My project is Civic Slice, with the proposal to develop and create a new town hall within the City of London borough, which improves upon the current town hall’s - the Guildhall - lack of political and spatial transparency and openness. The project’s ambition is to recreate the typology of the town hall into one of both political engagement and leisure, a political space which people can appropriate as their own. This will be done by taking a slice of floor space from the high-rise buildings within the borough and interconnecting them together via sky-bridges, therefore constructing a continuous slice of leisure commons and civic space. The town hall, connected throughout the borough, will be a powerful show of the power of the people.
London Mapping Assignment - Detailing the level of social inclusion in terms of political engagement alongside population size across London, orientated from East down to West.
Urban Ecology Network - Portraying the power structure of the City of London Borough political system, in which both civilian residents and corporations have the right to vote.
Urban Ecology Map - Indicating the relationship between the City of London's transient commuting population of 500,000 compared to the permanent resident population of roughly 8,000 people.
Urban Ecology Cross Section - Articulating the evolution and fluctuation of material textures below my feet through photography as I take a definitive journey across the City of London borough.
Slice - Highlighting the physical level at which the new town hall will be situated in accordance with the City's architecture.
Exploded Axonometric - By exploding the structures, revealed is the interior anatomy of the town hall within the Leadenhall building, St. Helen's skyscraper, and the Gherkin.
Perspective Section - Accentuating the stark dichotomy between the conventional office space above and below the town hall, contrasting the office layout with one of leisure and political engagement.
Plan - The new town hall from above, showing how each building is tightly bound to the other both visually and physically via the the interconnected buildings and their network of sky-bridges.
St Helen's View - An interior panorama of the space within St. Helen's skyscraper, accentuating the leisure space as well as the void of sports facilities.
