Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS GIBSIDE PLEASURE GROUNDS THE NATIONAL TRUST Paul Ring Associate Professor

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Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 2 | The National Trust National | The The Truman, London Truman, | The | The National Trust Andrea Couture | Andrea Gibside Hall, Gateshead Hall, Gibside Paul Ring Paul Ring Couture Andrea Interventions Gibside Proposition Design Heritage Buildings and Historic Environments Historic and Buildings Heritage England East North Gateshead, Trust National The 2020 - 2014 England Natural University Northumbria £55,000 - £7.6m Gibside Hall andthe widerEstate Trust National The Couture Andrea Mick Wilkes; General Manager Gibside Estate www.northumbriaarchitecture.com/research URL Title Area Client Venue Budget Curator Location Function Output type Collaborators Co-exhibitors Funding source Funding Principal Researcher Practical completion Practical Research Collaborator Research Support/acknowledgements 1. Project Details Project 1.

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Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 4 the the defining the Gibside this work has has work this (Mick Wilkes, Gibside “innovative “innovative through its use , which challenges the dogma of (Southern Green Landscape Architects and described by Ingrid Samuel, the National explored through several design interventions, each presented to the Metropolitan National Authority and to Trust, the public; via the a £10K Gateshead exhibition pavilion designed by the research authors; a traveling exhibition; and a publicationthe design work to a to broader national audience. displayThis important and timely work resulted in the of a creation design strategy for the estate and an approved Spatial Plan that has become known within the National Trust as the Gibside model restorativeconservation preferredasmethodology. a This research work is; and presentation of end use strategies at the initial funding application phase” Trust). National Manager, Estate A £55k seed, rising to £7.6m National Trust Funding has been awarded to redevelopment undertake programme, as an stimulated estate work, by wide with this funding from this secured fixed to interpretation providepavilion (£50K), to a make the hall safe- so that the public can funding to respond access to the design research it- directly to and further architecturalwallsfabricateanthe intervention within of the hall. Known within the National Model Trust as Trusts Historic Environment Director, as heritage asset that will set the national principles for ruins, manages Trust National the how become an exemplar, stimulating further institution wide Creative Partnership University between and the Northumbria National Trust matched NLHFplus £3.6m National at Trust Hall(£7.8m; Seton Delaval funding) and with the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Hartlepool for speculative redevelopment of the museum (with potential for funding up to £30m).

Design Research Partnership is a body of work that centres Set within the historic Georgian of Pleasure Grounds Gibside Estate, the Gibside Derwent Hall River, is estatethe approximately Trust, Nationalthe Newcastle. Managedby located 10 along miles from boasts a compendium features of in the pursuit of engineered the picturesque as landscape well as a number of outstanding examples of architectural heritage. Most significant of these which is is Gibside the Hall principal a building Scheduled Ancient upon Monument the listed (SAM) estate, building Grade and II* Bowes-Lyons. the former residence of the Gibside Interventions upon Gibside Hall through engaged research praxis on the architectural interventionmethodologysustained the heritagefor protection of as a significant 01). assets;adaptationcontinuityas (Fig The research was Ring crafted and co-author and Andrea curated establishment Couture, by through of the Paul a with the National Trust as a the vehicle appreciated for value enhancing of the heritage assets Gibside within estate. Declaring the hall as an epicentre of such heritage on the estate (Fig 02 & 03), the work provokes alternative uses for the hall as a means to Monument a fortifyasfuture its to and access provide of outstanding cultural significance. with Commencing a Conservation Management CapitalNaturalEnglandfundWorks £55K Plan, a stimulated this work disrepairasassessextent and of thehall the survey to a pathway to determining suitable uses for Gibside’s Grade II* listed hall, which had fallen into a state dilapidation. HistoricIn of 2007, England placed the hall on its Building at Risk register and and its social architectural significance is as much regional. national as Without a it use is and investment there substantiated was fear that the building would ultimately radical were uses New, forever. lostbecollapse and Fig. 03 _ Gibside Hall | aerial survey of the ruin Courtesy of the National Trust 2. Summary 2.

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Underpinned Underpinned by a longstanding building adaptation and rehabilitation enquiry, within this the heritage research approaches territory, to moves the challenging conservation of typical heritage asset. Building conservation is primarily the concerned with preservation of prevention of any continued the decay or demise. Often, heritage asset the visitor experience and and heritage interpretation are the then applied to the asset post-conservation to works include referential narrative of visitorbroader a within the event isolated an asand works conservation experience. The conserved asset is deemed sufficient enough to in itself be to attract visitors, through passivea visitorexperienceasset the read asstatic to fictionalmanicuredlandscape. a dormant,within and By reframing the heritage asset as environment a and viable beyond spatial monument, the research places the asset at the centre of heritage the framework stakeholder’s as a catalyst for estate master- the testsanalysisOptions development. and planning validity of radical propositions that in turn stimulate cultural and economic change for the stakeholder by reimagining the heritage asset as a valid architecture to be occupied, used and experienced. The research challenges dogma by creative reuse methodologies to applying the heritage asset adaptation through speculative and and actual and heritage adaptations towards attitudes stakeholder redefined which visitor. the Fig. 04 _ Re-Imagining Gibside Hall | plan view of a speculative intervention proposition to reoccupy the ruin 3. Statement of Originality of Statement 3.

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The Research practice included the specific, design of site poetic non-permanent, and facilities that sensitive, enhance experience the permanent and visitor sustain interest, and stimulating repeat visits to the boarder out.estates masterplanroom/adaptation the estatefrom whilst redefining the A mix-method approach was employed the to unlock potential research of (secondary analysis the of literature, archives) scoping site, facilitating including an the unique historical characteristics in-depth of each exploration asset, contribution and their of to local fabric. and national The socio-political employment based of a methodologies interviews, multiple co-/participatory design- (including practice-related design,activities, drawing analysis, making, praxis stakeholder phenomenological and studies and developed research options that was analysis) novel in its to approach the restoration of propositions the redefined asset; the stakeholders how views speculative the on asset; their understanding of its significance to thewiderredefined estate; theirmaster-planning and conservation management strategies; capital stimulated funding financial to stability though increased undertake visitor numbers and works; revenue streams; and improved provided project opportunities. related employment Fig. 05 _ Re-Imagining Gibside Hall | section of a speculative intervention experiental proposition for the ruin 4. Statement of Rigour of Statement 4.

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The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and defined a value based evaluative methodology for preservation and * Alois Reigl (1903) Origin conservation, determining an approach thatvalues to determine a conservational offsets approach. inherent and implied The research attainment of a contributed £7.6m capital fund to develop new facilities to that enrich the inherent the commemorative successful asset and historic whilst valuesrenewed user and allying withutility values as a itscomplement to asset.* the ensureTo the new facilities proposed were sensitive to the historical context of employed mix the methods site, to establish the perceptions research of historic affirmenvironments, end-user requirements and develop site sensitive and poetic new specific facilities within the concepts estate that redefine how leading the National Trust considered to its approach to heritage and the redevelopment of its estates. The research work stimulated place-making, revenue-generation, and educational opportunities, to enthuse the public and funders about the history futurethe for potentialtheir and sitesthese of The research also established a methodology for the National Trust that can be applied nationally, it for model a provides it and change attitude has provoked follow. heritageotherestates to Fig. 06 _ Re-Imagining Gibside Hall | interior view of a speculative experiental intervention proposition for the ruin, depicting the low definition disturbance created the by installation 5. Statement of Significance of Statement 5.

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of outstanding cultural significance cultural outstanding of Trust Trust in 1966, who manage the wildlife, agriculture estate.wholeheritageandtheassets of Now a Scheduled England; list Ancient entry Monument 1017224), building this is (Historic Grade situated within II* Grade listed I (Register designated of Parks land and Gardens of Historic Interest), is an exemplar of a Georgian Jacobean adaptation dwelling to and a has high high evidential value. was constructed It in phases, from - 17th 19th Century and has been unoccupied for well with over exception 100 to years, its requisition by the during Land the Army First World War (Fig 04). Some to damage the building has been anecdotally this attributed period, to along with general abandonment neglect. and Its significance to the region meant that was it often the backdrop to significant socio-political political05). includingrallies events, (Fig Currently on the ‘Buildings at Risk’ register (updated; Gibside2018) Hall stands as a significant monument within the region and the social history of the nation. The commissioned Conservation Plan concluded it to be Brown). Gibside Estate and connection Hall with have the Mary Eleanor been of Bowes marriage the with 1400s, the as back family recorded lineage in as far Bowes to John Lyon, the 9th Earl of Strathmore, 1760s in as a pivotal moment in history. their This mutual merging family of major spotlight families upon the estate brought as a it became increasingly central to the Strathmore’s identity Bowes-Lyons. theas 1800s, earlythe residents until as continuous It is during the 1700s when Gibside underwent greatest the development, but it sorrow. was As also chronicled a in Wendy time Moore’s novel, of historical Wedlock: How Husband Met His Match Mary(2009), Eleanor GeorgianBowes Britain’s married Worst Andrew Robinson Stoney, Lieutenant, by succumbing a to his deceit former and quickly Irish enjoyed he whilsthome own her prisonerin becamea the family’s wealth. Escape and recapture eventually which of allmaltreatment, of afteryears divorce to led brought scandal to the family. Previously known as Blakiston Hall, it underwent significant extension by George Bowes in the 1770s and early 1800s (by the 10th Earl). John Dobson, a celebrated architect from the region, designed unrealised alterations the to hall attributecanthe we periodthat this to is it and 1814 in architecturalcurrent articulation.itsand name The family reached wealth their during the greatest 1800s and were influence influential in the industrialization and of the region; thus, aristocraticland society of within influence position of maintaining a owners of Britain. The Queen LadyMother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, often summered at Gibside as a child. Through the lack of eventual sustained abandonment, occupation the and Hall is became between ruinous 1930-50 and was Grade II* listedwith the roof and floors removed. The Queen Mother in 1950, Nationalthe to over estatehandedthe Fig _ Gibside 07 Hall | the Land Army girls at the north elevation and main entrance (1916) Courtesy of the National Trust Fig. 08 _ Gibside Hall | Conservative Divisional Rally a t t h e n o rBeamish t Museum h e l e v a tCourtesy i of the National o Trust n (c193 0 ) 6. Historic Context Historic 6.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 9 (an ornamental ferme ferme ornée . support one of the most important reptile and left Fig. 09 _ Gibside Hall | interior elevation photometric survey Courtesy of the National Trust Within the grandeur of a Georgian Pleasure ground, Gibside Hall is a manufactured principal landscape visual of node the estate. within Considered as an the early exemplar of holdsestate the agriculture), partaesthetic,part farm; a significant position within our of landscape national design heritage and speaks to an learned internationalaudience. Gibside Hall sits adjacent a to Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI), Conservation Management observed Plan (Simpson & Brown) within to … the amphibian Gibsides assemblages in with … Newtspeciesof native three allincludes which North East England, a nationally significant number of species waxcap [fungi] The Hall is home to a number of European Protected Species of bats, Natterers and the Common and Soprano Pipistrelles. including Long Since Eared the species, reintroduction of Derwent Valley many in pairs 2007, the are known to nest Red Kite within Gibside Estate. to The hall has become the a natural habitat for a wide range of flora and fauna during its sustained period of inoccupation (Fig 06). 7. Natural Context Natural 7.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 10 1. extantbuildingadaptation to approacha can How site-specifichistoricalheritage narratives convey inhabitantsformeritsand estate (the about the societydesignedthrough to family) Bowes-Lyon propositions. 2. heritagebuildings of unlockreuse creative theCan qualitythe of improve estate, the of potentialthe preservingwhile realm, publicits improve and place uniqueness. and identity its 3. exhibitionsspeculationsdesignandcan engage How stakeholdersandpublicdecisionmaking theon in of ruinsinterventionsbuiltthe within of design the Hall. Gibside 8. Research QuestionsResearch 8.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 11 design interventions, such as art exhibitions, installationscan help reveal andembedded narratives to of building the to led contexts that the and public the the heritage asset, its adaptation and its future use. Historic and Trust as National the such Organizations England welcome collaborations with academia who challenge normative methods of estates developing whilst their stimulating debate first through speculations design that build upon distinctcontribution. research This research potential of explores heritage assets, contemporary and developing requirements, them for while reconceives conserving asset’sidentityboth is mannerandcharacterthat a in the the biographical of the host asset and auto-biographical of the intervention. The production propositions of and speculative alternative uses for the narrativeor asset,07) astherapy spacessuch for (Fig. heritage based promote awareness experiences of 08-12) (Fig. itssignificance alternativeanduse of as innovative an preservation method. This method extant preserves heritage the whilst narratives.and layers spatial addition of thethrough fabricating future heritage Primary and undertaken from secondary historic and sources, research topographical archaeological sources andderive haspoetic, narrative based and meaningful design literary works been to assemblages as architectural interventions. They are sited within, and adjacent theto, heritage assets and test the research enquiry that a heritage estate can be master planned from the room, or heritage asset outward. The conservation and buildings are preservation important investments of in our culturaland historical historical heritage. Our built heritage connects people with the past, provides a the and sensecontinuation promotes and identity, regional of national of local traditions and regional and national cultural values. Heritage buildings also benefit the economy through increased tourism, the creation of new jobs and investment in associated In cultural addition, amenities. reinvestment has into environmental historic benefits buildings is as preserved embodied and energy the avoided. demolishis physical energy required to This design research promotes new approaches to heritagehow assets place-makingutilizedcanbeasa and educational device and how non-text based Fig. _ Re-Imagining 10 Gibside Hall | interior view of the ruin with a thermotherapy proposition intervention 9. Research Context Research 9.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 12 Fig. 11 _ Re-ImaginingFig. 11 Gibside Hall | interior view of the cafe anteroom from an experiential intervention proposition for the ruin

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 13 Action research was employed in collaboration - with the National Trust to around heritage assets evaluate with the intent to propose an their practice innovative change in approach. Taxonomy Conceptual design iterations Drawing Model-making methods Construction Spatial analysis Participatoryactivities research Text-based Phenomenology research Theoretical Fieldwork Photography survey Topographic researchDesign andTrial error experimental processes design researchDesign-led research Historical research Typology experience User Diagramming Interviews/user consultation Scale modelling methods fabrication Digital analysis/study Site Visiting similar building types Secondary analysis of papers, reports, literature, Inscriptive methods: including site analysis and Phenomenological research through interviewing Analogue and digital drawing and modelling to Generative or exploratory research through Qualitative and to stakeholders, participatoryother and public the with undertaken research has theenhance facilities to new develop to considerhow been heritage asset. This has included public consultation using focus groups, questionnaires, semi- structured interviews, and exhibitions of design work (including drawings models, both physical include: methodsemployedresearch and virtual). The - surveys (both digital boundaries conditions and and site threshold, pathology, analogue) to and establish constraints, (interior, access, anterior, exterior) of the asset circulation to establish an and appropriate views mass, form intervention. and location for the - test the intervention relationship and to the existing asset and as its a narrator of spatio-architectonic 09 enquiryresearch the (Fig. withinconditions setthe & 10). - surveys archaeology, exhibitions and building (building precedents on topics related to the research pathology, questions. - topography) visitors about their perceptions of historic environments as beholders of lived value. social and experiencecultural architectural, and their - interviews and contextual requirements. user end and intervention enquiry to affirm the - Evaluative research throughfeedback on visitor the design research process and(formative) stakeholder(summative). outcome designed the and 10. Research MethodsResearch 10.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 14 1920 Trust leaving the Hall ruinous leaving and in desrepair until its and in desrepair Army battalion practices battalion practices Army ownership by the National by ownership almost destroy Gibside Hall, Gibside almost destroy 1860 - 1918 over by the Army. by over Gibside passes through Gibside passes through ownership before being taken taken being before ownership 1790 - 1820 Mary Milner. ealdest sone, John, who Gibside is taken over by the by over Gibside is taken first marries into the Delaval the Delaval first marries into family, then to a servant girl, a servant then to family, 1785 media of the time. which was covered by the by covered which was and fleas to London. He is London. and fleas to begins divorce proceedings, proceedings, begins divorce formally arrested, where she where arrested, formally Mary Eleanor escapes Stoney Mary Stoney Eleanor escapes 1780 at Gibside. Stoney almost bankrupts Stoney Mary-Eleanor, sqandering sqandering Mary-Eleanor, incarcerates Mary-Eleanor Mary-Eleanor incarcerates her wealth and inheritance and inheritance her wealth and truling over Gibside. He and truling over 1777 married Andres Stoney. married Andres 1767 John dies and Mary-Eleanor John dies and Mary-Eleanor Gibside and is quickly Earl of Strathmore; the of Strathmore; Earl married to John, the 9th married to of George Bowes inherits Bowes of George Mary-Eleanor, the daughter the daughter Mary-Eleanor, name is created. Bowes-Lyon 1721 on its landscape. 1713 is married. George Bowes, the youngest the youngest Bowes, George child of Francis and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth, child of Francis fell in love with Gibside estate estate Gibside with love in fell money and time invested and daughter of Sir Francis of Sir Francis daughter with the estate left to the left to with the estate Bowes property when she property Bowes Blackston, it soon becomes it soon becomes Blackston, Hall. 1603 - 1703 1603 - 1703 1540 ‘The Great Storm’ hits, Storm’ ‘The Great almost detroying Gibside almost detroying hall by William Blackston. Blackston. William hall by construction begins on a hew begins on a hew construction marriage of Roger Blackston Blackston marriage of Roger and Elizabeth Marley. Gibside Marley. and Elizabeth becomes Blackston property. Blackston becomes 1384 1200 the Marley family regain regain family the Marley of the Marley family die, family of the Marley leaving the estate to the to the estate leaving daughter of Richard Marley. Marley. of Richard daughter ownership of Gibside. Many of Gibside. Many ownership ther Bishop of Durham. to Gibside, then owned by by Gibside, then owned to first documented reference reference first documented above _ Re-imaginingFig. 12 Gibside Hall | concept diagram; an abstraction of the Bowes-Lyon lineage as a histogram to form and set out an intervention array

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 15 right _ Re-imaginingFig. 13 Gibside Hall | axonometric diagram locating anapplied intervention array as a depiction of Mary incarceration Eleanor’s

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“Gibside will set the national principles principles national the set will “Gibside attested that; ruins”. manages Trust National the how for Thus, this research has altered the way in which the National Trust develops its estate planning and how it considers development plans throughGibsideHall, henceforth.raised of Theprofile for other estates Heritage NationalTrusts the haswork,resulted in this Futures work centring on Futures is a Gibside National Trust Hall programme to historicmanagement of the approaches (Heritage to innovative consider Gibsideruins). Hall has been selected as the National Trusts focus for this national initiative, national resulting policy in and guidance being shaped operationalthegrass from directlyexperience a asGibside, at roots approach. A key aspect of this relates to conservation the principles around ‘value’ with a specific focus being ‘community value’ as drawn out of this research work. Visitor numbers (2018- year per to 300,000 to (2013-14) year per Gibside180,000 have increased from 19) during the partnership timeframe increased revenue of bringing more than £1.5m an (£1.2m entry plus £360k spend) with the initial speculative Gibside Interventions work stimulating an of 40,000 visitorswith immediate (2014-15) a real-time revenue rise increase of entry(£40k £160k plus spend). £120K It is envisaged that this number will increase significantly with the realisation of works within by this and research and the instigated accumulated funding£7.6m from National Trust Capital Investment secured on this. of back the Mick Wilkes, General Manager at Gibside attributes the increased presentation of demand the design interventions produced to and their the impact planning. development creation upon and the estate and estate with Ingrid Samuel the the Gibside model The research has narrativesandinterventions withinheritagethe asset developed designthat derive from; site-specific concepts, historical research on the formation of the estate; the Bowes-Lyon family and their relevance to a national framework of social and industrial heritage; building pathology studies and of the Hall to inform archaeological the facilities. new of design and The research outcomes illustrate of the the significance Hall through and well-conceived the spatial act interventions juxtapose of that building contemporary adaptation and architectural materiality against language the ruinous, of historic the fabric Hall. Interventions character of respond that which to is extant the and absent that spatial to which conjure memory is of past spaces. Through a deliberate avoidance of simulation and conjectural representation, the interventions draw essence from of the the Halls reading of previous its spaces architectural orthodox. and independent historyboth through are that forms new and a establishes The design research uses the Hall as unlock the potential a of the wider catalystestate by providing to an estate-wide design strategy in that is that innovative it outward. emerges The from received success the instigated of a room/intervention the design work masterplan estates has that choreography, redistributes reorders back the of activity and house places the Hall at the centre of the visitor offer. This improves the quality of place through the rediscovery of the intended sitemanufactured landscapes lines, as vistas a and journey Hall toward the and toward the intervention, revenue whilst opportunities providing for National regional Trust practice. now internally The refer to used the as method (National (National Trust Historic Environment Director Fig. 14 _ Re-imaginingFig. 14 Gibside Hall | simulating experiencing the proposed intervention array as a physical metaphor of the Bowes-Lyon lineage, moving towards Mary Eleanor’s incarceration 11. Research OutcomesResearch 11.

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*** (1844) byWilliam Gibside, County TheLuck of Barry Lyndon (1975). (1975). trauma of Mary the Eleanor Hall Bowes incarceration by Bowes)** at Andrew through Robinson installations. creates Stoney One aural and (Stoney- proposition spatial disturbancesarrayed through installation an that chartsmisfortunes the of fortunes the and navigation family’s through the hall linage towards the as location of a Mary Eleanor’s asRoom - (Fig.09 a 11) Horologium of physical experiences. Liberty is later experienced through the belvedere (Fig. 12) as the installation to deconstructs reveal the painterly captured by Turner in his work, view 1817 of the Durham Derwent, the Seat as of the Earl of Strathmore. ** The story of Mary Eleanor BowesBowes was fictionalised and in Andrew Robinson Stoney- Makepeace Thackeray and adapted in StanleyLyndon Kubrick’s film, (Ring, P. (2019) (Ring, P. (2019) This work has thus instigated further design research project for the authors at both Gibside and at other National Trust properties. has An been a immediate reconsideration impact of Garden the estates and Walled Garden masterplan Cottage which within has a successes, attracted designed a further designed University funding pavilion, in collaboration with JardineCouture, by and Northumbria the commissioning of Diarmuid Gavin, a landscape architect, to reinvent the walled garden paradigm. The National Trusts significance extends to recognition the planned redevelopment of of Seaton Delaval Hall, acquired this by the Trust in 2009 works and the formation of between an Northumbria institutional University partnership and the With Trust. the author as a Project NationalLead and Principal Investigator within that partnership, £150k £7.8m from funded a project (£3.6m NLHF Trust plus matched National funding) has Northumbriaawarded to University researchprojects been approved and as part of a community engagement and experience focused redevelopment of the estate Rising Stars: a University). Northumbria Creative Partnership. Newcastle: The work phenomenological research that reflects embeds it, making design upon interventions that consider the Descartes ideas on Essence, Deluzian theoretic Immanence and Baudrillard’s Simulacrum and to fabric authentic architectural space that belongs within but does not belong to the Hall. It is an amalgam of its woven narratives and spatial aura and avoids false manifestation representation as through a its constituent present part condition. of In the speaks doing of Halls its so, place in time, the within the linage Hall, intervention of and the of the multitude of the proceeded historic it. significances Speculative works draw upon the Fig. _ Re-Imagining 15 Gibside Hall | simulation of Mary Eleanor’s liberty view from the belvedere as an endpoint to the intervention array

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 18 This exhibition allowed the visiting public to view and view exhibitionThis public visiting to the allowed respond to the intervention proposals and allowedthe local authority to of the appreciate ruin and the its significance plight. The showcased work was on also been local television articles. and in newspaper 15), Through (fig 2014) Couture, ReimagingGibside& Hall(Ring the the research has associated been shared the nationally, National including boogazine Trust Executive, and has been with shared General Managers from many Trust other properties National as a paradigm development. for heritage asset provocations speculative its and work exhibition of An on the restoration and adaptation of Gibside Hall was held at the Old Truman Brewery, London, (Fig. 13 & audiencenational a broadcast significanceto its to 14) and to one beyond the North East region. Supported by the associated publication (Ring & Couture (2014) Reimaging Gibside Hall), this exhibition profile raised the of the Hall The and the exhibition wider Gibside contribution Estate. proclaimed to a national Gibsides heritage Georgian framework significant landscapes of and heritage culturalmemory. assetsvessels of as to the significance of More broadly, the work contributes and international to discourse a on heritage national assets conservational and practices and is contributory to the contemporaneous practices national being groups, such as Heritage explored Futures. by (Funnel, R. 2016) and it is the most visited “one “one of England’s best surviving Georgian Gibside Interventions was through exhibited a at purpose exhibition and Gibside built was seen lightweight by visitorsGibside is to temporary the Estate; landscapes” National propertyTrust in the North of England, now with in excess of 300 000 visitors per year (National figures). Trust The exhibition was Gateshead opened and by Metropolitan was Authority’s the Annual Conference, part Mayor held at Gibside in 2014, to promote of the research of work to widerpoliticalthe communitysupport andto funding the Gateshead works. capital for applications Fig. 16 _ Re-imaginingFig. 16 Gibside Hall | Exhibition diagram 12. Dissemination 12.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 19 Phase2b: Design and developmentmasterplan, capital works and an initial interpretative of a pavilion to walled convey the Garden importanceGarden of the visitors Walled JardineCouture). (Northumbria University Impact: NT and funding committed (£7.6m to the development in of phase total) 2b. with £5m Phase 3: 2020 - 2022 with the aim of providing architectural intervention that occupation of permits the Hall. public declarationsignificance the of Impact: NT’s evidentin and visitor of the Hall to the attitude national consciousness to and heritage stage. itsdevelopment the at applications assets, with future funding The economic impact responsethroughdirect isfunding increasedand visitor twofold; it numbers has and it has ignited motivated further development activity. funding and hasit activated Firstly, critical funding act uponto the research work, to secure the future of the Hall and to the broadened design masterplan that the research has impacted across the estate to join up restoration and development opportunity. The funding extent is a of total of £7.6m this through three phases: Phase1: Speculative design propositionII* listed, for Gibside Scheduled Ancient Hallaimultimatewiththe regionallyprofile andnationally, (Grade Monument) to raise being its removal from Historic England’s ‘Buildings at Risk’ register via a phased interpretationoccupation. project and remedy, of pathology, Impact: Natural (£55,000) to survey (and repair England parts) of the Hall and Capital a Northumbria Works University Public fund Impact Engagement Activities and Fund (£2184) for publication exhibition. and Phase2a: Design and development of principally interpretative works, through exhibition architectural content, to activate structure visitor of appreciation the and Hall, its occupation history, present and use. plight and future Impact: NT funding (£7.6m in phase2a. development of the committed to total) with £50,000 Fig.17 _ Re-imaginingFig.17 Gibside Hall | Exhibition at the Truman, London 13. Economic and Societal ImpactSocietaland Economic 13.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 20 Secondly, Secondly, income to the excess estate of £1.5m has from entry increased ticket sales in (Gift and spend Shop, café and restaurant) through visitor increased numbers. from 180,000 to over Visitor 240,000 in dissemination of this research work and risen have to the year numbers of the associatedthroughPhased projects.300,000 beyond increased Mick Wilkes, Gibside Estate General estimatedthethat estate could see doublinga this of Manager, has revenue and visitor number on completion of the full worksoutlined. This additional investment in the research informed estate, projects, through promotes the value the of estate and the research to the localsociety and wider and to the within. Gibside educational is value used embedded by for local national schools as curriculum a projectslocalscholars. to placement site and offers work The research has impacted work undertaken within the the university too, bringing development of situated research through and the context education rich location placements,instigationfor volunteering of venueand opportunities at Gibside. The design work has elevated the educational offer and expanded the Trusts enrichment profile. Fig.18 _ GibsideFig.18 Hall | site visit and survey

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 21 significant monument within the regionnation as one and of the outstanding cultural significance. Awards, such as the National Trust Creative Project Reuse of the Year 2014 and the Interior Educators Interiorist of the Year indicate 2014-15 the reach (a and impact national of the award) research work and evidence the authorityspeculative through development estate to approach of its paradigm shiftdesign research as a front-end process. activity within the ‘Gibside ‘Gibside . (Mick (Mick Wilkes, “innovative “innovative through which demonstrates As a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Historic England; being andbuilding listed II* Grade a 1017224), entrylist situated within Grade I designated land (Register of Parks and Gardens of Historic any work Interest), that fundamentally retains the existence of Gibside Hall as a preserved monument would be significant. This research work elevates the significance beyond this, interpreting occupation and use of the Hall through intervention and narrative based works awareness. national that and regional affirm The research has funding, in facilitated phases, the to save decline Phase(£150,000 attainment the 1) through photometry Hall and of from further structural surveys, and latterly phase(£50,000 2a) to provide public with interpretative access to the Hall works Future interpretation.interventionandthrough (Phase 3) to allow full and continual access and use are now within the framework for the National Trust, research, this of significancerecognisedthe have who known within the National model’ Trust as the its use and presentation of the end initial use funding strategies application at phase” Gibside Estate Manager, National Trust). On Gibside and through this work, Ingrid Samuel, as it definedhas the Director, HistoricEnvironment Trusts National heritagethe asset thatwillnationalthe set principles ruins manages Trust National the how for Gibside Hall, as the home Bowes-Lyons, to has connections the to mother, Strathmore’s is the centrifugal to and Queen the industrial age throughits implicit coal, is an lead important and reference equality point mercantile movement to at heritage, the the and time woman’s international and significance has to national the of socio-history Britain and work has the protected and common provided longevity wealth. Scheduled to this Thus, Ancient this Monument that stands as a 14. Significance 14.

Northumbria University Architecture Portfolios GIBSIDE INTERVENTIONS / page 22 Couture, A & Ring, P (2014) Re-ImaginingGibsideHall (2014) P Ring, & A Couture, Newcastle:Northumbria University Northumbria (2014). P. Ring, & A Couture, Available Issuu. [online] 2014. interiorarchitecture https://issuu.com/unninteriorarchitecture/docs/ at: northumbria_interiorarchitecture_2025 [Accessed Nov. 2019]. Northumbria University (2014). Henderson,T. revival Gibside Hall’s studentsfor visionpresent at: Availablejournallive. [online] Journal.The - http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east- news/northumbria-university-students-present- vision-7328264 [Accessed 25 Nov. 2019]. GibsideVisionsfor Northumbria.ac.uk.(2014). Hall to be revealed. [online] Available at: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/ news/2014/06/student-visions-for-gibside-hall-to- 2014]. Jun. 16 be-revealed/ [Accessed Fig.19 _ Re-ImaginingFig.19 Gibside Hall | publication (2014) 15. Related Publications Related 15.

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