Projects
This proposal follows on from the ideas explored in 5A to create a narrative of reuse and regeneration using the commercial and industrial legacy of Old Kent road as a foundation for the establishment of a community led live-work typology to enhance the small entrepeneurial businesses that make up the Old Kent road high street.
The Old Kent Road area is home to nearly 1,000 businesses that are integral to London’s dynamic economy providing work for many of its residents, but big top down redevelopment plans threaten to completely shift the local economy from small local businesses to large shops and offices.
The proposal aims to preserve the essence of small businesses via the design of a market hall and workshop spaces as foundation blocks for a community led development centered around a courtyard typology and integrating these uses with communal and amenity spaces, evoking a solid robust apprearance on the exterior, whilst on the inside creating a calm urban oasis away from the busy thoroughfare and a sense of disconnection from the outside world
The Old Kent Road bazaar is a bottom up response to local issues of environmental deprivation, erosion of the pedestrian realm and noise pollution prevalent throughout the Old Kent road area within the borough of Southwark.
The concept behind the intervention greatly borrows from tenets of “Machizukuri”, a japanese inter-community dialogue methodof bottom-up town planning, and inspired by shioutengai market streets to create a sheltered market street that runs parallel to the Old Kent road, allowing pedestrians a respite from vehicular traffic and improving the animated street front through the use of sound diffusion panels that mitigate exterior noise, helping to improve living standards for residents of the terrace row.
The proposal focuses on providing additional amenities for the narrowboat community that travel and live along the Lee navigation canal. As gentrification creeps along the London Canalways many boat dwellers are seeing their way of life threatened due to overnight moorings being removed by developers. The proposal aims to create additional mooring spots as well as providing a bathhouse and laundrette facilities, amenities which many take for granted but are otherwise invaluable for a nomadic lifestyle aboard a narrowboat. The tectonics of the proposal are inspired by the resilient infrastructure of the canals combined with the lightweight buoyancy of narrowboars to create a juxtaposition of spaces.
This project explored the adaptive reuse of the Old ford locks, a canal lock located on the Lee navigation in Hackney Wick that has historically served as an important thoroughfare for both cargo and people since the start of the industrial revolution. The Lee navigation suffers from unusually high levels of water pollution and eutrophication due to urban and industrial activities, and recently has seen increased hostility towards boat dwellers who call the Lee thier home, due to gentrification and drastic reductions in moorings across the river.
The project aims to intervene on the canal by tackling both water pollution and providing additional mooring for narrowboats through a combined masterplan strategy and pavilion which aims to clean the polluted water via plan filtration to then be utilised for bathing facilities, expanding the provisions that the Old Ford locks currently provide to the boat dwellers of the Lee Navigation.
The Szervita tér-mal baths is a compact proposal for the Szervita square, located within the city of Budapest, that attempts to align itself with various aspects of hungarian culture and urban design to create a building that is sympathetic to its surrounding context in terms of materiality, design and activities. The proposal aims to pair two traditional activities, reading and bathing, in order to create unique experiences and moments that can seldom be experienced anywhere else through the use of synthetic paper manufactured and bound into works of literature within the building, creating both an internalised supply chain and a mixed-use symbiotic programme housed within the building.
This project explores the creation of a masterplan for a new neighbourhood in the heart of the Kentish village of Aylesham. The overall conept of the approach to this new housing development is to both maintain and create semi public spaces where residents can interact with each other through the careful consideration of architectural barriers that are prevalent with the typical dwelling and neighbourhood design that disconnect rather than integrate residents from their fellow neighbours. In this masterplan proposal, fenced off provate gardens are replaced with large spacious multipurpose public realms, connected and maintained by a network of pedestrian paths that simultaenously allow more convenient travel for pedestrians and nearby services. The design also incorporates ideas of densification and transport oriented design, aided by and justified by the train station located on site and the numerous other amenities that are within short walking distance from our parameters.
This project explores the concept and social issues of fake news and deliberate disinformation in todays society and attemps to influence and improve the lives of the general public through the deployment of a portable structure that helps those who are either unwilling or unable to distinguish between fact and disinformation. The concept of this social activism is to identify areas where disingenous media outlets are prevalent and establish a "counter-culture" that rejects the spread of fake news and encourages individuals to think for themselves. The activist produces mimeographed prints from their temporary structure and establishes a local network of paper distributors that spread the cause to the general populace and disseminate the message of the cause.
