Dabe Yearbook 2015 by Department of Architecture and Built Environment Nottingham

YEARBOOK 2015 UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

YEARBOOK 2015 UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT Edited by Dr Katharina Borsi & Stuart Bacon Design by Stuart Bacon

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The DABE Yearbook 2015: Welcome from the Head of Department

Student Awards 2015

ARB/RIBA Part 1: BArch Architecture & MEng Architecture and Environmental Design

Introduction to the Part 1 Programme

Year 1.

Foundation Year: The Comprehensive Design Project

Unit 1a.

Forgotten Places

Unit 1b.

The Janus Condition: Continuity & Connectivity

Unit 2a.

Project Kagiso

Unit 2b.

Question. Consider. Explore. Make.

Unit 3a.

The Raw and the Cooked

Unit 3b.

[the] FOOD/preservation? [society]

Unit 4.

Dancing Shadows - Essential Spaces

Unit 5a.

In the Country of Last Things

Unit 5b.

Heterotopic Territories

BEng/MEng.Environmental Design of an Office Building

ARB/RIBA Part 2: MArch Architecture & DipArch Architecture

Introduction to the Part 2 Programme

Studio 1.

Urban Mediations

Studio 2.

MARS: Making Architecture Research Studio

Studio 3.

Narrative Space

Studio 4.

SUB Studio: Urban Explorations

Studio 5.

City Hacking

104

Studio 6.

HypAs: Hyperdensity Architecture Studio

110

Specialist Masters Studios

116

Introduction to the Specialist Masters Programmes

118

MArch Theory & Design: Beijing Zoo & Portable Science Camp

120

MArch Digital Architecture & Tectonics: Digital Architecture Studio

124

MArch Environmental Design: The Primer Project

128

MArch Environmental Design: Sustainable & Resilient Architecture

132

MArch Sustainable Tall Buildings: Tall Buildings Studio (Feng.Guang.Go).

136

MArch Sustainable Urban Design: Infusing the City

140

MArch Digital Technology & Tectonics: Space Enclosure Studio

144

DABE Life: Beyond the Studio

148

Architecture Matters Lecture Series

150

Tongue & Groove Student Society

152

Study Abroad Opportunities: The U21 Programme

154

DABE Field Trips 2015

156

DABE 2015 | Introduction | Contents

Contents

The DABE Yearbook 2015 Welcome from the Head of Department What happens if you bring together 700 talented students, about a quarter of whom are new to Nottingham (if not the UK), set them loose on challenging design briefs and support their endeavours with enthusiastic staff? A yearbook can only offer a snapshot of what happens next, but we hope this one offers you a clear picture of the diversity in approach taken across our programmes and the depth of creativity and rigour achieved by our students. If you are one of the students or staff involved in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities please accept my thanks for your contribution to what was an exciting and stimulating year. If you are a parent, I hope it provides a flavour of what your daughter or son was getting up to in Nottingham during 2014/15. For those considering joining one of our programmes, I hope it strengthens your interest in studying with us and for any potential employers, I am sure the Yearbook will confirm the strong reputation our graduates carry with them into practice. Dr Robin Wilson Head of Department

DABE 2015 | Introductions | Welcome

The prize giving ceremony at the DABE End of Year Show, June 2015. (Photo: Paolo Beccerelli)

Student Awards 2015 Sponsored Awards: AECOM Architectural Engineering 2nd Year of the Year: Shisheng Chen

Hoare Lee Architectural Engineering Design Award:

Abar Almoosawi; Mingchen Xu; and Zhong Liu

AECOM Architectural Engineering Dissertation Prize (BEng):

Huzaifa Chahwala and Trong Nhan Le (p142)

CPMG Presentation of Architecture Award: Sophie Barks (p20)

Foster and Partners Architecture Prize: Alexander Balchin (p114)

Yuqi Pan

Price Myers Integration of Advanced Engineering in Studio Design Award:

AECOM Architectural Engineering Dissertation Prize (MEng):

StGobain MSc Prize:

Kaitlin Allen and Catherin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary

Hana Barnes

Maria Maresa Munfoz Morales

Hoare Lee Architectural Engineering Graduate of the Year:

Purcell Adaptive Reuse and Contextual Design in Architecture Award:

Blueprint Sustainability Prize:

Portfolio Prizes:

Jon Fairburn (p25)

Saskia Collins (p27)

The Council for Aluminium Undergraduate Tectonics Prize:

Stuart Bacon (p82)

Canary Wharf Portfolio Prize (Year 1): Kangli Zheng (p14)

Sophie Banks (p20)

Purcell Portfolio Prize (Year 2):

The Council for Aluminium Postgraduate Tectonics Prize:

Bennoy Portfolio Prize (Year 3):

Philip Noone (p89-90)

Josh Mallins and Michael McGuiness Martynas Vielavicius and Ryan Lam (p43)

The NETTA Tectonics Award (Timber):

Bennoy Portfolio Prize (MEng):

The LaFarge Tectonics Award (Concrete):

Marsh Growchowski Portfolio Prize (Year 5):

Philippa Grayson (p99-100)

Kristian Bjerre (p107) 6

Canary Wharf Sustainable Tall Buildings Prize:

Jon Fairburn (p25)

Anthony Grout (p91)

Thank you to all our supporters for sponsoring this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awards, and congratulations to all our Prize Winners.

DABE 2015 | Introductions | Student Awards 2015

CPMG Portfolio Prize (Year 6): James Bishop (p101)

StGobain Portfolio Prize (MArch): Chengling Sheng (p113/137)

Department Prizes: The RIBA Part 3 Student of the Year: Richard Pulford

Shaw Award for Student Contribution: Jake Lenahan and Anthony Grout (p91)

Creative Writing Prize: Eleanor Jolliffe (p85)

Urban Design Group Urban Design and Context Prize: Elen Vafeadou (p102)

Architectural Studies Award: Olivia Hastings

RIBA Medal Prizes: RIBA Bronze Medal Nomination:

Alex Bradley (p52) and Sophie Barks (p20)

RIBA Silver Medal Nomination:

Jamie Brown (p88) and Charlotte Simpson (p93-96)

Tom Davison, BArch Unit 3b Year 2 Final Review, May 2015 (Photo: Warren McFadden)

ARB/RIBA Part 1 BArch Architecture & MEng Architecture and Environmental Design

ARB/RIBA Part 1 BArch Architecture & MEng Architecture and Environmental Design Course Coordinator David Short

The Bachelor of Architecture and the MEng in Architecture & Environmental Design undergraduate courses at Nottingham are structured around a holistic approach to architectural education based on the two fundamental qualities of creativity and technique; a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;creative rigourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Of particular note this year, was that the Department took a decision to engage in its region by working with real clients. Opportunities arose to work with a community group in Beeston, Waleda in Ilkeston and the NHS at the City Hospital in Nottingham. All involved students designing discrete projects for real clients in the real world. Year 1 students, working alongside a local community group, were able to consider ideas for the regeneration of part of the town centre site in Beeston, post tram works. Year 2 again was notable because of the design and delivery of the South African Project. Now in its 5th year another group of dedicated students designed, raised money and then built a small series of nursery teaching spaces in South Africa under the dedicated leadership of John Ramsay and Alison Davies. Amongst the many choices that our year 2 studios were offered was the opportunity to work with the NHS Nottingham City Hospital Orthopaedic Unit on the provision of a new administrative hub, whilst Unit 5B worked with the Weleda group on their site just outside of Nottingham on a new small education building. Field study trips to enable students to experience buildings at first hand are considered important components of the course. The year 1 week long field study went to Paris in November and again this was paid for by the Department. Year 3 students also went off later in the year to a number of European destinations for three day study trips, again paid for by the Department. This last year has seen our strongest set of studio results across both year 1 and year 2. Over this last and the previous years, it is pleasing to note that our graduating students have also achieved perhaps the highest level of attainment that we have seen in recent years with 75% & 78% respectively, of the graduating cohort, being awarded either a 2:1 or 1st class degree. Congratulations are due to all involved. Our students continue to be well thought of within the profession and leave us as thoughtful, creative and imaginative individuals, who are able to contribute to society through the proficient practice of architecture or by working in another industry. This year our graduates have been working with top UK practices including Rogers Stirk Harbour, Foster & Partners, Wilkinson Eyre, Hopkins Architects and Cullinan Studio. With the improving performance of our students across years 1 and 2, we are perhaps beginning to see the dividends of changes to the structure and quality of the delivery of teaching. The next few years could be very interesting.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Introduction

Year 1 Year Leader Liz Bromley Unit Leaders Unit 1 Valeria Carnevale Unit 2 Rachel Grigor Unit 3 Liz Bromley Unit 4 Derek Trowell Unit 5 Jeffrey Keays Visiting Practitioners Annie Duquemin Ben Hopkins Alex Fenton Andy Thomas John Newbery Matt McKenna Dhiran Vagdia Paul Grey Ana Moldavsky Philip Etherington Tom Bennett PhD & Year 6 Tutors Jing Yang Eleanor Jolliffe Toby Gilding Benjamin Youd Mina Tahsiri Charlotte Simpson Philip Noone Joshua Jones Tom Bradley Jamie Brown James Bishop Jiayi Jin Kristian Bjerre Stuart Bacon Alexander Balchin Xin Jin Joshua Hovey Laura Sheridan Alfred Roden

Foundation Year: The Comprehensive Design Project The first year is a foundation and qualifying year at the University of Nottingham for both Architecture (B.Arch) students and Architecture and Environmental Design (M.Eng) students. It is a studio based module within which the fundamental principles of architectural design are taught, tested and developed through a series of design projects. The studio module is year-long and runs for 25 weeks, with two full days of tutoring per week. The year is divided into five units, each unit having a full-time Unit Leader (listed below), assisted by visiting practitioners, Ph.D. students and Year 6 Diploma students. The students entering Year 1 each have very different sets of skills and levels of understanding related to the study of architecture. The foundation year is designed to be a gradual process of learning and development, with each project building on the project before, and being designed to test the students’ skills in each of the key areas of architectural education. The academic year starts with the ‘Tour de Pasenville’, a project created by our former Visiting Professor, Ted Cullinan, of Edward Cullinan Architects. The ‘Pasenville’ is a fast paced, action packed design project in which students from Years 1, 5 and 6 work together to produce the design for a building in two days. It is an exciting project and a great introduction to the world of architecture for Year 1 students. The studio programme comprises five stages: Stage 1 - ‘Foundation One’ is an initial five weeks of observation, drawing, sketching, model making and skills development, based on short practical exercises, and culminating in a six day field study trip to either Amsterdam or Paris. Stage 2 - ‘Design Integration One’ applies and tests the skills acquired in ‘Foundation One’ in a five week exercise to design a studio and optimal living working space for an artist or sculptor. Stage 3 -‘Foundation Two’ is a further two weeks of skills building. Stage 4 - ‘Design Integration Two’ is the final project of the year. It is an eleven week design project that integrates all the knowledge and experience of all the previous stages in the design of a building in the City of Nottingham. Students choose from one of five projects whose themes are all based on ‘community’ to bring like minded people together to share an interest and ‘fostering enterprise’ to help people starting out in their careers. Stage 5 - ‘The Portfolio Review’ assesses how well the students have progressed throughout the year and whether they have acquired the skills needed to pass to the second year of their course. In addition to learning the fundamental architectural principles of creating a building that responds to the needs of a specific client and a given site, the studio module also places great emphasis on teaching students to communicate their ideas and design intentions clearly and effectively through drawings, models and verbal presentations. The integration of taught modules within studio plays an important role in Year One, with Environmental Design, Architectural Humanities, Construction, Structures, and Integrated Design in Architecture contributing to and being tested within the studio projects at various points throughout the year. The projects shown on the following pages display student’s work (from previous years) for Stage 4 – the Comprehensive Design Project – undertaken in the Spring semester.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Year 1

01 Fig 01. Kangli Zheng. Comprehensive Design Project, Urban Retreat.

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04 Fig 02-04. Kangli Zheng. Comprehensive Design Project, Urban Retreat. Winner: Canary Wharf Portfolio Award (Year 1)

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Year 1

07 Fig 05-07. Daniel Norman. Comprehensive Design Project, Performance Space.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Year 1

13 Fig 09. Jonathan Ryley. Comprehensive Design Project, Nottingham Cycle Centre. Fig 10-13. Matthew Poon. Comprehensive Design Project, Nottingham Cycle Centre.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Year 1

17 Fig 14-17. Hayley Crone. Comprehensive Design Project, Performance Space.

Unit 1a Forgotten Places Unit Tutors Alisdair Russell Stuart Buckenham Chris McCurtin Regular Critics Andrew Cross Gordon Reavley Visiting Critics Neal Tanna Guvenc Topcuoglo Philip Hayes Matthew Stratford Timothy Moorhouse Tom Dichmont Matthew Mitchell Maria Krasteva

As a unit we explored the theme of Adaptive Re-Use and Urban Reprogramming in the context of the Elephant and Castle in South London. The overarching theme of the unit is to consider and to speculate new futures for important sites that have reached the end of their useful lives due to recent socio-economic shifts. Elephant & Castle is historically a major point of convergence and a key trading district in South London, located just 1 mile from the banks of the River Thames. In addition to being an important trading post it also become one of the most significant areas of mass housing in London. The Heygate Estate, once housing some 3000 people, is in the final stages of demolition and a new future is emergent. We will study Lebbeus Woods War and Architecture and the post war rebuilding of Sarajevo as a design primer for ideas and speculations of what the future of the Elephant and Castle may hold. The unit approach is demanding and a strong work ethic is expected from the outset, however, the unit has an excellent record both academically and in the practices ex-students of the unit are employed by. The unit strongly encourages peer learning across both year groups and a dedication to your work. Year 2 Students Andrea Alvarez, Raluca Burlacu, Morgane Copp, Bradley Hague, Alice Hardy, Elizabeth Horesy, Boyan Hristov, Alexander Lau, Rebecca Lipscombe, Sean Martin, Eoin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brian, Kayode Oguntayo, Aaron Perry, Goda Pletkute, Ella Quinton, Valentina Rivolta, Lucy Roberts, Edwin Wong Year 3 Students Sophie Barks, Jaqueline Beraha, Andrew Edwards, Filippos Glibbery, Malkia Grant, Danielle Hart, Jack Hobbs, Hoi Shing Kwan, Joe Hollis, Chrystal King, Phillip-James Mosscrop, Kekai Ren, Sam Robinson, Shogo Suzuki, Christiana Torto, Holly Treehearn, Samantha Wilson, Ahmed Zidouri

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 1a

04 Fig 01-04. Andrew Edwards. Silicon Liturgy.

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07 Fig 05-08. Sophie Barks. The Mnemonic Guild. Winner: RIBA Bronze Nomination; The council of Aluminium in Buildings Undergraduate Tectonics Prize; and the CPMG Presentation of Architecture Award.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 1a

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Fig 09-12. Shogo Suzuki. Drone construction & emergent material research centre.

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Unit 1b The Janus Condition: Continuity & Connectivity Unit Tutors Jim Hutcheson with Ross Lambie Mena Kubba-Farrar Ben Smart Kieren Majhail

Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. He is most commonly represented as looking in two directions simultaneously – both to the past, and to the future. As such, Janus embodies the notion of change – representing a present which enables our transition from the past to the future. Our Unit considers the role of architecture in these terms, looking to the past to inform the future, with a particular focus on an understanding of context in its broadest sense.

Visiting Critics Aidan Hurley Matt Greenhalgh Colin Harwood Alex Lipinski Douglas McCorkell

One of the critical challenges for architects practicing today is to address the notion of contextual continuities in a whole series of ways. Architecture and society exist in an on-going cultural continuum. This work of this Unit is concerned with introducing contemporary interventions harmoniously into their immediate physical, as well as larger socio-historical contexts. To achieve this, we research the historical, physical, cultural, and social circumstances of each project, integrating this information with a considered response to the brief, to the environmental and other technical parameters which apply, and with our own ambitions, which ‘stand in’ for those of the clients whose aspirations we hope to translate into physical reality. This year has provided both Year 3 and Year 2 the opportunity to study in detail a historically and geographically significant site in an urban context. In year 3, through the mechanism of our on-going design project, we have been explored a context which has a very particular significance at this point in time, and in relation to our theme. We have studied the site of Glasgow’s genesis – the Cathedral Precinct at the head of the mediaeval High Street, where the Victorian grid dissolves into a more historical, topographically determined urban figure charged with the character and atmosphere of mediaeval ecclesiastical architecture overlooked by Glasgow’s ‘City of the Dead’ on the Necropolis. The diverse approaches represented here, where students have been free to choose their own site within the precinct and generate their own brief for their site, hopefully communicate the enthusiasm, inspiration and knowledge which students have drawn from their investigations. In contrast, in Year 2 we have studied a site on the periphery of Nottingham’s mediaeval core, on the line of the fissure between the historic centre of the city and the site of its Victorian expansion into the Lace Market district. The location simultaneously represents an edge condition and a gateway, demanding a sensitive and nuanced approach to the reconciliation of its diverse contextual conditions. Our role begins with site selection, analysis, and the emergence of feasibility proposals. We assess the cultural, philosophical and geographical location and context, looking specifically at the potential for continuities inherent in the existing condition. Our investigations continue with the formulation of strategic ambitions for the sites, which inform on-going design propositions. We progress, looking at the programme, the volumetric composition of proposals, space planning, urban design opportunities, and the development of the physical fabric of our proposals, leading to the eventual resolution of a complete, coherent design proposition founded on a relevant, appropriate and poetically transformative idea. Year 2 Students Kaitlin Allen, Samuel Chai, Shane Collins, Michael Constantinides, Bryn Davies, Philip Hawkins, Kate Hosking, Daniel Miller, Samuel Ocock, Jake Lenahan Year 3 Students Saskia Colins, Sandra da Fonseca, Max Eastwood, Jon Fairbairn, Vaishnavi Geevarajah, Faaizah Hosein, Hanrui Jiang, Alice Jones, Vanessa Leung, Francesa Levey, James Lowsley Williams, Michelle Ma, Eleni Mitzali, Stavrini Mouktari, Hugh Potter, Fiona Shi, Nicole Skett, Ana Tuica, Maria Tsvetkova, Rob Waters, Oliver Weldon, Mikaela Wigstrom, Peggy Won, Xianming Yang, Talia Yilmaz, Zhenzi (Emily) Chen.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 1b

02 Fig 01-02 Jon Fairbairn. Strathclyde Performance School. Winner: Hoare Lee Architectural Engineering Graduate of the Year; and Benoy Portfolio (MEng) Award View of the central courtyard; and view from the high street.

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Fig 03. Jon Fairbairn. Strathclyde Performance School. Winner: Hoare Lee Architectural Engineering Graduate of the Year; and Benoy Portfolio (MEng) Award. Perspective section through the theatre, central courtyard and studios. Fig 04-05. Oliver Weldon. The Factory Home. Section through the factory; and section through a manufactured factory home.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 1b

08 Fig 06-08. Saskia Collins. Elysium. Winner: Blueprint Sustainability Prize. Long section through the bio-crematorium; view of the ceremony room; and view of the terraced gathering space.

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Fig 09-13. Sandra Fonseca. The Archibald Sinclair Institute. Long section; view of the exhibition space; a view within the conservation centre; short section; and site masterplan

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 1b

Unit 2a Project Kagiso Unit Tutors Alison Davies John Ramsay

Unit 2A is a design studio unit exclusively for 2nd year students. We are a live build unit and our focus is on learning through making. With limited resources and real world concerns, we encourage our students to adopt creativity and ingenuity in their design responses. The year culminates in the big ‘make’: the construction of a small nursery building in rural South Africa designed by the students in the unit. Semester 1 - South Africa Project 1: locus: a research project undertaken in groups to identify the inherent characteristics of our particular place. The students are required to collect, interrogate and disseminate information about the context in which we will be working. Considerations include cultural, historical and political context, climate and environmental conditions, nursery school typologies and relevant pedagogical thinking, and locally available resources using recycled and ‘found’ materials. Team conclusions are disseminated, so that all students enter project 2 with a high-quality, relevant, archive resource available to them. Project 2: creche design: this project involves the design of teaching, learning and play facilities for a real site in rural South Africa: the Rabonami the kgeng Créche in Dipatjeng village, Mmakgatlo. Working in teams and building on their project 1 investigations, students are asked to respond to a specific site with a design proposal to include two new classrooms and connecting external space. Our client is the local community of under sevens and their educators. Environmental design and tectonics considerations are integrated into the studio work. Students are expected to be able to communicate: why their proposals take the form they do with reference to ergonomics and pedagogical influences, what the buildings are made of, how they can be constructed, and prove their environmental comfort. The ‘winning scheme’ was translated to a live build project in rural South Africa, completed in an astonishing four weeks over the Easter break in April 2015. Semester 2 - Nottingham Project 3: democratic forum / Project 4: primary free school From global to local: these are two complementary projects based in the Nottingham canal-side area to the west of the city. Moving from a live project in semester 1 to a pair of theoretical ones in semester 2 allows the students to explore more complex building typologies and a more urban context. Students are asked to select from 3 potential sites along the Nottingham canal and to develop their own client scenarios. Both buildings are designed to respond to the chosen scenario, and to coexist in the area. Hence students are encouraged to consider the scope for their proposals to enter into a dialogue with each other within the urban setting. Throughout the year, students are encouraged to consider architecture as a real world discipline, to consider place-making as well as form finding, and to communicate the experience of both encountering and inhabiting their proposals. Year 2 Students Dayana Anastasova, Jemima Ashton-Harris, Sebastian Chambers, Ben Clarke, Matthew Drewitt, Charlotte Grasselli, Anna Helliar, Alicia Hollis, Xiaotong (Georgina) Jiang, Sara Lohse, Matthew Marsden, Samantha Mooney, Steban Morales, Daniel Paigge, Georgios Partalidis, Avneesh Poonia, Julia Radka, Olivia Redman, Thomas Rose, Kiran Shah, Annette Sibthorp, Ashleigh Simpson, Wesley Stone, Naimish Thanki, Ya (Ivy) Wen, Sam Whitehead, Henan (Harrison) Zhang, Qi (Kimi) Zhao

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2a

01 Fig 01. Photo by Richard Woods. The Kagiso Creche finished classrooms.

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Fig 02-03. Sara Lohse. Nottingham Free-School. View of a classroom; and long section.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2a

07 Fig 04-06. Charlotte Grasselli. Nottingham Freeschool. Section through the central school building, illustrating the learning bridge and main hall; axonometric of the scheme; and view from Castle Boulevard. Fig 07. Sebastian Chambers. Prototype of a tyre seat design for the Kagiso Creche.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2a

12 Fig 08. Photo by Ben Tynegate. A finished classroom at dusk. Fig 09-10. Photos by Richard Woods. Students constructing the Creche on site in South Africa. Fig 11. Photo by Richard Woods. Creche students enjoying the finished play area. Fig 12. Photo by John Ramsay. Prototyping the sandbag dome construction at the DABE.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2a

14 Fig 13. Photo by Ben Tynegate. The finished Creche. Fig 14. Photo by Richard Woods. Students constructing the sandbag dome on site.

Unit 2b Question. Consider. Explore. Make. Unit Tutors Mani Laal Dik Jarman Smaranda Ghinita Paul MacMahon Visiting Critics Stephan Whitaker John Edmonds Roy Maitland Nitesh Magdani

We aim to achieve an understanding of the programme for the year through exploratory investigations that reveal and suggest proposals for further investigations and tectonic responses. Through making and crafting of objects that explore and reflect conditions or states between elements within and of the built environment. Through models, drawings, photography and film the investigations will unravel the topographical tapestry, expose events and reveal intimacies that are the essence of place/object/dialogue. What has happened at this point/time that could be explored to suggest an investigation and proposal? How will this be considered? Where and when is/was this event? Questions such as these shall be the initial threads for exploration, to be unraveled, and instigate a dialogue through imaginative investigations and responses that will encompass all projects for the year. Through making, crafting models and media representations it is envisaged that the element of craft shall develop from initial basic ideas and models to those of an advanced complexity and higher quality. These should then propose options which can be translated as a tectonic response, a reflection on the investigatory models/media. To propose and develop a body of work that becomes the narrative through which the investigations, explorations and proposals for the year shall be revealed and presented. Year 2 Students Leon Pang, Xiaoying Huang, Kai Hang Lau, Nikola Shitinski, Addico Ohatey, Nikolay Runtev, Jiang Hu, Elizbella Tora, Adam Plastow, Rosan Sehra, Charlotte Brown, Sasha Bennett-Ford, Ana Taylor, Max Mackay, Andy Cheng, Bethan Hall, Alexander Douglas Year 3 Students Dominic Blake, Jana Pirogova, Carolynne Chan, Andrew Jowitt, Myungbum Kim, Min Ji Kang

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2b

01 Fig 01 Min Kang. The Magic Carpet. Site analysis: architectural stitching of the site.

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05 Fig 01-05, 07 Min Kang. The Magic Carpet. Sectional composite; photographs of the explorative model; and weaving structure explorative drawing.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2b

09 Fig 06, 08-09 Andrew Jowitt. The Quadratic Gates Performing Arts Centre Ground floor plan; explorative model; and initial site analysis sketch

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Fig 10. Andrew Jowitt. The Quadratic Gates Performing Arts Centre Axonometric drawing scheme overview.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 2b

Unit 3a The Raw and the Cooked Unit Tutors Rosamund Diamond Joseph Halligan Angus Goodwin Simon Henley Kristian Bjerre Rikesh Mistry Visiting Critics Isa Belle Katharina Borsi Lucille Clerc Ellie Connolly Pierre d’Avoine Lorena Barranco Gonzalez Step Haiselden Emily Purcival Jessica Rowden Keita Tajima Karin Templin Helen Thomas

How do we view, and then physically alter a place that was transformed by the industrial revolution, made by an industry, administratively formed as a conurbation, and laid waste by the demise of manufacture? This year Unit 3A have asked this question of Stoke on Trent. It has a unique fragmented physical form because of its composition as a city of six towns. Stoke produced pottery on an industrial scale, starting with the inventiveness of Wedgwood and Spode, which lead to mass production. When the potteries, with their distinctive bottle kilns, were at the height of their productivity, Stoke on Trent’s population inhabited its towns densely, working and living in close proximity. The Clean Air Act caused the closure of many of the potteries leaving derelict sites in its town centres. Its population of approximately 240,000, has shrunk by 3.5% in the last 20 years. Stoke is a city fragmented by its composition, and its post-industrial condition as a place formed by the potteries and fractured by their demise into an urban morphology of gaps and remains. Unit 3A have been addressing Stoke’s future, with projects looking at how towns and cities are sustained by use and interaction and by their built morphology, structure and form. The main focus in term’s 2 and 3 has been the 4 hectare site in central Stoke, (a town within a town) where Spode manufactured from 1767 until its closure in 2009. The unit’s projects have ranged from careful urban analysis and group masterplans, to building designs and room studies. The year’s minor obsessions were clay and craft. Clay has dominated the development of Stoke, a city that depended on a skilled workforce and craftsmanship. Embedded in projects and their development, was the relationship of craft to manufacture in building fabrication. Year 2 Students Francis (Songge) Chai, Jessica Chapman, Jasmine Che, Bella (Jiuxian) Ding, Peter Howle, Calven Lee, Anqi Lee, Sally Lofthouse, Eve Mason, Madeleine Moore, Catherine o’Leary, David Ogilvie, Claire Walduck Year 3 Students Balraj Bains, Maria Bitsou, Wing Sum(mer) Chan, Hang Du, Stephanie Ete, Damilola Gbadamosi, Ishfa Hairu, Mikhil Haria, Ryan (Man To) Lam, Maximilian Lewis, Caren (Yichong) Li, Michaela Li, Dominic Savio Li, Carrie (Pak Tung) Ma, Toan Nguyen, Aala Sharfi

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 3a

01 Fig 01. Ryan (Man To) Lam. Spode Ceramic City. Winner: Bennoy Portfolio (Year 3) Prize. View of from the proposed pedestrian footbridge.

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Fig 02-04. Ryan (Man To) Lam. Spode Ceramic City. Winner: Bennoy Portfolio (Year 3) Prize. View of the approach to the tower; long section; and proposed masterplan model.

DABE 2015 | Part 1: BArch/MEng | Unit 3a

07 Fig 05-07. Mikhil Haria. Self sufficient Stoke marketplace housing. Site Plan; long section through the central courtyard; and proposed masterplan model.

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10 Fig 08-11. Carrie (Pak Tung) Ma. Etruria Community Centre, Stoke on Trent. External birds eye view; view of the main entrance approach; development sketches; and long canal-side section.

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Unit 3b [the] FOOD/ preservation? [society] Unit Tutors Warren McFadden Gary Butler Seth Rutt Rosie Jones Duna Irshaid Wai Piu Wong

Our work is intensely grounded in context believing that the conditions associated with any site will give rise to appropriate and relevant architectural solutions. We shy away from formulaic approaches, trusting in the individual to realize that they are the ultimate authority in their work. This is not a free for all, rather a condition of openness, established with the expectation that each student’s endeavor, no matter how fantastical or conventional, is underpinned with appropriate historical and theoretical references.

Visiting Critics John Burrell Paddy Pugh David Knight Sam Diston Ione Braddick Eleanor Connolly Oliver Beddard Dani Salgado Silva Steph Bott Alex Bramhill Olivia Smith Rachel Haynes Eleanor Croxford Nick Newman Ashley Corbett

This year, our work was situated within the City of London’s Smithfield conservation area. There we challenged the students to consider two principal themes, the engagement with our historic built fabric as well as revealing the relationships between cities and the food systems that sustain them. When developing their projects, we asked students that they begin to engage with the wider fundamental issues relating to food in today’s society so as to consider and experience environmental awareness in a more vital and immediate way. They mediated on the fact that the production, transportation, consumption and waste of food inextricably form the contexts we as architects have had to contend with in every period of human history. When working intimately with Smithfield’s existing buildings we wanted the students to develop an attitude towards historic built fabric. Asking as Giancarlo De Carlo did of Urbino, ‘can an old form retain its significance when the activities of the city itself have changed radically? Can a modern architectural form be successfully woven into an older architectural fabric?’ Year 2 Students George Badman, Fabio Bragoli, Tom Davison, Oliver Cammell, Tiffany Chan, Harry Clarke, Margaux Cohen, Stephanie Kyle, Duncan McGoldrick, Michael McGuinness, Martin Nice Year 3 Students Seyi Adelekun, Matthew Austin, Alexander Bradley, Olivia Birnbaum, Cristina Carbajo, Matthew Chamberlain, Emily Danou, Stavros Georgiou, Tyler Gordon, Anna Hadjimitsi, Charles Harris, Sofia Jassim, Rebecca Lane, Peter MacNaughton, Robert Marshall, Electra Pangalou, Georgia Roberts, Tom Sheldon, Ben Tipson

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02 Fig 01-02. Ben Tipson. Smithfields Active Third-age. Typical living units; view from the kitchen of a living unit; and long section looking towards the central market.

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Fig 03-07. Charlie Harris. Fullers in the Fish Market. Section through the proposed London pub; twilight view of the main entrance; view of the fish market restaurant; longitudinal section; and view of the beer garden.

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Fig 08-11. Alexander Bradley. Smithfields New General Market. Winner: RIBA Bronze Nomination Long section; view of the market hall and aquaponics enclosure; view of the cherry tree garden; and exploded axonometric scheme overview.

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Unit 4

Dancing Shadows â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Essential Spaces

Unit Tutors David Short Amanda Harmer Matt Strong Sam Critchlow Susie Douglas Andy Thomas

The work of Unit 4 is rooted in the poetics of architecture; poetics which start in texts and narratives and finish in highly individual building projects.

Visiting Critics Alex Abbey Emma Brown Chris Goodwin Jonathan Marfleet Margaret Mulcahy Magda Pater-Jankowiak Rachel Smith Mike Russum John Chilton Maceij Jankowiak Peter Rutherford Robin Wilson

Students are encouraged to find and develop their own architectural vocabulary through the process of making and drawing. Early thoughts and conjectures are interrogated through a series of touchstone made pieces and exploratory speculative drawings. The ethos of a project is established, interrogated and developed into an individual piece of architecture. We ask our students to study, research and think to prepare for the project and then study, research and think through the drawing and making process. Students explore journeys through space and light, through narratives and priorities; physical architectural journeys as well as personal architectural journeys. Within this creativity we also demand a technical rigour. If architecture can move people in some way, as well as helping people to live and coexist then we have succeeded in a small way. This year the unit worked in Bath and questioned its identity and authenticity amongst many other lines of enquiries. Year 2 Students Abbie McCammond, Alice Chadwick, Almutaz Al-Nabri, Arianne Dermawan, Arun Milton, Ayoyimik Edun, Belma Kapetanovic, Carlos de felipe pena, Charlotte Hagerty, China Chapman, Clement Laurencio, Connie Shorrocks, Elin Keyser, Holly Poulton, James Taylor, Jennifer Hall, Jessie St Clair, Josh Mallins, Laura Duffey, Lucia Hu, Luke Bryant, Maria McMurray, Mark Freeman, Nansi Jones, Nyamdorj Boldbaatar, Peter Wheatcroft, Rachel Li, Rachel Morgan, Rachel Wang, Raluca Sozanskyj, Rebecca Ajayi, Sambuunyam Oyunbileg, Sarah Rogers, Zakia Mingzi Pan Year 3 Students Afifah Abdullah, Alice Dammery, Alice Moxon, Chiara Torregrossa, Josie Reining, Karolina Kaminskaite, Katie Hutchinson, Lucy Stone, Martynas Vielavicius, Mohammed Feyzbakhsh, Natalie Smith, Noora Al-Mulla, OliviaThomas, Phillip Sims, Ruijing Zhang, Sheryl Lam, Shijing Hou, Shona Sivamohan, Stamatina Dimarati, Stefan Mocanu, Timothy Fentem, Victor Man, Wen Zhu, Zhenzi Chen

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03 Fig 01-03. Clement Laurencio. A New Labour exchange for Bath. Development sketch and models.

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07 Fig 04. Clement Laurencio. A New Labour exchange for Bath. Sketch proposal. Fig 05-07. Josie Reining. Bridge House, Bath. Speculative plan and investigative toutchstone piece.

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11 Fig 08. Mutaz al Nabri. A New Labour exchange for Bath. Street view of the proposal. Fig 09-12. Raluca Sozanskyi and Alice Chadwick. Live Project for the NHS. Proposed plan and final presentation models.

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Fig 13. Shona Sivamohan. The Bath School of Portraiture. Touch stone piece.

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17 Fig 14-16. Chiara Torregrosaa. Maison de Plasticene, Bath. Long section; ground floor plan; view of the central space; and perspective study of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement.

Unit 5a In the Country of Last Things Unit Tutors Toby Blackman Tom Irwin Lydia Boylan Dominic Eley Amanda Moore Visiting Critics John Harding Louise Mansfield Stephen Parnell

Unit 5a was founded on a reading of three writers: Paul Auster, Andrew Feenberg, and Kathryn Moore, and explores the overarching theme of participation and contribution in the public realm. In his book In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster studies the disappearance of manufactured objects and technology from the story’s post-apocalyptic context; the characters deal with both fading memories of objects and technologies, and the words used to describe them. In UNit5a we study the idea of building that develops from a critical reading of material and meaning, architecture and participation; we consider the fit within the urban fabric, the spaces in between, and the language and resolution of materiality. We endeavour to connect the theory of design to its practice, engaging in Kathryn Moore’s “rigorous debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look,” translating the Idea of Building into a Comprehensive Design Project and a detailed architectural proposal. The overarching themes explored by UNit5a are participation and contribution in the public realm, or social sustainability. The unit studies the perception and the life of architecture; asking the questions: how can we as architects enable social cohesion, reconciling points of tension in the built environment, and how do we adapt and appropriate structures in a meaningful way? Our unit is concerned with designs enabling community cohesion, yet we encourage exploration at the limits of architectural enquiry; our students develop responsive spatial programming, structures, materials and energy systems which test sustainable principles at community level. In 2015, the unit’s work was based on the Lower Lea Valley, a territory demarked by the Lea Bridge at the northern-most point, and the Leamouth Peninsula at the valley’s junction with the River Thames. We challenged students to critique the Olympic Legacy, and the undeveloped, interstitial spaces which form a terrain vague both within the masterplan, and without. Year 2 Students Michael Bax, Lucie de la Mothe, James de Leyser, Dante Hall, Francesca Plant, James Price, Jonathan Pun, Jess Rust, Sirage Saudi, Mariyana Sinigerova, Charlotte Stoney, Andria Strongylou, Liva Suna, Chris Woodford, Stella Xie. Year 3 Students Charlotte Anthony, Hana Barnes, Carolyne Chan, Sophie Collier, Tao Dong, Chin Ee, Kerry Fox, Themba Fraser, Yitao Ge, Fiona Grieve, Phil Krentos, Tom McLean, Colin Smith, Matt St Leger, Charles Waddington, Rhys Waring, Haoxiang Wei, Yida Xu, Daniel Xu.

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01 Fig 01. Year 2 Students. The Democratic Darkroom Pavilion. Large scale prototype.

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05 Fig 02. Andria Strongylou. The Democratic Darkroom Pavilion. Qualitative Section. Fig 03. Chris Woodford. The Mannequin Factory. Long Section. Fig 04-05. Fiona Grieve. Productive Lands. Herb garden facade study and sectional study.

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08 Fig 06-08. Tom McLean. The Glass Smith Project. Views of the public spaces and the building core.

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Fig 09-10. Charlotte Anthony. Flux Housing. Aerial perspective and long site section.

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Unit 5b Heterotopic Territories Unit Tutors Farida Makki Daniel Marmot Tony Staples Mike Reade

Heterotopia is a concept in human geography elaborated by philosopher Michael Foucault to describe places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. These are spaces of otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical and mental, such as the space of a phone call or the moment when you see yourself in the mirror.

Visiting Critics Jon Kaminsky Janinder Bhati Marcus Todd Tom Parker Josh Wyles Giles Smith Jon Lopez Danny Baker Carlos Jiminez Adam Holland Gabriel Warshafsky

Unit 5b Immersion: This unit will immerse itself in the Heterotopic Territory of thresholds: between city and countryside, between lost meanings and survival; of culture and post-industrial lands. Our proposals will seek to foster relationships with the nature of place, community and societies past, present and future. Our site is the Cheshire Ring; a navigable connected manmade waterway.

Unit 5b Task: We are interested in exploring how one can observe, describe and address complex issues poetically: then complement this with the insertion of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;responsive structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in elegant and innovative detail.

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04 Fig 01-04. William Atkins. Cloth to cloth. View of the main access pod; view of the upper private walkway leading between two production spaces; section through one of the central light shafts; and section through the upper private walkway and factory core.

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Fig 05. William Atkins. Cloth to cloth. Long section illustrating the factory, community hub and production process.

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Fig 06-08. Esha Thapar. The Hippophae Odyssey. Ground floor and first floor plans; long section; and view of the approach to the builidng.

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12 Fig 09-12. Rhiarna Dhaliwal. Lymm Colour Works. Long section; view of the approach; view of the root washing space; and view of the internal Madder Gardens.

BEng

Environmental Design of an Ofice Building

Module Convenor Dr Benjamin Jones

BEng Introduction Buildings use about 40% of global energy and are responsible for approximately 33% of all greenhouse emissions. Countries must now reduce these rates substantially by the middle of this century in order to limit the effects of climate change. It is known that both new and existing buildings typically perform well below their potential level of energy efficiency and therefore this sector has been identified as possessing the greatest opportunity for energy savings. This is an enormous engineering challenge that requires graduate engineers with key skills, which will influence new design and provide solutions to inherent problems within aging building stock. The BEng course in Architectural Environmental Engineering provides graduate Engineers with the mind-set and holistic skills required to meet these extraordinary challenges. They will obtain a broad knowledge of fundamental engineering concepts enhanced by a specific understanding of how buildings interact with their surroundings, occupants, and climate. Buildings must be comfortable, which means their indoor environments must be tailored to the needs of the people that use them. It is up to the engineers of this exciting and growing field to balance these requirements.

Module Tutors Dr Benjamin Jones Yupeng Wu Dr Robin Wilson Guest Critics Chris Wood Edward Cooper

Module Descritpion Engineering Services Design 4: The aim of the module is to design the heating and cooling systems for an office building located in London. Students worked in small groups where they made changes to the thermal properties of the building’s fabric and glazing and introduced solar shading to show which has the greatest impact on the building’s total energy demand, carbon dioxide emissions, and annual running costs. Each group made a PechaKucha presentation, submitted a tender report, and a poster. BEng Students George Herrick, Satyam Gehani, Dana Ismaeel, Nuha Alshuaili, Shan Gao, Shiyu Liu, Shisheng Chen, Han Yan, Jiacheng Wu, Ziyang Lu, Kaixuan Fu, Yao Hu, Shihan Gong, Yujia Ji, Mengying Li, Wener Jin, Daqi Cong, Liangyuan Wang, Chenchen Mao, Junjie Li, Boting Hou, Jifeng Wang, Yanqiao Wang, Yeru Zhu, Zheng Xu, Siqi Yang, Jiaying Weng, Hao Gao, Jingwen Ye, Zihao Ye, Ne Yang, Kemiao Zheng, Hangqi Chen, Bowei Zhu, Ting Zhan, Muhammad Amirul Firdaus Sabtu, Yuan Yi, Qing Dong, Sijia Yu, Ye Zhou, Hang Li, Yanzhuang He, Biaohan Ma, Yanchi Hou, Haowen Hu, Ningyu Qin, Tianqi Fang, Jiayuan Zuo, Wenbing Li, Junming Zhao, Chao Guo, Feihong Xue, Tianqi Wang, Ziyang Ding, Hao Lu, Kaihang He, Chen Xu, Chen Su, Chaofeng Wan, Zhiying Li, Jingran Sheng, Haijia Xu, Yuansen Wang, Zhan Yang, Yantao Yang, Yiwen Liu MEng Students Kate Hosking, Eve Mason, Catherine O’Leary, Gorkem Diges, Alexander Douglas, Jake Lenahan, Sally Lofthouse, Carlos De Felipe Pena, Bianca Latini, Alexander Lau, Calven Lee, Kaitlin Allen, Samuel Ocock, Oluwakayode Oguntayo, Sirage Ibreek, Jessica Chapman, Bryn Davies, Bethan Hall, Oliver, Cammell, Samuel Chai, Madeleine Moore

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HEATING DEMAND The peak-heaing load for the building was 482 kW, occurring between 06:00 and 07:00, December 4th. To adequately supply the building’s heaing load required a 578 kW boiler.

COOLING DEMAND GLAZING TYPE As it stands, between one and two thirds of each facade is double glazing. By upgrading the glass used from double glazing to triple glazing the total energy consumpion of the building could be reduced by 18%, saving upwards of £8000 p.a. The cost of the upgrade is around £500,000 making the payback around 50 years

The peak sensible cooling load is 443 kW, and the peak latent cooling load simultaneously occurred between 14:00 and 15:00, August 4th. The ACS must therefore be capable of delivering 637 kW of cooling.

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SOLAR SHADING A 2% energy saving and £2000 p.a. could be saved by adding solar shading. Shading should deinitely be implemented, either by adding louvres or increasing window recesses, as there are minimal capital costs for such modiicaions (an efecive shading device should overhang the windows by 2.8m).

The verical transport system consists of a set of four lits using single wrap pulleys. It provides one lit per 2.5 loors and can transport 116 people (16% of the above ground populaion) in 5 minutes with and interval of 31 seconds. This means the building is in the excellent category for quality of services according to the Briish standards.

FIRE PROTECTION Currently the building does not conform to Approved Document B of the UK Building Regulaions with regards to ire protecion, when meeing maximum horizontal travel distances. Addiional ire doors must be implemented to recify this.

THERMAL RESPONSE Increasing the thermal mass of the walls and roof increases the building’s response ime for virtually no addiional capital cost. This results in a ‘free’ 1% saving in energy consumpion. Night cooling could also be employed to further increase energy savings.

SPRINKLER SYSTEM To comply with the regulaion that all buildings taller than 30m must have ire protecive sprinkler systems.

VENTILATION BUILDING FABRIC Improving the thermal performance of the building’s fabric would lower energy consumpion by around 3%. This could be accomplished by increasing the amount of insulaion in the walls and the roof, reducing conducive heat losses, saving around £1500 p.a. The payback ime of such an upgrade would be in the region of 40-50 years.

The venilaion is provided by two symmetrical fan assisted systems of ducts, ceiling mounted difusers and extract grilles each servicing half the building. Local extracion is provided in the sanitary accommodaion. Over the course of a year the Venilaion system will consume 42.5 MWh of energy.

RECOMMENDED CHANGES The two changes that save the most energy are installing triple glazing windows and upgrading the building fabric. They are however less inancially viable as they take 50 years to see a inancial return.

CASUAL GAINS The combined casual internal gains of the building peak at 44W/m2. They are simulated using a standard occupancy proile to represent a typical 9-5 oice working day.

Smaller savings could be atained by providing total solar shading and addiional thermal mass. Due to their minimal capital costs, they provide immediate inancial beneit.

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The building under invesigaion is a ten storey oice block situated in London, with nine storeys of occupied oice space each containing 79 people.

01 Fig 01. Jessica Chapman, Bryn Thomas & Bethan Hall. Environmental Design Company Poster.

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London Oﬃce Buildings Tender Presentaion

Wollaton Building Services Company Building Informaion Ground Floor Dimensions 2

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Max U-value Area (m ) (W/(m2K)) North-West North-East South-East South-West 0.35 1217.8 493.4 1088.9 493.4 0.25 0.25 0.25 2.2 656.4 229.1 710.3 229.1 3.5 0 0 30.8 0

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Zone No Zone Type Area (m ) Volume (m ) 1 Lobby 40.5 166.1 2 Lits_1 7.6 31.1 3 Lits_2 7.6 31.1 4 Stairs_1 26.6 109.0 5 Stairs_2 26.6 109.0 6 Female Toilets 13.9 57.1 7 Male Toilets 13.9 57.1 8 Oﬃce 654.5 2683.6 9 Corridor 100.9 413.7 892.1 3658 Total

The zones of the building are laid at as shown to the let, however, the basement and lit motor room are not included in these as they don’t need any mechanical cooling. Furthermore some zones are put together as the have similar funcions and occupancy. The occupancy of the building is through opening hours and therefore doesn’t not need any mechanical heaing or cooling during the night. The building U-values are taken from Approved Document L assuming the building is a light-weight fast-response construcion. Furthermore the air permeability is assumed to be 10m3/m2h and the inﬁltraion rate to be 0.4h-1

Zone No Zone Type Area (m2) Volume (m3) 10 Lobby 40.5 141.8 11 Lits_1 7.6 26.6 12 Lits_2 7.6 26.6 13 Stairs_1 26.6 93.0 14 Stairs_2 26.6 93.0 15 Female Toilets 20.3 70.9 16 Male Toilets 34.4 120.5 17 Oﬃce 823.5 2882.2 987.0 3455 Total

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Based on the iniial assumpions, heaing is responsible for the largest proporion of the annual energy demand. However, as electricity costs signiﬁcantly more per kWh, cooling contributes more to the annual costs. Addiionally, heaing is responsible for the largest proporion of annual CO2 emissions.

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Annual Demand, Reduced U-Values Energy Cost CO2 Emissions (kWh) (kWh/m2) (£) (£/m2) (kg) (kg/m2) 555673 61.1 19449 2.1 102244 11.2 221233 24.3 66958 7.4 107774 11.9 22343 2.5 3616 0.4 10884 1.2 799249 88 90023 10 220902 24

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The second proposal is to change the construcion to heavyweight, thereby increasing the lag and reducing the decrement factor of opaque fabric components. This also changes the glazing response factor from fast to slow. This results in reduced cooling demand but increased heating demand as heavyweight buildings require a longer preheaing ime, thereby increasing the boiler plant operaional hours.

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Component U-value (W/(m2K)) Part L Passivhaus Wall 0.35 0.15 Roof 0.25 0.15 Ground Floor 0.25 0.15 Service Access floor0.25 0.15 The first proposed modificaion is to improve the fabric U-values to PasWindows 2.2 0.85 sivhaus standards, as a benchmark for good pracice. This leads to a Doors 3.5 0.85 significant reducion in heaing demand as it reduces the heat losses Annual Demand, Reduce alues

Annual Demand, Increased Thermal Ineria Energy Cost CO2 Emissions (kWh) (kWh/m2) (£) (£/m2) (kg) (kg/m2) Heaing 785844 86.4 27505 3.0 144595 15.9 Cooling 207763 22.9 61056 6.7 101212 11.1 Venilaion 21560 2.4 3490 0.4 10503 1.2 Total 912111 100 93234 10 243721 27

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A third opion would be to completely shade all of the glazing during the cooling season to reduce solar loading. This would have no impact on the heaing bill, but would reduce the annual cooling load and overall costs.

Annual Demand, Total Solar Shading Energy Cost CO2 Emissions (kWh) (kWh/m2) (£) (£/m2) (kg) (kg/m2) Heaing 661764 72.8 23162 2.5 121765 13.4 Cooling 179687 19.8 52411 5.8 87534 9.6 Venilaion 19914 2.2 3223 0.4 9701 1.1 Total 912111 100 93234 10 243721 27

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Improving all the glazing to triple glazed units with a reﬂecive coaing would reduce solar loading and decrease conducive heat loss through glazing. Therefore, this change would eﬀecively reduce both the heaing and cooling demand for the building.

Annual Demand, Triple Glazing Energy Cost CO2 Emissions (kWh) (kWh/m2) (£) (£/m2) (kg) (kg/m2) 584922 64.3 20472 2.3 107626 11.8 149665 16.5 44476 4.9 72909 8.0 18126 2.0 2934 0.3 8830 1.0 752712 83 67882 7 189365 21

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The combined effect of all the above results in no change in heaing demands, as the benefits of the improved U-values are offset by the negaive effect of the increased boiler operaional hours. The cooling demand is significantly reduced, however, which reduces overall demand.

Annual Demand, Combined Changes Energy (kWh) (kWh/m2) Heaing 659862 72.6 Cooling 127434 14.0 Venilaion 16781 1.8 Total 804076 88

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Fig 02. Katie Hoskins, Eve Mason & Catherine O’Leary. Environmental Design Company Poster.

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OFFICE BUILDING DESIGN -- Analysis of physical changes applied Building Service Consulting Company

Location: London, UK Building type: Office block Building specifications: 10-storey. Ground floor for entrance and the typical upper floor for office use, Building service design provided: heating, cooling, ventilation, fire protection and vertical transport When design the boiler, air conditioning system and ventilation system for the building, firstly the worst conditions are considered. Lightweight materials with limiting U-value according to UK building regulation, standard clear/clear double-glazed windows with existing shading. Then some physical changes are applied with the aim of reduce heating and cooling energy demand and carbon dioxide emission, consequently save energy cost and put efforts to the protection of the global warming.

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ARB/RIBA Part 2 MArch Architecture & DipArch Architecture

ARB/RIBA Part 2 MArch Architecture & DipArch Architecture Course Coordinator Dr Katharina Borsi

The two-year MArch Architecture (ARB/ RIBA Part 2) programme focuses on design research at an advanced level. It combines the delivery of technical, intellectual and design skills with architectural experimentation and creativity. This academic year saw the introduction of vertical design research studios, deepening peer-to peer learning between the years, and multiplying the choice of studios. The design research studio offers an intellectual framework and overarching research agenda, which is pursued individually and in groups in semester 1. Semester 2 offers a continuation of the research theme into the Comprehensive Design Project for Y5 students, while Y6 students continue their individual design thesis. In so doing, students begin to define their individual architectural ethos and declare the individual academic agendas that will carry them into their future professional careers. This year, studio research agendas ranged from Urban Investigations in Berlin to Making and explorations of the Dublin/Belfast Region; a re-conceptualization of Garden Cities; Hyperdensity in Hong Kong; City Hacking in Nottingham and Narrative Spaces. The following pages celebrate the diversity of approaches and the excellence of our student work.

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Studio 1 Urban Mediations Studio Tutors Dr Katharina Borsi Tim Collett Nick Haynes Laura Hanks Visiting Critics Prof CJ Lim Julian Marsh Alun Jones Dr Phillip Oldfield John Morgan

The Urban Mediations studio is concerned with an in-depth investigation into the urban condition and the response of architecture as a catalyst. It understands architecture and urbanism as series of interlinked spaces, interstices and voids that deliver platforms and infrastructures for multiple, changing scenarios of occupation. The studio is a laboratory that seeks to explore how to draw, notate, model and diagram ideas, concepts and performances of architectural and urban spaces across scales. This academic year, Urban Mediations considered the nature of the edge: the boundary, threshold, transition, gap, or liminal space between two distinct conditions. This boundary may be temporal, material, political, topographical, theoretical or social. Berlin, Hebron, London and Grimsby provide the rich site for these explorations, with their histories of rupture and repair, retaliation and reconciliation. The thesis design project necessitated students making the translation from these interpretations and definitions, and from in depth research and critical literature reviews, to architectural design realisations. The approach of the studio was non linear, moving freely between the realms of the narrative and tectonic, between the scales of urban â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stitchingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, tectonic jointing and architectural intervention. We started the year with urban mapping in Sneinton, Nottingham before visiting Berlin in November. The urban explorations that resulted from this and other individual site visits, formed the basis of the thesis projects. Despite the diverse range of thesis intentions foci, a common interest in, and exploration of, the urban threshold links them all. Year 5 Students Isabelle Ratliff, Emily Percival, Lorena Barranco Gonzalez, Alexander Esfahani, Maria Jeleva, Anna Thomaidou, Yongzhen Yu. Year 6 Students Stuart Bacon, Tom Bradley, Toby Gilding, Daniel Hodson, Eleanor Jolliffe, Joshua Jones, Haniyyah Rashid, Laura Sheridan, Viktoriya Stoyanova.

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03 Fig 01-03. Joshua Jones. The Nordic Trawlerman: Practitioner of the City, Grimsby. View of the turbine exhibition; section through the smokehouse; and section through the community theatre building.

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07 Fig 04-06. Stuart Bacon. Ruinous Heterotopia, Berlin. Winner: Purcell Adaptive Reuse and Contextual Design in Architecture Award. Cutaway axonometric revealing the new Techno Club established within the Eisfabrik ruin; short section through the suspended theatre box; view of the central staircase within the ruin; and proposed ground floor plan.

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11 Fig 08-11. Tom Bradley. The Spreescape Archipelago, Berlin. View of the main pool within the bathhouse; long section through the bathhouse; birds eye view of the various urban pioneer fields connected by the scheme; and short section through the plunge pools and steam rooms.

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15 Fig 12-15. Toby Gilding. Spaces of Difference, London. Section illustrating the scheme as threshold between high street and housing estates; facade development drawings; view of the restaurant; and view of the market space.

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18 Fig 16-18. Eleanor Jolliffe. Archiving Conflict, Hebron. Winner: The Creative Writing Prize Mapping of the built history and palimpsest of Temple Mount; section through the Palestinian archive space; and section through the Israeli archive space.

Studio 2 MARS: Making Architecture

Research Studio Studio Tutors Prof Michael Stacey Sheldon Brown Laura Gaskell Michael Ramwell Associate Tutors Mark Hines Rachel Delargey Frances Stacey Visiting Critics James Timberlake Stephen Hodder Mark Hines

An intertwining set of themes runs throughout this studio exploring a critical and creative dialogue between abstraction and situation, technique and tactility, art and architecture, the analogue and the digital. MARS emphasises the strength of the group by working collectively to generate an informed discourse on contemporary architecture, while valuing the diversity of invention by each student. This year MARS focused on a region including: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin. Collectively and creatively studying this region with a wide engagement in the physical, social, economic, political, making/manufacturing and typologies, effectively re-Thinking the Region. This formed the underpinning of thesis projects and the projects undertaken by 5th Years. The final 5th Year Project was determined by discussion of this research and the typological gaps within the 6th Year Thesis Projects. This resulted in two typologies, Hybrid Health and Re-invigorating Industry and Making, all located in the major cities for the region. Many students chose Belfast as this city needs to be remade, repopulated and is redolent with opportunities to re-stitch this cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fabric. Year 5 Students James Beardall, Anthony Grout, Victor Lam, Chloe Lockhart, Irene Petridou, Charlotte Rumsey, Benjamin Tague, Yunyan Wang, Hannah Watkins. Year 6 Students Nasser Al Amri, Jamie Brown, Laura Fernandes, Mohammad Fahad, Nicholas Lo, Philip Noone, Dianna Tang, Nicola Wildman.

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Fig 01-06. Philip Noone, Charlotte Rumsey, James Beardall and Benjamin Tague. Rooms and Chairs. The group’s proposed chair, designed for mass production. Fig 07-08. Jamie Brown, Anthony Grout and Fahad Mohammad. Rooms and Chairs. The group’s proposed JAM chair, inspired by the Roorkhee Chair and Alison & Peter Smithson’s Upper Lawn Pavilion.

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11 Fig 09-11. Jamie Brown. River House Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital: Humanising Hospitals, Belfast. Winner: RIBA Silver Medal Nomination. Long section through the hospital; view of the scheme from Castle Street; and view of a ward within the hospital.

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14 Fig 12-14. Philip Noone. Re-establishing the Making Town: A Hub of Innovation, Navan. Winner: The Council for Aluminium Postgraduate Tectonics (Aluminium). 1:10 Window and new lining study model; longitudinal section through the hub of innovation; and studies of programmatic insertions through models.

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Fig 15. Philip Noone. Re-establishing the Making Town: A Hub of Innovation, Navan. Winner: The Council for Aluminium Postgraduate Tectonics (Aluminium). Old mill facade study showing integration of the new fabric.

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19 Fig 16-19. Anthony Grout. North Street Walled Garden: GP Practice and Sheltered Accommodation, Belfast. Winner: Marsh Growchowski Portfolio Prize (Year 5) & The Shaw Student Contribution Award. Section through GP practice and sheltered accommodation; wall type strategy for the GP practice and sheltered accommodation - between room and garden; view within sheltered accommodation, illustrating the inhabitable wall defining the threshold between room and garden.

Studio 3 Narrative Space Studio Tutors Jonathan Hale Mani Laal Visiting Critics Matthew Letts Prof Michael Stacey Dr Steve Parnell David Saxby Toby Blackman

A ‘narrative environment’ can be any space that is used to tell a story. All spaces, whether deliberately intended or not, contain clues about who made them and who used them. This studio considers buildings that have been consciously designed to tell a story, whether these narratives are the dominant function of the space - as in museums, galleries and heritage sites – or whether they act in some related secondary way, such as in commercial, retail or other cultural locations. The programme for the Autumn semester project was based on the RSA student design competition 2015, using the brief for the category Heritage By Design. Each project looked at one location – or a series of sites – in the centre of Nottingham, creating a narrative experience of the spaces by overlaying information in a variety of different media – from physical objects to text, sounds, lighting or video. The key objective was to create an exhibition that tells the story of the place within the place itself, ‘bringing it to life’ in a way that engages users in an active dialogue with the environment as part of their regular use of the chosen building or site. The second semester projects continued the theme of narrative – including a museum of lace in Nottingham, a livery hall at Smithfield market in London and a moonshine distillery and visitor centre in Liverpool. Year 5 Students Ruairi Cassidy, Rebecca Smith, Jessica Taylor-Tibbott, Oliver Turner, Yuan Sun, Boyan Zhang. Year 6 Students Zanda Lapsa, Zein Madanat, Hannah Pedel, Charlotte Simspon, Benjamin Youd.

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01 Fig 01. Charlotte Simpson. Drawing Down the Moon. Winner: RIBA Silver Medal Nomination. Lunars play upon the surface.

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Fig 02. Charlotte Simpson. Drawing Down the Moon. Winner: RIBA Silver Medal Nomination. Sectional study of the Lunars distillery.

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Fig 03. Charlotte Simpson. Drawing Down the Moon. Winner: RIBA Silver Medal Nomination. The playful mashing pot isographic drawing, and key moments within.

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06 Fig 04-06. Benjamin Youd. Translating Architecture. Section through the Livery Hall; investigative study of the chess piece consuming; and worms eye azonometric drawing of the material translators hall.

Studio 4 SUB Studio:

Urban Explorations Studio Tutors John Morgan Jonny Pugh (Spring) Visiting Critics Joao Baptista Tony Barber John Glew Alun Jones Matt Strong Dr Katharina Borsi Dr Jonathan Hale Dr Philip Oldfield Prof Michael Stacey

The research investigations of the sustainable urban building studio (SUB) are rooted in urban conditions associated with high-density, compact urbanism. In a typical year, this revolves around the problem of density as abstract measure of quantity (accommodation relative to land footprint), and its negation of architectural qualities manifested in a configuration of lived spaces. Our concern is architecture’s fitness for purpose in the Twenty-First Century. The evolution of a higher, tighter and more compact urban grain, particularly in mega cities like London, demands a response to complex spatial impacts on air, light, social relations and public amenity within the design process. The intention is to achieve a synthesis of studies on urban density into concepts and exemplary design proposals that demonstrate how it is possible to create decent living spaces in an intense urban environment. This year, our point of reference shifted towards London’s chronic affordable housing shortage. Over the past decade, rates of housing production are continually outstripped by high demand resulting from systemic factors (e.g. planning, inward economic migration, flows of globalised investment capital), and furthermore, without any strong build programmes in place, it can be concluded that abatement is unlikely over the coming decade. The premise here is therefore that new opportunities can be unlocked beyond the Green Belt’s periphery. This idea is reminiscent of earlier movements, such as Garden Cities (1898-1926) and the New Towns Act (1946), which espoused population dispersal and healthy living in greener pastures; however, given the UK’s current planning emphasis on sustainable development, it is unlikely that we could expect the same tabula rasa of open countryside with which to operate. Therefore, the studio’s projects investigated the potential for existing settlements such as Garden Cities Welwyn and Letchworth and New Towns Stevenage, Harlow and Milton Keynes to densify (within reason), which resulted in design strategies to inject integrated mixed uses, catalyse a public space renewal and revitalise what are typically stagnant town centre environments. The approach is one of pragmatic, retrofit urbanism. During the initial stages, both Yr 5 and Yr 6 students worked side-by-side in groups, concentrating on four locations: Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage, Harlow and Milton Keynes. By the middle of Autumn Semester, each group had mapped our their location and arrived at an understanding of the physical and socio-economic contexts; then, moving into a stage where they would test and experiment the potential of both the existing tectonic elements and the locations for their adaptability towards densification and re-configuration of the architecture towards new thinking about higher density living spaces. This process was completed with a final work stage of design development, which resulted in individual proposals for an intervention within the setting of the New Town or Garden City. That process is represented here with a selection of the work prepared for Harlow and Milton Keynes. For the remainder of the year, the Yr 6 students shifter their efforts to the research and design process for their own thesis projects, each of which are distinct in their topic and location. All projects are presented on these walls by student. Meanwhile, the Yr 5 students continued on in their chosen locations, albeit on different city centre sites and under a new programme for a mixed use, civic centre. A selection of that work is also presented here. It has been a rich and rewarding year. We trust that you, the audience, will enjoy this studio’s explorations into urban architecture. Year 5 Students Christina Agoston-Vas, Sheleendra Fernando, Sarah Gough, Elina Hadjioannou, Lara Elise Hanes, Matthew Palmer, Jayen Pancholi, Fiona Mary Stewart, Sze Nga Tsang, Henri Villanueva-leal, Smrithi Vipinachandran. Year 6 Students James Bishop, Philippa Grayson, Maria Mitsinga, Romina Souri, Elen-Maria Vafeadou.

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01 Fig 01-06. Philippa Grayson. The Fringe. Winner: The Netta Tectonics Award (Timber) Thematic basis for design intevention in the fringe landscape.

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05 Fig 02-05. Philippa Grayson. The Fringe. Winner: The Netta Tectonics Award (Timber) Sectional study through the proposed landmark tower and temporary pavilion; fixed and flexible assemblage for Ponders End riverside site aerial view; investigative urban study of Harlow, reconciling the town centre beyond the ring-road; and 1:5 study of the infrastructural pavilion column.

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10 Fig 06-10. James Bishop. Democratic Public Building for Leicester. Winner: CPMG Portfolio Award (Year 6). View of the main library space; aerial view of the building proposal; view from within the library; and axonometric facade study drawings.

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14 Fig 11-14. Elen-Maria Vafeadou. Mahala. Winner: Urban Design Group Urban Design and Context Award. Aerial view of the proposed architectural intervention with Nicosia Green Line; sectional view of the integrated community housing; site plan of Nicosia Green Line; and tectonics study of the community housing.

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Fig 15-19. Maria Mitsinga. . Axonometric view of the proposed masterplan; exploded block diagram illustrating the arrangement of apartments; photographs of final presentation models.

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Studio 5 City Hacking Studio Tutors Steve Parnell David Saxby Ruth Lang Andrew Walker Visiting Critics Sam Vardy John Harding Toby Blackman

Hacking derives from the world of computer programming and is closely related to the Open Source movement that has a shared culture and community based on certain beliefs in freedom and improvements for the benefit of society rather than profit. The city hacking studio is as much about an attitude - a way of looking at the world and the role of the architect in it - as imagining new, alternative versions. It is concerned with the architecture of ‘the commons’, or the public domain rather than the private and of civic space rather than corporate. Students are encouraged to work in the spirit of the hacker: looking for and solving fascinating problems, collaborating with others, sharing information freely, and a spirit of mutual support. Theoretically, the studio questioned Modernist Ideas of Utopia and Progress and all of their implications such as Growth. City Hacking’s underlying ethos is to build a fairer, more sustainable world by questioning the existing failed status quo and proposing alternative strategies for the city of Nottingham in the year 2040. Year 5 Students Imraj Bassi, Christopher Bentley, Max Oliver Bolton, Anna Luff, Liam McDonald, Deepan Patel, Jessica Rowden, Adam Brown. Year 6 Students Chris Beardsmore, Kristian Bjerre, Foteini Chachali, James Fitzgerald, Rallou Grigoropoulou, Joshua Hovey, George Mathew, Jonathan Wall.

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01 Fig 01. Joshua Hovey. Sneinton Collaborative Architecture Centre. View of the raised interior circulation.

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Fig 02-04. Joshua Hovey. Sneinton Collaborative Architecture Centre. View from the mezzanine; view of the west entrance; and view of the yard.

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07 Fig 05-07. Kristian Bjerre. Nottingham Bike Works. Winner: The LaFarge Tectonics Prize (Concrete). Long section illustrating the central ramp; view of the entrance from the street; and tectonic study model.

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Fig 08-10. Adam Brown. Beta Works. Sectional studies; aerial view; and scheme overview axonometric drawing.

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Architecture Studio Studio Tutors Dr Philip Oldfield Dik Jarman Visiting Critics William Algaard Hugh Avison Matthew Hayhurst Tal Ben-Amar Vassia Chatzikonstantinou Ronald Lu Nicole Porter Toby Blackman Anthony Barber

Current trends in global population and urbanisation are widely known, but worth revisiting; by 2050, less than 40 years from now, the world’s urban population will stand at over six billion – almost double what it is today, with the United Nations suggesting such growth will result in almost 200,000 new people being added to world’s cities every day. If multiplied, this is the equivalent to a new London being needed every six weeks for decades to come. The question is where, and how, will these people live, work and play? What kind of lifestyle does such urban growth foster, and how can we improve this both socially and environmentally? The Hyperdensity studio was based in Hong Kong with the urban interventions, new typologies, technical developments and activities of the city providing one of the most fertile and exciting contexts for rigorous and relevant architectural investigation and intervention. Students were challenged to explore this context through multiple media; mapping, drawing, film and design, to speculate what types of lifestyles can manifest in such environments and how the architecture of intensity, verticality and compactness can make a positive, rather than negative, impact on the city. Year 5 Students Niharika Arora, Luke Askwith, Henry Cheng, Charlotte Chin, Longqi Gao, Socratis Hadjicostis, Jonathan Hughes, Hui Shuen Julia Lee, Helen McGhee, Charlotte Richardson, Nan Zhou. Year 6 Students Alexander Balchin, Giulia de Mauro, Yiyi Liu, Rikesh Mistry, Alfred Roden.

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01 Fig 01. Alfred Roden. The Fringe. Mapping terrain vagues in London and Hong Kong.

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04 Fig 02-04. Alfred Roden. The Social Occupation of the Volume Vague. New urban vision for Mongkok, aerial view; mapping the volume vague axonometric drawing; and cutaway axonometric drawing.

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08 Fig 05-08. Rikesh Mistry. The Boundless Merchant. Atmospheric section; eastern elevation; view of the vertical market place; and axonometric drawing illustrating the storage wall.

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Fig 09-12. Alexander Balchin. Communities in the Sky. Winner: Foster and Partners Architecture Award. Long city section; view of the mid level sky bridge; view of the intervention between the sky bridge; existing structures; and axonometric drawing of a residential community.

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Final Year Review in Progress. (Photo: Dr Katharina Borsi)

Specialist Masters MArch Theory & Design MArch Design MArch Environmental Design MArch Sustainable Tall Buildings MArch Sustainable Urban Design MArch Digital Architecture & Tectonics

Specialist Masters Studios Theory & Design; Digital Architecture & Tectonics; Environmental Design; Sustainable Tall Buildings; Sustainable Urban Design Course Coordinator Dr Wang Qi

Within the Department, MArch courses embrace a spectrum of diverse specialisms in the field of the Built Environment. In the academic year 2014-2015, over 70 students, mainly from overseas, registered on six different research streams: MArch in Design, MArch in Sustainable Tall Building, MArch in Environmental Design, MArch in Sustainable Urban Design, MArch in Digital Architecture and Tectonics and MArch in Theory and Design. These research streams offered five specialist design studios in each semester. Organized by its vigorous staff, the students had opportunities to explore various architectural challenges in the forms of live projects, funded projects and international competitions. All these activities not only structured a dynamic and exciting Nottingham Experience for these international postgraduates, but also contributed to the Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research profile. As shown in this Yearbook, we want to celebrate the quality and diversity of this degree through showcasing selected studio work, whilst looking forward to our next successful student cohort in 2015-16.

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Students of the MArch Digital Technology and Tectonics studio construct their space enclosure in time for its unveiling at the End of Year Show, 2015. (Photos: Paolo Beccerelli).

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Theory & Design Studio Tutors Dr Wang Qi Dr Lei Yanhui Sophie Waterhouse Daniel Erskine

Beijing Zoo and Portable Science Camp Both semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theory and Design studios were externally funded live-projects with specific focus on promoting architectural design in the field of science popularization. The Autumn semester studio was funded by the Beijing Xicheng District Government and explored measures to revamp the area around Beijing Zoo to develop a new capital of science in the capital of China. The studio revitalized the existing wholesale market building as a future hub of science informal learning, which not only will link with the current public scientific facilities close by, but will also provide new opportunities for the emergence of innovation and businesses. The spring semester studio, Portable Science Camp, was funded by Weichuang BoZhi Science Education Co. Ltd. and the Chinese Academy of Science. It focused on creating futuristic lightweight, movable and sustainable camp structures to host 20 plus students and staff in different sites with high value placed on informal scientific education. The students chose challenging sites from typical climates and topological territories around the world and the final outcomes reflect wonderful combination of rational design theories and free imagination. Students Ming Cheng, Selin Erbay, Ce Guo, Hazwan Ariff Hakimi, Faldar Sedqi, Yun Huang, Xianglai Meng, Dhruv Pahuja, Awat Latif Qader, Wentao Shi, Rohit Somanathan, Yujie Song, Zhenyu Sun, Tong Yin, Yu Chen, Xiaomeng Geng, Manvi Gupta, Daldar Sedqi Hasan, Gopika Balakrishnan, Arjun Shah, Wentao Shi, Priya Varkey, Yuwen Zhang.

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01 Fig 01. Yu Chen. Portable Science Camp. Scheme overview, exploded axonometric drawing.

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Fig 02-06. Chen Yu. Portable Science Camp. Longitudinal Section; technical model photographs illustrating the elevator mechanism; and perspective view of the proposed scheme.

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Digital Architecture &Tectonics Studio Leader Dr Chantelle Niblock Dr John Harding Visiting Critics Prof John Chilton Dr Paolo Beccarelli Visiting Lecturers Wolfgang Buttress

Digital Architecture Studio The Digital Architecture studio comprised a series of small design projects, through which students investigated technologies in an interdisciplinary manner to provide innovative solutions that are supported by appropriate technical evidence, testing and modelling. In the first week students participated in a collaborative chair design triathlon with the Product Design students at the University of Nottingham. This was a great opportunity for new international students to meet local students and familiarise themselves with the studio space and digital fabrication facilities in the Centre for 3D Design. The main project was an individual project to design a Cycle Station, at the industrial historic Bennelery Viaduct. Co-studio tutor Dr John Harding - principal designer and leader of the Computational Design Team at Ramboll UK Ltd - provided computational advice throughout the studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design development and specialised computational workshops, using Grasshopper and Kangaroo software. The Digital Architecture studio is supported by a seminar series called Digital Design and Fabrication which includes research seminars and digital fabrication workshops. This year, students were introduced to tensile fabric structure software by Dr Paolo Beccarelli, foldable structures by Sean Lu, and a parametric modelled space-frame structure workshop was delivered by Tom Bennett. Students Andika Boenjamin, Yu Chen, Yujie Chen, Johnson Enyenihi , Zaid Nachan, Kan Ye, Wen Zhang, Jing Zhou

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02 Fig 01. Yu Chen. Digital Chair Proposal. Designed as part of the Chair Design Triathlon in collaboration with product design students. Fig 02. Zaid Nachan. Digital Chair Proposal. Designed as part of the Chair Design Triathlon in collaboration with product design students.

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Fig 03-04. Yu Chen. Cycle Station at Bennerley Viaduct. Exterior perspective and elevation.

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06 Fig 05. Jing Zhou & Yujie Chen. Milan Information Pavilion. Exterior view of the approach. Fig 06. Wen Zhang. Milan Information Pavilion. Exterior view of the approach.

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Digital Technology & Tectonics Studio Tutors John Harding Paolo Beccerelli

Space Enclosure Studio Space Enclosure is a studio-based module in which the students are asked to explore the integrated, research-informed design of a medium to large volume architectural space. The students investigated the potential for the application of innovative materials, lightweight, complex and 3-dimensional structures and associated technologies at both building and individual component scale, in order to stimulate creative design solutions. Although environmental performance has also been considered, the emphasis of the project has been on the integration of architectural and tectonic aspects of space enclosure, with alternative structural and faรงade forms explored in concept through physical and digital design modelling. Spatial quality, human comfort and the environmental impact / sustainability of the design solution were also key focuses of the projects. The module was based on advanced digital design skills and involved the extensive use of software for 3D modelling and parametric design using tools such as Rhino, Rhino Grasshopper, Rhino Membrane, MPanel, etc. Inspired by nature, a key theme of the projects was to work at various scales of design, investigating the relationship between relatively small scale components and a larger assemblage of many components into an emergent outcome. The first project was focused on the design of a new extension to the Yorkshire Air Museum to exhibit a series of aircraft. The aim of the second project was to design a new typology for a Greenhouse to encourage people to grow a particular plant-based food in an urban environment. Students Andika Visono Boenjamin, Johnson Enyenihi, Yuezong Liu, Zaid Nachan, Muygech Sok, Kai Song, Xinggang Xuan, Yichi Zhang, Wen Zhang, Chunhui Zheng, Jing Zhou.

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03 Fig 01-03. Yichi Zhang & Kai Song. Yorkshire Air Museum. Lateral views of the final presentation model.

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08 Fig 04-08. Jing Zhou. Greenhouse Project. View of the approach and details of the various components making up the structure.

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12 Fig 09-11. Zaid Nachan & Johnson Enyenihi. Yorkshire Air Museum. View from within the museum; exploded diagram illustrating the spatial composition of installations and envelope; detail of a bespoke gusset plate; and aerial view of the proposal.

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Environmental Design

Studio Tutors Brian Ford Benson Lau

The Primer Project The Environmental Design Studio is the key primer module for the MArch in Environmental Design Course. This course aims to provide training in an Evidence Informed Design approach, intended primarily for postgraduate students and practitioners in architecture and the building industry who wish to broaden their knowledge in sustainable building design and meaningful application of environmental design principles and practice in architectural projects. It is also for individuals who wish to pursue research careers in sustainable design related areas. The MArch Environmental Design proposes an integrated environmental design approach in architecture with emphasis on the theoretical and technological aspects of environmental design in architecture are treated in equal measures during the two 30-credit studio design projects (the Primer and Advanced Environmental Design Project). The design project modules are supported by the 15-credit lecture based supplementary modules. The challenge this year was to design a Primary School on a triangular site located at the northern part of the main campus of the University of Nottingham. Since the site is located right next to the busy Derby Road, students were asked to develop architecturally innovative and environmentally sound design solutions taking into account the climatic impacts, site constraints and opportunities. Different climatic conditions: Nottingham, Madrid, Colombo and Dakar were chosen for students to design site specific and climatically responsive design proposals. The key challenges of this module are to integrate the environmental design principles and concepts at the formative stages of the design process and to selectively use both analogue and digital building performance prediction tools to test the building performance, so that more holistic design solutions can be achieved. Students Zina Riadh Abdulla, Roshini Mohan Krishna Gontla, Manvi Gupta, Aiki Kawai, Ruixue Li, Xueli Linghu, Yuezong Liu, Sabrina Afroz Mostofa, Olumurewa Ogunkoya, Swastika Parija, Fatemeh Rabani Mousavian, Chenglei Sheng, Kai Song, Yao Wang, Shengcan Yang, Yichi Zhang, Yuwen Zhang

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02 Fig 01-02. Chenglei Sheng. Primary School in Madrid. Winner: St Gobain Portfolio Prize (MArch) Final presentation model and view of the internal courtyard.

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Fig 03-04. Sabrina Afroz Mostofa. Primary School in Colombo. Aerial perspective and view from the roof top garden.

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06 Fig 05-06. Zina Abdulla. Primary School in Nottingham. View of the front court and view toward a classroom.

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Environmental Design Studio Tutors Dr Lucelia Rodrigues Visiting Tutors & Critics Prof Nick Ebbs Dr Nicole Porter Laura Alvarez Stefan Kruzkowski Nick Newman Bryce Gilroy-Scott Cllr Steve Barber John Delaney

Sustainable & Resilient Architecture Sustainability and Resilience through Design: The Regeneration of Beeston, Nottinghamshire The Environmental Design Project 2 is a second semester studio opened to all MArch in Architecture students wanting to learn more about sustainability in the built environment. The projects not only incorporate elements of environmental design, which have been practiced in the Environmental Design Studio primer project, but also aim to address sustainability on a broader level starting from the urban scale. Urban planning and building design affect human and natural systems, and therefore require an approach that reflects the interdependencies inherent within these social-ecological structures in order to build resilience and sustainability. These interdependencies were the focus of this studio, explored this year through a ‘live’ project, the redevelopment of Beeston in Nottinghamshire. The project was supported by the Broxtowe Borough Council and the local community actively engaged with the students. The brief asked for projects that addressed issues such as: the need to improve the town’s image, the lack of leisure facilities and evening economies, the need for affordable energy efficient housing, and the adaptation to the new reality of Beeston turning into a major transport hub. Proposals were required to promote sustainable development and resilience for Beeston’s town centre, currently rundown and in need of regeneration. Projects had to give appropriate presence and scale to the new tram/bus interchange and to Beeston itself through the development of a mixed use scheme that could include retail, residential, cultural, hotel, night-time activities, etc. Careful consideration should have been given to the creation of an active ground floor frontage, the links with important landmarks and the creation of a destination with a statement building/place. Students were then asked to concentrate on this statement building and develop it to a high level of detail. Designs had to demonstrably meet the Passivhaus principles, a stringent standard for energy efficient buildings. The project was part of a national competition organised by the Passivhaus Trust, aiming at giving students a creative vehicle to learn about transforming an existing town centre and its buildings into a low energy sustainable place. The competition was sponsored by Lafarge Tarmac and the winners presented their work publically in October 2015. The images you see on these pages are extractions from the works of: the winner Chenglei Sheng, the highly commended Sabrina Mostofa and the shortlisted Liu Fengling. Students Zina Abdulla, Ming Cheng, Roshini Gontla Krishna, Aiki Kawai, Ruixue, Zueli Linghu, Fengling Liu, Sabrina Mostofa, Olumurewa Ogunkoya, Swastika Parija, Fatemeh Rabani Mousavian, Chenglei Sheng, Shengcan Yang.

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08 Fig 01-08. Chenglei Sheng. Multi Beeston. Winner: St Gobain Portfolio Prize (MArch) Diagrams illustrating the development of the Masterplan, together with a view of the final proposed masterplan scheme.

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Fig 09-13. Chenglei Sheng. Multi Beeston. Winner: St Gobain Portfolio Prize (MArch) View of the approach from Station Street; aerial view of the proposal; South-East and South West Elevation; and the proposed first floor residential plan.

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15 Fig 14. Fengling Liu. The Green Hive. Winter view of the approach from the Square Fig 15. Sabrina Mostafa. IBEE. Masterplan environmental concept diagram.

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Sustainable Tall Buildings Studio Tutors David Nicholson-Cole Dr Philip Oldfield Visiting Tutors & Critics Xianfeng Wu John Edmonds Jason Seward Lukasz Platkowski Steve Fernandes Steve Nicholson Ivan Jovanovic Tom Rhys Jones Akshay Sethi Paul Simovic John Prevc Ben Stuart Ian Staples Ben Wallbank Noura Ghabra

Tall Buildings Studio: Feng.Guang.Gao The Tall Building Studio is the design base for the specialised Masters degree in Sustainable Tall Buildings. The emphasis is on sustainable buildings, which are socially, environmentally and economically appropriate to their context, culture and climate. We programme for bioclimatically oriented, energy generating, transport connected, mixed use designs, with additional concepts to elevate them from useful urban buildings to vehicles for research which propose new ideas and question existing concepts of building tall, whether in Asia, US or Europe. In the first semester, we do a ‘pocket tower’. In 2014, it was on a corner site in a densely crowded part of Hong Kong. Pocket towers may combine many uses including vertical retail, cultural, community, education, office and residential, transport subways, food farming, manufacturing, energy generation all on one compact footprint with bioclimatically appropriate design and adherence to the building standards of the city. The second semester is usually a London cluster. We have done Canary Wharf, Leamouth, Elephant and Castle, South Bank in recent years. The Blackfriars cluster of 2015 is built around, under and above a Victorian railway viaduct on the Thames frontage next to Queen’s Jubilee Walk, including a ‘micro-university’, rail station, cultural, conference, office, parking, retail and tourist facilities, 400-600 apartments, hotel or student dwellings, expansion of urban green park space, and underground servicing. Engineering excellence and safety, community versus privacy, family and child friendly environment, urban ventilation, ground conditions, fire safety, view management, massing, economic viability, wider demographic and economic impacts are always considered. Students work in groups or individually, and along with their design process, must produce reports on Facade, Structure, Vertical Systems and Environmental strategies. Design teaching includes guest architects from some of the world’s largest architectural practices, and included an optional field trip to New York in April 2015. Students Hemant Bagul, Huzefa Juzer Chahwala, Hang Ding, Ainoha Etchegaray, Tianyi Geng, Sifan Guo, Kapil Jagdish Kabra, Jitesh Rajendra Kansara, Tasneem Kuresh Zaveri, Trong Nhan Le, Teng Li, Xuan Luo, Xianglai Meng, Preetika Verma, Jingzhe Wang, Yao Wang, Zeqi Wu, Teng Xinwan, Tong Yin, Shah Arjun, Fengling Liu, Chunhui Zheng, Balakrishnan Gopika, Priya Varkey, Hang Ding, Xiaomeng Geng, Xinggang Xuan.

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01 Fig 01. RoRox Group: Zuan Luo, Zeqi Wu & Xinwan Teng. Blackfriars Cluster. Illustrated sectional study.

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05 Fig 02. RoRox Group: Zuan Luo, Zeqi Wu & Xinwan Teng. Blackfriars Cluster. Dusk view from across the river. Fig 03. Ainoha Etcheray. Hong Kong Pocket Tower. View of the Market from street level. Fig 04-05. TRT Group: Trong Nhan Lee, Tianyi Geng, Teng Li. Hong Kong Pocket Tower and Blackfriars Cluster. Winner (Trong Nhan Lee): Canary Wharf Sustainable Tall Buildings Prize View of the vertical farm within the pocket tower; and view of the cluster from Blackfriars Bridge.

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10 Fig 06-07. RoRox Group: Zuan Luo, Zeqi Wu & Xinwan Teng. Hong Kong Pocket Tower. View from a neighbouring tall building and sectional study. Fig 08-10. SiGiYa Group: Sifan Guo, Gigi Wang & Yao Wang. Blackfriars Cluster. Section through the library; final presentation model; and view from across the river.

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Sustainable Urban Design Studio Tutors Yan Zhu Samantha Worrall Megan Nottingham

Infusing the City The studio focused on a mixed-use development in Birmingham, south of the Bullring and north to China Town. It aimed to enable students to weave together the various strands of urban design thought - visual, social, functional, environmental and economic - which constitute the full extent of urban design action. Students are encouraged to understand the importance of the design process as a fundamental component of achieving a high quality public realm. They are expected to deliver a comprehensive urban design proposal that reflects social, cultural, environmental and economic demands of urban sustainability using an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Integrated Design Approachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The studio tutor Samantha Worrall is an architect and urban designer from CPMG Nottingham office and she has intensive experience in urban design projects. In addition, Megan Nottingham supports studio tutoring; she is a former MArch Urban Design student of the programme, and currently pursues her PhD. Students Jiayuan Dai, Shweta Falgun Desai, Ashna Dsouza, Maria Josefina Escobar, Jinghe Huang, Yiwen Ju, Dhea Bunga Daramitha Kusdianto, Sachin Porkute, Wenkai Song, Chang Sun, Wenjing Wu, Meng Zhang, Muygech Sok, Kabra Kapil, Huangfu Guo, Hans Muhlenbrock, Collins Ukpabia, Yogesh Verma, Dhruv Pahuja, Yujie Chen, Kan Ye.

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01 Fig 01. Group work. Reconfiguring the City: Shenzhen Urban Regeneration. Proposed illustrated masterplan.

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05 Fig 01. Group work. Reconfiguring the City: Shenzhen Urban Regeneration. Aerial view of the proposed masterplan. Fig 03-05. Muhlenbrock Hans. Birmingham Urban Farm Community. Ground floor plan; aerial view of the masterplan; and exploded axonometric scheme overview.

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10 Fig 06-10. Wenkai Song. Sustainable Revitalisation of Birmingham City Centre. Overview of the landscape and progression path proposal; environmental sustainability concept; and views from within various public spaces along the progression path.

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Year 5 and 6 Students from Studios 1 and 4 on their field trip to Berlin, November 2014. (Photo: Pippa Grayson)

Beyond the Studio Studying architecture does not merely involve attending lectures, writing essays and designing in studio. Academic life at the DABE is regularly interjected by a host of workshops, competitions, field trips, exhibitions, social events, guest lectures and conferences. These activities create an active social forum for architecture, celebrate student achievements, and perhaps most importantly, contribute to an exciting and challenging student experience and rounded education.

Architecture Matters Reflections on the Architecture Matters Lecture Series 3, 2014/15 by John Morgan Series Coordinator The organisers of Architecture Matters are very grateful for the continued support that this lecture series receives. To our students who faithfully attended week in, week out, particularly those not deterred by impending deadlines, this vote of thanks is for you. So too to our guest lecturers, we are grateful for giving their time to visit Nottingham, and particularly those who willingly gave extra time to engage informally with our students in the studios. And not least of all, thanks to the department, whose funding enables these lectures to enhance the student experience. For the 2014-15 lecture series, the overarching theme was ‘Operating at Scale’. It was posed to invited lecturers as a challenge for presenting their projects within the context of the relevant scale at which their designs operate. There was an added caveat identifying a range of scales, which allowed for the diverse backgrounds represented. It was therefore welcome to speculate on one, or more, from the immediate 1:1 of details, or the intermediate scale of a building and its relationship to surrounding context and/or landscape, and up to the ‘meta’ scale of the city as built environment. This informed the content of the series of twelve lectures, whose posters are summarised here. Notably, an ambitious Ivan Harbour of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners covered all three scales with his lecture on his firm’s recently completed cluster of towers in Sydney, Australia – spanning the site’s urban integration, development of the façade concept and all the way to the detailing of the entrance hall’s chandelier. Other guests, such as Prof Peter Bishop and Prof Lawrence Barth approached their lectures from a specialist position, as each presented urban intervention projects with a spatial and political dimension. That contrasted with Julian Lewis’s sensibility for producing public spaces, as seen in East’s projects for the square as urban room and an expansive marshland as park landscape. Open space was also Prof Mark Pimlott’s launch point into a theoretical enquiry into modernity’s spatial order, iconography and its artistic practices. There were overlaps too with the lecture by Alun Jones of Dow Jones Architects, but the latter’s enquiry was immersed

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in materiality, the intimate scale of architectural interventions and an interest about truth in construction. The examples of Crypt of Christ Church, Spitalfields (by Hawksmoor) raised issues about the appropriateness of modifying historic structures, and that point was later explored in detail by Julian Harrap in his lecture on his own principles for an adaptive conservation and re-use of historic structures. Rules per se are not confined to re-purposing older buildings, as demonstrated by the lectures focussing on making. In the work of Office Winhov, as presented by Uri Gilad, their approach to planning and façade design is derived from the application of a calm, rational order. By contrast, Frank Barkow, Barkow Leibinger Architekten, showed a range of projects derived from both analogue and digital tools that are linked to the fabrication technologies that are integral to their design practices. Both lectures are bound together by the fact that, despite distinct approaches to making, they rely on the physical model for developing and representing their architecture. Rounding out the line up, there were lectures delivered by Simon Henley of HHbR, Edgar Gonzalez of Brisac Gonzalez Architects and Alastair Hall of Hall McKnight. Each one took the audience through a selection of recent projects and the underlying conceptual position that informs their respective design processes. Beyond that, their special commitment to lecture is notable, thus proving that they are indeed good friends of Nottingham’s school of architecture. Architecture Mattes will return in 2015-16 under its mandate to inspire, to entertain and to educate. Look out for lectures on Thursdays during term time.

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Posters from the third series of Architecture Matters, 2014-2015.

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Tongue and Groove (T&G) Student Society Tongue and Groove: Year in Review 2014/15 by Anthony Grout T&G President 2015-16 T&G (Tongue & Groove), the University of Nottingham’s architecture society, run a broad range of activities, both educational and social, for students and staff of the department. In the first semester, the previous committee ran welcome social events, workshops, film nights, hosted a lecture by James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake and rounded the semester off with an excellent Christmas Party. The new semester brought about the election of the new committee. We began by teaming up with the Architecture Matters lecture series, by providing free food and drink for members after each lecture. This provided an opportunity to talk to and discuss that week’s lecturer in an informal, social setting. Socially, we celebrated Pancake Day in suitable fashion and finished the term with the Easter Party. The crowning social event in the department calendar has always been the End of Year Ball, and this year’s Secret Garden themed event was no different. With more than 270 guests, a drinks reception, three course meal, professional photographer, singer-songwriter, jazz band and DJ, the ball was a great chance for everyone to take a break from impending deadlines and celebrate the end of the year. Alongside events, the committee also began to introduce support for sport within the department, set up a monthly Instagram photo competition and trialled the introduction of a mentoring scheme between fifth and second years. The T&G committee hope to continue this work into the coming years and keep improving life within the department.

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Committee 2015-16 President: Anthony Grout Vice-Presidents: Sheleendra Fernando, Victoria Johnson Treasurer: Hannah Watkins Secretary: Raluca Burlacu Social Secretaries: Jessica Taylor-Tibbott, Charlotte Chin Publicity Secretary: China Chapman Transport Secretary: Christopher Bentley

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Images from the Tongue and Groove Architects Ball, May 2015 (The Secret Garden). Photos courtesy of Ty Read Photography.

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Study Abroad Opportunities Universitas 21 Student Exchange Programmes 2014/15 by Dr Nicole Porter Student Exchange Coordinator As a member of the Universitas 21 (U21) network, Nottingham presents numerous opportunities for students to engage with the built environment within an international context. Student exchange programs, as well as international fieldtrips, summer schools and exposure to the diverse internationally linked research activities of staff, form an essential part of the Nottingham student experience. By hosting students from afar, we benefit from additional cultural perspectives and approaches to architecture, and as our students returning to Nottingham attest, going on exchange brings new challenges, new people and places to learn from… and a great adventure. In 2014 – 15, a select number of year 2 and year 5 students exchanged between TU Delft Netherlands, Deakin (Geelong) Australia, University of Sydney and Capetown South Africa. We welcomed several Intercampus exchange architecture students from the Ningbo campus, China, as well as having one Nottingham student attend Ningbo. Futher Information: Students can apply to study for one semester at one of several world leading partner institutions. Prospective future students can find out more about out all our exchange programs at www.nottingham.ac.uk/ internationalstudents/exchanges/index.aspx OR contact Dr Nicole Porter: Nicole.porter@nottingham.ac.uk.

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Adam Brown, Student Exchange to Sydney, Autumn 2014: “Studying abroad is an opportunity I would recommend to everyone, and was one of the best experiences of my life. I met some amazing people and did things that I never even dreamed I would. The University of Sydney was quite a bit different to Nottingham, mostly revolving around group work, which was a nice change. I undertook 3 modules in total, the mostly heavily weighted being an urban studio module where we had to masterplan a large former industrial park in Camellia, Western Sydney. I also took a structures class where we learned about methods of calculating frames and finally a parametrics class in which we learned a lot of grasshopper and python, which was something I always wanted to learn. The social side of studying abroad was obviously fantastic. I lived in a fair few places whilst I was there, the best of them being a flat with 14 people in a 3 bed apartment (Sydney is expensive…). I travelled a fair bit whilst I was there too. A 10 day break driving two campervans down from Brisbane to Sydney was my mid semester break and then a month travelling around New Zealand before coming back to Nottingham. It was an experience that I will never forget and if anyone gets the chance, they should do.”

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An aerial view of a masterplan designed by Adam Brown as part of his exchange programme at the University of Sydney, together with photographs of his adventures exploring Australia.

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Field Trips 2014/15 Paris, France. Students from BArch Architecture & MEng Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1), Year 1. November 2014.

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Images: Bhavneet Kudhail, Jonny Ryley, Kristian Bjerre, Tom Bradley. (View the instagram album: #dabeparis)

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Berlin, Germany. Students from MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2), Studios 1 & 4. November 2014.

Images: Nick Haynes, Laura Sheridan, Sheleendra Fernando, James Bishop, Pippa Grayson. (View the instagram album: #dabeberlin)

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Field Trips 2014/15 Detroit, USA. Students from MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2), Studio 5. November 2014.

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Images: Kristian Bjerre, Steve Parnell, James Fitzgerald.

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Hong Kong, China. Students from MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2), Studios 6. November 2014.

Images: Dr Philip Oldfield.

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