Communal Center in Hackney Wick

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Communal Center in Hackney Wick

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Commercial › Retail Exhibition Center
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Government + Health › Community Center

Located in eastern London and beside the Olympic
legacy there is this knotty hood, called Hackney Wick. A public realm has been
proposed in the London Borough of Hackney local development masterplan for this
neighbourhood. The project is a communal hall settled in the heart of this town
context, has been challenged to tie with the dodgy surroundings.
Coming from
Olympic park, passing over the separating river and going to Victoria Park, is
the main walking and cycling path. Also having the bus route on the same side,
makes the northern side more exposed to the people. Facing the northern side of
the site is the overground which generates views from the train to the project.
As a result, in all the studied schemes, it has been tried to have a big
opening looking towards this side.
Observing
the whole hood, you will find out the context is dominated by typical London
brick walls, mostly filled with graffiti arts. This creates a special character
for the area, and at the same time brings out some dodgy views. So the idea was
to get benefit of the existing wall in the boundary of the site, as a tool to
block the ugly views and create an inner paradise, and at the same time, with
the aim of the brick nature of that wall, relate to the character of the
context. However eventually, it ended up to propose to rebuild the wall with
reused bricks, and cover the new added parts in white plaster. So finally,
there would be this perception as if there is a new object over the existing,
and the old brick wall remains at the bottom exposed to graffiti arts and keeps
the same nature as it used to have.

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Communal Center in Hackney Wick

Communal Center in Hackney Wick

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