Our first meeting with the client (Sheffield Homes) was a good opportunity to find out more about the organisation, clarify and develop the brief together, and think about the logistics of what could be possible in the next 5 weeks.
Janet Sharpe and Richard Hawson attended the meeting on behalf of Sheffield Homes and gave the group a detailed picture of the origins of the ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation) and the work that is involved in the day to day and long term management of Sheffield’s social housing stock. Janet spoke in particular about the challenges of waste management, bringing all of the stock up to the Decent Homes Standard and working with a variety of typologies and construction systems.
Two possible ideas emerged as elements of the brief; Examining a particular non-standard housing typology (Orlit Houses for example) and exploring how to make the houses structurally and thermally meet building regulations, or Address the underused garage sites/plots within the city and the potential for these to be transformed into more useful/ creative/ community space.
The Live Project Group decided to consider the two options, over the next day in order to make a decision on which project to take forward.
Watch this space for the decision...
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