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Paranoia House by Arthur Kay

London鈥檚 development has always eluded prediction, but a new UCL publication aims to confront the challenges of a rapidly growing city with a series of forecasts and solutions for the capital in 50 years鈥� time.听

听brings together a coalition of world-leading experts in urban planning, geography, politics, engineering, computer science and policy with contributions from Bartlett staff and alumni across the faculty.

The book also features the winning entries from a student competition calling for creative responses to the question of the capital鈥檚 future. Arthur Kay, who graduated from听听last year, was one of the winners with his Paranoia House, a fictional building that protects its occupants from all imaginable crises, from terrorist attacks to financial meltdown.听

Arthur explains his approach to the competition: 鈥淚n general we need to take a much more measured approach towards the future, and听Paranoia House听is an appeal to reason, poking fun at the hysteria that is too often used to grab headlines". He cites his interest in psychoanalysis as an inspiration for his entry: 鈥渢he relationship between design and the human psyche has always fascinated me, and in projects such as听Paranoia House听I have looked at this notion within an architectural framework鈥�.

London 2062听approaches the challenges of the future from four different angles, the city鈥檚 networks, its material aspects and its structures of power and governance. The final section, entitled 鈥楧reams鈥�, contains pieces of a more speculative and often playful nature. Far from being whimsical, these pieces are underpinned by formal research and the rich knowledge base of their authors.听