Crossing Generations

On the site of the recently demolished Pimlico Comprehensive School, the intermixing of learning and leisure activities for the very young and very old takes place on the building’s extensive stepped terraces. Bright coloured surfaces and planting create a vibrant landscape while offering places to sit down or carry out relaxing pastimes like gardening or playing croquet. A green wall on the west side and the cultivation of the whole NoHo site provides food for a restaurant that mixes cuisine with psychoanalysis so that one’s mind and body can be treated together by the all-in-one chef/shrink.






(Left Page) from top :

 

The ‘cross-generational staircase’,

Terraced model,

Sectional final model,

Right Page :

Exploded axonometric floor planes



(Left Page) Clockwise from top :



Entrance to the school ,

Cross-generational seating,

The rooftop lido,

The recreational croquet lawn,

The lido in winter becomes an ice rink

Right Page:

Sectional model through east-west axis