Lito Karamitsou (Year: 4)
St. James Clubland is located within the borough of Westminster. The second most expensive borough after Kensington and Chelsea. The area of St.James, Pall Mall is the manifestation of the establishment and the epitome of class division.
The context incorporates a duality of membership with a venue and membership without. Belonging in a club (so trying to preserve something vs belonging to a protest, trying to break something).
The project is an experiment of an insertion of an inclusive structure within Londons most exclusive clubland. It aims at breaking the exclusivity and bringing in the informality of the city. It is a continuous series of experiments that are questioning what can be done to break the exclusivity in the architectural scale? Now that London is in a moment of change, can the informal layers of the city blend in and help break the barriers of exclusivity?
An overlay of abstract experiments, a continuous process of transformation aiming to become the new Club for 2020.
Forms and structures of membership ranging from urban sprawls to lines of suits.
The proposal in its elements.
An abstract experiment which erases the layer of the city and locates the variables purely depending on the three axis that define the context.
An overall view of the second most expensive Borough, the Borough of Westminster. A Borough that includes the most public square and the most private club.
A 1km x 1km scan or a ten minute walk from the most exclusive Clubland to the square of the people.
