Sara Louise Hayes Portfolio: Design Skills

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A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre

Final Major Project

A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre: Performer Dressing Room

Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle

3rd Year Minor Project

Sketches

Model photos

Above Left and Right: Restaurant

Below Left: Sketch of Theatre Bar

Below Right: Sketch of Restaurant

No. 4+5 The Parade, Market Square,

Northampton has been redesigned as a

Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts

Centre of mixed use.

It was the aim that this development

would provide Northampton with a centre

for entertainment, where a variety of

spaces including an auditorium for live

theatre, music performance and

exhibition; an art and design gallery, and

a cinema would all coexist, alongside a

restaurant and various bar areas, within a

single building.

The concept of this multi-purpose venue

is to primarily act as a 'hub' for the public

to gather, socialise, experience

something unique and be immersed in the

creative arts. The proposed

redevelopment includes an array of

spaces, laid out as a journey over four

floors that will work in conjunction to

achieve this.

A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre

Section perspective showing the theatre bar, main staircase

and series of balconies

Section perspective showing the main foyer, restaurant,

gallery and space for cinema foyer

Top Left and Right: Main Foyer

Bottom Left and Right: Theatre/ Exhibition Hall

This project focused on redeveloping the old premises of the

Chronicle and Echo, Upper Mounts, Northampton.

The aim was to create a place of intervention and

transformation, developing ideas that would benefit the local

community and promote a sociable environment.

The final proposal was for an exhibition space, designed to

accommodate a regularly changing programme of installations

and small exhibitions. The spaces could be used for a wide

range of exhibits including paintings, sculptures, photography,

fashion, textiles, ceramics and interactive media, as well as

lectures, talks and discussions.

Focus was given to the idea of a stage or platform where the

event or action takes place. Creating a pathway through the site

was another priority. The design of the space was inspired by

public squares and pedestrian streets such as Piazza Novona in

Rome or La Rambla in Barcelona. It was important that the

design also reflected the locations history; the frame installation

mimics the form of the terrace buildings that once existed along

Great Russell Street.

Top: South facade with views into the exhibition space.

Middle: Pathway into exhibition space

Bottom: One of the individual spaces used for group workshops

and discussions

Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle

Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle: Development Sketches

Model Photos

1. 2nd Year Penthouse Project

2. Creating an Exhibition Stand

3. A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre

4. A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre

5. Creating an Exhibition Stand

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Sketches

Left: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama’

Middle: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama

Right: ‘London’s Calling’

Left Top and Bottom: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama’

Right Top and Bottom: ‘London’s Calling’

Left Top and Bottom: ‘Creating an Exhibition Stand’

Right Top and Bottom: ‘Nature’