Stratford Design Challenge finalists: part II

This summer Building Design became Building [Re]Design and launched theStratford Design Challenge.

We invited you to examine the east London town centre, identify an issue that interested you and had resonance further afield and then - in less than 500 words and one image - propose a solution.

We particularly encouraged early-career architects and students to participate and assembled an influential panel ofjudges查看参赛作品(见下面的方框)。

Here we present more of the nine shortlisted entries.

All thefinalistswill be celebrated at the Architect of the Year Awards (AYAs) on October 14, when we will also announce the judges’ decision.

Book your tickets to the AYAs here.

在竞赛的同时，斯特拉特福德设计挑战赛邀请了领先的城市思想家们为一系列的思想领导作品做出贡献。Those published so far can be foundhere.

>> Also read:Stratford Design Challenge finalists: part I

3/ Rhythm Alley Stratford

By Sanaa Shaikh,Native Studio

We want to reclaim Stratford. We want to reclaim the urban space within which we live, work and play. We are the marginalised communities from East London that watched our world change in the name of regeneration. We got a Westfield, some of us got jobs at John Lewis. But when you cross Stratford High Street - nothing has changed. The same poverty, deprivation, high crime levels and young people with no prospects and little to do, excluded from the red-line boundary of ‘regeneration’.

We hail from Newham, where pirate radio stations gave rise to the grime scene. Where Dizzee and Wiley came into their own, we broadcast from the rooftops of estates and street corners where no-one would find us, we performed in the warehouses and the REX. Spaces where we were free to express ourselves through music and art. The ‘regeneration’ took these spaces away. Now there is no-where for young people to express themselves, no-where designed with us in mind, no-where we feel comfortable.

我们将斯特拉特福德设想为“节奏小巷”——一条散发着年轻人声音的商业街，定义了斯特拉特福德和纽汉。一辆有轨电车将从中间穿过，省去了大量的汽车通道，创造出一条更私密、以人为中心的公共路线。城市空间将形成，我们可以通过音乐表达自己。来自不同文化的音乐，从Newham - Ragas, Qawwalis, Ska和Afrobeats，到当代Grime和Breakbeats。制度围绕着我们，但没有一个允许我们表演和发展我们非正式的音乐表达实践。这就是为什么我们呼吁把斯特拉特福德高街改造成一个和谐的音乐参与机会的集合。这是我们振兴社区的策略。真正的再生。

We have identified various moments on Stratford high street where young people often spend time. We propose these be turned into opportunities for artistic expression and performance - places of joy and excitement.

The high street will be scattered with spaces for busking, group acts, musical installations and a range of performance spaces, culminating in a larger performance space with recording facilities. This will sit on the south of Stratford High Street, the side that has been overlooked by the regeneration and that is home to local people and communities that existed long before Westfield came. The new performance space will create a musical hub and focus here, encouraging greater connectivity, activity, life and community-centred revival.

Smaller performance spaces are buffered by landscaping to define and create intimacy. Most importantly such spaces are informal and can be further curated and formed by performers themselves - creating agency and ownership - allowing space to begin to become genuinely public.

The opportunity to cultivate, perform and share music with public audiences fosters community spirit and encourages integration, social cohesion and a chance for the diverse cultures of London to come together.

The proposal actively enables and promotes visibility, participation and agency - the unmentioned social values.

4/ Broadway Drive-Thru Market

ByAnna MurayandJack Lynton-Jenkinsof Origin 3 Studio

Broadway Drive-Thru is a benignly disruptive market.

It is rooted in an emergent urban market typology seen across the world, but utilises technology and the pandemic-linked surge in popularity of the ‘Drive-Thru’ to solve contemporary problems.

Stratford Broadway was once a thriving, bustling market and shopping destination. Following years of economic decline in the late 20th Century, and later redevelopment which largely neglected the high street, it now presents a divide: a multi-lane traffic highway, largely impermeable to pedestrians; dividing the eastern side of Stratford from the sleek Olympic Park to the west.

This introduces the question: how do we address car dominance creatively, and allow the free connection of the people of Stratford with the benefits of investment in their town?

Inspired by bustling shopping areas around the world, at the Broadway Drive-Thru cars are forced to slow down to a speed whereby pedestrians can weave safety between them, a scene familiar to many a global traveller. But drivers get something in return, the opportunity to stock up on fresh, locally produced groceries; a chat; and an experience for all of their senses to enliven their commute. Modern technology aids the efficiency of the shopping experience; quickly placing an order by phone or touchscreen, is rewarded by swift delivery to your car window by drone or street vendor.

As for the pedestrians, cyclists and scooterists: after a quick glance, they are free to cross Broadway at will. The division is permeated. Sections of linear farm offer the opportunity to ‘Pick Your Own’ super-local produce and, in contrast to the current wearisome, grey urban realm, offer sensory stimulation - imagine the aromas of cycling home through a greenhouse of tomatoes!

The full set of shortlisted entries will appear on Building Design’s website, our newsletters and social media in the run up to the AYAs.

The Stratford Design Challenge judges

Pam Alexander, urban regeneration specialist, director of London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and Connected Places Catapult, chair of digital community engagement company Commonplace.

Phil Askew, landscape and placemaking director at Peabody working on £8bn Thamesmead regeneration. From 2008-17 he led on the landscape and public realm transformation of the Olympic Park into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Siu-Pei ChoiWates Residential的高级设计经理。从Bartlett毕业后，她曾在Patel Taylor、Levitt Bernstein、Fraser Brown Mackenna和HTA担任建筑师，专注于住宅和再生计划。

Melissa Dowler他是贝尔菲利普斯建筑事务所(Bell Phillips Architects)的主管，也是格林威治和威斯敏斯特建筑学院的外部考官。她在与地方政府和私营部门客户合作的再生和住宅项目方面有着丰富的经验。

Kathryn Firth, partner in FPdesign, is an architect and urban designer. She was chief of design at the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) from 2011-14. She also teaches at Harvard and the Bartlett, is a mayor’s design advocate and serves on several design review panels.

Lanre Gbolade他是位于斯特拉特福德的L&Q的生产创新领导者，Gbolade设计工作室的联合创始人，拥有大型住宅项目的经验。他是RIBA实践和职业委员会的成员，也是促进黑人和亚洲人在建筑环境中的代表性的Paradigm Network的创始成员。

Tom Holbrook, founding partner of 5^th该工作室专注于复杂的城市再生、可持续发展和城市弹性。目前的工作包括围绕斯特拉特福德和皇家码头的总体规划。他是一位市长的设计倡导者，也是RMIT的建筑与城市主义教授。

Kay Hughes, director of design at HS2 Ltd and the former head of design at the Olympic Delivery Authority and senior project sponsor at the Foreign Office. She was also part of the winning team in the National Infrastructure Commission’s ideas competition for the Oxford-Cambridge arc.

Roland Karthaus, founding director of Matter Architecture which works across sectors and scales and is known for its research including a project with the Ministry of Justice to improve prison design for wellbeing. An architect, urban designer and public sector client, he is also a tutor at the University of East London, a member of the High Streets Task Force and a Design Council expert.

Claire McKeown, project director of V&A East, leading on construction for the museum’s two new venues in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at Stratford – the Waterfront Museum, which is being designed by O’Donnell & Tuomey, and the Collection & Research Centre at Here East, by Diller Scofidio & Renfro.

Simon Tonks她是RSHP的高级研究员。他曾是伦敦交通总部Stratford’s International Quarter的项目建筑师，也曾参与伦敦金融城的leadenhall大楼的设计。目前，他正在领导中国2.2米高的前海金融控股大厦的详细设计和交付。他对经济实惠和可持续的住宅设计特别感兴趣。

Leanne Tritton, founder and managing director of ING Media, the built environment communications specialists, and incoming chair of the London Society. She is a regular speaker and writer and has worked in Australia, the USA and the UK.

Keith Waller他是Costain的发展总监和政府建筑创新中心的项目总监，与政府、学术界和工业界合作，改造建筑。