Design Realisation

Module Coordinators: Pedro Gil-Quintero, Stefan Lengen

Design Realisation provides an opportunity for all Year 4 Architecture MArch students to consider how buildings are designed, constructed and delivered. It provides a framework to facilitate experimentation in the design of buildings, and encourages the interrogation and disruption of technical ideas and principles. Students propose their ideas at a variety of scales and represent them using drawings, diagrams, animations, physical models and 3D digital models. They are encouraged to take risks in their design thinking and strategy. The module bridges the worlds of academia and practice, engaging with many renowned design practices and consultancies. A dedicated practice-based architect, structural engineer and environmental engineer support each design unit, working individually with students to develop their work throughout the module. This unprecedented year generated a magnificent range of projects that test, explore and innovate across a wide spectrum of principles and mediums. Students embraced the challenges of online learning and produced an array of innovative work that pushes the boundaries of technical and professional practice disciplines. Projects include inventive structural systems, environmental strategies, buildings for challenging sites, community engagement proposals, infrastructural projects and entrepreneurial proposals, to name but a few.

Thanks to our structural consultants Atelier Ten and Max Fordham who have worked with individual students to realise their projects; Sal Wilson, environmental consultant to all design units; and to our practice tutors for their remarkable commitment and dedication.

Lecturers Matthew Barnett Howland, Klaus Bollinger, Nat Chard, Fenella Collingridge, Robin Cross, Jenna De Leon, Pedro Gil-Quintero, Jan Güell, Jan Kattein, Stefan Lengen, Ho-Yin Ng, Hareth Pochee, Alistair Shaw, Gordon Talbot, Jose Torero Cullen, Bob Treadwell, Emmanuel Vercruysse, Mark West, Rae Whittow-Williams, Oliver Wilton

Practice Tutors PG10 Jonathan Kaminsky (Hawkins\Brown) PG11 Rhys Cannon (Gruff Architects) PG12 James Hampton (New Makers Bureau) PG13 Nick Wood (How About Studio) PG14 Jakub Klaska (The Bartlett, UCL) PG15 Martin Sagar PG16 Will Jefferies (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) PG17 James Daykin (Daykin Marshall Studio) PG18 Robert Haworth (Lineworks Architects), Anna Woodeson (LTS Architects) PG20 David Edwards (Dave Edwards Design Ltd) PG21 Tom Holberton (The Bartlett, UCL) PG22 Gonzalo Coello de Portugal (Binom Architects) PG24 Kairo Baden-Powell (WilkinsonEyre) PG25 Jerry Tate (Tate Harmer)

Image: Hannah Anderson, PG25, ’Brills Lane Hotel, Brighton’. The research explores an architecture of negotiated awareness; heightening one’s sensitivity to another’s presence in space. Taking form as a Hotel on Brighton’s seafront, the project uses fabric to investigate the frontstage/backstage relationship between guests and staff – creating a curious spatial mediation between them.