"We raise people's design ambitions, and enable them to answer questions like 'what does this design say about me?'"
Tidworth Community Resource Centre
Client and Partners: Tidworth Development Trust; Local Strategic Partnership; Tidworth Community Area Partnership
Size: 0.75 hectares site area; 2,500 sqm new floorspace
Current Stage: Outline Planning permission granted August 2007
Cost: Estimated £7M
The development is like a small piece of town rather than a building.
The view from St Andrew’s Road up into the courtyard and through the development to the east side of Tidworth reinforces an important pedestrian route across the town. Another route, connects the family houses in the north with Tidworth’s main shopping street to the south. A new tower on Pennings Road Road, refers to Tidworth’s square turreted church tower to the West of the site, and creates an orienting landmark for people living in Tidworth as well as passers by.
The way the development mediates between the main road, the pedestrian connections across the site, and the domestic surroundings to the North and East, establishes a topographic conception which organises the whole project.
above: aerial view of the computer game model showing the whole site
above: eye level view from Pennings Road