The Salvaged Streetscape: [RE]connecting to place through collected landscapes and industrial artefacts Part 2 Project 2025 Elizabeth Cowin University of Plymouth | UK The Salvaged Streetscape reimagines architecture as a narrative medium, using reclaimed materials and storytelling to reconnect urban spaces with their ecological and cultural roots. Set in Plymouth – a city shaped by its maritime and industrial heritage – the proposal centres on the reuse of decommissioned submarines as urban artefacts. These vast vessels, once symbols of obsolescence, are dismantled and repurposed to form community workshops, with their parts contributing to both the buildings themselves and new floating public piers.The heart of the project is a dynamic, adaptive structure made from salvaged steel and timber, where local craftspeople repurpose materials into tools for communal regeneration. This space evolves with environmental change, particularly sea level rise, and reflects cycles of decay and renewal.By challenging the conventions of permanence and progress, the project advocates for a circular design ethic – turning waste into resource and infrastructure into shared memory. Rooted in local narratives and collective authorship, it repositions architecture as a medium of care, resilience, and participatory transformation. Ultimately, the salvaged streetscape offers a hopeful, tactile response to the climate crisis – blurring thresholds between land and sea, past and future and inviting new stories to emerge from the evolving identity of place. Tutor(s) Bob Brown