THE NEST

Empowering a culture to go beyond building a building

Team

Joshua Jones
Tim Macklen
Molly Nashalma
Salma Aitali Saitail
Chris Clement
Alex Felton
Jasmit Bour
Nadejda Tabakova
Iman Abdul Nasir

Role

Project Manager
Architect
Architect
Urban Designer
Cost Manager
Community Engagement
Structure + Operations
Environmental + Services
Landscape Designer

A Story of Now and Then: The Story of community in Wales

Aim
Our objective is to connect communities with new opportunities – opening doors and providing foundations for the natural formation of social systems. We aim to not change but provide foundations and opening doors to allow for gentle interaction – encouraging the formation of ‘community’. We promote direct involvement and collective action in developing an architecture that is socially responsive and inclusive.
We strive for:

  1. Co-production to instil social value and self-worth into the people and the communities of the places we work.
  2. Common governance in developing a model where communities can be assisted in taking ownership of public ground and controlling assets, investment and expenditure, establishing long establishing relationships that build upon a common goal and trust enabling co-authorship.
  3. Social regeneration to eradicate negative pre-conception, stigmatisation and transform perception in places of need.
Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Visualisation at night
Visualisation during the day
The sections showing the in-habitation of the spaces focusing on the
visual and physical connections between them.
Collage: A Culture of Co-production
GroupA_the-Nest_Stage3Report

Stage 3 Booklet