First year Project

High Street 2012 is a program of public realm improvements along the street from Aldgate to Stratford. The project aims to upgrade the street from Whitechapel Road to Stratford High Street, and to provide a lasting legacy from the 2012 Games for local communities. As London met first year architecture students we have been playing both an interesting and exciting role in the project. The combination of 100 students researching and designing for spesific sites along the street has resulted in great in-depth and unique knowledge of the street that has not been gathered before.

High St 2012

High St 2012
1st year project

Friday, 21 May 2010

We believe in Sanderson and Hambi's vision of architects as facilitators or enablers. However, it would be a mistake to attach these terms to the role of architects loosely. In maintaining a 'duty of care' in situations such as the Haitian earthquakes we should consider that boundaries must exist for architectural practice, and that we can have ambitions to facilitate involvement as long as we have clearly defined and achievable parameters. If we neglect this in our practice models, we run the risk of causing harm, rather than good.

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