That ongoing project, Granby Four Streets, began in 2013 with the aim of rebuilding the Granby neighbourhood, which was at risk of being made derelict by “decades of poorly-planned regeneration initiatives,” as the collective puts it. “The demolition of all but four of Granby’s streets of Victorian terraces during decades of regeneration initiatives saw a once-thriving community scattered and left the remaining Granby Four Streets sparsely populated and filled with tinned up houses.”
Granby is exemplary of the sort of work Assemble has been making since 2010: community-focused, visible, inclusive and taking architecture as a discipline into the realm of ordinary people for both social and cultural gains. The multi-disciplinary collective comprises around 16-20 members at any one time, working across architecture, design and art and aiming to maintain a democratic and…
