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![The project proposes a workshop and humble living space for an optical lensmaker, aiming to preserve the critically endangered craft of scientific instrument-making within Middlesex Filter Beds’ historic landscape.]()
![Aerial view of the proposal in the Filter Beds.]()
![Set on the former Middlesex Filter Beds, this project transforms an industrial site into a creative hub with shared workshops, fostering collaboration, adaptability, and artistic exchange under a unified vaulted structure.]()
![Bioclimatic section through the vaulted masonry structure.]()
![The laboratory offers a forest-like setting for studying tree health and rewilding. Designed with low-impact timber construction and screw piles, it supports ecological research while enabling proximity between researcher and nature.]()
![Grounded is a retreat for stillness and renewal in the Middlesex Filter Beds. Blending Ayurvedic therapy, yoga and meditation, its architecture embraces nature and offers flexible spaces to rest, reflect and reconnect, physically and emotionally.]()
![The project proposes a community hub for narrowboat residents, offering a boat workshop, short-term accommodation, shared living, and dining areas to support and enrich waterside life.]()
![The project addresses the UK's depleting biodiversity by providing spaces for captive breeding of local bird species and a release aviary.]()
![This project envisions a bathhouse and sauna that reconnects visitors with water, landscape, and restoration through quiet ritual and sensory immersion.]()
![Situated in the filter beds, the project proposes an artist's studio that harnesses the site's unique microclimate, ideal for watercolour painting and pigment making.]()
![Daylight autonomy section: the project proposes a bird observatory and educational centre for Hackney Marshes.]()
![Structural framing axonometric: As a hub for local sports enthusiasts, the centre enhances its natural setting through seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor, offering spaces that foster mindfulness and a deeper connection with nature.]()
![The prototype explores atmospheric water harvesting in the Filter Beds through tensile mesh membranes.]()
![BacPac is a portable device for sampling and displaying site-specific bacteria. Through in-situ agar casting, it captures microbial and textural imprints, enabling analysis that translates bacterial growth into visual display.]()
MEng Y2 Studio 2.2
Project details
Programme
Year
Y2
Tutors
Samuel Esses,
Olivia Riddle and
Fady Abdelaziz
In Studio 2.2, individual projects responded to the overarching theme of ‘Adaptation’ by interrogating the building envelope through environmental, structural, and cultural lenses within the context of Hackney Marshes. Design strategies were developed through a multidisciplinary approach and iterative testing evaluated using daylight and energy modelling alongside structural analyses. Projects include a music studio which reinterprets site memory through sound and materiality to support analogue music production, a lens-making workshop combining precision craft with climate responsiveness, and vaulted masonry structures designed to house community studio spaces. Through integrated design, each proposal investigates a distinct approach to climate and culture.
Students
Rex Hau, 'Filterbeds Music Studio'
Located on Waltham Forest’s southeast edge, the Middlesex Filterbeds nature reserve hosts two experimental musicians reinterpreting the site’s history through ambient music, using Grime sampling and vinyl production techniques.
Jack Liang, 'Dwelling in Focus'
The project proposes a workshop and humble living space for an optical lensmaker, aiming to preserve the critically endangered craft of scientific instrument-making within Middlesex Filter Beds’ historic landscape.
Jack Liang, 'Dwelling in Focus'
Aerial view of the proposal in the Filter Beds.
Aishah Maqbool, 'Hackney Creative Arts Hub'
Set on the former Middlesex Filter Beds, this project transforms an industrial site into a creative hub with shared workshops, fostering collaboration, adaptability, and artistic exchange under a unified vaulted structure.
Aishah Maqbool, 'Hackney Creative Arts Hub'
Bioclimatic section through the vaulted masonry structure.
Methapon (Ling) Leelarasamee, 'Tree Research Laboratory'
The laboratory offers a forest-like setting for studying tree health and rewilding. Designed with low-impact timber construction and screw piles, it supports ecological research while enabling proximity between researcher and nature.
Hansini Kammila, 'Grounded'
Grounded is a retreat for stillness and renewal in the Middlesex Filter Beds. Blending Ayurvedic therapy, yoga and meditation, its architecture embraces nature and offers flexible spaces to rest, reflect and reconnect, physically and emotionally.
Terry Zhong, 'Lee Valley Boat Works'
The project proposes a community hub for narrowboat residents, offering a boat workshop, short-term accommodation, shared living, and dining areas to support and enrich waterside life.
Maria Maciejewska, 'The Urban and the Wild'
The project addresses the UK's depleting biodiversity by providing spaces for captive breeding of local bird species and a release aviary.
Thomas Wynne-Baerwald, 'Middlesex Bathhouse'
This project envisions a bathhouse and sauna that reconnects visitors with water, landscape, and restoration through quiet ritual and sensory immersion.
Claire (Manqi) Zhang, 'Watercolour Studio'
Situated in the filter beds, the project proposes an artist's studio that harnesses the site's unique microclimate, ideal for watercolour painting and pigment making.
David de Wolff, 'Birdhouse'
Daylight autonomy section: the project proposes a bird observatory and educational centre for Hackney Marshes.
Zoe Chen, 'Hackney Sports Centre'
Structural framing axonometric: As a hub for local sports enthusiasts, the centre enhances its natural setting through seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor, offering spaces that foster mindfulness and a deeper connection with nature.
Rhea Kochhar, Maria Maciejewska, Shayna Naik, 'A Spider’s Catch'
The prototype explores atmospheric water harvesting in the Filter Beds through tensile mesh membranes.
Rex Hau, Jack Liang, Tom Wynne-Baerwald, 'BacPac'
BacPac is a portable device for sampling and displaying site-specific bacteria. Through in-situ agar casting, it captures microbial and textural imprints, enabling analysis that translates bacterial growth into visual display.
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