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Forging Haggerston's Wild Generation

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Design Studio Design Studio 2
Year 1

Forging Haggerston's Wild Generation, located in London, aims to create an inclusive landscape that fosters community belonging, with a focus on local school children. Innovative features like vertical loam and iron-coated buffer zones divide the urban space while maintaining visual connection, providing areas for both exploration and human interaction. This reimagined urban nature not only challenges preconceptions but also nurtures local wildlife.

The initiative addresses the lack of sports facilities for four local schools and seeks to introduce the younger generation to nature through a carefully designed evolving space. It envisions the urban landscape as an open classroom, promoting hands-on learning and ecological awareness, strengthening community bonds, and fostering coexistence between humans and nature.

Studio 2's journey began with a derive walk, offering deep insights into safety concerns, disconnection points, and unmet community needs. The traditional island parks in the area, unchanged for centuries, failed to cater to school children's needs. This walk informed the project's transformative direction, aiming to create a thriving and inclusive community space.

Haggerston Road's Axonometric tells a 30-year story of transformation, reflecting the design philosophy of embracing change, nature, and evolving societal demands.

The Breakdown of Evolution of Haggerston Road

This axonometric of Haggerston Road tells a 30-year story of transformation, reflecting the design philosophy of embracing change, nature, and evolving societal demands.

Haggerston Road shifts from car-centric to nature-friendly, with vertical zones, wildflowers, and pedestrian pathways, fostering community involvement, including the school children of the area.

Haggerston Road 10 Years after the Design Installation

Haggerston Road shifts from car-centric to nature-friendly with vertical zones, wildflowers and pedestrian pathways, fostering community involvement, including the school children of the area.

Stonebridge park seamlessly integrates existing play features walign with the feedback received on the importance ofthese features in the interactive posters. Vertical buffers incorporate habitat value and stream runoof to diversify play experiences across different weather conditions. creating natural play area amongst nature.

Stonebridge Play Area 20 Years after the Design Installation

Stonebridge Park integrates existing play features aligned with feedback. Vertical buffers diversify play experiences with habitat value and weather adaptation, creating a natural play area in harmony with nature.

The current space has an extensive road and a small, fenced-off canal walk. The design proposal eliminates the road, repurposing its materials to create rubble piles for natural colonization and soft edge social spaces.

Canal Area on Dunston Road 30 Years after the Design Installation

The current space has an extensive road and a small, fenced-off canal walk. The design proposal eliminates the road, repurposing its materials to create rubble piles for natural colonisation and soft-edged social spaces.

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