LIVING THROUGH THE VOIDS

Year 3


The project begins with a series of memory fragments; the irregular cavities of Hundertwasserhaus, the compressed alleyways of Corfu, and the layered walkways and platforms of Odhams Walk.
 Each memory offers a different type of void: curved, playful, accidental, vertical, communal, or infrastructural. Instead of treating these memories as stylistic references,
 I extracted their spatial logics and hybridised them into a new tectonic language: architecture that grows from voids rather than solids.


Through cutting, stretching, mixing and thickening these void-types, a new tectonic emerges; one defined by carved channels of movement,
 suspended pockets of occupation, softened transitions, stepped communal terraces, and an emphasis on social proximity.
 The architecture is no longer a composition of rooms, but a network of in-between spaces that structure the living units around them.


This tectonic is tested on the Battersea site by inserting these hybridised voids into a continuous housing prototype strip. 
The carved voids negotiate views to the river, sunlight, privacy gradients, and community gathering needs. 
They form terraces, vertical shortcuts, shared gardens, micro-courtyards, co-working decks, and circulation spines; creating a new model of living where the value of housing is measured by the quality of its collective spaces.


Through this approach, Battersea becomes a testing ground for a future of living rooted in inhabitable voids; 
an urban architecture where community, adaptation, and spatial generosity arise from what is removed rather than what is added.