From the street the new
police station is very much a dominating mass. The sheer scale of the building
immediately asserts its new found authority that the former station did not
possess. As you can see in the images of the model I have exaggerated the concept
of this imposing facade by outweighing the scale of the human figure to the
entry.
Compared to the colours and
greenery of the street, once inside the station we are presented with a very
stark, clinical architecture dominated by a clean crisp whiteness. The scale of
the human on this interior side effectively shifts our sense of scale from the
monumentality of the facade to the confinement of the cell. The police are
supposed to serve us, but this building is very much for them and not the public.
Once again, rather than a
literal reproduction of the building I have explored this 'new state of the
art' building in an exaggerated way. The interior is devoid of colour; rather
it is dominated by its new technical capabilities shown by the use of flashing
lights, alarms and wires strung throughout the model.
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