Name: Jacob Nuttall
Age: 25
Atelier: SomeKindofNature (SKN)
Course: MArch 1

My strongest aspects in architecture are Adobe Creative Cloud, Revit, AutoCAD, and both digital and physical modelling. With a keen eye for detail and a strong understanding of design processes, bringing creative ideas to life through innovative tools and techniques. Since joining SKN, I have developed a strong passion for natural and sustainable materials and how they can be applied efficiently.

Outside of architecture, I enjoy socialising with friends and family, whether it's enjoying a meal or a drink together. I’m a passionate football enthusiast and support Manchester City, playing everything from 5-a-side to 11-a-side matches, always enjoying the competitive spirit. When unwinding, I also enjoys gaming on PlayStation, balancing creativity with fun and relaxation.

Garden of Tranquillity

The space is located at the heart of Sale High School, making it a central and accessible area for all students. Its location presents a unique opportunity to create a space that truly reflects the needs and desires of the students, ensuring it becomes a valued part of their daily school experience.

Garden of Tranquillity is all about listening to the students' voices and allowing them to create their environment. By engaging with pupils via scheduled workshops to gather their ideas, we aim to design a space that promotes well-being, creativity and a sense of ownership. The transformation of the space will not only provide a peaceful retreat but also demonstrate the importance of student-led initiatives in improving their school community.

As part of this project, we will be creating physical and digital models, renders, and detailed drawings to bring the students’ ideas to life. These designs will help shape the final transformation of the space, ensuring that it truly reflects the needs and desires of the students. If you are interested in physical model-making, digital modelling, and detailed drawings and want to be part of making a real change, this is a perfect opportunity to get involved. By joining this group, you will have the chance to contribute your ideas, develop new skills, and play a key role in creating a space that benefits a whole school community. If you want to help shape the future of this space, we’d love for you to be part of this project!

To better understand what the school students would like, we ran an activity workshop specifically designed to gather their ideas and suggestions. During the session, students were encouraged to share their thoughts openly, helping us gain insight into their interests and preferences. The feedback collected from this workshop will play a crucial role in the design process ensuring they are more aligned with what the students genuinely enjoy and value.

Day 1:

Garden of Tranquillity MSA Live group is a go!

After a brief introduction, getting to know all the students on board. We started the day by introducing the students to the brief and showing images of the site.

The morning tasks involved each student conducting their own site analysis, focusing on important aspects to help get a better understanding of the site.

The afternoon tasks involved creating 3 features for the students to focus on: a mood board of their ideas, a materiality study, and a precedent study. The day was finished with each student presenting their work in front of the group.

Day 2:

Site visit day!!!!

This day involved a trip to Sale High School for all students to see the site for themselves and speak to the Eco Club students.

After a quick introduction, the students were divided into groups along with the Eco Club students. after listening to their ideas, the students worked together creating models to help visualise their ideas.

Day 3:

Garden of Tranquillity continues its design process by brainstorming and sketching in the morning to visualise ideas and make strong decisions on environmental strategies, safety, human-centric design and incorporating education into the garden space.

The afternoon tasks consisted of the students collaborating and sharing their ideas with consideration of the morning activities!!!!

Day 4:

Garden of Tranquillity continues to grow!!!!

Today, the students worked together in groups, presenting their proposals. A lot of amazing ideas were thrown about, but now it’s time to finalise these ideas into a final proposal!!

Excellent work from the students taking part!!!

Day 5:

As the first week of MSA Live comes to an end. We spent this day running Rhino tutorials, helping develop the student's software skills. This interactive tutorial helped show the students how to 3D model in a complex software!!!

Day 6:

The second week of MSA Live continues!!!!

After a well-deserved weekend break! The students began this week finalising their final design. With a final design, which had been agreed on by all students, the students were divided into groups to help create final images, models, and diagrams.

The final model is in progress and is already looking great!!

In the afternoon, we ran a D5 rendering software tutorial teaching the students a new software which they can develop and expand upon throughout their studies.

Day 7:

The garden continues to grow!!

With the students separated into physical and digital groups, the students have been hard at work continuing the final design, ensuring that the outputs set will be ready to present to Sale High School this Friday!

Day 8:

With the final presentation insight, the students spent the day making final adjustments to their work. Amazing progress from the physical model team, having finished the site model, the remaining digital group have been working hard, preparing final drawings, renders, and construction diagrams for Friday!!!

The students are very excited to show their final design to Sale High School!!!!!

Day 9:

PIZZA DAY!!!!!!

After a long, hard two weeks, we decided to treat ourselves and the students to a yummy lunch!!! The students have been working extremely hard to ensure the final presentation is ready to show Sale High School the result tomorrow.

It's been an action-packed two weeks, and could not have been possible without the undivided attention from the students!!!!

Day 10:

The final day of MSA Live!!!!

Final Presentation Day!!!

Today, we spent the morning presenting to the students and teachers of Sale High School. Sale High School were thoroughly impressed with our final proposal and really enjoyed the presentation from the undergraduate students.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone involved in Garden of Tranquillity, and the final result could not have been done without you!!!!