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Community, Street and Inhabitation
Adapted from ‘The Form of Housing’ by Neave Brown, Brown writes that continuity is the inescapable characteristic of housing. Housing, or inhabitation, is not just a collection of houses, but rather, the concepts which hold it together -- the circulation system which holds the area together and establish contact. This circulation system refers to ‘streets’. ‘Only a web, a continuous texture of contacts, can provide the immediacy and proximity of each house to its sustaining environment’. When trying to re-imagine Alexandra Road estate, the focus was brought to its brick red road.
This main thoroughfare had much to with the estate’s identity, way of life, community spirit, manner of inhabitation, criticism and praises.
REIMAGINING Alexandra is a playable toolkit for the investigation into the relationship between the ‘street’ and inhabition inthe listed Alexandra Road Estate by Neave Brown.
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