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Stuart Buckenham is a Chartered Architect and Tutor at the University of Nottingham.

Stuart is the Managing Director of Buckenham & Co. Architects, Nottingham. He has worked for award winning practice Marsh:Grochowski, exhibited at RIBA and been a tutor at the University of Nottingham since 2001.

Christopher McCurtin is an award-winning architectural designer, artist and university tutor.

His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and featured prominently in both print and online publications, including Architectural Design (AD) magazine, The American Institute of Architects website (in an article written by Cincinnati Art Museum director and architecture critic Aaron Betsky) and ‘Educating Architects’ for Thames & Hudson. Chris has worked with the unit for the last 5 years, starting as a full-time contributor in 2014.

Alisdair Russell is a Chartered Architect and Tutor at the University of Nottingham.

Alisdair is the Managing Director of Caven Associates Architects, having studied at the University of Nottingham before teaching at both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate level from 2002. Alisdair has achieved sucess in various architectural competitions, both as a student and practitioner.

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The Elephant & Castle is historically a major point of convergence and a key trading district

in South London, its position is quite central, just 1 mile from the banks of the River Thames, as a major intersection and Gateway to the City of

London it forged itself as important connection to the City.

The area suffered major bomb damage during World War 2 and was extensively rebuilt in the

post war period, its ambitions paralleled the spirit of the age of the Post War Period and the Utopian Planning Ideals of Le Corbusier,

as elsewhere in London were wholeheartedly embraced by the young, idealist architects and

planners of the LCC (London County Council). During the Post War rebuilding period of the

1960s it was subject to some of the most extensive development in Europe, including the notorious Aylesbury Estate which housed some

2700 residents, and the first covered Shopping Mall in Europe; it paralleled the ambition of

British Society in a boom period.As with all Mass Housing Developments of

the 1960s, rising unemployment in the ensuing decades, socio-economic problems and conflict

soon turned the area in to a vast ghetto on the periphery of London`s Central Business

District. Existing London communities, traditional housed in the low rise terraces, and incoming

migrant workers were all housed at the Elephant and Castle, making it the largest working class population in Central London, and latterly one

of the largest areas of unemployment and social deprivation.

The stratospheric economic growth of the City has resulted in the Elephant and Castle not only

becoming targeted for regeneration but it will also be the inevitable subject of Gentrification.

Ostensibly a positive economic force, whilst Gentrification makes places more socially

acceptable and visually pleasing, it also has the result of diluting, displacing and disenfranchising. Notting Hill, once the gateway for the Jamaican

Windrush Immigrants in the 1950`s, then became cosmopolitan, then desirable, then finally a

place for the rich, once a year the Notting Hill Carnival allows its lifeblood to flow through its

calcified veins. This has happened throughout London, undesirable low value areas becoming

vital, exciting new areas, and the only way for the young seeking a way to live in the City.

The Heygate Estate sits at the core of the Elephant and Castle, as with the Aylesbury Estate

it once housed 3000 people, and is currently under demolition with plans in place for its

regeneration. So what does this mean for the place as the inevitable Gentrification occurs to

an area of poverty and absolute ethnic diversity, as compulsory purchase orders force residents

(economically) out of the area.

The Elephant and Castle due to the convergence of routes into the city, could always be seen as an

interstitial space, or as an `island`. The Heygate in its social deprivation made the area internally

a private ghetto, but its mixture of population enriched and filtered throughout the surrounding

environments. So what of the island now; what should it become?

As a unit we will continue the theme of Adaptive Re-Use and Urban

Reprogramming in the context of the Elephant and Castle in South London.

The overarching theme of the unit is to consider and to speculate new futures for important sites that have reached the end

of their useful lives due to recent socio-economic shifts. This year the unit will

consider the Elephant & Castle, historically a major point of convergence and a key

trading district in South London, just 1 mile from the banks of the River Thames. In

addition to being an important trading post it also became one of the most significant

areas of mass housing in London, the Heygate estate, once housing some 3000

people, it is in the final stages of demolition and a new future is emergent.

The Unit will study Lebbeus Woods War and Architecture and the post war

rebuilding of Sarajevo as a design Primer for ideas and speculations of what the future of

the Elephant and Castle may hold.The Mnemonic Guild, Sophie Barks, p.12-13

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The Urban Explorer’s Guild, Samantha Wilson, p.14-15 (colours edited)

N E A L T A N N AArchitect, Heatherwick Studio

G U V E N C T O P C U O G L OArchitect, Buro Happold

P H I L I P H A Y E S Architect

R I C H A R D M U L L I N SArchitect

M A T T H E W S T R A T F O R DStructural Engineer, BSP

T I M O T H Y M O O R H O U S EYear out student, Rogers, Stirk Harbour

T O M D I C H M O N TYear out student

M A T T H E W M I T C H E L LYear out student, Wilkinson Eyre

M A R I A K R A S T E V APart 2 Student Bartlett/Herzog De Meuron

A N D R E W C R O S SPhotographer, Film maker & Curator

G O R D O N R E A V L E YCritical Theory, NTU/Oxford University

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This year, the unit traveled to Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Still visually in a state of recovery from the 1,425 day military siege which formed

a key element of the Balkan War; the city offers a very different approach to

redevelopment and reconstruction.

Unlike other European cities, such as Berlin or Prague, who opted to perhaps

‘build over’ the past, Sarajevo has consciously chosen to return itself to it’s

pre-war condition, reclaiming the heritage and national/cultural identity which it’s

oppressors tried so brutally to remove.

Through this process, it has found a degree of catharsis, emerging as a beautifully honest place; a place that does not attempt to hide

it’s historical wounds. Not so that we may be reminded of the events which occurred, but instead to enable us to see how the people of the region have fought for their right to

survive; to exist and to truly live.

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SOPHIE BARKS - JAQUELINE BERAHA - ANDREW EDWARDS - FILIPPOS GLIBBERY - MALIKA GRANT - DANIELLE HART - JACK HOBBS HOI SHING KWAN (BILLY) - JOE HOLLIS - CHRYSTAL KING - PHILIP-JAMES MOSSCROP - KEKAI REN - SAM ROBINSON - SHOGO SUZUKI

CHRISTIANA TORTO - HOLLY TREEHEARN - SAMANTHA WILSON - AHMED ZIDOURI

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The theoretical basis of the project is established upon the

creation of false memory and our experience of the hyper reality

in reference to how this can feed into our subconscious and affect the way in which we experience

and understand history.

The Mnemonic Guild acts as a showcase for interpreting

the past and although it is best read as a journey between the

interventions, each capsule is independent of one another.

The Mnemonic Guild comprises of a series of architectural

interventions or ‘time capsules’ fragmented along the viaduct running through the existing

infrastructure of the Elephant and Castle. Each time capsule is based

upon a period of recent history specific to the Elephant and

Castle and then in turn linked to a process of creating a memory.

MARGOT 1920’s Prosperity | Encoding.

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WW2 | Perception.

JAMESThe Teddy Boys | Retrieval.

THE ELEPHANTPresent day | Storage

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A B O V E G R O U N DA R C H I T E C T U R EAs the explorer makes their way through the darkness of the connecting tunnels they arrive, along the uneven tracks, at the opening. In front of them fragmented along the line seems to be derelict builds, unique at each moment. The concrete of the towers is

cracking, abundant with vegetation that is slowly, but beautifully colonising the ruin.

Walking along the tracks presents new opportunities, spaces and access for the explorer to make their own path through the urban dereliction. To a passer buy, it becomes a negative space, void of activity and life. To an explorer this hidden guild allows an immense

archive of knowledge, skill and training.

The instalments, through the years are becoming more a more derelict through aesthetic. The weathering of the materials in evident, naturally decaying and rusting, allowing the

guild to slowly hide into it’s own ruin.

From above, it is not clear what this building withholds, it is only through exploration that it’s derelict spaces can be found. For otherwise it becomes just another urban ruin.

The Urban Explorer’s Guild allows the community of Urban

Exploration to come together and share their knowledge

of urban finds, to document through photography, mapping

and written accounts the spaces they have found through

London, that would otherwise be forgotten through the effects of globalisation and gentrification.

Urban Explorers are passionate about forgotten spaces; they

seek the thrill and adventure of exploring these untapped areas seen as negative, useless spaces,

when in fact that are abundant with history and life.The Guild

becomes a parasitic architecture within a derelict station in

Camden, that protests against the urban form, way marking only

for the explorer, a secret to the untrained eye, allowing the ruin

and Guild to decay naturally and beautifully whilst allowing the

community an archive to record all their findings to share with

explorers in decades to come.The design will change through

its lifetime and eventually become a ruin itself.

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Silicon Liturgy is a project that narrates the rapidly

evolving relationships between humanity, technology and our

sociality, exploring the role that architecture can take in

interrogating these relationships.

The design outlines a mixed scheme of education, archive and

exhibition in Hyde Park upon the original site of the Crystal Palace, incorporating facilities

for emergent technologies such as virtual reality and intelligent

architectural prototyping.

The design for Silicon Liturgy has emerged from previous research projects that explore the role of

sentient technology in relation to architecture and society. This research process culminated in

the completion of a series of concept drawings, each of which addresses conceptual hierarchies

and methodologies that have been approached throughout the

design process.

From these drawings, a methodology of interrogative

design matured – of

deconstructing and rebuilding emergent technologies, colliding

them with architecture and allowing each to affect the other.

This methodology was applied throughout the design process,

allowing the architecture to become a both vessel for the

interrogation and exhibition of technology, whilst retaining a

poetic architectural agenda that transcends the technology itself.

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London is once again growing at an exponential rate. With the

population estimated to grow to over 11.3 million by 2050,

London is faced with many problems, with infrastructure

being one of them.

To allow or the population increase, London will become

denser, with less space available for storing building materials

and machinery on-site for construction works.

This project proposes an infrastructure which allows

drones to be used as for transport and construction

robots within central London, where a main central hub and

research centre resides on a now disused subterranean rail

network station of the mail rail.

The disused tunnels become a linear builder’s yard storing

emergent materials for use within this new construction system below central London, where the main building researches

and develops the system while allowing nearby clients from

architecture offices to see the system and students from

architecture schools to partake in research.

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The Entropic Resonator is a project which looks to introduce

a new typology of building into the Elephant and Castle,

developing a typology which is experienced primarily through people’s auditory sense rather

than their visual. This is in order to disrupt the monotony of

urban city life.

I wanted to explore the possibilities of how the entropy of materials can be harnessed in

a musical building. In the state of flux the Elephant and Castle

finds itself in, it is the perfect breeding ground to introduce a

new type of building. In a musical sense the musical rhythm of the Elephant and Castle is changing

with its redevelopment. The one rhythm that has pulsed through

the Elephant and Castle since the completion of the railway viaduct in 1863, has been the timetabled

trains which have passed through the Elephant.

The project has broken musical instruments down to the very

essence that defines them.

An action which leads to a material creating a noise which

is recognised as a note. I wanted to explore how the entropy

of materials could change the length of this note. I therefore

developed a sacrificial joint that harnesses the bi-metallic

corrosion of metal. In this case when aluminium comes into direct contact with steel in a

joint when moisture is present. I wanted the corrosion of the joint

to allow for the changing in the length of the note produced.

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There are many different coffee traditions across continents-

from the famous Italian espresso to the Cafe de Olla served clay pots in Mexico to the

Ethiopian buna with its own coffee ceremonies. Despite the differences in preparation and

drinking traditions it is a beverage that lots of people share a love

for around the world.

I have used coffee as a basis for my architecture, using it as a

social glue between the existing

community of Elephant & Castle and the new that will be arriving

in the future.

Common Ground is a coffee factory with its own coffee house

and retail space. It has a coffee terrace that acts as an urban

day-to-night venue. The coffee factory is composed of 3 tailored

processing lines, each producing a different blend of coffee to

distribute to the coffee shops of London. For those who haven’t

found their perfect coffee, or those who simply want to know

more about how coffee is made, a bespoke profiling service allows

customers to have their own batch of coffee made specifically

to their taste and personality in the factory. A unique feature

of the factory is the Exhaust Gallery. A contained space, it

holds metal panels that transform when exposed to the waste gases from the basement processing to

create different ‘patinas’ which create different effects depending

on the coffee type processed. C O M M O N G R O U N D C O F F E E F A C T O R Y

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At present, London is in a state of austerity for the working class people. Gentrification is a major

problem that is robbing people of their homes and forcing some to

move even out of London.

Childhood obesity is also an issue, with over a third of

children being overweight by the time they leave primary school.

By the time the regeneration of London is complete, one

could easily assume that victims of gentrification may become

nomadic, living in mobile homes

as the only hope that they can remain in the city. Inevitably

many would live in poverty and subsequently, childhood obesity

rates would hit at an all-time high; due to reasons like families

favoring fast food as a quick, cheap and convenient alternative

to healthier meals.

The proposed architecture aims to provide a facility for

children to be educated and also exercise under the guise of ‘play’,

the facility also aims educate communities about healthy eating.

Naturally the site of the Northern Roundabout is the

most ideal as this is the ‘hub’ of the Elephant and an exposed

structure is a particularly important feature for the

facility so that children can subconsciously observe how

different elements work and are put together. Most importantly the proposed architecture aims

to save the future generation from the powerful grasp of

childhood obesity.

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In this project, I investigate the potential of an unconventional approach to housing schemes,

embracing the mechanisation and automatisation of architecture.

Looking at old ideas such as mass production, modular architecture and metabolism, I combine their

advantages with newly formed ideas and technologies such

as mass customization, open-source systems and 3D printing

technologies to create a scheme which satisfies a much larger

portion of the population than

traditional housing. I then investigate the potential

of my proposal to be applied on top of the existing railway infrastructure, allowing for a

potentially limitless expansion.

The houses are made from a variety of different modules, and

can be customised to the specific needs of each client, which

are processed using a simple algorithm.

The proposed design can then be further refined by the client

himself, perhaps with the help of an architect, in order to achieve

the best possible outcome.

When the design has been completed, it is sent to a 3D

printer which prints the basic form of the house. The overall

process is thus significantly faster and simpler than traditional methods, and much cheaper.

The flexibility provided by the modularity of the scheme also

allows for a potential expansion or reduction of each dwelling,

according to the will of the client. L I V I N G A U T O M A T A

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With the ever growing demand for houses in and around

London, house and land prices are becoming ever more

expensive. As gentrification runs riot throughout London,

mass-housing schemes that were previously intended to be affordable are being demolished

to make way for unfordable homes, leaving their occupants

penniless, on the street and with no place to call home.

This project aims to provide housing for the people who have been displaced by the

onslaught of gentrification and for those needing short term

accommodation within the centre of London. This agenda helps the immediate problem,

people living on the streets, and helps to prevents further

demolition by housing the city migrants. F L E X I B L E L I V I N G

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I have designed a mixed use building, providing both learning supports and jobs opportunity

for the local and Latin American community. The lower levels

of the building will consist of a large food market and smaller

retail spaces which will be rented relatively cheaply to the existing

retailer from the elephant and castle shopping centre.

There will be a Cookery school in the upper levels of the building,

providing lessons on healthy eating and catering.

The idea of the school is to provide an environment for the

student to understand the whole process of food production.

Therefore the centre will consist of an underground hydroponic

farm where they can learn to grow their own crops.

The centre will be growing a range of crops, from everyday vegetables such as lettuce and

tomato, to Latin American spices such as chillies and seeds. Once

the crops are harvested, they can be supplied to the market.

Once the students have gained enough knowledge and skills on food production, they will have the opportunity to practice in

the cultural restaurant or other sectors of the building.

The ultimate aim of the building is to provide wide range jobs opportunity, educations and

needed skills for the Latin American community.

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The programme is a social and infrastructural catalyst that can help to support the rebirth of the Elephant and Castle in the years ahead. The site will be in

the centre of The Elephant, which is a roundabout at present.

The design will be based on the updated peninsular site

considering the government’s roundabout redevelopment

proposal, and comprises of atransportation interchange and a mediatheque as a cultural and

community centre.

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Multiple layers of excitement, drama and interest. This

describes the building both in composition and meaning. The

Elephant Arts Centre is designed primarily to integrate theatrical

performance spaces and art with the movement of people through the building and site. It includes a variety of performance spaces, a multi-purpose cultural centre to support any type of local event.

These are all connected through public walkways, seating and a

signature piece – the ‘Flytower’ which runs through the centre

of the building and impressively suspends people and props at

different gravity-defying heights.

This interlinked design to promote culture in everyday life

is achieved through the careful organisation of these spaces relative to each other, and is

supported by a manufacturing zone that creates purchasable

art for the gallery in addition to props, costumes and small scale merchandise. The building seeks

further to integrate into the local community by providing

education programmes and bookable practice spaces running

6am to 6pm daily teaching individuals how the performance

spaces operate. Official performances will run later in the evening and night but the spaces

will be open for the recreation of young professionals to practice

their art.

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The People’s Parliament is a space designed for both the Southwark locals and those

who commute to the borough, providing key spaces for debate

and conversation within the community.

Fundamentally, the Parliament aims to withstand the pressures

of conformance due to recent gentrification in the area, rising

up for the people both rich and poor. It stands as an attribute to

the thick blends of its existing cultures, a place for community

to reside and social priorities to be met. Its concrete structure

resonates with the scars of Elephant’s past; building the

community by commemorating the forgotten.

Council members and community leaders also have a home here

– a place of discussion amongst the people they are advocating

for. Nestled within the focal point of Elephant’s community and

culture, the Parliament becomes a social space of meeting and

gathering as well as a platform for change.

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Through gentrification, Elephant and Castle has become a place of

instability. The people who provide it with a cultural identity are being

pushed out and replaced by the rich and wealthy; consequently

causing a social rift.

This project focuses on what the residents of Elephant and Castle

want...a space they can call home. It integrates spaces where the people can celebrate: food, art,

business ventures, family socials, as well as build on skills to help them

fabricate their own environment.

By breaking down what it means to be a community, I’ve deconstructed

the traditional requirements to a town hall, in a form of a

promenade. H O M E A W A Y F R O M H O M E

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In today’s climate architecture is often reserved for those who can fund it. Commercial client driven

architecture is the basis of the profession we know today, but

should it be?

In vulnerable communities there is a distinct lack of

expertise when it comes to the humanitarian rehousing effort

after a significant displacement. Has architecture lost its moral

compass? Who should architects be designing for: those who need

it or those who want it?

When slum dwellers are evicted from their homes, relocation to volatile sites coupled with poor

design and construction can lead to dangerous and uncomfortable

living environments.

This project intends to take part of the design process

out and using the principles of mass customisation creates a kit of parts for a successful community - from the initial

emergency housing stage after a displacement, through a

temporary housing scheme and ending up with a permanent thriving community. This kit

is intended to give maximum flexibility of spatial, aesthetic and

typological use to the community it is housing.

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A Fashion College in Elephant & Castle is the appropriate

typology to recover the former attitude that was established by the birth of the teenager in the

1950s.

The Teddy Boy, a nickname taken from their Edwardian influence,

established the demographic of the teenager in the UK. As influential as their new sense

of style was, it is their attitude which is to be rediscovered in

this project; showing the world what they were about through a style that spewed confidence,

individuality and revolution.

This movement started in Elephant & Castle, thus it is appropriate not only to pay

homage to this attitude but also to recycle it and breathe the

forgotten elements of success back into the area.

The intervention of this project will in time aid development of

the London Road axis to become a desirable high street. Having

lost the high street concept that was possessed before the

1950s, Elephant and Castle would benefit greatly from this injection of community-based

infrastructure.

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Elephant and Castle was previously a marshland with the River Neckinger running

through it. Although our needs and life processes are controlled by water and our

natural surroundings, they are the elements that are sacrificed

as the population grows and the expansion of planned land is

demanded.

This project resurfaces the river to the streets of Elephant and

Castle to encourage the healing qualities of water to feed into the

city and community. Starting from the railway, the river provides

an interactive water feature to the streetscape so even the

commuters can benefit and interact with the elements.

Throughout the scheme, water is exposed in order for the user to be able to hear, see, touch, taste,

smell the purity of water and invigorate the senses.

The botanical spine is fed by the water source so as

the user travel through the

building they can select which plants they would like used

in their treatments. Similarly, the varying concrete textures

further encourage a more sensual experience as the user can engage with the alternating

concrete surfaces to suit the spaces. Concrete is a material

familiar to its context, and its use throughout the scheme shows

how man and nature can coexist.

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The project aims to bring back the once strong theatre

culture of elephant and castle, but in a way people will have

never experienced before. It is this deconstruction and

representation of performance that will encourage people back

to the area, and put it back on peoples radar.

The design is that of a set design school, linked to the university

of the arts London, who needed a new home for their set design

course.

The flexible architecture lends itself to teach the main areas of set design: Art, costume design,

and construction, with a central exhibition area connecting

these 3, which opens up to the

public for an end of term show, showcasing the sets as art pieces,

as scenes of plays or to create a surrealist world the public immerse themselves into, all

this is completely down to the students.

The learning areas connect onto a students union, tapping into their desire to have a hub with cafés, shops and bars. This gives them the campus they so

desperately need, and gives these students a physical identity in

Elephant and Castle.I M M E R S I V E S E T

D E S I G N

1 A - 2 - 0 0 1E L I Z A B E T H

H O R E S Y

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Located in the heart of Elephant and Castle and accessible at

the subterranean level through a network of subways, the

roundabout connects all the routes and becomes very busy

throughout the day.

My project seeks to redesign the subways and create an inhabitable

and pleasant atmosphere where the main routes intersect, by opening a public courtyard in

the centre of a dance school. The

design is a ground for freedom of expression and a place that

belongs to the people. The dance school focuses on both informal

performance and on educating the dancers, giving street

performance a professional and technical approach.

Evolved from Project 3, I wanted to further develop

the relationship between the public and the dancers, how the

architectural elements encourage the public to get involved.

The building is split into two parts: one allocated for studios

and the other one for the library and lecture theatre. These two

are connected by a diagonal bridge which becomes a space

for an informal performance.S C H O O L O F

A C R O B A T I C S

1 A - 2 - 0 0 2R A L U C A

B U R L A C A U

52

In times of gentrification and drastic change it is crucial for a community to be preserved.

Introducting a new cultural centre that can educate, entertain

and connect the people would be of benefit to the residents of

Elephant & Castle.

Resonating with the history of the area, particularly the

time of the famous Trocadero Picturehouse as well as the

birth and childhood of Charlie Chaplin the typology of a film and photography school comprised of

an educational core, cinema and gallery space situated in the main

roundabout would be suitable.C O M M U N I T Y

P R E S E R V E R

1 A - 2 - 0 0 3B O Y A N

H R I S T O V

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For an area to be successful, much must happen: There must

be a sense of community, culture and education. This project

revolves around the revival of ‘The Coronet Theatre’,which would be transformed into a

communal space of culture and discovery of the arts.

Project 3 focused on the theatre part of the building,

whilst the exhibition space here demonstrates the dance school

design. They are extensions of each other.

This project focuses primarily on the exploration of various

access points from both the prior project, the archway

viaducts, the shopping centre and

the train station. This building allows for the client to walk

up to building in a circular way, receiving four main views. Whilst walking up the building, the four

geographically corresponding views will correspond to different

architectural time periods in Elephant & Castle and hence

demonstrate its evolution.C O M M U N I T Y

P R E S E R V E R

1 A - 2 - 0 0 4M O R G A N E

C O P P

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This project follows on directly from the previous design for a

dance performance space on the roundabout, the central hub of

Elephant and Castle.

Consequently, I researched the performance aspects of the

Elephant and found that the first performance to take place was a pantomime. I thus studied the

movements and costumes of such productions and desired to

design a fashion design centre connecting to the UAL. After

researching further I discovered the prominence of silk when

performing, and its metaphoric status of strength, reflecting the

growing strength of the Elephant.

I designed my building to be interactive and serve as a space

where silk is made on the premises through silk worms that go through the stages of

silk processing throughout the building.

The space is almost skeletal in design to reflect a silk worm,

and invites people in with consideration of glass and

materiality to create interesting light plays that bring people to

the site and rejuvenates the area. S I L K P A V I L I O N

1 A - 2 - 0 0 5

A L I C EH A R D Y

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Using the history of theatrical fashion in Elephant & Castle I designed a fashion workshop/market place. My ground floor

plan consisted of being open plan, mimicking that of an industrial workshop, with sewing tables

and sewing machines set up accordingly.

The building tied in with project 3 by a ribbon ramp-way to lead

its way into the theatre stage area. Overall this created a

constant cycle where people could move throughout the

building. In the future I would go on to continue evolving my building as well as the fashion

boutique/market floors, as I believe the integration of

architecture inspired by theatre fashion, as-well as a market hub,

are two strong Elephant and Castle qualities that should be

made the most of. F L E X I B L E L I V I N G

1 A - 2 - 0 0 6

V A L E N T I N AR I V O L T A

56

I have designed a new cultural hub that will provide the

fragmented community of Elephant and Castle with a new

diverse type of entertainment and teaching of gymnastics,

aerialist and cirque skills.

The school reflects its typology of performance through its

various flexible elements, such as the bi folding exterior screens,

which are controlled by its users, as well as the flexibility of its

interior studio spaces.

The school may provide seasonal workshops from travelling

circuses, attracting people from different areas, creating a busy

exiting hub in the centre of Elephant and Castle.

S C H O O L O F A C R O B A T I C S

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A L V A R E Z

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The project aims to extend upon project 3 in which a performance space was introduced to elephant

and castles shopping centre. The new chosen site relocates

the performance aspect and introduces an educational role

within the design.

The chosen site is currently an open green space within this dense

urban context, and it is an open space currently not used to its full potential. These spaces should be

embraced and enjoyed within a city.

Therefore, my project was to become predominantly

subterranean. The theatre and its facilities would operate below the park, whilst the function of

the theatre in everyday life would attract people to the park land that

surround and exists above it.

The design aims to be simple and geometric, the spaces and

their activities are to be the performance not the building

itself. The design aims to become a destination within what is quite

a lifeless urban realm currently. The park now has the purpose of

performance.P A R K P E R F O R M A N C E

1 A - 2 - 0 0 8S E A N M A R T I N

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The Weaving School revolves around two key steak holders,

the student community and the transient public that pass through

Elephant & Castle. The building is similar to a pavilion, creating a

spectacle to inspire.

The site is located next to the London College of

Communication building, part of the University of the Arts

London.

The area was built as part of the 1960s master-plan of Elephant & Castle, but is now the centre for

regeneration.

Throughout this project I have considered ‘regeneration’ as a

dynamic concept rather than an end state. Regeneration should

go beyond the physical and embrace the social and economic

aspects of Elephant and Castle. Project 4 continues the themes

from project 3 of materiality, the building’s fabric and enhancing

the public’s journey.T H E W E A V I N G

S C H O O L

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Q U I N T O N

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The unit would like to thank the department, its tutors, and all of its visiting critics, without whom

the body of work presented in this document would not be

possible.

Edited by Andrew Edwards

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