ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO WESLEY, MING CHI LEUNG BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Architecture Newcastle University
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Saltaire Fashion Design School
The site located in the centre of Saltaire, City of Bradford, this town has experienced a significant change from its original urban development. The site grew from a Salts Mill, a textile factory, to a town by providing a sustainable living and working environment for the workers in the 1800s. The evolution through time has revealed how Saltaire’s original economic base was removed, turning into a World Heritage Site we see today. However, the site now suffered from poor maintaince, pollution and traffic.
Therefore, this project aims to revive this world heritage site with the theme of its textile background to benefit the economic and sustainable prospects of Saltaire. In this project - The Fashion Design School, provide a research lab and study platform for the foundation course’s students. The school itself can help building up the local textile and fashion industry.The students can also boost up the local businuss by accommodating in the town. Serial Vision - Urban Context Around the Site
Exploring Saltaire - The World Heritage Site
What are the options for Saltaire in the future? The individual major buildings and groups of houses were listed as Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Significance in 1985
Salt’s Mill was in decline
The revival of textile manufacturing in the inter-war period
The company’s assets including the mill and village were bought by four Bradford businessman
Titus Salt passed away
The opening of Salts Mill
Salt decided to build a newly centralized alpaca wool mill
TIMELINE - URBAN FORM AND GOVERNANCE
Option 2 | Using the arts to establish a new heritage for Saltaire Option 1 | Embracing its original identity Should Saltire have stuck to its original roots of being linked to the British textile industry?
By turning Salts Mill into a traditional museum that exhibits the contents of the former mill, will it be better or for worse?
Saltaire and it’s mill jointly declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
he closure of Salts Mill followed by its purchase by Jonathan Silver. It was then renovated and used for a mixture of residential, commercial, leisure and business uses.
The opening of Saltaire’s railway station and the formation of Saltire Village Society
The site gained an additional status as a Conservation Area
slington Morris and Company - a textile giant with several textile company holdings bought the mill
The company sold the village to Bradford Property Trust Ltd
The assets were sold to another syndicate of Bradtord wool men
The company was wound up
The firm was registered as a limited liability company
2450 inhabitants of Saltaire village was working in the mill
Titus Salt was influenced by Disraeli’s novel Sybil
Thereby, preserving the image of what Saltaire has always been known as?
With the arts-led regeneration, it effectively turned Saltaire into a thriving town again
To achieve this, the regeneration had to essentially forget what Saltaire used to be, with the architecture of the village being the only aspect left of its 19th century life.
If Saltaire does pursue this, will the new heritage continue to benefit the village or will it eventually lose its value? Will it still be remembered as the textile village to house its workers or a tourist attraction for the arts?
Option 3 | Forget the textile industry, Saltaire will adapt to the changing world
Option 4 | Harmonisation between the past, present and future
Some see the conservation of the architecture as a hinderance to the potential Saltaire can achieve if it wasn’t held back by its past
Or can we explore the option of keeping the integrity of the WHS boundary?
There are several options of what to do in Saltaire in the future, and these are illustrated above. These all have different advantages and disadvantages, and all present levels of heritage preservation within the critical heritage debate. Should we be forgetting the past to embrace a new culture, harmonisng the past and present with no clear identity, completely redeloping the site and allowing the village to catch up or returning back to the insutrial past?
Synthesis
1. Massing
The form of the building is restricted by the original trees on the site.
4. Lift Well Structure
The main circulation of the two side of the school. The lift well becomes the part of the main structure.
7. Angled Facade
The facade of the southside pushed out to match the angle of the road, which follows the natural flow of the main road.
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2. Public and Private space
The school is separated to two sections, the main campus; the more private space and the public section.
5. Roof Structure
The form of the peaked roof blends in to the urban context and the surrounding structures.
8.Visual Connection
The framed facade and the balcony attracts the visual connection from the road to the exhibition
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3. Connecting
The bridge connect the two section, the south side is shaped to follow the direction of the main road.
6. Spactial Manipulation
The facade of the south side is pushed inward to create a rectangular space inside the exhibition
9. Skylight Structure
The sky light struction invites the south facing sunlight the building.
Bird vision
Isometric Floor Plan
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1. Lecture Theatre 2. Projector Room 3. Storage Room 4. Toilet 5. Staff Office 6. Reception 7. Lobby 8. Reception 9. Lobby 10. Toilet 11. Kitchen 12. Cafe
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13. Fashion and Textile Sewing Workshop 14. Fashion and Textile Weaving Workshop 15. Toilet 16. Storage
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Building Section
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Rooftop Plan
17. Tech Staff Room 18. Staff Room 19. Exhibition Lobby 20. Fashion and Textile Exhibition 21. Balcony 22. Acad Staff Room 23. Fashion and Textile Foundation Studio 24. Workshop Staff Room 25. Public Fashion and Textile WS
26. Classroom 27. Classroom 28. Library 29. Computer Room 30. Roof Top Open Space 31. Textile Shop
Atmospherical Design
Interior - Lecture Theatre
Interior - Exhibition Space
Building Exterior Perspective
Exhibition Skylight Section
Main Entrance
Exterior - Without Trees
Interior - Fashion Design Workshop
This Fashiion Design School is design in two sections, one is the main campus including the lecture theaatre and the multiple workshops provide a space for students to explore and learn fashion design with wide range of equipment. Another one is the more public section of the Section, in which includes the cafe, exhibition space, public workshop and information centre about fashion design and the textile history of Saltaire, it aims to provide connection and support to the local community.
The Narrative of Space TEXTILE + SPACE ‘Whether there is illusion, the optical and visual world plays an integral and integrative, active and passive, part in it.’, by Lefebre, 1974 Redinfing the Saltaire’s textile identity with sustainable and creative approach from its industial textile history. ‘Gather the interest of the whole society and firsty of all those who inhabit.’, by Lefebre, 1974
Facade Design Conceptual Model Testing
Facade Design and Natural Light Strategy
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Model Crafting and Concept Thinking Stage
Light Projection
Testing on Mirror Reflection
Testing the relationship between the textile and the fashion school facade structure. Firstly, fixing the textile material with tension, then attached it to the other side of the grid, which gives the material a 3-Dimension perspective. The modular mechanic of this model can be easily archieved in real life.
Building Elevation
Facade Cladding testing with Trees Shading
Constructional Analysis
Technical Section ARC 3014 1:20 Integrated Construction Technology Technial Section and Part Elevation Ming Chi, Leung 180650866 42mm Cap Rail 18mm Glass 30mm Larch KVH Protective Mat Weatherproofing Membrane 120mm Mineral Wool Thermal Insulation Vapour Control Membrane 15mm OSB Board 280mm Mineral Wool Thermal Insulation Parapet Sheet
18mm Gypsum Plasterboard 90mm Softwood Laminated Timber 60mm Mineral Wool Insulation 900mm Timber-framed Beam 18mm Gypsum Plasterboard 18mm Composite RIgid Insulation 15mm OSB Board 280mm Rigid Mineral Wool Insulation 15mm OSB Board Duffusion-open Weatherproof Membrane DPC
- Primary Structure Red - Secondary Structure Blue - Tertiary Structure
Steel Insert Plates Steel Side Plates
Drift-pins
Glulam Cover for Fire Protection Water Drainage 30mm Larch Joist Weatherproofing Membrane KVH Protective Mat EPS Impact sound Insulation Reinforced Steel Rod 10mm Oak parquet 65mm Heating Screed/UFH Heating Pipe 80mm Impact sound Insulation 180mm Cross-laminated Timber
Glulam Beam
The main structure of the building is constructed by timber glulam. Because of the spacious spacial arrangement of the design, the horrizontal spread is about 14 metres wide. Therefore, the thickness of the timber beams are thicker than usual, around 1 metre to archieve the load bearing of the structure. The exposed timber structure can also reveal the honesty of material using of the building. Raft foundation is selected in this design, which
needs cages of steel reinforcement inside the concrete and hardcore sub-base to level the ground. Insulation is needed on top of the raft to prevent cold bridging. Because of the preservation of the original trees on the site, it requires surveyors to examine the ground stability. Considering the roots of the trees, raft foundation is the most suitable foundation in this design, as raft foundation requires less earth excavation.
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280mm Mineral Wool Thermal Insulation Damp Proof Membrane Precasted Concrete Unit Sand Blinding Hardcore Drainage Concrete Masonary Footing
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