Blackpool has many faces but the underlying culture of drugs has run through the course of its time line. Poverty increasing and the drug use becoming a predominant problem means that the architecture becomes a responsive reaction to the area. Often represented by the nostalgia of monuments Blackpool has been miss-represented as a family friendly place. By creating an “anti monument� to represent the underlying criminal cultures present the city can project new alternative views and representations. By creating a heroin factory It purifies the drug use and creates a to street drugs and provides an
safer alternative
manipulate perspective to the culture.
Monuments and anti-monuments
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Carved print shows the imprint the monuments leave behind and the negative space left behind.
Poster made to show the idea of innuendo that covered the taboo pleasures of Blackpool.
Final model series show the networks that were always present beneath Blackpool a representation of an alternative Blackpool.
The root of the crime networks
Monuments
Monuments of the site show the Blackpool tower and the pier. Tourists visit these attractions but don’t visit inland
Site view
Drug crime
Blackpool strip
Drug crime rates increase in the back streets and alleyways.
Bars and clubs
Car park between b&b’s the
hub of prostitution and drugs.
Bars clubs represent the pleasures of the beach. This brings in people temporarily.
Material study of the site
Current heroin trade
Proposed heroin trade High drug use
One of the largest underground cultures in Blackpool are drugs. Of that heroin remains the most life effecting
Legalized zone Blackpool can regain its trade and By becoming a economy.
Current trade route. Often made in different places the heroin is impure and dangerous
Low drug use
5th year
Legal
10th year illegal
Legal and purified 20th year
Past
Present
Possible future
Suggested future
Legal but impure and unregulated
Illegal and hard to control
Small operations are illegal and hard to
Legalized and regulated
Hierarchy and form
Business
Pleasure perspective
imagined Heroin factory, broken by the routes of each character.
Processing Heroin
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1 : The opium poppy is grown and harvested. 2 : The poppies are washed and ground into a paste or resin. 3 : the paste is boiled with slake lime to produce calcium morphate and filtered into a coffie like powder. 4: the powder is mixed with sulphuric acid to make mophene hydroxide. this is then heated in a steel pot for 5 hours at 85%. Water is added and this makes diaetymorphene (heroin chloride). finally filtered with chloraphorm to purify. 5: sodium carbonate is added slowly and filtered through a fine cloth and heated. it becomes a white powder. 6 : the powder is mixed with ethol alcohol and heated to remove sodium, it is then filtered in an ice bath to create a cream. this cream is evaporated to make a cystalised heroin base. 7 : There is 700g of heroin base to 1kg of morphene. the heroin base is mixed with ethyl alchohol and is mixed to make a hydrocloric salt. half the ether is added and the remaining is added to make a cyrstaline powder. 8 : the cytals areleft to dry on wooden bowls and crushed to a fine white powder. the powder is then packed and shiped.
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volumetric development
heroin production
tourism
disconected public
Herion Factory plans 1:100 ground floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 first floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 second floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 third floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 forth floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 fifth floor
Herion Factory plans 1:100 sixth floor
Axonometric section 1:100
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1 - Growing platforms 2 - Harvesting 3 - Learning centre 4 - Cable entrance 5 - User rooms 6 - Herion Proccessing 7 - Distribution and packing 8 - Reception 9 - Drying room 10 - User exit