MakerHUB aims to provide a critique of the way that we live, work and educate as a society today and calls for a more open and collaborative approach which preferences experiential and creative learning. Situated in Knowle West, one of Bristols most deprived wards, the scheme has aimed to provide a community resource that will improve the skills of the area as well as offering innovative ways of producing affordable and diverse housing solutions through custom and self build methods, leading to the growth and evolution of a proposes a new kind of prototypical neighbourhood that expresses a more resonant connection with all aspects of the human condition and suggests a genuinely enriching approach to indivual and communal life.
This aims to be achieved by fostering: - A stronger connection with those around us. - A stronger connection to nature. - A stronger connection with one’s self through creativity. The MakerHUB has developed the following beliefs on the way that we should Live.Work.Make. Further to this, due to the existing education facilities on site and high percentage of people in Knowle with little or no education and struggling to find work, education has been integrated the program. - LIVE - neighbourhood as an extension of the home. - WORK- making a living doing what you love. -MAKE- embracing digital technology whilst not forgetting traditional analogue techniques. - LEARN- Not all people learn effectively through academic measures - MakerHUB gives preference to experiential learning. |
Rose Moreton
The overriding ethos of the project is that by weaving people together it is possible to promote and develop mutually beneficial symbiotic relationships to actively and organically improve the lives of people in Knowle West. By engaging with the primary stakeholders and local community, the proposal seeks to find a solution to the issues of unemployment, social isolation and economic deprivation in the area in order to create a more resilient and inclusive community. The proposal promotes social integration, inclusive public space and a sense of site ownership through the addition of more civic amenities designed to encourage collaboration, skill sharing and continuous learning. The proposal includes extensions to the Children’s Centre, KnowleDGE School and Knowle West Media Centre to allow them to further extend their positive impact on the local community, along with the relocation of the facilities currently provided by the Novers Park Community Centre. Other additional civic amenities include a library, a community kitchen and brewery, public bathrooms, community allotments and an outdoor cinema. The scheme also includes a variety of integrated housing, including custom build family homes with maker units at ground level, assisted living units for the elderly, halfway houses and social housing units. |
The Maker MarketNicholas Shaw
Live - Work - Make - Trade... This is the name of the game for this proposal for a Maker Market in Knowle West, Bristol Skilled crafts people from diverse backgrounds would be given a space to live and a stage to promote and trade there work. The proposal develops existing notions of the live work ethic that exist on the site and looks to encourage the sharing of knowledge to develop making skills into viable business incentives. Watch this space for more content as the proposal develops. |
Knowle CycletopiaSam Clough
This three part proposal provides a cycling centre, co-housing and a park within the underlying theme of promoting a sustainable community; socially, economically and environmentally. The main centre provides spaces for training, creation and maintaining components and accessories for bicycles through both hand-crafted and innovative techniques. The centre will provide skills and employment for the local community whilst providing for the booming bicycle movement within Bristol. Housing typologies will be explored which promote bicycle and pedestrian movements into and around the community, where public transport routes are limited. The housing and the cycling centre will be tied together through a central park. A cafe/ canteen located at the gateway (pictured below) of the site provides an entry-point to the site which includes a maker-space and library. The building to the left of the gateway provides traning space for the creative industries including computer suites and maker-labs. Further information can be found within Sam Cloughs' individual website |
Bristol Maker Re-LABreCONNECT.reDEFINE.reGENERATEBristol Maker RE-LAB is a start-up workshop maker lab operates by Knowle West Media Centre, adjecent to the site of which is in the Lower Knowle, South Bristol. The building is designed to be occupied by traditional and contemporary craftmanship. The concept of spacial arranagement is to RECONNECT the segregation of craftmanship between hand, machine and computers, REDEFINE and encourage the collaboration between customers and makers, aims to REGENERATE new models of design-making-consuming. It provides not only possible service reformation, but also a sustainable value and approach within manufacture and design industries. The success of project will relies on the overall development of masterplan of which individuals becomes the key elements of whole diagram.
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People from different generations and backgrounds will come together to explore, to discuss and to collborate with various technologies, skills and education resource, strenghen as individual and evolves as one. Such process will actively promote sustainability in terms of social, environmental, tehnological and economic lifecyle within the community.
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HEARTE OF KNOWLE WEST COMMUNITY PAVILIONS
Kam Singh
The Pavilion buildings (community) will be formed from Shipping Containers. This will allow flexibility to move the containers to suit the clients requirements relocate, remove, or to add to the site. With our theme LiveWorkMake, skills learnt by the schools pupils and the local community can develop the Shipping Containers to suit the event that may be required at that time. Using workshops as an example, these people can learn the skills of metalwork and with the help of skilled person they can modify the Shipping Containers and learn other skills such as (woodwork, painting, plumbing, electrics etc) which will make these Pavilions functional buildings for the local community and others. I am planning to have a crane that will be site base and the young/old can trainee to drive and service. This will be a key landmark to the site so people near/far can visit and explore different events. Below is a small video mapping the crane onto the landscape of the site |
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