THE TIDAL THEATRE AND WATER INVITATIONS OF WEST SILVERTOWN

The Royal docks has always been the home of water. First the marshes created its home, then the docks created its purpose, but now, water has pushed out. This project aims to reinvite water through water invitation prototypes, and then to reconnect a community seeking life with the tide through the a tidal theatre. Throughout the UK deprivation effects childrens ability to access life necessities like clean clothes and healthy food. The urban laundry prototype creates a artificial wetland in the urban context, cleaning rainwater runoff, so it may be used for laundry or food. During flooding, the bird nests on top, conveniently protected from people and noise, will raise to provide shelter for people during flood and keep birds protected from people. In a segregated future community, the Tidal theatre replaces the current planned riverfront with a tidal marsh network. The theatre will exist in a sequence of performative spaces along the riverfront with the tidal theatre as its core. A sequence from exploring marshes, lab studies, design to performance combines a performative education centre with a public theatre in a attempt to immerse the community in the marshes.