This project addresses the creative reuse of an existing industrial site on the edge of the city centre, with a radical reconfiguration of an existing warehouse building to form makers workplaces and additional housing around the perimeter to redefine its relationship to the adjoining townscape.

LIVE component: housing floating above the mat of the Industrial Arts Centre, looking across the roof gardens towards the shimmering downtown skyline. The repeating wall of housing redefines a hard edge to the city centre and forms a garden wall to the wooded hillside beyond.

MAKE component: the compartmentalised historic industrial building is replaced by a adaptable workplaces intimately connected to each other, to the natural world and the surrounding metropolis. The project is composed of five linear blocks, four carved out from the existing building, to form a series of naturally lit workshops. These are separated from each other by landscaped courtyards which can be used as extensions of the workshops and allow daylight to penetrate deep into the plan. The building's primary structure is retained, including the roof, and front and rear walls of the existing building. Both the existing and the new building elements are overlaid with layers of cladding with varying permeability.