The New Guild of Wandsworth Part 1 Project 2025 Toby Thomas Oxford Brookes University Oxford | UK ‘The New Guild of Wandsworth’ is an infrastructure of skills - a place for learning, collaborating, and making. A ‘Guild’ where crafts and public life converge through workshops, archives, halls, and courtyards.The project emerges in an age that is defined by certain challenges that are impossible to ignore: the need for housing (Labours pledged 1.5 million homes), rising costs of skilled trades (43.2% of tradespeople forced to increase prices) and the ever-growing disappearance of traditional crafts.As a result, the New Guild of Wandsworth challenges this pattern, offering a new model that resists Wandsworth's present trend of transitioning from industrial to high-rise residential typologies currently driving present development plans.The New Guild of Wandsworth reimagines Pier Wharf in Wandsworth as a new craft guild. Following William Morris' guiding principles, the design draws inspiration from the historic urban fabric through form, materials and ornamentation. A series of craft buildings sit within a framework of courtyards where each cohort's work is displayed and preserved, transforming the guild into a repository of public engagement and sharing of skills. Arcades serve as a threshold and a public route, leading processions and daily life, set under a clock tower bringing a sense of the ‘civic’ to this area of Wandsworth. Tutor(s)