Design Brief

Grays Riverside Park has been part of Grays since 1906. The park featured a refreshment building, a man-made lake and chairs available for hire which is now known for its Green space with a sand pit play area offering equipment for many abilities, an open field & a cafe. In recent years, the park has been neglected and run down with not many people taking care of the café or surrounding areas of the park. This year the sandpit got renovated with new equipment bringing people in however there is no main entrance , shop, or functioning café nearby as this is what the area lacks. With lots of homes and flat nearby in South Grays there are no shops so for people coming into the park they need walk around 20min to the nearest shop in the town centre. The front of the park can be redeveloped including a main entrance with a new shop for locals as well as clients walking into the park which can be accompanied by a café building making a multi-functional building. I would be working with my client of the Thurrock Council to redevelop this space and make it more accessible to the community and bring everyone together in a small that would be able to use by all ages. They are trying to bring many people out of their homes and reuse their communal areas and bring them back to life after lockdown where many people were stuck at home and forgot about these space which used to be full of joy and activities .

By taking the theme of Juxtaposition and Contrast as my main theme I would add interest into the area and make it not only functional but interesting building.