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

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