easaHQ: a guide to the space

easaHQguide to tHe space

The European Architecture Student’s Assembly is

an annual event like no other.

For two weeks it combines the knowledge and

rigour of a conference with the energy and passion

of a festival, and it never fails to have a deep and

lasting impact on those students that are involved.

Next year the assembly will be returning to England

for the first time since its creation in Liverpool in

1981, and Manchester is the venue. This will be an

urban EASA, connected with and invigorating the

creative scene that the city is known for.

The developer ASK’s loan of a former office building

at 43 Hulme Street made it possible for us to create

a space where interesting things can happen:

easaHQ is a venue for exhibitions and events by the

architectural establishment, by emerging artists,

by musicians and performers, and by community

groups, besides the work of the EASA network

itself. For a single brief year, it will be at the centre

of the connection between a Europe-wide network

of students and the famously original city of

Manchester.

EASA has no central or continuous authority;

every year, it is recreated from scratch in a different

European location by a committed team of unpaid

student volunteers.

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Whitworth Street West

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Liverpool Road

Oxford Road

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Hulme Street

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easaHQ

Location: First street

At the top end of Princess Road, where it joins

the Mancunian Way. Just south of the city centre:

heading south down Oxford Road, turn right at

the 24 hour Spar and keep going to the end. We’re

on the left.

Or turn south off Whitworth Street West at the City

Road Inn, under the railway and past the mirrored

domes. We’re by the roundabout, on the left.

43 Hulme Street

Manchester

M15 6AW

First Street redevelopment

spaces

Total exhibition floor area 135 m2

easaHQ has been a post office and clothing

warehouse, but it retains the interior designed by

architects Stephenson Bell for their own use. Now,

it is our office and gallery space.

The exhibition space is over two floors;

downstairs, the former reception and board room

are accessed directly through the front door

and can be seen through shop-windows from

the street.

Upstairs, four smaller alcoves open off a dark grey

corridor. Three of these alcoves have windows,

while the fourth is windowless.

All spaces except the corridor have white painted

plaster walls and power sockets. Downstairs has

an oak plank floor; upstairs is grey carpeted.

Scaled drawings are available in various formats

on request.

1 Gallery2 Gallery3 Gallery4 Gallery5 Gallery6 Gallery7 Corridor8 Seating area9 Toilets

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Entrance

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First Floor 1:500Ground Floor 1:500

GaLLery 1

Gallery 1

Gallery 1

Internal elevations 1:100

Gallery 1

Internal elevations 1:100

GaLLery 2

Gallery 2

Gallery 2

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Gallery 2

Internal elevations 1:100

GaLLery 3

Gallery 3

Internal elevations 1:100

GaLLery 4

Gallery 4

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GaLLery 5

Gallery 5

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GaLLery 6

Gallery 6

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corridor

Corridor

Internal elevation 1:100

UsinG the space

There are no charges for using the space; however,

to make up some of the costs of opening the

building we usually sell tea and cake at previews

and set out a box for donations.

opening times

There are no set opening times for the space.

However, we have found that the following times

seem to work and we suggest them as a guide:

Evening events: 6-9pm

Exhibitions: 12-6 weekdays, 12-5 weekends.

Events must not be open later than 9pm.

invigilation

Exhibitors should organise their own invigilation.

We will be able to open up and close down the

building.

insurance

The space is covered by public liability insurance,

but we cannot insure works or art or equipment in

the space and exhibitors should make their own

arrangements for this.

easaHQ First Street, 43 Hulme Street Manchester M15 6AW

www.easauk.net

Contact Thomas Bennell

tbe@easauk.net 07851 557167

easa010MANCHESTER