London will host the Olympic Games in 2012 — 12 mil­lion peo­ple city with impor­tant trans­port issues and increas­ing long dis­tance jour­neys. The Thames — cross­ing the entire city — rep­re­sents a bor­der instead of an instru­ment of con­nec­tiv­ity for Londoners. The site is located on the muddy banks between Battersea and Chelsea Wharf, in the South West of London.

Interarticulated Landscapes aims at a series of con­nect­ing struc­tures with dif­fer­ent use and per­for­mance, such as prom­e­nades and walk­ing float­ing paths, blend­ing both river banks with a respon­sive mesh. This mesh per­forms diverse lay­ers engaged to each other, and gen­er­ates preser­va­tion and aware­ness of local nat­ural cycles such as tidal vari­a­tion and flood­ing sce­nar­ios. A series of archi­tec­tural typolo­gies sprin­kle over the mas­ter­plan gen­er­at­ing sev­eral net­works at dif­fer­ent lev­els: ponds, float­ing gar­dens, pub­lic space, and urban fabric.

Bio: Jorge is the founder of [Ay]A Studio. [Ay]A is an inter­na­tional stu­dio oper­at­ing from Paris com­mit­ted with cut­ting edge research and exper­i­men­ta­tion, across scales. [Ay]A engages the field of design, archi­tec­ture and land­scape urban­ism in both aca­d­e­mic and pro­fes­sional praxis.

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