We are absolutely delighted to have won an RIBA East Regional Award for the Gamlingay EcoHub, and a special additional award for Community Architecture. The original refurbishment won an Environmental Excellence Award at the Architect of the Year Awards in 2012. We have just completed the project with a new youth wing and extensive landscaping, fulfilling the community's ambitions for their building.
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Dan Jones and Andrew Siddall established civic in 2006; an architecture and arts practice concerned with community-led design projects and the advocacy of users' engagement with art and architecture.
We have a strong background in collaborative working between creative disciplines and an ethos of strengthening links between lay stakeholders and the built environment.
A key difference between what civic is practising and more conventionally held ideas about public involvement in the design process, is that our client groups are neither soft partners in the consultation process, nor are they being asked to design their own buildings, rather they are being enabled to lead the design process by their own experiences and from their position as lay people.
We have a strong background in collaborative working between creative disciplines and an ethos of strengthening links between lay stakeholders and the built environment.
A key difference between what civic is practising and more conventionally held ideas about public involvement in the design process, is that our client groups are neither soft partners in the consultation process, nor are they being asked to design their own buildings, rather they are being enabled to lead the design process by their own experiences and from their position as lay people.
We bring a wealth of knowledge to community projects through our experiences in stakeholder engagement and in particular our explicit knowledge of how to assemble community centres as adaptable, responsive and income generating civic buildings.
We were awarded BD's Architect of the Year Award for Environmental Excellence in 2012, and two RIBA Awards for our Gamlingay Eco Hub in 2016.
Dan sits on Design Council CABE's Design Review Panels for Oxford and Bexley and contributes as a Built Environment Expert on community asset transfer, housing design quality and community rights issues.
We were awarded BD's Architect of the Year Award for Environmental Excellence in 2012, and two RIBA Awards for our Gamlingay Eco Hub in 2016.
Dan sits on Design Council CABE's Design Review Panels for Oxford and Bexley and contributes as a Built Environment Expert on community asset transfer, housing design quality and community rights issues.
We have completed a variety of extensions and conversions and are expanding a portfolio of projects that engage with larger scale residential developments and their associated public spaces.
Our Arsenal Green Space for example was developed in close participation with the existing residents and tenants, whilst our scheme for the Peabody Small Projects Panel was developed with a particular view to activating the public space around an urban-infill housing scheme.
Our Arsenal Green Space for example was developed in close participation with the existing residents and tenants, whilst our scheme for the Peabody Small Projects Panel was developed with a particular view to activating the public space around an urban-infill housing scheme.
Andy leads the arts projects and has built on a strong background of collaborative arts practise coupled with his particular skills as an illustrator and visual artist.
Many of our public art projects involve widespread community engagement during the creative brief writing stage and in the detailed delivery of projects.
There is a direct hand that the public have in shaping the works and in steering their locations and character.
In our latest work for the new health centre in Kilsyth, over 100 panels have been 'written' by participants on the installed sculptures: making the work a product of time, place and people.
Many of our public art projects involve widespread community engagement during the creative brief writing stage and in the detailed delivery of projects.
There is a direct hand that the public have in shaping the works and in steering their locations and character.
In our latest work for the new health centre in Kilsyth, over 100 panels have been 'written' by participants on the installed sculptures: making the work a product of time, place and people.
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