Unit 2 2006-07
Infrastructural Events
The ongoing dynamics of a hundred and fifty years of infrastructural events have determinded the present landscape of the Lower Lea Valley. Canals, outfall sewers, dual carriageways, railways, gasometers and power pylons, compose a physical matrix that inscribes the valley into distinct isolated fragments. The historic urban geography of emptyness that has made this terrain so suitable for the enterprises of efficient metropolitain connectivity, has paradoxically lead to the Lower Lea's manifest physical isolation from the surrounding urban territory of East London.
The ambitious of the Thames Gateway Project envisage the rapid development of this fractured land and its social and physical integration into the local fabric of the existing neighbouring communities.The Unit's investigation focused on Bromley-by-Bow, West Ham and Canning Town. All designated as centres in this pending transformation but ultimately comprised by their situation within the local metropolitain paradox of infrastructural events.
The Unit's work continued its emphsis ont he development of strategic proposals and thought in order to support and create the conditions that facilitate individual physical interventions. The development of urban prototypes and hybris supported this discourse and sought to ensure that the proposals participated in a larger field of new and imaginative urban and architectureal practice.
The ambitious of the Thames Gateway Project envisage the rapid development of this fractured land and its social and physical integration into the local fabric of the existing neighbouring communities.The Unit's investigation focused on Bromley-by-Bow, West Ham and Canning Town. All designated as centres in this pending transformation but ultimately comprised by their situation within the local metropolitain paradox of infrastructural events.
The Unit's work continued its emphsis ont he development of strategic proposals and thought in order to support and create the conditions that facilitate individual physical interventions. The development of urban prototypes and hybris supported this discourse and sought to ensure that the proposals participated in a larger field of new and imaginative urban and architectureal practice.
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