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Weathering Armatures: New Tidal Leisurescapes
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Weathering Armatures: New Tidal Leisurescapes
Blackpool, a former bathing town that became an urban laboratory for leisure and pleasure during the Victorian saltwater cure craze, is currently failing to take advantage of the ocean as a resource for tourism. In order for Blackpool to counter its decline in tourism, a shift away from simulated environments and a return to a practice of progressive architectural intervention that takes advantage of local opportunities is necessary. This project rejects the increasing ?universal sameness? of leisure urbanisms by employing strategies that optimize local climatic and tidal phenomena. This strategy results in an intervention that blurs the land-water interface andmanipulates environmental factors to activate new leisure based environments. This project is a direct response to urban and contextual factors and is manifested through a 750 meter armature that weaves in and out of the tides creating varying temperature and sensory environments. No longer does Blackpool have to rely on the razzle-dazzle of illumination and simulation as this armature turns weather into the spectacle. It does not shy away from Blackpool?s climatic defi ciency, rather on the contrary it attempts to make experiencing inclement weather comfortable, appealing, and even exciting. This is done by using tidal power to heat the new in-land baths, creating pockets of year-round warm bathing and ambient heat within the urban fabric. This refocusing towards the sea is a contextual argument (one that is based on historical, geographic, urban and climatic contexts) for the creation of new, unique attractions that have deeply rooted relationships between architectural intervention and place. This should be viewed as an antireferentialargument, one that is more about the evolution of urban identity through progressive design, rather than the simulation of more ?successful? urbanisms.
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