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Bring Back the Land

Kathryn Chieng

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Kathryn Chieng is a part 1 BA Architecture graduate from Central Saint Martins based in Surrey. Her main practice focuses on social and ethical design and gaining knowledge on how to develop interventions that benefit communities. She aims to foster meaningful relationships between the environment and it's users. Her project explores the narrative of adaptive reuse, to embrace the existing rather than erasing it, giving a voice to spaces that are abandoned and disused.

Kathryn Chieng is a part 1 BA Architecture graduate from Central Saint Martins based in Surrey. H...

Engaging in reassembling existing matter, and adaptive reuse within the developing Meridian Water. Investigating how existing industrial structures can be disassembled into reusable building parts. Through introducing an agricultural landscape within the urban context, the proposal seeks to interrogate and regenerate the historical presence of the land. Bringing a voice to agricultural workers, to highlight the importance of the land as a sustenance for life and as a way of co-existing between humans and livestock.

Final work

  • Sheep resting inside a barn.
  • Exterior view of sheep in a field.
  • Exterior view from the perspective of a sheep.
Drawing of the proposal from above, illustrating the arrangement of the programs such as sheep barns, lodges and fields.

1:750 Proposal plan

Spatial arrangement of the proposal programs, acknowledging the Meridian Water master plan context.

Axonometric of the overall proposal.

Proposal axonometric

How the contrasting programs within the proposal are related and connected to each other, providing a cohesive landscape for both humans and sheep to navigate.

Section of a sheep barn with highlighted areas

1:50 Sheep barn section

Weaving in and out of the landscape, there exists a ‘city of sheep’ where the sheep can explore their own pathways through and in buildings. An undulating sloped pathway provides a network for humans to experience the landscape alongside the sheep.

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Bring Back the Land

Engaging in reassembling existing matter, and adaptive reuse within the developing Meridian Water. Investigating how existing industrial structures can be disassembled into reusable building parts. Through introducing an agricultural landscape within the urban context, the pro...

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