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Architectural Future(s)

Architectural Future(s)
More Essays:

Dis / Replacement: Processes Of Displacement And Replacement During Periods of Transformation At The Barrington Recovery Site

Euston Town: retaking the city in the wake of HS2

Order and Dis-Order Within the London Food Landscape: Exploring the Street Party and Structures of Social Eating

Pamphlet for a Humanized Architectural Future Conserving and Celebrating Local Communities through Relicfication

Reimagining Solidarities and Spaces in the Era of Industry 4.0: Exploring the case study of Battersea as a Microcosm for a New Industrial Urbanism

Transient Homes: The Sense of Home in Woodberry Down Estate Regeneration: An Exploration of Social Housing Precarity and Temporary Housing Provisions
The Dialectic Relationship between the Peak District and Manchester, An enquiry into the perception, reality and politics of industrial innovation on the Derbyshire Moors

Gazing and Glancing: Moments of Queer Mutuality in Public Spaces

Fragmented Cognition of City’s Image: Distractions from Technology

The Desire for Dragons: A Critical Study into the Application of ‘Concrete Fantasy’ and ‘Parafiction’ in Our Architectural Future(s)

Maria Paola Barreca
Transient Homes

The sense of home in Woodberry Down Estate regeneration: An exploration of social housing precarity and temporary housing provisions

Against the backdrop of growing housing precarity for the working-class in the UK, the essay focuses on Woodberry Down, London’s largest single site social-housing regeneration project. Moving beyond ‘home’ as a confined physical space, the study considers its multidimensional facets in determining places of identity, belonging, safety and control. Purposeful interviews with female residents on WD serve as a guiding narrative throughout the essay, revealing a precarious collective sense of home across various temporalities of the regeneration. By interweaving the shared narratives of interviewees with theoretical readings on the concept of ‘home’, the essay examines how conditions caused by the regeneration and the neglect of social housing pose a threat to the residents’ sense of home, affecting their identity and well-being.



1: collage showing an overlay of the Woodberry Down estate as it s regenerated with a print exploring changing perceptions of the 'sense of home (by author)
2: image of Woodberry Down Estate Regeneration (by author)
3: Representing the sense of ‘home’ as narrated by one of the residents and interpreted as a drawing by the Author.
4: epresenting the sense of ‘home’ as narrated by one of the residents on the instability of temporality.


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