ADAM:

Great work Adam. Really interesting, and love the way your research is being turned into physical production, collages, new types of maps. Love it. I'd also like to see more accurate and close-scale mappings of the terrain of the site. How is the site edge to the river? What marks, indentations, evidence of former occupations and uses are there, that could act as triggers for your intervention? Series of sections, close plans with textural zoom-outs, etc would help us feel and smell the site in an evocative way.

It's not clear what your programme and brief is exactly. It needs to be very clear in two weeks' time! Area schedules, the lot. if you're interested in a contemporary manufacturing facility, what is your take on:
A) What is currently being manufactured today, in this part of the world, and might be in ten years', or 20 years' time?
B) How could the language of this manufacturing process (whatever that may be) translate into an architectural language? It is true to some degree that Brunel's train sheds adopt the langauge of the trains themselves, but they also had fronts which adopted a very different langauge. Do you think this combination is better than a singular approach? Are there ways you can explore this combination in a communicative way?
C) 19th C factories were places of work, but also to live, and to some degree to play. They included houses, shops, places for recreation, for worship, for dancing round the May Pole. Could a contemporary place of manufacturing include spaces and facilties for more than just work? Have the reasons for such proximity and diversity changed? or perhaps they haven't.
Lots to think about, and a short space of time (two weeks) to have this settled.