UEL Architecture Yearbook 2012

aceuel architecture yearbook 2012aceuel architecture - university of east london

DesignRobert Thum & Unit Staff & AVA Architecture Students

ProductionRobert Thum & Unit Staffwww. semiautomatik.com

EditorRobert Thum & Christoph Hadrys

showcase edition

May 2012

University of East LondonSchool of Architecture and the Visual ArtsDockland CampusE16 2RD

www.uel.ac.uk

introduction

olympic lecturesolympic contextecobuild - table project

level 1 architecture

degree unit a degree unit b degree unit c degree unit d degree unit g degree unit h

diploma in architecture diploma unit 2

diploma unit 5 diploma unit 7 diploma unit 9 diploma unit 10 diploma unit 11 diploma technical & professional studies

masters in architecture MA interpretation & theories MSc computing & design MA sustainability & design MA urban design MA landscape architecture research

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The energy and enthusiasm of the staff and students produce a collection of exciting projects of increasing

Design briefs from Year 1 through to Diploma demonstrate the strengths and power of Architecture to surmount

to the process of change in an increasingly unpredictable world. At UEL our students engage directly with social -

ence every day. Interaction with and responsibility for the world we live in enhances Architectural education. Focus at UEL has always been on materiality and exploration of form through a diversity of materials and an

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professional responsibilities. At UEL our aim is to develop in students of Architecture a practical and creative knowledge base through critical thinking and professional judgment. We encourage students to discover solutions

and urban regeneration projects. Architecture at UEL is a thought repository of urban and architectural develop-

realm are part of long term collaborations and design considerations. This years design briefs include but are not

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structure with on-going workshops and discussions in every room of the Architecture building. The Guest Lecture

Architects elegant Velodrome.

are produced each year to illustrate the diversity of architectural teaching and the range of approaches at UEL. This year we celebrate the hard work and impressive results in a theme of Making East London 2012.

Dr Renée TobeHead of Architecture

Introduction

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Making East London 2012

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although they are extremely valuable for our many students who will be representing us in the coming few weeks.

symbols of regeneration and opportunity. Some will look upon the new sporting venues as architectural gems that

Professor Patrick McGheeVice Chancellor

channel for engagement and collaboration with all aspects of the London

regeneration challenges for over 25 years.

with East London. He introduced thinking and working methodologies as

Green Grid and the Thames Gateway. Mark has taught at UEL and has been the Head of Design for London since 2008. He has worked for the Mayor of London since 2001 and is also a

Eleanor Fawcett talked about the complexities that are involved in the

already contains the seeds for an open and public legacy for East London. Eleanor was member of Design for London and is currently head of design of

Tom Holbrook presented the design of the Lea River Park. He introduced the overall connecting park concept within a fragmented urban context as well as

Tom is director of 5th Studio that has a focus on architecture and urban propositions.

Alison Crawshaw showed small scale projects in Hackney Wick and their potential to play a strategic role in transforming existing neighborhoods

in a participatory manner.

Olympic Lectures

London 2012:Beyond the SpectacleDiscussing the intentions, impact and legacy of the Olympic Games

ORGANISATIONHwei Fan Liang

SPEAKERSJohn LockMark Brearley

Eleanor FawcettTom HolbrookAlison Crawshaw

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Urszula Markiewicz-Sagar

Urszula is a 5th year Diploma student. The text is an extract from her essay and photography work in the MA Urban Design Theory class.

Stratford High Street and its People

Olympic Context

missing at least one letter from its name and all so outdated that they are

been perfectly respectable hair- and moustache-trims. The inside seemed

selling as well in Stratford as it did elsewhere.

Pinned to the wall inside could be glimpsed a newspaper cutting – an article

Giuseppe dramatically staring at the extent of construction works around him a little while ago. And indeed he was the last man standing – located in an

the middle one in a row of three identical houses (a neighbouring long-established newsagent and confectioner had gone out of business in the last

that now are dwarfed by a seven storey Holiday Inn hotel and a twenty seven-

Guiseppe and barber shop

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Ken and Kevin in curved glass workshop

from the changes.

with a strong element of pride. As I look around the nearly empty room

the last old business in the area has exposed him to a moderate interest of

social gatherings. This enabled me to meet more people than I have ever hoped and hear various perspectives on the past of Stratford High Street.

Ecobuild - Table Project

First Year- First Semester Open StudioTable Project extends to Ecobuild

Re-Take on MakeOPEN STUDIO STAFFReem CharifEva Hauck Kristina HertleRob HoumollerJake MoulsonDavid PhillipsJim RossAlexander Veal

Above: Co-motion Speculation:Can you inhabit the landscape as well as the city? What is the potential and possibilities of a Co-motion world?

Left: Co-motion and Eco-motion at Ecobuild exhibition.

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‘co-Motion’

Social furniture for public environments

“co-Motion” is an adaptable wooden structure that recycles parts of an old chair and found scrap wood with the aim of giving a second life to these unwanted materials. The structure in it basic form is a rocking chair for two; when transformed it acts as a tool for generating social gatherings for a number of people or it can house a personal or intimate space for one. co-Motion has the ability to create its own space or change the dynamics of a busy environment, creating a space within a space.

“co-Motion” can live in many environments within an urban context, in particular public squares and green spaces that offer a diversity of users. It aims to engage people and communities that would otherwise be less likely to meet.

In its usual position, the seating encourages two people to connect with one another. The rocking motion is a result of the negotiations between its two occupants. “co-Motion” placed on its side becomes a stationary seating for many; creating a social gathering spot. As much as “co -Motion” is a social tool, it can also be used as personal space for exercising, working and contemplating when in its upright position. In the upside-down position the “co-Motion” creates a semi enclosed space that shelters the body. When arranged in multiples (with considered variations), the structure expands to offer new social situations and territories. It can create a public playground, a rural journey and a temporary urban village.

List of materials used: 1 antique chair in pieces5 sheets of plywood (18x1220x4440mm) 3 timber pallets (47x100x3600mm) 3 used car fan belts (20x50x3600mm) 150 wood screws (60-120mm) 1 container strong PVA (2litres) 4 telephone handles

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‘Cyclobine’Social furniture for public environments

The “Cyclobine” is a mechanical device made from found objects and recyclable materials (such as: an old bicycle, wooden chair frames, tires, a hose reel and used timber) that aims to collect and produce usable energy by man-power, whilst simultaneously providing exercise for the user; power can also be collected by wind when it is not in human use. As it is peddled (or wind turned), the “Cyclobine” rotates, generating mechanical energy which is stored in a battery; when placed in a public locations, this electrical energy can be accessed and used in different way, from personal devices such as charging phones and mp3 players to social devices such as lm projectors or lighting that can address a group of people. As such, the “Cyclobine” acts as a social device that coincidentally engages people when generating energy or tapping electricity from the battery.

There are many further possibilities offered by “Cyclobine’ when adding new parts or removing some elements from its main body. These ‘evolutions’ transform the mechanical device to adapt to new surroundings and environments, including: providing an extra source of light in public areas at night, creating an outdoor cinema when powering a projector, or turning a lawn into a dance oor when extended as a music box.

Placed in the landscape, the “Cyclobine” could take on a poetic dimension by becoming a planting device that plays music. The edges of the wheel will have containers attached which carry different kinds of seeds, water, soil and fertilizer. Each time the wheel turns these will be dispersed and future owers or trees will be planted. At the same time, music will be played, encouraging the user to keep pedaling.

List of materials used: 1 antique chair in pieces5 sheets of plywood (18x1220x4440mm) 3 timber pallets (47x100x3600mm) 3 used car fan belts (20x50x3600mm) 150 wood screws (60-120mm) 1 container strong PVA (2litres) 4 telephone handles

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students were introduced to a diversity of approaches to provide a common foundation in architectural methodologies and skills. In the

program.

open studio and consisted of a series of intense short projects aimed

the whole school.

understand the variety of cultural backgrounds that make up the student body through a meal event furnished by stories from their home

recycling found materials and objects to design and make a new space

Students were encouraged to work in groups.

narrative

Students were asked to develop critical narrative about a chosen site

Identifying site / Creating a narrative through photographic storyboardContext mapping and drawings/ Film editing / Understanding of urban scale

First year Staff:Eva HauckReem CharifKristina HertelAlexander VealJake MoulsonRob HoumullerDavid PhillipsMichele RoelofsmaJanet InsullRenee TobeIsaac Cobo i Displas

were triggered from the students own childhood experiences. This led

casting and modelling of a new memory space.

context and site analysis. They are introduced to the computer to draw

ideas are explored and developed.

project and to exhibit at the excel centre London.

In the second semester students work in length on an architectural

exhibition gallery and a space of production or a communal space for the Museum of Childhood. They are separated into 3 groups of 40 students. Mondays are used as lecture and workshop days with 4 tutors and Thursdays are tutorials days with 6 tutors.

buildings in relation to their so far explored spatial ideas and the design project to come. This year we were looking at buildings and museum

photographs and the existing drawings of the Museum of Childhood

further developed.

Extending Memories:Museum of Childhood Extension, Bethnal Green

UNIT STAFFReem CharifJake Moulson

STUDENTSGolbahar Adib, Misbah Ahmed, Katie Elizabeth Andrews, Houda Basma. Yaprak Cetinkaya, Karolina Czyrko, Enes Dizdarevic, Michael Eleftheriades, Sara Erfantalab-Evini, Klevi Farruku, Spencer William Gadsby, Kent Gin, Melina Grigoriadou, Alinaqui Hudda, Syed Imam, Talha Junaid Siddiqu, Amar Farouq Kamaruddin, Nicole Landazuri, Aimon Litinas, Farid Mahmood, Nicoleta Marin, Carina Mendes, Esmail Miah, Niki Michael Farhia Mohamed, Samuel Nicholls, Margarita - Marina Pantelaki, Vasileios Sempsis, Alexander Siedlarek, Cindy Silva Pereira, Chrysoula Theodorou, Dishav Vasudev

VISITING CRITICSMaya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan.

SPECIAL THANKS TOCarolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, David Phillips, Paula Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee.

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Previous Pages: Kent Gin - Sound Chambers: exploring notions of interiority and locality through the sonic landscape of the city.

Michael Eleftheriades- Memory Space: Shifting Shadow Grids.

Below: Carina Medness - Calm Islands: Rethinking Bethnal Green Gardens

right:Samuel Nicolls - Memory Space: learning through light.

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Below and opposite page lower sectionKatie Elizabeth Andrews - The Unknown Above: A space to escape to and escape from; a childhood museum as a space for curiousity and familiarity.

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Extending memories Museum of Childhood Extension Bethnal Green

UNIT STAFFKristina Hertel, Rob Houmoller

STUDENTSNasser Ahmad, Mehdi Ahmed, Mohtasham Bahadur, Idrees Baig, Jonas Brazys, Jackie Buachie, Savvas Charalambous, Iliyas Demirci, Lauret-ta Doku, Faqeer Fakir, Mary Folorun-so, Michalis Georgiou, Hakan Gulesin, Akin Gurung, Hassan Harandi, Abu Hussain, Becky Jackson, Ilir Kabashi, Ina Kanazireva, Haroon Khan, Mary King, Eleni Korovesi, Jamal Mahmood, Joshua McDermott, Momin Miah, Airydas Mikalajunas, Chido Mutong-wizo, Muharrem Oral, Maria Paraskev-opoulou, Jazel Parkinson Actil, Sonja Rajaratnam, Ashfaaqali Sumodhee, Rahul Sunil Mirpuri, Filippos Tympas, Konstantinos Vatanidis

VISITING CRITICSMaya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan

SPECIAL THANKS TOCarolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, David Phillips, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, Paola Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee

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Opposite page, top: Konstantinos Vatanidis: conceptual collage of inbetween spaces, realisation of limits. Below: Eleni Korovesi: memory space drawing, “roof above roof collage”.

Above: Konstantinos Vatanidis: map-ping use of inbetween spaces. Proposal axo and section and model: extending conventional, and unpredictable spaces.Below: Eleni Korovesi: happy and sad spaces section, proposal models.

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Top:Hakan Gulesin, proposal for an underground extension for the museum of Childhood. Middle and below: Akin Gurung: prolonging experiences, model and conceptual drawing

Opposite page: top: Jonas Brazys, conceptual collage section, layered plan, timber model. Below: study

ground, collage and sketch models

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Top, midle: Jonas Brazys, conceptual collage: “breaking through”, Proposal section, layered plan, timber model. Below left: Sonja Rajaratnam: study

ground, collage and sketch models

Extending Memories: Museum of Childhood ExtensionBethnal Green

Titel of the unit programme [SUBTITLE YB2012]

UNIT STAFFEva HauckAlexander Veal

STUDENTSMarina Ahmadi, Ruth Joyce Akin-moladun, Khadija Athman, Seyed Alborz Bathaei Bozcheloue, Iwona Ewa Bednarek, Marie Braithwaite, Joseph Buchanan, Richard Cooke, Raghav Dixit, Sophie Dowding, Onur Emek, Matthew Fallow eld-Cooper, Josh Funnell, Farooq Ghani, Esteban Grajales, Sinem Gurgur, Liang Liang He, Anastasia Iliaki, Isuf Kajo, Gulsen Karpazli, Paula Kielczykowska, Fred-erice Koch, Hekuran Kokaj, Josephine Lyne, Rajib Manandhar, Abu Miah, Suruj Miah, Aslihan Ozer, Daniel Rolando Pilaquinga Teran, Paresh Sanghani, Kanval Sayadain, Andreas Shelis, Mark Stergios, Pratikchha Thapa, Aleksandr Vasjutin, Tiffany Maria Waddill, Joseph James Woollard VISITING CRITICSMaya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan

SPECIAL THANKS TOCarolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, David Phillips, Paola Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee

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opposite page and below: Aleksandr Vasjutinabove: Raghav Dixit

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this page: Marie Braithwaiteopposite page above: Liang Liang Heopposite page middle: Matthew Fallow eld-Cooperopposite page below: Frederice Koch

Level 1 students used an industry standard computer program as a guide to drawing the plan and a section of the Victoria and Albert

printed out and used to test and develop their proposals for an extension to the museum. Though other workshops students were also introduced to layout and image manipulation programs to present and further enhance their projects. Students also ventured into 3D with the museum site to create sun studies.

Computing and Representation in Architecture

UNIT STAFFJanet InsullIsaac Cobo Displas

Katie Elizabeth Andrews

Katie Elizabeth Andrews

Aimon Litinas

Samuel Nicholls, below

-cesses of site and context. As a counterpart to our preoccupation with the

which explore more theoretical and virtual models of architecture. The School attracts students from a wide range of countries and communities worldwide. The programme provides a cultural platform on which to de-

-tectural idea to become critical. Every member of the School community is expected to take responsibility for their own work and to contribute to the development of innovative architectural ideas. The core of architec-

your design ability. You will be encouraged to learn and develop your de-

The programme prepares you to enter the profession through the devel-opment of your creative talent in relation to an architectural knowledge

-ing and broadening the basis for thinking about making architecture.

Short project in Hastings and main project in ReykjavikMagnea Gudmundsdottir and Mark Smith

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Lea Valley in East LondonHwei Fan Liang and Claude St Arroman

Degree Unit H - LIGHTER FASTER GREENER

BSc Hons

Mark HaydukProgramme Leader

Unit A is interested in places and developing an understanding of a place through close observation and drawing. Walking, drawing and discussion are the tools the unit uses to develop the seeds of an understanding of or approach to a place. The unit has taken inspiration from George Perec’s essay Species of Spaces and believes that close, perhaps even obsessive attention to the seemingly ordinary can lead to a profound understanding of city or place.

The unit attempts to allow a strategy for intervention surface through careful analytical drawing, drawing that implies intervention. These part analytical, part propositional drawings become the touch stone for work at all scales from strategy to detail. This will lead to architecture and urbanism that is a coherent part of the city at many scales.

The unit worked initially in The Stade in Hastings on the south coast of Britain.

strikingly tall net huts are the back drop for an awkward mix of working life and visitor interest. It is this tension that the unit sought to investigate and work with, revealing the edges and boundaries between these uses of the space.The result is equally likely to be a building, a public space, a strategy for the future or a new name for a market space.

The major bulk of the work this year is focussed on the old harbour of Reykjavik, Iceland. The old harbour, like The Stade, is in decline and therefore is increasingly playing an awkward role as a host to a haphazard mix of

with the harbour’s poor relationship to the wider city this will be the focus of the units work.

value judgements about the nature of the spaces and uses found within

condition before using this understanding to propose intervention. Much of the work is focussed on revealing and working with edge spaces, lack of connection and spaces between uses which have the potential to generate friction.

degree unit a

The Inside Out House - City Thresholds Reykjavik, Iceland

UNIT STAFFMagnea GudmundsdottirMark Smith

STUDENTSVaida Drungilaite, Niki Okala, Saifur Rahmen, Anita Tulaite, Ioanna Draka-ki, Yagmur Yildirim, Anthi Tilliri, Moksud Khan, Robin Philpot, Darryl Nganjo, Nakul Jilka, Konstantina Pan-agiotidou, Liam O’Riordan, Manpreet Bhooi, Sara Islam, Yasir Ahmed, Vera Emiowele, Georgios Georgopoulos, Anna Owusu, Gergana Yotova, Angela Chatzisavva, Tabea Stroehle, Andrej Bozin, Iulia Ioana Stefan, Sevtap Polat, Khusnud Shah, Aleksejus Ragovskis, Yasir Hasnain, Sandeep Parmar.

VISITING CRITICSGregory Ross, Sigridur Torfadottir Tulinius, Mo Wong, Chris Thom, Maria Lisogorskaya, Hana Loftus, Peter Carl, Chris Storie-Mendez.

SPECIAL THANKS TOAlex Scott Whitby, Gardur Snaebjorns-son, Alex Arestis.

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Unit A, Gulfoss, Iceland

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Site analysis informing strategy on Hastings eet of beach-launched shing boats, Vaida Drungilaite

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In-between spaces, shing net shops in Hastings, Gergana Yotova

Proposed new Reykjavik high street in declining area of the shing industry, Aleksejus Ragovskis

First site analysis, looking at high streets in Reykjavik, Aleksejus Ragovskis

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The old Reykjavik dry dock is becoming integral with the touristic area by the harbour, photo: Moksud Khan

Site analysis on disconnected residential neigbourhood from the harbour, Moksud Khan

Area strategy laying foundations for new neighbourhood by the harbour and connecting residential neighbourhood with pathways and crossings, Moksud Khan

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Left: Internal view of steel structure accommodating touristic and industrial facilities by the harbour, Konstantina PanagiotidouRight: Internal view from a seaside swimming pool, Anthi Tilliri

Steel structure accommodating touristic and industrial facilities by the harbour, Konstantina Panagiotidou

Seaside swimming pool, Anthi Tilliri

for temporary exhibitions at the V&A Museum of Childhood. The second responds to the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage initiative.

process of design.

urban buildings resulted from these investigations.

We were happy when the Museum of Childhood invited us to show our

thank them for their support and collaboration.

degree unit b

Culture Industry, Bethnal Green, London

UNIT STAFF

David Bass, Raphael Lee

STUDENTS

Level 3Shin-jae Bahk, Luke Bushnell-Wye, Jesus del Toro, Andreas Diakomano-lis, Claudio Dikizeko, Robert Gillan, Rebecca Goldie, Cora Granier, Rory Hughes, Fabien Mitchell, Stylianos Oikonomou, Vasco Pereira Raposo, Helen Richardson-Crespo, Oyeyinka Richer, Jehoshaphat Sarfo-Duah

Level 2Sara al Turaihi, Qendresa Avdiu, Milena Dellacasa, Ali Baran Dilegelen, Angeliki Fouka, Eleni Gavrili, Paulina Huukari, Aaron Jones, Jeremy Knight, Baptiste Laversanne, Jim Rooney, The-odor Sarbu, Janis Stepins, Irena Stoeva, Kamila Szpakowska

VISITING CRITICS

Sam Causer, Michael McNamara, Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Jay Gort, Roxanne Walters

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Step Haiselden (TALL Structural En-gineers); Dr Carolyn Bloore and Robert Moye at the V&A Museum of Child-hood in Bethnal Green; Renee Tobe, Mark Hayduk, Michele Roelofsma, Isaac Cobo, Janet Insull and all our col-leagues at ACE; David Morgan; Stellan Fryxell (Tengbom) and many others in Stockholm; and numerous people, charities and organisations around Bethnal Green

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previous pages - Museum of Childhood timber models (left to right): Irena Stoeva, Elenie Gavrili, Kamila Szpakowska, Stylianos Oikonomou, Rory Hughes, Janis Stepins, [Milena Dellacasa]

previous page (main image) - Rory Hughes’ cloister of modest, linear volumes under a gently folded roof wraps around a garden. The building defers to the listed facade and to its neighbours

this page - timber models (above): Baptiste Laversanne; (below left to right): [Milena Dellacasa], Andreas Diakomanolis, Qendresa Avdiu, Fabien Mitchell, Jehoshaphat Sarfo-Duah, Cora Granier, Aaron Jones

this page (above) - Finding parallels between the old silk-weaving areas of Lyon and Bethnal Green, Baptiste Laversanne worked with a Lyonnais topography of traboules, to make a space of galleried passerelles and stairs

this page (centre) - Cora Granier’s study of children’s perception and of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder led to a gently subsiding version of one of the Museum’s bays. Within this paradoxical space she places a form of “wendy house”

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this page - timber models (top to bottom): Angeliki Fouka, Helen Richardson-Crespo, Luke Bushnell-Wye, Paulina Huukari

this page (above) - Angeliki Fouka’s “shark kebab” layers a canopied terrace

this page (centre) - Helen Richardson-Crespo’s gallery derives from wartime Anderson shelters, but looks outwards

this page (below) - Inspired by the East End’s anarchist heritage, Paulina Huukari’s Kropotkin Culture House addresses the adjacent park with a screen and a public lecture room

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this page - The English breakfast was an important aspect of intangible cultural heritage for Andreas Diakomanolis. He altered and extended an old warehouse building to create a breakfast restaurant, butcher’s, smokery and art spaces for St John’s “nose-to-tail eating” business, slotting into the hybrid artistic community of Vyner Street, and recycling materials found locally

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above - Rory Hughes: interior views of clock-tower for The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

left (above) - Robert Gillan: schematic of spatial provision for Art Against

and exhibition spaces in converted warehouse premises to the left, services and circulation in centre, and artist-in-residence tower to right

left (centre) - Robert Gillan: section through connecting building, with “tower” in background

left (below) - Robert Gillan: sequence of construction for structural alterations to warehouse building

are developed through digital fabrication and casting to investigate an architecture that can be self-built.We begin by studying innovative construction precedents to initiate the

Scale 1:1 Building PrototypesThe discovered building methodology is used as an initial design tool to

series of fabrication workshops where CNC milling technology is used to create moulds from which the prototypes are cast. Initially all prototypes are cast in plaster to allow for expedient production and assembly.

hands-on workshops where students learn a variety of fabrication skills such as clay slip-casting and adobe brick making.

Unit trip and SiteThe unit traveled to Spain and visited exceptional examples of both contemporary and traditional brick construction in the Catalan region.

carefully restored Catalan vault examples in 18th century Masias in the

was selected due to its tradition in brick manufacturing and construction.

introduced students to current aspirations in using locally sourced clay for the construction of affordable adobe architecture in the area.

Scale 1:20 Building ModelsIn the resolution of the project students were asked to explore their

focus was given to the completion of an original and effective building

degree unit c

Applying the Borrowed

UNIT STAFFClara Kraft IsonoSatoshi Isono

STUDENTSAnnalize Butler, Yagiz Cemberci, Panoraia Dimaki, Ayoub El-GhaoubarNoahEvans, Julia HedanderKonstantinos Iasonidis, Maria IliaNoora Kassinen, Sonia MoundoungaBaker Nsimbi, Ilias SiametisAnja Sylvester, Maria TzampazidouChun Ping Yong, Leman Zlatkova, Maxim Wesolowski

Daniel Bovington, Sandra GavelyteCuc (Ping)Hoa Hin, Adrian LeeHardeep Matharoo, Suzie NoelAmbrose Obiorah, Alexandru ShabaDimitar Solenkov, Vitali StanilaTerukazu Takatori, Leong Lai TiengArthur Trieu

VISITING CRITICSIsaac Cobo I Displas (UEL)Christoph Hadrys (UEL)Eva Hauck (UEL)Amita Kulkarni & Vikrant Tike (Studio Amita Vikrant)Guan Lee (Grymsdyke Farm)Declan Molloy (O Maoildhia Architecture)Michael Spooner (dRMM)Manos Zaroukas (UEL)

COLLABORATIONSGrymsdyke Farm -Digital Fabrication Workshop; Guan Lee, Jessie Lee, Emu Masuyama

CETAR - Rammed Earth and Adobe Workshop; Lluís Auquer Fràmis, Maria Auquer Sarda, Mariana Mas, Mohamed Ouzadouh

SPONSORSHIPWieneberger Ltd.

SPECIAL THANKS TOAll the above guest critics andJessie Lee (Buckinghamshire), Maria Auquer Sarda (Rupia), Marita Gomis (Barcelona), George Voniatis (UEL)

www.unitc11.blogspot.co.uk

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Glass Blowing Workshop, Vitali Stanila

Clockwise from Above; 1:20 Model of building proposal, 1:1 Prototype mould components, Assembly of 1:1 prototype casts and detail

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Scale 1:1 Building Prototypes;

1. Anja Sylvester, Panoraia Dimaki, Alexandru Shaba 2. Julia Hedander, Noora Kassinen, Hardeep Matharoo3. Ambrose Obiorah, Maxim Wesolowski4. Maria Ilia, Cuc Hoa Hin, Ilias Siametis5. Ayoub El-Ghaoubar, Suzie Noel,Sonia Moundounga6. Arthur Trieu7. Maria Tzampazidou, Yagiz Cemberci, Baker Nsimbi8. Dimitar Solenkov9. Leong Lai Tieng, Leman Zlatkova, Adrian Lee10. Sandra Gavelyte, Chun Ping Yong, Konstantinos Iasonidis11. Terukazu Takatori

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1. Community Square Maria Ilia2. Seasonal Community Space Julia Hedander3. Rupia Open Air Theatre Ambrose Obiorah4. San Esteban Nursery Alexandru Shaba5. Textile Dyeing Workshops Sandra Gavelyte6. Ceramic Workshops Terukazu Takatori7. Adobe Workshops Maxim Wesolowski8. Organic Farmers Association School Adrian Lee9. Community Centre and Garden Noah Evans10. Al Fresco Catalan Restaurant Leong Lai Tieng11. Open Air Cinema and Theatre Panoraia Dimaki 12. Artist Retreat Noora Kassinen13. School of Innovative Brick Construction Arthur Trieu

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place. We address architecture through an interest in and scrutiny of the

We take the measure of places through careful drawing and crafted

design process concentrates on making fresh readings of the existing

architectural and urban strategies and proposals.

An idea is a point of departure and no more.

-Pablo Picasso

designing a place of retreat and of creation. Working in timber and other

view to the sea.

city centre and its slow-regenerating southern edge. Four distinct sites

defunct. The challenge of this place is to see beyond the present-day

imagine a place connected to its communities and city. Through our

degree unit d

UNIT STAFFBruce IrwinDinah Bornat

STUDENTSMimi Abazi, Becky BoeseZoe Chavali, Maria Damianidou

Nikos Karagiannis, Alina OmetitaSara Portioli, Raluca SerbanMaria Theodorou, Maria VavritsaPavlos Vranas Steas, Rade VukcevicAnna Zacharaki, Po Xue Isaac ZhangSanjula Amarasekara, Maria Barroso

Ilias Chatziioannidis, Alba DajaBalazs Endrodi, Kristina FescenkoErik Grisins, Natalija JanovicaEvridiki Kontomari, Matilda MarkuViktorija Misiunaite, Kiren ModiKenny Obisesan, Riaz PatelLaurette Pratt

VISITING CRITICSRachel Cruise, Jim Ross, Marianne Christiansen, David Philips Gavin Hutchison (Hutchison Kivotos)Andy Puncher (PH plus architects)Helen Roberts (Feilden Clegg Bradley)Jane Bhoyroo (Arts Council Collection)Raf Lee, Hwei Fan Liang, Isaac Cobo, Janet Insull, Gennady Vasilchenk-Malishev

SPECIAL THANKS TOYorkshire Sculpture Park, The Arts Council Collection, Helen Forman (Homes and Communities Agency), & Christine Wade

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Top: Margate Pier Watercolour, Viktorija Misiunaite; Margate Writers’ Retreat Tower, Ilias Chatziioannidis

Centre: Margate Sketchbook, Natalija Janovica.

Lower Centre: Margate Harbour Survey Elevation, Alba Daja

Below: Margate Survey Sketch, Kristina Frescenko; Margate Hiding Space Collage, Anna Zacharaki; A Room for Margate, Model, Elias Gatos

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Top Line: Margate Beach, Evridiki Kontomari; A Room for Margate, Margate Harbour Wall, Balazs Endrodi; Boating Pool, Margate, Viktorija Misiunaite.

Centre: Margate Sketches, Natalija Janovica; Margate Launderette Shopfront, Alba Daja; Margate Harbour’s End, Nikos Karagiannis

Below: Margate Viewing Portals, Anna Zacharaki

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Top Line: Leeds Rail Statio, Unit

Endrodi.

Centre: Sketchbook and Process Book, Natalija Janovica; Interior

Sculpture Centre, Alba Daja

Below: Kirkgate Railway Platform, Mimoza Abazi; Kirkgate Street View, Alba Daja

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Kirkgate Arts Centre, Exploded Perspective Mimi Abrazi.

Top Centre: Concept Model, Snooty Fox Art Centre, Elias Gatos; Development Plan Drawing, Grey Horse Performing Arts Pub and Hostel, Anna Zacharaki.

Centre: Sketch Model, Riaz Patel; Kirkgate Photography Centre, Evridiki Kontomari; Sketch Model, Riaz Patel.

Below: Sectional Model, Ilias Chatziioannidis

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Top: Interior View, Kirkgate Arts Centre, Viktorija Misiunaite; Kirkgate Photography Centre Street View, Evridiki Kontomari; Brick Light

Alba Daja.

Top Middle: Nine Clouds Art Centre, Conceptual Model Sky View, & Nine Clouds Art Centre Section Drawing, Kristina Frescenko.

Site Model.

Below: ‘The Box’ Music School and Performing Arts Centre, Section Detail and Ground Plan, Balazs Endrodi.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Activities

be a component of ecological and infrastructural processes as well as experiential and occupied space.

and issues of scale within the context of the Lea Valley; containing

with a series of boundaries at local and wider scales. This inner edge

historically infrastructural and industrial activities were relegated.

allows us to develop a relationship over time and at a speed that allows

response to it.

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Wilderness on the edge of town

UNIT STAFFHwei Fan LiangClaude Saint-Arroman

STUDENTSPaul Bangerter, Craig Bernstein, Mavrick Barton-Ellis, Alexandra Freire-Lema, Maciej Hofman, Sagal Muhumed, Jalil Nayim, Nicolaus O’Hara, Ishan Patel, Jolita Prusaityte, Daniel Dos Anjos Rosa, Amer Salha, Charlene Tan, Leopoldine Van Daalen

Claudine Acquaye, Emmanuel Adesope, Arash Aghapour Ali Abad, Charlotte Calver, Adewale Gisanrin, David Gogo, Mansour Haghighi, Ishaq Ali Hasan Zadeh, Ndeke Imobala,

Defne Ozturk, Suman Sehmar, Rozhgar Muhammed

SPECIAL THANKS TOLindsay Collier, Rose Jaijee, Jay Gort, Ian Troake, Shahid Hussain, Will Lindley, Lucy Thomas, Simon Murray, Raphael Lee, Mirsad Krasniqi, Jayden Ali, Nenad Djordjevic, Gudarz Riyahi.

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The character of the valley is pastoral, wild, in places magical, made of remnants, memory and curiosity - with woods and marshes, industry alongside domestic canal boats, man-made recreation grounds, allotments, roaring roads and forgotten corners.

far left: Reservoir edge and view to

Approaching a towpath tree, Jalil

networks and boundaries, Maciej

Craig Bernstein

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The increasing priority of issues of resource management, waste and energy provides the future context for us to speculate on a localised, human scale of utilities and services that might allow a reconnection between people and necessary infrastructure. We look for ways of harnessing

metabolism. We studied precedents both in London and in the post-industrial landscape of the Ruhr Valley for inspiration as to the potential qualities of these structures, as well as seeking to exploit their role within an occupied architecture.

The sites for the main propositional projects are located in Walthamstow, between the intense development pressure and activity of the Olympic Park to the south, and the Lea Valley Park to the north which has been re-cast as a leisure and recreational green destination. Across the river and often overlooked, dense terraced housing sits alongside low railways, scrapyards and formal parks, with an abundance of allotments and recreational sports grounds. A vast chain of reservoirs stretches away to the north up the valley

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The Walthamstow Pumphouse museum

Walthamstow Marshes, modern plastic, petrol, and mass manufacture of light bulbs, to household brands in toys, electronics and cosmetics.

lie between the reservoirs and low Victorian housing. As well as multiple divisions and diversions for transport and industry, the supply of fresh water

large 19th century reservoirs still supply much of London’s drinking water.

from top, left to right: bird sanctuary and viewing platforms,

Abandoned tennis courts, Amer Salha

Zadeh. Living on the canal, Mansour Haghighi

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As well as the boundaries that exist at the scale of the valley, both sites present a localised set of boundaries and edge conditions - both physically and in existing programme.

Understanding edges as an opportunity, and boundaries as a site for occupation, we explored the role of these edges as the point of interface through which we relate to the world, investigating openness, enclosure and porosity of boundaries.

We speculate to a future where building, infrastructure and ecology combine to create an architecture concerned with human experience, at the edge where city and landscape meet.

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Each student developed an individual programme that engaged with the local community, and an element of infrastructural process that serves the local area. These proposals are explored through temporal cycles of day and night, seasons, local development and climate change; framed in a historical and future narrative.

top: Music rooms, library and changing

middle: Swimming baths and surface

far left: Lea Valley Experience,

below left: Blackhorse Road station

below right: Garage and engineering museum, Mansour Haghighi

architectonic trinity furnished us with the underlying framework from which we developed our personal architectural strategies.

aided design and computer aided manufacturing.

combined to produce functionally lighter architectures.

Greener - Lightweight minimum energy structures encourage the

The unit investigated the Velodrome through extensive surveys of its decayed existing infrastructure in relation to the activities that currently take place on the site. These investigations revealed the historic layers

of bicycles and a variety of textural conditions and hidden accesses. These elements and their temporal conditions accompanied by a lack of facilities and the demand of a growing body of users encouraged us to envisage possible scenarios for localised facilities and community based programmes.

to explore architectural componentry as well as their spatial implications.

process of un-making through drawing.

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Faster, Lighter, Greener

UNIT STAFFChristian GroothuizenKeita Tajima

STUDENTSMuna Abdallah, Jenay BoydRoshun Dehokenanan, Subarna GurungMohammed Ibrahim-MukhayerAbdulkadir Munie, Waqas KhanAgata Korsak, Susana Lima,Olga LuckoAaron Mifsud, Thanaraj PanchadcharanMartin Perrett, Bradley RoastHalil Seker

Angelos Andronikou, Karl AngeleBilal Bangi, Tiziana BinjakuEwelina Bogusz, Lawrence ChiuIrina Durneva, Noel GearyZuo Bin Goh, Kyle Peters, Daniel RileySinan Sevimlikurt, Shaheer ViraAnca-Elena Zahan

VISITING CRITICSRhys Cannon, Greg RossWoonyin Won, Jim Ross

SPECIAL THANKS TOHwei Fan Liang, Claude St Arroman, Raphael LeeHilary PeacheyJoseph from Velo Club de Londres

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Panoramic photography, Abdulkadir Munie.

Above, Site Survey, Ewelina Bogusz.

Top left, Pavilion survey, Zuo Bin Goh.

Middle, Topography survey, Zuo Bin Goh.

Bottom, Historical building survey, Lawrence Chiu.

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Top, Climbing wall, Bradley Roast.

Middle and below, Cyclocross viewing Pavilion, Zuo Bin Goh.

Bottom, Lighting study, Olga Lucko.

Opposite page.

Top and middle, Lighting proposal, Olga Lucko.

Bottom, Inline Skate Park interior, Lawrence Chiu.

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Top, Fausto Coppi Velodrome, Turin.

Below, Vélodrome de Vincennes, Paris.

Photographed by Bradley Roast.

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Top and below, Velocinema, Ewelina Bogusz.

Middle, Bicycle Museum, Zuo Bin Goh.

Bottom, Inline Skate Park, Lawrence Chiu.

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Above, VeloMarket, Muna Abdallah.

Top left, BMX Park, Tiziana Binjaku

Middle, Bicycle Museum, Zuo Bin Goh.

Below, Unit trip to the Lingotto Fiat Factory, Turin.

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Level 2 and Level 3 students followed bespoke workshops for their Unit briefs. Level 2 students translated their proposals from 2D drawings to 3D models. These computer models were then rendered with materials

that were further enhanced with people and objects using an image manipulation program. All levels created spatial sections and textured

hand drawings with computer drawings moving between industry standard computer programs. Unit C created a model of their site in

the work and proposals of Level 2 and Level 3 students for an extension to the V & A Museum of Childhood the book was then presented to the museum and put on display.

degree level 2 and level 3

Computing and Representation in Architecture

UNIT STAFFJanet InsullIsaac Cobo Displas

STUDENTSUnit AUnit BUnit CUnit DUnit GUnit H

SPECIAL THANKS TOFred Brown

Liam O‘Riordan Unit A

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Mimoza Abazi Unit D

Janis Stepins Unit B

Unit C

Unit C the laser cut site model of Rupia in Girona Spain

Ivo Eriks Grisins Unit D

The aim of the programme is to extend the education of students who wish to enter architectural practice. The programme develops conceptual

operates a vertical Design Studio system in which individual staff offer particular architectural programmes and students choose with whom they want to work.

to common space used for crits and exhibitions.

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Diploma programme which give advanced standing on our Masters pro-grammes. These special routes involve more advanced study of Comput-

Urbanisms and Material Matters.

Christoph Hadrys and main invited guest Uwe Schmidt-Hess

Mark Hayduk with Isaac Cobo i Displas

WeymouthCarl Callaghan and Iris Argyropoulou

Robert Thum

Poole Harbour

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Robert ThumProgramme Leader

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Open Land

UNIT STAFFChristoph HadrysMain invited Guest Uwe Schmidt-Hess

www.diploma-unit2.blogspot.com

STUDENTSStavroula Antoniou Michalis Christodoulou Tolulope Esho Lucy Fineberg

Hana Rizvanolli Savvas Tillyros

Amardeep Bahia Jaspal Chana Matthew Collins Anna Demetriou Hank Hendriksen Indeep Mahal Ursula Markiewicz Lina Matagi Leila Mortimer Matthew Rust Athina Sallam Maurice Smith Miles Weber

THANKS TOChristopher Alexander Koldobika Albistegui-SojoJames BarrettPeter DaggerRaphael LeeDarren LeeWill LindleyStephanie PoyntsUwe Schmidt-HessStephanie Schultze-WestrumEloisa Schultze-WestrumSteve TomlinsonKevin WidgerJohn Worthington

elements of cultural and imaginative vigour. We explore extremes of interrelated

architectural interventions can mediate between urban contexts and diverse landscape conditions. The main sites of interest and student projects were

East London Planning Atlas – Induction Exercise

made the East London Planning Atlas. The document compared past and current planning schemes in East London and the Thames Gateway. We researched

The main sites of interest and student projects were located in an area that is

but also some of the most intensive urban developments in Europe. East

Each student explored ways in which strategies and architectural designs can mediate between urban contexts and diverse landscapes conditions. We investigated how proposals can be part of a synergetic urban life and relate to

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technical school and accommodation in Hackney Wick section and model, Savvas Tillyros

The student design projects are thinking and making tools to explore urban

and the necessity for imagination. We aim at developing an open minded approach to unfamiliar spatial practices and environmental conditions. As

respond to urban conditions and elevate the culture of place.

4. Constraints - Local urban practice - social and spatial contexts

6. Post-Completion - The city takes care of itself

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mat typology housing in Stratford model, Matthew Collins

housing, sound barrier and park at Bowperspective, Miles Weber

living facade in West Hamdrawing, Urszula Markie-Sagar

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Unit 2 Notions

Cityness

Cities are our critical starting ground and ongoing territory. Cityness is hereby a form of being together and it

articulation of integrative programmes and cultures in social environments.

Process

inherent processes of the build environment. The way of doing things has a relationship with what we do and

urban designs are subject to different temporal modes and change.

dance school, UEL acrobatics and accommodationat the Lea Mouth perspective, plan and model, Anna Dimetriou

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housing and pool in North Woolwich drawings, Maurice Smith

bath in the Lea Valley

I hope many of you have been, or are going to be, visiting Port-Bou. It is one of the saddest places on earth.

George Steiner, excerpt from To Speak of Walter Benjamin

The theme for diploma3 this year was the ‘The Space of Waiting’, a theme which encouraged an openness towards an exploration of space in relation to both time and absence; also as a conceptual ground for projects set in two frontier towns along the Costa Brava, that of Cerbère, France and Portbou, Spain.

Cerbère and Portbou are in a critical moment of their paired history. These are two remarkable yet strange towns. Towns who have an extraordinary cultural history, yet whose existence to a large part is due to a rail track gauge dimensional difference of 233mm, between that of Spain and the rest of Europe. Two towns that have lived in the shadow of inordinatly large rail stations and yards, which are becoming increasingly redundant due to developments in train technology and the relaxation of border controls.

diploma3 worked in the heart of these towns and on the edge between town and railyard, engaging with a collection of abandoned buildings and an intent on developing an architecture which both is both sensitive to the found quality of place as well as contributes positively to their public realm, suggesting a way

www.diploma3.com

diploma unit 3

the space of waiting

UNIT STAFFMark Hayduk and Isaac Cobo i Displas

STUDENTS

MArchYoshifumi Hamagami

Level 5Ana Abascal Crespo, Nancy Antoniou, Elena Blanco, Sarah Bland, Laura Feroldi, Maliha Haque, Martinos Panayides, Gudarz Riyahi, Oliver Sprague,Ricardo Rodrigues Ferreira, Yuki Taniguchi, Moeko Yamagata Level 4 Nenad Djordjevic, Fiona Layugan-Caliboso, Yosuke Nakano, Orlaith Ryan, Shoji Tamura, Chiaki Tanaka, Maud Tisserant, Bhavika Varsani, Maija Viksne VISITING CRITICSElizabeth Adams, Phillipa Battye, Etienne Clement, Elden Croy, Thomas Decker, Konstantinos Evangeliou, Toku Oba, Alex Stevens, Phillip Wells, Ndu Wodu SPECIAL THANKS TOJan Liebe and Stefan Zimmerli

Roberto Pajares (London)Paolo Brambilla (Como)Men Duri Arquint, Luigi Snozzi and Raphael Zuber (Switzerland)COAC Culture Department (Girona)Xavier Barranco, Trino Martinez, Jordi Rimblas, Josep Lluis Salas (Portbou)Asun Navarro, Maria Moutot (Cerbère)

image above: Portbou, Maud Tisserant

Cerbere

Portbou

22 Projects for Cerbère and Portbou

01. Hiker’s Refuge and Theatre02. Traveling Library and Big Void Theatre03. The Boat Yard04. House of Young and Culture 05. Music Theatre and Tower Hostel06. Theatre and a Double House07. Library and Public Rooms08. Elderly Residences and a Public Room 09. Theatre and Observation Tower10. Elderly Residence and a Children’s Theatre 11. Opera House and The Border12. Public Plaza and Youth Centre13. Dance Academy 14. Portbou Lounge15. Weaving and Textile School16. Film Academy17. Boxing Academy 18. Archive of Historical Memory 19. Space for Art20. Theatre with a View

22. Youh Centre on the Waterfront

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UNIT STAFFCarl Callaghanwith Iris Argyropoulou

STUDENTSVahid Farmani

Constantia Bredaki, Marialena Bredaki Andi Fatkoja, James Grammenos Ewan Green, Dimitris GyftopoulosSavvas Havatzias, Stavroula Ioannou Triantafyllenia Kriemadi, Natali PickWen Wei Siow, Xenia Stefanaki, Petar Uzelac, Ausra Sulcaite Vizgirdiene, Seow Ling Yeoh, Mehrak Zabihi

Suleman Hussain, Ben JamesMaria Kargioti, Marios Lampouras Georgia Maria MaragoudakiChrysoula Psarrou, Ioanna TzikouConstantinos SpatharisEirini Viaropoulou

VISITING CRITICSDavid ConnearnJohn GlewCatherine PhillipsAnna TenowSoraya BaharumPhoebe PadleyGavin Ramsey

TECHNICAL INPUT Anna Wai Price and MyersKevin Williams Price and MyersDeon Fourie Workshop

diploma unit 5

Growth and Symbiosis Weymouth beyond the Olympics

The town of Weymouth in Dorset, host of the 2012 Olympic sailing events, is located in a landscape of three extraordinary geological formations comprising Weymouth Bay, Chesil Beach and the Island of Portland, where

its beautiful Georgian seafront from the 18th century when it became a royal seaside resort. Famous for sailing and a thriving tourist industry, it lacks housing, employment and local recreation facilities. How can the international coverage of the Olympics help to enhance this beautiful and remote location?

Growth and Symbiosis can be complementary or opposing tendencies. The unit set out to explore explore the poetic possibilities within the relationship between architecture and landscape in the context of the regeneration of Weymouth. We established three regeneration areas in Weymouth’s ferry terminal promontory, on an old army base on the world heritage site of Chesil beach and in the village of Fortuneswell, at the connection of Chesil beach and Portland. These sites raised the issue of how the fragile landscape could be occupied without destroying it.

Site investigations looked at the historical evolution of the architectural fabric and topography, leading to a masterplan for each area. Our strategies aimed to regenerate the sites taking into account scale, density and urban connection and the evolution of buildings related to old fragments, and we explored new systems of architecture and their relation to the existing fabric and landscape. More generally, we looked at how growth in natural systems can inform our design thinking and feed into our architecture and technical studies to encourage a new synergy between the natural and built worlds. At the core of this study is the gradual evolution of the relationship between architecture, landscape and community. We studied the formation of existing natural and man-made topographies, relating them to the themes of growth and symbiosis, looking to develop a new coexistence between architecture and a landscape damaged by quarrying and its related activities.

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Left, Study of Girasole apartments by Luigi Moretti, Ewan Green; above, Villa Adriana, Natali Pick; below, Fortuneswell Portland, Marialena Bredaki

In Fortuneswell, the topography has been built up in layers transformed through a process of shifts, rotations, folds and erosion. Many of these layers record plant and animal organisms in the fossils. The ferry terminal in Weymouth is built on reclaimed land, while the Chesil beach site is relatively untouched apart from the army base. We aimed to situate the process of growth on each site in an understanding of contemporary architecture and climate. Onand architecture to public spaces. The theme of platforms and landscape recurred in many places including Hadrian’s Villa, the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and in city centre public spaces such as the Spanish Steps, the Capitoline Hill and the Piazza del Popolo. We looked in some detail at the Girasole apartment building by Luigi Moretti and the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Francesco Borromini.

Students developed projects for living, working and leisure, deriving

internal demands of programme, site geometry and layering. Facing page:Above, Weymouth, historical maps documenting the evolution of the urban fabric from 1553 to 2011Below, Photographic study of the evolution of Fortuneswell and Oceanography Conservation Centre Ewan Green

This page:Above, Plant Research Laboratory, Chesil Beach, Ausra Sulcaite VizgirdieneBelow, Oceanography Centre, Fortuneswell: model studies, exterior views and sectionJames Grammenos

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New Ferry Terminal, WeymouthView from the ferry arriving in the fogInterior perspective, passenger hallAndi Fatkoja

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Oceanography Research Centre, Fortuneswell EsplanadeExploded axonometric; laboratory interior with views out into the village; laboratory and teaching room entrances from a new public space in the villageSeow Ling Yeoh

Over the years Unit 7 has undertaken architectural discussion in highly charged urban conditions, often with either social/political or historical complexity. Projects are always in search of appropriateness in response to the site. Students have to develop their own architectural concerns within a given context, together with an intuitive architectural and technical response to the site . We expect the students to tread their design territory with vigilance and demonstrate evidence of the desire to be architecturally precise. The architectural intuition and poetic response should be simultaneously developed as the need for clarity in strategy and design on all levels. Technical and Environmental discussions are a part of the design discussion and will be introduced in the early stages of the design. We want students to respond intuitively on their work and explore technical and environmental issues. During the year workshops are held to help students in their architectural development.

Istanbul is one of the most ancient cities in Europe, occupying a strategic location bridging Europe and Asia. Students will formulate their architectural thesis around the current issue on an “urban regeneration” scheme which saw 3,400 Roma living in Sulukule were forced to sell their homes for 500 Turkisl Lira (£175) per sq metre to private investors and the Fatih municipality. Despite worldwide protests, a Unesco warning and court cases to halt the project, forced evictions and demolitions started in 2008. Now surrounded by construction fences,

acre (nine-hectare) site that had housed the local Roma population for over a millennium. The price of the new properties? From TL3,500 to TL 4,500 per sq metre.

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Architectural seed and the poetics of space

UNIT STAFFMichele Roelsfma, Kristian Garrecht

STUDENTSChoon Hong LowReuben BarkerWill TangCarrie BeasleyOlivia ClarkeDanny Kay DuodDavud FarzullayevDayantha SiriwardeneShi WeiMichelle Angelique PriceClara GunnarsdóttirNick ChapmanKathryn PedleyMax TurnerMuzzammil DadabhoyMitesh PatelMaria Eliza PapaioannouCalista OpponNikolaos IsaakidisJasneet RattanSimona GrimaldiViktors CatanovsGassim AbdeldaimTania PascoalLucia Martinez Chris KalavashotiMariana Pereyra-PedridoFarhat HussainHideyuki SumitomoSaleha Abdul Rahman

VISITING CRITICSPeter BeardsellHannah SchneebeliYasar ShanToshiya KogawaLisa BrownAnna RuteDeclan MolloyTom Fotheringham

ENGINEERSMalishev Wilson Engineers

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When designing a cell focusing on the internal spatial conditions, how much should one take in uence from the surroundings, neighbours or location? Can a cell be designed for anywhere? A poem which conveys the atmosphere, the concept, the poetry of the space.

“The room is the place of the mind” Louis Kahn.

Clockwise from top: Calista Oppon, Saleha Abdul Rahman and Tania Pascoal.

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Choon Hong Low

Danny Kay Duod

The Kulliye of Suleymaniye have been home to the Royal Family of the Ottoman for over 500 years. The royal gardens, saw the prestige and elite residents dominate the kulliye for decades. Today, mass migration from the outskirts of the historic peninsula, has left the place over-populated and deteriorated in time. Green spaces are precious, but living spaces are condensed. Buildings are been demolished more than new ones springing up and this have left a massive void and piles of rubble in the neighbourhood. The proposal is to reconnect the Grand Suleymaniye mosque with the community through a Bazaar. This will rekindle the social and economic state of the Kulliye, not forgetting healthy and comfortable places for living and a craft centre to train the street cart-boys into future craftsmen with better careers. A Bazaar to restore Suleymaniye to its former glorious status and save it from degradation.

Danny Kay Duod

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Kathryn PedleyKathryn Pedley

Michelle Price

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Carrie BeaslyRe-establishing the green strip along the Theodosian WallThe proposal is part of a master plan which aims to re-establish a sustainable water supply to the green strip surrounding the Theodosian Wall. A series of pieces sit within the green landscape, each supplying a larger territory with water from ltered grey water and rainwater. Within each proposal there is a public building, public garden, water cistern and housing. The pieces respond to the surrounding area varying in programme. Towards the south, where the green strip is lled by allotments, three greenhouses follow the rhythm of the turrets providing diversi cation for the urban agriculture in the area. The water collected in the cistern retreats like a tide, as the water is used over the year; revealing a series of public steps and platforms, cool space to sit in the heat of summer. Above the cistern, an orange orchard connects the public café to the piazza below.

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Choon Low Relocation of Sulukule Romani CommunityThere are 3,500 Romani people were expropriated from Sulukule for new gated housing development, despite the opposition of UNESCO, Amnesty International and public. The neighborhood and their source of incomes have been seriously broken since they have been relocated in a secluded area. This incident caused Istanbul once being put under threat of losing the status of World Heritage. And the authoritative role of UNESCO in Istanbul needs to be reinstated.The vision of the project / master plan is to transform Suleymaniye quarter into a well-stored heritage for Romani community, whom have been listed by UNESCO as ‘Unique Ethnic Group’. And turns the site into a functioning centre which is self-governed by the Romani residents, by organizing series of socio-economic events that involve the town, city in different scales. Due to the scale of the project, it relocates those Romani families with certain skills and abilities (ex: blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen shop owners, weaving, gardeners. etc). Architectural Vision The boundary where represent the ethnic group’s identity, reinstate their existence in society. It is also where the Romani community touches the adjacent neighborhood and shared functions. Through the process of place making, exploring the materiality and local architectural possibilities, the project derives the vernacular structures that re-shape the sustainable social patterns of Romani cultures.

This year diploma unit 9 investigated higher education as a constitutional ideal for the civic city and an activator for a post industrial urban context of London’s Lower Lea Valley.

The university’s autonomy is inextricably linked to the idea of the public sphere. Meanwhile, the public sphere is a precondition for the Kantian emancipated subject; a subject that has the ability to think for itself and scrutinise as independently as possible different points of view. This interdependent relationship establishes the university as a public institution: interwoven and engaged in the process of social and individual emancipation, a university bears practical, social, ethical, and political responsibility for society.

The birthplace of the university in Bologna, of which unit 9 visited, coincided with the decline of the monastic schools which remained isolated enclaves of knowledge and ‘private thought’. In the 18th century, with the reformation of the universities by Wilhelm von Humboldt and others, the public nature of thought, dissent and discussion begun

society as a whole.

Today, we see the decline of public space in our contemporary society and on the other hand we witness the transformation of universities from public institutions into private cooperations. By focusing on a Faculty of Architecture as a paradigmatic programme each student was asked to develop their own framework and typology, speculating on architectural morphologies suitable for enclosure of a highly complex and organised programme, that at the same time, initiates an open public sphere.

The starting point was a set of four group research projects: tracing the history of universities and their relation to the city, architectural school typologies, architectural school programmes and today’s higher education landscape. These techniques and professional issues formed the bases for the individual design thesis.

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closed/open social and formal cohesion

UNIT STAFFRobert Thum

STUDENTSChristopher Allen, Anna Yancheva Apostolova, Farah Hamid, Abul Mahdi, Jamie McKenzie, Tomonori Ogata, Samuel Rose, Georgios Yiannakis Voniatis, Arianna Wellons

Chris Georgiades, William O’Brien, Seyi Marvin Shodunke, Kaan Alpagut , Viktoria Psychoula, James Cattle, Anna Charlotte Masilge, Hannah Jane Taylor, Dean Williams, Liam Wood

Masayuki Yusada

VISITING CRITICSHarald Trapp - TU ViennaMartin West - RHWL Architects Alex Scott Whitby - StudioARRichard Wardle - Stanton Williams Alberto Moletto - Zaha Hadid ArchitectsMarcus Andren - Cazenove architects

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Sam Rose - RIBA east

RIBA east looks at the decentralisation

conservative institute to a creative hub. The RIBA archive towers root into the post-industrial landscape, linked together by RIBA studios, lectures and exhibition. The building acts as a catalyst to regenerate the existing factories for creative industries, placing the RIBA at the heart of a new creative community.

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Chris Allen - UN-Habitat Architecture School

The project is a humanitarian architecture school that focuses on worldwide development and disaster relief. The building acts as a cultural hub, open to both students and the

space that aims to stimulate informal encounters between users. The organisation offers students and staff a heterogeneous environment, which promotes mobility over stasis and social interaction over segregation.

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diploma unit 10

Poole Harbour, Naval Home

UNIT STAFFEsther Rivas AdroverOliver Houchell

STUDENTSLevel 5: Nicole Sacha Ahmed, Dominic Asemi, Maria Lardi, Panayot Pantchev, Faizal Patel, Erini Krasaki, Edward Joseph Short Level 4: Anthony Adeniran, Ayesha Akibogun, Nana Oforiwaa Ayisi, Shaira

egum, Abdul Eimi, Sapphire rif ths, Anthony Henriques, Umair Hyder, Oladapo Idowu-Adewale, Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Joshua Phipps MArch: Giancarlo Albino Garcia, Behrooz Nahjavi

VISITING CRITICSPete Silver (Westminster)Nuria Alvarez Lombardero (AA)Richard Difford (Westminster)Robert Thum (UEL)Jeffrey James (Greenwich)Nick McGough (Grimshaw)Reenie Elliott (Greenwich)Carlos Garijo (Espacio Protesis)Carmen Mazaira (Espacio Protesis)Shin Yu (CZWG)

‘...But one object there is still, which I never pass without the renewed wonder of child-hood, and that is the bow of a Boat. Not a racing-wherry, or revenue butter, or clipper yacht; but the blunt head of a common, bluff, undecked sea-boat, lying aside in its fur-row of beach sand. The sum of Navigation is in that. You may magnify it or decorate it as you will: you do not add to the wonder of it. Lengthen it into hatchet-like edge of iron, -streghthen it with complex tracery of ribs of oak,-carve it and gild it till a column of

John Ruskin (1895) The Harbours of England ... With Thirteen Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner, R.a. Edited by T. J. Wise

Unit 10 has endeavoured to investigate the architectural possibilities

Poole Harbour.

Poole Harbour is claimed to be the world largest natural inland harbour and as such it plays a key role on its inhabitants. With most of the

water and land is key. The unit has been investigating how the rich

both pragmatic and symbolic possibilities.

home-making in Poole. The studio has also investigated the potential

meaningful programmatic intervention in Poole Harbour which acts as a metropolitan enclave. The aim of the project is that students demonstrate evidence of the incorporation of the material learned in

Right and following page:Ship-braker and Artists’ Studios, Nicole Sacha Ahmed.The project is concerned with the gradual disappearance of the naval industrial heritage of the site, Poole Harbour. As a catalyst for revitalization of the area the project proposes a dry dock for ship braking, artists’ studios, exhibition spaces and coffee/restaurant. The articulation of the programs will raise awareness of the currently invisible yet present industry related to shipbuilding, as well as generating a new cultural enclave for the community of Poole.

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Left: Shakespearean Theatre, Ayesha Akibogun. The project acts as a bridge from the main land to Brownsea Island, were there is currently a relatively unknown space for performance, acting as a physical door to the Shakespearean world from Sandbanks.Below: Ship Adventure Centre, Anthony Henriques. One envelope constitutes the enclosure for the preservation and enjoyment of a local shipwreck. The project creates views and public circulation from East to West creating a dramatic connection in a thin stretch of land currently segregated by private dwellings.

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Current page:Air, Sand and Water, Erini Krasaki.The project seeks to engage Poole in the world of science through interactive and learning spaces. The project fans out to frame dramatic views across the Harbour.

Following page:Poole Oil Well Visitor Centre, Maria Lardi.Owned by the National Trust and protected as an area of outstanding natural beauty, a considerably large area of Poole Harbour is a heaven for the preservation of nature. Yet the constant search to seek energy does not encounter any obstacle in creating Oil Wells in an area of outstanding beauty. The project seeks to create awareness of this duality between environment and energy.

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Architecture is an expression and synthesis of a set of complex relationships a society has with the landscape it operates in. This year the unit will explore the theme of mutualism in architecture and through

the region and will act as an impetus for an accreted economy to occur

a symbiotic relationship occurring between separate species or parties

this system presents a fertile territory to explore subtle relationships

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projects are proposed. This local economic investment is part of a package of easing measures to compensate for any short-term negatives associated with the construction of HS2 and an attempt to stimulate economic growth in regions beyond London.

The unit began the year by creating a research book tracing the

will have on the landscape and communities it runs though and past. This initial project informed the development of each students individual design thesis.

The unit has resisted taking sides in the often passionate argument

To understand the scale and impact that such mega events have beyond

diploma unit 11

An Architecture of Mutualism

UNIT STAFFJamie-Scott Baxter and Arthur Smart

STUDENTSFilippo Adamo, Sophia Alexeli, Farihah Anwar, Nick Hayden, Jonathan Jordan, Orestis Kalonaris, Terjinder Singh Sagoo, Ioannis Schinis,Low Soon Tan,

Lin Cheung, Clare Feeney, Jurgita Korsakaite, Bernard Lim, Duncan Moore, Simon Scarlett, Quyen Tran, Nikos Zorgias

VISITING CRITICSAlex Bank, Tony Fretton, Lara Gibson, Dominc Pearce (HS2 Ltd), Daniel

Robert Thum

SPECIAL THANKS TOTom Marshall & Price and Myers, Stuart Mills, David Morgan, Luke Rowett, Constantine Stephan, Luke Winterton & Max Fordham LLP

HS2 and Olympics 2012 comparison study.

www.guardian.co.uk 04.05.12

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Population: 190 680Current train frequency: 7 trains per hourPost HS2 train frequency: 9 trains per hour

Planning: Milton Keynes Borough CouncilLEPs: South East Midlands LEPFuture development: The scale of growth planned for MK is the highest for any city in the

south east outside London.The vision is to deliver land for at least 28,000 new homes within the

Borough between 2010 and 2026. This will comprise:

identified as Strategic Reserve Areas southeast of the city in the Local Plan

and land with planning permission comprising approximately 24,000 homes

suite of documents that form the Regeneration Strategy.

Cheddington

Population: 1800Current train frequency: 1 train per hour

Planning: Aylesbury Vale Borough CouncilLEPs: Hertfordshire LEPFuture development: LDF being prepared

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Planning: Dacorum Borough CouncilLEPs: Hertfordshire LEPFuture development: Its long-term strategy to 2031 as a Key Centre for development and

change will be to deliver a minimum of 6,500 new dwellings(between 2006 and 2031). This will be achieved by delivering a range of

growing Maylands Business Park through the East Hemel HempsteadArea Action Plan and the town centre through development of

The Old Town will be conserved and connections to it strengthened.Improved leisure services and facilities will include a key performing arts

the Nickey Line green corridor, the enhanced setting of theRiver Gade, a new urban park and strengthened links between the new urban park and Gadebridge Park.Because significant parts of the town were built and developed in a

concentrated period in the 1950s, they have become tired looking and not fit for modern purposes.

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Planning: Dacorum Borough CouncilLEPs: Hertfordshire LEPFuture development:

leisure facilities will be added.

of the town, and therefore only a level of housing growth that maintains the current population or accommodates natural change are considered possible for the town.

affordable housing.

population and a maximum of about 939 dwellings would be sufficient to accommodatenatural growth (2006-2031) (310 dwellings in the urban area, 150 in greenfield sites).

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Planning: Watford Borough CouncilLEPs: Hertfordshire LEPFuture development:

around 7,000 additional jobs and other supporting services and facilities. These additional homes and jobs will be focused on locations:

amenity.

suitable for high density development, in order to protect the residential character of the rest of the borough. These are:

cultural activities.

transport interchange, new homes, employment, retail and leisure.

research and development space.

deliver a balanced housing market:

Hertfordshire CountyHertsmere BoroughWatford BoroughDacorum Borough

Bedfordshire CountyBedford Borough

Buckinghamshire CountyAylesbury Vale BoroughMilton Keynes Borough

Northamptonshire CountyNorthampton BoroughDaventry Borough

West Midlands CountyCity of Coventry Borough

WarwickshireRugby BoroughNuneaton and Bedworth BoroughNorth Warwickshire Borough

Counties and Boroughs along the West Coast Main Line

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A Local Networkby Jurgita Korsakai

One of HS2 aims is to relieve pressure from West Coast Main Line, one of the busiest train lines in the UK which is anticipated to reach full capacity in the next 10 years. (Source: ‘New Line Study’, publish by Network Rail, 2009)

WCML, giving over direct London-Birmingham services to HS2, will provide more inter-local services to designated towns between London at the West Midlands. The ambition, to stimulate economic growth and development in these areas.

My project focuses on Hemel Hempstead, one of these towns and explores the impact and opportunities increased rail service can create, providing additional community and business space around the station hub.

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An Adjusted Mutualism by Nick Hayden

‘Edgelands are part of the gravitational pull of all our larger urban areas, a texture we build up speed to escape as we hurry towards the countryside. And Edgelands by and large are not meant to be seen except perhaps as a blur from a car window.’ – Paul Farley

and reintegrate the dilapidated post-industrial valley found on Birmingham’s Edgeland back into the city it served to build. As I interrogated this landscape of interconnected lakes and water courses, I understood these openings in the ground to be the quarries that supplied the city with stone. In time the River Tame was diverted through these pits at once

coursed through.

The valley and the city have long acted out a mutual relationship now less explicit, my project sets to carefully adjust the balance.

Not wanting to over urbanising the valley the proposed architectures are not large venues but intimate moments created within the landscape which offer views and panoramas of this otherwise forgotten place.

The Memory of a Shadow Factoryby Fei Alexeli

Found in the industrial hinterland of Coventry, Ryton on Dunsmore is an abandoned place with a forgotten past.Once the site of a World War II shadow factory, all that remains is the vast concrete ground slab which, over time has taken the weight of subsequent manufacturing plants bearing testament to the industrial past of the West Midlands. The site is bound on three

junctions. To the south lies the fragile community of Ryton. With the advent of HS2 the demand for skilled labour to work on construction of the track is high. I propose a new purpose-built facility to provide this training; to stitch back together this fragmented landscape.

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Made in Arden by Terjinda Sagoo

As we have learnt with the Madrid to Seville high speed rail where the intention was to increase regional regeneration by providing high speed access from Madrid to Seville. The

increased from Seville to Madrid.

I therefore propose a robust infrastructure in Hampton in Arden, on the edge of Birmingham to prevent this from happening by strengthen the place, economy and character. My proposal includes a small scale carpentry workshop and studios which is linked to a wider business network. HS2 would allow tenants and clients from London and other European cities to take advantage of the economic lettable space within 35 minutes from Central London.

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The Walled Gardens of DIRFTby Clare Feeney

DIRFT is the largest intermodal distribution centre on the West Coast Main Line. It is located on former farming land next to the town of Rugby in the Midlands. Large distribution centres are a product of our modern lifestyles where mass consumerism encourages us to want more and to need it ever quicker.

Distribution centre warehouses continue to grow in scale but their design remains very basic. They are not built to last, seemingly more ‘packaging’ than architecture. DIRFT’s development to date has solved a logistic but not a human problem. We now understand that self realisation

needs the support of and sense of belonging to the larger context. The inhabitants of the inner worlds of DIRFT need to have a place where they can interact with one another, a focus for their particular community. This thesis proposes a building that responds

settlement devoted to people not products in the epicentre of national logistics.

The drawing above shows the walled gardens, main hall & laundretteA continuous network of places each with different character. Together these spaces add to the range of experiences available and provide the appropriate settings for celebrating all activities of daily life.

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With the introduction of the HS2 rail track, Twyford in North Buckinghamshire has seen much of its land severed, cutting physical ties with its neighbours. My project aims to reunite the loose strands of the wider community by offering a ‘centre’ for the local population’s many interests and activities, as well as repurposing the severed land as a natural barrier to the railway in the form of coppiced areas. The community centre sits on the edge of Grebe Lake offering areas for sports, performing arts and general recreational activities. The building is centred around the main hall, which in turn is set back into the natural hillside; offering direct access to both ground

the lake offering views and a place

The Bridge at Aylesbury Valeby Jonathan Jordan

link, at a local level it often becomes an obstacle at worst severing existing local connectivity. My thesis set out to explore this problem. Through initial research

a severed connection in the rural landscape of Aylesbury Vale, North Buckinghamshire.

This strategic location, on the edge of a local nature reserve, is the mid point of the HS2 line and the proposed site for the Calvert Infrastructure Depot. The site is in proximity two clay pits, relics of the brick industry that once

with water and used as recreational lakes.

Architecture is about buildings? Is this an assumption to be challenged? At

learning to build?Let us look at the role of building in architectural education.

to be evidenced at three separate stages of educational progression.

the endeavour. These words and phrases attempt to negotiate the fact that

registering that all these criteria are essential. The words themselves are

not the hand. The impact of working within and for academia is complete.

architecture to be able to deliver hand as well as head. I believe the criteria do not enter the world of making for two reasons that lie

themselves within an international marketplace.

architecture apart from other countries with more homogenous teaching structures. The astute wording of the criteria provides space for schools to deliver on the Criteria and Attributes without specifying how. To discuss

technical + professional studies

Building is also a verb

UNIT STAFFAlan ChandlerRoland KarthausMichela PaceAlfonso Senatore

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COURSECany Ash (Ash Sakula Architects),Gennady Malishev (Malishev Wilson Engineers), Alberto Moletto (Zaha Hadid Architects), Dr Michael Ramage (Cambridge University), Jim Ross (Cambridge Research design)

pragmatic reasons also – how many schools maintain workshops in the face

having Criteria that allow for diverse teaching structures is both ideologically ambitious and dirtily pragmatic .

education that much easier/cheaper and more inevitable. The presentation

encapsulated in Graduate attribute GA2.2 – “…have the ability to evaluate

the eye and the word.

architecture clearly stems from somewhere.The Criteria describe a design process through prescribing a series of pinch-

points in the design process allows education to become the inverse of

respected academic in conversation with the author that seemed to sum up the situation.

un-built works of architecture can be as powerful as the built - additionally

The vagueness within the criteria concerning the purpose and meaning

architectural legibility as more likely in text than in building.

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ideas simply cannot. The architect cannot hope to control so many factors

personal or too ephemeral to manage. However a building starts its life

ultimately escape to the vague through a life of use and abuse.

is illusory because the processing of variety is contrived. A surrealist game of

around the table sharing a pen.

can this be addressed?

I have explored issues of architectural education in relation to aspects of

and building.If we are to go beyond the academic teaching environment because the

Simply building a project one designs within the academy accomplishes the

we hope. The understanding of technical limitations of materials and their

effective design detailing and judgement which are core to constructing places for people. However the vagueness at the inception of the design

calendar.

determinants that really challenge developmental and constructional processes. Construction with materials at full scale is a valuable introduction

but really what is the value of getting covered in cement for a week when

spending a month making a scarf joint that a decent carpenter could execute

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can only be experienced by building reality. This clearly disadvantages the

The point of handover is the point of the project. The moment that Stafford

efforts at control and management pass over to the custodianship of others. The feeling of giving over the project to the client is only possible within

than making places for people.

Alan Chandler

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site by working with Article 25 to design and test at full size appropriate structural innovations to support the new community building. A report must capture the process and communicate to the community how

and women on the Delta might have to deal with. If the project ended with

Case Studies

UNIT STAFFworkshop 1:LongplayerRobert Thum, Kin Ho

workshop 2+3: Curative LandscapePat West, Liz Shearer

workshop 4: Urban RuralJim Ross, Alan Chandler, Michael Ramage, Liz Shearer

workshop 5: Port HarcourtAlan Chandler, Gennady Malishev, Article 25

workshop 6: One TreeRoland Karthaus, Raphael Lee, Jona-than McDowell

workshop 7: YurtMichele Roelofsma, Christian Garrecht, Thais Bishop

workshop 8: CaravanseraiAl;ex Scott-Whitby, Cany Ash

workshop 9: Fabric FormworkWilfred Meynell, Phillip Wells, Alan Chandler

workshop 10: Bird HideRoland Karthaus, Sophia Ioannou

construction workshops

The waters edge site - Port Harcourt.

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To support the activities of the children and parents the workshop has been commissioned to deliver a Yurt – a traditional Mongolian dwelling of lightweight construction for the garden. Funds for the materials are

tight yurt on a ready prepared ground.

and execute the design.

“Dealing with a project that will be used by children demanded materials of

The point of handover is the point of the project

The point of handover is the point of the project. The moment that Stafford

efforts at control and management pass over to the custodianship of others. The feeling of giving over the project to the client is only possible within

AcknowledgementsThe Author would like to thank Robin Cross at Article 25 and Liz Shearer

The client presentation at Article 25.1:1 sample achieving 32% concrete saving utilising locally available material.

Client presentation.Assembly of the children‘s shelter.vingThe completed space.

Masters teaching in Architecture in the School has been developing over

having both design and theory components. They provide the opportunity

also studying for M.Phil and PhD in several of these postgraduate areas.

programmes. In each case the Programme Leader is supported by other specialist staff and visiting lecturers and critics.

MA Landscape Architecture

masters in architecture

Programme Coordinator:Renee Tobe

Poetics Year 4

our engagement and understanding of the world and our place within it. Students explored places through writing either through personal visits or

Critical Modernism Year 5

Year 5 Interpretation and Theory readings. Travelling on the DLR to studio

together urban thinking with architectural design.

students to think long and hard about an idea of thing that interests them. It is for the student to really make the most of this opportunity – probably the last in your formal education – and to study a subject that helps your own

almost an agony in the effort to grasp the totality of architecture and express

wide spectrum of interrelations.Within this essay I shall be looking further into the relationship between architecture and the senses. Discussing; architectures role in engaging all of our senses to provide a richer sensory and emotional experience. As

even false aim of producing creations which are reduced to the role of an

ma interpretation and theory

UNIT STAFFDr Renée Tobe

CONTRIBUTORSDr Alex VealProfessor William Firebrace

STUDENTSFarilah Anwar, Fiona Layugan-Caliboso, Nenad Djordjevic, Mitesh Patel, Ioanna Tzikou, Bhavika Varsani, Savvas Tillyros, Stavroula, Davidia An-toniou, Jamila Sokunbi, Hannah Taylor, Maija Viksne, Poly Erotokritou, Simona

Rahman, Hana Rizvanolli

Ana Abascal Crespo, Davud FarzwayevLaura Feroldi, Maliha Haque, Dominic Asemi, Leila Mortimer, Farah Hamid, Duncan Moore, Moeko Yamagata, Martinos Panayides, Sam Rose

Project XFilippo Muzzammil Davabhoy, Phillipo

-priotaki, Farhat Hussain, Derya Rashit, Nick Chapman, Kaan Alpaght, Ricardo Ferreira, Elena Blanca

Charles Browne-Cole

Hana Rizvanolli

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only the achieving of beauty in a strictly vision related meaning. This is a topic

senses.

Dwelling

he does not dwell there. These buildings house man. He inhabits them and

Martin Heidegger believed that building and dwelling were inextricably

The importance of dwelling in architecture is highly emphasised in the works

idea of inhabitation and shelter and not one of belonging. This essay looks at

with the metropolitan city of London. It does not intend to conclude that one

block in relation to the idea of dwelling.

Utopia is a product of the zeitgeist. It is rooted in the failings of the political

discourse. This essay will study the demise of the utopian dimension of architecture and propose its revival in lieu of recent political and social events.

essay will then look at the positive role of utopia in the modernist vision of

The discussion will link this shift in architectural thought with the political

bring the discussion through to today and the effect of the free market

Hannah Taylor

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Charles Browne-Cole

The rate of idea through to implementation is the only way the industry

a stagnant industry with ideas of social progression. Committing utopian

but also allows for the ideas to be critically judged as an implementable idea. In this fashion ideas can be tested within real projects and as such

regain its social conscience. The rate of idea through to implementation is the only way the industry can maintain speed with the fast paced culture of

implementable idea. In this fashion ideas can be tested within real projects

architecture to regain its social conscience.

La Quattro Volte

and local place and the essences in an invisible heaven.

one able to test and explore ideas through using the other. Cinema is reliant

can evoke “emotion in the audience which the director can connect with

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La Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010

tested by exploring the experience of seeing things haptically and gaining an

presents existence and the cyclical nature of existence interpreted through the work of Martin Heidegger and his idea of The Fourfold. The section will highlight the idea of temporality and how everything is subject to cycles.

seen. The chapter will delve into the realm of the invisible by focusing on the

theories and philosophies that will be discussed which will in turn assist an

existence and the immeasurable to an architectural discussion. The conclusion will emphasise the reality of a temporal world and outline how architecture should embody an understanding of context and the human condition before any other criteria.

The MSc Architecture: Computing and Design programme continues to explore the role of the computer as generative tool for architectural design. Our Programme ranges from the technical skilling of professionals for scripting CAD through the consideration of self-organising principles for form and space in the masters, to long term studies of emergent spatial organisation and morphologies by our Doctoral candidates.

Computing and Design has always been concerned with ideas of distributed representation and the computer as a simulation medium

systems, a systems approach to design that seeks to get under the skin of forms and spaces to engage with forms of human occupation and

ways of both reading and writing computers - the true computer literacy.

students from a range of prestigious practices in London. We have had architects and engineers from Foster + Partners, Arups Advanced Geometry Group. Skidmore Owens and Merril, AEDAS Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects.

We ran a lecture series covering presentations from a wide range of

in computing and design which are offered to level 4 and Level 5 Diploma students remain popular.

msc architecturecomputing and design

STAFFPaul S. CoatesEmmanouil ZaroukasTim IrelandJanet Insul

MSC STUDENTSKabir Aliyu, Carol Fanoiki, Cintia Areias, Mubina Fattoum, Walid Elsayed Sadiq Mustafa Khabeeb, Christina Achtypi

DIPLOMA THEORY STUDENTSMaria Lardi, Simon Scarlett, Edward Short, George Voniatis, Mehrak Zabihi, Nikolaos Zorgias, Abul Hasan Mahdi, Anna Apostolova, Farzaneh Djafarpour Shalmany, Panayot Pantchev, Jurgita Korsakaite, Will Tang, Faizal Patel, Seow Ling Yeoh, Urszula Witkowska, Anthony Adeniran, Hideyuki Sumi-tomo, Katie Cushen, Nickolas Hayden, Viktor Catanous, Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Nikolaos Isaakidis, Christopher Kala-vashoti, Ayesha Akibogun, Anthony Henriques, Masyuki Yasuda, Oladapo Idowu-Adewale, Anna Masilge, Ter-jinder Sagoo, Suleman Hussain

VISITING CRITICS/LECTURERSProfessor Richard Coyne, Gennaro Senatore, Chris Leung, Alexandros Kallegias, Jose Sanchez

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Walid Elsayed Towards an Integrated Application of Genetic Algorithm in Architectural Design

3D model of an emergent individual belonging to the nal population after the evolutionary process ran for 30 generations.

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Walid Elsayed: Towards an Integrated Application of Genetic Algorithm in Architectural Design

Phenotypes produced after fourteen generations. The evolutionary process converges towards a point that satis es the tness criteria.

Walid Elsayed: Towards an Intehrated Application of Genetic Algorithm in Architectural Design

Diagram shows the mapping process of the Genotype to Phenotype

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Simon Scarlett: City Generator

Diffusion Algorithm used to generate simple urban patterns.

Abul Hasan Mahdi: Stomata

Diffusion Algorithm relaxes surfaces while respecting openings for ventilation.

Masters Programme

The MA Urban Design is the design intensive masters for alternative urbanisms

longstanding preoccupation with urban and landscape intervention. It is set up to develop both intellectual and practical skills for urban designers and

alternative solutions to complex urban conditions.

The course sets out to explore and develop new forms of urban practice in

respond to uncertainties and the necessity for imaginative thinking. It aims to

neighbourhoods and building scales.

The course provides a platform for the individual student to develop an expertise and an approach to sustainable urban design through the development of urban design strategies and research. As more and more emphasis is put on the importance of sustainable developments by

increasing usefulness to the students in their professional lives. The programme prepares for work in the public as well as in the private sector.

and the theory component comprising Masters and Diploma students.

The MA Urban Design welcomes students as fellow innovators in a programme that is both visionary and hands on in seeking to develop urban futures that are

ma urban design

PROGRAMME LEADERChristoph Hadrys

www.ma-ud.blogspot.com

MA STUDENTSPanagiota GeorgiouKhulood Nasaif Thanh Que (Audi) NguyenFarhan SalatAna Denise TeixeiraAgne Liskauskaite

DIPLOMA THEORY STUDENTSGassim Abdeldaim, James CattleMichalis Christodolou, Abdul Elmi Tolulope Esho, Lucy FinebergLucia Martinez AriasWilliam O’Brian, Calista OpponMariana Pereyra-PedridoMaud Tisserant, Max TurnerDean Williams, Liam Wood

Nicole Ahmed, Chris AllenCarrie Beasley, Sarah BlandJaz Chana, Matthew CollinsClare Feeney, Hank HendriksenBernhard Lim, Urszula MarkiewiczLina Matagi, Jamie McKenzieTomo Ogata, Matthew RustAthina Sallam, Maurice SmithPetar Uzelac, Miles WeberArianna Wellons SPECIAL THANKS TO Christopher AlexanderJohn WorthingtonWilliam FirebraceTony Fretton, Roland Karthaus John Lock, Renee TobeDavid Buck

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urban design in Canning Townplan, Khulood Nasaif

Urban Design Studio

The design component aims to prepare students to work with different urban situations and agendas.

experiment with drawings or models as a means to develop designs.

for the rest of the academic year. This focus allows very deep explorations of a

urban agenda.

architectural interventions can mediate between urban contexts and diverse landscape conditions. The main sites of interest and student projects were

through to building scales.

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1. Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Robert, Edgelands : journeys into England’s true wilderness, (London : Jonathan Cape 2011) pp 244-249.

MA Urban Design workshop and conversations with Christopher Alexander and John Worthington, as well as Renee Tobe and Roland Karthaus

Christopher Alexander gave the

love what you do, then don’t do it. Architecture should come from your heart.”

photo, Khulood Nasaif

Urban Theory Component

The theory component welcomes Masters students and also 4th and

to explore purely on a visual basis. This has to do with the abstract level of

will partly tell us spatial and social relationships. In urban design that is

interpretation and practice to science. Invited guests from different backgrounds enrich the course with diverse talks. We explore complexities

The theory component is assessed through ongoing course work and an 4000 - 5000 word essay on an urban topic that the students select and research themselves. The studies in urban theory are set up to help articulate

“To understand this is to understand how the Docklands Development in its entirety came to be. Neither were really a case of redevelopment or

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four components are completed can the student progress to the thesis.The modules aim to develop two entirely different methodologies for

ma architecture sustainability & design

UNIT STAFFAlan ChandlerRoland KarthausMichela Pace

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE COURSE

Dr Richard Lindsay (ERG)Dr Susan Oosthuizen (Cambridge University)

Urban Ecology

central inspiration for the course in Urban Ecology. The Marxist philosopher

and allows us to separate the moralistic baggage from its originally radical base. This process and its implications for a new approach to sustainability

The Urban Ecology Prototype challenges students to identify and analyse an

larger scale.

‘Layered’ model of a block in Irkutsk, Siberia from the second term component of Urban Ecology: LEED as a prism for the city

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and non-physical attributes in the city. The two methods are brought

sustainability analysis from Ernst & Young; analytical drawing workshop; pecha-kucha presentations to distil ideas; tutorials and seminars. Follow the progress on www.maasdurbanecology.wordpress.com

Thesis

they have learned during the course to bear on a particular problem of

process of design opens up great possibilities to construct genuinely original and insightful knowledge. Some students have gone on to develop their thesis in the professional sphere or through research projects.

Environmental ArchitectureThe Environmental Architecture module seeks to develop a knowledge of

is to develop technical skills and apply them as part of an iterative design exercise to show how the various factors of a building and its environmental context interact with one another.

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“as walking, talking and gesticulating creatures human beings generate lines wherever they go

This year we continued our exploration of the temporal possibilities of

topophilia

enlightment through the experience of a particular locale. We visited places that have survived changing times and uses including the

used as investigative tools to explore potential interfaces between

East London. We continued developing innovative tools for further investigation of how the notion of the enjoyment of a place. There were

revealed. Each was tested through active engagement with the site.

The Pleasures of Spring Gardens by Lockman, 1737

place not space

STAFFDavid Buck, John Pegg, Michelle Osborne

STUDENTSBenjamin AlijaniNivedita BachhavLuke KeefeXenia MastAdriani PlessaAntoine Siggen

VISITING CRITICSAlex Blum, David Chapman, Christoph Hadrys

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endeavours but also present activity. The landscape holds these lines as memories, revealing its sense of place to those willing to spend time there.

without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their

new markets and in the capitalisation of under capitalised territories. As

expand?

To sustain the needs of a New Yorker for future New Yorkers is an entirely different scenario than that of the Australian bushman. To develop

where our needs are met.

analytical tools and methodologies to reappraise common knowledge about

making valuable but incremental contributions to sustainability in the built

ensuring that research is properly contextualised and demonstrates a robust

impacts.

work of the SRI research groups. Material and expression are fundamental to the built environment - material is the physical construction of the

else. This elaboration of the relationship between the physical and the social

the neglect of social and place based considerations.

Architecture: Research Overview

research

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now the host to the research groups and its semi-autonomous administration facilitates the groupings. Extensive collaborative work between the researchers has been undertaken over a number of years (Chandler and

teaching as well as research.Research income and the number of funding bodies have increased under

continuous process.

ethos focussed around the social and environmental contexts of architectural research and an increasingly outward-looking stance. The emergence of

phenomena of sustainability.Collaborative research has been commissioned and funded by Design

environmental organisations. All submitting staff publish in respected journals.

Research Strategy

The research aims of the SRI have always focused upon undertaking research

and actively addressing public and professional needs. Since 2006 distinctive approaches have driven the SRI research strategy.

and impact; it is directed towards issues that affect the way that people

practical and technical perspectives. This ethos informs all research and

groups and which involves collaboration with other disciplines and other

of our environment that lie outside traditional academic research. This is demonstrated by the strong body of knowledge transfer and policy initiatives

to direct commisions from community groups.

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strengths and to expand into emerging areas of national and international

of life are issues for which the School is well placed to address.

an integrated approach to the understanding of the physical urban environment. To enable this post-2007 strategy to succeed the School has concentrated on recruiting both early career and experienced staff and developing more collaborative links with other disciplines.

People

been driven by two strategic aims – to strengthen existing research areas and to develop new activities as part of the research strategy. The primary consideration when appointing new academics is their research

made a distinctive contribution to the vitality and sustainability of the SRI

engaged as a full time researcher with responsibility to collaborate across groups and enable the development of future European collaborative outputs.

Research contract staff are an integral part of the Research Groups activities and in Architecture are encouraged to engage with the School not just on

to Masters teaching modules. The aim is to help them gain experience for possible future academic careers and to meet other members of the School

in Venice has returned in 2012 as a member of full time research staff as a result of her reserch and teaching contribution. Research contract staff are located in spaces that are either shared with or adjacent to their project supervisors and they are included in the planning discussions for future research projects.

PhD/MPhil registered research students working within Architecture and the

researchers within the School have a dedicated reserch centre within the

Research students can participate in a research training programme which is taken by all PhD and Master students and which provides a detailed

Dedicated training introduces issues relating to ethics in research. The School has an internal Ethics Committee that must approve any people-related

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research. A regular series of both internal and external research seminars are

work-in-progress as well as to develop presentational skills. Research students are helped to prepare papers for publication and encouraged to present

and funded commissions are obviously all important - involvement with

support for postgraduate community engagenment projects and materials research and commissions.

The Sustainability Research Institute was established in 2006 to research

the environment and promote a carbon-neutral society. SRI is part of a

inhabitation is intimately connected to environmental change.

three discipline-orientated research groups. Each group has a management

within common areas of interest. The research groups are Environmental

Lab.

Place Research Lab is an organisation dedicated to researching the concept

through a positive interaction between theory and practice. PRL works with

groups.

the methodology and application of the LEED ND sustainable urban

tool reveals that it has inherent capacity to act as a framework for balancing

dynamic and is readily adaptable to different circumstances or local priorities.

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to see how it could act as a framework to address particular challenges in the

should be. The researchers believe that this topic presents too complex a

authorities and communities to debate how development should respond to each place.The LEED ND research has been funded by competitive grant awards within

Westminster.

Programme within the School of Architecture undertakes community based research enabling projects to make direct change to the environments of

part of the London Centre for Excellence in Place based Education.Research partnerships across disciplines within UEL contributed to

accessibility analysis in the context of local social services was developed. It will effectively support the planning and management of local social

term of spatial accessibility to local services/facilities.

local communities to articulate their desires for place shaping within the new

looking to use LEED ND to evaluate the effectiveness of their own planning decisionmaking in the recently completed Regents Place development in Marylerbone.

under Chandler has developed one of only three embedded live project

projects for local communities. The work centres on sustainable themes such

developed over two years to enable Council volunteers to construct growing facilities for gardening within care homes and welfare centres throughout the borough. The Workshop programme has developed a series of technical innovations and key pedagogic papers which have gainedc recognition by

Alan Chandler

poetic making

guest lecture series

tr

Thursday April 19th @ 6pm EBG02

Landscape and context have changed use and function, and therefore we had to perform certain operations that have changed volume and shape depending on these variables. "Transformations" shows a group of works made during the past two years based principally on formal operations determined by contextual conditions.

19/04/12: felipe assadi Dean of Architecture: Facultad Arquitectura y Diseño Universidad Finis Terrae

ps lecture

March 5th @ 6pm lecture hall WBG.02 (Oscar's) Andrew Weir - Director @ Expedition Engineers Gustavo Brunelli - Associate @ BDSP environment

Chris Bannister - Partner @ Hopkins Architects

2012: velodrome

tthursday April 26th @ 5pm EBG02

26/04/12: william mann Architect and founding partner of the practice Watson Witherford Mann

'piece by piece' - the case for incrementalism

William Firebrace

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maasdMA: Architecture: Sustainability & Design [UEL]

ACE | School of Architecture, Computing and EngineeringUniversity of East London Docklands Campus, London

International conference & workshops: call for papersThe concept of place works across multiple disciplines; as an area of study it requires the application of diverse approaches: merging architecture, urbanism, geography, psychology, as a better means of understanding and responding to places. Critical theorists argue that globally-produced social, economic and environmental conditions are imposed on local places, which are unable to deal with them and maintain their own identity in the process, because of their global provenance.

Place may be defined by activity intrinsic to, and evidenced in, details of the physical surroundings (architectural style, composition, and type) which can be considered as a framing device for daily life. Therefore, can the activities of ‘making’ and ‘doing’ that are in and of places, more usefully inform global processes and products?

In understanding the physical characteristics of place on a local scale, globalised understandings of places and their mutability could be challenged. If the world is entirely made up of places, can each place provide a new form of global knowledge? In this conference, we aim to question the challenges of global problems in relation to the production of place. Focusing on the necessary components to sustain places, how do we decide when to protect, adjust or transform?

[themes]Global knowledge via local placeBy capturing and communicating the characteristics of a place, can place become the means of providing better global practices?

‘Making’ and ‘doing’ What is the appropriate relationship between 'making' and 'thinking'? Can the processes of making and doing create knowledge in their own right?

Insecurity in and of placesHow can insecurity be a positive force in the negotiation of places?

[keynote speakers]

Chris PykePh.D Vice President of Research, U.S. Green Building Council

Iain SinclairBestselling author of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

Felipe AssadiDean of Architecture, Finis Terrae University, Santiago de Chile

Tony FrettonArchitect, Tony Fretton Architects, London

[submission guidelines]Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words, and sent by e-mail as Word (doc) or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files to [email protected] no later than 16th July 2012.

All abstracts should include the following: Paper Title Title, First Name, Surname and Affiliation

of all authors 100 - 150 words biography of all authors E-mail address for corresponding author

Abstract proposals will be reviewed by the conference advisory board.

Contact Telephone: +44 20 8223 3260E-mail: [email protected]

17th & 18th December 2012

the productionof place

UEL Architecture would not be what it is without the support of others. We

materials throughout the academic year.

and

Andrew Weir.

acknowledgments

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