MArch Architecture Unit 10 The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014 10.2 Fig. 10.1 Nick Elias Y5, ‘PoohTown’. 1920s Slough, introducing Winnie the Pooh as the protagonist, to exploit ‘happiness’ as an alternative industry. Pooh re-evaluates covert responses to socio-political exclusion by prescribing idealised happy architecture in a nostalgic make-believe pilgrimage around Slough, ultimately for financial gain. Fig. 10.2 Woojong Kim Y5, ‘The City of Sleep’. Located in the Bristol Channel, the City of Sleep investigates the spatial and symbolic potential of cathedrals. The floating infrastructure facilitates a community of the third age in deep sleep through cryogenics, while providing a safe haven for local sea birds. Fig. 10.3 Anja Leigh Kempa Y5, ‘Remembering Spring in Tokyo’. Climate change threatens Japan’s iconic emblem of Spring, the cherry blossom. Remembering Spring integrates an urban garden 154
infrastructure, revitalising native symbolism and traditions to inform a sustainable energy initiative through the recreation of spring. Fig. 10.4 – 10.5 Chun Yin (Samson) Lau Y5, ‘The European Seat of Climate, Confidence and Credibility’. The ECCC is an investigation into the urban consequences of a carbon sequestration backed monetary system in the EU. Through five key architectural characters, the carbon-negative capital comments and tackles the financial hubris, political incompetence and environmental ignorance of the post-2008 financial crisis European Union.