Architecture Projects Review 2020 by Architecture@LJMU

Architecture 2020

BA(Hons) Architecture & Master of Architecture Projects Review

CONTENTS Introduction

BA(Hons) Architecture

Master of Architecture

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External Engagement

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First Year Second Year Third Year

Urban Design One Housing Urban Design Two Thesis Project Live Projects Research

INTRODUCTION It is never possible to capture within so few pages the full vibrancy of the Architecture Subject Area here in the Liverpool School of Art & Design, but I hope the contents of this document provide a taste of its creative energy and the scope of activities undertaken in this extraordinary academic year. Last year we installed new facilities for the immersive experience of art and design exhibitions that utilise state of the art virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. We also introduced digital design review technologies into both our undergraduate and post graduate studios. These excursions into the use of virtual design & presentation technologies prepared us well for the impact the Coronavirus pandemic has had on our end of year teaching, assessments and exhibitions. This year our virtual degree show has opened opportunities to disseminate the outputs of our design studios further afield and for innovative collaborations with our growing number of international partners. In their studio teaching, our staff develop speculative work that addresses real world issues, informed by their own research and by our associations with cultural, professional and civic institutions in this city and beyond. Such collaborations nourish the thematically focussed activities of our students. In our BA studios we have explored themes relating to climate change, global migration and future workplace environments through transient, resilient and locally rooted architectures. In December our students presented climate change projects for Hebden Bridge weeks before major flooding wreaked havoc in the region. In February students from each year participated in the RIBA Forgotten Spaces Design Charette proposing transformational projects for Bootle to significant acclaim. In our MArch studios we have proposed city scale, canal and riverside interventions for Chester & Ghent that address both sensitive heritage sites and post-industrial districts. These investigations have inspired Thesis projects that have explored the imaginative interpretation of cultural & industrial heritage sites, the integration of nature into cities and wellbeing enhancing buildings for residential, workplace and recreational use. Alongside these large-scale speculative projects, students engage in smaller projects with real clients and tangible outcomes. This year these live projects were completed with Baltic Farm, Bootle Family Centre, The Callister Trust, Everton Library, Kensington CIC & The Turnpike Gallery. In January our collaborative BSc (Hons) Architecture programme with the Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) received RIBA Part 1 validation. Our new collaborative MSc Architecture programme with SLIIT welcomes its inaugural cohort of students in September 2020. This new programme, specialising in architectural heritage & contemporary tropical architecture, will provide exciting opportunities for shared projects and exchanges with our existing PG programmes. The first cohort of our new BA(Hons) Interior Architecture programme completed their first year in May. This explores the creative adaptation, repurposing, remodelling, rebranding, restyling and refitting of existing buildings. We have utilised point cloud scanning technologies to capture full 3d photogrammetric surveys of historic buildings in Liverpool in preparation for their second-year adaptive reuse projects, which have proved to be crucial technologies used in our virtual shows this year. I would like to thank the guest tutors and visiting critics that play such a vital role, enriching our studio culture. Finally, congratulations to all our graduating students, whose work you will find within these pages, we wish them well for their own futures. Ian Wroot, Subject Head: Architecture June 2020

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BA(HONOURS) ARCHITECTURE The BA(Hons) programme is thoughtfully balanced to address the creative and technical demands of the profession. Taught principally through a studio environment that is seamlessly underpinned and informed by lectures and workshops addressing architectural design theory, practice issues, and structural and environmental building technologies. The overarching ambition of the programme is to create graduates with artistic flair, who are technically skilled and grounded in the demands of the professional role of the architect. The learning and teaching environment is progressively informed by pedagogic research in the creative field. While teaching the curriculum, the programme also develops less tangible skills in students, such as communication, presentation and selfmotivation. A key ambition is to create independent thinkers, adept at resolving problems with creativity and originality. A broad educational experience is offered within which students develop diverse, rigorous and creative approaches to design issues that explore and test appropriate resolutions in relation to contemporary and anticipated contexts. Design projects form the backbone of teaching. They are primers to a creative and critical thought process. As students progress through the Degree, the design projects gradually become larger in scale, more complex and ambitious in their intentions. At Degree level the city of Liverpool is predominantly used as a contextual laboratory to test concepts that have a local flavour with global implications. BA Staff Gary Brown, Ming Chung, Paul Gibbs, David Heathcote, Peter Horrocks, Joanne Hudson, Caspar Jones, Philip Lo, Robert MacDonald, Anthony Malone, Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki, Jamie Scott, Charlie Smith, Su Stringfellow, Simon Tucker, Dominic Wilkinson, Alex Williams

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FIRST YEAR The First Year Programme aims to address two key ambitions that are crucial towards the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; architectural educational journey: Firstly, attention is given to the introduction of fundamental architectural ideas that underpin design. Particular emphasis is placed in the cultivation of the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative thinking through independent interpretation. By engaging research into various cultural sources, this task is being encouraged in every project with the optimism that this will instil confidence in confronting design challenges. Secondly, the introduction of representational skills that are necessary to convey their ideas, either through established architectural conventions or other means, are paramount. In order to nurture these skills, students are encouraged to learn, practise and conduct hand-drawing and physical model making as a necessary means to immerse themselves in the design process. Dedicated studio workshops ran in parallel to studio tutorials to support this ambition. For many, this demanded from the students an alignment to a mindset where the two ambitions converge to synthesise design explorations on the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central themes: Light, Space and Form. This unprecedented year has resulted in the curtailment of the above objectives, but it is hoped that the following pages demonstrate a spirit willing to engage, persevere and transcend in the wake of many obstacles - a small but important ray of positivity.

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THE ANATOMY OF BUILDINGS ARCHIFILM In ‘The Anatomy of Buildings’, students paired up as a partner of a team for their allocated building study. The objectives of the project were to introduce to the student collaborative skills, engagement in the ‘reading’ of buildings and practising representational skills. These were new tasks for many in this year’s cohort. There was an expectation that compositional and theoretical stances derived from their studies would be presented as part of their team enquiry. The first semester concluded with their first individual design project: ‘Archifilm’. Students were invited to explore fundamental architectural conditions: such as enclosures, thresholds, axial devices and aedicules by resorting to a kit of parts consisting of elemental components: columns / beams, planes, (walls and floors) ramps and stair elements. This initial stage was then further developed into architectural designs of their interpretations for a Lyrical Playhouse / Memorial Folly. Their own research from films, novels, paintings etc., prompted the development of a narrative and storyboard towards the design of these open typologies. Students engaged in the exploration of sites and spaces through model-making, photography and filmic techniques.

Nature Pavilion | Tom Mori

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Loba House | Andrei Sima

Japanese Traditional House | Alyana Rosete + Raihan Uddin

Esherick House | Ali Dahshan 8

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Saat Rasta Unit 2 | Caoim

Fisher House | Matt Fordham

mhe Sweeney, Joe Morphew + Othman Aldwaihees

Robie House | Gabriella Graziano + Mary Winrow Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture 2020

Lumen | Ana Prisecaru

These Walls That Divide | Eva Kilpatrick

Wadi Darbat Observatory | Luke Dickson 10

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Deep Water | Mel Benyoub

Reflection | Yasmine Gawthorpe

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Gardens | Amalia Tohitau

Reverie | Ali Dahshan

A Cocoon Of Backward Thinking | Gabriella Graziano

ShadowSpace | Hazel Whittaker 12

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Forever Young | Abbie Green

GreenHouse | Valiqa Tanveerv Down The Rabbit Hole | Annie Gregson

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A PLACE FOR CRAFTING The second semester project, A Place for Crafting, is marked by the extension of students personal research in setting the orientation of their projects. Interpretations of crafting cultures and their related working environments forms the initiating exercise. Crafting is broadly conceived as specialised treatment and process, and priorities of condition, life cycle, material transformation and ritual are all investigated. The distinctions of process and priority reveal personal commitments of design approach. Balancing the demands of a craft related functional programme is also coupled with an analysis of conditional opportunities at the street corner sites given for the project. This layering of architectural dimensions brings with it an initiation into choices of construction and tectonic logic. Weighing priorities Balancing choices between constr and these are further investigated in a structural assessment and though studies of daylighting. The investigative drawing, model making and experiential documentation techniques of the first semester are extended and reapplied to give a holistic and tangible grasp of this integration of plural concerns.

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DryflowerCraft | Melina Benyoub

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Pottery Studio | Ella Bedingfield

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Tandoori Nan Bakery | Ahmad Abdulqadir 18

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Mastectomy Tattoo Facility | Caoimhe Sweeney Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture 2020

Artisan Glass Works + Shop | Luke Dickson 20

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Fungi Cultivator | Gabriella Graziano Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture 2020

SECOND YEAR The year is a vital stage in the transition from fundamental understandings of the subject towards a personal critical position, achieved with the completion of the Degree. To facilitate this there is more creative freedom in Second Year to explore radical conceptions and challenging contexts. There are opportunities for students to be experimental and explorative in architectural design thinking, production and representation. The complexities of the city become the setting for the investigation and application of ideas. The acts of researching, understanding and applying, as techniques within a design process are demonstrated and practiced.

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URBAN WEAVING

The city becomes a setting for the investigation of ideas in urban design during the first semester of Second Year. The site was the Fabric District, located adjacent to the city centre and within the Knowledge Quarter. It is an area with a very distinctive history of industrious ‘making’, and significant potential for urban regeneration. During the first half of term, students worked in small groups, which reinforces the importance of collaboration in the design process. Initially they analysed the area of investigation, and then proposed an Urban Strategy for the site. Emphasis was placed on thoughtful consideration of streetscapes, squares, spaces and their landscapes, and on imagining the activities and programmes that would animate them. Each Strategy evolved from a conceptual idea derived from the group’s interrogation of fabric and space within the city, aligned with an understanding of permeability and relationships between public and private realms. These Urban Strategies provided the framework and context for the second stage of design work, in which each student chose an urban space or structure within their masterplan to develop at a larger scale. These designs considered ways in which such an element within an urban composition can become a place of activity and intervention. In working through the scales, students were encouraged to explore how those who move through them, via eye-level studies, would experience their designs, and to appraise their sustainability in myriad ways. In this way, the students experienced how a specific design proposal can evolve whilst working within the framework of an over-arching masterplan. 01 ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SITE AT 1:1000

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12, 15 Danielle Green, Caolan Rooney, James Williams

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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

The second semester of Second Year is a period during which students are actively encouraged to make experimental architectural investigations. They are given significant creative freedom to explore their own understanding of what constitutes ‘architectural design’, and students have numerous opportunities to be conceptual and abstract in their design thinking, process, production and representation. The studio tutors each offered a different project brief, and students could choose their preferred options. However, these briefs are seen very much as launching pads, which students creatively interpret when defining their project’s trajectory, potentially transgressing the boundaries of architecture and venturing into other disciplines and fields. Research conducted during the early stages of the project is drawn together as an essay, to crystallise students’ initial explorations and signal the transition to design studies. Each studio project group devised and established their challenges and objectives for research, interpretation, developmental studies and potential design responses. Some projects creatively interrogate a given building type, others explore design much more through process rather than programme. In some instances a site was given, in others the site was determined as part of the creative exploration of the project, or alternatively, the project was explored in an abstract context. Studio workshops during this semester were themed to complement the students’ experimental development of their project work. They included: design research methods; model making; drawing as design process / explorative drawing techniques; presentation possibilities and presentation as exhibition. There were five projects in total, described overleaf.

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LIGHT SPACE Light plays an intangible and elusive part in illuminating our daily lives and our architecture. Lightspace called for the design of a temporary theatre to re-imagine the potential of an urban square, to find inventive ways to re-connect to the surrounding areas and to re-engage the public with an imaginative events programme. As agents of the city students observed and documented the diurnal and nocturnal characteristics of the square and its context - describing the variety of environmental conditions, social and cultural activities that occurred when daytime changed to night. Students researched the significance of light in architecture with a particular emphasis on Materiality, Phenomenology and Sustainability. The project explored ‘light as a material’ used within two very distinct environments - the internal performance space and the external context of the square. Students explored how natural and artificial light sources could be manipulated to create atmospheric conditions for architecture. Projects balanced qualitative experience with the technical requirements of a theatre alongside programmatic provisions of space. Tutor: Ming Chung THE ARCHITECTURE OF IMPERMANENCE This brief focused on the condition of impermanence – and asked students to consider the notion of ‘temporary’ as a driver for incremental change. Temporary structures can address fundamental questions of urban life and although these structures, and the events they support may not be designed for the long haul they can inspire and embed themselves in a community, public space or urban manifesto, creating a taste for the permanent. This project questioned and explored the challenges that are facing the city as it continues to grapple with and adapt to the conditions of the 21st century. Students were asked to design a City Lab as a series of temporary structures. Essentially, intervention(s) were intended to be in the form of an ideas workshop for future Liverpool: a combination of urban think tank, a public forum for events, and community centre, which addressed the challenges facing the urban realm. Instead of being static, and inflexible, intervention(s) were removable, and flexible, and provided a setting for multiple scenarios. Tutor: Jo Hudson TREE HOUSING Architecture in the UK has been dominated by load bearing masonry construction. Recently there has been a renaissance of timber construction techniques, particularly using engineered timber. Much of this renewed interest has been prompted by the potential for timber to be one of the few structural materials that can be carbon negative and renewable. Publicly owned council housing has been eroded for many decades in this country but recent changes have enabled new local authority funded housing projects to go ahead. These projects place a focus on longer term factors, such as addressing energy poverty through the building fabric and providing structures that respond sensitively to their context. This brief explored the potential of medium-rise timber framed housing for high density publicly owned development in an urban location. Proposals provided accommodation for a range of occupiers in 1, 2 and 3 bedroom homes with a minimum of 20 homes in total. The project also included some non-residential space at ground floor level: the choice of which was defined during the research phase. Tutor: Jim Sloan

THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE Are libraries needed when a world of information can be held in the palm of one hand? Libraries have a rich history, but in the recent past debate has raged over their future. In the last two decades the concept of “what is a library?” has changed more than in the previous two millennia. As a civic building libraries form an important part of the public realm, providing spaces for a collection of activities as diverse as meeting, playing, relaxing, conversing, debating, socialising, seducing and sheltering, as well as reading. They are both cultural landmarks and an internal extension of the streets, squares, parks and playgrounds that make up the public space of urban environments. The project questioned the idea of a library and explored the theoretical boundaries of a building type straddled between digital and civic space. Tutor: Charlie Smith LOCALLY ROOTED Community businesses already play a vibrant role in local places across England. There are more than 7,000, and are growing in number more quickly than both charities and small businesses. Many parts of the country face cuts, neglect and social problems but evidence shows that people are stepping in to address these issues running businesses which help their whole community and recycling money back into the local area. This brief focused on the reuse of an existing building into a mixed use social enterprise. Building on the research undertaken in semester 1 students developed a case for an appropriate community business. Building were intended to contain a place to meet/eat, a space to work and another community use. The key element is that the business addressed a social need and was run for and by the community. As many community businesses are developed ‘bottom up’ there was a focus on the design process, the potential for evolution, and the circular economy of the building and use. Tutor: Su Stringfellow ELEMENTS AND ENERGIES This project offers design projects inspired by the natural world, and approached through an exploration of elements and energies. Many cultures have used the notion of elements to understand and explain the world. The Greeks proposed the classical elements of earth, water, air and fire, and later aether. The Chinese system saw the world as composed of energies or transitions, and was comprised of wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Energies can be seen in a number of ways such as through the lenses of science and engineering. They can also be perceived through an aesthetic appreciation, for example through sensing the underlying energies in a landscape, in an activity, in a composition. These aspects of nature are all around us and inform many physical and perceptual aspects of our world. Here they are used as the starting point for the design of a building. Tutor: Simon Tucker

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First Floor (Private): Here would be eight sleeping pods of varied sizes for residents to dwell in temporarily. Pods will each face either into the city or out toward the docks assisting to provide a view, whilst privacy from the outdoors will be brought to these spaces through the use of transluscent polycarbonate windows. This floor also holds a room allocated for residents to gather and children to play away from the public space below. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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playroom and private kitchen. Both first and second floor are centred by an atrium which looks down into the ground floor space meaning that at any given time they are able to see the activities occuring below. Above the atrium is a skylight which aims to provide all floors with natural light in what is otherwise a rather dark site as a result of the tall neighbouring buildings.

Ground Floor (Public): At ground level there is a flexible central communal space within which exhibitions and talks that address the homelessness of women and their children would take place in order to tackle this issue. There are also two classrooms, a kitchen and three clinic spaces, each of which will be used by residents - the teching spaces and kitchen to enhance skills and boost CV’s, the clinics for healthcare as a result of the difficulties met when joining a GP service when homeless. The kitchen will also be used to feed the homeless Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture in 2020 the area at meal times,33 seating for which will be provided in the adaptable central space as well as in

Influential Attributes • Prefabricated timber pods, built using Cross Laminated Timber. • Modular 32m^2 Units crained onto site and STRUCTURE MODELS stacked to create small footprint living. • Cantilever up to 3m. CARDBOARD MODEL SHOWING THE CONTRAST IN MATERIAL • Access to units typically on the same side. • Units grouped into collective pods. West Section

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1. TWO BED APARTMENT. 2. ONE BED APARTMENT. 3. ONE BED APARTMENT. 4. ONE BED APARTMENT. 5. ONE BED APARTMENT. 6. ONE BED APARTMENT. 7. LIFT ANO STAIRWAY. 8. ONE BED APARTMENT. 9. ONE BED APARTMENT. 10. ONE BED APARTMENT. 11. ONE BED APARTMENT. 12. TWO BED APARTMENT. 13. TWO BED APARTMENT.

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Figure 13: 3rd Floor Plan,1:200.

TREE HOUSING Emma Spencer

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Callaghan, Georgia 5124AR- Resolution Tree Housing- “Vitality” Brief:

“This brief explores the potential of medium-rise timber framed housing for high density publicly owned development in an urban location. Proposals should provide accommodation for a range of occupiers...in 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom homes with a minimum of 20 homes in total... The project should also include some non-residential space at ground floor level.”

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Structure: Cross Laminated Timber Cladding: Sweet Chestnut Timber and Red Brick Slip Veneer.

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Proposal: Four storey, 20 unit social accommodation (1, 2 and 3 Bedroom) for the Deaf Community.

TREE HOUSING Aqdas Rafiq Non residential space: Shared Village hall with select Site: Corner of Seel and Slater Street, Liverpool, UK.

public use- exclusive to Deaf Community events.

Figures 24, 25, 26: ‘Vitality’ modelled within context.

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ating each timber unit separately. Sweet Chestnut Timber and red brick slip cladding.

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An introduction of ‘DeafSpace’ within social housing envisions to reduce isolation, fear and exhaustion from the daily lives of those who are deaf or are hard of hearing. Aiming to encourage all factions of the Deaf Community to thrive in an all-inclusive atmosphere, showcasing that deaf and hard of hearing individuals live a rich and prosperous life inside a sensory world. Furthermore, timber will be celebrated. Integrating it with the existing masonry context is synonymous to introducing the deaf community into the social context of the city- injecting a new breath into the site.

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• Timber is one of the few structural materials which has the potential to be carbon negative and renewable. CLT is an engineered timber product with good structural properties and low environmental impact where sustainably sourced timber is used. • Can be made into panels. This allows for prefabrication, and panels to be carried by lorry and subsequently crained on site. This reduces building time and thus labour hours; saving money and disruption to the surrounding urban area. • CLT is lightweight and so the dead load of the building will be lowered, reducing the depth of the foundations and subsequently material with high embodied energy and money. • Inherent Fire resistive properties. • Avoids thermal bridging (in parapet walls or flat roofs). • Good delivery of airtight envelope. • Suitable for non-visible as well as exposed finishes.

Figure 29: 1:20 Wall to floor Detail including Foundations located on Figure 31.

Figure 27: 3D Perspective Visualisation from the Village Hall.

Figure 28: 1:20 Detail of a roof top garden Parapet, located in Figure 31.

Figure 30: 1:20 Detail of two units on top of each other where a roof patio is present., located in Figure 20,

TREEFigure HOUSING 1: Axonometric 1:100. Georgia Callaghan

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THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE Jarrod Townson

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South West Elevation Compared to the other elevations, the south west elevation has a much larger ratio of glass than wall. This is in order to maximise the views of the lake, which sits up against this end of the library. The large reading room and contemplation space have been purposely placed here as they are the two spaces that need wide apertures to give the large reading room the light it needs and reduce the threshold between inside and outside in the contemplation space. Thus, these two rooms needed the best views in the building, which are of the lake. The contemplation space is also the ending of the journey through the building and thus needed the view of the lake as the ‘ﬁnale’, and something to aim for as you move through the building.

EUROPEAN OAK CLADDED CONCRETE STRUCTURE APPROX 400MM (GROUND FLOOR WITH WINDOW OPENINGS)

North East Elevation This elevation has the crucial windiws that allow one to look through the rest of the building from the book stacks, all the way through to the lake. These windows tease the users with a view of the end of the journey, without allowing them to go directly there. those windows can be seen clearly in plan view and in the axonometric views above.

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North West Elevation As it runs alongside the smaller lake, the north west elevation has more glazing than the south east elevation as it is much more private than the other side that runs along the main path around both lakes. By doing so, it allows the people using the library to feel connected with the water outside, and the tranqulity it brings. This elevation also features the ribbon window in the book stacks which allows one to sit down on the window seat carved into the wall and look out over the water, but is not visible when stood up. The eﬀect of the ribon window can be seen clearly in the section drawing of this space.

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The largely cubic form of gardenhouse in fact accommodates a much more complex series of internal spaes. The interior is essentially designed aroud a spatial floor plan with a series of 4m x 4m cubes stacked in various heights. Public spaces such as kitchen are to be found at the lower regions, while more private rooms are towards the top of gardenhouse. As the function of the house itself is relatively simple, a single streamline mode can meet the needs of use. Here, rooms with relatively common and low lighting requirements are placed on the lower floor and rooms with relatively private and high lighting requirements are placed on the upper floor. The bottom-up functional areas are kitchen, dining room, reading, rest, living room, bathroom, studio, bedroom and roof platform. Pendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visualisations depict their gardenhouse concept in a secluded rural setting, but the green aspect of the design could have a real positive impact on urban environments by reintroducing natural elements. Furthermore, this greenery creates a degree of screening from the outside world, offering privacy to the inhabitants while still allowing plenty of natural light to emanate throughout the open plan interior.

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Based on the site being provided for the design project, the types of community transport service for the Fabric District area that I decided to develop is a bicycle repairing shop. As considered having cyclist around the area, having a repairing service for bicycle will be a benefit to them and can be used to encourage more people in that area using it as their transport as well. Therefore, the chosen site for the design project has been considered using the conversion and extension of public toilets in Monument Place in the Fabric District area as it is observed that the city bikes organised by Peloton Liverpool are located beside the public toilet shows in FIgure 8. Not only this, as the site is usually the most crowded places in the area, and therefore by using the benefit of it, I believed that the site will be having a huge opportunity to achieve people attraction to the building and therefore it will be more efficient for people to use the building.

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Visulisations wall seat pools heating heating tiling pipes pipes floor and wall heating system is placed all round the spa area. this will work in hand with the concrete walls as they are good absorbers of heat and will slowely emit warmth from the walls and floor.

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in the no shoes it makes it more plesant. this will be at a lower tmeperature to the spa.

The concrete walls will be cast insitu (on site) to give the exterior walls a board mark effect on the exterior walls. this is to seperate the exterior walls from the smooth concrete interior walls.

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The secocnd floor consists of a woodne panel facade and decking on the the outside seating area of the cafe.

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There is also a green wall along the facde of the gym facing the cafe.

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THIRD YEAR Architecture is conceived of as emerging from and responding to a holistic context of contemporary cultural and environmental programmatic issues. The aim of the year is the synthesis of these diverse programmatic elements into a holistic experiential matrix. The year is split by two projects in both of which this integrated aim is emphasised. The initial project is a small but complex proposition undertaken over a ten week period as preparation for the major Comprehensive Design Project which takes up the remainder of the academic year.

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WEATHER OR NOT that is the question Climate change, weather and architecture Following from the idea that ecological conscience and literacy should become a central tenet of design education, this project required students to interpret climate change, interact with weather phenomena and consider how design could be embedded within a broader system. The fact that ecology and architecture start to share responsibility in the implications of climate change means that future solutions will need to respond to both architectural needs and ecological imperatives: how do we design for uncertainty? And, how could we continue to occupy an environment that is consistently inconsistent? If architecture seems to have a significant impact in maintaining climatic balance, is there a way to envision a more aggressive and radical (architectural) response to climate change? And if ‘safeguarding’ the climate became the new goal of architecture, could climate itself become the resource and tool of this architecture? Could we explore weather conditions to provide new opportunities for inhabiting and building architecture? In an attempt to address climate change, extreme weather phenomena and the dramatic shifts in water levels, this project asked to imagine an observation centre of climate change; a weather station, situated at Hebdten Bridge, in one of three different locations (hillside, riverside and canalside). The brief became more topical given the recent flooding in February 2020, when despite the anti-flooding infrastructure after the 2015 deluge, Hebden Bridge was once more covered in mud and water. Enlarging the scope of the brief, the intention was to explore the implications and connections of architecture, weather and climate: if climate is a long term atmospheric state and weather a momentary appearance of the state of the atmosphere, how could these different terms – both as definitions and lasting periods – be interpreted in architecture? And, how can architecture describe, reproduce and recall meteorological phenomena? 44

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COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT The final project is termed the Comprehensive Design Project (CDP). This aptly describes its objectives ‘to pursue a design project proposal that is comprehensively researched, developed and resolved in a holistic manner through the presentation of drawings and models’. A range of project options and briefing primers are presented by design tutors as directional aids. Students select one of these to pursue whilst developing their own ‘unique design character’. Design drives the project and supporting studies such as history & theory, technology & practice and materiality & detailing synthesise with the design process, to produce robust outcomes. Studio work with one to one tutorials and regular reviews underpin the project. The primers and examples of project work are presented in the following pages.

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The Frohlich Archive

The American German artist Fanchon Angst made her home in Liverpool when in 1949 she disembarked, went to a party, met and married Professor Herbert Frohlich. A theoretical physicist and winner of the Max Plank medal, he had fled Germany in the 1930’s and was a world renowned expert on Quantum physics and its application in biology. Together the pair made something of an impact, combining their fields of interest with an impressive social life and worldwide network of friends; Schrodinger (of the cat fame) was a regular visitor, the musician John Cage, the Cornish artist Peter Lanyon and many others would attend their parties. Fanchon died in 2016 and left her artistic legacy to a trust. This trust requires a new home for Fanchon’s archive of paintings, books and artefacts; this will form the nucleus of a wider collection of Merseyside artists. In order to fulfil the wishes of the legacy the building must also provide spaces for exhibition and educational activities. In addition, it should include spaces capable of holding social events in the spirit of the Fröhlich parties. The project was located on Mason Street behind the retained facade of the former house of Liverpool mayor and philanthropist, Joseph Williamson. This site was subject to an archaeological dig excavating the network of tunnels constructed by Williamson and consideration to the implications of this should be given.Thought was given to the values and experimentation the couple represented, the synergy between art and science, the international networks and the open enquiring mind. Tutor - Dominic Wilkinson

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Past tense, future perfect : Birkenhead School of Art

The past is always tense, the future perfect. Zadie Smith Past. The Laird School of Art was established in Birkenhead during the second half of the nineteenth century (1871). A dedicated building on Park Road North was endowed by the private wealth of local shipping magnate John Laird. This building was closed forty years ago and the provision of art education in Birkenhead now sits within Wirral Metropolitan College. Future. This project was for the design of a new school of art building in Birkenhead situated in the Hamilton Square conservation area. The new building was expected to meet the demands of its users but also fulfil a civic function as an important component within the cityscape of Birkenhead. In particular, the relationship with the public space of the street had to respond to the physical context without resorting to pastiche. Tutor - Jim Sloan

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Jamana Al Balushiah Giovanni Cirillo Vova Duniak Peter Finlay Tomas Hartley-Cook Nicholas Hincks Zati Mohd Jamil Connah Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Ben Powell Krystian Wisniakowski

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LJMU Performative Arts Complex

“We literally discover ourselves in movement. We grow kinetically into our bodies. In particular, we grow into those distinctive ways of moving that come with our being the bodies we are. In us spontaneity of movement, we discover arms that extend, spines that bend, knees that flex, mouths that shut, and so on. We make sense of ourselves in the course of moving”. (Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Primacy of Movement, 1999)

The aim of the programme was to develop a performing arts complex for Liverpool John Moores University as a flagship building accommodating drama, musical theatre, opera and pantomime. The brief had to be developed along a conceptual basis that life is performative and that there are performative arts that enhance our understanding of that life such that we can better chose how to live our lives. Performative arts are text/body communicative arts; they are scenario orientated and there is a line of thought that sees this motive unfolding as primal, ‘there from the start’. According to Edmund Husserl, ‘animate being’ was used to refer to ourselves as beings whose ‘intimateness’ forms the foundation of their perception of both inner and outer worlds. Thus, life is inherently animate, or motive and we come to life with movement and subsequently discover our world and ourselves through movement. Tutor - Gary Brown

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The scheme is separated into two entities: The Library of Performance, and the Liverpool School of Performing Arts. Separation of the buildings allows The Library to act as a public centre of performance, while the school functions with a lessened public presence.

The two buildings are partially connected via bridges on each level, allowing the programmes to work in tandem. Students from the school have the oppurtunity to perform and exhibit their work in The Library, offering a public platform to all students, allowing a showcase of their talent.

Each dance studio and rehersal space in both buildings can be viewed from a viewing gallery, or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;diffusion zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. This allows members of the public and peers to observe the authenticity of rehersal, in contrast to the resolution of a finished performance.

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School of Photographic and Digital Image

Throughout the 20th Century architects and artists have had a concern in the power and meaning of the captured image, initially the photograph and more recently the digitally manipulated image. Corbusier used photography, and manually manipulated images, to promote his manifesto for modern architecture in the pre-war period. In the 1950’s Alison & Peter Smithson working within the ‘Independent Group’ were notable in their articulation of the threat, as they saw it, of consumerism via high quality photography and its associated promotion of mass consumption via mass media. In the 1970’s Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown’s book ‘Complexity and Contradiction’ responded to similar issues of advertising and media in the built environment in an entirely different way, introducing the wave of ‘Post-modern’ architecture. More recently some of the work and writing of Rem Koolhaas has addressed issues of mass communication. These and other themes were the starting point for the research phase of the CDP project. The project was for the design of a new School of the Photographic and Digital Image to be located in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, with a range of site options to be considered dependent upon individual projects. If a traditional building brief emerged, a mixture of controlled and flexible environments would be contained; computer suites for digital processes, spaces for traditional processes requiring dark rooms, daylit and artificially lit studios, a range of teaching spaces, and a diverse range of gallery spaces for the display of large and small, or specific collections of photography. Tutor - Paul Gibbs

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The Future of Work

This project considered the future of work in Liverpool, other than tourism, and asked what kind of environments can be created in the city centre to promote Liverpool as a place for increasingly educated, mobile and flexible workers. The project site was important, and it was adjacent and over Moorfields Merseyrail station, projects can be small/medium/large/or extra large in size. Merseyrail offers affordable, sustainable, direct access into the city from both the Northern and Wirral line stations direct to Moorfields, and a key principle of the project is to allow for work without need of cars. The option to retain the existing buildings in and around the already vacant sites was provided, including the former Yates Building with the artwork â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Turning the Place Overâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Richard Wentworth installed for the Liverpool Biennial in 2008. The project began with a survey and drawings of the existing local context, including many notable buildings. Tutor - Jamie Scott

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MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE The MArch programme focuses on sustained scholarly activity underpinned by the research interests of staff. It engages in the strategic theme of Urbanism and is concerned with identifying the value of design thinking and practice in new urban contexts. It addresses questions around dwelling, health and well-being and public space, in a range of contexts, driven by an ambition to produce visionary strategies for sustainable urban futures. To this end the first year of the programme introduces the students to contemporary urban design theories and practice. Locating project work within Merseyside and abroad, students are encouraged to engage with cultural organisations, regional stakeholders and statutory authorities with the aim of producing creative, socio-economically engaged architectural proposals. Students then follow strands of enquiry around the theme of dwelling in the city. Alongside this each student undertakes a year long Specialist Study as the basis for individual research proposals that aim to nourish their endeavours in the final year. The final year of the MArch offers opportunities for more in depth explorations emanating from group urban studies. Programmatic ambitions for thesis projects evolve from a thorough analytical and intuitive response to place. Our students address realistic scenarios and engage with a range of collaborators in their project work. At times they work on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;live projectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; developing ideas for clients from local organisations, engaging with a wide range of external advisors and guest critics from professional practice. We host symposia and conferences to inspire and nourish their studies. At Masters level project work is often located outside of the UK, addressing global issues, referencing international best practice. MArch Staff Gary Brown, Brian Hatton, David Heathcote, Peter Horrocks, Jo Hudson, Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki, Jamie Scott, Jim Sloan, Claude St-Arroman, Simon Tucker, Dominic Wilkinson, Ian Wroot

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For the 2019-2020 Masters programme the cities of Chester and Ghent, Belgium, were explored as comparative studies of historic places with complex peripheral conditions. Both cities have very clearly defined historic cores and beyond these cores a relationship to natural and manmade waterways. In Ghent, north of the well-preserved medieval centre the former ship canal basins along the Terneuzen canal, linking the city to the sea, became the focus for the urban design projects of students in both years of the MArch, with MArch Year 1 taking a more tightly defined study area and Year 2 undertaking a more expansive consideration of the district. The remains of the textile trade’s industrial heritage and typical edge of centre infrastructure provided the framework for a wide range of projects, with a particular emphasis of the reworking of industrial sites and buildings. Ghent’s highly progressive environmental policies, focus upon sustainable fashion and localised food production giving plenty of scope for project themes. In Chester, west of the Roman centre, the River Dee has been a constant presence, firstly as a military and defensive asset, for trade, and then for industrial water supply. The use of water was expanded by the Shropshire Union Canal, but this layer of industrial infrastructure was subsequently superseded, and in this specific location actually overlaid, by railway lines and then dual carriageway road networks. The remaining complex and confused urban environment provided a rich area of study for our students choosing to look at UK project sites. In both cities visits were supported with study or relevant current policy, such as the Chester Waterways Strategy and Chester One City Plan, whilst Ghent is making significant progress is entirely reworking and ‘greening’ its central transport infrastructure.

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Proposed routes plan, highlighting a pedestrian link from the city to the river. and racecourse to the river.

Georgia Baldwin, Dean Deakin VernonREJECTED, Road CHESTER: CONNECTED The urban design proposal aims to establish a new urban framework to the Ports and Wharfs area of Chester, working carefully and respectfully with what already exists on the site whilst adding small pockets of intervention. The proposal will enhance accessibility and connections between the historic core and the waterfront whilst making the most of historically significant sites S View Road to define public space. More social communication will be encouraged in the area with the application of urban design methods, reclaiming the waterfront for public uses along with regenerating existing public areas. These areas will include leisure and entertainment for everyday life, a small market and exhibition spaces bringing people from all backgrounds together, developing a sense of place and encouraging a sense of community, providing a mix Hopkinson Court of leisure activities and encouragement of smaller local businesses. Some buildings will be re-purposed and some new buildings constructed, offering a range of mixed-use developments and building a sense of urban scale.

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1. Opening up green-space near canal, 2. Re-landscaping area to reveal water tower. 3. New Community area connecting two canals, 4. Road removed to connect gardens to canal, water tower focalised. 5. Water tower gardens re-landscaped and offered as temporary exhibition space. 6. Ground floor of current accommodation offered to local businesses 7. Existing car parking area re-landscaped to increase walk-ability a 8. Road resurfaced to increase walk-ability and link to river 9. New communal hub with interactive play-space plaza 10. Riverfront promenade linked, with connection to water developed 11. Corner plots of ground floor accommodation offered to local businesses. 12. Connection to water developed with seating and performance space. 13. Plaza created in-front of existing landmark building. 14. Landmark building re-purposed and given public use. 15. New mixed use development opening to new public space. 16. Road reduced to single carriageway and offered as walk-able link to racecourse. 17. Development opportunities along new link. 18. Communal building on infill plot providing needed local services.

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Bartosz Durda, Ranjaka Hettiarachchige, Jie Yi Kuek CHESTER: REVITALISING THE DEE BASIN

During the 13th and 14th century, Chester was the largest and busiest port in the north-west, trading with ports throughout the British Isles and Europe. The Water Tower was built in 1322. In addition to its defensive role, it also functioned as a base for monitoring shipping. The Water Tower forms a prominent landmark with key views towards it from Dee Basin. The proposal is focused on revitalising the neighbourhoods around the Tower and the Wharf in Chester where the canal meets the River Dee. This environment used to be the Dee Basin in the past a body of water used for trading purposes. Adjacent is the Water Tower which was built as an extension to the City Wall, in order to monitor the activities taken place near River Dee and Dee Basin. The intention of the design project is to create a central neighbourhood to attract the people from the surrounding residential areas. For this the three main interconnected themes are, The Market Node, Aquaponics and the New City Wall Extension, a pedestrian ﬂyover, URBAN DESIGN REPORT - REVITALISING THE DEE BASIN along the canal and across the River Dee.

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New Community centre, place for activity amongst the community

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Historical factors and significance with our scheme with these historical maps dating from 1910 to 1960 we see similar but steady growth of industry alongside a residential area, however, as the years go by the residential is lessened and more space has been taken up by the industrial are of the gas works. in our scheme we wanted to bring back some of the historical features of the site in new ways to invite growth and popularity within the area. one of the main aspects of the historical form of Chester are the roads that run through the site. at present there is only one, however there used to be three. we have reintroduced the sightlines of these roads as a link back to how it used to be and also use those bring back in atonew lines of sight see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

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This diagram sh shows the new social housing scheme and how we had thought about the layout and orientation with regards to the historical significance. The square has been recreated in a similar manner to to then follow through these three avenues with leading sightlines through the whole site towards the river dee. We have done this because chester is a historical and cultural city and it would be a shame to lose that history.

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Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return.

From our study into the historical background we looked from 1870 to 1960 there is a recurring theme to the layout of the city, one that as a group we wanted 1930 to bring back in a new form that would work with the social housing scheme. The three roads that converge From our study into the roman walls. the site lies just out of bounds of that and leaves no signs of its heritage of the industrial revolution, save it for a row of 6 terrace houses which date back to before 1860 records show. For our site we want something for people to remember and see that it is relevant and is a substantial addition to the city of Chester.

Introduction of green public space to allow for community engagement and activity

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one of the main aspects of the historical form of Chester are the roads that run through the site. at present there is only one, however there used to be three. we have reintroduced the sightlines of these roads as a link back to how it used to be and also use those bring back in atonew lines of sight see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

Increase connectivity to the walled city Chester embraces its historical heritage but that sense of belonging to the city is lost once you leave the

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Chester embraces its historical heritage but that sense of belonging to the city is lost once you leave the roman walls. the site lies just out of bounds of that and leaves no signs of its heritage of the industrial revolution, save it for a row of 6 terrace houses which date back to before 1860 records show. For our site we want something for people to remember and see that it is relevant and is a substantial addition to the city of Chester.

The square has been recreated in a similar manner to to then follow through these three avenues with leading sightlines through the whole site towards the river dee. We have done this because chester is a historical and cultural city and it would be a shame to lose that history.

Relocation of isSub station tospace across thetaken up by the industrial are of the gas works. residential lessened and more has been in our scheme we wanted to bring back some of the historical features of the site in new ways to invite river growth and popularity within the area.

New green Bridge across the river to soften hard edge created by the river

Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return.

town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

New small local shops

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From our study into the historical background we looked from 1870 to 1960 there is a recurring theme to the layout of the city, one that as a group we wanted to bring back in atonew lines of sight see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme form that would work with the social housing scheme. would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into the three roads that converge together at the square is a strong layout to create strong ties to the walled city.

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Increase connectivity to the walledwould city need Our new idea of community housing there to be various new additions for the community. The 1870 spider diagram outlines a few of these idea.

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Re introduce the sense of community and ownership of street

Re imagine the street edge Most of the properties are 1 to 2 bedroom apartments and 2 bedroom terrace houses. From looking at the diagrams the costing of these properties is out of the price range for the average living wage. What we also Bring a reason to visit and to of Sub station to across the noticed that the average price range for an apartmentRelocation pause within the site both 1 bed and 2 bed were the same. That puts peopleriver off from the area. What seems to be more and more common is that these properties are being developed by private investors which are just built to fill the quota, not built for the user themselves.This is why we have wanted Transport links to be added to allow access to west-gate area to bring some type of social housing or alternative housing to suit the needs of the local community.

Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return.

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create strong ties to the walled city. The 6 row houses near the railway are the remaining dwellings from the site development in which we think it is important to be preserved.

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Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return.

Historical factors and significance with our scheme with these historical maps dating from 1910 to 1960 we see similar but steady growth of industry alongside a residential area, however, as the years go by the residential is lessened and more space has been taken up by the industrial are of the gas works. in our scheme we wanted to bring back some of the historical features of the site in new ways to invite growth and popularity within the area. one of the main aspects of the historical form of Chester are the roads that run through the site. at present there is only one, however there used to be three. we have reintroduced the sightlines of these roads as a link back to how it used to be and also use those lines of sight to see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

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From our study into the historical background we looked from 1870 to 1960 there is a recurring theme to the layout of the city, one that as a group we wanted to bring back in a new form that would work with the social housing scheme. The three roads that converge

together at the Watergate square is a strong layout to create strong ties to the walled city. The 6 row houses near the railway are the remaining dwellings from the site development in which we think it is important to be preserved.

Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return. Historical factors and significance with our scheme with these historical maps dating from 1910 to 1960 we see similar but steady growth of industry alongside a residential area, however, as the years go by the residential is lessened and more space has been taken up by the industrial are of the gas works. in our scheme we wanted to bring back some of the historical features of the site in new ways to invite growth and popularity within the area. one of the main aspects of the historical form of Chester are the roads that run through the site. at present there is only one, however there used to be three. we have reintroduced the sightlines of these roads as a link back to how it used to be and also use those lines of sight to see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

The square has been recreated in a similar manner to to then follow through these three avenues with leading sightlines through the whole site towards the River Dee With the pedestrianisation of our site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

WATERGATE COMMUNITY STREET Walking Distance

Pedestrianised Street

Although the reintroduction of these three roads differ from the original they allow for the essence of the sightlines to the river to return.

Historical factors and significance with our scheme with these historical maps dating from 1910 to 1960 we see similar but steady growth of industry alongside a residential area, however, as the years go by the residential is lessened and more space has been taken up by the industrial are of the gas works. in our scheme we wanted to bring back some of the historical features of the site in new ways to invite growth and popularity within the area. one of the main aspects of the historical form of Chester are the roads that run through the site. at present there is only one, however there used to be three. we have reintroduced the sightlines of these roads as a link back to how it used to be and also use those lines of sight to see through the site completely. the other aspect is that of a public square before the entrance of the Watergate. this square in our scheme would work well as a knuckle or connection between the two sightlines one to the dee and the other into town. with the pedestrianisation of our sit site, the square would also become a place for new interactions and leads you from one route to another.

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The masterplan approach stemmed from two key factors, the first being the economic status of the area. The area has relatively high house prices and the project seeks to address this with new affordable homes. The second factor Walking Distance Pedestrianised Street was the study and recreation of historical routes. These have been reintroduced whilst removing the car from streets altogether, to create a safer environment with a greater sense of community. The pedestrianised routes improve the connection between the walled city and Watergate area. Alongside the new routes social housing is introduced. This new community and increase in connectivity allows for future growth and is designed with the future in mind. River Revitalisation

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Objectives: Integrating greenery and vibrant activity in order to feed life back into the city. Improving connectivity and routes to the city. Removing unnecessary roads to improve environment quality and pedestrian experience. Creating a unique identity for the site, whilst being sympathetic to the existing styles and characteristics of Chester. Creating meaningful experiences with intersecting levels, movements and activities. Attempt to revitalise and reconnect the existing fabric with the site. Renovating barren lands across the River Dee. Creating a route linking renovated land across the river to the existing promenade and on through to the city centre.

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Mohammed Ba-Azab, Aadil Munshi CHESTER: FELICITY This project proposes the expansion of the University of Chester. There is a lack of facilities within the existing faculty, with courses too spread out over the city of Chester weakening the collective experience of the student community. Student numbers in Chester are increasing, with the current population being 15,000 students, and there would be multiple benefit in refocusing the University with a new waterside campus. The proposals include more up to date facilities for students and on site residential accommodation, health facilities, social spaces and relaxation areas. The objectives of the project include creating a strong student community, gathering subject areas together, giving the university as stronger identity in Chester and the creating of new high quality public realm.

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PERMEABILITY Pedestrianised arches to increase permeability between the two sides of the railway track.

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B Saddlery Way disects and separates the site, discouraging movement and reduce permeability. The design scheme proposes A to pedestrianise this street and make it a central circulation axis with a direct view of the Water Tower.

One of the arches will be pedestrianised to increase safety and permeability between the two sides of the railway track. The other arch will accommodate a two-way traffic.

The Watergate Street will be turned into a one-way traffic moving out of the city centre to allow for the widening of the pedestrian path. Traffic going into the city centre will be diverted to Bedward Row.

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Traffic calming measures will (WATER be 4 SEA CADETS STORAGE ACTIVITIES) introduced at the intersection between RESTAURANT/CAFE [GROUND FLOOR] the5 inner ring road and the path leading towards the site. This is to increase 6 SMALL OFFICES [FIRST FLOOR] safety for pedestrians without heavily interrupting the existing traffic.

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This project aims to attract people of all ages to spend time just outside of the city walls. The site is near the popular racetrack and on a major thoroughfare that runs through Chester. This route is retained but partially pedestrianized to maintain and improve accessibility. The intention is to create a new district centre that will draw people from the crowded city centre and out of town retail destinations. This new centre would be easily accessible and focused on providing facilities for independent businesses. These facilities would be well suited to the increasingly elderly population resident to Chester, who would greatly benefit from new facilities considerate of their needs. This new safe community will encourage people to combat loneliness by interacting with others, seek the help that they need and look after their mind and body. The name ‘OUR SQ” conveys the idea of a public square that is used and animated by all members of the community, in which everyone feels emotionally connected to the square. Hence, the sense of adaptability and flexibility is needed to ensure the square is capable of accommodating a wide range of programmes, which would also create the possibility of the square continually being used throughout the day and the year. The programmes introduced in the square will also be socially inclusive as to ensure the formation of a lively, safe community. OUR SQ’s composition is always changing to adapt to the changes in seasons and users’ needs. Different configurations of landscape furnitures which range from permanent, semi-permanent and temporary - create various ways to utilise the square. These configuations and their furnitures will grow over time, adapting to the nature of how the square is used by its users. New furnitures can be introduced and inserted into the changing cycle of the square uses. The square sits directly in front of the entrance to the Chester Sea Cadets HQ, which allows the cadets to utilise the space for their outdoor activities. A 2018 Report* by the Sea Cadets mentioned the need to expand the range of activities during winter months as well as water activities. The report also mentioned the possiblity of having more public engagement activities as part of the cadets’ social programme. A new building introduced by the square will accomodate indoor activities for the cadets. It can also be used by the public at other time, besides becoming a storage place for the temporary landscape furnitures when they are not used on the square. Attached to it is a cafe/restaurant, with small offices on the first floor, ensuring the continual use of the square. Steps from the centre of the square go towards the river water level, creating a link between the two and providing ample seating spaces. *https://www.sea-cadets.org/userfiles/files/SC%20Impact%20 Report%20online.pdf

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Di Hu, Jiayi Qin, Xinyi Zhang ROAMING THE CITY

The main theme of the design is to promote the connection between the community and the city and to renew the diverse experience of the community. The projects increase the potential for urban roaming for everybody, engaging local residents whilst also being accessible and available for tourists. The project seeks to create a multi-functional community linking in to the surrounding natural environment of the canal side and further afield along the River Dee. The project specifically considered the needs of the local elderly, children and tourists. The design increases utilization of space, promotes the connection between people and nature in the community, improves the connectivity among the canal, river and city, and encourages increased inward investment.

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Jenny Cox, Daniel Hudspith, Thomas Smith GHENT: SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

The aim of the masterplan is to: -Provide opportunities for graduating students to create new and innovative start-up companies. -Introduce an opportunity to live and work in the city of Ghent therefore reducing long distance commutes into citySomething centre.for Everybody Nothing forthe Everyone, 13 -Address the transport issues on and around the site while connecting to the established sustainable city network. -Retain the industrial buildings and reinstate their function for the production of the modules. throughto Factory. -Create primary pedestrian andSection cycle routes encourage sustainable transport. -Introduce a waterfront promenade creating a visual and physical connection to the10 canal. -Reuse and recycle materials in the construction process of the modules. -Integrate the existing community into the scheme by providing wing proposal for the area.facilities for leisure activities. Aerial view from north of the site. -Provide new areas of public realm to promote social activity and natural wildlife.

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Daniel Hudspith Individual Masterplan: Noisy industries, The Creative Quarter The focus of this section is to house the noisy creative industries away from the existing residents at the north of the site. It is an area that will allow creative spaces for a multitude of different industries, combining multiple modules could create larger spaces for more ambitious startw-ups and larger businessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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Central Plaza The Fractal shapes are made up of planters to aid in social engagement for the residents of the blocks. Not only will they create a social space, Waterfront Visual the availibility of fresh Waterfront Visual produce would help encourage a healthy diet.

Ghent was once one of the most affordable cities in Belgium, however a growing population has increased demand, meaning the city is now the third most expensive in the region. The area in which the site is located, Voormuide, is one of the sectors with the fastest rate of population growth. This growth consists primarily of younger people, generally of non-Belgian nationality, who require affordable housing which is becoming increasingly expensive. This proposal will aim to provide the affordable housing as part of a larger masterplan which aims to rejuvenate the area into a more desirable location. The proposal also aims to repurpose the industrial buildings which currently take up the East side of the site; into a district for the creative industries – an exponentially expanding part of Ghent’s economy. The expansion of employment within a residential zone aims to aid in the City Council’s drive for a more sustainable city- long reducing the need for lengthy 1:200 Focused Section 1:200 Focused long Section to bring the residential community .14 commutes and eradicating the need for a car. The central park element aims .14 and 14 employment community together in a multi-functional open space where people can sit to talk, communicate and work .14 while children use the same space to play.

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Ryan Davies, Rone Deguzman GHENT: RE-STITCHING THE COMMUNITY North of Ghent city centre lies the district of Voormuide; a peninsula situated beside the Handelsdok canal. Our masterplan focuses on the Western side of the peninsula, an area currently containing a hidden park, warehouses, football pitch, residential housing, a primary school and a dilapidated waterfront. Our proposal aims to overcome the issues that the site maintains through â&#x20AC;&#x153;Re-Stitchingâ&#x20AC;? the local context, creating a sociable, thriving community. The addition of social housing will not only generate an increased usage of the area, but will improve the overall usage of the surrounding context and the facilities that are on offer. Our aim is to limit the amount of removal on site, but instead re-use what the site currently has to offer. This form of re-stitching will lead to certain routes being created, offering increased accessibility into the site. The introduction of new facilities such as a community centre, bars and restaurants, will improve the social aspects the site currently lacks. The overall proposal will generate an improved sense of community, offering a sociable form of living for families and residents within the social housing courtyards.

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The Master of Architecture programme has a long-term engagement with the architecture of housing, through both research and project work. It has long been identified that there is a crippling housing crisis in the UK. However, despite widespread recognition of the problem, solutions to this complex web of issues – which include affordability, shortage of supply, design and sustainability – remain scarce. These issues in contemporary housing form the basis for the principal design project of the second semester for the MArch Year 1. The alignment of student research and projects to contentious, real-world challenges is deliberate, as these students will shortly be practicing within this environment. The political context of this critical aspect of the built environment forms the backdrop for consideration of how to address the pressures and demands of providing for the residential needs of future generations. The cohort was divided into three groups, which then explored these issues across a diverse range of densities, contexts, typologies and narratives. Common themes wove through the projects however, such as sustainability and the fundamental issues faced in addressing the challenges posed by Britain’s chronic housing shortage. The design project is supplemented with environmental, structural and interior design studies culminating in the production of detailed rendered visualisations from a digital model. Following from previous years, the project sites all shared a common relationship to the city, being located within the ‘inner periphery’, somewhere between the vibrant centre and the popular suburbs. All the sites were brownfield gaps sites, of relatively low value, whilst being proximate to the city centre with easy pedestrian and cycle access to the city centre augmented by the highly effective Merseyrail network. The selection of some project sites was further informed by the current Liverpool Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment. The hypothesis is that affordability of land, appropriate density targets and quality of accessibility combine to offer new housing that is genuinely sustainable. 126

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Starting from Habraken’s manifesto for user participation in mass housing, this project asked students to explore the terrace as a typology for urban dwelling. The challenge lay in reconciling the standardised and repetitive form of the terrace with individualisation of the dwelling as a bespoke internal environment. The terrace has long been a classic model, from back-toback, to the Victorian era, to the delightful Georgian houses so prevalent in Liverpool and London, to Edinburgh New Town, and the New York Brownstone. The complex and divergent nature of contemporary living patterns was to inform how students explored different permutations of inhabitation, leading to the development of different occupant scenarios facilitated through the composition of “support” and “infill” elements. This was brought into sharp relief during the project itself, when the COVID-19 lockdown meant that students and tutors alike were exclusively working from home. The project site was a linear plot on Shaw Street, opposite Everton Park; an area that historically has been characterised by terraced housing in a variety of different forms, but little of which remains visible. tutor - Charlie Smith

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Compared to their continental European equivalents, English cities have rarely succeeded in developing popular dense urban housing typologies. Any rational plan to improve the environmental sustainability of modern life highlights the need to reduce energy consumption in transportation, in building use (heating) and in new building construction. As residential accommodation makes up the majority of our built environment, and its location determines our regular transport needs, new housing should respond to this challenge. Add to these environmental concerns the crisis of availability and affordability of homes in England and it can be argued that the current models of new housing delivery (including design) are not fit for purpose. Taking the underlying issue of density, and looking at issues of transportation and amenity, this project option looks at large scale housing proposals ( 2-4 bedrooms) at sites identified as potential housing site by Liverpool CIty Council in their most recent â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Liverpool Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: a narrow wedge of a site, benefiting from adjacency to Sandhills Merseyrail station, a site along LeedsLiverpool Canal, and finally a site on Everton Hill, with potential long views across the city and a gradient to be resolved and utilised in the design. Targeting affordability through density, and understanding that North Liverpool is not currently an especially popular residential location, the challenge of the project is to create desirable and affordable homes, which will shift perception of the neighbourhood. tutor - Jamie Scott

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In April 2018, Jeremy Corbynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labour Party proposed an ambitious new social housing initiative: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Housing for the Manyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; introduces the ambition to deliver affordable homes, suggesting that more land would be made available more cheaply via an English Sovereign Land Trust. According to the green paper, councils, housing associations and community providers will be backed with the funding and flexibility to build big for their communities. But, what happens when land owned by city councils is already available, and more importantly, occupied, hosting community organisations? The site for this project was the plot of land partially occupied by the African Caribbean community centre in Toxteth. The intention of this brief was to host a vision of community-led housing, partially run by the centre. Emphasis is put on the inclusion of communal services and/or intergenerational occupation, such as co-housing. The project sought to examine space and age variations of mainly high density flats that should form, together with the existing low rise housing developments in the adjacent streets, a bustling neighbourhood, equipped with services and in close proximity to public means of transport. How can apartments be though in a way to accommodate different lifestyles? And, how can variants of apartment types be inter-related, such a threedimensional puzzle, to form opportunities for community? Working on this project during the COVID-19 confindement, the exploration of inclusive neighbourhoods for healthy living was an additional challenge. tutor - Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki

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Both years of the Masters Programme share the European and local sites for their urban design project. Whilst MArch Year 1 look at more tightly defined areas, previously described, the final year groups have free rein to develop proposals across a spectrum of scales and agendas. As with much of our studio teaching, a response to place is the point of departure for design work which incorporates contextual concerns, whichever direction the specific agendas may ultimately take the projects. Both project site areas contain edge conditions where historic districts, industry, some more recent development and brownfield space address each other in unresolved ways. As in previous years the completed student projects evidence the parallels and transferable knowledge possible between Liverpool and the European port cities we have previously visited; Gdansk, Genoa, Hamburg, Marseille, Porto, Rotterdam. Social activation of waterside areas, local and sustainable movement networks, celebration of culture and the creation of dense urban neighbourhoods with new employment are all reoccurring strategies utilising the particularities of the places we have studied over the last 6 years.

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Adam Hardman, Loucas Anastasiou, Harry Williams CHESTER - UNIVERSITY QUADRANT The project centres around the creation of fully integrated and connected student quadrant within an under-utilised area of Chester. The proposal aims to enable Chester to become a leading UK university for student satisfaction along with persuading people to stay in Chester upon completion of their studies. The key concept within establishing new urban design strategy for the River Dee Basin is the connection of the main campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of The University of Chester. The central connection of these two sites manifests in the basin area as an intermediate location for students commuting between campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The success of the area will be measured on the creation of a sense of place and identity for the student of Chester University, and the establishment of a new destination on the boarders of the historic city and its defensive walls.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Chester Connectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; introduces significant infrastructure alterations to the Roman City within two Phases. Phase 1 will focus on the introduction of a new train station for feedback we received from the tutors and guest reviewer was direct access toThe the river front, the reduction in capacity positive about the design. The general consensus was that we have of New Crane Street four two lanes and designed the from massing and spaceslanes well enoughto to knit the proposals into the existing The water edge treatment was to competent the pedestrianisation of context. the additional space promote as was most of the program proposed for the new buildings usage. walking and cycling. Existing car parks and vacant spaces There were some comments regarding the need for office spaces will be redeveloped public towards into the south-east of thespaces site leading upand to thebuildings. proposed train station and we have considered these in our post review discussions.

The pedestrianisation and further removal of the inner There was a concern that we have neglected the roof-scapes of our ring road will occur in Phase 2, attempted after tothe capacity for proposed massing which we have incorporate into our post review via green roofs and public rooftopreduced. gardens etc. The vehicles and cardesign parks in Phase 1 has been removal of the ring road will allow a more connected city The majority of the comments received about our review pin up centre and waterfront, a new train station closer was the graphicwith style inconsistencies relating the aerial viewin which proximity to the city than previously, we have addressed for this report submissionproviding as well as relevantdirect updates tofront small graphical access to the river andcomments. city. Existing interactions between historical elements, the railway track, river, canal and existing housing has influenced the form, usage and appearance of proposed urban elements. Phase 1 becomes an extension to the primary city space, connecting it to the River Dee, Chester Races and newly designed elements.

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Alice Jones, Jesse Barnes, Amy le Vasseur CHESTER – RESILIENT EDGES

The question is raised, instead of continuing to fight the rising river levels how could this be embraced to inform the cities design to integrate flooding as a design principle with the introduction of wet marshlands? Furthermore, in the case of Chester how could the cities overall vision also be met alongside this? Cities worldwide thrive on waterfront locations; urban developments continue to emerge removed from the central city locations therefore it is logical Chester should look to utilise this prime land instead of falling into the precedent of ‘fringe belts’ filled of that which does not fit elsewhere. The vision for the scheme is to combine both resistance and resilience in an effort to embrace the inevitable change and guide future investment towards accessible communities. By increasing access to the River Dee shoreline and waterfront the scheme focuses on the increasing demand for affordable and socially rented accommodation within a city oasis by bringing nature back as a flood defence system. Working along the existing route of the River Dee the self-sustainable district will connect these lost spaces to the city walls. Along the route, a selection of buildings at risk to flooding will be adapted in order to tackle the future impacts of climate change as well as the implementation of elevated landscapes, raised walkways and protective barriers. FINAL SCHEME Visitors experience

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Mark Barlow, Luke Greenhaugh CHESTER - ISLAND NEW TOWN The Chester Development has three main goals. The first to re-develop the city of Chester. To re-enforce the original Chester history and to re-design aspects of the city that do not work in the best ways possible. Our scheme for the city involves taking the golf course and creating a new city within this area. The development will be split up from the rest of the city with the use of the existing river around the golf course and also, we have shown added rivers in the development. Each section of the island has different functions to it, these being; housing, office and work spaces, activity’s, hotels, restaurants and bars and more. Two ‘flood locks’ have been added in the design to ease water levels from rising too much and flooding the new island. These areas will flood once the water rises to a height, and then empty when the water level starts to settle.

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Essam Elaraby, Nurul Aisyah Ibrahim, Zamira Zulfikri CHESTER – STATION DISTRICT The proposed masterplan consists of several programmes which includes train station, hotel, retail area, accommodation, museum and leisure. The spaces are also defined by plazas or squares as a place for socialising and appreciate the public visual landscape. By having a refurbished walkway along the river, it is hoped that more people can connect and cherish nature. The train station acts as the ‘heart’ of the scheme that has important connection to other places. Generally, the scheme sees an interconnection between the historical city of Chester and natural surroundings through social interaction and engagement in the community. NODES

m New Crane Street show the activities held on the main square. To bring character to uare, it was designed to open directly onto the river and the existing Sea Cadet building ed. The square also acts an arrival place for the proposed train station allowing it to cess by tourists. The main element of the square is the grand staircase which doubles reas that leads to the proposed train station.

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For our project, we have chosen to focus on redeveloping the western side of the city walls that includes a triangular parcel of land between the railway and River Dee. Within the area Water Tower Gardens can be found alongside with Dee Basin and Crane Wharf. We chose this area due to its troublesome character and great potential to re-establish a better connection from the River Dee to the city centre and bring structure to the fragmented area. A combination of small-scale interventions and large-scale development is needed so a more positive area is achieved. Chester noticeably changes character on the western side of the city walls. It transforms into a more fragmented environment including historic structures, housing and various infrastructure. There are multiple layers of infrastructure creating a dynamic landscape which is compromising the movement and legibility throughout the site. Large structures such as the racecourse add to the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complexity. The riverside open area comprises of disjointed buildings, surface car parking and a number of new apartment blocks to the banks of the river A-A Section

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Haziq A Kadir, Rasul Rahmat CHESTER - WATER TO THE WALLS 1. RECONNECT CHESTER WATERWAYS River Dee used to be connected to the Shropshire Canal with a draw bridge on the Sealand Road. 2. PROMOTE HISTORY OF THE AREA BY TRACING BACK THE WATER TOWERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HISTORY The Water Tower used to sit on water acting as a guard tower for trading. Now surrounded by land due to the silting of River Dee, the strategy is to recreate the historical state of the area to trace back to its medieval history. 3. INITIATE ECONOMIC REGENERATION BY CREATING JOBS The execution of the proposal sees more dwellings in desirable area being created which will make the area denser which mean better use of land with higher return. 4. BETTER LIFESTYLE AROUND THE LAKE WITH MIX PROGRAM The area currently being used mainly for residential. The density is quite low with terraced houses and a few apartments and there is no area where the residents can do activities. The proposal aims to create a mix of use to bring more activity to the area. The blocks that are facing the lake consists of cafes, restaurants and shops on the ground floors and workspace on the upper floors. 5. WATER ACTIVITIES FOR LEISURE AND UNIVERSITY USE The lake can be used for water activities like kayaking for leisure or as a university watersports facility.

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Dan de Borja, Srushti Bhosale HOUSING EXPO The initial aim of our strategy was to create a well connected city through the introduction of new transport infrastructure such as new roads, more pedestrian accesses, new bridges, as well as new public transport links across the site and into the city centre. To achieve this aim we proposed the City of Ghent as the host of the 2030 World Expo. The global event which effectively will last for 6 months aims to attract tens of millions of visitors across the duration of the event. The event will help boost the economy of the City and create hundreds of thousands of jobs over the span of decades - during the development of the site, during the event and after the event. The World Expo aims to fund the new infrastructure, while allowing the City of Ghent to reclaim disused/abandones lands. Our secondary aim was to reconnect the site back to the canal which it has been deprive off due to poor road connections and blocking industrial site. Several existing developments, like the OMA Housing Scheme, were considered and could be implemented within the strategy after the event. Our tertiary aim was to create several parklands across the site to promote natural habitat within the canal, creating new eco-systems for wildlifes, as well as new gathering place for visitors. Gridded plans from the OMA Scheme were adapted within the strategy to provide connection to the waterfront while creating vistas.

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Emma Fitzpatrick, Oliver Moran GHENT : OPEN BLOCK - PARK NETWORK To create a pedestrianised zone, designed to the human scale ensuring that everywhere can be accessed by foot and bicycle. Redirect the R40 ring road to the eastern side of the dock to allow better access to the waterfront, re-connecting it to the city.

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Liam Bowers, Mathew Crowney GHENT: REINVENTION THROUGH FOOD TECHNOLOGY The masterplan aims to re-imagine and reconnect Ghent with its industrial heritage, whilst providing a new, sustainable form of industry within the region. The historic port of Ghent has in recent years moved north away from the City Centre. This has subsequently made the smaller docklands, such as those at Handlesdok largely redundant, leading into the innercity canals. Our masterplan will reinvent the industrial use of Ghentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical port as a sustainable system for the city. We propose the masterplan is to be the central hub for the Flemish Institute for Technological Research. The research organisation provides scientific and technological innovations that facilitate the transition to a more sustainable society, with a number of offices located throughout Flanders. The objectives of the Flemish Institute for Technological Research collaborate with those of Ghent City Council, particularly those relating to food strategies, and as such, the masterplan will have a more in-depth focus on sustainable food production. This is a proposal for a forward-thinking and radical, urban masterplan; it will utilise the existing heritage of the area to create an eco-friendly expansion of Ghentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city centre, including: public amenities, affordable social housing, dockside apartments and research facilities - all underpinned by the response to a genuine issue within the region.

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masterplan SCALE 1:1250 1 Services and Waste 2 Research and Development 3 Education and Energy Centre 4 Biogas & Solar Energy Farm 5 Rooftop Bicycle Park 6 Vertical Farm 7 Loading Bay 8 New Bicycle Path 9 Livestock Farm 10 Produce Processing 11 Produce Services 12 Conservatory 13 Ground-Floor-Commercial Housing 14 Youth Centre 15 Schipperskapel Museum 16 Canalside Activities 17 Affordable Workspace & Commercial 18 Extension of Existing Park 19 Offices & Studio Spaces 20 Privately Owned Public Space 21 Graffiti Centre 22 Event Space 23 Theatre / Cinema 24 Square for Events / Arts 25 Front-Commercial Housing 26 Individual Terrace Housing 27 Front-Commercial Affordable Apartment with Indoor Courtyard 28 Arts School Building 29 Verapaz bridge 30 Pavilion Building 31 Ground Floor Sheltered Open Market 32 New Promenade 33 Tram Stop 34 Bus Stop 35 Civic Square 36 Deck Access Housing 37 Affordable Apartment Block 38 Neighbourhood Park 39 Neighbourhood Centre 40 Primary School

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Chun Ooi, Zhi Jie Tan GHENT - TOLHUISDOK CREATIVE FOOD TECHNOLOGY 01 STRENGTHEN THE IDENTITY OF UNIQUE SLUIZEKENTOLHUIS-HAM & MUIDE NEIGHBORHOOD Support a diverse, thriving community with accessible open spaces, commercial activities and culture. 02 PROMOTE A ZERO-CARBON LIFESTYLE FOR THE FUTURE COMMUNITIES Place sustainable food source and green energy plant in the city centre as a statement of intent coupled with improved public transport. 03 STITCH THE DISJOINTED PARTS OF THE CITY FABRIC TOGETHER Develop complementary new structures that forge and enhance the interconnectedness of the spaces in the city. 04 ENCOURAGE BICYCLE URBANISM AND USE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT Disincentivise private car use by reducing road widths at key junctions while increasing public transport coverage. objectives strategies 05 PROVIDE QUALITY RESIDENTIAL SPACE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODS Establish diverse household types with dense, mixed-income, and affordable buildings for owners and renters. 06 OPEN THE WATERFRONT TO OPPORTUNITIES Develop a diverse use along the routes and complete the attractive circuit around Tolhuisdok and Handelsdok. 07 REHABILITATE HISTORIC RESOURCES AND ADAPTIVELY REUSE EXISTING KEY BUILDINGS.

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THESIS PROJECTS The Thesis is the major project of the Masters Programme and provides the opportunity for students to explore in depth ideas through the medium of architectural proposals. Extending from the Group Urban Design undertaken at the start of the year, each student develops a project brief which they then take from concept to detailed resolution. All aspects of the final year programme (history and theory, practice management and law, technology and environment) are linked to the Thesis which becomes the vehicle for individual exploration. The type of project is determined by the nature of the Group Urban Design and by the personal agendas of each student. Students are encouraged to engage with real issues raised during the group work whilst simultaneously challenging norms and preconceptions. A critical re-appraisal of established building types and inventive approaches to the generation of new forms are encouraged, with the Thesis becoming the opportunity to explore ideas through spatial design. Teaching is focused upon supporting each individual studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own critical position, rather than any imposition of approach, and consequently the subsequent pages of project work are categorised only by name.

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A Kadir, Muhammad Haziq

Continuing from the masterplanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective of creating a new activity magnet around the lake, the thesis aims to both attracts people and promote a sustainable way of consuming by having a complete cycle of food in one building. Living in a city has becoming the choice of many as human population grows. By 2050, the urban population is projected to grow to be 66% of the total population compared to 39% in 1980 (United Nations, 2014). Instead of relying on rural farm to feed the urban population, the thesis proposed a combined programme of urban farming, cooking school and restaurant to develop a sustainable way of feeding the city dwellers, where food are locally produced from raw ingredients to waste products. The whole process of food making can be witnessed by the users to stimulate appreciation which can reduce food wastage.

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Abdul Aziz, Sally

This renovation project converts an existing shed into a high-tech fashion design and prototyping centre, where any individuals, designers, industrialists, fabricators, and even institutions will come together to form a hub for innovation and education. The goal is to support aesthetic smart textile fashion into the market. This platform that consist of event spaces, workspaces and library offers the innovative nature on smart textile exploration and manufacturing field multi-disciplinary businesses under E-textile startups in the industrial market.

Amir Hassan, Syahira

This new expansion of Ghent fashion school will have a new programme exploring the application of sustainable fashion through innovation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place that not only for learning but as well as connecting with the local community and thus spread awareness on sustainability in fashion. Through its space, function and programme, this building will educate visitors about pros and cons of the fashion industry, showcasing new technology of textile, that is environmentally friendly as well as possible ways to upcycling used textile into something valuable.

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Anastasiou, Loucas

Restoring Lost Biodiversity This thesis study explores a developing technology that has the ability to help plant native tree species around Britain, at a mass rate. Tissue Culture essentially takes very small pieces of tissue from tree cuttings. This enables the ability to multiply one tree into thousands through jars of a growth hormone liquid. This process requires controlled laboratory environments from which, this project is designed around. The built environment that we call â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; has decimated large chunks of our natural world, particularly in Britain. As designers, we need to work with nature rather than work against it. This is the ultimate aim for the Tissue Culture Research and Production project. To design a building with the purpose of restoring Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost biodiversity, that also has the ability to eventually degrade back into the soil from which it came from. Thus, replicating what we call the circle of life.

Barnes, Jesse

The proposed new build rehabilitation centre focuses on unconventional methods of rehabilitation, mainly Art Therapy. The proximity to the naturalistic landscape wetlands and the exclusivity of the site being enclosed between the Chester viaduct, River Dee and Masterplan Wetlands made it the ideal site for a function such as this. Rehabilitation is as much about the setting as it is about the therapy which is why this centre was designed to make patients feel like they were not checking into a hospital.

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Barlow, Mark

Accelerate Factory is a state of the art urban sports facility, offering a selection of extreme sports, retail units, spa and a unique dining experiences right within the heart of the new Chester development, situated on the site of Chester golf course and the River Dee. Accelerate Factory is the only urban sports centre of its kind within the North West, making this a hot spot for extreme athletes and users who want to learn a new sport. When users enter the centre, they will have the option to choose from a selection of sports such as; rock climbing and bouldering, indoor sky diving and also a number of different water sports, which make excellent use of the sites location on the river.

Barson, Yasmin

Rearranging the Fragments. This thesis project is dedicated to movement. Entwining the flow of people and water, centred around the act of growth. The thesis aims to explore Rossiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of reassembling fragments of memory found within the urban fabric. The Roman city of Chester is embedded in memory that dates back to the first century A.D. with a significant connection to water, the site area was known as the Port of Chester. Three artefacts were established within the area, Bonewaldesthorneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tower, the western entry on the historic city walls and Crane Wharf. All three considered to be a series of disjointed gateways to the western edge of the city. Engaging with local communities and tourism, providing experiential learning of new farming technologies and food production.

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Blackburn, James

The thesis project, situated in Ghent, Belgium. Is a project on redeveloping existing structures and the challenges that brings, to create a new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for how social housing is developed from pre existing buildings and how it can make for a more sustainable alternative than developing new buildings that need to be built from scratch. Furthermore, introducing new social housing within the repurposed structure is one element but, also implementing urban farm allotments and winter gardens within the building is another programme to be inter-grated into the new housing model. Bringing agriculture into an urban environment and into the home is a developing concept to create more self-sufficient lifestyles and a more conscious person to how they live with nature within architecture. By creating a new model on social housing that inter-grates the relationship between architecture, nature and the human in an urban environment, is it a successful proposition to create a home that can be self-sufficient and live a more healthy well-being in a repurposed structure?

Bhosale, Srushti Suhas

Ghent has become the most livable city over a period of time. It has transformed over past years into urban living spaces then the industrial one. The upcoming challenges to accommodate new migrants which come in order to seek knowledge and search of job opportunities have started creating urban sprawl and more urban challenges. New housing projects like OMA which will create thousands of new homes for the people in Ghent, also number of projects are being developed to tackle these issues and making Ghent City Livable city. The scheme intends to understand the urban challenges in Ghent with creating sustainable solutions for them. Gallery area as key space, well organised offices, high street shops, daily need shops and restaurants within the scheme will generate job opportunities and source of income to the users. It also intends to create a healthier neighbourhood by creating big, open green spaces and cycling facilities. Everything under one roof will reduce commuting of people far for jobs and essential needs increasing walking and cycling opportunities. Proposed scheme will be a futuristic reflection in hand with the masterplan strategy with carrying a legacy after expo beneficial for Ghent to accommodate their needs.

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Bowers, Liam

The project is an alternative mental health rehabilitation program aimed at vulnerable individuals seeking to gain a positive state of well-being. The project consists of a working agricultural land with a series of therapy gardens which flow into the building, with a clear focus on food production within the internal spaces. The main aim of the project was to utilise the agricultural land of the Masterplan into a rehabilitation and horticultural research facility that is self-contained and private from the public. The facility aims to be completely self-sustained by the working farming fields with the patients of the facility being the working gears of the land and food production as part of their healing process The program aims to slowly introduce vulnerable people back into society by improving their mental wellbeing and promoting positive social interaction. The design connects internal spaces with the exterior growing spaces using views and semi partially open spaces to dissolve the building into the landscape. A clear focus on natural materiality and transparency is explored to draw nature into the internal space. The building is intended to be a gateway to the working farm connecting the landscape to the public waterfront of the masterplan.

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Croker, Henry

Theatre of Velocity. This project introduces a dedicated pre-race preparation and post/race recovery facility to Chester Racecourse, allowing horses to enjoy an architectural space which resonates with their natural habitats and comforts. The scheme looks to connect three existing elements to create a connective node with with multiple purposes. These elements are in the form of vectors and includes an existing industrial era railway viaduct, dual carriageway road, and race track. The building will connect to each of these, utilising them so that the scheme interacts with them internally and externally. Spectators will be elevated nearly 6m above the racetrack level, allowing for advantage views and for a safe space for racehorses on the Ground Floor.

De Borja, Dan

Over the past few decades, Ghent has transformed from an industrial city into a vibrant, up-and-coming, social and open urban centre. Urbanisation leads to concentrated energy use, which leads to greater air pollution with significant impact on human health. Additionally, urbanisation comes with increasing demands in housing and can lead to urban sprawl. The scheme intends to explore a sustainable and optimal solution in dealing with the densification of a growing city. Adapting the Barcelona Superblock, the Ghent model aims to provide density and relief of greenery which is desired in the area of the site. Built on reclaimed land, the scheme will be people-centred and aims to promote active mobility to help reduce motorised transport within the site. Intensifying the site with mixed block types will help create a walkable community where maximum walking distance is 250m within the site. Ghent Superblock consists of 39 different building types that combine the best aspects of urban and suburban life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; privacy, shopfront identities, basement provisions, great location, shopfront identities, gardens and a sense of community; all of which are common attributes in Ghent. 182

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Crowney, Matthew

This proposal references Ghentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial heritage but also begins to generate a discussion for a new, green form of industry, through the proposed development of an urban agriculture research and growing facility. Through the two growing spaces, the issue of food production will be resolved. Through devising a sustainable and environmentally friendly way of producing food packaging, the issue of plastic waste will be resolved. Through integrating a marketplace within the proposal, the issue of distribution will too, be resolved. The fruit and vegetables that are to be grown in the facility will be those that are currently unable to be grown in Europe, beginning the process of growing any food locally, without the subsequent environmental cost of transporting them across the globe. The proposal will reimagine what a typical industrial building can be, and through integrating a marketplace and communal planting areas, aims to reconnect the industry with the city it is serving. The scheme is located between the main civic square and agricultural quarter of the masterplan and will act as the main link to both key areas - it will be an agricultural agora.

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Doseva, Rosana

Enthusiasm and community spirit are the fundamental principles of urban regeneration alongside with the importance of reviving our cities through the power of creativity. The Innovation Hub represents the creative industries as a powerful tool towards urban regeneration and development. It is not only a modern way of working and living but also an inventive way of thinking about urban areas. This building is a celebration of the relationship between entertainment, business and collaboration. It represents the eagerness of digital creative businesses and houses inspirational spaces for people to enjoy and immerse into. By designing the Innovation Hub, a new focal point for entrepreneurship in a co-working environment is being created. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design depends on the positive influence of the physical environment on humans and on the success of a multi-use building dedicated to developing immersive technologies and experiences. Coworking spaces are build on interaction, flexibility and partnership. They revolve around creating a community, designing better places and ways to work,and developing new, innovative ideas. This scheme is looking to revitalise the river front of Chester and attract both public and private sectors. It is a platform for entrepreneurs, educational facilities, mentorship, knowledge sharing, entertainment and exhibits. The proposal is not only focusing on the Innovation Hub but also on the public realm and green spaces around it. Public spaces create sense of atmosphere, encourage activities and draw more attention to the area. People will be able to engage with the location through the newly designed promenade, public square and also enjoy the public facilities of the building - the IMAX

Elaraby, Essam

Chester Riverside Culture Centre. Re-Exploring the approach using context grid lines and surrounding important landmarks factors as the main driving force towards designing a building that adapts well to the site. Understanding the role of geometry and clean lines with a strong language and regular forms in doing an abstract space that people can feel and relate to. How culture and the geometry of the site can affect peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senses and approach towards architecture and arts and can express themselves through the grid pattern in a way to emphasize their culture. Culture is not about buildings, but about the life and happenings between them and the opportunities such places and spaces create for activity and social interaction. A successful city establishes a sense of place determined by the surrounding physical environment, its history and the people acting out their lives in it today. By effectively defining, encouraging and investing in such a sense of place, culture and history people are drawn to live, work, study and visit. 184

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Faulkner, Hannah

Living on the Edge - A Holistic Living Retreat, Chester With Cheshire West and Chester having an aging population higher than the national average, and mental health issues becoming increasingly prevalent in the area through social isolation and loneliness, this thesis is a considered proposal to ameliorate these issues, with the development of a Holistic Living retreat. Holistic living is the treatment of a person as a whole, taking into account mental and social factors. The programme intends to educate visitors on the importance of aging well and living well by implementing a holistic approach to various aspects of life i.e. environment, nutrition, sleep + recovery, mind, and activity. The project will also provide a new public attraction for Chester and help boost rural tourism by providing cultural and heritage activities for the public to take part in. The scheme intends to focus on older generations who are at risk of health issues and loneliness, with the public aspect of the project hoping to encourage intergenerational relationships. The project also promotes greener living, a topic that has gained greater credence in today’s society and is a way of living that goes hand in hand with wellbeing. Located on the edge of River Dee’s riverbank, the site’s close proximity to woodland and wetland hopes to provide a place of escape for people struggling with everyday life. This thesis focuses on one building specifically that functions as the programme’s ‘nutritional building’, educating visitors on ways to appreciate and utilise nature through the growing, harvesting and production of fresh ingredients that can in turn be used for natural remedies and healthy nutrition.

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Fitzpatrick, Emma

The thesis explores the role of the industrial museum in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscape of social and technological change. With rapid developments in technology causing society to adapt alongside it, traditional museums have stayed static. This poses the question; how can museums remain relevant today? The museum, as an institution, is at the core of society. It plays a vital role, through democratisation and education, and the preservation of the past for future generations. Particularly, the interest for this thesis is the way in which museums can use the past to build the future, with advancing new media that is now available. A study of smart technologies, like augmented reality, shows the opportunities for innovation within the museum context. For a while, technology has been available in museums, in the form of audio-guides, filmed exhibits and phone apps. Celebrating the rich industrial heritage of Ghent, the thesis looks at the re-purposing of the Inter-Beton concrete plant, in the Oude-Dokken area. Further to conserving natural resources and reducing new build materials as a benefit from an environmental aspect, the preservation of such buildings is in turn preserving the history of the place.

Graham, Rhiannon

This thesis aims to understand the impact that workspaces have on our health and well-being, and the ways in which future design can change to better support it. This building design will therefore look at the use of biophilic design methods to create comfortable and relaxed working environments as well as understanding the broad variation in the types of spaces occupants prefer to work in. It will aim to encourage more active lifestyle choices and create connections with its surrounding context as well as social connections within.

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Hardman, Adam

‘Performance Promenade’ saw the creation of The Chester Performing Arts Academy (CPAA). The designated site places the academy at a key node within a newly proposed student quadrant in Chester, calling for a building that is designed to enable interaction with the buildings programme whilst people move around the area. This called for a transparent approach to the performing arts, revealing areas that are usually hidden from public view. The success of the building will be determined by the creation of an architectural work that can be classified as ‘living’. To achieve this, an ‘artery’ has been placed through the academy that is an extension of the pedestrian route within the masterplan that takes advantage of the transparent design. The use of materials here mimics the historic walls within Chester, bringing history into the new building and forming a deeper connection with the city of Chester. The Performing Arts Academy is home to over 400 students undertaking studies relating to all aspects of the performing arts. The entire design is to enhance the experience of not only a performer, but the supporting technicians, staff, visitors, and the people of Chester.

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Ibrahim, Nurul

River Dee is an important part of Chester that helps develop the city to what it is today. This gives an inspiration to develop the underused part of the historical riverbank into a hospitality destination for locals and tourists. The proposed scheme is aimed to explore the hospitality industry and encourage usage of public realm. Through different means of exploration, the scheme is to enhance the landscape of Chester while serving the tourism industry in the city. As the site location sits in between both nature and industrial sector, the elements will be implied in the proposed building as industrial style aesthetic. The hotel that is being built is a boutique hotel that is thought to serve the purpose for businessmen and leisure-lover. The feature of the hotel is for some of the rooms to overlook the racecourse, Chester city centre and view of river/golf course. In order to attract more people to the site, the hotel block is designed with public realm in mind, where the public spaces surrounding the building is public-friendly for recreation and leisure. Not just focusing on the interior, but also integration with the external environment, the hotel is to be a place for retreat with an intimate and cosy atmosphere.

Jones, Alice

Biophilia within the Urban Context â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Curzon Mere Visitor Centre, Chester The world is beginning to recognise the values that nature can bring to our everyday lives and that by destroying it is not with in our best interest for the foreseeable future. Humans must live in harmony with nature instead of demolishing it, as this can bring many benefits for both people and wildlife. There is a large body of evidence to suggest that contact with natural environments, can provide benefits for health and wellbeing. These include improvements to physical health, psychological and social wellbeing. The brief for this Thesis Project is to create a Wetland Visitor Centre to facilitate education, and mental rehabilitation by utilising a wetland ecosystem. This will be integrated with a Research Institute occupied by biologists and specialists working to develop and circulate scientific information needed for understanding the ecology and values of wetlands. It will also manage and restore wetland habitats alongside associated plant and animal communities. The Visitor Centre will act as a hub for visitors, connecting the network of pathways along the wetlands and serving as a place to rest, and learn more about the complex, integration of city and nature. The aim of the project is to create a biophilic design which will complement and enhance the sustainable management of a newly created urban wetland. It is a fact that wetland habitat is at risk in the UK, the centre will incorporate a University of Lancaster education and research facility, focused on the conservation of these at-risk habitats. The institute will also provide wellbeing benefits by creating a rich natural environment to deliver â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;green medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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Lee, Tsi Tsi

The Co:Shed Project is a multi-functional frame structure that house varies small block within, where each block come with different programs that can service the new district and the existing residential neighborhoods. The Co:Shed Project designed to provide more than just a public building function but a new ‘adhesive’ building that bring in old and new people for social interaction. Most importantly, the building function can be change over time to respond to the neighborhoods needs but without changing its appearance. The concept of containing various function individual blocks under one roof aims to create a spatial that support and complementary one another. At the same time encourage social interaction between users and passer-by, Library to be the main public attraction; co-working space above helps generate revenue to support library; workshop block to replace the existing industrial activity; nursery to services the new neighborhoods; ground floor shops for cafe and retail for workshop product to sustain the overall scheme; open space between blocks for gathering spot where people come in together. In short, it is a creative hub that allows people to work, learn, share and rest.

Le Vasseur, Amy

The proposed interpretation centre as a place of investigation is envisioned as a process catalyst. The scheme is devised as a collaborative program of use between arts & science, community & tourism, society & ecology, with a wide range of stakeholders from University students to resident artists. Ultimately the overall mission of the centre is to promote the wetland as a source of creative expression and prompts users to explore, discover, learn, research, connect and contribute to their surroundings. Sitting within an sprawling fringe belt, where the site meets the proposed wetland development, it forges a connection between the historic city centre, urban eco-system and the industrial fabric towards the West. As such it provides a platform upon which an architectural vision is to be explored, as a transition space between two distinct environments and styles. This notion of transition as a form of collaboration and process of moulding connections between disparate elements, be it surrounding contexts, new to old, the user to the creator and the overarching inter-disciplinary frameworks is explored throughout the thesis from the programme of use to the choice of materiality. A dialogue is forged through which each user, the artist, the visitor and the local play a key role in the programme cycle with the wetland at the centre.

Lomas, Margaret

The Overhead is a museum and canal boat making building located in Chester, West of the city wall on New Crane Street. Located northeast of the proposed museum is Taylors boatyard and The Shropshire Union Canal ending at Ellesmere Port’s National Waterways Museum. The Overhead is comprised of two buildings joined together by a polycarbonate box and underground Museum. Inside the box, there is a gantry crane that carries the boats from the workshop into the museum located under New Crane Street. The workshop builds boats whilst the museum displays their work. Public access to the workshop can be found inside the museum that leads to a viewing platform overlooking the workshop and design offices at first floor level. There are outdoor seating and green spaces along the river’s edge and canal basin to increase the amount of public realm spaces within the area.

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Malone, Liam

The essence of the project is to connect both nature and music together through education. Research has shown that music can help plants and crops grow quicker and healthier. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also no secret that artists take com-fort in playing in relaxing environments and nature helps stimulate their work. Through research I have found that Chester University has seen a decrease in student numbers over the last decade, with neighbouring uni-versities seeing a slight increase. The main reason for this is that Chester seem to lack facilities compared to other cities. Chester has zero music rehearsal facilities within the city centre. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compared to 11 in Liver-pool. By creating spaces for students to rehearse along with live performance facilities, all in a natural environ-ment will join the two

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McEllin, Alexander

The thesis project builds upon the Chester Connect masterplanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concepts of people connecting and adopting healthy lifestyles. The thesis takes the approach that health and well-being can be maintained within the home and that this is a responsibility architects posse in a world with ever increasing mental health issues. The scheme is a co-operative situated in the underutilised Water Tower Gardens of Chester, providing family housing around a community garden which knits the scheme into the context. Circulation within the scheme has been maximised to provide spaces for socialisation and meeting which will enhance oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and well-being. Biophilic design principles have been utilised in the thesis to provide a connection to nature. The community garden will provide a useful amenity for the residents and locals, creating an appreciation of nature. The project utilises the viaduct on site as a hard border for the scheme. The radial nature of the water tower has inspired the form of the building and arrangement of the dwellings. A medical centre has been allocated to the north west of the site as a means of recording the successfulness of the thesis and also to provide a facility for the local context.

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Moran, Oliver

De Levende Spa / The Living Spa. As the city of Ghent strives forward in the process of being a pioneer in the green revolution, this project looks to embrace the cities stance by helping to clean up the polluted waterways within the city using natural water purification methods inspired by â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the living machineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. With the inhabitants of the cities mental health and well-being in mind, this project looks to create a place where people can relax and de-stress from the routine of everyday life. The spa should be a space where they come to recharge and find balance. The spa will also create a space where people can come to reconnect with the cities heritage and history.Strong contextual connections in the spa to the character of the area will help people to reflect and relate to the architecture. The spa and park will look to increase the biodiversity in the area, creating a more sustainable and rich ecosystem in this area of the city with the introduction of a water-park to the south

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Rahmat, Rasul

The Shropshire Union Canal and the River Dee both flow through the centre of the historic walled city of Chester. Historical context became the main driver in this thesis project. Chester is famous for being a historic city. Seeking to enhance its historic character, further research was done focusing on the west part of Chester. The main objective of the thesis project is to enhance Chester as an attractive and pleasant city with rich heritage and culture. In line with the city councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s target of being a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;must-visit city in the United Kingdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, the focus is given to tourism and recreational activities. Canal & River Trust holds the responsibility of canals and rivers, together with reservoirs and a wide range of heritage buildings and structures. By designing a Freshwater Research Centre which could be one of its organisation, it will hold the guardianship of waterways in Chester. Many passionate people who want to work as volunteers could gather as a community to transform their canals. A facility for the sport of canoeing will support recreational activities and transform the historical industrial waterways into a recreation way to attract a greater number of visitors and tourist. Through active waterways, it will contribute to the economic, social and environmental wellbeing for the benefit of current and future generations.

Ooi, Chun

As awareness of the food process from farm to table begins to grow in Ghent, circular agronomy slowly prevails in the challenge of acquiring food sustainably. Located in Ghent, the project deals mainly with coffee production in the city, spunning into a series of programmes that either benefits at the receiving end of the waste or benefits the coffee production. This is important as Belgians are the 8th largest number of coffee drinkers per capita of the world, and the largest green coffee bean storage in Europe. Coffee is overwhelmingly undervalued as the production chain to supply involves a lot of cost in between which are depreciated. The vertical & horizontal integration of the coffee & waste industry in the building allows people to understand the bean to cup process, and also provide research opportunities for a variety of produce found in the building, such as mushroom growing and aquaculture production.

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Shallcross, Adam

My thesis scheme, located within a canal basin of Chester’s Garden Quarter combines watersports with leisure activity, creating a vibrant new mixed use space within an area of Chester earmarked for future redevelopment. The building’s site is in close proximity to the historic Chester Water Tower, a symbol of the city’s past life as a thriving port, and as such the scheme has been designed to respect its vicinity to the tower both in terms of its scale and the orientation of above ground mass. Watersports and water activity are at the core of the building’s spatial layout, with the scheme featuring a large self-contained body of water around which leisure activity, bars and restaurants are situated. The building also offers a small outdoor lido with independent changing space which overlooks the canal and the adjacent training pool. The watersports centre’s main changing rooms serve both the contained body of water and the canal basin itself, allowing visitors of all experience levels to use the centre. The building’s contained body of water serves as the centre’s training pool, with this controlled body of water creating a safe environment in which users can learn their chosen water sport. In addition to serving as a pool for beginners, the training pool offers experience days, with the pool able to generate its own ‘white water’ waves, attracting tourists and casual visitors to the watersports centre. The water supplied to the training pool is canal water, which has been naturally purified and decontaminated by ecological systems situated within the building upstream of the main pool.

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Snape, Declan

This thesis project combines a luxury boutique hotel with the experience of spectating horse racing at Chester Racecourse. This has been achieved by shaping the overall form of the building to wrap around a new parade ring for the racecourse, which will bring more spectators up-close to the horses for a greater experience. The proposal replaces the existing parade ring in the centre of the racecourse, bringing it adjacent to the grandstands, where it is more accessible and can generate a more significant atmosphere. The ground floor of the building features a large lobby space and high-quality restaurant which are both easily accessible to the public and provide direct access to the parade ring stand. The 51 hotel rooms are located on the upper floors where they all have large balconies with views over the racecourse and parade ring. It was important for the hotel to have a feeling of luxury so that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel out of place within the surroundings of the racecourse and so that it will be attractive to the middle-class patrons that can be associated with horse racing. This has been largely achieved architecturally with tall ceilings, open spaces and an abundance of natural light.

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Tan, Zhi Jie

The Art Rendezvous: New Art School in Ghent The creation of spaces with a cultural and creative emphasis is a response towards the vision of Ghent to be a leading city of innovation and creativity. One of the main objectives of the masterplan is to enhance the cultural elements in Ghent. A cultural hub that consists of a new museum, art school, exhibition platform, gallery and etc is included in the masterplan to achieve the goal of an ‘Art Rendezvous”. For a long time the term “Ivory Tower” was a building metaphor that summed up the way art schools were in their own intellectual world. At the same time, it also describes the way universities interacted with the built environment around them — in a place but apart from it. But not anymore. This art school promotes a more socially engaged educational model so that the public can be more engaged with student work when they can easily see artworks or students presenting their work. The aim of project is to design an art school that provides conducive environment for art education at tertiary level and also highly encourages interaction between art, student and the public. It join the dots between artists, education and the public, nurturing the internal world of those artists but enabling them to see the external world, and perhaps enabling them to move more seamlessly from art school into the world.

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Teh, Chyn

Public Hub + Co-working Office. The aim of this project is to design co-working space for everyone including millennials workers and students to connect people who work on different businesses and projects together to form a community. The building is designed as a village concept with private areas and communal areas connecting to each spaces in terms of circulation and visuals to encourage communications and interactions among the users. The building is designed as a shell and core building at the first stage where the partitions and walls that will create private offices from the open plans later. Different sizes and shapes of offices are created to provide for different types of companies and users. Voids are created to allow connections between the spaces. The site of the project is located in Ghent, Belgium. Ghent is a city and a municipality in Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the second largest municipality in the Belgium, after Antwerp. An urban design proposal was done focusing on the existing industrial area at the North of Verbindingskanaal and along the canal. The site is located in the middle of the urban design proposal along the canal with a public square sandwiched between the site and the canal. In this project, only part of the site will be focused on while the other part of the site will be planned for the future phase of the project. The building is designed to integrate greeneries in the building and office spaces as aving aa wide variety of palnt species inside and out as well as views of nature from workspaces is one of the requirements of good workplace design.

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Williams, Adam

The thesis considers the eventuality that upon the approach of 2030, workers in low-skill jobs will be superseded by machines with artificial intelligence and greater efficiency. As a consequence of this, the reduction of available work across society will be met with a universal reduction of weekly working hours, resulting in a four-day working week. The aim of the scheme is to create a programme that teaches people practical skills and brings out their creative side. This enables people to regain control of their self-sufficiency through creativity and human engagement, as these are aspects that arguably cannot be replicated by artificial intelligence. The site is in the city of Ghent, Belgium, in the district of Muide - Meulestede - Afrikalaan. The district is populated by large industrial buildings, interspersed with a small amount of contrastingly small houses. The proposal uses the portal frame structure of an existing factory, built in the early half of the 21st century, previously operated by a chemical fertiliser company. As the building will cease to operate as a factory following changes proposed by the masterplan project, adaptive reuse of the building would create the perfect setting for a place to Make, Do + Mend.

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This Thesis project is developed off the back of the Group Masterplan proposal to introduce a new University Quadrant into the City of Chester. Providing new cultural and performing arts facilities, linking the two existing University campuses together and providing new routes from the City Centre to the new “Student Quadrant” which aims at integrating the students of Chester University with the City, its current communities and its history. This Thesis Project introduces a new Museum to the city of Chester. Located within the original masterplan to act as a key building, not only to the residents of the city, students occupying the new campus, but also for members of the public travelling between the new area and the city centre. This proposal will provide a museum with e exhibition spaces for use by the Grosvenor Museum and the University. Exhibition spaces dedicated to telling the story of Chester as a city, and spaces for assembly and debate for students and the public to have a direct impact on the future of the city. Creating a building at the heart of Chester’s story, telling the history behind the city and the historical wall, of which it is adjacent to, and providing a space where the future story of Chester can be written and discussed. The proposal aims to bring an area of historical stature for Chester City back to life and back into the forefront of the journey for people moving though the wider masterplan proposal and rooting the new building into the very history and story that it is trying to tell.

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Dr James Keefe defined learning style as “the cognitive, affective and physiological traits that serve as relatively stable indicators of how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to the learning environment”. According to David Kolb, learners must involve themselves in learning for the experience to be educative. He maintained that knowledge is acquired either by concrete experience or abstract conceptualization and that knowledge is processed through reflective observation or active experimentation. Interaction among students are important in assisting the learner to organize their thoughts, reflect on their understanding, and find gaps in their reasoning. Graham Wallas expressed student can range from learning by observation, learning by hearing and learning by saying or teaching and learning by doing. Different form of collaborative learning can help to enhance and prepare the students more to reach the ideal learning environment that can help in generating productive and versatile innovations. This new Art Campus in Chester will be a place for testing, creating, exhibiting and presenting students innovations. An open and flexible structure that allows for continuous change and adaptation to changing need which focuses on the future life and activities inside the building.It will be a factory for an artistic experimentation that will set the stage for cooperation. Workshops and collaboration spaces will be the ‘central link’;giving opportunity for them to collaborate on projects with other students from different courses or their own projects.This new art school will serve as resources to fill students’ knowledge gaps.

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LIVE PROJECTS 2019/20 In the 2017/18 academic year we introduced an innovative approach to the teaching of Management, Practice and Law in the MArch Programme, which provides an introduction to the professional aspects of architectural practice required by our RIBA validation. Using the strong civic connections and professional relationships of the Architecture Programme staff different projects with genuine clients, outside of the university, are set up prior to the academic year and then taken forward and developed by final year student groups with the support of a link tutor. The projects range in scale and ambition from a mobile structure through to urban master planning tasks, but all share the common thread of having real clients with real needs, benefiting for the time, energy

and enthusiasm of our student and tutor groups. Appreciating the role of Liverpool John Moores University within our city and region, and the commercial realities of private architectural practice, the Live Projects always meet the criteria of being for not-for-profit clients, or similar socially minded organisations. The projects, working within the curriculum, have an initial 3 month duration and provide clients with valuable design support, which otherwise would not have been afforded within the financial constraints of each specific situation. Now in its third year, the previous and current projects are listed here, and overleaf details of the 2019 briefs are provided.

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The Baltic Farm is a creative food project, their vision is to create a socially transformative, community-embedded urban farm and cultural events space that connects the local community, builds a local food network, fills homes with fresh local food and creates engaging and meaningful jobs. The Baltic Farm is a collaboration between Farm Urban and The Great George’s Street Project. The Baltic Farm team hope to realise their vision for an urban farm and cultural events space by activating vacant land. The resulting ‘meanwhile’ structures and the transitional activities they support will be built for an approximate three-year life span. Following this they will be replaced by a mixed use, scheme by Great George Street Developments (GGS) which addresses a wider site within the Baltic Triangle. Successful elements from the Baltic Farm project will then be incorporated into the final development. A planning application for the ‘development of a temporary public events space and multi-use site,’ developed by the Baltic Farm team, alongside a local Architecture and Design practice, was submitted to Liverpool City Council in January 2019. Within the context of this application the Baltic farm Team working with LJMU wish to further develop a part of this multi-use proposal. The LIve Project is to develop a ‘Community Canopy’ in more detail. The footprint of this formed part of the planning application. The canopy will be a flexible space that can accommodate a small café/deli counter, various fairs and markets including farmers markets, wedding fairs, private parties, weddings and corporate day retreats and should have the provision for a co-working space and open studio space. 206

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In seeking to address in some part the ongoing financial cuts to the public sector, Sefton Council runs an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Invest to Saveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; programme which looks to make savings to annual budgets by rationalising facilities and services. We have been asked to look at a feasibility study for a significant (circa ÂŁ1m) new building design. The study is to consider building an extension on the side of Bootle Library to relocate Marie Clarke and Cambridge Family Wellbeing centres into. This will create a community hub in Bootle, give opportunities for innovative ways of service delivery, reduce operational costs and produce a capital receipt from the sale/redevelopment of land. Family Wellbeing Centres provide joined up support for children and young people aged 0-19 years to make family life that little bit easier. Parents and carers receive extra help, advice and guidance to help them build confidence and resilience to deal with things that family life throws at them. The project will involve visiting the existing facilities to be replaced, developing a full programme, scheme, cost advice and planning permission considerations, to provide a comprehensive feasibility study for the client. The location of the new building in the centre of Bootle and alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal is worthy of a high quality, uplifting design response.

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The Callister Trust has the mission of ‘promoting the welfare of girls and young women in Birkenhead.’ The trust owns a green space in Slatey Rd with a long high Victorian wall along the side. It has been used in the past as tennis courts, a playing field and as a garden to teach trainees. The WRVS and the YMCA used to host strawberry teas there for ladies. The trustees now have a budget to build a small indoor space to replace a previous old portakabin so that the garden can be used all the year round. The Live Project is to design a high quality pavilion for the gardens and develop a viable procurement and construction strategy, such that the pavilion can be in place for spring/summer 2020. The ‘Pavilion’ will turn the Garden from a spring/summer community space to a year round community space adding enormous value and potential. It will be used by; Volunteer gardeners for toilets and refreshments, community groups for activities, school groups, mother and toddler/ other women’s groups and as a base for Forest Schools workshops. The building needs to be as eco friendly / sustainable as possible. The building also needs to be able to be extremely well secured at night and when the garden is closed. It needs to extremely robust to protect it from vandals, and arsonists. It is anticipated that the Live Project will complete the concept design, procurement strategy and perhaps progress further to enable construction to be progressed in the near future.

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The Kensington Community Investment Company (CIC) leases 6 out of 7 ground floor retail units of this block, located on Holt Road. They use these for a range of small scale social enterprises - ‘Onya Bike’; cycle repairs and sales, an independent Sour Dough Bakery, Kensington Community Radio Station and a cafe: ‘The Croissant of Inequality’. As the Community Interest Company continues to grow they are seeking to further develop the whole building in partnership with their landlord, who currently rents out various flats above the retail units. Kensington CIC has received funding from Creative Civic Change, to promote meaningful civic change in their area, and they are working with Creative North to develop a clear business plan to underpin the development of their building. The current vision is to convert some of the currently poor quality flats above into an Arts Hotel, capitalising on tourism in the city and bringing more employment and expenditure into their neighbourhood. Additionally the project seeks to expand the successful community radio station facilities, and provide studio space for a local animation studio. The Live Project is to design a strategy for the entire block, including the residential spaces above to develop more long term viable social enterprises. Working with a business plan and outline cost information the Live Project seeks to enable progression of further bids for charitable and regeneration funding, perhaps identifying a phased approach such that some redevelopment work can be started in the near future.

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The Victorian Society has highlighted Everton Library as one of the 10 most notable Victorian buildings “most at risk of further dilapidation and loss” across the UK. The library was opened in 1896 and is one of the earliest public libraries in Liverpool. It is grade two-listed due to the quality of its architecture and its role in developing Liverpool’s library service. It has not been in use since 1999 and has had two failed attempts to develop it. The building has been ransacked for lead in recent years and as such has suffered significant water damage. An Architecture Heritage Fund grant to scope out potential future uses for the library building has been secured and Polly Moseley is working with local architects Harrison Stringfellow to develop a community based strategy for the building. Working with the architects there various aspects that the LJMU Live Project seeks to contribute to the strategy. The building is in a poor state of repair internally and a ‘Matterport’ scan has been undertaken in order to record the condition while access is restricted. The Live Project will work with this data to assess issues such as accessibility and movement within this listed building, and produce a video piece that can be uploaded to youtube or a website so that anyone can have a look at it, along with plans, diagrams and supporting text to promote the potential of the library. Additionally a neighbourhood facilities mapping exercise is required. This will look at how the library is positioned in the high street both now and historically and what the potential is for linking it with other community facilties within the neighbourhood. The intention is that this exercise, involving some local consultation will contribute to a set of data which in turn can be developed as an area based strategy for the buildings future use. 214

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The Turnpike Centre was opened in Leigh, a town within the Borough of Wigan, in 1971 incorporating a public library and art gallery. Opening in an age of optimism its first exhibition included sculptures by Henry Moore. The gallery was closed due to public sector funding cuts in 2013 but it reopened in 2016 and the charity running the gallery are now looking to activate the flat roof space at first floor, which was never developed in the original construction. Wigan Borough Council has recently published ‘The Fire Within’ a cultural manifesto for the borough. As part of this artists working with the Turnpike Gallery wish to create an exhibition which opens on to the unused roof which is to be transformed into a garden. To enable this, whilst also resolving other issues of limited space in the gallery the LJMU Live Project is to design and procure safe access onto the roof, design storage, screening of a boiler, the detail of the roof garden and a new outdoor café to collectively activate the whole roof space.

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There is a rich culture of academic enquiry with the Architecture programmes, with over half of the Architecture staff research active. Taken collectively, their work encompasses a diverse scope of fields, which include: alternative approaches for housing design; analysis of cognition in the creative process, in particular cognitive bias, judgment heuristics, and the validity of design quality indicators; materiality and culture; methods and tools for low energy building design with user oriented building simulation software; housing for dementia; urbanity and human immersion; the design of libraries in a changing society and culture; international transport infrastructure; sustainability and design process; regional Modernism and Liverpool’s Twentieth Century architectural history; (re)production and use of wastelands and derelict urban spaces; and creative pedagogy and the student experience. Over the last twelve months academic staff have presented their research at a diverse range of national and international conferences, and through publication in peer-reviewed research journals and books. There is a deliberate strategy to interweave research and teaching within programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This manifests through how research informs teaching to inspire and nourish our students’ learning, but also – and more innovatively – how studio teaching and emergent project work can contribute to published research in a range of contemporary fields in wider contexts – an approach that has been termed ‘teaching-informed research’. For example, the MArch programme has established a long-term engagement with the architecture of housing, and several staff are research active in this field. Pedagogic research by staff feeds directly into enriching teaching and learning within the programme.

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GARY BROWN Gary Brown’s research interests are centred on inter-relationships with the urban environment, how we perceive it and reciprocally design and intervene in it. These research interests are usually directly linked to and folded back into design studio practice. Gary’s recent interests (and outputs) have been related to ‘balanced asymmetry’ emerging from an interest in Japanese aesthetics and ‘edge phenomena’ influenced by Snøhetta’s Opera House and relating to Liverpool’s geographic political and urban disposition.

BRIAN HATTON Brian Hatton has written and published 320 articles about Art and Architecture. In 2008 he guestedited the special issue of Architectural Review - Liverpool: Work in Progress, and was keynote speaker at the AJ/AR conference Designing For Liverpool. He is currently working on a project to start a Liverpool Architecture Biennial. At LJMU he organised and spoke in the 2013 Architecture symposium ‘Starchitecture’ and the 2014 symposium ‘Film, Space and Architecture’. His current research interests include a project to publish a videodisk of Dan Graham’s Pavilions, and a book on his Graham Foundation/CCA research topic, ‘Wandering in the Open Plan’.

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DAVID HEATHCOTE

JOANNE HUDSON

PETER HORROCKS

Dr. David Heathcote’s research activity this year has focused on finishing his book Autostrada Interstate, A History of Motorways. He has also been developing research for a project on the early 20th century houses and gardens of intellectuals, artists and social reformers that developed in the area around Potsdam and Werder Havel. As well as houses by nearly every famous young German architect of the period and many gardens that were experiments in self -sufficiency and arts and Crafts ideas about gardening, for instance the work of K. Foerster at Potsdam and the then emerging concept of plant sociology. Many of the houses there reflect a transition from historicism through the arts and crafts and vernacular revival and toward modernism as well as making responses to social changes like the development workers housing, Health Culture, Vegetarianism and the development of the motor car. Because of the effects of both world wars and the Berlin Wall the area is a time capsule of the aspirations of Germany from the unification in the late 19th century to the Weimar period that remains individually welldocumented but not analysed except in terms of its Modernist houses and buildings, even then though Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm is well-known Einstein’s nearby house by a student of H. Poelzig, K. Wachsmann in 1929 is largely unknown.

Dr. Joanne Hudson’s research is located at the intersection of Architecture, Planning and Geography and focuses principally on the relationship between spatial planning practices and the production, (re)production and use of wastelands and derelict spaces, and affordable housing strategies. Her current research is focused on how we can realise and utilise the potential of ‘informal spaces’ at various levels and spatial scales through the development of coordinated systems of land use planning, creative design and community capital. Jo’s housing research investigates relationships between community groups, and designers and the role that new design strategies have in providing viable affordable housing for the future. It will contribute to critical (re) understandings and (re)readings of the city and will reassess the way we value our urban environment.

During his first year of teaching at Liverpool John Moores University, Peter Horrocks’ research has been primarily focused around introducing immersive visual techniques and photo-scanning as well as advanced CGI techniques into the Architecture programmes.

Heathcote, D. with Pareda, J. (2020). Essay in: In Creative Manifestos: Inspirational Statements to Celebrate SelfExpression. In Delorie, O.L. (ed.) New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated. Heathcote, D. (2019). Essay in: Dr Sue Barr. The Architecture of Transit: Searching for the Sublime in Motorway Architecture Between the Alps and Naples. Stuttgart: Hartmann Projects Verlag.

PHILIP LO Philip’s ongoing interest in architectural design is underpinned by phenomenological concerns envisioned through the medium of filmic processes. As a pedagogic tool, processes belonging to film, promoted students’ perceptive awareness in the various stages of their studio design: from thematic interpretation to spatial exploration. In this respect, filmic thinking and techniques are actively used as design mechanisms towards the investigation, design and representation of architectural spacemaking where narrative, spatial exploration, materiality and lighting are synthesised.

He employed advanced 3d scanning techniques to aid in the development of this coming year’s Interior Architecture course. Similar techniques formed the basis of a Masters Level ‘Live Project’ in which students explored how they could showcase inaccessible buildings to potential investors and those who would support the refurbishment and retention of important buildings. The resultant work is currently being used in discussion with Liverpool City Council as the first steps of an attempt to rescue a very significant but dilapidated building in Liverpool. When it was first realised that LJMU, like many other universities in the UK, could not host an end of year show in the usual format, an important event for students and potential employers alike, we discussed the possibility of a virtual end of year show. Peter has coordinated this piece of work and it will be used in conjunction with the projects described above as part of a paper that was recently accepted for a conference at The University of Kent on the subject of ‘Virtual Cities’.

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ROBERT MACDONALD

ALIKI-MYRTO PERYSINAKI

CHARLIE SMITH

Dr. Robert MacDonald’s research is influential in the understanding of how people living with dementia can positively interact with the environment. Rob is co-investigator on the collaborative Design for Dementia projects, addressing the global human phenomenon through the deployment of living laboratories and co-design sessions, to enable dementia stakeholders to be involved in the design of homes and neighbourhoods. Rob’s research takes a methodological approach to architecture, spatial design and human needs, and has utilized a series of data collection events from 2015 to 2019, involving stakeholder observation, feedback sessions and seminars. The culmination of his research has led to three Design for Dementia books. Rob has investigated design responses to dementia in Japan, Holland and Finland, with an RIBA Research Award. Finally, in collaboration with the BRE, HLP Architects and Loughborough University, a full-size demonstration home based on Design for Dementia principles has been built and presented at Futurebuild Exposition 2019 in London. His ongoing engagement activities include: Leading TAG Therapeutic Art Group in Recovery College; NHS Chat and Check Buddy during COVID 19 with MerseyCare Foundation Trust with outpatients in isolation; British Academy Leverhulme short-listed bid: ‘The Virtual House of Memories: A Trigger for People Living with Dementia in the Ageing Population.’

Dr. Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki’s research focuses primarily on the influence of sustainable development on the architectural design process. She develops a critical understanding of architecture - as process and profession – through what she defines as ‘complexity’ and ‘complex design process’. In addition to publications and presentations at international conferences in this field, her current work examines the links between sustainability and tradition, the transformation of urbanscapes due to climatic change and the potential of alternative housing typologies to provide affordable design. Aiming to address the housing crisis and drawing upon materials generated for student presentations and exhibitions, her work is intended to impel a critique of current housing standards, policy and residential form. By dealing with different scales, Aliki’s research aspires to observe the evolving character of the architectural profession in leading intra-disciplinary conception and negotiation through a project’s process.

Dr. Charlie Smith’s research focuses on learning and teaching pedagogies in creative disciplines, and the student experience; he is particularly interested in feedback and assessment, in both formative and summative dimensions, and the impact these have on students’ learning. Charlie also undertakes research in library architecture, focusing on how digitisation and new programmatic challenges are affecting these civic and cultural landmarks. His most recent study in this field explored how libraries constitute an integral part of the public realm.

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JIM SLOAN Jim Sloan’s PhD research is looking at the processes, strategies and methods for detailed design evident in architectural practice. The research participants are at the end of their full-time education in architecture school and at the beginning of their full-time careers in architectural practice: put simply, they have limited experience of architectural practice. The research explores how these designers approach an activity that the literature identifies as primarily informed by experience.

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Smith, C. (2020). ‘How Does the Medium Affect the Message? Architecture Students’ Perceptions of the Relative Utility of Different Feedback Methods.’ Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-14. Smith, C. (2020). ‘When Students Become Critics: Reviewing Peer Reviews in Theory and Practice.’ Charrette, 6 (1): 71-92. Smith, C. (2020). ‘Two Tales from the Library: The Erosion of Public Realm and New Forms of Space.’ Presentation at Experiential Design – Rethinking Relations between People, Objects and Environments conference, 16-17 January, Florida State University, USA. Smith, C. (2019). ‘An Evaluation of Community-Managed Libraries in Liverpool.’ Library Management, 40 (5): 327-337. Smith, C. (2019). ‘Strategies for Nurturing Evaluative Judgement by Design Students.’ Presentation at Education, Design and Practice conference, 17-19 June, Stevens Institute of Technology, NY, USA. Smith, C. (2019). ‘What do they do with my Feedback?’ Presentation at Seventh International Assessment in Higher Education conference, 26-27 June, Manchester. Smith, C. (2019). ‘Understanding Students’ Use of Feedback.’ Presentation at Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference, 2-4 July, Northumbria University, Newcastle.

SIMON TUCKER

DOMINIC WILKINSON

IAN WROOT

Dr. Simon Tucker’s research interests focus around the environmental design of buildings and the built environment. This research is at a range of scales, from the wider aspects of sustainable design of the whole building and environment, to detailed studies on materials and modelling methods. These research activities inform studio teaching and lecturing.

Dominic Wilkinson’s recent research into the work of prominent Liverpool church architect, F. X. Velarde, for the Twentieth Century Society, provided the material for a peer reviewed article (co-authored with Andrew Crompton of Liverpool University) published in the Journal of Architecture. The article explores the European influences upon the work of Velarde and its place in the development of an alternative form of Modernism during the 1930’s.

In recent years Ian Wroot’s research and practice has focused on the housing procurement and construction and in particular the exploration of offsite and modular-build technologies. He is currently leading a project to prototype modular adaptations to housing for residents with physical or cognitive impairment, through the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory, which is a partnership between Liverpool John Moores University, University of Liverpool and Lancaster University and part-funded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The second prototype about to be erected in the BRE innovation park on the Byrom Street campus at LJMU.

Current research explores Human-Computer Interaction and Building Simulation. The latter is used increasingly to reduce the environmental impacts of buildings at the design stage. Related work includes the application of design patterns and pattern language to the design of low energy buildings. Previous research has been on low environmental impact housing design, post disaster housing, climate change and building design, and the hygrothermal properties of ecological building materials. Dr. Tucker is a regular reviewer for peer reviewed journals and conferences. Bleil de Souza, C., and Tucker, S. (2020). ‘Inserting Occupant Behaviour Models within the Workflow of Practitioners: A Practice-Based Perspective.’ ANNEX 79: 5th International Symposium on Occupant Behavior, Southampton University, UK. Hudson, J., Perysinaki, A-M., Tucker, S. (2019). ‘Architecture and Technology: Towards an Integrated Teaching Delivery.’ Presentation at Technical Studies in Architecture seminar, 13 September, Loughborough University, UK.

A monograph on F. X. Velarde for the Twentieth Century Society is due to be published by Heritage England in October 2020. Extensively illustrated with archive material and new photographs of his significant projects commissioned from Heritage England, this will be the first comprehensive catalogue and exploration of Velarde’s work. New research includes a book chapter on the early works of Dewi-Prys Thomas, edited by Alan Powers and published by Cardiff University Press in association with the Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust. This chapter explores the designs for a number of significant private houses on Merseyside, including, Cedarwood completed in 1960 and winner of the Woman’s Journal house of the year. This house was seen as a model for a new domestic architecture for a bourgeoning postwar middle class.

Ian was an invited judge for the RIBA President’s Awards for Research in August 2019 and he is currently engaged in the coordination of the RIBA Research Matters 2020 conference, to be co-hosted in Liverpool this year.

The Architecture of the Wirral, a comprehensive exploration of the architectural highlights of the Wirral peninsula, co-authored with Professor Iain Jackson from Liverpool University, due to be published by Liverpool University Press in 2021. Crompton, A. and Wilkinson, D. (2019). ‘F. X. Velarde, an English Expressionist.’ The Journal of Architecture 24 (3): 325-339. Wilkinson, D. (2019). ‘Civic Architecture and the Municipal Estate.’ Journal of Civic Architecture 4: 72-75.

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June 2019 Rev B Architecture Programmes, Liverpool School of Art & Design, John Lennon Art & Design Building Duckinfield Street Liverpool, L3 5RD

This catalogue celebrates the work of our BA(Hons) Architecture and Master of Architecture programmes over the 2019-2020 academic year.

Architecture Programmes, Liverpool School of Art & Design, John Lennon Art & Design Building Duckinfield Street Liverpool, L3 5RD