# Project Description

The Living Soil Lab: Architecture at the Threshold

Gemma Lea

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Final work

Architecture Masters student based in London. My master's thesis enquired on UK bio-based and regional material practices in relation to climate resilience.

Architecture Masters student based in London. My master's thesis enquired on UK bio-based and reg...

College Central Saint Martins

Course M ARCH: Architecture

Graduation year 2025

The Living Soil Lab is a civic material testing facility (re)introducing connective infrastructure for material re-use, taking London’s construction soil waste destined for landfill and re-routing this waste stream into new construction materials. The project speculates on the future of the UK construction industry, forecasting a new architecture of re-use in reaction to dwindling material supply chains. Sited in the English Lowlands eco-region, the project plugs into existing conservation typologies as well as proposing new climate-resilient strategies to build.

Final work

Diagrammatic Spatial Programme

Project's spatial programme: A diagrammatic season design proposal for Haddenham's Living Soil Lab.

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The Living Soil Lab is a civic material testing facility (re)introducing connective infrastructure for material re-use, taking London’s construction soil waste destined for landfill and re-routing this waste stream into new construction materials. The project speculates on the...

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