The University of Sheffield School of Architecture
12 Zhiyang Miao - Keeping the City Live Through Music This project looks at the culture of independent music in Leeds and facilitates its development in the South Bank to adapt to changes in the independent music industry. By setting up a community of independent musicians, providing more opportunities for performance and interacting with citizens, the intervention of independent music culture is beneficial to activating street life in the South Bank. The proposed development includes three phases which are a small scale intervention (Urban Live Listening Station), a large scale intervention (Meadow Lane Music Festival) and future permanent change (music island and social centre). 13 Sophie Ellis - The Preservation Tower The Preservation Tower is a vertical chutney, jam and preserve factory located in the heart of a reclaimed area of urban agricultural plots in the South Bank of Leeds. The project is driven out of the need to be more waste aware as consumers, by building upon the established principles of reduce, re-use and recycle, and challenging the perception of what we consider waste in todays society, through the act of chutney making and other culinary activities. 14 Zhiyan Zhang - Urban Waste Lab Urban Waste Lab indicates a waste disposal network for Leeds Southbank, which focuses on two aims: to solve the littering problem and beautify the riverside living environment. In order to make waste become useful again, anaerobically digesting plants are introduced in the project, which turn the waste into valuable energy and contributes to achieving self-funding. Other facilities are added to improve the riverside environment in order to arouse public awareness to care more about the environment. 15 Yuntong Mu - Social Bridge This project intends to re-define the relationship between architecture and urban space, testing the boundary between public and private.The scheme is a social hub that offers a destination for the local people. It has the potential to open out to the city and take over the ‘inbetween’ spaces surrounding the building, whilst forming two routes; along the riverside and back to Leeds city centre. It has the ability to transform from a humble building into several eye-catching stages, with the goal of drawing people into the area and promoting local communities and businesses through events and activities. 16 James Brook - The Centre of Recreation This project looks to re-appropriate elements of redundant car infrastructure on Leeds South Bank to create a Centre of Recreation alongside the new city park, in line with the Council’s ambition to be the best city in the UK for health and well-being by 2030. The scheme looks at re-activating under-utilised spaces for recreational leisure, offering a range of arts and sports facilities embedded within the new city park that attract people and help to sustainably regenerate the South Bank.
18 Lu Lui - Green Catalyst Park This project proposes to create a new green space and public hub for the city. The future plan is to bring in a new city park in Leeds and shape a green and sustainable urban development, enhancing green and social popularity along the riverbank. The co-existing varied activities make the park a vital place for local inhabitants and this area will be transformed into a green park providing lifestyle supports and interesting social interactions. 19 Songqiao Li - The Pocket Park The Pocket Park works as a system.There are two existing pocket park systems in Leeds South Bank. One is a commercial area system, the other is a residential area system, and this proposal is a system for the workers.There should also be one big system which includes every single pocket park system, to enhance people’s life in the South Bank over the next six years. Another pocket park system links the ‘factory system’ (system for the workers) to the two existing systems. The potential spaces allocated for the pocket park provide a lively future vision for Leeds South Bank.
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20 Rory Chisholm - The Village Green How can our developing built environment actively support social interaction? A social centre; created, managed, grown by its members and workers cooperative. Placed within a proposed housing development, recently granted planning permission, in order to challenge/improve the development’s public contribution promises. An architecture seeking mutual benefits, an architecture of the human scale. 21 Yixi Cao - Trans-Farm Trans-farm is an idea proposed from the combination between urban agriculture and health care, with a focus on medicinal plants and herbs that heal. Extending beyond herbal remedies, the farm demonstrates the potential of food as a medicine, tackling urban living health problems. Specific medicinal plants are linked to under-utilised land in the South Bank, close to the river, with plans to integrate these under-utilised areas and enable them to become integral urban spaces. 22 Chengnan Xu - Knowledge Supermarket Knowledge Supermarket aims to gather people to share and exchange their specific knowledge and skills. The spaces they engage in are originally unsafe spaces in Leeds South Bank. It is possible to make Leeds South Bank more safe and active. The project is named “Knowledge Supermarket”, as the new future community will be more like a supermarket where people can pick up what knowledge they need and give what knowledge they have in an exchange with others.
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17 Kaiting Li - Water Bus This project proposes a new waterway transport for the public, using the River Aire as an opportunity to make the river a part of citizen’s life. The proposal ‘Water Bus’ utilises some existing docks and adds new platforms along the river, organising a new route with water buses(boats) and related facilities. Its aim is to encourage people to choose the alternative traffic routes on the river and explore and value what the river’s bank has to offer. 14
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