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Year 6 – Oliver Garside, Will Niven, Besart Redenica,

Priya Boby, Theodoric Hang Chi Cheung, Jesse Yuen Yee Ma,

Leo Bourke, Srishti Dutta Roy, Marcus Pui Hong Lou,

Christine Mottershead, Veronica Kit Ying Ng, Ben Staves

Year 5 – Sharon Sze Yan Chan, Jason Lok Hang Fung,

Lyndon Jessop, Emilie Hakner, Catherine Sinclair,

Alice Ka Wai Tsang, Katy Wing Tung Yuen, Silva Chi Kin Chow,

Ashleigh Peacock, Arron Reed

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The Soho Commons by Raphael Arthur As Oxford Street swells with economic power it increasingly marginalises those with meagre consumer means, continuing to perpetuate siloed public activity and frequently breach the EU directive for pollution levels with its traffic.

The Soho Commons by Raphael Arthur As such, this proposal appropriates Oxford street – siphoning its resources – to form an Urban Commons, providing an armature for acts of commoning and collective cultural production. By pedestrianising part of Oxford St between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road and inserting a civic spine with raised platforms, new high value retail space can be created, making use of the anonymous upper floors of Oxford St and the economic gain used to fund new civic spaces in the centre of the street juxtaposed with retail spaces along the strip.

The Soho Commons by Raphael Arthur Physically this manifests as a light touch armature that allows for a quick and responsive infrastructure. It is a composite structure of timber and steel, timber at where it meets the ground offering tactility and warmth at the human scale. it is an additive architecture that employs devices like colonnades, platforms, totems, enclosures and demarcation as thresholds to offer a generous yet responsive public realm.

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