City of Beacons

Envision imaginative urban design solutions for the future responding to rapid urban transformation challenging existing economies, prodcutivity, mixity, affordability and ecology.

Using graphic and provocative imagery and illustrations, industrial lands around historic iand iconic industries of Peters icecream and Bosch in Clayton serve as a backdrop to a vision investigating different ways of creating future inclusive + productive cities spatially, programmatically, ecologically, socially, visually ...

We will develop a collective urban proposal, around a reimagined public network, forming the framework for poject plug-ins and proposals by smaller groups.

Presentation methods by the Bartlett, AA, Analogues, Animes and iconic visionary precedents will inspire our visual explorations.

Parts of the collective decision making processes will be recorded for research purposes. Participation is encouraged but not compulsory. Detailed info will be provided and allow you to decide on participating or not.

The whole semester, we will focus on and develop 3 representations, the render, the section and a collective plug-in representation , to achieve a high level of representational refinement.