- Date of Incident
- 14 Jun 2017
- Location
- London, UK
- Publication Date
- 21 Mar 2018
- Commissioned By
- Self-Initiated
- Additional Funding
- The Victoria & Albert Museum
- Collaborators
- None
- Methodologies
- 3D Modelling, Situated Testimony, Software Development
- Forums
- Media
- Exhibitions
- Forensic Architecture: Witnesses
Forensic Architecture continues to support the BSR (Bereaved, Survivors, and Relatives) and their representatives in a number of ways in their ongoing pursuit of accountability and transparency in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire, in the context of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and related legal avenues.
In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire in the kitchen of a fourth-floor flat in Grenfell Tower, west London, developed into a building fire that would ultimately claim seventy-two lives.
By bringing together publicly-available information about the progress of the fire within the tower and around its exterior, Forensic Architecture is building a powerful and freely-available resource by which the community and members of the public may explore and better understand the events of the night of the fire.
The unfolding catastrophe was captured live by hundreds of Londoners on their cameras and smartphones. Every video of the fire captured that night is a unique piece of evidence, containing unique information.
We have collect hundreds of these pieces of evidence and, using a technique known as ‘projection mapping’, applied those videos to an architectural model of Grenfell Tower to create a continuous ‘3D video’ of the fire.
This is an open-ended project that will continue to grow as further information about the night of the fire enters the public domain.
To create this comprehensive record, we need to gather as much available video footage from the night of the fire as possible.
Forensic Architecture invites members of the public to submit their video footage of the fire to us at www.grenfellmediaarchive.org.