Stage 1 Architecture 2016 - 2017
“ There is hope in honest error: none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist. “ - Charles Rennie Mackintosch
2017 STAGE 1 Mackintosch School of Architecture Beginning to study architecture is like learning a language; how to read a place or a building, and how to communicate your ideas in a way that’s universally comprehensible. Very quickly you are conversing as best you can, and there are greater lesson to be learned in this new tongue. The theme of our year is ‘place’ we have come to understand this as someting we can enhance. We have recognised the intricacies of the human body, the unique character of a place with or without intervention, the potential to mould space and the sculptural qualities of a solid. Beyond this, we have recognised our own potential to create: things that stand up, things that work, and things that hace the potential to contribute to whatever place they find themselves in.
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Space “Man is the measure of all things.� - Protagoras
The human body has long been used as a key reference point for architects. Modern architecture understands the body as an unstandardised mobile, perceiving subject whose relationship to object and spaces is fluid and changing. In order to begin to understand the intricacies of accomodating the human form we were asked to make a personal study of the way in which our own body occupies and perceives space.
2 Terroir “When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plump its depth, its form, its history and its sensuos qualities.� - Peter Zumthor
Intentionally, unavoidably, or subconsciosly, the architectural site always exerts an influence over the final work. Prehaps, rather than ignoring or working in opposition to the implicit characteristics of a site, they can be developed into something intense, tangible, even beautiful. In order to develop our sensibility to the harvestable characterists of a site we were asked to each record a site on Great Western Road and produce a single drawing whcih conveyed our experience intensely.
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Space “There is no architecture without action, architecture without event, no architecture without programme.� - Bernhard Tschumi The street, while primarily being a site of circulation and communication, is an important venue for communal life. However it does not often provide an infrastructure to support this activity. Even though an architect designs a work for a particular purpose, it does not prevent people from using it differently. Perhaps a hallmark of successful architecture is work that remains open and invites activity and occupation of all kinds. With all of this in mind we were asked to reimagine Glasgow’s Great Western Road as an important public landscape facilitating a diversity of individual and collective of events.
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Void “It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.� - Arthur Erickson Architects create space through the (re)organisation of the material world. Space is generated and imbued with atmosphere and character through the precise placement of boundaries. Though apparently immaterial, space itself acquires a form. We were asked to design an interior space within the confines of a cubic solid that conveyed a particular atmosphere or idea of our own choosing.
5 Opening “A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through the measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.� - Louis Kahn Architecture is a concrete, material reality. Ideas must be given form and physical presence. To explore the potential for the constructin of our architectural ideas we were asked to design and detail a single window opening for the structure we designed during P4.
7 Weather Register Project 7 provided us with an opportunity to explore the potential for architecture to harness and respond to the specific environmental conditions of a siteparticularly the weather conditions. We were asked to use the skills we have acquired thus far to develop an architectural proposal for a small community bath house to serve the local population of Motherwell
Traditionally a bath house has been a health and social centre where people could wash, relax, flirt, discuss, watch other people, tone up, ect. Bathing culture is a key element of many different societies and while it varies globally, some intriguing similarities can also be found.
Ain Youn 1 - 2 Alessandro Mariani 3 - 4 Alex Mallalieu 5 - 6 Alice Miller 7 - 8 Alyesha Choudhury 9 - 10 Angeliki Sachliki 11 - 12 Bex Browne 13 - 14 Callum Smith 15 - 16 Carl Jonsson 17 - 18 Charles Dunn 19 - 20 Daumantas Patamsis 21 - 22 Ebba Holst 23 - 24 Eilidh Steel 25 - 26 Elias Wahlstrom 27 - 28 Euan Anderson 29 - 30 Felicia Arvid Jaeger 31 - 32 Floris van Manen 33 - 34 Gaelen Britton 35 - 36 Guillermo 37 - 38 Gwendoline Charreau 39 - 40 Helen Visscher 41 - 42 Imraan John Smith 43 - 44 Inness Yeoman 45 - 46
Ioulia Voulgari Isla Robinson Jessica Clarkson Joe Sampey Karlis Kukainis Karolina Pluta Kyle _Mac _Connell Laura Gonรงalves Scalco Yichen Li Mstislav Kochkin Nikitas Zorzos Nikki Khosrowpour Owen Brodie Piotr Pawliszyn Polina Efthymiadou Ratib Raif Rinko Kurata Sophie Emerson Stephen Brown Umar Chothia Will Prescott Youngeun Cho Zoe Grainge
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Ain Youn My first chosen project is bathhouse in Motherwell, that should resist forward particular wheather;rain. Not only resist to rain, I also proposed the building accessing with boat through Strathclyde loch. Second chosen project is detail drawing for opening. Flemish wall had been used for facade.
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Alessandro Marini Here you can find drawings from my favourite projects this year. For one we were asked to design some baths. Bathing culture has fascinated me for years, so I relished in this opportunity. I explored the connection between water, bathing and ‘spirituality’ - researching the various rituals of bathing. My design was influenced greatly by roman bathing culture and the concept of the ‘baptisterium’ - the classical Roman cold plunge pool. There are also drawings from other projects showing a space I designed. I wanted to create an introspective refuge inspired by Scottish bothies. During these two projects I discovered the beauty of detail drawings.
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Alex Mallalieu I have been influenced in both featured projects by Peter Zumthor. Especially his incorportation of the environment into his work, focussing on light and materiality.
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Alice Miller The bathhouse project was the chance to explore new methods of representation using drawing and photography and displays just how far we have come throughout the year. Yet our previous projects show in detail the orthographic drawing skills we have obtained and in my opinion are just as beautiful. P7: The Bathhouse display of light
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P2: The Cave & its terroir
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Alyesha Choudhury These images have been taken from the “Solid Void” and “Weather Register” projects from Stage 1. Both of these projects have been incredibly immersive as I have been able to devlop my understanding in modular masonry and the structural and aesthitic importance of designing a building.
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Angeliki Sachliki This project was developed through iterations aiming to explore the potential for architecture to respond to the specific environmental conditions of a site. Part of the design process was the research on ways by which people interact with the surrounding environment.The proposal takes shape in the construction of a building that embraces the landscape with the center piece of attention being an enclosed tree, surrounded by glass.
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Bex Browne These pages include an investigation into bark patterns, which create the facade of a bathhouse to enrich the experience of bathing through light. As well as a development of a void to create an encolsed and secluded place to practice yoga.
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Callum Smith Project 7 - Tonal light representation in bath house & warm room model. Project 3 - model of spacial intervention. Project 4 - model of structure showing opening. Project 1 - motion of a backflip. Project 2 - Roots and Fruits on Great Western Road, depicting idea of ‘terroir’.
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Carl Jonsson P7 - clarity and obscurity, derived from the idea of a bath house in the mist: from pools set in the ground, to the framing of views; P3 making clothes shopping more rewarding and engaging through the playing of the piano; P5.
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Charles Dunn I explored sound as a medium to define space, rather than physical form itself. Using materials such as timber, glass and concrete, I aimed to create distinct spaces with defined audible qualities.
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Daumantas Patamsis The selection includes projects P7 and P5. The former is a community bath house that was inspired by the idea of carving into the hill and geometry, whereas the latter is a cube with an inner space that has misterious vibe.
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Ebba Holst My chosen projects are ranging from the first to the last. The tasks go from documenting the use of space, to the design of a small space, to atmosphere-design, and then finally to a fullbuilding design that demonstates the previously gained skills and developent.
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Eilidh Steel P7: A walk in the park P5: Light Shower
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Elias Wahlstrom I decided to display my projects 5 and 7. Both of the projects are concrete structures and I think they bear a resemblance to each other. Below you can see the layout of all of my project 7 sheets.
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Euan Anderson The P7 drawings focus on incorporating the site’s gradient into the structure itself, with the visitor following the building towards the shoreline, using both the interior and exterior. Drawings from P5 are also included, with detail showing the timber roof and thick cavity walls that provide drainage for the building.
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Felicia Arvid Jaeger P7 The natural scenery of a bath house The scenery of the silhouettes behind the frosted glass, gives you an introduction to the building - what is happening in the different rooms. Behind every facade lies a reality.
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Floris van Manen
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Gaelen Britton Weather Register challenged us to design a community bath house which responded to the weather conditions found on site in Strathclyde Country Park. Inspired by clinging moisture and the ritual of bathing, I designed a boutique bathing experience.
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Guillermo Cienfuegos Model images/ smaller parts of projects
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Gwendoline Charreau During my first year I have understood that you can’t immediately achieve a perfect project. A good creation is a developed project based on solid research.
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Helen Visscher My interest in Japanese architecture combined with my love of nature led me to develop the following design. It describes a ‘trail’, a sequence of buildings intended to communicate to the surrounding natural landscape through attention to the design of roof, viewpoints and walkways. Throughout the design the repeating motif of overhanging roofs is a nod to the traditional Japanese vernacular and is utilised as a way of connecting the separate buildings via creating a covered walkway.
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Imraan John Smith I have chosen to show projects 5 and 7. P5 is about an empty space in a cube that provides an atmosphere of Isolation and dispair. P7 features a Bathhouse that is inspired by Roman and classical architecture. The weather theme suited for the design is rain.
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Inness Yeoman With scope to change the water at any given time, each bath becomes a seperate experience from the next with light cannons capturing diffuse and direct lights at different times of the day.
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Ioulia Voulgari From P1 and P2 on the left to the final P7 on the right. The development from simple ideas to more complicated ones is shown.
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Isla Robinson The two projects displayed here both have a large focus on the views and surrounding landscape from within each building. Despite the brief of the two chosen projects being entirely different, the idea that the building or space should fully acknowledge and make use of the site it is situated within.
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Jessica Clarkson The projects i have chosen are my P5 and my P7, these are my two favourite projects as the both involved me considering space both internal and external. Below are two of my P5 sheets and to the right are 5 of my P7 sheets.
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Joe Sampey P7 Artwork. P7 Model Photos. P1. P7 Building Plan.
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Karlis Kukainis Through projects 7 and 5 I tried to apprehend the presence of people and movement in time and space. Each one of them elicit different emotions and atmospheres by using movement as one of the initiators of various emotions.
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Karolina Pluta In my proposal, the baths become place of procession and place for ritual. The building structure uses slope of the hill as an element of transition creating a focus on the lake horizon, as element of a secret, which one is revealed at the buildings end, in shape of a platform, open to the whole site and lake. For the second project Our idea was to create space with presence of motherhood defence. The more fragile parts of construction imitate mothers skirt, which becomes something like an armour.
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Laura Gonรงalves Scalco Shaping light conditions in order to set an atmosphere was the main focus behind Project 7 - Weather Register. By attempting to portray different light conditions, I attempted to create a sensorial bath house experience and journey resembling that of walking through a forest.
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Yichen Li P7_A GLIMPSE OF BIRCH: The bath house is inspired by light sheared by birch trees. The storyboard shows spatial experience. P5_HARMONY: The openings provide light through refraction and the timber slides with rocks compose harmonic atmosphere.
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Mstislav Kochkin Projects 3, 5 and 7 were the best to represent the course as the complex of developing orthographic drawing and CAD skills, studying the context and providing proposals based on factors like landscape, climate and circulation of humans within the building.
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Nikitas Zorzos This project was developed into an architectural proposal and derived from a study of the relationship between Man and Water, and intends to rediscover some of the ritual and tradition of water and baths that were lost throughout time, returning them to their original character, in their therapeutic, socia l and playful dimensions.
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Nikki Khosrowpour The Bathhouse- My main focus in this project was light which is why I have named it Komorebi II meaning the light that comes through the leaves in a forrest.
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Owen Brodie A selection of drawings from projects 5 and 7 showing my favourite work from this year.
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Piotr Pawliszyn We were asked to design a space which conveys a certain atmosphere without any functional use. I wanted to pay a tribute to an american painter- Mark Rothko. The designed space aims to create an atmosphere expressed in Rothko’s works.
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Polina Efthymiadou A series of part of projects I have developed during this year allowing to explore architectural ideas and learn architectural conventions.
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Ratib Raif P7 A windy bath house n a lake
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Rinko Kurata Architecture is the form of its response to natrure. The bath house sits on a sloped site near the loch. The flow of the water through the proposal visualizes the water seeping through the landscape. The various qualities of natural light invited in each rooms provide different kinds of spatial perceptions to the users, while guiding them and giving them sensation of nature.
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Sophie Emerson The combination of projects I have included in my yearbook aim to display the progress I have made throughout the year. Personally I can see a improvement in my technical drawing, model making and photoshop abilities from P3 all the way through to P7.
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Stephen Brown Page 1: P7 - An abstract design of a bath house for Strathclyde country park. Page 2: P5 - Detail drawings of windows integrated into a ‘folly’ I had previously designed.
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Umar Chothia A series of projects conveying designs based on experiments, ideas on space and the rules of construction.
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Will Prescott I have always been interested in how different spaces influence the flow/movement of people and the interaction with their surroundings. Throughout the year I have tried to develop my designs around the basis of how a space can influence movement, interaction and emotion rather than a more aesthetic approach.
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Zoe Grainge The brief for the ‘solid void’ project was to design the interior space for a 7.5m x 7.5m x 7.5m cube which conveys a particular idea. I chose to create a space with a subterranean, cave, or warren-like atmosphere which manipulates the users emotions throughout the entirety of the experience.
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