2022 - DABE Yearbook - Year 5

T&G YEARBOOK COORDINATORS

Deeksha Ganesh

Natalie Magnuszewski

James Lawn

Cindy Tasong

Sophie Henderson

COVER PAGE DESIGN

Siara Wong

YEAR 5 UNIT REPRESENTATIVES

Emma Archer

Rowan Crouch

Sophia Esoimeme

James Lawn

Andrew Paterson

YEAR 5

The first year of MArch begins with a group research project with the Year 6s where we undertake an in-depth investigation of an architectural case study. The project includes written and drawn research which aids us in developing our knowledge of architecture as a whole.

Following this we undertake a design project that develops the themes explored in the case studies and allows us to influence design decisions with the knowledge already gained. The design process involves studies of precedents, analysis of conceptual ideas, and physical and digital modelling. A final building/intervention is produced that embodies the lessons learned and knowledge gained from the first project.

The final project of the year sees the application of the first semester’s work into a design for shared housing, across all three modules studied. The project is resolved at a range of scales from wider context to detail. The project aims to develop skills in housing design and to passionately engage with design for intentional community. We worked with a live client, Nottingham Cohousing, who joined the year for tutorials and reviews and add tangible realism to the design proposals.

YEAR CONTRIBUTORS

YEAR LEADER

Tim Collett

UNIT TUTORS

Tim Collett

Chloe Lockhart

Nina Lundvall

James Payne

Kate Nicklin

Graham Mateer

Nick Haynes

Laura Hanks

Chloe Thirkell

Alisdair Russell

Jennifer Frewen

Matt Strong

MODULE TUTORS

Katharina Borsi

Laura Hanks

Mark Alston

Graeme Barker

Tim Collett

Paolo Beccarelli

EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTORS

Jeanne Booth (Nottingham Cohousing)

Liz Thomas (Nottingham Cohousing)

Caroline Stephens (Nottingham Cohousing)

Sarah Hare (Sarah Hare Architects)

Christoph Kuhr (Caruso St John Architects)

Maija Viksne (Caruso St. John Architects and Viksne Studio)

Derek Draper (Atomik Architecture)

Andrew Rowson (National Trust (formerly Haworth Tompkins))

Chik Kanamoto (Studio Chik)

Chloe Phelps (Ground Practice)

Paul Maich (Maich Swift Architects)

Ted Swift (Maich Swift Architects)

Stuart Buckenham (Buckenham and Co Architects)

Pierre d’Avoine (Pierre d’Avoine Architects)

Cecile David (Takero Shimazaki Architects)

TECHNICAL TUTORS FROM UON

Mark Alston

Robin Wilson

Mark Gillott

Graeme Barker

Tim Collett

Paolo Beccarelli

Lucelia Rodrigues

Renata Tubelo

Lorna Kiamba

EXTERNAL TECHNICAL TUTORS

(Arup)

Luca Bocelli

Laura Solarino

Matteo Lazzarotto

Hassan Moharram

Hasan Yousaf

Laura Solarino

Francesco Banchini

Grizel Hocknell

Jack Schroeder

Simon Welbirg

Ayrton Gill

Adam Plavsic

Joe Crawshaw

Maela Allegretti

(Bauman Lyons)

Sam Wilson

CENTRE FOR 3D DESIGN

Ross Clarke

Malcolm Dugdale

Rob Hammond

James Hazzledine

Tony Lord

Scott Wheaver

Tony Gospel

Dan Copper

Carson Cheng

ARCHI-TÊTES

Inspired by Louis Hellman’s ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ caricatures, Farida Makki created the ‘Architetes’ project for the Year 1 BArch and MEng students in 2018. When all in person events were forced online due to the pandemic in 2020, we looked to Farida’s ‘Archi-tetes’ project as an ideal replacement for the long running Tour de Pasenville as the University of Nottingham’s induction project for the Department of Architecture.

Combining the facial features of famous Architects with elements of their buildings style, the ‘Archi-tetes’ project encourages incoming Year 1 and 5 students to create an up-to-date 3D version of the much loved caricartures, for the digital age.

The two-day project, ably led by the Year 6 team leaders, has taken a step out of the student’s bedrooms this year and back into the studios. With students now able to attend in person, each team showed off their creations in a fashion style catwalk, to students and staff from the department.

Some 20 years since Helman’s book Architêtes: the id in the Grid (2000) was published, we are viewing this project as an evolution of his ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ and taking them online and in 3D for a digital age!

Winner 3B of team 3

Winner 1D of team 1

S1 KARLSRUHE

YEAR 5

HOUSE

Unit Lead: Alisdair Russell

Karen Ching Sum Chan

Theean Log-yi Chan

Fiona Hazlitt

James McIlroy

Eyob Mulat

Eric Okoro

Andrew Paterson

Cory Staton

KARLSRUHE HOUSE

In recent years our urban centres have been experiencing unprecedented change. Once thriving magnets for retail and business, changing models over the last 15 years have seen significant decline to the core of many of our towns and cities. Studio 1 has studied Nottingham’s Southern Gateway, specifically a site containing the existing Karlsruhe House on the edge of the Meadows Estate. With two Universities and several colleges, Nottingham has circa 65,000 University students, many of these remaining in Nottingham due to it being a vibrant and compact city with buoyant creative and tech industries. However, whilst it is a great city for graduates to live, a dearth of suitable accommodation, primarily small flats, and a lack of public realm and green space make the city less attractive for families, or those who intend to live in the city long term. Therefore, we have looked at mechanisms to retain a wider demographic and allow them to flourish in terms of sustainable development and the creation of environments to work, rest and play; to see Nottingham as ‘home’, rather than a transitory location to visit.

SITE

A collection of existing buildings, including the fine Karlsruhe House, are situated at one end of a vacant site currently undergoing redevelopment. The site block is bordered by Waterway Street to the south and Traffic Street to the west and north. Located just down the road from the railway station and new Inland Revenue building, the site bridges between the city and the low-rise residential Meadows to the south. There is potential for both adaptive re-use of the existing buildings and new build.

Site drawing by Cory Staton

KAREN CHING SUM CHAN

karenchingsum@gmail.com

AN INCLUSIVE CO-HOUSING SCHEME FOR NOTTINGHAM

Down south from the Nottingham city centre, near the conjunction between the Waterway Street and the Sheriffs Way Street lies an area with rundown retails and industries.

This co-housing project aims to redevelop the area into an agefriendly community by proposing two social housing schemes; it targets to connect fresh graduates with freelancers to broaden carreer connection, and connects the young families with elderlies to encourage a more safe and socialable environment.

THEEAN LOG-YI CHAN

theeanchan@gmail.com (Instagram: stephie_studio)

THE SQUARE

The intention of this co-housing scheme is to vitalize the community in the Meadows by creating a secondary city center and introduce diverse population groups to Nottingham. The design inspiration comes from a traditional Beijing housing cluster, siheyuan, which has flexible rectangular layout for multi-generational living. Art is chosen as a catalyst, a common interest expediting the interactions between people. Each dwelling type is designed to boost social interactions and communal living by creating different nature of common space. The level of communal interactions increases when the residents move from their units to the common building.

fiona.hazlitt@btinternet.com

KARLSRUHE CRAFTER’S COMMUNITY

The Meadows to the South of the site and the site itself have a strong industrial history. This co-housing scheme is for those who want to continue trades that are being forgotten, for example wood and metal work. The site boasts a number of different house types, from co-living apartments to 3-storey houses, all either 1 bed or 2 bed. There are ensuite guest rooms in the existing Karlsruhe House. A number of different sized workshops and studios across the site allow residents to work independently or collaborate with others. The café is on the ground floor of the repurposed Karlsruhe House which has space for residents to display their work to the public.

JAMES MCILROY

jwilliam.mcilroy@gmail.com

THE MEADOWS HOUSING COLLABORATIVE

The Meadows Housing Collaborative has an ample opportunity to catalyse the regeneration of the meadows as it sits on the boundary between the Meadows and the city centre; with the potential to act as a gateway site. The project focus’ on culminating a diverse community made up of young professionals, families and elder people. This is intended to help start reintegrating the meadows with the city centre through attracting people from all demographics. Due to the vast number of student developments already found within the city centre, it was decided that no student accommodation was to be included within the scheme.

ERIC OKORO

eric.okoro@ymail.com

THE GARDEN OF THE CITY

The ‘Garden of the City’ is a co-housing project targeted at providing new homes and a micro-community centre for amateur performance creatives in Nottingham. The scheme mixes residential, public and leisure spaces in a well-defined manner to maintain spatial hierarchy whilst revealing architecture that is performative in living & working. Through generous surveillance of communal zones and spaces, residents are gifted the feeling of involvement & participation. This is balanced out by the recognition of the need for privacy through the inclusion of generous living spaces designed within guidance from the Nationally Described Space Standards.

ANDREW PATERSON

a9paterson@yahoo.com

WATERWAY STREET COHOUSING

This scheme aims to provide a vibrant new creative hub where a community of different demographics and design specialisms can come together to share their knowledge and expertise in their respective fields of design. The scheme capitalises on the existing footfall at a derelict site near the station by providing retail outlets for resident artisans with active frontages revitalising the area. A new route into the city centre from the Meadows is an integral part of the scheme, which aims to reconnect the city’s residents with the canal and resolve the uncomfortable transition between the city and the Meadows that the site currently finds itself in.

corystaton9905@gmail.com

THE VILLAGE IN THE CITY

Participation and cultural value on the urban periphery.

The introduction of a multi-generational co-housing proposal will seek to eliminate cultural isolation and coalesce the different stakeholders present in the Canal Quarter area into one central edifice. The development looks to challenge the traditional housing typology of Nottingham through the introduction of a new residential and social quarter carving a series of new internal and external public spaces into the existing urban fabric and subsequently activating the sites boundaries.

S2

YEAR 5

ARKWRIGHT STREET

Unit Lead: Matt Strong

Maja Andersen

Emma Archer

Alexandra Bardac

Adam Broadbent

Ka-Po Chan

Deeksha Ganesh

Laura Kenyon

James Lawn

Philippa Li

Ramanan Nathan

ARKWRIGHT STREET

The current plot is an empty / busy / edgeland site in the middle of the city centre, a site full of contradictions. An area once famous for its Crocuses has also housed Foundries, Sheet Metal-workers and Lace Mills. The site currently creates a break in the city between the city centre area, which is currently being heavily developed with mid/high-rise high density housing, and the Meadows Estate which is a 1980s Radburn style council housing development. Our studio is concerned with how we address this boundary condition?

S2 takes a narrative approach to historical context. By looking at the stories, fact and fiction, that a place holds one can form an understanding of place – and by building that understanding into architecture there’s the potential to create a link to that identity. As housing expands into brownfield sites without an immediate residential history these discussions become more urgent and more interesting.

EMMA ARCHER

emmahazelarcher@gmail.com

CROCUS PLACE

A live-work co-housing scheme in Nottingham’s edgelands, adjacent to Nottingham railway station. The aim of the shelter designed within this scheme will allow for a long term solution to providing homes for women escaping domestic violence abuse. Through architecture a safe, restorative space will be created to allow victims to grow, rehabilitate and heal as part of a community.

ADAM BROADBENT

adamrbroadbent@gmail.com

URBAN MEADOWS

A community housing scheme at the heart of Nottingham City. 115 units of compact 1 and 3-bed dwellings are designed for young families and elderly couples.

Forgotten in time, a residual space from Nottingham’s industrial past-time has been elegantly re-imagined to foster a sustainable and healthy community. The scheme plugs a gap between the northerly drifted commercial city centre and the southern sprawl of the Meadows neighbourhood. A series of 4-6 storey blocks, linked by walkways at multiple levels, contain dual aspect flats.

KA-PO CHAN

CHANKAPOOO@GMAIL.COM

E- ARK-ST

Located right at the intersect of train and tram station, the cohousing development aims to provide accommodation to nonniclear family. Living in the building, residents can form their extended family horizontally and vertically. The form of living could evolve depending how residents occupy the space. The ‘E’ shaped layout formed two courtyards surrounded by the dwelling blocks and the tramline. They serve the residents and the public respectively, making the development not only exclusive to the residents but also the community.

DEEKSHA GANESH

laydg5@nottingham.ac.uk

ARKWRIGHT GLOBAL CO-HOUSING

A co-housing scheme for elderly first generation immigrants with temporary housing for asylum seekers. The traumatic journey one has to go through when leaving their home because it’s no longer safe is unprecedented and it takes a great deal of courage to start their new lives in an unknown place. They’re in need of a sense of security, belonging and support from other people who can relate to them and support one another, which is offered at Arkwright Global co-housing. The design reflects on the variety of cultures and offering internal design freedom and choice to its residents through open plan apartments that can be culturally adapted.

LAURA KENYON

@lkar.ch

NOTTINGHAM MEADOWS CO-HOUSING

The design takes precedent from the monasteries and looks to integrate kitchen gardens and allotments, to create a sustainable co-living scheme for both Young families and Elderly couples. Biodiversity and landscaping at ground floor level ensures a large amount of open space for residents. Communal spaces include; refectory, cooking workshops and a spiritual space for reflection and healing. All spaces seek to address loneliness and caring for the ageing population. A perimeter wall sits around the site to encourage planting to climb around the site, making reference to the original walled garden.

JAMES LAWN

layjl13@nottingham.ac.uk

ARKWRIGHT ST CO-HOUSING

The focus here is on creating a craft-driven community in the neglected peripheral region adjacent to the city centre. A cabinet and furniture making community - inspired by the historic context that is likely to have given the street its name- will revive this corner of the edgeland swath forging a crevasse between the urban city centre and the suburban (and neglected) Meadows Estate. The nature of making, particularly carpentry, turns pieces into wholes, much like this project strives to do. The new housing provided sits atop “railway bridges” of workshop space, recreating the former structure that dominated the site.

philippali@hotmail.com/ philippali_design

ARKWRIGHT ST URBAN FARM

The Arkwright St Urban farm aims to become the main hub of the Green corridor, linking the New Broadmarsh redevelopment in the City Centre & the Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens. The Cohousing scheme is aimed at two demographics; families and young adults who have just left home. The two groups will work together on the farm, learning and teaching new skills. The scheme will also feature public spaces, such as a cooking school and food market, that uses the produce grown. As well as a hydroponics growing lab and cafe. It aims to bring together people from both inside and outside the city, to learn about self sufficiently and sustainability.

RAMANAN NATHAN

ramanannathan13@gmail.com

ARKWRIGHT COHOUSING WORKSHOP

The recent pandemic has highlighted the issues of loneliness amongst the elderly. Having been forced into lockdown and selfisolation, the lack of company can have severe impacts to the mental wellbeing of the elderly. The Arkwright Cohousing Workshop aims to combat this, by providing a cohousing scheme that integrates the elderly with young families, with the aid of craft. The scheme is comprised of 5 new blocks (constructed from glulam and CLT), and the remodelling of the existing building at the north of the site. Bridges connect the blocks together, allowing timber and pottery workshops to be spread throughout the site.

S3

YEAR 5

HEMINGTON HOUSE

Unit Lead: Jennifer Frewen

Vitul Agarwal

Naleen Bancil

Simran Berik

Rowan Crouch

Rahul Doll

Sabriha Hussain

Thomas Lawrence

Jessica Norman

HEMINGTON HOUSE

More than 50,000 buildings are demolished in the UK every year. Although a lot of this debris is recycled, it is done so (using more energy) into less valuable products rather than reused. The construction industry continues to focus on and reward new build. We must move past a focus on operational energy and onto embodied energy, which is what we, as architects, are responsible for. It is imperative we consider all possible re-uses of a building before demolition.

Hemington House is a rural site, with a Grade II listed house and outbuildings on a plot of approximatel 3.5 acres. The studio will explore the renewal of Hemington House and its surroundings for cohousing and work spaces for an artist community. It will look at the renewal of place, retaining as much as possible and adding as little as possible.

SITE

Hemington House is on a rural site located near Long Eaton along the River Trent. The site is near Sawley Waterside Marina, the M1 motorway and Derby Southern bypass. It is situated in an interesting context with angling ponds, a marina, farmland, and an Aldi distribution centre nearby.

Site drawing by Simran Berik

VITUL AGARWAL

vitulagarwal@yahoo.in

INTER GENERATIONAL SOCIETY

My design looks at the renewal of Hemington House and its surroundings to be converted into co housing and work spaces following the inter generational scheme defined in the narrative. For me the renewal of place means retaining as much as possible and adding as little as possible. Space for different generations of people to meet, gain and share experience, learn, teach, cook, dine, sit, play and live together creation of generously designed plans for houses as people moving into the rural houses would aim to move into larger and flexible spaces.

NALEEN BANCIL

MAKE PLACE NOT WASTE

‘Make Place not Waste’ aims to give life to materials that were considered at the end of their life. The integration of porch spaces with the existing buildings and new proposed will increase the richness of exchange of interactions between neighbours. It is a threshold that can be manipulated to perform publicly or privately, allowing residents to choose their preference, creating homes not for one but for all. As the scheme is rooted in food, communal cooking, and reducing food waste, the kitchen should be a prominent space in the homes. The project aims to rethink the kitchen and how it can be adapted for live/ work scenarios.

SIMRAN

BERIK

@sb.architecture | simranberik@hotmail.co.uk

SPACE FOR HARMONY

Examining the existing building can identify the extent of potential for both retaining the existing fabric and improving it. In order to create better homes inside architecture built to last, it is desirable to retain as much of the existing as possible while improving thermal, lighting, and spatial qualities of the building. Clustered living becomes the central part to this project, creating spaces for the residents to fully inhabit, whilst having their own shared and private spaces. A multitude of rehearsal spaces of varying sizes and external social spaces have been created in the scheme to allow musicians to learn from one another and grow.

ROWAN CROUCH

rowan.crouch1@gmail.com

HEMINGTON PERFORMING ARTS

My proposal for Hemington house is an affordable, multigenerational co-housing scheme, aimed towards people working within the performing arts field. The proposal includes a mix of versatile indoor and outdoor venue/event spaces that will allow for theatre production to occur on-site. This will give residents the opportunity to work, write and rehearse using these spaces with each other or their own companies, and become a future source of revenue for the co-housing scheme.

RAHUL DOLL

rdoll.arch@gmail.com | rdoll.arch@gmail.com

NATURES RETREAT

Autism can come in a wide variety of forms which can impact someone’s ability to lead a normal life. However, it can also pose as a hidden benefit, those on the spectrum can show extraordinary abilities and demonstrate how the simplicities within life can also act as a subconscious health gain. Sensory elements provide the basis for the scheme, through the choice of landscaping to the materials implemented within the design, each element will provide a warm and comforting environment, subconsciously reducing the stresses of everyday life.

SABRIHA HUSSAIN

WEAVING COMMUNITIES

‘The co-housing scheme aims to intertwine the rich history of textiles in the area into the site by creating a programme which accommodates to retired seamstress’, a younger generation of young professionals and families who are interested in the craft. The sustainably driven project aims to use fabric scraps from the wider community to minimize wastage and promote recycling. Not only is the theme of recycling aligned into the programme, but the actual buildings. Material that has been collected from demolition on the original Hemington House site has been re-used and woven into the construction of the newly developed houses.

THOMAS LAWRENCE

focuses on using the existing buildings on the site as supposed to creating many new interventions, allowing as much landscape as possible to be untouched for the residents of the scheme to enjoy and utilise.

TIm Collett

S4 MOHAN HOUSE

YEAR 5

Akexia Christoforou

Sophia Esoimeme

Abbie Gale

Jacqueline Hill

Maria Michail

Edna Noronha

Pranay Patel

Daniel Shefford

MOHAN HOUSE

Mohan House, located in Holbrook, north of Derby and south of Belper, is a large detached late Victorian building, set in spacious tree-lined grounds.

The studio applied the same principles as Continuity, as a way of looking at what is around us. We used the Looking at Oldness methodology, starting with recording facts, seeing history, and conveying emotion, to create architecture with ambience, character, and emotional impact. The primary focus was inhabitation, making good homes for a collective of individuals.

Our exploration was guided by a set of themes.

1 Values regarding the Site + Intentional Community

2 The Space between Things

3 The Public Role of Private Buildings

4 Extension and Addition

5 Rural Commoning

ABBIE GALE

abbielgale@gmail.com

AGROECOLOGY

This proposal utilises ‘Agroecology’ as a driving concept. This relates back to the need to introduce more sustainable agricultural practices within communities, as well as referring to traces of the past in traditional stately homes, once seen as highly sustainable agricultural systems.

Housing units and apartments are situated along an internal and external street running through the spine of Mohan House. This route stems off into shared co-housing spaces on the ground floor of Mohan House, converging in the centre to form a vertical route up to a roof extension accommodating apartments above.

JACQUELINE HILL

jaxlhill@gmail.com

ENTWINE

‘Entwine’ represents both the skill of weaving and sharing of skills across generations as well as the community within the cohousing development and connection to the wider suburban context. Weaving informs the internal and external textures, overall layout of the scheme and is incorporated as a method of maintaining views and creating a visual transparency across the dwellings whilst maintaining physical boundaries. Sustainability is at the heart of the design, using straw from the neighbouring field for thatch roofs and straw bale insulation as well as utilising the existing building to create a new ‘village hall’ and space for textile workshops.

PRANAY PATEL

pranay.a.patel45@gmail.com

GLASSHOUSE GARDENS

This cohousing project aimed to connect a community with a shared passion for growing, cooking and dining within a rural site of Holbrook, Derbyshire. The project made use of the Grade II existing building by transforming it into a living, dining and cooking area whilst using other areas of the sites for growing and providing a socially cohesive environment for the residents as well as the wider community.

DANIEL SHEFFORD

danielshefford.co.uk

PROPOSED DRAWINGS: SECTION B:B 1:200

COMMUNITY THROUGH CONSTRUCTION

This cohousing scheme investigates the activity of self-build construction as a generator for relational unity, where the sharing of skills and ideas may create lasting bonds within the community. Developing these skills intrinsically provides a basis for future enhancement of the home, and can ensure the fabric of the building is maintained most sustainably.

Alongside this,the activity of sharing food is seen as a universal leveller, bringing people with different experiences together. Places to share have been a focus within the scheme.

Foster + Partners is a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design, rooted in sustainability. Founded in 1967 by Norman Foster, it has a worldwide reputation for integrating architecture with engineering and other allied disciplines to establish an innovative approach to the design of buildings, spaces and cities.

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