Christopher Wray Lighting is located on Bartholomew Row next to Millennium Point, it’s a complicated building that has come across issues over the years. The range of buildings which make up the site is surrounded on all sides by modern development, most recently the University, but itself is an interesting part of the city's history. It’s made up of a row of three townhouses that front the street, these frozen in time and haven't been worked in since 2003. The site has had a lot of misfortune over recent years, with failed purchases, failed demolition applications and its value has plummeted from over £2 million to negative £1 million. Two of the townhouses are original Georgian residences, which predate the earliest map of the city, indicating their age could date back as far as 1720, this makes the building listed and so it’s very hard to create a plan for the future of the site and conservation. This ages of the buildings makes them the oldest surviving dwellings in the city centre and are vitally important part of Birmingham's architectural history.
This diagram shows the sun direction during the summer (larger curve) and the winter (smaller curve), this will help with window placement. I've also added noise paths from where you get traffic noise which is where the most sound comes from.
This is a drawing I created to show the surrounding buildings and the site in relation to them, you can see the building is close to Millennium point and Jennens court where I'm currently living. I creating this drawing in order to scale it to 1:200 to add the the panel I eventually create. The darkest lines are obviously buildings, then the grey lines are roads and the lines even lighter to that are features such as the park and pathways for pedestrians.
The building we've been given is the Christopher Wray Lighting plot, it's grade listed and we're focusing on the building to the right which is a single story room to create our character based room. Below you can see images of the first site visit we did as a group in order to get measurements and photographic evidence.
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