This project is a 3D model, built in SketchUp, of the 1899 John Walsh department store in Sheffield, UK. Drawn from the architectural plans of Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton, accessed at the Sheffield Archives, I am attempting to create a general recreation of the building which was destroyed in 1940. This project is part of my dissertation, which is a comparative study of department and fashioning stores in Sheffield, UK and Cologne, Germany, as sites of industrialized labor at the turn of the twentieth century. Currently, the model is a work in progress, but has helped my conceptualize space and the ways in which people imbue and read meaning in and through the spaces they occupy. I have three long-term goals for this project: finish 3D model of the Walsh store so that each floor has a reasonable representation of the interior and exterior; print the 3D model so that it is materialized; and expand the project to include the Leonhard Tietz Hohe Strasse store that is also part of my study.
