M.Arch in Architecture (RIBA Pa�t 2) Yearbook 2016-17 SHU_Archltecture
Welcome to SHU_Architecture
When the 2015/16 Yearbook was published we were still in the EU and there was a sane US President in post. Since then the political world has been turned upside down with the potential for more shocks. A fascinating article by Barack Obama in a recent edition of the Guardian focussed on some of this potential, linking issues of social unrest, technological advance, changing cultures, climate change and food supply. These are all issues that will come to test us in years to come and ones where architects and architectural technicians with the right approach, could have the skills to make a huge contribution. Ours is a vocation that could, with clarity of perspective and engagement be seen as essential in any endeavour. The danger is that we let ourselves become servants to a techno-commercial process rather than a source of innovative but humble direction. In looking through the projects in this book it is refreshing to see that the concerns of students are there in confrontation with these real issues. Issues that won’t go away and are getting ever more visible. There are projects questioning the needs of a society where many will have no paid employment, asking what kind of architecture may be needed to support a culture with a basic universal income. There are projects investigating the power of people to do architecture for themselves, to work collaboratively to deal with crisis situations or the more mundane but equally savaging effects of welfare cuts. Some of these projects are fearful of the future but many are hopeful of the benefits of new technologies and embrace them for the social good rather than commercial gain. This is a school focussed on the potential of the future ‘real world’ rather than the status quo. It is a very important direction to be going in.
Julian Marsh ‘Late’ Professor of Architecture
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Introduction to M.Arch in Architecture (RIBA Part 2)
This M.Arch course provides an engaging, research-led and stimulating route to ARB/RIBA Part 2 exemption by redefining and occupying the spaces between academia and practice in architecture. The course is fundamentally concerned with the changing nature of the profession and discipline of architecture and the potential of developing new relations to, and roles within, society. Through an innovative 3 year structure, students are able to work in an architect’s practice alongside their Part 2 study, creating a dynamic experience which straddles the spheres of industry and academia at the same time. The course encourages a reading of architecture beyond simply the design of buildings, instead exploring it as a complex, interdisciplinary and dynamic ecology, designed, constructed and used through creative social, political and material processes. Our position in the Department of the Natural and Built Environment enables us to explore this through teaching and research connections with planning, geography, construction and environment staff and students. Furthermore, our position within the Sheffield Institute of the Arts (SIA) provides a stimulating context to explore collaborations with art, design, graphics and interior design departments. Out of this position emerge three core themes that underpin the course:
The Praxis of Architecture Social and Political Design Ecologies of Architecture The work presented here is just a tiny snapshot of the incredible achievments of our fantastic student body on the M.Arch, but they begin to demonstrate these themes through the very personal projects that the students have driven themselves. Sam Vardy
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Contents
Year 4 Studio 4 4 The Praxis of Architecture
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Year 5 + 6 Design Ateliers Introduction 11 Atelier 1 12 Atelier 2 18 Atelier 3 24 Parallel Modules 30 Sustainable City Ecologies Critical Study Integrated Practice
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Top-bottom, left-right, p.4: Matt Halton, Field Notes/ Energy Lab at Mesters Works with SSoA/
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Studio Four explores the idea of design as distributed agency. We claim that the ability to design and make change is always shared, and to extend the potential of this is important democratically. This starting point acknowledges that designers are operating in interdependent economic, social, political, technical and cultural networks. We also understand that the materials with which we design are not passive- they are acting on, with, and in response to our gestures and decisions as a designer. We are interested in the process of design as one of making/ remaking/ repairing/ modifying/ hacking/ and crafting with others, both human and non-human. We consider those who design, occupy and use buildings, objects and spaces to have the potential to do so in creative and even subversive ways. As a Studio we have been intervening in local and social specificities- and therefore making close explorations and careful mappings, through time. Together, Studio Four have developed project scenarios that draw on the past, explore the present and speculate about potential futures.
STUDIO 4 Design as Distributed Agency Steph Asher Omar Etienne Anna Gregoriou Matthew Halton Anna Henshall Gareth Johnson Alice Kaiser Patrick Leach Nathan Lodge Mohammed Mahdi Luke Marshall Alex Parojcic Jacob Peplow Liam Seaman Dr Julia Udall Dr Sam Vardy
With our thanks to: Karen Watson, Jon Wakeman, Liz Riley and all at East Street Arts Aya Musmar Dr Florian Kossak Jonny Wilkinson Marriane Heaslip, URBED Jon Orlek, Studio Polpo Sara Hill and Olly Galvin and all at Mesters Works Gordon Macrae and all at Gripple @SHU4_DaDA www.designasdistributedagency.wordpress.com
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Top-bottom, left-right, p.6-7: Liam Seaman/ Matt Halton/ Anna Gregariou/ Patrick Leach/ Anna Henshall/ Steph Asher// Matt Halton/ Jacob Peplow/ Anna Henshall / Alice Kaiser/ Nathan Lodge/ Alice Kaiser/
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Top-bottom, left-right, p..8-p9: Luke Marshall/ Steh Asher/ Alice Kaiser/Jacob Peplow/ Anna Henshall// Alex Parojcic/ Gareth Johnson/ Mohammed Mahdi/ Studio Four Exhibtion at Patrick Studios, East Street Arts/ Mohammed Mahdi/ Reviews, ESA
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Praxis I and II History and Theory Expanding Practice
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Atelier 1 Aftermath Adapting a community from YEAR 5+6 crisis Lancaster DESIGN ATELIERS and Morecambe Bay Prof. Julian Marsh Atelier 2 Northern Futures The Entangled Bank Manchester / Liverpool Ship Canal Neil Stevenson Tony Broomhead Atelier 3 Skein Posthuman territories, matter and programs Port Talbot and the South Wales Coalfield Sam Vardy Year 5 and 6 work together in vertical ateliers, and there are currently 3 ateliers run by Julian Marsh, Neil Stevenson and Sam Vardy. This year the ateliers are distributed across the west coast of the UK covering large complex geo-political landscapes and specific local conditions. The Ateliers provide an ambitious and supportive environment for students to develop creative, complex and socially relevant spatial propositions.
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ATELIER 1 Aftermath This studio explores a situation that is in many ways a proxy for issues of the future in an accelerated form. When a community suffers a physical crisis, which has the potential to re-occur, it faces an immediate need for urgent adaption and then many kinds of physical, social and psychological as recovery and anticipation of further problems take place. From a physical perspective, it means engaging with new and emerging technologies to deal with difficult physical issues, and making ethical decisions about what to give up and what to protect. It requires consideration of how much to rely on technological fixes and how to develop fall back contingency
measures. The context for these explorations is Lancaster, a city in many ways left behind. It is a beautiful historic setting, but one suffering swinging cuts in local authority social and cultural funding, one with problematic levels of unemployment, where the poorer areas of the city are at serious risk of flooding. But it has a leading University with a Health and Welfare focus wanting to engage (despite its distant campus setting) and huge potential as a gateway to the Lake District and the North Yorkshire Moors. Without exception, the students have engaged with one or more of these issues in developing their imaginative scenarios and envisaging empathetic responses.
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Lancashire Community Rail and Energy Co-Operative by Jordie Bokor (Y6)
Tutor: Julian Marsh Students: Y6 Jordie Bokor Cris Brownley Will Fairful Emma Ibbotson Joe Steele Y5 Josh Cooper Richard Hart Catalina Ionita Aaron Morris Jordan Smith
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This page and opposite: The Mill Hill Commons by Cris Brownley (Y6) 15
This page: The Archipelago City by Catalina Ionita (Y5) Opposite page: top and right: The Potato Standard by Emma Ibbotson (Y6), bottom left: The Timber Transcendence by Joe Steele (Y6) 16
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Tutor: Neil Stevenson and Tony Broomhead Students:
ATELIER 2 Northern Futures: The Entangled Bank
Y6 Sam Hadfield Kate Jenkins Tom Sanders Y5 James Crossland James Damon Drew Dutton Dan Lowe Callum Wray
Starting with the Darwin’s ecological analogy of the ‘Entangled bank’, where all life gathers at the waterside in diversity and mutual dependence, this year’s Atelier 2 studio considered the context of the Manchester Ship Canal. Currently the subject of a £50 billion private investment programme to regenerate the redundant waterway as a sustainable cargo transport route and urban waterfront. Opened in 1893 this seminal engineering project which once divided the economies of Liverpool and Manchester could potentially reconnect the post industrial urban centres for an equally ambitious future. Reviewing the current political, economic, environmental and social issues, the Atelier reflected on both the urban context of the ship canal and the effect of new development to existing local communities. Mapping a selection of nominated sites along the ship canal we considered existing contexts and debated possible futures. Urban analysis and site selection led to semester 1 scenario proposals and then to individual project briefs. In semester 2 students developed detailed architectural and landscape interventions for new modes of working and living, production and consumption. 18
This page top and bottom: Septic Collective Design Studio by Sam Hadfield (Y6) Right: Site location
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Previous spread L: Septic Collective Design Studio by Sam Hadfield (Y6) R: Catalyst Runcorn: The Canal Quarter Kilns by Kate Jenkins (Y6) Opposite page: Kate Jenkins (Y6) This page: top: Tom Sanders (Y6) bottom: Drew Dutton (Y5)
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ATELIER 3 Skein Posthuman Territories, Matter and Programmes
Atelier 3 worked with the notion of the skein to reflect the complex knot of factors that are always present in the production and use of space and the environment. On one hand, skein is a noun to describe a ball of wool, but its meaning is also more nuanced - a complex tangle, or a ‘twisted skein of lies’. Each and every spatial condition can be unravelled to reveal a number of different threads - economic, political, biological, material, social and so on. When we take part in changing our environment through design or architecture we are informed by, interact with, and affect this skein. Posthuman thinking encourages us to explore these entanglements, in order to more consciously locate ourselves within them, so that we might be able to consider how to act as architects. Our site for the year was Suthern Wales; as a ‘point’, the town of Port Talbot and, as a ‘field’, the South Wales Coalfield. This part of the planet has a complex and rich history which revolves strongly around the relation of its people to the land, in physical terms of the extraction of matter from the earth, and in social terms of the formation of communities around mining and the employment it provides.
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Previous and opposite pages: Leslie Lam (Y6); this page from top: Amy Izzard (Y5), Omar Kaliyaev (Y6), Antonio Serban (Y5), Luke Scrimshaw (Y6)
Tutor: Sam Vardy Students: Y6 Mikaela Gabarda Omar Kaliiaev Leslie Lam Jake Rathbone Luke Scrimshaw Y5 Rory Canham Rob Cook Ammar Eid Amy Izzard Sam Marner Antonio Serban
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Opposite page: Nant Helen Transgressive Landfill, by Jake Rathbone (Y6) This page: Human Resillience 2064 by Rory Canham (Y5) 29
PARALLEL MODULES A
Year 5 + 6
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Critical Study
Integrated Practice
Sustainable City Ecologies
The Critical study module asks you to develop a piece of research that will begin to lay the foundations of your Year 6 thesis project. This year, students considered how to “Reimagine the Object of Architecure” through a set of new theories and practices, to arrive a re-imagining of the concept of the ‘object’ and its potential for new kinds of architectures and spatial politics.
The approach we take to the legal, professional and proceedural aspects of architecture taught in Year 6 is to make them project based. This gives a context within which to consider these important aspects of what an architect does, and because the projects are encouraged to be radical, it engenders a questioning of current practice and an inventiveness and flexibility of response.
The module explores theoretical models of the city, drawn from across urban planning, landscape and architecture, with a focus on contemporary theories of ecourbanism and the sustainable city.
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SHarc Sheffield Hallam Architecture Student Society SHarc is a non-profit student lead society that has been commended for its commitment. As a member, one of its perks is the SHarc shop, supplying specialist equipment all year round at discounted rates. To ensure all students are prepared, the famous freshers pack provides them with the essentials to start their journey. Going above and beyond the walls of the institute, an array of workshops such as Photoshop, Revit and Portfolio Reviews are organised a long side a series of guest lectures that support the future trends in architectural education. This year, SHarc joined the Sheffield Society of Architects (SSA) and SUAS in cohosting a Christmas quiz Social. We explored the ethos of environmental architecture at the Centre of Alternative Technology and provided support for graduating third years through informal meetings with the Post Graduate students. Ending and rewarding the hard work with a popular Winter Ball, accommodating for up to 140 students.
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SHarc Co-Chair, Terri-Louise Doyle “For over five years, SHarc has maintained its presence across the school, building an essential foundation, students are dedicated to enhancing the university experience for Hallam architecture students. You instantly feel like you’re part of a community, part of a family�.
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