Stratford Design Challenge finalists: part III

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

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

5/ Sharing and Caring

ByCatja de Haas,Catja de Haas Architects

Government research shows that the car is still the most popular form of transport. Only trips of under a mile are taken on foot. That means that a large part of local trips, under five miles are done by car. If all local trips would be done by foot or bicycle car traffic would be drastically reduced. In this proposal the road has been refigured: a bus lane runs through the middle and on both sides of the bus lane the road is shared by cars and cyclists. Therefor cars have to adapt to the speed of the bicycles which in turn will encourage people to leave the car at home. The pavements are wide and house playgrounds, bicycle storage and gardens. The edge between terrace and road collects water and along this collector plants grow.

Buildings protrude into the high street. The road meanders and has a clear beginning and end. The high street becomes a destination rather than a through Road.

The new buildings link the hinter-laying housing neighbourhoods to the high street. Sometimes as ‘portal buildings’. These hold functions that are relevant to the houses as well as the high street:

nurseries, after-school-clubs, crafts clubs, welcoming groups and home-schooling hubs. In the high street there can be shops and workshops run by local dressmakers, bakers, re-useables, green building consultants, storytellers, joiners, gardeners and perhaps aquaponic vegetables. There could be a doctor’s surgery and small offices for tech companies, banks, lawyers and architects. The latter can be start-ups, or satellite offices of larger firms. The offices might attract local youth as apprentices that they might not have come across in large towers. The lack of large offices means people won’t fall into ‘group think’, which happens if too many similar people work together. The offices can sponsor or adopt smaller start-ups and shops. Not only the cars and the bicycles share the surface, but the office resources can be shared too.

All new buildings have roofs on their gardens and all existing flat roofs have received green space in order to improve the air quality. All green can also be edible to create an urban orchard.

The top floors of the large office towers can be converted to housing and perhaps the local hotel can also sponsor a hostel for the homeless. Clients in restaurants can pay for extra meals so people who have a hard time finding food will be looked after. Not only the cars and the bicycles share the surface, but the people share space and produce.

Many people enjoyed their new-found communities during lockdown and were glad they didn’t have to commute. The proposal for the new Stratford high street is perhaps idealistic but offers no radical new ideas, rather a subtle reordering of roads and buildings, greenery, cars and bicycles in order to tackle the issues of poverty, climate change and homelessness. The high street, where from the beginning of time everyone in the community came together can be a new start.

6/ The Green Heart of Stratford

ByAlcina Lo,part I atAndreas Lechthaler Architecture

斯特拉特福德的绿色中心聚焦于三个关键主题:绿色空间和生物多样性、多代公共空间和公民所有权。

The design proposes that only one mall is needed in the town, rather than creating a competition between Stratford Centre and Westfield Shopping Centre.

The Green Heart extends the existing green space from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into Stratford Town centre, creating a pedestrian link of public green space. The Stratford Centre mall currently acts as a traffic island and barrier in which residents need to pass through to access public transport, which closes in the evening, hence is not truly public space. The proposal will provide better accessibility for residents living in the South of Stratford to the transport hub and the rest of Stratford, divided by the rail and road.

The Green Heart will link the visitors of Westfield, the Olympic Park, the residents of South Stratford and the new residential communities beyond the rail and road into a well connected town with an identifiable civic centre.

Local businesses currently in Stratford Centre will be relocated to be accessible along the fringe of the Green Heart, encouraging those passing the new open space to visit. Rather than building new residential apartments, residential developments within the Green Heart emphasises the refurbishment of existing buildings along the fringe, with the ground floor used for local businesses, reducing the carbon emissions from demolishment and new-build as well as to retain the heritage of the buildings. In addition, sustainable residential developments will fill some gaps.

The proposal retains heritage assets and listed buildings to form points of interest for visitors to the town. New green walking routes provide ease of access from the Green Heart to places of leisure such as the Theatre Royal Stratford East, which is currently only accessible from Great Eastern Road.

绿色之心是一个宣泄的空间，在这里斯特拉特福德的居民，无论背景如何，都可以放松。绿色空间不同于城市环境，通过提供体育活动的空间来促进身体健康，通过在大自然中提供心理健康。绿色之心的树木减少了来自边境运输的污染物和噪音，创造了一个令人愉快的平静空间。几代人也通过不同的活动融入同一个空间，培养多代人的社区精神，如现有的滑冰亚文化的滑板公园，居住在公寓或享受园艺和迷你高尔夫作为家庭活动的社区花园，所有这些都由中央路径和湖泊连接。

绿色之心的公民所有权来自当地企业、社区花园的用户、溜冰者和高尔夫球场的用户，通过社区活动提供被动监控，确保那些通过绿色之心的人全天的安全。

Overall, the Green Heart of Stratford aims to integrate existing residents with new ones through multi-generational social spaces, civic ownership and shared public space, a struggling commercial space is replaced by a new civic heart, which the people of Stratford can be proud of.

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 Choi, senior design manager at Wates Residential. Graduating from the Bartlett, she previously worked as an architect at Patel Taylor, Levitt Bernstein, Fraser Brown Mackenna and HTA, specialising in residential and regeneration schemes.

Melissa Dowler, director of Bell Phillips Architects and an external examiner at Greenwich and Westminster architecture schools. She has extensive experience of regeneration and residential projects working with local authorities and private-sector clients.

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^thStudio which specialises in complex urban regeneration, sustainability and the resilience of cities. Current work includes masterplans around Stratford and the Royal Docks. He is a mayor’s design advocate and professor of architecture and urbanism at RMIT.

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, development director of Costain and programme director of the government’s Construction Innovation Hub, working with government, academia and industry to transform construction.