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Architecture Prize 22 Highly commended


1135 Village V/K 3C: Model for a Decent Neighbourhood Plaster and wood Peter Barber Architects


Peter Barber Architects’ scaled plaster Model for a Decent Neighbourhood is beautiful and worthy of a commendation. Depicting the concept for a farming co-operative village, the proposal is set to be located on a site of some 120 acres in the Wiltshire countryside. According to AJ deputy editor Rory Olcayto, it is ‘rigorous, consistent, a curiosity – but with its own logic going on’. Te massing model illustrates a square urban


block, with embedded diagonal alleyways and small courtyards. Te front doors of the 50 mud houses open onto the alleyways that converge at a meeting house in a tiny square. Designed to be built out of earth dug from the


Highly commended


912 Triptych of Models Showing Development of Olympic Site Card, acrylic paint, timber and metal Allies and Morrison Architects


Tese three relief models tell the story of the east- London Olympic site before work began in 2005 to transform it for the games; how it will evolve in legacy in 2024 is depicted with ‘pin-sharp clarity’. Awarded a commendation for the piece, the


international architects describe the process of transformation that has allowed 240 hectares of marginal industrial land to be reconfigured into the setting for the 2012 Olympic Games and the foundation for a new piece of city. Te first model demonstrates the fragmented and


disparate nature of the site that existed pre-Olympic development. Te central model shows Olympic- mode – displaying the Olympic masterplan and temporary and existing buildings on the site today. Te most interesting model in the sequence is the one that presents the legacy; with the temporary structures stripped away, the park features additional housing and landscaping. Set to emerge in 2025, new communities will extend from Hackney Wick, Leytonstone and Stratford to encircle the now-mature landscape of the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park.


ground on which it stands, the project is conceived around people’s relationships with each other and the landscape they inhabit, allowing the community to grow the food from the surroundings that sustain it. Based on the early modern ideal settlements, it is part of Peter Barber Architects’ one year, 365 cities project.


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