DYSTOPIC LONDON

This week I have decided to discover and survey other dystopic sites in London.

I visited the Robin Hood Gardens, a council housing complex in Poplar and the near Balfron Tower, which has got the interesting feature of having an exact twin sister on the opposite side of the city in the area of North Kensington.
I have then mapped these sites on the map of London and I have tried to imagine a futuristic  London set in a post nuclear era, where everything has been destroyed and the only parts of the city which have been reconstructed are the dystopic sites I have focused my attention on.

I was very intrigued and extremely fascinated by the functions of these different sites and the strong connections I could find between them, almost as they could be a complete city themselves.
The two twin towers located exactly on the opposite site of the city reminded me of two dominant power headquarters while the Barbican and the Robin Hood Gardens are in a different way two dormitory buildings and the Southbank Brutalist buildings are the entertainment area.
Elephant and Castle has got the functions of the ancient Greek Agora, the main square where the market and all the public activities where taking place.

I would like to use this imaginary set as my starting point for the development of my final dystopic set.

ROBIN HOOD GARDENS AND BALFRON TOWER