
- CollegeCentral Saint Martins
- CourseBA (Hons) Architecture
- Graduation year2025
The Eel Pie Island Community Hub is a self-build architectural proposal designed to protect and empower the island’s diverse community—boat dwellers, artists, and long-term residents—through a shared social and productive space. Developed in response to the increasing threat of third-party development and cultural erasure, the hub acts as both a physical and symbolic anchor for community resilience.
Rooted in circular economy principles and the Segal Method, the proposal integrates reclaimed materials, modular timber construction, and incremental phasing to support long-term adaptability and affordability. The design incorporates workshop facilities, exhibition and teaching spaces, communal gathering zones, and a materials reuse system, ensuring that the site remains self-sustaining and responsive to environmental conditions, including tidal changes and flooding.
Through a bottom-up construction logic, the proposal becomes more than a building—it becomes a framework for collective action, knowledge-sharing, and the preservation of identity on an island defined by creativity, independence, and self-determination.
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