C O N T I N U O U S   C I R C U L A R I T Y

Year 2


This project explores the theme of connectivity; spatial, institutional, and social. In a city like London, institutions often exist side-by-side physically but remain isolated

culturally and spatially. Architecture typically enforces boundaries; this project questions how it can instead promote overlap, movement, and unexpected encounter.

It demonstrates that architecture does not have to occupy the ground to shape the city. Instead, by operating in the air, it stitches new networks across existing fabrics.


The design proposes a central hub suspended above the urban fabric, a circular structure that floats approximately 25 meters above ground level, anchored by

twenty-four steel columns. The circle was chosen deliberately: it offers no front, no back, no hierarchy, supporting the project’s ambition to treat each surrounding

institution equally.


The hub acts as both destination and threshold. It is a shared academic commons in the sky, accessed via six bridges extending from the surrounding universities. Each

bridge plugs into the ring, allowing students to cross between institutions without descending to street level.


The hub becomes an infrastructure of connection: it frames views, provides new pedestrian flows, and generates opportunities for informal

meetings, study, and movement. It is not a building in the traditional sense, but a platform of interaction, supporting academic overlap across territorial boundaries.

The insertion is strategic. Columns land precisely in overlooked or underused urban voids: rear gardens, side streets, rooftops.


 The urban fabric below remains largely intact, while a new layer of occupation, movement, and visibility is introduced above: an intervention with radical spatial consequences.