Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Joanne Chen has designed a factory that includes leisure and education facilities, based on the Socialist ideals set out by designer and activist William Morris in the late 19th century.
Chen's conceptual factory comprises furniture, weaving, stained glass and wallpaper workshops placed around scenic gardens
In Chen's Reimagined Factory concept, furniture, weaving, stained glass and wallpaper workshops are placed around scenic gardens, lily ponds and education facilities on the banks of London's River Thames.
The arrangement is intended to nurture workers while they create artisanal products to sell to consumers.
The Reimagined Factory is proposed for a landscaped site on the bank of the River Thames in London Chen completed the project as part of Unit 17 of the Masters programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, tutored by architect Niall McLaughlin with Michiko Sumi and Yeoryia Manolopoulou.
The project is based on a text penned by the English artist, designer and writer William Morris in 1884.
An advocate of traditional craft and campaigner for Socialist reform, Morris was a leading figure of the late 19th and early 20th-century Arts and Crafts movement. His text, A Factory As It Might Be, called for a "Socialistic factory" where divisions between workplace, home and leisure space are diminished.
The factory contains highly ornamental interiors tailored to each type of workshop, as well as...