Dynamic Valeu Matrix - London 2019

The project proposes an alternative delivery model for Ebbsfleet (London) to capture the currently neglected values like ecology, variety, and long-term stewardship, which will encourage a regenerative cycle of transformation based on dynamic values sets. This model leverages a complex tool of interwoven limit lines to recalibrate development process. 

If we were to create a handbook for planning and design, what will be the fixed, negotiable and flexible conditions to develop the brownfield site? How can the critical question of ‘Land Value’ be negotiated among a spectrum of stakeholders from Community-owned to housing co-operations to volume-builders to share benefits and responsibilities? How to design a delivery model which can accommodate changing values and be resilient to economic and social shift? 

In order to offer plausible answers, the operational structure is based on forming an interweave of four V’s : Value, Voids, Viability and Variety, to enable a systemic change in peri-urban territories. The success of this model relies on these parameters to work in a holistic framework to deliver a regenerative urban area and associated spatial qualities.

This drawing is an operative framework for a dynamic masterplan, and overlaps the leading layers – namely voids, plot divisions, strategic starting points - that drives the intervention and consequently deploy a variety of possible dynamic scenarios.

Team: Marcel Rofatto, Humaira Klabir, Jingchao Sheng