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The Bartlett School of Architecture has set a strategic aim of carbon and energy reduction, in line with UCL’s Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities, under which our research addresses these problems. Our research into environmental, technological, social and cultural sustainability is inherently connected to addressing the climate-change issues facing the world. From large-scale engineered urban infrastructures and resource management to indigenous-based or bottom-up community initiatives, or environmental decarbonisation technologies, we examine how architectural sustainability is central to the discipline’s contribution to improving 21st-century design and inhabitation.
Featured Research
- Angel Yard, Jan Kattein
Angel Yard is a multiple award-winning community enterprise space in Edmonton, London. The project transforms two derelict garage yards into 35 affordable workspaces for young entrepreneurs.
In light of the development’s temporary nature, the scheme makes the most of existing structures while adding as little embodied carbon as possible. Lightweight timber barrel-vaults add head height to adapt each existing garage into an individually let workspace, ideally sized for local people aged 18-30 to take their first steps as a business. New shop windows to the workspaces overlook internal ‘streets’, sheltered by translucent canopies to create an outdoor marketplace for informal collaboration.
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- Oxford North, Jonathan Kendall
Oxford North is a masterplan for the creation of a new urban district redefining the northern edge of the city of Oxford. It is the largest strategic project undertaken in the city of Oxford in the past 100 years. The design creates spaces for knowledge-economy activities of global significance, capitalising on academic research undertaken in and around the university. Across a 30-hectare site the plan includes 90,000 sqm of research and employment floorspace, nearly 500 homes and hotel, retail and community facilities. The first phase – currently under construction – includes laboratory and workspace uses, public amenities and start-up facilities, and a new public park and square.
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Research Projects
- Urban Dynamics Lab
- High Street Diversity
- Food City: The Food Parliament
- Centre for London Urban Design (CLOUD)
- MoHoA
Image: Angel Yard, Jan Kattein Architects. Aerial view of community hall and enterprise spaces. Photo by Jack Hobhouse.
