Tom Bird
The Nottingham Assemblage
The Nottingham Assemblage is to be a forum for the people of the city, providing a truly inclusive intervention that aims to bring Nottingham’s currently divided communities together through their shared local and wider cultures. Specifically using historical artefacts and art to communicate this, encouraging inter-community interaction through cultural learnings in a series of exhibition, performance and social spaces.
This project intends to be supplementary to the existing cultural facilities found in Nottingham but offering a new cultural experience by grouping these functions together in combination with integrated social spaces consisting of both internal and external, and public and private variations. This aims to bring the user groups from each of these facilities together and promote interaction between them.
Unit 1B
The work of this Unit is concerned with introducing contemporary interventions harmoniously into their immediate physical, as well as larger socio-historical contexts, researching the historical, physical, cultural, and social circumstances of each project and integrating this information with a considered response to the brief and to the environmental and other technical parameters which apply, to produce holistic solutions which are practical as well as beautiful.
Tom Bird's work
Student Biography
During my 2nd and 3rd year in unit 1B I have focused mainly on cultural and educational interventions. A combination of the unit's values and my personal interests led to a design approach stemming from a sound grounding in site, social, and historical analysis. These ran in parallel to a programme of phenomenological considerations, which developed the users sensory experience of the architecture to relate to the buildings function. Ultimately aiming for a contextually relevant and robust solution that forges a connection between programme and user.