These businesses are not 'parasites' feeding on regeneration, but are creative trailblazers that help initiate regeneration. They understand and appreciate fragile local ecology and want to contribute but not impose themselves. The building will engage with local urban life as much as possible. It will merge the new workspaces into the neighbourhood.

Agile minds evolve amongst the intense creative mess of libraries, laboratories, workshops and art-school studios. They appreciate space with robustness, volume and light and avoid applied finishes and design gimmicks. Their workspaces are infused with their activities and methods; evolving studios rather than completed visions. The architectural design will be a tough, hardwearing background to creative endeavour, not the foreground.