Studio: Collaborative Production 2018-19 by d.jary@sheffield.ac.uk

SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

STUDIO

COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION DON VALLEY 18-19

THANKS

Studio Collaborators

Steve Pool - Poly-Technic Ryan Bramley - Storying Sheffield David Hobson & Claire Fretwell - Sheffield OLP Mark Stringfellow - AMRC

Visiting Tutors

Mark Parsons Dr Chengzhi Peng Professor Darren Robinson Professor Renata Tyszczuk Catherine Watton

STUDIO: COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the Sheffield School of Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MArch degree course at the University of Sheffield. The Studio ran over a 20-week period between November 2018 and May 2019, and was attended by 13 students in the 5th and 6th year of their studies, working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification. The studio starts from a belief that the prevailing economic model of speculation and consumption is broken. The consequences of years of industrial exploitation of resources is nowhere more apparent than in the east of Sheffield, where the studio is located. Informed by a reading of post-capitalist theory, the studio positions itself in a future where a sharing economy has become mainstream, promoting nonmarket production and social enterprise; a future where automation and robotisation have changed the nature of labour and production, and transformed the way people engage with local governance, education, recreation and cultural exchange. The project began with a detailed investigation of the Don Valley corridor and its surrounding communities in order to understand the place, its history and its possible future. The notion of collaborative production extended to the working methodology of the studio, with students working collectively, sharing resources, ideas and approaches. Using projection mapping and assemblage techniques the studio constructed visual narratives as a way of recording, analysing and representing the initial research findings.

Based on their initial findings the students have developed a shared spatial framework which allows individual projects to interface spatially, functionally and economically as part of a sustainable neighbourhood linked through a network of shared green energy and smart technologies. Existing lines of derelict and underutilised industrial infrastructure have been reimagined to create a network of active green corridors, linking across the city. Individual projects have explored the opportunities offered by a more bottom-up approach to fabrication and the exchange of goods and services, creating architecture which enriches peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives, is socially inclusive and is protective of the environment. In considering how projects might be delivered, students have explored alternative funding and procurement models which prioritise social value, environmental remediation and public health and wellbeing. Taken together the projects offer a future vision of a healthy, vibrant and socially responsible city. Dan Jary

Studio Leader

INTRO

THE STUDIO

Richard Rothwell

James Paul

Musa Alam

Will Beesley

Sarah Edwards

Peter J Dykes

Tom Hattan

Travis Alan Mills

Jamie Griffiths

Ifigenia Ioannou

Xingyu Zhou

Xuanru Chen

Daniel Jary

INTRO

PORTO

INTRO

LOWER DON VALLEY - CHALLENGING PRECONCEPTIONS Throughout Sheffield, the Don Valley and its boroughs, such as Attercliffe and Darnall, are known as deprived neighbourhoods; just another part of the post industrial landscape that makes up the eastern edge of Sheffield. Attercliffe, once known for it’s decadence during the heyday of Sheffield steel, is now jokingly talked about as being a centre for ‘Sex and Lizards’ - an odd connotation referring to the mixture of it being Sheffield’s red light district, whilst also having specialist shops, such as reptile stores.

studio focused in on six key themes, from the future of the area with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and Olympic Legacy Park, to the return of fish and mammals to the now less polluted river Don.

For our cross studio review, Studio: Collaborative Production aimed to challenge these preconceptions of the Don Valley, and ‘peel back’ the myths and stories surrounding the area to reveal the facts. To do this, the

ASPIRATIONS

CLIMATE CHANGE

NARRATIVES

Cross Studio Review

INDUSTRIAL USE

POLITICS

ENVIRONMENT

INTRO

GROUP CONNECTIONS

INTRO

LOWER DON VALLEY 01 - After the Flood (Richard Rothwell) 02 - Centre for Renewal (Sarah Edwards) 03 - Project:WasteLand (Ifigenia Ioannou) 04 - Follow the Street (Xuanru Chen) 05 - The People’s Vanadium Assembly (Will Beesley) 06 - Breakerspace (Jamie Griffiths) 07 - Attercliffe Square (Tom Hattan) 08 - Darnall Printworks (James Paul) 09 - The Biohacker’s Haven (Musa Alam) 10 - Olympic Utopia (Xingyu Zhou) 11 - The People’s Research Institute of Naturally Grown Living Elements [P.R.I.N.G.L.E] (Travis Alan Mills) 12 - Tinsley Viaduct Free-Zone (Peter J. Dykes)

AFTER THE FLOOD Richard Rothwell Y6

Climate breakdown is the most serious issue of our time. By 2050, Sheffield will be 4.4 degrees warmer than it was in 1970, causing a dramatic increase in extreme weather events. The project imagines a future where the Don Valley has been proactively flooded in response to this crisis, facilitating the development of a communal wetland landscape. Inhabiting the interstitial edge where the water meets the land is the campus for a new research institute, with temporary outposts throughout the valley integrating PhD research with exciting public functions to facilitate interactions between Sheffieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population and the cities heritage of innovation.

Drawings 01 - Wetland Arrival, Spring 2039 02 - Wetland Arrival Building Ground Floor Plan 03 - Inhabiting a New Urban Boundary, Summer 2040 04 - Don Valley Wetlands Masterplan 05 - Algal Research Laboratory, Spring 2036 06 - Floating Algae Laboratory Floor Plan

07 - Creating a Common Landscape for the Public 08 - A Valley for the People, Summer 2041 09 - The Public Atrium 10 - Human // Research Cohabitation, Spring 2044 11 - Wetland Arrival Tower, Winter 2045

AFTER THE FLOOD

CENTRE FOR RENEWAL Sarah Edwards Y5

Centre for Renewal looks towards a society where technology and robots have changed the nature of labour and production. The project questions the balance of work versus leisure within the Don Valley, addressing imminent worries about automation within the future workplace and the effect this has on personal wellbeing. Displaced workers and CFR members actively improve wellbeing through closed loops of activity emanating the ways to wellbeing of connecting, being active, being curious, learning and giving back. Centre for Renewal acts as a central hub to reconnect communities by tapping into existing infrastructure through a network of stationary and movable machines that disseminate knowledge and skills across the valley.

Drawings 01 - Valley Connections Map Reconnecting Communities 02 - Centre for Renewal Community Membership Model 03 - Site Plan and Surrounding Industrial Infrastructure 04 - Technical Section Showing Levels of Enclosure 05 - Development Collages: Visibility, Permeability and Network

06 - Sectional Perspective Sharing and Connect Spaces 07 - View from the Productive Landscape 08 - Approach and Arrival 09 - Learning Zones and Art Balcony 10 - Journey to Enhance Wellbeing 11 - Long section - Occupying the Existing Building 03

CENTRE FOR RENEWAL

PROJECT:WASTELAND Ifigenia Ioannou Y6

Project:WasteLand, situated in 2030, is dealing with issues of carbon emission reductions, construction waste and material reuse through the re-governmentalisation of the Building Regulations Establishment (BRE) as the implementing and regulatory authority of new legislation; voted in 2028 that prohibits complete building demolition, mandates material reuse and design for deconstruction. Located in Attercliffe Innovation District, in Baltic Works, one of the oldest steel works in Sheffield, this new BRE National Centre for Reuse and Deconstruction is aiming to become a symbol of excellence on sustainable practices and material reuse and at the same time to spearhead a fundamental change in the construction industry.

Drawings 01 - ‘Hybrid Building’ 02 - ‘Embracing Imperfection’ 03 - Project Brief Collage 04 - Key Spaces Collages - Cafe, Research Centre & Exhibition 05 - Exploded Axo 06 - Detail Section 07 - BRE - Material Bank Entrance 08 - Research Tower Entrance 09 - Barge Unloading Bay 10 - Courtyard Collages 03

PROJECT: WASTELAND

07 04

FOLLOW THE STREET Xuanru Chen Y5

As a celebration of street culture, Follow the Street aims to change people’s perceptions of graffiti away from vandalism. A series of cubes mimics the landform of the site, creating an outdoor landscape area which is free and open for all members of the public to access and experience. The interior spaces cater to specific parkour training and practice, with the central ‘floating’ cube acting as a half indoor / outdoor gallery for both graffiti artists and residents to get involved in. Follow the Street plays a crucial role in the transition of graffiti and parkour away from their current perceptions to becoming art and sport.

Drawings 01 - Interacting with Environment 02 - Site Plan 03 - Street View 04 - Exploded Axo 05 - Plans 06 - Initial Analysis 07 - Project Generation 08 - Site Analysis 09 - Section from Road to Canal 10 - Scenes 11 - Master Plan 12 - Model Picture 03

PEOPLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VANADIUM ASSEMBLY Will Beesley Y5

Attercliffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Banners Building is re-imagined to provide energy and data storage alongside a local government facility. A new form of battery is scaled up to store electricity from local renewable energy sources in liquid Vanadium. A rotating government encourages public engagement and the use of data in intelligent decision making is celebrated. The physical manifestation of the intangible ensures people remain connected to these issues as well as each other, in order to tackle issues of alienation, inequality and scarcity.

Drawings 01 - Aerial View 02 - Region Diagram 03 - Development Section 04 - Assembly View 05 - Attercliffe High Street View 06 - Building Plans 07 - Long Section 08 - Screen Courtyard 09 - Vertical Circulation 10 - Tube Courtyard 11 - Facade Section 04

THE PEOPLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VANADIUM ASSEMBLY

BREAKERSPACE Jamie Griffiths Y6

The project imagines a period of transition toward a leisure society in the United Kingdom, in which there is full automation of the means of production and humans are relieved from the necessity of labour. In the absence of productive work, people seek meaning and purpose through the practice of disassembly, subverting the process of production and manifesting their dissent against the machine in hidden communities. One such community can be found in Attercliffe, a town in Sheffield’s Don Valley with a profound history of production and manufacture, where people now salvage surplus product from the region’s automated factories in order to disassemble it in so called ‘Breakerspaces’.

Drawings 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 -

Short Section Long Section Visual Manifesto Drawing Development Sketch Garden View Workshop Interior Workshop Interior Ground Floor Plan

09 10 11 12 13 14 15 -

Subterranean Plan Subterranean Plan Adelphi Entrance Cavern Walkway Social Core View Exploded Axonometric Sectional Model 1:50

BREAKERSPACE

ATTERCLIFFE SQUARE Tom Hattan Y6

It is 2030 and the new “Attercliffe Square” development has given Attercliffe a new purpose. Elements of live, work and play blend seamlessly to create a new sense of place for the Community. Ribbons of green and blue infrastructure bring nature into the city, providing spaces which naturally encourage exercise and social interaction. The building frames the re-energised Adelphi Theatre and celebrates Attercliffe’s rich steel heritage with tall raking steel columns and walkways. Now seen as a destination in its own right, drawing visitors and spearheading regeneration in the wider Don Valley, Attercliffe in 2030 is a very different place...

Drawings 01 - View Along Vicarage Road 02 - Initial Vision for Attercliffe Square 03 - Spearheading Regeneration of Attercliffe High St 04 - Aerial View 05 - Approach from the Olympic Legacy Park 06 - View Stepping off the Tram

07 - View of Stepping Stones in the Square 08 - Short Section 09 - Exploded Structural Axo 10 - Long Section 11 - Aerial View 12 - Co-working Space View 13 - Market Hall View

ATTERCLIFFE SQUARE

DARNALL PRINTWORKS James Paul Y5

Situated on the site of the former Darnall Crucible Works, Darnall Printworks seeks to answer the question: What next for Sheffield Steel? To combat the decline of steel production and employment in the Don Valley, emergent technologies such as 3D printing steel are being utilised to reinvigorate the area. To reconnect people with Sheffield’s industrial heritage, whilst also inspiring future generations, the building combines the manufacturing process of 3D printing steel - from scrap reprocessing through to the final printing - with educational facilities for both the public and students to be tutored, with the neighbouring landscape providing a space to test and make ideas.

Drawings 01 - Collage ‘Building Anew From the History of the Old’ 02 - Edge Model 03 - Early Program Diagram 04 - Exploded Axo 05 - Render of Printing Zone 06 - Landscape Plan 07 - What Next for Sheffield Steel? 08 - Section 09 - Brief Collages 10 - View Down Building 11 - Section Through Furnace 03

DARNALL PRINTWORKS

THE BIOHACKER’S HAVEN Musa Alam Y5

In an age where human control rests in the hands of the global technological giants and with growing concerns surrounding data harvesting and protection; the scheme seeks to empower the Don Valley community to take action. Renouncing the implants provided, in favour of developing their own technology. Taking back control of their data through the establishment of a research centre, founded on public engagement, The Biohacker’s Haven draws like-minded individuals to its beacon, to experiment with the hybridisation of man and technology (Biohacking), within its adaptive and transparent environment. Pushing the boundaries of human achievement towards health, physical ability and strength of mind.

Drawings 01 - ‘The Experience’ 02 - ‘Reclaim Data Ownership’ 03 - ‘Research and Develop’ 04 - ‘Enhance and Augment’ 05 - Project Chronology 06 - Tower Floor Plans 07 - Pod Exploded Axonometric 08 - Section BB ‘Pod Fabrication & Pod Air Drop’

09 - Night View ‘The Beacon Glow’ 10 - View from the Outer Walkway 11 - View from the Tower Core 12 - Section AA 13 - Site Ground Floor Plan 14 - Site Model

THE BIOHACKER’S HAVEN PLAN LEVEL 5

(RESEARCH INCUBATORS) 1:100

9 9 Research Lab’s 10 Fabrication Worshop 11 WC PLAN LEVEL 4

(PHYSICAL TESTING SUIT) 1:100

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5 6 7 8

Vertical testing pod Running track Sensory/Dark room Climatic/Altitude chamber

PLAN LEVEL 3 (UPGRADE LOUNGE) 1:100

07 3 3 Implant receival pods 4 WC

PLAN LEVEL 2 (DEBATE THEATER) 1:100

1 Intervention 2 Depate/conversation space

12 [PLAN LEVEL 0] (Scale 1:200)

A 13

12 10

B 12

5 11

1 2

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Tower Core Cafe/Design/Exhibition space Kitchen Store WC Artificial pond Data tower

8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Conversation/Information space Pod fabrication workshop Coordination office Material store Delivery Bay Ramp down to canal Existing wooded area

OLYMPIC UTOPIA Xingyu Zhou Y5

Creating a bridging corridor across the Sheffield / Tinsley Canal, the project aims to create a sports-themed living community, with 14 one-bed apartments, 28 two-bed apartments and 49 independent accommodation units. With a massive fitness themed community complex, the Olympic Utopia improves the training quality of athletes using the nearby Olympic Legacy Park, by providing them with a more comfortable and efficient training environment. The utopia drives a new sports theme for both the region and Sheffield city centre by promoting the redevelopment and expansion of the Olympic Legacy Park.

Drawings 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 -

Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eye View Plan Masterplan Exploded Axo Day View Swimming Facility Section Night View Training Facility Axo Drawing

OLYMPIC UTOPIA

P.R.I.N.G.L.E.

(The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Institute of Naturally Grown Living Elements)

Travis Alan Mills Y5

P.R.I.N.G.L.E. sets a new standard for public research in 2025. Set alongside the Tinsley Canal, the active landscape, invites the public to engage with the production and research of Bio Composites. Working in 10-year cycles, P.R.I.N.G.L.E. can reconfigure due to the mycelium construction technique. The heart of the building is the cafĂŠ space. Through the production of food for local consumption, the wasted root structures can be utilised in the bio-composite research. With current disconnect of societal groups identified, the building weaves together themes of diversity, research and inclusivity. This in turn creates a building which meets the demands of locals and international business partners.

03A

03B

Solar Gain Reduced Utilising Louvres & Overlap of Composite Structure

Drawings 01 - Processing Space 02 - Landscape Masterplan 03A - Model Photo Canal 03B - Model Collage Planting 04 - Technical Drawing 05 - Project Aims 06 - Site Model & Outreach 07 - Canal Concept

Wood Screw Metal Braket Composite Beams 800x300mm

Intensive Planted Roof Growth of Root Vegetable and Flora

08 - Site Section, Plan & Perspective 09 - Long & Short Section 10 - Ground Floor Plan 11 - Research Planting 12 - Cafe Space 13 - Program Drawings 14 - Building Axo

Vents High level vents are placed at the highest point of the roof internally, this will evacuate any hot stale air. These will be controlled by a building managment system.

Typical Roof Build Up INSIDE 1 - Composite Beam 2 - 20mm Composite Panel 3 - 100mm Batten 4 - 200mm Insulation 5 - 100mm Bauder Waterproof Membrane 6 - Protection Mat 7 - Bauder PE Foil 8 - Bauder Drainage Board 9 - 600mm Biodiverse Substrate 10 - Planting OUTSIDE

Louvres Mechanical louvres are used to shade from solar gain. They are movable in a vertical moment.

Overhead Gantry Cranes Gantry Cranes allow for easy movement of materials and goods throughout the building.

Hinges The top hung hinged connection allows the door to open fully and extend past 90 degress to the curtain wall. This extension assists in the movement of deliveries.

Stack Effect The naturally occuring effect will be utilised to evacuate hot and stale air.

Motorised Door The turning of a cog, creates a force which will open and close the door when required. This is required due to the weight of the door componenets.

Typical Deck Build Up UNDERSIDE 1 - Mycellium Composite Frame 2 - Compacted Mycellium Panel 3 - Sealant WALKING SURFACE

Crane Attached to the gantry is a moveable hoist. This is used to get good from awaiting canal boats.

Deck A composite deck is used to allow the public to walk amongst the canal boats. Large posts are embedded into the soil to create a rigid structure.

Lightweight Deck

Woven Noise Dampner

Utilising a light weight deck is advantagous as perforations can be made to allow a dappled light to illuminate the floow below. The deck also acts a safety barrier when good are lifted overhead

A woven quilt like material is to be draped from the standing area above. This is to reduce the effect of the noise travelling across the building causing disturbance.

Canal Boat Materials and People are brought to the site utlising the exisiting canal network

Cooling Effect of Water Water naturally cools air, hence, low level vents with bug screens have been used to create a natural flow of air through the stack effect.

Water & Ground Source Heat Pump Through the use of a heat pump and heat exchanger the building is able to recirculate heat which otherwise would be lost through the stack effect.

Typical Floor Build Up EXTERNAL 1 - Soil 2 - Compacted Hardcore 3 - Sand 4 - 300mm Rigid Insulation (Knauf/Kingsplan) 5 - 300mm Cast in Situ Concrete 6 - Service Void or Insulation 7 - Suspended Floor Frame 8 - Steel Composite Deck 9 - Float Screed Mix 10 - Komsol Innerseal Plus+ INTERNAL

Shadow Gap A shadow gap between the two joining 18mm ply panels is created to enhance the appearance of the recessed standing area. This gap is alos detailed where the concrete and ply meet.

P.R.I.N.G.L.E. Tinsley

Don Valley

Meadowhall

Attercliffe & Darnall

City Centre