Foci of an international scale, such as the Excel Centre and London City Airport are used by visitors who stay for short periods of time, bringing the foci to redundance. Local focus such as football pitches and other social programmes will be defunded after the UK leaves the EU. This results in lack of space for locals to use and interact within.
The site is sandwiched between the Royal Docks, a currently unused local park, and highways forming island conditions between the communities. In 2014 a Chinese company won the right to develop the site into an “Asian Business Park”, which would provide the European headquarters for Chinese firms. This planned island will form another international line of segregation both physically and socially, between the visitors and locals.
The territory of the existing park is expanded by placing a space for local within the territory of the visitors. This allows for a formal invasion of the locals who attend to play football which in turn leads to more informal interaction between locals and visitors. The proposal is designed to challenge the existing hierarchy by giving importance to the space for locals as large international institutes currently have.

Abstract Experiment

Section through the site

View at the Asian business park
