All School Project A Case for Space The project focused on a 2011 report carried out by RIBA into the nature of the construction industry and its shortcomings which are often failing the most vulnerable groups in society. Building to minimum standards both spatially and materially is common place in the industry driven by stakeholder profit margins rather than the quality of provision.
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As government pressure forces more houses to be built for ever lower cost something has to give. The first is often the size of new houses, the canopy we built is the same size that is recommended for a new build single bed flat.
“The average one bedroom home from our sample of 1,159 homes across 41 sites is 46 sqm. It is 4 sqm short of the recommended minimum for a single storey, one bedroom home for two residents.� We aimed to raise awareness to ourselves, our fellow students and our peers the importance of building well proportioned and high quality housing in the face of government and commercial pressures.
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Pharmacogenomics Lab
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Site Plan
New Brighton has followed the path of the archetypal seaside town, huge success during the 20th century followed by a long and painful decline for some 30 years. The same story cane be seen in towns all along the British coastline. Marred by poor quality soulless developments aimed at rejuvenating the town into an out of town shopping centre the town has lost soul passion and most obviously fun. This scheme aims to rejuvenate the town by introducing fun as a key driver, igniting the whimsical nature of the British seaside town as a commercially viable hotel. One which offers much more than just a place to stay, its a place to play, eat drink and embrace the overtly British seaside. Heavily influenced by the work of British Photographer Martin Parr in the town during the 1980’s the scheme embraces the over saturated tones of his work and mixes them with cross program of a hotel and arcade, creating a vivid and archaic composition, an embodiment of a seaside experience.
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This scheme for a community medical centre in a deprived and largely forgotten city centre area focuses on the future role of the National Health Service. The NHS is one of Britain’s greatest assets, the envy of all nations world wide. Its role as a leader in domestic health care is under threat as privatisation becomes a very real possibility under the free market economics of the Conservative government. An independent reactionary decision is taken by branches of the NHS to support itself and prevent full privatisation. Labs are set up nationwide to exploit certain areas of expertise and skills within local communities. Liverpool with its strong history in research into vaccines and Pharmacology chooses to establish a clinic as the world first Pharmacogenomics Laboratory. The site is chosen due to its link via tunnel to the highly skilled University district of the city and its proximity to an underprivileged community in which the benefits of specialized medical care will be most legible. With large scale investment from the United States health insurance industry the centre is able to expand into the research of Sports Medicine. A high performance centre is located in the cutting of the tunnel to hide away from prying eyes of rival nations.
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Pharmacogenomics Laboratory