Central Saint Martins, BA Architecture: city as dwelling 1

T H E CI T Y AS D W E L L I N G H O W C AN AR T B E U S E D AS A TO O L FO R P L ACE - MAKI NG AND E MP O WE R ME NT? KANE C ARROLL OSC AR MURRAY RY AN LEW IS SUMMER ZHAO LI SH AI LI NDA NOBILIO

P O R TFO L I O CO NTE NTS

PR OJECT STATEMENT

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PHASE 1 Defining the problem What constitutes “dwelling’?

Crisis Spitalfields and the arts Anaylsis of Croydon’s resources Identifying situations/narratives Current activism within Croydon Strategic cultural dissemination

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Strategic timeline__project logistics Geneology of proposal Implementation of strategy:

-Part 1_ The Epicentre

-Part 2_ The Factory

-Part 3_ Billboard design process

-Part 4_ Billboard produced

-Part 5_ Billboard Schematic

-Part 6_ Urban Strategy

-Part 7_ Billboard in use

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hen asking questions such as how Croydon can work as an expanded dwelling for the homeless, crisis offers interesting insights into how the issue as a whole can be perceived and subsequently approached in a constructive way.

Where the central idea of Crisis is based around the rebuilding of life structure through their guidance and support, the Crisis centre in Spitalfields placed a particular emphasis on the arts as means of rehabilitation and reintegration to those who have been subjected to societal neglect.

When defining our strategy, utilizing the art and cultural scene as a tool for changing the status quo seemed particularly apt as their was a latent art scene and social activism operating within the area.

In our project, we have explored how the crisis centre might graft itself onto it’s urban context in way that benefits not only the crisis members but the whole of Croydon as well. By tapping into currently expanding networks in the area, our theoretical intervention aims to revitalize the area’s culture and provide a means of reintegration to those who have become disassociated with normal everyday life.

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Smaller Proportion of Social Housing compared to other London Boroughs.

Higher proportion of unemployed than in London Boroughs.

HOMELESSNESS IN THE UK AND CROYDON WHAT IS THE ISSUE?

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Crisis.

Crisis are the leading charity in the UK specifically for single homeless people. Single homeless are always at the bottom of any waiting list and are the most subject to sleeping rough.

Crisis are a consultive charity, members are guided towards having a home through skills workshops.

Crisis bases itself on enabling its members to achieve themselves. Crisis do not provide homes, they activate potential and teach their members in order to retain sustainable lifestyles into the future.

The chairity identifies exsisting networks local to where the ‘skylight’ centres are based, running workshops and using spaces in collaboration with other homeless organisations, such as ‘Cafe Art’.

Crisis Croydon

muf identifies three key aspects in placemaking within the urban realm.

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Value what is there.

Nuture the possible.

Define what is missing.

Working with these principles offers a diversifying and rich addition to the public sphere.

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Physco-geographic Homeless Map Inhabiting the city as a rough sleeper takes a nomadic lifestyle. One is always in transit, on the move, going from place to place. The urban environment is negotiated by landmarks and safehouses. Time can become easily lost, clocktowers, the sun and stars are the tellers. Habits of living are based on primative needs, hunger, shelter & water.

Intergrated urban development concept combing top down and bottom up processes.

Urban Catalyst acknowledges the agencies that top and bottom players have in place-making. Working towards a masterplan, that allows for the possibilty of change through bottom up interventions.

THF: Intergrated Urban Development Urban Catalyst, 2007-2008

WHAT CONSTITUTES DWELLING EXPLORING THE NOTION OF DWELLING

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Crisis Art Programme

Building Relationships

Cafe Art

Independent Cafes

Earning a Wage

Accomplishment

• adversity can be overcome through art

• therapeutic activities • channel their feelings • optimism for the future

• showcase their work

• engage with the public

•100% of the proceeds go to the artist or the homeless sector organisation

• personal satisfaction • rewarding feeling

Skill Development • journey to independence • reintegration into society

Kahilia Cafe Taylor St Baristas

Saint Espresso Coffe Works Project Crisis Skylight Spitalfields Crisis Skylight Cafe The Coffee Room The Whitechapel Gallery Aldgate East Ungerground Aldgate Underground

CRISIS AND THE ARTS COMMUNITY

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boxpark

BOXPARK

turf-projects / gallery roger black gallery

bandstand

rise gallery / croydon arts quarter

snooker club

croydon school of art

rise gallery

community centre

water tower, heritage site

fairfield hall

bowls club arts

leftover space

public space

religious buildings

empty buildings

resources/ materials

charities

site

public buildings

main green space

leisure

brownland

civic buildings

major train stations

EXISTING RESOURCE NETWORKS

IDENTIFYING RESOURCE NETWORKS IN CROYDON

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IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVICE

urban acupuncture

activation of Space

TAKING AN ASPECT OF CRISIS

IDENTIFYING A SITE RIPE FOR REVITILATION

PLACE-MAKING VIA THE ARTS

Surrey Street Prospective Crisis Skylight Centre

Neglected Space Inactive space around Croydon

Croydon Arts Quarter Kevin Zuchowski-Morrisson

CURRENT SITUATIONS AND CONDITIONS

COLLAGE OF CURRENT SITUATIONS FOUND IN CROYDON

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The RISE Gallery Kevin Zuchowski-Morisson & The Arts Quarter

Crisis Croydon Exchange square

The Rise Gallery

Fairfield Hall

“RISE gallery is more than just an art gallery. RISE also is committed to pioneering projects in which art plays a pivotal role in being a catalyst for positive change.”

1:10 000 site map showing suggested bilboard locations

Artist Studio Crisis

Regeneration - S.106

London’s lack of artist studios

Croydon’s current regeneration schemes

DEFINING A CULTURAL NETWORK

ACTIVISM THAT TAPS INTO CULTURAL NETWORKS

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1964 Nicholas Treadwell

Mobile art gallery

Generating culture

Artists

General public

USERS

PLACE-MAKERS

The Croydon public

DEVICE

EFFECT

Homeless community

Croydon arts trail Crisis & Janice Gunn

Cultural legacy

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SPREADING CULTURE

DEFINING POTENTIAL STRATEGIES

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CRISIS MEMBERS ‘SIGN UP’ FOR STUDIO SPACE IN SCHEME LATER THE DESIGN IS HANDED OVER TO CRISIS MEMBERS AND STAFF/ VOLUNTEERS BILBOARD STUDIO SCHEME IS PLANNED OUT & KEVIN IS INTRODUCED TO MEMBERS CRISIS PROGRAMMES BEGIN

CRISIS ESTABLISHES NETWORKS WITH EXISTING CHARITIES & IDENTIFIES CULTURAL POINTS

BILBOARD STUDIOS DESIGN PROCESS STARTS BY CRISIS MEMBERS WITH ARCHITECTS

CRISIS SKYLIGHT CROYDON OPENS IT’S DOORS CRISIS MEMBERS ARE ESTABLISHED

CROYDON IS SHOWN TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOMELESS ISSUES AND AS AREA APPRECIATING ARTISTS ROLE

OTHER / ADDITIONAL CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ARE SET UP IN CROYDON

PROJECT ATTRACTS ATTENTION FROM ‘ART WORLD’

WIDER PUBLIC EXPOSURE IS ACTIVATED

ANDY WARHOL BILBOARDS REPLACED WITH ART CREATED IN STUDIOS

ENOUGH CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ARTISTS IN CROYDON

FIRST BILBOARD STUDIO IS ASSEMBLED

ARCHITECTURAL THINK-TANK INTRODUCED WE IDENTIFY EXISTING ACTIVISM FOR THE ARTS IN CROYDON - KEVIN ZUCHOWSKI-MORISSON

SPECIFIC WORKSHOPS START TRAINING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STUDIOS

BILBOARD CONSTRUCTION STARTS AT FACTORY

ELABORATED WORKSHOPS FROM EXISTING CRISIS PROGRAMMES

FACTORY IS COMPLETED

ARTS QUARTER EXPANDS / CULTURE IS REVITALISED BILBOARD STUDIOS STRATEGICALLY POP UP ACROSS CROYDON THIS STARTS CLOSER TO EXISTING ARTS QUARTER AND SPREADS OUT OVER TIME

INDICATE MIS-USE OF 106 FUNDING FROM WESTFIELD CROYDON, PROPOSE FUNDING FOR NEW ARTS REGENERATION SCHEME WITH CRISIS

FACTORY CONSTRUCTION STARTS WE IDENTIFY EXISTING ACTIVISM FOR THE ARTS IN CROYDON - KEVIN ZUCHOWSKI-MORISSON

ARTS TRAIL STARTS TO FORM CONNECTING STUDIOS

STUDIOS CONTINUE FOR CRISIS MEMBERS AS EXTENSION OF CRISIS PROGRAMME

WORKSHOP GETS DETACHED FROM FACTORY FACTORY TRANSFORMS INTO LEGACY FACTORY IS CLAIMED BY LOCAL ARTISTS AND EXTENDS CROYDON MURAL PROJECT TO BE USED AS MURAL AND LANDMARK

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES & WORKSHOPS TAKE PLACE AT FACTORY WITH GUEST ARTIST TALKS TO EXPLAIN SCHEME AND INVOLVE COMMUNITY

Crisis members

Crisis staff

Croydon public

Designers

Local Activists

STRATEGIC TIMELINE LOGISTICAL FRAMEWORK

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Surrey street site Crisis Move in and factory is produced Members design and produce first billbpoard Factory begins producing multiple billboards Crisis Operates as usual Market stall

BILLBOARD STUDIO DISSEMINATION GENEOLOGY DIAGRAM

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Art studio/Design Workshop New breakout space New Reception Offices Surrey street Market stal

(Above) 1:50 Perspective section, (Below Left) Axo with Surrey Street, (Below Right) 1:100 Floor plan

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THE EPICENTRE

CRISIS SKYLIGHTS CROYDON PROPOSAL

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flexible meeting space billboard workshop flexible workshop space underpass public benches public walkway bench

(Top) 1:50 Perspective section, (Left) 1:100 Plan, (Right) 1:100 Axonometric

THE FACTORY

BILLBOARD STUDIO PRODUCTION SPACE

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Factory Plan

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THE EPICENTRE _ BILLBOARD DESIGN Activists such as Kevin Zuchowski-Morrisson conduct a collaborative workshop at Croydon Crisis Skylights.

Crisis members are engaged in a Billboard Studio design workshop., held in the epicentre.

The studios will ultimately contain space and allow members (who have been reintegrated into society), to have a place to work.

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THE FACTORY_ CONSTRUCTION BRIEF Each billboard studio is strategically placed around the city, and is designed in response to it’s immediate context.

When the Billboard’s design is complete, another workshop follows the former. This is held near Fairfield Halls, where the Factory has been constructed for the production of billboards and other secondary public activities.

Prior to the contrsuction of the Billboards, a briefing is held outside the workshop (see left).

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THE FACTORY_ BILLBOARD CONTRUCTION The Billboard contruction process itself raised spirits and teaches member useful skills that equip them with employability. The activity, commands the attention of the public, raising curiosity and a general interest in what is occurring.

BILLBOARD DESIGN AND BUILD PROCESS 14 CRISIS MEMBER AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

We explored multiple options for our ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ satellites keeping a lo-fi theme and concept throughout. Combining simple and traditional timber construction techniques using box-frames and intuitive joints, we hope to create basic architectural forms that serves its function which can later be ellaborated upon. The structures had to be able to accomodate for multi-use public activities, contain artist spaces and allow to have open and closed areas or the ability to adapt.

BILLBOARD STUDIO DESIGN DEVELOPMENT ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT

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a - timber stud 30x20mm

b - timber slats/ cladding

c - timber stud 30x20mm

d - steel frame

e - timber beam

f - steel bracing

g - steel studs iii

h - polycarbonate 30mm

i - plywood sheets 25mm

j - rigid insulation foam 40mm

k - timber beam 50x50mm

l - timber stud 30x20mm iv

m - steel joint

n - plywood sheets 25mm

o - water sealer layer 2mm

p - rigid insulation foam 40mm

q - steel frame beam 120x90mm

r - concrete foundations

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BILLBOARD STUDIO DESIGN SCHEMATIC CRISIS MEMBER AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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Crisis Skylight The Factory Billboard in the street Billboard on building Billboard in forgotten space

URBAN SCALE STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

AXONOMETRIC SHOWING ARTS EXPANSION VIA CRISIS AND THE FACTORY

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BILLBOARD STUDIO IN USE

SPATIAL ACTIVATOR AND AMBASSADOR TO CRISIS

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