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Re-Collaging Dover

Part 2 Project 2022
Alice Hannah Richardson
 University of Brighton | UK
This project is an exploration of contemporary collage urbanism, situated in Dover, South East UK.

Fragments of history are here used to repair missing portions of Dover's western docks. The design proposes a revival of Dover's pier district via a series of new public spaces linking the pier to the rest of the town. Particular focus is placed on the public realm around Dover's former Marine Station, where a new urban space is imagined as a conversation between new and old elements.

The strategy for this change was developed through an initial collage, which suggested that the focus of the project should be on the spaces around, rather than within, the former station.

The core public space is formed by three new components; a mixed use building, a viewing tower and a paving design. The principle of multiple narratives runs throughout the scheme, with a view to facilitating the cohesion of temporal elements within the reading and re- readings of contemporary public space. Modes of collage-thinking, pluralism harnessed through the inclusion of multiplicities, and an idea of collective memory inform these spaces developed in parallel with a concurrent research paper.
Alice Hannah Richardson
Tutor(s)
David Knight
2022
The culmination of extensive historical mapping of Dover, UK. Notably the development of the western docks, which subsequently uncovered a pier district that once existed there. Comparable densities of historical urban evolution are illustrated here, betw
Initial collages. Left: illustrating the existing fragmentary reality of the docklands and the traces left of the lost district. Right: intuitively responding to the immediate spaces around the former Marine Station situated there, with a view towards rec
A comparison of the public-private relationships existing and proposed in the western docks.
Illustrated in this external view, are the three new components of the proposed public realm, in conversation with the existing historical fragments.
The roof plan of the proposed public realm, capturing the three new components; a mixed-use building, viewing tower and paving design.
The ground floor plan of the proposed public realm.
Longitudinal elevations of the proposed public realm.
Façade bay study of the new mixed-use building, within the proposed public realm.
View from within the heart of the proposed public realm.
View from across the water, looking towards the proposed public realm, in context.
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