Foster + Partners graduate show book 2016

Graduate Show Book 2016

Contents

Introduction 3 Participants

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Studio 1 (S1) 7 Studio 2 (S2) 39 Studio 3 (S3) 59 Studio 4 (S4) 119 Studio 5 (S5) 143 Studio 6 (S6) 167 Environmental Engineering (EE) 175 Structural Engineering (SE) 183 Specialist Groups Applied Research Development (ARD)

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Design Communications (DC) 215 Urban Design (UD) 223 Workplace Consultancy (WC)

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Coordinators & Organisers

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Introduction

The Graduate Show is an integral part of the practice’s annual staff events – one I look forward to immensely.

I am always impressed by the unbridled creativity and innovative spirit that is on display, and we are incredibly fortunate to have such young talent come into the practice each year. Not only do the projects embrace every aspect of architecture and urbanism, they also extend into other allied disciplines such as engineering, visualisation, and design communications – very much in consonance with the ethos of integrated design, which underlines the work of the practice.

While walking through the entire length of the mezzanine in the office – filled with the drawings and models – two themes stood out for me. The first was materiality, and how so many of the projects were concerned with structure, geometry – the actual building and making of things. The other, was people – public space, democracy, movement, memory – almost every design seemed spurred on by the human experience.

I believe it is the combination of these two aspects that forms the essence of architecture – structure and spirit.

This event is always a learning experience, both for you, the participants, who get a chance to discuss your work with colleagues, and for the practice as a whole, who get to see this incredibly diverse display.

On behalf of my colleagues I would like to thank you for your participation and energy and say how much we value your contribution.

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This is a graduate show organised by graduates, so all of you are to be congratulated for an inspiring event.

Particular praise for helping goes to Bridie Heywood, Daniel Philips, Elena Rodriguez Perez, Golshid Varasteh Kia, Joseph Feito Amieva, Josh Corfield, Kiran Rashid, Kris Gratz, Tom Budd, and Tom Cubitt.

I must also pay tribute to a number of my colleagues who work incredibly hard behind the scenes to make this event happen every year – Narinder Sagoo as Sponsor and overall Project Director, Charlotte Sword as Project Manager, Natalie Keymer as Project Co-ordinator, Mike Bass & his team in the Print Room who worked tirelessly printing everything with a special mention to Tony Wenban, Alicia Cox & her team for doing a great job with the food, drink and hospitality, David Gilliard who set up the IT, The Warehouse Team for moving everything around, with a special mention to Craig Edwards, then Rupert Goddard for organising the graphics, Lucy Pendlebury for putting together this lovely catalogue, and Steve Teare, Nigel Young, Aaron Hargreaves & Jonny Cox for capturing it all on camera.

I look forward to next year’s event with great anticipation!

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Participants

Studio 1 Ana Diez Lopez Elena Rodriguez Perez Jonas Cels Jonathan Wilson Joseph Feito Amieva Kiran Rashid Victor Corell Gasco Studio 2 Albert Franco Alexandra Lipezker Giannis Nikas Josh Corfield Kris Gratz Studio 3 Aidi Ma Ami Matsumoto Bridie Heywood Eva Magnisali Georgios Pasisis Golshid Varasteh Kia Jim Lau Kagen Lam Lorna Jackson Marcin Chmura Nicholas Tsao Nikola Docekal Spyros Efthymious Stephanie Adebayo

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Studio 4 Christine Min Eleanna Panagoulia Fred Effenberger Maria Christina Banceanu Tahel Shaar Studio 5 Alicea Berkin Paula Corell Jongmin Park Thomas Lobb Pavlina Vardoulaki Studio 6 Jeonghyun Kim Applied Research Development Khaled El-Ashry Marcin Kosicki Vasileios Papalexopoulos

Design Communications Daniel Phillips Tom Budd Tom Cubitt Environmental Engineering Lucas Van Laack Structural Engineering Bhavik Sondagar Pedro Carvalho Costa Tommy Browne Urban Design Eleftherios Sergios Workplace Consultancy Gabia Gulbinaite Keelan Roebuck Nathalie Walls

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S1 Ana Diez Lopez Elena Rodriguez Perez Jonas Cels Jonathan Wilson Joseph Feito Amieva Kiran Rashid Victor Corell Gasco

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Center for Contemporary Art Victor Corell Gascรณ

Course: MArch Architecture & Urbanism (DRL) University: Archit ectural Association School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Bloomberg Place Year Start: 2015

The urban environment of the historic centre of Valencia is characterised by the neutrality, massiveness and continuity of its resiviate environment, due to its urban presence, shape, and activity. The monument and the square portray a duality with clear references to the historic city.

The concept of the museum moves away from the passive neutrality of a building envelope in relation to the work exhibited. It is intended that the configuration of space, light and textures, provide on their own intensity and emotion, both in its own experience and in its dialogue with the exhibited work.

The different floor levels lean over two large spaces, which compose the museum structure. The levels are designed as horizontal trays of variable geometry in plan and section, whose overlay generates a repertoire of static and dynamic exhibition spaces.

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1. Main entrance plaza 2. Elevations 3. Office area and vehicle access plaza 4. Timber model 5. Section, main building 6. Initial sketches 7. Section, vertical communication space 8. Main exhibition space 9. Section, exhibition spaces

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Microsurgery & Implant Ana Díez López

Course: MSc in Architecture University: European University of Madrid Country: Spain Current Project: Mexico International Airport Year Start: 2015

After studying the increasing movements of people along European cities through social media, the project proposes to regenerate abandoned city centres with a permanent flow of temporary habitants.

Lisbon has already a big temporary population, but the permanent one has dramatically decreased by moving to the suburbs. This is an opportunity. The project takes one of the typical Pombaline houses as a case study extendable to the whole city centre, and potentially to other European cities.

Questioning current ideas about rehabilitation, the aim is to generate affordable housing. It’s needed to understand the history of the place, and the pre-existing internal atmospheric conditions but also to implant today’s technology in a visible, and interactive way.

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1. M ovement of people along European cities (Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille and Milan).

2. Study of typologies in Pombaline Buildings near the site.

Pombaline Residential Building used as study case.

“Lisbon cruelly built along its own absence of self”.

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Electrical system and heating

Cold water system

Flexible acoustic-private spaces

Sunlight installation in patio

Interventions in faรงade and roof

Actions/ideal temperature study

Humidity-absorber plants

Study of internal preexisting temperatures.

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3. G round floor axonometric plan and general plan. Catalogue of interventions.

4. P erspective section showing how the moveable MEP (Heating, cold water, hot water, electricity, audio systems, wifi etc) delimits the space.

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Danish Architecture Centre Joseph Feito

Course: MSc Architecture University: University of Navarra Country: Spain Current Project: Mexico Airport Year Start: 2015

Occupying a privileged place on the Copenhagen water front, the place lacks any identity. The public space, the city and the water merge into a continuous field of asphalt and concrete.

Likewise, the new city architecture seems to have turned its back on the place, converting it into a junk space. Public space also lacks any spatial definition.

No distinction is made between street, car and pedestrian space. You never have the sensation of being in the city centre, a place where water and city come together.

Nevertheless, being one of the most important public spaces in Copenhagen, it allows almost any outdoor activity.

The project is born with the intention of being an urban regeneration project, changing the city, creating new opportunities, but also respecting what the site has always been: a public space.

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1. Platform over the water 2. V iew from the platform, location diagrams, view from the city 3. G round floor plan, first floor plan, north elevation, south elevation 4. Typical section 5. C onstructive isometric view

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BEYOND EXPRESSION : The Art of Opera Kiran Rashid

Course: Interior Architecture & Design University: Nottingham Trent University Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Brookfield Place/ Samba Year Start: 2015 “Expression and communication in the peak– experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.”

(Toward a Psychology of Being, 1968) Nottingham castle sits dominant over the city, imposing its grand title whilst in reality the municipal building contradicts its status.

This project explores the realm of expression and hierarchy through the Opera art form.

Opera has become an elite subject for the public and therefore the audience lacks variety of social classes.

The idea involves multiple opera voids which are experienced at different levels of the castle grounds allowing Opera to become a fluid, experiential journey for the user, in contrast to its heavily dressed and staged setting.

Experimentation of acoustics will play a vital role within my scheme to allow the user to indulge in a variety of aural and spatial experiences, not necessarily in visual contact with a performance.

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1. Access point B from castle boulevard consists of an inclined funicular system for the user to travel up the southern part of the cliff and view the Nottingham skyline

2. C onceptual view of auditorium space and geometry 3. O verall birds eye visual displaying 3 key components of the design: Opera Mineret, Drawbridge and Funicular

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4. Section displaying the different levels of the castle grounds and illusice movement around the municipal palace 5. T he Drawbridge invites the user to move over the castle grounds and experience opera in a surreal forest environment

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The Water Path in Altiplano Landscape Elena Rodríguez Pérez

Course: MSc Arch University: E.T.S. Granada Country: Spain Current Project: Mexico Airport Year Start: 2015

Human activity entails an important territorial impact. This intervention aims to regenerate the ecosystem on the riverside of the “Negratin” dam in the Altiplano landscape, which now is suffering a desertification process due to a high water demand for agriculture. The Baths create a social consciousness for visitors who can enjoy the beautiful landscape while understanding the surrounding environment.

The proposal arises from the relationship of two main flows that interact and constantly transform the Altiplano landscape: water and people. Through this dialogue, the project follows the natural cycle and simultaneously shows a new way to live with nature.

The architecture manages this powerful and natural resource transforming it for cooling and heating the Baths. It becomes a living architecture, which changes according to the necessities of society and territory.

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Precipitation

Watershed situation

Superficial watershed

Subterranean aquifers

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aths in Altiplano landscape - external 1. B view of the intervention 2. Hyrdological and environmental factors 3. Ecological problems 4. Natural water cycle inside the baths.

5. A rchitecture, water natural cycle and landscape 6. Two of some bath areas proposed interior views 7. Constructive system: building the process

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A special roof system protects of hostile weather with a cold-heat water cycle that alternates depending on time of year

Terrain inertia and water surfaces

+ Breathable skin A double skin system is created ​​ with concrete louvres made with local stone and the second one is a glass skin that allows punctual and controlled natural ventilation

Cave Effect as typical constructive resource, which exploit the terrain inertia as a natural regulator enhanced with cold/hot water surfaces

Bioclimatic courtyard, common areas articulated by water process

Radiant deck and terrain inertia Temperature

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The spaces are buried and they are protected with radiant deck roodf in order to regulate the interior temperature naturally by the terrain inertia and also, to obtain a sense of privacy, seclusion and relaxation associated to the bathroom

Ventilation and humidity

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This constructive approach is based on the Roman hypocaust System, with double walls to house air flow through them to acclimatize the bath spaces. Also, this strategy is thought in order to ensure a long life of the concrete structure protecting it from the water and humidity erosion

Lighting, ventilation and humidity Lighting is the last key parameter to reach the perfect bath atmosphere. Therefore, the skylights are designed to create different light sensations depending each bath process combined with a ventilation function

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Cockaigne: Plié..Jeté..Jiàn shè!

Golshid Varasteh Kia

Course: Diploma University: Architectural Association Country: United Kingdom Current Project: New International Airport Mexico City Year Start: 2015

Cockaigne is an architectural construct of a global supermarket, spanning between the broken reality of our everyday consumption of food and data and the reality of the production.

Behind the scenes of these everyday habits there is an extraordinary and complex, so often ignored or forgotten space. It is a space shaped by the movements and sounds of an intricately choreographed production line. Objects are formed through a choreography of repetitive movements performed over and over again along a conveyor belt that is never turned off. As a part of UFD’s Department of Biomechanical Efficiency Golshid has choreographed a symphony, hidden within the production line of a Twitter Food Growing Incubator. Through dramatisation, dance and theatre, and techniques of motion capture and digital body animation we see a performance which is played out 24/7, that could be visited anytime but it never is, a set of movements and pauses that results in the production of not only the object but the body itself. Plié..Jeté..Jiàn shè reveals and represents the intricate dance performance that lies behind the scenes of this object to an audience that has forgotten it – Animation Link: https://vimeo.com/103790539

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1. P roduction: The Choreology of Making [De-Composed] 2. P roduction: The Choreology of Making [Composed] 3. P roduction: Using techniques of motion capture, character rigging, dance `and theatre.

4. P roduction: Snapshot of the animated dance performance. Time and efficiency mapping with motion and notations.

5. C onsumption: Cockaigne at 60 Hudson Street 6. C onsumption: Cockaigne, new typology for a supermarket.

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Ramlila Maidan Festival & Protest Ground, New Delhi, India Jonathan Wilson

Course: MArch Architecture University: Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Country: United Kingdom Current Project: New International Airport Mexico City Year Start: 2015

Located at the Ramlila Maidan, a festival ground in the heart of New Delhi, India, the project is centred on the subject of crowds, human mobility and the occupation of public space. The proposal serves the public realm, celebrating Indian democracy and freedom of speech. This is achieved by enhancing the existing site with a number of architectural and urban interventions, from the scale of local infrastructure are clusters of public buildings, to the very texture of the ground which people walk over.

Agent based modelling was used to simulate crowds of people, using 100,000 individual autonomous agents, each with unique behavioural and physical characteristics to aid the design and optimisation process. A key objective was to provide a safer and more enriched experience for the people occupying the site.

A design logic of permeable, streamlined volumes was developed and optimised to improve the stability, mobility and density of crowds. A great canopy unifies the buildings and provides a shelter for the stage and outdoor areas, with a unique, crowded geometry which during a large scale festival or protest becomes part of the crowd itself.

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1. P rojection mapping a crowd simulation of festival egress onto physical urban model.

2. E xploded axonometric of main building and agent based model simulation.

3. Physical model of building proposal and proposed landscape design.

4. “ Museum of Independence� dynamic crowded geometry to create space in the building which reflects the sequence of events in the 1947 partition of India.

5. Urban crowd simulation exploring permeability and crowd movement.

6. A gent based model simulation snapshot.

7. O ptimisation process of the ground floor areas using agent based modelling to resolve issues with crowding.

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Re-Establishing the Farm Model Josh Corfield

Course: Architecture and Planning (Part 1) University: University of the West of England Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Kulm Hotel Year Start: 2015 The popularity and public perception of agriculture and farming has shifted since the romantic paintings of landscape and farming

by John Constable in the 1800’s. Denial of the countryside and lack of concern for the valuations of land is highly concentrated within the attitudes of the younger generations, who see the city as a contemporary model to follow.

Critical to the future of farming is that those who work are both skilled and ambitious.

The project seeks to merge the hands-on activities and knowledge based specifics of both traditional and modern farming into a school that aims to ignite a passion for farming to those who are fundamentally responsible for its future.

Continuing the spatial layout of vernacular farmsteads and using the principles of open-plan learning and universal space, the buildings acts as a shell in which the users can adapt, move and shape their learning environment to suit the way in which they want to learn. The flexibility of the internal space and simplicity of the design consequently allow for a free, unobstructed plan where functionality outweighs form.

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1. Analysis/Problem/Resolution/Proposal 2. Site plan 3. Ground floor plan 4. Scenario 1: 50% Farming - 50% Teaching 5. Scenario 2: 100% Farming

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6. Section and elevations 7. Flexibility of plan: typical school day 8. Primary Glu-lam portal frame 9. M odel images showing south facing greenhouse and translucency of facade

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Living Interface, Beyond Barriers Albert Franco

Course: MArch University: Columbia University, GSAPP Country: United States Current Project: Masaryk Apple Store Year Start: 2015

The premise of the project is to design pilot factory for a biomaterial company Ecovative. Ecovative creates bio-bricks that can be used for buildings. The site for the brick factory is located in Campinas, Brazil, South America’s largest hub for many biotech Manufacturing companies. The factory is grounded in the densely populated city center. The Project seeks to address Campinas, Brazil as a circular economy.

The Living Interface Factory seeks to create a new business model for large-scale production of building materials. The programs that allow the circularity of production are a local Coffee shop and Corn Vender’s distribution center. Unlike many other Factories, this building is public. The factory depends on its locals to purchase coffee and corn as they learn about the materials in the prototyping centre. Waste of coffee and corn provide bio-waste nutrients and materials for the living building envelope.

In this project I was focused on creating a biomaterial design, creating a public building that gives back to the community, and addressing the sustainability of large-scale production together with computational design processes.

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1. O ptimisation process: Wall Surface maximisation together with Solar Radiation reduction and maximising brick nesting 2. I nteriors: Coffee bar and Prototyping space 3. E xteriors close ups: Nested brick with robot harvesting and community engagement treet view of Factory in Campinas, Brazil 4. S 5. S ection Perspective cutting through the coffee bar and prototyping space

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Transient Tokyo : A Socio-Cinematic Intervention Kris Gratz

Course: MArch University: University of Edinburgh Country: United Kingdom Current Project: 1201 Brickell Bay, Miami Year Start: 2015 1

Transient Tokyo is an intermediary between creator and observer, removing the frameworks that stifle the progression of culture and society. Referencing the social activism work of Ai Weiwei and the filmmaking of Casey Neistat. The building is an urban construct that absorbs and expels new content through the conception, production and presentation of digital imagery. Represented both internally and externally throughout the scheme by projection.

Each scene within the scheme represents a move away from the context. The temporary function of this building allows for the evolution of social, industry and curatorial needs.

Materiality of both the internal and external skins encourage the use of walls to conceive and present creative/social projects. Studio culture is intentionally showcased throughout to maintain the constant regeneration of the spaces. Transient Tokyo establishes the temporary function and experience within and around the seven scenes [architectures] lasting for differing periods of time. Through the use of socio-cinematic productions, society can become informed directly from author to audience.

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1. Street furniture of Tokyo 2. Wax casting of negative space 3. Layered positive space wax casting 4. Depth of light study through wax ink wash 5. Diaphanous screen print

6. Depth of space ink wash 7. Structural concept drawing 8. Structural concept model 9. Direct material representation model 10. Ground floor plan

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10:41am Wednesday, mid September Taka arrives in his production studio to continue work on a new film proposal about the career generation of Japan

1:13pm Wednesday, later March Hoshi and Yamata hold a week long art and video installation on the facade of three

4:43pm Thursday, mid July A long queue of the public extends down the road to see the last film in a series about capitalist aggression in the modern world

7:20am Thursday, late December Maya heads from her studio to fabricate a camera rig for a film shoot next week

6:40pm Sunday. April Story tellers listen intently to the visiting speaker Casey Neistat

7:20pm Saturday, late August The streets are filling up for the premiere show of the year, a selection of digital media artists and film makers present their work on the social expression of new media 11

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InFusion Giannis Nikas

Course: MArch Architecture & Urbanism (DRL), Architectural Association School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Apple Stores Year Start: 2015

Architecture and construction contribute to seventy percent of the overall waste production in London. The purpose behind the research was to design a fabrication system that is able to produce a reusable, biodegradable, and temporary architectural construct. Therefore, it was focused on designing a flexible system that is characterized by being joint-less, mono-material, and self-supported, as well as formwork-less. The fabrication system is enclosed in a mobile cell, which shifts the paradigm of the factory vs. a pre-fabricated component methodology. In addition, the benefits of having an on-site industrial fabrication system with minimum manual assembly greatly decreases the execution times of prototypes and eliminates the use of scaffolding in larger formations. As a result, the overall flexibility of the proposed system enables the opportunity for the creation of variant architectural proposals with the ability for these to be applied for practical purposes in the near future.

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1. Generative geometry.

2. End-effectors, Robotic cell, design proposal plan.

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4. Plastic Extruder End-effector .

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S3 Aidi Ma Ami Matsumoto Bridie Heywood Eva Magnisali Georgios Pasisis Golshid Varasteh Kia Jim Lau Kagen Lam Lorna Jackson Marcin Chmura Nicholas Tsao Nikola Docekal Spyros Efthymious Stephanie Adebayo

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Shareditch Stephanie Adebayo

Course: Interior Design Environment Architectures [IDEAS] University: Ravensbourne Country: United Kingdom Current Project: New Doha lnternational Airport Year Start: 2015

“ 13% of those aged 55 and

above only speak to another person three or four days a

Lonley over 55’s living alone in 3/4 bedroom houses

“If we can find the ideal flat for people in their late 50s 60s and 70s and we can get them to give up their nice 3-4 bedroom suburban houses and move into said flat, we free up lots of family houses. Not family flats on the 5th floor, they are houses with gardens and we look after ourselves when we are older because soon enough those 3-4 bedroom houses are going to be too much for us. It’s not special housing for the retired on the outskirts of the city, its ordinary housing in communities with everyone around you. Your part of a community. It’s the modern flat that Londoners know how to manage” Lord Richard Best Shareditch is the next iteration in the development of the nuclear family, an experiment into a new kind of living in which young people can re awaken the generational benefits of having family and companionship with the elderly for a reduced rent. Shareditch encourages and promotes friendships that can bridge that gap between the retired and those about to start their journey through life.

Elderly memeber of society give up their homes to the coucil and downsize by moving into a co housing unit

means the overall number could rise by 50 per cent before 2030 ”

move out thier parents home into a co housing unit for a n affordable rent

“ In 2011, nearly 3 million adults aged 20–34 were living with their parents, an increase of almost half a million (20%) since 1997, despite

The elderly members of the community no longer live in seclusion but with a variety of .age groups and people.

Young people priced out of London

largely the same (ONS 2012)”

Local councils have more housing for young

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has declined in size rather than grown. The last decade also only saw 200,000 new dwellings built for an 800,000

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Enable young familes to have adequate housing to .care properly for their families

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1. Management offices 2. CoHousing Blocks 3. Shoreditch High Street 4. Buskers Corner 5. Start Up Offices 6. Workshops 7. Main Entrance.

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Brewing nature in Sham Tseng Nikola Docekal

Course: MArch University: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Country: Hong Kong Current Project: Wuhan Yuexiu Year Start: 2015 It is year 2015 now, the old Sham Tseng brewery does not exist anymore.

In the past months it has turned from a ruin into a void for the pragmatic intentions of the developer and his plans to build high-end residential towers with all its lavishness. With my project I aimed to utilise this open condition as an opportunity to ascribe a fictional layer to the story of this demolished industrial complex.

A project that would reconcile the smell and sweat of the industrial past with the tidiness of the developer’s vision. There is space for both in Sham Tseng. The design is incorporating tension between old and new, natural and manmade, rich and poor. Creating fragile architecture that acknowledges several authors, the stronger influence of the former the better.

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1. M aintenance stairs along the water filtration system 2. Water reservoir with adjacent tasting hall 3. E levation of remodelled Sham Tseng brewery

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Transient Systems Spyros Efthymiou

Course: M.Sc Emergent Technologies & Design University: Architectural Association Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Jeddah Metro Year Start: 2015

This project is aimed at exploring transient architectural systems as a means of regulating the long term consequences of mega-events. Folded sheet configurations were interrogated for their potentials in developing an assembly system for portable reconfigurable structures in this regard. Different methods for enhancing the corresponding construction processes were assessed and implemented throughout the design process. In this context, folding paper techniques, digital folding simulations, FEA tools and augmented reality applications were used in order to develop design proposals for large span temporary reconfigurable venues.

The correlated assembly processes and sequences were the main focus of this experimental project and were defined through Augmented Reality enhancements and object tracking techniques. In specific, a digital framework along with a user interface to overlay assembly data with instructions on mobile devices screens were developed. The research ambition was contextualised around the Rio 2016 Olympics.

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1. Ron Resch Patterns | Folding Simulations 2. A ugmented Reality and Object Tracking Experiments. User interface development. rena and Market Concept Diagrams | 3. A Structural Analysis | Stable Geometry 4. Arena | Visualisation 5. Market | Visualisation Note: This project was developed under the direction of Michael Weinstock and George Jeronimidis. The design team was composed

by Spyros Efthymiou and Antoniya Stoitsova during the M.Sc phase and by Nicolo Bencini and Parantap Bhatt during the M.Arch Phase.

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Loci of Memoriae Bridie Heywood

Course: Interior Architecture and Design University: Nottingham Trent University Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Doha International Ariport Year Start: 2015

A memory palace is a mnemonic device, it is a method of memory enhancement which used visualisations to organise and recall information.

I designed a series of exhibition spaces that concern memory and technology in the shell of Malt Cross in Saint James Street, Nottingham. I arrived at this point by conducting a research project that spanned varying fields of memory and began with the idea that we are becoming alienated from each other due to our increased use of technology. The research then diversified into how relationships between technology and mnemonic devices are linked, which brought me to a memory palace.

A memory palace is a memory technique that is used to remember large amounts of information and I am using this as a device to teach people the original message, that we alienating ourselves from each other through modern technology.

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1. Hand Drawing of IBM Tubing 2. Section Through Building 3. Continued Section Through Building 4. Conceptual Visual 5. Continued Conceptual Visual

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Reflection Lorna Jackson

Course: Master of Architecture RIBA II University: University of Westminster Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Amiri Flight Facilities Year Start: 2015

Created as a result of rigorous origami testing ‘Reflection’ is made of eight Spiralhedrons mirrored along all axes in order to create the enclosing plywood form and subtly embody Burning Man’s theme ‘Carnival of Mirrors. By providing an interactive base for participation Reflection is never fully accomplished without the burner’s involvement. By sharing their stories, burners create a unique experience manifested through the ideals of trust and sharing, which facilitates a special bond.

Upon its burning at the end of the festival, ‘Reflection’ becomes a resting place for the confessions, secrets and stories of its burners, allowing new bonds to be formed.

After receiving funding for the project I developed the piece from a theoretical design project into a structure both able to withstand the harsh conditions of the desert and to be built by a team of peers within a three week period. Working alongside Price+Myers we were able to develop a custom-fabricated bolt connection in order to create the water jet cut plywood origami pavilion.

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1. Built project, Nevada, USA 2. C onstruction section key stages, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA 3. Built project, daytime view 4. 1:5 Scale model Construction 5. Built project, evening view, Nevada, USA 6. 1:5 Scale model connection detail 7. E xploded axonometric demonstrating structural strategy 8. Perspective section demonstration custom-made connection method

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Havana Energy Forest Kagen Lam

Course: MArch University: Bartlett School of Architecture Country: Hong Kong Current Project: Wuhan Yuexiu Year Start: 2015 What if Cuba used ‘energy independence’ as a new post-socialist propaganda? The project focuses in the new form of post- socialist propaganda and its nature of absurdity.

Currently, 50% of the energy of Cuba is by import, and the project envisions the possibility of using sugar as a bio-fuel source to make Cuba to be energy independent. The absurd quality of the political propaganda permeates the design by utilising Havana’s derelict energy grid and DIY cabling system as ornamental language, creating a dense “forest” consisting of ventilation pipes, cables, ethanol storage columns and dust control mesh. A mix between an energy container, a hotel and an amphitheatre, the project discusses materiality as a political device.

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Adaptive robotic prototypes: Investigating kinematic transformations through diagnosis and gait optimisation Ifigeneia Lamprou

Course: A rchitecture & Engineering/ Adaptive Architecture & Computation University: University of Cyprus/ University College London Country: Cyprus/United Kingdom Current Project: Jeddah Metro Year Start: 2015 Nowadays, significant work in the area of architectural adaptation takes place considers structures as intelligent entities, equipped with sensing and actuating control abilities. The present research examines kinetic behaviour in structures through a twofold process.

The former project aims to explore suitable solutions that result in final appropriate shapes during the transformation process. A machine learning methodology that implements an Artificial Neural Networks algorithm is integrated to the suggested structure.

The latter project investigates how active kinetic prototypes can produce locomotion behaviour in unstructured terrains for space exploration through shape adjustment. Further to their operation, the central question examined here, is how such systems could remain viable in the environments which they operate in the case of a structural failure. The methodology presented focuses initially on the implementation of a co-evolutionary algorithm; an iterative diagnostic process based on data received from the interaction of the robot and the external environment maintaining the robot’s image by continuously evolving and updating, thus revising its understanding of itself. A number of case studies are set as examples, to test the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Hong Kong Hegemony - Reclaim Central Jim Lau Pui Yin

Course: MArch University: Chinese University of Hong Kong Country: Hong Kong Current Project: Wuhan Yuexiu Year Start: 2015 1

Hegemony is defined as authority, control or influence by one dominant group over another. In Hong Kong, land supply is strictly controlled by Government; development is largely controlled by a handful of large developers. Together, Government and developers dictate urban development to maximise their respective profits. In particular, high land prices and high density developments cause public space to be viewed as prohibitively expensive to provide and maintain. Public space is generally neglected and, when provided, is often residual, leftover space.

This project demonstrates the essential need to integrate more truly accessible public buildings and public spaces within the context of monopolistic urban developments. To reclaim Central with equality, a civic concourse is horizontally placed to reconnect the city and harbour front. Consolidating Hong Kong’s judiciary system, along with the relocation of adjacent Court of Final Appeal. The concourse allows the public to have direct visual connection with the court houses and safeguard the transparency of justice between public and Hong Kong Judiciary. With the additional nodes along the axis; reconstruction of the Victoria Pier and Central Market, it creates the new urban experience to serve as both public destinations and connectors within the city.

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Writing and Design Aidi Ma

Course: MArch Architecture University: University of California, Los Angeles Country: United States Current Project: Wuhan GFC Year Start: 2015 1

This project builds upon an interest to generate a design from descriptions. It deals with rich order based on simple principles applied to architectural design.

Working Method: Work with parametric descriptions of form and space and study some of the implications like simple description and complex form, single description and a range of forms, variations as combinations of sameness and difference, and generating unexpected results from known beginnings.

This project is aimed at creating the variety of atrium, in a parametric way. By writing the code, the volume of the atrium is created and defined. Once the parameter and calculation are changed, the unit could grow horizontally and vertically.

From a larger point of view, the same principle can be applied to different scales of building, it could generate a unit, a building, a city in the end.

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WIRED Alexandra Lipezker, Eva Magnisali, Georgios Pasisis

Course: MArch in Architecture and Urbanism (DRL) University: Architectural Association School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Apple Store / Jeddah Metro / Jeddah Metro Year Start: 2015 Investigations into materials and robotics in the field of architecture have begun to challenge the architectural discourse by proposing alternatives to conventional modes of practice through the adoption of new fabrication technologies. The aim of our research is to create a process that ensures continuity between the stage of design and the materialisation of the final outcome, through the customisation of industrial robotic arm technology.

In order to achieve the development of a prototypical system, hierarchically connected, we have created a composite material that combines fibreglass rods, spring steel and nylon coating. In taking advantage of the force and form interaction that characterises active-bending structures, our networked material system is deformed and through a thermoforming process the overall output is fused to produce an architecture of high resolution formation.

Taking for granted that the introduction of new tools in architecture alters the way we perceive and drive manufacturing, our research aims to formulate a new fabrication method that generates and addresses new formal and tectonic challenges.

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A Journey of Healing Ami Matsumoto

Course: Architecture (RIBA Part II) University: Architectural Association School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: New Doha International Airport Year Start: 2015

Being old, being sick and recovering are part of life. Hospitals provide acute care but providing a prolonged environment for healing is not their top priority. While being hospitalised, patients can suffer from institutional syndrome and isolation caused by a lack of interaction with the ‘everyday’. The project emphasises the importance of accessibility to the everyday environment rather than making one big institution to cover all the requirements.

London is abound in opportunities to support recovering patients, old and vulnerable people, who are not considered a high enough priority to be treated in hospitals. ‘Cut, connect and insert’ tactics are used to exploit existing Georgian Terrace Houses and fragmented underused urban spaces to create a network of healing spaces within the city. Supporting the patient’s stable return to their everyday lives and activities.

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Parkour City Nick Tsao

Course: MArch University: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Country: Hong Kong Current Project: Yiexiu Global Financial Centre, Wuhan Year Start: 2007 1

Hong Kong is typified by non-places: blank corridors and nondescript atria - empty shells for monotonous movements. In response to an urban environment which is becoming increasingly generic, the thesis aims to create a city which is dynamic and interactive.

The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator, though powerful in its ability to enliven an entire district through movement, fails to connect directly with the city physically or programmatically. It maintains a distance with its context, isolating itself in an alien world of super-modernity.

Parkour was used as a catalyst to analyse relationships between the body and urban space.

Parkour takes urban furniture and architecture, typically seen as obstacles and turns them into opportunities.

A park bench or balustrade becomes a performance stage of a thousand potentials interactions.

The project takes Parkour not only as a physical activity but also as architectural strategy. Existing urban conditions are exploited and reinterpreted based on their inherent potentials. The final design is an extension of three low-efficiency office towers.

A process of addition and subtraction formed an integrated cluster of buildings connected by inhabited bridges.

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The Capsule Cloud Maria-Cristina Banceanu

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Course: MArch Architecture University: University College London, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Apple Stores Year Start: 2015

Deep ornamentation explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of ornamentations as point of departure for the design of architectural conditions.

Inherent qualities such as space articulation, components, organisation, structure and circulation form the ground for a variety of speculations on spatial conditions.

The project is based on deep ornamentation as component driven architecture.

The Capsule Cloud employs exoskeletons obtained through generative algorithms.

These algorithms are the end result of a thesis research demonstrating the existence of underlying shape grammars in Art Nouveau motifs. The strategy was used to create structural ornaments.

The Capsule Cloud project uses the exoskeletons in the form of inflatables to implement living pods in a heterogenous aggregation. The expansion was designed for a prototypical site of low rise housing and explores temporary means of expansion through lightweight structures.

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4. Living Pods Extension – The Extension enables owners to extend their living space and be able to rent out capsules on the roof space to temporary guests.

The owner would direct the guest through their personal access, to the attic and through the inflatable staircase leading to the Cloud.

5. The Pod – The user would inhabit an inflatable medium, built entirely out of latex layering. The layering produces sufficient translucency to create a specific atmosphere, yet maintain a certain level of privacy to the inhabitants.

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Rocking Hills - A New Music Arena for Munich Jo Frederik Effenberger,

Course: BSc Architecture and Urban Planning University: University of Stuttgart Country: Germany Current Project: First and Mission Towers Year Start: 2015

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M - Robin Scott, 1979 The intention of “Rocking Hills” was to design a concert hall. Munich is currently missing a true “entertainment venue” for large concerts, due to the lack of establishments that are purpose built for the music of the artist. The currently used Olympic Hall, designed for the Olympic Games 1972, was rather intended for sport and multifunctional use than music.

It doesn’t matter whether rock, pop, hip-hop or techno once an event this size takes place all promoters try to avoid the Bavarian capital, due to its lack of appropriate venues.

Therefore a suitable venue for up to 10,000 people will be designed at the Olympic Park: a Pop Palace, a temple for the mainstream, which is specifically dedicated to enhancing the experience of the music.

The newly designed music arena will seamlessly integrate into the landscape of the Olympia Park.

Shaped by the dynamic nature and acting as a negative reflection of it, the arena becomes more of a pavilion than a typical musical venue that spans all the way across the concert hall.

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You’re Welcome Christine Min

Course: MArch 2 University: Harvard University GSD, Country: USA Current Project: Hollywood + Vine Year Start: 2015

You’re Welcome. For What?

This reciprocal expression stated before a “thank you” mentions expectations for future favours in return. An architecture club, unlike AIA or RIBA should be a place where architects can fulfil their cravings for unprecedented experiences.

Such that the actions that will take place in this environment will appear to lift and deflect gravity. Visitors will enter beneath a glass bottom pool, pass through a skydiving simulation hall, and meander through napping quarters.

You’re Welcome is designed for the exclusive architecture club in London, UK. While it does not require a membership to enter, people are welcome to enter at the challenge of their own physique

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Bending Structures, Chaise Lounge Eleanna Panagoulia

Course: M Arch, Studio One, ARCH 259: “Bending and Folding Structures II” University: University of California Berkeley Country: United States of America Current Project: North America Apple Retail Year Start: 2015

This project seeks to apply design procedures, borrowed from declarative design in software engineering, to architectural design, and to speculate on the potentials and problems of material bending applications and their implementation for creating of structures that deviate form conventional geometry. It aims to test the ways that bending can be put into effect in the design of furniture scale objects and, particularly, an office chaise lounge for one person.

Moreover, important goal of the project is to develop a pipeline, called “Matter Compiler”, for fabrication, which automates the translation of high-level descriptions of the design or a set of intentions, to low-level instructions for digital fabrication and construction documentation, via a particular material system and a specific method of joinery/assembly.

Finally, the project explores the design limitations by a piece of fabrication equipment, and pushes beyond the perceived limits of the tool, material, and process. The material system chosen is 4’ x 8’ high-density polyethylene sheets, 1/16” thickness and the bending simulation and geometry rationalization were processed in the FEA software “Sofistik”. The process involved physical experimentation in various scales and materials.

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INSTANT ICE / SWARM PRINTING Tahel Shaar

Course: M asters in Architecture & Urbanism, Design Research Laboratory, DRL University: Architectural Association, School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel Year Start: 2015

Archigram’s Instant City used flying machines to deploy entertainment spaces to remote areas, making architecture a temporal event. Instant Ice happens to be the name given to supercooled water, which when poured on cold surfaces materialises from liquid into solid immediately. The project explores the idea of using autonomous swarms of quadcopters to 3D print architectural spaces in ice. The system relies on stochastic and deterministic methods of design that ensure architectural performance arises from the construction logistics and organisational potentials of swarm robotics.

The research was developed through both physical and digital prototypes. Studies were done in order to determine ways to use ice as a 3D printed material, setting up parameters such as temperature, structural performance, curing time and deposition rates which were then correlated into larger scale digital simulations. The next stage of the research involved using architectural solutions to deal with difficult climatic conditions and structural performance. In the last stage of the work, we focused on the translational abilities of quadcopters and the organisation of swarm robotics through simple rules dealing with building time and construction logics.

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom – ‘An architectural biography of T.E.Lawrence’ Alicea Berkin

Course: Masters in Architecture University: Newcastle University, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Plot 2, Cardiff Regeneration Year Start: 2015

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He became famous after the First World War because of the remarkable role he played while serving as a British Liaison Officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. This project focusses on his autobiographical account of his service: ‘The Seven Pillars of Wisdom’. The text was re-written twice, the first copy lost at Reading station, the second he burned, the third constructed from memory.

The project asks to what extent our self-image, and our cultural memory is formed by the stories we are told about the past. It situates us at the centre of a series of constructs around Lawrence’s ‘retirement’ cottage of Clouds Hill, Dorset that are drawn from his autobiographical descriptions. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom are materialised as a family of forms, spatialising his memories and experiences and allowing us a unique way of exploring his character, and our understanding of the past. Seven Pillars of Wisdom opens up the role of architectural representation to new modes of experience as a performative, installation space, locating us in the role of Lawrence and asking us to read him through this positioning.

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6. The Pillar of Fear of God. 7. The architecture becomes a perpetual reminder of the site, a kind of memory theatre. It is a performance seemingly generated for or by Lawrence. This giant architectural hour glass counts down the days Lawrence spent in the fort.

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Cultural Center ‘El Molí Dels Pasiego’ Paula Corell Gascó

Course: Master of Architecture University: Superior Technical School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Country: Spain Current Project: Al Wifaq. Shams Project. Reem Island, Abu Dhabi.

Year Start: 2015

The intention of the project is to turn the architectural complex in a strategic location in the town of Sueca (Valencia, Spain), both from the point of view of its urban structure and its cultural offer (including museum, library, art center and auditorium).

It is proposed on the one hand, the refurbishment of two existing buildings due to its architectural, constructive and ethnological value. On the other hand, four new buildings, designed around two main ideas. Firstly, establishing a clear dialog in contrast with the refurbished buildings. Secondly, controlling the scale facilitating its relation with the environment.

These new buildings deal with a fragmented volumetrics, broken down into irregular planes and volumes. Moreover, this characteristic is a tool that facilitates the creation of different spaces of light and shadow, as well as the transition between interior/exterior, or outdoor spaces.

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[OPHIUCHUS] HUMANITY’S PERPETUAL FINGERPRINT THE ARCHIVE OF HUMANITY’S BODY AND SOUL Tom Lobb

M1 M2 M1 M1 + M 2 R+r = + M1 + M2 (R+r) 2 r2 R3 Course: MArch Architecture University: Newcastle University, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Jeddah Metro Year Start: 2015 1

My thesis project begun with a technical study into the Apollo 11 mission, accurately mapping the trajectories of the mission through collected data and a study of basic orbital mechanics. In parallel, I studied the unmanned Voyager missions and the golden record on board the craft.

Understanding these trajectories, I implemented them into my own high altitude mission after winning a travel grant to send a balloon and specialist flight recording equipment into the stratosphere to collect the data I had begun to study.

Whilst studying the mechanics of space travel and the deeper meanings reflected in the voyager missions, I learnt of the Lagrangian points whilst studying the forces of orbital mechanics, one of which was to become my site.

My studies were amalgamated and reinterpreted to become lenses which followed the elliptic and opened up the myths of the zodiac.

These myths were merged with the more realistic golden record contents and were spatialised through a rigorous process and became the beginnings of the archives of humanity, using the record itself as a mediator both physically and metaphysically.

This project is about architectural representation, scale from the colossal to the micro, why we venture into space and a philosophical view of our future and legacy.

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1. T he site for the project was Lagrangian point L2. Located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, this equation is the location of that point.

2. T he protagonist of the thesis, Michael Collins, the lesser known third man of the Apollo 11 mission.

3. T he golden record, the inspiration for the project brief.

4. A snapshot of my own stratospheric mission putting my trajectory studies into practice.

5. O ne of 13 amalgamated map studies of the lunar mission drawings, orbital studies of the Lagrangian point and the 13 Zodiacs.

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6. T he first amalgamated night sky map of my orbital mechanics studies, Apollo 11 mission and 13 zodiacs. The map uses the Lagrangian point as a lens to amalgamate the drawings.

7. A developed wing of the archive amalgamation showing the zodiacs Scorpio and Libra - the landscape archive of Human Brainwaves.

8. T he construction phases of the archive and landscapes orbiting the water chamber of the human body.

9. O ne of the 13 etched golden records of the journey to and through the archive.

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Can Architecture be Neutral in a Conflct Zone?

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Course: MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) University: Royal College of Art Country: UK Current Project: Jeddah Year Start: 2015 Korea is one of the last countries, divided along Cold War lines. Since the Korean War ended in 1953, South and North Korea have engaged in extensive military exercises not only on the ground, but also on the sea. Every time this exercise takes place, over 1,000 missiles are fired into the West Sea, causing numerous damages. Of particular concern are the local people, who work in the fishing and pottery industries, as well as the marine life, whose lives have been threatened due to the destruction of the ecological system.

My work starts with the question of what role architecture can play in the West Sea. In this conflict zone, I plan to create artificial islands, made of ceramic pots. These islands will function as a joint fishing community, shared by South and North Korean fishermen. These delicate islands can be easily damaged by military exercises, but because of their eco-friendly materials, once destroyed, they would serve as an artificial reef.

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HyperCell Pavlina Vardoulaki

Course: MArch Design Research Laboratory University: Architectural Association School of Architecture Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Al Wifaq Towers, Abu Dhabi Year Start: 2015 HyperCell is an architectural system which is dynamic and responsive to change through self-awareness, mobility, softness and re-configurability. HyperCell is a time based system which has no final form, but rather is in continuous formation. We developed mechanisms to address these changes, based on local decision making. Through local interaction, the cells are able to create spaces. We also studied mass populations and their behavior - how as an ecology, they are able to collectively create structures.

Urban intervention in old cities, like London, takes time to implement. We propose a new architecture typology that will address this issue. The system will analyse and take action according to data stored by the city, live data collected from different vibrant sources and local data harvested by the system.

Based on this data, the system will take decisions on where it goes and what spaces it needs to generate.

HyperCell has no finite state, but it’s a constantly reconfiguring ecology.

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2. First version of the self-assembly prototype.

3. C ommunication prototypes of a group of HyperCells.

4. 3D print of a large aggregation.

5. Advanced self-structuring prototype .

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6. P rototypes which demonstrate the capacity of the HyperCell.

7. T he space-making process involves real-time goal-oriented re-configuration.

The system has no finite state, but it’s a constantly reconfiguring ecology.

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Course: Master in Architecture II University: Harvard University Country: United States Current Project: Hankook HQ Year Start: 2015 This thesis proposes a structural system driven by tree-branching shape and fibrous materiality.

The system is composed of multiple components which have light and durable bifurcating surfaces of fibres. While the general design of component mimics the nature, its specific geometries and dimensions follow the morphology calculated by topological optimisation. The bifurcating surfaces are generated and reinforced by applying fibre-winding rules on scaffolds.

Those rules mimic the natural way of structural optimisation called “reaction wood” and they are implemented based upon the structural analysis result on the surfaces. Based on the componentassembly rules(called “shape grammar”) following the principles of tree-branching and merging pattern, the scaffolding system achieves a great diversity in design.

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Course: MSc Environmental Design and Engineering University: University College London, Energy Institute Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Apple Year Start: 2015

This study aims at facilitating the design of a building that succeeds in exploiting solar energy in the form of daylight to displace electricity for artificial lighting and to optimise solar shading elements to balance space cooling and space heating demand.

The planned university building “Livsvitenskapsbygget” (Life Science Building) in Oslo, Norway serves as a case study for this research. The focus of this dissertation is on the optimisation of façade elements in order to provide a sustainable, energy efficient and pleasant indoor environment adapted to the harsh conditions of the high latitude climate.

A range of different solar simulation tools have been tested prior to the main research. This has been done in order to gain better experience with current daylight modelling tools and to select the tool that is most applicable for the optimisation process.

The optimisation of different façade elements was carried out using DIVA for Grasshopper, a parametric design tool. The use of this tool allowed an excellent workflow between the testing of different design alternatives and their simulation results.

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Total skylatitude cover (Oslo, Norway) such as Oslo, the external dry bulb temperature In high locations, remains below 10 °C for almost half of the year. This significant long period of a low external air temperature has an impact on the length of the heating season and thus on the space heating demand of buildings. The summers are short and the outside temperature rarely exceeds 28 °C, implying low risk for overheating.

The Urban Heat Island effect refers to phenomenon where the high density of people, machines and buildings, typically in city centres, causes an urban area to be warmer than its surroundings. In contrast to London, where high summer temperatures cause a serious risk for overheating of central urban spaces, Trondheim in Norway promotes this effect in order to save heating Figure 8: Total sky cover& Oslo, Norway (NTNU, 2015) energy (Porteous Solar elevation and timeMacgregor, of specific day2012).

(Oslo, Norway) Most locations in high latitudes, however, are usually less densely populated.

The compactness of the building (surface area to volume ratio) seems to have a high priority regarding fabric heat losses. Solar access analysis referring to new buildings not to overshadow existing ones is a crucial part of high latitude building design.

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An Innovative Solution for Long Span Structures using High Strength Steel Tommy Browne

Course: MSc Structural Engineering University: Imperial College London Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Keruen II Year Start: 2015

Post-tensioned high strength steel trusses provide architects and engineers with an opportunity to achieve longer spanning, slender structures. My research consisted of an experimental study of four small scale post-tensioned tubular arched trusses. An innovative prestressing system was adopted in which the prestressing cable was contained within the the tubular bottom chord of the truss. Varying levels of prestress were applied to each truss system before they were subjected to vertical loading. Each truss was loaded to ultimate failure to assess the benefits of employing a post-tensioned cable in these truss systems. It was found that significant enhancements in both stiffness and loading capacity were achieved with the application of pre stress.

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Industrial type precast buildings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Effects of roof diaphragm and frame continuity Pedro Carvalho Costa

Course: Integrated Masters ,Civil Engineering Expertise in Structures University: Instituto Superior TĂŠcnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Keruen 2 Year Start: 2015

Industrial type precast reinforced concrete buildings present several differences when compared to traditional buildings, particularly in terms of structural design and detailing of the connections.

When exposed to seismic events, the importance of having a global behaviour of the structure, through a stiffening of the roof, and a consolidation of vertical elements is very high, not just in terms of ultimate resistance, but also for serviceablity. This may be achieved using a truss system and moment-resisting connections.

A more robust and redundant structural design will allow a more efficient behaviour of all vertical structural elements and, by reducing differential displacements between columns, there is more freedom of choice for the non-structural materials used on façades and roofs.

The key point to obtain the desired structural behaviour is the correct detailing of the structural connections.

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Domestic Housing as Civic Architecture in Florence, Italy Bhavik Sondagar

Course: Part 2 Masters in Architecture University: Kingston, University, London, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Apple Store, Milan Year Start: 2016

What makes a Building Civic and how does it contribute to the grandeur and collective nature of the city?

The project was to study examples of Civic Architecture and the Urban Composition in the birthplace of Renaissance, Florence, Italy, in order to understand how it fulfils the particular needs of residents as well as exploring the interrelationship between domestic buildings, public space and urban structure.

With Italy having one of the high life expectancy rates, the approach was to create an Elderly Care Home in one of the oldest forms of Civic Architecture, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Palazzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Using examples of the Palazzo in Florence as inspiration, the vision was to create a building that meets the needs of the residents as well as becoming an integral part of the urban fabric of the historic city.

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An approach to automated constructions using adaptive programming Khaled ElAshry

Course: MSc Adaptivce Architectur and Computation University: University College London, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Various Year Start: 2014 1

With advancements in sensing, and adaptive behaviour programming, the use of robots in complex environments such as building sites (typically the sole domain of human labour) is becoming increasingly feasible. Still large challenges remain before we can imagine on site robotic construction as a cost effective alternative to other means of construction. One major challenge is developing robots that could work with construction materials that demonstrate degrees of unpredictable behavior such as mortar, another is working safely in environments which may include human co-workers.

For robots to work with complex materials and environments, continuous fast feedback between sensing and actuation is advantageous over typical factory line approaches where â&#x20AC;&#x153;blindâ&#x20AC;? robots perform pre-programmed routines.

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Robot control programing Industrial robots, which are very versatile machines, are ultimately defined by the software that controls them and the task they are programed to achieve. Usually the robot needs an execution program written in a language defined by its manufactures. The program includes a set operations that the robot execute one by one sequentially.

In industry, robot these programs were usually produced using the manufacturers supplied software. With the recent introduction of robotics in architecture, many successful robotic programing tools were developed to address the need for the architectural field of a faster and an easier way to control the robots using more familiar design environments. Existing tools built for other robots could not be used either due to the difference in servo configuration. The lack of controlling software meant a new tool was needed to be built from scratch. Building such tools proved to be a complex task due to the lack of available data regarding those robots. With our new tool Scorpion, we aspired to build a platform that combines both the availability of predefined tools for new users and access to its core for more professional users. Its development focused on the following core features: pen-source and free, allowing easy access for the advanced users 1. O in order to easily adapt the software to their specific needs and build more new tools and functions.

2. T he ability to control the robot easily for beginners with a very fast learning curve giving them access to feedback tools.

3. A llow direct control from the PC without the need to transfer files.

4. A llow feedback from the robots to be read directly in the software.

Scorpion has multiple components including: the IK solver, the robot upload component and the feedback component, in addition to other helping components.

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Bricklaying Automation To test and demonstrate the workflow's ability to incorporate a range of sensing and real-time decision making processes, a typical on-site construction process which involved unpredictable material behavior was chosen – namely bricklaying. Unlike the brick work usually built with robots that depends on pick and place operations and precise bonding material placement, the purposed task required building a sample brick wall with mortar using the same traditional tools that a human bricklayer uses. This meant that a single robot should be able to shift between working with mortar (a relatively unpredictable material at its liquid state), and the placing of bricks automatically. A special end-effector was designed around an industrial pneumatic gripper to allow the robot to shift between the tasks of brick pick and place, 3D scanning and mortar laying using a traditional trowel. Two aspects of brick-laying were chosen as the main evaluation criteria of the test.

• The technique needed to lay mortar and bricks • The focus on larger scheme for error monitoring and compensation.

Tasks needed to fulfil the bricklaying process were divided in relatively small jobs with specific paths for each task. Each of these execution paths were constructed in a parametric manner, changing and updating according to its inputs in an adaptive manner. Some of these inputs were determined once in the first calibration phase, while other changed each time they were executed. The tasks programed included: 1. Pick and place of bricks 2. Switching end-effector 3. Using sensors and 3D depth camera , 4. Laying mortar 5. Removing excess mortar after laying the new layer of bricks.

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Intergratig Supervised Data Minig into Performance Oriented Design Marcin Kosicki

Course: Adaptive Architecture and Computation University: University College London, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: NDIA, Sberbank, Expo 2020 Year Start: 2015

Contemporary optimisation techniques, widely applied in architectural design, lack methods of accumulating and reusing case-specific design knowledge. This project attempts to address this issue by adapting Supervised Data Mining techniques to uncover patterns between design parameters and performance values, and to derive direct mapping from one into another. The proposed methodology, based on recent discoveries in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics, and machine learning, implements a Genetic Programming algorithm to evolve an analytical function which directly computes total solar radiation of any given building envelope. To achieve this millions of candidate functions were tested over hundreds of generations based on precomputed training sets. The mapping accuracy was verified in relation to randomly generated samples which were not included in the initial training sets. The research revealed that the proposed technique offers significant trade-off between speed and accuracy and can be widely reused efficiently replacing time consuming simulations.

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5. GP based genetic operators 6. O verview of the verification process for the 25-dimensional parametric model.

7. O verview of the verification process for the 16-dimensional parametric model.

8. O verview of the verification process for the 9-dimensional parametric model.

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Bi-Directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization: Mesh Dependency and Convergence Vassilis Papalexopoulos

Course: Adaptive Architecture and Computation University: University College London, Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Research Year Start: 2015

Over the past two decades the wide spread of Additive Manufacturing (AM) has brought forth the issue of balance between the volume of the fabricated part and its mechanical performance. Such a problem forms the basis of the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO). Yet, in order for this method to be used for the optimisation of the internal structures of complex geometries, it needs to be mesh-independent.

This thesis sets out to test whether the latest, modified, BESO method exhibits such a behaviour.

To do so, this method is tested for meshes of both different densities and element types, and the solutions are compared to one another, in order to test for convergence. As the results of the research show, the modified version is independent of the density of the mesh but not of the type. Yet, because of the nature of its mesh-independency, certain key features of both its morphogenetic and structural optimisation aspects are being suppressed.

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3. S olutions produced by BESO method in beam-like loads and boundary conditions, using triangular elements and different r min (from top to bottom): r=1e, r=2e, r=4e, r=8e, e being the size of the element.

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5. S olutions produced by BESO method in cantilever-like loads and boundary conditions, using triangular elements oriented right and different rmin (from top to bottom): r=1e, r=2e, r=4e, r=8e, e being the size of the element.

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Selected Works Daniel Phillips

Course: BA Computer Games Design + BA Architecture University: Teesside Middlesbrough, Westminster London Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Design Communications Year Start: 2015

Work shown is taken from my Architectural degree at Westminster and Computer Games Design degree at Teesside. Various projects include an infill site for a Silversmith workshop, temporary structure at London City Airport, made from disused aircraft parts and a new arrivals building at Victoria Coach Station. My third year at Westminster was two projects that complement each other. Semester one focused on a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Painter In Residenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The site located in Wapping overlooks the Thames. Suspended studios cantilever over the water to create vistas for painting. The heart of the building features an atrium that doubles as a gallery space. Semester two focused on recycling. I took waste glass from the surrounding residential and commercial converting glass into a renewable source, both for Wapping and my architecture. I re-interpreted the brief by taking my architecture underground, reducing noise and opening up new public space that connects to Wapping, and the Thames.

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Faith Estates Eleftherios Sergios

Course: MArch Urban Design University: University College London Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Manoel Island, Malta Year Start: 2015

The concept of a ‘Faith Estate’ explores the symbiotic relationship between the three monotheistic religions and real estate by proposing a new infrastructure for religious pilgrimage around the Dead Sea. The project forms a territorial occupying mechanism of using religious claims in order to construct tourism which is based on archaeological and materialistic evidences, optical connections, and processions responding to different land ownership patterns and political disputes in the region.

The design strategy follows the concept of redeeming the land and ‘return to the soil’ as a tactic to claim, reveal and protect the lands that are being proposed using the methods of digging, carving and cutting the topography in order to introduce the touristic developments as a new pedagogical experience. Each site is subject to excavation, a process that literally liberates and animates the remains of the Holy Land and organised around a specific view of the territory so that the pedagogical aspect of the shared rituals and the symbolic aspect of the view become mutually productive within the attempt to re-territorialise both the landscape and the figure of the tourist.

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1. G eopolitical map and pilgrimage routes around the Dead Sea. 2. T he proposed procession (left column) and developments in Machaerus, Callirhoe and Horkania (right column, from up to bottom respectively).

3. E levation of the religious development in Machaerus.

4. I sometric of the archaeological development in Horkania.

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Contradi[stin]ction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Scenario 2025: Centre for an exchange between kidney donor and recipient Gabija Gulbinaite

Course: BA Interior Architecture University: Middlesex University Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Various Year Start: 2015

Situated on an artificially built Three Mills island in Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East End, The House Mill is nearly 250 years old. It has not been abandoned and rotting for numerous decades. Its architecture is historically appealing but poor maintained and unpleasant. As interior designers we make spaces by adding new layers to the building and covering the existing structure. In this case it allows us to wrap it with a new skin, create an identity and add permanence by strengthening the structure.

But we can also create new spaces and experiences by exposing the existing building- taking apart, slicing it through, peeling the skin off.

Mill house has two projects that overlap within the building. One is celebrating the glory of existing building and the other completely ignoring and wrapping it.

This division creates an atmosphere for an exchange between two sides. On the clinic side, recipient is willing to pay high price to replace his diseased kidney while on the medieval side a living donor has two kidneys so can survive with just one.

Sides gradually reveal one to another and blend two parts together.

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EXAMa register patien cost of a order a doctors’ Front MillM match WAITING WA neighb Dea MEET customer tan recipie EXAMINA patients kidney order to PREPA Mill Ho match recipie Deans MEETING First Floor Donor’s Waiting Hall before examination of for tance recipients recipie OPER kidney recipie PREPARA a new recipients RECO First Floor Recovery, entrance to Donor’s room Three Mills Island site map, London of for 24 recipie OPERATI EXPOSING COVERING opera Rear Mill House Elevation with recipients recipie neighboring Miller’s House RECIPIENT a new kid RECOVE First Floor Recovery, entrance to Donor’s room RECEPTION recipients meet greet Mill and house North West side operation CONSULTATION Entrance for recipients Exit Entrance for donors register a new recipient, evaluate a cost of a new kidney and schedule a First Floor Recipient’s Waiting Hall before examination First Floo doctors’ appointment Front Mill House Elevation with WAITING HALL WA neighboring Miller’s House customers waiting to be examined EXAMINATION ROOMS patients are physically tested in order to test suitability and detect a Mill House, Miller’s House and match Deans Mill School from the disMEETING ROOM tance agree to purchase a recipients recipie Ground Floor skin panels dividing the two sides (view from Donor’s side) kidney PREPARATION ROOM recipients relax and being taken care of for 24hours before the operation First Floor Recipient’s Waiting Hall before examination OPERATION SUITE recipients are being tranplanted with recipie a new kidney Floor Recovery, entrance to Donor’s RECOVERY First FloorFourth Recipient’s Waiting Hall before examination First Floor Recovery, entrance to Donor’s room recipients are recovering after an operation

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Centre for an exchange between kidney donor and recipient

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1. D iagram showing increasing inequality in London and photographs of a conceptual model 2. Ground and first floor plans; visuals illustrating the quality of interior spaces 3. Sections AA;BB and CC 4. E xploded axonometric diagram of interior floors and adjacencies

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Metropolis Nathalie Walls

Course: MDes Interior Design University: Sheffield Hallam University Country: United Kingdom Current Project: Various (Workplace Consultancy) Year Start: 2015

The derelict London Underground station, Aldwych, is being repurposed as a centre named Metropolis for fans of science fiction, superhero comics and movies of these genres. The complexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attractions are primarily a comic-book shop and themed sci-fi cafe/bar, which can be visited by users of all ages, as well as a cinema, an exhibition on the history of the genres, and a library of comics and graphic novels.

Metropolis hosts regular fan conventions which involve book signings, guest lectures and costume competitions in the multi-purpose spaces on the ground floor and in the tunnels that lie 29 meters below the surface. The complex has interior features that many types of users, young and old, can relate to and feel nostalgia for, as the spaces have been influenced by the set design presented in science fiction films throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1080s, the atomic age and the space race.

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1. Futuristic book shop space.

2. Space-age inspired cafe and bar.

3. M id-century modern interior design in the book shop.

4. Comic-book library.

5. Cross-section of the main book-shop.

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Volunteers

Organisers

Space Planning Tom Cubitt Tom Budd Daniel Philips

Wall Plaque Kris Gratz Josh Corfield

Book/ DVD Golshid Varasteh Kia Joseph Feito Amieva Elena Rodriguez Perez

Poster Bridie Heywood Kiran Rashid

Mike Bass Tony Cooper Alicia Cox Jonathan Cox Craig Edwards David Gilliard Rupert Goddard Aaron Hargreaves Natalie Keymer Lucy Pendlebury Narinder Sagoo Charlotte Sword Stephen Teare Tony Wenban Nigel Young

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