Pre-exhibition preparation

Please come and have a look at our final exhibition @ RIBA Hub. Come find us between 11.30 - 17:00 to catch us for a chat and if you do miss us please have a look at our presentation! :)

Final presentation (:

Day # 6 Last day of effort towards a great exhibition!

Last day! Finally. After our discussion with the Carribean group they seemed quite please with our final proposal. Today we focused on finalizing the model and preparing for the exhibition! We decided to take shots of each person participant in the event and their comments about it.

Danny Grant

Good idea to grow, cook and sell to fundraise for the community. Involving all the community will help increase how the community works.

Sidney

Good idea to involve young people. Anything that will help the community will be great. We would happily support the community and would love to get involved and give our own knowledge of the subject.

Aderson Mathew

I personally feel that this could help create a good community atmosphere. It will educate the kids on where their food comes from. A great idea to bring the community together.

Ben Simmons

It is a nice project. It will be good to see if something like this could happen to get the whole community involved. If everyone planted a seed then it would engage the community. It would decrease the vandalism because everyone would have a sense of ownership and pride. 

Richard

Like to see it get started. It would be great if we could have big events for things like the jubilee with the whole community involved in summertime and get everyone communicating a bit more.

Day # 5 Finalising ideas and preparing for our second meeting with the Carribean group

Today we looked at finalising our models and posters for the exhibition. We also prepared a document to show the Carribean elderly group in the afternoon when we see them again! Almost there! 1 day to go :)

Presentation for Carribean group

Day # 4 Working on our proposal

After some of us attended the Creating 'age-friendly cities': developing a new urbanism for all generations cities@ Manchester joint event with MICRA (Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing). We had some interesting materials which helped us start off the morning with a discussion of our proposal. Based on some of the work we did before we looked at a site section, access points, the different heights of the 2 green spaces. 

We them split into 2 groups: one to look at the gathered information and convey it in a digital format and the other to work on the proposal in preparation for tomorrow's Meeting 2 with the Caribbean elderly group. Obviously carrying models to the meeting wasn't possible so we focused on a presentation.

In terms of the actual proposal we decided to suggest the following:

- a playground/ multifunctional park space with 24h management to be used by children/younger people and the elderly at different times
- another part of the site dedicated to vegetable cultivation with associated market place.

Day # 3 Making a site model

Today we focused on gathering our information based on the quick brainstorming exercise we had on Friday. We looked at the data we would be needing, printed off maps of the site and started work on a site model. Some of us focused on the models and masterplan, others looked at data collection and production of diagrams, chats and infographs. The year 05 students started working on final layout templates, logos, information needed.

Check out some of our infographics for the site!

Day #2

Morning Session - Lecture from Roger Burton, RIBA on master planning and place making

presentation PowerPoint file

Afternoon of discussion and review of notes, site analysis etc.

Afternoon brainstorming. After our meeting with Roger Burton, RIBA we decided to revise our meetings for the last 2 days by putting out ideas and suggestions of what we could do with the site.  We then looked at some precedents and went on to research further the site: history, articles, the community, the envisioned school to be build there. We decided to devide our presentation as follows: what was there? what is there now? what has been planed for the future? what we plan?

USEFUL LINKS:

Ideas on fencing, security, design:
http://www.loomstudio.com/knox.html
http://pinterest.com/pin/113927065545055873/

Ideas on public spaces:
http://www.pps.org/projects/project-categories/featured-projects/

Ideas on green spaces and cultivation:
http://www.edenproject.com/
http://www.growingspaces.com/

Ideas on getting various activities and services onsite:
http://www.auraherbalwear.com/herbal-dyeing.aspx

Precedents for market spaces/multifunctional spaces:
http://www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/aug/08/spain.foodanddrink
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/new_york/coney_island_amphitheatre.htm
http://inhabitat.com/masonic-amphitheatre-is-a-prefab-stage-on-a-reclaimed-site-in-virginia/

BRAINSTORMING:
- outdoor amphitheatre
- kids park
- keep landform
- improve relashionships/ security, make them feel wanted, ownership
- variety of activities: football etc
- multipurpose space
- make front gate less intimidating
- market + greenhouse to grow vegetables
- livestock organic wools?
- computer space for advertisement and learning