London Crescents
Instructor : Preston Scott Cohen + Panagiotis Michalatos / Spring 25’London Crescents explores the materiality of stacked paper as an architectural driver, translating its layered, folded, and compressed qualities into a mixed-use residential building in London. The proposal reinterprets the tradition of crescent housing and the central communal park, a long-desirable model of living in London, through a contemporary lens. Rather than only framing nature as an escape from the city, the project negotiates between urban density and collective green space. Folded and stratified volumes create moments of openness, public engagement, and layered privacy, allowing the building to address both the intimacy of the park and the energy of the surrounding city simultaneously.