SITE ANALYSIS FOR GROUP 3

This week we were grouped into four teams to work on our new project which is ' Intervening in The City'. Our proposed site for this project is Broad mash, which is located in Nottingham.
Each team was given a task to work on for the site analysis. My team were involved in looking at the Urban Fabric and Street Patterns: Site History: Precedent Studies (re-modelling/ rebuilding 1960's city center.)

Broadmash was built on the outskirts of the Medieval town. Despite its historic interest all the buildings were demolished to accommodate the redevelopment. From the analysis, i discovered that the changes that took place from the 1900 figure ground map to the present figure ground map interrupted the urban grid.

Larger spaces where taken over which clashed with everything around it. There is a huge difference in scale between the years. There is no life between the existing buildings. Broad mash center is a huge alien structure planted in the middle of the city. I tend to wonder and the BIG question that i asked myself was:

 What was perceived to be an intervention was it a gain / loss?

Courtesy to my team members:

Kimberly Dewhurst

Amadi Ugochinyere

Ana Gaina

Raul Nistor

Constantina Voskaridou