Manipulative Architecture affects our everyday lives, sometimes without us even realising it. The implementation of certain environmental stimuli causes emotional and behavioural responses from the user. These can be used to influence people within interior environments and force a pre-meditated outcome. 

 

The rising retail and business development of Eastside Locks, Birmingham is surrounded by universities and residential areas. A substantial way to connect these is through taking the focused curriculum of sport and business and implementing it here. 

 

Belmont Works, 1899, is a beloved old Victorian furniture factory that stands derelict on the development after a fire in 2007 destroyed the majority of its interiors and partial facade. It has however been actively conserved by locals overtime yet has never found any substantial new use.        

 

The concept looks at retaining and celebrating the ornamental facades whilst introducing a modern modular installation, all controlled by the original grid of the building. 

 

Belmont Works is designed as a testing facility for sports products before releasing products to market. A business set up where employees and athletes interact with manipulative spaces that mimic extreme global environments, from a single location.