Today was another really worthwhile day for the team!  Dave and Olivia went back to Elsecar to meet with one of our clients Christine.  During the meeting the guys ran through the event at the weekend and our ideas going forward.  It was a really positive session and we now have even more ideas on what we can deliver at the end of the project.

Back in Sheffield the rest of the team carried on with all the main tasks.

We produced a rough matrix to help us organised our ideas into phases of the project & the scale of the intervention.  We will use this matrix as a basis from which to structure our drawings/documents.

We have also begun work on even more models!  These are being made at a larger scale so that we can add more detail into them about our specific architectural ambitions.

Make sure to check back on this blog very soon as we are planning a very…

We have now reorganised the team loosely into a document team, a model team, a video team and a design team.

The design team have been working on consolidating all of our research and applying what we have learnt from the community.  A lot of our ideas revolve around creating a phased strategy to redevelop the site as and when it becomes possible.

The document team have begun work on our final document, which will be handed over to our clients at the end of our involvement in the project.  We aim to make this document as useful and informative as possible, so that it can be used throughout the future of the project.

This document will outline our research and processes of development, leading on to our ideas (both strategic and architectural).  We will also be developing our physical models so that they can be used  in the long term to help explain the scheme.

Sam Diston

29.10.14

Monday was another good day in the studios.  In the morning the whole team met to discuss the weekend; we were all really happy with how the event had gone!

We also spent the morning looking into our feedback from the weekend event, there are a lot of great ideas which we would like to include into the scheme if we can.

We also discussed our next steps, planning out our final documents/products to give to the clients at the end of our involvement.  We also planned out our final presentation (to our clients and the architecture school) which will take place next Friday, 7th November.

Sam Diston

27.10.14

Yesterday a few members of the team went back to Elsecar and visited the Heritage Railway (which runs every Sunday afternoon).

The guys had a great day, meeting with visitors as well as the railway volunteers.  They spent the day filming their discussions with the people they met, as well as the locomotives themselves.  These interviews will be included within a short film which we will present as part of our final package of work.

Sam Diston

26.10.14

Today was another really productive day and we have everything prepared for the big event this weekend!

We made more trees than anyone should ever have to make…

See you all in Elsecar tomorrow!

Sam Diston

24.10.14

It was another productive day here in the arts tower!

The 1:100 scale model is really coming along well, and is a pretty substantial size too.  The team will be working on finishing the landscape and making the buildings tomorrow, then it should be done!

All of our sketches are now finished and coloured as well, so we will begin work on the presentation layout etc tomorrow.

The team have also been working on initial layouts for our final document, which will explain our research, processes and design ideas.

Sam Diston

22.10.14

Another productive day here in the arts tower.

The history team have spent the last few days refining all their information into a series of documents, including some flash cards (below).  Each of these contains a potted history of various places in and around Elsecar and Hemingfield.

The model team are getting towards a finished product, and have worked their way through half the glue on campus!

The sketching team have been working really hard as well, and we now have a whole series of sketches showing what the colliery could become, more on that soon.

Sam Diston

22.10.14