Student shows: Sustainable Design 2 - call for projects

Acknowledging Crossrail’s role as a catalyst for future sustainable development in inner London, David Sharpe has examined the challenge of local authority housing estates in Whitechapel as barriers to development. He proposes densification and reappropriation as an alternative to wholesale demolition, aiming to simultaneously improve the function and perception of the inner city environment.

With the 2012 UK Climate Change impact risk assessment highlighting flooding as the single greatest threat faced by the UK, Edward Barsley approaches the pressure of adaptation by proposing a conceptual costal new town in Par Docks, Cornwall, to enable increased interaction with the water’s edge, facilitating a longterm strategy for managed realignment.

Nikita Pevnev ‘s Brick Pot project utilises vertical gardening on underused and forgotten walls in London to green the city and reconnect observers with the city’s past. The project investigates how we can begin to merge historical and natural values to create a new urbanism.

Based on research into England’s shift to a post-productivist ‘commodified countryside’ and industrial scale agriculture, Tom Powell’s proposal for a small rural village examines how the farming industry and low density commuter settlements can start to work in an integrated symbiosis.