STUDIO 05

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Larry Allison, Elham Valikhani

Year 02

Sarafian Rayan, Rama Xhesika, Soubeyran Louis, Brezden, Stanislav, Olatunbosun Joseph

Year 03

Ben Hamadi Houda, Chowdury Rastifa, Grant Kameron, Mensa-Kuma Divine This year Studio 05 will investigate the underlying notions behind the institutions of the city, turning our eye towards Brixton for the second years and Waterloo for the third years, we will seek to deconstruct the processes behind institutional architecture, its concepts and agency to question how the post-Covid-19 digitalisation of our city life will change the future of the institution’s role within the city. Is the large-scale institutional building still relevant in the city? How can our digital lives begin broaching the boundary between physical and virtual realms?

Both years will begin by investigating existing buildings, their architecture, structure and abstract forces that have led to their development. We will then take these learnings to develop architectural proposals that consider the city, and its communities, as key. We will seek to propose poetic and practical insertions that provide new programs to urban spaces derived from context, art, power and symbolism.

Second years will work in the Brixton area, questioning how the vibrant community will react to institutional proposals derived from direct analysis instead of utopian vision. Final years will engage in Waterloo, studying London’s institutions and focusing on their digital identities to see how the digital can begin influencing the physical whilst maintaining an symbolic importance within society.

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Fig 01 + 02: James Sheldrake, Fig 03 + 04: Danny Treherne, Fig 05 + 06: Joseph Olutambosun, Fig 08: Xhesika Rama, Fig 09: Danny Treherne, Fig 10: Xhesika Rama, Fig 11: Xhesika Rama, Fig 12: Ryana Sarafian, Fig 13: Xhesika Rama

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