AVA Yearbook 2023 by University of East London

Yearbook 2023

This yearbook showcases the innovative and creative projects by students from the Architecture and Physical Design Cluster within UEL’s Department of Architecture and the Visual Arts.

Foundation BSc Architecture MArch Architecture BSc Architectural Design Technology BA Interior Design BSc Product Design MRes MA Architecture and Urbanism MA Landscape Architecture MA Interior Design Armor Gutierrez Rivas PhDPhotograph: by Research

Photograph: Armor Gutierrez Rivas

AVA Architecture & Physical Design Yearbook 2023 Publisher University of East London Editors Anastasia Karandinou Claudia da Palma Romao Graphic Design Studio Jon Spencer October 2023 ISBN 978-1-9989909-7-9 (printed version) ISBN 978-1-9989909-8-6 (digital version) University of East London Department of Architecture and the Visual Arts Dockland Campus E16 2RD T+44 020 8223 2041 F+44 020 8223 2963 www.uel.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

Welcome

Introductions

Foundation

p12

BSc Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 1

p26

BSc Architecture Year 1

p28

BSc Architecture Year 2 & 3 Unit A

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Unit B

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Unit C

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Unit E

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Unit H

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BSc Architecture Design Technology (ADT)

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BA Interior Design

p100

BSc Product Design

p122

MArch Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 2

p138

Unit 1

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Unit 2

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Unit 6

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Unit 8

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MRes

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MA Architecture and Urbanism

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MA Landscape Architecture

p200

MA Interior Design

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History & Theory

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Research & Pedagogy

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PhD by Research

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Contents

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Ablett Architects

Lendlease

ScottWhitbyStudio

Acknowledgements

ACMI – Thessaloniki

Liz Waters, Sir Robert McAlpine

Shed Life

Acknowledgments

Adrem

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Skidmore Owens and Merrill (SOM)

London Legacy Development Corporation

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers

Louise Scannell, Weston Williamson

St Helen’s Church

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

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) APCOR, Portuguese Cork Association ARB Barton Willmore Consultancy Batterea Power Station Development Company BPTW Charles Horne Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) Daria Wong, Daria Wong Architects Dezeen Eco Friendly Tiles Emma Graham, RCKa Filet Gallery Frame Magazine Gareth Morris, What If? Projects Hobbs Group Jayden Ali, JA Projects Jeff Tidmarsh, Sir Robert McAlpine Jemma Miller, Tate Hindle Kalpesh Intwala, Stanton Williams

MAKE Architects

Steve Deadman, Pollard Thomas Edwards

Marija Ambrasaite, Aedas

Story Garden

Mark Lemanski, muf architecture/ art

Sustainability Research Institute

Matter Architecture Milliken Floors Europe Morgan Sindall Volker Fitzpatrick Nakheel Landscapes Neba Sere Newham Council Nia Rodgers, TP Bennett Nick Evans, Vabel Nilesh Shah, Russian for Fish Nimi Attanayake, nimtim architects Paul Gregory Pervolarides – Thessaloniki RCKa RIBA East London Architects Group (ELAG) Richard Wentworth

Karina Williams, British Land

Royal Docks Development Corporation

Kazan State Institute of Architecture and Engineering

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

The Blackhorse Workshop The Supreme Court Tom Dollard, Pollard Thomas Edwards UEL Sustainability Research Institute Whitby Wood Engineers

P6 Wendpagnande Naomi Nakoulma

This year’s book is full of a wide range of very inspiring and creative projects developed by our talented students in partnership with leading architecture practices. By closely working with leading employers and practitioners, we strive to offer our students the best experience possible to ensure they are ready for the workplace and capable of providing solutions to grand design challenges. Our highly regarded staff are engaged in high impact applied research which transforms lives and society. The year has been full of great achievements by both students and staff in the school including the Broadgate competition, the Orange County Decathlon Zero carbon micro-apartment led by both Dr Arman Hashemi and Dr Deborah Benros, the international conference ‘Repurposing Places’ led by Dr Anastasia Karandinou in collaboration with UEL and Arup, and the Jubilee pool project Award won by Alex Scott-Whitby, just to name a few.

We are extremely proud to be situated as an anchor institution at the heart of east London and, for the last forty years, have been at the forefront of working in collaboration with local urban design practices and community stakeholders in order to develop a distinctive offer in Architecture and Design. I am thrilled with the quality and standards of this year’s work which presents a comprehensive profile of our students, reflects creative thinking and a holistic approach to design. My very sincere thanks to those colleagues, practitioners and alumni who continue to work together to make architecture and Design the flagship area that it is. I take this opportunity to wish all graduates a very successful and bright future. We hope you will remain in touch with us as you forge ahead in your careers, remembering that it all began at the University of East London. Professor Hassan Abdalla PhD PFHEA FRSA Provost University of East London

Dear Graduates & Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s edition of the Architecture and Design Yearbook. This is an exceptional year as the University celebrates its 125 years of Pioneering Futures. Our university is a longstanding anchor institution, committed to providing education for the benefit of all, giving students from diverse backgrounds the skills and opportunities to thrive in the modern world. With students from 156 nationalities from across 140 countries, inclusivity is at the heart of our institution. We have been recognised as the most accessible university in the country.

Welcome

Architecture Art and Design after Unity

Introductions

In Search of Context and Authenticity

The work in this publication is a celebration of the student work in The Architecture and Design courses at the University of East London. I congratulate all the students and staff on the excellent standard achieved and the depth and variety of the creative explorations. This folio is by necessity the briefest assembly of many ideas, the briefest glimpse into our unfolding of knowledge and creative output. It assembles our experimentation that is playful yet underpinned by deeply held values and creative processes. We are also very proud to be celebrating the 125th year of the University. From the outset the university has been the place for creative students to bridge the gap between leaving school and developing a successful creative career. We are also celebrating 50 years of the Architecture courses. We have been reviewing the thematic development of the main concepts which have led and underpinned the evolution of the design courses. This review will be published separately however there are recurring concepts that have been driving course development. These include the understanding of design in relation to Context - conceptualised as materials and manufacture, history, people and places, and the relation of this understanding of Context to the evolution of an Authentic aesthetic language for Architecture urban spaces and design. These main threads of Context and Authenticity have been shared and developed over decades across many of the design and research groups and underpin much of

our thinking and teaching. Since the 1990s, and more recently in the last ten years, studios and designers have focussed on the relation of these two concepts to a broader understanding of design integrated into a sustainable ecosystem. Today we run both undergraduate and post graduate courses in a wide variety of media. The courses have always been characterised by access to excellent labs, workshops and facilities run by brilliant staff that are conveniently located close to the studios. This theme of learning through making work has been an essential approach to our study since the beginning. Today we have a mix of traditional analogue workshops like casting printing, painting, and film /photography but also digital labs with state-of-the-art scanning, printing robotics and laser cutting facilities. Students can choose to work in either traditional or digital media or, as is increasingly common, a hybrid range of analogue and digital outputs. So clay meets scanning and digital, sculpture meets welding and lasers. Most teaching staff continue to work in their own creative practice, so the quality of teaching is always advanced and relevant. The new century has also seen challenges around sustainability. Staff and students at UEL are reacting to this by the careful development and selection of new materials and ways of making work that embody sustainable principles. I was delighted by the recent exhibition on new materials called “Wasteless”. This exhibition brought together work by staff and students into new and experimental materials mostly grown or made using the by-products of other processes. These experiments add to the work in the research groups and support the growing expertise in Architecture and Design sustainability. 2023 has been a particularly successful year. The move back to campus after covid has substantially improved the social atmosphere with students working together in studios and a fantastic range of external speakers and invited guest lecturers. I would like to thank the students who have assisted with the student societies such as AVA Society and for hosting the social events.

From the Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion: Sugarcrete Slab Sugarcane bagasse and non-cementitious binder Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and UEL

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 McAlpine and British Land for their continued sponsorship of the excellent Broadgate student competition. I thank visiting Professor Charles Horne and Jeff Tidmarsh for their excellent support and expertise in leading the competition. A number of our students have been successful in gaining year out places at leading practices such as David Chipperfield Architects and we are grateful to these practices for supporting our students. There have been a growing number of sustainable international research projects with partners in Berlin, China and the USA. Staff visited Shanghai to develop our relationship with Tongji University and to further our knowledge and experience of advanced manufacturing. The material research group has also been very successful working with Grimshaw Architects developing a Sugarcrete building block. This was exhibited in the Royal Academy summer show. UEL also teamed with Arups to host a conference led by Anastasia Karadinou on Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental Resilience. Architecture staff led and organised an exhibition of international research celebrating 125 years of the university which was reviewed by King Charles on his visit to the University. At the core of our teaching philosophy is the relationship developed between staff and students and the play of the design process. Students are taught one to one, in small groups, in studios, workshops and lecture halls, and now online. Our project work follows a systematic pattern of setting aims and values, investigation, experiment and innovation. I would like to thank all the staff and students for their excellent work this year and for returning to the studio.

Introductions

This year also saw the continuation of our interdisciplinary project STEAM in which year 2 students, representing every undergraduate course, worked together from across the Arts, Computing and Engineering on a specialised project in Croydon. The challenge was particularly successful and rewarding giving new insights into the different approaches of the student group as a whole.

Lastly, I would like to congratulate those students leaving us and wish them every success. I am reminded that our word University derives from the Latin Universitas meaning whole or community. Please stay in touch with us. I hope in your professional life you will be able to learn from your work in the studios here at UEL, be able to harness your knowledge and imagination in the creative process and in this way, through your research and innovations, fulfil your own potential and the potential of our new century. Carl Callaghan BA (Hons) Dipl Cantab ARB RIBA Head of Architecture and Visual Art

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Introductions

Special Relationships Introduction to the Architecture and Physical Design Cluster

I am writing this introduction, basking in the glow of seeing our newly refurbished teaching and learning spaces filled with staff, students, alumni, employers and other members of the UK academic community, enjoying the opening of our annual showcase on a balmy early summer evening. The event was the culmination of what has been an incredibly special year for the architecture and physical design cluster, with lots of reasons to celebrate. The pages within this book will, I am sure highlight many of them, but behind this all is a unique bond, and dare I write ‘a special relationship’, that is formed between staff and students within this cluster. We are a small school and in many ways this is special. Here, no one is just a number, but a name. We celebrate each individuals story and collectively travel on a journey of discovery together. The route we each take is individual and our pursuit of excellence steadfast, but our commitment to our community and its values remains. In short in this school we care for each other, and that is incredibly special. Our caring does not stop at the doors of our remarkable building but starts before an applicant arrives and then continues through our alumni’s lifetimes. Life’s remarkable journey is something we all should celebrate, cherish and reflect on. We need to be cognisant of the impact that all staff and students within the cluster can have on our increasingly fragile ecosystem and ensure that we are using wisely our planets limited resources to make a real difference to the lives of all. I truly believe that the work you will view and read about within this book showcases the care and commitment that our school has to this subject. It’s something that Anna Highfield from the Architect’s Journal picked up when she came to review the show - the article can be found following my text - and by doing the right thing we can feel the positive impact on the school and our courses positions in the national league tables. Our courses in Interior Design and Architecture currently sit 11th and 16th respectively in the 2024 Guardian league tables. To be a top 20 school and be knocking on the door of the top 10 has been a collective aspiration of our dedicated team since I took over as Leader of the Architecture and Physical Design Cluster and I am so proud that we have all achieved this together. This is a special place that is on a journey to the top.

As the cluster/school journeys upwards, it is time for me to journey onward from UEL. It has truly been an honour to support our students, staff and alumni over the past 12 years. I have watched the school transmogrify and regenerate itself and in its present guise I see a bright and exciting future. As the curtain closes at the end of a remarkable year and my own journey at UEL I would like to end this text with a few words of thanks. Thank you to our incredible students, and amazing academic and technical team. Thank you for the support and care that you shown day in and day out to each other, and in particular of me. Onwards and Upwards! Alex Scott-Whitby Cluster Leader - Architecture & Physical Design

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Foundation

Architecture + Design Keita Tajima, Course 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. Keita Tajima

Foundation Keita Tajima (Programme Leader), Irina Maria Georgescu, Catalina Pollak, Andrew Wright

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. 2022-23 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 online 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 full scale drawing and collaborative digital collage.

LONDON

Design Project : A waiting Room The final design project allows students to go through a series of design processes from observation, interpretation, and experiments to develop an imaginative design propositions. This year, the site for the project was set in Wapping, along the Thames foreshore, a hidden pocket of spaces which reveals layers of history, as well as spaces under the water through the tidal change. The students were asked to develop a waiting room to address, existing activities, unique setting and environment, and it also provides a space for refuge and experience Students have observed the area by various ways of recording, and explored a series of spatial narratives and possible scenarios for a waiting room.

1 London trip at Serpentine Pavilion 2 Models on the table 3 Model image by Derloy Anthony Mitchel 4 Precedent model collage by Garry Fuller 5 Cast model by Derloy Anthony Mitchel 6 Paper model image by Sceima S Ali Husein 7 Axonometric drawing by Sceima S Ali Husein 8Model image by Garry Fuller 9 Image by Madihah Hajar 10 Image by Derloy Anthony Mitchel 11,12,13 Precedent study (Francis Kerre)model by Lise -Marie Ake-Danho,Dorina Gamaniuc 14,15 Precedent study model (Truffle. Ensemble studio) by Tarik Ismail 16 Collage by Dovydas Vaitulionis 17 Model image by Sceima S Ali Husein 18 Collage by Sceima S Ali Husein 19 Photo-montage by Garry Fuller 20 Stop motion images by Priyanka Mahesh Gole 21 Collage by Madihah Hajar 22 Spatial installation workshop led by Ivana Sehic 23 Rome study trip 24 Embossed image on paper by Tracy Afoyorwoth 25Collage by Dorina Gamaniuc 26 Movement drawing by Garry Fuller 27 Spatial installation workshop led by Ivana Sehic 28 Group project. Supporting a body. 29 30 Photography workshop led by Mimi Mollica in Wapping. Image by Dorina Gamaniuc 31 Mapping around Shadwell basin by Dovydas Vaitulionis 32 Collage by Rawand Rasheed 33 34 35 Precedent study model images by Priyanka Mahesh 36 Collage by Dovydas Vaitulionis 37 Photo-montage by Sceima S Ali Husein 38 Proposed waiting room. View to the basin. By Garry Fuller 39 Proposed waiting room. Section By Garry Fuller 40 Internal view. Image by Priyanka Mahesh Gole 41 Model by Rawand Rasheed 42 Model by Rawand Rasheed 43 Section collage by Rawand Rasheed

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Special thanks to: Ivana Sehic, Carsten Jungfer, Mimi Mollica, Keith Winter, Alex ScottWhitby, Zoe Hodgson, Mark Sowden, Gaynor Zealy, Paul Nichols, Daryl Brown, David Morgan

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Students: Rawand Rasheed, Emal Oriakhel, Arber Metaliaj, Gary Fuller, Sceima S Ali Husein, Alejandro Diaz Carrasco, Derloy , Madihah Hajar Anthony Mitchel , Lise -Marie Ake-Danho, Simone Riley, Leena Akoub Sayeed Hoque, Dawid Wojcieszek, Tracy Afoyorwoth , Priyanka Mahesh Gole, Elidjah Muya, Gabriela, Iulia Mihailova, Gianella Quinto Ricapa, Dorina Gamaniuc, Sharon Sannuthi Panem Tarik Ismail , Naeem Hussain, Costa Eugenio, Rui Jorge Monteiro Djassi, Aaliyah leston, Jesse Owusu, Joseph Masaba, Claire Mbugua, Dovydas Vaitulionis, Bruce Mil-Kalonda Mwati, Thomy Manonge

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Architecture

BSc (Hons) Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 1 Alex Scott-Whitby, Course Leader

Architectural Design Staff: 1st Year Team - Aleks Catina (Lead), Charlotte Harris, Toshiya Kogawa, Phillipa Longson, Dianna Cochrane, Isaac Cobo Displas, Armor Gutierrez, Jeff Tidmarsh, Nile Bridgeman. Unit A - Carsten Jungfer, Fernanda Palmieri Unit B - Stepen Baty, Alex Scott-Whitby and Christian Groothuizen Unit C - Alice D’Andrea, Robert Whitlock Unit E - Michele Roelofsma, Toshiya Kogawa Unit H - Keita Tajima, Charlotte Harris History & Theory teaching staff: Renee Tobe, Claudia Palma, Miho Nakagawa, Susan Ginsberg, Aleks Catina, Andrew Wright.

Technical & Environmental Studies teaching staff: Armor Gutierrez, Teresa Serrano, Jeff Tidmarsh, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros, Andy Downey. Professional Studies teaching staff: Stephanie Schulz-Westrum, Teresa Serrano, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros. Technicians & Demonstrators: Daryl Brown, Luiz Bueno, Garry Doherty, David Morgan, Paul Nichols, Mark Sowden, Phillipe Murphy. External Examiners: Julian Cross, Raymond Quek, Jessica Reynolds, David Short, Michael Trousdel.

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Through the professionally accredited RIBA/ARB Part 1 programme, 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, 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 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 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 knowledge- based lectures and analysis of precedent as a route to integrate this understanding in the unitbased design proposals. Our hands-on approach to a poetic materiality is characterised by exploratory model making across multiple scales. Preparation for professional practice integrates essential technical and practical knowledge as baseline skills that enable the final thesis at Part 1 to critically extend beyond the RIBA/ARB 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, and to equip our diverse talented graduates with the skills needed to face, and make positive change to the challenges and opportunities the 21st century will bring.

First Year Architecture Aleks Catina (Year Lead), Nile Bridgeman, Diana Cochrane, Isaac Displas, Armor Gutierrez, Charlotte Harris, Toshiya Kogawa, Phillipa Longson, Jeff Tidmarsh.

The first year of the BSc Architecture course sets the basis for future careers. We engage with the discipline through the discovery and development of strategies, techniques and principles of design and construction. To that end, UEL offers our students state-of-the-art facilities that include computer aided design tools and workshops for the making of physical models. The generous studio environment provides spaces in which learning communities are formed and sustained. Supported by a diverse and highly skilled team, each student begins their pursuit of excellence and professionalisation with a set of projects that engender the ethos of ecological responsibility and social equity. Design Project: To enable, to support, to delight. These are principles our students strive to attain in the architectural designs we create. The main design project of the year was a community hub in Holborn, a buzzing part of central London where makers, artists, and the public mingle. What spatial opportunities can architects exploit when they aim to bring people together? How can we translate established principles of architectural design when we account for the challanges of the Climate Crisis? Our proposals are worked through at different scales and subjected to an continuous review process. The final proposals are developed iteratively, from concept to resolution, through a series of models and drawings, that involve experimentation and testing, the mapping of existing settings and in depth-studies of environmental conditions.

HOLBORN, LONDON ROME, ITALY

Research: The initial stage of the building project develops our understanding of how the quality of spaces affects people’s social life in the urban realm. We learn to appreciate the ‘threshold’ as a productive typology of space-making. On the annual field trip to Italy our firstyear students observe, record and analyse spaces of transition. The precedents we look at often exemplify the in-between condition of architectural spaces: the relation between street and interior, public and private, and settings where people work, socialise and dwell (see, Rome Trip in the research section). The insights we gain from these urban conditions are transposed to the every-day environments London’s creative communities inhabit. In their proposals first year students aim to foster people’s enjoyment of living together, as part of the communities they love. Sustainability: Our duty of care consists in meeting the challenges of the Climate Emergency with an architecture that can serve future generations. The creative work our students undertake is consciously contextual and designed to engender ecological accountability. The low carbon design principles we use demand our careful consideration of the means of construction. This year the Holborn site served as a testing ground for the design of a timber frame building. In the process we further explore how architect-designed buildings retain their distinctiveness and offer value to the cityscape.

First Year BSc Architecture

Critics and Collaborators: Adam Cheltsov, Marwa El Mubark, Irina Georgescu, Nina Gerada, Joni Steiner.

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Students: Adijat Abass, Jaudaan Ahmed, Haadiya Ashraf, Ismail Bendaba, Teodora-Marilena Busnosu, Bryce Clarke, James Douglas, Aisha Drysdale, Baris Freed, Aaishah Habib, Michael Hurley, Usama Ismail Mugshia, Manuel Jackson, Eraee Jargaui, Elizabeth Johns, Jean-Luc Kante, Sameera Kahn, Maryam Kahn, Estera Krashi, Carolina Machado, Yogesh Mall, Karleen Menes, Stephanie Mc Cann, Mrugaya Valay Nagdeve, Ryan Nassour, Sahil Nayak, Mae Allen Jee Nerona, Prince Partee, Hassan Rafiq, Salima Rahman, Sunamita Russu, Baasit Sahil, Melissa Sarago Rivas, Diana Stoica, Jakub Strasz, Katarzyna Szczegielniak, Emmanuel Torson, Maryam Samiyah Uddin, Danjel Vladi.

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1 Year 1 design at the UEL AVA summer show; display units for project drawings and sketches from the Rome trip 2 Plaster cast, Katarzyna Szczegielniak 3 Holborn site context, Sunamita Russu 4 Sahil Nayak 5 Study of thresholds, Yogesh Mall 6-7 Sunamita Russu 8 1:1 Cladding study model 9 Section through San Carlo alla Quattro Fontane, Rome, by Sunamita Russu 10 Stair case study, Haadiya Ashraf 11-13 Rome precedent studies, Katarzyna Szczegielniak, Mrugaya Valay Nagdeve, Sunamita Russu 14 Haadiya Ashraf

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15 Teodora-Marilena Busnosu, John Soane House, London, charcoal drawings 16 Precedent study timber frame model 17 Threshold study, Haadiya Ashraf 18 Sunamita Russu 19 Series of test models at 1:200 20 Precedent study, Katarzyna Szczegielniak 21 Occupation diagram Cockpit Project , Holborn, Sunamita Russu 22 Layered drawing of proposal, Bryce Clarke 23 Study model of in-between space, Sahil Nayak 24 Interim review presentation 25 Study of the process of preparing a meal 26 Inhabitation of proposed space, Mrugaya Valay Nagdeve

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27 Structural model, timber frame case study 28 Proposed space, Mrugaya Valay Nagdeve 29-31 Sunamita Russu 32 Students on site visit in Holborn, London 33 Concept sketches, Yogesh Mall 34 Rome study, Ryan Nassour 35 Final proposition, Ryan Nassour 36 Concept model, Michael Hurley 37 Concept model, Katarzyna Szczegielniak

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38 Precedent study, Eraee Jarguaui 39 Concept drawing for Holborn, Baasit Sahil 40 Sunamita Russu 41 Ryan Nassour 42 Karleen Menes 43 Mrugaya Valay Nagdeve 44 Sunamita Russu 45 Final proposal, Ryan Nassour 46 Haadiya Ashraf 47 Plaster cast of Rome precedent, Sunamita Russu 48-49 Ryan Nassour 50 Students constructing 1:1 timber frame detail (Jakub Strasz, Michael Hurley) 51 Group working on a 1:200 model of Holborn site 52-54 Sequence of charcoal drawings (morning routine), Baasit Sahil 55 Concept drawing, Teodora-Marilena Busnosu

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First Year

Unit A

Action Space

Carsten Jungfer, Fernanda Palmieri

What is the significance of artists in cities and how can spaces for Knowledge Exchange help to build connections between different communities? Unit A works with live-project situations and connects design learning with research through knowledge exchange between students and external partner organisations. Unit A focuses on social-spatial conditions within contested urban contexts and understands architectural design both as a spatial and strategic response to specific socio-spatial contexts.

“London is a leading creative capital city, which attracts talent and enterprise from all over the world. The creative economy is estimated to provide one in six jobs in London and the creative industries generate around £47 billion for the London economy. It is also one of London’s fastest growing sectors.” Mayor of London

This year we investigated the wider significance of existing artist communities in East London which are increasingly under threat of displacement by urban replacement and the high value of land in London. Contrary to the current urban policies that favour the ‘new’ over the ‘existing’, we engaged with the idea that artist communities are the roots of the creative industries in London, and we set out to re-imagine alternative models for spatial production that support their existence and permanence as an important

HACKNEY, LONDON

part of the civic and productive fabric of inner-city neighbourhoods. We collaborated with art studio-provider SPACE [Space Provision Artistic Cultural and Educational] and engaged with their artist community to explore how their diverse and creative practices impact the city beyond the studio space itself. We surveyed and analysed five SPACE studio buildings in Hackney and discovered formal and informal activities, exchanges, interactions, networks and relationships that characterise the practice of artists in the city. In response to this, students then devised strategies and designed Spaces for Knowledge and Skill Exchange that expand on the potential of existing creative and cultural practices through the construction of a spatial civic network. The body of knowledge produced collectively through engagement in the multi-disciplinary discourse including with students from Central Saint Martins working with the same brief on Fish Island CEZ, is currently further expanded through a collaborative research partnership lead by the tutors and supported by SPACE Studios and the GLA / Mayor of London, that also offers seven Unit A alumni to gain work experience as co-researchers.

Unit A

Special thanks to: Visiting Critics: Armor Gutierrez, Mark Sustr, Oscar Brito-Gonzalez, Teresa Serrano, Stephanie Schultze-Westrum. Contributors: Eline van der Vlist (SPACE), Fiona Furness (SPACE), Alex Howard (Design District), Arnaud Nichols (Bloqs), Mark Sowden, Muhammad Rahmani (TNG Youth Centre).

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Students: Year 3: Adrienne Raleigh, Karen Moussaid, Milesa Khan, Mohamed Dif, Sami Begum, Samuel Littlewood, Sonia-Elena Stefanescu, Tobias Scriven, Zoe Kalou. Year 2: Agata Nyckowska, Daniel Ferrari, Gonzalo Belil, Kledjan Mangaj, Maharshikumar Patel, Marwan Tawfik, Tatiana Teca Nsamba.

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Previous page: 1 Artist studio axonometric study by Karen Moussaid 2 Study area drawing with reference to Kevin Lynch’s city elements by Karen Moussaid This page & following: 3 The ‘Art Village’ is a proposal for a new space of knowledge exchange that serves as a base to host a diverse range of artistic activities and foster new relationships between local artists and the surrounding community. The design strategy encompasses three consecutive construction phases, each offering versatile spaces for performance, creative workshops and experimental engagement. As the project integrates and upgrades the adjacent Deborah House that is home to over 60 local artists, operated by SPACE Studios. The ground floor consists of a street-like theatre space, that is designed to create multiple opportunities for connecting with the surrounding green spaces and public realm. The open and permeable design intends to encourage wider formal and informal space activation to promote skill and cultural exchanges across the neighbourhood. Agata Nyckowska (nominated for AJ Student Prize 2023).

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4 The ‘Craft Hub’ is a proposal for a wood and metal workshop that aims to nurture creativity, skill building and to provide a valuable resource for the local community. Dedicated workspaces will cater to individuals with a passion for craftsmanship. The workshop will be equipped with a wide range of tools and machinery, allowing both beginners and experienced artisans to explore, share and develop their skills. The site will also undergo enhancements that involve upgrades to the existing playground and provide opportunities for young people to participate in creative activities, fostering a inclusive community. Project by Mohamed Ameen Dif (nominated for the RIBA ELAG Sustainability Student Award 2023).

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5 Socio-spatial observations across the study area exploring relationships between the artists’ activity, the studio space and the city at Sara Lane Court by Tatiana Teca Nsamba. 6 ‘Doborah House Square’: a shared surface connecting three architectural interventions by Adrienne Raleigh. 7 ’Sara Lane Community Centre’ is a proposal for a creative & social hub in Hoxton to rebalance what has been lost in recent years within Hackney’s creative community. The art centre is located adjacent and above SPACE’s existing Sara Lane Studios, respecting the existing artists by maintaining their privacy whilst providing new spaces for interaction including teaching rooms and exhibition areas, along with an open-access workshop available to artists and the community. The elevated public walkway extends the public realm into the building, providing views to the unique private artist garden and the creation of a new ‘vertical garden’ under an ETFE canopy that envelopes the building. Project by Samuel Littlewood (nominated for the RIBA Bronze Medal 2023).

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Between the Green and the Blue Stephen Baty, Alex Scott-Whitby & Christian Groothuizen

Like many towns in the UK and across the globe, Benitses in Corfu faces a multitude of challenges. A tourist town since the 1980’s that has been over developed, its original identity forgotten, over reliant on vehicular transportation, its physical social networks dying out and with an ever growing number of abandoned buildings and structures to maintain. In response, Benitses invited the unit to study the town and speculate on what it could be. From the study a selection of projects have emerged; Darnell has combined a forgotten overgrown basketball court with waste management and an abandoned concrete frame to create a new sports club and recycling centre at the top of the town. Arlinda has maximised a makeshift allotment to create a locally grown food market in the centre of town while Naafiah has created a hiking centre to connect the town to the mountain that forms its backdrop. As a design studio, we are interested in how we think and design for the long term and how we equip our students for the real world. Agility, to be nimble, observant, to work between hand and digital and to understand that design is an iterative process are key attributes we encourage our students to embrace. The exhibition presents the physical hand made, frst hand produce of the study. Process, not individual projects, the work required to tease out the essence of the challenge, to excite and form a richness to develop further.

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Special thanks to: Bentises town, Annabel Zoxioy, Alex Manessi, Jan Manessi, Ben Manessi, Leon Bellos, Dimitri Bellos, Lisa Ruf, Philip Christou Theo Thysiadis, Robert Mull, Andy Downey, Mary Tyulkanova, Alekos Lotza

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Unit C

Mind(ful) Re-use

Alice D’Andrea, Rob Whitlock

The World Health Organization states: ‘Health is a state of optimal physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.’ How architecture directly impacts people’s wellbeing is the subject of ongoing discussion between professionals, institutions and end users. Such a delicate subject requires an engaged designer who understands the needs of the end user and allows for architecture to be an active element in the healing process. This year’s Unit C task was to develop a spatial and holistic strategy to transform Masseria Cippano, an historic building in the Apulian countryside, into a healing environment. Through constructive discussion and study of historic documents that have set the principles for restoring and working on existing buildings, such as the Venice Charter, the Nora Document on Authenticity and the more recent Faro Convention Action Plan, the aim is to generate a critical approach to re-use. From these studies each student developed their own informed approach to working with the existing buildings and landscape. Masseria Cippano is a fortified agricultural compound, part of the once vast Adriatic fortification system, built during the 16th Century. It lies just a few hundred meters from the coastline, not far from the Natural Park Costa Otranto – Leuca – Bosco Tricase.

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The aim this year was to create an ‘Architecture of the Senses’, a space which reacts to the visual, auditory, olfactory, haptic and cognitive interaction with its users. The students were invited to consider how architectural elements such as form, material, scale and proportion, light and shadow, views, colour, methods of construction interact and influence the experience of the visitor. The relationship of the building, its interiors and the landscape design is fundamental. Therefore, special attention was given to this aspect of the design, focusing on how the built environment interfaces with the green open space.

There is an intimate relationship between our emotions and the things around us. Peter Zumthor

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Special thanks to: Ashvin de Vos (Variant Office), Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros, Elliott Wood, Armor Gutierrez, Nicolò Lewanski (Valari), Pitardi Cavamonti, Rukmini Raghu (dMFK), Valentina Marta Rubrichi (StudioAlami), Federica Russo (Valari), Teresa Serrano, Marco Strizzolo (Citizens Design Bureau), Jeff Tidmarsh

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1 Isometric hand drawing of the existing site, by Cristian-Luca Serbu. 2 Unit photo at the site during a visit in November 2022. 3 Painting of the site and surroundings highlighting its relation to the coast and other buildings, by Alina Obreja. 4 Charcoal sketch showing the little church surrounded by overgrown vegetaion, by Cristian-Luca Serbu. 5 Punta Palascia Lighthouse drawn by Zuhaida Salum. 6 Study of light and shadow, mirror card print by Tanjina Hossaini.

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7 Site model scale 1:200. 8 Study of light and shadow, mirror card print by Jameela Mohamed. 9 Pencil sketch showing the view towards Tower St. Emiliano and the coast from the Masseria, by Guilherme Bressaneli. 10 Charcoal sketch showing the approach to the Masseria, by Cristian-Luca Serbu. 11 Plaster model of Masseria Cippano.

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12 ‘Climate Healing’, by Brendan Tate Hampton is about reclaiming our agency over our futures. The existing Masseria Cippano building has been turned into a library, therapy, cafe, and activity space, keeping the views of the site in mind and trying to connect the new with the old in ways that could be subtle and fitting. 13 ‘Healing and Reconnection’ by Guilherme Bressaneli is a Spiritual Retreat which aims to heal the soul through mindfulness practices, reintroducing ways to connect with nature and embrace a simpler way of living, symbolised by the choice of materials and construction methods. 14 ‘Three Doorways to Acceptance’ by Stephanie Olivia Stocks, deals with grief. The aim is to reconnect people to nature and a higher affinity for reflecting on ‘self’, through a sequence of pathways embedded into the ground.

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15 ’Athlete Retreat’ by Aagaman Limbu aims to create a space for recovery for clients who have suffered sports injuries. The new built structures are distinguished from the stone buildings by their cladding made of charred wood fins. 16 Tanjina Hossain ‘A New Sunrise’ retreat is designed for women who have experienced domestic violence. The aim is to create a space for them to heal through community support and self-rebuilding, to find hope and rebuild their lives. 17 ’Connect Mind and Body’ by Alina Obreja. 18 ‘Journey through elements and senses’ by Cristian-Luca Serbu divides the site into four areas, each representing one of the natural elements: water, air, fire, and earth. The retreat is a journey through the areas. The goal is to connect the humans’ senses with the elements, and to use this connection to empower people both mentally and physically.

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Unit E

“ATTENTIVENESS”

Michele Roelofsma Toshiya Kogowa

…In becoming architects we learn to see the world with intelligent sensuality. Intuitive propositions become the means by which we discover the qualities of location. Architectural moves, in anticipation, indicate the frame we call “site”. In a reciprocal process, the proposition and the location each becomes a measure of the other. The unique circumstances of a situation invoke the sensual intelligence with which a strategic insight is accurately developed to an eloquent material existence… (Jeane Sillet)

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Unit E have been working in highly charged complex urban settings. The driving factor for our architectural discussion is the current social, economic, and political themes already embedded in these sites and the possible effect of architectural and urban ‘imposed’ proposals. The unit will explored the potential architectural intervention through the series of 1:1 ‘touch stone’ - reminder of spatial & environmental experience - assessed against the quality of the site, The three possible sites for proposition are set in Thessaloniki and involves the old Mercado and its relation to the old city wall and the recently squatted factory building “Yfanet” and surroundings. Students who could not travel to Thessaloniki worked on last year’s site in Bricklane /Pedley street. The project location for the academic year 22-23 units were challenged to work on a site abroad and adopt an existing building. Pre-covid unit E worked in Thessaloniki the “Mercado” site a 1931 Vegetable market. Partly taken over by the small business, flower shop, car repair cab service and laundry place. The ownership complexity of the building stopped the maintenance and development of building and site.

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As the “Mercado” site is still “vacant” “empty” we continued the Architectural discussion to accommodate the needs and desires for the Pervoladis The strategic placed building facing the north entrance gate and connecting this with the former trade road to Constantinople. The overall dense and car fumes a surrounding and the serious “lack “ of greens pace The humanitarian organisation, the Pervoladis, helping people homeless, refugees and foodbank did grow over these few years and have spread their wings over Europa working with similar organisations in Germany and Scandinavia.

Y2 Yaisa Pulido Gil; Taha Ahmed; Valeria Beregoi; Silvia Marin Giraldo; Jamie Parmenter; Temitope Ogunbiyi; Saidumarkhon Arbimajitov; Kai Davis; Krishnan Nagarajan; Aurorina Roman; Abdi Hassan; Kai Davis; Rosalia Amelia Sanchez.

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Special thanks to: Visiting Critics: “Pervolarides” - Filippos Polatsidis, Anastasia Voukantsi, Giorgos Balatsos Tarik Guendoul (Client for the year) Vasilis Charistos - lecture on Environmental Design & Green Spaces in Thessaloniki Elena Athanasiadou - History of Thessalonki Callicrates Evlogemenos Will Lindley Thanks to AKMI - Thessaloniki

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Students: Y3 Carl Reyes; Charles Mendoza; Kostadin Topalov; Bisere Ruseva; Hamid Ebdali; Ufuoma Daisy Enughwure.

The second site, Yfanet Linnen Factory, build in the 1920 with the Bauhaus principles 10 years before “The Mercado”. Currently squatted and used as an indoors Skateboard parkour and well-known social events place.It’s amazing location on the embankment of the last river in Thessaloniki and the “Only urban wilderness In the city creates as a give-away of the possibilities for a rich environment discussion regarding cooling and wildernessLooking carefull at the topografifac conditions of Thessaonik.

The third site is in London Bricklane /Pedley Street the Old railway station This was the units last years study site working “in the shadow” of the Goodsyard Proposal.

To develop an attentiveness to these sites The unit will explore the potential architectural interventions through the series of 1:1 ‘touch stone’ reminder of spatial & environmental experience - assessed against the quality of the propoposal locations.

...My Hopes and Intentions are to have investigated each box and find a spatial / architectural quality that I am interested in. Have a theme to refer to and hopefully help progress a narrative or design. Soane Stair light study developing a “Touchstone “... Charles Mendoza

Charles Mendoza -1 Box light study. 2 Sketch of Soan museum stair. 3 Soan Museum Stair. Carl Reyes - 4 Box light study. Yaisa Pulido Gil - 5 Box light study.

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One of the most important part from the nursery that I would be making. The roof space that is going to be used as an sleeping area for the childrens. which would give them a nice view of the park. Krishnan Nagarajan

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Krishnan Nagarajan: 1 Steel folded roof study 2 Day-care centre with roof sleeping space 3-6 Folding study of the children’s sleeping space.

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1-3 Pervolorides Food bank ingredients 4 Kitchen preparing food packages. Jamie Parmenter: 5 Section through the proposed food preparation room and the garden 6 Proposed long section.

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Pervolarides means garden. It is a group of people which together creates a non government funded charity that aims to provide a holistic response to people’s needs in the city of Thessaloniki. This is done through two key approaches, the first of which being the supply of both food such as hot meals, fresh fruits, vegetables and non-food items to those in need. This is made possible by the second strategy which is providing enriching activities which involves the activation of social solidarity economy model giving informal education and doing community empowerment activities, to people with a want to help those in need. 2

Requirements Before a proposal can be developed, it is important to identify what our client is looking for in the design. As a charity that feeds the less fortunate whilst also providing classes on things such as food reclamation to those passionate to help. After speaking to the client, we identified the most important requirements and looked at how they should be implemented. • Private kitchen for cooking and food processing • Separate room for community workshops, for around 30 people • Storage room for fruit and vegetables, and the food reclamation. • Garden with water collection tank and composting space from leftovers. • Sleeping space for accommodating some refugees who don’t have a space to sleep. • Bee-keeping space.

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REFLECTING ‘INHABITING THE RUIN’ Work at Astley Castle

“The Ruin represents disintegration and distillation: it is both anti architecture and pure architecture.” Astley Castle was in an advanced state of decay by 2007 due to a fire and 30 years of freeze-thaw. Witherford Watson Mann Architects had the challenge of creating a house for accommodation within the boundaries set by the remains of this medieval structure. I find the first sentence interesting because this ruin is definitely pure architecture when the different materials, colours, textures, architectural styles from windows, doors and ornaments, and the construction method makes you travel back in time to the 15th and 16th century. However, I do not think we can talk about an anti-architecture piece here. The author might refer to the ruin as antiarchitecture because the structure is in fragile equilibrium-um and is revealed through the mantle of wearing. When this castle was designed and built, it was meant to be a space for people to live, to work, to engage and interact and the fact that it decayed in appearance and structurally overtime does not remove its architectural essence. The proof of that is the result of merging the modern structure with the old masonry walls as if they always belonged together. Keeping the essence of the ruin was one of the approaches in this project. As in the title of this work, they attempt to inhabit the ruin by not adding a strange volume into the medieval brickwork but adding the house in a complementary way, treating both, the ruin, and the house as one, so both will even have more historical value in the future. That is why it is interesting how they also reject the ideas of return and rupture. If they were thinking about the project as a refurbishment the intention of maintaining the spirit of the ruin and site could be restricted. These concepts of design can be applied when inhabiting the Old Mercado building and the Fabrik Yfanet indoor park based inside the arcade of an old factory. Finally, in terms of tactics used to conserve the character of the ruin and establish its habitability, they opt for laminated timber since it was the only option to create the roof above a 7m span and not interrupting the elegance of the open spaces inside the castle. From the imagery, I can see the paleness tone of the carpentry was the best option to not hide or conceal the essence of the ruin. They also thoroughly thought about how to protect the existing walls by testing different sizes, textures, and tones so the edging and infilling blend into the medieval walls as well as all the carpentry and joinery used to inhabit the ruin. Roselia Sanchez Although a building in ruin may be seen as the final stages of a structure’s life, with a degree of compassion for the buildings past and excitement for its future, a building’s remains can be transformed, breathing new life into the foundations of old. When designing within the bounds of a ruin it must first be decided if it will receive a restoration to its previous appearance and function, masking the signs of time, or if it is to be inhabited which instead celebrates the state the building is now in, using it as a sandbox to foster a new function. This goal of inhabitation presents an exciting opportunity for an architect to give their own interpretation of the structure, a gash in the wall can become a doorway or window. A broken ceiling can instead be an interior balcony, allowing the wear of the structure to dictate its design. This is expertly demonstrated through Foster and partners work on the Ombu building in Madrid, where the ruined structure of the industrial building received a new lease on life as an office space through the introduction of a tiered wooden structure within. I aim to have a similar effect in Thessaloniki. As the area is quite impoverished with a very high density and lack of green, it is important that all available space is used to its highest potential which currently isn’t the case. Inhabiting the ruins in Thessaloniki will allow the city to better facilitate its homeless populations in areas which would

otherwise be wasted space. Using both the ruins as a guide and inspiration, I aim to create a de-sign that meets both the needs of the individual and the city as a whole. Jamie Parmenter -Grafting-During ages we have been thinking that we basically need to get completely rid of the old buildings to design and build a new one from zero, while we could be able to work within the ruins from the scraps, in that way we could reduce, reuse, and recycle. The main problem is the designers nowadays, that are thinking too much about if it is suitable to work on it when most of the time, it is possible. In that way we can be able to put the 3R’s in practice and instead of that they are just simply getting rid of everything to start from scratch and throw away what could be used since the starting of the project. Every person is different, everyone has their own concept for an item or a different meaning for something, in the case of architecture, it is different for each structure or way of designing a space, also it is de-pending on our background in the sense of the cultural side or even the language of each one of us. Taking this into account, together with the book ‘inhabiting the ruins’ we find a lot of interesting or even rare terms of expressing the ides of the architects and designers, such as, anti-architecture and inversed house. To find out the real meaning of for instance anti architecture, we need first to look out for the personal meaning of architecture or pure architecture for the architect who designed the space, but it will take a bit long, so let’s talk about what is pure architecture from my personal view and then we can talk about the anti-architecture meaning, so as we know Architecture is the art of beautify the spaces around us, and pure architecture can be the meaning of using every aspect of a ‘perfect’ architecture, using the best materials for each space of the building, making an almost perfect foundation, adding good support, etc.. Basically, to resume, pure architecture is beautifying the spaces with the best quality materials and designs to make a homely space for others. Having this in mind anti architecture is the opposite or can mean going against something, in this case against architecture, but reading the book ‘INHABITING THE RUINS’ we can notice that the architect did not want to mean going against architecture but making the architecture different of what we have been seeing for years, in this case take the best of a ruin and design a masterpiece, a tough process but worthy, giving importance to the preservation of the ruins, and improvement of the old building merging it with new structures and materials, making it fit for habitation, with the feeling of home and medieval in the same space, grafting the old with the new. Now talking about the Thessaloniki sites, we as architects could work and design on its ruins and make them fit for habitation and for people to feel like home, having in mind that the people using the spaces are migrants with a right of living good and homely according to their needs. Silvia Marin

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Charles Mendoza: 1 “Pocket of spaces City wall Thessalonik. 2 Eptapyrgio Castle Pocket Spaces a11d Privacy. 3 Locals making place by the City wall Thessaloniki

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Temporary inhabitation is a common occurance in the urban scene of Thessaloniki. With little to none urban spatial amenities, people tend to makeshift their way of inhabiting a space. The wall ruins is a great landmark and gathering point for locals as well as provide shading on temperate weather. The stagnant architectural state of the urban landscape prompt its locals to informally occupy these spaces which then overlooked for an opportunity regeneration of these spaces.

These clusters of informal inhabitation throughout the city creates a division within the communnity. As this was derived from lack of communal formal spaces, thus locals are ‘reclaiming territories’ as mediterranean way of life is occupation of open air spaces. 1

The severe lack of structure maintenance is undoubtly a common scene within the local vicinity of the city, contradicting on maintained beachfront of Thessaloniki. The Old Mercado is decaying building that could almost be identified as a ruin. With the reclamation of spaces, locals have still utilize the building to suit their way of living. The Old Mercado is currenty occupied as garage repair shop, florist shop and even a solitor office. But what makes it undoubtly isolated and buried amongst its surrounding buildings is the fact its been used as a parking space. Old Mercado has a spatial potential that could be used so it can be resurge as a building base such as Pervolarides. And could beacon how a space in Thessaloniki could be occupied formally and benifically in tackling against these informal reclamations that disregards the idea of regeneration.

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Carl Reyes - 1 Reclaimed Territory : Temporal inhabitation of the wall ruins. 2 Decaying Territory: Declining old Mecado. 3. Reclaiming Territory: The Yphanet river. 4 Thessaloniki watercourse map. 5 The Yphanet river - proposed section. 6 The Yphanet river - proposed site plan .

Thessaloniki has seem to have a lack of green space regeneration. Green space in Thessaloniki has a 2.7 sqm per inhabitant falling from international standard of 10 sqm per inhabitant. The staggering statistics shows how the city is in dire need regenration of green spaces. The Yphanet river is a potential space that could be recycled back to the community. It would pave the right direction in rejuvenating the city on ‘reclaiming’ these territories to be occupied beneficially. As currently the space produces fresh drinking water which people utilize.

Manifesto Thessaloniki has a multi-cultural history that led to its complex ownership in its urban realm which therefore active gentrification and regeneration of spaces are scarce. The architectural uniform the city wears is stagnant and singular. The constant state of inactive architectural intervention resulted to a blurred identity of spaces and locals were imposed to informally ‘reclaim’ territories to suit their inhabitation. Also, this led to lack of utilization of space and use of material in a sustainable approach architecturally. Whether it is a temporary or permanent occupation of space, it resulted to unsustainable reclamation of these urban spaces that contributed to the declining approach of architectural catharsis the city needs. Thus, Thessaloniki through an architectural standpoint in a spatial and environmental state is staggeringly under develop. The client Pervolarides Thessalonikis will be a conduit to serve as the focal point in addressing the architectural catharsis Thessaloniki needs. They pose a scope of elements that would encapsulate the notion of inhabitating a space temporarily and permanently and how these spaces can be redefine and impact culturally, socially and environmentally through this project. It is then utilize the use of various sites that has its own distinct urban identity namely; the Old Mercado, The Wall ruins, and Yfanet river. By exploring how they could all cohabitate architecturally and fabricate the social circulation of the city that would resurge its cultural heritage embedded within the urban landscape. By giving importance and revitalizing these sites would hopefully, to an extent, reopen Thessaloniki’s awareness on environmental duty and utilize materials that would be architecturally sustainable.

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Rosalia Sanchez: 1 Plaster model of breakfast room Soane Museum. 2 Photograph of the Breakfast Room Soane. 3-4 Plaster models inserted in the Thessalonki site model. 4 circulation in the Breakfast Room. 5-8 Inhabiting the Breakfast room. 9 Axonometric proposal drawing. 10 Sketch Internal elevation.

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Rosalia Sanchez: 11 Proposal internal elevation conecting the south with the north entrance to the city. 12 Old Mercado East Facade. 13 Collage showing the proposed cortyard. 14 Study model - propsoed connecting wall. 15 Programe. 16 Proposal site model - view from south.

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Silvia Marin Giraldo: 1 Study sketch facade Soane Museum. 2 Proposal sketch North Facade “Mercado site” in Thessaloniki. 3 Proposed intervention to old Mecado. 4 Plaster model of Soane museum facade study. 5 Sketch proposal Pervolorides urban kithchen for homeless & supporting facilities 6 Urban embrace old versus new

Working with the former Station, which is currently empty , protected and not in use, dealing with the urban complexity of protected building and a significant drop of level was interesting challenge Students were asked to study the Goods-yardWoodseer and the Local Neighborhood . The discussion around the Woodseer project and the locals rejecting these proposals and formulate their client (based on this). Saidumarkhon Arbimajitov: 6 Site model. 7 Master plan proposal. 8 Massing study main event room. Ufuoma Daisy Enughwure: 9 Axo proposal. 10 Porposal section & plan. 6

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Students who could not go to Thessaloniki worked on Alien Gardens Bricklane site. They adopted the old station as base for their Architectural discussion.

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City Land Process IV Memory and Continuity Keita Tajima Charlotte Harris

Unit H is interested in how materials of the land and city can be re-thought and formed to express a specific spatial sensibility and experience, enriching our architectural approach to the city whilst revealing the intricacies of place-memory. Space for cultural production : Bonfim, Porto This year our site study area is in the city of Porto. The historic city, rising above granite substratum. We will be investigating the eastern edge of the city, the area called Bonfim where the past industrial buildings still exist. This quiet historic neighbourhood has been a home for mix of elderly residents, students, artists, and small manufactures until recently. But in the past 10 years, the area is slowly transforming into a desirable neighbourhood attracting an influx of foreign investments and land speculations, and subsequently resulting a less space for residents. Both year 2 and year 3 students have been working on the idea of “a civic space for cultural production”, exploring how educational and cultural civic infrastructure can be developed collaboratively in order to enrich the relationship between the city and its inhabitants. Site/Project Oficina do Ferro (Iron Workshop) The project site locates in the middle of Bonfim, Oficina do Ferro was a home for Ford car manufacture since 1940’s, the site has been left abandoned after its closure, and resulted with a large void in the city. The unit will address urban voids as an opportunity to re-condition the city, and as a medium to increase

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mobility and opportunities for the inhabitants to engage with the urban space of the city. Artist’s House The project site locates right next to municipal cemetery next to Oficina do Ferro. The project is to design live/work space for Lucas Reiner, American artist who is currently based in his Berlin studio. The brief from the artist is open, and students are encouraged to explore potential of the artist’s house as a medium to engage with local neighbourhood.

1 Collage, pencil by Blazej Goralczyk 2 View of the wall, photo-transfer by Sara Bonito 3 Site observation. Photo 4 Site observation. Sketch. Melisa Mjekra 5 Site observation. Section by Rafael Ribeiro Fischer 6 Lost space mapping by Rafael Ribeiro Fischer 7 Site observation. Axonometric. Nabiha Warsame 8 Initial thought. Model by Nabiha Warsame 9-10 Unit trip. Workshop in Porto. 11-12 Initial thought. Detail and model by Joanna Wong. 13-14 Life cycle mapping of materials and models by Jake Whiley. 15-16 Development sketch and proposed view by Melisa Mjekra. 17-19 Sketches and images by Jake Whiley. 20-22 Model Images and photomontage by Linda Martinez Ubilluz. 23-25 Model Images and photomontage by Elonas Butrimas. 26-28 Photo-montage and axonometric view by Jordan Perry. 29-31 Model Images and section by Rafael Ribeiro Fischer.

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Y2: Lida Amri, Tarannum Anam, Safiya Baazi, Sara Bonito, Charlie Chinama, Blazej Goralczyk, Kiranjit Kaur, Nabiha Warsame, Joanna Wong,

Special thanks to: Philip Christo, Lucas Reiner, Perdro Jervell, Ivana Sehic, Paulo Moreira, Andrew Houlton, Colin O’Sullivan, Mo Woonyn Wong, Chris Thorn, Chris Storie, Legend Morgan, Tom Harvey, Adam Cheltsov, Richard Okyiri UEL Workshop David Morgan, Daryl Brown, Mark Sowden, Gaynor Zealy, Zoe Hodgson

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Architectural Design Technology BSc (Hons)

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The BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology (ADT) programme had another successful year with several exciting design, research and construction projects. Students had the opportunity to take part in several funded projects including the Orange Country Sustainability Decathlon ($100K); Modular Mass Customised Zero Energy Housing (£117.5K); East London Impact Scholars Awards 2022/23(£6K); and Robotic Construction in the UK and China (£50K) in collaboration with external partners including Newham Council and Tongji University as well as with several other courses including Architecture, Interior Design, and Engineering. Last year we also received full accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technology (CIAT) for five years. The CIAT panel provided very good feedback and commended on the staff passion and dedication, university facilities, integration of research and knowledge exchange activities within the course, digital fabrication activities, great approaches on technical studies, strong industry links, integration of sustainability and mental wealth modules within the course. Similar to the previous years 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. Our ADT students joined the Sustainability Decathlon 2023 as a collaboration between The University of East London and Tongji University to design and will build an Affordable Prefabricated Carbon Neutral House in a Solar Village in California, Orange County.

They also conducted research on Retrofit, Energy, Indoor Air Quality, and Thermal Comfort and arranged and Community Engagement Events at Hamara Ghar sheltered housing as a part of the ELISA 2022/23 project. We hope these activities leads to further collaborations with Newham and other partners on similar impactful projects on improving health and wellbeing of the vulnerable members of our society. Moreover, we have purchased several state-of-the-art equipment including Data Loggers, Thermal Cameras an ABB Cobot, and 3D Printers that will be used by our students and staff to transform the course into one of the most advance, exciting, and successful courses in the UK. Next year, our students will be building a demonstration house using robotic construction methods on UEL campus, as a part of our British Council funded project. They will also build prototypes and test the energy performances of the house over the winter and summer. We are indeed very proud of our students’ achievements and will keep working closely with the CIAT and the industry to improve the quality of our course and provide employment opportunities to our students. Dr Arman Hashemi (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, MCMI, ACIAT)

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Arman Hashemi, Alfonso Senatore, Ashvin De Vos, Michele Roelofsma, Niall Healy, Raquel Castro, Shahrokh Zandi

The Design modules are delivered in close relation to the Technical and Professional Studies modules. In the design modules, students develop their design and drawing skills while in technical modules they do comprehensive studies aimed at exploring technical aspects of the proposed designs, including the production of detailed construction drawings. In Year 1, we designed a sustainable two storey house. The project aimed at developing our design and technical understanding of small residential structures, building materials, construction processes, sustainability and technical details. Year 2 and 3 ADT, had the opportunity to engage and develop a comprehensive design proposal located within the Carpenter Estate, in the London Borough of Newham. Some of the strategic questions included: -What are the limitations and potentials of the site and context? -How can the design proposal meet the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge Targets for operational energy use, climate resilience, embodied carbon, and water conservation? -What could be the most effective building form and fabric for the chosen site? -How can buildability, adaptability, disassembly, low-maintenance, use of low carbon materials and occupants’ health and wellbeing be incorporated in your design? In Year 3 we designed a multi-storey mixed-use building while in Year 2 we designed a new housing development. In Term 1, we carried out a site visit and worked in teams of 3-4 people to assess the site on various aspects including the history, weather/ climate, geology, architecture & materials, planning,

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traffic, site usage, massing, green areas etc. We also built a virtual model of the site for all students to use and test their ideas while developing their concepts. This was followed by some case studies, feasibility studies, concept and architectural design, construction drawings and 3D visualisation of the final design. In Term 2, we developed the initial concepts into a set of architectural and construction drawings, and virtual 3D models. In addition to planning and design requirements, we focused on various building regulations including Part A, E, M, L, K with a specific attention to the Part B (Fire Safety). During the last year, we enjoyed learning Revit, Lumion, SketchUp, InDesign and AutoCAD as well as some state-of-the-art energy and building performance simulation software packages including EnergyPlus and IES(VE). In the research module we had the opportunity to work on a UEL-Funded project (ELISA 2023) with a focus on Retrofit, Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality, Occupant Bahviour, and Helath & Wellbeing on occupants of a residential block in Newham. Moreover, all ADT students had the opportunity to take part in and contribute to delivering some aspects of the OCSD 2023 Competition for which we have received $100K USD aiming to design and build an affordable prefabricated low/zero carbon house in California, USA by October 2023. The design, technical and research modules are linked in a way to help students become more competent in the analysis and interpretation of the site, feasibility studies, concept design, architectural and detailed drawings as well as in developing project-specific research methodologies.

Students Year 3: Attila Borca, Jordan Moore, Muhammad Saqib,Thomas Wheeler, Louisa Tulloch

Special thanks to Dr Masoud Sajjadian

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BA (Hons) Interior Design Dr Keith Winter Programme Leader

We had a number of exhibitions both internal and external that showcased our student’s work and increased the philosophy of ‘Making Visible’; the idea that now our content is strong the students need to be seen alongside their work to build the bridge to employment from graduation. We had our annual Way Out East exhibition in Feb 2023 which showcased a large 1:1 4m2 cube by Year 01, colourfully illustrated with tessellated optical illusion-style paintings to trick and delight the viewer. UX and UZ showcased their lamp prototypes and both had a formative live crit as visitors circled and viewed theor creations. This show was opened by Susie Rumbold, former President of the BIID, and author of the BIID RIBA Job-book that we give a copy to our final year students to learn from.

We also launch in September 2024 BA Interior Architecture which I have re-titled from Interior and Spatial to better situate Interiors with our proximal neighbours Architecture. The hope is we have a dynamic and growing course that can take the emotion and colour of Interiors with the detail and spatial prowess of Architecture.

Unit Z had a fantastic partnership with Museum of London, Sir Robert McAlpine and Stanton Williams Architects in designing a viewing room on the site of their new museum to open in 2025. This resulted in a remarkable achievement for our students to be the first set of creatives to show within the new Museum building at Smithfield in Farringdon, albeit a building site, but certainly an enviable powerful one-liner for the CV. The Mental Wealth professional practice industry connections were successfully built on since I wrote the template last year for the cluster, this time including architecture and the team of Debora, Claudia and Stephanie enabled the vehicles Job-Shadowing and Mock Interviews to result in multiple important bridges between our 60+ students and 30+ professional offices, studios and ateliers that took our students under their wings. Field trips took place across Europe with Year 01 exploring Rome alongside Architecture students and UX and UZ took on Berlin. Berlin opened up incredible access to iconic tours of DG Bank interior by Frank Gehry, the Neues Museum by Mies van Der Rohe, Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind and a fantastic tour of the Berlin Philharmonic by Hans Scharoun. Our relationship with Dezeen carried on and highlighted the best ten wonderful lamp prototypes made by our Units in three weeks as a Blast Brief. The lamps were

In terms of our external guidance, we bid farewell to External Examiner Felipe Lanuza after four helpful years of steering and welcomed the arrival of Clare Mulholland, the Programme Director of BSc Architecture at Queens University Belfast. We would like to thank Felipe for his meticulous support and guidance in making BA Interior Design the strong and buoyant program that it is today.

Dr Keith Winter PhD MArch DipArch BSc Arch (Hons) ARB SFHEA Visual Arts Cluster Leader Course Leader in BA (Hons) Interior Design Course Leader in BA (Hons) Interior Architecture

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Students: Year 01: Moses Jenga, Ivana Plamenova Panayotova, Sherifa Danville, Amaan Naveed, Esma Bektasogly, Semeera Miah, Olivia Thirkettle, Alfred Storer, Maleena Hydara-Brown, Heyam Ibrahaim, Helin Silfikir, Jada White, Henry Dowle, Remisa Mehmedali, Ammar Al Hamwi, Yekta Sharifi, Leo Sotiri, Natalia Sobon, Nicoly Fernandes, Aiste Sepaviciute, Faith Danville, Alana Terpilowski, Fatima Tuj Noor, George Davis, Frayer Gower, Kebriaa Mohamaden, Habibur Rahman, Yanet Beyene, Aimee Scott, Amina Noor, Libby Price, Theon Wellington, Umar Hossain, Simran Rana, Azra Tahtali, Jamie LLoyd, Ali Turkmen, Cianka Powell, Regina Gorkaj, Worakitt Meenil. Year 2: Hafiza Sultana, Nicoleta Matei-Sascau, Kizrene Kenton, Nicoleta-Daniela Plesea, , Simona Dilyte, Joseph Pearce, Layal Jomah, Lana Russo, Andrea Cheptea, Prince Andrei Garcia, Dalal Bandar, Jessica Olseen, Millie Lawrence, Kidst Belete, Tonisha-Lee Harvey, Florin Matei-Sascau, Kinga Sabolewska, Miurjina Aktur Miah, Nadine Haven. Year 3: Immanuel Kisakye, Gizem Atici, Cintia Szabo, Aleksandra Pieron, Isobel White, Stoimen Dzhukanov, Mahfooz Abdalla,Ishya

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1 BA Interior Design group photo 2 His & Hairs Barbershop Collage by Olivia Thirkettle 3 His & Hairs Barbershop Collage by Olivia Thirkettle 4 Express yuorself - developement plan by Aiste Sapaviciute 5 His & Hairs Barbershop proposed plan by Ammar Al Hamwi 6 His & Hairs Barbershop proposal by Worakitt Meenil 7 His & Hairs Barbershop proposal by Alfie Storer 8 Tesselation design by Alfie Storer 9 His & Hairs Barbershop reception rendering deisgned by Simran Rana 10 His & Hairs Barbershop concept development by Aiste Sapaviciute 11 His & Hairs Barbershop proposal renderings by Natalia Sobon 12-15 His & Hairs Barbershop design proposal and tesselation by Helin Silfikir 16-18 Proposal by Prince Garcia for The Museum of London in Smithfield Market 19 Lamp Prototype by Dalal Bandar 20 Lamp Prototype by Lana Russo 21 Concept devlopment collage by Mia Miurjina Aktur 22 Lamp Prototype by Bianca Radoanca 23 Lamp Prototype by Prince Garcia 24 Lamp Prototype by Immanuel Kisakye 25 Design proposal by Hafiza Sultana for The Museum of London in Smithfield Market 26 Lamp Prototype by Stoimen Dzhukanov 27 Lamp Prototype by Simona Dalyte 28 Lamp Prototype by by Keeji Hondi-Medi 29 Lamp Prototype by Nicoleta Dainela-Plesea 30 Lamp Prototype by Adrienne Mcken 31 Lamp Prototype by Ishiya Thompson 32 Lamp Prototype by Isobel White 33 Concept collage by Isobel White 34 Design proposal by Bianca Radoanca for The Museum of London in Smithfield Market 35 ‘Lamp Prototype by Tonisha Harvey 36 ‘Lamp Prototype by Andrea Cheptea 37 ‘Mahler LeWitt Design proposal and developement sketches by Mahfooz Abdalla 38 Mahler LeWitt Design proposal and developement sketches by Joseph Pearce 39 Mahler LeWitt Design proposal and developement sketches by Yasemin Osei 40 Mahler LeWitt Design proposal and developement sketches by Fernando TAgliati 41 Lamp Prototype by Emiliana Lamce 42 Concept developement collage by Nadine Haven 43 Lamp Prototype by Joseph Pearce 44 Lamp Prototype by Sharon Gomez 45 Lamp Prototype by Fernanto Tagliati 46 Lamp Prototype by Stoimen Dzhukanov 47 Lamp Prototype by Mahfooz Abdalla 48 Lamp Prototype by Nicoleta-Matei Sascau 49 Lamp Prototype by Florin-Materi Sascau 50 Lamp Prototype by Yogesh Chhayani 3

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BA (Hons) Product Design Andy Wright Programme Leader

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The Product Design Programme encourages students to analyse and assess social and environmental landscapes to identify opportunities for improvement By identifying issues, students undertake primary research to emphasise and identify with their key users. forging a direction for the development of their final designs. During their journey, students will explore ideas in 2 and 3 Dimensions in parallel to understand and fully represent their design concepts, becoming more refined on their iterative journey of exploration Encouragement to understand and identify form and function, alongside technical material explorations, helps with the realisation of the final designs, pieces that can be manufactured and realised commercially. The construction of test rigs and jigs on a basic level enables in-depth analysis and evaluation directly with the user, presenting solutions influenced by the cilent or user’s direct input. By integrating the contextual and professional life elements of the programme to support the design projects, a richer more conclusive outcome is achieved through a body of work that theorises and then directly questions the issues identified central to the user.

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Students Umar Hossian George Davis Henry Dowle Leo Sotiri Esma Bektasoglu Habibur Rahman Theon Wellington Amaan Naveed Natalia Higuera Garzon Kiora Dekermanjian

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Architecture MArch Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 2 Isaie Bloch, Course Leader

Architectural Design Staff: Unit 1 Philip Christou, Theodoros Thysiadis Unit 2 Christoph Hadrys, Uwe Shmidt-Hess, Tony Fretton Unit 6 Isaie Bloch, Igor Pantic Unit 8 Armor Gutierrez, Rosa Rogina

Professional Studies teaching staff: Roland Karthaus, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros.

History & Theory teaching staff: Christoph Hadrys, Anna Minton, Clare Penny, Teresa Serrano, Fulvio Wirz.

External Examiners: Teoman Ayas, Julian Cross, Raymond Quek, Jessica Reynolds, David Short, Michael Trousdell.

Technical & Environmental Studies teaching staff: Alan Chandler, Armor Gutierrez, Teresa Serrano, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros.

Technicians & Demonstrators: Daryl Brown, Garry Doherty, Alina Klimenteva, Paul Nichols, Mark Sowden.

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Our school is enriching lives and is addressing the climate emergency. We have developed a strong position in sustainable design and for many years, have developed the shared theme across the course zero percent carbon one hundred percent people. The link between environmental and social sustainability has grown our engagement with new and emerging technologies and organisational structures as well as people and communities in need. In this process, we engage students in knowledge transfer, skill-building, research, placemaking, iterative explorations and testing. Our students develop their work through a culture of critical, practical, and creative engagement as designers and thinkers. We ask questions and aim to enable answers, from the things we touch to the world around us and from the individual to society. This approach to sustainability whilst preserving human experience is a core value shared by all staff and students. Situated in the department of Architecture and Visual Arts (AVA) the close proximity between courses also brings access to a wide variety of technical workshops and labs including the full range of Engineering and Arts workshops, such as photography, the traditional metal, plaster and wood workshops as well as the newer digital fabrication and robotics workshops. Students are encouraged towards a hybrid use of the workshops with project work spanning both traditional and more contemporary digital technologies. As part of our making culture, the hands-on learning by doing is an important aspect of our teaching and learning. Our professionally accredited part 2 programme at UEL produce directed, environmentally 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. Through our 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 architectures. Our teaching is centred on the interface of social and spatial structures, on people and place. At the core of this education are our design units in year 4 & 5, each of which provides students with a particular thematic and methodological approach to design, and as a whole contain a diversity of students and staff that stimulates critical awareness. The aim of the MArch programme, in Years 4 & 5, is to stimulate students to become critical agents in the social production of space through thorough and in-depth engagement with environmentally sound responses addressing real-life issues and uncertainties. Sustainability is key for us and can only be achieved by aligning human behaviour, use, technology, place and space together. We believe students need more than just a traditional understanding of how to do their job. As such our course does not attempt to replicate office practice, instead it prepares students to push practice forward. We teach how to maximise potential and to generate impact by addressing new methods of project and design development as well as through the use of contemporary technology. We believe that by engaging on a practical level with real-life scenarios you will affect the whole, not just the part. We will stimulate to look at architecture as the opportunist, not the problem-solver only. Within this process students transform complexity into elegance, animate aesthetics and organise space for social use. Preparation for professional practice and beyond integrates essential technical, philosophical, regulatory and practical knowledge as baseline skills that enable the final thesis at MArch level to critically extend beyond the ARB and RIBA requirements. Decision making and technical innovation, develop from and relate to wider socio-political contexts, grounding the design work and emphasise the importance of the critical task we have in creating better architectures for all generations to come.

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The Origins of Civic Life

Philip Christou and Theodoros Thysiadis

Working in the small Greek town of Benitses on the island of Corfu we have been designing ‘a little urbanity’, a piece of town. We have been searching for the origins of civic life in a given neighbourhood – the primary spatial structures that allow life to unfold and form itself around – the lifeline, the backbone, the forum. We were attempting to design the genesis of the town; one could say an urban embryo. The ‘origins of civic life’ are to a large extent already existing in the site – its specific landform, significant landmarks, buildings and public spaces with special characteristic forms or histories. We were finding ways of seeing, drawing and interpreting these ‘as found’ aspects of the site, reinforcing and reinterpreting the poetic and human dimensions of these qualities to build a community with delight and ‘ihsan’ (Arabic: , beautiful excellence ).

This year we have worked alongside Architecture Studio B at UEL taught by Alex Scott-Whitby, Stephen Batty, and Christian Groothuizen in dialogue with the Mayor and the citizens of the town of Benitses. We have designed an ensemble of community buildings, for example – a school, a town square, a community theatre, a social condenser. Students have gone on journeys of discovery searching for their own sense of beauty and delight in architecture, studying the delightful works of some of the masters of Greek modern architecture such as Dimitiri Pikionis and Aris Konstantinidis. When the spatial relationships between buildings began to have a certain tension and charge (élan), something emerged that could be described as civic and alive.

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Visiting Guests, Critics, and new friends in Greece: Stephen Batty, Carl Callaghan, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros, Christoph_Hadrys, Charlotte Harris, Freddie Phillipson, Alex ScottWhitby, Teresa Serrano, Takero Shimazaki, Keita Tajima, Karabo Turner, and Leon Bellos, Takis Kondou, Alex Manssi, Jane Thompstone, Anabel Zoxioy, and many others.

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“Most people today find pleasure and satisfaction in an ancient city which possesses visible physical evidence of its individual origin, growth and purpose. It is a unique and personal expression of the activity and life within. An urban environment of this kind is deeply felt; ... Civic beauty, as a whole, is consciously shared and does much to induce feelings of loyalty, pride and patriotism. So strong are these visible features of urbanity that even a stranger, a visitor, cannot escape their impact.“ S e rg e C h e r m a y e f f a n d C h r i s t o p h e r A l e x a n d e r i n C o m m u n i t y a n d P r i v a c y, To w a rd a N e w A rc h i t e c t u re of Humanism (1963)

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46 Reference study drawing by Mohammed Abdul Mubin of the Potamianou Residence, Athens, designed by Dimitri Pikionis, (1953-5). 47 - 49 A Civic Lifeline in Benitses, by Mohammed Abdul Mubin

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44 - 45 A Civic Lifeline in Benitses, by Mohammed Abdul Mubin

Is it not this concordance, this rule of the “All the forces of nature converge and same laws in both nature and art, that allows work together to produce this particular configuration: the refined air, the bright light, us to see forms of nature transformed before our very eyes into forms of art, or vice versa the colour of the sky, the floating clouds, or one art form transformed into a different the slope of the mountains, the boulders scattered around the Temple’s stylobate and art form? Is it not this concordance, this uniformity governing the apparently most the grass growing up between the cracks… diverse creations, which has the power to reveal and explain them by reflection, by comparison?” D i m i t r i s P i k i o n i s , Σ υ ν α ι σ θ η μ α τ ι χ ή Το π ο γ ϙ α ψ ί α ( A S e n t i m e n t a l To p o g r a p h y ) , ( 1 9 3 5 )

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Unit 2

Open Space Christoph Hadrys, Uwe Schmidt-Hess and Tony Fretton

MArch Unit 2 addresses urban and architectural conditions in locations undergoing critical change and over the years, has worked in North Africa, East London and other places in Europe. Through a combination of research and creative practice, we propose complex buildings, which respond to urban challenges. The Unit explores extremes of interrelated scales, from urban geographies through to building and detail qualities. Our strategies formulate responses to critical contexts, site conditions, architectural sensibilities, as well as structural and material conditions. We aim to create social, spatial and time-based habitats and environments. This academic year, we focused on designing buildings and open spaces in Woolwich, South-East London. Within this location, Unit 2 explored the guiding theme of Urban Play. Woolwich is a local urban centre on the River Thames, and it was an important military town, for centuries. It is a densely build-up area with buildings of different sizes, functions, and ages. The relocation of military functions and new Elizabeth Line station have led to rapid urban transformations and new developments that tend to follow commercial interests. However, Woolwich has a young and deprived population that is ethnically very diverse. Most new developments struggle to respond to the existing city and its people in invigorating manners. A lot of valuable architecture has been demolished and it is difficult for young and old to integrate in urban life. During the 20th Century, architects, researchers, and planning authorities have increasingly paid attention to different forms of play in cities, for adults but also

WOOLWICH, SOUTH-EAST LONDON

for children. Unit 2 explored the guiding theme Urban Play through designing buildings and open spaces that address different forms of playful activities, such as leisure, children’s play, sport, or civic engagement. This could enable either spontaneous or more structured forms of play that aims at brining all ages and people of different backgrounds together. Our interventions could enable new forms of socialisation for more personal and communal growth. In the beginning of the academic year, we explored a new urban development framework for the research area that integrates local contexts with a new network of sites, linkages and open spaces. Each student had a choice to work on one of the given sites within the framework. On each site, students combined communal architecture with open spaces. We explored ways in which playful sharing and living together can be part of a unique and synergetic urban life.

“Play is anterior to culture; in a certain sense it is also superior to it or at least detached from it. In play we move below the level of seriousness; but we can also move above it in the realm of the beautiful and sacred.“ Johan Huizinga in Homo Ludens (1950)

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Y4: Jason Boamah, Busra Ciftci, Shahid Siddique, Jason Tschibangu

Visiting Crits and Guests: Philip Christou Baruti, Isaie Bloch, Igor Pantic, Armor Gutierrez, Rosa Rogina, Teresa Serrano, Deborah Do-Rosario-Benros, Hussein Ali Kasim

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2 Spray Street urban block, new public square and community centre, reusing the city and its materiality, by Luke Day 3 Construction process using recycled building elements, by Luke Day 4 Cityscape of play, mapping by Luke Day 5 Plan of existing and new integration, by Luke Day 6 Technical Section, by Luke Day

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1 Previous Page, Collage, City Life and Play in Woolwich, by Luke Day

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7-8 New public space and community centre by Agis Valsamis 9 Urban envelope and light studies, by Agis Valsamis 10 Technical section with small grained and adjusting structure, by Agis Valsamis, 11 Community hall interior, by Agis Valsamis

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12 New public play space and community centre, negotiating urban scales in Woolwich, by Julian Imossi 13-15 Exterior and interior perspectives, by Julian Imossi

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16-17 New public play spaces and community centre along Woolwich Powis Street, using existing buildings and additions, by Ziyad Hasanin 18-20 Exterior and interior perspectives, by Ziyad Hasanin

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21 Redesign of planned Woolwich leisure centre, using urban block typologies as part of a larger public strategy, by Thomas Hardy 22 Section new leisure centre, by Thomas Hardy 23-25 Exterior and interior perspectives through new leisure centre, by Thomas Hardy

“T h e n e a t n e s s o f a r c h i t e c t u r e i s i t s 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 i n v e n t a n d r e n e w. “ Rem Koolhaas (SMLXL)

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26 Section-perspective multi-purpose sports halls, negotiating people, spaces and light, by Thomas Hardy 27 Ground floor plan new leisure centre, by Thomas Hardy 28 Programmatic public and private diversity, stimulating urban life, by Thomas Hardy 29-30 Interior views sports halls, by Thomas Hardy

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Unit 6

AI Ai Aiaiai

Isaie Bloch, Igor Pantic

We are recently witnessing a major shift in the use of AI systems in the process of image creation and consequently design methods. Systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney allow creatives to create combinations of seemingly unrelated concepts in unexpected plausible ways making us to severely question our current visual vocabulary, our ways to critique formal outcome, authorship and its role in our build environment. It offers us unprecedented access to be playful with form, typology, materiality, context and use; and to generate countless imaginative variations for spatial ideas to solve complex creative problems. For centuries architects usually go through past designs and expertise to produce new designs, a form of up-cycling if you will. Instead of investing a significant amount of time and energy to create something “new”, we believe that AI systems are able to analyse our data in a shorter period of time whilst providing unaccounted novel configurations following our visual interpretation and design-making skills. Skills which are inherently human, not computational. This play between digital material and matter, form and materiality, material representation is what we will understand as material transformations. As architects we provide place which enables change. We will aim to prove that architecture and its construction process has a fundamental impact on the city and its inhabitants. Our spatial explorations will account for diversity of human characters and their needs, represented through novel well crafted civic centres. These novel human and AI generated hybrids will simultaneously act as role models for human interaction as well as for construction in the

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city; catering for complex problem solving, creativity and identity. Our design process will take a deep interest in the art of construction and direct application of learnt principles back into design as to allow for clear authorship over a comprehensive architecture of considered expression contributing to more sustainable futures both politically, environmentally, socially and economically. Through an in depth understanding of typological and architectural descriptors we will create a plethora of non stylistic attributes and novel spatial hybrids to infuse in one of the richest architectural cosmopolitan cities in the world, Barcelona! Barcelona`s unique blend of architectural styles, differentiated master planning approaches and cultures is as rich as paella itself and as such the perfect environment for innovation and experimentation. As the “world capital of Architecture” in 2026, Barcelona will host the New European Bauhaus initiative, which calls on all Europeans to imagine and co-create a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes, minds, and souls. Beautiful are the places, practices, and experiences that are inspired by art and culture, responding to needs beyond functionality, in harmony with the environment, encourages dialogue and value diversity of perception and place. As such we will be co-creating civic centres for the new World Capital of Architecture in the buzzing heart of Barcelona. In doing so, both the architectures as well as our methods for design might require more then our human imagination alone.

Unit 6 MArch Architecture

Y4: Mohhamed Hamza Ahmad, Ronak Dhirubhai Akbari, Nazia Begum, Faith Omowunmi Ogundare , Hinal Arvindkumar Patel, Dodangodagamage Kawan Roger Ranasinghe, Yalda Tabei Unit in general:

Unit 6 argues for an architectural ontology based on sharpening the tension between architecture and its parts. Investigating the production of space trough geometrical studies, sustainable material use and responsive environmental design principles. Increased computational capabilities are able to push our understanding of architecture as a relationship of objects into an unexpected new domain of previously unachievable spatial complexity, materiality, structure and aesthetics as to create informed well-crafted space.

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Students: Y5: Akanksha Barada, Harsh Desai, Chidochashe Vanessa Mawoneke, Wendpagnande Naomi Nakoulma, Franko Rrapaj, Nafisa Tailor, Mihriban Ustun

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During the first workshop of the year students were tasked to work from two pre-selected case studies, understanding spatial relationships, material transformations, tectonic behaviours, façade development, ornamentation, organisation and environmental responses, with the aim of identifying specific non-stylistic attributes embedded in the architecture.

Whilst modeling these chunks students are also tasked to diagrammatically speculate on the overall typology and/or impact these models have on a larger whole in plan or section. The goal was to quickly iterate through multiple design ideas, explore the impact of Generative AI on design process and creativity, and finally establish the design language which will be carried forward into the design proposals.

These attributes were then documented and described as spatial vocabulary or “prompts” as to be able to AI generate unexpected plausible configurations based on seemingly unrelated concepts. As such new imaginative variations for Student work by: spatial ideas will have been created. 1 Wendpagnande Naomi Nakoulma 2 - 4 Dodangodagamage Kawan Roger In the following step, these visual interpretations of 2D AI artwork were analyzed Ranasinghe 5 Akanksha Barada 6 - 7 Ronak Dhirubhai Akbari 8 Franko Rrapaj for their space-building and material-forming potential, after which they were 9 - 10 Faith Omowunmi Ogundare 11 - 12 Harsh Desai. translated into spatial 3D chunk models.

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This year Unit 6 operated in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Two distinct sites were selected, and students were asked to select a site suitable for their proposed project, taking into consideration its socio-economic context, demographics and programmatic needs. Taking into consideration the peculiarities of these sites, projects would adress the New European Bauhaus initiavite, and the fact that the city of Barcelona has been selected as the “world capital of Architecture” in 2026. Inspired by the local art and culture, the projects would respond to the local needs beyond functionality, contributing to the more sustainable futures. Student work by: 13 Akanksha Barada. Pictured are 3-dimensional studies of aggregated objects, which act both as structural elements, supporting the main building volumes, as well as landscape elements, creating engaging public spaces. The objects were the result of translation of AI generated images into 3D. 14 Wendpagnande Naomi Nakoulma. Elevations of the

1st workshop chunk model, derived from AI generated material aggregation of discrete elements. The studies would later on become the basis for the formal and material expressions of the full scale building proposal. 15 Ronak Dhirubhai Akbari. Rendering fo the workshop chunk model, exploring the spatial potential of shell-like structures. 16 Faith Omowunmi Ogundare. Workshop chunk model rendering, demonstrating the translation of expressive AI generated templates into a full scale facade system. 17 - 18 Mihriban Ustun proposes a civic center, which doubles as a Seed bank with research and educational facilities. The civic centre is open to the public as part of a public community space to take a journey in the in the natural world to learn, educate and experience. The aim is to transform public spaces into healthy, biodiverse, efficient and inclusive environments by stimulating, educating and empowering the local community.

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A series of a chunk models are developed soon after the start of the second term. These do not only depict constructional material layering as they simultaneously describe chosen envelope strategies which directly influence atmosphere, climatic control and use. These same 3 dimensional chunk models ought to reflect key strategies which are applicable on the whole proposal. Students were looking at the relation between material and structural systems in order to produce a complex whole.

20 - 24 Wendpagnande Naomi Nakoulma. Project titled “Nuestra Casa” proposes affordable housing which acts as the community residential child care. This mixed use project explores differentiation between public and private spaces, as well as alternative modes of co-living between multi-family units. Apartment units are design as flexible spaces, which can be restructured according to needs.

25 Faith Omowunmi Ogundare. Elevational render of Barter market. Project creates series of programatic layers. Ground floor level is dedicated to the public market spaces, while the large elevated volume acts as a public park and a 19 Ronak Dhirubhai Akbari . Construction sequence and structural system canopy for the intermediate space, effectively doubling up the total area of open diagrams. The building primarily relies on a laminated timber structural system, public space on the site. which partially rests on the strategically positioned concrete butresses which emerge from the landscape, creating a seamless connection between the 26 Ronak Dhirubhai Akbari Interior rendering of the Training and incubation building shell and the surrounding public space. center for innovative technologies. The interior boast with exposed laminated timber structural system and generous multi-functional spaces. Student work by:

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Unit 8

Learning from Lanzarote An Embassy for the Climate Diaspora Armor Gutierrez Rivas and Rosa Rogina

Drawing from vernacular knowledge and solutions developed during the pass millennia by the inhabitants of Canary Islands and Andalusia in Spain to address extreme weather conditions, this year students in Unit 8 were challenged to explore radical solutions to the pressing issues of climate breakdown, including severe droughts, overheating and aridification. This included understanding and addressing through design the consequences of these new spatial conditions on current and upcoming migration fluxes, both locally and globally. Once one of the main trading stations in Europe, Canary Islands, an archipelago of volcanic islands located just 100km away from Africa mainland, is nowadays a melting point where intensive agriculture, arrival of mass tourism and the influx of refugees are forced to coexist. Every year, over 12 million tourists arrive to the islands putting an enormous social and environmental pressure to already a very delicate ecosystem. At the same time, its proximity to Africa mainland, makes the archipelago one of the main destinations for illegal migrant arrivals, with more than 30,000 people taking perilous boat trips to reach the coast seeking asylum on one of the islands. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), 75% of the over 40 million forced displacements in 2020 were weather related, largely caused by consequences of climate change. These migrations, that are likely to continue to rise in the upcoming years, are putting a large amount of pressure in bordering territories such as Canary Islands, which are failing to offer sustainable longterm solutions.

LANZAROTE, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN

While most of the Canary Islands have sacrificed nature and landscape in search of profit and endless beach resorts, the island of Lanzarote, the northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago, still preserves most of its unique landscape intact, thanks to the interventions of local people such as artist Cesar Manrique who in collaboration with architect Fernando Higueras developed an alternative, more sustainable growth for the island. Their vision for the island includes delicate architectural interventions in constant dialogue with the landscape and the local context, which were explored as part of the Unit 8 study trip and research this year. Alongside these references and building on the common theme of Material Transformations, Unit 8 explored the use of by-products from intensive agriculture, creating a catalogue of biomaterials to be implemented in the proposals. Students in unit 8 addressed a new typology of an Embassy for the Climate Diaspora, including temporary accommodation for Climatic Refugees and Ecotourists and a public Laboratory for Combatting Climate Crisis. Through their projects, students tested ideas within the unique local context and people of Lanzarote, and explored innovative and locally sourced materials, passive heating and cooling strategies and urgent water management solutions.

Isaie Bloch, Christoph Hadrys, Teresa Serrano and Deborah Benros Instagram: @unit8.uel

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Y4: Amy Frances Gillespie, Jussiley Mendes, Leticia Herminia Madeira Martins, Yucel Seckin Karatas

Special thanks to visiting Crits and Guests: Anne Thomas (co-founder of &U Studio), Fernanda Palmieri (senior lecturer UEL), Ramsey Yassa (founder of NOOMA Studio), Maxime Cunin (founder of Superworld), Ines Garcia (Spanish Red Cross, Fuerteventura), Said Khrabcha Horma (NGO Montana Mina, Lanzarote)

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Unit 8

3 Cross sections and plan of the proposal. 4 Detailed cross section indicating the preservation of existing volcanic stone walls. 5 Construction details explaining the use of post tension stone beams in the proposal. 6 Aerial view of the proposal highlighting the salt mine recovery strategy.

Llegada: The Story of Arrival explores a better arrival experience to kick start the migrants’ future in Lanzarote and help them cope with the trauma from the journey itself. The proposal merges refugees, local public and touristic Project and drawings by Stephano Varikkanikkal community into a dual program, a migrant welcoming harbour, and an urban Sustainability Strategy beach, with overlapping functions and shared activities.

Cave Architecture 2 Conceptual sectional model and hand sketch incorporating the underground nature of Lanzarote Island in the environmental strategy. Dividing the pinch part to be a semi private hinderance between the migrant port and the urban beach. Reducing the width of the entry way into the site could give a screen effect between these two functions.

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1 On the previous page, Llegada: The Story of Arrival, welcoming view from the climatic refugee arrival port.

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Enhancing the site with the migrant port and urban beach design strategies would help the urban fabric of Arrecife city and hence targeting a sustainable development to the lives of the migrants and the local public.

Unit 8

7 Conceptual models indicating the use of sugarcane bagasse arches cast over the existing volcanic stone structure as construction modules. 8 Masterplan including the intervention above the existing water cistern and the expansion towards the north. 9 Internal views of the arches interventions above and below the water cistern. 10 Physical model at 1 to 1 scale demonstrating the use of sugarcane bagasse as a load bearing material with post tension reinforcement for the half arches and external lime render for weathering. 11 Technical cross section juxtaposing existing and proposed. 12 Approach view Unit 8 from the south road.

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Itule - from the Nigerian Igbo dialect; balance, consider, assess, contemplate, speculate. Sustainable Integration through Skill Sharing seeks to promote sustainable integration by encouraging migrants to share their skills with locals in order to help tackle Lanzarote’s most pressing migration issues. Using vernacular materials and implementing local sustainable water management techniques from the past aims to retrofit an existing water reservoir building no longer in use. Upcycling local bio-waste materials deriving from sugarcane, bagasse, used in combination with local lime, it speculates with energy efficient and Oluchukwu Okonkwo - Y5 and locals at risk of exclusion. carbon negative housing proposals for migrants

Sustainable Integration Through Skill Sharing Project and drawings by Oluchukwu Okonkwo.

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DESIGN PROPOSAL - 1:150 MODEL

In 2021 Canary Island saw over 20,000 migrants arrive their GROUND FLOOR SITE PLAN - 1:1000 beaches from WestPROPOSED Africa due to climate change. The jounery to the archipelago and arrival process have negatively impacted the migrants’ self-esteem and sense of identity. This project seeks to promote sustainable integration by encouraging migrants to share their skills with locals in order to help tackle Lanzarote most pressing issues using vernacular materials and implementing local sustainable water management techniques from the past by retrofitting an existing water reservoir building. The use of local bio-waste material deriving from sugarcane, bagasse, will be used in combination with local lime to construct energy efficient and carbon negative housing project for migrants.

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Water will be treated and redistributed to the community for agricultural purposes. Managed by migrants.

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Lanzarote history of water will be exhibited in this place.

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VECTORWORKS EDUCATIONAL VERSION

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Every year hundreds of boats arrived at the island coasts after a journey of several days in the sea looking for better opportunities and better life. It’s proposed to reuse and treat the timber from the boats to a timber cladding wall. Due to their colourful exterior, this will give a welcoming space to the units, and to preserve the culture and foundations of the migrants, which in a way they can feel at home.

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The Walls of Broken Voices is a pioneering initiative dedicated to providing a place of refuge and support for displaced individuals seeking temporary accommodation. It encompasses provision of shelter and the cultivation of an inclusive community where refugees can share their stories, skills, and experiences. At theofcore the atproposal theafter Museum Every year hundreds boats of arrived the islandlies coasts a journeyofofmigration several days in the sea for better opportunities and better life. It’s proposed to reuse andworkshops. treat the timber from offeringlooking interactive exhibits, storytelling sessions, and immersive boats to a timber cladding wall. This creates of the understanding, empathy, Due to an theirenvironment colourful exterior, this will give a welcoming space and to thecross-cultural units, and to preserve the appreciation, fostering deeper sense of unitywhich among communities. culture and afoundations of the migrants, in a way they can feel at home.

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13 Reclaimed timber boat is used as cladding. 14 Structural model identifying permanent and self-built structure. 15 Construction sequence diagrams. 16 Long section indicating juxtaposition of programs. 17 Construction sequence diagrams. 18 Visual demonstrating the self-built aspect of the proposal.

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BOAT STRUCTURE

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From Salt to Society aims to address climate migration issues and promote social integration through a co-living scheme in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. The key focus is on the transition from isolation into integration, bringing together local people, migrants, and tourists in a subsidized co-living environment.

19 Retrofit strategy by over cladding the existing precast concrete panels. 20 Cross section of the proposal with existing structure highlighted in red.

21 Main perspective identifying shared yards and activities. 22 Construction sequence diagrams indicating the strategy to restore the neglected salt mines infrastructure. 23 Masterplan of the proposal.

Project and drawings by Amaka Edeh.

Project and drawings by Mert Manas Erten.

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Detention centres are closing in different part of Spain and Canary Islands due to social pressure. Instead of these buildings remaining vacant, the proposal aims to retrofit detention centres into welcoming centres by creating a catalogue of interventions that provides social, architectural, and environmental improvements to the existing centres and surrounding area.

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G BUILDING TERRACE EXISTING SOUTH FACADE ANALYSIS Scale - 1:50

The pergola acts as double skin façade Recycling the concrete fence as the structural base of the pergola The South Facade is stepped creating oppurtunity for the residents to have private shared terrace The perogla provides the oppurtunity for residents to have a private shared terrace and to have a shared terrace. which is seperated through voids terraces

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Reading the neoliberal city Anna Minton, Debra Shaw

Anna Minton, author of Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the 21st century city (Penguin 2009/12), is the Programme Leader on the MRes Architecture. This multi-disciplinary course, sited within the architecture department, encourages a critical approach to contemporary urbanism and welcomes applicants from a wide range of backgrounds. While situated in London’s Docklands, the global impact of urban processes, which are relevant across the world, provides the context. This is a seminar-based course, focused on lectures and group discussion and a programme of walks through the city. The course is comprised of four modules: Reading the neoliberal city; Critical Writing and Professional Practice; 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. The modules on Ethical Development and the Digital City investigate potential economic alternatives. The module on Critical Writing focuses on high level writing skills, through written assignments and the study of critical writing about the city, from Situationism to Psychogeography. The modules on Critical Writing and the Digital City are also offered to Diploma students choosing Critical Writing for their Theory component. Guest lecturers are a key component of the course and include politicians, leading industry figures, activists and academics. The MRes provides a pathway to PhD study, with three former MRes

students currently doing PhDs with us, and continuing to contribute to the MRes, through guest lectures and involvement in sessions. Mark Sustr, who has been awarded a PhD Studentship, is researching whether self help housing can provide agency to homeless communities. Martyn Holmes is investigating whether community-led housing might provide a solution to the housing crisis and Luke Okende is researching the impact of participatory processes to improve slum conditions in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. For more information contact: Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture & Programme Leader (a.minton@uel.ac.uk).

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Thanks to Visiting Speakers: Lord Moylan, Morag Rose & James McAsh

Still from a walk to document the changing nature of Docklands and Poplar

MA Architecture and Urbanism

Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Dr Fulvio Wirz

The MA in Architecture and Urbanism offers specialized study paths in Computational Design and Design for Digital Fabrication, providing students with a flexible platform to explore the intersection of digital technologies and architectural manufacturing. This program aims to push the boundaries of architectural design by experimenting with new possibilities for spaces and cities, while emphasizing the importance of connecting design processes, technological advancements, and sustainable strategies. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to adopt a multidisciplinary approach, working at various scales to foster creativity and innovation. In the current academic year, the program has placed particular emphasis on integrating artificial intelligence into the computational design process. To test structural efficiency and stability, early modular concepts were 3D printed on a large scale. As part of their year-long project, students have been actively involved in the “Design Future London” competition, using their modular concepts as the backbone for their designs. The focus of their work has been the vibrant area of Croydon in South London, where they have explored potential opportunities to enhance residential and leisure facilities in the town’s central region. By engaging in this comprehensive curriculum, students gain invaluable hands-on experience and develop a deep understanding of the relationship between digital technologies, architectural design, and urban development. Through their innovative projects, they contribute to shaping the future of architecture and urbanism in a sustainable and technologically driven world.

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“Robotic fabrication is reshaping the way we design and construct architecture. It offers us unprecedented possibilities in terms of precision, customization, and material efficiency. Robots enable us to explore complex geometries and intricate details with ease, pushing the boundaries of what can be built. They provide a level of flexibility and adaptability that traditional construction methods struggle to achieve. Robotic fabrication allows for the seamless integration of digital design with physical construction, enabling architects and engineers to materialize their most ambitious ideas. It not only revolutionizes the way we build but also opens up new opportunities for sustainable and efficient construction practices. The future of architecture is intertwined with robotics, as it empowers us to create structures that were once unimaginable.” Fabio Gramazio

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Special thanks to: Visiting Critics: Alessandro Dell’Endice (ETH Zurich); Daniel Widrig (the Bartlett School of Architecture); Manuele Gaioni (SCR SERCOM, Wirz Architects); Federico Rossi (London South Bank University); Isaie Bloch (University of East London)

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Students: Ali AL-FARHAN, Artenisa ARIFLLARI, Urmila BADE, Raivati Divyesh DANDIWALA, Lam Ngoc NGUYEN, Omid MONTAZER, George Kelechukwu ONWUDEBE, Pinkalben Mayurkumar PATEL, Manaliben Vinubhai PATOLIYA, Diana PECHLIVANIDOU, Vidya KALAPPURAKKAL SUKUMARAN.

2 TEAM Y (Artenisa ARIFLLARI, Lam Ngoc NGUYEN, Manaliben Vinubhai PATOLIYA, Diana PECHLIVANIDOU) 1 Final 3d printed model of the post-tensioned bench, 2 Construction diagrams and schemes of the post tensioned bench

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TEAM Y (Artenisa ARIFLLARI, Lam Ngoc NGUYEN, Manaliben Vinubhai PATOLIYA, Diana PECHLIVANIDOU) 3 Conceptual images generated through AI , 4 Massing diagrams showing the resilience and envisaged growth of the urban proposal, 5 Aerial view of the proposed masterplan for Croydon, 6 A cluster of modular residential units, 7 Typical plan of a residential unit, 8 Sketch of the structural system, 9 Aerial view of the intervention in Croydon showing the proposed suspended bridges.

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TEAM CLAY (Ali AL-FARHAN, Raivati Divyesh DANDIWALA, George Kelechukwu ONWUDEBE) 10 Concept generation diagrams using computational minimal pathways , 11 Urban diagrams showing the use of the Voronoi algorithm to reconnect the city, 12 AI generated images of the residential units in Croydon, 13 View of the proposed public spaces in Croydon, 14 Modular residential units and roof gardens, 15 AI generated concepts of the apartments.

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TEAM FOLD (Urmila BADE, Omid MONTAZER, Pinkalben Mayurkumar PATEL, Vidya KALAPPURAKKAL SUKUMARAN) 19 Programmatic diagrams of the modular masterplan in Croydon, 20 Perspective views of the residential buildings, 21 Interior view of the apartment, 22 Typical plan of the residential building, 23 Conceptual sketch of the modular aggregation of the residential buildings highlighting their “porous” quality.

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TEAM CLAY (Ali AL-FARHAN, Raivati Divyesh DANDIWALA, George Kelechukwu ONWUDEBE) 16 Construction diagrams of the clay 3d printerd structure, 17 3d printing process showing the final model of a column, 18 Studies on the toolpath and control of the 3d printing process.

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Urban Design Open Studio

Christoph Hadrys

The Urban Design course is part of the MA Architecture and Urbanism Programme. It is the design intensive course for alternative urbanisms at the University of East London. The course 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. 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 timelines, 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

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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. 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.

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MArch Y4: Ronak Akbari, Anca Borda, Busra Ciftci, Sumaiyabinte Ismail, Jason Boamah, Miles James, Leticia Herminia Madeira Martins

MArch Y5: Stefano Binoi Varikkanikkal, Luke Day, Uzoamaka Edeh, Thomas Hardy, Oluchukwu Okonkwo Obiejesi, Svetoslav Savov, Agis Valsamis Urban Design

Students: Ruth Ferguson, Sharon Chilvers, Aya Mcgill, Lily Garbutt, Khaled Hadi

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. Urban Theory 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. Invited guests from different backgrounds enrich the course with diverse talks. We explore complexities of cities through discussions, writings, readings, lectures, drawings, student presentations, movies and excursions.

The theory component is assessed through ongoing course work and an 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.

Professional Landscape Architecture Clare Penny MA CMLI FHEA Anna Sieczak Eng PgDip CMLI

UEL’s Professional Landscape Architecture programmes prepare students for professional life by teaching skills in both the design and theory of Landscape Architecture. Our programmes explore the complex social and environmental issues that inform professional landscape practice every day. Our students are encouraged to consider their place in the world as humans and landscape professionals and our programmes provide them with the tools to address the social and environmental challenges the world faces. This year we asked our students to consider the relationship between sustainability and society in a project called ‘Sustainable Communities’, focusing on the Nightingale Estate neighbourhood and Hackney Downs park in London. The Nightingale Estate faces considerable changes with new redevelopment planned and issues relating to social inequality and access to green space. These issues are felt across the UK and worldwide, and reflect the range of challenges our profession faces. This year we worked with a local community group at the Nightingale Estate to give students a taste of professional life, and to help the community improve an unloved area of their estate. In term one Design Studio students used site survey techniques to develop responses to sense of place, using a wide range of media, including sketching, technical drawing, collaging and model-making. This informed our design project in term one, where our Conversion/ PG Dip students worked on a project focusing on Napoleon Road, part of Nightingale Estate and Masters students developed Design Strategies for

a wider area centred on Napoleon Road. These different approaches to design link closely with our Mental Wealth approach, preparing students for professional life. In term two Design Studio we undertook areawide mapping of Hackney Downs Park, developing Landscape and Visual Baseline Reports. This mapping informed our term two design project, where students developed their own approach to the brief, with some taking a strong ecological and biodiversity focus in re-designing the Hackney Downs Park and others focusing on re-designing the urban fabric of the Nightingale Estate. In theoretical studies, Masters year students explored the challenges of professional practice and urban design theory, selecting topics including 15-minutes Cities and Rewilding. Conversion/PG Dip students undertook primary research at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to ascertain how the design of these spaces addresses community needs, and in term two they considered landscape history and theory in the context of contemporary issues such as social inequality, colonisation of landscape and climate change. The student work illustrated here is selected from our MA, MA (Conversion) and PG Dip Professional Landscape Architecture programmes this year.

“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.” Jan Gehl

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, HACKNEY

(Environment Agency), Armin Kabiri (WSP), Kerrie McKinnon (Studio Supernatural), Nick Miller (Nick Miller Landscape Architect), Clare Seldon (Steer).

MA: Finlay Capps, Sharon Chilvers, Ruth Ferguson, Lily Garbutt, Khaled Hadi, Shannon du Hasky, Aya McGill, Anne-Marie Osei-Sarfoh, Joe White

Study Visits: John Little (Grass Roof Company), (Ham House National Trust)

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Students: PG Dip/Conversion: Amelia Bouquet, Jillian Sanchez, Robert Vida, Lucy Williams

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Industry partners: Hackney Borough Council (Alice McCreadie and the residents of the Nightingale Estate), Tate and Lyle Sugars (Tom Sutton and Zarreen Mokaddam)

Special thanks to: PRG: Sarah Long (Chair - Environment Agency), Jen Aston (HS2), Henry Casement (Systra), Ruth Lin Wong Holmes (London Legacy Development Corporation), Miguel Pampulha (Gustafson Porter + Bowman), David Scully (Tunbridge Wells Borough Council).

Work experience providers: BDP, Essex County Council Place Services, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, LDA Design, Levitt Bernstein, Marian Boswall, Planit-ie, The Environment Partnership.

Landscape Institute: Christina Hirst, Paul Lincoln, John O’Keefe, Naomi Taylor & Landscape Institute London Branch

External Examiner: Saruhan Mosler

Our visiting professionals: Mohamad Al Sadi (Populus), Avra Archer (Space + Place Design), Dipti Bhat (AECOM), Archie Bashford (Levitt Bernstein), Martyna Dobosz (BDP), Sarah Long

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Site boundary Publicly accessible green space Surface water body Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) Existing Green Link Green Link proposed in Hackney Green Infrastructure Strategy Green Link proposed as part of this project

*Critical Drainage Areas (CDAs) have been identified as areas where combined flood risk factors often cause flooding during extreme weather events - surface water, ground water, sewer or river (Hackney Council, 2013). The introduction of SuDS is encouraged to manage the risks in these areas. Nine CDAs have been identified in Hackney.

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Extracts from ‘Hackney Downs Marsh’: Lily Garbutt

HACKNEY DOWNS MARSH MASTERPLAN 1. Swimming pond 2. Enclosed shallow area - up to 1.5m. 3. Activity area - up to 2.5m 4. Training area - up to 4m 5. Wildlife pond

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Extracts from ‘Sustainable Communities’: Khaled Hadi

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Extended park mainly will serve the practice and local residents. Car free zone, Communal gardens, to bring neighbours together and foster community spirit

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The new park will offer support to wet land plants. New hall building for events and it also offer facilities like events, gathering space and play and stay for parents.

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Allotments to give residents a place to grow their own food, sell it at the market, and support garden clubs

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The park will provide outdoor education for biodiversity and various habitats.

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Hackney council plan to regenerate the area (clear vision) Close to hackney downs park Communal way for residents on north the park Council commitments to provide better homes and space.

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Lack of facilities for most of age groups Lack of gathering spaces for residents Un useable parking spaces – create empty grey areas. Not a biodiverse space

1- New facilities will be built in the park following regeneration, including a new centre for residents to hold events and gatherings.

2- New sports facilities such as football and basketball fields, as well as a bike and skate ramp. 3- Allotments and a local fruit and vegetable market.

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Increasing greenery in the space Create a better connection between the park and surrounding areas in north side. Create a design that feels like an extend to the park for residents. Encourage bikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, and green transportation options. Create a better play area for kids, and space for youth. Create spaces for local business (local market)

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Increasing of population in the space Redevelopments could create hardness for residents. Difficulties to fund the project.

1- New residents center for gathering and events. 2- New propsed buildings in the middle. 3-New proposed building in south west area.

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Existing building that will remain in the design.

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Extracts from ‘Hackney Downs Cannot Be Tamed’: Jillian Sanchez

Output 5: Illustrated Masterplan 1:1000 @A1 Features Key 1. Hackney History Info trail featuring mosiaic illustrations of key moments in the Borough’s history and educational signs, to be located at different nodes throughout the park. 2. North East Park entrance with continuous paving and planting across Downs Road connecting Nightengale Eatate. 3. Commmmunity Garden Space bordered by short fencing. 4. Outdoor learning studio with kitchen facilities. 5. Garden Tools Storage sheds. 6. Meadow planting. 7. Mixed fruit tree orchard. 8. Bench seating with planting along Eastern Edge. 9. South East Park entrance with extended paving and planting connecting a local pub and residential blocks to entrance. 10. Mosaic art features set into paving to denote welcome areas/ entrances. 11. Woodland area with tertiary route and multi-seasonal bulb planting (Crocuses, daffodiles, bluebells). 12. Quiet “BE” zone bordered by hedging and woodland planting. 13., 23., Paved mini “squares” connecting to rail tunnel and adjacent neighbourhood. 14., 21., 22. “Enterprise” food stall/coffee stalls with insect hotel panelling. Locals could be employed here and serve food grown in the community garden. 15. “Natural Play” zones in both open grassland and “mini woodland” areas. 16. Sunken multipurpose “arena” with stone steps and stadium seating. 17. Built-in multipupose studio for locals to rent out and use as mini community centre. 18. Large art mural (image subject to be directed by the local community 19. Jet water feature with mosaic as paving. Can be turned off during events. 20. Staggered stone paving to denote entrance to “view” level of arena. 24. Mini Woodland to continue planting from woodland area to a lighter scale. provide shade and hiding places for natural play. 25. Herbaceous Planting zone 26. Lower level planting zone (short grasses, short shrubs). 27. North West entrance with continuous paving running across Downs Road and connecting residences and local shops to park foot traffic. 28. South West entrance with continous paving into Downs Park road connecting Mossbourne Academy School to park entrance.

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The walkway immediately surrounding the arena is paved with cobbles, but with space between the bricks to allow for self seeding from adjacent meadow species.

Meadow seed mix is used to create biodiverse habitat throughout the north-west area of the park.

A space for allotments, and vegetable growing. Local residents are encouraged to participate in outdoor learning about food cultivation and foraging.

Foraging is enouraged with a range of different types of orchard trees (apple, pear, cherry). Maintenance can also be a part of a community effort in learning skills such as pruning. Further outdoor education can be given as well as clear signage to encourage people to learn about food harvesting.

Trees are introduced at different points around the arena to provide shade and further invite habitation for birds and insects.

Tertiary routes run adjacent to the community garden and meadowland to encourage passers-by to speak with gardeners or pick from the orchard. Pollinators will also be encouraged towards the community garden.

Food grown here will be used in cafe and food spots located in other areas of the park.

SUNKEN ARENA A central point in the park for meeting, festivals, and outdoor activities. Staggered steps at different points lead down along arena -type seating. A walkway surrounds the uppermost layer for people to gaze down into. At the centre of the arena is an integrated fountain which can be switched off when needed. A built-in studio allows community members to rent out space for recreation or events.

View of North West Entrance with proposed Enterprise coffee shop and low level planting.

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Extracts from ‘Remembered River’: Ruth Ferguson

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Central Meeting Place with splash fountains, seating, & perennial beds Multi-use for events, from divali celebrations and theatre to farmers market

Tiered wooden seating set into grass mound

Clover rich play glade in meadow with tiered grass steps

Grass play mounds

Clay Tennis Courts

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Clover rich Picnic Glade

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10. Wild Orchard Avenue with seating 11. Community Permaculuture food forest

12. Daylit Hackney Brook supplemented with filtered surfacewater runoff

13. Activity & Play trail through brook, swales and mounds 14. Biofilter pond stores and filters stormwater

15. Large dry mesic planted Swales filter excess stormwater to the Brook 16. Accessible boardwalk accross Brook & Meadows

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18. Viewing platform 19. Pond with marginal, submerged & rafting planting stores excess stormwater

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20. Reedbed filters water and provides habitat

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21. Perennials, Grasses & Shrubs for year round interest.

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24. Alternative Circular route with mown grass paths leading off into meadows 25. Decking and grass roof on cafe and community hub

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This vision for the Nightingale Estate is to establish a masterplan which integrates the existing community, landscape and buildings with the new development. Under the heading of ‘reclaiming the estate’, the masterplan gives back some of the spaces on the estate which are currently cut off, including opening up the existing warehouses and enlivening these spaces with new community-driven activities, and preserving spaces the community have already begun taking over. The irregular orientation of the street network which results from this provides better eastwest connections through to Olympus Green and creates a more organic network of spaces for the community to come together. Also following the vision of ‘reclaiming the estate’, many of the materials used for the landscape will incorporate waste material from the development of the new buildings and existing waste materials on the Site, forming connections between the existing and new fabric of the estate and allowing participation from the community. This is reflected further in the detailed design. Workshop

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Health and wellbeing The area outside of the medical centre is to become a modern herbal garden so that the community are able to pick and make tinctures themselves. The area of green space to the east of this could include fitness equipment, complementing the health and well being facilities nearby. Olympus Green Olympus Green would allow for more biodiverse greening, rather than lawn which also requires high levels of maintenance to maintain. Areas for play would be dispersed throughout the green, rather than fenced in one small space, and offer more for older children, providing more inspiring, adventurous opportunities for play.

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A Strategy for Change Key spaces There are several key spaces on the Nightingale Estate which are to be enhanced as part of the proposal. The concept of ‘reclaiming Nightingale Estate’ will be brought into these spaces through their use and design.

The Nightingale Practice, Health Centre & adjacent green space Existing

The area outside of the medical centre is to become a modern herbal garden. The community are able to pick and make themselves. The area of green space to the east of this could include fitness equipment

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The existing landscape of the Nightingale Primary School is uninspiring and lacking opportunities to engage with the outdoors. There is the opportunity to provide more areas for wildlife to encourage learning outside, incorporating natural play.

15 Minuite City - A concept that was first used by scientist Carlos Moreno in 2016: “in less than 15 minutes, a resident can access his essential life needs”. This means that daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk from any point within the city. The Strategy Plan shows that there are a significant number of community facilities within a 15 minute radius of the Site. There are also a number of existing walking and cycling routes. Cycling routes tend to be shared lanes with cars and none go directly through the Site. Connections to surrounding community services could be improved within the Site.

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The area around the community centre should be an extension of the inside space, providing an defined and enclosed area for seating and events so that activities held in the community centre can spill outside.

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Spaces around the existing warehouses are to be opened up to the community to allow for more undefined uses, complementary to the activities in the warehouses. These areas could provide space for learning, building, or whatever the community’s need is at the time.

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20 Masterplan 21Illustrative Section 22 Detailed Section for Napoleon Road Next Page: 23 Napoleon Road Illustrative Masterplan and Detail Plan, Anne-

Marie Osei-Sarfoh 24 Design proposals East Tipner, Portsmouth, Anne-Marie Osei-Sarfoh 25 Sense of Place Map: Joseph White, Ruth Ferguson, AnneMarie Osei-Sarfoh, Lucy Williams 26 Digital Collage: Lily Garbutt, Khaled Hadi, Jillian Sanchez, Amelia Bouquet 27 Hand-sewn Section of Napoleon Road, Ruth Ferguson 28 Sense of Place models: Amelia Bouquet, Khaled Hadi, Lily Garbutt, Jillian Sanchez, Ruth Ferguson

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More open section of amenity grassland and dotted trees to allow better visibility coming out of this main underpass walkway at night time Ammenity grassland areas throughout the park

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Frame thickness: 50mm Width of walkway: 500mm Height of walkway: 200mm Length: Varying lengths Individual mesh square size: 50 x 50mm Supported with 50 x 50mm hot dipped galvanised stainless steel hollow square legs secured with hot dip galvanised M12X120 Carriage Bolt C/W Nut O/S Th read.

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MA Interior Design Dr Anastasia Karandinou (Course Leader), Catherine Phillips

Design of any scale responds to – and in parallel leads – cultural, political and social change. Our MA course examines the role of design in forming places, connections, communities in a socially and environmentally sustainable way, through speculative and pragmatic design exercises, some of which lead to real-life built projects. Through this MA programme, 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 rearticulated and expressed through a hands-on poetic and creative making approach. Re-imagining the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station The Wapping Hydraulic power station was built in 1890, to power areas across London. Before electricity started being broadly used, hydraulic power was the prominent power system in London, generating various industries, bridges and households in Kensington and Mayfair. The power station closed in 1977, later than all similar power stations in the UK and Europe, and was then only occasionally used as a venue for pop-up events. It has been argued that, within the neoliberal paradigm, the city is becoming a place of spectacle, rather than a lived place. Networks of production and creative interaction are displaced by festivals, as if the city is addressed to tourists rather than its residents. Local networks of production, workshops, repairs and crafts could contribute to a socially and environmentally responsible circular economy. However, these are increasingly displaced by the dynamics of the global markets. Workshops, small scale manufacturing,

art production, shops that support the above, are being displaced to the periphery, in favour of a city of spectacle and consumption. The live urban fabric is hence being distorted. The culture of repair, although seemingly promoted alongside environmental agendas, is facing multiple obstacles, amongst which, its high cost in the context of global economies. The places, tools, materials, expertise for repairs are being displaced, often by the dynamics that economy activates, prohibiting circular processes of repair to happen. Within this context, in term 1, the students reimagined and repurposed the power station site, in ways that encourage a culture of making and repairing, in a symbiotic relationship with the broader area and the city. Micro – apartments – Orange County Sustainability Decathlon In term 2 the students contributed to the funded research project led by Dr Arman Hashemi and Dr Deborah Benros, by designing interiors for different scenarios of living, within compact spaces, built with off-site prefabricated components. The dimensions of these pre-fabricated eco-micro-dwellings derive from the dimensions of a typical transportation container. They are designed to address the issue of homelessness in big cities, and can also be used as private homes for different groups of people and cohabitants. This Masters course encourages the students to reflect on broader issues and questions, such as social and environmental resilience this year, and address them through their design processes and praxis.

www.uel.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/ma-interior-design www.instagram.com/uel_mainteriordesign 1. Shambhavi Dalal; 3d printed light, derived from 3d scanned, hand-

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Students: September 2022 start: Thanuja, Krinal Babariya, Zeal Bagadiya, Shambhavi Dalal, Saanvi Jathin, Gabriela Merova, Shahla Mohamed Shiyas, Amy Nash, Mebin Payyappilly Binny, Archana Raveendran, Ashrin Shabir, Kishan Sreenivasa Reddy, Shruthi Sunny. January 2022 start: Aditi Bhole, Merlin John, Victor Omorogbe, Samreen Naaz, Nandeesh Telagi Harapanahalli. January 2023 start: Afra Karuppaka Vedu, Lolade Arowolo, Neha Syed Faizel

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10-11 Ashrin Shabir; Micro-apartment for a family 12-13 Ashrin Shabir; Micro-apartment for two homeless people

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14-15 Gabriela Merova 16-19 Amy Rosina Nash

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22-24 Shambhavi Dalal; Micro-apartment for family of four 25 Shambhavi Dalal; Micro-apartment for a disabled person

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26-28 Zeal Harshadkumar Bagadiya; Micro-apartment for a family of four, or other group of people

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29, 31 Shambhavi Dalal; Ceramic Studio and Farmer’s Market 30, 32 Shahla Mohamed Shiyas; Floating Houseboat Refurbishment Yard

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36, 37 Amy Rosina Nash; Pre-Loved Book Shop, Library and Plant Shop

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40 Zeal Harshadkumar Bagadiya; The Secret Music School and Performance Space 41-42. Gabriela Merova; Serenity, Herb Garden, Beauty Factory and Spa 43-44 Saanvi Jathin; Upcycling Hub & Furniture Market

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45-47 Shambhavi Dalal 48 Group exhibition of selected lights 4953 Gabriela Merova 54 Lolade Arowolo 55 Mebin Rose 56 Afra Karuppaka Vedu and Neha Syed Faizel 57 Shruthi Sunny

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HISTORY AND THEORY

History and Theory An Introduction

Year 2 Tutors: Aleks Catina, Andrew Wright, Claudia Palma, Miho Nakagawa Rooted in Western ideologies of the twentieth century, our discussion draws upon cases from a range of global cultures, and under-represented contexts, exploring how architecture and design have been responding and evolving up until Now, a time of unpredictable changes. This module also aims to critically reflect and question the impact and new pathways research might take within the built environment and at UEL as a research institution.

In the final year of the BSc, seminars encourage students to speak with their own voice and develop individual thought. Students engage with textual and linguistic means of expression of space and place using non-discriminatory language and references. Engaging with the inherent ambiguity of how we experience the world around us many questioned how to improve our planet, tackle the climate change emergency, and challenge received opinions. Space is never neutral and writing emphasized reflection about the subjectivity of each perspective and criticality of its position.

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Year 1 presents a brief thematic survey of the history of spatial practices, architecture, art, and design from pre-history to the Industrial Revolution. The lecture series will introduce ways of thinking about the history of architecture, design, and the significance of interior spaces. This module deals with the insights and understanding of the history, especially, in the development of discipline-specific investigation into our cultural context, and with the objective of developing academic writing and research skills.

Year 3 Tutors: Miho Nakagawa and Renee Tobe

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Figure 5 : Perspective front view of the Macchina.

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1.2 - Anti-context This project, called “Macchina per le vacanze,” or holiday machine in Italian, was the proposed design of a tourism leisure centre in the Calabrian coast. (Figure 5, 6) The top of the boot of Italy, known for its mountains, sea, and Mediterranean climate, was undergoing major industrialization projects such as new ports, roads, railways with the set intention of improving the Calabrian infrastructure, funded by the state.

Charlie Chinama, Superstudio and the Anti-design Movement, 2023

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As Deamer P. (2014, p. 144) suggests in Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio, and the critique of architectural ideology,” in Architecture and capitalism: 1845 to the present., “ Their work was not simply a critique of modern architecture but a more general critique of architecture’s (and the architect’s) political mandate in a capitalist society.” Superstudio “proposed” this leisure centre to take “advantage” of this opportunity to attract more people to this peaceful haven. In this drawing, we can see the building being placed right at the edge of a cliff, acting as a dam to regulate the flow of the stream and to potentially generate energy to supply the infrastructure. The structure itself shows the opposite of what you would expect to see by the Mediterranean sea : A complex scaffolding-like construction which inspires everything but leisure, peace, or anything related to the chosen landscape. By taking a close look at the drawing (Figure 7), the finesse, texture and variations of roughness of the graphite are completely lost upon glancing at the structure, showing a real contrast between the richness of the land, and the boldness of the man-made intervention. Ironically, as this building was placed where the stream “Arbona” eroded, the main idea of this strategic placement of the building was to prevent any further attenuation of the basin. But can we really talk about a rescue if the identity of the site is taken away?

Agata Nyckowska, Designing for the sense of community, 2023

Figure 7 : Site section showing the relationship between the structure and the topography.

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Fernando da Silva, Colour in the creative process, On Bauhaus and Goethe’s theory, 2023

Darnel Carol-Walters, Buildings as Restorative Justice, 2023

RESEARCH & PEDAGOGY

Sugarcrete (Photograph: Chromaphotography)

Southwark Land Commission Dr Anna Minton

the work of the School, with James attending to give guest lectures and participate in other activities with students.

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The Politics of Housing The Politics of Housing, a conference on the housing crisis, that I am co-organising with the Centre for Justice, will be held on July 6th & 7th at University Square, Stratford. The conference will bring together politicians including the Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz and the Deputy Mayor for Housing at the Greater London Assembly, Tom Copley, with academics and community groups.

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The Southwark Land Commission is an initiative by Southwark Council introduced by one of my MRes students, James McAsh, who is a Councillor and Cabinet Member at the council. James wrote his thesis on the viability of a Land Commission in Southwark and subsequently worked to ensure it became a council manifesto commitment. The Commission launched in February 2023 and I am delighted to be one of the Commissioners, alongside representatives from Transport for London, NHS Estates, the voluntary sector and academic institutions including the Bartlett. The Commission’s report will be published in October 2024. Now James has graduated, the Commission is feeding back into

Members of the Southwark Land Commission at Southwark Council, after the inaugural meeting.

‘A Way of Building’: Exploring Sustainable Design at the Centre for Alternative Technologies

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Teresa Serrano

In February 2023, the University of East London organised the workshop “A Way of Building” at the Centre for Alternative Technologies (CAT) in Wales. This hands-on experience immersed participants in sustainable design and construction bringing together 11 enthusiastic students from various programmes, including BSc Architecture, MArch, and BA Interior Design. Along with UEL tutors, Teresa Serrano, and Christoph Hadrys the workshop was delivered in collaboration with Maurice Mitchell and Bo Tang, Directors of the Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources (ARCSR). ARCSR focuses on situations where resources are scarce and where culture and technology are undergoing rapid change. CAT served as the ideal setting for this exploration of sustainable ideas and technologies. Established in 1973 with the aim to explore alternative ways of living, today it functions as a Visitor Centre and offers a range of courses related to the environment, including several master’s programs validated by UEL. The core of the workshop was the collaborative design and construction of a structure using locally sourced and low-impact materials. Resources such as timber, straw, repurposed structures, and stone from an old slate quarry allowed participants to explore possibilities. At the outset, the outcome remained uncertain, but over four days, the participants experimented with different designs and worked together as a team, adapting their plans based on the available materials and their growing skills and knowledge. Collaboration was central. Daily catch-up sessions and tea breaks facilitated sharing experiences and seeking solutions to challenges. Evenings included lectures and film screenings that expanded perspectives. ARCSR’s impactful work in transforming cities through collective action in resource-scarce environments was showcased. Participants gained insights into projects in India, where sanitation initiatives and community workshops have improved quality of life. Maurice Mitchell delivered a thought-provoking lecture on the concept of “Loose Fit”, drawing from experiences in

Africa and India, he showcased the contributions of local communities to city-building, creating vibrant and resilient urban environments. The workshop provided an invaluable educational experience, local materials, low-impact construction techniques, resource scarcity considerations, and the power of teamwork. We all experienced the potential for positive change through creative thinking and collective engagement. Students attending the workshop: Brendan Tate Hampton Blazej Goralczyk Naafiah Miah Sara Bonito Bianca Radoanca Darnell Carol-Walters Josephine Nyanteh Mariam Tarek Khalil Elbendary Elkashory Edmund Balasca Josephine Nyanteh Faith Omowunmi Ogundare

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This mid-year event allowed invited guests, fellow staff and students to see work in progress and share the diversity of architecture and design at UEL

We held the Open Studio Event with student presentations and guest talks at UEL, over two days in March 2023. The event welcomed invited guests, all students, members of staff and people who were interested in our architectural and design studies.

firm NOOMA Studio, an interdisciplinary practice of architects and creatives with a heartfelt connection to London. NOOMA’s work has gained the practice a place in the Architects’ Journal’s 40 under 40 ‘as one of Architecture’s brightest up-and-coming talents’.

The Open Studio Event was again a unique opportunity to see work in progress and to share the diversity of studies. The event was organised in such a way that selected students from each Unit or Course presented their ongoing work. As such, it was both, a ‘mid-term review’ with work in progress and a vital platform for discussion about academic work in architecture.

NOOMA is formed of members from non-traditional backgrounds, taking London’s cultural mosaic as their normal. The studio is founded on diversity and collaborative co-creation methodology as a way of making things happen. “We are here to problem solve and create joyful space that support human thriving and wellbeing.”

Thursday 2nd March 2023 Following courses presented: Product Design, Degree Unit E, Landscape Architecture, BA Interior Design Unit Z, MArch Unit 2, MRes Architecture (Understanding the Neoliberal City), MArch Unit 8, ADT Architectural Design Technology, First Year Architecture, Degree Unit C. Lunch Lecture by Ramsey Yassa Ramsey Yassa was born and raised in inner-city London. Ramsey’s upbringing is reflected in his exploration of play and narrative as tools of change. He is a proud Londoner, committed to addressing issues of social justice through design. Ramsey is the founding director of award-winning architecture

Evening Lecture by Prof. Karsten Hueneck Karsten Huneck was born in Chile and grew up in Germany where he also graduated with a Diploma in Architecture from the Technische Universität in Darmstadt. Since graduating he has been a partner of the Office for Subversive Architecture (OSA), a network for spatial experimentation which is dedicated to push the boundaries of common practice in architecture and develop projects that sit between art and architecture. In 2001, Prof. Huneck moved to London where he worked as an architect at Foster and Partners. During the same year, he and his colleague Bernd

Friday 3rd March 2023 Following courses presented: MA Interior Design, Degree Unit A, BA Interior Design Unit X, Degree Unit B, MArch Unit 1, First Year BA Interior Design, MA Architecture + Urbanism, MArch Unit 6, Degree Unit H. Lunch Lecture by Sadie Morgan Sadie Morgan is a co-founding director of dRMM, a RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architecture studio. Championing design for over two decades, Sadie is involved in several advisory roles including chairing the Design Panel for High Speed Two (HS2) and acting as commissioner for the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC). She has been instrumental in setting up the NIC’s Design Group, which places design at the heart of major infrastructure projects.

Evening Lecture by Prof. Robert Mull Professor Robert Mull is Head of the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton. An architect and an educator, Robert was Director of Architecture and Dean of the Cass Faculty of Art, London. He has taught widely in the UK and internationally and held visiting professorships in Vienna and Innsbruck. In 2013 he co-founded a new school of architecture in Moscow. He was a founder member of the architecture collective NATO and has worked on urban projects and research in many contexts including India, China, Cuba, Korea, the US, Russia and within the refugee crises in Turkey, Greece and France. Robert has always been committed to socially useful forms of practice and education. He is a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, Director of Innovation at Publica, and co-curator of the series of debates Turncoats. Currently his own practice is working on housing and migration issues in Lesvos and Calais.

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Before joining BI as Professor for Architecture and Construction and the Head of the BA Architecture program, Prof. Huneck was a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture and an Associate Professor at the ESA, Ecole Special d’Architecture in Paris.

Sadie is a board member of the UK government’s housing accelerator and is a member of the Net Zero Building’s council. She became the youngest president of the Architectural Association and was awarded the visiting Sir Arthur Marshall Professorship in Sustainable Urban Design at Cambridge University. In 2020, she was awarded an OBE for services to design advocacy.

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Trümpler established the UK based branch of OSA. After winning an award at UK’s prestigious Young Architects of the Year Award (YAYA) they set up their practice KHBT which operates from London and Berlin.

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Dr Arman Hashemi, Dr Heba Elsharkawy & Prof. Darryl Newport

As people spend up to 90% of their time indoor; exposure to poor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) may negatively affect their health. Moreover, the COVID19 pandemic has revealed the profound social vulnerability of certain groups in society, particularly those struggling with poor health conditions. Additionally, the external air temperatures in the UK are expected to rise by over 5°C by 2070, as a result of climate change, with the frequency and intensity of heat waves also expected to increase. Rising external temperatures increase significantly the risk of overheating, cooling load, energy consumption in buildings and associated carbon emissions, with the problem being particularly affecting health and wellbeing of venerable populations including children and older occupants of buildings.

The HEED aims to fill a knowledge gap in evaluating the indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort in council homes. The project explores the correlations of both variables (IAQ and thermal comfort) to, and the implications of building design and performance on the occupants’ health and wellbeing. The purpose is to ultimately develop technical-behavioural interventions that improves people’s health, indoor environmental conditions, and reduces energy consumption and associated carbon emissions. The project adopts a mixed method research including behavioural surveys, indoor environmental monitoring, post occupancy evaluation, and dynamic thermal modelling. We anticipate the project will have a positive impact on housing design policies, as well as increase public awareness on the necessity for behaviour change to achieve Net Zero targets, whilst improving occupants’ health and wellbeing.

The Elemental House Dr Arman Hashemi, Dr Deborah Benros and Carl Callaghan

The structural solutions allowed by the grammar depend on the location, site, daylight exposure, availability of materials and specificities of the project. Two structural solutions adopted for the elemental house are a timber structure and an ultralight steel solution. The first option is a net-zero solution using engineered timber arches. These engineered timber arches have a 4m span, spaced every 2,4m. The resulting housing elements can be modules of 2,4m spacings. The structural elements and infill can be

A second option allows for a series of ultra-light steel gauge trusses. This solution is more suitable for earthquake-prone areas or where wildfires are a real concern such as California. The competition entry is being erected using this strategy. Each truss is composed of standard light steel gauges cut in standard dimensions and mechanically fixed. Together they form non-standard solutions and uneven arches using the scheme of a ‘Meccano’ toy. The use of minimal components in a truss-like structure reduces the amount of steel used and once the house is decommissioned this can be dissembled and reused. The resulting entry is a compact 35 sqm offgrid house, designed to ‘Passivhaus’ standards, with a living/dining, kitchen area, ADA-compliant bathroom, bedroom, storage and an additional sleeping loft accommodating up to four people. The space is a partially domed vault conceived to provide a flat-slopped roof angled for accommodating solar panels. The vault configuration allows headroom where needed such as access to the sleeping loft and generous headroom for the living area. Although this solution is part of the final entry, other configurations are allowed by the system, providing additional spaces, from ultra-compact housing to more generous offerings. The system is parametric, implemented on a digital tool allowing automated fabrication.

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All eighteen participants will build on a designated site a fully operational and serviced house. Our team is composed of two multi-national universities, engineers and manufacturers that are focused on addressing affordable, prefabricated net zero carbon housing. The house is designed using a generative system, a shape grammar. Grammars are generative procedures that use graphic representations as transformation rules and help describe a family of solutions while maintaining consistency. The grammar also allows for a combination of one or multiple parametric modules allowing for different configurations and personalization of each singular design.

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The elemental house is the entry for a sustainable affordable housing unit competition taking place in the Summer of 2023 in Orange County, USA. This is a modular and parametric house concept based on simple elements, that can be assembled to create a house to be digitally manufactured.

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Robotic Construction in the UK and China Dr Arman Hashemi & Dr Deborah Benros

The application of robotic manufacturing processes is an innovative approach that could be used to build energy efficient, customizable, bespoke homes on site.

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The construction industry is responsible for nearly 40% of CO2 emissions. In order to achieve Net-Zero target by 2030, building related CO2 emissions should fall by 50% by 2030. A large portion the emissions is related to manufacturing and construction processes on site. Around 1520% of the materials and energy could be wasted due to inefficient construction processes on site. Automation in construction could effectively address these issues by bringing the processes under the controlled environment of the factory.

Module – Membrane Intelligent Additive Construction proposal

Despite strong evidence supporting this, Modern and Offsite construction methods still reflect only 9% of the UK housing market (2021); far from the 25% projections set in 2009. In China, around 15% of construction is associated with prefabrication - that is expected to increase to 30% ($200 billion) by 2025 and to $698.2 billion by 2030 Recent arguments on the necessity to increase the market share of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) in the UK have focused on reducing waste and energy consumption, improving quality and value – all being in line with the ambitions to increase housing outputs and achieve the ‘Net-Zero’ targets by 2050.

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Repurposing Places for Social and Environmental Resilience: International Conference

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Dr Anastasia Karandinou

Whilst 20th century was mostly about starchitects, 21st century is about synergies and the relevant complex dynamics that these allow to grow. This shift happens in parallel to others; reusing, retrofitting, and giving a new life to the existing places, buildings and neighbourhoods, in an environmentally and socially resilient manner, developing ways for the existing communities to grow in a symbiotic relationship with new ones, designing processes of circular economy and upcycling that allow people to collaborate and find viable solutions. Participation in architecture is a notion that continuously evolves, even more so in recent years. Knowledge and innovation that contributes to social justice and responsible design emerges from complex networks and agile crossdisciplinary collaborations. In this context, the conference we organised in March 2023, in collaboration with UEL, Arup and Counterarchitecture, discussed the link between social and environmental resilience through innovative collaborative designed projects and participatory circular processes. The keynote speakers were: Simon Allford, Juliet Mian, Anna Minton, Prof Doina Petrescu, Alex Scott-Whitby, who offered us their insights through their innovative projects and critical reflection.

Conference organisers: Dr Anastasia Karandinou (UEL, Counterarchitecture) and Prof Florence Lam (Arup) Advisory Committee: Prof Hassan Abdalla, Carl Callaghan, Alan Chandler, Prof Richard Coyne, Prof Gail Findlay, Prof David Tann, Dr Julie Wall Organising Committee: Dr Deborah Benros, Dr Christian Groothuizen, Dr Debra Shaw, Catalina Pollak, Clare Penny Scientific Committee: Prof Ela Aral, Dr Aghlab AlAttili, Pauline Desouza, Dr Angelique Edmonds, Prof Heba Elsharkawy, Prof Ozlem Erkarslan, Armor Gutierrez, Prof Luisa Maria Gutierrez, Dr Arman Hashemi, Carsten Jungfer, Assoc Prof Roland Karthaus, Prof Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Prof Anastasios Maragiannis, Dr Kat Martindale, Prof Anna Mavrogianni, Dr Antigoni Memou, Prof Rosa Mendoza-Robles, Fernanda Palmieri, Sowmya Parthasarathy, Melina Philippou, Prof Christine Schwaiger, Dr Sally Shahzad, Dr Renee Tobe, Amanda Wanner, Adam Wiseman Special thanks to our major sponsor and collaborator, Arup UK. For further information, please visit: www.counterarchitecture.com/repurposing-placesconference

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Cluster Leader Wins RIBA Journal and Dezeen Awards for Jubilee Pool in Penzance

Alex Scott-Whitby, leader of the architecture and physical design cluster, has won the 2023 MacEwen Award for Architecture for the Common Good, with the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal (RIBAJ) for his project to rejuvenate the Jubilee Pool in Penzance.

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The MacEwen Award is named after conservationists Anni and Malcolm MacEwen and celebrates socially responsible projects, that make a tangible difference to communities in the UK. The Jubilee Pool, which was built in 1935, is a grade II listed building and is the UK’s largest and most celebrated art deco sea water lido and geothermally heated pool. Throughout the years, the Jubilee Pool has suffered extreme damages from storms and dips in popularity. Alex and his architectural practice, Scott Whitby Studio, upgraded the art deco swimming pool in Penzance with a geothermal borehole, which provides a natural and low-carbon method of heating the water. The studio also refurbished the pool’s facilities, extending the cafe and bar as well as providing a new community hall. The Jubilee Pool is the second geothermal swimming pool in the UK – the first being the Roman baths in Bath.

This award follows on from Alex’s previous success where he won the global rebirth project of the year and public vote category at last year’s Dezeen Awards for the Jubilee Pool project. “I am so proud to win this award. The recognition for this project shows that we can preserve beautiful historical structures in an environmentally friendly way. Without restoration projects, architectural history would be lost and forgotten. I’m so glad that my team and I could help bring back such an influential structure that will support the local community now and into the future”. The project’s development was informed by work carried out by students from the BSc Architecture programme at the University of East London, several which now work in the Scott Whitby Studio team. On awarding the prize, judge Kathy MacEwen, said: “The pool is important to Penzance, it is beautiful, but it does more than that, it could have just fallen back into the sea. It is a major achievement to get it back.” This award follows on from Scott Whitby Studio’s recent scooping of both the Jury Prize and Public Vote at last years 2022 Dezeen Awards. Where the project was named the winner of the best renovation project in the world beating over 5000 entries to 1st place.

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Sugarcrete The University of East London reveals SugarcreteTM a low cost, low carbon construction material upcycling sugarcane by-products.

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The University of East London’s (UEL) Master of Architecture and Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) with the support of Tate & Lyle Sugars has developed an innovative construction material SugarcreteTM - which, using arable by-products, provides a sustainable, ultra-low carbon construction alternative to existing high carbon materials. In creative partnership with Grimshaw the first technical application of SugarcreteTM – SugarcreteTM Slab has been announced. Created by mixing the sugarcane fibres left over after sugar sap extraction, known as bagasse, with bespoke sand-mineral binders, SugarcreteTM is a material which has the potential to be used and reused in new or existing structures, replacing both brick and concrete. Developed over the last two years, testing of the material by UEL’s SRI showed that using SugarcreteTM, when compared to concrete production, reduces curing time to one week (a process that takes up to 28-days), is four to five times lighter than concrete block, only uses 15 – 20 per cent of its carbon footprint and provides substantially reduced costs. Armor Gutierrez Rivas, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at UEL, said: “Sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by production volume – almost two billion tonnes of sugarcane are produced worldwide yearly, resulting in six hundred million tonnes of fibre bagasse as by-product. Using a bio-waste-based product like SugarcreteTM, we could replace the traditional brick industry, offering potential saving of 1,08 billion tonnes of CO2, 3 per cent of the global CO2 production. The built environment generates 40 per cent of annual global CO2 emissions. Despite the global aim to hold global warning to 1.5 degrees Celsius, it is estimated that our global built floor areas will double by 2060. Therefore, we must develop alternatives to current construction methods.” As part of the research programme UEL developed a prototype floor-slab made from sugarcane derived from SugarcreteTM and used advanced digital modelling and robotic fabrication to test the viability of the ultra-low carbon materials in construction. Grimshaw’s previous research into

interlocking geometries – using the form of the building components to create self-supporting assemblies – allowed SugarcreteTM to be deployed as a demountable, reusable, fire resistant composite floor slab which can be applied, disassembled, or extended in new or existing structures. “SugarcreteTM when integrated as a floor slab adapts Abeille’s 1699 design for dry assembly flat vaults – the system is made of interlocking components which transfer loads across the slab between blocks, restrained using post-tensioned perimeter ties, reducing the steel content of the slab up to 90 per cent.” said Elena Shilova, architect at Grimshaw. “Reducing steel, combined with the use of sugar cane fibres of different densities in a modular system allows the slab assembly to avoid the potential risks of cracking which occur with traditional concrete in extreme situations, absorbing the effects of seismic shock – a characteristic vital in earthquake prone regions where sugar cane is cultivated.” As part of the project, and working with Tate & Lyle Sugars, the team has started to identify sites in the sugar producing Global South, which have the opportunity to adopt SugarcreteTM. The intention is to work with local NGO’s to test a prototype. Alan Chandler, Co-Director of the UEL’s SRI, said: “By partnering locally, the production potential in each situation is evaluated, defining whether cement-use reduction can be made using locally created SugarcreteTM, or whether there is capacity to grow export markets for raw material or finished products to benefit GDP. This is particularly relevant for sugar producing communities where construction materials are frequently imported, environmentally poor performing, high cost and high carbon – for example a concrete block in Cuba, a major sugar producing country costs $3 – an average monthly salary is $148.” SugarcreteTM has been nominated for this year’s Earthshot Prize by former winners, Notpla, in the Build a Waste-Free World category. In addition, researchers from UEL will publish their first set of SugarcreteTM journal papers with its partners over the coming year, alongside carrying out further research

Link to SugarcreteTM video: vimeo.com/manage/videos/819419158/73ee6f4d0d SugarcreteTM Slab team Material Concept, Design and Fabrication: Armor Gutierrez Rivas, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, UEL Alan Chandler, Co-Director Sustainability Research Institute, UEL Bamdad Ayati, Sustainability Research Institute Research Fellow, UEL Elena Shilova, Architect, Grimshaw Collaborators: John Kerr - Vice President, Research & Technology, Tate & Lyle Sugars Andy Watts, Director of Design Technology, Grimshaw Paris Nikitidis - XR Developer, Grimshaw Philip Singer - Computational Design Specialist, Grimshaw Georgios Tsakiridis - Consultant, Grimshaw Paolo Vimercati - Consultant, Grimshaw Robert Sims - Model shop Manager, Grimshaw

UEL Master of Architecture Students Team: Faith Omowunmi Ogundare; Busra Ciftci; Amy Gillespie; Hinal Arvindkumar Patel; Rova Taha; Dodangodagamage Kawan Roger Ranasinghe; Manoj Sai Ganji; Mohan Ukabhai Dungrani; Anca-Madalina Borda; Alina Klimenteva; Rashmi Madagamage Gunathilaka; Orseer Isreal Gbashah; Mahmoud Sayed Abdellattif; Mert Manas Erten; Hidayati Yazmin Binti Abdul Halim; Oluchukwu Judith Obiejesi; Svetoslav Georgie Slav; Mihriban Ustun Photography: Chromaphotography Videography: Jude Adoasi Editing & filming: Louis Bird and Ellie Saunders, Grimshaw

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More information is available via the University of East London SugarcreteTM webpage: uel.ac.uk/sugarcrete-slab

Paul Nichols – FabLab Manager, UEL Dr David Tann - Dean of School of Architecture, Computing & Engineering, UEL Carl Callaghan - Head of Department of Architecture and Visual Arts, UEL Alex Scott-Whilby - Architecture & Physical Design Cluster Lead, UEL Nicolo Bencini - Senior Structural Engineer, AKTII Sky Henley - Computational Design Specialist

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Rome Trip Aleks Catina

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The annual trip to Italy allows our freshers to encounter the historical sites with invested interest. The History and Theory cohort unites students from cohorts across the school’s design clusters on a shared field trip to kick off the new year. This year the trip induced interior designers, architects, product designers as well as some of our foundation students. As every year, all year 1 students are invited, and support is offered to those who want to join a unique learning experience. We travel across the Alps not just to bond over the shared experience of discovering Rome (although this is an unavoidable benefit of a year 1 trip). We are taking the journey to foster our disciplinary curiosity, train our eyes, learn to look closely, and not lastly to discover and develop personal and professional ways of encountering history as a source of reference and knowledge. This encounter is mediated by the practice of drawing. The sketchbook becomes our companion, our record, and our means of entering a dialogue with the past. We task ourselves to fill a sketchbook in one week. This practice enhances the disciplinary imagination, and casually exercises our observational skills, analytical rigour. In all that Rome becomes present yet again, as seen through the eyes of a new generation. In the words by Prince Partee, Year 1 Architecture student: “In January 2023 we traveled to the ancient and illustrious city of Rome as a part of our first-year studies. From the outset, the focus of the trip was looking and observing, with a focus on studying the thresholds between inside and outside, public, and private, sacred, and profane spaces. The primary means of recording is our sketchbook. Climbing up and down the seven hills and woven in and out of whole eras of history we found countless arches and plazas scattered upon streets. As seen through the students’ sketches, we took the opportunity to learn all that we could from that the architectural precedents we encountered, that span all periods of architectural history, form the time of the ancient empire to the Renaissance and Baroque, up to the contemporary city.

The many churches and basilicas alone already provided plenty to form the basis of study. In addition, we came to discover, by merely walking about Rome, that the city and its tangled roads hid many minor wonders. From bridges to gate ruins to piazzas, all seemed more majestic as they emerged from where they were hidden by the tight, labyrinthine paths.” This trip was organized by Aleks Catina, Year 1 History and Theory lead. Many thanks to the course tutors who lead the amazing series of walks: Charlotte Harris, Claudia de Palma, Keita Tajima, Toshiya Kowaga and to our special guest Carl Callaghan. The sketchbook work by the students was on display at ACE in March 2023.

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“UEL The Space X of Architecture Schools” Anna Highfield

The University of East London (UEL)’s architecture school sits at the heart of the university’s Cullinandesigned docklands campus, with a first-class view of the Royal Albert Dock and planes taking off and landing on London City Airport’s runways.

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Established in 1898 ‘to serve the local community and beyond’, the Newham-based university prides itself on its diversity, with students representing 156 different nationalities. UEL sits lower than some of London’s architecture schools in the league tables, hovering at number 41 in this year’s Guardian guide, and number 49 in the Complete University Guide. But the real magic of this genre-defining school might just have been lost on mainstream scoring systems. The institution openly rejects old-fashioned academic snobbery in favour of a commitment to sustainability and social equality. It treats education as a springboard for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, with an impressive 52 per cent of its students being the first from their families to attend university. Leading the way into the student exhibition, Alex Scott-Whitby, subject area lead for architecture and design at UEL and founder of Scott Whitby Studio, says: ‘Someone said to us at the show on Thursday:

You are like the SpaceX of architecture schools’. It’s a reference to the school’s ability to rapidly maximise the potential of students arriving from seriously underprivileged backgrounds, often with low grades, and get them competing for jobs at some of the UK’s top architecture practices. The SpaceX analogy seems dramatic, but the exhibition’s opening room is undeniably impressive. The sheer scale of the models and drawings is captivating. A huge beautifully pencil-shaded sectional study of a building in Rome adorns one wall, showing off an intimate level of engagement with precedent on the student study visit (the gloriously simple brief was to ‘fill a sketchbook’). Two vast yet intricate models made of plaster, timber and steel dominate the space in front; one by BArch graduate Rafael Fischer, a star student who has since been head-hunted by David Chipperfield Architects. The impressive career debut is testament to the school’s strong links with practices (this year they placed 60 students with practices, including Fosters and Chipperfield). Beyond the initial show highlights, the firstyear exhibition space reveals the story behind the polished end results. Extensive methodical experimentation with printmaking, photography, and drawing techniques (all taught) has created some

The early designs focus on technique over form or context, but this early effort spent bringing students up to scratch with their presentation techniques pays off when you reach the later years. The quality of the work is startlingly consistent and it’s often impossible to tell which year group created which work in the collaborative, cross-generational studios, which this year saw master’s students work alongside undergrads for the first time.

Sustainability is the undeniable theme running through UEL’s work, which Scott-Whitby says the school teaches in a tangible, ‘measurable’ way. ‘We have to temper our lectures with a plane taking off now and again’, he says, adding: ‘It’s good for teaching carbon, you can point and ask students, how many planes taking off does your building involve?’

Each of the studios has its own very distinct character and presentation style. Sites are scattered across the UK and Europe, spanning from Woolwich and Hackney to Puglia, Lanzarote and Thessonaliki. A highlight is Unit B, a Corfu-based studio seeking to recapture the lost identity of an overdeveloped tourist town, Bentises. The studio flows fluently as a cohesive collection of work and features huge, stunning pencil drawings alongside sustainable models made from salvaged cardboard. Another highlight is Unit C, Mind(ful) Re-Use, where students have focused on a site in southern Italy, deeply exploring ways to work with an existing

The overall body of work at UEL reveals a student cohort emerging with a firm grasp of physical and technical reality. But this realness hasn’t dampened a creative flair for space-making; the school’s rule that ‘you have to be able to use your hands before you use a computer’ shines through in an abundance of big, bold, models. Most prominent, though, is the reassuring focus on retrofit and sustainability evident in every project, alluding to a cohort of future architects ready to design for a climate emergency. UEL may be the SpaceX of architecture schools, but its students are still firmly grounded in reality. Forward-thinking practices should be snapping them up.

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building, the Masseria Cippano, to create a variety of healing spaces. Second-year student Brendan Hampton captures the zeitgeist with his Climate Healing retrofit, brought to life in an impressive axonometric.

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beautiful stand-alone art pieces, while a modelcrammed table shows a rough and ready approach to playing with space. Towering over the smaller pieces, a 1:1 timber model shows an early literacy with detailed construction being developed.

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PhD by Research

Doctoral research in architecture at UEL is as transdisciplinary as the practice of architecture itself. High level impact studies that examine smart cities, and intelligent design with contextual analysis mean that we work with both the Sustainable Research Institute (SRI) and colleagues from Humanities. International experts in city design, moving image, sensory perception, retrofit housing, mental health, cultural studies, natural environment, and philosophy guide students through individually develop research projects. The intent of the doctorate is to produce high quality researchers across the different strands of the built environment, that supports students’ own concerns as well as funded research investigations. The MRes provides a pathway to PhD study, with three former MRes students currently doing PhDs with us.

Investigator: Mark Sustr Supervisors: Roland Karthaus, Anna Minton, Renée Tobe

Problems experienced by the homeless cannot always be resolved simply through access to decent housing. Although a stable home is important, it doesn’t necessarily address the reasons that originally led to homelessness. Neither does it reconcile the debilitating effect of time spent living on the margins of society, often excluded from social norms. Given this community routinely experience rejection, often moved from public view, or are stigmatised as deviant - the effect is to deny them the sense that they are valued or that their contributions are worthwhile. Such social exclusion is therefore not simply a problem of inequity, but of questionable representation. Homelessness Problems experienced by the homeless cannot always be resolved simply through access to decent housing. Although a stable home is important, it doesn’t necessarily address the reasons that originally led to homelessness. Neither does it reconcile the debilitating effect of time spent living on the margins of society, often excluded from social norms. Given this community routinely experience rejection, often moved from public view, or are stigmatised as deviant - the effect is to deny them the sense that they are valued or that their contributions are worthwhile. Such social exclusion is therefore not simply a problem of inequity, but of questionable representation. Increasingly, due to the proliferation of marginal communities and informal settlements, there is a growing global interest in what can be learnt from these communities, in particular the alternative skill sets they possess - born out of a necessity to maximise the potential of the limited resources at their disposal.

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PhD by Research Can self-help housing (SHH), empower homeless communities and grow their agency?

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PhD by Research Can community participation rebalance housing land rights? Case of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo Investigator: Lukangaka Luke Okende Supervisors: Dr Mihaela Anca Ciupala; Roland F. Karthaus

Like many amongst the African Sub-Saharan cities, Kinshasa the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo is confronted to a growing urban deterioration; absence of suitable infrastructures, poor quality of public services facilities and lack of quality housing for largest number of residents. A long period of political instability since the early postcolonial period, prevalent corruption in a context of poor governance and the ambiguous role of traditional chiefdom hierarchies (regarded as the landlords) in the process of urban land acquisitions are identified as keys contextual factors. Nevertheless, an absence of a sustainable urban development strategy, a comprehensive planning model in a city confronted to a fast demographic rate and a decline of socioeconomic standard amongst majority of residents over the years, have resulted to an unbalanced dysfunction system which contributed to an urban city development of two independent modes; one side dominated by accumulation of foreign private capital investments while another side by proliferations of informal settlements with a physical manifestation of slums constructions. Contextually, we propose to investigate while looking at a limited intervention adjacent to slums areas in Kingasani and camp Luka with a view to seeing if it can perform well. The essence of this research wishes to test whether community participation can offer an alternative process that can contribute to improving land rights and urban development at the grass-roots level, To fulfil this task we opt for focus groups on minor scale area in Kingasani and camp Luka even that this choice is not fully representative for city of Kinshasa however, it can be extended to big scale with consideration to the particular aspects of each location.

Key words: urban lands acquisitions, chiefdom authority, sustainable housing, community participation, urban poverty, slum constructions, private city space, urban planning.

Investigator: Martyn Holmes Supervisors: Alan Chandler, Anna Minton, Stephen Maddison

Community led housing is an umbrella term, a brand created by a partnership of organizations to deliver that sector and a new space (theoretically) and set of spaces (physically) where CLH realities are being conceived and constructed. This moment in time presents a unique opportunity to study new housing paradigms in formation. A set of paradigms, or world views, that will underpin a new housing sector centred around community participation in the production of the places and spaces we inhabit. A sector that through the involvement of agent and agencies from normative and non-normative housing pathways has the potential to challenge or reproduce the current housing system. My research examines this conjunctural, intersectional and contested CLH space, where competing histories, values and processes meet, via the lived experience of those who are participating in CLH developments under the current CLH initiative.

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PhD by Research Towards a theory of the Community Led Housing Process

1st in London for Architecture and Interior Design (1/9 providers) Student Satisfaction National Student Survey 2022

2nd in London for Architecture Guardian League Tables 2023

2nd in the UK (2/49 providers accross all Higher Education Providers) Student Satisfaction National Student Survey 2022

100% Student satisfaction for Interior Design 94.77% Student Satisfaction for Architecture

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1st in London for Architecture and Interior Design

(1/9 providers) Student Satisfaction National Student Survey 2022

2nd in London for Architecture Guardian League Tables 2023

2nd in the UK

(2/49 providers accross all Higher Education Providers) Student Satisfaction National Student Survey 2022

100% Student satisfaction for Interior Design 94.77% Student Satisfaction for Architecture ISBN 978-1-9989909-8-6

Cover image: Shambhavi Dalal, MA Interior Design