Stanley Tan Hanjie
MA work
MA work
Market Monument
The proposal intends to be a concentrated city intensifying the uses of the traditional city whilst becoming an alternative infrastructure to the ground conditions created by many contemporary developments.
It proposes an alternative way of living in the city via introducing a new sheltered street market ground condition and establishing an elevated activated horizontal datum of pleasure, culture, creative work and living which closely relates to the London urban fabric.
With globalisation and commoditized architecture, the city has adopted a generic international financial monoculture which removes / replaces authentic city life and no longer acts as an accurate social barometer of the city – it works against the grain of everyday life and the logic of an all encompassing city.
The city as an idea means multiplicities, diversity in food, music and arts, culture and local economies. In particular the lively street market food cultures which celebrate the diversity of the city’s peoples and provide chance encounters and meetings. New developments do not need to only mean extracting maximum financial opportunity from a site (i.e. towers of generic individualism with hyper-controlled ground conditions).
The juxtaposition of its form and shapes, are abstracted dimensions extracted from London’s streetscape and historical monuments within the city, giving rise to a new identifiable figure which aspires to become a self-referring silhouette.[1]
The proposal is a hypothesis on the idea of a city of the future whereby working and living is in the same place and as a result there will be greater need for informal personal contact. The living and working functions are complemented with a wide range of spaces for leisure, culture, sport and education, all stacked one upon the other, connecting different spheres of life.
For this reason, the project is conceived of as a large building that contains the energy of a city and stands as a solitary element: a social condenser on the edge of Edgware Road; a new market for North London.
[1] The “Compact City” of Atlanpole, Nantes by Hans Kollhoff (1988)
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Architecture
Programme
MA Architecture, 2017
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Contact
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+44 (0)7594 304648
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Stanley is an Architectural Designer who has yet to master juggling a football on his head with a glass of fine whiskey in hand.
Born and raised in the sunny island state of Singapore, received his tertiary Architecture education at University College London and the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom; he has since taken a keen interest in the evolving logic(s) of cities within their cultural contexts and sensitivities.
Equally drawn to the buzzing energy of cities and quiet vast landscapes, his inspirations take form; from travels and many other glorious pursuits of diverse ingenuity.
Follow him on instagram at @stanthj
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Degrees
- BSc Architecture (Hons), University College London, Bartlett School of Architecuture, 2012
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Experience
- Architectural designer, SCDA Architects, Singapore 2014–2015, Architectural graduate, Aedas, Hong Kong 2013, Part I Architectural assistant, BUJ Architects, London 2012.
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Exhibitions
- Pop-up Singapore House (PUSH!) as part of London Design Festival, London 2012
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Publications
- The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture Catalogue 2010, page 39, Bartlett School of Architecture Catalogue 2011, page 33, The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture Catalogue 2012, 69–70.