Nabiha Qadir Portfolio

Nabiha Qadir

Reclaiming Banglatown

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2 Design Thesis

Banglatown, Brick Lane has recently been a place of pronounced urban resistance, where a new corporate shopping mall development proposed by the Old Truman Brewery (OTB) has sparked the formation of a strong fighting front, where local organisations, residents, business owners and allies have been advocating for the rejection of a proposal which threatens to damage the urban fabric, communities, and sensitive ad-hoc economies that have made Brick Lane what it is for decades.

This project aims to explore counter community-led proposals to the development, with a strong focus on widening access to workspaces for women, addressing the imminent need for the lack of adequate social housing in Tower Hamlets, providing onsite childcare for working women, providing greenspace, and the provision for small business spaces.

These drawings show what a 3 bedroom maisonette may look like, retrofitted into the industrial 146 Brick Lane Truman Brewery building, demonstrating the necessary interventions required to enable comfortable and adequate living conditions for the larger families residing in Tower Hamlets.

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Service Stacks

Ventilation Stack Chimney

Existing Concrete Frame

Insulated Concrete Slab to reduce Cold Bridging

Suspended ceilings for acoustic separation between flats

Cradle and batten floor to overcome uneven slabs and provide acoustic separation between flats

7 Balcony reveals insulated to reduce cold bridging

8 Insulated balconies and door thresholds to reduce cold bridging, acoustic seperation between balconies

9 Maisonette Staircase

The Ramadan Pavilion - V&A Museum, AKTii

Makespace ArchitectsCamberwell House