of window, door, main gate, and chair.
Platt, Christopher
A free hand drawing of a simplified plan of Le Krak Des Chevaliers showing the main features and locations of the entry gateway, upper gateway, talus (a sloping wall), posterns (back doors), chapel, barbican (outer defence), and others. The written information focuses on the defence plan.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: Second floor plan
A tracing paper showing the second floor plan of the design of the building. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and including the spaces and rooms and details of the walls and windows, steps, staircase, and furniture.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: Section AA
A tracing paper including section AA crossing the dining and living room facing the north elevation. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and showing the details of the construction materials and the windmill at the roof with a description of how to use wind to produce electricity and stored in batteries where it is fed through the building.
Platt, Christopher
Construction homework exercise 2: Floors 2
Construction drawings showing the details of part of a concrete floor finished with wood strips, galvanised pressed steel clip, view of end of T.&G. strip.
Platt, Christopher
Construction homework exercise 2: Floors 3
Construction drawing showing the details of a raised timber floor in an axonometric view.
Platt, Christopher
Loose material grouped together under the title "Scopebook", including material relating to several buildings from different places and date periods. Some are related to the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Platt, Christopher
Two old churches in British Columbia
A free hand drawings consisting of the external view of two old churches in British Columbia.
Platt, Christopher
Le Krak Des Chevaliers: fortress function
A free hand drawings of Le Krak Des Chevaliers views describing its fortress function. The eight-century old Krak stands high on a hill with steep cliffs on the east, west and north sides. the more gentle southern side is protected by a moat.
Platt, Christopher
A sketch of Hardy House, Racine, Wisconsin
A free hand drawing on a tracing paper consisting of an external view of Hardy house, Racine, Wisconsin, a perspective from lake.
Platt, Christopher
The final design project: Bird watching station
Material related to final project which was to design a bird watching station including tracing papers showing the drawings of the site plan, floor plans, sections, and elevations all in details. The material in this series was originally stapled together. Staples have been removed.
Platt, Christopher
A brief of the basic design requirements
A written sheet including a brief of the basic design requirements including function, occupation, construction, and location. The most important design criterion is: "the building must blend in with the surrounding landscape as camouflage".
Platt, Christopher
The Unitarian Church, "Frank Lloyd Wright - Architecture and space".
A drawing sheet consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with some written information from his book "Architecture and Space":
'In this story I am God', a quotation which Peter Blake inserted in the back cover of the book as he wrote: 'As the lawgiver of Modern Architecture,' Blake added, 'He had been compared to Moses'.
Platt, Christopher
Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings
A free hand drawings consisting of the external views of:
Platt, Christopher
A free hand drawing consisting of the external view of an old barn describing its unusually shaped roof dominating the fields standing in like some giant armadillo.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: North and South elevations
A tracing paper consisting of the north and south elevations. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and showing the finishing materials and colours.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: East and West elevations
A tracing paper consisting of the east and west elevations. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and showing the finishing materials and colours.
Platt, Christopher
Material related to the First Year summer project which involved studying two different buildings in Greenock.
Platt, Christopher
Material created for summer project relating to YWCA building at 1 Houston, Greenock including tracing paper showing drawing details of the building's plan, section, and elevations, all are in scale of 1:20.
Platt, Christopher
Bird watching station: Section BB
A tracing paper including section BB crossing the dining room, greenhouse and entrance facing the west elevation. The drawing is in 1:50 scale and shows the details of the construction materials and the windmill at the roof with a description of solar panels on the roof of the greenhouse.
Platt, Christopher
Material created for summer project relating to the study of Old West Kirk at Greenock including free hand sketches showing window details, elevation from the corner of Campbell Street and Esplanade, with a description about the history of the building as it was built by Johnne Schaw AD. 1591, transferred from the original site and now occupied by Harland and Wolff's shipyard AD. 1926.
Platt, Christopher
Old West Kirk, Greenock, front elevation (Page 1)
Material created for summer project relating to the study of Old West Kirk at Greenock including free hand sketches showing front elevation, left hand elevation (right hand elevation is similar), plan of the main entrance, section through porch, and walls bricks' details.
Platt, Christopher
Fort Matilda Bowling Club extension: door's details
Material created for summer project relating to the extension of Clubhouse at Fort Matilda Bowling Club at Greenock including drawing details of the door's plan, section, and elevation, all are in scale of 1:20.
Platt, Christopher
Material created during Christopher Platt's second year of studies including projects relating to architectural design, building construction, design drawing and analysis, and summer project.
Part time year tutor: Bill Paterson
Platt, Christopher
Old West Kirk, Greenock, front elevation
Material created for summer project relating to the study of Old West Kirk at Greenock including free hand sketches showing front elevation, left hand elevation (right hand elevation is similar), plan of the main entrance, section through porch, and walls bricks' details.
Platt, Christopher
Material related to building details
Includes material for the study of different architectural details from different buildings in Glasgow and Bishopton. Building descriptions include elevations, daylight effects on different streets, buildings and their windows' scale, different kinds of lighting, and a farmhouse.
Platt, Christopher
Fort Matilda Bowling Club Extension
Material created to study Fort Matilda Bowling club extension to the main club including free hand sketches showing the plan, side elevation of the extension, front elevation, and some details of the main door.
Platt, Christopher
Old West Kirk, Greenock, The north window details
Material created for summer project relating to the study of the north window of The Old West Kirk at Greenock including drawings of the plan, section, inside elevation, and outside elevation, all are in scale of 1:20.
This window built by Johnne Schaw in AD.1591 and transferred to present site in AD.1926.
Platt, Christopher
Free hand sketch showing The Glasgow School of Art elevation from Pitt Street including some architectural descriptions, for example, the view of The Glasgow School of Art showing west side and part of south side and how different is was to the Neo-Classical buildings that were being built at the same time which belonged to where they originated in Italy and Greece whereas the Art School was designed with Scottish influences.
Platt, Christopher
Glasgow School of Art: Architectural details
Free hand sketch showing the stonework and railings detail. "This detail is similar to one used in the Scotland Street School which helps to reduce the effects of the wall being a barrier between the building and the onlooker".
Platt, Christopher
Free hand sketch showing some architectural details of Royal Exchange Square and describing the public circulation as:
Platt, Christopher
Material related to Project 2: Evergreen Club
Material created for Project 2, Second Year including site analysis, architectural drawings, plans, elevations, sections and other details.
Platt, Christopher
Evergreen Club: Site plan and landscaping
Detail drawing on tracing paper for project 2 Evergreen Club site plan and landscaping in scale of 1:500 showing the North sign, main roads and the surrounding buildings.
Platt, Christopher
Scotland Street School, North Elevation
Free hand sketch showing the north elevation of Scotland Street School including some architectural descriptions, for example, "scale has been a major design factor in this building for children, windows diminish in height as they rise from the floor, and the wall has been set back to lessen the effect of three stories. Not every room in a building has the same height, each houses a different function and should be designed with that function in mind".
Platt, Christopher
Daylight effects on street: looking through North Court Royal Exchange from Royal Exchange Square
Free hand sketch showing the contrast between immediate shade and distant sunlit. Buildings invite you through the lane and rewards you at the other end with a street where you can check your bearings. Cobbles just past archway indicate lane running across path.
Platt, Christopher
Different kinds of Street's lightings
Free hand sketches showing different kinds of lighting on three different street at Glasgow:
Platt, Christopher
Material related to Project 1: Exhibition Stand
Material created for Project 1, Second Year including a description sheet about the products used at the exhibition, 1st submission, architectural drawings, plans, elevations, sections and other details.
Platt, Christopher
A brief of products used at the exhibition stand
A brief paper of the products used at the exhibition including: sheeting, tubes, claddings (external), aircraft wings (solid Aluminium Alloy), ironmongery (Alloy), foil, gutters, and pipes. The other side of the paper showing the properties of Aluminium: behaviour under fire, rust, and weight.
Platt, Christopher
Project 1/4 exhibition stand: section
Architectural drawing on a tracing paper presenting section across the floors of the exhibition stand project in scale of 1:20, including the details of the construction structure and martials used, furniture, and figures. The total height of the building is 9.3 m.
Platt, Christopher