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Student Showcase Archive

Stuart Evans

MA work

MA work

ADS2: NEW POLITICS, NEW URBANISM

Sheikh, Rattle and Roll

My project exposes the fantastical conceit of Prince Charles’s desire to create a traditional village on the Chelsea Barracks site, when most people acknowledge that only a handful of English people were ever likely to buy there. Instead, my proposal repackages the site for its new super-rich inhabitants from the United Arab Emirates. Three high-end residential towers triangulate a landscape of sporting amusements – inspired by the site’s previous use as a pleasure garden – which sits atop a luxury retail plinth. The architectural language explores the gap between notions of discreet wealth favoured by the British aristocracy and the more flashy opulence of their invading nouveau counterparts.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Architecture

    Programme

    MA Architecture, 2010

  • ADS2: NEW POLITICS, NEW URBANISM

    Sheikh, Rattle and Roll

    My project exposes the fantastical conceit of Prince Charles’s desire to create a traditional village on the Chelsea Barracks site, when most people acknowledge that only a handful of English people were ever likely to buy there. Instead, my proposal repackages the site for its new super-rich inhabitants from the United Arab Emirates. Three high-end residential towers triangulate a landscape of sporting amusements – inspired by the site’s previous use as a pleasure garden – which sits atop a luxury retail plinth. The architectural language explores the gap between notions of discreet wealth favoured by the British aristocracy and the more flashy opulence of their invading nouveau counterparts.

  • Degrees

  • BA (Hons), Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, 2007
  • Experience

  • Architectural assistant, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, London, 2007/8; Architectural assistant, Scott Brownrigg Architects, Guildford, 2006