University of Bath Architecture Annual 2019 by Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

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Foreword The 2019 Bath Annual is not only a testament to the creativity and dedication of our students – what Peter Zumthor calls “craft + graft” – but also to the tremendous spirit required to put this volume together at the end of a draining degree year. We’ve always believed that a sure sign of a healthy school of architecture is the amount of student-led activities. These activities we have in abundance here at Bath, and now in its 8th year, this student production again showcases design work that is purposeful, skilfully made, and delightful – just good architecture. This was our third academic year in our ‘new’ building – 4ES. The current 4th year cohort are the last to have experienced the ‘joy’ of 1st year in the old 4E studios and perhaps as a consequence ensconced themselves on level 4 studio of 4ES and made it their own. This was mainly manifest through a desire to plaster-cast themselves into place by using their own bodyweight in plaster and in some cases set fire to it! The BSc Degree Projects returned to Bath this year for the Basil Spence Joint Project and the students’ individual endeavours. The projects are often provocative, asking questions of existing physical and social patterns, and then forwarding propositions on how these can be improved, to enrich the site and beyond. The MArch Projects range far and wide, as usual, and reach from Reykjavik to Tbilisi – 5850km! This year, the Split group were asked to return to the city and present their proposals to the city planners resulting in Croatian local celebrity status after featuring in press coverage of their presentation. Both the 6th Year Masterplan Project and the 4th Year Basil Spence Project serve to showcase the results of the focus we place on teamwork within the department and this year the fruits of that effort have yet again borne bountiful fruit. This Annual is a celebration of the collective knowledge, aspiration and emotional intelligence of our students. Daniel Jang Wong Director of Studies BSc Architecture Matthew Wickens Director of Studies MArch

Contents First Year Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year Student Introduction

BSc Basil Spence 14 BSc Individual Projects Fifth Year

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Sixth Year MArch Masterplanning

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MArch Individual Projects

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BSc Architecture 1st Year

1st Year Poetic Pragmatism: 1st year is about four projects, acclimatising to University, thinking about what architecture can mean. Reciprocal The title of this year’s project was chosen to suggest a reliance between different parts of a design and design process – ‘a mutual correspondence’. The abstract sculptural intent was twinned with ‘real life’ technical resolution as part of an investigation into the art and craft of architecture. To this end it is organised as a joint project with engineering students and with groups typically comprising of two students from each of the disciplines - architecture and engineering, who literally construct their design. Instrument

Studio Co-ordinator: Martin Gledhill

This project developed the foundation skills inherent in project 1 and proposed the idea of designing a display enclosure for an object – in this case an unusual musical instrument from a well-known collection in Brussels. Students were asked to respond to the nature of the instrument almost as if it were a client. In order to simplify some of the constraints, the ‘cabinetto’ displaying the instrument was not exposed to the weather and was constructed from timber.

From top: Mimi Burt (Instrument), John Swiss (Instrument), Pearson Brown (Instrument) , Polina Pashonina (Cappella), Nuria Yagoubi, Mimi Barr, Matt Man Luke Perry, Ushara Dilrukshan (Reciprocal), Polina Pashonina (Cappella, Alexander Daniel (Cappella)

Cappella The project brief was in part psychological (and even theological). Supporting lectures explored how a space might express and evoke an emotional state and respond to a cultural position around belief systems (including atheism). The students were asked to conceive a meditative space which could be religious in nature if they chose, but equally, could be non-denominational or simply therapeutic. By offering this choice of programme in which the students could position themselves within a climate of multicultural inclusivity. The term Cappella alluded to both chapel and cape to suggest an interplay between concept and construction. Significant Others A series of recent exhibitions have examined the relationships between different artistic couples. This project extended that investigation into the role of architectural space in the evolution and expression of art and indeed in the relationship between a building’s avant-garde inhabitants. To this end each student chose one of nine artistic couples drawn broadly from the 19th and 20th centuries. Implicit in this investigation was the cultural issue of gender politics and the specific working environments of different artists including sculptors, painters and writers. The sloping canal side site was located within Bath on one of the ‘Walks Within the Walls’ authored by Peter Smithson. The purpose of this location was to encourage students to learn the lessons of Bath with Smithson as their guide and to see how physical context both at the level of locale and city as a whole, could inform their propositions. In summary, this final brief brought together ideas about Culture, Client, Context and Construction as architectural generators.

From top: Elliot Judd (Significant Others), John Swiss (Significant Others), Mimi Burt (Significant Others), Tanya Chiganze (Significant Others) 7

BSc Architecture 2nd Year

2nd Year Second Year Intent: Second year is about learning to design larger more complicated buildings. It is also about designing buildings ‘in context’, that is: Buildings that respond to or have been optimised for a given location. And as always it is about presenting the design clearly and with style. Analysis of the design and the site is the focus. In this way the act of designing a building is broken down into a myriad of smaller problems the solutions of which all contribute in making the final overall solution. So Second year is about ‘learning to ask the right questions’.

“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.” Carl Jung Second Year Projects: Project 1: A Muti-purpose Hall A Multi-purpose Hall is located on one of five sites on the University of Bath campus. Similar in typology to a Village Hall or Community Hub building this is essentially a large flexible main volume with storage for various clubs, a kitchen and a few ancillary spaces. GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Studio Co-ordinator: Dominic Taylor

It is the first time the students have tackled a building of non-domestic scale and as such an opportunity to explore various types of construction associated with a frame, be-it steel, concrete or timber.

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The students can pick the site they find the most interesting and design a building that sits well in the context, responding, among other things, to the materials, massing, fenestration and detailing or the adjacent buildings and the circulation routes through and around them.

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KEY 1. Entrance Foyer 2. Reception/Staff Room 3. Managers Office 4. Meeting/Interview Rooms 5. Treatment Room 6. Medical Waste Storage 7. Kitchen office 8. Storage 9. Cleaners 10. TV Room 11. Bin Storage 12. Plant Room 13. Kitchenette Areas 14. Books/Games Store 15. Fireplace 16. Chickens

From top: Amy Hickery (Multi-purpose Hall), Kevin Poon (Multi-purpose Hall), Aristides Mettas (Care Home) 21

INTERNAL PERSPECTIVE

Project 2: A Care Home for the Elderly An interesting and complex building type, one that needs to be secure and yet at the same time spill out into the outside spaces. Orientation in terms of views and sun path are key to creating a building filled with spaces that are bright and cheerful. This presents a more complex planning problem, with a good variety of sizes of spaces with plenty of repetition. This makes it a great vehicle for learning to plan various layout organisations; the courtyard or multiple courtyard arrangement both work particularly well. This time the students may choose one of three sites located in central Bath.

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. “You don’t invent the answer – you reveal the answer.” Jonas Salk

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From top: Charlotte Ward (Care Home), Cameron Lee (Care Home), Pierre Jerdak (Care Home)

BSc Architecture 3rd Year

3rd Year 3rd Year looks at the wide-ranging interpretations of culture and the architect’s response to them. This year’s projects in London (4-week joint group project with engineers), and Venice (8-week individual exercise) provided frameworks for students to explore situations where land meets water and its fragile liminal space. The social context was at the forefront of investigation, nicely linked to the notion of “Freespace”; manifesto of the 2018 Biennale Architettura in Venice. The 2 design projects gave students the scope to create intelligent, artistic, socially engaging and ecologically responsible environments. Project 1: Poplar, London After the provocative work done in the previous 2 years by our 3rd Year students, we were again invited back for a third collaboration to envision place-making by the award-winning Housing and Community Regeneration Association, Poplar HARCA. The brief was to design a contemporary landscape incorporating a pedestrian bridge traversing the Limehouse Cut, London’s oldest canal. The project is live, and devised to unlock pockets of the area and overcome existing barriers for human occupation.

Studio Co-ordinator: Daniel Wong

The primary objective was to design a footbridge, to be supported on both sides of the canal by four building programmes: educational, environmental, sport and small scale commercial development. The encouragement to our students to think broadly about culture and ideation resulted in a myriad of creative outcomes: from an artificial surfing venue, to a water-cleansing system as part of the bridge design, to a wildlife sanctuary.

From top: Group 37 (Poplar), Group 39 (Poplar), Group 30 (Poplar), Group 6 (Poplar)

Project 2: Venice, Italy For this project, students were asked to investigate how to keep locals in Venice, in the face of social disintegration caused by mass tourism. The brief focused on the re-creation in part of 7 dying “Campi” (Venetian squares), after (hypothetical) fires had destroyed particular buildings on each. The task of each student was to re-invigorate the social and commercial fabric within the campo, together with a boat-repair (gondola) workshop touching the water. The upper floors incorporated health and residential programmes appropriate to the physicalsocio-economic setting, chosen by the student. The year responded with creative propositions that were people-focused, recalling the rich history of the site, and expressing unique 21st century tectonic, structural and environmental agendas. This year, on our study trip to Venice, the University of Bath was one of over 50 international educational institutions who participated in Biennale Sessions: A Special Project dedicated to Universities and Academies. Our programme comprised of a group exercise named “Sketching 7 Journeys in 20 Meters”, a 20m black line tracing paper drawing describing their observation and interrogation of the city’s inherent morphology and grammatical structures – both physical and social – between 2 chosen Campi. A lecture (History of the Biennale + Introduction to Freespace) accompanied the workshop delivered by the senior Sessions lecturer, within the Arsenale of the Biennale.

From top: Harry Wyatt (Venice), Dafni Filippa (Venice)

The First Day During the first week of the academic year of 2015, a happy, bumbling cohort of 86 freshers gathered around the (then) crit room of 6E for our introductory lecture, ready to take our first steps into the creative, sleepless life of an architecture student. The hum of excitement quietened as Matthew presented a slide of two smiling people; Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, the RIBA Gold Medal Winners of 2015. Pointing at the picture, he said, “These are young architects,” followed by, “Architect’s don’t retire, they expire.” (25.09.15) The room was masked with our nervous laughter, but not quite enough to hide our faces filled with slight worry as we looked at each other – what have we gotten ourselves into? Truly – escape was never an option.

A Year in Review Fortunately, our graduating year group were not deterred by the seemingly ominous warning at the start of our careers, instead growing into the identifiable ‘calmness personified’ (ahhh, those halcyon days in 2017 – Daniel Wong) year group that is presented within these pages. This annual represents the return of Bath to Bath; however, don’t expect a book of beige stone buildings. Pushing the boundaries of what defines the city, the challenge was to reinterpret our superficial perception of a home which had become so familiar to us over these past 4 years. From Semester 1’s Stadium proposals to Semester 2’s Individual projects, these pages house a collection of challenges to the Bath cityscape; an equilibria between classic and contemporary. A conclusion to our beginnings, a temporary final chapter as extremely young architect(ural assistants). It is rare that a studio leader has overseen our work from the very beginning till the end; our thanks extends to Matthew Wickens for moulding (plaster pun intended) us in first year, framing a path, and helping us celebrate our experimentalism in our final year. Finally, to the graduating class of 2019, who I have had a pleasure to share the clutter of 4ES L4 studios with; To say the year started off smoothly would be untrue (our ‘Drowning in Bath’ project petition), but our worries slowly disappeared in the end, through the encouragement and empathy that we have shown each other over these past years. The diversity of projects and students within not only define our different personalities but reveal a social community of strong projects, and even stronger friendships. Let us reminisce in the hard, but good times before we go our separate ways. And on a final parting note, in the praising words of Dominic Taylor during our second year. DO NOT STOP. MAKE THIS YOUR MANTRA. BE THE HAPPY ONES. Congratulations, and remember whatever comes in your way, take it with a smile. We hope you enjoy this yearbook.

A Graduating 4th Year

Basil Spence 4th Year Group Project This year’s Basil Spence Project called for the students to predict the future, or perhaps just a bit more than is normally the case - it was set in 2038, when, most people hope, a new stadium will have been built for Bath Rugby at The Rec in the centre of the city by GRIMSHAW working with ARUP. The students’ brief asked them to complete this stadium by designing a new southern stand and the associated public realm and waterfront down to North Parade bridge. GRIMSHAW and ARUP were both intimately involved in the briefing and prize judging process and we would like to thank them for their close involvement and commitment to the project. We’d also like to thank Arena 1865 who are the real client body and also supported the project throughout. The winning proposal was a subtle, low-key proposition that managed to combine the necessities of match day traffic management with an ephemeral stand proposition that elegantly and lightly reconciled the multifarious competing demands of such a complex brief – it was a hard-won simplicity and it won! Matthew Wickens

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Runners Up:

Group 19: Lucie Castillo-Ros Jack Hodkinson Dominic Wong Holly Merritt-Webster Rory Roberts

Group 29: Matthew Roberts William Rook Jason Kyle Sim Dominic Blythe Joanna Hedley-Smith

Group 5: James Anderson Rebecca Gardner Charlotte Pires Honoury Cheung Suzanne Evans

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Group 1

Basil Spence

The Bath Making Hub Harriet Baldwin Sebastian Jaunzens Emma Naylor Wingkei Hoang Hana Nagui The Bath Making Hub will act as a vehicle to express the skilled craft and unique heritage of the city and its people. New accommodation will provide the community with modern and flexible facilities, which shall enhance the local area and encourage the storytelling of skills across all walks of life. The scheme aims to develop upon the existing infrastructure of the city, building upon the rich history of leisure and wellbeing, whilst inviting local schools of cooking and brewing to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary work space. The proposed design engages with both the surrounding cityscape and farmland, celebrating the produce grown by Bath’s own community and utilising it in the Making Hub’s own kitchen’s and breweries. At the heart of the city, this destination for making shall connect its people with one another and their love of sport and leisure.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Group 2

Basil Spence

Urban Living Room Rory Bartlett Yansu Wang Xinrui Zhou Xi Ding Ben Giles With the extension of the stadium in 2038 and the renovation of the surroundings, we hope to introduce the concept of an urban living room in Bath. Bath once had a strong social ambition during the Georgia era and was the center of leisure and social interaction in the UK. We hope to create a venue that will provide a diverse and friendly place for offline socialization to help heal the isolation between people, especially between the elderly and the young, and let our stadium and the surrounding area becomes a public living room in the entire city of Bath, a unique social place for Bath people. On the course, we expect to provide more gathering space and social space. On nonmatch days, some spaces of the stadium and boxes next to the pavilion can be used as an inter-generation skill exchange center, according to the social model of Bath. Upgrade to a base, skill work, exhibition space, fitting room, tech room and other multi-functional social places on the base on skill exchange. Here, people of different ages and different ages are able to gather and to communicate. We hope to attract and encourage people to take a step back in technology and return to the face-to-face, more intimate social life in the city-scale living room

BSc Architecture 4th Year

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Basil Spence

Metamorphosis Serra Akgiray Lewis Brown Olivia Christodoulides Adilzhan Kokebayev Alex Pfeiffer-Brown Evolving issues of overpopulation, deficit in natural green spaces and technological advancement lead to societal disconnection. Through the play of transformation Metamorphosis manifests as a simple and reductive object floating above a wild landscape.

Group 3

The scheme is reduced to its core elements, creating maximum use with minimum means. People are encouraged to engage in unprescribed forms of use and to imagine their own forms of play through small acts of discovery. The cyclical transformation of nature is amplified, reflected and celebrated. The composition of elements allow the natural fabric to transform the built fabric.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

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Basil Spence

FABRICA Clarice Hong Stefano Towli Alcan Zekia Devnsh Khullar Siew Kian Mok

Group 4

As society develops around technological advancement in 2038, life will become more bound by framework formed around technology. The process of learning will fade as getting an answer will become effortless; the education systems will discourage the urge to know more than the syllabus; most people will work in front of a display throughout their careers and will be working with digital figures that will be unable to get a sense of achievement. As we designed the new stadium stand as a new landmark of Bath, we also proposed a community workshop to encourage making and learning. The curving roof of the new South stand will unite the stadium as a whole, providing venues for community activities, exhibitions, markets and performances throughout the year; the roof of the workshop will provide shelter for the making. It will grow and have more specific workshop pots for different materials as the community gradually gains skills from initially assembling furniture for the stadium and learning basic wood crafting skills, to using machines. Works made in the workshop will be exhibited in the plaza and sculpture park, where crafting will meet both the stadium and community.

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Third Floor +41.14 Hospitality suites

Second Floor +37.21 Hospitality lounge and boxes

First Floor +30.08 Multi-purpose hall, roof garden, restaurant, office suite, event control room

Ground Floor +24.00 Connection to plaza and workshop GA Concourse, market, performance, hospitality lobby

Underground floor +20.80 Connection to West GA concourse BOH, players, media, central kitchen OB truck parking, loading bay +18.00

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

A Platform for Growth James Anderson Rebecca Gardner Charlotte Pires Honoury Cheung Suzanne Evans Bread and circuses - Once disguising societal ills, now uniting the community.

Group 5

Our proposal seeks to heal society’s growing disconnect with food and with each other by uniting people through the process of watching and playing Rugby and through learning about and consuming food by creating an oasis of growth within the centre of Bath. The scheme intends to solidify the existing rugby community through a common need for food. Visitors to both the Stadium and the Pavilion will be immersed in different methods of growing. By surrounding all users with growth we allow for ‘learning via osmosis’ and a change in the way society thinks about farming. A focus on exposure and education as opposed to high-yield farming encourages the community to fully engage with the scheme and, in turn, appropriate other spaces in the city. This promotes social interaction through communal goals and pushes the scheme outside of the site boundaries. ‘Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.’ - Shiv Nadar

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Pulteney Square Michele Chee Constance Hui Oliwia Jackowska Benjamin Law Mellie Tie Even though the client of this project is Bath Rugby, this new proposal will greatly influence the city as a whole. Hence, our proposal is not simply a rugby stadium but a piece of urban design.

Group 6

Bath has a large percentage of students but the ratio of young workers to that of retirees is lower than most of the UK. The reason for this is that Bath lacks working space. Therefore, we introduced flexible studio spaces for creative young individuals to the brief. The city centre, surrounded by the River Avon consists of a progression of squares that lead from one to another. Creating a covered square forms a formal path from the city centre to the Rec. The square flows seamlessly between the studios and the stand on a match day to support the food and beverage sales as well as becoming a place for people to meet and relax on nonmatch days. We started with the point of destination that becomes central to the scheme. Next, the grid is introduced radiating from it. The buildings wrap around the grid as a circle and the main pedestrian routes cut through them. The last step is to shift buildings creating spaces in-between.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Communa Twearly Peaster Iiris TĂ¤hti Toom Joe Shepherd Freja Amhild Megan Hopton

Group 7

We propose to create a mixed scheme, uniting the need for a new stadium, with the need for genuinely affordable work spaces for small start-up businesses. The two will work in harmony with each other, as the entrepreneurs working in the start-up spaces will have use of the communal spaces in the stadium, where they can hold talks and exhibit their work. The public will also be able to use this space for small gatherings and meetings. The hope is that the public and the entrepreneurs will engage with each other, strengthening the connection between the residents of Bath and the industry of Bath. Because of the high flood risk, we aim to work with the river, rather than against it, by excavating the ground, allowing the river to flow into the site. This will create a slow moving body of water that will lessen the effect of local heavy rainfall, alleviate local minor flooding and increase biodiversity. Within this realm we will introduce a series of small floating buildings that will create the working collective. Inspired by house boat and barge typologies, these buildings will be small and lightweight, and in order to fulfil the needs of dynamic business, their connections to each other will be key. Some business may inhabit several pods, and in some cases multiple businesses may inhabit the same pod.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Climbers Mio Kobayashi Jun Wei Loh Beverly Tsui Ciaran Hoban Yannis Wong

Group 8

Looking twenty years into the future, Climber reimagines the rugby experience, collecting fans under one roof or on top of it. The rooftop garden is a an elevated plane in the bowl-like context of bath, emerging from the tree line to provide spectacular views not only to the pitch, but also to the heritage city and hills beyond. To celebrate new spectators and to make the rugby more approachable, people will be free to watch a match while relaxing with friends and hanging out around the bar. Taking on the generous spirit of both the Recreational ground and the existing leisure centre, which promote physical activity for the community, Climber serves as a new kind of park that rises toward the rooftop. Journeying up the net-like parkland will be an experience of elevating through a tree canopy with pockets of space for people to inhabit freely. This park will be open yearround so that on non-match days, they can serve as areas for play and leisure, and the rooftop garden will serve the function of a park cafe and restaurant. Putting a spin on Bathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abundant green spaces, Climber is a project that inhabits the tops of trees, leaving the spaces underneath free to retain its original use.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Concinnitas Lynsey Hogarth Muireann McHugh Diana Della Pietra Nick Winn

Group 9

Set in the context of closed impenetrable faรงades, Concinnitas aims to delve beneath the surface. Monolithic in appearance from afar, clearly identifiable as a stadium and a public destination for the community of Bath, the scheme reveals its layers of complexity on closer inspection. The stadium unfolds enticing the visitor to meander through; a truly inviting and democratic stadium. A monument to the non-monument.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Between the Bricks Adam Price Paige Stapleton Reediima Uppal Sophie Geyti Sammy Kinnear

Group 10

The project seeks to comment on modern design traditions of predetermined monuments, by exploring a dialogue between the physical space and transient user. Separating the scheme into a stereotomic legacy and tectonic exposition, the design looks to construct a narrative between the old and new. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Between the Brickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unlocks informal spectacle viewing, using the subsidiary spaces within the city as a vehicle to return civic architecture to the resident community. Through a simple layering system of categorised elements, an elastic infrastructure is designed for the city as a proposition for a new future.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Manifesto for the City of Bath Francesca Beltrame Adriana Coca Anna Godefroy Robert Brinkley Rod Snowden We carried out a basic analysis of the energetical and environmental benefits of treating water as a response to the stadium brief. Stadiums are severely energy consuming therefore a strong energy strategy was the center of our focus.

Group 11

Therefore proximity to the river and the accumulation of energy at this point of its cycle offered the potential of exploring the canal system typology; leading us towards water production. We focused our proposal on its potential users, by individualizing the categories we wanted to address in order to create a vibrant neighbourhood.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Urban Oasis Callum Gray Margaux Robinson Lulu Song Hannah McKinney Megan Piper A flexible, timeless and immersive piece of urban design to incite a revival of Bath’s former glamour. Our scheme proposes a thriving new destination for the city with rugby at its heart, providing a platform for growth and regeneration.

Group 12

We predict a cultural revolution more than an architectural one in the future. We propose a new public backdrop for the interactions of the future, and to create a journey by deconstructing the accommodation and allowing interactions to happen ‘between the walls’. We have designed a scheme that accepts its possible fate of destruction by the forces of nature. We have taken all of the precautions, through our environmental strategy, to allow our scheme to endure for as long as possible, while still celebrating the possibility of flooding or other natural threats and inviting nature in. We envision a future where society and people are better connected. Not through technology and social media, but through face-to-face interactions. Our scheme allows visual connections to be made between people. We have designed a scheme which facilitates interdisciplinary connections between the world of Rugby and the different fields of work of the companies our business quarter welcomes.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

HydroPod Fabio Cervi Maria Kalatha TingTing Ng Amy Jones Alex Kaye

Group 13

The brief is set in 2038 and requires a new south stand to Grimshaw’s Rugby Stadium in Bath, accommodating a total of 3500 seated spectators, providing hospitality provisions for 1000 guests, and a new multipurpose space for 230 guests. Whilst the main function is to serve Bath Rugby, our intention is to develop a strategy for a design to be occupied for as many days of the year as possible, outside match days. We strongly believe that by doing so, the scheme can address larger issues that are critical in designing for the future, confronting global challenges such as climate change, population growth and access to energy, water and food. The HydroPod that has been designed is essentially located on this site as a prototype, whilst it creates an intriguing facade of Bath’s Rugby Stadium, its purpose is to stimulate conversations about Bath’s future in association to climate change and educate. Further development of this project would include scattering clusters of pods around the open, green spaces of Bath, immersing the community in the cycle of food production and wastage, encouraging the idea of self-sufficiency and realizing the Garden City.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

recreation Heui Sung Kim Rebecca Lim Zhuo-Ming Shia Alex Freeman-Hall Koon Lok (Stephen) Nip Opening up

Group 14

For a stadium that only hosts matches 15 days a year, it bears a large social responsibility to positively influence its surroundings for the other 350 days. The Bath Leisure Centre currently sits on our site, it is a large concrete building that blocks access to the surrounding green spaces. As a result, this segment of the Eastern Riverside is underused and disconnected from the city. We aim to liberate the ground plain by unblocking the site and creating better connectivity through the city. Uniting the surroundings The site is adjacent to 4 large green areas that each play a unique sporting and leisure role in the city of Bath. All these spaces with the exception of the rugby pitch can function as a public park. Our scheme should function as the glue that connects these spaces together. Green heart of activity We believe that allowing transparency both within the site and beyond will give Bath Rugby a wider, more significant public role. The scheme should promote rugby as well as all kinds of sports whilst ensuring maximum visibility and exposure to the outside. Socially, it should engage the public through the introduction of recreational sports, encouraging them to be more active whilst outdoors.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Workspace for Bath Ryan Farhanza Pohan Dmitry Samartsev Chun Lee Nick Olds We were tasked with designing a new south stand for the stadium for bath, due to be constructed in 2038, in the place of the current leisure centre.

Group 15

The city of Bath has a clear lack of places to work. With the increasing population it is becoming very difficult to find office spaces and workshops. While working on this project we came to the conclusion that the best way to enhance the value of the rugby stadium is to make it a place of work and community. The strategy of the original stadium is extended by creating a fourth room in addition to the three already present in the scheme. The building is kept compact, taking up little of the site. This creates a place in the landscape, turning the stadium into a destination in of itself. An active and unique facade faces the landscape in front of the building, with an active relationship between the two. A central circulation space which develops the internal links in the building, encouraging meeting and mingling between various occupants of the building.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

égalité Yoel Gil Cobo Erika Stadnik Sin Ning Julia Wong Miles Andrews Zheng Yang Au

Group 16

Our proposal addressees the ever-increasing housing crisis in Bath. Homelessness is a big issue, therefore by proposing to use the stadium on the outside-of-match days as a homeless shelter and learning centre, we are not only making a step towards improving the issue, but also maximizing the usage of the stadium facilities, which would otherwise be left unused during those days. Using the same structural language in the affordable housing as in the hospitality boxes, we are attempting to blur the boundaries across the classes, and to convey the message that everyone should have an equal opportunity. There are only 3 materials used in the scheme - concrete, timber and fabric (PTFE). Considering that the site is in the flood plane, we chose concrete in the lower part of the building, as it is one of the only materials which would both, withstand the flood and would be able to be optimized to save material. The timber part is constructed in a self-sustaining modular system, which allows for adaptability in the future. Fabric we considered to be the most economic and appropriate way to span a large distance, and it would acts as an umbrella to the spaces below, solely protecting them from rain. The modular system would have it’s own insulation, which means the energy won’t need to be wasted on heating the entire stadium, but it would be distributed locally to the modules.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Vantage Varanond Dilokrungthirapop Kim Huynh Saraswati Kanoria Kevin Yee Jingwen Zhang

Group 17

It’s the year 2038 and the social effects of digitisation are devastating. There is a loneliness epidemic, an obsession with social media and a lack of real human interaction. Experience holidays are on the rise as people are so desperate to escape digitisation and get back in touch with the beautiful world around us. The new stadium for Bath Rugby is a new global attraction in the heart of the city centre. The focus is on play, social interaction and new viewing experiences. Within the green tower, meet with friends and play games together, watch the best view of the rugby game, or study in the library gardens. Venture to the top of the new vantage point within Bath’s unique ‘bowl’ topography surrounded by hills and experience unprecedented 360 views of Bath’s wonderful skyline. The tower is a beacon for Bath giving people new experiences, entertainment and putting people back in touch with nature, the beautiful city and with each other. ‘Tower of the year!’ - 2018

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Skeni Arianna Derossi Jacob Bley-Griffiths Anna Nazou Sofia Valentini Kirsten Baggalley Jonny Birchall The stadium is the urban space where people gather to express their civic pride, a centre for the celebration of the ritual that is the event. A stadium within the city becomes a tool for revitalization, and an opportunity for connections between the community.

Group 18

Defining our proposal came hand in hand with a deepened understanding of the different narratives associated with the activities within the stadium. i. Choreography of the masses: The filling up and emptying of the arena, manifested through the flowing, temporal mass of the spectators. ii. The Ritual: The staging of a match and the activity spillage beyond the boundaries of the stadium. iii. Fusion: The opportunity for a multifunctional space, enhancing the quality of life within the city To address Fusion the opportunity for a dual function within the stadium, we bring forward Skeni, the new Stadium for Bath and activated music hub.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Stitch Lucie Castillo-Ros Jack Hodkinson Dominic Wong Rory Roberts Holly Merritt-Webster

Group 19

Integrating the stadium and the Park: It is our ambition to unify the disparate spaces that surround our site into a singular, multifaceted space for the community. Our design ties together the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three green areas the sports park, the historic Parade Gardens, and the cricket pitch. The stadium will form a central nucleus where residents and visitors can gather and engage in a range of holistic well-being activities, including water sports, yoga, cycling, socialising or simply enjoying the open, inclusive space. The design espouses interconnectedness and communality. The need for such a space is all the more pressing given the proposed demolition of the Pavilion, and offers an opportunity to create a more accessible, inclusive well-being hub. The design builds on the natural and structural features of the space, neatly situating between the green and blue spaces (which are proven to reduce stress and sadness). In doing so, the design moves with the grain of the existing area, rather than emerging in opposition to it.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Confluence Charlotte Hails Audrey Mainsant Isabella Traeger Ammar Bin Abd Rashid Hoafeng (Nicholas) Li

Group 20

The scheme is conceptualised as an addition to Grimshaw’s current proposal for a new “Stadium for Bath”. As Grimshaw’s scheme is limited by the presence of the leisure centre on site at the moment, we are imagining the future of the stadium project in 20 years. We want to explore the idea of the creation of a piece of urban design, talking to the city and connecting the site to the historic centre just across the river, when Grimshaw’s scheme is already opening a new dialogue with the river side itself. Our ambition is to create a new public gathering space in Bath, defining a space ingrained in the social and urban fabric of the city. The rugby stadium becomes an integral part of everyday life, promoting community interactions, the rugby culture and a strong social agenda.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Group 21

Basil Spence

Garden for Bath Katie Place Jasmin Reeve Daisy Watson Tom Dolton The year is 2038. People are losing touch with nature on a global scale, in a world of rapid urbanisation, increasing air pollution and technological advancement. However, the historic garden city of Bath continues to set an example for integrating green spaces into urban life, and the benefits it can bring. The city centre is pedestrianised, air quality is improving, and the historic parks remain ever popular. The redevelopment of Bath Rugby’s South Stand presents an opportunity to create a new park space in the heart of the city, providing a ‘green link’ connecting Parade Gardens, the riverside, the Rec and the now traffic-free North Parade. The stand itself provides a worldclass rugby facility, as well as a palm house, whilst pavilions within the grounds house a cafe, bar, flower shop, rugby museum, gift shop and a multi-functional space for both performance and hospitality catering on match days. The scheme cleans the air with its diverse range of plants and trees, and breathes life back into a forgotten corner of the city, both on vibrant match days and tranquil weekdays. We present: ‘The Lung of Bath’.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Inter Tenere Raluca Bratfalean-Igna Lavanya Palaneer Jennifer Zhang Emily Wood Josh Yiu

Group 22

INTER TENERE seeks to rediscover the essence of Bath and expand the civic nature of the Rugby stadium. Set in 2038, the proposal focuses on forming a community space for its increasing popularity while at the same time reinforcing the city’s DNA. Considering Bath’s rich cultural history of entertainment and leisure, this project intends to enhance this nature by creating a space for people to come together, entertain and be entertained. Thus, this scheme aims to go beyond sports, creating a platform for all types of entertainment, such as performing arts, literature and music. By creating a new public space between the two parts of the stadium, this project encourages Bath’s character, defined by its urban and landscape spaces enclosed by buildings. Acting as a fan zone and space for public screenings during match days, it transforms into a platform for art exhibitions, performances and markets during non-match days. The space frame ‘blanket’ roof drapes over the buildings, creating an open but covered area which plays with the thresholds of internal and external space. Its shape forms an intimate focus point where it meets the landscape and an open celebratory zone in between the two buildings.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Solus Aqua Melissa Dewar Mary Lee Wui Lin Lee Sua Cho Felicia Sonnet

Group 23

Founded on the healing properties of the naturally hot springs, the modern town of Bath is a World Heritage City, the leading location for water (Wessex Water HQ) and spas (Thermae Bath Spa). Bath has been revitalised through the reinvention of the hot springs for health, pleasure and commercial gain, once defining and now reinforcing the reputation over the centuries as a city characterised by water. Our response challenges the interaction with the River and the luxury associated with the spa industry. With the frequency of injuries within rugby, the provision of a hydrotherapy centre in conjunction with the physiotherapy requirements allows the facilities to be used by players, whilst also offering the opportunity for community healing and a public realm that embraces water. The dual functionality of the hospitality boxes as classrooms will unite an online community through the Wellbeing College. Historically bathing, a daily ritual for the Romans to clean and nourish the body through the bath spas; reinvented through the new south stand as a hydrotherapy wellness centre focusing on healing the body and the mind with Bathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famous waters.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Kr ypte Antrea Antoniou Constantinos Gregoriou Markos Spyrides Jesse Cheung Kieran Tate Krypte aims to create an urban landscaped hill, which echoes the natural forms scattered around the city, and offers a vantage point that addresses them in return.

Group 24

In itself, the proposal intends to create a destination where a pair of spaces, each of a different nature, are in a symbiotic relationship. Space The exterior landscaped hill allows fans and visitors to enjoy a community driven garden and park, providing a significant amount of green space to Bath, aiming to retain the natural aspect present in the Recreational Grounds. The park becomes a viewing platform for Rugby on match day, offering amphitheatrical-style standing accommodation to fans. Anti-space The internal void is a formal public space which draws on the Romanesque and Gothic styles of Bath with the use of domed and cross vaults. It aims to evoke both a level of intimacy, as well as a sense of monumentality, influenced by the humble yet grandiose nature of various destinations around Bath.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Group 25

Basil Spence

Symposia Hannah Record Francesca Savanco Emily Tunnacliffe Louisa Kästner Hence the traditional act of going to a rugby game and the sense of IDENTITY which comes with being a member of this very PUBLIC activity is more important than ever. Future-proofing the sport, whilst creating a financial asset for Bath Rugby is a key opportunity identified within the brief for a new ‘Stadium for Bath’. This scheme outlines proposals for a Neurological Centre, to accompany the new South Stand, that conducts research into head injury prevention and provides support and rehabilitation for those affected. Both the Stand and Neurological Centre will be usable outside of match days and aim to engage positively with the community of Bath. BUILDINGS - Enclosure The concrete frame is the skeleton of the structure and supports and interacts with the other elements. It is an essential element and is kept minimal. The building is an extrusion of the topography of the site. COLUMNS - Support The Columns pierce through the building planes and are the structural and visual link between the contrasting elements of Canopy and Building. They are laterally stabilised by the former and prop up the latter. CANOPY - Shelter This is propped up by a powerful vertical element and organically wraps around the building, playing with the perception of threshold of spaces. It shelters a space but does not enclose it.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Duality Teodor Andonov Jasmine Chung Naomi Punnett Chris Bull Hollie Dascombe

Group 26

We saw a need to revert to simplicity as stadiums are growing larger and becoming more disconnected with the public. Our solution was to create two unique identities, the stand and the building, that function as separate entities but work together to create an engaging environment, deviating from that of a conventional modern-day stadium. All enclosed accommodation is condensed into an efficient single block leaving the raw structure of the stand exposed to the open air. Its form reveals information about its function and creates a strong identity for Bath Rugby with a sense of honesty and openness. Through development of the rib structure, the ground floor is given back to the public creating a protected gathering space for large masses of people and creating a more inviting experience and encouraging use on nonmatch days. People can permeate through the ribs, the stand becomes part of the landscape, integrated into the city of Bath. The building follows a regular grid so that the interior can be adapted to the ever-changing requirements of the future. In 2020 the building will provide space for a Start-Up hub where new businesses can share ideas and learn the skills to successful run and grow. They will gain exposure and form relationships with the bath community, so they can continue to flourish as an established business in Bath city centre. This will make the Rec a destination on non-match days that celebrates civic pride. The widened level entrances to the site will extend North Parade bridge and branch the divide between the city centre and our site which will act as a catalyst for future developments in Bath. 66

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Homegrown Home Ground Sophia Babiolakis James Ball Hannah Falcone Cecilia Pan William Phillips

Group 27

The experience, atmosphere, community and euphoria that you feel when you are amongst a mass of people, cannot be felt when you watch the game at home. The act of watching rugby live in a stadium becomes a piece of immersive theatre, where the spectators believe that cheering on your team will yield good results. Within a fragmented society that is absorbed in a virtual world, the reconnection to real life experiences is more important than ever before. We seek to re-acquaint the masses with the origins of the food they consume. Homegrown Home Ground features a brewery with a large bar, an orchard planted landscape, as well as a hydroponic and greenhouse system that serves a high-end restaurant and cooking workshops. A new pedestrian link from the city centre to the Rec is proposed to improve the connectivity between these important green spaces in the heart of Bath. Using the reconnection of people on a journey to reinforce an important message that is becoming obsolete in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society. Our stand looks to harbour community spirit and reconnect people with each other and what they consume through their love of rugby.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Basil Spence

Sequencia Rachel Hammond Ajay Mohan Marcus Wright Claire Levy Rob Vine

Group 28

The historic legacy of the Rugby Club and the collective spirit of its fans manifests as a spiritual landmark for the city. The stadium, rooted in its timeless materiality, is intrinsically linked to its context and engages with the elemental properties of its unique position. An additional programme of a new boathouse and rowing training centre further accentuates the link to the city, seeking to activate the river-front and establish a new cultural and social realm. The two programmes work together as a collective celebration of Bath. A rigorous rhythmic and typological sensitivity applied to the proposal creates a formalised internal layout, clearly establishing key thresholds of experience for the user. The resolute directionality of the bridge through the landscape aims to capture the atmosphere of a match day and direct it into the stadium.

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Rhythm of Bath Terrace

Basil Spence

Forum of Bath Matthew Roberts William Rook Jason Kyle Sim Dominic Blythe Joanna Hedley-Smith A place where all citizens can engage with each other and feel that they belong. A place that is constantly animated and a hub for local events. A place that feels intrinsic to the city and well woven into its network of organised spaces.

Group 29

Our brief required the creation of a new south stand for Bath rugby on the site currently occupied by the Sports & Leisure Centre. In addition to the 3,500 seats provisioned, we have proposed a forum space of over 3000 square metres. Bounded to the north by the stadium, to the east by the re-provisioned pavilion and to the south by a new Channel 4 Creative hub and associated start up coworking spaces. This forum space will serve as a hub for public events, being capable of hosting concerts, markets and sports, in addition to its primary use as a game day fan-zone for all 18,000 fans in the stadium.

The Forum - A Multi-use Space

The City is a House. The House is a City. 4th Year Individual Project “If the city is like some large house, and the house is in turn like some city, cannot the various parts of the house…be considered miniature buildings?” Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, 1486, Book 1, Chapter 9 This year’s 4th Year brief returned to Bath after seven years ‘on tour’. The brief title was loosely taken from Alberti’s Ten Books and attempted to establish a concern for the making of urban spaces which could be considered ‘outdoor rooms’ within the city. The great Georgian precedents of The Royal Crescent and Queen Square form the backdrop for several projects in the year. It might also lead to a concern for the ‘miniature buildings’ in each proposal, i.e. a concern for the detailed design of each proposal for which the department is well known. An increased concern for section was also elaborated with an emphasis to imbue this with emotion - “the new world between ground and sky” to quote the recent Venice Architecture Biennale curators, Grafton Architects. The final proposals demonstrate a full command of the Vitruvian values of “Firmitas, Utilitas et Venustas”, or Firmness, Commodity & Delight – and what a delight they are! Well done, one and all!! Matthew Wickens

BSc Architecture 4th Year Freshwater Therapy Individual Project

The Waterhouse etunnacliffe1995@gmail.com In spring 2015, I arrived in Australia having never surfed before and was soon captivated by it. For two months I lived and travelled in a campervan, surfing every break from Bondi Beach to Byron Bay and experienced its significant impact on wellbeing.

Emily Tunnacliffe

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Surfing is an incredibly transformative sport and lifestyle however for so many people it is inaccessible. The ambition is to build a sustainable artificial surf lake and surfing hub to provide more people with the opportunity to experience surfing and the positive impact it has on wellness. Surfing is a growing sport and is being included in the Olympics in 2020. So, it will also provide a centre for supporting and inspiring future athletes. The project in Monkton Combe, at the base of the hill, set between the old Monkton Flock Mill and the Limpley Stoke Viaduct. These infrastructures are examples of large scale engineered interventions that have settled into being part of the landscape either by blending with nature or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;framingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; it. Similarly, the lake has been designed with soft edges to settle into the landscape and the building as another engineered intervention. The scheme involves: - An artificial Surf Lake - A Surf Hub - Micro-accommodation Cabins - Soft Landscaping This will all be powered by an on-site hydropower turbine that will produce approximately 210MWh of energy per year. From top: Site view from Brassknocker Hill, Lakeside Walkway, Micro-cabin Exterior, The Waterhouse Exploded Building Levels, Sectional Perspective 78

BSc Architecture 4th Year

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The growing needs of UK astronomers have led to proposals for a headquarters to be set up and operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Equipped with appropriate computer facilities capable of receiving data from international observatories and appropriate for the type of computer simulations theorists would be creating, the research centre would also house an optical telescope with main mirrors of 8.2 metres, allowing theorists and observers to work in close quarters.

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Nox Vagor is a refuge from external tumult. An oasis of serenity outside of central Bath.

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Set in a semi-rural landscape, the research facility would remain accessible to the public. This connection means that researchers would not be so far removed from their communities that they feel isolated. At the same time, the convenient location would allow the public on-site to help people encourage to develop their interest in astronomy and perhaps even raise awareness to light pollution and the protection of dark sites.

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Jun Wei Loh From top: Context Plan, Telescope Shaft Exploded Axonometric, Landscape Master Plan, Night View of Telescope Shaft, The Trench - An Observatory Walk 79

BSc Architecture 4th Year Return of Water zxr_0831@hotmail.com This project aims to recognise the contemporary value of the bath culture as a social generator by the introduction of aquatic bathhouse to River Avon. A bathhouse embodies the notion of reviving the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very essence: healing water and the river. Expanding into the vast urban and suburban territories of Bath, River Avon runs through approximately 20 km adjacent to the city. Aiming to reintroduce the water life to the river inhabitants, the project examines the underused but critical site on Walcot Street, at the centre of Bath, and focus on the question of how intervention on the site can have the holistic effect to change movements and relationships of the river with the city. The water will be seen as the medium which the proposal combines, and a series of unique programmatic and spatial qualities will be applied in order to compose a water related public realm on the site. The project stands as an exploration of opportunities to experiment with the effect of architecture design and landscape interventions that are characterized by delicate and dematerialised structure and materials and therefore optimises the streetscape with the proposed waterscape view.

Maria Kalatha

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

A Public Bathhouse

From top: Site Plan, Educational Building Long Section, Research Building Long Section, Research & Periscope Tower Perspective View

BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Retail Atelier Retail

Our lust for acquisition has resulted from our insatiable appetite for more commodities. All we desire within our reach and never fully in our grasp; the shopper forever on the hunt. The beautiful item sits so radiantly on the shelf, perfect and pure. Forbid those who mention the hands that made such a thing. Perhaps we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to know as the truth may destroy our desire. Disconnection from the fundamental human need to make, sell and buy garments is ever present as the shop window shrinks to the size of a computer screen. Shopping, an activity that once empowered cities and humanity to thrive is dissolved into dust.

Tutor: Anne Claxton

In our longing to consume, we try to keep up with a system of endless trends, that only seeks to profit from our desire to feel satisfied. Through commercialism and fast fashion we get our quick fix but are never fully sated. In search of our desires whilst in a third world country someone has to starve to make our garments. We have become delaminated from a once enchanting industry; that empowered cities to grow, culture to be shaped and social encounters to take place. The Retail Atelier seeks to re-invent a new retail typology that challenges consumerism by reconnecting us to the very essence of dressmaking. Fashion designers, garment makers and wearers are brought together in an orchestrated harmony.

Individual Project

melissadewar@outlook.com

Melissa Dewar From top: Section, Interior View, Exterior View, Exploded Isometric, Perspective Elevation

BSc Architecture 4th Year Bath Botanica

Mio Kobayashi

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

Plant Science Research Institute miok408@gmail.com Bath is as much a city of science as it is for leisure, with figures such as William Smith, the father of English geology, setting the grounds for research and discovery. On the chosen site in Royal Victoria Park, which once aspired to become an established arboretum, the aim of the scheme is to create a botanical garden that allows researchers to study the effects of climate change on different communities of plants. Housed in soaring bamboo dome structures covered in ETFE are the tropical and Mediterranean collections, open to visitors as well as used for research. The building that sits between the domes works with the ground, linking to the domes through subterranean routes and connecting the two ground levels that occur on the sloping site. The building is clad in stabilised rammed earth, and the terraced landscaping enveloping is formed of dry-stack retaining walls, both using the material excavated from site. Visitors will journey between light and dark, hot and cool, as they explore the marvellous world of plant.

From top: Detail Section through Laboratories, Plaster-cast Wild Flowers, Botanical Cast Wall Illuminated by Pavement Lights, Drystack Stone Terraces with Wildflower Planting Display, Bamboo Connection Details, South Elevation 82

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Restoring Hope

limr096@gmail.com This project started with an idea to unite the Church body in Bath and to make room for God and faith to move beyond the Sunday into the everyday. In light of the earliest found church plan, this project calls church design to move away from iconographic typologies and return to building for daily community.

On the site sits the former Hope Chapel which was sold and used as a pet shop for seven years until its recent re-development into apartments and retail. This project is called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Restoring Hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; because it is an act of restoring the land to its original purpose.

Rebecca Lim

From top: Exploded Axonometric of Elements, North South Section Model of Baptistery and Main Space, East West Detail Section, Plans Stacked (GF to L3), West Wall Close-Up Stair Visual, 1:500 Model

Tutor: Anne Claxton

The two largest churches in Bath, Bath City Church and The Abbey, have collaborated with a 24/7 prayer organisation called the House of Prayer, to create a space for building godly relationship and community in the centre of the city. The building is a shared base for outreach, events and ministries within the wider Church body in Bath. It is catered to all people searching for, and living in, a greater hope and a relationship with Jesus.

Individual Project

Shared Church Base for Outreach, Events and Ministr y

BSc BSc Architecture Architecture 4th 4th Year Year Return of Water zxr_0831@hotmail.com This project aims to recognise the contemporary value of the bath culture as a social generator by the introduction of aquatic bathhouse to River Avon. A bathhouse embodies the notion of reviving the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very essence: healing water and the river. Expanding into the vast urban and suburban territories of Bath, River Avon runs through approximately 20 km adjacent to the city. Aiming to reintroduce the water life to the river inhabitants, the project examines the underused but critical site on Walcot Street, at the centre of Bath, and focus on the question of how intervention on the site can have the holistic effect to change movements and relationships of the river with the city. The water will be seen as the medium which the proposal combines, and a series of unique programmatic and spatial qualities will be applied in order to compose a water related public realm on the site. The project stands as an exploration of opportunities to experiment with the effect of architecture design and landscape interventions that are characterized by delicate and dematerialised structure and materials and therefore optimises the streetscape with the proposed waterscape view.

Xinrui Zhou

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Individual Project Project

A Public Bathhouse

From top: Aerial View, View from river footpath, View from Walcot St, Cafe, Bathhouse, Site Section

BSc Architecture 4th Year

BUD Urban Farm

Placed in the centre of Bath, on the corner of Southgate St. into Lower Borough Walls, ‘BUD’ brings light to the social opportunities amongst horticultural activities. The scheme attempts to address the lack of intergenerational interactions in today’s societies, whilst also acting as an educational site and example of how agriculture can, and should be integrated into cities.

From top: South to North Section, Greenhouse Detail, Greenhouse and Staircase Separation Detail, Rear Entrance Perspective, Street Corner Perspective

TingTing Ng

Essentially, the proposal aims to address the social neglect towards the ageing population here in Bath, re-integrating them into society through mutual interest and intention. ‘BUD’ aspires to bring the joy of nature to the heavily consumerist street of Southgate. A space to take a break from the chaos of life, clear your mind and discover a relationship with nature, learning to nurture and serve plants, as well as lending a helping hand to other visitors. Simultaneously, bringing attention to the global environmental and food crisis and the increasing necessity for efficiency, understanding and awareness.

Tutor: Anne Claxton

The design strives to be as self-reliant as possible, with dye-sensitised photovoltaic film on all south-facing glazing, feeding the LED grow lights used in the planting zones, year round. During the summer, any excess electricity produced serves any need for mechanical ventilation and cooling strategies, as well as general lighting of spaces. The rainwater harvesting system has various points of collection and a storage tank on each level.

Individual Project

tingx3.ng@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year Wui Lin Lee

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

The Stor y telling Circle Listening to the forgotten literar y voices of Bath wuilinlee@gmail.com Stories are a fundamental part of society and culture; one of the oldest practices of civilisation. Oral narratives sustained generations of morals and beliefs, inviting an intimate relationship between storyteller and audience. Throughout history, the art of storytelling has evolved from cave paintings to novels to movies, becoming the most powerful way to share human experiences. Although methods have changed, the desire to tell and hear stories still remains. With the decline of libraries in Bath, the project seeks to use voice as an alternative and accessible method of conveying a narrative. Hidden behind the facade of Queen Square, the scheme creates a public street along a literary route of Bath. Creating a sense of discovery and found space behind a forest facade, the centre explores the different ways we tell stories, engaging with the lost craft of storytelling on an individual plane to a formal audience - a city of theatres honouring those who share their tales within. Drawing from the literary history of Bath, the Storytelling Centre revives the rich heritage of literature back into the town. Seeking to connect different people from all walks of life, young to old, locals to student to tourist to share and partake in one fundamental activity; to tell a story.

From top: Long Section, South Elevation, Approach, The Public Route, Storytelling Circle and Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Studio

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not bowl alone The Folk Centre

In a world of growing diversity, learning to live with those who differ from ourselves is one of the most challenging tasks we face. This project is a school for adults. A place to remind people of how to live together; that, despite our differences, the world is better shared.

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The Folk Centre looks to separate the times we interact with machines and the times we spend with other beings. In a scheme that reapproaches cooperative learning courses, the centre offers short programmes to the general public in a design that takes the user through a varying threshold of cooperative levels. From the singularity of sleeping, washing and studying to the collectivity of dining, gardening and meetings, the scheme outlines to the users times to come together and times to live inwardly. Throughout these activities, the building highlights the nature of the engagement. In the more primitive tasks of life, the environment speaks of emotive and creative qualities; reminding us of the beauties and benefits of cooperating with other humans. In activities that include forms of technology in its rising abilities, the scheme embraces systematised and serviced design to encourage us to look forward in the future and embrace machineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to help us.

Individual Project

adampricee@gmail.com

Adam Price From top: Axonometric, Axonometric, External Render, External Render, Internal Render, Internal Render

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Memor y Forest A journey of life and death

â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the garden of memory, in the palace of dreams... that is where you and I shall meet.â&#x20AC;? Alice through the Looking glass This project aims to rethink our relationship to death in the city. It is based on new sustainable burial techniques: the anaerobic bioconversion vessels. The biomass energy converted to light creates a symbiosis with the trees grown from the soil remaining. The building houses a research centre and a funeral home connected through a nonreligious Chapel.

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anna.godefroy@hotmail.fr

The Memory Forest is a peaceful contemplative journey in the urban landscape, for society to reconnect to death and celebrate the cycle of life. Tutor: Jayne Barlow Anna Godefroy From top: Internal View, External View, Aerial View, Site Section

BSc Architecture 4th Year Erika Stadnik

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

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Ministr y of Homo Deus erika.stadnik@gmail.com Ministry of Homo Deus is a Synthetic Biology research centre, a science studying the creation of new living systems by deliberate design. Few realise the benefits which this new discipline could bring to our world and society. The science could be one of the most effective tools of the 21st century for the regeneration of the Earth’s ecosystem and for the improvement of the length and quality of our life. Its uses may vary from growing organ replacements, to growing construction materials, to aiding the growth of our food and filtering the air pollutants. Homo Deus, therefore, meaning “Human God”, is believed to be the next step in the human evolution with the rise of BioTech and InfoTech through disciplines such as Synthetic Biology. The design was generated by the L-system or (Lindenmayer system), which is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar. Lindenmayer used L-systems to describe the behaviour of plant cells and to model the growth processes of plant development. Mycelium, is the primary building material. It is the vegetative part of a fungus or funguslike bacterial colony, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. When combined with an organic aggregate, such as sawdust or cardboard chips, and placed in a form-work, over two weeks the mycelium spores will produce a network which will strengthen the aggregate and turn it into a building block.

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Avon Food Lab

The Food Lab is a Laboratory that adopts the management of a circular economy in order to create a community based on a sustainable food systems. The project is therefore a mix-use Learning and Leisure facility. The Food Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agenda is to create Awareness and Knowledge for the community of Bath through food Production.

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francesca.beltrame97@gmail.com

The Food Labâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architecture is a contemporary iteration of the traditional walled garden. This typology allows to protect the extremely fertile piece of land (due to its adjacency to the river) from the busy street while occupying the street as a monumental painting with views into the garden. The buildings create a network of interdependent programs (produce,process,cook,compost).

Francesca Beltrame

From top: View over the Water Meadows, Morning in the Raised Beds, Tectonic of the Green House, Tomato Harvest, View in the Green House Shop, Long Section N-S

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The production and landscaping strategy is a transition from man made to wild environment, from the green house at the edge of the street, the central raised beds culture to the water meadows on the river edge. All the choice of materials and construction strategy have been thought to minimize environmental impact through prefabrication off site. The buildings are made of CLT portal frames with lateral stability timber shelf that are used for hanging plants and foods. The structural frames give rhythm to the facade storage and raised beds creating harmony between architectural elements and plants.

BSc Architecture 4th Year The Phoenix

Sebastian Stripp

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

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Naval Rehabilitation Centre sebastianstripp@gmail.com Traditional rehabilitation for the Armed Forces aims to get the injured back on the battlefield. The Phoenix, set on the Isle-ofPortland, challenges this approach, offering an alternative path to civilian life through job training and ongoing support to reintegrate into society. Centred around a courtyard of captured tidal water pool, seawater is tamed and brought into the heart of the scheme. The complex is comprised of four wings. The first for naval boat maintenance and the second along the road for housing. The third flank to the west houses the supportive facilities and the fourth wing houses the communal mess. All four parts come together to create a supportive place for the veterans while offering itself to the community and becomes a transition between land and sea.

From top: Map of Portland & Weymouth, Views & Drawings of the Scheme

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Manufactum Urban Factor y Network for Bath

Craftsmen 2.0 are challenging the current modes of centralised, dehumanised production through the utilisation of technology to introduce once again a the so called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mass-customâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mode of making centred around communities and individual expression.

Teodor Andonov

From top: Generative Principles, Manufactum Hub Community, Manufactum System Cluster

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The project is a prototype scheme for an urban factory hub at the Bath Riverside. At site scale the Manufactum Hub gives the emerging type of Digital Craftsman a place to create, learn, connect and dwell. While at regional scale the Manufactum System fabricated in the hub, a design-to-manufacture system centred around digital fabrication and selfbuilt ideas, supports the multiplication of their workshops throughout the region. Manufactum speculates on an alternative framework where the places of conception and the places of making are reconciled and brought back together, aiming to reintroduce to urban life one of the essential things that makes us human - the intrinsic urge to create.

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andonovteodor@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year yoelgilcobo97@gmail.com Tate Bath aims to challenge the current concept of museum and explore the ways in which art can be displayed. Based on John Armstrong’s ‘Art as Therapy’, art is divided by the seven emotions it transmits rather than the century when it was painted or style. The building is divided into four main areas: garden, forum, gallery and archive. The garden comprises a sculpture park on the South façade, the sunken courtyards and the extruded skylights. The forum is the community aspect of the building with the auditorium and a café with a water surrounded terrace. There are seven galleries with different lighting strategies. The archive is always accessible, becoming the eighth exhibition space, the density of the art is increased with a series of blades that let the public browse through it. Our current consumerist society lacks moments of introspection; my museum intends to be an oasis challenging our fastpaced lives through art. Artistic expression is often seen as a new perspective of looking at things we already know. From the entrance sequence to the depth of the archive, the building challenges the spectator, becoming part of the artwork exhibited. Content and container merge into one.

Yoel Gil Cobo

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

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Tate Bath

From top: Entrance, Courtyard, Found Objects in the Park, Archive Skylight, Archive Section, Gallery of Hope

BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Craf t Hub

This project seeks to provide a central and visible hub for the craftspeople of Bath, enabling them to reclaim the position they historically held at the heart of the City. The scheme would occupy the site of Bath’s Primark in a bid to replace disposable fastfashion with the artisanal, sustainable and hand-crafted.

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

A cut-through links Bath Street and Westgate Street, activating the currently land-locked site, with the scheme’s craft market units positioned either side. The remainder of the programme is divided between the SW corner Entrance Building, featuring a café, exhibition space and lecture theatre, and a Tower of Making to the North of the site, which houses affordable studio space.

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callumlucasgray@hotmail.com

Callum Gray From top: Approach View from Cross Bath, W-E Section 1:600, N-S Section 1:600, the Textiles Studio, 1:500 Massing Model

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Holistic Health Centre pirescharlotte7@gmail.com Engaging with the nature of Bath’s history and the process of healing, the project seeks to develop and reinstall a connection with blue infrastructure and its potential to improve our health and well-being. The scheme questions current health approaches and institutions, seeking to deinstitutionalise and de- stigmatise what it means to receive therapy through a holistic approach to healthcare.

Charlotte Pires

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

The project subverts the traditional narrative of a health retreat through its city location, looking to integrate therapy as part of our lifestyle as opposed to it only being necessary when you need to be ‘cured’.

From top: The Footpath, Approach, Threshold, Water Landscape, Visual Connection

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Urban Farm

‘The value of an urban farm is multi-faceted. An urban farm is a catalytic space. It’s a space for growth.’ Ian Marvey This project is about providing a tool to enhance and connect the local communities of Twerton and Weston.

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jasminreeve@gmail.com

It looks at unlocking the therapeutic qualities of agriculture, the pastoral pleasures of caring for animals and growing your own produce. A place to eat, grow and learn together.

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Jasmin Reeve

From top: Visual of Cafe, Visual of Kitchen Garden, Sectional Perspective through Residential Block, Sectional Perspective through Barn, Sectional Perspective through Courtyard

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Night Cycles katieplace@hotmail.com Sleep is the single-most important human process and there is not enough emphasis on this in society. The sleep centre aims to refocus sleep as a priority within Bath; a city of healing. The scheme tackles the issue through three strands: research, therapy and reset. RESEARCH Paired with the University of Bath research department, the scheme will analyse the effect sport and exercise has on sleep quality. THERAPY Some research exists showing that sleep deprivation predisposes some mental health conditions. The scheme will further analyse the correlation between the two and provide greater understanding of the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in sleep. RESET Inspired by the Japanese ceremony of sleep and sleep hygiene, the reset pods provide a set of steps ensuring a full circadian reset for more compete sleep.

Katie Place

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

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Co-Care Suppor ted Living & Work Training

This project aims to empower adults with learning difficulties to achieve higher levels of independence and autonomy through engaged and integrated living within the community. It is designed to welcome the involvement of the local community in the daily life of the residents. Living in supported housing within a community setting is known to improve quality of life, health and well-being in people with learning disabilities.

I dedicate â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Co-careâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to my brother Eoin; a caring, funny, confident young man who has Downs Syndrome.

Muireann McHugh

From top: Ground Floor Plan, Section, Courtyard Perspective, Typical Bedroom, Inhabited Circulation

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

The centre will provide the opportunity for vocational training, where the skills and etiquette required in a workplace can be learned. This takes the form of a community cafĂŠ, craft workshops and a literacy and IT hub. These facilities will also welcome visitors from the surrounding neighbourhood and the adjacent primary school. It provides 25 supported living places in a range of formats, catering to varying levels of independence and mobility. Finally, the auditorium is a place where all of the community can come together for events, performances and classes.

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muireannmchugh@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year ELLENDE

Raluca Bratfalean-Igna

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

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Multicultural Centre of Bath ralu.bratfalean@gmail.com The concept of this project was based on the current socio-political context of the UK. The “immigration crisis” is affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of foreigners living in Great Britain. The city of Bath would greatly benefit from a platform that would unite the diverse members of its community. People would be able to interact with their peers, while also having the opportunity to learn about and actually experience the various cultures and traditions of countries around the world. The building would incorporate two main spaces: the cultural block and the market. Their contrasting structural nature (lightweight market frame and load bearing walls of the block) dictated the core principle of the scheme. This juxtaposition was emphasised by the material palette, chosen according to the existing colours of the city: concrete to complement Bath stone, hot rolled steel panels to relate to the slate roofs, and corten steel replicating the texture of clay tiles. As the project progressed, the idea developed into alternating “layers” of light and heavyweight structure, as one would pass through the building. The journey starts at the pyramid-like columns of the market and the concrete facade, through the corten interior frame, and finally reaches the rammed earth theatre that encloses a light timber structure.

From top: View of Approach, Isometrics of Layers, View in Foyer, View in Market, View in Theatre; Ground Floor Plan & West Elevation 100

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Spa & Retreat Centre Water Stone Nature

The project is a spa and retreat centre in Monkton Combe. The aim of this project is to create a space where people pause and take a break from their busy scheduled lives. They take time to introspect and reflect on their life styles. They reconnect with nature. A space where they relax and spend time meditating. It aims to create a world of its own which has a strong relation with nature and therapy. Where people lose sense of time. This space will be available to everyone and will charge a minimal fee, as it is for the people of the Bath. The building is nothing but water, stone and its connection with nature.

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Saraswati Kanoria

From top: Long Section, Spa Perspectives, Pool Sections, First Floor Plan

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

The spa is designed as a journey to selfdiscovery. There are 4 main pools in the spa, and each has its own theme. They all have a sense of mystery to them, as one doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what its going to experience until he is within the room. This creates a play on the senses as each room offers a different experience altogether. There is no right or wrong order to visit these pools. One creates its own journey.

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kanoriasaraswati@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year The Bat Cave stefanotowli@outlook.com Bats are one of the most misunderstood, yet interesting animals in existence. They are the only mammal that naturally occupies human residences, as other animals require domestication to inhabit these spaces. Despite their rich ecology, they remain one of the least publicly understood animals. For the public to appreciate them as a multifaceted species, there needs to be greater public discourse on bats, which I have tackled by designing a bat wildlife visitors centre, situated in Avoncliff. The concept driving the design was to create a building that is able to convey information to visitors by showing, not telling. The journey through the building is characterised by small, dark, damp spaces that depart a sense of a batâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifestyle as you make your way through the architecture. The visitor experience begins in the landscaping, where guests enter into a tunnel to make their way up to the reception space, and are then able to climb to several exhibition spaces, finally terminating in a bat cave, housing hundreds of bats. The bat cave also functions as flight zone for the animals, and a bat rehabilitation space before release. The architecture is also home to office and conference spaces to allow users to manage biodiversity efforts, and a care centre to treat and research the species.

Stefano Towli

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

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A Bat Wildlife Visitors Centre

From top: Site Perspective, Tunnel Perspective, Staircase Perspective, Main Exhibition Perspective, Small Exhibition Perspective, Bat Cave Perspective 102

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Design and Construction School Timber / Metal / Stone

The project is a design and construction school on the site of the former Sulis Club, on the edge of Combe Down. The site location was key when determining the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to education. It sits on the edge of a plateau, overlooking the valley and forests, and within a stones throw of the various old quarries of Combe Down. This drove the creation of three different specialities: timber, stone and metal.

The site also contains individual workshops for local crafts people, and a Fab Lab for the community. All those on site are encouraged to share their knowledge and skills among each other and to eat together in the school canteen.

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Twearly Peaster

From top: View from the Road, Inside the Big Shed, Inside the Timber Workshop, Section Perspective of the Individual Workshops, Site Model Made from Elm

Tutor: Vanessa Warnes

The arrangement of the buildings is based on the stages of construction and embedding these processes into a series of courtyards. This works through large materials entering the (un)loading yard in their raw state, being processed into workable elements in the big shed and then being processed into parts of a whole in the workshops, to then be collectively assembled in the craft yard or the big shed.

Individual Project

tjep@hotmail.co.uk

BSc Architecture 4th Year Rebecca Gardner

Tutor: Cat Martin

Individual Project

The Dolemeads Distiller y Community Distiller y and Botanical Gardens r-c-gardner@hotmail.com The Anthropocene age that we are living in has drastically changed our relationship with the natural world. With this, members of society are becoming increasingly isolated and green space is being pushed out of our city. Gin has a deep rooted connection to nature, through the botanicals that characterise it and as such, the recent revival in the UK gin trade has created the opportunity to reestablish our connection to horticulture. In doing this, the distillery acts a vehicle for the discussion of plants, whilst the gardens that serve it can also serve the community. Having opened up this conversation, the scheme can act as a catalyst for social change through engaging disparate members of the community through horticultural activities, and members of the public in general, through the wonders of gin. The Dolemeads (historically the community meadows) is an uncharacteristic area of Bath, with red brick housing and little community facilities or green space. The Dolemeads Distillery, in addressing our disconnection to nature, targets the community of the Dolemeads predominantly. Offering them spaces they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t currently have and improving their quality of life.

From top: Inside the Winter Gardens Looking at the Juxtaposition Between the Planting and the Gin Stills, Site Plan, Distilling Hall, Tasting Room, Winter Gardens, Community Courtyard, Potting House, Workshop, Night Time View Looking Towards the Community Building and the Winter Gardens 104

BSc Architecture 4th Year

the CHORD Bath Music and Music Therapy Centre

Site - South Quay The site part of the Bath City Riverside Enterprise Area Masterplan 2014-2029, which focuses on inspiring creativity and inventiveness.

Individual Project

beverly_tsui@hotmail.com

Theme - Connection Music is a powerful way to affect people. The core objective of the CHORD is to encourage people of different background, age, race and other differences to gather, interact and connect with each other using MUSIC as their common language. Public Music Hub

Tutor: Cat Martin

In order to make the building inviting and public, there are two open plaza at the two ends of the site which welcome buskers or others to perform in more informal ways. The more professional performances happen in the auditorium. Both performance spaces try to intensify the intimacy between the audience and performers for a more unique experience.

Beverly Tsui From top: Plan, Perspective Views, Perspective Section of the Auditorium, Internal View, Long Perspective Section

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Lansdown Retreat

Constance Hui

Tutor: Cat Martin

Individual Project

The Immersive Retreat constancehuiyk@gmail.com Most people know Bath as a beautiful town once with Roman baths and now still with spas using natural spring water. Spa is the root of the city of Bath and a key force behind tourism and economy to this date. However, most spa and hotel facilities in Bath are packaged with luxury and ornament, which might not be accessible and welcoming for all, while a place to immerse oneself in therapeutic relaxation is essential to everyone especially in this stressful and heavily digital era. This Retreat is the missing piece. The site is off a busy road in Lansdown, an area in Bath with a rich recreational history as well as character today, surrounded by unique and fascinating structures and trees just before the breathtaking panoramic landscape comes into focus. The building involves three distinctive but interlinked journeys eating, living and well-being - all of which revolve around relaxing and leaving troubles behind as well as encountering people from different backgrounds. The structures sitting above ground are lightweight timber frames to fit better into the natural setting, whereas the subterranean levels are concrete structures containing the wellness facilities and pools where you submerge into. It is time we took better care of our own well-being and allow ourselves to enjoy the simplest things in life, especially in the extraordinarily stunning setting and with the rich history of Bath.

From top: Ground Level Plan, Long Section through Restaurant, Site Model, Short Section, Exploded Isometric Structure, View from Cafe Terrace, Tectonic Model of Spa Wing 106

BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Newark Eco-Foundr y Circular Economy Star tup Hub

As part of the future Bath Quays masterplan of commercialisation and innovation, this incubator hub will be more than just a coworking space for small start ups, but a central heart in the South Quay for all who share a common agenda of striving towards a Circular Economy and a sustainable future to gather, share ideas and collaborate with one another. The workplace includes a variety of different spaces in order to accommodate all sorts of activity whether it is group collaboration or individual research; yet they are all interconnected with green infrastructures that act as a constant reminder of nature and sustainability.

Tutor: Cat Martin

By using UK fast-growing Sitka Spruce for both the Glulam structure and the Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT, or Brettstapel) panels for most the fabric as well as other natural and biodegradable materials such as Western Red Cedar, Linoleum and Hemp for other components, the building effectively acts as a carbon store in itself; with off-site prefabrication and a design suitable for disassembly through repeatable modules and mechanical connections, most of the components and materials can be taken apart at the end of this buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and can be reused in other projects.

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dominichcwong@gmail.com

Dominic Wong From top: Axonometric Second Floor Plan, First Floor Plan, Ground Floor Plan

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Foundr y Youth Centre

James Anderson

Tutor: Cat Martin

Individual Project

Riverside Skate Lounge andersonjames888@gmail.com Aiming to address the South West and the UK’s mounting problem with youth services, Foundry Youth Centre acts as a focal point for young people within the city. The centre provides a platform for the strengthening of the youth population in Bath, after the closure of council run centres in the local vicinity, in light of the £400M lost from youth services throughout the UK since 2010. The centre is geared towards the discipline of skateboarding, a sport that has had a troubled history, but has proven to be an incredible force for good across the globe in recent years. Through the provision of workshops, a skate shop, a cafe, performance facilities and a counselling service, the centre aims to teach transferable skills to young members of the community, building a sense of place and a home from home. Through the re-use of the Newark Works site, a derelict brownfield industrial complex located within the Bath South Quays development boundary, the scheme proposes the revitalisation of the Southern riverside through providing an effective community building and covered skate-parks, acting as a beacon for the city’s youth.

From top: Site Plan within the Newark Works, Public Plaza, Night Sessions, Axonometric Section through Youth Centre

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Laetitia Estate

marcusbiwright@me.com The estate focuses on educating the next generations of chefs and the general public on the delight of seasonal cooking whilst providing vinification training resources in the south-west. The winery has a capacity of approximately 50 acres. Oversized, the additional capacity allows local farmers to join the English wine revival.

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Winer y, Culinar y Hub + South West Vintners Academy

Two levels of dining caters for a variety of people from the casual weekend walker in the upstairs bar, to the Michelin starred foodie in the formal restaurant. Made from rammed earth excavated on site, the building is deeply rooted into its place, emerging from the landscape as if a product of the vines.

The Laetitia Estate is a beacon of what a modern winery and restaurant should be: environmentally conscious, socially responsible, collaborative and nurturing.

Tutor: Cat Martin

Funded and supported by the Duchy of Cornwall, the estate provides apprenticeships to disadvantaged young people within the local area.

Marcus Wright From top: Arrival Hall, Sheep Grazing in the Vineyard

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BSc BSc Architecture Architecture 4th 4th Year Year Ayatana Neuro-Sanctuar y

Rachel Hammond

Tutor: Cat Martin

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Inpatient Mental Health Facility rvl.hammond@outlook.com This scheme offers a new type of mental health facility for residential patients between the ages of 16 and 24 suffering acute mental health problems. In direct opposition to the poorly designed and institutional NHS buildings shaped around the patronisation of patients, the scheme focuses on creating a warm, soothing space which encourages introspection and healing. A delicate balance between on one hand serenity, safety and self reflection, and on the other openness, freedom and the encouragement of social connection allows the scheme to provide a restorative environment that is not suffocating or rigid. All architecture must, by definition, touch our souls, by moving us existentially through the stimulation of all five of our senses, and never is this more impactful than in a building designed to accommodate sufferers of mental illness. To fully understand the effect of design on the psyche of the user, we must have the imagination to put ourselves in their shoes, and this requires both empathy and compassion. To reject this responsibility is to reject our role as an architect and assume instead the role of builder or artist, since one is concerned with the erection of a structure and the other with the drawing of a faรงade but neither with the emotional and meaningful design of complex space.

From top: E-W Section, Therapy Courtyard Perspective, Quiet Space Perspective, Therapy Room Perspective, 1:200 Model, Structural Isometric, Detail Section and Elevation 110

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Affecting Desistance Secluded Sanctuar y

Striving to halt a pattern of reoffending amongst young people leaving prisoning in the South West, ‘Affecting Desistance’ intends to provide a nurturing environment for twelve young people immediately following their release from custody. Living in three distinct housing units, the spatial adjacencies secede from a central hearth, delineating to more intimate modes of interaction, that finally descend on the sanctuary within one’s bedroom.

Tutor: Cat Martin

Articulating resistance to the chronic state of ex-offender welfare required a more expansive methodology to engage a shift in identity, augmenting one’s self image from prisoner to contributing member of society. Adjacent to their dwellings, residents will engage in culinary education within a specially designed cooking school, consistently developing their skill base during working hours within the adjoining restaurant. Channelling interaction with the local community through this restaurant, residents will reorient their perception of themselves from societal dissident to a positively valued member of the community, the first step towards rehabilitation.

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rjbartlett26@gmail.com

Rory Bartlett From top: Brick Facade Study; Massing Model, Restaurant Interior, Staircase Interior, Sunken Gardens, Bedroom Interior, Elevation

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Holistic Health Resor t Individual Project

Combe Grove Gem antreaantoniou0610@gmail.com A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can be an architectural masterpiece that adds value to a whole city or a country. It can also be a place sheltered from the outer world, - a place that offers an experience that can not be found elsewhere, neither it can get replicated. A particular space accessible by a few that welcomes everyone and shares its unique qualities.

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

The historical context of the site goes back many centuries as the main Bath Quarries were located around the North and West of the Combe Grove premises. Bath stone is the most valuable building material in Bath -its gem- and was excavated from the grounds next to Combe Grove, creating an interesting historic dynamic at the site. The Combe Grove Hotel is situated in a densely forested green belt. The prosperous natural state of the site allows the existing wildlife to thrive and surround the premises of the Hotel. The Combe Grove Gem Hotel is immersed in this green vegetated treasure. The project aims to bring the element of nature in the building in four ways. The use of courtyards, the sunken garden, the herbal gardens and the outdoor sitting areas help with the enhancement of senses to allow people to relax and become one with nature.

Antrea Antoniou

Senses are the gateways to the soul and mind.

From top: View of the Hotel from the External Pool, Pathway of the Exclusive Rooms, therapy Room Pools

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Food Hub A place to celebrate food

Looking to further influence the food culture in the UK and encourage people to embrace cooking, MasterChef proposes a food complex that integrates learning, eating and growing together to create a new food experience.

Individual Project

claricehong0811@gmail.com

The site is located in Kingsmead Carpark and surrounded by multi-storey residential buildings on four sides. The Food Hub is constructed in a robust concrete frame and clad with folded copper panels. It will re-establish and activate the Kingsmead Street with the energy of food. As the area redevelops in the future, the historic street will reconnect to New Kings Street once again. Tutor: Nigel Bedford

Walking down the extended Kingsmead Street, the Food Hub opens up into a double height food hall where the general public can enjoy a rich variety of food. Arranged on the upper floors are the learning aspects of the scheme. The Cooking Library consists of collections of food books and herbs as well as an open auditorium. Kitchen classrooms provide courses where people can learn and improve home-cooking skills. Seasonal vegetables are grown on the roof kitchen garden, which not only brings the idea of growing back to general food knowledge, but also brings greenery to the heart of the city.

Clarice Hong From top: Kingsmead Street, Food Hall, Courtyard, Roof Kitchen Garden, Cooking Library, Folded Facade Model, Long Section

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Constantinos Gregoriou

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

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Museum of Ruination constantinos.greg@gmail.com A place engages with our identity, history and human relationships by allowing participation and cultivating growth. Consequently, since place is deeply connected with our very sense of being, it is able to acquire spiritual and even theological qualities. A place becomes sacred. Pure sacredness, be it through a piece of art or architecture, diminishes the need for religious symbolisation and obtains ‘its impact and aura’, through the inherent nature of human experience. The Museum of Ruination is set next to a small, perhaps forgotten 19th century chapel designed by architect John Pinch. The aim of the project is to create a set of orchestrated spaces that exhibit this beautifully ruined chapel. Moreover, the museum offers a journey through the aftermath of the bombings in Bath in 1942. This photographic exhibition is set above a proposed community hall, thus offering a vibrant space animated by both people and light, mirroring the remarkable subsequent strength and sense of community that the air raids gave rise to.

From top: St. Mary’s Churchyard Exhibition, Community Hall with First Floor Exhibition Room, Glimpse of the Courtyard with a Backdrop of the Churchyard 114

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Synerg y Co-working hub Synergy is SYNERGY defined as “The interaction or cooperation Co-working of two or more hub organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their Diana Della Pietra separate effects.”

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Diana Della Pietra

From top: West Facing Studio Interior 14:00pm, Exploded Isometric

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

The project aims at creating a co-working platform in the area to the South of the river Avon, known as Riverside Enterprise Zone. The site sits amongst former industrial buildings, that were once the premise of the Stothert and Pitt factory. The agenda focuses on the creative reuse of the unused quays present on site, part of the Newark Works and currently in a state of decay, alongside the insertion of a new building. This addresses the public ground reconnecting the river edge and the street through a lively semienclosed square. “Synergy” ties together the fragmented elements of urban fabric and creates a campus for creative professionals as well as for the wider community of Bath.

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Diana.dellapietra@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year The Spinal Rehab Retreat Centre Individual Project

Prior Park emmasnaylor@gmail.com The City is a House. The House is a City. This project outlines the proposal for a rehabilitation retreat centre for people with spinal cord injuries. Within one building, a sense of place can be created. A place for activity, contemplation and rest. A place where one can reflect on changes and work towards the future positively. This sense of place provides an environment to heal and feel a sense of worth.

Emma Naylor

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Every eight hours someone in the UK becomes paralysed, due to a spinal cord injuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; This injury can happen to anyone at any time, no-one is prepared for how it will change their life. These awful incidents leave people with loss of sensory and muscle control, most will become full time wheelchair users for the rest of their life. Altogether the project aims to help spinal cord injury sufferers and their families/ friends come to therms with their injury, improve their quality of life and gain independence.

From top: 1:25 Model and Isometric Showing New and Old Connections, Ramp Exploded Isometric, Morning Meander, Afternoon Visit, Ground Floor Plan, 1:25 Sensory Garden Model 116

BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Bath Biodiversity Institute Ever y thing not saved will be lost

As a child I was completely and utterly enchanted by the wild, spending many of my days collecting, observing and drawing anything I could get my hands on. Once, when I was five years old, I collected a handful of Great Crested Newts from my pond and smuggled them into the fish tank in my bedroom , so that I could study them in greater depth. I still remember my mother waking me up in the morning to find with great horror that they had somehow climbed into my bed with me; I thought it was brilliant.

As the wild spaces of the earth fall into decline, I feel it is important to emphasise the incredible wealth of wonders we have within the natural world, as a source to spectacularly inspire and grow ones imagination, however, also as a library of inconceivably important knowledge, which is capable of providing sustainable solutions to many problem.

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Harriet Baldwin

From top: Ground Floor Plan, Section through Exhibition Hall

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

The increasing decline of biodiversity globally and within the UK is greatly troubling. It saddens me to think that todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth might not have the brilliant source of inspiration and beauty as I did as a child. Where are the newts, birds and butterflies to inspire the dragons and mystical creatures from their bedtime stories?

Individual Project

hb591@bath.ac.uk

BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us peace) Catholic and Ar ts Retreat Centre kim.jamie.huynh@gmail.com Catholicism is the only denomination of Christianity that continually follows the authority of the pope. As a result, Catholicism is an ever-changing and evergrowing faith. The new mission for the church is to encourage an open and shared relationship with God. Churches are striving to find their place in society by offering its service and support to their community.

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

As a response to the closing of the Bath Arts and Development Council, the Catholic community in Bath wishes to open a retreat centre with a focus on faith and arts to support the arts-driven Walcot community. The cafe, residential and exhibition spaces are made with simple and repetitive construction units reflecting humble directions for Catholicisim led by Pope Francis. They facilitate eating, living and celebrating arts as a communal act of gathering. The church is buried into a sculptural garden of rooflights that spotlight special moments in the church such as the altar, baptismal font and organ. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Kim Huynh

- Exodus 25:8

From top: Church Section, Exhibition Section, Cafe-Residential Elevation, View from Walcot Hight Street, Outdoor Mass

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Anagnosis Bath Central Librar y

It seems that the Digital Age is driving us towards more and more physical apathy, and that through art, photography, music and literature, we resist losing our physical connection with the things we create. People now want to smell books as much as they want to read them.

Individual Project

markos.spyrides@gmail.com

Our sensory understanding of the world around us makes us who we are, and as this world becomes less and less tactile, we look for things that age as we do, that exist and that are there, and that someday, like us, will cease to be.

This is what ultimately makes us human - our ability to wonder. The aim of this project is twofold: firstly, to create a monument that celebrates our curiosity, serving as a sanctuary to our hunger for knowledge. Secondly, to give the residents of Bath a physical anchor in this ever-more ethereal digital world. A tangible home in the city for everyone.

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Markos Spyrides

From top: Approach from Pierrepont Street, Reading Bay, Main Atrium, Sunken Courtyard & Cloister

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

The Public Library is the house of human knowledge and curiosity, a place which sees beyond religion, politics, socio-economic classes, race, gender or any other social construct. It invites its users to learn, explore, create and communicate.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Catharsis michele-chee@hotmail.com Performing arts and therapy share a common theme of catharsis where one is purged of their emotions and cultivates understanding of the self. The ambition of the scheme is to create a safe space where people can learn and heal without judgement on their skills or background. The centre subverts the idea that counselling and therapy should be held quietly and away from the community by creating a community around learning, healing and understanding within the centre. The scheme takes over a portion of Kingsmead Car Park and No. 37 Kingsmead Street to be able to open up to Monmouth Street in the north to face the Egg, Ustinov Studios and Theatre Royal theatres. The scheme integrates itself with the existing community to ensure the created community is not ostracised from the existing surrounding community. It gives back a more pleasant view to the residents of the surrounding flats and a park-let on the lower street. The centre also brings the city in with an internal connection between Monmouth Street and Kingsmead Street.

Michele Chee

Tutor: Nigel Bedford

Individual Project

Performing Ar ts & Therapy Centre

From top: Kingsmead Street Elevation, Auditorium, Mezzanine, Mezzanine Isometric, Common Area Isometric, Workshop and Entrance 120

BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project Frank Lyons

The Innovation Centre aspires to transform Bath’s Largely tourism-based economy, by providing the city with an innovative civic function. The project aims to house a minimum of 300 entrepreneurs, including start-ups and large companies wishing to move their head-quarters and daily guests. Based on the new ‘wellness’ trend and flexible work environments of modern society, combined with the unique morphology of Bath, the centre is designed in order to deviate from its more hectic and industrial precedents in other cities, so as to leverage the particular qualities of its setting. The centre was designed to reflect the simple, harmonious and sociable life that is characteristic of Bath, to suit the needs of entrepreneurs wishing to move and work in a smaller less chaotic city. The innovation hub not only offers a meeting and working space for graduate students and young entrepreneurs but also helps bridge the social gap between local residents and the city’s various universities by providing for accessible facilities and public functions available to all.

The The City City

The The Centre Centre

The The University University

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Arianna Derossi

ariannaderossi97@gmail.com ariannaderossi97@gmail.com

Tutor: Frank Lyons

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Proposal for a City-University star t-up hub in Bath, UK

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Bath Public Libar y

Audrey Mainsant

Tutor: Frank Lyons

Individual Project

The Garden Librar y audrey.mainsant@orange.fr A library is a universal building, a typology that has been explored countless times. It follows closely the evolution of society and the relationship people build with their cultural heritage through time . Libraries are much more than just places to store books. They have always had a mystical quality associated with them, an aura of knowledge and sacredness that urge people to take a book from its shelf to the light. The Garden Library is a project that aims to reconcile that ethereal quality of space with the more vibrant activity of modern life in a public library. The building reads as a walled garden protecting the special atmosphere hidden between its walls behind a solid concrete crust. The Basin on the site articulates the whole scheme as the main drive for the building organisation and quality of space. This language of water is answered by the more earthy character of the garden around which the different programmatic elements of the scheme are connected through a cloister gallery. The library building sits as the central piece of the project with a striking stepping section connecting it to the landscape and creating powerful internal spaces.

From top: First Floor - The Fiction Library, The Garden Cloister, The Basin Terrace, The Performance Space Courtyard 122

BSc Architecture 4th Year

House of Light Bath Museum of Photography

The classicism of Hope House governs the arrival courtyard, a protected enclosure that grounds the scheme to its site by the Lansdown Crescent. The photographic gallery breaks off from the courtyard, beginning a journey through the landscape, beyond the history of place into the uncertain prospects and promises of nature.

Individual Project

fabio,cervi97@gmail.com

The gallery is fragmented into segments, responding to views, slope and light: an organism like any other that reacts to environmental stimuli, adapting and correcting itself.

The promise of a final destination is misleading: ultimate truth is impossible to achieve, only another segment of the continuum will manifest itself at the end. The final segment may disguise itself as a new element but is nothing more that a fragment of humanity’s journey to infinity.

Tutor: Frank Lyons

Four segments characterise the gallery: concrete walls and a ceiling datum offer surfaces for the visitor to measure themselves against. These datums are like mirrors, we see ourselves through our journey witnessing our history and our change.

Fabio Cervi From top: View from the ‘Wrist’, Final View from the ‘Neck’, Isometric Section: Dark Room along the Garden Gallery, Isometric Section: Exhibition Room at the ‘Elbow’ 123

BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

Repose jacob.bg@outlook.com A building to encourage contemplation by accommodating therapeutic activities, and by providing a calm atmosphere ideal for contemplation. Contemplation is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘meditative state’ and by the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘serious and quiet thought for a period of time’. Some activities and some spaces can take us on a journey to this state of mind.

Tutor: Frank Lyons

Therapeutic activities are those which promote a ‘state of flow’. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the architect of the notion of ‘flow’ and defines it as the ‘moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake’. Situated in a secluded courtyard in the heart of Bath, it is accessed by a covered passage from Milsom Street. The building sits within a block that has a series of ordered façades, but where subsequent extensions have created a disordered setting. The proposal creates a calm and ordered space within this block, in the form of a three-storey atrium.

Jacob Bley-Griffiths

This atrium is experienced by all visitors as they circulate to the principal spaces. In this way, it unites the activities of the building.

From top: Reading Room, Ceramics Workshop, Yoga Studio, Contemplation Garden, Atrium, Art Studio, South Courtyard, Long Section through Atrium 124

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Typeworks Printing Press

The fascinating history of printing looks back as early as the middle of the 15th century when the revolutionary discovery was made. Despite the 6 centuries of undeniable role of books in education and printâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact on expression, the printed world has been forecast to disappear within this century. To revive the beautiful craft of print and redefine the typology of industrial architecture, lithographic Printing Press and Publishing House is proposed, where peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience of the machine is enhanced by the volume of the building, and softened with laminated oak columns, supporting the roof.

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oliwia.jack@gmail.com

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Oliwia Jackowska

From top: Internal View of the Press, Detail of the Column to Floor Connection, Internal View of the Office, Axonometric View of Delivery and the Press, Short Section, Image Above: Exploded Detail of Paper Shelf

BSc BSc Architecture Architecture 4th 4th Year Year Botanical Brewer y of Probiotics

Paige Stapleton

Tutor: Frank Lyons

Individual Individual Project Project

Dr y_Dock

by Muse + Met ta

paige.stapleton@gmail.com The Botanical Brewery aims to bring complete transparency to the conscious craft that goes into the making of Kombucha. Visitors will be fully immersed in the Muse + Metta brand values becoming completely absorbed by the creative process until inspiration takes over. It recognises that Kombucha is a relatively ‘new’ drink for the UK public so creating a building which educates, encourages conversation and attracts people in to explore and discover is paramount. The design showcases the process of creating Kombucha from initial cultivation, through production and onto consumption. This will help Muse + Metta educate the consumer on where food and drink comes from. Consumption is well documented in bars and restaurant but cultivation and production is seldom seen in all its glory in the centre of our cities. This will be the first of its kind not only for the city of Bath but also for the UK. Titled Dry_Dock, after its non alcoholic beverage Kombucha and riverside setting, the Botanical Brewery majors on Muse + Metta’s position as a lifestyle brand. The building encourages well-being. Not only will the central spaces enrich the lives of visitors through their design, sensory elements and use of nature but multi-purpose studio spaces give Muse + Metta the opportunity to team up with local groups involved in health and wellness activities to facilitate their needs. All these elements combine to deliver Muse + Metta’s mission: health and happiness of all beings.

From top: Riverside Perspective, Botanical Perspective, Elevations, Sections, Sectional Isometrics, Tree Walk Perspective, Brew Kettle Perspective 126

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Reading the City

reediima@uppal.co.in Situated in the world heritage city of Bath, the proposed Public Library & Archive provides a platform to facilitate learning and the exchange of ideas among community members.

Individual Project

A Public Librar y for the City of Bath

Public libraries should bring in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cultural changeâ&#x20AC;? by giving a new role to public libraries in preserving and disseminating community knowledge. Local community knowledge is extremely valuable for the local community, and local knowledge may be useful both for local and global consumption.

The Bath Public Library and Archive will collect and keep safe a number of maps , books, photographs and legal records. It will provide access to archives and local studies materials, promoting them for the benefit of the community.

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Reediima Uppal

From top: Plan, Courtyard Elevation, Balcony View, Long Section, Internal Bookshelf View, Street Elevation

Tutor: Frank Lyons

Memories are often prompted by looking at maps, every map embodies a story - the story of how, where and why it was devised, and what it represents, but a map also lends itself readily to story-telling.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Alcan Zekia

Tutor: Rob Grover

Individual Project

Identity & Integration A Diagnosis & Therapy Centre for Dementia Patients zekiaalcan@gmail.com Recent UK studies have shown that we are living longer than ever, the average life expectancy is increasing beyond 80 years. Most people follow a general path of spending their first 20 years in education, working until they are 65 years old, and then in retirement, enjoying time with family, friend and loved ones, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the Golden Years.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; However, these years are often marred by the decline in the health of individuals, physically and also mentally. In recent years the increased prevalence of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases has lead it to become a significant global issue. The project aims to develop a new proactive approach against the taboo-nature of dementia is needed. A scheme that can provide both identity and integration for this isolated community in Bath. The clients believe that the use of non-pharmaceutical therapies should be a key focus in the centre, to develop a healing environment and a sense of community for those affected. The centre should also provide space for the families, friends and loved ones so that they may speak to professionals about support, whether that be for the patient or their own well-being. The hope is that by providing an encompassing service, the lives of patients and their carers can be lived to the full, and that awareness of how to deal with this disease will grow in the wider community of Bath, reducing the implicit progression of dementia.

From top: Central Courtyard, Roof Landscape, Approach, Arrival Courtyard, Orchard, Music Therapy, Lounge

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Manvers Street House

For many, the library is a home away from home. Formed of five reading rooms, and four external reading rooms, Manvers Street House aims to provide enough variety of comfortable spaces so that everyone can find the perfect place to call their own.

Individual Project

daisywatson2@hotmail.com

These internal reading rooms are:

The Breakfast Room

The Family Room

The Lounge

The Study

The Drawing Room

The external reading rooms are: The Main Courtyard

The Terrace

The Secret Garden

The Contemplation Courtyard

The character of each of these reading rooms is defined by the lighting, ventilation and acoustic quality, as well as the furniture and staircases.

Tutor: Rob Grover

Daisy Watson From top: Axonometric, Courtyard Perspective, Study Desks

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Bath World Conser vatoire Individual Project

Unfolding Culture Through Music hannah.falcone@hotmail.co.uk A contemporary conservatoire that focuses on world music and the craftsmanship of its instrumentation. This place of music education encourages collaboration and growth within the students, providing a platform for their work, simultaneously, sharing traditional sounds from around the world with the public.

Hannah Falcone

Tutor: Rob Grover

Acting as a cultural hub, the conservatoire aims to expand the entertainment presence in Kingsmead to provide an inclusive place for day and night live music, education and green space for Bath. The building wraps around the atrium that encases a warm and dry Mediterranean garden which can be enjoyed throughout the year. This green space offers the optimum environment for the precious instruments, an expansive release from the smaller practice rooms for the students and a unique journey towards the auditorium filled with impromptu performances and nature.

From top: Short Perspective Section, Atrium, External View, External View from Monmouth Street, Mediterranean Garden, Group Practice Room, Exploded Structural Isometric 130

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Piano Sanctuar y

hesangasong@gmail.com The dwindling popularity of the acoustic piano have caused many pianos to be left abandoned in the streets to rot. Acoustic pianos nowadays are cumbersome to deal with; they are expensive to maintain, repair and transport, and digital pianos have outperformed in those regards.

Individual Project

Restoration & Performance Centre

However, acoustic pianos have qualities that cannot be replicated by a digital piano such as its touch and tonal quality. It is a result of many generations of craftsmanship throughout the times as pianos have gone through thousands of iterations. Sadly, people have lost the appreciation for the complexity of the craftsmanship of a piano.

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provides a new home for the abandoned pianos,

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and celebrates the restored pianos through public performances.

Tutor: Rob Grover

This is a proposal to create a piano restoration centre which:

Heui Sung Kim From top: Front Facade, Workshop, Ground Floor Plan, Recital Hall, Long Section, Atrium Detail, Exploded Diagram 131

BSc Architecture 4th Year Bath City FC Academy Individual Project

Ludo in Civatem jamessball57@gmail.com Football academies seek to provide a football & education scholarship for 16 to 18 year olds, dedicated to producing a clear route into semi-professional and professional football while gaining a nationally recognised qualification in sport.

The project was challenging and fun, experimenting with the interplay of user groups and education mixed with sport. The aim was to provide spaces for an academy which set up students for later life, be it in a football capacity or otherwise - but producing well rounded individuals in the process. The thought that this can be achieved through type and quality of space is romanticised within architecture but is one, as student designers, we cannot let go of.

James Ball

Tutor: Rob Grover

Early decisions to separate public and private with sport provision binding the two together stayed strong throughout the project, with football in the community being at the heart of the scheme both physically and conceptually. The project consists of sport playing provision, rehabilitation facilities, an educational environment and contemplative space such as a yoga studio, as well as residential dorms.

From top: View from Victoria Bridge, Sectional Perspective, Sports Massage Facility, Rooftop Pitch-side View, Concrete Frame with Sheer Wall Strategy, Exploded South Facade 132

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Museum of Bath Culture

jenniferw_ju@hotmail.com Set on the old Cattle Market area, north of the city centre, this project challenges the notions of appropriate ‘Bath architecture’, which has undergone little change over the past three centuries. By engaging with the relationship between memory, experience and identity, the building seeks to analyse existing patterns and rhythms in the architecture of the city and reinterpret them into the modern environment. While recognising the importance of preserving the city’s world heritage, the project explores the relationship between continuity and change, challenging Bath’s identity beyond the surface of Bath stone.

From top: External Perspective, West Elevation, West Section, Ground Floor Plan, Journey through the Building (red - up; blue down), Internal Isometric 133

Jennifer Zhang

Modeled around the idea of a double helix, visitors are taken through a series of exhibition spaces, displaying collections about fashion, work and architecture in the context of Bath’s culture and history. Similarly to how one walks through the city’s varying elevations, exploring different areas from different angles, the museum allows visitors to experience different exhibitions from different perspectives, creating a microcosm of the city.

Tutor: Rob Grover

The vehicle of exploration is the museum, a place of cultural preservation and educational importance; providing spaces to experience, platforms for individual and collective memory and venues for discussions and development.

Individual Project

A Municipal Museum for the City and its People

BSc Architecture 4th Year Craf ted from Nature Individual Project

A Centre for the Canal lynseyhogarth96@gmail.com The landscape of Bath consists of a complex interaction between nature and man-made intervention and its technological advances. Its appearance is no longer determined by an amalgam of its geology. An interplay on the built and the untouched, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Crafted from Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a centre for nature, craft and education, aimed at the continued restoration and utilisation of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Lynsey Hogarth

Tutor: Rob Grover

Exploring the ambiguity of the incomplete and the contingency of time, the user is suspended above a natural and artificial edge, between river and canal. A man-made, crafted building, designed to allow the takeover of nature,

From top: Circulation Visual, The Flooded Dock, Entry Visual, Exploded Visual, Sectional Perspective

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Cyclist Promenade Bath Cycling Hub

This project aims to promote cycling and act as a catalyst for further improvements to Bath’s transport infrastructure, reducing pollution and congestion within the city centre. A dramatic roof form unites the cycling community with a strong civic identity, which creates large permeable and flexible spaces below. The structure creates a protected environment that acts as the backdrop for the cyclists to inhabit and adapt for their own needs. The efficient use of a masonry and steel hybrid structure is inspired by the simplicity and elegance of a bike.

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Naomi Punnett

From top: The Promenade, The Cafe, The Hall

Tutor: Rob Grover

The arched form pays homage to the nearby railway arches and Bath Spa Train Station, befitting the formality of the geometry executed in the Georgian and Roman architectural language, which is present in Bath. The red brick palette enhances the scheme’s sense of permanence, whilst referencing the site’s industrial heritage. Furthermore, it exposes the hidden red brick enclave of the Dolemeads, celebrating its unique identity in contrast to the typical use of Bath Stone.

Individual Project

naomi.p@btinternet.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

ensemble. A Prototype for Sustainable Shared Living zhuoming.shia@gmail.com One of the most significant social challenges facing our city is the phenomenon known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;studentificationâ&#x20AC;? which is causing division and conflict in our local communities. A possible solution is to live together.

Central to the scheme is a generosity of space and the freedom to adapt it, creating a combined sense of ownership and consequently a combined sense of responsibility. This space provides a starting point for dialogue between different people groups in an attempt to mend the broken relationship between the younger and older generations in Bath.

Zhuo-Ming Shia

Tutor: Rob Grover

The building is a collection of parts arranged around a central courtyard, each part taking on a specific role as a product of its inhabitation. On the ground floor, a new public realm open to all includes a community workshop, exhibition room, study hall and cafe-kitchen. Inseparably linked to these functions are the living units above them which are arranged into different typologies providing accommodation for a wide range of demographics.

From top: Exploded Axonometrics of Building Parts, Second Floor Plan, Exterior Elevation

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Searching For Wholeness

hannahrecord2@gmail.com Designed for an existing charity in Bath (the TRC), the scheme provides a facility for the recovery of children aged 4-24 who have experienced trauma and the support of their families in this process.

Individual Project

Therapy and Training Centre for Childhood Trauma Recover y

The TRC work in creative therapies based around Play, Art and Music. The design therefore encorporates activity specific large therapy rooms in 3 age group zones, off which sit smaller one on one rooms and pods to retreat into. A Training Centre operates in parallel, providing trauma informed training to professionals who work with children, from teachers and psychotherapists to the police force.

A walled garden of interconnected courtyards surrounded by domestic scale buildings, way-finding from a child’s perspective has defined this project. Changes in ground texture, low level planting and a meandering shallow stream define points of threshold and differentiate between areas of stillness, activity and directionality.

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Hannah Record

From top: Overall Isometric View, Courtyard Views, Age 4-11 Therapy Pods, Parent’s ‘House’ View, Site Section

Tutor: Mark Watkins

A desire to create a place of security and familiarity, has resulted in a scheme which focuses on the individual child, the parents and connecting to nature from every internal space.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Remembering Bath

Iiris TĂ¤hti Toom

Tutor: Mark Watkins

Individual Project

An Archive of Collective Memor y iiristoom@gmail.com Questioning our relationship to memory, identity and their manifestation in the urban fabric, the archive explores the city as an amalgamation of personal and public histories. As such, the centre is composed of 2 re-purposed Grade II* listed buildings, framing the new-built archive. With the protected archival floor sunken below, the publicly accessible building is set over two floors, opening to courtyards at two opposing ground levels - the first a heavy semi-submerged concrete structure, with the second, a light timber frame topped with a butterfly roof above. Focusing as much on the space between buildings as the buildings themselves, the scheme is centred around two courtyards, stitched into city-wide routes and to the sequential courtyards of Milsom Place. The lower court is characterised by water, stone and silence. Responding to the palimpsest of stone on site, it is comprised of historic stones salvaged from sites across the city. The higher court opens to the gallery and cafe spaces, enlivening them with its densely vegetated outdoor exhibition garden.

From top: Perspective Views, Plans, Long Section, Memories of the Site

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Islander Farmers Market Promoting Local Food

This project stems from a simple assessment: 70% of the land in Bath & Northeast Somerset is in agricultural use. Yet the globalisation of the agri-food industry and the rise of processed food have resulted in a progressive disconnection from people and the food they consume. Therefore, the project aims to promote and educate on local food and its production process by creating a bubble of green in the city.

Individual Project

traeger.isabella@gmail.com

The heart of the scheme is a covered farmers market, which gathers local producers. It is complemented by educational facilities aimed at all age ranges - namely a museum, a cooking and a growing workshop â&#x20AC;&#x201C;, and offices, which promote cooperation and dialogue between the various stakeholders.

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Isabella Traeger

From top: Site Plan, Exploded Isometric, Perspective Section, View of Approach via Bridge, Interior View

Tutor: Mark Watkins

The landscape is an integral part of the schemeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy: it houses allotments, a model farm, green spaces and phytoremediation plots, which progressively clean the contaminated soil through a cyclical process.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Jasmine Chung

Tutor: Mark Watkins

Individual Project

Aqua Urban Spa & Water Research Institute chungchuilam@gmail.com The restlessness, relentlessness, and urge for self-appreciation in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society call for a need to explore bathing as a cleansing ritual to radically improve physical, psychological, social and spiritual awareness of the public. Bathing treatments will be supported extensively by ongoing research regarding the effects of water (and other environmental factors) on our body, mind and soul. The project seeks to democratise modern spa experiences and advocate a cultural change of regarding bathing as not a glamorised tourist activity, but a necessity in future lifestyle. Thus, it proposes an operational plan where all BANES cardholders are entitled free access and partially subsidised by raised pricing for non-locals, as well as usage of batherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences as feedback for scientific research. Thus, there are mutual benefits from both spa and research, and a continual improvement of bathing environments, e.g. water infusions, aromas, sounds, alkalinity or light variations. The ultimate aim is to reconnect individuals not only with others, but most importantly with themselves, to lead more fulfilling lives.

From top: Ground Floor Plan (1:1000), South Facade, North Facade, Basement, Upper Laboratory Floors, Central Spa

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Mindful Building

lavan.sep21@gmail.com The human mind and body are in constant seek for experiences that are relevant, meaningful, pleasant, empathetic and motivational. This perception is a multisensory aspect, involving memory, emotion, visual and tactile experiences, all of which affect our behaviour, preference and response. The brain creates a cognitive diary of the world, directing experiences to things in an attempt to understand our surroundings. Architecture has the ability to evoke such responses, allowing us to comprehend the relations created with our surroundings, through experiences.

The building takes shape of a brain, with its left wing being the analytical side, consisting of the psychology and neuroscience laboratories and offices, and the right wing being the creative side, consisting of contemplative spaces such as the library, the cafe and auditorium. These spaces act as theatre sets for research experiments, where their architecture will be altered and the corresponding user response will be analysed.

From top: Roof Plan, Long Section, Entrance Perspective, Rotating Office Pods, Contemplation Chamber, Virtual Reality Lab

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Lavanya Palaneer

Playing with the concept of movement, materiality, light and exploration, the building aims to take one on a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;thinking pathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of experiences, beginning from the free-standing arches, to the contemplation chamber and sensory garden in the end.

Tutor: Mark Watkins

The proposal is a Neuro-Architecture Research Centre for the study of how built environment can affect the human brain.

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Neuro-Architecture Research Centre

BSc Architecture 4th Year Lucie Castillo-Ros

Tutor: Mark Watkins

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SYMPOSIUM The Adelard Centre: the New Cultural and Civic Hub of Bath luciecastilloros@hotmail.fr Despite the modernisation of our society, and the increasing interconnectedness of individuals, it seems that our capacity to exchange has been lost. Every day, the internet allows us to reach more people that we will ever be able to meet in real life. But to what extent do we continue to engage with the world? With our local communities, including out neighbours? In a city with an increasing divide between the new-coming student population and the locals, Bath is in need of a new hub for public discussion. The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is already a place for the interaction of the Bathonian: providing exhibition spaces, classes as well as talks and symposiums. However, their current facilities located on Queen Square prevent them from reaching the attention of most inhabitants. The Adelard centre will be their new home. In partnership with both universities and local institutions, they will expand their activities, reaching a population of students and young adults and instigating a discussion with the local communities. The centre will provide a new community auditorium for shows and talks, an exhibition space, a cafĂŠ, classrooms, archives as well as a debate chamber, and contemplation space: Providing spaces for discussion for all, and on all scales and formality. Those space will articulate around a central courtyard: a privileged space for interaction, a oasis of calm within the chaos of the city centre.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Ataraxie Mental Health Care Centre

The culture of healing and recovery is intrinsic to Bath, the philosophical and architectural backdrop of this project. The centre is located on a 14,700m2 site on one of the seven hills of Bath, embracing the architectural language of the city hills.

Individual Project

margaux.robinson@gmail.com

The centre is designed to welcome in-house patients who require 24h care and reside there, day patients who are autonomous and desire therapy, and the general public to raise awareness and break down this residual culture of ‘us and them’. The main design principles are the following:

De-institutionalizing - creating a campus, with blocs ‘scattered’ in nature. The patient/ nature proximity suppresses the hostile atmosphere of an ‘institution’. Way finding – suppressing the ‘corridor’ and ‘aimless roaming’ by creating engaging main arteries linking all of the blocks.

Tutor: Mark Watkins

Respecting the ground - following the natural slope of the site through the typology of terraces and use of retaining walls - unobstructed views.

Density – allowing patients to choose their desired level of privacy. Open spaces with reassuring reference points and spaces for positive isolation.

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Margaux Robinson

From top: Perspective of the Private Gardens, Perspective of the Hydrotherapy Pool, Perspective of a Patient’s Bedroom

BSc Architecture 4th Year Lyncombe Spor ts Centre

Ryan Farhanza Pohan

Tutor: Mark Watkins

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Inclusive Spor ts Centre ryanfpohan@gmail.com Sport is a global phenomenon that has the support of over 6 billion people. It provides a platform where social interactions can prosper. Sport does not discriminate nor create divisions. It inspires hope to the people who needs it most, such as disabled children. Due to their young age, they may not be able to fully cope with their condition. Sport has the ability to bridge the gap between them and everyone else. The Lyncombe Sports Centre serves as an institution that will bring disabled children closer to the community. It allows them to develop both their physical and mental well-being. The sports centre is located on Greenway Lane, south of Alexandra Park. It is comprised of five â&#x20AC;&#x153;pavilionsâ&#x20AC;? that have different scale and materiality that evoke a sense of playfulness. Proper disability support is integrated in the scheme instead of being treated as add-ons. The sports centre aims to provide a welcoming atmosphere for disabled children.

From top: Site Plan, South Elevation, External Perspective, Internal Perspective

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Bath Digital Jungle Tech Star t-up Hub

While Bath is seeing a big increase in the number of technology start-ups in recent years, the city is highly lacking in infrastructure for young businesses to thrive in the Digital Age. This project aims to tackle this issue by providing a place where tech start-ups can work productively as a community and grow to become mature businesses.

Incorporating greenery into the workplace can have many benefits to health and work productivity, as well as improving the air quality inside the building. To fully attain those benefits, greenery is heavily integrated into the atrium space, creating a sub-tropical greenhouse in the city centre.

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Varanond Dilokrungthirapop

From top: Atrium View, External View, Long Section, Plan

Tutor: Mark Watkins

The site is an existing car park on Manvers Street, surrounded by many listed buildings such as St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s church. Revitalising the disconnected area of the city, an atrium is created to frame stunning views of the Gothic church and create an urban passage. For the office tenants, the atrium is the centre of activity where people meet and connect, forming social and business relationships.

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nond_varanond@hotmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year Ear th to Ear th Individual Project

Resomation Facility ajaymohan@me.com Earth to Earth [Resomation, Now] utilises the industrial footprints of a decommissioned gas holder site as a platform to explore humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notion of mortality, temporality and ecology through subverting the notion of the static monument.

The existing scars of the industrial site are reconfigured as an expansive columbarium in which each fired brick becomes one element of a wider narrative in which a symbol of our industrial past is transformed into a spiritual civic entity.

Ajay Mohan

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

Establishing resomation as a necessary and imperative conduit for body disposal, the proposal seeks to blur the line between the landscape architecture and the ritual totem. The subsequent integration of the two becomes a philosophical experimentation into the evolution of our contemporary funerary space.

From top: House for a Machine, The Closed Loop Concept Image, Civic Legacy

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Bath Waterfront Concer t Hall & Cultural Venue

The local council seeks to provide a new cultural venue within the Central Area of the city as stated in the 2017 Core Strategy & Placemaking Plan Volume 02. Bath Waterfront will accommodate spaces that the city does not currently provide - a concert hall for 800, a flexible hall for 200 and a new temporary exhibition gallery.

The building is essentially a timber concert hall wrapped by a concrete structure. Concrete is selected as the site sits within a flood plain and timber is chosen for is acoustic properties. The timber box sits taller than the surrounding concrete frame to emphasise the primary space, thus creating a classical form.

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

The Kennet and Avon Canal was designed to link the rivers of the Avon and Thames together but where the river and canal meet at Thimble Mill is wholly without celebration. The rapid succession of hotel chains that have owned Thimble Mill have chosen not to recognise the power of this confluence or its basin as part of its identity. This scheme intends to rectify this by promoting engagement with the waterways.

Individual Project

jasonkylesim@gmail.com

Jason Kyle Sim From top: Elevation, Section, Timber Concert Hall, Concrete Foyer

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

Riverside Centre for Spor t and Well-being joeshepherd1997@gmail.com Sports, health and community facilities at the heart of the Riverside Development, bringing together local residents. This inclusive centre provides ‘controlled’ spaces for optimum sports experiences and ‘dynamic’ spaces for lively community interaction. ‘The Street’ connects the entire scheme. With views left into the multi-purpose sports hall and right to the outdoor swimming pool, it allows for casual spectating of sports. Above a more formal viewing gallery overlooks these spaces.

The Riverside Centre for Sport and Well-being initiates active community engagement and encourages a passion for sport.

Joe Shepherd

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

The cafe, at the culmination of ‘the street,’ opens out to the extended playing facilities offering a wide range of popular sports, adapted for those with reduced mobility.

From top: North Elevation, Sectional Perspective, Floor Plans, ‘The Street’, Hall, Swimming Pool

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Field Disturbance Orbital Debris Research Facility

Seeking to elevate awareness of the issue of Orbital Debris, the project is a scientific research facility with cosmological ambition. We are currently on the cusp of a societal and technological revolution, if the 20th Century was mankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first stumbling steps into the extra terrestrial, the 21st Century will see mankind take the next giant leap into the abyss.

Individual Project

lewisbrown10@icloud.com

Designed to be experienced on both romantic and classical levels of understanding, the proposal looks to highlight the intangible deterministic nature of our reality in order to establish a more open public engagement within scientific discourse.

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

Through layering ideas of legacy and memory, deterministic methods are utilised to create an architecture that endures over cosmological and evolutionary time scales manifestly connecting us to both our distant ancestry and far flung future descendants.

Lewis Brown From top: Projected Monoliths, Establishing the Underlying Orders, Transcending Evolutionary Time-scales

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BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

LINGUA Multilingual Librar y and Language Centre lulu.r.song@gmail.com Out of all the European countries, the UK has the lowest proportion of citizens that can speak a second language. ‘Lingua’ is an institution that aims to promote and encourage multilingualism in Bath. It incorporates a language school, which offers regular foreign language classes to the general public, and a multilingual library with books in many different languages to support people’s linguistic studies.

Colourful ceramic tiles adorn the facade as an emblem of diversity and culture. Right at the heart of the scheme is a new, lively public courtyard where markets, outdoor performances and cultural activities will take place. The essence of the building is essentially exchanging and celebrating different cultures as well as fostering a strong sense of community.

Lulu Song

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

Various cultural workshops, exhibitions, foreign film screenings and talks are hosted within the building to inspire and motivate people to start learning a new language.

From top: View from the Street, View from the Library, View from the Courtyard

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

MEIK Ar ts Space

make /meik/ verb form something by putting parts together or combining substances; create

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mary-lee@live.co.uk

M E I K is a new arts space in Bath, relocating the artists at Bath Artists’ Studios. Against the elegant Georgian terraces and crescent, BAS is housed in a crumbling building that might otherwise be left to fall into further disrepair. However it continues to thrive because of the creative and dedicated people who continue to work in it. It deserves a better, more permanent home in the city.

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

M E I K will seek to reaffirm the public realm as a location of creative arts and education, providing an accessible and creative resource for its’ communities, whilst housing the members of BAS. The goal is to secure long term and sustainable premises, to provide affordable and well appointed accessible facilities for education, events, offices and exhibitions. In doing so, this proposal can contribute to Bath’s economic growth, it’s reputation as a cultural centre and educate the public in understanding and appreciation of the arts.

Mary Lee From top: Bird’s Eye View, Short Section, the Approach, the Night Shift, Roof Plan, the Riverside Elevation

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BSc BSc Architecture Architecture 4th 4th Year Year The City & The City Individual Individual Project Project

Bath Architecture Centre 18robertsm@gmail.com The public face of Bath is one of homogeneity and serenity, the city is often experienced through photographs as only a series of sweeping crescents and grand squares. The vast majority of Bath however, is hidden behind these perfect facades, it is the side streets, the alleyways, the passages and the ‘imperfect’ rear elevations.

Matthew Roberts

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

Any successful centre for Architecture within the city of Bath must demonstrate the lessons to be gleaned from both sides of the city, from the pristine and from the functional, for without one the other could not or would not exist. “It is cherishing all the features, from buildings to atmosphere, which give a historic town its value” Bath: A Study in Conservation Report to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Bath City Council Colin Buchanan et al., 1968

From top: the Approach from the City Centre, the Museum Balcony, the Approach from the River

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Forum

serraakgiray@hotmail.com Forum is a place of assembly for thoughtful individuals from all disciplines, who can contribute to the development of science and humanity.

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An Interdisciplinar y Centre for Collaboration

Forum aims to weave together networks of individuals and organisations by generating a communication platform and physical space for active collaboration of varying degrees.

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Serra Akgiray

From top: South Elevation, Axonometric Concept Drawing, Upper Entry, Central Courtyard, Lower Entry, 1:50 Model of the Resource Core, 1:500 Massing Model, East Elevation

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

There is no unity of language to help in solving architectural problems. City is a complex habitat made up of fragments that are added on or overlaid. Forum is imagined as a city, in which many events take place simultaneously. The essence of its architecture is to design the setting of these interlacing events. From the expression of this complexity of purpose arises unity in place.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Individual Project

Bath Town Hall wm.rook@hotmail.com A space for dialogue, for reason, and for thoughtful persuasion. A place to facilitate discussion. A new administrative centre for Bath that consolidates the existing council facilities on a site currently occupied by the Cattle Market Car Park.

Connection is further improved by a bridge over the river, and the proposed ventilation tower for the adjacent carpark provides a bell that rings to announce council meetings for the public to join.

William Rook

Tutor: Julia Kashdan-Brown

In addition to the library and office facilities a series of public spaces have been proposed, from a civic square to a courtyard and a landscaped walk along the river Avon, the project is tied into the urban landscape.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Widcombe Mill Glassworks

Widcombe Mill Glassworks is a blown glass production and education centre with a focus on public interaction and involvement. A great conical structure sits to the South of the site, forming a contemporary icon of the glass blowing industry. Three tiers within the cone provide space for demonstrations, exhibition and observation of the glass blowing process.

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cmhails@live.co.uk

A Grade 2 listed mill building sits next to the glass cone, a gentle renovation of this building allows it to anchor the scheme to the site.

The glass cone is a solid masonry shell formed of stone and solid, glass block units; this creates a perforated dappled light and exhibits glass as a structural material. Laminated glass beams form the primary structure which holds the floor plates in place, displaying glass as a versatile structural material.

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Charlotte Hails

From top: Internal View at Top of Glass Cone, Entrance to the Cone, Courtyard View showing Three Building Types, First Floor Plan, Sectional Perspective Through Cone, Collage Elevation of Prior Park Road

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

A stone wall wraps the perimeter of the site, sheltering it from the busy main road. A framed building with a smooth glass facade spans into the wall. It contains the main workshop spaces and education spaces for apprentices.

BSc Architecture 4th Year South Quays Industrial Centre Individual Project

A Place for Business Community dsamarts@gmail.com Part factory part office, the proposed centre combines the need for modernized industrial space in Bath with an expansion to business incubation. The building creates a unique space for young businesses to interact with each other, strengthening ties with each other, and forming links to local manufacturers, greatly benefiting the business community in Bath.

Dmitry Samartsev

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

Located on the site of a historic crane factory, the scheme is informed by two existing buildings on the site - Newark works, a grade II listed building, and the adjacent foundry building. The scheme preserves the essence of these buildings while modernising and extending their functionality. The negative space between the two buildings is leveraged to create a central circulation space - the street. The resulting space is a rich blend of historic walls, modern construction, and flexible container units designed to extend the functionality of the building as required. The building ties into a larger aspirational development of the river bank, with new routes throughout the area, located at the key connection to the city centre from the south bank.

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

The Ribbon of Bath A Tex tile Hub

As one walks past the station and along the Avon river bank, the poetry of the industrial Bath comes alive. The buildings are scarred with the signs of time passing. The history is woven in the grain of the patched up masonry faรงades. This palimpsest represents the change in the needs of a society which is attached to the traditional yet seeks development, novelty, innovation.

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francescasavanco@outlook.it

The aim of the project is to create a Textile Hub. It is an educational and research facility aimed to teach the traditional textile fabrication and to researching technology based smart-materials for wearables and fashion.

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Francesca Savanco

From top: Arrival to the Ribbon, The Bow, The Innovation Shop

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

The Concept of Manus x Machina, Hand Against Machine, directs the design and schedule. There is a synergy between the innovation and the traditional craft in the field of textiles. The proposal embraces this, by separating the two different buildings, then stitching them back together. The landscape seamlessly becomes the walkway, weaves into the thermo bi-metal facade which wraps around the innovation hub, like a translucent veil. This feathery biomimetic skin reflects the life of Bath and gives back little snapshots into the dynamic production of the smart textiles laboratory.

BSc Architecture 4th Year Jack Hodkinson

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

Individual Project

MuSci Bath Science Museum and Planetarium jackhodkinson4@gmail.com Celebrate the Past Bath has a rich history of scientific discovery, dating from the work of the Adelard in the 12th century, yet much of this scientific heritage remains unknown to the city’s residents and visitors. An innovative and interactive science museum will allow this important history to be brought into the light. Inspire the Future MuSci will create a space to showcase cutting edge scientific development, with exhibitions for all ages and knowledge levels. The museum will inspire the scientists of tomorrow, offering the opportunity to see scientists at work and to learn about their discoveries. Unite our Community The museum’s threshold location between the residential and central areas of Bath will enable it to function as an important space, for both residents and visitors. MuSci’s presence on the riverside reflects the inseparability of science and nature, and will give visitors a chance to reconnect with the natural beauty of the city.

From top: Long Section, Short Section, Circulation Perspective, Elevation, Procession Diagrams, Exploded Structure, Planetarium Section 158

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Receptum Spa and Wellness Retreat

This project attempts to allow society to restore their physical and mental well-being through visiting the spa and practising yoga in the heart of the city of Bath. The history of Bath frames the bathing culture of the city; however, it has lost throughout the twentieth century. By introducing the practice of bathing in the scheme will remind people of the meaning of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bathâ&#x20AC;? and the sense of place. The retreat will also promote the social awareness of personal health and well-being, given that many of us are always living under high pressure and stress from work or school.

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Sin Ning Julia Wong

From top: Ground Floor Plan, View from Yoga Pavilion, View from Outdoor Pool Sun Deck, Section through Yoga Pavilion and Accommodation, View from Internal Pool, Site Elevation

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

The scheme emphasises on the idea of flow from one node to another within this sensitive site, thus the importance of Hope House and the yoga pavilions and the route that links in between. The site is therefore defined by of two building typologies: above and below grade. Timber and glass are used for above to articulate the sense of openness and lightness; concrete and rammed earth is used for below to articulate the sense of concealment and firmness. Working with this principle, the buildings are merged with the landscape and the surrounding context seamlessly. All buildings are designed to perform efficiently so that energy consumption can be minimised to its optimal. Details of the roof, structure and the use of material make the scheme more green and perform less impact on the landscape.

Individual Project

juliawong0410@gmail.com

BSc BSc Architecture Architecture 4th 4th Year Year Olivia Christodoulides

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

Individual Individual Project Project

The Herschel Centre An interactive educational and experimental science centre dedicated to the Herschels christodoulides_olivia@hotmail.com A proposal of a science centre located very close to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy. This centre calls to bring in all the community and educate the people of Bath about this revolutionary figure who lived in their city. It further calls to educate about the science behind the Herschels’ creations and discoveries, and raise awareness, ignite curiosity and create drive and excitement about the subject of Astronomy. The building is arranged as two ‘wings’ which feel heavy and represent the earth. They contain all the activities to do on your journey up. The other two sides are two glass boxes which represent the sky and accommodate the exhibition spaces. The central space includes the planetarium, the forum and the dome and is considered to be the heart of the building. Everything relates to and is positioned around this. Moreover, this expresses figuratively the idea of the earth (forum) that joins with the sky (dome). The dome ramp experience is dedicated to viewing and enjoying the city of Bath and the sky.

From top: Interior Renders, Model Pictures

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BSc Architecture 4th Year

Weston Island

sajaunzens@gmail.com A new aquatic sporting venue will strengthen Bath’s leisure and recreation heritage, sustaining a vision of sporting excellence alongside societal well-being and health. ‘Compartitions’ will cater for an increase in recreation and leisure while acting as a regional home for sporting excellence with facilities that don’t currently exist within the city. The notion of process drives the scheme in its architectural, environmental and structural language as the building responds to occupants’ arrival, preparation and practice sequence.

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South West Centre for Aquatic Spor ting Excellence

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Sebastian Jaunzens

From top: Site Plan, Swimming Hall Visual, Ground Floor Plan, Long Section

BSc Architecture 4th Year sofiavalentini27@gmail.com Bath City Farm is a building complex designed to grow food in the city, but most importantly to reconnect humans to this process. The building stands as a flagship for technological innovation of local food production, and will accommodate the study and implementation of urban agricultural in addition to a community food hub. The programme is composed of three main elements of producing, consuming and decomposing, which completes a food chain within this scheme. The growing space produces food. The market and the restaurant consume food. The anaerobic digester recycles organic waste and produces biofertiliser which in return serves the growing space and the restaurant. The site is in Bath Quays North, where currently Avon Street Car Park sits. In the heart of the emerging Bath Quays business and commercial district, located within 5 minutes walk from Bath Spa railway station, Bath City Farm would become the commercial and production food hub of Bath. The productivity buildings consists of four main sections, as an attempt to develop an efficient system of greenhouses volumes. The main idea is that this system is versatile and can be adapted into any urban plot. The greenhouse modules are linearly spread across the landscape. A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;uniqueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; end node for corner design stands out from uniform pattern defining an entrance to the building.

Sofia Valentini

Tutor: Tpby Jefferies

Individual Project

Bath City Farm

From top: Aerial View from Alexandra Park, East Reception Perspective, Market Perspective

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Thimble Mill Lido Public Baths

Water has played a central role in developing Bathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and architectural history. Today, the story of Bathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s water is evident in the Roman Baths Museum and Thermae Bath Spa. Thimble Mill Lido seeks to provide the people of Bath with a place to swim and enjoy the nature that surrounds them everyday. Whilst the Roman Baths Museum and Thermae Bath Spa offer one time experiences that attract tourists to the city.

Individual Project

soph.babz@gmail.com

A water purification system transports water around the site and becomes a visual feature, creating the threshold between the entrance courtyard and the natural outdoor pool.

As you are gently elevated by the water you forget the din of the full pool. Float beneath the open sky and watch the glistening reflection of light, dance on the surrounding walls. The building becomes the backdrop to life at the lido.

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Sophia Babiolakis

From top: Follow the light through the building, E-W Section, The building becomes the backdrop to life at the lido, The Tepidarium

Tutor: Toby Jefferies

The building has been designed for longevity and the graceful weathering of materials over time. The use of rammed concrete containing Bath Stone aggregate will express the strata of the construction process.

Moments

BSc Architecture 4th Year

Moments

MArch Architecture 5th Year

5th Year The brief for the main project this year is to design a Community Centre and Live Work accommodation in Bristol, with spaces for performance, gathering, teaching, meeting, crèche, cooking and eating and at least six dwellings with workspace, which can be entered independently of the dwellings. Different arrangements of dwelling, workspace and community centre are possible. The students were invited to make the project their own; to revise and develop the brief in the direction they wished to take it. The site is the environs of Cumberland Basin, 25 minutes’ walk west of the city centre where the floating harbour joins the tidal river Avon and where Bristol’s ships come to and from the sea. Students were also asked to design a public landscape for the adjacent city spaces.

Studio Co-ordinator: Toby Lewis

Students have also been encouraged to design with models and to present their ideas through sketches or unﬁnished work. These combined have required the students to work very quickly and productively, to change gear from what some of them have been used to, to ‘jump in and splash around’ as Dennis Lasdun put it.

From top: Threshold, Alvin Tsoi (Main Project), Oliver Hills (Main Project)

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The aims of the studio have been: 1. To encourage each student to explore and develop their own design processes through a series of structured exercises. 2. To develop designs that address a range of scales from urban design and landscape to detail and material. The students have undertaken: • A ‘live’ threshold installation, building a group design • A manifesto on ‘beauty’ in image and text • A placemaking mapping of the city in groups along lines drawn on a map • An observing and recording exercise focused on the site • A Rhino and Grasshopper parametric CAD modelling workshop • A workshop on ‘asking, looking, playing and making’ as a way of developing ideas • A ‘muff on a huff puff’ game of architectural consequences as a way of developing type and form • Precedent studies of landscape, building, concrete or timber • A concrete detail with a fabric formed concrete workshop • Or a timber detail with a timber structural strategies workshop • A landscape design exercise for the project site • A group urban design in Munich for the suburb of Neuperlach • A building environment workshop • A series of book reports on current approaches to architecture

From top: Munich Workspace, Mark Kendernay (Main Project), Helen Zhang (Main Project)

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Sustainable Cities 6th Year Group Project During the first part of the final year of the Master of Architecture programme, students carry out urban design projects in groups in a city of their choice. In 2018-19 the cities studied were: Catania, FĂ¨s, Granada, Reykjavik, Seville, Split, Tbilisi and Venice. Each group carries out desk-top studies before undertaking their site visit, during which they carry out further research and analysis of their chosen locale within the city. The students then return to Bath where they explore transformative urban design proposals for their locale, based on the principles of low carbon urbanism. This year, the Department was delighted that the Mayor and the Development Agency from Split were so impressed by the research and design proposals prepared by the students that they invited and paid for myself and the students to return to Split in April to present the proposals to representatives from the City and the University. The work was extremely well received and was even the subject of an unexpected accolade of being the feature of a double page spread in the Croatian press. The final part of the semester is dedicated to individual work during which students prepare a design brief for a building within their locale. This builds upon their city research allowing them to develop a brief appropriate to their chosen site and consistent with the needs of local people. Students can link their final design project to the subject of their Research Paper, should they wish to do so. The second half of the year is spent entirely on the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; individual design projects. Studio work is supported by architectural tutors and specialist consultants whose aim is to help students develop and resolve the final academic project of their architectural education. The project provides the opportunity for every student to employ the full range of knowledge and expertise they have gained in the course of their architectural education. Each student is encouraged to pursue their own agenda for the project and to use the opportunity it provides as a spring board into their professional careers. Prof. Alex Wright

MArch 6th Year Reveal | Connect | Engage

Catania

Individual Masterplanning Project

Catania, Italy Alice Loi Hye-Jin Kim Francesca Naddafi Harry Turner Will Thomas Victor Li The evolution of Catania is deeply connected to Mt Etna. The city is built at the base of the volcano from stone sourced from its historic lava flows, and its agricultural, industrial and tourist economy has been largely dependent on it. However, this relationship is not without conflict. The connotation of a healthier lifestyle that Etna portrays is seen as a major factor of urban migration and sprawl up its slopes, resulting in the subsequent decline and dereliction of Catania city centre. Our masterplan aims to reinforce this unique relationship, and adopt Etna as a resource to repair, revitalise and redefine the city. The proposal draws the Etna landscape into the city, to provide much needed green infrastructure and water management systems to make the city a more attractive and healthy place to live. It intensifies local culture and traditions and utilises underused spaces and resources in the city to accommodate this. Finally, the proposal exploits the abundant energy resource of Etna to rebrand the city as a new energy capital.

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Ville Nouvelle

Fès

Masterplanning

Fès, Morocco Rebecca Mark Alexander Silk Connor Randall Paulina Konkina Becky Lane Jon Holland The city of Fès is a city of two halves. The Medina, a vibrant, densely packed district amassed of riads and a labyrinth of alleyways full of rich culture, and the Ville Nouvelle which takes inspiration from western typologies resulting in a piece of city lacking in responsive design to the climatic and cultural needs of the people. Our masterplan seeks to resolve the issue of connection and the absence of suitable public realm in three different areas across the city. The aim in the Ville Nouvelle was to increase the density and ease urban sprawl by supplying affordable housing and amenities in central locations. Teamed with sustainable water collection and storage strategies, the proposal relieves strain on valuable water resources. The Connection links the two districts of the city. As a vast, barren landscape currently only accessible by vehicle, our strategy looks to revitalise the area with a pedestrian green link with appropriate planting to create biodiversity and provide a resource for the city. The Medina focuses on the deeper issue of the lack of respect towards the river. This is reflected in pollution and waste problems which have had a knock-on effect far beyond the city of Fès limiting the productivity of the agriculture downstream. Strategic moves have been made to re-manifest the water in ways which respond to Islamic culture and to manage the microclimate of the city’s open spaces creating cool and functional public realm.

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Connection

Medina - Cultural Square

Medina - Civic Square

Medina - Industrial Square

Stitching

Connection - Detail Plan

Wayfinding

Water Retention

Medina - Civic Square Shade

Green Belt

Public Transport

Eid-Al-Fitr

Festival of Water

Water Management

Waste Management

Boulevard

Connection

Medina

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MArch 6th Year Agua De Granada

Granada

Masterplanning

Granada, Spain Gerasimos Mataragkas Lilian Lam Elianne Vos George Parfitt Toby Lau This project aims at the re-establishment of Granada as a self-sufficient city, by tying it back to its history and heritage. After identifying the three main problems of Water, Economy and Traffic, the masterplan proposes a robust water management strategy that takes precedent from the Moorish tradition and contemporary techniques. With that strategy, the exacerbating effects of climate change that cause severe floods and draughts will be alleviated, while the use of water will regenerate the area around the rivers and catalyse the restart of primary production of goods in the valley. Finally, in conjunction with all these, the proposed sustainable public transport system will diminish pollution, thus preserving the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich past while also offering a promising future.

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New Public Space Node

Multifunctional Public Square

Bridges Across River

Timber-Deck River Walk

HIGH STREET: EVENT SPACE

Improved Connectivity

Shop Fronts Facing New Square

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Identity Climate Energy, Density, Transport, Social

The City of Light Masterplanning

Reykjavík, Iceland Cecilia Ferrari Daniel Mclean Benjamin Martin Samuel Kalejaye Gian Virdi Piotr Paszkiewicz

Reykjavík

Reykjavík has an abundance of renewable energy resource which can act as the foundation for the future development in the city. Not only does this create huge economic advantages, it also creates a global draw to the city which can be used to redefine its identity. The aim of the masterplan is re re-create, re-brand and re-design Reykjavík through a series of key issues, which if holistically designed can improve the city’s overall identity. Focusing on the 101 zone allows the masterplan to address key social, political and economic issues enabling the proposal to have the biggest impact to the city, the country and the world. The beauty of Iceland’s nature can be drawn back into Reykjavík. If renewable energy can be explored to its maximum potential and the city can address the issues within the 101 then it can truly re-create its identity and become the true Northern capital city in the world. Reykjavík can become the city of light.

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Diagrams of climatic strategies

REYKJAVIK

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Change of paving surface to indicate different use.

Train powered by the Harbour wind turbines.

Redirected Geothermal Heat Wall.

Tree and Hill Wind Buffer.

Coastal Walk.

Pavement halo strip lighting.

Semi-Translucent Sheet material to reverberate the light and reflect the sky.

Structural poles acting as energy transfers from the ground to the lights on the roof.

Green strip dividing Tram lines and walking zones.

Isometric of tram platform

Isometric of the cycling network and landscape

Isometric of tram shelter

Sectional Perspective of the proposed Harbour

Sectional perspective of the proposed Summer Coast

Sectional perspective of the proposed Winter Park

Axonometric of the proposed Harbour

Axonometric of the proposed Summer Coast

Axonometric of the proposed Winter Park

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MArch 6th Year Masterplanning

Seville, Spain Oliver Henshaw Savvas Procopiou Daniel Miller Michael Constantinides James de Leyser Emmanuel Anim-Ayekoh

Seville

Following the significant infrastructural developments required for Expo â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;92, Seville has become a city of barriers. A new river cut resulted in two bodies of water separating Seville from adjacent settlement of Aljarafe, which has further encouraged city sprawl. The wider vision rectifies this disconnection through the appropriate densification of nodes identified at edge conditions along the length of each municipality. Our locale masterplan proposes a mixeduse development, designed to enhance city connections and reduce sprawl. An integrated community will address city unemployment through encouraged use of the Expo â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;92 site. The scheme utilises a series of micro-climate mechanisms to improve the habitability of the extreme climate in Seville, particularly throughout a new linear park which connects the city north to south. Inspiration was taken from Sevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old town for the proposed urban grain of the residential island, where a hybrid language mediated between the historic centre and Expo development. Ultimately, the scheme will encourage use of the river, become a catalyst for growth and connect Seville with Aljarafe.

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MArch 6th Year Innovation Capital of the Adriatic Masterplanning

Split, Croatia Sam Bunn Tom Lowe Hugh Pearce Stephen Oldham Yuchen Mei Yee Wei Gan

Split

Research into Split revealed three key issues to be addressed: connectivity, diversity and resilience. Split struggles with connectivity on a local and national scale. The city has no public transport other than an unreliable bus service, and is surprisingly unwalkable for its small size. On a national scale, the arrival experience for cruise and air passengers is poor. A new train station, bridge and ferry terminal are proposed to create a better interface with national and international transport. A walkable green loop and a tram loop are proposed to resolve local connectivity. The economy of Split is dominated by tourism, which makes it dangerously vulnerable to poor weather or varying flight costs. It also means that too much of the activity in the city is concentrated in the old town. The new scheme proposes that the new development in the north and the university should be developed into additional centres, and the northern development provides the office space needed to diversify the economy. To make Splitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future secure, it must be a sustainable, self dependent city. To this end improvements to the waste and energy networks are proposed.

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Pollution | Connectivity | Green Space Tbilisi, Georgia Alexander Baker Sara Madbouli Katie Hutchinson James Waddington Peter Madge Elizabeth Dent

Transport

Waste

Tbilisi

Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital has the highest mortality rate caused by air pollution in the world at 292 premature deaths per 100,000 people. The poor quality of air in Tbilisi can be attributed to an over-dependence on the car, with nearly 90% of all pollution caused by vehicular traffic. At present, international traffic runs through the centre of Tbilisi and disconnects the city from its river. The masterplan seeks to drastically improve Tbilisiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s air quality by reintroducing green space into the heart of the city and removing the car. Over the next forty years, the masterplan will implement these changes through a series of phased developments along the riverfront. A new riverside park will line the Mtkvari River for its entire 27km stretch through Tbilisi. Our locale will form the first phase of the city-wide masterplan, which hopes to re-brand Tbilisi as the greenest city in Europe.

Room 01: Wetland Retreat

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Energy

Heat

Room 02: Civic Quarter

Construction

Landscape

Room 03: Festival Island

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MArch 6th Year A Lifeline for Venice Masterplanning

Venice, Italy Sara Medas Rebecca Hall Gemma Hale Dan Lu Isaac Lim

Venice

The masterplan aims to address the major problems that have been affecting Venice in the last few decades. These range from the sea level rise, the frequency of the flooding, and mass tourism which brings overbearing amounts of tourists and cruise ships that visit Venice. As a consequence of all these problems, Venice and its heritage, culture and people are in danger of disappearing in the very near future. The project proposes the implementation of a landscape coastal defence, named the Green Belt, that will address the issues of flooding from future sea level rise. The Belt acts as a catalyst for the introduction of new sustainable forms of tourism for the region to relieve the stress off the historic island. In addition, two more focused smaller masterplans will concentrate on linking historic Venice and mainland Mestre along with the Belt. In Venice, the project aims at redeveloping new land around the station, opened up by the moving of the train terminal and cruise port. In Mestre, the project looks into the creation of a new transport hub for improved connectivity to the island, the Belt, and the rest of the mainland.

Proposed masterplan with Green Belt

PROPOSED FLOOD DEFENSE

MOVING TRANSPORT NODE

Proposed coastal defence

New transport node on mainland

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MIXED USE PORT ADMIN SERVICES

SHUTTLE STATION

AIRPORT

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WETLAND WALK

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Venice masterplan strategy

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PROPOSED TRANSPORT

Green connection between historical Mestre masterplan strategy Venice and modern Mestre

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C ATA NI A Alice Loi Hye-Jin Kim Francesca Naddafi Harry Turner Will Thomas Victor Li

MArch 6th Year aliceloi@outlook.com The theatre is set within a dramatic backdrop. As part of the theatrical Baroque faĂ§ades of Catanian streets, dominated by the strong presence of Mount Etna that shaped the physical formation and culture of the city. The agenda of the project is two-fold : first as a piece of social infrastructure that helps to bring life back onto the streets of Catania, redefining the cultural identity of the people and place; and second, to expand the role of a theatre building in engaging with local communities and bridging relationships through participation in the performing arts. The Teatro Commune, as a result, has been designed to respond sensitively to each of the unique condition of the site. The ground plane of the building is a continuation of the streets, drawing people into an internal landscape of informal performance spaces. At the heart of the building sits two anchors : a theatre yard and an in-the-round auditorium expressed in deep-red pumice stone from Etna.

Alice Loi

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

Individual Project

Teatro CommunĂŠ

From top: Main Auditorium, Principal Elevation, Street Foyer, Theatre Yard, Axonometric of Internal Streetscape

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Craf ts Quar ter in Catania The revival of ar tisans’ hub

The project aims to revive an artisans’ hub in Catania that was destroyed during the 1950’s post-war urban redevelopment. Various sizes of crafts workshops are proposed to replace an abandoned plot in a dense urban fabric, which creates the hidden courtyard. Residential units are sitting above each ground workshops to serve live/work function. While live/work units house artisans and their families, the central courtyard and the gallery provide opportunities for public to experience craftsmanship in Catania.

Individual Project

stepha624@gmail.com

Tutor: Jo Hibbert Hye-Jin Kim From top: Ground Level Isometric Drawing, 1:500 Model Photography, View of Main Courtyard

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MArch 6th Year Francesca Naddafi

Tutor: Alan Keane

Individual Project

Citrus Revividus francescanaddafi@hotmail.com ‘Citrus Revividus’ [the revival of citrus] is a sustainable research facility and community hub that uses waste from Catania’s second largest export, citrus fruit, to create energy, textiles and crafts and thus to facilitate a social and economic transformation of Catania’s currently most derelict and dangerous area: San Berillo. In a world where waste is considered as simply another part of an object’s life, waste is often not adequately addressed. Thanks to Sicily’s abundant citrus resources, from the fertile arable lands of Mount Etna, the island is the largest producer of citrus and citrus waste in the EU. In recent years landfill sites have been exhausted and, as a result the waste is now being transported long distances, incurring both economic and environmental costs and leaving the citrus industry at risk. Research has suggested that innovative production of by-products could be the key to combating waste yet, due to lack of facilities, funding and research staff, this potential has not been exploited. The agricultural context would make Sicily the ideal location for world leading research and production in this area. The idiosyncratic nature of this project responds directly to the identification of opportunities specific to its place, considered through many facets including climate, culture, economy, sustainability, site and community.

From top: Roofscape as Growing Space, Long Sectional Perspective from North to South revealing filigree nature of Internal Courtyards, Edge of the Courtyard Elevation, Façades of the City Elevation 192

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La Ludoteca

This project proposes a new centre dedicated to reducing the high rates of ‘Early School Leaving’, a critical social issue in the city of Catania, Sicily. Run by a local community association, Arci Catania, sport and recreation facilities alongside a children’s nursery form the core of the building’s programme with an emphasis on providing spaces suitable for youth culture activities, such as street basket, hip-hop dance, graffiti workshops, and climbing and parkour, alongside spaces for public community use.

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Harry Turner

From top: Axonometric Floor Breakdown, Dance Studio, Front Entrance, Nursery, Event Hall, Cafe, Atrium, Long Section

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

The chosen site is located adjacent to Castello Ursino, one of the few monuments to have survived Mt. Etna’s 17th century eruptions, and the desire to put youth culture on display as a celebration of community life in such a prominent civic location was central to the project’s design approach. The more controlled, formal spaces, such as the sports hall, dance studio and community event hall, are either elevated above or sunken below the ground plane. Ensuring the typically solid and impermeable walls they functionally require at low-level do not become barriers to a more open relationship between building and public realm while also creating destinations as you ascend up through the building. More informal spaces are arranged around these key destinations in a split-level section with volumes interweaving to create a dynamic relationship of views and connections between the different spaces.

Individual Project

hj.turner06@hotmail.co.uk

BSc Architecture 4th Year Year MArch 6th This proposal aims to question the future role of the transport hub as a social epicentre of the city. The uninterrupted roof canopy moderates the local climate below, facilitating a range of market activity in a climatically appropriate public space, as well as uniting a series of existing and proposed public transportation modes that tie in with the wider sustainability goals of the Catania city masterplan.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Catania is a city carved from the layers of volcanic basalt it is built upon. The architectural language employed explores the tectonic relationship of a heavier carved base that flows underneath of a lighter tree canopy structure, reconciling a contemporary architectural approach with the historical use of basalt in Catania.

Will Thomas

Tutor: Mick Brundle

thomaswill94@outlook.com

From top: View of the Market from under the Roof Canopy, Detail Section of a Canopy Module, View of a Rooftop Terrace ‘In the Tree - Tops’ 194 PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Catania Central Transpor t Hub and Market

MArch 6th Year

Catania City Walled Garden Crematorium

Set in an industrial gasholder site located near the city centre of Catania, the Walled Garden Crematorium introduces an urban landscape to the city centre for final farewells and the commemoration of the afterlife. Whilst tackling the growing demands for cremation facilities in Sicily, the project aims to pay tribute to those who have contributed to the industrial triumph the city once celebrated.

Individual Project

victorlict@gmail.com

The design experiments with the feasibility of a funerary architecture in an urban fabric. At the same time explores the possibilities of transforming an abandoned gasholder structure into a memorial. Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The concept of a walled garden relates to the existing building running along the perimeter of the site and intends to create a moment in the city where the visitors can be solitary with their passed loved ones.

Victor Li From top: Isometric of Crematorium, Interior View of Chapel Space, Isometric of Columbarium, Interior View of Columbarium Module, Aerial Overview 195

FĂ&#x2C6;S Rebecca Mark Alexander Silk Connor Randall Paulina Konkina Becky Lane Jon Holland

MArch 6th Year Al-Halqa: Individual Project

A Stor y telling Centre & Archive rebecca.s.mark@outlook.com Stories are a means by which the people connect to their history. They are a treasure chest of cultural gems and have been described as holding the essence of what it means to be a Moroccan. Traditionally, stories were told in marketplaces across Morocco by travelling tellers who were held in high esteem due to their wealth of knowledge and wisdom. Performances were spontaneous and attracted large crowds in amongst the bustle of daily activity.

This project seeks to provide a space for the art of storytelling to grow and thrive within the ancient hear of the Medina of FĂ¨s. The scheme seeks to push beyond the accepted standards of construction and sustainability to create an exemplar proposal to encourage architectural ambition and development within Morocco whilst respecting the intricacies of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich tradition and culture.

Rebecca Mark

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

Over recent years there has been a decline in the number of master storytellers and the art of public performance. Over-crowded market squares have meant that tellers no longer have a space in which to practice their trade.

From top: The Courtyard, The Studio, The Fire Pit, The Beacon

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The Sustainable Leather Factor y

This project has looked at the evolution of an existing tannery in Fès, Morocco. With trade slowing due to a rise in demand for ethical produce alongside a transition to a cleaner but slower tanning process, the business decided to take action. Therefore to diversify the tanneries outputs and to respond to a demand for sustainable products, the company looked to its own natively grown plant based alternative...

Individual Project

alexsilk@me.com

CORK

As a result the project consists of a new factory to produce cork leather, that then links onto a new market, creating the first dedicated place for leather and its products, much like metal-works and ceramics within Fès. The market therefore hosts a library of cork and cow leather of all colours and grades, workshops and the markets themselves. With the aid of a canopy, the terraced roofscape provides a public landscape but with an educational focus, allowing the public to view all of the production process, whilst being immersed in the natural elements that made it possible.

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Alexander Silk

From Top: Market Section, Factory Section, Approach to Market, Upper Public Landscape, Material Library, Markets, Workshops, Factory

Tutor: Rob Gregory

The tannery will integrate itself to the new masterplan for Fès, whilst working with the city to produce this exemplar project as a proposal for the polluting tanneries across Morocco, that to date spills chromium and other chemicals into the scarce fresh water supply.

MArch 6th Year Connor Randall

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

Individual Project

Fès School of Construction connor.randall2@bath.edu Located within the historic Fès Old Medina, the Fès school of construction seeks to preserve the skills and knowledge of traditional building craft in the city. The building acts as the heart for all restoration and construction work, gathering all of the craft expertise into one location. Using the city as a living classroom to put their teachings into practice, the Old Medina will gradually be restored by the apprentices, providing the perfect practical experience. This will then enable the densification strategy in the New City as part of the masterplan proposal to be carried out, utilising the lessons learnt from the Medina. The site provides workshop and studio spaces, classrooms and apprentice accommodation. Through teaching, apprentices and local architecture students learn about four key craft materials; woodwork, earth, metalwork and fabric. These are separated into four craft’ houses’, arranged around a central courtyard, with external circulation connecting them and to a fifth ‘house’ containing the theoretical teaching aspect. The scheme is arranged around the idea of a hierarchy of courtyards, which was then used to define the environmental, servicing, structural and tectonic strategies.

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The Sanctuar y

Following the most recent rape and sexual harassment scandals in Morocco, the parliament has passed a new law on violence against women, finally recognising the abuse that many women face from their husbands and families. Unfortunately, the law has significant laws that leave men at risk of domestic violence, including a lack of provisions that improve the existing infrastructure that could help the victims.

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Paulina Konkina

From top: South Facade, Textile Workshop, Bedroom, Aerial View

Tutor: Alan Keane

The project aims to rehouse and support specialising in supporting victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. The centre focuses on teaching women skills in traditional craft to help them take control their own lives and gain independence from their families. The project promotes gender equality and seeks to break the boundaries of stereotypical roles.

Individual Project

konkinapaulina@gmail.com

MArch 6th Year Fès Institute of Craf t Individual Project

‫معهد فاس للحرف‬

bexklane@hotmail.co.uk The city of Fès can be characterised by the segregation of old and new. From the rival cities on opposite banks of the river built by father and son 1300 years ago to the two contrasting cities that make up Fès today, the Old Medina and the Ville Nouvelle.

The Fès Institute of Craft aims to address this by stitching together the highly skilled traditions and heritage of craft with new approaches and technology, reflecting the city and its’ people. The institute aims to inspire the young to pursue traditional crafts by giving them the tools to evolve ancient methods whilst ensuring traditional skills are not lost. This means the rich cultural heritage of craft in Fès is passed from one generation to the next.

Becky Lane

Tutor: Anne Claxton

The architectural battle between tradition and modernism is reflected in society. The young are turning their back on the old city and the traditional crafts central to Fès’ rich cultural heritage. If the industry does not evolve and develop whilst also passing these traditional skills and techniques onto the next generation they will be lost forever.

From top: Long Sectional Perspective through Main Courtyard and Ceramics School, Ceramics Courtyard View, Cafe View, Main Courtyard View 202

MArch 6th Year

The Ver tical Medina

This is a social housing scheme set in the heart of the Medina of FĂ¨s. It aims to mould the failing housing system into a scheme that has social and economic benefits for the city. By creating craft focused workshops it gives the residents a vocation that can be relied upon to give stability to the residents.

Individual Project

JJAHolland@gmail.com

The design layers landscape, workshops and housing that traverse an unused piece of hillside. By responding cultural and climatic needs it creates a design that is in-tune with the urban grain of the Medina while rerepresenting its traditions.

Tutor: Anne Claxton

The scheme derives it form from a kit of parts; workshops, housing and urban courtyards. These can be configured in a number of ways to give the maze-like properties of the Medina using the architecture to control the public and private spaces. Aligning these spaces are diaphragm walls which provide structure and services to the housing that is set in to the hillside.

Jon Holland From top: A spatial character sequence that traverses thought the scheme capturing moments through the public and residential spaces 203

GRANADA Gerasimos Mataragkas Lilian Lam Elianne Vos George Parfitt Toby Lau

MArch 6th Year Tribunal Superior De Justicia Individual Project

De Andalucia - Granada j.mataragas@gmail.com This project addresses the tension between the man-made lawful and the godly inherited just. During antiquity, law and politics came seamlessly together in the form of the public forum with law administration being a public affair. Today law has become a tool in each subsequent governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands to serve their interest.

Gerasimos Mataragkas

Tutor: Alan Keane

The question this scheme poses, is where does the contemporary court of justice stand against this situation. The answer given explores the co-existence of the Andalucian High Court with a public forum, where people can directly address law-making issues of public interest. The building itself, despite modernist, is a response to the local Islamic vernacular of Granada, with many traditional architectural elements of the place being translated into contemporary. Due to its inspiration, the environmental strategy is deeply embedded within the design, and revolves around the careful control of solar gains and robust water management, integrating ancient principles with modern technologies.

From top: River View, High Court Plenary Hall, Main Forum Hall

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Mercado Granada

hslamlilian@yahoo.com.hk The gastronomic culture in Spain is one of a kind â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like Italians, Spaniards believe in taking their time to enjoy their meals. Traditionally, Spaniards would have a two to three hour break just to enjoy their lunch. As a matter of fact, Spanish gastronomy now plays a leading role in visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; travel experience.

Tutor: Mick Brundle

Mercado Granada is a gastronomic centre sitting at the heart of Granada. It is a covered fresh food market with shops, restaurants , productive landscape and experience zones. A biogas co-generation plant will also be installed in adjacent to provide a sustainable energy source for the entire complex. The fundamental driver of this project is to design a place to discover, purchase, experience and understand more on local produce. It is also a gathering and educational venue for local residents and visitors to explore the art and skills involved behind each dish. At the same time users and visitors will get to understand alternative ways to disposed food which could possibly lead to a more sustainable lifestyle.

Individual Project

A place for gastronomic experience

Mercado Granada will be the destination to discover, experience and understand about food production, preparation and disposal.

Lilian Lam From top: Market Hall, Event Space, Activity Pocket (Demonstration Kitchen), Restaurant, Gathering Space

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MArch 6th Year eliannevos@gmail.com Granada, named after the Pomegranate fruit, is world renown for being the last stronghold of the Moorish occupation of Spain. The Moors knowledge of hydrology and use of botanicals in medicine and cosmetics was once celebrated throughout the city, however in contemporary society this knowledge and purpose has been lost, with plants now being used as only ornament. JardĂn de Perfumes seeks to restore this lost culture and intangible heritage through the art of natural perfume making. The scheme explores the idea of water as the driver of process, landscape and invaluable resource for the community. It also aims to bridge the dichotomy between tourists and locals through the design of a public botanical garden and building function as both visitor experience and commercial enterprise. Through strategic spacial planning and holistic design interventions, the building becomes a sensory experience from ground to bottle. The design proposes a contemporary interpretation of Granadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architectural vernacular, embracing local materials with modern construction techniques.

Elianne Vos

Tutor: Mick Brundle

Individual Project

The Botanical Perfumer y

From top: Visual of Courtyard Main Entrance, Visual of Formal Garden, Visual of Master Perfumers Lab

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A Microcosm of Granada

Granada Escuela De Escultura

A Microcosm of Granada is a response to global migration and the impact it has had on shaping the urban fabric of Granada, Spain. Located on a historic city wall, the building is a Museum and School of Art, which bridges the threshold both physically and conceptually between the city and a community of immigrant cave dwellers currently excluded from the city.

The art is then stored within the buildings archive, a time capsule of perception, where future generations can track how attitudes towards cultural tolerance is influenced by factors such as politics and the media during particular periods in time.

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The art that will be produced in the school will be in response to historical periods - the Moorish Conquest, Catholic Inquisition and the Spanish Civil War - where cultural intolerance caused the destruction of life, buildings and artefacts. The art is then displayed within the museum, not in celebration of these events, but as an educational tool to remind people of the suffering they caused.

Individual Project

Georgeparfitt18@hotmail.co.uk

George Parfitt From top: South Elevation, Long Section, Aerial Plan

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MArch 6th Year Preser ve knowledge of pattern making tobylau16@gmail.com Attracting over 2.4 million people per year, the Alhambra is the most visited tourist site in Spain. Alhambra, which means â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the red castleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in Arabic, was known for its plain and uniform red rammed-earth exterior walls. The interior however is the complete opposite, every corner of the castleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior is decorated with sumptuous and intricate decorations. Although these mesmerising patterns are widely celebrated in Alhambra, there is very little information displayed on how these patterns are designed and drawn. Since these patterns are an integral part of Islamic architecture and culture, the museum seeks to create a space dedicated to the drawing, making and displaying of Islamic patterns in Granada. The museum incorporates an existing chapel on site. The proposal improves access to the chapel and at the same time revives the culture of pattern that once existed on site. The narrative of pattern making reconnects the site with its history and the new museum.

Toby Lau

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

Pattern Museum

From top: Entrance View, Activities Concept, Riverfront, Chapel View, Foyer View

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Individual Project

Granada Masterplan Model

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RE YK JAVĂ?K Cecilia Ferrari Daniel Mclean Benjamin Martin Samuel Kalejaye Gian Virdi Piotr Paszkiewicz

MArch 6th Year Mother Tongue Individual Project

Language of Refuge in Residence ceciliaferrariarch@gmail.com The project Mother Tongue provides a model for the housing of deaf female refugees and the foundation of the first Icelandic sign language school. Currently, Iceland welcomes roughly 100 refugees per year: this figure is expected to rise to 2000 by 2030. Approximately 11% of the refugees welcomed in Iceland will be either deaf or hard of hearing. An 8% of them will be female.

The Mother Tongue project produces a model for an ethical and sustainable response to the refugee crisis and the prevention of the Icelandic Sign Language extinction.

Cecilia Ferrari

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

Due to its history, cultural values and traditions, for the past six years Iceland has earned the title of most gender equal country in the world. Indeed, Icelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture in terms of equal rights and humanitarian agenda make of the island the ideal destination for refugee women worldwide.

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MArch 6th Year

Project Yggdrasil

mcleandaniel@outlook.com Project Yggdrasil arboretum and genetic tree research centre has resulted in the research and growth of new tree species in its world renowned buildings. Situated in Hljómskálagarður Park – in the heart of Reykjavík – Yggdrasil is at the forefront of Iceland’s aim to reforest the country and protect boreal forests around the world.

Tutor: Rob Gregory

A century ago, most Icelanders had never even seen a tree, planting trees was the harmless hobby of a few eccentrics. Today, thanks to Project Yggdrasil, forestry for timber production, land reclamation and amenity is being carried out by thousands of people all over Iceland. The research conducted in the two buildings and the impact the arboretum has had on Icelandic people is cause for optimism and there is now a genuine belief that the re-forestation of the country will happen in the next century.

Individual Project

Iceland’s National Arboretum & Genetic Tree Research Centre

Daniel Mclean From top: Site Plan, Lab & Structural Axonometrics, Entrance View, Sectional Perspective

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MArch 6th Year Thermal Baths Individual Project

Communal Sundlaug benjaminpmartin10@gmail.com The geothermal baths, or sundlaugs, serve as the communal heart of Iceland, sacred places whose affordability and ubiquity are viewed as a civil right. These pools are more than a humble municipal investment, they are in fact the focus of all social activity and interaction within Icelandic society.

Benjamin Martin

Tutor: Anne Claxton

The communal sundlaug proposes a new typology for the Icelandic bath, becoming a physical manifestation of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;City of Dualityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Vast projecting cores house the geothermal waters, with each pool offering a unique atmospheric experience of water and landscape. A translucent veil delicately encompasses the building, softly illuminating the interior with the unique Icelandic light.

From top: Front Entrance, the Communal Floor, the Central Stair

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Icelandic Literature Centre Hörfa Hús

Hörfa Hús, meaning “retreat house“, is a writer’s retreat that celebrates Iceland’s literary heritage and present culture which includes the famous Christmas book flood and Kvöldvaka. The building is located in Reykjavik, on the harbour and it is to reinforce the city as the fifth UNESCO City of Literature. The goal of the building is twofold for both locals and tourists: the first is to increase knowledge on foreign literature; and the second is to act as the nucleus of all things literature in the city and country.

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Samuel Kalejaye

From top: View from across the Harbour, View of the Main Foyer/Exhibition Space, View of the Festival Square, View of the Main Auditorium

Tutor: Alan Keane

The design takes inspiration from the traditional Icelandic passage-house. It focuses on a vertical journey from the festival square to the main auditorium through a series of ‘voids’ that captures all 5 sides of the site through large window openings on the facade and roof.

Individual Project

sokalejaye@gmail.com

MArch 6th Year Tutor: Rob Gregory

Individual Project

Lækna Böð Healing Reykjavík through Swimming & Thermal Bathing gian.s.virdi@gmail.com Lækna Böð is a fusion of concrete, stone, water and light. Where the traditional swimming pool meets the rich Icelandic Landscape. This creates a unique location within the heart of Reykjavik to enjoy bathing as early settlers did centuries ago. Since its creation, it has been a common ground for visitors to experience different aspects of the Icelandic landscape; the mountain, the forest and the lake. What is it like to be in a building which has come from the landscape? Lækna Böð has created an architectural interpretation of this, and we want you to enjoy it. Our 3 public pools within the lake offer a direct relationship between the bather today and the bather centuries ago whilst our 7 private indoor pools, and 3 saunas, each with its own unique identity and character offer varying sensory stimulating experiences through material and light and water. Bathers are encouraged to walk through the Forest Promenade in order to experience the forest in ways which have not been seen in the city before.

Gian Virdi

The proposal responds to the contrasting landscapes on the site. External public pools extend out into the lake, allowing users to feel that they are swimming ‘within’ the landscape. Whilst the primary elevations of the proposal respond to light and dark.

From top: Isometric Scheme Overview, Circulation Space View Out, Primary Social Pool, Mineral Bath, Ice Bath, Lake Elevation

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Reykjavík 101 Co-living

Iceland’s tourism boom has had a positive impact on economy and development of Reykjavík. Unfortunately apart from many benefits of this trend it also has a profound impact on the health of local communities. Housing market is suffering, social life is non-existent and prices of all leisure activities are skyrocketing. In essence, ‘101’ downtown area has a big identity crisis.

Individual Project

piotr@paszkiewicz.co.uk

The primary vision of this project is to create a new model of Icelandic community which can impact the identity of living in Reykjavík. A model of a micro society where people find their own private space as well as places of gathering, working and exchange.

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Piotr Paszkiewicz

From top: Short Building Section, Community Kitchen & 1 Bed Apartment Views, 1-100 Sectional Model & Concept Model, Long West Elevation

Tutor: Alan Keane

The intention is to create a place which finds its identity in the collective and togetherness rather than extravagant architectural form. The goal is to create a minimalistic and intelligent design which acts as a background for human life and encourages interaction between its occupants. It hopes to become a space which can ‘grow’, adapt, age and change impacting both the immediate surroundings and Reykjavík 101 downtown area.

SEVILLE Oliver Henshaw Savvas Procopiou Daniel Miller Michael Constantinides James de Leyser Emmanuel Anim-Ayekoh

MArch 6th Year Bodega de Sevilla

Oliver Henshaw

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

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Orange Winer y ollyhenshaw@hotmail.co.uk Situated on the edge of Sevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed wetland ecology zone, the sustainable orange winery aims to celebrate the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich history of vineyards and wineries, reimagining the production process of the local dessert wine Vino de Naranja (Orange Wine). The winery utilises the near 3 million kilograms of Seville Oranges that are currently left dropped on the city streets, collecting them to be used in the maceration process. Acting as a demonstration of sustainable production and construction within the wetland setting, the Bodega employs a gravity driven production process whereby process spaces are stacked in order to allow the wine to move through the building with reduced energy input. The river Guadalquivir is currently contaminated with pesticide and fertiliser residues. An on site water treatment facility will highlight the potential for using the immediate landscape to raise the quality of water in order to be used to irrigate the vineyards and orange grove. The visitor centre will act as the gateway to both the winery and the wetlands, inviting the public on tours of the Bodega and onto the surrounding wetland walking routes.

From top: Approach from the Island, Water Treatment, Public Orange Grove, Tank Room, Barrel Store

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INC ubado

sav.procopiou@gmail.com Located in the heart of the new residential district of Seville, put in place by the semester one masterplan project, this scheme seeks to combine two recent working and living movements - co-working and co-living. The principles on which these working and living styles are based consist of ideals such as collaboration, openness, community, accessibility, and sustainability.

The scheme is made up of a large, collaborative and open co-working office building and three co-living residential units. Each buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main focus is its social area, seen as the nucleus of co-working and co-living spaces as this is where social activity and, in turn, collaboration and the exchange of ideas occur.

From top: Axonometric View of Scheme, Typical Floor Plan, Roof Plan, View from Main High Street, Shared Co-living Kitchen, 1 Bed Studio Flat 223

Savvas Procopiou

The four buildings are brought together by a shared roof terrace. As is common throughout Seville, most social activity occurs outdoors. The roof terrace is where all users of all buildings can meet, eat, and drink, and residents can make use of the productive landscaping above their co-living block to grow their own produce.

Tutor: Rob Gregory

INCubado is an incubator, which is a branch of co-working centred around growing new and early-stage businesses. They are often marketed towards a specific industry - in this case the creative industries - as this means they have more resources and tools to help its co-working members within a specific field.

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A Co-working and Co-living Space for Creative Industr y Workers

MArch 6th Year danielpmiller94@gmail.com The proposal for the Seville Rehabilitation Centre is a place of transitions. Not only is this building tackling a city-wide drug epidemic, but it is also a turning point in the urban fabric of the city. The building is situated at the junction between a soft ecological landscape to the north and a dense urban environment to the south, between a complex hierarchy of street types in the new mixed-use island development to the east and a linear organisational grid in the Expo to the west. The building design responds considerately, maintaining the strong geometries of both the Expo and the island and houses an internal program of spaces that seek to improve the mental health, physical health, self-sufficiency and employability of its occupants. Bold ceramic objects protrude from the building’s façade to create focal points that act as way-finding devices to key entrances whilst the untreated cedar cladding allows the building to blend in with its forest surroundings. A new public square steps down to a canal-side walk via a series of large terraces where a new water taxi improves city-wide connection.

Daniel Miller

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

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Seville Rehabilitation Centre

From top: Aerial Scheme Overview looking toward the Expo ’92 Site, Patient Entrance, Workshop, Site Plan, Residential Corridor, Public Square and Visitor Entrance 224

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San Fernando Cemeter y

This project concerns the future of innercity cemeteries, and explores a sustainable method for satisfying our human need for grief. San Fernando is the only municipal cemetery in Seville, and due to new urn storage guidelines from the Vatican, has become severely overcrowded in recent years. As a result of limited ground space, new architectural typologies will be required to provide adequate storage of human remains, in the form of both physical (urns) and digital remnants.

A cyclical urn burial proposal harmonises the industrial process of cremation with the logistical problem of temporary storage, and the long-term issue of land use.

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Michael Constantinides

From top: Ceremonial Hall, Community Garden, Scheme Overview

Tutor: Rob Gregory

A series of interventions across the San Fernando site will be designed to facilitate suitable expansion of storage capacity, whilst preventing unsustainable use of land. Three distinct buildings are proposed at intersections of the existing pathways on site and are designed to reinforce the current cemetery grid. This strategy is minimally invasive and limits the number of graves/ niches that need to be relocated.

Individual Project

michael.constantinides123@gmail.com

BSc Architecture 4th Year Year MArch 6th La Car tuja Centre for Ceramics jamesdeleyser@btinternet.com The Centre for Ceramics aims to rediscover Seville’s historic ceramic culture, by becoming a new hub for ceramic activity in the City. It is located along the canal front, next to the historic Monasterio de Santa Maria, which became the Pickman la Cartuja Ceramics Factory throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. The scheme looks to encourage younger generations into the ceramics industry, by teaching the craft to students as an extension of the University of Seville’s Art Department, generating a new workforce and becoming a catalyst for future production in Seville. A research programme will run alongside this, exploring sustainability within ceramic tiles, and it is this work, as well as the student’s, that will be exhibited in dedicated showroom and gallery spaces throughout the year, becoming a destination point for the public and industry experts. The linear scheme focuses along the length of the site’s split level, parallel to the canal, with the university massing the most significant volume providing the backdrop to 3 key destination points that form the accents in ceramic colour throughout the site.

James de Leyser

Tutor: Rob Gregory

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Universidad de Sevilla

From top: Long Section, Student Ceramic Workshop, South Entrance Approach, Birds Eye View, Site Plan 226

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Seville Spor ts Training Village

The Seville STV proposal is a state of the art sports specialist facility anchored around a modern Aquatics Arena and a flexible multi-purpose sports hall that sits in a landscape designed to promote fitness and public interactivity on a range of scales. This diverse mix of environments will create a new landmark in Seville’s cityscape that can coerce stronger ties with the city’s underdeveloped western urban space and promote further development in this prime location by the Guadalquivir River.

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Emmanuel Anim-Ayekoh

From top: Overall Scheme Plan, Life in the Aqua Plaza, Under the Cables in the Aquatics Arena Pool Hall, The Northern Approach at Night

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

The ambition in proposal is matched in many details present in the scheme; most notably the structural design of the Aquatics Arena. The steel truss and cable net design allows for an elegant sweeping roof that bathers below can marvel at whilst swimming in the vastness of an Olympic size swimming pool. Each space in the scheme is geared to promote sports in varying degrees of nuanced ways and designing the scheme like this has created a thriving multi-layered groundscape that’s play in levels benefits all users for the better.

Individual Project

eanimayekoh@gmail.com

SPLIT Sam Bunn Tom Lowe Hugh Pearce Stephen Oldham Yuchen Mei Yee Wei Gan

MArch 6th Year Sam.Bunn94@gmail.com Following the recent clean-up of Kastela Bay, the Adriatic school of Mariculture aims to form a holistic complex dedicated to introducing a new ecological infrastructure for Split. By combining college level teaching, university level research and small hatchery production, the scheme becomes an interconnected hub for mariculture expertise. It provides opportunities for chance encounters and the cross fertilisation of ideas as education blends into real world practice. The building focuses on providing a new sustainable source of aquaculture through becoming Croatia’s first closed cycle tuna hatchery, while also allowing oyster spat to be nurtured and studied in a ‘Flupsy’ infrastructure that spills out across the water. A newly regenerated Brodosplit shipyard would define the site, accommodating three distinct elements that shelter an inner plaza under a dappled canopy. Public engagement would interact with locals and visitors alike about the rich history of mariculture within Croatia, the innovative technology under research in the building, and the wider ecological mission of re-wilding the northern coastline.

Sam Bunn

Tutor: Mick Brundle

Individual Project

Adriatic School of Mariculture

From top: View from Floating Oyster Box Jetty Looking Back under the Canopy, View under Productive Canopy, Sectional Perspective of Brood tank Drum/Restaurant 230

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Split Law School

Tutor: Mick Brundle

This project was based on two aims: helping to alleviate Croatia’s ‘brain drain’ issue, which sees many of its best graduates and academics depart for other European countries, and creating an environmentally sustainable building. To help retain students and academics, the building is designed to provide a high standard of well-being. Each open work area within the building is accompanied by a garden terrace, allowing inhabitants to enjoy nature and Split’s pleasant climate. A variety of well-being facilities such as a sleep room and a dedicated quiet space are available. The building is also designed to encourage students to mingle, cementing personal connections that may encourage them to stay in Split. To ensure the building is environmentally sustainable, it is designed to comply with the Passivhaus standard. In the warmer climate of Split, this meant close attention had to be paid to minimising cooling demand.

Individual Project

tommy.p.lowe@btinternet.com

Tom Lowe From top: Model Photo, External Perspective, Internal Perspective

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Dalmatian Stone Craf t Guildhall hugh@iampearce.com The Dalmatian Stone Craft Guildhall is an exhibition exploring the nature of stone craft, crossed with a stonemasons school and a stone research and prototyping workshop in the city of Split in Croatia.

Hugh Pearce

Tutor: Alan Keane

This project set out to explore themes of stone and monumentality, and cultural associations with stone architecture. The proposal is comprised of two parts; the Stone Temple which houses a series of hollowed out gallery and educational spaces, and the Stone Pilot which houses the stone research and prototyping workshop.

From top: Stone Temple Approach, Vault Gallery, Dome Gallery, Main Exhibition Hall

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Morpurgo Literature Centre

The literature centre was inspired by Morpurgo bookstore, located in Splitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic Diocletianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Palace, it was the third oldest bookstore in Europe until it closed in 2017 due to pressures of tourism and privatisation. Morpurgo was more than just a bookstore, it was the cultural and social heart of Split. Accordingly, the design for a new library is founded in literature but serves a much wider social and cultural agenda, providing community dedicated space within an increasingly privatised context.

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Stephen Oldham

From top: External View from the South, Library Internal View, Cafe Internal View

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

The building is in a mediator between the city and its coastline. A dense landscape is created to occupy the threshold between the urban and coastal environments, indicating that the space belongs to the public. The proposed building exists within the landscape and is orientated as a gesture to the sea. The library is raised allowing for an open ground floor and the continuation of movement through the landscape from city to sea. By integrating the building into the landscape it is able to resolve and mediate between these contrasting conditions while complementing the character of Splitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Coast.

Individual Project

stephenoldham@hotmail.co.uk

MArch 6th Year Yuchen Mei

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

Individual Project

Split Sailing Welt yuchen.mei1127@gmail.com Embedded with the masterplan proposal to open the shipyard of the north bay of Split as the new gateway, this project aims to propose a new solution of shipyard transformation. Getting benefits from Split coast line and water sports culture, Split Sailing Welt, which includes a sailing boat museum and a sailing school is the solution to service the existing shipbuilding company, keeping the maritime spirit of Split North Bay. The proposal aims to create a sailing community by extending the public realm for people to watch sailing racing, showing public the sailing knowledge and teaching teenagers sailing skills. It also will be the main venue to hold local boat events, such as Split Boat Show, Sailing Regatta and new boat launching. Therefore, it will tie with the masterplan proposal to bring people and events from the south (old town) to the north to relieve the tourist pressure of Split old town. According to its vital location within the masterplan. Split Sailing Welt will be a landmark with its “lightness and openness”. The proposal envisioned the glass and aluminium twisting fin facade language to convey the feeling of ‘floating sailing boats on the sea’. Also, It will be the stepping stone for the next generation of architecture in Split.

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Oblica Olive Wellness Retreat

Oblica Olive Wellness Retreat is a place that grows olive trees and celebrates the making and uses of olive oil in various ways to exploit its health benefits. The project includes a refinery that produces olive oil on site, a wellness retreat that uses olive oil during the treatment process, a restaurant that celebrates the fruit through food, and a guest accommodation to encourage people to stay in Split.

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

The scheme is designed around the idea of providing an olive experience along the walled gardens. One is taken on a journey through the buildings, encountering a series of gardens along the way to enhance the outdoor experience. The journey extends out to the wider site, and subsequently to the peak of Park Mladosti, acting as a form of regeneration to the existing derelict park as part of the masterplan strategy.

Individual Project

yeewei.gan@hotmail.com

Yee Wei Gan From top: Arrival, Spa, Refinery Tank Room, Massage Room, Retreat Lounge, Bedroom, Concept Image, Aerial Approach

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Slobodna Dalmacija Newspaper - 2 April 2019

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Slobodna Dalmacija Newspaper - 2 April 2019

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TBILISI Alexander Baker Sara Madbouli Katie Hutchinson James Waddington Peter Madge Elizabeth Dent

MArch 6th Year Alexander Baker

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

Mountaineering: Tbilisi alexander.baker@hotmail.co.uk Georgia is the heart of the Caucasus Mountains. Historically it has had a rich mountain culture that epitomised survival, resilience and determination. However, today that is gradually becoming lost as people migrate to its capital, Tbilisi. The Tbilisi Mountaineering and Activity Centre aims address this through a connection to the countries geography, geology and cultural activities. Inspired by the Katskhi Pillar, the proposal creates a monolithic facility for climbing and bouldering in the centre of the city. Additionally a public cable car provides a physical connection to the surrounding mountain landscape. Facilities for martial arts, yoga, swimming and bathing are also provided.

From top: View from Arrival Court, View of Poolscape, Aerial View

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Tbilisi Institute of Phage Therapy

The project is a research and treatment institute dedicated to phage therapy, located in Tbilisi, Georgia. Phage therapy is the use of specific viruses to treat bacterial infection, as an alternative to antibiotics.

Individual Project

sara_madbouli@hotmail.com

The building sought to challenge the typical laboratory typology as a line of enquiry into which architecture might best encourage creativity, innovation and research. It experiments with a relationship between solid and void that promotes interaction and crosspollination of ideas.

Tutor: Alan Keane

It is expected that the existing phage institute in Tbilisi will need to expand, following the Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent interest in the treatment in a climate of growing antibiotic resistance. The Tbilisi Institute of Phage Therapy will rehouse the existing facility, whilst also providing new conference and break out spaces that will help to accelerate the research that they have been custodians of since its discovery one hundred years ago.

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MArch 6th Year Katie Hutchinson

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

Institute of Psychotherapy kalohut@gmail.com Tbilisi is currently facing a mental health epidemic, following Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and subsequent war and conflict. A stigma surrounds mental illness, with those who suffer with mental health problems often facing rejection and isolation from society. There is a distinct lack of mental health treatment and educational facilities within Tbilisi, whilst those that do exist are without a frontage. The Tbilisi Institute of Psychotherapy aims to address these issues by providing psychotherapeutic research, education and treatment facilities, whilst ensuring the building has a prominent frontage on the capital’s new river park. Bathing forms a core part of Tbilisi’s history and culture, providing both social and therapeutic benefits. As such, thermal baths form the community heart of the building’s therapeutic space. The building is split into three components; double height bathing spaces form a podium to the river, on which intimate psychotherapy treatment spaces stand, accessed from the residential street to the east. The building’s research and educational spaces are contained within a landmark tower, marking a gateway to the site and the east of the city.

From top: Courtyard View,View of “Orangery” to Thermal Baths, Southwest Elevation to River, Ground Floor Plan

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A New Assembly Building for the Parliament of Georgia

National Identity Georgia has experienced an intense social and political transformation over the course of the last century. Since declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the nation has undergone substantial democratic reform and realigned its international identity with Western Europe.

Individual Project

james.waddington@outlook.com

Change is reflected in the streets of Georgiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital, Tbilisi. The political vision and social aspirations of former governments underpin the buildings and public squares in the heart of the city. Contemporary Georgian architecture rejects the monumental structures of the 20th Century and charts a new direction for national identity.

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James Waddington

From top: Proposed Exploded Axonometric, Concept Sketch showing expressed Chamber, Proposed Principal Chamber

Tutor: Rob Gregory

In December 2018, MPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voted to move parliament back to Tbilisi. Since January 2019, all parliamentary sessions have been held in the former U.S.S.R parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue which no longer serves as a suitable symbol for modern Georgian democracy. My thesis project presents a new building proposal which explores the image of democracy in prowestern Georgia.

MArch 6th Year Tbilisi Satsavi Individual Project

Georgian Winery and Hotel petermadge1994@hotmail.co.uk Georgia is a country that was, until 1991, under Soviet rule; during which time the capital of Tbilisi sprawled and became dominated by Modernist Soviet architecture; most notably the infamous concrete soviet housing blocks. As a direct result, today Tbilisi suffers from a substantial deficit of cultural activities.

The project constitutes three programmatic elements - the demonstration winery (which will produce wine using traditional Georgian techniques from the local vineyard), a multifunctional hall (to hold events in celebration of wine) and a hotel to help boost the image of Georgian wine on the international market as a country that is looking to become a major trade partner to the EU and China.

Peter Madge

Tutor: Alan Keane

Therefore, the intent of this scheme is to provide a new cultural centre for Tbilisi, and where better to start than with wine! Wine has played an important role in Georgian tradition and society for millennia; especially as a country that is widely regarded as the birthplace of wine.

From top: Winery Perspective, Courtyard Perspective, Courtyard Sectional Perspective

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Sukhishvili

elizabethdent001@gmail.com Located along the masterplanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s re-discovered Mtkvari River, The Georgian National Folk Dance School and Theatre is centred on connecting the city through this indigenous form of dance, as it originally did in its former rural setting.

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Georgian National School of Folk Dance

The folk theatre terminates an important route through the city, extending over the cliff edge. An important view is retained through the building the folk dancers perform with a backdrop of the city and surrounding mountainous landscape; a reflection of where the dance form originated.

Tutor: Jayne Barlow

The dance school is anchored to the city reflecting the security of learning a counterbalance to the cantilevering of the theatre and the insecurity of the ultimate performance. The dance studios follow the existing contours, providing connections to the landscape; an important aspect of folk dance, originally practiced within the highlands and lowlands of Georgia.

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VENICE Sara Medas Rebecca Hall Gemma Hale Daniel Lu Isaac Lim

MArch 6th Year Sara Medas

Tutor: Anne Claxton

Individual Project

Aequilibrium Arboreum An Institute of research for the preser vation of the ecolog y of the lagoon of Venice aras.sadem@gmail.com The intent of the project is to find a new balance between the natural and the manmade in the lagoon of Venice. Firstly conceived as a unique place within a natural environment, the city has progressively turned into the primary cause of the destruction of that landscape that provided the city with wealth and prosperity over the centuries. The ecological changes after the masterplan â&#x20AC;&#x153; A Lifeline for Veniceâ&#x20AC;? have so given the opportunity to embrace change as a means of restoring that lost equilibrium. The project intent is so to create a laboratory research park where, unlikely many other buildings of the same typology, the public meets with the researchers therefore creating a strong duality between these two building users.The public will be therefore encouraged to visit the arboretum and understand the research carried on in each building.The project intent is to give the lagoon of Venice a park where longlasting research buildings will monitor the different habitats of the lagoon implemented after the masterplan. For this reason, five buildings have been designed and they will specifically study the botanical garden with plants of the Veneto region, the wetlands and the saltmarshes. This research pole so creates a bespoke place in the Venetian lagoon to take care of this UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Venetian School of Woodwork

The school offers new opportunities for craft-based learning within a building tied strongly to its surrounding wooded landscape and waterfront edge on the canal linking the mainland of Mestre to the historic island of Venice.

Individual Project

rebeccas.hall@yahoo.co.uk

The school incorporates workshops dedicated to carpentry, product design, lutherie and boat-building, continuing the ancient woodworking tradition of the Venetian area.

Tutor: Mick Brundle

The shape, colour and texture of the many woods used in the school are displayed within the landscape of the adjacent arboretum and within the material palette of the building itself, allowing students to experience the qualities of their specialist material in both a living and harvested form.

Rebecca Hall From top: Sectional View through Internal Courtyard, Approaching the School from the Arboretum, View of the School along the Boardwalk 249

MArch 6th Year Venezia Por ta Nuova Individual Project

Transpor t Interchange dan.lv@outlook.com In balancing the focus of Venice away from the historic centre and towards the lagoon and mainland areas of Venice, it has been identified that the concentration of arrival points immediately onto the historic centre is a main contributor to its unsustainable tourism. In moving the major train and cruise ship terminals out of Venice, the entry into the dense city can be controlled through a new shuttle system between only the mainland and Veniceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic centre.

Cruise ship, train, tram, ferry and pedestrian traffic will all meet at the new hub under a shared concourse canopy, celebrating the sense of arrival to a unique destination. The high concentration of people who will use this area to transition to different transport modes for both work and play will keep the site constantly active. The intensity of this area will drive the development from a disused industrial area to a valuable commercial and residential zone, encouraging people to stay as well as using the area as an interchange.

Daniel Lu

Tutor: Jo Hibbert

The addition of a transport hub on the mainland reinforces the idea that Veniceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity is much more than its historic centre. The hub is seen not as a terminal but as a starting point to experience multiple facets of Venice.

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Contributors

Sophia Babiolakis

All work from the graduating class of 2019 as well as work from students in other year groups.

Raluca Bratfalean-Igna Michele Chee Clarice Hong Constance Hui Wui Lin Lee Sebastian Fischer Stripp Iiris TĂ¤hti Toom Stefano Towli Jennifer Zhang

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