David Mellor Cutlery Factory: ‘The Round Building’ Research & Drawing Exercise

You should produce 1 x A3 hand drawing (pencil on paper) which communicates the Sustainable Systems in place on the David Mellor Cutlery Factory building. The building, known as ‘the Round Building’, was built in Hathersage, Derbyshire in 1989.

Imagine you are the original designer of this building, which has just been completed, and you are looking to communicate the sustainable (all 3 pillars) features to your client who has a particular interest in this area.

You will need to research the building extensively (with critical thinking) and find out

what elements of the design and construction contributed to the building’s ‘sustainability’ credentials. You will then need to produce a drawing that communicates and explains all these elements effectively. Use of text and labels is inevitable but you are encouraged to show things graphically wherever possible (try to minimise the use of text).

It is up to you to choose which type of drawing(s) is/are most suitable at communicating the work and how best to communicate the sustainable features within that drawing. Proper consideration of this, in the context of the purpose / audience, is an important part of this assignment. It could be one drawing that uses the whole page or more than one on the same page. Drawings should display sustainable features collectively where feasible (i.e. do not produce a separate  drawing for each feature). Drawings should be broadly to scale.

Submissions should include engineering drawing conventions, i.e. border, title block, labels, lines (type and weight), hatching, legend, view titles, (e.g. plan), dimensions, text, etc. Information sources must be referenced, references should be typed and submitted on a separate page.

Image of the building on next page. Make sure you research and draw the correct one!