TUESDAY 27th OCTOBER 2009
1 – 2pm, The Forum
Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University
Stephen Bates of Sergison Bates architects
presents
The London Sustainable Industries Park, Dagenham
The concept for a Sustainable Industries Park centers on environmental sustainability and involves transforming the currently fragmented and under-developed 142 hectare industrial site at Dagenham Dock into an exemplar park for emerging technologies operating in the field of sustainable resources and energy technology. The aim is to make the park wholly self-sustainable and to develop an industrial symbiosis over time, where businesses use each other’s by-products and share resources.
Sergison Bates propose the creation of a place of distinctive character, a managed and maintained woodland landscape which provides a strong spatial setting for the Sustainable Industries Park to emerge and develop through to 2040. The new green infrastructure builds upon what already exists on the site, from roads and buildings to surface water ditches, but also leads to a complete transformation of the site and the establishment of a new sense of place, a new community and a new London landscape. Read more.
One of a series of Tuesday lunchtime talks where architects, developers and theorists present and discuss their proposals for the public realm in the post-suburban city. Chaired by Geoff Shearcroft/AOC
