BARBICAN ESTATE
Barbican 1970’s
Architecture can be a transformative engine for change. Architecture changes the identity of the city. Bernard Tschumi said ‘if form follows fiction we could think of buildings as a space of stories , stories of people that live in these buildings. My question for this task lied in how structure can generate a series of relationships and narratives. In the Barbican especially there was this idea of towers, a typology that created more isolation than connectedness, as the idea of how the higher you are the higher your social class. However with the Barbican unlike any other communal housing was the fact that with the design aspect there was more collaboration rather than isolation.
