Riverside Workshop, Chatham
Brief: to redesign one of Chatham Dockyards buildings to benefit the local community, with a production process integrated into the design.
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My proposal of the Riverside Workshop reconnects the local community to the local environment, bridging the gap between the town and the River Medway through a community education centre and Plastic Furniture Workshop. Combining recycling and biophilic ideals within an Adaptive Reuse space.
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SITE ANALYSIS
1.0 - Location Mapping of Chatham Dockyards and its surrounding areas. Maps show Transport, Green Spaces and Building Use.
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2.0 - Chatham Dockyards Timeline, to understand the history behind the site.
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3.0 - Site plans at 1:100, showing the Workshop Armoury and Cafe.
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4.0 - Atmospheric Collage of the Cafe in day and night, to show materiality, experience and lighting changes.
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5.0 - Interior view collage of the Workshop Armoury, and materiality board to understand the existing materials in the site.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
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6.0 - Synthesis Model 1.0 - a conceptual collage playing with precedents, existing structure and initial ideas for the overall concept connecting to the river.
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7.0 - Synthesis 2.0 - Refining the first synthesis model, but focusing more on the existing surroundings and realistic scales.
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8.0 - Synthesis 3.0 - finalising exterior design ideas, materials, and general shape of the adapted site.
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9.0 - Understanding the production processes of turning plastic waste into furniture, and turning plants into dyes and paints. Considering how they could intersect.
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10.0 - Modelling the production space in 3D, looking at the scale of equipment and the circulation of the chosen space.
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11.0 - A1 concept collage and materiality, showing refined ideas of the interior. Focused on adding levels and light to the original site, and repurposing existing materials into terrazzo to minimise waste and visually relate to the speckled plastic sheets made through the production.
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12.0 - Axonometric programme and isometric diagram to show how the building will be physically changed, as well as the inner use of the spaces.
REFINEMENT AND FINALISATIONS
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13.0 - Plans at 1:100, showing the finalised interior of the site. Production spaces on the ground floor, workshop on the second and the community garden on the top floor.
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14.0 - sections of the site at 1:100 to show the complexity of the interior, and the relationships between the floors.
15.0 - Exploded Axonometric of the sites interior, rendered to show the materiality and relationship between the spaces.
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16.0 - Interior views of the site, to fully understand the space and see additional details such as light and shadow, planting and more.
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17.0 - Focus area 1, the workshop. Shown in Exploded Axonometric, zoomed in and as an interior view to understand its materiality, structure and dynamics.
