Architecture Programmes Review 2019

Architecture 2019 BA(Hons) Architecture & Master of Architecture Projects Review

Architecture 2019 BA(Hons) Architecture & Master of Architecture Projects Review

CONTENTS Introduction 1 BA(Hons) Architecture

3 First Year Second Year Third Year Master of Architecture

77 Urban Design One Housing Urban Design Two Thesis Project

External Engagement Live Projects Events Research

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INTRODUCTION It is never possible to capture within so few pages the full vibrancy of the Architecture subject area 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 academic year.

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.

This year we have invested heavily to enhance our digital visualisation, fabrication, and presentation facilities. We have opened a new x-gallery for the immersive experience of art and design that houses state of the art virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. We have also expanded our FabLab with additional 3d print, laser and cnc shaping capabilities and with new haptic response modelling hardware. We have also introduced digital review technologies into both our undergraduate and post graduate studios.

Last September we graduated the first cohort from our BSc(Hons) Architecture programme in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology. This September we commence the first year of our new BA(Hons) Interior Architecture programme. This exciting new programme will explore the creative adaptation, repurposing, remodelling, rebranding, restyling and refitting of existing buildings. In September we will also take the first cohorts into our new foundation pathways for Architecture and Interior Architecture. We are currently in the process of validating a new MSc Architecture programme in Sri Lanka with a specialism in architectural heritage & contemporary tropical architecture. We hope also to validate an Architect Degree Apprenticeship programme for commencement this September offering an alternative route to ARB/ RIBA Parts 2 & 3 accreditation.

I would like to thank the guest tutors and critics that play such a vital role enriching our studio culture. I also thank our Student Architecture Society for continuing to organise such a rich variety of guest lectures and social events.

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, Architecture & Urban Design Programmes Leader, May 2019

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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, Ed Butler, Ming Chung, Mark Doyle, Dan Gibson, David Heathcote, Peter Horrocks, Joanne Hudson, Caspar Jones, Davide Landi, Philip Lo, Robert MacDonald, Anthony Malone, Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki, Jamie Scott, Charlie Smith, Simon Tucker

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FIRST YEAR The First Year Programme endeavours to introduce to the student the fundamental skills necessary to begin engaging in her or his architectural education.

The task requires a synthesis between objective and haptic skills to be able to represent ideas via drawings and other media. This process is fundamental towards the instillation of research feeding the students’ curiosity and interpretative faculties in their exploration of the year’s thematic concerns: Light, Space and Form.

In order to nurture these skills, students are encouraged to learn, practice and conduct hand-drawing and physical model-making as a necessary means to immerse themselves in the design process.

Dedicated studio workshops run in parallel to studio tutorials to support this ambition.

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THE ANATOMY OF BUILDINGS ARCHIFILM In The Anatomy of Buildings, students undertook their studies in small groups and concluded with work that demonstrates their research, analysis and understanding of a seminal building through drawings and model-making.

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 design project: Archifilm. Students were asked to firstly investigate three fundamental architectural conditions: obelisk, enclosure and aedicule by resorting to a kit of parts: columns / beams, planes, (walls and floors) ramps and stair elements.

This initial stage served to further their enquiry through thematic interpretations for a Lyrical Playhouse / Memorial Folly. These open typologies motivated students to explore places (space making) whilst devising their own narratives from a number of cinematographic viewings.

Explorations were conducted with the aid of photography and film making techniques.

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Catrin Davies | Andras Jona

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A PLACE FOR CRAFTING

The second semester project, A Place for Crafting, is marked by the extending of students’ personal research in the orientation of their projects. Interpretations of crafting culture and related working environments are the research starting points here . Students evolve a variety of distinctive priorities for their proposed buildings.

Balancing the demands of a craft related functional programme is also coupled with an analysis of conditional opportunities at the Liverpool street corner sites given for the project. This layering of architectural dimensions brings with it an initiation into choices of construction and tectonic logic and these are further qualified in a structural assessment and through studies of interior 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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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.

Students are introduced to principles of design at this scale through lectures, studio workshops, the Workshop Abroad to The Netherlands, and detailed studies of the urban context. The site for the students’ urban strategies 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, the students worked in small groups, which reinforces the importance of collaboration in the design process. Initially they researched and analysed the area of investigation, and then proposed an urban strategy for the site. Emphasis was placed on thoughtful consideration and articulation of massing in three dimensions, so as to define 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. The groups sought to present a coherent vision based on clear thematic principles.

The groups could determine themselves which part of the Fabric District their strategy would cover.

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. Students were encouraged to explore how their designs would be experienced by those who move through them, via eye-level studies, propose how people would meaningfully occupy those places over time, and to appraise their sustainability in a myriad of ways.

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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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CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM Climate change, directly resulting from emissions generated by human activity, is now unequivocal. It is predicted that the result of continued non-action will be catastrophic as large parts of the Earth become increasingly uninhabitable. Fundamental to the cause of climate change activism is the potential impact on future generations. The coastal location of Liverpool means the city is effectively on the “front line” of climate change as it would be profoundly affected by any significant future rise in sea levels. The Liverpool Centre for Climate Change Activism will be internationally recognised and ensure the city has a facility that is well placed to engage with and contribute significantly to the cause. Students were encouraged to consider the importance of humanity and the role of people in activism against climate change.

Tutor; Dan Gibson ELEMENTS AND ENERGIES This project initiated design inspired by the natural world, 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, fire, and aether. The Chinese system saw the world as composed of energies or transitions. These systems and others like them developed into forms such as alchemy, incorporating mythological and psychological aspects, and eventually into modern science where we now tend to see them through the lenses of science and technology. Elements and energies may also be perceived aesthetically, 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 the starting point for the design of a building. Tutor; Simon Tucker LIVERPOOL LIVE LOUNGE This project aimed to develop a distinctive ‘live lounge’ in Liverpool as a centre of live popular music performances that are extensively promoted through digital dissemination.

The designed spaces were intended to realign real and reproductive processes in a mutually beneficial strategy where there is an enhancing of one by the other in a cyclical manner generating unique experiences from both to generate a dense architectural experience capable of adapting to rapidly changing social conditions. The live lounge was intended to be a public live themed music venue where the performances are recorded and may be distributed live on radio and or uploaded to the web for later perusal. Tutor; Gary Brown NORTH WEST SCREEN PRINT ARCHIVE NW:SPA This project proposal was for a building to house the North West Screen Print Archive (NW.SPA). Such a resource does not currently exist. This proposed architectural intervention will allow the archive a physical presence in the city of Liverpool, so becoming a further element in the cities ever changing cultural landscape. The project was two-fold; whilst one element of the interventions focused on an archive – documenting the North West’s screen print legacy – students were also asked to consider the present and future of screen print within the city, its practice and (re) presentation. The project unfolded via the consideration of seemingly contradictory programmatic elements an archive and an event space. Tutor; Jo Hudson 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.

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CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

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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 around lake Windermere, in one of three different locations around the southern end of the lake; Fell Foot, Gummer’s How or alongside the River Leven.

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?

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Members of the public and school groups gather here to find educational information facts about flood and weather.It also house art installation inspired by flood. The exhibition space would be sacrificed by flood water in case of heavy rainfall.

L a b o r a t o r y A curved building emphasizes the perspective view of the lake. The building is excavated into the ground, when visitors looks down west view they would have a view of the lake but when they look on the opposite side there would be small windows up the wall showing the top of the ground.

Outdoor A mphitheatre The amphitheater provides a demonstration and learning space for visitors. It will also help educators to understand how to use such spaces to its full potential and engage students in cross-curricular active outside.

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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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BREXIT IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINT FOR LIVERPOOL In ancient Greece, open gates were a symbol of power, demonstrating confidence and strength, usually related to financial prosperity. Later, the erection of walls to define the limits of spatial and political authority was realised in a porous way. Today, borders, often loaded with socio-political realities, become spatial manifestations of division. Inspired by the recent political events in Great Britain, this project entitled Border Architectures is to design an immigration checkpoint.

Interpreting the notion of border, this brief explores its spatial repercussions and manifestations, as well as its potential as a social/cultural interface.

In architecture, borders are a sort of a typological category reflecting on how architectural effects are distributed geographically and politically, and how they spatially manifest boundaries in the form of edges (or thresholds), margins, zones, points, and lines, regulated by rules of access and movement.

The borders can be designed as defence/protection mechanisms characterising either what surrounds a building, such as a fence or a railing, or the nature of the building itself, such as a prison, an embassy, an immigration check point‌ Unravelling the thorny, multifaceted nature of conflict embodied within a politically polarising architecture feature -the border-, Brexit Checkpoint is imagined as one of the immigration control points. Located at Liverpool Docks, it is a crossing point between immigrants to (and from) Liverpool. As a programme, an immigration control point includes offices, waiting areas, control cubicles, recreational facilities, etc. Other than such programmes, the intention here is to think of the checkpoint not only as a control line but also as a space of opportunity: how can the border be explored as a spatial condition as well as a social/cultural interface? In other words, how could the design embed humanitarian considerations in a project defined fundamentally by separation?

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FABRIC

A programme of use is inherent to any architectural proposition, yet the design response can be ergonomic rather than explicitly metaphorical, and architecture need not seek out symbolism. In this regard it notable that some buildings completely change their use, and yet remain good pieces of architecture. That a building can change in time challenges the value of certain approaches to design. Buildings which persist in time may contain spaces (rooms) which benefit from well considered proportions, control of daylight and acoustics and are consequently well suited to a wide variety of different human occupations. These essential qualities of built fabric are worthy of careful study. The continuity of such buildings make them fundamentally sustainable. What does this then leave for creative exploration?

A respect and understanding of local historic architecture and built fabric, an understanding of phenomenology; “the poetics of space�, and the tectonic potential of architectural construction underpin this design project. The project site was the Fabric District, in central Liverpool, and students developed their own programme of use in response to the recently published Vision Document for the neighbourhood.

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FASHION AND PERFORMANCE

We are chameleons simulating image and consequently mood and reaction through the images we adopt as outer skins.

Clothes are one of the oldest examples of an applied artifice as sign, and the reasoning behind why we wear clothes embraces every aspect of human behaviour. Skin confers no social status, it’s an egalitarian uniform which we seek to negate as soon as possible. Clothes are fixed, they’re the essential cultural covering which varies with local conditions, fashion is the modish changing with emotions and seasons. The aim of the urban fashion and performance programme is to combine the creative use activities of fashion, music and performance, as a gravitational counterpoint to influence urban space.

The fashion house is the primer and anchor of this urban hybrid combining these creative activities. Each student selected and researched an avant-garde fashion designer and their relationship to the fashion design industry in order to design a fashion house around an interpretation of his / her creative work. Fashion is a high profile commercial business, as such the architecture should relate to and promote the ethos of the fashion brand. Fashion house activities may include, reception; conference room & show room; admin offices for buyers, sales and media staff, samples room; design studios; head designers room; cutting room; stock room etc. This anchor function was combined with a contemporary retail fashion outlet, a music bar and an urban catwalk performance area.

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NORTHERN POWERHOUSE ASSEMBLY In 2014, the Government officially cited the concept of the Northern Powerhouse - a proposal to boost growth across the North, particularly in the “core cities� of Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. This brief proposed an assembly building for the Northern Powerhouse. The objective was to create spaces that act collectively to provide a place for gathering, celebrating and governing for (and potentially by) the people within the regions of the North. Over recent years, there has been a significant number of upheavals in the political landscape. These events are oft-cited as reactions against the political contexts in which they occurred, and also provide context for the project.

The brief called for a civic place, for and of the people it serves, and that engages in dialogues with the public in meaningful and multifarious ways. Such a place should facilitate and be symbolic of greater independence and control, of leveraging autonomy away from the current South-East-centric focus. Potential themes to be explored conceptually and architecturally were proposed: power; devolution; agora; forum; transparency; democracy; debate; independence; revolution. Four sites in Manchester were suggested, which the students appraised to identify their preferred project location.

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(RE)MAKING + (RE)CONNECTING

The North has historically been shaped by the acts of invention and making. The First Industrial Revolution (1.0) harnessed these acts, transforming urban, rural and social landscapes with new connections, mechanisation, and ultimately massproduction.

Canals and rivers were instrumental in enabling this transformation as they connected people, places, markets, and formed critical trade routes, along which new towns grew and cities expanded. The Leeds Liverpool was a key route for the expanding port.

Now, the Internet and new digital tools are facilitating a new Industrial Revolution (4.0). As digital sharing, manufacturing technologies, and the Maker Movement develop, the way goods and services are made and distributed is being re-drawn, without the hierarchies of the past – Resonating with Walter Gropius’ vision for the Bauhaus as ‘a new guild of craftsmen, without class distinctions’ Similarly, the once industrial waterways can be (re)purposed to again act as conduits: Now, for ideas, new technologies, movement, culture, and living. They provide the setting and context for this project.

This brief asked how the creative energy of the past could be (re)established within a 21st Century context. Students were challenged to research, develop and design a new place of invention, making, and creativity, engaging with both the historical and social contexts of the site and city, locating their projects on sites along the canal in Bootle, north of central Liverpool.

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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 ‘live projects’ developing ideas for clients of 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 Stephen Bowe, Mark Doyle, Brian Hatton, Jo Hudson, Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki Jamie Scott, Su Stringfellow, Simon Tucker, Dominic Wilkinson, Ian Wroot

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URBAN DESIGN ONE

Elefsina is a town 18km north west of Athens, which will be European Capital of Culture 2021. This award, as it has elsewhere, is promoting debate about the future and instigating the transformation of this post-industrial town. The LJMU Masters programme is engaging with this discussion and the town’s waterfront was one of our urban design project sites this year. The situation in Elefsina is typical of a number of industrial port and urban areas in Greece, South-eastern Europe and the EU in general, and the intention of the urban design project was to question the co-existence of industry and urbanity. The waterfront is currently occupied by abnormal activities including active and former heavy industries such a cement works, a soap plant and paint factories, which were established in the last century with typical disregard for their environmental, spatial or social impact upon the town.

How to restore/reconvert/reunite this part of the city? More particularly, how could the currently disconnected parts that compose the waterfront be re-imagined as a whole? How could the different layers of the city coexist? And how could they relate to the rest of the city, which is currently turning its back to the sea?

In parallel Ellesmere Port, a similar sized town, is taken as the local urban design project, and it shares problems of industrialurban intersection with Elefsina. Here the large oil refinery and associated industrial uses dominate the coast, with the exception of the historical canal basin and its associated buildings. This area and significant other parts of the town are also isolated or dissected by transport infrastructure.

The first year of the Master of Architecture programme provides a comprehensive introduction to urban design topics, with modestly sized sites identified for project work. In Elefsina each of the three large industrial sites on the waterfront were project options, whilst in Ellesmere Port, the historic canal basin, a brownfield site adjacent to the railway station and a portion of the town’s civic centre were proposed as project sites.

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Scheme Plan Emma Fitzpatrick, Adam Williams, William Ekuban REDISCOVERING ELEUSIS Our urban design proposal began by identifying the main routes and axes through the site. After establishing the three main axes, we used these to define three significant zones, each one responding to its context. More specifically, we plan to add a new archaeological museum with a clear visual connection to the sanctuary of Eleusis, repurpose a derelict building on the site of Votrys to house an industrial museum, and develop a flagship maritime museum along the waterfront.

Our project aims to connect all of the surrounding sites of various influences (Titan, Kronos and the archaeological site) and celebrate the Sacred Way with the new museum, and to reinforce the ancient materiality of the area. We will put culture at the heart of the scheme by providing spaces for cultural exhibitions, both temporary and permanent, and by introducing permanent creative spaces for small businesses. Finally, we will introduce green spaces to reduce air pollution and create a higher quality of life for the people of Elefsina.

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James Blackburn, Adam Hardman, Loucas Anastasiou PORTFOLIO / james thomas blackburn ELEFSINA: KRONOS Upon visiting the Kronos Distillery in Elefsina, it was clear that some buildings are monumental and key to the city’s identity. This was a driving force in the design of a new educational hub. The reconnection of the site with the both the people of Elefsina and Europe is key in order to re-establish the area’s popularity.

Our manifesto is to redevelop distillery whilst ensuring that the site’s heritage is maintained. We have identified significant buildings and retained them within the proposed plan, changing their use to suit the next step in Elefsina’s future.

This has allowed the proposal to reflect the history of the site whilst creating innovative structures that both students and the community will inhabit. Taking account the site’s history and climatic conditions drove the design process, ensuring that spaces are proposed that suit their programme, fit with the people of the city, and respond to the local microclimate.

The campus will specialise in studies relating to the site’s proximity to the coast and Elefsina’s pollution crisis. Research developed at this campus could create awareness from other universities in Greece and Europe that will make Elefsina a key place for specialised marine research. Lastly, spaces will be created for the local community to host weekly markets in the public squares around Kronos. This will enable an influx of the Greek culture to be embedded in the Kronos site. In addition, developing residential accommodation for students and the local community in secondary phases will expand the development around the Kronos educational hub.

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Jake Chesworth, Charles de Borja, Oliver Moran ELEFSINA: GENERATING SPACES – BOHEMIA Elefsinas' art and culture is epitomised by the annual Aeschylia Festival, which takes place on the site of the Old Oil Mill. We aim to redevelop this area by celebrating the vibrancy and colour of the Festival, weaving new facilities and artistic disciplines into the growing creative fabric, and creating a stepping-stone for artists and creatives from all over the Attica region with facilities for creatives to live, learn, develop and exhibit their work.

We envisage the streets of Elefsina alive with creative activity, both night and day.

Through a more connected and holistic village atmosphere, people are encouraged to showcase their talents. We want to create a sense of bohemian living, where people can come to be part of the urban fabric and be inspired by activities around them, both as an artist and as a spectator. Using the Situationalists as a precedent and being sensitive to the existing fabric, we are proposing to ‘unlock’ the spaces that have been lost to the density of the city. Connected via a series of suggested routes, people are encouraged to dérive through the neighbourhoods, discovering new people, stories and experiences along the way.

We also plan to re-establish people's relationship with the waterfront. Lost to the city’s industrial development, the waterfront is a ghost town, littered with both active and inactive industries. In order to bring the waterfront back to life we propose to connect it to the urban fabric through a series of green spaces and esplanades, culminating in a redeveloped pier.

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Chun Ooi Chun Lin Ooi, Syahira Amir Hassan, Nur Abdul Aziz THE M.E.G.A PROJECT MAKE ELLESMERE PORT GREAT AGAIN! Our research into the history of Ellesmere Port, during the initiation of the M.E.G.A project, allowed us to delve deep into the roots of the issues that currently plague the town centre. With low demand and interest in its function, the town of Ellesmere Port needs to be reinvented to attract dwellers, entrepreneurs and investors. We learnt about the current social and economic conditions through visiting a key person, Mr Hollestelle, and researching local plans and strategic framework. Our aim is to make this project both as realistic and exciting as possible.

To address the lack of funding available, we propose a pragmatic and contextual approach, which enhances the appeal of the public realm. This will be achieved through three interlinked but discrete squares - for play, for gathering, and for trading. We also propose the introduction of zoning and the change of function for particular failing buildings. These schemes ultimately infer the densification of the town centre, and of increasing mixed-use. We aim to rebrand the town as modern, youthful and resilient, as well as incorporating a slow change of location of the high street from Whitby Road to Wellington Road.

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A fundamental aspect of the proposed development was based around four key aims. Overall, we looked to deliver a scheme that incorporated both the local residents’ needs, as well as increasing visitor numbers, to benefit the surrounding area economically. In order to do this, we set out to design a proposal that utilised key design elements to tackle current issues, with particular attention to the youth population of Ellesmere Port.

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Rosana Doseva, Hannah Faulkner, Rhiannon Graham ELLESMERE PORT: HISTORIC LINKS Ellesmere Port Canal is located on the southern shore of the Mersey estuary. The site has a long history, comprising of the original Shropshire Union Canal docks, locks and buildings dating from the late 18th century. The site boundaries include the Manchester Ship Canal to the northeast and the M53 to the south. Other principal points of interest in the area include The National Waterways Museum and Whitby Lighthouse.

The design proposal revolves around the notions of bringing back interest to the docks, providing better leisure facilities, outdoor activities, and a pleasant environment for both residents as well as tourists. With this in mind, the overbearing car use in the area will be addressed with a cycle scheme throughout as well as a general site pedestrianisation. The new central area will consist of a Water Sports Centre, craft workshops, and a local market, as well as restaurants, bars and a spa and leisure zone. An important quality of the site is its historic context, which currently is not well utilised. In order to nurture this heritage there will be workshops related to the National Waterways Museum and also the local market that will support the local independent businesses. Another aspect with high priority in this urban design development is the provision of open, green spaces in order to allow a break from the busy central zone, as well as more activities for people visiting the area.

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Liam Malone, Tsi Tsi Lee, Chyn The ELLESMERE PORT INTER-GENERATION LIVING Our urban proposal aims to create a sustainable living and learning hub through education, inter­generation living and social activities. The design project is split into two phases; the first will see the revitalization of the current site, and phase two will incorporate future development for the University Technical College, which will offer courses related to maritime and environmental studies.

The concept of inter-generation living is instigated through the mixing of two age groups, students and the elderly, into one creative scheme, by co-locating the retirement home and student accommodation together. Along with urban SITE PLAN farming and a technical workshop, this in turn facilitates two-way learning through transfer of skills and knowledge, as well as taking care of and supporting each other.

Furthermore, urban farming is not just part of the shared activities, it is also a source of food for the residents. It will encourage the residents to grow their own food, and at the same time it may lead to the growth of the local economy.

Demolition will be minimized during the revitalization of the site, as the existing building is being refurbished with adaptive re-use for new programs. The greenhouse is infill between the residential housing and the centre of the canal area. Transport and circulation proposals will enhance the provision for both cyclists and pedestrians.

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Mark Barlow, Liam Bowers, Muhammad Haziq A Kadir THE BLUE ROUTE OF ELLESMERE PORT Our proposal plans to change the face of Ellesmere Port by making a connection from Cheshire Oaks to the docks. The idea behind this is to form an actual connection that the area currently lacks. At present, the area is separated by the M53 motorway, which we plan to use to our advantage.

By utilising tunnels and bridges, as well as redeveloping the existing canal, we aim to bring people to and from Cheshire Oaks along a green route following the water. At the main ‘Hub’ of the site, we plan to make a place that people will be drawn to, and a new centre for the town providing all of the services and public spaces that the residents could want.

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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 four 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 a detailed physical model.

This year 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 the ease of 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.

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Can modularisation facilitate affordable custom design for mixed communities?

The government has stated that providing fair social housing is a priority and plans to build 250,000 homes by 2022. Liverpool City Council has set up a new ‘ethical’ housing company, ‘Foundations’ to build 10,000 new homes in the city on small to medium pockets of land that they own. Community Right to Build was introduced in the Localism Act of 1912, giving local organisations the right to bring forward small-scale community led developments, assisted by Local Authorities. The idiom ‘All mod cons’ refers to housing with all the all the best and most desirable features, coined in the 1960’s during the Habitat driven flat pack revolution that allowed a younger generation to explore new design ideas in their homes. Here the phrase is posited as provocation to look at the pitfalls and potentials of modular design with a critical eye. The intention is to investigate past and present innovations in modularised design and the opportunities these afford custom design for contemporary mixed communities to facilitate individuality, adaptability and affordability. Custom design is not necessarily self-build, but it should allow design solutions to be tailored to individual needs.

Two sites are suggested, one in Everton and the other nearby in Kirkdale. Both are pockets of land, too small to attract major house builder interest, adjacent to existing social housing, alongside a major arterial route into the city. Such sites are typical of a great many owned by the City Council which they wish to develop to address the needs outlined above and bring additional council tax revenues to the city by increasing density and variety.

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Creating new multi-functional districts The Urban Task Force report of 2000 chaired by Richard Rogers would for the first time stipulate minimum housing densities as part of a move towards a more sustainable urban form.

The higher densities envisaged in the Rogers Report would allow a reduction in the surface area required to house certain populations enabling ancillary facilities to be located closer together and enabling districts to be walkable for access to most activities. When coupled with adequate public transport provision this would make the wider city more efficient in land use and transportation and therefore more sustainable.

One criticism of the focus upon density is that it normally concentrates upon residential figures whilst failing to take into account other functions such as commerce and industry. In the post-war Modernist scenario, this was less critical, but, in the contemporary European city, heavy industries are removed from the urban areas, thus promoting an idea of density as a purely residential issue. This brief is about preparing designs that will utilise a mixture of housing types to achieve a medium density urban district located close to existing public transport nodes, whilst allowing for a diversity of functions that will include light industrial workshops.

Located on the edge of the Hamilton Square conservation area is an under-developed collection of light industrial warehouses and car parks centered on George Street. A number of sites have been identified by Wirral Borough Council for potential housing as part of the preparation of its new Local Plan. The proximity of excellent transport links and the town centre enables higher sustainable densities to be achieved than the small areas of local authority housing currently in the vicinity.

The brief asks to design a medium density residential district, capable of accommodating some light industrial workshops/ warehouses.

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What should housing be? Revisiting social housing in Liverpool With the state of housing across the EU considered ‘critical’, younger generations find it increasingly difficult to access home ownership, whilst simultaneously facing limited availability of social/affordable housing. At the same time, construction appears to be recovering at a slower pace than prices, and consequently, housing shortages are emerging more clearly, mainly in cities with a growing population. According to estimates from the Liverpool City Region Strategic Housing and Employment Land Market Assessment and the Liverpool Strategic Housing Market Assessment, Liverpool will need between 1,400 and 1,700 new homes per annum over the next 16 years to meet housing demand. Last April, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party proposed an ambitious new social housing initiative. Housing for the Many introduces the ambition to deliver affordable homes, suggesting that more land would be made available more cheaply via an English Sovereign Land Trust.

Often dealt as emergency aid for the most destitute, this brief challenges the potential of social housing as an ambitious longterm solution by revisiting housing models to respond to actual needs in order to accommodate and possibly generate new cultures of living. Within this framework, experimenting with intergenerational living could further benefit such a living model, socially, by stimulating learning for old and young, reducing age segregation and tackling social isolation and loneliness, as well as economically, by sharing facilities and skills.

This project is along Park Road, Toxteth, in close proximity to the Town Hall and the Reservoir and seeks 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.

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Creating affordable and enjoyable urbanity in English cities 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. England’s previous engagement with higher density development is mainly seen in Social Housing.

The first examples, primarily built between 1920 and 1980, were often disliked by society. Nevertheless, a number of more recent developments are examples of popular dense housing.

One commonality between all these successful housing developments is the quality of their architectural design, with their concern to create good places for people to live.

Taking the underlying issue of density, and looking at issues of transportation and amenity, this project option looks at sites alongside the Leeds Liverpool Canal and in close proximity to the Merseyrail station at Sandhills. 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 canal-side homes, which will shift perception of the neighbourhood.

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URBAN DESIGN TWO

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, heavy 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 other European port cities 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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KYKLOS; meaning ‘circle’ in Greek. Within Greek literature a narration of writing is structured to create a full cycle, where there’s a beginning there’s an end. The masterplan was constructed through vigorous analysis of the existing site condition to evaluate the opportunities and constraints surrounding the site. This was approached through urban design theorist Kevin Lynch’s five-point theory, considering paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks.

From the outset, the approach was to establish the existing landmarks and routes through the site combining key nodes and paths to express the infrastructure underlining Elefsina’s districts.

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OLIVE GROVE SQUARE Olive Grove Square has been given its name due to the central feature being the oil grove, designed as a monument to the previous use, the Olive Oil P ress. This central square spills out into the water front creating a central circulation space. Many of the buildings face onto this area creating the square and integration of various cultural activity. It is also a flexible space where exhibitions and sculptures can be frequently moved and replaced with features for the any event taking place here.

OLIVE GROVE SQUARE Olive Grove Square has been given its name due to the central feature being the oil grove, designed as a monument to the previous use, the Olive Oil P ress. This central square spills out into the water front creating a central circulation space. Many of the buildings face onto this area creating the square and integration of various cultural activity. It is also a flexible space where exhibitions and sculptures can be frequently moved and replaced with features for the any event taking place here.

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The project proposes an economic manifesto for Greece, and examines how this economic strategy would affect the design of the city. Greece initiates Universal Basic Income in 2018, where all citizens receive a basic income despite employment status or wealth. The project examines how this will shape the city’s development between now and 2050. Elefsina lacks a civic town centre, so a new one is created on the waterfront at the Kronos site, an abandoned distillery boasting a variety of beautiful listed buildings. By opening this characterful heritage site to the public for temporal events related to the EU City of Culture 2021, this sets in motion the development of the area. The new city centre is modelled on the ancient agora, the centre of the athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city.

This agora is founded on the exchange of goods and knowledge in an inclusive, communal space. The cities’ crafts and activities grow incapacity variety andactivities capacity through which are happening within.aYou The foundation of our concept is the for different human engagement. The incorporation of UBI can then decide to engage further by going to a dialogue participators and orthe general public.with evening class, experimenting hasamongst given people thethe extra time to participate in workshop activities outside of their daily working lives. This your new skill in the public eye or eventually taking The city is designed to be a catalyst for engagement, work-life balance allows people to spend time the hobby up as a personal venture. This idea of moving between the different states of engagement things that are meaningful to them, including inspiringdoingcreativity, political engagement, innovation and further education, finding a job they enjoy or simply allows for public mobility and creativity. Each and enterprise amongst every person has an opportunity to find a creative spending time with friendsits and citizens. family.

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The project explores the interaction of two contrasting A B of the city. Identifying and developing the opposing areas ends of the Acity, the proposal ties the currently unused C fringes back into the urban fabric of Elefsina. Tram and B cycle routes are introduced along the waterfront and C the historic railway line connecting these areas back into city. Tackling localised challenges, the Parkland project also identifies the associated problems on a regional scale connecting Elefsina to Athens and destinations around the Gulf. The proposed developments create a series of connected events which are strategically placed to start to tackle Elefsina’s current climate problems. Within Elefsina’s derelict fringe a series of green spaces are created which improve the social well-being of the city. The two main project sites adjacent to the town centre will form new zones of contrasting activity through the creation of a wetland area in the derelict river basin, and a mixed sports district in the Cropped Hills. They both address the need for green spaces within the city and offer places of activity for locals and tourists alike.

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Peter Gorton, Nathaniel Oladeji ELLESMERE PORT – FUTURE OF ENERGY The project aims to be a beacon for the future of energy, as the planet looks to find alternative sustainable and renewable forms of energy generation. It provides solutions to the question of the future of energy with bio fuels generated on site as part of a self-reliant urban village. The scheme consists of an anaerobic digestion facility and algae bio fuel plant generating methane (bio) gas, plus heat and electricity produced by waste digestion.

The plant will sell energy produced whilst also supplying power to the related building uses on site including; restaurants & event’s space, eco accommodation, bio fuel energy research facility and a teaching college.

The masterplan is focused on currently abandoned land, along with areas containing some light material processing plants. It preserves the existing rail line as a pleasant pathway winding its way through the development and linking new to old by providing a continuous route from the Ellesmere Port Lighthouse in the southern phase all the way through the botanical garden and commercial areas northwards to the new energy plants and research facilities.

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There remains a practical and commercial value of the existing oil refinery and the solution cannot be to remove the asset immediately. The proposal is to work with site analysis. existing oil refinery and adapt it over time to Existing produce a Isonometric Location Sketch of New Site more efficient hybrid biofuel system that will eventually be entirely green.

To resolve the wider issues an urban master plan will be implemented that will bring about a greener and far more efficient urban environment, founded upon greater density of housing provision, minimising travel distances and transport infrastructure, whilst also concentrating social and community service together more effectively.

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Aadil Khan ELLESMERE PORT: A THOUSAND GARDENS Ellesmere Port has been defined and supressed by its oil refinery and other local industrial processes, which have placed the local environment in turmoil, releasing harmful pollutants detrimental to our health, environment and ecology. The gardens are an attempt to tackle the pollutants in the environment and body simultaneously by promoting the use of urban farming. Urban farming not just as a means to produce food; but as a solution to end crude oil dependency, and promote the use of plant cells to neutralise pollutants, revamp our immune system and environment. The gardens invite a new form of residential living and working that is much more considerate of the health and wellbeing of the environment and people.

The project contains a central botanic garden enclosed by glasshouse structures nuturing various species of plants that can experienced by the public. In response to the levels of public health in Ellesmere Port, the design places a health clinic at the centre of the site. The design seeks to minimise vehicle use where possible and allow pedestrians priority with open public squares that allow social interaction and market spaces.

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The oldest road in Europe, dating from 1500BC connects the city of Athens with Elefsina. The epic journey was known as the Sacred Way. This was the route taken by a procession celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries The Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of Eleusis and were observed regularly from circa 1600BC - 392AD. The mysteries celebrated the story of Demeter and Persephone but it is unclear exactly what the mysterious ritual involved and to this day causes great controversy amongst historians.

The ritual was so important to the Greeks that, until the arrival of the Romans, The Sacred Way was the only road, in all of central Greece.

The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. Participants were freed from a fear of death through the recognition that they were immortal souls temporarily in mortal bodies. [4]

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Originally an industrial boom town, Elefsina has recently been left behind by an evolutionary industrial world with large portions of the town now deserted. Ship breaking is entrenched into Elefsina’s history, with numerous shipyards situated along the coastline, and a multitude of ship wrecks actively decaying & polluting the Gulf. It is proposed that the key to rejuvenating Elefsina is to enhance the existing ship breaking industry, introduce innovative industries that capitalise from its by-products and promote industrial tourism through the linking of green spaces and public realm to journey through the monopoly HEME BREAKDOWN of industries.

“The issue of ship recycling and what happens to vessels at the end of their lives has long been a thorn in the side of the industry. But now, moves are afoot that could radically change the situation, ..ship breaking yards are beginning to change for the better” The ambition for the project is to create two contrasting journeys in the macro and the micro; the active industrial journey and the industrial tourism journey. Active industry is encouraged, but in a controlled and sustainable manor, whilst the creation of an interesting journey - an odyssey - inspired by the sacred way, creates an industrial tourism experience. Connecting key axes and routes that link a series of green spaces each of which has its own complexities and stories to tell.

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Anith Marzuki, Lauren O’Gara, Mariam Said NARRATIVE AWAKENING: THE HYMN TO DEMETER Elefsina is threatened by pollution arising from industrial & harbour activities. Uncontrolled urbanization has resulted in limited public spaces & constrained public access to the city’s seafront. As a response, this project relocates the Titan Cement Factory (one of the main contributors of the city’s pollution & lack of seafront access) away from the city. This frees up prime seafront located on the edge of the city’s main cultural hubs that include the Contemporary Old Oil Mill Arts Centre, the archaeological site of Eleusis, the main commercial and shopping districts of the city. The approach is through the narrative of the very strong and well-known myth; The Hymn to Demeter, which was the catalyst in making Elefsina (then Eleusis) the most sacred town in Ancient Greece. By awakening this myth once again it will be the catalyst for the urban design strategy for the city. The strategy creates a network of interconnected, mutually beneficial communities to initiate further sustainable expansion. Unique districts of activity will surround the historic core, and each will contain a unique monthly activity to bring together further outlying settlements and the city centre.

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The proposal addresses the segregation caused by urban sprawl and the diffusion of an urban town centre.

Ellesmere Port is a town of many divides. Historically an industrial powerhouse and more recently an American retail experience, it’s population has declined within recent years along with the health and wellbeing of its residents.

The M53 highway and trainline cut through Ellesmere Port and thus act as a barrier between the town centre and the heritage of the canal waterfront area. Cheshire Oaks attracts traditional high street shoppers leaving the town centre underutilised and full of derelict land.

What is left is an ever-expanding sprawl of low-density residential housing, causing further isolation. In response to this, the proposal focuses on the reorganisation of this infrastructure, creating a less obstructed, pedestrian prioritised urban centre. The links created will be bolstered by a series of green corridors through the site providing clear links to the parkland already present. These new axial links that intersect Whitby Road will limit the flow of traffic and encourage walking and cycling through the site, reducing pollution. The proposed pedestrianised streets and densification will naturally encourage mixed-use in the buildings that make up this area which will contribute to resident’s wellbeing a feeling of connectivity. ‘‘Density and mixed-use creates urbanity.’’– Renzo Piano

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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 student’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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Eleri Barnett EUPHORIA: THE THEATRE THAT SHAPES PLACE This scheme enhances the initial proposed ‘Kyklos’ masterplan of a cultural quarter within the Old Olive Oil Press Factory, along the redeveloped waterfront of Elefsina, Greece. The city is known both as a sacred ancient city and a modern industrial town which has been honoured as the ‘European Capital of Culture 2021 - Transition to Euphoria’. The proposed new theatre and performing arts venue Euphoria has been designed through new interpretation of the conventional inward facing black box theatre exploring flexibility and adaptability to bleed the boundary between performance spaces and the outside world. The theatre’s infrastructure can be permanently flexible for an unknowable future and responsive to variability in scale, technology, and the evolving needs of artists. Flexible architectural components are designed to mimic theatre scenery by translating architecture into choreographed movement, the architecture becomes the performance.

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Gemma Copp AMATEUR ARTISANS Elefsina’s economy depends heavily upon mass production, where the work task is tailored to the machine and diminishing humanity to depressing and unpleasant labour as a result. The Thesis project intends to take a stance against this by celebrating the imagination and brainpower of human beings through the production of arts and crafts. It proposes a centre that shifts away from the typical factory typology, as we know it, focusing on the vision of William Morris’s socialist factory.

The project is based upon the ‘Prototype’ World’ that promotes the growth of the unprofessional through the provision of spaces that encourages the exchange of knowledge and ideas between artisan and the visiting public member. This is supported by the proposed public route that slices through the entire site with ‘pockets’ of programmatic elements that can change and adapt to its desired function. Working in conjunction with one another, the proposal honours the successes of the Arts and Craft movement as it was before the start of the New Informative age.

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Aidan Finlason THE GREEK SAILING INSTITUTE The site of the Greek Sailing Institute acts as the base for all sailing and national maritime events in Greece, facilitating the Greek ‘Americas Cup’ sailing team, local recreational sailing and national maritime gallery exhibitions. The institute is established to promote sailing as a national sport, but also to give the city of Elefsina a sense of local identity. The promotion of water sports in the Bay of Elefsina gives the community more means of achieving a healthy and active lifestyle Ahead of the ‘Greek Challenge’ sailing teams inaugural Americas Cup campaign. The institute is to be home to the national sailing team in the run up to the 2021 regatta and all future events. The collaboration of recreational ‘sailing schools’ and the national maritime exhibition spaces creates a community outreach programme, which will establish a local legacy in sailing, as well as, educating and inspiring the next generation of competitors.

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Robert Gibson TOWER OF WATER A hydroelectric pumper power station, sustainably serving the hills of Elefsina. Suspended on the sacred hill, spectators observe decades of industrial exploitation, restored into a lush recreational park. The eye is lead to an emerging beacon, partly restoring the once natural setting.

Beyond the turbulent surface, greeted by a heavy podium, human activity is ordered below the immense forces of nature. Before reaching out to the near lake, two journeys offer unique experiences, bringing the public closer to monster contained within. In turn facilitating accessibility for most demanding terrain, Elefsina Tower is home to the national white water association.

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Peter Gorton INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY The thought of becoming lonely at an elderly age, potentially not having friends, relatives or neighbour’s that visit you can be worrying for everyone of us. This intergenerational mixed-use housing community could be the answer, a cure for loneliness and social isolation. The design aims to create a community structured around a large garden courtyard, with interactive program and dynamic edges facilitating the formal and casual interactions of everyday life.

Eddie Gough RESCUED DEMOCRACY: A REINTERPRETATION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS The city of Elefsina, has been reimagined as a catalyst of engagement. The citizens which live there will be inspired by the activities around them and have means to delve into ventures that interest them. The new town hall will form a strong communal space and signify the ‘identity’ of the new town centre.

The process of which decisions are made has been reimagined, three debating chambers are assigned to different moments in the decision making process.

This process has been designed to address the ‘referendum’ problem, where hard, complex issues are simplified to a binary answer. Elefisna’s Civic Centre breaks with the traditional idea of one city hall building and one city hall square: instead, there will be a tapestry of squares, courtyards, and buildings at different scales, encouraging interaction among the citizens and municipal employees alike.

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Oliver Griffiths WORK, LIVE, EXPERIENCE; PROJECT NEXUS Work, Live, Experience was created with the idea of bringing communities together; young professionals, students, visitors, locals and families. The new train station is the centrepiece of the wider Ellesmere Port Development, a significant icon for the future of Ellesmere Port. This project not only focuses on its design objectives but what it means to design through approach and presentation. Virtual Reality research has played a large part in this project; a personal trial to see if Virtual Reality can be used by an architect to design, develop and present their work looking to the future of design and how technology connects people as well. This is the new Station; Project NEXUS.

Daniel Hales GENETIC ENGERGY Situated at the tip of the University Technical College the museum and office of genetic energy brings together the overarching concept of the scheme, the development of future energies. The aim of the proposed scheme is to integrate the public with the regulatory and educational bodies to influence the advancements in energy production technology through the use of genetically modified algae. The thesis explores the relationship between forced and accidental interaction with the aim of creating a more integrated future for energy technologies. This uses the spaces in between, the spaces where formal and informal interaction take place, being of more importance than the defined spaces.

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Stephanie Harrison A PLACE FOR DISPLACEMENT: THE POWER OF GASTRONOMY In 2017, there were 30.6 million new refugees associated with conflict, disasters brought about by climate change and epidemics. This magnitude of displacement puts pressure on important services and requires, time, money and a clear strategy on future planning. Why not embrace this? Using food as universal language and social events, cook it yourself kitchens will become very popular and will allow people to buy from local markets and using a ‘pick and mix’ system where vendors can sell their own produce this will result in fresh food being cooked daily and minimise waste for over purchasing.

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Josh Heale DEBATE, EDUCATE, LEGISLATE Covering more than 70% of our planet, oceans are the earth’s most valuable natural resource. Yet humans are bombarding them with pollution.

This is partially due to the reliance we have on the shipping industry for everyday goods. 90% of goods we buy are transported via ships.

The scheme seeks to bring together those responsible for the pollution of the ocean, those who campaign for its survival and the public. To encourage dialogue, to DEBATE and to EDUCATE on the issues that the ocean is facing through a series of exhibition spaces, lecture series and classes. The scheme encourages society to LEGISLATE towards a safer, cleaner ocean by bringing to justice those who’re responsible for environmental maritime crimes and proposing sensible solutions towards the survival of our precious oceans.

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Jessica Hughes REVIVAL THROUGH TRANSITION: THE PRACTICE OF MUSIC Elefsina has a rich ancient heritage but its more recent industrial history currently dominantes its once desirable coastline. These two periods of history co-exist and are a part of the communities heritage. This project strengthens this existing link between Ancient History and Modern History, the old and new old. Revival of these abandoned structures from the dual history is to happen in order to transition into the new, re-establishing these monuments.

The practice of music has a universal platform connecting all cultures, ages and gender together, therefore bringing a new identity to Elefsina and connecting into its rich existing heritage.

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Sarah Kassim HEALING & FAMILY LAW This project explores the possibilities for a nonconfrontational, non-hierarchical courthouse for family law. Incorporating a crèche, café and conservatory to dissolve formal spatial boundaries and functional orthodoxies the project seeks to reduce the adversarial aspects of a traditional court. Blending into the landscape through a series of terraces the boundary between inside and out is blurred as with the certainties of blame.

Denis Kolozali OFFICE FOR GLOBAL ALGAE INNOVATIONS To utilise and enhance the master plan the Bio-Tech HQ office building is built upon the foundations of the Bio-Initiative project and its innovative energy system. In this scenario the building will be regarded as a part of the last stage of the urban development. The building embraces modern and experimental algae based technology and research in the field of energy. The building is designed to serve as an greener alternative to current energy solutions in buildings. The HQ sits at the edge of the dock, at the heart of the three zones of Bio-Initiative development, connecting the three zones along the axis of the proposed algae bridge. A fraction of the building is designed to be accessible to the public showcasing the different applications of algae through its façades vertical routes and exhibition spaces.

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Aadil Khan THERAPEUTIC HEALING: THROUGH NATURE & RITUALS The therapeutic value of nature is not to be underestimated. The very surroundings intervene with one perception, which contributes in developing abstract emotions that influences mental and physical health.

The nature of the Health Centre is to seek a new approach to primary health care - a need to redesign – to signify it a place of health & well-being, prolonged life and leisure. A pharmaceutical primary healthcare centre that has therapeutic advances with the use of nature and its natural green landscape with a lakeside containing many exotic wildlife and creatures.

Its function spreads into the wilderness of the forest and lakeside and to the secularised pavilions from the main building. Like a heart – the building is – and its surrounding is all the arteries and veins that contribute to its life.

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Jack Manners DE-CONSTRUCTING THE SENSORIUM Ship breaking is a heavy and hazardous industry, abused by Western countries who often prioritise high scrap prices over the detriment of human life and the environment. The proposal creates three contrasting journeys; the ship breaking, the worker and the public. The journeys follow a new clean process within the current industrial coastline of Elefsina, allowing a relationship between the observer and the art of ship breaking along experimental nodes within an industrial setting.

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Anith Marzuki NARRATIVE AWAKENING: DEMETER ΛΕΩΦΌΡΟΣ (AVENUE) Demeter Avenue takes a fantastical approach of Greek Narrative “The Hymn of Demeter; Demeters arrives at home of King Celeus & Mataneira”. How can this be translated through the architecture of the city? The place is intended to be a flexible platform to show the creativity which leads to a fun environment. The program of the building is the typology of a small city. It consists of a series of events with a variety of spatial uniqueness on each level. The design transposes the characters of a horizontal city, with a multiplicity of land uses and complexity in their movement system, vertically.

The aim was to create an acceptable quality of urban life in the sky.

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Lauren O’Gara SCHOOL ON THE ACROPOLIS Built upon the sacred hill of Eleusis, Greece, Acropolis School is a 480-Pupil Pre-Primary to Lower Secondary School serving children aged 4-15. The existing topography of the hill is a significant element of the architectural design that has determined the placement of school buildings & landscapes in light of the different environmental needs children have at each stage of their development. Classrooms are designed to give greater flexibility to different teaching & learning styles and each has access to an outdoor space to enhance the schools curriculum. The ascension of the hill is a metaphor for growth with the pre-school located at the foot of the hill and the secondary school at its summit overlooking the Eleusinian gulf.

Nathaniel Oladeji SYNTHESIS BIO ENERGY FACILITY Synthesis Bio energy centre aims to facilitate the process of anaerobic digestion down under a controlled loop. With the growing demand for renewable energies, the digestion process provides an effective solution to the future of energy production. The facility located in a town known for numerous oil production related industry’s aims to be a solution for the future and bastion for change. As the user moves through the building, they are taken on an explanatory journey through the whole bio digestion process. Revealing key parts of the anaerobic digestion process and hoping to inform on the vital importance of seeing our waste as energy for the future.

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Benjamin Pond SKY’S EDGE: EXTREME SPORTS LANDSCAPE As an important part of Elefsina’s mythological and ancient history The Cropped Hills capture the imprint left from Titan Cement factory’s industrial excavation. This resulted in a vast limestone quarry, that has become a forgotten part of Elefsina’s historical landscape. Through a resilient restoration of the topography the hills can be transformed into an extreme sporting destination for locals, tourists and competitors, addressing the lack of activity and well-being within Elefsina. The scheme draws influences from the Ancient Greek Philosophers; Thales, Aristotle and Homer – exposing the role of architecture in redefining the relationship between; sport, the human mind and the landscape.

The project encompasses the practice and learning of; rock climbing, scuba diving and cliff diving. Once mastered, athletes can utilise these skills within the restored environment. By targeting the senses through each modality, the architecture will be responsive in its design by engaging people and positively impacting their journey throughout and within the monumental scheme.

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Nathan Reynolds SUPERBLOCK - RE-THINKING THE URBAN FABRIC Addressing the segregational divide caused by urban sprawl and the re-densification of an urban town center. This of a standard urban block is a flexible, sustainable mixed-use complex. The urban dynamic of the site is captured with a strong, modular character that is recognizable from all sides thanks to a strong three-dimensional grid.

This smart framework offers spatial flexibility that enables innovative programming of spaces. In this way, it accommodates diverse functions that can adapt and evolve over time. Interweaving and colliding different uses with a mix of commercial and social/domestic functions with the ground floor as the social heart of the complex.

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Mariam Said ELEUSIS SEED BANK AND BOTANICAL GARDEN An urban agricultural district that possesses Greece’s largest Seed Bank and Botanical Garden. This scheme introduces a large-scale urban farming programme to the city responding to the growing agricultural demand in the region. The scheme deploys a range of agricultural frameworks as a dynamic living laboratory for innovation, interaction and education as well as urban- friendly farming techniques for voluntary and community groups to participate in; this includes an interactive greenhouse, green walls, festival markets, seed planting, livestock breeding, harvesting and outdoor allotments.

A showcase for industry that helps reduce pollution and unhealthy living in Eleusis, supporting a sustainable network improving the quality of life for residents. This community gateway will house families whilst also reconnecting the surround communities through creative industries. This proposal allows for families to live and work in the same place within a community. This gateway building sits within a proposed business district which provides all the amenities for every day living.

James Taylor BOTANICAL LIBRARY A library/archive that will continue indefinitely to document any and all plant species - both physically and electronically. Until now, researchers who have wanted to study any plant specimen in any herbarium anywhere in the world have had to travel to the garden itself or request that a specimen be sent to the researcher on loan, resulting in wear and tear of the specimen, which can - in some cases - be hundreds of years old.

The botanic garden’s collection of specimens is an irreplaceable source of data for such current issues as climate change, loss of biodiversity, evolution, discovery and description of new species, agricultural development, and the impact of natural disasters.

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Akeem Taylor CITADEL AMALGAMATION, WORK, LIVE, EXPERIENCE: A NEW MODEL FOR HIGH-RISE LIVING Co-housing communities in vertically stacked villages connected through communal sky-parks. The feeling of safety is the fundamental human psyche required for making a dwelling into a home. This sounds simple yet the dimension of feeling safe is quite intricate. The feeling of safety involves two dimensions, 1) psychological safety, and 2) actual safety. At a certain time, one might feel secure even if in reality he or she is not, and vice versa.

Individually, each person possesses a different cognitive bias and heuristics.

A person’s experience can create different levels of safety concerns and multiple models of reactions to threats meanwhile the environments of home and neighbourhood are also jigsaw pieces of his or her cognition. These considerations inform the project.

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Aaron Williams, PARK BAZAAR This thesis seeks to challenge the conventional supermarket model, synonymous with urban sprawl and car use, and create an adaptation suited to the compact walk-able city of the future.

Internal arrangements are often lacking in natural light, disconnected from nature and provide little space for refuge or community. Here, the aim is to redirect the focus back to the needs of the user and their well-being.

Current retail trends highlight that the “weekly shop” is a habit in decline. Instead, consumers are opting for smaller “top-up” shops. As a frequently visited destination and route within the masterplan, this presents an opportunity to create an environment to tackle a variety of issues faced by the community, such as physical health, mental well-being and loneliness, as well as contributing to the local economy. These supplementary services will provide a convenient solution to a variety of needs at the heart of the community.

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This year we have continued to develop ‘Live Projects Liverpool’, our 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 as described by our RIBA validation.

Using the strong civic connections and external relationships of the LJMU Architecture Programme initial arrangements with genuine clients, outside of the university, were made by staff and then these live architectural projects were taken forward by final year student groups with the support of a link tutor.

This year the projects ranged in scale and ambition from interior spatial design through to large scale feasibility and planning tasks, but all shared 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 the commercial realities of private architectural practice, all the Liverpool Live Projects met the criteria of being for not-for-profit clients, who did not have access to architectural consultation by other means.

The projects, sitting within our Master students’ curriculum, had an initial 3 month duration and provided the clients with valuable design support, which otherwise would not have been afforded within the financial constraints of each specific situation.

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Crosby Library was built in 1968. A Civic Hall was added during the 1970s, but this addition has been mothballed, completely unused in recent years. Due to public sector austerity and changing public habits Sefton Council are rethinking their provision of library services.

Crosby Library is large, containing a general lending library, children’s, reference and local history sections, and the internal arrangement of these has been unchanged for a long time.

The client group, led by Andrew Farthing of Sefton Council, asked for a reappraisal of the use of space throughout the building, with an ambition of introducing new uses to the building to complement the library services, which will both invigorate it and generate other steams of income.

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was required with the disused civic hall and extensive car parking being a potential asset for the local authority.

The student group researched the history of this fully intact modernist building, and developed a clear vision for the library building and the wider site with the project culminating with the presentation of a comprehensive feasibility study and client report.

CROSBY LIBRARY Crosby Road North, Waterloo, Liverpool Project Clients Andrew Farthing, Sefton Council Lesley Davies, Sefton Council Kayleigh Beresford, Sefton Council LJMU Project Team Robert Gibson Stephanie Harrison Josh Heale Jessica Hughes Nathan Reynolds Dominic Wilkinson (Tutor)

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This independent music venue and gallery has brought a 140 year old pub, The Bull, back to life in North Liverpool. Located close to the Stanley Dock, within the Ten Streets district of the city, the venue contributes to the creative vision for the district set out in recent strategy documents published by the city council. Jake Florek and Emma Leaper own the building and run the Dumbulls. They approached LJMU to seek assistance with their project to further develop the historic pub into a more flexible venue.

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accessibility regulations drove the design decisions made with Jake and Emma by the LJMU team. The final outcome of the project was a set of drawings suitable for a full planning application, along with guidance on the client’s next necessary steps, prior to commencing construction. Having previously completed roof and wall repairs Drop the Dumbulls hope to commence construction of the new extension in the near future.

DROP THE DUMBULLS GALLERY Dublin Street, Vauxhall, Liverpool Project Clients Jake Florek Emma Leaper LJMU Project Team Peter Gorton Aadil Khan Nathaniel Oladeji Ben Pond Akeem Taylor Aaron Williams Jamie Scott (Tutor)

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Homegrown Collective are part of a ground up, community led transformation of the Oakfield Road High Street and connected green space, alongside their sister organisation Homebaked Co-operative Bakery & Community Land Trust.

The CLT are now looking to develop the houses adjacent to the bakery, and Homegrown Collective are working with them to develop one of these high street units. Their vision is for the production of fresh produce and the recycling of waste matter to create jobs, to create a place to sell local food products, and thereby to support the transformation of the high street and associated greenspace.

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an evening event space that will expand the currently limited night-time offer within the community. Additionally the design work included a design studio/work space, and for the expansion of the Collective’s existing hydroponics lab.

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The Royal Standard (TRS) is an artist-led gallery, studio complex and registered charity based in Liverpool. It is dedicated to fostering opportunities for emerging artists through providing affordable studio space, free public exhibitions, events and training. It supports artists with studio space, as well as having 5 project spaces and its own dedicated gallery based in Northern Lights.

The current arrangement of their premises within the Northern Lights building presents TRS with various pressing issues. The task for the LJMU project was to resolve these problems with design solutions and develop a procurement strategy such that TRS could implement the works in a fast and cost effective manner.

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Working with Artistic Directors Lucy and Ben, the student group developed 3 main design options for simply and effectively reconfiguring the internal arrangement of the studios, taking advantage of their existing but underused front door access. The proposals were presented by the LJMU project group at the TRS Christmas party, and the client are currently seeking small scale funding to progress the works.

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Our January exhibition presented the urban design proposals of our MArch Programme to a wider audience. Our presentation of propositions for Ellesmere Port coincided with the local authority considering the future of the town centre with their own master planning exercises, and we were pleased to welcome various council officers and their designers to both our final project reviews and public exhibition.

Following the study of Elefsina, contacts with their Capital of Culture team have also led to an invitation for representatives to visit Liverpool and inspect the project work with a view to exhibiting it in Greece.

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JULIA MIDGLEY

To celebrate ten years since the completion and opening of the John Lennon Art and Design Building, Senior Lecturer Philip Lo curated a retrospective exhibition of the artist Julia Midgely’s drawings and paintings produced during the construction of the building.

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THE POSSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE

At the point of transition between the completion of the Masters urban design projects and the commencement of students housing projects a double-header public lecture & discussion, ‘The Possibilities of Public Architecture’ was held. John Boughton, author of the well received and timely book ‘Municipal Dreams’, presented a concise and insightful history of social housing in the UK with particular reference to the role the City of Liverpool played in the development of high-quality public house building. This history was followed by Finn Williams, talking about the social enterprise he has established ‘Public Practice’. This is not-for-profit social enterprise with a mission to improve the quality and equality of everyday places by building the public sector’s capacity for proactive planning.

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St Andrew’s Gardens (1932-35), a surviving exemplar presented by John Boughton

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RESEARCH

Research in Architecture is embedded within the School of Art and Design’s ART LABS, which collectively offer contemporary and innovative approaches to professional research, practicebased research and advanced study. ART LABS is a collective network of artistic research and technologies laboratories, each with a team led by inspiring researchers; each specialist Lab pursues its specific research and develops research activities across ART LABS. A robust collaborative structure aims to support the work of individual researchers, research partnerships and research students.

Over half of the Architecture staff are research active. Taken collectively, their work encompasses a rich and diverse scope of subjects, 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 pedagogy and the student experience in creative programmes.

There is a deliberate strategy to interweave research and teaching within the programme, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This manifests both through how research informs teaching to inspire and nourish our students’ learning, but also how studio teaching and emergent project work can contribute to published research in a range of contemporary fields and problems 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. Some projects have also secured funding, including studies into both curriculum enhancement and the student experience.

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RESEARCH PROFILES

GARY BROWN

JOANNE HUDSON

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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.

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. Her 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.

Davide Landi is a PhD candidate at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. His research interests range from the ephemeral character of cities that the city’s recent digital turn emphasised; and the notion of architectural types in contemporary culture. The term culture refers to all the unselfconscious agents and challenges, which are latent in our contemporaneity such as an ageing population and dementia.

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’.

DAVID HEATHCOTE Dr. David Heathcote’s current research is focused on the international history of motorways, the architecture of South Yorkshire, the relationship between wartime industrial / military architecture and design, the development of Brutalist architecture and the study of art in situ as part of the education of Designers. He has published the books Autostrada Interstate: A History of Motorways and The Heritage Shell Guide to South Yorkshire, supported by Carnegie. The guide continues the work of Betjeman and Piper’s Shell County Guides. He is completing a paper on mid-20th Century Factory Architecture which has developed into a project entitled Unsung Modernists, about industrialists in East Anglia and their work on glues, aviation and prefabrication 1935-1956.

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 space-making where narrative, spatial exploration, materiality and lighting are synthesised.

Landi, D. and Smith, G. (2019). ‘The Implications of a New Paradigm of Care on the Built Environment. The Humanitas© Deventer Model. Innovative Practice’. Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 1-8.

Landi, D. (2018). ‘The Image of Hyper City’. International Journal for the Semiotic of Law. Special Issue: Cities as Ill Bodies, 1-16.

Landi, D. (2018). ‘“Open Typology” as Heterotopia: A Comparative Analysis between Gojikara Mura in Nagakute (Japan) and Humanitas in Deventer (Netherlands)’. The International Journal of Design in Society [online] 12 (3): 41-71.

Landi, D. (2018). ‘Towards New Architectural and Urban Typologies: Thinking, Making and Living as a Post Occupancy Evaluation Method’. In: Palti, I., Taylor-Hochberg A., (eds.) Conscious Cities Anthology 2018: Human-Centred Design, Science, and Technology. London: Conscious Cities Ltd. Landi, D. (2018). ‘The Hyper Reality Principles in the Age of the Post-Humanism: the Paradigm Post-Human Body Hyper City’. Presentation at 15th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference, 15 -17 November, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Landi, D. (2018). ‘Why “Heterotopias”?’. Presentation at 14th International Federation on Ageing Global Conference on Ageing, 8 -10 August, Toronto, Canada.

He curated and installed the exhibition for the artist Julia Midgley, who was commissioned to record through a period of a year, the construction of the John Lennon Art & Design Building. This resulted in 89 pieces of work which have now been donated to LJMU’s archive. This event culminated as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the building in December 2018.

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ROBERT MACDONALD

ALIKI-MYRTO PERYSINAKI

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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. The adaptable house conversion at The BRE Innovation Park was opened by Lord Best OBE, Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Housing & Care for Older People.

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, and the student experience in creative programmes; he is particularly interested in assessment and feedback, and the impact these have on students’ learning. This year he has undertaken a large-scale research project across both the undergraduate and postgraduate Architecture programmes, studying the different ways in which students use feedback on their coursework, and their preferred means through which to receive feedback. The aim of this work is to enhance the student experience relating to feedback, for it to give the best possible contribution toward their learning. This work has been accepted for presentation at three conferences over the summer. Last August Charlie was conferred as Reader in Creative Pedagogies, recognising his contribution to the field of learning and teaching. This year Charlie has also completed a research project on Liverpool’s libraries, studying how the transfer to community-managed status has affected library use, services and the wider network of provision across the region. With many libraries facing funding cuts and closure, and the increasing adoption of the community-managed library model, this is a highly relevant field of inquiry, with potential impact across society. This work will be published shortly in the journal Library Management.

Halsall, B. and MacDonald, R. (2015-19). Design for Dementia Volume 1 – A Guide, Liverpool: HLP. Halsall, B. and MacDonald, R. (2015-19). Design for Dementia Volume 2 – Research Publications, Liverpool: HLP. Halsall, B., MacDonald, R. and Landi, D. (2019). Design for Dementia Volume 3 – The International Dimension, Liverpool: HLP (Major RIBA Research Award).

Conferences: RITP Mental Health and Planning (2019), Architectural Design Recognition Award and Citation, DIMHN, (2019) Coventry International Arena.

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Perysinaki, A.-M. (2018). ‘Re-enchanting architecture. The impact of building and planning regulations on the design process’, in Mantziaras, P., Viganò, P. (eds), Urbanism of hope. Designing horizons of expectations/Urbanisme de l’espoir. Projeter des horizons d’attente, Genève: MētisPresses, pp. 75-89.

Perysinaki, A.-M. (2019). ‘5 minutes avant / 5 minutes before’, in Terrin, J-J, Couton, L. (cur.). Les cinq premières minutes/The first five minutes, exhibition and exhibition catalogue, ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, 31 January-14 March 2019.

Collective (Laboratory Architecture, Milieu, Paysage), Winning Research project Individuel dess(e)in- The future of detached housing in the inner suburbs of French cities facing the energy transition, ENSA Paris La Villette-AMP, third call for projects ‘Architecture of the XXth century, source for the sustainable city of the XXIst century’ (20162020), Ministère de la Culture, in collaboration with the Ministère de la transition écologique et solidaire, Ministère de la cohésion des territoires, L’union sociale pour l’habitat, La caisse des dépôts et consignations, L’ANRU - agence nationale de la rénovation urbaine.

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Smith, C. (2018). ‘Small Group Work: Dodging Potential Pitfalls to Reach the Pedagogic Possibilities.’ Innovations in Practice, 12(1): 12-16.

Smith, C. (2018). ‘Student Learning Through Feedback: The Value of Peer Review?’ Presentation at the International Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference: Transforming Feedback – Research and Development, 28 June, Manchester.

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 both studio teaching and lecturing.

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 conference papers.

Following Dominic Wilkinson’s exhibition of the entries from the 1960 Architectural Competition for the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, staged in 2017, Liverpool Biennial commissioned artist Ryan Gander to design an installation as a continuation of their 50th anniversary celebrations. His work, its connections with the architecture of the Cathedral and the previous exhibition were discussed in a debate held as part of the Biennial.

Dominic’s on-going research into the work of the prominent Liverpool church architect, F. X. Velarde, for the Twentieth Century Society, provided the material for an associated 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.

New research includes a book chapter for a publication on the life and work of Dewi-Prys Thomas, edited by Alan Powers. To be published

by Cardiff University Press in association with the Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust, this chapter explores his designs for a number of significant private houses on Merseyside. Working with Gerald Beech, his fellow tutor at Liverpool University, Thomas completed Cedarwood in 1960. 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 post-war middle class.

Cataloguing the buildings of architectural merit within the Wirral, the book The Architecture of the Wirral is to be published by Liverpool University Press, and is co-authored with Neil Jackson of Liverpool University.

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 in under construction in the BRE innovation park on the Byrom Street campus at LJMU. Ian presented a paper on ‘The Utilisation of Live Projects as a Vehicle for Delivering Management Practice and Law Content in Architecture Course Curricula’ at the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) international conference; learning through practice in April 2019 due for publication in June 2019. He was also an invited judge for the RIBA President’s Awards for Research in August 2019.

Bleil De Souza, C. and Tucker, S. (2019). Guest editorial: Special Issue on Building Performance Simulation and the User, Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 12: 243-245.

Webinar (2019): Session-2: ‘Building Performance Simulation and the User’ http://www.ibpsa.org/webinars/

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STUDY TOURS AMSTERDAM

The annual BA Workshop Abroad takes our students to Europe, and this year visited The Netherlands. Learning through studying buildings and urban spaces experientially is a fundamental part of our students’ architectural education, and the trip is structured to meaningfully inform concurrent studio project work. Based in Amsterdam, the itinerary took place over four days, and included two walking tours of the city, as well as excursions to both Rotterdam and Utrecht.

The Netherlands provided a rich combination of historic and contemporary design, of both architectural projects and urban spaces. The trip took place early in the first semester, so that on return to Liverpool these multi-faceted studies could directly inform the students’ studio project work, in which they were generating urban design proposals across a range of scales for the Fabric District of Liverpool.

Some of the Workshop’s highlights included: Rijksmuseum, EYE Filmmuseum, Silodam housing, Museum Het Ship, Openbare Bibliotheek, Stedelijk Museum, Kunsthal, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam’s Markthal, Utrecht University’s Educatorium, Minnaertgebouw, Library, Medical Faculty, and School of Economics and Management, City Theatre Utrecht, and Utrecht’s old town area.

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ATHENS & ELEFSINA

The location for this year’s MArch study trip was Athens and Elefsina. Whilst Elefsina was the focus of the urban design study, Athens was the base for the trip and visits were made to ancient and modern architectural sites, including the Acropolis and the huge Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (pictured below).

Our study of Elefsina is part of a programme of research which has brought together exemplars and lessons from cities around Europe. Sharing similar concerns to Liverpool, Porto, Marseille, Rotterdam Hamburg, Genoa, Gdansk and now Elefsina have all been studied.

This work, assembled over a number of years, now forms a valuable collection of comparative urban studies.

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ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY The school has an active student architectural society.

The society organises various events throughout the year that bring the whole student body together. This year there was a series of well attended nights out, bringing students from across the Programmes together. The society lecture series ‘Deviations’, included a diverse range of speakers from across the UK. This year’s Architecture Ball was held at the Bluecoat Chambers in central Liverpool.

Coming just a couple of days after the final submission of CDP and Thesis projects, it was a particularly well appreciated opportunity to celebrate the end of the academic year, and for some the completion of their studies.

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June 2019 Rev A 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 2018-2019 academic year.

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