New Wortley Community Centre - Live Architecture Project

New Wortley Community Centre

20 15 CITYzen Agency Two Day Sketch Design Chris Paraskos Rachel Berry Chris Newbold Sarah Harvey

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00 // NWCC Timeline

- Represents MArch 1 CITYzen Agency’s (2014/15) involvement and potential future involvement.

00 // Contents

01 // Project Office 02 // CITYzen Agency 03 // The Brief 04 // Day One: Design 05 // The Winning Designs 06 // The Team 07 // Design Development 08 // Thyssen-Bornemisza Limited Edition Art Pavilion 09 // The Sketch Design 10 // Physical Model 11 // Charred Timber 12 // Crescent House 13 // Work + Space + Ply + Time 14 // Roof Detail 15 // Glass Detail 16 // Timber Detail 17 // Foundation Detail 18 // Costings 19 // Construction Process 20 // Agency Reflection

01 // Project Office Founded and managed by Leeds Beckett architecture Course tutors Simon Warren and Craig Stott, the Live Project Office formed as a real architectural consultancy sitting under the umbrella of the University's School of Art, Architecture & Design (AAD).

Simon Warrens role within the masters of architecture gives architecture students the chance to work with real clients outside Leeds Met, producing built and strategic design solutions with a particular emphasis on ethical, social and resilient architecture. Clients will be like-minded communities, organisations and individuals.

This year the MArch 1 have two ‘live projects’ in design studio, one of which is the New Wortly community Centre project which Project Office have been commissioned to design.

Collaboration has been at the heart of the New Wortley Community Centre, with many of the elements design outsourced to students and community groups, ethical projects with local contributors are at the heart of Projects Offices ethos.

Project Office: Craig Stott, Simon Warren & Andrew Pye

02 // CITYzen Agency Who we are: CITYzen Agency is one of three design studios, which make up the Masters of Architecture course at Leeds Beckett University. The studio is run by Simon Warren and Dr Maria Theodorou. There are 9 students in the 1st year CITYzen Agency Studio, which consists of both part-time and full-time students.

What we think: By thinking about the strategic urban design of the city and understanding the resources within Communities, the city can become more adaptive, resilient, egalitarian and coherent.

What we do: We consider global imperatives and local issues together. We explore their interconnection and consequence of each on the other. In Bruno Latour's terms, ‘critical attention is shifted from architecture as a matter of fact to architecture as a matter of concern.’ In CITYzen Agency the student is the citizen architect, the protagonist and agent? We consider other ways of doing architecture. This means we engage in ‘live projects’ with our in house architectural practice Project Office. In CITYzen Agency student agents make, test and refine through the ‘live project’ and design studio prototyping.

03 // The Brief The ‘new’ New Wortley Community Centre is a live project being run by Project Office, the design of the community centre is almost complete and lottery funding has been received. Project Office aim to be on site by the summer of 2015.

The two day design task assigned to the CITYzen Agents studio is to resolve the entrance to the community centre. Run as a competition between all nine students in CITYzen Agency, with the two best designs being developed further as a group project.

Existing New Wortley Community Centre

04 // Day One: Design Schedule 10am: Brief introduction at New Wortley Community Centre, Leeds, meet the stakeholders and brainstorming. Return to the studio.

1pm: Everyone works individually and produces one A3 design submission.

2pm: Pin up of all 9 Cityzen Agency submissions. Each student has 2 minutes to present their project. Peer assessment for the best design concepts.

5pm: Sketch Design of proposed entrance scheme completed. This will need costings, procurement methods, details etc.

2pm Design Review with Simon and Craig from Project Office

05 // The Winning Design The two designs chosen to be taken forward and resolved further were by Rachel Berry and Freddie Garside. The remaining students then split into two groups to work with Rachel and Freddie to help develop their designs.

Freddie Garside’s Design

Rachel Berry’s Design

06 // The Team Led by Rachel Berry our team consisted of four architecture student and one graphic design student.

To develop Rachel's design further, we were all assigned tasks which we felt suited our individual skill sets.

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07 // Design Development The original design concept for the entrance canopy was a manifestation of the three routes of access towards the proposed community centre building entrance.

The canopy proposes to present a solution to a current issue with the sense of approach from the East. The doorway into the proposed community centre faces West, so currently turns its back on the approach from the East, through the rhythm of the arches, the proposed canopy funnels access towards the entrance from this route.

The vertical emphasis of the timber uprights was primarily designed as a mirror image of the lead standing seam detailing proposed to the upper floor.

In refining the design a fourth entrance approach was incorporated through a break in the vertical emphasis to the South and sections of the canopy were lifted to accommodate an elevated position for signage while creating a change in level for the glazed area immediately atop the entrance, a practical essential as a transitional zone for preparation to venture out or in times of bad weather.

08 // Thyssen-Bornemisza Limited Edition Art Pavilion Architect - David Adjaye Location - Venice Date - 2005 Adjayes rectangular volume appears among the trees its slatted façade catching the sun but concealing its contents. A path leads to a narrow entrance at one end of the structure, only then does the volume reveal it’s contents. Projecting its facade to the ground to create a space which throughout the day is manipulated by the movement of light.

The project was creating transition spaces, gradually adjusting your eye from the very bright Italian sun to the dark cool space within. The translucency of the volume becomes clearer as you approach creating a transition from what appears to be a solid form to a open structure.

Transition and Manipulation are two main concepts within this project which relates highly to our canopy space which is to create a transition space and intents on manipulation of direction by opening up to guide guests of the community centre towards the doors.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Limited Edition Art Pavilion: David Adjaye

09 // The Sketch Design

View in context of approach to entrance

10 // Physical Model The construction of a quick 1:50 sketch model, helped us understand how the light and shade works throughout the space. As thought in the initial design process the rhythm of the structure creates interesting patterns of shadows, which would continuously change and alter throughout the year.

Photos of sketch model

11 // Charred Timber Shou-sugi-ban is a Japanese term meaning ‘charred wood’. The technique itself is a very old vernacular form of treating wood. The treatment is was commonly used as an inexpensive means for cladding unseen areas of a building. But is becoming more popular as a cladding finish.

STEP 1 : CREATE THE SCAFFOLD BOARD CHIMNEY

STEP 2 : ERECT AND SECURE THE CHIMNEY

It works by burning the wood in order to create a thick layer of charcoal on the woods surface. The thick layer of charcoal helps prevent against a variety of adverse environmental conditions such as insect attack, erosion by salty winds and fungal attacks. It also creates a fire retardant coating.

The traditional method of charring wood is to firstly create a triangular tube-like structure by strapping three boards together, meeting at their edges. A small amount of newspaper is then inserted at the bottom of the tube and ignited, producing an intense flame that spews from the top of the chimney structure.

The intense fire burning inside the structure quickly chars the surface of the wood.

STEP 3 : IGNITE THE CHIMNEY

Step 4 : EXTINGUISH FIRE BY CONDUCTING A CONTROLED COLLAPSE

12 // Crescent House Architect - Andrew Burns Location - Crescent House, Sydney Date - 2013 Australian architect Andrew Burns has installed a charred timber pavilion with deceptively curved walls in the garden of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Paddington, Sydney.

Named Crescent House, the structure symmetrical geometry comprises of two intersecting arcs within a rectangular frame. Visitors are invited to follow the curve of the walls to a secluded space at the pavilion's centre, where light filters through tiny perforations to create a wall resembling the night sky. The charred cedar cladding references the frequently occurring bush fires of the region. Meanwhile, the rectangular structure at the back frames a view of the hedge beyond.

In a smilar way this project intends to minipulate direction using charred ceadar cladding in a symbolic nature while showing the beauty of the ceader cladding once it has been charred.

Crescent House - Andrew Burns

13 // Work + Space + Ply + Time Architect - Atmos Studio’s Project - Work + Space + Ply + Time “Work is all about people. Working people need to interact. Intimately. If the future workspace defies accurate prediction, we foresee the larger enduring need for variety, intensity and interaction, with convergence and blurring between all types of activity. This project exploits every cubic inch of space to do just that, in a parsimonious, pimpish, priestly, perverted, plywooded way.” Atmos Studio’s Although conceptually an intresting project, it is the tectonics of the construction which we are intrested in. Each of the sections are cut on a CNC router ready to be possisioned on site. A CNC router is a computer controlled cutting machine related to the hand held router used for cutting various hard materials, such as wood, composites, aluminium, steel, plastics, and foams. This is a technique which could quite easily be used to produce the timber sections for the New Wortley Community Centre canopy.

Work + Space + Ply + Time - Atmos Studios

14 // Roof Detail

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Sedum and roof structure by others, soil to sedum roof to encase footing detail. Water proof membrane to encase timber footing.

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50 x 450 x 450mm Concrete paving slab bolted to existing roof structure by General Contractor.

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Parapet roof detail by others.

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100x 50mm Charred Softwood, with 45째 chamfered edges.

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Flinch plate connection, with 2no. M8x60mm bolts, 4no. M8 washers to each bolt, 1no. each side of flinch plate & 1no. each side of timber.

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15 // Glass Detail

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1000x1200x12mm toughened glass pane, holes for connection detail to be cut by supplier.

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22no. Glass clamps with rubber washers, 10mm higher to south side to produce fall of 5째 to roof gutter.

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100x50mm Charred Softwood, with 45째 chamfered edges.

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16 // Timber Detail 1 100x50mm Charred Softwood, with 45째 chamfered edges.

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2 Flinch plate connection, with 1no. M8x60mm bolts & 1no. threaded steel rod to full length of each horizontal section, 4no. M8 washers to each bolt, 1no. each side of flinch plate & 1no. each side of timber.

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1:1 Scale model of timber connection

17 // Foundation Detail 1

Breathable membrane.

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Exsisting substrate.

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500mm compacted hardcore.

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New concrete build up to be 75mm C35 concrete with reinforcement mesh, 50mm extenal flooring screed with rough finish.

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Footing flinch plate connection, with 2no. M8x60mm bolts, 4no. M8 washers to each bolt, 1no. each side of flinch plate & 1no. each side of timber.

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Footing flinch plate bolted to concrete foundations by general contractor.

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100 x 50mm charred softwood, with 45째 chamfered edges.

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350 x 350 x 350mm concrete foundations by general contractor.

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18 // Costings Uprights Each Junction = 1 x bolt 3 x nuts 8 x washers 1 x flitch plate

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123 junctions = 123 x bolts 369 x nuts 984 x washers 123 x flitch plates 15 x threader rods Costs Bolt & Nut M8 X 60mm zinc plate £9.80 for 150 = £9.80 Nut M8 zinc plate £10.00 for 200 = £20.00 Threaded Rod M8 3m zinc plate, £4.30 for 1 = £64.50 Washers M8 £1.60 for 100 = £16.00 Sub total = £110.30 Timber Gross Linear Meters = 289.2 Oak @ £8 plm = £2313.60 Redwood @ £2 plm = £578.40 Total cost = Oak option = £2423.60 Redwood opyion = £688.70

19 // Construction Process

Timber Cutting

Flitch Plates

Cityzen agency to produce timber posts, including cutting slit for flinch plates, chamforing the edges in the university workshop.

Cityzen agency to produce flinch plates for timber connection detail.

Timber Charing

Exhibition

Cityzen agency to produce timber posts, including cutting slit for flinch plates, chamforing the edges in the university workshop.

CITYzen onsite

Shelter to be constructed as a entrance canopy to cityzen agences exhibition space at the end of year Architecture show at Leeds Beckett Univesity.

Shelter to be constructed on site by Cityzen agency, under the supervision of the General Contractor.

Construction Start on site Date for New Wortley Comunity Centre.

Roof Connection

Foundation & Footing Plate General Contractor to install Concrete foundations and footing flinch plate.

Glazing & Lighting Installation

General Contractor to install concrete padding to roof structure including aluminimum footing plate.

Glazing to be installed by supplier.

Lighting to be installed by electrical sub contractor.

Completion NEW WORTLEY COMUNITY CENTER GRAND OPENING.

20 // Agency Reflection Sarah Harvey I really enjoyed doing the small live project on New Wortley’s Community Centre. It gave us all the chance to do a quick design and quick decisions. Moving forward with Rachel’s design was a chance to work towards someone else’s goals. I enjoyed looking into the practical aspects of the project, such as how the joints would be constructed and seeing how easy they would be to make from scratch. Further from this I enjoyed learning from others about the wood pricing and considering the options that could give the client more input into their design. I would love to get involved with the final construction of it on site and keep hands on until the end.

Chris Paraskos Obviously I would of loved to been one of the winning designers but i’ve enjoyed working together as a team to develop a project which we have all made our own. The short time scales with this project has really highlighted the need for quick decisions and resolutions in live projects. Looking in to the timber charring proccess has intrested me as well as looking as other alternatives which could produce a similar effect. I used my techincal knowlage earned in practice over the past few years to develop technical details with the team. I look forward to hopfully seeing our design constructed for the exhibition and later transported and constructed on site.

Chris Newbold Working within a group to develop somebody elses design was a new learning experience for me, as i am use to being in control of my own design work. However it proved to be a succesfull exercise which will prepare us well for proffesional work within practice where group work is standard.

Rachel Berry I was very pleased to come joint first in the New Wortley Community Centre canopy design competition, the design work was very fast paced and reminded me of working in practice. Immediately after the votes were completed the cohort divided up into two teams and I then had the benefit of the other four group members to collaborate in the design and output moving forward.

I found the group work on the first design day more challenging to start than the initial individual work, particularly in the transition between main designer and essentially a project manager role, we divided the work up into a division of labour but failed initially to manage and organise the work effectively, particularly as we were all so exhausted from the very fast paced day. I feel the second stage would have run more smoothly if I had soley moved into either a management or design role as it is difficult to be involved in a large amount of output while taking an overview of the whole project, to this end the whole group ended up taking on a number of roles as opposed to having one sole role each.