Mining & Minerals Authority Part 1 Project 2019 Christopher Jones London Metropolitan University | UK Crumlin is a small town in the Ebbw Vale Valley, Wales. Following the closure of the Navigation Colliery in 1967, the town has continued to diminish with reduced investment, limited employment opportunities and public services, conditions symptomatic to this and wider regions.The aim is to re-nourish this community, through the insertion of new public programmes into the existing colliery site which target local and national requirements for growth and local industry, set within the guise of a new Welsh “Mining & Minerals Authority”.The proposal provides significant shifts in scales to reflect changing programmes, spatial experience, the historic site approach, civic provision, landscape and integration into the site:- A single storey nursery on arrival (facilitator to employment)- Triple height spaces for larger scale programmes, utilising existing level changes, providing civic architecture relating to external public space- Double height workshops informed by past site infrastructure, materials and local industrial vernacular, adaptable spaces for training, making & selling. An architecture to evolve or devolve to suit local conditions.- An exhaust tower from a new biomass plant (housed in an existing structure), a beacon of change, a facilitator for development and form familiar in the local social consciousness. Tutor(s) Owain Williams