Sayer Road / Jan Kattein Architects + BD Landscape Architects
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Textual content description furnished by the architects. On a sliver of land just four meters huge, Sayer Avenue packs in the infrastructure to guidance all the social everyday living which characterizes London’s greatest-beloved substantial streets. Established from the development hoarding for blended-use advancement inside of the Elephant Park masterplan, the task enhances the recently opened terrace of cafes and places to eat on the south of Sayer Street until the other 50 % of the significant avenue is full.
The temporary nature of the scheme allows it to examination responses to some of the existential issues dealing with town facilities throughout the state, including how to harmony the implications of the emerging working experience economic system towards the continuing require for civic areas that define a feeling of belonging in the metropolis.
Our reaction can take the variety of a linear folly. Undulating canopies shelter celebration spaces and seating nooks, interspersed with lush planting and 3 compact workspace pavilions. The overall assemblage sits within just a framework of brightly coloured scaffold and lights that attract the eye ever additional down the avenue.
These, for us, are the pleasures of strolling in the metropolis: reasons to wander, opportunities to meet, and vantage details for viewing lifestyle go by. Ample exotic planting is a central aspect of the spatial experience, softly enclosing spots inside of the folly. A group radio station, a flower shop, and an art gallery art the 1st workspace tenants finishing our higher street microcosm with retail and cultural exercise.
When the enhancement guiding is concluded in 3 years’ time, the modular scaffold that helps make up the superstructure will be struck, and the workspace pavilions, made off-site, will be re-deployed at a faculty, group place, or elsewhere in just the regeneration internet site.
