The project is a response to a recent £160m regeneration masterplan launched by the Hartlepool Council aiming to establish Hartlepool as a major regional leisure and visitor destination by utilizing its rich legacy of maritime heritage. The concept for the scheme was to revive the lost art of shipbuilding which once made Hartlepool the leading hub of the industry. The project, therefore, proposes a new avant-garde shipbuilding museum celebrating and showcasing the town’s industrial heritage, as well as a shipbuilding institute providing maritime education and training to bring back the lost shipbuilding skills and businesses - sparking wider urban regeneration.

(Studio 03; Urban Stitching: Reinventing the Industrial Landscape)