Architecture and Urban Design Folio by Husna Ahmed

SELECTED WORKS Adaptive Porosity 01 location: la carpio, mexico typology: water treatment plant square footage: 46,500 sf KIPP Discovery 09 houston, texas k-12 KIPP campus 150,000 sf school designer k-12 design competition Emergent Surfaces 15 chicago, illinois aquatic center 185,000 sf acsa/aisc student design competition Safe Weave 19 rockport, texas archery pavilion 175 sf G_Mod 25 varies sitting area varies Recursive Topography 29 varies urban pavilion varies

ADAPTIVE POROSITY The project was driven by a thorough analysis of the social needs of the La Carpio community in Mexico. The demographics of this need-based project suggests that the community and its site were ideal for a water treatment plant. The social and economic impact of such a grandiose project was also strategic as it was intended to aid in the economic growth of the community at large, as well as, the very health of its inhabitants. The building itself was envisioned to function on multiple social levels which would help revive the poverty stricken community through the act of purifying water. It futher challenged the idea of building enclosure by exploring new techniques in building skin as a performative ventilation and daylighting system for a water treatment plant, which is normally exposed directly to air. The aperture driven facades allow the facility to maintain its porosity according to program and function. The changing facades of the plant directly relate to the functions of each tank in plan and section. Furthermore, it demonstrates sustainable ideas such as solar energy, water collection, and planting beds in order to educate the community on local sustainable ideas and in turn, create a more stable economy for the La Carpio community.

1. Intake Facility 2. Pump Station 3. Filtration Bed 4. Collection Tank 5. Intake Screens 6. Rapid Mix 7. Flocculation Tanks 8. Sedimentation Basin 9. Underground Clearwell Storage Tank 10. Disposal Tank

9 9 The topography of the site was extreme in elevation change. The project took advantage of these natural conditions and incorporated it into the process of filtration for the water treatment facility. Only one pump is used to draw water from the local water supply to the facility which carries thousands of gallons per day. Gravity is what facilitates the processes in each tank as it is the driving force behind pushing water from one treatment tank to the other. A series of program variations were generated to study the flow and process of each tank and its relationship to the overall process. A linear scheme was devised as it was the most appropriate due to shift in terrain and organization of program.

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The variations in facade schemes are in direct relation to plan. The apertures allow air and natural light in according to environmental conditions, time of day, and process of filtration being performed. The worker is not only in control of the management of water filtration but also in the direct relationship of user to facade and its affects on interior program. The aperture of a camera lens was initially studied to understand the shutter mechanism behind how a camera zooms in and out. The component expands (opens and closes) like a camera lens with a circular motion. Each cluster of apertures has been group and is controlled by a wheel. aperture radii

Interior rendering of the water treatment plant showing the relationship of roof to program and exterior skin to facade. The contrast of material effects are great on the interior as one helps to ventilate the interior and the other diffuses light.

The performance of this facade with its interactive characteristics is essential to bringing awareness to the La Carpio community on sustainable design. From these small examples of component driven natural daylighting and ventilation systems to the idea of building skin becoming structure and helping in the management of water, all demonstrate acts of sustainability that can be applied to the daily lives of the La Carpio community. It was intended that the building be accessible by the community in order for them to understand how sustainablity, and the management of water can positively affect their lives.

Section 1 is a horizontal disection of the plan. It is intended to show the direct relationship of plan to facade. The aperture driven facades create various conditions of porosity which change according to process and time of day. Both facades --East and West facing are dictated by a series of manual wheels which allow the worker to adjust the daylighting and ventiliation of the water treatment plant as needed.

aperture

steel tubing

agricultural fabric

internal skin

With one component, the variation in aperture radii is vast. Each of the two facades acts independently of the other which continuously accomodates changes to its surrounding environmental conditions. The interactive facade allows for this flexibility of worker and also user as it was intended to also cater to the community as a facility which aids the growth of the economy.

concrete

Wall Section

solar panels open air ventilation planter water collection Section 2 shows a lateral vertical cut through plan. The structural skin of the building envelope, although Also component driven, the roof of the facility is composed of a series of structural cones which alternate in diameter and support the program on top. The be adjusted according to the conditions of the water treatment plant.

The roof of the water treatment plant has been designed to interchangeable elements. Each of the four zones shown in plan view are essential to sustainable ideas on rain water collection, natural ventilation. energy plant air water

KIPP DISCOVERY KIPP--â&#x20AC;?knowledge is power programâ&#x20AC;?--is a foundation which caters to the needs of underprivileged children ages k-12. The campus was conceptualized as a collaborative learning and exploration center. From curriculum to classroom layout to performance of the building itself, all unite under one fundamental concept of learning by doing. The openness of plan with emphasis on classroom as an indoor and/or outdoor space wwwconnected the campus as a discovery center, and gave opportunites for the community to use the campus as an urban park after hours. The curriculum of the campus aimed towards the idea of sustainable sciences in which the building and its classrooms would serve to be grounds for experimentation and discovery. The design of building skin, as a highly developed sustainable feature, was incorporated to enhance the performative curriculum of the education center.

The circulation of the project has been integrated horizontally as well as vertically. The project is composed of two major ramps that allow for students to easily transition from indoor to outdoor space. Classroom space has not been limited to the building itself, but rather the campus has been designed with an open plan --in order to encourage the outdoor environment. The interchangeable space allows for the modication of program with regards to different classroom layouts and also accomodations the community by creating a park-like environment.

Schematic models of the site and possible building parti.

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First Floor

a. parking b. performance space c. high school classrooms/lab d. cafeteria e. elementary f. middle school g. theater h. pick up area i. drop off area

Second Floor

a. office/counseling center b. classroom/lab c. cafeteria d. playground e. ramp f. middle school

Third Floor

a. classroom/lab b. roofscape c. public library d. landscape e. retention pond a

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

section 1

Sections 1 and 2 are verticle cross sections through the building. The structure of the education center was designed to be lightweight and to span long distances. Hollow extruded cones which vary in height and depth were used to achieve this. Through this dissection of space, one can see the overlap of program and the permeability of space.

section 2

Perspective 1 shows the entrance to the education center. The landscape was designed to feed into the building and blurr the distinction between indoor and outdoor space. This was necessary as the facility is also used as a community center after hours.

prefabricated steel frame

agricultural fabric planting bed

structural skin component: aluminum steel structural cones prefab frame agricultural fabric

insulation layer

Perspective 2 is intended to show the circulation of the site, scale of the project and relationship to surrounding program--middle school and elementary school.

Emergent Surfaces The aquatic center, located in an urban context, was envisioned to become an environment which catered to existing public areas and for visitors of the aquatic center. The idea in which adaptability is a prime factor to its coexistence with the aquatic center, the landscape was designed in order to enhace the affectiveness of the building itself by designing the building inside an urban park. The approach was to create a site, not just an aquatic center, which was more of an outdoor community center versus one which was strictly indoors. Importance was given to the overall design of the aquatic center, as well as the site itself. A constant dialogue was to be met between indoor and outdoor space by the use of contours that merge and submerge through the effect of layering. The distinction between building and landscape has been blurred to be inclusive of the other.

The site plan of the aquatic center depicts the various components of program which relate to both interior and exterior. The site has been incorporated to include the specific programmatic elements required for the aquatic center (lap pool, diving pool, locker room, etc) with the expansion of program due to landscape and outdoor activies. The building and site has been designed so that it can function on multiple levels all year round. Exterior renderings showing urban context

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ARCHERY PAVILION Camp Aranzazu is a non-profit facility that provides camp-like experience for children with disabilities. In conjunction with e-fab studio 5500, the aim of this archery pavilion was to create an environment where the user was independent in getting in and around the site for shooting arrows. The project called for extensive field research on how an individual who is physically impaired can play and be safe. Our team of four, designed with particular attention to texture and touch as it was the one sense that all who were impaired had in common. Each part of the program has been fabricated with the intention of easy assembly and adaptability to site and number of users. My personal contribution to the pavilion was the â&#x20AC;&#x153;protective wallâ&#x20AC;? which was designed to shield

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Just as the components were designed to be assembled and disassembled with ease, each station was also visualized to stand indepently and be reconstructed on any site. Texture types of hard and soft scapes were also used to create the site in order to set navigation paths for those children who are physically impaired.

1. Structure Frame and Seating The frame and seating of the pavilion were designed for easy assemblage. The frame in particular was designed to be fabricated with only three parts and to be fit into one another. The seating required one component which was multipled to accomodate more or less seating in the pavilion.

2. Partition For this project, the partition was visualized as a surface with a program, rather than creating separate components for each requirement. The partition is composed of a series of frames that accomodate different functions of the program: quiver, bow stand, physical partition, and movement impediment.

1x bow storage

1x quiver

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1x quiver

The fabrication process involved investigations with folded plates and bending wood. The folded plate investigations were done with cork, as it was very pliable. The cork was then coated wth polyurethane. The bent, laminated plywood was molded with the aid of molds made specifically for this project. Ultimately, the material investigations led to heat formed acrylic, as its impermeability and durability were deemed as most appropriate for the component.

3. Protective Screen Spectator seating was a restriction due to site. I decided to place the observer seating along the length of the archery pavilion. This posed a series of problems, the most important, being the protection of its observers. I designed a wall which was composed of a series of structural cells which would form a protective barrier between shooter and spectator without distracting view.

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PHYSIO-LOGICAL DESIGN WORKSHOP architectural association summer dlab 2009 toni kotnik & lorenz laucheur final group presentation Digital design doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean working in virtual space but rather informing the physical reality of buildings and materials, production process, and assembly logic. That is why the workshop on physico-logical design was engaged with the question of permeability of the threshold between the physical and the digital realm. Such permeability is procreated by an exchange of data which itself is dependent on the formalization of inherent geometric relationships between different elements of the design. In the workshop the process of abstraction of physical phenomena was exemplified by an investigation into patterns of movement of bodies in space and the architectural utilization of these patterns by means of parametric and geometric variation. Explorations into patterns of birds wing movements and flight were of particular interest to us. We artifically recreated an instrument which mimicked the stages of movement during flight, carefully mapping how each joint would respond to the other. We discovered that each joint not only moved two-dimensionally but three dimensionally as well. With this investigation, we decided to carry on with the notion of mapping movement by focusing on the human as a specimen. We furthermore analyzed sitting postures of an average human-being, parametrically modelled in Grasshopper, and created two programmed surfaces which emerged as one sitting surface. 26

Adjusting curves to postures

Controlling curvature for overall structure

surface of ribs

surface of foam

RECURSIVE TOPOGRAPHY Studio focused on environmental fabrication through the use of wasted material. Rubber was ultilized as it was found to be a biproduct of producing gaskets. The material gave great flexibility in program and ideas on the adaptability of space. A weaving technique using wire was imployed as a constraint and also a construction technique to allow the structure to be self sustainable. The original intention of the program was to design a mechanically driven screening system which would provide shading, daylighting, and cooling. As more investigations continued, the variation in patterning and form gave insight into larger program or urban space. The investigations into component driven systems drove the essence of this project. The adaptibility of program defined by user was key to the concept of this project. It was designed so the movement of space would be dictated by the people who used the facility --completely mobile and adaptive to its surroundings and climate this urban space would morph like an organism according to spatial need defined by user and community.

schematic surface studies

structure

hard scape

soft scape

of urban space. the component driven project can expand in both the x and y direction catering

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION International Urban Design Workshop Tainan 2011 NCKU - AA - NCTU

teachers Lawrence Barth Dominic Papa Maw-Chang Yen Tzu-Chang Lee (Joe)

students Huai-Yuan Chang Chih-Chyi Chang Yen-Yu Chen Shiau-Lan Chiou Chen Hu Sharon Shih Husna Ahmed Aida Mofakham Angela Jeng Florian Dirschedl Gaurang Nabar Mithila Satam Olga Yatsyuk William Wehbe

Urban Design Workshop

NCKU + NCTU + AA

Tainan 2011

TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION International Urban Design Workshop Tainan 2011 NCKU - AA - NCTU

The proposed burying of the railway in the centre of Tainan provides a unique opportunity for the city to rethink the vocation of its station. However, the project’s implications transcend the actual scope of the 10 ha site of the station area and affect a larger part of the city than just the eight kilometre tunnel strip. Therefore, the project asks for rethinking the vocation of Tainan’s centre as a whole. Hence, a wider territory has to be considered, inviting all urban actors and participants to engage in a project that exceeds the station limits and discusses the future of not only parts of the city but the entire region. By widening the scope, Tainan’s role and image can be reconsidered and challenged in different scales. The contemplation of local tendencies as well as regional and national developments allows for a flexibility and adaptability of the design processes over time. A comprehensive and incremental design strategy can thus reveal the potential of the project for the centre as well as the city and the region.

TWIN CITY REGIONS

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TAINAN + KAOSHIUNG

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URBAN MOBILITY SYSTEM

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STATION DISTRICT

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A NEW SURFACE

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URBAN CONSISTENCY

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CIVIC LANDSCAPE

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ARCHITECTURE OF INTENSIFICATION

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INNOVATION CLUSTER

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FORESIGHT CLUSTER

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

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TWIN CITY REGION

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

The city of Tainan is part of a metropolitan system in the West of Taiwan, where a number of prosperous city regions are linked through a highly efficient high speed rail network. This transport network allows for easy accessibility of all major cities along the western coastline and promotes them to operate as one labour and knowledge market. By their joint efforts, the different cities establish an integrated system of manpower and technology development and perform as Taiwan’s economic spine in the spatial as well as the figurative sense. This spine proves to be top-heavy, however: Albeit acting in concert as a whole, the cities contend with each other within this composite. The high tech region of Taipei / Hsinchu is here most successful and produces a clear polarity towards the North of the country. The success as high tech regions of a number of twin cities such as Kopenhagen/Malmø and San Fransisco/ San Jose is ultimately rooted in the synergies they create. A large diversity in population, cultures as well as in economic production and knowledge capacities is distributed within an urban region that is linked through a series of infrastructure projects and made accessible for the entire region. Imbalances between adjacent cities are thus levelled, the cities’ individual insufficiencies are compensated. A joint market is created that exceeds the performance of the cities on their own. In order to remain competitive and create an effective counterpart to Taipei/Hsinchu in the South, Tainan will therefore have to vitalise its individual potencies and boost its characteristics but - at the same time - take advantage of the proximity to its twin city Kaoshiung.

Twin City Regions

STSP

HSR

dislinked cities DISLINKED

TAINAN / KAOSHIUNG

interconnected cities INTERCONNECTED

SAN FRANCISCO / SAN JOSE

HSR + rail

metropolitain entity KNOWLEDGE + LABOUR specialised regions MARKET

2 poles Taipei / Sh?? + Kaoshiung / Tainan

COPENHAGEN / MALMØ

TAINAN + KAOSHIUNG

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

As Taiwans major exporting centre in the South, Kaoshiung is dominated by heavy industries, logistics and transportation entreprises today. Both, the airport as well as the harbour have national significance. In contrast to Kaoshiung’s industrial focus, Tainan features an enormous quantity of “soft skills”. The city’s rich (colonial) history, numerous cultural resources as well as culinary diversity are not only basis for a high quality of life but also background for a prosperous tourism. A divers science and research landscape - with NCKU as one of the best Taiwanese universities - fosters a wide range of high tech industries. Talented graduates of the city’s university are hence easily absorbed in the South Taiwan Science Park North of the city, as an example. The two cities’ potentials, however, seem to be underdeveloped and dislinked from each other at the same time. Consequently, an urban development strategy is needed, that not only aims at revealing, deploying and strengthening Kaoshiung’s and Tainan’s individual economic as well as cultural and educational characteristics, but also addresses the cities’ concurrence and cooperation.

TAINAN

STSP

HSR

KAOSHIUNG

Twin City Region Tainan/Kaoshiung

URBAN MOBILITY SYSTEM

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22@Barcelona_eco city TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

Key to the recognition of the two cities of Kaoshiung and Tainan as urban region is their comprehensive accessibility. Burying the railway in central Tainan is on the right track for this purpose; yet nowhere near enough its actual requirements towards an regional public transport system. The potential of the transportation system between Tainan and Kaoshiung does not seem to be efficiently developed. Hence, the station project should trigger a discussion about a new vocation not only of the station itself, but also of the railway system and its associated networks.

Curitiba_Rapid Transit

URBAN MOBILITY SYSTEM

22@Barcelona_eco city

TAINAN

In this regard, the current local public transportation can be upgraded to a smart mobility system that interlinks and converges the entire region. The integration of smart systems - such as parking management and mobile transport information - into a larger reconceived system is an opportunity to showcase local high tech excellence and will ultimately increase both acceptance of and participation in public transportation. In coherence with a an urban development strategy on a regional scale, this system can unfold its full potential.

Curit

STSP

TAINAN

HSR

COPENHAGEN / MALMĂ&#x2DC;

22@Barcelona_eco city

To quote an example, the now inefficient bus system could be rethought as polycentric and integrated local network that serves the entire city and enables easy access of all quarters. As a consequence, the current bus knot in front of the station could be dissolved, leading to a slowed down traffic situation and a better and safer pedestrian environment in the station area.

KAOSHIUNG

Curitiba_Rapid Transit system HsinChu_shuttle sy Toronto_ecocab 22@Barcelona_eco city Curitiba_Rapid Transit system BARCELONA - 22@

CORITIBA - BUS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM

HSINCHUN - SHUTTLE SERVICE

Toronto_ecocab TORONTO - ECOCAB

transport infrastrUctUre

Toronto_ecocab

reorganisation of the local bus system

Urban mobility system

Toronto_ecocab

MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEM

HsinChu_shuttle system

STATION DISTRICT

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

The redevelopment of the station area in the course of the railway project provides an opportunity to pull the introduced ideas together. By assembling the surrounding urban actors of the central business district and of the adjacent university and the cultural quarter, the station’s mere functional vocation can be enhanced to become key element of the core knowledge and innovation district within an expanded metropolis. As a much larger area than just the station area itself will be affected by the railway project, a design strategy has to indicate and incorporate adjoining sites and detect possible synergies. Consequently the framework has to be expanded, including NcKU’s campus in the West and a housing quadrant in the South.

KNOWLEDGE + INNOVATION ENVIRONMENT

transport infrastrUctUre

FORESIGHT CLUSTER

STSP

NCKU

CBD

CULTURAL CENTRE

HOUSING INNOVATION

Urban mobility

expanding the project’s scope

A NEW SURFACE

Urban Design Workshop

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Tainan 2011

TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

The construction of the railway tunnel creates a possibility not only to simply spatially link the currently separated quarters in the West and in the East of the station, but allows for the introduction of a new surface: a field of possible activities between the city and the university that takes into account the adjoining spatial characters and qualities - such as the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of privileged spaces - and establishes a spatial and programmatic character of its own. The aspired spatial conjunction is established through a new pattern of differentiation that is guided by the framework of the extended the street grid. This pattern mediates between the city and the university campus and establishes a spatial hierarchy as well as a strategic planning principle that can adapt to change and intensify over time.

INTENSIFICATION

PATTERN

FRAMEWORK

SURFACE

STATION DISTRICT

URBAN CONSISTENCY

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

CONVENTION CENTRE

The investigation of the infrastructure and public works cycles affords an opportunity to develop a planning strategy that gives thought to timing, reducing risk for investors and uses the planning process to assemble different stakeholders. The phasing strips running North South allow for an integration of the station infrastructure into planning processes and construction at an early stage and thus ensure planning reliability. The differentiation of the streets along the station quadrant produces new frontalities and hence new addresses towards the city. The grain of the suggested urban fabric mirrors this differentiation, providing a flexibility of investment with smaller plots to the commercial western fringe and larger compounds on top of the railway tunnel in the East.

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS INCUBATORS

Differentiated from its neighbouring quarters, the evolving urban fabric will - at the same time - produce an infrastructural, programmatic and spatial consistency within the station quarter itself.

STATION BLOCK

CULINARY STATION

differentiation

mediation

phasing

CIVIC LANDSCAPE

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

Understood as a new surface of urban interaction, the station district can bring together key stakeholders and urban performers. The introduction of a continuous morphology and social infrastructure that are articulated over time allows for a functionally and programmatically divers urban quarter with its own spatial qualities and productive capacities: a unique urban landscape that establishes new ecologies and ways for the university, the city and private investors (such as the science parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companies) to engage with each other, the other side of the station and beyond. New patterns of work, work-space, organisational structures and joint ventures of two or more stakeholders can influence the organisation of buildings and the distribution of program and will emerge in the creation of new places of interaction. The role of public investments - such as the convention centre in the North or the conversion of the protected historic station building into a cultural forum showcasing Tainanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary excellence - as accelerators of a value-based development will add to this creation of a new civic landscape.

new places of interaction

ARCHITECTURE OF INTENSIFICATION

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

A number of precendences help to understand, how architectural planning can exceed a mere two-dimensional layering of program and functions. The plans’ vertical transperancy allows for new relationships within the buildings and establishes places of interaction that are located beyond the common trinity of Street/Square/Park and intensify spatial and collective - experiences: a sharp distinction of public and private spaces gives way to places of privilege that invite civic life into the buildings. The examples given investigate the potentials of a rethought distribution in section, reveal spatial relations hitherto neglected and demonstrate the benefits of joint ventures for different stakeholders.

MODULATION OF PRIVELEDGED SPACES BRITISH LIBRARY, London Colin St. John Wilson architects courtyard: gradation of public spaces

CROSS-SUBSIDISATION + CO-LOCATION KING’S PLACE, London Dixon + Jones Architects offices + concert hall

INTENSIFICATION OF CIVIC RESOURCES PUBLIC LIBRARY, Seattle Rem Koolhaas / OMA extension of public spaces into building

REVEALING SPATIAL RELATIONS BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, Milan Grafton Architects laboratories + lecture hall + underground station

PROGRAMMING OF UNUSED SPACES KUNSTBAU LENBACHHAUS, Munich Kiessler Architekten underground station + museum

precedences

INNOVATION CLUSTER

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In the southern section, one can begin to ask how to make use of the particular geometry of the railway tunnel construction in order to create an opportunity of a new housing district. Anchored by the railway station in the north and bordered by the commercial edge on the West and larger institutions on the East including hospitals, a cultural centre and primary and high schools, the Southern Quadrant makes for an ideal live and work environment. By offering a variety of living spaces to attract both the existing residents as well as new families, doctors and recent graduates, the southern quadrant has an enormous potential for nurturing a rich innovation cluster. To reduce the risk of this development as much as possible, the project can be broken into several stages to alleviate the burden of local businesses and residents from complete demolition. By choosing to develop the eastern strip of the railway first, it could alleviate the burden the transformation of the commercial edge to something that can develop over time. The plan also offers the option of moving the current residents to an adjacent block of an abandoned textile mill while introducing the new and older residents back into the developed area. Furthermore, as the tunnel nears completion, a park or open space can be imagined on top of the existing railway line mirroring the linear garden found one block east of the site. As time passes, this gradual development allows for the transformation of supporting businesses to adapt in surrounding areas that serve the new influx of residents and workers in a similar way that Hafencity used in their incremental phasing of buildings and amenities to create critical mass.

phasing

HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

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Spatially, the depth of the parcel along the southern quarter varies in width, thus introducing a new set of typologies. Though seemingly foreign at first, the typology of buildings actually is a mixture of the old and new. Certain sections along the southern quadrant insinuate a commercial edge. They’re not necessarily retail oriented but could also be live and workspaces. Secondly, low to midrise studio spaces offer a wider width of flexibility for different types of innovative clusters and larger households. Last, the taller apartment blocks are able to house the different types of residents and sizes of families. The three typologies combined in one block creates a certain ecology conducive for information exchange found in creative environments. Furthermore, the back to front orientation of the primary school or the park hints at a hierarchy of open spaces and the variation of plazas and setbacks the buildings have on the block making certain public areas more private than others. A block off of St. John’s Yard in Clerkenwell, London exemplifies this buzz of creativity with multiple entry points, different sized plazas, and the ability to move around buildings within the block including an eight-story apartment building, design offices, historic buildings and a corner market. With new links between various kinds of housing and working studios in the knowledge economy, one can begin to see a different kind of street which may link back to the station, offering something different to the area, but nevertheless relatable to a Taiwanese community. This process of seeding new developments by the private sector can be followed as one moves back north towards a new front door of the University.

St John’s Yard, Clerkenwell, London

FORESIGHT CLUSTER

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TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

With the opening up of the new surface of the railway station, the university has a chance to rethink its new front door. The typical placement of dormatories and recreational facilities towards the back can be reconsidered in a more ambitious manner to invite both public and private investment such as research clusters. The existing proposal for dormitories to be turned into research facilities is a good starting idea, but can be pushed further. The nature of the floor plates is good for just offices, but not laboratory spaces. By attaching an additional structure connecting the two dorms, one can imagine a quality of space ideal for cross-interaction and information sharing between researchers, students and administrative workers. Furthermore, the distribution of dark to light spaces for particular uses such as laboratories or offices trace similar principles of the Seattle Public library as users move up through this new public space.

The South-Western corner of the university might be opened up by arranging a series of buildings which will facilitate incubators and a creative milieu in a new front situation facing the station. Based on the logic of open spaces of the university, the campus will be connected with the rest of the city by a sequence of open spaces through which the flow of people will be able to penetrate through the structure of the NCKU. Architecturally it will create a crossovers between the privileged zone of the University and the public spaces of the hotel, street market, park and other public entities surrounding the campus. The spatial differentiation will appear not only horizontally but also vertically, creating the conditions of a certain quality to facilitate the knowledge centre. The sports fields might appear on the roof of the buildings with a view to the centre of the city and surrounded by cafes and restaurants. Multiple roof gardens will create a new quality for the space.

CIVIC LANDSCAPE DEVELOPING NETWORKS OF TRUST CULTIVATING OPPORTUNITY

Shangri La

TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

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Tainan 2011

TAINAN KNOWLEDGE STATION

Widening the scope of Tainanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s station development not only relocates the city within a competitive urban region, but also allows for an integrated and comprehensive planning strategy that rethinks the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infrastructural embedment and accessibility. Moreover, it includes key urban actors and detects possible synergies between them. Relieved from the burden to master a mere infrastructural vocation, the station and its surroundings can thus evolve into an urban quarter that will a progressive place of civic, social and economic interaction. As joint venture - with all three the city, private investors and the university engaging in the creation of a civic landscape - the station district can unfold its full potentials to become an environment that is knowledge-based and innovation driven.

Lower Lea Valley Housing + Urbanism AA 2010/11

Lower Lea Valley p.05 Industrial Urbanism p.21 Work + Live p.39 Infrastructure Urbanism p.57 Conclusion p.73

Husna Ahmed Flo Dirschedl Angela Jeng Aida Mofakham Nurit Moscovich Mithila Satam Yo Han Shin *** tutors: Hugo Hinsley Elad Eisenstein

Lower Lea Valley

The city in the 20th century has been subject to a transformation of dispersion: At the latest with the financial boom of the 1980s, cities have evolved from a community that relies upon a service economy, to one that depends upon an economy driven by global business and communications technology.1 They have evolved from local conditions, to a city that is part of a system of global city regions. The citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; urban fabric can hardly be described topographically and morphologically: it is a system of effects whose conditions continuously change. The result is a multi-centred and dispersed urban landscape, often contradictory and hard to perceive as a whole.2

The Lower Lea Valley in Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East has to be understood against this background. A peripheral site today, LLV is predicted to occupy a prime and highly coveted central location with the expansion of London along the River Thames as proposed by the Thames Gateway3 development scheme by the year 2050. The completion of the Crossrail and Eurostar lines will provide excellent connectivity and accessibility within London as well as with other places far beyond. Surrounded by the mega financial arenas of Canary Wharf in the South and Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City in the West and the Olympic development with Stratford City in the North, LLV is situated within a triangle of major urban

London 2050

developments and thus shifts into the focus of economic and financial desirousness. It occupies a valuable piece of land in London and possesses great potential for a germane use to the city. Various industries, logistics, creative businesses all have spread out along the network of waterways formed by the river, already. However, adjacent city quarters such as Bromley by Bow or West Ham are some of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most deprived areas. Hence, a successful regeneration of LLV will have to address local conditions and exert its influence on the surrounding areas as well. Only a suitable and appropriate integration into the immediate urban fabric will help harness its highest potential. MS+FD ExPANSION + INTEGRATION LLV

EUROSTAR CROSSRAIL LLV

1750

2010

The River Lea has always been a natural divide between (inner) London and the ancient Becontree hundred in the East. Subjected to flooding, it was exempted from settlements for a long time. Only with the emerging Industrial Revolution and the use of the river and canal system as navigable waterways the Lower Lea Valley became a major centre of productivity. Ever since, the LLV has been shaped by a long history of industrial use. Industries such as sugar refining, printing ink manufacturing and building trades used to be the main economic force in the area.4 The decline of manufacturing industries resulted in a great loss of jobs as these industries moved further away

to other parts of the country or were outsourced to other countries. The LLV as well as most of East London still suffers from a high unemployment rate and prevalence of social deprivation. The spatial quality of the area is very diverse from large industrial plots, derelict factories, postwar social highrise developments as well as low-rise housing communities. In this urban landscape, the different social and morphological territories form an heterogeneous urban fabric. Some abandoned areas and large monofunctional estates donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be part of this fabric and its collective interaction. As spaces, they are hardly perceived within the city. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take place. AJ+FD

Urban Landscape

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, PROGRAMMATIC TERRITORIES

Territories

INFRUSTRUCTURAL ISLANDS

MORPHOLOGIC ENTITIES

SHOPPING CENTRE, STRATFORD

BROMLEY BY BOW COMMUNITY CENTRE

Abercrombie

Patrick Abercrombie’s Greater London Plan (including the 1943 County of London Plan) from 1944 was a plan for the development and improvement of the city, illustrating a strategic reading of and spatial conception for the metropolitan area of London. It was comprised of a large number of “villages”, each sharply separated from all adjacent communities. Abercrombie’s intention was “to emphasize the identity of the existing communities, to [even] increase their degree of segregation, and where necessary to recognize them as separate and definite entities.”5 The communities themselves consisted of a series of subunits, generally with their own shops and schools and were reflective of typical neighbourhood unit plans. The city envisioned by Abercrombie was like a tree with two principal levels. The first level representing communi-

ties that are the larger units of the structure. The second level consisting of neighbourhoods that are the smaller subunits. The territories of these units never overlapped, however. Abercrombie describes the degree of this separation by understanding the scale and nature of, as well as the relationship within each community. Thus, the plan helps to explain the different physical, social and economical territories of the city in comparison to one another. The Abercrombie Plan can be used as a tool for understanding the fragmentation of the Lower Lea Valley. Such approach may help to dissect the multiplicity of the site and allow for opportunities of intervention to be made by revealing a segment’s character and intricate internal relations, and the potential of each unit or entity for enhancing the Lower Lea Valley. HA+FD

The City as Rhizome

What Abercrombie’s London Plan neglects, however, is the multiple relationships that exceed the limits of the described units or entities.6 The concept of a city as a rhizome is based on a philosophical reasoning by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze that apprehends multiplicities: It allows for a liberation from rather authoritarian systems and thus offers the possibility to link many perspectives and approaches without subjecting them to a rigid structure.7 Thus, cities - just as any other system within a world of simultaneity and multiple layers that is held together by a number of apparently chaotic alliances - can be seen in a more positive light: The city as a hybrid assemblage, whose structures rely on multi-layered - often contradictory principles of orders.

Modernist urban planning has failed to understand urban complexity by describing it as a hierarchical system whose elements and units successively build upon each other. “Tabula Rasa” approaches and self-sufficient master plan developments seem tempting solutions, the autarkic truism of their universality hardly offer any interfaces towards their environs and do not address urban plurality, however.8 In order to re-integrate LLV into the surroundings, its constituent parts have to be identified, strengthened where needed and reinvented where possible. Yet, understood as a part of a rhizomatic structure, LLV and its individual entities need to (re-)establish a heterogenous system of spatial, social and economic alliances that relinks the area into East London’s urban fabric. FD

Industrial Urbanism p.21

Work + Live p. 39

Three projects attempt to establish new relationships within the Lower Lea Valley and together form an integral approach that takes into account the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heterogeneity and fragmentation. An industrial urbanism is developed for a monofunctional estate in order to reconnect it to the urban fabric and

Infrastructure Urbanism p.57

make it part of a greater system. The omnipresent web of infrastructure elements are taken as opportunity and potential to reconnect adjacent areas and to enable new spatial qualities. A Work + Live concept addresses the programmatic fragmentation of the area by establishing new forms of work/live clusters for the creative class.

Industrial Urbanism

Enclosed between the River Lea and tube and DLR lines, a 89 hectare industrial estate - the “Prologis” site - is a typical example of a peripheral urban condition. It is an assemblage of logistic companies and some small dirty industries that have been planned as self-sufficient entities. Predominantly accommodated in sheds of every scale, they create a spatially heterogeneous but yet programmatically monotonous environment. Hardly connected to its surroundings, the site is a clear discontinuation of the urban fabric. As private property, it is a monofunctional piece of the city that is shielded from any public use and therefor has no collective meaning as urban place. “Place” (in contrast to space) can be considered as “rhetorical territory”9, a space in which

codes are shared. This understanding of place describes a realm where both individual and collective identities, as well as their relationships and history are legible and hence allow for a communication through insinuation and silent agreement. In that sense, the Prologis site is therefor a non-place that has lost - or never had - this common language. A space that is not heard within the hum of the city.10 In contrast to common peripheral industrial estates, the Prologis site is located in a favourable central position in London, however. By re-establishing a social and morphological complexity, it can become a constituent place of a greater system again and a test ground for a new industrial urbanism.

Central Periphery

89.000 : 21.000m2

PROLOGIS + context

Olympia sugarhouse lane

Tube

Park

Westham

DLR Bromley BB

Pitches

Waterfront

Canary Wharf

DLR

EuroStar CrossRail Industrial Estates LLV

Sto r

Dis

tri bu ti

Sto ra

Dis

So rti ng

Lo ad

So rti ng

ing

Lo ad ing

Interiorities

With the shifting of goods traffic onto the street and rail networks, the manufacturing sector - and in consequence industrial estates - no longer had to be adjacent to waterways, thus populating along the periphery of cities.11 The Lower Lea Valley is one of the few lasting industrial zones that is still within the central realm of London. Nevertheless, the street system of the Prologis site follows the logics of road based transportation and logistics. As mere means to an end it was designed entirely in

respect of a highly efficient connection of companies of a similar type. Accessible from only two entries, the road system fans out from a central spine and thus directly links to every individual plot. In between the streets, each industrial compound itself is organised around its own system of handling of goods. As economised interiorities, those self-sufficient entities with their distinct inner logic turn the entire area into a monofunctional field of impenetrable solids, aligned along empty and deserted voids: the streets.

The Legacy of Monofunctionality

COMPLETION OF THE GRID

QUEENSCOLLEGE,CAMBRIDGE

MURER PLAN, ZÜRICH

SOMERSETHOUSE,LONDON

BERLIN PRENZLAUER BERG

FITZROVIA / BLOOMSBURY

PROLOGIS LLV

The Deep Block and Worlds Apart A first step is taken by completing the open fringes of the streets so as to create an inclusive and comprehensive grid, thus eliminating the constrictions of cul de sacs and dead end roads. However, the comparison of street grid patterns between the Prologis site, Gründerzeit Berlin and Georgian Bloomsbury and Firtzrovia in London reveals the enormous scale of the site’s width of mesh and the challenges involved. Whereas Berlin’s block is a mere effort of making the depth of the grid accessible, the dense grid of Fitzrovia allows for a variation of block typologies. In Bloomsbury, the block size obviously exceeds an “appropriate” scale: a new layer of movement is added through sequences

of courts, creating a world of its own within the blocks. In medieval cities, cloisters and immunities formed distinct worlds apart within the urban fabric. Protecting religious communal life from the pagan environment, they were introverted worlds isolated from the exterior but yet well embedded in the urban tectonics and economic environment. Somerset House in London and the morphology created by colleges in Cambridge provide similar worlds apart in dense urban environments. Sequences (unfortunately priviliged, though) of court yards connect through deep blocks and establish a spatial quality that is in sharp contrast to their surroundings. Thus, they provide a spatial coherence to a number of different programs.

The completion of the street grid establishes independent fields in between the streets on Prologis site. As a result, a strip of relatively small “islands” is created in the middle of the site. Their dimensions are favourable for conventional development as the width is reasonably short for easy passage and accessibility across it. The other fields have to deal with an extreme width and a conventional approach of building would not be complimentary to the circumstances. Large sheds seem impenetrable obstacles and form an unaccessible solid.

A sequence of public spaces is carved into these solid fields offering a world apart from the surrounding “evil” of logistic enterprises and dirty industries. Thus, an inbetween is established, introducing a spatial coherence and quality to a number of new programs. As pioneers, these sequences trigger the emergence of a new urban fabric, that gradually erodes the Prologis site. Introverted worlds of their own at first, they later can link to their surroundings. A new layer of movement and also spaces is added.

Inside Out - Outside In

Interiors Rather a spatial tool than a clear architectural type, this cloistral apparatus primarily offers two diverse features: Firstly the deep block is made accessible with an inverted approach providing a new layer of public space as a starting point and thus establishes a network of pathways and courtyards. Secondly, in conjunction with this inward looking architecture, the ideology of a shared void with the built space wrapped around it provides a highly determined spatial coherence to a range of undefined programs.

Housing, commercial and recreational activities, even industrial uses are held together by a spatial spine: the courtyards. The envelope of built space around the voids is seen as a potential: Offering a variety of different spaces it can be inhabited by most various functions. The quality and mix of functions it might offer without any intrusive projections in unison with a dynamic and vibrant interior void can prove to be a tempting and beneficial solution to the problem of these fields.

WORk + LIVE UNITS

INTERPRETABLE SPACES

2020 SUPERMARkET

BOARDING HOUSE 2015 LOGISTIC ENTREPRISE

Talent migration and a highly mobile creative elite cause a tremendous demand in adaptable spaces and favourable, well-connected living conditions. New forms of cohabitation and a suitable environment are asked for that offer a potential to answer this needs. Specific, predetermined types of dwelling cannot provide a sufficient solution, however. Living spaces have to be adaptable not only in their use but also provide a high spatial quality at the same time. They need to

have the potential to perform in different ways: Thus, they can become interpretable spaces that make various forms of cohabitations and co-working imaginable. This spatial configuration corresponds to our contemporary urban condition: “In the same way that the city is no longer an ensemble of harmoniously grouped and cohesive elements (...) the dwelling moves from being an ensemble of carefully distributed rooms to a space ‘destined to be equipped’.”12 AJ+FD+MS

Interpretable Spaces

Work + Live

The Lower Lea Valley reveals conditions which are unique to its site not only programmatically through the physical divide between commercial and residential areas but also morphologically. It is through this conglomeration of fragmented areas created by the LLV topographically which enhances the division of the site programmatically and creates areas of concentration specific to those conditions. It is also this disconnect between zones that set up the perimeters for internal growth of LLV and particularly for those of housing. Of importance was the observation for the lack of a design strategy for dealing with areas that are prone to flooding. The housing in the surround-

ing areas is a vivid reflection of this problem as each residence is treated equally whether in a flood plane area or not. A design strategy which was ideal for the LLV topography and gave the opportunity for a new typology was generated - one that responded to conditions of flooding and would maximize the potential for its surrounding areas was that of resilience. The idea of resilience, as an approach, was sought to enhance the condition of LLV not only ecologically but economically and socially as well. The live and work concept was applied to a specific area that had opportunities for both and was ultimately en-

visioned to be a tool used to maximize the potential for these surrounding areas in making a new urban condition within a live work cluster, ultimately a new productive part of the city.

In our analysis of the existing conditions of live and work spaces, it became apparent that the extreme conditions found in LLV, specifically those between commercial and residence, were most profound at the border conditions of the site and, because of this, created fragmentation. Much like conditions found in LLV, there was a very unusual piece of land which was disconnected physically but very well connected programmatically. A low-income residential neighbourhood linked by business and transport was found to be the most ideal place to introduce this new type of living. The adaptability of such a space, which would cater to changes in live work patterns along with encourage new types of, mixed use.

concentration of activity

distribution of work and live

comparative analysis: grain

comparative analysis: void

sugar house lane

three mills

The extreme arrangement of the neighbourhood grid emphasized by the back-to-front housing condition can be seen as the most problematic. It creates longitudinal barriers alongside the river, and as a result has an adverse impact of isolation within the whole site. This kind of repetitiveness in parallel to the river also creates dead zones through a “speed bump” type of condition from the elevated parkscape (Green Way) to river. Having the striking potential of waterfront, due to the proximity to the river, waterways are channelized and conducted to the neighbourhood. Combining the water channel and the existing grid, a new “live and work” neighbourhood pattern will occur.

existing Housing

In contrast to the rigid existing grid, the new pattern of housing offers more permeable live and workspaces, in which the waterfront is increased for each unit. Simultaneously, the lower levels are resilient to the flood risk plane and are dedicated for more vulnerable spaces and uses such as, studios, workshops and also collective activities, which are temporary. The shifting of the grids not only serves live and workspaces for the neighbourhood itself, it also opens up the isolated condition of the site to its surroundings, which in turn enlarges the range of opportunity for the nearby creative and business industries. And ultimately would contribute to the rise of new creative industries.

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POTENTIAL HOUSING

Infrastructure Urbanism

The main idea of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Infrastructure Urbanismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; has to do with proposing infrastructure as the groundwork for urban development; finding the potential for new spatial qualities within the realm of infrastructure. In the Lower Lea Valley there is a particular condition in which multiple layers of infrastructure are crossing the

landscape to serve other areas of the city. Historically, this exposed layering condition was created due to the development of new systems of movement such as rails and roads. To keep away from the flood plain and minimise the conflict, these networks were introduced above the historical river and canal systems.

PLAN

SECTION

Looking at the infrastructure intersections in plan may suggest that the different networks simply cut the landscape into isolated entities, creating edge conditions. However, a sectional view of the intersecting layers reveals a physical complexity, a three dimensional net comprising of different sequences of linear movement systems and spaces created in between them. The hidden spaces defined by continues infrastructures mark an opportunity for intervention. This raises the question of whether the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;in betweenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; spaces can be inhabited by infilling and thickening the ground to transform these dead zones into spaces serving new values and needs.

Existing / Proposed

Existing

Elasticity

Introducing a volume

Having a closer look at one of the existing intersections (in this case water, sewage line and road) shows that the ‘in between’ spaces are quite constrained in terms of the possibility to infill and inhabit them. The infrastructure layers are impermeable, creating a relatively shallow section. Considering the existing conditions, the ‘in between’ spaces would need to be adjusted and enlarged. This can be achieved through ‘stretching’ the linear infrastructure systems. Playing with the infrastructure’s elasticity would enable introducing inhabitable volumes into the new spaces created.

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Then we can start thinking about the infrastructure intersections as a network of volumes or structures, a series of nodes suggesting a new reading of the Lower Lea Valley. The idea is that the structures introduced at each of the intersections is able to adapt itself to the artificial heavy concrete topography created by the infrastructure. As a response to the challenges faced in the Lower Lea Valley, such an intervention would potentially be able to overcome the infrastructure as a divisive system as well as humanise it through mediating the separation between its different layers.

The new nodal network created could be looked at as new infrastructure system â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a series of gateways to the Lower Lea Valley, each node serves as an anchor which can unlock the potential for nearby sites. This network can be potentially extended to link the Lower Lea Valley to other parts of the city.

Conclusion

Located in a favourable position in London, the Lower Lea Valley boasts of immense potential coupled with an abundance of possibilities of change. Comprehending and analysing these circumstances of operation and acknowledging the intrinsic site qualifications, the approaches undertaken aim to cope with the problems posed with a strategic outlook and spatial logic. The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inherent qualities are explored and employed in a design strategy that attempts to (re-)establish a heterogenous system of spatial, social and economic alliances that re-links the area into East Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban fabric. The vision of London 2050 where Lower Lea Valley shifts from its peripheral occupancy and assumes a central lo-

cation is recognised and utilised as a driver for this development. The prevalent conditions of waterways, dirty industries and infrastructural junctions are emphasised upon and the composite design solution revolves around the appropriate elucidation and amendment of these key issues identified. The industrial urbanism strategy ventures to reveal potentials of monofunctional industrial estates. In its endeavour to counterbalance the impact of the architectural and the lack of spatial logic, it formulates a distinctive approach to re-establish the site as a place of col-

lective meaning within the LLV and thus as a constituent part of a greater system. The infrastructure urbanism strategy offers a perspective focusing on networked infrastructures that interlace and infuse the city and the Lower Lea Valley in particular. It addresses questions concerning the potential of infrastructure to become the groundwork for urban development and the ability of the architecture of the city to transform moments within the web of infrastructure in order to enable new spatial qualities. Through examination of new scenarios for intervening and modifying infrastructure networks, this strategy suggests an approach leading towards a multi-performative system as both a conceptual and operative instrument

that may guide processes of urban transformation. The Work + Live strategy takes into account the flood risk of the LLV by turning it into a spatial quality. The programmatical fragmentation of the area is addressed by establishing new forms of work/live clusters for the creative class. The amalgamated project explores the intrinsic paths of growth and development on site and employs articulate and pertinent tactics to bring about a reformation of the Lower Lea Valley. Thus the overall project reads as a germane and practical methodology to combat the adversities of the site to create an agreeable place for living and working. MS+FD+HA

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Productivity is the generator of a new urban env relationships a city can begin to reassess its potentia generated as a result of existing variables within a co

ABSTRACT

vironment. Through ecologies created by innovative al for growth. An area can become formal or informal, ommunity. Production comes as a result of encounters.

ABSTRACT

ROYAL DOCKS

ROYAL DOCKS Index

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INDEX

Introduction

01. The Potentials of a Productive Ecology in the Royal Docklands

02. Tools, Themes, and Methodologies of Investigation

History

Tools

Site conditions

Themes

Potential

Methodologies

03. Two Sectors: Food and Film

04. The Projects

05. Towards a Productive Ecology

Appendix

Intro of Food and Film

Industry, Institution, Infrastructure.

Execution

Images

Scale

Articles

New Productive Ecology

Bibliography/Notes

Food Film

The Film Studio/The Education Center. Synergies between Food and Film. Sky Chef and a School for Hotel Management and Hospitality Training. Introducing new Institutions and new Sectors to the Site. Expanding the Institution and Completing the Infrastructural Loop.

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION The goal of the project is to reinterpret the Royal Docklands through tools, themes, and methodologies that can be used to create a new productive environment. By reclaiming introverted industrial land and introducing new industrial sectors, on varying scales, we will develop an idea that will respond to existing conditions as well as create new potentials of productivity. We have chosen to respond to three areas of activity: industry, infrastructure, and institutions. These three tools will help to drive our argument further as we learn about their existing influence, as well as experiment with the potential for their evolution. Urban themes based around production, consumption, and education will progress the existing tools of our investigation into a reinterpretation of a productive environment in the Royal Docklands.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 01

CHAPTER

The Potentials of a Productive Ecology in the Royal Docklands.

CHAPTER 01

HE ROYAL DOCKLANDS - DEINDUSTRIALIZED LAND Docklands circa 1965 Docklands circa 2005

CHAPTER 01

History of the Docklands From the largest industrial shipping port in all of England to an area that contains one of the largest exhibition centres in London, the Royal Docklands has been used over time by a multitude of industries and institutions at varying scales. The Docklands was a destination for the storage and processing of good coming to and from England. Its proximity to local waterways that ran through the country made it an advantageous location. However, due to an increase in containerization, the Docklands could no longer support the size of ships and cargo. As a result the area began to decline slowly, and activity in the once busy dock became nearly non-existent. Over time large corporations and business moved in to take advantage of large tracts of land and left over industrial sheds so close to central London. One of the largest industrial food manufactures, Tate and Lyle, has been a significant presence in the Docklands for over 200 years, and has continued to grow at a national and international scale. Connection to the rest of the city was only by road, any residential communities that developed were taken by individuals and families that could afford the commute. The Docklands finally embraced another means of accessibility in 1987 by building the London City Airport. The Docklands Light Rail (DLR) way opened to speed travel to and from Central London a few years later. Since the increase in new infrastructure, the Docklands has developed new industries and institutions that take advantage of the unique characteristics so close to Central London. Today the Royal Docklands is a short distance to the vibrant heart of London and the business distract of Canary Wharf. It sits just south of the Olympic site and at the start of the Thames Gateway Development scheme. Major venues have situated themselves along the former docklands and are trying to revitalize some areas through exhibition-based activities. Residential communities have developed in response to the DLR, and a university has located itself along the north-western corner of the site. Various urban tools of industry, institution, and infrastructure are ensuring a positive growth in the area. However, the Docklands becomes notable when it is possible to think about the amount of potential that lies in its unique characterizes and existing conditions. The next step is to recognize these aspects and how their potential can be executed to generate a productive environment.

CHAPTER 01

Site Conditions Stretching over 650 hectares the Docklands is an enormous site with a unique landscape that is not seen anywhere this close the Central London. It provides one of the largest stretches of land, in one borough, that fronts the Thames River. The site also has an expansive stretch of interior waterscape from its shipping port days. Most of the land is relatively flat and from the top of any tall building it is possible to get a view of the London skyline. The Docklands is well connected by the DLR, airport, and expansive road network. The major transportation services of the DLR and roads run along similar paths and cut north-to-south at key instances along the east-west dominated landscape. This transportation network helps to service exiting industries and institutions that exist on the site. The area also holds highly functioning examples of urban tools. The Excel Centre is one of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest exhibition halls and it does its job of attracting visitors to the area from the regional and the world. The University of East London is able to enroll over 23,000 students. Additionally some of the largest food industries in the world located large processing and manufacturing plants in the heart of the Docklands southern industrial-belt. A myriad of activities are generating a productive level of business for the Docklands, but they do not take full-advantage of all the area has to offer.

CHAPTER 01

Existing Conditions

CHAPTER 01

Existing infrastructural network and limited waterfront access

CHAPTER 01

Existing Conditions

CHAPTER 01

Urban grain

Urban character

Tube lines (DLR)

Roads Water connections

CHAPTER 01

Siemens

Cable Car

CHAPTER 01

Siemens

Potential

ExCeL University East London Cable Car Thames Gateway River Crossing

The landscape of the Docklands creates an attractive site for further investigation into creating a new productive urban centre. The amount of land available, ease of connections â&#x20AC;&#x201C; locally, nationally, internationally, surrounding landscapes of the waters edge, as well as a variety of industries and institutions in close vicinity are key characteristics of the landscape. To create this new productive environment our project has taken into account the main attributes of the Docklands as well as urban themes that can be used to guide our thinking. This project will experiment with ways to create potential from existing urban conditions by reassessing them with new methodologies.

CHAPTER 01

Potential Existing Industries, Institutions, and Infrastructure

CHAPTER 01

museum

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CHAPTER 02

CHAPTER

Tools, Themes, and Methodologies of Investigation

CHAPTER 02

Tate and Lyle

CHAPTER 02

Tools. Industry The tools for our investigations are primary elements in the urban environment, industry, institutions, and infrastructure (3 i’s). Each of these tools functions dependent on the others, creating an urban system of reliant services and activities. These tools allow us to develop an understanding of the existing site conditions as well as create a point of reference to further develop ways to create production-generating interventions. When we started the investigation of the “3 i’s” it was noted that particular companies of each dominated their sector. While the Docklands hold numerous instances of industries and institutions, and provides more than one mode of infrastructure, only a few are seen as exemplars to help us investigate the potentials of a new productive environment. Established industries on the site are operating at large scales. Tate and Lyle is one of the largest food manufacturers in England. It utilizes a few of the industrial sheds that were left over from the shipping industry in a campus that centres around a large processing plant. Currently Tate and Lyle engage the rest of the Docklands by providing jobs in its processing plant. Another prominent industrial site is Loon Fung, a Chinese food importer with an attached grocery store. It operates next to, but does not interact with the Tate and Lyle campus. Other industrial sites are given over to logistical services, creating large tracts of land that are used infrequently. Most of the industries on the site operate autonomously of one another, as their functions do not depend on the other. Yet all of the industries rely on the infrastructural system to ensure their products are distributed. Using industries as tools of investigation gives our projects an understanding of the function and utilize the land, as well as how one tool (industry) can create a dependent relationship with another (infrastructure).

CHAPTER 02

Industry Manufacturing/ Storage

Open/ Closed edges

Industrial pattern

Description of Industries

CHAPTER 02

Industry

industrial cluster

industrial open space residential cluster infrastructure infrastructure

industrial cluster

residential cluster

infrastructure

industrial cluster

industrial open space

infrastructure

CHAPTER 02

Industry

World scale

Metropolitan scale

Local scale

Existing condition

CHAPTER 02

Industry+Institutions

Possible ways to achieve the permeability of the industrial belt

Characteristics of the industrial belt

CHAPTER 02

Excel Centre

UEL

Siemens Centre

Britannia Community Centre

CHAPTER 02

Tools. Institutions Institutions in the Royal Docklands range in size, from small community centers operating with public funds, to large commercial exhibition halls that attract international business. The institutions play a strong role in developing the current character of the Docklands. They bring in most of the outside traffic into the site, primarily the Excel Center, the University of East London (UEL), and the soon-to-be Siemens center. These three organizations each represent different elements of institutions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; commercial, educational, and technological. The Excel Center attracts visitors from London, England, and the world by hosting a variety of events and conferences. Excel is one of the main businesses that are associated with the Docklands, making it a significant presence and representative. The UEL draws more than 23,000 students to the area, making it one of the largest higher education institutes in East London. The university is a key figure in the Docklands, because it provides a variety of educational resources for the surrounding community, creating a valuable resource. The Siemens center will be a new research center that will promote sustainable choices and products. This technology-based institution will be the first of its kind in the Docklands, allowing us to use this as a catalyst to generate new technology based projects. These instances of institutions provide good tools into the investigation of a productive urban centre. Each functions as different elements and provides us with opportunities in which we can extend their influence into the rest of the site and our new projects.

CHAPTER 02

Institutions The footprint and interconnection of existing and upcoming Institutions

UEL Siemens

ExCeL

CHAPTER 02

The Royal Business Park

Institutions The footprint of existing Institutions UEL

ExCeL

CHAPTER 02

LARGE SCALE Excel

CHAPTER 02

LARGE SCALE UEL

LARGE SCALE Siemens

SMALL SCALE Britannia Village. Community Centre

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Tools. Infrastructure The existing infrastructure acts as a generator to the industries and institutions. The DLR provides immediate services with the rest of London with 11 stations scattered across the Docklands. The DLR forks in the north-west portion of the site and splits running along the northern and southern part of the Docklands. The DLR services all major institutions and industries, but does not create an enclosed transportation loop. The track provides linkage to and within the site, but also creates physical barriers, which are somewhat alleviated by viaducts and pedestrian overpasses. This generates land underneath and on either side that is unused. London City Airport provides international connections to the rest Europe and the world, bringing in almost 9,000 people per day. The airport supports other related industries, such as catering, cargo shipping, and logistics storage. It is an important link for the rest of the Docklands because of its convenient location for travel to and from London and England. These tools of infrastructure will prove to be advantageous in the future projects because they will provide ample opportunities for experimentation.

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DLR line

Pedestrian routes

Roads

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Production, Consumption, Education The “3 i’s” are parts of cities, and in our investigation we will use them as tools. To develop and understand these tools on our site, we have taken into consideration themes of production, consumption, and education. Each of these themes operates in the “3 i’s”, but helps to clarify them as productive generators. We utilize these themes in our project by assessing their viability to operate on different scales and with the existing conditions throughout the site. The theme of production can be used to understand the development of business incubators. New business becomes a generator of production because it brings in people and capital. To create an environment on our site that will benefit new businesses we need to understand where potentials of production lie. Production may be generated through the DLR network that services existing institutions and industries, or by reclaiming the industrial sheds; perhaps it becomes a tool in which one rethinks the lack of cross-over between the industries and institutions. Consumption and education will act as supporters to the theme of production. Consumption will become a way to measure positive growth. The giving and taking of goods and services will be the quantities measured in consumption, the by-product of a productive environment. An educational theme will work with existing institutions, such as the UEL, but also become a way to explore the potentials of new ways to exchange information. Education is exchange of ideas, something that will be essential to our new productive environment. Production, consumption, and education all work together and support one another. These themes will become points of interaction through a series of composite strategies. They are ways to reestablish the tools of our initial investigation. Production, consumption, and education must work on a variety of scales because of the size of the Docklands, but because they will help us to understand the variations of the “3 i’s” in our projects.

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The tools are ways to understand the site conditions and the themes are ways to readdress the tools in the unique environment of the Docklands. In our investigation of our site with these tools and themes, and our experimentation of a new productive urban ecology we have become interested in the potentials of the existing site conditions, particularly how the “3 i’s” can re-relate to one another. Tate and Lyle is the biggest industry on our site, not only in land mass but also as an economic generator. We have chosen to take this industry, food, as a catalyst for our project. However, in order to fully express the potentials of productivity that are inherent in the food industry we have thought it best to use another seemingly unrelated industry to further develop the potentials of food. The film industry has a presence within close proximity to the Docklands; an active studio is accessible via the DLR and takes under 10 minutes from most stations. There may already seem to be a superficial relationship between food and film, as both operate within the themes of production and consumption. However, it is about readdressing these industries with an understanding of how their relationship can be interpreted on the site with our tools and themes.

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Food, Film We have chosen food and film as the drivers of our productive ecology because of the possibilities each of these industries has in developing beyond their typical models. Food and film are established industries that could function independently of each other. In London they both operate and distinguish neighborhoods with their unique roles. Our new productive urban environment is about creating an ecology that can happen between the existing and new; not limiting a reassessment of our tools and themes by introducing an economically proven industry. By choosing food and film as our industries we question how to push their individual functions further by developing a new relationship between them. The strength of each industry relies in its ability to produce something to be consumed. Their inter-relationship would alter this function to produce more and at a larger variety of scales and services. Aspects of the food industry can be used in the creative industry of film. The functions of film will be serviced by the food industry. By rethinking food and film through a reassessment of our themes, tailoring them to respond to the tools of investigation on our site, and influencing one industry with the other we can generate a new urban ecology.

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Food Food occupies two of the largest industries in the Royal Docklands. Tate and Lyle is a significant presence in the Docklands. It rests on the shore and provides access to the Thames, however it is a closed campus and interaction only happens within, making it completely autonomous. The other prominent food industry on the site is Loon Fung, which has a campus set-up similar to Tate and Lyle and occupies a series of reused industrial sheds. When assessing the existing food industries on our site we see that they are mainly concerned with manufacturing and exporting. The relationship with the rest of the Docklands is extremely limited. Our proposals for the food industry would be to address all aspects of food production, consumption, and education through the tools of investigation. Food is an industry that is made up of various levels of services and activities. We have approached our understanding of the potentials of the food industry by the scale in which it operates, and the possibility for these multi-scalar activities to take advantage of the amount of infrequently used land in the Docklands. Farming represents the food industry at its fundamental base. An urban farm would be the start to create a closed-loop food system within the docklands and a generator for a myriad of other related activities. The food industry also require means of logistic, packaging and processing, inherent activities that will supplement fundamental and new interactions between food and film. Research facilities are also characteristics of the food industry that we will explore, and with the advent of the Siemens Centre another research-based venture has strong potential. By using the themes of production, consumption, and education we can start to reassess the ways food functions may start to service and rely on the film industry. New educational facilities, that partner with the existing institutions, may provide an opportunity to mix food and film in an environment that promotes learning and experimentation. Reassessing the production aspect of the food industry and how it provides services to communities will also be fundamental. New methods of production may come out of the shared education facilities, creative partnership between elements of food and film will be stimulated in these types of environments. Consumption of goods, services, and knowledge will be the factors that will make food and film a viable crossover.

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The case of Tate&Lyle - London - UK

Aerial view of Tate&Lyle.

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Aerial view of Loong Fung.

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We have used a case-study to understand the possibilities of the food industry to create an urban centre. Greater Grimsby is a city in the United Kingdom that has become the largest fish-producing town in the nation. It has engaged the rest of the town and has embedded itself as the largest economy in Greater Grimsby. Fish manufacturing and its supported industries are separated across the town, resulting in a connection that passes through the town core. This creates a zone of dense productivity in the centre of the city. As a result of the mix of services directly related to the fishing industry other services have popped up to cater to the needs of workers, shipping, and manufacturing. We use Greater Grimsby as a model to understand the potentials generated when an industry engages with its surrounding community, in this instance in a physical and economic way.

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Film We have chosen to utilize the creativity of the film industry to drive a re-qualification of the food industry. 3-Mills Film Studio is located 3km north of the Docklands, and another abandoned studio is 2km to the north-east, both are easily accessible via the DLR. While the creative industry currently has little impact and presence in the Docklands, its proximity and characteristics hold high potential for a new urban ecology with the food sector. The film/creative industry will be viable in our site because of the multi-scalarity of its activities. Currently there do exist community and media performance centres that are used by local residents. These are small and act within a community radius. Yet, there presence is enough on which we can start to establish new creative industries that can act at a higher capacity. Some aspects of the creative industry are being supported by related activities in existing institutions. The Excel Centre holds a biannual film festival and UEL offers classes in the creative arts. There exists the possibility to create and recreate relationships with these institutions, the existing community centres, and new elements of the creative industry. These elements are only enhanced by the active infrastructure network that ensures the Docklands is connected to the vibrant creative communities in Central London and beyond. The film and creative industry create activities that have high potentials of production. New business incubators may facilitate the growth of a young creative class. This group of individuals may take advantage of educational facilities and centres that tailor to their profession, while creating new ways of expressing their learning via the food industry. There will be opportunities for creative studios to operate, possibly working for large food related businesses. Additionally new mixed residential services will be provided, mixing the young creative class of food and film. The potentials to this new urban ecology will not be made to function within the confines of the Docklands. The network of infrastructure will ensure people and services are utilized wherever there are connections. Re-engagement with the existing elements of the creative industry in institutions may help to act as catalyst to ensure integration into the existing neighborhoods.

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Aerial view of Culver City.

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Aerial view of Ealing Studios.

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As with food we have used a variety of case-studies to understand how different scales of the creative industry can integrate themselves into a community and create productive economies. The neighborhood of Soho in Central London is an explosion of micro creative clusters that act in harmony with one another. Theatres rely on acting schools, and artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios tailor to larger professional design studio. Soho becomes an example of creative sub-sectors crossing over one another to make a relationship of dependencies and interactions. Culver City is a film studio that functions as a completely introverted environment in the centre of a city. It is small in scale and support activities directly related to filming, however it must rely on services available outside its immediate vicinity as it cannot function solely on what is contained within the studio. Ealing Studio is located in a residential neighbor in North London, and while it is introverted like Culver City it can operate independently without reliance on outside services. These examples of active creative industries allow us to understand, in an urban setting, how a creative industry can relate to its surroundings. Through complete, partial, or no segregation, each creative industry gives us a variety of ways to deal with creative services. When we apply this to our projects we may use introverted activities in filming studios where security and control are essential, yet when we integrate film and food we need to know how relationship and dependencies are created and maintained.

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SYNERGIES BETWEEN FOOD and FILM THE FILM STUDIO/ THE EDUCATION CENTRE

SKY CHEF and a SCHOOL FOR HOTEL MANAGEMENT and HOSPITALITY TRAINING

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Industry, Institution, Infrastructure Rethinking typologies

Our new urban ecology is formed from encounters of food and film as well as a retention of key aspects in their autonomous function. Through planned interventions we create formal and informal environments for the sectors to interact and create a new type of productive ecology. The functioning of food and film will change from their interactions. As a result, new ways to address their activities will emerge from our experimentation and understanding of the tools, themes, and methodologies. Typological reasoning is used to compliment the new activities that will be generated from the ecology of food and film. We have picked sites along the Royal Docklands that will take advantage of the existing site conditions as well as interact with local communities, institutions, and industries. The projects will be presented moving west to east as to show dependencies in their interaction and how new modes of infrastructure ensure their connectivity. While all projects will not happen in a sequential or simultaneous manner we present them in this way to show the intricacies of their encounters.

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Bringing Film to the Royal Docklands

The first site of our projects houses a large film studio. The scale of this plot, sandwiched between two functioning industrial sites, creates room for the large program associated with a film studio to establish. Space can be provided for filming sets, workshops, and offices. Unique programmatic needs of a film studio and the sites proximity to a residential neighborhood were addressed by sinking parts of the program, allowing accessibility onto the site by the creation of a public park. The second site for a film related intervention stems off the initial film studio by providing educational facilities as well as live/ work studio space. The site is situated in a prime location just south of a large residential neighborhood as well as a proposed food related intervention. This new area creates a productive environment by showcasing the possibilities of a synergy between food and film

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Diagrams Linking Britannia Village to the waterfront/Inserting the Workshops building as a sound buffer.

Inserting the program related to the Film Industry.

Thickening the ground covering parts of the program.

Porosity of the thickened ground level allowing different levels of interaction (public/services) and allowing transparency vis-a-vis the program.

Different layers of interaction with the site: public, amateur, professionals.

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The Cinematographic Park

The new park allows access via a 25m wide underpass, from the community of Britannia, linking to a new infrastructure along the waterfront of the Thames. A boat dock will be created to connect to the rest of London and other various landmarks along the water. The underpass will serve as a showcase for public art and enhanced by the introduction of greenery. The film activities being housed under the elevated park vary in size and thus the topographical landscape of the park transforms. Film professionals can access the film sets and other sunken areas from a road which runs lower, while the public can make their way across the park by a series of bridges above the service areas. This creates a unique experience for the user, as they will only be given a visual hint of the hive of activity beneath. The sunken program contains a theatre, a variety of movie sets, workshops, storage areas, and loading docks. However this complex arrangement of programs is porous, allowing the user to move freely around the different functions, not having to go to the surface to access other areas. Because of the proximity of the site to a residential neighbor precaution has been taken to buffer any noise that my come from the day or night. An office building has been designated towards the northern periphery of the site. It is raised above ground level, additionally creating a designated entry point for the park.

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Insertion of the program

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Diagrams Bringing manufacturing/knowledge and residential on a common site.

Inserting the school (education layer) and live/work clusters (Productivity layer). Linking the central Mixed area of the overall project with the added diagonal.

Pushing the slabs, creating pockets. Planted terraces on the educational building. Superposed live/work spaces and planted roofs

Bringing the public inside the building from the ramp level. Raising the live/work spaces, generating more porosity and flexibility to the site.

Different layers of interaction with the site: amateur, professionals and visitors.

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The Educational Centre

The site reproduces the diagonal from the adjacent Thames Barrier Park. This landscape element splits site program, one side containing education the other production and consumption based enterprises. The educational facility functions around a giant staircase that allows the creative studios to climb up the building and interact with each other, providing the school community and visitors a unique perspective on their surroundings. On the other side, the create live/work spaces are designed to be light on the landscape. They are elevated off the ground and sometimes situated between trees, giving them a treehouse quality. This environment creates a unique environment for young creative talent to work. The diagonal cutting through the site acts as the main pedestrian thoroughfare, bringing people in as well as connecting with the quay site across the road by an underpass. People emerging from the underpass will discover a new type of environment by the complex layering of functions on the site. Public services are located on the ground floor, gardens suspended from the school and workshops, and professional work studios generate this creative-exchange based environment.

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Synergies Between Food and Film

Traversing through the underpass the user is now immersed in the cross-over relationships of food and film. This site, located around the Silvertown Quay, is unique in its landscape and existing architecture. The three interventions take advantage of the location as well as carefully attune to the distinct qualities of food and film

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Research and Education Clusters

Across the quay from the farm sits the abandoned Millennium Mills, a prime building to be reused as a basis for research and education related to aquaculture and floriculture. The building will incorporate a research centre with classrooms, lecture halls, computer and scientific laboratories, conference rooms, libraries, and residential quarters on the top floors for staff, researchers, students, and guests. The ground floor is divided from the research centre to accommodate commercial and retail activities that will open up to the waterfront and the neighboring community. The research building works on the land in front and adjacent to the Mills. Flower plantations are designed on mounds to create interesting patterns and distinct growing zones. They are sloped to create room underneath to house facilities for the adjacent fishfarm. Flowers were chosen for research as to not risk crossbred contamination with the vegetable farm a few hundred meters away. The flower plantation also provides a striking visual aesthetic. This clubbed with leisure and knowledge based activities on the site create a place for the new and existing community to interact and enjoy. To activate the waterfront, apart from the leisure and recreational activities, a fish-farm was designed, fortifying the objective to creative innovative uses of the new sectors to enhance productivity. The farm will produce consumable fish that will be sold to local restaurant and used in the cooking schools â&#x20AC;&#x201C; places utilized by everyone. The program for the fish-farm is located in the calm waters of the quay. Workshops, nurseries, storage, and an information centre take advantage of the space created by the sloped flower plantations. A vehicular road, along the periphery, links all of these activities and services with the rest of the Docklands.

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Creative Cluster The combination of food and film creates an incredible range of activities and urban environments by mixing small/large scales, industries, and workshops. After analyzing the constraints and potentials of the site, this group started to test different design approaches and programs in order to achieve a creative urban environment. The land on the southern edge of the quay and the one first accessed by the sub-terrain underpass becomes the prime location for a synergy between food and film. Through the mixture of typological experiments, this project looks to enhance the â&#x20AC;&#x153;3 iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? in a wider territory. The arrangement of buildings is organized in a permeable manner, enhancing the patterns of movement throughout the whole site. The program comprises of small-scale industrial workshops (creative clusters), film/food related workshops, agriculture, and a marketing and advertising school. These programs are designed through multiple articulations and address the livelihood of their encounters through multiple scales and hybrid typologies. The small scale workshops are arranged in different clusters. They create themed pockets which organize the workshops according to use, such as cenography, graphic design, sound editing, costume, lighting, and photography amongst others. The services provided in these workshops will be used by both food and film. It is essential to have a coherent spatial strategy to enhance the existing conditions of the city as well as create a more creative urban territory. The ability to synchronize different aspects of the territory is a substantial measure that is done in the design strategies.

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plant nursery roof planting

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roof planting

eco walk

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The Urban Farm: Educator and Producer To the east of the quay sits flat and easily accessible land, a prime location for the implementation of an urban farm. The fundamental program of a food industry is a farm and better yet, one which will develop to serve as a producer and educator. The agriculture program that site on this site produces food, creates a venue for its showcase and consumption, and provides interactive educational activities. The farm occupies almost nine hectares. The land is divided into short rows to allow for hand-harvesting, there is a reinsertion of a vehicular road to ease transport. A seasonal pavilion is placed towards the north-western portion of the site to not cast any shadows over the field and to take advantage of a unique location on the corner of the docklands. The pavilion’s interior quality responds the variety of vegetation in-season. During the warmer “growing” months the glass walls of the doors fill with green vines. Light is filtered through the doors and an iridescent shadow is cast within. Users of the building can enjoy the seasonal vegetables in the restaurant or café, as well as shop for locally produced goods from the farm or nearby creative studios. In the winter months, when there is little vegetative activity, the pavilion emits a softer glow from the light of the gray winter sky. The vines in the doorways have receded, leaving the opaque glass to filter the haziness of winter. The pavilion responds to the environment around it and provides the user with an experience that enlivens all the senses. Another building is situated diagonally across the site from the seasonal pavilion. This building acts as a storage and processing shed for the farm. Its architecture mimics that of the pavilion. On the land visitors can walk through the fields and spot their favorite vegetable. Paths are cut diagonally to allow for variation in scenery, and sloped to give the visitor a whole new perspective to their food. The slopes range in height from a few centimeters to a few meters, giving an assortment of heights an opportunity to experience a variety of views. A child will see a row of beets differently than that of a full-grown adult. This way of walking through the field is meant to create a new level of understanding where ones food comes from, and how a person really is what they eat.

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Seasonal pavilion “Summer”

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Sky Chef and a School for Hotel Management and Hospitality Training

A post-industrial site sits across the street from the urban farm and this project takes advantage of the large tract of land available to the west of the Tate and Lyle campus. The site is divided into two parts, one housing a series of logistical warehouses and the other serves as a training and education facilities. These two sides of the site are linked with a commercial kitchen that is able to transmit activities. The logistical warehouses abut to the east, which in the future could be used by Tate and Lyle. The services on the other side of the territory are predominantly serving the London City Airport, which is in close proximity. A Sky Chef service is incorporated into the commercial kitchen, providing pre-made meals to be used in-flight. Additional services for Sky Chef such as warehouses for raw material (supplied by the urban farm) and finished products, as well as distribution buildings are also created. For the purpose of institutionalizing the industries, catering institute and hotel management schools were integrated. Providing and making organic food will also be fundamental in the Sky Chef service as well as the new educational programs. An organic food corporation, which existed on the site, is relocated to a building next to the schools, creating a social courtyard. The new school facilities are connected to the organic food corporation by a slanting sky bridge, creating a physical connection as well as an aesthetic value. The same sky bridge connects from below the ground to a newly design multi-purpose auditorium on the other side of the road.

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Shurgard Storage

Etap Hotel

Shurgard Storage

Etap Hotel

Institution for catering and Hotel Management

CFE-organic food enterprise

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The area for this project is defined by separated entities: selfcontained communities to the north and an industrial belt to the south. Two hidden anchor points currently occupy ends of a road that run diagonally through the site. One is the semi-active Music Hall and the other is a community plaza, which is already connected to the welldeveloped infrastructure. The plaza contains a library, shops, a hotel, and restaurants. This area also links to a pedestrian tunnel, which passes under the Thames and links with the other bank. Despite being well connected and with a variety of services and activities this area is underused. Acupuncture type projects are created to bring the separated entities together, and to create new conditions for the site, which will consequently help to transform the area.

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Existing condition The Music Hall works at a local scale and holds a variety of events, ranging from music classes to theatre production. It site on a site that is adjacent to the airport, the new Sky Chef park, and the urban farm; it is in a prime location to be reassessed through an integration of food and film. The other site for the project intervention addresses the industrial belt, which is used to store and process goods from the existing food industries. The goal is to regenerate the existing industrial territory and create a new innovative environment with conditions that will allow this area to transform spatially, economically, and institutionally.

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Besides expanding the Music Hall by creating a new institution this project will develop on multiple scales: local and regional. By adding theatre workshop spaces, equipment storage, performance practice studios, kitchen and catering facilities, and other services provided in other examples of theatres, we can re-qualify the Music Hall.

The industrial sheds are rethought to create post-production clusters to support an introduction of the film industry. As a result of this transformation the waterfront hidden by the industrial belt will be partially opened up. The sheds retain their existing structure, but the dimensions have changed, creating separated clusters and interesting spaces.

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Post-Production Industry The shed is considered as a shell to house multiple sectors within. The structure of the post-production sheds will hold studios for the film industry, rentable studio, as well as school and public facilities. This will open the post-production cluster to the food industry. Cooking schools, cafes, and restaurants will be created to attract people and create new jobs. Moreover, the whole site will develop a transparent and porous building to accentuate the waterfront access. The existing industrial businesses will benefit from the new food venues but also the skilled work force that can receive training in schools on the site.

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New Local Infrastructure The main link between the anchors and a means of stimulating the new environment built in the industrial belt will be a new infrastructural spanning the distance of an existing and unused railway. A tram will run along the railway and provide a local service to link the new mixed-use post-production territory to the east with the creative theatre cluster to the west.

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Expanding of Institutions and Completing the Infrastructural Loop The aim of this project is to increase productivity through institutions. Expanding the University of East London will provide a platform of knowledge and create a new network of interaction that will enhance the productive capacity of the territory. A crossover between students, professors, local communities, and economic sectors will be generated. An intervention will complete the infrastructure loop towards the eastern end of the dock with a new productive loop incorporating spaces for business incubators, educational facilities, workshop spaces, commercial spaces, and a pedestrian walkway. Architecturally the projects will engage users differently during various periods of time â&#x20AC;&#x201C; day and night. The morphology of the project is derived from the pattern of the existing urban fabric. Structural lines and agriculture field orientation are defined, allowing for a composition of buildings and ground that create a continuity of space between the surrounding and the project. A new typology of institution is created from the combination of programs that create the new network of interaction among the relevant sectors. This new typology leads to both horizontal and vertical spatial organization that encourages a mix of spaces and uses. These are the demonstration spaces and research units for food and film, workshops, an organic supermarket, learning centre for creative industries, local facilities, and residential spaces for students and researchers. The form for the building is meant to become an organic, typological, gradation of the character of functions. Moving from food and film demonstration space to the more formal block of the institution. The landmark of the project is a learning centre converted from an old warehouse. This introverted box is designed to be the element that interacts most with the area. A double skin is applied to the form to create an interactive outer faĂ§ade that overlaps with the solid box inside. This spatial concept will allow the flexible space between inside and outside of the learning centre as well as the waterfront promenade to perform as a learning landscape at night. The infrastructure is re-qualified by inserting a new pedestrian walkway into the vehicle bridge. This will change the relationship between the infrastructure and area from one divided to one connected. This project is the experimentation of spatial strategies and design intervention to address the issue of productivity of the Royal Dock. It explored the possibility to create synergies between institution, industry and infrastructure for the transformation of the area. By focusing on the institution as a key driver, in combination with the new economic sectors-food and film, it can be suggested that this articulation of space will formulate a richer and more complex understanding of how various dimensions- economic, social, spatialcan be integrated with design to generate a more productive urban ecology.

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EXISTING CONDITION Large institutions, Siemens Centre, Excel Centre, and the UEL are situated on the northern side of the Royal Docklands. Smaller institutions such as community and training centres are located along the southern side. In the eastern end of the Docklands there is a mix of large and small institutions. The segregation of the area made by the infrastructure of roads, railways, and the dock results in an exaggerated introverted operation of these institutions.

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PROPOSAL Synergies will be created between new economic sectors and an enhancement of the role of large and small institutions. A platform of knowledge will provide a new network of interactions that allow cooperation between university, small institutions, communities, existing and new industries, and business incubators. Requalifying existing infrastructure will provide a physical connection to link and reactivate the disconnected area of the Docklands.

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RE-QUALIFY INFRASTRUCTURE A pedestrian walkway is inserted underneath the existing bridge, creating new relationships and access points to the water. The new walkway will also accommodate a floating business incubator. The businesses will be supported by a floating orthogonal structure. This will facilitate a flexible configuration of the cluster, both horizontally and vertically, to respond to the needs and demands of the business.

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Execution The sites for our interventions take advantage of large tracts of post-industrial land that have close proximity to functioning industries and existing communities. The surrounding environments of our site create a greater potential to develop a critical mass of activity that would be essential to a new productive environment. Most of the post-industrial land is scattered with large sheds that are used for logistical purposes by various sectors, including food. By incorporating larger programmatic needs of food and film with existing sheds and enhancing them through an introduction of elements of the new sectors at various scales, we can establish a mix of activity based on functions and requirement. Food and film both operate in a multi-scalar and functional manner. Aspects of each sector can shift to operate at various scales. The scope influential elements of food and film have on the site will become dependent on their requirements by the new and existing industries, institution, and infrastructures. The residential community of North Woolrich may desire smaller cafes and restaurants while the proposed research centre, east of the Quay, may need larger logistical buildings for food related material. The execution of projects not only respond to the availability of post-industrial land and the architecture already situated; but to the diversity of programs that are inherent in food and film and the need to recognize existing industries, institutions, and infrastructure. The Royal Docklands is a large site, providing the opportunity to implement a myriad of new interactions. The new sectors of food and film operate across different scales, from the community garden to large sheds for film production. Food and film can be both large and small; by recognizing these features of each sector we can then create a way to implement their scales in variation across the large site of the Royal Docklands.

Scale Our projects are executed in a multi-scalar manner to respond to variations that are created by the diversity of program. While the footprint of each project is large, aspects of each operate at different hierarchies. Smaller instances of food provide services in larger areas dedicated to the film industries, while post-production film modules set up shop in leftover warehouses around the site. The variation of scales in our project creates the catalyst for the greatest easement into a new productive environment. Portions of the site are segmented because of the introduction of the food and film industries, creating the transition from monofunctional to multi-functional. A site that has a higher diversity of functions will ensure a longer term of success. Food and film are such strong and independent sectors that they can maintain themselves. By mixing their functions across different scales we can ensure that dependence is created in this multi-functionality. Food will rely on film and film will need the services of food, yet each is productively independent of the other. We have chosen to integrate food and film on large footprints across the site in order to test our tools, themes, and methodologies within the inherent complexity of the combination of the new sectors. Using large foot-prints along with multiple scales allows us to consider different relationships that can happen in the crossover as well as new ways to think about food and film independently of each other. The large scale of the site gives us the room to push food and film to generate new idea, and in turn a new productive urban ecology.

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Appendix/Bibliography Viljoen Andre. Katrin Bohn, Joe Howe. ed. Continuous productive urban landscapes: designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities. Architectural Press. 2005. Koster, Egbert. Oostelijk Havengebied Amsterdam = Eastern docklands: new architecture on historic grounds. Architectura & Natura. 1995. Ellmers, Chris. Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost riverscape: a photographic interpretation. Viking. 1988. Holzer, Christoph. Riverscapes: designing urban embankments. Birkhauser. 2008. Abrahamse, Jaap Evert. Eastern harbour district Amsterdam: Urbanism and architecture. NAi Publishers. 2003. Bruttomesso, Rinio. ed. Waterfronts: A new Frontier for Cities on Water. Cities on Water. Meyer, Han. City and Port: Transforming of port Cities London, Barcelona, New York, Rotterdam. International Books. 1999. Lopate, Phillip. Waterfront: a walk around Manhattan. Anchor Books. 2005. Williamson, Elizabeth, Nikolaus Pevsner, Malcolm Tucker. London docklands. Penguin. 1998. London Docklands Development Corporation. London docklands today. LDDC. 1997. Al Naib, S. K. London docklands: past, present and future. Polytechnic of East London. 1990.

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Budget's Enterprise Zone is vital to an Olympic legacy of pr…

Budget's Enterprise Zone is vital to an Olympic legacy of prosperity The Chancellor's strategy for growth. 7:00AM GMT 24 Mar 2011

SIR – We welcome the announcement in the Budget of new Enterprise Zones. The new zone in London will be in the Royal Docks. It is crucial that the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games bring sustainable employment to East London as part of a lasting legacy. Newham alone has an employment rate of 60 per cent of the working age population – 10 percentage points below the national average. But East London has the potential to contribute an additional • 13 billion to GDP. We must ensure that we get the incentives right for each area, to maximise investment potential. Last year, the Prime Minister announced his plan for a tech city, stretching from Old Street to the Olympic Park. We look forward to working with the Government to maximise the opportunities for technology to drive our economy. Sir Robin Wales Mayor of Newham Andreas J. Goss Chief Executive, Siemens Plc 26.03.2011 John Burton

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London’s Royal Docks to become one of country’s largest Enterprise Zones Director, Westfield Stratford City

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Saving libraries is the way to boost child literacy (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/8402311/Saving-libraries-is-the-way-to-boost-child-

The literacy.html) regeneration of London’s historic Royal Docks came a step closer today as 125 hectares of development land adjacent to City Airport and with

excellent transport connections, were given Enterprise Zone status, following successful negotiations between the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and the coalition government. Kevin Murphy Thousands of jobs are expected to be created by this status which will provide a significant boost to the Mayor’s plans to transform the Royal Docks into a Chief Executive, London brand new district toExCeL live, work and invest in.

New businesses locating there during the term of the current Parliament will benefit from reduced business rates for five years and, most importantly, the Richard Gooding business rates London collectedCity from those newly established businesses in the zone will be retained by London’s recently created Local Enterprise Partnership for Chairman, Airport the next 25 years. This will create an ongoing economic development fund which can be re-invested in promoting economic growth elsewhere in the capital or set against borrowings for investment. Hamid Kefayati ManagingHaringey Director,Council Buhlerhas Sortex Limited Separately, invited the Mayor to enter into discussions to explore establishing a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC) in the

N17 area of the borough – one of London’s most deprived neighbourhoods. This would be London’s second MDC after the one proposed for the Olympic Park and would also be able to offer business rate incentives to new enterprises using powers being granted under the Localism Bill. Talks SIR – IHaringey wish theleaders Chancellor hadlocal increased tax on everything don'timmediately. buy and increased income tax for everyone who earns more than I do. between and the businessthe community are set to Istart Together these initiatives will help create significant economic growth for two of London’s key regeneration areas in the Upper and Lower Lea Valley. Rodney Howlett Darley Dale, Derbyshire

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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: “This new status is the icing on the cake for my vision to return the Royals to their former glory as a thriving, vibrant place to live, work and visit. Already home to the colossal ExCeL Exhibition Centre and the new International Convention Centre, investors are SIR – How refreshing to have a Budget largely free of hubris and sleight-of-hand. beating a path to the door of golden opportunities arising in this emerging district.

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Thousands already ride his Boris bikes, now it's all aboard... The Boris cable car

London dock projects revealed | New…

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London dock projects revealed

By David Jarvis Last updated at 2:09 AM on 18th April 2011

3 March 2011 | By Andrea Klettner London Development Agency and Newham Council will use Mipim to unveil plans for Royal Docks Next week’s Mipim property fair in Cannes will hear details of the self-styled “last great development opportunity in London” centred around the Royal Docks. BD has been given a preview of what’s in store for this area of east London, owned primarily by the London Development Agency and Newham Council and stretching from the Olympic Park to the largely derelict docks themselves. According to Clive Dutton, executive director of regeneration, planning and property at the council what is proposed also represents “the highest quality of architecture and design that lifts the spirits and inspires people”.

Stratford Village Stratford Village ( pictured) will be the first phase of housing developed post the 2012 Games on the

05.05.2011 aboard the Boris cable car | Mail O… main Olympic site by the OlympicAllPark Legacy Company. The cable cars will transport 2,500 people across the Thames every hour, the equivalent of about 40 buses.

Located in the area near the athletes’ village and the velopark, the development will be 60% housing,

It will stretch two-thirds of a mile and have up to 34 gondolas carrying a maximum of ten passengers each. The 300ft focusing on families. support towers will rival the 440ft London Eye on the skyline, but will still be dwarfed by the Shard, which at 1,017ft will be A set of building traditional London housing typologies – including mews, terrace and stacked – have been the tallest in Europe when it is completed next year.

identified for chosen architects to interpret.

High life: An artist's im pression of the planned tow ers and cable cars

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A spectacular new cable-car system is set to soar high above London’s River Thames. The stunning addition to the capital’s skyline will see gondolas glide 300ft above the water suspended from cables anchored to giant towers, giving commuters and tourists a majestic new view of the city. 26.03.2011

Developer Bouygues is responsible for the £500 million five-phase regeneration of Canning Town (pictured), with separate architects set to design each stage, together with a landscape architect. Working with Newham Council, Bouygues selected Haworth Tompkins for the first phase, which includes a new Morrisons supermarket and 177 homes.

Canary Wharf owners eye Royal Docks - Telegraph

It will cross the river from the Greenwich peninsula to the Royal Docks, linking the O2 Arena south of the river to the ExCeL exhibition centre in East London. The £40million project – which has the full backing of London Mayor Boris Johnson – already has planning permission and, if funding can be agreed, it could be operating in time for next summer’s Olympic Games.

Canary Wharf owners eye Royal Docks

Work will start later this year to draw up a long-list for phase two, which covers the design of a new and residential, with a winner selected at the start of 2012.

MrThe Johnson who last year pushed through city-wide cycle enterprise hire scheme,zone, nicknamed Boris Bikesthe – iscreation of new zones by the chief–executive of Canary Wharf,the thecapital’s UK's most famous has welcomed high street confident it will a major tourist attraction rivalling similar cable cars in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona. Coalition asbecome a "fantastic idea".

Silvertown Quays

He said: ‘We are a significant step closer to being able to cruise the East London skyline via an elegant cable car spanning the mighty Thames.

At Mipim, the LDA and Newham Council are to announce a programme of selection of purchasers and developers, including masterplanners, for sites at Silvertown Quays and the Royals Business Park.

‘It will be an exhilarating way for Londoners and visitors to explore our great city while providing a much-needed river crossing to support the regeneration of this quarter of the capital.’

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Last year a £1.5 billion deal involving the LDA and the Bank of Scotland to build 5,000 homes and a Terry Farrell aquarium collapsed after failed funding attempts.

Gallions Quarter The cable car w ill cross the river from the Greenw ich peninsula to the Royal Docks, linking the O2 Arena south of the river to the ExCeL exhibition centre in East London

Another LDA-owned site with procurement for a development partner underway. An announcement is expected next week on who will build the cable car system, which has been designed by architects Four housing-associated led teams are vying for the job, with architects including Feilden Clegg Wilkinson Eyre.

Bradley, Maccreanor Lavington, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Jestico & Whiles and Space Craft

There were concerns the cables might pose a danger to planes flying in to London City Airport, but a review by National Architects in the running. Air Traffic Services said the risks were minimal, concluding that an accident would be likely to happen ‘less than once every 15million years’. bdonline.co.uk/news/…/5014275.artic… Transport for London believes there is a need for a new crossing east of Tower Bridge where it can be difficult to cross construction of the cable car had been selected

bike or foot, and said last week a ‘preferred bidder’ for the The continued su ccess of Canary Wharf was highlighted on Friday in the grou p's annual results which showed the v alue of its properties increasedthe 4 .1river pc to •by 4.91 bn in and would be announced following the signing of legal agreements. 2 01 0. Photo: Ian Jones By Graham Ruddick (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/graham-ruddick/) 5:56PM GMT 25 Mar 2011

Mace, the company building the Shard, are current favourites. It had been hoped that a private-sector company would fund the construction but Transport for London is still seeking a private partner and said that it would get funding from advertising, branding, fare revenue and sponsorship.

George Iacobescu said Government support had been "absolutely critical" to the success of the East London business estate and said Canary Wharf Group will "look" at becoming involved in London's new enterprise zone at the Royal Docks, which is just two miles away. The continued success of Canary Wharf was highlighted on Friday in the group's annual results which showed the value of its properties increased 4.1pc to

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Saskia Sassen, “The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo”, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991.

Alex Wall, “The Dispersed City”, in: AD profile: The Periphery, No. 108, London, 1994, pp. 8-11.

Thames Gatway, 1981 - ongoing DCLG - Department for Communities and Local Government LDA - London Develop. Agency (part of Greater London Authority) EEDA - East of England Development Agency SEEDA - South East England Development Agency

Peter G. Hall, “The Industries of London”, Hutchinson, London, 1988.

Patrick Abercrombie, “Greater London Plan 1944”, HMSO, London, 1945.

Christopher Alexander, “The City is Not a Tree” in: J. Thackara (ed.), “Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object”, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, pp. 67-84.

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “Principles of the Rhizome - A Thousand Plateaus”, Athlone Press, London, 1988.

Marc Angélil, “Urban Entropy-The City as a Rhizomatic Assemblage”, in: Harm Lux (ed.), “Humanity, Urban Planning, Dignity.”, Niggli Sulgen, Zürich, 2000.

Marc Augé, “Non-Places - Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity”, Verso, London, 1995, p.108.

Ibid., pp. 67f.

P. G. Hall, “The Industries of London”, l.c.

Manuel Gausa, “Voids, inhabited / equipped”, in: M. Gausa (ed.), “Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture”, Actar, Barcelona, 2003, p. 656.

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