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The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, UK.

 

The story and importance of Frederick Douglass can be found here:

www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/frederick-douglass/

 

Design (2019): Sheppard Robson.

 

The auditorium uses a cladding system inspired by the Newcastle-born mathematician Louis Fry Richardson whose pioneering work defined modern methods of weather forecasting. Fry Richardson’s work, which subdivided the planet into hexagonal zones, has been expressed in expanded aluminium mesh on the external elevations of the auditorium. A pattern has been created by the changing the orientation of the mesh, varying the opacity of the material.

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