re-instate

Hamburg & Birkenhead

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This website, associated to our Public Exhibition in January 2016, celebrates the work of our 2015 Master of Architecture Urban Design studio. This year we have studied two comparable urban places, one local, one European. With the Liverpool City Region Devolution Agreement recently completed we have undertaken a study of Hamburg, a true city-state. There we looked specifically at edge-of-centre urban conditions and locally we have found similar issues in Birkenhead, as we considered that town’s relationship to Liverpool, the Wirral and the City Region. We hope the projects presented here encourage discussion about the future of our region.

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[Inter] Cultivation Community

Date: January 21, 2016

2016Author: urbanprojections

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Project by,

Adnan Amir Izzat

Kevin Hiew

Nur Amiera

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North Birkenhead lacks open places to break out into, as the urban fabric is condensed with industrial and private buildings. The proposal is to introduce anchor points spread across the town in order to inject new life into Birkenhead with spaces where economic exchange as well as social encounter occur.
At each of these three anchor points a programme of uses related to developing a local food economy has been proposed. These uses include reseach, storage, market exchange and education facilities. The anchors are linked by the existing gridded street pattern and by the proposal to activate the abandoned railway as a farming link and new public pathway.