Goldington Street Estate, Somers Town
6 Designs for Somers Town
Deployable shelter with seating and tea table
Park Shelter
Safe enclosed playground with seating and adult supervision and socialising below
Play Nets overlap for safe climbing
Built on rooftops and within courtyards Walls and built fences enclose space
Play Landscape
Structure creates pleasant connected, communal social spaces along balconies
Growing boxes and foldable trellises form outer facade of balconies for community farming project. Produce is cultivated shared between residents Composting containers feed from one level to the next
Framework holding folding trellises is a network of pipes fed by rainwater tanks
Communal Farming
Exchange WallTwo-way kitchen wall opens between neighbours and into communal spaces. Sharing of food and other fridges
Book Exchange LibrarySecret Bricks slip out from brickwork between apartments and along walkways and corridors of Cecil Rhodes House
Exchange & Sharing
Excercise and play stops distributed around neighbourhood. Route links different houses and homes, connecting people and making numerous opportunities for social encounters.
Route guided by electronic and physical markers. Routes organised and planned by members of walking group and published online each day.
Somers Town Trail
Play- Intended and Appropriated... Finding ways of using and mis-using designs
Drinking Tea and Chatting... Almost symbolic social action of sharing a cup of tea with some converstaion