TORPEDO PEOPLE'S PARLIAMENT

The front elevation of the proposal and the entrance to the centre is designed as a imitation to the original Torpedo Building. 

By emulating the original and symbolic form of the site and duplicating it twice to form an extended façade that reads "Torpedo People's Parliament" both the public and the users of the centre are provided with a dominating message of the building's intent.

Instead of recreating the façade with brick, the form is imitated as a cast metal object. The form is copied in depth, to the fine details of the windows and the individual brick themselves.

This metal false façade is broken up visually with windows that are cut out in 'random' places which follow the flow and movement of the circulation inside the building.

The long section of the building firstly represents the sheer scale of the project. The proposal is warehouse-like in its boxy form in section, however broken up visually by the dominating inhabitation that the building demands from its users.

In order to accommodate spaces for Media & PR, Creative Art, Protest Rehearsal and Post-Action Regeneration, a collection and arrangement of shipping containers provide necessary space for protest organisations to carry out their action successfully. 

This collection of container spaces also accommodates bathrooms, a canteen and also storage containers accessed by a gantry crane suspended above.

This visual represents the constructional sequence of the building, and how it is constructed in steps that are designed to take place quickly, so as to provide spaces for protest action as soon as possible.

The construction of the building relies also on the demolition of the site, as numerous components of the proposal are manufactured from materials from the demolished site of the Torpedo Factory and neighbouring buildings.  

The short section of the proposal highlights all of the major spaces of the proposal. Here, the container spaces can be seen inside, representing the inhabitation and usages.

The People's Parliament is the centre-point of the image, as it sits suspended from the ceiling to create a dominating and focused structure within the space.

One the main aspects of the proposal is the floor, which acts as a stage, where it can re-create real-world environments via hydraulic plates which are regressed into the basement below the building.

This functionality allows for protest rehearsal at the highest level of detail, where organisations can prepare for action exactly where they will soon carry it out. 

Here is Trafalgar Square.

These images come from the research of the project when this space was being designed in theory. 

They represent the site plan of the old Torpedo Factory and the neighbouring buildings and how they compare to some of London's most popular places for protesting. 

They provided information with how big the hydraulic stage floor must be in order to provide appropriate space to rehearse protests. 

When approaching the building from the corner, a rather different perspective  greets you. Aswell as the dominating front that reads Torpoedo People's Parliament, the side of the building presents itself as a tiled mix of information. 

These tiles are 2mx2m sections of brick walls from the existing site. As shown before, the project re-uses a lot of materials from the existing demolished site.

These diagrams represent how these brick tiles are taken from the existing site and reused within the proposal. 

The main reason for this is to ensure that the proposal is designed and constructed with the smallest impact on the environment, to the approval of the users of the building.

The brief discussed one of the main spaces being designed for Post-Action Regeneration. Regeneration is a part of protest that takes place post-action in which activists take reflect on the journey of their intent, as well as themselves. 

Regeneration can occur in many forms, but one major way is by enjoying nature and the positive aspects of the environment. A roof garden accommodates this.

In order to explore the whole building, the circulation relies on a ramp which wraps around the internal spaces. The ramp acts as the final space, the Educational Museum. The entire ramp encompasses a journey through protesting, teaching visitors about the processes of protest and its symbolism and importance in society.