OXFORD CAMBRIDGE CORRIDOR
2017
Sector: Urban Design; Housing and Infrastructure
Location: Oxford to Cambridge Corridor, UK
Status: National competition entry
Instead of an infrastructural urbanism which heavily relies on the consumption of land, we consider the Cambridge-Oxford-Corridor as a broader vertical spatial zone and propose a future urbanism which begins from a hybrid of the drones’ scale of the delivery and the human scale of the domestic. The contingencies of regional urbanism will be faced and filtered through seeding an infrastructure oriented by drones’ transportation of houses and delivery of products, with minimised infrastructural footprint and interventions to the existing ecosystem.
The revisable housing components will be rapidly delivered and assembled by drones, upon customers’ requests, onto the distributed plot with a pre-established circulation core and light-weight steel frame. This plug-in house type reinvents traditional English backyard garden in a new vertical organization, linking both communal and semi-private space at street level with cantilevered living laboratories and roof-top drones landing.
