Radical Softness
My final undergraduate student project exploring the design for ageing and community.
Radical Softness is a project that is based on the principle that designing for the marginalised, in this case older people, creates a more caring and welcoming architecture.
Inspired by the Bromley By Bow Centre’s holistic community centre, that combines a GP surgery, cafe and makers spaces, this project explores extending and improving the use of the existing St Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre to create a living room for the community, connect the living centre to the Story Garden and provide a space for inter- generational knowledge exchange.
Through this project I engaged with several local stakeholders and ran a knitting workshop with local refugee women to discuss their experiences of Somers Town.
The project incorporates built in seating as a recurring motif. This is intended to create an architecture that enables freedom of movement through the reassurance that there will always be the opportunity to rest. For example, placing seating half way up the stairs means you can take them at your own pace.
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