Tactile Home The Role of Craft in the Built Environment

Futurecity were commissioned by Qatari Diar to create a cultural strategy for their development at Chelsea Barracks. Alice Cicolini was commissioned by Futurecity to develop a specific strategy for craft and design within the scheme; the essay, "Tactile Home The Role of Craft in the Built Environment" is her response.

"Mastercraft," Alice writes, "has the potential to create unique spaces because it can deliver human stories that foster powerful emotional engagement." Alice proposes that nowhere is this more pertinent than at Chelsea Barracks, a site located in the heart of an area inextricably linked with the Arts & Crafts Movement, the Great Exhibition, contemporary design and education and the sale of great antiques. "If the development is to truly embed a sense of place in the fabric of its structure, Alice argues, Chelsea Barracks should be the catalyst for a new language of 21st century superlative craftsmanship in the built environment."

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