Interdisciplinary Workshop
- Response to the Tetley Brewery Site, South Central Leeds. Lauren Di Pietro 33308831
Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Workshop and Brief
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Schedule
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Site and Location
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Response to the Site
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Our Vision and How we went about achieving our vision
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Group Contributions
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Personal Contribution
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The Final Presentation
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Critique from Review
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Response to the group work
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Personal Reponse to the Interdisciplinary Workshop
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Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Workshop and Brief The inter-professional workshop aims to create a collaberation between different disciplines within the school or Arts, Environment and Technology. It incorporates Year 3 students from; • Architecture • Landscape Architecture • Urban Planners • Project Managers
My Group consisted of; Chase Hanyilu - Project Manager Mel Backhouse - Architect Adam Hegab - Architect Benjamin Courtney - Architect Samuel Spence - Architect Lauren Di Pietro - Architect Sam Maindonald - Landscape Architect Naomi Rosser - Landscape Architect Jenna Counsell - Landscape Architect “Working in Innter Professional Groups of Year 3 students consisting of architects, landscape architects, project managers and urban planners, you must produce a proposal for the redevelopment of the Tetley/Carlsberg Brewery site in South Central Leeds. Each Inter Professional Group will have two days to work on their creative vision for the site. This will include a site visit, studio based tutorials and short end presentations. Each Group’s proposals will be presented back to tutors and fellow students at 14:30 on Wednesday afternoon.”
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Schedule Tues 15th January 2013 1000: Broadcasting Place 5th Floor Studio Workshop Introduction and Briefing Group Formation 1200: Group Site Visits 1400 +onwards: Broadcasting Place 5th & 6th Floor Studios Group Working and Tutorials Wednesday 16th January 2013 0930 +onwards: Broadcasting Place 5th & 6th Floor Studios Group Working and Tutorials 1400: Group Presentations 5th Floor Studio 1630: Workshop Ends.
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Site and Location Tetley’s Brewery Tetley’s Brewery (Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd) was a regional brewery founded in 1822 by Joshua Tetley in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The beer was originally produced at the Leeds Tetley Brewery site in Hunslet, South Central Leeds. The brewery was situated on the south banks of the River Aire near Crown Point, Hunslet and Clarence Dock. The Leeds Brewery was closed in 2011, and demolished in 2012, with production contracted out by Carlsberg to rival breweries in Wolverhampton, Tadcaster and Hartlepool, however Tetley retains its links to Leeds through sponsorship of its two main rugby teams, Leeds Rhinos and Leeds Carnegie. The Tetley site is set to host a 900-space car park for at least the next five years, developed and designed by Carlsberg. Plans for the future of the historic Tetley headquarters building in Hunslet will see Project Space Leeds (PSL) turn it into a contemporary art gallery, cafe, restaurant, educational rooms and workspace. The land and the site are worth around £100 million, and Carlsberg’s 900-space car park is only a temporary development, possibly until they can sell the site over to a major developer.
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Response to the Site When we visited the site, half of the 900-space planned car park has already begun to be built, however it is obvious that this is a temporary development as the ground has been cleared but not leveled. This did however give an inspiring insight into the different levels of the ground and the interesting topography that could begin to inform a design proposal. The walk to the site did not feel like a friendly one, and for this reason it was important that the transport and route links to the site will need to be incorporated as part of the group vision. The site is such a large space, with new residences surrounding it, that our vision could focus on more than one concept or function.
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Our Vision and How we went about achieving our vision Our vision is to create a cultural heart to the city of Leeds, and expand on the exisitng cultural quarter - an area alive with art, heritage, entertainment and dramatic architecture, a setting to which artists are inpired and drawn to, and a place for the public to visit and enjoy. The cultural quarter will form part of wider plans for the regeneration and economic development of the city. We devised a scheme that would reconnect the South Central Leeds area with the rest of the city centre. The main driver behind our scheme was the idea of linking routes and how these routes relate and connect to the Tetley Brewery site. Once these routes were drawn, it was possible to create boundaries then to design around and within. The scheme began to take shape through precedents of cultural quarters, in particular the Northern Quarter of Manchester, playing on the Southern aspect of the Tetley Brewery site.
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Group Contributions The project manager, Chase, was a great leader. He also helped with some of the initial conceptual work, which was a suprise to me after speaking with him about what his course entails, and I didn’t see the project management course as a particularly creative one. He had a constant input into all of the design discussion, always reminding the architects and landscape architects of the realism of the project, including finance and feasibility. The project manager put together the business case for the project, and defined the realistic prospects of the design. The landscape architects had an initial vision of one forest on the entire site, with the architects designing pavilions within the forest. However, due to the value and potential of this site, it wa not feasible to design something of this nature, this was reiterated to the group again by the project manager doing his job. This was an interesting aspect to the group project however, because this allowed a comprimise between both the architects and the landscape architects, with input from the project manager, in order to create this type of natural vision, whilst designing a functional and creative response. The landscape architects drew up concept images for the natural forest part of our scheme. The architects expanded on the landscape architects’ vision of pavilions within a garden, and created the concept behind the entire scheme, as well as defining the functionality of the pavilions. The location of each pavilion was also carefully planned by the architects by creating a separation of space through routes and links to the city centre. The architects drew up a master plan showing the routes and links that separated the site in order to locate the buildings. They also drew up a series of concept images for the routes, as well as some for the pavilions, and the entire scheme as a whole.
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Personal Contribution I felt that my contribution to the project was important, as I devised the vision statement and the concept behind the scheme. I also defined the functionality of some of the areas within our cultural quarter. I also put together the concept image for a cultural quarter on our site. I put the final presentation together and helped to delegate roles and jobs for each member of the group, and assisted the project manager looking at the business case for the project, in particular creating a financially viable and income generating scheme, and I organised the initial group ideas into a consise and strong scheme.
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The Final Presentation ___________
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The Southern Quarter
- South Central Leeds’ new Cultural Quarter incorporating the Tetley Brewery Site
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Chase Hanyilu - Project Manager Mel Backhouse - Architect Adam Hegab - Architect Benjamin Courtney - Architect Samuel Spence - Architect Lauren Di Pietro - Architect Sam Maindonald - Landscape Architect Naomi Rosser - Landscape Architect Jenna Counsell - Landscape Architect
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Our vision is to create a cultural heart to the city of Leeds, and expand on the exisitng cultural quarter - an area alive with art, heritage, entertainment and dramatic architecture, a setting to which artists are inpired and drawn to, and a place for the public to visit and enjoy. The cultural quarter will form part of wider plans for the regeneration and economic development of the city.
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The main issues on site that we wanted to tackle were; • the separation of the site in relation to the rest of the city; • regnerate the neglected area of the site, as this could lead to further problems of crime; • improve transport links to the site; • expand the current cultural quarter of Leeds City Centre.
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We are aiming to create a sensitive response to the cultural and historical aspect to the Tetley Brewery site by unlocking accessibility to and from the important cultural landmarks of Leeds City Centre, and achieving this through exploiting the connectivity of the site, and expanding the current cultural quarter to South Central Leeds, incorporating the site of Tetley Brewery and Holbeck’s new Urban Village.
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Precedents of Cultural Quarters Sittingbourne’s new cultural quarter and new public realm around the cultural quarter. The new cultural quarter exhibits a cinema, a flexible performance space and a multi purpose public realm.
For some time Southampton City Council has had an ambition to create a cultural heart to the city. This will include; • A new Arts Complex; • Public Squares • BBC South Broadcasting House • A City Library and Archives • Historic city centre parks • Mayflower Theatre • Southampton Solent University Sir James Matthews Building
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Scope of the site These are the areas that we have the right to change amd plan. • the residences overlooking the Tetley Brewery site are out of our scope; • the Grade II listed building is within our scope and must be considered throughout the planning; • the Salem church is incorporated within our scope.
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Stakeholders These are the people who have an influence on our project. They could stop the project, or give it the go ahead at any time through the design. These include; • Sponsors; • Government; • Environmentalists; • Leeds City Council; • and The local and existing residents.
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Risks of the project • • • • •
A lack of funding; Planning permission; Resistance to the infastructure; Resistance from local residents; The land may not be suitable for the purpose.
Mitigating against these risks • Sponsors will help fund the project • As the project has educational benefits there may be subsidies from the government; • The area, South Central Leeds, needs redeveloping, and therefore should get planning permission as this scheme is beneficial to all; • Negotiations must be made about the infastructure and how this may impose on areas outside of our scope. This must be a sustainable build with minimal disruption; • Regular meetings will be held with local residents to ensure their benefit as well; • Surveying of the land must be properly carried out; • Flood precautions taken as the site is close to the River Aire, with the possibility of redirecting the river to chanel flooding.
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Business Case for our proposal To justify why the project should go ahead. Financial Benefits • The project can generate income to eventually pay for itself. Cultural and Community Benefits • • • •
Maintain the heritage of Leeds Educational Recreational Social meeting spaces
Accessibility • Connectivity to the city centre • Connections to major cultural venues throughout Leeds • Unlocking accessibility through new planned routes and boulevards leading to the city centre, and cultural venues.
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As our scheme is driven by unlocking accessibility to the city centre, we have identified key routs and paths that will draw people to our site from landmarks across the centre that are linked to our culteral quarter, such as; • Leeds Arena; • The Royal Armouries Museum; • The West Yorkshire Playhouse; • Leeds Train Station; • and The new Holbeck Urban Village. Where these routes and connections meet on our site form natural pathways through the site, and create zones for the cultural quarter. The canal has also been re routed in order to run through our site and create a natural water feature. This will also help to improve flooding conditions as it will redirect and chanel water.
The Green zone indicates an open exhibition space. The Pink zone represents social functions, such as food courts and seating will be located here under a canopy. The Orange zone indicates indoor gallery spaces. The Blue area is designated for teaching studios and educational facilities. The Brown space will house an underground car park, as well as more social functions above at ground level.
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Museums in Leeds • • • • • •
Royal Armouries Leeds City museum Museum of the History of Education Thackery’s Medical Museum Discovery Centre U-Boat Museum
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Music Venues
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Theatres in Leeds
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Libraries
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Art Galleries in Leeds • The Henry Moore Institute
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Art Education of Leeds • • • •
University of Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University Northern Film School Leeds College of Art
Disciplines studied include; • • • • • • • • • • •
Animation Creative Advertising Fine Art Fashion Graphic Design Illustration Photography School of Architecture and Design Textiles Visual Communication The Performaing Arts
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We have developed a wider scheme based on the concept of unlocking accessibility to the city centre. We have created new pedestrian corridors that link and follow the new route infastructure from the Tetley Brewery site to key landmarks and cultural aspects in Leeds City Centre. The boulevards aim to solve the initial problem of access and transport to the site in South Central Leeds, creating a friendly journey to draw people to the area as well.
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Critique from Review The critique we received after our presentation was overall a mix from the tutors. • We got great feedback from our project manager as he talked confidently about the realism of the project. • We should have begun the project with the concept image, to grab the attention, and then worked through how we got there, instead of presenting 10 slides, before we even show what we are trying to do; the concept image was on the title slide, however it is fair to point out that we did not talk about it until too late on in the presentation. • The presentation ran over time; this could have easily been avoided by being more concise with our information and presentation. • The 3D diagram was too small for the page, however, without making excuses, I was the person putting the presentation together with the deadline of 1400, and I was handed the 3D diagram to add to the presentation at 1404. This could easily have been avoided if the work was completed on time, as it could have been layered out better. • Although we defined what should go into a cultural quarter for our concept, we failed to specify what each pavilion was, and we were criticised for this. • The project manager made one mistake though the presentation by stating that Green peace as an environmentalist group may have been a stakeholder for the project, however this was picked up on by the tutors, and was wrong information. • The forest design scheme was heavily criticised as not working for this site. • The concept was highly praised, saying it was a good principle that only needed more thought to the design of it. (I was happy with this as I worked a lot on the concept and idea behind the scheme!) • It would have been better to focus on a target age group, such as 18-25 year old, as this would have helped us define the functionality of each pavilion/building within our master plan. • The font for the presentation was criticised as being too small. This would be changed if we were to do something like this again, and will be kept in mind for all future presentations.
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Response to the group work I feel that I have learnt a lot about the roles that architects play within the design process. Architects begin the creative process of initial design and concept, while the project manager oversees the realism of the project. I believe that it is not always necessary to employ landscape architects, however these are necessary when natural elements are involved in the design scheme. The skills brought by the landscape architects were lacking in some areas, as they were unable to create conceptual images using photoshop software, and needed help from the architects. I also feel that landscape architects lack the thought and concept ideas behind a scheme, along with the justification for a design, as a forest is an unrealistic design to incorporate on this site, and this was reflected through the critique of the scheme. I was also disappointed with the knowledge of the landscape architects, as they didn’t know fully what types of trees might be planted within the forest, and they didn’t listen to the project manager about the timescale to grow a forest, and therefore demolished the feasibility of the scheme. I think that the role of the project manager is crucial within the design process, in order to move a design concept and idea into a realistic and achievable proposal. The role of the project manager has exceeded the expectations I had before the workshop, and I feel that I have learnt so much about achieving a realistic outcome from an initial design concept and proposal. I have been greatly disappointed with some of the enthusiasm of the architects, and I feel that it was actually some of the architects who9 let the group down. Two of the architects were not willing to sit through group discussions, and went for lunch instead, and therefore didn’t contribute much to the initial ideas. This was disappointing, but it did give me a chance to work with the other students from other disciplines, which is what the workshop was really about.
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Personal Reponse to the Interdisciplinary Workshop The workshop has been a fantastic opportunity to experience a real insight into collaborative work that is required of architects. I feel I have learnt a lot from the workshop, especially from the project manager about the realism of a scheme, as well as learning from my own colleges on architecture about photoshop software, and I have been able to enhance my own skills through this experience. I have also learnt that it is possibly to create a coherent scheme and proposal in 24 hours, and create a presentation to a client that suggests what is intended from the project, in such a short space of time. I have found that without the full support and cooperation of all members within a team, it would be impossible to do such a task. It is important that each discipline must understand how to work with one another, and how to collaborate, as this is inevitable to each individual discipline. Overall I have found the experience very enjoyable, and I am enthusiastic and happy with the scheme that we produced in such a short space of time. I only wish we had a little bit longer to work and develop the scheme more! I think that more interdisciplinary work should be completed throughout the school, and even lower down in first year and second year as well in order to create a knowledge of working with other disciplines.
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