The Tapestry Part 2 Project 2025 Thea Steiro Mikkelsen University of Kent | UK “The tapestry” is an architectural proposal situated in the former Westferry Printworks site, in the Isle of Dogs, London, UK. That explores weaving as a spatial, narrative, and material practice, though building and wider masterplan to accommodate to the existing site conditions. Rooted in storytelling, symbolism, and the handmade, it reimagines architecture as a living tapestry. Layered, textured, and emotionally resonant. Drawing inspiration from literature, landscaping, cinema, and textile traditions, the project investigates how narrative can be physically embedded into space through light, surface, and sequence.Through iterative methods, hand drawing, model- making, shadow mapping, and material experimentation; the work creates a rich design language where craft becomes structure, and architecture becomes story. Tapestry is treated not as decoration but as a generative framework for building, evoking ideas of memory, movement, traditional patterns, and the human spirit.The project celebrates the imaginative and symbolic power of architecture, embracing slowness, tactility, and care in contrast to the detachment of digital or mass-produced environments. It shows that sustainability lies not only in the proposed low- impact materials, and nature based approached to sustainable environments, but in cultivating emotional and cultural durability; spaces that are felt, remembered, and passed on. Integrated with the existing surrounding conditions to give back to the inhabitants.Suspended between reality and invention, the tapestry project asks, what if, buildings could be read like stories, woven with meaning, and crafted with intention? Tutor(s) Faye Chantler Yorgos Loizos