Beta Habitation Prototype
2024 London
Private commission
Beta Prototype is a 100 × 100 × 100 metre habitation conceived for a temporary community living and working beside a vast construction site in the desert. The cube gathers accommodation, workspaces, meeting rooms and collective spaces into a single dense body — a small city compressed into one object.
Its form developed through accumulation: rooms, bridges, terraces, shafts, overhangs and fragments projecting outward from a thick inhabited core. The model was built as a way of testing this density physically, allowing the architecture to emerge through addition, collision and adjustment. Seen against the emptiness of the desert, the prototype appears almost like an artefact dropped into the landscape — compact, autonomous and intensely occupied.
Its form developed through accumulation: rooms, bridges, terraces, shafts, overhangs and fragments projecting outward from a thick inhabited core. The model was built as a way of testing this density physically, allowing the architecture to emerge through addition, collision and adjustment. Seen against the emptiness of the desert, the prototype appears almost like an artefact dropped into the landscape — compact, autonomous and intensely occupied.
With
Sir Peter Cook, Ronghua Lei
