UEL Architecture Yearbook 2012 by UEL Architecture

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aceuel architecture yearbook 2012 aceuel architecture - university of east london

olympic lectures olympic context ecobuild - table project

Design Robert Thum & Unit Staff & AVA Architecture Students

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Production Robert Thum & Unit Staff www. semiautomatik.com

Editor Robert Thum & Christoph Hadrys

showcase edition May 2012 University of East London School of Architecture and the Visual Arts Dockland Campus E16 2RD www.uel.ac.uk

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diploma technical & professional studies masters in architecture MA interpretation & theories MSc computing & design MA sustainability & design MA urban design MA landscape architecture research

Introduction

Making East London 2012

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Olympic Lectures

London 2012: Beyond the Spectacle Discussing the intentions, impact and legacy of the Olympic Games

ORGANISATION Hwei Fan Liang

SPEAKERS John Lock Mark Brearley Eleanor Fawcett Tom Holbrook Alison Crawshaw

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Olympic Context Stratford High Street and its People Urszula Markiewicz-Sagar Urszula is a 5th year Diploma student. The text is an extract from her essay and photography work in the MA Urban Design Theory class.

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Ecobuild - Table Project

First Year- First Semester Open Studio Table Project extends to Ecobuild Re-Take on Make OPEN STUDIO STAFF Reem Charif Eva Hauck Kristina Hertle Rob Houmoller Jake Moulson David Phillips Jim Ross Alexander Veal

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The “Cyclobine” is a mechanical device made from found objects and recyclable materials (such as: an old bicycle, wooden chair frames, tires, a hose reel and used timber) that aims to collect and produce usable energy by man-power, whilst simultaneously providing exercise for the user; power can also be collected by wind when it is not in human use. As it is peddled (or wind turned), the “Cyclobine” rotates, generating mechanical energy which is stored in a battery; when placed in a public locations, this electrical energy can be accessed and used in different way, from personal devices such as charging phones and mp3 players to social devices such as ¿lm projectors or lighting that can address a group of people. As such, the “Cyclobine” acts as a social device that coincidentally engages people when generating energy or tapping electricity from the battery. There are many further possibilities offered by “Cyclobine’ when adding new parts or removing some elements from its main body. These ‘evolutions’ transform the mechanical device to adapt to new surroundings and environments, including: providing an extra source of light in public areas at night, creating an outdoor cinema when powering a projector, or turning a lawn into a dance Àoor when extended as a music box. Placed in the landscape, the “Cyclobine” could take on a poetic dimension by becoming a planting device that plays music. The edges of the wheel will have containers attached which carry different kinds of seeds, water, soil and fertilizer. Each time the wheel turns these will be dispersed and future Àowers or trees will be planted. At the same time, music will be played, encouraging the user to keep pedaling. List of materials used: 1 antique chair in pieces 5 sheets of plywood 3 timber pallets 3 used car fan belts 150 wood screws 1 container strong PVA 4 telephone handles

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Extending Memories: Museum of Childhood Extension, Bethnal Green

UNIT STAFF Reem Charif Jake Moulson

STUDENTS Golbahar Adib, Misbah Ahmed, Katie Elizabeth Andrews, Houda Basma. Yaprak Cetinkaya, Karolina Czyrko, Enes Dizdarevic, Michael Eleftheriades, Sara Erfantalab-Evini, Klevi Farruku, Spencer William Gadsby, Kent Gin, Melina Grigoriadou, Alinaqui Hudda, Syed Imam, Talha Junaid Siddiqu, Amar Farouq Kamaruddin, Nicole Landazuri, Aimon Litinas, Farid Mahmood, Nicoleta Marin, Carina Mendes, Esmail Miah, Niki Michael Farhia Mohamed, Samuel Nicholls, Margarita - Marina Pantelaki, Vasileios Sempsis, Alexander Siedlarek, Cindy Silva Pereira, Chrysoula Theodorou, Dishav Vasudev VISITING CRITICS Maya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan. SPECIAL THANKS TO Carolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, David Phillips, Paula Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee.

Previous Pages: Kent Gin - Sound Chambers: exploring notions of interiority and locality through the sonic landscape of the city.

Below and opposite page lower section Katie Elizabeth Andrews - The Unknown Above: A space to escape to and escape from; a childhood museum as a space for curiousity and familiarity.

Michael Eleftheriades- Memory Space: Shifting Shadow Grids. Below: Carina Medness - Calm Islands: Rethinking Bethnal Green Gardens right: Samuel Nicolls - Memory Space: learning through light.

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Extending memories Museum of Childhood Extension Bethnal Green

UNIT STAFF Kristina Hertel, Rob Houmoller STUDENTS Nasser Ahmad, Mehdi Ahmed, Mohtasham Bahadur, Idrees Baig, Jonas Brazys, Jackie Buachie, Savvas Charalambous, Iliyas Demirci, Lauretta Doku, Faqeer Fakir, Mary Folorunso, Michalis Georgiou, Hakan Gulesin, Akin Gurung, Hassan Harandi, Abu Hussain, Becky Jackson, Ilir Kabashi, Ina Kanazireva, Haroon Khan, Mary King, Eleni Korovesi, Jamal Mahmood, Joshua McDermott, Momin Miah, Airydas Mikalajunas, Chido Mutongwizo, Muharrem Oral, Maria Paraskevopoulou, Jazel Parkinson Actil, Sonja Rajaratnam, Ashfaaqali Sumodhee, Rahul Sunil Mirpuri, Filippos Tympas, Konstantinos Vatanidis

Opposite page, top: Konstantinos Vatanidis: conceptual collage of inbetween spaces, realisation of limits. Below: Eleni Korovesi: memory space drawing, “roof above roof collage”. Above: Konstantinos Vatanidis: mapping use of inbetween spaces. Proposal axo and section and model: extending conventional, and unpredictable spaces. Below: Eleni Korovesi: happy and sad spaces section, proposal models.

VISITING CRITICS Maya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan

SPECIAL THANKS TO Carolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, David Phillips, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, Paola Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee

Top, midle: Jonas Brazys, conceptual collage: â&#x20AC;&#x153;breaking throughâ&#x20AC;?, Proposal section, layered plan, timber model. Below left: Sonja Rajaratnam: study RI UHĂ&#x20AC;HFWHG VSDFH DERYH DQG EHORZ ground, collage and sketch models

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Extending Memories: Museum of Childhood Extension Bethnal Green Titel of the unit programme [SUBTITLE YB2012]

UNIT STAFF Eva Hauck Alexander Veal STUDENTS Marina Ahmadi, Ruth Joyce Akinmoladun, Khadija Athman, Seyed Alborz Bathaei Bozcheloue, Iwona Ewa Bednarek, Marie Braithwaite, Joseph Buchanan, Richard Cooke, Raghav Dixit, Sophie Dowding, Onur Emek, Matthew Fallow¿eld-Cooper, Josh Funnell, Farooq Ghani, Esteban Grajales, Sinem Gurgur, Liang Liang He, Anastasia Iliaki, Isuf Kajo, Gulsen Karpazli, Paula Kielczykowska, Frederice Koch, Hekuran Kokaj, Josephine Lyne, Rajib Manandhar, Abu Miah, Suruj Miah, Aslihan Ozer, Daniel Rolando Pilaquinga Teran, Paresh Sanghani, Kanval Sayadain, Andreas Shelis, Mark Stergios, Pratikchha Thapa, Aleksandr Vasjutin, Tiffany Maria Waddill, Joseph James Woollard

opposite page and below: Aleksandr Vasjutin above: Raghav Dixit

VISITING CRITICS Maya Cochrane, Quintin Lake, Sharon Lifsha, Greg Sheng, Keita Tajima, Ramsey Yassa, Raphael Lee, Stathis Lagoudakis, Colin O’Sullivan SPECIAL THANKS TO Carolyn Bloore and the V&A Museum of Childhood, Maya Cochran, Janet Insull, Isaac Cobo i Displas, David Phillips, Paola Leonardi, Angela Ford, Jim Ross, Raphael Lee

this page: Marie Braithwaite opposite page above: Liang Liang He opposite page middle: Matthew Fallow多eld-Cooper opposite page below: Frederice Koch

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Computing and Representation in Architecture

UNIT STAFF Janet Insull Isaac Cobo Displas

Level 1 students used an industry standard computer program as a guide to drawing the plan and a section of the Victoria and Albert 0XVHXP RI &KLOGKRRG LQ %HWKQDO *UHHQ 7KHVH ' GUDZLQJV ZHUH WKHQ printed out and used to test and develop their proposals for an extension to the museum. Though other workshops students were also introduced to layout and image manipulation programs to present and further enhance their projects. Students also ventured into 3D with the museum site to create sun studies.

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The Inside Out House - City Thresholds Reykjavik, Iceland UNIT STAFF Magnea Gudmundsdottir Mark Smith STUDENTS Vaida Drungilaite, Niki Okala, Saifur Rahmen, Anita Tulaite, Ioanna Drakaki, Yagmur Yildirim, Anthi Tilliri, Moksud Khan, Robin Philpot, Darryl Nganjo, Nakul Jilka, Konstantina Panagiotidou, Liam Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Riordan, Manpreet Bhooi, Sara Islam, Yasir Ahmed, Vera Emiowele, Georgios Georgopoulos, Anna Owusu, Gergana Yotova, Angela Chatzisavva, Tabea Stroehle, Andrej Bozin, Iulia Ioana Stefan, Sevtap Polat, Khusnud Shah, Aleksejus Ragovskis, Yasir Hasnain, Sandeep Parmar.

VISITING CRITICS Gregory Ross, Sigridur Torfadottir Tulinius, Mo Wong, Chris Thom, Maria Lisogorskaya, Hana Loftus, Peter Carl, Chris Storie-Mendez. SPECIAL THANKS TO Alex Scott Whitby, Gardur Snaebjornsson, Alex Arestis.

Unit A is interested in places and developing an understanding of a place through close observation and drawing. Walking, drawing and discussion are the tools the unit uses to develop the seeds of an understanding of or approach to a place. The unit has taken inspiration from George Perecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essay Species of Spaces and believes that close, perhaps even obsessive attention to the seemingly ordinary can lead to a profound understanding of city or place. The unit attempts to allow a strategy for intervention surface through careful analytical drawing, drawing that implies intervention. These part analytical, part propositional drawings become the touch stone for work at all scales from strategy to detail. This will lead to architecture and urbanism that is a coherent part of the city at many scales. The unit worked initially in The Stade in Hastings on the south coast of Britain. 7KH 6WDGH LV D ZRUNLQJ Ă&#x20AC;VKLQJ EHDFK FORVH WR WKH KLVWRULF ROG WRZQ 7KH strikingly tall net huts are the back drop for an awkward mix of working life and visitor interest. It is this tension that the unit sought to investigate and work with, revealing the edges and boundaries between these uses of the space. The result is equally likely to be a building, a public space, a strategy for the future or a new name for a market space. The major bulk of the work this year is focussed on the old harbour of Reykjavik, Iceland. The old harbour, like The Stade, is in decline and therefore is increasingly playing an awkward role as a host to a haphazard mix of LQGXVWU\ WRXULVP DQG FXOWXUH 7KH ODFN RI GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWLRQ OHDGV WR D VODFNQHVV RI VSDFH ZLWK KDUG WR GHĂ&#x20AC;QH LQEHWZHHQ VSDFHV DQG HGJHV WR ZRUN ZLWK $ORQJ with the harbourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor relationship to the wider city this will be the focus of the units work. 7KH SURMHFWV VHHN WR Ă&#x20AC;UVW XQGHUVWDQG ZKDW WKH KDUERXU LV ZLWKRXW PDNLQJ value judgements about the nature of the spaces and uses found within WKHP 7KH REVHUYDWLRQV DQG GUDZLQJV Ă&#x20AC;UVW YDOXH DQG XQGHUVWDQG WKH H[LVWLQJ condition before using this understanding to propose intervention. Much of the work is focussed on revealing and working with edge spaces, lack of connection and spaces between uses which have the potential to generate friction.

Unit A, Gulfoss, Iceland

First site analysis, looking at high streets in Reykjavik, Aleksejus Ragovskis

Site analysis informing strategy on Hastings Àeet of beach-launched ¿shing boats, Vaida Drungilaite

Proposed new Reykjavik high street in declining area of the ¿shing industry, Aleksejus Ragovskis

In-between spaces, ¿shing net shops in Hastings, Gergana Yotova

The old Reykjavik dry dock is becoming integral with the touristic area by the harbour, photo: Moksud Khan

Left: Internal view of steel structure accommodating touristic and industrial facilities by the harbour, Konstantina Panagiotidou Right: Internal view from a seaside swimming pool, Anthi Tilliri

Seaside swimming pool, Anthi Tilliri

Site analysis on disconnected residential neigbourhood from the harbour, Moksud Khan Steel structure accommodating touristic and industrial facilities by the harbour, Konstantina Panagiotidou

Area strategy laying foundations for new neighbourhood by the harbour and connecting residential neighbourhood with pathways and crossings, Moksud Khan

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Culture Industry, Bethnal Green, London

UNIT STAFF David Bass, Raphael Lee STUDENTS Level 3 Shin-jae Bahk, Luke Bushnell-Wye, Jesus del Toro, Andreas Diakomanolis, Claudio Dikizeko, Robert Gillan, Rebecca Goldie, Cora Granier, Rory Hughes, Fabien Mitchell, Stylianos Oikonomou, Vasco Pereira Raposo, Helen Richardson-Crespo, Oyeyinka Richer, Jehoshaphat Sarfo-Duah Level 2 Sara al Turaihi, Qendresa Avdiu, Milena Dellacasa, Ali Baran Dilegelen, Angeliki Fouka, Eleni Gavrili, Paulina Huukari, Aaron Jones, Jeremy Knight, Baptiste Laversanne, Jim Rooney, Theodor Sarbu, Janis Stepins, Irena Stoeva, Kamila Szpakowska

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SPECIAL THANKS TO Step Haiselden (TALL Structural Engineers); Dr Carolyn Bloore and Robert Moye at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green; Renee Tobe, Mark Hayduk, Michele Roelofsma, Isaac Cobo, Janet Insull and all our colleagues at ACE; David Morgan; Stellan Fryxell (Tengbom) and many others in Stockholm; and numerous people, charities and organisations around Bethnal Green

previous pages - Museum of Childhood timber models (left to right): Irena Stoeva, Elenie Gavrili, Kamila Szpakowska, Stylianos Oikonomou, Rory Hughes, Janis Stepins, [Milena Dellacasa] previous page (main image) - Rory Hughes’ cloister of modest, linear volumes under a gently folded roof wraps around a garden. The building defers to the listed facade and to its neighbours this page - timber models (above): Baptiste Laversanne; (below left to right): [Milena Dellacasa], Andreas Diakomanolis, Qendresa Avdiu, Fabien Mitchell, Jehoshaphat Sarfo-Duah, Cora Granier, Aaron Jones this page (above) - Finding parallels between the old silk-weaving areas of Lyon and Bethnal Green, Baptiste Laversanne worked with a Lyonnais topography of traboules, to make a space of galleried passerelles and stairs this page (centre) - Cora Granier’s study of children’s perception and of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder led to a gently subsiding version of one of the Museum’s bays. Within this paradoxical space she places a form of “wendy house”

this page - timber models (top to bottom): Angeliki Fouka, Helen Richardson-Crespo, Luke BushnellWye, Paulina Huukari this page (above) - Angeliki Fouka’s “shark kebab” layers a canopied terrace RYHU D À RDWLQJ LQGLUHFWO\ OLW JDOOHU\ this page (centre) - Helen RichardsonCrespo’s gallery derives from wartime Anderson shelters, but looks outwards this page (below) - Inspired by the East End’s anarchist heritage, Paulina Huukari’s Kropotkin Culture House addresses the adjacent park with a screen and a public lecture room

above - Rory Hughes: interior views of clock-tower for The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

this page - The English breakfast was an important aspect of intangible cultural heritage for Andreas Diakomanolis. He altered and extended an old warehouse building to create a breakfast restaurant, butcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, smokery and art spaces for St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;nose-totail eatingâ&#x20AC;? business, slotting into the hybrid artistic community of Vyner Street, and recycling materials found locally

left (above) - Robert Gillan: schematic of spatial provision for Art Against .QLYHV LQFRUSRUDWLQJ ZRUNVKRS RIÂżFH and exhibition spaces in converted warehouse premises to the left, services and circulation in centre, and artist-inresidence tower to right left (centre) - Robert Gillan: section through connecting building, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;towerâ&#x20AC;? in background left (below) - Robert Gillan: sequence of construction for structural alterations to warehouse building

degree unit c UNIT STAFF Clara Kraft Isono Satoshi Isono STUDENTS Annalize Butler, Yagiz Cemberci, Panoraia Dimaki, Ayoub El-Ghaoubar NoahEvans, Julia Hedander Konstantinos Iasonidis, Maria Ilia Noora Kassinen, Sonia Moundounga Baker Nsimbi, Ilias Siametis Anja Sylvester, Maria Tzampazidou Chun Ping Yong, Leman Zlatkova, Maxim Wesolowski Daniel Bovington, Sandra Gavelyte Cuc (Ping)Hoa Hin, Adrian Lee Hardeep Matharoo, Suzie Noel Ambrose Obiorah, Alexandru Shaba Dimitar Solenkov, Vitali Stanila Terukazu Takatori, Leong Lai Tieng Arthur Trieu VISITING CRITICS Isaac Cobo I Displas (UEL) Christoph Hadrys (UEL) Eva Hauck (UEL) Amita Kulkarni & Vikrant Tike (Studio Amita Vikrant) Guan Lee (Grymsdyke Farm) Declan Molloy (O Maoildhia Architecture) Michael Spooner (dRMM) Manos Zaroukas (UEL) COLLABORATIONS Grymsdyke Farm Digital Fabrication Workshop; Guan Lee, Jessie Lee, Emu Masuyama CETAR Rammed Earth and Adobe Workshop; LluĂs Auquer FrĂ mis, Maria Auquer Sarda, Mariana Mas, Mohamed Ouzadouh SPONSORSHIP Wieneberger Ltd. SPECIAL THANKS TO All the above guest critics and Jessie Lee (Buckinghamshire), Maria Auquer Sarda (Rupia), Marita Gomis (Barcelona), George Voniatis (UEL) www.unitc11.blogspot.co.uk

Applying the Borrowed 7KH XQLW FHQWHUV RQ WKH PDNLQJ RI EXLOGLQJ SURWRW\SHV DW VFDOH WKDW are developed through digital fabrication and casting to investigate an architecture that can be self-built. We begin by studying innovative construction precedents to initiate the GHVLJQ RI D XQLTXH EXLOGLQJ HOHPHQW 2XU UHVHDUFK FRPPHQFHV ZLWK WKH VWXG\ RI IRXU DUFKLWHFWV DQG WKHLU FRQVWUXFWLRQ PHWKRGV (ODGLR 'LHVWHÂˇV *DXVVLDQ YDXOW FRQVWUXFWLRQ LQ UHLQIRUFHG EULFN $OYDU $DOWRÂˇV EHVSRNH EULFN GHVLJQ IRU +HOVLQNL +RXVH RI &XOWXUH 0LJXHO )LVDFÂˇV VLWH FDVW SRVW WHQVLRQHG FRQFUHWH HOHPHQWV DQG /DXULH %DNHUÂˇV ORZ FRVW EULFN DUFKLWHFWXUH LQ .HUDOD ,QGLD 7KHVH VWXGLHV ORRN LQ GHWDLO DW KRZ WKH DUFKLWHFWÂˇV LGHDV DUH GHYHORSHG VSDWLDOO\ H[SUHVVHG PDWHULDOO\ DQG SHUIRUP VWUXFWXUDOO\ Scale 1:1 Building Prototypes The discovered building methodology is used as an initial design tool to LQIRUP DOWHUQDWLYH PHWKRGV RI IDEULFDWLRQ DQG DVVHPEO\ ZKLFK DUH WHVWHG LQ WKH FRQVWUXFWLRQ RI SURWRW\SHV 7KH SURWRW\SHV DUH GHYHORSHG LQ D series of fabrication workshops where CNC milling technology is used to create moulds from which the prototypes are cast. Initially all prototypes are cast in plaster to allow for expedient production and assembly. 0DWHULDO WHVWLQJ LQ FRQFUHWH DGREH DQG FOD\ DUH FDUULHG RXW WKURXJK hands-on workshops where students learn a variety of fabrication skills such as clay slip-casting and adobe brick making. Unit trip and Site The unit traveled to Spain and visited exceptional examples of both contemporary and traditional brick construction in the Catalan region. 7KH LWLQHUDU\ LQFOXGHG /OXtV 0XQFXQLOOÂˇV 7H[WLOH )DFWRU\ LQ 7HUUDVD DQG $QWRQLR %RQHWÂˇV 9LOOD /D 5LFDUGD %DUFHORQD DV ZHOO DV carefully restored Catalan vault examples in 18th century Masias in the DUHD RI *LURQD ZKHUH RXU VLWH ZDV 7KH VPDOO PHGLHYDO WRZQ RI 5XSLD was selected due to its tradition in brick manufacturing and construction. $ KDQGV RQ EXLOGLQJ ZRUNVKRS ZLWK ORFDO DUFKLWHFW /OXLV $XTXHU )UDPLV introduced students to current aspirations in using locally sourced clay for the construction of affordable adobe architecture in the area. Scale 1:20 Building Models In the resolution of the project students were asked to explore their XQLTXH EXLOGLQJ V\VWHP LQ D VHULHV RI ODUJH VFDOH PRGHOV 3DUWLFXODU focus was given to the completion of an original and effective building WHFKQLTXH WKDW UHVSRQGV WR WKH ORFDO DUFKLWHFWXUDO FXOWXUH

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Scale 1:20 Building Models; 1. Community Square Maria Ilia 2. Seasonal Community Space Julia Hedander 3. Rupia Open Air Theatre Ambrose Obiorah 4. San Esteban Nursery Alexandru Shaba 5. Textile Dyeing Workshops Sandra Gavelyte 6. Ceramic Workshops Terukazu Takatori 7. Adobe Workshops Maxim Wesolowski 8. Organic Farmers Association School Adrian Lee 9. Community Centre and Garden Noah Evans 10. Al Fresco Catalan Restaurant Leong Lai Tieng 11. Open Air Cinema and Theatre Panoraia Dimaki 12. Artist Retreat Noora Kassinen 13. School of Innovative Brick Construction Arthur Trieu

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UNIT STAFF Bruce Irwin Dinah Bornat STUDENTS Mimi Abazi, Becky Boese Zoe Chavali, Maria Damianidou (OLDV *DWRV 6RÂż D ,FKWLDURJORX Nikos Karagiannis, Alina Ometita Sara Portioli, Raluca Serban Maria Theodorou, Maria Vavritsa Pavlos Vranas Steas, Rade Vukcevic Anna Zacharaki, Po Xue Isaac Zhang Sanjula Amarasekara, Maria Barroso Ilias Chatziioannidis, Alba Daja Balazs Endrodi, Kristina Fescenko Erik Grisins, Natalija Janovica Evridiki Kontomari, Matilda Marku Viktorija Misiunaite, Kiren Modi Kenny Obisesan, Riaz Patel Laurette Pratt VISITING CRITICS Rachel Cruise, Jim Ross, Marianne Christiansen, David Philips Gavin Hutchison (Hutchison Kivotos) Andy Puncher (PH plus architects) Helen Roberts (Feilden Clegg Bradley) Jane Bhoyroo (Arts Council Collection) Raf Lee, Hwei Fan Liang, Isaac Cobo, Janet Insull, Gennady VasilchenkMalishev SPECIAL THANKS TO Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Arts Council Collection, Helen Forman (Homes and Communities Agency), & Christine Wade

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Top Line: Leeds Rail Statio, Unit ' RQ WKH URDG WR :DNHÂżHOG %DOD]V Endrodi. Centre: Sketchbook and Process Book, Natalija Janovica; Interior 3HUVSHFWLYDO 6NHWFK :DNHÂżHOG Sculpture Centre, Alba Daja Below: Kirkgate Railway Platform, Mimoza Abazi; Kirkgate Street View, Alba Daja

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Wilderness on the edge of town

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UNIT STAFF Hwei Fan Liang Claude Saint-Arroman STUDENTS Paul Bangerter, Craig Bernstein, Mavrick Barton-Ellis, Alexandra Freire-Lema, Maciej Hofman, Sagal Muhumed, Jalil Nayim, Nicolaus Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, Ishan Patel, Jolita Prusaityte, Daniel Dos Anjos Rosa, Amer Salha, Charlene Tan, Leopoldine Van Daalen Claudine Acquaye, Emmanuel Adesope, Arash Aghapour Ali Abad, Charlotte Calver, Adewale Gisanrin, David Gogo, Mansour Haghighi, Ishaq Ali Hasan Zadeh, Ndeke Imobala, 9DOHQWLQ 0DVDKLU 6KDÂżD 0DVDKLU Defne Ozturk, Suman Sehmar, Rozhgar Muhammed SPECIAL THANKS TO Lindsay Collier, Rose Jaijee, Jay Gort, Ian Troake, Shahid Hussain, Will Lindley, Lucy Thomas, Simon Murray, Raphael Lee, Mirsad Krasniqi, Jayden Ali, Nenad Djordjevic, Gudarz Riyahi.

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The character of the valley is pastoral, wild, in places magical, made of remnants, memory and curiosity - with woods and marshes, industry alongside domestic canal boats, man-made recreation grounds, allotments, roaring roads and forgotten corners.

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The increasing priority of issues of resource management, waste and energy provides the future context for us to speculate on a localised, human scale of utilities and services that might allow a reconnection between people and necessary infrastructure. We look for ways of harnessing QDWXUDO SURFHVVHV WKDW EHQHÂżW WKH FLW\ÂśV metabolism. We studied precedents both in London and in the postindustrial landscape of the Ruhr Valley for inspiration as to the potential qualities of these structures, as well as seeking to exploit their role within an occupied architecture.

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As well as the boundaries that exist at the scale of the valley, both sites present a localised set of boundaries and edge conditions - both physically and in existing programme. Understanding edges as an opportunity, and boundaries as a site for occupation, we explored the role of these edges as the point of interface through which we relate to the world, investigating openness, enclosure and porosity of boundaries. We speculate to a future where building, infrastructure and ecology combine to create an architecture concerned with human experience, at the edge where city and landscape meet.

Each student developed an individual programme that engaged with the local community, and an element of infrastructural process that serves the local area. These proposals are explored through temporal cycles of day and night, seasons, local development and climate change; framed in a historical and future narrative.

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Faster, Lighter, Greener

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VISITING CRITICS Rhys Cannon, Greg Ross Woonyin Won, Jim Ross SPECIAL THANKS TO Hwei Fan Liang, Claude St Arroman, Raphael Lee Hilary Peachey Joseph from Velo Club de Londres

/LJKWHU WKH UHĂ&#x20AC;QHPHQW RI PDWHULDOV IRUPV DQG SURFHVVHV RI PDNLQJ combined to produce functionally lighter architectures. Greener - Lightweight minimum energy structures encourage the HIĂ&#x20AC;FLHQW XVH RI PDWHULDOV DQG SURWHFW GLPLQLVKLQJ QDWXUDO UHVRXUFHV :H LQYHVWLJDWHG KRZ Â´IDVWHU OLJKWHU JUHHQHU DUFKLWHFWXUHÂľ FDQ FRQWULEXWH WR HFRQRPLFDO DQG HQYLURQPHQWDO VXVWDLQDELOLW\ 2XU VLWH ZDV WKH IRUPHU 2O\PSLF 9HORGURPH LQ +HUQH +LOO 6RXWK (DVW /RQGRQ ,W LV WKH ODVW UHPDLQLQJ Ă&#x20AC;QDOV YHQXH IURP WKH 2O\PSLF *DPHV ,W ZDV EXLOW LQ DQG ZDV IRU PDQ\ \HDUV WKH FHQWUH RI 6RXWK (DVW (QJODQGÂˇV WUDFN UDFLQJ FLUFXLW The unit investigated the Velodrome through extensive surveys of its decayed existing infrastructure in relation to the activities that currently take place on the site. These investigations revealed the historic layers RI WKH WUDFN VXUIDFH KLGGHQ SRFNHW VSDFHV WKH VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW FROOHFWLRQ of bicycles and a variety of textural conditions and hidden accesses. These elements and their temporal conditions accompanied by a lack of facilities and the demand of a growing body of users encouraged us to envisage possible scenarios for localised facilities and community based programmes. :H ZHUH LQVSLUHG E\ H[SORUDWLRQV LQWR PDWHULDOV DQG IDEULFDWLRQ WHFKQLTXHV to explore architectural componentry as well as their spatial implications. 7KH SURFHVV RI PDNLQJ KDV EHHQ WHVWHG WKURXJK SK\VLFDO PRGHOV DQG WKH process of un-making through drawing.

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Bottom, Historical building survey, Lawrence Chiu.

Top, Climbing wall, Bradley Roast. Middle and below, Cyclocross viewing Pavilion, Zuo Bin Goh. Bottom, Lighting study, Olga Lucko.

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Below, VĂŠlodrome de Vincennes, Paris.

Top and middle, Lighting proposal, Olga Lucko.

Photographed by Bradley Roast.

Bottom, Inline Skate Park interior, Lawrence Chiu.

Top and below, Velocinema, Ewelina Bogusz. Middle, Bicycle Museum, Zuo Bin Goh. Bottom, Inline Skate Park, Lawrence Chiu.

Above, VeloMarket, Muna Abdallah. Top left, BMX Park, Tiziana Binjaku Middle, Bicycle Museum, Zuo Bin Goh. Below, Unit trip to the Lingotto Fiat Factory, Turin.

degree level 2 and level 3 Computing and Representation in Architecture

UNIT STAFF Janet Insull Isaac Cobo Displas STUDENTS Unit A Unit B Unit C Unit D Unit G Unit H

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diploma unit 3

the space of waiting

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UNIT STAFF Mark Hayduk and Isaac Cobo i Displas STUDENTS MArch Yoshifumi Hamagami Level 5 Ana Abascal Crespo, Nancy Antoniou, Elena Blanco, Sarah Bland, Laura Feroldi, Maliha Haque, Martinos Panayides, Gudarz Riyahi, Oliver Sprague, Ricardo Rodrigues Ferreira, Yuki Taniguchi, Moeko Yamagata Level 4 Nenad Djordjevic, Fiona Layugan-Caliboso, Yosuke Nakano, Orlaith Ryan, Shoji Tamura, Chiaki Tanaka, Maud Tisserant, Bhavika Varsani, Maija Viksne

The theme for diploma3 this year was the ‘The Space of Waiting’, a theme which encouraged an openness towards an exploration of space in relation to both time and absence; also as a conceptual ground for projects set in two frontier towns along the Costa Brava, that of Cerbère, France and Portbou, Spain. Cerbère and Portbou are in a critical moment of their paired history. These are two remarkable yet strange towns. Towns who have an extraordinary cultural history, yet whose existence to a large part is due to a rail track gauge dimensional difference of 233mm, between that of Spain and the rest of Europe. Two towns that have lived in the shadow of inordinatly large rail stations and yards, which are becoming increasingly redundant due to developments in train technology and the relaxation of border controls. diploma3 worked in the heart of these towns and on the edge between town and railyard, engaging with a collection of abandoned buildings and an intent on developing an architecture which both is both sensitive to the found quality of place as well as contributes positively to their public realm, suggesting a way IRUZDUG LQ WKHVH GLIÀFXOW WLPHV www.diploma3.com

VISITING CRITICS Elizabeth Adams, Phillipa Battye, Etienne Clement, Elden Croy, Thomas Decker, Konstantinos Evangeliou, Toku Oba, Alex Stevens, Phillip Wells, Ndu Wodu SPECIAL THANKS TO Jan Liebe and Stefan Zimmerli Roberto Pajares (London) Paolo Brambilla (Como) Men Duri Arquint, Luigi Snozzi and Raphael Zuber (Switzerland) COAC Culture Department (Girona) Xavier Barranco, Trino Martinez, Jordi Rimblas, Josep Lluis Salas (Portbou) Asun Navarro, Maria Moutot (Cerbère)

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diploma unit 5

UNIT STAFF Carl Callaghan with Iris Argyropoulou STUDENTS Vahid Farmani Constantia Bredaki, Marialena Bredaki Andi Fatkoja, James Grammenos Ewan Green, Dimitris Gyftopoulos Savvas Havatzias, Stavroula Ioannou Triantafyllenia Kriemadi, Natali Pick Wen Wei Siow, Xenia Stefanaki, Petar Uzelac, Ausra Sulcaite Vizgirdiene, Seow Ling Yeoh, Mehrak Zabihi Suleman Hussain, Ben James Maria Kargioti, Marios Lampouras Georgia Maria Maragoudaki Chrysoula Psarrou, Ioanna Tzikou Constantinos Spatharis Eirini Viaropoulou VISITING CRITICS David Connearn John Glew Catherine Phillips Anna Tenow Soraya Baharum Phoebe Padley Gavin Ramsey TECHNICAL INPUT Anna Wai Price and Myers Kevin Williams Price and Myers Deon Fourie Workshop

Growth and Symbiosis Weymouth beyond the Olympics The town of Weymouth in Dorset, host of the 2012 Olympic sailing events, is located in a landscape of three extraordinary geological formations comprising Weymouth Bay, Chesil Beach and the Island of Portland, where 7VY[SHUK Z[VUL PZ X\HYYPLK 0[ ILNHU SPML HZ H Ă&#x201E;ZOPUN ]PSSHNL I\[ KLYP]LZ its beautiful Georgian seafront from the 18th century when it became a royal seaside resort. Famous for sailing and a thriving tourist industry, it lacks housing, employment and local recreation facilities. How can the international coverage of the Olympics help to enhance this beautiful and remote location? Growth and Symbiosis can be complementary or opposing tendencies. The unit set out to explore explore the poetic possibilities within the relationship between architecture and landscape in the context of the regeneration of Weymouth. We established three regeneration areas in Weymouthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ferry terminal promontory, on an old army base on the world heritage site of Chesil beach and in the village of Fortuneswell, at the connection of Chesil beach and Portland. These sites raised the issue of how the fragile landscape could be occupied without destroying it. Site investigations looked at the historical evolution of the architectural fabric and topography, leading to a masterplan for each area. Our strategies aimed to regenerate the sites taking into account scale, density and urban connection and the evolution of buildings related to old fragments, and we explored new systems of architecture and their relation to the existing fabric and landscape. More generally, we looked at how growth in natural systems can inform our design thinking and feed into our architecture and technical studies to encourage a new synergy between the natural and built worlds. At the core of this study is the gradual evolution of the relationship between architecture, landscape and community. We studied the formation of existing natural and man-made topographies, relating them to the themes of growth and symbiosis, looking to develop a new coexistence between architecture and a landscape damaged by quarrying and its related activities.

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In Fortuneswell, the topography has been built up in layers transformed through a process of shifts, rotations, folds and erosion. Many of these layers record plant and animal organisms in the fossils. The ferry terminal in Weymouth is built on reclaimed land, while the Chesil beach site is relatively untouched apart from the army base. We aimed to situate the process of growth on each site in an understanding of contemporary architecture and climate. On H Ä LSK [YPW [V 9VTL Z[\KLU[Z SVVRLK H[ [OL YLSH[PVU VM [V^U WSHUUPUN and architecture to public spaces. The theme of platforms and landscape recurred in many places including Hadrian’s Villa, the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and in city centre public spaces such as the Spanish Steps, the Capitoline Hill and the Piazza del Popolo. We looked in some detail at the Girasole apartment building by Luigi Moretti and the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Francesco Borromini. Students developed projects for living, working and leisure, deriving Z[YH[LNPLZ MYVT [OL THZ[LYWSHU 9VTL Z[\KPLZ HUK \UP[ IYPLMZ PUJS\KPUN H -LYY` ;LYTPUHS /V\ZPUN HUK )PV[LJO 9LZLHYJO 3HIVYH[VYPLZ ;OL WYVQLJ[Z ZL[ \W JVUZ[Y\J[PVU Z`Z[LTZ YLSH[LK [V ZP[L HUK JVU[L_[ TVKPÄ LK I` internal demands of programme, site geometry and layering.

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Oceanography Research Centre, Fortuneswell Esplanade Exploded axonometric; laboratory interior with views out into the village; laboratory and teaching room entrances from a new public space in the village Seow Ling Yeoh

New Ferry Terminal, Weymouth View from the ferry arriving in the fog Interior perspective, passenger hall Andi Fatkoja

diploma unit 7

Architectural seed and the poetics of space

UNIT STAFF Michele Roelsfma, Kristian Garrecht STUDENTS Choon Hong Low Reuben Barker Will Tang Carrie Beasley Olivia Clarke Danny Kay Duod Davud Farzullayev Dayantha Siriwardene Shi Wei Michelle Angelique Price Clara Gunnarsdóttir Nick Chapman Kathryn Pedley Max Turner Muzzammil Dadabhoy Mitesh Patel Maria Eliza Papaioannou Calista Oppon Nikolaos Isaakidis Jasneet Rattan Simona Grimaldi Viktors Catanovs Gassim Abdeldaim Tania Pascoal Lucia Martinez Chris Kalavashoti Mariana Pereyra-Pedrido Farhat Hussain Hideyuki Sumitomo Saleha Abdul Rahman VISITING CRITICS Peter Beardsell Hannah Schneebeli Yasar Shan Toshiya Kogawa Lisa Brown Anna Rute Declan Molloy Tom Fotheringham

Over the years Unit 7 has undertaken architectural discussion in highly charged urban conditions, often with either social/political or historical complexity. Projects are always in search of appropriateness in response to the site. Students have to develop their own architectural concerns within a given context, together with an intuitive architectural and technical response to the site . We expect the students to tread their design territory with vigilance and demonstrate evidence of the desire to be architecturally precise. The architectural intuition and poetic response should be simultaneously developed as the need for clarity in strategy and design on all levels. Technical and Environmental discussions are a part of the design discussion and will be introduced in the early stages of the design. We want students to respond intuitively on their work and explore technical and environmental issues. During the year workshops are held to help students in their architectural development. Istanbul is one of the most ancient cities in Europe, occupying a strategic location bridging Europe and Asia. Students will formulate their architectural thesis around the current issue on an “urban regeneration” scheme which saw 3,400 Roma living in Sulukule were forced to sell their homes for 500 Turkisl Lira (£175) per sq metre to private investors and the Fatih municipality. Despite worldwide protests, a Unesco warning and court cases to halt the project, forced evictions and demolitions started in 2008. Now surrounded by construction fences, ´2WWRPDQ VW\OHµ WRZQKRXVHV DQG RIÀFHV DUH VSULQJLQJ XS RQ WKH acre (nine-hectare) site that had housed the local Roma population for over a millennium. The price of the new properties? From TL3,500 to TL 4,500 per sq metre.

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The Kulliye of Suleymaniye have been home to the Royal Family of the Ottoman for over 500 years. The royal gardens, saw the prestige and elite residents dominate the kulliye for decades. Today, mass migration from the outskirts of the historic peninsula, has left the place overpopulated and deteriorated in time. Green spaces are precious, but living spaces are condensed. Buildings are been demolished more than new ones springing up and this have left a massive void and piles of rubble in the neighbourhood. The proposal is to reconnect the Grand Suleymaniye mosque with the community through a Bazaar. This will rekindle the social and economic state of the Kulliye, not forgetting healthy and comfortable places for living and a craft centre to train the street cart-boys into future craftsmen with better careers. A Bazaar to restore Suleymaniye to its former glorious status and save it from degradation.

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Carrie Beasly Re-establishing the green strip along the Theodosian Wall The proposal is part of a master plan which aims to re-establish a sustainable water supply to the green strip surrounding the Theodosian Wall. A series of pieces sit within the green landscape, each supplying a larger territory with water from ¿ltered grey water and rainwater. Within each proposal there is a public building, public garden, water cistern and housing. The pieces respond to the surrounding area varying in programme. Towards the south, where the green strip is ¿lled by allotments, three greenhouses follow the rhythm of the turrets providing diversi¿cation for the urban agriculture in the area. The water collected in the cistern retreats like a tide, as the water is used over the year; revealing a series of public steps and platforms, cool space to sit in the heat of summer. Above the cistern, an orange orchard connects the public café to the piazza below.

Choon Low Relocation of Sulukule Romani Community There are 3,500 Romani people were expropriated from Sulukule for new gated housing development, despite the opposition of UNESCO, Amnesty International and public. The neighborhood and their source of incomes have been seriously broken since they have been relocated in a secluded area. This incident caused Istanbul once being put under threat of losing the status of World Heritage. And the authoritative role of UNESCO in Istanbul needs to be reinstated. The vision of the project / master plan is to transform Suleymaniye quarter into a well-stored heritage for Romani community, whom have been listed by UNESCO as ‘Unique Ethnic Group’. And turns the site into a functioning centre which is self-governed by the Romani residents, by organizing series of socio-economic events that involve the town, city in different scales. Due to the scale of the project, it relocates those Romani families with certain skills and abilities (ex: blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen shop owners, weaving, gardeners. etc). Architectural Vision The boundary where represent the ethnic group’s identity, reinstate their existence in society. It is also where the Romani community touches the adjacent neighborhood and shared functions. Through the process of place making, exploring the materiality and local architectural possibilities, the project derives the vernacular structures that re-shape the sustainable social patterns of Romani cultures.

diploma unit 9

closed/open social and formal cohesion UNIT STAFF Robert Thum STUDENTS Christopher Allen, Anna Yancheva Apostolova, Farah Hamid, Abul Mahdi, Jamie McKenzie, Tomonori Ogata, Samuel Rose, Georgios Yiannakis Voniatis, Arianna Wellons Chris Georgiades, William O’Brien, Seyi Marvin Shodunke, Kaan Alpagut , Viktoria Psychoula, James Cattle, Anna Charlotte Masilge, Hannah Jane Taylor, Dean Williams, Liam Wood Masayuki Yusada

VISITING CRITICS Harald Trapp - TU Vienna Martin West - RHWL Architects Alex Scott Whitby - StudioAR Richard Wardle - Stanton Williams Alberto Moletto - Zaha Hadid Architects Marcus Andren - Cazenove architects

This year diploma unit 9 investigated higher education as a constitutional ideal for the civic city and an activator for a post industrial urban context of London’s Lower Lea Valley. The university’s autonomy is inextricably linked to the idea of the public sphere. Meanwhile, the public sphere is a precondition for the Kantian emancipated subject; a subject that has the ability to think for itself and scrutinise as independently as possible different points of view. This interdependent relationship establishes the university as a public institution: interwoven and engaged in the process of social and individual emancipation, a university bears practical, social, ethical, and political responsibility for society. The birthplace of the university in Bologna, of which unit 9 visited, coincided with the decline of the monastic schools which remained isolated enclaves of knowledge and ‘private thought’. In the 18th century, with the reformation of the universities by Wilhelm von Humboldt and others, the public nature of thought, dissent and discussion begun WR VSUHDG EH\RQG WKH FRQÀQHV RI WKH XQLYHUVLW\ DQG VWDUWHG WR VKDSH society as a whole. Today, we see the decline of public space in our contemporary society and on the other hand we witness the transformation of universities from public institutions into private cooperations. By focusing on a Faculty of Architecture as a paradigmatic programme each student was asked to develop their own framework and typology, speculating on architectural morphologies suitable for enclosure of a highly complex and organised programme, that at the same time, initiates an open public sphere. The starting point was a set of four group research projects: tracing the history of universities and their relation to the city, architectural school typologies, architectural school programmes and today’s higher education landscape. These techniques and professional issues formed the bases for the individual design thesis.

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Right and following page: Ship-braker and Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Studios, Nicole Sacha Ahmed. The project is concerned with the gradual disappearance of the naval industrial heritage of the site, Poole Harbour. As a catalyst for revitalization of the area the project proposes a dry dock for ship braking, artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios, exhibition spaces and coffee/restaurant. The articulation of the programs will raise awareness of the currently invisible yet present industry related to shipbuilding, as well as generating a new cultural enclave for the community of Poole.

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Left: Shakespearean Theatre, Ayesha Akibogun. The project acts as a bridge from the main land to Brownsea Island, were there is currently a relatively unknown space for performance, acting as a physical door to the Shakespearean world from Sandbanks. Below: Ship Adventure Centre, Anthony Henriques. One envelope constitutes the enclosure for the preservation and enjoyment of a local shipwreck. The project creates views and public circulation from East to West creating a dramatic connection in a thin stretch of land currently segregated by private dwellings.

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Current page: Air, Sand and Water, Erini Krasaki. The project seeks to engage Poole in the world of science through interactive and learning spaces. The project fans out to frame dramatic views across the Harbour. Following page: Poole Oil Well Visitor Centre, Maria Lardi. Owned by the National Trust and protected as an area of outstanding natural beauty, a considerably large area of Poole Harbour is a heaven for the preservation of nature. Yet the constant search to seek energy does not encounter any obstacle in creating Oil Wells in an area of outstanding beauty. The project seeks to create awareness of this duality between environment and energy.

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UNIT STAFF Jamie-Scott Baxter and Arthur Smart STUDENTS Filippo Adamo, Sophia Alexeli, Farihah Anwar, Nick Hayden, Jonathan Jordan, Orestis Kalonaris, Terjinder Singh Sagoo, Ioannis Schinis, Low Soon Tan, Lin Cheung, Clare Feeney, Jurgita Korsakaite, Bernard Lim, Duncan Moore, Simon Scarlett, Quyen Tran, Nikos Zorgias VISITING CRITICS Alex Bank, Tony Fretton, Lara Gibson, Dominc Pearce (HS2 Ltd), Daniel 6HUDÂż PRYVNL *UDHPH 6XWKHUODQG Robert Thum SPECIAL THANKS TO Tom Marshall & Price and Myers, Stuart Mills, David Morgan, Luke Rowett, Constantine Stephan, Luke Winterton & Max Fordham LLP

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Planning: Dacorum Borough Council LEPs: Hertfordshire LEP Future development: t Its long-term strategy to 2031 as a Key Centre for development and change will be to deliver a minimum of 6,500 new dwellings (between 2006 and 2031). This will be achieved by delivering a range of "#!"5+/ &#.35")/-#(!5.)5-/#.5&)(!. ,'5( 651"#&-.5, ! ( , .#(!5 ( 5 growing Maylands Business Park through the East Hemel Hempstead Area Action Plan and the town centre through development of . ,")/- 5 +/ , 85 t The Old Town will be conserved and connections to it strengthened. t Improved leisure services and facilities will include a key performing arts 0 (/ 5#(5." 5 . ,")/- 5 +/ , 5 0 &)*' (.65#'*,)0 5 --# #&#.35.)5 the Nickey Line green corridor, the enhanced setting of the River Gade, a new urban park and strengthened links between the new urban park and Gadebridge Park. t Because significant parts of the town were built and developed in a concentrated period in the 1950s, they have become tired looking and not fit for modern purposes.

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Planning: Milton Keynes Borough Council LEPs: South East Midlands LEP Future development: t The scale of growth planned for MK is the highest for any city in the south east outside London. t The vision is to deliver land for at least 28,000 new homes within the Borough between 2010 and 2026. This will comprise: 5 R5 (5 &&) .#)(5) 5 5' 2#'/'5) 5h6kff5")' -5#(5." 5 , -55 identified as Strategic Reserve Areas southeast of the city in the Local Plan 5 R5 )'*& .#)(5) 5 0 &)*' (.5)(5 2#-.#(!5 ) &5 & (5-#. -55 and land with planning permission comprising approximately 24,000 homes 5 R5g6hff5")' -5#(5-/-. #( & 5- ..& ' (.-5#(5." 5,/, &5 , R5 )5 #'5.)5, / 5" &."5#( +/ &#.# -65 *,#0 .#)(5 ( 5#'*,)0 5")/-#(!5 +/ &#.35 ( 5 --5.)5- ,0# -5 ),5.")- 5&#0#(!5#(5." 5 , -5. ,! . 5 35." 5 suite of documents that form the Regeneration Strategy.

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An Adjusted Mutualism by Nick Hayden â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Edgelands are part of the gravitational pull of all our larger urban areas, a texture we build up speed to escape as we hurry towards the countryside. And Edgelands by and large are not meant to be seen except perhaps as a blur from a car window.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Paul Farley 0\ WKHVLV VHWV RXW WR UHGHÂżQH and reintegrate the dilapidated post-industrial valley found on Birminghamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edgeland back into the city it served to build. As I interrogated this landscape of interconnected lakes and water courses, I understood these openings in the ground to be the quarries that supplied the city with stone. In time the River Tame was diverted through these pits at once ÂżOOLQJ WKHP DQG ÂżOWHULQJ WKH ZDWHU WKDW coursed through. The valley and the city have long acted out a mutual relationship now less explicit, my project sets to carefully adjust the balance. Not wanting to over urbanising the valley the proposed architectures are not large venues but intimate moments created within the landscape which offer views and panoramas of this otherwise forgotten place. Made in Arden by Terjinda Sagoo The Memory of a Shadow Factory by Fei Alexeli Found in the industrial hinterland of Coventry, Ryton on Dunsmore is an abandoned place with a forgotten past. Once the site of a World War II shadow factory, all that remains is the vast concrete ground slab which, over time has taken the weight of subsequent manufacturing plants bearing testament to the industrial past of the West Midlands. The site is bound on three VLGHV E\ PDLQ URDGV WUDIÂżF LVODQGV DQG junctions. To the south lies the fragile community of Ryton. With the advent of HS2 the demand for skilled labour to work on construction of the track is high. I propose a new purpose-built facility to provide this training; to stitch back together this fragmented landscape.

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As we have learnt with the Madrid to Seville high speed rail where the intention was to increase regional regeneration by providing high speed access from Madrid to Seville. The RSSRVLWH RFFXUUHG DQG WKH Ă&#x20AC;RZ LQVWHDG increased from Seville to Madrid. I therefore propose a robust infrastructure in Hampton in Arden, on the edge of Birmingham to prevent this from happening by strengthen the place, economy and character. My proposal includes a small scale carpentry workshop and studios which is linked to a wider business network. HS2 would allow tenants and clients from London and other European cities to take advantage of the economic lettable space within 35 minutes from Central London.

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Imbedded Infrastructure by Simon Scarlett With the introduction of the HS2 rail track, Twyford in North Buckinghamshire has seen much of its land severed, cutting physical ties with its neighbours. My project aims to reunite the loose strands of the wider community by offering a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the local populationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many interests and activities, as well as repurposing the severed land as a natural barrier to the railway in the form of coppiced areas. The community centre sits on the edge of Grebe Lake offering areas for sports, performing arts and general recreational activities. The building is centred around the main hall, which in turn is set back into the natural hillside; offering direct access to both ground DQG VW Ă&#x20AC; RRU OHYHOV $ SLHU SURMHFWV LQWR the lake offering views and a place UHĂ&#x20AC; HFW

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MSC STUDENTS Kabir Aliyu, Carol Fanoiki, Cintia Areias, Mubina Fattoum, Walid Elsayed Sadiq Mustafa Khabeeb, Christina Achtypi DIPLOMA THEORY STUDENTS Maria Lardi, Simon Scarlett, Edward Short, George Voniatis, Mehrak Zabihi, Nikolaos Zorgias, Abul Hasan Mahdi, Anna Apostolova, Farzaneh Djafarpour Shalmany, Panayot Pantchev, Jurgita Korsakaite, Will Tang, Faizal Patel, Seow Ling Yeoh, Urszula Witkowska, Anthony Adeniran, Hideyuki Sumitomo, Katie Cushen, Nickolas Hayden, Viktor Catanous, Osman Marfo-Gyasi, Nikolaos Isaakidis, Christopher Kalavashoti, Ayesha Akibogun, Anthony Henriques, Masyuki Yasuda, Oladapo Idowu-Adewale, Anna Masilge, Terjinder Sagoo, Suleman Hussain

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The MSc Architecture: Computing and Design programme continues to explore the role of the computer as generative tool for architectural design. Our Programme ranges from the technical skilling of professionals for scripting CAD through the consideration of selforganising principles for form and space in the masters, to long term studies of emergent spatial organisation and morphologies by our Doctoral candidates. Computing and Design has always been concerned with ideas of distributed representation and the computer as a simulation medium IRU H[SORUDWLRQ :H GRQÂˇW GR JHRPHWU\ ZH GR UHDFWLYH G\QDPLF K\EULG systems, a systems approach to design that seeks to get under the skin of forms and spaces to engage with forms of human occupation and VSDFH WKDW DUH UHDFWLYH DQG VHOI UHĂ HFWLYH $ERYH DOO ZH QHHG WR GHYHORS ways of both reading and writing computers - the true computer literacy. 7KH *UDGXDWH &HUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWH LQ &RPSXWLQJ DQG 'HVLJQ UHPDLQV RSHQ WR students from a range of prestigious practices in London. We have had architects and engineers from Foster + Partners, Arups Advanced Geometry Group. Skidmore Owens and Merril, AEDAS Architects and Zaha Hadid Architects. We ran a lecture series covering presentations from a wide range of UHVHDUFKHUV LQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;HOG 7KH VHULHV RI WKHRU\ VHPLQDUV DQG ZRUNVKRSV in computing and design which are offered to level 4 and Level 5 Diploma students remain popular. Walid Elsayed Towards an Integrated Application of Genetic Algorithm in Architectural Design 3D model of an emergent individual belonging to the Âżnal population after the evolutionary process ran for 30 generations.

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Simon Scarlett: City Generator Diffusion Algorithm used to generate simple urban patterns.

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Masters Programme PROGRAMME LEADER Christoph Hadrys www.ma-ud.blogspot.com MA STUDENTS Panagiota Georgiou Khulood Nasaif Thanh Que (Audi) Nguyen Farhan Salat Ana Denise Teixeira Agne Liskauskaite DIPLOMA THEORY STUDENTS Gassim Abdeldaim, James Cattle Michalis Christodolou, Abdul Elmi Tolulope Esho, Lucy Fineberg Lucia Martinez Arias William Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brian, Calista Oppon Mariana Pereyra-Pedrido Maud Tisserant, Max Turner Dean Williams, Liam Wood Nicole Ahmed, Chris Allen Carrie Beasley, Sarah Bland Jaz Chana, Matthew Collins Clare Feeney, Hank Hendriksen Bernhard Lim, Urszula Markiewicz Lina Matagi, Jamie McKenzie Tomo Ogata, Matthew Rust Athina Sallam, Maurice Smith Petar Uzelac, Miles Weber Arianna Wellons SPECIAL THANKS TO Christopher Alexander John Worthington William Firebrace Tony Fretton, Roland Karthaus John Lock, Renee Tobe David Buck

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guest lecture series

17th & 18th December 2012

the production of place

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March 5th @ 6pm lecture hall WBG.02 (Oscar's) Andrew Weir - Director @ Expedition Engineers Gustavo Brunelli - Associate @ BDSP environment Chris Bannister - Partner @ Hopkins Architects

Thursday April 19th @ 6pm EBG02

tthursday April 26th @ 5pm EBG02

Landscape and context have changed use and function, and therefore we had to perform certain operations that have changed volume and shape depending on these variables. "Transformations" shows a group of works made during the past two years based principally on formal operations determined by contextual conditions.

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felipe assadi Dean of Architecture: Facultad Arquitectura y DiseĂąo Universidad Finis Terrae

william mann Architect and founding partner of the practice Watson Witherford Mann

[keynote speakers] Chris Pyke Ph.D Vice President of Research, U.S. Green Building Council

'piece by piece' - the case for incrementalism

Iain Sinclair Bestselling author of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

Felipe Assadi Dean of Architecture, Finis Terrae University, Santiago de Chile

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[submission guidelines] Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words, and sent by e-mail as Word (doc) or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files to Place.Conference@uel.ac.uk no later than 16th July 2012. All abstracts should include the following: Ć&#x201D; Paper Title Ć&#x201D; Title, First Name, Surname and Affiliation of all authors Ć&#x201D; 100 - 150 words biography of all authors Ć&#x201D; E-mail address for corresponding author

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International conference & workshops: call for papers The concept of place works across multiple disciplines; as an area of study it requires the application of diverse approaches: merging architecture, urbanism, geography, psychology, as a better means of understanding and responding to places. Critical theorists argue that globally-produced social, economic and environmental conditions are imposed on local places, which are unable to deal with them and maintain their own identity in the process, because of their global provenance. Place may be defined by activity intrinsic to, and evidenced in, details of the physical surroundings (architectural style, composition, and type) which can be considered as a framing device for daily life. Therefore, can the activities of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;makingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;doingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that are in and of places, more usefully inform global processes and products? In understanding the physical characteristics of place on a local scale, globalised understandings of places and their mutability could be challenged. If the world is entirely made up of places, can each place provide a new form of global knowledge? In this conference, we aim to question the challenges of global problems in relation to the production of place. Focusing on the necessary components to sustain places, how do we decide when to protect, adjust or transform?

[themes] Global knowledge via local place By capturing and communicating the characteristics of a place, can place become the means of providing better global practices? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Makingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;doingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; What is the appropriate relationship between 'making' and 'thinking'? Can the processes of making and doing create knowledge in their own right? Insecurity in and of places How can insecurity be a positive force in the negotiation of places?

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