Unit led by Heyes St John
About the show
Proposals for suburban ‘living in the green’, designed from the inside out.
London faces a housing supply and quality crisis. Unit 12 have asked whether translating European apartment models into a British context could increase density in the suburb while diversifying and improving ways of living. The students have looked at European collective domestic buildings that sit in strong landscape contexts. The unit has resisted the urge to begin with a ‘masterplan’ and worked from the inside out, focusing on overlooked domestic qualities of comfort, well-being, continuity, sentiment and variety.
In the words of the architect Josef Frank we have ‘used everything that is still usable’. The exhibition shows how this interest has crystallized in studies of historic interiors and proposals for new dwellings in Hampstead Garden Suburb. In this paradigmatic place, the students have proposed ways of ‘living in the green’ which respond both to the subtle Arts and Crafts atmosphere of Parker and Unwin’s model community and question the suburb’s rigid exclusivity.
Exhibition details
| P.V. | Tuesday 25 June 2013, 6.30-10pm |
| Opening | Wed 26 June - Fri 5 July 2013 Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 11am-5pm |
| Venue | Spring House (Ground Floor) |
| Unit | Architecture Unit 12 |
| Course | Professional Diploma in Architecture RIBA Part 2 Architecture (MA) |
Images
Hero Bennett
Stuart Cameron
Phil Christou
Lorenzo de Chiffre
Max Fordham
Alice Foxley
John Glew
Emily Greeves
Crispin Kelly
Adam Khan
Lara Kinneir
Nate Kolbe
Brad Lochore
Nina Lundvall
Angie Pascoe
James Payne
Freddie Phillipson
Mark Pimlott
Lucy Pritchard
Paul Ragsdale
Bernd Schmutz
Geoff Shearcroft
Jamie Shirran
Hugh Taylor
Stephen Taylor
Prisca Thielmann
Carstan Vellguth
Roy Voss
Ellis Woodman
Florian Zierer