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The Tricorn: Resurrection, preservation

Part 1 Dissertation 2017
Amy Crellin
 University of Sheffield | UK
Architectural history is being lost by the demolition of brutalist buildings. The Tricorn Centre, once Portsmouth's iconic brutalist building was demolished in 2004 and now exists only in Portsmouth residents' memories. This study aims to resurrect and preserve the building's ideas and spatial qualities. Readers revisit the building through diagrams and illustrations, to gain an objective understanding of its design, successes and why it failed, situating it within its contexts.

Amy Crellin
Tutor(s)
Mr Russell Light
2017
The Tricorn Centre, with the central courtyard highlighted
The Tricorn Centre in context.
Plan of the Tricorn and surrounding site forces; birds eye view looking north-east showing the Tricorn site and surrounding site forces.
Axes of the Tricorn site.
Sculptural form and geometry. Birds eye view looking at the Tricorn Centre from Marketway (north west).
Massing development. Evolution of the Tricorn Centre complex.
Perspective of the central courtyard of the Tricorn and parti diagrams
Pedestrian routes into the Tricorn Centre at ground floor level, leading to the central courtyard. Similar to the Aleppo souk with narrow routes and open squares.
Diagram showing the ground floor of the Tricorn Centre and the intended pedestrian shopper flow.
Diagram showing the ground floor of the Tricorn Centre and the site problems.
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