Georgia Green

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About

Georgia studied architecture at the Royal College of Art and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her projects at the RCA have had a focus on the appropriation of large disused, built or urban terrains in ADS0 (Y1) and ADS1 (Y2). She has a keen interest in viewing the role of the architect in adaptive reuse schemes, as a curator of system design, textures, light and space. During her time in practice, she worked at AHMM and Levitt Bernstein where she contributed to a large Build-to-Rent housing development in New Islington, Manchester, and an Estate Regeneration scheme in North-East London.

Statement

Investigating Land undergoing transformation.

In an attempt to retrofit the ITV Television studios, built in 1972 by Elsom+Pack, on 72 Upper Ground, this 5th year project is a vehicle to explore and develop architectural communication through (mostly) drawings and 2D means.

Acting like an undercover detective, my role as designer was to understand the workings of an existing building and propose an alternative use for the existing concrete and steel structure. The cladding, white tiles, is what makes this building special. It exists as a productive workplace; an office and studios for ITV (London Weekend Television).

Instead of the demolition of the building, proposed by Make architects for Mitsubishi company, I have envisaged the retention and rejuvenation of this building on its plot of privately owned land, located on a very public and highly frequented promenade on the Southbank.

My thesis asks two questions related to architectural design: 

Firstly, how do we as architects understand the potentially toxic palimpsest of productive land, and design for a more restorative system?

Secondly, how can architecture learn from the curation of installation art, in relation to how to stage ‘moments’ and play with ‘scales of intimacy’, given that installation art inherently involves the bodies of the audience in the experience of the space, as it is manipulated by the artist?



Outer London Case Study - Beddington

Medium: Photography

Inner London Case Study: Southbank

Central London location

Medium: Illustrator

Final Drawings

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