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Within the ‘Future Foundry’ the Living Lab scheme is born, focusing on what we as a society can learn from nature in both controlled and field environments.

Isabella Foote is a third year Architecture student. Having worked in Unit 5B for two years, she is focused on sustainable design, using the natural world as a key source of inspiration. Choosing a more illustrative approach to work, she favors programs such as AutoCAD and photoshop to create line drawings, using textures to portray a scene.

Isabella Foote, BArch Architecture

The Future Foundry

Unit 5B focuses on ‘Nurturing the City and the River’, in particular the River Derwent.

My project, ‘The Future Foundry’ works with the existing abandoned Haslam’s Foundry situated in Derby. Through focusing on creating a type of architecture that works harmoniously with nature, the project ensures the scheme functions as non-wasteful and self-sufficient as possible through systems like irrigation ponds and natural flood defences. Working within a flood zone, the project embraces the River Derwent, expanding the river bed to accommodate for flooding and embracing the local ecology.

Within the ‘Future Foundry’ the Living Lab scheme is born, focusing on what we as a society can learn from nature in both controlled and field environments. Following a science on show approach the scheme works closely with the community to test findings from the lab, to then implement back into the wider context.