 DIPLOMA STUDIO TWO |
Shoreditch Park, LondonThe studio’s work has researched the connection between the manipulation of material and the making of the city. Acts of making have been used as a source of ideas for the reworking of the dysfunctional green space and its periphery at Shoreditch Park, London. The year’s programme has comprised a series of five connected projects, culminating in specific building design proposals as part of radical urban strategies. First, a process of recording at the site with moving image and sound was transformed into a projected spatial construct in Cambridge, using individual spatial preoccupations emerging from observation and manipulation of images of the place. Second, interventions were constructed on site in Shoreditch as physical engagements with the site, exploiting the potential for affecting and exposing this large territory through the material and spatial intensity of an installation. Next, a radical reinterpretation and reorientation of this tract of the city was made, using the first two stages as a source. Strategies for reappraisal of the site emerged from each student’s particular set of material references as inspiration at the urban scale. Full-sized constructed pieces, installed in Cambridge, at once precise and ambiguous, were built as both investigation and means for development of specific proposals for buildings. The pieces explored ideas from site strategy to particular material embodiment of ideas. Specific building and landscape propositions were developed from the progressive engagement with the site and from the resulting stages of creative invention. |
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