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Setting out plans for full-scale modelling, 2Up 2Down/ Homebaked, Liverpool
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3D sketch view of proposals for 2Up 2Down/ Homebaked, Liverpool
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Expertise in domestic retrofit, energy efficiency and renewables
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Regents Park Hub, London by David Morley Architects
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Sustainable cities and urban design - Liverpool figure ground plan
Design Tutor
BA (Hons), Dip Arch, M Arch, MSc (Dist.), ARB, FRSA
Marianne Heaslip is a design tutor and a practicing architect and sustainability consultant. She undertook her architectural training at Liverpool and Sheffield Universities, completing an extended dissertation on participative design processes in housing regeneration to gain the MArch award at Sheffield. She holds an MSc Architecture: Advanced Environment and Energy Studies from the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, where she gained a distinction for her thesis on user responses to sustainable technologies in retrofit. She has worked in practice in London and Liverpool, for David Morley Architects and PTEa respectively. She has a long association with URBED in Manchester, having worked there during a second year out before studying for her Diploma in Architecture at Sheffield, and she continued to help deliver their ‘Homes by Design’ and ‘Neighbourhoods by Design’ training courses after this. Since 2009 she has worked at URBED across a broad range of projects from masterplans and sustainability strategies, to low carbon refurbishments of individual homes and retrofit strategies for whole regions, and the production of research and policy documents specifically focused on low carbon technologies in urban settings.
| Teaching Activities |
As a practitioner Marianne brings insights from practice and interactions with real clients to student design projects on the MSc SAS. She encourages an approach to design which questions assumptions about how people live now and in the future, and how technologies perform in practice. She asks students to use their developing skills of environmental analysis to test and experiment with design proposals, but also to consider wider issues such as inclusive design and how sustainability is affected by issues such as transport and food supply. This is with the aim of producing design proposals that are rigorous in their research and application, but also conscious of the wider societal, environmental and economic context. Design projects often work with real-life clients. This provides benefits to the client groups, who are often part of local community projects, but also benefits the students by encouraging them to fully engage with the complexity and contradictions inherent in any real world project. Students are thereby encouraged to develop their critical thinking skills as practitioners. Design Tutor for: |
| Research Interests |
Marianne’s research interests include the interaction of people and technology and the effects of ‘sustainable’ technologies on people’s everyday lives in both retrofit and new build. She is particularly keen to examine how users are accommodated in current design approaches to sustainable technologies, and how they might become more involved in the deployment of such measures. She has also been involved in post occupancy and building performance evaluation, and the development of sustainable design approaches at building, neighbourhood and city scales. As a practitioner she aims to be involved in research in a real world context, never more than a step or two away from a design decision. She hopes this in turn can inform and improve the processes that will help us as a society to achieve a more sustainable built environment. |
| Professional Standing and Distinctions |
2008: Admitted to the Architect’s Registration Board following successful completion of the Part 3 exam through RIBA North West (ARB) Ref 074598G 2011: Fellowship of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) Ref 6013211 |
| Publications |
Reports Baker, C., Kalkantzi, E. and Heaslip, M. (2012) Local energy assessment fund: Developing a whole house assessment method. Manchester: Carbon Coop and Department for Energy and Climate Change Baker, C., Heaslip, M., and Moody, A. (2012) Local energy assessment fund: Community Heating Study. Manchester: Carbon Coop and Department for Energy and Climate Change Dodd, N. Baker, C., Heaslip, M. et al (2010) The Community Green Deal: Developing a model to benefit whole communities. Birmingham: Sustainable Housing Action Partnership and Homes and Communities Agency Conference papers and presentations 2012 “A case study evaluation on ventilation strategies in retrofit” GM Low Carbon Retrofit, Product and Process Group Innovation Seminar, CUBE, Manchester, 28th June 2012 “Living ‘the goodlife’ in Anfield?: Brick by brick and loaf by loaf, we build ourselves”, Football + community + Architecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, Love Architecture Festival, 21st June 2012 “Low carbon Housing for Non-Experts: Usability in Whole House Retrofit” Retrofit 2012, Salford Quays and Salford University, 24th January |