Laura Smith
MA work
MA work
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Hackney Factory, Laura Smith
Model: card, brass and laser-cut plywood
ADS2

In the wake of arts cuts, university fee rises, gentrification and the death of the High Street, the creative class becomes the catalyst for a new kind of local.

The project aims to critique the ‘insert gallery’ model of regeneration, instead using manufacture as a public theatre of activity. The Hackney Factory, a closed loop of recycling, micro-factories and market forum proposes a new micro-community model built on urban mining. A creative cluster of designers and makers appropriate a disused ironworks and foundry in Hackney Wick, restoring the site to its former glory as the heart of invention.

Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Architecture
Programme
MA Architecture, 2011
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Contact
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ADS2

In the wake of arts cuts, university fee rises, gentrification and the death of the High Street, the creative class becomes the catalyst for a new kind of local.

The project aims to critique the ‘insert gallery’ model of regeneration, instead using manufacture as a public theatre of activity. The Hackney Factory, a closed loop of recycling, micro-factories and market forum proposes a new micro-community model built on urban mining. A creative cluster of designers and makers appropriate a disused ironworks and foundry in Hackney Wick, restoring the site to its former glory as the heart of invention.

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Degrees
- BSc, Architecture, University College London, 2007
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Experience
- Set design assistant, Rhea Thierstein, London, 2009-11; CAD design assistant, Rachel Entwistle Jewellry, London, 2009-10; Architectural assistant, Haughton Design, Sydney, Australia, 2008-9