Power Station Brief: Community centre and power station run by women from local migrant communities providing energy, public facilities and fresh food produce to Somers Town. -Public Swimming Baths: reviving the public bath as a social experience -Euston Gardens: creating new social spaces where produce cultivated by the women is shared amongst their households and sold to local shops -Book Sharing Library: collections assembled through donations of the neighbours -Rainwater Harvesting: for baths and crop cultivation -Energy Generation: Harvesting energy from the activity of the building as well as solar, wind and vibrational energy

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Site: Ampthill Square Estate, Hampstead Road-extending over Euston railway tracks

Community: Women from migrant Bengali, Indian and Pakistani communities to run the centre in:

ConstructionManagementAdministrationRunning of energy harvesting and equipmentCrop cultivation and farmingMaintenance

Other home-dwelling members of local community, such as unemployed and elderly community to participate in running of centre, services and activities. Somers Town Community to use services and benefit from energy and food production

Funding: Collaboration from sources of different interest:Hopscotch Asian Women’s Centre- empowering, educating and integrating womenCamden Council- education and employmnetGovernment-run Energy Saving Trust- generating renewable energy locally Agenda: The scheme aims to empower the women and combat isolation mental helath problems and depression through education and language skills, social oppor-tunities, development of working skills and involvement in the local community through production of energy and food. The power station will provide private all-female spaces for education, socialis-ing and childcare services to the women and fresh food produce, energy and public leisure facilities to the local community, which will all be managed by the women. It will be just down the road from the Hopscotch Centre and parts will be close or even adjoined to the women’s homes for ease of access and management. Electricity is harvested for the women’s homes and neighbourhood from wind and solar energy as well scavenged vibrational energy from trains to and from Euston station, and from movement and activity within the building.Rainwater is also collected for the women’s homes, the public baths and neigh-bourhood

Gender and Employment in Local Labour

Markets (GELLM) Comittee

Material Realization: Materials should also be sourced from the local community as much as possible, such as recycled plastics, steel and fabrics from household items. Additional building materials can be brought in direct to site by train.The structure is also to be as lightweight and adaptable as possible to be easily assembled and maintained by the women

This could take the form of lightweight tensile and fabric structural systems