Compendium

Designing a polemical intervention to claim back the agency in architecture
for the benefit of the “many and not the few”, can stand as an advocacy
to resolve current issues in regards to the current housing crisis.
In response to the unfortunate fire that happened in Grenfell tower and
the dem- olition of Robin Hood gardens, our studio brief is propose a
housing infrastruc- ture project that provides structural framework and
building services to house and serve 129 flats that coincides with the
number of families that lost their home in the Grenfell fire. It includes
pre-requisites such as to design a pre-cast concrete frame- work to be
filled in by the resident’s flats and to provide a self-build flat scheme for
the residents in which they have the opportunity to be able to choose
materials that they can afford rather than settling for what is given to
them.
The proposal are made of two interconnected, continuous modular
structure that will provide new residents a chance to build a community
with the existing residents while introducing the site to the pedestrians
- by designing the ground floor as public space with a walkway that
connects the high street and the park. The repetitive grids reflect on the
standard measurement of the ordinary materials while the designation
of each space was precedented by Herman Hertzberger’s spatial organisation
theory and analysed through the point of view of inhabitants’ use
of space that could take place.
Holland Park: “Agency”
Academic Project 7 A.Y. 2017/2018
A polemical response to Grenfell tower and social housing