Sep 15
The Blue Fence Project’s first completed structure will be exhibited from September 25 at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
The studio has designed a number of pavilions to be made from the blue construction fence that surrounds the 2012 Olympic Games site. The plywood fencing will be recycled to reinstate local activities lost during the Olympic development.
The structure to be unveiled in Rotterdam is a two-storey bird hide and wall of nesting boxes designed to cater for the active bird watching community in the Lea Valley.
These provisional structures would provide activity on the Olympic site’s empty plots, proposed as part of the initial stages of the Olympic Legacy Masterplan.
Studio Superniche’s Oliver Wainwright says ‘It’s imperative to get people using the site as quickly as possible after the Games to avoid it becoming yet another vacant memorial to a fleeting sporting moment’.
The Blue Fence Project will be exhibited at the Parallel Cases exhibition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, from September 26 – December 13.
Architects: Studio Superniche
Location: Olympic site, East London
Type of Project: Temporary structures
Design Team: Kieren Jones, Will Shannon, Ottilie Ventiroso and Oliver Wainwright
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