Today was our final day in studio!  It’s been a very very busy day, and of course there are always a few last minute glitches to overcome, but we have overcome them and are well prepared for the big presentation tomorrow!

We may have also consumed our own body weight in crisps and biscuits, but that is not always such a bad thing!  Unfortunately tidying up our studio space will not be quite so much fun.

We are all really looking forward to tomorrow, the final presentation will be a great way to celebrate all the hard work which has been put in by everyone involved.  In tomorrows blog post we will include a bit more detail about what we have been up to, we hope you will all really like our ideas!

Sam Diston

06.11.14

Today was a really fun day!  All of our final documents are nearing completion, so a few members of the team have spent today helping out with the filming.  We headed into the artificial sky (essentially a room with mirrors on all four walls), this creates really even light over the models to make things clearer.

We have used the model to create a colour coded masterplan, which we will be made into a time-lapse style graphic to help explain the complex phasing required on this site.

Tomorrow we will be pulling everything together, doing lots of proof reading and getting everything printed!

Sam Diston

05.11.14

Today was a long but productive day.  Everyone is working very hard to get all our work done for the end of the week (with even a few late nights!)

Today we met with our tutor, JP Walker and ran through the draft of our final presentation.  This was the first opportunity for a lot of the team to see the presentation in it’s entirety.  As a team we all really happy with it, but of course there is always room for improvement!

The document team have also been pushing very hard, with section 2 complete, and sections 1 & 3 coming along very well.  The challenge for the team is in collating all of our research and ideas into a concise and coherent format.

The video has also been progressing well, but you will have to wait a little longer before you see that!

It’s really not long now, we just want…

Today was a very busy day.  The team met together in the morning to run through everyone’s work from the weekend.  It is key over the next few days that we communicate continuously in order to keep our final work clear and consistent.

The presentation team have spent today producing the slides for our public presentation on Friday.  The video team have been working on the phasing diagrams which will be within the short film.  The document team have been integrating all of our work over the last few weeks into the final strategy report document, which we are aiming to finish within the next couple of days.  Below you can see a draft page from the final report.

Anyone is welcome to come and join us at our public presentation, to the clients as well as the Sheffield School of Architecture.

Detail of public presentation:

Friday 7th November at 14:30

Lecture Theatre 2,  Medical School,

Royal Hallamshire…

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