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Architecture students'
designs on Cemetery Chapel
A Chapel, in a Liverpool Cemetery, will
be the focus of architectural interest this week. 70 students from Northern
Universities will be visiting the South Chapel, at
Anfield Cemetery, to generate design ideas for the future of the building.
Their visit has been prompted by the Friends of Anfield's ambition for the
Chapel.
The Friends Chair, Dr Tom Bradburn explains:- "We approached John Moores
University some months ago asking if they would be interested in using Anfield
Cemetery as the location for an architecture project.Our vision is to get the cemetery off Historic England's At Risk Register and
build an International Heritage and visitor Centre by 2025. But we actually got
more than we expected from the University.
Northern Soul is a student design competition involving 10 Northern University
Schools of Architecture. They meet annually and each City takes it in turn to be
the host. It happens to be the turn of the Liverpool Universities and they have
put together a series of 1 day design workshops organised through the Royal
Institute of British Architects North West (RIBA NW) and the northern schools of
architecture. The students will work in teams on design ideas and I am sure they
will come up with some very interesting and imaginative ideas for how a heritage
centre can be developed."
The undergraduates are visiting the Cemetery, on the morning of Friday, 8 April
2016 and will then work on their designs. At the end of the day judging will take
place and prizes given out for the best ideas.
The Friends, supported by the City Council, are formulating bids to the
Architectural Heritage Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, to help further their aims
which run alongside the £260m Anfield regeneration project. |
