School of Anatomy & Biomedical Science
In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Institute of Cosmism (IIC) is developing a site in London’s historic centre and financial district, known as the City. The IIC approach involves travelling in two different directions at once, back to the seventeenth century, to look at the adventures in architecture and science that arose at the time of the Great Fire and on the other hand, to the future. The project brief asks for an architectural proposal for the design of two related buildings for a site, first, a Mathematical House, second, a College of Natural Philosophy. Together, House and College form a School, where Cosmists can think about the past and future, as a way of metabolising the present.
This college of bio-engineering is designed for university students, practising doctors, academics and researchers. It explores the concept of increasing life expectancy of people with illnesses that shorten their lifespan, using medicine and modern technologies, which I’ve interpreted from the cosmist idea of immortality. The proposal for my college of natural philosophy is made up of two buildings, a library building and a research centre, to encourage experimentation and research not only with professionals but also with aspiring medical students.
Completion Year
2021
Location
Ludgate Hill, London
The development of this project began from the mathematical house which exists on site. Through a modelling and iteration process the final form of the building includes two main bodies of a building with a bridging level, elevated at third floor, joining both buildings, library and laboratories, into one college. In doing so, I also developed a courtyard space on a podium to be used by members of the public as a resting place as well as for circulation withing the site context.
