Unit F Post-Immigration 2013 - 2014
Year 3 :
Charlotte Boyd Francesca Ghavami Carlos Filipe Pinto Darren Chong Lucy Peart Jack Perry Katie Reilly Rebecca Smale Tatiana Southey-Bassols Jessica Wood Harriet Ainscough Callum Boult Stefania Chytiroglou Annika Francis
Year 2 :
Victoria Adegoke Ryan Gormley Georgina Hale Maya Shankla Oliver Taylor Simisola Abidakun Sean King Henry McNeil Sai Supriya Kumar
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Catrina Stewart, Hugh McEwen, Ronnie McLellan
This year Unit F has erased the negative architectural connotations of the term ‘immigrant’ through projects that highlight and celebrate the benefits architectural immigration has on society and the built environment. Architectural cross-pollination has always followed migration, and this has produced some of the most interesting and successful architectural styles. Students have investigated culture, materials and communication by examining national characteristics, international links and our own particularities. The projects are sited in Gibraltar, where we find a meeting place of architectural histories, with Moorish baths overlaid by Spanish Catholic churches, next to British fortifications. Cemeteries are placed cheek by jowl with runways and gun forts peer over naturist beaches. The extreme geography and rich culture has allowed the students design architecture made up of layers of narrative, depicted through hybrids of drawings, renders and models. By developing their own personal briefs, modes of representation and architectural responses, the students of Unit F have been supported to work in their own way, and achieve their full potential.
The Office Cycle Charlotte Boyd charlotteboyd18@hotmail.com Gibraltar is a small and thriving country, with a rich history and lifestyle. However due to the size of Gibraltar space is limited, cars and roads are a major issue causing congestion and traffic. With the idea of movement from my previous project I started by exploring the different types of movement in Gibraltar, from the movement of rock in the World War II tunnels to the movement of people in Gibraltar. Focusing on the movement of bikes and based on the site, where the Theatre Royal once stood, my design was centred on creating the ultimate environment and work space for people to start up internet businesses. My design would enable users to ride their bikes through the design where they would gain access to knowledge and space to set up their internet businesses.
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Perspective view into Office Cycle
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The Backbone of the Borderland Francesca Ghavami francesca_ghavami@hotmail.co.uk The second project stems from a very significant time in Gibraltar’s history - the closing of the border, June 1969. The border closure has played an enormous part in the way in which Gibraltar formed and also is significant today due to the current situation at the border. The project takes a poignant reminder to a specific story where by families would meet at the border to throw food over as trade and labour was stopped. Bread in particular became a key focus as this was something that would be exchanged and passed through the gates from one side to another. The project creates a space along the border which can be accessed from both sides but never physically crossed. This allows for the building to always be a meeting point or a place of exchange even in the future if situations between Spain and Gibraltar were to change. This would remain a place where the fences and border walls would allow the two communities to interact by using the border wall itself as a point of exchange. For most, the border is seen as disruptive with illegal smuggling and generally not a very nice place but I propose that my building would in fact erase these negative connotations and instead create an infrastructure where the two communities would always be able to interact and use the border in a positive way. This enabled me to create a space where the two communities could meet to bake bread and either enjoy by eating together across the border or exchanging each others bread at the ‘bread’ gates (my shrine). Although the border is necessary for security, it would be viewed also as a place to bring two communities together to exchange cultural cuisines and customs and provide a reminder to both sides of the positivity the border wall can have on their communities. The fences used within the building will work in a way to allow for interaction but provide security when necessary. Often borders and fences are seen as a tool to separate however this border wall will unite the two sides and create a space for both communities to use.
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Tawoos Carlos Filipe Pinto carlospintoarch@gmail.com This project consists of the recycling of the exceeding seagull guano in Gibraltar’s old water catching systems, by farming of herbs. These herbs are used throughout the building, in both selling at the market and as scents in the spas. Colour codes are assigned to each herb, allowing the visitors and workers to be aware of which scents are being delivered, and what herbs are to be collected.
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Sectional Perspective into building
Exploded Axonometric of Water Boiler
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Gibraltar Marine Life Conervation Hub Darren Chong 11026609@brookes.ac.uk The final project makes it clear to the Spanish as to why artificial reefs are used in Gibraltar, defusing the conflict. The shrines celebrate an increase in the number of fish in the area while helping them grow within a habitat that will feed and protect them, also giving them a place to easily research fish. The lights coming from the shines and the main building also attracts customers. Customers will come to the main building and climb to the top but on the way observe why the old method of clam farming is unsustainable, how the helping hand are helping the bay in the marine biology labs and reefs by opening views into different places and using augmentation to explain these ideas further in the window panes.
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Augmented Reality Window Views
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Centro Artesanal Lucy Peart lucypeart@hotmail.co.uk Built by community, for community, Centro Artesanal stands as the central hub for a much larger urban scale redevelopment; the re-surfacing of Gibraltar’s roads to incorporate a multi-cultural and religious pilgrimage route across the entire Rock, celebrating its diverse heritage and community backgrounds. Community involvement and self-build ethos in both the manufacture and construction of the roads and of Centro Artesanal itself means the ideas put forward here will be ever changing and continue to grow in size and develop over many years to come. The design of both mosaic patterns and building fabric will draw unique influence from every individual involved - making their own contribution for generations on to recognise and most importantly promote further integration between existing cultures; both youth and elder. The architecture of Centro Artesanal is representative of the desire to preserve tradition in all forms of construction and craftsmen technique - use of multi- purpose materials; all forged and distributed from the heart of the building, and in location emphasize the importance of Cathedral St. Mary the Crowned within its community; having undergone crosscultural transformations itself.
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Plastic Fantastic Jack Perry jackedwardperry@gmail.com The driver behind this year’s work is celebrating an unfashionable material, plastic. A design-led exploration of plastic’s negative (and fallacious) connotations is coupled with projects based upon politics and democracy. The architecture takes on a satire, using plastic as a language to describe the projects’ functions and critique both contemporary taste and architecture. There is simultaneously a celebration of plastic, exaggerating its potential and celebrating the democratic aspects of the project functions. The newspaper’s long history is defined by an approach of exercising democracy, by expressing free speech through the free press. Plastic is again hung in tension here to describe the delicacy of democracy, celebrating its short-term periods as necessary. The offices are in the main square in Gibraltar and they address the public through a play with hierarchy, translucency and controlled & conscious accessibility. The architecture is developed spatially by improving plans of older versions of offices and functionally through a drive to create an independent architecture to match this independent newspaper.
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Salt Spa Katie Reilly katie.reilly93@hotmail.co.uk My project was inspired by an article in the ‘Gibraltar Chronicle’ where a body painting artist described her latest client, a man in a wheelchair, as ‘half human half machine, with the heart connected to the machinery’. I wanted my design to redefine the architect’s approach to ‘accessible architecture’ by looking past the standard Part M regulations and embrace disability as the ‘norm’ and an integral part to design and not just an addition. My design proposes a place of healing through salt, for those with both visible and invisible disabilities. Ramps dictate the user’s journey through warm and cold saline pools and into the variety of healing spaces. The tread of the wheelchair leave their memories engraved into the salt floors, as they move between the pools which leads to the salt massage space. Here is where the grain of the salt crystals stimulates stiff muscles and rejuvenates unhappy skin. This design is a reflection of social diversity, and further a celebration of our mental and physical differences.
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The Data Ship Rebecca Smale Email address The implementation of the Docklands Light Railway in 1987 was the catalyst for the regeneration of the London Docklands. Marking a transition from a physical form of trading, in wool, tea and clay bricks to a virtual trade in stocks and shares. The steam from the ships and factories which once lined the Docklands now emits from the air conditioning units in high rise structures which have claimed the West India Docks. This shift has produced a new kind of architecture grown out of an industrial infrastructure. The relaxation of planning laws in Canary wharf encouraged growth in the area, physically in the form of structures but also virtually in terms of the economy. In 2011 Chinese commercial developer ABP purchased a turn a piece of land in East London with aim to turn it into the capital city’s next business district. The 35-acre land on the Royal Albert Dock is intended to accommodate Chinese and Asian businesses looking to base their operations in Britain. The Data Ship address the new businesses need for rapid internet connections and transfer and storage of virtual data in a secure, reliable and local physical location. Based in Herons Quay, the data ship is a self-contained floating data centre capable of navigating the River Thames and adjoining Docklands. The rammed earth ship exchanges data with buildings in a shroud of steam and is capable of networking with multiple data ships to increase its capabilities before dispersing to a different location.
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A POLITICIAN’S COFFEHOUSE Tatiana Southey-Bassols tsouthey@btinternet.com The design of a Spanish coffeehouse explores the public and private potential of spaces of debate and discussion through ceremonial routes and overlapping moments. This is explored through the current dispute between Britain and Spain in regard to Gibraltar’s Sovereignty, especially as the people of Gibraltar have been exempt from these discussions. The building enforces a dialogue between the three parties at a local level, creating a relationship based on trust through the story revolving around the private objects within the diplomatic bag and the Spanish politician in residence on Gibraltarian soil. The building responds to the art of debate through the materiality of translucent red and yellow resin combined with a sand salt structure. The light intensifying the colours heightens the emotional impact the building has on its users and the mood of the building, enhancing the impression of transparency, whilst the coffee pods heated by the sand structure itself, stimulate debate. The building’s position on a World War II outlook post redefines the site as a contemporary fortress appropriating the strategic viewpoints towards Spain and Gibraltar to unfold the form of the building, utilising the typology of embassy structures as precedent for the hierarchy and sequence of spaces.
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The Epistolary Library of Gibraltar Jessica Wood jesswoodarchitecture@gmail.com The Epistolary Library of Gibraltar is a proposal which responds to Gibraltar’s need to preserve its military memories through the archiving of letters, which it receives from both the military and the public. Visitors are able to post their letters directly to the library to be sorted and archived; the Royal Mail also delivers letters to the library’s post boxes, and emailed letters are printed – as are copies of the hard-copy letters – to supplement the library. Unlike the collections of the Garrison library, this proposal accepts the ephemeral nature of its archives, with letters needing to be replaced daily. The letters, which are both part of the building fabric – providing insulation and shelter – are also its inhabitants and in a way, its main client.
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Upper Plan of Epistolary Library of Gibraltar
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Talking Listening Market Victoria Adegoke victoriadegoke@gmail.com This project was a continuation of the years’ previous project. I was interested in victory as a consequence of empowerment. There is a strong history of victory embedded in Gibraltar as the country had been ruled under many different hands continually over it’s existence. I wanted to explore how the contemporary women of Gibraltar can show they have been victorious. There is a Gibraltar women’s association and my architecture was a place for them to meet, to exchange ideas and resources, to discuss their agenda and let the rest of Gibraltar and ultimately the world know. My project is a way to connect the different types of women in Gibraltar post immigration and the architecture represents all those women and cultures.
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Scuba Diving Memorial Centre Ryan Gormley gormley.ryan@googlemail.com This project brought life back to a rundown bay in Gibraltar. The project brought recreational and leisure facilities to the area and renovated a very derelict pier. The centre is made from locally sourced material, thus helping local industries. The centre is a scuba diving school with a twist. A trail of war memorials, which are laid in respect for Gibraltar’s military history, leads to some of the incredible artefacts hidden under the water. It provides a great attraction for families to enjoy and helps promote the scuba diving community that already exists at Rosia bay. The centre is continuously growing with memorials being made and placed, each made for a specific person for a specific event
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Smugglers Route Georgina Hale Email address hale.georgina@gmail.com Cigarette smuggling between Gibraltar and Spain has been a ‘well-oiled machine’ for decades. Recently Spain’s increased unemployment has resulted in more locals turning to smuggling activity in the tax haven of Gibraltar. The concept is to create a safe and empowering environment for cigarette smugglers to carry out their currently illegal activities. Smugglers Route allows smugglers to enter Spain lawfully as all illegal activity is contained with in the building and hidden within the architecture. The outcome is not for people to make millions, but for the people who desperately need some cash to survive the week, this is why storage is limited per smuggler in the facility.
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Power lab Maya Shankla maya.shankla@hotmail.com The nuclear power debate is a controversy about the use of nuclear fission reactors to generate electricity from nuclear fuel for civilian purposes. Gibraltar does not have an electricity network, as it produces its own energy with generators so the need for a new source of power in Gibraltar found me drawing inspiration from my previously chosen character of Gibraltar’s history, William Penney, and nuclear advancements. The architecture produced is not a tame one as the use of geometric and atomic shapes stands out to make a point but to also introduce the element of performance and emphasis the notion of celebration and amusement (whilst making it less threatening) of nuclear energy.
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The dazzling boatyard Oliver Taylor olliejm182@hotmail.com Inspiration for this project stemmed from the eccentricity of the annual Cardboard Boat Race. The limiting set of rules participants follow when constructing vessels is translated into the architecture of the Boatyard – constructing with unconventional materials in alternative methods. WWI dazzle pattern is exploited to camouflage and confuse the Spain-Gibraltar border tensions. In the future, the Boat Race aims to be a leading mediator between Spain and Gibraltar.
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