DEPTFORD VOICE CENTRE

The exterior space of the Deptford Voice Centre has an important role within the larger programme of the project, acting both as a magnet and gateway to potential visitors to the centre. The main body of the building is raised, allowing transition under its canopy from the high street to the greenery of the Albany park. This also allows people to dwell in the informal, semi-public space created below, offering a meeting point to a couple, or shelter to a commuter in the rain. Within the strategy to engage with people of the community, the centre uses its public realm as a front line, as the initial tool gaining the respect and admiration of its day-to-day users.

INTERACTION

The special feature of the Deptford Voice Centre is perhaps its lack of any one specialised space. With a broad range of users and an exciting, ever-changing brief, the spaces within the centre have to work hard to be ultra flexible to meet the needs of the people who use it. The image above shows a lecture being held in the assembly hall, where only the walls and columns are permanently fixed, and the stage, furniture and lighting can all be quickly altered to suit the needs of the users within the space. Such an attitude allows the same room to be used as a quite reading zone, an area for discussion and a place for public conference all within the same day.

MATERIAL

The material composition of the Deptford Voice Centre was developed with a desire for the people and activities of within the building to take centre stage, above a bold and imposing interior palette. An honesty when finishing surfaces, leaving cement render rough, and exposing the piping throughout the building, helps to scale the project, keeping the large spaces human and familiar. Internally things are kept light and airy, forming a welcoming backdrop to the colour from the people and artefacts of the Deptford Voice Project.

Trading Part 2

The second part to the trading of my product was he distribution of a set of instruction of how to make the LoveTrap device. The page above has been included in the next edition of the OBscene newspaper, and will be freely available at the beginning of February.

TRADING PT1

The first part of my trading process required me to obtain the design rights to the LoveTrap device. Next will be their distribution, failing to find a buyer at London fashion College, I now propose to freely distribute the instruction to make the device in the university paper... Part 2 coming soon.

MANIFESTO

Architecture is invention. Good inventors will find the solution in the problem.