BSc Architecture Year 1

FIRST YEAR

Playful Thresholds

Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma, Reem Charif, Alan Chandler, Charlotte Harris, Toshiya Kogawa, Renee Tobe, Janet Insull

Playing with buildings This year, First Year Architecture was invited to collaborate with the V&A Museum of Childhood on a live project, which was focused on the theme ‘playful learning’.

Students designed and constructed a series of 1:1 prototypes that form the exhibition “Playing with Buildings” that opened at the Museum in February this year. This exhibition will run in the front room gallery of the Museum in Bethnal Green until March 2020.

Spaces for Playful Learning continued in term 2 as the overall theme for this year’s studies, with Bethnal Green the site for the main design project.

An exploration of playful thresholds The project started with a series of spatial explorations of thresholds; between bodies, between bodies and space. This extended into investigating the public galleries of the museum through a workshop with a performance artist, in which students tested threshold conditions with their own bodies. These physical sketches defined sites for intervention and inspired the designs for new threshold spaces for the museum that students subsequently constructed as prototypes at scale 1:1.

‘Schools are like cities’ (H. Hertzberger) Conversations and studies around the theme of thresholds and learning spaces were expanded in the field trips to London and Amsterdam, with visits to schools and educational spaces in both cities. In Amsterdam, Year 1 visited Hermann Hertzberger’s Apollo School, an outstanding example of a design that employs the concept of inhabited thresholds.

Client study After completing the installation of the exhibition at the V&A in early February, students facilitated 3 workshops with local primary schools, held at the museum, with the school pupils scrutinising, testing and expanding the students’ design ideas. This was an opportunity for them to directly engage with, and observe, their client for their forthcoming main design project.

Extended space for playful learning Inspired by the 1:1 prototypes, the ambition of term 2’s design project was to erode existing boundaries and the public conception and experience of the museum as an institution for learning. Students worked on one of three sites with differing proximity to the Museum of Childhood, designing a space for playful learning that mediates spatially and programmatically between the museum, and the local and wider community.

Students

Dahir Osman, Maria Zegheru, Jack Tunstall, Jydsen Ombao, Ciprian Luca, Harby Franco Fernandez, Lewis Curtis, Delrick Adikari, Busthana Nusren, Junicila Cardoso Santos De Oliveira, Ahmed Abuelmeaza, Sarah Alkhazraji, Tyler Mitchell, Riyad Hossain, Vukasin Radonjic, Mateusz Sass, Izaak Sallows, Pavlos Giannopoulos, Elena Laouini, Aya Nasr, Lewis Smith, Amna Zaidi, Ainsley Moffat, Rasa Kundrotaite, April Adrien-Greenwood, Dilnaz Mohammed, Vatsal Javiya, Marta Macczak, Arif Khalifah Khalid, Georgios Kastanidis, Georgia Hoggins, Saedan Sarah Bader I, Yulia Tanana, Christos-Foivos Papapostolou, Nauma Patel, Mourtada Baboukari, Muayad Tuma, Michael Ngam, Match Suet Fong, Alten Gomes, Ali Mohammed, Shuhada Binti Sabri, Czerrina Salayog, Haleema Ahmed, Mariam El Mouhahidi, Seyed Mohammad Ali Rezvani, Abdulmajiid Omar, Timothy Eves, Mahabub Alam, Muhammad Tawfik, Florentina-Nadina Ivanescu, Daniela Sarsoza , Rahat Kamal, Louis Linnemann, Aleksandra Hoffmann, Aliriza Arincioglu, Luke Milsom, Maria Guerra Moreno, Sumaya Sheikh-Ali, Mohammed Hamza Ahmad, Sue Hafizoglu, George Ionescu, Oscar Frith, Thomas Joy, Nazia Begum, Irina Orza, D’andre Clarke, Kiana Shokrani Chaharsoghi

Critis and Colaborators

V&A, Teresa Hare Duke, Thomas Haynes, Eliza Soroga, Aliki Kylika, Madeleine Waller, Jose DeMatos, Anat Talmor, Angus Morrogh-Ryan, Brian Hoy, Chris Stobbard, Takako Hasegawa, Yasar Shah, Shabnam Noor, Charles Brown Cole, Tomas Pohnetal, Sib Trigg, Craig Bamford, Will Lindley, Mo Woonyin Wong, Juan D’Ornelias, Anastasia Karandinou, Keita Tajima, Carsten Jungfer

Special thanks to:

Teresa Hare Duke and UEL workshop staff

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Previous page fy.00 Between You and Me, one to one drawing interpreting Medusa’s Raft fy.01 studying the body as a threshold condition fy.02 detail of threshold negotiations through drawings fy.03 group dynamics fy.04 new thresholds tested in the museum through body sketches fy.05 vertical crossings fy.06 Portals of the imagination fy.07 study drawing of the threshood between 2 spaces fy.08 mapping irregular objects at the 1:1 scale, inventing tools for recording.

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fy.09 Tap at the top ,1:1 device for transforming the Museum of Childhood trusses into a narrator or history fy.10 test model for Tap at the top fy.11Study Model for a curious maze for childhoog discovery. fy.12, Rattling Railings, 1:1 device for making the museum railings inviting fy.13 Study drawigns for Cadence, 1:1 device for revealing the hollow water tubes of the museum fy.14 Cadence fy.15 Using Cadence fy.16 Peek of childhood fy.17 Rattling Railings fy.18 Testing of Rattling Railings in time.

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fy.19 study models fy.20 proposal model for space for storytelling fy.21 study models fy.22 Maze. Exploded axonometric showing maze interior fy.23 axonometric of Age as a Gauge fy.24 Sectional axonometric of Peek of Childhood fy.25 Testing Peek of Childhood

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fy.26 1:10 study model Lotus Mirror fy.27 exploded axonometric of Lotus Mirror fy.28 Ergonomics of Lotus Mirror, testing the positions of a child and adult view point y.29 testing the unexpected views in the museum - collapsing ground and sky fy.30 Sound study of the Museum’s Atrium fy.31Rolling in time - 1:1 device for collective engagement to create rythms on the museum floor fy.32 Pieces for Rolling in time fy.33 Through the looking glass - a 1:1 space only for children protesting the museum’s adult rations

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fy.34 Bethnla Green site study: journeys to the Museum, Tom Joy fy.35 Study of the changing connections of the South London Gallery, Michael Ngam fy.36 Analysis of Horizon at Utrecht University Campus , Czerrina Salayog fy.37 Study of Playful Threshold at Apollo School Amsterdam, Rahat Kamal fy.38 Proposal studies, inspired by Wlamer Yard, Mateusz Sass fy.39 Comparing Apollo School thresholds with Hofjes in Amsterdam, Haleema Ahmed

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fy.40 Massing models, 3 interations, Mateusz Sass fy.41 Internal view of urban cabin - lasercut model, Mahabub Alam fy.42 Site study of spaces around the Museum, Mateusz Sass fy.43 Proposal collage, Mateusz Sass fy.44 Study model and collage, Riyad Hossain fy.45 Study model and proposal collage, Shuhada Binti Sabri fy.46 Proposal sketches for Space for playful learning, Mateusz Sass fy.47 Proposal collage, Rahat Kamal fy.48 Propositional urban section, Rahat Kamal,

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