Designing for Client

'A Fragment of Time'

Like ESA, Lotherton Hall was another 'live' project. This allowed us to get first hand experience of client facing, and creating a design based on the needs and wants of the users of the new space. 

Lotherton Hall is a historic house in Leeds, which provides tours as well as function and recreational space. However, they wanted to expand into the original stable blocks which were currently disused.

They had decided that they wanted a new space for functions, which would be separate to the more public areas, as well as an over-spill cafe, and a new gift shop and information centre.

Myself and my team mate decided upon the concept 'A Fragment of Time' as we wanted to retain the character and integrity of the building in our new design. There were also a lot of historical features which we felt needed to be incorporated into the new space, to allow parts of the buildings history to shine through.

We also decided to take some influence from a clock mechanism. As time was a feature in our design, as we wanted the space to have the atmosphere of being captured in the historical space.