Masterplan development

The main focus of late has been getting the spatial arrangements correct and understanding the scale of the space that I am dealing with. Also, defining the space by way of programming and developing a meaningful sequence of events as one might experience when exploring the site as a whole.

One a number of sketches that aimed to develop connected features and destinations within the site.  Using piers (buildings as groynes), to connect the sea to the urban grid.

A quick sketch (above) that illustrating my thinking in terms of fragmenting the linear nature of the site. How is the urban grid and the urban experience translated into the beach experience.? In Australia for example - the urban and beach experiences are intertwined, becoming unified. The city is the beach and vice versa.

With this in mind, the fragmentation serves to bring the culture of the city to the beach and vice verse. The proposal must be under pinned with the inherent cultural diversity of Brighton life...

  
Upper promenade, originally curved, now borrows a graphic language from martial drifting around groynes. Subtle curves at this scale appear straight in reality. Furthermore, the site has to be edgey... that is the nature of Brighton.

More Tschumi-esque points. A quick drawing showing connected points. SUDs based water features on the land, anchor points in the sea for temporary structures. Graphically, the squares symbolise fragments of the urban grid.

Following a Liversedge consultation, starting to explore the lower promenade as a more truncated path. 

Making the 'land groynes' less regular.

Exploring connection points, imaging a reflected urban grid beneath the sea. Revealed at low tide? Illuminated at night to visually connect with the land. The lower prom or boardwalk needs to be further fragmented, otherwise the walk will be pretty boring. Imaging the lower prom raised above the man made sand dunes and vegetation.

Beginnings of a quick card model.

Model still need the land groynes and land form against the upper promenade. Imaging a trail of vegetation form marsh plants to dune grasses blending form west to east. To be explored as and a long section.