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Carving A Plan in Hackney Wick

Piers Woodward

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BA (Hons) Architecture final year student with particular focus on strategic urban regeneration and the creation of immersive narrative environments. Dissertation on the potency of digital environments and its effects on physical human presence and embodiment.

BA (Hons) Architecture final year student with particular focus on strategic urban regeneration a...

Carving A Plan is a placemaking cultural centre that aims to enhance interaction among the artists, the public, and boat-dwelling communities in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, London. It addresses the socio-economic division caused by gentrification and seeks to prevent the potential displacement of artist communities. The project provides creative opportunities for individuals who lack access to multidisciplinary facilities, fostering arts-based conversations and strengthening creative integration within the area's social and economic fabric. By activating existing regional funds, the project ensures its genuine potential for implementation. Leveraging a waterfront location, the proposal activates under-utilised sites of historical significance, carving through the landscape and layering the terrain with acupuntured intervention- promoting integration, creativity and community interaction.

Final work

The image is a hand drawn axonometric of my final proposal, cut through at two angles through the built forms, to show inhabitation through program.

Programmatic axonometric hand drawing of my final proposal

The image illustrates inhabitation of the Courtyard of my proposal, populated with forms and structures made from the on-site wooden joinery workshop.
The image illustrates a perspective section drawing cutting through the Bridge, describing its inhabitation by the community.

1:100 Perspective Bridge Section Drawing

Hand drawn plan drawing illustrating inhabitation, alongside an exploded axonometric diagram of the layers of the proposal.

Layering the built environment

Research and process

Illustrating my implementation of wooden joinery techniques as means to foster collaborations between demographics whilst driving narrative of design.

Driving narrative whilst encouraging sustainable construction skills

Analysing the implementation of the bridge, how it connects structurally and is vertically arranged to house program.

Analysis of the Bridge structure in my proposal

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Carving A Plan in Hackney Wick

Carving A Plan is a placemaking cultural centre that aims to enhance interaction among the artists, the public, and boat-dwelling communities in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, London. It addresses the socio-economic division caused by gentrification and seeks to prevent the ...

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