Reconnecting Buttershaw | The Outdoor Stories

The output of this brief is an Urban Strategy for developing Buttershaw which is situated in Bradford. The process of design for this project will come through interacting and community engagement. Through talking with the community we can create a building directly for its end user with social value. Learning from the previous project project, Philadelphia, the successful methods in the process of design will be carried through to this project. Methods such as utilizing local people’s stories, mapping and designing with an axonometric model.

Engagement with the elderly of Buttershaw

'This place is like our home now, we come here everyday, last week we spent time with the kids and we enjoyed that a lot'

Engagement with the young people of Buttershaw

'My grandparents live 20 minutes away from my house, I visit them twice in a month and I love my granny's food, I love cooking with her'

The Temporary Internvention

Temporary Intervention

This temporary intervention is designed focused on engaging two sections of the Butterhsaw community, which is the elderly and the young people, encouraging the young people to engage and learn the skill of cooking from the elderly community of Buttershaw. This design of the community kitchen is a structure inspired from one of the traditional ways of cooking under a tree, where the pod is designed to represent the structure of a tree, thus bringing the people of Buttershaw closer to the nature and making them feel like they’re engaging in a natural environment. Size of the structure: 16 sq mt

The Main Structure

As the title suggest “Reconnecting Buttershaw - Rebuilding our bond with the nature” the concept of the design is taken from a TREE, by providing similar shade and having all the activities under the canopy of a single roof, bringing the community of Buttershaw closer to the feeling of learning and engaging under a roof. Although the main concept is community engagement, the main issue that has been focused on is food poverty and providing food for the community by engaging in cooking for themselves while growing their own food.

The Main Project