BSc Unit 7 Yr 2: William Aitken, Becky Ka Ki Chan, Jason Chan, Samuel Chong, Tom Elliott, Hsiao-Wei Lee, Cheukmay Leung, Tetsuro Nagata, Sara Tobin, Nicholas Williams. Yr 3: Zehra Abidi, Alan Chuang, Andrew Docherty, Hannah Lambert, Alleen Siu, Chi Chum So, Chiharu Tanaka, Bo Min Tang.
Architecture & Urban Agriculture ‘A city is a living thing. It has a complex metabolism, a voracious appetite and very poor eyesight. Improvements in transportation and communication mean that its feeding ground is now global and the consequences of its consumption distant and forgettable. How can we turn cities into self-regulating, sustainable creatures and prevent them from eating themselves out of existence?’ Herbert Girardet The footprint of a city is defined as the amount of land required to sustain its metabolism; that is, to provide the raw materials on which it feeds and process the waste products that it excretes. London is the original megacity: how much land does it really take to keep it going? Britain's productive land adds up to about 21,000,000 ha. Its total surface area is 24,400,000 ha. London's footprint is only marginally less than the size of the whole UK. Project 1 Horticulture and Habitation Brief: Develop a design strategy that employs sustainable design criteria and the emergent technologies of renewable energy generation to design a dwelling for a single person. This dwelling should make as small an impact on the environment as reasonably possible, including the attempt to achieve zero emissions. The dwelling should also provide all the facilities and creature comforts one could reasonably expect in an urban environment. Project 2 Re-marketing Brief: Drawing on the concepts and ideas established in the first project we re-locate Borough Market on to the site of the old London Bridge. The market design makes apparent the connection between the food, the landscapes and people from which it has come.
Chris Groothuizen and Stephen Tierney
Top to bottom: Andrew Docherty, Chi Chum So, Andrew Docherty, Chi Chum So.