Our final Presentation sheet

Diagram showing the change we made externally to unify points on the site

Piazza in plan

Piazza Design

Sketches of surrounding pubs that are also under threat due to Network Rails Expansion.

Day Six:

Own Infographic showing brewing process

Day Six:

Potential Packaging for each Pubs's unique ales.

Day Six:

Own map of Transpennine Real Ale Trail- showing proximity to manchester, very feasible to include Manchester O Rd in the trail.

Day Five:

Decanting and Packaging Process

Day five: Afternoon

The Real Ale Trail-

"The Transpennine Real Ale Trail is a unique voyage to a selection of Yorkshire and Lancashires best real ale pubs - on a train! All the pubs are within a stones throw of their respective Railway Stations, so finding your way there (and back) couldn't be easier."

The addition of Oxford road station would increase people coming through Manchester, which is one of the main reasons for the closure of the corner house and redevelopment of the area

Day Five (15th): Morning

Presented proposal to Polly Bentham- a key figure in the 'save oxford road campaign'. She reacted really positively to the scheme. Prior to presenting she talked about how it was unlikely that any proposal that acted as a threat to home(the new corner house) would not be considered by the developers, however, if it somehow complimented the new venue it was likely to succeed. To progress the brewery design I came up with the idea of a special corner house beer- which would be solely distributed to home, and similarly each of the surrounding pubs could have their own too. Visitors to the brewery would be directed to home, and understand the relationship between the brewery and the new cinema- which would increase popularity for both.

Day Four: Morning

Presentation poster by myself and Florence. Used the Guinness factory/ storehouse as a precedent- similar scheme of re-approprating space, both informative and industry focused.

Day Three:

Programme Development:

Because of the scale of our proposal, we decided to narrow down the focus to the main corner house building, which will become the decanting// packaging// storage building- and the face of the new real ale company.
we separated the building into 2 main functions- the factory floor, and the visitation/ observation axis, which are separated by a void. This void allows the visitors and workers to see into different areas of the building, and witness the methodology behind the buildings programme, which works from the basement as the copper storage of the ale, up through the floors for decanting, then branding and packaging, and finally storage. This simplified the logic behind the buildings layout and gave different spatial qualities and hierarchy, making the programme readable and valid.

Day Two: Afternoon

Programme development

The Pubs the thirsty scholar, the salisbury and the grand central are all under threat of closing due to the proposed expansion of network rail. As well as this, other surrounding bars would be affected, and this is the primary function of the surrounding area. From this we derived a programme to design a real ale brewery that could then distribute the beer the the local pubs and bars. Not only would this unify the area it would create a hive of activity and encourage local networks and interaction. The diagram above shows how the buildings would be divided up into production, storage and distribution.

Day Two: Morning

Site Visit and New visit:

Spent the morning analysing the corner house site and surrounding area, to see if a programme could be developed. Then went onto the corner houses new location, now aptly names "home". The building it is now housed in is fairly generic, going for the industrial, unfinished look with exposed services and raw concrete. The problem is, that all the corner houses character has now been lost. The one redeeming character, however, was the staircase as its design had actually been considered. The change in ceiling heights from landing to stair well opened up, creating a transitional space.

Day One:

In a group of four we had to research precedents that somehow repurposed architecture. Within our group we looked at the New York Highline, because it synthesised the three categories defined by the events leaders:
Insertion
Instillation
Intervention - terms categorised in Re-readings by Sally stone and Graeme Brooker. In the Corner House re-appropration scheme I will look to also include elements of all three repurposing tools.