Imprint

The project explores the relationship between the architect and the built environment and how this shapes public health. The critique on the analysis of healthy suburbs sees a new way of rethinking the impact architects have on urban public health. Unlike traditional methods of designing, the project explores how we can use forms similar to those found in hostile and defensive architecture to redefine how we interact with spaces which deteriorate our health.

The process is to redesign fragments in these high-risk buffer space to control the access and behaviour of people in these spaces. This is explored through using existing fragments of the space and an architectural vocabulary inspired by using defensive forms. This mobile and modular scale set design takes an adaptable approach for maximum flexibility and adaptability.

As a result, we begin to question our role as architects, can we justify breaking the architects act if we agree that it will result in the overall good of the public? Do we aim to rewrite the architects act or in this scenario accept that we are no longer architects but rather designers who aim to challenge the traditions of design for the overall good of the public health?