Kieran Copson

This project looks at creating a collaboration space for Bristol's creative professionals and a place for new business start-ups to call home. New creatives are provided with the facilities they need and support from Bristol's universities to encourage the growth of creative professions. The site is one quarter of the historic Roman city's footprint, now inhabited by three abandoned bank buildings. By using adaptive reuse, this project aims to revitalize this integral site by using elements of the existing to minimise embodied carbon. The design of the new elements reflects the historic streetscape in it’s density and form, bringing life back to a currently desolate city centre site.At it's core Bristol is a creative city. Bringing creativity to a site in the historic heart of Bristol is an opportunity to build and encourage this key use, and cement Bristol as the creative hub of the United Kingdom.

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Bristol Design Quarter

 

Master Of Architecture

The Master of Architecture programme aims to educate critically engaged architectural professionals with an ethically responsible attitude towards society, clients, users, and the environment. This is realised through a community-based activist approach exemplified in the first year through an emphasis on live projects. The live project work this year established student work in connection with a wide variety of local and regional partners, including: The Creative Youth Network, Little mead Primary School, Shape Our City, Bristol Civic Society, Frome town council, Coleford Regeneration, Avon Wildlife Trust, The parks Forum, Brislington Green trail.