21st Century Town Centre

Name
Jack Perry
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Program
Urbanism & Societal Change
Year
2017

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Context

Skelmersdale, a deprived New-Town in the North-West of England.

Aim

The project is a transformation of a struggling Shopping Mall into a Town Centre, the building is reshaped and reorganised into a democratic space of many programs in which shopping no longer has a monopoly on civic activity. The project is financially designed so that the town’s community can organise to revitalise their own town, instead of a developer-led project, to create a Town Centre for themselves rather than a Shopping Mall for profit.

Design

The design focuses upon the roofscape becoming the public space to escape the current internalisation and securitisation of the mall. New programs of a train station, a town hall and housing are added to create a balanced programmatic mix. Finally, the large roofscape is designed to have little hierarchy to avoid prioritising a certain activity or type of people in an aim for this to be a space for everyone of the town to be able to enjoy.

 

Difficulties with developing. Existing shopping mall, current proposed shopping mall. Ideologies and weird phrases
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Approach from train towards town hall
Approach from main pedestrian route
View from balcony of northern flat block
View inside the retail valley
Looking at the cafes and restaurants with youth housing above
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The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)