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ARCHITECTURE
''ON MARGATE SANDS''
A proposal for a new educational facility for the National Centre of Circus Arts. The scheme also incorporates an 880 seat theatre and a wellbeing centre sited upon recycled marine structures. The project draws inspiration from T.S.Eliot’s famous poem ‘The Waste Land’, and aims to provide physical and mental wellbeing solutions for both the minority and the majority.
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Through the creation of a circulation loop, the project draws people out to ocean and gives them a place to heal and re-establish order and connectivity in their lives. It also allows the site to be converted back to the original Margate Coastal Park further restoring the popular green space along the 6 mile promenade. The Marine structures on which the project sits are imported from decommissioned Oil Rigs in the EcoFisk Oil Field in the North Sea.