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ROBIN HOOD GARDENS
London, 2008
Competition Entry
Robin Hood Gardens in East London is a seminal post-war housing estate by British brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. The Estate has been poorly maintained and over the years has become dis-connected from the local amenities. Clauum Sleery’s proposal for modernising the estate held at its core the belief that the 600 apartments and buildings themselves were sound and required only a proper and continued programme of maintenance, organised by the inhabitants themselves.
The Smithson’s ‘city wall’ boundary concept was punctured with new communal self-help facilities: garden centre; schools, faith centres, community gardens and cafes and a light industry zone for commerce and apprenticeship.
The site as a whole was densified by literally duplicating Smithson’s blocks, cutting & pasting around the fringes of the preserved green heart.
All proposals were shown as cut-and-paste copies of Smithson’s original drawings.