#Reshawn Harding

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“Chiswick Architectural Institute”, Chiswick House & Gardens, London _ Student: Reshawn Harding / BA3   _ 06.05.2023

Two Georgian trendsetters, the architect and designer William Kent and his friend and patron Richard Boyle, the third Earl of Burlington, created the House and Gardens between 1725 and about 1738. Influenced by their travels on the Grand Tour, they rejected the showy, Baroque style fashionable in England, in favour of a simpler, symmetrical design based on the classical architecture of Italy. Together they broke down the rigid formality of the early 18th-century garden to create a revolutionary, natural-looking landscape. The main design approach of the new Institute of Architecture addresses a variety of issues, from the programmatic to the civic. The main challenge of the new structure has to do with the spatial limitations and potentials of the existing listed building, context and site.

Module 302 _ “Urban Arboretum: Treehouse (or The House of Trees)” _ BAS2 _ 2023-2024.

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“Haggerston Artisan Hybrid Baths”, Haggerston Pool, 39 Laburnum St, London _ Student: Reshawn Harding / BA3 _ 11.12.2023

The student was asked to design a hybrid bath house space. Attention had to be paid to the historical, atmospheric and structural/architectonic aspects of the existing Haggerston Baths, as the design approach had to address a variety of issues, from the programmatic to the civic. The main challenge of the new structure(s) will mainly have to do with the spatial limitations and potentials of a hybrid organization. The new proposal will have to tackle new forms of dwelling combinations between our everyday experience of private and public living spaces and the ways this can be projected onto a novel form of co-living, which must include or be compatible with current and future urban conditions (social, environmental, economic, technological, etc.). It is a medium-scale intervention/proposal. Emphasis was given to the production of plans, sections, elevations, and digital and physical 3D models, as well as to how the design proposals dealt with the existing Haggerston Baths interior and exterior structure and spatial arrangement.

Module 301 _ “Urban Arboretum: Treehouse (or The House of Trees)” _ BAS2 _ 2023-2024.