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

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Health and the Coast





East Kent is home to various sized hospitals that cater for specific services.

The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate was chosen for closer analysis. Over the years it has evolved into an ad-hoc configuration due to new buildings being added over time.

The extracted route of the hospital illustrates the atmospherical and ephemeral moments of this hospital sometimes detached from the outside world.

Margate was home to the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary and a reminder of this old hospital is a ward named 'Sea Bathing Ward'. However this ward deals with emergency orthopaedics.

Whilst in Margate it can be said that the old notion of the seaside being beneficial for your health has been lost where there are little traces left of the facilities connected with the health-giving properties of the coast.
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