Project
The Waterloo «STAY» TION
Category
Best Project of Public Space by Student
About the project
The thesis explores ideas of “Time” in relationship with body and space by re-introducing cinematic spaces for silent films (German Expressionist Films) in Waterloo Station which allow people to feel the sense of “staying” rather than “waiting”. Whilst the place is designed to memorial the former Waterloo Station News Cinema that was once built in the late twentieth century.
The project commenced with noticing, recording traces left by the demolished news theatre and examining the circulation patterns that respond to train schedules of Waterloo Station. Inspired by Claude Parent’s “Oblique Function”, an investigation of rhythmic and ergonomic topographies informs the design of dynamic folding landscapes that are inhabited by screening spaces for silent films. Besides, the ideas of transparency and interference between train announcements and the cinematic experience of silent films were also considered to provide a unique cinematic experience in Waterloo Station.
Location
London Waterloo Station, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8SW, the UK
Project design year
2022
Project website
https://www.behance.net/gallery/151977179/The-Waterloo-Stay-tion
Extra visual materials (photos, videos etc.)
Photogrammetry Interactive Model — Remnant Art Deco Entrance Blockade: https://sketchfab.com/3d-
Photogrammetry Interactive Model — Remnant Scars of Demolished Emergency Staircase: https://sketchfab.com/3d-
Applicant and author of the project
Chun Ho Cheung Horace is an Interior Architect, museum and exhibition designer.
He first studied for a diploma in exhibition design at Hong Kong Design Institute, followed by graduating with his bachelor's in museum and exhibition design at the University of Lincoln. Currently, he finished his master's in interior architecture at the University of Westminster with his thesis project investigating people's perception of time in relation to body and space.
