A Place of One’s Own: A New Life for the Tabard Gardens Estate Part 2 Project 2024 Lucy Brice University of Nottingham Nottingham | UK This project is founded on a body of research focused on public and private thresholds of London working-class housing from the 1800s to the present day. The design project tests assumptions regarding privacy and choice within not only housing but the collective space of the community too. The project illuminates a series of contrasts; new vs old, public vs private, and the city vs the community, that encourage strategic activation of the city whilst preserving its existing fabric. The Tabard Gardens estate (1930) in Southwark is transformed from isolated social housing into an active community within the city. A series of strategic additions strengthen the estate - the flexible Tennis Street theatre, Resident’s Association and sequence of public squares. Layers of privacy are created through winter garden extensions to existing apartments, providing flexible space that can be arranged depending on the individual privacy desires of each tenant. Low quality studio apartments have been replaced with the ‘community room’, a multifunctional space on every floor which can adapted however the residents, as a collective group, desire. Strategically minimal changes have been proposed within the existing apartments, avoiding disruption to existing tenants, who are not displaced by the proposal but enriched. Tutor(s) Nick Haynes