This project is about reshaping the current site of Museum of London in the City of London and proposing a new House of Music for the city as the new home for the London Symphony Orchestra since the Barbican Concert Hall is not sufficient any more. By continuing and extending the enclosed courts in the Barbican complex, a system of five courts, both interior ones and exterior ones, are created on site to host and communicate different functions. And by treating the ground of the project as a theatrical stage, it provides the possibility for the public to be also engaged in the complex. The topographical ground also negotiates the different height levels on site and therefore open up the Barbican highwalk system back to the city.

The institution in this case is the Delft University of Technology, which will make its appearance through a building to be situated in Delft’s historical center, suggesting the university’s physical return to the city after a hiatus of some eighty years. The agent of this return will be a complex of 'spaces of collection' for the accommodation and display of artefacts in various university collections. An opportunity is seen to provide an elaborated place of social and intellectual contact between the university and the public, affected by objects and realized through students, citizens and visitors.

The theme of the studio is ‘Space of Collection’. The aim is to design a type of space embedded into the context of Delft’s city centre through research and experiment, which is not only to solve the problem with a place for the collections of TU Delft, but also to build interactions between university and historical city as an ‘Urban Institution’. Therefore, there are two keywords for the project, one is ‘Collection’, the other is ‘urban institution’.