Studio: Collaborative Production 2016-17

STUDIO COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION 2016/17

Sheffield School of Architecture

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Daniel Jary Studio Tutor

Zak Nicoll Year 6

Matthew Chamberlain Year 5

Laura Postlethwaite Year 5

Kun Shen Year 5

Lucy Parkinson Year 6

Nam Kha Tran Year 6

Rachael Moon Year 5

Patrik Krchnak Year 6

Chi Fai, Ma (Ives)

Ashley Mayes Year 5

Chee Kun, Chong (CK) Year 6

Kasia Oskroba Year 6

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Studio ‘assemblage workshop’ with artist Steve Pool.

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With thanks... to our studio collaborators: Steve Pool Poly-Technic Richard Bland & Di Buckley, Creative Sheffield Andy MacFee, AMA Alastair Parvin, Wikihouse Ryan Bramley & Lucy Paige-Hamilton, Storying Sheffield Tsung-Hsien Wang, Sheffield School of Architecture Chengzhi Peng, Sheffield School of Architecture Aidan Hoggard, Sheffield School of Architecture Deborah Beck, Grantham Centre Sarah Want, Research + Innovation Services Michael Szollosy & Ana Macintosh, Sheffield Robotics Bryan Davies, Purcell Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Mercury Centre Sheffield E.ON Blackburn Meadows

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Studio: Collaborative Production Automation and robotisation are changing the nature of labour and production, and transforming the way people engage with local governance, education and cultural exchange. How can we ensure that the new society which emerges from this change enriches people’s lives, is socially inclusive and is protective of the environment?

Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the MArch degree course at Sheffield School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. The Studio ran over a 20 week period between November 2016 and May 2017, and was attended by 12 students in the 5th and 6th year of their studies, working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification.

The studio explores the creation of a built environment which supports the collaborative production of objects, processes and infrastructures; generating an architecture which utilises local resources and expertise and is responsive to local needs.

work of Sheffield Robotics, whose remit is to increase public acceptance of robots, and the Grantham Centre, which promotes interdisciplinary research focussed on addressing the planet’s future food and energy needs. Both of these cross-cutting institutes were exciting for the students in that their public outlook seems to demand a new model of permeable and accessible architecture.

In challenging and developing the current AMID vision the students have tried to anticipate future change. This has created a context for the projects which envisions development over a 35 year timeframe. The premise anticipates a period of turmoil as a result of Brexit, increased levels of robotisation, and the impact of climate change. This leads to a rejection of neo-liberal economics which allows the Sheffield City Region to emerge as a test bed for a new socio-economic model of interdependency, social capital and local value.

The studio is located within Sheffield’s proposed Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District (AMID) which links the University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre to the city centre along the Don Valley corridor. The project began with an investigation of the AMID study area, carried out alongside a critique of the existing local authority and University-led proposals. This revealed a vision which is primarily commercially driven, and lacking in opportunities for engagement of the local community. The students were keen to explore ways in which AMID can become a more socially diverse, inclusive and vibrant part of the city.

The students rejected the conventional notion of a masterplan, instead developing a more flexible strategy, with individual projects able to interface spatially, functionally and economically over the 35 year timeframe. Students worked collectively to explore the creation of a sustainable urban area, utilising shared green energy and smart technologies. Individual projects accommodate new research, education and production facilities which address the world’s future energy and material needs, promoting public engagement with new technology and manufacturing. Taken together the projects offer a future vision of a vibrant, socially responsible and productive city.

Alongside a detailed investigation of the physical and social context, the students began to explore models of engaged education and research already existing at Sheffield University.

In particular the students familiarised themselves with the

Daniel Jary Studio Leader

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Sheffield City Centre

Sheffield Innovation Hall Kasia Oskroba Year6

What new opportunities can Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation District (AMID) provide to the Sheffield’s public through architectural reimagining of infrastructure?

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Part of an alternative studio strategy for the development of the self-sufficient innovation district in north-east Sheffield, this thesis proposes a public outreach research and training facility within a larger mixed use masterplan. It attempts to connect the city centre with the emerging innovation district with a new infrastructural link. By adapting and transforming the iconic viaduct, the Wicker Arches, it seeks to bring the trans-disciplinary and collaborative research together with the regular city dwellers and re-establish Wicker as a vibrant urban gateway.

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Site location Site context Concept model as visual manifesto Site strategy Central courtyard and structural unit 1:500 model Moments of exploration: connecting research with the public Site section Structural unit of glulam frame disassembled 1:5 glulam joint model: simulating assembly Detail elevation of teaching/laboratory building facing courtyard Detail section View into the courtyard looking West View to lecture theatre from riverside Lecture theatre components

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base urban site strategy

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concept of the scheme based on connecting to the arches supporting the viaduct and reuse of existing track running through the middle of site

viaduct is crossed by secondary axes, established by the river and roads; they divide the arches into clusters

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response CLUSTERS

track splits massing into two parallel volumes; by creating opening midway through the vaults, these spaces become habitable

massing related to clusters below that can be cut into, connected and inhabited

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development of massing by taking cues from

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The People’s Guild Matthew Chamberlain Year 5

The proposal establishes a new governmental headquarters for the developing advanced manufacturing district- Sheffield, drawing influence from, and re-appropriating the “medieval guild”.

The scheme has a strong affinity to Ruskin’s critique of capitalism through acknowledging high levels of detachment and alienation associated with the nature of “work” and political engagement, and explores ways to alter these structures: tending to economic models of open innovation and direct democracy.

This manifests spatially through a program with 2 key axis: the axis of making and the axis of civic engagement.

Proposed tram route

The bold spatial relationship between these 2 programmatic elements hopes to frame labour/ politics in a very direct, interdependent and open way, acting as a framework for a more inclusive approach to “work” and political engagement.

The architectural language reverses typical notions of authority and exclusivity associated with “the guild”, embracing a language of participation and adaptability.

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Map: Highlight of brown field sites Map: Proposed tram route Map: Proposed cycle routes Map: Green corridors Diagram: Siting of the guild Sectional perspective: Main working space Exploded axo: Strategic overview Diagrams: Spatial arrangement strategies Perspective: Main entrance Perspective: Main lobby Perspective: Canal walk Perspective: Civic engagement axis

Proposed cycle routes Proposed cycle routes

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Reinmagine Manufacture Kun Shen Year5

My project is initially about respond to David Harvey’s 17 mandates, based on which I came up with my visual manifesto that introduce an alternative governance and explore the possible model for collaboration in the region, and to my selected two companies as a test bed. By study the vision of AMID, I chose two significant companies which represents the future and present symbol of manufacture, Additive Manufacture and Subtractive Manufacture. According to my research, the most likely that is going to happen in manufacture industry is a two kinds of technologies combined future. The project would respond to the current flaws of manufacture of two kinds by introduce the possibility of hybrid manufacture, and to introduce a space that facilitate the transformation from closed system to a more public engaged one. The project then goes into details of manufacture process of two kinds, and test the space that facilitate this in-between space. Besides the project would test the application of advanced manufacture technology into the process of construction. And how it would gain the potential of a sustainable future. Ultimately, it is a project that reimagine how future manufacture factories would be like according to the my social trend and technology study.

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Visual manifesto Location map Site location and extents Example by Two Approaches: 3D Printing and Traditional Manufacture Region Contradiction Relationship of Reconnecting Five Weirs Walk with City Basic Context of Region Sections from City Region to River Don Sections from SFM to Arconic Facade Details Section Through Facade Drawing Renders of Indoor Space

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petroleum consumption

biofuel petroleum UK production

energy crisis dying industry sustainable, eďŹƒcient future

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Industry accounted for just under 20% of the UK’s final energy consumption in 2011, down from 43% in 1970

Brightside Algal Works

industry currently makes up 45% of energy consumed in Sheffield

Ashley Mayes Year5

The cost of energy, and environmental legislation is resulting in migration of UK industry abroad.

Traditional manufacturing in the UK is subject to the increasing threats of globalisation. Sheffield, once being the world capital of steel production, is now a struggling city of manufacture bearing only a tiny fraction of these industries today.

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Resilience needs to be developed, and environmental initiative taken, to ensure the future existence of such energy intensive industries in a world of stricter environmental legislation and an imminent fuel crisis.

The project seeks to utilise the waste heat energy from Sheffield Forgemasters, along with other by products of the steel making process, to cultivate algae for the production of algal biofuel.

Brightside Algal Works strategically positions itself adjacent to Forgemasters and parallel to the River Don. This development and research facility is defined by a 700-metre-long wall that has an essential technological role in the operation of the facility, and additionally acts as a flood defence for Forgemasters. The existing Five Weirs Walk is rerouted through the facility, taking the public through an experiential journey of the algal fuel production process.

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Five weirs walk from Sheffield City Centre

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Visual manifesto Location map & Five Wiers Walk route Site location and extents Technological algae wall and public walkway Technological wall frame assembly Perpsectives thumbnails Concept sketches - relationship of wall.

Facility building and public walkway Point of arrival - with cafe.

Detail section of wall.

Aerial perspective of River Don flooded.

1:500 scheme model.

Exploded axonometric of facility building.

Internal perspective of workshop/testing space.

Sketch - relationships with wall.

Forgemasters

Site extents Proposed five weirs walk Existing five weirs walk

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Post capping

Supports for hanging system welded to SHS

Algae bioreactor panels line the face of the riverside wall structure, cultivating algae for processing into algal biofuel.

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The project sees that the algal production facility becomes integrated within the landscape and context - introducing the Five Weirs Walk as part of public experience of the scheme through a walkway that passes behing the algae bioreactors.

Algae bioreactor panel hanging system

160mm x 80mm rectangular SHS - hot formed

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Embedded technology within wall - acting as a service spine for carrying water, algae water, heat (as steam) to allow for distribution across the site.

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Additional to acting as the service spine to the scheme, the wall acts as a flood defense for Forgemasters as part of a wider flooding strategy.

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Sheffield Flood Resilience Park Laura Postlethwaite Sheffield Flood Resilience Park stems from a response to the increasing detrimental risk of flooding to the Lower Don Valley region located between Sheffield and Rotherham.

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An area left in neglect post the industrial decline but also suffering from the River Don floods, which are becoming more frequent due to climate change.

Through using sustainable solutions and a sensitive approach to the landscape, the negative connotation of flooding can become one of a positive kind, celebrating and embracing the natural occurrence of water into our urban landscape.

This approach not only provides property insurance for surrounding homeowners who have been let down by the fragmented systems that are currently in place to deal with flooding but also causes awareness and encourages individuals to engage with the issues that are effecting them.

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A new localised flood management forum is situated within the park allowing the community to collaborate with business owners and governing bodies through the sharing of knowledge and expertise to form the best flood resilience solutions for the area.

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WIDER SCALE FLOOD RESILIENCE STRATEGY

Dismantled Railway Dismantled Railway

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Existing Site Entrance Existing Site Entrance 3 3 Flood Pools Flood Pools

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BioSwales on Gentle BioSwales Slope on Gentle Slope

FLOOD MAP 1 - 0-100 YEAR FLOOD LEVEL RISE

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Sheffield River Don floods analysis Flood map Transitional walkways visual Wider flood resilence strategy Site plan 50-100year flood projection of site 100-200year flood projection Boathouse Cafe Section perspective through Cafe and trellis Section through site during flood event Boathouse Cafe plan Belvedere Tower plan Belvedere Viewing Tower plan Aerial view of scheme (1:500 model) View from high rise walkway View across river View overlooking water lakes

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Co-MakerHub in AMP Chee Kun, Chong Year6

Visual Manifesto

Thesis Question: Is the high-tech era and economy and in regards with the notion of Industrialisation 4.0 where

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people can practically work in separate space; in what way is local proximity still relevant?

Co-MakerHub, a building for research, making and the community engagement sitting in the centre of Advanced Manufacturing Park ( the AMP). The hub is regarded as the near term critical investment in the district. It serves as the nexus and collaborative common ground for all stakeholders in this industrialisation 4.0 era, but it still requires the coordination of several parties to gather and

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collaborate to realise the vision, while the public realm strategy has the potential to ignite innovation with and drive AMP’s transition toward a new innovation economy.

Front elements of the building facing the plaza are conceptually pulled apart to reveal the fabrication hall behind. The atrium is the main circulation space for the visitors and staffs of the AMP. AMP will eventually be transformed into a dense, well-balanced urban setting, with a clearly defined sense of place.

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Visual manifesto Location map, AMID & AMP Site Plan Public Realm Strategy Methodology Detailed Section and Elevation green park CMA- Prototypes CMA- Air purifying green wall monorail CMA- Exploded facade Long section of the atrium, courtyard and exhibition hall Isonometric of interdependencies Hub entrance and arrival point Atrium- public meeting space Co-production in the fab hall Co-learning in the studio space Common space encouraging intimate dialogue Exploded isonometric Final Design

ntly defined by surface parking lots and lack of identity will be transformed into alanced urban setting, with a clearly defined sense of place. The launch parties velopment of the core plaza, followed by incremental investment that reinforche district. ’Grey to green‘ landscape planning method is also adapted to create for the user communities.

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Aerial View of the Industrial Centre The front elements of the plaza are the public facilities, the shop, public meeting space and exhibition hall.They are conceptually pulled apart to reveal the fabrication hall behind. The atrium is the maincihculation space where visitors and staffs of the AMP meet.

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interchange site

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manufacturing business office

The future light monorail will be connected to my building. Based the AMP vision to connect the AMP 1& 2 and Sheffield Business Park in order to improve local proximity physically, tram/rail services are mentioned in the existing vision report. I bring in the Light rail service connected to the district and the HS2 station. Together with this arrival point, a large atrium space, entrance courtyard, lawn, and the core plaza, my building has become part of the sequence of new public spaces in AMP.

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HS2 Station

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TIMBER GRID ROOF transparent EFTE membrane 200 μm three layers flexible thin-set photovoltaic cells, loose laid on middle layer extruded aluminium clamping strip with EPDM seal framed membrane support hinged on both sides: 200/100/10 mm and 150/110/10 mm steel angles membrane flap with drainage tube 5 hinged connection rainwater gutter: 160/160/15 mm steel angle with liquid plastic seal 80/80/5 mm steel SHS bracing galvanized steel Å-section track 220 mm deep, upper flange cut off on one side; bearing surfaces hardened 2 mm galvanized sheet-steel gutter 16 undulating roof supporting beam: 500/25 mm and 220/25 mm steel plates and Ø 356/20 mm steel tube

GUTTER steel edging angle preformed gutter section pepples to prevent blockages gravel for drainage steel hopper and downpipe into water butt

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EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOF moss and grass 100mm soil 80mm gravel filter membrane 75mm drainage channel waterproofing 175mm insulation vapour control layer 18mm WPB ply 150mm structural deck [span direction not drawn accurately] service void

FLOOR floating floor treatment precast unit acoustic sealant shallow decking screed ~(sand and cement or proprietary screed min 80kg/m2) suspended acoustic panels in the fabrication one layer of gypsum-based board nominal (8kg/m2) hall to limit sound but allow heat transfer Mineral wool packing the whole building has a well- integrated water upwards dense mineral wool or other fire-stopping material between strategy, including the rainwater harvesting , primary steel beam and light steel channel solar thermal, clean room water supply, greensuspended strip lighting

roof and flow pattern

suspended vent duct crossing the cellular beam

the harvested rainwater will also be used for the modular hydroponic wall in my CMA exercise

the whole building has a well- integrated water strategy, including the rainwater harvesting , solar thermal, clean room water supply, green roof and flow pattern

the antifreeze pipes and photovoltaic cells in the cushion on the timber grid roof will absorb the solar heat and transferred heat exchange in the solar exchange tank

the harvested rainwater will also be used for the modular hydroponic wall in my CMA exercise the antifreeze pipes and photovoltaic cells in the cushion on the timber grid roof will absorb the solar heat and transferred heat exchange in the solar exchange tank

Chamfered timber railing allows people to rest on to observe downstairs

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mechanical louvres allows the noise from the control room to reach the mezzanine floor

FLOOR C310 x 37 steel channel spanning between cables L140 x 140 steel angles at 600 centres with steel T50 x 9 bracing ties type SP 30 x 9 grating panels macalloy stainless steel suspension cables cable head fittings pinned to 12mm plate 20mm dia steel rod for lighting rig

metal grating allows all sight on top to monitor sounds from the control room Glare from dropped lamps lights up the actives in the fabrication hall and put staff out of sight from the control room lights and clayboard acoustic panels help to create a high level of mental involvement

the robotic arms and crane sit on a floating concrete floor slab to greatly reduce the vibration and noise heat and air is delivered to the vent duct and other parts of the atrium clayboard acoustic panels are installed repeatedly in the fabrication hall to reduce the noise

6 FLOOR screed floor finish with underfloor heating pipes separation layer 100mm insulation 250mm concrete slab damp proof membrane 100mm insulation 50mm sand

9 FLOOR 150mm floating concrete slab jacked up on mason industrial strength jacks separation layer 250mm concrete slab damp proof membrane 100mm insulation 50mm sand

The detail section cuts through the control room, BCT Lab, classroom and light rail platform. It shows how the advanced manufacturing being shown to the public in a humanised scale. Visitors learn the knowledge here and applied the techniques together with the experts in order to materialised their ideas. Suspended mezzanine floor built by metal grating and the open louvres are designed to offer a semi-opened space for both the users and staffs to communicate and enhance each other’s sense of participa-

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Maker Community incubator Chi Fai Ma ( Ives) Year5

Globalization has created a phenomenon of commodity fetishism, deteriorating the current marginalization of community. Attercliffe, also a victim in globalizing economy, was once a golden gem in Sheffield. However, it is a segregated area now. Meanwhile, new technology, such as 3 D printing can transform the supply chain of the old production system. Perhaps in the future, the use of robotization and automation can reduce the technical division of labour and resolve current globalized issues.

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The design is to create a hybrid of open research facility and a fab lab center to attract people in different region to Attercliffe, and incubate a high tech maker community in the future that response to the David Harvey’s theory as follow: ‘The class opposition between capital and labour is dissolved into associated producers freely deciding on what, and when they will produce regarding the fulfilment of common social needs. A new mean of exchange is created that facilitates the circulation of goods and services.’

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Visual Manifesto Location Map & AMID Vision Proposal Program | Bio Plastic 3D Printing Point of arrival | by tram Canopy Roof | Moment Interactive Skin Opens View From Banner to Podium Internal perspective of Community Framework | Activities Model Iteration Section Point of arrival | High Street Functional Diagram Circulation Diagram Sectional Perspective Column | Technical Detail Detail Drawing Exploded axonometric of facility building.

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Step3 | logistic access cut

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Meadowhall Park Retreat Lucy Parkinson Year6

Is there an architectural cure for unsustainable consumerism?

Meadowhall Park Retreat explores how the current unsustainable nature of consumerism, can be cured, using an architecture and landscape that satisfies our innate human needs. These needs that we are current satisfying through consuming.

The proposal inhabits the existing Meadowhall shopping centre, in the year 2050 during its decline, and creates a variety of ruination across the site that will sit alongside the existing retail tenants.

The consciously ambitious architecture promotes mentally and physically healthy environments for each part of the programme; the reassembly factory, consumerist museum, and rehabilitation centre. The main focus of the thesis was the ‘Oniomania’ rehabilitation retreat.

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Site Location Map Therapy Garden Grammar Among the Flowers Rehabilitation Entrance Full Moon Festival Garden Eye Catches Internal Lighting Strategy Long Site Section External Perspective Elevations Residential Therapy Section Rehabilitation Therapy Section Garden Corridor Section Residential Therapy Pool 1:200 Sectional Model

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The Curio Factory Nam Kha Tran & Zak Nicoll Year6

The Curio Factory, combines the idea of reconnecting our energy needs to the earth, and the need to connect the development of technology with local communities, to create a research complex within the scarred remains of Tinsley Park. Through its history, we began to see the site as a scarred landscape, neither virgin green wilderness nor picturesque parkland, the ground has been carved and shaped through every inhabitation from park to colliery to open cast mine to airport, and now business park.

We have used this edited landscape to create curiosity within our architecture.

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In an achievable future scenario, the University of Sheffield commission a research complex to replace their proposed AMRC 2 project in Tinsley, with a facility which studies future energy technologies, plant science and soil remediation whilst also testing the possibilities of using UK grown trees to produce engineered timber to help reduce embodied carbon in the construction sector.

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View into factory from roundabout View across forecourt to factory Construction sequence of research complex Axonometric of research complex Exploded components of factory envelope View into Library Library & cafeteria section Section through whole complex Laboratory elevation + laboratory corridor View from factory roof

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DOME ENTRANCE FROM SHEFFIELD BUSINESS PARK

FACTORY FACTORY 2050

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LARGE RAMP/PROCESSIONAL STAIRCASES TO OLD RUNWAY PLANTATION

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AMID Centre for Solar Energy Rachael Moon Year5

Set within the former Tinsley Marshalling Yard, this project strives to make research conducted by Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) more publicly accessible.

The current derelict site running parallel to the M1 will be transformed into a new industrial landscape, creating a new route within the remaining train tracks and connecting the adjacent residential areas to the AMRC.

HOW CAN RESEARCH BE MADE MORE PUBLIC ?

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The new facility will house both scientists studying solar energy storage and fuels in addition to engineers researching photovoltaic fabrication. Together, the researchers will continue the study of solar energy in collaboration. The building itself acts as learning, adaptive exhibition of the centre’s research, featuring thin film photovoltaic modules capable of solar tracking on its south facade.

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NAOMI NAOMI KLEIN KLEIN

Research question A visual response to David Harvey’s ‘Ideas for Political Praxis’ Theorists Narrative drawing Complex materials assembly 1 Complex materials assembly 2 Programme Hempcrete experimentation Strategy axonometric Arrival view sketch Section Integrated climate envelope section View from tracks walking/cycling route Internal view down to cafe and arrival space Section (in context) View from bridge

reducing greenhouse emissions to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities and rebuild our local economies:

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate - Naomi Klein

New technologies.. are created that dissolve technical divisions of labour, liberate times for free individual and collective activities, and diminish the ecological footprint of human activities - David Harvey

DAVID DAVID HARVEY HARVEY THEORISTS

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THE ENERGY RECOVERY FACILITY IN SHEFFIELD, OPENED IN 2006, GENERATES ELECTRICITY FOR THE NATIONAL GRID AND HEAT FOR THE DISTRICT ENERGY NETWORK FROM THE CITY’S WASTE. THE RUBBISH IS FED INTO AN INCINERATOR UNIT AND BURNED AT TEMPERATURES IN EXCESS OF 850 DEGREES CENTIGRADE, GENERATING SUPERHEATED STEAM.

ENERGY 2050 IS ONE OF THE UK’S LARGEST ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTES, BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD. RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON CLEAN ENERGY GENERATION, PARTICULARLY NUCLEAR, RENEWABLES AND CCS. AN EMPHASIS IS GIVEN ON INDUSTRY AND POLICY RELEVANT INNOVATION.

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THE TINSLEY MARSHALLING YARD, OPENED IN 1965 WAS USED TO SEPERATE RAILWAY WAGONS. AT THE TIME OF OPENING, THE YARD WAS HANDLING 3000 WAGONS A DAY. THE SIDINGS WERE COMPUTER CONTROLLED. 1985 SAW THE FIRST STAGES OF THE YARD’S CLOSING WITH THE RUN-DOWN OF RAIL FREIGHT IN BRITAIN.

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Stairway - The stair build up will consist of a stringer, attached to cantilevered engineered floor joists. In this way, the stairs will not require support on the side away from the wall, hence not obstructing the space below. Forming the upper floors, the joists will also serve to tie opposite walls and allow a stable box section to be created.

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THE TOWERS WERE DEMOLISHED AT 03:00 ON 24 AUGUST 2008. THEIR ICONIC STATUS IS CEMENTED IN SHEFFIELD’S FUTURE AS MUCH AS THEY WERE A PART OF ITS HISTORY. THE TOWERS STOOD 76 M TALL ADJACENT TO THE VIADUCT, CARRYING THE M1 AND A631.

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PRIVATE HOUSE EXTENSION, WEST LONDON - TATE HARMER Glulam timber ‘ribs’ used structurally, to frame a new extension. They extend up one wall side, with bookshelves slotted into the spaces between. Skylights have been inserted between the wall and the ceiling, along the angled strip.

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Interstitial spaces are created by a thick BUILDING DETAILING wall to the north of the building. Behind it section applied the acquired knowledge of hempcrete are alcoves, providing display spaces This along and explores one of the thick white semi-internal walls. It a route. Openings in the wall take on ais detailed so that a continuation of the building aesthetic into interior space is created. The use of thick hempcrete punctured aesthetic, revealing the depth wallsof internally provides s good acoustic barrier between rooms, especially where the fabrication workshop may the wall.

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a) Plaster, 6mm basecoat, 2mm topcoat b) Gluelam studs 150mm x 50mm c) Wall plate d) Sole plate e) Joist header FABRICATION f) Hempcrete WORKSHOP g) Plywood perforated panels h) Stair stringer i) Engineered timber I-joists j) Stainless-steel angle bracket k) Reinforcement studs l) Noggins m) Lintel

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Example of an exposed hempcrete internal wall (right hand wall), revealing its unusual textures. The fibrous material has many similar characteristics to rammed earth aesthetically. Note the consistently flat surface, shaped with a use a nail float once the hempcrete has hardened sufficiently.

Pore shapes of hempcrete, locking in air.

The material is therefore relatively lightweight, hence smaller piles are generally required

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Trapped air within hempcrete provides a goodd c level of insulation.j It can be used to create the whole width of a monolithic wall a (excluding finishes)

Shelving - The structural glulam frame forms the bookshelf upstands for the library. Perforated plywood panels will form the back of the bookshelf.

monolithic hempcrete structure has been VERSATILITY BREATHABILITY used to give the appearance of strong, thick

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More CO2 locked up than emitted during hempcrete processing and production

Corner reinforcement - A neat, sharp cornered edge is required to this wall plain for a sleek, minimal aesthetic. Protruding corners require reinforcement, being subject to knocking. Purpose made glass fibre mesh ‘wings’ will form concealed corner beads.

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Lime finish - A lime finish is to be used on the wall externally. It drys hard, making it suitable since it withstands weathering, whilst retaining vapour permeability.

Permanent formwork - At this place in the wall, the hempcrete is to terminate, allowing the glulam timber studs to be revealed and the bookcase shelving within. Permanent wood wool board shuttering, as shown, will be inserted inside of the timber frame.

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Contains plant aggregate that has sequestered CO2 from the atmosphere

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Hempcrete offers a good level of thermal mass. Combined with its good insulation properties, hempcrete is efficient at regulating and maintaining internal temperatures

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plains which bookmark both ends of the building. A personal visit revealed the high quality lime finish without signs of cracking.

Hempcrete is easily worked with and pliable.

It is around three times more resistant than regular concrete

Hempcrete, together with a lime plaster, acts hygroscopically, absorbing and releasing moisture. This contributes to keeping a healthy indoor air quality

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Long drying times required, between 6 and 8 weeks, before finishes are applied. Dependant on weather

Stairway - The stair build up will consist of a stringer, attached to cantilevered engineered floor joists. In this way, the stairs will not require support on the side away from the wall, hence not obstructing the space below. Forming the upper floors, the joists will also serve to tie opposite walls and allow a stable box section to be created.

Interstitial spaces are created by a thick wall to the north of the building. Behind it are alcoves, providing display spaces along a route. Openings in the wall take on a punctured aesthetic, revealing the depth of the wall.

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1. Frame assembly 2. Shuttering 3. Mixing hempcrete 4. Placing hempcrete 5. Remove shuttering (Leave to dry)

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a) Hempcrete (mix 1 with lesser water ratio) b) Hempcrete (mix 2 with greater water ratio) c) Softwood studs (representing timber gluelam frame) d) Plastic spacers e) Stainless-steel angle bracket f) OSB temporary shuttering board g) stainless steel wood screws h) Lime render (applied with trowel) i) Hempcrete filler j) wooden wedge for fixing (hammered in)

This is building example of where a monolithic hempcrete structure has been used to give the appearance of strong, thick plains which bookmark both ends of the building. A personal visit revealed the high quality lime finish without signs of cracking.

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Application - The hand-placing process of cast-in-situ hempcrete proved quite a labour-intensive process, whereas in reality the size of the research centre would require mechanical delivery systems, for example, spray application.

However, the manual experimentation process enabled a high level of control over the quality of the wall sample as shown in fig. 5.

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Finishes - Two batches of hempcrete were made, stacked one on top of the other. The experiment was undertaken to test hempcrete finishes, either to be left exposed or rendered with lime. As shown in fig. 5, crisp edged were produced as well as the dried finish of each hempcrete batch.

Hazards - Despite necessary PPE and best safety precaution efforts, lime binder dust is the most serious hazard. Care must be taken in wet weather (increased likelihood of burns from mixed lime and water).

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Next steps - In the next stages to come of the project, wooden wedges will be hammered into the dried wall to take fixings.

This will test the theory that hempcrete’s elastic properties allow it to ‘bend’ rather than break under excessive pressure.

In theory, the area around the wedge becomes denser, holding EXHIBITION DISPLAYS EXHIBITION DISPLAYS it firmly in place. The wall sample will then be rendered in lime to test methods for producing crisp edges.

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