Fabrick Academy
Atelier 02: Learning Neighbourhoods
Project
The 'fabrick academy' is a higher educational facility based in the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham, adjacent to the Lace Market, once a rich industrial hub of the city.
The building design provides a platform, supporting the activity of users, ‘knitting the city’ by offering public and private spaces both internally and externally to live, work and play in. The architectural vision of this scheme allows for individual and collective journeys to reflect upon the impacts of the fashion and textile industry, in spaces which reflect and encourage change; creative and collaborative learning environments.
The key conceptual inspiration behind the project threads from ‘Urban unravelling’, ‘Fluidity of Movement’ and ‘Organic Thresholds’; all elements that link seamlessly to the fashion and textile industry and can be applied to the design.
There is an importance in ‘fabrick academy’s’ design of the buildings sense of materiality. The tactile aspect of the scheme is in reference to the fashion and textile industry, both physically in the architecture, with the use of a warm material pallet of reclaimed brick, existing concrete and new timber, and metaphorically in terms of the activity and showcasing of the programme.
