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The Mix

• Stowmarket, United Kingdom

  The Sorrell Foundation commissioned the practice to work with local 14-19 year olds to generate a concept design for a £3m Youth Club.

  From a hesitant start the client team flourished developing their brief to include sports hall, dance studios, music practice rooms, art studios, counselling units, and temporary housing and concluded the process with a 45 minute presentation to the Council Board Members responsible for the project.

• Architecturally the scheme integrates a range of roof shapes and building types that evoke Stowmarket's heritage as an important agricultural market town and that break down the facility to a more appropriate scale.

• These proposed facilities are allocated into four buildings that come together to define a covered piazza. This large space acts as the key social engine of the Centre bringing people together and and expressing the open minded ethic developed by the client team.

• The site has the potential to form a gateway to the high street and we proposed a meeting Hall above a diner to act as the welcome and signal of the large facility beyond.

  In the words of the client team the building represented the first phase of the regeneration of Stowmarket’s high street.

  The process proved the  power of enabling young people to determine their own future.

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