ANTI-FOLLIES
YEAR 2019
TYPOGOLOGY Housing
LOCATION London
COLLABORATORS Zeke Kan, Heesuk Lee, Jungyun Lee
TYPOGOLOGY Housing
LOCATION London
COLLABORATORS Zeke Kan, Heesuk Lee, Jungyun Lee
Modular design and a kit of prefabricated parts turn the residual spaces produced by London’s tangled streets into sites for much needed housing.
An entry for an affordable housing competition set in London, this project took aesthetic inspiration from the British high-tech architecture of the 1970’s and 80’s. This design philosophy was reinterpreted in the age of prefabrication, producing a modular kit of parts that can be recombine in countless ways to produce eccentric floor plans that fit neatly into the many oddly shaped residual spaces leftover by London’s messy street network. Much like follies in a British garden, these small interventions complement their surroundings by contrast. Instead of the past, however, they offer a glimpse into the future.
