Portfolio [Live & Work in the heart of city]
Project 3 Re-appropriating the post-industrial landscape through community-led development MAUD SIWEI SHI
PREFACE This portfolio illustrates how we approach to explore social housing and affordable housing with community-led development contextualising in the post-industrial landscape and how we attempt to consider a type of economic model as methodology to tackle a considerable number of vacant building in the city centre. Sheffield was the famous steel city due to thriving industry. Nowadays, it has transformed into post-industrial city that encourages to develop creative industry as core strategy. With Local traditional industry shrinking, there are an increasing number of buildings and land becoming vacant. And living in the suburban or rural is the primary choice for family. Recently, the increase in the number of university student has bring life back to the city centre. According to the number of graduates, there are 33,000 student graduated from university average per year. However, economic downturn and declining job market lead to a large number of graduates seeking decent jobs in Leeds, Manchester and London. The concept of live & work proving for graduates came into our mind. Integrating affordable housing with flexible work space is an accessible strategy to keep graduates and young people staying in the city centre. Therefore, we choose graduates as our main target. Moreover, we are more likely to consider a type of economic model that would be promoted in other potential area rather than address specific vacant building.
Section Drawing
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[Project Methodology] -- Reflecting the whole process
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[Position] -- Group’s approach
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[Context & Analysis] -- Contextualising the city and site
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[Design Principle] -- Design guidling
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[Spatial Design Strategy] -- Group strategy, principles and models
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[Urban Installation] -- Communicating with public
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[Reflection] -- Critical reflecting
Project Methodology
Design Process
Project Background Methodology
Situation mapping
Situating Remote Gathering
Site Exploration
Mapping
Land ownership mapping SCC policies and submitted planning applications mapping Potential synergies mapping Articulating
Categorising type of vacant property
Intervention areas Partnerships
Finding potential area and condition
Design Principles
Program Spatial arrangements
Mapping
Synthesise group’s design principles
Why not consider elder people? Who is funding? Funding is the key point
Intervention areas
Refining the sample Select one phase as a sample
Spatial Strategy
Public Feedback
Partnerships Program
Should consider how to keep low rent price Should think of gentrification
Spatial arrangements
Accessible progress Indicate the statistical data Simplifying event program Highlighting key point
Review Professional Feedback
Urban Installation Simplifying diagrams
Billboard Poster
Thinking of how to communicate and interact with public
Leaflet Public Participation Postcard
Attend local organisation meeting
Position
Policy Research
Investigating vacant property
Site Context Analysis
Finding potential area and condition
Co-Housing A community-engaged design process and built by local workforce Housing-with-workspace “blocks�
Initial idea Precedents Study
Existing opportunities for synergy Initiate a potential Program
Liverpool Homebaked Community Land Trust
Affodable Housing Introduced the collective space Allow each unit to expand within its structure
Design Principle Target Functions Activities
Building up a Community-led development model
Quinta Monroy residential development
Multi-function retail Integrating coffee, craft and clothes with bookstore Providing flexible free meeting space and tables
Spaces
Set up Installation
Eslite Bookstore
Context & Analysis [Location] Site 3 is our group site including the area of heart of city and the Carthedral Quarter.
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[Crown Court]
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[Carthedral] SITE 3
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[Tramline]
SITE 2
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[Fargate Walking Street] SITE 1
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[City hall] [Peace garden]
Housing
Restaurant
Commercial
Bussiness
History building
[Policy research]
New Retail Quarter
Remaining quarters including Castlegate, Cathedral, St. Vincent’s and Nursery Street/Wicker Quarter Action Plan
City Centre Strategy
City Centre Master Plan
Cathedral Quarter Action Plan
Past
1998
Current
Future
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
2034
Superseded
Unitary Development Plan Major Retail Development Major non-food Development
Policy B2 Development in the City Centre Shopping Streets and the Cultural Hub On Fargate, the length of street frontage in use as shops should remain at least its present level and there should be no increase in the length of street frontage in use for financial and professional services. Within these constraints cafes, restaurantsand bars will be encouraged. It designates most of the Cathedral Quarter as a business area.
Urban Design Compendium UDC has guidance for massing and architectural treatment for developments
Sheffield Core Strategy
Cathedral Quarter – developing as a historic Quarter, with a vibrant night time economy, and quality residential development Policy CS 17 City Centre Quarters whilst retaining its identity as a business district. a. Heart of the City, including the New Retail Quarter – the prime office and retail streets and main civic, arts and cultural buildings, with high-quality public spaces. Shopping and visitor facilities, in particular, will be improved; b. Cathedral Quarter – currently the main professional, legal and financial district, strengthened by the introduction of a richer mix of uses including residential, leisure and retail
Policy CS 27 Housing in the City Centre Provide for active frontages and a vibrant street scene. Mixed uses including a suitable proportion of housing may also be appropriate.
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1994
Providing an overview of exciting and innovative proposals to create a sustainable and vibrant Retail Quarter in the heart of Sheffield city centre Extending the popular shopping destination of Fargate
The Sheffield Plan The Sheffield Plan will ultimately replace both the Core Strategy, and the Unitary Development Plan A wider choice of housing provided through more mixing of house types and tenures, to meet the needs of the whole community, including older people and disabled people
[Potential Analysis] Based on the intergrated site analysing, we had initially chosen Three potential sites to consider which is the best for developing as final intervention area.
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Vacant Property
Phase 3 SITE2 SITE1 Church Street & Campo Lane Bank Street & Snig Hill Area Area /Quatity of Vacant Buildings/ Entire Vacant Ground Floor Vacant Upper Floor Vacant /Types of Functionality/ /Superiority of Location/
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Potential Buildings Cathedral & Churchs
/Level of Traffic Convenience/ /Level of Historical Value/ /Level of Trade Vitality/
SITE3 Farget Road Area
[Potential Analysis of Fargate Phase] OPPOTUNITY OF DEVELOPING A LIVABLE COMMUNITY
Type of function Analysis
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STATIONERY TELEPHONE COSTUME RETAIL VACANT
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The shopping mall near city center will become a new business hub in Sheffield
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The fargate area could be a new livable community due to new project of 'Retail Quarter'
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INSTITUTION
BASIS OF CULTURAL ATMOSPHERE
BEAUTY
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FLOWER SHOP BOUTIQUE GROCERY
TARGET CUSTOMERS:
Community Members
OPTICIAN There are a series of cultural facilities including theatres, cinemas and galleries to the east of Fargate area
Good art atmosphere with existing art organisations and temporary performance on street
POTENTIAL SPACE FOR 'LIVE & WORK
GALLERY CHARITY SHOP JEWELRY/ CRAFT STATIONERY BANK/FINANCING TELEPHONE
TARGET CUSTOMERS:
General Public
HEALTH & BEAUTY CAFE/ RESTAURANT GARMENTS RETAIL
A number of vacant buildings are waiting for rental or sale
Negative upper floors VS. Vibrant shops on ground floor on Fargate street
The most types of business in Fargate area are garments retail and restaurants which are serving general customers in Sheffield. This area needs more livable business types such as laundry, food markets and training schools to bring back communities in the long run.
[Target] Each year about 33,000 students graduate from universities in Sheffield
STUDENT ACCOMODTION
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APARTMENT
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UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD HALLAM SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Around 60,000 university students in Sheffield. There is not enough suitable housing for a large number of graduates after graduation.
SHEFFIELD
AIM -- Our group target is design graduates
OTHER CITIES Most of Design Graduates seeking employment in other metropolis after graduating, such as London, Manchester. Due to there is no specific planning for talents so can not leave them in Sheffield.
who might want to ‘Live & Work’ in the same place within the city centre. The aim is to provide flexible work and lived spaces for design graduates. At the same time, our aim also is to enhance the vibrancy of the Fargate Road by proposing active evening cultural activities led by art organisations and displaying works of the design graduates.
& The design field of Sheffield University & Sheffield Hallam University have highly reputation.
Co-Studio A model of collective appropriation to bring back vibrancy to the city centre.
ENERGETIC AREA
Live & Work
YOUNG PEOPLE The Fargate Road full of retails mainly for young people, and the atmosphere here is such an energetic area that more suitable for young people working and living here.
Providing graduates lived spaces with flexible working space and job opportunities; Encouraging dwellers self-employee and sharing common space
Design Principle According to potential area mapping, these three sites have equal potentials. To achieve the long-term target-- setting up a liveable communities and community-led development model, four main principles as design guidline would be carried out throughout the intervention process.
[DEVELOP SPECIALTY INDUSTRY BASED ON SHEFFIELD URBAN CONTEXT]
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[RE-APPROPRIATING VACANT SPACES WITHOUT DEMOLISHMENT]
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[PROMOTE MIXED SPATIAL FUNCTION TO ENHANCE COHESION]
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[COMMUNITY-LED MODEL ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LIVE BACK TO CITY]
Spatial Design Strategy [Community-led development model] Making preparation
Start
Period: 1-3 years
Exploring
Run
Period: 4-8 years
Operation
Grow
Period: 9- years
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Promoting
Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership] Fargate Court
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SHEFFIELD CLT
Negociate with Property Holder
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Promoting & Advertising
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ART RABBIT (Online Platform)
Establish Community-Led Housing Partnership
Section Scenario
NATIONAL
START STAGE
HOMES & COMMUNITY AGENCY (HCA)
CATHEDRAL QUARTER ASSOCIATION
SHEFFIELD CULTURE CONSORTIUM
INTERNATIONAL
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Raising Money
Sell Coffee or Books
Rent Space for Designers
BUILDING & SOCIAL HOUSING FOUNDATION (BSHF)
Hold Activity & Events
Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership]
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Attract Investors & Developers
RUN STAGE Fargate Court
HAMMERSON
SHEFIELD CITY COUNCIL
NOTTINGHAM BUILDING SOCIETY
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY
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Co-Design & Build
Cafe
Studio/Loft
SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Workshop
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
Cost sharing Funding
Section Scenario
Collaboration Lobbying
Spatial Design Strategy [Action Plan + Partnership]
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M&S
GROW STAGE
Restore M&S
Work together with art organisations in Sheffield for ... MONTGOMERY
Theatre performances Family programme Exhibition space Art activities & exhibitions Premises to rent by outside groups
CHAPEL WALK Affordable studio space Exhibition & performance space Education and publishing
BANK STREET ARTS
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Section Scenario
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Hold seasonal exhibitions, festivals & monthly events
Gallery
Art & Music Festival
Seek a possible property to develop this model
Art Workshop
Live & Work Model
Spatial Design Strategy [Long-term Strategy]
Family housing Art Space Community The 35 Chapel Walk theatre venue hire family programme
SOHO
The Montgomery
Studio &loft Gallery
SOHO
Meeting Room Studio &loft
Gallery Bank Street Arts exhibitions within the creative events and community
Studio &loft
Meeting Room Phoenix Enterprises Employability overcome social exclusion
Family housing
SOHO
The Best Conncection
Gallery
worship Quaker Meeting House
Meeting Room Family housing
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SOHO
Studio
Family housing
Phase 1
Family housing Studio
Studio Phase 3
SOHO
Family housing Phase 2
Legend Start Run Grow
Urban Installation [Installation Location]
[Proposed Building]
Church Street
Definition
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Social media
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[Postcard]
Definition
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[Leaflet]
[Card game]
[Feedback]
[Billboard]
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Facebook Feedback
[Design Participation]
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[Billboard Explaination]
Reflection
Summary Throughout three projects, I have an aware of the importance of bottom-up city-making. The terminology of Co-housing and collective housing give me a new insight to rethink approach to regeneration in the inner-city. Co-production of space is conducive to function mix-used and public services sharing economically. Moreover, I have realised that Community-led development as bottom-up development pattern is accessible. It more underlines the power of grassroots approaches rather than relying on the planning implementing by government.
Reference
Misundersteading
Re-exploration
Basically, we misunderstood the core of this project in the beginning. Because we pay more attention to focus on urban spatial issues. Lack of deeper understanding the definition and operation of CLT is the key reason that we still took architectural and urban design methods into consideration. That leads to time-consuming that we spent more time on reclaiming the potential of area and drawing new mapping. After the tutorial, we attempted to find out the source of vacant upper floor in the heart of city and look for precedents to inspire us. After the tutorial, we attempted to find out the source of vacant upper floor in the heart of city and look for precedents to inspire us.
Gathering Feedback For preparing installation, it need us to translate professional architecture language into general language. And academic representation of diagrams should be simplified, especially narrative of billboard. There are three questions as our principle guiding us modify graphs: How to communicate and interact with public? How to design a series of direct and simple question to attract passer-by? How to organise the sequence of event? Although more than twenty poster feedback, there are lack of young people opinions. The main reason why we merely received feedback from young people. I thought it depends on the time and day. Because it was on Thursday and temporary set up on the site. Thus, the time and day are the key factors to impact the outcome of installation. If the installation would permanent stay, it would receive a large number of comments. Because of that, we created a facebook page prior to installation in order to advertising our event and provide digital resource for browsing. Fortunately, we invited by SheffieldPound, a local organisation, from facebook. It is a good opportunity to present and communicate with local. I have aware that the importance and impact of social media.
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