WILLIAM KING MArch (ARB/RIBA Pt 2) 2015/17 Sheffield School of Architecture.
Sheffield Victoria HS2 Station concept sketch.
HS2: ENGINE FOR ART SHEFFIELD VICTORIA In Autumn 2016 the government will confirm the location of a new HS2 Station in Sheffield. Current proposals show that should HS2 come to Sheffield the station will be located at Meadowhall. With 30 million annual visitors, Meadowhall is an edge of town shopping centre which has been responsible for the coring of Sheffield’s once vibrant city centre.
SHEFFIELD VICTORIA ART & FUN FAIR
Sheffield City Council are currently lobbying the government to locate the Sheffield HS2 Station closer to the city centre. This will provide the potential for significant economic growth and urban regeneration to deprived areas in the city centre such as Castlegate, the historic centre of Sheffield. This project speculates what if a HS2 station was built on the site of the former Sheffield Victoria Railway Station, approximately a 10 minute walk from the city centre. Opened in 1851, Sheffield Victoria Station was a prototype for long distance luxury commuter journeys linking Sheffield with London Marylebone. Although HS2 will bring significant economic benefits to the city centre, there is a risk that the character of areas such as Castlegate will be lost. A key part of that character is the active art scene in Sheffield, with 19 studio groups providing 362 artists with studios. This project argues that as well as being a new gateway to Sheffield and an ‘engine for growth’, HS2 could also be an ‘engine for art’. Here local art is celebrated as part of the passenger experience, distinguishing Sheffield Victoria from other UK HS2 Stations.
View 01. Existing Grade II* Listed Sheffield Victoria Viaduct and Royal Victoria Hotel. Pencil drawing.
Visualising Sheffield Victoria’s past to re-imagine its future.
POLYTECHNIC + BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH
‘Utopia’ In collaboration with Leo Fitzmaurice. Sheffield, 2015.
‘You are here Balloons’. In collaboration with Sans façon. Sheffield 2015.
‘Utopia’ In collaboration with Leo Fitzmaurice. Sheffield, 2015.
‘You are here Balloons’. In collaboration with Sans façon. Sheffield 2015.
Polytechnic, ‘Art is not Doing Enough’
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Poly Technic, Sheffield, 2015.‘ & Bob and Roberta Smith.
Leo Fitzmaurice & SSOA Studio In-residence, Sheffield, 2015.
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HIGH SPEED RAIL - ENGINE FOR GROWTH. SHEFFIELD VICTORIA
Sans Facon & SSOA Studio In-residence, Sheffield, 2015.
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Crown Street Liverpool.
Euston Arch, London
Gare de l’Est, Paris.
Kings Cross, London.
World’s first passenger railway station. Modest Station building seperated from wodden vaulted train shed.
First architectural expression of the arch as a monumental ‘gateway’ to and from Euston terminal. Strictly not an archway but a propylaeum of the Doric order.
All booking facilities, waiting rooms brought together in the main station building. Architetcural expression of train shed on the principle facade of the main station building.
Twin span arched train shed expressed on the double span of the monumental brick elevation. Each span is 105ft wide and is broader than those of Crystal Palace. Roof ribs originally made of laminated timber. 1866 replacement with iron ribs began.
This was the original entrance from Euston Station but was demolished during redevelopment in 1971.
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Central Italianate clock tower relieves stark functional symbolism of the facade.
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Gare d’Orsay, Paris. Beaux Arts Architectural language, combining technological advances with classical tradition. Electrification of trains meant that no arched iron shed was needed as there were no steam locomotives to accommodate.
JMW Turner, ‘Rain, Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway’,1844.
RAIL STATION TYPOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Sanata Maria Novella, Florence.
Claude Monet, ‘Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint Lazare’, 1877.
Rejection of hsitoricism and accepted vocabulary and symbolism of the station typology facade in favour of the modernist approach. First purpose built terminus for the car age. Advent of reinforced concrete 1920s-40s led to cantilevered platform canopies.
Ivo Pannaggi, ‘Speeding Train’, 1922.
Arched Train Shed The architectural form of the arched train shed derived from the functional requirements to span across the platforms and tracks, and enclose a large volume of air to naturally ventillate the smoke emitted by the steam locomotives. In the UK the design of the train shed was often left to the engineer, but outside the UK architects and enginners worked closely together to create a more cohesive design solution with the main station building.
Main Station As a result in the UK, the main station accomodating the ticket hall, entrance concourse and waiting areas is typically separate from the train shed. Whilst the tram shed addressed functional requirements for the station, the main sation building would address the city. Consequently the architectural language for the main station building is often eclectic, including Gothic, Beaux Arts and historical references. This contrasted against the functional architectural language of the tram shed which was often left hideen behind the princple station facade.
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Waterloo, London, Grimshaw Architects.
Crossrail Place, London, Foster and Partners.
In the decades after the war, other modes of transport took over from the train such as car and plane. 1980’s renewed interest in train station. Great Victorian concept of the train shed has been revivied and by employing the latest construction technology has been improved. From being a traditional point of arrival and departure, the station becomes a junction, an interchange of different means of transport. Grimshaw expresses technological structure. Function distinctions between station and shed no longer exist and are together encased in a glass envelope which is both roof and elevation.
The four levels of retail, roof garden, pavillions and station entrances are unified by a complex timber roof which recalls the great trainsheds of the nineteenth century. Here the architectural heirarchy of the station and train shed are reversed; the main station servicies are located undergorund whereas the train shed structure is celebrated to address the city.
The architectural form of the archway is considered as the railway age’s counterpart to the medieval city gate. The arch was first used at Euston Station, where the monumentality of the Euston Arch, advertised the stations significance within the city as well as unerlining the stations ancestry from the triumphal entrance gateways of the classical world via the gate in the city wall. The arch form was adopted into the architectural vocabulary of rail station design and used to indicate the stations main point of entrance whilst also expresseing the form of the train shed behind. Thus becoming a recognisable symbol of the buildings function.
Clock Tower The vertical element of the clock tower acted as a landmark to the stations location, similar to the towers of a cathedral or the minaret of a mosque. The architetcural form of the clock tower breaks up the sometimes monotonous horizontality of the principle façade whilst adding asymmetry to the logical functionalism of the station design.
SHEFFIELD VICTORIA HS2 STATION MASTERPLAN This masterplan considers the urban regenerational impact on the Wicker and Castlegate areas should a HS2 come to Sheffield Victoria. Castlegate and the Wicker are located to the north east of Sheffield city centre. Both areas are currently in decline, cut off by busy roads, unattractive public realm and a large proportion of vacant building stock. The masterplan sets out to create a sequence of spaces, enclosing new pedestrian routes towards the city centre and frame views towards significant existing buildings within the townscape. These include the Grade II listed Sheffield Victoria Viaduct, Wicker Arches, Royal Victoria Hotel and the Old Town Hall in Castlegate.
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Key proposals include a tram extension to Burngreave via the new pedestrianised ‘Wicker Square’; pedestrianising the 200m ramped Victoria Station Road which leads to the existing viaduct level,11m above the street; and deculverting the River Sheaf in the recently vacant site of the former Castle Markets which will be transformed into new public gardens.
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Proposed Sheffield Victoria HS2 Station & Masterplan Aerial view illustrating urban and artist regeneration to Castlegate and Wicker as a result of the new HS2 Station at Sheffield Victoria.
WICKER SQUARE WALKER STREET ARCHES (MIXED USE) TAXI/CAR DROP OFF & TRAM/BUS STOP CAR PARK AND BUS INTERCHANGE OFFICE DEVELOPMENTS ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL (GRADE II*) WW2 MEMORIAL SQUARE SHEFFIELD VICTORIA CONCOURSE ‘TRAIN SHED’ EXHIBITION/GALLERY. SUSSEX ARCHES TERRACES (LOCAL STAINED GLASS) WICKER WALK (TO KELHAM ISLAND) HS2 PLATFORMS SHEFFIELD VICTORIA ROOF SUSSEX STREET (MIXED USE) HOTEL (HOLIDAY INN) VICTORIA STATION GARDENS CAR PARK WITH ‘KINESPHERIC’ FACADE EXCHANGE SQUARE EXCHANGE PLACE (YORKSHIRE ARTSPACE) VICTORIA QUAY CASTLE GARDENS (MIXED USE) CASTLE GARDENS AMPHITHEATRE OLD TOWN HALL (GRADE II*) TRAM EXTENSION TO BURNGREAVE
HS2 SHEFFIELD VICTORIA: ENGINE FOR ART The proposed Sheffield Victoria Station includes the performance of art as an integral part of the passenger experience. Unlike conventional retail led stations around the UK, Sheffield Victoria will be artist led, offering free public space to showcase the talents of Sheffield’s artists and become a destination itself. 5
The station provides a variety of spaces for different scales of art to happen, from large scale exhibitions in the concourse ‘train shed’ to smaller intimate workshop studios in the Sussex Arches. These studios are integrated with anchor retail stores providing opportuntiies for artists to sell their work to passengers passing by.
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The HS2 station has 2 platforms serving 4 tracks for passenger trains and one central track for freight trains travelling to Stocksbridge Steelworks. The existing viaduct is too narrow to accommodate the proposed HS2 tracks and platforms which are raised 6m above the existing viaduct level.
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Upon entry, a lightweight steel bow string curved glass roof leads visitors eyes towards the raised HS2 platforms. The performance of the HS2 trains arriving and departing acts as a backdrop to the activity in the concourse including the ‘train shed’, a generous large scale art exhibition space of similar proportions to the Turbine Hall at that Tate Modern, London. The ground floor of the Royal Victoria Hotel is appropriated as part of the concourse, accommodating restaurants, bars and function rooms whilst upper levels remain as private hotel rooms. Steel is used throughout the scheme to reference the steel factories that were served by this railway.
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1. WW2 MEMORIAL SQUARE & ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL 2. CONCOURSE 3. STAINED GLASS WEST FACADE BY LOCAL ARTISTS 4. GLAZED LINK TO ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL 5. BOWSTRING STEEL ROOF STRUCTURE. . 6. HS2 PLATFORMS AND TRACKS 7. SUSSEX ARCHES 8. SUSSEX STREET 9. ‘STEEL LINING’TO VIADUCT CUT.
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Sheffield Victoria HS2 Station, Sectional Perspective. Sectional perspective illustrating environmental strategy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
WW2 MEMORIAL SQUARE & ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL CONCOURSE STAINED GLASS WEST FACADE BY LOCAL ARTISTS GLAZED LINK BETWEEN STATION ROOF AND ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL BOWSTRING STEEL ROOF STRUCTURE. GLASS IS OPENABLE TO ALLOW FOR NATURAL STACK VENTILLATION. HS2 PLATFORMS AND TRACKS SUSSEX ARCHES SUSSEX STREET ‘STEEL LINING’TO VIADUCT CUT.
PV glazing panels are used as the envelope for the south facing section of the roof to provide solar shading to the concourse, preventing passenger discomfort from overheating and glare. ETFE Cushions are used as the envelope above the gallery to allow soft diffused light to illuminate the gallery space below.
Each component of the Bowstring roof is supported at 3 pivotal points by Bowstring columns which offset the directional load induced by the curved roof form. The delicate details of the steel tension members in these columns provide a pleasing counterpoint to the heavier ‘Y’ shaped columns which support the HS2 tracks above.
The Bow string roof spanning the HS2 platforms and tracks is not enclosed by a sealed envelope and is open. However, glazing in the roof and sides provide shelter from windy conditions due to the high level of the platforms.
As part of the design process, design decisions have be from the point of view of artists as well as architects an Consequently the west facade which fronts onto the p Wicker Square will be sealed with a stained glass windo and constructed by local artists, creating colourful ligh onto the concourse which vary througout the day.
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88 Wood Street, Richard Rogers.
London St Pancras train shed
‘Chromolocomotion’ David Batchelor, London St Pancras
Upon entry to the station from Victoria Station Gardens, visitors are confronted by a lightweight steel bow string roof which curves up, leading visitors eyes towards the HS2 platforms above, contrasting with the heavier steel ‘y’ columns below. The bowstring roof structure is split into two major spans; one spanning the concourse and ‘train shed’ exhibition space; the other spanning the HS2 tracks and platforms. The spans are x respectively. The bow string structure varies to achieve each span, resulting in a asymmetrical bow string roof to span the concourse and a symmetrical bow string roof to span the HS2 platforms. Architecturally this also signifies the difference in functions between the concourse and the train shed, which historically have often had distinct architectural languages. Hidden gutters at each pivotal node of the structure contain concealed gutters that collect rain water which is recycled for the station toilets located inside the Royal Victoria Hotel. The ‘y’ shaped columns have been colour coded to illustrate their function as a intergral part of the ‘way finding’ strategy for the station. Yellow columns correspond to the gallery spaces, orange for the Sussex Arches and red for ticket controlled areas. The volume cut out of the existing Sheffield Victoria Viaduct is determined by an environmental strategy which enables stack ventillation to passively ventillate the station. Cool air enters the station via louvred openings in the glazng system of the archways, passing through the tunnels up through the atria into the main concourse where air escapes via mechanised openings in the glazing of the bow string roof structure.The volume extracted equates to the width of 5 arches and is replaced with a ‘steel lining’ which provides a waterproof and structural seal to the existing viaduct cut.
HS2 Platforms.
View towards Sussex Arches. (View 02)
View from ‘Train Shed’ exhibition space towards concourse and HS2 Platforms. ( View 01)
Sussex Arches. (View 02)
The existing Sheffield Victoria Viaduct has no vertical connection between the Sussex Arches, at street level, and the existing viaduct level, 12m above. To increase permeability between and throughout the existing viaduct, a volume has been extracted from the viaduct, creating a generous internal ‘street’ know as the ‘Sussex Arches.’ The size of the volume cut out of the existing Sheffield Victoria Viaduct is determined by an environmental strategy which enables stack ventillation to passively ventillate the station. Cool air enters the station via louvred openings in the glazng system of the archways, passing through the tunnels up through the atria into the main concourse where air escapes via mechanised openings in the glazing of the bow string roof structure. The volume extracted equates to the width of 5 arches and is replaced with a ‘steel lining’ which provides a waterproof and structural seal to the existing viaduct cut.
WICKER WALK In the space between the existing viaduct and the proposed viaduct above the Wicker Arches, the scheme proposes a new urban pedestrian walk which leads pedestrians towards Kelham Island, the historic industrial quarter of Sheffield. This walk opens up new vistas of Sheffield and its changing urban landscpae as never seen before. Know as the ‘Wicker Walk’, the structure for this part of the viaduct changes to reflect its public function. A double V or ‘W’ curved steel truss spreads the load of the HS2 tracks down through the existing viaduct below.This new infrastructure also unofficially invites visitors to leave their mark on structure in response to the graffiti artists that practice here.
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‘PARKIVE’ LIVE PROJECT
Long Henry walk was a real community; we used to help an elderly lady who had loved living there due to the support and friendship this street in the sky created...
Live Projects are a pioneering educational initiative at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture, where masters students work with community clients in real time, with real budgets, on socially-engaged projects.
URE... FUT I would like to see Park Hill flats return to its original idea of a ‘community in the sky’... seeing younger people living there as a stepping stone to establishing themselves in the city...
I was part of the ‘Parkive’ Live Project, which investigated how a ‘heritage offer’ might exist as part of a potential relocation of S1 Artspace to the northern flank of the Park Hill housing estate, known as the Duke Street building. Founded in 1995, S1 Artspace is a well established not-for-profit contemporary art gallery and artist studio organisation based in Sheffield. During the 6 week project, we carried out research and public engagement with key stakeholders and local communities to inform a design framework for a possible ‘heritage offer’ at Park Hill. As part of this research I interviewed 10 key stakeholders to gain support, understand their needs and interests and how they could benefit from a possible ‘heritage offer’ at Park Hill.
Milk Float as a particpatory engagement tool. (Live Project Team.)
During this time we also built a moveable milk float which was used as an public engagement tool. This was a touchstone to Park Hill’s past when a milk float roamed along the ‘streets in the sky’ to deliver milk to residents. During the live project, the milk float was taken into the city centre where participants told us their opinions, stories and memories of the past, present and future of Park Hill. We also organised a public consultation event ‘Parkive’ at Park Hill, in which I presented the findings of our work and research. The work completed will form part of S1 Artspace’s application for heritage lottery funding.
Milk Float and Park Hill, Sheffield Midlands Station.
Milk Float, Sheffield City Hall.
Existing Duke Street Building, Park Hill.
‘Parkive’ Public Presentation.
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Milk Float Educational Outreach Strategy to local Primary Schools. (Live Project Team.)
‘Parkive’ concept montage (Live Project Team)
Interview with archivist and past Park Hill resident.
PARTICIPATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN I delivered a workshop to a Year 4 class containing 29 (KS2) pupils aged between 8-9 years old at Hexthorpe Primary School on Friday 27th November 2015. The workshop aimed to help pupils develop design ideas for their entry to the ‘Build a New Doncaster Competition 2015’, organised by the Doncaster Civic Trust. I worked as a team with 3 international students from other PGT courses at the Sheffield School of Archietcture. The workshop was structured around a presentation and two group activities during a morning session from 09:00am to 12:00pm with a 15 minute break. The delivery of the workshop was assisted by the class teacher and teaching assistant. Pupils working in groups during first exercise.
The presentation introduced the role of an architect, how architects communicate their ideas, different types of architecture, as well as basic design principles for architecture and urban design. A primary aim for the workshop was to give the children a sense of empowerment over their role as citizens within the built environment. During the first activity, the class was split into four groups in which pupils worked together to analyse a key building in Doncaster. The pupils wrote on an A2 answer sheet and presented their findings to the rest of the class. For the second and main activity, the children worked in pairs to design their own ‘dream house’ in Doncaster. In particular the children were encouraged to consider how their designs could be ‘sustainable’. The final designs were attached to helium balloons to create a utopian ‘community in the sky’. This took inspiration from the Disney film ‘Up’ which the pupils found very engaging.
Pupils work at the end of the workshop ‘Design your own dream house in Doncaster.’
Workshop inspired by Disney film ‘Up’ (2013)
Sketch plan of classroom layout for the workshop.
Workshop timeline.
Pupil working on ‘dream house.’
ST RADIGUNDS HOUSING, CANTURBURY This housing scheme forms part of an overall masterplan for St Radigunds, Canterbury, which is currently used as a public car park for the city. The masterplan was developed in a small team, and includes housing, student accomodation, a boarding house and a educational centre. The western boundary of St Radigunds is defined by the Great Stour which continues into the heart of Canterbury. My masterplan sets out to establish a stronger connection between St Radigunds and the centre of Ccanterbury by continuing an existing river walk along the Great Stour. My housing proposal provides frontage and enclosure to the riverwalk and to the new public realm at the centre of the masterplan. From this new public space, a view of the Marlowe Theatre is framed by the housing. A cafe is located on the ground floor of the scheme to activate the public space. The scheme continues the existing urban fabric of the surrounding context. The massing of the housing turns at the southern edge of the site to follow the frontage of the adjacent street, enclosing a private courtyard for residents use. The scale of the housing is reduced by varying the heights of each module, which are staggered in plan to follow the curvature of the Great Stour. The housing itself has a dual frontage, with distinct elevationak treatments which respond to the various different edge conditions of the site. Simple in plan, the housing sets out to adapt to the changing needs of users over time, with flexible and regular spaces that can be reconfigured into multiple uses.
‘Community Sectional Perspective.’
Riverwalk through Canterbuyr City Centre.
St Radigunds Masterplan including housing, student accomodation, boarding house and educational centre.
CLT window box construction detail.
View towards Marlowe Theatre from River Walk.
Maisonette Floor Plans
Riverside Elevation
Street Elevation
KENT SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND FINE ART, ROCHESTER. The brief for the final degree project asks for a design of a post graduate college for the Univerity of Kent’s School of Music and Fine Arts. The site is situated in the historic city of Rochester, in between Rochester Castle and the great west front of Rochester Cathedral. The site currently has weak pedestrian connectivity with Rochester High Street due to Boley Hill road which cuts through the site. Consequently the site and the adjacent Castle Gardens are not well used by the public. However at the turn of the century the site and castle grounds were a social hub of activity, well used by residents and visitors by Rochester alike. This informed my concept for the masterplan to re-connect the site and castle gardens with Rochester High Street.
Re-connected Rochester High Street concept.
My proposal sets out to improve site permeability, through pedestrianisation and sensitive massing of buildings to enclose a sequence of spaces that encourage visitors to move through the site from Rochester High Street and up into the Castle Gardens. This project explores the themes of urban infill, the design of spaces inbetween buildings and sets out to reimagine the cathedral close.
Activated Rochester Castle Gardens.
Existing arial view sketch concept strategy.
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Concert Hall ticket office.
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JOHN THOMPSON & PARTNERS, PART 1 EXPERIENCE John Thompson & Partners is an international placemaking practice that specialises inresidential led mixed use developments, masterplanning projects and urban regeneration schemes. Over two decades the practice has developed participatory techniques that engage residents, users and wider communities to inform the design development of projects. Working at John Thompson & Partners has complimented my own interests in designing at an urban scale and developed new interests into how architects can become more socially responsible. During my time at John Thompson & Partners, I have prepared feasibility studies, planning application drawings, images for competition bids and developed design work for pre application consultations with local authorities. In particular I worked on a 250 mixed use residential led scheme in Loampit Vale, Lewisham, South London. The proposed development incorporates potential development to increase capacity to Lewisham Rail Station adjacent to the site. These developments form part of the Lewisham Gateway masterplan which sets out to regenerate the local area. I have also gained on site construction and heritage experience working on the redevelopment of St Clements, a former workhouse infirmary in Bow East London. The proposals sets out to establish a new community and provide over 250 homes including the refurbishment of several existing Grade II listed buildings. Southall Gasworks competition bid.
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St Clements Hospital, Bow.
Loampit Vale, Lewisham. north west view.
Loampit Vale Lewisham, 3D Model.
Loampit Vale, Lewisham. Urban Analysis.
Loampit Vale, Lewisham. north west view.