See the Final Presentations 2006

"Village Green Tower" by Nicholas Green and Matthew Hayhurst, utilizing the vertical farming strategy with a conveyor system and processing plant.  

"When urban buildings do not interact, the city becomes much like a social gathering of humans with no one wishing to make a conversation" - William Pederson, Kohn Pederson Fox, 2004

Drawing on the success of the ‘Pavements in the Sky’ project of the previous year (2005), this project sets a similar challenge but now in the existing high-rise context of Canary Wharf. Assuming a date in the future and a push for a greater urban density, the programmatic brief requires the creation of a ‘new urban vision’, consisting of a series of new towers, linked into a skybridge network with the existing towers of Canary Wharf.

The project, this year conducted in groups of 2 or 3 students, required collaborative working within and across the groups to realise the vision. Through the nature of connection and collaboration then, the intention was to create a cluster of ‘anti-isolationist’ towers. Building programmes were derived directly from site study and research, with the majority of the towers looking to enrich the overtly commercial area through residential provision. The normal system of weekly tutorials and design reviews were supplemented with fieldtrips to London and Manchester’s Beetham Tower under construction.