Revaluing Pentonville: Wellbeing and the Knowledge Neighborhood
Yasmina Aslakhanova (MArch)
Nowadays, there is a tremendous investment in health and well-being, research, new therapies. The way the residential life is thought about is based on new attitudes about well-being. There is a seemingly ever-expanding array of services. All of these elements do not usually come together in a particular joint up way. One can notice that new lab buildings appear, the attitude about housing is changing. It is a series of different kinds of investments and actors. What if it is possible to develop a vision that allows thinking about these things together, could the impulses driving health and well-being be used to transform the conception of an urban area? This project takes a look at Euston corridor, which has been subject to discussion for decades. New developments along the corridor are establishing different attitude about mobility and integration in the area. The main question is, could health and well-being allow to think further about how to envision urban areas from the point of view that they are almost like knowledge environments that are structured around the biopolitical trend?
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Rethinking the concept of a campus.
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Large block as a sum of repeating morphological conditions.
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Corridor + urban area.
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New campus concept: Morphological continuity and variation.
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Diversification of housing types.
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New knowledge neighbourhood.
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New carescapes.
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Highly serviced integrated ground.
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