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CulturLab

    
Proposal to upgrade the Stoke Newington Assembly Rooms into a Community Arts and Education Centre
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Part of the proposal is to construct a fly tower. This would allow the Assembly Rooms to provide more professional theatre productions and attract repertory theatre companies to the area. The fly-tower would act as a beacon for the project, to advertise forthcoming presentations and provide a location for public art installations.

Collaborators
behaviourLab - client
Warwick Avenue - Project Managers
Boyden + Co - Quantity Surveyors
Techniker - Structural Engineers
XCO2 - Environmental Consultants

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brief
The client's aim was to adapt the Stoke Newington Assembly Rooms into a centre for teaching children and adults about theatre, music, media and film, whilst retaining the building's original purpose as a much needed multi-purpose venue in Hackney.

concept
culturLab was a proposal developed by Michael Oades whilst at Ushida Findlay for the theatre group behaviouLab.

It is the aim to create a strong contemporary identity for the building and the project. As part of this new identity there is also some reference to the building's past. We are fascinated by the camouflage patterns on the exterior of the building, now somewhat faded. We propose to use this patterning to create an anti-camouflage, coded to relate to the colours of the culturLab, thus enabling culturLab to create their own clear visual identity, whilst maintaining a link to Stoke Newington's past.

A community entrance would be located adjacent to the existing library. This would allow access to the project, when the assembly rooms are in use.

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