So, at the last minute, here's the basis of the new scheme:
4) Related to 3 above, make more of the University campus element. Include a building with at least one lecture theatre and classrooms, as well a cafes and reception. Think Newton (main building here at NTU by Hopkins, google it) but smaller. Orientate 3 and 4 around a second public space to south-west of site.
The weekend is for model making.
By the way, the stats thing google gives me with this blog lets me see where people have been reading from. With that in mind, I'd like to say hello to the (alleged) readers in: the USA, Italy, Russia, Vietnam, Ireland, China, France and Germany. You're all welcome, and I hope the last post wasn't too depressing.
Don't study architecture.
After assessing the interim from yesterday, I've stripped a lot back and essentially done away with the masterplan. New scheme will be far simpler and will focus on the following (see image):
1) New pedestrian/cycle route over the rails and river Leen, connecting the site to New Basford and the house along the ring road on an east-west axis.
2) Where the new route meets the Radford Rd to west of site, a multi-function public building and associated public space. Small-scale, flexible. Been reading: http://www.pps.org/projects/appleseed-mixed-use-in-mckinney/
I can use the pavilion models (the balsa and lead maquettes) as starting points for this. The purpose is to start to give New Basford a 'centre', and this would only be the first step. The idea would be that subsequent interventions and projects can happen off the back of this (back to Collage City, and being a fox. Not a hedgehog.)
3) Keep the production edge, reassess the scale and work those buildings up.
3) Keep the production edge, reassess the scale and work those buildings up.
4) Related to 3 above, make more of the University campus element. Include a building with at least one lecture theatre and classrooms, as well a cafes and reception. Think Newton (main building here at NTU by Hopkins, google it) but smaller. Orientate 3 and 4 around a second public space to south-west of site.
The weekend is for model making.
By the way, the stats thing google gives me with this blog lets me see where people have been reading from. With that in mind, I'd like to say hello to the (alleged) readers in: the USA, Italy, Russia, Vietnam, Ireland, China, France and Germany. You're all welcome, and I hope the last post wasn't too depressing.
Don't study architecture.
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