Self Build Guild – We’ll take second

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In October we were invited to the Grand Design Live show in Birmingham having been shortlisted for the self-build on a shoestring award with our entry: A Self Build Guild.  Happily, as a practice of two we were awarded second prize as runners up to a massive multi-disciplinary practice...

Towards A Self-Build Guild?

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We’re very excited to have been longlisted(!) for the National Custom & Self Build Association Self Build Starter Home competition. Our proposal took a deviant approach to the brief, proposing a ‘Self-Build-Guild’. The Guild is an organisation to support and enable self-build for people with little or no upfront...

The future of housing?

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As part of the ongoing work of the Ouseburn Futures group, James and Claire will be helping host an evening workshop looking at housing in the Ouseburn – past present and future. The event will cover housing of the past with Mike Greatbatch (Ouseburn Heritage expert), current housing developments...

“They need to give us the land”

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Last week saw the launch of Protohome down in the Ouseburn Valley in Byker. A research project by the artist Julia Hesslop, the project has developed a participatory social housing model through live self-build project down in the Ouseburn. Julia has developed the project with Crisis and Tyne Housing...

Stage 1 – Newcastle University

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Last week, James completed teaching a row housing project with Stage 1 students at the School of Architecture at Newcastle University. Working with the photographer Tara Stewart, they developed a brief for a family house and studio in responce to the requirements of Tara, her work as a photographer...

Thoughts on LILAC

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Last month we joined a team of volunteer residents and twenty or so interested people from across the UK to talk about funding and financial models in housing. Perhaps not everyone’s idea of fun weekend, but we had a blast.  This was at LILAC (Low Impact Living and Affordable...

The Envelope Show – Newcastle

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Harper Perry have been involved in the envelope show, a project run by Northern Architecture to support a regional initiative called drawing? which examines and celebrates drawing across the disciplines of art, design, science, technology and engineering. You can read more about the project at Drawing NE which is...