The project is to redesign King’s Cross Station with multi-materials and to embed a new programme related to the location of the station in one of the most significant knowledge clusters globally. The design in effect, combines the concept of future knowledge space with conventional railway station programmes.

The project is constructed primarily from recyclable plastic, with its plastic structure being continuous throughout the design, with various degrees of transparency and flexibility from the canopy to the ground. Rigid opaque plastic forms a lattice topology that acts as reinforcement for the concrete ground. Flexible plastic regions come out of the ground to be the resting and sitting areas. Various transparent plastics will be applied to the canopy to improve the interior daylight.

The design strategy of our project is to move the existing conventional programmes, such as retails, to the underground and free up the ground level for future knowledge communications, which turns more mobile. Hills and the loose partition are used to organise the knowledge space from public to private on the ground level. The ‘loose partition’ could create the enclosure and semi-closure space for private study, and the ‘hill’ will be used to arrange the most public space.