The Bartlett
Summer Show 2026
25 June – 12 July
Summer Show 2026
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Summer Show 2026
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![A textile art hub that transforms discarded fruit and surplus textiles into natural dyes and collaborative craft. Situated between Canary Wharf and Poplar, the project makes urban waste visible as a resource for community-led making.]()
![Exploded structural axonometric of the studios.]()
![Unfolded section through the textile art hub.]()
![Red House Cold Store is transformed into a thermal bathing house inspired by Siwa’s mineral springs and Safaga’s therapeutic black sands, using retained mass, carved light and thermal sequencing to shape a journey from immersion to stillness.]()
![Exploded axonometric of the adaptive reuse strategy.]()
![The Cork Yard transforms Smithfield Market’s historic Annexe and Fish Market into a women’s refuge and baking school, providing safe accommodation, vocational training and a pathway to independence through sustainable cork construction.]()
![Responding to the intensity of working life in Canary Wharf, this project creates a restorative retreat shaped by the sensory qualities of coffee aroma. Drawing on neuroscience-informed design, it uses light and materiality to foster wellbeing.]()
![Responding to Billingsgate Market’s relocation, this culinary school preserves its dockland heritage through material reuse, craft and food culture. Public kitchens, workshops and gathering spaces create a civic link between Poplar and Canary Wharf.]()
![Interior view of the vaulted structure.]()
![A metabolic sports facility linking Canary Wharf and Poplar through football, urban farming and shared public space. The project combines food production and athletic activity to create a cycle of wellbeing, regeneration and community connection.]()
![Structural axonometric.]()
![Reimagining the Red House Cold Store as an urban farming and food market hub, this project integrates greenhouse growing spaces with community-led food production centred on Asian cuisine.]()
![Located in Billingsgate, this food preservation hub extends the life of surplus produce through pickling, drying and smoking. The project combines processes and public engagement to reduce food waste and strengthen local food networks.]()
![Ground floor plan arrangement.]()
![A fish market bridge responding to Billingsgate’s relocation, connecting Poplar and Canary Wharf through daily seafood rituals. Each day, one species is explored through global recipes, cultural exchange, local vendors and an exhibition.]()
MEng Y2 Studio 2.2
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In Studio 2.2 our response to The Alchemic Kitchen reimagines the future of Smithfield and Billingsgate through adaptive reuse, food culture and community infrastructure. Rather than treating the markets’ closure as an end point, the projects explore how their architectural, material and cultural legacies can generate new forms of production, education, wellbeing and exchange. Across both sites, food becomes a catalyst for social connection, environmental responsibility and cultural identity, while existing buildings and urban conditions are transformed into productive systems that reconnect communities, preserve heritage and support more resilient urban futures.
Khadijah Elmansoury - Rewoven Creative Reuse Studio
A textile art hub that transforms discarded fruit and surplus textiles into natural dyes and collaborative craft. Situated between Canary Wharf and Poplar, the project makes urban waste visible as a resource for community-led making.
Khadijah Elmansoury - Rewoven Creative Reuse Studio
Exploded structural axonometric of the studios.
Khadijah Elmansoury - Rewoven Creative Reuse Studio
Unfolded section through the textile art hub.
Jana Fathalla - Carving an Urban Oasis
Red House Cold Store is transformed into a thermal bathing house inspired by Siwa’s mineral springs and Safaga’s therapeutic black sands, using retained mass, carved light and thermal sequencing to shape a journey from immersion to stillness.
Carola Mejico - Cork Yard
Exploded axonometric of the adaptive reuse strategy.
Carola Mejico - Cork Yard
The Cork Yard transforms Smithfield Market’s historic Annexe and Fish Market into a women’s refuge and baking school, providing safe accommodation, vocational training and a pathway to independence through sustainable cork construction.
Dariel Alia - Coffee Commons
Responding to the intensity of working life in Canary Wharf, this project creates a restorative retreat shaped by the sensory qualities of coffee aroma. Drawing on neuroscience-informed design, it uses light and materiality to foster wellbeing.
Hudson Zhang - Dock Hearth
Responding to Billingsgate Market’s relocation, this culinary school preserves its dockland heritage through material reuse, craft and food culture. Public kitchens, workshops and gathering spaces create a civic link between Poplar and Canary Wharf.
Hudson Zhang - Dock Hearth
Interior view of the vaulted structure.
Bosco Choi - The Nourishing Field
A metabolic sports facility linking Canary Wharf and Poplar through football, urban farming and shared public space. The project combines food production and athletic activity to create a cycle of wellbeing, regeneration and community connection.
Bosco Choi - The Nourishing Field
Structural axonometric.
Rhea Sajilal - The Living Market
Reimagining the Red House Cold Store as an urban farming and food market hub, this project integrates greenhouse growing spaces with community-led food production centred on Asian cuisine.
Mohamed Mboup - Billingsgate Preservation Hub
Located in Billingsgate, this food preservation hub extends the life of surplus produce through pickling, drying and smoking. The project combines processes and public engagement to reduce food waste and strengthen local food networks.
Mohamed Mboup - Billingsgate Preservation Hub
Ground floor plan arrangement.
Kristine Alvarado - Daily Catch Market Bridge
A fish market bridge responding to Billingsgate’s relocation, connecting Poplar and Canary Wharf through daily seafood rituals. Each day, one species is explored through global recipes, cultural exchange, local vendors and an exhibition.
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