Produced as part of the London Festival of Architecture in 2016, this exhibition in our former Bermondsey studio used some of our most recent projects as the basis to explore and illustrate how we work with and engage residents as part of the design process.
Responding to the festival’s theme of ‘Community’, it focused on our Bacton project with the London Borough of Camden, and the Colville and Kings Crescent Estates with the London Borough of Hackney. Led by local authorities, these projects are part of a new generation of transformative projects that seek to provide new or refurbished housing and revitalise urban neighbourhoods to improve the lives of residents and communities.
Alongside project essays and new models, the exhibition featured a researched history of public participation in the built environment and 1:1 residential plans from live projects that extended 20 metres across the length of our studio floor enabling visitors to ‘step inside’ new and proposed homes. Throughout summer the exhibition and floor installation served as the backdrop and ‘welcome mat’ to a mini-season of open days, studio screenings, gatherings and discussions that included an in conversation with Kate Macintosh, architect of Dawson Heights in Southwark, in partnership with The Architecture Foundation.
Exhibition 1- 30 June 2016, Bermondsey, London