12- Zoning Alney Island

 

In the original Alney Island design, I was hesitant to change much about the site and focus on the area closer to the city. Have the connection from the city to the countryside being gradient. Adding in the things the brief required; more parking, holiday lets, an extra bridge, a building for leisure use and a nature reserve/ educational centre. 

The feedback was I hadn't read through the brief properly, I needed to change the south of the site more and it was lacking tourist attention through lack of character which I agree. I thought more about the design aspect rather than box-ticking the requirements, looking at circulation and shapes within the site and thinking about how the height, vegetation and intentions of the site would interact. I decided to split the site into 3 areas, leisure, activity and education; weaving these areas into one another so there would be overlap but also to attract people further into the site or have to navigate certain parts of the site to use the area they wanted.

I also wanted to refocus my concept, originally I was following the concept of climate change, which has been done many times and I wanted some more positive aspects to be at the forefront rather than just doom and gloom. So I decided on 'Winds of Change', inspired by the openness of the site feeling windy and the ships that once followed the river into the docks by wind and the relevance of change needed on site but also in the minds of people.