BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE 2017
This year’s graduating cohort and their tutors have demonstrated what can be achieved when ambitions are set high; when camaraderie and friendships are strong and supportive and when all of the opportunities and resources of the art school are exploited. Their extraordinary projects set in Kent and Copenhagen should reassure us that the next generation of architects will bring critical and sensitive judgements to bear on the complex challenges of a fast changing world. Our first and second year students have again produced remarkable graduation show exhibitions full of richness, experimentation and rigor that astonishes in its maturity and craft. Their urge to supersede the achievements of previous cohorts is what refreshes the school over the summer and brings everyone back in the autumn ready to do it all over again. Our BA Architecture is an exceptional course, recognized by our peers in the profession and more widely as providing a rich mix of skills preparing graduates for future employment and a creative life. This catalogue, produced by the students, captures the courses energy and ambition and I hope you enjoy it - 2017 was a vintage year! Allan Atlee, Head of School
Stage 1 Students
Stage_1 Sessional Team Tamsin Landells - Ratliff/Landells Daniel Tollady Holger Mattes - Erbar Mattes Afra v’ant Land - Studio Weave Lizzie Upham - Mud Architecture Julian Seagars - Clague Architect Tabatha Harris-Mills Critics Vasiles Polydorou - AHMM James Whitaker - Whitaker Studio Kelly Stroud Ollie Hill - M.Arch UCA Ashmi Thapar, Jay Morton Benedetta Rogers Many thanks to: Heather Newton and the team based at Canterbury Cathedral + Guest critics Georgina Scott, Curator of the Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone Anna Maria Baranowska, AMB Studio, Ramsgate Stage_2 Convened by Kristina Kotov Design Studio: Rhys Jones - Jestico + Whiles Rupert Scott - Open Practise Architecture Kristina Kotov UCA Studio Engineers and Technical Studies: Jeffrey Balylock - Curtins Consulting Engineers UK Lousie Rice - Curtins Consulting Engineers UK Marco Sciarri - Curtins Consulting Engineers UK Hocine Bougdah UCA Landscape Architecture & Ecology: Julian Bore - Lloyd Bore Landscape arch and ecology Eleanor Trenfield - Eleanor Trenfield Landscape Architects Filmmaker: Emma Crouch Graphic Design: Aurelian Thomas - Jestico + Whiles
Studio Critics: Antonia Adjeh Mensah - MArch UCA Alanoud al-Radaideh - MArch UCA Toko Andrews - Kaner Olette Architects Allan Atlee UCA Corrine Aube - MArch UCA Kale Bailey - MArch UCA Brian de Lord Leila Dunning - Holland Harvey Architects Jonathan Harvey - Holland Harvery Architects Mohammed Kassim - MArch UCA Emilio Katsouftides Teecom Simon Miller - Simon Miller Architects Ben Ravensdale MArch UCA Lianne Russ - Russ + Henshaw Richard Scott - Artist Robin Spencer - Clague LLP Gabor Stark UCA Jamie Wilkes MArch UCA Katie Woolin UCA Stage_3 Convened by Sam McElhinney Design Studio: Suzanne Bailey - Walters and Cohen Architects Alex Smith - Y/N Studio Sam McElhinney UCA Studio Critics: Professor Michael Benedikt - University of Texas at Austin Maegan Charnley - Projects Office Pierluigi Chinellato - Fabrica Architecture Limited Eleanor Connolly - Royal College of Art Luke Harrison - On Architecture Kirsten Holland - Terrain Architecture & Landscape Michael Hutchison - Momentum Engineering Nicola Ibbotson - Gort Scott Maegan Icke - Royal College of Art Mike Kavanagh - Momentum Engineering Bethan Kay - Projects Office Kevin Kelly - BDP Anthony Lilley - zeropointone ltd David Lomax - Waugh Thistleton Jack Penford Baker - Hawkins Brown Yuk Yee Phang - Studio Verve Antonio Pisano - Marcel Mauer Lucy Sanders - BDP Lizzie Upham - MUD Architecture David Weir - On Architecture Guy Woodhouse - Piercy and Co Robin Spencer - Clague LLP
Photographer: Daniel Hewitt
and across the years: Creative Practice: Suzanne Gaballa - Universal Design Studio
Technical Coordinator: Sian Moxon - Sustainability for the School of Architecture. The CASS
Technology: Hocine Bougdah UCA Tabitha Mills-Harris UCA
Stage 2 Students
Onkar Kensrey Holly Webster Elliott Ng Chan Kye Afoke Rebecca Alexander Martyn Kinzler Thomas White Mohammed Ajaz Hyab Ariam Amare Mabintou Kolley Ronnie Williams Mohammed Al Ali Rachael Aylward-Jones Carl-Fredrik Kuhle Hei Wong Miksa Albert Alexander Burton Kameka Lindo Thandokazi Zitumane Mena Ali Lois Church Dimple Manmovanlal Laurisa Zuba Bianca Angheluta Aldrin Estillore Bianca Marginean Muhammad Bubur Matthew Glithero Alexander Marno Tyler Bakhtiari Nikita Gorshenin Rahimala Mastan Alice Bates Jack Harding Pierce McAllister Hannah Beckett Yazmine Hayrer Benjamin Millsom Rana Behyari James Ip Maksymilian Molsa Stephon Best Sujan Jimi Tsz Hin Ng Saeed Bikandy Sebastian Jones Tord Nielsen Hannah Briggs Nadine Keatley Viktor Nordheim Ethan Burley Adib Khozoui Jessica Odinwankpa Ben Carpenter Yanjie Li Riccardo Carrara Cagni Massa Gim Osorio Lorena Lopez Garcia-Alcaide Daniel Parker Anthony Chester Teodora Makarieva Tania Patel Thomas Dalby Anju Maunick Ak Pg Abd Rahman Jess Dowson Sarah O’Hare Matthew Ralph Lauren-Lois Duah Ibukun Olajide Niccolò Rimoldi Cleo Falconer Luna Ozbeck Kenza Saad El Hachemi Amar Christiana Panayiotou Edward Flores Acuña Paula Sabuda Pradip Gharti Nirav Patel Cesar Salas Abreu Charlie Gilchrist Gabriel Peck Emily Smith Natalia Gnoinska Anish Rai William Sugden Daniel Gregson Jagesen Ramasawmy Keerthigan Thavaseelan Ghanendra Gurung Peter Runham Sara Tomljenovic Jacob Hedge Shivram Singh Daniel Van Orsouw Elisabeth Holness John Stone Georgios Velonis Pierson Hopgood Sian Taylor Elliot Waters Florence Japzon Billy Timms Amelia Watts Aikaterini Kalogridi Yeny Torres Vergara Zhizhi Yu Ki Yung Kei Alisa Vakhtangova Jinyuan Zhang Rebecca Wallace
Stage 3 Students Aygul Abizgildina Colette Alkan Priyank Anovadiya Theodora Aristeidou Luke Baggott Daisy Bendrey Patrick Boda Jason Brooker Carla Cabrera Fernández Charlotte Dowle Daniel Ford Nissan Gurung Bilal Hasan Gregory Howes Paul Johnson Aris Kaloudis Connie Latham Ethan Leach Emily Legg Aron Lewer Callum Plumb Ayokikun Rosanwo Cengizhan Sasmaz Hamza Shaikh Connor Smith Andreas Spanos Joshua Spitter Reuben Tozer Jordan Whitewood-Neal Mark Williams Jia Xie Manting Zhang
Cultural Context: Allan Atlee UCA Kim Trogal UCA Anne Holder UCA Design & Communications: Katerina Sengstaken UCA JJ Brophy UCA FABlab & Modelmaking: Chris Settle UCA Technical Support: Ben Westicott UCA Sim Oliver UCA Ben Fletcher UCA
Cover Image: Ayokikun Rosanwo
Jordan Whitewood-Neal
Rob Nice
STAGE_1
STAGE 1 BODYSCAPE
Project 01_Wearable Architecture Project 02_Architectural Graft Project 03_Zoom-o-rama - cultivating the common WEARABLE ARCHITECTURE: amplifying the infra-ordinary Wearable Architecture was the first design brief that encouraged students to develop a deep knowledge and understanding of place and peoples reaction and connection to it. From the beginning, the Stage One students had to work beyond the confines/relative safety of the design studio, exploring the social, cultural and political milieu of the everyday, the ‘infra-ordinary’ (Perec 1973) on Canterbury High Street. ARCHITECTURAL GRAFT: the anatomy, idiosyncrasies + temperament of Canterbury cathedral Architectural Graft focused on the design of a small intervention to be inserted within the Canterbury Cathedral precincts. Inspired by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc’s theory of architectural restoration, students used Canterbury Cathedral as a tool, not only for learning about surveying, but also to enhance their understanding of different approaches to restoration. ZOOM-O-RAMA: The final design brief required students to investigate the complex issues associated with coastal town regeneration. It evolved over a seventeen week period that was broken down into three key phases. The first phase of the unit focused on research, through site survey and analysis; the second phase focused on design development through the use of diagrams and modelling; and finally the third phase required further design development through modelling, drawing and collage.
Curiosity
waits in
unlikely
places
Jacob Hedge_Stage 1
Top Left: Reuben Kale, Below: Alice Bates Bottom: Riccardo Carrara Cagni Massa_Stage 1
STAGE_2
Kristina Kotov
Sarah O’Hare_Stage 2
Project 01_Urban_3 Follies for 3 autonomous landscapes Project 02_Terrain_Sitting on the Bourne Project 03_Archive_The Bourne Archive
Arch Stage 2 lives in the landscape: autonomous, Kentish then the urban scape of Sittingbourne. 3 Follies for 3 autonomous landscapes LIMINAL/SURFACE/VOID Sculpting landscapes, imagining, experimenting social engagements, experiences of weather, climate and topographies. Intuiting personal landscape experience: the tacit, the material matter via an architectural device for each hybrid condition. Sitting on the Bourne 1 km long site for filmic analysis and extensive mapping of processes over time: landscape, extensive to intimate readings of particularities of the ‘strip’. Negotiating habitats and ecologies, designing into mediated socio-economies and geologies. The Bourne Archive [3 sites]: _ The water’s edge: bound, public or private (?), thorn bushes, flood plain, previously Mssr. Llloyd’s Wharf. _ A former supermarket site off the High Street. _ A triangular car park: a site behind a plethora of fast food chains, adjacent to one of few working Old Kent Railway stations leading to the paper mill still in use. Special acknowledgements to all in this collaborative year: students and staff, friends and families, and everyone who contributed with critical comments and advice, hands-on expertise, free time and support in the foreground and background.
TRIPS TO SITE / VENICE
Gabriel Peck_Stage 2
Top: Gabriel Peck_Stage 2
Top: Jack Harding, Bottom: Anish Rai_Stage 2
Left from Top: Jack Harding, Gabriel Peck, Adib Khozoui, Nirav Patel Right from Top: Clinton Olajide, Adib Khozoui and Jack Harding_Stage 2
Clinton Olajide_Stage 2
Sam McElhinney
STAGE_3
Project 01_SoapBox Project 02_SoapSuds Project 03_SoapOpera In ‘Soap-box’, Stage Three were asked to consider moving from the position of an observer consumer to that of a citizen activist, responsible for forming the spatial infrastructures of our society. We walked a bisection through the landscape of London, observing how the urban organism continually devours, cements, accretes and remakes itself. Themes, causes and discoveries were dissected, mapped and extrapolated as evidence for individual activist causes. From such relational considerations emerged speculative drawings that explored the potentials of an extra-ordinarily specific ‘crib’, housing an activist individual and their belongings. In ‘Soap-suds’ Stage Three expanded from the horizons of an individual activist citizen to consider a nascent collective society. Doing so required strategic thought; rethinking the ways that living together could interface with the city and how such strategies might change society generally. At the same time, we asked the question; ‘what is a family now, and how does a house become a delightful home?’ The Soapsuds site was a liminal, riverside, brownfield wasteland deep in the heart of the Medway conurbation; surrounded by palimpsests of post industrial docklands, naval fortresses, faded high streets, and suburbias. Students developed strategies for the incremental growth of a ‘seed’ hamlet, tackling inherent issues of site contamination, flooding and ecology, whilst plugging into existing infrastructures and providing a new model for suburban community living. Our final project, ‘Soap-Opera’ re-situating our studies to Copenhagen. We examined comparisons between British and Danish urban development, comparing relative approaches to ‘massive change’, communities and citizen voices or concerns. Each student individually teased out appropriate conceptual, narrative and factual threads to use in the stitching together of a unique, comprehensive design agenda; situating their actions in the wider context of ‘creating a better world’.
Daniel Ford_Stage 3
Project 01_Soapbox
Top: Emily Legg, Bottom Left: Ayokikun Rosanwo, Bottom Right: Aron Lewer_Stage 3
Top: Connor Smith, Bottom Left: Ethan Leach, Bottom Right: Daniel Ford_Stage_3
Project 02_Soapsuds
Top Left: Connor Smith, Top Right: Luke Baggott, Bottom Left: Ayo Rosanwo, Bottom Middle: Daniel Ford, Bottom Right: Reuben Tozer_Stage 3
Top Left: Aron Lewer, Top Right: Daisy Bendrey, Bottom Left: Daniel Ford, Bottom Middle: Callum Plumb, Bottom Right: Connie Latham_Stage 3
Project 03_Soapopera
Connor Smith_Stage 3
Top Left: Hamza Shaikh, Top Right: Patrick Boda, Right Middle: Connie Latham, Bottom: Daniel Ford_Stage 3
Left and Bottom Images: Jia Xie, Right Image: Manting Zhang_Stage 3
HYDRO CLIMATIC MUSEUM T h e F l o o d H o u s e
Location Perspective
Top: Ethan Leach, Middle Left: Reuben Tozer, Middle Right: Luke Baggott, Bottom Left: Alexandra Ciobanu, Bottom Right: Priyank Anovadiya_Stage 3
Top: Emily Legg, Bottom: Carla Cabrera Fernรกndez_Stage 3
Top Left and Bottom: Aron Lewer, Top Right: Gregory Howes_Stage 3
Jason Brooker_Stage 3
Top: Daisy Bendrey, Bottom: Connie Latham_Stage 3
Top: Daisy Bendrey, Bottom: Connie Latham_Stage 3
Top: Gregory Howes, Bottom: Callum Plumb_Stage 3
Top: Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Bottom: Ayokikun Rosanwo_Stage 3
Jordan Whitewood-Neal_Stage 3
Jordan Whitewood-Neal_Stage 3