Group 19
REDISCOVERING CHADWICK DAM

In close collaboration with Tameside Council, we aim to deliver an accessible and sensitive project to the site of Chadwick Dam, evoking natural and community led qualities that are absent from the site currently. As an effort to further enrich the lives of residents and visitors to the area, this transformative project represents a close synergetic endeavour to create a lively, accessible and attainable public space. Through careful planning, community feedback and designed interventions we aim to redefine the value of Chadwick Dam as an asset of high community value. We will make Chadwick Dam an area the community can be proud of. In teams, we will work in unison to develop, design guides, masterplans and creative nodes, of which we will take to site together and engage with users of the park to not only inform our current work, but what can be possible from it.

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James L / Shuyan Z / Fangge F / Jack P / Mikolaj Z

Hi everyone, I'm James!
Atelier: Infrastructure Space

I studied my Undergraduate at Sheffield Hallam University before working as a Part 1 in Manchester for JH.A, of which I worked …More
Posted 5 Mar 2024 14:17
Hello everyone, I am Shuyan Zhang. My course is MA Architecture and Adaptive Reuse.

I studied civil engineering in China during my undergraduate studies. I have practiced at an architectural …More
Posted 5 Mar 2024 20:55
Hello, I’m Jack
Atelier: &rchitecture

I completed my undergraduate at Sheffield Hallam University focusing on sustainability within the built environment. I did 2yrs in industry …More
Posted 5 Mar 2024 21:29
Hello, I’m Fangge Fan
Atelier: Flux

I completed my undergraduate studies in China, and my major is architectural design. After graduating from university, I worked as an intern …More
Posted 5 Mar 2024 22:51
Mikolaj Zielinski, MArch 1
Part I: Foster + Partners

Interested in gothic architecture and the natural world. Happy to share useful rhino commands and harsh truths about life in …More
Posted 7 Mar 2024 20:59
Hi everyone!

I’m Hayley McCaffer and I am the Population Health Programme Officer for Physical Activity and Ageing Well at Tameside Council. My role focuses on working with organisations …More
Posted 8 Mar 2024 14:34
Our first site visit to Chadwick Dam!

13/12/23 – Our team collectively attended the site for a full walk around with representatives of the council, talking us through the history …More
Posted 13 Mar 2024 13:36
Day 01: A Great Day To Visit Chadwick Dam!

Starting the day we were welcomed by our MLA1, BA1 and BA2, students to group 19. After a quick group briefing, we began to get our boots …More
Posted 7 May 2024 20:10
Making some new friends along the way.
Posted 7 May 2024 20:28
Day 02: Sketching, Concept & Research

Rolling into day 2 of MSA Live 24 we began the day having a collective exercise to apply our learnings from yesterday's site visit, allowing …More
Posted 8 May 2024 15:40
Day 03: Proposal Development

Today, the team continued to advance their initial proposals after a round-up discussion of yesterday’s initial design thoughts. Proposals are now …More
Posted 9 May 2024 17:12
Day 04: Banding Together

Today, students from both teams began to comprise their designs together to formalise conclusions as we move into next week where the teams will aim to realise …More
Posted 10 May 2024 19:33
Week 01: Time for a Review!

So, the first week of MSA Live has been and gone, with a swell of great design ideas, smiles and sunny days! Over the last week the students have combined …More
Posted 13 May 2024 12:03
Day 05: Back At It!

Rolling into Week 02 and the students began to set off with their application of the design guide, combining all efforts to ensure the pamphlet for onsite use …More
Posted 13 May 2024 18:49
Day 06: Finalising Designs

Today, the teams, once again, banded together to drive home the desire visual output for the key node within our masterplan overview. Masterplan ideals …More
Posted 14 May 2024 21:42
Day 07: Closing in

Today the students continued to hone in on the final outputs for this MSA Live week, through digital models, visuals, diagrams and sketches - the document is being …More
Posted 15 May 2024 19:33
Day 08: Close to Publishing...

With it being the penultimate day before the conclusion of MSA Live 24, our students were hard at work finishing off any diagrams, drawings & visuals, …More
Posted 16 May 2024 22:00
Design Guide Highlight!

Checkout the design guide with a quick rolling view to wet your appetite! Set to published alongside the main document, this cute little guide will be able …More
Posted 16 May 2024 22:19
Day 09: That's All She Wrote!

And so the final day of MSA live has come and as such comes our last post. Before talking about the project I just want to issue a massive thankyou …More
Posted 17 May 2024 18:09