muf, barking project

Barking Town Centre is part of the Mayor's 100 public spaces programme. The public realm design makes a coherent new space for the town square where the town hall, library, a faculty of the University of East London, the one-stop-shop, a child and primary health care centre, approximately 500 new homes, retail, cafes and a major public art commission all come together. The public art element provides the fourth elevation to the wall, conceived and developed and implemented by muf, this 7 metre high folly recreates a fragment of the imaginary lost past of Barking. The project involved a number of diverse groups in its detail design, this included students from the Theatre School, elders from the Afro-Carribean lunch club and apprentices from the local bricklayers college.
winner of 2008 ,EU, urban public space compeitition