Kensington Echoes

Eric Thoroughgood

Supervisor: Vicky Lam

Kensington Echoes is about the reframing and re-examining of our developed suburbs through an alternative “potato” lens.

The project focuses on utilising and evolving a lens that allows us to rethink the urban and neighbourhood layout. The lens allows for a new perspective which lets us reconsider, break down and record previously unseen characteristics that make up a suburb’s atmosphere and character. This results in a novel process which condenses layers of the pedestrian’s experience into a malleable and workable diagram that puts hidden characteristics of place forward and presents new ideas for densification and urban layout.

Condensing the potato plan reading into a single site tightens the scale, making it a more potent version of the suburb and its character. It amplifies the diversity, creating and including magnified moments of the Residential, Industrial, and green bands. It's about the porous street edge, creating a recognisable rhythm and pattern which gives the same feeling as walking through an amplified, but strangely familiar street. The process isn’t about generating form, and using the potato to get a form. It’s about condensing and diagrammatically explaining the condition and atmosphere, the urban strategy of a dialled up Kensington, in a high density high rise typology.

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