Connected Commons
As cities become increasingly shaped by automation, digital connectivity, and data-driven systems, urban environments risk becoming more efficient yet less socially connected. Trafford Wharf represents this emerging condition, where high-density regeneration, remote working, and digitally mediated lifestyles challenge traditional forms of collective public life.
This project explores how architecture and computational design can create socially connected urban environments within increasingly digital cities. Using rule-based spatial strategies, the proposal generates a masterplan centred around walkable streets, mixed-use density, shared courtyards, public podiums, and interconnected green spaces. These systems embed social infrastructure directly into the logic of the urban framework, balancing efficiency, accessibility, and everyday interaction.
The final design resolution translates these computational strategies into an experiential urban environment, developing architectural and public realm proposals that prioritise physical interaction, collective occupation, and human-centred urban life within the future digital city.
