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The proposed expansion of the Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk has been subject to much local controversy, objection, and debate. Inspired by the Þingvellir parliamentary landscape in Iceland, this project proposes to design a number of social and ecological infrastructures within the Sizewell region to facilitate discourse and discussion on the future of nuclear power. The design of these ceremonial meeting spaces may point toward the democratisation of the decision-making process and test the existing conventions of what forms a parliament can take.
View from activists’ perspective.
The public assembly facilitates the testing of leakage from the nuclear power station for toxins. This intervention reveals the measure of the environmental impact from the power station’s construction.
Walking through the existing land, one finds a series of social and ecological infrastructures to question land autonomy and test environmental change.
Passing through the wetland, which subtly encloses the main trail, a stone placed on the pavilion is revealed, rendering symbolic meaning to the annual public assembly.
The selected plants measure different changes in site conditions; flooding and the presence of toxic elements will cause the plants to change colour.