ATIQAH NABILAH 13158903 | Year 5 | MArch

Urban Spatial & ExperimentationU.S.E

Manchester School of Architecture

USE

Vacancy Studies Albert Warehouse, Manchester

Beauty & The Abandoned The Vanity Warehouse

Understanding a new per-spective on temporary re-use of vacant buildings, optimistically. Defining va-cant space brings up a new approach towards design-ing and highlighting rele-vant issues. Thus resulting to ‘strategic interventions’

The warehouse is located along the River Irwell at the corner of Water Street and Quay Street. The typology of this building has been a recurring theme along the river an`d contains a huge potential in regards to fu-

ture development.

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Wigan

Bolton

Salford

Trafford

Bury

Rochdale

Stockport

Oldham

Ardwick

ManchesterFOCUS AREA

GREATER MANCHESTER

CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

COMMERCIAL DISTRICTThe business hub surround-ing the site zones a contrast between the areas. Spinning-fields consists retail & residen-tial development

HARDMAN SQUAREStill within the heart of Spin-ningfields, it is the financial and professional services business district.

SALFORD VIADUCTConnects the terminus of Manchester and Bolton Railway

RIVER IRWELLForms the boundary between Manchester and Salford and empties into the River Mersey near Irlam. A 63km long river which flows through the Irwell Valley in North West England.

SALFORDA regeneration plan in 1988 for the brownfield site highlighting the leisure, cultural and tour-ism potential of the area, and included a flagship develop-ment that would involve the creation of a performing arts centre.

GRANADALANDA compound for a facility to broadcast film programmes and were the hub of Granada Studios since 1953. It became the oldest operating studio in the UK

EDGES (Macro)

EDGES (Micro)

Primary AxisDensity zoneTertiary axisSecondary axisAlternative route

Punctuation nodesSite boundary

MANCUNIAN W

AY

TRINITY WAY

MILLER ST

GREAT AN-

SALESALE

Manchester Conference Hall

Cultural & Oriental

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants

Central Gateway

Independent Stores

High Street

Fashion

PrestigiousDesigner’s Stores

PICCADILLY

NORTHERN QUARTER`MARKET

STREETDEANS-GATE

SPIN-NING-FIELDS

CASTLEFIELDPETERSFIELD

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CITY’S ZONING COMPONENT

THE ALBERT WAREHOUSEQuay St, Manchester

1735-6

First purpose-built quay on the river Irwell. The moor-ing was 136 yards longbuilt at the end of Quay Street.

V&A warehouse continued to decay. Granada Studios took over for storing

Albion Market was filmed

V&A warehouses were converted into Le Meridien by Tra-falgar House

Le Meridie changed to Mariott due to the takeover by Whitbread

Mariott chain were sold by Whitbread

Fire broke out on the 3rd of Sep-tember 1913

Albert Shed was built

V&A warehouses, the covered quay were listed as Grade II building

The opening of Man-chester Ship Canal causing decline

Navigation discontinued at this time due to the extension to the Hunt’s Bank Approach

V&A warehousewas built as a cotton warehouse

Cottonopolis

1913 1970 1980 2004 2013

1840 1920 1974 1991 2006

HISTORICAL TIMELINE

Finding Potential of The Unused

“vacancy isn’t only a problem. It offers potential for innovation on different levels – from use, de-sign, ownership, collaboration and thought to in-

vestment and institutional configurations”Mark Minkjan, Vacancy Studies(2013)

SIDE I -CHARACTERS

Water st. / Quay st. , Manchester

BEFORE

AFTER

Tapping onto several potential towards the site, sidewalks and pedestrian routes were improved in order to maximize circulation of entering the warehouse.

Sidewalks,roads and pedestrian routes were maximed and widen by combining their roles.

SIDE II - APPROACHING INTERVENTION

Water st. / Quay st. , Manchester

Traffic congested - minimal public useTraffic has the potential to be extended

Traffic does not eliminate however, it has been expanded,alongside with public use for shared usage

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SIDE II - APPROACHING INTERVENTION

Water st. / Quay st. , Manchester

SIDE III - INITIAL APPROACH (VISUALISATION)

USE

Vacancy Studies Albert Warehouse, Manchester

Beauty & The Abandoned The Vanity Warehouse

Understanding a new perspective on tempo-rary reuse of vacant buildings, optimisti-cally. Defining vacant space brings up a new approach towards de-signing and highlight-ing relevant issues.

The warehouse is lo-cated along the River Irwell at the corner of Water Street and Quay Street. The typology of this building has been a recurring theme along the river and contains a huge potential in re-gards to future devel-

opment.

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Cosmetic Surgery & Postmodern Space

hyperspace / bewilderment

(public space)19th century

women

men

by Meredith Jones

Beauty Industry Timeline Beauty Industry in the UK

Di Giorgio

VANITY : POSITIONS, UNDERSTANDINGAND RESEARCH

VACANCYSTUDIES

ISSUE

These 3 main components are the main aspect that the book highlights towards designing a ‘strategic’ inter-vention. The Issues raised need to be taken into all seriousness as it could be the cause of the vacant building hence suggeting suitable ideas leading towards exper-iments. In this case, Jurgen Bay talks about how solutions are a resultance of time based from the experimentations.

EXPERIMENTSby Jurgen Bay

During the 19th Century, only men are depicted into dominating public spaces besides women. Since the arrival of capitalism, spaces are tweaked in such way that it is mutated towards having woment to be comfortable to be in. This is looked as a ‘surgery’ of a space in the post-modern era.

Unlike the The Vitruvi-an man, it is seen as a ‘trapped body and held by something, in an awkward, stiff body position. Di Giorgio, however, seemed more relaxed, and able to permeably position every spaces in the same manner.

Labour Market

Industry

People115,500

£17

16%

are employed in the hair and beau-ty industry every year.

It is also worth more than

by 2016

BILLION

BEAUTYThe industry in the UK is in the pink of market and retail sales towards a growing economy

Employing more than 1 million em-ployees and worth, it is forecast to grow

This enjoyment that drives a rapidly growing industry. Fi-nancial forecasts predicted an 8.5% growth in the beauty industry in 2014 and this rise is expected to continue in 2015, thanks in part to newly emerging markets such as men's grooming and anti-ageing.

1900 - A black, female entrepreneur named Annie Turnbo began selling lotions for hair straightening, hair growth and hair conditioning aimed at a market keen to tame unruly locks.

1909 - Elizabeth Arden began her cosmetics empire and coined the term 'make-over', which she performed on women in her salons.

1913 - Mascara as we know it today was invented by Maybelline.

1920 - A new formula for a more effective eyebrow pencil was developed and used to create the thin, elegant brow of Hollywood's heyday.

1930 - Fashion Icon Coco Chanel accidentally got burnt while on holiday in the French Riviera. The look caught on and tanning oils were developed.

1939 - Hitler tried to ban makeup to save resources but German women sim-ply refused to work. Instead, cosmetics companies used cheaper alternatives to packaging such as cardboard boxing. When the wars ended, the beauty industry enjoyed a 53% increase in value.

1950s - With men returning from war and the resulting baby boom, all emphasis was on family life. Women came back from work and resigned to life as house-wives. With so much time on their hands, they spent a lot of time pampering themselves to look glamorous.

1970s - Second-wave feminism hit and women began breaking free from the con-straints of femininity. Believing that make-up sexualised and objectified women, many gave up their beauty regimes in favour of the natural look.

1990s - Cosmetics companies began to get adventurous. With all the competition out there, they had to keep coming up with new and innovative ideas. The 90s saw the introduction of a range of imaginative products that promised to fight ageing and target wrinkles.

2002 - The celebrity saviour Botox hit it off, along with other quick-fix treatments such as collagen lip implants, facial skin peels and electric wave therapy.

2011 - The skin care industry is reported as one of the fasted growing beauty industry sectors since 2001.

2012 - the UK beauty industry alone is valued at £15 billion and is predicted to increase by 8.5% by 2015

Beauty: Towards a Postmodern Design

The word ‘beauty’ itself comes in various subjective forms; namely, in every work of art. The lust of beauty in the modern day has manifested itself as a stagnation of a singular perspective towards perfection. However cosmetic surgery in architecture is viewed somewhat similar to how our own bodies ‘live’ and react towards the changes that have been made. In this case, these changes in space are perceived as ‘muta-tions’ of space.

“while white male bodies may struggle to develop cognitive maps of such postmodern spaces, the bodies of women and Others have never had recourse to objective mapping and are therefore more ‘at home’ from the start in these enviroscapes -- bodies altered using cosmetic surgery aesthetically mirror postmodern architecture and simultaneously help to create subjects that belong inside quintessentially post-

modern environments,“ (Meredith Jones, Architecture of the body: cosmetic surgery and postmodern space, 2002: 2)

The project in addition, challenged the absurd amount of demands of beauty industry. Due to the market growth of the industry the site context, it also demands not just in the market but also as a social demand. This project will aim to continue the potential of the site to ‘live’ beyond its attraction on only a certain group of users of different kind – since it shall also provide an authentic experience of the abandoned by new mutation of spaces and technology.

The Architecture of Surgery is concerned with a gritty, strong and industrially constructed, together with an exact opposite of nature, which stitched architecture. The past of the building is revealed through maintaining the structure, facades and circulation, mostly. The building’s overall program is similar to the same manner in the past, the Albert Warehouse had many purposes as a building (mainly production-wise goods) and also serve to produce. The architecture is not anymore a singularity of an object but rather a multiplicity of individual compo-nents, both acts as a self-altering spaces; be it from dressing the body to maintaining the wellbeing of a body. The performance of having several events relating towards fashion, dermatology and cosmetic are a part of the existence of such demands in Manchester itself.

The intend of the project concentrates on exhibiting the sterile and polished space, within a historical and abandoned space and how it is interpreted through a contrasting contextual post-modernity of space. This architectural expression thus proposes an alternative method to create awareness on how perfection is strived through a made-believe character that exists only in an enclosed space – but evolves to a different identity (space) when one realizes it.

In a sociological aspect, the past and the current had taught our society towards having a certain angle on beauty and perfection. In the con-text, to utilize the industry for architecture that can addresses awareness is something that considers architecture in many different levels – spatially, technologically, and most importantly a significant consequence for future generations towards perceiving perfection as something artificial.

MISCELLANEOUSAgencies/ Schools

BEAUTYTanning/ WaxingMakeup/Nails

HAIROLOGYHairdresser / SalonsBarbers

WELLNESS /BEAUTYSpa / MassageSkin / Cosmetology

CAPTURED SCENES

WELLNESS /BEAUTY

HAIROLOGY

BEAUTY INDUSTRY MAPPING IN MANCHESTER

EXISTING PROPOSED

Configure spaces that will advertise itself as a psychology of crowding

Acts as a magnet & starting point to encourage sprawling

PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES

Revolving beautician

High- end/High street

Workshops/Skills enhancements

Specialists’assistance/services

Events(MCR beauty/streetstyle

After-work space Self-

pampering

Wellnesscentre/

Cultural Identity

EDUCATE BY SPECIALISTS

PERSONALISA-TION OF SPACE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

POTENTIAL

PROGRAMS

PROPOSED PROGRAMS, POSSIBILITIES & POTENTIAL ON THE SITE

SURROUNDING PROGRAMS VACANT SPOT COMMERCIALIZED BOND

PROPOSED PROGRAMS, POSSIBILITIES & POTENTIAL ON THE SITE

Due to the location of the ware-house that is connected to Spin-ningfields, the heart of bussiness industry in Manchester, the site is rather, disconected from it’s sur-rounding

The abandoned building shall then be ‘filled’ by the proposed programs

This will aim to create a space that caters not only a group of users but also acts as a cultural identity.

Within a space of perfection[ vanity box ]

accessThis diagram explain a basic configuration of a makeup box, that holds a core component in the mid-dle, while the other spaces are sim-ilar to one another but also flexible

Possible programs are then imagined towards the spaces

Development of reconfiguring the spaces and layout of the existing structure

CONCEPT APPROACH AND DEVELOPMENT

Symmetry

Symmetry

Symmetry

Space 1 Mirrored

Mirrored MirroredTop (Front)

Top (Front)1 2 3 4

Manipulation

Manipulation Manipulation

Back

Back

Existing:Wrapping as a barrier

Draw people into the site

Wrapping as a pedes-trian route

Exterior Public Area

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

Developing the exterior circulation and zoning of the spaces into the ware-house

Layering the concept of cosmetic and the anat-omy of makeup towards spaces (through one dimensional section)

Physical model: One dimensional section that uses a sliding method to imitate flexibility

vanity boxwellness / spa /

beauty

commercial strip

clinicconsultation

changing roomRIƓFHV

everyone

changing roompublic bath

nails/hair/skin

podiumcommon areaplaying arearesting area

retail shopsmarket

loading areaetc

aesthetical clinic

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SUBJECT SPATIAL NEEDS PROGRAMS USERS

wellness / spa

commercial strip

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DIAGRAMMATIC PROGRAMS

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTINITIAL VISUALISATION (SECTIONAL PHOTO MONTAGE)

reality belief certainty

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTINITIAL VISUALISATION (PHOTO COLLAGING)

Layering the initial concept: which is to create an awareness towards users who enters through spaces and jump into realisation.

Imagining spaces through collag-ing: the dark, gritty industrialized spaces on the ground level and the make-believe space above

PROPOSED SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVECROSS SECTION A-A

PROPOSED SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVECROSS SECTION B-B

PROPOSED LAYOUT

Ground Floor PlanB

BA

A

Cafe

Offices

Workshops (flexible)

Minor Surgical Rooms

Salon & Spa

Surgical Theatre (Vanity Core)

Waiting Lounge

Runway

OpenMarket

First Floor Plan

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3

4

Details

1. Translucent Concrete2. Reinforced Concrete3. I Beam Steel Bar4. Steel Bracket Support

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2

3

4

Details

1. Brow Lift Surgery2. Rhinoplasty3. Cosmetic Dentistry4. Face Lift

Ground Floor Plan

A

B

B

A

First Floor Plan

Prefabricated Translucent concrete RGB LED light 300mm

Latticed wooden ceiling

Steel easy beam corner bracket

Concrete Floor Slab 600mm

Pad Concrete Footing

Steel I Beam for concrete slab

Steel I Beam Reinforced concrete column

Roof Timber Trusses

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- Detailed appropriate materi-als

- Finding suitable precedences that focuses on duality

- Working on the graphics - emotionally