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Civic Campus (Narrative of Type-Formation)

Part 2 Project 2020
Pavitraj Bharaj
University of Huddersfield | UK
A Civic Campus where information-generation and exchange are open-access is proposed in response to the challenges of future flooding posed to Hull. This project is informed not only by a relationship with Hull’s past but also by introducing and dispersing water canal systems together with submerged data servers to produce a commons of data and education.

This masterplan for Hull offers a visionary treatment of the flooding by absorbing the water into productive processes for generating energy and as cooling systems and as a tool to stitch together Hull’s disjointed fabric. Among other sites it targets Queen’s Gardens, a reclaimed dock which was the heart of Hull’s historical economy. The proposal re-imagines the dock as a flexible urban space of open learning within a civic setting. The Campus inhabits and shapes a commons of data, knowledge- sharing and skill-building in publicly accessible pavilions and flexible building spaces which also extends the existing Guild Hall forging a more immediate relationship to the Campus.

The structures draw on urban types historically generated within Hull to respond to challenges of managing its water-based economy. This vision also forms innovative types to forge a new urban connectivity and a new way of living with water.

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