Unit led by Maurice Mitchell & Francesca Pont
About the show
At the scale of the city, railways connect the centre of London to vast swathes of suburbia, cutting through the inner city. These high level rail tracks, brick viaducts, tunnels and stations crisscross the south London landscape creating interesting spatial opportunities in, on and between them. They offer opportunities for odd and particular businesses and services to take root in the resulting spatial dislocation. They expanded from their beginnings in the 1860s and were in their heyday in the 1930s and 40s. Towards the end of the 20th century many of them became redundant leaving a trail of sealed linear wilderness and teaming wildlife corridors high above gardens, yards and parks. In recent years some of these railways have been reinvigorated whilst some still remain abandoned.
Unit 6 has investigated the topography of the city across which railways navigate from Brixton to Surrey Quays via Peckham and Loughborough Junction reveling in the rich cultural diversity of the areas through which they pass and the social and technical initiatives to which they offer protection.
Using the site as their primary cultural and physical resource student projects have been seeded within the interstices under and along the railway edges and within pockets of land embedded within their intertwining networks. Students have responded spatially to the particular physical environment that bounds them, reacting to the local economic and political climate, and engaging with the people who inhabit and use the landscape.
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 6 |
| Course | Professional Diploma in Architecture RIBA Part 2 Architecture (MA) |
