REDCHURCH STREET REGENERATION

The regeneration project is a proposal to increase consumer footfall into a retail quarter of East London by giving voice to the rich history and development of the street, bringing it up to date through visual storytelling.

Nestled between Shoreditch and Bethnal green, the area is steeped in the artisanal skills imported through multiple waves of immigration. Beginning in the c17th, the French Huguenots brought their craft of silk weaving, establishing the area as an industrial centre. This was followed by Jewish migrants and a shift towards the garment industry. Later in the c20th the Bangladeshi community arrived, bringing textile trades and culinary culture.

The proposal builds on the idea of weaving as a primal input and establishes a computational code that tracks the immigration and subsequent settlement of Redchurch Street by different groups. System tells a story of the local population and it’s ebb and flow represented through alterations in woven textures that appear as tiled surfaces covering the pavements and roads.