Ainsworth, Leah

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Master of Architecture Liverpool School of Art and Design

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MA Year 2 Semester 2: The Culinary School Thesis

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MA Year 2 Semester 1: Group Urban Design Proposal

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MA Year 1 Semester 2: Terraced Housing Project

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MA Year 1 Semester 1: Individual Urban Design Project

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MA Year 1 Semester 1: Group Urban Design Project

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Specialist Study Thesis:

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The projects primary focus is to create a sustainable and eco-friendly patch within the masterplan that celebrates and experiments with food and nature. The scheme consists of a culinary school, a herbarium, a bar, a distillery, allotments, wild garden terraces and a series of botanical gardens which flow through the scheme. The design is centred around the influence of nature and the effect is has on community wellbeing, productivity and education, whilst encouraging a collaborative aspect between the local community and the natural environment.

The culinary aspect of the design will act as an attraction for the area, due to the distinct lack of culinary art representation across Liverpool. A particular aim is for visitors to become educated in the process of food and drink production, by following a culinary journey through the scheme. From growing a particular crop on site, to consuming it in one of the local cafes or restaurants, individuals can experience first-hand the steps that can be taken to become a more self-sufficient and sustainable country.

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Thesis Aims

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Culinary School

- Classrooms - Kitchens - Accommodation - Cafe - Gardens - Restaurant

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COLL AB OR AT E & C O N N E C T

B E C O M E A SELF SUFFICIENT E C O - P A T C H

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Allotments

- Planters - Growing Platforms

Encourage local residents to use the scheme as a space to socialise and interact with different residents within the community.

Link the scheme with the wider masterplan so the patches can function between themselves.

Linking the physical features will in time link the communities and their residents.

Grow the majority of produce needed for the school or source the commodities at local markets and stores, reducing the need to be reliant on overseas imports.

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External Gardens and Squares

- Outdoor Seating - Hard Landscaping

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INCREASE MENTAL & P H Y S I C A L W E L L - B E I N G

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Support the the natural to improve mental

Increase the variety of species of flora and fauna across the gardens

Create unique amenities and facilities to encourage more people to visit the scheme, thus bringing economical benefits to the area.

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The School provides a variety of cookery courses ranging from one day to 6 weeks, the kitchens and classrooms are used for practical experience and the restaurant within the building serves meals designed and cooked by the students at a discounted price.

The allotments are used by both the cookery school and the local community, to grow produce and reduce the amount that is needed to be alternatively sourced.

Additional produce can be bought from the farmers market on Patch 13.

The Square acts as the central core with all the surrounding cafe’s, bars and restaurants opening out and expanding their outdoor seating in the summer months.

Glasshouses Seed Storage Botanic Storage Wild Gardens

Each Glasshouse represents a different climate with the flora and fauna dispersed accordingly , dependant on their climatic requirements.

- Restaurant - Bar - Experience Day Classrooms - Office

The Distillery provides an insight into the craft of gin production, with the attached bar and restaurant serving the final product. The distillery also offers masterclasses in gin tasting and cocktail making to complete the experience.

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Visitor ’s Centres Shop Archive Artefacts Lecture Room Botanical Garden Access

The Museum and Archive represents the accomplishments of William Roscoe and his contribution to Liverpool’s Botanic Collection. It also provides a place to collect and compile all of Roscoe’s findings across many topics.

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Masterplan 1:1000

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Culinary School: Ground Floor Plan

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Culinary School: First Floor Plan

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Culinary School: Second Floor Plan

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Masterplan Breakdown

Herbarium

Mediterranean Gardens

The Herbarium displays and represents the accomplishments of William Roscoe and his contribution to Liverpool’s Botanic Collection.

It also provides a place to collect and compile all of Roscoe’s findings across many topics.

These gardens display colourful hybrids with unusual and colourful plants, creating a bright display. This glasshouse has a minimum winter night temperature of 10°C, similar to the climate in the Mediterranean.

Greenhouse Breakdown

Arid Glasshouse Wildgarden Terraces

A glasshouse for plants from climates with low, irregular rainfall but also for plants of dry locations such as cliffs, deserts or tree branches. Plants range from tall cacti to smaller succulents. This glasshouse has a minimum winter night temperature of 7°C.

The terraces acts as the central external public garden with the surrounding restaurant, bar and event spaces opening out onto the gardens to expanding their outdoor seating in the summer months.

Tropical Palm Glasshouse This house has a hot humid atmosphere which simulates the conditions of the equatorial regions.

It has a minimum winter night temperature of 16°C.

Bar The bar serves locally sourced products and contributes to the evening functions of the scheme. It also helps promote the work from the distillery and acts as the final building in the production of the scheme, having been grown and consumed within a mile radius.

Temperate Glasshouse The temperate glasshouse has the most diverse range of vegetation and crops as it emulates the seasons, typically providing hot summers and cold winters. This means the plants and crops adapt to survive the fluctuating temperatures.

Distillery The Distillery provides an insight into the craft of gin production, with the attached bar and local restaurant serving the final products. The distillery also offers masterclasses in gin tasting and cocktail making to complete the experience and acts as an income for the scheme

Alpine Glasshouse This House has range of Alpine plant from around the world’s mountain ranges.

Alpine plants grow above the tree line on a mountain or hillside. In the wild, many Alpine plants are covered in snow which provides a blanket of snow to protect them during the winter. This is recreated in the Alpine House by keeping it cool and well ventilated.

Allotments The allotments are used by both the cookery school and the local community, to grow produce and reduce the amount that is needed to be alternatively sourced.

Additional produce can be bought from the farmers market on Patch 13.

They also contain compost bins to minimise agricultural waste which is recycled into fuel for the biomethane boiler in the Culinary School.

Agricultural Glasshouse This house is where the majority of the food used in the culinary school and restaurant can be grown. It provides crops that can be grown and harvested annually due to the internal climatic control.

Culinary School The School provides a variety of cookery courses ranging from one day to 6 weeks, the kitchens and classrooms are used for practical experience and the restaurant within the building serves meals designed and cooked by the students at a discounted price.

Woodland Glasshouse The woodland glasshouse is the only forest glasshouse on the scheme with dense vegetation of low trees and shrubs with evergreen leaves.

Botanical Gardens

Aeroponics Glasshouse Aeroponics is the process of growing plants without soil, instead using air or mist. Instead, roots are suspended in the air in large, vertical towers and are sprayed from below by a nutrient fed dense mist. By suspending the roots, they have a better access to oxygen which in the long term results in healthier crops.

Each Glasshouse represents a different climate with the flora and fauna dispersed accordingly , dependant on their climatic requirements.

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Culinary School Axonometric

Eastern Entrance of Scheme

East Entrance adjacent to the Culinary School

Axonometric in Site Context

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Culinary School Perspective

Perspective Approach

Perspective Approach from the North-East of the Site

South West Elevation of the Culinary School featuring the terraced wild gardens

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Restaurant Visual

Restaurant Upper Mezzanine

Interior View from Restaurant Mezzanine Interior View from the Ground Floor Restaurant

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Scheme Visuals

Scheme Visuals

External View towards the Tropical Palm House

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Facing East towards the Allotments

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Internal View of the Reception Lobby

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Internal Atrium

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The comprehensive scheme for the regeneration of the Dingle focussed on connecting the area with the wider community, as over time the suburb has become an access route through to Liverpool City Centre, rather than an area to occupy. The masterplan approach adopted a phasing technique, firstly by injecting new facilities into the district such as schools, emergency service centres and small local businesses, thus creating new jobs and establishing a sense of place for the area. Secondly, once the amenities have become situated and jobs have been generated, the demand for new homes will increase, instigating the formation of micro-communities within the Dingle.

As part of the design process, a series of urban patches were formed from previous site analysis and concept research. The pattern was derived from a patchwork quilt design using a standard grid size which was present in the historical massing of the site. For each proposed patch, a set of rules were laid out in order to retain the current qualities and housing densities of each space. Once the original phases were complete, the focus was on re-distributing the existing residents amongst the patches, causing as minimal disruption to the existing communities as possible, whilst also expanding the residential areas to attract new residents and encourage their relocation to the Dingle.

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Urban and Economic Proposal

District Masterplan This masterplan was developed from use of the patches and the rules below all developed from our site analysis and concept research. Each patch contains both residential and amenities. Some patches contain less residential to allow for more open spaces which are used as more landmark spaces and nodes. These patches with a lower residential population encourage more tourists to site and are dispersed throughout the site to encourage people to stop within the site rather than move around it as they originally did. The roads and paths between patches (shown in grey) are used as ‘stitching’ to bring the patches together. They are of the same materiality and then once you get into each patch the materials differ between patches within the patches to show when you have moved between each. Each patch represents a different community within the district. The green, blue and orange patches in the masterplan represent which person within the group developed which patches. This was done to ensure that the patches stood out from one another in terms of massing as well as materiality and colour scheme.

To create a sense of place, the area is currently a non-place which people just pass through.

To improve links on site between roads within residential and betweeen residential and industrial through the edge created by topography.

Improve links between microcommunities to encourage mixing.

Link the green spaces.

Improve the housing density to increase the population.

Increase services available to the increasing population to increase the area’s economy and provide jobs to the local area.

Improve link to water - open it up to the public and make it accessible from the higher section of the site.

Reopen derelict buildings as retail and residential to preserve history of the community.

Reduce reliability on fossil fuels by making space for renewable energy sources.

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Exploded Layers Axonometric

Transport Routes

PATCH CONCEPT This pattern was derived from a patchwork quilt design using a standard grid size present in the historical massing of the site when dense housing once stood on the site and then creating unique secondary patches within the patches to move around the smaller massing.

EXISTING SITE GRID This grid pattern overlaps with the present-day existing site.

Using this grid pattern we can see how the secondary streets are formed within the design.

GRID BREAKDOWN The grid is then broken down and combined with the patchwork concept and the micro-communities to create a more uneven patchwork which is informed by the varying aspects of site (massing structure, communities, history and topography).

PATCH OUTLINES The patch outline shows how we have broken the grid down further and allowed for the water on site which sits within patches and how we have looked at the transport links through site. The train runs underground through site to Brunswick Station and there are vents along the way. As this would be much harder to build on due to the locations of the vents and the proximity to the tunnels, this has been made into an Installation Track which will contain graffiti walls and sculptures for people to walk through between the two stations.

THE FINAL PATCHES These colours show the different patches on site which are then designed separately to produce different massing within the ‘rules of the game’. The ‘rules of the game’ have been set up to ensure the patches work through allowing for flexibility, enough people to maintain services and maintaining communities.

THE FINAL MASTERPLAN This shows the massing developed separately within the different patches coming together to create the overall masterplan for the site.

VEHICLE ROUTES PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLE ROUTES BUS ROUTE 1 BUS ROUTE 2 TRAIN STATIONS

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Building Retention Plan

Residential

Proposed New Building Plan

Hospitality Commercial Community

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1. Cafe’s / shops and restaurants with flats above 2. Cafe’s / shops and restaurants with flats above 3. Outdoor Gym 4. Basketball Court 5. Tennis Court 6. Small Football Pitch 7. Covered Market Space 8. Band Stand 9. Childrens Play Area 10. Outdoor Games Area 11. Outdoor Games Area 12. Volleyball Court Leah Ainsworth MArch Portfolio

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Key 1. Top Floor Apartments 2. Ground Floor Retail and Hospitality Areas 3. Navy/Marines Relocated Recruitment Centre

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Masterplan Visuals

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Installation Track

Green Corridor

The Installation Track is a pedestrian route running across the masterplan which follows the existing lines of the train tracks below. The track shall have sculptures and mirrored structures positioned along it leaving spaces intermittently for local artists and companies to hold exhibitions to display work that has been produced in the local area. The existing brick wall that surrounds the steam vents for the trains below will be regenerated into a graffiti wall within the centre of Patch 6, where art and expression is encouraged.

Lark Lane, Liverpool

Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark This idea was inspired by Superkilen in Denmark which was created in 2012. The design is a half a mile long urban pathway which represents over 60 different nationalities through sculptures ranging from the exercise gear of muscle beach in LA to the neon signs from Russia. It’s unique appearance attracts a number of people to it’s pedestrianised route as it provides a safe and interest walk in both the daytime and the evening.

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G re en C orridor heading S outh dow n M ill S tre et.

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The green corridor is a pedestrian route through site designed with Lark Lane in mind. The infrastructure has been created in a way which can allow an area like Lark Lane with multiple shops, restaurants and cafes to move into over time. The green corridor proposal currently contains houses facing the street which can be converted easily into commercial units with flats above.

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, independent businesses are being lost due to a lack of income therefore ore housing is needed than commercial units at this time but when the economy picks up this area could become a thriving Lark Lane style pedestrian shopping street which could bring back some of the independent businesses to the area. Independent Liverpool is a business which helps independent businesses to thrive. Independent Liverpool could work alongside developers in this area to thrive.

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The brief of the project was to explore the terraced form as a housing typology and to design bespoke and unique dwellings within the standard terraced format. Combining the ideas of adaptability amongst housing and the evolution of a family, the design has created a series of terraced houses and terraced apartment blocks which can be adapt to the individual families.

Using the focus of the evolving family, the project provides a variety of sizes for the dwellings. The standard terraced housing form is designed to have 3 bedrooms across the three storeys, however depending on the individual client, additional floor modules can be added. With the additional module being a duplicate of the first floor, two bedrooms are added per addition and the height of the terrace would increase, creating a staggered facade on Shaw Street.

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Local Demographics (2019)

Sketch Book Site Drawings

After looking at statistics of the local area, I concluded that the majority of community were: - Between the ages of 25 and 65 - Living on their own or in a couple - Living in flats or semi-detached houses - The majority of the residents are working on the lowest social grade.

Using this information, I decided to incorporate apartments into the design as they are the most popular housing type and focus on making it affordable living as the primary social grade are the lower grade workers. As the occupancy is divided, providing adaptable housing that can be expanded depending on the circumstance would be suitable for the local area.

As the terraced housing was design for the intention of family living, the design also incorporates 1 and 2 bed apartments, which are ideal for individuals and couples either looking for their first home, or looking to downsize from the terrace houses after there families have moved out.

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Sections and Elevations

Apartment Dwellings: Haigh Street Lower Floor: 2 Bed 72sqm

Cross Section

Ground Floor

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Upper Floor Living

Ground Floor Living

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The materials chosen within my design are all sustainable materials that can be locally sourced from Liverpool. The main structual component of the scheme which is the CLT shall be pre-fabricated in Wrexham, North Wales, the slate roofing tiles shall be sourced from a factory in the Lake District, North of Liverpool, and the timber battens and the Glulam beam shall be sourced from Liverpool using reclaimed and reused timber.

Interior and Light Study

My internal proposed materials choice are indicated to the left, creating larger open spaces and showcasing as many natural resources as possible through the finishes and decor.

Section Cut

Floor Plans: The floor plans highlight the exposed use of CLT throughout the house. Each dwelling and resident would be given the option of leaving some timber exposed whether it is on the walls, floors or individual section.

Ground Floor Plan

Indoor Vegetation

Galvanised Steel Window Bays

Private Balconies

Exposed CLT Structures

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Perforated Brick Walls

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With the Individual masterplan I focussed on the external exhibition square. It became a flexible garden with a wild garden located to the North of the masterplan and areas of vegetation with benches, a pond and a water feature to the South.

The main feature of the space was the exhibition canopies where outdoor events including markets and student showcases could be held.

This area can be covered using the manoeuvrable sails to protect from the outdoor elements.

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Individual Masterplan

3D Masterplan

Individual Masterplan

Greenery: Greenery: Flower Bed Garden to the North and trees to the Flower Bed Garden to the North and trees to the South. Both areas act South. Both areas act as a relaxation area and an ideal a relaxation area and an ideal place to workas outdoors if the weather permits.

The place to work outdoors if the weather permits.

The flower bed garden flower bed garden is located in the north as I triedistolocated in the north as I tried to position all thein vegetation the areas that received the direct sunlight. position all the vegetation the areas thatinreceived the direct sunlight.

Water Fountains: Water Fountains: These provideThese the siteprovide with thethe sound of water, site with which the sound of water, which in the sumin the summer can can also provide the spraythe of water mer also provide sprayto of water to cool down. The founcool down. The fountains alternative route tains offer offer an analternative route from the south to the north of from the south to the north of the site as there is the site as there is access and benches between the fountains access and benches between the fountains Wild Garden: Wild Garden: The Wild Garden is also located in the North of also located in the North of Masterplan to Masterplan toThe also Wild receiveGarden the directissunlight.

It is a densely covered which provides scents,sunlight. colours alsoarea receive the direct It is a densely covered area and textures to the campus. which provides scents, colours and textures to the campus.

Benches: They are located in the centre of masterplan on the Benches: edges of the main routeinforthe the centre university They entrance are located of masterplan on the edges of the main building. It allows an area where people can entrance route for the university building. It allows an area where people congregate with the benches acting as meeting point can congregate with the benches acting as meeting point for the campus. for the campus.

Sails: The sails provide a shade to the exhibition areas so the space can beSails: used in all-weather types, particularly sheltered from rainsails andprovide wind. In athe summer the exhibition areas so the space can be used The shade to the northern areainofall-weather the masterplan hasparticularly access to direct types, sheltered from rain and wind. In the sumsun so sails can as a shading meralso theact northern area technique. of the masterplan has access to direct sun so sails The sails are flexible and can be moved around can also act as a shading technique. The sails are flexible and can be moved depending on the layout required for the particular around depending on the layout required for the particular event. Throughevent. Throughout the day the area can be used for outmarkets, the daybut the can becan used exhibitions and in area the evening be for exhibitions and markets, but in the adapted to provide cinema screenings evening can be adaptedortotheatrical provide cinema screenings or theatrical shows. shows.

Ponds: The pond alsoPonds: contributes to the sound of water runningThe through site,contributes whilst creating pondthealso to athe sound of water running through the microclimate site, for the fauna within the masterplan. whilst creating a microclimate for the fauna within the masterplan.

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Surrounding Analysis

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Introduction

Currently, all the university campuses are located to the south of Group Urban Design Project International Campus UGhent Ghent city centre. This means there are a lack of studentfor within the centre as all their requirements are met in the south. Our Our Masterplan is an extension to the Our Masterplan is an extension to the University of Ghent in the south, providing Universityan ofinternationGhent in the south, providing intentions for locating a campus to the north is to extend the al student campus specialising in English taught degrees and Dutch speaking courses. an internationalCurrently student campus specialising universities footprint and encourage the students to spread out in English taught degrees and Dutch there are 38,080 students enrolled in UGhent with only 10% of the students being international across the city rather than congregate asprogrammes 30% of the offered in Dutch, only a small proportion speakingare courses. there are 38,080 as out of in thethe 230south degree offeredCurrently in students enrolled in UGhent with only 10% population of Ghent are students English. To increase the percentage of international students attending the university, we have

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Currently, all the university campuses are located to the south of Ghent city centre. This means there are a lack of student within the centre as all their requirements are met in the south. Our intentions for locating a campus to the north is to extend the universities footprint and encourage the students to spread out across the city rather than congregate in the south as 30% of the population of Ghent are students

in English. To increase the percentage of international students attending the university, we have created faculty buildings to the south of our site, with a language preparatory faculty to the north.

Currently, all the university campuses are located to the south of Ghent city centre.

This means there are a lack of student within the centre as all their requirements are met in the south. Our intentions for locating a campus to the north is to extend the universities footprint and encourage the students to spread out across the city rather than congregate in the south as 30% of the population of Ghent are students

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Group Masterplan national Student Campus

2D Masterplan

Our Masterplan is focused on the areas for the the students. On campus there shall also be a hospitality area which cafes, bars and restaurants international on the areas for international ocused shall occupy. These areas shall provide both daytime and evening atmosphere rather than the campus becoming baron after university hours. shall also be a hospitality area which us there Three key outdoor areas shall inhabit the masterplan, each bringing a different characteristic and atmosphere to the site. One area will provide a relaxation zone surrounded by vegetation and open parklands to take time away from learning. The second is the hospitality area which provides shall areas These shall aurants a functional aspect tooccupy. the site, enjoying views across the canal to the east. Theprovide final space is the outdoor exhibition square where work created by the students within the faculties shall be exhibited in the form of cinema screenings, markets and demonstrations. We have class this space theof thecampus than atmosphere evening as the primary third in the site as this rather shall be a visual representation activities within the campus, therefore it is raised on a 1.5m platform. ter university hours. Three key outdoor areas asterplan, each bringing a different characteristic the site. One area will provide a relaxation y vegetation and open parklands to take time . The second is the hospitality area which al aspect to the site, enjoying views across st. The final space is the outdoor exhibition created by the students within the faculties n the form of cinema screenings, markets and e have class this space as the primary third in the a visual representation of the activities within the t is raised on a 1.5m platform.

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DISCUSS PRE AND POST WAR SOCIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR VARYING TYPOLOGIES ACROSS LIVERPOOL. Leah Ainsworth 713346 21st February 2020 9349 Words

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