Monday 2 February 2015

Portfolio presentation by Jack Sanderson and Konrad Holtsmark at RSHP













Health in Chaos / Jack Sardeson - Former Unit 0 student 2013-14
In a future where bacteria have become fully resistant to our current antibiotics, this project suggests an innovative form of health clinic where recovering patients can be fully isolated and hence escape any fear of hospital super-bugs. It also remembers the past history of the now-buried Fleet River, turning it into an entrance tunnel that leads into the new Crossrail station, while also harking back to the Fleet River’s medieval reputation as a notable spa with healing waters. In the culverted tunnel, special devices automatically open and light up whenever there is no water present, and yet are triggered and closed whenever the tunnel becomes inundated after rainfall or tidal surges.

Monastery for Gardening Monks / Konrad Holtsmark - Former Unit 0 student 2013-14
The project envisages a monastery for ecologically focused monks who collect the plant waste in the park and process it in an anaerobic digester, maintaining the park and rendering themselves self-sufficient. The monastery combines spaces aimed at religious devotion and a desire to live sustainably on the threshold between London’s urban environment and the park, exploring the overlaps between the sacred and the everyday.