Common Ground is a research collective focused on the reintegration of hyperlocal London clay, a local waste material from HS2 railway excavation sites, into our built environment.
The project presents itself as a collaboration between design, science and disturbed soil.
Approached with care and naivety, each piece of work lives as a physical hypothesis.
From the material dialogue, Common Ground Bridges is a material workshop wherein the public will make models of future-forward bridges that could reconnect the land and people separated by the construction of high-speed trains. Our goal was to collaboratively create a metaphorical and physical bridge between science, engineering and everyone who calls London home. This collaboration helped us provide the next generation of engineers with a blueprint to construct speculative, future-driven urban infrastructures, focusing on the integration of high-speed trains into both urban and rural landscapes of the United Kingdom.
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