BSc Architecture Year 1

from Architecture + Design Yearbook 2021

PhD in Architecture + Design

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.

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.

Students:

Aagaman Limbu, Adriana Bostan, Adrienne Raleigh, Afshan Anjum Parvez Shaikh, Alina Obreja, Allan Paragioudakis, Anoeda Chikungwa, Arlinda Zenelaj, Aurorinia Roman, Belood Suliman, Bisera Ruseva, Cristian Severin, Cristian-Luca Serbu, Darnell Carol-Walters, Elonas Butrimas, Eva Brasoveanu, Farah Tarhini, Federica Guarini, Guilherme Bressaneli, Harry Ebdali, Helly Pandya, Holly Franks, Horacio Sequeira De Araujo, Ibrahim Muahid, Isabel Salazar, Jake Palmer, Jake Whiley, Jameela Mohamed, Joanna Wong, Jordan Perry, Karen Moussaid, Kiranjit Kaur, Kostadin Topalov, Liam Betts, Linda Martinez Ubilluz, Maharshikumar Patel, Malachi Henry, Mariana Marian, Melisa Mjekra, Milesa Khan, Mohamed Dif, Mohammed Khan, Naafiah Miah, Rafael Ribeiro Fischer, Reece John-Baptiste, Ritesh Ajay Karelia, Ruby Mae Walsleben, Sami Begum, Samuel Littlewood, Sonia Elena Stefanescu, Taniya Zaman, Tanjina Hossain, Tobias Scriven

Critis and Collaborators:

Rachel Owens, Jeff Tidmarsh, Keita Tajima, Carsten Jungfer, Huda Tayob, Paul Nichols, Barbara Zandavali, Catalina Pollak Williams

Special thanks to:

Mark Sowden

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01 Raphael Fischer, revealing hidden quality 02 Federica guarini, Model and drawing of revealed object 03 Federica guarini, Hybrid drawing of hidden quality 04 Jordan Perry, connected spaces 05 Arlinda Zenelaj, transformations of the artefact 06 Linda Martinez, treasures in time (hidden moon scape) 07 Linda Martinez, museum from home 1 to 1 in context 08 Maria Isabel Salazar, invisble threshold

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09 Arlinda Zenelaj, transformations of the artefact 10 Jameela Mohamad, artefact study in horizontal sections 11 Jake Nicholas Whiley, traces of time 12 Adrienne Mercedes Raleigh, Extending to Monument proposal sequence 13 Tanjina Hossain, 1:1 curation 14 Merisa Mekeila - artefact hidden quality model study. 15 Guilherme Bressaneli, spatial study model 16 Guilherme Bressaneli, ritual qualities (lost in a book - flying Dandilions)

3 2 1 Plan and Section Drawn in 1:12 Scale Relaxation Fantasy Dreaming

Talking to the birds

Socialising

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27 Anoeda Zion Chikungwa, site study 28 Ibrahim Muahid, site drawing 29 Jake Nicholas Whiley, proposal sequence and framed view 30 Linda Martinez, water treasures spatial qualities.

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31 Jake Palmer, proposal model 32 Federica Guarini, Layered materiality 33 Linda Martinez, material erosion 34 Federica Guarini, sectional axis (pure view) 35 Kostadin Topalov, structural framework 36 Darnell Walters, structural model 37 Sami Begum, journey 38 Tanjina Hossain, spatial conditions 39-40 Naafiah Miah, material study and proposal - erosion

High tide level

Low tide level

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Final proposal high openning as welcome to the people who are looking the ground treasures (alunatime, river bell and music) to direct them to the water treasures Materity which allow the armony between the new building and the zone.