Studio 8 Bartlett

Legacy Archive of Landscape Attention Sam Hammant @samhammant The project’s output is that of an archive; a physical curation of artefacts, and a landscape proposal that ‘records’ contemporary thought into form. On both counts, the resulting experience draws attention to past, present, and future landscape legacies. In reading either the unit or indeed the topographic forms, tree planting and grassland spread across the landscape, understanding is contingent on individual reader outlooks. To some, the project will be viewed as a static recording of past endeavours, filling a selfbuilt unit with sketches and maquettes. For others, it is a source of interconnected environmental and quasi-political reflection that promote critique on landscape processes. Either consumption, however, is inescapably grounded in present-day paradigms, which, like the landscape itself, shift in their relation to the past and future on a permanently fluctuating basis. Accordingly, this range of outcomes is a conclusion of the author’s time on the MLA programme. Where attention now turns to post-study, the project’s conclusion is similarly to consider archival futures, leaving further ‘empty’ layers into which Tilbury’s forthcoming landscapes can continue to address legacy... @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape #landscape #architechture #design #model #landscapearchitecture #bartlett

Swansong of Swanscombe Sheng-Jung Tsai @shengjungtsai425 Swansong is a design narrative that frames Swanscombe Marshes’ slow retreat from human use as a deliberate, poetic act. Inspired by the ancient myth that a swan sings only once, just before its death, the project imagines the site performing a final, beautiful gesture before its inevitable transformation. Rather than resisting environmental change or use land for development, the project embraces loss as form, designing a gradual handover from land to water over the course of a 75 years. The project proposes to open the sea defences, allowing tidal waters to slowly flood the marshes in controlled phases. This is not a sudden flooding, but a carefully choreographed process, facilitated by decaying structures made with seaweed bricks. As these bricks degrade over time, different zones of the site will become submerged, enabling both plant growth and soil decontamination through cross contamination cycles. Eventually, only two islands will remain, standing as physical remnants of a disappearing landscape. With this design process, human interaction is limited to the islands. Visitors are invited not to occupy, but to observe- as one might sit in an audience, watching a final performance. Swansong transforms landscape design from preservation to choreographed farewell, asking not how we can save a place, but how we can respectfully let it go. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl @archisource @architecturedotstudio #bartlett #bartlettautumnshow #model #design #architecture #landscape #student #landscapedesign

Dancing Windland Bella Lee @b1ue_ish @bleu.ish_ The site, once one of the London’s largest landfills, is a fragmented linear ecosystem where the city’s waste settled into the earth. With the sea level rising, its contaminated ground now risks leachate release into the river. Yet, its identity as landfill presents both crisis and opportunity. Closed in 2017 and later designated as a nature reserve, the linear cycle steered toward circular. Methane extraction revealed hidden potential turning sealed ground into a latent energy landscape. This raised the question: what if a terminal system of disposal became a circular ecosystem of renewal and regeneration? This project proposes a temporary renewable energy farm, that generates clean energy while regenerating the land, preparing it for reintegration into the city. In this long transition, it becomes a living laboratory where systems are tested and shared. Sculptural windmills and hybrid structures double educational and experiential landmarks, creating an “energy park” of power and tourism. Through water management, phytoremediation, and terrain manipulation, energy merges with ecology. The site becomes a prototype: a testbed for how closed landfill sites can be rewoven into nature and society through cycles of energy, and public engagement. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl #bartlettautumnshow #landscape #design #landscapearchitecture #architecturestudent #architecture #studentwork #visual @architecturedotstudio @archisource

Legacy Archive of Landscape Attention Sam Hammant @samhammant The project’s output is that of an archive; a physical curation of artefacts, and a landscape proposal that ‘records’ contemporary thought into form. On both counts, the resulting experience draws attention to past, present, and future landscape legacies. In reading either the unit or indeed the topographic forms, tree planting and grassland spread across the landscape, understanding is contingent on individual reader outlooks. To some, the project will be viewed as a static recording of past endeavours, filling a selfbuilt unit with sketches and maquettes. For others, it is a source of interconnected environmental and quasi-political reflection that promote critique on landscape processes. Either consumption, however, is inescapably grounded in present-day paradigms, which, like the landscape itself, shift in their relation to the past and future on a permanently fluctuating basis. Accordingly, this range of outcomes is a conclusion of the author’s time on the MLA programme. Where attention now turns to post-study, the project’s conclusion is similarly to consider archival futures, leaving further ‘empty’ layers into which Tilbury’s forthcoming landscapes can continue to address legacy... @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape #landscape #architechture #design #model #landscapearchitecture #bartlett

@mhall_design_construct A Living Defence Tilbury Fort is re-envisioned as a living heritage landscape, where change is embraced as part of its legacy. By relocating the cruise terminal to its edge, the fort becomes a gateway, guiding visitors through its layered histories into Tilbury Town, fostering economic vitality and social resilience. Rewilded meadows, wetlands, and woodlands cultivate rich ecologies, enhancing biodiversity while reducing maintenance. Textile model-making, alongside CAD and 3D scanning, captures the subtle interplay of form, material, and transformation. Paths trace old cobbles, linking past and present, while new paving unifies the rewilded west side. In this way, the fort transcends its military past, becoming a dynamic space where heritage, ecology, and community coalesce. @megan_hall_08 @bartlett_landscape @studio8bartlett @bartlettarchucl #bartlett #bartlettautumnshow #design #tufting #render #model #landscape #landscapearchitect #architecture @architecturedotstudio @architecturedotstudio @landscapeinstitutelondon @landarch.org_

Swansong of Swanscombe Sheng-Jung Tsai @shengjungtsai425 Swansong is a design narrative that frames Swanscombe Marshes’ slow retreat from human use as a deliberate, poetic act. Inspired by the ancient myth that a swan sings only once, just before its death, the project imagines the site performing a final, beautiful gesture before its inevitable transformation. Rather than resisting environmental change or use land for development, the project embraces loss as form, designing a gradual handover from land to water over the course of a 75 years. The project proposes to open the sea defences, allowing tidal waters to slowly flood the marshes in controlled phases. This is not a sudden flooding, but a carefully choreographed process, facilitated by decaying structures made with seaweed bricks. As these bricks degrade over time, different zones of the site will become submerged, enabling both plant growth and soil decontamination through cross contamination cycles. Eventually, only two islands will remain, standing as physical remnants of a disappearing landscape. With this design process, human interaction is limited to the islands. Visitors are invited not to occupy, but to observe- as one might sit in an audience, watching a final performance. Swansong transforms landscape design from preservation to choreographed farewell, asking not how we can save a place, but how we can respectfully let it go. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl @archisource @architecturedotstudio #bartlett #bartlettautumnshow #model #design #architecture #landscape #student #landscapedesign

Resilience in the Feminist Tide Siyuan Liu @siy.uan.liu The histories of Tilbury’s female dockworkers and fish migrations in the tidal Thames inspire reflection on resilience, choice, and freedom. Industrial interventions have disrupted migration, reduced habitats, and erased memory. This project reconnects the Thames’ ecological and cultural fabric by restoring hydrological continuity and embedding feminist narratives. Ecological restoration and symbolic design create fish routes while honoring women’s contributions. Strategies include dual migratory channels, symbolic installations, tidal-adapted planting, observation platforms, and reshaped riverbanks. Community participation through gardens, storytelling, and workshops ensures care and interpretation. The site is both a tidal ecological park and a platform for dialogue, celebrating resilience and offering space for fish and people to navigate freely. @bartlett_landscape @studio8bartlett @bartlettarchucl #landscape #landscapearchitect #design #bartlettautumnshow #drawing #render #visual

Dancing Windland Bella Lee @b1ue_ish @bleu.ish_ The site, once one of the London’s largest landfills, is a fragmented linear ecosystem where the city’s waste settled into the earth. With the sea level rising, its contaminated ground now risks leachate release into the river. Yet, its identity as landfill presents both crisis and opportunity. Closed in 2017 and later designated as a nature reserve, the linear cycle steered toward circular. Methane extraction revealed hidden potential turning sealed ground into a latent energy landscape. This raised the question: what if a terminal system of disposal became a circular ecosystem of renewal and regeneration? This project proposes a temporary renewable energy farm, that generates clean energy while regenerating the land, preparing it for reintegration into the city. In this long transition, it becomes a living laboratory where systems are tested and shared. Sculptural windmills and hybrid structures double educational and experiential landmarks, creating an “energy park” of power and tourism. Through water management, phytoremediation, and terrain manipulation, energy merges with ecology. The site becomes a prototype: a testbed for how closed landfill sites can be rewoven into nature and society through cycles of energy, and public engagement. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl #bartlettautumnshow #landscape #design #landscapearchitecture #architecturestudent #architecture #studentwork #visual @architecturedotstudio @archisource

@mhall_design_construct A Living Defence Tilbury Fort is re-envisioned as a living heritage landscape, where change is embraced as part of its legacy. By relocating the cruise terminal to its edge, the fort becomes a gateway, guiding visitors through its layered histories into Tilbury Town, fostering economic vitality and social resilience. Rewilded meadows, wetlands, and woodlands cultivate rich ecologies, enhancing biodiversity while reducing maintenance. Textile model-making, alongside CAD and 3D scanning, captures the subtle interplay of form, material, and transformation. Paths trace old cobbles, linking past and present, while new paving unifies the rewilded west side. In this way, the fort transcends its military past, becoming a dynamic space where heritage, ecology, and community coalesce. @megan_hall_08 @bartlett_landscape @studio8bartlett @bartlettarchucl #bartlett #bartlettautumnshow #design #tufting #model #landscape #landscapearchitect #architecture @architecturedotstudio @architecturedotstudio @landscapeinstitutelondon @landarch.org_

@chan.tree.fai Remediating Industrial Legacy: Reimagining Coryton Oil Refinery Post-industrial sites mark history through infrastructure, contamination, and altered ecologies. Many lie in fragile areas—unstable soils, floodplains, and habitats unsuited to human construction, yet past generations imposed engineering solutions to turn them into revenue-generating assets, especially in the post-war era. On such a landscape at the Thames Estuary, the Coryton Oil Refinery operated for nearly 70 years before closing. Its redevelopment plan proposes near-total demolition, erasing not only structures but also cultural memory and industrial history. In contrast, this project advances a landscape strategy of reuse, recycling, phytoremediation, and tidal restoration. Rather than erasing industry, it embraces and reinterprets its legacy, weaving it into an alternative framework that fosters ecological regeneration while acknowledging the site’s layered past. From masterplan to detail, the design emphasizes living with flood risk, not as a danger to resist, but as a catalyst for new life, landscapes, and sensory experience entwined with industrial relics. @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl @studio8bartlett @architecturedotstudio @archisource @models_architecture #bartlettautumnshow #bartlett #landscapearchitecturestudent #model #design #architecturestudent #landscape #landscapearchitecture

@sunnyyysun Two Tree Gateway This project turns the narrow strip north of Two Tree Island into a landscape buffer that guides visitors from Leigh on Sea station and protects key wildlife habitats. At its heart stands the “Two Tree Gateway,” a design framework that marks the transition from town to the natural landscape. The site unfolds in three parts: Station Green, Tidal Meadow Walkway, and an Eco-Hide on an earth ridge, moving gently from a paved plaza to a raised boardwalk, while allowing the tides to flow and screening wildlife from view. Nature based features such as modular flood defences, pollinator corridors, and upper marsh planting meet Thames Estuary 2100 targets and boost biodiversity. Together, these elements create a resilient hinge between people and nature, blending recreation, learning, and ecological care in a climate-ready coastal landscape. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @bartlettarchucl #bartlettautumnshow #bartlett #landscapedesign #landscape #architecturestudent #landscapearchitecture #model @archisource @architecturedotstudio

Vaibhavi Pujari @vaibhavipujari Slow Flows : Participatory Landscapes for Estuarine Sewage Treatment Slow Flows: Participatory Landscapes for Estuarine Sewage Treatment reimagines the Tilbury sewage treatment plant as an open, living landscape where community and ecology interweave. The project transforms adjacent concrete parking lot into treatment wetlands, using broken concrete reclaimed by local hands to shape gentle dikes and planted wetlands. As the concrete is dragged across the ground, it leaves visible marks that guide the emergence of wetlands and planting, inscribing the narrative of slow, collective transformation into the site. By doing so the design challenges industrialized, exclusionary infrastructure and reconnects Tilbury’s community to the Thames estuary. The site becomes both a functional water-clean sing system and a public commons, offering new grounds for recreation, learning, and collective stewardship along the river’s edge. Through slow, shared action, the landscape heals barriers between people, infrastructure, and the living river. @studio8bartlett @bartlett_landscape @architecturedotstudio @archuncovered @landscapeinstitutelondon @landarch.org_ #landscape #landscapearchitecture #architecturestudent #architecture #model #design #bartlett #bartlettautumnshow @bartlettarchucl