"We raise people's design ambitions, and enable them to answer questions like 'what does this design say about me?"
If you ask people to point out high quality buildings near where they live, they mostly choose historic buildings, like churches or old houses. But when people set out to achieve the same level of quality on present-day projects, they are faced with widespread pressures trying to persuade them to dumb-down their original vision.
The youth team led development of the our design to produce an ambitious and inspirational scheme for a new public space and community pavilion. The intensive involvement allowed the young people to learn about the value of different spaces, contribute strategically to the design process and establish key design principles.
We supported the group during the early stages of this project by programming, co-facilitating and documenting the development of the project. We also supported a communty-led approach to design by encouraging shared decision-making between us as architects and the young people as the users of the project. (back ...)
above: cover from CABE’s ‘It’s Our Space’ design guide, in which FG!’s youth design project is published as an exemplar
above: extract from construction design drawings of the pavilion