COOP COAST is a design & research unit within the graduate diploma school of CSA*. Over the course of the academic year 2010/11 the studio is investigating the political, socioeconomic and spatial realities of coastal towns, both in Kent and across the English Channel. Oscillating between macro and micro scales, between urban and rural, temporal and typological conditions, the studio embraces strategic and activist design practices alike; and will explore the potential for cooperative action within the realms of regional design, programmatic urbanism and performative architecture.

Studio: Pauline Harris, Alasdair McNab, Joao Neves, Sarjay Patel, Benjamin Reay, Sara Resende, Migle Saltynite, Richard Saunders, Rhea Shepherd, Lawrence Sherwood, Hannah Wyatt & Gabor Stark

* Canterbury School of Architecture | University for the Creative Arts. www.cantarch.com

Sunday, 12 December 2010

Dover Territorial Analysis





The borders and controllers of territories within dover harbour highlighted a series of boundaries that often resulted in blunt divides. These Divides were investigated through section and with photography to reveal their scale and materiality, can a port ever truly engage with other programmes or the public realm, or are the strict drawn territory lines paramount to its functioning and security?

The main port of dover or fortress of dover was photographed at night in a attempt to reveal its true nature, this being a regulated platform of intense movement.

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