Just 12 months on from
kicking-off the project, we launched our new low rise, high density research
report on 07 October to a sold-out crowd as part of the Architecture
Foundation’s ‘Architecture on Stage’ programme.
Authored by team members Mike Althorpe and Abigail Batchelor and
featuring outstanding new drawings and illustrations developed by the studio,
‘Revolutionary Low Rise – Informing London’s Suburban Densification’ explores
lessons for the capital’s future growth from nine radical projects in the UK,
USA and Europe.
Chaired by Ellis Woodman (AF) and featuring presentations from the
authors with project supervisor historian Mark Swenarton with responses by Paul
Karakusevic, Deborah Saunt (DSDHA) and Rachel Hearn (Principal Urban Design
Officer, London Borough of Havering), the event debated the projects and the
report’s key findings in light of the emerging changes and key themes of the
draft London plan.
Supported by the RIBA Research Fund the report has been created in response to London’s future housing challenges and, with new essays, plans and illustrations and a resident interviews, aims to be an accessible and useful guide to density for practitioners of all kinds.
For more information: http://karakusevic-carson.com/studio/exhibitions-and-publications/revolutionary-low-rise-informing-london-s-suburban-densification