Engaging cultures - 2050 scope
Location: Peckham, London
Year: 2015

Project description:
How might the future look? How will we feed ourselves?
Over the next few decades where we get our food from will be a hot and serious topic. Climate changes, growing world population, interferences with food distribution and more will force a rethink of food sustainability in our dense urban area.

How architecture could reply on the increasing number of immigrants.
How this populations could be adapted without losing their identity.

 This project started as an exploration on the diverse ethnic groups in Peckham. With the ever increasing number of ethnic minorities establishing themselves within a local community, yet we don’t know much about their cultural background and history, but we just keep their instant new environment.
 By 2050 nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will be urban. And the number of the migration flows will be increased dramatically. Thus this project was a personal intention to give a response to this future scenario and respond to the question if architecture could accommodate identity.
 

This project Caribbean community holds the 15.6% of total population. and they consist the second longest established migrants groups in Peckham after black Africans.However these communities despite the fact that they characterize Peckham in a great level they are not fully engaged with the British communities, and they are not fully adapted by the British culture.Thus my personal goal is to encourage both programmatically and architecturally the collaboration of the two communities, and blend their cultural elements, but also sustain their cultural identity, and preserve cultural elements.

This was illustrated via the synthesis of cultural spaces with strong public character.As my main filter through my research was food, this collaboration was achieved by introducing community kitchens and food markets, that give response to social problems of Peckham (poverty, lack of food, ) through the Caribbean tradition and culture.On the other hand as the preservation identity was really important aspect of my thesis a traditional nutmeg factory was also proposed along with the symbolic planting of nutmeg trees,(a tree with vital importance for the Caribbean culture).The scheme that this project proposed was inspired by the early arrangement of Caribbean public spaces and the architecture of the afro-Caribbean huts, blended with the architectural qualities of the existing site.