This year Unit G will explore architecture as a catalyst and component of processes and cycles, both ecological and infrastructural. We are interested in the relationships between body, movement and landscape, and between city and nature.
The unit will investigate edge conditions and issues of scale within the context of the Lea Valley; containing London’s second river and dividing both the local area and East London with a series of boundaries at local and wider scales. This inner edge is neither urban nor rural, and occupies the margins of the city where historically infrastructural and industrial activities were relegated. The area contains a fragmented collection of some of the most striking landscapes of London.
The increasing priority of issues of resource management, waste and energy provides the future context for us to speculate on a localised, human scale of utilities and services that might allow a reconnection between society and necessary infrastructure. We seek to exploit the qualities of these structures and processes, focusing on inhabitation by people and other species.
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