the future. The project plays on the language of the Victorian vernacular and adapts to different seasons and cycles; processing spaces are temporarily repurposed as retreat accommodation and the building responds to the fluctuations of ebb and flow.
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Fig. 6.6 Yiren (Aviva) Wang Y3, ‘Twilight of Life Centre’. A community centre for the Active Third Age in Gravesend functions to preserve oral history and to act as an active archive for the town. Set into existing factories and shipyards of Gravesend, this building forms a physical and social reservoir of memories of Gravesend’s prosperous past. Fig. 6.7 – 6.8 Laszlo von Dohnanyi Y2, ‘Observatory’. Sited in one of the least light-polluted locations in the UK, the hands-on teaching astronomical observatory provides research and education facilities. It allows visitors to retreat into the ground and connect back to the night sky, acting as a celestial retreat for stargazers. Fig. 6.9 – 6.12 George Courtauld Y3, ‘Managed Retreat’. An oyster farm and processing plant to respond to protein shortages and alternative food sources in
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