Ultra Town Part 2 Project 2024 Joe Franklin Kingston University Kingston | UK ‘Ultra Town’ reimagines the aborted HS2 Phase 02 site between Birmingham and Manchester as a forested new town, a 120km piece of social and ecological infrastructure that eventually becomes home to more than 250,000 people. The project is drawn over a period of 50 years and across a number of phases, from enabling services, to incorporating forms of industry, pieces of social infrastructure and housing; thus proposing a method of responsible development and new build construction embedded with cycles of support, maintenance and care. Drawing from my own experience of living in temporary, transient communities, the language of the proposal learns from the history of woodland as a space for protest and counterculture to propose an ultra-urban condition that responds to the current housing and ecological crises. Tutor(s) Nicholas Lobo Brennan Astrid Smitham