Granby Street, once a vibrant hub in Liverpool's most diverse area, saw most of its streets demolished after numerous failed regeneration projects. The community was scattered, but a group of determined residents launched a campaign to reclaim their streets. They cleared, planted, painted, and campaigned for over two decades. This effort led to the formation of the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust, which hired Assemble to create a vision for the area, turning empty homes into affordable housing. This initiative built on the residents' hard work to refurbish housing, improve public spaces, and create new opportunities for the community.

The approach was characterised by celebrating the value of the area’s architectural and cultural heritage, supporting public involvement and partnership working, offering local training and employment opportunities and nurturing the resourcefulness and DIY spirit that defines the four streets. The outcome of this vision has been the realisation of a number of projects including 10 Houses on Cairns Street, Granby Winter Garden and Granby Workshop.

The main principles of the studio are very close to my project ideas:

• Assemble seeks to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in their work

• Celebrating the value of the area’s architectural and cultural heritage

• Improve space and create new opportunities for the community. In my case to create the community itself from scratch

• Dharavi is the world’s most extraordinary slam

• How people use space, every inch is prized

• How space here is flexible, how it changes with people’s needs

• The most inspiring place I’ve ever seen

• We put people into boxes and destroyed the community

• Human beings love the complexity, staff to interesting and varied and textured and delightful and we do not respond to everything being in straight lines and painted white, because we get bored of it very quickly. We get bored of housing estates, industrial estates, and shopping centres, because they don’t offer that depth and that layering

• Dharavi without planning or design is doing in 20 years what our society did in 200

• They do definitely seem very happy. These are the sort of community values that people in Britain would love to see

• Architects, planners and even Prince Charles are convinced that this slum has something to teach us

‘I strongly believe that the West has much to learn from societies and places which while sometimes poorer in material terms are in many senses influently richer in the ways in which they live and organize themselves as communities’

• We lack in our cities a strong sense of community, safe neighbors, and employment rate

• This place is deliberately trying to screw your mind

• It’s always easier to knock things down when you let them develop anywhere. The first inevitable instinct is to destroy everything, to remake it. This should be remodeled in a major way

• Hidden gem

• Ideal place for communities to live in

• Dirty, wild, dangerous, full of crime - how slums look from outside

• Dharavi is a place of extraordinary contrasts. It is an embryonic city humming with human energy and determination

• People here are happy, welcoming and hugely proud of where they live

• Low-impact sustainable life

• How space can be multi-functional and share

• The pride of place and community creates safe neighborhoods

• Improving this place would be far more beneficial to the people here than redeveloping it

• What have we got wrong, but they’ve got right. We’ve spent last 60 years since the war pursuing the material at the expense of pursuing happiness. Whether the material is necessarily bad, but that actually the important thing is to be happy.

• How little we really need to make us happy

• Deal with the bad and not destroy the good

• One thing that has to be preserved is that warmth, that sort of connection between all of that happiness

Conclusion:

• People create their perfect environment according to their needs by themselves

• Poor people dream bigger, less borders

• Less staff and comfort -> More happiness and pure beauty

• Do not create from scratch, but to improve. Do not destroy, but remake

• Low-crime environment is creating by the pride of place and community

• Happiness is a key. A really little is needed to make us happy

So now I'm going to create a space where the community will be invited hugely in its development and improvement. The space will not only celebrate the value of the cultural heritage but also create new opportunities for the community.

35 Kyrylivska St.

• Years of construction:1892-1895, 1908-1909

• Area: ?

• Condition: abandoned, in need of restoration. Currently, there is a revitalization project that does not include the preservation of all the valuable buildings of the plant.

• Protected status: the modern building is an architectural landmark

• The type of ownership: private

4 Kontraktove square

• Years of construction: 1983-1990

• Area: 12752 sq.m.

• Condition: abandoned, in need of restoration

• Protected status: architectural monument of national importance

• The type of ownership: state

22 Reytarska

• Years of construction: 1913 – 1915

• Area: 3446.3 sq.m.

• Condition: abandoned, in need of restoration

• Protected status: monument of architecture and history

• The type of ownership: communal

This project is going to be on the intersection of art, architecture and design.

The results have given me a lot to think about. The main discovery is that, both in my primary and secondary research, creatives from different parts of the world are seeking community and networking. Following closely is their passion for learning and professional development. While information in various formats is highly accessible—such as online books, exhibitions, performances, podcasts, and videos—what is truly needed is a community that shares close values and principles.

Implementing my idea in real life is becoming increasingly complex.

I narrowed my project to the one exact space on the ground floor of the building which occupies part of the interior and part of the courtyard.

My intention is to create a model of a kid's playground for this space which will be used for the exploration of national culture, identity, and unity of the community.

The place of each image on the board was chosen not by chance, but it reflects it's position on the actual map of Ukraine.

My aim is to play with shapes and scales.