Croydon College Square

croydon college square

Spatial Practices Live Project (Curricular/Extra-curricular) BA Architecture with Croydon’s Placemaking Team | 2018

College Square Croydon’s ‘College Square’ is a new civic space in the heart of central Croydon; a meanwhile intervention that animates an interstitial space in Croydon’s cultural quarter, and gives opportunity for civic life to thrive.

The project was initiated as part of a curricular activity of BA Architecture at CSM, and developed as part of the Meanwhile Croydon programme, recipient of NLA (New London Architecture) award in 2019.

Project Lead: Croydon Council Project Director: Oscar Brito (Spatial Practices, Central Saint Martins) Designers: Fiona Hartley, Ellie Fox Johnson Support: Mina Fouladi, Olivia Sutherill

Detailed Design & Mentoring: Croydon Council’s Placemaking Team Fabricators: SetWorks Photography: Ruth Ward

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The aim is to provide usable outdoor furniture to enable creative, civic and communal activities, creating a new public space where the local community may gather, perform, install market stalls; platforms for workshops and activities; becoming a stage for the organised or spontaneous events.Â

Crodyon College Square

This place-making installation characterises and reinforces the civic meaning of a public space by the insertion of two landmark thresholds that mark and define it, and a collection of urban furniture that can be configured and reconfigured in a variety of ways.

Crodyon College Square

Spatial Practices

This project transforms the passage into its full potential as a public space, being particularly targeted to the local young population, such as the students of the adjacent arts college.

Crodyon College Square

Croydon’s College Square is located in a pedestrianised passage connecting East Croydon Station with Croydon College and with the Cultural Quarter, where the Fairfield Hall, South London’s largest arts centre, is located.

Spatial Practices

Crodyon College Square

Spatial Practices

Croydon’s College Square Crodyon College Square

Project Lead: Croydon Council Designers: Fiona Hartley, Ellie Fox Johnson Project Director: Oscar Brito (Spatial Practices, Central Saint Martins) Detailed Design & Mentoring: Croydon Council’s Placemaking Team Support: Mina Fouladi, Olivia Sutherill Photography: Ruth Ward Fabricators: SetWorks

Spatial Practices