1/3 Twinning concept
2/3 Urban analysis
David Kohn Architects
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Sixteen practices were invited to prepare a mini-masterplan for a site alongside the King's Cross Central development during the course of a day. My strategy was to identify existing urban qualities and reflect them across the site in the hope of transforming incoherent urban fragments into connected pieces of city. I called this process Twinning, as the site seemed to naturally offer pairs of spaces: New parks either side of the canal; mirroring the churchyard about the hospital buildings to make a new residential quarter surrounded by gardens; connecting the avenue of mature trees along Agar Grove with Camley Street Nature Reserve to make a green spine; Densifying the light industrial uses besides the railway to balance the Kings Cross development opposite.
