StokeLetic - Abstracted Sports Theme Park

Within Stoke-On-Trent, a city with industrial heritage in the pottery industry, the project aims to revitalise the derelict pottery works of Falcon Works. Initiated via concentrated demographic analysis of the city’s current societal factors and the impact on the user’s health and welfare it was made apparent that Stoke-On-Trent compared to the national average underperforms.

Focusing upon the data of health and physical recreation, a cyclical societal impact influences lower participation in physical activity. Driven by the covid impacted economy and sparse availability of physical recreational opportunities in a concentrated area.

The Proposal of the StokeLetic theme park acts as a means of ameliorating the disconnect of participation and the subsidiary societal issues within the community, utilising the confines of the abandoned pottery in a community building scheme. Allowing users who are unable to initiate themselves into a sport or physical activity due to economic, health or experience gatekeeping, an opportunity to branch into the many avenues via the park.

This is Explored via an abstracted formula that deconstructs the perception of sporting movement and reforms it with the architectural space. Through re-introducing 5 dissected sports to the deprived users; stimulating an opportunity to learn, improve and be equipped for further sporting and physical recreation ventures in the cumulative goal of revitalising economic and health related issues within the community across all levels of understanding and ages.

This develops architecturally via the project to conceive a retrofitted hub building, that physically reconnects the rest of the site and community of the theme park. Reutilising plastic sporting waste to construct recyclable plastic cladding and internal partitions delivered by the community to illustrate the personal association of the space and the users, offering a sustainable economic and health opportunity driven scheme to the locals.