There was quite a bit going on today!

Dave from the team met with John Tanner of Barnsley Council & Museums to discuss our ideas with him and confirm our weekend event.  We will be in the visitors centre in Esecar Hertiage Centre this coming Saturday (25th Oct) between 11 and 4, come along to see some of our ideas and have your say!

Whilst in Elsecar we also collected our ‘postcards’ from the local school.  We had some great contributions from years 4 & 5, a McDonalds, police station or a swimming pool!  These have definitely given us some more ideas about what we should include.

The model team also began assembling the 1:100 site model which will include the cottages, the site, and will go all the way down to the Trans Pennine Trail.  This model will be used to help show people the site as is, and will later be used to show some of our proposals.

Today was the day that we began to condense all our ideas and research into some design work.

The team spent the day sketching out our ideas for specific buildings, the site and the wider area (ie: connecting it down to the railway, canal and footpaths below).

 

These sketches will be used as part of our next community engagement event (this coming weekend).

We also began consolidating/preparing our historical research for presentation at the same event.

Here you can see an initial design for a allotment/garden/market idea, which could use it’s produce to supply an on site cafe.

Sam Diston

17.10.14

Today several of our team went back to the Elsecar to speak with our contact Christine and have another look at the site itself.  They discussed further history of the site, initial findings from our research as well as initial ideas for what could be done with the site.  They also talked through in more detail our ideas about presenting ‘visions’ for the site rather than producing inflexible and expensive rigid designs.Moved suggestion boxes

Whilst in Elsecar the team also moved several of our suggestion boxes, one into the ‘Elephant and Castle’ pub and another into a local primary school.

The team also had fun in the bushes surveying the lower areas of the site!

Sam Diston

15.10.14

Today the whole team was taken up with University commitments throughout the morning.

During the rest of the day we sat down as a group and went through our individual initial ideas for the scheme, (based on all of our research & community engagement).  These ideas ranged from a mini-golf course to children’s activity centre.

Following our team discussions we sat down with our tutor John-Paul to go through our progress since last week.  Some good points of discussion were raised including the format of our final outputs, the positives/negatives of listing buildings and our plans for the upcoming community engagement event next weekend.

Sam Diston

16.10.14