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Leamouth Valley Masterplan

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The Leamouth Valley Masterplan
Leamouth, London: M.Arch, Advanced Tall Buildings
The project, also accredited by the CTBUH, was a part of the Advanced Tall Buildings design studio, which aimed at a similar urban vision as SOM's scheme for the Leamouth Peninsula in east London. Following extensive site studies, the masterplan was developed to act as an urban framework of eight different tall buildings tied together with a comprehensive network of groundscrapers and skybridges. The towers were arranged after testing different combinations of locations, functions, orientation, views and heights.

Being responsible for the masterplan, the assignment was to be responsible for developing the masterplan beyond a strategiclevel, designing in detail the skybridges and groundscraper, and creating the new urban vision for Leamouth.
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
Site Analysis and Case Studies


As part of a bigger group of students, site analysis included detailed study of the site, its surroundings and its existing community of art and culture. Case studies were also conducted on existing communities in London such as the Barbican, Worlds' End and Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo as a functioning high-rise. Inspiration was drawn from these studies, the site's unique features and sustainable principles, which the final design was based on. The video clip below was part of the presentation for this stage.
The Concept


The groundscraper is conceived as an extension to the Lea Valley greencorridor, tying the site into its surroundings. A new public realm isenvisaged on a site-wide inhabitable green roof, with all the buildingservices and parking located below at ground level. Traffic flow and direction, public transport connections, approches and exits, connectivity to nearest schools, shops, offices, bus and DLR stops were considered before designing a well-functioning groundscraper network.
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tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
A skybridge networkis created at height between the towers, lifting the public domain intothe sky and connecting all the key public facilities within thebuildings. The initial concern was that tall building inhabitants rarely get to socialize within the building, and there is a high-risk and fact of being alienated from the local community and activities. Most of the communal activities and social crowd-pullers are always concentrated at the ground interface. The solution to this problem, is "raising" the ground interface and stimulus, and inserting such spaces at different levels of the high-rise structure - communtities in the sky (as illustrated below)

Each tower has specific public transportation linking theground-floor interface with the skybridge network above, through shuttleelevators,escalators or ramped green pathways. The skybridges aredesigned as modular units that can be easily assembled on site, withprefabricated retail pods suspended along their length. Thenorthern-most skybridge includes a large green roof, creating a publicskypark some 200 metres above the city.
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
The Design


The illustrations below denote

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The Schematics of the Scheme © Amrita C, 2010

tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
Ground Level and Public Level Plans with an environmental section through underground offices
© Amrita C, 2010
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
Skybridge Level PLans and cross-sections with photo montages © Amrita C, 2010
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
Sketches, Site sections and photographs of physical model © Amrita C, 2010
tall buildings skyscrapers High-rise buildings Leamouth London masterplanning ken yeang Bioclimatic structures Urban Design
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Leamouth Valley Masterplan

A Leamouth Valley project inn London that focuses on a residential-cum-commercial scheme, with 8 bioclimatic high-rise strcutures and a sustanabl Read More

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