Meshworks of Care

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

S.C. Cox Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

R.R.J. van de Pas Architectural Engineering - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
L.G.A.J. Reinders Architecture OTB (graduation committee member)
P.H.M. Jennen Design of Constrution - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2020 S.C. Cox
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Published Date

06-07-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Austerity and high land values in London have seen space for care minimised, privatised and restricted for efficiency and maximum profit. This project argues that care within architecture needs to be reclaimed from the closed practices that are framing it, and inhabited in its multiplicity. This work is situated in the neighbourhood of Wood Green in North London, where existing caring institutions have struggled to survive public funding cuts. Instead of supporting existing infrastructure, the local authority has made several attempts to solve deprivation through new buildings or plans. These are designed as separate blocks and have failed due to their detachment from the everyday realities of deprivation. Instead, this project considers how to support and cultivate the existing networks of care that are struggling to survive public funding cuts in Wood Green.