MODELS
GENATORIUM – BREEDING GROUND FOR THE RISK AVERSE
Could a partnership between Nomura Bank and Dulwich College create a new architecture of fertility and risk-free foetal conditioning in Southwark?
In 2020, Nomura Bank invests in a facility where the ambitious and vain can carry out risk-free pregnancy beside Dulwich College. King’s College Hospital offers an alternative home to foetuses at risk; those conceived in the bodies of the frail, addicted or incapable. A single ‘natalea’ dominates the landscape, while below, scores of other natalea are temporary home to new human lives.
Sketch model produced for the Architecture work-in-progress show at the Royal College of Art, 2010. [Burnt cherry timber, SLS rapidprototype and silk]
