In-Between Urban Interiors
In-Between Urban Interiors
Spaces should have the ambition to be open for collaboration, to share space, to come together, to be open the street and to be democratic. It should connect with its surroundings and enriches the quality of life for the inhabitants.
‘In-Between Urban Interiors’ will help reinvigorate itself and its neighbourhood.
Generating a New Urban Threshold for Lowestoft London Road
This project interrogated and reimagined the new purpose of the Grade-II building Lowestoft Post Office through the lens of reuse and urbanism.
Lowestoft is a coastal town in England. It has many beautiful, vibrant and historically important places but also has the worst health outcomes, low life expectancy and high rates of many major diseases in England.
The aim of the project is to reimagine the new purpose of the site and design a transitional threshold that bridges the moment the inside and out meets.
Outdated and disconnected public realms and limited range of leisure cannot serve the community to engage with each other. Interrogation of the space has generated a new way of socialising by creating an “urban interior”.
Aiming to accommodate all inhabitants.
Taking cues from the existing facade and articulating different typologies of thresholds.
but also the expression of a contemporary editorial point of view.
The choice of colour is the expression of joy and benevolence of the community.
This threshold changes through the day and night and through the seasons as a functional civic space.
Post-Industrial Landscape
This project questioned and interpreted what is a contemporary art gallery at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross. The hearth of the building revolved around a neutral gallery space with the facilities of reception, office, store and toilet.
The proposal employed model making as a design tool through the detail and matter platform.
The proposal developed from a 32 cm level difference between both sides of the arches and having landscape of planes ‘almost touching’ the building.
The Art Gallery aims to create a shared urban space for both sides of the arches.
Traces of the Hidden Monument
This project explored the possibilities of a provocative vertical circulation through a future platform at Chisenhale Works.
The staircase is not only a tool that carries people from point A to B. It also provides space for being on it. Despite all the rules that define a staircase, it still provides a variety of usage and allows a reinterpretation of how to use it.
The building was constructed by female workers during World War II.
In 2022, the site is surrounded by settlements. Inhabited by women of many different ethnicities.
The staircase is constructed by local female residents secretly.
In case of discovery, it will be deconstructed by its builders just like it has never existed before.
