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University of Reading | School of Architecture
The Location: Temple Church & Gardens
Location: Bristol, UK
Area: 6000m2
Bristol’s Temple Church was bombed on the first night of the blitz. Only the shell of the building, dating mainly from the 14th century remained. With its distinctive leaning tower, Temple Church is the only English Heritage property in Bristol. The ruin had a significant role in Bristol City, where the remains of the Church continued to stand as a living memorial after the Bristol Blitz in the Second World War. The purpose of the Church diminished, however, leaving this relic to stand with no program or community belonging. However, the Sanctum project took the role of creating a project that lasted a year for communities to gather and play live music in 2015. Temple Church was Re-imagined and given purpose again as the spaces from the Church was used to create music whilst still embracing the architecture of the site.
The Vision
My project idea is to create a space, uniting local students and families near Temple church and collaborating with some recycling projects that are currently held in Bristol to come together to inform the importance of recycling and showing the different methods in getting beautiful plastic moulds made from household plastic waste in workshops and how this can this be used to grow plants in this new kind of ‘power plant' tower and later be replanted into the Temple church garden after the scaffolding structure is reinstalled into Bristol's recycling centre.
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