AVA Architecture + Design Yearbook 2018

This yearbook showcases the innovative and creative projects by Architecture + Design students of the UEL School of Architecture and the Visual Arts.

‘Cerussite’ is part of the work ‘Alive’ by Stratis Georgiou and Palak Jhunjhunwala in RAQS Media Collective’s ‘Twilight’ Exhibition, at The Whitworth Art Gallery

AVA Architecture + Design Yearbook 2018 Publisher University of East London Editor Dr Anastasia Karandinou Graphic Design Studio Jon Spencer Showcase Edition June 2018 ISBN 978-0-9935963-6-0 (printed version) ISBN 978-0-9935963-7-7 (digital version) University of East London School of Architecture and the Visual Arts Dockland Campus E16 2RD T+44 020 8223 2041 F+44 020 8223 2963 www.uel.ac.uk

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Contents Acknowledgements p2 Mission Statement p3 Welcome p5 Introduction p6 Research, Awards, Projects, Conferences p8 Field Trips p36 Open Studio Event p40 Lecture Series p44 Foundation p50 BSc Architecture Year 1 p60 BSc Architecture Year 2 & 3 Unit A p76 Unit E p86 Unit G p94 Unit H p102 MArch Architecture Year 4 & 5 Unit 2 p112 Unit 4 p124 Unit 5 p132 Unit 6 p140 Unit 8 p148 Unit 9 p158 Unit 10 p168 BSc Architecture Design Technology (ADT) p176 BA Interior Design p208 Masters Programmes MRes p222 MA Achitecture and Urbanism p226 MA Interior Design p230 MA Landscape Architecture p244 PhD in Architecture + Design p256

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Collaborators We would like to thank the many organisations, companies and individuals who we have had the pleasure of collaborating with, including:

NLA/New London Architecture

ARB/Architects Registration Board

PRL/ Place research Lab

Alberto Moletto (Move Arquitectos, Chile)

Ramboll

Alejandro Aravena

RIBA/Royal Institute of British Architects

ArchitectScripta

RIBA research

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Rasti Bartek (Partner at Cundall)

ARUP

Scott Whitby Studio

ATER Pordenone, Italy

Studio Bark

Bamboo Bicycle Co.

Shanghai Giao Tong University, China

Birkbeck, University Of London

University of Hasselt, Belgium

BBAA/Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna, Italy

Social Life

British Council Newton Fund

ECOBUILD Sustainable Design

Ca’ Foscari/University of Venice, Italy

SRI/Sustainale Research Institute

Camden Council

STO Foundation

Collide Theatre

The Building Centre

Creekside Education Trust

The Design Museum

David Levitt (Levitt Bernstein Architects)

The Courtauld Institute Of Art

Sustainability Research Institute

IUAV/University of Architecture of Venice, Italy

Emilio De La Cerda (Pontificat Catolic Universidad, Chile)

Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Russia

Engineers Hrw Erasmus+

Guangzhou School of Architecture and Urban Planning, China

Grimshaw Architects

Akmei Metropolitan College of Athens, Greece

ATER Pordenone, Italy

Tony Fretton Architects

muf architecture/art

C+S/Cappai Segantini Architects, Italy

Heatherwick Studio

University Finis Terrae of Santiago, Chile

InTeA srl, Venezia

William Paton Community Garden

Leaside Wood Recycling Project

Witherford Watson Mann Architects

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority

Young Vic Theatre

Les Ateliers LLDC/London Legacy Development Corporation London Borough of Newham Museum of Architecture

Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna, Italy Pell Frischmann

Hackney City Farm

At A+D we foster a broad and inspiring education to establish a rich foundation for a creative professional life. Our Architecture and Design programmes challenge assumptions and set new agendas for design in the 21st century.

We balance the development and support of our students’ talents with the understanding that Architecture and Design is contextual, socially constructing and political. We believe that the design conversation in studios between students and staff across models and drawings is central to creative development.

Our students are encouraged to undertake study trips internationally in each year of study to deepen an understanding of people and places. Our teaching balances a respect and understanding of the past and the present with an inspirational, poetic and innovative stance towards the future.

Our staff teach at the highest level and maintain an enquiring research approach to physical and intellectual contexts. We embrace real situations with passion and creativity. We believe that a depth of enquiry and poetic experimentation develops from the experience and understanding of making, drawing and materials in well-crafted output. We believe that Architecture and Design is thought, experienced and built.

Our school acts as a forum for ideas and thought across a wide range of disciplines. We host a national and international lecture series which acts as a magnet for theorists and practitioners to contribute to the discussion and debate in the school. We have extensive workshops and facilities for the creation of real and digital artefacts.

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AVA A+D

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s edition of the Architecture and Visual Art Yearbook. This year’s book is full of a wide range of very creative and inspiring ideas and projects developed by our highly talented students. We strive to offer our students the best experience possible and ensure they are ready for the workplace. We do this by working closely with employers and architecture practitioners. Our staff are fully engaged in high impact applied research which transforms lives and society.

We are so delighted with the recent appointment a number of very high profile visiting professors to the College of Arts, Technology and Innovation. Those appointments include Professor Patrik Schumacher – the Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, Professor Chris Williamson, and Professor Roger Flanagan.

We are an award winning School and members of our staff were amongst the group of talented young architects “Assemble” who were awarded the Turner Prize for 2016. Staff have also been active on international completion wins including Rosa Rogina and Armor Gutierrez Rivas who were part of the team winning the competition for the design of the Venice Biennial Montenegrin pavilion 2018.

Architecture and Design is a flagship subject for the University and I am thrilled with the quality and standard of this year students’ work. This yearbook presents a comprehensive profile of our students, reflects creative thinking, and a holistic approach to design.

I am grateful to my colleagues who have worked very hard to develop a rich diversity of talents. I take this opportunity to wish all graduates a very successful and bright future.

We hope you will remain in touch with us as your forge ahead in your careers, remembering that it all began at the University of East London!

Professor Hassan Abdalla PhD FRSA PFHEA Pro Vice-Chancellor & Dean College of Arts, Technology and Innovation

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Welcome

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History and Innovation What it means to unfold history forwards On a hot summer afternoon in East Anglia I had my first drive in a new Tesla fitted with autonomous (driverless) technology. Harvest had just taken place and with hands off the controls the car skilfully navigated the twists and turns of the country lanes between wheat fields. I was reminded of the test postulated by Alan Turing in the 1950s (Manchester University) in which machine intelligence gains a complexity to imitate human intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing in a number of fields with opinion divided about whether AI extends or threatens human thinking and our democracy. As well as constructing our lives in the context of intelligent machines human thinking is also subject to threatening macro forces such as, climate change, big data, political regimes, chemical weapons in Salisbury and military action in Syria.

There can be no better time to reassess what it is that drives the best of human endeavour and distinguishes it. One thing that is clear is that humans are at their best when their capacity for creativity and innovation is unleashed in a supportive context of freedom of thought and enquiry. I am reminded of our ethos here at UEL to “enrich lives in the context of society and nature”. Innovation takes place in a context and we can think of this as its own short, medium or long term history. So, as creatives, how do we relate to history?

In his novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald ends the book with a reflection on the central character Gatsby: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further . . . And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1926) This invisible force bearing us back into the past is surely what we have to fight against. I would argue that as creatives we are unfolding history into an unknown future. It is through our creative endeavours and innovations that we assist the past to unfold embedded with our human values. Only in this way does innovation not attempt to replace the past but to unfold the past forwards. It is precisely in this approach that innovation

can extend and enrich our society by integrating with our values. At the moment I would argue that there has never been a more important time to be studying and bringing forward ideas. It seems very clear that we are in a period of rapid change and with so many nations failed or spiralling towards failure the need to harness change through innovation linked to a virtuous value system has never been more apparent. Surely it must be this constant struggle that defines human thinking at its best.

Universities therefore have a key role to play leading innovation in the 21C. Here at UEL I am indebted to our students and staff who have worked ceaselessly throughout the year to research and make proposals for such a wide variety of project work and to provide a supportive environment for this innovation to be nurtured. The complex nature of our work however means that we have to work across boundaries.

I am therefore delighted to be a part of the new department of AVA which brings together the architecture and design programmes with the visual arts programmes. This new clustering will allow many new synergies to enrich our work. In the light of this new clustering I am delighted by the many varied activities of students and staff.

I am also very grateful for the support given to us by many sponsors and practitioners. In particular I would mention the STO foundation, sponsors our international lecture series, who have through international practitioners visiting the school done so much to enrich the design conversation of the students and staff. I would also like to thank the practitioners who contribute to the national lecture series including the Architecture Society lecture series, the Detour Ahead and the Art Lecture series. These lecture series have considerably enriched the thinking that drives our work. I would like to thank the students who have assisted with these societies including the president of the student society Daniel Kiss, with Dalcimaria Nunes Cardoso, Nick Franklin, Andrei Rudi Szepocher, Fabio Jose Magalhaes, Andreea Camelia Ciuc and Julian David Roncancio Luna.

We are also very grateful to the practitioners who have been mentoring students and offering placements on

the RIBA programme and on their own account. In particular we mention Sir Robert Mc Alpine, British Land and AHMM for their continued mentoring and sponsorship of student competitions. It is through debate and collegiate working across university and practice that agendas for change might emerge. In this way the school acts as a forum for the development and exchange of ideas.

The opening of the June Showcase coincides with a research conference on heritage, Tangible and Intangible Heritage(s): Design, social and cultural critiques on the past, present and the future. Staff have been active on international completion wins including Rosina Rogina and Armor Gutierrez Rivas were part of the team winning the competition for the design of the Venice Biennial Montenegrin pavilion.

Armor was also on the team winning the new Singapore airport (KPF and Heatherwick Studio).

UEL alumni and staff member Wilf Meynell (Studio Bark) has won Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018.

Students have also been successful with Product Design Student Laurica Carusato winning the Green Seas Trust completion to clear up beaches. Cathal Abberton won the British Journal of Photography Single Image Breakthrough Award, Mark Lawrence MA Fine Art graduate has won a Scottish National Portrait award, Helen Pritchard won an Evening Standard Contemporary Art Award and Doreen Fletcher was nominated for an Evening Standard Contemporary Art Award. Interior Design students made a group entry to a competition in Italy for the restoration of a castle.

The Architecture programmes have been revalidated by the ARB and I would like to thank all the staff for their work revalidating and enhancing Visual arts programmes.

At the core of our teaching philosophy is the relationship developed between staff and students.

Students are taught in small groups, one to one, in studios, in workshops, and lecture halls. Our project work follows a systematic pattern of investigation, experiment and innovation.

I would like to thank the students and staff for their work this year, and to wish those students leaving the school every success. Please stay in touch with us.

This book is by necessity the briefest compilation of many ideas, the briefest glimpse into our unfolding of knowledge and values. It witnesses the very best output of human endeavour.

I would like to thank all of you who beat on, boats against the current, harnessing innovation and unfolding history forwards to an unknown future.

Carl Callaghan BA (Hons) Dipl RIBA Subject Leader Architecture and Design

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Subject Leader A+D

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Modern Maypole

Modern Maypole International Design Competition

His firm, ScottWhitbystudio, shared the accolade with engineering company WhitbyWood, founded by his father, Mark.

The two companies will construct the ‘Modern Maypole’ – a complex tower of 32 golden maypoles representing the 32 London boroughs – for the 2019 London Festival of Architecture from 1-30 June.

The structure will form a contemporary focus for public events and activity outside the church of St Mary-le-Strand – the site of London’s largest and long-lost maypole, which was erected after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and towered over the 17th century city.

Alex said, “We are delighted, humbled and tremendously excited to have won the ‘Modern Maypole’ competition. As a team it means a great deal to all of us to have been tasked with the honour of creating a new structure on this hugely important London site.

“We hope that what we create will become a place for Londoners to meet, visitors to explore and a marker point that will help London forge its new identity.”

Each of the golden poles is held in place by ‘tensegrity’ – a term coined in the 1960s by Kenneth Snelson and Buckminster Fuller whereby the structure stands thanks to the compressive strengths of the anodized aluminium poles and the tensile strengths of coloured steel wires acting in unison.

After the 2019 Festival, the poles will be donated to schools and community organisations across the capital, forming a legacy of civic beacons in London for years to come.

The international design contest was launched in June 2017 and was open to architects, artists, designers and engineers. ScottWhitbystudio and WhitbyWood saw off competition from a field of 32 entries to win the commission.

For this years festival Alex’s Studio is working alongside world renowned engineers Arup to create an innovative reflective gateway structure outside St Paul’s Cathedral (Pictured) which will be in place for the duration of the summer. The structure is made up of over 300 highly reflective aluminium poles that will hopefully reflect an image of St Pauls back at pedestrians as they arrive out of St Paul’s Underground station.

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Senior lecturer Alex Scott-Whitby has won a prestigious international design competition to create a ‘Modern Maypole’ in central London.

St Pancras Church The Portico project: John Betjeman Conservation Award 2017

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Alan Chandler’s practice won the Society for the Protection of Ancient buildings John Betjeman award for conservation repair, working ion the Grade 1 listed Inwood designed Greek revival church of St Pancras in Euston.

The approach responded to William Morris’s key proposition: ‘The building is a document of its time and of its making’ – here he asks us to respect the legibility of a buildings life for all to read and understand. How we do this requires us to ‘repair not restore’, and when we do repair we need to be sensitive to how that repair is made and how it influences our comprehension of the whole – to ‘straighten out’ or leave ‘as found’?

SPAB’s Betjeman Award judge Rachel Morley said: “We were incredibly impressed by the time and effort which was given to understanding the construction of the Portico – the development, alterations, inefficiencies and unique details, as well as the materials used. This informed and justified every step of this complex suite of repair and re-engineering works. The detail of the work throughout was exquisite. We were especially pleased with the team’s forward-looking approach – not only developing a recipe for this rare form of terracotta to inform future repairs, but also supporting the craftspeople that possess these skills. Overall, we found this to be an exceptionally thorough and thoughtful project”.

The project was also shortlisted for the King of Prussia Gold Medal 2017

Alumni Acievments Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018

Studio Bark’s founding Director, Wilf Meynell, teaches Technical & Environmental Studies to both degree and masters students in Architecture. www.studiobark.co.uk

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At a ceremony in April Studio Bark were announced as Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018. “We were honoured to be up against such prestigious practices at the Architect of the Year Awards last night. It feels great to have our efforts recognised alongside other designers who are also passionate about the environment”.

AJ Small Projects Award 2018 shortlist

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Holloway Lightbox is a photography studio, a screenwriter’s retreat and a flexible family space located in the rear garden of the client’s Victorian terrace home. In a nod to the couple’s respective professions (photography and film), a series of handmade coloured tiles create a playful ‘pixelated’ façade. The series of final photographs, showing the transition from day to night have been taken by the client.

The Lightbox was built by architecture students from UEL as part of Bark Live Build and UEL’s annual Construction Week. A huge thank you to to all those who contributed, including Lauretta, Athena, Alvin, Moiz, Sahand, Zi Xin, Nor Amirah, Mohamed, Mary, Thomas, Madihah and Afiqah.

Technical Workshops are in themselves architecturally ambiguous events. Real events in real time, they are constructed situations. The line, and the drawing, which marshals it into order, normally precedes the making of structures with material.

Within the Workshop, this is not so, and the line loses its pre-eminence, drawings become simply notations of actions, explorative tools to investigate how it fits, where it is placed, the sequence of actions. Workshops rely on both verbal and malleable strategies to generate the constructed situation between the participants and their task.

What advantage does this give?

Primarily, the development of material resolution through making confronts the student with the inertia and sloth of material substance. The student cannot assume that the mastery of matter is the responsibility of others. In the very conception of a design the qualities and properties of materials must be grasped and understood in order to make.

Lines are the intermediaries between ‘thought’ and ‘make’, and their significance as substitute matter needs to be understood. An Architect seldom builds their own work, but to begin an immersion into the act of building is the only means by which the line can become relevant and purposeful.

With thanks to those who made the Construction week 2017 happen: Studio Bark Wilf Meynell, Nick Newman and Steph Chadwick (www.studiobark.co.uk) London Play and West Green Primary School Nic McEwan and Max Muller (www.londonplay.org. uk) Thames View Infants Academy and SRI Sam Jelliman (www.uel.ac.uk/sri) Engineers HRW Chris Stobbart (www.ehrw.co.uk) Matter Architecture and Greenleaf School Roland Karthaus (www.matterarchitecture.uk) Matter Architecture and The Limes Roland Karthaus (www.thelimes.org.uk) Stratis Georgiou UEL Robotics lecturer Dr Aurore Julien Environmental lecturer Philippa Battye Witherford Watson Mann Beats learning and MUF Architecture/Art Katherine Clarke and Mark Lemanski (www.muf. co.uk)

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Live workshops: a philosophy of engagement

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Capital Architecture

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, Harald Trapp (UEL) and Robert Thum (Hochschule Trier, Germany), initiated and organised the researchproject “capital architecture”. This international and multidisciplinary cooperation includes the research of MArch unit 9 (Harald Trapp, Brian Hoy) and will be documented in various publications and exhibitions.

Using London as a starting point, the first exhibition in the European Academy of Art Trier investigates the relevance of Marx for the analysis of architecture today. Video-interviews with experts (Massimo De Angelis (UEL), Mario Carpo (Bartlett), Alois Hahn (University Trier), Anna Minton (UEL), Patrik Schumacher (Hadid Architects), Douglas Spencer (AA)), a series of photographies (Immo Klink) and architectural diagrams (unit 9, UEL) on London´s Workingmen´s Clubs and the spatial installation „Akkumulator“ (Harald Trapp, Robert Thum) comment on the contemporary production of space.

“capital architecture” is scheduled to be shown in the LUCA (Luxembourg Center for Architecture) and the new gallery of the architectural magazine arch+ in Berlin. The research on London´s Workingmen´s Clubs, including some of unit 9-students´ drawings, has been invited to be part of the international exhibition “An Atlas of Commoning”, which will start in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin this June, continues 2018/2019 in the USA (Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Orleans, San Diego) and concludes in South America in 2020/2021 (Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, La Paz, Lima).

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Student Competition Broadgate

UEL Architecture students take centre stage in innovative paid project to design a £300,000 Welfare space in Central London.

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Architecture students at the University of East London (UEL) have played an important, behind-the-scenes role in the rapid and impressive transformation of Broadgate, a 32-acre office and retail estate in the City of London.

Located near the high-speed Crossrail’s Elizabeth line, set to open in December 2018, Broadgate, at 100 Liverpool Street, will offer office space, shops, rooftop dining and public spaces – all designed and built according to the highest ecological standards.

But what about the countless engineers, builders, plumbers, carpenters, labourers and other trade professionals who are turning this exciting vision into a reality? UEL’s Architecture students helped create an inspiring environment for these essential workers.

It all started in 2017, when Sir Robert McAlpine, a leading UK construction and engineering company, approached UEL Senior Lecture Alex Scott-Whitby with an invitation for students to participate in a competition to design and build welfare facilities for workers to use during the construction phase of redevelopment at Broadgate.

The brief required students to look at ways to provide welfare provision such as toilets, hot and cold water for washing, changing facilities, drinking water and somewhere to eat and rest. They were asked to come up with ideas which would exceed expectations while also safeguarding the health and well-being of workers.

Sir Robert McAlpine worked with UEL and British Land, which owns the Broadgate site, to select a winning design from three shortlisted teams of UEL students.

There were good ideas from each of the teams, so the decision was made to interview and appoint five students from across the three teams to deliver the project.

The UEL undergraduate and postgraduate students selected – Kirk Slankard, Robin Philpot, Darlyn Norlay, Nuno Lopes and John Francis Benedicto – worked closely with Sir Robert McAlpine’s framework design manager Jeff Tidmarsh, and contractor Avondale. Avondale sponsored the students’ employment for six months effectively paying off their final years study.

The welfare facilities, at 1 Finsbury Avenue, opened in October 2017. The space featured a canteen, kitchen, secure storage, showers, toilets and washing facilities for men and women, offices for supervisors, a multi-faith room and an auditorium for daily safety inductions, training and meetings.

One of the quirkier ideas from students was to repurpose fire doors to create walls, dining tables, benches and the auditorium.

The students even utilised an unused Italian restaurant on the ground floor of 1 Finsbury Avenue to set-up a one week public exhibition in June under the aegis of the London Festival of Architecture.

‘Reflections on Broadgate - past, present and future’ showcased the students’ experience, the work of architects employed on the redevelopment of Broadgate, and the site’s history, including photographs of the original construction of Broadgate.

UEL students described the experience as “an assault course in architecture and construction” and said they valued the opportunity to grow in professional and personal confidence by tackling real-life challenges, deadlines and collaboration under pressure.

And cooperation between UEL and the Broadgate partners continues, with a new competition, announced earlier this year, offering architecture students paid three-month placements to work as part of a small team in Broadgate which is finding ways to enhance public and private space within the area’s buildings.

This Broadgate student team project will be unveiled in June, to again coincide with the London Festival of Architecture, and is currently employing an exUEL graduate student Abdul Elmi to design a new exhibition which will open as part of the London Festival of Architecture in June this year.

The new opportunity is offered in partnership with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris architects, ScotttWhitbyStudio, British Land, and Sir Robert McAlpine.

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The exhibition culminated in an open evening which celebrated the achievements and opportunities of the project, with content put in a catalogue that drew together reflections from a divergent group of people involved with the estate over the past forty years.

Cities in Transition

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A research collaboration between UEL and the Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara October 2017 and beyond.

With over 3 million Syrian refugees in, this newly added population is roughly equal to the total population of 17 different cities in Turkey. Many of the newcomers do not have access to public services and basic comfort conditions, and language is a major barrier to finding common ground between new and existing populations and opportunities.

The wider context of rapidly changing demographics in Europe and concerns over cohesion impacts on how we propose architectural and urban strategies that will bridge perspectives of the new comers and residents of the cities. Urban spaces can be produced regarding the needs and habitual practices of the new comers’ using the approach of participatory design. The key achievement of the workshop was to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and fields to consider a common issue. The selection process achieved a mix of researchers that provided a stimulating collaboration enabled by the workshop.

In order to formulate adequate research projects around this target, our workshop focussed on two key questions: 1. Can spatial interventions support social cohesion?

2. How can fragile neighbourhoods be helped to feel invigorated by new populations, rather than feel threatened or overwhelmed?

Three engagement strategies were developed by the research collaborators with NGO’s and Syrian refugee groups to explore ways of engaging local Syrian voices and perspectives within the framework of how NGO’s are currently supporting people to first feel secure, then to find ways to work and play within a new urban context.:

The ‘On proverbs’ project explores everyday activity and social habits of sharing coffee to establish a way to open opportunities for conversation and exchange that moves away from formal ‘question and answer’using the sharing and translation of Turkish and Arabic proverbs, the differences and similarities of shared cultural knowledge establishes a starting point for common ground, and the collection of these shared proverbs provides the material for a publication that belongs to both communities. The use of proverbs

is a verbal heritage – this became profound as there were real issues of illiteracy among refugee women, the ability for literate participants to support those without reading or writing skills becomes a new and unexpected aspect of this ongoing project.

‘Drawing as communication’ engages with the children of the incoming and existing community to develop drawing as a vehicle for exploring what is of value to refugees who hold a strong sense of their homeland (even though some of them were just born before they left Syria), and local children who have a different perspective on their common surroundings.

Drawing provides an articulation of ideas that are difficult to verbalise, and the results have a beauty that transcends written language and provides the basis for understanding how the provision of physical spaces or resources can be prioritised and communicated to all the people sharing a neighbourhood.

The ‘Daily life’ research involving interviews with female refugees in collaboration with a local NGO (ASAM) will build a strong body of information that will support direct physical interventions that can be achieved by architecture students or NGO’s to create small scale but effective and useful physical change in the community of Onder-Ulubey.

Ongoing projects between METU and UEL are in progress, with Tate Modern hosting the first research collaboration in May 2018 www.citiesintransition.agency

Photo by Catalina Pollak

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Migrating Proverbs

‘Migrating Proverbs’ is an interdisciplinary action research project that investigates the use of social and cultural practices as tools for the engagement, cultural exchange, and development of social integration processes between Syrian refugees and local communities in Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey.

new participatory strategies of engagement can: i) improve the understanding of the refugee’s condition of place; ii) generate spaces of exchange in order to build community capacity; and, iii) enable spaces of empathy by building ‘common ground’ interaction between local and refugee communities.

Social and cultural practices are at the heart of our cultural identity, especially those that are articulated through language, both written and spoken. These practices shape and reflect the way we think, understand the world and communicate. This is especially relevant to refugees, where their social practices enable the continuity of their journey and the sustainability of their stay. It reminds them of their past; but it is also the way in which they claim the future.

‘Migrating Proverbs’ is an on-going research developed by Catalina Pollak Williamson and Reem Charif in collaboration with Ela Aral (METU) and Deniz Altay (Cankaya University) – a collaboration that resulted from the Newton Funded International Conference Cities in Transition organised by UEL and METU in Ankara in October 2017.

The research explores ways in which language can act as a tool for revealing the refugees experience of place, and their articulation of identity and locality towards the new host territory. More specifically, it makes use of proverbs, as a dense cultural artefact that can be exchanged, translated, represented and put into circulation, to explore the way in which

The work-in-progress of this research was presented at the TATE Exchange as part of the ´Who are we? Art, Migration and the production of Democracy´; and will take part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial ´School of Schools` as part of its public program.

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Drawing as Communication

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Cities demographics change rapidly. Different ethnic groups, refugees, migrants move between places.

Apart from wars and other crises, urban planning and development processes sometimes also force people to leave their neighbourhoods and homes and move to new locations. Within this broader context, a number of conversations took place in the Cities in Transition workshop, in Ankara.

Through the ‘Drawing as communication’ workshop we attempted to develop some communication methods for understanding of the local conditions and the everyday living of the Syrian refugees in Ankara. The workshop was led by a team of researchers from the UK and Turkey, including the UEL colleagues: Dr Anastasia Karandinou, Dr Bridget Snaith, Israel Hurtado and Kyriaki Nasioula, coordinated by Dr Gul Kacmaz.

The workshop was a drawing and playing activity with Syrian children 8-11 years old. The workshop took place in the ASSAM centre, in collaboration with representatives from ASSAM, from METU, a psychologist who works with ASSAM and translators.

The aim was to engage in a conversation with the children; by conversation we mean a verbal and nonverbal interaction, through drawing and playing. We refrained from asking the children questions that could relate to traumatic experiences, hence we did not ask them where they live, or where home is, or to draw us their family. Our aim was to start with very open questions, which would allow the children to gradually let us understand fragments of their everyday lives. One of the questions we asked, was, for example, to draw us their favourite food. This then allowed us to discuss with them follow up questions,

Drawing of Europe, by an 8 year old Syrian boy.

such as who prepares this food, where, with whom they usually eat together, what other foods are typical in their family/ environment (if the child mentioned family), etc. Another question we asked the children was to draw their favourite place; real or imaginary.

Some children drew a playground with swings, flowers, trees. Other children drew boats and fish.

They said they like the sea and they mentioned the seafront places they used to visit with their families in Syria. One very young boy drew an abstract shape very passionately and then stopped. When asked what this is, he said that he wanted to draw Europe – where he wants to go – but that he doesn’t know how to draw it/ what it looks like.

Some of the drawings led to conversations such as where they most like to play, with whom, what kind of games, etc. This started gradually revealing to us the relationships with the neighbours, the way in which public space is used, differences and similarities with regards to where and how children are allowed to play in different families and cultures.

Other discussions over the drawings revealed to us how different children perceive their life in Turkey.

Even though some children moved to Turkey when they were very little, or even unborn, some of them perceive Syria as home – even if some of them remember very little of it. They may be familiar with Syria through photos and their families’ discussions.

The notion of home and belonging, although not addressed in a direct way, emerged through the discussion with the children. Similarly the theme of different cultures living close together and the issue of language as both a barrier and an opportunity for communication.

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British Council Newton Institutional Links Fund

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Building Capacity for Sustainable Development of the Built Environment

A UEL research team led by Dr Heba Elsharkawy, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology, with Dr Sahar Zahiri, Research Associate, and Mr Jack Clough, Research Associate are aiming to develop education for sustainability in Egypt. Together with partners from Ain Shams University’s Faculty of Engineering in Cairo are running a British Council Newton Institutional Links funded project titled ‘Building Capacity for Sustainable Development of the Built Environment’ (BC-SDBE), which has been running since 2016 and has gone from strength to strength.

The significance of this project is that sustainable development is a key pillar for the socio –economic welfare of Egypt. The country is growing rapidly, and the demand for building in the civil and residential sectors has left a clear gap in terms of the professionals available to deliver sustainable development in the built environment. The education sector needs to modernise to ensure that sustainability principles and theory are solidly embedded in their curricula, which in turn will embed sustainable design in practice.

The project aims to build capacity for education and research in Egypt, by ‘training the trainers’ and enhancing their knowledge and skills surrounding key sustainability themes through three UEL designed training courses. In March 2018, the research team hosted 10 academic researchers from Ain Shams University at UEL’s Docklands campus for an intensive two week training programme.

This programme focussed on Low Carbon Design Strategies. A combination of problem based learning workshops, guest lectures, fieldtrips and environmental design software training provided the academics from Egypt with new ideas and examples of the best practice in sustainability; from urban scale developments to building scale projects.

By equipping the academics from Ain Shams University with new found knowledge and skills the project will eventually improve sustainability education in Egypt as these academics take these ideas, disseminate them onto colleagues and their students and eventually embed these ideas in their

curricula and training. The total number of academic staff from Egypt trained now stands at 17, with a further aim of having 30 trained in total!

The great success of this programme has been due to stakeholder engagement – The UEL researchers run a series of stakeholder events in Cairo before each training event, which allows detailed discussion surrounding the barriers and requirements of education for the built environment in Egypt, and involves Academics, Industry and Students to develop a balanced idea of what is missing in Architecture and Engineering education currently.

These ideas are then used to tailor the researcher training programmes to maximise their impact.

The project also encourages a global outlook, the UEL research team successfully delivered their first International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment in December 2017, which showcased the latest developments in themes such as Sustainable construction and design, Energy efficiency, Education for sustainability. The conference attracted a large international audience from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East with 112 papers published in the proceedings. The conference provided an incredible opportunity for knowledge exchange, partnerships to be made and the dissemination of research results.

Closer to home; The UEL project team are also working with the London Borough of Newham.

The research team have monitored the building performance of social housing blocks in Newham that have experienced problems relating to thermal comfort, damp and energy efficiency. This data has then been used to develop a building model using the industry standard DesignBuilder software to investigate the retrofit solutions available to alleviate the problems. As a result of the research efforts, Newham Council can now take an informed retrofit approach to improve the quality of life of the residents and improve the overall energy efficiency and sustainability of these social housing blocks and similar residential blocks across the borough.

The Architecture Student competition 2017

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Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London

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Edited by Anna Minton, Programme Leader of UEL’s MRes Architecture programme, together with Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox and Malcolm James, Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London’, will be published by Repeater Books in September 2018.

The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an “Arc of Opportunity” for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. The proposal was outlined in a short film, London’s Regeneration Supernova which was shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

The book brings together twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics whose contributions address the “Regeneration Supernova” of East London.

While the sweeping changes to East London have been keenly felt by locals, the symbolism and practicalities of these changes - for the local area, and the world alike - are overdue serious investigation. Regeneration Songs is about how places are turned into simple stories for packaged investment opportunities, how people living in those places relate to those stories, and how music and art can render those stories in many different ways.

The idea for the book originated in 2015 when Alberto Duman and Anna Minton secured a grant for Alberto to work as Leverhulme artist-in-residence at UEL’s MRes Architecture Programme, subtitled ‘Reading the Neoliberal City’. Following a Freedom of Information request, Alberto had obtained a copy of the Regeneration Supernova film shown in Shanghai, but the film was silent. The aim of the Leverhulme project was for Alberto to work with artists and musicians across the ‘Arc of Opportunity’ area to record an album’s worth music tracks to go with the film, which was produced in collaboration

with UEL’s Department of Sound Engineering. The album, entitled Music for Masterplanning was the first output of the Leverhulme award and Regnereration Songs is the second.

The book will also include a download code for Music for Masterplanning and a 32-page glossy insert detailing the artists involved.

‘I don’t like nature’ Community definitions of nature, and the use of urban greenspace for health & wellbeing

Advocates of the biophilia hypothesis assert that people have an instinctive need and love for nature, (Kellert, 1993; Wilson, 1984) and so the presence of nature in cities is fundamental to human health and wellbeing. Since 2008 over half the world’s population have been living in cities, reflecting a trend toward increased urbanisation. As global biodiversity continues to decline, incorporating nature in the design of urban space is becoming increasingly important.

The idea of ‘nature’ in biophilic arguments is, however, extremely broad. This paper argues that assuming universal appeal, of ‘nature’ in any form, while failing to interrogate what ‘nature’ means to different people can be unhelpful, and at worst could be harmful. For example, access to parks

and green space in the city has been linked to reductions in chronic stress, to improved health, and to longer life expectancy overall, (Van den Berg, et al., 2007; Mitchell & Popham, 2008), yet people from ethnic minorities, who often suffer greatest health inequality, are typically under-represented as users of parks and other green spaces in the UK, and may well not be gaining health benefits claimed for parks as a result (CABE 2010, Snaith 2015).

Through case study research, the team will show how values and beliefs about urban greenspace in different ethnic groups can mean some spatial configurations of ‘nature’ will have greater benefits for some than for others. While designers and managers are seeking inclusion, exclusionary values are unintentionally embedded in production and management of UK greenspaces.

This work will argue for a more complex and nuanced understanding of nature and biophilia in inclusive spatial design.

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Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI, course leader for Landscape Architecture, will be working this summer with UEL research internship winner, Anna Peters, a student on the MA Professional Landscape Architecture (Conversion), to develop a joint paper for publication and conference presentation, exploring ethnicity and the use of parks for health & wellbeing.

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Ventri Architectus

Renée Tobe was Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow at the British School at Rome January to March 2018. Her research was entitled Ventri Architectus, reproducing classical idioms of power and culture in film. It will be published as a chapter in the book The Oxford Handbook on the Reception and Dissemination of Classical Architecture, (OUP, 2018).

She presented this work at the BSR, the American Academy in Rome, and the Architectural Association in a one-day symposium on Architecture and Film.

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16th Venice Architecture Biennalle

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Armor Gutierrez Rivas and Rosa Rogina, UEL invited to represent Montenegro at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale MArch Unit 8 leaders Armor Gutierrez Rivas and Rosa Rogina have been recently appointed to deliver the concept and content for the Montenegrin Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Armor and Rosa will be part of an interdisciplinary team - three architects, a landscape architect and a sculptor who won the brief following an international call.

Their chosen theme is ‘emerging resilience’.

Montenegro’s exhibition for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia strives for multidisciplinary integration of results of contemporary ecological research and collaborative practices in urban design and spatial planning.

The exhibition will critically analyse the idea of architecture as an expanded practice through simple and understandable messages, overwhelming branding power of the site-specific installation and tactility of specifically in-situ crafted models as an identification tool, accompanied by a publication and networking, engaging not only famous architects as guests but also the general public.

There are three interrelated parts of the Montenegro presentation at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: THE BOOK, THE EXHIBITION and THE NETWORKING, each one taking a specific angle in approaching the overarching theme of emerging resilience. All three elements vary in scale, materiality, duration and methods of dissemination. Together, they act as a vibrant framework underpinning an open-ended discussion on the theme within and beyond the actual pavilion. The exhibition will culminate in a publication of a glossary that acts as a handbook or a survival kit for the era of new spatial realities.

The Venice Architecture Biennale opens on 26 May.

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Project Cerussite

Project ‘Cerussite’ is inspired by the formation of the homonymous crystal. The emerging forms are highly intricate and ordered at the same time. Light is refracted through the crystal differently, from opaque to translusent, depending on the concentration of the consisting elements. These qualities, namely the complex order and variations of translucency, were the elements that gave rise to the pavilion. On top of a wooden base, robotically 3d printed elements made out of PLA plastic form a ‘crystal’ growth, aiming to create a large-scale assembly in space.

This assembly is used as a 3d ‘deep screen’ on which videos for Manchester’s industrial history were projected.

‘Cerussite’ was part of the work ‘Alive’ at Raqs Media Collective ‘Twilight Language’ exhibition at The Whitworth, from September 2017 till February 2018. It was designed and made by Stratis Georgiou, Senior Technician at UEL, in collaboration with Palak Jhunjhunwala. The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering of UEL provided design, consultation and robotic fabrication services.

Architectural advisors, Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty. Photo credits, Fabio Galicia.

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FIELD TRIPS

ADT field trip to the United Arab Emirates

Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Sharjah study trip BSc Architectural Design Technology

The students visited DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority), the largest sustainable governmental building in the world to have achieved LEED platinum certification for design and construction. The building manager presented the sustainability aspects of the building and accompanied the students to a guided tour of the project.

Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has been another destination for the group to appreciate the advanced building technology implemented in such a mega building. They were also able to visit one of the top viewing platforms and see a lot of Dubai’s districts and buildings from above. Atkins also hosted the group at their offices for a tour and a presentation of their newest major project, Dubai Creek Harbour, an iconic waterfront development with its tower of 928-meter high to be completed by 2020. This was followed by a visit to the construction site and tours of one of the residential towers under construction where the group visited pent houses.

Zaha Hadid Architect’s Bee’ah Building in Sharjah still under construction was also visited by the group with engineers onsite explaining the impressive steel framed structure with insitu exposed concrete central dome. The group then visited their counterparts at the American University in Sharjah where they spent time with architecture students who presented their design projects.

The subsequent visit was to Abu Dhabi where the group met with Foster and Partners architects at Masdar City, the first sustainable city in the world.

The architects guided the group throughout the city demonstrating the incredible contemporary vernacular design approaches embedded within the masterplan and the various buildings, from residential, to offices, to sports centre and commercial. This visit was followed by a tour of The Souk, Abu Dhabi’s Central Market, designed by Foster and Partners. The design provided a modern version atmosphere of the traditional souk combining shops, courtyards, alleys, and food courts The new Louvre museum, designed by Jean Nouvel, was another major destination in the trip with its unique and responsive design of its 23 gallery spaces covered by a 180-metre diameter dome.

The final destination in Abu Dhabi was the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque where the group had an unforgettable experience in one of the largest and most impressive mosques in the world.

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In February 2018, the Architectural Design Technology students set off to the United Arab Emirates for a one week study trip organised by their programme leader, Dr. Heba Elsharkawy. The study trip was an eye-opening experience to the students as it facilitated visits to many significant case studies in the UAE that demonstrated the diverse technologies and design approaches adopted in such a hot and arid climate.

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OPEN STUDIO EVENT

Our unique opportunity for visitors, fellow staff and students to see work in progress and share the diversity of architecture at UEL

The Open Studio Event was again a unique opportunity to see work in progress and to share the diversity of architecture at UEL. The event was organised in such a way that each Unit or Group presented their ongoing work to an invited panel of guests in their own studio space. As such, it was both, a ‘mid-term exhibition’ with work in progress and a vital platform for discussion about academic work in architecture.

Furthermore, invited guest lecturers gave a lunchtime and evening lecture.

Wilf Meynell and Nick Newman from Studio Bark talked about the Bark Live-Build 2017.

Studio Bark presented a few of their latest projects, featuring their latest summer live-build project using a modular plywood construction system, named U-BuildTM. The house was built in just 10 weeks by a team consisting of 10 UEL students across 5 years of architectural study. Filmed for a new series of Grand Designs and designed through parametric coding, the system explores the possibilities of ‘true‘ self-build, looking to empower unskilled workers and omit construction waste.

Launch of the Innovation Competition for UEL Students and Alumni.

British Land Developers, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects (AHMM), Scott Whitby Studio Architects and Sir Robert McAlpine Main Building Contractors along with the University of East London, were pleased to announce the annual competition for the Broadgate Estate. The competition was open to students of the college and any alumni who graduated in the last three years.

Lecturer Paul Moneghan of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects (AHMM) Paul Monaghan is a founding director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. His projects have been recognised as exemplars of outstanding design and collaborative creativity, winning awards including

the RIBA Stirling Prize (for Burntwood School in 2015) and the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award (for New Scotland Yard in 2017). Established in 1989, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris makes buildings that are satisfying and enjoyable to use, beautiful to look at and easy to understand. The practice has received public, client and media acclaim for its work on education, commercial, residential, arts and masterplanning projects around the UK, the US and internationally.

Invited Open Jury Guests Morning Session Maliha Haque, David Bass, Jeff Tidmarsh, Gillian Horn, Moto AURAA Kawakami, Luke Tozer, Laura Mark, Heidi Moxon, Jerry van Veldhuizen, Simon Tucker.

Afternoon Session Simon Tucker, Wilf Meynell, Jeff Tidmarsh, Virginia Rammou, Anurag Verma, Laura Mark, Moto Kawakami, Claire Pollock, Maliha Haque, Russell Curtis, Heidi Moxon, Neba Sere, David Bass.

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Like every year, we had the Open Studio Event and Lectures in the AVA Building, in the beginning of February. The event welcomed invited guests, all students, members of staff and people who were interested in our architectural studies.

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Architecture Society Evening Lectures

23/01/2018 Andrew Waugh Waugh Thistleton Architects

24/04/2018 Tamsin Green Heatherwick Studio

17/10/2017 Enriqueta Llabres-Valls RUTA Architects

20/02/2018 Declan McCafferty Grimshaw Architects

08/05/2018 Shin Egashira

24/10/2017 CJ Lim Studio 8 Architects

27/02/2018 Artur Carulla Allies and Morrison

02/11/2017 Camillo Botticini Camillo Botticini Architect

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10/10/2017 Pedro Jervell SKREI

STO Lectures 07/11/2017 Laura Andreini Archea Associati

27/11/2017 Francisco Mangado Mangado & Asociados

21/11/2017 Sergei Tchoban SPEECH/Tchoban Voss Architecten

28/11/2017 Jo Berben, Luc Vanmuysen a2o Architecten

05/12/2017 Maria Caludia Clemente, Francesco Isidori Labics

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FOUNDATION Architecture and Design Keita Tajima Programme Leader

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The course aims to provide a broad range of experiences in the culture of spatial design. “Thinking through making” is at the core of this course, which is a tradition of architecture and design at UEL. We aspire to make the foundation studio into a creative laboratory where students will explore, discuss and cultivate individual creativity and critical thinking through studentship. Our aim is to stimulate students to find joy and enthusiasm in making and designing through the framework supported by experienced and enthusiastic tutors.

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Foundation Keita Tajima (Programme Leader) Takuro Hoshino Sharone Lifschitz, Catherine Phillips, Catalina Pollak, Fernanda Palmieri, Keith Winter, Laura Evans, Anna Cooke, Karen Marsh

Foundation in Architecture and Design is a gateway to the culture of design. The course aims to provide a broad range of experiences in the culture of spatial design. “Thinking through making” is at the core of this course, which is a tradition of the architecture school at UEL. We aspire to make the foundation studio into a creative laboratory where students will explore, discuss and cultivate individual creativity and critical thinking through studentship. Our aim is to stimulate students to find joy and enthusiasm in making and designing through the framework supported by experienced and enthusiastic tutors. Each module in the foundation program is set to provide briefs to enable students to discover their talents, and develop them further to be ready for their challenge as a first year student in a specific field of design.

Eastbury Manor House The main project sets in Eastbury Manor House in Barking, students had an opportunity to collaborate with Barking and Dagenham council as a part of art residency programme. The aim of the project was to observe and reveal a memory of the house, and propose an intervention as a response to their observations. Students have observed, surveyed, and draw out its historic residue by means of sensing its atmosphere, texture smells, light conditions. Design proposal requires coherent development process through 3 consecutive briefs (site observation, conceptual development, final development). On the course of the design process, students developed and tested through collages, series of different scale models and drawings.

2017 – 2018 We started the year by building up a series of skills and experiences through drawing and making from a scale of a pencil to a body, and exploring the relationship between a body and space at the end of first semester.

The workshop with a choreographer stimulated the fresh discovery of the movement of a body, and provided students with further insight into the spatial relationship between a body, movement and space. The workshop allowed students to document and experiment in fullscale drawings and paintings. Students have further investigated these issues through a series of spatial investigations in full-scale physical models.

Field trip The trip to Porto, Portugal was intended to provide a brief yet rich introduction to the art and architecture.

Students spent four days absorbing the culture of art and architecture ranging from medieval to the contemporary.

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Caparas, Amira Baqer, Dilnaz Mohammed, Vatsal Javiya, Muhammad Tawfik, Sinan Al-Marsumi, Jack Tunstall, Sarah Alkhazraji, Alghaliah M J H B Alsiri, Sara Trevain, Alison Richards, Merad Husain, Salar Rostam, Benyamin Chaharston Visiting Crits: Takako Hasegawa, Kyriaki Nasioula Special thanks to: Ivana Sehic, Mark Sowden, Rhianon Morgan Hatch, Carsten Jungfer, Alan Chandler, Eastbury Manorhouse, Tamara Horbacka , Garry Doherty

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Students: Marta Macczak, Amy-Chloe Leeshue-Booth, Yasmin Benrakad Imlahi, Jydsen Ombao, Match (Suet ) Fong, Maria Zegheru, Daniela Nunez Paco, Mohammed Ahmad, April Adrien-Greenwood, Sadiq Lawal, Sumaya Sheikh-Ali, Batul Lopez, Riyad Hossain, Ciprian Luca, Florentina-Nadina Ivanescu, Timothy Johnson, George Ionescu, Mahabub Alam, Mourtada Baboukari, Oscar Frith, Ainsley Moffat, Abdulmajiid Omar, Nauma Patel, Timothy Eves, Michael Ngam, Daniela Sarsoza , Sebastian Craven, Joel Shroader, Dahir Osman, Alex Crooks, Rasa Kundrotaite, Sue Hafizoglu, Muayad Tuma, Ashia David, Tyler Mitchell, Vukasin Radonjic, Stefana Grigoriu, Candice Chance, Anisa Abdulahi, Wajeeha Nazir, Louisa Tulloch, Fortune Hove, Carmel

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Form and Material study: f.6 Exploring a form and a space with clay slab, Timothy Eves f.7 Exploring a negative and positive form with plaster and fabric, Maria Zegheru f.8 Exploring a form and a space with stretchy fabric, April Adrien Greenwood f.9 Extracting clay to create a space with light, George Ionescu

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f.10 Foundation studio f.11 Drawing a movement, Group (Sarah T, Jack, Rasa, Dilinaz drawing by Rasa Kundrotaite) f.12 Fragments of body parts in clay responding to the movement, Group (Sarah T, Jack, Rasa, Dilinaz image by Sarah Trevain) f.13 Workshop lead by Ivana Sehic, reconstructing a movement by absence f.14 Materialising a space between bodies, Group (Dahir, image

by Tyler Mitchell) f.15 Materialising a space between bodies, wood and string, Group (Alghaliah, Maria, Carmel, Ciprian, image by Maria Zegheru) f.16 Visualising a movement and a space between Group (Nadina, Wajeeha, Ainsley ,Sebastian, Sue, image by Wajeeha) f.17Materialising a movement, Group (Sarah T, Jack, Rasa, Dilinaz, image by Sarah T) f.18 Measuring a body by strings to represent a volume of inbetween space, Group (April , Muayad , Muhhamad T, Amira , Sumaya )

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f.19 Spaptial collage, Mohamed Ahmad f.20 Paper lithography print of material studies, Vukasin Radonic f.21 Eastbury Manor House model, George Ionescu f.22 Silver card relief print, Muhammad Tawfik f.23 Silver card intaglio print, Wajeeha Nazir f.24 Spatial collage, Rasa Kundrotaite f.25 Cubic form studies in card and plaster, Mahabub Alam f.26 Porto Trip f.27 Photoshop cube form developments, Sara Trevain f.28 Silver card intaglio print, Sue Hafi zoglul f.29 Spatial collage, Jack Tunstall

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Memory of a place : Eastbury Manor House: f.30 Rear view of Eastbury Manor House f.31 Proposed observatory on the tower, Sarah Trevain f.32 Axonometric of exisitng roof structure , Maria Zegheru f.33 Proposal collage, Riyad Hossain f.34 Proposed tea house, Yuamin Xiao f.35 Proposed staircase reading room, Mourtada Baboukari f.36 Re-composing a set of fragments of Eastbury Manor House, Rasa Kundrotaite f.45 Re-imagining Eastbury Manor House, Timothy Eves

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ARCHITECTURE ARB/RIBA Part 1 and 2

BSc (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) Programme Leader: Christian Groothuizen MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) Programme Leader: Dr Harald Trapp

History & Theory teaching staff: Dr Renée Tobe Claude Saint Arroman Miho Nakagawa Stylianos Giamarelos Huda Tayob Laura Evans Vanessa Vanden Berghe Christoph Hadrys (urban design) Dr Bridget Snaith (landscape) Alan Chandler (heritage) Maria Segantini (heritage) Aurore Julien (environment) Fulvio Wirz (computing) Technical Studies teaching staff: Hwei Fan Liang Michele Roelofsma Christian Groothuizen Alan Chandler Aurore Julien Computing & Representation teaching staff: Janet Insull Sibyl Trigg Carine Posner Professional Studies teaching staff: Paolo Vimercati (Grimshaw) Stephanie Schultze-Westrum Paul Bussey (AHMM) Seán Hogan (ARB)

Elaine Stowell (ARB) Paolo Vimercati (Grimshaw) Andrew Kesson (Grimshaw) Elyse Howell-Price(Grimshaw) Alexander Grigull (Grimshaw) Alfonso Padro, (HKS) Roland Karthaus, (Matter Architecture) Daria Wong (Daria Wong Architects) Chie Shimizu, (Weston Williamson) Tom Westwood (Waugh Thistleton Architects) Tahera Rouf (RCKa) Guests and thanks: Paul Appleton Carolina Bartram Catherine Du Toit Lily Jencks Diana Periton

around them, to consider occupiers and users, buildings and spaces with an approach that is both critical and poetic. The supporting strands of History and Theory, Technical and Professional Studies, Computing and Representation, inform and enrich an integrated design approach. Students test and apply learned knowledge, practical skills and critical enquiry to a personal architectural proposition; this forms the basis of the architectural education. The technical teaching instils an appreciation of site and context, the art of construction, economy of structure and the nature and complexity of materials, using knowledgebased lectures and analysis of precedent as a route to integrate this understanding in the unit-based design proposals. Our hands-on approach to a poetic materiality is characterised by exploratory modelmaking in all years and 1:1 construction particularly in Years 1 and 4.

The aim of the MArch programme, in Years 4 & 5, is to stimulate students to become critical agents in the social production of space. Enriched by practical experience after their degree, postgraduate students expand their technical, professional and theoretical knowledge. Their competence creatively converges in a design-process that challenges the boundaries of architecture in its social, economical and political context. Within this process students transform complexity into elegance, animate aesthetics and organise space for social use.

Preparation for professional practice integrates essential technical, philosophical, regulatory and practical knowledge as baseline skills that enable the final thesis at BSc and MArch to critically extend beyond the RIBA requirements. Decision making and technical innovation develop from and relate to wider socio-political contexts, grounding the design work and the critical task of detailing to make tangible connections to wider architectural ideas. The professional Architecture programmes at UEL produce directed, responsible and socially aware graduates that understand architecture as a beautiful, radical tool to make ‘place’ and engage with the complexities of social and environmental interaction.

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Through the professionally accredited Part 1 and Part 2 programmes, our students develop a rigorous and strategic understanding of context encompassing social and environmental, physical and non-physical concerns, enabling them to make engaged and critical architectural proposals.

Our teaching is centred on the interface of social and spatial structures, on people and place. Our location in East London gives unique opportunities to understand, critique and reimagine how regeneration and redevelopment impact upon existing places and communities, bringing case studies from across Europe and beyond back into a critical reflection on London and its future. At the core of this education are our design units in Years 2 & 3 and 4 & 5, each of which provides students with a particular thematic and methodological approach to design, and as a whole contain a diversity that stimulates critical awareness.

The design units operate as autonomous research teams and consist of two tutors and between 16 to 20 students. Supporting the design units is a framework of teaching in essential technical, theoretical, regulatory and practical knowledge that enables a fully integrated design process. Students must construct with both materials and ideas, and in final year BSc and MArch are expected to develop their design proposals as a personal thesis.

In Year 1 the teaching is centred on a sequence of design projects that work through from the scale of the body to the scale of the city. The year aims to provide a broad platform for exploring creativity and introduces a set of skills and standards that range from surveying and technical drawing, to sketching and model making. Embedded within the schedule of projects are lectures, seminars and practical workshops that provide an introduction to the social concerns of architecture, knowledge of historical context, and understanding material properties and capabilities.

The year is structured to guide every student along these first steps on the path to becoming an architect, building confidence and developing a strong sense of purpose and direction.

In Years 2 & 3 the design units lead an iterative design process that is driven by creativity, imagination and critical self-reflection. The course is designed to educate students to think seriously about the world

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FIRST YEAR

Community Connection Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma, Yasar Shah, Reem Charif, Sibyl Trigg, Charlotte Harris, Michael Putman,Toshiya Kogawa, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch, Janet Insull, Renee Tobe.

Inhabited Window (De Beauvoir, Regents Canal) The first part of the year consisted of a series of studies where students developed spatial thinking and design tools focussed the theme ‘Connecting Spaces’. The main site for the year was De Beauvoir Town and the environs of the Regents Canal in Hackney, London.

Their first brief of the year investigated the space of the window, and how this could be ‘inhabited’.

Working in groups and predominantly in timber, students constructed prototypes of the inhabited window space at 1:1 scale that aimed to connect the territory of the Canal with the open areas around the adjacent De Beauvoir Estate.

Making Home (Weald and Downland) Students visited the Weald and Downland open Air museum near Chichester, West Sussex. There, they conducted a measured survey of timber-framed houses and spatial studies exploring the relation of the buildings’ construction to their inhabitation, in preparation for their design proposal. The project was shared with Technical studies, which allowed students to spend more time on these studies and the subsequent design for the site: a temporary, two level, 16 square metre home for a makerworking at the Weald and Downland Open Air museum. This project challenged students to explore a defined space in greater depth, and at a tangible scale. The earlier theme of the ‘inhabited window continued in the design brief for the makers home.

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Community Connection (De Beauvoir) In January students travelled to Amsterdam, and Utrecht. They continued their study of connecting spaces, this time focusing on thresholds, as articulated in Modernist and contemporary Dutch architecture.

Returning to our site in Hackney, the main project of the year generated proposals for the De Beauvoir community, to connect the community and particular users or user-groups inhabiting the site. Designs were for a programme of shared workshops for a community of makers. They integrated students’ earlier thinking on thresholds to the public, urban connections of the community to the canal, and the 1:1 relationship of material and spatial construction to inhabitation.

Visiting Crits: Hoiyat Tsoi, Anastasia Karandinou, Rosaly Kortz, Moni Rahman, Joseph Little, Orlaith Phelan, Colin O’Sullivan, Tomas Phonetal, David Grinaway, Will Lindley, Mitesh Patel, David Bass, Mohamad Hafeda , Ramsey Yassa, Renee Tobe, Sara L’Esperance, Naomi Gibson, Muzzammil Dadabhoy, Claude St. Arroman, Isaac Cobo, Chris Groothuizen, Keita Tajima, Stephanie Schultze Westrum, Iain Jamieson, Tomas Pohnetal, Olivia Paine, Adam Cheltsov.

Special thanks to: Mark Sowden, Casten, Mark Lamanski, Paul Karakausevic Instagram: www.instagram.com/uel_first_year_architecture

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Inhabited window 1:1 scale. personal window stories developed inoto group spatial structure for a chosen site along the Regents Canal in De Beauvoir, Hackney fy.01 Together but apart, technical description of movement, Eugene Yu Jin Soh fy.02 Wondering Views 1:1 group construction fy.03 Wondering Views testing fy.04 Speculative collage, George Moldovan fy.05 Site testing collage Rosita Vangelova fy.06 Speculative collage, Hanna Twig fy.07 Inhabited window shadow and body testing, group work fy.08 Structural study, Hanna Twig fy.09 Spatial study of suspended structure, Dylan Cutting fy.10 Together but Apart speculative group testing (what if?)

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Connection Space/Threshold Space: Studies during the First year trip to Amsterdam including the Open Air school and the Apollo School by Hertzberger.

Students explored thier observatiosn through analytical drawings and casting of fragments of the threshold conditions discovered fy.23 Open Air vertical layers, Ahmad Bahsoon. fy.24 Fragement model of Miralles Town House, Ulticht Dayanara Mabad fy.25 Speculative threshold conditions, Adrian Moussaid. fy.26 Staircase study at Apollo School, George Moldovan fy.27 public layering, Zeena Ismail fy.28 Light well study at Schroder House, Rosita Vangelova fy.29 Analysis of Fragement model, Daryl Ignacio fy.30 courtyard as gap space, Alma Odoleanu fy.31Analysis of threshold casting, Sachini H Palliyaguruge fy.32 Vantage points as journey, Barnabas Madzokere fy.33 Fragements as sequence, Julian Imossi

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Community Connection: A public space for a community of makers that share parts of their work space with each other, and parts of their building with the local community. fy.34 Program analysis Collage, Cassius Cracknell fy.35 Speculative proposal collage, Cassius Cracknell fy.36 Fragment journey proposal collage, Hanna Twig fy.37 Proposal Plan, Yessica Rincon Toro. fy.38 Spatial visualisation, Alfred Hatch fy.39 Concept collages, Alfred Hatch fy. 40 proposal section, Alfred Hatch fy.41proposal axonometic, Yohan Ismael fy.42 and 43 Proposal collages, Yohan Ismael fy.44 Composite drawing of unexpected moments, Eugene Yu Jin Soh fy.45 Prposal model, Alfred Hatch fy.46 Proposal axonometric of journeys and layers, Eugene Yu Jin Soh

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UNIT A

RELATIONAL STATES Carsten Jungfer, Fernanda Palmieri

Unit A is interested in the morphology of the city by investigating relationships between space, programme, materiality and time. The unit agenda engages in domains between architecture and urbanism and is based on an understanding of architecture as contextual response, critically questioning pre-existing conditions and found spaces within the city. If space is the outcome of collective action and therefore a “social product” (Henri Lefebvre), How exactly is space made?

What are the factors driving the process? What roles do participants play? We will set out to get a better understanding of underlying principles contributing to urban change and to the formation of new types of collective space.

Spaces in the city are continuously negotiated, altered and adapted and are therefore in constant state of change. While the predominant reproduction of space follows rules of demand and supply, space in the city becomes increasingly commodified. Conditions of uncertainty however, including economic decline and political inactivity, produce spaces that fall out of the cycle of predominant spatial reproduction for periods of time. As a result of becoming obsolete, residual spaces emerge within the urban fabric in the form leftovers, vacant or unused territories.

At this stage residual spaces become available to alternative modes of spatial production. New actors are attracted by unknown opportunities and new uses emerge. Most of those processes are of experimental nature and can be described as temporary and in-

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“Pioneers” tend to claim vacant territories through direct occupation and unconventional approach; by extending their activities to attract a wider community a new network of social relations across the new spatial arrangements becomes established. This form of alternative production of space is widely recognised for generating social value in local communities. While it occurs in parallel to established cycles of urban regeneration, once the process of spatial stabilisation begins, the fundamental incompatibility of long-term goals between the two, however, becomes apparent.

Dalston, one of London’s most rapidly changing and diverse area in East London was chosen as study area for the year. Questions arising from the described conflict became the starting point for students’ investigations and their proposals set out to experiment with alternative modes of spatial production for project sites surrounding Ashwin Streets’ ‘Cultural Quarter’, currently also considered by Hackney Council for future development.

Unit A Website: www.uel23ua.blogspot.co.uk

Visiting Crits: Anna Schabel, Brian Cumming, Christopher Thorn, Felix Xylander-Swannell, Gregory Ross, Harald Trapp, Heidi Moxon, Keita Tajima, Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma, Moto Auraa Kawakami, Mo Wong, Nick Green, Reem Charif, Rob Pyecroft, Sufiya Patel, Tak Hoshino, Tara Cranswick Special thanks to: Ana Stoeckermann, Ben Brewer, Jake Ferguson, Janin Walter, Marie Murray, Max Tobias, Melanie Humann, Neele Reimann-Philipp, Rainer Johann, Roey Hunt

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a.4 The Yard Building: Following a careful analysis of relationships between spatial and functional transformations of the V22 yard, Angelles’ urban strategy reconfigures a series of new open and accessible yard-like spaces by inserting new programmes related to creative learning, that integrate with and may support the existing artist community, Angelle Dimech a.5 The Bake House Project builds on the success of the Knuckles Bakery in the Bootyard and proposes to extend this programme to the community by providing access to ‘baking infrastructure’ and spaces to learn about health and well-being, especially for Dalstons’ children, Israa Salim a.6 ’Dalston Underground’ is a proposal to re-activate the obsolete Eastern Curve Tunnel to provide new spaces to local organisations including the Eastern Curve Garden and Cafe Oto, Julia Skiba

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a.8 40FT Brewery. The new building establishes a permanent basis for the local brewery and reconnects the urban fabric via a freely accessible ‘artificial landscape’, Kiesse Andre a.9 ’Dalston Super Circus’, a witty contribution to the critical discourse about regeneration, is a vertical array of spaces optimised for interaction, that sets out to reconcile the spectacle of the Everyday within the contested territories of Dalston, Marianne Gallagher a.10 Eastern Curve Green House and community Kitchen, Daniel Kiss

UNIT E

‘Durability’: Edges and Adaptability Isaac Cobo i Displas & Claude Saint-Arroman

Unit E’s research this year focuses on issues about adaptability and questions the role of architecture in improving relational connectivity. The medieval part of Avignon is isolated from the rest of the town not only through the historic wall that encloses it, but also because of the alienating motorway conditions at the external edge of the same wall. This results in a city within a city which is more accessible to visitors arriving by train than to car dependent local communities who rely on these arteries to circulate through the region it overlooks. Over and above its architectural heritage, Avignon is a vibrant cultural centre that hosts students, young and elderly couples as well as small businesses, performing art venues and summer festivals. Historical records demonstrate that its edges were once occupied, and the students are investigating ways in which the everyday can permeate more fluidly all year around at the edge between centre and outskirts, as they once did.

We understand the design process as a multilayered discourse consisting of physical modelmaking, bespoke drawing techniques and reference to theory, in order to communicate readings of contextual qualities of urban/architectural conditions. The idea of ‘junction’ was explored this year as means to reconcile local and trans-local scales and to test strategic design interventions with the aim to unlock new opportunities by speculating on new forms of connective architectural typologies.

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Students started this year with a study of durable construction details, to understand the principles and debates surrounding adaptability and resilience to time and weathering. They subsequently analysed villas by Le Corbusier to assess relationships between design and context, and degrees of flexibility. Prior to going to Avignon, students analysed maps to understand regional environmental conditions. On site, they surveyed their sites, and did several montage workshops to broaden their intuitive approach to their site and to reflect on briefs that would benefit the area, in terms of social economics and/or in terms of 21st Century industries. Upon their return, they complemented their site analysis with an analysis of historic records gathered through local archives, while capturing in plaster cast a moment of specific architectural importance drawn from the villas and the site. They and are now working on early massing while deepening their site analysis.

“I like my city, but I can’t say exactly what I like about it. I don’t think it is the smell. I’m too accustomed to the monuments to want to look at them...I like certain lights, a few bridges, café terraces, I love passing through a place I haven’t seen for a long time.”

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Y2:Michael ADEDOKUN, Alan ALAVI WALY, Chelsea ANDERSON, Vanessa CAMPANELLI, Amin ESRAFILI, Daniel HARRIS, Max IVANESCU, Martin KOCABEY, Shahzy MAZHAR, Olive ODAGBU, Alexandre PALUS, Rebecca SHAW, Adrian SIRBOIU, Katharine STEVENS, Andrei SZEPOCHER, Keeme ZAIN AHMED HA BIN Special thanks to: Maliha Haque

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Natural Energy Research Centre - The building is design to accommodate the research of renewable energy and its installment in homes of the homes of the local residence. The spaces require took precedence from the Polish Academy of sciences Research Centre in Jabloma. The building will involve the local public. They will be able to view the lab working spaces and research at the libraries. There is also an open space for events. YR 3 Alford Dyett: e.12 East Elevation e.13 Picture of internal Model at 1:50

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COASTAL ECOLOGIES Hwei Fan Liang, Christian Groothuizen

Between the built-up townscape of Margate and the sea, lies a wide strip of land that includes under-used lawns and carparks, a steep chalk cliff face, concrete sea defences, and a sandy beach that reappears and disappears with the tides. Coastal paths at the top and bottom of the cliff run along this wide edge, and ramped roads and stairs cut across it. This coastal territory was the site for Unit G to propose architectures that responded to: the provision of habitats for biodiversity and local ecology, local social needs, and weather, climate change and a sense of place.

Margate was developed as a sea-bathing resort in the 19th Century, it thrived as train and ferry connections brought crowds of day-trippers and holidaymakers from London. However, as foreign holidays took over the town’s fortunes faded, alongside its built attractions such as the lido and sea baths. The town has a long connection with artists including JMW Turner who settled there after leaving London and believed the skies to be “the loveliest in Europe”. More recently many creative industries have chosen Margate to relocate to, as London becomes increasingly expensive, bringing opportunities as well as potential problems to the existing residents.

Historically storms have brought major periodic change to the townscape, and as the town seeks to revive and redevelop, projects along the coast need to consider more extreme weather events as well as everyday weathering and the passage of time. This

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Each student developed an individual brief, proposing hybrid programmes relating to people and nature; some students immersed themselves in the immediate and surrounding landscape to draw out an understanding of the relationship between town and sea, whilst others focused on themes including ecology and resource use, art as a means of social connection, and developing new industries that might offer local employment and skills. Several proposals identified existing users including the Thanet Coast Project volunteers, local kite-surfers and the Walpole Bay Swimmers.

Unit G are interested in temporal, material and spatial qualities of architecture – to make proposals that are oriented around inhabitation, narrative and human experience. We are interested in taking a cinematic approach – exploring how film and photography can inform and represent architectural process and spatial concept, and to understand our proposals over time.

Y2: Aaliah Tailor, Adam Emmerson, Alex Jovanovic, Alex Malden, Andreea-Camelia Ciuc, Fabio Magalhaes, Filippos-Pavlos PerrakisKollias, Julian Roncancio Luna, Maja Oparnica, Marcelina Nowak, Maria Ruiz Vela, Naghma Butt, Nick Franklin, Roberto Lopato Ricorico, William Fullick.

Visiting critics and guests: Anurag Verma, CJ Lim, Harald Trapp, Ian Troake, Jayden Ali, Jeff Tidmarsh, Katherine Clarke, Ken Rorrison, Mirsad Krasniqi, Olga Lucko, Virginia Rammou, Wilf Meynell, Will Beeston.

Special thanks to: Dan Thompson, Jon Spencer, Nick Dermott, Sam Causer, Tony Child, The Walpole Bay Hotel, Turner Contemporary and Thanet Visitor Information.

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Before going to the edge of the land and sea we grounded ourselves with a short project developing an imagined interior space, explored in model and animation. These were inspired by interpretations of precedent buildings or Turner paintings, and for some students acted as anchoring concepts for the main proposals. g.2 Entropy Observed: “The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire” recast as nature’s inevitable reclaiming of manmade spaces (Jamie Osborne). g.3 “Seascape with a Squall Coming Up” viewed from an occupied sea-wall, with memories of longing and waiting (Luke Fowler). g.4 Imagined space using natural elements from “Fishing upon the Blythe-Sand, Tide Setting In” (Akiko Higuchi). g.5 Sunlight study in the living room of Ken Rorrison’s North House (Filippos-Pavlos Perrakis-Kollias). g.6 Structures for “Rocky Bay with Figures” (Raquel Vieira). g.7 Jon Broome’s bathroom (Fabio Magalhaes). g.8 Revealing the garden at Juergen Teller’s studio (Naghma Butt).

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The Seaweed New Material Factory and Studios carve into the chalk cliff adjacent to the Newgate Gap, creating a ramped roofscape and walkways protected by weather-attenuating kinetic screens of small concrete blocks. The factory manufactures new materials from seaweed grown and harvested in the shallow bay, connecting with local creative industries and cement factory to make products ranging from food and textiles to self-healing concrete wavedissipating blocks. g.33 cliff-top level plan, g.34 seaweed studies, g.35 processing through the Newgate Gap (animation), g.36 sketch studies and walkway with view towards the sea (Akiko Higuchi).

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The unit seeks to engages with context particularly in neighborhood scale in relation to the city scale. We are interested in the city’s incomplete condition as a source of imagination, and its urban transformation as a means to develop urban and architectural strategies.

This year unit H is basing our studies in Hackney Wick and Fish Island in east London, & working around a theme of yards. We have been exploring urban strategies and architectural interventions within the historic grain of the city, & design proposals that test relationships between existing yard spaces and ideas on the public nature of architecture.

Hackney Wick has undergone enormous change over the past centuries: From peripheral marshland, to connected industrial centre at the turn of the C20th, and not least through development in the past decade, since London’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics brought funds and focus to this corner of the city. We are interested in questioning the value and durability of this place and its ex-industrial urban landscape, in a time where the city fabric, skyline and neighborhoods are being rapidly transformed and replaced - in no small part by luxury new housing developments. The students have been asked to explore how the historic urban fabric can respond to growth and changing conditions, whilst also retaining a sense of character and permanence.

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Two urban study: In London - with Hackney Wick as our main project site, and in Florence, as a subject for ideas of permanence and durability - and of urban form acting as an imprint of the memory of the city. As a unit we will be making design proposals for a new cultural institute on four sites in Hackney Wick. These will be first and foremost urban proposals that seek to work within and contribute to existing historic yards and the wider urban grain.

Year 3 Naim Bin Ariffin, Nazifa Islam, Bibblav Limbu, Yen Chie Miaw, Hayden Mills, Legend Morgan, Elizabeth Olowu, Harry Phillips, Hashea Pinnock

Visiting Crits: Andrew Houlton, Colin O’Sullivan (Cass ), Charlotte Harris (Cass, UEL) Christopher Storie , Mo Woonyn Wong (Moct Studio, CSM ) Punya Sehmi, Adam Cheltov, Phillipa Longson Special thanks to: The Cass studio 2 with Colin O’Sullivan, Colin O’Sullivan and Charlotte Harris (Cass, UEL) Christopher Storie , Pedro Jervel (Skrei ), Andrew Yuen, Mark Sowdon, Harald Trapp, Michele Roelofsma, Christoph Hadrys

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Previous page h.1 Yard space sketch, Yen Chie Miaw.

Site investigation: Hackney Wick and Fish Island h.2 View towards new developments in Hackney Wick, Ioana Talpos h.3 History of Hackney wick through yard space, Ioana Talpos h.4 Urban section cutting through main infrastructures and the Peanuts factory site, Hayden Mills h.5 Analytical axonometric of Peanuts factory building, Halima Ali h.6 Detail obsevation of existing studio space in Peanuts factory, Halima Ali h.7 Detail obeservation of Queen’s Yard, Harry Phillips h.8 Local resouces sampling and testing, unit h students with Pedro Jervel (SKREI), image by Ioana Talpos h.9 Testing on residual resources for bespoke bricks and their patternations, Harry Phillips

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MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)

UNIT 2

Civic Engagement Christoph Hadrys, Uwe Schmidt-Hess with Tony Fretton

MArch Unit 2 addresses urban and architectural conditions in locations undergoing critical change and over the years, has worked in North Africa, Scandinavia, East London and other places in Europe.

Through a combination of research and creative practice, we propose interventions, which respond to urban challenges and introduce elements of cultural and imaginative vigour. The Unit explores extremes of interrelated scales, from urban geographies through to building and detail qualities. In this process, strategies formulate responsiveness to global contexts, site conditions, understanding of scales, architectural sensibilities, as well as structural and material realities.

We aim to create social, spatial and time-based habitats and environments.

This academic year our design investigations and projects focused on strategic sites in the centre of Woolwich in South-East London. Within this location Unit 2 explored UEL‘s guiding theme of Civic Engagement in two ways: firstly, as a more inclusive social practice that allows a variety of people to participate and secondly, as an architectural form that engages with the city as a whole.

Each student chose a strategic location for a responsive and imaginative proposal. We explored ways in which sharing and living together can be part of a unique and synergetic urban life.

WOOLWICH, SOUTH-EAST LONDON

“While it is natural and necessary for architects to concentrate on the building itself, the bright light of this focus often eclipses the surrounding world, darkening the very horizon that grants the building its standing. Anyone who stops to think about it knows perfectly well that individual settings are always interconnected with and dependent on the horizon that transcends them, sewn into the fabric of rooms, buildings, streets, towns, and nature” David Leatherbarrow, 2002

Visiting Crits and Guests: Maija Viksne, Sarah Bland, Vanessa Lemes, Margit Craft and Carl Turner Architects, Keita Tajima and Sophie Roycroft (in Florence), Antony Rifkin and Steve Walker (Allies and Morrison)

Y4: Lina Al-Huro, Zhi Chung (Steve) Chang, Anil Can Colak, Maria Iliopoulou, Kingsley Kerson, Odaine Phipps, Ozan Sahin, Ze Rou Yong

Website: www.march-unit2.blogspot.com

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P117 MArch Architecture Unit 2

Students: Y5: Faddah Alaskar, Gunes Bagdali, Amber Benjamin, Michael Eve, Lisa Ha, Dionysis Karamitsios, Muhammad Hatim Mohd Amin, Boon Wei Phum, Filippos Tympas, Filip Wojtasik

P118 MArch Architecture Unit 2

2.1 On the previous page, map of Woolwich in South-East London, showing different student sites and open space strategies, based on a drawing by Amber Benjamin 2.2 Inhabitable park, culture and community building, by Filip Wojtasik 2.3 Interior perspective, by Filip Wojtasik 2.4 to 2.5 Proposed housing landscape,

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UNIT 4

Modular waterfront Fulvio Wirz, Stratis Georgiou

The unit’s agenda investigates how a largescale project can give rise to a glocal (global-local) approach. With fabrication labs (FABLAB) operating around the world providing manufacturing processes and collaborative digital design platforms becoming increasingly accessible to designers and contractors, can architectural design and construction framework be updated to give rise to a new regional approach?

Naples is a city whose economy is heavily based on touristic development. The coastal area of Via Caracciolo has a prominent and iconic role for the city having to negotiate the needs of local community and the ‘pressure’ of global tourism. The waterfront of Naples is missing a cohesive plan to reconstitute an intimate bond between the city and its most important resource: the sea.

Students developed a modular design system which can dynamically adapt to different scales: the urban one set by the masterplan of the waterfront and the architectural one of the attractor buildings. Fourth year students worked individually on a smaller scale whereas fifth year students explored collaborative workflow defining common strategies for the masterplan prior to developing their individual work. We understand the design process as a multi-layered discourse consisting of physical model-making, bespoke drawing techniques and reference to theory, in order to communicate readings of contextual qualities of urban/architectural conditions.

CHIAIA, NAPLES, ITALY

The idea of ‘junction’ was explored this year as means to reconcile local and trans-local scales and to test strategic design interventions with the aim to unlock new opportunities by speculating on new forms of connective architectural typologies.

Visiting Crits: Monika Bilska, Carine Cohen, Michela Falcone, Palak Jhunjhunwala, Vicenzo Caputo, Tommaso Casucci

Y5: Ali Kaptan, Anastasis Troullides, Anees Imtiaz, Gideon Seglah, Liang Liang He, Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz, Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman

Special thanks to: Rasti Bartek (Cundall) for his structural engineering consultation.

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P127 MArch Architecture Unit 4

Students: Y4: Alexandros Koutougias, Ilyas Demirci, Ioanna Oikonomou, Kai Xin Yeo, Ludmila Olei, Mohamad Wassim Ajouz, Moustafa Can Gokpinar

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4.1 Birds eye view of NEA-Polis 2.0 Performing Arts Center by Anastasis Troullides. 4.2 Proposal for a master plan formed by the interconnection of cultural centers around the Chiaia waterfront, where the lines intersecting within the study area are forming walk paths. This continuous approach interacts with the modularity of the hexagonal grid to form the final coastline and the transitions from the city. Team project NEA-Polis 2.0 by Anastasis Troullides and Gideon Seglah. 4.3 Diagram of master plan formation at Naple’s port.

The project focuses on the redesign of one of the piers of the port with the

adjacent land being redesigned with residential and retail uses. Team project

by Ali Kaptan and Anees Imtiaz 4.4 Extension of the Chiaia waterfront with the creation of artificial sandy beach, something that the area used to be, thus connecting the city back to the sea and it’s past. The master plan is completed by three cultural attractors, one theatre, one contemporary museum and a visitor’s centre for Neapolitan Food Culture. Team project by Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman, Liang Liang He and Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz.

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4.5 A component design study by Gideon Seglah based on a hexagon, further tessellated and rotated in order to form directionality and continuous patterns. 4.2, 4.7 Ali Kaptan is using circle packing patterns to form the organisational plan of his proposal, a Performing Arts Center. The circles are pinched down from their centres to column shaped elements, in different heights, forming a multi-levelled vast landscape on the rooftop which is planted.

The proposed center is an extension to the existing Pallazo dell’Immacolatella which is converted to a Cultural Center. 4.8, 4.9 Component development and aggregation studies by Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman. The size and height of each component adapts to the programmatic uses. 4.10, 4.11 Anastasis Troullides developed a diamond-shaped component, comprised of triangles, thus creating a stable form. The aggregation is formed by three different scales, each adapting to the programme of the Performing Arts Center

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4.12 Interior view of Contemporary Art Museum designed by Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz. 4.13 Restaurant view of Neapolitan Food Culture Visitor Center by Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman. 4.14 Re-interpretation of the traditional Mediterranean roof, covered with terracotta shingles. The components of the building are single ruled surfaces, variating in size and height. The top layer of them are covered with terracotta shingles, connecting the building to the surroundings and the city. Performing Arts Center by Ioanna Oikonomou 4.15, 4.16 Longitudinal section and exterior view of the Stazione Zoologica Marine Life Research Center.

The proposed building is an extension to the existing aquarium that exists in the park, with the first hosting mainly research activities and an augmented reality exhibition space. The building is half immersed in the sea, not only for conceptual reasons, but mainly for environmental and ones arising from the programme needs, as specimens stored within require stable thermal conditions.

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UNIT 5

Venice city culture hub Carlo Cappia, Maria Alessandra Segantini

Tangible/Intangible Heritages The pressure of a massive tourism, that is completely unaware of the fragile dimension of the city, is actually one of the most evident and crucial problems for Venice both in terms of security control of monuments and people while, on the other hand, it represents an economic issue in terms of costs to control/clean/ preserve the city as well as a human cost for the erasure of the local economies of craftsmanship. One of the provocations the studio will explore is to guide the tourists through special experiences for understanding the city and its tangible and intangible heritages. The Cultural Hub will be a place/time where people will be instructed on how to use and appreciate the city, a sort of a journey through a contemporary space, where they will see historical facts and the creation of crafted objects and people at work.

The site is located in Venice in the area of the “Giardini” where the first Art Exhibition has been held in Venice in 1894. At present, this area is used as the ticketing area during the Biennale Exhibition and it is generally used only during the period of the Biennale Art and Architecture. Over the years, the site has been recognized in the mental maps of the Venetians as the place of art and exhibitions. One of the main goals of the project is to find the way to obtain the continuity of use of the space during the whole year. It will require the change of the current programme in terms of time, accessibility, activities, cultural diversification and it may introduce the process of education. The site is

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incessantly one of the most interesting in this part of the city owing to the presence of an original community of Venetian people still inhabiting the area and following their traditions. The research agenda will focus on thresholds as spaces and times of investigation to question the concept of building a CULTURAL HUB in contemporary and, at the same time, to put in place a strategy of adaptation/transformation of the city. At the same time students are asked to look critically at some examples of existing structures proposing a new vision/concept for an open centre of cultures.

The design of the landscape in relation to the building proposal will be will be crucial.

“Territories cities and buildings can be read and re-written as texts, where “...the networks are many and interacts, without any one of them being able to surpass the rest; this text is a galaxy of signifiers, it has no beginning; it is reversible; we gain access by several entries, none of which can be authoritatively declared the main one... ” R. Barthes, S/Z, Turin, 1973

Website: www.uel23ua.blogspot.co.uk

Visiting Crits: Alan Chandler, Tony Fretton, Anna Minton, Alex Scott-Whitby, Mauro Bono, Matteo Benigna Special thanks to: Hilde Bailer (UAA), Mike Davies, Roey Hunt, Step Haiselden

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Students: Khalida Ahmed, Aylem Boyraz, Wagner Carvalho, Mathew Carney, Yaprak Cetinkaya, Savvas Charalambous, Matthew Jolly, Umut Dogan, Gulsen Karpazli, Patrizio Montalto, Chido Thomas, Shady Nasir, Yusra Osman, Waqaar Shah, Dilay Vursavus, May Uriraypal, Mobasher Ahamed

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With a city as filled with tourist attractions as Venice, it’s hard to know where to begin. Perhaps the best way is to simply get lost for a few hours wandering through its enchanting little streets and passageways, strolling beside its canals, and finding its secret corners. At every turn, you’ll see something worth remembering with a photo. No matter where this exploration takes you. This map is showing the most touristic places in Venice and the distances between each attraction point.

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UNIT 6

Autonomous non-standard space Isaie Bloch, Jakub Klaska

Vacant space in Prague has undergone a huge transformation during the past approximately half a century. While the central planning and shortage economy during communism produced a huge amount of vacancies in the historic core, the current political-economic system has been mainly producing vacancies through real estate speculation and overbuilding. Unlike most other former communist territories, Czech Republic has never truly undergone major modernist planning ideas. Resulting in a rather organic urban tissue filled with singular architectural oddities. For the new owners and managers of property, particularly in the highly lucrative part of the city, it was very hard to resist the pressure of commercial interests and the prospect of financial gain, causing many cases of speculative development to emerge. This resulting in a major lack of socio - cultural projects. These speculations have now become characteristic of Prague’s vacancies. Many vacant plots of land, as well as empty solitary buildings, are being underused simply in the interest of exploiting the invisible hand of the market. Unit6 will tackle those neglected and derelict spots in the city, which are of no interest to the municipality and developers due to their lack of financial development potential. As a result of all those vacant buildings, a lack of affordable housing and a high demand for cultural projects arose. People have taken this matter in to their own hands and started autonomous social initiatives. Both squatters and hipsters have been trying over the past

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two decades to infill the need for cultural programs into those existing physical spaces. In majority organised as fully autonomous groups, they manage to counter the establishment looking for profit trough speculation.

Unfortunately those actions are constantly under treat of being physically evicted, constantly resulting in short term cultural projects.

Unit6 is interested in mixed used program with social agency and space for innovative technologies. So to create a more permanent non-linear platform for culture in Prague.

Conceptually, the unit will start speculating on new Spatial behaviour and Production methods in order to produce heterogeneity and differentiation through tectonic operations. These initial chunks will be abstract yet architectural objects. After this in depth research, students will have to re-evaluate the established part to whole relationship in correspondence to their building program.

Visiting Crits: Harald Trapp, Gilles Retsin, Mark Lemanski, Carl Callaghan, Maria Segantini, Tony Fretton, Chiara Zaccagnini, Michela Carla Falcone, Katherine Clarke

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Students: Y5: Saina Motahari, Rohaine Dailey, Rachelle Ann Salazar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Michael On, Kyri Loizou, Billy Webb, Stephanie Intsiful, Garvan Joseet.

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During the first term, students will focus on the topological organisation of surfaces and volumes. This in depth study starting from given references will allow them to have a deeper understanding of how geometries are formed and what their inter-relationships are. The references are sub divided in multiple categories and strategies. Such as: Aggregation 6.2-3, Directional delamination 6.13, Multiple surface pealing 6.1, Single surface pealing 6.6, Surface pinching 6.4 and Volumetric pinching.

In this first part of the term, students are asked to work from a given references and produce a perfect digital replica. This will increase both modelling skills, spatial skills and design skills. Once the duplicate has been produced they will create iterations of their chosen reference.

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6.9 Michael on `s library of surfaces. These pieces were formed after an in depth study of surface delamination principles. The aim of this study was to create a variety of complex surface models using a minimum of operations on the geometry. 6.10 Michael On proposes a physical and virtual Crypto Auction house in order to reach financial and social autonomy. As new technology has given us the abilities of anonymous cryptocurrencies to facilitate payments without government or other 3rd party interference. The current advances being made with this technology and the advent of true decentralization are more important than ever before due to the increasing stranglehold which regulators have on traditional financial transactions 6.11 Short section, cutting through robotic fabrication space and digital workspaces. 2 Sets of undulating surfaces converge together in order to produce a semi-continuous

relationship of programs. Where the design space interacts with the fabrication space without physically connecting to each other. Rohaine Dailey.

6.12 Garvan Joseet `s proposal tackles the urban sprawl by offering a high dense co-housing and co-working scheme. The strong topology of the surounding park continuous within the multiple floors of this large building. In doing so housing and working spaces get organised throughout the proposal.

A vast glazed curtain wall facing the park reduces the energy consumption of the building on the long run. Making this scheme financially and ecologically attractive for the client being the local government. 6.14 Autonomy is best served when all parties receive mutual benefits. Quote by Billy Webb. Proposing a scheme where Amazon would fill this void between commercial property developers and creative individuals.

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6.16 Interior view into the robotic fabrication lab in the creative hart of Vltavska Prague. The aim of the project is to reach autonomy trough production by offering a platform where enthusiasts and professionals can produce and exhibit their work. This would be achieved by stimulating robotic fabrication alongside analogue building methods. The proposal aims to tap into the existing creative culture in Prague, offering fabrication facilities to those wanting to push their ideas without having to go on board with an industrial partner. This would allow the individual not only to design his work but also to be involved in the actual fabrication of the work. Thus avoiding the linear current workflow into a more organic relationship between conception and production.

6.17 Kyri Loizou `s proposal aims to give more autonomy to the next generation by allowing parents to be more involved in the educational cycle of their own and others children in a new typology for a Primary School. As a collective, they will lead the decision making process of subjects taught to their children and the facilities required. As the primary users they would be partially responsible for the teaching and running of the school combined with space for parents to work alongside their children. The vertical school offers a radical reaction to both the urban sprawl as well as the often so rigid divide of subjects, age groups and spatial organisation of primary schools. Rather then being layered horizontally the proposal aims to stack a series of boulders which are interconnected by a spiralling bleed-out space which aims to create more communal space throughout the whole building.

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Market as a space of civic encounter Armoro Gutierrez Rivas, Rosa Rogina

Unit 8 perceives architecture as a social and political practice, and therefore promotes mobilisation of architectural thinking and making as a tool to engage with current matters of concern, both local and global.

It explores how can architectural design process be expanded beyond its conventional role and be utilised as a tool for a wider social, economical and cultural change. The unit looks more closely into territories of spatial and/or social tension and attempts to unpack and address these complex contemporary conditions.

By balancing in between identified real-world context and radical imagination, the students are encouraged to use the identified tension as a main driver for their design proposal.

With a focus on Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, this year we are exploring how the architectural typology of a market, that was historically proven to be a place in Sarajevo where different cultures come together, can be utilised as attempt to revive pre-war condition of city’s successful cultural heterogeneity.

Already from ancient times, marketplaces were vital nodes in the emergence of cities. With trade being one of the oldest embodiments of collective urban activity, markets designated places where processes of exchange of goods were fused with political decisionmaking. However, with the ongoing economic changes and the evolution of ways in which people perform commercial activity, there is new sense of urgency to reinvent the notion of shared urban space as a catalyst of heterogenic coexistence.

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Taking as an example Sarajevo ́s Markale market and its role as fatal place maker during the 1425 days of the Sarajevo siege, the unit looks into how public environments, both open and enclosed, can play a key role to promote inter-ethnic and inter-cultural relationships in post-combat communities. Students are asked to challenge the exisiting typology of a market by developing a hybrid program that introduces a secondary use to it, in order to resolve an identified socio-spatial problem of their interest. While building on Lefebrve’s idea of civic rights to change ourselves by changing the city, the unit searches for a new typology of an enclosed market and supporting facilities that play a leading role as facilitator of this restoration.

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization.”

Henri Lefebvre

Special thanks to: Amer Becic, Emina Camzic, Senka Ibrisimbegovic (University of Sarajevo), Dunja Krvavac

Visiting Crits: Tom Atkinson, Hester Buck, Rodrigo Garcia Gonzales, Ed Jackson, Isabel de la Mora

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Students: Y5: Jinesh Amarasinghe, Yousef Bouzid, Athena Hylton - Thompson, Azlan Mohamad Johar, Jamie Simon, Siok Yee Tan Y4: William Barnett, Travis Daisley, Richard Davies, Austin Joseph, Jian Jun Lim, Kate Skinner, Ee Hui Tiew, Bjørn Selvon Bhola Wang, Nurul Nadhrah Zainal

P152 MArch Architecture Unit 8

Previous page: 8.0 Drawing documenting change of use throughout the day, Kate Skinner, Y4.

Reconnecting Hastahana: Hybrid Market-Park as Healing Ground by Jian Jun Lim, Y4. The project questions how to improve the stagnant Hastahana park in relation to its function, usage perpetuation and urban role as a public realm. 8.1 Section ambience collage 8.2 Aerial view of the proposal showing proposed connections with the neighbouring urban fabric 8.3 Mapping of events - accommodation of existing and future functions 8.4 Exterior view highlighting the threshold in between the building and the adjacent park 8.5 Interior view of the market space featuring the proposed connection between the lower and upper park levels.

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P153 MArch Architecture Unit 8

P154 MArch Architecture Unit 8

A Common Trading Ground by Austin Joseph, Y4. The project proposes a dedicated space in the form of a market where merchants can produce goods in a suitable workspace from which they can also sell, adopting a similar trade strategy as the one existing in the Old town. 8.6 Watercolour drawing of the existing riverside including the site and the surrounding buildings along the Miljacka river 8.7 Drawing showing the public realm permeability and interconnections between programs at ground floor 8.8-9 Sections of the new proposal in relation to the existing building 8.10 Diagrams of activity changes during the day 8.11-12 Ambience collages of interior and exterior public gardens

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P155 MArch Architecture Unit 8

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A Food Journey by Siok Yee Tan, Y5. The project researches the traditional culture of food production at a domestic scale in Sarajevo and transforms its processes into a public journey through with both locals and visitors can engage with its elements. 8.13 Exploded axonometric view explaining structural strategy 8.14 Axonometric view of individual food processes 8.15 Detailed section through one of the process volumes 8.16 Volumetric study with plaster and resin cast models

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P157 MArch Architecture Unit 8

P158 MArch Architecture Unit 8

The City as a Theatre by Nurul Nadhrah Zainal, Y4. The project explores how a hybridity program of market and theatre can recreate social and cultural interaction, with deep-rooted history and significance to the city. The proposal, on a macro scale aims to become the socio-economic hub for and by the people of Sarajevo, and on a micro scale to provide the immediate residents living close to the site a space to gather and acquire sustenance. 8.17 Interior collage showing overlays of program 8.18 Collages of proposed ambiences 8.19 Cross section through the atrium highlighting deployable elements and relation to the external space.

8.20-23 Casting of Sarajevo site model, done in collaboration with the School of Architecture, University of Sarajevo during the unit trip.

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Social Club - Reproductive Space for the Gig Economy Harald Trapp, Brian Hoy

After dealing with the productive city last year, Unit 9 is interested in the social reproduction of the working population, its activities and specific architectural typologies. To design is a new type of social club which tries to overcome the isolation and individualisation of the contemporary equivalent to the proletariat, the “entrepeneurs” of the gig-economy or the forced communitarianism of the socialist society of Cuba.

Such an architectural typology, that aims at combining critical education with recreation would derive from a long tradition of Working Men Clubs in England and the constructivist Soviet Workers Clubs, which probably represent the most successful translation of the theories of Karl Marx into architecture.

The notion of the club implies the communal ownership by its members, as well as the cooperative management and operation of its activities. The traditional Workers Club served not only as a place of recreation, but also as a generator for political activity.

The Social Club hybridizes communal living rooms, performance spaces, adult education, daycare centre, sports facilities and cafeteria/bar, including the exterior space to engage with the urban context.

The sites for the Social Club are either in East London or in Havana. The deprived areas of East London have replaced the working class neighbourhoods of industrial capitalism and are the home of workers in the so-called gig-economy, which lack spaces and places to build a community.

EAST LONDON, UK / HAVANA, CUBA

On the other end of the spectrum, a changing communist state like Cuba has to introduce intermediate elements to negotiate between a developing individualistic and the socialist society.

Revitalising the tradition of the Social Club in Havana might complement the new production-model of the cooparativos, which have recently been introduced to support private economic initiative.

In both societies, the Social Club should stimulate and improve the selected area and work as a commons in its urban environment, to create a new shared place for meeting and exchange. The building should not only have a high programmatic intensity, but is supposed to complete, reveal and challenge the morphology of the neighbourhood within which it is situated.

Y5: Bahreyni Toossi Caveh, Castro Paredes Leonardo Vladimir, Hadzikostas Marios , Gibre Daniel, Lamin Amin, Lim Hoi Yee, Manandhar Rajib, Paine Olivia, Slankard Kirk, Stennett Troy, Tan Kai Xin, Yildiz Simay

Visiting Crits: Robin Phillips, Conibere Phillips Architects; Emily Walkden, Simpson Haugh; Sara Yllner, White Arkitekter; Robert Thum, Hochschule Trier; Tony Fretton, Tony Fretton Architects; Isaie Bloch, UEL; Stratis Georgiou, UEL Special thanks to: Ruth Cherrington, Immo Klink, Alan Chandler, UEL; Aurore Julien, UEL Website: uelunitnine.wordpress.com

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P161 MArch Architecture Unit 9

Students: Y4: Crocker-White James; Dahya Sonam; Gamouri Saman; Hahn Ryan; Krackovskaja Jekaterina; Susmani Michael

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(Previous page: A single place of activity which could attract users of all ages by connecting activities and daily habits to create continuous interaction, Havana, Marios Hadzikostas 9.0 composite drawing showing program, views and materiality) Homepage: a ‘sociable’ media club providing an architecture of locality and community whose premise questions the internet culture of today, taking inspiration both from the local ‘club’ and the global ‘hub’, Havana, Olivia Paine 9.1 aerial view evolving with technology 9.2 courtyard view of multidirectional nodes 9.3 exploded axo exploring part and whole 9.4 - 9.6 incremental growth sequence

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Social Engine: a project connecting self-employed delivery drivers’ productive and reproductive spaces, providing a hybridisation of recreation and services, East London, Kai Xin Tan 9.7 sectional axo showing high programmatic intensity 9.8-9 construction phase axo showing concrete frame phase 1 & lightweight steel phase 2 9.10 section across the highway/flyover with new link bridge proposal 9.11 delivery driver internal view 9.12 external view approaching the club 9.13 relief model exploring form and geometry

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A single place of activity which could attract users of all ages by connecting activities and daily habits to create continuous interaction, Havana, Marios Hadzikostas 9.14 street view showing access through the block 9.15 view of ramp from board game area looking over football pitch 9.16 view from boxing ring showing ramp as auditorium

A communal living room where locals can socialise and conduct their daily activities, sheltered from high temperatures or extreme weather conditions, constructed from inexpensive materials using local construction methods, Havana, Leonardo Castro Paredes 9.18 internal view of the ground floor

The Roo Community: a social club providing a platform for Deliveroo drivers to gather as well as co-working space and accommodation for a wide variety of needs, East London, Hoi Yee Lim 9.17 perspectival section showing the activity in the accommodation space and the co-working space in relationship with the surrounding landscape

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A club for bicyle taxi drivers with a porous ground floor, Havana, Rajib Manandhar 9.19 exploded axo 9.20 aerial view Construction Workers’ Club exploring social interaction between public, semi-public and private spaces at different levels, East London, Sonam Dahya 9.21 view looking down on a hosted tournament A ‘skills bank’ offering training and eduction to the local population, Havana, Caveh Bahreyni Toossi 9.22 night view 9.23 elevation A club for pigeon fanciers constructed from an adaptable system developed from vernacular elements, Havana, Kirk Slankard 9.24 elevation 9.25-26 combinatoric axos

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Mark Lemanski and Jenny Kingston with Katherine Clarke, muf architecture/art

Unit 10 focuses on the intersection of the lived and the built space, which is approached simultaneously at small and large scales: the scale of human interaction and the scale of political decision making. It draws on different disciplines in its engagement with the real life factors that shape our environment. Previous topics included housing estate regeneration in Hackney, cohousing in Thamesmead, and productive uses in Old Oak Common.

Fair Futures started with a visit to the property bubble ruins and innovative urban think tanks in Madrid.

The unit brief asks for a socially and economically sustainable mixed use design on a site close to the university. North Woolwich is a place of extremes that has lingered on the doorstep of regeneration, which has proven both a curse (it remains economically deprived) and a blessing (it has been spared by speculative development).

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Students will respond to aspirations of site owners Create -an arts organisation- and Newham council, balancing conflicting needs of artist live/work space, a community provision, productive uses, and the Mayor’s Good Growth programme. The work is informed by research that muf has been carrying out in the area, allowing students to engage with a range of stakeholders and decision-makers.

Visiting Critics: Alex Marsh/GLA Regeneration, Joy-Caron Canter/Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, Maja Sporrong/Good Hotel London, Joss Taylor/Bow Arts Trust, Robert Baffour-Awuah/GLA Royal Docks Team, Hadrian Garrard/Create, Jenn Merrick/founder of Earth Station

Brewery North Woolwich, Elizabeth Sanders/LB Newham Regeneration Manager, Fola Kalesanwo, LB Newham Regeneration, Alba Daja/ former Unit 10 student, Emma Koffie/Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, Alex Paveley/artist, Jody Tableporter/LB Newham and Royal Docks Regeneration, Paul Clarke/GLA Royal Docks Team, Axel Feldman/Objectif, Jennifer O’Riordan/Designer, Diana Ibáñez López/ Create & RCA Input Madrid: Alberto Nanclares/Basurama, Raquel Congosto/Madrid, a medias, Jorge Toledo/Ecosistema Urbano, China Cabrerizo Sanz/Imagina Madrid, Carlos Arroyo/Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos

P171 MArch Architecture Unit 10

Students: Y4: Bianca Baidoo, Tawhid Chowdhury, Victor Dairo, Olajide Falusi, Ibrahim Odunsi, Giuseppe Podestà, Sofia Katsarou, Asma Ikram Brahimi Y5: Camille Boulle, Beth Carter, Max Davie, Sara Erfantalab Evini, Mary Folorunso, Mustak Miah, Talha Siddiqui, Anca-Elena Zahan

P172 MArch Architecture Unit 10

“If the event would has taken place in the week-end in the morning, I would have stayed, now my child is asleep and it is too late for a week day.”

Event at the Bow Arts, floating boat Workshop.

Workshop test event 10.1 held at Bow Arts Trust site R.A.W Studios examining overlapping uses 10.2 Drawing showing the relationship of listed railway turning circle to proposed arts space, Bianca Baidoo. 10.3 Examination of the development of North Woolwich through time, Bianca Baidoo. 10.4 Axonometric showing relationship of semi transparent facade to arts space circulation, Bianca Baidoo. 10.5 Research by Beth Carter illustrating the relationship between unemployment, time and money in the single mother demographic in North Woolwich. Beth’s proposal interrogated ways that the building’s construction could reflect its social aspirations, such as 10.6-7 a facade system constructed on site with local job training allowing for varying degrees of shading and privacy. 10.8 A view from the adjacent cycle lane showing artists’ workspaces and accommodation targeted at artists with children, Beth Carter.

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FACADE INTER-RELATIONSHIP USER GROUPS The open ability of spaces continues on the residential floors. The purpose of the residential is to form as relaxed utopia for the independent artists, again proposing a range of living styles opening choice for the artists. The balconies allow for the residents to interact with one another. The vertical garden to act as a subtle buffer from the pollution generated on pier road, reducing sqm used to create a garden for each dwelling, this encourages residents to utilise the turntable as a spread out space, as they have the opportunity to merge with existing residents within north Woolwich

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Projects were tested through presentations to prospective clients 10.9 and adapted according to feedback on emerging designs. Camille Boulle proposed a local currency 10.10 to encourage a circular economy in North Woolwich. Her proposal for a community cafe, co-working spaces, mixed tenure co-housing 10.11 used public realm and open space to link different built elements. Sectional relationships were exploited to imbue spaces with activity 10.12, 10.14. A simple palette of materials underlined spatial and programmatic overlaps 10.13. Max Davie proposed a masterplan 10.15 for the site linking productive uses (such as brewing) to live/work spaces. The reduction of productive space in North Woolwich 10.16, 10.19 informed the proposal for an interlocking series of spaces for living and working 10.17 grouped around an internal street 10.18, both giving respite from traffic and allowing for spill from the adjacent workspaces.

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An aquaponic farm which supports a cafe below artists workspace and living was proposed by Sofia Katsarou 10.20. The tectonic language of the surrounding industrial uses is interpreted and adapted to move from productive space to cafe 10.23. The building is supported by its surrounding public spaces, the street and the turning circle becoming spectacle for the passer-by 10.22, 10.21. Temporary housing for North Woolwich’s young homeless population and a bakery as a route back into work by Ibrahim Odunsi 10.24. The courtyard of a youth club and residential accommodation by Sara Erfantalab Evini 10.25.

Olajide Falusi’s section of a preforming arts space with cafe opening up views to the river Thames 10.27. Protruding window sectional detail by Tawhid Chowdhury exploiting views in residential proposals 10.28. Varying occupations and activities in winter gardens proposed by Mary Folorunso 10.29. The unit playing a game of basketball in El Campo de Cebada one of the grass roots reclaimed public spaces visited as part of the unit trip to Madrid 10.26.

OFFICES, WORKSHOP AND RESIDENTIAL UNITS 1: Shared social space for occupants of the apartments.

2: Shared kitchen facilities for occupants of the apartments.

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7: Artist workshop for wood and metal cutting.

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Dr Heba Elsharkawy, Programme Leader

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BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology (ADT) programme has gone through some exciting developments this year.

We have been very keen on developing the subject specific knowledge and employability skills to support our students who aspire for a rewarding career in this field.

The students have had an all round experience from working on their design projects in studio, to field trips to major developments under construction in London, to visits to renown architectural practices such as SOM, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Cullinan Studio.

This year, we also organised study trips to Venice and Dubai. The trip was an eye-opening experience to the students as it facilitated visits to many significant projects in the UAE that demonstrated the diverse technologies and design approaches adopted in such a hot and arid climate.

Our year 3 students also learned specialist environmental softwares (Integrated Envrionemntal Solutions - IES) which is widely used in industry and they also used environmental monitoring equipment in their research projects on real life case studies.

Heba Elsharkawy (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA)

A+D Technology Sustainable design of buildings

Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Mr. Alfonso Senatore, Dr. Haitham Farouk, Miss Ipek Kuzu

In Year 1 ADT, we worked on an Artist in Residence design project following an architectural design foundation phase where we designed an artists’s personal space to live and work in, on a site at UEL campus overlooking the Royal Docks. The project aimed to develop our technical understanding of a small residential structure, building materials, construction processes, sustainbility and technical details. We also went on a fiield trip to Venice to observe and understand the design and construction technology of different building typologies such as Scarpa’s Querini Stampalia Foundation, Santa Maria Qioriosa dei Frairi, Basilica St. Marco, and Fondomenta de terranova, Murano.

In Year 2 and 3 ADT, we worked closely with Newham Council as a client, on a live project; a mixed use development on Plashet Road. consisting of a community centre, nursery and 30 one-bedroom and two-bedroom flats. We undertook site surveys, case study research, climate and site analysis and capacity studies to understand how the design could provide the facilities needed within the design brief. Within our technical design proposals, we tackled key strategic questions; what could be the most effective building form and fabric for the chosen site (environmentally and economically)? What are the priorities for building users’ health, comfort and wellbeing?

We also enjoyed learning Revit software, Sefaira and Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES-VE for environmental analysis). We used monitoring

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equipment namely the thermal imaging camera, luxmeters and data loggers in our final year research projects. Both, the design and research projects helped us become more competent with design development processes including the analysis and interpretation of the project site and developing project-specific research methodologies.

We had an incredible site visit to Dubai and AbuDhabi where we visited several completed projects as well as developments under construction and met with project architects from Foster and Partners, SOM, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Atkins. We visited Burj Khalifa, Masdar City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Aldar Central Market, the Louvre Museum, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, DEWA (the most sustainble office building) and we also met with our counterparts at the American University in Sharjah.

We visited SOM offices, Zaha Hadid Architects Office, and Cullinan Studio this year. We had the opportunity to meet lead architects at those renown practices and we observed their exciting studios where we learned about several of their major design projects.

Y2: James Banda, Mandy-Liza Lehnert, Rashed Mirza, Mazin Mohamed, Constantin Olariu, Rimants Reiniks, Dean Rose, Jozsef Seregely, Ainsley Walters

Y3: Abrar Alhashmi, Ardeshir Boloki, Adelino Fernandes Batista, Aleek Hussain, Ramone Jheeta, Ahmet Kilinc, Habib Sahel, Farooq Sheikh, Ahamed Reyasul Hassan Special thanks to: Dr. Sahar Zahiri, Bertug Ozarisoy, Muhamed Umar, Stephen Taylor Architects, Rasheed Dauda (Architect), Newham Council, and the Chartered Institute for Architectural Technologists (CIAT)

P181 BSc ADT

Students: Y1: Chinedu Okerezi, Jonny Chapi Enriquez, Giulia Ficini Jawad Serroukh, Mohammed Farhat, Simren Dosanjh, Oussama Nefzi, Mishal Pussewela, Victor Naranjo Cardenas, Oliver Egerton-Smith, Connor Minihane, Adit Jaganathan, Shahid Siddique, Tala Aflatouni, Nana Owusu, George Fahmi, Rebecca Adeboye, Rokhiya Tounkara, Luis De La Cruz, Wilson Chaby, Rebekah Springer, Gharsanai Pacha, Michael Aregbesola, Noela Dalipi

P182 BSc ADT

Year 1 Artis in Residence design project: adt.01 Ground floor plan of design project, Giulia Ficini. adt.02 3D laser-cut model of the project, Giulia Ficini. adt.03 Sefiara daylight analysis, Giulia Ficini adt.04 Design project. adt.05 3D physical model, Giulia Ficini. adt.06 3D model of design project, Jonny Chapi. adt.07 Ground floor plan, Jonny Chapi adt.08-9 Sections AA and BB in design project, Jonny Chapi. adt.10 3D physical model. adt.11 Phtoshop model on site.

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BA Interior Design Year 1, 2 & 3

Camillo Botticini and Pete Cobb Programme Leaders

P211 BA Interior Design

The BA Interior Design programme is designed to educate students to become spatially aware in their approach, to consider occupiers and users, context and function that is at once both critical and emotive in its expression.

Design is taught in parallel to a range of studies including representation and computing, technology, design history and theory & professional practice to prepare students for a successful future in the industry.

We aim to provide an educational and creative framework that enables students to become exceptional designers. The idea of ‘designing’ and ‘making’ is always central to the course’s activities and ethos.

Interior Design Sabina Andron, Camillo Botticini, Pete Cobb, Anastasia Karandinou, Kyriaki Nasioula, Janet Insull, Bruce Irwin, Giovanni Petrolito, Keith Winter

The BA (Hons) Interior Design programme, running for its fourth year at UEL has seen a significantly high achievement in our recent graduates with seven 1st class honours degrees.

A trip to Milan kickstarted the first semester for the entire BA, with visits to Prada Foundation by Rem Koolhaas, a residential scheme by Portaluppi and the stunning central Gothic Cathedral.

In 1st Year, students are challenged to redesign their own studio ranging from proposals that reinvent the space for new functions. In addition they design and build a 1:1 shelf in the workshops in order to house their studio equipment. The main design project was a re-imagining of various rooms in a new Eastbury Manor House Museum, a 450 year old Tudor building in the heart of Barking. The clients were National Trust and local Borough Councils. We were lucky to have Tamara Horbacka, chief curator of Eastbury Manor, to join us for critqiues at the end of the project.

In 2nd and 3rd Year two projects combined both group and individual work. Firstly, ‘Arches’, a project involving the refurbishment of the overground arches that cross through the infrastructure of the local area at Druid Street, London. The project is at the same time an urban and interior design challenge. Occupying the thresholds under the arches, the project was seen as an opportunity to produce new interconnected spaces.

We worked to preserve the existing features of the brick arches, while creating various spatial sequences through the addition of new levels, floor excavations

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and new design elements. The students proposed new functions such as an art gallery, a gym, a wellbeing centre and accessible social spaces.

In the second project ‘Living the Model’, the students worked to re-design a house by a well-known architect and build models betwen 1:20 and 1:50 scales. The aim of the exercise was to insert a boutique hotel within the existing buildings, whilst preserving the original features of these iconic spaces. The large models of both existing and proposed designs allowed for detailed analysis of exemplary spaces, and also enabled the production of comprehensive photography and expressive digital collages.

In addition, an exciting side-project saw a competition entry submitted for a Sicilian castle to house an art hotel. A selection of 2nd Year students led by Giovanni Petrolito sought to reveal the dramatic potential that lies in the disjointed existing ruins.

Y2: Claudia Lazar, Nayden Hadzhiev, Christina Inoke, Carlos Torres, Zena Emanuel, Amber Ali, Sonia Islam, Gizem Sarilmaz, Helen Adefoiye, Alvin Tampon, Whitney Green, Kevser Intze

Y1: Crystal Stewart, Rosa Sheaves, Carolina Iacovenco, Melika Mirabadi, Faezeh Alimonad, Jessica Pembroke, Oliwia Zurek, Joanne Dean, Delmarie Coates, Lara de Jesus Alcantara, Lian Nasseri, Alisa Insoi, Tanya Riseborough, Tannah Nansubuga, Onur Derin, Brandy Palmer

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Masters Programmes

MRes Architecture

Reading the Neoliberal City Anna Minton Programme Leader

Anna Minton, author of Big Capital and Ground Control, also published by Penguin, is the Programme Leader on the MRes Architecture. This multidisciplinary course, sited within the architecture department, welcomes applicants from a wide range of backgrounds. While situated in London’s Docklands, the global impact of these processes, which are relevant across the world, provides the context.

The course is comprised of four modules: Reading the neoliberal city; Psychogeography and Situationism; Ethical Development and the Digital City. Topics for study include the housing crisis and the privatisation of cities, investigating the financialisation of the urban environment, polarisation and the consequences for citizens in terms of trust and fear. The modules on Ethical Development and the Digital City focus on potential alternatives to the neoliberal city and the modules on Psychogeography and Situationism and the Digital City are also offered to Diploma students choosing Critical Writing for their Theory component.

Anna is joined on the academic team by Tony Fretton, principal of Tony Fretton architects, who is a thesis supervisor and Debra Shaw, Reader in Cultural Theory, who teaches on the Digital City module.

Guest lecturers are a key component of the course and include politicians, leading industry figures and activists. We have an ongoing collaboration with Sian Berry, chair of the housing group at the Greater London Authority. During 2016, Anna was awarded a Leverhulme Artist in Residence grant to work with Alberto Duman who was artist in residence on the MRes. For more information contact: Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture & Programme Leader a.minton@uel.ac.uk

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MA Architecture and Urbanism Fulvio Wirz Programme Leader Stratis Georgiou Digital Fabrication and Robotics Tutor

The MA in Architecture and Urbanism has been focusing on three main strands of research: Computational architecture, Urban Design and Heritage. The flagship Computational architecture builds upon UEL legacy of world-leading form generation through computational design explored through the work of the university’s late senior lecturer, Paul Coates. This involves using parametric and objectoriented design methodologies seamlessly with rapid manufacturing and visualization techniques available within the school.

MA students developed their projects following a shared agenda with MArch Unit 4 working on a coastal stretch of the Gulf of Naples. Students have been working in teams on a masterplan developing a shared modular design system which can dynamically adapt to different scales: the urban one of the waterfront and the architectural one of the attractor buildings which have been individually developed during the second term.

Topics like Advanced Architectural Design, Parametric Urban Design, Digital Manufacturing have been developed across the year following a common digital platform which simulates the state of the art of design processes in contemporary architectural practices. The goal was to experiment new possibilities for architectural spaces and cities connecting the design to advanced fabrication techniques and sustainable strategies in order to generate a research leading to a secure impact in the industry.

P229 MA Architecture & Urbanism

Students: Zehra Cansu Alp, Faryal Sahar, Venkata Kishore Damireddy, Abdullah Bin Musa Abdulsheikh

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URBAN DESIGN Open Studio Christoph Hadrys

The Urban Design course is the design intensive masters for alternative urbanisms at the University of East London. It is set up to develop both intellectual and practical skills for urban designers and architects.

Through interrelated design and theory projects, we search for alternative solutions to complex urban conditions.

The course sets out to explore and develop new forms of urban practice in cities undergoing critical change, where conventional thinking struggles to respond to uncertainties and the necessity for imaginative thinking. It aims to prepare students to work with different geographical settings, urban agendas and economies through design projects. We engage directly with communities, sites and contexts, to be able to develop both practical and innovative urban designs, from the scale of regions and cities, all the way through to neighbourhoods and building scales.

This approach is informed by local and international urban practice, but also emphasizes students‘ individual interests, abilities and intuition, to explore and develop new forms of urbanism. Asking questions, like who is building cities and how to build cities, allows us to open our understanding about finer visible and invisible forces. We research diverse methodologies, like the use of tolerances and time-lines, to enable more dynamic and generative urban processes, allowing a much wider range of people to take part in building cities.

The course provides a platform for the individual student to develop an expertise and an approach to sustainable urban design through the development of urban design strategies and research. As more and more emphasis is put on the importance of sustainable developments by governments and professional bodies, such knowledge and skills will be of increasing usefulness to the students in their professional lives.

The programme prepares for work in the public as well as in the private sector.

The masters course has two fully integrated parts: The design intensive studio and the theory component comprising Masters and Professional MArch (ARB/ RIBA Part2) students.

The Urban Design course welcomes students as fellow innovators in a programme that is both visionary and hands on in seeking to develop urban futures that are sustainable, distinctive and enjoyable.

“The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the “rest” - but it also consumes. It exploits and exhausts the potentials that can be generated finally only by urbanism, and that only the specific imagination of urbanism can invent and renew “ Rem Koolhaas , SMLXL

Y4: Kingsley Asare Boateng, Anil Can Colak, James Crocker-White, Travis Gideon Daisley, Iara Sofia De Jose E Silva, Kingsley Buah Kerson, Jian Jun Lim, Viraj Patel, Odaine Coswayne Phipps, Ozan Sahin, Ze Rou Yong

Urban Design Studio The design component aims to prepare students to work with different urban situations and agendas.

In the beginning of each academic year, students engage in a five week induction project, to familiarise themselves with the teaching and learning environment of the course. During that time, we develop design tools and principles, by testing and refining them in various locations.

For the main design project, individual students focus on one site of their choice, for the rest of the academic year. This focus allows very deep explorations of a range of scales and involved urban design issues.

Students formulate objectives, briefs, programmes and spatial aspirations of their design work. Throughout the course, we engage in workshops, presentations and tutorials.

Open Studio This academic year, students select the location and topic of their design, theory and research project themselves. The course offers a rich platform for students’ visions for cities.

We formulated strategies that respond to global and site conditions, understanding of scales, architectural sensibilities and local communities, to create social, spatial and time-based habitats and environments.

Y5: Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman, Gunes Bagdali, Marie Camille Boulle, Rohaine Dailey, Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz, Daniel Gibre, Lisa Quynh Ha, Stephanie Intsiful, Ali Kaptan, Boon Wei Phum, Troy Stennett, Filippos Tympas Website: www.ma-ud.blogspot.com

Urban Theory Component The theory component welcomes Masters students and also 4th and 5th year MArch students. The course is ‘hands on‘ and it works in close collaboration with the design component. A lot of urban issues are difficult to explore purely on a visual basis. This has to do with the abstract level of scale and complexity. For example, we can do models of buildings and they will partly tell us spatial and social relationships. In urban design that is different. We can do models of a city, but it is not that easy to understand the underlying forces, that are shaping cities. Concerning issues like migration or globalization, physical models might tell us very little.

We have to read, write and talk, to gain a more holistic understanding of urban issues.

Students attend weekly lectures on distinct urban topics, followed by seminars. The fields of studies range from urban history, theory, interpretation and practice to science. We explore complexities of cities through discussions, writings, readings, lectures, drawings, student presentations, movies and excursions. The theory component is assessed through a 4000 - 5000 word essay on an urban topic that the students select and research themselves. The studies in urban theory are set up to help articulate a critical context and vision for students’ design and thesis work.

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Students: Emre Calis, Parvin Aktar, May Thu Kyaw

MA Interior Design Dr Anastasia Karandinou Programme Leader

Design of any scale responds to – and in parallel leads – cultural, political and social change. Our everyday living changes rapidly. Changing demographics and the emergence of new technologies shift the way in which we inhabit, use and share spaces. What is the role of design in the rapidly changing contemporary world? What is home in a future of densely populated city centres? What is the shop of the future – when e-commerce is changing the role and the experience of the high street? What is the office of the future when patterns and media of collaboration change? What is the library of the future? What is the school of the future – in times of an overload of information, and of numerous online resources and social networks? How can design activate what is important about physical proximity and interaction? How does contemporary design responds to the above issues and re-thinks established typologies? How can the historic context and typologies be studied and re-activated in new ways?

Through our new MA programme in Interior Design we address the above questions in a rigorous, experimental and creative manner. We challenge the limits of the role of the designer and we explore how design pertains to different aspects of our everyday living. Political and cultural debates are re-articulated and expressed through a hands-on poetic and creative making approach.

This year’s main design project dealt with the broadly discussed London rail arches. Over the past few years

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the train arches around London are being increasingly refurbished and reused. The need for space in the city centre turns them into sought-after sites for a range of functions and businesses. Additionally, the specific qualities of their structure, as well as their geometry, materiality and location makes them quite unique, particular and challenging sites. The arches that we focused on this year are those of the London Bridge area. The students researched, reflected, discussed and decided on the specific function that they proposed, and designed new typologies and combinations of programmes, having considered the history, current life and people of the place.

For further information please visit: www.uel.ac.uk/ postgraduate/courses/ma-interior-design or find us at www.instagram.com/uel_interiordesign.

Tutors: Sabina Andron, Camillo Botticini, Pete Cobb, Dr Anastasia Karandinou, Kyriaki Nasioula, Giovanni Petrolito.

Special thanks to our guest tutors and external critics: Dr Aghlab Al-Attili, Carl Callaghan, Manjit Dhillon, Will Jennings, Dr Dragan Pavlovic, Prof Christine Schwaiger, Reem Sharif

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MASTERS

Professional Landscape Architecture Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI Programme Leader

We are firmly grounded in professional practice. We are taught by practitioners, work on live projects, and include work shadowing in our programmes.

At the same time, we require a rigorously critical and creative outlook, pushing our students to challenge accepted norms, and their own assumptions about what landscape is, what nature is, what beauty is, and what contemporary practice should be.

We engage with theorists, with environmental and social concerns, and we carry out our own investigations and research.

Landscape has extent. Travelling through it we are aware of continuity, and of change. There are moments where one place becomes another, where traces of the past intersect with the present, where the people, and other things we see, seem different, particular. Physical and social processes are at work, and we learn to read these forces and how to engage with them creatively. Inevitably we bring our own memories and meanings.

As landscape architects we also bring authorship, introduce new ideas, perhaps revealing for others the things we read there. Unlike architecture, the material we build with is alive. It is the ground we all stand on, the water we drink, the food we eat, our environment, and the place where we meet each other.

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The MA Professional Landscape Architecture programmes at UEL span practice and academia.

MA (Conversion) PG Diploma/MA Coastal Processes

Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI, Magda Pelka

The Landscape Architecture programmes are taught through design modules, and theory modules. Theory provides an underpinning of critical thinking and professional knowledge to support the students own developing ideas. This year design studio moved out of London to Kent’s coast, to Folkestone, to engage with a landscape in flux - both physically and socially.

At Folkestone, the chalk downlands meet unstable mudstones, and longshore drift erodes the cliffs.

Historic photographs show landscapes now vanished, fallen into the sea. The culverted Pent stream brings silt to the harbour, and floods the lower lying streets at the valley bottom. Tidal flooding is threatened, as sea levels rise. Dredging the harbour, fortifying the cliff and protecting the coast is a constant task.

For many people Folkestone is a space of deprivation, with few jobs, low incomes, limited facilities, but change is at hand here too. Thanks in part to high speed train links, the town is now reinventing itself as a desirable cultural hub, a short hop from London. This process has been supported by the intervention of local benefactor/ investor Roger de Haan, once owner of SAGA, the town’s largest employer, instigator of its art Triennial, and initiator of plans for one thousand new homes that have outline permission to be built on the beach.

Our conversion year/PG Dip design students have been asked to respond to this dynamic setting through a range of studio projects, interpreting, mapping, and proposing interventions that respond to their own agenda for change. The MA students were challenged to explore professional ethics in theory, and landscape planning at a town wide scale in design. Their final designs for different sites were informed by individual theory options, and their own exploratory studies.

Our landscape theory series for conversion year / PG Dip students was founded on material concerns in the first semester - ground, water, people, plants, and on cultural concerns in the second semester, accompanied by focussed technical studies for planting design and hard materials. A visit to the Landscape Institute drawings collection at MERL in second semester provided a starting point to a study on the use of drawing in Landscape Architecture, with the module culminating with student placements in practice.

“Everything is always changing. Everything is now, and has always been .. becoming something else. We ask .. what is now in terms of what has been. We ask: What are the dynamics of the process?”

Ian McHarg

FOLKESTONE, BARCELONA, LONDON

Special thanks to: Folkestone Seafront Company, Acme Architects, Diane Dever Camlin Lonsdale, Land Use Consultants

Thanks to Visiting Critics and Professional Review Group: Kate Digney (Levitt Bernstein), Zeltia Vega Santiago, Eduardo Carranza, (Gustafson Porter Bowman) Ceylan Belek Ombregt, Eike Selby (Martha Schwartz & Partners), Tom Lonsdale (Placecraft), Richard Peckham (Shape), Andrea Dates (Townsend), Fenella Griffin (Untitled Practice), Susan Lowenthal (WSP) Thanks for student placements to: Atkins, BDP, Farrer Huxley Associates, Groundwork, Gustafson Porter Bowman, Jon Sheaff Associates, Levitt Bernstein, Martha Schwartz and Partners, Outerspace, Shape, Tyrens UK, Untitled Practice

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Students: PG Diploma: Lisa Peachey, Johnny Williamson MA (Conversion) Mat Dagorn Proctor,Jon Diss, Shannon du Hasky,Panna Elek, Harvey Erhard, Louise Fitzgerald, Josh George, Katerina Rafaj,Elizabeth Rasmussen, SeireTakeda, Tomomi Yamahara

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Previous Page: l.1 MA student Nic McEwan worked with young people from Folkestone Academy to develop a map of their Folkestone landmarks, as part of mapping social infrastructure in the town.

Semester One, In ‘Meeting Point’ Conversion year/PG Dip students identified modelled and drew places of difference/ change, then visualised proposals meeting points, bridging the divide l.2 Coronation Parade, identifying the arches to make meeting easy,Tomomi Yamahara l.3, Coronation Parade tidal pool, where land meets the sea, Lisa Peachey. l.4 Folkestone Harbour wind organ, Katerina Rafaji. l.5 Modelling change,inspired by sheet piled development site. Steel and plaster, Anna Peters. In the second project, ‘Green’, Conversion year / PG Dip students developed proposals for a small cliff top park at Wear Bay Road, above Coronation Parade. l.6 Analysis and early sketch proposal, Mat Proctor l.7 Perspective sketch and elevation, Jonny Williamson l.8 Plan view, Mat Proctor.

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In Second Semester, Conversion Year/ Pg Dip students worked in groups to map different aspects of Folkestone’s landscape from the inner harbour to the Lower Leas Coastal Park, behind the Seafront Development Company’s proposed 1000 beachfront homes. They developed their own agenda in response to the place, analysed relevant aspects, prepared conceptual diagrams and a spatial strategy. From this preparatory work, all the students developed illustrative and technical drawings, spanning scales from 1:1000 to 1:2 l.9 Hand drawn site analysis, Harbour Square, Seire Takeda. l.10 Concept and strategic masterplan, phasing proposals, Harvey Erhard. l.11 Harbour Square shared space with pedestrian priority, visualisation, Tomomi Yamahara. l.12 l.14 Folkestone Harbour as a productive landscape. Reedbeds occupy the square and surround the Grand Burstin, purifying water for Oyster production in the inner harbour. Illustrative masterplan,and section, Lisa Peachey l.15 Active, sociable, colourful movement routes, re-connecting town to sea, with all the fun of the fair. Visualisations, Anna Peters.

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l.15 A walkable, activated, green harbour front.Illustrative masterplan, Panna Elek. l.16 Land use & urban character mapping, Josh George. l.17 Harbour Square. Water droplets inform this general arrangement plan and paving pattern design, Katerina Rafaj. l.18 Seating design, Lisa Peachey. l.19 Sea colours in coast tolerant colour themed planting plan, Seire Takeda.

Masters students took a strategic overview of the town’s open spaces in term one, then chose a site for term two, responding to their findings. Nic McEwan tackled bioremediation at a former Gasworks site, providing visual access and connecting desire lines in a part of town deficient in open space l.20 Bioremediation strategy,map of town facilities. l.23 Gasworks wall elevation, Nic Mcewan. Erika Alexovics looked at Folkestone’s Victorian heritage, and sought to celebrate historic landmarks along the coast, as a focus for new features and uses. l.22 New sitting terrace beneath the Leas Pavilion, visualisation l.24 Proposed pier, detail design, Erika Alexovics.

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l.24, l.25 New groundform and planting designed and built by 2017-18 Landscape Architecture students. Bug hotel byJ onny Williamson. Thamesview Primary School, Construction fortnight, the first two weeks of term one. l.26 Parc del Clot, Barcelona, one of the programmed sites visited in this year’s foreign study trip. l.27 Conversion year/ PG Dip theory students view Geoffrey Jellicoe’s plans and sketchbooks, at the Landscape Institute drawing collection, Museum of Rural Life, Reading.

Part time MA (Conversion), year one l.28 Small park study, Thames Barrier Park, Louise Fitzgerald. Longitudinal planting study - winter to spring l.29 Shannon du Hasky, l.30 Jon Diss, l.31 Liz Rasmussen

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PhD in Architecture + Design Dr Renee Tobe

The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering developed a strategic research voice for REF 2014 based on key areas of practice within Architecture and the Built environment. This responded to the UEL research theme of Sustainability Science and Technology and Social Equality and Justice, Human Rights and Security.

Three areas of overlapping interest frame the selection of potential PhD Scholars: Smart Cities and Heritage (how the city of the past is fundamental to the city of the future), Sustainable Cities and Construction (material and technical provenance and purpose for social benefit), together with Resilient Cities and Civic Engagement (practice based education for the direct benefit of stakeholders – the University in the community).

PhD and Masters programmes play a critical role in the development of a louder, sharper voice on this in relation to Urban Design, Policy, Heritage and the definition of what sustainable architecture is or should do.

Sample of students and topics: Wei Shi: An investigation into energy consumption behavior and lifestyles in UK homes: Developing a smart application as a tool for reducing home energy use.

The research hypothesizes that domestic building occupants’ energy-related behaviours and their socio-demographical characteristics have not been

thoroughly considered for optimizing domestic energy performance. To address the research problem, correlations between above-mentioned factors and home energy performance are investigated by adopting a mixed sequential research methodology where a questionnaire survey and focus group interviews were conducted to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data. According to the research findings, a great number of energy use patterns are significantly correlated to energy performance, such as the use of heating controls, thermostat and ventilation schedules.

Additionally, occupants tend to use more heating in the winter due to health issues or for the comfort of their children. The research aims to develop the design specifications of an innovative smart phone application that may help improve occupants’ energy-related behaviours.

Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Prof.

Hassan Abdalla, Mr. Alan Chandler Bertug Ozarisoy: Optimising Occupants’ Thermal Comfort in Post-war Housing Developments in Northern Cyprus: Passive Cooling Strategies for Retrofit Problems on mass housing estates are currently a topic for research on energy and policy interventions in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).

Modern residential tower block developments often have inefficient energy performance and lack consideration of the climatic features of the building site. The aim of the research is to develop passive design strategies which are energy-efficient and cost-effective for the retrofit of the existing residential building stock. The research adopts a ‘quantitative’ research design primarily using building performance evaluation modelling and simulation of prototype buildings, thermal imaging and a questionnaire survey distributed to the occupants of one of the existing prototypes. The selected residential tower block is modelled using Integrated Environmental Solutions Virtual Environment (IES-VE) software where extensive dynamic thermal simulations have been produced to test feasible retrofit strategies to improve thermal comfort and energy performance.

Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Mrs. Maria Segantini, Prof. Darryl Newport

Fatemeh Rostami: A Place for Culture; Case Study: Yazd, Iran This research explores how the notion of an urban place is defined by its inhabitant’s memories and everyday activities with a particular case study; Yazd, a traditional Iranian desert city. It is assumed that social studies of Iranian cities can contribute a new approach in investigating traditional Iranian urban places. Researchers and urban designers argue that Iranian cities are on the periphery of losing their architectural and urban identities while facing modern urban problems because of inconsistent relevant procedures in analysing urban places, both traditional and new. In the absence of this, some research has been done studying the physical forms of the cities.

However, at the present time, the social studies have not been given serious consideration. This research attempts to fill this gap. The city of Yazd, a UNESCO heritage site, has been chosen for this study because of its extreme contrast of forms of development that exist between the Historic, Old, and New parts. These areas are still active and occupied by the locals, which

provide opportunities to study older and new parts of the city from its local’s stances. Inductive approaches have been applied in conducting mixed methods used for data collections. Three distinct districts of Yazd were chosen to be examined in detail: Fahadan located in the Historic Fabric, Nasr Abad situated in the Old fabric, and Safaieh in the New fabric. Since the city has been mainly formed and occupied by Zoroastrian and Muslim people, both communities are considered in this study. The inhabitants of the selected areas were surveyed and interviewed to examine their life stories and day-to-day activities. Locally trained architects and professionals were also interviewed to have their thoughts about the present state of the city.

This information is combined with the researcher’s experiences of living within the selected areas to see how the place is used. The results of the data gathered show that the meaning of an urban place is defined by both similar and different factors within selected areas while socio-cultural relationships exist between different parts of Yazd. The results indicate that the city needs the existence of Historic, Old, and New fabrics because each section answers specific desires and daily needs of the locals. It is assumed that social studies of Iranian cities can contribute a new approach in investigating traditional Iranian urban places.

Researchers and urban designers argue that Iranian cities are on the periphery of losing their architectural and urban identities while facing modern urban problems because of inconsistent relevant procedures in analysing urban places, both traditional and new.

In the absence of this, some research has been done studying the physical forms of the cities. However, at the present time, the social studies have not been given serious consideration. This research attempts to fill this gap. This research concludes that in analysing traditional Iranian urban fabric, their social fabrics must be investigated using multiple social approaches.

Supervision team: Dr. Renée Tobe, Mr Roland Karthaus

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Hashem Taher: Vertical Green Systems as a way for Adapting Climate changes 2050 - 2080 It is expected that London will face increasing risks of flooding, overheating and drought, through hotter drier summers and warmer wetter winters. In response, the Mayor of London adopted new policies for encouraging the use of living roofs and green walls. Greenery systems are considered as promising solutions for improving energy and thermal efficiency of buildings as well as reducing pollution, encouraging biodiversity and water runoff, reducing Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects and improving the microclimate overall. The research aims to illustrate the potentials, limitations and impact of vertical greenery systems and green roofs on energy and thermal performance of buildings and urban heat island effect in temperate climates by 2050 and 2080. The research is undertaken through an extensive review of the literature and modelling and simulations of green walls and green roofs when used as a passive design strategy to enhance energy savings in buildings.

Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Prof. Darryl Newport

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PHD.1 Bertug Ozarisoy: The solar calculation of the building envelope between May and September within adjacent buildings of base-case residential tower block development in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. PHD.2 Hashem Taher PHD.3 Wei Shi PHD.4-5 Fatemeh Rostami

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