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![A tenant office sits to the north, while a community center is housed within retrofitted estate buildings for co-working and dining. Two tunnel-like walkways cut through the site, guiding visitors into the new scheme.]()
![The external elevation reveals seating in the new garden, constructed from waste bricks. The tenant hall’s top floor connects to Bagshot House, providing private access from tenants’ flats. Inside, a double-height meeting room features stepped skylights, creating a bright and generous communal space.]()
![Both models highlight two types of waste brick walls in contrasting colours. The tunnel leads into the new canal at the centre of the settlement, while the terrace overlooks a reading space where people sit beneath the skylight in front of the existing wall.]()
![A close-up shows light filtering through the 1:200 tenant hall model, alongside a 1:20 fragment model illustrating the skylight and brick façade form of the proposed tenant meeting room, set on a base made from waste brick tiles.]()
![The 1:20 sectional model of the secret meeting room reveals tenant engagement within a hidden underground space, connected to the courtyard above and located on the northern edge of the masterplan.]()
Cumberland Ravine
Within the Cumberland Market Estate, east of Regent’s Park, a new centre is built, not to declare, but to endure. It responds to a history of tenant uncertainty and quiet activism. A meeting room is set underground, at the centre of the north courtyard, protected, almost hidden.
Between Bagshot and Swinley Houses, a tenant hall and community centre are introduced. Swinley is altered: its ground floor and part of the first are made into spaces for reading, working, and gathering. A new floor is added above, simple, exact, to return homes lost below.
The building is formed of waste brick, made from what the ground offers: fragments, rubble, and aggregate. These are drawn from the old allotments, now partly excavated to uncover a section of the buried canal. Along its edge, a café is placed, unassuming, open to both residents and passers-by.
On the roofs, gardens are planted. Green returns where soil was taken. It softens the edges.
Two narrow tunnels are cut, through Bagshot and Swinley, connecting Regent’s Park to the courtyard and the new canalside.
The project does not explain itself. It holds. It listens. It remains.
Ground Floor Plan
A tenant office sits to the north, while a community centre is housed within retrofitted estate buildings for co-working and dining. Two tunnel-like walkways cut through the site, guiding visitors into the new scheme.
Tenant Hall Visualisations
The external elevation reveals seating in the new garden, constructed from waste bricks. Tenant Hall’s top floor connects to Bagshot House, providing access from tenants’ flats. Inside, a double-height meeting room features stepped skylights.
Exterior Views of Tunnel Walkway and Reading Space Terrace
Both models highlight two contrasting types of waste brick walls. The tunnel leads into the new canal at the centre of the settlement, while the terrace overlooks a reading space where people sit beneath the skylight in front of the existing wall.
Fragment Models of Tenant Meeting Room
A close-up shows light filtering through the 1:200 tenant hall model, alongside a 1:20 fragment model, illustrating the skylight and brick façade form of the proposed tenant meeting room, set on a base made from waste brick tiles.
Project One: 'Cumberland Court'
An underground meeting space for the Cumberland Estate tenants. The design centres on the connection between the courtyard pavilion, which directs light into the meeting space below curating the space with different colour, luminosity and light.
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