A Dispatch from the Site Office
An Alternative to Social Housing Regeneration  Over the last half-century, the UK’s social housing stock has been systematically diminished - parceled out for private sale to individuals and investors, transferred to private non-profit management organizations, or demolished altogether. Local councils now implement regeneration plans that present a binary choice between total demolition and managed decline - plans which often result in displacement.

Can an architectural practice operate in a way that intervenes on this process? What can a designer do to shape attitudes about social housing and existing buildings that are so often seen as problems in need of a solution? This project explores these issues through a close analysis of the Wendling Estate, a housing estate in North London that was slated for demolition in 2021. The analysis takes place from the position of a permanent site office (the Wendling Site Office) that allows for a new pace of building transformation across scales. 

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 Type  Thesis Project
Date
Spring 2024
Location
London, UK

Advisors

Amelyn Ng, Debbie Chen
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