OUGD602: PPP3 - Tony Broomhead

One of the many perks of third year is the opportunity to work on different briefs. Amber sent an e-mail about collaborating with an architect on a project to design a tree for life at leeds based Marshalls Mill. The mill is home to many creative studios and businesses so I thought it would be an excellent experience. I, along with several others, volunteered to do this brief with Tony Broomhead, an architect from Sheffield. I worked with Laura, Vicky and J'nae on this brief and we came up with Communitree.

Communitree is a communication tree that attempts to encourage studios and businesses to collaborate. We named the tree communitree as it represented the concept and was also a great play on words.

Working with the woodwork department we had the tree made out of wood so that it was more durable. 

Being photographed for the Yorkshire Evening Post:

article in YEP:

Holbeck tree installation is not just for Christmas

Ellen Settlefield (front), pictured with (back left to right) J nae Saunders, Steve Hunter, Tristan Currie, Sam Cook, Bobby Jones, Laura Waubridge and Victoria Redmond.

Jonathan Brown

16:50Thursday 18 December 2014

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A sustainable tree is for life, not just for Christmas.

That is the message from Igloo Regeneration Partnership, the firm behind developments in Holbeck Urban Village (HUV), which has enlisted architect Tony Broomhead to design a year-round Christmas tree.

Mr Broomhead created a ‘tree for life’ installation and held a workshop with seven graphic design students from Leeds College of Art on the concept, which led to the creation of a series of flatpack sculptures inspired by the idea.

The main nine foot tall wooden Christmas tree now takes pride of place in the foyer of Igloo’s Marshall’s Mill development in HUV.

Steve Hunter, of Marshall’s Mill, said: “We hope the tree will be a focal point in the foyer for a long time to come.”

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