First Year
Repair / Reuse / Recycle Reem Charif, Heba Elsharkawy, Christian Groothuizen, Charlotte Harris, Toshiya Kogawa, Claudia Palma, Michele Roelofsma, Nasios Varnavas
SEEING FROM MEMORY The year started with the exploration of a personal object (artefact) from an important memory or incident. Through drawing, text and photography we revealed the story of the object, the ritual associated with it and the way in which it changes the space it is in. Thinking about how the past can be included in the design for the future lead to an enquiry into looking at what is familiar and finding in it a magnitude of meanings, experiences and relationships with the aim of revealing the intricacies and potentials of what we already have. Taking the artefact as a starting point, students adapted their personal spaces to curate a ‘Museum from Home’. In the past few years important Art World capitals have seen an increase in the growth of independent galleries that flourish in the domesticity of private households, flats and houses. Dissatisfied with the established art world system, and in response to current global events, artists and curators are occupying the domesticity of the home as a space of performance, art and display. This new movement congregates under the hashtag #MuseumFromHome. By far the greatest challenge facing us in 2020 is the climate emergency. In the UK, 49% of annual carbon emissions are attributable to buildings. Over the next 40 years, the world is expected to build 230 billion square metres of new buildiings, the equivalent of building a city the size of Paris every single week. To meet UK Climate Change targets the London Energy Transformation Initiative, the World Building Council and Architecture 2030 insist that all new buildings must be net zero carbon by 2025.
DEPTFORD CREEK, LONDON LOGNE, WUPPERTAL, GERMANY
LEARNING FROM SEGAL Often compared to traditional domestic Japanese structures, and based on timber frame building techniques, The Walter Segal Self Build method eliminates the need for high carbon building methods such as bricklaying and plastering. The resulting lightweight structures can be built with minimal experience and are ecologically sustainable. Another advantage of the Segal method is that it incorporates standard size materials to avoid waste. In term 2 we explored how to incorporate environmental design into our design proposals reducing their carbon footprint. Our client is a modern day mudlarker — a treasure hunter and curator of London’s social history, who scours the river edge searching for objects from the city’s past. The site is Trinity Buoy Wharf, near Canning Town. The proposal brief consisted of living accommodation, artist studio, small public museum and a boat house/jetty for a sailing dinghy.
