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Hackney Wick Building - Wellbeing

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Programme
Year 1
Tutors Sara Martínez Zamora and Thomas Parker
Award
  • Architectural Prize for Adaptability and Innovation, MSci Year 1

Living Building / Lived-in Building


Logged between the Olympic site to the East, the new hipster territories of Hackney to the North, and the new ‘London Vernacular’ housing developments of Fish Island to the South, Hackney Wick appears to be still left behind by gentrification. Located on the borders of the Borough of Tower Hamlets and Hackney, it feels like it doesn’t know where it belongs. Being part of what Peter Ackroyd calls the ‘Stinking Pile’ the area has never been part of the real London; but it seems to have always tried to carve its own path on the fringes of London. This special place is disappearing fast, and very soon the grain that defines it and the smells that identify it are disappearing - taking with them a rich tapestry of intertwined stories and fading memories.


The building projects by the MSci students are all set around Hackney Wick. They are responding to issues identified from our annual theme of Climate Change.


The pandemic of the last 18 months has transformed our understanding of our environments. Our physical and mental wellbeing has come much more to the forefront and our students explored ways how their architecture can echo these changes and propose alternative ways of living and working.

Students

Year 1

01

A Sexual Health Centre for the Queer Community, Xan Xacobo Goetzee-Barral

A Sexual Health Centre for the Queer Community, Xan Xacobo Goetzee-Barral

To explore what it means to gather on the edge, a sexual health centre for the queer community is proposed in Hackney Wick. The centre promotes sexual health by providing spaces to socialise and interact within a protective walled landscape that also engages with the wider community. Hackney Wick’s history as a layered edge-land and site of gathering began with industrial manufacture and is now present in the form of a queer community.

02

In Conversation with a Garden, Samuel Jackson

In Conversation with a Garden, Samuel Jackson

The project responds to the theme of neglect in Hackney Wick and to the emerging mental health crisis across the world. Much of the community that once made-up Hackney Wick have had their homes demolished or have been priced out of the area. This inspired Samuel to work towards an architecture that considers the community above all else. Through exercising the idea that nature can act as your therapist, the proposal responds through a garden that considers the needs of both plants and people with the goal of subconsciously improving mental health and well-being.

03

Narrowing and Opening, Hanna Eriksson Söder

Narrowing and Opening, Hanna Eriksson Söder

The project explores how we relate to enclosed and open spaces after the pandemic. It proposes an architecture that improves our wellbeing.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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