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Revealing from Tides: Ephemeral Adaptive Littoral Zone as Outdoor Performance Space

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Student Yan Gong
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Design Studio Design Studio 2
Year 2

This project focuses on the foreshore of the river Thames, creating an outdoor museum, performance space and leisure area that changes with the tide. The waterfront of the river Thames has many unplanned areas, which are also buried with the long historical relics of the river Thames. The project attempts to tap into the potential of the foreshore and reproduce the history of the Thames in the form of experiences.

The foreshore is a very vulnerable environment, at threat from damage and erosion due to sea level changes, boat wash and storm surges. These are part of a post-medieval jetty, one of the last surviving elements of Greenwich Palace, and one of the largest archaeological features on the river foreshore anywhere in London.

The project is designed for ecological construction, historical and cultural protection as well as entertainment facilities. The tide can naturally form a landscape through the intervention. Different forms of structures affect the ground form and water flow form, creating a new landform of the foreshore. The project also investigates how the waterfront can generate landscapes and spaces under the action of tide.

Study on Water Flow and Sediment

Tidal Contrast Isometric

Overall Isometric

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The Bartlett
Autumn Show 2022
27 September – 7 October
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