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Live Projects:

Live projects are a leading educational initiative at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. Architecture students work in groups on a 6 week Live Project with a range of clients including local community groups, charities, health organisations and regional authorities. In some cases the projects involve actual building, in others design of urban master plans, in others consultation exercises. In every case, the project is real, happening in real time with real people.

Our Initial Brief:

Parkwood school relaunched itself this September as an Academy, sponsored by Edutrust Academies Charitable Trust (EACT). Parkwood is one of the many schools across the country that will be moving into a new school in the near future. There is an eagerness in the school to explore the relationship between learning and the spatial design. Explorations now will inform the way that the new school is used and leave something physical to be part of the new school environment.

In particular the new school will demand quick changes of use of the classrooms and spaces to accommodate different styles of teaching and learning. The headteacher, the client for this project, has asked that this be the focus of the project. Following on from previous student engagement work, this project will work with year 8 students to develop and implement physical changes and additions to a classroom within the school to enable a wide range of learning styles and activities to take place.