The theme of the unit has been heavily centered around the seemingly contradictory…
Unit 02: The Frontier Town
TUTORS: JAMES ALDER AND THOM BRISCO
Invited Guests: Carlos Sanchez, Hafsteinn Ævar Jóhannsson and Nielsine Otto
This unit explores the theme of civic life in the seaside setting of Margate, as we look to develop civic proposals which are rooted in local topographies, building cultures, and latent rhythms of life.
Coastal towns have until recently operated within a policy background of managed decline. Combine this with vast areas of cheaply rented and derelict property, and the result is a form of ‘coastal appeal’ to inland local authorities, who have then tended to place the most vulnerable into these areas. The result is a concentration of transient communities, who through no fault of their own, further exacerbate the underling structural problems to which their distant political policymakers were originally attracted.
Tragedy sits uncomfortably next to the faded lights of the waltzer. It is this discomfort in plain sight that makes the coastal town a remarkable distillation of Britain’s ills. The interventions of the unit are situated in discomfort, lying on the contradictory border between Cliftonville and the publicly lauded regeneration of Margate’s Old Town.
The frontier nature of the coastal town is a fertile, turbulent territory, within which our civic architectural interventions critically respond.
LYDIA NEWMAN
CAMEO Cinematic Seaside School and Archive Location: Dalby Square in Cliftonville, A coastal…
KAMIL KOWALSKI
The site for this year’s work has been Margate – city of a…
ANDREA BEZNITCHI
Margate Studio & Storage Facilities and Auction House The sense of degradation that…
MARIA – LUIZA FURTUNA
Margate Film Production Studio and Cinematographers’ Institute Standing as the utmost representation of…
PHOEBE HARRIS
Inter-generational Education There is a clear need in Margate to assist the generations…
AIDANA ROBERTS
Cliftonville Welcome Center The ambition of the brief is the reintegration into society…
MARTA DE LA MORENA PAPIANI
The Bath House Located in an impoverished area of Margate, Cliftonville, and known…
KYE LI CHIA
The Sanctuary Ethelbert Terrace, Margate, Kent “The more healthy relationships a child has,…
IRINA-ALEXANDRA GHERMAN
Multistage Performance Space and Set Design Workshops Location: Dalby Road, Cliftonville, Margate, UK…
ROWAN LUCKMAN
The People’s Almonry
BOGOMILA SEMERDZHIEVA
Seaing and Healing Location: The Lido, Cliftonville, Margate, UK General description: General healthcare…
CHELSEA WONG
Creating Connections The project is based on a combination of various threads pertaining…