Newham Community Park

Newham Community Park

LOCATION

London Borough of Newham, London, City of London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Project Description

How can the water element space become opportunities for enhancing the workforce's daily life?

Community Workforce

This project in Newham is an attempt to create a place that will improve the quality of their daily lives by analysing the structure of the local workforce. In addition to the local residents who face commuting pressures there is also a crisis of unemployment. They have different struggles, but in some ways they overlap. For example, those who have jobs struggle with long commutes and childcare issues, while the unemployed need help with job training and employment opportunities.

I wanted to try to combine the needs of both and create a space with a complex of functions. I tried to imagine how the element of water could be involved in the composition of this space, perhaps water could be used as a guide to show people the way, relieve stress and enhance the playground for children. People can be brought closer to the water, so that the landscape space can be used not only as a place for citizens to relax, but also as a comfortable space for people to wait for traffic.

You can see that this is a multi-functional community park that provides a better living experience for the workforce. It includes green spaces, children's play, sports spaces, social spaces and shorter and more comfortable paths.