The Bus Stop

SOCIAL INTERCHANGE

SHEFFIELD INTERCHANGE

THE HUB

Sheffield’s Interchange sits within the heart of the city, and should be seen as a hub for exploring the city by bus. Currently it lacks inspiration to tourists visiting the city, where there’s opportunity to explore what wider Sheffield has to offer.

EXISTING SITE

EXISTING MATERIALS

PRECEDENT

LONDON UNDERGROUND

The London Underground has been successful in establishing ‘mini cities’ within the wider region of London. Travelling and navigating the city is easy, through readable and cohesive wayfinding, tied with accessible routes over the whole of London.

We can look to London Transport as a precedent for Sheffield, in moving forward to create a better connected city. Sheffield has it’s own ‘mini cities’ and neighbourhoods that are rich in community culture, and play a key part in Yorkshire’s identity. These districts promote a healthy, happier Sheffield, through access to green spaces supporting local businesss and regeneration areas and show how inclusive Sheffield really is.

“THIS IS A CITY THAT ISNT TRYING TO BE LONDON”

CITY CENTRE REGION KELHAM ISLAND ECCLESALL ROAD

HILLSBOROUGH PEAK DISTRICT

CITY CENTRE

1 Sheffield Interchange

2 Sheffield Transport

Sheffield Train Station, Sheffield Tram Stops

3 Sheffield Hallam University

4 The Moor

The Light, H&M, Monki, Weekday, Primark, Greggs, JD, River Island, Iceland Foods

5 Division Street/ West Street

West Street Live, Bierkeller, Olivia’s, Tsuki, Firepits Rocks, Revolution Bar, Frog & Parrot, Gatsby, Pieminster, Viper Rooms, Crystal

6 Entertainment

The Lyceum, The Crucible, City Hall, Odeon, Showroom, The Leadmill. The Light

HEART OF THE CITY

The Interchange sits at the core of the city, with a vast collective of amenities nearby. Sheffield is also undergoing a huge regeneration project ‘Heart of The City’ which will transform 1.5 million square feet, in a £470 million development project that will see a total transformation of Sheffield.

TRANSPORT HUB EDUCATION

Named the ‘University of the Year 2022’ at the Educate North Awards, Sheffield Hallam University hosts a community of more than 30,000 students .With two campuses, the Interchange sits within 3 buildings of the city campus, with the Interchange offering student single fares for £1.20.

Sheffield offers a rail, tram, and bus service amongst the whole of Sheffield. With the city attracting over 17 million visitors a year the city centre will be the focal point for over two million consumers in 2025. Sheffield Station will be a station location for both HS2 & Northern Powerhouse Rail, which is situated 0.2 miles from the Interchange

1 Kelham Island Museum

2 Little Kelham Housing

3 Hospitality & Events

Cutlery Works, Church Temple of Fun, Peddler Night Market, Yellow Arch Studios, The Mowbray, Riverside, The Fat Cat, Kelham Island Tavern

4 Retail

The Kelham Flea, Krynkl

5 Activity Centres

House Skate Park, The Foundry Climbing Centre

RICH HISTORY

Kelham Island is a man made island over 900 years old, making it one of the cities oldest industrial districts. Kelham Island Museum is the home to the River Don Engine that continues to run on steam and is the most powerful working steam engine in Europe today.

REGENERATION INCLUSIVITY

The demographic of Kelham Island is continuously changing, and steering away from the industrial district we once knew. Not only do we see restaurants, and bars but amenities like indoor skateparks and climbing walls transforming Kelham into a district for everyone.

Sheffield is famous for two exports, Steel and Beer and as industrial activity has gone on, the area has undergone a significant transformation, and has recently become one of the most exciting parts of the city. Pubs, music venues and restaurants occupy numourous cutlery and steel works, and the area has been named one of the coolest neighborhoods in the world by TimeOut magazine.

ECCLESALL ROAD

KEY

1 Whiteley Woods, Bingham Park

2 Endcliffe Park

3 Ecclesall Road

Marmadukes, Wildcard Bar and Grill, Urban Choola, Mason’s Barber Shop, Medicole, and Texaco

4 Sharrow Vale

Pete McKee Art, Pom Kitchen, Eve Kitchen, Porter Pets, Porter Pizza, Gilbert & Sons, Porter Cottage, Dyson Place

5 Botanical Gardens

6 Ecclesall Road

White Rose, Spoilt for Choice, Oliver Bonas, KFC, Starbucks, Mookau, Nursery Tavern

7 Collegiate Campus 1

LOCAL BUISNESSES

36.8% of every 10,000 people in the Sheffield region are involved in Business start ups. There’s a huge drive along the Ecclesall Road, and Sharrow area to shop locally, with a range of both retail, and hospitality throughout the area. Startups Cities Indux also rated Sheffield ‘the best city in the UK to start a business.’

SUPPORTING LOCAL ARTISTS GREEN SPACES

4.5 million trees makes Sheffield one of England’s greenest cities, with 80 public parks and 650 green and open spaces. Our green spaces have historical significance, with the Botanical Gardens being laid out in 1834. The Ecclesall Road area hosts 3 main parks, The Botanical Gardens, Endcliffe Park and Whiteley Woods.

Sharrow, and Ecclesall Road is home to 10 art galleries and stores, collaborating with 15,700 people working in creative industries in Sheffield. Situated in Hunters Bar, Sheffield Makers is a store that stocks a wide variety of Sheffield-made products created by local makers, which contributes to the £1m turnover per annum from Sheffield artists studios.

Sheffield is the home of English football, with Sheffield FC being founded in 1857 , making it the oldest football club in the world. Today, Hillsborough is home to one of Sheffield’s largest football clubs, Sheffield Wednesday with a stadium capacity of 39,732.

MUSIC HUB COMMUNITY

The population of Hillsborough sits at around 20,000 and the majority is occupied by people aged between 18-65 ‘‘It has a lot of heart and I’m incredibly lucky to live here” - Resident of Hillsborough

Sheffield sees 70 acts across 4 stages at Hillsborough Park during Tramlines Festival taking tens of thousands of music fans from the city centre on a 15 minute tram. Sheffield has produced artists such as The Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Human League.

TRAIL WALKING

A third of the city sits within the Peak District National Park, with only a 15 minute drive from the Interchange With people living in South Yorkshire having a healthy life expectancy twenty years shorter than people living just a few miles away, access to green spaces and opportunities to exercise here in paramount in establishing healthy and fullfilled lives in Sheffield.

CLIMBING HISTORICAL SITES

Chatsworth House sits at the heart of the Peak District, in which visitors can explore the stories of 16 generations of the Cavendish family. With gardens, and a farmyard playground the estate is also home to Europe’s most significant art collections.

There are 10,000+ Sheffield based climbers With Stanage, Froggatt and Curbar, the Peak District offers a range of courses that caters to different abilities, in a variety of different locations across the National Park.

MODELS

CITY CENTRE REGION KELHAM ISLAND HILLSBOROUGH PEAK DISTRICT

ECCLESALL ROAD

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REFLECTING THE CITY

THE BUS STOP

To better understand Sheffield’s districts, I’ve began the design process with the bus stop. The bus stop plays a key role in better connecting Sheffield and wider South Yorkshire, and should have a language that speaks to each area and connects with the Interchange. Here, I started with Ecclesall Road, as this was the route most commonly took to the Interchange.

PRECEDENT

DESPANG ARCHITECKTEN TRAM STATIONS

In 2000, the capital of Lower Saxony was to host the World Expo 200, the first world fair to take place in Germany. This event planned for 40 million visitors to visit, meaning a range of city improvements were carried out to accommodate for the footfall; one of these being the cities tram stations. Designed to be easily mass produced, various materials would wrap standardised steel structures, using materials that responded to its individual location. Through urban analysis, designers began to understand the size, density and the character of the areas around these stops that informed which veneer would be appropriate to its location.

Technically, the tram stations demonstrate the universal capability of the steel frame, as this could be easily shopfabricated, and is also adaptable, as prefabricated elements could easily be attached to this basic framework. The cladding is not only chosen for its scale and visual qualities, but also for its weather resistance properties as without a protective cladding normal mild steel is vulnerable to oxidation in the atmosphere, especially in urban or industrial environments. Strategically, applying the material to the steel veneer came with its difficulties, depending on the claddings thickness, weight and compatibility with steel. For instance, copper cladding was ‘isolated from the steel frame using a woodsheathed substructure’ to avoid ‘bimetallic corrosion’.

The project also considers sustainability, through choosing renewable or long service life materials but also through choosing fittings that are designed so the cladding can easily be repaired or replaced. Since 2006, the stations have performed well with less demand for repairs than expected. With most of the elements prefabricated, the amount of site work was reduced to a minimum which improved quality and reduced costs. The imaginative use of materials has been successful in establishing a sense of place within Hanover, as well as enabling the stop to be readily recognised by regular passengers– overall creating an informed and cohesive design.

DESIGN PROCESS

INITIAL THOUGHTS

MAP OF SITE

REFLECTING THE CITY REACHING THE DESTINATION

FOLLOWING THE WHEELS OF THE BUS

PERSONALISED DESTINATION SIGNAGE

THE ERGONOMICS OF THE SEATING AND INKEEPING THE LINEAR FORM

CREATING ARMS TO ALLOW A CUT OUT FOR SEATING BUS ARRIVAL TIMES EMBEDDED IN THE STRUCTURE

MAKING CONNECTION WITH SITE LIGHT UP WHEN THE BUS ARRIVES

SITE LOCATION

SEEING THE SITE IN THE WIDER CONTEXT

NEILL ROAD

KHARTOUMROAD

KEY Bus Stop Location N N

ECCLESALLROAD WALTON ROAD BRUCE ROAD ROSEDALE GARDENS ROASEDALE ROAD

THOMPSON ROAD

SITE LOCATION PROPOSED 1:50 1 2 3 4m 0 1:50

1:20 KEY 1 Arms

Arms that surround the perspex map. Made from Timber and is material specific to each location.

2 Destination Title

Destination title that is cut from the timber arms. Font DINosaur.

3 Map

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1:20 KEY 1 Spotlight

Spotlight at the bottom of the destination title that reflects the map beneath.

2 Bus Timetable

Embedded in the timber arms is an electronic screen that says what buses will be arriving.

3 Seat

The Perspex map will continue to form the seat. 1 2 3 1 1.5 2 2.5m 0 1:20

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KEY 1 Building Etch

An iconic building specific to the bus stops vicinity, that will be etched into the timber and light up in evenings.

2 Lighting

Strip lighting on the edges of the timber structure that illuminate blue as the bus arrives. 1 2

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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

LOOKING AT THE DETAILS

KEY 1 Map

Clear map that reflects the location of the bus stop.

2 Perspex Form

3 Building Etch

An iconic building specific to the bus stops vicinity, that will be etched into the timber and light up in evenings.

4 Bus Timetable Embedded in the timber arms is an electronic screen that says what buses will be arriving.

5 Destination Title Destination title that is cut from the timber arms. Font DINosaur.

6 Lighting Strip lighting on the edges of the timber structure that illuminate blue as the bus arrives.

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MAP SCHEDULE

JOURNEY TO DESTINATION

The map engraving positioning plays a vital part in telling the story of journey to destination as it will begin reading the journey you’ve just taken to reach the bus stop and continue along the form to read the routes the bus will be travelling to

BUS JOURNEY BUS STOP

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LIGHTING SCHEDULE

LIGHTING TO REFLECT AND ALERT

The lighting installed in the bus stop both reflects the perspex and alerts users when buses are arriving. This means that users who have poor vision can ready themselves for boarding the bus, but also those arriving to the bus stop know the bus is arriving also. The light is also at a height that will reflect the map onto those beneath and light up the destination and building engraving in the night.

BUS ARRIVAL DAY NIGHT

APPLYING THIS TO WIDER SHEFFIELD

LOOKING AT THE BUS STOP IN OTHER CONTEXTS

The form of the bus stop I’ve designed for Ecclesall Road can be adapted and changed for each site of Sheffield’s ‘mini cities’. I’ve chosen to show how this can be adapted for the context of a corner, a hill and a narrow path.

A CORNER A HILL A NARROW PATH

APPLYING THIS TO WIDER SHEFFIELD MATERIALITY

The arms of the bus stop will be personalised and appropriate for it’s given location, speaking to it’s history and climate

KELHAM ISLAND STEEL

The arms of the bus stops in Kelham Island will be formed of steel to speak to it’s rich steel history.

HILLSBOROUGH RECYCLED FOOTBALL SHIRTS

Sheffield Wednesday football club and Hillsborough Stadium are the stars of Hillsborough, through recycling football shirts it pays homage to this throughout the area.

CITY CENTRE CONCRETE

The city centre and Sheffield’s Interchange form Sheffield’s industrial and transport hub. Concrete speaks to the industrial nature of the area, and in keeps with the language of it’s surrounding.

PEAK DISTRICT STONE

Stone speaks visually to the language of the Peak District, but also references the thousands of abandoned millstones originally used to grind grains into flour. This also forms the logo of the Peak District National Park Authority.

ECCLESALL ROAD TIMBER

Ecclesall Road is known for it’s selection of green spaces and the Botanical Gardens which has been there since 1836. Therefore, an organic material felt appropriate inkeeping with it’s green roots.

THE INTERCHANGE

CONNECTING BACK TO THE INTERCHANGE

Through designing the bus stop I’ve been able to celebrate what makes Sheffield special, and how the Interchange lies at the epicentre of it. There’s an opportunity to share Sheffield’s heritage but also explore how Sheffield is changing. Through The Heart of the City project the Sheffield we see today will be completely different, and the Interchange is responsible in championing our amazing city. The key elements of the bus stop can be elevated to the scale of the Interchange. For instance, the linear form speaks to the journey people take on the bus, and this is a concept that can be extended within the Interchange through entrances, seating and wayfinding The maps are simple, yet speak to the topography of Sheffield’s greatest areas, which can be implemented through lighting fixtures or glass manifestations. Graphic choice such as ont and colour should continue to marry the language of the bus stop and Interchange. The materiality of each bus stop can upgrade the bus terminals and give a textural language to its destination. These are all design interventions that can be implemented without making major changes to the sites existing structure but can still improve the space without cost and sustainability repercussions.