Sheffield School of Architecture March Catalogue

The University of Sheffield School of Architecture MArch and PGT Catalogue 2014

Contents Foreword Postgraduate Taught Masters MA in Architectural Design MA in Urban Design MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies MA in Conservation and Regeneration MA in Designing Learning Environments

www.shef.ac.uk/architecture @SSoA_News Cover Image A selection of MArch Projects The University of Sheffield School of Architecture would like to thank the technical and administrative team for their continued support and input throughout the year. In particular Peter Williams for his outstanding service to the school and we wish him a happy retirement.

We would also like to thank all of our contributors, everyone involved in curating the exhibition and everyone involved in compiling this catalogue.

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MArch in Architecture Live Projects Studio OpenData Studio BreathABLE Studio D.I.T. Studio Support Systems Studio Facilitating Resilience Studio Intergenerational Architecture Studio Interactive Urban Skins Studio LiveWorks Studio Global Praxis Studio Re:Imagine MArch Dissertation

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Events and Activities Theory Forum 2013 - Thinking Resilience SSoA Forum 2014 - Retrofitting Neighbourhoods SUAS Sheffield 1900 Study Summer Schools Architecture Students Network Student Competitions

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Awards and Recognition

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Foreword Sheffield School of Architecture has an enviable international reputation for its social commitment to making a positive difference in the world. This catalogue of our annual exhibition is a testament to that ethos. From regenerating Zanzibar’s urban areas with raw natural materials to re-energising Heeley in Sheffield with potato power – our students’ imagination is as boundless and fertile as ever. I’d like to invite you to experience this creativity over the coming pages and enjoy the year’s work as much as we have.

We started the year with a stimulating Summer School for Chinese students from Harbin Institute of Technology, who we have been collaborating with for the last three years. In London, we held another hugely successful Alumni Event with over 150 turning out to hear the likes of alumni Stephen Proctor, Jane Rendall, Andrew Groarke, Annalie Riches and David Cash talk about the challenging future for architecture.

In February, over 300 of our students took part in the Whole School Event occupying empty shops and buildings in the heart of Sheffield for a series of twenty workshops exploring new ways to interpret and regenerate our own city.We were inspired by the urbanist and broadcaster Marcus Westbury, who travelled over from Newcastle, Australia to lecture to a packed audience on regenerating retail quarters through temporary use. New initiatives this year include the launch of a Masters in Digital Design and Interactive Built Environments and the development of an exciting MArch programme, ‘Collaborative Practice,’ which will allow students to study while in practice– a much needed alternative given the pressing debt problems that students now experience in the UK and beyond.

Research is a driving force in the School and we continue to innovative in this area. This year we had two hugely successful parliamentary events on parking in housing developments and collective custom build as part of the ground-breaking ‘Home Improvements’ knowledge exchange project led by Flora Samuels. A major new interdisciplinary project on Designing for Well-being in Environments for Later Life is being led by Sarah Wigglesworth. Meanwhile our academics continue to build, publish and exhibit across the globe – from MOMA, New York to Leeds and from Ahmedabad, India to the London V&A. Our acoustics and lighting research is second to none and we excel in the humanities.

Our staff and alumni swept the board at the Regional RIBA awards, taking no less than nine out of sixteen prizes and in addition five out the seven special awards. Masters student Fay al Khalifa won the RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis in the RIBA President’s Research Awards 2013. MArch graduate Chris Parrott was the post graduate runner-up in the Global Architecture Graduate Awards (GAGA) 2013 which attracted hundreds of entries.

It is for reasons like this that Sheffield was ranked second out of all 46 Schools in the UK National Student Survey for overall satisfaction and again scored strongly in the Architects Journal’s AJ100, being rated as the UK’s 2nd best architecture school by architectural practices. My thanks go to all the staff, students, visiting guests, reviewers, alumni and sponsors who help to make us probably one of the best Schools of Architecture in the world. No room for complacency though, with the biggest challenge of all – climate change – upon us. It’s time to act… our international Architecture and Resilient Neighbourhoods conference is in September 2015.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank AHMM, BDP, Bond Bryan, Bauman Lyons, Capita, Grimshaw, John McAslan, Hawkins Brown, HLM, HCD, MSMR, OMI, Proctor Matthews, Piercy + Co, RMA and SAPA for their support, sponsorship and donations.

Fionn Stevenson Head of School

Postgraduate Taught Masters In 2013/14 we had five Postgraduate Taught Master programmes running at the School of Architecture; MA in Architectural Design MA in Conservation and Regeneration MA in Designing Learning Environments MA in Urban Design MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies In 2014/15 we will also offer a new MSc in Digital Design and Interactive Built Environments.

Each is tailored to meet the specific needs and interests of its students and builds on the strengths of the contributing academic staff. These range from experimental architectural design, participatory urban design, conservation and regeneration to sustainable architectural design. The programmes draw on the School of Architecture’s intellectual ethos which emphasizes social and environmental responsibilities in relation to the design and production of the built environment. Our Postgraduate Taught Masters (PGT) programmes aim to expose students to meaningful conversations and collaborations with researchers and professionals engaged in all aspects of architecture and urban design. We emphasise the importance of allowing students to engage with cutting-edge research and innovation in areas from across the full spectrum of architectural humanities, social sciences, building science, technology and design research. We aim to equip students with the knowledge and skills for international careers in academia, research, practice, and other commercial or professional fields where an advanced understanding of the built environment is needed.

Director of Postgraduate Taught Masters programmes Florian Kossak Programme Leader MA in Architectural Design Nishat Awan Programme Leader MA in Conservation and Regeneration Jo Lintonbon Programme Leader MA in Designing Learning Environments Rosie Parnell Programme Leader MA in Urban Design Prue Chiles Programme Leader MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies Lucy Jones / Beatrice De Carli Staff Nishat Awan Peter Blundell Jones Carolyn Butterworth Irena Bauman Leo Care Lorenza Casini Prue Chiles Cristina Cerulli Beatrice De Carli Mark Dudek Sarah Ernst

Vera Hale Anna Holder Aidan Hoggard Teresa Hoskyns Lucy Jones Florian Kossak Andreas Lang Phil Langley Russell Light Jo Lintonbon Mark Meagher Ellen Page Rosie Parnell Maria Patsarika Doina Petrescu Micheal Phiri Lucy Plumridge Chengzhi Peng John Sampson Satwinder Samra Fionn Stevenson Helen Stratford Kim Trogal Julia Udall John-Paul Walker Stephen Walker Tsung-Hsien Wang Sarah Wigglesworth

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MA in Architectural Design

MA in Urban Design

The MA in Architectural Design (MAAD) is a design-based Masters course focusing on knowledge of and reflection upon design approaches and processes. It encourages students to develop a distinctive design practice and to consider architectural design within a broad social, environmental and economic context. MAAD students participate in a wide range of design studios working alongside students on other PGT programmes and those on the MArch ARB/RIBA accredited Masters programme. Studios with MA in Architectural Design students this year included: Global Praxis; Open Data; Facilitating Resilience; Live Works; Intergenerational Architecture; Re Imagine.

The MA in Urban Design Programme (MAUD) at SSOA is characterised by its strong design focus with an emphasis on critical methodologies, sustainable urbanism, participatory design and co-production. . We combine a strategic large scale and international operation with local action and neighbourhood design. We understand that Urban Designers from an architectural perspective can mediate between individual architectural projects and large planning strategies.

The MA in Urban Design Programme grew considerably this year.The cohort of 35 came from a number of degree backgrounds and was truly international. A number of students are already qualified architects whilst others come from a Planning, landscape or environmental design background. The year is shaped by three semesters - the first explores tools for urban design and participatory practices in introductory design studios.The second, for the first time this year, joined with MArch students in four relevant studios. Two other modules on the history and theory of Urban design and reflections on Urban design practice pursue other aspects of contemporary and historic Urban Design.

Students on the MAAD programme are encouraged to explore, challenge, and inform contemporary architectural design practice through seminars, research, studio project work, field trips, and participation in design-led practice, teaching and learning innovations – for example the pioneering ‘Live Projects’. Option modules allow students to further expand their design approaches. For example, this year students on the Research by Design route used critical spatial theory to investigate the sites of architecture, whilst students on the Low Impact Buildings module developed timber construction techniques. The Reflections on Architectural Design module is core to the course allowing students the space to reconsider, experiment with and reflect on their design practice.We think of the MA in Architectural Design as a laboratory involving students, staff, visitors and public in an open-ended collaboration.

To see more of this year’s work, please visit our website: http://maad.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/maad14/

Design Studios: DIT - Do It Together Facilitating Resilience Live Works Support Systems

Programme Leader Nishat Awan

The summer semester is dedicated to the Urban design thesis project which is supported by the departments’ research groupings. Study trips to Manchester and London gave a flavour of British contemporary and Historic Urban-scapes and the different studios went to various locations on field trips.

Module Co-ordinators and Studio Tutors Carolyn Butterworth Leo Care Beatrice De Carli Sarah Ernst Scott Fletcher Aidan Hoggard Teresa Hoskyns Andreas Lang Phil Langley Russell Light Mark Meagher John-Paul Walker Ellen Page Doina Petrescu Satwinder Samra Helen Stratford Kim Trogal Litao Zhou Guest Speakers / Reviewers Irena Bauman Theo Bishop Jon Broome Wei Shan Chia Prue Chiles Peter Blundell Jones Lucy Jones Daniel Kerr Dieter Kleiner Florian Kossak Chengzhi Peng Elite Sher Fionn Stevenson Sarah Wigglesworth Students Meera Barad Gopi Rajbhai Bhuptani Yuting Dai Qixun Feng Yaying Feng Ming Fu Dongxu Guo Wei Guo Wenhao He

Rui Huo Xin Huang Yuanyuan Huang Weijing Kong Yu-Hsiang Lai Jiahui Li Shangfeng Li Xiaolong Li Zhixing Li Yiye Lin Ke Liu Xuhui Liu Yang Liu Bochen Lu Edvan Muliana Qihao Pan Bomi Park Yihan Peng Ji Qui Jingjin Shao Fei Si Tingwei Song Kelun Su Yinnan Suo Farouq Tahar Guangning Wang Haoming Wang Pengrong Wang Ranran Wei Yang Xiang Lu Xu Shaofan Xu Xi Yang Yibo Yang Jing Yuan Yaqi Yuan Jing Zhang Dongmiao Zhang Longhao Zhang Yang Zhou Jun Zhu Wei Zou

Programme Leader Prue Chiles

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Module Co-ordinators and Studio Tutors: Leo Care Prue Chiles Lorenzo Casini Cristina Cerulli Florian Kossak Anna Holder John Sampson Julia Udall Ellen Page Helen Stratford Guest Speakers/reviewers: David Rudlin URBED Rob Thompson Sheffield City Council Martin Mayfield Doina Petrescu Carolyn Butterworth International Collaborations; The department of Urban and Rural Planning, Zanzibar, Tanzania Constantin Petcou and Jeremy Galvan at Atelier d’Architecture Autogere Students Nor Akmar Azhar Mhd Aghiad Baranbo Yiwen Chen Anas Elakkari Yang Fu Jie Gao Christopher Hall Chang Hao Fang Hao Jie Hu Jing Huang Ninad Katdare

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Priyanka Kide Aditi Ashok Lande Chengrun Li Xuan Li Yun Li Manqing Lin Anqi Liu Wenfei Liu Charu Shila Mohan Joseph Moss Shilin Patwa Wanru Peng Wenyu Qi Kalpana Rai Yiming Ran Ziwen Sun Lin Wang Zhimin Wang Fan Wu Luoyi Yang Wijaya Yapeter Beichen Yu Wanlu Zhao Tianhang Zou

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MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies

MA in Conservation and Regeneration

The MSc in Sustainable Architecture Studies (SAS) combines social and technical aspects of sustainable architecture through an interdisciplinary approach. The programme has a focus on exploring sustainability through design with dedicated studio modules. Lecturers and supervisors have expertise in lighting, acoustics, modelling, building performance, parametric design and renewable materials. It is driven by an ethos of global stewardship and positive regeneration to transform the built environment for a more equitable future. In 2013-2014 the MSc SAS attracted 29 students from the following eight countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.

The MA in Conservation and Regeneration (MACR) specialises in the theory and practice of building conservation and conservation-led regeneration. Drawing on expertise in historic built environments, contextual design approaches and urban history and theory, the programme emphasises the contribution and significance of cultural heritage in shaping and sustaining places and communities. Exploring themes of memory, identity and continuity, students are encouraged to develop the critical skills and acumen to enable them to effectively evaluate and manage change within the historic and built environment of the 21st century. The programme has been developed in accordance with ICOMOS Guidelines for Education and Training and it is fully recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation.

During the year there were many opportunities to take part in field trips and conferences. In November 2013, students on module ‘ARC6821 Materials for Low Impact Building: Theory’ participated in a study trip organised by the module leader, Dr Lucy Jones. At the Think Low Carbon Centre students enjoyed a tour by Eric Passmore, Course Leader in Construction & Sustainable Industries at Barnsley College who showed students the sustainable features in the building which include a green roof, rainwater recycling, solar panels, an air source heat pump and biomass boiler, with power generation and usage displayed on a screen to teach visitors about energy consumption.

Recycled denim (INNO-THERM ®), sheep’s wool and panels of locally sourced straw bale and hemp are used to insulate walls. At LILAC students enjoyed a tour with Joe Atkinson, who is one of the residents in the co-housing scheme. LILAC is constructed using the ModCell technique of straw bale prefabricated panels. At Brockholes students met a structural engineer who discussed the structurally insulated panels (SIPs) which are finished with an acoustic spray made of recycled newspaper.

The MACR students have worked on two conservation projects throughout this year as part of Studio Re-Imagine, a cross disciplinary group bringing together students from the MACR, MAAD and MArch programmes. Our studio projects draw upon knowledge gained throughout the year in three specialist conservation and regeneration modules looking at Policy and Law, Principles and Approaches and Materials and Techniques. Students produce a conservation appraisal for each project and propose a conservation strategy addressing both design and delivery.

As part of their studies the MACR students also visited Berlin to look at a diverse range of approaches to the re-use of buildings, and hosted a one day knowledge exchange with Guangzhou Urban Planning and Design Studio to discuss conservation and regeneration practices.

Programme Leader Jo Lintonbon

In February 2014, students on module ‘ARC6840 Renewable Energy’ enjoyed welcoming guest speakers from across the University to share their research and experience in relation to renewable energy technologies, applications, and their social impacts at various scales, ranging from urban, landscape to building levels. As part of this module students also visited EcoBuild at ExCel London which had more than 1500 exhibitors, a conference and seminars.

Programme Leader Lucy Jones Module Co-ordinators and Studio Tutors Vera Hale Aidan Hoggard Teresa Hoskyns Lucy Jones Chengzhi Peng Lucy Plumridge Tsung-Hsien Wang Additional Reviewers, Lecturers and Thesis Supervisors Peter Blundell-Jones Beatrice De Carli Cristina Cerulli Scot Fletcher (Handspring Design) Steve Fotios Jian Kang Mark Meagher Rosie Parnell Mark Parsons Fionn Stevenson Paul Testa Kim Trogal John-Paul Walker Students Nashita Afroz Zhaofang Chen Mick Dennis Adam Douglas Olivia Espinosa Trujillo Fangwei Ge Bin Guo Vaidehi Javadekar Norsyafiqa Kamarudin Jiafeng Li Yangbin Lu Zheng Ma Rubina Mohamed Abubacker Siddeek Anushree More

Faith Ng’eno Digvijay Rajdev Saul Sanchez Atondo Guannan Shi Damini Singh Vikram Singha Polla Sktani Mohd Haniff Tahir Chenye Xiang Xiaoteng Xu Aoran Yang Xuran Yang Yishu Yao Ming Yi Zheng Zeng

Module Co-ordinators and Studio Tutors Russell Light Jo Lintonbon John-Paul Walker Stephen Walker Thesis Supervisors Anna Holder Russell Light Jo Lintonbon Mark Meagher

With thanks to: John Allan Craig Broadwith Jon Carr Susan Crowley Mark Emms Matthew Godfrey Peter Blundell Jones Tim Blundell Jones Katlego Mwale Richard Murphy Shuntaro Nozawa Carolyn Shelbourn David Watt Jan Woudstra

Students Mohd Saiful Bin Mohd Tajudin Chaojing Chen Tingting Dong Alex Gilbert Gi Min Lee Yuting Rao Chihiro Saito Siti Farrah Zaini Ling Zhou

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MA in Designing Learning Environments 2013/14 saw the launch of this exciting multidisciplinary programme (MADLE), bringing together architects and educators, academics and practitioners through a programme of lectures, seminars, workshops, field trips, design studio and research. The course addresses the relationship between learning, children and young people´s culture and educational environments. It draws on international theory and practice as well as the expertise of Sheffield´s renowned team of educational design researchers/practitioners and specialists in education. Students have been supported to explore, challenge and inform contemporary approaches to spatial design for education, with opportunity to relate elements of coursework to individual experiences and contexts.

The programme addresses the growing national and international need for professionals, in practice and academia, who are knowledgeable and skilled in the spatial design of learning environments, able to combine the skills of design with an understanding of the educational context and vice versa. We are currently reconfiguring the course to allow participants from around the world to engage in the debate and co-create knowledge, through a combination of e-learning and intensive teaching sessions in Sheffield.

Programme Leader Rosie Parnell Module Co-ordinators and Studio Tutors Leo Care Mark Dudek Anita Franklin (School of Education) Sarah Joyce Rosie Parnell Maria Patsarika Satwinder Samra

01 Students from the Green Roof Group ARC6822: Materials for Low Impact Building: Pratical

02 Students visit LILAC- a low impact living affordable community, Leeds ARC6821 Materials for Low Impact Building: Theory 02

Additional Reviewers / Module Contributors Howard Evans Peter Blundell-Jones Prue Chiles John Sampson Doina Petrescu Abigail Hackett (School of Education) Elizabeth Woods (School of Education) Christopher Spencer (Department of Psychology) Catherine Burke (University of Cambridge) Dominic Cullinan (SCABAL) Simon Innes (Innes Associates) Rene Meijer

Students Li Qi Alkistis Pitsikali

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MArch in Architecture The MArch (RIBA Part 2) course at SSoA is one of the most innovative and influential in the country. It prepares students to be enterprising, employable and to use their skills to the benefit of people’s lives. At the heart of the course is a range of specialist design studios and our innovative ‘live projects’ programme, offering between them excellent opportunities for students to develop graduate-level research by design.

Other modules in humanities, management and technology offer students the opportunity to enhance their design projects and wider learning through written work and critical reflection. Further opportunities to explore specialist lines of enquiry are offered by the fifth year option modules that focus on aspects of urban design, digital design, sustainability, conservation and architectural education.

The SSoA MArch is shaped by its emphasis on collaboration, social engagement and ‘liveness’.This begins each year with live projects and continues in the many studios that collaborate with community partners, e.g. local councils, grassroots organisations and arts programmes. Projects evolve, that are ambitious, innovative and respond to the complexity of real-life conditions.

Fifth and sixth year students work together in design studios, alongside specialist masters (PGT) students to explore current challenges and opportunities in architecture. Students are encouraged to develop a critical approach to the production of architecture in contemporary society. The design studios offer students the freedom to experiment and develop their own lines of enquiry while being supported by tutors who offer excellent specialist research and practice experience.

The fifth year offers students the chance to develop rigorous research by design skills. The iterative process of design is valued, as well as the outcomes, and students are encouraged to develop their individual interests, ways of working and attitude towards architecture and the role of the architect. Sixth year students then develop individual thesis projects, exploring research questions through the design of complex buildings.

Students are encouraged to be canny, flexible, and enterprising so not only can they negotiate and respond to the challenges of our time, but also lead on what ‘Future Practice’ might be. A practice that can listen, negotiate and advocate clients’ and users’ needs in order to produce architecture of excellence.

Director Carolyn Butterworth Co-director Leo Care Studio BreathABLE Vera Hale Lucy Plumridge Studio D.I.T Cristina Cerulli Anna Holder John Sampson Julia Udall Studio Facilitating Resilience Andreas Lang Doina Petrescu Helen Stratford Studio Global Praxis Beatrice De Carli Sarah Ernst Teresa Hoskyns Studio Intergenerational Architecture Leo Care Satwinder Samra

Studio Interactive Urban Skins Aidan Hoggard Chengzhi Peng Tsung-Hsien Wang Studio Live Works Carolyn Butterworth Ellen Page Studio Open Data Phil Langley Mark Meagher Studio Re:Imagine Russell Light John-Paul Walker Studio Support Systems Lorenza Casini Prue Chiles

With Thanks To: Visitors Theo Bishop Robert Evans, Evans Vettori Alex Griffin, Oblong Architecture Andrew Groarke, Carmody Groarke Rachel Haynes, Thread Architecture Daniel Kerr, Superhistory Carole Latham, Journeyman Design Warren McFadden, WM Architects Barra Mac Ruari, Bradford Council Martin Mayfield, Dept of Engineering, SSoA Ed McCann, Expedition Engineering Paul Monaghan, AHMM Richard Murphy, Richard Murphy Architects Greg Penoyre, Penoyre and Prasad Arran Pexton, John MacAslan Partnership John Sampson, Urbed Andy Thomas, Thread Architecture Rob Thompson, Sheffield City Council Claire Tymon, Blackburn with Darwen Council Sam Vardy, Sheffield Hallam University Laura Wardak, ARUP Within The School Magda Baborska-Narozny Irena Bauman Simon Chadwick Mark Emms Ian Hicklin Florian Kossak Rosie Parnell Fionn Stevenson

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Live Projects Live Projects take place outside the School of Architecture and run for the first six weeks of the MArch and MAAD courses. Students work in groups to produce built and strategic design solutions for real clients with a particular emphasis on community participation and collaborative working. The Live Project programme, now in its fifteenth year, is widely recognised as an innovative form of teaching and learning within UK architectural education, offering students at SSoA the opportunity to test design ideas in a real-world context.

Live Projects are a touchstone to demonstrate the importance we place on collaboration, participatory practice, and the exploration of an expanded role of the architect.The role that Live Projects play in offering Enterprise Education has been recognised across the university and beyond through the dissemination of the recently published Live Projects handbook. This summer also sees the establishment of Live Works. Based at Union Street in the heart of Sheffield City Centre, it will offer opportunities for Live Projects to be enhanced and developed, providing a base for student groups to work and engage more easily with groups within the city. It also aims to provide a showcase for Live Projects that is available to the public.

This year, 12 Live Projects investigated new territories and rekindled previous collaborations.The public presentations were held at Castle Markets, a way of saying farewell to this Sheffield icon. Many of the clients and stakeholders joined in the presentations to celebrate the students’ endeavour. The legacy of this year’s projects is also beginning to take shape. The Re-imagining Libraries project has formed the basis of a successful Lottery Awards for All bid with clients Integreat+, to aid community groups wishing to take on buildings/assets for future community management.

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S1 Artspace is a Sheffield based charity that operates a varied programme of contemporary art exhibitions. Alongside this, the charity offers affordable studio spaces for artists working at different stages of their careers, from graduate students to established artists. For six weeks the S1 Artspace Live Project group immersed themselves in Sheffield’s art scene. Based in a vacant studio at their current premises at Trafalgar House.

The project led to the production of seven documents and a physical model, which summarized their research and presented a series of visions for the phased relocation of S1 Artspace, involving two different sites in Sheffield City Centre. The project concluded with an exhibition and verbal presentation of four feasibility schemes to the client, stakeholders and studio holders at S1 Artspace.

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The RE:GAINsborough Live Project was tasked by Hill Holt Wood, to examine and develop responses to complement their work in Gainsborough; which is located in the West Lindsay District of Lincolnshire on the River Trent. The project focused on three strands, which were developed after unpicking the complex stakeholder situation: Firstly, addressing the need to retrofit existing terraces, to bring them up to a better standard of energy

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The aim of this project was to create a heritage learning centre at the Upper Wincobank Undenominational Chapel, situated in the North East of Sheffield. The Chapel site includes a Grade II listed chapel building and a residential property adjacent to it. It is hoped that this project will allow for a refurbishment of the house and possibly the chapel. Working with the client, Penny Rea, and consulting a range of community groups, the team identified a strategy for the project which culminated in the production of a series of documents, models and a new identity for the chapel.

The outputs aim to provide support for the chapel’s future funding applications to continue engagement with community members and professionals, helping the client to progress the project.

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Mentor: Leo Care Client: Penny Rea, Upper Wincobank Chapel

The team worked in partnership with community owned Portland Works to produce a sustainable vision for its future use. The site currently lets low cost workspace to tenants supporting a varied number of small businesses and traditional crafts. Following the purchase of Portland Works in February 2012, after a four year campaign, focus has now shifted to securing its long term future.

The Live Project fits into this vision by looking to encourage skill sharing between the local community and tenants at Portland Works, ensuring that the site’s wealth of traditional craft expertise isn’t lost whilst maintaining its historic working context.

The group addressed this with client agreement by focusing on: - Improving the site’s currently unwelcoming entrance whilst maintaining security for tenants.

- Introducing a ‘makers lab’ with equipment that can be utilised by tenants, teaching workshops and other interested parties for work’s community profit.

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[re]create Blackburn was a collaboration between SSoA and Blackburn with Darwen council. This project aimed to build upon Blackburn’s existing creative town plan, exploring the role that arts and the creative industries could play in rejuvenating Blackburn town centre. The project specifically focused on the arrival of the ‘Fab Lab’ in the existing Bentley’s building, located adjacent to the main town square and its relationship to Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. The Live Project group utilised a base in an empty shop, off the town square, opening its doors and asking people to participate in several activities, which provided invaluable information for the development of a series of our strategic designs at different scales.

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06 Live LGBT Mentors: Simon Chadwick & Florian Kossak Client: LGBT Sheffield

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Live LGBT is a project that evolved out of the need for a dedicated space in the city centre that can cater for people of all ages within the LGBT community, many of whom are underrepresented and have limited access to support. Working closely with LGBT Sheffield charity, existing support organisations and various community groups, the Live Project team explored potential strategies for what LGBT space should be, how it should be organised and what relationship it should have with both the LGBT community and the wider population of Sheffield.

The aim of this Live Project was to create a design proposal which enables the Stocksbridge Garden Village Community Association to develop the much-loved, but dated, Inman Pavilion into a modern, energy-efficient community centre, which reflected the needs of its current users as well as strengthening the links with the wider Stocksbridge community. Through focus groups and public engagement events, key objectives were established including: a more efficient heating strategy, modernisation of facilities and designed external space. As a result of this feedback, three schemes were proposed to the clients. The proposals varied in scale, complexity and cost. Through further consultation with user groups the, ‘The Inman Initiative’ was developed. It is intended to inform the clients of their options and will support them in their applications for external funding.

07 Live Difference Mentors: Tatjana Schneider & Florian Kossak Client: Live Difference Research Group & Together For Peace We live in increasingly multicultural societies; however, this does not necessarily mean that they are integrated societies. This Live Project has brought together an international team, who, for six weeks, has collectively carried out a series of spatial experiments aimed at bringing people of difference together in conversation and interaction. These experiments focused on transforming existing spaces, where people of difference might encounter one another, into spaces of positive interaction, first through static interventions and later through architectural games and group discussions. To facilitate the team’s engagement with communities, a kit of parts combined with a spatial game was developed.

Participants were able to experiment hands-on with the creation of space, discuss ideas and share values.

08 Wellington Street Mentor: Aidan Hoggard Client:Clare Murdoch/Miranda Plowden (South Yorkshire Housing Society) If you were to walk along Wellington Street in Sheffield, you would miss the vibrancy and innovation of a charitable organisation committed to providing quality living and social support. As the staff of South Yorkshire Housing Society will tell you, this is also the case throughout the interior of the office too. This Live Project investigates the refurbishment of the interior layout and exterior façade, towards realising the potential of SYHA headquarters. In a two tiered, yet coordinated approach, between interior and exterior, the group’s ambition was to physically express the organisation’s purpose and values throughout the building. The student’s design work was developed through active correspondence with the client, extensive staff consultation and a breadth of research including visits to successful office spaces.

09 Re-Imagining Libraries Mentor: Tony Broomhead Client: Richard Motley, Managing Director, CIQ Agency

11 Ecclesall Woods- Celebrating Timber Construction Mentor: Mark Parsons Client: Handspring Design & Sheffield City Council This was the seventh Live Project to take place in Ecclesall Woods.

This project has involved close collaboration and consultation with clients Sheffield City Council [SCC] and Handspring Design, as well as other related stakeholders. Handspring Design required a new office and kitchen space to replace the current arrangement in which meetings are held at a table in their noisy and dusty workshop. The proposed extension occupies a prominent feature in the courtyard at the centre of the sawmill site, and its refurbishment was also seen as an opportunity to improve the visitors’ experience in the courtyard. A wider masterplan was also developed, to envisage the future potential of the wider sawmill site. The final design consists of a series of crossing portal frames inserted into the existing brick walls of the kitchen extension, forming the primary structure for the roof which extends to form a canopy over a clerestorey strip window.

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12 GuangFutures Mentor: Satwinder Samra GuangFutures began with a field trip to the ancient city of GuangFu, birthplace of Tai Chi, in the Northern Province of Hebei, China.

The group worked in collaboration with Hawkins/Brown, a wellknown practice with offices in China, who were able to introduce us to key contacts and give the students valuable insight into the social, political and economic context that we were operating in.

The focus was placed on the development of GuangFu, considering both the current Masterplan that has been put in place and the impact of tourism. The city already attracts some local tourists, and the government is keen to expand this aspect of the economy.

The student’s work examines how this growth can occur in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner. A bi-lingual online resource was created for GuangFu, which aims to maximize the reach and impact of the work.

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Today, Sheffield’s local Libraries are facing extensive changes with many under threat of closure. Re-imagining libraries is a project which aims to develop strategic options to rethink and reclaim the community library as a sustainable organisation. The project was developed in collaboration with the Cultural Industries Quarter Agency and the Walkley Library. A board game was created as an engagement tool to help empower local community libraries and steering groups to agree on a collective strategy and make informed decisions for the future.

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Studio OpenData In this studio we consider the spatial implications of free, widely-available, open-source data.This involves a creative and critical engagement with methods for making, understanding, and communicating data. We investigate what it means to take an ‘open source’ approach to architectural design and production, including the use of open source softwares (e.g. processing) and hardwares (e.g.arduino, 3D printing) to explore the ‘social making’ of data-driven design and production.

As digital technology becomes more pervasive, the issue of what is public data, and the question of who controls it is becoming more important. The ongoing scandal involving NSA digital surveillance of huge numbers of us highlights the importance of data in our lives. We are always making data, through our use of social media and other online activities. But data also shapes our physical world. Our urban policies are often supported by large quantities of data, and architectural designs are often driven by data derived from complex simulations, neither of which are easily accessed or contested.

Our ‘site’ is the UK government’s controversial proposal for a high speed train network (HS2) and the proposed station in Sheffield, scheduled for completion in 20 years. Such networks provide a medium for the movement of people and goods while transforming the landscape through associated infrastructure and environmental impact, which is as much a consequence of manipulations of data as its social and economic ‘realities’.

Studio Tutors Phil Langley Mark Meagher 5th Year Students Joshua Piddock Philippos Protopapas Mohamad Bin Mohamad Said Baolong Teo Richard Webster Robert Wilson 6th Year Students Edmund Harrison-Gray Alex Maxwell Abigail Watts-Cherry

MAAD Students Wei Guo Rui Hou Xiaolong Li Zhixing Li Edvan Mulina Bomi Park Tingwei Song Yinnan Suo Guangning Wang Ranran Wei Jing Yuan Yang Zhou

01 Edmund Harrison-Gray - The Exchange This project considers the ways in which technology has changed our lives, shifting the ways in which we work, live, play, communicate and much more, asking if a new institution can be established for a digital age. The Exchange proposes a new civic building and challenges the retail driven nature of our city centres to become more open a creative places. It is not merely a celebration of technology but a project which acknowledges and responds to a new and developing context, proposing new programs and spatial configurations to address these emerging issues.

02 Abigail Watts-Cherry - HS2 Meadowhall Station 2034 // Retail Resilience This is a high speed station that addresses the potential implications of online shopping; where small and start up businesses can park for a few weeks or months in order to benefit from the high footfall of the station and gain a client base for their website.

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03 Alex Maxwell - The Guild of Open Innovaton This project positions itself amongst a deregulated, foreign investment-led special economic quarter in Sheffield, with technoenvironmentalists, lithium miners and device synthesisers jostling to create a new professionalism in space-making. The Guild of Open Innovation brings together and catalyses these researchers and makers into an urban ‘Do Tank’, creating a truly new civic institution that aims to deal with the changing notion of the city in a connected age. It manifests as a ‘device at a city scale’.

04 Tingwei Song - Art District Based on the assumption that industrial buildings on site will be disused in the following decade. The project attempts to do regeneration of this site through designing an art district.

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05 Yang Zhou - Knowledge Park The Knowledge Park explores how the public library might change in the next 25 years, and how to reuse the old Sheffield Station that is a common memory of the citizens.The public library will be a third cultural place of communication, creativity, innovation and learning. It will combine both internet space and physical space.

People can freely get knowledge, information,skills and activities from the public library, including paper books, e-resources, craft, hand making skills and so on.

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01 Edmund Harrison-Gray - The Exchange 06 Richard Webster - Don Velo This project seeks to boost cycling in Sheffield by designing new cycling infrastructure for the Don Valley and a Cycle Park at the site of the finish line for the Grand Depart of the 2014 Tour de France. In this way by the time High Speed 2 arrives in Sheffield in 2033 there will be an added layer to the transport infrastructure.

07 Robert Wilson - HS2 Open Design Forum The HS2 Open Design forum is a digital park to facilitate community interaction in major infrastructure projects. The ‘Data Sharing Centre’ uses digital technologies to enable the public to interact with the data, understand it, and then contribute themselves to the design process. Interactive screens and processing software present the HS2 data in a way that can be more intuitively understood making interaction with data a fun participatory event rather than formalised consultation.

08 Josh Piddock - A National Institute of Bioprinting The proposal for a National Institue of Bioprinting is an alternative to traditional commercial development that comes with the building of transport infrastructure; in this case the arrival of HS2 at Sheffield Victoria Station. The building attempts to provide a commercial arm to the NHS, with biological material created & distributed to patients & pharmaceutical companies alike. A key feature of the design is to provide deep public penetration to address the perception & knowledge gap that currently surrounds biological printing.

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12 Ranran Wei & Rui Huo - Ridge Bridge This project is attempt to create a smooth link between Sheffield city centre and HS2 station near Meadowhall for cyclists and pedestrians. Along the route, entertainment spaces will be created for local residents and travellers.

13 Xialong Li - HS2 Integrated and Sustainable Interchange This project looks to create a new train station at Meadowhal for the new HS2 line. Connection is an important theme to create coherence between the new design and the existing public facilities and spaces. Public elements surrounding Meadowhall mainly contains retaill, entertainment centres and industrial factories.The tram, the high speed railway and the bus stop are connected directly to each other in the site area, which will facilitate the commercial nature of the site.

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10 Baolong Tao - Innovation Lab INLab aims to attract multidisciplinary makers and those interested in the digital fabrication world, providing much needed open source technologies and opportunities into the local community. The building incorporates fabricated parts, added to it and taken away across its lifetime. INLab looks at embracing innovation and design for manufacture, through participation in the making process, both inside and outside of the building.

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14 Bomi Park - Connecting the City This network contains various scales of interventions that act at all citizen levels. This is not a fixed network, starting from multiple nodes, identified due to their potential connectivity and importance topographically and symbolically this network constantly grows over the period. If the main structure of network is design there is a possibility the network to be developed further by its users participation and giving their voice.

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11 Mohamad Said - hackLAB for Open-Source Gaming The hackLAB for Open-Source Gaming is a project proposal for a building dedicated for the principles and essences of Gaming and Knowledge Sharing with the aim to educate the masses about the potential of Video Games. The hackLAB is a dedicated base for the new and aspiring developers or small start-ups. The hackLAB provides spaces for daily Social Gaming, large scale tournaments and Game Expos. The hackLAB is not just a Video Game Mall, it is a Video Game Institute.

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Studio BreathABLE This year’s studio BreathABLE looked at high-density sustainable urban living environments, researching the ‘breathability’ of buildings and that of resilient urban living. How do you increase density and develop mixed-use strategies for sustainable growth? The aim of the design studio was to design desirable affordable social projects which respond to local urban infrastructures and amenities, developing innovative typologies that use low-carbon natural resources such as straw, earth or timber. Considering sustainability as a whole, the proposals needed to be resilient on social, economic and social levels.

The site is based in the heart of Sheffield, St Vincent’s on Solly Street, a mixed commercial and residential area just north of the City Centre. It is an 8300m² site where issues of re-use, site connectivity and mixed use all need to be addressed to create more resilient urban living. As a studio we have worked concurrently and collaboratively at multiple scales. At the urban scale to understand what the best environmental, structural and social balance is between height and density, whilst pursuing group or individual projects that explore and analyse sustainability in more detail through specific design concepts, such as co-housing, urban farming, education, re-rehabilitation.

Studio Tutors Vera Hale Lucy Plumridge 5th Year Students Robert Ormrod Alexander Schofield Richard Wallace 6th Year Students James Dacre Joanna Hansford Oliver Hardisty Samuel Hicks Rebecca Randall Erasmus Gine Backer-RØed SAS Students Zhaofang Chen Fangwei Ge Bin Guo Vaidehi Javadekar Norsyafiqa Kamarudin Zheng Ma Anushree More Faith Ng’eno Digvijay Rajdev Saul Sanchez Atono Damini Singh Rubina Mohamed Abubacker Siddeek Polla Sktani Mohd Haniff Tahir Ming Yi

01 Study Trip - Amsterdam Exploring the city by bicycle

04 Samuel Hicks - Well Meadow Works Well Meadow Works focuses on reinvigorating the declining tradition of skilled hand trades in the St Vincent’s Quarter of Sheffield. The project proposes a development of live/work units to encourage new craftspeople into the area, and a training campus for the Sheffield College for teaching local hand skills to the next generation. The project includes a new public square around the campus and the forging of a pedestrian route through the site and St Vincent’s Quarter, from the residential districts to the northwest to the city centre. The construction of the scheme reuses the remnants of previous buildings which occupied the site, such as floor slabs, retaining walls and column feet, in order to reduce the demand for new materials.

05 Zheng Ma - Student Housing and Cycle Shelter Made of Shipping Container Due to the lack of public traffic and increasing requirement of student houses within the site, a five person student accommodation as well as two bicycle shelters, both made of used shipping containers and other waste materials, has been designed within the area.

06 Haniff Tahir - St Vincent’s Community Food Centre This proposal acts as a centre of food production that aims to reduce food miles while providing fresh and healthy food for the community. It reduces the price of the food to attract consumers as a strategy to sustain and utilize of the development as part of economical sustainability startegy. This project considers both landscape and building scale in delivering the aim. To help sustain the operation of the farm, spaces between buildings around the site are used to help transferring grey water from selected buildings by using sustainable urban drainage system (SuDS). SuDS will collect and transfer water to the farm to offset the usage of normal water consumption for the farming activity. Apart from that, it will also act as an urban park and ecosystem linkage for people to commute and interact with nature while enhancing biodiversity and environmental quality around the area as part of environmental and social sustainable strategy.

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07 Rebecca Randall - Reclaim: Rehabilitation Through Creation As a studio we explored the definition of sustainability through the Three Pillar Model, which presents sustainability as an integration of social, economic, and environmental factors. This rehabilitation centre responds to these three factors by offering female exoffenders, and those at risk of offending, the facilities, skills and opportunities to move beyond entrenched negative behaviour.

Connections with existing creative networks within St Vincent’s Quarter will provide women with the recognition and acceptance necessary to achieve reform and reclaim their lives.

08 Gine Backer-RØed - St.Vincent’s Market St. Vincent’s Quarter in Sheffield was the heart of Sheffield’s steel industry. When the main steel production in Sheffield ended great parts of St. Vincent’s Quarter was left derelict. Today, St. Vincent’s Quarter is in a transition phase and Sheffield City Council wants it to become a “vibrant urban neighbourhood”. This project is trying to answer this by turning the derelict St. Vincent’s Church into a market. To give the area back its identity the products that are being sold in the market are locally produced in Sheffield. The project also introduces new residences in the form of flexible live/ work units and the reuse of other derelict buildings on the site.

09 Fangwei Ge - Landscape Regeneration for St.Vincent’s Church The basic function of St. Vincent’s Church area is car parking, but it is disordered. The basic proposal of my design gives a new sense of organisation to this space, whilst maintaining the car parking function. Furthermore, according to the analysis of topography for this area, it can be found that it is a good place for landscape, it has a broad perspective. Therefore, another element joining this new order is Landscape design. The final product of my project is a multi-story car park building with garden roof and landscape design for this area. Following the sustainable nature of the studio, the building will use timber frame and renewable energy strategy including solar PV and wind turbine.

11 Vaidehi Javadekar - Auditorium & Music Hall Facility My studio project deals with designing an auditorium and music hall facility. Our site is located at St. Vincent’s Quarter, Solly Street Sheffield. The entire site on its first glance paints a dead scene.

It is redundant of activity and lacks life. Stemming from my first impressions of the site which was of a “Silent Chaos”, I unearthed the poetry in architecture that the site had to offer. Studying the use and imbibing of poetry in architecture and design, I chalked out my initial design ideas. The church is the focal point of the site and hence, the music hall facility was to be housed here.The old school building would be demolished and its materials reused to build the allied facilities around. Sustainable techniques like timber louvers for natural light, heating, and solar PV panels have been used.

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12 Anushree More - Early Childhood Architecture Surrounded by empty warehouses, the site has been drained of all life and acts as a transient place. With heritage buildings, it is essential to understand whether demolishing or preserving would be best for the site and its context. The design program consisted of a preschool, after-school club and an activity centre.

The building had to play a big part in being a mode of education for the children as the ‘early childhood architecture’ suggests.

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10 Norsyafiqa Kamarudin - St.Vincent’s Retreat People living in towns with parks and recreation centres feel a stronger sense of community than those living in areas without facilities. Within this project St. Vincent’s quarter, a rare treasure hidden in the heart of the city, has been proposed as St. Vincent’s Retreat. This project will serve the local community in St.Vincent’s Quarter, of approximately 8000m², on the Church site at Solly Street. Certain functions such as Spa (Pool, sauna and treatment rooms), gym and café including the nursery will offer services especially to the local community. Sustainability strategies are a significant parameter for the design.

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13 Digvijay Rajdev - St.Vincent’s Care Home and Community Centre After researching the historical background of the site, I proposed an old age care home and community centre to cater for the needs of the old Irish and Italian people. This maintained the original identity & soul of the site and also provides a platform for interaction between the original inhabitants of the site with the present student community. The housing blocks are placed at the southern and western side for maximum solar gain. The open block concept has been applied by chamfering the blocks at varying angles for proper daylight and ventilation. Straw Bale walls with lime render on the outside and earth render on the inside, make these blocks well insulated for hot summers and cold winters.

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Wellbeing as a methodology informs an urban scale development in transforming St Vincent’s into a sustainable place for living. As a key part of the first phase, the building project offers education and establishes a network to facilitate the continued growth of initiatives throughout the area. Addressing connectivity both physically and programmatically, a key topographical boundary forms a challenging site for an interconnecting mix of typologies in convening people over the idea of wellbeing. Housing is integrated into the project, anchoring the facility and prototyping mixed demographic living. Shared facilities allow for higher density residences with attractive shared living tying into wider wellbeing ambitions. As an engaging place through spaces varying in nature, the project facilitates the sustainable growth of St Vincents towards becoming Sheffield’s Wellbeing Quarter.

15 Saul Sanchez - Re-inhabiting St Vincent’s Quarter and the Crofts: Live-Work Spaces At an urban scale the project tries to reactivate a zone formerly known as “the Crofts” through a series of interventions that comprise a mixture of typologies that was chosen to fulfill most of the social needs within a walking/cycling distance.The Crofts were a combination of housing and industrial activity during the 18th century. In a smaller scale the project focusses on live-work spaces that resemble the history of the place. Taking care of reducing CO₂ emissions by using low impact materials, reducing the use of motor vehicles, retrofitting existing buildings, analysing wind flow and solar radiation, promoting small scale urban farming, and the implementation of renewable energies on site.

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17 James Dacre - Urban Later Living & Cultural Centre This project explores how the ageing UK population could achieve more low-impact, socially sustainable lifestyles by living in the St. Vincent’s Quarter of Sheffield city centre in the form of an urban sheltered housing scheme. To achieve a high density, certain spaces are shared including laundry and rooftop allotments. Dining is also shared in the restaurant of the adjacent Cultural Centre which renovates and extends the derelict St.Vincent’s Church and School House. The rich multicultural heritage of the area is continued by exploring different cultures in an exhibition and through food and entertainment using new cross-laminated timber insertions.

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After attempting several options to find a good design solution by comparing the relation between both density and strong environmental standards, the final outcome of studio project design was 130 dwellings per hectare. Developing this medium density project, the lessons learned from this process revolved around good environmental sustainability. The potential of high density achievement becomes very difficult as it should increase/ decrease number of floors through iterations in environmental simulation. Quality of space is enhanced for residential through sustainable principles of southern orientation.

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Studio D.I.T. In Studio D.I.T, we start with a notion of active citizenship, the motto of ‘Do it thysen’, with an emphasis on collective communication, design and action for social and spatial justice. Looking critically at the roles and relationships of those involved in making the built environment, we take stock of the spatial spread of provision of services in the face of savage cuts to public funding. In particular we have focussed on the crisis of housing supply. Informed by new research, and critically addressing changing policy, we will turn our collective skills in design thinking to map, interrogate and rethink how people access housing as a basic social good.

The idea of ‘Do it thysen’ (a Sheffield twist on ‘Do it yourself’) is to look at what role citizens can have in the production of their cities, with a focus on housing provision, in its re-imagined sense. We are actively seeking to learn from international contexts across the world, near and far, specifically our field trip to belgium where we visited a number of self build housing projects.

We applied our research to the studio ‘hometown’ of Sheffield, where we can see a proliferation of ‘DIT’ culture – in the music, art and creative industries, in light industrial and craft work – supported through making collective resources of knowledge and space. How can we design ways to support the DIT model for the collective production of housing here? How might we develop a Sheffield strategy for self-build, self-commissioning, or self-provision? How will this be relevant to other cities?

03 Studio Tutor Cristina Cerulli Anna Holder John Sampson Julia Udall 5th Year Students Stuart Bell Tom Bellfield Connor Cunningham Alexander Dewick Joseph Gautrey Alexandra Mills Lucy Tew Bonnie Wong Robert Young

MAUD Students Yang Fu Jie Gao Chang Hao Fang Hao Jing Huang Aditi Lande Manqing Lin Priyanke Kide Shilin Patwa Kalpana Rai Fan Wu Tianhang Zou

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01 Joseph Gautrey - Future Flood Resilience This project is an Exemplar flood resilient housing development sited in a high probability flood plain within Kelham Island, directly adjacent to the River Don. The area has experienced disastrous effects from flooding in the past; most recently in 2007. The main aim is to provide a community, which can flourish in flooded conditions, whereby flood water can be encouraged into the development, successfully managed and celebrated, by doing so the architecture relieves the flooding pressures on the surrounding infrastructure. Water inundation is the main design driver for the project and this is strongly represented in the architecture, which in some cases physically responds to flooded conditions.

The projects vision is for other cities to adopt this housing model for future flood-plain developments.

02 Alex Dewick - Oscar Works S.M.H.B.O.S In response to a successful application for the demolition of the iconic Oscar Works building in 2013 the Shalesmoor Mutual Home and Business Ownership Society establishes itself. Unconvinced by the long term resilience of the current model of redevelopment in the area, the society wants to find an alternative model, one that focuses on re-localizing the economy for the benefit of the people of Shalesmoor rather than for pure profiteering. Founded by a group of volunteers, the ethos of the S.M.H.B.O.S is to encourage a renewed entrepreneurial spirit within Shalesmoor whilst providing an alternative model for the areas redevelopment. The society does this by providing the opportunity and support for businesses to develop at various scales, whether that be through market testing an idea on a market stall or increasing production with a workshop. Housing will also be provided for those who wish to live near their business as well as ‘the Shalesmoor Market’ a platform for businesses to sell their produce

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It questions whether student accommodation can be produced through different development models, and seeks to find out what this alternative would look like.

04 Sunny Huang & Manqing Lin - Share is More Our project is an urban strategy for the future development of Shalesmoor, Sheffield - once the industrial heartland of the city. In order to make this under-used area more active and to build the connection between different groups of people here (residents, artistes and business), we propose a multi-phased project. Designing through holding participatory events which engage residents who live here to interact with their environment, through practices such as sharing idle resources. We also propose, finding a better balance between private and public space by retaining and reusing infrastructure and open spaces remodelling them for use by an active and engaged public.

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05 Chang Hao & Fang Hao - Free Houses Provided in Shalesmoor The purpose of our design was to direct more attention to the street security of the Shalesmoor area. According to the previous research results, We found that the area only has a single building function, most of the buildings are offices. The working day results in the periodical ‘emptiness’ we encountered, there are very few people in the area after 6.00 pm. In addition, there are many empty and abandoned houses in the area so they tend to give rise to potential safety hazards. Therefore, we have proposed the introduction of new housing in Shalesmoor to improve the situation.

06 Robert Young - Heeley Energy Assembly The co-production of local energy through biomass combustion in Heeley, Sheffield. The scheme drives the facilitation of Sheffield’s decentralised plan - local networks of heat and power. Straw used as fuel, is harvested from repeat annual waste surplus in the adjacent agricultural lands. With Sheffield sat between regions that contain the highest abundance of straw waste, the scheme aims to see the return of honest energy production to the urban context; inhabiting in the centre of communities. Flexible forms of engagement with the public and commercial ventures, through process and by-products of production further awareness at a collective scale 07 Lucy Tew - Oscar Works: Centre for Homeless Rehabilitation My project suggests an alternative method of rehabilitation for homeless, ex-offenders based on the ideas of therapeutic communities. This programme involves providing shelter, support and essential skills training to provide those who enter the opportunity to leave better equipped to deal with the stresses and challenges of day to day life. Oscar Works is a derelict 1930’s industrial building due for demolition. Rather than destroying this heritage my project retains the building fabric and internal concrete frame and turn a symbol of Shalesmoor’s degradation into a beacon of hope for those sleeping rough in the area.

08 Stuart Bell - Kelham Island Community Land Trust The Project is, at it’s heart, a master plan proposal for an affordable housing development in Kelham Island in the centre of Sheffield, procured through a joint venture between Sheffield City Council, a private developer/land owner and a Community Land Trust. The master plan combines 70 new 1-4 bedroom houses, 40% + affordable, a pedestrian orientated public realm, on site Community Land Trust Offices and The project explores a workable business model, energy efficient construction, complexities of mixing tenure, generous space planning and space standards, a distribution of community led outdoor spaces, place making through the construction of a river walk and the role of the car within a shared surface development.

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09 Jessica Morrison - The PX Green Cultivator Centre The ‘PX Green Cultivator Centre’ is a Horticulture School, Wildlife Centre and the premises for the ‘PX Wildflower Roof Company’, who specialise in wildflower roof turf production and green roof services. The centre forms part of a scenario in which the ‘PX Green Cultivator Ltd’ has formed to offer an alternative community led management of the public open spaces in Parson Cross, Sheffield, to address some of the wider issues in the area.

The use of Parson Cross Park as an urban productive landscape, growing wildflower roof turf, supports the local community in managing and maintaining their local environment. This also provides local jobs and education, which is strengthened through the Horticulture School and Wildlife Centre.

10 Tianhang Zou - Growing Community, Parson Cross Many social facilities have been built in Parson Cross from the early neighbourhood strategy of 2004, to some extent it has brought economic growth while resident participation has been neglected. The project focuses on motivating a community to engage and create a healthy sustainable community. Run by a variety of different social groups the growing community aims for cooperation and resourcefulness in regenerating public space and improving the local area.

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11 Fan Wu - Serial Visions Within a sequence of three important squares, physical interventions have been designed. I have designed sceneries which organise as a sequence of visions to encouraging passengers to stay and appreciate, share and relax. In Ball Square, the maintenance of the archway and new metal benches around it, allow people to sit around the wall. In addition, a deck has been built outside the archway, allowing people to come through the wall and have a full view of the river. The deck has an expanding stage from which people could interact and experience a direct orientation with Kelham Island.

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12 Tom Bellfield - OSCAR WORKS / Community Focussed Regeneration Situated in Sheffield’s edgelands, on the front line of the current re-generation push, this project investigates, through the vehicle of co-housing, how the process of re-generating our urban areas can be embedded with a sense of community.

It questions what we mean by, and want from the phrase community, and looks afresh at the need to retain within our cities spaces in which chance happenings may occur; spaces with characteristics, not functions; spaces where strangers may meet.

Above all, it seeks to craft a palimpsest, created and curated by the people who inhabit it.

13 Connor Cunningham - Retrofitting Communities On two brownfield sites situated in Parson Cross there is a large housing scheme in the early stages of construction. The scheme developed by the experienced mass house builder Gleeson features a mix of 2, 3, and 4 bedroom homes, numbering 387 in total. Entitled ‘Parson Green and Monteney Park’. The proposals for Parson Cross appear to be lacking in community infrastructure and facilities which are an ever present and significant positive feature of co-housing developments. This project works with the current building model used by Gleeson and investigates the cost and benefit of implementing ideas and principles of cohousing on a large scale used by typical housing developers.

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16 Alexandra Mills - Housing for the Elderly The elderly spend on average 80% of their time in the home.

Experiencing isolation and loneliness I am interested in how community led housing can address these issues and have a better understanding of local needs and aspirations. Stereotyping the elderly has an impact on the provision of facilities and lifestyle options available. I want to explore how housing typology can challenge stereotypes and facilitate a more active lifestyle for the elderly and reaffirm their position within the community.

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Studio Support Systems This joint studio between fifth year MArch and MAUD students was invited by the Ministry of Urban and Rural planning in Zanzibar to help critique and move forward with their plans for the future of the Island. The Island of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanzania has a rapidly increasing population of just under a million, providing, as we found out, a microcosm of the most critical international development challenges.We also worked with UNESCO, Africa Architecture Matters and stakeholders/residents to look at specific island issues in order to develop a plan for Zanzibar.

Our discussions refined the three challenges of development they are working hard to achieve: 1. Design guidelines for the development of a successful neighbourhood outside the historic core of the rapidly developing Stone Town.

How can this already developed and partially developed area be improved to create successful sustainable and liveable neighbourhoods?

2. The growth of a Regional Centre, and how can a small fishing village become a ‘high’ density town?

3. Sustainable and equitable ways of developing coastal areas.

Students worked on an island scale, using socially, environmentally and politically informed design research to develop critically relevant projects as demonstrations of an alternative response to future environmental challenges and as generators of debate. The studio methodology incorporates a number of creative methods and tactical processes; art practices, narrative development, mapping as a transformative tool, interdisciplinary working, working with new futures thinking and new economic practices to explore how transformation can happen through the processes of collaboration and participation. Studio members defined and developed infrastructural, urban design and architectural projects within an overall strategy for all three challenges; informed by the knowledge co-created and gathered by the studio as a whole, and directed by individual responses and interests. Visions will be developed into ambitious but robust projects, which reflect the complexity of their context and translate the themes of the studio through innovative spatial programmes, building techniques and materials.

Studio Tutors Prue Chiles Lorenza Casini 5th Year Students Rory Chisholm David Graham Hannah Griffiths Sarah Hussain Akin Lisk-Carew Andrew McKay Froso Onisiforou Rhys Schofield Calum Shields

MAUD Students Nor Akmar Azhar Aghiad Baranbo Yiwen Chen Anas Elakkari Ninad Katdare Xuan Li Wanru Peng Wenyu Qi Yiming Ran Charu Shila Ziwen Sun Wijaya Yapeter Lin Wang

We would like to thank our International partners Muhammad Juma Rebecca Maguire

01 The Island Vision for Zanzibar 02 Study Trip to Zanzibar 03 Sarah Hussain - Fish Landing Station and Market This project explores the current problem in Nungwi of the rich tourist and poor local divide. The proposal combines tourism and agriculture to benefit the local community not only economically, but to help address the problems of integration of local and tourist communities. The development of a pier and associated facilities looks to strengthen and build upon an existing system to help achieve a more sustainable fishing model for the community. It will help to centralise landings and tax collection, and more hygienic landing conditions mean less depletion of stock. Through this, alternative selling models for the local community can be derived, which will provide more competitively priced fish. It will look to provide real job opportunities for the locals and a platform with tourist facilities to make the fishing industry more visible and to help with the interaction of the two communities.

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04 Hannah Griffiths - The Matemwe Seaweed Centre The Matemwe Seaweed Centre provides facilities to support local seaweed farmers and to enhance the relationship between local residents and visiting tourists. The building provides a centre for the charity organisation Farm Africa in the village of Matemwe who are working to train seaweed farmers in alternative deep water farming techniques. The programme will link to the growing tourism industry with a bike station and integrated facilities for the local community and other women’s groups in the area to interact with visitors. Through cultural tours and selling locally made crafts value added seaweed products such as soap and cakes. The route from the road to the sea is reinforced by a timber walkway which leads visitors towards the centre and out to the farms.

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05 Froso Onisiforou - Mrembo Traditional Body Care Centre This project provides new opportunities for income generation for women; providing employment for them as well as to develop a more integrated amenity for the two communities – locals and tourists. The Mrembo Centre will be an intimate traditional body care centre, run by a small group of local women, offering ancient treatments and beauty rituals from the whole island. This new industry will provide a new cultural destination for tourist women in order to experience the traditional Swahili treatments. Also, a training program will be provided to train (young) Swahili women in order to support and reinforce this traditional cultural activity.

06 Andrew McKay - The Dhow House The dhow, a traditional sailing vessel of the Indian Ocean, is Zanzibar’s cultural icon. Previously seen as a despised symbol of the slave trade and economic underdevelopment, it is now seen as a modern portrayal of a romanticized past.This project symbolizes oceanic connections and nautical concepts to show how the dhow can draw on local boat making skills and growing island tourism for a sustainable future. The Dhow House is a series of spaces designed to support and enable the continuation of boat making in Mkokotoni. Intertwined with the boat making workshops are exhibition halls for the display of full size historic dhows, along with quarters for workers and trading stalls. Some of these spaces float responding to the semi-diurnal tidal cycle while some remain at a fixed height. Ultimately, the Dhow House provides a new beacon of hope for the future of Zanzibar.

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Nader Khalili (US/Iran) - Superadobe dome in Dijbouti (left), and house in Haiti (right). Khalili’s patented earthbag system utilises long packaging tubes instead of sacks, filled with an earth/sand mixture stabilised with cement. A line of barbed wire is laid between each course to bond the bags.

This centre for music education in Mkokotoni, Zanzibar, provides practice spaces, classrooms, a performance hall and a hub for mobile education infrastructure. The various spaces are arranged as freestanding units around a courtyard and under a unifying split-ridge roof. The plan is one room deep to maximise cross-ventilation and and the overhanging roof provides shade and shelter from the tropical climate.

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12 Wijaya Yapeter - A Floating Community This is a proposed pilot scheme to create a new community in Mkokotoni and solve some issues regarding population growth, housing and the environment. The Floating Community is an open community which will accommodate people of varied backgrounds living together in the same environment. As well as local farmers and fishermen, professionals can also live in this neighbourhood and go to work in Zanzibar City. Local empowerment is an important factor in this scheme, as it will not survive as a community unless every single individual works together with support from local authorities that can support Mkokotoni’s people to develop their own city. The purpose of this pilot scheme is to accommodate issues that emerge in this city which are environmental problems, population growth, housing needs.

13 Wanru Peng - Development in Ng’ambo With an increasing demand for housing, Zanzibar Town has gradually sprawled into the surrounding natural and agricultural areas, creating regions of unplanned and unstructured residential development. Ng’ambo, the study site for this project, is the very first settlement outside of Stone Town and is under intense pressure from development. Planning guidelines and an integrated urban vision for the area are weak, leading to questionable developments rapidly taking place. Luckily, a variety of public and private stakeholders have woken up to the heritage qualities of Ng’ambo. This project proposes an alternative to capitalist/ academic/charity-driven forms of development and normative models of practice and production, by highlighting co-production as a model of practice to enable collective actions and form strong support systems for the sustainability of large-scale urban upgrade projects.

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10 Calum Shields - Resilient Housing To facilitate the growth of Mkokotoni following its designation as a regional centre for the northern region of Zanzibar, this scheme proposes a new higher density housing model and agricultural market for the village. The project has a focus on utilising Mkokotoni’s existing resources including locally available materials such as earth, timber and coconut palm tree leaf thatch for building, and rainwater for domestic and agricultural use.

Alongside this, space is provided for small-scale household crop growing to be sold at the new agricultural market or to simply supplement the family’s diet, as well incorporating opportunities for self-build extensions to allow the residents to increase the size of their home.

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09 Akin Lisk-Carew - The Amari Centre The Amari centre is a conceptual vision for a primary healthcare unit in Mkokotoni. As it stands Zanzibar is looking to develop its primary healthcare structure, which provides an opportunity to see if architecture can improve the current healthcare system or introduce other functions that small-scale hospitals could adapt to.

The building is designed to be sustainable and to respond to its context. This allows opportunity to link the building to the wider context and consider other hospitals and educational facilities in the region. Other than providing basic healthcare the building facilitates training and workshops that introduces more than just a treatment centre. The materials of the building consist of rammed earth and timber construction. The choice of these materials was based on the fact that Mkokotoni has little access to most contemporary materials.

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08 Rhys Schofield - Mkokotoni Fisheries This project considers the current situation and future direction of the small fishing town of Mkokotoni. With Mkokotoni marked as a future regional centre for the Island, the architectural proposal is designed to allow the local fishing industry to enhance and grow accordingly. The project also addresses the future challenges Zanzibar faces that are publicised in the National Land Use Report 2014. These include; adapting to population growth, providing employment opportunities and enhancing coastal regions. The designed space accommodates a range of fishing related activities, aiming to empower the local Mkokotoni community. It promotes the teaching and discovery of new skill sets and focuses on creating interdependency between coexisting groups. This contrasts to the individualistic and piecemeal fishing activities which are currently present in Mkokotoni.

11 Rory Chisholm - A House for Zanzibar The need for new housing in Zanzibar is increasing. Not just new housing but denser housing than is currently found across the single-storey towns of the country. Plans are being put into place for how numerous and how dense these dwellings may be, but other fundamentals must be considered. This project proposes a new housing scheme that is denser than previous models but still adheres to the cultural, social and traditional principles of the country, as well as responding specifically to Zanzibari Environmental issues - a courtyard housing scheme built around open public spaces and a community that utilises natural ventilation from the ocean and encourages the growth of plants that prevent coastal erosion.

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14 Aghiad Baranbo - Zanzibari Identity Through Cuisine Inspired by the Nungwi Strategic Vision, this project looks to develop the town to become a Sustainable Tourism Centre by 2054 by enhancing the integration between locals and tourists through small-scale investments. Phase 1 involves The Food Trail, supporting the local economy by creating more opportunities for locals to be employed in the tourism industry. Open spaces will be managed to create a network of convivial places to enhance Zanzibari social life as well as creating a platform where visitors can mix with locals. Phases 2 and 3 will see investment in larger infrastructure such as the fish market and the traditional wellness centre.

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15 Ninad Katdare - Coastal Development of Mkokotoni This proposal for the development of Mkokotoni aims to develop the character of the coastline by maintaining the importance of culture and the usability of various spaces on the sea front. By utilising the land in-between the proposed new music academy and fisheries, the existing area will be enhanced as a Public Park incorporating a coastal walking route and access to the beach during low tide. The new fisheries will also be supported by the development of a small park which can be accessed by locals as well as tourists with pathways linking the various green spaces.

16 Ziwen Sun - Transportation Improvements This transportation strategy is an attempt to deal with the problem of population growth by retaining the urban fabric while developing public transport and improving roads. It will adapt the city’s functions and connect different areas to foster links between locals and visitors that will benefit and improve their quality of life.

The transportation strategy will have multiple functions - for local residents it considers different social groups, local commerce, and seasonal variation. For tourists, it expands on the tourism zones and proposes new attractions. Ultimately the project will offer a pedestrian-oriented city as a means of sustainable development.

17 Wenyu Qi - Housing for Ng’ambo In this housing strategy for Ng’mabo, the aim is to regenerate the neighbourhood without uprooting it. The biggest problem faced in Zanzibar is rapid population growth on limited land. This project introduces a new housing typology, while preserving urban context and local life. It is anticipated that the programmatic design of the housing will be implemented in other parts of Zanzibar.

18 Yiming Ran - Open Space Activation Open space has become a significant problem for Nungwi’s future development and the everyday life of local people - for example Muslim women have limited opportunities to use public open spaces. This project attempts to activate open space in Nungwi by intervening at various scales. Open space is activated by giving it functional variety sorted into types according to size with each type then developed into a model for future development.

19 Lin Wang - Education Strategy for Ng’ambo Education is such a big issue in Africa. In Zanzibar, there are still some children who do not attend school. After a participation event in Ng’ambo, people have a desire to build more schools with better educational facilities.This project contributes to all the children in Ng’ambo combining local cultures such as the Mosque and the Dala-Dala. Some mosques are designed as an educational centre for children and the library bus stop in the open space around them provides outdoor facilities for children.

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21 Nor Akmar Azhar - Street Urban Agriculture This is a study of street conditions and ways in which they can be improved using a sustainable approach to benefit the community.

To upgrade Zanzibar’s settlements, improvements in infrastructure and linkages with the street are developed along with a system of urban agriculture. Street agriculture and an agricultural training centre for local people contribute to the liveliness of the street and community areas. This will provide a source of additional income for residents and promote a sense of belonging and responsibility to those involved who will take care more of their local places and develop them with the local authorities.

22 Xuan Li - Water Improvements in Nungwi Nungwi is a village located in the north of Zanzibar, known for its beautiful beaches. It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Zanzibar but currently suffers from chronic potable water shortage. In addition, Nungwi is suffering from salt-water intrusion, water pollution, women’s low rights to water, conflict between the tourism sector and locals, and sea-level rise. This project proposes measures including supply through storm water harvesting and water treatment, to alleviate shortages and bring water sustainability to Nungwi.

23 Yiwen Chen - Economic Strategies for Ng’ambo This project is about creating a sustainable future for Ng’ambo.

Currently the biggest challenge Ng’ambo is facing is the increasing pressure from population growth on housing, infrastructure and the local economy. An overall vision for the year 2035 with nine strategies to serve the whole range of Zanzibari society has been developed to increase the local resilience of the area. The economic strategies aim to improve the local employability by improving commercial regulation and atmosphere while attracting investment.

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20 Anas Elakkari - The Food Trail This proposal will use Zanzibari Cuisine to give international visitors a taste of the real Zanzibar, by exploring ways in which its rich culinary potential could be tapped into, developing into an Urban Design Proposal to improve conditions for local people and to address the gap between tourists and local people. This proposal relies on having a strong community support system to develop a ‘food trail’ that will empower local people, by developing a local cooperative that would give an opportunity for local people to develop their own business and provide employment opportunities.

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Growing global awareness has led to increased calls for collective action to confront current and future challenges, such as global warming, depletion of natural resources, economic recession, housing and employment crises, and growing social and economic divides. While governments and institutions seem to be taking too long to reach agreement and to act, many initiatives have started at the local level. How can we/architects support initiatives that oppose the current consumption order? How can we help construct a more socially equitable economy? How can we begin to act? What tools and means can be used at times of crisis and scarcity? How do we reactivate and sustain cultures of collaboration and sharing in our current individualistic and competition-based society? How can progressive practices be initiated while acting locally and at a small scale?

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Studio Facilitating Resilience began the year by using mapping, on-site research, dissemination and collaborative group work to critique the term resilience. After establishing a critical position in relation to resilience, the studio explored facilitating as an action through which places are produced and performed collectively. Fieldtrips included visits to Camley Street Nature Reserve, Arcola Theatre, Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, Farm Shop and Hackspace, London, Heeley City Farm, Sheffield and Agrocité, Recyclab, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris. Sites were chosen from Dalston, Heeley and from China in which were proposed a series of prototypical ‘facilities’ to activate/support/connect existing resilient practices, researching how architects/active citizens can act and give agency to resilient practices and networks; enabling active participation in shaping how cities are produced from the bottom up.

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01 Studio Tutors Andreas Lang Doina Petrescu Helen Stratford 5th Year Students Jessica Haigh Hung-Tsung Lin Ross Jordan Andrew Macintosh Claire Pelgrims (Erasmus) Tom Walker Purdie Whitting 6th Year Students Joanna Beal Dovile Botyriute MAAD Students Yuanyuan Huang Weijing Kong Ji Qiu Qihao Pan Farouq Tahar

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01 Joanna Beal - The Heeley Energy Hack Farm The Heeley energy hack farm is a bottom up strategy that begins to imagine an architectural and ‘DIY’ response to facilitating local energy resilience where a community in Sheffield begins to ‘farm’ and ‘hack’ their own ‘Soft’ energy creating an open source energy commons. The farm facilitates local social energy through a cultural events space, a makers lab and a community banqueting space as well as hosting unconventional and experimental ways of producing energy from local weather events, hacking potatoes and composting waste. The energy harvested is supplied to a hackable roof platform for people to come and plug in to and hack the landscape. The architecture will become a local dynamic icon, which will overlook the city, becoming a celebration of civic activity, collective social energy and resilience at an everyday local level.

02 Tom Walker - Ridley Road [skills] Market The project proposes an alternative means of regenerating Ridley Road Street Market in Dalston, Hackney through the design of networks and infrastructure to facilitate urban resilience. The [skills] Market will generate new economies and activity by introducing spaces for working, creating, learning and collaborating with the aim of sustaining the market as the social, political and economic heart of Dalston.

03 Purdie Whitting - The Coffee Plant The Coffee Plant is a coffeehouse with a plantation based in Heeley, in Sheffield. It is an, intimate, small-scale facility to supply local areas and link producers with consumers to raise awareness of localising production whilst challenging the idea of global economic dependency. The spaces are designed to highlight the contrasting journeys of placing a usually imported product in close proximity with consumption, and therefore ignite a spark of understanding of the changing global environment we live in.

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07 Jessica Haigh - Clothing Commons The project addresses our fast-paced consumption of clothing and the global systems of production and waste disposal which support it. It proposes the creation of a local Clothing Commons which promotes repair, alteration and local redistribution, and therefore the full utilisation of clothing already in circulation. Alongside this, a localised system for dealing with clothing waste is proposed, with the commons acting as a hub for the reuse, upcycling and recycling of Heeley, Sheffield and South Yorkshire’s clothing waste.

08 Claire Pelgrims - Theatres of Compost This large-scale project aims to progressively improve the soil on the demolished slide of the Heeley bypass to allow the area to be cultivated in 2025. This will be achieved through the set-up of a school of compost and the industrial production of bio-char, a rich fertilizer derived from corn forage. Facilities are created along the green slide as the project develops. The materiality of the different buildings reflects the aesthetic production of smoke and soot from the char production.The skin of the shed is designed as an evolving wall made of compost that you can see from the outside through a charred wood cladding. The process of decomposition and the transformation of the green and organic waste into compost are that way clearly visible.

09 Ross Jordan - Squatting the High-rise ‘Squatting the High-rise’ is an Institution of Civic Occupation that speculates the future of affordable living in London if housing prices were to continue to rise at the same rate over the next 50 years. The project explores resilience to economic adversity and questions how communities could continue to live in an increasingly unaffordable London using Hackney’s history of squatting as opportunity for community led regeneration.

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13 Weijing Kong - Facilitating Social Cohesion with Rainwater My project explores the role of rainwater facilitating social cohesion in a local community. Having chosen three sites, I have developed my strategies at different scales. Using a rainwaterharvesting system, I have built up an energy efficient community as well as activity spaces, which are suitable for different situations.

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20 Farouq Tahar - Exchange Centre The project compromises various types of exchange including exchange of items, knowledge and services, which are spread through a combination of a barter centre and learning centre. This project aims to promote community cohesion by introducing an alternative economic system (economy of exchange) in Heeley that substitutes the current monetary based economy.

14 Beichen Yu - Mob-Social Library Mob-social library is a mobile project that works as a platform for collecting and sharing the activities in Sheffield. The aim of building a library is to form a resilient network for people to exchange and preserve local skills and knowledge. This project uses Heeley as a base to serve around the city centre with different facilities that will accommodate a variety of public events and have a good interaction with urban space.

21 Anqi Liu - Heeley VEGE-Network Heeley VEGE-Network aims to facilitate local food resilience and enhance social-cohesion in Heeley through closed-loops of growing, harvesting, sharing, collecting and recycling as a development strategy. The project is a local network based on five kinds of VEGE facilities; producing fields, sharing houses, a community centre, urban pavilions and local organisations. The collaborative network will be oriented through Adaptive Management. The core behind urban farming is ‘Sharing’ and ‘Recycling’, which enhance social-cohesion as well as food production.

15 Yuanyuan Huang - Heeley Sheep Park My definition of resilience is ‘keeping a balance between humans and nature’, which originates from Chinese philosophy ‘Dao’. The project is an expansion of Heeley city farm, which deals with interventions that could be caused by sheep within the social context of the site (the neighbourhood of Heeley Millennium Park). The project focuses on the productive landscape, which is a hybrid project of landscape and architecture.

22 Christopher Hall - Watch Dalston Grow Watch Dalston Grow is an urban agriculture project which explores the use of policy and challenges patterns of ownership and governance in order to communally grow in under-utilised and privately owned spaces around Dalston. Watch Dalston Grow has proposed three prototype resilient projects to alter the social, political and physical environment of Dalston to ensure the community still have a place in their neighbourhood in the future.

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16 Wenfei Liu - Guibei Industrial Land - A Water Town Guibei is an industrial area in Wuhan, China. After redevelopment, it became a cultural creative industry park named Hanyangzao.

This project embraces the sustainable design in terms of water management systems. By mixing art and water elements, it provides people with exciting experiences of nature, art and space.

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17 Ji Qiu - Cradle to Cradle My project is to create a Cradle to Cradle cycle in Heeley. In the whole cycle, waste can be transformed into ‘food’. For the purpose of sustainable development in Heeley, I have chosen a natural sustainable material – bamboo –to facilitate resilience in Heeley.

My first step is to grow bamboo on wastelands in Heeley, and then to build a bamboo centre to connect all bamboo activities there.

Bamboo will be main the material for private and public use in the whole neighbourhood of Heeley.

18 Qihao Pan - Mobile Community Stations My project is called “Mobile Community Stations”. Heeley Festival and Big Boulder Festival are the two biggest community events held every year. During the festival, I propose to transport the 4 mobile community stations to Heeley Millennium Park and link together to support the festival. Each station can show their products or pictures of community events.These buildings can also provide space for exhibitions, shops, face-painting workshops and place for watching the show.

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19 Joseph Moss - Dalston Street Farms Dalston Street Farms is a tactical urban strategy to reclaim underused urban space for use in urban agriculture. This project takes form in two stages, a temporary intervention which allows for experimentation with the space to find what works (or doesn’t) for the community. The second stage is a permanent adaptation, where permanent infrastructure can be used to support street farming.

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Studio Intergenerational Architecture Intergenerational Architecture has investigated how we can design and evolve an appropriate architectural response for our current and future demographic. This has included exploring environments for play, education, living and healthcare. Our projects built upon themes of Pleasure and Austerity and Ageing and Architecture developed from 2012 and 2013 as catalysts for inventive and theoretical investigations that are political, social, material and spatial in output.

Our propositions explore the inevitable environments that exist for all ages. Aiming to challenge and improve them at human, domestic and urban scales varying from varying from the texture of electric blankets, the acoustics of leaning environments, the DIY adaptation of space, to the reliability and impact of bus timetables.

The projects have been based in Bingley and Sheffield. The sites have offered opportunities ranging from the imposing Bradford and Bingley HQ, amazing northern topography and supportive local communities.

Studio Tutors Leo Care Satwinder Samra 5th Year Students Jack Bennett Dominiki Elia Laura Gouk Emma James Emma Low Charles Palmer Matthew Pearson Kelly-marie Rodgers 6th Year Students Liam Ashton Kalpana Gurung Sarah Habershon

Neil Michels Lorna Watmore PGT Students Meera Barad Ming Fu Dongxu Guo Wenhao He Xin Huang Yu-Hsiang Lai Jingjin Shao Kelun Su Jun Zhu MADLE Students Alkistis Pitsikali Qi Li

With special thanks to Emma England: RIBA Yorkshire Gillian Hailstones: Gartnavel Maggie’s Centre, Glasgow Alan Hooper: Mackintosh School of Architecture Kathryn Lamont Smith: Gartnavel Maggie’s Centre, Glasgow Jamie Lingwood: Child Development PhD, The UoS Robert Mantho: Mackintosh School of Architecture William Matthews: William Matthews Associates Paul North: Bradford City Council Bob Parker: Bingley Town Centre Manager James Parkinson: RIBA Building Futures

01 Liam Ashton - Ageing in the City Based in the centre of Sheffield, this project explores the themes of the city as a place to age, the ageing body and bodily modes of learning. The programme combines a public pool and bathhouse, doctor’s surgery and café with accommodation for elderly residents and repurposes a relic of the city’s mining heritage as a place where the elderly can come from the periphery to the centre of urban life.

02 Jack Benett - A Constructivist Construction This project is based in Bingley swimming pool, which is a victim of recent austerity measures, and threatened with closure. The inhabitation of the building by a construction college and local youth group allow the space and building fabric to be used for learning at 1:1 scale, about construction, retrofit, and conservation. Through this process, new interventions emerge which facilitate learning, and restore the original pool function with new and improved facilities.

03 Matt Pearson - Carbon Debt Repayment, Bingley The project explores the possibility of recycling building material recovered from the demolition of one building in the refurbishment and repurposing of other unused buildings. The work is predicated on research into the psychological effect that changes to the built environment have on people’s sense of identity, self-worth and wellbeing, the topophilic nature of concepts like home, community and home town and how change to the environment effects these emotions.

04 Emma James - Bingley’s Food Co-op and Community Kitchen A locally managed food co-operative offers Bingley’s residents an alternative option to a corporate supermarket chain. It facilitates local resilience and supports existing community activities. The proposal explores different roles of food provision within the town and develops the Co-op/Kitchen as a experiential destination for culture and events, not just monetary exchange.

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06 Charles Palmer - Pavilion for Change The Pavilion for Change: Bingley is a temporary inhabited barrier to protect and enliven the town’s central park during activity on the site of the soon to be demolished Bradford and Bingley Building Society Headquarters. Housing site offices and facilities alongside public and commercial spaces, the ten year programme for the building attempts to facilitate long range change, planning delays and alteration with consideration to their sequential form as well as their immediate social and economic impact.

07 Kelly-marie Rodgers - A Feminist Capital for Bingley The project explores what a feminist capital means and how this might translate into an architecture. The major user group of the project are the West Yorkshire federation and the Bingley division of the Women’s Institute. The project looks to harness the power and resources of the women involved in these groups to create a new generator of capital for the benefit of the local area, an alternative to existing masculine civic structures.

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04 Emma James - Bingley’s Food Co-op and Community Kitchen 08 Neil Michels - Civic School The governments current ‘baseline design’ programme for school building is beginning to result in school buildings no better than glorified sheds. This project looks at building schools in a different way, making them more civic in the process.

09 Jun Zhu - Grand Nursery While grandparents are now the largest proportion of childcare providers in UK, the Grand Nursery is a place especially designed for grandparents to take care of their grandchildren and for these two generations to stay together. It not only works as a normal nursery for the young generation, but also offers space for the old to learn, entertain and exercise. Located in the town centre of Bingley, the project tries to attract more third age people to come to the declining high street which would be revived from this point.

10 Lorna Watmore - [Re]Making Bingley This project aims to inspire re-use in Bingley from household scale to building scale through the design of workshop spaces for reworking furniture, fabrics and electronics, and live-work units for the sharing and practice of skills for remaking.The project includes public elements of library and exhibition spaces in combination with a cafe, laundrette and resource archive as support elements.

[Re]Making Bingley is about an architecture of reuse and uses materials reclaimed from the site to inspire the materiality and construction of the new elements of the scheme whilst retaining and reconfiguring elements of the sites industrial heritage.

11 Alkistis Pitsikali - Pla[y]ce Pla[y]ce is an intergenerational centre for informal learning and play. Placed in Bingley’s Myrtle Park, encourages people of different ages to come together in order to explore, experiment, sculpture, listen, learn, express themselves, and play. Five basic elements compose the centre’s agenda: play, learn, socialize, create, exhibit.

Learning, as well as play, doesn’t only take place inside specially designed rooms but is approached as an active and never ending procedure that extends the classroom’s limits in order to fill the space and engage everyone. As intergenerational contact and selfdirected activity is seen as the key element that facilitates learning, spaces that support accidental, informal relations between users of different ages formed the ethos of the building.

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14 Yu-Hsiang Lai - Time Bank The concept of time banking has evolved from traditional leaning and sharing skills. Residents can use their existing skills to earn time credits, which in turn can be used to learn a new skill. For instance, a person could hold a cooking workshop for two hours to teach others how to cook. Through doing that they would earn two hour time credits, which they can then use to save a space on a two hour craft workshop.

15 Meera Barad - Illuminating the Arts Centre A refurbishment of Bingley Arts Centre. The existing building had become increasingly isolated from the High Street, the proposal enhances the potential of the site in order to encourage a wider local participation.

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16 Dominiki Elia - Beyond Ages: A Community Learning Centre for Bingley A community learning centre could be ideal to surpass the stereotypes of our society like age discrimination. Giving to the third age people and the youth, a chance for a better-active life.The idea of the project was to create a space outside the home and school, where predominantly the third age and youth population of Bingley could provide a space that allows communication and integration beyond ages within the immediate community and its surrounding context.

17 Kelun Su - Learning Centre The proposal focuses on reviving the prosperity of the high street, connecting the town square to the Arts Centre. The building is the headquarters of the community, it allows the town square to be used as the stage. The rolling timber roof has an organic form which extends the landscape to extend the function of the square.

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12 Jingjin Shao - Renewing Bingley train station as a ‘ Destination’ The proposal revives Bingley’s train station and develops strategies to connect it to the town centre. It proposes opportunities for the future whilst expressing the rich heritage in a rail museum.

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13 Laura Gouk - Bingley Make + Play The Bingley Make + Play facility re-uses the former technical college to house a mixed resource for the community: workshops and learning spaces mix with the crèche and café to ensure people of all ages and skills can take part in meaningful, creative activities, as the facility makes use of open-source projects, and contemporary machinery assists production. The bespoke timber columns make the building adaptable and customisable by the inhabitants to suit their needs: adding storage, moving screens, and defining the spaces in which they work.Why babysit at home when you can make your own toys here?

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07 Kelly-Marie Rodgers - A Feminist Capital for Bingley 18 Sarah Habershon - [re]Working Bingley This project, [re]Working Bingley, is a college with associated public facilities and rentable accommodation. It is concerned with opportunity. It seeks to examine the opportunities available to 18 to 24 year olds and to suggest alternative educational routes. This project is set against a background of austerity; unemployment that cuts across social class, the scaling back of the welfare state and the lifting of the cap on University fees. There are three main themes: society, education and employment. These themes engage with the issues affecting young people in Britain and looks at how these might evolve in the future.

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19 Emma Low - Housing for a lifetime A critique of the current lifetime homes guidance, this housing scheme in Sheffield aims to facilitate multi-generational living.

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Studio Interactive Urban Skins Interactive Urban Skins are innovative syntheses of digital and physical envelopes, responsive to users and the environment over a range of timescales. In a low carbon era we will speculate on the role and performance of interactive urban skins as the primary environmental mediator. The key themes of the studio are: Resilience. We will test against and design for future climates. Designs will be adaptive and interactive to climatic conditions and related cultural shifts. Re-use and adaptation. We will rethink the future performance and viability of existing buildings and urban environments against predicted climate change scenarios, proposing interactive adaptation strategies both in terms of fabric and use. Iterative environmental design-research. We will test how continuous and iterative environmental simulation and analysis can be integrated into the design process, propose new models for design and explore emerging roles for designers and architects.

Digital–analogue workflow. We will research both digital and analogue workflows and propose new hybrid workflow models that will be tested throughout the year. Each student will agree their own workflow model with the tutors and use this to programme their work.

Single output and multiple output workflows will be considered and tested. Socio-technological approaches.We will seek to connect social, economic, environmental and tectonic forces in a generative design process. We will recognize the specificity of urban skins to cultural conditions and seek socially specific technological proposals. ‘‘The solid classical buildings of great universities may look permanent but the storms of change now threaten them.’’ - Laurence Summers With the forces of technology and globalisation on the verge of transforming higher education we will question the role of higher education infrastructure and propose new resilient models for the future. We will work in relation to the emerging FCB architects masterplan for this university and build upon existing SSoA research into climate change scenarios for the University campus.

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Studio Tutors Aidan Hoggard Dr Chengzi Peng Dr Tsung-Hsien Wang 5th Year Students Armand Agraviador John Jeong Anthony Lau Jade Owens Bhavina Parmar Juste Paulauskaite Xinzhu Zhu

SAS Students Nashita Afroz Adam Douglas Jiafeng Li Yangbin Lu Guannan Shi Vikram Singha Olivia Trujillo Chenye Xiang Xiaoteng Xu Aoran Yang Xuran Yang Yishu Yao Zheng Zeng

01 Armand Agraviador - Sheffield Bioworks; Grafting a Neighbourhood Plant Biofabrication, the manufacture of organs using synthetic bioscaffolds and lab-grown cell cultures, is undergoing accelerated technological development. This project consulted UoS Department of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering to conceptualise new collaborative research spaces, subsequent accommodation for hypothetical mass-production of synthetic organs for clinical testing and experimentation, and later surgical spaces for implantation - attenuating the need for organ donors.

The Bioworks’ location promotes geographical ties between departments of Biology and Medicine on campus while its design intends to encourage cross-disciplinary productivity. The programme employs anatomical principles to ensure its longevity while anthropomorphic structures and systems optimise its daily functions.

03 Anthony Lau - Interactive Carbon Skin Rather than just creating a comfortable and pleasing environment, can university student accommodation offer opportunities to encourage occupants to learn and lead a sustainable lifestyle?

Through arrays of CO2 capturing balloons, the building makes a physical statement to reflect occupants’ consumption behaviour and its consequence. As the inflating balloons slowly take over shared public spaces, occupants would need to work together to release CO2 into the atmosphere to regain their right to space.

While releasing CO2 triggers an undesirable announcement to the city, the event creates a platform for occupants to discuss how they can prevent over-consumption in the future. To foster change, the building also creates opportunities of cooking vegetarian food together and provides external shutters to improve the building’s environmental performance.

04 Jade Owens - Wind Scavenging Situated within the heart of the University of Sheffield campus, the Arts Tower forecourt plays host to a wide diversity of neighbourhood climatic conditions. Piezoelectric technology within hair-like straws is a proposed method of harvesting some of the harsh climatic aspects of the site in order to produce electricity. Operational in both low and high velocity wind the hairs are a viable alternative to traditional wind turbines, their light fluttering motions cause little disruption to wildlife and the public.

Additionally, the Piezoelectric hairs are efficient shading devices protecting internal building processes from harsh solar rays. The building itself is an Environmental Technology department linked directly to the Architecture school within the Arts Tower. The programmatic focus is orientated towards the design, production and evolution of technologies which either harvest or arm structures against predicted climatic changes.

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On it’s landscape, two proposals been made, first is to serve new connecting points through the city and the second is refreshing circular pavilion spaces. Onto each towers new skins have been applied to create unity and augment the user’s experience.

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05 Bhavina Parmar - Durham Island Brewery Works In an increasingly competitive graduate market, the traditional British university must enhance it’s campus experience with buildings resilient to the changes in climate, technology and teaching trends. Using cacti as a precedent for surviving in an unpredictable climate, the project explores how a facade can collect and conserve rainwater to meet the building’s needs. Using the Living Building Challenge as a framework combined with biomimicry studies, the building is wrapped in an glass tile system that catches rain as well as providing solar shading to the teaching spaces. An exposed glass tank serves as a visual gauge to remind users of the water consumption in the beer brewing process with the brewery operated for students, by students.

06 Juste Paulauskaite - Bio refinery and swimming pool complex Located on a derelict site and neighbouring the Goodwin Sports Centre, the proposed building is intended to house a new swimming pool. The program developed form the intention to improve the existing sport facilities across the University and compete at an international sporting level. The building shares a hybrid function that uses algae mass to generate energy and to supply it to the surrounding university campus buildings.

Developed algae closed-loop system panels would be retrofitted on to the existing university buildings.The grown mass will then be distributed to the proposed buildings and processed into energy.

07 Xinzhu Zhu - Supermateriality in Skin ‘Lincoln Cathedral is Architecture, a bicycle shed is a building’.

Architecture’s meaning is set apart from building. Now we ask: “ what is skin?”, setting it apart from ‘wall, shelter’. The project pursues the glorified meaning of Skin, a composite one both made up of cultural and physical materiality. On a physical level, the project developed a kinetic skin system that adapts to real-time environmental factors. It is a re-creation of human skin, a skin with richly endowed sensory nerves and its blood vessels exquisitely sensitive to temperature. On a cultural level, the Skin aspired to symbolically restore site memory and explored embedding ornament into the tectonic language of structure.

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10 Yangbin Lu - Campus Activity Centre The project aims to find solution to resolve the campus transportation issue, with proposing a sky walking path connecting different parts of campus. On a broader level, this project proposes more flexible space for not only students but also citizens who want space to rest, study or communicate. Multiple sustainable strategies will be used within the project to minimum the energy use and create more space with natural lighting to meet the needs of varied user groups.

11 Guannan Shi - Small Box The project works in accordance with the proposed FCB masterplan with the site located to the front of the Information Commons. The area around the Hounsfield Favell site is the centre of campus and the area East of the Information Commons is earmarked for new student accommodation. With increasing numbers of students in Hounsfield Favell site,the project extends the studies area for Information Commons. The facade will be as a double or triple glazing curtain wall and each panel as a cell has its sunshade. Regarding to the specific design the purposed building, the building regulation as a reference.

12 Vikram Singha - Academic Interaction Forum The Academic Interaction Forum is situated at the Hounsfield area within the University of Sheffield. The building is designed to better facilitate interaction between the various faculties and departments. The building intends to provide an enabling atmosphere in order to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration on research in the university. The building has a large open floor area on the ground floor with large glazing to enable connections between the external and internal environment. This will also provide good vistsa and control daylight into the building further enhancing the user experience of the building.

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13 Olivia Trujillo - Transformable Pavilion, Arts Tower Forecourt The Forecourt is expected to be one of the main points of interaction at the University of Sheffield in the future. This project explores the possibility of creating a transformable space for the forecourt, a space capable of adapting to the needs of the users and the environment in a short period of time. The main idea for this project is the use of folding origami as a highly flexible canopy capable of transforming into different shapes by applying external forces.

14 Chenye Xiang - A New Cultural Exchange Centre The project is located in the east campus between the Information Commons and the Hicks building. With globalisation and the development of education industry within UK, an increasing number of international students will continue to come to the UK for higher education. The centre aims to provide a better chance for both students themselves and facilitate communication with local residents. Due to the urban strategy, the centre can be the new point to active and link the east campus, so the building is mainly underground. In terms of the sustainable strategy, the design is optimised according to the daylight simulation to provide as much as possible natural sunlight. Moreover, the building envelope is designed based on solar radiation simulation to reduce solar radiation on the facade.

15 Xiaoteng Xu - Space Factory and Warehouse The proposed building is a space factory and warehouse in the university campus, primarily used for fabricating and storing flexible and movable spaces that can be used for various functions within and out of the campus. The building consists of three components, a space fabrication factory, a warehouse and a central core. The factory is mainly for fabricating small movable pavilions for temporary use. The warehouse is a multi- storey space for storing the fabricated pavilions. It could also be regarded as an flexible space for multifunctional spatial arrangements by arranging various movable rooms. For examples, it could be an academic space by providing more labs and seminar rooms, an office by arranging more tables and offices, or even a theatre. The ground floor is elevated for the open public use to promote the public space in the east campus.

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18 Yishu Yao - A Underground Proposal for the Arts Tower Forecourt The skin idea is from Theo Van Doesburg and the colourful faรงade from the Montreal Convention Centre, The colourful glass PV panels will act as reference point within the city. The skin will influence the whole urban vision. The people inside the building can see the conditions outside more easily. Light tubes are an integral part of the structure letting the sunlight penetrate into the sub-terranean teaching spaces. The PV panels will create a colourful interior, casting playful shadows throughout the day. In addition, wind catchers will be situated on the corners of both the public spaces and the car park.

19 Zheng Zeng - Adapt to the Environment To improve the Leavygrave Road, the site is located on opposite the Jessop Building. The building typology on the road is a mass, intended to blend seemlessly into the existing context. Specifically, the road view will be better organized. To achieve a high sustainability level, three strategies will be utilised. The glass skin which could be the adaptive or buffer space of the building, the adaptive solar shading and the sunspace.

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16 Aoran Yang - A New Stacked Building for Student Activity, It is located on the eastern campus, the site is in a core position surrounded by interdisciplinary centre, music department, sound house, Jessop West, health centre. The campus is divided into two on the East-West axis. The Eastern campus lacks a place which attracts students and could supply an activity centre for them. The project aims to create a new activity centre within the Eastern campus, playing a similar role to the Student Union in the Western campus relieving the pressure on the Student Union during critical hours.

17 Xuran Yang - Timber Mixed Use Building This project is located on the Hounsfield Site within the University of Sheffield with nine floors housing accommodation and teaching spaces. The building is divided into two parts with the student accommodation to the South and the teaching spaces housed in movable containers.The educational spaces can be used by various departments within the university and can be replaced by other containers in the future to accommodate for changes in university teaching trends.

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Studio LiveWorks Time-based Architectures Architecture does not stand outside time. Buildings change through the creative (mis) use of citizens, the weather and cycles of construction, adaptation and demolition. However, as Adrian Forty states “the tendency of capitalist culture [is] to turn ideas and relationships into things whose fixity obscures reality”. How do we avoid this tendency to fix architecture and, instead embed fluidity, change, responsiveness…in fact, how do we enable ‘liveness’ in our work?

Studio ‘LiveWorks’ explores live art practice, performance studies and ethnography to enrich architectural design. We work creatively with sites and local people, using live investigations and narrative-based design, to evolve projects with temporal and social complexity.

Blackburn has changed radically over time. Innovation in weaving made it one of the first industrialised towns in the world, but industry has since declined and the town suffers from high unemployment and a lack of social mobility. The town’s strengths are its youth, its diverse population and the high rates of people who are employed in manufacturing and craft. LiveWorks has partnered with arts programme ‘Blackburn is Open’ transforming the town centre into a place of cultural and communal making. These projects demonstrate how arts, craft and culture can connect to the past, shape identity and develop future communities…over time.

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MAAD Students Gopi Rajbhai Bhuptani Qixun Feng Shangfeng Li Ke Liu Bochen Lu Yihan Peng Lu Xu Jing Zhang Longhao Zhang MAUD Students Yun Li Luoyi Yang Wanlu Zhao

With thanks to Claire Tymon, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council Wayne Hemingway, Hemingway Design Paul Flintoff, Blackburn Museum Julie Johnson, Blackburn College Sam Vardy, Sheffield Hallam University Simon Chadwick, SSoA 01 Studio LiveWorks Taxonomy of Time Trip to Les Machines de l’île, Nantes

02 Richard Fennell - The Creators’ Collective The Creators’ Collective establishes a new home for the Blackburn is Open arts project, local businesses and a performance centre for Blackburn College. It explores how new interventions may be inserted into an existing block; supporting existing businesses, connecting diverse groups of people and activating vacant or under-used spaces. The project spills out into the surrounding streets, inviting the public in and offering glimpses of activities within. It builds a strong visual identity, ensuring that the presence of makers and performers is reinforced and amplified across the town.

03 Emma Graham - The Blackburn Story Makers’ Society People take joy in reminiscing over past experiences. To collect these stories together, be it in a scrapbook, a suitcase, or a building, facilitates an ease to engage with important thoughts and tales.

Blackburn has a prominent history of makers, from the cotton mills to the work of Blackburn is Open today.The Blackburn Story Makers’ Society provides the town with a place to write, to print, to bind and to tell the their stories. It curates and celebrates moments within the makers’ process, embodying a sense of place within the architecture.

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04 Lucy Greaves - Festivals and Fabrics The project looked at Blackburn, a once crucial player in the cotton industry now a neglected industrial town. The brief was developed towards designing a textile residency and festival planning centre that collaborated with an existing arts initiative ‘Blackburn is Open’ to help revitalise the town through arts and crafts.

05 Holly Barker - The Event Makers Club The project explores thresholds and interventions within liminal space on a variety of scales as a method of curating moments of interaction between disparate communities in the Pennine Lancashire town of Blackburn. It develops a programme specific to place and picks up on Blackburn’s rich history of making, in particular its heritage of cinematography and theatrics synonymously linking the making of an event integral to the making of place. The project works on two different scales, the first an urban strategy, with the creation of a physical route across the town from the Muslim high street to the college and secondly a building, the Event Makers Club, which sits upon this route and creates a stage in which moments of interaction between the various users comes to fruition.

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06 Valandis Kallis - Art-ctivate Blackburn My scheme includes a gallery, studio spaces and a new space for Blackburn is Open; for the production of innovative ideas and new creative industries to reflect the historical background of Blackburn. The design of a public space and the connection between the building and its site aim to create spaces of interaction. The new landmark will support navigation around the town. The elements of the structure will give a sense of nature contrasting against the brutalist character of the existing mall. All spaces are covered by the main structure which is an expanding roof, which in some parts is open, in some just cover spaces, and in another becomes part of the building.

07 Chris Mobbs - The Institute of Making My proposed building is The Institute of Making it is situated on a disused carpark positioned next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and is two minutes walk to Blackburn Town Centre. The site was formerly home to Canton Mill a large cotton mill which was active when Blackburn was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.

The Institute of Making consists of workshops, kitchens, breweries and event/exhibition space arranged around a newly carved canal basin with a public house on a central island . A public route through the site is key to the programme, it not only reconnects the canal to the town centre but also reveals the process of making in the workshops to the community.

The Institute of Making has three target user groups: primarily it provides workshops for skilled makers and crafts people secondly it aims to promote making amongst the large proportion of young people in Blackburn. Finally the building aims to be a destination for people of all ages and cultures to meet.

The architecture celebrates the human ability to create things of quality and making’s power as a social tool to bring people together. The choice of site aims to reconnect Blackburn Town Centre with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal with the proposed building working as a catalyst to reinvigorate the canal as a physical and communicative link between groups of makers along the East Lancashire canal corridor. With an intention of promoting a philosophy of craftsmanship with a long term ambition to humanise future industry in the region creating a network of self reliant communities with a strong identity and pride that develops through the process of making something of quality with a group of like-minded people.

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09 Sophia Kelleher - The Design Exchange Community The Design Exchange Community is a community centre and an alternative education provision for 16-19 year olds. It teaches construction skills to vulnerable young people, and used digital design and manufacture as a way of involving them in the wider community of Blackburn, giving them confidence in their skills by allowing them to help teach others how to use digital fabrication tools. On a wider scale, this project uses the independent design spirit facilitated by the towns Blackburn is Open scheme combined with the new Fablab to readjust the circulation of the town centre and focus on pedestrian routes and community landmarks.

10 Michael Pirrie - The Identity Gallery Located in the postindustrial town of Blackburn the project explores the lack of identity within modern towns and the rise of ‘non-place’. Beginning with a cynical commercially designed art gallery the building is later transformed by a series of characters.

The architect is positioned as mediator between all individuals, exploring design through the personalities of those involved. The narrative has been driving force, creating a project constantly in progress focusing on process rather than product. It is a comment on the unrecognized value of the arts in granting identity to people, in creating ‘place’.

Ultimately the project investigates an architecture split between progress and ruination, firmly acknowledging its ever-changeable position within time. The building becomes a palimpsest on which the town’s creative development is ceaselessly written.

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08 Amy Hill - The Culture Exchange The Culture Exchange is about remodelling Blackburn’s town centre through changes to the local government and moving towards more wide spread civic and cultural functions at the heart of the town. It addresses the research question: “Can our urban centres provide us with more than a place to shop?” It challenges the dominance of retail in Blackburn, something that is echoed across much of the UK, and begins to build a cultural and civic focus for the town. The building houses spaces for the production and exhibition of arts and crafts, engaging with Blackburn’s rich history of making. The spaces for production range in scale and nature, with large workshops for communal use and smaller scale units for individuals. Similarly the exhibition spaces vary in nature, and challenge the notion of the “white cube” gallery model. The Culture Exchange is about engaging the whole population of Blackburn in its remodelling through culture.

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11 Kyriacos Georgiou - The Blackburn Performance Centre The project unveils the potentials of the performance space in relation to the spectator and the city and questions how to bring back performance into the declining town centre of Blackburn, through a more theatrical approach. The new design proposal is for a new type of producing theatre which reinvents the idea of the contemporary theatre, it breaks the fourth wall and questions the action of watching a performance. At the heart of the building sits a multifunctional performance space, and vertically around that all the other amenities related with theatre are taking place, such as rehearsal rooms and workshops. The public can engage with the actions happening in most of the spaces inside the building, breaking in this way into the backstage work of a production.

12 Ke Liu - The Shuttle Working from the idea of time-based architecture, I strived to design for a future which is embedded within the past. Through both historical and participatory research, I found the locals used to gather around landmarks in the town. By introducing a new landmark based upon the cotton history of Blackburn, the locals will regather. The Shuttle commemorates the past, whilst leading Blackburn to a collective future.

13 Shangfeng Li - Build-ing ‘Under construction’ is a stage of architecture, when this stage gets turned into architectural space, freedom and void appear.

Understanding daily activities, dealing with the dimension of time and change is essential. Instead of pursuing the fleeting glamour of the space, it is more inspiring to discover the value within the quality of human activities happening both in and out of the building.

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16 Lu Xu - Textile Gallery The Textile Gallery aims to recall the textile manufacturing memory of Blackburn. The concept of weaving is applied to the whole project, from the textile workshop to the weaving space and fabric. I primarily tested weaving spaces together to observe people’s experiences in the building. Meanwhile, I explored a smaller scale by weaving different fabric (concrete, timber & weft) together to test the outcome. The project will give people chance to participate in the old crafting history, weaving the present and the past together.

17 Gopi Rajbhai Bhuptani The design proposal is an open access public centre for artistic disciplines like dance, art music, drama. The focus is to make the arts and cultural resources accessible to all and bring people together in an easy manner, enabling creative endeavour and allowing exchange of skills through exhibitions and workshops.

Sequencing multi- functional flexible spaces allows multiple uses and user groups, overlaying different activities and events, and creating varied spaces with time and use. Using screens as layers within the building creates multiple permeable membranes which form several ways of opening up or containing spaces and also create ambiguous spaces with varying degrees of physical and visible access into and through the building.

18 Yun Li and Wanlu Zhao - Cocoon The cocoon is a shelter in Blackburn, as a reaction to the town needing protection. It contributes to the area by bringing new green space to this part of the town. It provides information services for the public. The vertical green wall system features an LED structure, brightening the area at night.

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14 Yihan Peng - Blackburn Business Incubator Based on the research of local context and the current economic situation, this project designs a business incubator in Blackburn, aiming at creating an integrated communal platform for various activities. It is a new engine for the local businesses and also a “business card” for Blackburn, showing great ambition for the future.

15 Luoyi Yang - Rainflower From several field trips to Blackburn, there were two things that interested me were the proportion of young people, and the heavy rainfall. To combine those two characteristics I suggest a sustainable strategy for Blackburn town centre, which not only improves surface water management but also inspires young people through a series of storm water capture installations. On the site, which is adjacent to the Blackburn Museum, a large scale glass Rainflower has been created to catch the rainfall and manage surface water recycling in the block. After developing a number of public spaces for young people, the town centre can be stimulated from a series of rainwater captures and boost civic benefits of water to the future.

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Studio Global Praxis Studio Global Praxis operates at the intersection of spatial practice and critical reflection, assuming the city as a field of dispute/ disagreement that is informed and transformed by cross-scale social, economic, cultural, and political relations. Throughout the Studio, we were involved in researching and mapping those territories of dispute, articulating ideas of change as collaborative spatial propositions that highlight the city as a collective project.

In its attempt to question the processes of market led urbanisation, Global Praxis focused on one of its most intense manifestations – the global urban housing crisis – and on the responses enacted by citizens through different forms of collaboration, exchange, and reciprocity.

We developed a critical understanding of the underlying forces and agents affecting inequality in urban areas, and we explored possible frameworks and operations to catalyse grassroots led transformations that can allow citizens to become active participants in the making of their own environment. Does urban change take place only within the designed abstraction of policy-making, or does it also emerge in the collaborative appropriation and transformation of buildings and sites? And if so, how can such processes and spaces be addressed through design, and what to they imply for the idea of design?

Linking to the on-going activities of architectural NGO Architecture Sans Frontières, the fundamental focus of the Studio was thus the idea of collaborative practices, and how they can be understood as acts of political and social imagination and foundations for the reorganisation of the city. Focusing on the case of Lewisham in London, students worked on a diverse range of projects that were developed as both socio-political and economic frameworks, and defined architectural interventions.

Studio Tutor Beatrice De Carli Sarah Ernst Teresa Hoskyns 5th Year Students Elin Friberg Samya Kako Sam Kapasa Sean Pee Polina Pencheva Tendai Taruvinga Giulia Torino Katherine Wong

MAAD Students Kevinny Feng Jiuhui Li Yiye Lin Xuhui Liu Fei Si Haoming Wang Pengrong Wang Yang Xiang Shaofan Xu Xi Yang Yibo Yang Yaqi Yuan Wei Zou

6th Year Student Nicola Dale 01 Studio Engagement & Lewisham Council Presentation 02 Nicola Dale - A Space To Negotiate I have designed a new local council building for the borough of Lewisham that promotes negotiation as a new form of dialogue between grass roots community organisations and local government. It challenges the local council building typology through inclusion of alternative functions such as an independently run cafe and educations base. The public spaces are the heart of the scheme, they create a feelings of inclusion that permeates through the entire building. By encouraging certain points of friction, it promotes negotiation as a new form of communication.

The building uses materials to express the function that exists behind, also breaking up the imposing front facade, making it readable and approachable. The Council Chambers act as the focal point for the building, adding drama and excitement to the political process, reigniting peoples interest in politics once again.

03 Elin Friberg - Collaborative Housing for Lone Parents and their Children Lone parents are one of the groups of people who are suffering the most from the housing crises, in the UK as well as globally. I want lone parents to take advantage of living together, by designing a housing scheme for lone parent households with shared spaces and facilities for a more collaborative everyday life.

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04 Samya Kako - Lewisham’s Community Hybrid Housing Scheme ‘Lewisham’s Community Hybrid Housing Scheme’ provides a training initiate whereby applicants on the housing waiting list have the opportunity to learn skills through restoring empty homes around Lewisham, leading to the prospect of self-finishing their own home as part of a hybrid housing development on Longfield Crescent. The proposal pays attention to minimal space standards and shared living and working facilities, exploring the flexibility of the home from day to day activities to lifelong living. In addition to providing housing it establishes a small-scale community workshop to deliver space-saving furniture, housing components and prefabricated panels for future self-finish sites.

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05 Samuel Kapasa - The Peoples Polytechnic of Lewisham: The architectural facilitation of grassroots education in Lewisham During a time of vast educational cuts, grassroots education is on the rise and creating opportunities for communities to decide the relevant educational agenda for themselves. Through site research, several of these groups were identified and used as real-life client references for the development of a grassroots education centre in Lewisham. The site for this program is the derelict Grade II listed Ladywell Baths. Following a base refurbishment of the existing building, the architectural design is a combination of lowcost self build interventions that catalyse the site over a period of 5 years.

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06 Sean Pee - Wood Vale Eye The Project addresses community living at Wood Vale Estate, Forest Hill. Using garden boxes as a starting point for the council to seek interest on future housing development in the area as well as targeting the Under Occupation of housing problem. The strategy develops through community activities such as a greenery textile wall to open up conversation among the resident.There are six phases on the project: Start-up, Actors Involvement, Scaling Up, Housing, Change X Equilibrium and Visioning. The phases reflect the past and projects the future possibilities of the site.The project consist of temporary structures that would eventually transform into permanent architecture on site with the community decision making.

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13 Yiye Lin - Into the Frame: Rethinking Lewisham Gateway Development (a concept of social housing) The Gateway Development in Lewisham has been a controversial project for years. My aim is to make clear its current state, understand different opinions of both supporters and opponents and most importantly, apply my idea about new social housing to it. It is a new scheme of social housing which combine self-build and semi-finished housing together. (The top down and bottom up together). After government and city council finish the basic structure and the infrastructure (water, power supply etc.) of the frame, they can start to distribute tje housing platform to applicants for self-building. An on-site office maintain by the city council will assist people throughout the process. The housing units can be modified, re-designed and extended.The housing here has great flexibility, in this way, it offers people secure and long lasting housing.

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10 Tendai Taruvinga - re-integration, re-cycle, re-use Re-integration, re-cycle, re-use is based on the formation of a hypothetical charity which goes by the name of For the Love of Lewisham. This charity will work directly with the local authority in the London Borough of Lewisham, and private owners of empty properties in the borough to recommission vacant dwellings in and around the borough, acting as a social enterprise using government funding from the Homes and Communities Agency. For the Love of Lewisham will be based within the Grade II listed Ladywell Playtower – which will act as the operational headquarters for the charitable body offering various services which include a ReIY centre.

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09 Kat Wong - The Lewisham Womens’ Collective My project is a housing exit strategy for vulnerable women and children facing domestic abuse in Lewisham. It looks at the how a group of local women in Lewisham can come together to propose a grassroots project that empower women locally, enhancing womens’ visibility and rights to housing, education, employment, health and womens’ services. Four stages of housing are proposed which guide women from a state of dependence and vulnerability through to independence and empowerment with support from local stakeholders. The project focuses on the first two stages that include emergency hostel accommodation along with a semiindependent cluster of accommodation for single women and children.

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Building the self and connection The bedrooms are plywood cladded pods, the walls are flexible and double up as shelving and compartment spaces along the walls. Part of the trauma of domestic violence is a loss of identity and the individual. The housing provides an opportunity to express their identity in the fabric of their own dwelling space. This is customisable by the residents so depending on their needs they can adapt their space to their requirements. Whilst providing a space for the individual needs and sense of self, the living spaces provide different social space to connect with others whilst also creating spaces for reflection and individual time in more public space. The plywood divisions are continued within the living spaces but are kept open to create a sense of connectedness between spaces and to create informality within the housing.

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08 Giulia Torino - Anthropocentric urbanity- An urban strategy for London: Convoys Wharf 2015- 2025 In the wider global debate around urbanity and its worrying density data, financial crisis and social decay, it is urgently incumbent aiming to find more resilient and egalitarian solutions to living forms in cities. The project tells the story of one of those local realities that have lot to tell within this global scenario: a reality where the antagonism between developers aiming for urban speculation through new developments and communities, resiliently fighting to defend their local memories and culture , cannot be solved without the help of a third role – the facilitator – and without proper consideration of the local social capital.

12 Jiahui Li - Wood Vale Sharing Space The key word of my project is sharing. The aim of the project is to create a co-living community on my site, Woodvale. Provideing about twenty homes on the site with a community center, my proposal offers the opportunity for elderly people and medical students who study at Lewisham university hospital a chance to live together and benefit from each other. For the elderly people, they can live with young people to keep variet in their lives, and the students living in the community can get the lower rental price through taking care of the elderly people or getting a part-time job in the residential area. It links the geracomium to the community together with the height difference, it creates a semi-private space on first floor, and a public space for the neighborhoods on ground floor with commercial space. It also could improve the dynamics of the area.

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07 Polina Pencheva - House for All House for All pursues a new strategic design of affordable housing which is informed and transformed by cross-scalar social, economic and political relations. It investigates issues of global housing shortages on three levels: (1) strategic design, policy and regulation; (2) existing housing stock; (3) new build, design and construction. The project aims to achieve ‘Unity in Diversity’ and create a model which fosters a collective approach and sense of personal ownership of both the ‘home and street’. As such The House for all becomes a manifestation of a ‘Global Praxis’ – a process of design set within a global theoretical framework, imagining housing as a collective expression of the personal.

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15 Fei Si - Lewisham Elderly Co-Housing Elderly cohousing is designed especially for today’s dynamic seniors. Three sub-groups are allocated regarding different levels of physical abilities and need for caring. Doctors and nurses residences are included to provide home health aides whose services may be shared by several residents, allowing members to remain at home for all but major medical emergencies. The community also accommodates some families in the waiting list.

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11 Kevinny Feng - New Redevelopment Scheme Exploration The project aims to create a favourable community by a new redevelopment strategy instead of the original scheme that proposes the demolition of the whole community and rebuilding of a new one. The project is divided into three steps: first, a kids’ base of public garden and exhibition as a catalyst to get people noticing and involved; second, a planning spatial strategy which is a combination of deconstruction, upgrading and re-construction; third, a flexible community centre where conversations, discussions and stories can happen. The methodology which goes through the whole project is reusing and recycling materials from demolition to new build, so that it is flexible, affordable and sustainable.

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16 Haoming Wang - Segal Reconsidered: The Deconstruction and Improvement of Segal Method This project tries to help local people understand and better apply the self-build skill on their self-build houses and also helps to generate more job opportunities for them through deconstruction and innovation of the Segal Method. To improve this method I mainly used a mortise and tenon joint structure and prefabricated panels technology to simplify the structure of the Segal Method and also tried to explore a new methods in building timber framed houses based on the Segal Method to simplify the construction process and help people learn this skill more easily.

21 Yibo Yang - Lewisham Dream Centre My proposal is a co-operative centre where dreamers living in London can share and fulfill their dreams. The centre is half real and half dream. The “real” part are commercial and other fixed-function space (like stores, restaurant, cafe, library), and the “dream” part are flexible spaces for dreamers to organize themselves to do what they imagine they can do in London. The boundaries are blurred, space between “real” and “dream” and can be negotiated. The “real” half can support the “dream” half money and pay for the space, and the “dream” half supports activities and attracts people.

17 Pengrong Wang - Sharing Life in Woodvale The project is based on the concept of sharing and involve different social actors who interact in the community and share a sustainable life. The project is concerned with specific groups such as the elderly and the young generation who want to be a carers or are intern doctors to encourage a cooperative intergeneration life. This project follows the co-housing model and tries to meet peoples’ needs with the private space and shared public space and facilities to encourage social interaction. The aim of the project is to attract diverse groups to live together and share a sustainable and better life.

22 Yaqi Yuan - Live/Work addressing young people In London the high cost of housing generates a financial burden for young people requiring both living and working space, making it very hard to manage. In response, the project elaborates on affordable, self-managed combined living and working accommodation for young Lewisham residents. There are recording studios, performing studios a training centre, private shops, start-up business offices, artist studios, architect studios in the site of the Ladywell Leisure Centre. The leisure space is placed to supply the residents and public here a mixing of live/ work spaces as well.

18 Shaofan Xu - Excalibur Regeneration The problems of the Estate are that it is low density, single type of housing, and it is out of date. In order to introduce changes and opportunities, my proposal looks at refurbishing occupied dwellings and replacing underused prefabs into new modular homes, meeting housing needs and promoting a mixed and balanced housing choice in Excalibur Estate. I propose to refurbish good condition prefabs and low repair costs to poor condition prefabs and replacing bad conditioned and abandoned prefabs for the new modular home systems. It will provide new additional shared green space, parking space and a community center.

23 Wei Zou - Segal village The courtyard space is inspired by the technical nature of the Segal method self builders’ house, as it is suspended 80cm above the ground to avoid the damp. A platform is generated, while several houses create an enclosure with each other forming courtyard and shared space on the “platform.’ When these courtyard blocks combined, more shared space is formed and the courtyard groups can keep growing to fill the whole site. The residence built by this method is called the Segal village.

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19 Yang Xiang - A Mixed Community of Students and Self-builders My proposal is to build a mixed community of both students and self-builders. I imagine that students from different majors can establish a Student United Housing Association by themselves first.

The students and self-builders can work together as a group. As a result a mixed community of both students and self-builders will be built.This proposal deals with both the student housing crisis at Goldsmiths University and the issue of the people who are waiting on Lewisham council’s housing waiting list. With students and selfbuilders living together, the scheme can provide the opportunity for two types of people to share their life experience and public space.

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Studio Re:Imagine Re:Imagine brings together the conservation expertise of Studio 16 and the urban poetry of Studio 1, giving opportunity for students to creatively explore architecture’s role in articulating contemporary society’s relationship with the past.

The theme for the studio was the notion of the museum, with its range of nuances and meanings, ranging from the ancient ‘seat of the muses’, to a modern building type which has expanded to encompass every conceivable subject.

Museums mediate, curate and interpret our relationship with culture and the past through the processes of archiving, preservation, analysis and dissemination. Tied to the notion of the museum is the idea of the collector who brings together a collection - evaluating significance, editing and seeking out items with a passion often verging on obsession. The studio has provided an open framework for students to explore their own agendas and research within these themes.

Berlin was the obvious choice for the studio field trip, with it’s unique concentration of world class museums on Museum Island and it’s diverse range of architecture that re-uses, repairs, reconstructs and re-presents the built heritage of the city. We explored the everyday life of the city; the traditional pattern of courtyard blocks, street art, squats and objects of domesticity. The difficult and traumatic past which characterises Berlin, ensured that conventionally held notions of heritage were continually being brought into question.

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01 Studio Tutors Russell Light John-Paul Walker Visiting Tutors Tim Blundell Jones Janet Bradshaw Craig Broadwith John Carr Richard Murphy Gary Thomason David Watt 5th Year Students Samuel Atkinson James Brook Niamh Lincoln Seán McGee Olivia Radford Helen Simpson Nabihah Zainol Abidin 6th Year Students Oliver Brooks Eleanor Croxford Jessica Evans Matthew Goodfellow Paul Passano

MACR Students Chaojing Chen Yuting Dai Tingting Dong Alex Gilbert Yang Liu Gi Min Lee Yuting Rao Chihiro Saito Mohd Saiful Bin Mohd Tajudin Siti Farrah Zaini Ling Zhou MAAD Students Yuting Dai Yang Liu Dongmiao Zhao

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01 Jessica Evans - Objects of Memory: ImageMaking and the Photographic Archive Through the creation of a community generated photographic archive, this thesis questions whether collaborative making can be used to reactivate and reclaim the private environment of the archival space. By embracing the concept of materiality as a vehicle for engagement, the thesis presents the photograph as a tangible object that can enact community input, creativity and dialogue.

02 Olivia Radford - Under Berlin Under Berlin re-appropriates an underground bunker and links it with several sites above ground, providing formal performance spaces and new head offices for the Berliner Unterwelten Association’s productions. Derived from the bunker’s history as a place of shelter from WW2 until after the Cold War, the concept of concealing and revealing [both people and architecture] takes centre stage in the design. Subtly indicating the bunkers underground presence from ground level, a key focus is the juxtaposition between ‘lightweight’ and ‘heavyweight’ construction, playing on both shadow and natural light.

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03 Eleanor Croxford - The Culture of Craft The Culture of Craft [re]imagines a future for a Berlin Mietshaus [tenement block] through the heritage of brick which defines its urban fabric. The project challenges the notion of the Craftsman, making connections to the intangible heritage of the Trümmerfrau [rubble women]. The project creates an exploratory workshop facility where the production of bricks on a small scale enables material explorations of the possibilities of handmade brick, usually inhibited by large scale mass production. The building [re]defines a disconnected Mietshaus in Prenzlauer Berg, forming a creative hub for an area, challenging the current model of consumption

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04 Niamh Lincoln - Strolling through Sutton Scarsdale and Neukoelln: The Architectural Promenade These two projects explore the notion of the architectural or urban promenade as a means of curating a very specific narrative in response to two contrasting contexts: Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire and Neukoelln in Berlin. Both projects look at movement through smaller architectural interventions focusing on the journey between various points and forging new relationships between existing destinations. In Berlin the architectural promenade becomes a celebration of the act of flanerie through cinema. Cinema with its capacity for instability and errancy, offers a potential flanerie in which the viewer can be conducted into a past not his own. The scheme enforces a promenade between two main roads that takes you into another person’s experience of the city. The site is continuously recorded, can be manipulated by different groups and curated back.

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05 Oliver Brookes - Less Is More Less is more is a facility for the materialist to reduce their consumer urges, it takes Patients through a three stage process to reduce their possessions and psychological susceptibility to the consumer environment. Subtle design decisions echo the historic ruins religious past, but also encourage a healthier form of obsolescence.

10 Seán McGee - The Boros Archive, Berlin The Boros gallery is concealed within a WW2 bunker. It has represented the shift of contemporary art into the hands of citizens. The new archive reveals the operations of the growing collection and sets a stage for its future development. The hidden gallery becomes public in Berlin’s skyline yet balances the thresholds of collection and exhibition.

06 Helen Simpson -Toy Crafting Workshop The scheme looks to reveal the craft and process behind toy making which is often hidden or far removed with 70% of European toys now being made in China. Whilst doing this the workshop subtly encourages acceptance of disability by designing an environment that is fun and accessible for all children.

11 James Brook – Berlin Printmakers Workshop The Printmakers Workshop explores our relationship with temporary and permanent collections. The art of collection is rapidly changing as digital media takes over, the creation of beautiful physical items should be highlighted and celebrated. By relocating an existing printmakers workshop to a more prominent location I am highlighting the different art forms and providing a public arena in which to sell the pieces created.

07 Matthew Goodfellow - Ihre Aesthete Fabrik, Kreuzberg ‘Ihre Aesthete Fabrik’ is conceived as a cultural lobbying factory, allowing the marginalised communities of the LGBT & Turkish migrant population of Kreuzberg to have a space to display their culture that has often been overlooked through traditional museum settings, and have access to resources that can raise the profile of their culture to the wider community through academic research and community driven construction projects.

This building does not seek to pathologize these marginalised communities (the social, religious & political issues involved when bringing together diverse communities in this area, are far to complex to be solved by a building alone), but to unite these communities through their marginality and provide a physical base from which relationships, networks and future ‘living projects’ can be supported through the legitimising power that comes with the pride of belonging to a tangible institution.

08 Paul Passano - BrewHof ​In the capital city of a country stigmatized by its past, the scars of which still remain, it is clear that the citizens of Berlin are resilient in their search for joy amidst the chaos. This project chooses to celebrate the latter through what is possibly second most associated with Germany, the brewing (and drinking) of beer, with precision craftsmanship. As entrenched as beer is in German culture, for decades there’s been little to no variety in local beer production in Berlin. This has been partly due to the introduction of the ‘Reinheitsgebot’ in the early 1900s limiting the ingredients permitted in beer to hops, malted grain, yeast and water. This combined with advances in mass production and WWII led to the consolidation of over 300 local breweries to just 2 industrial scale factories left today.Thanks to some amendments in the Reinheitsgebot to allow a varied approach to brewing, the past five years have seen passionate and experimental brewers taking up residence in restaurants, market halls, cellars and, old breweries.

However, the revolution of returning the brewing process to the people is a costly one and brewers are struggling to offer reasonable prices for craft beer.This thesis intends to explore how Berlin’s emerging craft brewing scene could be integrated within a community ‘hof’ to facilitate, display and share the joy of craft.

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12 Nabihah Zainol Abidin - New Museum of Things The new museum of things goes beyond a typical museum as it is also a means to discover new collections brought by the public’s involvement. The new building enhance the Berlin blocks and farm on the plot and combines traditional and modern materials and construction. The focus the space quality which plays with narrow and dark areas and openings to manipulate shadow and lighting.

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of its character as a ruin. This should be seen as a reactivation of the building as a ruin; only this time it is allowed to occur in a more controlled and dignified way.

The old building in itself would become an exhibition in its own right; like the melting of a giant ice sculpture in slow motion. done consciously and correctly the building could also be used in scientific analysis to help further our understanding of how best to treat such structures.

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The MACR students have undertaken two projects as part of the studio, Project 1 explores historic fabric analysis and building intervention. Project 2 explored how heritage can be a catalyst for urban regeneration, addressing the context of individual buildings and the urban fabric as a whole.

resist, but not completely halt, its decay, and any new development within the building including any systems that record/monitor its decay. In the beginning the relationship between the support system and the building could be partly mutually beneficial, but as time advances, and the building decays further, it will be necessary to adapt the support system to provide greater resistance to its decay. Ultimately, this should be seen as an opportunity to allow the ruin to become an exhibition in itself and to serve public interest in the advancement of structural monitoring systems for historic sites.

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Conservation and Regeneration Project 1 – Sutton Scarsdale Hall Sutton Scarsdale is a ruined stately house in Derbyshire, is under the custodianship of English Heritage. Simply maintaining and stabilizing Sutton Scarsdale in its present condition requires considerable expenditure and it could be argued that it is not the best use of English Heritage’s limited resources. The premise for this project is therefore to explore a viable use for the building that could bring it back into a more active use whilst at the same time providing a stronger economic justification for conservation work.

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Definitely the climax of my visiting route is the museum. Since my proposal is providing a notable access to help it reveal its industrial character to the public, the link to the museum plays a pivotal role in the route. The temporary exhibition space is a prelude to the whole industrial display, the bridge between them just fastens their relationship.

The temporary exhibition space with two storey height is regarded either as an extension of Kelham Island Museum or a supplimentary to it. The show pieces would be displayed on a pulley system which is ready to lift them up when flood comes. Additionally pulleys and rolling chains can be also seen as symbols of old industry time. Not only I use pulleys for exhibition but also apply it to lift the pedestrian bridge up during floods.

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MArch Dissertation The M.Arch postgraduate dissertation is a critical written study on an architectural subject chosen by the student and undertaken with expert advice from the staff. It is seen as an opportunity to investigate an aspect of architecture in which the student is interested and would like to explore in more depth. The dissertation may involve original research and contribute to the subject area through reasoning and critical analysis.

How do you get people down here?

Can the desires of marginalised communities be articulated spatially by participative practices?

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Topics usually fall within the following subject range: architectural theory, architectural history, science and technology, structures, management, CAD and the digital realm, landscape architecture, or urban design. It offers students the opportunity to research, organize and produce an extended piece of mostly written work over the course of a year.

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Sheffield is one of the few schools of architecture that still offers students the chance to undertake dissertations in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. The quality and range of work is remarkable, producing richness, rigour and variety, and demonstrating a wide range of research methodologies, analytical and presentation techniques. This year’s studies included place-based topics such as Gentrification, Identity and Heritage in Kelham Island (Rebecca Randall’s examination of Sheffield’s historical industrial building stock) and Richard Fennell’s examination of Norway’s National Tourist Routes. Several students explored contemporary concerns in architectural practice, such as James Dacre’s Architect Developer, Holly Barker’s work on aspects of healthcare, Healing Architecture, and Sarah Habershon, who grappled with the complexities and tensions around participatory practice (How do you get people down here?). Other topics included the mediation of architecture, for example, Jessica Evan’s Architects as Street Photographers. Other dissertations demonstrated an ongoing concern with important building types and issues, such as the work on alternate procurement and ecological issues in housing by Samuel Hicks, or explorations of the potential impact of digital manufacturing techniques undertaken by Edmund Harrison-Gray.

This work will seek to investigate how participative processes can allow for a multiplicity of views and the desires of marginalised communities to be spatially articulated.The aim is to consider how socially sustainable practice can engage ethically, with people who would usually not have access to the processes that allow them to have their voices heard. The question itself immediately suggests a number of wider questions to be considered: Is it ever possible to engage marginalised users? Can engagement lead to any meaningful transformation?

Is it possible for a professional to avoid manipulating users?

The idea that participation may have the potential to allow communities to transform places in the manner that they see ft has been much discussed within architectural practice, with some practices specialising in this kind of engagement work.1 1 To maintain clarity, in this essay the term ‘community’ has been used to describe collectively groups of stakeholders. The use of the word ‘community’ can be problematic, as there are many types and defnitions, with the term itself being contested. It has been defned in the glossary of this text as a group of people with a common location and/or interest, who have a sense of recognition and awareness of each other. However, it must be acknowledged that all communities are not homogenous, nor of the same type.2 Identifying a community as ‘marginalised’ has its own challenges, requiring careful attention to be paid to context. It is useful in making a distinction between different groups and in showing which parties have the least agency, opportunity and potentially ability to articulate.

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The research question was posed after a design studio related visit to witness the participative approaches of Supertanker (a network dealing with innovation and urban development). This visit is discussed further in a later chapter. However, it is appropriate to bring to the fore some questions that were posed by the workshop, which I will seek to answer in this essay: Firstly, who represents the community, if the community is not homogenous? Secondly, what methods assist in the engagement of marginalised groups once they have been identifed?

Thirdly, when a professional is aware of the power structure in place, how can they avoid manipulating participants.

1.2 Setting the Scene De Carlo spells out the issues facing the profession in his 1969 text, Architecture’s Public, calling for a radical reconsideration of participation and the actors involved in the architectural process. This text is still as relevant today as it was then. De Carlo demonstrates that participation is important in the creation of place as it allows users to appropriate and feel a sense of belonging. This is particularly acute when considering interventions involving communities that are ‘excluded from the use of power – and therefore what is recognised as culture, art, architecture...’.3 The focus should not be on forcing the Other to submit to the values imposed, but upon expressing their desires.

It may be important to state here that participation in the context of this research is different to the consultation often carried out as a result of the changes in policy in UK planning. The study intends to deal with practice that actively engages communities, rather than collecting opinion regarding views on already fnalised schemes. Although the accuracy of Arnstein’s Ladder of Participation4 can be debated, it may be useful to introduce this as a tool at an early stage to help state the position taken as a researcher. I would argue that ‘consultation’ in the guise it is sometimes referred to as “being used to create legitimacy for decisions that have already been made”5, should not be classed as true participation in the context of this research. Creative consultation, that which seeks to use opinions and information from participants to infuence design decisions, however may provide a springboard for engagement and community empowerment.

Borrowing the term ‘Spatial Agents’, the aim will be to critique the way architecture is practiced and question how participative approaches already developed can be furthered. The idea that “Spatial does not so much replace architectural as a term, but radically expands it”6 is key to research, as many of the examples drawn on are not strictly ‘architecture’ in its traditional form, it is something more expansive.

This will allow for a more critical stance to be taken, and propose potential solutions that can engage with power structures in a more effective manner. “In a participative approach, the possibility of expression and evolution of participants’ ‘desire’ is the precondition of their empowerment.”7

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Norway’s National Tourist Routes How we came to view the landscape as a tourist experience and how is it being utilised as a commodity for consumption?

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The tourist experience encompasses not only the journey along these routes, but the stopping points placed along them, designed to turn a site into a sight or attraction in its own right.1 These commissioned interventions provide essential services to the traveller, whilst acting as a high-profile platform for the promotion of Norwegian architecture and generating opportunities for young architecture practices through their commissions.

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Within today’s western society we are able to travel readily with holidays abroad commonplace, but had I have been tempted to undertake my journey one hundred years ago, I might have been diagnosed with the mental illness ‘fugue’, or the compulsion to walk and travel.2 Once viewed as inhospitable, dangerous, and even ‘hideous’, our views towards the landscape changed considerably in just a few hundred years due to increased accessibility, changing fashions and lifestyles. 3 Although the tourist experience feels like an individual one, it is in fact exceedingly manufactured and shared with many people – we seek out validation that a sight has achieved a certain status to justify that yes, I am sufficiently cultured and educated to warrant this experience. This seems partly due to the convenience many attractions offer, they are well signposted and documented – other people have already conducted the actual discovery and research, the sight now becomes a commodity for us to enjoy. The Norwegian Government are utilising their greatest natural asset, the landscape, to this effect; serving not only the traveler but also the economy. Not only this, the scheme attempts to solve problems of how the environmental and commercial activities interrelate: rather than simply attracting tourism and wealth to the country, the scheme looks toward managing and safeguarding a landscape that convention states must remain accessible to all.

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The concept of landscape is one that has been constructed by human society over many centuries, so it proved impossible to look at the modern day treatment of our environment without first considering how we have arrived at these contemporary ideals. Touching on eighteenth century traditions, followed by the growth of tourism and motor travel, exposed many new facets to the way in which we have come to view the landscape as a society; and today, the ways in which we expect to, and actually, experience travel.

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1. Jon Martin Denstadli and Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen, ‘The long and winding roads: Perceived quality of scenic tourism routes’, in Tourism Management, 32 (2011) p. 780.

2. John Urry, Mobilities, (Cambridge: Polity, 2007) p. 82.

3. Ian Ousby, The Englishman’s England: Taste, travel and the rise of tourism, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) p. 130.

4. Denstadli and Jacobsen, ‘The long and winding roads: Perceived quality of scenic tourism routes’, p. 781.

5. Hvattum, Mari and others, ‘Routes, Roads and Landscapes: Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015’, Routes, Rods and Landscapes, <http://routes.no/pdf/the_routes_project.pdf> [accessed 20 February 2013] p. 8.6 Janike Kampevold Larsen, ‘Curating Views: The Norwegian Tourits Route Project’, in Routes, Roads and Landscapes, ed. by Mari Hvattum and others (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) p. 186.

In essence, it is the very human need to explore and a present-day fashion for viewing the landscape that the scheme accommodates. In doing this, both the landscape and architecture en route are being exhibited as a collection of destinations and experiences. Travelers are drawn into an ancient landscape whilst, the government hope, providing great economic benefits across the country. Centuries of tradition continue to being built upon, providing new and innovative ways for tourists to consume the landscape, in a way that still feels familiar.

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Whole School Event - Designs on Our City On 12 February 2014 the entire student body of Sheffield School of Architecture participated in our Whole School Event, the largest to date. 300 students took up residence in empty shops in the city centre to participate in 18 workshops led by practising architects, creative practitioners, urban strategists, and UoS academics from architecture, law, town and regional planning, landscape and the enterprise team.

The students came up with innovative strategies and proposals for creative uses, and produced work that transformed shop fronts ‘live’ through film, slogans, poetry and photography as evening fell. A public exhibition was held in the old Woolworths department store on The Moor and was attended by city councillors and local civic organisations, as well as intriguing many passers by.

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Beauty in the City – Mark Emms with Tony Broomhead Carparks in the City – Satwinder Samra with Nick Bax Castle in the City – Dan Jary with Steve Pool Co-working in the City – Leo Care with CADS & Common People Cycling in the City – Paul Testa with Scot Fletcher Enterprise in the City - Ed McCann with Chrissie Elliot, USE Film in the City - Lakshmi Priya Rajendran & Ruxandra Berinde with Magic Lantern Film Club Greening in the City – Howard Evans with Jeff Sorrill Inhabiting the City - Mark Parsons & Ranbir Lal with Jon Orlek Instagram in the City – Russell Light Mediation in the City - Maryam Fazel & Sukainah Adnan Almousa No Rules in the City – Florian Kossak with Andy Inch Open Data in the City – Mark Meagher & Phil Langley Play in the City – Rosie Parnell & Masa Sorn with Dead Earnest Shopping in the City – Teresa Hoskyns with Sarah Blandy Testing Pop-ups in the City – Irena Bauman & Guy Moulson with SKINN & Sue Ball Who lives in the City? – Greg Penoyre with Ellen Page Words in the City – Simon Chadwick & Cith Skelcher

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The Car Park is a mundane yet everyday part of the city.

Cycling in the City Words in the City @ former Halfords store, The Moor

We will work to reasses and develop opportunities for these ‘generic and mundane’ places.

Greening in the City Instagram in the City Shopping in the City @ former Poundland store, The Moor

We will observe, record and speculate as a group throughout the day.

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SSoA Whole School Event Wednesday 12th Feb 2014

Carparks in the City Co-working in the City

Gill Valentine, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Social Sciences said “this was a hugely successful event organised by, and involving, the whole School of Architecture to begin work on envisioning new ways of understanding and re-engaging with key challenges in Sheffield. Many congratulations to all those involved for such an inspirational start to the semester.”

With thanks also to all our staff members, creative partners and visiting professors who led such fantastic workshops:

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Castle in the City Who lives in the City?

The event was part of a week-long programme hosted by The University of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council and Doc/Fest, bringing Marcus Westbury, Creative Director of Renew Newcastle, to Sheffield. Students were inspired by the work Marcus has done in Newcastle, Australia, reinvigorating the central business district by helping small, independent artists, makers, and individuals set up shop in vacant premises.The purpose of his visit was to encourage the Council, the University and local independent businesses and creative organisations to collaborate on a resilient model of home-grown regeneration of the city centre.

WSE organised by Carolyn Butterworth with thanks to Leo Care,Aidan Hoggard, Melvyn Broady, Barra Mac Ruari, Fionn Stevenson,Vanessa Toulmin, Sandra Barley and Marcus Westbury.

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Theory Forum 2013 - Thinking Resilience

SSoA Forum 2014 - Retrofitting Neighbourhoods

Society is facing major challenge of climate change and resource scarcity. Both will lead to shocks and our society needs to develop resilience in order to withstand them and transition to a sustainable and just society.

This years School Form was delivered in partnership with SUAS, BLR and Agency as another event in the series of Building Local Resilience Platform.

Architecture and Urban Design straddle many disciplines and require synthesis of many variants.This makes architects especially well placed to contribute to the understanding of resilience. However, much of the research so far has focused on mitigation strategies to the problems rather than adaptation strategies to develop resilience.

This lecture series draws together practitioners from across the UK and beyond to discuss their work and reflect on how we actively retrofit our neighbourhood to make them more adaptable, more liveable and more sustainable in the times of change. The emphasis of the series was on practice-based research. In particular we discussed the social and cultural engagements of architects in making resilient neighbourhoods.

In Thinking Resilience we explore some of the current research undertaken by academic staff in SSoA to examine how it informs our understanding of resilience at different spatial scales.

The Theory Forum is one of the events run by Developing Local Resilience Research platform: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/research/resilience/thinkingresil

01 Architecture of Resilience 1: Retrofitting Neighbourhood and Goodwin Trust - Jonathan Wilson and Peter McGurn Organiser of the Forum Irena Bauman

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Chairs Irena Bauman Florian Kossak Satwinder Samra

02 Discussions at the Victoria Centre

Speakers Nishat Awan Peter Blundell Jones Carolyn Butterworth Leo Care Prue Chiles Teresa Hoskyns Lucy Jones Phil Langley Mark Meagher Chengzhi Peng Doina Petrescu Fionn Stevenson Kim Trogal Sarah Wigglesworth Organisation, publicity and catering Holly Barker Joanna Beal Aimee Yu Beichen Dovile Botyriute Sam Brandt Nicola Dale Richard Fennell Jie Gao Joanna Hansford Toby Hyam Ross Jordan Peter Lathey Alex Maxwell Charu Shila Mohan Yun Wing Ng Charlie Palmer Adel Sutcliffe Jet Swan Kim Swan

02 Architecture and Theatre Set Design - Nissen Richards Studio 03 Hybrid City - Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin

03 The students who cooked 3 meals for 140 people on the day

04 A Kind of Practice - Oliver Smith of 5th Studio

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SUAS The 2014 committee has worked hard to develop links with alumni and broaden the society’s outreach across SSoA to include staff, PGT and PhD students. With over 360 members, SUAS is now the largest it has been in the society’s history.

Once again,Thursday nights have seen SUAS host a diverse and inspiring series of lectures in the Well. Collaborating with AGENCY and BLR (Building Local Resilience), the continued success of these events is a testament to the lecture team and committee members who have worked hard to put on the events. From practicing architects to theatrical set designers, this years speakers have included Paul Williams (Stanton Williams Architects), Pippa Nissen and Ifigeneia Liangi (Nissen Richards Studio) as well as Sheffield alumni Pol Gallagher (ZAP Architecture) and Alastair Parvin (00:/ Architecture and Wikihouse) to name but a few.

Following the hugely successful SUAS launch in the Well, this year’s social calendar began with the time-honoured tradition of the fancy dress social – a much anticipated event that gave everyone the opportunity to get creative with their costumes.This was closely followed by the legendary Bakewell Pub Crawl which saw over 120 students descend upon the Peak District for a night of merriment in the traditional Yorkshire pubs. The annual summer ball ‘the SUAS Carnival’ took place in June to celebrate the end of the year. Another night of festivities and an opportunity to get creative, this year’s SUAS Ball was the biggest and best yet.

2014 has seen SUAS launch Life Drawing classes and a new student journal ‘ASPECT’. The graphics team have worked hard to develop a new brand for the society and the inter-year mentoring scheme has again been hugely popular. Lunchtime Specials, talks that are given by students to students, are now in their eleventh series.This year the Lunchtime Specials series has focused on the world of practice, offering undergraduate students insights into the nature of different practices, applying for jobs and some of the diverse career opportunities available that lay beyond that of the traditional architect.

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Emma Low, SUAS President

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Lecture Team Mike Horswill Kalpana Gurung Kseniya Sharin Stefania Tsigkouni Tom Walker Lunchtime Specials Team Emma Low Rory Chisholm Jessica Haigh Andrew McKay Matthew Pearson Kelly-marie Rodgers Tom Walker

Ball Team Morgan Williams Parnell Serina Kitazono Gabriele Pauryte Mari Shirley Kyle McCracken Lucia Pells Agelos Lc Hannah Towler Lucy Sanders Petros Antoniou

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During the spring semester of 2014, the 1900 historical model of Sheffield grew by a further five squares, encompassing the area stretching north from Broad Lane, passing through Furnace Hill, Shalesmoor, Green Lane and finishing at the River Don weir at Kelham Island.

The Sheffield School of Architecture Summer Programme takes place over a week in August each year. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/initiatives/summerschool

Making Cities

This year’s study was conducted by twenty-seven students from MArch, PGT and undergraduate levels. Led by Peter Blundell Jones and Jo Lintonbon, the group attempted to explore and analyse the Sheffield urban context through its form, use and historical development. Each of the study areas is a 200m x200m square, modelled at 1:500 scale and accompanied by a supporting research folder.

In order successfully to reconstruct the urban fabric circa 1900, extensive research into the built form and social history had to be carried out, and valuable research skills were honed and developed. Students became familiar with the formalities of archival work, alongside model making. The research this year unravelled a vibrant and colourful narrative much focused on the industrial history of the city. The studied area embraced many building typologies, including industrial works, working class housing, churches, schools, and pubs. Although some significant buildings still survive as signposts to the area’s past, most of the low quality housing was removed in the early 20th century as part of a bid to clear slums.

Tutors Peter Blundell Jones Jo Lintonbon Students Y4 Rory Chisholm Aditi Ashok Lande Charu Shila Mohan Shilin Patwa Wei Zou Z4 Chaojing Chen Tingting Dong Ruth Jennings Ling Zhou Yuting Rao Z5 Zhaofang Chen Bin Guo Bochen Lu Yibo Yang Yaqi Yuan Yishu Yao Z6 Chang Hao Fang Hao Jie Hu Yun Li Manqing Lin Yiming Ran Z7 Alex Gilbert Christopher Hall Joseph Moss Farouq Tahar Lucy Tew Wijaya Yapeter

01 2013 - Big Buildings, Small Buildings and the Spaces In Between

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The 2013 Summer School hosted 12 students from Harbin HIT - it was our pilot for the summer school planned for 2014.

We are delighted to announce a 6 day programme of events designed to examine the fabric of the City Centre of Sheffield and propose solutions to vacant, underused and underdeveloped sites within the city. This is an ideal opportunity whether you have an interest in architecture or design, are a prospective student, an international student or from another university. Participants will gain first-hand experience of the design process whilst working with leading practitioners.

Four days of summer school were spent exploring the issues of place making and how large and fine grain building and their uses impact on places. We made site visits to the large footprint, single use developments such as Magna and Meadowhall, and to fine grain, multiuse ones such as Portland works.

Students worked in two groups to develop options for the same site - they then presented to each other and reflected on the schemes collectively.

The 2013 Summer School was led by Irena Bauman and Simon Chadwick with guest tutors: Anna Holder, Lorenza Casini and Julia Udall. It was inspiring to see the design talent of the students and their excellent language skill. It was a pleasure to teach them.

SUMMER SCHOOL 15th-20th SEPTEMBER 2014

The Making Cities Summer School will bring together both Schools of Architecture in Sheffield, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, giving participants a chance to develop your interest in Architecture in a fascinating city with many challenges and opportunities. The Summer School takes place during the Festival of the Mind, an event which promotes collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the City in an 11-day festival where we share our most exciting research in inspiring and creative ways.

DESIGN TEAM LEADERS

Each morning participants will choose from a series of skills sessions including collage, perspective drawing and life drawing workshops. These will be designed and run by some of Sheffield’s leading academics and educators in the field of Architecture: Florian Kossak, Satwinder Samra, Russell Light, Julian Marsh, Leo Care and Mark Emms.

Afternoons will be spent in one of 3 design studios on floors 16 and 17 of the Arts Tower. The 3 studios will be run and themed by one of the Team Leaders, Martin Mayfield (Engineer), Irena Bauman (Architect) and David Cotterrell (Artist). The studios will be supported by Simon Chadwick and Cith Skelcher of the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture, and Julian Marsh of Sheffield Hallam University, School of Architecture. Studios will be encouraged to test their ideas in 3D within a giant city model, which will be situated at the heart of the Arts Tower on floor 16.

Engineer Irena Bauman Architect David Cotterrell Artist

VISITING PRACTICES SHEFFIELD ACADEMICS AHMM Simon Chadwick Carmody Groarke Leo Care Hawkins\Brown Russell Light Penoyre & Prasad Julian Marsh Riches Hawley Mikhail Satwinder Samra 5th Studio Cith Skelcher

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Each evening we will offer a talk, walking tour or design review hosted by one of our highly renowned invited guests from some of the UK’s best practices: AHMM, Carmody Groarke, Hawkins\ Brown, Penoyre & Prasad, Riches Hawley Mikhail and 5th Studio.

Many of whom trained at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture and also employ our graduates.

The closing event on Saturday 20 September provides a special opportunity to exhibit participants’ work mounted within the giant city model in Tudor Square, in the city centre, amongst the events of the Festival of the Mind, signalling an open invitation to the citizens of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Society of Architects and Sheffield Civic Trust.

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Architecture Students Network, Lines Drawn Conference, March 2014 SSoA represented by Ruth Jennings and Adam Tarasewicz

Students at SSoA have taken part in extra curricular design competitions, consistently winning and being shortlisted against other students and practicing architects on national and international platforms. This year the school has seen numerous successes in a wide variety of awards, ranging from international awards, to local enterprise and sketching competitions.

The future of architectural education is once more at the forefront of debate between the RIBA, UK schools and architectural practices. As such, the Architecture Students Network (ASN) and The Centre of Alternative Technology wished to find out the thoughts and opinions of architecture students from across the UK. This was disseminated through the Lines Drawn Conference, hosted by CAT in Machynlleth, Wales during mid March, and was attended by representatives from twenty two schools, Olly Wainwright, (architecture and design critic at The Guardian) and Will Hunter, (executive editor of the Architectural Review and Director of The London School of Architecture.)

The conference was split into a series of small discursive workshops, which ran over two days. Subjects included the value of Parts 1, 2 and 3 under the current system, the aspirations of a flexible education system, the EU directive legislation proposals, and future of ‘the profession.’

Conclusions from the conference, in response to these workshops, can be read in detail on the ASN website.

One major success of the conference was the opportunity to meet other architecture students from across the UK. It provided a networking platform from which to share ideas and enjoy a variety of architectural thought and teaching, unique to the UK and its architecture schools.The ASN therefore has a potentially divisive role in encouraging open dialogue and debate surrounding education and practice, “students don’t value the amount of weight which they have. If students came together as a collective great things could happen.”

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At the SSoA, ‘Reflections on Architectural Education’ is an annual PGT option module, led by Dr Rosie Parnell and George Lovett. This year’s study group comprised of ten students from MArch, PGT and undergraduate levels. Many of the broad issues and conclusions made at the Lines Drawn Conference were discussed during the yearlong module, in addition to the exploration of learning and teaching techniques.

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The UN Habitat competition ‘Revitalisation of Mass housing’ aimed to render monolithic mass housing into more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable areas by integrating mixed uses, improving densities and mobility and reducing their eco-footprint.

The Architecture Students Network (www.theasn.org) is an independent network of UK based architecture students. It aims to support and promote architecture student events and harnesses student opinion. The next ASN event is to be held at the Kent School of Architecture, so keep your eyes peeled for details in the future if you wish to be involved.

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Our entry focused on the Gleadless Valley housing estate in Sheffield, arguing that it is estates like it which are the predominant type of the mass housing stock in the UK and which deserve to be high on the policy agenda. The estate has build a reputation of a no-go area and is simply referred as a ‘long established housing community’ in the Local Plan for Sheffield, with no future plans or vision described.

Through our proposal we strived to develop a strategy of how residents in the Valley could propose small change through existing policies, which could form the basis for a more comprehensive master planning at later stages. We strived to provide a wellresearched proposal which could be used a tool in future policy making processes.

We were happy to learn that we have won the UK arm of the competition with the regional winners for Europe and the world winner to be announced on the 7th of April at the UN Habitat Annual forum. Now that the anonymity requirements have been lifted we will be looking to go back to the source and disseminate our proposal ideas in Gleadless Valley.Thanks to Irena Bauman and her studio 17 for the research which has been conducted by them in Gleadless Valley.

Rebecca was awarded the Women in Property National Student Award for Yorkshire and North East Region, winning £300 and a trophy.

04 RIBA Charrette 2014 - A Northern Soul, Newcastle upon Tyne Left to right: Joren Heise, Lucas Williams, Alex Achniotis (all Architecture and Landscape students) with Russell Light Attended by over 60 students from Northern Schools of Architecture the project brief for this national student design competition focused on re-imagining the Stephenson Quarter, an important historic area within Newcastle upon Tyne. Each design team was formed of students from different Schools of Architecture, with Alex Achniotis’ team winning overall.

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02 West Yorkshire Society of Architects Dennis Mason Jones Award for Freehand Sketching 2013: Winner

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The judges enjoyed the tremendous 3D quality without loosing the freshness of this well observed architectural sketch.

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Commendations go to Bochen Lu, Sam Milward and a Special Mention to Adam Tarasewicz.

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Awards and Recognition This year has seen many successes within the department, with numerous students receiving prestigious awards for their design work.

01 RIBA Yorkshire Student Awards 2013: Part 2 Silver Award RIBA President’s Medals 2013: Part 2 Nominated 3DReid Student Prize 2013: Shortlisted Guy Moulson A Theatre for a New Scientific Age Tutor: Russell Light A Theatre for a New Scientific Age is an investigation into the development of an architectural language that represents a critical form of theatre. Brechtian Theatre, or more appropriately Epic Theatre is adopted by this study in order to provide a structure with which to develop a suitable architectural language. The language of a theatre, as a building type, can be dissected and redefined in order to reflect the intentions of the material shown within. It’s metaphysical aspirations, of narrative, observation, montage, social being and inquiry are represented by the tectonic arrangement of parts, and the revealing of the otherwise concealed elements of a theatre.

02 RIBA Yorkshire Student Awards 2013: Part 2 Bronze Award Nick Hunter Startup EAST Tutor: John Sampson Startup EAST is about new ways of working - both in education and enterprise – and a paradigm shift in civic architecture and development. The project evolved through a critique of the economic vulnerability of speculative delivery – a system which has left vacant asset-driven buildings throughout British cities and failed to deliver regeneration projects through times of economic hardship. Startup EAST is a proposal for an economically resilient development paradigm, driven by the growth of small and medium enterprises. The project’s building proposal is the foundation capital project that starts this new development process. It revives the historic light industries of East Newcastle, whilst providing new civic and community facilites for the local community: a new public library, an enterprise incubator and a construction school.

The building overlaps circulation and usable space to create a vibrant collective learning environment and workplace that helps develop future collaborative relationships.

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04 RIBA President’s Medals 2013: Part 2 Nominated Global Architecture Graduate Awards 2013: Runner-up Chris Parrott All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Tutor: Carolyn Butterworth

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This project is situated in Neepsend, Sheffield and concerns the transgression of societies relationship with technology. The HQ of SHED, The Sheffield Hacking and Electronics Division, inhabits the site of an old brewery - a live lab for technological skills. Part civic learning centre, part technological market hub. The site is used as an urban test bed, construction through 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills. Everyone is part-time builder, designs evolving on the spot. SHED becomes a building that is always under construction.

05 RIBA President’s Medals 2013: Part 1 Nominated Edward Crooks The Theatre Of Progress Tutor: Ranbir Lal The Theatre of Progress, based at Chatsworth House, aims to deal holistically with the wider political, social and environmental context affecting the estate. The building adopts the programme of an audience-participatory theatre; sampling, compressing and simulating elements of the existing house in order to develop a stage set around which society can change the way we perceive and interact with Chatsworth. Drawing influence from Rem Koolhaas’ description of Coney Island, the extension acts as an incubator for future themes and mythology at Chatsworth, continuing a long heritage of illusion, playfulness, communication and influence.

The building itself is not a revolution, but is the rehearsal of a transformation to be played out within Chatsworth House.

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Jessica Pallot Founded in 2011, this prize was established to commemorate the life of Marcus Humphrey-Gaskin, a student of the School of Architecture who died during the second year of his course in 2011.

Fay al Khalifa Supervisor: Professor Peter Blundell Jones The award was given for her dissertation entitled ‘An urban healing agenda for reform in Bahrain: where the dweller falls into the urban gap and the sailing boat hits the skyscraper’, which was completed as part of her MA in Conservation and Regeneration course at SSoA.

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Sheffield Society of Architects Established in 1887 the Sheffield Society of Architects is in the middle of one of it’s busiest years. So far, a strong core committee have already delivered a Design Summit with local Architects, associated professionals and students looking at the future of Sheffield’s retail quarter. The exciting output of which has been presented to Sheffield City Council and should positively influence the upcoming master plan.

Currently, we are busy putting together events for RIBA Yorkshire’s week-long Love Architecture festival, which is a core part of the inaugural Sheffield Design Week. The highlight of this week for us is the launch of our Dear Sheffield postcard exhibition at Moor Markets; a project we started in 2012 to celebrate 125 years of the Society. Dear Sheffield is a fascinating collection of memories of places and spaces from the people who love and live in Sheffield. This project has been successful in reaching out to the general public and received a great response.

We will be working with Sheffield City Council, RIBA Yorkshire, Sheffield’s two schools of architecture and other partners to deliver events for Sheffield Urban Design Week in October 2014. We are also assisting RIBA Yorkshire and Sheffield Civic Trust with Sheffield Design Awards 2014, the winners of which will be announced during Urban Design Week.

Going forward we want to further strengthen our ties with Sheffield’s architectural students and academics and other partner organisations to help promote architecture and enable debate about our great city and the design issues/opportunities it faces. We are always keen for new members to strengthen our committee. If you would like to become involved or find out more about the Society and it’s events please email us at sheffieldsocietyofarchitects@gmail.com

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