The Bartlett
Summer Show 2026
25 June – 12 July
Summer Show 2026
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Summer Show 2026
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![This embroidered interior perspective drawing proposes a new model of softer domestic living. Designed across rituals, its light and airy atmosphere is achieved by backlighting a drawing stitched in continuous lines on silkscreen fabric.]()
![Rituals of tide, tea, and gathering are supported in Limekiln Wharf’s teahouse, with routes to the community hub above, and the quilted intertidal zone below. Fabric-cast rammed earth walls hold incense smoke before being washed away by the water.]()
![Suspended fabric fills the central atrium, which acts as a second street level of social and flexible spaces; upper floors host collective learning and memory. Below, a descent to tide choreographs actions of tea and incense at the waters’ edge.]()
![Celebrations bring the community together, promoting perpetual movement along the cultural, social, and physical thresholds of Limehouse.]()
![Three separate entrances offer a more approachable alternative to institutional forms. A cut beneath the building allows movement directly through to the intertidal zone and, at low tide, pools retain retreating water.]()
Stitching The Threshold
Stitching The Threshold investigates how domestic architecture can become a form of community health, cultural repair, and everyday ritual. Set in Limehouse, it responds to the erased histories of London’s Chinese diaspora by asking how distributed domesticity might be reinstated and extended across cultural, social, and physical thresholds. Early studies of Chinese protective design and rituals inform a wider architectural strategy of continuous movement and acupunctural care.
Developed through research by design, the project uses stitching as method; drawing, sewing, embroidering, modelling, and mapping in fragments facilitated an iterative process of learning through continuous making. The proposal centres on a community hub at Limekiln Wharf, supported by housing, communal kitchens, gardens, river-edge interventions, and smaller acupunctural sites along Limehouse’s Thames edge. Through stitched drawings, textile logic, models, and fragments, the project proposes a domestic future where health is produced through perpetual movement and collective life.
A Domestic Future in Continuous Thread
This embroidered interior perspective drawing proposes a new model of softer domestic living. Designed across rituals, its light and airy atmosphere is achieved by backlighting a drawing stitched in continuous lines on silkscreen fabric.
Intertidal Teahouse, 1:50 Fragment Model
Rituals of tide, tea, and gathering are supported in Limekiln Wharf’s teahouse, with routes to the community hub above, and the quilted intertidal zone below. Fabric-cast rammed earth walls hold incense smoke before being washed away by the water.
A Section Through Rituals of Care, 1:100 Digitally Embroidered Section
Suspended fabric fills the central atrium, which acts as a second street level of social and flexible spaces; upper floors host collective learning and memory. Below, a descent to tide choreographs actions of tea and incense at the waters’ edge.
Chinese New Year at Limekiln Wharf
Celebrations bring the community together, promoting perpetual movement along the cultural, social, and physical thresholds of Limehouse.
Embroidered 1:100 Ground Floor Plan
Three separate entrances offer a more approachable alternative to institutional forms. A cut beneath the building allows movement directly through to the intertidal zone and, at low tide, pools retain retreating water.
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