We asked everyone in the office to name their favourite project of 2020. Olia has chosen Trinity Digs, a scheme for affordable office space for the community which was granted planning late last year for Trinity Community Arts.
Trinity Arts Centre
Trinity Digs - planning consent secured for providing additional accommodation for desk spaces and kitchen/coffee bar with outdoor seating.
The Trinity Centre occupies the Holy Trinity St Phillip’s, a Grade II* Listed parliamentary church. Originally built in 1832, the church was declared redundant in 1976 and was appropriated for community use in 1977. Continuing the tradition of a community hub and music venue, the centre today also provides recording and broadcast studios, training around media arts and technology. It also holds a licence to perform civil ceremonies! The centre is run by Trinity Community Arts TCA.
TCA’s mission, which has never been more important than in these really difficult times, is to: “use the Trinity Centre to engage the local community of all ages in imaginative and socially inclusive projects.”
Working on behalf of Trinity Community Arts, gcp secured planning consent to carry out capital improvements so the site can host and support even more community activity. The proposals, developed and approved following several months of consultations with key stakeholders will see customised timber clad containers installed on site, to provide affordable, low-cost, sustainable hot-desk space as a base for community partners, emerging artists and local start-ups. The Digs project has minimal impact on the historic setting of the listed building and aims to release space in the exiting building for additional programme related activities, therefore has the real potential to consolidate the long-term financial resilience of the centre.
Given the Grade II* Listed status of the site planning was complex and demanded working closely with the planning and listed building officers who were keen to minimise the impact of any development on the historic setting. Therefore, the elevations of the listed building have been studied and analysed, leading to the creation of a vertical and horizontal ‘grid’ that informs the timber cladding for the new building.
gcp team is passionate about supporting community groups and voluntary sector organisations, and for over 20 years has helped organisations like TCA make the best used of their assets.
bristol open doors
It is Bristol Open Doors http://www.bristoldoorsopenday.org.uk/ this weekend and gcp are supporting Trinity Community Arts https://www.3ca.org.uk/.
We have developed a long term masterplan of the site and you can visit the centre on Thursday 7th September and Sunday 10th September between the hours of 10am and 4pm.
Place, Time + Architecture (Bristol)
The Architecture Centre is celebrating 20 years of people and places in Bristol with their exhibition running between 9 September & 13 November 2016.
Three projects we have been involved in feature in this exhibit: Trinity, J3 and Filwood Green.
Beautiful images taken by Frances Gard, check out her website or follow her on twitter.
gcp Bristol 2015 Update
gcp are hosting a series of events at Trinity Arts Centre on Thursday 18th June. "PassivHaus Thursday" is free to attend and will include two talks, an exhibition and design surgeries.
To celebrate Bristol 2015 European Green Capital and Bristol BIG Green Week gcp Chartered Architects have teamed up with European partners from Austria and the UK to showcase the very latest thinking on PassivHaus, the world leading ultra-low energy design standard.
PassivHaus Thursday builds on a similar event gcp ran last year. All bookings can be made by going to gcp’s website.
Read more at the Passivhaus Trust.