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Connection to Harringay Warehouse District

The spirit & ethos that binds the Warehouse community together is what we find fascinating about this district. It is a shared ambition to learn, teach, make, share, and be a part of a collective of like minded people. Our ambition is to create a space that connects with these values where people can come together and be creative. We want to create a space that can also act as a platform for the wider community to participate and be part of the journey and story of this district allowing the warehouse community to connect with more people.

Proposal Outline

We believe this pavilion could be a new landmark for the area. It could attract and inspire people to come and visit and learn about this District through its open events.This pavilion could be a bridging-space between the warehouse community and the wider community. it could form a platform for both communities to come together to learn, teach, share and create. We believe that this pavilion can serve as a community asset and has the potential to not only last for some weeks or months but could be re-purposed over time to meet the needs of the warehouse and wider community.

We want to create something that feels familiar to the community but also has an element of new energy. The Warehouses are a distinct typology of architecture that was created for industrial use. The Warehouses provide a shell for the current community which benefit from the generous industrial sized spaces which they can adapt and change to suit their changing requirements. We are inspired by this typology and flexibility and this was a key starting point for us as we explored possibilities for this pavilion.

Our proposal is to take an industrial element and re-purpose it for a new adapted use, echoing a similar journey of the warehouses.

We purpose to take a Polytunnel which is normally used in industrial applications and adapt it with two moves. The first is to raise the polytunnel up from the ground and place it onto a timber trussed base. This greatly increases the volume of space within. The second move is to rotate the Polytunnel on its vertical axis, to create a generous entrance opening and a striking unique form. These two moves take this common industrial element and turns into a striking unique and exciting pavilion.

Polytunnels are very cost efficient as they are standardised mass produced items. By using this element for the canopy of the pavilion we can allocate a larger portion of the budget to other items such as lighting and flexible furniture.

We propose to populate the poly-tunnel with reclaimed pallet seating, new OSB cube stools that can be easily stacked and stored when not in use and a pop-up desk/bar that can be used for larger events.The furniture and space within can be adapted for a variety of uses including community meetings,
talks, workshops, exhibitions, music events, yoga and more.

Our proposal also includes re-purposing the spaces around the Pavilion into a wild garden to be used and benefited by the greater community and propose to increase the entrance gate adding more flexibility to the site.

We believe that this proposal creates a striking and unique pavilion for the District that will inspire and attract people to come and learn more about this community and it’s events. This Pavilion will be a community resource for the District which is designed to accommodate a variety of events which also allows for future adaption to meet the needs of the district in the years to come.