Brief

In the continuity of semester 1, I wish to give Deptford a meaningful landmark, a strong resounding point on Route 1, a communal house for local actors, which could have influence at a larger scale for the whole regenerating Deptford.

Deptford’s scene is on, charities are active and markets are buoyant. Relying on this context, I want to provide Deptford a go-between, a buffer place which will collaborate with the existing activities, coordinate them and encourage new ones.
I yearn for calling together the different protagonists of Deptford’s impulse. It’ll urge on a united and sustainable economic change through an active awareness campaign focusing on the waste management and the idea of collect, recycling, reemployment and valorization. It will appeal field workers and local community, inform, educate, prevent them and agitate for sustainability.
This communal house would stand as a node point, a familiar place where everyone feel s welcome. In that philosophy, it will host a shared-garden and a small café-restaurant, collaborating with the food market to recuperate unsold goods to provide low-priced meals. This activity could also enable to create new jobs, way of re-socialization and re-stimulation for weaken people.

The facility will take the mark of its surrounding, clinging and spreading on the existing. It will embody involvement and action and encourage both self and collective initiative.

Urbanism

Remarking the landmarks

Fordham park affirms his identity !
Landmarks assert themselves, evoke an image, picking up qualities to one other.
Reinforced, they lead to highlight new routes and dynamics on the site.

INTERVENTION

A discreet and subbtle ground network to make the landmarks communicate and create new routes and new dynamics in the site, related to the time of use and the way the shadow marks. Add clues on the floor surface, applying: hard material - dark pebbles - in a soft condition - grass, leaves - soft material - wood logs - in the hard condition - asphalt, stone.

TRADING

"Dropping a mark on the landmarks"
I dropped my timber twins squares on my site in Deptford. I let one at every landmarks i pointed. I joined a little note with my number : "if you want to know more about it, you can contact me." Some people stared at me while i was installing it. I came back a few hours later and one on had been taken, but i didn't receive any no one contacted me since! Since last friday, i received one call from a teacher of the school who found it and questioned me loads, and then asked if she could keep it and said she was interested showing it to her class. She was very enthusiastic, and she would like to have the documents about the manufacturing process as well.

MANIFESTO

Architecture is what transforms and works on the place - singular space - through production and cristallisation of a form, which must be associated, on the lenght, to his natural and social environment. Architecture evolutes, lets marks on space, and we, as a full part of it, let our own marks as well.

Image : trials on wood ; capturing the traces, emphasising the lines, stamping the caracter of the timber. (Material studied : coal. Coal is a component of wood, obtained through the process of a slow combustion)