Birnbeck Pier is a site that has faced years of neglect, failed fundraisers and empty promises. My proposal focuses on turning the site into a creative and cultural hub, offering tourists and locals entertainment facilities and social settings. The structure of the building is built around an inner core, otherwise called the ‘spine’, which is a deconstructed version of the decaying pier. The ‘spine’ runs through the building offering support for walls and seating.

The building is composed of juxtapositions, shining light on certain contradictions. These juxtapositions take on different bodies, they are found in the contrasts in lighting, space and materials. Visitors will go on an emotional and physical journey when exploring the space.

It is a project that meets the old and the new. An exploration into the meeting of uncanny and feelings of possibility and potential; a space that is haunted with the past but is also a structure of hope for the future. It is confronting whilst also inviting.