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BILDPUNKT (PIXEL)

TEAM MAX Architects Wildstone

Old Street Roundabout is a site whose problems have never stayed still long enough to galvanise a strategic solution. While there is a clear opportunity for a signifi cant building and public space at the heart of the heart of tech city, previous concepts have been thwarted by the constraints.

station improvements without impacting the layout of the core underground infrastructure including ticket hall and concourse • Incubate, catalyse and future proof the eventual development of a signifi cant building development on the site. We have identified 3 PHASES of development:

Solutions have been short term and ad hoc, with many interesting proposals unable to square the conflicting circles of transport, development, advertising and a Borough-boundary location. To help ensure this latest competition breaks the cycle, we propose a framework of intervention which allows a linear programme of development to evolve. Combining Architecture and Landscape design with specialist Advertising and Media delivery, we aim to route map the short, mid and long term solutions. We propose to: • Maintain and enhance current advertising revenue on the site • Create a next generation multimedia advertising framework to capture current and evolving marketing approaches • Create a destination for retail, display, studio and start-up space focussed on digital and physical technology • Market the global credentials of silicone roundabout and tech city • Deliver a unique public space defi ned by pedestrian movement, landscaping and interactive media • Facilitate and frame the proposed tube

1: OCCUPYING AND PROGRAMMING THE NEW PENINSULA The connection between the tech aspirations for the site and the possibilities offered by next generation interactive advertising and display are obvious, given the existing advertising contract. We propose to create a limitless framework for advertising and display that can accommodate the rapidly evolving technology and spatial requirements of multi-media advertising, while attracting small scale retail and F&B kiosking, tech start-up enterprises and young makers and artists. Created from a series of upscaled 3D spatial pixels, this structure can be managed and curated centrally to provide an evolving programme of revenue generating activity. Each ‘pixel’ is formed of a 3.65m cube (derived from a 365mm digital display module) which can accommodate 2D and 3D physical advertising installations, digital or multi-media displays. The pixel can be confi gured at ground with prefabricated retail /display kiosks and at upper levels with workspace. Multiple pixels can be confi gured to create large scale content.

The lightweight structure accommodates the existing structures onsite and compliments the new tube entrance. The load is spread over a wide footprint with limited/no foundations/ groundworks (pending structural investigation) and set within a new landscape continuing the tech theme. A raised park is created above the traffi c and the bustle of the ground plane. 2: FACILITATING TFL WORKS The structure is designed to create an active hoarding during the station upgrade. We propose to demolish the clerestory roof, creating a works site for TfL. The retail at concourse level can be reconfi gured to facilitate a new building above. The new tube entrance can be accommodated in its proposed location, connecting to the existing concourse and ticket hall. The Pixel structure can continue to generate revenue and provide amenity on the peninsula. 3: CATALYST FOR DEVELOPMENT A landmark SME tech hub can be constructed within the Pixel structure to complete the regeneration of the peninsula. The Pixel structure can remain in situ guaranteeing the mixed-use placemaking credentials of the scheme in such an open, prominent and public location.

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AHMM AND DERWENT LONDON PROPOSAL FOR OLD STREET ROUNDABOUT TEAM Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) Derwent London

Delivering on the vision of “Tech City” and “Silicon Roundabout” - Visionary sound bites for this critically important London hub - coined by the Prime Minister and Mayor of London in 2010. But has London delivered at Old Street?

become a symbol of the entrepreneurial Tech movement - a place for adventurous start-ups and mature organisations alike. Our proposal builds on this and provides quality, affordable workspace that is heavily in demand.

One-time opportunity to deliver a viable, sustainable and exciting solution for Old Street Roundabout that not only realises the vision but goes beyond. As long-term stakeholders in the Old Street / Shoreditch area, AHMM Architects and Derwent London know all too well the vigour, diversity and challenges that create the DNA of this neighbourhood. Having completed the White Collar Factory at Old Street Yard - a mixed-use urban campus for an innovative 21st Century workplace, together we have experienced the recent changes around Old Street. We are thrilled to submit ideas for the new public realm above Old Street Station - the gateway to a thriving growing cluster of young enterprise and talent, critical to the future success of London and UK Plc.

Improve the public realm above and around the station approach and enhance the quality of life in the station concourse below. Suspended over the station, the drum provides a ceiling for improved public realm, a soffit for art and allows the removal of the station clerestory to provide light, air and views to the retail street and station concourse below. All the essential structures of the transport interchange at street level are preserved whilst a new assembly offers opportunity above. Furthermore, the already planned station works are fully integrated into our design but we also provide flexibility for the future whilst preserving memories of the past.

Making a new place to network, collaborate, socialise and work. We propose creating a new work hub wrapped in a new and much enlarged 1,500sqm digital media wall, 6 times the size of the current advertising space. Inside, 2 floors of Affordable SME Workspace (circa 1,400sqft) and a roof terrace float above the new landscape below, supported by trusses and props onto existing structures that were built to support a flyover, never realised. The roundabout itself, previously derided, now has kudos. It has

Headlines: 1. Increasing and enhancing public realm by place-making and improved permeability 2. Providing 14,000sqft of flexible / incubator Affordable Workspace 3. Increasing digital media advertising space 6-fold and across 360 degrees 4. Daylight, fresh air and views to below-ground station retail concourse 5. Removing obstacles but retaining transport infrastructure 6. Commercially viable and deliverable solution 7. Investment potential for collaboration This opportunity is deliverable. It is what Old Street Roundabout needs. The need is now.

Economic viability. We have analysed the build costs and income streams and consider this an economically sustainable viable development opportunity. Office rental values are reduced to provide truly affordable workspace for local entrepreneurs. The 360 digital media wall will also generate substantial income in excess of the existing facility. Our proposal has positive investment potential.

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LOVER’S KNOT: AT LIGHT’S EDGE TEAM Intervention Architecture Anna Parker Jacques Doody Marina Strotz Declan Davies

The journey through the Promenade of Light ends in lovers meeting. Situated where two constituencies, Islington and Hackney, cross, the lover’s knot is a crowned folly for shared common activities, encircled by an arched colonnade which provides a protective route for pedestrians and cyclists, bounded by the busy traffic of the Old Street peninsula. The lover’s knot is an octagonal rotunda, inspired by Queen Mary’s Tiara ‘Lover’s knot’ from 1908 and a crown formed by using a repeated arched motif. The arches refer to the surrounding context in London, such as the Barbican and St John’s Gate, the entrance to Clerkenwell. Repeated and mirrored, the arch system is flipped at first floor level in the rotunda. A central light and illuminated arches keep the space fully visible for enjoyment at night. The proposal is a multi-use space allowing for a variety of activities both day and night; performance, chatting, meeting, lectures, presentations, eating, chess tournaments, art exhibitions, and pop-up markets. Or when un-programmed, provides a transient and light, quiet screening from the intensity of road movements. To complement this form, a permeable colonnade system is to be installed on the peninsula’s most eastern edge between the busy road, creating a defined space for the lover’s knot. This colonnade is permeable with different openings and subtractions, to accommodate existing pedestrian routes.

The arches are made up of a filigree thin metal mesh that encourages plant growth. The key driving force behind the scheme is the climbing plants; situated on the rotunda and colonnade, the growing plants form a tangible barrier between the car-scape and the public space, helping to alleviate sound and air pollution. The proposal creates a green space in the centre of the busy intersection. As well as retaining the advertising boards located on the existing arch spanning across the peninsula, the view is enhanced by framing from within crown. Looking from the road, the proposal does not block views and retains full visibility from a car. In addition to this, the colonnade itself creates new opportunities for advertising revenue in the form of interchangeable arch shaped boards, filling arches that would otherwise open onto busy traffic, creating a safe barrier from the busy road intersection. This space forms a public square, surrounded by greenery in this otherwise hostile car-based environment. Farmer’s markets, performances and public art can all be integrated into the open framework of the scheme, with seating built into the design to provide parameters for space and movement. In addition to the crown and the colonnade, a number of arches are repurposed as swings, bringing a playful edge to the public space, creating a new demographic of visitors that would be excited to spend time within the scheme. The scheme creates an inclusive space for all ages, inhabitants, local businesses, visitors, commuters and inhabitants.

Steel sections are proposed as a durable material for the main construction, with the arches formed from pre-fabricated metal mesh that is widely used in the construction industry. By repurposing these otherwise functional affordable materials with bright colours, lights and interesting shapes, it contemporises the traditional references and reflects the buzz of the digital businesses and start-ups in the area. Lover’s knot at light’s edge will bring the space alive with a new destination, not only the Silicon Roundabout, but a destination in East London.

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TECH FOREST

TEAM Naza Architectura y Diseño Nazareth Gutiérrez Franco Carmen Arjona Barbero Pablo Manteca Martín Consultants Leandro Morillas Moreno Tarick Chahade Philipp Schäfer Rogelio Perez Barja Gema Pariente Sánchez Iván del Río Javier Campillo Puente

The aim of the project is to create a space that revamps the area, transforming it into a new landmark within the city. The proposal brings alive a new concept, a “Technological Forest”, comprised of five Trees which perform unique functions for a new ecosystem: a Garden Tree, a Knowledge Tree, a Transit Tree, an Observatorium Tree and an Oxygen Tree. The Tech Forest also provides the infrastructure to channel citizens’ social and cultural expressions of London as a world capital for innovation.

Clerestory roof: This structure will be reinforced to add a new floor that is dedicated to smallscale commerce.

The Tech Forest will culminate in a ‘Promenade of Light,’ bringing two key interventions together in a complementary manner. Beyond the Trees, other key elements surrounding the peninsula include green buffers and vegetation what generate a microclimate distant from the nearby traffic’s noise and pollution.

STRATEGY 2. IMPLEMENTING THE FOREST

The technological facade of the Trees, LED screens, aims to bring the public back to the area’s center, thereby facilitating a medium for artistic, social, and advocacy initiatives.

Garden Tree: The facade is covered by vegetation, being the closest to a real tree. Its structure holds several floors that can host a wide range of activities, such as environmentallyoriented ones.

STRATEGY 1. FLUID COMMUNICATION INTEGRATING THE FIXED ELEMENTS IN THE SQUARE Old street station entrance: The new subway entrance and the benches on the roof are retained as requested. Ventilation shafts: This equipment will be transformed to enable an Oxygen Tree, able to clean the subway air pollution.

Advertising screens: ‘The existing electronic billboards’ are kept but relocated as a new use, the face of a new commercial locale space. The advertising agreement currently linked to the screens could be updated by transferring usage rights of the old devices over to facades of one of the Trees.

Observatory Tree: One of the most ambitious parts of the project, this Tree’s roof will become a brand new London venue and viewpoint where large public events could be centered. Inside the Tree, the space could be used to organize performances, virtual reality projects or other artistic interventions. Ventilation Tree: Wrapped by LEDs, this tree will cover and hide the air cleaning units and the ventilation shafts of the subway.

The “Technological Forest” integrates five Trees that perform unique functions in a new ecosystem: a Garden Tree, an Observatorium Tree, a Transit Tree, a Knowledge Tree and an Oxygen Tree.

Knowledge Tree: Wrapped by LEDs, this Tree will host an Express Library that serves as the Information Hub for tourist and regular users of the Forest. An energy storage also will be positioned located in this Tree. Transit Tree: This tree will host an elevator that will become the new subway entrance for persons with disabilities. An energy storage will be also located in this tree.

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THE INFINITE LIBRARY

TEAM Es Devlin Studio Google Arts and Culture

To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

Brand collaborations provide revenue instead of advertising: Brands and their invited resident artists take over the library and its exterior. THE SINGING LIBRARY

William Blake THE INFINITE LIBRARY Google Arts and Culture have already made 6 million works of art available for people to view online. Within the infinite open-air library any book would be available to read either on personal phones or on LED displays within the sculpture. MEET ME AT THE LIBRARY No more ‘meet me at entrance 8’, instead ‘meet me in Archaeology’, or ‘let’s meet in Neuroscience’. Encouraging purposeful waiting while reading, the virtual library behaves as a social condenser: as we navigate through alphabetically arranged subjects we find ourselves in the company of like-minded readers.

Es Devlin and Google Arts and Culture continue their recent collaboration on The Singing Tree at the V&A Museum in which words donated by visitors were put through an algorithm trained on 6 million poems: The ever-evolving collective poem was projection-mapped on a public sculpture generating a layered choral soundscape. The exterior of the proposed sculpture at Old Street would come to life every evening with a constantly regenerating collective illuminated poem to which every visitor can contribute: A Blakean fusion of poetry, people, art, light and tech.

ARTIST / LIBRARIAN IN RESIDENCE Artists, musicians, politicians, poets, performers are invited to offer their personal reading lists to visitors and to speak / perform within a central gathering area. The virtual library is versatile: for specific events it extends to music library, children’s library, library of spoken word, performance and politics.

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OLD STREET PUBLIC SQUARE: GATEWAY TO SMART TECH CITY TEAM

SPATIAL PROJECT

Djao-Rakitine ARUP Urban Intelligence

The proposed project aims at creating an innovative natural and cultural public square using digital technology to improve users’ environment and experience. The Square provides a healthier and greener environment, an inclusive public space representing the smart city of the future. The Stage is one of the main elements of the square. It is a space for people to meet and seat as well as for cultural and commercial events. The Screen can show real-time information, public art and commercial advertisement. The Terraced Seating above the new station entrance is incorporated in the proposal with a design variation which allows the bleachers to look at the stage and screen. The existing ventilation shafts are remodelled and incorporated in the design of the square. An air purifier is also included to mitigate the impact of air pollution. The Islands of Wilderness are protected areas of planting including a diverse palette of species. They are monitored with sensors which collect information on rainfall (quality, quantity), vegetation, moisture, soil, tree conditions, air (pollution, temperature, humidity), wind, light, noise. The islands are contained by circular benches which provide a great amount of seating space for people to rest, have lunch, watch, meet.

The Digital Tech Gallery showcases technological innovation. It is located below the stage, at station level and is connected to the square through a mirrored oculus. DIGITAL STRATEGY Old Street Square will be both a physical public space and a digital civic space, enabled by free Wi-Fi hotspots covering the Square. The Wi-Fi network’s welcome page will offer a range of information useful to residents, Tech City workers and visitors: information on what is present on the square (e.g. sensorcollected environmental data) that encourages visitors to explore; information on what is around the square (e.g. an interactive map featuring digital technology businesses; local planning and development information) and information on nearby events (e.g. cultural venues, galleries). Islington Council can use this opportunity to digitally connect with citizens physically present in Old Street Square and to make civic engagements such as consultations more accessible, while securing advertisement revenues.

STRUCTURAL STRATEGY Our proposed structural strategy is to minimize the impact on the existing structure by providing light weight structures directly supported from the existing underground column/wall structures, leaving the existing slab untouched where it cannot support any additional loads. To enable fast construction, we envisage using standard pre-fabricated steel structures which are easily assembled on site. The terraced seating structure is formed from a series of cantilevering steel beams supported on slender columns and the seats will be precast concrete step sections. The elevated platform consists of a standard metal decking on a steel beam grillage aligned with the existing underground column grid and supporting a build-up of lightweight void former and soil. The large screen is supported by a standard lightweight lattice structure and curved to gain stiffness through its form. The base grillage spreads load back to the existing substructure.

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