Portfolio: Design Skills

1. Sara Louise Hayes
Portfolio: Design Skills

2. Contents
A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre
Final Major Project
A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre: Performer Dressing Room
Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle
3rd Year Minor Project
Sketches
Model photos

3. Above Left and Right: Restaurant
Below Left: Sketch of Theatre Bar
Below Right: Sketch of Restaurant
No. 4+5 The Parade, Market Square,
Northampton has been redesigned as a
Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts
Centre of mixed use.
It was the aim that this development
would provide Northampton with a centre
for entertainment, where a variety of
spaces including an auditorium for live
theatre, music performance and
exhibition; an art and design gallery, and
a cinema would all coexist, alongside a
restaurant and various bar areas, within a
single building.
The concept of this multi-purpose venue
is to primarily act as a 'hub' for the public
to gather, socialise, experience
something unique and be immersed in the
creative arts. The proposed
redevelopment includes an array of
spaces, laid out as a journey over four
floors that will work in conjunction to
achieve this.
A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre

4. Section perspective showing the theatre bar, main staircase
and series of balconies
Section perspective showing the main foyer, restaurant,
gallery and space for cinema foyer

5. Top Left and Right: Main Foyer
Bottom Left and Right: Theatre/ Exhibition Hall

6. This project focused on redeveloping the old premises of the
Chronicle and Echo, Upper Mounts, Northampton.
The aim was to create a place of intervention and
transformation, developing ideas that would benefit the local
community and promote a sociable environment.
The final proposal was for an exhibition space, designed to
accommodate a regularly changing programme of installations
and small exhibitions. The spaces could be used for a wide
range of exhibits including paintings, sculptures, photography,
fashion, textiles, ceramics and interactive media, as well as
lectures, talks and discussions.
Focus was given to the idea of a stage or platform where the
event or action takes place. Creating a pathway through the site
was another priority. The design of the space was inspired by
public squares and pedestrian streets such as Piazza Novona in
Rome or La Rambla in Barcelona. It was important that the
design also reflected the locations history; the frame installation
mimics the form of the terrace buildings that once existed along
Great Russell Street.
Top: South facade with views into the exhibition space.
Middle: Pathway into exhibition space
Bottom: One of the individual spaces used for group workshops
and discussions
Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle

7. Sociable Design: Echoing the Chronicle: Development Sketches

8. Model Photos
1. 2nd Year Penthouse Project
2. Creating an Exhibition Stand
3. A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre
4. A Multi-purpose Entertainment and Arts Centre
5. Creating an Exhibition Stand
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9. Sketches
Left: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama’
Middle: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama
Right: ‘London’s Calling’

10. Left Top and Bottom: ‘Kitchen Sink Drama’
Right Top and Bottom: ‘London’s Calling’

11. Left Top and Bottom: ‘Creating an Exhibition Stand’
Right Top and Bottom: ‘Nature’