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People's Palace

Part 2 Project 2007
Simon Kay-Jones
 Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK
The Peoples Palace, the Heart of a Community

The Dichotomy between the civic role of cities and the servicing of inhabitants is played out in the forming of two polemic sides to the Palace of the People.
1, the White palace, Sacred, permanent and spiritual.
2, the Red Palace. temporary and without morality.

This together with a ‘public power station’ for the future of ‘Green Manchester’ to clean the air, heat the water & generate electricity. Establishes four themes that are explored,
The Tower (The Beacon)
The White Palace (The Sacred).
The Red Palace (The Infrastructure)
The Greenhouse (The Feeding).



This project synthesises a number of current issues in a truly innovative way.

At the district scale, a much-maligned river is brought back into daily use, productive landscapes of food and fuel replace those of asphalt and 'beauty', while the idea 'Peoples' Palace' is re-interpreted, creating a series of internal and external event spaces that suggest that public life is not as yet extinct.

The 'campanile' in the public square absorbs carbon dioxide and re-directs it to the greenhouses.

This kind of city goes well beyond the banality of 'green', and projects that 'carbon neutral' does not go far enough.
2007
The peoples palace in context
The 3 main challenges addressed by the project ecology, identity and growth.
The issues involved and the antidote proposed
The solution to the issues involved
The System diagram to the peoples palace
The Strategy proposed for the first carbon negative (carbon plus) city
The territories involved for the first peoples Palace located in the strategic development of manchester
The urban vision to the masterplan tying the concept to the site and redefining a forgotten river
The seven key themes to the masterplan
The seven key themes to the masterplan integrated within the site
The conceptual image that establishes the Peoples Palace's architectural heritage
The transformations of the section to address formal and informal architectural issues
The schematic plan to the peoples palace and the four themes identified
The key plan that interlinks the soft and hard piazza spaces within the building itself
The Main space to the peoples palace where the sacred and profane meet
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