084 Carlton Road Extension P1145981.jpg P1145962.jpg P1146001.jpg P1145981.jpg 1/9 Client Private Client Location South Manchester Budget £100k Collaborators ​ Downloads ​ Industrial Light and Magic Rear infill extension of a Victorian semi-detached house to open up and expand the kitchen and better integrate this space into the flow of the house. Our client asked us to address the currently cramped cooking area and lack of pleasing flow or connection between spaces to make this house fit for modern living and future proofed family home. The design integrates the wall and roof capturing expansive views of the sky through the large bespoke skylights. Internally, this design creates an exciting and dynamic feeling of space. This single volume will be clad in a single material will be a robust and invigorating statement against this traditional house. We propose zinc standing seam cladding for the cladding throughout to contrast against the timber and glass. Having flipped the kitchen orientation to allow for a larger sliding door to the garden, the extension now breathes light and prioritises the views. The wrap around step down to the garden level creates an easy flowing transition from the house to the garden level disguising the significant step down. To prevent the façade from becoming too “flat” the elevation cladding is subtle angled into the middle of the glazing highlighting the double pitched sawtooth roof profile and creating a central focus for the scheme.

096 Dean Drive Remodel 1/7 Client Private Client Location Bowden, South Manchester Budget £250k Collaborators ING Engineering - Ian Grindley, Trend Design and Build Downloads ​ Adding Character Value Our client for this project approached us to add vibrancy to her "very ordinary" (her words!) detached house in Bowdon. We proposed a major extension and internal reconfiguration of this mid-late 20th century two-storey property to create a modern family home with character and fun. The project’s core aim is to give this house a wow factor currently sorely missed. The internal arrangement are of a typical late 90's character, with the design we have sought to bring height, light and beauty and bring this home into the 21st century. Following a deep dig design process it was decided that a subtle contemporary form was to be developed, one that that reflects the features of the existing house, but seeks to also elevate it. The plan form references the elevational profile of the prominent half-hipped roofs and creates a new terminus for the building that steps down to the garden level. The resulting set back at the first floor level allows the existing external wall line at the rear too flow round in scaled version of the ground floor and ties into the existing roof pitch. This leaves a very tall vaulted space internally which will make the perfect contemplative office space with its own east facing balcony to capture the morning sunlight through the trees. The materiality and window placement of the building echo the traditional architecture of the apse in a church in a modern style. The solid base, here in brick, contrasts with arched windows above over two levels which will be recessed in a timber clad finish with a traditional tile roof. An extensive attic conversion with a dormer is also proposed which creates two new large bedrooms and a music studio. The redevelopment of the first floor to rationalise the existing bedrooms, add a laundry room and refreshed master bedroom ensuite is also proposed. We're hoping to start on site in early April.

Food + Architecture - Is architecture food for the soul? Architecture Unknown May 2020 Podcast Celebrating gastronomically divine buildings of all shapes and sizes How closely are architecture and food intertwined in our modern cities? Do we use the same creative processes to make these disparate objects? Is architecture for consumption in the same, or a different way to food? All these questions and more will be answered! Is it a layered cake or mortar drips? It's clearly a mystery! Our hot or not this week are Couldrey House, Brisbane Peter Besley and The Range, Eynesbury Hardwicke. In the news we touch on Manchester's newly approved Blade and Cylinder by Renaker, London Road Fire Station's proposed redevelopment, car free streets in Milan, the now 2021 Serpentine Pavilion by Counterspace and Altrincham FC's plans for a new stadium. https://www.hnna.co/couldrey-house https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine-pavilion-2020/21-designed-counterspace 1/14

Architecture: Rejection to Redemption Charlie Butterwick May 2019 Article ​ The below is a copy of the notes supporting our talk given on the theme of Rejection as part of PechaKucha Manchester Volume 26 on 28 February 2019 in the Grand Hall at the Whitworth Art Gallery. PechaKucha is a presentation style popular across the world but conceived in Japan where speakers have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Enjoy, please message us if you have any feedback, thoughts or openings for speaking slots at your future events. ​ The starchitect Daniel Libeskind once said “Many people don’t see architecture as important. They leave it to somebody else.” Why is this? Why is the relationship between the public and architecture so often a very distant one. When architecture has such an influence on all our urban lives, why has it been rejected? Much of our relationship to architecture today is grounded in the response to Modernism. This movement defined the second half of the 20th century. In the post-war boom architects such as Le Corbusier and Peter and Alison Smithson were busy redefining life as we knew it, ready for a future of mechanised, hi-tech living. The most famous concepts associated with Modernism were dedicated to improving the conditions of the working class. Manchester’s Hulme Crescents exemplify the ideal of the building set within parkland demanded by Corbusier’s urban design for Paris, “La Ville Radieuse”. Itself a response to overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of daylight and connection to nature common to 19th century slums. Similarly, the “streets in the sky” concept made famous in the UK by Alison and Peter Smithson elevated people away from cars but preserved the cliché routines of life in the 19th century terraces such as the milkman delivering door to door or open air bicycle repairs. These ideas were rooted in a positive appreciation for the lives of the post-war working class and were seized upon by the many publicly employed architects and rolled out across the country to rehouse those displaced by war. But, as with many things, mass production led to a loss of quality. As the buildings quickly rotted, and the ideas that underpinned them fell foul of reality, the role of architects was brought into question and became one strand in the multifaceted web of criticism aimed at the welfare state. In the early 1970s about half of all RIBA members were government employees but as Thatcher rose to power, architecture became a privatised. Stung by this rejection of both state and people and no longer so tied to concepts of public benefit, architects sought a new mode of practice to reflect the times and, inspired by the everyman aesthetics of Pop Art, began exploring possibilities of post-modernism. Inspired by seminal works such as Venturi and Scott-Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas, architects experimented with pure form and decoration borrowing widely from publicly recognizable motifs and classical architectural cannon. However, underneath this bravado, post-modernism could be seen as fundamentally insecure, a reaction to yesterday but not a proposition for the tomorrow. No longer a hegemonic thrust towards the future, this period is characterised by questioning what architecture is really for. Far removed from the “god-architects” of decades past, the profession was relegated to aesthetics, the window dressers of buildings to make them publicly palatable. Without the state leading the charge to promote the public in construction, a slow race to the bottom began. Corporate funding became the primary source of architectural investment. Today, though styles continue to move with the times, the underlying constraints within which architects work are set by private developers with all the associated compromises and trade-offs. Architecture for this type of construction continues to provide the veneer of aesthetic credibility to grease the gears of the developers’ great game - To profit from the right to decent housing and public space. Also known as land speculation, this has led to inflated profits for developers because, as is well documented, land becomes far more valuable when it has a house or two… hundred on it. As the developers’ drive for profit raises prices, and space is sold at an increasing premium, the public are left to face the negative consequences that range from the housing crises and rising homelessness to land banking, gentrification and the hollowing out of coastal towns. From Global Warming to Grenfell Tower. Though the future is unwritten, we feel that without a serious reassessment of the current narrative we will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the past as architecture and everything else approaches another crisis point, here dubbed the Crisis of Profit. We see this rejection of the current ethos beginning across sectors and in every walk of life. In architecture, the backlash against proposals can be visceral but the real question is, if this is a crisis where are we going next? What are we going to do to drive change, not just reinvent the same problems? Can architecture be redeemed? As with many difficult questions we’ve got to go backwards to go forward. Whilst for many the Hulme Crescents represented the worst of architecture, during their period in the urban wilderness, in the decade prior to their demolition, a diverse, creative and alternative community was built there that many were sad to see go. Imagine for a second if creating this type of community wasn’t just an accidental by product of isolation but became the primary benefit to be accessed through architecture? What if instead of building, well buildings, we constructed communities and, with the assistance of architects, made manifest the collective urban future we wanted to see. For us diagram tells us one thing, that for decades the construction industry has been getting it wrong. Whilst the consideration of the public good in architecture has declined over the years, the design of space has always been a top down imposition on the public by those more entitled, educated or monied. Our response to these issues is to reject this norm, and propose a radical change towards architecture as public discourse. Putting people at the heart of cities by taking the time to actually ask “What sort of world do you want your children to grow up in?” The public should be encouraged to weigh in on the merits of civic space to create cities that prioritise citizenship. Because if architecture is important then why shouldn’t we all have a say in it? I’ll finish with one thought, what would you do if you were an architect? Thank you. 1/33

Bias in Architecture: Fact or Fiction Charlie Butterwick September 2016 Article The brain is a complex place full of an indistinguishable mix of facts and fictions “People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their truths destroyed.” Friedrich Nietzsche Bias ˈbʌɪəs’ (noun) “The support of or opposition to a particular person or thing in an unfair way, due to the influence of personal opinions on one’s judgment” Cambridge English Dictionary Is it possible to separate bias and action? Identities are constructed through the internal assimilation of data received from our external environment, be it sensory, experiential, mnemonic, memetic or spiritual. Our perception is our reality. We are a product of our nurture filtered through our nature. Identities are tied up with where you come from, who you know, what we’ve done, how it made us feel, individual genetics, whether we are supported and or possibly cut down. As Alistair McIntyre put it, “We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.” The ways in which we are raised, grow and personally evolve become truths by which we guide our lives, they are the building blocks of our identities. Though this does not absolve any moral responsibility, it shows the relative powerlessness of our own truths and the inconsequentiality of our certainty in these personal definitions of right and wrong. It must point us to the inevitable fact that all actions are inevitably biased without recourse. Can we do anything about this? Without a magic button for infinite empathy for everyone all the time, being able to walk in another’s shoes is a rare gift that is totally incompatible with the challenging scale of designing cities. Despite many architects best intentions (or otherwise), we must accept that the only way to do architecture is together, using tactics that fuel the creative construction of identities that embrace the difference and heterogeneity between people through debate and dialogue.. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Bias in architecture has a crucial bearing on the type of city we are building for future generations. The neo-liberal city being constructed around us today fundamentally undermines our identity constructs and processes of relation. In 1967, Robert Park said “In making the city man has remade himself”. The city around us is one that I believe is biased, increasingly elitist and othering because the process and people by which it is being made are removed from the many thousands of people who endure it every day. As the last infrastructures of post-war social planning are eroded, communally anchoring institutions that once provided spaces of public dialogue, stability, ownership and identity are erased and not replaced. Personal truths, which were in part supported by roles undertaken within these structures, are cast adrift. Today,it is widely intuited that something has been lost that our parents had but that our children may not. We feel powerless to resist. As with many things, bias in city building has been privatised. How have our lives and our cities reached this point? And why do architects not embrace community engagement as a route to simply doing a decent job? Talk to an architect and what quickly emerges is that community engagement is seen as a hassle that further complicates the already complex process of designing buildings because of the divergent opinions between citizens themselves and between the public and paying clients. Not to play the world’s smallest violin for the profession but they find themselves in a challenging position between getting paid and fighting for a positive, socially relevant contribution to the built environment. Instead architects refer to guides and regulations, minimum standards and optimal arrangements, pedestrian and vehicular movement analyses, the whim of their clients and glossy subscription magazines. These are the standards by which the profession engages the outside world and judges success or failure. These convenient lies are told to allow them the freedom to be absolved of personal responsibility and remain insulated from the criticism of others. These new, double-thought truths are a key factor in the obfuscation of the actual effect of buildings on people in cities. Citizens are reduced to our lowest common denominator, bodies in space without agency, impulse of the need for identity. A list of biases is long but interesting reading. How many apply to you? In reference to Nietzsche’s opening quote I would only modify it to read that people don’t want to hear other’s truths because they don’t want their truths destroyed. The opposition of radically different truths, a phenomena that summarises 2016 in my opinion, can often feel like an assault not just on what we feel is good but on our very sense of self. To overcome this barrier we must do three things. Firstly, we must accept that there is no objectivity in the world, everyone and everything they do is biased. We must see that bias is only threatening when its hegemonic, but ultimately that bias only becomes scary when it ends a conversation. If we accept and understand each other’s biases then we may still remain biased but we have opened ourselves to change and true communally directed action. If we fail to do this then we are on a path to letting personal bias be the driving force for widely felt change. We must oppose this by devolving decision making especially in the making of large constructs such as buildings in cities. We must ask anyone affected about the consequences to them, not guess or analyse, and then accept the answers. We must ask broadly; we must ask as many people as possible by creating forums for these divergent identities, these truths, to be represented on a personal level. Secondly, we must convince those few who are already powerful decision makers that they are ruining us, the people, even killing us and our futures, by bettering themselves; a conflict of truths. We can only do this by being tireless, insistent, noisy and articulate. We must organise not to argue for change but to make changes. Start a community project, talk to your neighbours, find a group, become a person in someone else’s network, give your time for free, always ask questions especially when something sounds too good to be true, organise even in the smallest ways, ask for help if you need it but above all we must not stop. Finally, we need to design the processes by which decisions are implemented so that there is ongoing communal responsibility and ownership, because inevitably human beings will change their minds. Many will say that this is too great a challenge, that we can’t possibly override our human nature, that this isn’t how things are meant to be! To them I say, we’re a fucking clever species and when we recognise something is in our best interest we achieve it, against the odds and in spite of the challenges, so let’s get to work. To conclude, the title of this piece is only partly true and even then only my opinion though it’s stated as a fact. Bias is not just architecture, bias is everything. So, what’s my bias? What’s my investment? Put bluntly, I hope these words encourage you to call me and ask for my help in a project you and your neighbours are considering, not because you want to enact my truth but because you already have debated your own and you want to test it against reality. I hope that you’re looking for someone to question and to challenge, an invested neighbour, a co-conspirator, a technical skill set and a knowledge base to enable you to achieve your neighbourhood’s dreams. I look forward to hearing from you. 1/7

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Certified Passive House Designer Daniel Kelso February 2023 Article ​ We have a Passive House designer in the AU office!! AU? are proud to announce that our Co-Director, Daniel, has successfully passed the Passive House Designer course and is now officially a Passive House Certified Designer. Sustainable design is embedded at every level of the AU process and it's increasingly something our clients are seeking us out for. It lies absolutely hand in glove with our community-led design approach. A future of scarcity is not something we want to see as it will affect every aspect of the communal life we think is so important. To get there we can see that one of the biggest challenges ahead for the construction industry is to retrofit the UK's housing stock and secure the energy future for generations yet to come. We want to be right there at the forefront of best practice. We're looking forward to developing our understanding and skills in the office and building on top of Dan's new qualification as a team! ​ For those of you who are new to Passive house: Passive House is a building design approach and methodology that aims to create highly energy-efficient buildings that consume very little energy for heating and cooling, this also applies to the retrofit of existing homes and is covered by the EnerPHit certificate. Developed in Germany in the 1990s, it has since been adopted all around the world and sets the standard for low energy use homes. The Passive House approach is based on a set of rigorous design principles and performance criteria that focus on maximizing the building's energy efficiency and reducing its environmental impact. Data shows that Passive Houses or Enerphit buildings can use up to 90% less energy for heating than conventional buildings. Passive House buildings and Enerphit Retrofits are designed to use minimal energy to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature, even in extreme climates. They achieve this by using a combination of strategies such as high levels of insulation, airtight construction, and high-performance windows and doors that prevent heat loss. The Passive House approach also includes the use of passive solar design strategies to take advantage of natural heating and cooling sources such as sunlight, shading, and ventilation. The goal is to minimize the need for mechanical heating and cooling systems, which are often the biggest energy consumers in buildings. Certified buildings are highly comfortable, healthy, and sustainable, providing a high-quality indoor environment with stable temperatures, good air quality, and low noise levels; huge unquantifiable benefits of Passive House. To be certified as a Passive House, a building must meet strict performance criteria for energy use, air leakage, and indoor air quality. This certification process is rigorous and has many checks along the way, from design stage through to completion. This ensures that Passive House buildings meet a high standard of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, not just on paper but for its entire lifespan. It must be noted that Passive House design principles can be applied to any types of buildings, from single-family homes to large commercial or community buildings. At AU we also strongly believe that the WikiHouse system is ideally set up to work with the Passive House principles. We believe Passive House is the best way to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in buildings while providing a comfortable and healthy indoor environment for our clients. Get in touch if you would like to learn more or discuss a project you have in mind. 1/1

Autumn 2022 EZINE06 - Download Now Architecture Unknown October 2022 News ​ Welcome back to the Autumn Edition of the Architecture Unknown Ezine where you can get all your AU News update fixes. It’s been a very busy season with exciting updates from the planning side and some new interesting projects. We have now moved our office to The Royal Mills in Ancoats and have welcomed Premdyl to the team, who has just joined in a Part 2 role. To all our friends, clients and casual readers, as we head into autumn we hope you had an enjoyable and great summer of 2022 so far and hope to see you over the coming months. Follow us on our social media and website to keep up to date with our latest projects. Until next time, Daniel AU Co-Director ​ PLANNING SUBMITTED Our project of a full width extension and refurbishment to provide a more spacious kitchen in Chorley. ON SITE Brooks Road project - enhancing an 80s eyesore by renovating and extending the front to accommodate for an open plan kitchen, dining and living at ground floor and rearrange the first floor to make best use of the cramped layout. UPCOMING Our Ashley Drive project has received planning and is ready to go on site soon! Oswald Road, a side extension and attic conversion in Chorlton in currently at tender stage. EXPLORING DESIGNS The Royal Canal Housing Scheme, a masterplan of 11 homes, is currently in an exciting exploratory design phase with wall and floor finishes, suitable for modern yet playful spaces. PROJECT UPDATES The Old Vicarage, Bradford The aim is to provide a new headquarters for the RootedIn charity, with multi-use community spaces that would make this building fit for purpose again. Whilst the core aim of this project is to create a space that is not only warm and uplifting but which would help and inspire people in the community, the spaces need to be flexible, easily adaptable, with room for change and opportunities. Rooted In Community led housing, Allerton This project sets to inspire people that better is possible. We hope to give the people of Allerton a sense of pride and ownership of their neighbourhood while giving them a place to grow. By utilising the four components of agency: Reflection, Purpose, Growth and Ownership as broad themes, we hope to show how we envision people to enact these different aspects of agency within their lives. In the background of each of these images will be an interesting and aspirational architectural response unique to each image which could house the outline brief given to us, merging 52 homes into the surrounding landscape. 1/4

108 Manchester Road Existing Basement and ground floor plans Rear elevation Existing 1/4 Client Private Client Location Stockport Budget £100k Collaborators ​ Downloads ​ Infill Extension to a Victorian Terrace The project is a full refurbishment to a Victorian terrace in Greater Manchester, that aims to reconfigure the existing plan layout on the ground floor and create a connected family space. The client was keen to integrate wildlife in the design by including a bee-friendly shelter sitting in a white concrete panel at the base of the picture window, and connecting the house to the rear garden. Aesthetically, the proposal blends subtle modern elements with the original Victorian features of the house in order to preserve the character of the dwelling. There is a strong emphasis on textures and contrasts, with a rich, warm and luxurious palette of colours and materials.

079 Brogden Grove 1/5 Client Private Client Location Sale, Manchester Budget £100k+ Collaborators Andrew Coop - AKW Engineers Ltd Downloads ​ Conservation Area Action Internal renovation and rear extension to Edwardian end of terrace house to open up and extend the ground floor. The aim is to provide a spacious elegant open plan kitchen, dining and living room at ground floor that is light filled and embraces the courtyard to the rear. The project’s core aim is to make this house fit for modern living and a possible future family home. The layout is currently cramped and lacks any type of pleasing flow or connection between spaces. There is a need for updating the decoration, modernising the kitchen while an increase of natural light and courtyard interaction are required. The proposal seeks to rationalise the available space, maximise natural light and make this house fit for modern living by adding a minimal extension to the rear of the house. This changes the existing confined space into a generous open plan kitchen-living-dining that would bring the family together during their every day activities. The design creates a modern but understated one storey extension with a wide, open kitchen which flows into both the sunken living room and dining space. The dining space and living are naturally lit, with a glazed elevation to the garden and a rooflight over the dining area. The space to the rear is enclosed with a polished concrete plinth that provides structural support to the walls but also helps define the lower seating area while it can also double up as seating, space for plants or pieces of art. At the basement level, the floor and stairs will be upgraded to comply with current building regulations and the void space at the rear of the house will be turned into a utility room. The existing stairs connecting the basement to the ground floor will be excavated and replaced with new concrete stairs, finished with oak steps.

044 Mass Customised Community Homes 1/9 Client Digital Woodoo Location Ulverston, Cumbria Budget ​ Collaborators Clayton Prest - Architecture 00, WikiHouse Trust - www.architecture00.net Power to Change - Funders - www.powertochange.org.uk Downloads Full Report - www.bit.ly/3gbbBaw Researching Community Led Housing A serious piece of research requires a serious introduction! We were asked to collaborate with Architecture 00 to plot the future course of micro-manufacturing and distribution of WikiHouses in the UK for up-and-coming manufacturing startup, Digital Woodoo. Our remit was to examine the construction industry as a landscape ripe for disruption, show how the tide might be turned in favour of communities and community owned businesses and propose a business model for Digital Woodoo. We showed how: The current provision of housing is failing even the more basic standards of provision and that the strangle hold that big developers have over the majority of housing is both unsustainable and highly disruptable. The values of community-led housing groups and innovative small-to-medium sized contractors can be aligned to the mutual advantage of both using WikiHouse. A design process based on clear communication, managed expectations and mutual respect could be forged through the adoption of a three staged information exchange standard, the Design Code, Design Guide and Design Passport giving cost certainty but also freedom to these potential partnerships. This hypothesis might work in action as we designed ten unique homes that respond to the individual desires of a simulation group of users and the theoretical constraints of both the Design Code and Design Guide. We modelled these people living in their homes over time and showed how each home might be adapted to meet the requirements of many different types of key life changes demonstrating both the flexibility of the WikiHouse system and meeting the requirements for a lifetime home. Out of all this we showed how Digitial Woodoo could find a niche as both an advocate of Mass Customised Community Housing and a manufacturer/erector of WikiHouses, championing the causes of communities across the North-West.

Spring 2024 EZINE10 - Download Now Architecture Unknown April 2024 Article Welcome to the Spring Ezine! Welcome back to the Spring Edition of the Architecture Unknown Ezine where you can get all your AU News update fixes. The daffodils are coming to bloom and the days are getting longer! We have some very exciting updates from various projects that are moving into construction and introducing new projects in 2024. To all our friends, clients and casual readers, as we head into spring we hope you have a great time celebrating the several bank holidays and we hope to see you over the coming months. Follow us on our social media and website to keep up to date with our latest projects. AJ Library: https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/9064 COMPLETED!! For the readers that have been following us for a while, you may recognise elements of this completed rear extension. The zinc cladded angled saw tooth infill is now home to an open plan kitchen and dining that connects directly to an outdoor deck and garden. More images of the project can be seen on the AJ Buildings Library or on our website. IN PLANNING The ‘Black’ Box is an infill rear extension that aims to create a stark difference to the existing with dark brick detailing and the usage of standing-seam zinc. Unlike the outside, the interior has a strong emphasis on naturally lit spaces. The provision of larger windows will make the dining room more comfortable and inviting for entertaining guests. BREAKING SOIL With spring coming, we have several projects starting construction within the next few weeks. Ranging from WikiHouse community builds, to attic conversions and full home refurbishments, it’s all exciting times for us here at AU? WIKIHOUSE IN A HISTORICAL PARKLAND Ulverston Ford Park Community Group exists to manage and maintain the green space of Ford Park and aims to enhance the quality of life for the people of Ulverston and surrounding area, by providing recreational facilities and a wide range of community based projects, activities and events. The floor plans for the community centre are designed around the flexibility of the mains spaces. We have deliberately created a non-symmetrical divide in the spaces to better serve the diverse needs of the community. These halls (or hall if the dividing wall is open) will provide a generous space for all types of usage. The main halls are lit from almost every direction but particularly the North-east facing front elevation that looks out towards the car park and the fields beyond. 2024 Spring Update 2.jpg 2024 Spring Update 22.jpg 2024 Spring Update 24.jpg 2024 Spring Update 2.jpg 1/4