Re-industrialise to Re-humanise

The status quo of consumer-capitalism based industry ends. A collaborative workspace with facilities for designing, making, producing, arranging, dismantling, re-purposing, and other creative processes which are linked to the wider city through a new distributive transport network is established. The regenerative vision aims to re-humanise industry with a philosophy based in nature, collaboration and creativity.

The climate crisis, carbon imports, lack of active manufacturing and production skills, and lack of attention provided to new manufacturing. Attempting to address one of the barriers preventing the creation of a circular economy is a worth while venture.

Designing a new collective workshop building that connects two existing but retrofitted warehouses, without the need for a new concrete floor slab or significant import of construction materials. Processes used to create the final design included both analogue and digital media. Model making, sketching, adobe software and Sketchup as well as others all played a part.

Designing a venue that tackles the issues stated is useful however physical implementation of the scheme is required to learn what works best and what could work better. The scheme is a pilot and if successful can be a template to rejuvenate many industrial and retails parks around the Bristol and the UK. Once the template is set final delivery of the scheme can take many forms.