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Metaphase
My final year spatial design project for Central Saint Martins Arts Design and Environment course 2010.Metaphase - a regeneration project surrounding the Duddeston viaduct in Digbeth just off Heath Mill Lane. The proposal was to regenerate the area by demolishing the sites bisected by the viaduct to build upon its form and presence as a key and unique feature. Metaphase - a stage of cell division responsible for DNA alignment was used as a metaphor through out the project for healing and regeneration. The philosophical approach was that the industrial area no longer allowed for the development of a post industrial society and that for real flexibility a regeneration has to be itself flexible to allow for suture developments and factors of change or contextual change. It proposed a public space next to the St Basils church (which would become an arts gallery to build upon the existing arts community).The public space would be punctured by a grid system of small foundations to allow 'plug in' features such as benches lights and walls to be used to transform the space. The grid system would follow the footprints of buildings that have been demolished since 1918 as a means to further emphasize the past and the history of the area.A telescopic cafe uses an arch of the viaduct to protrude into the public space, this can be detached from the viaduct and used as a pavilion within the flexible public square. The rest of the site will be developed to facilitate growth in the arts community through a set of parameters encouraging flexible flat pack construction techniques. It would be stages to allow for changes in the urban context.
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