The Leeds School of Architecture Yearbook 2023

Overview
REPAIR, RE-USE AND RE-IMAGINE: TO DESIGN A COMMUNITY CLOTHING OR FOOD
HUB. THE FORMER YORK RD LIBRARY & BATHS.
The cost-of-living crisis is biting hard, and many communities are struggling to
make ends meet. Many people need to decide whether to eat or to turn on the
heating.
The project explores ‘repair as design’ through a series of activity spaces where
people can learn, share, or swap life skills and grow/make/provide food or clothing
to supplement the high cost of living and help to build a resilient community.
Cambridge English Dictionary definition of community:
“People living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit
because of their common interests, social group, or nationality.”
Students explore their interpretation of ‘community’ and enrich their briefs in
response to this particular location in Leeds.
“An estimated 336,000 tonnes of clothing goes to landfill each year in the UK.”
Students create, within established parameters, a brief inspired by film, and
develop a design scheme engendering informed sensitivity to an existing
building fabric and the external wasteland.
As a starting point, students designed and constructed Architectural Headpieces
in response to their films and as a description of protest.
Students
BA1
Lauren Ball
Phoebe Banks
Annie Beeton
Ella Blackburn
Holly Burns- Danforth
Izzah Butt
Isobel Collier
Keira Cox
Maddie Crighton
Jordan Davies
Urania Dede
Ethan Dutu
Maria Fujar
Bianka Glovova
Ellie Holt
Lauren Hutchinson
Ellie Lane
Sharon Lasaracina
Emma Lee
Annalise McKenna
Millie McNally
Alina Mouhaidli
Mati Mroczka
Emmie Murkins
Kendra Neto
Katie Oates
Mia Owen
Elleanor Owen
Milena Panster
Ruby Pierce
Zuzanna Plucinska-Olczak
Annabelle Smith
Leah Tomkins
Lydia Townsend
Melania Tugulea
Alex Tutty
Olivia-Rose Whiteley
Gwen Williams
Olivia Zukowska