Climate Action Assembly Part 1 Project 2024 Adam Charity Sheffield Hallam University | UK Located in Leith, Edinburgh, the Climate Action Assembly Centre is a complex of internal and external assembly and debate spaces, offering differing levels of formality to provide a place for civic and public gathering, participation, self-governance and administration. The design comprises of a set of strategically placed debating chamber funnels to provide visible, civic landmarks that aim to invite, rather than impose, public participation. These formal principal debate spaces are of a democratic circular organisation and are offset and combined with a more informal central public amphitheatre for gathering, debate and protest. Through careful consideration of the wider urban landscape, the design integrates and synthesises with the site’s surrounding environment to provide an assured piece of urban placemaking along Leith’s historic waterfront that balances the civic with the everyday.With a particular focus on the climate action agenda, sustainable strategies and passive systems are at the forefront of the design and are integrated throughout from the scale of the site where the landscape is designed to regulate the local microclimate, to the internal spaces which include the use of solar chimneys to naturally ventilate the debating chambers whilst maintaining acoustic qualities. Tutor(s) Steve Helmore