MArch Architecture Unit 22
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22.6 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
22.7 Fig. 22.5 Xin Zhan Y4, ‘2.5D Garden’. Based in Hangzhou, China, this project proposes an immersive learning experience via a 3D holographic projection combined with a ‘cosplay’ performance space. The bamboo reciprocal frame construction takes inspiration from traditional Chinese gardens, and when juxtaposed with fantastical projections, it blurs local and online experiences of the space. Figs. 22.6 – 22.7 Georgina Halabi Y5, ‘Whatever the Weather’. The project re-inhabits Bethnal Green’s historic gasholders with an interactive weather playground, a co-living community and a co-working hub designed for millennials. The programme reflects on our relationship with the outdoors and aims to recalibrate our comfort zone in the light of happiness felt from environmental conditions. Variable building skins choreograph 288
comfort and thus temper internal environments according to user preference. Just as we change our clothes, the proposal aims to make the façades of the future more flexible. Fig. 22.8 Laurence Flint Y4, ‘Yokosuka 2020’. The project proposes to use the energy of the Olympics to foster social ambition in response to Japan’s vacant housing crisis, and Olympic shortcomings. The lightweight canopy system explores the potential of a shrinkable building to relate to the shortand long-term needs of residents within a shrinking city. By integrating a theatre school with topographic connections, the building provides for a variety of local present and future stakeholders.