STUDIO 01

Design Tutors

Vanezi Angela, Papakonstantinou Adamos

Year 02

Bekiareli David, Ahmed Tasnima, Kalonzo Sebastien, Atputhasigamany Swathee, Hossain Taneen, Donnelly Dorothea, Riddle Rhys, Pulichintala Raja Kirupa, Shahid Shaheen

Year 03

Trasnea, Alexandra, Bampali Christina, Cardoso Yavuz Ekin, Aybakar Gizem, Mudhaffer Batool, Patel Dhwani, Parsana Drashti, Naseem Misha, Spencer Bradley, Kortsa Korca Eleni, Moffat Jasmine, De Almeida Eleazar, Naidu Narissa Sara, Atik Elfim, Mammedova Aylar, Smith Jordan, Jackson Samuel

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Studio 01 continues its interest in the community and urban context; we study the impact of local and global issues through civic spaces. We are interested in analysing and speculating on the social, economic, and spatial consequences of the new relation between users and the highly technological environment we live in. This year we will focus our attention on Reprogramming Obsolete Typologies, typologies in the verge of becoming obsolete by the consequence of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Both Year 2 and 3 aims to investigate various aspects of design approaches that focus on the spatial atmospheres of the poetic and demonstrate social empathy while considering change and adaptation. While our methodologies vary from, geometrical, technological, and theoretical approaches to design development, we aim at practical solutions in the execution of a design proposal. We focus our attentions on contemporary means of architectural design and space production and study the experience of the user and the journey, but remain interested to designing architecture, that embraces all aspects of London’s historic, social, and cultural compositions. We aim to propose design solutions which celebrate activities in relation to the civic theme taking in consideration the cultural experience on retail and temporary accommodation.

Incoming year will focused its research and design development, on the community by analysing and identifying the crisis of the HIGH STREET into one visually symbolic composition of architecture, with aim on raising local and global issues that has affected the world of retail. If shopping can no longer be the motor for the activation of public space in the city centres, or leads to exclusion and segregation, then the motor must be replaced. Department stores must be reprogrammed into new types of public buildings. A solution for the crisis is unforeseeable as the concept of department stores in general seems no longer appropriate…

Final year students investigated the transition of lodging and its use in today’s society, and began to re-image the notion of CIVIC LIVING. They studied architecture that celebrates the community and analysed spatial orientations in regard to the environment in support of programs and basic groups that operate within a broader urban sector. Students were invited to reimagine and propose interventions for temporary accommodation with a civic function, questioning whether we still need large physical spaces to accommodate temporary living experience.

A hotel is a place where you stay temporarily. If the stay is temporary, should the hotel be permanent ?

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Fig 01: Alexandra Trasnea, Fig 02: David Bekiareli, Fig 03: Ekin Cardoso, Fig 04: Alexandra Trasnea, Fig 05: Bradley Spencer, Fig 06: Alexandra Trasnea, Fig 07: Swathee Atputhasigamany, Fig 16: Bradley Spencer, Fig 17: Aylar Mammedova , Fig 18: Ekin Cardoso, Fig 19: Samuel Jackson, Fig 20: Jordan Smith, Fig 21: Bradley Spencer, Fig 08 & 09: David Bekiareli, Fig 10: Gizem Aybakar, Fig 11: Ekin Cardoso, Fig 12: Christina Bampali, Fig 13: Batool Mudhaffer, Fig 14: Dorothea Donnelly, Fig 15: Bradley Spencer 24

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