Long Term: An architecture of ongoing transformation Part 1 Project 2025 Alfred Mowse University of East London London | UK This project involves the re-use of a culturally significant existing building in Greenwich, London, for a series of new public programmes. It takes transformation to be central to the art of architecture, and explores the question of what it means to engage with a site for the very long term.The project imagines two ambiguously overlapping episodes in the site’s future. First, a garden is designed in the ruins of the existing building. Then, this landscape proposal forms the ground for new architecture for two programmes of use: almshouses and thermal baths, arranged around streets, courtyards and public gardens.Thus, interventions are proposed for the here and now that draw on the specificities and history of the site, whilst establishing an infrastructural basis for as yet undetermined future inhabitations. With this double eye on past and future transformation, the project presents an optimistic challenge to prevalent short-termist building practices, that are neither ecologically nor socially viable.The aspiration has been to design the site for urban longevity and with ecological responsibility, but without overdetermining its future use. The idea of transformation explored here has to do with establishing spaces that anticipate changes of use, enduring by virtue of their strong architectural character, as opposed to mute, technological flexibility. Tutor(s) Philip Christou