this proposal for a new community centre used limited site area to provide a functioning community garden to the Warehouse Hill area of Leeds. A two storey basement with a highly intensive green roof utilised limited site area to create a city park on the south bank of the river Aire, encouraging ownership through design to residents struggling with loneliness.
Recognising an increased benefit claimant count in the immediate locality, I aimed to provide opportunities of ownership and involvement for unemployed day-to-day users. Field research informed a design that addressed the (highly contingent) realities of community centre operation, resulting in spaces that were highly functional in their range of uses.
Weakening the edges of what is built, I proposed a transient, ground level entrance space that slowly introduced users to the regulated indoors.
The construction above ground comprised a simple softwood timber frame set back from full height glazing along the length of the building.
62363_site photograph_Frampton Park Estate, Hackney, UK
9255_byggnation av Kungsträd. Fredriksson, Göran H. 1977.
73_site photograph, farmhouse restoration_Thénac, Fr.
1572_construction photograph, roundwood cabin_Bristol, UK.
478308_internal elevation set_private
916_bathroom detail, plan
5601_bathroom detail, section
49_digital illustration, essay: 'Building and Permanence'
17439_proposed entry to A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander