Ruin to Redemption Part 1 Project 2020 Lewis Foster-Jeapes Loughborough University | UK Ruin to Redemption seeks to reclaim the derelict Eldon Grove site to make the area socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative, inspiring change at the core of the community. My scheme focusses on a communal approach that generates a localised uplift, using the library as a catalytic framework to grow. Building on skills that are ‘learnt through doing’, a physical action manifests itself more thoroughly into memory than that read conventionally, which has become a concept generating ethos. My library approaches the site through the lens of an ecosystem that ignites a ‘co-operative endeavour’ to rehabilitate the site as part of a communal process. To reinstate the existing buildings, small interjections in the form of ‘silos’ have been used as part of a ‘ribbon language’. This is used to mould the space around user activity whilst each is subtly adapted to accommodate for the transition, connection, and habitation for each space. I believe that the approach of an ecosystem can help integrate both the architecture and its stakeholders to cultivate a place that community re-builds itself around. A Library providing a sense of identity that incorporates the ‘decomposers’, ‘consumers’ and ‘producers’ enabling ecoservices that; regulate, provide and influence. Tutor(s) Robert Schmidt III