WELCOME TO THE SHOEBURY-WIX MASTER PLAN
Shoebury-Wix Lagoon consists of seven man-made islands covering 300 hectares and located in the Thames Gateway, just off Southend.
It is a location for an air terminal and transport interchange that would be required by an offshore airport in the Thames Estuary, and provides the infrastructure and a focal point for businesses wishing to be in proximity to it.
With 500,000m2 of office space, 3000 hotel rooms, more shopping space than Bluewater and unrivalled communication links by air, rail, road and sea it is an excellent location for a business and tourist hub in the Thames Gateway, and a focal point for sustainable regeneration in the Thames Estuary.
A jewel in its crown is the proposed Shoebury-Wix marina, which will become Europe’s largest yacht haven with the capacity to handle a sizeable fleet of the world's super yachts. As well as being the main centre for yachting on the East Coast, it would be the first port of call for visiting yachts from Scandinavia and the Baltic.
As a gateway into the Thames and the English Channel, its location will help revitalise the local economies along the Kent and Essex coasts. Under-utilised harbours will become destinations for visiting yachts and sustainable employment will be created to the benefit of local economies.
Intended to come on-line by 2025, it would provide skilled employment opportunities for the people who will live in the hundreds of thousands of new homes that are to be built in Thames Gateway, becoming a valuable asset and a major contributor to the economy.
Intended to be a hypothetical site for the Build LONDON Live competition in December 15tth - 17th, the release of the Shoebury-Wix master plan has been brought forward a month to coincide with the Thames Gateway Forum. As such there are many aspects still under development and new content is being constantly added to the site as the 3D models are issued. Please do come back and visit us again.
For more information about the Shoebury-Wix master plan, or Build LONDON Live please contact Paul Goodman-Simpson.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Shoebury-Wix master-plan was concieved in 2008 by Paul Goodman-Simpson as the setting for the Build LONDON Live 2009 architectural and enginneering competition to be held in December 2009.
Collaboration
The resulting design has been a collaboration between BIM Products, Mik van Leeuwen and STUDIO-TOAST. The master plan takes it's name in memory of Jeffery Wix whose vision for an open, collaborative and interoperable future lies at the heart of Build LONDON Live 2009
BIM
The entire lagoon is being created as a Building Information Model (BIM) with the objective of showcasing how effective BIM techniques can be, even when deployed on conceptual master plans. The buildings in the Build LONDON Live zone will be fully engineered to an unprece
Build LONDON Live 2009
In December 2009, twenty multi-disciplanary teams from around the world will meet together on-line for 48 hours to create detailed designs for the offices, shops, hotels and residences that form part of the master plan. Almost all the leading 3D CAD and BIM applications and AEC analysis software will be used. After two days we hope to have created the worlds largest BIM.
Communication
The context models of the islands and the buildings will be available for download in early December for use by anyone with any of the free coolaboration viewers including NavisWorks, DWF, and Adobe. We'd like to show how 3D communication is free and easy and improves everyones understanding of a project.
Bll 2008 - Greenwich Peninsula
Another Master Plan in the Thames Gateway on the Greenwich Peninsular by Build LONDON Live
