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​

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​

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​

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​

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​

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.​

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.​

Social Impacts
The new community building with classrooms, café, and kitchen can provide activities and learning opportunities, from partnering with local elementary schools to provide volunteer opportunities for adults with learning difficulties, to coffee mornings for retirees and seniors. ​
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The ambition of the trustees, friends, and volunteers is to be able to continue to provide for these groups in a sustainable way and to use the site to expand these opportunities.

Day Two - Idea Development
In the afternoon, we discussed our initial concept ideas by drawing the plans and sections to explore the spatial organizations.

Day Two - Site Visit
In the morning, we met at Piccadilly Gardens and travelled together by bus to Clayton Hall. We were met by two of the trustees who gave us a tour of the inside of the building and explained the issues they currently had. With some further questions, we clarified that they would like this building to fit in with the Tudor/Victorian Clayton Hall and to celebrate the moat, which they hope to restore by filling it with water again. The site visit not only gives us a preliminary understanding of the site, but the given information from the clients is also instructive for our design.

Day Three - Site Analysis
In the morning, students developed the site maps to create a more engaging depiction of the existing site. Clayton Hall is an exciting location, and we wanted the site maps to convey this. Students also created new maps which analysed the current use of the surrounding buildings, methods of transport and vegetation of the surrounding area of the site. Students then shared their maps with the class and what they learnt about the site and how this changed their opinion of the project.

In the afternoon, March students gave a tutorial to the class on how to use the software Rhino. In the tutorial we created a model of the existing site, this was an informal tutorial where students collectively gave input, sharing ideas and methods of how to model a landscape.

Day Four - Massing Development and Model Making
In the morning, students began sketching initial ideas for the layout, massing and exterior of the event space. Beforehand we showed the students some precedent images as well as our own initial sketches to give an idea of the direction which the design was going in. We then grouped together to share ideas, through this activity we decided on the massing and layout of the new building. We also had a number of ideas for the exterior materiality which we would develop further the following week. Simultaneously, a number of students worked on an initial model of the site.

In the afternoon, March students held another tutorial of Rhino, creating a file which was to be laser cut, creating a second site model. This one depicted a section of the moat in higher detail. Students also developed the drawings from earlier that day, to combine ideas, producing a final floorplan.

Day One - Introduction
In the morning, March students gave a quick presentation of the project and introduced themselves. Then, undergraduate students introduced themselves and explained why they chose this project. Then, we started to research precedents and brainstormed our ideas regarding all the possibilities we could do with the moats and buildings. And all students were divided into two groups for discussion. Finally, we gathered and presented our ideas. It was great to learn more about our colleagues’ ideas and thoughts. This activity was a good opportunity to welcome and create an inclusive atmosphere. It was also a great way to work in teams and have interaction with each other.

Day One - Brainstorming
In the afternoon, we brainstormed all the possibilities of what the moat and buildings could be.