View from west
A Room for London
Position We located the project on the edge of the building, because we need to be as much as possible on north, to see Big Ben (on the left, almost hidden by the Royal Festival Hall), and Saint Paul’s Cathedral (on the right side almost hidden by the National Theatre) and to be seen by the people as a new landmark, so the closer we install the structure to the out line of the roof more people will see it. We want to find more points of view related to Dialog with the building the London’s landmarks at the same time to create a new The room is expected to change location, but it will spot in the city’s landmark. (diagram 3) always keep the memories of its first address. The This position also avoids a cantilever solution that would project was designed to play with the surrounding brutal- be too complex and expensive to construct in this kind of ist architecture, as the National Theatre, a building that light material. The room is grabbing the North West coris a clever way of building a nuclear power station in the ner, and from the Waterloo Bridge we will see the room middle of London without anyone objecting. This premise entrance. The deeper the guest is going in the quieter can be applied to the room, seems to be there without the area around is. In this way the room is protected from any permission. The design is based on sharp angles noise pollution, more than any wide expensive insulation and its repetition, which could be clearly identified as the system. brutal architecture tools. (diagram 2) We are proposing a room that grabs the corner of the south bank centre. Our idea was to create a body in the roof, acting like a living organism finding different views of the city. In this way its articulated body adapts to the building’s shape. (diagram 1) We would like to make people wondering what is that shape on the roof.
Diagram 3
Diagram 1
A Room for London
Diagram 2
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