A proposal for a mixed use market and residential complex above the new Farringdon Crossrail East ticket hall and Barbican station, capturing and utilizing the vast amounts of valuable heat resources endemic to the site. The development is envisioned as a hybridization of open plan market infrastructure and a self-sustaining, off-grid neighborhood of bio-climatically enclosed housing, fostering a truly economical and sustainable building typology that is otherwise impossible within the climatic conditions of London. The proposition allows the residents to be completely immersed in a nature orientated environment offering refuge from the intense city life.
Instead of incoherent optimizations here or there on waste reduction, it is a better idea to develop a new, integrated perspective in which economy, ecology and spatial diversification are coupled to city, nature and landscape.
