BATTERSEA POWER STATION

The Battersea Power Station is located south-west of London, on the south bank of the Thames. This is one of the first major coal power station in England. Today is a historic building since 2007 and a protected monument. Real industrial marvel, it will rise from the ashes and hom of the biggest urban regeneration project in the world. Indeed, a new London area will come the end of 2016. 

The competition of this development and regeneration of Battersea Power Station's main technical challenge changes in the level of the Thames during floods. The agency Franklin Azzi Architecture has decided to take this constraint into account from the competition phase imagining site safety and accessibility for all both on the pier (fixed component), the pontoon (mobile infrastructure) and barges (floating equipment). The agency does not intend to create new spaces here but found places, contact with the elements of nature, places that escape the urbanity, leaving a little while remaining on site and rediscover London and its banks in a different light. By signing here an enlightening journey sobriety knowing combine sport, nature, leisure, culture and anticipating the volume of facilities design. The result is simple, efficient, elegant and pure style sign "Arte Povera".