Can sustainable housing meet the UK’s Ambitious Delivery Goals?
Posted on 3 December 2024 by Catia Martins
With the Labour Party’s rise to power, the UK has been promised the deliverance of 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament while facing unprecedented challenges such as climate crisis and a growing social inequality (The Planner, 2024). Although admirable, can the balance between quantity and quality, speed and sustainability truly be achieved? We’ll Read the full article...
Reflexive Summary. Semester 2.
Posted on 24 May 2023 by Alexander Plamadeala
My experience over the last two semesters has been life-changing. I approached the exercise with skepticism at first and encountered various challenges, including language problems and difficulty with content organisation. However, as my first semester went, I progressively overcome these difficulties and found myself more involved and motivated. Topic selection and remaining on-track challenges lingered Read the full article...
Community Engaging Housing Schemes
Posted on 2 May 2022 by Arundhati Chitnis
Housing standards are rising thanks to collaborative housing concepts. Also, these strategies prioritize inhabitants’ needs over private profit. But what does it mean by collaborative housing? Firstly, several words are used to denote different characteristics or types of community-led housing. These terms include concepts like ‘cohousing, social production of housing, and self-construction,’. As well as Read the full article...
My steps towards Urban waterside Regeneration
Posted on 1 May 2022 by Vinuthna Singareddy
I have worked on many different various kinds of design projects during my bachelor’s as an architect. Now, as a masters prospect I have worked on projects which majorly dealt with housing or mixed-use spaces. I always wanted to work on public open spaces and topics covering community engagement and adaptive use of open spaces Read the full article...
A neglected urban public space – the space underneath the viaduct
Posted on 14 April 2022 by Jiaxi Chen
With the expansion of the urban scale and the development of urban transport, a variety of viaducts have been introduced, either as urban expressways, railways or metros. This type of space occupies an elevated position to assume the role of a road and at the same time creates a large shaded space beneath it. These Read the full article...
Sea Level Rise and Future Urban Change
Posted on 2 April 2022 by Jiaxi Chen
The twenty-first century has seen various natural crises come to the fore, global warming and rising sea levels being one of them, according to the Daily Mirror, a Chilling ‘Doomsday map’ shows how the UK will be left underwater in 80 years’ time.Faced with this grave crisis, countries around the world are thinking about how Read the full article...
