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Automonument

Part 2 Project 2018
Harry Lewis
Saskia Furman
George Clarke
Oliver Bennison
University of Liverpool | UK
This thesis explores housing based on the social, political and cultural results of automation. Set in 2030, it foresees that large office towers have become redundant due to an increasingly transient workforce, and uses Canary Wharf as a testbed to explore four emerging societies. The resulting design is a hybrid that addresses both the local and the global, setting a template for the appropriation of business districts worldwide.


Tutor(s)
Johanna Muszbek
2018
Global
Local - Initial research of the local infrastructure began with the study of housing typologies that currently occupy the London borough of Tower Hamlets. From these existing typologies, it was possible to trace onto the extensive floor plan of One Canada
Automonument
Testbed - Through a series of voids indicating public space, there is a visible link between each strata of the building, and thus a tangible connection between its inhabitants. These voids are amalgamated to provide a seamless unification of negative spa
Void
Kinetic Elite Integration, individualism - The kinetic elite are highly sought-after individuals whose jobs have not being affected by automation. The strata is company developed and provides a ‘company home’ – a long term incentive to attract top workers
Majority Integration, collectivism - The Majority are partially employed key workers and those who have been most affected by structural unemployment. As government owned housing the proposal transposes British housing archetypes to break with the preconc
Entrepreneurs Fragmentation, collectivism - Entrepreneurs are global transitory workers who through the nature of their work are no longer geographically tied to a home, workplace or city. The housing is designed as short-term accommodation and is organi
Co-operative Developers Fragmentation, individualism - The urban plan in the tower. Land of the lowest value at the bottom of the tower is divided up into regulated plots and sold to cooperatives for development. Aside from a basic framework, few rules ex
Frankenstein
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