Experimental 11 Book

Ex. 11

Homo Facit Saltum Andrea Agostini. Domesticity in the Anthropocene Naz Babaoglu. Tidal Clock Hanna Fastrich. Network of Contemporary Health Thomas Germain-Pendry. Meanwhile in the In-between Seongsoo Han. Escavated Landscapes Finnegan Harries. Hylomorphic Symbiosis Laura Hepp. Interrelate, the Floating Forest Cesar Jucker. Forgotten Landscapes Sari King. Deconstructing the Rituals of Consumer Culture Sofia Krivashina. Tidal Promenade Raluca Scheusan. Communal Living in the Anthropocene Jiaqi Sun. New City Farm in the Anthropocene Le Qian Toby Tang. Uncovering Water and History

Matilde Cassani // Silvana Taher

Architectural Association

19/20

Acknowledgements: Yoni Bentovim Leonhard Clemens Elisa Commanay Charlie Corry Wright Georgie Corry Wright Alison Crawshaw Ryan Dillon Shin Egashira Juliet Haysom Conrad Koslowsky John Lopez Nuria Alvarez Lombardero Mark Morris Taneli Mansikkamaki George Massoud Ryan Nieheiser Hikaru Nissanke Chris Pierce Maria-Chiara Piccinelli Bart Schoonderbeek Michael Smythe Theo Spyropoulos Yee Fei Tan Thomas Twaites Carlos Vilanueva-Brandt

Table of Contents

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Introduction

Quadrat

Abstract

Andrea Agostini

Homo Facit Saltum

Naz Babaoglu

Canada Water

Hanna Fastrich

Anthropocene

Thomas Germain-Pendry

Protagonists

Seongsoo Han

Tools

Finnegan Harries

Academic Schedule 2019/20

Laura Hepp

Workshops

Cesar Jucker

Who We Are

Sofia Krivashina

Books

Raluca Scheusan Jiaqi Sun Le Qian Toby Tang

III 10 x 10 x 10 Naz Babaoglu Finnegan Harries Laura Hepp Cesar Jucker Sari King Sofia Krivashina Raluca Scheusan Le Qian Toby Tang

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Model

AAP

Project

Andrea Agostini

Andrea Agostini

Andrea Agostini

Naz Babaoglu

Naz Babaoglu

Naz Babaoglu

Hanna Fastrich

Hanna Fastrich

Hanna Fastrich

Thomas Germain-Pendry

Thomas Germain-Pendry

Thomas Germain-Pendry

Finnegan Harries

Seongsoo Han

Seongsoo Han

Laura Hepp

Finnegan Harries

Finnegan Harries

Sari King

Laura Hepp

Laura Hepp

Sofia Krivashina

Cesar Jucker

Cesar Jucker

Jiaqi Sun

Sari King

Sari King

Le Qian Toby Tang

Sofia Krivashina

Sofia Krivashina

Raluca Scheusan

Raluca Scheusan

Jiaqi Sun

Jiaqi Sun

Le Qian Toby Tang

Le Qian Toby Tang

V Film

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Andrea Agostini

Moments

Naz Babaoglu Hanna Fastrich

Group Collage

Thomas Germain-Pendry

Term 1 Jury

Seongsoo Han

Portugal Unit Trip

Finnegan Harries

Term 3 Lockdown

Laura Hepp Sari King Jiaqi Sun Le Qian Toby Tang

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I Introduction

Abstract Homo Facit Saltum Canada Water Anthropocene Protagonists Tools Academic Schedule 2019/20 Workshops Who We Are Books

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Abstract The relationship between Man and Nature is a curious one. In modern rhetoric the two are often defined as being one and the same; Man is of Nature. And yet, as we increasingly admit the advent of the Anthropocene, one can’t help but wonder if in our current era, it might not be more accurate to describe Nature as being of Man. That is to say, in the case of the former, it is nature that created us, and in the case of the later, it is us that creates Nature. If nature is indeed of man, then a somewhat perplexing problem emerges, it becomes apparent that in designing a city, we need to consider not only the needs of man, but the needs of Nature as well. Needless to say, this has not been the way cities have been designed in the past. It is certainly not the way London was designed. Bolstered by the Industrial Revolution and the then increasingly powerful British Empire, the nascent years of the city in its current form were established in an entirely different global framework. Ecological and environmental concerns simply did not factor, and nature was broadly understood as existing beyond the city. It is precisely this history of urban growth, which makes London ill equipped for the new modus operati, London is simply not equipped to cater to the needs of nature.

Homo facit saltum This year, we will ask students to confront a paradigm shift. When both the City and Nature become the project of Man, our architectural language must evolve to encompass both. As much as we are called to design space for human inhabitation, we must now also design spaces of natural inhabitation. These two now become one and the same, in which a new form of architectural enquiry, driven by evolutionary logic, emerges. The logic of a new form of urban architecture presupposes a new form of urban living. Therefore, we will study not only the spatial transformation of the existing city, but also the performative ones in which new rituals of everyday life are created. According to the anthropologist Ernesto de Martino a ritual helps Man to overcome what can be defined as a “the crisis of presence” in which he feels that his own life is at stake. The stereotyped and repetitive behaviours of a rite offer a reassuring model to follow, constructing what can subsequently become a “tradition”.

However, our current rituals and traditions are based on a false model, and so in asking urban inhabitants to live in different spaces, we consequently must ask them to live in different ways.

Unit 11 takes Charles Darwin’s mantra ‘natura non facit saltum’, meaning Nature does nothing in jumps, as its modus operandi, and proposes an alternative approach, namely that if nature does not act through jumps, then we must, and so we call ‘Homo facit saltum’. We will be working within the Canada Water Area Action Plan, in an effort to re-imagine how the existing cityscape can be transformed. This means that rather then work with building codes and regulations, we work with notions of season, the passage of time and the possibility of including new urban rituals into the existing urban fabric. As per the methodology of the unit, we will work heavily with collage, urban sampling and model making, and this year, we will introduce the problem of human inhabitation through the designing of rituals informing new form of living.

1 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/canada-water-regeneration-plan-is-a-true-labourof-love-c9wbtvkdw

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Canada Water “When dreaming of the nation’s most romantic spots, Canada Water in southeast London is unlikely to come to mind”1 This year we will be working in Canada Water. The area itself is really quite unique. It has a large stock of somewhat unremarkable housing, designed in the 1980’s, an underused and undefined town centre some fairly beautiful and unused wharfs and warehouses and a series of rather remarkable green spaces. The area generally lacks character, and yet if you ignore the whole and take it piece by piece, it is at times otherworldly – in the best possible sense. The council does have a plan to regenerate the area by 2026, however we feel that in many ways this plan aspires to be everything that a city of the Anthropocene should avoid.

Therefore, this year we will ask students to study the area, and the proposed plan, and image an alternative. We will ask you to work with the existing building stock, to transform rather then uproot and to enhance rather then rebrand.

From Cattle Landing Place to Canada Water Canada Water is located on the Rotherhithe peninsula in southeast London. Before development began on site in 1807, it was known as the ‘cattle landing place’ or Rederheia, from which the name Rotherhithe originates. In the early nineteenth century, the dock system was constructed on the site, and it continued to function well into the mid-20th century.

During the Second World War, the site came under intense bombing, and was largely destroyed. It remained in this state of semi-dereliction until the early 1980’s when the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) began redevelopment of the site. Around 90% of the docks were filled in and some 5,500 new homes built, alongside new open spaces, retail, leisure and industrial development. (CWAAP p.11)

Canada Water, Picture by Silvana Taher

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The Canada Water Area Action Plan In 2008, the GLA identified Canada Water as an ‘area of intensification’, meaning essentially that there was room for growth. (This is not entirely surprising given that the area has remained largely frozen in time, 1980’s time.) Six years later, after numerous studies and consultation, Southwark Council presented the Canada Water Area Action Plan, which sets out a vision for how the area will be regenerated in the time leading up to 2026. The Canada Water AAP contains a total of 25 proposed site of redevelopment. These include, the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, Surrey Docks Farm, The Printworks, Quebec Industrial Estates and St. George’s Wharf, amongst many others. The numerous ambitions of the AAP are organised into six main categories: shopping, transport, leisure, place, housing and community. Each of these categories is addressed in the AAP in an extensive section detailing the reasons for the proposed changes, the objectives and the relevant policies.

The Canada Water Area Action Plan Revisited While the Canada Water AAP is extensive to say the least, it can be broadly described as ‘a how to guide for keeping up with the Joneses’. That is to say, that the CWAAP, essentially sets out a vision of how the area can reach the same level of development and growth as other more lucrative areas in London. The question, which we shall ask, is whether it is enough to simple keep up, or whether Canada Water, offers the possibility to completely rethink what it means to be a successful urban area within the 21st Century. (Incidentally, it is worth pointing out - we don’t think keep up is enough). In the context of the unit’s interest, we will ask students to work within the AAP, but to set as an objective that the area become a hallmark of what urban living in the Anthropocene can mean. This means that everything from shopping to leisure needs to be rethought in terms yet undefined within the AAP.

Port of London authority plan of the survey commercial docks, 1968.

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The Anthropocene While the unit’s work is firmly grounded in Canada Water in London, it is important to understand that our creative drive comes from a far more global issue, namely the shift from the Holocene to the Anthropocene. The notion of engaging in geological eras maybe a little daunting but here are the basics that you need to understand. The last ice age ended 11,700 years ago. Now, the ending of an ice age, does not in itself warrant much attention, in so much as the constant cooling and thawing of the planet is a fairly regular event. In fact it has been happening on and off for the past 2.5 million years. So what makes this past ice age so interesting?

From our (humanity’s) point of view two important things happened. First, the epoch known as the Holocene began which saw a general warming of the planet. This included the retreat of glaciers (which at the time covered much of the northern hemisphere), and tundra giving way to forests. In short, the planet became a more hospitable place, at least for some species. This leads us to the second important change, the emergence of agriculture.

Up until that point, if one were to look at the distribution of different species’ populations, homosapiens were fairly indistinguishable to many other species. True we did develop stone tools some 2.5 million years ago (or rather our close ancestors did) and some 300,000 years ago our ancestors started using fire on a daily basis. But in terms of population, we remained fairly unremarkable as a species, with a total global population of under 1 million.

The beginning of agriculture brought an end to that. With farming came settlement, and with settlement came the possibility of more offspring, more specialised activities, growing forms of social organisation and the rest is history. By AD 1, homosapiens had reached a population of 17 million.

In broad strokes this means one thing; that our trajectory from lowly mammal of the savannahs to the proverbial ‘King of the Jungle’, has all happened within the confines of one very particular type of climate. That means that everything that has evolved in the past 11,700 years (namely everything which we like to refer to as History) has done so in a relatively stable global climate. Sure there was a bit of a warming up during the Middle Ages, and a subsequent cooling down known as the Little Ice Age’ immediately after, but in the greater scheme of things, its been fairly steady.

Skip forward to 2000, and the prevalence of the Holocene begins to be thoroughly questioned for the first time. In that year, Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen, with Biologist Eugene F. Stoermer argued that recent human activities had pushed the world out of the Holocene and into a new epoch - the Anthropocene. Is the problem clear? If all human development has happened under a geological and climate epoch which we are now seeing the end of, surely that means we have to evolve to survive in the current geological and climate epoch.

Now, it is not entirely clear what the Anthropocene will entail, in fact much of our work in the unit will be dedicated to understanding what it will mean to live in this new global climate. One thing however is certain, that our modes of living, designing and interacting will fundamentally change. The functional city of the Holocene becomes defunct in the Anthropocene. The city becomes a project once again.

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Protagonists Our work this year is driven by an unspoken tension, that between Man and Nature. Therefore in our methodology you will find that we often shift between the two protagonists. At times we will ask you to push the boundaries on what it means to be an urban dweller, we might ask you if the 9 to 5 is a reasonable way of living, or if the Tesco model is still relevant.

At other times, we will ask you to move beyond yourself, and view the world from the point of view of a lowly weed, trying to find a place of your own in the uninviting world of man.

The development of what we call environmental empathy will we hope generate entirely new form of living and space. Here are our two protagonists: Man The unit looks at the city as a system of architectures made up of gestures, ceremonies and rituals rather than functions and programs. The urban fabric can be intended as a continuous system of interiors made by unpredictable and barely visible shifts. Small modifications happening to places on a day-to-day basis that, in a longer term, are able to radically modify uses and larger territories. The topic lies at the connection between the political, the social and the urban: the complex interrelation between these topics substantially needs an articulated disciplinary background and different methodologies of enquiry. The unit will use photography, and interviews as a survey instrument, technically able to testify and support the field research activity. Will ask to redesign plans, elevations and sections of specific sites, and to discern the various composition logics of the rituals. Space will be analysed from the point of view of the inhabitant. How does it moves, the gestures that accomplishes, to seek what might be the relationship established with the architecture, the everyday objects and the ritual.

Fausto Rossi, Battaglia controvento

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Nature Within the confines of the 150m3 which I call home, you will find the following living creatures: 1 cat, 42 varieties of plants, and on average another 67 unknown varieties of living creatures which are either too microscopic or too terrifying to pick up and study. This is not odd. On average, we cohabit with approximately 200 other living things. This phenomena in entirely understandable when one starts to consider that as humanity progresses from being just another mammal, to being THE mammal, we claim more and more planetary territory for ourselves. So much so in fact, that more often then not, rather then trying to find a place for ourselves in nature, we find nature trying to find a place within the anthropocentric landscape. Which begs the question, why does it continue to be anthropocentric?

Whether we like it or not, we are creating landscapes in which a variety of creatures have to live, they are simply unrecognized users, squatters if you like. Nowhere is this truer then in the modern city. As nature increasingly struggles to hold its own beyond us, we ask that architecture and the city begins to be seen as a place of nature, a place in which a fern forest, may be as welcome as a family of four. Space will be analysed from the point of view of the biota as well as the human. We will ask you to redesign buildings with a specified area for non-human inhabitation. We will ask you to think of the city as a shared space

Canada Water, Picture by Silvana Taher

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Tools We have a fixed set of tools, which we will work with throughout the year, to guide you through the development of your project. What you will find is that we will often ask you to move between a variety of systems of thought, so for example, in studying the site, its existing biota and human users, and current built fabric, we will ask you to be rigorous, thorough and analytical. On the other hand, when we work with collage, or model making, or film, we will encourage you to embrace whimsy and find ways of making the unexpected a reality. Our aim is to provide you with a system of design which enables you to rethink the existing, in a way that builds on, and transforms that which has come before. Here are some of our tools: Collage Throughout the year we will work with both group and individual collage. Each of these sessions will be based off of material gained during site sampling. Essentially the process is two fold, firstly everyone identifies areas of interest in the site and draws them at an agreed scale and dimension, and then these are photocopied and used to create new forms of spaces. These group collages are then further developed individually with out guidance. What the collage insures is that you work within the confines of existing architectural languages and modes of inhabitation. This is vital to the units work in that we aim to evolve of transform rather then create from scratch.

Research & Documentation One of the core principals of the unit is a thorough understanding of the existing. This means that we will encourage you to thoroughly study your site and its users, both human and biota. In terms of the human users, you will be expected to interview, film, and survey your principal. In terms of biota, you will be expected to track, collect or simply live with your principal. The aim here is to develop a body of research, which is first hand, meaning your experience, and understanding of the subject is direct and personal.

Elisa Commanay: The Forgotten Nature of Concrete

Model Making During the year, we will ask you to make a series of models. The first of these will take place in our Term 1 trip to Hooke Park and the second in our Term 2 trip. In working with models at a scale of 1:20 and 1:50, we hope to encourage you to think of the spaces, which you are creating as real buildable architectures. Resolving seemingly trivial questions such as how a given joint comes together or what materials you will use, can help progress your project in unexpected ways. We also intend that the models, which are made will contribute to the Technical Studies submission of third year students, and therefore will expect you to test, break and remake models throughout the year.

Orthographic Drawing While we always encourage a bit of hand drawings and sketching in your project development, our principal means of representation is orthographic drawings. This means that you will be expected to work back and forth between 3d drawing tools and 2D drawing tools. We will ask you to describe your project in a traditional set of drawings including plans, sections and elevations, and final representational drawings will be expected in axonometric. The tools will be used across the three terms, and we will help you work into your drawings to develop a clear and communicative portfolio.

Kelly Van Homrigh: Darwin Revisited

Film Throughout the year, we will also ask you to work with Film both to generate and to represent your project. In the production of film we will guide you with references to Surrealist and Dadaist classics, and will also run a series of workshops with Yoni Bentovim, who is a Director and Producer of both mainstream and independent films. We will encourage you to work with a variety of mediums in your films including your own footage, drawings, stop-frame and model inhabitation.

Leonardo Gatti: Maguro San, a new life for Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

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Academic Schedule 2019/20 Methodology Each term will have a clearly specified theme to which we will work. Term 1 will be dedicated to observation, term 2 to design and term 3 to inhabitation. Within these themes we will provide you with a clear brief every one or two weeks. The brief will provide you with a clear indication of what you are to produce and will suggest references and modes of operation to help you in your work. Each brief is designed to build on your previous work, and to move you towards you final project. There are certain techniques and modes of production, which you will find repeating throughout the year, these include sampling, mapping, model making, collage, film and technical drawing.

Term 1 - Observation The first term is dedicated to helping you identify the key building blocks of your proposal.

This mean that several short briefs will be dedicated to studying the site, in terms of its architecture, it’s ecosystems, it’s current users and its current modes of inhabitation. Alongside these briefs, we will also run a series of collage sessions in which the material, which you observed and gathered in the site, will be re-imagined to help you develop an architectural proposal. We will have one week long trip to Hooke Park in which you will be asked to build your first propositional studies. By the end of the first term, we would like each student to have clearly articulated his or her own project brief. This means that you will be able to identify your site of intervention, your attitude to the context of the AAP, the biota and the group, which you would like to work with, and the new rituals of everyday life which your project hopes to inspire.

Term 2 - Design The second term will be dedicated to designing your project, this means that whatever parameters you set yourself by the close of term 1, will be the parameters that you are working with in term 2. To start off, we will begin with a Rhino brief, in which you will be asked to begin modelling your site of intervention. The rest of the term will be dedicated to short exercises moving between architectural tectonics to the study of rituals of both biota and human users. We will have one trip to Hooke Park in which you will be asked to build one fragment of your proposal at 1:50. Within these short briefs, the question of how your proposed space responds to a variety of users, and time periods will be addressed. We will also be working towards the Technical Studies Submission over the term.

Term 3 - Inhabit The final term will be dedicated to the representation of your proposal, this means that we will focus on producing key final drawings such as plans and sections, as well as producing visualisations, both as images and as films. Given that the question of nature and time, occupancy and ritual are so central to the unit, a large part of the term will be dedicated in how you best show the life of your project. This might be a matter of simply creating crowded images, or you may find that you will have to focus more on film or stop frame animations. These are questions that we will guide you in making through this final term.

As a final brief, we will compile the different project, which you are created throughout the year to offer our own alternative to the Canada Water Area Action Plan, one that is fit for success in the Anthropocene.

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Workshops Plan the Planet Throughout the first term, we will be participating in the Plan the Planet series, organized by the AA Public Programme. The series will bring together experts across different disciplines to discuss the current ecological crisis and how a new declaration of peace can articulate new strategies, policies, relationships and spaces. Confirmed guests include.Rupert Read, Green Party Campaigner and Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change, environmental and political activist George Monbiot, founder of Phytology Nature Reserve, Michael Smythe and many others. The series will take place every Monday evening of Term 1, and will form an important pedagogical aspect of this years work.

Hooke Park Aside from this central trip, we will also arrange for two trips to Hooke Park to focus on model making. The first will be during Term 1, and the second will be in Term 2. Each trip will have a specific deliverable in mind, so you will be guided through the steps to ensure that Hooke is a productive time for each of you.

Who We Are Matilde Cassani moves on the border between architecture, installation and event design.

Her practice deals with the spatial implications of cultural pluralism in the contemporary Western city. Her works have been showcased in many cultural institutions, art galleries and were published in several magazines such as Architectural Review, Domus, Abitare, Flash art, Arkitecktur, Arqa. She has been a resident fellow at “Akademie Schloss Solitude” in Stuttgart and at the “Headlands Center for the Arts” in San Francisco. Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York hosted her solo exhibition “Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings” in September 2011. She designed the National Pavilion of The Kingdom of Bahrain at the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 and she was part of the XIV Venice Architecture Biennale with the piece “A celebration day”, recently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She was recently involved in the Chicago Architecture triennale, Oslo Triennale and Manifesta12. She currently teaches at Politecnico di Milano, at Domus Academy and at the Architectural Association in London working with Unit 11.

Silvana Taher is an architect and writer. She studied Economics and Politics at UCL (BA) and Development and Planning (Diploma) at the Bartlett School of Architecture. She gained her Diploma in Architecture at the AA in 2011 and has since been teaching both Architecture and History and Theory. She has been unit master in both the AA and Central Saint Martins since 2017, and is currently in the process of setting up her own practice. She was a guest speaker at AAXX100 in 2018, and her writing appears in AA Files, Blueprint, AR, and AJ. She began developing the topic of ‘Second Nature’ as a mode of architectural production while she was in her final year of Diploma at the AA, and in 2017, after numerous years of research and development, proposed it as a teaching unit. The topic stems from a desire to work with the environment while somehow retaining the creative freedom and expression with is inherent in collage and bricolage.

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Books Primary Reference Bonneuil, C. & Fressoz, J. “The Shock of the Anthropocene” Braungart, M. & McDonough, W. “Cradle to Cradle” Branzi, A., “Weak and Diffuse Modernity: The World of Projects at the Beginning of the 21st Century” Branzi, A., Hara, K., “Neo-Prehistory” Bronowski, J. “The Ascent of Man” Certeau, Michel de. “The practice of everyday life” Colomina, B & Wigley, M. “Are we human: notes on an archaeology of design” Diamond, J. “Guns, Germs and Steel” Emerson, R.W. “Nature” Fearnley-Whittingstall, J. “The Garden: An English Love Affair” Fitter, R.S.R. “London’s Natural History” Guattari, F. “The Three Ecologies” Halbwachs, M., Coser, L. “On Collective Memory” Harari, Y.N. “Sapiens” Hawken, P. “Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.”

Jakob, M., “The bench in the garden” Jellicoe, G. & Jellicoe S. “The Landscape of Man: Shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day” Rawes, P. (Ed.) “Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity” Sottsass, E., “Metaphors” Vince, G. “Adventures in the Anthropocene” Wulf, A. “The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost hero of science” Secondary Reference Alison, J. “The Surreal House: Architecture of Desire” Atelier Bow-Wow (Ed.) “Graphic Anatomy 2” Clark, E. “Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition” Egashira, S. “Before Object, After Image: Koshirakura Landscape 1996-2006” Hejduk, J. “Education of an Architect” Herzog, J. & de Meuron, P. “Natural History” inDetail “Building in Existing Fabric” Ishigami, J. “Another Nature” Ishigami, J. “How small, how vast, how Architecture Grows” Koolhaas, R. “Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan” Kuma, K. “Anti-Object”

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II Quadrat

Andrea Agostini. The Improvised Pot Naz Babaoglu. Fresh Water as a Habitat Hanna Fastrich. Botanical Colonisation Thomas Germain-Pendry. Emergence of the In-Between Seongsoo Han. Under the Man-Made Finnegan Harries. The Path to Symbiosis Laura Hepp. Overbricked Cesar Jucker. The Old Dock Sofia Krivashina. The Staircase Raluca Scheusan. Litter. Decomposing Leaves and Discarded Items Jiaqi Sun. Chicken Fridge Le Qian Toby Tang. Windmill in an Ecological Park

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The Improvised Pot

Going back to the beginning of the year, when we started looking at men’s relationship with nature. I chose to analyse this quadrant which is an improvised pot in a park made out of recycled bricks where someone planted a plant but the roots of the plant started to grow out of the pot and into the ground. What interested me about this scene was the fact there was no tension between man and nature and how you could see that they tried to work together but it ultimately didn’t work. And looking a bit more

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closely, I started to look at the contrast with the moss, who felt very content and comforted with the space in between the bricks.

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Fresh Water As a Habitat

Looking at the ecology of fresh water in Canada Water, I was aiming to examine the nature of living creatures in the area. I identified a series of speicies. The house sparrow Study Passeridae. is a bird of the Quadrat sparrow family The sticklebacks are small elongated fish that reach a maximum length of about 18 cm (7inches). The Coontail is a submerged free-floating aquatic plant, with a cosmopolitan distribution, native to all continents, except Antarctica. The velvet scoter is a black seaduck. Sedge is a grasslike plant with a

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triangular stem and inconspicuous flowers.

The spiked water milfoil is an aquatic plant.

The Sago Pondweed is a cosmospolitan water plant species that grows in fresh and brackish water on all continents except Antarctica.

Fontinalis is a genus of submerged aquatic mosses belonging to the subclass Bryidae.

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Botanical Colonisation

Through a quadrat study, I investigated the theme of native plants vs cultivated plants.

This lead me to creating a monetary value system of these plants, exposing the native plants as being valued much inferior. We still live in an anthropogenic environment within the legacy of botanical colonisation.

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Emergence of the In-Between

Our definition of Nature separates the physical world to what is of human creation. Most plant species have been genetically modified meaning they lie outside our definition of nature but are perceived to be a part of it. Grass species are the plant species that inhabits most of our cities. They sit in between our definition of the natural, unnatural and the organic and the inorganic. They also lie outside our norms of reproduction. Most grass species reproduce asexually through vegetative propagation. This quadrat is a good ex-

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ample of the emergence of novel ecosystems.

These spaces are found within the interstices of our urban landscape and house species that have adapted to live within our cities.

They are both organic and inorganic. Our cities have never been in opposition with nature. Our cities house, inhabit and are a part of Nature.

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Under the Man-Made

I observed a street tree and a scene under the pavement in city. We don’t give enough space for street trees and suffer for a variety of reasons however, they create new habitats for micro organisms while they are adapting.

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The Path to Symbiosis

This quadrat study was drawn from a section of boardwalk within the Lavender Pond Nature Reserve. Uneven gaps between the timber boards allows for grasses, reeds and segdes to push through in search of sunlight. This is both a moment of tension and an example of symbiosis. Anthropogenic infrastructure and natural systems thrive side by side, allowing life to unfold with minimal restriction.

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Overbricked

wormseed wallflower Erysimum cheiranthoides

broadleaf plantain Plantago major

spider web

lichen

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This building as a resistant ageing 110 years, from the 1900 until today, remaining wearing the traces of history within its skin, in the form of wounds and wrinkles. Observing it closely, having in mind what its actual background was, its face, its spirit had changed indeed throughout the years. If looking at it as a person, through blocking its windows and its door, it is blind/ it can’t walk anymore. If it is a building that’s purpose is to shelter a certain function, then indeed all the characteristics had been taken away fro it.

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The life danger signs are leaving the building unapproachable, like a person in quarantine. Several times, its surrounding had been completely rebuilt and changed in its purpose. Especially its direct neighbouring building, located 80 centimetres away from the brick structure, had been changed two times.

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Canada Water used to be a global center of distribution. The docks that filled the site transported goods across the world.But with the bombing of the area during the Second World War, came the end of this productive history. The docks fell into diservice, and were eventually filled, and built on. Today the only thing that remains are these forgotten remnants. Urban moments that speak of a very different past.

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Cesar Jucker

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The Staircase

One place can change without any meachanical intervantion, but only with influence of nature. Appearence of the staircase is dependant on its realtionships with water, weather its complitelly revield and it is possible to see consequences of its ‘‘relationships’’ with water, or condition when tide covers major part of the structure and hides it. Staircase changes its appearence in two different vectors: daily and yearly as it faces corrosion.

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Litter: Decomposing Leaves and Discarded Items

My non-human clients are woodland plants and trees found in a park juxtaposed to my site. A few of them are invasive and grow by attaching themselves to surfaces. They prefer shade and humidity. I chose local flora as my client to support the initiative of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) in Canada Water, that tries to familiarize the community with local species and so build respect for them. Of course, the term local is just a way of phrasing it.

Raluca Scheusan

In truth Man has been modifying ecosystems for so long that words like “natural” or “local” have lost their meaning.

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Chicken Fridge

1m*1m QAUDRAT Chicken in Fridge 1:2

The project started from an observation of a chicken fridge in a butcher’s house in Canada Water. The chicken are from three places, city farm, slaughterhouse, meat factory.

The map below shows the allocation of these three. Slaughterhouse and meat factory are romote from city centre and the city farms are in city centre. while most of the meat supply for city is from meat factory, so what is the role of city farm in city?

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Jiaqi Sun

Creating a beautiful image of human and nature? or selling happy moments of food animals for city dwellers

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Windmill in an Ecological Park

To study the area,which is very broad, a scientific method called quadrat is used to zoom into a 1m x 1m square. Here is a windmill in the ecological park. I am not only looking at the ground condition, but also the mechanism of it. It does not only generate electricity but also suck water up from the aquifer to feed the whole ecological park.

Le Qian Toby Tang

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Naz Babaoglu. Nature within a Man-Made Environment Finnegan Harries. A Totem of Indusrtial History Laura Hepp. Ambivalence in the Anthropocene Cesar Jucker. Abandoned Swing Bridge Sari King. Surrey Quays Shopping Center Sofia Krivashina. The Staircase Raluca Scheusan. Old Swing Bridge Le Qian Toby Tang. Tidal Gauge House

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Nature within a Man-Made Environment

I chose a larger area 10 meters by 10 meters and searched for nature within a man made environment. There was a huge folding bridge that was no longer used because the entrance to the dock was closed.

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A Totem of Industrial History

The Lavender Dock Pumphouse was built in 1928 to control waterlevels coming into the Lavender Pond Dock from the River Thames. Built largely from ‘London Stock’ yellow brick, it features a decrotative oculus framed by a tympanum. It remains today as a totum to this industrial past. It now marks the entrance to the Lavender Pond Nature

Reserve. Between the paving stones and the brick, plant life has taken root, springing out of small crevices. Below the paved stones and black brick sits a layer of sediment used to fill in the docks in 1970’s when they were closed.

Finnegan Harries

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Ambivalence in the Anthropocene

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The object is studied in its borader context of 10x10x10 metres. The neighboured building is an apartment building, entitled ‘Ensign House’, deriving from a residential development providing apartments 1o levels upwards equipped with office spaces on the ground level. Surprisingly, there seemed to be interest of incorporating the brick struc-

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ture from 1900 into the design of the ‘Ensign House’. In contrary, the apartment block is orientated in such non beneficial way, that the brick structure is blocking the windows of the first two levels on the left corner.

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Abandoned Swing Bridge

Moving beyong the area identified in the quadrat, the relics of Canada Water’s industrial past are in fact more ubiquitous then one would image. Hidden behind the trees and pushed, the turning mill remains, a memory of when ships used to pass the same areas which are now walked by men.

Cesar Jucker

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Surrey Quays Shopping Centre

Analyzing the typology of shopping malls trough the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, a microcosmos is being revealed. A “main street”, “plants”, “natural light” mimicking the outside, yet strongly diconnected to dissociate the consumer from time and space, in order to freeze the consumer in the act of consumption.

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The Staircase

10_10_10 axo shows part of Canda Water that influenced the project the most. Staircase that changes its appearence every minute of the day, as tide changes its level.

Sofia Krivashina Quadrat 10 x 10 m Drawing 1: 50

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Old Swing Bridge

This old swing bridge-turned -passageway seemed to be completely hidden by the vegetation growing around it so I set out to reveal it. Upon closer inspection nature had taken hold over every crack in the wall to grow.

I discovered a curious creeping plant - the climbing sailor- that is phototropic before fertilisation and negatively phototropic af-

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terwards. Its relationship to the supporting wall - made of brick- was then important for its development. Another thing that attracted me was the graffiti. Its polysemantic tag and the controversial image fitted in with the architecture of the place. These sort of urban manifestations are also the marker of a community.

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Tidal Gauge House

As Canada Water has a rich dock history, this tide gauge house, located close to the Thames was built as part of a dock gate mechanism to keep track of the sea level. Around the gauge house we can see a series other devices.

What I found here useful to understand the area is the equal importance of above ground and underground devices that form the cluster to operate the dock.

Le Qian Toby Tang

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Andrea Agostini. Bathroom = Pot Naz Babaoglu. Changing Spaces Hanna Fastrich. The Middle Spectrum Thomas Germain-Pendry. Intimacy of the In-Between Finnegan Harries. Elevated Vernacular Laura Hepp. Interrelate Sari King. Mindless Circulation & Changing Positions Sofia Krivashina. Inhabited Tidal Concept Model Jiaqi Sun. Sharp, Solid & Soft Le Qian Toby Tang. Excavated Promenade

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Bathroom = Pot

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Tuesday morning from 8 am to 8:34

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Today we fetishize indoor plants, they become more of a decoration for our homes, taking away their function and essence. I asked myself if there was a different way we could live with plants that is not constraining them in a pot as a decoration item. The questions that came along were: can the house be a pot and can a pot be a house?

Domesticity in the Anthropocene

Looking at the domestic space, I started working with the bathroom because it has a very specific environment. And going to hook park I started to figure out two different languages through the model: topography and pipes.

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Changing Spaces

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With a model, which started with this collage, I started exploring the movement of structures. I was looking into ways to show time passing in a more visual way. My aim was to create a changing mobile space with several elements. I decided to create a space with facades, walls and floors that would move in a constant cycle, making the space bigger and smaller as time passes. The visitors would be finding themselves in a cycle of change. The direction of this cyclical movement would be pre programmed and all the elements would

Tidal Clock

be moving on a designated rail system. The space would be expanding and contracting just like the volume of water in the case of tides. And this is how I imagined the public space to be in the beginning

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The Middle Spectrum

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As I was developing and articulating the extent of separation of humans and non-humans, I began to think of how to blur the boundaries; what is in the middle of the spectrum from the human to the natural? I also explored this through a model, where the net walls are not a division but more of a “union� of different ways of living for human and non human inhabitants. So even though there is a spatial division there is no sensory division.

Network of Contemporary Health

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Intimacy of the In-Between

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The Hook Park models aim to bridge the spacial gap we have created between our bodies and nature. The models were inspired by queer art and BDSM. They are a collection of three models that can be combined into one wearable model. Each piece explores one human sensation. The shoes explore touch through moss, the muzzle explore smell and taste through soil, the shoulder harness explores sight and spatial awareness through bark. To be able to wear the models the users needs to undress themselves so that

Meanwhile in the In-Between

the models can be skin tight. These models became the main design instrument for the project Meanwhile In The In-Between. They were used to inspire the undressing of the Print hall, the three shelters, and the three rituals of access.

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Elevated Vernacular

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During my research at the Lavender Pond Nature Reserve, I became interested in the vernacular of elevated architecture. I was inspired by the timber boardwalk, which curved its way through the wetland habitat, ferrying visitors safely through, while allowing reeds and grasses to grow through the gaps in the floor. This visualisation and model explores the capacity for an expanded series of spaces, elevated above a wetland ecosystem.

Hylomorphic Symbiosis

Each level lends itself to a different programme. The strucutre is grounded by a core pilon with interlocking beams creating a flexible framework for cantilvered space.

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Interrelate

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The model describes a floating railway structure which enables platforms and pavillions to slide in and out flexibly. Proposing the inhabitiation of water surfaces- the structure consists of one permanent installed steel structure being flexible in it use by enabling any kind of space to be activated within it.

Floating Forests

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Mindless Circulation & Changing Positions

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The Intervention, located at the heart of the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre, the plaza, consists out of three base components. The first component, in the center, is static leading to two rotating elements moving in opposite directions. The facade sits on the first and the shops on the second rotating base.

During the day, the shops change their position, challenging the awareness of the visitor opposed to a mindless circulation and through the facade rotating in the opposite direction unexpted, irrgeular moments ap-

pear . As the front wall, in certain times, does not allign with the corridor, leading from the plaza to the shops, the consumer would be exposed to the outside , in which short timeframe one would reclaim the connection to time and space.

Deconstructing the Rituals of Consumer Culture

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Inhabited Tidal Concept Model

Ballet school. Built in 2022

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Theatrical dance academy. Built 2025

Sofia Krivashina

Ice rink. Built 2030

Night-club. 2034

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Concept model representing piers that seat in the riverbed. Changes and works differently as the position of tide changes, places in the river environment. Form is mainly constructed out of bold parts that can be seen as separate elements, however forming one solid pier structure, that can potentially be explored as a public space for locals.

The Tidal Promenade

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Sharp, Solid or Soft

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In terms of materialality and space languages, I looked back to an early model for inspiration, the model idea started from a group collage and I was trying to play around different materials and to see how they go together. There are moments of different feelings, some are monumental, some are controlled, some are sharp ,and some are solid or soft. I had a feeling that some of these feelings can be matched to the happenings in the proposal. And these are how I made the connection and developed them into spaces.

New Farm in the Anthropocene

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Excavated Promenade

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Based on the study I did on the tide gauge house at the Greenland Dock lock gate, I learnt that inaccessible equipments hidden underground are of equal importance to those above ground. Thus, I designed several components, such as a landing, a portal, and a staircase to bring people down to the excavation and let them explore the history in the same way they appreciate exhibits in museums.

Uncovering Water and History

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Andrea Agostini. The Pot Recipe Naz Babaoglu. Cycles Hanna Fastrich. A New Verticality of Nature Thomas Germain-Pendry. Marginalisation of the In-Between Seongsoo Han. Circulation of the Underground Finnegan Harries. If Wetlands Could Talk Laura Hepp. Interrelate Sari King. Again Jiaqi Sun. New Farm in the Anthropocene Le Qian Toby Tang. Tanquility

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The Pot Recipe How to create a pot: 9 simple steps: water, steam, drops, limescale, black mold, white mold, brown mold, algae and moss are some of the elements necessary to make your house feel like a pot.

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Domesticity in the Anthropocene

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Cycles For something that doesn’t really exist, time is now running out Time demonstrates itself in events. We understand time passing by seeing the movement of things. Change is the natural condition of all things. We perceive time by the changing of things. Changeability is an immanent part of human existence and of nature too; high and low tide, full and new moon.

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Tidal Clock

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A New Verticality of Nature Adjusting to Urban Density The film explores the 3 levels of spaces, leaning on very typical housing typology, the space inhabited by humans closer to the nature space, but enclosed by non permeable walls as well as the space inhabited by nature, enclosed by a permeable wall, letting water and light in. Another important aspect is the scale of the structure, the large scale creates a new typology of natural spaces, such as woodlands, not on ground level as we know it, but 50 or even 100 metres high. This raises the question of how this is going to implicate the non human inhabitants of the building. How will plants and animals behave in this context? I tried to show this verticality in my film.

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Hanna Fastrich

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Network of Contemporary Health

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Marginalisation of the In-Between “Is the Brunel the only place in Canada Water that has LGBT nights?” “Yeah...”

Social norms are the unwritten rules of behaviour that are considered acceptable in a group or society. Our society has always functioned on the norms that divided us. We have classified ourselves in terms of identity, gender, class and other factors. We have prosecuted anything that did not fall within our norms. This form of classification under-pines every aspect of our society, even through to our terminology of seemingly benign notions. Natural & Unnatural, for example are often used as divisive social terms.

This binary view of natural and unnatural has been wholly defined by humans. We defined Nature as being outdoorsy, extroverted, heterosexual, Christian and aggressively healthy. This was the “natural” and anything that did not fit within those terms became unnatural. We forced Nature to fit within those definitions where we controlled it, gave it an order, made it predictable. We forced nature to fit within our “ideal” of ourselves and then used that Nature as a way to force, promote and prove that “ideal”.

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Meanwhile in the In-Between

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Circulation of the Underground The Micro-Creatures under the Man-Made AAP: Overcrowded underground system, less improvement of pedestrian and cycle network.

Site: There is isolated area from the public transports and disconnected path way and pedestrian.

Two clients: People who want to use public transports in Canada Water. A ground what can be lived micro creatures under the man-made.

This is a space where people in the city feel and cohabit another concept of nature while visually experiencing the ground

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Excavated Landscapes

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If Wetlands Could Talk Exploring notions of symbiosis As humans we have removed ourself from the natural ecological cycles in which we used to participate in a dangeours ignorance that assumes we are somehow seperate from nature, when of course we are not. In our rush to our build our great concrete jungles, we have forgotten the intrinsic benefits that come when we work with natural systems and design for biodiversity. This film asks the question: ‘What happens when we design not just for a human client but for multiple clients including the plants and animals on which we rely?’

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Hylomorphic Symbiosis

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Interrelate Flooded Cities Worldwide, we have now destroyed over half of the forests that once flourished on our planet. One in six homes are at risk of flooding. But trees and woodlands can help the devastating effects of flooding.We need reverse the decrease of forests and once more, we need to create a world of expanding forests. Now is the time to change the way we cohabit with nature in the city. In the event of rising sea levels, which are expected to affect 90% of the worlds coastal cities by 2050, this project proposes a local, native forest that floats!

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Floating Forests

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Again Confronting Sterile Repetition Again’ explores the idea of a redefined shopping experience breaking the norm of a confined space that never changes in character through time. A place that will feel and appear the same every day. Confronting the sterile repetion, movement is being integrated enabling glimpses or openings to the outside reflecting time and the dynamic, irregular quality of nature.

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Deconstructing the Rituals of Consumer Culture

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New Farm in the Anthropocene Can the City Farm be more then a City Farm City farm has become an important way to know about animals and nature in city. Current city farms are more like places for leisure or commercial use(farm shop). Although Visitors are close to animals, the fences and animal-playground-centred spaces are making it more like a zoo. City farms focus much on visiting but the link between human and nature are still weak. On the other hand, current city farms are creating a beautiful image of human-nature for their visitors while some parts are missing on purpose. Visitors can play with animals as food source on city farms, and buy their products in farm shop, the other parts of food production are hidden from these happy moments.

Human, as the top of food chain, have skills and tools to make other animals as food. Jumping out of food chain is, in a way, arrogant. In terms of costs and efficiency, happy farms are not able to replace current food systems. The socalled happy farms are more like an idealised image and comforting for city dwellers. As city dwellers, is it possible to step forward? Can city farm not be limited as a instagram photos factory and destination for family trip? City farm as a home processing animals, can it also be a place habitable and participatory for human? Can it contains good moments also bad moments?

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New Farm in the Anthropocene

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Tranquility Remnants of a Forgotten Dock History This short clip documented the presence of various types of water and remnants of the forgotten dock history in Canada Water. A series of close up shots immerse the audience in the nature, allowing people to take a break from their hectic lives and enjoy the tranquility of nature. In the background, historical sounds of people in the dock are played as a means to remind ourselves of the unique local history, which has been forgotten by us.

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Andrea Agostini. A New Home Typology Naz Babaoglu. Public Spaces and Green Areas Hanna Fastrich. Re-Addressing Contemporary Health Thomas Germain-Pendry. Implementing the In-Between Seongsoo Han. Improvements to the Pedestrian and Cycle Network Finnegan Harries. Open Spaces and Biodiversity Laura Hepp. Policy 18: Open Spaces and Biodiversity Cesar Jucker. Another Road Sari King. Changing Habits Sofia Krivashina. Canada Water Thames Path Raluca Scheusan. Policy: Shared Homes Jiaqi Sun. The Happy Farm Le Qian Toby Tang. New Community Facilities

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A New Home Typology What if change family homes for symbiotic homes?

Building houses is the easiest and cheapest way to rethink domestic space. What I would critique about the AAP in terms of their housing vision, is the fact that they seem to be planning thinking of the immediate needs of the next 50 years but don’t have a longer perspective. Another observation is the fact that they are not trying to innovate and create new home typologies.

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We are building most of the new housing in the core area where there is good accessibility to improve the town centre and public transport facilities. By maximising the number of homes which are provided in the core area, we can continue to protect our open spaces and the suburban character of the wider AAP area, while providing a continuous supply of housing.

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We will use design standards, including minimum dwelling sizes, set out in policy 23 of the AAP, in our updated Residential Design Standards supplementary planning document (2011) and the in the core strategy and forthcoming borough-wide New Southwark Plan to ensure that new homes are of high quality.

4.6.11 Many of the homes on the peninsula are relatively new having been built in the last 20 years. We know however that some of the homes in the area are in a poorer condition. This includes some of the blocks on the Hawkstone Estate which do not meet decent homes standards. We have considered the feasibility of redeveloping John Kennedy House and the low-rise blocks on the Hawkstone Estate. At the point we carried out the study, refurbishment of these blocks was a more financially viable option. The Council’s Cabinet made a decision in May 2011 to refurbish John Kennedy House. The Cabinet subsequently agreed in December 2011 to undertake a programme of enhanced refurbishment of the low rise blocks. Works at John Kennedy House started on site in January 2013 and it is projected that works to the low rise blocks will commence in summer 2013.

Policy 22: Affordable homes

Fact box: Affordable and private housing

Development in the AAP area will provide a minimum of 1,000 new affordable homes between 2011-2026. Most of these new homes will be on the proposal sites.

There are two types of housing: Private (or market) housing is available to either buy or rent privately on the open market

In schemes of 10 or more homes, at least 35% of homes must be affordable.

Affordable housing, as defined in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF March 2012) is provided to eligible households whose needs are not met by the market. Eligibility is determined with regard to local incomes and local house prices.

Affordable housing should include provisions to remain at an affordable price for future eligible households or for the subsidy to be recycled for alternative affordable housing provision.

Our preferred approach for the Hawkstone Estate is to refurbish homes in John Kennedy House and the low rise blocks to bring them up to the Government’s decent homes standards.

We are doing this because 4.6.7

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There are different types of affordable housing, as defined in the glossary of the NPPF:

Our Strategic Housing Market Assessment and Housing Requirements Study indicate that we should provide as much affordable housing as is viable to meet the needs of local people and those wanting to live in Southwark. The studies also suggest that we can not meet all of the need for social rented or intermediate housing, because this would exceed our total supply of housing of all types.

Social Rented Housing is owned by local authorities and private register providers (as defined in section 80 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008), for which guideline target rents are determined through the national rent regime.

Intermediate housing is homes for sale or rent provided at a cost above social rent, but below market levels subject to the criteria in the Affordable Housing definition above. These can include shared equity (shared ownership and equity loans), other low cost homes for sale and intermediate rent, but not affordable rented housing.

The AAP vision states that at least 1,000 new affordable homes should be provided in the AAP area over the plan period. This assumes that developments with planning permission will be built in accordance with their planning consent and 35% of housing in schemes which do not yet have planning permission will be provided as affordable housing. Of the target, 672 affordable homes are on sites with planning permission, or which are completed or are under construction.

Affordable rented housing is let by local authorities or private registered providers of social housing to households who are eligible for social rented housing. Affordable rent is subject to rent controls that require a rent of no more than 80% of the local market rent (including service charges, where applicable).

Requiring 35% of new homes to be affordable will contribute towards our objective of creating more mixed and balance community at Canada Water.

There is a high proportion of existing homes in the area which are social rented, particularly in Rotherhithe ward. The target will provide increased housing choice, a wide range of housing types and will help unlock the development of sites which would not otherwise be viable.

The NPPF replaced the updated Planning Policy Statement 3 which introduced affordable rent as a new type of affordable housing. In accordance with our Core Strategy and the saved Southwark Plan polices this AAP sets out policies for social rent and intermediate homes only. We are reviewing our approach to the affordable rent tenure through the preparation of our New Southwark Plan.

4.6.10 Our affordable housing viability study suggests that requiring 35% of new homes to be affordable is deliverable and should not make development unviable. We have also tested this proportion in financial appraisals we have undertaken on other sites, including the shopping centre and overflow car park, and the findings reinforced the conclusions of the viability study.

Policy 23: Family homes Developments must provide the following in schemes of 10 or more homes: 

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accessibility to improve the town centre and public transport facilities. By maximising the number of homes which are provided in the core area, we can continue to protect our open spaces and the suburban character of the wider AAP area, while providing a continuous supply of housing.

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We will use design standards, including minimum dwelling sizes, set out in policy 23 of the AAP, in our updated Residential Design Standards supplementary planning document (2011) and the in the core strategy and forthcoming borough-wide New Southwark Plan to ensure that new homes are of high quality.

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In schemes of 10 or more homes, at least 35% of homes must be affordable.

Our preferred approach for the Hawkstone Estate is to refurbish homes in John Kennedy House and the low rise blocks to bring them up to the Government’s decent homes standards.

We are doing this because 4.6.7

Our Strategic Housing Market Assessment and Housing Requirements Study indicate that we should provide as much affordable symbiotic housing homes as is viable to meet the needs of local people and those wanting to live in Southwark. The studies also suggest that we can not meet all of the need for social rented or intermediate housing, because this would exceed our total supply of housing of all types.

4.6.8

The AAP vision states that at least 1,000 new affordable homes should be provided in the AAP area over the plan period. This assumes that developments with planning permission will be built in accordance with their planning consent and 35% of housing in schemes which do not yet have symbiotic housing. homes Of the target, planning permission will be provided as affordable 672 affordable homes are on sites with planning permission, or which are completed or are under construction.

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Requiring 35% of new homes to be affordable will contribute towards our objective of creating more symbiotic mixed and balance community at Canada Water.

There is a high proportion of existing homes in the area which are social rented, particularly in Rotherhithe ward. The target will provide increased housing choice, a wide range of housing types and will help unlock the development of sites which would not otherwise be viable.

symbiotic housing viability study suggests that requiring 35% of new 4.6.10 Our affordable symbiotic is deliverable and should not make development homes to be affordable unviable. We have also tested this proportion in financial appraisals we have undertaken on other sites, including the shopping centre and overflow car park, and the findings reinforced the conclusions of the viability study.

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Public Spaces and Green Areas Contributing Kinetic Green Space Policy 14 of the AAP called for the incorporation of carefully designed public spaces which provide comfortable environments for pedestrians. But what qualifies a comfortable space in the Anthropocene? The AAP also identifies that Canada Water contains a variety of open and green spaces, but again what exactly is meant by variety. The critique I provide within this section, is that we must fundamentally reconsider what comfort and public space means today, and proposes to consider the possibility of a space which responds to the tides as a possible alternative. In short, the AAP is aiming for more public spaces and green areas. Therefore, I will be contributing with a kinetic green public space.

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Readdressing Contemporary Health Aiming for Healthier Forms of Social and Biogeographic Interactions Investigating the available healthcare facilities in Canada Water, I found out there are only two GP practices and some alternative medical practices, indicated in blue. The appropriate expansion of healthcare facilities is being almost completely dismissed.

POLICY 29 of the AAP is a dangerously general outline on the possible expansion of healthcare services with the growing population. After my research into pandemics and other health problems in relation to density and the current dire situation in Canada Water: My proposal aims to create a policy for a network of health corridors, consisting of a network of biodiverse hedgerows as well as deployable medical facilities; providing space and shelter for humans and non-humans. The health corridors aim to address the health of humans and non-humans.

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Implementing the In-Between The Urban Greening Factor is a form of Green-Washing development

The Urban Greening Policy of the Darft London Plan of 2017 is a policy that is aimed at developers. The aim of the policy is to force developers to implement green spaces within their master plans. It does this by setting out target scores for them to follow. But these target scores are extremely low as to allow for future development by taking away the possibility of protecting those green spaces. Furthermore the scores create a separation between the non-human spaces and the urban spaces and follows the norms that we have created through our definition of nature. The policy should be made more complete and complex, while bringing up the targeted score to a minimum of 0.7 which would allow for more green spaces within the urban environment. Within the policy there is no category for spaces that were already existing pushing the notion of constant development and man made ecosystems. By adding the score for already existing ecosystems as the highest score this allows for more flexibility within the policy.

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“Greened� Policy G5 A. Major development proposals should contribute to the greening of London by including urban greening as a fundamental element of site and building design, and by incorporating measures sur as high-quality landscape (including trees), green roofs, green walls and nature-based sustainable drainage B. Boroughs should develop Urban Greening Factors (UGF) to identitify the appropriate amout of urban greening required in new developments. The UGF should be based on the factors set out in Table 8.2, but tailored to local circumstances. In the interim, the Mayor reccomends a target score of

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minimum 0.7 for all forms

The Urban Greening factor for a proposed development is calculated in the following way:

(Factor A x Area) + (Factor B x Area) + (Factor C x Area) + etc. /total site area= UGF

Urban Greening Factor Surface Cover type

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Semi-natural vegetation (eg. woodland, flower-rich grassland) created on site with strong diversity of species

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Novel ecosystem created on site

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Existing empty premises opened to the environment

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Parks or outdoor spaces of a minimum of 2ha per 1000 inhabitants

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Parks or outdoor spaces of a minimum of 1.5ha per 1000 inhabitants

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Parks or outdoor spaces of a minimum of 1.2 ha per 1000 inhabitants

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Intensive green indoor space opened to the environment. Subsrated minimum settled depth of 200mm.

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Improvements to the Pedestrian and Cycle Network Connectivity of the Network System Existing AAP, they have planed to improve pedestrian and cycle networks. In real world, a few road has been updated at the moment. My plan is to develop a new plan that they did not apply.

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Open Spaces & Biodiversity Protect important open spaces.

The Canada Water Area Action Plan contains an entire policy (Policy 18) dedicated to provision and protection of open spaces and biodiversity. It evens goes as far as to acknowledge their necessity in ‘mitigating the impacts of climate change’.

However the resulting masterplan falls woefully short of truly establishing new greenspaces, habitat for wildlife or the infrastrucutre required to mitigate climatic changes. This critique serves as a reminder of the promises made by redacting the unecessary copy and emphasising the key language while proposing a design solution; A new green heart at the center of Canada Water.

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Policy 18: Open Spaces and Biodiversity Converting ‘Green Spaces’ into Native Forests In the Anthropocene, we find cohabitation within native, local, floating, forests. These areas provide valuable habitat and opportunities for experiencing nature. These are most important in helping local plant and animal species to survive. The action area requires allotments and in general new developments to provide food growing opportunities. Planting to create wildlife habitats. Improve nature conservation through implying nature wherever possible e.g. living roofs and walls, tree planting and landscaping. Improvements to the biodiversity. Greening the urban environment is also important in terms of mitigating climate change, improving air quality, providing shade and reducing the ‘urban heat island’ effect.

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This is Not an Island Reconnecting the peninsula Despite the intentions of the AAP to regenerate Canada Water as a valuable new area within London, it is entirely possible that rather then creating greater connectivity, the AAP simply enchances the already existing island-like isolation of the area.

At the moment there are only a few roads that connect the area to the rest of London, these roads are already congested and area likely to become much more so when the area gentrifies.

With more congested entry roads Canada Water will become more of an island, and more isolated from London at large.

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The Canada Water AAP is one of several planning documents which make up our local plan documents which we use to make decisions on planning applications. The most important document is the core strategy. The core strategy is a document that sets out how Southwark will change up to 2026 to reflect the principles set out in the Council Plan 2011-2014 and the Fairer

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Lower Road currently provides day-to-day convenience facilities for local people and passing trade. The pedestrian environment is very poor. It is often difficult to cross Lower Road and links to the shopping centre are not very direct. It is a protected shopping frontage in the Southwark Plan, although a high proportion of the units are takeaways, including 5 units in the first part of the frontage between nos. 226 and 290 Lower Road. Cumulatively, hot food takeaways can create amenity problems for neighbouring occupiers and also reduce the vitality of the frontage.

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The Canada Water AAP is one of several planning documents which make up our local plan documents which we use to make decisions on planning applications. The most important document is the core strategy. The core strategy is a document that sets out how Southwark will change up to 2026 to reflect the principles set out in the Council Plan 2011-2014 and the Fairer.

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Changing Habits The Disguise of the New Focusing on the Area Action Plan for Canada Water and its relation to the Surrey Quays Shopping Center a common paradigm is being applied. Demolition of the aged, old-fashioned, out-of-date and constructing the new in order to enable local economic growth. However, what is disguised as being new, follows the same construct of shopping presented different in appearance, only leading to gentrification. The aim of the proposal as a critique to the development plan is to redefine the systematic pattern regarding the aim of shopping aligned to economic growth, but aligning it to the needs and well-being of the local community.

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Canada Water Thames Path Why not to consider the riverfront?

Canada Water is facing major redevelopment - AREA ACTION PLAN. AAP is focusing on providing wider range of leasure spaces in the area, however, council is only concidering CW city centre. Although, riverfront has major possibility of becoming a great landscape for locals to enjoy. 1/3 of CW Thames Path goes off the root and can not be considered as developed area on the scale of London and will not face any improvements in the close future.

Policy 10: Parking for residentia l developm ent in the core area Policy 11: Leisure and entertain ment

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residential development, local planning authorities should take into account: accessibility, type, mix and use of development, availability of and opportunities for public transport, car ownership levels and the need to reduce the use of high emission vehicles Paragraphs 23 and 70 Local authorities should promote competitive town centres and allocate suitable sites to meet the scale and type of leisure, tourism, cultural and community development.

To deliver the social, recreational and cultural facilities and services the community needs, planning authorities should plan positively for the provision and use of shared space, community facilities (such as local shops, meeting places, sports venues, cultural buildings, public houses, places of worship) and other local services.

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disabled people and the mobility impaired Policy 5.8 Other parking Policy 5.6 Car parking Policy 5.7 Parking standards for disabled people and the mobility impaired Policy 5.8 Other parking Policy 2.1 Enhancement of community facilities Policy 2.2 Provision of new community facilities

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residential development, local planning authorities should take into account: accessibility, type, mix and use of development, availability of and opportunities for public transport, car ownership levels and the need to reduce the use of high emission vehicles Paragraphs 23 and 70 Local authorities should promote competitive town centres and allocate and riverfront suitable sites to meet the scale and type of leisure, tourism, cultural and community development.

To deliver the social, recreational and cultural facilities and services the community needs, planning authorities should plan positively for the provision and use of shared space, community facilities (such as local shops, meeting places, sports venues, cultural buildings, public houses, places of worship) and other local services.

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Policy: Shared homes All development must meet and embrace the exterior.

There is a need for more integrated shared amenities within housing. Our approach in the AAP, and particularly in the designated “suburban areas� is focused on shared amenities which blur the line in between interior and exterior spaces. All development must meet and embrace the exterior. Space that is more open is a priority. Apart from access to gardens, homes should have access to cultivation space and common open space for resting, socialising and playing. To ensure we get a mix between human and non-human we have set out a particular materiality for the project which encourages the growth and development of our non-human neighbors. Across the scheme, the type of activities provided by the new amenity spaces should be diverse.

Guidance on the types of amenity spaces to be provided is put forward by residents. Through a change in ownership patterns, which gives up the shared space to a community fund, the inserted shared amenities also allow homes to remain affordable and thus counter the gentrification of Canada Water which is driving the poorer population out. One of the objectives of the policy is then to ensure that housing remains affordable and to provide support to the families now living in Canada Water.

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The Happy Farm Jumping out of the food chain is, in a way, arrogant.

Current city farms are creating a beautiful image of human-nature for their visitors while some parts are missing on purpose.

Visitors can play with animals as food source on city farms, and buy their projects in farm shop, the other parts of food production are hidden from these happy moments. Human, as the top of food chain, have skills and tools to make other animals as food. Jumping out of food chain is in a way, arrogant. In terms of costs and efficiency, happy farms are not able to replace current food systems. The so-called happy farms are moe like an idealised image and comforting for city dwellers. The drawing is trying to provoke the current situation. Overground thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a happy farm where people playing happily with animals, undergorund thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an intense farm but no one knows whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on there.

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New Community Facilities Defined but Flexible It should be a defined area but the boundary of the structure can be flexible and the scale of the facility can vary, from as big as a building complex, to as tiny as a shopping cart. Furthermore, new community facililties should fit in well into the atmosphere and character of the neighbourhood, and in a welcoming gesture. Consider making use of some special features within your sites, e.g. relics which represent the local dock history or plants as a kind of local natural resources.

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VII Projects

Andrea Agostini. Domesticity in the Anthropocene Naz Babaoglu. Tidal Clock Hanna Fastrich. Network of Contemporary Health Thomas Germain-Pendry. Meanwhile in the In-Between Seongsoo Han. Escavated Landscapes Finnegan Harries. Hylomorphic Symbiosis Laura Hepp. Interrelate, the Floating Forest Cesar Jucker. Forgotten Landscapes Sari King. Deconstructing the Rituals of Consumer Culture Sofia Krivashina. Tidal Promenade Raluca Scheusan. Communal Living in the Anthropocene Jiaqi Sun. New City Farm in the Anthropocene Le Qian Toby Tang. Uncovering Water and History

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Domesticity in the Anthropocene From Primitive hut and over-protective house, to an in-between Andrea Agostini Third Year

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The earth is home to all living entity that is known. A house, built on earth, is only home for humans and yet, it claims the totality of the space it occupies. Sharing our home with domestic animals and houseplants is the extent to which we are willing to commit but always under our constrains and privations. The primitive hut, the first typology of house, is a response to the natural environment and where architecture acts as a mediator between man and nature. It came from manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s need to shelter himself from nature. However, since humans began to domesticate land and became sedentary, we create our dwellings in order to meet some of our needs beyond the basic one of protection. Today, our home is no longer a primitive hut but an hyper-protective habitat that answers to all our comfort requests. Buildings shape human behavior, and the house is the space where our most intimate and individual habits are molded. Our minds start to form and develop in our homes. This project will try to rethink domesticity through architecture and will try to see how it could help adjust our ways of thinking and living during the Anthropocene. The domestic space suggested would try to include nature in our everyday life and prepare us to share our personal environment and time. The question the project is trying to answer is can we live inside of the pot? The idea is to confine all wet spaces to one area and work with inputs and outputs, by taking the pipes outside the wall and working with a specific topography to try to create a space where nature and men can start sharing their needs.

The house tries to bring men to live with indoor nature in a more symbiotic way.

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Tidal Clock Using Water to Reveal Time Naz Babaoglu Third Year

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The space is constantly undergoing change with the rising tides. There are no mechanical clocks here. Only a change in water levels. The aim of the space is to make the visitors experience time in a more dynamic way. Time is relative. For some, a couple of minutes in this space could feel like hours and for others an hour could pass in minutes. The space itself is operating as a natural clock. We can’t control the arrow of time but we can work things backwards and try to save the environment we call “home”. This close to the end, we are not even aware of it. For something that doesn’t really exist, time, is now running out. This project is an instrument that uses water to reveal time. I’m trying to set water as means by which we understand time. The project is a measuring device that becomes a playground and vice versa. Here time isn’t defined by something mechanical or electrical, it is defined by the moon and it’s effect on the water of earth. there are no clocks in this space, only windows to see the level of water rising or falling and in this underground world where the connection with the outside world is cut, this is how the visitors will experience the arrow of time.

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Network of Contemporary Health Anthropogenic Healthcare for Humans and Non-Humans Hanna Fastrich Second Year

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Human density is an issue born in the Anthropocene. The global population as well as the creation of conurbations is increasing rapidly. Soon, all population growth is projected to take place in urban environments. London has developed an urban system that is primarily constituted by its social and built complexes, rather than biotic complexes. Its rapid urbanisation has led to inadequate housing, sanitation and, especially, healthcare services.

The expected population growth carries with it epidemics, pandemics and other health crises that may entail social clearing. Governments, organisations and individuals are facing difficult decisions that may impact our health, prospects of survival of individuals and our freedom of movement. Our infrastructural systems do not just consist of material structures of circulation. They are also defined by their surrounding communities. We have to prepare for more inevitable upcoming health crises by starting to suggest a new form of caretaking in dense urban anthropogenic environments, which does not further segregate different classes or species. I am proposing to generate a network of health corridors that consists of flexible public spaces, where medical facilities can be deployed within a network of biodiverse hedgerows; providing space and shelter for humans and non-humans. The health corridors aim to address the health of all species, so that healthier forms of social and biogeographical interactions can take place.

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Nothing takes down trees faster than humans.Worldwide, we have now destroyed over half of the forests that once flourished on our planet. Not only are we losing animals that ones lived in them, we are also changing the climate of the entire globe. Each year heavy, driving rain is bringing misery to thousands of people across the UK. One in six homes are at risk of flooding. But trees and woodlands can help the devastating effects of flooding. We need reverse the decrease of forests and once more, we need to create a world of expanding forests. Now is the time to change the way we cohabit with nature in the city.

In the event of rising sea levels, which are expected to affect 90% of the worlds coastal cities by 2050, this project proposes a local, native forest that floats! A series of floating pontoons will start growing across the water body of Greenland dock, once the greatest dock of London. With the plantation of over 200 trees by hand, within two years, this tiny forest of approx. 4200 square metres, has doubled the number of bird species in that area, has achieved a much better air quality and a harvest of seasonal, local fruits. A subsurface forest of algaes provides shelter for fish and ideal feeding grounds, improving fish stocks and purifying the water. Taking into consideration the substraction for transport and process of material, the floating forest islands are to be constructed from locally sourced â&#x20AC;&#x153;replenishableâ&#x20AC;? wood, directly on site. The reanimation of a forgotten space, a community resource of the empty water surface -the docklands (which were once the main characteristic to that area.) Focusing on new perspectives for future floating cities.

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The final proposal explores how the built environment can become an intrinsic part a natural ecosystem by actively contributing to the movement of nutrients through the use of living organisms and urban infrastructure. In doing so it aims to expand urban wildlife habitat while drawing on ecosystem services such as the filtration of human waste. This project asks how our architecture can actively recycle and reuse the waste that it produces while making our city more biodiverse and therefore more resilient in the long run. Over the last century rapid global urbanisation and industrial culture has continued to decimate wildlife habitats and increase the divide between the constructed environment and the natural. As urban humans we have removed ourself from the natural ecological cycles in which we used to participate in a dangerous ignorance that assumes we are somehow separate from nature. When of course, we are not.

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Meanwhile in the In-Between Breaching the Human Nature separation Thomas Germain-Pendry Second Year

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The definition of nature relates to both the physical world and also to what is inherent.

The link between these two definitions show how our own perception of nature defines our own societal norm. We have used our perceptions of nature to marginalise and push away certain communities because they were seen not to have the same nature. Today, our definition of nature opposes the physical world to what is of human creation. Through our own perceptions we have separated ourselves from nature. Our urban environments is the core of our society. We have pushed away nature from its centre and have created a physical boundary between the human and the natural. But new forms of nature have formed within our cities that sit between the organic and the inorganic. These novel ecosystems are found within the interstices of the urban landscape. Ignasi de sola Morales coined these spaces as terrain vague. He defined the terrain vague as space which cast doubt on our spatial and behavioural codes. These novel ecosystems are threatened by the constant idea of progress and development. The terrain vague is the poster child for freedom and possibility within uselessness and the temporary. These spaces exist in the realm that site in between our increasingly commodified, controlled and privatised urban spaces. My projects seeks to temporarily occupy a space in between two states of being by transforming it into a terrain vague as a potential outlet for unexpected or spontaneous encounters, informal events and alternative activities.

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SITE: PRINTWORKS, Surrey Quays Rd, Rotherhithe, London SE16 7PJ, United Kingdom The site used to be a printing factory before its use was changed temporarily to become an event space. Printworks is knows for housing techno events, a part of the rave culture. Following the trend of the loss of LGBTQ+ spaces, numerous music events spaces have been closed through infrastructure development. The application for change of use only last for five years. The premises should close between 2021 and 2022. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at this time that my project starts. Within the AAp the developers have no design for this area and added within the economic crash created

by Covid 19, the demolition of Printworks will be pushed back between 3 to 8 years. The project sits in between these two times, while print works is abandoned.

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The design aim of the project was to design the macro and the micro scale while allowing for the in between to be open and up for interpretation. Within the urban greening policy, ecosystems are put separate to human activity, but within our cities we are surrounded by different ecosystems that feed of each other. The project seeks to push these ecosystems further by giving them space, allowing them to grow themselves and to be useless.

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I: Translation of the shoes : platforms which are set at the same height as the surrounding plants creating a sensation of envelope of plants, as well in certain areas, shelter underneath the platform.

II: Translation of the muzzle : underground shelters which are lined with metal mesh that allows for the sent of the soil to pass through while keeping the soil from entering. These underground shelter are homes for bats and other species during the winter and create a sensation of privacy for humans.

III: Translation of the shoulder harness : hanging platforms that become homes for birds and other species as part of the novel ecosystems. They are inaccessible by humans but create the sensation of being sheltered by the ecosystem underneath them

IV: Designed Access : The idea of ritual can be linked to the terrain vague as most of these spaces do not have an easy, walk in access. The building can be accessed from three different area. The opening in the mesh wall are easy entrances but then there is the issue of weaving through the soil beds to emerge into the space.

At the front, concrete bricks arranged into a wall extrude at different points to allow for climbing, but the issue is finding which one lead to platforms with ladders. The third access is a gate for which the community of Canada Water have the keys to.

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Within our urban environments that are constantly in development, we have a need for more spaces that are on pause. As we have seen through Covid 19, when our urban environment is on pause the non-human flourishes. The implementation of in-between spaces would allow for more species to inhabit our cities, creating different needs. The greening of the city through working ecosystems that incorporate the human could create symbiotic relationships between the Human and the non-human. They would create safe spaces for self-expression. These spaces would bring forward the queer, the informal and the useless opening up our rigid binary norms by finding more spaces for transformation and exploration.

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Human client is people who want to use public transports in the area. City dwellers have an almost 40% increased risk of depression, over 20% more of anxiety, and double the risk of developing schizophrenia compared to people who live in the countryside. And City living can decrease access to nature and separate people who move to the city from their social networks of friends and family without building new, strong networks. Especially, people get concerned about the public transport which are some frequent transport problems, such as delays, missed connections, out-of-order toilets and long queue for tube in peak time. I found a research about the mental health in public transport,this project is cross-sectional study was based on adult respondents of the Positive Health Effects of the Natural Outdoor Environment in Typical Populations in Different Regions in 4 Europes.

Data on commuting behaviour and mental health were collected with survey. They got the conclusion, This is Daily NE commuting was associated with better mental health, especially for active commuters. This is a space where people in the city feel and cohabit another concept of nature while visually experiencing the ground.

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People spend a lot of time walking to the station. This concept develops so that it will not be stressed even a li to create a space where both time and natural environment can be enjoyed.

The time zone created a boundary by collecting the maximum distance that can be reached each hour.(A gene per second. This can go about 84 meters in 1 minute and about 420 meters in 5 minutes.)

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People spend a lot of time walking to the station. This concept develops so that it will not be stressed even a little, and the time will be made into a time zone to create a space where both time and natural environment can be enjoyed.

The time zone created a boundary by collecting the maximum distance that can be reached each hour.(A general average walking speed is travel 1.4 meters per second. This can go about 84 meters in 1 minute and about 420 meters in 5 minutes.)

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The project intervenes somewhere between the forgotten industrial past of the site, and the ever present challenges of the future. These two, almost diametrically opposed drivers underpin the project. First is the matter of the industrial past of Canada Water, long since forgotten and buried, with only the most occasional relics left to remind us of its existence. While the potential of docks in the area is no longer viable, this project builds from the observation that while the docks may have become redundant, the potential of the canals certainly hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. The second observation, regarding the challenges of the future, relates directly to the AAP and the proposal to redevelop the site. This would inevitably bring with it more inhabitants, and therefore more congestion, not simply a congestion of commuters but a congestion of delivery. This observation, coupled with the potential of revitalising the lost canals of the area, come together to create a new landscape of delivery hubs and their corresponding canals. These canals and hubs become a new form of civic space, one which is not centralised and hierarchical but rather one which is meandering, local, and fluid.

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The Tidal Promenade Promenade Landscape which intimate interaction with water Sofia Krivashina Third Year

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By 2100, if the emission of carbon into the atmosphere is not halted, as much as 5 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population will be flooded every year. In some cases, entire cultures will be transformed into underwater relics. The conventional response to flooding has always been hard engineering. Cities fortify their coasts to protect real estate at the expense of nature. The current default solution projects seawalls, and bulkheads to be raised to define a clear boundary between dry land and deep water, a clear separation between man and nature. But there is an alternative solution, instead of protecting against water, what if we could start living with water. This is where the project responds. Due to the tide, the River Themes in London is a diverse and ever changing existing location. Untamed by human activity, yet it resides in the heart of the city. This project explores the possibility of creating public spaces along the River Themes that would respond and interact with water. Creating a point of connection for the Themes Path in Canada Water to knot the path together into one continuous promenade along the water. Each connection responds to the needs and opportunities provided by the area around it, whether it needs a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground, public pool or green area. The goal is create a new promenade landscape which facilitates the intimate interaction with water.

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Deconstructing the Rituals of Consumer Culture Re-evaluating the Future of Surrey Quays Shopping Centre Sari King Second Year

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Consumer spaces have become places with no identity, or relation to time and space further encouraged by the digitization through e-commerce. Through the dissociation, the shopping space is being transformed into a highly controlled and homogenous micro universe in which the consumer is being captivated by only advertisement and branding encouraged to mindlessly crave and purchase. Within Canada Water, under the guidance of the AAP, urban redevelopment plans do not change the ritual of shopping, however the appearance of shopping leading to gentrification with the objective of economic growth.

On a broader global scale, consumer culture also has a significant effect on our natural environment. 10 % of the greenhouse gas emission is produced by the industry as it constantly aims to increase the consumerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demand of goods. To change the current ritual of consumerism, the proposal for the new shopping space aims to reclaim the connection to time and space, approaching a concept in which time leaves a mark and embraces the unexpected, irregular quality that defines nature. Through this opening of the shopping experience to time and space, the project hopes to shake the consumer out of the cult of purchase, and thus re-engage with the world in a non-financial form.

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Communal living in the Anthropocene Rebuilding and sharing the green wall Raluca Scheusan Second Year

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This project looks at new ways of living together at the scale of a community. It is invasive just like its plant clients. It proposes taking the typology of the close and turning it into a common, a resource to which its inhabitants have equal access and that they manage together. Not only does the close become a common but part of each of the individual homes is given up to the community. These integrated shared amenities started off as closed insertions with a specific program attached to each. Finally, the bounding wall of each of the insertions was offset thus expanding the discourse on the wall. Typically, an architectural element of division, the offset wall becomes an opportunity for communion allowing people and activities to spill out of the shared amenities and blurring boundaries between the exterior and interior. As the title of the Unit suggests, this project is a leap, a provocation, that explores the power of micro interventions and imagines a world that allows more friction, a world that is less strict about boundaries. The wall is no longer a boundary but a space of communion. The wall is no longer continuous, it is interrupted.

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Render of playground looking unto the kitchen - spring

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My site is a social housing development from the 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Its typology is that of the close - typology invented during the industrial revolution and common throughout London. A close is an often undervalued transitional space that links the private sphere to the public sphere.

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First proposal. As the number and type of integrated shared infrastructures were meant to be chosen by the community, these plans show different potential layouts of the insertions within the same housing block. At this stage most of the insertions were closed off to the outside but the materiality of the insertions - hypertufa- allowed nature in.

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Hypertufa is a man-made rock and a preferred material by gardeners for making outdoor planters. It can also support non-vascular plants on its surface. It is porous and resistant to humidity. As it cures, hypertufa becomes lighter and in colour.

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Plans showing, consecutively, the walls of my final proposal, the landscaping and finally the entire proposal sitting on the site. The offset wall not only allows people to spill out and activities to merge but, within the open space of the close, it also provides a shaded climbing opportunity for my plant client. The ground area in white is grass but over time it will also be colonized by the wild plants. In time, if unkept, it might become difficult to manage causing tension between my human and non-human clients but rendering interaction between the two necessary.

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New City Farm in the Anthropocene Beyond the Idealised Image of the City Farm Jiaqi Sun Third Year

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The project aims to create a new type of city farm, a more habitable, participatory and realistic fooding place. There are good moments and bad moments. Human are no longer standing outside and looking, it’s not just about to see animals and food, it’s also about to see ourselves. From here, we have a chance to rethink about our relation with food and nature. In terms of the domestic space, in order to figure out a way to integrate bedroom spaces into farm I case studied two typical rooms and extracted the necessary elements out, the yard (balcony), the toilet, the bed, the bathtub. With all the elements I have, I collaged them up into a unit. In the middle there’s the bedroom, under there are cows. The heat of the cows are collected for bedroom heating. On the green area people grew grass hay to feed the cow. From the wall were normally a paiting hanged there, people can see the cow milked. When they go to shower, they pass the green space which is like pushing them closer to things around. The overall axo of the project. Bedroom, grass area, corridor, cows, burning spaces. And everything is going together in one. The diagram is to show the route of human client and non-human client. The white line and orange line are showing humans route and dairy cows road respectively, the white dashed line is showing the lifecycle of dairy cows in the project.

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Uncovering Water and History Residual Spaces Transformed Le Qian Toby Tang Second Year

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There is a rising global concern to the scarcity of water. The impact of our behaviours to the Earth are becoming more obvious in the age of Anthropocene. Countries that used to go through the period of industrialisation continue to develop. Yet, our relationships with these kind of histories are gradually forgotten. The equipments that used to help us thrive are left behind and become obsolete industrial relics. The progression of the world turned remnants of the recent past into monuments. Although they also have high archaeological values, very often we do not treat them the way as we do to the other ancient monuments. The focus of my project is to transform these kind of residual spaces into communal spaces. The interventions I am making will become nodes, which in the long run, people will treat them as a kind of informal place of gathering. In other words, I imagine the promenade to become a thread along the Thames, in which a sequence of industrial episode unfolds. These relics, either appear as an individual element, or in groups, will become places celebrating water and history, and at the same time, their interactions with the users can liven up the neighbourhoods.

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Group Collage Term 1 Jury Portugal Unit Trip Term 3 Lockdown

Photos by Sue Barr