The scheme exists as a means to both realise plans to repair the existing roof of Spike Island and to provide dynamic roof-top environment for use as studio space and an ‘arts trail’ that is open to the public.
The proposals revolve around the creation of a self build ‘live/ work’ community that will occupy the roof. Individual plots will be sold to small creative businesses with the aim to raise capital towards the cost of creating a green roof and to also maximise the possibilities of such a project by making the space (and views) accessible to public usage.
The design of the project has arisen from the historic context of the site. Prior to the Tea Factory the site was occupied by a number of Georgian cottages and terraces, which were subsequently extended and modified before being destroyed during WW2. The self build process will reflect the historic development of the site, with the individual ‘live/ work’ units moving from a predetermined form to one that reflects the studios occupants, before being extended and altered.
Spike Island - Green Roof Application
James Eyres
Green Island aims to provide a public green space that will act as a gallery for art, nature and play. This will be achieved through the use of a lightweight floating timber boardwalk that leads you through the scheme and encourages you to take a moment and enjoy the views overlooking the city, or interact with the green undulating roof form.
This proposal would be set not only to benefit Spike island, solving issues of a leaking roof, and reducing energy bills, the local community would gain a real asset of a diverse green space that is in a central location, something that is in high demand in the 2015 European Green Capital, Bristol.
Spike Island - Tea Chest Pavilion
Kam Singh The Spike Island building was used for storage and distribution of tea. The proposal is to use the concept of a traditional Tea Chest form into a simple building and to house different experiences of tea cultures that have symbolic ceremony traditions linked to tea for example Japanese, Chinese, Moroccan, Indian and British.