Masterplan options

Three options for the mini masterplan. All three have a couple of ideas in common - retaining the Royal Mail sorting office to provide a long term source of employment and economic activity, giving the site a "reason to be." There is also the creation of a small "dock" area where the canal occupies the same level as the site. In all cases the drop-in centre occupies a central position adjoining the existing Lock Keeper's cottage.

Option A "Bookends"
Here the commercial development occupies either end of the site, bookending a long ribbon residential block. The are small service pavillions next to the "dock"



Option B "Wharf"
This design drives the dock straight across the site, dividing it into an Eastern "public" zone and a Western "Private" Zone. There are links to the adjacent retail park on Kirkstall Road via a footbridge



Option C "Lakeside"
This design builds on the dock idea, turning it into a "lakeside" with accompanying commercial and services. A snakelike block of residential developments creates a spine along the rest of the site.

Project Proposal Updates

Lots of updates this week. Although I've been working on the Briggate project for the last month, the thesis has been going on in the background.

Above is the site sketchup model of the existing site, which will come in handy for massing studies and masterplanning.



And here's the strategic programme of accommodation (the bubble diagram!)