MSA Live 23

Xiny L

Name: Xinyi Li

Programme: Architecture & Adaptive Reuse

Undergraduate: Manchester School of Architecture

Work Experience: Design Assistant at Shenzhen Architects Engineers Consulting International Limited

Skills: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite

Interested in: Adaptive reuse architecture, drawing, dancing...

Posted 13 Mar 2023 00:46

The Skills
The project provides opportunities to express ideas through physical model making and develop visual communication skills through hand drawings and digital software such as Photoshop, and Illustrator. We will also introduce the principles of adaptive reuse and sustainable development to help respond to heritage.

We will be producing a series of illustrative visuals, sketches, and physical models to help communicate design concepts to our collaborators and to help engage other communities not currently involved with the site.

Posted 13 Mar 2023 00:45

The Collaborator
Bernadette Bone works as a conservation architect and heritage consultant and is the Director at BB Heritage Studio which was founded with the key aim of supporting these projects, ensuring that historic places can continue to tell the stories of their communities. Early in her career she worked for practices that combined contemporary architecture with a careful and considered approach to the historic environment. She is now on the Blackburn Diocese list of ‘Quinquennial Inspection’ architects who inspect church buildings every five years, and she sits on Manchester’s Historic Buildings and Conservation Areas Panel.

Posted 13 Mar 2023 00:25

Name: Ruochen Lu

Hometown/Country: Guangzhou / China

Atelier: Infrastructure Space

Undergrad: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; University of Liverpool

Working Experience: Guangdong Architectural Design Institute, China

Skills: Rhino modeling, Photoshop, Illustrator

Interest: Interior, Landscape, Housing, Collage

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:59

Name: Nur Zarifah Zainal

Hometown/Country: Malaysia

Atelier: Some Kind of Nature (SKN)

Undergrad: University of Technology MARA (UiTM)

Working Experience: JKR; Roos Design Build Sdn Bhd; TR Hamzah& Yeang Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Skills: Hand Sketching, Photography

Interest: Photography, Cinematography

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:58

Name: Aiman Shabbir Karachiwala

Hometown/Country: Bangalore / India

Atelier: Adaptive Reuse

Undergrad: Visvesvaraya Technological University

Working Experience: RSP, India

Skills: Photoshop, 3-d modelling (Sketchup, Revit), Digital drawing

Interest: Conservation, Urban Design, Transportation architecture

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:58

Name: Finnley Morris

Hometown/Country: Wigan / United Kingdom

Atelier: Architecture and Adaptive Reuse

Undergrad: University of Central Lancashire

Working Experience: Visual Merchandise

Skills: 3D modelling, Digital/hand drawing, Photoshop

Interest: Heritage architecture, Interior design, Adaptive reuse

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:58

Name: Jonathan McVinnie

Hometown/Country: Edinburgh / Scotland

Atelier: Continuity in Architecture

Undergrad: The University of Edinburgh

Working Experience: Oberlanders Architects

Skills: 3D modeling, Hand drawing, Graphic design, Technical drawing

Interest: Conservation, Architectural theory, Heritage, Hand drawing

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:57

3rd Collaborative Meeting (06/03/2023)

With our rough timelines and output ideas on the table, we had an online meeting with Claire to refresh our agendas and mark our calendars.

The meeting was very productive and, like all our meets so far, ended up with exchanges of creativity – this time with Claire showing us about 5 canvases of artwork from the studio on video call while we were discussing further artistic connections and local ideas.

We absolutely can't wait to show you what we have in store for you!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:56

2nd Collaborative Meeting – Plans, Strategies, Structure (15/02/2023)

Prior to contacting the artists for the next meeting, we came together as a group in MTC to merge ideas and establish a timeline and potential outputs for the project.

Armed with the bounty of past MSA Live project booklets and tokens from our site visit, we collectively brainstormed our next steps with special consideration for the BA students who will be joining us in a few months. Using the given deadlines as anchor points, we had to consider the timings and schedules of the busy local and full-time artists in St Helens as well as our university hand-in dates before proposing our plan and workload.

At the end of the day, we decided that – in the spirit of artists and the joy in finding creativity in all things, we will keep our Action Week outputs simple and open to adaptation and changes following the collaboration between students and artists; but with the end goal of pushing the project beyond just consultations and towards making it real (ie to gear up for future planning proposals).

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:49

Group 26 / THE WELLNESS GARDEN

1st Site Visit to St Helens (04/02/2023)

We took the morning train to St Helens – a first time there for the most of us. The train ride there with Grace was enjoyable as we reminisced about going on field trips in back in school, and were given a road-crossing tour of sunny Wigan en route to our destination.

Arriving in St Helens, we were greeted by St Helens’ pride for glassblowing along the walls of the train station in beautiful graffiti. Claire brought us to through the town centre and into St Mary's Market, through the maze of stalls and up some spiral stairs into Platform Studios overlooking the glass façade of the building enveloping the maker's market.

Gathering thoughts and first impressions, we spent some time talking to Claire and Grace in and about their studios, admiring the sprawled artworks of different artists who occupied the studios at different times. Everything was as they'd described: their admin/office, work studio, pantry, and exhibition space all contained in one transient floorspace in a shopping mall no longer valued. Creativity overspilling onto the floors, the walls, through the windows, the ceilings. So much potential!

We were then invited to St Helens World of Glass which also housed the library and community event space, where we were given the opportunity to speak to the local artists in conjunction with one of their residency events organised by Claire. Moving from the almost-abandoned shopping mall to the contemporary landmark of the town was truly eye-opening, as we were shown the irony of the situation everyone was in – the needs and wants for comfortable spaces but the unattainability of gentrified regeneration.

The key takeaway from the visit was an observation made by Claire, that it was great to have fresh new takes on a place they were all too familiar with, and it relit a fire of hope that their studios could potentially be saved.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:27

Surya Prakash S

In this live project we will partner up with Chris Bailkoski and Chi Emecheta from PROFORMA ,LongSight Art Space

The project entails mapping the Crowcroft Park, working with the local community to revitalise the green space, and proposing ideas to improve the region's fragile environment by introducing orchards. Activities for the initiative will involve modelling the chosen portion of the park as well as community organisation meetings and workshops. The project would conclude with an interactive session and an exhibition at the Longsight Art Space. In addition to providing an opportunity to develop mapping and surveying abilities, the project would be a great way to engage with the neighbourhood.
For More Information Vist : https://www.proforma.org.uk/
https://www.theorchardproject.org.uk/

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:21

Jasmine C

Name: Jasmine Cornish

Atelier: Continuity in Architecture

Undergraduate: University for the Creative Arts

Work Experience: Architectural Assistant at Felix Lewis Architects

Skills: AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Adobe Suite

Interested in: Community architecture, sketching/painting & guitar

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:18

Xiaoming D

Name: Xiaoming Dai

Atelier: Architecture & Adaptive Reuse

Undergraduate: Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA)

Work Experience: Assistant Architect at Architectural Design & Research Institute of BUCEA
Intern Architect at Beijing Institute of Residential Building Design & Research
Intern Architect at Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute (THUPDI)

Skills: Rhino, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite, Lumion

Interested in: Model making, Photography & Traveling

Posted 12 Mar 2023 23:00

1st Collaborative Meeting (07/12/2022)

Our first time meeting the collaborators Claire and Grace.

Not knowing anything about each other at all, us students and the collaborators had many interesting conversations to get to know each other and already found relatable quirks/patterns between art and architecture: ideas galore, mixed media madness, the struggles of subjectivity and the like!

While we forgot to get a group photo of the session, the illustrations made and gifted by Grace in themselves depict the entire ethos of their drive for this project – hand-made pieces of art showing the raw emotions and helplessness of artists having their studios and (only) everyday spaces potentially taken away in the blindsided push for regeneration.

Contrary to the heavy issues mentioned, all of us left with light hearts and cannot wait to see where this real world project takes us.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:38

Name: Nazifah Binti Muhammad Abdullah
March atelier: PRAXXIS
Hometown: Kuching, Malaysia
Skills:Photoshop, Indesign, Sketchup
Hobbies: I collect and customize keyboards

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:29

Name: Muhammad Hazazi Bin Mohd Hanafi
March atelier: MAKINGAtelier
Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Skills: I love doing digital arts using Photoshop
Hobbies: I love Photography. Capturing beautiful images can be a fun and rewarding hobby for me

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:28

Name: Ellie Watson
March atelier: PRAXXIS
Hometown: Rochdale
Skills: AutoCad, Photoshop, Collage, Revit
Hobbies: Swimming

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:27

Name: Beatrice Tartaglini
March atelier: Some Kind of Nature
Hometown: Rome, Italy
Skills: autocad, sketchup, photoshop, photography
Hobbies: like to play tennis and swimming

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:26

Name: Ardavan Shirzadi
March atelier: Making
Hometown: Shiraz, Iran
Skills: Revit,Rhino,Grasshopper,Lumion
Hobbies: Tea addicted

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:25

Name: Jayakody Arachchige Anjani Pasanka Perera
March atelier: Infrastructure
Hometown: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Skills: Crafting, Model making
Hobbies: Sketching, Painting

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:24

Who is our project's community?

Burnside Centre is based in Langley, Middleton (M24). It has served its community for over 53 years, and they work with a range of people to provide crisis support, preventative support, progressive support, and early years child-care.

Their mission is to alleviate poverty and increase the quality of life for the local community. This means they work with people from all backgrounds such as young parents, those long term unemployed, facing mental and physical health barriers and a range of vulnerabilities. They are a team of caring and supportive staff who will work alongside our community to make meaningful change.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:21

Meet our collaborators! Artists Rebecca Ainsworth, Claire Weetman and Grace Collins are Platform Arts, based in Platform Studios – the space above St Mary's Market in St Helens. Platform Arts is exploring the idea of a live/work space for the local artists as the town centre undergoes redevelopment.

The artists have seen demand for space in Platform Studios and have recently worked with over 50 local artists for the Art in Empty Shops project. This lived experience has shown Platform Arts the real need for workspaces for artists in the local area.

They reckon there's not a lot of suitable living spaces in St Helens for single professionals either, with most dwellings being family homes. So, Platform Arts is looking into how it can tackle both of these issues with a live/work space for artists. Plus, it's exploring the potential of a community land trust model which could counteract the power that landlords have over the sustainability of art spaces.

Check them + their ongoing projects out on Instagram @artistledsthelens!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:17

Name: Evelyna Hadass

Atelier: SKN

Undergraduate: University of Nottingham

Arch Skills: Revit, Sketchup, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

MSA Live Role: Providing an InDesign skills workshop

Hobbies: Reading, Photography, Cycling

Fun Fact: I am fluent in Russian!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:15

Name: Shanice Langford

Atelier: PRAXXIS

Undergraduate: Birmingham School of Architecture

Arch Skills: Rhino, Sketchup, Vectorworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

MSA Live Role: Providing a illustrator and collage workshop

Hobbies: Film Photography, Horse Riding, Drawing

Fun Fact: I have a pet cat:)

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:15

Hi, I’m Lauren!

I graduated from the University of Toronto in 2021 and worked at Perkins & Will for one year. Currently, I am in the Some Kind of Nature Atelier. I am interested in creating comfortable designs through sustainable methods.

Outside of Architecture I am interested in food, travel, medical dramas and true crime.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:08

Hi, I'm Holly!

I am from Leeds, UK, and previously studied at the University of Nottingham. During my year out I worked at the Associated Architects. Currently, I am in the atelier: Continuity in Architecture.

I am interested in art, travel, music and illustration. I am looking forward to meeting all of our new team members and getting started with the project!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:08

Hi, I’m Mary!

I graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2021 and spent a year out working in a primary school with children who were behind due to Covid.

I’m currently in the Some Kind of Nature Atelier, and love considering how designs can bring people closer to nature, be that mediated through the use of natural and renewable materials or employing design strategies that either frame or support the growth of nature.

I’m looking forward to meeting the new members of our team and getting started!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:05

Hi, I’m Ugne!

I graduated from the University of Westminster in 2021.
I’m currently in Continuity in Architecture Atelier. I love old and unique buildings, and adaptive reuse projects as older buildings often have historical significance and architectural details that cannot be replicated in new construction.

I'm excited to have a chance to work with the new members of our team!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:04

Hi, I'm Binyang

I am from Beijing, China and did my undergrad at the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

I am in the studio: Infrastructure Space. I have previously worked at Architectural design and Research Institute of BUCEA Co.,LTD. Over the years I have developed skills in physical model making, Rhino, AutoCAD, Sketchup, and the Adobe Suite. And beyond architecture I am interested in travel, painting, sports.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 22:01

THE PROJECT OUTPUT

In short, the project is to utilize the workshops that the boiler house offer to design and build a physical pod for people to sit and work in. This pod will provide an opportunity to engage with the public as a way of showcasing the workshops used to build it.

Additionally, the pod will display how mushrooms can be used as insulation. The research collected during the two weeks of the project will help provide the boiler house with future funding to insulate their building with the same material used in the pod.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:56

GROW YOUR SKILLS

The skills you will develop through our project are research about sustainable products, construction of wood and insulation through a design build, and graphic design.

Though you may not have some of these listed skills, you will develop them through engagement and passion put into this project.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:55

WHAT IS THE BOILER HOUSE

The boiler house is a former power station located in Moss Side, Manchester. In the 1990s it functioned as a power station for thousands of homes, and since has been repurposed for a social enterprise, Sow the City. It provides free and low-cost workshop spaces, tools, and equipment. They have hosted a number of workshops that promote the development of skills for employment, health and well-being, circular economy, and promoting gender and race equality. In the past their workshops have ranged from wood ring making, to fabricating new products, to growing new products . The boiler house provides a space for everyone of all ages, backgrounds, and gender to participate in hands-on ways to shape their lives and communities.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:53

Radu N

Name: Radu Neagoe

Atelier: CPU [Ai]

Undergraduate: Manchester School of Architecture

Work Experience: Therme Group
Skills: Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Archicad, Adobe Suite, Lumion, Twinmotion,

Interested in: Parametric Architecture & Computational Design

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:46

Name: Tong Dai
Hometown/Country: Beijing/China
Atelier: Infra Space
Undergrad: University of Liverpool
Working Experience: No working experience
Why I chose this group: The Moston Brook project emphasized the impact of parks as the infrastructure on people, which provided me with a new perspective. This project is in a unique position, it is at the balance point of the interface between nature and people - Moston Brook as a green corridor with a nature reserve provides people with the opportunity to contact with nature, while Lower Memorial Park as a park allows people to explore Pure leisure and socializing. How to deal with the border section between humans and nature is a broad question in contemporary times. By participating in this project, I believe I can rethink the role of green spaces in cities and the connection between humans and nature.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:25

Name: Rita
Hometown/Country: Sichuan/ China
Atelier: &rchitecture
Undergrad: Wenzhou-Kean University
Working Experience: No working experience
Why I chose this group: The Moston Brook project is a great opportunity to get in touch with nature. It is worth thinking about how to promote the connection between animals and children and guide people back to nature.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:24

Name: Ulrica
Hometown/Country: Hong Kong
Atelier: Flux
Undergrad: South China University of Technology
Working Experience: Aedas (Hong Kong)
Why I chose this group: Engaging with nature is an important part of building a sustainable environment. Living with an element of the outdoors is physically and mentally beneficial to human health. This project has the potential to help people of all ages explore nature more seamlessly. It also provides an opportunity for us to collaborate with the community, in order to stimulate the reimagining of the relationship between humans and nature.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:23

Name: Christian
Hometown/Country: Cambridge, UK
Atelier: Some Kind of Nature
Undergrad: Manchester School of Architecture
Working Experience: Moses Cameron Williams, Sheppard Robson
Why I chose this group: I believe having the chance to explore and engage with nature as a child is of huge importance. This project aims to encourage kids to get out in nature, something which is becoming increasingly rare in urban areas. Getting the chance to gain hands-on practical experience, while also bringing about positive change and increasing children’s appreciation of nature is an exciting prospect.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:23

Hometown/Country: Coimbatore, India
Atelier: Some Kind of Nature
Undergrad: BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
Working Experience: Khosla Associates, Bangalore / Studio Taan, Bangalore
Why I chose this group: Having always had an affinity towards Nature and Wildlife, I found that this project was an ideal place for me to take part in due to my interests. From experiencing the British wildlife and natural environments, to being able to create an outlet for the local community to experience being in the great outdoors, I believe we play a great role in creating this connection.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:22

Group 27 / WOODLAND THEATRE PRESENTS

Name: Guy
Hometown/Country: High Wycombe, UK
Atelier: Flux
Undergrad: Oxford Brookes
Working Experience: BPTW (London)
Why I chose this group: I find the hands-on nature of the project exciting and am inspired by the potential for public engagement. Having grown up in the countryside, I am a great believer in the physical and mental health benefits of the natural environment, and therefore think this site has the potential to provide substantial value to the local community.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 21:22

Dominic S

Community Interest Company 2014 - Works and acts like a company but is a charity. Gill Taylor is a Farmer and Youth Worker using her farm for activities such as night-walks through the woodland, camping, pop up cinema, allotment space and Forest School. With a concept built around everyone’s well-being and confidence, Gill aims to connect people back to nature across her 57 acres, 36 of which are woodland. She is missing an outdoor theatre space for performances overlooking the scenery.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 20:50

OUR COLLABORATOR: URBAN IMAGINARIUM

Simeon Shtebunaev is representing Urban Imaginarium, our main collaborator for this live project. He is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at Birmingham City University and was one of the principal investigators on the Climania board game project. Last year, Urban Imaginarium developed a board game called Climania, created by thirteen teenagers from Balsall Health, Birmingham working with two BCU staff and other external collaborators in a co-design process. The main purpose for making the game was to inform people of the role of the built environment in the climate emergency.

More information:
https://climaniathegame.com

OUR AIM:

For this MSA Live project we aim to develop an educational tool in game format, which can be any type of physical or digital tool in the form of a game. The goal is to create a short, snappy and fun game/tool which can be used by a wide variety of people to create conversations and inform communities about the importance of urban planning, retrofitting and climate change.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 20:44

Group 35 / WHAT IS CASTLEFIELD?

Tianjun T

Name: Tianjun Tan

Atelier: &rchitecture

Undergraduate: University of Liverpool

Work Experience: Architectural Assistant Designer at Guangdong Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd

Skills: Rhino, AutoCAD, Adobe Suite, Enscape

Interested in: Adaptive reuse architecture, fashion & interior design

Posted 12 Mar 2023 20:09

Dylon K

We hope to enhance and refine our creative visual skills using the software stated above

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:48

Group 35 / WHAT IS CASTLEFIELD?

Dylon K

Our collaborator is Castlefield forum. Together with them we hope to create a successful, visual branding catalogue to enhance the identity of Castlefield

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:47

Group 35 / WHAT IS CASTLEFIELD?

Dylon K

Meet the team

We are all UOM masters students from 5 different ateliers CPU, CIA, Making, SKN & Flux.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:46

OUR COLLABORATOR : FLORENCE MINE & ARTS CENTRE

Historic England: Grade II Listed

‘Florence Mine in West Cumbria is one of the best-surviving mining sites of any type nationally and is the best-surviving example of an iron mining pit head in England: it retains a full suite of buildings complete with nearly all of its machinery and equipment.’ The mine is linked to the local area's economic and industrial history; its closure followed trends in the decline of mining and steel production in England. The arts centre sits adjacent to the historic mine and is home to a gallery, performance space and artist studios. Their ethos centres around the environment, using sustainable means to practice creativity and to support local artists within their community. The arts centre runs workshops for the local community. They also have two full time paint markers on site – who produce paints, pastels and inks from the iron ore which was historically mined on site.

Our aim: we would like to continue the centre's ethos by creating an exhibition to showcase work from Infrastructure Space from MSA. In the first semester of this academic year, MArch1 students from the atelier proposed reuse projects for the existing Florence Mine. Where better to exhibit the work than on site itself. Our collaborators are keen for us to design and curate the exhibition, a great opportunity for anyone interested in gallery/exhibition design.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:21

The process and environment of working with our team will be fun and productive. Our team of MArch1 will work and study with BA students, and we believe we can learn a lot from each other's way of working. The two-week project is divided into two main phases, each lasting about one week, the first phase is the exhibition design phase and the second is the implementation phase. During this time, you will learn the ability to express your own design ideas, the ability to work as a team, the ability to redraw the history of the site and the composition of design ideas, and the ability to redraw and analyse the city.

As we work with each other, students from the MArch1 team can also mentor you on the software. You can learn a range of software that aim to digital models such as rhino, Sketchup and Revit. Other software skills such as AutoCAD, Photoshop, illustrator as well as InDesign will be learned and used by BA students during the design process.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:19

Town generation: Florence Art Centre is in a small town called Egremont in Cumbria. This exhibition may help to strengthen the interaction not only between town centre and FAC, but also between Egremont and neighbour city in Cumbria.

Community: The exhibition will encourage people to build a community surrounded by FAC by supporting local businesses and communication. This will increase diversity, and provide a stronger sense of community.

Art: This exhibition may arise residents' and visitors' attention of art education, and provide more opportunities for children and artists.

Environmentally friendly: During this exhibition, we won't leave any trash onto the site, and we will use environmentally friendly material.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:18

Name: Leila Hooshmand
Atelier: &rchitecture
Undergraduate: University of Shiraz
Skills: Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Lumion
Hobbies: Gym, Running
Fun fact: Always want to be social and then decide to go home and be alone.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:16

Name: Lauritz Kobor
Atelier: Infrastructure Space
Undergraduate: Uni of Innsbruck, Austria
Skills: Rhino, Model making, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD
Hobbies: Any mountaineering sport
Fun fact: I don’t know

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:15

Name: James Farrimond
Atelier: Infrastructure Space
Undergraduate: Sheffield Hallam
Skills: model making, photoshop, indesign, AutoCAD
Hobbies: Live music gigs, visiting art galleries
Fun Fact: I met Raheem Sterling in the pub once!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:14

Name: Anjali Biju
Atelier: &rchitecture
Undergraduate: Manchester School of Architecture (MSA)
Skills: Photoshop, Indesign, Model making, Sketching
Hobbies: Nature Photography, Dance, Flower Arranging
Fun Fact: I like listening to podcasts when I’m stressed.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:13

Group 39 / [ESC]APISM

Magdeline DW

Magdeline De Witt
Atelier // MAKING
Qualification // BDes from The University of Melbourne
Skills // Adobe Suite, Rhino, Grasshopper, Lumion, Enscape, Bluebeam, Autodesk (Revit, Navisworks)
Hobbies // Eating, really.
Fun Fact // I can order food in Korean :D

Posted 12 Mar 2023 19:08

Group 39 / [ESC]APISM

Tak L

Tak Yung Jacqueline Lau
Atelier // Infrastructure Space
Qualification // BA in Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture
Skills // Sketch up, AutoCAD, Adobes
Hobbies // Dance, Photography
Fun Fact // I'm fluent in three languages (kind of)

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:52

Mengxuan L

Hey! I am Sophia. I’m a Master of Architecture Student based in Atelier Flux. I just moved to the UK and really enjoy it so far.

I love photography, which I use to record my feelings and the beauty I see. From my point of view, architecture and photography are both approaches that allow me to discover things and express myself.

Working with artists provides me with another perspective on things and I really enjoy this project. I hope that by working with the local community, our efforts can make a difference in artists' studio spaces.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:48

Francis R

Hello, I'm Harry and in the atelier flux. I was enticed by the interplay between atmosphere and regeneration in the first place. I'm motivated by the kind of architecture that keeps the end-users and the neighbourhood it's being constructed at the heart of the project. My ambition is to be an architect that could make a difference, creating projects that not only take into account the environment but also live up to people's and communities expectations. Throughout my time in Manchester, I have become interested in filmmaking and interpretive dance. I have an unwavering commitment to boules, I spend plenty of time practising and competing in tournaments. My zest and enthusiasm for my sport, I also carry to my profession. I also like pancakes.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:42

Xze Shean Andrea G

Hi all! I’m Andrea, a Master of Architecture student currently studying at the Manchester School of Architecture in the Atelier Continuity in Architecture.

By day, I am an architecture student and by night I take on small illustration projects for an independent architecture magazine based in Malaysia. Art has always played a significant role in my life, and working on small illustration projects on the side keeps me sane after a full day of staring at architectural drawings.

I’m always down to explore new and weird ideas and I hope collaborating with my teammates and the artists, we are able to come out with unique takes on adapting St Mary’s Market into an artist studio.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:40

Hi everyone! I'm Kirstin, a Master of Architecture Student currently based in Atelier Making at Manchester School of Architecture. As an international student abroad, I always find myself finding pieces of “home” in unfamiliar places and strive to do the same in the shoes of the artists in this project.

I am currently writing a dissertation on (un)hidden art scenes in the city, as many of my interests revolve around the mixing of cultures, social contradictions and ground-up approaches to art, architecture...and everything in between! Having been part of SSOA Live Projects and worked in Progress in Practice, I hope to be able to bring the same collaborative and sustainable ethos to the table.

Looking ahead, I am incredibly excited to be engaging with all the artists and our MSA Live dream team to make real changes in St Helens, and cannot wait to collaborate with everyone who will be involved!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:39

Sanjidah C

Hey everyone! I’m Sanji, a Master of Architecture student at the MSA, in the flux atelier. Just moved to Manchester quite recently, so still getting to know the ins and outs of the place, as well as finding the best café spots around town.

Always leaving little pieces of myself wherever I go around the globe; travelling most definitely has my soul. I cherish cosy, autumn nights and spend nearly all of my time in fictional worlds, when I’m not admiring art. Even though my days and nights are consumed by architecture, I find little gaps in time where I run my small artistic business!

I’m super stoked to be working on this project with St Helens as it encompasses all I believe in and look forward to making a difference, with a brilliant squad.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:37

Violet S

Hi! I’m Violet, I am a Master of Architecture Student in the SKN Atelier, whilst also working in practice one day a week. I am new to Manchester and am loving living in a city.

I am an artist at heart, who uses painting to relax. I see architecture as another form of artwork, with people at the centre. I am passionate about sustainability and making a change on the world. I love finding unique bargains, vintage shopping in my spare time.

I’ve been lucky to have had experience working on a Social Value project, mapping the social value of a town in Reading to make a change for the community based on their needs and wants. The artists of St. Helens are so interesting and diverse in their skills and interests, that they truly deserve a space where their creativity can prosper. I am excited to help them create the studio space that they truly need.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:34

Poster Navigation and Thought Processes

“BARE CREATIVES!”

Toying between the title options of Bare Creatives and Naked Studios, we decided to go with a project name that sounds local, is eye-catching and on the lines of being provocative, as it is in a way a call to expose the situations artists are in - a kind of initiative protest? Exposing to the public (and planners) everything happening ground-up: unaffordability, the loss of work and living space due to large scale regeneration, and the lack of care. The bareness or nakedness uncovers this vulnerability, making connections to diversity, inclusive creativity, and “the warmth of home, bodies”.

We have colour-coded our blog posts to hopefully ease navigation through them as we continue to update you on our progress. The blog sections are divided according to the colour scheme from the Reside* (IG: @artistledsthelens) exhibition in conjunction with the St Helens Borough of Culture Launch, mapping the creativity in St Helens. These sections include:
•Team Introductions
•Meetings/Visits
•Collaborators
•Thoughts/Process
•Outputs/Action Week

The poster combines the Artists’ Mapping and an illustration pack made by Grace (IG: @onethousandprinces) from a previous consultation with local artists about the same raw above-mentioned issues of artists without studios.

Posted 12 Mar 2023 18:21

Name: Qing

Atelier: MAKING

Undergraduate: Queen's University Belfast

Arch Skills: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator

MSA Live Role: Providing a Sketchup & 3D modelling workshop

Hobbies: Travelling

Fun Fact: I was in 5 different schools throughout my primary education!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 15:44

Name: Phoebe Tang

Atelier: FLUX

Undergraduate: The University of Hong Kong

Arch Skills: Rhino, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

MSA Live Role: Presentation of benefits of nature to wellbeing & community

Hobbies: Cooking, Drawing, Singing

Fun Fact: I used to be an athlete!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 15:38

Name: Frederick Ng

Atelier: SKN

Undergraduate: Taylor's University Malaysia

Arch Skills: Sketchup, Lumion, Photoshop, Revit, AutoCAD

MSA Live Role: Guiding and teaching of 3D visualisation in Lumion

Hobbies: Badminton, Playing Piano & Saxophone

Fun Fact: I struggle reading musical notes even though I play music!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 15:31

Group 27 / WOODLAND THEATRE PRESENTS

Name: Rowdah Charbak

Atelier: &architecture

Undergraduate: Manchester School of Architecture

Arch Skills: AutoCAD, Sketchup, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

MSA Live Role: Guiding SWOT analysis, Urban acupuncture & Diagramming workshop

Hobbies: Theatre, Set design, Baking, Painting, Ice skating

Fun Fact: I've never tried coffee but I'm a green tea addict!

Posted 12 Mar 2023 15:17

Yu X

Name: Yu Xiao
March Atelier: Praxxis
Undergrad: China, Wuhan University of Technology
Skills: AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Indesign, Lumion
Favourite animal: Cat
Hobbies: Painting, Swimming, Freediving

Posted 12 Mar 2023 13:34

Group 27 / WOODLAND THEATRE PRESENTS

Dominic S

Name: Alkım Uzunonat
March atelier: Some Kind Of Nature
Undergrad: Yeditepe University, Turkey
Skills: autocad, sketchup, revit, photoshop, lumion
Hobbies: Cycling, playing chess, playing tennis, swimming, sightseeing,
Favourite animal: Dolphins

Posted 12 Mar 2023 13:31

Name: Cosmin George Dobrea

BA: Oxford Brookes University

Atelier: CIA

Skills: Rhino, Adobe Suite, Sketchup, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Oil Painting, Sculpture

About: After graduating in 2020 I spent a year in practice working on various projects ranging from individual dwellings to the refurbishment of multiple buildings within a school campus. I am interested in architecture that has a strong narrative and is rooted in its physical and historical context. I seek to use my creative mindset to create spaces that are not only visually beautiful, but also functional and able to facilitate meaningful everyday living and improve wellbeing.

Interests: Passionate about digital and hand drawing, painting, sports, history and learning about international cultures.

Posted 11 Mar 2023 21:58

Name: Chenkai Shao

BA: Tongji Zhejiang College

Atelier: CPU

Skills: Vray/ Grasshopper/ Rhino/ Sketchup/ Photoshop/ Illustrator/ Auto CAD/ Procreate

About: I like to explore the narrative nature of architecture, like to explore the perfect combination of aesthetics and space. For each project, we will understand the project requirements, analyze the design ideas and put them into practice. I like to express my design ideas by means of drawing, model making and digital modeling.

Interest: I enjoy watching movies, traveling, photography and painting, which are all my inspiration sources.

Posted 11 Mar 2023 21:28

Name: Vidal Jackson

BA: Liverpool John Moores

Atelier: CIA

Skills: Sketching, Models, Auto-cad, Sketchup, Lumion and Photoshop

About Me: I am currently studying part time masters due to having a full time job. I work 4 days a week and attend university 1 day a week. This allows me to develop real life skills which I can use within my studies which is an important part of my development. I graduated from my undergraduate in 2018 and have been out in practice ever since in which I have completed a great range of projects from house extensions, student schemes, feasibility studies, competitions and community engagement works.

Interests: Podcasts, drawing, football and reading

Posted 11 Mar 2023 21:26