Spode Ceramic City - Masterplan and Ceramic Institute Proposal

Master Plan and Ceramic Institute Proposal Ceramic City

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Master Plan and Ceramic Institute Proposal Ceramic City

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Briefing document for final year studio project Unit 3A/ Rosamund Diamond & Joseph Halligan University of Nottingham Ryan, Man To Lam

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4. Master plan proposal

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Conceptual framework How Big is the site?

Precedent: SESC Pompeia

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Propose master plan Master plan strategies Propose master plan Reuse old buildings and heritage Enchance connectivity Long Section Shed studios Tower as attraction

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5. Building proposal

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Introduction Programme Room Book Programme and Arrangement Re-use of existing buildings: Conditions Re-use of existing buildings: Strategy Material

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Figure gorund plan of proposed scheme

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Conceptual framework Programme and concept

This project aims to revitalize Stoke through the introduction of a ceramics city into the former Spode factory site.

With the third industrial revolution, new production methods (such as 3D printing) will change how artist/ people produce things. Digital fabrication has become the new craftsmanship in the 21st century.

This project aims to inject this ‘new’ matter into the rich industrial heritage on the site and create a unique combination between the old and the new, the analogue and digital.

Programme The ceramic institute and the ceramics recycling plant would be the synthesis between the old and the new. The ceramic institute will train students with the old and new technique to make ceramics; it will

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allow local potters to pass their skill to the new generation and to equip themselves with new skills.

The ceramics recycling plant will recycle the old/ unwanted and scrap material to produce 3D printing materials for the whole city. This would provide a physical linkage between the old and new, creating a sustainable community. Generous and flexible exhibition and gallery spaces will be provided to allow artist and student to showcase their work to the public sector. Studios will be provided to artist/ designers. These studios will be arranged at close proximity to allow interactions and collaboration between designers. A series of community’s workspace/ hacker space will be introduced to attract public to the site.

Synthesis of the new and old

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MANUFACTURING LANDSCAPE

CONSUMER

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How big is the site?

A study of scale

EMMA BRIDGEWATER Carpark

5,000 pieces a day 265 potters Emma Bridgewater is a British ceramics manufacturer founded in 1985, owned and run by Emma Rice nĂŠe Bridgewater and Matthew Rice. Noted for their polka dot design among others, Emma Bridgewater specialises in pottery with motifs drawing on techniques stretching back over 200 years. The company is one of the largest pottery manufacturers based entirely in the UK, with all of its products made in its factory in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, England, where it is one of the largest employers.

PORTMEIRION

Carpark

170,000 pieces a week 630 potters Portmeirion Pottery was founded in 1960 when pottery designer Susan Williams-Ellis Portmeirion is a British pottery company based in Stoke-on-Trent.

REIKO KANEKO

3 potters Reiko Kaneko is a 31-year-old half-English, half-Japanese, Central Saint Martins graduate who set up her business in 2007. In 2012 she made the decision to permanently move to Stoke, relishing the opportunity to work with everyone from mould-makers to pot bank workers – all within a two-mile radius of her studio (a place 20 times bigger than the one she used in London).

VITRA CAMPUS Vitra is a Swiss furniture manufacturer. The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany; consist of factories, design museums and pavilions desinged by renowned architects.

Factory

Factory

Warehouse

WEDGWOOD (UK)

800 potters

Museum Carpark

Wedgwood was founded on 1 May 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood. It is one of the most well known and respected potteries in North-Staffordshire.

The complex consists of factory, museum, visitor center, factory shop and a art gallery.

ROYAL TICHELAAR MAKKUM

50 employee Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the oldest company in the Netherlands and has worldwide recognition in the field of ceramics. It specialize in architectural and arts ceramics products.

Surface Storage

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SESC Pompéia / Lina Bo Bardi Master plan precedent

The Pompeia Factory, designed by the Brazilian architect Linda Bo Bardi, is a center of leisure center located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It includes theaters, swimming pool, café, restaurant, exhibition spaces and workshops. It is comprise of the reuse of a factory complex and three concrete towers. The frame of the old factory was retained to create a free flowing space. Such space allows users to circulate the space in a non-defined way, allowing a certain degree of ‘casualness’.

The striking towers with un-expected functions forms an interesting dialogue with and the industrial shed. It is almost like a small city of leisure/ culture.

Top: Aerial image of SESC Pompeia Bottom: Shallow pond in temporary exhibition area [Image from ‘SESC Fábrica Pompéia : SESC Pompéia; Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86′, published by Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, 1993]

Ground floor plan [Image from ‘SESC Fábrica Pompéia : SESC Pompéia; Lina Bo Bardi 1977-86′, published by Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, 1993]

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Proposed master plan Master Plan

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Mater plan Strategies

Reuse old buildings and heritage

Enhance connectivity

Make an attraction

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Provide affordable space

Create communities

Studio Typology

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6m Shed Strip

6m shed concept

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Proposed master plan Master Plan

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Masterplan

showing bridge connection to train station and arrangement of sheds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Train station Surface car park Cafe & eatery for the studios Craft shop (exisitng building) Ceramics recycle plant (exisitng building) Large exposition vennue (exisitng building) Shed studios & factory Ceramic Institue and gallery Spode museum and archive Proposed Ceramic Institute and Gallery Proposed shed studios Proposed bridge Existing Spode buildings

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Reuse old buildings and heritage Master plan Strategies

The proposed Spode museum will be located in the listed building 4C such that the original function of the building (ie gallery/ exhibition space) can retained.

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The proposed ceramic institute (tower) and galleries (podium) will be integrated into building 4b, f, i, j.

The proposed recycling plant will be located under the chimney. The visual significance of the chimney symbolize the plant as the heart of the scheme.

The concrete arched roof buildings will be retained as the venue to Ceramics Biennial.

Demolition diagram

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Reuse old buildings and heritage Master plan Strategies

Art Gallery at building 4C [Image courtesy of David Ogilvie]

Concrete arched roof structure in building 8D [Image courtesy of Photo by Joel Chester Fildes]

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Enhance connectivity Master plan strategies

The bridge will link the train station, new surface car park and the ceramics institute. It is integrated into the existing buildings and landscaped (similar to High Line) to create a elevated garden through the landscape of shed studios.

Highline, New York [Image courtesy of Iwan Baan]

Bridge

Car Park

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Enhance connectivity Long setion

Long section showing scheme and Stoke context

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Shed Studios

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Concept 1st floor plan showing studio and shed spaces

Concept ground floor plan showing studio and shed spaces

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Tools shop (Existing building)

Shed studio

Yard space

Eatery (existing building)

The 6m-shed studio is a reference to the earliest buildings on site. The small span allow abundant amount of daylight into the workspaces. These studios are arranged in an interlocking manner to create exterior work space for the studios. They will be simple and cheap timber/ steel frame shed. The exterior of the shed will be decorated by ceramics products produced by the students ceramics institute. This allows collaboration between the students and the artists.

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Tower as attraction

Looking at the tower from train station, on foot bridge

Looking at the tower after parker your car

Looking at the tower from Stoke Minister

Looking at the tower when approaching the galleries 31

Proposal

Ceramic Institute & Gallery

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Ceramic Institute Introduction

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The ceramic institute will be the synthesis between the old and the new. The ceramic institute will train students with the old and new technique to make ceramics; it will allow local potters to pass their skill to the new generation and to equip themselves with new skills.It will be with similar height of the Spode chimney such that it become the anchor to the whole scheme.

Left: Master plan model

showing the ceramic institute and gallery as the anchor of the scheme

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Programme Ceramic Institute

Public Private

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Conceptual layout of public and private spaces

PROPOSED PROGREMME IN CERAMIC INSTITUTE

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Gallery Controlled gallery spaces for contemporary ceramic pieces

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Ceramic Studio Work spaces for students of ceramic institute

Gallery shop Selling souvenirs and pieces made by gallery workshop

Archive Restore Spaces for restore and record of the huge Spode archive

Archive Place for people to read the huge archive of Spode

Office Office for institute staff

Exhibition Flexible space for new form of displaying art or exhibition. Could be used to show case the institute’s work

Multi-purpose Room (seminar)

Gallery workshop Workshop space for community to make ceramics

Storage

Courtyard Formed between the new and existing building.

Providing chill out space and natural light to the deep plan

Loading/ unloading

Cafe/ bar To create an active street

Ceramic retail Spaces for artist/ factories to sell their product and to attract tourist

Reception Provide control point to the entrance of the building

Landscape bridge

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Room Book Ceramic Institute

The temporary exhibition will be a free flowing and also served as circulation space. This will minimize corridor space and allow unexpected activities due to overlapping of program.

Inflexible

Archive

Interior

Archive

Natural light

Landscape bridge

Gallery

Gallery

Courtyard

Gallery shop

Gallery shop

Gallery

Ceramic retail

Ceramic retail

Gallery workshop

Gallery workshop

Gallery workshop

Gallery shop

Exhibition

Exhibition

Cafe/ bar

Cafe/ bar

Cafe/ bar

Exhibition

Courtyard

Courtyard

Archive

Landscape bridge

Ceramic retail

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Flexible

Landscape bridge

Exterior

Gallery (top of tower)

Reception

Core & circulation

Gallery shop

Temporary Exhibition

Archive

Community Workshop

Courtyard

Back of house

Cafe/ bar

Bridge

Gallery (top of tower)

Ground floor Arrangement of Programme

Core & circulation

Cafe/ bar

Bridge

Gallery

Temporary Exhibition

Archive

Reception

Courtyard

Back of house

Archive restore

Bridge level Arrangement of Programme

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Programme and Arrangement Ceramic Institute

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Ceramic Institute

1st floor

Ceramic Institute & Gallery

Ground floor

Ceramic Institute & Gallery

Existing building Proposed building Existing adjacent Spode buildings Public Semi-public (Galleries and workshops) Private (Ceramic institute) Building core

New vs Existing building

8th floor

Ceramic Gallery

7th floor

Ceramic Gallery

6th floor

Ceramic Studio

5th floor

Ceramic Studio

4th floor

Ceramic Studio

3rd floor

Mutli-purpose/ Lecture

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Re-use of exisiting building Conditions

The proposed scheme will be an insertion into the old buildings. The newer steel frame shed will be demolished and the older/ more valuable buildings will be retained and become a part of the new building.

Building 4C, 4F, 4J, 4I, 4K are brick loading bearing wall structure buildings. They all have high aesthetic value. Building 4J has a jackarched ceiling. Building 4B is a concrete frame building with brick infill wall and steel ribbon windows.

View from courtyard showing building 4b and the shed infill buildings (image courtesy of David Ogilvie)

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Re-use of exisiting building strategy

Axonometric showing the insertion of light-well into the podium Proposed new buildings Existing building with new intervention Internal courtyard Light well

Foot bridge through existing grid

Foot print of tower and podium

New cores and existing cores

Intorduction of courtyard

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Material

Ceramic Institute

Material as an expression of the programme and hierarchy. The galleries will be treated differently in terms of material and expression. They are inspired by the water towers. They are conceived as a series of brick boxes lifted from the ground by red still columns. They are beacons which direct reference to the buildings on site.

The tower will be clad in ceramic tiles as an expression and reference to the ceramic industry in Stoke. The tiled facade will give a sense of a room in the studio balcony. The steel mesh breaks up the mass of tower and make it looks taller. They will be supported by red round columns which frames the ceramic facade which references the brick infill industrial building.

Left: Brick Tower, (Wassert端rme) 1980-89 Bernd and Hilla Becher Right: Model showing the difference of material

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