Shroom 2.0 is in the heart of Ancoats, New Islington. This project formed by exploration of organic mushrooms found on site was dissected and explored to understand the nature of forms and natural wave patterning. This was explored throughout my pavilion project in 3.1 as creating a public realm was the key agenda of my design due to the lack of social spaces found surrounding site.
Surrounded by geometrical high rises and residential buildings, the site served no strong sense of purpose. My position as a designer was to change this stigma that designs of tower and pavilions had to maintain geometric forms, and this was explored through creating a transition of this stigma through integrating organic forms within my pavilion which led to Shroom 2.0 - a tower led by organic form. The attempt to recreate and mirror waves and internal structures found within the mushrooms on site through the facade systems for my tower was evident. It was an integral part of my design that I created spaces which promoted public
