Chloe Tunnell
(hyper)local: Redefining Ocean Terminal
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Ground Floor Plan
Project description
(hyper)local: Redefining Ocean Terminal looks to address, within a smaller context, the issues surrounding building demolition and how we, as architects, have a duty to re-use wherever we can. By rejecting a ‘tabula rasa’, or ‘blank slate’, we can come to understand and engage with material value and the opportunities that can arise within a set of existing conditions.
tabula rasa (n.) : an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
Keying in_A Mix Use Community Hub
Derived from a series of current conditions observed at Ocean Terminal in Leith, this project aims to present an option against the partial demolition of a third of the building. Furthermore, it provides an alternative occupation of the site to the proposed mix-use housing development by the Ambassador Group, due to start on site in the next few years.
Aims & User
Aiming to reconnect with the community, the design centers around the users of the WeeHub, a ‘meanwhile’ collection of multiple community groups, facilitated by the ‘Wee Museum of Memory’, a charity based in Ocean Terminal. The charity provides a vast range of activities and opportunities within the disused Debenhams store. The project also aims to engage with Leith’s rich hyperlocal history as a port and shipbuilding area through material re-use and retention, re-creation, and a connection through to the waterfront.
Ocean Terminal
Hyperlocal?
This project engages specifically with the notion of the hyperlocal. Not only can this apply to society and community, but also to building materials and their lifecycles. In striving for an ultimately local approach to our given site, Ocean Terminal, I aim to benefit both the community of Leith (and by extension, Edinburgh) and present an argument for the re-use of perfectly habitable structures through a mix-use community hub.
hyperlocal (adj.) : relating to or focusing on matters concerning a small community or geographical area.
community (n.) : a group of people living together and practising common ownership. // a particular area or place considered together with its inhabitants.
Stages 1 & 2
The hyperlocal thread begins with a study into the reclamation yards in Glasgow and a site survey at Ocean Terminal. Community values and a coming together of multiple strands of people were identified as important at this stage, feeding into the mix-use community hub development.
Catalogue Casting
A Collection of Catalogues
Reclamation Yard Catalogue Table
Material States of Repair Study
Catalogue Casting
Catalogue Casting
Stage 3
The catalogues were supplemented with contextual studies into Leith, both historic and modern. This delves further into the hyperlocal history of Leith which includes shipbuilding, roperies, fishing and whaling, in contrast to the rapid development Leith is experiencing today.
Leith & Site Historic Context
Leith and Site Modern Context
1:200 Model
1:200 Model
Programme and User Development
Initial Developing
Ramp Figuring
Stages 4 & 5
Alongside developing forms through hempcrete to deal with problems with thermal bridging, the project also utilises existing material flows through deconstruction. This is seen through an almost prototypical ramp system using deconstructed pre-cast hollow core concrete slabs, and re-hung cladding facade partitions.
Detail Development
Ground Floor Plan
Long Section
First Floor Plan
1:50 Section
Hempcrete Material Development
Chloe Tunnell
(hyper)local: Redefining Ocean Terminal
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