14TH OCTOBER 2019
14TH OCTOBER 2019
HYBRIDITY
HYBRIDITY
PROJECT TITLE
GREYFRIAR'S GREEN HYBRID CIVIC SPACE
PROJECT TITLE
CLIENT
COVENTRY COUNCIL
GREYFRIAR'S GREEN HYBRID CIVIC SPACE
CLIENT
LOCATION
COVENTRY- United Kingdom
COVENTRY COUNCIL
LOCATION
COVENTRY- United Kingdom
The client for this project clearly instructed our design team that they required a social eating space that also allowed for a residential space. Our design team however wanted to take this further and allow for an integrated social space that would in turn improve the flow and traffic of the public through the city centre of Coventry.
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The project involved creating a housing establishment on a site established close to the motorway in Coventry. After primary and secondary research of the diverse population within Coventry and the food interest, it has. A focus on cultural eating was established and was used as a tool to bring people together in the atrium space where stalls are positioned, they can cook for each other and be involved within the process.
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Creating a permeable open inviting social space was crucial to the success of the project which transferred in to the use of curved glass panels and a tensile fabric roof to promote fluidity that helped create bright and airy conditions for such social interactions to take place.
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The rigid sections of the project such as the housing units required more privacy and subtle measures have been taken to ensure this such as the use of frosted glass, change of levels. These units involved the use of 3D printing as a structural tool which was a lot more efficient, reliable and a cheaper alternative than regular building procedure which ensured the project to be handed on time and lower than the anticipated budget.
The client for this project clearly instructed our design team that they required a social eating space that also allowed for a residential space. Our design team however wanted to take this further and allow for an integrated social space that would in turn improve the flow and traffic of the public through the city centre of Coventry.
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The project involved creating a housing establishment on a site established close to the motorway in Coventry. After primary and secondary research of the diverse population within Coventry and the food interest, it has. A focus on cultural eating was established and was used as a tool to bring people together in the atrium space where stalls are positioned, they can cook for each other and be involved within the process.
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Creating a permeable open inviting social space was crucial to the success of the project which transferred in to the use of curved glass panels and a tensile fabric roof to promote fluidity that helped create bright and airy conditions for such social interactions to take place.
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The rigid sections of the project such as the housing units required more privacy and subtle measures have been taken to ensure this such as the use of frosted glass, change of levels. These units involved the use of 3D printing as a structural tool which was a lot more efficient, reliable and a cheaper alternative than regular building procedure which ensured the project to be handed on time and lower than the anticipated budget.
OUR CONCEPT
OUR 3 MAIN VALUES:
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ENVIRONMENT
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CULTURE
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TECHNOLOGY
One of our primary goals is to improve the built environment and its surroundings through eco considerate design that initially minimalizes carbon impact and in the long term has a carbon neutral response. We do this by using our advanced 3D printing machinery and the rubble from our pre-existing sites to 3D print a bespoke design from existing materials. Hence not creating new unnecessary carbon materials and wasting old ones. It’s as simple as recycling materials.
Our practice not only offers the design & manufacturing service, but also solely the use of our technological sector. Our cutting edge and affordable technology allow for an incredibly detailed model and site analysis which can not only be used by us for our clientele projects, but also can be bought at a service cost as part of partnership projects. Our Metal Jet and composite 3D printers are what enable us to 3D print our bespoke designs integrated with pre-existing structures from materials found on site.
This very much also links into our core value of cultural relevance and maintaining a site’s history and ‘culture’. Through the use of recycling materials from the pre-existing structures, we are maintaining the existing meaning and materiality to the site. As well as this, cultural relevance to us means understanding the site and its context and working with this internally and its importance to its inhabitants, as opposed to working alongside and/or parallel to it. Cultural relevance is also important to us first-hand in our collective too. Being a multi-ethnic collective, we are more than proud to have this culture driven mindset, as after all, culture gives character.
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