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Newcastle Community Youth Outreach
Flora Ma
This project responds to contemporary trends in restorative justice by engaging marginalised youth with social community interaction to destigmatise and prevent recidivism of youth crime. In addition, these initiatives are paralleled as facilities for public amenity to further act as catalysts for urban change in Newcastle. The project strives to encompass a new city centre, an alternative path to justice and a sense of ‘place’ to explore by providing a one stop shop community centre to rehabilitate and divert youth crime. Key spaces include a community sports facility, a young offender run bicycle workshop and a series of
consultation and conferencing spaces for the informal resolution of low to medium severity community crimes. Furthermore, in response to the historic significance of the site, the proposal seeks to reestablish and re-activate Burwood Street as a key pedestrian link to the city, treating it as an important street frontage. Restorative ‘place’ setting is established by the reveal of spaces through movement and sequencing, where internal connections and views to identifiable city landmarks are used to create a dual sense of removal and connection, whilst also providing opportunity for incidental social interaction.
Email fma089@gmail.com Phone 0405 337 547 A
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