The University of Sheffield School of Architecture
05 Building Sutton Sheds Mentor: Jenny Clemence Client: All About You Location: Hillsborough, Sheffield Students: Alice Grant, Bradley Sumner, Farhana Jiwa, Jingwen Zhang, Katherine Dauncey, Kimbo Sito, Lei Wang, Lucas Williams, Mohammed Mirza, Robyn Davis, Samantha Mooney, Shutao Tan, Stephanie Davies, Xinyu Wang, Zhilin Hou The project explores the regeneration of the William Sutton Community Hall on Dunella Road, Hillsborough, in order to improve the inclusivity and accessibility of the existing space. In addition, the project proposes to convert the derelict garages opposite the hall into a community workshop space called Sutton Sheds. Sutton Sheds will host ‘Men’s Sheds’ and ‘She Sheds’ programmes: a creative space where ‘Shedders’ of all ages and abilities can learn and develop practical skills. The workshops will provide a home for a broad range of activities, such as woodwork, metalwork, pottery and art & crafts. At the core of this project, our vision was not merely to design a new workshop space, but to create a community hub in the heart of the Sutton Estate, enhancing social connections and friendships across the local community. The project developed with mental health and personal wellbeing in mind, creating a social space that is welcoming and accessible to all. We believe that making and creating can be a tool for healing and hope that the Sutton Sheds will provide a safe and friendly space for this to happen. 06 Glossop: Connect Mentor: Bryan Davies Client: Victoria Arts Centre, High Peak Borough Council Location: Glossop, Derbyshire Students: Raluca Burlacu, Xinyan Cao, Say Yin Chuah, Monty Dobney, Sarah Edwards, Dongbo Gao, Ramidayu Gate-Leka, Yiting He, Samuel Letchford, Beth Lodge, Ayomikun Rosanwo, Li Mei Tan, Kai Yi Wong Glossop has a rich cultural history and is home to a large range of creative professionals. The Glossop:Connect Live Project was conceived as a joint endeavour between Victoria Arts Centre, High Peak Borough Council and various local organisations who want to kick start a creative vision strategy for Glossop. We focussed on connecting cultural/heritage assets and creative groups, as well as gathering public support and building momentum through creative public engagement. Our cultural map evolved as a rich tapestry of memory and experiences, providing a tool for engagement. Alongside this, we created the Urban Room, a physical space which can foster these discussions, a place where people can go to understand and get involved in the future of their town. Alongside this, we considered potential uses and meanwhile visions for Glossop’s heritage assets, which are currently underutilised. These visions were developed through a collaborative co-designed process that saw us combining and developing our ideas with those of the public. 07 Friends of the Valley Mentor: Emre Akbil Client: Friends of the Valley Location: Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Students: Will Beesley, Peter Dykes, Junsu Fan, Matthew ForbesYandi, Olivia Hellman, Rory Luscombe, Vipashyana Priyadarshi, Janani Rajeswaran, Jianing Ren, Zewen Sheng, Qi Xuan Tee, Zhangxiufu Wu, Xinyu Zhao Friends of the Valley are a collective of SSoA students and local residents of the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield. By tapping into grassroots systems of power and alternative economies we challenged the existing top-down models of civic development by embedding ourselves within informal networks.
We established a two stranded approach, to work simultaneously on creating the mobile commons, by facilitating a skills sharing network as well as a series of designs for a community centre on the Hemsworth site. The mobile commons travelled around the Gleadless Valley collecting oral narratives and demonstrating the power of the informal network. It worked to create an interface with a master-planning event we set up outside, and by handing out badges we started to expand the Friends of the Valley network, encouraging people to engage with the early stages of our spatial and organisational propositions - by the community, for the community. 08 Greening Tinsley Mentor: Mark Parsons Client: Tinsley Tingas Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire Students: Bhavana Brindavan, Caroline Green, Elin Keyser, Farah Alsaied Ahmad, Fenella Snudden, Jennifer MacFadyen, Kezhu Chen, Melissa Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Smith, Sarah Abdellatif, Travis Mills, Tom Parker, William Bellefontaine, Winnie Law, Xiaoquin Zhang In 2015, a school located alongside the M1 in Tinsley was closed due to high levels of pollution in the area. The school is currently occupied by community enterprise ‘Tinsley Tingas’ who aspire to turn the disused school building into a mix of workspaces and community facilities, working alongside the local council who are using the site to monitor and test technologies to tackle pollution. Working in collaboration with the University of Sheffield’s Algal Biotechnology Department the ‘Greening Tinsley’ proposes the Tinsley Tingas playground as a new community space focussed on food, integrating algal technology to create a closed loop, self-sustaining system. The proposal aims to bring together three strands: the ambitions of Tinsley Tingas in bringing new community facilities to Tinsley, the councils desire to find new and innovative ways to reduce pollutants in the area; and the wish of ABS to bring algae out of the lab and into the public realm. 09 Making Meersbrook Mentor: JP Walker Client: Heeley Trust, Ruskin in Sheffield and Friends of Meersbrook Hall Location: Heeley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire Students: Cressy Lopez, Sacha Bennett-Ford, Jia Wen Tan, Louise Taylor, Sanjukta Jitendhar, William Capps, Lydia C Whitehouse, James Rest, Parniyan Salari, Yun Zhou, Yike Yao, Yi Zhong, Wai Sze Chan, Changxiao Ma, Chenqi Li Meersbrook Hall is a Grade II listed building in Meersbrook Park and was the home of the John Ruskin Museum between 1890-1954. This project was inspired by the Ruskinian ideals of connecting everyday people to nature through the arts and informal education. Meersbrook Hall is to be once again a building open to the community, whilst celebrating the building’s rich heritage and becoming a place for the public through providing space for crafters, filmmakers, musicians, performing arts and languages. We identified three keys ideas that our project could successfully engage with to ensure a lasting legacy continues; to ‘Raise Awareness’ – to showcase existing community activities of the hall and build public support, to ‘Demonstrate Demand’– to collect evidence of need and desires from the community and to ‘Create a Vision for the Future’– to design and preserve the Hall whilst activating and re-organising the building to become a sustainable community asset. We achieved this through the creation of a phased programme of works to balance creative activity and insure a consistent turn-over of revenue for Meersbrook Hall to become self-sustaining.
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