The Critics: Student exhibitions 2009

摘要

It's the singular subject of the Kingston University school of architecture and landscape student exhibition, entitled One/Off, that makes visiting this show so compelling. When Daniel Rosbottom was named head of school last year, he made the decision to have every architecture unit spend part of term studying and making proposals for the London borough of Croydon, with a focus on regenerating this unloved 'city within a city'.rnCroydon - notoriously bisected by roads, blighted by ubiquitous multi-storey car parks and shopping malls, and plagued by two recessions which each scuppered imminent plans for its renewal - has plenty of sites on offer for students to study. And study they have done - from rethinking the use of the local Quaker Hall as an art gallery (second-year student Patricia Assuncao Do Rosario, Studio 2.4), to transforming its multi-storeyrncar parks into lidos (second-year student Hadas Even-Tzur, Studio 2.2), to proposing a row of terraced infill housing which steps up gradually in scale, from the height of a house to the height of the nearby towers (Elena Licci, third-year student, Studio 3.2).