2011 YEARBOOK
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY School of Architecture
ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO UNDERGRADUATE page 9 URBAN STUDIO page 10 VENICE / CAMBRIDGE page 32 PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIES page 62 CHANGE page 80
INTRODUCTION TO POSTGRADUATE page 100 ANGELUS NOVUS page 102 CRASH TEST page 108 URBAN STUDIO page 123 PRACTICE BASED page 132
INTRODUCTION
Leeds School of Architecture
BA(Hons)Architecture
We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilizing the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just.
Research is embodied in everything we do. This is research based on the practice of architecture where the deep understanding of situation underpins new work and new dialogues.
The following is a celebration of work from this years students. We hope that, through this book, you are able to share in their thoughts, ideas and designs.
Des Fagan RIBA March BArch
Course Leader BA(Hons) Architecture
URBAN STUDIO Simon Warren, Des Fagan, Simon North Aim>
Philosophy We believe that a sustainable approach to architecture is key. Our designs are influenced by the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ text be McDonough and Braungart We promote self build and real build projects for students to design and construct. We aim to propose ideas and designs that address the difficulties faced by Holbeck Site Holbeck is a district of Leeds just a few minutes walk from the City Centre. Holbeck was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Leeds, but has suffered significant decline. Since the 19th Century, many of the industrial buildings and warehouses have been demolished or fallen into disrepair. The district is now home to some of the highest rates of crime and social deprivation in the country.
SEMESTER ONE
Ashley Ball Urban Beauty> Disperse
Harvinder Mudhar Urban Beauty
Claire Burrell Holbeck Creative Arts Village
Sam Gilding Holbeck Regeneration
James Norton Holbeck Masterplan
Richard Laycock Holbeck Strategy
Chris Foster Holbeck Micro Brewery
Claire Burrell Creative Arts Village
Georgina Robson
Genenan Antoine Holbeck Garden Restaurant
Andrea Ghirawoo Leeds Southern School of Contemporary Dance
John Evans Holbeck Revitilisation Centre
Ashley Ball Speakers’ Corner and Discussion Forum
Harry Hewlett Holbeck Brewery and Beer Farm
Dan Calverley Poetic Cinema
Richard Laycock Production, Education, Community
Mimi Urban Dance Centre
Sam Gilding Holbeck Gallery
Aimie Griffiths
SEMESTER TWO
Jack Davey Holbeck Leisure Centre
Yuen Ngai Parking Meters
Joshua Boydell-Smith Old Chapel Live
Harvinder Mudhar, Raymond Soko, Zoltan Deak Weaving Holbeck to Leeds Through Sustainability & Health
Besnik Abdiu Holbeck Site Model
Zoltan Deak Scuba-diving Centre
Karl Braidwood Holbeck Regeneration
Mimi Holbeck Spa
Harvinder Mudhar Holbeck Health Spa
William Board Holbeck Spa
Andrew Bates Green Route
Andrew Bates Holbeck Spa
Joe Walton Holbeck Spa
Yue Zheng Cencept Models
Joshua Boydell-Smith Old Chapel Live
Rachael Branton Holbeck Urban Spa
Aimee Major Sensory Spa
Matthew Baker Holbeck Spa
VENICE & CAMBRIDGE Sarah Mills, Dennis Burr Aim>
Proposition This unit combined Level 2 and level 3 students. The intention of the unit was to study the processes of architecture through the media of art, poetry and music and to explore the possible relationship between a specific form and a resultant architectural form. Three themes were explored through the year; rising water levels, the ordinary within the extraordinary and the future of the map. Mapping was considered as a powerful and sometimes individual act, by editing out that which is thought of as unimportant, but also allowing for others reinterpretation. Sites A field trip was undertaken to Venice and an Urban Design Study was undertaken in three chosen areas of Venice. Sites were chosen in these areas by the students along with a choice of two briefs (Glass Blowing School or a Gondola Building School). A volumetric project was then set to look at the appropriateness of form in an urban context. In the second semester a project was set in Cambridge. A new map library was set to house an existing collection of historic and ordnance survey maps. A choice of three sites was provided, one on the flood plain near Darwin College, one near the Architecture School and one adjacent to the existing Main City Library. The Unit resisted the idea that libraries might be little more than a virtual experience and did not dwell on the justifications of programme but used the spatial possibilities it implied as an opportunity for design.
SEMESTER ONE
Trim Murati Venice Site Plan
Alex Warren Music Therapy Centre
James Bromley Site Study
Tom Booen Site Study
Benjamin Allan Venice Volumetrics
Chris Paraskos Masterplan Model
Trim Murati Gondola Making Process
Trim Murati Scale Model
Patrick Jervis Boat Building & Design School
William Board Venice
Alex Passey Rehabilitation Centre
Karl Lenton Venice
Karl Lenton Elevation
Lawrence Ferguson Venice
Tom Booen Volumetrics
SEMESTER TWO
Adam Fulton Library Study
Danny Patel Library Study
Tomos Cope Intuative Response
Trim Murati Intuative Response
Ashley Ball Development Work Catalogue
Antonia Frondella Cambridge Map Library
Vahagn Mkrtchyan Cambridge Map Library & Depository
Alex Warren Cambridge Map Library & Depository
Chris Newbold Cambridge Map Library & Depository
Nick Hart-Woods Cambridge Arts Library
Nick Higson Cambridge Arts Library
Amirreza Gostaryfard Cambridge Map Library
Adam Fulton Cambridge Map Library
Ashley Ball Cambridge Arts Library & Gallery at Kettles Yard
Gary Whitechurch Cambridge Arts Library
Ellie Archer Scale Model
Vahagn Mkrtchyan Interior
Chris Newbold Site Context
Karl Lenton Cambridge Map Library
Karl Lenton Map Library Interiors
PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIES Claire Hannibal, Lesley Millard, Aim>
Proposition We are interested in investigating the potential of post-industrial cityscapes, and this year has been spent exploring opportunities for experienced, remembered and imagined voids and edges. Our studio takes a contextual approach that explores layers and palimpsests and we are particularly interested in model making as a tool to investigate ideas and scale. Students have been challenged to create their own briefs through a critical reading and understanding of place – this year we have explored options as diverse as algae farms, stitch-and-bitch, spas and travelling theatre-scapes. Sites Semester One> Williamson tunnels, Liverpool Educational Space The eccentric millionaire Joseph Williamson created a labyrinth of tunnels in Edge Hill, Liverpool to provide employment opportunities to men returning from the Napoleonic War. A triumph of technology, this extensive network of tunnels provides the setting for the Educational Space project. In-depth analysis of both the site and wider context provided an understanding of local need and the identification of an appropriate educational space. ‘Space-changing devices’ were employed to generate a language that could initiate positive transformations. Semester Two> Newcastle Leisure City ‘It is estimated that leisure activities now account for 35 percent of our waking time, 9.7 percent of our personal consumption expenditures, and 6.9 percent of our GDP. In this world of flexible work hours, discount flights to all corners of the earth, and the ability to download almost every single movie, television show or song ever recorded, we have become a society of leisure aficionados and pleasure connoisseurs.’ The Why Factory The challenge was set to create a productive leisure industry.
SEMESTER ONE
Amy Featherstone Intuative Response
Lauren Connolly Intuative Response
Andreah Doherty Liverpool
Besnik Abdiu Williamson Tunnels
Hannah Cawthorne Edge Hill Rehabilitation Centre
Amanda Kenyon Williamson Tunnels
Amanda Kenyon Williamson Tunnels
Nixie Mae Edwards Williamson Tunnels
Andreah Doherty Site Section
Chris Newbold Centre For Digital Arts
Aaron Morris Williamson Tunnels
SEMESTER TWO
Amanda Kenyon Development Models
Kirsty Raine Gateshead
Hannah Braid Leisure City
Emily Dow Williamson Tunnels
Tom Eddison Honey Farm
Sarah Wardrope Williamson Tunnels
Dan Calverley Extreme Sport Restaurant
Sam Stalker Travelling Theatre
Genenan Antoine The Canny Brewery
Amanda Kenyon Final Model
PARKING/ CHANGE Keith Andrews, Dan Kelly Aim>
Proposition “Mutability is the epitaph of worlds Change alone is changeless People drop out of the history of a life as of a land Through their work or their influence remains� The Manchester Man G Linnaeus Banks 1876
SEMESTER ONE
Matt Grindey Hydrogen Fuel Cell Production & Research Centre
Joshua Boydell-Smith Paul Smith Autumn Winter Collection
Ron Graham
SEMESTER TWO
Harry Hewlett Runcorn Contaminants
Lee Salim Runcorn Disaster
Tom Rawson Mapping Constellations
Tim Smyrk Runcorn Disaster 2033
James Bromley Meat Slaughter
Benjamin Allan Runcorn Disaster
Ross Couper Automotive Education Centre
Nick Wright Leek
John Evans Runcorn Military Rehabilitation Centre
Patrick Jervis Bio-Steel Research & Development Centre
Tom Booen Leek Old Peoples Home
Jonny Wrynne Windermere
Harry Hewlett Runcorn
Ron Graham
POSTGRADUATE CONTEXT
The future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the challenge for the 21st Century Architect, to imagine not only the future, but to envision ways of getting there - from here. We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. Architecture is not only building to us, but a concretisation of the needs and dreams of the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series of interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to the building skin and the room itself. Our new approach is research based design. The Studio is unit-based allowing students to specialise within the frame of the RIBA/ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book based research but research by design.... This research is based on the practice of architecture; where the deep understanding of situation, underpins new work and new dialogues.. We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making either things or policy or methodologies. From the action research of our Urban Studio Unit, where real life community design projects are realised to the Abstract Machines Unit where parametric modeling allows the development of complex component driven facades, we engage with the possibilities created by new technologies and material. The Crash Test Unit engages with urban policy and sustainability in a creative way to produce closed cycles cities.
ANGELUS NOVUS Keith Andrews, Vernon Thomas Aim> Recycling/ Transformation/ Fabrication Strategies
Proposition Angelus Novus was a watercolour painted by Paul Klee in 1920. Walter Benjamin a philosopher owned the painting and saw it as depicting the ‘Angel of history’. With its face turned resolutely to the past, it perceives the future manifest as linear catastrophe, which keeps piling the avant-garde of the moment upon the established and known. The wreckage, of the one impacting on the other, measures our progression into the future. The proposition of the unit is to ask what constitutes redundancy and to speculate on various strategies and techniques of re-animation . There are three parallel strands of investigation: • The history, programme and cultural context of the original edifice. • The speculative development and testing of the new programs/scripts. • The nature, rational and techniques employed in the existing construction, the nature rational and techniques of the proposed intervention. Sites Year 01 (2009-10) The Units attentions were focused on the disused Holbeck Viaduct connecting the centre of Leeds to the suburbs Year 02, (2010-11) The Units interest focused on Wakefield & The Five Towns. The Unit generated research and proposals contributing to the Five Towns Regeneration, initiated by Yorkshire Forward and carried on by the municipal authorities and BEAM.
Chris Stow The Employment Line
Alex McCann Wakefield Craft Brewery
Richard Copperwheat Zeppelin Terminal
James Wakeling Is Cannabis The New Coal?
James Storey Moblie Music Centre
Catherine Gault Burberry Foundation Centre
Paul Stafford Wakefields obe(CITY)
Mark Crosby HariboLand
CRASH TEST Claire Hannibal, Des Fagan, Craig Stott Aim> Synergetic Urbanism
Proposition The Globalised City is a network of flows and interdependent landscapes. These landscapes are characterised by flows of global commodities, ideas and technologies. The networks these produce, if managed correctly, can produce life-enhancing synergies. Sites Through studying Stoke-On-Trent, Barrow-in-Furness and the area of South Leeds, the Crash Test Unit has developed a series of propositions designed to instigate Closed Loop Urbanism: Waste Equals Food.
Adam Leigh-Brown The Grange
Andrew Goodwin Cybernetic Subterfuge
Marcos Losada Marine Solutions
Claire Brooks-Stephenson Gyro Town
Louise Hartley Sensity: Emergent Media City
James Baron Up Project
Greg Fryman Algae L-Systems
Victoria Wood Endosymbiont
Laura Sherratt Preparations For The Inevitable
Lauren Mintoft Building Resilience
Philip Carter Make Power Not War
Patrick Helegwa Exer Tri City
Greg Blom Biocyclical Networks
Jonathan Pyle The Resilient Edge
Natalie Alice Hall Barrow’s Arc(ology)
William Inglis Libertarian Globalized Space
Andrew Jenkins An Industrial Evolution
Christopher Hartshorne Harvest From The Sea
Alastair Shelley The Information Archive
Morgan Grennan Aquatic (Re)Birth
Sally Porritt The Sustainable Sea
Sian Edwards Age Of Nostalgia
Matthew Wray Hybrid Ecologies
URBAN STUDIO Tony Rees, Simon Warren
Proposition “A ‘sustainable city’ is organised so as to enable all its citizens to meet their own needs and to enhance their well being without damaging the natural world or endangering the living conditions of other people, now or in the future...there will be no sustainable world without sustainable cities.” Herbert Girardet
Urban Studio investigated post-industrical cities in the North of England and looks at how they might be regenerated in the context of a global imperative for cities to become sustainable. Sites The main focus of study was the east coast city of Hull which has both natural resources and legacies from traditional industries that together provide the potential for regeneration and the sustainable development of the city and region. Urban Studio is also involved in ‘live’ programmes that implement the ethos of the Unit. One such current ‘live’ project is in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti, with the design and development of a sustainable earthquake proof orphanage.
Mike Allan Bransholme Construction Skills Centre
Laura Crowther Living Memorial
Lucy Andersson Quayside Hostel & Watersports Centre
Jenna Cunningham Dive Dock: Hull
Thomas Stubley Longhill Longlife
Emma King Renewable Energy Port
Francesca Garland Plug and Play Centre
Sam Rawlings Siemens Academy
Ben Clare The Water_Culture Experience
Kristopher Jones A Global CO2nference
Martin Sutcliffe The Timber Yards
Dominic Husband Urban (re)connection
Daniel Goodson Society’s Ignored Population
PRACTICE BASED
The Part-Time Students have been working on self-directed projects, based on individual interests. The projects are all buildings in an Urban context, usually set in the town or city that the student is based.
Matt Quinn Beyond The Wall
Sarah Lunn The Music Project
Adam Graham Rehabilitation Facility
Emily Cain Childrens Therapy Centre
Neil Monk Preston City Hall
Daniel Pearce Daemon Innovation
ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011 Designed by Ashley Ball