Hammersmith Highline – Ideen für eine Gleisbrache in London (GB)

Our resolute design for a disused viaduct and contribution for a sustainable and greener town in Hammersmith in the west of London has been awarded the 1st prize.

Fish n’Chips approaches the task to reactivate a disused segment of an elevated railway in the district of Hammersmith in London, with an interactive and ecological proposal. While the Paris’ Promenade Plantée stands for a regained recreational space of the 90s, the New York Highline can be seen as a leading project at the turn of the millennium for a design feature with a cultural value.

Fish n’Chips emphasizes on eco-sociological urban processes and thus ushers a new era of inner-urban post-industrial infrastructure use.
Through aquaponic systems, fruits and vegetables will be cultivated in green houses and create an ecological metabolic cycle with fish breeding in tanks under the railway arches. The revival of the district is not only based on eye catching food production but on an efficient process with additional interactive features. City dwellers can participate in the food production and can benefit from the infrastructure itself. Leasure activities like swimming, fishing and urban gardening next to cultural events in open green space will soon be daily life amidst the urban hustle of London.