Two community projects: Revive offers dance + artists studios, community cafe, holistic therapy, local library, outdoor courtyards, crèche and local PCT clinic space
Stepping stones is a layered building with nursery, out of school space, crèche, adult training, play balconies, special needs clubs and good home cooking!
Redmak have been invited by the RIBA go take part in An Architectural Adventure for the East Midlands
We have been selected to work with a primary school in Nottingham on a project to enable students of all ages to gain awareness of design and architecture in particular
The project will straddle many areas of the curriculum using architecture as a springboard to explore architecture in the East Midlands from 1960-2010 + to look 50 years into the future with the aim of producing works of art to contribute the 50 50 travelling exhibition
Sessions in school will start in September 2010
We are currently exploring how to look at space using a visual brief as a democratic collage of ideas that many people can contribute to – this image developed by Matt at Redmak uses ideas produced by Asri our Part II student to take a journey with input that may be from the past or stretch into the future.
At St Ann’s Primary School we are looking at how to make space for combined class activity and taking class projects into the whole school environment this is turning into a market place space or Town Square the idea is that this space can be interpreted independently according to who is using it. It is envisaged as a flexible fun and fast changing space.
Matt Powell our Part I student from Nottingham has been exploring how he would use the space
We are about to start designing a part of St Ann’s Primary School outdoor play space the children talked with Mike from Redmak and Martin from the Local Education Partnership about how story telling could happen outside the importance of dens, tunnels and growing food!
Have a look at these and watch this space!
We have just been appointed to work with Nottingham City Council and Carillion to remodel 2 primary schools – already we have had 6 design workshops with the schools prepared 25 design options and made 6 models, its fast paced with 2 great heads and a visionary team!
For more schools information see
Farida is now an independent Building 4 Life assessor for CABE Building for Life is the National Standard for well designed homes and neighbourhoods. www.buildingforlife.org
We have just been appointed to assist First Enterprise in remodelling their premises on Radford Road to create starter business units which will be supported and linked to the First Enterprise prestart and existing Business Advice Service – www.first-enterprise.co.uk
This year REDMAK partners are contributing to the fostering of young architects again – Farida and Mike are both tutoring part time at Nottingham and Nottingham Trent Universities. At Nottingham University we are co-tutoring 3rd year UNIT 3 with Nicola Gerber, unit leader. At Nottingham Trent University we are co-tutoring 2nd year with Alina Hughes and Guillermo Montiel.
Redmak has just finished a project with Garibaldi College www.garibaldi.org.uk. This dynamic college with great students is always up to something check out their website for updates.
Appointed by Learning Space www.learning-space.org.uk Redmak was commissioned to work with the Creative Learning Staff and 90 year 7s and 90 year 8s to explore the experience of working as a joint department.
Working with the BSF (Building Schools for a Future) team of students Redmak designed and orchestrated 2 full day workshops which gave 200 students the opportunity of working together in teams with a joint team of creative staff the BSF students and Redmak.
The workshops explored the themes of DRAMA, DANCE, ART, MEDIA and MUSIC and included making rooms for all the spaces using various materials, making costumes and musical props as well as a dance interval every time groups moved from one station to another.
It was all done at a fantastic frenetic enthusiastic pace and at the end of each day students had made 5 rooms which were then joined up into the CREATIVE ARTs HOUSE.
some student eavesdropping from the workshop days at GARIBALDI
look at our ART, aren’t we stylish
What happens if we do this?
Oh my god what happened to that
Who would love a house like this?
We need to cross the sticks together to support it and make it stronger
We need to take it apart again
some feed back from the staff
Farida I hope you have recovered from your Garibaldi experience !! it was a great couple of days and I think the students and staff really enjoyed themselves. I felt that the year 8 experience in particular really went well and the students experienced a different way of working that will broaden their horizons. If you remember that we had 90 students in each workshop I think there were great successes throughout the day. The visualisation work that you did was brilliant and I will be nicking this idea to use in my teaching- thanks for that !!
Many thanks once again for your work with us and I do hope we can work together again in the future.
Jo and everyone in the mad ARTSHOUSE !!