BA Year 3 Semester 2: Comprehensive Design Project

The Northern Power House (TNP) brief was a proposal to design a Northern Assembely to host political events and debates in the North of England. With aims to diminish the ever growing power of the South of England, giving a outlet and opportunity for the constituencies of the North to be represented correctly.

The thesis of the project was to born from research of the evergrowing North/South devide leading from Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation policy. The thematic approach taken for this project was to re-unite the North and South of England, knitting them together in unity. This is represented within the design of the plan, deriving from concepts forms of unification.

Another core theme was for the building to welcome and connect with the public. A shift from the normality of the high walled houses of parliment of the South, ‘TNP’ achieves public transparencey through the glazed facades and public gallery. Alowing those of the public who wish to be heard a chance to effect the decesions being made within, also those within to see the world they are aiming to improve.