Studio tutors: Amanda Spence, Rob Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
City Road in\nthe Roath area of Cardiff stretches from the old Royal Infirmary at its\njunction with City Road in the south, up to the five-way junction with Albany\nRoad, Mackintosh Place, Crwys Road and Richmond Road – known as Death Junction\n– to the north. The bustling street is one of the most diverse and\nmulticultural in Cardiff. It has a long and fascinating history, and has been\nconstantly in a state of evolution since its early days as a dirt track through\nfarmland marking the edge of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A youth centre\nwill enable a large group of people to share activities with each other and the\nwider community. In addition to providing a welcoming, secure and inspirational\nenvironment that extends beyond the walls of the building, students will be\nchallenged with considering factors such as education and life skills,\ncommercial sustainability and low \/ zero carbon construction and operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A community village focused on the multicultural Youth of\nPlasnewydd, Cardiff, a hub for social interaction and support. The scheme\nembodies social responsibility as a moral stance by bringing together a series\nof spaces advancing one’s self-understanding parallel to establishing relations\nwithin the community\u2014a bottom-up approach towards both community cohesion and\nsocial transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scheme manipulates scale and circulation to create a street typology focusing and orienting self-growth spaces – derived from individual cores, physical and mental health, towards social activities. Hence, Sports and physical activity, are tools of growth buried within thresholds of creation and self-learning. Each block, a hut isolated in its place, is a subtle layer of increased privacy and space relations, a hierarchy of importance, and protection of the cores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The centre sound and stable in its context -expressed\nthrough form and materials, reflect the necessary equipment needed in the\nunderstanding of oneself. A safe foundation to build conflict-free\ninteractions. From a dialogue with space to progressive conversations with\npeople. Reaction to the busy City Road is a vital balance – safety to promote\nprogression within a permeable, non-institutional facility – a “neighbourhood\nplayground.” with the potential to impact the internal working model of\nindividual community members\u2014an inherent affordance in validating and\nstrengthening members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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