Decay & Regeneration - two words to shadow with any urban place; buildings wear off, industry moves away, people’s aspirations change.
To regenerate an area once meant to make it aspirational for people to live there again. Today, it means making a land profitable for an investor.
Big cities like London turn into bland and unaffordable blends of steel and glass.
Whereas, small towns like Rhyl in Wales, are left to decay in everyone’s disinterest…
Designer Jimmy Loizeau had set out to lead a true regeneration for his hometown - Rhyl.
Loizeau had worked with a town’s community formulating a strategic development plan that would align to
a vision of people living there and also be economically possible.
Hannah Fasching, Charlie Evans and myself had been then asked to take notes made during community workshops and, within Loizeau’s plan, turn them into architectural proposals.
Working under a collective title of THE YES BUREAU we came up with a series of proposals went to (architecturally) consolidate a very humane clash between some truest fantasies and prudent economic thinking.