UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM DABE BArch/MEng Architecture (ARB / RIBA Part 1) YEAR 1 YEARBOOK 2021
YEARBOOK ORGANISERS
COVER ARTWORK
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Chris Bennett Caty Goulbourn Jenni Wilson
Matt Urry
CONTENTS YEAR 1 INTRODUCTION CONTRIBUTORS ARCHI-TÊTES
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INDIVIDUAL STUDENT PROJECTS U1 SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE U2 SINEAD HENNESSY & NICOLE PORTER U3 LIZ BROMLEY U4 DEREK TROWELL U5 BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS U6 ELENA THATCHER & LORNA KIMBA
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YEAR 1
INTRODUCTION Year 1 is a foundation and qualifying year for both the BArch and MEng students. Studio this year focuses on teaching and testing the fundamental principles of architectural design through a series of design projects. The year is divided into 6 units, each unit having a Unit Lead as well as tutorials from visiting practitioners and 6th Year tutors from the Masters course. The 2 main design projects of the year consist of an artist’s dwelling on a selection of sites within Wollaton Park in the autumn semester, and public focused building in Nottingham during the spring semester. The students had a choice of typologies for this second project: music and movement centre, urban retreat, literary club, community hub, which all played a part in the Project Nottingham scheme run by the university this year, focusing on sites in the city centre. Studio comprised of five stages of skill building exercises, design projects and portfolio assessments. In addition to learning the fundamental principles of creating a building that responds to a specific client and a given site, students also learned how to communicate their design intentions effectively through drawings, models and verbal presentations and integrate and test knowledge learnt in their taught modules of Environmental Design, Humanities, Tectonics and IDA.
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YEAR LEADER
UNIT LEADS
6TH YEAR TUTORS
Liz Bromley
Susie Douglas Alison Gwynne Sinead Hennessy Nicole Porter Liz Bromley Derek Trowell Ben Youd Ed Higgins Elena Thatcher Lorna Kimba
VISITING PRACTIONERS
Adam Brown Chris Goodwin John Newbery Josh Dobson Amy Turner Maia Rollo Shaun Davey Bethany Griffin Andrew King Cath Legg Martin Williams
Ryder Kirk-Newstead Conor Vale Poppy Chinn Imogen Bryce Joe Wareham Kate Stephenson Abigail McHardy Georgia Hillier Merick Hennrie Ventsi Videlov Tilisha Franklin Natalie Matanda Bethan Crouch Emily Atkinson Rachel Marshall Matt Skelding Lucy Wren Eric Atkinson
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ARCHI-TÊTES
Team 5D
YEAR 1, 5 & 6 INDUCTION PROJECT The ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ project acts as in induction project to bring together approximately 300 students, from both the incoming Year 1 and Year 5 students with the Year 6 team leaders, in a student led two-day design project. Inspired by the drawings ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ by Louis Hellman, Architect turned cartoonist, who created a series of caricatures of architects using elements of their own buildings combined with the architects own facial features, the ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ induction project evolves this concept for the digital age. Hellman created his first drawing as a competition entry to the Architectural Review in 1984, which he won. He went on to create numerous caricatures of architects, designers, politicians and himself for the Architectural Review for many years, which were published in the book Archi-têtes: the id in the Grid (2000).
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Team 3B
Team 4D
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U1 YEAR 1
UNIT 1 Unit Leads: Susie Douglas & Alison Gwynne Visiting Practitioners: Adam Brown & Chris Goodwin 6th Year Tutors: Ryder Kirk-Newstead, Conor Vale, Poppy Chinn
Amy Armstrong Neha Bhatia Ka Chao Samuel Crichton Alexandra Earle Brooke Fouladgar Ingrid Fung Holly Garbett Asha Gedi Olivia Higson Mei Lin Kuttila Max Lane Cameron Liddy
Chloe Luong Sean Mehta Sanjana Narayanan Nnamdi Oji Lauren Pohl Rebecca Preston Priscilla Sriranjan Xela Swan Cindy Tasong Alara Turay Paulina Wilk Luke Yeulett Ethan Young
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
INGRID FUNG MUSIC & MOVEMENT CENTRE This project is a Music & Movement Centre; a place encouraging well-being through physical and mental activity, whilst also providing space for community and individual interactions. The building’s design revolved around the terms ‘colour’ and ‘modular’ and the idea that external spaces are equally as important as internal spaces, especially in a post-covid world. On the ground floor are the more public spaces – the public Café and Office at the front, a Courtyard, and a double-height Performance Space at the back, whilst the Music and Dance Studios are on the first floor.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
ASHA GEDI COMMUNITY HUB With a focus on fluidity in terms of free movement through a space, I designed a community hub on Carrington Street. The individual spaces are all connected to the lower tote path communal seating area. With public spaces such as the reception and food and clothes bank found on the main street, private spaces like washing facilities are located further down the canal. The use of roof gardens creates for a more sustainable and enjoyment for visitors. My idea was then developed to allow shapes of spaces to be more fluid and allowed for the design to feel more open.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
OLIVIA HIGSON PERSONAL SPACE PROJECT This project was a studio and living space for the print artist Angie Lewin. The site is located in Wollaton Park by the lake which gives relaxing views out into the forest and the water. It has a gradual linear change from public to private which was incorporated throughout the project by raising the spaces upwards out over the lake to give better views and more privacy from the path. To integrate the building into the environment a green roof keeps the site looking as natural as possible for the visitors, while giving Lewin space to grow subject matter for her art.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
CAMERON LIDDY COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT For the comprehensive design project, this design is an urban retreat for the High Pavement site in Nottingham. A key feature of this design is the central courtyard which sinks into the site to create a unique experience within the city. The space aims to be a modern interpretation of a cave whilst highlighting the verticality of the site. Alongside this, the ground floor is a mostly open space that varies in density and provides a touch of nature that the site itself lacks.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
MEI LIN KUTTILA THE URBAN RETREAT The urban retreat is located between The Nottingham Contemporary and the Pitcher & Piano in Lace Market. The building is a place of spiritual wellbeing where people can go to get away from their busy days and relax in the tranquil atmosphere of the place. The building offers therapy rooms, a quiet contemplation room, a meditation space, a café and social spaces such as the courtyard and rooftop gardens. Because nature is known to improve our mental health, the design focuses on biophilia with its green roofs, gardens, water elements, bamboo materiality, use of natural light and views overlooking the city.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
LAUREN POHL CREATIVE COLLECTIVE The Creative Collective is a community project to bring artistic production back to the lace market, located between the Nottingham Contemporary and Pitcher & Piano the site is easily accessible in the popular location. My proposal focuses on a pottery workshop where the buildings form resembles the manipulation of clay. It follows the process of pottery in its layout with a natural walkway created through the two buildings. The eccentric form of the faceted style building extends out onto the contemporary stairs creating excitement as you approach.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
CINDY TASONG COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT This urban retreat is a way to add more green space into the Lace Market and allows people to escape the busy commercial sector. Upon arrival, there is a communal hub. This includes the café, the entrance to the external courtyard and the routes to the social and quiet reflection spaces. Additionally, the rooftop seating at the street level allows the public to gaze upon the central hub and the external courtyard down the site, adding to the communal atmosphere. The concept of my scheme was how light and rhythm can change the journey through the building.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 1 - SUSIE DOUGLAS & ALISON GWYNNE
LUKE YEULETT MUSIC + MOVEMENT CENTRE The project is a Music and Movement Centre that brings people together in a post-covid era with exterior space for safe socialising and an interior that encourages interaction. The concept of my design was to create a sense of community through the interaction between the building’s straight lines and curves. The building has a café bordering the street, which is entered by walking beneath a copper archway and through a circular courtyard. Beyond this, the building has a double height atrium, a first floor Movement Studio, and a Performance Suite at the back which emulates a jazz-club-type atmosphere.
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U2 YEAR 1
UNIT 2 Unit Leads: Sinead Hennessy & Nicole Porter Visiting Practitioners: John Newbery & Josh Dobson 6th Year Tutors: Imogen Bryce, Joe Wareham, Kate Stephenson
Lia Belton Danielle Cass Kate Claxton Hayden Day Linbingren Dong Timothy Griffin Nathan Hadfield Stefania Heath-Apostolopoulos Sophie Henderson Rohan Humphrey Ireen Kasuka Anna Lumley Janire McMillan-Castanares Khushi Patel Aneesha Patel Mala Pearson
Larissa Phasey Thomas Pickering Austeja Poskaite Kutloano Sepanya Lucy Steward Mcauley Steward Thomas Vale Esha Verma Shao-Yu Wang Alexander Watkin Siara Wong
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YEAR 1 UNIT 2 - SINEAD HENNESSY & NICOLE PORTER
NATHAN HADFIELD URBAN RETREAT The aim of the Urban Retreat was something that resonated with the challenging times many people would have faced through the Corona virus pandemic, to which people would need to alleviate built up stress and to relax in a calming environment. Water was a key element to the architecture as a material and as to build a spiritual connection. Spirit Nottingham is split into three levels each providing different atmospheres and contemplation spaces, with water flowing through all levels. 1st image displays lower ground, 2nd shows approach from south of Nottingham Contemporary, 3rd image shows entrance view.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 2 - SINEAD HENNESSY & NICOLE PORTER
SOPHIE HENDERSON MUSIC AND MOVEMENT CENTRE The brief for this site on High Pavement was a Music and Movement Centre. My design focused on the concept of creating public and private spaces by contrasting the permeability of views into different parts of the building. External landscaping was also a key part of my design as I wanted to create a link with the public realm. My first image is of the approach to my building along high pavement, the second is a view of the external landscaping and side faced and my third image is of my large dance studio.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 2 - SINEAD HENNESSY & NICOLE PORTER
MALA PEARSON MUSIC AND MOVEMENT CENTRE The project brief called for a music and movement centre along High Pavement road. The centre provides for the public with the café that spills out into an open courtyard space at the front. The 1st image shows a rendered elevation of the building within its context. The 2nd close-up image shows the variety of openings and the 3rd displays the view as you approach at the front of the building. Overall I really enjoyed this design project and I am looking forward to future projects.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 2 - SINEAD HENNESSY & NICOLE PORTER
THOMAS PICKERING COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT The design is based on finding order in the chaos of every day. The design is very jumbled, crashing together, however the functions and route through the building adapt to it in order to make it a functional space. This is done to reflect how mental health is treated (the key function of the building) you can’t cure mental illness but you can learn to live with it and have a ‘normal life’. The first image shows a section of the building and some shadowed plans. The 2nd and 3rd images show the externals of the building.
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U3 YEAR 1
UNIT 3 Unit Lead: Liz Bromley Visiting Practitioners: Amy Turner & Maia Rollo 6th Year Tutors: Abigail McHardy, Georgia Hillier, Merick Hennrie
Joe Binks George Cottrell Harley Freeman Mariam Ghuwell Anna Greig Scarlett Hartland Jacob Hodgson Herbie Hudson Nicolas Jezequel Ewa Kuczynska Sarah Matthews James Meadows David Mintoft Ria Mistry
Natalia Padlikowska Emilia Rapacioli Lilika Rea Joel Riley Rahaf Saeed Anna Satodia Joshua Self Libby Stainton Frederick Street Poppy Newton Amy Santos Nunes Brooke Wilson Rebecca Wormald
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YEAR 1 UNIT 3 - LIZ BROMLEY
EMILIA RAPACIOLI LITERARY CLUB Located on the intersection of Carrington Street and the Nottingham Canal, the Literary Club bridges between the two paces of life. It has spaces for group and individual reading, along with a café and Writer’s Retreat. The club is split into two buildings that divide the social and silent activities, connected with two external walkways. The buildings are visually connected through the use of materials, including cedar vertical blades and grey brick relief and perforations that allow views into and out of the façades.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 3 - LIZ BROMLEY
ANNA SATODIA COMMUNITY HUB My design of a community hub includes many different services for the local community. The idea is that people who need help can come here and be offered both materialistic as well as emotional help. The building includes a central café in an atrium space, resource rooms with computers and books, a private meeting space, clothes hire service and laundry and showering facilities. The essence of the building is to be a core within the community, providing connection and bringing people together.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 3 - LIZ BROMLEY
LIBBY STAINTON URBAN RETREAT The aim of this project was to create an Urban Retreat within the Lace Market area of Nottingham, allowing visitors to escape from the bustling city and working environment. The drive of my design was to give a sense of withdrawing from the city: reconnecting with the senses to enhance inner focus and peace. Through social spaces (such as the Café) to the more contemplative areas (such as the atrium and large reflective space), the journey through the building provides a sensuous experience through the range of materials and volumes of space.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 3 - LIZ BROMLEY
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U4 YEAR 1
UNIT 4 Unit Lead: Derek Trowell Visiting Practitioners: Shaun Davey & Bethany Griffin 6th Year Tutors: Ventsi Videlov, Tilisha Franklin, Natalie Matanda
Swarathmika Bharadwaj Samuel Brooks Laurence Burzynski-White Chak Cheung Alex Cook Kiera Dennis-Nelson Louis English Krina Gandhi Kristen Grottick Aaron Harrison Georgia Helme Josie Hill Baturay Kavuk Gemma King
Eglentina Koleci Noora Naji Alice O’Brien Gift Onwuzuruoha Varun Premnath Sritharan Ioi Pun Arielle Shaul Sophia Simpson Robinson Sivalingam Holly Skingsley Brandon Thompson Maisy Wan Carole Yeong
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YEAR 1 UNIT 4 - DEREK TROWELL
HOLLY SKINGSLEY ARTISTS RETREAT: JAMIE NORTH The artist’s retreat project was the first of the year. My design provides a living space for a practising artist to spend a year immersed in their craft within the natural beauty of Wollaton park and nature reserve. Jamie North, my selected sculptor, works incorporating decay. The sculptures demonstrate the corrosion of man-made construction materials trailed with planting. I had selected North and his work as I admire the message he is conveying. I ensured my scheme provided space for sculptural work, storage, and greenhouses while also maintaining a comfortable balance between work and comfort.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 4 - DEREK TROWELL
CAROLE YEONG NOTTINGHAM LITERARY CLUB & WRITER’S RETREAT It is built to provide a quiet and immersive reading space for citizens and tourists in the bustling Nottingham city. As the site was located between a main street and a quiet canal path, I created a halftransparent box to cope with the noise and view. The facade design also allows natural light to enter the box and create patterns at different times. The interior space is very open since the floors are arranged in a gradient according to the uses of rooms. People can enjoy a unique reading or writing experience in the most suitable room with sufficient light and space. Adding the inclusive design, the Club welcomes every person who wants to read and relax.
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U5 YEAR 1
UNIT 5 Unit Leads: Ben Youd & Ed Higgins Visiting Practitioners: Andrew King & John Newbery 6th Year Tutors: Bethan Crouch, Emily Atkinson, Rachel Marshall
Molly Barrett Anna Box Ed Broughton Sara Ciaramita Marcus Cutler-Cook Claudia Dunn Charlie Flanders Grace Flood Michelle Giljam Lulu Hamberger Megan Hannah Nada Hasan Khaaliq Kanani Georgina Maclaren
Katherine Mottram Judith Nieto Abad Ana Odeide Isobel Olney Jesse Parkinson Aimee Prescott Alexander Ritzema Bobby Routledge Anastasios Stamatiou Anna Sutcliffe Henry Wallace Ross Wheatley Ding Yu Zhou
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
ANNA BOX MUSIC AND MOVEMENT CENTRE My building is a “music and movement centre”, designed to promote a community of artistic residents (or visitors) of Nottingham, with access to a café, seating areas, a choral space and a dance studio. My design generator plays upon church symbolism (inspired by the churches around the site). Stained glass windows within churches are designed to tell biblical stories, and I was influenced by this to create a design that tells the story of a community through a “gospel of light”. Other “church” motifs within the building are the repetition of the “spire” triangular shape, the columns that mimic archways and the “pews” for seating.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
ED BROUGHTON CREATIVE COLLECTIVE The creative collective is a central hub within the lace market. That allows people to come together to create their artwork and view art within specialist studios. A central atrium provides light to flood through the building. It defines the interior as allowing views from the gallery on the ground floor to the studios in the basement to tell the story of how the work is done. The studios have extensive views across to the south of the city.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
SARAH CIARAMITA URBAN RETREAT My project follows the brief of an ‘urban retreat’, a place that should allow you to escape from the at times crowded and busy life of a city. ‘Escape into peace and harmony’- my design generator developed from this concept, I decided to have a series of buildings which sit within a monastic site, taking advantage of the cliffs of Nottingham with an outdoor staircase that leads down to the final destination at the bottom of the cliff. The circulation through my space allows visitors to experience it as a journey.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
MARCUS CUTLER-CORKER COMMUNITY CENTRE The Community Centre is designed to bring people from all walks of life across Nottingham to a central point, where which they can learn creative, life-changing skills, gain a sense of both community and togetherness, earn a profit, and ultimately achieve ownership of their lives, in present and in future. Each floor of the building houses a distinct purpose, with every level offering access to outdoor space over an increasingly blurred threshold. The interior spaces focus on a central axis, and the south facing permeable wall draws mottled light and shadow into the interior.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
MICHELLE GILJAM URBAN RETREAT This project is an Urban Retreat in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. The site is long and narrow and close by two very contrasting buildings which posed a challenge in making the building fit into its surroundings. My design generator was ‘A biophilic place for calming reflection’ so it was important in my design to have a strong connection between inside and outside, and for the building to feel natural to the user, and bring them closer to nature. The image on the top right shows the main meditation space that is a dominant part of the design, which contrasts the more utlitive spaces along the axis towards this main space.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
NADA HASAN LITERACY CLUB & WRITER’S RETREAT My project is a Literacy Club and Writer’s Retreat on Carrington Street next to Nottingham Canal. The small paintings show my client narrative which is inspired by the design generator ‘Creating harmony and relaxation by immersing the readers’. I was inspired by organic architecture with my main precedent being the Media Library by Dominique Coulon & associés. The open concept, lack of clutter and natural light allows the space to feel open and inspire positivity in the visitors. The watercolour 3D section shows the interiors of the Literacy Club and the rendered image is the café on the 1st Floor.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
JESSE PARKINSON URBAN RETREAT This is the High Pavement music and movement center, it is a hub for creative minds and night life. It incorporates studios of various sizes along with meeting spaces and a café/bar for people to enjoy. The building is sculpted around the slope of the site with stepped seating to watch outdoor performances and have fun!
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YEAR 1 UNIT 5 - BEN YOUD & ED HIGGINS
AIMEE PRESCOTT URBAN RETREAT My project is an Urban Retreat situated between Nottingham Contemporary and Pitcher & Piano within the cities creative quarter. It serves as a place of reflection and relaxation, offering an opportunity for its users to escape the busy urban environment they work or live in. My design generator was “refreshing people through a biophilic connection to nature” as I believe nature is of great importance for human wellbeing. Therefore, I focused on incorporating biophilic design elements such as internal gardens, plants and green walls, and large windows overlooking the external gardens, courtyards and the green roof over the central corridor.
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U6 YEAR 1
UNIT 6 Unit Leads: Elena Thatcher & Lorna Kimba Visiting Practitioners: Cath Legg & Martin Williams 6th Year Tutors: Matt Skelding, Lucy Wren, Eric Atkinson
Yousif Abdelmagied Menahil Ahmed Mutiat Akamo Nidarshan Anantharam Ege Ankarali Aoife Brooks Fiona Cary Alan Cheng Thomas Clarke Jamelia Cranston Margarida Da Silva Eva Delap Ria Deshmukh Sukina Fleming
Rebecca Francis Yifan (Matilda) Gao Poppy Graham-Kevan Hannah Le Poidevin Fionn Mackie Katherine Nowakowska Rona Pettigrew Luke Reardon Kira Rickett Owens Seamons Natalija Sidlovska Alice Whitaker James Bain
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YEAR 1 UNIT 6 - ELENA THATCHER & LORNA KIMBA
ALAN CHENG WELL-BEING CENTRE Inspired by the religious and cultural heritage of the Lace Market, the centre aims to aid spiritual networking between urban dwellers and their surroundings, and ease the tension build-up within the city. The use of bold rectilinear structure and harsh industrial materials contrasts the organic wooden accents and deciduous vegetation, responding to the site context whilst maximising seasonal comfort. The exclusive garden allow users to perform various social and recreational activities under direct sunlight, and the central courtyard interconnects the different levels by having a deciduous tree, restoring the natural energy back to the cityscape.
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YEAR 1 UNIT 6 - ELENA THATCHER & LORNA KIMBA
KIRA RICKETT NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY HUB Creating a conceptual ‘artery’ which produces a ‘pulse’ throughout the city facilitates the socialisation and development of skills and aspirations of the community. The two interconnecting rectilinear forms composing the boundary of the upper two floors, respond to the surrounding context, aiding views and providing shelter along the tow-path. The iron oxide pigmented concrete honours the surrounding environment, comprised of predominantly red brick. The autonomic movement of people is seen through the glazed ribbon, wrapping itself around the lengths of the building and the roof, encouraging interactions between internal and external.
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