Between Movement and Events

Between Movement and Events — IADA 2026 award

Between Movement and Events received Platinum Winner recognition at the International Architecture & Design Awards 2026 in Alternative Concept Design. Project status, design team and credits are listed alongside the presentation.

About the project

This project explores the relationship between space, movement and events. Inspired by Bernard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts, the design investigates how landscape can be generated through the interaction of actions occurring in specific moments of time and space. By analysing movement patterns across the site, the project reinterprets the relationship between spatial form and human behaviour by breaking and reconstructing these sequences into physical landscape features.

Mapping these movement patterns and translating them into landforms reveals the underlying logic of urban “scripting”, where landscape inhabitants continuously form their own paths and interpretations. The resulting landscape celebrates a choreography of movements—fleeting and slow, meandering and direct—embedding new narrative layers into the site.

The site, Three Mills Green, is an open green space owned by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority and located adjacent to 3 Mills Studios, a major film and television production studio. Different user movements are mapped according to the site’s characteristics: visitors passing through tend to follow the main routes, while those resting or picnicking gravitate toward more open gathering areas.

Drawing from Tschumi’s idea that architecture emerges from the superimposition of space, movement and events, the project extracts elements from real site activities and cinematic narratives associated with the nearby studios. Through processes of deconstruction, transformation and superposition, movement, events and space collectively redefine the spatial structure and experiential narrative of the landscape.