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Unit E
Michele Roelofsma, Nasios Varanas
The unit aims to create a framework to study architecture based on the creative dialogue between a personal architectural idea and a given site.
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Unit E prefers to work in highly charged inner-city sites as we have done last academic year.
Preoccupation with environmental, sustainable and social issues in a concerning highly-charged urban context necessitates and encourages the development of an intellectual platform to explore the year’s projects.
The environment determines the quality of life and the sustainable desire a response of appreciation of this.
For this Academic year, we chose to work on The Lower Marsh area, where we find one of London’s oldest and historic markets dating back to the late 1800.
The Lower Marsh Market is a unique mix of shops, restaurants, theatres and galleries and welcomes handmade and craft trades to add diversification to the richness of this part of London.
Our site is at 114 -118 Lower Marsh and Grandy Place behind Waterloo Station. Currently a building site with a planning application for a new retail space will open at the front of the Site towards Lower Marsh Street and contribute to the shopping area’s vitality and character.
Granby Place will be developed into a public realm benefiting the local community, workers and visitors. In plan is the concept of opening a new path route from Granby Place to Launcelot Street and a pedestrian footpath between Lower Marsh and Waterloo Station, which would, in turn, bring the arches beneath the Station Approach Road to greater use. Currently, there is a proposal for this location with approved building applications.
Students studied the Building application made for the Granby Place development, including the “The Camel and Artichoke and the Hotel at 100-108 Lower Marsh.
Our site is located within the Waterloo Opportunity Area forms part of the Central Activities Zone frontage, defined by the London Plan. It also falls within the Lower Marsh conservation area and is a negative contributor to the street, and is appropriate for development. Lower Marsh serves as Waterloo’s primary shopping street.
The introduction projects writing of a Haiku, the Mask and Micro Home competition were tools to explore a personal spatial interest used to develop the leading architectural project. The unit conducted several case studies related to the client brief that they formulated themselves, and scale comparison.
The relatively small introduction projects, The Haiku and the Competition project, “Micro Home”, set the first point of the design discussion.
From Micro Home Idea to Building on-site, developing the discussion of the competition to the next level.
Adrian Stokes
Students
Year 3 Daniel MEIER, George IONESCU, Louis LINNEMANN Year 2 Ufuoma Daisy ENUGHWURE, Filip SZYPULA, Abir HOSSAIN, James HANCOCK, Joseph MONROY,Haider KHAN,Paula MEMA, Maddassar KHAN, Mahbubur Rahman TAHMID, Silvia-Mihaela GRAMADA, Taylor STEPHENS, Korell LLAUDES, Mohammed MUBIN, Tobi YEOMAN, KacperJAJUGA, Abir Hussain
Special thanks to:
Visiting Critics: Ana Ruta - Architect, MMConcepts, Port; Eddy Chan - VTC, Hong Kong; Charles Brown Cole - Architect, London; Kristian Garrecht - Architect, Baupiloten, Berlin; Kalikratis Eva; Armor Gutierrez; Teresa Serano.
Cultural Home for “Lower Marsh” 1 Foodbank and Homeless The “Weber Street City mission”, within walking distance from the Site, and The Islington “Shelter from the Storm” are examples of possible clients. Several students wanted to accommodate some of their programs. 2 NYJO used to practice near London Bridge but recently had to relocated their weekly Saturday practice sessions. 3 The Theatre in the Vault adjacent to the Site opened was a perfect excuse to elaborate on the possibilities to address the topic “Cultural Home for Lower Marsh.”
And then, of course, The Lower Marsh Market.
The main criteria for this project are to establish relations ships and dialogues with programs that we find currently on the Site to develop a sustainable society.
The relatively small introduction projects, The Haiku and the Competition project, “Micro Home”, set the first point of the design discussion.
From Micro Home Idea to Building on-site, developing the discussion of the competition to the next level.
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Previous pages: 1 Site looking from the approach 2 Site including the Vaults 3 Daniel Meier - Mask 4 Korell Llaudes: Mask study for facade building 5 Site from the junction of Lower Marsh and Baylis Road
Daniel MEIER: Workshop Theatre 6-12 Image captions here, individually or grouped together etc etc Lower Marsh, Waterloo; the partially-pedestrianized historic market street is a location for the creation of cultural goods. Food, fabrics, art and ceramics; with their retail spaces, fill the local area. This project aims to continue the tradition of making by creating a space of theatre set production. Large production pieces as well as props and costumes will be manufactured for the surrounding theatres, making use of the local heritage of cultural object creation; and keeping this lifestyle alive in the community through teaching programmes.
Incorporating clay, ceramics, wood, metal and textiles, this trans-disciplinary workshop and resident makers will collaborate with directors and set designers to further the local performance arts. The project will quickly generate a library of props and objects that will constitute a shared local pool of useful resources for the area. A necessary feature of this project is the exposure of a primarily backstage process, presenting set production as if on stage. This will inspire visitors of Lower Marsh to become involved in the hands-on creation process. This transparency of process will exist in the materiality of the entrance thresholds; as well as the pedestrian access route that cuts right through the workshop (connecting lower marsh with station approach road.) Through advertising to them the production of local shows, the public will be encouraged to buy tickets and support the local theatre industry
George IONESCU: 13-15 Mask exploration leading to plan proposal.
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Paula Mema: Proposal for the children from the local schools both primary and secondary. It is a space for after school activities to take place. This can also be useful to parents of children that work around the waterloo area as well as the children that attend the local schools. There is also a communal space outside the building designed for the community of all ages, though but the main user will be the local children The communal space enables a dining area for the customers of the Lower Marsh Market to consume the food and gather around a welcoming space. 17 Line of my mind, displaying the paths within my mind. The dark spaces resemble different memories and sensations. 18 The light and dark spaces within the micro-home are very important as they symbolize different parts of the map of the mind, the light representing a sensation or thought and the dark symbolizing memories or truama. 19 Plan and section Cultural Home 4 Proposal design light and shadow articulation
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Filip Szypula: Around Lower Marsh surround loads of unused metal materials such as rail track rails are left to rust. This could be reused on small business projects or street art Food market businesses could potentially use those rails as a support for the tents. As most common businesses around Lower Marsh are food markets this could be beneficial for my project in order to rent such a support con constructions for food stalls in my design. 21 Mask Space 22 Framed connection: Lower Marsh with leak street 23 Proposal Market Building 24 Granby Place
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Korell Llaudes: 25 Mask Study / Facade 26 Diagram proposal Cultural Home 27 Section Proposal connecting Lower Marsh and Granby Place with the Approach 28 Roof garden entrance to the Approach 29 Connecting Granby Place with Lancelot Street
Client: London borough of Lambeth Objective: Create community hub. Linking two streets and enhancing architectural quali-ties for a more sensual expe-rience. Stands out in form but brings unity to the whole area Target audience: Homeless (improving clensiness, civility and providing food) and children (under 18, for skillbuild-ing and creative production) Rooms (approx.): Halls (main - 192m2, rehears-al - 45m2)classrooms - 29m2 to 68m2 Retail space - 45m2 to 57m2 Social spaces - 48m2 Partners: Homeless link, The Jazz centre UK, Old Vic Theatre
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Louis Linnemann: 30 Ever changing facadeDue to the design of the MicroHome, every resident has the possibility to choose their own additive module catering their needs. This brings in a dynamic to the building as the facade depends on the identity of the inhabitants. Micropod street Facade wall + Micro home competition 31 Section Housing pods with shops on ground floor 32 Perspective Ground floor Retail space Two floors Housing pods and roof terace with entery from the approach 33 Roof Terrace connects the Approaches wtih Granby Place with and the Lower Marsh
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Abir Hussain: 34 Proposal Temporary accommodation for Homeless 35 short section over the Granby Place internal court Yard
One of my biggest interests in Architecture is the impact of Cubism Art Movement on Architecture. In cubism, the artists used flat geometric shapes to represent the different sides and angles of the objects.
I was interested in one of the greatest Cubists, who is Pablo Picasso and the decomposition into geometric shapes. My research is based on the decomposition and repetition of regular geometric figures. I was influenced by the Pablo Picasso’s work, and I tried to think about the cubism, and it influenced my mask.
With cubism in mind, it was possible to develop a design based on cubes. Each cube represents a certain function of the house for homeless people. Even the development of the final proposal does not represent perfect cubes but 4 boxes having different size which are delimited by the layout of the site in question.
The whole building has a courtyard, which is going to be used by homeless people as it is a part of the open plan with the living zone of the home. Another expedient used to make the public interact with the building is the proposed new stair which acts as a link between the two streets.
Kacper JAJUGA: 36 Massing study of Cultural Home 37 Plans Ground floor performance room + Retail, First Floor performance + Gallery, Second small offices 38 Model section Auditorium, Gallery and office space
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Mahbubur Rahman: 39 Mask study 40 Micro Home elevations 41 Composition painting proposal for the Cultural Home 42 Massing model of proposal in context. Client: Centre Point Centre point – House an learning activity area for young people of 15-20 years old so that they can move on with their lives They are looking for 15 small bedrooms for individual with of 30 sqm, Design should include individual toilet and shower in each room. Sufficient light and ventilation. Space for bed Table and wardrobe and an Office for Center Point , NYJO practice space 300 sqm. Performance space 150 audience space and Lambeth Council.
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Daisy Enughwure: 43 Micro home Wedged can be slotted between throughspaces such as alleyways, unused spaces between buildings etc. It takes a vertical approach to the solution with minimal ground space and interaction. Parasitical in nature, the levels, at varying angles, pierce through the landscape piece, which serves as a private circulation for the home and a potential public garden to the back - adding a slice of greenery to the city scape.
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James Hancock: 46 Lower Marsh “Market Extension “Market owners don’t have a communal area to have lunch or socialise with other mar-ket owners. My proposal is to bring the lower marsh community together and design a market village alongside a main building where you can talk, hang out and make food. I will also incorporate a facility for homeless people in the area who need some shelter and food. People can come and donate food, and this will be used to serve the home-less.
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Silvia-Mihaela GRAMADA Columbiad Micro-HomeInspired from a Jules Verne’s novel, Karl Benz’s first car and an interminable urge to grope a liminal space, Columbiad Home is an anticlockwise machine that captures time and the living inside it.Rooting its principles into Stoic philosophy, this expanding house moves its elements throughout a pile system powered by Geothermal Energy or Hydraulic Power. Despite its folding and moving, the house has the capacity of maintaining balance, purely mirroring its Stoic ideology.The inside room rotates once with the mechanical movement produced by its inhabitant, while touching its boundaries. This idea reflects Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and creates a timetravelling illusion that contaminates the feeling of living inside it.
The proposed Plans & Elevation have derived from the shape and function of the previous mask and a study of liminal space.The pile system that allows the top floor to elevate from its low-er level, has been designed based of the initial ideology of the mask, that of expanding without the need of extra materials. This folding mechanism has created spaces between levels that allow room for an extra floor.With the help of the piles, the initial parameters have not been exceeded, but rendered into a space that, by movement, could enlarge itself, without needing additional ground to build onto.
Silvia-Mihaela GRAMADA: 51 Micro Home Columbiad 52 Lower marsh Music hall and open air Gallery
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