Project#3 Live & Work in the heart of Sheffield City

Portfolio [Live & Work in the heart of city]

Project 3 Re-appropriating the post-industrial landscape through community-led development MAUD SIWEI SHI

PREFACE This portfolio illustrates how we approach to explore social housing and affordable housing with community-led development contextualising in the post-industrial landscape and how we attempt to consider a type of economic model as methodology to tackle a considerable number of vacant building in the city centre.

Sheffield was the famous steel city due to thriving industry. Nowadays, it has transformed into post-industrial city that encourages to develop creative industry as core strategy. With Local traditional industry shrinking, there are an increasing number of buildings and land becoming vacant. And living in the suburban or rural is the primary choice for family.

Recently, the increase in the number of university student has bring life back to the city centre. According to the number of graduates, there are 33,000 student graduated from university average per year. However, economic downturn and declining job market lead to a large number of graduates seeking decent jobs in Leeds, Manchester and London. The concept of live & work proving for graduates came into our mind. Integrating affordable housing with flexible work space is an accessible strategy to keep graduates and young people staying in the city centre. Therefore, we choose graduates as our main target. Moreover, we are more likely to consider a type of economic model that would be promoted in other potential area rather than address specific vacant building.

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[Project Methodology] -- Reflecting the whole process

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[Position] -- Group’s approach

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[Context & Analysis] -- Contextualising the city and site

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[Design Principle] -- Design guidling

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[Spatial Design Strategy] -- Group strategy, principles and models

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[Urban Installation] -- Communicating with public

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[Reflection] -- Critical reflecting

Project Methodology

Design Process

Project Background Methodology

Situation mapping

Situating Remote Gathering

Site Exploration

Mapping

Land ownership mapping SCC policies and submitted planning applications mapping Potential synergies mapping Articulating

Categorising type of vacant property

Intervention areas Partnerships

Finding potential area and condition

Design Principles

Program Spatial arrangements

Mapping

Synthesise group’s design principles

Why not consider elder people?

Who is funding?

Funding is the key point

Intervention areas

Refining the sample Select one phase as a sample

Spatial Strategy

Public Feedback

Partnerships Program

Should consider how to keep low rent price Should think of gentrification

Spatial arrangements

Accessible progress Indicate the statistical data Simplifying event program Highlighting key point

Review Professional Feedback

Urban Installation Simplifying diagrams

Billboard Poster

Thinking of how to communicate and interact with public

Leaflet Public Participation Postcard

Attend local organisation meeting

Position

Policy Research

Investigating vacant property

Site Context Analysis

Finding potential area and condition

Co-Housing A community-engaged design process and built by local workforce Housing-with-workspace “blocks�

Initial idea Precedents Study

Existing opportunities for synergy Initiate a potential Program

Liverpool Homebaked Community Land Trust

Affodable Housing Introduced the collective space Allow each unit to expand within its structure

Design Principle Target Functions Activities

Building up a Community-led development model

Quinta Monroy residential development

Multi-function retail Integrating coffee, craft and clothes with bookstore Providing flexible free meeting space and tables

Spaces

Set up Installation

Eslite Bookstore

Context & Analysis [Location] Site 3 is our group site including the area of heart of city and the Carthedral Quarter.

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[Crown Court]

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[Carthedral] SITE 3

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[Tramline]

SITE 2

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[Fargate Walking Street] SITE 1

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[City hall] [Peace garden]

Housing

Restaurant

Commercial

Bussiness

History building

[Policy research]

New Retail Quarter

Remaining quarters including Castlegate, Cathedral, St. Vincent’s and Nursery Street/Wicker Quarter Action Plan

City Centre Strategy

City Centre Master Plan

Cathedral Quarter Action Plan

Past

1998

Current

Future

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

2034

Superseded

Unitary Development Plan Major Retail Development Major non-food Development

Policy B2 Development in the City Centre Shopping Streets and the Cultural Hub On Fargate, the length of street frontage in use as shops should remain at least its present level and there should be no increase in the length of street frontage in use for financial and professional services. Within these constraints cafes, restaurantsand bars will be encouraged.

It designates most of the Cathedral Quarter as a business area.

Urban Design Compendium UDC has guidance for massing and architectural treatment for developments

Sheffield Core Strategy

Cathedral Quarter – developing as a historic Quarter, with a vibrant night time economy, and quality residential development Policy CS 17 City Centre Quarters whilst retaining its identity as a business district. a. Heart of the City, including the New Retail Quarter – the prime office and retail streets and main civic, arts and cultural buildings, with high-quality public spaces. Shopping and visitor facilities, in particular, will be improved; b. Cathedral Quarter – currently the main professional, legal and financial district, strengthened by the introduction of a richer mix of uses including residential, leisure and retail

Policy CS 27 Housing in the City Centre Provide for active frontages and a vibrant street scene.

Mixed uses including a suitable proportion of housing may also be appropriate.

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1994

Providing an overview of exciting and innovative proposals to create a sustainable and vibrant Retail Quarter in the heart of Sheffield city centre Extending the popular shopping destination of Fargate

The Sheffield Plan The Sheffield Plan will ultimately replace both the Core Strategy, and the Unitary Development Plan A wider choice of housing provided through more mixing of house types and tenures, to meet the needs of the whole community, including older people and disabled people

[Potential Analysis] Based on the intergrated site analysing, we had initially chosen Three potential sites to consider which is the best for developing as final intervention area.

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Vacant Property

Phase 3 SITE2 SITE1 Church Street & Campo Lane Bank Street & Snig Hill Area Area /Quatity of Vacant Buildings/ Entire Vacant Ground Floor Vacant Upper Floor Vacant /Types of Functionality/ /Superiority of Location/

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Potential Buildings Cathedral & Churchs

/Level of Traffic Convenience/ /Level of Historical Value/ /Level of Trade Vitality/

SITE3 Farget Road Area

[Potential Analysis of Fargate Phase] OPPOTUNITY OF DEVELOPING A LIVABLE COMMUNITY

Type of function Analysis

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STATIONERY TELEPHONE COSTUME RETAIL VACANT

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The shopping mall near city center will become a new business hub in Sheffield

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The fargate area could be a new livable community due to new project of 'Retail Quarter'

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INSTITUTION

BASIS OF CULTURAL ATMOSPHERE

BEAUTY

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FLOWER SHOP BOUTIQUE GROCERY

TARGET CUSTOMERS:

Community Members

OPTICIAN There are a series of cultural facilities including theatres, cinemas and galleries to the east of Fargate area

Good art atmosphere with existing art organisations and temporary performance on street

POTENTIAL SPACE FOR 'LIVE & WORK

GALLERY CHARITY SHOP JEWELRY/ CRAFT STATIONERY BANK/FINANCING TELEPHONE

TARGET CUSTOMERS:

General Public

HEALTH & BEAUTY CAFE/ RESTAURANT GARMENTS RETAIL

A number of vacant buildings are waiting for rental or sale

Negative upper floors VS. Vibrant shops on ground floor on Fargate street

The most types of business in Fargate area are garments retail and restaurants which are serving general customers in Sheffield. This area needs more livable business types such as laundry, food markets and training schools to bring back communities in the long run.

[Target] Each year about 33,000 students graduate from universities in Sheffield

STUDENT ACCOMODTION

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APARTMENT

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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD HALLAM SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Around 60,000 university students in Sheffield. There is not enough suitable housing for a large number of graduates after graduation.

SHEFFIELD

AIM -- Our group target is design graduates

OTHER CITIES Most of Design Graduates seeking employment in other metropolis after graduating, such as London, Manchester.

Due to there is no specific planning for talents so can not leave them in Sheffield.

who might want to ‘Live & Work’ in the same place within the city centre. The aim is to provide flexible work and lived spaces for design graduates. At the same time, our aim also is to enhance the vibrancy of the Fargate Road by proposing active evening cultural activities led by art organisations and displaying works of the design graduates.

& The design field of Sheffield University & Sheffield Hallam University have highly reputation.

Co-Studio A model of collective appropriation to bring back vibrancy to the city centre.

ENERGETIC AREA

Live & Work

YOUNG PEOPLE The Fargate Road full of retails mainly for young people, and the atmosphere here is such an energetic area that more suitable for young people working and living here.

Providing graduates lived spaces with flexible working space and job opportunities; Encouraging dwellers self-employee and sharing common space

Design Principle According to potential area mapping, these three sites have equal potentials. To achieve the long-term target-- setting up a liveable communities and community-led development model, four main principles as design guidline would be carried out throughout the intervention process.

[DEVELOP SPECIALTY INDUSTRY BASED ON SHEFFIELD URBAN CONTEXT]

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[RE-APPROPRIATING VACANT SPACES WITHOUT DEMOLISHMENT]

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[PROMOTE MIXED SPATIAL FUNCTION TO ENHANCE COHESION]

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[COMMUNITY-LED MODEL ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LIVE BACK TO CITY]

Spatial Design Strategy [Community-led development model] Making preparation

Start

Period: 1-3 years

Exploring

Run

Period: 4-8 years

Operation

Grow

Period: 9- years

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Promoting

Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership] Fargate Court

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SHEFFIELD CLT

Negociate with Property Holder

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Promoting & Advertising

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ART RABBIT (Online Platform)

Establish Community-Led Housing Partnership

Section Scenario

NATIONAL

START STAGE

HOMES & COMMUNITY AGENCY (HCA)

CATHEDRAL QUARTER ASSOCIATION

SHEFFIELD CULTURE CONSORTIUM

INTERNATIONAL

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Raising Money

Sell Coffee or Books

Rent Space for Designers

BUILDING & SOCIAL HOUSING FOUNDATION (BSHF)

Hold Activity & Events

Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership]

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Attract Investors & Developers

RUN STAGE Fargate Court

HAMMERSON

SHEFIELD CITY COUNCIL

NOTTINGHAM BUILDING SOCIETY

YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY

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Co-Design & Build

Cafe

Studio/Loft

SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Workshop

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND

Cost sharing Funding

Section Scenario

Collaboration Lobbying

Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership]

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M&S

GROW STAGE

Restore M&S

Work together with art organisations in Sheffield for ...

MONTGOMERY

Theatre performances Family programme Exhibition space Art activities & exhibitions Premises to rent by outside groups

CHAPEL WALK Affordable studio space Exhibition & performance space Education and publishing

BANK STREET ARTS

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Section Scenario

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Hold seasonal exhibitions, festivals & monthly events

Gallery

Art & Music Festival

Seek a possible property to develop this model

Art Workshop

Live & Work Model

Spatial Design Strategy [Long-term Strategy]

Family housing Art Space Community The 35 Chapel Walk theatre venue hire family programme

SOHO

The Montgomery

Studio &loft Gallery

SOHO

Meeting Room Studio &loft

Gallery Bank Street Arts exhibitions within the creative events and community

Studio &loft

Meeting Room Phoenix Enterprises Employability overcome social exclusion

Family housing

SOHO

The Best Conncection

Gallery

worship Quaker Meeting House

Meeting Room Family housing

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SOHO

Studio

Family housing

Phase 1

Family housing Studio

Studio Phase 3

SOHO

Family housing Phase 2

Legend Start Run Grow

Urban Installation [Installation Location]

[Proposed Building]

Church Street

Definition

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Social media

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[Postcard]

Definition

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[Leaflet]

[Card game]

[Feedback]

[Billboard]

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Facebook Feedback

[Design Participation]

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[Billboard Explaination]

Reflection

Summary Throughout three projects, I have an aware of the importance of bottom-up city-making. The terminology of Co-housing and collective housing give me a new insight to rethink approach to regeneration in the inner-city. Co-production of space is conducive to function mix-used and public services sharing economically. Moreover, I have realised that Community-led development as bottom-up development pattern is accessible. It more underlines the power of grassroots approaches rather than relying on the planning implementing by government.

Reference

Misundersteading

Re-exploration

Basically, we misunderstood the core of this project in the beginning. Because we pay more attention to focus on urban spatial issues. Lack of deeper understanding the definition and operation of CLT is the key reason that we still took architectural and urban design methods into consideration. That leads to time-consuming that we spent more time on reclaiming the potential of area and drawing new mapping. After the tutorial, we attempted to find out the source of vacant upper floor in the heart of city and look for precedents to inspire us. After the tutorial, we attempted to find out the source of vacant upper floor in the heart of city and look for precedents to inspire us.

Gathering Feedback For preparing installation, it need us to translate professional architecture language into general language. And academic representation of diagrams should be simplified, especially narrative of billboard. There are three questions as our principle guiding us modify graphs: How to communicate and interact with public? How to design a series of direct and simple question to attract passer-by? How to organise the sequence of event?

Although more than twenty poster feedback, there are lack of young people opinions. The main reason why we merely received feedback from young people. I thought it depends on the time and day. Because it was on Thursday and temporary set up on the site. Thus, the time and day are the key factors to impact the outcome of installation. If the installation would permanent stay, it would receive a large number of comments.

Because of that, we created a facebook page prior to installation in order to advertising our event and provide digital resource for browsing. Fortunately, we invited by SheffieldPound, a local organisation, from facebook. It is a good opportunity to present and communicate with local. I have aware that the importance and impact of social media.

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Community Land Trust Fund, 2013. Community Land Trust Fund Homepage [WWWDocument]. URL http://www.cltfund.org.uk/ (accessed 5.29.13).

Quinta Monroy / ELEMENTAL. Retrieved from December 31. 2008. http://www.archdaily.com/10775/quinta-monroy-elemental.