Kent School of Architecture and Planning - End of Year Show 2023 Catalogue

KSAP 2023

Kent School of Architecture and Planning

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CONTENTS

Head of School

Chloe Street Tarbatt

I’m very proud to introduce our end of year show, curated and produced – as alwaysby the students themselves.

KSAP is a very special school, occupying a picturesque location in the Garden of England, overlooking the World Heritage City of Canterbury. It’s a beautiful campus with amazing facilities and offers the perfect setting within which to nurture our students, equipping them with the architectural sensitivities, tools and skillsets they will need to achieve their mission to become the future designers of great places, environments, and experiences in their future careers.

We are committed to the potential for architecture and design to help shape a better world; embedding social justice and sustainability through ethical design solutions and enabling our students to realise their own potential. We pride ourselves in helping our students to discover themselves and develop their own distinctive design oeuvre; providing the core academic, professional and technical skills that enable them to flourish as confident professionals. An understanding of the fourth dimension (time) and experiential design, is increasingly important in our fast-paced, blended contemporary age, and creative ways of mapping and representing 4D solutions are ever more evident in our student work this year.

Real-world experience is central to developing an understanding of the contemporary context that designers work within, and the complex political and economic structures that designers must navigate to achieve successful outcomes. As such, we are committed to using ‘Live Projects’ on our programmes, offering students exposure to real clients and stakeholders, while simultaneously allowing the potential to contribute to live debates and commissions. Through these, we tap into the rich regional context of Kent and have developed fruitful partnerships with Local Authorities and public institutions including; Medway, Swale, Thanet, Dover and Canterbury.

Our students have fully engaged with the challenges of these projects, and there are some fantastic design proposals on the walls this year, which also offer creative inspiration and tangible value to our regional partners:

• Our Stage 3 Architecture BA students have been working with Medway Council on a High Street Action Zone funded project at Intra Historic High Street in Chatham, culminating in a public event, publication and exhibition.

• Our Stage 2 Architecture BA students have worked with local stakeholders on a ‘Live’ waterside residential project in Sittingbourne.

• Our Graphic Design BA students have been liaising with Maison Dieu in Dover, culminating in a public exhibition of their work on site.

• Our Spatial Interior Design BA students have had the opportunity to operate as curators of the ‘Lovely World’ exhibition organised by Swale Friends of the Earth in Faversham, alongside local schools, businesses and charities.

• Students on our MSc in Conservation have enjoyed working with the Land Trust and consultants for Fort Burgoyne, near Dover.

• Students on our MSc in Sustainable Environments have been designing a flood responsive and sustainable community centre for a riverside site in Canterbury city centre.

Our capable and committed KSAP team have had a particularly busy academic year 2022/23; it’s not possible to mention everyone by name here but a massive thanks are due to all academic colleagues, professional service and technical support teams for helping us ‘move mountains’ in achieving our collective vision of a growing multidisciplinary architecture and design school; our expanding remit will be confirmed with a school name-change for 2023/24 (watch this space):

• In January 2023, the RIBA Visiting Board confirmed unconditional full validation for our Part 3 Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice Programme until 2026. Many thanks due to our PG Dip Programme Director, Peter Wislocki, for leading us to a successful outcome.

• Our new Graphic Design BA and Spatial Interior Design BA programmes have now completed their second years and are growing successfully under the directorships of Dr. Kate McLean and Jerome Tsui respectively. There is great interest from prospective students to join our third cohort, and we look forward to our first students graduating from these design-based BA programmes next summer 2024.

• Our MA in Urban Planning and Resilience led by Prof. Samer Bagaeen has received terrific input from regional Local Authorities and SELEP in support of our quest for RTPI accreditation. We anticipate this important programme growing significantly over the next few years to help support the planning sector with necessary upskilling.

• Dr. Ambrose Gillick has taken on Course Lead role for the MArch Architecture Part II and has been developing a new theme-based approach for 2023/24 delivery.

• In line with the shift to flexible and affordable models for HE, Peter Wislocki has led on development of our Higher Degree Apprenticeship programme combining RIBA Part II and Part III Architecture qualifications, due to start in January 2024.

• We’re setting up an ‘Architecture and Design Foundation Programme’ (Integrated Year 0) to support widening entry routes to our three BA programmes: Tim Meacham and Michael Richards have been developing this enticing new multisensory, craft-focused programme.

• Our ‘KSAP Graduate School’ is expanding under the directorship of Prof. Henrik Schoenefeldt, with a growing interest evident in our post-graduate taught programmes, which offer crucial skill sets for an increasingly consultancy-focused sector and benefit from research-led teaching and expertise.

• Our Director of Research, Dr. Silvio Caputo, is setting up a new Divisional Research Centre for the ‘Sustainable Built Environment’ providing an expanded base to support our globally renowned scholarly research across the spectrum of sustainability, heritage and culture.

Finally, we are really delighted to have been awarded £1million of internal funding from the University to upgrade and extend our studio spaces in the Marlowe Building. In September 2022 we appointed a well-known and esteemed architecture practice ‘Sam Jacob Studio’ who have undertaken an extensive period of consultation with KSAP staff and students to develop a distinctive design for our new studios using innovative sustainable materials. We look forward to opening the doors to our students in September 2023, and to our School’s creative studio culture flourishing within this carefully tailored environment at the heart of our picturesque green campus.

Chloe Street Tarbatt ARB, FHEA, Senior Lecturer and KSAP Head of School

Yours sincerely,

‘Public Exhibition of MArch Unit 1 student design proposals on the ‘Live Project’ for regenerating Chatham Intra High Street. Sun Pier House, Chatham, September 2022’

‘Stage 1 Presentations of portable shelters for the Folio module. Eliot College central hall, October 2022’

‘Chatham Intra Placemaking Symposium, co-organised with Medway Council and Historic England. St John’s Church, Chatham, November 2022’

First, we would like to congratulate every student for everything they have achieved this year through all the amazing projects created across all the year groups, as showcased proudly in this catalogue.

This year represented a new start for the society, coming out of a dormant state halfway through the year. In order to include the new Graphic Design and Spatial and Interior Design courses, we have added the letter D to the name. Kent Architecture and Design Students’ Association. Turning a new page, we also took this as an opportunity to rebrand the society and offer a new look for the catalogue (along with matching merchandise).

We had some memorable moments this year, such as the relaunch party and a fun pub quiz at K-Bar. And to wrap up this academic year, we are looking forward to the KADSA Summer Ball!

Thank you to all of the enthusiastic students who helped to get the ball rolling with the society and helped us set up a structure for the next cohort. And thank you to the hard workers that lent their time and effort to make this catalogue happen.

Raimonds Baukerts and Marcus Chik KADSA Co-Presidents 2022/23

Acknowledgements

KSAP Academic Staff and Roles 2022/23:

Prof. Gerald Adler ARB (Stage 1 Coordinator)

Prof. Samer Bagaeen (Programme Director: MA Urban Planning and Resilience)

Dr Silvio Caputo (Director of Research and Innovation)

Prof. Gordana Fontana-Giusti (Deputy Head of School)

Tim Meacham (Course Lead: Foundation Programme)

Dr Ambrose Gillick (Course Lead: MArch Architecture and Director of Recruitment)

Howard Griffin (Programme Director: MA Architectural Visualisation and Chief Examiner)

Dr Manolo Guerci (Course Lead: BA Hons Architecture)

Rebecca Hobbs (Stage 2 Coordinator and Director of Recruitment)

Dr Nikolaos Karydis (Stage 3 Coordinator)

Dr Kate McLean (Programme Director: Graphic Design

BA Hons)

Prof. Marialena Nikolopoulou (Programme Director:

MSc Architecture and Sustainable Environment)

Dr Rebecca Onafuye

Fiona Raley ARB

Dr Giri Renganathan

Michael Richards ARB (Director of Studies)

Prof. Henrik Schoenefeldt (Director of Graduate Studies)

Jef Smith ARB

Jerome Tsui ARB (Programme Director: Spatial Interior Design BA Hons and Director of EDI)

Becky Upson

Dr Richard Watkins

Peter Wislocki ARB (Programme Director: PG Dip Architectural Practice and HDA)

Ronald Yee ARB (Technical Lead)

KSAP Practitioner Tutors:

Bence Bardos

Fabrice Bourelly

Catriona Burns ARB

Tara DeLinde ARB

Ivan Del Renzio ARB

Stephanie Elward ARB

Michael Holms Coats ARB

Shaun Huddlestone ARB

Lee Jesson ARB

Dr Alkis Kotopouleas

Dr Giorgios Loizos

Victoria Lourenco

Andy MacFee ARB

Alessia Mosci ARB

Rebecca Muirhead ARB

Francesco Nicolardi ARB

Patrick O’Keefe ARB

Ed Pryke ARB

Andrew Reader ARB

Joe Robson

Hooman Talebi

Oliver Watson ARB

Faye Tamsett ARB

Ben Wood ARB

Matthew Woodthorpe ARB

Chloe Young ARB

Prof. Alan Powers

Benedetta Castagna

Sukanya Ravi

Dr Giacomo Damiani ARB

Anske Bax

Simon Basketter

Kasia Czapiga ARB

Richi Mohanty

Paul Micklethwaite

Aimee Hawkins

Nadine Smith

Scott Robinson

May Glen

Zachary Weitz

Divisional Directors:

Prof. Juliette Pattinson

Dr Antonio Lazaro-Reboll

Dr Wissia Fiorucci

Prof. Ben Hutchinson

Prof. Helen Brooks

Dr Eve Kalyva

ArtsHums Technicians:

Colin Cresser

Neil Evans

Cameron French

Ian Reynolds

Kevin Smith

Brian Wood

Charlie Young

ArtsHums Administration and Support:

Amanda Ollier

Natalie Conetta

Kirsty Corrigan

Simon Weller

Charlotte Malkin

Corinne Smallman

Dawn Goldstone

Lauren Harrison

Ben Martin

Kate Buchan

Angela Whiffen

Alex Heavens

Claire James

Jo Pennock

Oliver Perriot-Webb

Emily Dash

Jess Ufton

Emma Matthews

Ryan Connelly

Hannah Collins

Kim Mulholland

Jamie Messer

Emily Fell

Grace Daniels

Christina Vernadaki

Suzanne Lake

Richard Newby

Jenny Humphrey

Laura Normansell

Cerian Dantzie

Catalogue Team:

Raimonds Baukerts

Anthony Chester

Annabel West

Afet Tursan

Marcus Chik

Hanne Elster

Hüsnü Demir Kılınç

Jasmine Fu

David Johnson

Annie Taylor

Scarlet Allnatt

Dania Ayaz

MArch Architecture

ARB / RIBA PART 2

MArch Architecture

ARB / RIBA PART 2 EXEMPTION

The Masters in Architecture at KSAP began the year expertly shepherded by Mike Richards, as per the previous 15 years, but was passed over to Ambrose Gillick in late 2022. A course like the MArch, made of so many moving parts – units, briefs, timetables, lectures, modules, exams and examiners, guidance, exhibitions, ad infinitum – is a serious complex beast, but so far things have carried on totally serenely. Mike remains very close by, and the new management depend upon his steadying presence.

The MArch programme this year has continued its love affair with the southeast, with one design unit based in Kent, one on the Thames Estuary, and two in suburban and (almost) central London.

Unit 1, led by Chris Jones, explored new urban spaces in coastal hinterlands from Purfleet in Essex to the Isle of Thanet in Kent, designing improved human-natural environments for production.

Yorgos Loizos’ Unit 2 investigated social and urban perspectives to create new images of the city through an exploration of the importance of points of view in the urban environment, both in sociological and geometrical terms, based on an amazing site in London, on the banks of the Deptford Creek.

Michael Holms Coats’ Unit 3 looked at character, and how this often neglected aspect of urban culture might be seen, interpreted and reimagined through a deep study of Folkestone, guided by the unit’s customary practice of drawing and making.

Alessia Mosci’s Unit 4 looked at the theme of transformation through the lens of the continuing discourse between analogue and digital production, and ways physical making and fabrication used alongside digital techniques, might embrace the unexpected, creative mistakes and glitches that can push the boundaries of architectural production on London’s Old Kent Road.

In all this work, Stage 4 and Stage 5 were ably assisted by technology lectures and seminars delivered by Giri Renganathan (Stage 4) and in Stage 5, Matt Woodthorpe, who took over module delivery from Henrik Schoenefeldt, supported by Oliver Watson.

In Stage 4, Peter Wislocki continued to deliver his exemplary Employability module, getting students up to speed on the practice of architects, and Ambrose Gillick led the history and theory module, Cultural Context.

In Stage 5, KSAP’s Options module resulted in more wonderful student-led studies – with artefacts, pedagogy (led by Rebecca Hobbs) and written work discoursing on themes as wide-ranging as model-making, water-filtration and the use of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals in undergraduate teaching.

Whilst all architecture students are equal, MArch students are more equal than others. They remain the feather in the cap of the School and their continued diligence, joy and creativity is an inspiration. Next year, in new accommodation at the heart of the reimagined and restored studios, the programme will grow in strength, acting as a beacon for all of us here at KSAP.

Ambrose Gillick Programme Director of MArch

UNIT 1

AUTHENTICITY AND COMMUNALITY WATER LAND AND SEA - FLOOD PLAIN AND UPLANDS CHRIS JONES

THE TASK

The unit proposed that communities can reimage the city/town and habitation, in a way that embraces the natural world and the community for the benefit of all, integrating living and production, focusing on the estuary zone, an area from Purfleet in Essex to the isle of Thanet incorporating the Thames estuary and 60 miles of coast and hinterland

The central aims of the unit wereCommunality-reviving a feeling or spirt of cooperation, inclusivity and belonging arising from common interests and goals

Authenticity- i.e., promoting that which is genuine, significant, purposive, and a responsible mode of human life and its relation to craftmanship

Meeting the 1.5 degrees COP 26 Target- with sustainable architecture and settlements

Reviving the Blue Zone – by examining issues of the Estuary Zone including flooding and pollution, food production from land and sea, unemployment and poverty, periods of drought, fuel scarcity, and flood levels that could rise by a much a 1 metre in the next 25 years, and promoting resilient ideas

Architecture Futures- with creativity and experimentation inspired by materiality, nature and context, the arts and crafts movement and the organic tradition, and an understanding of typologies.

THE ESTUARY ZONE

The Unit 1 Study zone stretched from Thanet to the Thames, the possibilities of this zone are underutilised and issues of climate change, and specific issues for example the dumping of billions of litres of raw sewage into protected seas, lack of meaningful employment and housing provision are evident. However, there are many underused resources from the sea and land that present exciting sustainable futures for the region

PROCESS

Term 1 for the first 5 weeks consisted of an assembly and research project in Oare; followed by an individual prototype design based on the idea of hybrid forms that combine work, living and communality for the remainder of the term; for Stage 5 this project defined the area of study for the Term 2/3 thesis project. The Unit proposed several sites and briefs and students were encouraged to develop their own briefs and sites from the research undertaken, the unit encouraged analogue studies including physical models, sketching, and prototyping models Term 2 and 3 The Stage 4 project is a single project developed in depth with context, spatial and materiality studies. The Stage 5 thesis project developed from the final task of term 1

PRODUCT

The Unit 1 students schemes proposed were responsive to the estuary zone, with experimental proposals that were responses appropriate to the context and point to future ways of living /working and sustainable communality, asking how can we reimaging towns and cities for the future that are low carbon, sustainable and promote living and working in a spirit of communality

Students- Durray Binti Wan Rosli, Alexander Grice, Halemah Khaleel, Stephen Richards, Mitisha Gurung, Artun Demirsoy and Bertan Kotil

Projects -this year’s projects included – celebration of boat building in Faversham Creek, A town of two halves Folkstone Harbour arm regenerated, Noah’s Ark, London, a seed bank and growing research facility, an experiment school in Swalecliff, Gravesend Pier reimagined, Faversham Creek abandoned boats repurposed, and social housing in Herne Bay

Christopher Jones

Tutor of Unit 1 MArch Architecture

The centre is a unique educational facility designed to teach students about environmental sustainability, global problems, and solutions for a better future. Our building is located on a swale and high flood risk area in Swalecliffe, Kent, covered by a photovoltaic canopy and surrounded by a natural reserve area and a beach.

This centre welcomes students aged 8-16 and offers a range of educational activities, including:

• Hands-on workshops and experiments in our stateof-the-art laboratory

• Outdoor learning experiences in our native plant garden and natural reserve area

• Interactive exhibits and displays about global problems and solutions

• Group discussions and debates about environmental issues

artund@hotmail.com

+44

(0)7342245592

LinkedIn: Artun Demirsoy

https://ad68754df. myportfolio.com/

ARTUN DEMIRSOY Stage 5

Swalecliffe Enviromental Learning Centre

THE BOAT BUILDING CENTRE

Axonometric

DESCRIPTION

This axonometric drawing depicts what the whole development of the boat building centre could look like. Including the new workshops, school, accommodation, display sheds, museum, bridge and historic boat docking points.

NEW BOAT BUILDING WORKSHOPS (Replacing existing dilapidated boat shed)

IRON WHARF BOAT YARD (Existing)

NEW OPERATIVE BOAT DISPLAY SHEDS (With Access onto Faversham creek)

NEW BUILDING (Incorporating Oyster Bay

NEW BUILDING (Workshop facilities on accommodation

ALEXANDER GRICE Stage 5

Celebrating boat building on Faversham Creek

Creative industries are growing in the Thames Estuary Zone, however craft is on the decline. Subsequently this project focuses on revitalising and celebrating the craft of boat building along Faversham Creek. This will be achieved through the creation of a new row club and boat building centre. The centre will include a boat building school, student accommodation, boat building workshops and a museum space that displays renovated boats. This museum space will aim to incorporate Oyster Bay House, an existing grade 2 listed structure previously used for storing hops.

Phone: 07871584724

Email: alexgrice@ btinternet.com

CREEKSIDEWALKINGROUTE

NEW BOAT BUILDING MUSEUM (Incorporating renovated Oyster Bay house)

NEW BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL (Workshop classrooms and facilities on GF with student accommodation above)

HISTORIC BOATS (Linked to museum)

NEW LIFTABLE BRIDGE (Providing new access from between north and south sides of creek) pg29

KOTIL Stage 5

Oliver’s Ark

The Oliver’s Ark is a seed bank and research facility dedicated to preserving and studying the UK’s edible plant diversity. With its carefully designed greenhouses, seed storage vaults, laboratories, and educational facilities, it aims to ensure the survival of these species, promote sustainable farming practices, and educate the public about biodiversity and food security.

Kew Allotments

This proposal aims to redefine the concept of urban allotments by integrating advanced technology and innovative architectural designs to optimize food production in urban settings. The project will be situated along the River Thames in London, opposite Oliver’s Island, currently home to traditional garden allotments.

bertankotilarchive.com

instagram.com/bertankotil youtube.com/bertankotil

BERTAN

ROSLI Stage 5

The proposed building is in a place where sea and urban landscape encounter the architecture and human world. The interior and exterior of the main building nature lives and grows, giving identity to the project, belonging to the place and converting the experience into something complete and aesthetic.

The masterplan and urban strategy were formed into town of two halves, this is a way of categorizing and understanding the corelation between activities from task 2 5A and to the big idea for 5B Task.

+ reimagine end-of-life materials into products that tell a story that resonates with people + opportunities for the young adults to work in Folkestone.

+people will get to visit the harbour with more activities

+ students sell the art making (prototype) while learning, making, appreciating and respect the oceans and planet.

INSTAGRAM:

@durray.atelier_

LinkedIn: Durray Rosli

DURRAY

THE W R E C K REPURPOSED

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Derelict boats, with their weathered and decaying appearance, can serve as visual metaphors for the passage of time and the inevitable cycle of life. For elderly individuals who may be contemplating their own mortality or reflecting on the transience of life, the sight of derelict boats can evoke a sense of fragility and impermanence. Some individuals, regardless of age, find beauty in decay and the process of nature reclaiming man-made objects. Repurposing wrecked boats into sculptures is a creative and eco-friendly way to give new life to the old and abandoned vessels in the coastal area of Kent. This project is an invitation for collaborative work between local Artists and craftsmen and the elderly of Faversham. By transforming these wrecked boats into sculptures, they not only become visually appealing pieces but also serve as a reminder of the boat’s history and the beauty that can be found in repurposing materials. mitishagurung@gmail. com

linkedin.com/in/ mitishagurung

MITISHA GURUNG Stage

Neptunes Housing

A new housing scheme with 5 stories and a basement in Herne Bay, the site would also be transformed to have walkways and vegetation that suit the salty sea air.

7Loommk@gmail.com

HALEMAH KHALEEL Stage 4

STEPHEN RICHARDS Stage 4

Thames Estuary Research, Recycle and Recreational center based in Gravesend. For people to learn how to kayak in order to be able to join the efforts to clear up the Thames Estuary of litter and giving new life to the area.

stephen.richards@live. com

UNIT 2

Hybrid Futures

This year Unit 2 looked at the theme of ‘transformation’ through the lens of the continuing discourse between analogue and digital production. Architects rely on visual work (GAs, renders, models) and words to present and explain design ideas and processes. For instance, CAD and BIM allow to work efficiently and share libraries of digital materials and building elements between a range of specialists. Yet this might raise the question of how the digital words created are related back to the thing-ness of the objects and materials, and how as designers we can retain a creative authorship.

Most recently we have also seen examples of AI learning platforms that generate art from textual descriptions. If a software is taking artistic authorship, how might our roles as authors and designers might be affected and transformed, and what impact this would have to the spaces we design? Do we think and create new ways of making? As a response, Unit 2 explored the use of physical making and fabrication alongside the digital techniques, embracing the unexpected of design through making and creative mistakes to push architectural production.

We started the year with a short introductory project to provide a preparation of the methods and the theoretical background of the student design practice. To consider how the meaning ‘hybrid’ might be explored spatially, we borrowed the term ‘hinged spaces’ from architect Steven Holl who used this term in his Fukuoka Housing project to describe his modern interpretation of traditional Fusima – a set of moveable walls that connect, open or close spaces. Our interpretation of a hinged space expanded further to explore the idea of interlocking two or more different elements, such as the physical with the digital, culture with technology, pictorial representation with reality.

To inform this process, each student examined a scene from contemporary cinema that depicts an interesting space speculating about the use or impact of technologies in the daily life. This analysis informed the production of a prototype which recreated, re-imagined, or reconstructed the architecture of the filmed interior. Having developed an interesting

architecture prototype, we then focused on Deptford - the site for this year - to test the prototypes in consideration of the site surroundings, social and cultural history of the area.

These proposals developed further some of the filmic analysis and models from the first project and reflected on an interesting use of technology and material exploration. Having explored a research practice with a prototype and a small experimental building in Autumn Term, the students expanded their architectural research, narrative and methods to formulate complex mixed-use building proposals for Deptford for the remainder of the academic year.

Georgios Loizos Tutor of Unit 2 MArch Architecture

MOHAMMED ALSAFI

Stage 5

5B: Hybrid Futures

Deptford Health & Wellness

Located near the Deptford Train Station and the Albany Theatre, ‘Deptford Health & Wellness’ aligns with disability inclusion in catering to able-bodied users and people with physical/ learning disabilities, complex needs and PMLD (Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities). The proposal includes a Gym, a Special Needs equipped sports hall, physiotherapy spaces, chiropractic rooms, a Spa wing and a Market hall space for Deptford’s lively social culture.

Malsafi@hotmail.co.uk

Instagram: @Mkalsafi

Stage 5

Located on the creek side of Deptford, this archaeology centre follows a journey that allows the community to learn, view and experience the creek. The brief was to create a space for archaeologist to come in and provide muk larking tours, including teaching and workshop sessions for the public. The exhibition space played a big role within the design process for the buildings. The site initially had a slope coming down to the creek, but through its design process, the land has been excavated even more and used within the process of creating eco-friendly and sustainable rammed earth walls for the building itself. The exhibition space now displays objects found from the creek inside the semi outdoor area with the mud exposed from beneath that connects down to the creek allowing water to flow in. This creating an atmosphere and tangible experience.

JANICE SOARES

A TEMPLE FOR TATTOOING

Deptford is a town with a distinctive character and a rich arts and culture heritage. This character was built through the years by the minorities that have lived there, joined by a variety of creatives and the local working-class population. All these years, their life in that area of London speaks of disadvantage, inequality and hardships but also solidarity, community and resistance; and that is what makes Deptford so unique. In recent years though there has been a transformation in the area; a wave of gentrification comes to disrupt the lives of the locals, with aggressive housing and welfare policies that aim to reconfigure Deptford. Following up on the sociopolitical messages and patterns analyzed in La Haine this project aimed to be involved architecturally in Deptford against this wave of gentrification, by enhancing the local character and promoting the sub-culture they want to extinct.

kt.architekture@gmail.com

Instagram: @artsposable

KIMON TSALIGOPOULOS Stage 5

SOKRATIS VOULGARAKIS Stage 5

Deptford Urban Farm (DUF)-

Analysing Deptford, the existing market and surrounding community, it became evident that need for local produce was quite eminent. This gave rise to my project which looked at the development of an urban vegetable farm. A market as well as a restaurant are included in the programme which targets to strengthen community ties around agriculture and diffenent cultural food tastes. Developing a circular economy is another element of the project as it aims to shorten food supply chains, create local jobs and provide a sustainable lifestyle for the people of Depford.

sv296@kent.ac.uk

Thanet Artist Complex, Deptford

Project Description

After analysis of the scenes from Ghost In the Shell (1995), a prototype model was made to capture the atmosphere within the scenes in a much smaller scale. Based on the prototype, the Thanet Artist Complex is an experiment to recreate the urban city scape in the scenes As an art gallery and artist studios, the building also able create various little moments. The project is situated in the abounded Thanet Wharf next to Deptford Creek and have an unique setting of sitting in between the creek and recent urban development.

Contact Details

nathankkyau@gmail.com

NATHAN YAU Stage 4

UNIT 3

MArch UNIT 3 – CHARACTER

Unit 3 aims at research through design and is guided by drawing and making to critique modes of thinking and broaden the architectural ‘toolkit’ of each student. The unit has taken on the challenge in the last few years of examining neglected aspects of architecture that deserve closer attention. This year students have been working on ‘character’ in architecture, which may not be entirely overlooked but is often limited to technocratic planning codification of historical districts or is trivialised as ‘style’. Instead, the unit focus has been on how identity, the spirit of place and the temperament of local people can have particular impact not only on use type or decoration but also on spatial configurations, choice of materials and a building’s touch and feel.

To dig deeper, students undertook specific character studies as initial ‘works’ in our location for the year, the Kentish port town of Folkestone, employing a mix of analytical and perception techniques: a local urban grain study, a forensic territory catalogue and a noticeboard survey and speculative drawing, to identify and sift potential activities and groups of residents as the ‘carrier’ for an initial ‘Inhabited Noticeboard’ design and as a stepping stone for the final design project, ‘Character Building’, the design of a community project with an element of ‘habitation’.

Research and design work was supported in parallel by ‘Identity Parade’, a weekly studentled, case-study seminar and a study trip to the city of Glasgow, renowned for its distinctive urban grid, as well as for the robust personality of its citizens. And the purpose of all this has been to speculate how far and in what ways group activity or community might steer the architectural expression of the particular facility being designed.

Characters and characteristics led to the following final projects: a multi-space music academy, tucked into a major urban level change; a performance and event space inspired by discovery, revealing a covered watercourse; a town-centre stop-over homage to camping holidays; the linear and topographical twinning of sculptors’ studios and their gallery; a graffiti

arts facility, beyond the streets; a handcraft terrain for pottery and fine art; a planting skills and education resource, to encourage green fingers of young and old; and a tiered urban slice, from skatepark to rooftop ‘urban living room’, for the ‘left behind’.

‘Without distinctiveness of character, buildings may be convenient and answer the purposes for which they were raised, but they will never be pointed out as examples for imitation, nor add to the splendour of the possessor, improve the national taste, or increase the national glory.’

– Sir John Soane – Lecture XI, The Royal Academy Lectures – 1810-20

STUDENTS (alphabetical by surname)

Stage 4:

Oliver Murton

Remi Oyekan

Luke Tampling

Stage 5:

Mayank Priyavrat Jaitli

Jack Newman

Lola Olabisi

Dibbay Binti Wan Rosli

Annabel West

UNIT LEADER - Michael Holms Coats – partner, TROLLEY studio

TECHNICAL TUTOR - Oliver Watson – senior architect, DLA Architecture

GUEST LECTURERS + CRITICS:

Philip Baston

Ambrose Gillick

Chris Jones

Yorgos Loizos

Alessia Mosci

Michael Richards

Chloe Street Tarbatt

Matthew Woodthorpe

JAITLI Stage 5

Through my 3D speculative drawing which highlights the character of Folkestone through numerous different activities, I explored housing from a lens of urban camping using tufted insulated fabric facades.

Being intrigued by Japanese wood construction, the structure of the housing modules was designed using numerious wood joineries, and could be easily disassembled over time.

On the other hand for my community building which housed a cafe, restaurant and a pub(in the existing building), I approached its design by setting parameters for myself from the RIBA sustainable outcomes guidebook. The design was driven by making concious decisions keeping in mind, the embodied carbon of the materials and integrating passive design techniques like overhangs on the southern facade , cross ventilation and a strategy to exhaust warm air through the stairwell of the building.

mayankjaitli@outlook.com

MAYANK

JACK

Inspired by my former experience as a musician in Folkestone my final project sought to address the lack of dedicated music facilities within the town. Using analysis gathered from researching the various tastes and trends of Folkestone’s music scheme, I proposed a music facility, designed and catered to the local musicians of Folkestone, providing all the facilities needed to progress musicians from learning an instrument, right through to performing in various genres.

Jacknewman35 @googlemail.com

NEWMAN Stage 5

COLLECTIVE jOURNEY

Making & Displaying Arts (Sculpture Studio)

Located in Folkestone

To expand the opportunities for continuing adult education in the Folkestone area. Making sculpture studio is just one of the first steps toward resurrecting the local arts scene in what has historically been a place where people made things by hand. Broadly looking at the idea of creating a ‘maker’ environment, a place where I try to attract ‘small to big pieces of arts’ that make things, particularly handmade goods.

‘It is a journey of learning skills and knowledge that gives people the tools to think, experiment and have fun designing’

This project aims to bring back some of the ‘hand skills’ that used to be taught commonly from the past to the future.

dibbayrosli@gmail.com

Linkedin : Dibbay Rosli

DIBBAY ROSLI Stage 5

WEST Stage 5

This project sets out a concept of discovery, turning a limited site into a new opportunity to adaptively reuse and improve the existing building on site. The use of natural materials such as hempcrete insulation and wood fibres, combined with a central rain garden strategy that encourages flooding, pushes the sites capabilities and enhances its environmental position for the future as well as adding to the life of Folkestone. The design allows people to discover new skills in the creative industry and develop these into shows and events for the public, bridging the gap between being an artist in Folkestone’s creative quarter and simply viewing the artworks.

Consisting of a series of private studios and public workshops for artists and pottery makers, [UN]Earthing Hand Craft is an emerging development that seeks to engage and celebrate new / existing creative individuals within Folkestone. The proposal provides a new public thoroughfare between Tontine Street and St Michael’s Street, as one meanders through the site opportunities to witness individuals engaging within the collective experience. Taking advantage of a currently derelict site, the proposal utilises the earthen material below to minimise the embodied carbon and create a proposal that celebrates its own character.

OLIVER MURTON Stage 4

LinkedIn Instagram

‘Beyond the Streets’: a celebration of graffiti as a form of art.

eio6@kent.ac.uk

This project aimed to change the narrative that graffiti is regressive but instead, a form of expression, communication and art itself. By creating a series of studios and accomodation, it is possible to create a space that is nurturing and educative for graffiti artists. It was also interesting to research ‘shellcrete’ and seaweed as a sustainable alternative to mainstream construction materials as Folkestone is home to fresh seafood and seaweed. The site features a 14m high retaining wall which becomes a canvas for the programme while the building itself shows use of subtle colours to draw the focus to the graffiti art itself.

REMI OYEKAN Stage 4

TAMPLING Stage 4

Folkestone Planting College

The proposal is for a Planting College in Folkestone to enhance agricultural education inspired by a local organisation Taking Root.

As part of a technology proposal, I conducted a study into methods that can create sustainable energy and water filtration. The study strongly indicated there was a correlation between agriculture and renewable energy through Biomass. The development of a Biomass facade, a modular Decentralized Waste Water System which consisted of a Bio Digester. A Bio Digester through Anaerobic Digestion breaks down organic waste into fertilizer and Bio Gas that could be used as a sustainable power source across the site and local area. Treated water from the DEWATS is used for irrigation purposes.

luketampling@gmail.com

LUKE

In here |out there

Unit 4 is interested in the definition of ‘city’ and its ability to produce ‘images’ that represent the shape and functioning of the world, or parts of it. As we experience new environmental and socio-economic challenges, we are faced with the need to reassess and perhaps redefine some of our cultural expressions as well as repair and repurpose our cities where they are no longer able to respond to the needs of their inhabitants. How we react to these challenges will shape the built environment of tomorrow and change the image of the city.

On ‘point of view’

As we know, the term ‘point of view’ has different connotations and is used both in philosophy and in geometry to explain the perspective of an idea or an object. The point of view always includes a subject, an object and a way in which the object is interpreted or approached, as the philosopher Antti Hautamäki says “Points of view are first and foremost ways to choose interesting characteristics about objects”. With the spreading of new technologies such as go-pro cameras and drones, the so-called POV shots have become truly ubiquitous, giving us the ultimate spatial experience of everything. Students in Unit 4 are invited to experiment and explore the importance of points of view in the urban environment, both in sociological and geometrical terms.

In the first term we look at the past to understand the future and will do so by researching into the philosophical or cultural movements that have influenced our society and by understanding what relationships they used to do so. Can those points of view be changed and adapted to suit contemporary society?

Students were then asked to develop a theoretical standpoint in the form of a manifesto and were tasked with the analysis of an object in relation to its phenomenology.

The words of philosophers Vazquez and Liz are particularly relevant in this context: “Disposition, after all, means an object’s characteristic way to act or react in a certain way in certain circumstances. A dispositional characteristic is potential, not actual, to use Aristotle’s terminology. We can think that instead of the world structuring itself in a certain way, it has dispositions to be structured in certain ways, depending on which point of view is used”.

Critical thinking

Relational thinking will be at the heart of our explorations. Most European cities are open systems, the result of continuous evolution and adaption, occurred slowly over centuries, through the interweaving of relations. The urban environment is fertile ground for the birth of new and radical ways of living and divulging culture and as architects we strive to develop new ways to repurpose and repair the city, “New ideas must use old buildings” states the activist Jane Jacobs in her town planning rulebook. In this context, the notions of sustainability and resilience are no longer news, they are an integral part of relational architecture and cannot be dispensed.

Our design development we will draw inspiration from the fascinating work of two contemporary thinkers: Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, who, in his book ‘Helgoland’, explains the importance of understanding “things through their being in a relation to other things” and how “Every vision is partial. There is no way of seeing reality that is not dependent on a perspective – no point of view that is absolute and universal” And Richard Sennett, sociologist and author of ‘Building and dwelling’ in which he opens our eyes on the opportunities of 21st century cities

RAIMONDS BAUKERTS Stage 5

The Old Kent Road People’s Enterprise proposes an alternative economic model for Southwark, creating a new masterplan regenerating derelict industrial estates to work for the local community. The new Social Enterprise Zone is tied together with the trading bridge; a megastructure spanning from Burgess Park to New Cross, following the old canal route.

The project then explores the first social business to kickstart the new economic model. A textile recycling plant that focuses on the craft of spinning and weaving. The monastic scheme supports economically vulnerable people, providing them with housing and opportunities for selfactualisation outside of survival in the late-stage capitalist society.

raimondsbaukerts @gmail.com

Cultures are being pushed out and disbursed by new developments in areas across the country. Enriched societies and groups of people are being deprived and reduced of local spaces to practise/ share culture due to new developments proposed by authorities and governments. This is resulting in the loss of culture, the damage of democracy and the provocation of frustration, suffering and despair as a consequence of dominant economic, social and political paradigms pressing upon people. For this reason and in solution to the on going issue of “cultural bleaching” the project proposes its standpoint to reduce and/or prevent the notion of cultural bleaching by implication and prioritisation of using cultural and creative sectors to adress urban challenges with local authorities along Old Kent Road.

hcasserley98@gmail.com

Instagram: cass.arch

HARRY CASSERLEY Stage 5

CHESTER Stage 5

The Old Kent Road area is home to nearly 1,000 businesses that are integral to London’s dynamic economy providing work for many of its residents, but big top down redevelopment plans threaten to completely shift the local economy from small local businesses to large shops and offices.

The proposal aims to preserve the essence of small businesses via the design of a market hall and workshop spaces as foundation blocks for a community led development centered around a courtyard typology and integrating these uses with communal and amenity spaces, evoking a solid robust apprearance on the exterior, whilst on the inside creating a calm urban oasis away from the busy thoroughfare and a sense of disconnection from the outside world.

tonychester2772@gmail.com

www.tonychesterarch.co.uk

TONY

Isonometric drawing

Exploded isonometric

Looking at Old Kent Road it became quite evident that the site had been left to develop to its needs as a thoroughfare and not to the needs of its community. This frustration of the community is exhibited by the vandalistic street art and showed that there needs to be space in which people can express their creative and show the community its potential. With these observations I decided to develop a gallery and performance space in 4A and a theatre, gallery and an artist residency in 4B

aa2504@kent.ac.uk

afan.ahmed50@gmail.com

AFAN AHMED Stage 4

THE RECLAIMED BRICK FACTORY - This project was based off heavy research into the up-cycling of industrial materials, mainly focusing on the most common UK building material, brick. The project was located in South East London, primarily focussing on Old Kent Road, a major thoroughfare through London. Old Kent Road’s current redevelopment allowed me to observe just how much industrial materials were being thrown out, which led me to research the circular economy of construction materials. My final proposal presented a brick factory focusing on the process of reclamation, located at the heart of Old Kent Road in the middle of its redevelopment areas. The factory is also adjoined to an old civic centre which I re-purposed as a trade centre for industrial materials.

Email : afettursan@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ afet-tursan

Instagram: afstudi.o

AFET TURSAN Stage 4

TECHNOLOGY

THE WAY AHEAD

Climate change has brought renewed attention to urgency for transformation of our economy. The climate emergency is acting as a major force of creative disruption within the architectural profession as it requires architects to establish new, more specialist bodies of knowledge and familiarize themselves with new methodologies and design tools.

In its recent report ‘The Way Ahead (2020)’ the RIBA acknowledges the need for change in architectural education and professional practice, and that even qualified and experienced architects need to engage in further learning to acquire climate literacy. It wrote:‘There is widespread acceptance that the built environment has an urgent role to play in responding to the climate emergency, and the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge calls on members to meet net zero whole life carbon (or less) in the buildings they design by 2030. It is anticipated that the Climate Literacy required to enable Chartered Architects to meet the 2030 Climate Challenge will follow as the second Mandatory Competence.’

Climate literacy

The RIBA and ARB have acknowledged that both students and qualified practitioners alike must acquire new knowledge, working methods and tools. Indeed, between 2019 and 2020 the RIBA also made a formal commitment to tackling the climate emergency, as outlined, amongst other, in the RIBA Sustainable Outcomes guide and the RIBA 2030 Climate challenge and also committed to promoting principles of sustainable development within the Professions, following the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) See: Sustainable Development Goals in Practice. The ARB has also made ‘Sustainability Competence’ a requirement for professional qualification of architects, and the criteria have been outlined in their report ‘Competence Guidelines – Sustainability’.

Matthew Woodthorpe

1:5 detail drawings - Anthony Chester

Daylight Studies - Raimonds Baukerts

Student Research

Dissertation Options

The dissertation module is one of the strong points of KSAP and has traditionally produced outcomes recognised as outstanding by our external examiners. This is an important recognition because it shows that we are amongst the best schools in teaching our students critical thinking and analytical skills. The module’s brief gives students the freedom to choose a topic to investigate within or outside our discipline-specific areas, enabling them to deepen an understanding of issues to which they are particularly attracted. Typically, even with unconventional topics, in their investigation students can identify links with architecture.

Dissertation is about research and refining research skills, which are skills that are essential in the architectural profession. Through research, the evidence base necessary for practitioners to successfully justify design ideas can be developed. Research also enables the organisation of research findings in a clear and structured way, which is easy to communicate. Indeed, the process of writing a dissertation bears similarities with that of design development: both are carried out in a structured way, following a sequence that articulates complex concepts, elaborates them and reaches a conclusion.

This year, as in past years, we had a wide range of topics investigated with dissertations. One topic explored the possibility of establishing colonies on Mars, looking at resource availability, appropriate technologies and also psychological aspects that must be considered when designing a settlement on that planet. Another one investigated the potential for London to increase its ‘sponginess’ by augmenting its green infrastructure, retrofitting central streets with rain gardens. A study in residential design investigated the characteristics that would be appropriate for the psychology of adults with autism. Finally, a study looked at the representation of architecture and its symbolism in Japanese animated movies.

In this module students can choose the artefact option, which offers the possibility to research by making. Artefact is not only about producing an object but rather solving a problem or answering a research question by design. The artefact becomes an opportunity to capture in a model, installation or any other form of visualisation and form creation some key reflections on a particular topic. Clearly, model-making, which is so important in the architectural profession, is one of the most common ways for students to assemble and deliver the final artefact, although not the only one.

Over the last years, students have designed installations, films and digital artefacts. This year too, students demonstrated great variety in the topic selected, coupled with fantastic maker skills. A student retrofitted a land rover transforming it into a camper van, while meticulously documenting all phases of work. Another artefact attempted the ambitious design of a modular sea wall that can act as wave breaker and at the same time increase the local marine biodiversity.

SILVIO CAPUTO MODULE CONVENOR

Figure 1 – Sketches illustrating principles of homes fit for the psychology of users with autism

Figure 2 – Interior of retrofitted Land Rover

STAGES 3 AND 5 Dissertation

This Module is taught with a correspondent Dissertation module offered to Stage 3 students (Part 1). In these two joint modules, BA and MArch students are supervised in mixed groups and are asked to investigate a particular topic that can be related to architecture, urban design and planning or to any other area that students wish to research. It is a module through which students refine their research and critical analysis skills. These are skills that help structure any investigation, including design-led investigations, hence being invaluable in practice and in the rigorous development of design projects. Importantly, this is a module very much informed by the research developed within KSAP. In fact, supervisors are all skilled researchers in their field, and students are assigned to supervisors depending on the topic chosen, to match their topic with relevant academic expertise. Supervisory sessions are not only necessary to progress the dissertation, they are also occasions to stimulate informative conversations and sometimes opportunities to transfer knowledge generated with recent or ongoing research projects.

This year students developed thought-provoking dissertations on topics such as women in architecture and the analysis of spatial typologies of architecture schools (including KSAP) using Space Syntax methods (Fig. 1). Other dissertations were accompanied with notable illustrations such as the one representing Jeddah’s Rawshan towers (Fig. 2), taken from a dissertation focusing on heritage architecture and climate.

Silvio Caputo Module Convenor

Figure 1 – KSAP ground floor plan tested with Occlusivity metric (Space Syntax)

Figure 2 – Illustration of Jeddah’s Rawshan towers

STAGES 3 AND 5 Artefact

Like for the Dissertation module, this module too is delivered in parallel with a dissertation / artefact module for Stage 3 students (Part 1). In this module, students must demonstrate not only their research skills but also maker skills. The final output is an artefact and a report documenting a rigorous process through which a particular issue is unpacked and understood through model making, or any other form of making. Clearly, model-making which is so important in the architectural profession, is one of the most common ways for students to assemble and deliver the final artefact, although not the only one. Over the past years, students have produced artefacts that include films, installations or even digital artefacts. In any format chosen, the artefact becomes an opportunity to capture some key reflections on a particular topic. In this module, students receive formative and summative feedback through crits in which their models are displayed, presented and discussed, similar to design modules. In these crits, the focus is on assessing the process leading to the design of the artefact, with its merits and limits, together with the maker skills.

This year students developed amazing artefacts ranging from a tool made from tin cans to purify water for those in need of safe drinking water (which was successfully tested) and a perfect reconstruction of Robin Hood Gardens (Fig 2)

Silvio Caputo Module Convenor

Figure 1 – The making of the water purification tool

Figure 2 – Model of Robin Hood Gardens

STAGE 5 Pedagogy

This unique module aims to provide a formal programme in the teaching of architectural design and communication. Fifth year students develop an understanding of the general principles of architectural pedagogy, through practical experience teaching on the Stage 1 undergraduate programme alongside tutors and through research in the field of higher education.

The focus is on historical and contemporary teaching and learning models that are specific to architecture including studio-based tutorials, seminars and design crits. The teaching and assessment of this module is divided into two components; Theory and Reflection and Practice and Evaluation.

Through the combination of pedagogical theory and research alongside direct teaching experience, the module seeks to promote its students as active agents for change in the Kent School of Architecture & Planning. Key Methods and strategies developed will be disseminated through the School, working with Stage 1 tutors, presenting to staff and students at crit sessions.

The students’ area of research this year was the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [UNSDGs] in relation to the stage 1 design module, Form Finding. This critical area of pedagogy, supported by appropriate research, explored methods of teaching that enhanced all students’ learning. In particular, how different strategies and their outcomes could enhance the students’ application of learned knowledge to the design module.This exemplorary research and its outcomes will be implemented in future stage 1 curriculum.

Rebecca Hobbs Module Convenor

BA(Hons) Architecture

ARB / RIBA PART 1 EXEMPTION

BA(Hons) Architecture

ARB / RIBA PART 1 EXEMPTION

This year saw significant changes, and new opportunities. First of all we welcome our new Head of School, Chloe Street Tarbatt, who took over from Gerald Adler. Marialena Nikolopoulou completed her mandate as Deputy Head, and we welcome Gordana Fontana-Giusti in the role. Michael Richards took over as Director of Studies, and he and I continued to work together, this time with our respective BA hats, to keep the curriculum both up to date and exciting. He also kindly took over my role while on study leave in the Spring Term. Gerald Adler (Stage 1) and Rebecca Hobbs (stage 2) continued in their role as coordinators of stage 1 and stage 2 respectively, while Nikolaos Karydis took over stage 3. As we draw towards the end of yet another year, I should like to thank all of them for past, present and future, as it were, alongside all colleagues at KSAP for continuing to be such a nice and dedicated bunch of people. Equally, I am grateful to all students for making it through what remain challenging times, whilst, in fact, producing very good work. This is a testament to a cohesive community, of which I am proud to be part.

As we finally moved back to full face-to-face teaching, the return to ‘normality’ continued to present its challenges, from attendance, experienced not just in our School but internationally, to studio culture, which is the essence of architecture. It is indeed increasingly clear that such return will not only take time, but requires an overall rethink of how we engage with students and the profession within an increasingly digitally, soon to come AI led environment. This presents significant challenges, and at KSAP, as we always do, staff and students came together and begun to openly discuss some of these issues. It was nice, for instance, to see the return of a variety of field and study trips, which so much characterise what we do here, and to re-engage fully with the RIBA South East mentoring scheme, which has proved very successful. More is to come!

As per the last few years, we continued to merge our international and diverse outlook with an effective engagement with the region. Our design projects were based in Canterbury, Ramsgate, Sittingbourne and Chatham, all easily accessible to students while allowing them to meaningfully engage with the surroundings. Briefs catered for variety of scale and scope with increasing complexity, and concentrated on both speculative and ‘live’ scenarios. For instance, stage 3 focussed on the redevelopment of ‘Chatham Intra’, a live project involving various stakeholders with which KSAP is involved, and for the second year in a row student work will be exhibited there as part of a series of public engagement events.

Alongside design, other modules related to fine art, technology and environment, professional practice, or indeed cultural context, including the dissertation, were praised by our External Examiners. Our cultural context offer remains amongst KSAP’s unique selling points.

As the recently introduced programmes within the School, Graphic Design, and Spatial and Interior Design, continue to grow, other important changes have been implemented. As I write, work is underway to virtually double our space with new state-of-the-art studios, followed by an overall refurbishment which will significantly further enhance our student experience. Equally, the revision of our provision and balance between design, technology, and cultural context within our BA Arch. curriculum, which involved extensive discussion with both staff and students, has been approved, and two new modules in stage 3, ‘Contemporary Architectural Investigation’, and ‘Detail’, will be live as of next year. This follows an overall review of our teaching, something we do year on year to address student feedback, requirements from our professional bodies, external examiners’ recommendations and indeed to keep the fun going!

These continue, therefore, to be very exciting times for KSAP, where research, teaching and dedication to our colleagues and student community remain very strong indeed. We are, in effect, a very tight family, and we can all look forward to a new year where staff dedication, expertise and outstanding research will continue to synergistically feed into all of our activities. And within brand new spaces!

Manolo Guerci BA Architecture. Hons Programme Director

STAGE 3 Architecture

The third year of the BA programme offered our students the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of urban and architectural tools, while working on ‘live’ projects. This year’s two design studio modules, ‘Sustainable Urban Intervention’ and ‘Architectural Design’ drew inspiration from the current collaboration between our School and Medway council and focused on the fascinating area of ‘Chatham Intra’. Lined with high-quality historic buildings, the high street of Chatham Intra has lost much of its original frontage, while redundant industrial structures and large-scale modern buildings cut it from the riverfront. In the autumn term, the students analysed this area, and developed new masterplans that seek to infuse new life into the declining high street, reconnecting it with the river and the adjacent areas of Chatham, Rochester, and the Royal Dockyard. Focusing on the design of new urban spaces that enhance the coherence and continuity of the city, this project paved the way for the detailed design of new buildings during the ‘Architectural Design’ module in the spring term.

‘Architectural Design’ gave the students the opportunity to develop new models of community-led service provision and design a building that can support such models. Starting from the identification of innovative services related with the themes of ‘Education’, ‘Wellbeing’, ‘Culture’ and ‘Work’, the students analysed how these services are delivered and demonstrated their benefits for local social groups. This set the basis for the detailed design of new buildings and urban spaces which, according to the module’s brief, needed to be innovative, experimental, affordable, inclusive, user-centred, and sustainable.

Alongside the above design studio modules, our third-year students had the opportunity to develop skills in the fields of architectural history, professional practice, and research. The ‘architectural practice’ module analysed this year’s architectural design project from the perspectives of professional ethics, planning and building law, practice management, and building information modelling. The twentieth-century architecture module explored architectural developments from the 1890s onwards providing the students with the theoretical background and knowledge necessary to understand recent architectural and urban design challenges. Finally, the dissertation module offered students the opportunity to explore thoroughly an aspect of architecture of their choice. Helping to develop new research skills, this module seeks to inspire our students as they are preparing to continue their architectural journey following the completion of the BA programme.

The modules below provided a multifaceted understanding of architecture, which was further enhanced by two field trips. In the autumn term, a group of students joined Ron Yee and Michael Richards on an exciting journey around the Swale area. In the Spring Term, another group led by Nikolaos Karydis explored the cities of Bath and Bristol, which offered a unique opportunity to observe closely some of the UK’s most interesting buildings and urban spaces.

‘Sustainable Urban Intervention’ (ARCH5570)

Tutors: Nikolaos Karydis (module convenor), Manolo Guerci, Michael Richards, Silvio Caputo, Peter Wislocki, Rebecca Muirhead, Shaun Huddlestone, Ronald Yee, Faye Tamsett, Andrew Reader

‘Architectural Design (ARCH5580)

Silvio Caputo (module convenor), Michael Richards, Ivan Del Renzio, Rebecca Muirhead, Shaun Huddlestone, Chloe Young, Lee Jasson, Andy MacFee, Ron Yee, Andrew Reader, Faye Tamsett

‘Architectural Practice’ (ARCH5550)

Tutors: Peter Wislocki (module convenor), Tara de Linde

‘Twentieth Century Architecture’ (ARCH5560)

Tutors: Alan Powers (module convenor), Victoria Lourenço, Gordana Fontana-Giusti , Gerald Adler

‘Dissertation’ (ARCH5970) convened by Silvio Caputo – students supervised by KSAP tutors.

Nikolaos Karydis

Stage 3 Co-ordinator

SCARLET ALLNATT

Stage 3

The Wellness Centre is a social and wellbeing hub that centrally conglomerates the activities of the local council, charities, health services, and churches which aid the struggling public. The project is designed to aid with the well-being deprivation seen in Chatham Intra, providing homelessness faciltites, technology hubs and a crisis cafe.

scarletallnatt@gmail.com

LinkedIn - Scarlet Allnatt www.linkedin.com/in/ scarlet-allnatt/

Blue Thoughts Well-being Centre

The BT Well-Being Centre is a safe place for clients to go to. Encouraging their relationship with nature, the building is designed in harmony with the environment. The use of planting and green spaces encourages growth as an individual and encourages physical activity. Providing safe spaces throughout, clients are given the opportunity to take part in planting. All as part of the scheme to “Grow Your Blue Thoughts” they learn to grow as an individual.

Erica Beale ericabeale14@gmail.com

ERICA BEALE Stage 3

EPHRAIM BELEKE Stage 3

The Xapá Building

The proposed architectural project aims to provide a safe haven for troubled teenagers and young adults in Chatham, England. The envisioned center will offer a multifaceted approach to rehabilitation and a change of behaviour, focusing on three primary activities: Boxing, Music and Art. These three activities have demonstrated their efficacy in helping individuals cope with antisocial and violent behavior.

The overarching goal of this project is to create a nurturing environment where troubled individuals can receive essential support, mentoring, and therapy, ultimately empowering them to embrace personal growth and become positive contributors to society. To make this design more inclusive, the addition of a multipurposed sports hall, restaurant, cafe and shop have been added to my project.

Ephraim008@icloud.com

Architectural Design focuses on the Chatham Intra area. The aim of the project was provide an intervention that helped accomodate and improve ‘well-being’ in the local area. I chose to design a Well Being Centre that was focussed on providing a service to better both the mental and physical health of the local community post pandemic.

Within my Well Being Centre I aimed to create a space which was uninstitutional in its appearance both internally and externally, whilst successfully providing an effective service.

In addition, my palette of materials was comprised of as many locally sourced materials as well as repurposed elements from the B&M supermarket which was initially on the site.

bburtenshaw01@icloud. com

BEN BURTENSHAW Stage 3

CAITLAIN CAINE Stage 3

My project is about three different ideas: Planetarium, Library and Chitin Research facility, each idea linked by education.

The Planetarium a place to view the stars and planets in a cinematic way. It’s a great fun activity whilst being able to learn about outer space for all age groups.

The Library a big space for socialising and meeting new people, whilst having a place to study and learn.

The Chitin research facility is a space to learn about chitin and make your own biodegradable tools out of chitin through the workshop space. Chitin that comes from crab shells which are usually wasted can be converted into bioplastic that can be used to make bioplastic tools. Once you have no use for that tool it can be converted into a liquid fertiliser for plants, meaning you’re not wasting anything.

caitlaincaine@hotmail. co.uk

Instagram: @caitlain_ caine_arch

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNAL RAMPED WORKSPACE

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

PERSPECTIVES OF EXTERIOR SPACES

MARCUS CHIK Stage 3

The objective of the project is to create an information exchange hub where people are able to come to work freely and learn skills from one another. The main concept of this design is to force interactions amongst visitors. This is done by the creation of ramps with workspaces aligning them, with the hope that people working at one point can learn from another working close to them.

With people preferring to work within different environments, the building is split into different sectors with the floors above designated for quieter spaces and the top floor allocated for teaching spaces.

The design is built by using the existing walls of the old building as a skin. With a new building constructed within extruding upwards with the materiality of timber and glass.

chik.marcus@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marcuschik

PUBLIC WALKWAY ZEN GARDEN

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

LLOYD-STEVEN DOMINGO Stage 3

Chatham Intra Well-being Initiative.

This project introduces a mix-use, multi functioning well-being centre for the community in order to assist mental health and physical issues.

ldxmingo@gmail.com

INSTAGRAM: ldxstudios

ROOFTOP SENSORY GARDEN

Existing Builidng

Re-Used

Proposed Timber and Glass Shell

The project seeks to provide education in the specific skills needed to get a job. The idea of the building is to accommodate anyone. It is a social space made to encourage learning and creativity at any age. The buildings’ basic structure is built upon the same concepts as a school, but where schools have strict lines of direction, this space is made for the choice of learning and working.

The project is a renovation project of an old garage in Chatham Intra made of brick. The new building is built around it, framing the garage with a timber structure.

hanne.elster@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ Hanne-S-Elster

HANNE ELSTER Stage 3

high street elevation

The sanctuary is a story about many stories. It is a place where one can regain the power that has been lost through domestic abuse through retreat and responsibility with a subconscious use of scent therapy. The architecture experiments with the capability of spontaneity and threshold. Like a Moroccan courtyard, the magic is within.

I like to imagine the sanctuary has a sort of experience close to seeing a sunset on the first warm evening of the summer. Once the sanctuary unravels like the sky completely covers in a warm glow, a sort of euphoric, emotional and calming experience both enters and leaves your consciousness with a sense of true peace. That relief that winter is behind us and summer is finally here.

07702576010

Alanafisherarchitecture. com

Alanafisher15@yahoo. co.uk

ALANA FISHER Stage 3

The Oranage Tree Sanctuary.

JASMINE FU

Stage 3

Revitlising Chatham - The Pottery Cycle.

The cycle of pottery from broken to new is imitated through this scheme: A Ceramic studio that revolves entirely on “reuse and creation”.

Visitors can access workshop spaces for repair and creation that circulate towards the refectory as a celebratory area. The herb garden is harvested and used in the community kitchen to promote healthier eating. The riverfront is ultimately reconnected with additional green spaces and a sensory garden within the building as a break from the industrial forms.

With clay being collected directly from the river Medway and its use of locally grown herbs, the development focuses entirely on community and locality, restoring the cultural identity of Chatham.

jasminesanfu28@gmail. com

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/ in/jasmine-fu28

Secondary

Primary

Tertiary

Exploded Axonometric

Harmony Haven: A Music Performance Centre for Mental Health Support in Chatham Intra

Harmony Haven is an innovative architecture project that aims to create a music performance center designed to serve as a social prescribing place for mental health support accessible to everyone. The project seeks to harness the therapeutic power of music, providing a welcoming and inclusive space where individuals can find solace, healing, and community connection.

The design concept of Harmony Haven revolves around creating an environment that promotes well-being, creativity, and a sense of belonging. The architecture embraces a harmonious blend of functionality, aesthetics, and acoustic excellence to enhance the experience of both performers and visitors.

gkiokaeleni13@gmail.com

07776849649

ELENI GKIOKA Stage 3

View from the first floow Front of Building facing High Street

After investigating with residents what they think could rehabilitate their community, we came to the conclusion that an activities centre would help prevent anti-social behaviour, improve the mental and physical wellbeing of residents and help give the forgotten area an identity.

In this project I researched into colour theory, coming to the finding that the combination of pink concrete and the biophilic green planting would help promote nutritious diets.

The centre is designed around the concept of making people move. This and the constraints of manouvering around the boundaries of a sportshall on the restrictive site led to the use of ‘Pepper Pot’ buildings, with these linked by ‘Connectors,’corridors which are the arteries of the building.

joe.ho1711@gmail.com

07817520023

JOSEPH HODGKINS Stage 3

Axonometric View of Proposal

Section Through Rear Sheds

The Intra Town Hall takes an existing, derelict 60’s car showroom and transforms it into a multifunctional civic centre for the Medway community.

The project seeks to provide the local residents with facilities to conduct their civic lives; spaces that can be used for a variety of activities and events potentially desired by the community.

The design places emphasis on the circular economy and environmental benefit. The project preserves the exisiting structures with minimal, targeted demolition, and is extended with FSC certified timber.

david.johnson.mos @gmail.com

DAVID JOHNSON Stage 3

MATTHEW JONES Stage 3

This project tackles the difficulties faced by people all over the UK, especially in Chatham.

The proposal intergrates the use of exercise to redirect young peoples energy, rather than them becoming disruptive, within the local area. It gives an opportunity to learn a new skill, whether it’s the repair of rowing boats or the performance needed to compete in competitions.

It allows a new sport, that would otherwise be difficult to fund, to be accessible to everyone, while utilising the access to the waterfront.

Mattwj100@yahoo.com

07502220079

INTRA HIGH

Email: akefayati2002@gmail.com

Number: 07492863216

Intra High is all about creating a venue where the community can participate in a variety of activities, from art shops to basketball games, all in one location. Ak Studios accepted this assignment in order to produce something that will bring the community together through activities. The indoor facilities and activities include a rock climbing wall, art workshops, a café, PC labs, a multi-story gallery, and a sports hall that opens out to the riverfront science playground where laws of physics are taught through play.

Along with the Intra High, we took on the task of redesigning the walk from the street to the sun pier and the path along the river, as well as the sun pier itself, which needed some attention in order to encourage locals and visitors to get more involved with the river and the beautiful view that Chatham Intra has to offer.

ARGHAVAN KEFAYATI Stage 3

Chatham Farmstead

Chatham Vertical Farmstead is a community urban farm proposal that takes root and grows from within the fabric of an exististing retail warehouse.

The farmstead provides not only food to support local businesses, but facilitates a place for the community to form new connections.

tiakidd224@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/tia-kidd/

TIA KIDD Stage 3

F oresee

The project is about a culture and creativity centre in Chatham Intra, called Foresee. Foresee includes a bunch of studios, a large workshop, exhibition space and a theatre. Outside area has a tent structure, providing an open door space for people to sell their crafts. In the middle of the structure, there lies an existing wall, kept from the original structure. Now it serves as a remnant of the past and a parting from the middle. The Left and right side is divided according to the spaces’ noise levels. In this scheme, people on both sides of the building are connected with two bridges, crossing over the existing wall.

hd_kilinc@hotmail.com

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ hüsnü-demir-kilinc

HUSNU DEMIR KILINC Stage 3

HARRY LANE Stage 3

This design project aims to provide Chatham with a Wellbeing Centre that integrates nature with support to tackle Medway’s current mental health crisis. The current site of Chatham shows signs of neglect, with unused warehouses and vast empty concrete spaces. The plan is to regenerate the abandoned car showroom by recladding the existing front and replacing the rear empty warehouses, with two extensions embracing a living courtyard, overlooked by verandas that lead off into a host of different spaces. Natural light and a connection with nature are the focuses of the building, with the use of sustainable materials, organic colours, and comfortable furnishings. The transparency of the building allows visual connections to the activities within, provoking public curiosity, awareness and possible involvement. This project also expands outside the given site to tackle some of the nearby unused concrete spaces.

harrywsl1412@gmail.com

07805627172

DENTHIA LAURENT Stage 3

The proposed design is for a Chatham Education Centre. It consists of three irregularly shaped, stacked units, with the second block facing the river views. The mass timber structure seeks to produce a sustainable, low-carbon building and enables the building to contribute to the circular economy. The exposed lattice CLT beam and columns support the cantilevered structure of the building while also contributing to the interior aesthetic.

The building’s layout is founded on the need to educate the community while fostering interaction between users of all ages and backgrounds.

thialaurent@gmail.com

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC OF BUILDING - EXAMPLES OF PEOPLES DAY MAPPED

Former Mariner on his collection regularly attends Shedagogy and designs

Sam was a station cation and came along. followed by socialising throughout a shop

Musician Sarah how to craft proud owner she teaches Chairman Ian to crops on generational local schools

brick chimneys and five brick cores serve as shear for the glulam frame superstructure. As indicated, of the structure have been with metal cross bracing, minimise the aesthetic and environmental impact and maximise ’s structural integrity. of the building can be situ, with the construction into 3 phases:

PHASE ONE - Foundations, brick chimneys and workshop space developed to allow for elements glulam frame to be developed in situ.

PHASE TWO - Glulam framing is erected and connected to the shear structures to develop the market and gallery spaces as well as the growing terraces to allow produce to to be grown and sold on site.

PHASE THREE - Aesthetic elements such as the steam timber louvres and steam cladding are later developed to improve the buildings biophilic quality.

BENJAMIN LOVELL Stage 3

‘Chatham Shedagogy’ seeks to bring a creative workspace and community gateway to Chatham.

Situated on the town’s historic railway station, the proposal encompasses the philosophy of Men’s Sheds; non-profit local organisations that provide places for craftwork, individual projects, and social interaction.

The building facilitates the harmony of workshop and market. Embracing the multigenerational learning aspect of Men’s Sheds, visitors can be mentored, learn new crafts, skills and techniques setting them up for a brighter future.

The scheme embraces a craft integrated energy delivery system powered by steam and electricity.. Generated products are then sold at the Makers Market or distributed by electrified rail, achieving a sustainable circular economy.

ben707lovell@gmail.com

METAL CROSS BRACING

Crafted from the existing metal fencing, cross bracing in combination with brick shear cores helps prevent the glulam frame from racking.

METAL RAILINGS WALKWAY MESH

Crafted from the existing metal fencing, metal handrails and mesh walkways give the building an industrial feel and adds to its sustainability.

JACK LUTZ Stage 3

The Shipwrights of Chatham

This regenerative project celebrates Chatham’s rich dockyard cultural heritage and positions its re-establishment of water based trades. These ethical and sustainable activities can recapture the intergenerational pride of Chatham’s former glories.

Tertiary employment will be offered through the services that support the newly created engaging public spaces. Whilst, the regeneration of shipwright skills and the establishment of modern methods of construction expertise, centred around environmentally friendly products and transportation methods, can establish Chatham as a centre of excellence for making and mending. Therefore, this innovative project will purposefully re-establish Chatham as an essential hub of culture, service, and logistical importance.

07444 761830

jack.lutz2000@gmail.com

Section of Daycare building

Elevation of Cafe/Office building

Elevation of Daycare building

NADIA MARTINEZ TRUJILLO Stage 3

The aim of this project is to provide a public service for the community of Chatham. The buildings proposed will occupy the exsisting buildings and will inclulde a daycare centre, cafe, office spaces and a community hub which can be seen in the images.

The function of these buildings aims to fill the gaps that coexist in the community of Chatham, allowing it to become an area where people can thrive through resourcesfulness, as well as find an identity within the community.

LinkedIn: Nadia Martinez nadia.martinezz@outlook. com

ANDREI MIHALACHE Stage 3

WEW

The Gallery aims to bring people together over fun and exciting activities by encouraging them to engage with various arts and cultures and promoting being active through skating.

The proposal seeks to achieve this by introducing multiple design workshops to the site, educating and promoting the arts, and providing a new multidiscipline indoor skatepark that can be transformed into an exhibition space, in addition to the other supporting areas such as an art shop, a skate shop and a cafe overlooking the High Street and mixed use space .

The design utilises the existing brick building on the site and adds to it with a new polycarbonate structure that is inpired by the industrial history of the dockyard and the forms of the old warehouses.

andreimihalache0120@ gmail.com

INTRA GROW YOUR OWN is an innovative project that aims to revolutionise the way the people of Kent approach food production and consumption. Designed as a space for learning, the primary focus of the proposal is to encourage residents to grow their own fresh produce and, in turn, improve their health and well-being. By learning healthy habits from a young age, the project hopes to reduce the prevalence of unhealthy takeaway options and promote sustainable living. The proposed building not only addresses food miles but also offers a solution to the rising cost of living crisis. The buildings organic form is influenced by its function of growing. The restaurant and market creates opportunities for visitors to experience local produce, promoting tourism within the area and generating employment opportunities for the community.

paulina.moson@gmail.com No. 07446109760

PAULINA MOSON Stage 3

DAVID MUDURE Stage 3

Nourish Intra

A scheme dedicated towards the citizens of Chatham, for the community by the community. An urban farm with a mission of community lead cooking, growing and local events.

Nourish intra will be skillfully run by the asylum seekers to reside in Anchorage House.

Nourish is built for the people, by the people, providing activities inclusive of all circumstance, enforcing that architecture is a public service.

tmudure@gmail.com

linkedin: Toma David Mudure

instagram: tdmatelier

TOMA

Chatham Culture Palace is an adaptive re-use of the former Grays of Chatham car showroom and its associated warehouses. Transforming these disused spaces into an arts centre, it celebrates the area’s vibrant culture of creativity and ensures that art and culture remains accessible to local residents in the face of the closure of UCA’s Rochester campus. The proposal consists of an art gallery dedicated to local artists, as well as a fashion and textiles studio, offering a National Diploma qualification in Fashion, Textiles and Costume.

As exemplified by the highstreet elevation, the design of my proposal aims to highlight and celebrate Intra’s unique character, history and culture. Drawing on the area’s cultural heritage, such as its relationship with the river and its association with the LGBTQ+ community, I developed a vocabulary of patterns, symbols and colours.

michaeldobrien0712@ gmail.com

MICHAEL O’BRIEN Stage 3

VICTORIA PARKER Stage 3

Intra Hub the new education and exprience centre situated on Chatham Intra aims to provide workshops and classes dedicated to the creative arts. Classes in this new facility looks to bring together the community of Chatham and increase employment in the area for those with little expirence and individuals who do not thrive in the typical academic settings.The building holds an art gallery and food court which the courses work for. Food in the food court is cooked by the catering course. The market in the hall is full with fruit and veg from the agriculture course, the art gallery is filled with craft and design items from the craft course.

My intention was to create a facility that shows your interest for the area of subject and hopefully gain employment. It is a breath of fresh air and encourages those who would like to study in a non- traditional enviroment for education.

parkervictoria18@hotmail. com

INTRA GLASSHOUSE

SECTION DEMONSTRATING THE PRODUCTION LINE ELIJAH PISANIO’SULLIVAN Stage 3

INTRA GLASSHOUSE is a mixed use project. The primary uses contain an aquaponics farm, urban cultivation spaces, a kitchen and training facilities for these. There are also issues with unemployment, isolation, mental health problems, low education levels and addiction. These are often intertwined. Locals also live alongside ex-servicemen who also struggle with these issues, many of which on average go into skills based, dextrous labour. However it is noted they look after sun pier by keeping it clean. It is also apparent there is diverse entrepreneurial and creative local culture. The vision is to create spaces to provide for local people, to be self producing and provide healthy, accessible food to a community deprived of such. As well as interior and exterior spaces for a food market; coinciding with the trinket market at Sun Pier House Community Centre.

elijahosullivan14@gmail.

IFIGENEIA POULAKI Stage 3

Evergreen

Evergreen embodies a community-centric approach, positioning itself as a testament to collective growth and development. The cultivation and nurturing of a sustainable and inclusive environment lie at the core of Evergreen’s ethos. Through its modular structure, the building facilitates the maturation and advancement of sustainable practices, fostering a thriving and expanding community that flourishes in harmony with its surroundings. The integration of community participation and engagement in the construction process contributes to a sense of shared ownership, pride, and collective achievement. In this unharmonius monotonus urban context, Evergreen represents a paradigm of sustainable development and community-driven progress.

ifigeneiapoulaki@gmail. com

Instagram : @everydayhasarchitecture

Chatham School of Fashion

My proposal will counteract the closure of UCA Rochester. MidKent College has proposed to take on a large number of the courses UCA offers (mainly fashion related). However, there is limited capacity to relocate students to their campus 3 miles away; therefore, a new school is required. The B&M site, which has been declared a site of interest in the revival of the Chatham Intra area, offers a new home for the school. The impact of the closure will be reduced with the new school 0.5 miles away, the site’s history with the arts and the pier increases its attractiveness.

Chatham School of Fashion will focus on educating students on the importance of reducing fashion-related waste and encourage sustainability. It will offer workshops, gallery space, a cafe, and other related spaces including a runway in the landscape and a textiles donation point.

scholten.hannah@gmail. com

HANNAH SCHOLTEN Stage 3

Proposal for a communityled culinary school that aims to re-skill veterans living in the area and people recovering from substance use disorder. The design highlights the “alley-to-river” typology of Chatham Intra and reconnects the city to its river. Parts of the protruding land is chipped away and reused to create small jetties that allow people to walk closer to the river.

A total of four buildings is introduced, each serving its respective purpose, including an oyster farm-to-table restaurant on a newly created pier. The existing building on site is readapted to become a market building fitted with a basement storage. A three-storey building houses most of the classsroom facilities as well as a community garden at the rooftop. The central kitchen building is designed to be disassembled in the future.

2504huiwen@gmail.com

HUI WEN TAN Stage 3

Chatham Intra Culinary Village

The Intra Film Hub is a multi-functional building consisting of a film school, film studio and cinema. This project targets NEET students (Not in Education, Employment or Training) by introducing a vocational course to get them qualifications. It also services the community via the cinema and its cafe.

The scheme involves an existing building with the aim of preserving what was already there, while giving it a new identity. To do this a new timber facade was designed to wrap around the building, providing a semi-sheltered space for the roof terrace.

A.Taylor002@outlook.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin. com/in/annie-taylor002

ANNIE TAYLOR Stage 3

ARGASH THASAN Stage 3

I have designed a youth center based in Chatham for the sole purpose of revitalising a safe, informal and supervised environment for young people. It aims to provide the youth with a building packed with activities which they can truly relate to, helping to nurture and bring out hidden talents. Activities consist of both physical and educational. A quick rundown includes rock climbing courses, affordable tuitions, cycle & boat crafting workshop, skateboarding and many more. You also get a lovely view towards the river.

The materiality is Cross Laminated Walnut Timber to give the building a nice earthy tone. This is to differentiate the building from the surrounding historical buildings mostly consisting of plain bricks. This materiality choice will come across as more appealing to the youth due to its modernness.

argash.thasan2002@ gmail.com

reActive aims to address the major societal challenges of physical and mental wellbeing in the Medway area of Kent, UK. With poor eating habits and a lack of physical exercise contributing to health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, and mental health also being affected by social and cultural norms, there is a clear need for innovative service provision to address these issues.

The development is a youth centre with wall climbing and skateboarding facilities as well as communal green areas and parkour elements.

Contact Details

johntraxan@gmail.com

IOANNIS TRACHANIS Stage 3

KARIS WALKERSTUART Stage 3

The ‘Zenshida Project’ (the real project) has been specially designed to tackle the negative impact that Covid had on the social and economic status of society. The building will include various quality multiuse spaces that service a multitude of industries placed around a central community hall. It also includes a retail park sector that serves as a counterpart to the main building, providing spaces for small business to market their products, in refitted shipping containers to create unique, low cost, low risk ‘box shops’, all of which can be rented out or traded for time, to work in the maintenance department for the upkeep of the building.

The following images also include my Artefact submission of a completely edible model of The Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp.

karishn10@gmal.com

www.linkedin.com/in/ KarisWalker-Stuart

https://kakesbykaz.com/ pages/contact

WOOLLARD Stage 3

Chatham Intra Music Hall

This project aims to use music to revitalise the sense of community, the economy and the cultural scene of Chatham Intra by providing a venue to facilitate musical education and performance, with the highest standards of acoustic design.

Within The Intra Concert Hall, an unadorned wall of the hall is clad with routed oak panels in a randomised curved pattern to reflect the sound back to the audience and musicians. On adjustable grids suspended on the ceiling, stage lighting and acoustic panels can be adjusted to suit different styles of music. Other supporting spaces featured in the scheme provide space for musical practice, audio recording and musical instrument repair. The façades that encircle the courtyard at the centre of the scheme are designed to redirect and amplify sound using curved concrete façades, creating a courtyard with optimal conditions for outdoor performance. Along with this, a restaurant at the front of the site aims to bring continuity to the Chatham Intra Highstreet street scape.

margo.woollard@yahoo. co.uk

MARGO

THE ISPC

Mental health is everywhere and in everyone. Good mental health allows people to manage stresses in life, productivity and social and emotional factorswhereas bad mental health can do the contrary and this cannot only be solved through the use of medical treatment.

The Intra Social Prescription Center is a project that seeks to provide activity services for individuals in Chatham who struggle with their mental health. Services such as fitness, art therapy, cooking therapy, gardening therapy as well as employability skills training, aim to improve and support these individuals to reap the benefits of their uses.

This non-clinical approach allows for a more inclusive and socially-impactful way of taking care of people’s mental health. It is an opportunity for people to interact and create a community of learning, teaching and healiing.

Jpz2@kent.ac.uk

JOYCE ZENGAMAMBU Stage 3

STAGE 2 Architecture

Architecture and Landscape

The threshold between a working landscape and a building to support it was located at the Simon Langton Girls Grammar School in Canterbury. With the encouragement and enthusiasm of teachers, Professor Becky Parker and Sam Goodfellow, the brief was developed under the umbrella of ‘Biojoyversity’, a website identifying the need for a research centre looking into the relationship between the health, wellbeing and time spent in a landscape. The concept was to, “encourage and develop innovation by young people in schools on the climate.” ¹. Through a discussion with key members of staff, the brief was designed to include a lecture theatre, an exhibition space, research spaces and a café. The integrated landscape offered school students and visitors a kitchen garden, a fruit and nut orchard, a small vineyard, a tree walkway, micro-climate, an amphitheatre and yoga space. The architecture and landscape were to be fully symbiotic spatially, conceptually with sustainability and the environment at its heart. In parallel with this module, students engaged and integrated the Climate module which looked at embedding environmental strategies and a sustainable approach to both architecture and landscape.

1 - https://biojoyversity.org/

Collective Dwelling

Our Collective Dwelling module this year began with this composite set of questions: How shall we live? Where shall we live? What and who, gets to decide?

Over the course of the spring term, we explored evolving typological possibilities of communal housing design for a brownfield site in Sittingbourne using the site layouts and massing proposals, presently under consideration by the Local Planning Authority, as a point of departure for our own design responses.

Inviting our students to imagine their project’s prospective inhabitants as versions of their future selves, simultaneously engaging with many of the current housing parameters that drive real development in the UK, this design journey encouraged a melding of current commercial reality and idealised future possibility.

Rebecca Hobbs Stage 2 Co-ordinator

Achelia Sasheva

Dania Ayaz

Victor Williams Salmeron

Olivia White

Danish Azhan

Shahana Nawarathinam

Shahana Nawarathinam

STAGE 1 Architecture

Stage One is where new students from all backgrounds and from all provenances meet to begin their studies in architecture. It’s a veritable melting pot, and a place to learn new skills and hone old ones. The Covid pandemic doesn’t seem that long ago, though, and students who might have experienced a number of school years in relative isolation rose to the challenge of the studio culture that we take such a pride in. Designing buildings and framing the built environment is a collective and social matter, with input from individuals with distinct and varied skills.

Both major teaching terms of autumn and spring had their design modules balanced by ones in culture and technology & environment. By the end of summer term students had begun to understand the equilibrium between these three broad areas of study, and the results are there to be seen in the overarching Folio module that spans the entire year.

The design projects grew in scale and scope as the year progressed. We began with proposals to exhibit somewhere within the Marlowe building a small object each student had brought from home. We progressed onto a lookout tower at the centre of the University campus, with views out onto the natural and built environment changing with altitude and direction, an exercise in staircase design, certainly, but much more as well. The culminating design project of the autumn term was to give temporary accommodation to a small group of visiting academics in one of the University’s disciplines, on a site within perhaps the most striking of our colleges, Darwin. This raised questions of client and user identity, as well as initial studies of site planning.

The spring term project moved beyond the academy to focus on the seaside town of Ramsgate and its community of keep-fitters. FitCliff had as its site a cliff-face as meeting point between the upper town and the lower harbour, and the scheme had to accommodate at least two activities, archery and rock-climbing, chosen for their emphasis on the horizontal and the vertical respectively.

Spring 2023 saw the revival of the pre-Covid field trip, with Paris quickly reached by Eurostar. We were lucky indeed with the weather, and had our days packed with a vast range of buildings, cityscapes, artefacts and artworks, from the medieval period to the present day. And we even managed to return with the same number of students we left with, despite the best endeavours of the Paris metro!

I hope you enjoy seeing the work Stage One students have produced, and I wish them well and look forward to seeing them back in School after the summer break.

I’d like to thank all the lecturers and tutors who contributed to make the class of ’23 such an enjoyable success:

Anske Bax, Colin Cresser, Giacomo Damiani, Stephanie Elward, Howard Griffin, Rebecca Hobbs, Lee Jesson, Nikos Karydis, Victoria Lourenço, Tim Meacham, Edward Pryke, Fiona Raley, Jef Smith, Kevin Smith, Richard Watkins, Ron Yee and Chloe Young, in addition to the behind-the-scenes support of our colleagues in the Division, in particular to Neil Evans, Brian Wood and the rest of the team in Tech Support, and to Claire James in Finance.

Special thanks to Ivan del Renzio of Del Renzio & Del Renzio Architects, Ramsgate for his kind help in all things pertaining to the town and to Shirley Appleby of the Ramsgate Sea Cadets for giving us such a warm welcome at the ‘Ice House’ – the site for our FitCliff project.

Gerald Adler Stage 1 Co-ordinator

DESIGN

Edrisa Smith

MODERN HOUSE

Rebecca Bownass

DESIGN Hamza Jan

FOLIO Horeja Ndow

FORM FINDING Ezgi Kervanda

FOLIO Amna Helmi

FOLIO Rebecca Bownass

BA(Hons) Graphic Design

BA(Hons) Graphic Design

2023 was the second year that Graphic Design ran as a University of Kent degree programme. We now have two talented year groups of students who have achieved more than they anticipated when they started the course, and who are building some great portfolios of work, knowledge, and design experience. We are proud to showcase their projects in the 2023 end of year show.

As well as new students we have also welcomed the talented Becky Upson as a full time member of staff plus a range of exceptional part time tutors who work as creative directors and designers in a range of organisations, run their own businesses, are specialists in UX and sustainable event design in May Glen, Aimée Hawkins, Zach Weitz, Scott Robinson, Richi Mohanty and Nadine Smith. In addition, some great visiting lecturers have delivered masterclasses in calligraphy, book cover design, animation, sign fabrication and print finishing.

In 2022/2023 students have completed live briefs with the Maison Dieu in Dover, Cactus Graphics (also in Dover), Kent Law School, The Gulbenkian and Kent University estates.

All this leads towards our primary focus on employability… learning from those who are working in the creative industries sector affords students insight into what they can see themselves doing and working on live briefs is superb experience for the working environment.

Our congratulations to these amazing first and second years for their passion for graphic design and their unique and individual design voices – we enjoy working with you.

Dr Kate McLean Programme Director

Design Documentary Poster - Stefano Rivera

Exhibition Design Live Brief with Maison Dieu Dover - Beth Stone & Precious Babatunde

Logomark Design - Lauren Blackman

Layout Design - Beverley Hatswell

Social Justice Poster- Atanas Aleksandrov

Interaction Design - Ethical Clothing - Molly Sims

Wayfinding System for a Food Fair - Saga El Banna

JamLab Cactus Graphics Live Brief - Molly Sims, Martyna Florczak, Saga El Banna, Joshua Akinwale, Atanas Aleksandrov

EZ Cactus Graphics Packaging Live Brief - Oreoluwa Onakade, AnneMarie Ibiaduo, Ellis Little, Quim Carne Cordona

BA(Hons) Spatial and Interior Design

BA(Hons) Spatial and Interior Design

An exhibition that explores the positionality of storytelling and the in between space through multisensory senses, emotional attachments, qualities of colour and experiences, whilst also observing the relationship between these elements to feel the flow of time. The themes explored by our firstand second-year students enabled them to develop a rich understanding of the creative industry, inclusive design, brand experiences, design agency and power, sustainability culture, materiality, and its impact on the environment. These projects aspire to contribute to the current design and social challenges as a form of disseminating information in innovative and compelling ways. Each student translated complex research and narratives into captivating stories, beautiful and provocative imagery – all by visualising their design knowledge.

Throughout the year, both cohorts were introduced to different design disciplines, conventions and working conditions. From designing a chair to a reinterpretation of William Hogarth’s plates, students were able to capture the essence of storytelling. The live collaborative projects with Kent Oasis Garden, Swale Friends of the Earth and Revival Café in Whitstable permitted the students to understand the design process and various creative journeys from the perspective of themselves and their clients. Students put forward their own proposals based on design research, case studies, individual narratives, personal interests, and most importantly, the client considerations. They explored key aspects of the circular economy, experiential design, virtual and augmented reality, modular design, and sustainable processes and systems to navigate between the physical, social, and political elements of the design process.

We want to congratulate our students for their hard work and creative projects that revealed rich spatial experiences in imaginative spaces. Special thanks to Simon Basketter, Kasia Czapiga, Richi Mohanty, Pip Nash, Kerry Bradley and Tim Meacham for your support and assistance in delivering the programme this year.

Jerome Tsui, Programme Director Dr. Rebecca Onafuye, Lecturer

DESG4102 Cultural Practice, Stage one, Maisie Smith and Bethany Zacharia

DESG4102 Cultural Practice, Stage one, Tom Wells and Fawzia Rahman

Marketing and Promotion

DESG4012 Cultural Practice, Stage one, Ellie Tsakiri and Renee Doger De Speville

DESG5102

Culture, Stage two, Flora Greening

DESG5202 Ephemeral Design, Stage two, Aimee Key

DESG5201 Material and Environment, Stage two, Ruby Doherty

KSAP GRADUATE SCHOOL

KSAP Graduate School

Based at a dual-intensive university, KSAP shows commitment to excellence in research and teaching. The fruits of this commitment has been shown in the national research ranking of architecture schools within the UK. In the Research Excellence Framework KASP came 6th place, reflecting the quality of its research as well as the practical impact of this research outside academia. KSAP is still relatively young, but over the last twelve years established itself as a school with a strong research culture. This is not only reflected in the intensity of the research undertaken by academic staff, but also in the extent of postgraduate teaching. Our body of research students, which forms part of the KSAP Graduate School, has been growing steadily.

Alongside the PhD in Architecture, KSAP is offering various specialist postgraduate programmes with a research focus that lead to the award of an MA or MSc. As shown in the diagram below, these programmes enable three different pathways. The first is the standard pathway, leading towards professional accreditation by the Architectural Registration Board (ARB). The second is the specialist pathway that can lead to a career in consultancy within different areas of expertise, such as sustainability, architectural conservation, visualisation and planning. The third is the research pathway in the form of PhD, yet the MA and MSc programmes also function as bridges between the BA and PhD.

Image 1: Diagram showing current landscape of postgraduate pathways at KSAP (Diagram: Schoenefeldt, 2023)

Our current doctoral students are undertaking research across a variety of academic disciplines. This diversity of research subjects reflects the cross-disciplinary character of architectural research, and it also reflects different ways in which architectural research, alongside its contribution to academic scholarship, can make contributions to architecture and planning in practice.

During the Autumn and Spring Term, we held weekly PhD seminars. These were conducted in a hybrid mode to increase inclusivity. It enabled those PhD students that were abroad for fieldwork, archival research or industry placements, to take part remotely. These seminars provided a forum for weekly gatherings, during which students were able to share and discuss their individual research but also engage in open debates about some of the wider challenges of research in the built environment. These were also joined by personal supervisors as well as other academics from the school.

This year we took the initiative to give postgraduate research, alongside the research undertaken by academic staff, a more prominent place in the end of year show, and examples of research have also been included in the catalogue for the first time. For this our PhD students formed an organising committee, Previously the focus of the show has been on design work undertaken by architecture students from the BA and MArch. At this year’s show we are giving the Graduate School a dedicated space to make its work more visible. We hope that it will invite new conversations with practitioners and applicants about the role of architecture and planning schools in advancing research, independently or in collaboration with industry or local government. There is the opportunity for practitioners to consider the possibility of a part-time PhD, choosing research subjects that are important for their professional development or help to develop a new area of expertise within their firm.

This year the first cohort of the PGDip in Professional Practice successfully completed their studies, with students receiving professional accreditation as architects from ARB. This was a significant milestone in the development of the school, as it meant that it could cover all stages of architectural education.

The next few years, however, will also involve a lot of change. This year the facilities of the school will undergo an extension and refurbishment, which is based on a design by the architect Sam Jacobs. The aim is to create more and better adapted space for our growing student cohort, which will include dedicated space for postgraduate students. Yet, substantial changes in some of our programmes are also afoot. Earlier this year the ARB has announced plans for substantial changes in the structure of architectural education at a national level, which will have implications for the development of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. However, it also offers new opportunity in furthering advancing a research ethos within the education of built environment professionals.

Professor Henrik Schoenefeldt Director of Graduate Studies

SUSTAINABLE URBANISM IN GREATER CAIRO

Enhancing Microclimate of Urban Canyons in Hot-Dry Climates Through Simulation-Guided Artificial Shading

In hot-dry climates, outdoor spaces may suffer from periods of unbearable hot weather, leading people to escape the heat by choosing indoor air-conditioned spaces when possible, which increases pollution, and limits the potential of the public open spaces. Direct solar radiation is one of the main factors affecting thermal comfort in the outdoor environment and can be controlled through shading. Recently, studies have increased on the use of software simulation tools in the enhancement and optimization of the outdoor thermal environment. Regwan’s research employs the Ladybug-tools, which can perform thousands of simulations in a matter of few minutes with fair accuracy. Regwan specifically studies a central district within the Greater Cairo, called the ‘Mohandessin’. The main aim is to provide guidelines on enhancing thermal comfort through optimized and feasible shading applications; and potentially encouraging the pedestrianization of the urban canyons where open spaces are limited.

REGWAN ELREFAI PhD Student

rhme2@kent.ac.uk

Software Simulation can be used in the outdoor shading application to identify the required shade locations and periods, and optimize the shape, material and structure of shade.

In Cairo, simulation over the summer shows that placing shading louvers at an angle has a much bigger impact on the reduction of direct solar exposure in a North-South oriented urban canyon than on an East-West one.

Regwan graduated from Cairo University credit-hour program “Architecture and Engineering Technology” in 2013, and was immediately offered a job as a Teaching Assistant in the Architectural Department at the same University. Besides being a teaching assistant, Regwan has continued her studies for the Master of Science degree, which she completed by the year 2018, and was promoted to an Assistant Lecturer. Regwan has started her PhD at the University of Kent in September 2021, and she received a full mission scholarship from her Country, Egypt, towards obtaining her degree.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Prof. Marialena

Nikolopoulou

Prof. Henrik

Schoenefeldt

A section through panelled shade showing vertical and angled louvers.

A section through an urban canyon, with and without shading, showing how solar radiation affects the thermal comfort.

Main phases between simulation and implementation of an outdoor shade.

THE OPTIMISED MIXED-MODE HOUSE:

Countering AC reliance by re-synchronizing the thermal environment with occupant lifestyles in Khartoum

The Sudanese house has had to evolve 4 times in the past 200 years due to changing socioeconomic conditions. It went from a spiralling compound of scattered rooms to a compact contemporary building with all the functions under one roof. This also meant transitioning from natural ventilation to AC reliance. This research utilised a mixed-mode method to understand the phenomenon from different angles. The study found that occupants in both typologies used internal spaces for prolonged periods. The study found that the thermal variety that existed in the original traditional houses can be replicated in both modern and modified traditional houses by creating zones. These zones match the users current modern usage patterns of their house, allowing minimal need for constant movement. This solution allows the Sudanese house to synchronise with the users daily patterns again, resulting in a reduction in electric consumption.

People used to rotate through the house during the day

The thermal migration is linked to outdoor temperatures

HUDA ELSHERIF PhD Student hzte3@kent.ac.uk

urbanization lead to houses becoming more enclosed

People used to synchronise their daily lifestyles with the building’s thermal profile. A modern internalbased lifestyle changed this delicate balance.

We can adapt the traditional concept of thermal migration into a modern context by ‘zoning’. Creating zones that are comfortable under different conditions and run modes in a way that suits occupants current lifestyle.

A sustainability consultant and researcher with expertise in thermal comfort, building physics and social sciences. After conducting 4 years of research in Sudan looking at the increase in AC reliance due to modern buildings, I created a framework for designing sustainable houses in Sudan.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Prof. Henrik Schoenefeldt Prof. Marialena Nikolopoulou

A hybrid modern / traditional view of space use patterns

Zone optimising for a hot arid climate Optimising

THE UNITED KINGDOM’S DIALOGUE WITH IRAN THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ARCHITECTURE

It is a historical study for a critical understanding of Anglo-Iranian architectural relations during the Qajar period (19th century).

Iranian architecture in the 19th century coincided with Qajar rule (1925-1796) and was influenced by European architecture, including France, Italy, Russia and Britain. Buildings inspired by these foreign architectural styles were constructed all over Iran, and these architectural experiences gradually allowed Iran’s traditional architecture to flourish.

English architects and critics also travelled to Iran and explored the traditional architecture of Iran during this historical period. As a result, British architects designed and built many buildings in Iran based on this view of Iranian architecture of the time, such as the British Embassy in Tehran by Sir Gore Ouseley. This building, which is the first case study of this thesis, is also the first non-traditional building built in Iran in 1813. The case studies of the thesis follow the development process of Iranian and British architecture in the geography of Tehran over several decades.

VAHID FARMANI KERMANI PhD Student

vf207@kent.ac.uk

His academic activities focus mainly on historical architecture to revive forgotten architectural traditions and apply them in contemporary and sustainable architectural practises.He studied architecture and heritage conservation in Iran and England for several years and had the opportunity to train as an architect in both countries.

Vahid graduated from the Surah Institute of Higher Education in Iran in 2004 with a Bachelor’s in restoring historical buildings and monuments (architectural conservation). He studied architecture in England at South Bank University in London and received his Master’s degree (2nd part) in 2019. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Iranian Civil Engineering Organisation (IRCEO).

Supervisory team:

Prof.Henrik Schoenefeldt

Dr.Manolo Guerci

THE URBAN AGRICULTURE NEXUS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

An investigation on the benefits of urban food growing in the barrios of Bogotá

The aim of this research is to assess the contribution of urban agriculture (UA) to the sustainable development of contemporary cities, with particular focus on the Global South.

The case study for this investigation is Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, where urban agriculture projects have been steadily implemented during the last 20 years. This investigation will estimate the productivity of the urban gardens of Bogotá from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. The FEW-meter methodology is a research framework that has been adapted to the case study of Bogotá, where it was employed to collect data from 15 case studies. The data will be subsequently modelled to obtain yearly productivity and consumption figures at the city scale.

Illustration: the main steps of the FEWmeter methodology

The FEW meter combines assessment methodologies from Food Energy Water nexus approaches and participatory social investigation, on the backdrop of an urban metabolism exploration framework. The aim of this research framework is to assess the environmental efficiency of the urban food production and how resources (water, energy, compost and other inputs) are not only employed to grow crops, but they also contribute to generating social benefits such as community cohesion, individual well-being, skill improvement, and environmental education.

VALENTINA MANENTE PhD Student

vm278@kent.ac.uk

2555 urban gardens

103 000 m2 total area

15 case studies

Valentina has a transdisciplinary background as architect, urban planner, and researcher. After graduating at Politecnico di Milano in 2016, she worked for several years in South Africa where she investigated the topics of informal settlements, rogue economies, and radical landscapes. After this experience, she returned to Italy where she worked as an architect on public space upgrading. She decided to undertake her PhD to connect the topics of urbanization in developing countries and sustainable growth. Valentina was awarded a full scholarship by the Global Challenges Doctoral Center in 2020.

Dr Silvio Caputo Professor Jaime Hernández-García

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Map: distribution of urban gardens in Bogotá

Connecting the digital & physical environments of the public space

Mapping the influences of Digital Mediation

Recording the lived reality with observations and narratives

IMPACT OF DIGITALISATION ON THE PERCEPTION OF PUBLIC SPACE

Understanding the role Google Maps and Instagram play in the way we engage with urban environments

Public spaces are an integral part of the city, closely associated with everyday routines. Every time people commute, gather to socialise, engage in commercial or social activities, or participate in large-scale events or demonstrations, they engage with public spaces. Historically, public space has usually been associated with its function in society and discussed in relation to its built environment. Yet easy access to GPS, digital signages, real-time information, on-the-go music, online tickets, and ability to share experiences easily are increasingly shaping experiences in urban spaces. The interactions between people, space (physical environment) and technology co-produce the modern-day hybrid public space. By breaking away from traditional definitions of public space, this research aims to contribute to the larger body of literature related to spatial analysis by proposing a new methodological framework to study hybrid public spaces.

Findings from pilot Instagram study: Southbank Centre, London

30% photos of centre shown with #yellowsteps

33% photos are correctly geotagged to the centre

RICHI MOHANTY PhD Student

rm745@kent.ac.uk

Richi Mohanty is a third-year PhD student at Kent School of Architecture and Planning. Her research project, funded by the EPSRC studentship, explores the relationship between urban public spaces and people in the context of digitally mediated social interactions. She comes from an Architecture and Industrial Design background. For the last nine years, she has worked as a User Experience Design Consultant in the information technology industry. Her experience in the industry, working closely with datadriven processes, and her background in architecture prompted her to look at the meaning of urban public space.

Current Study: Instagram Images Heat Map

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Dr Ambrose Gillick

Dr Vince Miller

New age urban space experience is mediated by digital representations which in turn are co-produced by people and impact the way people move through space and perceive them.

Co-production of the Hybrid Public Space

Current Instagram study of the selected site showcases that these images alone do not reflect the lived reality, but act as a powerful influencing tool.

THE ‘CASTLES OF THE DOWNS’: DEAL, WALMER AND SANDOWN

Design, development and significance

Deal, Walmer, and Sandown Castles were hastily built on the east coast of Kent between 1539 and 1540, together, they were originally known as ‘The Castles of the Downs’. They were built due to a perceived threat of invasion following Henry VIII’s separation from Rome. They were all built simultaneously with the same craftspeople and connected to four bulwarks and a series of defensive trenches. Most significantly, they were the first of twentyfour fortifications to be constructed within the King’s wider Device and were built to act with a unique degree of singular coordination. The ambition for these castles, their deployment and their symbolism stand them apart from the other castles within the same period. Their significance to the wider fortification programme and the field, more generally, is nonetheless crucial. This thesis will reconstruct the castles’ unique histories, design, symbolism and later development, and trace their broader significance.

Walmer Castle would flourish under the guardianship of the Lord Warden, and today it is a great example of a country house. Deal Castle would develop into the same, but due to damage would revert to a more original state. Finally, Sandown would totally disappear in the Twentieth Century, yet its significance can still be found today.

CHRISTOPHER MOORE

PhD Student

ccm28@kent.ac.uk

Christopher Moore is a PhD candidate currently researching the history of architecture and building conservation of the Castles of the Downs. He works full-time as a Fellow Chartered Surveyor and Project Manager working on a variety of projects across the South of England. He is currently a Research Associate for Kent’s Centre for Heritage, a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Awards Board for the South-east of England and an Elected Guardian Board Member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He has also written and contributed to a number of history and travel books, two of which were internationally awarded.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Dr Manolo Guerci

Dr Nikolaos Karydis

Walmer Castle today

Deal Castle from above

Original Tudor manuscript of the design for Deal Castle

The ruins of Sandown Castle

Stonework detail showing spolia at Deal Castle

Interior of Walmer Castle today

DESIGNING SHADE: RESPONSIVE SYSTEMS FOR CLIMATE ADAPTATION AT STREET SCALE

Warming cities need rapid, easily deployed and scalable cooling strategies that can adapt to the diverse range of microclimates found within the urban environment. This research through design project focuses on designing shade, where the focus is on a responsive system rather than a singular shading device, and consideration of how the system works over multiple scales drives the process. i.e. a shade system that can adapt to changing environmental variables from a daily to seasonal time scale, and to changing user needs as urban areas change and develop. The system combines digital tools for localised adaptation to the environment, a modular cube geometry that allows the same physical objects to be combined in different configurations and easily installed and removed, and the use of glass fibre as a potential cool material. The research also validates a workflow using open source parametric tools as alternatives to more specialised microclimate equipment and software.

skn26@kent.ac.uk

The shade was provided by glass fibre sails that could be positioned within the box according to the configuration determined by radiation analysis.

The prototype was designed as a modular deconstructable structure that could be built in a workshop session. Different iterations were developed comparing sails that were moved by the user or fixed in optimum positions

Sinéad is a PhD student for the Horizon 2020 project SOLOCLIM (Solutions for outdoor climate adaptation) which combines academic and industry partners to encourage applied research. In 2019 she graduated from a Master in Advanced Ecological Building at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, following a Bachelor of Environments (Urban Design) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Between degrees she worked in disaster response shelter projects in The Philippines and Nepal.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Prof. Marialena

Nikolopoulou

Dr. Richard Watkins

Monika Löve

SINÉAD NICHOLSON

PhD Student

Digital optimisation of shade sail positions over time for an open space in Turin, Italy.

Building the first prototype with architecture students, summer ‘22

Sketch model of cube geometry and movement of sail

Scale model of shade cube and vertical to horizontal shade

Full scale cube model testing shade movement

MAKING TACTILE GRAPHICS ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL

Tactile maps and other graphics are touch based alternatives which help blind users understand spatial information or information where layout is an important component. Tactile graphics have a long history of production such as wood carving, thermoforming, and specialist braille printers. The problems with these are they are all time consuming, expensive, require specialist training and, for the most part, are also dying out despite the continued need by blind people.

George’s research is developing a new design and production method to create tactile graphics that are cheaper, faster to produce, require no specialist training or software, and have a low barrier of entry for creators. The production methodology uses resin 3D printing to significantly reduce printing time and costs when compared to extrusion printing. The new design process allows anyone using tools as simple as Microsoft Paint to design their tactile graphics in 2D before a quick and easy conversion process to produce the final 3D object. The conversion works on the same principles as historical sculptural techniques but applied in a new unique way to the 3D printing process.

The results are high quality 3D prints, made for less than £10 per A4 sized diagram, which can be printed over a lunch break. This will move the production from an expensive specialist object to a cheap, readily available tool, accessible to a far wider audience globally.

Multi-floor tactile map created using the method including furniture and outside grass textures.

The new process can be used for floorplans and other indoor and outdoor space models, It also has wider applications for tactile graphics such as for graphs diagrams and other learning content.

GEORGE RHODES

PhD Student

gr296@kent.ac.uk

George graduated in 2016 with a First Class Honours in Computer Science at the University of Kent.

George is an international expert in digital accessibility regulations, the Digital Accessibility Lead at the University of Westminster, and the director of All Able an accessibility consultancy company.

George is the author of several sector leading pieces of research including papers on international adoption of accessibility regulations, and the barriers for blind people in every-day life including education and leisure settings.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Prof. Gordana

Fontana-Giusti

Dr. Luigi Tamè

House floorplan conversion example. From original image to final tactile object

Pie chart options with Braille labelling.

Canterbury Cathedral conversion based on existing cathedral handout.

ATTITUDES TOWARDS HERITAGE DURING BRITAIN’S POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION

Focusing on: Plymouth, Coventry and Canterbury

Historic buildings and characters were redefined numerously during the reconstruction period, affecting the way planners and authorities approached/ perceived them. This research tries to understand the various attitudes toward the surviving heritage during the replanning of bombed cities. Understanding whether heritage was considered as a factor in developing the new plans and if or how their importance has changed during the years. Moreover, the study will examine the reception of the new plans and development and their effect on the ‘conserved’ heritage over the years. Hence the need for understanding the significance of the cities and their buildings prior to the destruction, and their position after the redevelopment. One of the main parts of the research is producing damaged-bomb maps for the selected case studies and then comparing them with the planners’ destructions carried out to realise the plans, to evaluate planners’ definitions of significance.

The map above was produced using archival materials, aerial maps, newspaper clipping and any document containing information about the bomb-damage.

JAN NAQI

PhD Student

dn246@kent.ac.uk

Dlara Naqi graduated from the school of Architecture in Sulaymaneyah, Kurdistan, where she is a registered architect. Dlara worked on two international regeneration/ rehabilitation workshop in collaboration with University of Brandenburg of Technology Cottbus. She then completed her Masters in Architectural Conservation at the University of Kent, then pursuing her PhD in Conservation and Architectural History.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Dr. Nikolaos Karydis

Dr. Manolo Guerci

DLARA SALAH

Author’s map of Coventry, showing the bomb-destruction in red and purple and planners’ destruction in blue

Coventry bombing. (from coventrylive) Archival document on Coventry.

‘LE CALIGARISME’, ARCHITECTURAL SPACE AND VIRTUAL REALITY

VR as an investigative tool to better understand architecture in cinema: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Many theorists have cited The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) as the reason for changing their standpoint regarding cinema as an art form. Utilising VR as an investigative tool and method of analysis, this research aims to give scholars a unique opportunity to understand better the archival materials and architectural involvement of this expressionist masterpiece. The transformation of the 2D drawings into 3D virtual space contributes to the creation of a contemporary interpretation of historic film sets and the identification of reasons for the absence of expressionist architecture as a physical structure. The presentation of this research will enable other scholars to further evaluate the work and suggest supplementary interpretations that have not hitherto been considered, and continue to contribute to preserving cultural heritage, not only from a filmmaking perspective but also from an architectural standpoint.

rs787@kent.ac.uk

Rafaella Siagkri is a Lecturer in Interior Architecture at the University of Brighton and a PhD researcher in the Kent School of Architecture and Planning. Rafaella’s research interests follow an interdisciplinary spectrum. Her current research focuses on restoring and renovating architectural expressionist film sets that proved crucial in the history of cinema and architecture. Her PhD explores using Virtual Reality as a tool for understanding abstract architecture.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Professor Gordana

Fontana-Giusti

Dr Alexandra Covaci

RAFAELLA SIAGKRI PhD Student

According to Siegfried Kracauer, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari by Robert Wiene (1920) is considered as one of the most representative expressionistic examples.

Parts of the VR Simulation_ Reconstruction of the film sets

Render of Lixie-Film-AtelierWeißensee GmbH studio.

source: author

CLIMATE-RESPONSIVE SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE MICROCLIMATE INCLUSIVITY OF PEDESTRIAN PATHS

In light of the 15-minute city, in a world experiencing an increasing frequency of extreme climatic events and population growth and ageing, urban designers need tools to enhance inclusivity, comfort and sustainability in cities. Marika’s research focuses on the microclimatic conditions of pedestrian paths, analysing how solar radiation impacts users in outdoor spaces. The research draws on three layers: outdoor thermal comfort, urban design and pedestrian mobility. Specifically, solar radiation exposure of sidewalks is analysed in different seasons and times of the day. Evaluating the impact of solar radiation on pedestrians of diverse walking abilities fosters inclusivity in urban design. The outcome of this research is a protocol for urban designers to locate climate-responsive solutions in the urban environment. This protocol is a decision-making tool divided into three operational phases: analysis, evaluation and design. The workflow is thought of as an iterative process for creating an optimized design proposal.

source: author source: author

Natural climate-responsive solution: deciduous trees provide shade in summer and allow solar radiation in winter, for the benefit of pedestrians.

Artificial climate-responsive solution: Parelio for Sammontana by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati is a foldable photovoltaic umbrella.

MARIKA TOMASI PhD Student

mt622@kent.ac.uk

Marika graduated in 2019 in Architectural Engineering at the University of Trento (IT), where she attended a five-year program on architecture, urban planning, and engineering. After a brief working experience in landscape planning, she became Early Stage Researcher for SOLOCLIM, a European Industrial Doctorate (EID) project in the programme Innovative Training Networks (ITN) and part of Marie SkłodowskaCurie Actions funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No 861119.

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou

Dr Giridharan Renganathan Monika Löve

“Few topics have greater significance for comfort and well-being in city space than the actual climate right where one is sitting, walking or biking. [...] Good weather is one of the most significant criteria for assuring the ease of people’s movement in cities, or at least weather as good as it gets given the situation, place and season.”

Gehl, J. (2010). Cities for People. Island Press. p.168

Scheme of the iterative workflow proposed to improve microclimatic conditions of pedestrian path.

TECHNICAL STANDARDS, NOVEL MATERIALS & BUILDING DESIGN

Learning from ‘Belle Epoque’ urban buildings that used novel reinforced concrete systems

My doctoral examines sixteen example historic buildings in three modern metropolises: Ile-de-France/Paris, Lille Metropole and Brussels. These buildings were constructed using (at least partially) novel reinforced concrete and cement materials-systems. Early technical standards for these novel materials-systems included new industrial patents, building requirements and technical guidance. These were applied using prior technical knowledge about iron and steel components, as well as economic imperatives for more fire-resistant structures and better sunlit interiors. There were also social and political demands for better air circulation, greater hygiene and more affordable housing. The thesis considers all of these factors in determining key relationships between technical and aesthetic drivers in historic building design. I define a new historical mechanism, which perhaps can be applied to the modern day in our use of new construction materials and systems.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TERMS

What do we mean by a technical standard?

Did building designers of a century ago see buildings the same way we do now?

How do we decide what we really need from a novel construction material or system?

Has concrete been worth the global cost?

NICK VON BEHR PhD Student

ncpv2@kent.ac.uk

Viollet-le-Duc design for a futuristic urban building using a visible iron frame (1872)

Hennebique monolithic system for combined pillar, beam and floor slab (built 1908, photo taken 2022)

Hennebique reinforced concrete dome with glazing panels to allow in sunlight (built 1900, photo taken 2022)

Nick started his Cotutelle award with the University of Lille (ENSAPL) in 2020 as a full-time doctoral student in architectural and construction history. Prior to that he worked for many years in education, including most recently for the global Institution of Structural Engineers, headquartered in London. Nick has self-published a book on the history of the famous Brunel and Barry families of 19thcentury engineers and architects (www. buildingpassions. co.uk).

SUPERVISORY TEAM

Prof. Gerry Adler

Dr Alan Powers

Architectural Conservation

Based in the historic town of Canterbury, this programme combines the study of conservation theory and philosophy with an exploration of the technical aspects of repair and reconstruction. The city’s stunning cathedral and medieval monuments give students the opportunity to learn from the conservation of a World Heritage Site. Ideal for those with an interest in architectural heritage, the course represents a gateway to a career in demanding professional fields such as conservation and heritage management. As the future leaders in these fields, the course’s graduates play a central role in disciplines that lie at the centre of current economic, environmental and social agendas.

The varied curriculum of the course reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of conservation. During the autumn term, students gain a critical understanding of historic buildings through an introduction to conservation philosophy and policies. This is followed by the study of practical survey and preservation techniques during the spring term. The delivery of these modules is enriched by site visits and guest lectures.

During the last academic year, we visited a number of historic sites and conservation projects including Fort Burgoyne near Dover, the Rochester High Street, the Sheerness Dockyard church, Canterbury Cathedral, Boxley Abbey, and the National Trust’s Knole House. These site visits gave our students the opportunity to engage with key specialists and stakeholders involved in the preservation of these sites. Our students have written about these site visits on our blog: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/conservation/

Case studies and workshops carried out in collaboration with Purcell and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) introduced students to the properties of historic building materials and the techniques employed in the repair of historic buildings. This year, we continued our collaboration with the SPAB, which gave our students the opportunity to work on a live project: the survey and preservation of ‘St. Andrew’s Chapel’, near Boxley Abbey, Maidstone. Built in the fifteenth century and modified several times in the following centuries, the chapel is currently in an advanced state of decay. The SPAB is currently restoring the building. Our students visited the site in January and February 2023. Guided by SPAB specialists, the students researched the history of the building, analysed its significance and drafted conservation strategies.

This material was then synthesised in a new conservation plan, which will be submitted to the SPAB with the aim to contribute to the future conservation of this magnificent building. In the meantime, the students are working on their dissertation module, which enables them to study an aspect of conservation of their choice.

Dr. Nikolaos Karydis Programme director

Figure 1 – Sean Broomhead - Conservation Plan for St. Andrews Chapel

Figure 2 – Sean Broomhead - Conservation Plan for St. Andrews Chapel.

Architecture and the Sustainable Environment

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the MASE programme, which was first launched in September 2012, in order to help establish sustainability as a core area of post-graduate research and teaching at KSAP. This programme, which last 1 year in the full time, and 2 years in the part-time mode, now forms the core part of a suite of postgraduate taught programmes at KSAP. MASE offers a route for careers in environmental consultancy as well as research, and over the last ten years several students have stayed on for a PhD, undertaking research engaging with different areas of sustainability.

In this programme students explore ways of addressing the challenges of sustainable architecture, looking at the design of new buildings as well as the adaption of existing buildings, which includes listed heritage buildings. In this programme students engage with questions of sustainability design not only from a technological perspective, but also from a historical, design and cultural angle.

This year we had a cohort of 16 students and all students are required take four core modules, which is the focus of the first two terms. In the autumn term the students take module AR8270 Principles of Environmental Design, which introduces the building physics fundamentals of environmental design, and ARCH8280 Rediscovery. The latter is concerned with the study of environmental technologies in historic buildings. In the Spring term the core module were ARCH8290 - Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Performance, and ARCH8300 - Sustainable Design Project.

Alongside classes and course work, students also took part in extra-curricular events. In November 2022 I took the students on a day-trip around London, looking at historic public buildings from an environmental perspective. We focused on buildings from the 18th to the early 20th century that were designed to follow past principles of ventilation and natural lighting. The trip, which begun at the John Soane Museum, included Covent Garden, St Martin’s in the Fields, and three museums: Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate

Britain.

This year several students from MASE had also presented research papers at the Annual Conference of the Construction History Society, which was held at Queens’ College in Cambridge in April 2023. These papers were based on original archival research that students had undertaken for module ARCH8280 Rediscovery in the autumn term. It gave them the opportunity to gain their first experience of an international academic conference. It involved going through two stages of peer-review - their full papers, each 5,000 words long, were published in the Proceedings – and giving an oral presentation to a larger audience.

After completing their core module, the students conducted a 4-month research project for their final dissertation. This year the students used the Spring term to develop the proposals for their dissertation, which was supported through seminars. Most of the dissertations are based on small individual projects, but this year we also got several students collaborating to undertake larger research projects. In one of these projects, three students collaborate to develop a net-zero carbon plan for the historic church of St Martin and St Paul’s in Canterbury. The other large projects focused on the Port of Dover and Canterbury Cathedral.

Professor Henrik Schoenefeldt Director of Graduate Studies

Students presenting at the CHS conference in Cambridge

MA Architectural Visualisation

2022-23 saw the MA Architectural Visualisation course forge stronger links with industry, with increased visits to a wide range of practices, as well as inviting a number of practitioners to teach across the course.

In Digital Architecture Portfolio, we welcomed Francesco Nicolardi from Purcell Architecture to teach the fundamental skills of visualisation. Bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge with him, students benefitted from having his insight into industry standard software and practices.

In Virtual Cities this time around, students engaged with two live projects, working in both Canterbury and Ashford. Taking part in the Canterbury Light Trail, they experimented with augmented reality at St Martin’s Church, which, together with St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Ashford, students took part in the Festival of the Bauble, linking their research into Sci-Fi films in Film and Architecture with their animation work by projecting on the former Odeon Cinema in the High Street.

For the Spring term, we welcomed Fabrice Bourrelly back to the school to look after Virtual Cities and impart his extensive knowledge on games design software Unreal Engine. Departing away from the usual rendering experience, students created real-time animations of their architectural scenes.

In Film and Architecture, following on the Autumn term research and writing, Bence Bardos supplemented the film theory by developing students’ skills in film production. Creating three-minute films about architecture, they were able to further practice the visualisation principles of composition, lighting, colour, texture, tone, etc. through time-based media.

In Postproduction, we welcomed back Joseph Robson of AVR London to help students polish and finesse their still image work. This module also looked at the application of compositing of CGI imagery into live footage, enhancing students’ skillsets even further.

I would like to thank Bence Bardos, Fabrice Bourrelly, Francesco Nicolardi, and Joseph Robson for their help in preparing this year’s MAAVers: Jonah Auker, Veronica Danesin, Carlotta Furlan, Alice Garner, Sude Kochisar, Edgar Maciulis, Victoria Omisore, Mohammad Pouryayi Yeganeh, and Grishma Shah. Good luck with your future careers in visualisation!

Howard Griffin Programme Director

Architectural Photography - London 2022 (Carlotta Furlan)

Visualisation (Sude Kochisar)

Architectural Photography - Margate 2022 (Veronica Danesin)

Tiny House Visualisation (Edgar Maciulis)

Real-time Visualisation (Grishma Shah)

Visualisation - Apple HQ (Mohammad Pouryayi Yeganeh)

Real-time Visualisation (Alice Garner)

Visualisation (Victoria Omisore)

Visualsation (Jonah Auker)

MA Urban Planning and Resilience

We launched our MA Urban Planning and Resilience before the pandemic in 2020. Amazingly, that same pandemic has turned all of us into masters of resilience.

There is what is traditionally thought of as resilience, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. There are also other environmental and urban definitions of resilience, including the strength and flexibility to cope with dramatic climate related events such as fires, flooding and hurricanes, and the overall ‘capacity of a city (individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems) to survive, adapt and thrive no matter what kinds of chronic stresses or acute shocks they experience.

On the MA Urban Planning and Resilience, the Kent School of Architecture and Planning convenes the best minds in the world to tackle its most urgent challenges to help realise its most exciting opportunities.

Our focus is on resilience and sustainability in planning enabling students to be well placed to work in a number of emerging planning careers including planning for renewable infrastructure, climate change adaptation and roles that combine planning with resilience design and practice.

The programme provides students with the key knowledge and expertise in core planning topics such as planning theory, planning policy, planning legislation, macro and micro economic development, planning law and politics, development viability, and placemaking for climate adaptation and mitigation to build urban resilience through planning policy.

The curriculum, mapped onto the learning outcomes for Royal Town Planning Institute, embeds a systems approach in the modules and balances theory with practice.

The MA Urban Planning & Resilience also draws on international insights from the Global Resilient Cities Network, the World Economic Forum, the Global Infrastrucure Hub, C40, the Climate Bonds Initiative, and Chief Resilience Officers and planning practitioners at the cutting edge of planning and resilience practice around the world.

Samer Bagaeen Co-ordinator

PG Diploma in Architectural Practice

The PG Diploma in Architectural Practice provides a Part 3 programme alongside the well established architectural Part 1 and Part 2 programmes offered by the Kent School of Architecture and Planning (KSAP).

As such, the course benefits from KSAP’s diversity of academic knowledge and research, and the cross-fertilisation between the disciplines of its staff. KSAP is strongly rooted in Kent while pursuing a broad outlook, and the Part 3 course reflects this, with staff and students mostly based in the region but professionally active across the UK and beyond.

The PGDip’s core curriculum is based directly on the RIBA/ARB criteria for Part 3 graduates, and the lectures and seminars are derived directly from these criteria, which are common to all equivalent courses in the UK. It is, however, intended that, within these criteria, the Kent PGDip has the following USPs:

• Exploration of alternative building procurement strategies, reflecting innovative practice (partly based on the staff team’s personal experience)

• Emphasis on international practice (based on the proposed staff team’s personal experience)#

One of the USPs of the Kent PGDip in Architectural Practice is to be its international outlook. The Programme Director has extensive personal experience managing projects and businesses in the UK, France, Poland, Russia and many other countries, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe.

Peter Wislocki Module Convenor

Tom Guinne on site

Matthew Kettle process sketches

Gelareh Golzari-Hirst practice map

Research at KSAP

Last year, KSAP was ranked 6th in the national assessment of research excellence, which recognised the value and impact generated through our research activities. KSAP operates across three research groups: CREATE, CASE and DARC that have delivered ground-breaking research in architectural history and theories, sustainable buildings and environments, resilience planning and digital architecture. Over the last year KSAP worked to expand the outreach of its work while augmenting its interdisciplinarity. Urban challenges are complex and require a breadth of knowledge and innovation in methods of investigation that merge quantitative and qualitative approaches. The new centre will include colleagues across our Division of Arts and Humanities as well as other Divisions across the University. The Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment will operate in collaboration with our research groups and become the space for research and debate on the built environment, with the aim of informing relevant local and national policies on issues related to urban regeneration and placemaking, sustainable renovation of heritage buildings and more.

But this is not our only project and we have recently completed and currently working on several monographs and funded research projects. A description of some of these can be found over the following pages. They provide evidence of the critical importance of our work as researchers.

Gerald ADLER – research grant

Funder: British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant

Title: Heinrich Tessenow: words, building and drawings

This grant was awarded to enable the completion of the writing of a book on Heinrich Tessenow for the ‘Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture’ series. This culminates with a symposium on Tessenow and on those working in his spirit. This summer, as one of four members of the Heinrich Tessenow Society Medal Committee, I am bringing the Society to England for the first time – the home of the garden city movement which so influenced Tessenow.

Samer BAGAEEN – development programme

Funder: DCMS Cultural Development Fund

Title: Creative Estuary

Creative Estuary is a programme aiming to transform the Thames Estuary across Essex and Kent into an exciting cultural hubs. It is managed by a consortium of public sector and cultural organisations. Professor Samer Bagaeen coordinates within the broader programme a project called ‘Cultural Co-Location for Creative Estuary’. A key output from this project is the Cultural Planning Toolkit, an aid commissioned by Creative Estuary, in partnership with Kent County Council and designed to enable the delivery of cultural infrastructure through development. The toolkit can be accessed online here: https://www.creativeestuary.com/culturalplanningtoolkit/

Silvio CAPUTO – research grant

Funder: AHRC

Title: Circular Economy and Food Waste

This project is a partnership between KSAP and a UK enterprise implementing anaerobic digestion systems and waste food collection in cities. The partnership enabled the co-design of a circular bio-economy waste food system (anaerobic digestion, composting and food growing) which was capable of improving the quality of the communal open spaces of a social estate by locating waste collection, processing and food growing places in strategic locations. Making the value of waste spatially and visually tangible is necessary to collectively reduce carbon emissions over the coming decades.

Silvio CAPUTO – Monograph

Title: Small scale soil-less urban agriculture in Europe

Publisher: Springer Nature

The book focuses on the new approaches that urban agriculture offers to grow food in cities. It paints a dynamic picture of soil-less and indoor techniques that are currently emerging. A growing number of small scalesmall-scale community-led and entrepreneurial initiatives are using such techniques for diverse objectives: to increase resource efficiency; to strengthen food security; to educate and inform or to exploit new market opportunities. The described studies demonstrate how technologies that are typically used in high-tech food production can also be harnessed in small projects to generate social and economic benefits at a local level.

Flow chart mapping food waste collection, processing and food production for the project Circular Economy and Food Waste

Book cover of Small scale soil-less urban agriculture in Europe

Manolo GUERCI – monograph

Title: London’s “Golden Mile”. Great Houses of the Strand, 1550-1650

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies

This book reconstructs the so-called “Strand palaces”—eleven great houses that once stood along the Strand in London. Between 1550 and 1650, this was the capital’s “Golden Mile”: home to a unique concentration of patrons and artists, and where England’s early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to establish themselves by building and furnishing new, secular cathedrals. Their inventive, eclectic, and yet carefully-crafted mix of vernacular and continental features not only shaped some of the greatest country houses of the day, but also the image of English power on the world stage. It also gave rise to a distinctly English style, which was to become the symbol of a unique architectural period.

Book cover of London’s “Golden Mile”

Manolo GUERCI – monograph (forthcoming)

Title: The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies

The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe (c.1565-1655) consists of some 295 drawings ranging primarily from the 1590s to the 1620s and covering 168 buildings, mainly but not only English, and amongst the greatest of the period. The drawings include plans, elevations, some full-size sections of mouldings, and a depiction of the five orders derived from Hans Blum’s 1550 treatise on the orders.

Nikolaos KARYDIS – publications

Two published studies provide new insights into little-known vaulting technologies and shed light on their influence on Late Antique architecture:

1) a book chapter for the forthcoming ‘Routledge Companion to the Byzantine City’ that reconsiders the use of Byzantine domes as components of the urban skyline, through a detailed study of the transformations of Justinian’s church of Sts. Sergius and Baccus.

2) a paper for Late Antique Archaeology examines vaults made of arched brick courses such as the famous dome of the Mausoleum of Diocletian in Split.

Reconstruction of the port of Ripa Grande in the seventeenth century, axonometric view, 2019 (Nikolaos Karydis)

Marialena NIKOLOPOULOU – research grant – Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Baxall Construction

Funder: Innovate UK

Title: Data analytics framework for intelligent building performance modelling

The aim of the project is the development of a data analytics framework for intelligent building performance modelling. The framework combines diverse input including data from smart monitoring data streams, and provides insights with respect to energy efficiency, and occupants’ performance. The project focuses on School buildings and involves the collection of smart sensing data from operational buildings.

Henrik SCHOENEFELDT – research grant

Funder: AHRC, House of Lords and the Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal Delivery authority programme.

Title: Between Sustainability and Heritage

This is a secondment at the Palace of Westminster to lead a large research project investigating the original 19th-century principles of ventilation and climate control. To date this investigation has yielded new insights into the design, performance and history of these technologies but it also has been underpinning various workstreams within the restoration and renewal programme. The research addresses questions of conservation policy, fire safety and climatic design in heritage buildings and the use of BIM. It has underpinned the development of the concept of education-research-practice cycle and how this could enhance academia’s capacity to lead change through activities within and outside its walls.

Prizes

Architecture

BA(Hons) Architecture:

External:

• RIBA Kent Branch Prize (Stage 3)

• Bond Bryan Prize

• Gravett Award (Stage 2)

• University Design Forum

Student Prize (Stage 3)

Internal:

• Design Portfolio: Stages 1/2/3

• Technology & Environment:Stages 1/2/3

• Cultural Context: Stages 1/2/3

Nominations:

• RIBA Bronze President’s Medal

• Architects Journal Part 1

Student Prize

Master of Architecture (MArch):

External:

• RIBA Kent Branch Prize (Stage 5)

• Purcell Prize

• Hays prize

• Hawkes Sustainability and Innovation Award

Internal:

• Design

• Technology

• Pedagogy

• Making

• Drawing

• Nominations:

• RIBA President’s Silver Medal

• Architects Journal Part 2

Student Prize

• 3DReid Student Prize

BA(Hons) Graphic Design

Stage 1

• Branding design

• Hand-made book design

• Photography

• Typography and layout design

• Exhibition design team

• Animation

Stage 2

• Best Design Agency

• Interaction design

• Wayfinding design

• Social justice design

BA(Hons) Spatial and Interior Design (SPIN)

Stage 2

• Best Design Agency

• Most Sustainable Design

Stage 1

• Most Innovative Design

• Best Design Narrator

• Most Creative Collaborator

• Best Professional Attitude

All School

Prizes:

• Hollaway Studio Head-of-School Prize

Nominations:

• RIBA President’s Dissertation Medal

• Architect’s Journal Sustainability Prize