OPEN 2021 by Clare Hamman

OPEN 2021

O OPEN 2021

ISBN 978-0-9929657-8-5 Cover image Dana Al-Khammach, Allaster Grant & Lucy King Designed & produced Clare Hamman First published July 2021 Printed London

OPEN 2021

Contents

Introduction

Beyond the Studio 6 8 10 14 16 18 24 26

Dissertation Technical Studies Digital Design Fabrication Lab

Introduction and Process

AED Second Year

AED Third Year

Professional Development Westminster Architecture Society Masters

BA Interior Architecture 30 34 40 46

BSc Architecture & Environmental Design

Cultural Context

Introduction and Process

BA Architecture [RIBA Part 1] 96 100 114 142

Interior Architecture Third Year

Introduction and Process

58 62

Architectural Technology Second Year Architectural Technology Third Year

BA Designing Cities 68

Introduction and Process

Designing Cities Second Year

Designing Cities Third Year

Second Year Design Studios Third Year Design Studios

178 182

Introduction and Process

248 250 252

Staff

MArch Design Studios

Department of Architecture

BSc Architectural Technology 54

First Year

MArch Architecture [RIBA Part 2]

Interior Architecture First Year Interior Architecture Second Year

Introduction and Process

Practice Links 2020 Sponsors

OPEN2021 EXHIBITS the work and reflects the endeavour and sheer chutzpah of an extraordinary body of scholars – students and staff. It has been wrought out of the most trying and exhausting of years. A year in which we have worked online (a lot), on-campus (a bit – and safely), and in hybrids of the two. A year in which students’ most immediate and precious resource – each other – has been largely denied to them. That said, you would hardly notice the tribulations of the past year from the work on show.

Of course, our goals may be rational, how we get there may not be – and the wit, playfulness and invention that characterises OPEN2021 exhibits how dazzling, as well as strategic, design is becoming.

The past year has seen a number of significant events. The BSc Architecture & Environmental Design was validated as RIBA Part 1. MArch student Rob Beeny won the RIBA President’s Silver Medal 2020. Claudia Dolezal returned to Austria, Mike Guy retired after decades dedicated to, and inspiring, our students, Lara Rettondini moved on, and Johan Woltjer took up a OPEN2021 is a simple, elegant exhibition that makes new post in the Netherlands after years leading our the work of courses and our individual students available research. Stroma Cole and Paolo Zaide joined us. We to the world. OPEN2021 shows how much we have were able to provide access to the studios because of begun to take advantage of the opportunities that ‘going the work of the house team, Kow Abadoo, Chris Meloy digital’ has created, and how we have maintained the and John Whitmore – to whom we owe thanks. Thank values and ways of doing things together that we hold you also to François Girardin, David Scott and the dear. When, hopefully, we return to our Marylebone Fabrication Lab staff who put OPEN2021 together home and can once again throw an opening party to so brilliantly, as well as to Mirna Pedalo who curates match the quality of OPEN, then we shall maintain this our http://www.openstudiowestminster.org site, and to digital twin as well. We have not forgotten the other Clare Hamman who has designed and produced the imperatives that the pandemic has highlighted: the catalogue and made the film, with the stoic assistance need to provide supportive digital as well as physical of Elliot Smith. Above all, thank you to our students environments in which everyone can flourish; the and the staff who educated them. I can’t quite believe importance of equity, and a commitment to engaging with the great societal and planetary challenges. we made it.

Please enjoy the show. Harry Charrington Head of the School of Architecture + Cities 4

Welcome to OPEN 2021

Beyond the Studio | Cultural Context

Cultural Context Nick Beech (module leader CC1) is an architectural historian and teaches that history as part of a wide range of material cultural practices. Kate Jordan (module leader CC2) is an architectural historian with research interests in gender, heritage and faith architecture. Ben Stringer (module leader CC3) teaches design and cultural context. His recent publications focus on ideas about the rural.

ALL GOOD DESIGNERS need to be able to research, understand and communicate ideas about design. To do so, they need to know how design responds and contributes to wider interests in the cultural context in which it is practiced. The Cultural Context module 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 module is taken by all students studying degrees in architecture and cognate disciplines. It is structured as a set of three modules, CC1, CC2 and CC3 that students study respectively in the first, second and third years of their degree. Students in CC1 are introduced to the history of architecture through a lecture programme and seminars which, in usual circumstances, are complemented by regular site visits. Elementary spatial themes, ideas and broader contexts of architectural production from around 700BC to the present are presented in lectures. Learning the purpose of site visits – to see, analyse and record historic architecture – students put these skills into practice in their own environments. Through regular set tasks and a final essay, students explore and test their understanding of a particular problem or idea in architectural history.

CC2 explores critical issues in contemporary architecture and urbanism. This year, as a result of the pandemic, all lectures, seminars and tutorials took place online. The module combined a series of online lectures delivered by staff and guest lecturers on subjects ranging from the use of archives and oral histories to ethnography and social history. This was combined with a programme of pre-recorded lectures on subjects as varied as contested memorials, meanwhile sites and air pollution. Students delivered online presentations on their own site visits and surveys; worked in groups to produce workbooks and conducted independent research on the themes that they had been introduced to in order to write an essay. In CC3, students research a subject of their choice for their dissertation with the support of seminars, presentations and weekly tutorials from a diverse group of academics. It is an important opportunity for students to begin shaping the particular direction of their future academic and professional careers. Among the many notable dissertations produced this year were: Katherine Stewart: Incorporating Nature into School Design; Maria Bahrim: Social Condenser: The Constructivist Manifesto for Collective Living; Mario Priore: The Displacement of Architecture through Politics and Time; Youmin Ho: The Shophouses of Malaysia; and Jason Jones: The Japanese Shoji and Western Modernism.

(top, left-right) CC3 – Youmin Ho: The Shophouses of Malaysia; Jason Jones: The Tale of Genji Monogatari, Japanese Shoji and Western Modernism; (bottom) CC2: British Airways i360, Brighton. Exploring architecture in context

Beyond the Studio | MArch Dissertation

Dissertation Richard Difford, Nick Beech, Harry Charrington, Kate Jordan, Diana Periton, Shahed Saleem, Ro Spankie, Rachel Stevenson, Ben Stringer

THE AIM OF the MArch dissertation is to encourage students to develop their ability to reflect critically, and with a degree of self-consciousness and confidence, on a topic relevant to architecture or urbanism. Each student chooses their own subject but the interests explored emerge out of research that begins almost a year earlier in the first year History & Theory seminar groups. Within these groups the students are guided by tutors well versed in a broad range of interests and research methods; and committed to supporting the individual specialisms and scholarship of each student. A range of topics and a plurality of approaches are therefore encouraged. Ultimately, the ambition is that these dissertations will be distinguished, not by their adherence to any particular methodology, dogma or style, but by their high quality.

The high standard of the MArch dissertations is also evidenced by the recognition they receive beyond the university. Earlier this year, MArch student Amy Bettinson received a Commendation in the RIBA President’s Medals for her dissertation ‘A Laboratory for Contextualism: Post-War Infill Buildings’ (Tutored by Prof. Harry Charrington). Her study reflects on how architects seized the opportunity to experiment with the design of Modernist buildings in historic settings. Former MArch student, Charlotte Penny, was also recently awarded a commendation in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) Gus Astley Student Award. These are just the latest in a long line of successes including several dissertation medal winners and the publication of MArch students’ research in leading academic journals.

This year was no exception and there were many outstanding dissertations produced. Amongst these, Kai Hin Law’s, Urban Defiance, addresses the topical subject of protest and architecture. Focusing on Hong Kong’s democratic movement, this study looks at the relationship between urban space, power and political demonstrations. Also of note is Laura Walton’s exploration of urban farming in Brussels; Rebecca Gardner’s study of Benson and Forsyth’s Maiden Lane Estate; Virosh Samuel’s investigation of informal settlements in Sri Lanka; and Wesley Stone’s account of post-war housing in Poplar.

MArch dissertations are also having impact in the wider world, with Charlotte Anthony’s study of the Keskidee Centre in Islington cited in a recent planning application. Meanwhile, Victoria Cosmos (whose dissertation, The Past Present and Future of Holloway Prison was completed in 2019) will present with the Reclaim Holloway group at this year’s London Festival of Architecture.

(clockwise from top left) Kai Hin Law: P rotest against National Education in Front of the Government Headquarters at Tamar in Hong Kong , 2012. [photo: Simon Shek, CC licence]; Laura Walton: François Latrille, Head of aquaculture at BIGH, aquaponic urban farm, Brussels [Photo: Laura Walton]; 8

Rebecca Gardner: Maiden Lane Estate, Camden [Photo: Rebecca Gardner]; Virosh Samuel: T he self-built community run shop, Kitulwatta informal settlement, Borella, Colombo, Sri Lanka [Photo: Virosh Samuel]

Beyond the Studio | Technical Studies

Technical Studies Pete Silver, Will McLean, Scott Batty, Chris Leung, Alison McLellan & Andrew Whiting Scott Batty is a sole practitioner architect, teaches technical studies across degree and MArch and coordinates the second-year degree Technical Studies programme – including The Site Diary, Environmental Design Study and Technical Design Study assignments. Chris Leung is an architect and associate professor at The Bartlett (UCL). Chris tutors environmental design and fabrication strategy for final year degree and MArch students. Will McLean writes and publishes about the technology of architecture. He is a co-editor of Construction History: International Journal of the Construction History Society and, with Pete Silver, he has recently co-authored Environmental Design Sourcebook: Innovative design ideas for a sustainable built environment (RIBA Publishing), due to be published 2nd August. McLean teaches Technical Studies to BA, MArch and PhD, and organises the visiting lecture programme. Alison McLellan established Form_art architects in 2004 having worked for over a decade in London and Berlin, with architects Stirling Wilford & Associates (Michael Wilford & Partners) and Stanton Williams. She provides technical tutorial support for second and third year students. Pete Silver is a practising architect, and former building contractor. Pete has taught at the Architectural Association, The Bartlett (UCL) and the Royal College of Art and he has coauthored five books with Will McLean. The 3rd edition of Introduction to Architectural Technology, has just been published by Laurence King. Andrew Whiting is the director of HÛT Architecture, and has a particular interest in education and practice. He teaches at Degree and MArch level, providing technical tutorial and mentoring support. He is also an RIBA Awards judge, and RIBA 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 ‘technologies’ of the built environment. In second year undergraduate, Scott Batty runs the unique Site Diary assignment that affords students their first experience of a construction site. During the first semester Will McLean organizes 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 lectures, seminars, tutorials and the Friday afternoon consultant sessions, where visiting specialists provide technical expertise for our final year BA Architecture and MArch students (online this year). This specialist input (as in practice) helps to focus the work of the student in regards to structural clarity, visual comprehension and environmental sustainability. This year we have embedded the UOW Sustainability design principles in years two and three of the Degree and we have completely renewed the Undergraduate lecture series to reflect the environmental design focus, emphasis on embodied energy and online delivery due to Covid-19.

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Guest Lecturers and Visiting Consultants: Kristofer Adelaide (KA-A), Jan Balbaligo (Natural Builder), Paul Bavister (Flanagan Lawrence), Henry Burling (Morph Structures), Marc Exley (Morph Structures), Fotis Grammatikopoulos, Tim Greatrex (Tim Greatrex Architects), Cath Hassell (ech2o), Dave Heeley (Morph Structures), Thomas Hesslenberg (Elliot Wood), Sophie Hicks (Sophie Hicks Architects), Ollie Houchell (UCL), Sho Ito (UOW), Thom Kilvert (Hopkins Architects), Aleksandra Kravchenko (TAK Architecture/Design), Martin Liepman (SOM), Greg Lomas (Foster Lomas Architects), Balveer Manika (UOW), Nick Newman (Studio Bark), Laura Nica (UOW), Mick Pearce (Mick Pearce Architects), Ben Pollock (UOW), David Rayment (Morph Structures), Ehab Sayed (Biohm), Eleana Savvidi (Morph Structures), Ian Seabrook (Laing O’Rourke), Andrew Waugh (Waugh Thistleton), Chris Williamson (Weston Williamson + Partners), Christopher Wollaston (SOM), Jingxian Ye (EPFL Lausanne) 10

Beyond the Studio | Technical Studies

Technical Studies – Site visit Top: During lockdown 3rd year undergraduate student Hicham Abari built a rammed earth wall, working with local crafts people in Morocco.

Bottom: Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2nd year undergraduate student Alina Hafeez managed to attend construction site visits for her Site Diary assignment.

(top) Hicham Abari; (bottom) Alina Hafeez

Technical Studies – MArch Construction details of Elizabeth Terry's Old Caledonian Memorial and Monitoring Station for the restoration of the Caledonian Pine Forest

Elizabeth Terry

Beyond the Studio | MArch Digital Design

Digital Design Richard Difford (module leader), Roberto Botazzi, Miriam Dall’Igna, Michael Kloihofer, 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, providing 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 five 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 five groups this year were as follows:

GROUP A: Xpanded Realities

GROUP D: Mapping Complex Data

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.

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 B: Digital Craft

GROUP E: Data-Driven Robots

Employing contemporary digital fabrication tools, this group looks at adapting traditional forms of making to the digital age.

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.

Elite Sher

Roberto Bottazzi

Michael Kloihofer

Eva Magnisali

GROUP C: Computational Design Miriam Dall’Igna

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

(left) Ruta Perminaite: (Group B); (top right) Mariia Galiullina: (Group E); (bottom right) Bianca Turnea: (Group C)

Beyond the Studio | Fabrication Lab

Fabrication Lab

IT’S BEEN ANOTHER strange year in the Fabrication Lab as we’ve continued to adapt to a life with limited opportunity for physical making. The Lab has sprouted numerous acrylic screens to allow people to continue manufacturing parts for themselves wherever possible, and much of the Lab has remained accessible to our students and staff, for much of the year. I’m very grateful to the Lab team for their extraordinary efforts made over the summer preparing the Lab for socially distanced making, and for their resilience shown throughout this last academic year keeping our show on the road as far as possible. The unusual challenges we’ve all faced have however prompted a great deal of innovation, and led us to some surprisingly effective solutions with learnings we’ll carry forward into the future. Our annual laser-based workshop for all first year Architecture BA and Architecture and Environmental Design BSc students took place this year in lockdown and hence entirely online. We transformed the requirement for physical making into one for more advanced digital modelling, and took the opportunity to teach animation and explore kinetic architecture. As we now all become increasingly adept and comfortable with communicating through the medium of video

calls, the project opened up new opportunities for working together and for collaborating in studio groups. The workshop finished as usual with a public exhibition, online this time, but with the advantage that it remains available for all to see (fabricationlab. london/exhibition-kaw21). Quieter times have also given us the opportunity to further develop the Lab, both physically and online. We’ve turned our attention to a wide range of projects from refitting the workshops and the Lab Shop, to completing the Lab’s extensive Material Library, begun several years ago though a grant from the Quintin Hogg Trust. When we finally open our doors more fully in the future, it will be to much better equipped spaces, offering ever-increasing opportunities. And while we have been limited to remote working alone, we have embarked on a complete overhaul of the Lab’s web platform, including the publishing of many of our previous projects, the upgrading of all our online training and teaching resources, and the launch of a new virtual tour of the Lab (fabricationlab.london). I encourage you to take the virtual tour for now, and very much look forward to seeing you in person in the Lab soon. David Scott Director

(top) Animated installations for the '12 Days of Christmas' Festive Window; (bottom) '12 Days of Christmas'

Beyond the Studio | Professional Development

Preparing for Practice: Third Year Work Experience

THE 3RD YEAR Work Experience module, otherwise known as Preparing for Practice, is designed to enable students to gain the skills, knowledge and understanding necessary to apply for and secure a Year Out placement before their return to University for their RIBA Part 2 studies. Lectures and workshops focus on students producing high quality CVs, covering letters and an analytical work report that details the student’s two week experience in a London-based, usually RIBA Chartered, practice. The report is structured around a consideration of the ethical and moral issues affecting the profession and the role of the architect. Students are asked to contextualise their host practice in the spectrum of the profession as a whole, the practice's management strategies, typology of work and social and cultural value. They are also asked to investigate and map the procurement process for the project they are engaged on. This year, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic meant many of our partner practices were unable to host a student. We therefore offered three desk-based alternative assignments consisting of two live projects for a primary school, including a playground design and a

school community kitchen, or the option of revisiting their Semester 1 Design Project. In all three scenarios, students were asked to construct a detailed feasibility study which was contextualised by in-depth research into a variety of practices and procurement processes, and framed by issues affecting contemporary practice, including sustainability and cultural equity. This year we also had the opportunity to take part in an exciting and ambitious two-day digital collaborative co-production workshop on the architecture of mental health and wellbeing. The event brought together over 600 students and tutors from across the University of Westminster School of Architecture + Cities and Imperial College School of Medicine with a range of expert witnesses – from patients to medical consultants and specialist architects. The workshops, which resulted in the formulation of a brief and re-design for NHS clinics and mental health treatment centres, enabled students to understand the realities of co-production team-working, the detailed needs of clients and building users in the medical profession, and the context to developing ‘live’ briefs and concept designs. Jane Tankard Module Leader

Part 3: Professional Mentoring Alastair Blyth (course leader), Wilfred Achille, Samir Pandya, Susanne Bauer

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Part 3 course has over 400 students 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. Architects who trained outside the UK also attend the course to gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities of UK practice. Following the requirements of the ARB/RIBA Professional Criteria Part 3 is structured as a series of building blocks with clear assessment points throughout the year. The lectures, delivered by industry experts this year delivered online allow students to balance attendance with work commitments and are recorded for easy future access. Students’ professional development in the workplace is supported by a team of 40 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. 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. A Part 3 student from last year, Dominic Eley, received funding from the University of Westminster to conduct a series of interviews on books that have influenced architect's practice and which will be featured on his architectural literature blog, Arch-ive:

https://arch-ive.xyz/

Alastair Blyth Module Leader

Beyond the Studio | Professional Development

Community Hub Live Project, Leyton

STAFF AND STUDENTS from the University of Westminster are in the process of designing and building a new QHT-funded mean-while Live Community Hub in Leyton, in partnership with Waltham Forest Council, local youth organisation MVP Media, and the local community. Students gain direct, hands-on experience of the planning and construction process, both enhancing and broadening their range of skills, and developing their confidence through dealing with stakeholders and construction professionals. The project aims to be a beacon of community engagement inspiring children and young people. In addition, local outreach exhibitions organised by Wilfred Achille, Part III course leader at the University of Westminster, promotes architectural education from and for black and ethnic minority parts of the community, engaging the people who usually would not have access to academic environments. Live projects involve participatory activities that can bring together diverse stakeholders. Significantly, the projects have a tangible physical aspect which makes participation exciting, engaging and, most importantly, empowering. Our innovative approach is to use Live Projects as a way to understand issues and ask questions. We introduce new ways of

working collaboratively across sectors and take our multidisciplinary skills within academia and use these in live projects to serve communities and have a positive impact on society whilst introducing students and staff to alternative practice. This project derives from the previous 1:1 pavilions students built. Students engaged in public consultation in collaboration with the council to better understand the needs and aspirations of locals. They then developed designs for a visionary community hub based on this initial research, to create a place that supports activities for young people in the area as well as offering the university a space to exhibit work on a continuous basis, reaching out to the local community. Live projects provide a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between spatial, political, financial and social factors in connection with our lived urban experience. There is the possibility for practical and tangible outcomes, which can be communicated to a wide range of audiences in an engaging way. Live Projects promote an understanding of complex relationships of stakeholders and introducing novel ways of practice whilst being useful, applied and with specific project outcomes.

Maria Kramer Project Lead

(clockwise from top left) Jason Jones: Axonometry of the site; Maria Kramer: Photos of Woven Pavilion at Marylebone Campus; Site visit with students from DS(3)2; Juwana Noori: Student proposal of structure; Saima Roof: 3D structural sketch model; Atefeh Arefcheh: View from High Street, student proposal

Beyond the Studio | Professional Development

Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing: A co-design workshop in two parts http://www.openstudiowestminster.org/co-production-2020-2021/

THIS CROSS-DISCIPLINARY collaboration between the Medical School at Imperial College London and the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster explored the relationship between design, mental health and wellbeing. The collaboration included 650 students from across six courses, and bridging both under- and post-graduate, namely: BSc Medicine, BA Architecture, BA Interior Architecture, BSc Architectural Technology, Master of Architecture, RIBA Part III as well as 40+ members of staff. Three years in the planning, this innovative project comprised of two one-day co-design workshops during which 64 cross-disciplinary groups of students reflected on four defined mental health conditions to identify problems and propose solutions for the design of existing NHS mental healthcare sites. The terms co-design, co-creation, and co-production all describe an open design process that empowers a wide range of stakeholders to make a creative contribution to the formulation and solution of a problem. Co-design offers an immersive and experiential learning experience and challenges the conventional pedagogy of designer-client / expert-user, introducing experts by experience. While acquisition of discipline-specific skills and competencies is an expected outcome, the structure of the workshops fostered consideration of broader qualities such as ethics, empathy and duty-of-care.

Provoking both disciplines out of their comfort zone, the participatory nature of the workshops offered students a positive re-framing of their expectations of what it means to be a ‘professional’ architect or doctor, as well as reconsidering the language and methods through which they communicate. The word design comes from the Italian word disegno meaning a drawing, but also the drawing out of an idea; an etymology that emphasises the importance of thinking through doing. With this in mind, the workshops were delivered as a series of tangible tasks that stimulated discussion and restated the importance of ‘hands-on skills’ in both medicine and architecture. These included asking groups to create word-clouds of what co-production meant to them, image-mapping emotional responses on to different sites, and representing in modelling clay what an ideal mental healthcare space should smell, feel, sound and taste like. The discussions these activities generated were summarised into a ‘User Brief ’ at the end of the first workshop, and then underpinned a ‘Design Poster’ made in the second workshop, illustrating students' creative response to that brief. Both workshops involved keynote speakers, interviews with clinicians, patients, carers and other service users, as well as live Q&A panels offering feedback from architects, clinicians and patient advocates. Ambitious in scale and provocative, Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing: taught us a key part of being an architect or a clinician is the ability to listen with care and work collaboratively.

With thanks to: Harry Charrington for instigating the project, to all our ‘co-creators’ at Imperial College in particular Project Leads: Wing May Kong and Fiorenza Shepherd, keynote speakers: Angela Brady, Professor Sadie Morgan, and Dr Fintan Larkin. 22

University of Westminster Staff Project Leads: Ro Spankie, Alastair Blyth

Workshop Hosts: Tabatha Mills, Jane Tankard Content Creators: Diony Kypraiou, Chloe Van der Kindere, Julian Williams, Design Tutors: Susanne Bauer, Elantha Evans, Samir Pandir, Adam Thwaites, Paolo Zaide

PALS: Andrea Antoniou, Trixie Bedwei-Majdoub, Aleksandra Gutkowska, Akmaral Khassen, Lauren Polesel, Arshana Rajaratnam, Varsha Raji, Abanoub Reyad, Raluca Rimboaca, Anastasia Tsamitrou And the six student recipients of the ‘Students as Co-Creators Curriculum Development Collaboration Grant’ who helped create the content: Victoria Berry, Eugene Ben-Oluwole, Christina Teodoro, Katherine Stewart, Karan Vadgama

Student participants Trixie Bedwei-Majdoub ALEKSANDRA GUTKOWSKA

INIOLUWA ENIOLA Jasneet Rattan KAPENAJAH

Sonia Wedman Ali Cadir Perrine Cenier MARIA ABON

Shire Shukri Bihi Elise Billings-Evans Muhtasim

Anastasia Tsamitrou ANDREA ANTONIOU Varsha

SRIBASKARAN Robyn Powell CHARLOTTE BARKER

HAMZA MURIDI Josh Mooney Gabriella Mac'Allister

Mojnu ARSALNA USMANI Anna Essoussi-Coulton MIKA

Raji ABANOUB REYAD Akmaral Khassen ARSHANA

Chioma Sarah Herler Emily Deng GEORGINA MARDLE

Kwok Chan Karine Cholet HALIMA AHMED JULIA

THOMSON Riane Ouikil Sharna Johnson ARCANGELA

RAJARATNAM Lauren Polesel RALUCA RIMBOACA

Haddon Paul Lionel Ganippa IMAN SHAH Kwan

NAPLOSZEK Chan Lai Naran Oyunstetseg Babita

VARELA TAVARES TEREZIA TOROUSOVA Emili Moner

Jadene Aguliar ASAD SETHI Hannah Ismail BISMA

Yin LAM Mankad Unnati MANUELA MANJARREZ

Cooper Elliot Cox DANA AL-MOHAMADI MAIANH

De Luque Sulman Muhammad Georgiana Ilie PUI

SHAH Mo Alkhaja Dana Al Khammach ZAINAB

Muhammed Tugberk Khan ALARA BINAT Huda

NGUYEN Sulaiman Blessing Saya Agha Kelsie

LAM CHANG William Pope Nick Wood Sakariye

SHAHID, Larissa Angonese Janka Docs HANNAH

Ashari JAGVI PATEL Kyriacos Pouris PUI LAM CHANG

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Ahmed Aditya Buchinger Cheuk Ng Setareh Nosrati

SMITH Jijie Peng Muhammad Ariffin AMIRA SHALABY

Megi Mukja NICHOLAS TSANGARIS Shaan Kotecha

NICHOLLS Kumu Analkar Jakub Jazdzynski Daria-

ALEXANDRA FILIP-ANGHELESCU Joseph Robinson

KATHERINE STEWART Mario Priore Angela Tice

SHARIFAH ZEYNAH ALHADAD Leanne Cheng NICK

Suzanne Donovetsky Marta Dziuba EUGENE BEN-

Zuzana Lasota Thais Rodriguez Andrei Dobrinescu

Shirin Azizi Nishil Ashoccumar AHMED SHARAF Harry

LAWSON Nina Timlin OLIVIER SOUBELET Soraia

OLUWOLE SAMUEL QUAINOO Viktoria Nozdracheva

Philippa Oakes Jan Balbaligo Katerina Pechynaki

Wu Eleni Savviadi PAULINA SWAROVSKI Arvindaa

Viriato ZELAH POOLE Alanna Pandey CHIAMAKA

Thibaut Poeuf VICTORIA BERRY JORGE REYES

ANA GULEAEV Rauf Suleyman Olena Oliinyk Lavinia

Balamurugan Adriaan Baldwin Calin Bulzan LUKA

(CHICHI) UWAKANEME Martha McCutcheon SAEASH

SALINAS Erin Camagay James Wraith Ryan Pohan

Pennino Sumaita Zaman Vlad Necula Harriet Deutz

STOJANOVSKI Anna Adetiba RHYS TAYLOR Thomas

JEYARAJAN Sandra VALENTINE UCHE Angela Tice

MINA BILLUNG NORAH S N ALHAMDAN Dominika

Wiktoria Matyja Casian Podianu ROSEANNE QUINTO

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TAHERKHANI

MARIO PRIORE Prithvi Dixit VIRAJ SHAH Yuk Ting Au

Solkaska Maik Fischer Chatchpol Pongtornphurt

Ruta Perminaite Gabriele Pesciotti Yael Schreiber

CRISTINA TEODORO Mat Bailey Yaye Shire Shukri

Yeung AMANDINE BEAUGE Anna Essouissi-Coulton

TIFFANY BUTLER TAREK SANKARI TARABISHI Jehan

Hayden Ames Jayden Lau Ruhel Ahmed Daria

Bihi Elise Billings-Evans Muhtasim Mojnu ARSALNA

ARSALNA USMANI Mohammed Faiz MUHTASIM

Bhoyroo Mo Talat Rachel Ooi Lilla Porkolab Sarah

Kushnir Marianna Kyriakides ALEEFA HAQUE SYEDA

USMANI Anna Essoussi-Coulton MIKA THOMSON

AHMED MOJNU Riane Oukili GEORGIANA ILIE Jacob

Al Matrook Daniel Smith Volha Prus FEYYAZ DUMAN

ABBAS Justyna Lesny Bo Kei Leung ZHIQING HE

Riane Ouikil Sharna Johnson ARCANGELA VARELA

Smith JULIA BOROWICZ Mohammed Faiz RIONA

Maria Bahrim Kopal Halway Hwa Lee Joshua Ricketts

BINEESH ALI Haseeb Qadeer Xinran Li Moin Mahomad

TAVARES TEREZIA TOROUSOVA Emili Moner De Luque

LINN Sulman Muhammed LAVINIA PENNINO Pranav

Soraya Mohajeri Hicham Abari Georgia Roberts

Rafik GOLNAZ KEIHANI RENAS ALTUNATMAZ Manuela

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Beyond the Studio | Society

Westminster Architecture Society Co-Presidents: Saffron Lord and Mathew Bailey Debate Leader: Hannah Ismail Social Media Leader: Sude Yilmaz Graphics Team Leader: Linda Tighlit

THIS ACADEMIC YEAR has certainly been one like no other. From taking work online to curating digital portfolios; empty studios to make-shift model making desks - working from home has proven to be challenging for all. When you have to move a campus full of enthusiastic and experimental students with access to university facilities and face-to-face teaching into a realm of utilising one isolated desk at home for all functions, they are limited but determined to make the most of what they have surrounding them.

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

It hasn’t been conventional yet, through dedication and resilience, The Westminster Architecture Society has continued to bring students together. Despite the challenges faced we have continued to hold online events such as debates, and collaboratively created content to help students adapt to digital working. We are proud to have overcome this year and are excited for the future of our society.

(above) WAS team; ( facing page) WAS event posters

Research | Masters Introduction

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. In all cases, for those engaged in Masters level study in the School of Architecture + 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 Architecture

MSc Architecture and Environmental Design

All the course 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 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. 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 which can be explored. Students also have 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. This year due to the Covid-19 pandemic our international activities were confined to limited activities with day trips to London, Bristol and other cities in the UK. 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 and dynamic students. Dr Nasser Golzari

MA Architecture | Research

Nasser Golzari (Course leader), Davide Deriu, Maja Jovic, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Iman Keaik, Dirk Lellau, Samir Pandya, Yara Sharif, Neda Soltani, Mireille Tchapi, Filip Visnjic MA Architecture Students: Rana Almghirah, Alaa Awad, Akma Chekkinankandy Puthiyapurayil, Negin Dehnaviyylagh, Charlotte Donivar, Xiangqi Fan, Katrina Galea, Nazeli Ghazarian, Yasemin Guner, Hanan Hassan, Seyedeh Hendi, Ayushi Jain, Joanna Joshua, Mahshad Khairani Sharahi, Negin Kianpour, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska,

Saimah Latif, Caio Madeira De Oliveira, Sandra Oseas, Guilherme Paixao Argollo, Euzkadi Perez Chacon, Linah Raja, Simran Ravindan, Sophia Salvatori De Figueiredo, Ece Tavukcu, Hetul Vasani, Katherine Villavicencio, Carla Yuja De La Fuente, Enming Zhang

THE ARCHITECTURE MA course offers a dynamic and unique programme on advanced postgraduate study combining a high level of design and theoretical investigation 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 promoting live projects and collaboration with real clients. 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. The course also offer two distinct student awards, Jila Golzari Award for outstanding achievement, and Weston Williamson+Partners for outstanding Thesis Design Project.

Guest Lecturers & Critics: Vladimir Bojkovic, Alastair Blyth, Philip Breese, Simon Cole, Alejandro Abreu Hermoso, Kate Jordan, Rim Kalsum, Rebecca Neil, Ina Nuzi, Angelikie Sakallario, John Walter

Saimah Latif, Akma Nazar & Simran Ravindan: The Hollowed Journey

Research | MA Interior Architecture

Matt Haycocks and Dusan Decermic (Course Leaders), Tomazs Dancel-Fiszer, Bruce Irwin, Maja Jovic, Debby Kuypers, Lola Lozano Lara, Irene Roca Moracia, Paresh Parmar MA Interior Architecture Students: Faisal Alroumi, Yeojin Baik, Scott Bingham, Hannah Crick, Zhuo Du, Nujoud Farraj, Gurtej Kaur, Puyu He, Xiangyi Hu, Vanja Ivkovic, Abi Kirubaharan, Charlotte Rasmussen Meling, Sahithi Nadella, Shaimaa Omar,

Xinrui Pang, Megan Rogers, Valentina Saldarriaga, Adesh Surve, Antonietta Vitale, Adeline Waldron Pratt, Yue Xie

OUR INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE MA promotes a conceptual and speculative approach to the design of interior environments, both theoretical and practical. In doing so, it places emphasis on research and seeks to expand the boundaries of the discipline, challenge standardised processes and reappraise traditional methodologies. The programme affords multiple avenues of creative engagement through a diverse set of taught core modules including the vocational Retail Design, the

theory-based Decoding the Interior, and the student-led Thesis project. By embracing the intellectual, spatial, and material complexities inherent in the subject of interior, students engage with the critical pedagogical agenda to produce rigorous and ambitious work, a reflection of the quality of our programme and an indication of the diverse professional careers that our students will progress into in the years ahead.

Guest critics: Jo Prosser (Royal Academy) 28

Sahithi Nadella: Fem Club

MSc Architecture & Environmental Design | Research

Rosa Schiano-Phan (course leader), Mehrdad Borna, Paolo Cascone, Joana Goncalves, Kartikeya Rajput, Amedeo Scofone, Juan Vallejo, Zhenzhou Weng MSc Architecture & Environmental Design Full-Time Students: Anastasiia Babenko, Amal Breika, Iyad El-Beaini, Ezgi Ercan, Cynthia Espinola Cano, Wei Gao, Dagyeong Kang, Edlira Kraja, Gaelle Letort, Maria Makhlouf, Megha Menon, Dhrumil Patel, Gursharan Randhawa, Dalia Safar, Sylvia Segovia Franco, Uzma Shaikh, Zain Shaikh, Genievee Tapia

Part-Time Yr 1 Students: Maria Angiulli, Marie Haase (PGCert AED)

IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/21, the Architecture and Environmental Design MSc, having started in January and moved online, focused on the investigation of the environmental performance of work and live environments during the pandemic. Thanks to the QHT Online Learning Experience fund 2020, the students were included in an unprecedented experiment, called ‘Sensing the Changing Environment’, involving the simultaneous environmental monitoring and analysis of their own residences around world. This study will lead to the semester 2 design brief on ‘Designing for the Changing Environment in the times of the Pandemic’ started in May 2021. Proposals for the

complete re-imagination of the studied sites will be offered by the students with attention to the compounding requirements of a post-pandemic society, climate change and resources conservation.

Part-Time Yr 2 Students: Diana Criollo Guaman, Liam Rollings

The course successfully continues the Collaborative Thesis Programme with Industry and the BREEAM Approved Graduate course, while maintaining Learning Affiliate status with the Energy Institute. These initiatives have led to joint publications and employment opportunities for our students.

Special thanks: Christian Dimbleby (Architype), Catherine Harrington (Architype), Dean Hawkes, Phil McIlwain (Westminster Council), Andrew Moore (Hilson Moran), Filomena Russo Monitored temperatures and sensors locations of students around the world

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE CONSIDERS spaces from the perspective of the user and our starting point is always an existing building. We focus on the visceral experience of space to draw out atmosphere. Using existing buildings as our design springboard allows us to assess what should be sustainably retained and what needs to be altered. Our projects are centred on the context within which our sites are located. This year the urban and cultural context within which we designed has been diametrically shifted by the pandemic. We observed these changes and how they affected the spaces we used. This led us to reflect on

how this period of change affected the wellbeing of our communities and to experiment with new types of spaces required to support our new life patterns. In response to the pandemic, our students were often able to use sites they uncovered locally. This enabled us to have a rich exchange of cultures in our studios and to deepen our understanding and appreciation of the distinctive and layered spaces we encounter. We have also engaged in wider projects this year with a series of workshop events with Imperial College for a ‘Co-Production Project on Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing’ and a course-wide competition event with the Royal Society of Arts – Design Students Awards. Chloe Van der Kindere Course Leader

BA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

BA Interior Architecture | Process

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BA Interior Architecture | First Year

Sue Phillips (Year Leader), Yota Adilenidou, Inan Gokcek, Jo Hagan, Matt Haycocks & Jo Meehan Yota Adilenidou is an architect and holds a PhD by Architectural Design from The Bartlett, UCL. She is 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. Inan Gokcek is an interior and architectural designer running Studio Anares. Inan is also a collector of cultural artefacts which he upcycles and uses in his various architecture and interior design projects. Jo Hagan is an architect and principal of USE Architecture, a design studio driven by the fine line between pragmatism and pretension. He has taught in most of the major London schools over the past 30 years and supplants this with a passionate engagement with contemporary culture. Matt Haycocks is Senior Lecturer, and a designer and maker. His research concerns domestic and family photography, the historicisation of public space and the politics of place-making and branding. Sue Phillips is an architect and Senior Lecturer. Teaching for over 30 years, she aims to empower students to understand their own learning processes. Sue has worked in social and economic development in Africa and makes videos and sculpture.

YEAR 1: Design Fundamentals & Strategies Students: Jose Abreu Gonzalez, Dalal Alabdulhadi, Deema Alrumayyan, Hala Alsaie, Maryam Aniseh, Nada Attar, Naima Augsburger Salmen, Melisa Aydemir, Bianca Baldau, Ruqayyah Baqir, Nida’a Barakat, Brie Barnes, Maddie Barter, Julie Beech, Gabriela Boloz, Mine Bozkurt, Valentina Cazacu, Zhiyuan Chen, Robertas Cizas, Melissa Comber, Nicole Constantin, Yuqing Dai, Emily Davey, Amani Elhrari, Malak Elmorshedy, Aswin Ferdinand, Anna Fernandes Sola, Atanas Ganev, Marta Gelo, Mohammad Hoseiniyekta,

Jasmine Koomson Gyasi, Nur Kozan, Shromiya Kulendiran, Quynh Le, Syeda Mahima, Eliana Mankel, Charlotte McManus-Wright, Khate Mesina, Jade Monrose Usage Monrose Elmin, Eda Morina, Malak Nasser, Bianca Paiu, Isabel Panteleeva, Jayni Pindoria, Hiu Pun, Evita Puraite, Sairah Rahman, Nour Safieddine, Ella Sears-Pocock, Gyuldzhan Shyukryuoglu, Tanicia Silva, Jessica Tran, Ilona Tzompova, Mia Valova, Justina Veiksraite, Anisia Verdes, Yuhao Wen, Lois Wilkes, Mian Wu, Dilber Yesildal, Hatice Zorpineci

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

architecture. This year, the challenge was to remodel a container (either a shipping container, a banana wagon or a horse box), to meet the needs of a single person with a specific passion.

In the first semester students are set a range of assignments and short projects, such as: 2D representations, to convey information using collage and time lines; a bread construct, to investigate qualities of light and drawing conventions; and a group precedent study, to understand intent and architectural representation. Building on these skills they are then asked to design their first piece of interior

In the second semester, following research into types of opening, staircases and social buildings in differing time periods, students were asked to consider contemporary social needs that address a post-Covid era and recognise the environmental emergency. An existing disused chapel dating from 1900 was given as the site, and students had the challenge to re-configure the building and its surrounding area to meet their own programme of activities and proposed social interactions.

Peer-Assisted Learning Assistants: Manuela Manjarrez, Tanzina Miah, Philippa Oakes, Arshana Rajaratnam, Abanoub Reyad 34

(top) Nour Safieddine: Bake a Cookie; (bottom) Eliana Mankel: Coffee Conscience

BA Interior Architecture | First Year

(top) Bianca Paiu: Repair Space for Toys; (bottom) Nada Attar: Learning Space

(top) Julie Beech: Congregation Hall Performance Venue; (bottom) Quyhn Le: Banana Wagon Studio

BA Interior Architecture | First Year

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(top & bottom left) Eda Morina: Theatre Systems; (bottom right ) Gulcan Shyukryuoglu: RE-chapel

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(top) Dilber Yesildal: Modular Construct; (middle) Bianca Paiu: Bread Construct; (bottom) Valentina Cazacu: Bread Construct

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BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

Chloe Van der Kindere (Year Leader), Alessandro Ayuso, Liz Ellston, Sophie Ungerer, Jamie Whelan & Fiona Zisch Alessandro Ayuso is Senior Lecturer whose studio-based practice and research focus on the intersection of representation, architecture and the body. Sophie Ungerer is Senior Lecturer and architect, living, practicing, teaching, drawing and exploring in London. Sophie is curious about the threshold between the interior and the city and the range of scale and atmosphere of ‘internal spaces’, from a domestic setting to public spaces. Chloe Van der Kindere is Senior Lecturer coming from architectural practice specialising in residential projects. She explores how memory and perception influence domestic place-making. Jamie Whelan runs his own studio based in London focusing on residential, commercial and community based projects. His work is committed to creating architecture embedded in the tradition of craft and making. Fiona Zisch works across architecture and neuroscience. Her research uses 3D scanning, biosensing, and immersive VR technologies.

YEAR 2: Culture and Alteration, Material and Detail Students: Nargese Abdulghafar, Nasreen Aideed, Tatiana Akhmetova, Jody Atkinson, Laura Aylen, Rabab Bilal, Alison Carrillo Culiqui, Samantha Castrillo, Evie Catto, Izabela Chera, Salome Cheriha, Carla Chisari, Sema Dag, Mariah Dechavez, Naiat Elkilabi, Daniela Galhardo, Daniella Hakim, Khushboo Halai, Barakah Haried, Amber Harvey, Rwzhan Kader, Fatime Khan, Julia Knapek, Wiktoria Kulesza, Erica Li, Shuzhou Lin, Jade Litchfield,

Oluwatoni MacGregor, Valeriya Martyanova, Niusha Mobasheri, Sarah Mohammad, Caisha Mohamud, Laeticia Ngassa, Loren Pacarada, Trevena Reade, Mishaal Shamriz, Danil Sidnenko, Naira Sobrevilla Quiton, Daria Szablewska, Dilani Thevatas, Asya Tirak, Yaren Topal, Iulia Tutomir, Aldiar Tuyakbay, Mara Von Kymmel

IN SECOND YEAR, our interior students explored the design potential of ‘Work Hard – Play Hard’. This year we had to reconsider our living habits in response to the pandemic. The restrictions have altered the spaces and patterns of our work/social/family lives. Boundaries have been blurred and new habits were developed. This was a fertile ground for us to explore further.

started to develop ideas on how we could amend and improve our WORKSPACES to better suit our creative needs. We designed spatial devices to support our individual work practice within our homes.

In semester 1 we looked specifically at the new territories we had carved out to work in. Whether it be our family dining tables, our bed or the garden shed, we have all had to be creative. We carefully surveyed these new spaces and reflected on how these worked with our personal design practice. We considered boundaries and the environments we required. With this information we

Semester 2 was an opportunity to go back into the city and consider ways to better support our community through PLAY. This started with an exploration of different forms of play. We researched a wide variety of charities and projects using play to empower, teach, bond and help members of our communities. We designed spaces to support our chosen project within Spitalfields Market, London. This urban landscape was tested, carved, bent and extended to create play spaces to nurture and challenge those around us.

Guest Critics: Chris Dove, Elantha Evans, Inan Gokcek, Sarah Harkins, Lauriane Hewes, Alex Tzortzis de Paz 40

Laura Aylen

BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

(top left & centre) Alison Carillo Culqui; (top right) Pui Ying Choi; (middle) Trevena Reade; (bottom) Evie Catto

(top) Tatiana Akhmetova; (bottom left) Tatiana Akhmetova; (bottom right) Pui Ying Choi

BA Interior Architecture | Second Year

(top) Jade Litchfield; (bottom left) Laura Aylen; (bottom right) Pui Ying Choi

(top) Tatiana Akhmetova; (bottom) Daniela Galhardo

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Diony Kypraiou (Year Leader), Sam Aitkenhead, Ana Araujo, Zoe Diakaki, Marina Mersiadou, Ro Spankie & Allan Sylvester Sam Aitkenhead is a designer, researcher and maker working across architecture, interiors, graphics and product design. His work explores ways to reduce environmental impact through design and material innovation. Ana Araujo is an architect, teacher and researcher with interests and expertise in modern and contemporary design, with a special focus on gender studies, postcolonialism and psychoanalysis. Zoe Diakaki is an architect and interaction designer whose work sits on the intersection of architecture, scenography and immersive technologies. Diony Kypraiou is Senior Lecturer, an architect and researcher. Her work explores practices of polyvocalism and performativity in design, exploring analogies staged across theatre, psychoanalysis, interiors and architecture. Marina Mersiadou is an architect and set designer who is interested in the implementation of up-to-date technologies in architecture and theatre design. Ro Spankie is Principal Lecturer and Subject Lead for Interior Architecture. Fascinated by the role of the drawing in the design process, she has exhibited, and published work related to the interior in the UK and abroad. Allan Sylvester is Visiting Lecturer, a practicing architect, and founding partner of Ullmayer Sylvester Architects, a design-led multidisciplinary collaborative practice.

YEAR 3: Marylebone Re-Treat(s) Students: Jude Abed, Maria Abon, Halima Ahmed, Dana Al-Mohamadi, Ainul Azizi, Eugene Ben-Oluwole, Victoria Berry, Mina Billung, Tiffany Butler, Pui Lam Chang, Feyyaz Duman, Alexandra Filip-Anghelescu, Matheus Gomez Diniz, Ana Guleaev, Guz Guven, Aleefa Haque, Zhiqing He, Golnaz Keihani, Kwan Yin Lam, Tahir Mangarah, David Mante, Megi Mukja,

Noor Nasaruddin, Zoe Onatoye, Sandra Opara, Rim Otmani, Kalina Petrova, Roseanne Quinto, Bisma Shah, Hannah Smith, Katherine Stewart, Paulina Swarovski, Rhys Taylor, Cristina Teodoro, Mika Thomson, Terezia Torousova, Zeynep Uzun, Karan Vadgama, Vernel Verzo, Thiviyanthini Vimalachandran, Gabriella Wells, Burdzhu Yaman, Yunuo Zheng, Jiaxing Zhou

THIRD YEAR FOCUSED on the relationship between mental health, design and wellbeing. Drawing on conditions of isolation, our increased employment of digital tools, and inspired by the surrealists, semester 1 began with a game of Exquisite Corpse: students paired up and co-created exquisite interiors, composites of the space revealed in communication platforms and that which needs to be imagined.

The Thesis Project is the main pursuit for Year 3 students. Each student identifies a host building and devises a programme based on analysis and personal design interests. Ideas are explored through an array of techniques including material experimentation, 3D scanning and animation. The diversity of schemes and depth of speculation is indicated by a sampling of project descriptions and locations:

With the guidance of practitioners, clinicians, experts and patient advocates as part of the Co-Production Workshop held with medical students from Imperial College, our group considered how design affects health and how (pre)conditions of the mind inform the ways we perceive and design space. They pursued these ideas by designing Treat Trolleys for existing hospital sites, aimed to offer moments of comfort, pleasure and care. The semester concluded with innovative and transformative spatial propositions for Marylebone Re-Treat(s), situated in our studio in 35 Marylebone Road, imagined to be requisitioned by the government for a post-Covid centre.

Re-wilding the ruins of St Saviours, Poplar; Treetops to the Stars: Observatory and treetop walk around Severndroog Castle, Shooters Hill, Greenwich; Playtime: A space for Westminster students to play and relax in Ambika P3; Picnic at St Dunstan: A pop-up restaurant in the ruins of St Dunstan in the East; Installation in Victoria Miro Gallery telling the story of the ancient Chinese river goddess Luo Shen; Space to Breath: A warm climate centre in Bislett sports Stadium, Oslo.

Guest Critics: Abdi Ai (Ruimte Design), Sam Aitkenhead, Clara Dahan, Quentin Dauvergne, Zoe Diakaki, Frida Otsby Hansen, Tom Herre (Herre Ferreira Architects), Jack Hoe (Inside Out), Chloe Van der Kindere, Jonas Lencer (dRMM Architects), Prokopis Mavridis (SNH Associates), Marina Mersiadou, Ainhoa Tamara Schapira Perez, Adam Phillips (Gensler), Sue Phillips, Franco Pisani (ISI Florence), James Stroud (Loyn + Co Architects) 46

Special Thanks: Harry Charrington, Sadie Morgan (dRMM Architects), Juan Oyarbide (Boom Studio Architects), Rebeca Ramos

Zhiqing He: Climb Air Theatre (Clockwise from top) – Experience of the stage at night; Axonometric view of the theatre; On play

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Katherine Stewart: St Saviour’s Wilderness Garden & Restaurant

Karan Vadgama: R esurrection Church (clockwise from top left) – Longitudinal Section; Exterior View of the ‘re-fleshed’ exiting the church; Interior view of the Silicone membrane maze within the Nave; Top View of a re-fleshing chamber within the crypt

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

(top left) Eugene Ben-Oluwole: Treetops to the Stars; (top right) Tahir Mangarah: Journey to the Top; (bottom left) Tahir Mangarah: Journey to the Top; (bottom centre) Rim Otmani: Boxpark Croydon

(top & bottom) Bisma Shah: Marylebone Playscape

BA Interior Architecture | Third Year

Zeynep Uzun: (clockwise from top left) Rethinking the technology room; Interior view of the amphitheatre; Activating Voids – A flexible post-Covid campus

Yunuo Zheng: (clockwise from top) Ideal Landscape from Luo Shen Fu Tu; Encounter by the Luoshui River; View from and to the entrance

BSC ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY combines specialisms in the technological, environmental, material and detailing decisions necessary to solve architectural design problems from conception to completion. It requires complex understanding of design processes, architectural composition, development, construction technology and management tools, and the effective communication of design information. In the Architectural Technology studio this year, combining on-site and on-line learning, our diverse cohorts collaborated from around the world. Our 1st Year students experienced the physical design studio space in semester 1, designing a domestic dwelling house at a site in Harrow, investigating the synthesis between site analysis and passive environmental design considerations. 2nd Year students were challenged at a site in Peckham to engage with and understand how health inequality disproportionately affects low-income communities living in high risk areas through methods of community engagement in the context of racial and social inequality, climate injustice and health inequalities. 3rd Year is broken down into 3 stages: Research Initial research is key in order to understand any constraints that might follow from the site, building use, and client. As the year progresses, technical aspects of the design are investigated, including construction materials and structural considerations. Analysis of

architectural and technical building precedents relevant to the design project is a vital part of the design process. Development With a clear understanding of the design task, students go on to develop individual designs and/or technical solutions. Sketches, models, 3D visualisations and BIM models are produced to progress ideas and as an aid to weekly discussions with lecturers, visiting architectural technologists, architects and other students. Realisation Architectural design and construction are collaborative endeavours, even more so as new technologies are introduced and as building requirements for greater energy efficiency result in greater complexity. Adopting and embedding the Westminster Climate Action Network’s strategy guidelines, communication (particularly visual) is of the utmost importance and students must demonstrate their ability to sketch ideas and concepts, construct physical and digital models, and produce technical drawings and specifications. We have acknowledged and embraced the challenges of collaboration while under the constraints of remote learning and development again this year. The outstanding contribution of the architectural technology students and teaching team are testament to the adaptability of our continued explorative and positive mindset. Tabatha Mills Course Leader

BSc ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

BSc Architectural Technology | Process

First year students built technical models of their Design Principles schemes. Second year students visiting sites in Peckham. Third year students submerged themselves in bouldering activities as part of their Climbing Wall Facility brief..

BSc Architectural Technology | Second Year

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows, Hocine Bougdah & Eleni Han Hocine Bougdah runs a design/consultancy practice alongside his academic role. His research interests cover topics including sustainable design, innovative low-tech/low-energy buildings, spatial experience of users and issues of culture, urbanisation and globalisation. Tumpa Fellows is an award-winning architect and Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities. Her teaching draws on her research methodologies on interdisciplinary approach to design, while her research focuses on architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices. She received RIBA President’s Award for Research, 2019 (commendation). Eleni Han is an architectural designer, an educator and researcher on architecture, art and curation with a particular interest in space as a state as well as a construct. She is currently a PhD researcher in architecture and photography.

YEAR 2: Exploring Peckham through Community Engagement Students: Fariya Abdul, Syed Ali, Zubair Ali, Nasma Amrane, Mateusz Barcikowski, Lloyd Butcher, Nimra Butt, Nikco Clayton, Regina Dadiala, Veronica De Vera, Velina Drakalieva, Azhar Faghi Elmi, Stefano Fantuzzi, Chantel Forrester, Sanjeevan Gengatharan, Sanjeevan Gengatharan, Chanjeevan Gnanenthiran, Isaac Grant, Yassin Hamam, Casey Hendricks, Gus Hodge, Robyn Howe, Zaheen Ibrahimi, Ayan Jafarova,

Noorullah Jamakzai, Elspeth Jefferson, Muzzammil Jiwabhai, Frankie Killoran, Nathan Kwame, Karen Lai, Ursula Laranie, Lewis Lautier, Rommel Mangsat, Mohamed Mohamed, Seyedeh Motevalian, Richard Mulamootil, Aaron Philogene, Jones Pitan, Olivia Pritchard, Emma Rowling, Ahmad Sallahuddin, Noman Shahidul, Amira Shalabi, Zoe Shepherd, Peter Sotiri, Ben Studd, Kamali Underwood, Zia Ur Rahman, Ismail Yoonis

THIS YEAR WE set out to explore what role a designer plays in addressing racial, spatial and climate injustice; how can architectural design be a medium between communities and the local authorities and communicate inequity in Peckham?

led to early design proposals, challenging the students to design a place to facilitate community engagement.

The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the power of community action and collective response has become vital for communities worldwide, whether they are affected by racial injustice, health and housing inequality and/or the climate change crisis. Our initial research included community engagement and ethnographic practices to explore Peckham. The information was then translated into a series of Mapping drawings which documented the findings of the effects of coronavirus and environmental injustice. It showed that these issues disproportionately affect socio-economically vulnerable communities living in high risk areas. The Mapping output and visual documentation were presented to the local authority’s Regeneration Team, and Guest Critics: Harshavardhan Bhat, Sui-Pei Choi, Johannes Novy, Sumita Singha, Clyde Watson 58

Students have been encouraged to learn from examples around the world and consider architectural responses to the extreme environments and social inequity, for example exploring case study projects such as the Baris Village by Egyptian Modernist architect Hassan Fathy. The final design brief for the year has been to design A Civic Space/ Community Dwelling / Public Place / Peoples’ Institution on an urban site in Peckham using architectural landscaping and spatial formalisation. The proposals are embedded within the neighbourhood and the community to form an integral part of everyday life, beautifying and activating a public space. These interactive methods and the findings from the local climate, context and the communities, have informed the final building proposals which responded to the environmental, ecological and social aspects of the context.

Special Thanks: Southwark’s Regeneration Team Richard Mulamootil: Sun path illustration

BSc Architectural Technology | Second Year

(top left) Rommel Mangsat: Perspective; (top right) Velina Drakalieva: Perspective; (bottom left) Gus Hodge: Elevation & model; (bottom right) Lloyd Butcher: Model

(bottom left) Lloyd Butcher: Construction section showing ventilation; (top right) Richard Mulamootil: Sun path diagrams; (bottom right) Elspeth Jefferson: Axonometric

BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

Adam Thwaites, Tabatha Mills, Luke Bowler, Alice Odeke & Paul Smith Adam Thwaites is a passionate advocate of Architectural Technology as a distinct profession. Adam is Senior Lecturer and worked for a series of small architectural practices prior to moving into education. His research interests include the use of CLT timber in medium- and high-rise building construction; using vegetation to mitigate air pollution in cities; and energy efficient and sustainable construction methods. Tabatha Mills is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Westminster where she has taught for 12 years. With 18 years’ industry experience as a practicing Architectural Technologist, she established her own studio in 2005. Her research focuses on design and technical solutions for self-building, community housing, and timber construction in medium- and high-rise as part of the KnoWood Erasmus+ project. Luke Bowler is an architect with 7 years’ experience, previously at Gibson Thornley Architects and now at BDP (Building Design Partnership), where he works on major projects within a multidisciplinary team. Luke has a particular specialism in the adaption and redevelopment of ‘historic’ and listed buildings. Alice Odeke is an architect with over 28 years’ experience. Alice has developed her career with particular focus on practical technical aspects and problem solving. She is a director at Rok Architects. Paul Smith is an architect with 26 years’ experience at architectural practice Foster + Partners. Paul has taught on the Architectural Technology BSc for a number of years and brings technical knowledge, experience of many and various projects, and insights into the latest materials and technology.

YEAR 3: The Arch Climbing Wall, Bermondsey Students: Syeda Abbas, Bineesh Ali, Renas Altunatmaz, Charlotte Barker, Waris Baryali, Lihane Bekteshi, Alara Binat, Jack Deboo, Thomas Diduca, Hasan Farah, Dhanali Gosalia, Oliver Greenlees, Rhys Harris, Samuel Hodges, Muzzammil Jiwabhai, Darsh Mangukiya, Thomas McGinnity, Hamza Muridi, Jaswinder Nandhra, Julia Naploszek, Maianh Nguyen,

William Nicholls, Samuel Quainoo, Jorge Reyes Salinas, Norah S. N. Alhamdan, Tarek Sankari Tarabishi, Asad Sethi, Zainab Shahid, Amira Shalaby, Ahmed Sharaf, Luka Stojanovski, Fariba Taherkhani, Arsalna Usmani, Arcangela Varela Tavares

THIRD YEAR STUDENTS developed proposals for a leisure facility (climbing gym), comprising a new building addition to an existing 19th century industrial ‘shed’, originally part of the Frean Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, South London.

Key elements were the design of a dynamic and engaging internal space with reference to the practical requirements of the client. Also, the new addition was to have substantial floor to ceiling heights and be visually impactful when viewed from passing trains on the adjacent railway viaduct. Consideration and technical development of passive and energy efficiency strategies was also key to this project.

Following on from a site visit and investigation, during which many students were able to try out the sport, students developed ideas via sketching and model making.

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BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

(top) Alara Binat ; (bottom) Jack Deboo

Arsalna Usmani

BSc Architectural Technology | Third Year

Thomas McGinnity

(top) Tom DiDuca ; (bottom) Arcangela Varela Tavares :

OUR CITY OF the future needs to be more resilient and sustainable. Climate change, economic stresses, inequalities and public health crises are showing their limits. Communities are making great efforts to adapt to shocks, reinventing their ways of using and experiencing the city. However, new architectural, urban design and planning approaches are required to help cities meet current challenges and unpredictable futures. Designing Cities brings together knowledge about the city and its diverse communities, exploring the richness of architecture and public spaces; the challenges of housing development and mobility; the potential of green and blue networks; urban ecologies, rural-urban synergies, and much more. It does so by prompting students to design more sustainable places and futures. The course addresses the challenge of building postpandemic climate resilient cities, as a result of the unexpected outbreak of Covid that the world has faced in recent months. We have organised ‘industry projects’ with London-based practices, such as Jacobs, WSB, and ING Media to study a variety of approaches to tackle the urban challenges of Covid, such as digital placemaking, forms of active travel, and tools to assess place productivity and wellbeing. We have also organised a virtual field trip to Milan and Berlin titled ‘Understanding neighbourhood in times of pandemic’ in collaboration with ILAUD (International Laboratory

of Architecture and Urban Design) to explore how local communities have reacted to the pandemic and how cities are changing. The staff of Designing Cities have addressed such topics throughout the course, and various modules have emphasised resilience, sustainability and climate change. The module ‘Sustainability and Environment’ has developed a fruitful collaboration with the London Borough of Hounslow, involving students in designing future Zero Carbon Neighbourhoods. The project has taken place in the framework of Hounslow’s Green Recovery strategy and focus on the 15-minute city. The Year 2 ‘Climate Urbanism Studio’ has used an assessment framework of sustainability to design a landscape strategy for the Lower Lea Valley in East London, engaging with local activists and practitioners. A blend of on-site and on-line teaching has been successfully put in practice, and a rich variety of digital knowledge and design tools have been experimented with. Overall, we promote a project-based and crossdisciplinary learning approach, engaging with a diverse range of expertise from architects, planners, urban designers, economists, and liaising with practitioners, policymakers, activists and communities. The course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as meeting the requirements for the spatial planning element of initial planning education. Giulio Verdini & Roudaina Al Khani Course Leaders

BA DESIGNING CITIES

BA Designing Cities | Process

DESIGNING CITIES’ STUDENTS were involved in a series of on-line and on-site activities including: individual visits to East London for the Climate Urbanism Studio, industry projects with London-based firms, and virtual field trips to Manchester and Milan.

BA Designing Cities | Second Year

Giulio Verdini & Corinna Dean Giulio Verdini is Reader in Urban Planning and Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities. He is also vice-President of ILAUD, The International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design, founded by Giancarlo De Carlo in 1976. Corinna Dean established the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture. ARCA + Drawing Matter will host a workshop this summer at Shatwell Farm, which will construct an interpretation of James Gowan’s shed using organic materials. Her most recent research paper will trace the vital materialism of the former dynamite factory on the Hoo Peninsula and host a Temporary Field Station for the Estuary Festival.

YEAR 2: Climate Urbanism Studio Students: Mariam Aluede, Taruna Bangia, Sadiyah Bheekooa, Laurent Comminges, Emanuele De Angelis, Cindy Duong, Giorgiana Fagaras,

Naim Hassan, Marie Kaune, Mugel Khalafalla, Ali Khalifha, Marc Messmer, Mensur Nasser, Berhane Semere, Iliyan Topolov, Kela Zeqiri

THE STUDIO INVESTIGATES how to build up climate resilient post-pandemic cities and neighbourhoods, capitalising on existing learning from the Covid-19 outbreak. In particular, it explores ways to address global environmental challenges and to tackle ‘the many social and economic dimensions of this crisis, while focusing on the most vulnerable’ (UN-Habitat, 2020). The aim is to redesign cities to strengthen their resilience against all hazards (pandemics, economic shocks, climate). Urban areas unveil the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the combined effect of top-down measures and bottomup mobilisation of communities to face such global and complex challenges.

and Urban Design) on ‘Contemporary Cities under Shock and Stresses’ (CCSS), culminating in a virtual workshop held in Milan in late April 2021.

Students have engaged with current debates on the impact of Covid-19 on cities, and acquired knowledge of analytical tools, methodologies and good practices related to the emerging field of climate urbanism. A framework of sustainability has been proposed to guide students to formulate a landscape and urban strategy for the selected study area. The studio was part of a broad research project initiated by ILAUD (the International Laboratory of Architecture

Guest Critics: Elantha Evans, Krystallia Kamvasinou, Paolo Zaide 72

The case study selected is the Lower Lea Valley in East London. Due to its very fragmented nature, being comprised of large-scale industrial areas and mixed residential areas, in some cases with problems of social deprivation, the area has remained relatively untouched by the large property developments of the London Docks, but equally affected by the Olympic Games regeneration project to the north. Since then, a framework for a new linear park along the Lea was proposed but never fully implemented. This is because its location, between the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham, has been always considered a ‘backyard’ and not politically relevant. Today, in light of the impact of the pandemic, this area is being reconsidered as an important ecological resource with the potential to reinforce its role of social and environmental infrastructure for the surrounding residential areas. Students have therefore worked to propose resilient and green solutions for the future of the river area.

Special Thanks: Guest lectures: Stanislava Boskovic (Imperial College), Paolo Ceccarelli, Celia Coram (Save the Lea Marches), Carolina Foïs (Atelier Foïs Paris), Pilar Guerrieri (ILAUD), Tom Holbrook (5th Studio), Christine Hoarau-Beauval (ENA, Paris), Paolo Zaide Studio PAL: Nikhil Berwal ) Mugel Khalafalla: East India Dock Basin and Trinity Buoy Wharf – Historic & environmental site evaluation, and design proposals

BA Designing Cities | Second Year

Emanuele De Angelis: Mapping the Lower Lea Valley in East London

Cindy Duong: Encounters walking in the industrial area of Newham, Lower Lea Valley

BA Designing Cities | Third Year

David Mathewson, Elisa Engel & David Seex David Mathewson is Senior Lecturer and MA Urban Design Course Leader. He studied at the AA, the University of Texas and Westminster, and has more than 20 years’ urban design and architecture practice experience in the UK, USA, South-east Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Elisa Engel is co-founder and principal at Citizen Architects. She currently teaches at both Westminster and Linz University of Art, Austria. She studied architecture at Queen’s University Belfast, The Bartlett and Oxford Brookes. David Seex is a part-time Visiting Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning, and was previously Senior Lecturer at Westminster for over 30 years.

YEAR 3: Re-Designing the Old Kent Road Students: Kasem Abbas, Leen Bafakih, Ciara Clapp, Anita Feleki, Alicia Privett, Saleem Samuda, Daniel Sefton, Hamza Sohail, Luka Zumbach

THIS YEAR’S PROJECT is, for the second consecutive year, set in Southwark, one of the GLA’s Opportunity Areas, on the south bank of the Thames. Dating back more than 2,000 years to pre-Roman times, the thoroughfare that linked London to the south-east of England was used by the Celts and, later, the Anglo-Saxons who called it the ‘Old Kent Road’ or Watling Street. Until the nineteenth century, the road was fundamentally rural in character, but this began to change with the industrial development of several adjacent landholdings, including the Metropolitan Gas Works, the old Surrey Canal of 1811, leather tanneries and a soap processing plant. In 1845 the Bricklayers Arms goods station opened and the area developed rapidly to become one of Europe’s highest urban densities (up to 280 inhabitants per acre). The area experienced rapid transformation during the preand post-war periods due to large-scale slum clearances and bombing, resulting in the development of some of the largest social housing estates in Europe. Industrial and warehouse development continued in subsequent decades, including big-box retail facilities from the 1980s.

Guest Critics: Karan Bakre (Fletcher Priest Architects), Tim Cutts (Southwark Council), Isabel McCagg (Fielden Mawson Architects), Simona Palmieri (AECOM), Colin Wilson, (Southwark Council) 76

The area is now the focus of much development speculation due to the large landholdings, high real estate values and the presence of redundant industrial sites. The Bakerloo Line extension along the length of Old Kent Road will further increase the reach of the area. Responding to these development pressures, the GLA established the Old Kent Road Opportunity Area, followed by Southwark’s Area Action Plan. Covering over 114 ha and providing up to 10,000 new jobs with 20,000 new homes, (7,000 affordable tenure), it will become the capital’s latest high density cluster with a number of tall buildings. In semester 1 the students worked in groups to undertake high-level urban design and contextual spatial, demographic and socio-economic analysis while proposing strategic plans for large scale development parcels within the opportunity area. In semester 2 they split up to work on smaller sites in order to develop individual architectural development proposals for housing schemes, mixed-use developments or social infrastructure projects such as schools, along with comprehensive public realm design strategies while incorporating affordable housing, employment uses, and aiming to avoid community dislocation and gentrification.

Special Thanks: The London Borough of Southwark and the Mayor of London for their input into the studio project. To Raluca Rimboaca, MArch student and studio PAL, for her help with crits, teaching and facilitating workshops. Luka Zumbach

BA Designing Cities | Third Year

) Ciara Clapp, Saleem Samuda & Luka Zumbach

(top, centre left & bottom) Luka Zumbach;(centre right) Alicia Privett

BA Designing Cities | Third Year

(top) Kasem Abbas, Anita Feleki & Hamza Sohail; (bottom left) Saleem Samuda; (bottom right) Leen Bafakih, Alicia Privett & Daniel Sefton

Dan Sefton

CLIMATE CHANGE IS one of today’s most pressing issues and, in the past few decades, global policies and research institutions have acknowledged the urgency of addressing it through higher education. The BSc AED offers students a combined architecture and environmental design education at undergraduate level to form a new generation of architects who are both environmentally aware and able to quantify the environmental impact of their design. The BSc AED engages climate change and design practice with an emphasis on physical ecologies of building, numeracy and computation, as well as the wider principles of social sustainability. Over three years, BSc AED students are equipped with knowledge and skills in predicting and assessing building performance from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, learning both the poetic and scientific aspects of the design process. In the first year, students share the design studios with the BArch programme to acquire basic architectural design knowledge – observational and drawing skills through design projects and study trips. An evidenceinformed design approach is introduced to students through lectures, hands-on workshops, group seminars, and individual study sessions. In second year, through four design briefs, BSc AED students explore the urban dimension by investigating

social, economic and building-related environmental and energy issues. The four briefs are written in collaboration with Technical Studies to ensure that students acquire an understanding of digital environmental simulations at different scales and learn to develop environmental design strategies as the basis of evidence-based design. The third year is structured around the Final Thesis Project, a research-by-design studio investigating innovative forms of performative architecture, negotiating social and environmental dynamics. Three separate modules allow students to investigate specific aspects of their Final Thesis Project, enabling them to learn cause-effect relations between the geometry, the material system and the performances of their architectural proposals. In April 2021 the course received an unconditional validation by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); students who have successfully completed the course will be awarded a RIBA (Part 1) qualification required for Professional Registration. The validation came with a number of commendations that praised the creativity and resilience of staff, particularly in the context of restrictions during the pandemic; the implementation of cross-disciplinary working and the complementary nature of the course ethos and identity within the school; the attitude and proactive approach of the students evident in their work. Stefania Boccaletti Course Leader

BSc ARCHITECTURE & ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Process

Three key teaching focuses: Year 1 – Sensing the Environment; Year 2 – Transformation and Application; and Year 3 – Stepping Out and Making. Students acquire architectural design, observation and drawing skills by

engaging in design projects and field trips. Spatial poetics and environmental delight were explored and tested by adopting an Evidence-Informed Design Approach.

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Second Year

Stefania Boccaletti, Carine Berger, Mehrdad Borna, Rosa Schiano-Phan & John Zhang Stefania Boccaletti studied, practised and taught Architecture in Italy, Canada and England. She is interested in the impact of digital tools on the design and fabrication process in the field of architecture. Carine Berger is an architect who has worked in Brazil and the UK in environmental design as a consultant and educator. Her research focuses on building integrated hydroponic farms in buildings. Mehrdad Borna has over 15 years’ architecture, sustainability and environmental design experience in professional practice and higher education, specialising in issues of air quality and environmental design. Rosa Schiano-Phan is an architect, consultant and academic who has worked in environmental design consultancy and research for the past 20 years. She is co-author of The Architecture of Natural Cooling (2019). John Zhang is an architect and academic who runs Studio JZ. He holds a PhD from the RCA on the topic of contemporary Chinese architecture.

YEAR 2: Spatial Poetics and Human Comfort in the Age of Climate Change Students: Oluwadunsin Adedimeji, Giancarlo Albarello, Miriam AlBahadly, Jafar Habel Al-Matin, Alan Angulo Custodio, Nauman Asif, Nicholas Atanasov, Donnell Bailey, Qiyi Cai, Izabela Dima, Abdallah Elhaj, Humaydah Fabiha, Suha Faisal, Jill Fernandes, Hebat-Allah Gheedan, Manvin Grover, Lourdmia Huber, Monzurul Islam, Pantea Javdan, Eridona Kurtaj,

Grace Lancto, Evita Malnaca, Larisse Mongaba-Mata, Huu Nguyen, Aida Osmani, Yusuf Rahman, Mohammed Raja, Heshu Rashid, Hugo Reos Santos, Linda Tighlit, Kamaljit Ubhi, Victoria Van Reijn, Nikola Wasilewska, Xiaoqing Xu, Ping-Hsun Yang

BASED ON CONCEPTS of transformation and application, second year students developed skills to incorporate both intuitive and evidence-based tools into their design. This Evidence-based approach equipped students with tools to implement environmental design principles on top of which they could playfully develop their design proposals.

Briefs 3 and 4 examined the effects of climate change on the performance of existing buildings, and urged students to work towards the NZEB concept. Students developed performance-based designs to retrofit Marylebone Hall to make it resilient to the new challenging climatic conditions between now and 2050.

Four briefs introduced students to increasingly more complex scenarios and enabled them to familiarise and eventually master new digital and analogue tools to understand, simulate and immerse themselves in the urban and environmental context with analytical precision. The data underpinning these exercises constituted the foundation for the development of their design proposals.

Technical and Environmental Studies

The first brief required students to analyse an urban area around the University of Westminster Marylebone Campus and communicate both its urban character and environmental data, including light/shadow, air pollution, wind, thermal (pattern of temperatures), and acoustic (noise pollution). The outcome was a meaningful environmental design strategy that informed the design for brief 2’s Climate Change Hub. Guest Critics: Noemi Bakos (Equinox), Roberto Bottazzi, Kate Brown (FAB-HAB), Tom Manwell (Wellstudio Architecture), Jake Morton, Eike Selby (CGLA), Eirini Tsouknida 86

The module offers a multi-scale approach to the study and practice of environmental design and its integration to the architectural design process. It is in this module that the principles of environmental design acquired in first year are deepened, creating explicit links with the design projects and paving the way for more advanced applications in the final year of study. The module is structured as a combination of theoretical lectures immediately followed by applicative workshops ranging from climate and site analysis to building analysis and human comfort. Talks by guest practitioners and researchers complete the students’ learning experience.

Special Thanks: Scott Batty, Luisa Brotas (London Borough of Hackney), Marion Baeli (PDP London), Jan Balbaligo (Facit Homes), Chris Coonik (Innovate UK), Bill Dunster (ZED Studio), James Engwall (Price & Myers), Julie Ann Futcher (Urban Generation), Roland Karthaus (Matter Architecture), Cath Hassell (ech2o Consultants Ltd), Will McLean, Kyriakos Papanagiotou (KP Acoustics Ltd), Harry Paticas (Retrofit Action For Tomorrow), Amedeo Scofone, Zhenzhou Weng (clockwise from left) Hugo Santos: The New Marylebone Hall; Giancarlo Albarello: The New Marylebone Hall – Natural ventilation; Evita Malnaca: A New Façade for Marylebone Hall; Giancarlo Albarello: Marylebone Hall – Living in the new façade

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Second Year

(Clockwise from top left) Giancarlo Albarello: A Kinetic Future; Evita Malnaca: The Sensory Cave; Suha Faisal: Under the Sea; Suha Faisal: Site analysis – UTCI; Evita Malnaca: The Sensory Cave

(clockwise from left) Suha Faisal: The New Marylebone Hall; Izabela Dima: Marylebone Hall – Living in the new façade; Izabela Dima: A New façade for the Marylebone Hall

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Third Year

Paolo Cascone & Yota Adilenidou Paolo Cascone is an architect and academic with international experience at the intersection of urban ecologies, digital fabrication and selfconstruction. He is founding director of CODESIGNLAB, and scientific director of the African Fabbers project. Yota Adilenidou is an architect and holds a PhD by Architectural Design from The Bartlett, UCL. She is 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.

YEAR 3: Synthetic Vernacular Architectures Students: Genis Abdili, Armend Bajraktari, Preet Bansal, Chistiano Bizdani, Azuolas Compy, Dea Dalipi, Jonilda Dilo, Christopher Garkov, Bahar Hekmat, Jennifer Housego, Valentin Hristov, Afnan Merza, Maya Mira, Atiya Moore,

Carlos Neto, Rupinder Ryait, Viktorija Silkina, Anne-Flore Smits, Aruzhan Turganova, Tugce Yigit

THE STUDIO IS conceived as a research-by-design laboratory where all the modules contribute to feed the different theoretical, technological and professional aspects of the students’ Final Thesis project towards a climate sensitive architecture.

community-oriented architectures, both within the African context and for similar climatic scenarios. For this reason, the students focused their analysis on Cameroon as a possible paradigm that revealed three different climatic and cultural scenarios. The initial group analysis of three different neighbourhoods in three different cities informed collective urban design strategies according to these varying site-specific conditions. These strategic masterplans were the common ground from which the students have negotiated and developed their individual architectural proposals.

This year the studio explored innovative and evolutionary ways of learning from vernacular architecture with the aim to generate new architectural ecological typologies able to respond to extreme climatic conditions. This main axis of investigation was also supported by the cultural context module, where the students’ individual research further informed their Thesis design brief. The students’ investigations were also enriched by the interdisciplinary seminar series, ‘Decolonising Performative Architecture’. Learning from post-colonial studies in architecture and design, the studio investigated African sub-Saharan architectural taxonomies, from traditional and rural configurations, to the more recent informal solutions of urban areas as a possible paradigm of sustainability to analyse and evolve. An analytical understanding of such taxonomies was developed to respond to the need for affordable solutions for housing, health and Guest Critics: Asterios Agkathidis, Scott Batty, Conor Black (Arup), Harry Charrington, Christina Doumpioti (EPFL), Elif Erdine, Farzana Gandhi (NYIT), Nasser Golzari, Francisco González de Canales, Mohataz Hossain, Samir Pandya, Annarita Papeschi, Marco Poletto (Ecologic Studio), Rosa Schiano-Phan, Juan Vallejo, Zhenzhou Weng, John Zhang 90

With the aim of developing customised solutions within a circular economy approach to bridge traditional techniques and digital manufacturing technologies, the students began to design their individual schemes. In collaboration with the technical studies module and Arup, the students developed environmental site analyses as well as parametric form finding to help inform the design of their building and the performative testing of them. A performative prototype of a building component was designed and developed to show how it could improve environmental performances towards a self-sufficient architecture.

Special Thanks: Seminars on ‘Decolonising Performative Architecture’: Wilfred Achille, Christian Benimana (MASS Design), Edouard Cabay (IAAC), Stephanie Chaltiel (MuDD Architects), Mollie Claypool, Hanaa Dahy (ITKE Stuttgart), Ron Eglash, Jacopo Galli (IUAV), Farzana Gandhi (NYIT), Vincent Kitio (UN-Habitat), Shneel Malik, Giancarlo Mazzanti (El Equipo Mazzanti), Will McLean, Alessandro Melis, Michael Salka (IAAC), Abdoumaliq Simone, Simone Sfriso (TAMAssociati), Tumpa Fellows, Giulio Verdini. Also to: Conor Black (Arup), Maddalena Laddaga, Vincenzo Reale (Arup), David Scott and the local drivers in Cameroon: Murielle Bissek (Yaounde), Thresor Ndasse (Douala) and Triumph Tchulang (Maroua). ) Preet Bansal: Indo-African Handicraft Market – Architectural funnel prototype

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Rim Bottom

Body (a) 815 Body (b)

Mid - body 913

Ground Body 1535 Underground Body

Central Core (Lined with Silver)

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Third Year

1:200 Ground floor Plan

(top) Atiya Moore: Refugee Rehabilitation Centre, axonometric view; (bottom) Atiya Moore: Ground floor plan & Environmental simulations

(top) Anne-Flore Smits: Intercultural Communal Living , external view; (bottom) Anne-Flore Smits: Roof construction system and environmental strategy

BSc Architectural & Environmental Design | Third Year

Stall Unit

Stepwell

Workshop

(top) Bahar Hekmat: Waterflow parametric models; (bottom) Preet Bansal: Indo-African Handicraft Market, plans and sections

(top) Anne-Flore Smits: Fabrication process for the façade component; (bottom) Rupinder Hyait: Handmade experiments for clay building components

Hybrid Views THIS YEAR WAS the most extraordinary time to step into the School of Architecture + Cities. But in spite of the extra challenges we have faced – and still face – I believe we have made good progress. As an introductory design exercise our First Year students were invited to reinterpret ‘A Room with a View’, a task that subtly encouraged continuing to look beyond the here and now. Whilst from our windows we witnessed a physical world on hold, our virtual screens allowed us to connect and to design remotely. This curious shift has framed questions that we perhaps only started to explore: In this remote setting, how do we design together?; Who are we designing for?; and What environments are we creating? Our Year One team collaborated on a collective talks and events programme to create a sense of studio life. The Fabrication Lab redesigned the annual making workshop into a digital fabrication event. In Years Two and Three some Design Studios investigated the complexity of the urban, including the 15-minute City [DS(2)2], the regeneration of localities [DS(2)3], weaving community fabrics [DS(3)5], and the pleasure of urban cultural space [DS(3)1]. Building typologies were also radically reinterpreted in the Rapid Response Museum [DS(2)5], the New Domestic [DS(2)7], and the poetics of habitation in Beijing [DS(3)7].

Through the International Institute of Cosmism [DS(2)6] and the Interdisciplinary School of Design [DS(3)3] , a scene for fictional pioneers was set. A key concern this year was our changing climate. Studios explored ideas for a new Headquarters for the Canal + Rivers Trust [DS(2)1] and landscapes constructed from Fermented Architectures [DS(2)4]. Others asked how holistic communities and ecologies could be created [DS(3)2] and how educational spaces can nurture understanding of the physical world of weather, climate and the future of our planet [DS(3)6]. These concerns are shared by our student community, with 2020/21 marking the exciting formation of WestCAN – our student-led network towards Climate Action. These are exciting times, and with the city re-opening, this summer looks optimistic! A big thank you to our three Year Leaders, Richa Mukhia, Natalie Newey and Jane Tankard, and all the studio tutors for their incredible support. The Cultural Context Team, Nick Beech, Kate Jordan and Ben Stringer, and the Building Technology Team, Scott Batty, Will McLean and Peter Silver, have been equally fantastic. My biggest thanks goes to Julian Williams, who has led the course brilliantly for ten years – it is an honour to take over the course and to shape the next steps forward. Paolo Zaide Course Leader

BA ARCHITECTURE RIBA Part 1

BA Architecture | Process

Architecture is a fascinating subject involving wide-ranging academic, practical and vocational activities. This year stretched our collective creativity and imagination, as well as the inventive employment of environmental and technical knowledge. Our students explored the question

‘What environments are we creating?’ in a variety of settings outside of our normal studio spaces: Year 1 interrogated their ‘Room with a View’, Year 2 shadowed live construction process in their London ‘Site Diaries’, while Year 3 created their personal building materials in their home countries.

BA Architecture | First Year

FIRST YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS THIS YEAR WE tackled the new normal; working, living and socialising in the confines of one space. The domestic interior, and in particular the bedroom, was the point of departure for our exploration. Seven sequential briefs compelled students to measure, observe, survey, question and rethink familiar domestic spaces. The final brief asked students to redesign their bedroom to accommodate the coalescence of living and

working for a client who works outdoors. Students had the opportunity to rethink the limits of this existing space, explore potentials and expand territory outwards. In semester two we shared sites along Rye Lane in Peckham with students rising admirably to the challenge of investigating a site virtually!

Tutors Vasilija Abramović is an architect holding a PhD in the field of Interactive Architecture. Alongside UoW, she also teaches on the MArch programme at The Bartlett. Gu Arvas is an architectural designer, currently working in practice in London. She is visiting lecturer at UoW and Central Saint Martin’s, and is co-chair of the Tate Young Patrons. Florian Brillet has worked in international practices for 15 years including Dominique Perrault and Jean Nouvel. He has developed his own practice focused on public art commissions and furniture design. Ursula Dimitriou is a practicing architect and researcher and holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University. She is the co-director of Studio SYN. Christopher Daniel is director of Polysemic, a cultural design practice focused on the creation of places for performance and the physical and societal infrastructure that supports them. Rim Kalsoum is an architectural designer currently working at ArchitectureDoingPlace and is a visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster. She is co-founder and creative director of Muslim Women in Architecture. Neil Kiernan is a practicing architect specialising in the residential sector. He is currently developing research interests in the areas of spatial performance, occupation and gender readings. 100

Jenny Kingston is an architect and urban designer working mainly on public realm schemes in rapidly changing areas of London. Alongside teaching at UoW she works with muf architecture/art. Katherine Leat is director of Fabrica Architecture and inspired by international development research working hand-in-hand with disadvantaged communities, to adapt existing buildings for more than one family. Balveer Mankia is the founding director of BAL Architecture. Formerly a partner at MAKE, he was involved in several award-winning schemes. He also teaches architecture at the University of Greenwich. Bongani Muchemwa has won numerous awards for design excellence. He runs a studio exploring projects in the public realm and is a trustee of Beam, an arts organisation that promotes and delivers arts programmes. Richa Mukhia is director of award-winning architectural practice M.OS Architects. She has particular interests in housing design, public realm and community engagement. Natalie Newey is Senior Lecturer and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in engaging students in collaborative projects and local issues.

Jennifer O’Riordan is project architect at Kennedy Woods, a firm specialising in sustainable and educational developments and teaches Technical Studies at University of East London. John O’Shea is director of award-winning firm M.OS Architects which focuses on residential and cultural projects. He teaches first year Material Studies and Sketchbook Studies modules. Emma Perkin is the co-director of Emil Eve Architects. With a background in architecture, interior and exhibition design, research and teaching, Emma brings a diverse range of experience to the studio. Ross Perkin is an architect and co-founder of Emil Eve Architects. Working with Feilden Fowles Architects, he completed the RIBA Stirlingnominated Weston Visitor Centre at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Jean Wang is the founding director of CW2 Architects. She has worked for numerous design-led practices around the world on projects including schools, a Vajrasana Buddhist retreat and bespoke homes. Richard Watson is a tutor, artist and product designer who started teaching in 1999 and has exhibited at UoW and the Architectural Association. His work is hand made.

BA Architecture | First Year

GROUP A: C hristopher Daniel, Vasilija Abramović & Jennifer O’Riordan

Students: Edmund Alcock, Gabriela Andreica, Naciimo Cali, Victorino De Castro, Shahed Elfadil, Juliet Eneje, Zainab Karimi, Fatemeh Kavousi, Madison Lockwood, Sophie Nader, Alin Paval, Mette Pedersen, Sofia Rota, Maria Ruano Delgado, Karina Rudkovskaja, Magdalena Swiech, Kristiana Valdmane, Lourenco Viveiros, Alicja Zdanowicz Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Lauren Polesel and Anastasia Tsamitrou

GROUP B: R ichard Watson & Gu Arvas

(Ex)Change of Good IN 2021 GROUP A investigated circular systems and their relationship with local communities in order to design places of exchange and reuse. Looking beyond preconceived notions of high streets as collections of retail spaces, group members have focused on the wide variety of ways in which economic, cultural and social value are exchanged within our cities. Each project is an opportunity to reconsider these exchanges and the places they create.

Archaeological Dig, Peckham

Students: Ahamed Al Shaeel, Ibrihim Azmi, Hannah Dollond, Zahra Elshams, Sana Esmat, Lotta Jacobsen, Samiya Kazi, Iona Macovei, Mithilan Mathanmohan, Bilal Mirza, Annabelle Morel-Jean, Aida Rastegar Saadi, Yasmin Satter, Laura Posada Tellez, Gabriel Troisi, Mayra Vasconcellos, Digant Vekariya

TO START SEMESTER 2, we chose a site once occupied by a terraced house and garden. The site was in Peckham, south London, and the students were to imagine an archaeological dig taking place here.

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The students set about designing the facilities for this to happen and an exhibition space where the finds that had been discovered could be exhibited. The history of Peckham was well described by Benny O’Looney, one of the contributors to a day-long discussion on Peckham arranged by Richa Muchia. We limited the discoveries the students could choose to the 18th century.

GROUP C: Jenny Kingston & Rim Kalsoum Students: Mahmoud Abdelmajeed, Mehak Ansari, Hugo Ars, Dillon Dupre, Adam El Hafedi, Assal Fathi, Dominik Figurski, Amelia Gavina, Aleksandra Gorlats, Rabia Khalid, Fatiha Khan, Alexandra Mari, Farah Mazloum, Afnan Mohamed, Abubakar Najeeb, Abiola Olamousi, Vukasin Radonjic, Karen Silva Cardoso, Aurela Trezhnjeva, Pavel Zabarsky Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Andrea Antoniou and Molly Harper

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Right to the City: Colocation and Generosity THE STUDIO ASKED students to critically engage with ‘the right to the city’ as an idea and social movement. The projects explored how cities could better serve their communities and enhance our shared culture by opening up a space for exchange and experimentation. Students chose one government department and paired it with a related local use, group or activity. The projects proposed activities which complement and challenge each other spatially and ideologically, all whilst thinking about how buildings can provide a generous boundary to the street or surrounding public space.

GROUP D: E mma Perkin & Balveer Mankia Students: Zara Aamer, Aisha Abedin, Patrycja Adamczuk, Sara Anwar, Mariana Blanco Nanez, Ariane Canet, Layla El Wadnakssi, Salaheldeen Elnour, Azzam Hakim, Jakub Jamielak, Harry Mellor, Zihan Mustafa, Aaron Oshinmi, Pablo Pimentel, Anna Prideaux, Selina Qureshi, Roxy Sadrettin, Esma Sharif, Axelle Sibierski, Ruhan Zaman Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Akmaral Khassen and Bianca Turnea

GROUP E: Neil Kiernan & Richa Mukhia Students: Isabelle Achou, Naomi Ambroze, Fatima Arif, Ana Atanasescu, Faye Ayroso, Melis Aysal, Lilia Beha, Denis Buzhiqi, Joao Correia Gomes, Imran Haque, Nedal Harris Ghosheh, Luke Harvey, Roza Hassan, Param Hirani, Alefiya Jabir, Vinaya Kerai, Anthony Natanauan, Yasmin Pathan, Emanuella Pellizzon, Danielle Sharid Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Ali Cader, Elena Oliinyk and Lavinia Pennino

GROUP F: Jean Wang & Ross Perkin Students: Jessica Abdul Matin, Aishah Ahad, Wizana Ahmed, Oliver Benson, Kyrah-Chae Copeland-Thompson, Husni Hussein, AdelinaElena Ivan, Mahaa Janjua, Dominika Klonowska, Debo Laoye, Benjamin Leathes, Mika Mor, Jack Morris, Zoe Ononye, Uday PalTrabelsi, Jahin Rahman, Zeynep Sakarya, Rohit Sharma, Maryam Syed, Christian Thunich Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Dana Al Khammach and Moin Mahomad Rafik

Bio Laboratory: A High Street incubator for sustainable innovative manufacture THIS BRIEF EXPLORES the design of a bio-material laboratory and manufacturing building at the heart of Peckham. Students initially experimented with creating their own bio-materials, researching how locally sourced raw materials and waste products could be utilised within the making process. They then developed the design of an innovative laboratory to house a small start-up company specialising in bio-manufacture. Each project engages and educates the local community by inviting the public into a series of immersive and interactive spatial experiences. The design logic and specific environmental conditions of the bio-material manufacturing process translate into a unique architectural language for each project.

High Street Futures Peckham Rye: Building Social Value DURING A TIME that sees more of us using local places more intensely than ever, students explored the evolution of local high streets post-Covid. The brief asked students to propose a scheme that adds ‘social value’ to the existing high street, to strengthen community resilience through functions of social enterprise and circular economy. Our site was Peckham and students began by immersing themselves in an exploration of the site and local communities. Research, analysis and rigorous site investigations helped each student generate a client and personal brief. Final proposals included a refugee cooking school, an intergenerational menders club and the Peckham Potato Project!

Peckham Playhouse DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM traditional Noh Theatre and futuristic performance via RSC’s production of Dream, the brief was to design an ambitious building that revitalises, responds and reacts to the public life of the city through performance, celebrating the artform whilst providing a physical intervention to deliver growth and recovery in the heart of Peckham. Viewing Peckham through the lens of an architectural historian, community activist and urban designer, the students designed projects using thorough research, model-making, material experimentation and explorative drawing methods to examine the tectonic of architectural spaces needed to accommodate the performers, audiences and the wider community.

GROUP G: U rsula Dimitriou & Bongani Muchemwa

Students: Agathe Alexandre, Naz Al-Nawrasi, Endrit Ajeti, Alexandra Berculean, Roman Chemerys, Ross Coronia, Aya El Jahiri, Ana Ivaschescu, Ekta Jadeja, Marwa Jait, Assa Khalilpour, Josephine Low, Amine Meshnuni, Shahriar Rahman, Momtahhena Rahman, Shaena Sacatani, Sumiah Tafari, Raoul Tomaselli Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Marta Dziuba and Mariia Galiullina

GROUP H: Florian Brillet & Natalie Newey Students: Laura Alfararjeh, Evelyn Cheng, Raha Dashti, Wahid Dhrubo, Sarah El-Abed, Julie Krafft-Bruland, Larissa Leite, Nausheen Mahmood, Erphan Mohammadkhani, Husna Paruk, Fani Petrova, Blendi Rexhaj, Edoardo Ripamonti, Florentine Rocakenbauer, Evelyn Sarmaah, Finola Simpson, Alexandra Sturza, Isabella TorresanTestolin, Muhammad Uddin Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Aleksandra Gutkowska and William Lawton

Ubuntu : A studio for shared culture UBUNTU CAN BEST be described as an African philosophy that places emphasis on ‘being self through others’. It is a form of humanism which can be expressed in the phrase ‘I am because of who we all are’. One of Ubuntu’s important aspects is a strong emphasis on community and shared value and it is the core of the student’s exploration. Group G emphasises the investigation of the relationship between social conditions, materiality and performativity of space, and conceptual and formal ideas. This project explored the spatial relationships in a unique place to live, work and exhibit for an individual sculptor with strong emphasis on shared space and engagement with the local community.

At Work at Home FOR SEMESTER 2, students were asked to develop a place to live and work for an artist and his/her family in Peckham. Over the last year the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the ways we live, work, travel and socialise. As a result working from home, which used to be occasional, became the new normal. The house became simultaneously an office, a school, a gym as well as being a family home without expanding in size. Based on their own experience and on research carried out in the studio, students were asked to develop a house for a family of four.

GROUP J: Katherine Leat & John O’Shea Students: Jafar Al Sayegh, Mahan Alipour, Alanoud Alsudairy, Husayn Azizi, Dakshesh Bhattad, Samuel Calkins, Rio Gonzales, Mikala Marville, Oliwia Potrzeba, Darya Prokopets, Rania Saidi, Saleh Shesha, Andrei Terhes, Uktambek Uktamov, Kristiana Valdmane Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Karine Cholet and Marta Dziuba

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Peckham Makers’ Spaces AT A TIME when our relationships to work, making and consumption are rapidly changing, students were asked to design working spaces for modern day makers (such as a ceramicist, knifemaker or candle maker) on a site in Peckham, south London. The designs were to include all necessary accommodation to allow at least one maker to work, showcase and teach their skills on the premises. The precise mixture of accommodation was determined by student research into the requirements of the makers for whom they were designing and included making a piece using the materials, tools and techniques of the makers themselves.

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BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) One

Corinna Dean & Raluca Cirstoc Corinna Dean established the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture. ARCA + Drawing Matter will host a workshop this summer at Shatwell Farm which will construct an interpretation of James Gowan’s shed using organic materials. Her most recent research paper will trace the vital materialism of the former dynamite factory on the Hoo Peninsula and host a Temporary Field Station for the Estuary Festival. Raluca Cirstoc is an architect with expertise, both in practice and research, on ecologies of industrial landscapes and urban development with complex infrastructure. She is currently leading the delivery of a mean-while masterplan for a major regeneration site in the Lee Valley with 5th Studio.

DS(2)1: Land/Water – Interwoven Landscapes Students: Omar Abu Wishah, Fatima Al-gersani, Hannah Ali, Laurynas Arbaciauskas, Eduardo Barbero, Marina Bebana, Oliwia Biesiaga, Greg Brookhouse, Meryem Geldiveva, Sami Kassim, Connor Martin,

Laura Panaete, Sarah Saedan, Shkemb Shala, Kacper Shenke, Rhianna Stirton, Karolina Szymczak, Saba Torabi

THE STUDIO BUILDS on Bruno Latour’s (1993) statement, ‘Urban river systems are tangible sites for hybridity between nature and society’. To expand this thinking the two design projects examined how the River Lea and urban waterways are part of a crucial ecology which is interconnected with land, society, culture and ecology. In order to understand the ongoing reimagining of the River Lea and its complexities, the studio addressed the site as a series of interconnected agents, beyond the singular building. We applied this approach to the first semester’s brief, a Field Station for an Urban Ecologist in the Walthamstow Wetlands, which sees the coexistence of an operating collection of reservoirs, with a nature reserve and wetlands.

how the river and its history has developed as a set of engineered navigational channels with a diversity of edge conditions, varying soil conditions, basins of water, manmade manipulation and recent intensification of building, leading to pollution and pressure on natural ecologies.

Through a series of lectures by external practices including the Canal + Rivers Trust (CRT), we began to understand

For semester 2, our client, the Canal + Rivers Trust, encouraged thinking and brief making to respond to the question: How do we think imaginatively and ecologically about how we live together with urban waterways? Responses included an ethanol harvesting factory to produce fuel for the local houseboat dwellers; a boat repair hub and governance space for the CRT; and a water purification filter works which is built on reclaimed land earmarked for housing to respond to the near future of water scarcity.

Guest Critics & Special Thanks: Marcus Lee (Nordic Architects), Greg Lomas (Foster Lomas), Maria-Chiara Piccinelli (PiM.studio), Duarte Santo (Cornell University), Matteo Sarno (5 th Studio), Mike Wakeford (Canal + River Trust) 114

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(top left) Hannah Ali: Programme collage; (bottom left) Laurynas Arbaciauskas: Boat Dwellers’ Hub; (right) Sami Kassim: Gas Holder

(top) Rhianna Stirton: Ethanol Factory; (bottom) Gregory Brookhouse: Water Treatment Plant

BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Two

Natalie Newey & Richa Mukhia Natalie Newey is a Senior Lecturer and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in engaging students in collaborative projects and local issues. Richa Mukhia is a director of award-winning architectural practice M.O.S Architects. She has extensive experience working in the private and public sector with a particular interest in housing design, public realm and community engagement.

DS(2)2: 15-Minute City Students: Rima Almesri, Defne Bayrakci, Tilda Blomqvist, Brandon Clark, Maja Dworak-Kula, Paula Fleschin, Nancy Guest, Mina Gohary, Julia Lassota, Laura Lita, Alex Marton, Jan Macbean, Anisa Mini, Hamza Mughul,

Aziz Nimuchwala, Ioana-Andreea Popescu-Argetoaia, Diana Umiarova, Annie Williams

THE RADICAL SWITCH to home working which is now the ‘new normal’ offers a unique opportunity for cities, citizens and architects to rethink the way we inhabit our neighbourhoods. This year’s studio focused on the 15-Minute City, an urban strategy based on research by Carlos Moreno. The idea is a direct response to issues of climate change, community building and the impact of coronavirus on our living and working rhythms.

Our investigations began with a day of visits to community lead projects in Peckham, south London, including Peckham Platform, Theatre Peckham and Out of Order Design. Inspired by the visits and armed with extensive asset mapping of their chosen sites, the students spent the semester developing mean-while projects, designed to cultivate connections among locals, develop cultural activities, draw the residents together, and boost local economies.

City dwellers are part of a complicated and diverse ecosystem, one in which interdependencies between the natural environment, local infrastructure, streets, buildings and human occupation need to be considered. Can we radically change our habits of working and living in cities and the architecture that supports this? The studio considered this question over the course of the year, exploring local environments and our role within them, investigating and developing new concepts, practices and proposals for a living habitat that is ambitious, inclusive, adaptable and responsive to current and future rhythms of life in cities.

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Semester 2 began with a series of talks, a symposium on future trends and a memory model workshop. Student research into future trends generated speculations for a 15-Minute City of the Future. The students explored the many challenges we face – environmental, technological, political, cultural and societal. Proposals include: a cricket farm and bakery in Sète, France; urban mining a new Town Hall in Ealing; reclaiming the Westway for public use; skip diving in Reigate; carbon farming in Maida Vale; a Bioscape in Beckhamham; and an algae forest on the Grand Union Canal.

Special Thanks: Seyi Adewole (LSA), Markus Bader (Raumlabor), Simon Banfield, Alix Gunn (Retrouvius), Abiel Hagos, Hamish Johnston (Peckham Levels), Sofia Karim, Hattie King (Out of Order Design), Charlie Mills (Bold Tendencies), Doina Petrescu (Atelier d’architecture autogérée), Malakai Sargeant (Theatre Peckham), Giles Smith (Assemble Architects), Ken Taylor (m2 Gallery) Nancy Guest: The Carbon Farmhouse

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(top left) Jan Macbean: Seeds for Change; (bottom left) Alex Marton: Reigate Restorative Hardware; (right) Brandon Clark: Beckenham Bioscape

(top left) Rima Almesri: Reusing Ealing ; (top right) Anisa Mini: La Criqueterie; (bottom) Hamza Mughul: Algae Forest

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: Counter Narratives Students: Khushi Agarwal, Ivan Da Costa, Alejandra Iglesias Garcia, Raluca Hamza, Kamilya Kelbuganova, Hamzacan Keskin, Milan Lad, Rakan Lootah, Anna Lyubareva, Thanai Morphi, Jessica Morrison,

Tara-Maria Nayfe, Andrea-Laura Petrescu, Anastasia Plahutoniuc, George Sorapure, Konstantinos Vakirtzis, Sofia Whilby

PUBLIC SPACE HAS recently come under increased scrutiny; who makes it, who uses it, what does it represent, which stories are told in it. From grand squares in European cities – which are often used as sites of power to commemorate stories of nationhood – to community gardens to high streets, public space encompasses a range of typologies and forms. These function both to unite and divide, as spaces for both ceremony and protest. But what should public space be today in cities with super-diverse populations, where a myriad of communities, histories and experiences have come together?

spaces. We asked what kind of architecture might resignify and re-activate public space for our contemporary and complex times.

In this studio we started by looking at the relationship between the personal and the public, where do the boundaries lie and how can we design at the intersections. We looked at local spaces of public encounter, investigated the dynamics and mechanics of these, and asked if architecture can enable meaningful intercultural interactions. We then looked at how public space and architecture inter-relate on a larger, civic scale, and explored the historical roots of significant public

We then progressed these ideas to look specifically at development projects in London that provoked contestations over public and civic space. Students explored the issues behind these developments, from commercial to council interests, and also engaged with the public opposition to these schemes. Taking all of these dynamics on board, students proposed their own counter narratives, alternative proposals that offered new insights and challenges to the established narratives of city-making. Through this process we found that the development of the city entails a highly complex series of interconnections: between memory, history, nostalgia, fantasy, ambition, self-interest, community, care. As architects, we need to understand this complexity, synthesise many strands of knowledge and information, and decide how we want to act and what story we want to tell.

Guest Critics: Hafsa Adan (OpenCity), Leen Ajlan (RCA), Malcolm Crayton (Form Studio), Fiona Dunn (BDP), Khuzema Hussain (Collective Works), Nada Maktari, Antonio Moll (Moll Architects), Mirna Pedalo, Pat Woodward (Matthew Lloyd Architects) 122

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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 relations between humans and their ecosystems, and ways of creating with their emergence to enhance their resilience. Anthony Powis is an architect and researcher. He led public space and other projects at muf architecture/art before joining the Monsoon Assemblages research project at Westminster. He is currently a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins.

DS(2)4: Fermented Architectures Students: Zamzam Al-Rubaye, Syafiqah Aziz, Wiame Azzouzi, Arjun Bansal, Rbiya Bashir, Giorgia Bresciani, Nina Busz, Iman Dagnoko, George Darlington, Mateusz Gliniewicz, Joe Harding, Mihna Landin Johansson, Jessica Leach,

Betina Menescal, Julia Pastor, Aleyna Pekshen, Jenan Rachid, Changsoo Yoo

AS PART OF our ongoing investigations with the architecture of emergent processes and living systems, this year we challenged our students to develop Fermented Architectures in sites in lower and upper Lea Valley. We have understood fermentation both literally (the students have designed places of production based on microbiological processes), and as a metaphor for regenerative design (the projects are lively catalysts which nurture the ongoing transformation of the socio-ecosystem they are nested in). We have shifted throughout the year between ecological scales, exploring how they shape each other: microbial processes, the human activities they are based on and social structures they reflect, the buildings that host them, and the landscape where key ingredients are produced.

comfort, in relation to climatic and production rhythms; the materiality of most buildings is compostable, made of grown, and/or locally found materials that can be digested by the ecosystem to return to the ground at the end of their life cycle; the boundaries of buildings are conceived and developed as ecotones – interfaces between ecosystems – which are deep, porous, inhabited by humans and other life, and layered to modify climate.

Students’ projects connect material ecological processes with the socio-politics of intentional communities. Within these, several themes have emerged: the architectures negotiate and provide the various climatic needs of different stages of fermentation (e.g. production and maturation), of animals and/or plants, and that of human

The landscapes follow agroforestry principles to care for the soil and form habitats and corridors for wildlife. Depending on the ingredients, the designed frameworks mix formal systems of alleys between hedgerows, and informal and dynamically changing forest gardens or pastures, as well as rewilding Epping Forest for hunter-gatherer practices. These Fermented Architectures have proven to be earthy and systemic; they have challenged our notions of dirt and smell, and have led us to conceive complex interactions between multiple species across scales.

Guest Critics: Daniel Berende, Keb Garavito Bruhn (Pilbrow and Partners), Lee Jesson (Thursday Works), Kate Jordan, Jenny Kingston (muf architecture/art), Hwei Fan Liang, Philip Longman, Oscar Mather (Lynch Architects), Inês Neto dos Santos, Andrew Ó Murchú (BothAnd Group), Kester Rattenbury, Carl Reid (Pilbrow and Partners), Duarte Santo (Cornell University), Ed Wall, Paolo Zaide 126

Special Thanks: Colleen Myles (editor and co-author of Fermented Landscapes) and Inês dos Santos (multidisciplinary artist working with food fermentation) who generously shared their knowledge of fermentations in relation to landscape and social practice. Inês also ran a mapping workshop during which the students created intuitive readings of the site through the fermentation lens.

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BA Architecture | Design Studio (Two) Five

Camilla Wilkinson & Chris Bryant Camilla Wilkinson is an architect and lecturer. She has worked in high profile practices in Germany and the UK. Camilla makes research and lectures on the 1914-18 war camouflage system, Dazzle Painting. Chris Bryant is a founding director of London practice Alma-nac Collaborative Architecture. After graduating from The Bartlett, he worked at Arup Associates and taught at Birmingham School of Architecture. Alongside practice and teaching, he co-edited Architectural Design: New Modes: Redefining Practice with his fellow directors at Alma-nac.

DS(2)5: MAGNET: doubt, delight, change Students: Monica Basta, Davide Ciaravola, Pramila Cox-Sehmi, Louis Davis, Luiza Garavelo, Emma Hafner, Halima Haq, Zahra Iben Khayat, Anisha Iqbal,

Dania Khayal, Karoline Kownacka, Aidan McMillan, Joshua Reginaldo, Georgia Rich, Valentina Rivera Olivares, Greta Sakenyte, Laura Vasile, Rebecca Weller

OUR YEAR BRIEF MAGNET refers to a speculative proposal for a series of highly visible pedestrian infrastructure projects by one of London’s architect ‘thinkers’, Cedric Price. Magnets were designed to reinvigorate sterile urban areas for public use and provoke questions about the politics of space.

are exploring existing typologies by examining mixtures of programmes, or the effect of certain typologies, in varied urban sites. Each semester we try to closely investigate at least one component of architectural thinking.

Design Studio (2)5 typically chooses sites where time and transformation are vivid or polemical. The aim is to inspire students to view their proposals as potential generators of positive change set within the context of current issues. We encourage group and individual (informed) risk-taking and experimentation in order to achieve transformation. In terms of programme we started the year with the aim of addressing the climate change crisis but have broadened the theme to include students’ individual concerns in this year of intense change. As a studio we

Semester 1: Free Zoo. A brief to design an interchange and viewing platform or ‘free space’ on the boundary of London Zoo. Semester 2: Rapid Response Museum. A brief to design a museum that exhibits a collection from a current or recent event.

In place of our Field Trip, we invited practitioners to run workshops and give talks to support the development of the Rapid Response Museum brief. Aditi Anand, Liva Krieslere and Vicky Richardson enriched projects through sharing their extensive knowledge of curation and exhibition design.

Guest Critics: Scott Batty, Nick Beech, Oliver Blumschein (Eike Becker Architekten), Stanislava Boskovic (Imperial College), Joshua Bulman (Co-founder/Magazine Editor Totem), Alessandro Columbano (Birmingham City University), Oliver Cooke (Cooke Fawcett) Cosmo de Piro (ADNOC), Fabian Huebner (Heatherwick Studio), Kate Jordan, Maja Jovic, Liva Kreislere, Will McLean, Maria Motchalnik, Serra Pakalin (Zaha Hadid Architects), Mirna Pedalo, Kester Rattenbury, Caspar Rodgers (Alma-nac), Chris Romer-Lee (Studio Octopi), Yara Sharif, Conor Sheehan (Studio Mash), Angus Smith (Studio Mash), Rain Wu (artist/ architect), Paolo Zaide 130

Special thanks: Aditi Anand (Head of Creative Content/Curator, Migration Museum) Vicky Richardson (curator and writer, architecture and design) and Liva Kreislere (architect & multidisciplinary design practice) for their studio input. Stephanie Pace (Learning Programme Manager, ZSL) for organising access to the Snowdon Aviary and Kate Rowland (Senior Projects Manager, ZSL) for discussing the refurbishment of the aviary.

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(top and inset) Pramila Cox-Sehmi: Gurdwara Protest Museum, brochure with visitors map, museum communal courtyard with route to Gurdwara Temple, Hounslow; (bottom) Emma Hafner: Minority Museum Richmond Road Elevation, Kingston

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Victoria Watson & Kirti Durelle Victoria Watson is Senior Lecturer. She is the director of Doctor Watson Architects who design and publish work about architecture. Kirti Durelle is an architect and a PhD student in architectural history at The Bartlett, UCL. He also teaches at the LSA. Victoria and Kirti have a common interest in the shared histories of architecture, engineering and archaeology.

DS(2)6: Burning to Beam-Out Students: Ajvi Allmuca, Yusuf Arfaan, Gabrielle Dias, Miruna Grigore, Christy Hitchcock, Maria Ionova, Anna Ludman, Deividas Meroncikas,

Michael Molloy, Vanessa Muamba, Melissa Nese, Barbara Piskor, Berfin Tas, Elifnur Ulucay, Kyrillos Vilsenko, Katarzyna Wojciechowska

THE STUDIO CONTINUED to design buildings, spaces and places for the International Institute of Cosmism (IIC).

adventures in architecture and science that arose at the time of the Great Fire of 1666. On the other hand, by looking forward to the future and by speculating about a not-too-distant time when tele-transportation will become available as a viable alternative to current modes of transport.

In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we imagined how the IIC might become interested in developing a site in London’s historic centre and financial district known as the City. Since lockdown, the City had lost something of its dynamism; it is not as dense with bodies and business as it used to be. We discovered the City is a completely different place without the commuters, the overcrowding, the tourism. We thought the IIC might look upon this change as an opportunity to think about a potential new kind of architecture for the City. We imagined the IIC would want to develop their new City architecture by travelling in two different directions at once. On the one hand by going back in time, to the seventeenth century, where they could study the

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To help get their plans underway, we offered the IIC architectural proposals for the design of two related buildings for a site, close to St Pauls, on Ludgate Hill. The first proposal is a suggestion for the design of a Mathematical House (MH); the second is for the design of a College of Natural Philosophy (CNP). Taken together, the House and College would be a kind of school, or research institute, where Cosmists could think, experiment and study, looking to the past and to the future, of science and architecture, as a way of metabolising the present.

Special thanks to: To the (2)6 students from last year who came and presented their projects: Amber Collinson, Hannah Ismail, Jason Lai, Joe Robinson, Yuen-Wah Williams (left) Kyrill Vilsenko: School of Alchemy & Cosmism; (right) Elif Ulucay: School of Anatomy & Biomedical Science

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Sho Ito & Neil Kiernan Sho Ito is a registered Architect and the founder of Studio-ITO. Ito graduated from the Architectural Association and has worked for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, DRMM, and currently AHMM across the commercial sector. He currently teaches Technical Studies at the AA at both the Experimental and Diploma level. Neil Kiernan is a practicing architect having worked at a number of award-winning practices. He is design tutor for 1st and 2nd Year BA Arch at Westminster. Neil has a continued and developing interest in the research of gender, space and architecture.

DS(2)7: The New Domestic Students: Lamisah Abdal, Evangelos Christou, Gabriella Daza, Valentina Gonzalez-Castaneda, Alina Hafeez, Bodhi Horton, Marina Ioannou, Jude Raoul Jaribu, Karol Maranski, Samuel McMahon, Nasim Nikookam,

Glena Sabri, Feriel Siad, Stefana Straub, Hasniha Thanganathan, Shakira Willingale Haynes, Sude Yilmaz

DOMESTICITY IS HUMANITIES’ oldest instinct. It is the process of defining a way of life that is influenced by the subjects and the functioning of the ‘house’. The notion of the house and its domestic space has become an ever more precarious entity as its terminology and standards have rapidly changed and adapted to the echoes of the housing crisis and social changes.

DS(2)7 questions, re-thinks and responds to preconceptions ingrained within society’s established systems to confront contentious issues and construct unorthodox readings so as to propose alternative modes of ‘Domesticity’. We began by challenging the outdated housing model and bravely yet boldly questioning conventional modes of habitation. Through analysis and research, students were encouraged to articulate how the economy, politics and social preconceptions have shaped today’s home.

Living conditions, lifestyles and family structures have changed drastically within the last couple of centuries. This is intrinsically linked to the increase of the rental price and the unaffordable housing market that has created trends like AirBNB, couch surfing, guardianship programmes and more. Thus the typical nuclear family model is now rare and replaced by a wide range of transient demographics who are socially and culturally diverse creating evermore lifestyle norms and establishing new occupation standards.

The unit acts as an incubator, developing ideas in today’s context that rethink how architectural interventions and thought experiments can play an important role in the construction of new ideas, lifestyles, systems and frameworks. The proposals respond provocatively to traditional forms of home ownership, occupation and spatial configuration, questioning the notion of The New Domestic.

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(top) Glena Sabri: The Demographical Intersection; (bottom left) Marina Ioannou: Moments of Introverted Exposure; (bottom right) Sude Yilmaz: The Running Circuit

(top left) Feriel Siad: Beyond the Vision; (top right) Gabriella Daza: Travelling without Moving ; (bottom) Bodhi Horton: The Inbetween

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Jane Tankard & Thomas Grove DS(3)1 approaches the design studio as a site of experimentation and innovation. A laboratory of transformative ideas underpinned by the creative process, and professional and technical understanding, it embraces ideas of politics, film and feminism. Jane Tankard is a full-time Senior Lecturer, RIBA/ARB registered Architect, and researcher. Her work focuses on experimental pedagogy, praxis and the role of the architect in collaborative multidisciplinary contexts. Thomas Grove studied at Liverpool John Moores University and The University of Westminster. He works for an architectural practice in London and is interested in film, ornament, traditional modes of representation and the socio-political ramifications of architecture.

DS(3)1: Pleasure… Urban cultural space in a time of plague Students: Hicham Abari, Mohamed Alkhaja, Saya Agha, Sarah Al Matrook, Maria Bahrim, Mathew Bailey, Stephanie Grange, Gabriela Mac’Allister, Vlad-Ilie Necula, Riane Oukili, Naran Oyuntsetseg, Aikaterini Pechynaki,

Mario Priore, Eleni Savvaidi, Yael Shnitzer, Daniel Smith, Maisie-Ann Spencer, Sumaita Zaman

CONTINUING OUR EXPLORATION of filmic narrative as a mechanism for understanding architectural discourse, we have studied three films where the relationship between architecture and society takes centre stage: Ladj Ly’s story of police and state violence in the banlieues of Paris, Les Misérables (2019); David Byrne’s suburban fantasia, True Stories (1986); and a BBC documentary profiling the architects of the social housing scheme, Robin Hood Gardens, The Smithsons on Housing (1970). These films provided an opportunity to interrogate our recent architectural history and consider the ways in which, through cultural, social and architectural interventions, we might challenge the orthodoxies of the ‘neoliberal city’ which seeks to obfuscate the often anecdotal and culturally specific histories of our societies.

Gardens. Considering the pandemic and the privatisation of public space, we proposed the creation of a Pleasure Garden to provide both the existing community and their new neighbours with a unique ‘threshold’ for social connection and sensory pleasure. Additionally, students were asked to provide a dwelling for a custodian, a key member of the community who would care for site.

Pleasure Garden: An anatomy of social space in the 21st century DS(3)1 began the year by focusing our attention on the borough of Poplar and the remnants of Robin Hood

Discourse, Dialogue and Exchange: Performance for a time of plague In the second half of the year we relocated to the site of a former Bell Foundry in Whitechapel, an area undergoing significant gentrification where we asked students to make propositions for a theatre and place of cultural exchange. Considering the challenges posed to such institutions by the ongoing pandemic, they have developed proposals with hybrid programmes in which performance spaces are juxtaposed with a secondary and entirely selfsufficient use that responds to the needs of the immediate community.

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Maria Kramer & Roberto Bottazzi Maria Kramer established the award-winning studio Room 102 Ltd in 2011, bridging between academia and practice via 1:1 live projects to promote knowledge exchange. She is part of the Part III team and leading on the development of the QHT-funded Leyton Community Hub. Roberto Bottazzi is an architect and academic, whose 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: Community Enterprise Live Hub / Co-Living Students: Atefeh Arefcheh, Mariame Amouche, Ugne Boskaite, Anna Essouissi-Coulton, Jason Jones, Beatriz Cecilia Jimenez, Rawad Kayal, Rojan Keshavaz Omarabad, Humaira Keshtmand, Vilde S. Myrhaug, Aisha Mughal,

Vinay Nath, Juwana Noori, Jijie Peng, Justina Pukinskaite, Haseeb Qadeer, Dominika Sokalska, Yahya Shire, Nick Wood, Tadas Zabulis, Zaida Zekaj

19TH CENTURY GERMAN biologist Ernst Häckel defined ecology as the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment in which each living organism has an on-going and continual relationship with all elements.

In semester 2 students explored their individually chosen ecology, including the interconnectivity of complex natural processes, with the aim of integrating these into the architectural concept ideas. A hybrid programme of coliving and small businesses with third sector enterprises, such as community interest companies and start-ups, was developed with the objective of creating social impact and economic synergies.

We look at sustainability holistically, in regards to societal integrated projects within the community and within the natural environment. Students analysed patterns within the community, the built and natural environment, understanding the complex interplay between social, political, spatial and ecological relationships. The project site is in Leyton in Waltham Forest, which is the home of people who make and create and the childhood home of William Morris – designer, poet, novelist, translator and social activist – has been transformed into an arts and crafts gallery. We engaged in public consultation in collaboration with the council to better understand the needs and aspirations of the local community. Students developed a community hub in semester 1 based on this initial research. This project ties in with our QHT funded ‘Let’s Build’ live project with the support of Waltham Forest Council.

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The designs explored relationships between society and nature including those between human and ecological needs; between the productive, scenic and re-wilding of landscapes; between gradients of private, public and communal; and how our relationship to nature has changed. Questions we asked were: How do we create holistic communities, which are distinctive, porous, accessible, multi-layered and celebrate moments of local culture? How do we encourage experiences, which bind us together, so we feel part of a larger community, developing visions of collective experience via selfgenerating neighbourhoods? How do we communicate civic dignity and identity, linking the everyday to the ecological and global?

Special Thanks: Wilfred Achille, Mark Adams, Susanne Bauer, Harry Charrington, Paul Dwyer, Brett Fegan, Alison Griffin (Forest Recycling Project), Mervyn Rodrigues (Rodrigues Associates), Jordan Scammell, Zoe Sellers (Waltham Forest Council), Ro Spankie, Pawel Pietraszek, Sam Vasanth (MVP Media), Joanna Vasanth (MVP Media), Gavin Weber (Weber Industries) ) Atefeh Arefcheh: View from High Street towards the Healthy Living Hub Proposal

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(top left) Rawad Kayal: Perspective View of the Mycelium City Proposal; (bottom right) Vilde S. Myrhau: Perspective of Leyton Community Baking Proposal; (centre) Dominika Sokalska: Tensile Models of The Hub of Light Proposal

Dominika Sokalska: The Moss Neighbourhood Proposal – (top left) Plan detail; (top right) Internal view; (bottom right) Artist impression of landscaping

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(top) Atefeh Arefcheh: Section of the Healthy Living Hub Proposal; (middle) Atefeh Arefcheh: Seasonal Diagram of Multi Deployable Community Live Hub Proposal; (bottom) Atefeh Arefcheh: Models exploring relationship between grid module and existing trees

(top) Ugne Boskaite: Perspective View of Place of Therapy and Mind Proposal; (bottom) Juwana Noori: Perspective View of the Leyton Residential Eco Hub Proposal

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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 a practicing architect and director of Harty and Harty, an agency that specialises in arts sector projects including galleries and artist studios. He studied at The Mackintosh School Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, The Bartlett and the AA.

DS(3)3: Dialogical Designs and Heterotopic Architecture in the New Normal Students: Jehaan Bhoyroo, Andrei Bigan, Nur Binti Ashari, Erika Boguckaite, Janka Docs, Eadan Filbrandt, Daniela Gomez Garcia, Safa Husain, Hannah Ismail, Sharna Johnson, Jason Lai, Viktoriia Nozdracheva,

Momchil Petrinski, Casian Podianu, Kenzie Rebelo, Andrijiana Sitic, Iris Spahiu, Mohammed Talat, Sonia Wedman

THE ROLE OF dialogue in design practice is adopted as questioning and incomplete, with the capacity for user intervention to assume authorship to shape the reading and outcome of the work. In this instance, studio teaching encourages the student to assume authorship and shape the reading and outcome of the design brief.

exchange. Fifty years on, the proposal for a Repository looks to the accomplishments of this arrangement and additionally explores new arguments concerning heterotopia, virtual access and new ideas of site in architecture. The design strategies that position The Museum of London within a displaced digital presence through new spatial definitions for a repository also raise questions and generate concepts concerning what it means to be ‘interdisciplinary’.

This year, this creation of multiple interpretations is furthered through spatial explorations in Michel Foucault’s notions of heterotopia and heterotopic spaces. These allude to ‘counter-spaces’ that occur in the voids and/or peripheries of established locations and, more importantly, comprise of layers of meaning within their apparent uses and contexts. The project site is located in the historically dense and multifaceted ‘Little Britain’, a microcosm of the City of London. These discussions, in conjunction with ideas of proto-practices concerning design and architecture, can be reimagined through interdisciplinary approaches that embrace multiple perspectives and used to formulate post-pandemic narratives.

A Repository for The Museum of London: People, places and ideas In Igor Marjanovi’s Alvin Boyarsky’s Delicatessen (2007), three metaphors concerning people, places and ideas are employed to describe radical operating principles and an international network that emphasised knowledge Guest Critics: Silvia Galofaro, Mervin Loh and Nada Maktari. Your time and contributions as mentors, critics and assistant tutors is much appreciated. 154

Post-Pandemic Proto-Practices and an Interdisciplinary School of Design In a post-pandemic design world, the career of an architect, a multi-tasking but still rather defined role, has become and will further diversify into multiple careers in the new normal. While teaching methodologies used to focus on the different ways to describe architecture, they must now include discussions about different ways to be an architect. These issues are addressed through dialogue in the design process, and especially an interdisciplinary stance. Significantly, the delivery of work seeks new ways to describe architecture and disseminate ideas in the displaced digital world of the new normal, from education to industry, starting with our virtual studios: @uow_ds3.3 and @ds3.3_20.21wip. Special Thanks: Aleksandra Kravchenko, Will McLean, Peter Silver and John Zhang. To team alumni for their time, inspiring presentations and encouragement .

)Momchil Petrinski: The Bio-Engineering Experimental School of Architecture – Designing for the prevention of fires

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(top) Eadan Filbrandt: Reclaiming Chora – Responding to the despondent past; (bottom) Janka Docs: The Interdisciplinary School of Architecture, Archaeology and Programming

(top) Casian Podianu: The ‘Machine’ of Interdisciplinary Construction and Making ; (bottom) Sonia Wedman: The Repository of Bricks and Braille

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Safa Husain: The Language School of Iraqi Narratives, Reconstructing a Fragmented Architectural History

Hannah Ismail: T he Urban Nature Tower, Redefining Ideas of the City, Nature and People for a New Equilibrium

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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 SCAN Projects. 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, executive architects for the Cork House, Eton, recent winner of the Stephen Lawrence Prize, Gold Wood Award and several other awards.

DS(3)5: Agoraphobia + Community Fabrics Students: Adejoke Adewunmi, Ruhel Ahmed, Sakariye Ahmed, Kuhu Analkar, Gozde Aydemi, Calin Bulzan, Maik Fischer, Kimya Hajisabagh, Georgiana Ilie, Jakub Jazdzynski, Noor Kassem, Zuzanna Lasota,

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Agoraphobia

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Agoraphobia is ‘fear of the market’, but in common usage refers to an irrational or uncontrollable fear of going out in public. We are living in a time of fear of public space – we will examine the market in search of our future city. Shepherd’s Bush Market, renowned for traditional Asian fabrics, foods and household goods of all kinds, has been under threat of ‘upmarket’ redevelopment and gentrification for years. We will investigate histories of the market, the market communities and commodities, and the neighbourhood, seeking opportunities towards supporting its continued existence and even expansion. Models of high street retail are struggling, but in certain instances market systems can thrive. We will look to these examples for ideas for micro- and macro-programmes of market support structures.

What is public space? What is the public realm? We explored ideas of the shape, materials, use and future of the places we share, considered issues of change, time, seasonality, rest, activity, performance, observation, and the market. The public realm is defined as space that is free and open to everyone. The London Plan describes it as ‘the space between and within buildings that is publicly accessible, including streets, squares, forecourts, parks and open spaces’. Along the way we experimented with process, with digital and hand drawing, and the ground as a layered record of time. Our final proposals blend optimism with a pragmatic realism and offer a future for the market and for its communities.

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) Haodong Wu: Food Market and Concert Hall

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(clockwise from top left) Zuzanna Lasota: Market Support Structures view; Anastasiia Shepel: Recreation Hub, outdoor spa; Georgiana Ilie: Performing Arts Hub ground plan; Blessing Sulaiman: Community Workshops and Performance Space; Calin Bulzan: Support Structures view; Haodong Wu: Covered Food Market

(top) Georgiana Ilie: Support Structures model; (middle) Georgiana Ilie: Section; (bottom) Haodong Wu: Covered Market and Music Performance Hub section section

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(top) Josh Mooney: Market Support Structures, section; (bottom left) Maik Fischer: Support Structures, sketch model; (bottom right) Calin Bulzan: Support Structures, site isometric

(top and middle) Georgiana Ilie: Perfoming Arts Hub, development models; (bottom) Blessing Sulaiman: Support Structures, market view

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Julian Williams & Michael Spooner Michael Spooner was an associate director at dRMM for 12 years, leading on the design of schools in Birmingham and Exeter, and the Stirling prize-winning Hastings Pier. He now combines teaching and examining while running a collaborative practice studioSpoon. Julian Williams is Principal Lecturer, and currently developing a Foundation year for the Architecture Courses. He organised the AAE2019 conference and is doing research on teaching and learning. He is currently involved in developing community solar projects for his own neighbourhood.

DS(3)6: Field School Yr3: Hayden Ames, Akram Askaari, Minaa Baig, Bryan Cotta, Andrei Dobrinescu, Nicole Frankiewicz, Youmin Ho, Farel Mardiyunanto, Wiktoria Matyja, Soraya Mohajeri, Leticia Ramirez, Thais Ribeiro Rodrigues,

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WHAT KIND OF spaces will be needed for teaching in the future and how can they nurture understanding of the physical world of weather, climate and the future of our planet?

children and their communities might engage with climate change through the embodied experience of climate (weather) and its visual/tactile effect on building materials and constructions.

Our students have explored these questions by examining the value of the neighbourhood as a ‘world-in-itself ’ using the concept of the 15-minute city, by considering buildings as a ‘third teacher’, and by using environmental design principles to inform strategic design and quality learning spaces.

For their first project the students were asked to design a prototype community teaching space that would include activities missing from the locale needed to create a children’s 5-minute city. The site, a car park of the Brandon Estate adjoining Kennington Park, opened up discussion of the history of the estate’s landscape setting and the role of art in shaping place and identity.

During the year we engaged with what it means to design for an overall-zero embodied carbon and zero carbon-inuse target, and to consider how architecture can work to enhance site biodiversity. The students’ work has involved the design of simple passive and active technologies and the means by which

The second project was to design a new single form entry primary school on a development site adjacent to Archbishop’s Park in North Lambeth. The designs include activities to support the school’s own 15-minute city and engage with the adjacent public realm.

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(top) Nicole Frankiewicz: Collage study; (bottom left) Minaa Baig: Classroom Activities; (bottom right) Soraya Mohajeri: School stakeholders – From children to the community

(top) Bryan Cotta: Perspective view from Archbishop’s Park; (bottom) Akram Askaari: Section looking east

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(top) Hayden Ames: Section through the Evolution Academy; (bottom) Jaz Tahir: Perspective view of Urban Village School

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John Zhang & David Porter John Zhang is an architect and academic. He runs Studio JZ, was previously an associate at award-winning practice DSDHA and holds a PhD from the RCA on the topic of contemporary Chinese architecture. David Porter is an architect, urbanist and educator. He was a partner of David Porter Neave Brown Architects. He was Professor of Architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing (2012-18) and Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture (2000-11).

DS(3)7: Poetics of Habitation in Times of Coronavirus Yr3: Erin Carmagay, Filippo Cocca, Amber Collinson, Zbigniew Czaja, Emerald Sky Henley, Jayden Lau, Saffron Lord, Giovanni Musumeci, William Pope, Joseph Robinson, Yuen Wah Williams

HEIDEGGER BELIEVED THAT to live authentically, we must dwell poetically. This position finds resonance in Chinese philosophy, where the ‘poetics of habitat’ is the ultimate state of being, or yijing. The pandemic has thrown into focus the inadequacies of our housing provision and the change to the meaning of the home. Can we turn the crisis itself into the very project of the architecture of the city? This year DS(3)7 has been exploring how we can still dwell poetically in times of coronavirus. This exploration took place between London and Beijing, where we searched for new ideas of housing that addressed increasingly shared global issues. We constantly questioned what it takes to think in context, posed as a general problem in human thought and as a particular problem for architects. In semester 1, we worked in consultation with BeFirst Barking and Dagenham, the local authority’s housing

provider, to develop alternative visions for a new gateway housing complex as part of the Gascoigne Estate regeneration plan. The students were asked to develop a strategic proposal that offered an innovative programmatic narrative and a novel tectonic approach, which will ensure the long-term sustainability of the local community whilst responding to the emergent patterns of new residential demands in these extraordinary times. In semester 2, working remotely and utilising the lessons learned in London, the students work on the development of a comprehensive architectural proposal for a housing scheme in central Beijing, in a vacant site that straddled the traditional Hutong alleys and gated housing block complexes. Acutely aware that we were working on a place we could not visit due to lockdown, the studio was particularly interested in exploring how reality can be analysed and mediated through systems of representation, in particular through traditional Chinese paintings.

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) Yuen-Wah Williams: Ant Tribe Ark

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(top left) Joseph Robinson: Housing for Bird Lovers; (top right) Saffron Lord: A Re-Invented Hutong ; (bottom) Yuen-Wah Williams: Ant Tribe Ark

(top) Joseph Robinson: Housing for Beijing Bird Lovers; (bottom left) Jayden Lau: Inverted Hutongs; (bottom right) Filippo Cocca: Mediated Courtyards

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Zbigniew Czaja: Housing for Urban Farmers in Beijing

(top left) Amber Collinson: Living with Grandpa; (top right) Giovanni Musumeci: A Fragmented Courtyard; (bottom) William Pope: A Trio of Bath-Houses

WRITTEN IN 1928, E. M. Forster’s short story, The Machine Stops, imagines a future in which the human race has retreated into individual, cell-like, underground rooms. Cut off from the external world, they communicate only through video links – a pale imitation of the human contact they once enjoyed. Seated in their armchairs, no one stirs from their rooms, and yet, connected by a network of wires, they nevertheless succeed to hear and see each other ‘fairly well’, the ‘clumsy system of public gatherings’ having long since been abandoned; in Forster’s world, remote lectures also become the primary focus of culture and society.

of the year. But, hidden beneath our masks, we all nevertheless miss the rich and vibrant studio culture that once was – and to which we will hopefully return.

Such was our fate over the last year. But unlike the future civilisation described in Forster’s story (the citizens of which, in their desire for comfort, had quietly slipped into isolation), ours has been a distancing born of necessity. And whilst talk of the potential benefits of online learning abound, the challenges faced by both students and staff have been considerable. Thanks to the ever-resourceful team in the Fabrication Lab many key services such as laser cutting and 3D printing continued. And, as a result of the amazing efforts made by our Estates team, we enjoyed safe and socially-distanced studio meetings and tutorials on campus for most

Online once again, this year’s OPEN also hosts an amazing collection of work representing the diversity and imagination of all the MArch studios. Projects this year look to more local themes but, based in London, there is much to draw upon without traveling far from home; and with sensibilities heightened by the current circumstances, the work reflects an ever more environmentally- and sociallyaware response. That such an outstanding body of work has been produced under these difficult circumstances is a testament to the dedication of the staff; and the talent and resilience of the MArch students.

But despite the many challenges, there have, once again, been many significant achievements, not least another round of success for MArch in the RIBA President’s Medals. Winning the coveted Silver Medal for best Part II design project would be worthy of praise at any time but to have achieved this under ‘lockdown’ is astounding. Congratulations to Robert Beeny and his DS16 tutors, Anthony Boulanger, Callum Perry and Stuart Piercy.

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FROM EXPERIENCING LANDSCAPES TO describing them to others, MArch is underpinned by the community of the studios creating, assimilating and designing the way in which we as a society may approach the urban landscape of the future.

While DS21 investigated the countryside and town of Ebbsfleet, DS16 framed the waterways of the city. DS15 and DS11 explored patterns and ways of translating them artistically, intellectually and graphically.

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Ten

Toby Burgess & Arthur Mamou-Mani Toby Burgess 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 Master’s 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 is director of Mamou-Mani Ltd, an architecture studio specialising in eco-parametric architecture, and founded the digital fabrication laboratory Fab.Pub. In 2020, he won the Pierre Cardin Prize, from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France.

DS10: Regenerative Urban Arcology Yr1: Naim Ariffin, Polina Bouli, Cheuk Hong Ng, Lilla Porkolab, Hafiz Mohamad Rozaiman, Frederick Singer, Katharine Stevens, Marija Stoliarova, Poppy Theron, Matthew Woolhouse

Yr2: Sheikh Tanim Ahmed, Thuy-Trang Dao, Zainab Khan, Abanoub Reyad, Nikola Wolkova

SUSTAINABILITY FIRST. DS10 looks for novel solutions to sustainability issues in all its forms. We value digital exploration on the threshold between structure and ornament, coupled with thorough material testing and are interested in realistic and efficient buildings that contribute to a more sustainable society.

principles of permaculture and regenerative agriculture to propose Regenerative Urban Arcologies, highly complex large buildings tightly interwoven into the urban fabric which immersively integrate nature into the city. Arcology is a portmanteau of architecture + ecology, creating an ever-evolving large scale, dense and highly compacted building. A regenerative urban arcology is one that acts in a regenerative way for its immediate urban environment, utilising local waste streams and feeding back resources to the local area. Beyond parks or farms we sought out new architectural ideas which reuse waste and wasted opportunities.

At the start of the year, we looked at how natural structures and organisms interface with their environment. Through dedicated digital classes in Grasshopper we explored structural ornamentation techniques such as floral and vegetal motifs through the ages, filigree ironwork, spiralling and curving volutes, stone scrollwork, and replicating, evolving and reappropriating them digitally and physically. We are seeking an architectural language that relates and speaks to the natural world rather than standing apart from it. Students designed a site specific performative urban modular artefact that brought living nature into the city, half man-made and half grown from nature using mediums such as living moss, animals, mycelium, fruits and grasses. Nature does not make waste, everything is reused and feeds back into the system. DS10 students applied the

The gasometers of London are relics of past technologies and we reused these wasted resources and their sites as the foundations for contemporary arcologies, exploring their unique prime locations within London. Students became members of the WeWantToLearn.net community (1.58 million viewers), sharing their research and studio submissions to inspire and contribute to the wider design community.

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MArch Architecture | Design Studio Eleven

Dusan Decermic & Elantha Evans DS11: Guided by Dusan Decermic and Elantha Evans, the studio is conceived as a supportive, open-minded, self-reflexive and critical framework. By negotiating design ambitions at large geographical or urban scales and their implications as architecture and as inhabited spaces, projects carefully explore the relationships between abstracted urban genetics and unearth unexpected possibilities for material rendering of space. Relevant, sensitive and emotive programmes are developed in a different European city each year, carefully responding to the contextual, socio-economic and political concerns exposed through careful study and reflection.

DS11: Neapolis: Naples – New City – Virtual Dream Yr1: Jadene Aguilar, Dana Al-Khammach, Thomas Baldwin, Marta Dziuba, Allaster Grant, Rebecca Kelly, Lavinia Pennino, Soraia Viriato

Yr2: Jeffrey Chan, Lucy King, Gurpal Kular, Aleksandrs Manza, James Mason, Anthony Saynor, Wan Wong

THIS YEAR WE returned to the south of Europe in our explorations of the extremes of the continent. Following our far north projects in Reykjavík, Iceland, and previously in Cordoba, Spain, our projects this year are based in Naples, Italy.

and the studio naturally organised into discreet groups with shared territories and interests: urban islands in Scampia; regeneration of the industrial zone south of the railway station; reconsideration of the central port area around Castel Nuovo; intricate work in the historic centre; and out again to the edge of the Cratere degli Astroni.

Our teaching methodology establishes an intense and productive start with four week-long projects whose DNA is based on the intrinsic character of the city: ‘Partial Autonomy’ (pietrificato), ‘Game Plan’ (rianimare), ‘Dolled Up’ (transitorio) and al finale ‘Opus Aggredi’ (lavoro). The customary field-trip in January this year was of course virtual; ‘City at Distance’ studies turned into ‘City Up Close’, but this time from afar. A five-day virtual city festival remotely immersed us in Neapolitan culture: reading groups, films, web-cam gazing, pizza-making and wonderful guest seminars with Studio Vulcanica and academics from the University of Naples Federico II. As prior assumptions were challenged, projects progressed

The open culture of the studio supports diverse programmatic and typological responses springing from thorough research on Naples and its environs. Projects include a cryo-tomb research station, a new San Carlo city forum for all, an electric car plant with Formula E racecourse, a biomedical facility, and a library and new HE teaching training facility for Scampia. We thank our students and collaborators for helping us dream and create notwithstanding severe Covid restrictions. We hope that despite distance we have worked with respect and understanding in this extraordinary city. We cannot wait to visit.

Guest Critics: Roudaina Alkhani, Mehrdad Borna, Anthony Boulanger, Tom Davison, Derin Fadina, Sam Giles, Sean Griffiths, Clare Hamman, Daria Konopko, Gill Lambert, Andrei Martin, John Ng, Ben Pollock, Layton Reid, Rosa Schiano-Phan, Geoffrey Shearcroft, Ben Stringer

Special Thanks: Enrica Papa (University of Westminster), Libera Amenta, Annie Attademo, Marica Castigliano and Michelangelo Russo (University of Naples Federico II), Aldo Maria di Chio and Diego Carlo D’Agostino (Studio Vulcanica)

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01 02 03 04 05 The Ring – Symbiosis; 06 (top left) Anthony Saynor: Self-driving Buffalo – Partial autonomy; (centre) Marta Dziuba: (top right) Dana Al-Khammach,07 Allaster Grant, String is cut when separation occurs, communication is through theId-super-ego string. The string String to hold. String to wrap.Kelly: The Flower String to hang. – Transitorio; String to learn. String to re-connect, itThe was present when communication lacked & seemly overpowered all other emotion. 190 Lucy King: – reappears. Stairway to heaven; (centre left) Rebecca (bottom) Lucy King: String a Thing –separation Transitorio

(top right) Jadene Aguilar: Fondazione Mendini; (middle left & right) Anthony Saynor: L’oracolo – Tronari & Periscope views; (centre middle) Soraia Viriato: Puppet Theatre; (bottom) Anthony Saynor: L’oracolo – catalogue

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(top left) James Mason: Cryo-tomb Research Station; (bottom left) Anthony Saynor: L’oracolo – Surfacing the Neapolitan Underground

(top left) Lavinia Pennino: Thresholds of the Underworld; (bottom left) Dana Al-Khammach: Institute of Fair Trade – Arrival; (right) Lavinia Pennino: Parthenope

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Twelve

Ben Stringer & Peter Barber Ben Stringer teaches design and cultural context studies at the 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 the University of Westminster.

DS12: Heathrow Desakota Yr1: Xinran Li, Peter Runham, Rukhsar Zahid

Yr2: Andrea Antoniou, Callum Bleasdale, Isabel Briggs, Thomas Burbery, Anissa Colaco Souza, April Glasby, Aleksandra Gutkowska, Eliza Hague, Kin Leung, Rishi Krishan Mistry, Arshana Rajaratnam, Chung (Paul) Shu Wing, Joshua Spitter, Renzhi Zeng

THIS YEAR WE imagined and designed alternative programmes for the 5.69 square kilometres of territory earmarked to become the third runway for Heathrow airport.

of agriculture, industry and housing. While everyone’s individual projects are distinct, relations between them and with the neighbourhood are co-ordinated to some degree too. So together they form a hybrid cluster of interacting projects within an already complex territory. It is the result of individual imaginations, but also a lot of creative negotiation and group design.

At present the area, to the north and west of the airport, comprises a complex mixture of old villages, logistics infrastructure, farms, wilderness, gravel pits, landfill sites, cement works and more. People here have been living with uncertainty for many years now. Our plan envisages new environmentally-friendly industries and ways of life for this contested space other than airport expansion. We questioned: Where should the stuff we consume come from? How should cities relate to the country? What might productive villages look like in the future? Our brief asked everyone in the studio to identify a different site within the area and to develop a distinct programme for it. Each project includes different kinds

On our first site visit we went to see the Grow Heathrow settlement and Harmondsworth Great Barn. Both of these places raise profound questions about settlement formation and their influence is there in some of our designs. We used the word ‘desakota’ because of the way it brings together the idea of the village and the city and thus connects different scales. This project is dedicated to the memory of the recently evicted Grow Heathrow camp.

Guest Critics: Pierre d’Avoine, Toby Burgess, Kate Corder, Corinna Dean, Dusan Ducermic, Catherine Flood, Murray Fraser, Nasser Golzari, David Greene, Sean Griffiths, Ian Hunter, Gill Lambert, Jane McAllister, Stuart Piercy, Toby Shew, Alex Somerville, Mireille Tchapi, Igea Troiani, Tashia Tucker 194

Special Thanks: Many thanks to Anne Jaureguiberry and everyone in the Urban Design Studio at ENSAS Strasbourg!

DS12: Heathrow village plan showing economic interactions

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(left) Paul Chung Shu Wing: Fungi Factory Farm; (top right) Anissa Colaco Souza: Harmondsworth Ink Factory; (middle right) Aleks Gutkowska: Common Land Village; (bottom) Callum Bleasdale: Palm Oil Springs

(top) Antrea Antoniou: Heathrow Banania Section; (middle) Joshua Spitter: Avocado Farm & Houses

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(top) Tom Burberry: Plasmaville aerial view; (middle left) Isabel Briggs: Ring O Roses Perfume Factory; (middle right) Rishi Mistry: Weetome Village; (bottom) April Glasby: M25 Orbital Forest

(top) Renzhi Zeng: Quarry Paddy Village; (middle left) Rukhsar Zahid: Coop Co-op; (middle right) Dorothy Leung: Tea Farm Hamlet

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Thirteen

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

DS13: On Display Yr1: Larissa Angonese, Arvindaa Balamurugan, Shukri Bihi, Aldrin Estillore, Guilia Jemec, Areesha Khalid, Marianna Kyriakides, Tanzina Miah, Gabriele Pesciotti, Chatchpol Marty Pongtornphurt, Sandra Sidarous, Fatemeh Tajdivand, Thomas Vercoustre

Yr2: Kai Hin Law, Shing Yan Jonathan Ma, Raluca Maria Alexandra Rimboaca

THROUGHOUT HISTORY, DISEASE outbreaks have radically changed the city and the current pandemic is no exception. Despite calls for a return to normality, the city core continues to remain largely drained of people, all now working from home. What does this seemingly persistent exodus mean for the future of the city core as an urban genre? Or for the office as a building type? What does it mean for the future of work and our enjoyment of the city?

new aesthetics of nature entailing a fullness of experience and the construction of a new urban subjectivity.

Away from the central business district, the pandemic has prompted a retreat into the country, perceived as a healthy antidote to the congestion of the city core. This has prompted us to re-examine the notion of nature within the city and ask whether nature should be reclaimed as an urban construct. Current tendencies of greening the city remain limited to domestic appropriations of nature: greenwashing strategies (green walls) or material applications (timber). Resisting these approaches, we asked whether urban nature can be amplified to establish a

And what about architecture’s perhaps most persistent problem – the act of building itself and its ecological impact? Can the pandemic usher in a new moment of sustainable pragmatism where, instead of building new realities from scratch, we refashion the existing built fabric in a way that considers and expands upon the potentials of its inner anatomy? This year DS13 looked at the Square Mile, London’s financial district, endeavouring to propose alternatives for its buildings that depart from the mono-cultural schemas of floor-upon-floor of desk space. The students have reimagined the City’s buildings as hybrids between old and new, retained and proposed structures. Within their forms they have injected new constructs and have studied the myriad of interactions produced as a result.

Special Thanks: Marco Catena (Grimshaw), Mahmoud Chehab, Roger Cooper (ReOrient, Budapest), Yashin Kamel (APT), Jason Antony Sam (Hunters / Studio Toast), Xin Swift ( Zaha Hadid Architects), Larisa Tsydenova (Fosters + Partners) 200

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(clockwise from top left) Areesha Khalid; Gabriele Pesciotti; Marianna Kyriakides; Fatemah Tajdivand; Giulia Jemec

(clockwise from top left) Aldrin Estillore; Giulia Jemec; Tanzina Miah; Shukri Bihi; Shukri Bihi

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Fifteen

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

DS15: What’s the Point if We Can’t Have Fun? Yr1: Maryam Yasmin Khodaie, Daria Kushnir, Aesha Mehta, Joshua Ricketts, Clodagh Simons, Malgorzata Socha

Yr2: Sarah Al Abed, Hayley Garnham, Sophie Guneratne, William Lawton, Andreas Makris, Gemma Mohajer, William Rowe, Virosh Shan Samuel, Jacky Mbatchou Yomi, Filip Zientek

DS15 PURSUES SPECULATIVE design methodologies, making use of notation systems, chance operations, alternative ways of drawing and making, carried out collaboratively. We work in teams. We swap bits of work with each other. We act as each other’s clients and contractors. We refuse the notion of the individual ‘genius’ and encourage a dialogical approach to architecture.

institute for the study of old peoples’ health, and a centre for the integration of refugees. Big questions the groups had to deal with included: what to do with the cell blocks; what to do with the prison wall; and how to deal with the integration of a site of incarceration into the existing context and community.

The project set was to reuse and extend the existing buildings at Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London, a very difficult site architecturally, historically and psychologically. As well as dealing with existing buildings containing inflexible spaces, the studio was encouraged to reuse as much material as possible. The brief required residential accommodation, workspaces and a school, alongside additional facilities appropriate to the themes developed by each masterplan group. Groups responded by proposing ambitious programmes for a centre for the study of mycelium, a place of refuge for women, a medical

The groups have responded to the constraints and difficulties posed by the site and their chosen programmes with impressive inventiveness exhibited in very different but inspiring, radical transformations of the prison campus while maintaining the sense of its historical importance. Students have developed their conceptual skills, design consciousness, and a sense of the importance of detail, in thinking about the reuse of challenging buildings, knowledge which will stand them in good stead as architecture increasingly turns its attention to making the best of the embodied carbon that already surrounds us.

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Will Lawton, Aesha Mehta, Clodagh Simons & Filip Zientek: Medical Research Institute, Wormwood Scrubs, Masterplan

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(top) Gemma Mohajer: Mycelium Factory; (middle left) Andreas Makris: Notation; (centre middle) Yasmin Khodaie: Notation; (middle right) Hayley Garnham: Pebble Notation; (bottom left) Sarah Al Abed: Wall Study; (bottom right) Clodagh Simons: Wall Study

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(Clockwise from top left) Daria Kushnir: Wall Study; Jacky Yomi Mbatchou: Brick study; Malgorzata Socha: Notation; Joshua Ricketts: Psilocybin Clinic; Will Rowe: Cill reuse schedule

Will Lawton: Housing for Elderly People, Medical Research Institute, Wormwood Scrubs

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Sixteen

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, and winner of several awards including the Stephen Lawrence Prize. Stuart Piercy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and founding director of the acclaimed craft-dedicated practice Piercy&Company. Callum Perry is a DS16 graduate from 2014, a designer/ fabricator and architect at Piercy&Company. DS16 offers students an advanced platform for experimentation of architecture that is rooted in practice and inspired by bold concepts and a culture of making.

DS16: Versatile City Yr1: Zadee Garrigue, Duncan Keeling, Hamza Khan, Thomas Simmons, Alcan Zekia

Yr2: Daniel Atkinson, Ben Dart, Simon Dendere, Rebecca Gardner, Maria Garvey, Christina Gelagotellis, Connie Latham, Owen Nagy, Tobias Pullen, Isaac Read, Bryn Reynolds, Tia Shaker

DS16 CONTINUES TO engage with cultures of materials and techniques of making to inform critical and inventive architectural responses within specific social, cultural, political, economic and environmental contexts. This year, under quite challenging circumstances, we’ve adapted to experimenting with different modes of learning and collaboration with significantly limited means for making.

printing press on Shad Thames, a personalised windlass for a Regent’s Canal lock, a performative macramé garment for Greenwich Peninsula, and a hybrid castable shoe last for Cordwainer’s Ward.

The theme of this year was Versatile City and we used London as our platform. Students were asked to speculate intelligent and imaginative designs in response to the shifting conditions of the city before, during and after the public health crisis when the versatility of urban centres has obtained a heightened relevance. We started this journey in the first semester with a project entitled Playing the City, which challenged the students to research, conceive, create and install small, joyful and elicit artefacts or interventions for key places in London that resonate with their users in the current environment. With restricted access to materials and workshops, students created, either individually or in pairs, a series of compelling, inventive and well-crafted pieces on a variety of sites. The collection included a pop-up

Many students brought the themes and research of the first project into their main individual project thesis, writing their own briefs, selecting their own sites and devising their own programmes. They sought to imagine a more reactive and holistically sustainable and civil city. This gave the opportunity to question traditional norms and to invent unorthodox programmes and typologies to facilitate the continued use and/or re-use of the city and its civic soul – in its streets, squares, theatres, churches, galleries, etc. The question was how do we resourcefully rescue urban civic life and the threatened institutions and places that support it? And what modes can be deployed to adapt or create new building typologies for the short and long term? This year the normal array of physical models and 1:1 components being made was broadly substituted by a more digital spatial, technical and experiential resolution, at times represented by the hand-made, the hand-drawn and film.

Guest Critics: Robert Beeny (Piercy&Co), Harry Bucknell (Piercy&Co), Matteo Cainer (MCA), Harry Charrington, Murray Fraser (UCL), Yannis Halkiopolous (Piercy&Co), Guan Lee (Grymsdyke Farm), Yeoryia Manolopoulou (AY Architects), Will McLean, Jack Newton (RSHP), Al Scott (If_Do), Liam Spencer (ThirdWay Architecture), Michiko Sumi (KPF), Robert Thum (Hochschule Trier), St John Walsh (Alder Architects) 212

Special Thanks: To Drawing Matter for an insightful virtual tour of Shatwell Farm and inspiring drawing workshop

(clockwise from top left) Connie Latham: Enderby Wharf Macramé Harness; Duncan Keeling: Mobile Garden Seed Bomber; Maria Garvey: PLA and Wood Chip Resign Lasts; Thomas Simmons: Re-imagining the Regent’s Canal Windlass; Zadee Garrigue: Bollard Terrarium Seat; Bryn Reynolds: A Brown Betty for Woolwich; Tobias Pullen: Vessels of the Thames Cast

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Maria Garvey: London City Cordwainer’s Consortium – Site overview

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(top) Bryn Reynolds: The New Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society Woolwich – Models of three self-build typologies; (middle & bottom) Tobias Pullen: The Thames Mitten Crab Fishery and Research Centre – Development model, and Cross-section/elevation at low tide

(left) Connie Latham: Enderby Pier Ropery – Illustration of the ropewalk interior (top); Cross section through the tidal zone, ropewalk/pier and cofferdam (bottom); (right) Benjamin Dart: Focolaccia Quarry Sculptor’s Refuge Carrara, Italy – Illustration of sculptor workshops and accommodation

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Eighteen

John Cook, Ben Pollock & Laura Nica John Cook is an architect and research associate at Monsoon Assemblages, developing tools to process, analyse and visualise a range of global-scale physical and climatic observational and modelled data centred around three cities within the South Asian Monsoon context. Ben Pollock is an architect and co-founder of 4D Island, a research collective investigating sustainable development and climate adaptation. Laura Nica is an architect and digital designer at Giles Miller Studio. Her broader interests extent to material research, digital fabrication and simulation tools.

DS18: Air, Architecture + Other Climates: Carbon Transitions Yr1: Chantal Barnes, Gary Chan, Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky, Justyna Lesny, Muhtasim Mojnu, Sulman Muhammad

Yr2: Seni Agunpopo, Nikhil Berwal, Denise Carcangiu, Seungmin Lee, Katarzyna Maskowicz, Hannah Pinsent, Elizabeth Terry, Almudena Tesorero, Jamie Williams, Helen Windsor

THE CONTEXT OF our global climate and ecological emergency provides the foundation for all DS18 investigations. We use the architectural project as a tool to test the effects of changing environmental processes upon life and design, and to communicate and represent these intangible and entangled global issues to new audiences in new ways. We aim to ground projects through directed and critical research using data, experimental diagrams, cartographic imaginations and computational tools in order to record, analyse and communicate the connections between the vast assemblage of project themes, scales, actors, processes and material.

Our research led us to study carbon as a transformative entity, one whose state shifts from solid fuel to airbased toxin, to, increasingly, a quantifiable and tradeable commodity. We tracked its pathways and transitions between state, material type, energy and value – but also considered carbon as a spatial organiser, a cultural driver, and political/economic agent.

The studio continues to explore these issues through the lens of air; examining its role as the vehicle of energies, moistures and toxins, whilst imagining ways that architecture could shape, be shaped by, or integrate with this invisible globally circulating matter. This year DS18 continued this exploration, whilst narrowing our focus to one of air’s more negligible but most critical ingredients – both the ‘building block of life’ and measure of our climatic decline: carbon.

The site for our investigations this year returned us to the UK at a highly critical juncture. As pressures to revive the post-Covid economy and secure future trade relations rely on the values of industrial advancement and commercial growth, what approach does this take in our time of climatic and ecological degradation? With carbon usage and practices so embedded and generative of our built environment and behaviour, what does de-carbonisation mean in this context, and what scales of change does this call for? Through this, what opportunities emerge for new societal frameworks, rural/urban configurations, landscape/ architectural typologies, based upon new relationships to energy origins, access and usage? www.designstudio18.com / @ds18_westminster

Guest Critics: Alessandro Ayuso, Tom Benson (Senseable City LAB, MIT), Anthony Boulanger, Lindsay Bremner (Monsoon Assemblages), Toby Burgess, Finbar Charleson (dRMM + AA Wood Lab), Katie Dechow ( Jo Cowen Architects), Mitesh Dixit (DOMAIN Office/Columbia GSAPP), Charity Edwards (Monash University), François Girardin, Fiona Grieve (Scott Brownrigg), Dhruv Gulabchande (HFM/Narrative Practice), Andrea Jipa (ETH Zurich), Andrew Korner (University of Innsbruck), Constance Lau, Andrew Madl (UTK Landscape Architecture), James Mak (dRMM), Oscar McDonald (Space Syntax), Fraser Morrison (Future Fields), Christina Nan (Future Fields/TU/e), Michael O’Hanlon (DSDHA), Matt Rosier (Artist), Geoff Shearcroft, Calvin Sin (SCI-Arc), Iulia Stefan (AA Ground Lab), Vlad Tenu (AHMM), Alice Thompson (MATA Architects), Rachel Wakelin (GBY), Ed Wall (University of Greenwich), Andrew Yau 218

Special Thanks: Ben Ashby & Shahid Padhani (Advanced Digital Engineering Group, Arup) Jamie Williams: The Atlas of the Carbon Economy

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Elizabeth Terry: Decolonising Balmoral, Scotland – Carbon monitoring station & The Caledonian rewilding outpost

Seni Agunpopo: Peat Recovery Facility – The Flow Country, Scotland

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(top) Almudena Tesorero: Anthropogenic cooperative for construction waste; (middle) Denise Carcangiu: Inflatable carbon capture & storage platform; (bottom) Helen Windsor: Mission Astraea – Orbital circular economies, Cornwall

(top left) Seugmin Lee: Soil Remediation and Paper Park; (top right) Hannah Pinset: Fashioning the Waste Climate – Retrofitting Debenhams, Great Yarmouth; (bottom left) Daria Donovetsky: The Cloud Factory, Swansea; (bottom right) Muhtasim Mojnu: Simulated water cycles and kinetic morphologies

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Twenty-One

Gill Lambert & Geoff Shearcroft Gill Lambert & Geoff Shearcroft practice together at award-winning practice AOC Architecture. 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 developing the civic infrastructure for Whitecliffe, Ebbsfleet, including a new landmark building where essential public services are co-located with cultural organisations to help nurture a dynamic public life for the Garden City’s evolving community.

DS21: Big Civic Yr1: Elise Billings-Evans, Babita Cooper, Kelsie Cummins, Pippa Oakes, Elena Oliinyk, Setareh Nosrati, Georgia Roberts, Cristina Sarla, Dominik Scigala Yr2: Rojda Aslan, Olivia Britten, Daryl Dlodlo, Hana Jamshed, Makbule Karadag, Leila Khadem

DS21 IS CONCERNED with people, places and politics. For new communities the relationship between the hardware of spaces and buildings and the software of social and cultural processes is complex and dependent, with both benefitting from concurrent proposition, testing and evolution. The studio focused on Ebbsfleet Garden City, a 19th century invention superimposed on a 21st century post-industrial landscape. By combining the forms, materials and myths of the existing landscape with speculative new forms of social interaction we aimed to create useful and meaningful civic infrastructures for the evolving city of 60,000 people. We began by exploring the potential for individuals to make their mark on the landscape. Initial mark-making experiments in the confines of the home expanded into the surrounding neighbourhood with public impacts recorded in photographs and film. The first design for Ebbsfleet was a mark in the landscape, a prominent intervention that celebrated and defined the collective character of the new garden city.

We collectively explored the continuum of city making defined by the High Speed 1 ‘Javelin’ trains, connecting Kings Cross, Stratford, Ashford, Canterbury and Paris. Precise mapping of the existing landscape allowed bold proposals, sampling cities to create new forms of 30-minute walkable cities centred on Ebbsfleet International Station. Collective proposals for new Ebbsfleet Garden City – physical, social and cultural – created a context for individual designs in a place with a collage of intense inhabitation and unoccupied quarries. Each student identified local, regional and national organisations to co-locate in the new city. Contemporary challenges and political events informed their reimagining of the brief for a large scale civic infrastructure. Designs bounced between XL and XS, testing ideas at the scale of the city and body. The evolution of the studio’s conversations from making simple marks in the soil through to city-scale propositions and user-focused design created a diversity of individual architectures that collectively define a new joyful, civic vision for Ebbsfleet.

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(top) Georgia Ward, Cristina Sarla & Dominik Scigala: Ebbsfleet Monuments

(top left) Elena Oliinyk, Rojda Aslan & Hasan Jamshed: The Playful City;(top right) Makbule Karadag: A Journey Through Play and Grounds; (bottom left) Pippa Oakes: Ebbsfleet Valley Observation Tower; (bottom right) Georgia Roberts: The Most Exciting Lorry Park in History

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facing page (top left) Dominik Scigala: Garden of Earthly Delights; (top right) Babita Cooper: The Waterfront City; bottom) Elise BillingsEvans: Amphibious Ebbsfleet; (this page) Kelsie Cummins: Return to the Marshes

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(top left) Leila Khadem: The Ebbsfleet Centre of Excellence for Food Sustainability; (top right) Daryl Dlodo: New Ebbsfleet Station; (bottom) Olivia Britten: Cidertheque; (opposite) Elena Oliinyk: Ebbsfleet RAVEcovery Centre 228

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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, and their Design Studio, DS22, at the University of Westminster. Golzari and Sharif have won a number of prestigious awards including the 2013 Agha Khan Award, 2014 Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction, and 2013 & 2016 RIBA President’s Award for Research. The way they run the studio is very similar to how they run the practice, with a combination of design, drawings, testing and making.

DS22: The Shrinking City: A Resilient Collective for the ‘Invisible Other’ Yr1: Perrine Cenier, Gergana Georgieva, Manuela Manjarrez, Bianca Turnea, Frederick Yates

Yr2: Ceri Natsuki Baxter, Trixie Bedwei-Majdoub, Neguine Boumedine, Sharaye Campbell, Jake Cripwell, Shahriar Doha, Ceri Shayan Gamouri, Varsha Raji, Yagmur Sil, Wesley Stone, Laura Walton, Savannah Williams

THIS YEAR, DS22 tried to radically rethink our cities and our way of living beyond the limitations of our private homes. We wanted to critique how work invaded our home and how the myth of ‘comfort’ resulted in a shrink and squeeze of the collective space in favour of the private. We explored Resilient Collectives to challenge the status of our current isolation and disconnection from our surroundings. We interrogated new models of inhabiting the city while promoting solidarity, participation and collective acts; models that start from home and expand to include the street, the neighbourhood and the ‘invisible other’.

The lockdown has made our streets, neighbourhoods and workspaces ‘voids’ – open for reinterpretation, available for re-appropriation and change. Equally, the return of the birds, children reclaiming the streets and the sense of solidarity that emerged, all suggest that the change for a better world can be possible if there is a collective act and a will for change. The studio started with imaginary scenarios to exaggerate the Shrinking Cities of London, Berlin and Paris. These later lead to the main design project where the students reconstructed their architectural narratives for collectives.

While Covid-19 has exposed the current absurdities, it equally opened up possibilities to re-read and re-inhabit our cities with a new perspective.

Guest Critics: Alessandro Ayuso, Angela Brady (Brady Mallalieu Architects), Philip Breese (Weston Williamson), Andrew Carr (Brady Mallalieu Architects), John Cook, François Girardin, Denisa Groza (Singleart Design and Architecture), Iman Keaik, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Ina Nuzi, Ciaran O’Brien (Red Deer Architects), Neda Soltani, Camilla Wilkinson, Sun Yan Yee (Grimshaw) 230

Special Thanks: Ciaran O’Brien (Red Deer Architects), Leopold Lambert (The Funambulist), Alejandro Abreu, Rim Kalsoum, Thomas Riddle-Webster and Neda Soltani, for their valuable input during the academic year. Jake Cripwell: The Creeping Seaweed

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(top & centre) Wesley Stone: Neues Berlin; (bottom) Yagmur Sil: Bioplastic Seed Collective

(top) Ceri Bexter: While You Wait; (bottom) Neguine Boumediene: Spree Comics

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(clockwise from top leftt) Trixie Bedwei-Majdoub: Women Collecting ; Bianca Turnea: Voids of Kensington; Gergana Georgieva: The Garden Shed; Frederick Yates: Self Build Collective; Varsha Raji: Ruins as a Garden

(top) Savannah Williams: Familiar Home; (bottom left) Perrine Cenier: The Cloud City; (bottom right) Sharaye Campbell: Bridging Paris

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Twenty-Three

Richard Difford, François Girardin & David Scott DS23 is led by three experienced tutors each of whom brings a different set of skills and knowledge: Richard Difford is an academic with expertise both in creative technologies and architectural history. His teaching focuses on architectural representation, the history of science and mathematics, and the use of electronics and coding in architectural design. François Girardin has extensive international experience in architecture and is currently involved in teaching design and cultural context. He has specialist interests in material technologies and digital fabrication. David Scott is an academic and Director of the Fabrication Lab. His interests are in the transformative application of digital technologies to architectural design.

DS23: Tilbury of the Future: Technology, Landscape and the Port of Tilbury Yr1: Shirin Azizi, Ali Cadir, Karine Cholet, Lisa Daniel, Mariia Galiullina, Molly Harper, Moin Mahomad Rafik, Emili Moner de Luque, Ruta Perminaite, Thibaut Poeuf, Ryan Pohan, Volha Prus, Nicholas Tsangaris

Yr2: Kiesse Andre, Finlay Johnson, Lauren Polesel

IN DS23 THIS year we set our sights on Tilbury, in Essex. From the sixteenth-century fort, to protected marshlands and a busy port, this is an area rich in history and supporting a complex ecosystem both natural and manmade. Using the port as a focus, we looked closely at the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for this area. As we quickly discovered, Tilbury docks and environs provide a host of different terrains and socio-economic contexts with which to engage. Our projects would need to address both landscape and commerce in equal measure.

economic and political complexity; not only around logistics and borders but also in terms of the diverse programmatic requirements it demands. A proposed free port worth £4.5 billion, and the free-trade zone which that implies, also gave us pause for thought. This, then, was not just about goods and shipping but the whole gamut of social and cultural life a port requires and supports.

From the start, the loss of natural wildlife habitat, climate change and the threat of rising sea levels featured strongly in our research. A landscape sculpted by military engineering, agriculture and industry; and yet with the potential for rewilding or adaptation for a greener and more sustainable future. Meanwhile, the presence of the port, and the nearby London Gateway Port, offered

Looking to the future we also explored the impact of new technologies on every aspect of our lives and the innovative projects that emerged aim to capitalise on the opportunities presented by programmes including alternative forms of energy and power generation, bioengineering, and cryptocurrency. Considered both as technical detail, and at the scale of the urban or natural landscape, these schemes attempt to reconcile the inevitable realities of a technological future with the need for sustainable solutions.

Guest Critics: Anthony Boulanger (AY Architects), Elantha Evans, Laura Nica, Yara Sharif, Dan Wilkinson, Andrew Yau 236

) Lisa Daniel: Tilcoin, Tilbury cryptocurrency

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(top) Ruta Perminaite: Tilbury’s Flood Barrier; (bottom) Volha Prus: The Art Free Port

Emilio Moner de Luque: Marshland Research Centre

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(top) Nicholas Tsangaris: Tilbury Coffee Production; (bottom) Fin Johnson: Self-sustaining Tilbury

(top) Molly May Harper: From Rubbish to Riches – Waste to energy plant; (bottom) Mariia Galiullina: Bioresearch Study Centre

MArch Architecture | Design Studio Twenty-Five

Alessandro Ayuso, Daniel Wilkinson & Fiona Zisch Alessandro Ayuso is Senior Lecturer whose studio-based practice and research focus on the intersection of representation, architecture and the body. Daniel Wilkinson is an architectural designer and researcher whose work probes the intersections of figural and architectural practice. Fiona Zisch works across architecture and neuroscience. She is curious about the relation between design intuition and radical embodiment and explores reciprocities and analogies of internal and external world-making.

DS25: Architecture’s Second Bodies Yr1: Adriaan Baldwin, Oscar Brown, Leila Jahic, Asena Koksal, Joanna Bo Kei Leung, Unnati Mankad, Isabel Mills Lyle, Aaron Spiers-Reed, Megan Woods

Yr2: Akmaral Khassen, Laura Kershaw, Ryan Kyberd, Leah Roberts, Olga Smoili, Anastasia Tsamitrou, Alexandros Tzortzis de Paz

TAKING FROM DAISY HILDYARD’S notion, we began this year by considering the idea of the second body, everything that is our body that is not our physical selves: our microbiomes, our virtual images, our networks of social interaction, the local and disparate impacts of the economic transactions we establish.

The final projects in the studio imagined how critical issues might play out in the future, and provoked ideas of fantastical and sometimes outrageous architectural scenarios. For instance, a project exploring notions of purity started with an idea of a second body who is an allergen fetishist; the proposal is a pollutant filtration station which not only purifies the air in and around St Paul’s Cathedral, but also doubles as a chapel of hedonism where allergen fetishists indulge in rituals of perverse pleasure. Another project exploring links between culture and sustainability was driven by narratives of a second body who is a cyborgian reincarnation of JMW Turner; the project proposes a public space and energy plant adjacent to Somerset House where weather is curated and harnessed for aesthetic and sensorial effects, engaging and educating the public on the potential for weather elements to generate sustainable energy.

Each student designed their own second body figure through the hybridisation of a nonhuman agent, an architectural precedent, and themselves. Through honing the design of the figure through drawing, 3D scanning and motion capture, the second bodies became alter-egos which helped to generate particular points of view and initiate architectural explorations at the juncture of the human and nonhuman realms. Seeing through the eyes of the second body and taking from the Situationists and Surrealists, the storyboarding of urban drifts through London revealed sites for the design and location of Mediating Objects. These architectural fragments, mediating between second bodies and the city, became seeds for building proposals.

Guest Critics: Ava Aghakouchak, Matteo Cainer (Matteo Cainer Architecture), Boon Yik Chung (KPF), Ines Dantas (WUDA*), William Haskas (plusFARM), Lauriane Hewes (Carpenter & Clay), Hanadi Izzudin (Arup), Maria Konstantopoulou ( Jan Kattein Architects), Harry Matthews (TFF Architects), Shaden Meer (Origin Architects), Franco Pisani (Franco Pisani Architetto), Sylwia Janka Poltorak (Lobster Enterprises), Nat Reading (AK Patterson), Peter Silver, Mika Zacharias (Morrow + Lorraine Architects) 242

Special Thanks: Martyna Marciniak (Forensic Architecture)

Alexandros Tzortzis de Paz: View of St Paul’s Cathedral Purification Chapel

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(top left) Akmaral Khassen: Altar elevation; (top right) Aaron Spiers-Reed: View of Design-Build + Theatre School under construction; (middle right) Olga Smoili: 1:50 charcoal section drawing process; (bottom right) Olga Smoili: Section drawing of the Weather Study Towers

Laura Kershaw: 1:50 section of the Butoh Arts Centre

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(clockwise from left) Anastasia Tsamitrou: Stills from ‘Second Body Transformation’ film; Oscar Brown: Cinematic drawing of urban drift and OQUUM measuring device; Megan Woods: Panels from her ‘1926’ graphic novel

Ryan Kyberd: Arboricultural Forest School on the Mall – Squirrel’s eye view drawing

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Vasilija Abramović

Anthony Boulanger

Tomazs Dancel-Fiszer

Anna Gillies

Caroline Jackson

Wilfred Achille

Luke Bowler

Christopher Daniel

François Girardin

Josef Jammerbund

Yota Adilenidou

Lindsay Bremner

Ana de Oliveira Araujo

Inan Gokcek

Kate Jordan

Sam Aitkenhead

Florian Brillet

Corinna Dean

Nasser Golzari

Maja Jovic

Dimah Ajeeb

Christopher Bryant

Dusan Decermic

Joana Goncalves

Gabriel Kakanos

Rachel Aldred

Kevin Burchell

Luis Delgado Munoz

Anne Graham

Ripin Kalra

Roudaina Al Khani

Toby Burgess

Nigel Dennis

Alisdair Gray

Rim Kalsoum

Julian Allen

Mengqiu Cao

Davide Deriu

Sean Griffiths

Krystallia Kamvasinou

Ana Araujo

Paolo Cascone

Zoe Diakaki

Thomas Grove

Iman Keaik

Ian Arnott

Harry Charrington

Richard Difford

Eric Guibert

Neil Kiernan

Gulru Arvas

Hayley Chivers

Ursula Dimitriou

Gerald Gurtner

Jennifer Kingston

Alessandro Ayuso

Cristina-Raluca Cirstoc

Lucy Dinnen

Michael Guy

Michael Kloihofer

James Baldwin

Tom Cohen

Christopher Dite

Johannes Hagan

Maria Kramer

Mark Bannister

Stanley Cohen

Izabela Dozic Frost

Jonathan Hall

Simona Krasauskiene

Peter Barber

Stroma Cole

Kirti Durelle

Clare Hamman

Frances Kremarik

Tessa Barraclough

Jim Coleman

Liz Ellston

Eleni Han

Debby Kuypers

Scott Batty

Hannah Constantine

Elisa Engel

Lindsey Hanford

Diony Kypriaou

Susanne Bauer

Andrew Cook

Bill Erickson

Stephen Harty

Gillian Lambert

Nick Beech

John Cook

Elantha Evans

Matthew Haycocks

Constance Lau

Carine Berger

Paul Cook

Helen Farrell

Holly Hayward

Benson Lau

Alastair Blyth

Matthew Cousins

Tumpa Fellows

Andrzej Hewanicki

Chung-Tai Lau

Stefania Boccaletti

Jonathan Coventry

Stefanie Fischer

Claire Humphreys

Chantal Laws

Mehrdad Borna

Brian Crawford

Annette Fisher

Louise Humphreys

Katherine Leat

Roberto Bottazzi

Robin Crompton

Riccardo Fregoni

Edward Ihejirika

Dirk Lellau

Hocine Bougdah

Paul Crosby

Suzanne Gaballa

Clare Inkson

Jacques Leonardi

Hocine Bougdah

Beth Cullen

Carlton Gajadhar

Bruce Irwin

Chris Leung

Andrew Boughton

Miriam Dall’Igna

Christina Geros

Sho Ito

Gwyn Lloyd

Tony Lloyd-Jones

Natalie Newey

Anthony Powis

Angus Smith

Jean Wang

Ian Lowden

Andreea-Laura Nica

James Purchon

Paul Smith

Richard Warwick

Lola Lozano Lara

Johannes Novy

Kartikeya Rajput

Neda Soltani

Richard Watson

Evangelia Magnisali

Jennifer O’Riordan

Kester Rattenbury

Joana Soares Goncalves

Victoria Watson

Arthur Mamou-Mani

John O’Shea

Lucy Reader

Ro Spankie

Zhenzhou Weng

Balveer Mankia

Alice Odeke

Federico Redin

Afolabi Spence

Jamie Whelan

Tony Manzi

Jamie Ogilvie

Lara Rettondini

Michael Spooner

Andrew Whiting

Andrei Martin

Chiara Orefice

Paul Richens

Emmanuel Stellakis

Camilla Wilkinson

David Mathewson

Samir Pandya

Katy Roberts

Kenneth Stevens

Daniel Wilkinson

Warren McFadden

Enrica Papa

Irene Roca Moracia

Nancy Stevenson

Elizabeth Wilks

William McLean

Ilaria Pappalepore

Michael Rose

Rachel Stevenson

Julian Williams

Alison McLellan

Paresh Parmar

Shahed Saleem

Bernard Stilwell

Nicholas Willson

Michael McNamara

Deborah Pearce

Izis Salvador Pinto

Ben Stringer

Johan Woltjer

Joanna Meehan

Mirna Pedalo

Rosa Schiano-Phan

Allan Sylvester

Jonathan Wong

Marina Mersiadou

Marianne Pedersen

Amedeo Scofone

Jane Tankard

Allan Woodburn

Tabatha Mills

Diana Periton

David Scott

Graham Tanner

Andrew Yau

Stuart Mills

Emma Perkin

Robert Scott

Mireille Tchapi

Paolo Zaide

Fatemeh Mohamadi

Ross Perkin

David Seex

Adam Thwaites

John Zhang

Md Mohataz Hossain

Callum Perry

Yara Sharif

Alessandro Toti

Fiona Zisch

James Morgan

Sue Phillips

Peter Sharratt

Cristina-Alexandra Trifan

Sadie Morgan

Catherine Phillips

Geoffrey Shearcroft

Sophie Ungerer

Rebecca Mortimore

Maja Piecyk

Conor Sheehan

Juan Vallejo

Rachel Moulton

Stuart Piercy

Elite Sher

Chloe Van der Kindere

Bongani Muchemwa

Marzena Piotrowska

Sarah Shuttleworth

Giulio Verdini

Richa Mukhia

David Pitfield

Peter Silver

Filip Visnjic

Robert Nathan

Ben Pollock

Sumita Singha

Tsz Wai So

Michael Neumann

David Porter

Andrew Smith

Christine Wall

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5th Studio

Cooke Fawcett

Foster + Partners

AECOM

de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects

Foster Lomas Architects

AK Patterson

DSDHA

Franco Pisani Architetto

Alder Architects

ech2o Constultants Ltd

Future Fields

Alma-nac

Ecologic Studio

Grimshaw

APT

Eike Becker Architekten

Grymsdyke Farm

Architype

El Equipo Mazzanti

Gensler

Arup

Elliot Wood

Heatherwick Studio

Assemble Architects

Equinox

Herre Ferreira Architects

Atelier d’architecture autogérée

Facit Homes

HFM

AY Architects

Fielden Mawson Architects

Hilson Moran

Biohm

Fisher Cheng

Hopkins Architects

Boom Studio Architects

Flanagan Lawrence Architects

Hunters

BothAnd Group

Fletcher Priest Architects

If_Do

Brady Mallalieu Architects

Forensic Architecture

Innovate UK

Carpenter & Clay

Form Studio

Inside Out

CGLA

Format Engineering

Jan Kattein Architects

Jo Cowen Architects

MuDD Architects

Red Deer Architects

Studio Vulcanica

KA-A

muf architecture/art

Resi

TAK Architecture/Design

KP Acoustics Ltd

MVP Media

TAMAssociati

KPF

Narrative Practice

Retrofit Action For Tomorrow Retrouvius Reclamation & Design

Laing O’Rourke

Natural Builder

Rodrigues Associates

ThirdWay Architecture

Lobster Enterprises

Nicholas Pople Architects

Loyn + Co Architects

Nordic Architects

Lynch Architects

OMMX

MASS Design

Origin Architects

MATA Architects

Out of Order Design

Matteo Cainer Architecture

Paul Morgan Architects

Matter Architecture

PDP London

Matthew Lloyd Architects

Piercy&Co

Mick Pearce Architects

Pilbrow and Partners

Moll Architects

PiM.studio Architects

Morph Structures

plusFARM

Morrow + Lorraine Architects

Price & Myers

Ruimte Design Scott Brownrigg Architects Sheppard Robson Singleart Design and Architecture SNH Associates SOM Sophie Hicks Architects Space Syntax Studio Bark Studio Mash Studio Toast Studio Octopi

TFF Architects Thursday Works Tim Greatrex Architects Urban Generation Waugh Thistelton Weber Industries Wellstudio Architecture Weston Williamson WUDA* Zaha Hadid Architects ZED Studio

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