Goldington Street Estate,

Somers Town

6 Designs for Somers Town

Deployable shelter with seating and tea table

Park Shelter

Play Landscape

Play Nets overlap for safe climbing

Built on rooftops and within courtyards

Walls and built fences enclose space

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Safe enclosed playground with seating and adult supervision and socialising below

Communal Farming

Growing boxes and foldable trel-

lises form outer facade of balco-

nies for community farming pro-

ject. Produce is cultivated shared

between residents

Composting containers feed from

one level to the next

Structure

creates

pleasant

connected,

communal

social

spaces

along bal-

conies

Framework holding folding

trellises is a network of pipes

fed by rainwater tanks

Book Exchange Library-

Secret Bricks slip out from brick-

work between apartments and

along walkways and corridors of

Cecil Rhodes House

Exchange Wall-

Two-way kitchen wall opens between neighbours

and into communal spaces. Sharing of food and other

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Exchange & Sharing

Excercise and play stops distributed around neighbourhood. Route links different houses

and homes, connecting people and making numerous opportunities for social encounters.

Route guided by electronic

and physical markers.

Routes organised and

planned by members of

walking group and pub-

lished online each day.

Somers Town Trail

Play- Intended and Appropriated...

Finding ways of using and mis-using designs

Drinking Tea and Chatting...Almost symbolic social action of sharing a cup of tea

with some converstaion