An alternative regeneration of the Brownfield Estate in Poplar, East London, to reactivate its domestic streets by dissolving private and public boundaries and create a new urban living room.

In 2014, the Brownfield Estate was regenerated, with the addition of high brick walls that enclose all private gardens. This has created hard boundaries along the street and reduced its potential usage.
In view of the recent revival of fashion industry as community regenerations in East London, the project introduces slow fashion programmes to transform the underused street into collective live-work spaces. The inflexible brick walls are replaced with three-dimensional boundary spaces made of open timber frames attached to the existing facade, incorporating slow fashion programmes e.g. fabric recolouring, second-hand clothes collection, mending and upcycling workshops.

The new framework redefines the conventional notion of boundary, from a pure separator between households to a shared space. This semi-private space bridges the interior living spaces with the streets, and further dissolves into the pedestrianised realm in the middle, a common ground for community-scale fashion production.