Lymm Hall is situated in the heart of the historic village of Lymm, Cheshire. Many of the local residents and
heritage organisations care deeply about preserving the hall, which has a history of more than 400 years on this
site. Beyond the residents of Lymm, this project is of interest and importance to groups invested in sustainable
building and heritage preservation, such as the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB),
Historic England, The Greater Manchester Retrofit Accelerator, and Association for Environmentally Conscious
Building (AECB), and Passivhaus Trust.

Atelier: Infrastructure Space

Undergraduate University: Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

Skills: Sketchup, Photoshop, Vray, AutoCAD, Sketching, Lumion, Enscape

Hobbies: Cooking, Painting & Binge Watching K-Drama

Project thoughts: This is a worthwhile project to explore new technology and learn about passive house design and sustainability. The Lymm Hall has an interesting history which we can indulge in and explore. The history of the building and its construction is something I'm passionate about, so I'm looking forward to this project.

DESIGN SPRINT – After meeting the team and conducting a team building exercise, we ran a design sprint, to gather initial sketch ideas for the four different mini projects. From this we were able to recognize themes and conceptual ideas for the next stage.

INITIAL IDEAS – The students chose which mini project they wanted to work on and we split into mini groups to discuss potential initial ideas and the sustainable technologies that could be implemented. Conceptual diagrams were produced for each mini project which were presented to the whole group for comment.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT; sustainable research, looking into sustainable research system and concepts for each individual Installation.
Embodied carbon material, resource form and utilise on-site. Scale sketches and concept design and surrounding context, materiality pallet strategies. Looking into building regulations for the bothy house.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT; sustainable research, looking into sustainable research system and concepts for each individual Installation.
Embodied carbon material, resource form and utilise on-site. Scale sketches and concept design and surrounding context, materiality pallet strategies. Looking into building regulations for the bothy house.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT; The group split into mini projects to develop the initial design proposed that were proposed on day 2. Some worked in section to resolve relationships between water and land, some created conceptual collages and others began creating CAD models and topography analysis.

PRESENTATION PREP; Forward to the review with the client tomorrow morning, each group collated their work so far into InDesign document for presentation. As a team we grouped together for our daily progress review at the end of the day and prepared an agenda for the meeting, ensuring that there is a cohesive design narrative across all mini projects.

Design Collage Ideas for Cockpit Fighting!

ONLINE-MEETING WITH THE COLLABORATORS, Ecospheric.

POST-CLIENT MEETING; We reflected on the comments from the clients during the design review on Friday, making any suggested adjustments and undertaking additional research.

CONSTRUCTION RESOLVE; We further developed out design by moving into 3D, exploring structural and material strategies and aesthetic finishes. This was presented to the group in an end of day review, where we also discussed suitable final outputs for each mini project and ensured everybody was on track for the submission deadline.

3D DEVELOPMENT; The day started with CAD tutorials within each mini team on any skills needed to further develop the designs in 3D. We worked collaboratively to help decide on which views and styles would work best to represent the designs in the final outputs.

Bothy House 3D Development using Rhino Software.

DESIGN REVIEW; Most of the group spent the day in the CAD lab working into their chosen final outputs on rhino, photoshop and AutoCAD. Drafts of final renders and drawings were presented in a mini design review to the whole team in the studio at the end of the day where we gave each other feedback on presentation and style.

Moat 3D Development using Rhino Software.

ALMOST THERE; Final changes were made to renders and outputs and we started laying out the publication for submission. Some members of the group moved off their mini projects and collaborated in the design of a masterplan, that incorporated each of the for mini projects into one final drawing.

3D ISOMETRIC VIEWS for 4 mini projects; Bothy House, Moat, Cockpit Fighting and Tennis Court.

MOAT ANALYSIS

FINAL DAY! The team worked together to merge the mini projects into the final submission document, ensuring that the publication followed a cohesive narrative and all questions of the brief were answered. Final finishing touches were made to the group masterplan.

ECO-EXPO signing out!