Here are my bubble diagrams showing how i am going to lay out each floor. In my sketch book i had a play around with different layouts and these are the final layouts which i like.
Ben Kelly - The Haçienda
The hacienda was given to Ben Kelly without much of a budget or a brief, the project was given to him and he could design it how he liked.All he was given was that he had to redevelop into a nightclub, they needed a big stage for bands to preform.
The small brief that was given : “Big bar, small bar, food, stage, dance floor, balcony, and cocktail bar in the basement. Ben Kelly was given the ultimate freedom for this place, he could design the venue in his own style. He wanted to design something which was for the people, and which the people loved. The club was surprisingly painted in light blues and greys, which is the complete opposite to what night club now would look like, it would be painted in dark colours, blacks and greys. The design of the building had such an original feel to it, like nothing like this had been done before. The industrial theme carried on throughout the building with the bold directional and waring markings, with bright red and yellow neon bar signs, bollards, and event cats eyes which marked the dance floor.
On the outside the only clue that was given was the granite nameplate, "FAC51 The Hacienda”, the code represents its factory catalogue number. I think that Ben Kellys design for the hacienda was really influential and you can see that industrial style through out interiors now, but Ben Kellys is the one that sticks out the most.
The Hacienda
As we could design a building to do with Manchester’s history, i thought why not take advantage of the word widely famous Hacienda. It was opened in May 1982 by Factory record owners Rob Gretton and Tony Wilson. This was a great investment for their record label, bands, and to give something back to manchester, to create a small or even large community. They named the club ‘Fac 51 The Hacienda’.
There was a group of them who was involved in the hacienda, being Peter Hook, Peter Savile and Mike Pickering. They would book the bands and dj’s and get everything running smoothly for the opening. Peter Savile found the architect Ben Kelly to design the Hacidena, he wanted to combined the design styles of new order and Factory records to create something new and original. The design of the building was even called ahead of its time, as it had a modern wear house feel to it, with the bright colours and open plan rooms.
The Hacidena went through many periods of music, from bands like Joy Divison, Happy Mondays, and many others from Factory records and other labels. One of the most influential times for music at the Hacienda was definitely the Acid house scene.
The Acid house scene started in the late 80’s and carried on all the way through the 90’s, they had Dj’s playing like Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard, Greg Wilson. These nights were hosted by Mike Pickering and Jon Dasliva in 1988.
The Hacienda has gone through many time periods of music, from pop to influential acid house. I want to really show this and incorporate this through my design, each floor could be a different period of time. As the building has a double height auditorium this would be perfect for performances from live bands or talks about the hacienda.
Manchesters’ music scene emerged as early as the 1800’s with classical music, but then pop music started to get more well know towards the 1960’s and 1970’s. As the years went by Manchesters music scene carried on to grow bigger and bigger, until it became word renowned for having some of the best bands including, The Smiths, Oasis, New Order, Happy Mondays, and the list just keeps going and going.
Once Manchester’s music scene had grown it started to be called ‘Madchester’. Madchester emerged in the late 1980’s early 1990’s with massive bands such as Joy Division, Happy mondays, the stone roses, and oasis. Manchester has arguably had the best and most amount of bands the Uk has ever seen. Factory records had huge play in this with tony wilson being the owner of the hacienda. At the time the hacienda club was huge in manchester and certainly known around the country. As many people loved the hacienda it was also had a bad reputation to some people seen as “the breeding ground for aggressively marketed mediocrity”.
My initial ideas for the building
When we were first shown the building and location, straight away i had a rough idea of what i wanted to create. There were many ideas flowing through my head, could it be a dance school, club, restaurant, cafe, book shop? I wanted to design some form of appreciation to Manchester’s huge music history and culture. Manchester has always had a large music scene, constantly growing and changing.
I thought that as the hacienda has been so big and influential in Manchester’s history it would be interesting to try and re-create or do my own take on a ‘modern day’ hacienda.
I wanted this new bar/club to attract people who are into music, Manchester’s history and the people who were there around the time of the hacienda. The location selected is perfect for a small night club, as its in such a lively area. close to Deansgate and Spinningfields, meaning theres lots happening, i.e bars,restaurants and clubs.
OMI Architects
The Salford based Architects have designed and re-developed buildings all round the Manchester area, including Rochdale, Oldham, Saddleworth and of course Manchester city centre. These buildings include the Deansgate Chapel, The National Football Museum and the Chinese Art Centre . They started up in the early 1990’ and they have won a number of national design awards. They have worked on many different types of buildings fromlarge scales and small scale.
The style of the buildings are very contemporary, with big windows making the rooms much brighter and accentuating the modern feel to each building.
The Forth Church of Christ, Scientist building was built in the 1950’s as office building and was once used as a car show room. The building has large windows, letting lots of natural light in and the ceilings are taller making the rooms much more spacious.
I really like the building we have been given to work with, and i think it has potential for us all to design something great. The building is in a perfect location to attract many of the public in, as it is very near the lively Spinningfields.
For our new brief occupations we have been asked to design either a building that represents Manchester’s history/culture, or a dance/performance school. The building we have been given to design is located in a lively area on Peter Street, the buildings surrounding are the Albert Hall, The Great Northern Warehouse and other bars and restaurants.
We have been given the basement, ground floor and first floor to work. If needed we have the option to use the second and third floor to develop our ideas further. The building was designed by Salford based OMI Architects.
As the building is located in such a central buzzing area, i want my main focus to be about the history of music and nightlife in manchester.
I really enjoyed this project as it was nothing like i’d ever done before. It was a completely new experience and an amazing opportunity to work with FutureEverything. At first i really wasn’t sure what to expect with this whole project, to be totally honest i really didn’t think i would have enjoyed it. I really loved working as a group as it made us all closer and helped to form new friendships. We all worked really well as a group in my opinion, obviously there was times when it was hard to work out who was doing what. As there was so many of us in a group it helped as everyone had loads of ideas. In the future i’d definitely love to do something like this again.