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Set in East Tilbury, Essex, An Architectural Guide to Energy Redistribution responds to environmental exploitation along the Thames Estuary. The area bears the scars of extractive profit: vast landfills filled with London’s waste produce methane sold for gain, water companies discharge sewage into the river while rewarding shareholders, and nearby shipping ports degrade fragile marshland habitats for global trade.
In response, this design imagines a radical collective of environmental protestors who intercept gas, water, and electricity from these corporate actors and redistribute them freely to the local community. Through speculative infrastructures, the project proposes an alternative system of stewardship and resistance. Architecture becomes a tool for repair and reparation, challenging who controls resources, who suffers the consequences, and who benefits.
The landscape is plagued by poorly capped landfills, sewage spills and vast shipping ports. The site for the project was placed at the intersection of the flows of energy and profit that are caused by these environmental crimes.
The project imagines a raised walkway that navigates protestors and locals alike through the forest where they hide. The form is dictated by the location of the existing trees and the contours of the land.