Kent School of Architecture - End of Year Show Catalogue 2013 by University of Kent

KENT S CHOO L OF ARCH I TECTURE

CATALOGUE Â 2013

Kent School of Architecture Catalogue 2013

‘Kent School of Architecture has been ranked 6th in the 2014 Guardian University Guide subject league tables’

Head of School Introduction

MArch

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

BA (Hons) Stage 3 Architecture

BA (Hons) Stage 3 Interiors

188

BA (Hons) Stage 2 Architecture

202

BA (Hons) Stage 1 Architecture

212

PhD Research

216

MSc Architecture and Sustainable Environment

224

MA Visualisation

225

KSA Internationalisation programme

228

Study Trips

229

KASA

230

CREAte

231

Catalogue & Exhibition Committee

232

Thanks

233

Introduction Head of school Professor Don Gray

Murcutt sketch by Glenn Murcutt “Architecture holds a remarkable series of issues. We deal with people, with building, with materials, with clients, with art; we deal with structure, life style, food preparation, bathing, sleeping, privacy, prospect, sound, acoustics, music, finishes, colours, access, vehicular movements, street patterns, landscape. What aren’t we dealing with? Money, too – is there another such occupation? At its fullest level architecture is an extraordinary occupation.” – Glenn Murcutt, Architecture Australia, May/ June 2002.

Another aspect, implicit in his own work - for example at Bingie Point in 1982 - is the ability to communicate and present ideas through a rich variety of media, and it is in this area that the presentation of student project work at KSA is changing dramatically. With the opening of the new digital Crit Space at the start of the year, students have been encouraged to experiment with digital media to describe and present their work. This emphasis mirrors something of the world of practice, where the design of presentation to clients now derives almost exclusively from a digital environment. We are concerned to prepare our students for practice without sacrificing the ability to think creatively. That is why the Crit Space provides opportunities for project realisation which were hitherto unavailable, and allows the technology to enhance more conventional means of communication: the

I came across the Australian architect’s quote in the course of reviewing a student dissertation on Murcutt’s work. He accurately describes the complexity of architectural design (although omitting any reference to the urban condition – how architecture shapes and provides distinctiveness to cities, a key concern of students at KSA.)

Murcutt digital model by Glenn Murcutt

Murcutt completed project by Glenn Murcutt

hand drawing, the physical model, the ‘concept’ sketch or model.

likewise began locally, in Margate, designing housing around the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, a prominent reminder of the late-eighteenth-century rise to prominence of this East Kent coastal town. Come January we had crossed the Channel to Lille, designing a hip-hop centre (or ‘ip-‘op, as the French say) just south of the city centre. This tight, dense site provided just the challenge needed to spur on this lively and engaged cohort of students. Their friends in the outgoing cohort of the Interiors programme began work in yet another Kent seaside town – Ramsgate – and ended with a flourish on a series of self-identified re-use projects, dealing with fabric as diverse as the Cutty Sark in Greenwich to rambling and messy tracts of Marylebone in London.

In this end of year catalogue, designed and produced by the students themselves, you will find the full range of media utilised in the service of fresh and exciting architecture. Stage One students began their design work on campus in the autumn term. Their field trip to Barcelona informed their final design project by the sea at Whitstable. The Stage Two theme of Landscape was a fresh challenge on the nineteenthcentury industrial ruined site outside Faversham, Kent. They moved even closer to home with the spring term Adapt and Extend project, working with Penoyre Prasad Architects on rethinking the Templeman Library here on campus. We are very grateful to Suzi Winstanley from the practice for making the project so real for us. Stage Three

In a departure from previous years, our MArch (Part 2) students have piloted a Unit system. Four Unit Masters have each taken an important architectural

focus for the year, and developed proposals with a dedicated group of students. These Units have taken on projects with diverse interests and sites of engagement. Unit 1 considered the potential for a re-flooded Wantsum Channel between Kent and the Isle of Thanet; Unit 2 took the metaphysics of China Mievilles novel, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The City and the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as a foil to the often contradictory experiences and perceptions of the modern city; Unit 3 journeyed to Kerala in India to develop proposals for sites adopted by the inaugural cultural Biennale in Kochi; and Unit 4 developed a series of environmental explorations at the confluence of the Rivers Darent and Thames.

The KSA adventure continues, and this catalogue serves as a reminder of the quality of student work in the School. It is also a yearbook of the many activities undertaken by staff and students over the past twelve months. I hope that you enjoy it. Professor Don Gray. June 2013

In addition, KSA has further extended its postgraduate portfolio with the introduction of an MSc in Architecture and Sustainable Environment. Our hosting in 2012 of the major international academic conference to mark the bicentenary of AWN Pugin brought together leading scholars from across the world, from Canada to New Zealand, and established the School in the field of nineteenth-century architectural history worldwide. The School continues to grow in strength and reputation, moving up the University league tables for the fifth successive year. Our submission to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) will further enhance our national and international credentials through the reputation of our published work, and the research centres CASE and CREAte.

The New Crit Space, Kent School of Architecture Photographs by Charles Hosea

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MArch Programme director Michael Richards

This academic year has been particularly significant for the MArch Programme. We’ve responded to increasing demand from Kent’s own excellent BA (Hons) graduates and Part 1 graduates from other schools, and doubled our intake. This helps to ameliorate the pinch-point between our Part 1 and Part 2 programmes and enables us to offer the opportunity to follow the MArch to greater numbers of our own graduates than ever before.

5 technology and design reports have also been taught through individual Units. Supporting subject areas shared by all Units are separately taught through shared lecture and seminar-based modules. These changes have brought to the MArch some exceptional individuals as Unit Leaders and what follows is a brief introduction to the Unit Leaders themselves:

This increase in size has also presented an opportunity to innovate in the way we teach design in the MArch programme, and it has been our ambition for a few years to move to a Unit system. The initiative allows for Unit Leaders to develop areas of specialism within a wider architectural discourse, and for students to enjoy a degree of choice in their educational experience. Vertical peer-to-peer learning is engendered by a mix of students, whilst an element of healthy competition also characterises the initiative, both within and between Units. Design is the most visible and tangible product of the Unit, but this year Stage

Unit 4 Leader Dr. Shaun Murray is an architect with more than 10 years’ experience in architecture focusing on ecological principles and design communication. Shaun was awarded a PhD in Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA), Planetary Collegium, 2011. He is the director of ENIAtype, founded in 2011, and Editor-in-Chief of Design Ecologies (Intellect books 2009-present). Before forming the practice, Shaun Murray was an Architect at Alsop Architects. Unit 3 Leader Corrina Dean recently completed a PhD at London School of Economics and

Tate Modern. Her interests include Emerging Urbanisms and she is developing grant-funded research with the Kochi Muzuris Art Biennale on how the Biennale will influence the structure of Fort Kochi in Kerala, India. As part of the London Festival of Architecture she curated the exhibition Bankside-on-Call which examined the local narratives in Bankside and how they responded to the accelerated development in that area. She is Curator at Independent Curator, author of various publications for Laurence King and Rockport Publishers, and a freelance writer. Unit 2 Leader Ed Holloway is an architect, educator and director of his own practice, Beep Studio in SE London. He sees practice as proactive and collaborative and creatively and innovatively seeks to empower local stakeholders in the improvement of their urban environment. Most recently he has been instrumental in leading the revised bid by Lewisham Council for Sydenham, Kirkdale and Forest Hill to win ‘Portas Pilot Town’ status (an initiative to combat Britain’s failing high streets) and a share of the £1.5m regeneration funding. Unit 1 Leader Michael Richards has been

MArch Programme Director since 2008 and has developed the identity and reputation of the current programme, most recently setting thesis briefs focused on critical regionalism and Kent’s ‘edge condition’. The work of the programme was nominated for a Time Higher Education award for ‘Outstanding Regional Engagement’ in 2012. Prior to Kent, he was Assistant Professor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University, USA. As a practicing architect, amongst other roles Richards was the project architect for the office wing of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects’ House of Straw. I would like to thank my fellow Unit Leaders, supporting technical tutors and guest critics etc., and all the other academic and technical staff who have in so many ways contributed to the MArch in this special year. And a special ‘thank you’ to all for the MArch students themselves this year, for their energy, imagination and trust, in making this year so special and successful, and we wish the Classof-2013 graduates well!

MArch Trips Locations Unit 1 - Belgium Unit 2 - Budapest Unit 3 - Kochi, India

Belgium Unit 1 took a road trip to Belgium to visit the cities of Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels and Namur (in Wallonia). These cities and towns resonate with the interests Unit 1 with urban parallels between Sandwich and Bruges, whilst the Monks’ and Abbot’s Walls of the Want sum use Belgium Dutch and Wallonia land reclamation methods. Themes symbolically referenced and conflated in a live intervention/performance of the Unit’s homemade camera obscure in Antwerp’s Town Square.

Unit 3 Journeyed Kochi, also known as the Queen of Arabian Sea, the commercial capital of Kerala, is one of the fastest growing two-tier metropolitan cities in India. There they explored the proposed sites of the Kochi Moiré’s Biennale in relation to the urban transformation of the city and how the cultural agenda of the Biennale will inform the stitching of these sites back into the urban fabric of the city.

Unit 2 Journeyed to Budapest, the primate city of Hungary, a ‘global city’ divided then unified in the 19th century, a city that resonates with the themes in ‘The City and the City’ being more recently serially occupied by the Germans and the Russians in the 20th Century and where then and now residence live with the legacy of these disparate but equally oppressive political occupiers.

Kochi, India

Budapest

Unit 1

Wantsum? Unit leader: Michael Richards Technical tutors: Keith Bothwell, Timothy Carlyle, Ben Godber Guest critics: Corinna Dean, Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Ed Holloway, Michael Holms Coats, Shaun Murray, Chris Seaber Stage 5: Christopher Ayling, Jas Dhillon, Thomas Futcher, Mark Humphreys, Pui Yee Lai, Rob Pollard, Benjamin Rothnie Stage 4: Sam Ashdown, Alex Deacon, Matthew Donald, Katarzyna Kwiatek, Adam Nightingale, Rob Owen, Jess Ringrose, Rosie Seaman, Cemal Ustaoglu A pun on the colloquial use of estuarine English, the working title for this year’s investigations in critical regionalism is not the invitation to pugilistic mayhem that it might sound. But it does reference the very real choice facing a particular part of East Kent’s lowland and the authorities tasked with its protection – a choice of economic and environmental strategy that might ultimately lead to the reestablishment of the Wantsum Channel that once separated Kent from the Isle of Thanet.

Sandwich, distancing it from the sea, whilst the reintroduction of Christianity brought an army of monks who constructed a series of earth ‘walls’ to reclaim land from the channel. The cumulative effect was the gradual silting of the channel with the last recorded full navigation occurring in 1672. However smaller fee-paying passenger boats can still make the journey up the Stour from Pegwell Bay via Sandwich and Grove Ferry to Fordwich in favourable tides. During the North Sea Flood of 1953 the sea circumvented the then-under-construction sea wall, and re-flooded the Wantsum southward all the way to the Sarre Wall. Subsequently drained the status quo is today maintained by a concrete costal defence wall between Reculver and Minnis Bay, with much of the Wantsum Channel still lying below sea level. There is a very real contemporary debate that advocates that the huge expense required to maintain the wall is not justified and that a retreat and ‘fall-back’ strategy should be considered. The ultimate fall-back is to surrender the channel

The story of the Wantsum is one of accreted sedimentation. Up to 2 miles at its widest, crossed by a series of ferries supplemented by the late 1500s by a causeway between Grove and Sarre, it would have carried a deep navigation channel bordered by shallow tidal salting marches, not unlike the Swale before its banks were reclaimed from the sea. To guard the entrances to the channel the Romans established forts at Reculver and Richborough. Long shore drift created a shingle bank at its southern end which grew out past the port of 14

Wantsome Channel back to the sea in its entirety. In the 60th anniversary year of The North Sea Flood of 1953, Unit 1 speculates on the implications of such strategy and posits a series of responses situated in an imagined 2053 where an undermining of the sea defence coupled with intervening sea level rises has created a new coastline altering the balance of the established commercial and agricultural equilibrium, whilst returning significance to locations once synonymous with faith, wealth, and power.

the personalising of urban experience, and technologies of reclaiming land from the sea. On their return they combined these themes in propositions for a series of Bastions for Sandwich. In the spring they emerged from the walls of Sandwich like their Huguenot and Wallonian forbearers and developed a series of accelerated design propositions which include a Tidal Crematorium, Centre for Synthetic Organ Growth, a Saltarium, Dietary Supplement Seaweed Farm, Fish Farm, MossTea Plantation, Repository for Seeds, Water Contamination Laboratory, and Free-Range Abattoir/Butchery/Culinary School.

Stage 5 students commenced their thesis projects in the autumn and these include a Reliquary at Minster, Secret Society of Glass Markers at Sarre, Coal-into-Carbon Fibre Rowing Club, Dream Therapy Centre and Hop Farm at West Stourmouth, Oyster Nursery at Port Richborough, and Paper Mill and Scriptorium at Wingham. Stage 4 students commenced with a series of exercises in photogrammetry and use of camera obscura culminating in a field trip to Belgium to conflate themes of perspectival representation,

At the end of the academic year the Unit has developed some 15 separate projects situated in and on the shores of a hypothetically recreated Wantsum Channel of 2053, thematically linked by engagement in the Unit’s theme of critical regionalism, speculating about the re-emergent centres of ecology, industry, trade, faith and culture. 15

Christopher Ayling

Jas Dhillon 5 Years... 231 Weeks... 1,627 Days... 39,048 Hours... 2,342,880 Minutes... 140,572,800 Seconds... Full time architectural education... DONE. We made it!

“In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves…” Anyway… C’è semplicemente troppo da ringraziare per gli ultimi 6 anni, dalla famiglia, personalmente, dall’ lavoro con i miei colleghi e ovviamente e i miei amici qui e anche durante il mio Erasmus a Roma. Prima di diventare troppo sentimentale, un grido particolare ai pionieri, tra cui i Masters at Work e Frankie Knuckles – per la vostra azienda su questo viaggio. I think that’s right. 17

Thomas Futcher

Mark Humphreys “Secret Guild of Glassmakers in Sarre, Kent” The brief based on the re-flooded Wantsum Channel, Kent led to my final project inspired by the historical use of Samphire; a saltmarsh plant, in glassmaking and modern day experiments as a biofuel. The skills and knowledge of fine glassmaking have been kept secret throughout history. This final year in architectural education has definitely been the most challenging but I am glad to have had the opportunity to share this with you all. All the best in the future, please stay in contact – www.thomasfutcher. co.uk 18

How can six incredibly long years to go by in such a flash? I guess there is enjoyment in it after all!

Pui Yee Lai

Rob Pollard The project is a Dream Farm located in Stourmouth, Kent for healing patients with sleeping disorders using the smell of Hops as a traditional sleep aid. The ‘dreamers’ are free to sleep and wander under a canopy of hops. The buildings are designed as part of a larger mechanism connecting to the tension of the hops field network. ‘Dreamers’ weave a hop pillow out of the plant stems and the smell will remind them of the experience. These two years have been great and I am glad to have met you all. All the best in the future! 20

The scheme proposes an oyster farm on the river bank in Richborough over the ruins of a secret WWI port. The building itself interacts with the ruins left from the port. The brief creates a scenario of a re flooded Wantsum channel, thus the area surrounding the site could become highly polluted. The ambition is to produce oysters and use them for their filtering capabilities to reduce the levels of pollution in the water. The site is situated adjacent to Pegwell national wildlife site, so the aim is to improve the water quality for the benefit of the wider eco system. 21

Ben Rothnie My major design project explored the long history of papermaking and scriptwriting across Kent, with a focus on the village of Wingham, to east of Canterbury; and its relationship to potential future sea level rise resulting in a re-flooded Wantsum channel. The design proposes an Archive specializing in the preservation, conservation and creation of written artefacts. Through my Independent Study Project I explored the potential of Architectural Projection Mapping in the design and communication of architectural ideas. 22

3 Fig 1. Sam Ashdown, Crematorium, Ceremony Hall. Fig 2. Sam Ashdown, Crematorium, Porte Cochere.

Fig 3. Alex Deacon, The Organ Factory, Wantsum

7 Fig 4. Matt Donald, NaCl. Fig 5. Katarzyna

Fig 6 & 7. Katarzyna Kwiatek, Artificial growth

Kwiatek, Seaweed nutrition centre.

of seaweed.

9 Fig 8. Adam Nightingale ‘The End of the Line’

Fig 9. Rob Owen, Perspective view, Wantsum.

Fig 10. Jess Ringrose, Orthodox. Fig 11. Jess Ringrose, Recalcitrant.

Fig 12. Rosie Seaman, Accumulations of obsession. Fig 13. Rosie Seaman, Inventions of a chemist.

Fig 14. Cemal Ustaoglu, Culinary school, kitchen section. Fig 15. Cemal Ustaoglu, Culinary school,

Fig 16. Sandwich and the river Stour, Unit 1 group site model.

abattoir section.

Unit 2

The City and the City Unit leader: Ed Holloway Technical tutor: Tom Bell Guest critic: Peter Ayres, Colin Allen, Michael Richards, Richard Hibbert Stage 5: Faiz Ahmad, Ben Blackburn, Matthew Downey, Jessica Fermor, Chris Flavin, Howard Fox, Olympia Nicholaou Stage 4: Josh Blackledge, Karl Bowers, Kristina Buchtova, Callum Graham, Nicholas Howe, Aakash Parikh, Jacob Robinson, Joshua Wells

Occupying sites in Poplar and Forest Hill Unit 2 this year developed a term of intermediate architecture honed as an organisation of space that reveals a disjunction between multiplicit modes of our contemporary cities.

transgressions of this divide asserted by a third agency, solely intermediary, that exists between these superimposed societies. The Unit explores this narrative tool, developing an authorship that navigates on behalf of its protagonists; an intermediary through the at once familiar and distant proximity of simultaneous existence.

China Mievilles novel, ‘The City and the City’ is a murder mystery that takes part in two fictional cities. These are actually superimposed upon each other within the same physical space. The inhabitants of each are divided due to historic opposition to the extent that each group of citizens ultimately, has learnt to unsee the other even though their cities merge, physically, in the intimacy of streets and building plots. Severe penalties exist for

Often overlooked and generally unseen by either; the ‘cross hatch’ might be the parity of a simultaneous experience that offers reinterpretation; slight and immediate, personally initiated and technologically enabled to recontextualise experience of other veiled and obtusely discrete ‘same’ places. Students have been tasked to identify such potential cross

Canary Wharf & Poplar: The City and the City

hatches developing personal briefs that explore juxtaposition and seek to reveal complex interfaces of spatial immediacy.

are the territories that I and they occupy; and where does us end and them begin? This years projects forge connections in an ecology of resources; either social or political capacity, calorific or electromagnetic quantity to the benefit of developing a mode that reveals the immediateness of consuming coexisting ‘tribes’ apart yet bound by metabolic urgency.

These dualities are readily identifiable, whether a poverty polarity, social or inter-generational divides, political or technological apartness. The coexistence of ‘invisible’ otherness is perhaps, through our collective experience, a constant iterative undoing and re-making of the intense layered constructions we call cities. We wonder at the density of our cities and seek a position between orthodox constraints of cream cheese and concrete in the seams and subtleties of personal spatial praxis, what

Faiz Ahmad

Ben Blackburn ‘The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.’’

Juxtaposition. Hierarchy. Crosshatch. Permaculture. Habitat. Ecology. Flora. Fauna. Production. Poplar. Leamouth. Fish. Bird. Intercropping. Aperture. Dogfish. Windermere. Polemic. Dialogue. Snapchat. Budapest. Layers. Zones. Bathymetry. Rat. Bulrush. Barrier. Beaver. Scalpel. Conflict. Rhino. #. Autonomous. Suffiency. Revit. Browns. Trafalgar. Mechanism. Actuator. Erosion. Orchard. Americano. Warbler. Peas. Billingsgate. Canning. Whitebait. Trout. Eels. Keels. Reappropriation. Methane. Hessian. Kelp. Lee. Bath. Parametrics. Asahi. Chrisp. Langdon. Jenkins. Parasitic. Micro. Macro. Danube. Wharf. Piling. River. Submit. Drink. 31

Jessica Fermor

Matthew Downey Now we are free………………..

I’m an Idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. #givers

Howard Fox

Chris Flavin I can’t believe my 5 years at the University of Kent are over. I can still remember my first day of the undergraduate degree as if it were yesterday! Good luck to everybody with your futures and careers, I hope we all stay in touch!

“It’s like an alarm clock’s gone off, and I’ve just got to get away. I think it was John Lennon who said: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”, and that’s how I feel. Although he also said: “I am the Walrus I am the eggman” so I don’t know what to believe.” Tim Canterbury – The Office

Olympia Nicholaou Masters in architecture; 2 years of living in an architecture bubble, another land, one where you eat, speak, talk and sleep in architecture. It has been a long and stressful 2 years, but I have finally reached the end of my 5 year university education at the Kent School of Architecture. This is however not the end, but the start of a new adventure. I would like to thank my family for supporting me and my friends for making it the great 2 years it has beenâ&#x20AC;Ś

2 Fig 1. Josh Blackledge, Towards Forrest Hill Station.

Fig 2. Josh Blackledge, New Commuter Routes.

6 Fig 3. Karl Bowers, Graffiti studio.

Fig 4. Kristina Buchtova, Forest Hill Design School and Development

Fig 5. Nicholas Howe, Cloister mechanism

Fig 6. Nicholas Howe, Masterplan

9 Fig 7. Aakash Parikh, The mechanisms of acting. Fig 8. Aakash Parikh, Theatre flytower, sketch study.

Fig 9. Jacob Robinson, Hydrotherapy

Fig 10. Jacob Robinson, Hysteric section.

Fig 11. Joshua Wells, Mental health asylum and working museum.

Unit 3

Emergent Urbanisms Unit leader: Corinna Dean Technical tutor: Timothy Carlyle, Ben Godber, Oliver Bulleid Guest critics: Cherie Yeo, Diana Cochrane, Urban Salon, Andrew Cross Stage 5: Gregory Weinrich Stage 4: Yvonne Ajayi, Azmah Arzmi, Ana Becheru, Thomas Bucknall, Jennifer Bull, Matthew Dennis, Edward Drysdale, Natasha Gandhi, Tarunjeet Khabra, Yennee Lou, Farhan Shamshudin, Ehren Trzebiatowski, Alex Vousden, William Wicker Kochi site panorama

As is frequently mooted in the press, the BRIC economies are the fastest growing countries, promoting rapid globalisation, privileging a homogenisation of lifestyle and taste. How do we reconcile the local against this rapid economic growth? And how do we respond in terms of form making? The Kochi Muziri Biennale in India provided an ideal starting point from which to engage with these issues as designers. Extending its remit beyond India, the visual arts Biennale also sought to reflect grass roots art practices.

Biennale to devise a programme that would respond to the influence of the Biennale on the City. Once in India a programme of engagement was devised through workshops with the Former City Major and members of the Biennale team. The students were tasked with rapidly responding to not only the conditions of a diverse multi cultural City but one that experiences extreme environmental and infrastructural problems. From initial engagement on the micro level students began to explore the sites in response to the conditions such as the periphery verses the centre, and density verses under-occupation. On the macro level we engaged with what could be termed Critical Regionalism specific to Kerala, which has a rich tradition in boat making techniques alongside a locally developed architecture that maximised passive cooling.

Unit 3 students spent two weeks in Kochi, the commercial capital of Kerala and one of the fastest growing two-tier metropolitan cities in India. Under the focus of cultural regeneration the students navigated the sites offered up for the

On arrival into the City the students carried out an interrogative site study of the urban condition; creating a filmic journey from arrival by ferry to the sites and mapping exercises. The Unit explored how to engage first design concepts from a contextual analysis; design projects ranged from a Bio-Piracy Centre which evolved from an identification with the richness of the ayuverdic natural resources under threat of multi-nationals; a Reactive Processing Plant to engage participants in creatively dealing with the excess of plastic pollutants, a series of Urban Capillaries created a template onto which everyday activities could be given an urban stage for performance and a Landscaped Public Pool responded to the very real problem of multiple drownings in the Arabian Sea which laps at Fort Kochiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boundaries.

The Unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus on Emergent Urbanisms kicked off on Rye Lane a site of diverse multi ethnic groups that all feed into the vernacular architecture of Peckham and give it its distinctive character. Kochi proved a challenge in terms of its dynamic colonial history and how to respond to the cultural mash-up. As we become increasingly itinerant the Unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teaching aims to equip students to think beyond the object and develop an ambition as to how architecture contributes to the City as a whole, whilst responding to the challenging issues of designing in a dynamic and diverse environment undergoing immense change.

Gregory Weinrich From starting back in 2007, I never thought I’d make it through… Living speaking eating sleeping architecture. A long and challenging 2 years, but I’m happy to say I’ve made it to the end. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill; - ‘Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ Thanks to all my friends I’ve made along the way, keep in touch.

3 Fig 1. Ground Floor Plan.

Fig 2. East facing section-elevation Kochi Muzuris Biennale Foundation. Fig 3. South facing elevation.

6 Fig 4. Yvonne Tosin, Ground Floor Plan.

8 Fig 5 & 6. Ana Becheru, Floor Plans

Fig 7. Thomas Bucknall, Kochi aerial perspective.

Fig 8. Jennifer Bull, Urban Capillary Elevation Plan and Section.

13 Fig 9 & 10. Matthew Dennis, WindCatcher.

Fig 11. Edward Drysdale, Section.

Fig 12. Natasha Gandhi, Internal Perspective.

Fig 13. Natasha Gandhi, Site Section.

19 Fig 14. Tarunjeet Khabra, Elevation. Fig 15. Tarunjeet Khabra, Section.

Fig 16. Yennee Lou, Kochi Biennale Perspective. Fig 17. Yennee Lou, Kochi Biennale Elevation.

Fig 18. Farhan Shamshudin, Amphitheatre Visual.

Fig 19. Ehren Trezbiatowski, Model.

Unit 4

The advent of a telluric architecture Unit leader: Dr Shaun Murray Technical tutor: Adam Cole Guest critic: Yorgos Loizos, Michael Richards, Don Gray, Corinna Dean, Gordana Fontana-Guisti, Giridharan Renganathan & Timothy Brittain-Catlin Stage 5: Man ‘Sizzy’ Li, Laura Noble, Rozita Rahman, Nicholas Sexton Stage 4: Megan Clarke, Keith Diplock, Peter Evans, Thomas Haywood, Jamie Hissey, Tobias Hoskin-Parr, Luca Pontillo, Aneesah Satriya, Edward Seaman, James Shaw, Timothy Waterson Vista from Dartford Marshes flood defences out onto the tidal river Thames with Little brook oil fired Power Station and the QE II toll bridge on the horizon.

Imagine our colossal landfills in the UK as sensible resource sheds to build our future urban spaces, where eventually the future of architecture and design can make no distinction between waste and supply. The global issue of ‘urban compression’ in the future of our cities has led us to investigate new interventions that operate through intuitionism and novel methodologies of practicing architectural design in our built environment. Cities are the absence of physical space between people and technology. They enable us to work and play together, and their success depends on the demand for physical connection. Architectural

propositions

will

propose

extended city reconstituted from its own ground materials. To remake the city by utilizing all the materials entombed in the ungrounding process of construction. To craft from the materials we have exhumed from the ground to construct different material combinations to serve different purposes in the design. What if architectural design was no longer legitimated through a promised structure or even a mere imagined one, but was instead to reach absolute continuity, in which construction constructed itself?

Stage 1: Unpacking the complexities of Dartford marshes through communicating the geological, technological and environmental constraints. Sets of drawings were produced at various scales to explore different architectural potentials. The objectives were to make participants take responsibility for their own design decisions to reveal an ecological set of relationships from satellite imagery, GPS tracking, tidal flows, topology, bathymetry, precipitation, temperature and chemistry.

Participants will design an environmental testing centre for Dartford marshes, England.

Stage 2: Possibilities enabled the participants to develop a building design through their initial findings. Through unpacking the site, participants then produced a three-dimensional ‘ecological assemblage’ of nine components (stair, wall, roof,

All the projects went through three clear stages in the design process:

etc.) in their design where building is continuous with the way that it might be occupied, attrited and even abandoned. Stage 3: Implementation of the design project through technological and environmental techniques. Each project is embedded into a complex ecological field of shifting relationships that far exceeds the territories of the site. Nothing has, any longer, ever been finished. The built world vaporizes in soft apocalypse.

Man ‘Sizzy’ Li

Laura Noble 2013 comes to an end. An end is also a beginning ...So am I ready for it? YES! I’m totally excited and I can use all my remaining energy to push through the doors.

After 18 years of full times education I am finally free. INFANTS_03 years of learning to read and write JUNIORS_03 years of learning to add and subtract SECONDARY_05 years of planning my life A-LEVELS_02 years remodelling my plans_UNDERGRAD_03 of learning to be independent MASTERS_ finally 02 years of piecing them all together. I wonder what’s next for my adventures….

Rozita Rahman

Nicholas Sexton â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, when I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation: images of places I know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places, places that I carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theatre or literature.â&#x20AC;? Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture

A qausi-monastic community sits aboard a floating pier, rising and falling with the ebb and flow of the tide, deposited perpetually in new locations and reciprocally adjusting the flow of water and deposition of sediments. Seeding the restoration of the floodplain and redevelopment of the saltmarsh whilst reconnecting civilisation with the industries banished to the estuary hinterlands. The pier acts as a deployable piece of anthropogenic geology, mouth agasp like a basking shark, skimming the river Thames for sediment, prospecting for heavy metals and discarded oils for its own devious purposesâ&#x20AC;Ś. 57

4 Fig 1. Man â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sizzyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Li, Interior view of Mushroom farm.

Fig 2. Laura Noble, Terrace View.

Fig 3. Rozita Rahman, [Epigenesis] - Dissection through learning spaces, social spaces and secluded spaces.

Fig 4. Nicholas Sexton, The Bathymetric Archive stands tall as a post industrial symbol of anthropogenic influence over the Thames regieme.

6 Fig 5. Megan Clarke, Magnetic Rehabilitiation Centre Axonometric Section.

Fig 6. Thomas Haywood, Cosmetic Section.

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Third year charette at the Turner Contemporary, Margate. Stage Three students this year engaged in design projects for two towns in the Transmanche Euroregion that have been coming to terms with their decline since the mid twentieth century. Though different in size, both towns still face the significant problems of economic stagnation and unemployment, problems that the very best architecture and urban design can in various ways help to resolve.

public charrette held in David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary gallery. At the end of the day they presented their sketch proposals to local residents, town planners, and architects, as well as to architecture students and staff from Lille. Despite the pump-priming effects of the new gallery and other publicly-funded projects, Margate continues to flounder economically and socially. Students explored these themes as well as the perennial issues of building with commodity, firmness and delight, joined by the post-Vitruvian and preeminent imperative of our age – to build sustainably.

In the Autumn term students explored modularity in its many forms and at many scales, from individual tesserae, to proportional systems and modular construction cassettes, up to unit planning and urban blocks. Their designs for new housing, community facilities and a boutique hotel, were based on a real project for the site of the old Sea Bathing Hospital in Margate – where Karl Marx was once a patient. Early in the term students worked in teams all day to brainstorm urban design solutions at a

In the Spring term we visited Lille itself – almost snowbound in January – continuing a tradition of working in the city in association with the local school of architecture, to view the site for the major project Urban. Students designed a cultural centre for a site on the outskirts of the city centre. The project was again focussed on a 68

real brief, this time a centre for hip-hop music and dance in an area of high unemployment with a large immigrant population. Key design and conceptual challenges lay in the possibility of reconciling the rebellious and subversive essence of hip-hop culture within a permanent state-funded building for the ‘professional development’ of these artists. The final review of work was the first all-digital one held for Stage Three, in our new purpose-built crit space equipped with large touch-screen displays.

in management, practice and law – preparing for architectural practice in the real world – complemented design work in the Spring term. The vibrancy and relevance of our programme to the world outside would not be possible without the unpaid assistance of many professionals in the region who help in suggesting briefs and sites, act as advisors and sit on crit panels. This year these have included Fifi Ramadan, Giacomo Chiarini, Gilles Maury, Guy Hollaway, Huw Heywood, Karen Martin, Lorraine Farrelly, Matt Whitby, Michael Dillon, Nick Dermott, Nick Eldridge, Phil Ward, Philipp Hall, Raffaele Oppido, Richard Brown, Sam Causer, Simon Timms, Stuart Tappin, Thandi Zulu, Tom Sweet, plus last but not least, many unnamed but invaluable MArch and PhD students. Many thanks to you all!

Balancing their design activities in the Autumn term, students were given free rein to explore an architectural theme or theory, undertake a work in another discipline, or appraise the success of a recent new building – the one free choice of module in the three years of the BA course. In the final cultural context module of the programme the theme of modernisms was taught, discussed and written upon. Studies 69

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Noor Alalawi ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ seems to go hand in hand with Architecture... if you survived.

‘The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance’ – Socrates So you think you can draw HAAAH? Well, sometimes life just gets in the way.

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“We will sing of the multicolored and polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy stations that devour smoke plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives.” – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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Jamal Beckford To those of you who know me the chicken leg reference will not need explanation!

‘The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us’ Peter Eisenman

‘No breakdowns, only prayer meetings’: a lesson I’m glad I finally learnt.

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Philip Birkett A challenging three years to say the least, but the most rewarding at completion. Looking forward to the next chapter…

‘I’m going to use curves for this project…’ ‘I’ve been out 3 times this week…’ ‘I’ve had a great nights sleep…’ Said no architect ever. 3 great years. Thank god we’ve got at least another 4.

Paul Boateng

BREATH IN! BREATH OUT! That’s simply the sound of relief! But it’s been great fun too…Part 1 of the degree is done now bring on the next phases of my life.

Robert Brimley A great 3 years with a great bunch of people, tired and caffeine fuelled great people.

I simply could not have done any of it without God strengthening me when I needed Him the most! Within all my designs I have enjoy the challenge of infusing functionality with a touch of quirkiness and a handful of metaphorical undertones…sooo I guess you could say that architecture to me is a bit like cooking…a lot of ingredients are involved to make one delightful dish! 82

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Matthew Bullock â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not all those who wander are lost.â&#x20AC;? J.R.R. Tolkien I have learnt so much in the past 3 years, not only about Architecture, but also more importantly, about myself.

Learnt alot. Slept a little. Drew alot. Moaned a little. Drank alot. Modelled a little. Met alot of awesome people. Overall has been a brilliant three years and I am very grateful for everyone who helped along the way!

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Noah Carter It always seems impossible until it is done. What an amazing three years with a group of incredible people.

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Grace Cattermole It’s been a fantastic three years filled with great memories and hard work. Thanks to everyone who has made it unforgettable and to all that have helped me through, and now its time to face the real world…

Ok. So. Basically. These past 3 years have been amazing. I have loved every single moment. Even the worst days have been great, because we have been through them together as a big archi family! I could not have enjoyed a course more, architecture is epic. Best experience ever! thnx byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee xxx

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Maisy Chau Architecture is the art of how to waste space Philip Johnson

Architecture or Architorture, just breathe…life still goes on and time always moves faster when there’s a deadline looming…so we’ll just have to survive like we always do..haha!! A journey worth walking from beginning to end, if not for the torture, then for the people who walk with you – laughing, crying and fainting along the way . . . LOL

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Sharon Ga Yan Cheuk The less you sleep the funnier things seem.

3 years of studying Architecture and what a rollercoaster ride it’s been. To all the people that have survived, I think we all deserve food, sleep, friends, life – and anything else that Architecture has deprived us from! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the people that have supported me through this journey and when I’ve felt like giving up, you’ve helped me get through this. Anyway, good luck to everyone in job-hunting or doing whatever they wish to, keep in touch and I’ll see you in Pt 2 – maybe! :)

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Debbie Choi 4am delirium, coffeeee, Jesus, Burn tool, breaks bank for printing, gets job â&#x20AC;&#x201C; earns less than an anthropologist. Oh Architecture.

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Adrian Cullen These past three years have been a roller coaster of laughter, tears and inevitable all-nighters. Would I do it all again?! ‘Aint Nobody Got Time For thattttttt!!’ But All in all, I don’t regret my time here, its been a blast! Architecture: Expect the Unexpected ;-)

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Thomas Devine My experience at the University of Kent has been very interesting, life changing and memorable. Being here has not only been educational but it has also helped me grow personally, improve my social skills and deal with life issues. I have met some of the most talented and inspirational people who have left a great impressions on me. It has been a good number of years of my life that I will always cherish and will never forget. KASA FOR LIFE!!!

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Three years of designing, learning and improving, yet I still haven’t grasped the concept of sleeping before a Crit. All in good time…. To the next 4 years!!! And it’s a goodbye from me.

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Creation is a powerful skill, an intriguing ability evolving from our originalities and perspectives. Since I was young, I maintained a keen interest in different types of art, as photography, drawing, painting, making jewelry. Around the time I was in high school, after travelling and meeting different cultures, I realized that what will eventually make me passionate about life is working with people, helping them to shape their lives into the built environment. The decision about what I should do was vibrant; architecture was combining both aspects of my personality traits. The past three years helped me to explore and extend my abilities about how I see the surrounding environment and how I could create some part of it. Although the journey in an architecture school was quite challenging and demanding, I had the perpetual support from my parents and my tutors in every step I was taken.

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Laura Dinares “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we’ve been, but of what we long to be.” Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Stefanie Dry The past 3 years: stressful, intense and made worse by a dislike of caffeine. But I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change it for anything, met some truly amazing people and had a great time!

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Karyinsola Edu My experience at Kent has been one big roller-coaster, summed up into peaks and valleys..... i donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think i ever gave any module a 100% because of all the other things i dealt with but i can say i am satisfied with what i was able to produce under all circumstances each time. I have learnt nobody will hit as hard as life buts its not about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward how much you can take and keep moving forward. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how achieving success is done.

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Jennifer Emm Architecture is a wide world and I experienced just a part of it. But the experience has been the most significant of all so far! One goal down; Next is to become another Zaha Hadid, but the Persian version. I am looking forward to design spaces that will give special meanings and tell peaceful stories to everyone. One thing to remember: Never forget your sketchbook. P.S I love you Kent School of Architecture!

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Thomas Ford It has been a long and stressful three years, but some of the best years of my life with people I will never forget

After my final Crit my housemate asks me how it feels to no longer be a student? ‘Ha! Don’t make me laugh! I study Architecture; I’m always going to be a student.’ We became friends during the good times, but it was the deadline induced, essentials fuelled, life absorbing and studio sessioning worst of times that made us an Archi Family, glad to have been a part of it. These past 3 years have been epic.

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Anton Foster My 3 years of Architecture school has shown me to never give up on hard work, true friendships and the capability of my liver.

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Oliver Goldie The last three years have been absolutely amazing and have flown by; they have been the best I could have asked for and I can honestly say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met so many people through this course that I can honestly say have inspired me and I would consider great friends. I hope to keep in touch with everyone! Thank you KSA and hopefully be back in a yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time to continue this amazing experience.

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Katherine Gomm A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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Ruxandra Gruioniu The last three years have flown by, I have learnt a lot and met some amazing people who have made my time at Kent the best! Architecture has been a great challenge and I wish everybody all the best for the future :)

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A forest somewhere outside the city… A walk through it and suddenly magical harmony rules over one’s sense of being. All the senses are being stimulated and interact constantly, healing, invigorating and reinforcing each other; one’s experience of reality and of the world’s beauty is thus strengthened and articulated. At its essence, Architecture represents an extension of the natural environment into the man-made territory; therefore it creates the ground for understanding and experiencing the world. Architecture is for our souls! Let’s enjoy it! 119

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Natalia Hatsiou We have art to save ourselves from the truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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Claire Hellingman ‘For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed: And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still’

Studying architecture is not education; it’s determination, inspiration and dedication The past three years have not been easy, but thankfully I made it to the other side, supported by people whose friendships I’ll cherish forever.

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Matthew Jolly Never give up - because it is always worth pushing yourself a little bit further! Three great years with an awesome bunch of people who I wish the best of luck in the future.

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Tamara Kahn University has been a challenging experience, one that has shaped me as a person and taught me a range of new skills. AutoCAD, Revit, 3D Studio Max and Photoshop are some of the computer programs I have learnt to use whilst at university, and in each project my design, drawing and computer skills have considerably improved. Completing my undergraduate degree has further motivated me to become a chartered architect, and I am eager to start the next step towards becoming an architect.

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Princesse Kamwiziku Nzuzi Three for Architecture: confidence patience dedication

The only word that springs to mind to best describe my experience here at KASA is “ CRAZY…” Over the 3 past years I have come to relish and dislike architecture. However, as a whole picture, my university experience embodies snapshots of cutting edge creativity that I wish to embark with in my next journey.

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Catherine Karsas The Kent School of Architecture has given me an opportunity to explore my possibilities and test my creativity in several projects, and for that I am thankful. Having finished with this chapter of my life I am ready to see what the future beholds and finally experience what it really means to be an architect!

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Ahmed Khankhara All those within the studio know me as “Faarrrrrn” and I feel this is a name that will stick no matter where I end up in life… either that or Pepsi Girl.

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UKC has given me the best years of my life so far, with all the amazing people here and crazy studio banter that no doubt, no other course has, which I am so lucky to be a part of. The mixture of sleep deprivation, 35p energy drinks from essentials and the strange bond we all create between ourselves and a particular computer within the studio has all been worth it. Don’t worry guys! I’ll someday get off the Pepsi addiction! Thank you for all those hilarious times and not forgetting the many more we are yet to make!

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Geoffrey Lan Hun Kuen We get to be paid for playing with LEGO. How cool is that? Cool enough to make you responsible for what your mind releases into the material world, right?

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Berenice Melis “I’ve said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.” - Peter Zumthor … but the plan is to continue developing the grand scheme of things in order to elevate this unfinished, no, actually, barely started section of new life in order to make it, hopefully, much more than just interesting.

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Andrew Moore “If you’re sleepy then sleep and when you have to wake up you wake up.” Mom, it’s not that easy, but thanks anyway.

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Marinela Nikolova 3 years of hard work and dedication, sleepless nights, cad vision and a sandwich based diet! And I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even get paid!... Peace!

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Larissa Pachany Each and every single person is full of talent and potential. I wish you all the best; it’s been a pleasure working with and alongside such gifted individuals. You go and become what you want to be.

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Samuel Parker Experience, adaptation and experimentation; these are the three words which stand out to me when summarising my time at The Kent School of Architecture. More than academic learning, the collating of facts, formula and general knowledge; architecture has been about testing my own creative capabilities and capacity for growth. Skills such as model making, computer modelling, hand drawing, analysing and presenting both visually and verbally have allowed me to achieve what I set out to do. You learn as much about yourself, as you do architecture, a tough but highly satisfying three years. 152

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Rosanna Philpott Highlights include energy drink fuelled studio singing sessions at 5am. The tea party social in the Attic was brilliant! Will never forget sitting in our hilarious huts in first year sheltering from the rain whilst drunken Halloween massive mungos goers trampled all over us. Paris was unforgettable. Have always enjoyed people looking fresh and healthy at the beginning of term, and ending up in a zombie-like state in pyjamas and trackies, anticipating each crit. Brilliant bunch of people, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all over!

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Chantel Poku Over the past three years I’ve realised how little sleep is needed to function, how much I obsess over triangles and how I should probably spend more time doing my own work rather than walking around the studio. No more questions please.

‘My view when starting university: I’m going to go to Kent, have a pint and wait for this to all blow over.. - If only! It’s been a great three years, learnt so much and will continue to do so!

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Anastasia Ridley 10am coffee hour, 35p energy drinks, studio desk naps, crit days, nights before crit days, Paris, Berlin, studio curry, Essentials… sleepless nights, endless banter. Three years of some of the hardest work I’ve had to produce, and an immeasurable social life experience. It’s been tough, but I’ve loved every minute of it. Wishing all my friends the best of luck, and sleep filled nights for the future. x 160

From European trips to France, Rome, and Berlin I absorbed so much culture. My experiences tangoed with everyone else made the last years fly by! Working 48 hours to everyone’s 24hrs a day I have enjoyed discovering new approaches to the different design tasks and kept fruity by holding onto a huge bag of optimism.

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Irfan Safdag Thank you to everyone who made this experience possible. It has been a pleasure being a part of KSA. Architecture is something different… …I will say more when my book is released in 2017.

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Dear Architects, I am sick of you Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time. and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about: t CVSSJUPT t IFEHFIPH t DPGGFF As you can see, architecture is not on the list. I believe that architecture falls somewhere between toenail fungus and invasive colonoscopy in the list of things that Interest me. - Annie Choi

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Stephanie Smith From designing shelters, out of bamboo canes and cardboard, to Hip Hop cultural centres, the past three years have been the best years of my life. I want to say good luck to everyone, I hope you find the careers you want, making your vocation your vacation. I just wanted to add a thank you to Fiona Raley and Andy Tull for all their wonderful advise and help this year. Thank you x

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Nicholas Stamford My experience at Kent University has been extremely enjoyable. I have enjoyed learning to work with a range of different mediums to communicate my ideas. The tutors are very supportive and the modules have all been very relevant in widening my knowledge and have contributed significantly in boosting my confidence.

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Oscar Walheim The late nights, the aching limbs, the sleep deprivation, the need to eat rubbish, the energy drinks, the tiredness, the talent, the fun, the alcohol, the feeling of joy, the headaches, the large amount of money spent, the random ideas, the sweat, the laughs, the blood shot eyes, the good times. It is amazing how much the day to day life of architecture has in common with a good night out, maybe it why I would do it all again in a heat beat.

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Hannah Williams You know you’re an architecture student when: 4 hours sleep seems like a long time You develop a close and personal relationship with your laptop You can’t remember the last time you spoke to someone not doing architecture You can never have enough coffee, diet coke or 35p energy drink However you wouldn’t change it for the world and can’t wait to come back for another 2 years of the same. Thank you KSA for the best 3 years of my life! 178

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What might have turned out differently, given the personnel changes at the start of the year has instead become something of annus mirabilis for Interiors. The students have flourished, producing work of a high standard; their enthusiasm has spread throughout the school. The autumn term project was locally based. Balmy days were spent soaking in the atmosphere

were all well informed by proper studies of use, building fabric, and aesthetic sensibility.

of the disused West Cliff Concert Hall, which opened on the eve of the First World War. Its location beneath the promenade at Ramsgate evoked strong associations with Ramsgateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s halcyon days; its cryptic location fostered the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main theme, that of camouflage in art and design. The final project in the spring gave students the opportunity to identify their own site and locate a host building to receive a new use. These ranged from theatre projects, eating and drinking establishments in London and Canterbury, different aspects of retailing, to a crematorium in a rural location. Proposals

has taken place in the Stage Three, with excellent work undertaken in the Dissertation and Interdisciplinary Options which bridged the gap between the practical and the theoretical.

I am particularly grateful to studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; involvement in the School at large, for their attendance at Open Lectures, and their support of their peers and friends in Architecture, particularly at their crits. Academic interaction

grateful to the College, and to the Master, Sian Stevenson, for their assistance and enthusiasm for this venture. I am particularly grateful to Gian Luca Amadei and Michael Cameron for being such good tutors to the students. They offered sound design advice throughout the year, and have assisted students who might otherwise have felt exposed in this, the valedictory year of Interiors in the School. I am aware of their intense engagement at first hand, having been present at lively interim and final crits throughout the year.

An additional event in the year was the engagement with Keynes College to find the best way of refurbishing its Senior Common Room. This turned into a workshop event with five students participating in a design competition, which David Harte and Anya Gordon-Clark succeded in winning. We are

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Manar El-Mokadm The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but thier inward significance - Aristotle

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Anya Gordon-Clark Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

I never thought I could learn so much in three years. Its crazy to look back to first year and see how far we have all come, but its super impressiveâ&#x20AC;Ś AM I RIGHT?! Thanks to everyone who has made it what it has been and good luck to all!!

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May Martin My final project allowed me to choose my own brief and host building, as well as develop a design in the context of something that I have a great interest in, Classical Music. I am looking forward to moving into field of Interior Design & Interior Architecture in the coming months, and developing further, the skills that I have gained here at Kent over the past three years. I also want to wish all of my friends graduating this year the best of luck!

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Claire Robinson The past three years at Kent School of Architecture have been very challenging and rewarding for me as a student as well as a person. I have deeply enjoyed studying Interiors because of the variety and complexity of the projects, motivating and supporting course-mates, and inspiring and inciting to progress tutors. Having discovered and developed unexpected skills and abilities I am looking forward to a creative and intellectually stimulating career in the field of interior design.

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My chosen brief for my final major was to create an open house for the long established dance company, Rambert Ballet. The project included facilities for the dancers and staff; three dance studios, a gym, a workshop, changing and recreational areas, meeting, office and admin spaces. Additionally a cafĂŠ, exhibition, reading and archive room and small performance space all open to the public. The site I used was that of former Eagel court school in Clerkenwell. A large extension was designed for the north of the site to house some of the larger spaces, and incorporate a new entrance space to signify the buildings change in use. 199

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BA (Hons)Architecture Stage 2 Stage 2 Co-ordinator Dr David Haney

The focus of this years studio, ‘Landscape,’ is on the relationship between architecture and landscape, from the detail of where the building meets the ground, to the larger scale of the site plan. Students were given the building programme of a health centre, which included indoor and outdoor therapies, including gardening. The site was Oare Gunpowder Works Country Park, near

In the spring term design module Adapt &Extend the students were tasked with adapting and extending the existing Templeman Library to provide new archive, research and exhibition facilities for the British Cartoon Archive. Moreover, the task was to review the design of the existing library in the light of the new pedagogical, social and technical challenges posed by the

Faversham. In addition to the centre, students were also asked to design a long-span roof structure to cover one of the existing ruins from the old gunpowder works. The site was very challenging, as it was sloped, and included various archeological remains, including the two large ruins. The site was primarily wooded, although students were allowed to manipulate the landscape as they saw fit to accommodate their schemes. Overall the project was a very challenging one, as it required not only the design of a reasonably complex building, but also the integration of a number of programmed outdoor spaces on a complex site. Dr David Haney

requirements of contemporary university libraries. The project was challenging as it required students to work at different scales, to integrate the existing and the proposed additions and to engage in an integrated design approach. The project included a two day design competition on library based learning spaces, involving architects and engineers from Penoyre&Prasad and Max Fordham who are currently working on the library extension. In order to improve the teaching of technology and environmental design in the context of studio project, a new studio system has been developed by the convenor, based on the findings

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of his Higher Education Academy funded research project ‘Inquiries into a new model for teaching environmental design in architecture’. It is a widely held view that the teaching of Technology and Environment (T&E) and architectural design should be integrated, but interviews with students and educators in six schools of architecture, conducted by the convenor in autumn 2012, have revealed that this integrated approach poses a number of pedagogical issues. In an effort to address some of these issues, a new studio programme has been developed for this module, which comprised a two-studio system (Architectural studios running in parallel to T&E studio on the same day) with a series of intermittent joined studio sessions. The studio programme switches between phases when students focus on technical and architectural aspects separately and phases when students explore design problems in an integrated way. Teaching the two studios on the same day aims to encourage students to think ‘technically’, ‘environmentally’ and ‘architecturally’ as an integral part of architectural

design, but at the same time enables students to have the opportunity to ‘ring-fence’ time dedicated to a more in-depth exploration of particular aspects. The problem within teaching T&E within the conventional architectural studio is that there is not sufficient time to cover the full range of technical and architectural questions and as a result T&E aspects tends to get diffused due to a strong focus on architectural design. In the joint studio, in which the student present their work to a panel of design and technology tutors, the focus is on the integration of knowledge and students will explore the interrelationship between the architectural, functional and technical, which had previously been explored separately. A review, involving questionnaires and small group interviews and discussions, was conducted to evaluate and refine the new approach. Dr. Henrik Schoenefeldt

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2 Fig 1. Gulce Onganer, ACM Daylight Render.

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Fig 3. Meesha Patel, Adapt and Extend - Internal Perspective : First Floor.

5 Fig 4. Meesha Patel, ACM Daytime Render. Fig 5. Meesha Patel, ACM Nighttime Render.

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8 Fig 6. Anna Malicka, Lanscape - Flower Garden with Tea House. Fig 7. Anna Malicka, Landscape - Water Garden.

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Fig 12. Marija Milosevic, Landspace - Site Plan Proposal.

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Fig 14. Anna Malicka, Adapt and Extend - Lobby Perspective. Fig 15. Anna Malicka, Adapt and Extend - Lobby Extension Perspective.

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BA (Hons) Architecture Stage 1 Stage 1 Co-ordinator Chris Gardner

As an introduction for “Shelter”, the theme for the Autumn term, students were asked during the Summer before attending KSA, to identify and record three shelters local to their home towns. With students from all over the world, this can provide a wide variety of examples with which to begin our conversation regarding the nature of Shelter.

of the designs and physically make the shelter, then told they must spend the night in their own designs! For the Technology module “Enlighten” assignment 1, students investigate the nature of daylight, modeling a space to exhibit an art piece and forming openings in the space to produce the level of lighting required.

Alongside all modules in stage 1, students are taught aspects of visual communication in the module “Folio”. This module runs for the whole year and involves orthographic drawing, chiaroscuro, perspective, isometric, sketching, life drawing, modeling, collage, sculpture, computer modeling, portfolio arrangement, and finally the exhibition presentation. For Assignment 1 of the first design module “Oasis” students were individually asked to design a shelter suitable for three people to sleep in for one night, students were formed into groups of three and asked to develop one

In the middle of the term students were taken for their field trip to Barcelona, a vibrant city showing evidence of over 2000 years of Architecture and home to some of the most important Art galleries in Europe. The students were given the task of recording and collecting an object, on each day. Assignment 2 of “Oasis” was to Design a permanent shelter to accommodate the various university day markets on Campus, Assignment 2 of ” Enlighten” was to design and make a model structure spanning 450mm and carrying a house brick. Students then wrote a

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structural report on its performance. The first History module “Western Architecture” studies the roll and influence of western architecture. Over Christmas students were asked to visit a contemporary art gallery and choose five painting they would like to own, and design a Menu for the gallery café. Assignment 1 of the module ”Caravanserai” was to design an art gallery to house the five painting chosen by them. They were further asked to provide a temporary exhibition area, the first exhibition being their groups Barcelona collections. A studio for the owner was included, but no other facilities. The students were also required to consider the structure of their design for “Enclose” the second technical module and to show principle construction details. Assignment 2 was to take the criticisms received at assignment 1 as client requests

and incorporate them into the design but also to include the addition of a café suitable to serve the contents of the menu designed over Christmas. Structure was to be shown as integral to the design, and principal details corrected. The final History module “House” studies seminal houses of the 20th century. In conclusion I would like to thank all members of staff and teaching assistants who have contributed to this year’s success. Design: Rebecca Hobbs, Henry Sparks, Michael Holms Coats, and Jef Smith. Communication: Chloe Street, Patrick Crouch, Howard Griffin. Basant Chopra. Technology: Richard Watkins. History and Theory: Gian Luca Amadei, Tordis Berstrand, Jamie Jacobs, Imogen Lesser. All modules: The teaching assistants from stages 4 and 5.

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Stage 1 Field Trip to Barcelona at the Olympic Stadium

Indentity Crisis Fig 1 - 9. In Stage 1, students enter the School of Architecture amongst a sea of personalities, and are encouraged to find their own identity. This is developed through a series of activites, such as the Indentity Masks.

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PHD Research Programme director Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti

The Kent School of Architecture PhD research programme has been in its sixth year running. The programme has 16 PhD students at various stages of their research. In the past year it hailed three new students on University scholarship as well as another two, one of

university nationally and internationally. Three KSA PhD candidates Tordis Berstrand, Carolina Vasilikou and Gian Luca Amadei have travelled to Beijing with Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti to take part in the official UKChinese Collaboration in Urban Design, which

whom is Khaled Sedki, who won Kent School of Architecture scholarship after completing his MA in Architecture and Cities with distinction. The programme had its first submission and examination of the PhD candidate Lindy Weston.

included work on the regeneration project of the Beijing former Steel Industry district. The students have benefitted form the exchange of ideas and have won recognition and awards culminating at the final presentation at the Tsinghua University in Beijing.

As usual the students attend the weekly research seminars where they present and discuss their work with peers and supervisory staff. In addition the students have taken parts in the University skills workshops and the Research Festival, where the KSA candidate Gian Luca Amadei has won the first prize for Humanities.

Students: Gian Luca Amadei, Tordis Berstrand, Keith Bothwell, Giacomo Chiarani, Christina Chatzipoulka, Enobong Equere, Jamie Jacobs, Alkis Kotopouleas, Imogen Lesser, Mohamed Mahdy, Timothy Odekunle, Emmanuel Oluwafemi, Khaled Sedki, Itab Shuayb, Carolina Vasilikou, Lindy Weston

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Splitting and Doubling: Spaces for Contemporary Living in Works by Kurt Schwitters, Gordon Matta-Clark and Gregor Schneider

Tordis Berstrand The problem of dwelling, the subject of my thesis, lays out the lines of a construction – it draws a protective architecture. Taking the form of a space within a wall, it becomes a split wall living space. If this space outlines a protective architecture, what does it protect (me) from? I try to place myself at risk by stating that architecture should be inhabitable when it is not – that is, as it is. To confront the barrier that obstructs the ability of architects’ minds to think of a structure that is not simply a house, I appeal to the logic of a simple drawing. These lines become the armor, the garment that I take shelter in, while at the same time standing before and behind this problem of dwelling, which I dwell upon. My protective architecture offers this opportunity. It is a chance to squeeze myself into this gap, to be at the same time inside and outside architecture. It offers the opportunity to draw that simple diagram of the space within the split line. A split wall living space, where I am in two spaces at once, simply lingering before, again, moving on.

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Synergies and conflicts between the environmental objectives in urban design: evidence across Europe. Christina Chatzipoulka

The written word has enormous power. It had the ability to give the reader a physical or emotional response with no other external stimulus. Literature is able to describe vast or minute architectural environments which could not physically exist, or could not be experienced any other way. This research explores the literary spaces created by Mervyn Peake in The Gormenghast Trilogy and the language he used to shape space. This understanding of literary language can then be used to further architectural communication and enhance and inspire architectural design, both in physical and non-physical environments.

Urban geometry, namely the spatial relationship of building volumes and open spaces, has a key role in environmental urban design as it is directly related to the energy potential of buildings as well as the urban microclimate. If we consider the urban form as porous medium, its geometry strongly affects solar access and wind permeability, with implications for both buildings (i.e. daylight availability, potential for passive design solutions and natural ventilation) and open spaces (i.e. thermal comfort). My research will investigate and attempt to quantify synergies and conflicts between the environmental objectives in urban design associated with urban geometry. Recent studies on the impact of urban form on building energy performance and urban microclimate have ascertained that, for a given climate, an urban geometry can be beneficial for different environmental objectives, but cannot fulfill all of them, diurnally and seasonally. Except for some references in the literature, the particular topic has not yet received extensive critical attention. The aim of the research is multiple: a) to examine comparatively the impact of the geometry of various urban forms on their indoor and outdoor environmental qualities; b) proving the initial assumption that the urban design is inevitably a process of compromising, to provide a set of guidelines for urban designers, for different climates; c) to develop an analysis system of urban geometry in order to be used for the environmental evaluation of existing and future urban projects. The research will focus on Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate, categorizing it in three climatic zones (cool, temperate and warm, depending on their heating/cooling needs), and the differentiation of the urban geometry between traditional and modern parts of European cities at the neighbourhood scale.

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Thermal & Visual Comfort in Airport Terminal Buildings Alkis Kotopouleas Airport terminals are complex buildings accommodating the needs of very different groups of population. The vast majority is people in transient conditions, whereas the resulting indoor environmental conditions target the small minority of people working in these spaces.

Thermal performance of low-carbon prefabricated housing in the UK Timothy Oluseun Adekunle The research aim is to investigate the potential of summer overheating in UK low-carbon prefabricated houses. The research examines contemporary timber prefabricated houses in the UK. Low-carbon prefabricated houses are considered to be highly insulated in order to minimise energy consumption level in winter but not considering the impact that a rise in temperature could cause to the indoor occupants in summer. The research also investigates the short fall in minimum UK housing space standards which may affect the occupants’ comfort and satisfaction. A field survey was conducted in three housing developments in the UK in order to identify the potential of summer overheating in low-carbon prefabricated houses. The field survey involved administration of post-occupancy questionnaire to identify the potential of summer overheating and assess occupants’ satisfaction level. Indoor measurement of parameters like air temperature and relative humidity were also carried out in summer and winter with the administration of subjective questionnaire to the occupants of the selected houses to collect data which would be analysed using a statistical package. The data analysis will help to identify if summer overheating occurs in the UK lowcarbon prefabricated houses. The main contribution of this research will be identifying the potential of summer overheating in prefabricated timber houses which can influence indoor occupants’ comfort and satisfaction level. Also, this research will help recommend possible improvements that could be made to ensure indoor occupants’ satisfaction in low-carbon prefabricated houses in the UK.

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This research investigates the thermal and visual comfort conditions for the different groups of population in different terminal zones by means of extensive seasonal field surveys. The surveys included questionnaireguided interviews, along with detailed environmental monitoring of the surrounding conditions. The resultant database consists of 3087 subjects from three airport terminals: London City airport and Manchester airport Terminals 1 & 2.

Pedestrian movement and thermal comfort in dense enclosures of historic city centres: The impact of urban shape on environmental diversity in pedestrian routes

Carolina Vasilikou The bodily experience of walking seems to rely, to a large extent, on the sensory realm of the pedestrian. A series of thermal walks in London and Rome carried out in both summer and winter, were used to record variations in climatic conditions along the given route. A sequential analysis identifies the variations that are perceived by users between spaces with different geometrical characteristics forming part of an urban continuum. The research provides a new methodology used to identify the diversity of thermal sensations that could provide a comfortable thermal experience for pedestrians in dense urban settings.

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Principles and Practice: A. W. N. Pugin’s Relationship to Industrial Production

Jamie Jacobs The difficulty in discerning Victorian architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin’s attitude towards mechanization has led historians to conclude that Pugin advocated a return to all aspects of medieval culture, including worker-oriented production methods. In reality Pugin appears to be unconcerned with industrialization and the use of machines; his use of modern manufacturing techniques to create decorative goods, liturgical furnishings and buildings allowed him to keep pace with his competitors. After considering the nature of industrialization during his lifetime and the various external factors that played upon his motives, a picture begins to emerge of a figure who wanted the Gothic style to reach a level of public acceptance and was willing to adapt his production techniques to realize this goal.

Applying architectural simulation tools to assess building sustainable: “Adapting the Egyptian residential energy code for future climate change”

Mohamed Mahdy Due to the nature of the Hot Arid climate zone in which Egypt is located, and for the purpose of achieving indoor thermal comfort in reasonable cost, the Egyptian Residential Energy Code (EREC) was written. Through the analytical study of EREC it was clear that, the future Climate Changes wasn’t taken into consideration, so we decided to study the effect of the future climate change on EREC, trying to improve it to accommodate these changes, and apply these modifications to the new and existing buildings in Egypt. So we can design or refurbish our buildings to accommodate or at least mitigate the future temperature changes without consuming more energy. And Convincing people to use the modified EREC for their own benefits whether financial or environmental.

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MSc Architecture and Sustainable Environment

MA Architectural Visualisation

Programme director Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou

Programme director Howard Griffin

Our newest Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programme, the MSc on Architecture and Sustainable Environment commenced in October 2012. The course promotes a cross-disciplinary approach to research in the field of sustainability in the built environment, bridging the traditional boundaries between the arts and the sciences, research and practice. The course content ranges from the development of the design skills

with a systematic understanding of core and advanced areas of sustainable design through a combination of taught courses, research assignments and project work. Students are asked to conduct rigorous technical and historical research and to explore the practical application of their findings in the context of design and technology.

and the technical and scientific understanding required to develop sustainable solutions for new and existing buildings, the analysis of historic buildings and past environment technologies, to a critical exploration of the historical and cultural context of sustainability and environmental design. The MSc, which can be studied full-time or part-time, offers an academically rigorous and intellectually challenging learning environment, which aims to enhance career development within the field for professionals and academics. The over-arching aim of the programme is to provide participants

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Now in its 3rd Year, the MA Architectural Visualisation course has continued to grow and evolve. The programme taught jointly with the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, has cohort of students with a variety of experience from an even wider variety of professional disciplines. The group has bonded well despite (perhaps due to) this variance, each bringing unique insights, experience and skills to the class. This year students were introduced to advanced computer modelling and rendering skills in the first term in Digital Architecture Setup, resulting in a range of high quality still visualisations of prominent architectural examples. Animation skills were also developed in this term with students injecting life into inanimate objects, following the example set by animation companies, such as Pixar. Virtual Cities deals with the notion of the recreation of reality in the digital environment. This year, the students have elected to model and animate the Beaney Institute in Canterbury, highlighting the obvious exploratory nature

of games design and the benefits this can have for public organisations. Students were also introduced to Architectural Projection Mapping and associations with LCI productions were developed, paving the way for future students to the course. Skills in compositing, modelling and nonlinear editing have also been taught, practiced and developed with the help of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. Students have also had the opportunity to visit leading industrial partners to see first-hand the day-today experience of the architectural visualisation in practice. The success of this year is in no small part down to the students. Their enthusiasm to be part of a team, not a just a group of students, has pushed the learning (and teaching) environment to new pastures. I wish Sam Akbari, Pixie Atwal, Hayden Brinkley, Tom Goodliffe, Paz Herrero and Shaarif Shammem all the best for their future careers following their graduation from the University.

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5 Fig 1. Hayden Brinkley, Thermes Vals by Peter Zumthor. Fig 2. Hayden Brinkley, Beach huts. Fig 3. Hayden Brinkley, Casa Guerrero by Alberto

Campo Baeza. Fig 4. Hayden Brinkley, New build on a local undeveloped plot. Fig 5. Hayden Brinkley, Casa Guerrero by Alberto Campo Baeza.

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bulk of the kaiserlich und königlich Hofburg opposite? Perhaps the demotic was more to our taste. Certainly our visit to the office of Froetscher Lichtenwagner introduced us to the continuing social conscience of the city, as if Red Vienna had continued unabated since its golden years of the 1920s, while our visit north to Karl Marx Hof impressed on us the skill with which these massive projects had been integrated into the fabric – and consciousness – of the city. Of course we travelled there by Otto Wagner’s meticulous U-Bahn, as we did when we went west, to begin the pilgrimage through the ice and snow – this was Austria in February, after all – up to his Kirche am Steinhof. This vision of Jugendstil marble gleamed in the pale light, and loomed above the forest canopy as we made our way slowly up the white slopes of the Psychiatric Institute over which it looms. In the end the weather rendered our stay magical: the cold drove us frequently indoors, savouring einen kleinen braunen, or perhaps a Melange, as we dosed ourselves up on caffeine and brazened out the icy gaze of watchful waiters. Where on earth shall we be next year?

Study Trips - Vienna

The University of Kent is renowned for its active links with Europe and for an excellent international programme. The Kent School of Architecture has been developing partnerships at a rhythm of one new link per year, and the trend is growing. Currently, the school has research and Erasmus exchanges with the “Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et du Paysage de Lille” (for the forth year in a row); the University of Virginia Tech, USA (forth year in a row); the University of Roma 2 “Tor Vergata”, Faculty of EngineeringArchitecture (established last year); and ITU (Istanbul Technical University) in Turkey (with whom we have an active research mobility for staff while the Erasmus exchange will be in place as of next year).

Lille, Rome and Virginia Tech. Equally, our staff have visited them on research mobility exchanges. This year one MArch candidate will go to Virginia Tech and two students from Rome “Tor Vergata” will be with us for the second time. New Potential partners include METU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara, Turkey, especially as a destination for research mobility for staff and students. There is also interest in building up relations with Japan and the Middle East. The next few years will be particularly interesting in developing our Erasmus exchanges for the school will allow undergraduate students the possibility of a period abroad, currently reserved for the MArch programme only.

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The screening in Marlowe Lecture Theatre One began it all, as Carol Reid’s version of Graham Green’s novel of post-Second World War Vienna whetted our appetite for mystery and intrigue. Alas, we had no trips down the sewers, notwithstanding our first day in the erster Bezirk, the city centre within the old city walls, where we tried to identify the doorway where Harry Lime’s presence (aka Orson Wells) was betrayed by his cat. What intrigued us most? Baroque Vienna with the magnificent staircase of the Kinsky Palais replete with frolicking cherubim on the balustrade? The great churches of Fischer von Erlach and Johann Lukas von Hildebrand? The intimate spaces of the medieval and Gothic city? Or did we develop a refined taste for the rational but never straightforward simplicities of Adolf Loos’s Haus am Michaeler Platz, its ‘rational’ elevation an insult to the ornate

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given by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain earlier this year.

KASA Kent Architectural Student Association

In regards to scholarly research outputs, Dr Gerald Adler published a book chapter ‘Siegfried Ebeling, Bauhaus Bioconstructivist’ in AHRA Book Peripheries (Routledge), Dr Nikolaos Karydis published several papers including ‘The Vaults of St. John the Theologian at Ephesos’ in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Prof. Gordana Fontana-Giusti published a book Foucault for Architects (Routledge) in Thinkers for Architects series, Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Dr Manolo Guerci have published numerous book reviews for leading architectural journals while Jeff Smith’s house in France has been reviewed in many architectural periodicals. All staff lectured at conferences and took part in the dissemination of knowledge.

CREAte Centre for Research in European Architecture

The 2012/2013 KASA team saw the leadership of Stage 4 students, Peter Evans, Natasha Gandhi and Yennee Lou who began the lecture series with Carl Turner from Carl Turner Architects. Kevin Carmody from Carmody Groarke shortly followed and the year rounded off with David Grandorge, an Architectural Photographer currently a lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Fencing 65th anniversary celebrations. The competition asked students to identify a ground breaking new timber or steel design product. KASA received 7 separate entries from across all years of the school exhibiting some of the best talent the KSA has to offer. KASA is an organisation that cannot exist without the help of its volunteer team made from the most passionate and hardworking students in the school. We extend our thanks and best wishes for the future to the KASA team. We are also supported greatly by the school and would also like to thank Don Gray, Manolo Guerci, Howard Griffin, Brian Wood, Dele Ojo, Kevin Smith and Enzo Labrosciano, Victoria Friedman, Kendal Roissetter and Ben Martin for their help. Finally we would like to thank Lee Evans Partnership for their sponsorship and to all of our guest speakers.

As a student body representing the Kent School of Architecture, KASA believes in encouraging and broadening students’ understanding of the architectural world through their continued commitment to enlist a variety of guest lecturers ranging from architects to architectural photographers and modellers. Next year the team hopes to continue and expand upon the success of the KASA lecture series. The 2013 Design Competition held by KASA, challenged students to come up with designs for the next major innovation in the fencing and access control market as part of Jackson

Peter Evans, Natasha Gandhi & Yennee Lou, KASA Presidents.

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CREAte is Kent School of Architecture first research centre that underpins the research work of many of the School staff members. The centre explores the following areas of research: urban design and regeneration, architectural history and theory, history of modernism in Britain, history landscape design, Byzantine architecture, architectural conservation, architecture of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth century, aiming at an integration of critical knowledge and creative work.

As always CREAte hosted a number of events, open lectures and seminars that give School its visibility and identity within the university and beyond. This year we had a chance to engage with Professor Judi Loach (University of Cardiff ), Neil Porter (Gustafson & Porter, London), Iliona Outram (California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture), Professor Flora Samuel (University of Sheffield) and Sir Terry Farrell (Farrells, London). In collaboration with the School of English and under the umbrella of KIASH we have hosted Dr Glenn Adamson (Director of Research, Victoria & Albert Museum) who lectured on ‘The Future: A History’. The preparations for the REF that have taken much of members’ attention have all been completed in full and on time.

This year has seen a great deal of activities by CREAte members who have been involved in lecturing nationally and internationally. Dr Nikolaos Karydis has lectured in Vienna and Oxford, Dr Gerald Adler in Oregon, Paris and Delft, Dr Manolo Guerci in Cambridge, Venice and Istanbul, Prof Gordana Fontana-Giusti in London, Paris and Beijing, David Haney in Germany and United States. For his book on Leberecht Migge (Routledge 2010) Dr David Haney has been presented with the Elizabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award

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Catalogue & End of Year Show Committee

Thanks

Catalogue Team & Exhibition Laura Noble, Nicholas Sexton, Peter Evans, Rosie Seaman, Matt Donald, Adam Nightingale

Kent School of Architecture could not operate to such levels of success without the commitment of experienced and dedicated staff. These individuals went far beyond what was required to produce an exceptional experience for the students.

Digital Exhibition James Bussey, Rob Brimley, Nic Stamford, Oscar Walheim, Simon Vipond, David Harte & Toby Plunkett

This year the students have taken over.

demonstrating yet another use for the space. The space allows the students to work individually and collaborate at one screen as a team. An additional thanks to Megan Clarke, Natasha Gandhi & Yennee Lou for their contribution towards the catalogue.

They proposed the task of designing their own catalogue and creating something that was theirs. Over the final two weeks of term the students planned, collected and organised over 150 pieces of work ranging from graduating students to PhD thesis’.

The digital exhibition team have rapidly taken on the task of learning a new software, producing an interface and collating students work in a way which is intuitive to all. The skills they have learnt are vital to their future careers. The idea of a digital exhibition is a pioneering step for the school of architecture and this is the first time a display of this type has been attempted. Laura Noble

The front cover image of the catalogue is based on the new ‘digital crit space’ to help emphasise the technology that has helped create the catalogue and exhibition. The students have turned the crit space into a ‘news room’ making the most of the interactive touch screen technology and

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Professor Don Gray Dr Luciano Cardellicchio Mr Chris Gardner Mr Howard Griffin Dr David Haney Dr Nikolaos Karydis Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou Dr Giridharan Renganathan Mr Henrik Schoenefeldt Mr Jeff Smith Dr Richard Watkins Dr Gerry Adler Mr Keith Bothwell Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin Dr Manolo Guerci Mr Michael Richards Mrs Chloe Street Ms Christina Chatzipoulka Miss Jamie Jacobs Miss Imogen Lesser Ms Karen Martin Mrs Jeanne Straight Ms Jan Moriarty Mr Martin Wheeler Miss Victoria Friedman Miss Ellie Graham Mr Ben Martin Miss Kendall Roissetter Mr Dele Ojo

Mr Neil Evans Mr Enzo Labrosciano Mr Kevin Smith Mr Colin Cresser Mr Brian Wood Mr Gian Luca Amadei Mr Thomas Bell Ms Tordis Berstrand Mr Julian Bore Mr Michael Cameron Mr Timothy Carlyle Mr Patrick Crouch Dr Julia Dale Ms Corinna Dean Mr Ben Godber Mr Dylan Haughton Miss Rebecca Hobbs Mr Edward Holloway Mr Michael Holms Coats Mr Christopher Mills Mr David Moore Mrs Alexandra Muir Wood Dr Shaun Murray Ms Fiona Raley Mr Henry Sparks Mr Carl Trenfield Mr Andrew Tull Miss Karolina Vasilikou Mr Toby Ware

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