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Year 1 | Proximity City: Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross

Proximity City: Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross

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The global pandemic has both increased our online distant connections whilst also making us all focus more on our immediate surroundings; we are drawn into questioning what a local, proximity city, might mean. The project draws on ideas of the ‘15-minute’ city developed by Carlos Moreno, defined to create a ‘city of proximity’ in which you can either walk or cycle to fulfil six social functions of living, working, supplying, caring, learning, and enjoying within each individual city.


The project has two phases. In the first phase, students address their local area based on the concept of the ‘15-minute city’ and identify the special traits of that area, as well as what may be missing from a civic point of view. The second phase requires students to locate a small site and design a small building that address their reading of the area. The small building or piece of architecture will address the civic, imaginary, and a new speculative future.


Projects based in Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell and King’s Cross are featured here.

Students

Year 1

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Po Yin (Tate) Mok, Y1, ‘In Celebration of Children’s Literature’

Located within the Children’s Park, this project encourages reading and fosters curiosity amongst the youth of Bloomsbury through a children’s reading pod. The design is inspired by storybooks and climbing frames act as interchangeable façades of the building.

Po Yin (Tate) Mok, Y1, ‘In Celebration of Children’s Literature’

Myles Green, Y1, ‘Subterranean Pottery Workshop’

The project is a subterranean pottery studio for school children. The underground Fleet River is redirected into the building to be used in the various stages of the pottery. The aim is to revitalise the forgotten valley and to educate users about the materiality and geology of their built environment.

Myles Green, Y1, ‘Subterranean Pottery Workshop’

Myles Green, Y1, ‘Subterranean Pottery Workshop’

Jinyi (Athena) Li, Y1, ‘Never Make Tea with Boiling Water’

A tea maker in-residence invites the community to drink tea here, within a weaved central volume dissipating natural light and wrapped around by circulation leading from public to private. Tea is grown and dried on the neighbouring vertical gardens and its residue made into façade tiles and ground paving.

Jinyi (Athena) Li, Y1, ‘Never Make Tea with Boiling Water’

Hannah Lingard, Y1, ‘A Cyclist’s Primal Therapy Centre’

Spaces ‘mined out’ of the site’s substrata offer a constructive way of dealing with the anger extended to and experienced by cyclists. Communal and individual ‘Galleries’, together with a ‘Wall of Death’ provide a cathartic release.

Rohini Mundey, Y1, ‘Mushroom Alley’

St Chad’s Place, an alley in London, represents a sensory passage that creates a humid environment for a medicinal mushroom fruiting chamber whilst providing scientific research for the homeopathic hospital.

Rohini Mundey, Y1, ‘Mushroom Alley’

Phoebe Hampson, Y1, ‘Bagel Bakery at Euston Taxi Rank’

The harsh, busy pavement outside Euston Station is confronted by circulating smells of dough from within the thin envelope of the bagel bakery that includes a ‘drive-thru’ service for the taxi rank behind.

Roland Paczolay, Y1, ‘Semi-Permanent Culinary Community’

Roland Paczolay, Y1, ‘Semi-Permanent Culinary Community’

A hidden gap between recreational areas and temporary food vendors in Fitzrovia's community, paired with the challenges of operating a food stall, granted the opportunity for a more coherent solution.

Zofia Lipowska, Y1, ‘Bloomsbury Music Venue’

Located between a school and fashion studios, this venue creates a cosy space for local people to relax, socialise and have fun after work or class while developing their knowledge and musical skills.

Jatin Naru, Y1, ‘The Bloomsbury Piano Rooms’

Designed for students living in the area without access to pianos, this is a space to perform and practice their craft in a secluded, sunken site beside Russell Square, with each room held between the buttresses.

Luke Gifford, Y1, ‘St Andrew’s Garden Walls and Greenhouse’

The proposal is in St Andrew’s Gardens–a public garden lacking in biodiversity. A community plant propagation workshop would populate the garden with plants and extend it up the façade of the adjacent building.

Sofia Forni, Y1, ‘A Soap Making Workshop’

The project is a response to Calthorpe Community Garden. With inspiration from traditional ways of making, this courtyard design centres a mixing pot. The staircase echoes rising steam that fills the space with aromas.

Ayisha Wura Belgore, Y1, ‘Rejuvenation’

The King’s Cross Road community garden draws from the historical ecology of the area, attempting to reimagine the conceptual 1800s walled garden while providing a place to eat and share experiences.

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Summer Show 2021
23 July – 07 August 2021
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