Architecture Architectural Design And Technology Architectural Engineering Yearbook 2018

YEARBOOK 2018 ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

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Contents

Foreword................................................................................................................1 Professor Hisham Elkadi - Dean of the School of the Built Environment

Architecture and Digital Technology at Salford....................2 Professor Peter Walker - Director of Architecture and Digital Technologies

Introduction.........................................................................................................3 Professor Oren Lieberman - Professor of Architecture

Industrial Collaboration............................................................................4 Professor Stephen Hodder - Principal at Hodder + Partners

BSc Architecture..............................................................................................7 Derek Hales - Programme Leader Architecture

Using biomimicry to provide sustainable solutions...........................................72 Taha Aldibani - Year 3 - Architecture student

BSc Architectural Design and Technology ............................75 Dr Paul Coates – Programme Leader ADT

Erasmus at the University of Salford..................................................................108 Paolo Jorge Dias - Year 5 - MArch student

BSc Architectural Engineering........................................................111 Dr Athena Moustaka - Programme Leader Arch Eng

Design Competition for an Iconic Mosque, Creek Harbour, Dubai ..........118 Adam Vadas and Omar Sayed - Year 2 - Architecture students

Master of Architecture............................................................................121 Dr Claudia Trillo - Programme Leader MArch

Industrial Collaboration .......................................................................140 Dr Simona Peet - Ramboll Structural Engineers

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Foreword

Professor Hisham Elkadi, PhD

Dean of the School of the Built Environment We are celebrating another a great year in the School of the Built Environment (SoBE) and have witnessed a wealth of success across our taught programmes and research portfolios.

The school is continuing to grow and has this year seen the introduction of new programmes in Architectural Engineering and Interior Architecture; and we have increased our teaching from a semester to a trimester structure. We have also welcomed some excellent people to our staff cohort, who are a great asset to the school.

Our planet is becoming urbanised at an increasing rate. Building cities is a sector with considerable growth opportunities within the global construction sector, since the urban population is forecast to grow up to 70% by 2025. Regeneration of many cities is also essential to enable their sustainable re-development and, more importantly, to maintain their viability and creativity in our rapidly changing world.

Most cities face major ecological threats that require immediate interventions to sustain the health of our natural and built environment. SoBE continues to respond innovatively and swiftly to the ecological and societal challenges that our cities face in terms of climate change and the speed of decline of urban infrastructure. In this climate, architecture and built environment practices are beginning to recognize the need to adapt to the new fast-changing realities in our towns and cities.

The current offer for cultural, socio-economical and technical transformative solutions might be ‘too little too late’ for a large number of conurbations in the face of frequent and more intensive natural disasters. Disruptive innovations, being largely reliant on major advances within digital technologies, have started to challenge current practices. Significant strides towards achieving sustainable, resilient and more inclusive future cities, have already been made and remarkable leaps forward have been achieved in this uplifting direction.

We, at SoBE, must position ourselves to lead and guide such transformations in Greater Manchester and the world; by realising new approaches such as industry 4.0 concepts in the construction industry.

Architecture at Salford will devise appropriate strategies to be in a position to tackle these challenges and envision a smart urban future. In doing so, we must ensure excellent learning experiences for our students; preparing them for jobs of the future in an increasingly competitive and challenging world.

It is essential that we also continue to improve our links with the industry in support of the University’s Industrial Collaboration Zones agenda. SoBE’s aim is for a future direction that is understood and co-authored by the industry. We have made excellent progress this year in further engaging with industry. Such success can be evidenced through, for example, our apprenticeship programmes; involvement with the Royal Horticultural Society, and our collaboration with the Teaching in Practice programme I would like to thank all staff and students in Architecture and Design for their individual contribution to our success.

I am confident, with all the hard work of our staff and students, SoBE will continue to lead the built environment sector globally.

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Architecture and Digital Technology at Salford Professor Peter Walker, RIBA

Director of Architecture and Digital Technologies At the heart of architecture at Salford University are the students studying on the five degree programmes in architecture and digital design: the undergraduate programmes in Architectural Design and Technology, Architectural Engineering, and Architecture; and the postgraduate programmes in Building Information Modelling, and the Masters in Architecture. What you see in this year book and in the final year exhibition, is a celebration of the work of these students in the 2017/18 academic year.

It would be a vanity to say that my colleagues and I teach people to be architects, architectural engineers and architectural technologists. What we actually do is to help our students on the long and increasingly complex journey to graduation and professional qualification. The peer learning that comes from work carried out in groups, and working in the studio, is an essential part of an education in architecture, and that is something we encourage and cultivate here at the University of Salford. The enthusiasm, talent and skill of our students – both those graduating and those continuing with us – is a constant thread that runs through the work in this year book, and it is a pleasure to see this so beautifully presented.

This the first year that the School of the Built Environment has been organised into directorates, and as Director of the Architecture and Digital Technology Directorate, I would like to acknowledge and thank my talented and dedicated colleagues who have worked so hard in delivering the teaching, studio tutoring, workshop and administrative support throughout this academic year. I wold like to acknowledge in particular those colleagues who have directed each of the programmes: Dr Paul Coates, Derek Hales, Dr Claudia Trillo, Dr Athena Moustaka and Professor Jason Underwood. Their personal commitment and dedication to the programmes they lead has been exemplary.

I would also like to acknowledge the work of Dr Tanja Poppelreuter, Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory who joined us this year and was immediately set the unenviable task of assembling and editing this year book! Thanks are due to Tanja for taking on this task with such good humour, and for producing such an excellent publication.

To all our students who are graduating and leaving us in 2018, good luck and best wishes for the future. I hope you have enjoyed your time in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford.

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Introduction

Professor Oren Lieberman, MArch, FHEA, FRSA Professor of Architecture

At Salford, be it in our ARB/RIBA Part 1 course, our Architecture Design Technology course, or in our more recent additions to the subject area – Architectural Engineering and the Part 2 Masters of Architecture –, students engage with architecture in a myriad of ways, ways which we might consider through well-known optical metaphors. We have of course the age-old reflection in which students consider, study, ponder, as well as ‘mirror’ designs and discourses back to tutors and their peers. There is refraction, in which students transmit their own creativity through the given briefs, and, coming out the ‘other side’, take flight in new directions, though individual predilections are still in force.

And then there is diffraction ...

Diffraction, in physics, refers to the phenomena, which happens when waves (like light) meet something along their trajectories, which could in fact be other waves. Whilst reflection and refraction, as the eminent thinker and writer in science and technology studies Donna Haraway puts it, ‘displace the same elsewhere’, diffraction is the complex ‘practice of making a difference in the world’. In the work presented in this yearbook, students at Salford engage with architecture with the conviction that they are indeed making differences in the world through their construction of designs and things, be they drawings, models, writings, or indeed 1:1 interventions in real life situations. In many of the projects, they are working diffractively: they encounter an architectural/ spatial ‘matter of concern’ – a brief that they are set –, through their own histories, skills and knowledge, and produce effects in the world which do not reproduce the same elsewhere. These effects question the well-worn responses of architects who often merely reflect, or refract, some given understanding of ‘the way it is’, whether that be with respect to form, typology, program, technologies, etc. And these diffractive effects change the students’ own understanding of their positions as spatial designers. By being aware of these effects, students understand their own ability to make differences in the world even as students, and recognise and appreciate their role as burgeoning responsible practitioners.

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Industrial Collaboration

Professor Stephen Hodder, MBE, PPRIBA Principal at Hodder + Partners

When I reflect on my term as President of the RIBA, I believe the Institute realised a number of objectives that will have a lasting impact on the architectural profession. For me, of most significant was the five-point plan for much needed education reform in seeking to bridge the culture gap between academia and practice. Very important in this context was also the publication of Client & Architect: developing the essential relationship, which sought to provide architects with researched insights towards understanding the changing needs of a broad range of clients so that we can shape our services to better support client outcomes.

At the outset of my engagement with the School of the Built Environment I said that I believed we have real potential – building on the School’s international reputation and the University’s genuine commitment to developing exceptional partnerships with industry through the ICZs – for SoBE to be an exemplar in collaboration between academia and practice.

The MArch project for a Learning Centre for the Royal Horticultural Society’s fifth national garden at Worsley New Hall, Salford has been an opportunity to develop this thinking; to take a live brief for a live client and interrogate the opportunities of the programme and site which, in turn, can inform future phases of what is the largest horticultural project in Europe ... a reciprocal and beneficial relationship between the School and industry. Furthermore, a good deal of this interrogation has been within the physical environment of a working office, namely the Hodder+Partners studio.

At Salford, we’re ahead of the game and as the MArch programme develops so will our approach to the integration with practice. Engaging with more client briefs, involving clients in studio work, interviewing design teams and contractors, and presentations back to the client are all mechanisms for closer integration.

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Derek Hales, DipArch, MRes(Lon), RIBA, FHEA Programme Leader Architecture

Our architecture programme first started in 2014 and was validated by the RIBA and ARB in 2017, gaining unconditional approval – an approval testament to the comprehensiveness of the architectural competencies of our students. Our graduating students this year have produced projects which are similarly comprehensive. The idea of comprehensive design to have in mind here is something quite exceptional, something which comprehensively satisfies, resists and exceeds. Something close, to my mind at least, to the notion of comprehensiveness implicit to Buckminster Fuller’s Eight Strategies for Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science (1950).

Fuller’s eight strategies were: formulation; mathematical structuring; geographical reconnaissance; communication; progressive resource reinvestment; economics; education; and design.

The expression of comprehensiveness in design, which Fuller described in its interdependencies with each of the other seven of his strategies, manifests in our undergraduate student projects through the registers of the conceptual, sociological, ecological and technological. Although different in number to Fuller’s seven strategies, these are nevertheless interdependent registers and necessary to the production of a contemporary architecture of hope.

First year students have been concerned with the relation between the body and the architectural drawing, histories and futures of the experience of architecture. They have explored architectural structure and environment in playful and post-digital workshops. The construction of concepts and the making and testing of models through analogue and digital means is a central preoccupation of our design research processes. First year projects, located at Media City’s Salford Quays, have explored architecture thematically through the idea of the home and the (super) heroic.

Second year and final year students have engaged the city’s post-industrial urban peripheries and some of its edge conditions. Second year worked with the derelict ‘involuntary park’ at Pomona Island at the intersection of Salford, Trafford and the city of Manchester.

Third year students have also considered post-industrial landscapes within the city – for the Empress Conservation Area producing a series of socio-technical and techno-ecological responses to possible futures of urban farming and the public realm as a commons. At the former industrial and infrastructural intersections of Mayfield and Piccadilly Basin, student projects have responded to our year-long research theme of mobilities.

Professor Oren Lieberman’s research with his final year students ‘intravenes’ in the city – such intravention is of and for the Greater Manchester city region. Our city, the city of Salford, a part of Greater Manchester, can be described with some justification an experiment in the post-industrial. As an urban experiment the city provides contexts at a variety of scales and in different registers for our students’ speculative prototyping of future cities.

Students of architecture also prototype professional behaviours and as such inform the development of the discipline itself – this manifests in their employability. I can speak for the teaching community in saying that each of us is incredibly proud of our graduates and anticipate the societal contribution they will surely go on to make as design professionals, future architects of the built environment.

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Year 3

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Olwia Albasha Mayfield Menagerie* Fashion is what the city needs! The site near the now derelict Mayfield station has an interesting history some of which has to do with the Industrial Revolution when Manchester had a flourishing cotton and textile industry. To connect past with present the idea was to enliven the site in establishing a building where fashion is made.

Fashion is not a sharp projected image of a reinterpreted traditional value that fulfil some function or agenda, instead it is an evocative and refreshing concept. This building provides spaces for fashion designers and designers who recycle used clothes alike. It provides a range of features and functions to support their professional work – from sewing equipment and design studios to a runway. The Mayfield Menagerie is a place where all those, who love fashion can come together to design, innovate, create and test their ideas. *Menagerie: A strange or diverse collection of people or things

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Taha Khaled Aldibani The aim of Design Studio 3 and my dissertation was to investigate the potential of various biomimetic designs in finding sustainable solutions for water management in the context of changing patterns of climate and increasing risk of flood in conurbations in the UK. The literature review defined biomimicry and explored some of the ways in which architects have used biomimicry as well as other approaches to tackling flood risk and water management. Specific consideration was given to both flood-resistance building typologies and diverse biomimetic solutions to water shortage over-abundance and sporadic heavy rainfall. Case studies were used to illustrate the approaches and it was concluded that solutions to flood risk and water disasters would benefit from the addition of a biomimetic approach to existing typologies and elements of sustainable architecture.

Relationships between types of climate, context and problem and design solutions were discussed, after which my Design Studio 3 project was used to illustrate how biomimicry could be practically applied to design for a building in Manchester. The research concluded that biomimicry has much to offer architects in terms of identifying potential solutions to water management issues and recommended that future research should explore its potential for harvesting and storing water as an element of the design of whole cities.

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Hassan Baghertash Figure Drawing Centre, Mayfield, Manchester This project explores the implementation of the rhythm within figure drawing time intervals into architecture in order to create spaces which encourage and determines the movement, pace and moments of pause within each space.

The brief was to design a place that encourages the connection between human, nature and society. A place which offers, learning new skills, socialization, creation and showcase of art. This is achieved through implementation of a combination of open/closed and public/private spaces. The elevation of the main body of the building to the 1st floor acts to liberate the ground plane to encourage public interaction as well as establishing an intimate and interactive relationship with the trees while protecting them on the site.

The building would not only be a response to the human needs but also would act as a positive media between human and nature.

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Abby Cassady Manchester’s theatre scene is extensive and some may say that it is over-curated and leaves little room for alternative and experimental artists. This project explores a space that could be created to house such performances; at the same time it takes the audiences out of their comfort zone.

The design of this theatre developed through a series of models that explored the journey the audience would take through the building. A key theme emerged of a ‘Yin and Yang’ relationship in that spaces were created that alternate between the architecture performing the person and the person performing the architecture. The audience is free to move between the performance spaces and their journey ends in a space that invites to reflect upon their experiences.

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Chester Chesney Manchester in the 80’s was crippled by political uncertainty and as such it was comparable to the society that we experience today; the Conservative Party was in power and hell-bent on inflicting austerity measures that, some may say, disproportionately targeted society’s most vulnerable citizens. This unrest came to head through the Acid House Rave scene and in particular the birth of an era known as “Madchester”.

In light of today’s socio-economic climate and political uncertainty, the rebirth of a rave scene may not be so far away.

The revival of rave today creates the opportunity for people to express changes in society that are being felt within the city.

This project envisions rave to make a revival – it is a construction facility that built modular ‘rave pods’ that can be delivered on demand and on a palette to be built on almost any site. With the help of this ‘rave pod factory’ a network of pop-up rave interventions across the city can be created.

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Basement Plan 1:200.

The houses processing and storage as well as workshop, offices, and fabrication equipment.

Basement Level Manufacturing line. Throughout the building an offset pulley system wraps around the primary structure. This allows for a verticality to the manufacturing process. The main structure of the pod is store, fabricated and assembled on this floor, whilst the pulley system is used to transport additional elements to the lower levels where it is constructed. The pod is essentially dry fit to make sure all parts are ready for use. The pod is then pulled down and stored – ready to be sent to a rave site in Manchester.

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Sami El-Kamha Recently, the UK government has announced that petrol and diesel cars will be abolished by 2040. In the context of climate change this decision is merely a small-scale goal for a long-term problem.

In the future, architects will be relied upon to handle juxtapositions between finding short term solutions that aid long-term visions to protect and stabilise the natural as well as the built environment.

The project Future City Labs aims to accommodate that goal set by the UK government to abolish petrol cars from the streets. The building provides space for an e-car rental service where such cars are parked and charged – using its own renewable energy source. The building aims to be part of a greater system in which multiple Future City Labs are placed around the city centre.

Arcade Farming is another sustainability driven project that investigates the mass production of biodegradable plastic from switch grass. The project is located in the context of a conservation area, and aims to regenerate the once very lively site that today is partly derelict. The scheme explores the use of modern technology and farming equipment to grow products that will only grow in very rare climates.

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Panayiotis Georgiou The idea for this project is to introduce barehand rock climbing, since there are already some learning centres for rock climbing in Manchester. However, due to the residential blocks in the area it is also crucial to remember the need for work and for providing adequate spaces. Assuming that a large company would move to Manchester and would need new head offices, it would be interesting to play with the contrast between the concept of offices and extreme sports. A skyscraper would best fit the needs of such program in that the faรงade is used to create a climbing route around the building. The faรงade is treated in a way so the people working inside and the climber outside would have a visual connection.

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Katayha Gould Mayfield Printing Co

“A haven for heathens, hoodies, hipsters, hijabis and hebrews. Highbrow interlectuals and how-ever-you-sex-uals…”

Mayfield is an area within Manchester which has been at the heart of many shifts and big developments and today it is going through further changes as U+I Group are redeveloping the area as part of a soulful and authentic area regeneration.

Mayfield’s history is strongly related to the industrial revolution and the cotton industry in particular boomed – giving Manchester the byname “Cottonopolis.” From 1782 the Hoyle print works became well known throughout the country for their purple colour dye. The project is based on the conviction that by bringing back materials, dye and the process of making things with your hands visitors as well as residents of Mayfield will take ownership of the history which will assist in the authentic regeneration of Mayfield to become a hub for the arts.

In an effort to connect of history of textile printing with the present day, the process of Pirate Printing sparked the conceptual idea for this project. For Pirate Printing surfaces such as textured signs or manhole covers are used to make a T-shirt print which is unique to the city. By having this process available within the building, people are able to pick up a pot of eco friendly dye and produce their own prints as they explore the city. The best of these prints will be exhibited in the public gallery space, giving a view of Manchester which is usually left unappreciated under our feet and making it into art.

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Eyad Kablan The photographs represent parts of my Design Studio 3 portfolio. The design revolved from the observation that Manchester has a large work force that commutes in and out of the city. The idea was to design a flexi-office to facilitate the hot-desking office strategy. This way an office facility is created that offers diverse types of workstations that can be shared according to work needs. The design was developed by using the concept of a portal frame to represent industrial heritage, whilst also allowing for the creation of an atrium to support a long span and openplan design.

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Lena Karim

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Thomas Keen Design Studio 4/ Heritage Protection Guild The building is placed in the heart of the city and concerned with all things ‘Manchester.’ Derived from the industrial setting of the surrounding area, this is a structure designed to rethink contemporary design. Industrial styles can work hand in hand with contemporary styles; one shouldn’t have to make way for the other. The interior metropolis connects a redundant site to the student quarter over the river, as well as the hustle and bustle of the new-look city centre. Manchester needs a focal point for protection, and that starts here.

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Sean Keogh This project is a direct consequence of my dissertation project “Land Pirates: Reflections on the Role of the Squatter as Urban Regenerator.” It is based on a strong political stance and has a clear social agenda.

The Union of Land Pirates is a landmark building fuelled by the political nature of urban squatting. The building intends to challenge the monotonous blocks filling Manchester’s skyline and it seeks to politicize and organize the divided squatting communities in the United Kingdom. The structural elements of the building deliberately protrude vertically through the building envelope in critique of the standardized buildings in its immediate and wider context.

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Hamza Khan

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Tafadzwa Lumeyu The concept behind ‘The Effect’ is the idea of the butterfly effect. Put two artists in a room, they begin to collaborate and the work they produce has infinite possibilities to evolve. It is unpredictable.

The project ‘Effect’ is designed to offer a space for artists to meet other artists from different backgrounds, who – without this project – would perhaps never meet.

This project is a proposal for a future artist residence in Manchester. This space seeks to allow diverse styles to evolve alongside each other and therefore to support artistic manifestations that enliven the culture of the city.

‘The Effect’ is a space where you can rehearse, receive other groups, make exchanges, receive and inform the city, help the local art movements which are large, rich and diverse.

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Maryam Saleh My aim for the DS4 project was to create a viewing platform that would be used by tourists, visitors and students who have come to Manchester to study from different cities and countries. The idea was to create a tower that would be taller than the other buildings on the site and allow it to become an landmark of both the site and Manchester as a whole. On top of the tower there will be a restaurant and a viewing area where people will be able to see the whole of Manchester and the site in a ‘different view’.

The Recreating the City project was based upon the concept of an ‘Urban Spa’ that catered for different types of physical activities within the sites to promote healthy living as well as growing herbal tea crops that would be sold on site and around Manchester.

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Year 2 Rytis BudaviÄ?ius Joshua Lewis-Lennon Adam Nightingale Chanon Tanasatitchai Jethro Unom Adam Vadas

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Rytis Budavicius The images show some physical concept models that helped to develop my designs from 2D to 3D. Other images show the physical model for Design Studio 2 (Scale 1:200) and of a ECO Primary School in Salford.

The building for Design Studio 2 was a media facility with two filming studios and offices. It also had public park on top of the roof that had a bridge connection to the other site of the river next to the site that connected the building with the rest of MediaCityUK and Salford community.

The section shows a residential building, that has two and one bedroom apartments with a mezzanine (i.e. it occupies two levels) that offers a different style of living for Salford. Most apartments have also a private terrace to bring country house living style to the city. The same building has a courtyard in the middle to let natural light in and provide passive ventilation. Idea of courtyard inspired by the building that existed on the same site until the end of XIX century.

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Joshua Lewis-Lennon

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Adam Vadas These images are from the MDP module.

This particular module provided insights to how the architects have to co-operate with other departments of the built environment. It prepared us for the challenges of the real world. The design that I created for this residential building is based on the sun path, contrast and symmetricity. The last part occupied a very important position in the way the classical era defined beauty.

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Year 1 Muhammad Abdullahi Elena Cuccuru Deshna Ujoodha Matthew Walker Lewis Waterson

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Muhammad Abdullahi The Character House project aimed at honing our design processes towards a tailored client. In this instance designing a house for an avid engineering father of three. The main thesis of the design laid in the zoning and Z-axis differentiation of the different used spaces surrounding a main open space, giving the unit design a strong perception of a spaced out compound.

The New Adelphi Intervention was an effort to recalibrate the perception and flow of the main atrium hall of the University’s New Adelphi building. The main requirements of the intervention was to make it modular and thus well jointed. Having looked at the main directional axis students and staff used to move across the hall, the intersection of the main hall, basement stairs, and secondary stairwell provided ample opportunity for the intervention to frame and tunnel a person’s direction towards the two main exits.

Iconic House was a study of MA House, designed by Morales-Cordoval in Mexico as a private family house. The study was peering into the effects of smartly angled roofing in order to manipulate internal spaces and their perception. This also gave way to using the roofing as a frame guiding sunlight and trees into certain strategic areas among other aspects.

The History of Architecture module required models that address historical research across different periods of architectural evolution from a retrospective viewpoint. Thus letting students apply newer theories to pre-existing structures and buildings as with the golden ratio spiral framing the façade of the Parthenon.

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Matthew Walker

Aquaman Main This is an image from the Fictional Character Project, my character in this project was Aquaman. The image is one of two attached elevations for this house. It uses a steel tension cable to support its weight, has a steel framework with a brick faรงade. The editing was done in Photoshop.

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Aquaman Glass Walls

Aquaman Section

This is the alternative elevation from the fictional character project and it shows the freeform glass walls on the opposite side of the house so that it can allow the most light into the house as it is southern facing. The editing was done in Photoshop.

This shows a section of the house, complete with the standard upstairs and the water filled ground floor to accommodate for his needs.

Nexus Bath This is an image of an abstract piece I did to represent the Nexus Art CafĂŠ in Manchester which is a small Christian cafĂŠ which helps many charities from feeding the homeless to helping those in the LGBTQ community feel more accepted and provides a safe place for anybody of any race, ethnicity or beliefs.

Workshop Model This is an interesting perspective picture taken from one of my workshop pieces. It uses cocktail sticks and polystyrene for the trees as well as cutouts from a skirting board for the different buildings.

My Drawn House Elevation

Modular Room

This is an elevation for a house that I designed for myself. It is the southern facing elevation and it features a canal looking glass box, an external scaffold inspired spiral staircase as well as exposed piping and electrical wires.

In this project I created a module that could be multiplied and connected to one another to create a structure, this structure should function with a space to create something. My design created walls which closed off an area for photography.

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Using Biomimicry to provide sustainable solutions

Taha Aldibani, Year 3 BSc (Hons) Architecture

This is the abstract of his paper that was presented at the 8th International Conference of the Constructed Environment in Detroit, USA and his travel expenses were supported by a Santander scholarship.

Research into biomimicry inspired the design for a new national training and response centre to deal with natural disaster emergencies. The centre is based in Manchester and its aim is to bring together key agencies and sectors that are likely to be called to respond to such emergencies at local and regional levels. It also is developed to provide temporary accommodation for some of the people rendered temporarily homeless as well as for essential staff involved in the response.

The number of flood-related emergencies, in the region and nationally, has been increasing, which gives new importance to coordination of research efforts, recommendations, and readiness to respond. The design of the centre demanded consideration of annual rainfall statistics which indicate that prevention of flooding in a city like Manchester requires 740M3/ha total water attenuation of which 40-50% is in long term storage. The design therefore incorporated biomimetic elements, based on research into water storage and harvesting, in particular in plants.

The research investigated the potential of various biomimetic designs to finding sustainable solutions for water management in the context of changing patterns of climate and increasing risk of flood in conurbations

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in the UK. Specific consideration was given to both flood-resistant building typologies and diverse biomimetic solutions to water shortage, over-abundance and sporadic heavy rainfall. Case studies were used to illustrate the approaches and it was concluded that solutions to flood risk and water disasters would benefit from the addition of a biomimetic approach to existing typologies and elements of sustainable architecture.

Particular inspiration was provided by a cactus, the inner vessels of which are made of a light flexible membrane that expands during rainfall and permits underground storage.

Further inspiration was found in the durian fruit, a Malaysian fruit surrounded by thorns, which deflect sunlight away from the inner content to keep it cool. The form of the durian thorns and the shape of the fruit were imitated to let light into the building by using a transparent material such as ETFE. The vessels of the cacti plant were mimicked as a structural support for the ETFE thorns, with an opening in the middle of each vessel or tube to enable rainwater to move into the opening where it is directed to the underground water tank for storage and subsequent re-use.

In this way, the project has provided an example of how research informs design and how biomimicry offers rich resources for

inspiration of environmentally sustainable solutions and architectural design. According to an Italian professor of architecture, biomimicry can be applied in any design situation to yield sustainable outcomes if correctly used.

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BSc Architectural Design and Technology

Dr Paul Coates, RIBA, MCIAT Programme Leader ADT

The Architecture Design and Technology undergraduate programme is a well-established programme at the University of Salford. It was launched in 2006 and the course was developed to embrace architectural design, construction technology, computer-aided design – including virtual reality –, development control, and project administration as key themes. Multidisciplinary and collaborative working also are important parts of the program. The course content is furthermore developed through a close association with the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technicians, who certify the program, and it is validated by external examiners from industry.

The success of the ADT programme has led to the launch of the undergraduate programmes in Architecture as well as the Masters Programmes in Architecture and in Building Information Modelling.

Recently, the ADT programme has been available in multiple modes: the part-time and full-time modes have continued but now the programme also offers accelerated modes that can be completed in two years. The first students undertaking this accelerated mode will graduate this summer. Last year we also saw the establishment of a foundation year at the University of Salford allowing access to the ADT programme.

The role of the architectural technologist is changing and the ADT program endeavours to integrate these changes. New modules embracing BIM concepts have now been integrated into the programme. Also other modules have been integrated with the Architectural Undergraduate programme (BSc) to facilitate greater design development within the modules.

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Erasmus at the University of Salford Paolo Jorge Dias - Year 5 - MArch student Erasmus student from Portugal

Erasmus is a form of cultural and academic enrichment, a life lesson, and a way to grow and become independent.

I wanted to study outside my country for a while. In order to improve the way I speak English and to improve my English on a more academic level, but also in order to get to know a different culture, I chose to come to Manchester. I embarked on this experience alone but always with the support of all my family and friends in Portugal.

In this city where the architecture itself is very different from the one to which I am accustomed to – which, therefore, is already a lesson for a student from overseas –, I found several things that differ from my country. The university campus made me feel like living in a movie. All that a student needs is on campus: library, cafeterias, bars, restaurants and even a small shop. Students from all over the world fill all the spaces and give life to this university. The cultural diversity in this city is very prominent too.

The education system is quite different and the conditions offered by the university as well. In the same space there are students from the most diverse areas of study. Calling teachers by their first name is a great novelty for me as well.

In the end, this experience was very enriching as a student and as a human being. If you can stay here for two years and finish your master’s degree here, then do stay. I recommend it!

It was not always easy but it was very rewarding. Goal accomplished! I feel I could not have chosen a better country, better city or better university.

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Dr Athena Moustaka, RIBA, ARB Programme Leader Arch Eng

The BSc Architectural Engineering course at Salford was introduced in September 2017 with the aim of providing graduates with the skills of good structural awareness and a strong creative architectural profile. The course makes use of the multidisciplinary learning at the School of Built Environment; design and building sustainability modules are taught by leading academics, and engineering modules are taught by professionals from the School of Computing, Science and Engineering. The focus of the course is the design studio, where students work with BSc Architecture students in a creative environment. The studio is not simply a space for formal and informal tuition and assessment, it is also a space where students collaborate, spend time socialising, and exchanging ideas in all matters design related. Already in this first year of its existence students in BSc Architectural Engineering have developed excellent innovative ideas, which was due to their exceptional engineering skills.

The creativity among students in the design studio is reinforced by imparting a sound background in structural principles. In the first year, students are introduced to Architectural Engineering principles, in the second year they explore architectural engineering design and in the third year they apply their engineering knowledge to case studies and their own designs. In doing so, the Architectural Engineering course makes use of advanced and innovative teaching tools and technologies that enable high quality Architectural Engineering solutions to be produced and applied. The current employment prospects for graduates are good, especially considering the interdisciplinary nature of Architectural Engineering and the increased awareness that our graduates have in the fields of sustainability, design, engineering and construction.

We are excited to showcase here the work of some of our current first years. It is the first cohort to participate in this exciting and innovative course. We are looking forward to create a graduate with a distinct ability for design through solid structural principles. I hope you can join me in congratulating their achievements.

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The brief required us to create an iconic piece of architecture. Our goal was to create emotion within the people who will come to worship here. How could you create anything sacred if it does not appeal to the spirituality of the people? You can either love it or hate it but it leaves a memory in you which makes it in our eyes iconic.

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Dr Claudia Trillo, PhD, RIBA, FHEA Programme Leader MArch

Our Master of Architecture (MArch) programme combines the best of theory and practice to prepare students for professional practice and ensure they are capable of acting as responsible designers, reflective practitioners and creative innovators in contemporary society. Our academics are leading architecture practitioners who regularly contribute to research and enhance current practice, combining practical experience with active research at the forefront of the discipline. Recently, Stephen Hodder has joined our School as Visiting Professor in Architecture complementing our existing team of architecture professionals. Visiting speakers such as Tony Skipper from 5Plus Architects also contribute to the learning, bringing real-world examples that enable students to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary architecture and giving insight into what is required to become a chartered architect. Students enjoy learning in purpose-built design studios located in our newly built “New Adelphi” building.

These carefully designed spaces house the specialist equipment and tools to enable students to unlock creativity and execute ideas.

The international profile of the Master of Architecture programme is a key element of its success. Alongside international trips and visits, a Summer School in the USA allows students to be exposed to the extraordinary innovation happening in Boston and New York City and is run with two world-leading institutions, the Northeastern University and the PRATT Institute. This year the Summer

School is fully funded thanks to the support of generous Santander grants.

The MArch has been designed with a unique experimental pedagogic approach, by allowing students to engage with and in internationally leading design offices. This year the module Performative Technologies – Material Matters has been developed in partnership with Ramboll, a leading engineering, design and consultancy company with 300 offices in 35 countries which employs 13,000 consulting engineers, designers and management consultants. Students had the opportunity to develop a real-life brief, by engaging with the technical and functional specifications requested by the University of Manchester to build the new £235m Henry Royce Institute. By challenging themselves in responding to a technically highly-demanding brief, students gained a true understanding of the complexity of the design process and were able to appreciate the interdisciplinary connections across architecture, design and engineering, benefitting from specialized lectures given by a variety of experts from Ramboll (fire engineers, structural and acoustic engineers, project managers) and getting regular specialized feedback through weekly tutorials and interim and final presentations.

and Partners – a multi- awarded architectural firm – students had the exciting opportunity to engage with an ongoing project. The brief focused on creating a Learning Centre within the new 62-hectares garden – the largest gardening project in Europe – that the Royal Horticultural Society is currently developing in Worsley, and where Hodder and Partners have been selected to design the new visitors’ center. Furthermore, the Royal Horticultural Society aims at building a new Learning Centre nearby. Through the engagement with a real client and under the guidance of Stephen Hodder, students explored a variety of possible solutions embedding their own concept of ecologies in the design theory and practice.

The two-year MArch programme culminates with a design research project in which students articulate an architectural position that looks forward to professional practice and prepares them to undertake a successful career with a critically responsive approach.

In the Urban Ecologies module students developed an exciting brief that allowed them to explore the interconnection between environment, society and design. While engaging with the renowned practice of Hodder

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Aiman Alwadi Plants are more remarkable than humans.

Providing a source of food for animals and removing excess CO2 from the air.

The planet has lost a third of its arable land due to pollution and erosion in the past 40 years. The combined effects of over-cultivation and heavy fertiliser use have depleted soil at a rate that far outpaces the earth’s natural ability to recover. Climate change and extreme weather events have accelerated erosion, exacerbating the situation.

The dramatic loss of fertile land comes at a time when the demand for food is rising: by 2050, food production will need to increase by 50 per cent to feed the world’s projected population of 9 billion.

Since soil is not necessary, sustainable farms can be established virtually anywhere – in the desert, on city rooftops, and even on top of contaminated land.

A new set of technological advancements is needed in order to sustain the agriculture industry.

This new learning and research centre helps to move closer to achieve a sustainable future.

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During this semester, the concept theme that led the module were the “urban ecologies”.

Drawings were produced on three distinct architectural elements that were related to each other: a greenway, a folly, and a learning centre. A report was also written on the main concept and how it is applied in architectural projects.

The creation of RHS Garden Bridgewater, in the heart of the North West – that is currently underway – will be the largest gardening project in Europe. It is the Society’s first new garden in 17 years and will deliver benefits to the local community as it grows into a world-class garden.

This project should be seen as an architectural object as an interconnected element in a system. The Bridgewater canal creates a blue line that goes from Deansgate, passes through the RHS and continues by Leigh.

The folly is a minimal intrusion to the landscape, it is a replicable material spatial design which play a significant role within the regional system despite its small scale. It is a simple and unique shelter that allows the worship of different environments along the Bridgewater canal.

The purpose of this design is not only to create physical linkage points along the canal but also social and cultural links between the community. This object is nothing and can be everything. Next to this architectural object there are small flowerbeds where the population can have their own plantations.

The program followed for the design of this building, similar to other Learning Centres of the RHS, consists of: reception space, library, services, event space, coffee area open to the public and two classrooms.

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From the communion between two lineages as different as the houses of Victorian inspiration, referring to the history of the site, and the Zen gardens created by the interstices of the same, emerges this hybrid design.

Combining traditional Japanese influences with the design principles of Modernism, Ando has developed a unique building language that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, and space, all in harmony with nature. This architect is certainly an example to follow when it comes to joining modern materials with zen spaces, which in this case are created in the intervals of houses.

Like Jan Gehl, “life between buildings” was sought to take into account the human scale, the relationship between people and small houses, their function or, more correctly, their multi-functions and adaptability.

Regarding the shape of the masses, this project reflects the inspiration of three Portuguese architects. The first, Gonçalo Byrne, through the way he designed the “Atoleiros Battle Interpretation Centre” with only one floor can be divided in half and continues to function as a whole unit, similar to that of the Learning Centre.

The second and third, Eduardo De Souto Moura and Carvalho Araujo, designed buildings in which there is not only a relation between something new and something pre-existent, but there are also relations of proximity between two different planes.

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Ari Khoshnaw Client: Sir Henry Royce Institute A contemporary proposal for Henry Royce Institute in Manchester. The research facility will provide advanced technology for Graphene research and experiment.

The south-faรงade of the building will be clad in i.active Biodynamic panels with TX Active technology. When the material comes into contact with light, it can capture pollution in the air, transforming it into salts and reducing smog levels.

Client: RHs Bridgewater, Worsley The final design challenge was designing a horticultural learning centre for the RHS. My proposal was one that was born out of the landscape, an expression of the old and new architecture that is already part of the land. Particular attention was paid to the desired learning pathways one would take when on site.

We were tasked with designing a folly on the canal as a second entrance point to the RHS site. My proposal was one that was a resting spot along the greenway and an observatory tower to the RHS and surrounding landscape

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Yudishthir Shegobin The Intra-Agent [Intra – from within, Agent – the one able to act] This Learning Centre for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is impregnated by intra-vening with the existing topography offered between the Bridgewater Canal and the RHS site. As part of a wider project to revitalise the canal as a more frequented corridor, promoting an alternative access to RHS Bridgewater, the new Learning Centre acts as a bridge from the canal. The roof of the Learning Centre acts as an extension of the bank of the canal towards the side and becomes an accessible green playground.

The Learning Centre, which is buried in the space between the slope and the site is accessed by a fracture in the roof that allows a ramp through across the whole building.

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Dr Simona Peet, MEng, CEng, MiCE

Ramboll Associate & Higher Education Sector Leader Charlotte, Rob and Simona from Ramboll Manchester office were delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with the School of Built Environment and create the project brief for the Performative Technologies – Material Matters module, part of the new MSc programme in Architecture (2017-2018).

The project brief was designed around the live project The Sir Henry Royce Institute of Advanced Materials “an international flagship for the discovery and development of new material systems for the societal and economic benefit of the UK”.

We were delighted to receive approval from the University of Manchester to utilise the live project information and therefore be able to contribute and support the module with this exciting project.

The aim of the module was to enable the students to develop “a clear understanding of the buildings functional requirements whilst incorporating the aesthetic aspiration; key to delivering a thoughtful & effective building massing for the Royce Institute.”

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stated by each stakeholder group. These included vibration ultrasensitive spaces for imaging and characterisation for nine key areas of materials science research.

Write-up, office and meeting spaces, social, amenity and building support facilities were required along with careful consideration for the integration of mechanical and electrical services.

The students were asked to holistically integrate the environmental & sustainability requirements within the context of the project (constrained city centre, live university campus) and statutory requirements (planning, building regulation, etc).

Ramboll prepared and presented a series of lectures helping the students to decode the project brief and develop an understanding of the key structural, vibration and fire considerations that are key to successfully delivering the building’s stringent functional requirements.

During the interim review sessions, the students had the opportunity to present & discuss their initial concepts & designs.

We have actively supported them with their initial proposals and provided guidance with building massing, primary structural materials, buildability, function, form, cost and ability to meet the project brief.

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where the students individually presented their final designs through a range of media including PowerPoint presentations, posters and models. We were very proud and impressed with their progress, final designs and how they incorporated comments provided throughout the course.

We have enjoyed supporting and guiding the students and were delighted to see their initial concepts emerging and evolving into the final developed designs which often took into considerations additional challenges such as buildability and commercial matters, in a short space of time.

We would like to wish all the students best of luck with the next course year and their future endeavours.

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