joshua randle / scenario

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An introduction to Salisbury with site, area analysis and assessment.

The scenario, Salisbury is hit my a major fluvial flood.

Creating an urban plan that emphasises, impacts and connects the inherent qualities of Salisbury.

A proposal inspired from the interpretation of the basic elements of the site, the water, the park, the trees and from their organisation and transformation in urban strips.

DRAWINGSTechnical Drawings:Plans, sections, elevations + perspectives.

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salisburyAn introduction to Salisbury with site, area analysis and assessment.

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With a population of around 43,000 and surrounded by a number of small settlements, Salisbury is seen as a key economic hub for the South Wiltshire area.

The retention of the 13C medievil street pattern is apparent in the city and Market Place is seen as a posi-tive space where people tend to linger and socialise, it hosts weekly markets and an fair.

The Maltings site in particular re-mained very much underused at the early stages of the city’s life. the site takes it’s name from the 3 large Malt Houses which were erected in the 18C to accomodate the ever growing cotton trade. A railway connected through the site. The Malt Houdrd survived the In-

dustrial revolution but became derelict and were evenutally torn down in the 1970s, along with the railway which had become badly weathered.

Today “The Maltings” accomodates a red brick building of Sainsburys.

The site is excessivelyunderused.

The Cathedral plays an important part in shaping the city’s identity - through the policy of restricting building height. Its’ distinctive spire is visible throughout and is the tall-est in England.

As a result the city attracts an aver-age of 1.5 million visitors a year, the key tourist areas are the Cathedral, Old Sarum and the UNESCO World Heritage site of Stonehenge.

Established in the 13C formed around the new site of the Cathe-dral. The chequers pattern created a distorted grid formulation which consisted of new buildings adhering to the pattern, thus making perim-eter blocks.

The development of the city follwed this as the density increased but during the last century the pattern has been neglected to form new residential and industrial edges as part of the natural urban sprawl.

Despite this urban sprawl, the me-dievil pattern is still very muchapparent and intact today.

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The 8.3 hectare (20.5 acre) site is located approximately 0.2km west from the centre (market square) of Salisbury, which might be described as a underused city of Wilt-shire, and consists of an area of undeveloped industrial land. The site is located adja-cent to retail centre in Salsibury and falls under the jurisdiction of Salisbury City Council and South Wiltshire County Council.

The Maltings site is well located in relation to key transport corridors and has a con-centration of existing facilities and infrastructure which provide a good basis for ac-commodating expansion comprising of retail, residential and economic development.

The site can be entered from the north via Churchill Way, east via Mill Stream Approach and Avon Approach, south via Fisherton Street. The immediate neighbours of the site include the National Rail service to the west, the city centre to the east and south, joined together by the A36 and residential developments to the north boundary. The land beyond is made up of rolling farmland.

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footfallwater paths

minor water paths

line of viewgreen buffer

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Immediate photographic analysis shows that the site has slight undulations due to the existing car park drain-age system and is surrounded by ‘green’ buffers on each boundary.

The ‘green’ buffer system creates a natural break between built and natural landscape, but also creates a feeling of ‘denial and reward’, this may work from maltings to city, but not from city to the maltings site.

The maltings site has natural water paths flowing through its boundary and core, the existing developments seems to diminish the importance of the natural feature and is a poor attempt to incorporate it into its design.

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SITE ANALYSIS

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WATERPATH

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FISHERSTREET

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The topography of the site is relatively flat due to its cur-rent use as a hardsurfaced car-park with channels to di-rect the rainfall during heavy weather periods.

The site sits within a flood plain for the River Avon, this could be seen as the main constraint / advantage of the site.

There is a good green infrastructure that tapers the east boundary of the site and will be utilized as a good urban green space for the city.

Waterpaths are a dominant feature on the site and will have a greater bearing on the chosen facilities to create a sense of local distinctiveness and using the natural fea-tures as part of the main building programme within the potential planning of the site.

The Environment Agency deems the northern part of the site more skeptical to flooding.

Consideration: Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDs) will be implemented as part of the scheme.

ENVIRO ANALYSIS

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MAINROAD

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Main Roads Minor Roads

Railway

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The site has good accesibility links. A 5 minute walk to the Salisbury train station which has national links. A network of A roads connect Salisbury to the surrounding Wiltshire towns and wider south-west cities.

Pedestrian links are dominant through the southern and eastern boundaries of the site. 5 major access points on Castle Street, via the city’s library and more further along the north axis. There are no clear desire lines and north-south pedestrian access is limited.

Permeability can be enhanced by created a permeable Castle Street park entrance to the east of the site which creates a natural path for pedestrians to filter in and out of the site. Thus creating desire lines for pedestrians and cyclists.

The development will tie into the public realm proposals made elsewhere in the city and keep in context with the ‘Salisbury Public Realm Strategy’.

TRANSPORT ANALYSIS

WILDERNESS

old sarum

clarendon parkwilton park

green path

mill rd marsh

TRANSPORTaccomodationculturechurches & monuments

CASTLE STREET

MARKET SQ.

MALTINGS

RETAIL & residential

footfall

Salisbury’s uses are typical to that of any ‘minor’ city in the UK. It has a range of retail shops includ-ing Sainsburys, Tesco, Somerfields and Boots, combined with local shops promoting local prod-ucts. The footfall reinstates the main paths of retail.

Due to the typical nature of Salisbury’s planning, it also accrues typical problems; retail and residen-tial do not mix, a vast array of competing architectural styles and more seemingly the deterrance of the market square and the historic nature of the city.

A combination of retail, residential and most importantly a link between green space and footfall to improve Salisbury’s economic state is needed.

market squaremaLTINGS WALK

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castle stUSE ANALYSIS

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The past century of development in Salisbury allows us to understand that the urban grid exists but is not necessarily replicated.

The Maltings site is amongst this development, the residential development which arose between 1905 and 1930 follows a similar grid pattern to that of the city grid but between 1960 and 2011 the development has “fixed” in with the existing build to create industrial and retail extensions of Salis-bury, the most notable the 1980’s development of Sainsbury’s on the Maltings site.

Design rationale: respect the existing grid, but it does not have to be replicated.

DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Salisbury is a top example of medievil architecture in Britain, and it is also complemented by georgian and modernist styles, resulting in a mixture of materials.

A 40ft height limit to new development has been improvised in order to retain the line of sight of the Cathedral spire. All proposed buildings will sit under this restriction and the pitches of the roofs will creates a line of sight through certain points of the site.

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fenestration stylejetted construction

grid formation

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Chequers still have ‘soft inners’ as development modern development has not encroached upon them. It is important to recognize this urban form as it makes up Salisbury’s identity – respect should be paid to the cities development foundations.

To the east of the site the urban grain largely takes form as a grid pat-tern, the ‘Chequers’. Of the perimeter blocks building plots tend to be long and narrow; giving the city a fine grain.

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floodingThe scenario, Salisbury is hit my a major fluvial flood.

“Salisbury is hit by a major fluvial flood every fourty years, the last was in 1974. That is 37 years ago.”

What if Salisbury was hit by a major flood. Could we turn the inevitable disaster into a potential for the future planning of the city?

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14 june 2012The scenario, Salisbury is hit my a major fluvial flood.

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Natural reactions to flooding are that of dispair, worry and anticipation. This double exposure shows the common thinking of these feelings, it shows an imagination of the distruction and disruption a flood of Salis-bury will bring.

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masterplanCreating an urban plan that emphasises, impacts and connects the inherent qualities of Salisbury.

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How do we plan a masterplan for the flooded site? How do we create this masterplan whilst incorporating the knowledge of future floods?

site visitFrom initial site visits it was clear that the Maltings site offered a great potential for development to help sustain Salisbury’s civic pride, the built and natural elements conclude many positive aspects but it is evident that the lack of permeability is forcing Salisbury away from the grasp of having any beneficial economic difference on the city. This needs to be addressed. The scheme at the Maltings was conceived as an interesting collaborative planning + design competition for AP4 and MPlan students.

9 groups consisting of a mixture of Architect’s and Planner’s joined forces to create a masterplan which would meet 6 criteria:

- relate to salisbury’s urban grain- create a green infrastructure- extend the market square- create a pedestrian highway- relink the north - south axis- promote permeability

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analysisCreating an urban plan that emphasises, impacts and connects the inherent qualities of salisbury. this design proposal gathers the city’s development within a yarn that wraps around the site, keep-ing and creating blue and green spaces that establish a historically rich and natural connection between town and landscape.

- creating green buffers- reinstating the north south axis- industry at the core of the site- promoting flooding

The following pages describe the design development of the scheme on the site and broadly follow the format suggested by CABE for the preparation of design and access statements an by DOE planning service for the preparation of Design Concept statments.

masterplan processCreating an urban plan that emphasises, impacts and connects the inherent qualities of Salisbury.

optionsspeed planning

civic pride

Through an initial consultation stage of the 9 masterplans, key points were evaluated for the preferred strategy. The masterplan had derived through a design competition.

Criteria were decided through this com-petition:

- relate to salisbury’s urban grain- create a green infrastructure- extend the market square- create a pedestrian highway- relink the north - south axis- promote permeability

The speed planning exercise was an ef-fective object which deliberately involved people physically having ‘a voice’.

Plans were printed at 1:200 to enable the Architect and Planners to consider the wider context of Salisbury.

Buzz words were handed to 10 groups and were able to gather materials which would produce a concept model of the proposed site.

Primarily at the immediate site scale and secondarily at the wider context scale.

The exercise improved the inherent quali-ties of the initial masterplan, allowing new uses for the site to become apparent and to seek justification for each programme choice.

The enhancement of the public realm in-creases the civic pride within Salisbury. It already houses unique quality and an abundance of character but the city lacks connections throughout to enable a great public realm which has disappeared.

The masterplan treats the proposed built and natural spaces equally within the scheme so that the public realm can cre-ate connections to neighbouring streets and the historic market place. Creating a cultural hub with the natural green and blue paths along the north and south axis.

4. Built formed is allocated in the heavy red line areas. Building programmes rely on the controlled and natural waterpaths. Creating a unique masterplan and a potential for the future planning of the city.

masterplan LAYERS

3. Permeable green paths are added to create a natural link between the built and natural environment. The natural environment includes plant which help with the natural irrigation system of the wetland and contributes to the Heritage site.

2. Controlled Waterpaths are added to control and supply building programmes with a source of power. Hydro-electricity turbines are placed within each sector of the site to provide and supply adequately. Also part of a leisure activity.

1. Natural Wetlands are introduced to increase the water on site amount. Helping the natural irrigation system that will provide clean water for building programmes and storage. Over a short period of time these will become part of Heritage site.

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The proposal is inspired from the interpretation of the basic elements of the site, the water, the field, the trees and from their organization and transformation in urban strips. These unconventional strips generate a complex bundling of waterways, building, landscape and land-water management.

The growing pattern has the force of a system of variable relations, of a flexible tissue that manages and adapts itself, but also imposes and changes according to the external conditions. It allows formal coher-ence, and it is able to configure singularities, variations or declinations. The new urban configuration is structured by a flexible system of strip lagoons and canals that constitute the

principal landscape element on which all the building typologies and services depend.

phase a3-4 years

phase b2-3 years

phase c1-1.5 years

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The central theme of the proposal forms a series of waterscape systems within the site. Taking account of strategic site levels and the need for an urban ecology, water-terracing systems are used to form a sys-tematic structure for implementation.

The strategy of generating landscape starts with a unit, a strip cell, organized to channel and purify water to be used on our urban site before ending in the wet-lands toward Fisherton Street.

Underpinning the structure of the site is the development of eco-formations. These creations of land manipulation consider the requirements of industrial ecology with services, leisure and park amenities.

The eco-formations are environmentally friendly and function through water ter-racing and an informality of leisure space through a substantial wetlands network.

Phase B see’s the insertion of the retail and leisure space which follows on from the historic flow of development of Salis-bury, veering away from the city centre.

Building and the natural environment are developed equally as a design concept.

The improvement of environmental condi-tions is essential for the implementation of the project. The construction of the site and the recycling and leisure use of its waters entails the need for a compre-hensive treatment for them to improve the quality of its use.

Phase C includes the most predominant waterland of the site, and can be used as an ‘over-run’ for the excess site water, and in the summer can be used as a park for local residents and workers.

Eventually becoming protected by the WWT. (Wildflow & Wetland Trust) propel-ling it from a brownfield site to a area of natural beauty.

The improvement of environmental conditions is essential for the imple-mentation of the project. The con-struction of the site and the recycling and leisure use of its waters entails the need for a comprehensive treat-ment for them to improve the quality of its use.

Phase C includes the most predom-inant waterland of the site, and can be used as an ‘over-run’ for the ex-cess site water, and in the summer can be used as a park for local resi-dents and workers.

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The central theme of the proposal forms a series of waterscape sys-tems within the site. Taking account of strategic site levels and the need for an urban ecology, water-terracing systems are used to form a system-atic structure for implementation.

The strategy of generating land-scape starts with a unit, a strip cell, organized to channel and purify wa-ter to be used on our urban site be-fore ending in the wetlands toward Fisherton Street.

Phase A introduces the Brewery and sits within this formation. The Brew-

Underpinning the structure of the site is the development of eco-for-mations. These creations of land manipulation consider the require-ments of industrial ecology with ser-vices, leisure and park amenities.

The eco-formations are environmen-tally friendly and function through water terracing and an informality of leisure space through a substantial wetlands network.

Phase B see’s the insertion of the re-tail and leisure space which follows on from the historic flow of devel-opment of Salisbury, veering away

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PROGRAMMEA proposal inspired from the interpretation of the basic elements of the site, the water, the park, the trees and from their organisation and transformation in urban strips.

How do we plan a programme for the flooded site? Many of us are guilty on relying on alcohol when faced with hard times and problems.

information architecture

water on site 100% wetlanda: 972m lengthb: 051m widthc: 1.2m deptha x b x c

59,486.41 litre = 0.001

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m3

59,486,400L

CONVERSION1L = 1.75 PINTS

104,101,200 PINTS

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CONVERSION75L =1 ALE PINT

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ALCOHOL

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PINTS OF ALE

2l to produce one slice of bread10l to produce one a4 sheet of paper

75l to produce one pint of beer100000l to produce 1 kg of beef

a programme that utilises water

a brewery maximises usage....

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world beeringredients

barleyyeasthops+ water

133 billion worldwide per year

oldest beverage

top producers czech republic

country

top consumers

country

a brewery that upgrades the uk

a new brand, new approach....

3rdmost consumed

germany

untied kingdom

czech republic

germany

ireland

278 per person

230 per person

190 per person

174 per person

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bath alesmain ale provider

33,000 barrels per year

70 pints = 1 barrel

51miles from site

60 personnel

sharps

main ale provider

47,000 barrels per year

70 pints = 1 barrel

165miles from site

86 personnel

my brewerymain ale provider

11,300 barrels per year

70 pints = 1 barrel

0miles from site

20 personnel

butcombemain ale provider

19,000 barrels per year

70 pints = 1 barrel

64miles from site

28 personnel

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steady flow due to water supplyaccommodating for busy periodsaccommodating for busy periods accommodating for busy periods

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concept diagrams

brewery.

water path.

storage.

green buffer.connection.

controlled waterpath.fresh w

ater supply.

energy supply.

irrigation system.

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site diagram.

site concept

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concept diagrams journey concept

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concept diagrams

roller mill.

HOPPER.

MASH TUN.

BREW KETTLE.

ferm tank.

malt sacks.

HOPS ADDED.YEAST INJECTED.

grain

HEAT EXCHANGER.

SELL!scenario.

BDG diagram.

building concept

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DRAWINGSPlans, Sections, Elevations & Details

plan 1:200

malt sacks

roller mill

hopper

mash tunbrew kettle

fermentation tank

distribution access

m.wc f.wc

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floor plan 1:20050% wetland water

The form of the building follows the north-south axis of the site aswell as the linear process of ale production. Public enter from the north, greeted by a light industrial environment, a visitor path meanders through the production process and guides the visitors on an educational tour of why the brewery is here. The process depends on the landscape. The controlled waterpaths and the water that flows through them supply the electricity.

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february11,330 barrels

472 barrels in february

(11,300 / 12 ) / 50%half full

what isavg. produce

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calculating barrels produced in february.

floor plan 1:200100% wetland water

The public enter the brewery at the same point as the malt sacks and leave adjacent to the ale barrels. The public move onto the tasting bar whilst the ale barrels are distributed across the UK. The public and workers never interact, the plan showes the subtle hierarchy of this fact. The public are filtered along the path, just as the hops and barley are filtered through the copper hopper and mash tun. The wetlands have a natural irrigation system which filters rainfall to the brewery ensuring a steady supply for production

Noctober

11,330 barrels

944 barrels in february

(11,300 / 12 ) / 100% full

what isavg. produce

per annum

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calculating barrels produced in october.

plan 1:200

malt sacks

roller mill

hopper

mash tunbrew kettle

fermentation tank

distribution access

m.wc f.wc

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roller millhopper

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heat exchange

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to the boil bittering hops are

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process can last upto an hour

the brewing process

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in sacks

section & elev 1:200showing visitor path

east elevation 1:200

enter

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long cross section

DETAIL SECTION 1:20DETAIL THROUGH FLOOR, WALL & ROOF

COMPLETE DETAIL 1:50

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FLOOR DETAIL 1:20

WALL DETAIL 1:20

ROOF DETAIL 1:20

COPPER FACADE RAINSCREEN

STEEL BRACE CROSS BEAM

STEEL STRUCTURAL COLUMN

DOUBLE GLAZED PANEL

STEEL BRACE CROSS BEAM

ALUMINIUM WINDOW FRAME

CONCRETE LINTEL

ALUMINIUM SLIDING DOOR FRAME

DOUBLE GLAZED DOOR PANEL

DOUBLE GLAZED DOOR PANEL

ALUMINIUM SLIDING DOOR FRAME

FLOOR COVERING

suspended internal floor

brewery weighthow much does my building weigh?

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material quantity density

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concrete slab 01 0.4 x 1042SQM 2,400 75,024

concrete WALL 23 169.3 x 0.3 X 3M 2,400 29,255

GLAZING 03 0.4 X 10.8 X 3M 2,600 10,108

STEEL FRAME 17 0.01 X 0.2 X 29.9M 7,850 11,970

STEEL WALKWAY 01 0.01 X 2 X 104.3M 7,850 10,375

COPPER TUNS 07 0.02 X 3 X 177.5M 8,980 95,642

COPPER FACADE 01 0.01 x 1042SQM 8,980 93,576

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325.9 tonnes

perspective 001 external view toward cathedral

perspective 002internal view through brewery

final crit photosfinal pin up.

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