Hi, I'm Keeleigh!

I am from London and I am currently a MArch student at MSA.

I completed my undergraduate studies at The Bartlett School of Architecture and worked as a Part 1 assistant at Medical Architecture, healthcare architecture specialists. I have always had an interest in community engagement and drawing from culture and identity in my design. During my placement, I have worked on a range of regenerative projects for the NHS trust and private healthcare specialist to improve healthcare spaces for acute and mental hospitals.

For our collaborative project, I look forward to working with Friends of Glossop Hall to revitalise the space to create a flexible creative hub for Glossop alongside the recent opening of the market hall. I hope to contribute with delivering digital models, physical models and development sketches to convey our teams ideas and designs.

Meeting the collaborators

03.02.26 - Our first encounter with the collaborators allowed us to gauge what it is that Friends of Victoria Hall would like us to explore for Victoria Hall. Clarifying the user groups, existing users and intended regeneration of the space. Glossop is in need of a creative hub for musical, art and youth groups within a flexible use space that mirrors the recently opened market hall.

Poster Development

03.02.2026 - 20.02.2026

For the first two weeks of our project, we worked on the project poster highlighting our intentions for the Victoria Hall regeneration with our collaborators. The poster is accompanied with a description that clearly addresses our overarching goal as a team following weekly discussions in person and online with the Friends of Victoria Hall team.

Meeting 2

17.02.2026

Team meeting - continuing development with the group poster and description. Discussions around risks assessment, ethical applications when working with collaborators for community engagement activities, site visits etc.

Meeting 3

03.03.2026 - Preparing for Site Visit

Developing ethical applications, consent forms, participant information sheets. Discussions around risks assessments and budgeting for the project. First draft of a timeline developed by BA1 students and reviewed by the team.

06.03.2026

Matt, Vishal, Maria and Keeleigh visited Victoria Hall and was guided on a tour of the existing building by Sonja and Mary from Friends of Victoria Hall. On the day, the head of the orchestra group was setting up their equipment for a rehearsal session later that day. Whilst being shown around, we were joined by Steven from Fold Creative and Kate who spoke about the history of the town and the significance of Victoria Hall to the residents in Glossop.

The key takeaways from the visits were that there has been a lot of complications with the council and funding for the regeneration of the first floor hall and the efficiency in use of the ground floor currently. Plans to have additional WCs and a separate entrance to the side to improve circulations have been underway. However, there has been some delays that has left our collaborators FOVH frustrated. It seems to be down to a funding issue as in our conversations that were a lot of ideas for the potential of the ground and lower ground floors of Victoria Hall. The current use of the back rooms are a bar/tea refreshment room for events and storage.

It is essential for us, moving forward, to address not only the flexibility of the large space but also find a solution to the lack of storage space that is accessible yet discreet. During our visit, we also went to the newly opened market hall to see the success in footfall and impact on the community. This is a potential space to hold our engagement activity as its location will allow us to reach members of the public and the specific user groups who Sonja agreed to arrange a meeting with during the engagement day.

Updated group timeline/programme

As a team, we grouped the task we need to upkeep as the weeks pass. Each task is to be completed by a certain point to ensure we get the needed feedback to inform the next stage of development. This activity was carried out by the First Year students, working collaboratively to set out a clear, concise and realistic timeline for us all to follow till the end.

Meeting 4

20.03.2026

During this meeting, the team discussed the framework for the engagement activity. All the brainstormed ideas from each member will be brought up in a meeting with Sonja and Mary who has agreed to help us with arranging a stall at the Market hall. We have set out three activities that will be arranged for the groups Sonja has contacted to attend on the day. We are hoping to book the 3rd April as it is a bank holiday and increased footfall could help with collecting information and data that could inform our proposal. The three activities loosely discussed are:

- Question Boards with sticky note ideas/participant contributions
- Paper folding combined with large scale printed floor plan and photography
- Floor plan annotations and illustrations, pin up massing activity

These ideas will be more detailed and tightened up with timing, equipment and members tasks on the day clearly defined following a meeting with the collaborators.