DS6
City of London, 2050
The City of London is at a critical crossroad. Post-pandemic office demand is now in question, Brexit is looming, sustainability must be prioritised and with a significant proportion of the UK’s workforce placed on paid Furlough, references are being made to Universal Basic Income, shaking the very premise of Capitalism.
The studio narrative will be set in The Square Mile in 2050. The role of Financial Institutions in the heart of the City has now changed, ambient computing has become ubiquitous, and the mix of uses has shifted to evolve into the first of a new breed of global Eco-Smart cities. A multiplicity of new leisure and entertainment fields has emerged creating new cyber-physical opportunities. Students will speculate on the transformation of The City of London, developing radical scenarios and exploring associated provocations asking what the future of The City could or should be.
Bracken Roots
London’s Oasis
London’s Oasis is a wellbeing space and a biodiversity hub. Transforming the current London Bridge into a green pedestrian network an habitat bridge, connecting to the symbiotic inhabited bridge, providing a sheltered, indoor an outdoor routes across this key access. The bridge structure will house activity halls for wellbeing practices, a place for people to unwind. The Bridge will also be Key water study facility and purification point for the Themes River protecting the ecosystem.
The Master Plan of A Greener London in 2030
Perspective View of The Inhabited Bridge and Water Filters
Section through The Platform and Ted Talk Tank
Section of The Office Space
Callum Goodridge
The Kinurbia Project
The Kinurbia project uses adaptive reuse to turn obsolete office space into a mixed-use community core, elevating the role of the community centre, and exploring interlacing different threads of an urban community within the City of London in 2050.
Perspective View of The Community Core
Perspective Section of The Kinurbia Project
Delfina Couceiro
The project consists of London’s 2050 Garden City movement inspired Co-Housing to encourage intergenerational supported living. The collaborative ethos informs privacy within a communal environment. Broad outlines to be planned appropriately to the convenience of the community as a whole, secure the utmost degree of healthfulness, and proper regard to communication with the surrounding spaces. The number of houses should be limited so that dwellings should have ample air and light. This residential project should provide a suitable garden, public recreation ground, and open space.
Elevations of The Communal Environment
Isometric Sectionof The Communal Environment
Plans of The Communal Environment
East Facade Elevation of The Garden of Whimsy
Hari Krishnan
Garden of Whimsy
Garden of Whimsy caters to the people of The City of London in 2050, a world where automation has destroyed their jobs, leaving them purposeless & in need of a rejuvenating intervention that assists them in rebuilding their community through various activities that revolve around herbal farming.
Isometric View of The Garden of Whimsy
Vertical Garden Detail Drawing
Mike Carr
Hybrid Dwelling is an intergenerational, community led housing model responding to the housing crisis within the City of London. Set in 2050, the project speculates how mass customised timber homes could provide high quality places to live.
Section of The Hybrid Dwelling
The Community Led Homes of The Hybrid Dwelling
Modulars of The Hybrid Dwelling
Elevation of The Digital Creative Space
Raj Narendra Patel
Digital Creative Public Space
Digital Creative Public Space is a center for any form of digital art that offers young artists a chance to debut and use the space to create digital art and incorporate their work into its collection. It is a creative open environment that connects the knowledge & community around it, supporting a change in a pattern of skills and digital creativity. With the help of primary structure containing network of modular spaces with different means of technologies to showcase different forms of creativity The Project aims to create a creative Public Space for all creative professions where they can work, meet, socialize, and collaborate under a single roof creating originality in an automated world. It will be the internet in Physical Form.
Section of The Digital Creative Space
Perspective View of The Digital Creative Space
Contributors
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Unit Tutors
Denis Vlieghe
Nick McGough
Yuting Cheng
Sergej Maier
Pete Winslow
Dagmar Binsted
Cristina Garza Lasierra
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Students
Bracken Roots
Harikrishnan Premprakash
Michael Carr
Callum Goodridge
Lewis Wood
Joseph Ambalo
Sahej Aggarwal
Delfina Couceiro
Jade Turner
Marini Ahmad Shuhaimi
Wan Hakim Bin Wan Burhanuddin
Taum Del Campo
Raj Patel