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| Dennis Sharp Architects |
| DSA have worked with a diverse range of communities in the UK to look for new and imaginative ways of upgrading and reusing existing facilities to meet current needs. DSA are able to advise on the maintenance of historic structures as well as raising funding for new projects. Building community projects can also help build communities and DSA can assist with various methods of engaging communitites in participation and consultation projects. St Mary�s Church St Mary�s Church Potters Bar has a diminishing congregation of less than a 100 people. DSA carried out a feasibility study to identify suitable sources of funding for upgrading the existing facilities on the site. The intention of the feasibility study was to make the Church a much better integrated part of the community. A Planning for Real consultation exercise was organised and over 300 people attended to give their views on how the Church should be developed and what role it should play in the local Community. DSA are currently drawing up proposals for the future development of the Church and making funding applications for an ambitious programme of new development to firmly place the Church at the centre of the community in Potters Bar. Theatre and Dance DSA have designed a number of small, but precious performance spaces including the Open Space Theatre in the Euston Rd and Strawdance. DSA are able to develop innovative and unique solutions for performance and exhibition spaces. Strawdance was constructed out of straw bales and the Open Space Theatre sculpted out of an old post office. The Open Space Theatre designed by DSA replaced the earlier theatre by Charles Marowitz in Tottenham Court Rd. The converted Post Office held 120 people in a Club Theatre under the director Thelma Holt. It was largely a self build office. Links to Hugh Pearman and other articles Bevan, R.; �Hay and why; Architects: Dennis Sharp Architects� Building Design, no. 1379, 1999 Jan. 22, p. 18-19. � La danza nel bosco [Structural strawbales]�, Arca, no. 152, 2000 Oct., p. 92. Hugh Pearman, photos copyright Morley von Sternberg/Dennis Sharp Architects. An unpublished article commissioned by The Sunday Times in May 1999 http://www.hughpearman.com |
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