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Passing the bladder draw-off towers and waterfalls by canal boat.

The Bladders

As a response to London’s classification as a city of ‘serious water stress’, a model for the extension of the city’s ailing water cistern is proposed. The Bladders are a billowing municipal water storage and treatment system unveiled as a legacy of the 2012 Olympic Park, engulfing Populous+Peter Cook’s Olympic Stadium and the Aquatic Centre by Zaha Hadid. Giant inflated water bladders and anaerobic digester stomachs are the structural elements of an architecture that returns a segment of the Lea Valley into a ‘backyard’ for Londoners to explore. Substituting the spectacle of the Olympics for a spatially performative utilitarian architecture.
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Skin retractor.

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East London

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Facsimile of documents from The Bladders Project archive.

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OS Landranger Map 120

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Line section.

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Thirsty wall.

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Passage between the great bladders.

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Digester stomach.

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