The Space!!

like a secret garden. Our chosen space lies behind St Etheleburgas church on Bishopsgate road. We were initially drawn towards this piece of semi private/ public space for the churches juxtaposition of materiality and scale of both old and new architecture.

Upon entering the space we found it to be other-worldly, A hidden gem, in which the space formed between the buildings became of high interest, and even more interesting than the church itself.

It is these apparent rooms behind the facade of the high street which began to captivate us, the notion of how the mass and shape of the immediate surrounding buildings that make up the high street, inadvertently create spaces, atmospheres, places amongst the city buildings. Hidden spaces, which are essential to the atmosphere of the city however are not immediately present.