PROPOSALS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC COMMUNITY: REDEFINING IDEAS OF ‘MEGASTRUCTURE’

The new city becomes a place for cohabitation, between the community and to further preserve and present the value of nature. The proposal for The Urban Nature Tower is an interdisciplinary educational facility starting with the creation of a modular urban farm where the landscape thrives as a self-sustaining environment through upcycling of the existing infrastructure, water recycling, irrigation and planting that nurtures the local wildlife. Students will learn through research expeditions, lectures and first-hand activities in the Urban Nature Tower with the rainforest laboratory, greenhouse lecture theatre, roof gardens and growing pods. These approaches redefine the post-pandemic narrative of Little Britain, offering a new balance and forming part of a new greenbelt for the City of London. This equilibrium extends to The Repository of Habitats, conceived in resistance to social restrictions in the form of physical boundaries placed on space, questioning existing models and the status quo. Heterotopic spatial ideas are presented through a mixed-use tower with an auditorium for public engagement, and material from The British Culture Archives within a penthouse typology. Despite appearing like London’s capitalist skyscrapers, this proposal is community focused, providing public spaces at all heights.