Surrey Canal Path

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Programme

Year 1

Materials for Change was an investigation into the relationship between the city, the body, architecture and space. The project brief operated at three scales; 1:1 scale of the body, the building scale and the city scale. We examined whether built structures, as well as the clothes, actions and identities that surround us and are expressed by our bodies, are tailored to our needs.

We analysed six linear territories in London. In the first phase, we focussed on understanding the scale of the city and buildings in relation to our body. In the second phase we delved into the design of independent propositions for small buildings. This project allowed us to use the magic and the power of design, as a tool for imagining other realities, to create new spaces. Imagination needs freedom of expression and relies on the memory of past lives, places, events and cultures. We have created a new series of tailored and liberating spaces, within which the body can thrive and become an act of empowerment.

Projects based along the Surrey Canal Path are represented below.

Students

Tom Henly Year 1 Prize for Recycling and Response to Local Fabric
Nadiya Khan Year 1
Theo Wolf Year 1
Tina Wu Year 1
Kiran Gosal Year 1
Vladut Iacob Year 1
Jillian Mak Year 1
Min Yoo Year 1
Siya Bhandari Year 1
Beulah Kuku Year 1

Yaowen Zhang Year 2

Tom Henly, 'The Peckham Textile Recycling Centre and Design Studio'

The project aspires to enable a new fabric for London, inspired by the button clad suits of the Pearly Kings and Queens. Old clothes are recycled, processed and remade into new material for the use of local designers or students in the design studio.

Nadiya Khan, 'Peckham Jazz Club'

The proposal is for a diner and jazz club which aims to celebrate American diner culture and South
London’s jazz musicians in an indoor and outdoor performance and dining space.

Theo Wolf, 'A Climbing Centre Along Surrey Canal Path'

The Climbing Centre jests at the materiality of the old industrial canal that once ran through the green Surrey Canal Path, whilst rearranging the linear and commutative nature of movement through by inserting a new rhythms and routes for climbing.

Yaowen Zhang, 'The Center of Seeking Possibilities'

The proposal is for a youth centre to help nurture the creativity of the younger generation in peckham. A building that embraces impermanence and change, the center is open to being changes physically and programmatically.

Tina Wu, 'The Gardener’s Tea House'

Tina Wu, Y1, 'The Gardener’s Tea House'

Tina Wu, 'The Gardener’s Tea House'

A tea room that provides the gardeners in the Peckham community allotments and the pedestrians frequenting the Surrey Canal Path a space for socialisation and relaxation, the building is inspired by the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Kiran Gosal, 'Music Studio and Listening Platform'

The project proposes a Music studio and listening space utilised by the passers-by who use the space as a transitory area. Inspired by the music playing by transitioning cyclists on the path, the building echoes and reflects the sound of the canal.

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