November 1989.
Birmingham, once the ‘City of 1000 trades’ is in crisis after two decades of widespread industrial decline. Because of this, the government announces the Working People’s Club programme: a centre combining teaching and practical learning to reskill the unemployed, and attract new interest and investment to the city.
Set in 1989, the WPC is an ungendered and inclusive space that reacts to the model of traditional Working Men’s Clubs, creating an architectural response to social and political issues that are still prevalent throughout Birmingham and the UK some 30 years later.
This Combined Thesis Report contains early design work in the Design Manifesto, an Environment and Technology Report, and a Management, Practice, and Law Report
