OPEN 2019 by Clare Hamman

OPEN 2019

O OPEN 2019 ISBN: 978-0-9929657-2-3 Cover image Annabelle Nguyen Designed & produced Clare Hamman First published June 2019 Printed London ÂŠ University of Westminster

Contents Introduction

Introduction and Process

BA Interior Architecture Introduction and Process Interior Architecture First Year Interior Architecture Second Year Interior Architecture Third Year

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Architectural Technology Second Year Architectural Technology Third Year

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BA Designing Cities Introduction and Process Designing Cities First Year Designing Cities Second Year Designing Cities Third Year

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AE Design First Year AE Design Second Year

First Year Second Year Design Studios Third Year Design Studios

Introduction Spiritual Sacred Secular Conference Dissertation Technical Studies Digital Design OPEN Studio Professional Development Ambika P3 Westminster Architecture Society Supercrits

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Research Introduction

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Books & Articles Research Exploration Funded Research Masters

BA Architecture [RIBA Part 1] Introduction and Process

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Beyond the Studio

Fabrication Lab

BSc Architecture & Environmental Design Introduction and Process

MArch Design Studios

Cultural Context

BSc Architectural Technology Introduction and Process

MArch Architecture [RIBA Part 2]

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School of Architecture + Cities Staff Practice Links 2019 Sponsors

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OPEN 2019 IS our first student exhibition since the creation of the new Westminster School of Architecture + Cities. A School that continues our Polytechnic tradition of offering a transformative higher education to all. A School that, as well as architecture and interiors, now includes urban design, planning, transport, housing, policy, tourism and events – areas that we have always worked in, but not necessarily formally acknowledged. The School of Architecture + Cities strengthens our design practice through grounding it in crossdisciplinary collaboration, and it offers us the opportunity to create a virtuous circle in which, just as our students can draw on an expanded range of specialisms, they can contribute to those specialisms through strategic and suggestive design. This is particularly important at a time when architects need to respond architecturally to problems that

are not strictly architectural – the climate crisis, social justice, changing technologies – and society ever more urgently needs imaginative and generous spatial and material proposals. It is within this context that OPEN 2019 celebrates our students and their ambitious and experimental work. Projects which reflect a huge diversity of approaches and techniques exploring myriad ideas and places. Designs marked by exceptional levels of professional engagement – the majority of our staff are also practitioners – and a concern for making. And, while the School has its head in the clouds as we further expand our Design Studios into the top floor of the Marylebone Campus, our Fabrication Laboratory keeps our feet on the ground, enabling our students to exploit advanced fabrication technologies, and material- and environmentaltesting. Please enjoy the show.

Harry Charrington Head of the School of Architectures + Cities

Welcome to OPEN 2019

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE IS a distinct contextbased practice concerned with re-reading, re-using and altering an architectural shell. Whether at the scale of the city, a building, or a room, the ‘interiorist’ always starts with something and within something. By altering host structures, Interior Architecture allows a building to have many different lives. Project sites this year included Westminster’s own New Cavendish Street campus, Hansard Mews in Shepherds Bush, the Peckhamplex complex, a vacant County Court in Lambeth, and the Castle Climbing Centre on Green Lanes. Extra-curricular activities are highly encouraged and this year we have been busy as always. With generous support from the Quintin Hogg Trust, in November forty BAIA students visited Venice for the 2018 Biennale Architettura ‘Freespace’. Our long-term supporter Amaya Eastman of Vola UK invited a group of Student Reps from across the years to visit the Vola Academy and Factory in Horsens, Denmark, while another group of students went to Paris to take part in a student competition for a Pavilion for Virserum Konsthall organised by Latitudes Global Studio. Back in London, Year 3 students worked with The Body Shop and Howard Sullivan of YourStudio, on competition designs for

the Retail Design World Student Awards. We were delighted when Jovana Rasic was awarded first prize, the second consecutive year we have won. Year 2 students were down in the Fabrication Lab up to their elbows in concrete for a series of casting workshops and Year 1 students wandered in the city on a materials dérive as part of a swing-sign workshop. The course has been set up to have strong links to practice and a wide range of international design companies and practitioners including Professor Sadie Morgan (de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects), Linzi Cassels (Perkins + Will), and Amaya Eastman (VOLA) contribute to the course through: inviting students into the work place; presenting their approach to careers at our Employers Events; and judging student awards. In addition to this a weekly series of guest speakers has included: Jeremy Brown (Virgin Galactic) , Mehdi Jelokhani (Perkins + Will) , Francis Field (David Chipperfield Architects), Tomasz Fiszer (MJP Architects), Matteo Mastrandrea and Machiko Weston (Es Devlin Studio), Alison McLellen (Form_art) , Antoinette Nassopoulos Erickson (Foster + Partners) , Aleksandrina Rizova (Aleksa Studio) , Nicola Rutt and David Bickle (Hawkins Brown), Howard Sullivan and Tom Philipson (YourStudio). Ro Spankie Course Leader

BA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

BA Interior Architecture | Process

Images of some of the extra curricula activities from top left: Students on Venice Beach in the fog; a prototype for the Space Body Mediator; exploring the conflicting scales of the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale;

animation demonstrating how to tidy the room in zero gravity; measuring up in the casting lab; and an introductory drawing exercise.

BA Interior Architecture | First Year

Mike Guy (Module Leader), Yota Adilenidou, Matt Haycocks, Sue Phillips, Lara Rettondini, David Scott (Fabrication Lab) Yota Adilenidou is an architect, an MSc. AAD graduate from GSAPP, Columbia University, and currently a Ph.D. Researcher at the Bartlett, UCL. She is the Director of Arch-hives Ltd., a practice that focuses on the research of computational methodologies and digital fabrication for the activation of matter and form. Mike Guy is a Senior Lecturer and a practicing architect specialising in primary healthcare projects. He has balanced practice and teaching for over 30 years. A graduate of PCL (UoW as was), Mike’s related interests include urban agriculture and aquaponics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sue Phillips is an architect and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at two Universities in London. She has been teaching for over 20 years and aims to empower students to understand their own learning processes. She has worked in social and economic development in Africa and makes videos and sculpture. Lara Rettondini is a Senior Lecturer, architect, and co-director Studio X Design Group, a London-based practice specialising in architecture and interior design projects. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the recipient of the Westminster Teaching Excellence Award 2017.

YEAR 1: Design Fundamentals & Strategies Students: Dana Al-Mohamadi, Megi Mukjaloa Ala, Ebunayoola Alao, Margarita Mariam Ashraf, Eugene Ben-Owuwole, Victoria Berry, Alice Borges-Ribero, Tiffany Butler, Vili Chincheva, Lauren Clarke, Matheus Gomez Dinex, Feyyaz Duman, Tasnim El Halimi, Khadija Elosta, Alexandra Filip-Anghelescu, Kalifa Gubara, Ana Guleava, Guz Guven, Khushboo Halai, Barakah Haried, Zhiqing He, Mahdis Hosseini, Monica Kayila, Kwan Lam, Vickie Low, Oluwatoni Macgregor, Tahir Mangarah, Valeriya Martyanova,

Zeynep Mican, Caisha Mohamud, Osob Mohamud, Noor Nasaruddin, Zoe Onatoye, Sandra Opara, Rim Otmani, Darrell Sackey, Bisma Shah, Hannah Smith, Faro Sogo, Katherine Stewart, Paulina Swarovski, Dilani Thevathas, Cristina Teodoro, Terezia Toroussova, Zeynep Uzun, Karan Vadgama, Vernel Verso, Emily Von Reibnitz, Lucy Webb, Gabriella Wells, William Wild, Wafa Yuen-wah Williams, Zhengyao Xu, Yunuo Zheng, Jiaxing Zhou

IN FIRST YEAR students on the BA Interior Architecture course are introduced to underlying concepts and principles associated with the discipline and learn fundamental processes, skills and techniques relevant to conceive, develop, resolve and communicate spatial design proposals. They are also introduced to the use of graphic design, CAD and 3D modelling software as well as the Faculty’s Fabrication Lab.

Their individual designs for transformable microarchitecture to address the needs and aspirations of students new to university, expressed their own fresh experiences in built form – Uni-tecture!

In the first semester students are set a range of assignments and short projects: designing and making modular structures; light-box studies, to investigate qualities of light and scale through photography; and group research on existing built projects, to understand intent and representation. Building on these skills they are then asked to design their first piece of interior architecture. This year, working in teams, students surveyed and modelled another of the most complex and characterful major spaces of Westminster’s west-end campus: the New Cavendish Street building.

In the second semester, students individually re-ordered the interiors of Hansard Mews properties for an increasingly urgent programme of specialised repair, repurposing, modification and upcycling of ‘stuff, waste, existing buildings and lifestyles’. The Shepherds Bush location, burdened by consumer waste but strong in community potential, fuelled students’ site and context investigations. While developing an understanding of re-making and reuse practices and ecological design, they iteratively investigated materials and techniques with an equally utopian eye.

Peer-Assisted Learning Assistants: Eleni Dourampei, Dmitrijs Gusevs, Annabelle Nguyen and Jessica Rust 8

(top) Eugene Ben Oluwole; (bottom left-right) Caisha Mohamad, Eugene Ben Oluwole, Katherine Stewart, Tiffany Butler, Jamie He

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BA Interior Architecture | First Year

(top) Jamie He; (centre) Yunuo Zheng; (bottom) Dana Al Mohamadi

(top left) Zoe Onatoye; (top middle) Karen Vadgama; (top-right) Zoe Onatoye; (bottom left) Zoe Onatoye; (centre right & bottom right) Eugene Ben Ulowoye

BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

Alessandro Ayuso, Matt Haycocks, Tania Lopez Winkler, Fiona Zisch Alessandro Ayuso is Senior Lecturer whose studio-based practice and research focus on the intersection of representation, architecture, and the body. Matt Haycocks is Senior Lecturer, designer and maker, his research concerns domestic and family photography, the historicisation of public space and the politics of place-making and branding. Tania Lopez-Winkler is an award-winning artist and architect based in London. Her work explores the alter-ego as a means to enquire about different aspects of modernity. She encourages students to be curious, to follow intuitions, and to challenge habits of thought. Fiona Zisch works across architecture and neuroscience. Her research uses 3D scanning, biosensing, and immersive VR technologies. She is curious about the relation between design intuition and radical embodiment and explores reciprocities and analogies of internal and external world-making.

YEAR 2: Culture and Alteration, Material and Detail Students: Jude Abed, Kiymet Aksu, Bahyah Alhareri, Mona Alqumairi, Ainul Azizi, Franchesca Balones, Arthur Bama, Nafeesa Banaras, Duarte Barosa Santos, Kevin Chellakudam, Limin Chen, Daisy Day, Noelia Del Rio Sanchez, Alendita Fanaj, Alison Fung, Anna Gregory, Xinyu Jiang, Ailar Kalami, Amir Kamali, Ivelina Kapandzhieva, Mitra Karimaghaei, Golnaz Keihani, Thugitha Kugathasan, Hebe Lee, Ludovica Lillo, Jaime Llavona,

Aisha Malik, David Mante, Sharitha McNeil, Syeda Monsur, Hazel Omukoko, Anoushka Pacquette, Khuzaymah Pathan, Roseanne Quinto, Rana Refahi, Jack Ruedisueli, Li Saw, Hira Shafique, Orkidea Shala Rajvinder Singh, Fynla Stallybrass, Teodora Todorova, Milena Tosic, Yoshino Wong, Choi Kiu Yung, Samiya Zafar

SECOND YEAR INTERIOR architecture students speculated on the future of human activity as a method of design research. They predicted and visualised the future through the development of fictive scenarios to anticipate the role of the existing building fabric in the future of the city, as well as the place and politics of built heritage in the present cityscape.

Students started with a detailed examination of the existing buildings and hands-on experimentation with materials and fabrication methods – workshop-based making – to test construction processes. They then expanded these experiments using drawing, model-making and moving images to represent habitable elements.

In the first semester, working together with Year Three, students engaged with the architecture of space travel to design body prosthetics for zero gravity environments. In the main design modules, students took two very different London institutions and developed proposals for their reuse, extension and adaption: a concrete car park and cinema complex (Peckhamplex); and a listed, vacant County Court in Lambeth.

In both design modules, the investigation into site and social context employed traditional research strategies, including archival research, interviewing and mapping, as well as more experimental methods such as the fabrication of fictive narratives and characters – storytelling – to understand the current conditions, interpret recent changes and to speculate on the future of the buildings and their occupants.

Guest Critics: Ava Aghakouchak, Tobi Agunbiade, Aseil Amgheib, Hui Sim Chan, David Chandler (Aberrant Architecture), Nerma Cridge, Martina Fatato, Lauriane Hewes, Lok Li Law, Gina Lee, Harry Matthews, Steban Morales Franco, Alexandra Niaka, Alfredo Lopez Nieves, Seyma Nur Eermis, Stefano Peretti, Sylwia Janka Poltorak, Georgia Roberts, Clay Thompson, Chloe van der Kindere (Nest Architects), Grant Warner 14

Special Thanks: Simone Brown, Geoff Glen (Peckhamplex Cinema), Nirmal Nikhar (Red Rock Developments), Greta Alfaro Yanguas Thugitha Kugathasan: Space|Body|Mediator

BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

(top) Ailar Kalami: Vertigo Restaged, Lambeth County Court; (bottom) Studio: Test Casts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Concrete Cultures

(top) Gemma Hopkins: Form Follows Disfunction

BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

(top) Anna Gregory: Lock Detail; (bottom left) Anna Gregory & Anoushka Pacquette: Exquisite Corpse; (bottom right) Arthur Bama: Space|Body|Mediator

(top) Gemma Hopkins: Peckhamplex; (bottom) Jaime Llavona: Peckhamplex, Concept Model

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Dr Ro Spankie, Sam Aitkenhead, Diony Kypraiou, Allan Sylvester, Fiona Zisch Sam Aitkenhead is a designer and maker working across architecture, interiors, graphics and product design. His work explores ways to reduce environmental impact through design and material innovation. Diony Kypraiou is an architect and researcher. Her work deploys practices of drawing, writing, performance and installation design as investigatory tools to explore analogies between architecture, dramaturgy, psychoanalysis, and storytelling. Dr Ro Spankie is fascinated by the role of the drawing in the design process and has exhibited and published work related to the interior both in the UK and Abroad. She is Associate Editor of the journal, Interiors: Design/Architecture/ Culture and is a founder member of Interior Educators. Allan Sylvester is Visiting Lecturer, a practicing architect, and founding partner of Ullmayer Sylvester Architects, a design led, and multidisciplinary collaborative practice.

YEAR 3: Lunar Tour(ist)scapes Students: Piyula Balachandran, Sara Bint Faisal, Kate Booth, Laura Breggia, Nora Brudevold, Andreea Caplea, Dulari Chheda, Sinead CookeLindo, Ekaterina Dellos, Caroline Dew, Aleksandra Dreczkowska, Zehra Duven, Seda Eldek, Ffion Ellis, Kamila Erkaboyeva, Emilija Fedorovic, Kristine Florian, Gabija Gliaudelyte, Jessica Gower, Vanda Hajizadeh,

Dominic Hogg, Jade Hopkinson, Anyun Jiang, Ashpreet Khurll, Kamil Koszela, Suditha Liuwatanachotinan, Emma McGill, Sandy Mitchell, Jade Papadimitriou, Edrinell Parada, Anca Petrescu, Soma Rahem, Jovana Rasic, Abigail Reynolds, Maria Sabrekova, Karen Tipan Romero, Koto Uchida, Maria Zlatareva

THIS YEAR CONSIDERED the theme of space tourism and challenged students to critically consider and creatively respond to the experiential conditions and ergonomic challenges that space tourism raises for the future of the world of design. With the guidance of practitioners and specialists from Virgin Galactic, students were asked to speculate on the interiors of the future as informed by the experience of space travel and its representation in fiction and sci-fi cinema by deploying narrative and design fiction.

The Thesis Project is the main pursuit for Year 3 students. Each student is asked to identify a host building in London as a unique site and devise a programme based on their analysis and personal interests in design. They pursued these ideas through an array of techniques, including material exploration and experimentation, 3D scanning and animation.

The group participated in the Space Body Mediator workshop with BAIA Year 2 students, where they designed and prototyped prosthetics to fit the human body and enable everyday actions in a zero-gravity environment. Term I concluded with the design of a terrestrial ‘Ready Room’ for would-be space travellers in the Castle Climbing Centre on Green Lanes, offering a simulated experience of the conditions of living in space.

The diversity of schemes and the depth of speculation is indicated by a sampling of project titles and locations: a speculative design for bio-cell dining at St James, Piccadilly, set in 2050; ‘The Address’ - a flexible solution for the workspace of the future; an AR retail ‘playground’ in the old Covent Garden Market; ‘Public Intimacy’ - a responsive performance structure for mental healing; and ‘StationHouse’ - a homeless shelter in a stack of abandoned train carriages on the disused Eurostar platforms at Waterloo Station.

Guest Critics: Abdi Ali (Ruimte Design), Dr Ana Araujo, Costanza Cerioni (Perkins + Will), Lindsay Duncan (Foster + Partners), Julia Dwyer, James Engel (Spaced Out), Clare Hamman (Chasing Shadows), Ed Harty (Pritchard Themis), Tom Herre (David Chipperfield Architects), Jack Hoe (Inside Out), Ana-Maria Toanchina ( JHP Design), Professor Toni Kauppila (Khio), Antoinette Nassopoulos Erickson (Foster + Partners), Juan Oyarbide (Heatherwick Studio), Stefano Perretti, Elena Sorokina (ThirdWay Architecture) 20

Thanks to: Jeremy Brown (Virgin Galactic), Francis Field (David Chipperfield Architects), Fritha Knudsen (Virgin Galactic), James Morgan, Tom Philipson (YourStudio), Lynda Relph-Knight, Howard Sullivan (YourStudio)

)Seda Eldek: StationHouse – A shelter in a stack of re-purposed train carriages on the disused Eurostar platforms at Waterloo Station

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Anyun Jiang: AR retail â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;playgroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the old Covent Garden Market

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Maria Zlatareva: Korean Bathhouse in Olympia Grand Hall

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Jovana Rasic: The Address

Emma McGill: Community Co-design project for Greenaway House, Ainsworth Estate, Camden

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

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Vanda Hajizaheh: Bio-Cell Dining in St Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Church, Picadilly in 2050

ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY OFFERS specialism in the technological, environmental, material and detailing decisions necessary to solve architectural design problems. It requires sound understanding of design processes, design and architectural composition, construction technology and management tools, and the effective communication of design information.

follow from the site, building use, and client. And in semester two, construction materials and structures are studied. Architectural and technical precedents are gathered â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an analysis of existing buildings and technologies relevant to the design project is a vital part of the design process for our students.

In the Architectural Technology studio this year, our 2nd and 3rd Year students were allocated adjoining sites in the Borough/Elephant and Castle area of South London. 2nd Year students were asked to design a block of student accommodation, utilising Cross Laminated Timber construction. 3rd Year students were asked to design a Community Facility and Park / Landscape.

With a clear understanding of the design task following from the research phase, students then go on to develop individual designs and/or technical solutions. Sketches, models, 3D visualisations, and BIM models are produced in order to progress ideas and as an aid to weekly discussions with lecturers, visiting Architectural Technologists, Architects and other students.

Both 2nd and 3rd Year projects are divided into two parts: Part One/semester one mirrors the process through which Planning Approval is gained, following the process from project conception to general arrangement planning drawings and visualisations. Part Two/semester two concerns the technical production of a project, encompassing structure construction technology and the production of construction drawings, details and specification Research Initial research is key in both semester one and two, in order to understand any constraints that might

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Realisation Architectural design and construction is a collaborative endeavour, even more so as new technologies are introduced, and as building requirements and the need for greater energy efficiency result in greater complexity. Communication, particularly visual communication, is of the utmost importance and students must graduate with the ability to sketch ideas and concepts, construct physical and digital models, and produce technical drawings and specifications. Adam Thwaites + Tabatha Harris-Mills Course Leaders

BSc ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

BSc Architectural Technology | Process

Architectural Technology students visited Paris on a 5-day trip in February this year, not only to experience one of Europe’s most architecturally diverse capital cities, but with a focus on developing sketching skills and researching international student accommodation by world renowned designers, (in line with this year’s Design Project brief).

The Villa Savoye, the Cité d’Universitaire, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine and the Pavillon de l’Arsenal were amongst the inspiring places visited and sketched by students, in addition to walking architectural tours.

BSc Architectural Technology | Second Year

Adam Thwaites, Tabatha Harris-Mills, Tumpa Fellows, Alice Odeke, Vincent Yoell Adam Thwaites: A passionate advocate of architectural technology as a distinct profession and route into a career in architectural design, Adam worked for a series of small architectural practices prior to his appointment as Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Current research/areas of interest include the use of Timber (CLT) in construction within urban areas and medium- to high-rise buildings; using vegetation in the built environment to mitigate air pollution; and energy efficient and sustainable construction methods. Tabatha Harris Mills: With 17 years’ industry experience, Tabatha is a practicing Architectural Technologist who established her own studio in 2005. With a background in a variety of projects from residential to healthcare, she brings her industry experience into the studio setting. Teaching at all levels and excited about the future of the profession and the course, Tabatha is a passionate technologist focused on pushing educational boundaries within the specialism. Tumpa Fellows: With over ten years’ experience working for various award-winning London-based architectural practices, Tumpa co-founded the inter-disciplinary practice Our Building Design and the charity Mannan Foundation Trust. She was awarded the RIBA Rising Star Award, 2017. She is currently a PhD researcher within the Experimental Practice research team, exploring practice-based research on co-designing architectural responses to climate change in Bangladesh.

YEAR 2: Borough Student Accommodation Students: Aybek Altay, Waris Baryali, Amelia Bond, Angela Brown, Desie Dan-Okoro, Thomas Diduca, Kornelia Dobien, Oliver Greenlees, Rhys Harris, Syed Hussain, Muzzammil Jiwabhai, Joseph Neumann, Angela Khandehroy, Chrisovalandis Liasi, Dileep Manku, Wei-Jiang Mao, Katie Munday, Rafna Muslim, Julia Naploszek, Ivy Ndagire, Sandi Nurpeissova,

Sanjida Nurul, Amy O’Donnell, James Park, Orville Phillips, Mahfuzur Rahman, Amira Shalaby, Iden Shams, Ahmed Sharaf, George Smith, Jasmine Smith, Matthew Swift, Michelle Sorrensen,Tanvir Syed Mohammad, Jawad Uddin, Zia Ur Rahman, Djanir Van-Dunem, Arcangela Varela Tavares, Jhaic Villanueva

THIS ACADEMIC YEAR we asked 2nd year students to develop proposals for a six-storey student accommodation building. We asked that the proposed building be ‘superinsulated’ and that provision be made for the inclusion of renewable technologies and/or passive strategies resulting in a low or ‘zero’ energy consumption building.

With the Building Regulations at the forefront of organisational planning and decision making, attention was directed to the consideration of escape routes and the prevention of spread of fire, accessibility for the disabled, sound protection from the external environment and from within the building itself, and the thermal comfort of occupants.

Student designs were required to include an element of vegetation as an approach to the aesthetic strategy, exemplifying the health benefits of green space and planting within the urban environment. A material/construction technology requirement was that the structure utilise cross-laminated timber (CLT). Students were asked to research the logistical implications of this prefabricated material/structure which should be reflected in their design, paying attention to the Construction Technology module in order to develop these ideas and produce a component breakdown. CLT construction is a renewable material and as such is considered a sustainable construction method.

This year-long project comprised two stages. In semester one, following on from a research and development process and feedback from tutors, students produced a concept/ spatial design which was developed to approximate a planning proposal. In semester two, again informed by a research and development process, students developed working drawings and details of their individual designs.

) James Park

BSc Architectural Technology | Second Year

James Park

Stora Enso: Flat Roof to Wall For roof that have regular access, a parapet wall of 1100mm is required, as specified by Part K of the Approved Document. The detail shows how the CLT

Stora Enso: Floor Slab to Wall The use of a floor slab foundation method applies to the Borough Triangle

Image showing how the ‘Green Blocks’ stack to construct the living wall façade

Aerial view of ‘Green Block’ wall formation

Image showing how the irrigation pipework is laid within the ‘Green Blocks’

Aerial view showing the irrigation pipework running through the blockwork

Blockwork was filed with soil

The irrigation pipework was laid over the soil in each block

Plants were planted in the openings within each block to create the living wall

Aerial view of planted blockwork with irrigation pipework in place

MODEL ‘GREEN BLOCK’ LIVING WALL

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BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

Tabatha Harris-Mills, Adam Thwaites, Tumpa Fellows, Stefan Shaw, Paul Smith Adam Thwaites: A passionate advocate of architectural technology as a distinct profession and route into a career in architectural design, Adam worked for a series of small architectural practices prior to his appointment as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster. Current research/areas of interest include the use of Timber (CLT) in construction within urban areas and medium to high-rise buildings; using vegetation in the built environment to mitigate air pollution; and energy efficient and sustainable construction methods. Tabatha Harris Mills: With 17 years’ industry experience, Tabatha is a practicing Architectural Technologist who established her own studio in 2005. With a background in a variety of projects from residential to healthcare, she brings her industry experience into the studio setting. Teaching at all levels and excited about the future of the profession and the course, Tabatha is a passionate technologist focused on pushing educational boundaries within the specialism. Tumpa Fellows: With over ten years’ experience working for various award-winning London-based architectural practices, Tumpa co-founded the inter-disciplinary practice Our Building Design and the charity Mannan Foundation Trust. She was awarded the RIBA Rising Star Award, 2017. She is currently a PhD researcher within the Experimental Practice research team, exploring practice-based research on co-designing architectural responses to climate change in Bangladesh.

YEAR 3: Borough Triangle Park Students: Jack Ariel,Tessa Barraclough, William Cammish, Alexander Elston, Ho-Kan Purvis, Othmane Jamai Ghazlani, Rumali Khan, Angela Khandehroy, Ewelina Maciula, Aboubacar Madi Nayama, Mirzana Muafey, Jamie Ogilvie,

Sanciya Sivakulam, Helin Saricinar, Mariia Sukhanova, Fintan Sumners, Irem Torun, Elis Troake, Jhaic Villanueva, Scott Wells

THIRD YEAR STUDENTS developed proposals for a new park and associated community facility for a site in the Borough/Elephant and Castle area of North Southwark. Students were asked to include within their proposals for this new green amenity an element(s) of ‘verticality’ and to consider how to create the experience of being in a larger and more interesting space within the confines of a relatively small area.

In addition, within this new landscape students were asked to design a ‘community facility’ of their choice which would be of benefit in terms of the psychological and/or physical health of this community, an area of central London subject to significant re-generation and densification.

Students were asked to consider ‘thresholds’, ‘distance’, ‘privacy’, ‘exploration’ and ‘discovery’. Following on from last year’s project, students were asked to produce design proposals which might mitigate air, sound and light pollution within the site and wider area.

This year-long project comprised two stages. In semester one, following on from a research and development process and feedback from tutors, students produced a concept/spatial design which was developed to approximate a planning proposal. In semester two, again informed by a research and development process, students developed working drawings and details of their individual designs.

) Jack Ariel

BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

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BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

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DESIGNING CITIES IS an interdisciplinary and integrated course between urban planning and architecture. The course addresses the challenge of building sustainable cities, with the aim to train a new generation of city experts capable of facing the complexity of cities, to understand the forces that shape them, and to provide innovative and creative solutions for their urgent problems. We promote a learning approach which is projectbased, with urban design studios at the core of the entire course. We believe in inter-transdisciplinary teaching and learning. BA Designing Cities has been a pilot programme of an EU-funded project called INTREPID (COST ACTION 2016 – 2019) which has resulted in the introduction of teaching and learning innovations. In this respect, students can now benefit from a range of co-taught modules from architects, planners, urban designers and economists, and from the engagement in our courses of practitioners, policy makers and communities. Our design studios are based in London and southeast England. This year we have explored the urban and environmental regeneration issues of Regent’s Canal; the sustainable development options of the town of Sheerness in Kent; and the urban design

solutions of a site in Islington in central London. In class, students have learnt how to understand, read and shape cities. Overall, we promote a truly international experience, and every year we explore different parts of the world where urban planning and design are influenced by different cultural, institutional, economic and social issues. While last year we visited Asia, including a field trip to Shanghai, this year we have organised a workshop in Morocco. In partnership with the local Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Ben Guerir, students visited Marrakesh and Casablanca working on solutions for sustainable urban development in the context of North Africa. Our students are excelling in many ways. They have already secured internships in renowned international firms in London such as Aecom, Arup, Farrells, Gillespies, HTA Design, and Savills. Last year one of our students won the prestigious RTPI Trust Bursary worth £2,000, submitting a video on how to enhance well-being in cities. The course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as meeting the requirements for the spatial planning element of initial planning education. blog.westminster.ac.uk/designingcities

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BA Designing Cities | Process

DESIGNING CITIES AIMS to promote an understanding of cities from an international perspective. In May 2018, Year 2 students travelled to Morocco to visit Marrakesh and Casablanca, and to work on the project of the new Green City of Ben Guerir. The aim of the

work was to rethink the role of the new Technopole, in partnership with the local Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, to create a more integrated green city, promoting inclusiveness and sustainability.

BA Designing Cities | First Year

Yara Sharif & Roudaina Al Khani Yara Sharif is an architect and an academic with an interest in design as a means to interrogate socio-political issues. She is a partner in Golzari â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NG Architects, an award winning architectural practice based in London Roudaina Al Khani is an architect, and urban and regional planner PhD with interest in multidisciplinary approaches to city development, and major experiences from Europe and the Middle East. She is Founder and Director of the practice Platforms for sustainable cities and regions and Lecturer at the University of Westminster.

YEAR 1: Planning for Integrated Neighbourhood Students: Kasem Abbas, Leen Bafakih, Mohammad Bin Mohd, Brandon Cindric, Ciara Clapp, Melva Costa Gomes, Georgina Fagaras, Anita Feleki, Alicia Privett, Daniel Sefton, Hamza Sohail, Saleem Sumuda, Zakir Uddin

THIS STUDIO-BASED MODULE explores the inner-city area in London, providing students with a platform for analysing and critically reflecting on urban policies while offering responsive recommendations and urban design solutions that address the subject of sustainability in its social and economic sense. Under the title Protecting the Oasis of Calmness, the site selected this year is the area around the Angel canal and Islington City Road Basin. The work unpacks the canals and waterways that have historically shaped the city in terms of their economic, commercial, social and spatial structure. The students looked into reviving the canals as economic spines for London while questioning the current major developments taking place. They explored the unique architectural and urban typologies of the industrial edges and their artefacts of narrow boats, locks and basins.

Working in groups, the students mapped the canal and the neighbourhoods offering urban strategies for mixeduse functions that can help integrate different sectors of the society, without compromising the industrial features of the canal. Based on the group site appraisal, students were asked to design a proposal of an urban infill and public realm improvement for the neighbourhood while also reflecting on the bigger urban context with its challenges and opportunities. Students interrogated through design-led research the notions of participation, collective act and public-private space offering original suggestions for its future functioning. The themes to integrate the neighbourhood and stitch it together varied; from floating farms to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Green Bridgesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Homeless Pockets to mixed-use housing and many more.

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BA Designing Cities | Second Year

Corinna Dean & Giulio Verdini Corinna Dean runs the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture, and is currently undertaking a residency at the Sheerness Dockyard Church Trust, looking at the ecology of the Isle of Sheppey and its retreating shoreline. She has exhibited widely and published on the topics of cultural regeneration in the UK and India, as well as contributing to architectural publications. Giulio Verdini is Reader in Planning and Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities.

YEAR 2: Regeneration & Development Students: Jamie Alley, Hyacynth Cabiles, Janina Graca, Michal Godlewski, Canyon James, Halime Kamber, Perry Knight, Ming Yevng Lim (Anthony),

Dana Maxwell, Elina Mieme, Giovanni Mule, Xanluka Sulejmani, Ceren Ulger, Yue Wu

THIS STUDIO EXPLORES strategies for sustainable urban development for the town of Sheerness – and its wider context – in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Sheerness needs to consolidate its role as the main commercial and service centre for the Island and address its current concentrations of deprivation.

The Island’s tourism offer is unique to Kent, but underexploited. Traditional ‘bucket and spade’ product faces challenges to meet modern demands and expectations. Sustainable rural tourism, the Island’s historic assets and links with aviation pioneers are potential growth areas. The students were asked to explore interventions at the peri-urban scale of urban acupuncture.

The health of the town centre needs to be improved, but there is no land available within its confines or at its edges. It currently has an undeveloped transport network, unmade roads and cul-de-sacs to eastern and deprived communities which increase isolation and promote unsustainable travel patterns.

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LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

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SEAFRONT EVENTS STRATEGY This is a program of events that will be implemented into Sheerness’s seafront. The objective is for the seafront to be used all year long and this program suggests events that can be showcased in the Seafront making sure this objective is met. Utilising a few examples seen in waterfronts and seaside towns around the world, using events that are different to the ones already experienced all over the UK. Making a destination within England that is a trendsetter.

SUMMER Cultural Events

Hire Pavilions for multiple uses

Pop-up live Cinemas/ Talent Shows - on the Pier

PAVILION Art Gallery/ festival: Conducted by local artists

MATERIAL 1: TIMBER- OAK TREE Will be experienced throughout the both main seasons of the year, this will sometimes require to close the High Street. Therefore the ‘High Street’ will become pedestrianised in these important events, some include the use of the Clock Tower which is in the heart of the town.

Timber is very durable and often cut in a way that makes it resistant to warping Due to its visible wavy grain, it has a distinctive look. It provides the product with a clear finish nicely highlights the grain.

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Although the Timber can stain by overly darkening and exagerating the grain, so it can end up looking too toned.

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Indoor Pool- in the Complex centre placed in the Pier

PIER & GLASS BOX

Spa/sauna facilities in the Complex centre

Aquarium- Giving visual access to the sea/ocean

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The Glass boxes can be used for various occasions, such as restaurants/ cafes but it can also be used as an indoor room where people can appreciate the sea in the indoors, thus is can be used throughout the two seasons winter and summer. Another idea is making it into an aquarium providing sea activities, as a room which gives access to the underwater of the ocean. People h ave the opportunity of watching l ive action of sea creatures. And a lso it can b e used a s multiple i ndoor pools or used for diverse aquatic activities.

Example of a Sea front Aquarium in Dubai, UAE. “The Lost Chambers Aquarium”

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During the 18th century, steamboats were a popular method of travelling down the Rivers Thames and Medway to local seaside resorts. Sheerness was one such resort, with people travelling from London by boat to the Sheerness Pier. The beach, bandstands, amusements and other entertainment helped Sheerness become a hugely popular resort. The boating lake, the swimming pool and the small paddling pool for children where important forms of entertainment for most Victorian and Edwardian children, it’s popularity remained until late 1970s.

Children Sandpit Playground Skatepark Leisure Complex

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Nowadays, most of the areas surrounding the activities that were popular in early-mid 1900s have been taken over by the Sheppey Leisure Centre, the area of the amusements and fun-fairs has been replaced by the Tesco’s Supermarket. Access to the original pier was blocked when the docks were redeveloped and the foreshore around the pier was infilled in a land reclamation scheme. Today all traces of the pier have gone and the foreshore is now a car park. The Jetty used to be an essential part of a holiday, it used to be a favourite spot for little boys to fish, and now it is deserted.

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BA Designing Cities | Third Year

David Mathewson David Mathewson is an urban designer and Lecturer in International Planning and Urban Design with an MA in Housing and Urbanism from the Architectural Association and an MA in International Planning and Sustainable Development from the University of Westminster. David has nearly 20 years of urban design, planning and architectural practice in the UK, USA and internationally, as well as a number of international development projects in south-east Asia and Africa. David’s doctoral studies focus on the influence of planning policies around flooding and the historical influences of those decisions on the spatial development of Jakarta, Indonesia.

YEAR 3: Planning Policy and Design Intervention Students: Martin Miranda Antelo, Elena Ceppo, Clive Cooper, Shantelle Elliott-Edwards, Taishanah Ferris, Lan Pham, Tanaphat Vanichsombat, Patrycja Wajszczuk, Kareem Wellington

THIS STUDIO-BASED MODULE explores architectural design and public realm through a master-planning exercise at the local scale realised on a small corner site in Islington, North London that is comprised of a 19th century Georgian public house and a number of commercial, light industry and warehouse structures from the early- to mid20th century. The surrounding area is one that is changing rapidly, with good local transport links, commercial areas and a strong historic urban fabric interspersed with more recent, largescale interventions. The site itself is located at the junction of a residential street, Hillmartin Road, and a major thoroughfare, Camden Road, where it intersects with Parkhurst Road immediately to the south of the Holloway Prison site, which has recently been purchased by the Peabody Trust for redevelopment into 1,000 homes. The module was undertaken in three phases. The first, which took place during the autumn term, was a series of planning policy and development guidelines lectures, along with talks on architectural design, massing, volume, character, composition and other building characteristics, as well as urban design issues such as townscape, urban form and morphology, movement, site analysis and

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placemaking. Drawing workshops were also held to revise students’ urban sketching abilities. The second phase undertaken in the spring term was a contextual analysis that examined urban design issues, demographics, economics and planning policy across the GLA and London Borough of Islington. This phase culminated in a summary of the opportunities and constraints for the site. The final phase of the coursework was centred on the project proposal itself. This stage was meant to build on the urban analysis undertaken earlier in the semester and was comprised of a site masterplan, an architectural design concept and public realm proposal for the site itself and the Camden Road – Parkhurst Road – Hillmartin Road junction in order to link the site across Camden Road to the future redevelopment on the Holloway Prison site. The students were given the freedom to express their design proposals by primarily focusing on one of three aspects: architecture, public realm or placemaking, though all three elements required design work. The students presented their work twice during the semester, at the end of each phase, to their fellow students and a selected academic jury. Special Thanks: Simona Kuneva, MArch PAL, Giulio Verdini, BA Designing Cities Course Leader Kareem Wellington

BA Designing Cities | Third Year

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THE UNIQUE BSc(Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design Course was established in 2018 with an ambition to meaningfully encompass the ‘artistic’ and ‘scientific’ in architecture and to nurture a new generation of environmental architects who are not only environmentally aware but also able to quantify the environmental impact of their design. Building on the successful first year, the BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Course has been granted the RIBA Part 1 Candidate Status on 21st March 2019 by the RIBA Exploratory Board. Once our first cohort graduate in 2020, we will have a full RIBA Validation visit. The pedagogic foundation of this new course is Evidence Informed Design which is an approach that embraces both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of architecture and contributes to attaining the right balance between architectural poetics and pragmatics. The learning outcomes of the course have been designed with the urgent needs of tackling climate change challenges in mind, and with a view to enhancing the employability of our graduates. Students will have the opportunity to boost their employability throughout the challenging three years’ of academic studies which focus on three themes: Sensing the Environment in the first year; Transformation and Application in the second year; and Stepping Out and Making in the third year. By sharing the first-year design studios and 60

cultural context studies with students from the wellestablished BA Architecture Course, students have the opportunity to acquire architectural design skills and history and theory knowledge essential to the professional practice. The Technical Environmental Studies modules introduce students to environmental design principles, and the analogue and digital design tools which enable students to objectively predict and evaluate a building’s performance. Throughout the three years, half of the time is spent on studio-based design activities and half on climatic, historical, cultural, socio-economic and professional studies. All modules adopt a strong interdisciplinary approach that highlights the added value environmental architects bring to the building industry and to society. Based on an urban site – The Golden Lane Estate in the Barbican, Central London – the strong second year cohort worked on four back-to-back briefs which required students to use both analogue and digital tools to represent, analyse and understand the urban and environmental contexts with quantifiable analytical and predictive insights. The outcomes of the intensive environmental mapping exercises were then used to inform the design development and decision making of the two key architectural design projects. Benson Lau Course Leader

BSc ARCHITECTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Process

THE TEACHING FOCUSES for the BSc(Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design [AED] are: Year 1 – Sensing the Environment; Year 2 – Transformation and Application; and Year 3 – Stepping Out and Making. In the first year, BSc AED students share design studios and Cultural Context modules with BA Architecture students and acquire the basic architectural design, observational and drawing skills by engaging in design projects and study trips. In the second and third year, BSc AED students work on dedicated environmental design projects guided by

experienced internal and external tutors. The Evidence Informed Design Approach is introduced to students through the Technical and Environmental Design Modules which are run throughout the three years of academic studies. Students attend lectures, hands-on workshops, group seminars, and individual study sessions; the spatial poetics and environmental delight are explored and tested by using hand drawn analytical sketches, photographs, analogue and digital mapping/design tools.

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | First Year

Benson Lau & Mohataz Hossain Benson Lau is an architectural and built environment practitioner (RIBA) and academic. He studied architecture at HKU, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and University of Cambridge, and has engaged in practice, research and teaching internationally since 1996. He is a Reader and Course Leader of the new BSc(Hons) Architecture and Environmental Design which was established in 2017. Dr Mohataz Hossain is an architect, educator and researcher in the field of integrated environmental design and energy efficient built environment with a special focus on users’ comfort, health and well-being. He completed his PhD in Architecture funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship, UK, at the University of Nottingham.

YEAR 1: Spatial Orchestration and Environmental Delight in Buildings Students: Genis Abdili, Johannes Agboifo, Nauman Asif, Armend Bajraktari, Cristiano Bizdani, Azuolas Compy, Dea Dalipi, Eleazar De Almeida, Abdallah Elhaj, Humaydah Fabiha, Rio Gonzales, Bahar Hekmat, Valentin Hristov, Mohammad Hussain, Pantea Javdan, Deniece John, Afnan Merza,

Meryem Milaslioglu, Maya Mira, Cosmina Mirza, Atiya Moore, Carlos Neto, Huu Nguyen, Sadaf Rahimy, Yusuf Rahman, Heshu Rashid, Rupinder Ryait, Viktorija Silkina, Anne-Flore Smits, Leonard Tansiri, Aruzhan Turganova, Ioana Vladutu, Xiaoqing Xu

THE SECOND BSc AED Year 1 cohort (35 students) shared the design studio modules with BA Architecture students and joined the seven strong design studios led by a group of competent design tutors who are either architectural practitioners or academics with solid practice and research experience.

The TES1 Module was run as a complementary module to the two key design studio modules with an aim to integrate environmental design into the architectural design process. The environmental design principles were introduced to students through site visits, lectures, group seminars and workshops. Students learnt to use digital mapping tools to quantify the environmental comfort in buildings, and they were encouraged to undertake subjective depictions of the spatial quality of their design proposals by using hand drawn sketches and photographs, and explore the orchestration of light and space in their schemes with precision through the use of analogue solar design tools. Also, the exploration on structural design, and the development of basic seasonal and diurnal environmental design strategies for their design projects are other key challenges for students to tackle. The sample work shown in the next three pages demonstrates the design strength of the second BSc AED Year 1 cohort.

The teaching delivery made use of well-designed places and buildings in London as external classrooms. Study trips to the Sir John Soane Museum, the British Library, the British Museum and the Royal Festival Hall were conducted during the first semester. Students were encouraged to use sketches and digital mapping tools to capture the spatial atmosphere and record the environmental conditions of the places and buildings they have visited. In addition to the design studio modules, all students were required to attend the Cultural and Context module which introduces students to the history and theory of architecture, and the TES1 Module – Environmental Design and Principles of Building Physics – sets the foundation for the Evidence Informed Design approach.

Special Thanks: Giles Bruce (A Zero Architects), Professor Brian Ford (Natural Cooling Ltd), James Engwall (Price & Myers), Tumpa Fellows, Matthew Haycocks, Julian Marsh (Sheffield Hallam University), Tszwai So (Spheron Architects), Zhenzhou Weng (University of Bath) 64

) Design project model studies from semester one and semester two design studios: Students - Afnan Merza, Anne-Flore Smits, Aruzhan Turganova, Bahar Hekmat, Carlos Neto, Cristiano Bizdani, Dea Dalipi, Maya Mira, Preet Bansal, Viktorija Silkina

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Stefania Boccaletti, Benson Lau & Rosa Schiano-Phan Stefania Boccaletti studied, practised and taught Architecture in Italy, Canada and England. Throughout her career as a practitioner and academic she has developed an interest in the impact of digital tools on the design and fabrication process in the field of architecture. Benson Lau is an architectural and environmental practitioner and academic with expertise in Collaborative Evidence-Based Design. He has been engaged in practice internationally since 1996 and joined academia in 2005 to share his passion and experience in bioclimatic architecture and the poetics of light with students. Rosa Schiano-Phan is the Course Leader of the MSc Architecture and Environmental Design and co-director of Natural Cooling Limited. She has extensive experience in the field of environmental design devoting most of her career to consultancy and research. She is the co-author of The Architecture & Engineering of Downdraught Cooling published in 2010.

YEAR 2: Spatial Poetics and Human Comfort in the Age of Climate Change Challenges Students: Yee Ang, Liva Balode, Sebastian Dawber, Jonilda Dilo, Christopher Garkov, Giada Gonzalez, Jennifer Housego, Maryam Islam, Chi Ian Lei, Ella Reed, Umaru U-K, Emanuele Volpe, Jiaping Wu, Tugce Yigit

BUILDING ON ‘Sensing the Environment’, Transformation and Application are the two concepts exemplifying the ethos informing the learning in the 2nd year Architecture and Environment Design course. 2nd year students were introduced to the tools to move from intuitive design thinking acquired in first year to an evidence-based approach [Transformation]; at the same time, evidenceinformed design enabled students to apply environmental design principles to the development of their design proposals [Application]. Through the four briefs assigned during the academic year, students were introduced to analogue and digital tools that allowed them to represent, analyse and understand the urban and environmental contexts with quantifiable analytical and predictive insights. The transferability of skills was also ensured by focusing all four briefs on the same site of intervention: the Golden Lane Estate in the Barbican, London. The first brief introduced students to the analogue and digital skills to analyse, compute and communicate both

the urban characters of the Golden Lane Estate and the environmental data generated through field work and simulations. The outcomes of the studies on the luminous, air, wind, thermal and acoustic environments gave students a rich set of data from which to generate responsive environmental design strategies that informed the design of the One o’clock Club [Brief 2]. Brief 3 and 4 explored the impacts of climate change on the performance of existing buildings, in particular on Cullum Welch House in the Golden Lane Estate. Firstly, students analysed climatic predictions for London in 2050 to understand what challenges urban environments will confront. Secondly, based on these predictions which foresee increases in global temperatures, change in wind speed and pattern, decrease in rainfalls in the summer followed by sudden increases in winter, students developed performance-based design proposals to retrofit Cullum Welch House to improve its resilience to the future climatic challenges.

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ON BEHALF OF the course team our very best wishes to 2019’s graduating cohort: practices of resourcefulness and creativity learned here will be a fundamental dimension in the challenging field of professional life. Our best wishes to you all.

Riverside through space for theatre and local government. Studio (3)1 examined filmic space and expanded definitions of the pleasure garden in Whitechapel while (3)7 considered public space and the housing estate in Beijing and Somerstown.

I would like to thank the dedicated group of MArch students who have supported our incoming first year and to the work of the Westminster Architecture Society in organising the Megacrits and other events.

Studio (3)2 decamped to the suburbs and, inspired by William Morris, considered the value of work, home life and the love of making through a 1:1 live build project funding by the Quentin Hogg Trust. (2)4 also escaped to the periphery of London to embrace the Good Life and visions of a sustainable future in Northolt. (2)2 examined urban ecologies, third spaces and proposals for social enterprise in the local economy.

This year saw Richa Mukhia step up to lead first year, whilst Natalie Newey moved across to take leadership of second year. We welcomed Jenny Kingston, Vasilija Abramovic, Chris Daniel and Jean Wang to the team, the return of Emma Perkin, and said goodbye to Juan Piñol as he moved to MArch. The second year team said goodbyes to Elantha Evans, Dusan Decermic, Stefania Boccaletti and Fiona Zisch, who all moved to different roles in the School, and welcomed Corinna Dean, Eric Guibert, Elisa Engel, Alison McLellan and Victoria Watson who moved from History into the Studio. In third year we welcomed the return of Roberto Bottazzi. First year nurtured and inspired students with workshops in drawing, making and dreaming before journeying south of the river to make architecture. This year concepts of civic informed a number of studio themes. (3)6 considered the impact of a decline in manufacturing on the diversity of civic life, and explored visions for industrial presence in the city. Studio (2)1 considered civic spaces for Sheerness and (2)5 explored civic life in Barking

History and memory framed the work of studio (2)3 with studies of life’s rituals and the design of an alternative new museum of London. Studio (2)6 took up residence in Stevenage exploring vision and reality and developed fictions from its past, whilst (3)3 took up camp in Lincoln’s Inn and embraced Soane’s tour. (3)5 focused on the creative practices of representation, the artefact and urban stitching in Kings Cross. Special thanks to Jennifer Killick, the RIBA and RIBA London West for continuing the mentoring programme collaboration in our final year, and our Work Placement Officer Leo Skoutas for the highly organised work placement programme for our final year students and for the internship programme for the 2nd year. Julian Williams Course Leader

BA ARCHITECTURE RIBA Part 1

BA Architecture | Process

The world about us: Studios at work in the Tate, in Athens, on the live-build pavilion, in Berlin, the studio and at Sheerness.

BA Architecture | First Year

FIRST YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS

FOR THE FIRST twelve weeks, the seven First Year studios shared the same briefs, beginning by measuring and drawing the human form and exploring the relationship between the body and space. Students then learnt to ‘read’ a dwelling, by researching and redrawing a housing case study. This early analysis was used to design a piece of ‘furnitecture’ for the selected dwelling. The final project asked students to design an Urban Bothy, a small scale intervention to provide a retreat or social gathering space for an identified transient group, or urban tribe, not currently catered for in the City. Clients included Deliveroo riders, skateboarders, electrosensitives and refuse collectors amongst others. In semester two, each studio developed their own briefs as described below.

GROUP A: John Edwards & Christopher Daniel Inn-Yard Playhouse John Edwards is an architect and educator based in London. He leads projects that follow a strong ethical agenda, working with clients and collaborators to design solutions that put user experience front and centre. Christopher Daniel is director of Polysemic, an interdisciplinary design studio focused on the creation of places for performance and the technical and cultural infrastructure that supports them.

Students: Genis Abdili, Halima Ahmed, Rbiya Bashir, Calin Bulzan, Azuolas Compy, Valentin Hristov, Jason Lai, Farel Mardiyunanto, Soraya Mohajeri, Aisha Mughal, Vinay Nath, Carlos Neto, Juwana Noori, Marija Pavlicic, Haseeb Qadeer, Kenzie Rebelo, Thais Ribeiro Rodrigues, Joseph Robinson, Andrijana Sitic, Iris Spahiu, Sonia Wedman, Jakub Wojcik Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Eliot EllisBrown and Urangua Sodnomjamts

BUILDING ON THE work developed last term, this semester the students have each designed a 21st century ‘Inn-Yard Playhouse’ for London: a social hub that offers short-term living quarters for at least two people, whilst providing a platform for small-scale performance. Like all fine London buildings, their proposals tell a story.

GROUP B: Richard Watson & Emma Perkin

Sculptor’s Studio and Flat

Emma Perkin is director of Emil Eve Architects and cofounder of Voluntary Design & Build. She has worked in architectural practice in London, Paris and Edinburgh and taught at Edinburgh University and UCA.

SEMESTER TWO WAS an opportunity for our students to start their first orthodox design project which was to design an Artist’s studio and flat in Lower Marsh.

Richard Watson is a 1st Year Architectural Tutor, and artist who has previously exhibited at University of Westminster and the AA.

We wanted the students to choose a client who was creative and whose life was well-documented in the hope that some of this would rub off on them. They looked at the artist’s working method, the materials they used, the ideas they were interested in or just their obsession for the subject.

Students: Sakariye Ahmed, Ruhel Ahmed, Nauman Asif, Seher Defne Bayrakci, Julia Brodzinska, Pik Cheung, Andrei Dobrinescu, Humaydah Fabiha, Eadan Filbrandt, Emerald Henley, Youmin Ho, Mohammad Hussain, Maya Mira, Josh Mooney, Melissa Nese, Leonardo Pelli, Yusuf Rahman, Leticia Ramirez, Souanta Retsi, Maryam Salum, Sofija Stupar, Blessing Sulaiman, Jaziba Tahir, Ashley White Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Raymonde Bieler and Aderinsola Fadina

GROUP C: Richa Mukhia & Tszwai So Richa Mukhia is a director of award-winning architectural practice M.OS Architects. She has extensive experience working in the private and public sector with a particular interest in housing design, public realm and community engagement. Tszwai So is co-founder of emerging practice Spheron Architects based in London. His projects have been featured in numerous high profile publications worldwide. He has also been nominated for and won many prestigious accolades.

Students: Anna Adetiba, Atefeh Arefcheh, Armend Bajraktari, Preet Bansal, Filippo Cocca, Janka Docs, Nicole Frankiewicz, Stephanie Grange, Aleefa Haque, Jessica Homawoo, Hannah Ismail, Jason Jones, Saffron Lord, Maryam Manzoor, Wiktoria Matjya, Momchil Petrinski, Sadaf Rahimy, Daniel Smith, Lilia Stefanova, Aruzhan Turganova, Thiviyanthini Vimalachandran, Haodong Wu Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners James Crookston and Louise King

For example, Anish Kapoor’s use of maquettes or Eduardo Paolozzi’s quick early making process, or perhaps the value of the ordinary summed up by Stuart Davis: ‘One day I set up an eggbeater in my studio and got so interested in it that I nailed it on the table and kept it there to paint. I called the picture Eggbeater, number such and such…’

Lower Marsh: High Street Futures THE PROJECT WAS an opportunity to speculate on a more optimistic vision for the future of the high street, one that acknowledges the role high streets serve as vital places of exchange and interaction. Students were asked to design a mixed-use community building that can support the civic and cultural life of the high street. We started by immersing the students in the communities and politics of the site to identify a client. Final projects included a headquarters for a hyperlocal newspaper, an insta-photo studio for market traders, and an ingredient and recipe exchange.

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GROUP D: Duarte Santo & Jenny Kingston Duarte Santo is an architect, landscape urban designer, educator, and researcher on architecture, art, landscape and tourism. An experienced practitioner and tutor, he co-founded TRANSLOCAL, a transdisciplinary project addressing local and global urban cultures. Jenny Kingston is an architect and urban designer working mainly on public realm schemes in rapidly changing areas of London with muf architecture/art. Along with 1st year at University of Westminster, she also teaches masters Unit 10 at the University of East London. Students: Johannes Agboifo, Hannah Ali, Andrei Bigan, Ugne Boskaite, Davide Ciaravola, Anna Essouissi-Coulton, Maik Fischer, Ayobami Giwa, Rio Gonzales, Pantea Javdan, Deniece John, Rawad Kayal, Jayden Lau, Cosmina Mirza, Rojan Keshavaz Omarabad, Aikaterini Pechynaki, Ria Ranga, Leonardo Russo, Shkemb Shala, Yahya Shire, Rauf Suleymanov, Hristo Tomov, Omar Abu Wishah, Xiaoqing Xu, Sumaita Zaman

Urban Art[e]fact AN ARTIST HOLDS many concerns executed through formal and elemental consideration, many times withholding important political sentiments and poetically charged oeuvre. The brief for this project is a hybrid live+work+social space, for an artist, intended to generate engagement with the local community. Students explored and developed an urban artefact, respondent to the context, inspired by the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imaginaries, practice, and production. The studio focuses on think-do methodologies, using and developing skills and techniques such as model-making, casting, painting, drawing, collage, photography, video and printing. The exposure to a vast range of media, materials and techniques enabled students to discover the potential of experimentation, oriented towards a reflexive practice in design.

Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Javier Garcia Navarro and Stamatia Rousou

GROUP E: Matthew Stewart & Vasilija Abramovic A Home for a Theatre Designer Matthew Stewart is a designer, researcher and writer. He has worked with architectural practices in China, South Korea and India on various projects. Vasilija Abramovic is an architect and doctoral researcher in the field of Interactive Architecture. She has published in leading scientific journals and conferences, and has exhibited work internationally. She teaches 1st year at University of Westminster, and MArch at the Bartlett, UCL. Students: Saya Agha, Minaa Baig, Cristiano Bizdani, Erika Boguckaite, Eleazar de Almeida, Aiden Domican, Daniela Gomez Garcia, Pablo Gonzalez Casin, Jakub Jazdzynski, Marta Koleva, Samuel McMahon, Afnan Merza, Teo Nita, Jijie Peng, William Pope, Mario Priore, Elton Pushimaj, Tahini Rashid, Anne-Flore Smits, Eleni Savvaidi, Viktorija Silkina, Mohammed Talat, Angela Tice, Zaida Zekaj Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Alix Gunn and Ioana Ungureanu

BASED ON LOWER Marsh in Waterloo, our main project for semester two was a live, work and exhibition space for a theatre designer. Delving into the world of theatrical production, students chose a set or costume designer to act as their client. To understand our clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design process, costumes and small stage sets were made for a speculative production of Victory Over the Sun. This was offset by trips to Jason Bruges and Heatherwick Studio to see first-hand how workshop spaces are organised.

GROUP F: Jean Wang & Natalie Newey Jean Wang is an architect and co-founder of CW2 Architects. She has worked for numerous design-led practices around the world and worked on projects ranging from schools, a Buddhist retreat to bespoke homes. Natalie Newey is a Senior Lecturer and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in urban ecologies and interdependencies of cities. Students: Mohamed Alkhaja, Akramul Askaari, Matthew Bailey, Amber Collinson, Dea Dalipi, Abdallah Elhaj, Karolina Kownacka, Huu Long, Ning Guo, Gabriela Macâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Allister, Meryem Milaslioglu, Vilde Myrhaug, Justina Pukinskaite, Yael Schreiber, Kacper Sehnke, Benjamin Shorrock, Dominica Sokalska, Maisie-Ann Spencer, Dora Varszegi, Shakira Willingale-Hayes, Nicholas Wood Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Max Fuller and Denisa Groza

Children in the City THE CHALLENGE IS to design a new education building for children in the city, particularly around the Lower Marsh and Waterloo Community. All early years providers in England are obliged to comply with Early Years Foundation Stage learning outcome and inspections. We will learn, challenge and review these guidelines against different teaching pedagogies and theories ranging from Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner to Forest School, theories that promote holistic models of learning based on the physical, psychological and cognitive development of children. The design projects presented focus on thorough research, model-making to explore elemental building components, explorative drawings methods that question and explore the physical and pedagogies relations of learning, playing and creating spaces in the city for children. The students explore buildings where reading niches unfold around several continuous ramps, where canyon-like spaces encourage play and learning, where indoor and outdoor spaces are blurred by porous skins and changing levels.

GROUP G: Ursula Dimitriou & Neil Kiernan Ursula (Orsalia) Dimitriou is a practicing architect and researcher. She holds a PhD on Commons and Public Space from the department of Visual Cultures of Goldsmiths University. Ursula is the co-director of SYN(studiosyn.co.uk) an interdisciplinary design studio based in London. Neil Keirnan is a practicing architect and educator. His research interests include performative spaces, and genderqueer- readings and uses of space. Students: Hayden Ames, Kuhu Arnalkar, Maria Bahrim, Jehaan Bhoyroo, Nur Binti Ashari, Erin Camagay, Amy Coburn, Kimya Hajisabagh, Bahar Hekmat, Eliza Lasek, Hong Lorn, Atiya Moore, Vlad-Ilie Necula, Callum-Billy Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Driscoll, Riane Oukili, Heshu Rashid, Rupinder Ryait, Anastasiia Shepel, Emir Sirkeci, Eliza Skil, Leonard Tansiri, Petronella Wendel, Ioana Catalina Vladutu Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Celine Battolla and Sam Robinson

Studio for a Sculptor THIS STUDIO EMPHASISES the investigation of the relationship between social conditions, materiality and performativity of space, and conceptual and formal ideas. We are testing forms and notions with a series of smaller compositional exercises and ending the term with Studio for a Sculptor: a spatial exercise testing the increasingly important relationship between live and work as conditions and forms.

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP A

(top left) Thais Ribeiro Rodrigues; (top right) Andrijana Sitic; (bottom) Calin Bulzan

(top left) Aisha Mughal; (top right) Jason Lai; (bottom left) Carlos Neto; (bottom right) Sonia Wedman

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP B

(top row) Andrei Dobrinescu; (centre row) Emerald Sky Henley; (bottom left & middle) Blessing Sulaiman; (bottom right) Josh Mooney

) Josh Mooney

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP C

(top left) Haodong Wu; (top middle & right) Momchil Petrinski; (centre left - right) Atefeh Arefcheh; (bottom left) Daniel Smith; (bottom middle & right) Stephanie Grange

(top row, bottom left & centre) Hannah Ismail; (bottom right) Jason Jones

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP D

(top left) Andrei Bigan; (bottom left & middle) Andrei Bigan; (bottom right) Maik Fischer

(top left & right) Sumaita Zaman; (bottom left & middle) Maik Fischer; (bottom right) Sumaita Zaman

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP E

(top left) Viktorija Silkina: Live/work spaces for Tom Pier - Sectional Model; (top right) Viktorija Silkina: Urban Bothy for Street Poets; (bottom) Erika Boguckaite: A day in the life of a theatre designer - interior studies

(top) Daniela Gomez Garcia: A Building for Josef Svoboda - section looking at light; (bottom left) Aiden Domican: Urban Bothy for Guerrilla Gardeners; (bottom right) Mario Priore: Fashion - house long section

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP F

(top l-r) Gabriela Mac’ Allister & Matthew Bailey: Children in the City models; Maisie Spencer: Street Poet’s Bothy; (centre l-r) Vilde Myrhaug & Amber Collinson: Children in the City models; Justina Pukinskaite: Astronomers’ Tower; (bottom l-r) Vilde Myrhaug & Maisie-Ann Spencer: Children in the City models; Matthew Bailey: Electrosentivies Bar

(top left) Dominika Sokalska: Learning from Montessori; (top right) Amber Collinson: The Baker Street irregular Astronomers HQ; (bottom) Dora Varszegi: Interactive Landscape for Children in the City

BA Architecture | First Year GROUP G

(top left-right) Hayden Ames, Eliza Lasek, Jehaan Bhoyroo; (bottom) Kuhu Arnalkar

(top left-right) Maria Bahrim, Hayden Ames, Hayden Ames; (bottom) Kuhu Arnalkar

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) One

Corinna Dean & Alison McLellan Alison McLellan teaches and practices architecture. Following working with internationally acclaimed practices Stirling Wilford and Stanton Williams, she founded Form_art Architects. Known for delivering museums, galleries, visitor and performing art centres, teaching is a natural continuation of Form_artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in the arts. Dr Corinna Dean runs ARCA, the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture, and is currently carrying out a residency at Sheerness. Her research and practice builds vocabularies around local knowledge to contribute to a resilient ecology of place, environment and building.

DS(2)1: Sheerness, Tactics and Processes for Co-Production Students: Zeina Alanzarouti, Marwan Almeligy, Pietro Asti, Aleks Donov, Bilal El Figuigui, Silvia Galofaro, Alicja Graczyk, Samanta Grudien, Mohammed Hachemi, Jude Jaribu, Jasmin Khalifa, Michelangelo Misiti,

Sterlin Mohammed, Jason Prescod, Rosita Shirazi, Rajan Suri, Chan Theean, Lydia Tryfonopoulou, Martyna Varslavenaite

THE STUDIO FOCUSES on exploring processes and tactics for co-creation and co-production of spaces. semester one and two projects were based on the Isle of Sheppey, addressing both the individual and the collective formation of social and spatial relationships through co-operations. Sheerness was the founding site of the Cooperative Movement, established in 1816.

For the semester two project, students explored a natural resource from the Isle of Sheppey, which is built on a bedrock of London clay and retreating rapidly. After researching the material, the students explored its transformation into a product / material / performance / resource. The resource was interpreted into a programme for their building, focused on making and production. The breadth of projects range from a brewery, a seaweed harvesting farm with spa, a brickmaking factory with archive of vernacular building patterns, and a hemp farm with net-making workshop.

The first semester project proposed an intervention into the Sheerness Dockyard Church, a derelict building which stands on the periphery of the active port, Peel Ports, a former Naval Dockyard and largest importer of cars into the UK. The students were asked to explore the practice of cooperative architecture and the concept behind the cooperative movement manifest in architectural typologies and space. Students proposed spaces which propagated ideas of sharing and non-hierarchy to respond to the diverse socio-economic conditions of Sheerness.

The three appointed sites explored the relationship between the Seaward side, which looks out to Essex, and the barrier of the sea wall, creating projects which responded to both the topographical conditions as well as the geological, with references to the socio-economic history of Sheerness.

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Silvia Galofaro: View of the Bridge

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(top) Mohammed Hachemi: Casting Exhibition; (bottom) Aleksandar Donov: Sheerness Brick Park, perspective views & masterplan

(top left) Aleksandar Donov: Residential Art Compound, Exploded Axonometric; (top right) Marwan Almeligy: Movement axonometric; (bottom) Michelangelo Misiti: Brick and Stones models

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Natalie Newey & Elisa Engel Natalie Newey is a full-time Senior Lecturer, 2nd Year Leader and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in the ecology of cities and communities. Elisa Engel is a co-founder of Citizen Architects and a trustee at Architecture for Humanity London. Elisa has lived in Botswana, designing and project managing an award-winning building for a youth centre on behalf of Architecture for Humanity.

DS(2)2: Dependencies & Common Ground Students: Halima Arafat, Sarah Al Matrook, Gozde Aydemir, Lucy Bambury, Filippos Divaris, Julia Gromny, William Howes, Safa Husain, Evelyn Iguasnia Castelo, Noor Kassem, Anthony Kourpas, Suzana Meziad, Henry Morgan,

Holy Serukenya, Salihah Sohail, Hafsa Syed, Zahraa Tayyar, Kristina Veleva, Bradley Welch, Tadas Zabulis

CITIES ARE MESSY, intense and chaotic places. The city is not a static entity but a living, breathing, dynamic organism which is continually in transition, reinventing itself, and constantly adjusting to any number of external forces. Within this complex ecology, strangers meet, communities develop, and urban dwellers find common ground. Through observation and documentation, our projects this year explored the complex dependencies that create a lively dynamic urban community and developed proposals which respond to the inter-reliant nature of communities and cities.

facilities as well as services for the community, responding to the temporary nature of the site and the scarcity of materials and services locally.

After initial explorations of the local context and visits to examples of community projects and social enterprises in the Whitechapel area, semester one focused on designing ‘Urban Ecologies’ within the Nomadic Gardens, east of Brick Lane. The Nomadic Gardens is a ‘meanwhile’ site acting as a ‘third space’ for the local residents. The students’ projects proposed social enterprises, providing training

In January, a visit to Athens gave us a chance to explore ancient ruins and current social issues. Our sites in semester two, adjacent to Brick Lane and bordering the railway viaduct, provided challenges in the form of ruined structures and complex site levels. An initial investigation into local assets, mapping abundance and scarcity, was the genesis for briefs which explored environmental issues, developed public spaces influenced by the daily rhythms of local inhabitants, and created the possibility of informal use. Proposals responded to existing commercial development in the area, with a community agenda and opportunities for a spontaneous, adaptable and reactive urban realm.

Many thanks to our critics and collaborators: Arun Baybars (Child Graddon Lewis), Alasdair Ben Dixon (Collective Works), Eva Branscome, Rafaella Christodoulidi (5plus architects), Corinna Dean, Kate Jordan, Sofia Karim (Doone Silver Kerr), Ben Lovedale (Sheppard Robson), Will McLean, Paresh Parmar, Oliver Redmond (5plus architects), Mirabell Schmidt (Bryden Wood), Eva Sopeoglou, Afolabi Spence (Fluid Architecture), Victoria Watson 98

Special thanks: Nicola Robson (Providence Row), James Wheale (Nomadic Gardens), Charlie Atkinson (Crisis Café), Kirsty Valentine (Spitalfields City Farm), Toby Poolman (Blackhorse Workshop)

(top left) Suzana Meziad: Sky view - Nature’s Health Centre; (bottom left) Anthony Kourpas: Nomadic foodbank; (right) Tadas Zabulis: A journey through the Seedbank Ecology

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(top left) Julia Gromny: Meandering Tranquility: Brick Lane Conservatory; (top right) Kristina Veleva: A New Beginning - Social enterprise/training centre;; (bottom) Henry Morgan: The Brick Factory - A community debating space

(top) Hafsa Syed: Ecology timeline - Nomadic community centre; (bottom) Filippos Divaris: Into the Wild - A Landscape of Restitution

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Three

Shahed Saleem & Michael Rose Shahed Saleem is a practising architect and academic. His area of specialism is in researching under-represented architectural histories through participatory and other methods. He writes on the intersections between heritage, nationhood, identity and belonging. Michael Rose graduated from the AA School of Architecture in 1971, and has been teaching architecture for over 40 years. His interests lie in how architecture can enhance human experience and well-being, and celebrate cultural diversity.

DS(2)3: Ritual and Memory in the Contemporary City Students: Hana Alsaai, Mariame Amouche, Gazala Bhatti, Mariah Bondad, Gizem Bulbul, Rujina Chaudhury, Saniat Chowdhury, Sarah Daoudi, Cindy Hasho-Bogdani, Rachel Howsen, Grace Izinyon, Mariam Jamal Eddin,

Timothy Lee, Desire Lubwama, Nada Maktari, Phong Phuong Hong, Nabiha Qadir, Ecaterina Reabov, Saima Rouf, Anna Tabacu

IN THIS STUDIO we explore the interconnections between society, culture and architecture, and we do this through themes that are relevant to London today.

history had been concentrated into a tight urban fabric. We interpreted how history and memory are built into buildings, streets and historical sites.

In semester one we have asked what are the contemporary Rituals in London today, and designed spaces for these to take place in. We ask: what constitutes a ritual; how do people make sense and meaning of their lives in London through repeated acts; and how can we create small buildings for them.

The site for our project is in the historic area of Smithfield, close to the site where the Museum of London is moving to, and we started with a group project to design an installation for the Museum.

Taking the Barbican as our site, we designed interventions across the brutalist landscape, disrupting it with pavilions for London’s ritualistic life. In semester two we developed our ideas of spaces for performance and exhibition by designing a new Museum of London. We have researched with the actual museum, taking behind the scenes tours, had studio visits from curators, and walks with archaeologists. On our field trip to the historic island of Malta, we observed how layers of

Each student then approached London’s history through a particular theme, and designed a museum according to that. Through this design project we explored notions of history, ritual, and memory, as well as the functions of museums, by thinking about the relationships between collecting and archiving, interpreting and display. The proposals are also required to complete an historic corner of the city and provide a civic space and public building that asks thoughtful questions and enhances the urban experience.

Guest Critics: Tanim Ahmed (Clement Porter Architects), Melissa Bennett (Museum of London), Damion Burrows (Darling Associates), Nairita Chakraborty (Iceni), Malcolm Crayton (Form Studio), Conor Daley (Terry Farrell Architects), Elizavet Dimitriou, Fiona Dunn (BDP), Tumpa Fellows, Francis Grew, Andy Groarke (Carmody Groarke), Ahmed Hamid (Ahmed Hamid Architects, Cairo), Khuzema Hussain (Collective Works), Daniel Leon (Square Feet Architects), Jill O’Conner, Felicity Paynter, Mirna Pedalo, Urna Sodnomjamts, Tswai So (Spheron Architects), Pat Woodward (Matthew Lloyd Architects) 102

Special thanks: Melissa Bennet, Francis Grew, Felicity Paynter, Sara Wajid (Museum of London), Andy Groarke (Carmody Groarke), Ahmad Hamid (Ahmed Hamid Architects, Cairo) Nabiha Qadir: Get Rich or Try Sharing

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(top left) Mariame Amouche: Museum of the Peopling of London; (top right) Phong Phuong Hong: Barbican pavilion; (bottom left) Nada Maktari: Musuem of London in Literature; (bottom right) Gizem Bulbul: Museum of Journeys to London

(top left) Hana Alsaai: London Museum of Migration; (top right) Sarah Daoudi: Museum of London’s languages; (bottom) Desire David Lubwama: Museum of London’s Textiles

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Four

Eric Guibert & Anthony Powis Eric Guibert is a gardener architect. He researches through his practice how the design of built and grown architectures can nurture and express dynamic ecological relations between humans and their ecosystems, how to create with the emergence of socio-ecosystems. Anthony Powis is an architect and researcher, working with themes of urban nature, more-than-human vitality, and creativity. He led public space and other projects at muf architecture/art, and is part of the Monsoon Assemblages project at Westminster.

DS(2)4: Envisioning Architectural Ecologies Students: Adejoke Adewunmi, Daniel Berende, Shivani Bhawnani, Esther Calinawan, Barbara Cellario, Hannah Clarke, Bryan Cotta, Maryam Daoudi, Georgia Dunmore, Angeliki Giannakodimou, Paul Greaves,

Wojciech Hoffmann, Georgiana Ilie, Anastazja Jankowska, Niamh Lenderyou, Kyungsoo Min, Billy Nguyen, Georgia Papadopoulou, Casian Podianu, Jacqueline Rosales Quezada

AS PART OF our ongoing investigation into the architecture of ecological processes, this year we have challenged students to envision possible permaculture futures for suburban London. Through ecological sections, each student developed their brief as an ecological guild: a group of humans and other-than-humans, in which synergetic relations and closed cycles of materials, nutrients and energies form the basis of the design project.

communal spaces, often usable by the public. A few have been interested in the more radical living programmes of kibbutz, or anarchist communities.

The students’ sites together form an existing block in Northolt. Projects have co-evolved with their neighbours’, nurturing a contingent and emergent understanding of context and design. In the first semester, students worked with the existing houses, putting forward ideas for ‘collectivised’ back-yards incorporating complementary elements of small-scale production such as orchards, aquaponics, and furniture making. In the second semester, briefs were extended to include co-living elements, doubling the density of the site. All guilds grow and produce something and have shared

The multiplicity of relations within each ecosystem have led to two typological approaches: most entangle the landscape and buildings to form polycentric arrangements; a few, by contrast, have swallowed the growing spaces within megastructures. Many students have developed architectural languages based on organic materials, utilising earth, timber, living trees, and thatch – often found or grown locally – variously mixing tectonic and narrative qualities. A design charrette resulted in the creation of a common: each guild shares a portion of their site to form a linear landscape running in the middle of the block that connects the various guilds to each other and the surrounding area. The entire block is a highly porous guild within which the students’ guilds are nested; landscapes and buildings are enmeshed in a productive, hospitable and diverse architectural ecology.

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Studio model: Studio ecological guild, model of the suburban block showing all schemes

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(opposite, top) Billy Nguyen: Activity plan; (opposite, bottom) Esther Calinawan: Ecological activity section; (above) Georgiana Ilie: Perspective

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Five

Camilla Wilkinson & Chris Bryant Camilla Wilkinson is an architect and lecturer. Her current research is on 1914-18 War Dazzle camouflage painting. Chris Bryant is a founding director of alma-nac, member of the RIBA validation board and recently co-edited AD – New Modes: Redefining Practice.

DS(2)5: Time, Risk, Event Students: Mejan Ahmed, Joshua Bulman, Lok (Wilson) Chang, Thomas Hall-Thompson, Samaa Ismaael, Olga Korolkova, Svetlozar Kudinov, Thet (Grace) Kyaw Win, Alcina Lo, Alicia Montero, Sebastian Mortimer,

Maria Motchalnik, Naran Oyuntsetseg, Ceyda Ozsoy, Isabelle Reid, Michalina Rusinek, Rowan St John, Edoarda Trombini, Tsang (Sabrina) Yuen Yan

THIS YEAR WE set out to explore architecture as event and introduced Bernard Tschumi’s writing on concepts, programme and space.

and emblem of imperialism, fascism and national unity over 135 years. In the Neues Museum, Kochstraße and Schloßplatz we saw where the city has been erased, what remains and what’s new. We visited architecture of debate and provocation arising from critical reconstruction of the 1990s.

Brief 1: Performance Space. We challenged the students to design a performance space for a specific play or film using a key scene as the conceptual generator. Students were encouraged to design extrovert buildings for one of two sites on the border of London’s West End theatreland. This resulted in a stage version of 127 Hours encouraging the audience to climb to their seats; Adam, a biographical narrative in which sexual identity is left in the cloakroom; and an audience exposed to the elements as architecture unfolds in a proposal for The Jungle. Our study trip in January to Berlin was pivotal in developing the idea of architecture as event and examining how this plays out in an urban context over different periods of time. This is typified by the Reichstag’s transformations and multiple roles – as a federal assembly, tourist attraction

Brief 2: Big Civic Building. Led by our students’ political interests, we set a brief to design a Big Civic Building for one of three locations on the brownfield site at Barking Riverside: a ‘Healthy New Town’ due to be home to 30,000 residents by 2035. Students were asked to design a debating chamber, where incoming residents can debate the Town’s future, alongside a much-needed social programme. In the face of undeveloped sites and masterplans, our students tested relations of time and context, designing ambitious proposals that cross boundaries, and connect phases of development in a display of great optimism.

Guest Critics: Shumi Bose (UAL), Mark Blackwell (Skydrive Inc.), Stanislava Boskovic (Imperial College), Ollie Cooke (Cooke Fawcett Architects), Christopher Daniel, Elantha Evans, Tumpa Fellows, Eric Guibert, Clare Hamman, Chris Hildrey (Hildrey Studios), Maja Jovic, Gintare Kapociute (Alma-nac), Depodistra Kapodistria (DLA Design), Liva Kreislere, Max Martin (Studio MASH), Sarah Milne, Will McLean, Matt Murphy (Lambeth Council), Natalie Newey, Mirna Pedalo, Milica Plinston (5plus architects), Nick Plinston (Wilkinson Eyre), Kester Rattenbury, Sarah Beth Riley (Ash Sakula Architects), Chris Romer-Lee (Studio Octopi), Adam Shapland (Alma-nac), Angus Smith (Studio MASH), Sophy Twohig (Hopkins Architects), Victoria Watson, Tristan Wigfall (Alma-nac) Estera Badelita [From DS(3)01] 110

Special thanks: Tom Geister, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch for our visit to S&H offices. Markus Bader for our visit to raumlabor offices and talk. Helen Matravers for her insightful tour of the New Diorama Theatre. Louise King and Sam Robinson (DS015) for portfolio presentation. Maria Motchalnik: 127 Hours Theatre

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(top left-right) Maria Motchalnik: Whole in One Barking Gardens; (bottom) Thomas Hall-Thompson: City Within a City (covered market & civic building) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Neighbourhood masterplan

MODEL DEVELOPMENT; Developing ideas and design through models photographed below.=

(top) Olga Korolkova: Barking Riverside Botanical Garden; (bottom left) Rowan St John: Debating hall and covered market; (bottom right) Joshua Bulman: The Hub - A market and interchange project KEY MODEL

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Six

Victoria Watson & Tszwai So Victoria Watson is Senior Lecturer and director of Doctor Watson Architects. A qualified architect and architectural historian, she is interested in architectural design as a mode of materialist practice. Tszwai So is director at Spheron Architects, recognised for their Belarussian Memorial Chapel.

DS(2)6: Car Park to Cosmos Students: Zienab Ahmed, Juliana Antunes, Maryam Babayeva, Lucie Barnes, Eloise Baxter, Shahida Begum, Simian Dovedi, Selim Elleithy, Jelena Jablockina, Suzanne Lasota, Thomas McLucas, Aisha Nadim,

Alexandru Oltean, Jay Patel, Henry Simpson, Kelvin Marc-Tovlentino, Youssef Turki, Ugne Valenciute, Tereza Vesela, Sofia Yannis Perteaguido

MODERNISM TAUGHT US we are organisms, dependent on our environment for our survival. Postmodernism taught us we are global citizens, politically, economically, ecologically and unavoidably connected to events taking place locally and all around the world. Cosmism tries to teach us about our inter-stellar connectivity, to think and feel our entanglements with the deep matter, waves, particles, stars and exploding galaxies of the cosmos.

museological installation space (MIS), located in the car park to the east of the station. The second, Cosmist Cinema and Art Space (CCAS), is an invitation to invent a new building programme, combining film, installation and day-to-day living in a single complex. It is located in the large car park to the west of the station that houses a motley collection of eateries (Chiquito, KFC, TGI Fridays) and a strip of entertainment facilities (Hollywood Bowl, Mr Mulligan’s Lost World Golf, 360 Play, Cineworld Stevenage), which together constitute Stevenage leisure park. In contradistinction to these structures, the CCAS will be a place of work, where Cosmist films are conceived, produced and sometimes screened.

The studio launched on the fiction of an International Institute of Cosmism (IIC) that plans to build a prototype development in the east and west car parks to either side of Stevenage railway station. Stevenage is located north of London, on the edge of the green belt. It can be reached by train from Kings Cross Station, with a journey time of only 20/30 minutes. The station, located on the western edge of the town, is a bridging structure spanning above the rail tracks, connecting the leisure centre, bus station and historic new town centre to the east with Stevenage leisure park to the west. The IIC plan to construct two separate buildings. The first will be a gateway structure, programmed as a

While working in Stevenage we discovered how the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ can manifest in the same typological form: the eastern car park is owned by Stevenage Borough Council, while the western car park is owned by Legal and General Property Limited and managed by the second largest, publicly traded, commercial real estate brokerage firm in the world, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

Guest Critics: Jessica Barker (Stolon Studio), Francis Field (Chipperfield Architects), Aidan Hermans (Grimshaw Architects), Kate Jordan, Will McLean, Samir Pandya, Alex Schramm (UNStudio), Pete Silver, Elly Watson (Design Museum), Rhys Williams (Cocktail Sandwich) 114

(clockwise from top left) Thomas McLucas, Zeinab Ahmed, Maryam Babayeva, Lucie Barnes

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(clockwise from top left): Alexandru Oltean, Aisha Nadim, Jay Patel

(clockwise from top left) Selim Elleithy, Sofia Yanez Perteagudo, Tereza Vasela, Simran Dovedi

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Jane Tankard & Tom Grove Jane Tankard is Senior Lecturer, practising Architect and active researcher. Her work focuses on experimental radical pedagogy and the role of the architect in collaborative community projects. Studio work embraces politics, film and feminism. Thomas Grove studied at Liverpool John Moores University and University of Westminster. His work is driven by polemical narratives and is focused on pleasure, ornament, the socio-political ramifications of architecture, and subverting the traditional methods of architectural representation.

DS(3)1: Resistance Students: Leen Ajlan, Beth Allen, Estera Badelita, Polina Bouli, KatieAnne Brown, Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky, Kenza Salmi-El Idrissi, Kevin Ferenzena, Hanane Ferraz, Kate Hubert, Areesha Khalid, Aamirah Munshi,

Cameron McKay, Aya Mousa, Sulman-Shaikh Muhammad, Simmi (Esther) Oluwo, Natalie Orzel, Adrian-Calin Paul, Darina Maria Procopciuc, Yara Samaha, Zsuzsanna Szohr

In the night while you were sleeping the city ceased to be. The places of assembly, protest, divergence and rebellion have vanished.

and transform the original drawings into a 21st century Pleasure Garden. Students overlaid this work with their own experiences, cultural background and personal histories to develop individual programmes for semester two that challenged the means by which we engage in the design process, assuming that form does not follow function. From an anti-colonialism, anti-assimilation school, a monastic archive and a housing scheme where the living co-exist with the dead, to a centre for UK residents applying for Romanian citizenship, the projects have looked to the future of the city as a radical, critical and imaginary narrative and landscape.

FOR US, ARCHITECTURE is an agent for change, a tool for invention, and manifestation of dissent and social transformation. We propose a divergence from the party-line, a leap into the creative, intellectual and political unknown. This year we have continued to attempt to operate as a creative collective, engaging with cinema, literature and art to inspire Architecture that could construct a new reality, confronting and proposing radical alternatives to the ‘neo-liberal’ city and the modernist ideologies that shape contemporary practice. Through the eyes of others we investigated infinite worlds, unimaginable pasts and impossible futures. Working with representations of historic moments of political and social upheaval, we began the year creating multiple choreographic analytical ‘event’ drawings. Through a detailed analysis of our site in Whitechapel, we identified a moment, an identity, a fact, to inform

We valued the opportunity to collaborate with the artist collective Alt Går Bra, which resulted in a mimeograph workshop, exhibition and conference in Ambika P3; and also with the poet Mike Garry whose workshop on the spoken word and performance helped the studio to think about language and how architects verbally describe their work.

Guest Critics: Megan Ancliffe (Atkins), Steve Bowkett (Tankard Bowkett), Kevin Driver (Turner Studio), Dimitrios Filippas, David Hawkins (Hutchinson and Partners), Plamena Momcheva (AtelierWest), Alicia Pivaro, Kevin Rowbotham, Mike Russum (Birds Portchmouth Russum), Dan Slavinsky (astudio), Dean Van der Vord (Red Deer) 118

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Adrian Calin-Paul: The Wrath of the Three Mighty Babas, Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Romanian Visa Centre

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Zsuzsanna Szohr: Living with the Dead: Necropolis Metropolis

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BA Architecture | Design Studio (Three) Two

Maria Kramer & Roberto Bottazzi Maria Kramer is a RIBA part III tutor and is running the 1:1 pavilion project for the second year. Maria established her own award-winning studio, Room 102 Ltd, in 2011 and focuses on the idea of research, learning and practice informing each other. Roberto Bottazzi’s research analyses the impact of digital technologies on architecture and urbanism. He is the author of Digital Architecture beyond Computers: Fragments of a Cultural History of Computational Design (Bloomsbury, 2018) and editor of Walking Cities: London (Camberwell Press, 2017).

DS(3)2: New Forms of Community in Walthamstow Students: Hafsa Adan, Saden Alabbasi, Larissa Angonese, Sina Bahjat, Smit Baradiya, Esra Gonen, Sodueari Graham-Douglas, Miles Giraldez, Neslihan Gulhan, Beatriz Cecilia Jimenez, Zhangeldy Kaupynbayev,

It is here, in this shift between awakeness and sleep as states of consciousness and also in the perceptual turnabout from outside to inside and then again from inside to outside, that regressive and progressive movements wander through those mediatic worlds that make up our human universe... Good Room-Bad Room - The Century of the Bed, August Ruhs

THE STUDIO’S INTEREST is in developing new visions for living typologies, integrating work and community spaces, and intertwining and embedding these within the local context. Communities are fluid and changing, which requires continuous re-thinking and adjustment as part of society’s and the built environment’s aspiration to encourage communication, exchange and activity. Students initially developed Community StartUp concepts based on the holistic approach of William Morris, the radical 19th century designer, craftsman, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist, whose childhood home has been transformed into a gallery local to our site in Walthamstow, the first London Borough of Culture in 2019. Students interviewed locals to understand their concerns and how they see their environment, which provided a deeper insight and understanding of the site and its context.

Moin Omar Khan, Inna Kurtlakova, Daria Kushnir, Bibiana Malawakula, Illia Marynin, Hiloni Sheth, Adrianna Waleszczak

In semester two, we introduced the living element of the brief, initially focusing on the most private aspect, the bedroom, based on the mantra ‘the private is political’ and which, according to Walter Benjamin, is ‘a box in the world theater’. Research included developing a ‘Qualitative Aion Sleep Diary’, recording individual experiences, and a ‘Quantitative Kronos Diary’, recording sleeping routines. Students developed concepts of the ‘private universe’ as ‘dream palace’, including thresholds from the intimate inner worlds to our outer worlds, exploring gradients of privacy and thresholds to communal and public spaces, integrating the initial StartUp idea as the community and public aspect of the project. In addition, we developed a 1:1 ‘Woven Pavilion’, which derived from the initial ‘dream palace’ idea, CNC cutting the pieces and coordinating the work. Part of the London Festival of Architecture, this was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Quintin Hogg Trust. Overall an exciting year stretching the entire scale from 1:1000 to 1:1! The studio’s work will be exhibited at the Hoe Street Gallery in Walthamstow 17th–24th June and will include round table debates. www.wfculture19.co.uk/events/20-20-visions-2019

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(clockwise from top left) Smit Baradiya: Plan of Feng Shui Living ; Miles Giraldez: Section of Makers Hub Development; Hafsa Adan: External view ‘All the World is a Stage’; Larissa Angonese: External View - ‘Tapestry of Light Living’; Daria Kushnir: Model scale 1:500 ‘My Home is My Castle’

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(clockwise from left) Saden Alabbasi: External view of ‘Musical Metropolis’; Zhangeldy Kaupynbayev: External view of ‘Walthamstow Community Living’; Weber Industries; Rhino Model of ‘Woven Pavilion’ - View of the three Arches; Zhangeldy Kaupynbayev: Model scale 1:6 of the ‘Woven Pavilion’

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Constance Lau & Stephen Harty Constance Lau practices and teaches architecture in London and Singapore. The studio’s research interests in multiple interpretations and narratives are explored through the techniques of montage as well as notions of allegory. Narrative as an ongoing dialogue in architectural design is further articulated through projects in the book Dialogical Designs (2016). Stephen Harty is an architect and director of Harty and Harty who specialise in contemporary art sector projects. He is interested in creating learning links and is currently working to create teaching opportunities between London, Glasgow and Copenhagen. Stephen is an occasional critic at the Bartlett, where he completed his study in 1992 receiving distinction, the school drawing prize and a travelling scholarship.

DS(3)3: Mise-en-Scene: Displacement and the Grand Tour Students: Anderson Barbosa Sales, Denisa Balaj, Shouhui Amy Chen, George Cosbuc, Ella Daley, Deane Dizon, Marta Dziuba, Irgel Enkhsaikhan, Sabrah Islam, Wojciech Karnowka, Susann-Marii Kerner, Hyun Kyu Kim,

Marianna Kyriakides, Seungmin Amy Lee, Viktoriia Nozdracheva, Nickolay Penev, Gabriele Pesciotti, Zuzanna Sliwinska, Maciej Worosilak

THE JOHN SOANE Museum served as the starting point for the studio’s interests in multiple interpretations and architectural design as an ongoing dialogue. The theme Mise-en-Scene: Displacement and the Grand Tour extends existing readings of the Museum as a residence, a place of learning and a repository for paintings, sculptures and architectural paraphernalia garnered over Soane’s lifetime, inspired by his Grand Tour. Hence the experience of the place is not singular, linear nor static and in this instance likened to the sixteenth-century notion of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ where the readings and meanings of the various objects were reliant on their immediate contexts.

meanings is created through the ever-changing relationships between programme, object and site is key. The architectural narrative starts with issues of displacement and display and the proposals take on different theatrical effects to evoke the experiential and spatial qualities that redefine ideas concerning ‘cabinet’.

Semester one’s The Soane Theatre of ‘Curiosities’ takes on board the idea that the Museum was constantly altered to accommodate new functions and acquisitions during Soane’s lifetime. Exploring the spaces as analytical constructs that create a phantasmagoria of effects with inventive settings, notions of theatre and theatricality are used to describe spaces, buildings, activities, experiences and/or atmospheres. This idea that a multiplicity of new

These concepts of spatially describing history, issues of site and displacement, are furthered in semester two’s Memory and the Archaeological Artefact. Between past and present, reality and imagination, the proposed architecture operates as an intervention that engages with the immediate surroundings, an independent entity as a built form, an experience that alters the reading of the existing context and, most importantly, as an ‘archaeological artefact’ in the midst of continuous changes. Hence the creation of new meanings and different readings of the work is furthered through the provision of innovative ways to encourage an ongoing dialogue with the user.

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Gabriele Pesciotti: Reimagining and Reconfiguring Bach - Cello Suite 2020

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BA Architecture | Design Studio (Three) Five

Bruce Irwin & Catherine Phillips Bruce Irwin studied art and architecture at the Bartlett and Rhode Island School of Design and has lived and worked in New York and London. His practice combines design, teaching and curating. He is a founder and co-director of the SCAN Project Room. Catherine Phillips studied architecture at the Bartlett and Manchester University, and art at City and Guilds of London Art School. Her practice combines architecture, teaching and art. She is a director of MPH Architects.

DS(3)5: Out of Place Students: Antonio Allegri, Amin Benmoussa, Navpreet Bolina, Mia Briscoe, Jae Hyun Cho, Thomas Grunberg, Catalina Guzun, Matthew Heyna-Francis, Sarah Hisham, Doli Likomanova, Aiste Jurgeviciute,

Openings and closings, beginnings and endings. Everything in between passes as quickly as the blink of an eye. An eternity precedes the opening and another, if not the same, follows the closing. Somehow everything that lies in between seems for a moment more vivid. What is real to us becomes forgotten, and what we don’t understand will be forgotten, too.

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THIS YEAR DS(3)5 played with ideas of layering as a core strategy of design work. We examined an area to the south and east of Kings Cross, an in-between place in London, centred on the open railway cut between Grays Inn Road and Kings Cross Road. Our studio practice uses procedures of artistic investigation – drawing, printmaking, sculpting, shaping – to help bridge the gap between material research and practice, and between intuition and analysis. Themes of process and iterative/series work were emphasised and encouraged.

Larisa Florentina Manga, Zahra Mansoor, Tanzina Miah, Polina Novikova, Zainab Saadat, Nikoleta Tareva, Midia Veryani, Egle Zuikaite

In semester one we proposed a ‘spatial stitch’ for the site. This could be a path/bridge/connection between existing places, spaces or paths within the site. We addressed movement and sight, action and rest, material, light and space, figure and ground, day and night. We also proposed and designed a symbiotic support activity (programme) for the stitch. In semester two, we proposed structures to house a specific collection or taxonomy. The collection building contains the specific artefacts, records and related activities of the chosen topic and provides space for all necessary support programmes, such as research, conservation, maintenance, social spaces, circulation, technical and mechanical spaces.

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(top left - right) Aiste Jurgeviciute: Planetarium; Larisa Manga: Urban Stitch + Covered Market; (bottom left - right) Matthew Heyna-Francis: Tea Museum + Seed Bank; Jaehyun Cho: Watch Museum

(top) Larisa Manga: Photography Gallery; (bottom) Polina Novikova: Map Institute - Construction axo ; Urban Stitch + Catwalk

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(top) Thomas Grunberg: Urban Stitch - Park + Book Market; (bottom left) Doli Likomanova: Urban Herbarium; (bottom right) Egle Zuikate: Urban Stitch + Covered Market

(top left) Tanzina Miah: Film Institute; (top right) Egle Zuikaite: Urban Stitch + Market; (bottom) Antonio Allegri: Food Market and Restaurant

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Three) Six

Julian Williams & Alicia Pivaro Julian Williams worked as a project architect for 20 years before moving into full-time teaching. Ten of these were spent at muf architecture/ art, collaborating with artists on public realm works and projects for the arts and young people. His current research is in the field of architectural education and study of the territories of public housing. Alicia Pivaro is an urbanist, artist, community activist and gardener. After training at the Bartlett, with an MSc in History of Modern Architecture, she held a number of key positions at leading organisations: Arts Council of England, RIBA, and Architecture Foundation. She now teaches and crits at Westminster, CSM, and LSA, is chair of the Highgate Neighbourhood Forum and other urban co-production projects.

DS(3)6: Production Students: Handan Bayraktar, Nicholas Blacker, Mariam Houta, Alam Jannat, Enes Karakus, Nicole Langcauon, Ivan Levin, Cassie Li, Vanessa Mbadinuju, Faisal Muti, Andreas Panagiotatos, Anna Pawlik, Lavinia Pennino,

Marta Rachwol, Dominika Rakoczy, Dan Strassburg, Anna Terekhova, David Volodin, Yuechuan Xi

IN RESPONSE TO the critical loss of space for manufacturing and making in London, we invited our students to speculate on an alternative urban future for the city that is industrial, productive and sustainable; and to develop new forms of industrial space to make visible the once hidden richness of the physical work of making to reconnect making with the creative potential of the city.

an area just north of St Pancras station currently under threat of commercial redevelopment.

By making industry visible again, the aim was to generate a vision of the city that’s diverse, vibrant and messy, and where production of all forms are cherished and valued rather than forgotten or cleansed from our urban experience.

Their rich responses emerged from studying the value of the existing tenant research by UCL: the night-time scene; the wealth of food industries and the sustainable ambitions of Alara Foods; the stark life of the manual worker.

The first project of the year involved the design of a new form of high density workshop building off York Way in Islington, in reaction to the largely one- and two-storey industrial estate landscape: creating beacons to the world of production and attract the curiosity of the urban dweller.

We asked our students to develop a strategic vision for its future: through wholesale transformation; or through strategies to engender changes in its visibility and wider value; or by designing an iconic form to mark the presence of industry in the city.

Proposals involved the careful appliqué of new works to create an enriched urban milieu. Another group developed radical designs for wholesale transformation – creating proud new mega-structures of industrial power and celebrating the rough poetry with a new urban parkland for Camden Town.

The second project embraced larger scale considerations: the transformation of an industrial zone off Camley Street,

Guest Critics: Bernard Brennan (Tony Fretton Architects), Kevin Driver (Turner Studio), Verity-Jane Keefe (Central St Martins), Mark Lemanski (muf architecture/art), Andy McPhee, Roman Pardon (Pardon Chambers Architects), Mike Russum (Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects) 142

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(top left) Lavinia Pennino: The Boardwalk; (top right) Cassie Li: Museum of Ice Cream; (bottom) Yuechuan Xi: The Tower of Junk

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John Zhang & David Porter John Zhang is an architect and an academic. He runs a small studio practice and holds a PhD from the RCA on the topic of contemporary Chinese architecture. David Porter is a prominent architect, educator and writer. He was a partner in Neave Brown David Porter Architects, and currently holds a Professorship at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing.

DS(3)7: Between the Lines University of Westminster Students: Poonam Ale, Soraia De Abreu Viriato, Lauren Fashokun, Manjot Jabbal, Maheer Khan, Matthew Lindsay, Ryan Myers, Ryan Speer, Gia San Tu, Yana Stoyanova, Catalina Stroe

CAFA Exchange Students: Gao Wenhui, Huang Jiamin, Lai Chinin, Lyu Lyu, Tong Zixiao, Zou Jialiang, Zuo Zimu

USING BEIJING AND LONDON as our test-beds, we explore new ideas of living together in the city.

in Sanyuanli, the students developed a series of strategic residential housing proposals aimed at ensuring the longterm sustainability of the local community.

This year we explored housing enclaves in close proximity to major transport and cultural infrastructures in both Beijing and London. The students were asked to create new forms of housing and new ways of living that fostered a better relationship between the community and the rest of the city. Key to the studio’s approach is the focus on the thresholds between public, communal and private, as well as the nature of the landscape between buildings. We advocate an architecture that engages the global context, and not a Eurocentric one. We are a global community of diverse individuals seeking answers to the same questions. We spent our first semester embedded in Beijing, living and studying at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), immersed in a radically different cultural and urban context. Through analysis of a post-reform era residential estate

Guest Critics: Harry Charrington, John Edwards, Fergus Feilden (Feilden Fowles), Quinn Greer (Edward Williams Architects), Ellen Hadden (DSDHA), He Keren (CAFA), Douglas Murphy (RCA/Central St. Martins), Sarah Beth Reily (Studio Egret West) 148

In semester two the students consolidated the lessons learned from Beijing in the development of a comprehensive architectural proposal for a housing scheme in Somers Town, London. Challenging the council’s existing masterplan for the site’s ‘regeneration’, the students’ projects offered alternative visions for how a new housing programme, developed in response to the social, economic, and idiosyncratic needs of their identified users, can be integrated into the existing urban fabric and engage with the existing community. Through a tectonically-led process, informed by model making at a range of scales, we explore the spatial, material, and experiential qualities of our proposals, accompanied by a clear understanding of the appropriate construction approaches and structural principles.

Special Thanks: (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing): , He Keren, Hou Xiaolei, Liu Siyong DSDHA ) Matthew Lindsay: The Somers Town ‘Wall’

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(left) Ryan Speer: Sectional housing type test model; (top right) Soraia Viriato: Linked tectonics; (bottom right) Ryan Speer: Outdoor rooms

(top left) Yana Stoyanova: Lived landscape; (bottom right) Lauren Fashokun: Sunken homes; (top right) Manjot Jabbal: Scholarsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes; (bottom right) Gia San Tu: Cloistered campus

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(left) Poonam Ale: Scholar gardens; (top r) Maheer Khan: Sunken campus; (bottom r) Catalina Stroe: Connected roofs; (opposite) Ryan Myers: New Beijing courtyards

(top) Student Name: Image title; (bottom) Student Name: Image Title Remi Kuforiji: Open Enclave: A new living landscape for Tybald Estate

OPEN 2019 MARKS the end of my first year as MArch course leader and an opportunity to reflect on the history of the course. Looking back over the entries made in these catalogues by my predecessors, there are a number of common themes. The feature of MArch mentioned most frequently is, undoubtedly, the diversity of the design studios. As William Firebrace observed in the 2012 catalogue, ‘there isn’t really a Westminster style, and if there were it would be dead as soon as declared alive’. As a result, it is only through the work that one can successfully gain an insight into the many and varied approaches to design explored by our students. But, as the interests outlined here by the studio leaders indicate, the MArch design studios have also always been united in their ambition to address important contemporary issues, and to respond to the changing nature of architectural design. Consequently another popular theme is therefore the possibilities presented by the course for experimentation, research and speculation in areas that are relevant to practice. As Harry Charrington remarked in 2014, ‘students studying on the MArch can do things that are important to practice – but which practice can rarely afford to do’. Such activities include the time spent on research for our many outstanding dissertations. Similarly, the innovative and creative work produced for Technical Studies and in the Fabrication Lab.

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All these observations remain as true in 2019 as they ever were and it is tempting to dwell on continuity and the continued excellence of the course. But the most significant theme is not, as it turns out, this consistency; it is in fact the continual renewal and change that helps to keep MArch vibrant. I am therefore pleased to announce that this year saw the return of DS11, now run by Dusan Decermic and Elantha Evans; and the introduction of an entirely new studio, DS25, led by Alessandro Ayuso with Daniel Wilkinson and Martyna Marciniak. New groups were also added to History and Theory and to Digital Design with an extremely successful introductory project devised and run by David Scott and the staff of the Fabrication Lab at the start of the year. The MArch at Westminster has always been a remarkable course and this is due largely to the dedication of the staff; and to the many hundreds of talented and ambitious students past and present. It is they that we have to thank for the strong reputation that the course continues to enjoy. Richard Difford Course Leader

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Exploring and discussing architecture of all scales and forms from within and without: The MArch â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Banquetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. An introductory project run by the Fabrication Lab at the start of the year offered a chance to get to know one another and learn some valuable digital fabrication skills.

Plus: DS21 visiting Central Library, Brooklyn, New York; DS18 explore Myanmar; DS15 present their work; DS10 prototypes; DS11 visit Andalusia, Spain.

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Ten

Toby Burgess & Arthur Mamou-Mani Toby Burgess www.tobyburgess.com – is the director of Toby Burgess Design Ltd. He has previously been design tutor on the Architectural Association’s Design and Make Course and taught the Advanced Digital Design Masters at London Metropolitan University, with a focus on the funding and delivery of live student projects designed and fabricated using digital design tools. Arthur Mamou-Mani www.mamou-mani.com – is a French architect and director of architecture practice Mamou-Mani Ltd (RIBAj rising star award 2017). He is a lecturer at University of Westminster and owns a digital fabrication laboratory called Fab.Pub.

DS10: WeWantToLearn.net Yr1: Monika Bochynska, Michael Cheung, Sinead Fahey, Agata Korzeniewska, Pui Mun Lee, Carolina Lopez, Jacky Mbatchou, Yvonne Onah, Urna Sodnomjamts, Shaun Taylor, Sam Whitehead, Jean Whitehouse, Dennis Yang

Yr2: Andros Antoniades, Mike Armfield, Edward Hancock, Nick Leung, Aleksander Kochanowicz, Marzena Szwed

DS10 BELIEVES THAT architecture should be joyful and that architects should think like makers and act like entrepreneurs. We like physical experiments tested with digital tools for analysis, formal generation and fabrication. We value combinations of conceptual bravery matched with architectural reality, and seek an architecture of playfulness and beauty which responds intelligently to its environment, sitting within the wider sustainable, cultural and environmental context.

Large scale timber models were produced as a learning tool and the students of DS10 organised a public exhibition of these at the University. These were further developed as architectural responses to engender the growth of sustainable communities in many places around the globe, based around the production and overall life cycle of timber.

This year, in response to the recent IPCC’s report on the state of the climate and the need for immediate action over the coming twelve years to limit climate change to 1.5ºC, DS10 looked at the wider potential of timber as a sustainable building material, exploring novel forms and unexpected assemblies as well as studying the whole life cycle from forest management through to carbon sequestration.

The diverse themes explored by students included 3D scanning of trees to form customised tree homes, combining recycled waste plastic and mangrove pulp to create timber bioplastics in Bangladesh; sustainable silver birch bark ply; greening the Sahara; Passiv Haus yurts in Mongolia; CLT manufacturer in West Africa; and playable wooden musical buildings in the Brazilian favela. www.WeWantToLearn.net is the lively studio blog sharing

the research of the studio to the wider design community.

Digital and physical model making in the studio was coupled with an exploration of the formal organising tool of symmetry as evidenced in mathematics, physics, architecture and the natural world. Students were given fundamental lessons in parametric thinking with Rhino and Grasshopper for seven consecutive weeks. They explored its potential as a tool to grow, unfold and bloom complex and novel timber geometries.

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Dusan Decermic & Elantha Evans DS11: Guided by Dusan Decermic and Elantha Evans, both experienced educators and practitioners, the studio is conceived as a supportive, self-reflexive, and critical framework. Negotiating design ambitions at large geographical or urban scales and their implications at architectural and inhabited scales, projects explore relationships between abstracted urban genetics and unearth unexpected possibilities for material rendering of space. A series of relevant, sensitive and emotive programmes are developed in a different European city each year, carefully responding to geographic, socio-economic and political concerns.

DS11: The Intrinsic / Extrinsic City Cordoba: The City of Lost Souls Yr1: Thomas Joshua Smith

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DS11 RE-LAUNCHED THIS year with a new focus on researching the liminal territories at the far edges of the European Continent. Alternating each year from south to north and shifting gradually from west to east, studio programmes will ‘stitch’ together these extreme territories, bypassing the hollow void of Mitteleuropa which has been the studio’s preoccupation for the past decade.* Cordoba, ‘the first metropolitan city of Europe’ with a medieval population of one million inhabitants, is now a soporific Andalusian town; the melancholy Caliphate past visible only in relics left from the metropolis and now protected by four UNESCO world heritage sites. DS11’s programmes were asked to consider what future is dawning on this region, with high-unemployment and seeming lethargy contrasting the celebrated and well-known culture, festivity and fantastical sense of the everyday. Projects have responded to the surreal combination of an existing aero-space industry, olive production, tourism, archeology, pipe-dreams and the revered Andalusian horse. MArch 1 Equine Court for Cordoba: a new hybrid? Programme, place, proposition. MArch 2 Catalogue to Thesis: return of the binary? Architectural embodiment. Guest Critics: Anthony Boulanger, Lindsay Bremner, Phaedra Corrigan, Richard Difford, Sam Giles, Clare Hamman, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Gill Lambert, Toby Lewis, David Mathewson, John Ng, Andrew Peckham, Toby Plunkett, Kester Rattenbury, Yara Sharif, Victoria Watson 164

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This series of four high-tempo short projects at the start of semester one, produced wide-ranging and innovate work. This formed the basis for the individual publication of a Catalogue [MArch2] and the thematic + typological development of an urban-architectural brief [MArch1]. The studio’s territorial investigations at a city scale were year-long: ‘from a distance’ in semester one; and then ‘up close’ setting up semester two, with a week-long field trip to Granada and Cordoba. Coming soon… DS11 2019-20 // Reykjavik: The Land of Fire + Ice

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Ben Stringer & Peter Barber Ben Stringer teaches design and cultural context studies at University of Westminster. Recently he has been publishing articles about architecture and rurality. Peter Barber has a practice noted for its social housing and urban design projects, mostly around London. He also teaches design studio at University of Westminster.

DS12: Village Of The Future Yr1: Nicholas Chapman, George Gardner, Lisa Gronevik, Adnan Khan, Xiao Ma

Yr2: Fabio Carvalho, Yin Yung Chan, Karolina Czyrko, Arjun Divarkan, Chloe Fenton, William Galloway, Alix Gunn, Wendy Leung, James Marr, Molly Middleditch, Dominic Ramli-Davies, Jessica Rust, Qishuo Zhang, Xutong (Lily) Zhao

BRITAIN’S COUNTRYSIDE NEEDS re-imagining. How much will England’s agricultural landscape have to change in order to compete with cheap global mega-farmed food imports in the post-Brexit years? Where should our food come from? Do we pay far too much for our homes and far too little for what we eat? What is the countryside for? And how should cities relate to it? Is it really meant just to be a place for monetising nostalgia on industrial scales?

industries, public ownership and crowd funding with the aim of re-imagining the countryside as somewhere that ordinary people can take ownership of.

Partly influenced by Colin Ward’s post-war vision of alternative communities on former military bases, DS12 took on the idea of the productive village on the highly contested former airport of Manston in Kent. Like many sites like this, it’s being lined up for commercial house builders, but we argued that these places should be used as spaces of experimentation where alternative futures could be tried out using the latest technologies and ideas about settlement form. We need these kinds of places as counterpoints to all the conservation areas, national parks and layers of Farrow and Ball paint that represent the countryside now. We considered how designs could be effected through such things as community share schemes, co-operative

We’d intended housing to be a major part of a mixed programme that included industry, housing and farming, but when we went to the site we were told by local people that jobs were the priority and that houses for commuters were not the answer to local needs. So the balance of the programme was oriented more to industry and agriculture than we’d imagined at the beginning. In parallel with this, we asked students to design science museum ‘rural dioramas’ to explore their ideas about what the countryside of the future could be and how it should be represented. In January, DS12 took a trip to south-east China and Hong Kong to look at villages of all kinds in all kinds of contexts: urban, rural and desakota. Among other things we learnt how Chinese architectural practices are re-thinking the disciplines in relation to all these kinds of settlements which hitherto have been overlooked.

Guest Critics: Lindsay Bremner, Cyan Cheng, John Cook, Beth Cullen, Corinna Dean, Tumpa Fellows, Sean Griffiths, Maria Kramer, Jane McAllister, Michael Neuman, Alicia Pivaro, Kester Rattenbury, Yara Sharif, Peter Simpson, Alasdair Struthers, Alex Somerville, Mireille Tchapi 170

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Andrew Yau & Andrei Martin Andrei Martin is a partner at PLP Architecture, a London-based multidisciplinary design practice. Andrew Yau is a design director at urban future organisation, an international practice and design research collaborative.

DS13: Allusions and Affiliations Yr1: Ayokunle Ambali, Celine Lavinia Battolla, Christopher Birt, Tsun Yat Hansel Chan, Taraneh Joorabchian, Marija Petrovska, Mei Tsao, Gavin Yau

Yr2: Mahmoud Chehab, Sofya Batsova, Adam Bouabida, Iliya Kopriunkov, Simona Kuneva, Stephen Martin, Hugh Henry McNeil, Harry Musson, Anna Pazurek, Petruta Isabela Popescu, Callum Stubbings, Udeme Udoyen

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AT DS13 WE are interested in the capacity of architectural form to enable specific aesthetic encounters. We are interested in how architecture can produce effects and, through these effects, can solicit affect, or shape the qualia of our sensed experience. We call this disciplinary approach effectual formalism.

This year we worked through sampling. In music, a sample belongs simultaneously to two distinct wholes: the original song from which it is sourced, and the new one into which it is appropriated. Oscillating between an original and final context, the sample is an aesthetic catalyst, able to produce manifold relations of interpretation.

Architecture can be political only as it produces other worlds, as it aesthetically disrupts the real in order to advance public imagination and to produce new subjectivities. All political movements begin as aesthetic movements which distribute sensible information in such a way that allows new communities to be built and new sets of relationships to be understood. In this sense we see effectual formalism as a way to produce a politically engaged form of architecture.

Our study is focused on Hong Kong â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a city that can be understood through its adjacencies of opposites: jungle and hyper-urbanism, vertiginous topography and flatness, the poor and the mega-wealthy, kitsch and high art, capitalism and communism.

We are interested in the tension between an object and its qualities and how this tension can be co-opted to provoke aesthetic experiences that allows one to see that object as if for the first time, to make that object look novel, to defamiliarise the object. Can established typologies be reinvigorated through defamiliarisation or estrangement to become (again) broadly enfranchising? Guest critics: Dimitrios Dakos (Coeus Design Studio), Laurens Jacobs (Heatherwick Studio), Yashin Kemal (Robin Partington & Partners), Cindy Mehdi (Anouska Hempel Architects), Alex Sun (EPR Architects), Alejandro Vicente (AHMM), Andrew Watts (Grimshaw Architects), Tony Yin-Xu Yu (Ravensbourne University), Dagmar Zvonickova (Grimshaw Architects) 176

All forms of sampling were fair game. We were historically promiscuous in our sampling of the architectural canon, drawing from effects, artefacts, procedures and techniques. We adopted and adapted the sampled conditions of Hong Kong and, through defamiliarisation, we transposed them into buildings in order to catalyse non-standard typologies. Using samples, we produced hybrid formations through a series of techniques including entropy, arbitrary operations, and indeterminacy to explore qualities traditionally rejected in architecture and create a new type of architectural imagination concerned with boundaries, volumetric primitives, polygonal constructs, chunks, joints, niches, patchiness, inlaying and interiority.

Special thanks: (CUHK): Dir. Nelson Chan, Prof. Adam Fingrut, Prof. Jeroen van Ameijde; Prof. Holger Kehne (HKU), Prof. Tobias Klein (CityU), Adelina Chan (Macau Historian, HKU), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong City University Ran Ran Shaw Media Centre, Hong Kong City Gallery, Hong Kong Housing Authority Gallery, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jockey Club Innovation Centre Celine Battolla, Mahmoud Chehab, Iliya Koprinkov

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Sonya Batsova, Chris Birt, Mahmoud Chehab, Simona Kuneva, Anna Pazurek, Isabela Popescu, Callum Stubbings, Gavin Yau

Simona Kuneva, Henry McNeil, Anna Pazurek, Udeme Udoyen, Gavin Yau

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Celine Battolla, Simona Kuneva, Udeme Udoyen, Gavin Yau

Celine Battolla, Mahmoud Chehab, Iliya Koprinkov, Anna Pazurek, Isabela Popescu

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Sean Griffiths & Kester Rattenbury Sean Griffiths practices as an architect, artist and academic. He was a founder member of the art architecture collective FAT and now practices as Modern Architect. Kester Rattenbury is an architectural critic and writer and has recently published the book, The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy Architect, a study of the architectural work of the novelist, Thomas Hardy.

DS15: A Realist Utopia Yr1: Michelle Tanya Barrett, Edwin Ho Hang Chan, Josh Heather, Alejandro Abreu Hermoso, Lou Hua Ben Kelemen, Jacek Jan Nowak, Emmanuel Tetterfio, Anna Maria Voicehovsky

Yr2: Gulru Arvas, Alexander Couth, Max Fuller, Keith K Hong, Louise King, Niall Murphy, Annabelle Nguyen, Sam Robinson, Stamatia (Tina) Rousou, James Vernon, Ping Wong

DS15 IS A studio that uses experimental methods, based mostly on ‘Chance Operations’ to develop new forms of architecture. We develop strangely poetic architectural components out of processes that challenge notions such as authorship, intentionality, causality, ideas and meaning, normally considered central to the production and critical discussion of architecture.

These processes were applied to the design of a utopian community for 2000 people on the site of a former gasworks in the seaside town of Folkestone. For this, the studio was hosted by the Folkestone Creative Foundation who provided invaluable background information about the site, its history and the town’s aspirations for the place. The year’s work was also embellished by workshops held by the site’s appointed master-planners, East Architects, and by a session run by political gaming expert Dr Richard Barbrook, in which students learnt the art of negotiating the Situationist Game of War, as a precursor to designing their own games. The combination of all these elements led to a very challenging but ultimately rewarding year for students and tutors alike as we wrestled with the contradictions inherent in the relationships between planned utopias and games of chance, individual and collective working, and the sheer scale of the project.

These are further questioned by having students swap pieces of work with each other and design notation systems which form instructions from which their colleagues make work. As well as being designers, the students become each other’s collaborators, clients and contractors. The resultant objects, made collectively by the group, form a catalogue of architectural components available for the use of all members of the studio in their individual projects. Further collaborative work produced ideas for utopian societies which were explored through the design of games to create processes whose outcomes are collective and contingent rather than individual and determined.

Guest Critics: Eddie Blake, Tom Bower, Riccardo Freggroni, Ciaran Linanne, Douglas Murphy (RCA), Benson Lau, Yeoryia Manolopolou (AY Architects), Max Martin (Studio MASH), Christopher Pierce (AA School of Architecture), Nina Shen Poblete (Hop Projects, Folkestone), Tomas Poblete (Hop Projects, Folkestone), Rahesh Ram (University of Greenwich), Matteo Sarno (Michael Hopkins and Partners), Connor Sheehan (Studio MASH), Angus Smith (Studio MASH), Olly Smith (5th Studio), Alexi Soteriou, Yuki Sumner, Molly De Courcy Wheeler, Daniel Wilkinson (Bartlett School of Architecture) 182

Special Thanks: Dr Richard Barbrook (University of Westminster, Politics Department), Julian Lewis (East Architects), Nina Shen Poblete, Folkestone Creative Foundation

(left,inset) Gulru Arvas;(middle) Annabelle Nguyen, Lou Kelemen, Keith Sung; (top and right) Ping Wong

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(clockwise from top left) James Vernon, Sam Robinson, Annabelle Nguyen, Alex Couth, Anna Voicehovsky, Tina Rousou, Keith Sung

(top left) Niall Murphy; (top middle) Anna Voicehovsky; (right) Tina Rosou; (bottom) James Vernon

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Anthony Boulanger, Stuart Piercy & Callum Perry Anthony Boulanger has an MArch from the Bartlett UCL and is co-founding partner of AY Architects, recognised for innovative design and research, winner of the Stephen Lawrence Prize in 2013. Stuart Piercy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and founding director of the acclaimed award-winning practice Piercy & Co. Callum Perry, a DS16 graduate from 2014, is an architect working at Piercy & Co and specialises in digital fabrication techniques. Together DS16 offers students a platform for experimentation of architectural concepts instigated by a culture of making.

DS16: EXOTIC – Architecture & Otherness Yr1: Robert Beeny, Gaby Bucknell, Ben Dart, Amrit Flora, Thomas Howard, Hoi Laam Leung, Xiaolam Lu, Ross Ridges, Agatha Savage, Anna Sawey, Kinbarra Mai Smith, Laura Snape, Manuel Enrique Urbina Meza

Yr2: Wing Sum Chan, Tahin Khan, Zoe Mak, Alice Paterson, Lewis Toghill, Tia Shaker

THE AIM OF DS16 is for students to undertake a process of concentrated research into contemporary architectural ideas and spatial/environmental conditions to create critical responses informed by social, cultural, political and economic contexts and explore them through the learning of craft and techniques of making.

and rituals of making and drinking tea for the ceramics workshop currently operating on the square. A family of pieces was created, each with a different role for the celebration, developed by an intense period of learning a material craft. The process of testing and experimenting was of equal importance to the end product.

This year we invited students to explore and respond to the theme of the Exotic.

For the majority of main individual projects, the investigation of the theme shifted to Cadiz. Regarded as the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe, Cadiz was one of the main launching points for discovering the ‘New World’ and a key port of imperial trade until the 19th century. Students were asked to invent their own briefs and generate critical, experimental spatial and material responses to the social, cultural, political and economic context of the city with an explicit initiative for a civic purpose.

The topic was introduced through a historic study of ‘primitive exoticism’ associated with imperialism and used to describe art, artefacts, literature, food, music, animals etc; anything unfamiliar brought from faraway places. Most importantly, the theme extended to question the evolution of the exotic and its role in society today. It queries the relationship between the familiar and the foreign, the self and the other. In Term I, students collaborated in small groups to create a range of 1:1 installations on the dilapidated site of Rochester Square in Camden. The brief for this project, A Celebration of Tea, explored colonial history, culture

A variety of sites, processes and means of representation were encouraged, whether digital, analogue (or both) and projects responded to a number of sub-themes through uncovering a layered maritime history and the city’s social, cultural and political accumulation.

Guest Critics: Harry Bucknall (Piercy & Co), Harry Charrington, Sophie Cole (Mikhail Riches), Murray Fraser, Ed Grainge (Grainge Rider Architects), James Greig (AY Architects), Alex Haggart (Piercy & Co), Yannis Halkiopolous (Piercy&Co) Tom Jenkins (Hopkins), Jack Newton (RSHP), Kate Rider (Grainge Rider Architects), Al Scott (If-Do), Victoria Watson (Doctor Watson Architects)

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Special Thanks: Francesca Anfossi and all at Rochester Square for their collaboration and use of the square; and Piercy & Company for helping to fund these installations.

(top) Alice Paterson, Lewis Toghill, Thomas Howard, Zoe Mak, Agatha Savage: Rochester Sq. - Ceramic Components; (bottom left) Tahin Kahn, Gaby Bucknell, Amrit Flora, Mai Smith: Rochester Sq. - Tea Cups/Palm Fruit Collection; (bottom right) Robert Beeny, Ross Ridges, Manuel Urbna Meza: Rochester Sq. - Cantalan Valut Oven

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(top left) Alice Paterson: Museo Mercantil Cadiz - view of elevated public walkways; (top & centre right) Alice Paterson: model photographs; (bottom) Anna Sawey: Teatrum Balbi Cadiz - sectional model photograph

Ross Ridges: The MAETN Initiative Cadiz [Documenting Decay] - cross section

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(left) Ben Dart: Cadiz Shipwreck Centre - Illustration of buoy deployment; (top right) Lewis Toghill: A Working Holiday (Rochester Square) internal view of ceramic studio; (bottom right) Lewis Toghill: A Working Holiday - â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the unsightly aidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parametric node installation

Rob Beeny: The Fortfied City - Cadiz Ship Builders Union: (top left ) Illustration of road blockades in shut down position; (top right) Axonometric of Political Climate Sensory Tower showing process of fragmentation; (bottom) Cross-section of assembly building and Puertas de Tierra

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Lindsay Bremner, John Cook & Ben Pollock Lindsay Bremner is Professor of Architecture and the Principle Investigator of the Monsoon Assemblages project. John Cook is an architect and Research Associate for Monsoon Assemblages. Ben Pollock is an architect at Jestico + Whiles and co-founder of 4D island.

DS18: Monsoon Assemblages Myanmar Yr1: Temanna Akhter, Jessmine Bath, Aimee Daniels, Katie Deckow, Dagmara Dyner, Charlotte Grasselli, Kate Hosking, Sara Kosanovic, Una Ledaal, Ioana Ungureanu

Yr2: Raymonde Bieler, Thomas Blain, Aimee Cornelius, Lidia Gherghe, Fiona Grieve, Elisabetta Lafratta, Omar Manshi, James Purchon, Patricia Trivino Herrero, Rachel Wakelin

THIS WAS THE third and final of three DS18 studios contributing to the research agenda of Monsoon Assemblages, a five-year long research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

The studio began by mapping the Irrewaddy River in Myanmar as matter, ecologies and flows. Students deepened these cartographic representations by simulating the river from the perspective of a nonhuman entity that inhabits it e.g. a fish species, dolphins, mercury, sediment.

This year the studio worked in Myanmar, a monsoonal territory currently being rapidly transformed by climatic, industrial and agricultural pressures. It was framed by the idea of ‘cosmopolitical design.’ This is based on the realisation that what used to be called nature (weather, climate, a river etc.) is no longer a stabilising pattern or a backdrop for human activity. Instead nature is created, instigated, composed and undone at every moment. It rejects the modernist idea of nature as external to human experience and able to be mastered by architects, engineers and scientists from the outside. Instead, it explores what design might be if it is practiced as an active process of manipulation and reworking nature from within, in which human and non-human ways of being and ways of knowing are taken into account.

We went to Myanmar in November 2018, visiting Yangon, Bagan and Mandalay, where students were able to undertake individual research on their chosen entity. This was followed by an exercise to design an instrument to augment the perspective of the chosen non-human entity and make it more perceptible to humans. This concluded the first semester’s work. In the second semester, students generated a programme and designed a new cosmopolitical forum in which the entity they had been researching and its human interlocuters could negotiate a shared future.

Guest Critics: Nerea Calvillo (University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies), David Chandler (UoW, Politics and International Relations Department), Beth Cullen (Monsoon Assemblages), Nick de Klerk (Aukett Swanke Architects), Melanie Dodd (Central St. Martins), Tumpa Fellows, Christina Geros (Monsoon Assemblages), Jon Goodbun (RCA), Alex Gordon ( Jestico + Whiles Architects), Susannah Hagan, Constance Lau, Jane McAllister (The CASS, London Metropolitan University), Oscar McDonald (Space Syntax), Laura Nica (Marek Wojciechowski Architects), Michael O’Hanlon (DSDHA), Richard Portchmouth (Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects), Calvin Sin ( Jump Studios / Populous), Iulia Stefan (///digirep), Alice Thompson (MATA Architects), Alex Watt (Eric Parry Architects), Charles Weston Smith 194

Special Thanks: The Quinton Hogg Trust and Monsoon Assemblages for funding the field trip Rachel Wakelin: Avian Air, Tropospheric Territories

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(left) Raymonde Bieler: Chaung Gyi Masterplan Birch; (right) Raymonde Bieler: Chaung Gyi River Registry

(left) Fiona Grieve: Energy Tribunal, Plan, Myanmar-China Pipeline; (right) Fiona Grieve: Energy Tribunal, Myanmar-China Pipeline

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(top) James Purchon: Parable of the Jade Industry

(top l-r) Patricia Herrero Trivina: Irrawaddy Data Centre; Thomas Blain: Border Control, Forest Protection Outpost; Elisabetta Lafratta: Smiling Dolphin Embassy; (bottom l-r) Lidia Gherghe: Anti-dam Protest Theatre; Omar Manshi: Hilsa Fish Breeding Ground

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Twenty-One

Gill Lambert & Geoff Shearcroft Gill Lambert & Geoff Shearcroft practice together at award-winning practice AOC Architecture, where they work with communities, institutions and individuals to develop new briefs for contemporary needs, designing buildings, rooms, objects and places in response. They are currently working on the transformation of the V&A’s Museum of Childhood, to create both an internationally relevant museum and an essential public space for the local community.

DS21: Cultures of the Forest Yr1: Hilary Chan, Luke Eve, Frederika Fraser, Aditi Gurung, Thomas Leach, Jonathan Radford, Eleanor Riley, Archie Stroud

Yr2: Megan Carmichael, Eleanor Cranke, Alastair Cross, Javier Navar Garcia, Ella Harris, Tasmis Moosa Bux, Leila Naboulsi, Arminas Panavas, Charlotte Penny, Olivia Pfeil, Juliana Ribas, Ki Yip

DS21 CONTINUES ITS interest in people, places and politics. The studio is focused on generating architecture that is particular, diverse and meticulous. Designs are explored through large format, finely detailed drawings of inhabited proposals and materially rich, communicative models, using analogue and digital technologies.

The first design project proposed a Mo(nu)ment to the Forest, individual proposals for a useful, contemporary monument that celebrated a myth and contributed to the physical and imaginative realm of the Forest. A field trip to New York City and Long Island provided opportunities to experience extreme adjacencies between the city and nature, exploring historic and recent experiments ‘when democracy builds’.

Located on the north east periphery of London, Waltham Forest is currently London’s first Borough of Culture. The year-long festival aims to provide its host community and millions of visitors with the opportunity to congregate, collaborate, perform and party, an emphatic celebration of public life in a particular place at a particular time. The studio’s investigations began along the north and east boundaries of the Borough in Epping Forest, the remainder of the ancient woodlands of Waltham Forest from which the Borough took its name. Three times the size of Central Park, Epping Forest is tethered to the Borough but not enclosed by it. The Forest provides an alternative culture for the residents of the Borough, a different set of ideas, customs and social behaviours.

Each student explored one of Waltham Forest’s electoral wards – 20 students, 20 wards – analysing its physical fabric and capturing its public use. The spatial and political needs of public life in the Borough were identified and individual briefs were developed, proposing new forms of public institutions to accommodate these needs. The subsequent designs combine the forms, materials and myths of Epping Forest with the fabric of the Borough to create new public architectures that resonate with the culture of the Forest.

Guest Critics: Nimi Attanayake, Barnaby Barford, Eddie Blake, Matthew Butcher, Hanna Chalmers, Dominic Cullinan, Adam Nathaniel Furman, Rod Hayes, Owen Hopkins, Tomas Klassnik, Emma Perkin, Fiona Scott, Giles Smith, Simon Tucker, Nick Wood 200

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(top left) Alastair Cross: Green Man Tesco; (centre left) Charlotte Penny: The Pavilion Theatre; (bottom left) Archie Stroud: Forest Gate; (top right) Javier Navar Garcia: Wood Square; (opposite) Megan Carmichael : Whipps X Forest

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Nasser Golzari & Yara Sharif Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif are award-winning architects and academics with an interest in design as a means to facilitate and create resilient communities. Combining research with design, their work runs parallel between their architectural practice NG Architects, their research group PART, and their Design Studio DS22. Golzari and Sharif have won a number of prestigious awards including the 2013 Agha Khan Award, 2014 Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction, 2013 & 2016 RIBA President’s Award for Research. The way they run the studio is very similar to how they run the practice, combining design, drawings, testing and making.

DS22: ‘Microbrigada’: Decollage & Reassemble The Contested City Yr1: Daniel Buban, Elliot Ellis-Brown, Sarah Mouawad, Kamran Nayyer, Julia-Nosimilo Oti, Hemali Rathod,Thomas Riddell-Webster, Hamza Shaikh, Neda Soltani, Julia Topley

Yr2: Victoria Cosmas, Arif Imran Fadzil, Denisa Groza, Anna Hadjimitsi, Rim Kalsoum, Rafael Viegas Ramos, Pejman Savejplagee, Rhys Waring, George Whitehead, Sun Yen Yee, Aimi Zahani

DS22 CONTINUED THEIR journeys across uncertain and invisible landscapes. This year we worked on some of the world’s most fascinating cities including Havana, Jerusalem, London, Beirut, Brasov, Nicosia, Gaza and many other complex and contradictory cities. All share economic, political, colonial and post-colonial histories that are transforming their fabric and the lives of their inhabitants.

between speculative and live projects. Some revisited Socialist perspectives on cities and community, others questioned the right to the city and some came up with creative reconstruction ideas while stretching the role of the street as an extension of home.

The studio Re-Read, De-Collaged and Re-Assembled these contested landscapes to identify their potentials and transform them into Resilient Nucleuses. We took clues from the concept of Microbrigada or ‘micro brigades’, as a starting point to define architectural and social strategies that shape the future of our sites. The work tries to interrogate our role as architects using unconventional and creative methods of research and drawings, to reconstruct and define new awareness and readings of contested landscape. Students’ work varied

Guest Critics: Allesandro Ayuso, Angela Brady, Andrew Carr, Tom Dobson, Elantha Evans, Murray Fraser, Sean Griffiths, Anne Markey, Jane McAllister, Gheorghe Multescu, Ciaran O’Brian, Mirna Pedalo, Chris Pierce, Juan Piñol, Esme Rothwell, Mai Sayrafi, Ben Stringer 206

To name a few: the work of Sun, for example, took the concept of ‘Social Condensers’ further, creating what he called Dissolving Condensers to revive Havana’s fabric; Pejman looked into Home Factories and the concept of self build; Rafael explored the notion of Permanent Temporality in Gaza while exploring home and domesticity; Denisa explored ‘Moments of Collision’ between the rural and the urban landscape of Brasov; and Rim’s project ‘With Cement I build Paradise’ unveiled the ‘underground’ life of the Syrian refugees in Beirut. Our field trip this year was unique as we collaborated with organisations in Jerusalem and Havana.

Special Thanks: Talia Quesada & LASA Art Group in Havana Cuba who hosted us this year. Sahar Qawasmi and Sakiya, Palestine for the joint collaboration. Michael Sorkin, from City College New York A special thanks to Esme Rothwell for her technical input and support.

(top) Sun Yan Yee: Disolving Condensers; (bottom left) Denisa Groza: The ‘Sheepermarket’; (bottom middle) Pajman Savagbilajee: Home factories of Havana; (bottom right)Sun Yan Yee: Production Condensers

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Opposite (top) Rafael Ramos: Gaza Reconstruction; (bottom) Rhys Waring: The New Lyonnesse

(clockwise from top left) Victoria Cosmas: The Floating Habitable Civic; Sarah Mouawad: Room Gallery; Anna Hadjimitsi: Gardens Of Discision; Julia Topley: The Breathing Grid; Kamran Nayyer: Dismantling Kensington; Hamza Shaikh: Ad Hoc Autonomy; Rim Kalsoum: In Cement I Built a Paradise

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(clockwise from top left) Denisa Groza: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sheepermarketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Hemali Rathod: The Digital Garden; Julie Oti: Exploring Absurdities; Thomas Riddell Webster: The Experience of Nothing ; Elliot Ellis Brown: The Green Cloud;

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Opposite: (clockwise from top left) Neda Soltani: Urbe Blanca; Pejman Savagblajee: Behind Crumbled Walls; Aimi Zahani: [Re]Thinking Domingo Rojo; Daniel Buban Ngu: The Water Exchange; George Whitehead: <20 Hz City

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Richard Difford & François Girardin Richard Difford is an academic with expertise both in creative technologies and architectural history. The primary focus for his work is the history of architectural representation and in the use of electronics and coding in architectural design. François Girardin is an architect and educator teaching design and cultural context. He has specialist interests in material technologies and digital fabrication.

DS23: Factory of the Future Yr1: Jonas Brazys, Irwin Chan, Myles Chapman, Tony Graham, Thomas Greenhill, Rupert Heasman, Jake Holmyard, Martynas Kasiulevicius, Frans Khan, Silas Koopmans, Wing Sze Ngan, Hardik Patel, Grigory Slipenchuk, Markos Stergios, Pengju Zhang

Yr2: Daniel Havlicek, Justin Khoo, Sara Malik, Enosh Subramaniam

FACTORIES ARE THE driving force behind the industrial world and the lifeblood of the economy. But today, in the post-industrial economies of the west, they are often treated as a form of undesirable urban parasite, confined to designated zones in the outer reaches of the city or banished abroad – out of sight and out of mind. By contrast, in the early years of the twentieth century the factory symbolised all that was innovative and new. In Europe, and around the world, the factory became the focus for both mechanical innovation and utopian visions. Whilst in architecture, mechanisation and the rational order of the production line inspired a culture of functionalism and the aesthetic of the machine.

both the scale of industrial automation now employed in manufacture and the factory’s socio-economic impact on the surrounding area. But it also triggered an engagement with the internal landscape of the automated factory and reinforced the notion that there were architectural opportunities to be found in the formulation of a new disseminated industrial aesthetic.

So it was that in November 2018 DS23 set off for Turin and Genoa to see, first-hand, the iconic Lingotto car factory and to experience Italy’s industrial heartland. A visit to the contemporary Fiat Mirafiori Plant, where the Maserati Levante is currently produced, also confirmed

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Exploring the factory landscape as a dynamic and inhabitable terrain therefore remained central to the research of the studio. As a consequence, a series of innovative programmes attempt to integrate the factory process with the urban or geographical landscape and to break out of the ubiquitous industrial shed. Considered both through technical detail and at the scale of the wider territory, the typical paraphernalia of the contemporary factory, such as robots, conveyor belts and lifts, are redeployed as part of a distributed industrial landscape.

Special Thanks: Special thanks to the Fabrication Lab team for running a workshop introducing DS23 to the use of AR and for providing support throughout the year. Also to Scott Batty and the Construction Society for organising a visit for DS23 to Laing O’Rourke’s DfMA factory – Explore Industrial Park (EIP) ) Martynas Kasiulevicius: Brine Ponds for Lithium Extraction

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(left) Daniel Havlicek: Natural Burial Ground in Porto; (right) Enosh Subramaniam: Kinetic Building Research Establishment.

(left) Justin Khoo: Heralding Spring , Daffodil Pier in London; (right) Gillian Ngan: Rainham Landfill Recycling Village.

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(top) Jonas Brazys: Baggy Point Surf Resort; (bottom) Markos Andreas Stergios: The Minerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joy Distillery

(top) Thomas Greenhill: Floating Wind Turbine Testing Centre; (bottom) Tony Graham:Water Treatment Park and Lido in Genoa

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Alessandra Cianchetta & Juan Piñol Alessandra Cianchetta is an architect and founding partner of AWP. Her recent projects include Poissy Galore, a museum and observatory within a 113-hectare park on the Seine near Paris, awarded cultural building of the Year in France (2018); the masterplan for Paris-La Défense; and an arts district in Liverpool. Cianchetta has taught architecture and urban design internationally, including Cornell University, and The Berlage. She currently directs the Geographies Cities and Landscapes platform at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. Juan Piñol is a Colombian architect teaching and practicing in London. He has worked in Colombia and Barcelona designing large urban and housing projects, public realm, and landscape regeneration with Ricardo Bofill and Lola Domenech. His work has been focused on housing typologies, and the change of use of buildings over time.

DS24: Global Artscapes Yr1: Amy Bettinson, Tanatswa Borerwe, Georgia Gollop, Esther Medina Llamas, Constanza Moni, Magnus Pahlberg, Abhinav Seethamraju, Carlota Susino Martinez

Yr2: Zoe Arnold, Mosopefoluwa Bob-Soile, Theodoros Chailis, Rebecca Cooper, James Crookston, Eleni Dourampei, Dmitrijs Gusevs, Chenxi Jia, Manveer Sembi

DS24 HAS EXPLORED the radical transformation of landscapes, territories and cities in the context of global art collections. The project developed as a dialogue and a collaboration with the Swiss art gallery Hauser & Wirth and other stakeholders and agents operating in the art world. The studio questioned how the global art market triggers and generates new spatial forms and new relationships both at large scale (a network of intertwined territorial relationships) and at small scale (galleries, museums, foundations). It also questioned how new urban and economic models related to the global art trade may impact and be used to the benefit of larger regions and populations.

generating new physical and cultural landscapes and radical territorial transformations – economic and otherwise – at all scales.

The stakes are multiple: for dealers, it is key to anticipate and open up new emerging markets; for buyers and collectors, new venues are titillating and entertaining and allow for the reinvention of new relationships and the emergence of cultural, social and economic playgrounds (from Kochi to Palermo). Global art powerhouses and dealers such as Iwan and Manuela Wirth, Larry Gagosian, and Emmanuel Perrotin have been moving beyond art and into fields of hospitality. A nomadic bunch of collectors, curators, dealers, artists and advisors are injecting capital in otherwise secluded and forgotten areas of the world,

Within this context, and in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth and with the Massimo and Francesca Valsecchi Collection at Palazzo Butera in Palermo, the studio travelled to Manifesta – the Nomadic European Biennial, held in a different host city every two years. Manifesta 12 was held in Palermo, ‘a city at the crossroads of three continents in the heart of the Mediterranean’.* The design studio has researched sites and stakeholders in Palermo, closely linked to Manifesta 12 but looking beyond the temporality of the event in view of more permanent transformations capable of healing wounded and forgotten terriotories through art and the economy behind it. It reconsidered and rethought the whole concept of private art galleries and foundations and explored new forms of museums (private or not) and cultural institutions at large; it has considered the interrelations with less explored territories and the many opportunities and transformations that may be triggered and generated by the contemporary art market. The research and projection phase were merged together and were closely intertwined. *

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James Crookston: Periphery Follies - Axonometric of Sant’Erasmo area with interventions

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Rebecca Cooper: The Lost Amphitheatre

(top) Mosopefoluwa Bob-Soile: Unsacking the City; (bottom) Rebecca Cooper: The Lost Amphitheatre

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Rebecca Cooper: A Theatrical Landscape

Mosopefoluwa Bob-Soile: Unsacking the City;

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Alessandro Ayuso, Martyna Marciniak & Dan Wilkinson Dr Alessandro Ayuso is Senior Lecturer whose studio-based practice and research focus on the intersection of representation, architecture and the body. Martyna Marciniak is an architectural designer and animator interested in architectural narratives. Her current research involves the relationship between architecture and post digital bodies. She is currently working at Forensic Architecture. Daniel Wilkinson is an architectural designer and researcher whose work probes the intersections of figural and architectural practice.

DS25: Body Architecture Yr1: Adelina Gutu, Lauriane Hewes, Shaden Meer, Wilhelmina Ogoo, Rocco Plessi, Celine Tran

Yr2: Adrian Bolog, Lok Yi Law, Yue Man, Harry Matthews, Vishal Mistry, Aleksandra Murzina, Stefano Perretti, Georgia Roberts, Grant Warner

THIS YEAR, DS25 took the fundamental relationship between bodies and architecture as a starting point. The year began with an examination of the figural logic at work in precedents from art and architecture, including examples from wide-ranging points in history. For each student, this exploration quickly evolved into films and models of their own body agents (or figures that enact a conceptual and material idea of the body). On our field trip to Turin early in the year, we added to our understanding of precedents by visiting buildings alive with interactions between figures and architecture, from the uncanny full-scale representations of biblical characters inhabiting the chapels of Sacro Monte, to the narrative presence of Carlo Mollino endowed in a dense network of interrelated details in his own apartment. In Turin, students’ body agents served as tools to analyse urban space by their deployment into sites via films, mappings and models; these deployments were crucial transitions from research to the design of urban building projects.

The work produced by DS25 is not based on a formula or ‘house style’; instead, what unifies the studio is an approach based on the topic of embodied architecture and an experimental attitude towards hybridised media. Accordingly, the final projects in the studio are purposefully holistic with respect to their programmes, styles and media, and are driven by each student’s individual response. The projects include: a new gate to the city (ostensibly an information kiosk, which in fact aims to rewrite Turin’s Roman history through choreographing details, sensual experience, and views); a series of ‘superperception’ insertions (parasitic structures aiming to energise the city’s economy by offering new views and links to the historic city); a pharmaceutical research centre (taking the form of a monumental figure kindling the city’s links with both surrealism and Egyptian history); and a health club on Turin’s suburban outskirts (where, as an exploration of a broader phenomenon of ‘muscle worship’, the members inhabit a building whose design draws from the metaphors and performative anatomical qualities of muscles).

Guest Critics: Kyveli Anastasiadi (Alessandro Isola Ltd), Andrew Choptiany (Carmody Groarke Architects), Rafaella Christodoulidi (5plus architects), Julia Dwyer, Lucy Dunn ( Jo Cowen Architects), Andrew Friend, Naomi Gibson, Colin Herperger, Dr Jonathan Hill, Ifigeneia Liangi, Dr Tania Lopez-Winkler, Sonia Magdziarz Special Thanks: (Zaha Hadid Architects), Anne Munly, Ro Spankie, Nick Shackleton (Holland Harvey Architects), Mary Andrew Choptiany (Carmody Groarke Architects) Vaughan Johnson JTP Architects 224

) Harry Matthews: Sectional perspective of BBHG (Building Bodies & Hitting Goals) Hotel

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(top) Stefano Perretti: 1:100 Section, Via Po Superperception Silo; (bottom) Stefano Perretti: Superperception model

Lauriane Hewes: Interior view of therapistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offices in the Homunculus Pharmaceutical Research Centre

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(top) Yue Man: View of the Winnowing Station, Campidoglio Chocolate Collective; (bottom) Yue Man: Generative movement studies

(top) Adelina Gutu: View of courtyard park; (bottom) Adelina Gutu: Storyboard sequence for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Tape Monster drift through Turinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

This fellow’s wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

ARCHITECTURE IS THE remaking of places, from small interiors to expansive territories. We design relationships not objects, and each architectural project is always a fragment – connected to, and part of, something else: individuals, society, history, landscape, physical and social ecologies, climate, materials, and technology.

Correspondingly, the Department offers students opportunities to develop their design capability within a context of continually extending theoretical and critical knowledge – broadly ethical and professional studies, history and theory, environmental and technical studies. . Harry Charrington Head of the School of Architecture + Cities

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Beyond the Studio | Cultural Context

Cultural Context Sarah Milne (module leader CC1) studied and practised architecture before completing a PhD in architectural history. Alongside her role as Lecturer at the University of Westminster, she is a Research Associate at the Survey of London (Bartlett, UCL). Kate Jordan (module leader CC2) is an architectural historian with research interests in gender, heritage and faith architecture. Ben Stringer (module leader CC3) has taught and written about design and cultural context for many years. His recent publications focus on representations of the rural within architectural culture.

IN PRACTICE, ARCHITECTS need to be excellent designers, but they also need to be able to research, understand and communicate ideas about the way design relates to the broader interests of the cultural context in which they practice. The Cultural Context course is where Westminster students are equipped with the skills to do this. In particular they learn how to articulate ideas about architecture through the production of

written texts. The Undergraduate Cultural Context course is taken by all students studying on the degrees in architecture and cognate disciplines. It is structured as a set of three modules, CC1, CC2 & CC3 that students study respectively in the first, second and third years of their degree. The modules are designed to make sense as a set, where CC1 is foundational for CC2 and, similarly, CC2 builds the foundations for CC3.

CC1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A History of Architecture Organised into small groups, students begin the module by exploring and recording key buildings in London. Later they choose to research and observe one London building in particular. The lecture series runs throughout the year and introduces elementary spatial themes and ideas which can be traced from 700 BC to the present

day. Also running throughout the year, interactive workshops are centred around short pieces of writing about architecture and provide students with the opportunity to develop critical reading and writing skills fundamental to this and subsequent Cultural Context modules.

CC2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Architectural History & Urbanism The course begins as a series of lectures for the entire cohort covering a rich and diverse range of topics. The students work in groups to produce workbooks that comprise a review of the lecture series and independent research on the themes that they have been introduced to. In the second semester, the students are taught in

small groups by individual tutors who devise a series of seminars around their own research expertise. The students produce two pieces of coursework in this semester: an essay and a statement which describes the learning trajectory throughout the module.

CC3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Dissertation In their final year, BA Architecture and BA Interior Architecture students research and write about any architecture or interiors related subject that they choose and that they argue is of significance. Students are supported through this process by a diverse group of

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academics through seminars, presentations and weekly tutorials. It is an important opportunity for students to begin shaping the particular direction of their future academic and professional careers.

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(top) Akramul Askaari: Collage comparing the symbolic qualities of Euston, St. Pancras, and Kings Cross stations; (bottom left-& middle) Alice Borges-Ribeiro: Sketches of the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, relating the ground floor interior to the spatial principle of the megaron; (bottom right) Dora Varszegi: Diagram of how Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi articulate their architectural practice as a ‘troika’

Beyond the Studio | Cultural Context – CC2

Architectural History & Urbanism Nick Beech, Eva Branscome, François Girardan, Kate Jordan, Maja Jovic, Benson Lau, Constance Lau, Gwyn Lloyd Jones, Shahed Saleem, Rachel Stevenson, Ben Stringer, Julian Williams, John Zhang

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(clockwise from top left) John Zhang: The Life and Death of ‘Starchitecture’ in Beijing ; Nick Beech: The County of London Plan, 1943; Sean Griffiths: Why be an Architect?; Benson Lau: Spatial and Environmental Delight in Architecture

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Cultural Context Extended Essay Nick Beech, Eva Branscome, François Girardin, Gwyn Jones, Kate Jordan, Maja Jovic, Constance Lau, Will McLean, Sarah Milne, Mike Rose, Shahed Saleem, Rachel Stevenson, Ben Stringer, John Zhang 2018/19 WAS ANOTHER good year for third year dissertations, with a very varied array of subjects investigated and high numbers of students achieving distinction level grades. Among the many notable subjects investigated this year are: Gabia Gliaudelyte’s study of Soviet housing estates in Vilnius; Mariam Houta’s examination of ‘Egyptianised’ modernism in Cairo; Maheer Khan’s analysis of Mosques in China; Ashpreet Khurll’s work on iconicity in Baku; Zsuzsanna Szohr’s research on the evolution of standard house types in Hungary; and Maria Zlatareva’s critical appraisal of historic preservation and regeneration in the Northern Village, Seoul.

In spite of the variety, one can discern some ongoing trends: social housing and gentrification continues to attract (much needed) attention, as do case studies of particular issues of urban politics and sociology in cities around the world, which reflects the very international character of our student body. This year a significant number of students also took on issues of cultural heritage and the complexities of preservation and regeneration in contested contexts, subjects that most often require learning from a range of other academic disciplines.

(left-right) Zsuzsanna Szohr: Traditional House in Transylvania; Mariam Houta: Fayyoum wall painting ; Gabia Gliaudelyte: Memorial at IX Fort Kaunas, Lithuania

Beyond the Studio | MArch Dissertation

Dissertation Richard Difford, Nick Beech, Harry Charrington, Davide Deriu, Kate Jordan, Alan Powers, Ro Spankie, Rachel Stevenson, Ben Stringer

DEVELOPED IN THE context of their first year MArch History & Theory seminar group, students choose their own subject to explore in the Dissertation. They are guided by tutors with a diverse range of interests and methods but a common commitment to advancing the

individual specialisms and scholarship of each student. A breadth of topics and a plurality of approaches are encouraged with the ambition that the work produced will be distinguished by its high quality, not its adherence to any particular methodology, dogma or style.

Mosopefoluwa Bob-Soile Revisiting Agricola Cornelia: Art Farms & Social Practice Reflecting on Gianfranco Baruchello’s farm Agricola Cornelia (1973-81), this dissertation looks at the notion of agricultural-based art projects in rural spaces. It enquires how such projects reconsider the relationship between land and landscape in the countryside. Arguing that Agricola Cornelia anticipates contemporary social practice in the arts, the potential of Baruchello’s visceral engagement to address the complexity of rurality is discussed. It suggests that this farm has engaged with different ways of seeing the countryside in its socio-political context beyond agriculture and the natural environment. Megan Carmichael Voices of Vice and Virtue in the Boundary Street Estate In light of today’s housing crisis, this dissertation reflects back on the comparable crisis faced by Victorian London during the nineteenth century. To gain a further understanding of the issues we face today, it retraces the steps that lead to the development of England’s first council housing residence, ‘The Boundary Street Estate’ (1900). (top) Mosopefoluwa Bob-Soile: Nothing to see but the Garden, the House, the Sculpture, the Forest (bottom left) Fiona Grieve: Barry House, East Dulwich 238

Considered a grand social experiment, this estate was the product of the momentous social changes that occurred throughout the nineteenth century. By revisiting primary sources, the author plays the role of architectural detective investigating the story behind the scheme, uncovering its secrets and speculating on its agendas. Fiona Grieve The Reception of Refugees in the UK The Reception of Refugees in the UK explores the journey of a refugee through the British asylum system with a focus on the provision of accommodation within it. This dissertation examines the political process, the influence of architecture and planning and subsequent perceptions and attitudes towards refugees living in detention centres and asylum accommodation. The research also explores the efforts of non-state organisations to integrate refugees into society and understand how or if the process of reception prepares refugees for a life in the UK.

(bottom right) Megan Carmichael: Communal Staircase, Walton Building , Boundary Street Estate

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Denisa Groza Across-Ground: A Spatial and Symbolic Interpretation of Transhumance in the Carpathian Mountains Transhumance represents a key part of the historic narrative of the Carpathian Mountains. Within the Romanian landscape, the seasonal movement of livestock in the search for agro-pastoral resources has created a complex system of routes connecting winter and summer pastures from different regions. This dissertation engages in a critical study of transhumance within the Romanian landscape, reinterpreting its manifestations using theories relating to space, symbolism and mobility. This provides a means by which to reframe the definition of this practice; and to provide an enhanced perspective on its economic, social and cultural importance in the present context. Charlotte Penny The Red House and the Contest Between the Theoretical and Practical Nature of Conservation Many factors are involved in the conservation of historic buildings and architects often have to balance a wide range of constraints, whilst also at the same time acting as a faithful custodian of the United Kingdom’s shared heritage. Using the Red House as a case study, this dissertation aims to evaluate changing attitudes towards the theoretical and practical nature of conservation. It also endeavours to ascertain the principal factors that have shaped the way the National Trust has chosen to preserve and restore the historic fabric of this building. The influence of key players, such as developers and councils, are also analysed and an appraisal is made of the methods employed by the National Trust.

Eline Putne Advertising’s Image of Women in Architecture In this study, a selection of advertisements from the Architects’ Journal and the Architectural Review is used as primary evidence to demonstrate how the building industry and the media have marginalised women in architecture, and perpetuated the patriarchal characterisation of the architectural profession. Positioned in the broader history of the architectural profession in the UK, this analysis reveals the extent to which the architectural media has influenced social attitudes towards women and contributed to some of the challenges that women pursuing a career in architecture face today. Lewis Toghill Crafting Reality: Virtuality in Art and Performance Our lives increasingly play out in virtual environments. These environments primarily, and often necessarily, occupy the visual realm, and the extent to which they have become entangled in our everyday reality has led to changing relationships between the digital condition and the previously distinct material world. Virtual materialities, accompanied by the necessary cognisance of their possible applications, are radically changing how spaces and objects are conceived and experienced. This dissertation takes the position that, rather than opposing our everyday material reality, virtual objects and environments represent their own kind of material reality.

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(bottom right) Charlotte Penny: The Red House

Beyond the Studio | Technical Studies

Technical Studies Scott Batty, Chris Leung, Will McLean, Pete Silver & Andrew Whiting Pete Silver is a practising architect, and former building contractor. Pete has taught at the AA, the Bartlett and the RCA and he has coauthored four books with Will McLean. He is currently completing the 3rd edition of Introduction to Architectural Technology, which will be published in 2020 by Laurence King, London. Dr Will McLean writes and publishes about the technology of architecture. He is one of the co-editors (with Dr Christine Wall and Prof. Hermann Schlimme) of Construction History: International Journal of the Construction History Society and he is currently writing and compiling a new book on the work of Italian architect Dante Bini. Scott Batty is a practising architect and principal of Scott Batty Architect; he coordinates the second year degree Technical Studies programme, which includes the Site Diary and Technical Design Study assignments, establishing the link between designing and making. Scott also teaches on the third year Degree and final year MArch courses. Dr Chris Leung is an architect and the director of Design for Manufacture, a post-graduate MArch course at the Bartlett (UCL). Chris tutors environmental design and strategy for final year degree and MArch students. Andrew Whiting is the director of Hût Architecture, and has a particular interest in education and practice. He teaches at degree and MArch level at the Bartlett (UCL), and Westminster. He is an RIBA Awards judge and Part III Professional examiner.

THE TECHNICAL STUDIES teaching in the School of Architecture at the University of Westminster has been designed as a linear progression from first year Undergraduate through to final year MArch. For each year of study, a lecture series underpins the structure of the teaching. In first year undergraduate, a fourteenweek lecture series is delivered by Pete Silver that sets out an approach to the structure, form, material and environmental principles that constitute the technology of the built environment. In second year undergraduate, Scott Batty runs the Site Diary project affording students their first experience of a construction site. During the first semester Will McLean organises the Thursday evening ‘open’ lecture series, which highlights new technological developments in the fields of architecture, engineering and environmental design.

We have embedded different types of teaching input and feedback in the BA and MArch courses, which include the Detail Design Day (organised by Scott Batty and featuring 14 guest critics) and the Friday afternoon tutorial sessions, where visiting specialists act as consultants to our final year BA Architecture and MArch students in a relaxed ‘studio’ atmosphere. This specialist input (as in practice) helps to focus the work of the student in regards to structural clarity, visual comprehension and environmental sustainability. In November 2018 the technical studies team hosted the second annual Human Comfort Symposium with specific emphasis on light, sound and acoustics.

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Guest Lecturers and Visiting Consultants: Jonathan Adams ( Jonathan Adams + Partners), Megan Ancliffe (Rural Urban Synthesis Society), Jan Balbaligo (Natural Builder), Paul Bavister (Flanagan Lawrence/Audialsense), Giovanni Beggio (APT Architects), Dr. Stanislava Boskovic (Imperial College), Gianni Botsford (Gianni Botsford Architects), Henry Burling (Morph Structures), Jason Bruges ( Jason Bruges Studio), Andrea Carapia (StructureMode), Maria Cheung (Squire and Partners), Theclalin Cheung (Curl la Tourelle Head Architects), Tod Courtney (Hût Architecture), Rachel Eccles (Hût Architecture), Marc Exley (Morph Structures), Tim Gledstone (Squire and Partners), Peter Greaves (Make Architects), Stephen Harty (Harty + Harty), Cath Hassell (ech2o), Matt Haycocks, Dave Heeley (Morph Structures), Dr. Mohataz Hossain, Rowland Keable (Rammed Earth Consulting), Yashin Kemal (APT Architects), David Kendall (Optima Projects), Benson Lau, Vlad Luchian (Hût Architecture), Tim Macfarlane (GLaSS), Christian Male (Simpson Haugh), Elena Marshall (Morph Structures), Andy McConachie (Simpson Haugh), Tom Middleton (Global Communication), Geoff Morrow (Structuremode), Gordon O’Connor Read (Rural Urban Synthesis Society), Sangkil Park (Make Architects), Paulo Pimentel (IP Design Studio), Jim Potter (Waind Gohil Potter), Catherine Ramsden (Useful Studio), David Rayment (Morph Structures), Esther Rivas Adrover (University of Cambridge), Ian Seabrook (Laing O’Rourke), Christina Seilern (Studio Seilern Architects), John Spittle (Wiehag), Jerry Tate (Tate Harmer), Phil Waind (Waind Gohil Potter), Graham West (West Architecture), Julian Williams 242

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Photographers: Scott Batty, Will McLean, Mirna Pedalo, David Scott

Beyond the Studio | MArch Digital Design

Digital Design Richard Difford, Roberto Botazzi, Miriam Dall’Igna, Jeg Dudley, Eva Magnisali, Elite Sher

UNDERTAKEN IN THE first semester of the first year on the MArch, Digital Design is a key component of the Architectural Reflections module and provides the opportunity to learn valuable computer skills, and to reflect critically on the use of digital media in architecture. The programme offers a choice of six different groups, each with a different focus and set of interests. The

tutors for these groups are drawn from both practice and academia, providing critical reflection on the role of digital technology in architecture along with practical experience and technical expertise. Each group combines technical instruction with related theory and precedents. In this way everyone gets a chance to learn something new and to build on their existing knowledge and experience.

The six groups this year were as follows:

GROUP A: Xpanded Realities Elite Sher

GROUP D: Interactive Technologies Richard Difford

Utilising the VR facilities now available as part of the university’s new XR Lab, this group provides an introduction to the use of games engines, Virtual Reality headsets and Augmented Reality in architecture.

Focusing on the use of programmable graphics and physical computing, this group considers the way devices such as sensors, motors and lights can be used to construct responsive architectural features and environments.

GROUP B: Performative Parametrics

GROUP E: Mapping Complex Data

Jeg Dudley

Using evolutionary algorithms and project-specific analysis tools, this group sets out to construct and optimise parametric designs based on performative criteria.

GROUP C: Computational Design Miriam Dall’Igna

Drawing on contemporary scripting and parametric modelling techniques, this group explores the potential for geometrically-driven computational design.

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Roberto Bottazzi

Working through both 2D graphics and 3D computer modelling, this group looks at the ways in which digital media can be used to reconstruct a link between data and meaning.

GROUP F: Data-Driven Robots Eva Magnisali

This group explores the use of the Fabrication Lab’s industrial robots both in the design process and in the production of data-driven components.

(clockwise from top left) Group E: Shaden Meer; Group F: Agata Korzeniewska; Group A: Shaun Taylor

Beyond the Studio | OPEN Studio

OPEN Studio

OPEN STUDIO IS an interactive project run by the School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a real time teaching

environment in which the work of both students and staff is curated and documented â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops. www.openstudiowestminster.org

Twitter / Instagram: @openstudio_wm

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Fabrication Lab

IT HAS BEEN a busy year in the Fabrication Lab as our teaching workshops continuing to grow, along with our research capabilities and links with architectural practice and industry. We had an invigorating start to the year with the ‘Master’s Banquet’, a new, intensive workshop for incoming MArch students. They spent their first eight days at Westminster re-inventing the Lab’s Project Space as a Banqueting Hall, fit to mark the transition to the next phase of their careers. Teams were allocated a workbench and invited to use their creativity and the resources of the Lab to transform it into a dramatic setting optimised for each of the 10 courses of the banquet. Special guests at the black-tie event included our new Vice-Chancellor, Peter Bonfield, who kindly judged and awarded prizes for the best of the courses. The banquet also served as inspiration for a second formal meal hosted later in the Project Space for some of the leading figures in the construction industry. It provided a creative forum to discuss the government’s Construction Sector Deal, a new strategy set to transform the industry through a focus on digital techniques in design, off-site manufacturing, and whole life asset performance. As well as highlighting the capabilities of the Lab in these areas, the meal helped bring University of Westminster to their attention, and we hope into contention to play a key role in their plans.

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Significant developments this year have included the opening of the XR Lab, a joint venture between the Fabrication Lab and Jeff Ferguson from the School of Computer Science and Engineering. The new Lab has centres in both the Marylebone and Cavendish Campuses offering access to cuttingedge technology in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. The XR Lab allows us to combine and share resources and expertise, and has brought invaluable expertise from Computer Science to bear on an area of rapidly growing importance for Architecture and the Built Environment. New opportunities for practice-led research have been provided by the new Materials and Building Systems Research Centre, co-led by François Girardin, and the Realising Sustainability project, a collaboration with Rosa Schiano-Phan. The former has begun to establish a new library of materials and space in which to experiment with new fabrication processes in the Lab; and the latter, a network of Internet of Things sensors and actuators we hope will soon begin to find their way throughout the University campuses. We look forward to seeing both projects flourish and inform our teaching in the year ahead. . Dr David Scott Director

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(top & centre) Helsinki Tea House Project with Aalto University and Sami Rintala; (bottom) University of Westminster christmas trees

Beyond the Studio | Professional Development

Preparing for Practice: Professional Mentoring and Work Experience

THE UNDERGRADUATE 3RD YEAR work experience module, known as Preparing for Practice, continues to be an element of the course lauded by practices and the profession and highly valued by our students.. I went to my practice thinking that I’d only be sitting at a desk, working on CAD drawings. I was so wrong: I was treated like an architect rather than an intern and the opportunities I was offered were endless. I talked to clients and even designed the programme for a residential tower project in Argentina. Sully-Sheikh Muhammed, 3rd year After two weeks of working in the practice, I finally understood that you can make a building by yourself but a masterpiece can only be achieved through teamwork. Adrian-Calin Paul, 3rd year During my work experience I had a glimpse of what I am going to do for the rest of my life. Now I’m ready. Kenza Salmi-El Idrissi, 3rd year

Structured around two weeks of placement, predominantly in RIBA Chartered practices, the module is designed to equip students with the skills necessary to apply for and secure a Year Out Part 1 position. Placements are organised by the Module Leader, Jane Tankard, and the Work Placements team who together have reached a stage where they are able to match office skill requirements with individual students. The module works closely with the profession and a number of practices contribute to the lecture series, focusing on key aspects of the profession and the process of gaining a foothold in the industry. The University’s Career Employability Service also offers a Skills Academy to support the transition between academia and practice. Working with the Stephen Lawrence Trust, the scheme offers students profession-led workshops and practical help with job seeking.

My two weeks’ work experience gave me the opportunity to work in large scale offices and test my skills as well as learn new ones. I was surprised at how the teams included me in their work process. Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky, 3rd year

In partnership with the RIBA, we also offer third years mentoring with a RIBA Chartered practice. Meanwhile, 2nd year students are offered the opportunity to gain practice-based internships over the summer break between 2nd and 3rd year.

The two-week work experience gave me the opportunity to work side by side with active professionals keen to make a difference. With the knowledge and expertise they offered me, I have been able to reinforce and develop my project work with confidence and flourish. Kevin Ferenzena, 3rd year

Despite the course focusing on students gaining experience in Chartered practice, we have had students gain experience in some unusual, but architecturally relevant contexts. In the past, students have worked in Parliament, TV and film, English Heritage and Property and Construction.

The work experience has been extremely valuable to me and has made the idea of working for a large architecture firm or stepping out into the real world less daunting. Deame Dizon, 3rd year

Jane Tankard Module Leader

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RIBA Part 3 Wilfred Achille, Alastair Blyth, Stephen Brookhouse, Samir Pandya

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER runs the largest Part 3 course in the UK with over 450 students this year working in a broad range of architectural practices – more than 230 practices based in London and the south-east. The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds including overseas schools of architecture. Often, architects who are registered but trained outside the UK attend the course to gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities of UK practice. The course follows the requirements of the ARB/RIBA Professional Criteria and is structured as a series of building blocks with clear assessment points throughout the year. The lecture courses are repeated twice a week to allow students to balance attendance with work commitments. Lectures are delivered by industry experts – including former students – and are recorded for easy future access. Students’ professional development in the workplace is supported by a team of 39 professional tutors – all architects in practice – who provide one-to-one tutorial guidance on project-based coursework. Professional examiners consistently comment on the high, critical standard of the coursework which we attribute to the structured tutoring system where students are challenged to think about practice differently.

The different student backgrounds, as well as the types and number of practices represented on the course, along with the tutors and examiners, gives an unprecedented reach into the architectural profession. This enables the course to both draw from the breadth of practice experience as well as contribute to it. One of our students, Patrick McEvoy, was one of three winning entrants to the London Festival of Architecture and Corporation of London City Parklets competition – a design competition for a parklet that will ‘transform a kerbside area into a place to rest, relax and admire the City’ which will be installed across the City of London in June 2019. The Part 3 Course was validated by the RIBA for a further five years in November 2017 and the Visiting Board gave it a Commendation citing its scope and delivery, dedicated Chair of Professional Practice and dedicated administrative support. It was revalidated by the University in 2018. This year, as in previous years, the course reached its target number of students in early May, an indication of the value that architectural practice attributes to it.

Patrick McEvoy: Hound memorial benches [photographer: Agnese Sanvito]

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Beyond the Studio | Ambika P3

Ambika P3

FOR TWELVE YEARS Ambika P3 has provided an exciting venue. It is host to external and internal events, a laboratory to develop new work, and share the outcome. Encouraged by VC Peter Bonfield’s keen interest, Ambika P3 has started to shift its focus, with more events generated by all parts of the University and enhanced links with external partners. 2018/19 hosted Bass Culture 70/50 that marked 70 years of Windrush and 50 years of reggae. This major AHRC research project by Mykaell Riley revealed the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture. Built around memories and experiences, the photographs at the heart of the exhibition were animated by a speciallycommissioned film, 70 hours of individual testimony and live events tracing the thread from Jamaican music and sound system culture up to grime. Sunday Art Fair shows in P3 each year at the time of Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park. Twenty small international galleries showed the vibrancy of the art business in London. Once again, the London Contemporary Music Festival was staged in P3 and included collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery and Walmer Yard. For the first time, the BA Fashion was part of London Fashion Week in February, sharing the slot with six high street names including House of Holland. The annual shows for BA Media, Art and Design, and MA

Photography presents student work to the industry and the public, while the regular architecture design studio crits encapsulate the importance of public discussion and presentation of design. A one-day conference in February ‘The Art of the Mimeograph’ convened by the art group Alt Går Bra preceded their installation at the Royal Academy. In March, Blackout celebrated the Kodak carousel slide projector whose last model appeared in 2004. Curated by Julian Ross, the exhibition showcased eleven international artists. An exhibition entitled Hyphen: An Exposition Between Art and Research was held to mark the launch of the new journal Hyphen. It brought together PhD researchers, alumni and staff from creative disciplines. For the first time, Ambika P3 hosted the well-established Supercrit to look afresh at the building known as the Grand Bleu by Will Alsop; the Law School held their degree shows; and several one day events included aspects of well-being and imaginative approaches to designing for and with disability such as DisOrdinary Architecture. The future of Ambika P3 is evolving with the new College of DCDI and with a programme in four strands: External, Internal, Curated, Partners. Niall Carter Venue Manager, Ambika P3 Katharine Heron Director, Ambika P3

(top left) BA Fashion A/W 2019 (2019)

(top right) Supercrit: Will Alsop (2018)

(photographer: Simon Armstrong )

(photographer: Manon Giloux)

(bottom left) Bass Culture 70/50 Exhibition (2018)

(bottom right) Bass Culture 70/50 Exhibition (2018)

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Westminster Architecture Society Team: Zahra Mansoor (President), Rim Kalsoum (Vice-President), Sarah Daoudi, Giada Gonzales, Alexander Oltean, Vlad Necula, Jay Patel, Kristina Veleva, Emmanuel Volpe (team) Special thanks to the many amazing volunteers who helped throughout the year, as well as the staff who have supported us time and time again.

The society is created for students with the valuable and generous support of our tutors and faculty. We always welcome new ideas, members, and collaboration opportunities. Please get in touch: architecture.soc@su.westminster.ac.uk

THE WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY took this year to reflect on how the society can help better relations between staff and students. We created a manifesto for future committees to add to and revise, keeping in mind the society’s role at the University is to improve architecture students’ outcomes.

former president of WAS. The panel was made up of a diverse representation including Selasi Setufe (Black Female Architects), Roudaina al Khani (Platforms), Sadiqa Jabbar (MBE Designs) and Jon Goodbun (Rheomode). We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the panellists who took time out of their day to give us their insight.

Our main event this year was the Megacrit which suggested the theme of Architecture and Power and specifically asked the question: Who has the right to the city? The theme reflected on the University’s beginnings as an equal opportunities institution. Students from across London and critics from practices saw projects that dealt with the impact of political, economic, sociocultural, environmental and other external influences on the industry: in terms of buildings, education and practice.

Visitors were encouraged to participate in crits as well as viewing the exhibition curated by Yara Sharif and the Palestine Regeneration Team, and organised by Arab Women Artists Now in collaboration with Arts Canteen. Dressing/Undressing the Landscape showcased the works of 11 female architects and artists from the Arab world and beyond, and explored means to rethink the current cultural landscape of the Middle East.

As one of the most diverse universities in the world, we wanted to highlight issues of diversity within the architecture field and hoped to engage students in talks given by Angela Brady OBE and Yasmin Shariff of DSA who later took part in a panel chaired by Crista Popescu,

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We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Chloe Spiby Loh of The Architecture Foundation as well as Harry Charrington, Richard Difford and Samir Pandya who guided us to organise such a massive event. We’d also like to thank Alumni Amir Harbe, Crista Popescu and Duncan Caterall for their continued support.

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Beyond the Studio | Supercrit

Supercrits: Will Alsop Supercrits invite some of the world’s greatest architects back into the studio to present one of their most famous projects to a student audience and a panel of international critics – almost as though they were students at a design crit.

Supercrit projects so far have been Cedric Price, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Richard Rogers, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier and James Stirling Michael Wilford. “You actually succeeded in slightly intimidating me”…..Rem Koolhaas supercrits.com

THIS YEAR SAW the relaunch of the world-acclaimed Supercrit series, in a new format using the University of Westminster’s dramatic Ambika P3 venue to stage the retrospective, public ‘crits’, on a grand scale, of some of the most influential projects of recent architectural history. In respect of the sad death this year of the great and colourful architect Professor Will Alsop, Supercrit #8 relaunched the series with a public crit of ‘Le Grand Bleu’, the dramatic and highly innovative regional government building the Hotel du Departement in Marseille, the breakthrough project which catalysed Alsop’s remarkable rollercoaster career. Completed in 1994 (three years before Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao) it opened a new kind possibility for radical architectural projects. The section was designed and redesigned to form climate controlled, public, indoor spaces, exploring very early uses of computer modelling, demonstrated in the evolving shape of the ‘déliberatif ’, and took a radical, early environmental stance to manage the extreme climates of Marseille, down to a proposed aviary and greenhouse providing tomatoes for lunch. The project evolved Alsop’s dramatic use of paintings as design tools, taking their startling and beautiful use of colour into the building itself. The project was presented and debated by a host of colleagues, critics, clients and friends including Mel Gooding, Bruce McLean, Kate Heron, Sean Griffiths and Nick Johnston, with Jonathan Adams, Francis Graves and Chris McCarthy presenting and Kester Rattenbury chairing. It was staged in the vast P3 former engineering workshops, with a pin-up of the currently unarchived images, drawings and photos of this seminal project, and a blow-up 1:2 model of one of the structural ‘legs’ invented for the project. 260

The event was devised and run by EXP, the research group for Experimental Practice at the University of Westminster, who devised the series in 2003, working in a new collaboration with the new design firm Studio Mash. The project team was led for EXP by Kester Rattenbury with Camilla Wilkinson and Will McLean (who both worked on the Grande Bleu, and who created the inflatable legs for the show), Connor Sheehan, Max Martin and Angus Smith for Studio Mash, and Eddie Blake and Gu Arvas. The relaunched series has been funded by the Quentin Hogg Trust.

ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH PLAYS a pivotal role in our School of Architecture and Cities. The School fosters a diverse approach to teaching, research and practice in which these core activities inform one another. It has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research, for attracting award-winning staff and students, and for organising a wide range of scholarly activities. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), our research was placed in the top 50% of the 45 submissions in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning. 20% of our publications and research outputs were deemed to be ‘world leading’ (4*) and 45% ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). The four case studies of our research impact also scored very highly. This significant endorsement of our research capability has provided the foundation for expanding and enhancing our UK and international role since. Our research is organised under the Architecture and Cities cluster, which comprises five thematic research groups: Architectural History and Theory Environment and Technology Expanded Territories Experimental Practice (EXP) Representation, Fabrication and Computing

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These are loose alignments of staff, research students, designers and practising architects who undertake joint research initiatives and organise events of common interest. The School hosts a variety of symposia, book launches, and other research initiatives open to the public. Our staff and students meet on a regular basis at the Architecture Research Forum, where invited speakers present work-in-progress for discussion. For latest news of our research activities, visit the online platform: http://www.openresearchwestminster.org

The following pages highlight publications and grant-funded research projects by architecture staff in 2018/19. Davide Deriu Director of Architectural Research

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Research | Publications

Selected Staff Publications and Research Proceedings 2018/19 Books Bremner, L. (ed.) 2019. Monsoon [+ other] Waters. (London: University of Westminster, London Monsoon Assemblages) Decermic, D. and Peckham, A. (ed.) 2018. The Intrinsic And Extrinsic City. (London: Department of Architecture, University of Westminster). Jordan, K. (ed.) 2018. Modern Architecture for Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom. (London: Routledge) Watson, V.A. 2018. /ATMOSPHERE/ The Origin of Air Grid. (London: School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster)

Chapters in Books Bhat, Harshavardhan. 2019. ‘About “terms and conditions”: The Aadhar biometric identification programme as a mapping analytic.’ in: Bargues Pedreny, P., Chandler, D. and Simon, E (ed.) Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp. 102-117 Bremner, L. 2018. ‘Technologies of Uncertainty in the Search for Flight MH370’. in: Sorensen, D. (ed.) Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation (Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press) pp. 223256 Blyth, A. 2018. ‘Preface’. in: The Classroom is broken: Changing School Architecture in Europe and Across the World. (Florence, Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione, Innovazione e Ricerca Educativa (Indire)). Heron, K. 2018. ‘Out of Ice at Ambika P3’. in: Warrilow, J. and Ogilvie, E. (ed.) Out of Ice: The Secret Language of Ice. (London: Black Dog Publishing) Jordan, K. 2018. ‘The Building Sisters of Presteigne: Gender, Innovation and Tradition in Roman Catholic Architecture’. in: Jordan, K. and Lepine, A. (ed.) Modern Architecture for Religious Communities, 18501970: Building the Kingdom. (London: Routledge) pp. 123-138

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Kamvasinou, K. and Milne, S. 2019. ‘Surveying the Creative Use of Vacant Space in London, c.19451995.’ in: Campbell, C.J., Giovine, A. and Keating, J. (ed.) Empty Spaces: Confronting emptiness in national, cultural and urban history. (London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London)

Saleh, P., Schiano-Phan, R. and Gleeson, C.P. 2018. ‘The Rasmaska project: temperature behaviour of three, full scale test cells in hot Mediterranean summer: non-insulated double masonry wall and different insulation locations’. Energy and Buildings. 178, pp. 304-317

Lau, C. 2019. ‘A contemporary reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to festival and the Elizabethan notion of “lost sense of sight”’. in: Brown, J., Frost, C. and Lucas, R. (ed.) Architecture, Festival and the City. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge). pp. 35-48

Schiano-Phan, R., Lau, B., Pourel, D. and Khan, S. 2018. ‘Spatial Delight and Environmental Performance of Modernist Architecture in London – Golden Lane Estate’. Future Cities and Environment. 4 (1), p. 16

Spankie, R. 2019. ‘Within the Cimeras: Spaces of Imagination.’ in Psarra, S. (ed.) The Production Sites of Architecture. (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge) pp. 42-48 Watson, V.A. 2018. ‘Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi and Raymond Roussel.’ in Kurg, A. and Vicente, K. (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the European Architectural History Network Estonia Estonian Academy of Arts. (Talinn: Estonian Academy of Arts) pp. 307-316

Journal Articles Bhat, H. 2018. ‘Over Skies of Extraction’. Lo Squaderno - Explorations in Space and Society. 48, pp. 23-26 Hossain, M.M., Wilson, R., Lau, B. and Ford, B. 2019. ‘Thermal comfort guidelines for production spaces within multi-storey garment factories located in Bangladesh’. Building and Environment. 157C, pp. 319-345 Lau, C. 2018. ‘Recontextualising the Practices of Action, Wisdom and Devotion in Relation to Dialogue in Design’. Il Quaderno: #MAESTRO. Spring (3), pp. 18-23. Rettondini, L. and Brito, O. 2018. ‘Stanton Williams. Arquitectura 2010-2018’. EN BLANCO. Revista de Arquitectura. 10 (24), pp. 5-95

Watson, V.A. 2018. ‘Rurality and Minimal Architecture: An inquiry into the genealogy of Tate Modern’s Bankside gallery spaces’. AJAR: Arena Journal of Architectural Research. 3 (1), p. 4 Watson, V.A. 2018. ‘Mies & Stirling in The City’. Architectural Histories: The open access journal of the EAHN. 1 (6), p. 22 Watson, V.A. 2019. ‘20th Century Avant-garde and Architecture: Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt design for the City of London’. Ancient Monuments Society: Transactions. 63, pp. 90-106 Wilkinson, C. 2019. ‘Distortion, illusion and transformation: the evolution of Dazzle Painting, a camouflage system to protect Allied shipping from Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917–1918 War’. Journal of the Faculty of Art, Pedagogical University of Krakow. (14)

Technical Reports Blyth, A., Velissaratou, J. and OECD 2018. OECD School User Survey: Improving Learning Spaces Together. (Paris: OECD Publishing) Duthilleul, Y., Blyth, A., Imms, W. and Maslauskaite, K. 2018. Thematic Review: School Design and Learning Environments in the City of Espoo, Finland. (Paris: Council of Europe Development Bank)

Conference Papers Bajcer, U., Schiano-Phan, R., Ben Dayan, M. and Kerrane, A. 2018. ‘“Green Pockets” as Microclimate Modifiers in UK Urban Schools.’ Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference 2018. Hong Kong 10 – 12 Dec 2018 Blyth, A. 2018. ‘Re-imagining Learning Spaces in Higher Education.’ NUI Galway Symposium for Higher Education: Design for Learning: Teaching & Learning Spaces in Higher Education. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 15 Jun 2018 Chen, Y., Lau, B., Blyth, A., Schiano-Phan, R. and YiKai, J. 2018. ‘Influence on Learning Efficiency from natural light in Educational Environment.’ Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference 2018. Hong Kong 10 – 12 Dec 2018 Deriu, D. 2019. ‘Portraits of Places: Gabriele Basilico and the Slowness of the Gaze.’ Photography as Visual Urbanism: Memories, Research, Mediation. RWTH Aachen University, 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2019. Deriu, D. 2019. ‘The Lilliput Complex: Model Photographs and the Aerial Imagination.’ 37th Bielefeld Photo-Symposium: Models and Modelling of Spaces and Living Environments in Photography and Film. FH Bielefeld, 8–10 May 2019. Puchol-Salort, Jose and Schiano-Phan, R. 2018. ‘Sustainable Architecture and Social Engagement for Flooding and Drought Resilience.’ Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference 2018. Hong Kong 10 – 12 Dec 2018 Rattenbury, K. 2018. ‘Thomas Hardy Society Annual London Lecture 2018.’ Thomas Hardy Society Annual London Lecture 2018. The Leslie Stephen Memorial Library, Birkbeck College, London 15 Nov 2018 Schiano-Phan, R., Soares Goncalves, J., Lau, B., Kronka-Mulfarth, R., Pimentel Pizzarro, E. and Vallejo, J. 2018. ‘Research pro-design in environmental architecture, pedagogical approaches for quality and performance: the case of the Latitudes Global Studio Project.’ Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference 2018. Hong Kong 10 – 12 Dec 2018 Vallejo, J., Ford, B., Schiano-Phan, R. and AparicioRuiz, P. 2018. ‘Passive Cooling Applicability Mapping: A tool for designers.’ Passive Low Energy Architecture Conference 2018. Hong Kong 10 – 12 Dec 2018

Research | Forum

Architectural Research Forum

OUR SCHOOL HOLDS an architecture research forum. This is an opportunity for staff and visiting fellows to present their work-in-progress to stimulate discussion and critical debate about their research. Seminars are open to all staff and students. During 2018/19, the programme was: WESTMINSTER ARCHITECTURE

Shahed Saleem Rethinking the Mosque in Britain

Peter Barber 100 Mile City and Other Stories

Victoria Watson

Architectures of Nothing: Aldo Rossi & Raymond Roussel

Jane Tankard

A Few People, a Brief Moment in Time: Architectural Education Experiments 1987-91

Alessandra Across Scales and Genres Cianchetta Scott Batty Retrofit of a 1970s House

Eric Guibert

The Gardener Architect: Designing with the emergent natures of places

Sarah Milne Gordon Cullenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shed Lindsay Bremner Sediments of the Rohingya

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Funded | Research

Monsoon Assemblages Principal Investigator: Professor Lindsay Bremner Post Doctoral Research Fellow: Dr Beth Cullen (anthropologist) Research Fellow: Christina Geros (architect, landscape architect) Research Associate: John Cook (architect) PhD: Harshavardhan Bhat (political scientist) and Anthony Powis (architect) Research Assistants: Tom Benson, Thomas Blain, Georgia Trower MArch Studio DS18: Aligned with the project 2016-2019

MONSOON ASSEMBLAGES (MONASS) is a fiveyear long research project (2016-2021) funded by the European Research Council (ERC). It comprises a team of four researchers and two PhD students – three architects, a landscape architect, an anthropologist and a political scientist. This team is undertaking interdisciplinary research into relations between changing monsoon climates and urban development in South Asia, with a focus on the cities of Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka and Yangon. DS18 has been associated with the project for the past three years. The project has employed a number of DS18 graduates as short term research assistants.

Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873).

The project is undertaken at a time when extreme weather events converge with neo-liberal urban policies and rapid urban growth to produce fragile conditions for urban survival. MONASS has adopted a novel approach to these conditions. It does not treat the monsoon as an external threat to urban life, but as its organising principle, and urban environments as complex human-morethan-human assemblages. The project aims to produce knowledge of the urban environments it studies through research, writing and drawing. For the past three years, MONASS has hosted symposia structured by the monsoon’s material elements – air, water and ground. These are published on its website. It is currently showing a series of drawings at the Milan Triennale, Broken Nature, 1 March – 1 September 2019, of which two are included here. At the end of the grant period, the project will assess the potential impact of its work for the cities it has studied, the spatial design disciplines and the environmental humanities more generally. It will conclude in 2021 with a conference and exhibition in Ambika P3 at the University of Westminster.

For further information, visit the project’s website: www.monass.org

(left):A Portrait of the Subcontinental Monsoon Summer Solstice, 2016; (right) A Portrait of the Subcontinental Monsoon Winter Solstice, 2016

Research | Masters

Masters

THE MASTERS DEGREE at the University of Westminster offers unique programmes for students to develop their architectural education, and establish their own identity with a specialisation for future professional practice or the first step towards a PhD and an academic career. But for all those engaged in Masters level study in the School of Architecture and Cities at Westminster, the experience is one of a kind in the UK. It brings together a diverse body of expert academics, practitioners and students from across the globe with an appetite for invention, creativity and critical thinking. Although each Masters programme is distinct in the way it is structured – as you will see in the following pages – all share one aim of deepening students’ skills in critical and creative thinking and design. The University offers three postgraduate programmes: MA Architecture MA Interior Design MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

The MA and MSc programmes have their own subject-specific content, yet they offer the students the chance to choose from distinct fields of enquiry, building on their previous education and interests and develop cultural and environmental awareness in their work. The programmes allow the student to explore theoretical positions and a deep understanding of the subject matter while also offering them a platform to engage with some optional modules and activities. A highly passionate

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and experienced staff from different design and technical disciplines tailor these activities to compliment the students’ learning experience. Moreover, the course offers the students the opportunity to be part of extra curricula activities in a collective studio culture, such as London Festival of Architecture, Fabrication Festival and Megacrit amongst many others, as well as an annual student Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. Up-to-date facilities are also provided, offering students an exposure to endless possibilities including CNC fabrication, 3D printing, and the latest approaches to robotics are all explored. Students this year were actively involved in Live Projects, design and making. They also had the opportunity to work closely with MArch – RIBA PART 2 – students through lecture series and theory seminars. Students were also actively engaged with community projects and field studies in the context of London as well as internationally, for example in cross collaboration with Seville, Havana, Paris and Lisbon. The following pages feature a small sample of the students’ work along with a short introduction by the Course leaders about the three Masters programmes and modules – all of which are inspired and supervised by dedicated scholars. Dr Nasser Golzari Co-ordinator of Postgraduate study

MA Architecture | Research

Nasser Golzari (Course Leader) Davide Deriu, Richard Difford, Kate Jordan, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Dirk Lellau, Samir Pandya, Yara Sharif, Filip Visnjic MA Architecture Students: Weam Alhabashi, Shaghayegh Arabishirazi, Vittoria Barbirato, Nauman Bashir, Ching Ki Chan, Salomeh Emami, Kyzzhibek Galina, Gamze Goksungur, Yi Lei Gu, Kemal Gundogdu, Omar Javed, Etulan Joseph,

Prajakata Kalamkar, Ruchita Kanpillewar, Mahsa Khaki, Maisuda Khotpae, Jusik Lee, Akshay Lunawat, Viktor Nadjinsky, Samyuktha Periasamy, Valeria Ricci, Virak Roeun, Vignesh Shekhter, Olmedo Carles Solanilla

THE ARCHITECTURE MA course offers a dynamic and unique programme on advanced postgraduate study combining a high level of design and theoretical investigation combined with innovative representational methods and critical approaches to contemporary discourses in subjects of design and theory. The programme is both wide ranging and flexible, facilitating alternative modes of study and creative methods in design, representation and research. The course team of academics and practitioners offers full skills and intellectual support for students to develop their own Thesis subject, concluding in a design or written thesis project.

The MA Architecture allows for specialism through its three pathways: Cultural Identity and Globalisation; Digital Media; and History and Theory. Alternatively, students can also create their own pathway by selecting and combining relevant modules that meet their individual requirements. The range of optional and specialist modules offered allows students to develop their individual learning trajectories, involving design and theoretical components as well as practical applications.

Guest critics: Abdullah Almuariqeb, Beth Cullen, Lubna Fakhri, Jon Goodbun, Charlotte Khatso, Neil Kiernan, Maja Jovic, Clare Melhuish, Mai Sairafi, Benjamin Perrot, Angeliki Sakellariou, Ana Naomi de Sousa Jusik Lee, Viktor Nadjinski, and Maisuda Khotpae: Right to the City - Productive London

Special thanks: Candelario and AurĂŠlie (Laboratorio Artistico de San Agustin - LASA), Cuba, Talia Quesda, (CUJYE, Havana Cuba), Angeliki Sakellariou, Michael Sorkin, (City College New York ,CCNY, USA)

Research | MA Interior Design

Lara Rettondini (Course Leader), Dusan Decermic, Matt Haycocks, Joe King, Debby Kuypers, Filip Visnjic MA Interior Design Full-time students: Tobi Agunbiade, Azza Ahmed, Rija Ahmed, Pai-Hui Chien, Jeannette Daaboul, Pinar Erdogan,Yiwen Fang,Tianyang Gu, Maria Karagianni, Meltem Karaoglu, Ashpreet Kaur, Gina Lee, Jingmin Li, Franco Steban Morales, Xiaoyu Ren, Mauli Shah, Pandurang Priyanka Shankar, Shilan Sharifzadeh,

Man Tse, Shulan Wang, Meng Yin, Yifan Zhao.

OUR INTERIOR DESIGN MA promotes a conceptual and speculative approach to the design of interior environments. In doing so, it places an emphasis on research that seeks to expand the boundaries of the discipline as well as challenge standardised processes and traditional methodologies. The programme affords multiple avenues of creative engagement giving students

the opportunity to pursue their particular issues of interest in interior design, or specialist areas of three-dimensional design, through in-depth and focused studies, under the guidance of research-active and industry-experienced staff. Over the years, the course has continued to grow and is now an internationally sought-after Masters programme.

Part-time students: Jeanne Altermath, Huseyin Bicak, April de Alwis, Raimondo Pistis, Raafat Raafat, Priya Yadev.

Guests Lecturers and Critics: Oscar Brito (Central Saint Martins), Mathew Crawford (MJP Architects), Richard Difford, Tomasz Fiszer (MJP Architects), Clare Hamman, Matteo Mastrandrea (Es Devlin Studio), Andrew Peckham, Sue Phillips, Ben Stringer, Machico Weston (Es Devlin Studio) 270

Jingmin Li: 3D rendering

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Rosa Schiano-Phan (Course Leader), Mehrdad Borna, Joana Goncalves, Jon Goodbun, Benson Lau, Amedeo Scofone, Juan Vallejo MSc Architecture & Environmental Design Full-Time Students: Ahmed Al Awairah, Hamza Alhalabi, Hyab Ariam Amare, Julia Benitez Galves, Carine Berger Woiezechoski, Athiya Bhalla, Tanvi Bobhate, Zeynab Bozorg, Negin Esmailzadehhanjani, Yiran Feng, Michelle Makary, Joao Matos Da Silva, Panchami Pandharikar, Julia Pinheiro Ribeiro,

Rofayda Salem, Merve Tasar, Su Taveras Leong, Berksu Ucarli, Justina Vazquez Caputo, Alexandra Vlazaki, Nadya Wijaya, Chin-Huei Wu, Ting Yu, Zekun Zhu

IN 2018/19 THE Architecture and Environmental Design MSc extended its interest in the investigation of the environmental performance of modernist buildings within semester one’s evaluation projects. The case studies included: the Marylebone Building as a late modernist purpose-built educational building; the Marylebone Hall students’ residence within the same Campus; and the impact of new proposed developments around London’s Golden Lane Estate. The brief developed within the Evaluation of Built Environment’s studio-based module entailed fieldwork studies and environmental evaluations which this year extended to monitoring of air quality and microclimatic analysis as well as a post-occupancy survey of the various spaces.

Inn Fields LSE. The projects explored the challenges and opportunities of creating climatically responsive, low energy and healthy living and working indoor and outdoor environments in the heart of London’s dense urban tissue.

This study in the rich historic context of London was continued in semester two with a new brief on CoWorking and Co-Living proposals for three large sites in London: Battersea Power Station, Whiteleys, and Lincoln’s

Guest Lecturers & Critics: Mina Hasman (SOM), Mohataz Hossain, Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP)

Part-Time Yr 2 students: Noemi Futas, Hrabrina Nikolova

Following a very successful field trip to Seville and Granada, the MSc AED students have now embarked on the journey towards their final thesis projects, which will be completed in September 2019. This year the course has once again expanded the portfolio of practices and consultancies taking part in the Collaborative Thesis Project initiative. The industry partnerships have been very successful and have allowed our students to develop their thesis on a topic of mutual interest for the course and the industry partner. Previous CTPs have led to joint conference publications and employment of our students in the consultancies’ graduate scheme. This year the AED course has also introduced the BREEAM Approved Graduate course embedded in the curriculum.

Special thanks: Urszula Bajcer (WSP), Scott Batty (Hût), Christian Dimbleby (Architype), Sarah Ernst (Architype), Nasser Golzari (NG Architects), Catherine Harrington (Architype), Mina Hasman (SOM), Phil McIlwain (Westminster Council), Kartikeya Rajput (Chapman+BDSP), Zoe Shattock (EBCS)

Ting Yu and Zekun Zhu: Environmental Mixed-use Redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, London

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Vasilija Abramovic

Stephen Brookhouse

Davide Deriu

Tom Grove

Wilfred Achille

Alan Brown

Richard Difford

Eric Guibert

Jonathan Adams

Terence Brown

Chris Dite

Mike Guy

Yota Adilenidou

Jason Bruges

Jeg Dudley

Tabatha Harris-Mills

Megan Ancliffe

Chris Bryant

Rachel Eccles

Stephen Harty

Alessandro Ayuso

Toby Burgess

John Edwards

Cath Hassell

Jan Balbaligo

Henry Burling

Elisa Engel

Matt Haycocks

Pete Barber

Andrea Carapia

Bill Erickson

Dave Heeley

Scott Batty

Harry Charrington

Elantha Evans

Catherine Hennessy

Paul Bavister

Maria Cheung

Marc Exley

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