Studio Pen & Inc

“This studio explores, through live collaboration, balances to be found between social, economic and environmental sustainability to create vibrant, happy, places to live and love.

It is impossible to build a better world if one cannot first imagine it.”
Lesley Lokko

About Studio Pen and Inc

Studio Pen&Inc projects are crafted with local collaborations and real-life scenario at macro and micro scale. Our themes are: ‘liveable cities’ and ’fragile futures’ – nurturing social, economic and environmental sustainability in the creation of healthy and vibrant places.

The Studio pen and Inc teaching team is an energetic crew whose core have worked together for several years combining their symbiotic practice and academic experience to create a studio of mutual exploration, collaboration and aspiration.

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2023-2024 Projects Overview

2023 2024 scenarios are the third pair of Studio projects in a live multifaced collaboration critically thinking on the High Street renewal of Huyton. A thriving high street should be the commercial spine of its local area. A destination itself, it is a place for meeting and exchange. Our Projects based at its TIP and at its TOP aim to bring vibrancy and colour to the community.

TIP: In preparation for celebration of 200 years since Stephenson’s Rocket and the start passenger rail travel, projects imagined a carnival hub with public realm creating Huyton Station Gateway and celebrating its unique role in history

TOP: Focusing on former village heart and reusing empty units, projects imagined a High Street Culture Hub for cultivating a future of creative innovation in Huyton

Project scenarios are manifested through s a collaboration between Liverpool School of Architecture, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Architectural Emporium with 2024 guest collaborators One Day Regeneration. (of Huyton Village Green) and Walk the Plank.

This high street location of an on-site exhibition 18-30th June 2024 is exactly where some of the projects are based. Funded with School of the Arts Research and Development Initiative Fund

ARCH 302 semester one project – TIP: a temporary Carnival hub and station Gateway

Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.’ Edward de Bono

Passenger train travel, a revolutionary creation in mass mobility, began 200 hundred years ago, between stations of the Liverpool Manchester Railway. In 2030 operating train stations along this route will celebrate this bicentenary.

Huyton Village will, we propose, host a series of events throughout the year, beginning and culminating via an Exhibition/ Carnival hub at its historic station.

The Carnival will process its High Street from Tip to Top igniting community celebration and creative industry – looking back at history to look forward to a fresh future.

Considering the 2030 Bicentenary celebrations as a ceremonious activa­tion of the whole rail line from Liverpool to Manchester, the proposals around Huyton Station will create something distinctly local that has its place in the collective story.  

The project explores the typology and opportunities of the meanwhile and the demountable building, the specific public space, the cadence and temporality of activity and the tectonics of specific materials to achieve this.

Working with the historic rail background looking back to celebrate stories, histories, cultures, people and identities to post-war high-street towns to support them.

With fragile futures and sustainable ambitions looking forward to a more sustainable and optimistic future, transport, tech­nology, making new stories, giving new life, usage and meaning to post-war high-street towns to adapt.

This project is the first in a pair to celebrate the uniqueness of Huyton Village and to focus on the reanimation of its High Street Spine

#live collaboration #looking back to look forward #celebration#catalyst #stephensons rocket #innovation

Guest tutors: Junjie Xi, Luca Csepely Knorr,
Guest Collaborator Liz Pugh _ Walk the Plank

ARCH352 Semester Two – TOP: Culture House

“What we make, makes us…architecture needs to (..) focus on how to build humane architecture and celebrate human scale, for humans by humans. “  Anupama Kundoo

Moving to the Top of the High Street and switching focus to the permanent in semester two, students crafted a group of empty high street shops into a venue for the cultivation of a future of creative innovation, circular economy and learning in Huyton Village.

The propositions created ‘a place accessible to those who wouldn’t normally go to cultural venues or libraries,’ a place for our carnival celebrations to land and be embraced, a High Street gateway.

Looking back, students together gathered and expanded their local cultural knowledge and re-purposed 1-8 Derby Road, located at the former heart of the village.

Looking forward students created a venue to animate renewed spirit and reason for being on the high street. A ‘laboratory of fun’ that believes in every person who walks in the door then, let’s them choose what they want to do. From learning how to read, grow or handle, tools, paint, food or babies. A place to sit, watch a film or just listen to a favourite tune. Somewhere to dance, talk or be cheered up.’’ [onedayltd]

This project is the second in a pair of live collaborative projects to celebrate the uniqueness of Huyton Village and to focus on the reanimation of its High Street Spine.

#highstreetlife#performance#diffuselearning#celebration#circulareconomy#innovation#buildonbuilt 

Guest Collaborator: One Day Regeneration
Luke Cooper: Architectural Emporium

Tutors

Sandy Britton
Sarah Green 
Tony Lees 
Simon Cadle 
Sian Atherton 
Jack Dunne 

Collaborators

James Duncan (KMBC)
Mark Bingley (KMBC)
Fei Chen (LSA) 
Luke Cooper (Architectural Emporium)

Special Thanks

Liz Pugh (Walk the Plank) 
Chloe Clarke (One Day) 
Matt Bell (One Day) 
Giles Wheeldon (Ian Chalk Architects)
Rachel James (FCBSTudios)
Ardi Rexhepi (Ford Rexhepi) 
Dave Gilkes ( DK Architects)
Mia Tagg (Make CIC )
Leon Patel (Global Grooves)
Sophie Percival (Studio SP)

Luca Csepely Knorr (LSA)
Junjie Xie (LSA) 
Carlos Medel Vera (LSA)
Stuart Gee (LSA)

Student Galleries

Last day of studio (photograph by Martin Winchester) 

Students

  • Samirah Ahmed
  • Byan Basahey
  • Jingxue Cao
  • Alfred Champion
  • Wenxin Da
  • Xiaotong Dai
  • Pengjia Dai
  • Simran Dudhrah
  • Harrison Farrar
  • Carla Fry
  • Sam Glossop
  • Nathaniel Iglesias
  • Sherry Ingham
  • Kasey John
  • Haoyu Li
  • Yanxiao Liu
  • Jamie Malavi
  • Ella Mead
  • Situ Musokotwane
  • William Peers
  • Wenxin Qin
  • Xintong Shi
  • Ana Smith
  • Fred Snell
  • Theodora Townsend
  • Emily Walker
  • Yunyi Wan
  • Yirong Wang
  • Xinyi Wen
  • Shiran Xiao
  • Yitong Xie
  • Yihan Yang
  • Yueqian Yang
  • Zhongqi Ye
  • Ziyu Zhang
  • Junzhe Zhang
  • Xin Zheng