GENERAL ARRANGEMENT DIAGRAMS

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STUDIO 2.2

PADhouse; for performing artists

community housing | residential the brief:

To design an affordable and stimulating housing scheme for performing artists adversely affected by COVID-19. It should fit their accommodation units and spaces for their daily routines, like recording studios and rehearsal spaces. The site needed to accommodate 8-16 living units with different typologies of units available. The scheme should also have a public-facing element to integrate itself within Ancoats’s multi-faceted community.

SITE RESPONSE:

The site was initially a car park, with limited accesibility via Pollard street. It sits next to Hope mill theatre in Ancoats.

SWOT Analysis:

S trengths

1. prsence of Green open area, which can also act as a performance space for the housing artists.

2. views of the Canal.

W eaknesses

1. enclosed by buildings from three sides

2. irregular shape of the plot

3. limited accessibility into the site

O pportunities T

1. engaging site with public: form high accessibility path across canal into the site

2. materiality: connect Old brick industrial Ancoats to modern Ancoats hreats

1. constructability: hard, preferably construct using modularity

2. building needs to be taller than 6m to be seen key creative drivers:

1/ privacy: grid pattern of surrounding buildings & street lines to decide orientation of the new scheme

2/ connectivity to site

3/ incorporating views of the canal