easaHQ GUIDE TO THE SPACE
Feb 19, 2016
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.
Mancunian Way
Whitworth Street West
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Liverpool Road
Oxford Road
Oxford Road
Hulme Street
DeansgateOxford Road
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
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Gallery 1
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GaLLery 2
Gallery 2
Gallery 2
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Gallery 2
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GaLLery 3
Gallery 3
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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
[email protected] 07851 557167
easa010MANCHESTER