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Bishopsgate Low Level: Between the Visible, Invisible and Possible

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Studio 4A
Year 4

Bishopsgate Low Level exists in a state of suspension; physically embedded within the city yet largely withdrawn from it. Hidden behind infrastructure and decades of neglect, the site has remained inaccessible for over half a century, accumulating traces and overgrowth while slipping from collective experience.

Through drawing, reconstruction, modelling and speculation, the site is understood through perceptual assemblies. The visible, invisible and possible become intertwined conditions through which architecture mediates, operating through reasoning, intuition and experimentation. Routes, openings and landscapes encourage gradual encounters, where framed views and thresholds reveal fragments rather than complete images. Access becomes a process of discovery.

A grid derived from existing structures and lines of sight organises these relationships, allowing landscape, architecture and infrastructure to coexist. The resulting masterplan forms a constructed terrain, where public spaces and civic programmes emerge within a larger spatial field, revealing relationships between memory and occupation, concealment and exposure, the existing and the possible.

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25 June – 12 July
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