Teesside Power Station
Teesside Power Station The studio was commissioned to design a biomass power station that would serve two thousand new homes in Stockton, near Middlesbrough, in the north of England. From the studio’s research, normal new power facilities always seemed to be chaotic collections of separate pieces of equipment placed on the ground next to a chimney. Unlike these typical disparate arrangements, the studio chose to gather the facilities into a singular structure, clustered around the 85-metre high chimney stack, improving the power station’s functional efficiency, as well as simplifying its composition. Earth excavated from the site is banked up to dampen the factory-like vibrations of the plant’s equipment and forms planted slopes within a public Power Park around the station’s base. Sculpted from the ground, the power station fuses with the surrounding landscape to make a space for walking, picnicking, tobogganing. The power station’s structural geometry is based on the repeated use of identical steel elements and aims to minimize the area of the building envelope.
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