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Liminal Spaces in Urban Places: What is the Design Toolkit Providing Quality of Refuge in Cities?

Part 2 Dissertation 2018
Ruzha Sirmanova
 University of Huddersfield | UK
Recent political crises brought waves of refugees to Europe. Focused on Sheffield’s London and Abbeydale Roads area, this study explores the urban spaces that refugees and asylum-seekers inhabit: what spatial tactics they employ, and what opportunities the existing urban fabric offers. The study finds that design, particularly the area’s Victorian housing, and local planning legislation, play significant roles in granting newcomers the right to imagine the city as their own.
Ruzha Sirmanova
Tutor(s)
Hazem Ziada
Mr Gerard Bareham
2018
Mumbai’s Fort Colonial Arcades has been adapted into a bazaar by the local merchants (Hernandez, 2010).
A walking interview with a Sheffield-based charity case worker facilitated identifying the areas and locations frequented by immigrants, and narrow the study area to London and Abbeydale Roads.
The fragmented nature of the urban blocks around the two roads generates a large amount of urban edges and human scale spaces which are the easiest to adapt and transform by the users.
A comparison of the change in dynamics of spatial dominance distributed along the street scape of London Road in reality, and imagined as a Parisian street, by adding an imposing institutional structure in the end of a promenade.
Small scale fragmentation of the terraced houses along Abbeydale Road.
The appropriation of al’ fina by a restaurant by using a shelter design which is carries culturally-charged architectural heritage.
The Sheffield gennel is one of the most characteristic features of the city scape along London and Abbeydale Roads – the narrow paths are often appropriated by business owners on either side.
Gated community housing development on Abbeydale Road.
All units (terraced houses) belong to the same global family and are permutations of the same base model.
British architects using the foreign kinetic architecture as inspiration for static structures in the 1950’s, thus recognising the former’s significance to the host environment.
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