Group 18
IN OUR NATURE

Our project is part of the In Our Nature Programme and our goal is to green the Northern Quarter through tackling climate change. By promoting sustainable living practices and improving the public space. The space will be used by the local community to grow plants. The project will focus on growing edibles and non-edibles for use in local businesses such as restaurants, and charities such as food banks. We will also be introducing a skatepark on the car park roof alongside sheltered seating areas. Join us and lets make the Northern Quarter a greener place.

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Christopher W / Mayce A / Yicheng W / Rebecca H

Christopher W
Name: Chris Waltham

MArch Atelier: Continuity in Architecture

BArch: University of Brighton

Hometown: Brentwood, Essex

Skills: Revit, Enscape, Photoshop, Avoiding Hand Drawing, …More
Posted 14 Mar 2022 15:30
Mayce A
Name: Mayce Arebi

MArch Atelier: Continuity in Architecture

BArch: Birmingham School of Architecture

Hometown: Manchester

Skills: Rhino, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite, Vectorworks, …More
Posted 14 Mar 2022 16:06
Mayce A
Name: Yicheng Wu

MArch Atelier：&rchitecture

Hometown: Hangzhou, China

Skills: AutoCAD, Adobe ,Sketch up, Enscape, Vray, Hand drawing.

Why I chose In Our Nature: The …More
Posted 14 Mar 2022 18:13
Rebecca H
Name: Rebecca Howe

MArch Atelier: MAKING

BArch: De Montfort University, Leicester

Hometown: Sheffield

Skills: Hand drawing, Model making, Rhino, Revit, Sketch up, Adobe …More
Posted 15 Mar 2022 10:49
Christopher W
The skills that you will learn and develop within In Our Nature are centred around those gained in a real-life architecture project. To begin the first week, students will be taken …More
Posted 15 Mar 2022 11:33
Christopher W
The aims of this project are to promote awareness and tackle climate change within Manchester by creating a community garden and inner-city green space in the Northern Quarter. Through …More
Posted 15 Mar 2022 11:34
Rebecca H
The Tib Street carpark roof transformation is an exciting project with many enthusiastic collaborators involved, all sharing the same goals to ultimately make Manchester a greener and …More
Posted 15 Mar 2022 12:21
Yicheng W
DAY ONE

MSA Live is underway and today we met our design team! Unfortunately, due to typical Manchester weather we had to postpone our site visit to the Tib Street car park until …More
Posted 16 May 2022 16:33
Yicheng W
DAY ONE

MSA Live is underway and today we met our design team! Unfortunately, due to typical Manchester weather we had to postpone our site visit to the Tib Street car park until …More
Posted 16 May 2022 16:42
Yicheng W
DAY TWO (MORNING)

With the sun shining the team headed down to the Tib Street Car Park to do a site survey and meet our clients. We started off by doing a 10-minute drawing exercise …More
Posted 17 May 2022 16:09
Yicheng W
DAY TWO

We then carried on with some further site investigation, taking photos of the roof top, and doing another quick drawing exercise to get a real feel for the space that we …More
Posted 17 May 2022 16:10
Christopher W
DAY TWO (AFTERNOON)

In the afternoon we headed back to the studio to brainstorm all the different ideas we had for the project, before splitting into two teams to work on developing …More
Posted 17 May 2022 21:35
Yicheng W
DAY THREE

We started the day as a development from yesterday’s collages, creating sketch plans in groups. Working in groups to create sketch plans allows everyone to come up …More
Posted 18 May 2022 16:37
Yicheng W
DAY THREE

Here are some close ups of the designs for the roof top, looking at creating community gardens amongst other fun activities. We can’t wait to show all the great ideas …More
Posted 18 May 2022 16:38
Mayce A
DAY FOUR

On day 4 the students focused on-site mapping. Analysing the different restaurants and the ingredients needed allows them to develop the idea of a 'community garden' on the carpark roof.
Posted 19 May 2022 15:17
Mayce A
Collage by one of the students.

Credit: Keisuke Sakamoto
Posted 19 May 2022 15:41
Yicheng W
DAY FIVE

Today we met with the client to show them all the great designs we had produced for the rooftop of the car park. We really wanted some feedback from our collaborators so …More
Posted 20 May 2022 13:34
Christopher W
DAY FIVE

To round off the week, we wanted to show you some of the great sketch designs that everyone had come up with! It’s great to see all the amazing ideas for the car park …More
Posted 21 May 2022 11:33
Mayce A
DAY SIX

Planters and seating area studies.
The initial sketches show different designs that integrate both functionality and sustainability - including solar panels, water collection …More
Posted 23 May 2022 15:30
Christopher W
DAY SEVEN

Today we continued to delve deeper into our designs for the car park. Here is some amazing design work from Louis Louth, who has proposed to add some lovely signage to …More
Posted 24 May 2022 11:56
Mayce A
DAY SEVEN

Development of the events space on the Carpark rooftop. The students have chosen to place the open- air theatre towards the north of the site - allowing the Manchester …More
Posted 25 May 2022 10:52
Christopher W
DAY SEVEN

As we get to crunch time with the project, the team got together to agree on a final sketch plan which will be drawn up and submitted to the client. Everyone is really …More
Posted 25 May 2022 11:54
Christopher W
DAY EIGHT

Today we continued working in small teams to meet our deadline for Friday. Students Cameron Griffin and Keisuke Sakamoto have been working hard on different planter designs …More
Posted 25 May 2022 20:43
Christopher W
DAY EIGHT

Following on from designing the planters, our team members Cameron and Keisuke put their rendering skills into practice and created these beautiful renders. These renders …More
Posted 25 May 2022 20:49
Christopher W
DAY EIGHT

We also had a team working on the event space that we were proposing for the car park roof top. This team, made up of Alice Barnes, Arya Vahidi, Daud Ahmad, and Louis Louth, …More
Posted 25 May 2022 22:19
Christopher W
DAY EIGHT

Look at that!! An amazing model by Alice, Arya, Daud, and Louis really shows off their fantastic design work. Excited to see how people may interact with this structure… Stay tuned!
Posted 25 May 2022 22:27
Christopher W
DAY NINE

Continuing on from yesterday's amazing work, our stage design team created visuals of how this space could look when populated and in situ. Great work from Alice, Arya, …More
Posted 26 May 2022 16:48
Mayce A
DAY NINE

Development of the skateboard park. The ramps can be constructed and packed away easily.
Posted 26 May 2022 16:52
Christopher W
DAY TEN

From yesterday’s work, we wanted to showcase Louis’s beautiful drawing of the stage area for the car park roof top! An incredible use of model making, hand drawing skills …More
Posted 27 May 2022 13:13
Christopher W
DAY TEN

With greening the city at the heart of our client’s philosophy student Ankita Rani set out to come up with rain water collection technologies. Her designs for this are …More
Posted 27 May 2022 13:17
Christopher W
DAY TEN

Here is a design for a potential green wall that could be added to the front of the car park along Church Street by Ankita. We love the use of all the different plants to …More
Posted 27 May 2022 13:20
Christopher W
DAY TEN

During our review with the clients, one thing they mentioned was how much they liked the idea of having greenhouses within this space. Students Regina Jedrzejek and Cameron …More
Posted 27 May 2022 13:48
Christopher W
DAY TEN

We continued to work on different visuals for the project. Keisuke Sakamoto rendered these stunning images displaying the atmosphere of both the roof top gardens and the …More
Posted 27 May 2022 13:58
Christopher W
DAY TEN

Since we finalised our plans students Regina Jedrzejek and Rafaella Falquez have been working tirelessly to come up with this beautiful plan. It’s great to see how teamwork …More
Posted 27 May 2022 14:05
Christopher W
DAY TEN

As the week ends, we are extremely grateful for our team for all the hard work and effort they have put in to this project. It was great to see how the team bonded throughout …More
Posted 27 May 2022 14:12