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ArchitectCirque of Renewal
FINALIST of London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths
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London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths
[20148]
Cirque of Renewal
Team
Name: Seoyeon Yoon
Instagram: yxxnn.si
Nationality: South Korea
Institution / Company: Kaywon University of Art & Design
Name: Boyun Yang
Instagram: bokong1218
Nationality: South Korea
Institution / Company: Kaywon University of Art & Design
Haggerston is an area with the potential to create a new cultural ecosystem under gentrification pressure as long-lived communities and newly introduced young creative classes coexist. This project proposes a collaborative cultural network based on “Heterotopia” as a theoretical basis and mediated by circus. Heterotopia means a double space that exists in reality but makes the real order unfamiliar, and circus has traditionally been a “moving heterotopia” that has provided extraordinary experiences while patrolling everyday space.
It reinterprets the healing characteristics of the circus in a modern way and interrupts the daily ranks through cooperation and play, creating a place where the divided classes meet equally. This space, which is flexibly transformed into a workshop and resting place during the day and a concert hall at night, provides local residents with a resting place in the city and creators with work space and opportunities to secure public consumers. I would like to present a new public space that reflects the multi-layered identity of the Haggerston region by converting social tension into creative energy through a medium called circus.






Jury Comments
– David Aldana
Original take for a community building which gives space to explore and embrace your inner creativity which at the same time gives a platform to share it to your community. I wonder if the concept could have been pushed a bit further and make the rest of the program focused on activities, classes and even therapies using performing arts as a fuel of disconnection and change
– Josefine Fokdal
A circus – not really responding to the brief (more of a working space for creative class)
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