The Plug- in Campus project, located in the Inner East London, is conceived as an opportunity to reorder the Lea River region, the ancient industrial heart of London East End, but nowadays an urban void disconnected from the city network.

 

The project proposed the creation of a great square through a topographic wrap which connects the city with the riverside. Over this topography the intervention is settled; conceived as an elevated infrastructure which will support as the proposed program as the city, resolving the need of equipped public space in this area.

 

The structural design  is the element which orders all the intervention.  Thus it is conceived an architectural system, divided in three different parts;

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>Fixed Matrix, skeleton for all the campus; an orthogonal three-dimensional mesh, where three voids were opened for  cinema, theatre and television production and performance.

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> Dynamic Matrix, formed by a set of programmatic pieces, which frames and serves to the Fixed Matrix, growing upon it.

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>Technical elements, which allow the connexion and running between the matrixes and between these and the public square.

 

So facing the permanent aim of the mega structure, the other elements grow and decrease over it, depending on time, users and functional actual or future program providing the building of a great flexibility and variability not only spatial but programmatic as well, allowing its adaptation to future changes in the campus, but in the city requirements.