This process has been produced along with a set of architectural drawings in support of the first year Intervening in the city project portfolio.
Through multi-layered material testing, joint production and climatic modelling, the design develops a mass-timber intervention at Frobisher Crescent acting as a primary anchor, alongside distal nodes that extend the tower’s reach through the Barbican. Wrapped in an experimental, bio-degradable seed-paper ‘bio skin,’ the intervention embraces material vulnerabilities and weathering as performance, translating complex environmental and tectonic investigations into an active civic commons that reframes Brutalist spatial anxiety into a restorative public ritual over time.