Re'Store Competition
Our proposal for the Re’store competition aimed to promote the dynamic character of Oxford Street, and by extension, all retail high streets. We connected the Highstreet with the retail through an animated façade containing ‘pocket’ community programmes, all operating symbiotically to build stronger relationships between residents, businesses and visitors.
We proposed to retain and celebrate the existing façade, bar the apertures, with an inner façade set back into the building. Using this porous, threshold volume allows a network space of unlimited flexible sub-spaces boasting public features and attractions, private functions and services as well as hidden food and drink ‘gems’. This network also extends and provides a platform for the existing retail shop within, by projecting it out to the high street through ancillary experiences, but also revitalises the high street by stimulating facades and drawing people in.
Voice App
London city is reaching 10 million in population and there are more and more challenges arising every day. London requires ideas and solutions to connect problems with answers and unlock the network of latent opportunity. It is impossible to be aware of all the problems, elements and possible solutions within a city. Therefore the ideas, interventions and design solutions for a city are often misinformed, misrepresented or are derived from ‘opinions’ that do not reflect the true problems (Top-Down Model). The data should inform the ideas and solve the problems.
We proposed an interactive app that allows people to instantly report problems and feedback throughout the city - receiving promos and benefits for their interaction. This interaction not only provides London with real-time information such as movement patterns, up-to-date information, local opinions and more, but also highlights issues across the city that people have been reporting.
Competitions / Various
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Belgravia Residence / London, UK
Claire Lawn / Surrey, UK