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

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Inhabitation of Ramsgate 's Coastal Barrier



The purpose of this investigation was to discover how the coastal sea defences of Ramsgate are inhabitied and used in a secondary way to their original purpose of inhibiting coastal erosion. The chosen area to analyse is shown above starting at one end of the sea wall through the port, marina and all the way to other end of sea wall.

Two photogaphic surveys were done. The first on Monday the 8th November, from 14:00 - 16:00 hours. The second on Saturday the 13th November, from 10:00 - 12:00 hours. 46 positions were chosen, each 100 paces apart and can be seen below marked by a camera symbol. Photographs were taken looking both East and West along the line of the sea walls.

Findings suggest a denser inhabitation to the East of Ramsgate. The port and sea wall to the west appear to suffer from a distance from the town centre.
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