Emma Archer

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This scheme proposes the redevelopment of one of the factory complexes into a ceramics reprocessing plant with learning and community resources. The proposed redevelopment creates a circular narrative connecting the past experience of ceramic manufacture to the current issue of excessive waste.

Emma graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2019 and as part of her Part I placement worked for base architects for two years before returning for her Part II education. Her key architectural interests include the regeneration of existing buildings with attention to expressing and celebrating the layering of material languages. Emma particularly enjoys the early investigation of a design brief and expressing her ideas through model making at a variety of scales.

Emma Archer, MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)

Teapot Factory

This thesis project responds to the stagnated collective memory within Stoke-on-Trent. The scheme aims to propel the collective memory through redevelopment rather than rely on Christine Boyer’s theories of ‘habit’.

The decline in industry in Stoke-on-Trent has led to reduction in building usage and dilapidation of historic pottery works, traditionally embedded in the cultural memory of Stoke. Simultaneously, vast amounts of waste that were by-products of the ceramics manufacturing process litter the surrounding land. This scheme proposes the redevelopment of one of the factory complexes into a ceramics reprocessing plant with learning and community resources. The proposed redevelopment creates a circular narrative connecting the past experience of ceramic manufacture to the current issue of excessive waste.