Accidental Irregularities: Architectural Interventions as a Picturesque Landscape Part 1 Project 2024 Teodora Doble London Metropolitan University | UK During the mid-18th century, the notion of scenic pleasure disregarded the principles of symmetry and perfect proportions, instead favouring "accidental irregularity" while embracing individualism and rusticity.This project overlays the principles of the English Picturesque onto the historic Old Town area of Hastings as a means of arranging a series of facilities for an artist-led creative organisation known as Knot Works. The project accommodates varied uses, from life drawing studios, solitary space, and a small library, by scattering a series of small interventions idiosyncratic in nature across the Old Town. A larger building, conceived as a congregation of these small structures, operates as a collective place for Knot Works to house larger exhibitions, events and gatherings. Visual connections and pedestrian routes laid out between interventions offer an opportunity for dialogue between its architectures, drawing visitors through the streets to explore each destination and the spaces in between. These vary in scale and use, from expanded open spaces to intimidate enclosures to be explored individually or as couples (e.g. a painter and their subject). Emphasising adaptability, communal space and community integration, The Building of Accidental Irregularity aims to enhance a town that, despite facing decline, has recently attracted new residents drawn to its coastal beauty and thriving arts scene. Teodora Doble Tutor(s) Holly Jean Crosbie Kieran Wardle Owain Williams