Considering specifically the validity of functions in their response to sunlight, the only real necessity is the ‘Courtyard’. This is not technically such now though, as to achieve a greater solar gain and in a symbolic gesture, I have considered moving beyond infilling the south elevation windows with glass block, instead the southern wall could be removed to open the complex towards Holbeck Urban Village and its occupants. Ideally now we have an attractive external space, available to all the creative professionals to form one melting pot and cross fertilisation of ideas.
Moving the lecture theatre to the northern half of the site, while appearing rational, breaks up the enclosed space in to small fragments. Ideally the remaining space was to form the exhibition area since such a space cannot be quantified in the brief. A large space free from interference is needed, the other functions must be interlinked rather than scattered around the site.
The internal space is divided more openly, within folding forms to define the spaces as opposed to a single block dominating them.
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