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The Lost Dockyard

Part 1 Project 2015
Andrew Chard
 Oxford Brookes University Oxford | UK
The Piraeus Port of Greece still remains the largest passenger port in Europe, with close to 18 million passengers a year. But with the rapid degeneration of the ports industrial sector and passenger figures dropping for the second year running, Piraeus has quickly turned into a derelict shell of its former self.

The lost dockyard aims to halt this negative cycle and rejuvenate the industrial nature of the port whilst also providing passengers with a reason to stay. Nested within the existing dry docks will be a place where the lost boats of Ancient Greece, once a symbol of their power, will be revived and displayed in their natural kinetic environment, far from the sterile familiarity of other museums.

These boats will be researched and reformed within the buildings workshop while teaching forgotten lessons of construction to the public, when completed the boats are released into the water to travel around the archipelagos of Athens, bringing additional tourism to Piraeus. After their journeys the boats move inside the buildings experiential museum where passengers can eat, drink and relax, while experiencing the destructive weathering of the wind and rain, completing the expedition of these lost, temporarily re-born boats.

Andrew Chard
Tutor(s)
2015
The site of the project is Piraeus, Athens. A once great passenger port with a great industrial hub has now fallen into a derelict space.
The building sits within the sites existing dry docks and aims to give passengers of the port a reason to stay, while also rejuvenating the lost industrial sector.
The buildings programmes are split into the two docks. The largest dock contains the museum which house the boats constructed in the smaller dock.
Renders showing the public entrance and the public workshop, which sits above the private workshop, offering views below.
Diagrams and renders showing the construction and release process that each boat goes through. After this the boats travel around the archipelagos of Athens, creating tourism for the port
The boats finally return to the experiential museum, where they are displayed in their natural environment, showing how these boats wheather and perform.
The roof of the museum is designed to allow wind to travel through the space, which allows the interior to become a kinetic space, unlike other sterile museums.
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