Year 2 Studio - Climate Urbanism Studio
Tutors
Giulio Verdini
G.Verdini@westminster.ac.ukDr Giulio Verdini is Reader in Urban Planning and Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities. He is the vice-President of ILAUD, The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, founded by Giancarlo De Carlo in 1976.
Read More...Corinna Dean
C.Dean@westminster.ac.ukDr Corinna Dean, established the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture; Arca + Drawing Matter will host a workshop this summer at Shatwell Farm. She is a member of the Expanded Territories Group, UoW, and her most recent paper will trace the vital materialism of the former dynamite factory on the Hoo Peninsula.
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Krystallia Kamvasinou
Elantha Evans
and Paolo Zaide.
Thanks
Guest lectures: Stanislava Boskovic, Imperial College; Celia Coram, Save the Lea Marches; Paolo Zaide, University of Westminster; Tom Holbrook, 5th Studio; Carolina Foïs, Atelier Foïs Paris & Christine Hoarau-Beauval, ENA, Paris. Studio PAL: Nikhil Berwal.
Read More...The studio investigates how to build up climate resilient post-pandemic cities and neighbourhoods, capitalizing on existing learning from the COVID-19 outbreak. In particular, it explores ways to address global environmental challenges and to tackle the many social and economic dimensions of this crisis, while focusing on the most vulnerable (UN HABITAT). The aim is to redesign cities to strengthen their resilience against all hazards. The case study selected is the Lower Lea Valley, in East London. Due to its very fragmented nature, being comprised of mixed residential areas with problems of social deprivation, and large-scale industrial areas, the area has remained relatively untouched by large property developments of the London Docks, but equally affected urban restructuring. In 2007, a framework for a new river park was proposed but never fully implemented. This is because its location, between the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham, has been always considered as a ‘backyard’ without being politically relevant. Today this area is reconsidered as an important ecological resource with the potential to reinforce its role of social and environmental infrastructure for the surrounding residential areas. Students have therefore worked to propose resilient and green solutions for the future of the river area.
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