Community Building Ifrastructure
New Pedestrian Entrance:
Another entrance in the northern easterly corner of the grounds, To promote smoking off the grounds! with a comfortable convenient pavement space To be utilised by smokers.
To encourage There could be ash trays rain cover and inviting benches conveniently located by refreshments. Also with a gain of access for retail attraction geographically connects the competitors the Civic House and The Vic. To on which this fluid pedestrianised retail hub is made.
Bike tools:
As a healthy number of students and staff commute on bikes basic bike tools won’t just help peoples bike home, it promotes fixing which is a dying art within our society.
also It will support the biking community within G.S.A.
Universal Project Spaces:
Bookable for projects that may need surrounding by fresh walls, musical rehearsals, public exhibitions with the easy access from where the refreshments are located.
Also meeting rooms for unions and student run talks. These spaces are just as important as students studios spaces, as external spaces help collaborative work or if its done in one of the participants spaces it confuses the symbiotic relationship that happens with collaborative work
Cafe/bar:
Refreshments, pastries, soup of the day and wrapper free snacks dispensing methods with vending machines with efforts of limiting waste, student bake sales could be sold through the till for those frequent fluid fundraisers, student employment and external strict line management to not allow what pushed the vic to liquidation. Because the cafe/bar is located under a slip road a comical potential name could be “the sip road”
Exchange of information:
Notice boards and an agreed space, a dynamic visual sight specific variation of information; events, projects, open calls, opportunities, advisement. A space for people to be in control of what they see. It is coherent accesses too information that enables a fluid understating benefiting the student experience. With the information that is sent out to students emails. Also some sort of wipe-board for “the drawing of the day” this has an exiting potential ,for non stagnate visual information which people can show off their styles and views.
Plants & garden:
Make an attractive outside surrounding, theres plant beds in the northern eastern corner;fill with plants to attempt to drown out cars. Unfortunately because the toxicity of the traffic, it will make it unsuitable for edible food production. so ornamental plants; shrubs, flowers and trees should be planted. Plants could be planted that can be incorporated in students projects such as bamboo, makes a wonderful light weight structures and flax can be used to weave. Also there is enough room for G.S.A.’s bees within the grounds along side a healthy sprinkling of wild flowers, in the south easterly quarter. Also some sort of allotment could be fitted in the of the grounds to get students hands dirty and be in touch with the change of seasons. With the correct risk assessments the gardens could be opened up as a sculpture park enabling a new outside gallery space.
Inside seating:
Inviting indoor seating for those less beautiful days. Facilitating Spaces for students to meet and conspire and tap away at laptops enabling students to process new ideas. Visiting such a space will have definite interaction with like minded people/friends.
Pushing away feeling left out and demanding social medias. Building an inviting recreational space with regulars enables a community. Personally i’m fond of booths; seating could be customisable for those in-prompt events
Inviting indoor seating for those less beautiful days. Facilitating Spaces for students to meet and conspire and tap away at laptops enabling students to process new ideas. Visiting such a space will have definite interaction with like minded people/friends.
Pushing away feeling left out and demanding social medias. Building an inviting recreational space with regulars enables a community. Personally i’m fond of booths; seating could be customisable for those in-prompt events
Material Swap shop:
Immediate access to various materials enables a fluid practice. In a safe and efficient way. A sort of artists breakers, old works and objects for repurposing . With a Technician who could stock the recycled material and spread knowledge about the materials. Also they could advise activities carried out in the outside work space.
With the recent instant payment system. For materials within workshops. Students with a limited budgets could have equal access to materials. This also will prevent students from diving into dumpsters hurting them self as it has proven in the past when students have accesed skips. As there are future plans of relocating the processing of all the wast from the whole G.S.A. With cardboard compressors and the various skips. located with in the stow grounds. This infrastructure will allow access to waste materials in a safe and efficient way. A process that is often carried out within the students practice. Is a student will notices an object and it is the part they acquire , upon the original owners decision. These kinds of process’s could be facilitated too. The benefits of it will be firstly promote productivity. It also could give students the skills of trading and material understanding. Firstly this inforstructure reduces waste and also prevents new materials for being in demand.
Outdoor Seating:
More communal space that enable Meetings, working relaxing communicating witnessing various outdoor activities, laptop tapping with clarity of fresh-air. artists loitering within the ground sets a good example or students to attend studios and timetabled activities because the students will follow their class mates.
Temporary Outside Work Spaces:
As theres future plans of a large workshops in the stow grounds potential Temporary outside stations preferably with rain cover: a couple sturdy benches with vices and anvils; outside work prevents unwanted noise within workshops. This feature could also unlock more collaborative projects. Elevating the limited workshop hours; risks are involved with unsupervised activities with tools involved. But just as much as what goes on in studio spaces.
Outside Stage:
Airtime for speeches, performances, announcements, social initiation. As artist all we are basically doing is framing an action. This infrastructure could potentially help students public speaking skills because public speaking will be normalised with the routine occurrence of an open armed audience. I have also heard exiting potential of an “acting association” forming, now students are doing more stage base works this will curate a fluid practice. This amphitheatre could be adaptable with a screen for students screenings. This exiting feature and it will unlock a lot of different opportunities!
