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NEW SENSATIONS: A CHANNEL 4 PRIZE FOR SAATCHI ONLINE 2010 UK GRADUATES

 
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Shaun Merchant
(28 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Edinburgh)
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Originally from Cornwall but currently living in Edinburgh, and loving every minute of it. Over the course of the last four years studying Interior Architecture I have become increasingly interested in the recycling, reconstruction and deconstruction of exhausted buildings. Looking at how the community surrounding a building can produce the need for the rejuvenation an alteration of a building that has come to the end of its l ...[more]
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As the world evolves so too does its cities and the societies that live within them, creating new and ever challenging design problems and solutions. With the population of the world ever increasing personal and public space is becoming a major issue and the strain on our already saturated cities is becoming ever apparent. Environmental, economic and social issues combined with the ever growing threat posed on our ‘mega’ cities by terrorist activity will force designers, planners and architects to produce solutions and preventions to problems that are at present only predictions.

I would like to use this competition to show what our cities and structures could look like in 25 years time if our paranoia, obsessions and greed get the better of us. Showing through abstract architecture how cities will function and how societies will interact within them.
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