A New Life For Stoke Town Centre

GROUP 10 A NEW LIFE FOR STOKE TOWN CENTER

RUIBING HU YUQING XUE YIXUAN YANG GE JIN DUO ZHANG RATI CHOUDHARI

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INTRODUCTION

SITE ANALYSIS

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PROPOSALS

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

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The pottery-making bottle kiln townscape were gradually dis left in the urban fabric.

INTRODUCTION

Once a creative powerhouse, become today?

Stoke is one of a cluster of towns in central England known collectively as “ The Potteries”.

The area grew to prominence in the 18th century as the heart of Liverpool and Hull. The area’s many pottery works, such as Spode and Wedgwood, would become global brands.

However as the British economy moved away ffrom manufacturing, Stoke and the other Potteries town were left in stark post-industrial decline.

The proposal for Stoke Town prepared by us which aims to Stoke declined after the declin the Post - Industrial period. As ban fabric strated to loose its destroying the heritage mon acter to the town, with a lot along the canal and the high voids in the urban fabric.

This projects gives an innov tunity for Stoke Town Center opportunity to flourish eco spaces promoting comunity l

LOCATION OF STOKE Stoke is located in West Midlands in England(in the west of UK) with an area of 36 square miles.

It is situated between Manchester and Birmingham.

Edinburgh

Dublin

35min by train,1h12min by car to Manchester.

50min by train,57min by car to Birmingham.

Stoke

London

ns that once characterised the smantled and great holes were

, what could or should Stoke

n Urban Regeneration has been o give a new future to the town. ne of its Pottery Industry during s a result of which the town’s urs shape and identity with council numents which once gave charof unused or abandoned units street and urban gaps creating

vative solution giving an opporr to develop its lost identity, an onomically and creating green life.

This place is besides Newcastle-under-Lyme.

The city lies on the upper valley of the River Trent.

The Pennines hilll is at the north of this city.

Peak District located at  the north east.

It ranges from 96 to 250 metres (315 to 820 ft) above sea level.(plain)

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THE University

Train Station Stoke-on-Trent is the home of the pottery industry in England and is commonly known as the Potteries, with the local residents known as Potters. Formerly a primarily industrial conurbation, it is now a centre for service industries and distribution centres.

City Center

China Hall

Canal area

City

There are five important areas within our site which are university, train station, canal area, China hall and city center.

China Hall

Staffordshire University

E PROJECT SCOPE

THE CLIMATE OF STOKE

Stoke-on-Trent, as with all of the United Kingdom, experiences a temperate maritime climate, lacking in weather extremes. The local area is relatively elevated due to its proximity to the Pennines, resulting in cooler temperatures year round.

Compared to the nearby Cheshire Plain. However, on calm, clear nights this is often reversed as cold air drainage causes a temperature inversion to occur. As such, the Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle area are generally not susceptible to severe frosts. The nearest Met Office weather station is Keele University, about four miles west of the city centre.

The hottest weather are in JULY and AUGUST . The lowest temperature is at JANUARY and FEBRURARY.

Center

Train Station

Canal area

RELATIONSHIP WITHIN THE CITY OF STOKE-ON-TRENT Stoke is a conurbation of 6 towns and it having been formed by the federation of six towns in 1910.

It took its name from Stoke-upon-Trent where the main center of government and the principal railway station in the district were located. Hanley is the primary commercial center. The other four towns are Burslem, Tunstall, Longton, and Fenton.

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They all want to be the center of the city and this disagreement continues to today.

SITE ANALYSIS

TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

CANAL SYSTEM The city is served by the Trent and Mersey Canal, which sees traffic of some 10,000 boats a year.

Additionally, that was a good way to transport pottery in the past.

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RAIN SYSTEM

ROAD SYSTEM There are two main highways near the Stoke. One is the M6 highway on the west side and the other is the M1 highway on the east side. Show on the picture the are two vertical red lines.

Stoke-on-Trent is linked to the nearby M6 motorway by the A500. The A50 provides an east-west link between the M6 and the M1 motorway.

The horizontal road on the map is the A50 road.

The A50 provides an east-west link between the M6 and the M1 motorway. The A50 joins up with A500 close to the bet365 Stadium.

Improvements to the road network have led to the construction of product distribution centres in the area.

Time to Main City By Train Edinburgh Manchester Nottingham Birmingham Cardiff London

4HRS 30MINS 40MINS 1HR 50 MINS 2HRS 40MINS 2HRS 38MINS

There are three stations in the Stoke-on Trent, they are Longport station, Stoke-on-Trent Station and Longton station, these stations located in the three different towns respectively.

Stoke-on-Trent railway station is a mainline station on the Stafford to Manchester Line and this station was built in 1848.

HISTORY LINE

LOOP LINE

Pottery manufacture grew as an industry from a very strong base. By 1740 it was already the center of production for England, by 1800 it was the most important center in the world.

GOLDEN HILL PITTS HILL

WEDGEWOOD

Looked below there would be seen the Whitfield-Pinnox Mineral Railway.

TUNSTALL

BURSLEM

It passed the large colliery and brickworks complex at Sneyd.

In a deep cutting and on a very sharp curve.

Steel works Hanley Deep Pit Colliery Walker’s Oil Refinery

Wedgwood, is a fine china, porcelain, and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1759 by the English potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood. It was rapidly successful and was soon one of the largest manufacturers of Staffordshire pottery.

He developed a number of industrial innovations for his company, notably a way of measuring kiln temperatures accurately, and several new ceramic bodies such as the “dry-body” stonewares.

SPODE

Century Oils

BENEFITS OF LOOP LINE

The city is served by the Trent and Mersey Canal, which sees traffic of some 10,000 boats a year.

Additionally, That was a good way to transport pottery in the past.

Wedgwood is credited as the inventor of modern marketing. He pioneered direct mail, money back guarantees, travelling salesmen, carrying pattern boxes for display, self-service, free delivery, buy one get one free, and illustrated catalogues.

COBRIDGE

FACULTY LINE

POTTERY INDUSTRY

HANLEY ETRURIA

Shelton Iron & Steel Works

STOKE - ON TRENT

01. For a hundred years it was a backbone of Potteries travel.

02. The Loop Line was certainly an benefit to travel, over the years providing a service to millions of passengers embarking on shopping excursions, not just to Hanley but to Manchester and Birmingham.

03. It was a boon for business; a conduit for commuters and for kids going to school.

Spode was founded by Josiah Spode (1733– 1797) in 1770, and was responsible for perfecting two extremely important techniques that were crucial to the worldwide success of the English pottery industry in the century to follow.

After some early trials Spode perfected a stoneware that came closer to porcelain than any previously, and introduced his “StoneChina” in 1813.

It was light in body, greyish-white and gritty where it was not glazed and approached translucence in the early wares; later Stone-Ware became opaque. Spode pattern books, which record about 75000 patterns, survive from about 1800.

From the maps, the change in the urban fabric of the town center is quite evident.

The built area has reduced leaving voids in the urban fabric.

A lot of buildings have been demolished over the years leaving significant urban gaps.

The University area and the town center were more cohesive earlier which is not the situation currently due to the construction of the highway and the formation of the dead and disused spaces along the canal.

HISTORIC MAPS

LANDUSE PATTERN

PRIVATE RESIDENCES STUDENT ACCOMODATION

RETAIL RESTAURANTS OFFICES

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL MIXED USE PUBLIC BUILDINGS INSTITUTE FACTORY DISUSED/ABANDONED AREA WAREHOUSES OPEN SPACES CAR PARKING

HIGHSTREET ROAD CONNECTING

PUBLIC OPEN SAPACES

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PRIVATE OPEN SPACES

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CAR PARK

11-15M MORE THAN 15M

LANDMARK Pottery Museum

Newcaastle Canal

Staffordshire University

Small Theater Hartshill Park Stoke-on-Trent Station

Spode Factory

Civic Center

The canal runs through Stoke-on-Trent from the Harecastle Tunnel in the north of the city to Barlaston in the south of the city.

The route was designed to feed the Industrial Revolution and to enable manufacturing towns such as Stoke on Trent and the Potteries to benefit from improved means of transport. Josiah Wedgwood was one of the chief instigators of the canal.

The main campus is in Shelton, Stoke-onTrent, and primarily offers law, business, sciences, applied computing, engineering, arts, design, journalism and media production courses. These are split into two areas, one on College Road (on the site of the former County Cricket Ground), and the other on Leek Road. A new Science and Technology facility was opened in 2012 as part of a major redevelopment adjacent to Stoke-on-Trent railway station.

Stoke City Church

Spode factory was established in Church Street, Stoke town in 1776 making thousands of wares each day until its final closure over 230 years later in 2008.

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ELEVATION & FACADE ANALYSIS

The charts show the average income level in 7 different cities of the UK and the UK average level in 2011.

According to the chart, the average salary in UK was about 21300 pounds, while the average salary in Stoke was just over 17200 pounds. This level was much lower than the British average.

That is why fewer and fewer people are willing to stay and work in the stoke. Because they can't make more money by staying here.

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Glass

Wood

Brick

Stone

AVERAGE SALARY COMPARISON

OPPORTUNITIES

The economic and industrial decline means poor land values and cheap rent.

When we walked in Stoke, the buildigs along the street were mostly old and dilapidated, and some were abandoned, even in the city center. Thus, Stoke is a suiltable place for artists to live and work here, and it’s a attractive city for new industries to establish new stores and factories here.

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PROBLEMS OF SITE Emotional expression of the elderly

Emotional expression of the elderly

A favorite activity for the elderly

A favorite activity for the elderly Too much car parking car parking

car parking

Too much car parking

Emotional expression of the elderly A favorite activity for the elderly Communication among people of different ages

Too much car parking

Communication among people of different ages

car parking

Communication among people of different ages Barrier of canal & Lack of connection

The elderly enjoy lunch

Barrier of canal & Lack of connection Barrier of canal & Lack of connection

Aging problem The elderly enjoy Thelunch elderly

enjoy lunch

Urban gaps & Lots of disused units & Public spaces empty urban gap

No health & Sport facilities

Urban gaps & Lots of disused units & Public spaces empty Not enough activities

urban gap

urban gap

Urban gaps & Lots of disused units & Public spaces empty No primary / secondary school No health & Sport facilities Heritage decline

Not enough activities No health & Sport facilities

Limitation of the bridge

Not No enough primaryactivities / secondary school Heritage decline

No primary / secondary school Heritage decline

Limitation of the bridge

Limitation of the bridge Limitation of the bridge

OUR FIELD TRIP

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OUR MANUSCRIPTS

DEMOLISH & RENEW BUILDING

Original Building New Building

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PROPOSALS

In the planning, we selected buildings with the characteristics of Stoke, retained part of the steel frame structure, and rebuilt.

Some abandoned buildings and closed shops were demolished.

FUNCTIONAL MAP

Residential area Community Retail Culture Workplace Administration Hotel Transportation Car parking Commercial & Residential area Workplace & Residential area Workplace & Commercial

CONNECTION WITH HANLEY

Nowadays, Hanley occupies the position of city center in the whole Stoke area. If we only consider the competition and solve the problem of population loss in local site, it will also have an impact on Hanley, so we consider developing the economies of the two places together and establishing a link between them to make a cooperation. Since Stoke is only 18 minutes' walk to Hanley, we set up walking streets between the two areas and driveways on the outskirts.

Setting up a pop-up park area on walking streets to promote the activities of locals and college students. When there is an activity, it will be a small park or other entertainment space. When there is no activity, it is a parking space .

WORK QUARTER

This place is a site full of warehouses and small industries, and of course, few buildings were abandoned.

However, the landscape along the canal is attractive.

We proposed three steps for this area' s transform: 1. Demolish dilapidated buildings, and retain more valuable warehouses with interesting structures.

2. Plan raods and functional zoning.

3. Rebuild the old buildings and design new buildings.

THE TERRACES

The terraces is an area that is treated as a new high street. It serves a wide range of people, local residents, office workers, tourists and so on. We have introduced new industries in this area and other areas along the canal to activate the local economy. And instead of turning the office area into a separate area, we combine it with entertainment, shopping, restaurants, gyms, promenades and parks.

This is to make the region more dynamic. Because if we independent this office area, then this area will give others a sense of rejection, they will feel that this is a professional area, and they do not belong here, such an area will be very cold after the office is off duty, resulting in a waste of urban space in a specific time. If we mix the functions of this area, add entertainment, shopping and restaurants, the vitality of this area will increase.

These functions are relatively centralized. These new functions are also exactly what office workers need after work. Finally, the addition of parks, shopping and promenades will allow more ordinary local residents to enter the area, which will generate more possibilities.

For example, many offices need to show their products, and then these ordinary residents will be their potential consumers. There are also some products that need experience, such as Apple's products, Samsung's products and so on. Therefore, we believe that appropriate integration of some functions in the same region will increase the possibility.

FUNCTIONS OF KILNS

Sculpture Used as a decoration

Big Staircase

Through the stairs in side the building, people can go down to the bacement layer. There are some leisure functionsin the midle of the buiding.

SIGHTSEE

Small Staircase

Used as a Sightseeing tower.

People can go upstairsto view the beautiful landscape.

Chimney

Relaxing area

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STOKE TRANSPORT HUB

Bus Stops and waiting areas

Bus routes and private car routes Stops and waiting areas

Bicycle parking

Shopping areas and exhibition

Stoke Transport Hub is an important part of STOKE pedestrian STREET.

It is located at the end of HIGH STREET, it connects the pedestrian STREET with the main driveway and is also the only way to get to STOKE in the surrounding cities.

There are 3 main routes in the Transportation Hub, people can choose different ways of transportation to go around the whole city and travel to others cities.

us routes and private car routes

Bicycle routes

Pedestrian routes

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Bicycle parking

Bicycle routes

Shopping areas and exhibition

Pedestrian routes

Second floor Stairs

Pedestrian street

Second floor Stairs

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Transportation hub station has two floors, the ground floor is bicycle parking, bus station, taxi area ‌‌ The second floor is mainly commercial, and there will also be small art exhibitions.

The staircase of the transportation hub extends to the pedestrian street, giving pedestrians a sense of guidance.

SPODE POTTERY

Our proposal for Spode aims to bring back the pottery culture in Stoke. The main pedestrian entrance is from the high street which makes the place easy to access. The China Hall still remains as the indoor exhibition area for the Potters to showcase their work while the large open disused land is converted into workshop area with small exhibition spaces. These workshop areas can be accessed from the Spode Campus as well as from the high street. The aim of this workshop area is to attract tourists as it will give an opportunity to the common people to see the best men at work. These workshops would also provide an opportunity for the Potters to come together as a community and enhance their skills. The residential area next to the workshop area is converted into live work studios for the artists who intend to come to Spode for these workshops. The Hotel next to Spode serves as a heritage Hotel with lively and beautiful green spaces for outdoor restaurant seating.

Spode is one of the most important area in Stoke. It is one of the very few heritage structures remaining in the town. Although the structures still stand erect, they are currently not being used the way they used to be when the town was the centre of Pottery Industry. Only the China Hall is used as an exhibition hall and a major chunk of open land remains unused.

ART PLAZA

The new art gallery is at the end of the two tour routes and near to the civic center and China Halls. It was originally a huge parking lot, we are going to build a new art gallery on the original site and we will plan the area in front of it into an exhibition square. It continues and connects the original small square in space. The ground floor of the gallery will provide the exhibition area for local art, just like music, sculpture and painting. There are some studios for local artist on the second floor. Souvenir shops and restaurants will be placed along the square.

HIGH STREET

We set this street to the current highstreet because of the end of the walking street to Hanley and Stoke. The commercial street was the parking lot before, we turn the parking space into the square, and the location of the square is just in front of the Spode gate, which can be used as a meeting space, bringing visitors and local residents together.

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PERSPECTIVE VIEW

Tourist one day trip 9:00 Arrived at railway station Go acrrss sky brige 9:20 Spode pottery village 12:30 Lunch time 14:00 Gallary 16:00 St Peter ad Vincula Minster 17:00 Go to hotel and have a rest 18:00 Have dinner at leisure area 20:00 Walk along the canal, enjoy the view

Kiln highline Railway Station Spode pottery Street food restaurant

Cinema Home

Market

The terraces

Library

Cathedral

Art palza

Kiln highline Home

Minster Hotel

Sunday of Local people

Business trip

Morning Go to church

Arrive Park the car in the car park building Check in

Afternoon Go across Sky bridge Go to library Go to Market Buy food and daily suoolies

Work day Drive to the work place Have food at food court Go to have a drink with colleagues

Night Watch movie with families in the cinema Go home

Hotel Food court

The terraces

Work square

Hotel Car park building

GROUP WORK DISTRIBUTION 01

03 DIMOLISH & RENEW BUILDING —— Hu Ruibing FUNCTIONAL MPP —— Xue Yuqing CONNECTION WITH HANLEY —— Jin Ge

LOCATION OF STOKE —— Jin Ge

WORK QUARTER —— Hu Ruibing & Jin Ge

THE PROJECT SCOPE —— Xue Yuqing

THE TERRACES —— Yang Yixuan

THE CLIMATE OF STOKE —— Jin Ge

KILNS ANALYSIS —— Hu Ruibing & Yang Yixuan & Jin Ge STOKE TRANSPORT HUB —— Xue Yuqing SPODE POTTERY —— Rati Choudhari HIGH STREET —— Jin Ge

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RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOT —— Zhang Duo THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK —— Zhang Duo HISTORY LINE —— Hu Ruibing LOOP LINE & POTTERY INDUSTRY —— Hu Ruibing

MASTER PLAN —— Jin Ge & Xue Yuqing

HISTORIC MAPS —— Hu Ruibing

PERSPECTIVE VIEWS —— Hu Ruibing

LANDUSE PATTERN —— Rati Choudhari

TRAVEL ROUTES —— Hu Ruibing & Xue Yuqing

LANDMARK —— Xue Yuqing ELEVATION & FACADE ANALISIS —— Yang Yixuan AVERAGE SALARY COMPARISON —— Zhang Duo OPPORTUNITIES —— Hu Ruibing PROBLEMS OF SITE —— Jin Ge & Xue Yuqing

DESIGN CONTROL Yang Yixuan

COMPOSING Xue Yuqing & Hu Ruibing

EXIST DIGITAL MODEL Jin Ge & Zhang Duo

PHISICAL MODEL All Group Members

FINAL DIGITAL MODEL All Group Members

A NEW LIFE FOR STOKE TOWN CENTER