Life Project

Live projects are a leading educational initiative at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. Architecture students work in groups on a 6 week Live Project with a range of clients including local community groups, charities, health organisations and regional authorities. In some cases the projects involve actual building, in others design of urban master plans, in others consultation exercises. In every case, the project is real, happening in real time with real people.

Project Brief

A project for Ecclesall Woods from locally sourced/recycled timber

Ecclesall Woods is ancient woodland within the city boundary. It has an old Sawmill site in the middle of it and there are exciting plans for developing a centre for the innovative use of timber in Sheffield.

The Sawmill site already has a number of small businesses and enterprises on the site. Over the past few years we have been building structures there that explore the use of both new local timber and recycled timber.

Last year the Forest School invited students to develop a classroom and the composting toilet and canopy from before that are still going strong. The project is about consultation with the communities that will use the new facility and designing and building an appropriate response to the need on the site.

This year the client Ted Talbot is very keen to encourage cyclists to the site and look at what facilities are needed for this. Students will chop down the trees they may use and there is skilled help on hand with working the timber.

Thursday 29 October 2009

After an intense week of design development we refined both designs to a point where we felt happy with them. Rather than decide to choose one design over the other we have decided to build both designs. The 'sticks' design will act as a more permanent and sculptural intervention in ecclesall woods, acting as a orientation point as well as a piece of art. The modular scheme will be much more transportable and will be able to be used in a variety of locations in and around sheffield. Both showcase different, yet equally valid, ways of working with timber, advertising the qualities of the material. The drawings below showcase the design development.



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