'The project speculates a new typology of building along a riverside, where instead of traditional means of mitigating erosion along the bank, this intervention proposes a more natural approach by controlling the rate and direction of this weathering to create a spatial experience for users to walk through and inhabit the site. Situated in Stratford, the site has undergone huge regeneration which includes the Olympic gardens, built 10 meters above the original ground level. With traces of usage discovered by past hunter gathering communities found within these layers of the ground, the project aims to embrace the natural process of flooding, which itself allowed these past communities to settle more inland allowing them to hunt. By researching the sites geology, I started developing means of testing these materials with the effects of weathering, eventually leading to the prototyping of a simulation rig allowing for more precise and controlled observations of the effects of erosion of specific material typologies. Through using the device to map out the sites past footfall and movement, a natural geometry was created within the tested material. Using these results, I then went on to develop strategies of intervening within the landscape on a more site specific scale. Through the implementation of an structural oak piling system embedded within the ground, the project allows for the chorography of its decay in a controlled manor yet allowing for spaces to be naturally carved by weathering processes.'
