Architecture Architectural Design And Technology Architectural Engineering Yearbook 2018 by University of Salford

YEARBOOK 2018 ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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

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.

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both those graduating and those continuing with us â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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. 2

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.

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.

BSc Architecture

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.

BSc Architecture

Year 3

Olwia Albasha Taha Khaled Aldibani Saleh Alrashaid Hassan Baghertash Abby Cassady Chester Chesney Sami El-Kamha Panayiotis Georgiou Katayha Gould Eyad Kablan Lena Karim Thomas Keen Sean Keogh Hamza Khan Tafadzwa Lumeyu Jason Norris Maryam Saleh Emanuel Twumasi Ankrah

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BSc Architecture - Year 3

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Saleh Alrashaid

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Abby Cassady Manchesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yin and Yangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ready to be sent to a rave site in Manchester.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Lena Karim

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Thomas Keen Design Studio 4/ Heritage Protection Guild The building is placed in the heart of the city and concerned with all things â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Manchester.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Hamza Khan

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Jason Norris

BSc Architecture - Year 3

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 3

Emanuel Twumasi Ankrah

BSc Architecture - Year 3

BSc Architecture

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

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BSc Architecture - Year 2

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 2

Joshua Lewis-Lennon

BSc Architecture - Year 2

Adam Nightingale

BSc Architecture - Year 2

Chanon Tanasatitchai

BSc Architecture - Year 2

Jethro Unom

BSc Architecture - Year 2

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 2

BSc Architecture

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

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BSc Architecture - Year 1

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 Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 faĂ§ade of the Parthenon.

BSc Architecture - Year 1

Elena Cuccuru

BSc Architecture - Year 1

Deshna Ujoodha

BSc Architecture - Year 1

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.

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.

BSc Architecture - Year 1

Lewis Waterson

BSc Architecture - Year 1

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

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.

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 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including virtual reality â&#x20AC;&#x201C;, 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.

BSc Architectural Design and Technology

Year 3 Farah Akhter Luke Broadhurst Michael Duffy Anisah Hussein Alina Ignatjeva Thomas Jones Nikolai Petriaho Rasmus Rautavirta Emily Williams

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