Vertical Project: "I could live with that"

Vertical Project 2017/2018
Skerne Road
“I could live with that”
School of Architecture and Landscape
Kingston University London

At the forefront of a new housing project on Skerne Road in Kingston Upon-Thames
is a sad patch of grass that seemingly was the answer to a
lack of any other use to this space. Completely ignored, it borders the
sidewalk of a public road mainly used by pedestrians. Aiming to convert a
negative space into a positive one through minor changes and in hope of
creating an interactive intervention with pedestrian families, we propose to
replace the grass with rubber resin bands that manifest themselves into a
hopscotch pattern for children. The rubber material slightly spills over
onto the sidewalk to grab a child’s attention while approaching and begin
their exciting hopping journey into our space from one end, continuing out
the other. As residential flats border the grass plot from the other side, we
found it is best that our intervention is a temporary ‘passer by’ activity that
would not require people to linger around for too long. We hope through
this to create a spontaneous fun intervention for children walking by this
new housing complex.

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Existing rendered block work
wall to be retained
10mm Black rubber resin with
anti slip coating
50mm Impact layer
70mm Compacted stone
base
Key Plan
Detail A-A'
Scale 1:5
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Skerne Road
A Project by
Serina Harb
Jeremy Gaunt
Camille Trinidad
Thomas Mcdonald
Michael Walker
Alaa Hendi