Today’s seminar began by discussing in small groups what we had found by visiting 32 Cambridge Street and researching Sheffield Retail Quarter document:

• Run by Sheffield city council and focuses on the centre of town.
• It is a chance for local communities to voice their thoughts and opinions
• It consists of the area around Barkers Pool, Pinstone street and Moorehead
• It will bring in jobs, visitors, choices and links, such as in transport, businesses and the city’s layout.
• public spaces. design ethos is to use materials that refletc the geological features of the peak district. inside different.
• on a slight hill next to an alleyway. 3 storeys of windows. buildinga attached to the right, near a road, pavement parking outside, behind the largest department store john Lewis. red bricks, bethel sunday schoolat the top, windows around side, triangular roof – pediment, graffitti on the walls outside, slanted road on the alley also. single door on the left of the building, two small chimneys at the top. on same road as a few restaurants and small shops. view from front window is of JL’s large concrete walls. Distribution kept at a low by building the new places in phases. Dina has knocked through to 32.

What would I like to know more about 32 Cambridge street?

• What has been used as in the past?
• Its shape and size – dimensions.
• Where the stairs and doors are located. Are there any bathrooms?
• When was it built?
• Who was the architect?
• Why was it bought?
• When did it change ownership?
• How many rooms does it have?
• What are the interior regulations?
• Specification.
• What are/are there any health/safety hazards?
• What materials and joining methods were used in its construction?
• When was the extension?
• Does it have a backyard?
• What style is its architecture?
• Sustainability.

We also looked at research methods that we should use and what they involved – primary and secondary data.