sketch

Urban Tide (strategy)

Mapping

Kyoto (drainage)

Collage

Scissors

Stone

Paper

Urban Strategy / Responding to the Tide

Urban Strategy / Introduction

MAA (Maria Brewster + Aras Burak + Aine O'Dwyer)
The Urban Tide

We are interested in a small change which will effect the flow of people and will help the use of the space around the station more efficently when we locate the hotel programme on the site.

The strategy will respond to the different hours of the day by allowing and encouraging the shift of uses. The density, user types and speed of flow change during the day just like the tide changes on River Thames.

We are aiming to connect the routes for Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Fenchurch Street Station and Tower Gateway DLR Station by focusing around the Tower Hill Tube exit, where we believe is the most strategically important point on the site.

In order to connect the southern side of the street with the north, instead of physically building horizontal bridge and changing everything, as if this was a dumb 2 dimensional part of any city, we're trying to highlight the importance and potential of a vertical bridging on a very 3 dimensional organisation.

We are producing replacable configurations of different options using our 1:1000 site model base until the next tutorial.

Mapping Movement

Uncovering the surface (draft)

Height Field and contour Drawing draft

Height Field right and front elevation and plan of contour drawing