The project for Emmaus Sheffield has created a new vision for the companions in order to transform and upgrade the site into a lively and bustling environment which includes a new cafe, courtyard and recreational area.
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Tomorrow’s High Street
The Tomorrow’s High Street project created a provocative vision for Sheffield’s city centre to celebrate its long linear historical route between Moorfoot and the Wicker Arches.
Friends of SADACCA
Reinvigorating and generating excitement for the future vision of a pillar in the community.
St Leonards
Through this six week Live Project, we looked at how we might go about conserving St. Leonards for another 800 years, through creative re-imagination and re-animation of the space.
Live Well
Working with South Yorkshire Housing Association to understand and improve their Live Well properties.
Play/Ground
A vision with Pitsmoor Adventure Playground updating the current facilities to ensure longevity and continued success for the children and wider community of Pitsmoor and the Burngreave Area. Collaborating with artist Steve Pool, we used loose parts play to engage with the children to investigate how architecture and play can be combined.
Pipworth Green
Pipworth Green Live Project was based at Pipworth Community Primary School in Manor, Sheffield. The original project brief was to take a holistic overview of the school’s existing playground spaces, and consider means for providing the schoolchildren with safe access to an existing astro-turf MUGA (multi-use games area) on the adjacent recreation ground – Pipworth Green.
Future Forests
Presenting pathways to creating a thriving woodland hub that embodies Ruskin’s ideals in the 21st century.
Friends of the Valley
Year | 2018 Location Gleadless Valley, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Clients | Friends of the Valley Friends of the Valley, a collective of SSoA students and local residents of the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield. By tapping into grassroots systems of power and alternative economies – we challenged the existing […]
Buda LP
Year | 2018 Location | BUDA, Brussels Client | Jan Zaman Building on last years live project ‘Made in Brussels’ Buda LP has worked alongside the client Jan Zaman and a network of stakeholders to produce a body of work that explores the key features and […]
Building Sutton Sheds
Sutton Sheds is a community workshop facility promoting inclusivity and enhancing social connection and friendships in North Sheffield
The Ingle Way
The project aims to create a route which encapsulates the life, values and teachings of Brendan Ingle and use these to inspire and engage the local community of Wincobank.
Sheffield Central
Year | 2018 . Location | Sheffield Clients | Museums Sheffield A vision to re-frame Sheffield Central Library and the Graves Art Gallery in a place for the people of Sheffield to call their own.
Woodbourn Connection
Our vision is to launch Woodbourn Connection as a new space that facilitates links between the local community and the University of Sheffield. This project is the first intervention of many in reactivating a previously underused building at the Pakistan Muslim Centre and in creating a more civic university.
Harmony Works
Year | 2017 Location | Sheffield, South Yorkshire Clients | Sheffield Music Academy & Sheffield Music Hub Harmony Works Live Project brings together two flourishing Sheffield music organisations; Sheffield Music Hub and Sheffield Music Academy, to propose an exciting new centre for music education and performance in […]
Wild WEB Live Project
A collaboration with the Wild WEB project; Idle Valley Nature Reserve’s development plan for opening up to a wider range of user groups as well as to better provide for the people who already use and care for the reserve; their large volunteer base, nature enthusiasts, and educational programmes.
The Sheffield Housing Conversations
Providing platforms to discuss impacts and explore solutions by hearing ideas, opinions and experiences of the issues surrounding housing in Sheffield
Stocksbridge Live Project
The project created a vision for the future of Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre and ‘Your’ Oxley Park through a series of phased deliverable packages, building support and ownership by engaging with key stakeholders and the local community.
Moorfoot Link
Year | 2017 Location | Moorfoot, Sheffield Client | The Labour Party Planning Policy The reestablishment of a direct link between London Road to The Moor has been discussed for a number of years, with no concrete plans being formed. The site is divided by Sheffield’s inner ring road, and currently […]
Manor Allotments
Manor allotments Year | 2016 Location | Manor Allotments, Sheffield Client | Marion Manor allotment is a community garden, located in southern Sheffield, which is made up with dozens of plots and assigned to individuals and families to grow their own vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers, […]
The Vestry Hall
Establishing a step-by-step guide to help ensure the longevity, and continued success, of the Israac Somali Community Association.
Migrant Narratives Exhibition
Narrating stories of these migrant journeys and the illicit crossing of borders, this project visualises the continent from the perspective of those who inhabit its edges and those who are in transit .
Wealthy City Walks
Curation of nine guided walks and workshops around Sheffield city centre based on a reinterpretation of John Ruskin’s ideas of wealth
Foodhall
Helping develop a social and educational venue serving food that would have otherwise gone to waste.
Maurice Dobson Museum
Working with a volunteer run museum of local heritage, the team delivered a series of resources that would assist the museum to continue to develop and ensure their future.
Incredible Northern Greenhouse
The Incredible Northern Greenhouse Live Project is a strategic exploration into how sustainable food initiatives could be connected across the North of England.
Broomhill Futures
Developing a design guide with BBEST, a local residents group, for the neighbourhood of Broomhill.
Otley Vision
Working towards a sustainable and appropriate future development of the small market town of Otley through raising the community's aspirations for brownfield site, mixed use development within the Neighbourhood Development Plan.
Hemingfield Colliery Project
An investigation into possible future uses for a historic colliery site in South Yorkshire.
Cohousing Live
Working with Sheffield City Council and the Sheffield Cohousing Network to explain cohousing in a simple and accessible way using an online resource. Initiating a dialogue between the City Council and various stakeholders about the possibilities for procuring multigenerational and cross-demographic cohousing projects, using a site in Sheffield as a platform for discussion.
Volunteer Hub, Hulme Community Garden Centre
Designing and building a sheltered area using recycled materials with the volunteers of the Hulme Community Garden Centre.
Wickersley Park
Involving locals in the transformation of their park into an asset for the community
Revealing Castlegate
Castle Market is surrounded by controversy. This design proposes a scheme to reveal Castlegate and change perspectives.
Ecclesall Woods – Celebrating Timber Construction
To design and build a new roof structure, cladding system and interior fittings for a small existing kitchen/office at the Sawmill site.
Live Difference
Bringing people of difference together through the act of creating, to raise awareness of the relationship between space and interaction.
Re-Imagining Libraries
Re-Imagining Libraries is a student run speculative project exploring strategies for the future for Sheffield community libraries. The group's proposals include a case studies document which serves as a resource and a boardgame which works with the document as an engagement tool for community groups to reimagine the future of their local libraries.
Live LGBT
Working with LGBT Sheffield and a local Councillor to explore the possibilities of creating a permanent dedicated LGBT Space within the city centre.
Wincobank Heritage Learning Centre
Creating a heritage learning centre at the Upper Wincobank Undenominational Chapel.
The Inman Initiative
A proposal to develop the Inman Pavilion from a dated community centre into a flexible and energy-efficient building.
Wellington Street
A cohesive refurbishment expressing the purpose and values of a charitable organisation throughout their headquarters
Furnace Park
Developing strategies for the reuse of public urban voids, starting with Furnace Park, Sheffield.
Regather Works
Working with the Regather co-operative towards unlocking the potential of their grade II listed building in Sharrow.
Vision for Wincobank
Creating a vision for a new village hall and surrounding green space in Wincobank, in the North East of Sheffield.
Hulme Community Garden Centre
Developing a plant house with members of the Hulme Community Garden Centre.
Doncaster Toolkit
A resource aimed at encouraging Doncaster’s youth to engage, explore and invent their city’s built environment.
Sustainable Timber Innovation Centre
The design and prototype build of STIC at Ecclesall Woods Sawmill.
Pavilion Of Protest
Installation design and construction for an exhibition at the RIBA to highlight the rising cost of architectural education.
Flood and Cyclone Shelter, Bangladesh
The creation of a website for flood and cyclone relief resources.
Blackpool, Bond Street
Investigating the socio-political and economic issues of Blackpool's Bond Street.
Eden Project: Basecamp
Providing on site accommodation and camping facilities for artists in residence.
Wallingfen Way
Replacing a scar in the landscape (the B1230 road to Hull) by reclaiming it for the rural community.
Wybourn & Richmond Park
A creative consultation for the long term future of Wybourn and Richmond Estates.
Lost in Landsdowne
A series of ideas for local estate residents to engage with their built environment.
St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Burley-in-Wharfdale
Strategically improving a parish church in West Yorkshire.
Kelham Island Stones
New evocative spaces and web catalogue for the Kelham Island Industrial Museum.
The Empty Quarter
Looking at innovative and creative interim uses for the shops, buildings and streets in Sheffield's 'empty quarter.'
The Woodland Experience
Exploring the future of the Ecclesall Sawmill site through masterplanning exercises and the building of timber structures on site.
London Architecture Biennale
Design for an intervention along the route of the 2006 London Architecture Biennale.
Gell Street/Springfield School
Design suggestions for Gell Street Park that borders Springfield School.
S. Yorkshire Building Preservation Trust
A research document outlining Thorne's history, and future uses for 42-44 King Street.
Sharrard Road Allotment Regeneration Project
A new outdoor classroom for the Sharrard Allotments, Sheffield.
Multi Purpose Centre, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
The 4th stage in the Sheffield Botanical Gardens restoration strategy.
Prince Edwards Primary School, Manor Top
Ideas and visions to improve various aspects of Prince Edwards Primary School, Sheffield.
Abbeydale Framework Strategy (Broadfield)
Ideas for a stimulus strategy in Abbeydale and Broadfield, Sheffield.
Ballifield School 2003
Returning to Ballifield Primary School in Sheffield to undertake a classroom feasibility.
The Chelsea Open Air Nursery
A feasibility report for the Chelsea Open Air Nursery School and Children’s Centre.
The School of Architecure, Pristina
Re-configuring the architectural education system at Pristina SoA.
Strategies of Transition
An initial visit to Brezoi, Romania, to establish links and communications with the town.
Foxhill – A Community Study
Year | 2001 Location | Foxhill, Sheffield, UK Client | SOAR with Miranda Plowden The main body of the project involved the formation of student led design proposals, which were presented to various community members and members of SOAR and informed the final neighbourhood strategy. During the […]
Busk Meadows Park, Shirecliffe
A project focusing on the Busk Meadows Park in Shirecliffe, Sheffield, investigating the possibilities for regeneration of the park and employing community participation methods. Part of the SOAR Regeneration Framework.
Parson Cross High Street
Proposals for the development of a High Street and community centre at Parson Cross, Sheffield. Part of SOAR Regeneration Framework.
A Green Ribbon
A vision for the re-development of Colley and Longley Park, Sheffield. Part of the SOAR Framework live projects series
