Modelling Welfare Landscapes
A set of models has been produce across the 6 research projects to model the welfare landscape of social housing. Each model is a visual representation of the research questions.
Chamberlain Gardens
Our model presents a visual synthesis of the atmosphere of Chamberlain Gardens at two different point is time; 1961 following completion of phase 1 of development, and the 21st century in its current condition.
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It was beneficial to produce an interactive model, for the viewer to experience the atmosphere felt by the user groups of Chamberlain Gardens, as a response to further understand how the site was designed for the targeted residents at Chamberlain Gardens originally, juxtaposed against the condition of the site today through alternative slides within the frame to enable physical removal of what has been lost.
Claremont Court
Ongoing public stigma towards social housing and a building built on community values that have subsequently fragmented has led to Claremont Court becoming isolated. It is separated from the approval of the public consciousness and in a state of community conflict between the public and the private.
The model aims to demonstrate this isolation of Claremont Court through an abstract representation of exaggerated disconnection. The building and the community now sit atop a fragile and disconnected landscape, and the height implies the isolation that the people and place experience there.
Hutchesontown C
Lillington Gardens
1974
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2021​
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The model is designed to illustrate the changing conditions of the estate, from its completion in 1974 with largely council owned properties, contrasted against the estate as it is now, where the gradual privatisation has left certain apartments and individual gardens empty and run down.
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The model shows a section of one block of apartments inhabited by scale figures, displaying an idea of a change in use and population over time, comparing side by side photographs of before and now. The model then stretches further to consider the landscaped courtyards, rooftop playing field, another block and the church. Through this, we aim to show the effects that privatising certain apartments has on the estate as a whole, with less used social spaces as well as poorly maintained private gardens.
Queens Park Estates
As two of our case study estates have been demolished, we created a large landscape model covering the area in which all three estates which helped us to understand the spatial massing and visual impacts of the high-rise Queen’s Park and mid-rise Shadsworth estates relative to each other, the topography, and on the skyline above the park.
The model features an interchangeable section with a 1970 tile and a 2020 tile to illustrate how drastically the landscape changes with and without the high and mid-rise estates.
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Winstanley Estate
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Inspired by the work of William Mitchell, who’s sculptures remain a prominent feature of the Winstanley Estate, our model depicts the change the area has experienced over time. The Victorian street plan, the post war development of the site as it exists today and the current redevelopment project are each expressed in a triptych of cast cement tiles.