Overview

Snow Hill Homeless Centre is one of the largest Hostels in Birmingham. In an effort to help keep homeless people off the street, the Centre is undergoing a 10M renovation.
 
Not new to innovative design, Hulme Upright Manning architectural firm is working with Fabric Architecture’s design team to create a 250 m2 bespoke canopy covering the internal courtyard at Snow Hill.  Set for completion mid April, the installation of this canopy will be complex.
 
In order to make the courtyard useable year round, a canopy was added to the renovation works. The complexity lies in the structure of the building.  The internal courtyard for the Snow Hill Hostel is on the ground floor of the building with the existing building five levels around on all four sides - surrounding the courtyard. Steelwork will rise out of the ground almost six stories tall to the tips of the conics. 
 
The design result is a conic structure with six conical points.  Inspired by the conic shape of one of Fabric Architecture’s Signature Structure, the Triple Conic, this conic is very unique.  Each conic point is off set from the other creating a visually stunning pattern when viewed from underneath.