BA (Hons) Architecture
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BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA Part I
Tutors: Year 1 Victoria Farrow Ollie Chapman Miles Weber Thomas Trail Helen Chapman Year 2 Max Wisotsky Matthew Armitt Joan Chapman Year 3 Beatriz Gomez-Martin Christian Nakarado Matthew Jones Ian Shepherd Juliet Sakyi Ansar Holly Doron Rob Anable Paul Wakelam Matthew Hayes Tom Tebby
We began the new academic year with mobilising agendas and clear themes for Year 1, 2 and 3: Principles - Process – Exploration. These themes would shape our starting studios and focus our attention on a complexity appropriate to each level of the course towards the latter part of 2019. From the beginning of 2020 across the year groups we looked to explore a wide range of projects, from small popup structures, to dwellings, urban infills, a range of residential buildings and dwelling spaces, public buildings and mixed use developments located in Birmingham and Nottingham. We saw a rich variety of investigations across the course, nurtured by collaborative practice and professional practice, two important strands, which feature heavily both inside and out of the classroom. The academic year concluded with modules in Design Resolution 1, 2 and 3 to evidence the students best work in final project outputs. Year 1 allows new students to gently embark on their journey into architectural education by learning and discovering its basic principles. Beginning with the module Design Apparatus, the first year students completed many exciting exercises and small projects to discover new design and communication techniques. Building skills and knowledge in hand-drawing, sketching, orthographics, model-making, ComputerAided-Design (CAD) in two and three dimensions, material crafts, plaster casting, video and rendering the students used these tools to analyse famous Precedent studies and built confidence in representing their ideas and their understanding of architectural conventions. The group gathered a range of different presentation and representation techniques through workshops and class exercises. Documenting this journey together with their design development process online via Mahara and also through digital booklets provided the group a good
