Project description
In a time where we rely heavily on big data and algorithms to speculate about our future, it’s important that we reclaim the ability to think for ourselves. This project challenges the built environment to embrace a wide range of possible outcomes, shifting away from the profession’s default position about what we expect from the future. The methodology of this project was to use four science fiction novels that illustrate four key scientific predictions about climate change in London and use them to instruct how these empirical changes might manifest in our society and built environment. The project utilises iterative drawing to propose design and planning solutions that can adapt to the ever-changing conditions of an unknown future.
Proposed Birds Eye View of the proposal, imagining both the sunny day and the flooded dystopian future that may happen in the future
Imagining the site within science fiction novels i.The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler ii. Dune by Frank Herbert iii. Hot House by Brian Aldiss iv. The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Exploded Axonometric of proposed external facade and inter-changeable window structures for storm protection, solar shading, black out panels and insulation
1:50 Sectional Model of the Sun Deck and boundary colonnade
Collage over artwork by Madelon Vriesendorp, (Sunken Medusa Raft, 1975–1976) to imagine this scene in a different speculative future
Contact
charlotteka.webb@gmail.com