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From the Newsletter- January 2005 |
OUR UWE STUDENT AWARD WINNER
Matthew Hynam has won our 2004 award for an outstanding piece of work by a student in the Department of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England.
Our congratulations to Matthew, a talented and hard working student. His project aimed to reinvent the Great Basin in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, the home of HMS Victory, and to create a new setting for the recovered Tudor warship Mary Rose. An urban design strategy to regenerate the historic fabric of the dockyard (which includes the oldest group of docks in the world) was established early in the year. His proposal is a series of interventions within the dry-docks themselves and in new subterranean passageways between them. The building only rises above the ground at the entrance and in the Ship Hall housing the carefully preserved hull of the Mary Rose.
His tutors stated “Matthew’s design for a new home for the Mary Rose is based on his insight that the dock installations, as much as the ships, are central to the city’s unique military heritage. Visitors would experience the quality and power of the dock engineering close up - as well as the evocative remains of the rescued warship.”
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