The Rabbit Hole
: The Rabbit Hole is an experiential Restaurant, Bar and Urban Park located in Sheffield.
: The project is based around giving a new purpose to a derelict building and unused space in Sheffield.
: The Rabbit Hole has been designed to create a new experience that will uncover and display the current use of the building and the issues that buildings face when they become empty and are neglected. It will push how the user feels by putting them into a different set of environments specifically designed to move the user around the space during the course of the evening.
: An underlying theme of Alice in Wonderland has been used to explore movement and feeling within a space, the design will keep the user guessing what might be coming next in the journey.
: An Urban Park will bring use to the outside space of the site, using the River Sheaf as a focal point to the space. Hidden behind the surrounding buildings the park will be a destination for people who live and work nearby.
: The project is based around giving a new purpose to a derelict building and unused space in Sheffield.
: The Rabbit Hole has been designed to create a new experience that will uncover and display the current use of the building and the issues that buildings face when they become empty and are neglected. It will push how the user feels by putting them into a different set of environments specifically designed to move the user around the space during the course of the evening.
: An underlying theme of Alice in Wonderland has been used to explore movement and feeling within a space, the design will keep the user guessing what might be coming next in the journey.
: An Urban Park will bring use to the outside space of the site, using the River Sheaf as a focal point to the space. Hidden behind the surrounding buildings the park will be a destination for people who live and work nearby.
The Beehive: The Beehive is an enterprise that offers rentable work spaces in a coworking environment as well as a cafe. It focuses on keeping the balance between working and socialising within a cafe space. This venture offers everything students, freelancers and business men and woman could want from an alternative space to work in away from the home or office.
: Recent market research shows the rise in popularity of both cafes and coworking spaces. Coffee shops are often frequented by digital nomads trying to find the best place to get work done away from their usual workplace. However this isn’t generally good for productivity due to the busy nature of a coffee shop and the lack of table space or power sockets. : The Beehive brings together the two businesses in a hybrid space, it offers the benefits of working from a coworking space, which includes the facilities of an office and networking, with a casual cafe environment. The space will have the right amount of privacy and distraction to give the customers a productive and professional space to work from. |
The Showroom: The project at The Showroom in Sheffield was a live project working with the Joint Centre Manager to redesign the bar and restaurant part of The Showroom.
: The Showroom is an independent cinema and although is well established as a cinema, the bar/restaurant gets overlooked. I worked on redesigning the back bar to incorporate and advertise the new cocktails and craft beers on offer. : I also reworked the existing layout to better serve the many uses that the restaurant sees throughout the week, such as OAP mornings and the occasional conference. :There was a tight budget which makes the project challenging but means that we need to think about creative solutions to really make use of the space. I worked on bringing in the colours and patterns from the existing branding to bring it together with the restaurant space and to reinvent the bar. : I found using inexpensive materials such as plywood and pegboard made me more creative with the ways they could be used to aid the design. |
The Invite: This concept is an interactive restaurant experience, coffee shop and food store based around the Paleo diet, a no grain, no dairy and no sugar “caveman” diet.
: The Invite restaurant created social interactions with other customers in the space by each customer moving table between courses. The Invite pushes the boundaries of the ‘usual’ dining experience. : The Coffee Cave is a coffee shop which uses only Paleo ingredients, this includes milk alternates such as almond and coconut milk, it would also serve homemade bakery products. : The Naked Ape is a food store which sells all the necessary ingredients to have a Paleo diet including all the alternate grains and dairy products, these would included almond flour and flax seed for baking. : The spaces are connected through voids in the space and feature similar materials throughout. |
Snapshots of SheffieldPen and pencils studies of areas in Sheffield.
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