TUTORS:

KEVIN GREY
SABINE STORP
KAY SEDKI
KENNETH FRASER

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PROJECT BOOK 23/24

SAMUEL JACKSON
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WELCOME to Maryland, a small neighbourhood in the London Borough of Newham. PART 01:
Lying in the shadow of Stratford’s Westfield and Olympic Park development, it is
quickly being surrounded by newly gentrified areas waiting to infect this community
CHAPTER 01 - SITE AND CONTEXT
with rising rents and tacky shops. Maryland is home to many young families, vari-
ous places of worship, a secondary school, 2 primary schools and 8 small nurseries SECTION 1 - CLIMATE AND MICROCLIMATE [PAGE 3]
and a very active local community centre in desperate need of a renovation. This
SECTION 2 - MATERIAL AND ENERGY RESOURCE SYTEMS [PAGE 3]
community centre is my chosen site for this project and this booklet will demon-
strate the relationship of my building design with technology, the environment and SECTION 3 - HYDROLOGY AND FLOODING [PAGE 3]
the architectural profession. SECTION 4 - ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY [PAGE 3]

SECTION 5 - TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND GROUND [PAGE 3]

This project incorporates the unique aim of injecting the functional with the fictional,
as within this union lies the potential to advance new inclusive, equitable, and desir- SECTION 6 - TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE [PAGE 3]
able futures. The functional aspect of my design is a new community serving centre SECTION 7 - ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT AND SITE HISTORY [PAGE 3]
for the purpose of storytelling, workshops and hosting local events, incorporating
SECTION 8 - LAND USE, PLANNING AND OTHER LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS [PAGE 3]
the exisiting programme of the site in a space that welcomes it. The fictional aspect
arrives in the form of a fantastical front and an imaginative method of navigating the SECTION 9 - LOCAL, SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL CONTEXT, INCLUDING ALTERNATIVE FUNDING STREAMS [PAGE 3]
building through forced parafictional perspectives. Things are as they seem until
they’re not in this new building and vice versa, reinvigorating our everyday experi-
CHAPTER 02 - DESIGN STRATEGY
ence of the city.
SECTION 1 - PROJECT SITE RESPONSE [PAGE 3]
The architecture of our cities and our lives that come as a result rely so heavily on
SECTION 2 - EMERGING BRIEF [PAGE 3]
their connection to reason, leaving no space for us to overcome the invisible wall
separating dreams and imagination from everyday life and blur their distinctions. SECTION 3 - DESIGN STRATEGIES [PAGE 3]
This duty is left for the likes of fiction, which has the ability to transport us, acting SECTION 4 - PRECEDENTS [PAGE 3]
as an antidote to an angry and broken world. Experiencing narratives of imagined
SECTION 5 - DESIGN PROPOSALS [PAGE 3]
worlds help us visualise other possible futures that sit outside the one that, all too
often, feels inescapable. This project attempts to create a building that reads as SECTION 6 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE [PAGE 3]
fiction and can be experienced as such. SECTION 7 - PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS [PAGE 3]

SECTION 8 - ETHICAL PRACTICE [PAGE 3]

This project aims to tell stories with and about space, and deploy techniques from
film, literature and gaming to visualise new worlds and model the architectural and
urban possiblities of real-world applications of fantastical storytelling. However, in PART 02:
order to realise these fictional worlds, it is necessary to begin with a deep engage-
ment in the conditions of the day, as pockets of the fantastical future we want to live
in exists in the present. It is the duty of this project to extrapolate these examples CHAPTER 02 - STRUCTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND FIRE
and slip between the real and the imagined, the documentary and the visionary, the
factual and the fictitious. This buidling project is the product of alternative pasts, CHAPTER 02 - ENVIRONMENT
parrallel presents and plural futures.
CHAPTER 02 - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
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CLIMATE AND
MICROCLIMATE
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LONDON TEMPERATURE HISTORY 2023 LONDON SUNRISE & SUNSET

The daily range of reported temperatures (gray bars) and 24-hour highs (red ticks) and lows (blue ticks), placed The solar day over the course of the year 2023. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar mid-
over the daily average high (faint red line) and low (faint blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th night, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The day, twilights (civil, nautical, and astronomi-
percentile bands. cal), and night are indicated by the color bands from yellow to gray. The transitions to and from daylight saving
time are indicated by the ‘DST’ labels.

LONDON HOURLY TEMPERATURE 2023

The hourly reported temperature, color coded into bands. The shaded overlays indicate night and civil twilight. LONDON CLOUD COVER 2023
The hourly reported cloud coverage, categorized by the percentage of the sky covered by clouds.

LONDON WIND SPEEDS 2023

LONDON OBSERVED WEATHER 2023 The daily range of reported wind speeds (gray bars), with maximum gust speeds (red ticks).
The hourly observed weather, color coded by category (in order of severity).
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MATERIAL AND ENERGY

RESOURCE SYSTEMS
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HYDROLOGY
AND FLOODING
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ECOLOGY AND
BIODIVERSITY
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TOPOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY
AND GROUND
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TRANSPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE
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NATIONAL RAIL MARYLAND

The hourly observed weather, color coded by category (in order of severity).

ELIZABETH LINE MARYLAND

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ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT
AND SITE HISTORY
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LAND, PLANNING AND OTHER

LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS
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Race against this housing complex being built in the place of the community centre- currently under-
going planning descicion

“The Community Road community centre building has been identified as a site suitable for both the
improvement of its community use and its suitability to provide new affordable housing.
We are intending to submit a planning application in the late Summer 2023, with a determination to be
made by Newham’s Planning Committee by Winter 2023.”
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LOCAL, SOCIAL AND

FINANCIAL CONTEXT
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PROJECT SITE
RESPONSE
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EMERGING
BRIEF
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WUNDERKAMMER
The daily range of reported temperatures (gray bars) and 24-hour highs (red
ticks) and lows (blue ticks), placed over the daily average high (faint red
line) and low (faint blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th
percentile bands.

PARAFICTIONAL DESIGN
The daily range of reported temperatures (gray bars) and 24-hour highs (red
ticks) and lows (blue ticks), placed over the daily average high (faint red
line) and low (faint blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th
percentile bands.

On display here is the Department of Voids, a collection around which a taxonomy of absence has grown. It started with
empty transport cases for objects that had gone missing from a Copenhagen museum’s collection. Only the shell-like con-
tainers for the objects, carefully crafted and worn from much use, remained. All information about their contents’ identity and
provenance had been lost.
The Department of Voids celebrates doubt. Firstly, by observing the ambivalence that exists within the space left by missing
objects, a space that can best be understood as a set of probabilities open to our personal projections. Secondly, through
asking what role doubt and the longing for certainty play in creating new bodies of knowledge.
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ROGRAMME:
Community Building, Theatre,
Workshop Spaces, Multifunc-
tional, Fantastical, Flexibility,
Studios for Filmmaking, Com-
munity Storytelling, Centre for
Storytelling.

WIP FORCED PARAFICTION PERSPECTIVES MODEL

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DESIGN
STRATEGIES
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EDWARD LOVETT
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LONDON MEMORY AMULETS
The daily range of reported temperatures (gray bars) and 24-hour highs
(red ticks) and lows (blue ticks), placed over the daily average high (faint
red line) and low (faint blue line) temperature, with 25th to 75th and 10th
to 90th percentile bands.
MY OWN PRACTICE
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Lovett confined his enquiries to the hawkers’ class of street
traders and the old, groups that no one else at the time
would have bothered to approach. Unfortunately one of the
drawbacks was that he was not a very careful recorder of
what he discovered, however he did become very adept at
persuading people from all walks of life to part with both
objects and information. He explains his technique in his
book, in which he says he avoided asking direct questions
and never told the people he spoke to what he was doing. He
pretended to be ignorant about what he was enquiring about
as he found that if they felt he knew a lot, they would either
stop talking or try to “go one better”. He also gave his alpine
plants as presents, and exchanged dolls he brought for the
less attractive handmade toys of the poor.
DIAGRAM COMPARING MY RESEARCH METHOD WITH EDWARD LOVETT
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SHORT FILM TRANSCRIBING BROKEN MOMENTS FROM INTERVIEWS
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SANDRA - RING MARK - PIN

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PATRICK - EULOGY JAMAL MIXTAPE

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PRECEDENTS
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826 VALENCIA - BUCCANEER SHOP + CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL

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HOXTON STREET MONSTER SUPPLIES - MINISTRY OF STORIES

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DESIGN
PROPOSALS
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PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE
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PROFESSIONAL
RELATIONSHIPS
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ETHICAL
PRACTICE