Hazel Urban Tapestry Part 1 Project 2025 Bori Kalmar University of Cambridge | UK The project investigates the architectural potential of the underutilised natural fibre – hazel – as a means to weave vernacular materials and construction methods into the urban fabric of cities. Addressing a key brownfield site in central London, the proposal takes the Clerkenwell Fire Station and its eight- storey drill tower as the starting point for a contextual design response.Craft is utilised as a critical design methodology that informs how vernacular materials might be upscaled and reinterpreted at the architectural scale. Conceptually informed by the act of weaving, the development of the building volume draws on textile crafts of threading, stitching, and sewing to introduce an alternative, playful framework through which structured yet crafted forms can inhabit brownfield sites within an urban context.Challenging rigid, inorganic urban streetscapes, the proposal’s visually permeable hazel façade features hazel panels sewn together to form a ‘tapestry’ of woven surfaces.As a local and sustainable response, the site strategy for the Clerkenwell Fire Station proposes a space where the full lifecycle of hazel can be localised. In the Hazel Urban Garden, hazel is grown, coppiced, woven, repaired, and composted—proposing a renewable model for bringing the material into the urban environment. Tutor(s) Anastasia Glover Rosie Hervey