MArch Architecture ARB/RIBA Part II Yearbook 2019

D A B E March Architecture ARB/RIBA Part II University of Nottingham

Architectural Publication 2019

Publication co-ordinators: Andrea Alvarez Ferreira Eoin Michael O’Brien

Publication Unit Co-ordinators: Alice Hardy Matthew St Leger Eoin Michael O’Brien

Course Director: MArch Architecture Dr Katharina Borsi

Unit Tutors 01 Continuity

Tim Collett Nick Haynes 02 Design & Build

James Benedict Brown Tim Collett Pete Russell 03 Urban Mediations

Katharina Borsi Mike Oades John Morgan

This publication is created as a showcase to represent the wok of the students.

Department of Architecture and Built Environment The University of Nottingham

Contents

Y6 Thesis studios Unit 1: Continuity

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Unit 2: Design & Build

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CONTINUITY Continuity is rooted in the premise that what makes people love old buildings is the quality of ‘oldness’, where the age of the built fabric is felt, the quality of being lived in is tangible, and the passage of time evident and linear. Continuity is not the same as Conservation, which preserves history as an object to be viewed, a museum piece, separated from the present. Continuity is about feeling oldness, feeling history and connecting the present to the past. Continuity is a process of continuing change, and therefore is always incomplete. This studio proposes a three-step methodology to working in old buildings. The first step, Looking at Oldness, is a method for developing a deep understanding of the existing building or site, its history, and how we look at that history. The next step is an Assessment of Significance, articulating conclusions and making informed judgements. The final step is to use the first two steps to make considered Design Interventions. Such methods established a theoretical and conceptual underpinning for each student’s thesis. The projects displayed here demonstrate a variety of topics and sites unified by a methodology for altering the world around us with intent, understanding, appreciation and judgement

Students Atarah Adams Alice Chadwick Ben Clarke Themba Fraser Antonia Georgiou Alice Hardy Janish Lavingia Max Mackay Alice Moxon Ella Quinton Jessie St. Clair Andria Strongylou Naimish Thanki

Tutors Tim Collett Nick Haynes

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The Lengthsman’s Lighthouse Student Photo

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Atarah Adams Sonia Rolt, an Idle Woman, was part of the last group of outsiders able to infiltrate and experience the authentic boating life before its rapid decline, a working lifestyle that captivated Sonia, who chose to stay on the canals and later became an advocate for the community, campaigning for better working conditions and the saviour of the canals following their decline. The site, Warwick Bar, is the junction that would have provided Sonia’s first impression of the city; which she described as ‘highly industrial and totally alive.’

Inspired by the Idle Women of World War II who were liberated of their middle class social standing, and the matriarchal boating society who looked to the women of the community to express the canalside identity through canal arts, this project embodies the idea that the canals can provide a different educational experience for young people by providing apprenticeships in vocational skills such as boatbuilding, canal arts, joinery and carpentry and restores the canalside condition to a space for the working community.

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Architecture in the Picturesque Student Photo

aechadwick@hotmail.co.uk

Alice Chadwick Through employing the Picturesque and Transparency as a principle for design, this project re-addresses how architecture is designed within the natural landscape of the Lake District. Adopting a People’s Palace programme, these architectural instalments celebrate the cultural and environmental significance of the landscape, and experientially satisfy our innate affinity for nature.

Operating across a multitude of scales, the Picturesque and Transparency manifest themselves from the macro-scale of the masterplan, to the micro-scale of the architectural object. Through applying these principles, the vernacular architecture and landscape of the Lake District becomes accessible; architecture and landscape operate as a dichotomy to achieving a phenomenological experience of the place. Moving through the composition, the consciousness is choreographed through a gallery of Picturesque views as an essential component of the four dimensional canvas, transferred from the concave landscape to the convex pavilion, phenomenal transparency achieves clarity in the complete Picturesque composition.

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The Ruin and the Regenerative Armature Student Photo

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Benjamin Martin Clarke By examining scales from macro to micro, my thesis investigated different ways in which Northampton’s boot and shoe industry could be used as a tool to re-purpose its industrial ruins.

From the macro, Northampton’s founded strategic loci sets about a wealth of benefits for the town’s future through the proposed transportation links between Oxford and Cambridge. By using an axial principle, the town centre can renew itself from the post-industrial slump by encouraging new technologies knowledge based industries into its streets. Northampton’s Boot and Shoe Quarter bowed into a pathological state. By having its primary elements redundant it has resulted in a retardation of urban processes and has seen the demise of the quarter. A new wealth of typology is needed to rejuvenate this dying, rich industrial slump.

The G.T. Hawkins Boot and Shoe Factory are locally too important to loose and they are the buildings that, philosophically, contain the collective memories. By implementing a knowledge intensive quarter to encourage new uses among the streets, a diverse set of typological constituents, and monumental apparatus to fit within, Northampton’s industrial ruins can be re-purposed to accommodate a wealth of uses. This project takes the G.T. Hawkins Factory and creates a fully integrated non-programme to tackle the typological problems while creating a regenerative armature that ‘shoe-laces’ the building together.

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Death & The City Student Photo tfraser93@hotmail.co.uk

Cemetery As Park

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Themba Fraser Connecting an insular city in London to the city, through exploring themes of ritual, procession and thresholds.

Cemeteries were originally placed at the core of the city near the church until the late 18th century. The beginning of the 19th century saw the dislocation of the cemetery from being placed within the city, to being pushed to the edge of the city. This transition geographically represented the shift of the social paradigm; moving from a religious society to a secular society. Death became taboo, with connotations diverging from the sacred. This thesis challenges the dislocation of death from the city through an architectural lens, in order to discover possibilities of reengaging the city of the living with the dwellings of the dead. Ultimately this project explores how the cemetery can embody the collective memory of the city not only through monuments but also through the landscape and the architecture.

Cemetery As Ritual

Cemetery As Route

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Revitalising the Old Winery Antonia Georgiou A STRATEGY FOR WORKING ON EXISTING BUILDINGS: INTERVENTION, INSERTION & INSTALLATION The site is located in Limassol, Cyprus. The site used to be a wine industry, which is a reference point to the industrial architectural evolution and the evolution of the city itself. Today the site is found abandoned and ruinated. georgiouantonia2@gmail.com

The aim of this project is to repurpose the old wine factory, using a combination of strategies: Intervention, Insertion & Installation. The strategies were used in order to bring the local community and tourists together, through Trading & Making, which once existed on site. Therefore, the very specific architectural complex of the old winery is now turned into a flexible space, which allows more activities to occur on site.

The redesign of the winery is consisted of wine making and leisure activities, pottery, timber and metal workshops, exhibition spaces and the recreation of the market in the central square.

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Section A-A - Existing

Section A-A - Proposal

Strategy - Intervention

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Axonometric View

Perspective Views

Northeast Elevation - Existing

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Phenomenology & Dementia Student Photo

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Alice Rose Hardy Towards Phenomenological Respite Within a Creative Therapy Guild || Nottingham This thesis explores how a respite centre for individuals with dementia might be situated within an urban context, rejuvenating a derelict building to celebrate memory of place. Through critique of existing medical models of care and analysis of case studies, including Peter Zumthor’s Apartments for Senior Citizens, a series phenomenological tools were defined to be embodied within. A programme of residential care and creative therapy resulted, aiming to socially integrate those with dementia into society, improving quality of life whilst enhancing sensory experience. The proposal defines a living quarter for dementia residents within Nottingham’s Boots Island masterplan. Inspired by Lina Bo Bardi’s methods, T.C. Hine’s existing Warehouses are ‘stripped to their raw tectonics’, whilst a programme of joy and optimism is inserted.

Residents occupy personalised apartments to evoke familiarity, situated on a social axis to enable interaction. At ground, a nostalgic ‘street’ recreates reality, situated within sensory landscaped grounds defined by landmarks, enhancing orientation within the socially inclusive space.

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Healing Atmospheres Student Photo

janishlavingia@gmail.com

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Janish Lavingia ‘The phenomenological interpretation of methods used towards creating healing atmospheres for drug rehabilitation’ Atmosphere, in the architectural sense is a term described to express an intangible feature that filters through to our built environments. Healing is expressed as a term of becoming healthy again. The feeling of a healing atmosphere is an immediate outcome of one’s perceptible environment which is created from the design. This project seeks out the effects of spaces and atmospheres that are acquired by drug rehabilitation and the effects on patients, rethinking the traditional recovery centre with the patient’s perception in mind aiding the healing and recovery process. Following the idea that spaces that are acquired are not just experienced visually but through a phenomenological interpretation.

Situated in the Peak District, the project through the idea of having a connection to a therapeutic landscape and being built with nature provides a space for living, therapy and reflection. The design provides a connection with the context through the embedding of the forest, creating a re-imagined rehabilitation centre with healing connotations.

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The Bonded Warehouse Max Mackay

max.mackay@omakdesign.co.uk

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My thesis design project proposed to transform the Manchester warehouse typology to bring new life to the cities heritage as a whole and serve as a key cultural and strategic lynch-pin to the city. By using the Manchester International Festival as a programmatic basis, I proposed to create a space that serves as a cultural hub for performance art. This not only caters to the growing cultural needs of the contemporary city but also provide adaptable space that can be utilised by the Greater Manchester area’s varying communities for the future. The city has rapidly changed in the last two centuries and the Manchester warehouse has served as a constant from which the city has grown, so revealing the each warehouse’s narrative is key to the character of the city.

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Enshrining Narratives of War Student Photo

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Alice Moxon We have reached the end of a war generation and their first-hand accounts, a primary act of sharing of knowledge. Architecture has been used as a bridge between history and present day, evoking remembrance.

Relics left as scars of war on the landscape such as the old seaplane hangar in Wimbledon and its concrete plinth sunken into the sand at Newhaven are opportunities to incorporate memories of war into daily activities. Creating spaces for the public to share and archive their first-hand accounts through publishing, broadcasting and performing allows them to reach a wider audience. The design itself ensures the hangar is not replicated and restored but evolved and adapted with significant materials appropriate to its story, in this case drawing upon the methods of seaplane construction. The concept of capturing the void and presence between the two sites highlights the journey from Newhaven to Wimbledon and the link between stories told at Wimbledon traveling to Newhaven to be performed in a void of history.

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Building in a maze: A Living Room for Oxford Ella Quinton My thesis asked to what extent the theories of Alison + Peter Smithson can be used to create continuity within the built environment. They were concerned with addressing the issues of historical continuity + urban Identity. The Smithsons emphasised the heterogeneous and evolving nature of cities. Central to their philosophy was ‘architecture as a way of life’, an understanding that the built environment was a complex fabric enabling inhabitation through adaptation and appropriation of space. ella.quinton@gmail.com

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The residents, visitors and students occupy Oxford in tension, with very different experiences of the city.

My intention is to reveal an authentic shared experience of the city that does not objectify or fetishize the historic fabric, but celebrates the ‘as found’ nature. The Smithsons taught us what it is to be human, Oxford needs to be reminded of what it means to be living. My brief is for a community centre that provides a space for all inhabitants of Oxford to share equally, the ‘living room for Oxford’. Life occurs in the pockets and alleyways of the city. By reverting the urban grain to this passageway and pocket space typology, I am creating continuity through means other than physical artefacts.

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Edgelands: mediation between town and industry Student Photo

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Jessie St. Clair Mysterious, almost forgotten territories exist on the periphery of cities. Neither urban nor rural these transient, undesigned clusters quietly gather vernacular artefacts and generate a specific landscape condition. Steven Holl describes these situations in his work ‘Edge of a City’ as “a philosophical region, where city and natural landscape overlap, existing without choice or expectation”. As such, edgelands can be considered a natural phenomenon, their own discrete condition in the landscape distinctions of city – edgeland – countryside. Edgeland dialect can be perceived through traces in its built fabric and the scheme examines inhabitation along the River Dee (considered the edgeland to nearby Liverpool) and focusses on the iconic clock tower, which since 1907 has been a symbol for steelmaking in the area. A familiar and fond feature along the river the design focussed on a means of transforming a loved, but poorly kept building and inviting people back in. The design acts as a microcosm of the edgeland landscape, sitting beside the clock tower as a necessary fix that backdrops the idea of home and life along the River Dee. They represent the three elements of the landscape: industry, town and a new proposal which enhances the landscape as a place of harmony, mediated by the presence of nature.

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“Larnaca New Square�

Market as a Social Space Activator Andria Strongylou

New square development in Larnaca, Cyprus.

andriastrongylou@hotmail.co.uk

The main design intentions behind my Thesis Design Project were to re-activate a central site to make it more social and weave it back to the city and context, thus making it part of the movement of the area.

The design strategies I used include, creating porous openings on the perimetrical block to encourage links with context, activating the back of the existing buildings which are in use in order to work both with the road and the new public square, re-use the existing buildings on site which are currently empty and lastly, design new spaces which have a social aspect in order to encourage people through the site rather than around it.

The main design scheme includes a market which is the catalyst in bringing more people in, a public square which will work alternatively during different seasons and festivals, a new key urban corner which is the tallest building on site and accommodates social activities, a hotel with temporary stay rooms and extensions to the existing buildings.

Through this new scheme I wanted to create a space with a new social dynamic in order to bring more people in the area to enhance the history and the traditions of the city.

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Long Site Section

External Market View-Night time

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Raving in the Ruins Naimish Thanki The proposal explores the relationship between transient events and ruinous locations and how the ruin can be defined as an ever evolving entity that is based on the needs of its occupants and the events that take place within. The Mayfield Depot Community and Events Hub proposes to create a balance between the permanent and transient spaces within the currently derelict site of Mayfield Railway Station in Manchester. Transient events are facilitated through the preparation that takes places within the permanent spaces - the permanent intervention within Mayfield Depot subsequently acts as “the brain of the

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building”. The permanent zone consists of a series of workshops, making spaces, recording studios, wellbeing spaces.

The transient zone is an ever changing space based on the needs of the local community, its flexibility allows it to encompass a broad range of functions. The scheme aims to bring the community of Manchester closer through a grassroots strategy in which locals can assist with the ‘behind-the-scenes’ work which enables the events to take place as well as through the promotion of local talent through events. Mayfield Depot is flanked by an industrial lot towards the immediate south whilst the more developed city centre lies towards the north. The relationship between old and new highlights the neglect that the surrounding regions of Mayfield Depot have experienced. The station lies in a key position that can help facilitate future speculation for development and extend the city beyond the invisible boundaries that Piccadilly Station imposes.

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Design+Build The Design+build studio considers the multifaceted relationship between the discipline of architecture and the production of the built environment. In a society which regards the construction and maintenance of buildings as a primarily financial rather than social process, the unit’s investigative focus is on ethics, the role of the architect and the role of a community.

Whilst the built environment is being procured, designed and shaped by a broad community of stakeholders, each with competing financial, social, and cultural interests, what is the role of the architect? How might we develop systems and components for productive agents to shape their own built environment?

Students Andrea Alvarez Jana Channing Alex Douglas Jenny Hall Lyndsy Hutchinson Nick Jackson Eoin Michael O’Brien Sam Ocock Julija Pivovarenok Julka Radka Anotonia Scott Chrysanthi Sini

Tutors James Benedict Brown Tim Collett Pete Russell

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The Third Age Campus Andrea Alvarez Ferreira A new hub for the University of the Third Age (U3A)

andreaalvarezf95@gmail.com

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By employing the utilisation of shared space at the heart of the scheme, the Third Age Campus is an exploration into how social interaction can be allowed and encouraged in schemes for the elderly and wider community. dThe Third Age Campus, is a new central hub for the University of the Third Age in Nottingham, the site was chosen as it was identified as an area of high risk of loneliness by Age UK. Meanwhile, St Anns has high levels of deprivation within Nottingham and its close proximity to other services such as day centres and retirement homes provided a key vantage point.

The project provides a centralised location for all U3A activities, which focus on engaging the body and the brain, thus the programme has three main umbrellas, the knowledge hub, the active hub and the making hub, all of which are accessed through the shared social street. The street is the central shared space, where all activity feeds off from, activity is merged with the circulation, encouraging interaction between members who use the building, as well as the wider public, as the street is open for all to use.

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Self Build For the Homeless Student Photo

alex@alexdouglas.info

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Alexander Douglas The Multi-Column System Approach The aims of this thesis were to understand the needs of homeless individuals, and address some of the approachable issues through a new system of self build. Based on an redesigned Segal concept, the multicolumn system provides a method of evolving creation, utilising standard dimensional timber, allowing self-builders flexible control over the design and delivery of their own home.

The system designed was accompanied by a pilot scheme, based within Nottingham, within which the system was utilised to create both residential space for homeless individuals, as well as accompanying communal facilities necessary to facilitate the design, construction, and organisation of the development.

A workshop and office space, communal wash and cooking facilities, a nursery, and external cultivated space were designed on site with 14 homes arranged into 2 different styles of residential living, aiming to understand the requirements a micro-community of self builders would have in order to operate such a build project.

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Right to Self-Build: Housing for Sheffield Student Photo

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Jennifer Hall My thesis considers participation as an alternative to the mainstream practice of architecture and an investigation according to following themes; empowerment of the user and the process of building.

The success of the Segal Method demonstrates the importance of understanding the political, social and physical conditions of the site. Corresponding with the Segal projects, the scheme is a phased intervention on a complex brownfield site and requires the initiative of individuals and the council. Sheffield, as part of the Northern Powerhouse, is a place of change and development. Housing provision would be diversified by the introduction of participation and the scheme acknowledges the lack of provision for newly forming households in the city.

The concept of core and infill allows the build to split into two distinct phases. The scheme considers the effect of core and infill on the design of the individual unit to the masterplan of the entire site.

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Collaborative Office - City:Desk Student Photo

lyndsy6@hotmail.co.uk

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Lyndsy Hutchinson The intention of my thesis was to uncover the effectiveness collaboration has on the workplace and how office design can enhance collaboration. Disciplines need to collaborate through well designed offices that incorporate interaction, variation and less hierarchy.

Through addressing the micro and macro concerns of the office, from the scale of the desk to the city. I will be designing a new multidisciplinary office for Atkins, for 1000 people, aiming to develop collaboration in and out of the office. The new HS2 station at Toton will provide a 50 minute commute to London. The urban landscape around the site at Nottingham Science Park is chaotic and unconnected; leaving an opportunity to suggest something new. Through incorporating the cycle network in the urban landscape, I want to increase the percentage of people who cycle to work from 4% to 12%. By considering how a workers efficiency can be enhanced by cycling straight to their desk and to meetings.

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Ornamental Health Nick Jackson This project explores the application of the theories of Nikos Salingaros and Christopher Alexander to a Student Care Centre for Cambridge University. Salingaros’ Theory of Architecture defines architectural ornament as “structural order at the detail scale”, which is contended to be a necessary component towards human appreciation of and connection to the built environment. This is contrasted with more normative architectural approaches, which tend to characterise ornament as functionally superfluous. nd.jacknick@ntlworld.com

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Salingaros’ Theory of Architecture represents an analytical consolidation of the life’s work of Alexander, whose design processes is appropriated within this thesis. The theories of Salingaros and Alexander are mediated with a more normative approach to architectural design, with eye to reconciling Salingaros’ defining of architecture as “the expression and application of geometrical order” with a more phenomenological approach. This is all brought together to produce a scheme that is visually ornamental yet mindful of direct user experience, and speaks of its place and function beyond the application of superficial decoration.

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New Tin Pan Alley Student Photo

eoin1527@me.com

Eoin Michael O’Brien An Armature for Grassroots Music Production Addressing the current hierarchical trends of the music industry across the UK through the lens of Bourdieurian theories of cultural capital and autonomous social spaces, “New Tin Pan Alley” seeks to create an new autonomous musical community in the heart of the city, driven by self build and self production techniques. This framework initiative seeks to provide a springboard for musicians and artists at the grassroots level of the industry, through the provision of recording facilities, musical vendors, temporary accommodation, and a platform for performance. In doing so, it hopes to bring a new lease of life to Denmark Street - or “Tin Pan Alley” - near London’s Tottenham Court Road. This iconic location of the UK music industry has, in recent years, come under increasing threat from the gentrification of the surrounding area, and its fall from grace comes to represent the worrying decline of grassroots venues across the capitol.

Between 2007 and 2015, London lost 35% of its grassroots music venues, a decline from 136 spaces programming new artists to just 88 remaining today. This network of small venues is essential to the discovery and support of aspiring musicians and are often symbiotically linked to a number of independent record labels across the country. Indeed, The Mayor of London’s Music Venues Taskforce recently concluded that these grassroots music venues are not only “pivotal to the ongoing success of the UK music industry” but also that they “contribute to London’s desirability as a place to live, work and visit.” By introducing a new autonomous armature for grassroots music production in such a prominent and poignant location, it is hoped that a new influx of musicians will flood into the area, breathing new life into the nearby grassroots venues and establishing a musical quarter of sorts, rejuvenating the great Denmark Street to its former glory in the process.

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Autonomous Vehicle Manufacturing Hub Student Photo

Sam Ocock

Ground figure plan [1:500] a u to n o m o u s v e h i c l e m a n u fa c t u r i n g h u b

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The thesis challenged the idea of typology with respect to factories in Coventry and how a new factory could be constructed in a city centre. After the initial success of the automotive industry in the city, its demise resulted in the decline of Coventry and has since resorted to the service economy and initiatives such as the UK City of Culture bid. An alternative would be to return to the automotive industry.

The new proposal is a multi-storey autonomous vehicle manufacturing hub which would be a scaled assembly line to produce public self-driving cars. The manufacturing hall is complemented by offices, university accommodation, public exhibitions and a new Jaguar Land Rover world built over the existing Coventry market. The factory engages with citizens on an urban level, providing facilities for public use, with much of the faรงade being exposed to understand and appreciate each stage of the manufacturing process.

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Julija Pivovarenok The modern city of Manchester is developing into an increasingly separate and alien entity. The temple and the town hall stand ‘permanent’, whilst the rest of the city is in flux of constant rebuilding, a cog in the capitalist machine for newer and shinier buildings. At hand is a prevailing emphasis on rigidity and spatial disconnect of a public building from its surroundings.

The aim of this project is to produce an interruption in the prevailing social structure and the repressive spatial qualities generated by speculative developments through a creation of an autonomous community able to engage the public realm through making and co-habiting, thus extending architectural notions to societal possibilities in an attempt to reconcile the engagement between the community, external public realm, and working environment.

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O R I G I N Ĺ Ă“ D Ĺš Dementia Care Student Photo

julia.radka@gmail.com

Julia Radka Origin Lodz is a Memory Care residential facility for people with dementia; located in the heart of Poland, between existing Origin Neuro Care and Orto Care facilities in Warsaw and Krakow.

There are four types of residences; two vertical blocks for residents with moderate dementia, two clusters for those with advanced dementia, suites for couples with varying stages, and hospice care.

Each living cluster was designed using the same principles, however, the level of complexity decreases in clusters occupied by dependant residents to avoid environmental over-stimulation. Each bedroom and cluster have been designed to promote a swift transition between homes as the condition progresses.

Progression of environment has been a key driver for this project,, from a resident-controlled environment within a bedroom, to a seasonally controlled environment within corridors, to a seasonally responsive environment within winter garden terraces.

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Adaptive Heritage- Bath Cultural Antonia Isabelle Scott

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My Thesis explores the approaches that have been used when designing with heritage buildings, looking particularly at the city of Bath and two case studies that were Therma Bath Spa and The Holburne Museum.

It investigated these approaches and using architectural theorist’s views on designing with heritage and existing buildings analysed as to whether they were considered successful and the key design rationales that I would then take into my project.

The proposal is an Architectural Heritage Cultural Center located in the center of Bath. I will be designing with Heritage buildings to create a central/ focal point for locals and visitors to come to before they start their journey exploring the city, its heritage and culture. Inside the project it has museum/ gallery spaces that as you travel through the levels of the building you take in a new layer of history starting with Roman ruins to Georgian and present day. There is also an Education / Learning Center for seminars, workshops, VR experience and co-working spaces for locals to utilise. As well as a roof terrace and performance spaces.

The project has combined new and existing construction to challenge how people view heritage buildings especially in this World Heritage, UNESCO city.

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Self-made ‘Centre for the community’ in Athens Student Photo

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Chrysanthi Sini Developing the Thesis research on integrating self-build timber structures into derelict areas to contribute to community-led urban regeneration, the project introduces the use timber as a new method of regenerating areas according to the local people’s needs. The project is in the neighbourhood of Kerameikos, near the Athenian city centre, well-known for its multicultural character and homogeneity between local people and immigrants. Though the current state of the area includes derelict spaces, old buildings’ remains and lack of community facilities, the locals are very active and try to improve the area by creating small scale self-built interventions. One of the main ideas behind the project is not only to aesthetically and physically improve the neighbourhood, but also to revive the ancient tradition of wooden building, by transforming the ‘concrete jungle’ to a ‘timber forest’ which could be gradually expand to the rest of the city. The building typology of the ‘community centre’ is transformed to a ‘centre for the community’, by re-designing and enhancing the neighbourhood, aiming to respond to the needs of the locals by creating the necessary spaces, whilst providing a sensitive urban regeneration.

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Urban Mediations DESCRIPTION The studio is concerned with typology and its effect on urban transformation. We investigate how architecture and urban areas support and catalyse social, spatial and economic pattern of synergies and transformation. The studio sets out to understand these urban ecologies through mapping and analysis.

In this academic year, the studio was concerned with the spatiality of innovation, that is, the way in which typology and urban areas can support and catalyze social, spatial and economic pattern of synergies of the new knowledge economies, in particular the creative industries. The Nottingham Creative Quarter was our case study for the 4-week research study in the autumn semester. Mapping its typological and morphological pattern and urban synergies against its deliverance of a creative quarter served to examine the agency of type, urban pattern of intensities and pattern conducive to an urban life of innovation.

Students Lucy Best Kimberley Burton-Lynch Shane Collins Megan Davies Isabella Di Tora Filippos Glibbery Katie King Stephanie Kyle Nathan Machin Alice Power Siu Man Pun Phillip Sims Matthew St Leger Chris Woodford

Tutors Katharina Borsi Mike Oades John Morgan

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An Alternative to the Zoo Student Photo

lucybest94@hotmail.co.uk

Lucy Best Currently 60% of all species are in decline, with 1 in 10 facing permanent extinction. The zoo as a typology acts as a vehicle for conservation, however it may never be able to satisfy the requirements of all animals to improve animal welfare and change public perception. I decided to explore the possibility of an alternative.

An Alternative to the Zoo instead focuses on in-situ conservation of native species, removing the ‘captivity’ aspect of the typology whilst maintaining core zoo principles: providing conservation education, research and entertainment.

Situated in Cromer, Norfolk, the project concerns itself with three habitats: grassland on the cliff top, rock pools at the cliff bottom, and marine in the sea.

A journey through these different habitats was curated, with an incline elevator down the cliff front and a pier to complete the connections between the three habitats.

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The Civic Junction Student Photo

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Kimberley Burton-Lynch A project evoking the importance of civic spaces in response to the restructuring of the welfare state.

Utilising the principles of density of functions and intensity of social engagements as integral tools for encouraging richness of place, identity and social inclusion; enabling The Civic Junction to become an anchor within its urban context and local community.

Through my research of Dalston Junction, I identified key socio-economic data and looked into existing civic outreach which highlighted the needs of local residents. The primary programme of my proposal is a nursery and pre-school facility, with the secondary programme including spaces for local residents and community outreach, that can tackle issues such as giving parents access to employment and skills workshops. These two components will be joined through public garden and allotment spaces that can be used by both the nursery and community in tandem and merges the scheme back into the existing Curve Garden.

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Architecture of Rehabilitation Meg Davies My thesis research focussed on the effect of architecture on behaviour, specifically those undergoing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, under the title:

meg.davies@hotmail.com

‘Several theories suggest that human behaviour can be conditioned via external stimuli. In the UK, 40% of those undergoing treatment for drug and alcohol addiction do not complete their treatment.

How can the architectural design of rehabilitation spaces be utilised to create a place which contributes to improved completion of treatment?’ The scheme provides treatment for those with addiction to drugs or alcohol who require residential treatment or those undergoing treatment in the community. Set in a sub-urban area of Birmingham, the project applies the researched theory to a built example to understand how spatial characteristics combine to aid spatial function. The scheme provides for those who require residential treatment or those undergoing treatment in the community.

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The Urban Observatory in the Scientific Citadel Student Photo

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Isabella Di Tora This thesis investigated issues related to a rapid expansion in the Science fields and a growing social detachment within Trieste, a city still very attached to its history. Further research evaluated the involvement of international private institutions in the development of the Scientific hub, and whether this could be considered either a catalyst for the city, or indeed one of the causes for its depopulation. The findings helped establishing how this advancement affected - if not compromised – the city’s Urban Identity.

Analysing key elements of the city through Aldo Rossi’s views on primary elements, functionality and typology led a search for a link between past and future, creating an urban layer aimed to start a reconnection to the citizens, promoting a hub that could be transposed to different locations. The medium between the city’s effective Identity and the citizens would create a collective experience as a school of Marine Biology and Zoology, offering a range of activities aimed at different levels of expertise in the study of autochthonous species of flora and fauna. People of every age would be encouraged to collaborate and engage with their home territory in exhibition, library, open learning and laboratory spaces, thus setting a precedent by using traditional values and materiality as foundations for intergenerational collaboration towards a common future, and the creation of a Citadel for everyone.

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Music making spaces ; sensual evolution Student Photo

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Katie King Millbay Music Centre - Plymouth, Devon, UK. Architectural and city spaces are seen, heard and felt through all our human senses. Our impressions of space are influenced through form, scale and material and it is important that each sense is carefully considered. This thesis project establishes a new cultural quarter for live musical performance at the harbour of Britain’s Ocean City. The chosen context forms a link between the urban Abercrombie plan and rugged seafront landscape; human and nature.

Architectural space is inspired by “music” unique to the city of Plymouth, stemming from the varying scales of local performance and the surrounding physical environment. The architecture is visualised as an integral part of the acoustical composition and performance.

Through distinctly expressed “sound-houses”, the meaning of music and soundscapes are forever transforming.

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The Human Cage Student Photo

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Stephanie Kyle An experimental prison designed with neuro-diverse inclusive design principles to accommodate the vast and varied neurological requirements of the true prison population What better way to explore inclusive design recommendations than in a typology where 93% of the users have a neurological impairment? HMP Chetwynd is a controversial prison, closely aligned with the ethics of the Norwegian prison system but implementing neuro-diverse inclusive design at every opportunity.

Located at the Chetwynd Barracks in Nottinghamshire, it proposes a direct alternative to current reform and rehabilitation, prioritising inclusive environments and the neuro-diverse needs of prisoners over traditional British incarceration design. This project questions the requirements of successful incarceration, rehabilitation and reintegration, seek alternatives to static security, boundaries and community segregation and offers opportunity for an alternative rehabilitative programme. The project aim was to generate design reccommendations for better incorporation of inclusive design that can be applied to any typology as 38% of the population have alternative, non-mobility design needs.

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The Creative’s Cooperative Student Photo

n.machin@hotmail.co.uk

Nathan Machin The Creative’s Cooperative is located on Lincoln high street it is a learning and retail environment shaped around celebrating the independent creative arts. The university funded project is managed and ran by its occupants who are all stakeholders. The project aims to restore social value to the high street through its three main themes of production, education and commerce.

The brief was formed around the lack of opportunities in the city for those from creative backgrounds.

The university is ranked 5th in the UK for its design and crafts-based subjects, but very few graduates stay in the city.

The three buildings offer maximum flexibility to ensure that each occupier is fully supported in their craft, but also physically open so that the public can engage with each step of the making process. This encourages visitors to return regularly for new experiences, take part in workshops and eventually rent their own studio or market space.

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Liverpool Victoria Dock Market Hall Biorefinery Student Photo

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Alice Power Our living planet is a self-sustaining, closed life support system that comprises of three subsystems that cooperate via cyclical disequilibrium, to carefully maintain an environment in which life of all kinds can be born, sustained and succeeded.

Our global food systems are degrading this environment and its capacity to produce food for future generations, simultaneously ruining biodiversity. This thesis explores the challenge of food and waste in cities, through the lens of design.

Based in the dereliction of Liverpool’s northern maritime centre, this project reimagines the market hall. A community-centric locus offering a series of spaces in which natural capital can be transferred, extracted and regenerated; all for the production and consumption of food.

Overall, this project imagines an engine room of society, an urban metabolism for organic food waste; a hierarchy of process-oriented, food-waste centred spaces forming an exhibition that challenges today’s practices, paving the way for tomorrows revolutions.

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Frames: A Creative Urban Village Student Photo

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Siu Man Pun The project proposes an urban village for creative communities. It seeks to create a city within a building, mixing programme across various levels and to develop complex interweaving of relations of living, working, production, and social life in specific urban contexts. The scheme is developed through exploring the five elements of an open form for developing a sustainable creative community: human scale urban form, mix of uses, porous edges, spatial flexibility and unfinished narrative. These elements offer potentials for robust intimate human interactions and the development of complex social networks that are conducive to creativity. In the era of knowledge economy, it is paramount for infrastructures to take an open form that empowers collaboration and collective creativity for knowledge production.

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The Intelligent Hand Student Photo

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Phillip Sims A woodworking maker’s guild in Hackney Wick; the title comes from a key theme of the thesis research, which explores the relevance of craftsmanship in architecture and its value in society. The intelligent hand refers to the unity of hand eye and brain, which occurs when one gains a level of proficiency in a certain craft and the process of thinking and making become interconnected. The concept was explored further through a first-hand making; a traditional Japanese chidori joint and an intuitive carving, created without an idea of the finished result. Through these studies it was determined that the potential to develop an intelligent hand is shared equally among humans, through persistence and practice. Located in Hackney Wick, an area which is rapidly being gentrified, the local youth population are disenfranchised and forgotten. The scheme aims to inspire this community and allow them to explore their potential to develop ‘intelligent hands’ through timber making. The building attempts to inspire the makers by revealing the journey of the wood from large blocks to finished pieces, and through the elevation of the simple chidori joint into an architectural language encapsulating craftsmanship.

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Mediatory Fabric Matthew St Leger This thesis project queries what the spatiality of marginalisation is in the UK. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of antiquated nationalistic identity in the UK which, because of the malleability of identity and the dissolution of these identities in multicultural communities, suggests that people and communities are divided and categorised. e: mattst.leger@googlemail.com

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Identifying boundaries between the community of Spinney Hills and Charnwood on the East Park Road, the project, through the framework and masterplan, suggests ways in which the existing character and spaces of active and passive participation can be improved and ways in which boundaries can be dissolved in inactive portions of urban realm. The buildings proposed provides both an extension to the street for passive participation and active participation as a destination in the road. This combined with the permeability and interaction points in the proposal have the potential to dissolve the boundary between the two communities and through a new commonality and common space reduce the otherness and difference between them.

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Bristol City Forum Student Photo

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Chris Woodford My thesis ‘Common Ground’, began as a consideration into the decline of the Town Hall as a public entity, developing into an exploration into the importance of local assemblies within the city. A rapidly changing and evolving environment requires local anchors, a common ground where local residents can engage and connect with their urban surroundings. The offer of a physical framework in which face to face interactions, the sharing of ideas and knowledge can occur.

The project takes an unused site in the very centre of Bristol and proposes the establishment of a City Forum, to facilitate city making as a collective endeavour. The proposal brings together four key local stakeholders; local government, local partners, non-profit groups and engaged citizens into a space where ideas and issues regarding the city can be debated, shared and acted upon.

A series of spaces (workshops, studios, library, archive, galleries) which follow four general principles of knowledge, research, debate and presentation encircle a debating chamber, hosting large scale debates and events.

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