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TRANSFORMING SPACE TRANSFORMING LIVES
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Words of Transformation
Alex CoppockDirector - BSc Dip Arch GradDipCons (AA)RIBA
Words or Works ?
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What is Architecture?
Words only exist as part
of a language
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word |wərd|
noun
a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and
typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.
• a single distinct conceptual unit of language, comprising inflected and variant forms.
• (usu. words) something that someone says or writes; a remark or piece of information: his grandfather's words had been
meant kindly | a word of warning.
• speech as distinct from action: he conforms in word and deed to the values of a society that he rejects.
• [ with negative ] (a word) even the smallest amount of something spoken or written: don't believe a word of it.
• (one's word) a person's account of the truth, especially when it differs from that of another person: in court it would have
been his word against mine.
• (one's word) a promise or assurance: everything will be taken care of—you have my word.
• (words) the text or spoken part of a play, opera, or other performed piece; a script: he had to learn his words.
• (words) angry talk: her father would have had words with her about that.
• a message; news: I was afraid to leave Washington in case there was word from the office.
• a command, password, or motto: someone gave me the word to start playing.
• a basic unit of data in a computer, typically 16 or 32 bits long.
Architecture exists as part of a landscape
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but there is a relationship
between them
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Words not only help us understand buildings they also help us design them
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14th Century Farmhouse, Careful conservation, with a twist.
17th Century barn Repair and Transformation
11th Century St Peters Peterchurch, Re - imagining
5 boxes and and floor
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14th Century Farmhouse,
Careful Conservation, with a
twist.
Conservation is defined as:
“ The process of managing change to a significant place
in it’s setting, in ways that would best sustain it’s heritage
values, or recognising opportunities to reveal or re-
enforce those values for present and future generations’.
P.7 Conservation Principles, Policies and guidance for the Sustainable Management of the Historic
Environment. English Heritage.
What is valuable?
to correct what is disturbing
What is valuable?
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17th Century barn Repair and Transformation
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3.
St Peters Peterchurch,
Re - imagining
5 boxes and and floor
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There are 425 churches within the Diocese of Hereford. Over 90% of them are
listed Grade 1, 2* or 2. The total population of the Diocese is 285,000. National
figures suggest that only 5% of people will regularly attend church. The sad truth is
that the average weekly congregation for the vast majority of rural churches in
Hereford Diocese is in single figures.
Context
‘...we have this difficulty of vast spaces with really small numbers of people in.’
(CHALLENGER 12.02.11)
Impact
‘I think that what is sad, is that 2 or 3 churches over the last few years have
become redundant because the cost of repairing them has just become
astronomical and not achievable by those communities.’
(CHALLENGER 12.02.11)
‘Once you get to a stage where a PCC reaches that desperation with lots to do and
walks away from it, it is actually too late then to do anything about it.’
(CHALLENGER 12.02.11)
Impact
‘The greatest problems arise when large buildings, built for needs which cease to
exist, become vacant’.
(DoE CIRCULAR 8/87 PARAS 20-21)
Re-imagining
The PCC of St Peter’s Church were approached by the local authority with the
possibility of re-ordering the church and using the nave as a community centre,
primarily to work with young parents and children under the Sure Start
programme.
After much negotiation and community consultation the PCC agreed that St
Peter’s church should be re-ordered to create a sustainable, multi-use
community building, designed to function as:
• Service delivery centre for children’s services
• Worship space for Anglican services
• Community event space
• Public lending library
A place of worship
The Idea - 5 Boxes - 1 Surface
1 Box of Energy
2 Boxes of Delight
2 Boxes of Stuff
Provide a new ‘Space Plan’
Contain the ‘Services’
Manage the ‘Stuff’
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3
Box 4
Floor
Golden Girls
Childrens Services
Acts of Worship
Friendship
Birthday Parties
Meetings
Music
Enterprise
Library
Credit Union
Health Clinics
ORLANDO JOPLING PLAYS BACH CELLO SUITES
Concerts
SISTER MOON, MOTHER EARTH
GRAHAM JONES
Exhibitions
Silence
Remembrance
‘This is a very good example of a church expanding its role in village life through
the provision of new services - to the young and to the old. As well as transforming
a gloomy, damp space, the work has redefined the churches’ role in its village. The
interventions work with the grain of the building and have a simplicity, austerity and
clarity which works extremely well.
The architects and client have created a series of spaces in which a huge variety of
activities can take place and this inventive programming will hopefully help
encourage the kind of chance encounters which help make up a community. If this
kind of partnership between churches and villages are reproduced throughout the
country, both will thrive.’
(ACE/RIBA AWARDS 2011 Jury’s citation)
‘Peterchurch you know is a great example of what can happen...Peterchurch is
wonderful because it is relational.’
(LOCKETT 16.02.12)
Result
Result
Transformation of a Community
Viability
From 30 people / week to 300 people / week
Used everyday for everything by everyone
Gives the Parish back its church
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14th Century Farmhouse, Careful conservation, with a twist.
17th Century barn Repair and Transformation
11th Century St Peters Peterchurch, Re - imagining
5 boxes and and floor
14th Century Farmhouse, Careful conservation, with a twist.
17th Century barn Repair and Transformation
11th Century St Peters Peterchurch, Re - imagined
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