Projects undertaken at the Hull School of Architecture, UK 1997/2002

2000/01: Urban Design, Business Innovation Park, Hull, England.

This project was undertaken as an advanced Specialist Diploma in Urban Design, as part of my Bachelor of Architecture Masters Degree. This postgraduate diploma in Urban Design was achieved as a separate qualification to the Masters programme.

Well over half the working population in advanced economies such as the UK now works in offices. Information technology, having already made the office grow enormously, is now offering ubiquitous and reliable electronic access in ways that are certain to transform not just the physical landscape of cities but also the entire landscape of our temporal lives.

Having looked at various examples of the evolution of the office as a building type, from the self-consciously structured and hierarchical approach of Peter Ellis and CR Cockerill, to the open-plan and anti-corporate office design of Hertzberger, and more recently to Niels Torp’s technology integrated innovations, it is clearly evident how this form of building type has closely reflected changes in attitudes and complexities within the society in which it was developed.

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developed site overview
 
linking together
 site reactions structure interaction linking activities   building expansion
linking back to the city

 

     retaining site character linear site development site entrance defining the site extents   site regeneration