Completing the Lost

Our S1 concepts apply to many places within the city here more than most, with the beck thought to be covered up along the lineal route through. Part of the old, worsted warehouses have been lost through time, with parts of the remaining being left vacant and derelict. By completing the facade of the lost warehouse and uncovering the beck a more lineal route is created framing the view to the end of the road and the landscape beyond. There is then opportunity to add more control of the horizontal axis, through openings in the facade and connections via bridges.

Riding the Beck.

The beck has such a significance within Bradford yet has been cast below the city. Our intentions with S1 to uncover the beck will be continued throughout the course of the project. Another key concept was the mass of vacant buildings, that lie redundant and derelict.

Combining these ideas of vacancy and following of the beck have brought about a vacancy study of the buildings that run along it.

Corso di Porta Ticinese - A Street of Interventions

After research into memorialising ruins through a more contemporary manner, the street of Porta Ticinese in Milan poses opportunities to house various interventions to reflect the remains of the wall's footprint over the city. The ruins of the Spanish Walls aims to be repurposed within smaller scale interventions and memorialising the wall through techniques used within the Venice Charter of 1964 are proposed in larger scale interventions.

PS2- Church Institute Site

Our first strategy section highlights the vertical moment we have designed at the centre of the building. The light well we are proposing to reinstate is currently sealed off at first floor level. It will remain an internal space but will extend down to the basement and up above the existing roof. The main route from the front to the back of the building passes through this space. From this diagram you can see the existing front facade and first floor hall we are retaining.

PS1
Oastler Way
'..it is a unit, the result of factory production process, capable of being sent anywhere.' R. Moneo (1978)
The modular grid has influenced the design of the residential home. The plan is a production of the grid restraints and the details, a collation of the modular components.

PS1
Oastler Way
"As the deliverer of the gift of daylight, we are pulled towards it. Like the door, the window is scaled to us and becomes (or can become) the connection between the individual, the building and the world outside." D. Chipperfield, 2013.
The 'Oastler Way' residential development offers the Bradford demographic a reinstated heart in the Top of Town district, providing visual and physical connections to their city, religion and community.

This Section Perspective is my favourite image in the portfolio.
Going through Bradford's history, we chose several elements and tried to sum up and present them in our project, such as continuous roofs and specific brickworks. This project gives me a massive chance to tell an impressive story, from Edward Hopper’s painting to what we can bring to the top of the town.

CiA PS2 Adaptive Reuse
Strangely Familiar : Barn Tvedestrand / Kastler Skjeseth Architects

Much of the uninsulated envelope is replaced as the barn was used to keep animals, hay and farming equipment. Most of the masonry and notched logs are preserved. Part of the stone wall is reshaped into a seating ledge, and partially demolished to connect to the new bedroom.

The fireplace+stair replaces a dilapidated stone wall. New kitchen and bathroom fittings are compact to maximize living space, but are carefully designed to appear as a modern ‘outgrowth’ of the old walls.

Daryl Law
Jin Lee

CiA PS2 Adaptive Reuse
Strangely Familiar: Barn Tvedestrand / Kastler Skjeseth Architects

Atmosphere, Tectonics and History

The main driiver of this barn conversion is to compress new domestic services into a 19th-century agricultural structure. `The compact fireplace and stair combination is a modern interpretation of the massive hearth and integrated sleeping loft typical of barns in Tvedestrand. With hidden supports, the fireplace-stair appears to perch delicately on a single natural stone whilst supporting a sleeping loft.

These drawings help us anticipate the richness of architectural detial that we can pursue in our project, which is an agglomeration of 3 buildings each similar in scale to this barn. Some potential ideas include architectural fragments that are thresholds between the gallery and the city, and intimate spaces for living (resident artists) and exhibitions. The drawings also show an opportunity to narrate the past lives of our project site.

Daryl Law
Jin Lee

DE-MONUMENTALISING THE HAUS DER KUNST
In order to begin the masterplanning process for the new Haus Der Kunst, I first needed to find the balance between remembering and forgetting which would also determine the level of intervention needed. To gain an understanding of how both ends of the spectrum, I established 9 concepts from Pierce to Ruin to Conceal. Each concept had a term, definition and precedent which then informed the subsequent masterplan. Using research through design, I concluded that the final masterplan would need to subvert the narrative of the Haus Der Kunst by removing the monumental elements. The building will then be developed as a collage of original and new material, whilst the removed fragments will be reused to create new structures across the park.

CiA PS2 Adaptive Reuse
Strangely Familiar: Barn Tvedestrand / Kastler Skjeseth Architects

Envelope
The need for more daylight necessitates new and larger openings. The architects conceived of ‘surgical cuts’ in the building envelope with glass and frame recessed behind the cladding. The bold detailing of the new openings sets up a dialogue with the existing off-the-shelf window and door fittings.
Continuity is thus expressed through the juxtaposition between the new and old.

Daryl Law
Jin Lee

CiA PS2 Adaptive Reuse
Strangely Familiar: Barn Tvedestrand / Kastler Skjeseth Architects

Atsmosphere and Tectonics
The main driiver of this barn conversion is to compress new domestic services into a 19th-century agricultural structure.

The compact fireplace and stair combination is a modern interpretation of the massive hearth and integrated sleeping loft typical of barns in Tvedestrand. With hidden supports, the fireplace-stair appears to perch delicately on a single natural stone whilst supporting a sleeping loft.

Notched logs that make up the superstructure are repurposed as the balustrade of the loft, albeit most of them are replaced by insulated stud walls.

Daryl Law
Jin Lee

CiA PS1 Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
Tectonic Strategies : Two Languages

The mixed-use building demonstrates a long-life, loose fit construction. The service core and external structural insulated components hold in place CLT structural floors, hence eliminating additional internal structural elements in a large layout. Partitions and rooms can be easily reconfigured.

On the other hand, the Cabinets of Curiosity reference the more lightweight architecture of urban back-extensions. However, operable shelf-doors also give them a high degree of affordance and configurability.

We want the exoskeleton and envelope to be more than “preventive” devices (trapping heat, blocking glare, cutting noise, repelling moisture, etc.). Window nooks inserted into the deep walls create smaller inhabitable spaces that soften the boundary between the domestic and the public. The resident is able to dwell in the city and stay connected to the urban environment whilst living indoors.

1 Structural insulated components
2 Cross-laminated timber (CLT) structural floor
3 Service / circulation core
4 Reinforced concrete base
5 Clad stone panels
6 Steel truss
7 Skylights

A Cabinets, shelf-doors & box-rooms
B Window nooks
C Timber acoustic ceiling
D Archways / thresholds
E Shelf-doors

Approach to S2 : Unifying neighbourhoods

Following on from my S1 submission the understanding of disconnected neighbourhoods (residential area of Manningham and the 'Top of Town') through the barrier of the main ring road was identified. This saw opportunities to connect the two districts using monumental buildings and the surrounding disused public spaces.

CiA PS1 - Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
Ideas for a Live-Work Home (2)

The living area occupies the lower floor. A conservatory is introduced and allocated facing south to allow for more personal forms of activity. It brings the outdoors to the living spaces that are more often used whereas the more private bedrooms are aligned on the east, facing Nutter Place.

The upper floor functions as a home office where spaces are designed for formal and informal discussions as well as for performing individual tasks.

A guest bedroom is included to provide spare bed for friends and relatives, or for future expansion of the family.

CiA PS1 - Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
Ideas for a Live-Work Home (1)

Boxes
‘Boxed’ elements contain and hold neccesary functions such as kitchenette, cabinetry, wardrobe and storage. Circulation space is thus reduced to minimal, leaving leftover space for functional use of living and working.

Flexibility and Connectivity
Configuration of boxed elements enhances the flow of spaces into each other where sequence occurs from ‘room to room’.
Elements such as pivoting panels and movable shelves provides a choice for the user to either close off the space for visual and acoustic privacy or open up to connect to others.

Zones
Living areas are allocated on the Southern Edge, in closer proximity to the Rawson Hotel and James Street. As users tend spend a significant amount of time in the liiving room at the corner, the move would instill a sense of ‘closer to the city’. Whereas working is less dependant on visual experience, therefore they are located on the more enclosed North facing side.

CiA - PS1 - Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
The Room

The large picture window of the Tamen painting is translated into the architecture of the corner block. When opened, double-layered ventilation panels on the sides let in air and sounds from the city. The window nook lends an intimate space for personalization and for the experience of dwelling ‘in’ the city.

In the spacious interior, cabinetry and furniture demarcate smaller intimate areas, like a ‘room in a room’. The spacious interior also allows for an abundance of nature (eg, indoor gardens) for a healther living environment.

CiA PS1 - Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
The Street

The interstitial space in the drawing supported by the architecture is translated into the ‘underbelly’ of the cabinets. When the movable shelves are closed, they form seating space that could activate the circulation space around When opened, , spaces of each cabinet is connected both spatially and visually.

Flooring and wall treatment of heavy stone intends to emulate the rusticity of existing Bradford. Therefore, one negotiates within the duality of being in an outdoor and indoor space, inforcing the sense of threshold space that belongs to Bradford.

CiA PS1 - Masterplan for Bradford's Top of Town
The City
Principal Section

A series of interstitially connected rooms at street level emulates the spatial experience of Oastler Market. Alleys, doorways and nooks are places for encounter and exchange. They are also thresholds for people moving between the city and the masterplan.

The Cabinets of Curiosity are rooms for a whole range of activities. They reference both the people-scale architecture of the market and the intimate pedestrian paths and back lanes of Bradford city centre. Funnel lightwells reference the Victorian roofs and annexes, whilst bringing a dramatic experience of daylight to the interiors.

Similarly, cabinets and box-rooms organize the domestic interior into a network of rooms whilst housing various functions.

PS1 House and Home
Welcome to Bradford
"It hasn't always been like this. The ghosts and echoes of Bradford's proud past - and maybe it's confident future - are everywhere. Bradford's faded grandeur reminds me of a film star fallen on hard times, down on his luck, a bit shabby around the edges and maybe even bankrupt, but still oozing class... There's potential in the old city yet"

(Ramsden, 2010)

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
A Room with a View
Principles from Office in a Small City were intended to be considered through the design process. The perspective of looking onto the historic city led to the houses with through views from both facades whilst the placement of terraces with shared views to the local monuments of Bradford causes the residents from different blocks to converse with one another.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
Construction Sequence
A sequence of frames and beams acting as an exoskeleton superstructure, sitting more pronounced and defined on the façade. An independent frame that acts as a double skin which allows the infill facades, walls and slabs to be independent of the structure and provide flexibility.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
Delight in Detail
Craft and technology should always come in hand, one cannot exist without the other. A concept evident in this facade's detail, which shows a fixed window frame recessed into an external sandstone capping and internal timber lining integrated to be a window seat, resulting into a quality of nearness, tactility and comfort.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
Tactility and Atmosphere
Creating a domestic space with a subtle and stripped back material palette. A course concrete frame juxtaposed to the smooth polished concrete casts of the walls. A herringbone floor laid in alternating directions to give a sense of spatial transition. A soft pine wood which lines the window frames to provide warmth and tactility against the coldness of the concrete.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
The Bradford Masterplan
Re-interpreting the terrace house, the masterplan provides primary and secondary streets which allows permeability. At the heart of the masterplan is the re-used car park which serves as the "heart" of the community bringing people of different background and ages together. A channel of water accentuates an axis that acts as the spine of the masterplan.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

PS1 House and Home
A collective multi-generational living for the city of Bradford.
A house and a home built with craft and contemporary interpretations of traditional Bradford typologies, with monolithic frames made out of concrete and quarried sandstone which portrays order, materiality and tradition, whilst circular openings translates into ornament. and a brick facade that reflects its context.

Danito Oledan
Jamie Reed

Views
These images show the various openings in the whole proposal. They present how people inhabit in different spaces and how people interact with each other. Someone is reading newspapers at his own flat, enjoying a beautiful city view in the meantime. Someone is wandering outside and getting a glimpse of someone else from the arch or the window...

Masterplan Proposal
The perspective view shows our whole proposal scheme, giving a clear idea about how the existed car park building would be reused and how different residential blocks would be arranged in the site.

The Arcade du Cinquantenaire Anti-Recipe: Possible interventions for the Arches that aim to decolonise its contentious heritage – in this case, the funding came from exploitation of resources and force labour in the Congo Free State.

The Arcade du Cinquantenaire Recipe: Dissection of the Arches to determine the key features that make it typical of a Leopold II project.

3D printed models representing possible interventions on Leopold II’s buildings in Belgium to decolonise their contentious heritage. The interventions (in black clay) tackle specifically Leopold’s input.

Potential interventions for some of Leopold’s buildings. They aim to reverse the key elements that make them characteristics of Leopold.

Ten of the buildings King Leopold II contributed to in Belgium. They all are contentious because of their connections to the exploitation of resources of the Congo Free State, where Leopold installed a regime of forced labour.

New Top of Town Square At Night

Final visual representation that captures the new proposed square at night, showcasing the typologies of buildings that wrap around the open space.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

The module

In the development of the triplex unit we focused on achieving a clear journey from entrance to the top floor, creating a series of “framed views”. By introducing the voids we brought the concept of verticality inside, the staircase becoming a centre part of the house.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Elevation and Structure Study

Inspired by the contextual brickwork, the proposal attempts to embrace it and present a continuity from heritage to contemporary conditions.Therefore, the verticality and certain architectural details are represented in light beige long format bricks contrasted by the red bricks that emphasise the solidity and scale of the massing.

As another principle expressed in the elevation treatment, lintels, string courses and retail facades are represented in glass reinforced concrete that maintain a similar colour tone to the light brickwork and addresses the stonework from the listed heritage buildings surrounding the site.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Study area concept

Our chosen study area encapsulates our approach to Schumacher’s theory about solid and voids, taking advantage of the opportunity to define a square protected by volumetric bodies which closely interact with the landscape. The “New Top of Town Square” creates a balance between contextualism and the idea of creating a new identity. We introduced a series of ”rules” that define the development of the study area and intend to act as a ‘toolkit’ of principles.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Collective Memory.
By exposing the culverted Bradford Beck and bringing back the notion of a mosque and a mill building into the central area of the city, we aimed to evoke a collective memory of the city which are hidden, lost and forgotten through time.

The Journey.
Sites were selected along the Market Street, where the hidden Bradford beck lies underground. The city’s distinct artefacts are inserted in a sequence of journey, where the exposed waterway connects the various artefacts as a whole.

Starting Point.
After our first site visit to Bradford, we have found powerful one-perspective scenes in the city which seemed to represent crucial characters of the city. We have used this pictorial scene as a starting point for exploring Bradford’s distinct forms and spatial compositions.

View from Rawson Road

Design elements of the outside facade, made from structural lime-stone

Cloister

The cloister is an integral aspect of our ‘modern monastery’. It provides not only circulation for the building but also a place for the community to interact and chance meetings to take place.

The filigree timber structure contrasts the buildings massive external stone structure and introduces delight through detail.

Co-living Apartment

This view from the shared living space of the co-living apartment aims to reflect back to what we drew from Jacobus Vrel’s Painting “Interior with a woman combing a little girls hair”. The space is visually connected to activity on the cloister and its function is defined by the activity within. The apartments finishes and ornamentation mirror those found in the painting and indicate the building’s structure.

Final Masterplan.

This is our final masterplan with landscaping. We have shown the pedestrian priority areas and the differences between public and private hard landscaping.

Law through the years...

Mapping out how England was governed through the years and how settlements were established and grew. It wasn't until the 'Town and Country Planning Act' of 1947 that the built environment is how we know it today. Before, you were able to built wherever and whenever, planning permission and building standards stopped unregulated and inadequate construction.

Abstract of a small settlement...

This plan of a small settlement is inspired by ‘Plan of a Mediaeval Manor’ by William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1923. It shows the various features of a small settlement that may be found in the 21st century.

A medieval beginning..

Small settlements have established during many different points within our history. Medieval settlements during their beginnings usually included a church and a manor, with a variety of small holdings and houses. The image portrays an example of what a manorial system would potentially look like. A lord would have owned the land and allow peasants to work on the fields in an 'open field' organisation.

Masterplan Proposal

This aerial drawing encapsulates the essence of the masterplan; showing the potential activities of the different 'rooms' and how they link. This drawing highlights the connection of Oastler Square to Highpoint Tower through the centre of the scheme.

Bradford Emotional Urban Fabric Analysis

This perspective of Oastler Square expresses the ornate architectural language of North Parade and highlights the importance of the elevation directly facing the square.

Exploring potential interactions that facilitate vertical neighbourhoods.

The central space has the potential to inject light to the ground floor, but also creates a void of interaction. Both the residential and market communities have the opportunity to communicate in this space. The elongated sense of verticality in the void enhances the experience at the ground. An initial architectural response to developing concepts.

The infill strategy in Bradford

The urban typologies of Bradford is used as the urban setting in the films, while the life of Bradfordians is added to the urban form of the infill strategy.

The infill strategy in Bradford

The Oastler Shopping Centre site, identified as the future Bradford void, is used to apply the proposed infill strategy. A collage showing one of the testing elements, the high density of Little Germany, is place directly onto the site.

An experiment filling in Bradford voids

The disused Spinkwell Quarry is used as an experimental site for proposing an infill strategy with urban typologies in Bradford. The result strategy combined 3 testing elements, which could also be applied to other empty sites in Bradford.

An experiment filling in Bradford voids

Stone quarrying was an extensive industry in Bradford during the late 19th to early 20th century. However the disused quarries create holes around the city as the industry declined. The sketch above shows the disused Spinkwell Quarry on Bolton Road, which forms a significant landscape in the area.

The Gateway...

The gateway and monumental features that breaks the barriers between the residential area and the city centre that aims to bring communities, people and spaces.

Monument, Place and Gateway...

The orientation and direction of the Bradford Central Mosque as key monumental building plays a significant role which forms a direct route in to the ‘top of town’ area. With current proposals of demolishing Oastler Market, this opens opportunities to connect the residential neighbourhood to the city centre via the mosque by taking into consideration the site topography and rich architectural features of the surrounding monumental buildings. Within the courtyard, the arcades house independent stalls offering diverse and cultural goods that allow the community of Bradford to come together.

The Symbolic Wall of Bradford...

The ring road as a boundary or a barrier become apparent after the analysis starting from Wardley’s city proposals with the elaborate system of the ring roads.

Although Bradford had no ancient walls in the past, the formation of the ring road begins to resemble the same wall fortifications that have been used in historical times to protect the inner city from the suburban and outer areas.

In Bradford’s case, the ring road allows vehicular movement from the outside of the city centre to the inside, which again due to its current purpose you begin to see the separation between the central area and suburban outskirts by this symbolic wall. This is not just a physical barrier but it also prevents the idea of communities neighbourhoods and people coming together in one place.

Rossi quoted, "in the process of transformation, the city walls stand as the most important artefact of the city on which to intervene; even as an element of architectural composition..."

Drewton Road, a particular junction in to the high street is taken as a key 'place' to break the restrictive barrier.

Reminiscent of the Modernist Masterplan...

Wardley’s post-war masterplan of Bradford divided the central city area into ‘functional’ zones where the city centre became the new shopping, commercial and entertainment hub and new council and industrial estates redesignated to the urban fringe. Wardley also implemented the idea of three concentric rings, the inner ring placing dual carriageways at the heart of Bradford and motor vehicles were encouraged to use in order to travel between various zones.

Although, Wardley's 20 year masterplan was never fully implemented, from the site analysis of contemporary Bradford, similar patterns of zoning and ring road systems can be identified.

The overlays highlight the barriers within the city that begin to create a division between the outskirts of Bradford and central high street area.

Design process
When we decided to select the buildings in this area for detailed design, this was our idea and concept, and we considered some surrounding factors in detail.

Construction sequence
As for the structural form, we thought a lot and we decided to use the CLT structural form, and the main structural material is wood,the structural system is constituted by the solid connection between timbers. According to my understanding, this structural form has no structural columns, and all walls can be used as load-bearing structural components.

Masterplan
This is our masterplan, which can show our design in detail. In the center of the site, we designed the tallest building and green roof. There are also commercial facilities. The residential area is located on the edge of the site.

Elevational Treatment

A study into the elevational treatment of our chosen building. A structural system of CLT with a flemish brick bond cladding has been utilised.

Masterplan

Initial masterplan concept which draws on diagonal routes across the site and creates connections with the Oastler statue adjacent. The central taller building interacts with Highpoint, which is to the right of the site (as shown).

Site Analysis

Initial site sketch of the Oastler Shopping Centre, which is currently situated on our site in the 'Top of Town' area of Bradford.

I investigated the history of the area through buildings that support the local community.

Small family houses with direct interaction with the park outside. The study is pushed out to allow people in the house to watch their children playing.

Framed views

The concept for the housing module is influenced by our chosen painting and aims to create a series of framed views of the city from within the boundaries of the house. This particular view explores the relationship between the proposed new square, the balcony and the living space.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Facade Articulation

As a result from the contextual analysis and inspired by the articulation in the adjacent buildings, the proposed elevation treatments define key movements in representation such as separating vertically the volumes in Plinths, Bodies and Crowns, therefore defining height thresholds and correlating these heights to the ones interacting directly with the site. Another principle is to define clearly the horizontal lines and vertical rhythms that visually interrupt the elongated volumes.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

A new identity

Our approach aims to celebrate the historic character of the urban fabric and simultaneously enable and define a new located identity of the Top of Town. The character of the new room is influenced by the particularity of the topography and defines key moments in the processional routes embedded within the site.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Volumetric Development

Based on the existing urban grain of the Top of Town and permeability and programmatic functions imposed on the study site, the volumetric approach focuses on a contrast of open democratic spaces complemented by built volumes that act as both definitory boundaries and thresholds from one 'room' to another. This direction is intended to unlock key viewpoints from within the site looking outside towards the city and cross-connect the site.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Atmosphere Collages

In the first weeks of the project during our contextual analysis stage, we have focused on using the technique of the collage to analyse and deconstruct contextually appropriate facades adjacent to the Top of Town site in Bradford, in order to understand their rhythms, ornamental details and their embedded materiality. This in turn informed certain key design decisions reflected in our elevation studies in the attempt to represent a contemporary interpretation of the surrounding historic character.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

A story about Bradford

Inspired by Louis Khan’s theory about the a street as a succession of rooms, we identified a series of rooms that define Bradford’s character. Each room encapsulates a certain atmosphere that is influenced by the topography, the programatic function and the rhythm of the facades. The existing urban grain of the context seamlessly divulges the next potential rooms interlocking with the existing ones.

Alexandru Munteanu
Diana Ursachianu

Our masterplan key concepts are to link the site in with the city, and maintaining the urban grain. This is done using both physical links such as a bridge to the North, and visual links, such as continuing the road lines to the East.

STRUGGLE - CONFRONT - RECONCILE
In order to reconnect the Haus Der Kunst with Munich and bring it into the future, the city must first confront it's contentious past. In response to this, the Haus Der Kunst will undergo several interventions in order to transform the building from a destination into a gateway, subverting its intended use and monumentality. In addition to these interventions, a masterplan of the surrounding site will be designed in order to further link the building back into the city. This plan is intended to be long term, as the process of reconciliation will require several stages and a gradual reintroduction of the building back into its community in order to succeed.

LOST/ FOUND - ART AND THE HAUS DER KUNST
Upon the opening of the Haus Der Kunst in 1937, a Day of German Art was held celebrating 'Great German Art'. However, simultaneously the 'Degenerative Art' exhibition was opened, condemning other art by Jewish artists and other movements such as Impressionism. Throughout the war both 'degenerate' and 'great' art was stolen from opposers of the regime, and although several hundred have been found in the Munich Art Discovery and by the Monuments Men, thousands are still missing. This map links Munich with the Degenerate, Lost and Found art and their current or last known location, creating a topography of art lines. Along these lines, interventions within the city will be created in order to begin the process of reconnecting the building with its community.

CONFRONTING THE PAST
The Haus Der Kunst in Munich is the largest surviving complete piece of Nazi Architecture in the World. Since the end of WWII, the city has struggled to confront the contentious building, choosing to conceal the facade with trees. In 2017, Chipperfield proposed taking these away in order to reconnect the building with the city. However, these plans were condemned and the building remains untouched.

Detail Sketches - After understanding the material restrictions in place for residential buildings over 18m in the UK, we began to look at and experiment with alternatives to timber cladding. The clad walls will sit recessed within the structural elements to express the structure of the architecture. Current ideas such as glazed terracotta or brick slips are being investigated.

Typology Massing - Series of diagrams showing how the re-use adaptation of the existing car park structure on the Top of Town site can be experimented with to create interesting residential typology massing study with interlinking blocks giving exciting architectural opportunity.

Combining the Artefacts.

Combining the artefacts in layers like a palimpsest, showing the journey we have uncovered through the existing spaces of the city, with glimpses of artefacts creating connections between the spaces. Artefacts create individual memories and remembered through experience.