DABE BArch-MEng Architecture (ARB-RIBA Part 1) YEARBOOK 2021 - Year 3 by UoN - Department of Architecture and Built Environment

UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM DABE BArch/MEng Architecture (ARB / RIBA Part 1) YEAR 3 YEARBOOK 2021

YEARBOOK ORGANISERS

COVER ARTWORK

Chris Bennett Caty Goulbourn Jenni Wilson

Matt Urry

2ND YEAR UNIT REPRESENTATIVES

Emma Stone Sarah Nolan Sam Casermore Paul Knight Leah George Evie Hall Lucy Bryant Lillia Jamelynec Rose Beresford Eleanor Crunden Joanna Holland Georgia Adlam Joel Gallery Jasmine MacLeod Jack Winstanley Adriana Dvorakova Alex Adams

3RD YEAR UNIT REPRESENTATIVES

Amelia Maddox Ellie Lodder Sophie Shaw Raissa Machado Josephine Hamill Tom Birch Christopher Baker Joanna Holland Georgia Adlam Joel Gallery Grace Thomas Aura-Gabriela Tache Jo Rees

CONTENTS YEAR 2/3 VERTICAL UNITS

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS UNIT 1A - FORGOTTEN PLACES UNIT 1B - THE JANUS CONDITION UNIT 1C - COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS UNIT 3A - IN BETWEEN SPACES UNIT 3B - HATCH TERRITORIES UNIT 4A - TOPOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE UNIT 4B - GHOST STORIES UNIT 4C - TOPOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE UNIT 5A - HOPEWORLD ‘21 UNIT 5B - NURTURING THE CITY UNIT 5C - ADAPT/ADEPT

06 30 60 80 108 134 154 170 182 208 230

YEAR 2 / 3 VERTICAL UNITS

UNIT 1A - FORGOTTEN PLACES

UNIT 1B - THE JANUS CONDITION

UNIT 1C - COLLABORATIVE CONVERSATIONS

UNIT 2 - DESIGN AND BUILD

UNIT 3A - IN BETWEEN SPACES

UNIT 3B - HATCH TERRITORIES

UNIT 4A - TOPOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE

UNIT 4B - GHOST STORIES

UNIT 4C - TOPOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE

UNIT 5A - HOPEWORLD ‘21

UNIT 5B - NURTURING THE CITY

UNIT 5C - ADAPT/ADEPT

UNIT LEADS

ASSISTANT TUTORS

Alisdair Russell Jim Hutcheson Florian Wiedmann Peter Russell Mike Hawkins Ros Diamond Farida Makki Amanda Harmer Matt Strong Mani Lall Margaret Mulcahy David Short Alison Davies Adam Swain-Fossey Nils Jaegar Mark Alston

Andrew Cross Stuart Buckenham Alex Lipinski Ben Okrafo-Smart Steve Riley Neli Vassileva Rosica Pachilova Aleksandar Stojakovic Rebecca Van Beeck Alex Afrehse Elena Balzarini Bob Braun Negin Ghorbani Katherine Hegab Michael Reade Sam Critchlow Charlie Simpson Smara Ghinita Clement Laurencio Matt Poon Richard Woods Dan Greenway Alistair Guthrie Joeseph Augustin Liz Bromley Sam Diston

U1A

FORGOTTEN PLACES Unit Lead: Alisdair Russell Assistant Tutors: Andrew Cross, Stuart Buckenham

YEAR 3

Claudia Adams Simran Dehal Charly Earnshaw Jess Ellis Natasha Fenton George Gunn Jess Hayes Bethany Jones Alice Kimpton

Mark Kovacs-Biro Amelia Maddox Tony Pireva Ayris Saner Jess Sheppard Freya Wiltshire

YEAR 2

Neslihan Akkaya Caitlin Boeshart-Thomas Daphne Cheung Elina Christodoulou Hope Cooney Isabel Gelder Jullia Joson Adrian Hoi Lai Sarah Nolan Catrin Roberts

Emma Stone Nicole Tam Vincent Chung Wong

FORGOTTEN PLACES Traditional retail has been in steady decline as studied in the unit over the last two years with Derby and Margate; our High Streets and key retail destinations have been becoming gradually more dysfunctional. This year, we worked in Nottingham, studying Nottingham`s Southern Gateway and the area around the failed Broadmarsh Centre. We looked at mechanisms to keep the younger population in the city, to allow them to flourish and prosper in terms of sustainable development and the creation of environments to work, rest and play and indeed the creation of a vibrant and holistic community. When considering our Urban repair strategies, we considered place, function and mixture of uses; this was not a site than could be repaired through a single building intervention, it concerned the conversations between buildings and spaces and it was equally concerned with the buildings we removed and the landscapes, axes and urban interventions and catalysts we created.

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SIMRAN DEHAL simrandehal10@gmail.com

LEISURE CENTRE & PHYSIOTHERAPHY CLINIC A professional healthcare and wellbeing site aiming to restore individual potential to functional ability as well as encouraging fitness and exercise in the community through the design of a Leisure Centre and Physiotherapy Clinic. Attempting to remove the negative stigmas of being injured and encourage an individual’s positive contribution to sport or daily life. This project has been inspired by the work of artists such as Ben Nicholson. In his series of White Relief pieces, the idea of using depths created by light and shadow to define spaces of basic shapes has moved me to approach the design of my plan in a unique way. Equally, studying the interpretations of chakras has been significant when exploring how to best communicate spiritual dimensions. The concept of chakras connect the physical body, psychological mind and Earth and nature. Designing with these in mind creates a space that focuses on the emotional and spatial response as well as the practical use.

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CHARLY EARNSHAW charlyearnshaw@btinternet.com, @ce_portfolio

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GEORGE GUNN georgejamesgunn@gmail.com

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AN URBAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITY FOR NOTTINGHAM To create a series of active urban spaces by introducing new links between the city centre and castle, reducing the urban block to its finer historic grain. A combination of sheltered and intergenerational housing is positioned upon concrete plinths which make up the public realm, embedding the site within the wider community. Modular sheltered housing overlooks a scale of activity, allowing the individual to determine their level of involvement. Deck access leads to a series of terraces shared between the residents, and also to the community hub at the centre of the scheme. The main inter-generational housing blocks consist of a variety of unit types and sizes to encourage interaction across demographics and economic states. Shared gardens, common rooms and a library allow for further dialogue to break down feelings of isolation.

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JESSICA HAYES jessicaisabellehayes@gmail.com

NOTTINGHAM STATION FOREST The project looks to Re-imagine the Nottingham MR railway station. The current edge condition around the Victorian style terracotta facade is inactive, with a disconnection from the City Centre to the North. The station facilities are limited and platforms/ concourse inefficient. With new residential developments in the southern gateway and proposed developments in the Broadmarsh the station has the opportunity to re-establish itself as a key destination within the City. There are many residential developments planned within the southern gateway however these complexes are designed without community spaces or access to green space. The new station proposal integrates both parkland and Winter Garden space within its facilities as well as co working spaces, welfare areas for more vulnerable users and community spaces such as a crèche. The station layout and concourse has also been re worked to improve efficiency and a new express train line from London has been extended to the Northern Citys.

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ALICE KIMPTON alicekimpton@btinternet.com

CREATIVE [CO]-LIVING A lack of genuinely affordable homes is a reality Nottingham currrently faces. Creative [Co]-Living aims to introduce co-living as a means to provide financially accessible housing with the potential to “... improve the quality of life of many low-and-moderate-income residents” (Garciano, 2011) in Nottingham. The scheme offers affordable live-work units to creatives with shared communal spaces including a Common House, Share Houses (where residents can live and work together), co-workshops and outdoor spaces; including a cafe and gallery to encourage social integration with the local community. Other aims of the project include low-carbon design through co-housing environmental strategies, as well as creating spaces where residents can both live and create together to build a microcommunity with an ethos of sharing, making and social inclusivity.

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JANOS MARK KOVACS-BIRO kbmarchitecture@gmail.com

RECONSTRUCTING HOPE My final year thesis project was inspired by a tragedy and the desperate need for future improvement that comes along with it. The driving force behind the project was the terrible demise of Errol Graham, a resident of the social housing scheme of the Woodlands flats within Radford, Nottingham, who starved to death after his benefits were revoked. He was battling depression and found it very hard to even leave his room or open his curtains on any given day, and so was alone in his struggles. Therefore, the ultimate aim of the project was to make a considerable change in the lives of all residents, on all levels, especially a human one, through retrofitting the towers. This involved: creating a caring and vibrant community, improving economic stability of residents (by providing job opportunities), bringing more elements of nature into the project, improving mental health through architectural design and utilizing environmental strategies for the future sustainability of the buildings.

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AMELIA MADDOX ameliamaddox@live.co.uk

SUSTAINABLE FABRIC MANUFACTURING BASE Thread Carefully is an interactive, eco-friendly fabric manufacturing base, that invites the visitors and locals of Nottingham to observe, learn and react to the environmental issue of Fast Fashion. Twenty years ago, shopping for new clothes was an infrequent event; a seasonal occurrence. Today, clothes are cheaper, trend cycles are speeding up and shopping has become a full-time hobby. Today, fast fashion dominates our highstreet. By using recycled plastic bottles, the production facilities at Thread Carefully produce a sustainable fabric alternative to polyester. With public viewing galleries, workshops, courtyards and gardens, the industrial elements of the project are celebrated throughout the scheme, encouraging visitors to get involved. Integrated within a public parkland, the scheme boasts productive extrusions that rise high above the ground, piquing the curiosity of every passerby.

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AYRIS SANER ayris.saner@nds.k12.tr PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

NOTTINGHAM MUSIC CONSERVATOIRE Nottingham City has an active classical music scene with longestablished ensembles performing regularly in the city. However, there are not many music venues available. With the Nottingham Music Conservatoire project, the aim is to bring music to the heart of Nottingham city with the objective of creating an educational music performance venue that includes a large-scaled music performance hall that accommodates around 500 people. The project is planned to be located on the Broadmarsh site which provides an opportunity to turn the area into an educational district with its close proximity to the city’s landmarks and two colleges, Nottingham College Maid Marian Way and Nottingham College City Hub. The site is nearby the new built bus station and the train station which makes it a great location for visitors. In addition to that, for local commuters, the site is easily accessible via public transport.

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U1B

THE JANUS CONDITION Unit Lead: Jim Hutcheson Assistant Tutors: Alex Lipinski, Ben Okrafo-Smart, Steve Riley

YEAR 3

Simon Adams Eve Bailey Nadia Barakat Kiran Benning Tom Bird Kira Botham Helen Charter Monique Eaton Omar El Hadidi

Sarah Hunter Eloise Lodder Ava Martin Ellis Owen Hardeepak Panesar Tanya Todorova

YEAR 2

Emily Blanche Harry Burrows Samuel Casemore Hannah Dembina William Grose Benjamin Harris Oliver Hutchins Abdul Khan Paul Knight Christopher Langford

Nathalie Wickremeratne Max Worrall Isaac Ugbeikwu

THE JANUS CONDITION Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Most commonly represented looking in two directions simultaneously, both to the past and future. He embodies the notion of change – representing a present which enables the transition from what lies behind us, to what lies ahead. Our Unit considers the role of Architecture in these terms. This year has provided the opportunity to study Nottingham in detail, and how we can reconnect the city with its incredible past, whilst creating a future which is vital, vibrant, and relevant to the 21st century. Our study has demonstrated Nottingham’s potential to sustain positive contemporary development, which is beneficial to local communities, its people generally, and its many visitors. This has been a significant endeavour on behalf of the students in relation to our Unit theme of ‘continuity and connectivity’. I believe that the work produced communicates the enthusiasm, inspiration and knowledge students have drawn from their investigations, as well as the incredible sophistication and professionalism of their responses.

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SIMON ADAMS SIMON ADAMS simon.adams12@gmail.com simon.adams12@gmail.com

NOTTINGHAM CITY NOTTINGHAM CITY COMPLEX COMPLEX The main ambition I had for this project was not only to design The main ambition I had for this project was not only to design a successful mixed-use retail and residential scheme, but to also a successful mixed-use retail and residential scheme, but to propose a more permeable and well-connected public environment also propose a more permeable and well-connected public in the heart of Nottingham’s city centre. environment in the heart of Nottingham’s city centre. The programme for this project includes: a gallery accompanied The programme for this project includes: a gallery accompanied by studio spaces; numerous retail units including spill-out eateries; by studio spaces; numerous retail units including spill-out a commercial office with large open-plan spaces and smaller eateries; a commercial office with large open-plan spaces and conference rooms; an internet cafe with roof terrace; fitness smaller conference rooms; an internet cafe with roof terrace; centre; and 3 different types of accommodation. This mixed-use fitness and to 3 revitalise different the types accommodation. scheme centre; is designed cityof centre and merge allThis 3 mixed-use scheme designed tosectors revitalise the city and retail, residential andis commercial together intocentre a single merge retail, residential andofcommercial sectors together project. all This3 embodies the ideology a ‘city of proximities’ where into a singleand project. This embodies the ideology of a giving ‘city of all amenities workspaces are found within a short radius, proximities’ where all amenities andvillages workspaces are foundinto within the impression of numerous small all combining a asuccessful short radius, givingcity. the impression of numerous small villages and radiant all combining into a successful and radiant city.

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Private/Residential Circulation

Semi Private/Office Circulation

Public/Retail Circulation

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EVE BAILEY eab99@hotmail.co.uk

NOTTINGHAM YOUTH CENTRE & THEATRE This proposal is to create a youth centre and theatre in the centre of Nottingham. After designing a student centre as part of Project 2, this proposal caters for the other part of the younger generation of the community. The focus is to create a safe, and welcoming structured place for youths to visit as an out of school activity, which is not academically based. This will feature places to relax and socialise, whilst also holding workshops for drama, music, set design and costume making. Their newly developed skills will be broadcast for the rest of the community as performances as part of the theatre. This project will help merge the boundaries between the youths, students and adults of the city, by working together in performances and workshops. Sadly, there has recently been major funding cuts on youth services both nationwide and locally, resulting in increased youth crime rates. Many young people are missing out on this vital service, truly emphasising the importance of youth clubs in society.

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NADIA BARAKAT nadiabarakat1@gmail.com

NOTTINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE The Nottingham Conservatoire is proposed to address the emergence of the creative industries in Nottingham, including art and music, and to serve as a centralised hub in the Creative Quarter, the heart of Nottingham’s cultural scene. The Conservatoire is a music academy, hub, and venue. The project serves as a development catalyst for the eastern end of the city centre, where pedestrian density and activity is low. The Conservatoire aims to operate at all times of the day, where the different functions within the building will ensure that the building is populated at all times, helping to spur activity within the area and makes better use of the spaces. The building picks up on the North-South historic axis seen across the wider unit site and brings people into a central atrium space that separates the two wings of the Conservatoire- a more private western wing with academy and office functions, a public facing eastern wing with the venue and a music library.

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KIRAN BENNING kiran_benning@hotmail.co.uk

NOTTINGHAM FASHION AND TEXTILE MUSEUM It is the ambition of the Nottingham Fashion and Textile Museum to celebrate the city’s industrial history of lace manufacturing whilst encouraging sustainable approaches to fashion, an industry which currently accounts for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The scheme will do this by: accommodating local, sustainable retailers in an open market space; creating workshop spaces for members of the public to recycle and up-cycle old clothing; create facilities for discarded clothing to be recycled into raw material; and accommodate local fashion designers with sustainable agendas. The scheme will include exhibition spaces and a runway event space to create engagement with the public on these environmental issues whilst showcasing designers’ work. Whilst the project looks forward to the future of fashion, it also celebrates the heritage of the site by restoring and integrating with 26, 28 and 30 Broad Street, former Victorian lace-maker’s cottages.

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TOM BIRD tombird2000@hotmail.com, @tbird.arch

THE NOTTINGHAM ASSEMBLAGE The Nottingham Assemblage is to be a forum for the people of the city, providing a truly inclusive intervention that aims to bring Nottingham’s currently divided communities together through their shared local and wider cultures. Specifically using historical artefacts and art to communicate this, encouraging intercommunity interaction through cultural learnings in a series of exhibition, performance and social spaces. This project intends to be supplementary to the existing cultural facilities found in Nottingham but offering a new cultural experience by grouping these functions together in combination with integrated social spaces consisting of both internal and external, and public and private variations. This aims to bring the user groups from each of these facilities together and promote interaction between them. Ultimately aiming to contribute towards a more cohesive community within Nottingham, facilitated by an intervention which “serves society”.

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HELEN CHARTER @elz.photo.arch

HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTRE This project grasps the opportunity to bring students and the public together in educating and raising awareness for the future of food production. This scheme aims to inspire people to live more sustainably whilst driving the development of sustainable architecture. Drawing on a prominent North-South and East-West axis sitting in close proximity the public realm is improved, whilst increasing permeability through visual and conceptual connections. Awareness on the future of food production in urban environments is raised by demonstrating growth through vertical farms, laboratories and exhibitions. These functions also provide education facilities for both students and the public to engage with. To complement sustainable living, the centre provides active facilities including a sports hall widely observed by pedestrians. The community is brought together through multiple casual seating and eateries, acting as a meeting space.

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MONIQUE EATON laymte@nottingham.ac.uk

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SUSTAINABILITY CENTRE This project aims to help tackle both the global climate crisis and help lead Nottingham to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2028, setting a precedent for other cities to also achieve carbon neutrality. The scheme programme aims to help educate, inform and inspire visitors to learn about our impact on the climate and how we can individually minimise our impact, by offering interactive educational resources with an exhibition and auditorium, as well as access to sustainable services, such as waste free shopping options and re-use and recycle workshop spaces. One of the biggest causes for the climate crisis is due to lack of development and research into sustainable technologies for big corporations and individuals to help stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. Research spaces and adaptable urban agriculture spaces allow the building to drive development in this area, while also engaging with the visitors.

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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OMAR EL HADIDI @omar_el_hadidi

NOTTINGHAM STUDENT CENTRE The relationship between our ever-expanding universities and the cities which host them needs to be carefully nurtured and developed. Given the scale and importance of local universities to Nottingham, this is perhaps more significant here than in many similarly scaled university towns. Universities are competing to provide the best support systems to attract and retain the best students. It is evident that the relationship between town and gown in Nottingham is underdeveloped due to the lack of necessary infrastructure in the town centre. The large cohort will be reconnected to the town through a scheme that provides for both town and gown; creating an adaptable and flexible building that encourages interaction between the vibrant student population and the local community. The scheme should expand the influence of the university and allow students to engage with the community in ways that are not currently possible.

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SARAH HUNTER sarahhunter06398@gmail.com

THURLAND PARK HEALTH & LEISURE CENTRE Thurland Park Health & Leisure Centre was designed to create a place whereby students and the local community can take part in sport and leisure activities together in an attempt to rebuild social relationships following the strain associated with the recent Coronavirus coronavirus pandemic. The intrinsic relationship between Nottingham’s local community and the student population can be described as mutualistic, ie. both parties depend on and benefit from each other equally. The recent Coronavirus coronavirus pandemic has disrupted this symbiosis and the societal effects of this are being felt deeply. The creation of a place to facilitate co-operation and distribution of knowledge will be invaluable to not only repair this societal relationship, but to drive future development towards creating a greener future. The proposed building uses the existing Thurland Street Tunnel (whose Northern portal borders the site) to pre-condition air before distributing throughout the building to reduce carbon consumption.

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ELOISE LODDER layel1@nottingham.ac.uk

THE NEST INSTITUTE Striving to harness innovative technologies including Hydroponic Farming and Anaerobic Energy production from local food waste, the Nest Institute serves to act as a new landmark within Nottingham as a catalyst for widespread urban change. Redefining the lower section of Goose Gate into an open, permeable planted plaza and promenade aims to provide a valuable contribution to the wider urban realm, both socially and environmentally. The proposal addresses the recent phenomenon of Nature Deficit Disorder, among other societal issues, which is causing unwillingness to engage with nature, particularly among younger generations. The scheme therefore focusses programmatically on educational and exhibition spaces, intertwined with private production facilities within the building. A consistent structural language and visual permeability between public and private zones strives to create a homogeneous character throughout, emphasising the key volumes as fundamental parts of one larger system.

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AVA MARTIN Avamartin.architecture@gmail.com, @Avamartin.architecture

NOTTINGHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE My proposal for the ‘Nottingham Performing Arts Centre’ is located in ‘Hockley’, Nottingham City Centre, on the edge of both the creative and shopping quarter. On the site today is the current ‘Nottingham Arts Theatre’ which draws very little activity into and around the site. I have addressed the inactive public realm by providing a scheme that draws in the public and in turn introduces a node that links ‘Upper Parliament Street’ to the ‘Lace Market’ on the North-South Axis. The centre contains a variety of public functions which include indoor and outdoor auditoriums, a music performance hall, a bar, an art exhibition and a restaurant. The private functions, accessed on the opposite side of the building will take an educational approach, including drama, dance and costume design studios and music rehearsal rooms. The auditorium in the middle will act as the middle ground between the public and private functions of the centre, where students accessing the studios can perform for the public.

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ELLIS OWEN ellisowen44@gmail.com

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Project 2 Circulation Mental Wellbeing Centre Circulation Leisure Centre Circulation

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HARDEEPAK SINGH PANESAR @h.p_architecture

THE NOTTINGHAM S.E.R.C The Nottingham Sustainable Energy Research Centre aims to help Nottingham reach its goal of being a carbon neutral city by 2028. The Centre will be a state of the art research centre which investigates using sustainable energy to power transport and homes. The building aims to play a pivotal role in inspiring the public to embrace sustainable means of energy as well as educating the public about the future of sustainable energy, through an interactive exhibition alongside STEM workshops and an auditorium. Though the research centre will be used by professionals, it will also provide a learning, testing and designing function within the building for students to collaborate with the centre to develop new technology and put on exhibitions for the public. The Research Centre will be an interactive and enjoyable experience for all ages.

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TANYA TODOROVA layttt@nottingham.ac.uk

FASHION AND TEXTILES HQ The proposal for a new textiles and fashion base in the City of Nottingham is rooted in the city’s history which saw a lace production boom in Nottingham as a result of the industrial revolution. I have chosen a site, which is in the shopping quarter of the city. It is very retail heavy with pockets of different commercial outlets. The site plan successfully establishes a route through the site, connected to both a new north/south axis, and to Clumber Street to the West. The new public spaces created are animated by public facing activities – the café, retail, and reception facilities. The functionally discrete activity groups are housed in the different wings. The circulation armature supports each of the ‘wings’ independently, while allowing the institution to function as a whole. The exhibition spaces are wrapped around a complex journey spiralling upwards through the building, relating simultaneously to internal and external spaces defined by the building itself.

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U1C

COLLABORATIVE CONVERSIONS Unit Lead: Florian Wiedmann Assistant Tutors: Neli Vassileva, Rosica Pachilova

YEAR 3

Finley Blake Charlie Brackpool Stephen Bromage Lucy Edmonds Ana Franchini Christopher Gurarslan Keira Hicks Peter Hughes David Lynn

Rebecca O’Brien Sophie Shaw Maria Tulea Ella Thomas Amber Walker Hannah Wolowacz

YEAR 2

Yasaman Amini Najafian Alexander Ballard Georgia Burgin Alina Ebdon Leah George George Gunn Negar Pakgohar Natalia Petrova Ahmad Kakar Richard Mellor

Phoebe Millard Sebastian Robinson Lucy White Yaroslava Tymofiychuk Clarizza Zuniga

COLLABORATIVE CONVERSIONS As many cities worldwide, Nottingham is facing challenges caused by new economic dynamics, lifestyle patterns and environmental concerns. Architects play a visionary and mediating role in reinventing places and thus igniting a new discourse on how future urban communities can be accommodated by taking all dimensions: public health & environment, economic resilience, and socio-cultural concerns, into account. Architects need to be involved in rethinking critical urban sites, such as the Victoria Centre and adjacent surroundings. In this studio stream, collaborative conversions, we explore routes of creating a new mixed-use district via urban design and individual pilot projects to attract and accommodate communities. Thus, this will be linked to the Creative Quarter in the east of Nottingham, and will be specifically focused on emerging industry, having its own identity due to a new collaborative nucleus (market, learning & co-working) and associated co-housing as main pilot projects.

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FINLEY BLAKE finblake8@btinternet.com

CASTLE MARINA COMMUNITY HUB This project primarily attempted to improve social interaction in the Castle Marina area, by providing a community hub. Facilities would include co-working spaces, boat repair and maintenance workshops, cafe and dining space, kayak rental services and storage, and studio space for activities such as yoga. I attempted to design as much of the building in timber, due to both its sustainable and natural qualities. Natural materials along with the strong connection to the nearby water and greenery attempted to create a relaxing and calming atmosphere for those coming to the marina. The project also encourages sustainable travel by water, making use of the under-valued Nottingham canals. This in turn aims to increase community interaction, and the project should inevitably act as a base for tourism, attracting people from all over to this oasis within the city.

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STEPHEN BROMAGE in11bromage@gmail.com

GREAT NORTHERN WORKS Formerly the physical and spiritual centres of our largest cities, industry and production has been marginallised at best to anonymous suburbs and at worst to the global south, where workers are often underpaid and work in dangerous conditions, leaving gaps in our urban fabric only partially filled by the modern, immaterial, consumption economy. I sought to use a former grain warehouse near central Nottingham to propoose an allternative system. By creating a new hub for local clothes production by small collectives using recycled materials, the processes of production can be bought back into urban living as part of a sustainable and socially responsible economic system. Architecturally the project preserves surviving Victorian brick and iron structures, complementing them with lofty new engineered lumber roof and wall structures to create a cathedral of fashion incorporating production, leisure, and exhibition facilities, making Nottingham a shining example for the world to follow.

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ANA FRANCHINI acffranchini@gmail.com

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REFUGE My project aims to introduce a domestic violence refuge and rehabilitation centre in Nottingham, offering support and accommodation for women and their children who have left their abusers. The project follows Unit 1C’s ethos of reimagining converting urban spaces, such as parking lots, within Nottingham’s city centre, with strong consideration to the building’s form, appropriately responding to its context. The work benefited from a design rooted in exploring spatial experiences, achieved via interviews with victims of domestic abuse and staff members from Nottinghams’ refuges. I chose to place the building in the Lace Market and explore how how socially diverse environments may affect the city’s social sustainability, increasing its inclusivity and encouraging social integration. Thus, my project aims to minimise domestic violence survivors’ marginalisation and open new ways for communities to support both the program and individual survivors.

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PETER HUGHES pjehughes@gmail.com

CANALSIDE ADAPTIVE REUSE DEVELOPMENT The proposed scheme will act as the catalyst for a mixed use community in the Broadmarsh area of Nottingham. The proposal includes the adaptive reuse of two historic warehouse buildings along the canal in addition to a, small scale, new build intervention. The existing buildings are largely unused other than ground floor uses of retail and a bar / restaurant. The building programme will facilitate twenty five residential units, flexible office and studio spaces whilst retaining ground floor retail space. Landscaping communal spaces will provide more access to nature and encourage a more integrated style of city living. Key considerations for any development within the chosen site include; the ongoing Broadmarsh redevelopment master plan, the Nottingham Canal Conservation Area and four grade II listed structures. Guidance to protect the areas heritage and character has not only been followed, but the original shop frontages have been restored to celebrate the sites rich history.

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REBECCA O’BRIEN layro1@nottingham.ac.uk

COVID-19 TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTRE Architectural Antidote: Designing for Mental Health The catastrophic effects of COVID-19 have left a trail of devastation in its wake, with mental wellness being just one issue in need of urgent attention and action. In the aftermath of national lockdowns and ongoing periods of social isolation, mental health issues have never been more prevalent in society. We need to ensure that there are accessible healing facilities available to cater for the mass trauma people have experienced because of COVID-19 to assist in psychological recovery. This proposal calls for a peaceful, healing place with a harmonious connection to nature that will help traumatised victims of COVID-19 alongside their carers and family members recover and return to wellness. To achieve this, the project will act as a synergy of architecture and nature, with phased green façades and tranquil courtyards offering a scenic backdrop for healing oneself holistically through therapies of the body, mind and spirit.

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SOPHIE SHAW sophieshaw59@gmail.com

THE URBAN [RE]FORMATION PROJECT The Urban [Re]Formation project is a scheme that sets a new precedent for sustainable urban regeneration. By restoring land lost to post-industrial decline and creating a development with an emphasis on collaborative lifestyles the scheme hopes to breathe life back into Nottingham. The main effort of this project is to host groups interested in smart technologies. The development contains affordable housing, collaborative workspaces and workshops as well as places for small businesses to grow. For those who lack professional skills they can retrain and have an equal opportunity at advancing in a new career. The particular focus of this project is the development of sustainable housing. These homes are intended to be highly customisable through modular development and residents are able to add and remove rooms as they wish. The scheme provides an equal space regardless of socio-economic background.

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ELLA THOMAS layemth@nottingham.ac.uk

RE-FASHION: TEXTILE EDUCATION CENTRE This project aims to respond to the questions surrounding climate change and the part that the fashion industry plays in this. It explores how the manufacturing of clothing and textiles contributes hugely to global warming and looks at how this can be reduced on an individual and communal level. The result is a physical reaction to the problems that have arisen due to fast fashion; workshops educate visitors on how to rework their own clothing whilst an open atrium provides space for the exhibition of recycled clothing. There is also a collaborative zone for smaller businesses to work together and discuss ideas, with a strong emphasis on high quality pieces with locally sourced fabric.

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MARIA CARMEN TULEA maria_tulea@yahoo.com

THE FUTURE OF URBAN LIVING How does the future of our cities look like? How will we live and work in a post-COVID world? How can we create a more connected, sociable, and considerate urban environment? Mixed-use neighbourhoods have the ability of reconnecting people, nature, and urban life. Affordable co-living and co-working spaces and sustainable ways of living with a focus on local businesses, help the city integrate a range of users and revive the sense of community. This project looks at the implementation of co-living and co-working spaces for the younger generation to grow and expand their businesses in the urban renewal of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre as a solution to the housing crisis, the reduction of need in office spaces, and the popularity decrease of traditional retail due to online shopping.

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AMBER WALKER layaw7@nottingham.ac.uk

THE THERAPY AND REHABILITATION CENTRE The Therapy and Rehabilitation Centre is a socially inclusive project located within a new, sustainable inclusive community for all abilities. Located on the banks of the River Trent, the Trent Basin Trust is a scheme involving reviving the south east of Nottingham city centre and creating a new socially inclusive community housing all abilities and regenerating deprived and declining areas of the inner city. The Centre itself focuses of offering therapy and relaxation which can help rehabilitate the users. Therapy has been prove to help improve the quality of life that most disabled people have and can help heal and reduce pain. The centre is the catalyst to the site as it brings people into the masterplan and helps those feel comfortable in their surroundings and offers them a safe space to use.

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IN BETWEEN SPACE Unit Lead: Ros Diamond Assistant Tutors: Elena Balzarini, Bob Braun

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Jessica Adebisi Tonia Constantinou Vanshika Halan Oluwaseyi Joseph Daniel Kanabahita Felix King Crystal Hei Kwan Nana Kwarteng Raissa Machado

Oliver Skelton Zoe Socratous Elizabeth Stephens Finlay Swain Alastair Walker Amy Wilkinson Phoebe Turner

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Sela Agbemabiese Lucy Bryant Hattie Bunn William Carew Chloe Cross Harry Dodds Dona De Vas Gunasekera Rhys Jamieson Price May Le Mallika Prakash

Le Pu Kanimagal Vinayagamoorthy

IN BETWEEN SPACE This year, Unit 3A’s theme is the in between, in terms of inhabitation and its spaces. We are focusing on interstitial spaces found in cities, looking at how they are generated by the restructuring, redevelopment, and overlaying of layered interventions. These left-over spaces, which are present in many forms, are often hardly noticed, unoccupied or used for ‘back-of-house’ purposes. This appears to be a waste of an important resource, when urban space is at a premium, and cities are being reshaped to support a more sustainable model in which work, housing, and communal facilities are close together. In Year 2 Project 4 and Year 3 Thesis, students continued their research of interstitial spaces, imagining how they might be occupied as an alternative, inventive way of developing cities. In both years, the main individual design project was a community centre, accommodating spaces for large and small group activities. The projects were individually developed around the overall themes of activating leftover spaces and disused buildings, and making cities sustainable through inclusive occupation.

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TONIA CONSTANTINOU toniaconz@gmaill.com

AN ART BASED LEARNING&RESOURCE CENTRE The proposal exhibits communal and public elements intending to establish an inspirational symbol of belief in the future of Nottingham. The central courtyard acts as the threshold link between the scheme, creating a sense of enclosure. The garden in the central courtyard has been introduced to integrate the surrounding landscape and increase the amount of green spaces. A public staircase linking the two parts of the town has been introduced, restoring in this way the site’s lost links with it’s surroundings. The open flowing layout of the First Floor enables views in and out of the public realm as well as a panoramic view of the City. The scheme prior to the main courtyard garden exhibits, multiple green spaces developing the concrete jungle into a greener public space. The project generates not only a place for learning, but also conserves the culture, while being a public resource, establishing a space where culture is really accessible to share and enjoy.

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VANSHIKA HALAN @_artofthinking_

NOTTINGHAM YOUTH TRAINING CENTRE The project aims to tackle the deflating employment rates of Nottingham by providing support to the youth of the city via training, education and counselling. The aim is to engage the youth of the city with communal activities, with a focus on gardening and cooking. The design develops through the intervention of interstitial sites within the city’s canal quarter. A derelict building is filled with spaces that would create internal heat such as a cooking theatre and an open kitchen with a cafe; all playing an important role in the circular economy of the building, along with the greenhouse and a farmer’s market. The market will help activate the streets of Nottingham and in creating a flow in the economy. Also assisting the night-time economy is the under croft pub slotted under the tram bridge to give the youth an almost secretive hang out space. The design comes together with the help of a lantern protruding from the derelict dwelling.

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The main intervention is an added cloister which connects the buildings on site with a walkway at the first floor, bringing focus to the courtyard. The scheme provides creative therapies -art, music, dance-, counselling, yoga/meditation and spa treatment. The ground floor of the main building features a cafe and gallery to showcase the creations of those who use the therapy facilities and encourage more engagement between the public and the topic of mental health. To the back of the site is a residential block. The masterplan involves pedestrianising part of the road to the south of the site, adding parklets and loose furniture. Allotments have been added as ecotherapy for the community and the space across the tram line has been transformed into open green space.

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DANIEL KANABAHITA kanabahitad@gmail.com

THE NOTTINGHAM CITY FARM The site is located on Queen’s Road, to the south of Nottingham’s city centre and next to the Nottingham Station. The project will activate unplanned interstitial spaces on the site such as the under croft of the tram, the river and an abandoned theatre building. Through reuse and landscaping the site will be transformed into an urban oasis. The three buildings that will be added are characterised by timber framing and distinctive roof pitches, that are derived from the interesting roofscape of the area. The program will include an allotment, orchard, a market for selling the produce, food education kitchens and a vertical farming lab. The produce grown will be sold in the market and used in the restaurant. The project will become a hub for community involvement and environmental sustainability. In an area where few community facilities have been provided for the new influx of people to the area.

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FELIX KING felixhaking@gmail.com

AN APPRENTICESHIP GUILD FOR NOTTINGHAM This project proposes an Apprenticeship Guild for Nottingham where local people are brought together with potential employers as apprentices. The organisation will encourage and empower employers to provide apprenticeships as a way of providing employment whilst training and equipping a future workforce with the skills necessary to fill the needs of local industries. In turn the local population will be encouraged to take up apprenticeships on offer as way of gaining additional qualifications, skills and employment close to home. Much of the learning will be done in the work place with one day a week off site at a Guild learning centre. The Guild will be situated in the heart of the city with the organisation located across several sites in city centre. These will provide various amenity and include: a Guild Hall, an Apprenticeship Information Exchange, a Learning Centre and Community Work Hubs. The individual buildings which make up the Apprenticeship Guild are linked together on a notional route through the city

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Site 2 - Exchange Building

Site 3 - Learning & IT

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Six Interstitial Sites Initially inspired by Walter Benjamins ‘Flanneur,’ the observer who wanders the streets, this project seeks to make a found route through the city centre, which attempts to make better connections from East to West and from North to South. Various interventions punctuate the route. To the East the site has a steep change in the topography which make access to the lower areas by the river difficult to reach from the area of St Mary’s Chruch. A long run of ancient disused steps, currently being renovated, forms part of Site 6 and allows passage from High Pavement to Cliff Road.

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The existing high level road and tramway adjacent to the, now partially demolished, Broadmarsh shopping centre make East West connections difficult to navigate. An historic street in this area, no longer there, connected Cliff Road back up to Middle Pavement. The new route proposes to reinstate a vertical and horizontal connection at this point on Site 2.

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Six interstitial sites on the route have been identified and six new buildings and urban interventions proposed. These will provide accommodation and amenity for the new Apprenticeship Guild and for the city. The Apprenticeship Guild will encourage connection and interaction between the local people and businesses.

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CRYSTAL KWAN layhyk@nottingham.ac.uk

NOTTINGHAM & CRAFT In response to Nottingham’s industrial past -teaching skills through making, I decided to focus the project on the idea of craft. This will help bring back the aspect of making, which for so long was the focus of Nottingham’s society and economy. The proposal offers workshops for the neighbourhood and also opportunity for artists to display and share their work with the community in the public building. Within the private building, artists are able to rent studio space. This is an opportunity for artists from Nottingham to come together and meet like-minded people to discuss with and work amongst. By providing spaces with a variety of crafts in close proximity, people are able to investigate the collaboration of technique both through different materials and through the combination of new and old techniques. This experimentation of shared knowledge allows for opportunities of innovation.

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NANA KWARTENG nkwarteng29@gmail.com

DANCE AND PERFORMANCE COMMUNITY CENTRE The project focuses on the renovation and reinhabitation of an existing 19th Century warehouse building located close to Nottingham City Centre and just south of Nottingham Railway Station. The site is also immediately adjacent to an extensive residential development towards its east and south, which is at the moment, completely underserviced in terms of access to communal and recreational facilities. Thus the project aims to address this and connect the community through the introduction of a dance and performance community centre where the community can come together and enjoy dance and performance along with its associated activities. The project takes the form of an urban essemble, through the introduction of permanent, flexible and temporal interventions within the existing warehouse building and through new building forms such as the main performance space and circulation tower to create a dense urban development which defines the surrounding context and provides a safe and exciting space for the community to come together and enjoy dance and performance.

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RAISSA MACHADO @rm_archstudio

THE RESCUE OF NOTTINGHAM’S APPLE HERITAGE This scheme aims to promote the establishment of more community orchards in the UK, encouraging people to cultivate different apple varieties that can not only help to preserve them but also to bring more green spaces and wildlife into the city. The project consists of an intervention on an existing warehouse located London Rd, Nottingham. By keeping the main structure and facade intact, the proposed additions act as playful characters bringing a new purpose and more life to the existing old Victorian building. The whole programme was thought around the celebration of apples, so places like a cider brewery, a communal kitchen, a restaurant and a café are one of the main attractions of the complex. In order to reinforce the idea of a complex and create an imposing image from the road, pieces such as the tower were carefully thought to be part of the proposal. The community orchard proposed on the abandoned space next to the warehouse will work as an urban “acupuncture”, by being the starting point of other community orchards in the city.

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OLLIE SKELTON skeltonollie@gmail.com

MAKING DO The project looks at sustainable development/redevelopment through the repair and adaptation of a series of derelict railway warehouses in the south east of Nottingham’s city centre. The old GNR warehouses sit at the south side of larger area of wasteland, previously occupied by the railway and industrial uses. The site has been left derelict since it was cleared in the 1980s, changing ownership and making profit for investors while leaving local people no better off. The thesis suggests a grass roots method of developing the site over a long period of time, allowing the land to be opened to public use as a park before it is (or isn’t) one day developed. To facilitate this the GNR warehouses will be converted into a sustainable building centre, acting part as school and part as factory for people to come and experiment with living in the area, to set up groups as community land trusts and eventually develop the area themselves. The centre itself is designed to be built in stages, each leading on to the next as funding/ resources become available over a period of many years. The architecture created is designed to be as loose fit as possible, creating a series of robust and adaptable spaces.

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ZOE SOCRATOUS zsocratous@outlook.com

CO-WORKING FOR CREATIVES A co-working space to be used by students and individuals studying or working in practical and creative fields that require spacious working areas. The scheme incorporates an exhibition space that can be used by students or artists who wish to exhibit their work, a darkroom and a cafe. The scheme is an intervention into the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre in Nottingham, designed after the removal of all existing walls and the retaining of the concrete structure that made up the original building. A colonnade was designed based on the existing columns, which runs along the entirety of the building and acts to reinstate pedestrian passings that were lost after the original building’s demolition. A courtyard in the centre binds the scheme together with a redesigned Collin Street, part of the master plan proposal for the surrounding area, aiming to create a significantly more permeable exterior space, by bringing the focus back to pedestrians.

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FINLAY SWAIN finlayswain@hotmail.co.uk

THE BIKE HOUSE This project calls upon the rich heritage of Nottingham’s cycling history, an industry which has fallen into decline since its domination by Raleigh cycles in the early 20th Century. Leftover from this industrial period are many factory and warehouse buildings, with this project focusing on the retrofitting and addition to one such building just south of Nottingham’s city centre, in order to create a new mixed use scheme revolving around cycling. Aiming to create a central hub for cyclists in the area, as well as to inspire members of the public to get involved with cycling, the project involves a small scale bike frame making and assembly workshop, a shop and information centre, a cafe, a repair workshop, and a bike storage facility for people to store their own bicycles/hire. New additional structures aim to bring more activity to the site, creating a scheme that becomes used by the wider community of Nottingham as a place to learn, observe or partake in the sport of cycling. Dealing with existing buildings is important and there was a great attention placed on the relationship between the new and the existing.

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ALASTAIR WALKER a.walker159@btinternet.com @aw.arch

WEAVERS’ WORKSHOP The Weavers’ Workshop is a creative reuse project, intervening with the disused urban fabric of the 1970s office block, Severns House, Broadmarsh. The project investigates the cultural and creative impact on the lace industry in Nottingham both historically and today. It incorporates a permeable ground floor weavers’ workshop, cafe and education spaces and vertically stacked private dwellings, communal living space and enfilade studios, offering young creatives and their families a place to practice and hone their craft while also giving back their time to the local community through providing lessons and master-classes, and researching and developing methods of textile manufacturing. The Winter Garden addition is suspended from a roof mounted Vierendeel truss, providing double height exhibition space and private communal living space for the dwellings. Drury Square and the private roof garden provides new green space to local residents, weavers and visitors in the heart of the city.

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AMY WILKINSON alwilkinson99@gmail.com

BRIDGING THE GAP The project looks at sustainably repurposing one of Nottingham’s multi-storey car parks; a valuable exercise given the council’s plans to pedestrianise parts of the city, subsequently leaving the future functions of some of these car parks obsolete. In keeping with Nottingham’s rich creative background and booming textile industry, the scheme aims to bridge the education, training and skills gap between Nottingham’s recent creative graduates and the equivalent age group native to the city. This is achieved through the design of a mixed-use live/work programme, providing graduates with affordable, high quality spaces to live and embark on a creative career. In return they are in charge of running a creative mentorship scheme for the local youth age group. The centre itself is designed to express many of the internal qualities of the original car park while iterative environmental tests have been conducted to quantify and optimise the thermal performance of the building, ensuring it meets the indicative energy demand guidelines stated by LETI and the predicted chances of future summer overheating are diminished.

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HATCH TERRITORIES Unit Lead: Farida Makki Assistant Tutors: Negin Ghorbani, Katherine Hegab, Michael Reade

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Amandeep Birdi Lucy Brice Holly Clarke Rahsaan Corbin Josephine Hamill Tabbi Harvey-Crowe Yida Hou Joseph Horgan Lucy Kemp

Karen Klimaytys Benjamin Lyons Mohan Matharoo Murran Porter Logan Russell

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Nina Bandales Peng Chen Chi Ieng Janice Cheong Hannah Fisher Ioana-Gabriela Florescu Lillia Jamelynec Nikoletta Kyprianou Ella Leeming Sarah MacAllen Nathalie Ngombo

Erika Patrova Isabella Tachliampouri Tung Tse

HATCH TERRITORIES To find places and people on the edge, forgotten and ignored, usually by water. We then observe through a particular lens (viewpoint). This year, the place is the Creative Quarter in Nottingham and the lens is the hatch condition inspired by our key text - The City and The City by China Mievile re-imagining its condition as our contemporary condition. Our Influencers are climate change thinkers, the rethink pod cast, Nottingham City Councils Covid Recovery Plans, the Creative Quarter vision and key researchers at the department of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Nottingham. We encourage creative, quirky, and independent thinking, research and presentation (models and drawing) and students are expected to establish a collaborative digital/studio space. Innovation and creative tectonic and environmental exploration through model making, sketching and drawing is highly valued.

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AMANDEEP BIRDI aman.birdi@outlook.com

THE ENTREPRENEUR EDUCATION HUB At the start of the Coronavirus pandemic a lot of people in the UK unfortunately lost their jobs. Many people turned to selfemployment as a viable option, yet, most entrepreneurs expressed that the main aspect they found difficult about setting up a business is the lack of knowledge of how the industry works and not having the right contacts. My proposal is an Entrepreneur Education Hub. Entrepreneurs from around the country will come and stay for 6-8 weeks and in that time take part in a variety of workshops to give them a better understanding of how they can make their independent business grow. There will be opportunities for them to network with industry experts as well as facilities for them to improve their practical skills. The scheme is a combination of education, accommodation and public space typologies as the ground floor is as an open market space which integrates the current market stalls located on the site into the scheme.

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Fourth Floor

Final Floor of the apartments with private access to another, larger rooftop garden, giving the entrepeneurs a stunning view over the City of Nottingham.

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Second floor of the apartments with private access to a lower level rooftop garden

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The top floor of the education building and the first floor of the apartments.

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The beginning of the Education and Accommodation Buildings bridged together by a public rooftop garden with a bar.

Ground Floor A permeable market space open to all.

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LUCY BRICE lkbrice02@gmail.com

A STONE’S THROW ‘A Stone’s Throw’ is a Rheumatoid Arthritis clinical retreat using pottery as rehabilitation, based in the centre of Nottingham’s Lace Market - Hollowstone. New research studies that have shown pottery as art therapy improves hand mobility and strength. This project strived to turn pottery into a sustainable process; technologies investigated and included in the design range from carbon capture from kiln emissions to produce carbon pigmented tiles, and using passive heating as well as heat recovery systems to capture the heat from the kiln and use it to heat the building. This project also aimed to tell the stories of the historic site, through a ‘Storytelling Journey’ event for the public that takes them through time in a sequence of architectural events. The thesis project typology is combined cultural + clinical + residential.

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HOLLY CLARKE layhc13@nottingham.ac.uk

FISHING FOR PLASTIC The project explores the multitude of ways in which human actions have riddled the world of its biodiversity. The design seeks to heal our dualism with nature through its programme and materiality. The project, situated on Nottingham Canal, rethinks recycling methods, through combining recreation and education with a plastic recycling centre. Waste is collected by the public from the Nottingham Canal through a series of water sports activities. The plastic collected is recycled, using a new enzyme biotechnology, and is combined with flax material to make kayaks. The kayaks are put back onto the canal and are used recreationally by the public. The entire production process is made visible to the public on foot and via an internal canal. This in turn cleans Nottingham, reduces the impact of plastic on the environment, educates people and restores activity to the disused Nottingham Canal. Restoring biodiversity was Integral to the project and was explored through eco-friendly pollutant absorbing bricks, living walls, green roofs, and landscaping.

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JOSEPHINE HAMILL email: josiehamill99@gmail.com

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THE SNOTTAS The snottas centre, situated on the cusp of Nottingham’s creative quarter, aims to target school students; the ‘newly hatched brood’ of young creative energy; to become climate aware young adults, through creative learning and nature inspired immersive experiences. Originating in Nottingham, the programme is named after the 6th century settlement’s original name ‘snotta-inga-ham’; reflecting the importance of preserving the city that young people have inherited and maintaing the sense of place for future generations. The building’s specific design and placement, acting as a gateway to the city, attracts conversation and interaction from young people and general passersby. Ultimately, the snottas programme for young people aims to inspire creative thought through topical environmental debates, exhibitions and lectures on how to tackle climate change: the most pressing issue we face today.

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engineered double plywood castilated beams with plywood fill made from UK timbers.

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green tinted, recycled aluminium panel cladding sourced from landfill site close by.

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25mm PVC rubber proofing

150mm mineral wool insulation

300mm CLT slab

wild grown flowers and plants

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150mm growing medium filter fleece

oversized UK grown (ash timber) glulam columns to reduce embodied carbon and increase chance of re-use.

drainage element/water reservour /root barrier

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waterproof membrane

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'scaffolding' architecture to allow for a versitile, quick and easy assembly. Also to celebrate the exposed structure and permeability.

150mm mineral wool insulation

300mm CLT slab

green recycled aluminium cladding panel

stainless steel bent plate bracket

50mm air cavity with vertical timber battens

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breather membrane seed dispersal facade made from recycled netting, designed to allow plants to climb vertically and spread their seeds across the site.

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recyled netting and clamp

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double castilated plywood beam

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double castilated plywood beam

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600mm oversized column (hollow section)

25mm structural steel circular hollow section reinforcement

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600mm ash glulam timber column

25mm steel round plate

25mm structural steel circular hollow section

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100mm timber stilts

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sleepover dome (green roof with spotlights)

debating practice room

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mezzanine overlooking space

protesting platform (north)

recyled mesh netting canopy

nature's ampitheatre and water tank

speakers truth

paternoster lift

cafe and market

compost toilets

larger conference/debating room

exhibition and research laboratory

library and archive space

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research pods

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city council building evershed sutherland law firm

sleepover camping experience room

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TABBI HARVEY-CROWE tabbihc@hotmail.co.uk

BROADMARSH BANKS SKATE AND ART CENTRE BBSARC seeks to reinvigorate a neglected piece of urban land beneath the tram viaduct, creating a Philanthropic threshold between Nottingham Creative Quarter and The Station. The ‘threshold’ aims to encourage people to positively engage with skate culture, creating spaces to discover and nurture talent/ skill in an inclusive environment, whilst also paying homage to Nottingham’s skate heritage. A warm and natural material palette has been used to juxtapose and reduce the harshness of the concrete viaduct and encourage biophilic relationships between the visitors and their surroundings. Functions include: Archives of Nottingham’s Skate Heritage, a cafe, inside and outside skate spaces, street art workshops, skateboard -making workshops and viewing areas. Activities are divided by levels, with all skate activity on the Ground floor.

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K E Y 200 x 200mm CLT column

400 x 400mm CLT column (Supporting green roof)

700 x 700 Concrete viaduct column

Plywood

Rammed Earth

Vegetation

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Foam pit

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Wooden tubes inspired by Hyson Green Bowls

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400 x 400mm CLT column (Supporting green roof)

700 x 700 Concrete viaduct column

Plywood

Rammed Earth

Vegetation

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YIDA HOU 1341641564@qq.com

SNEINTON MARKET FOREST COMMUNITY The new forest community regeneration plan aims to establish a both environment friendly and culture fixing scheme in Sneinton Market, by introducing a hybrid 25-person live-work culture community and making & selling market for local artists in Hockley. The new regeneration plan aims to promote the development of local culture against gentrification in Hockley by inviting local artists living in on the one hand, reclaiming the market culture and public green space in city centre on the other hand. In the scheme, a more sustainable lifestyle will be preferred to response to climate change, and active community & flea market events will be introduced to celebrate local culture.

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LUCY KEMP @lek.architecture

THE WATCHER A news centre & newspaper archive, located in Nottingham. The project title and inspiration stem from the discovery of ‘The Night Watchman’ in the book ‘A Guide to Old Sneinton’ by Dave Ablitt. The Watchman would walk around Sneinton Market and the surrounding area calling out the time, weather and news to passer byers. The transference of news has changed through time from word of mouth to physical papers, to a more isolating experience due to globalisation and the advance of the internet. ‘The Watcher’ building aims to bring back the physical presence of news. Filtering through what is real and what is not and focusing on the effect news can have on our mental health. The building records news of the past in ‘The Watch Tower’, the newspaper archive. And presents current news stories and debates in ‘The Fake News Filter’ and ‘The Event Broadcaster’.

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KAREN KLIMAYTYS karenklimaytys@hotmail.com

SCHOOL OF THREADS This project focusses on creating a solution to the global issue of fast fashion. This will be achieved by generating recycled fabric whilst aiming to remain carbon neutral. It heavily relies on public interaction & socialising to generate electricity(which acts as a stimulus), relating strongly to Whyte’s theory of triangulation. With students heavily populating the city centre and being a major culprit of fast fashion purchasing, this scheme will bring to light the growing area of concern and look to improve the fashion cycle. The school of threads uses donates clothes to create what we call 'trashion'. The scheme brings Nottingham’s historical textile industry back into the limelight, and does this in an ethical and environmentally friendly way.

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BENJAMIN LYONS benlyons@outlook.com

BEYOND THERAPY Based on my experience of being assaulted in December 2019, Beyond Therapy explores how architecture could work towards being part of the post-trauma recovery process, especially in the hours and days immediately after a victim’s incident. The scheme merges two typologies: a therapy centre; for victims and residents to use during their stay as well as in the longer term after they leave, and a residency; a series of apartments catered to support a victim’s needs to live in for immediate days following their traumatic experience. As each resident and their experience is unique, multiple types of therapeutic activity are catered for, with ecotherapy and interacting with nature being the scheme’s mainstay. At a larger scale, this project highlights the importance of people being willing to seek help and speak up about their mental health when they need to, as without that, the stigma surrounding it will not end.

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MOHAN MATHAROO hannahmatharoo@gmail.com

COFFEE ROASTERY Nottingham City Council has proposed a plan with the aim of becoming the first carbon neutral city in the UK. The city sets out to tackle climate change with the hope of becoming a happy, healthier, and safer city, building upon sustainable strategies and technologies. My project aims to be the first sustainable coffee shop & roastery in Nottingham with the aim of reducing carbon emissions, and educating the public about how they can utilise their waste to create products and objects. Reducing carbon emissions wherever possible is imperative if we are to move towards a sustainable future and I seek to address this by way of developing a sustainable process led factory that utilises the carbon emissions from the process to feed into a central elliptical greenhouse, which emulates the shape of a coffee cherry.

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ALICE PORTER alicemporter@outlook.com

VICTORIA HOUSE In response to rising cases of domestic abuse reported during the national lockdowns, Victoria House provides emergency accomodation and therapy services to survivors. The covid-19 pandemic had a disproportionate impact on the most vulrnerable in our society, and shone a light on the inadequecy of existing support services. This project hopes that a purpose built refuge can facilitate a holistic recovery for both survivors and their children, breaking the cycle of abuse. Design intends to facilitate healthy relationships - both between users and between users and their surroundings. Social spaces of varying scales allow survivors to assimilate at their own pace, forming bonds which will help them open up during group therapy. A low energy building which functions in harmony with nature is not only therapeutic, but will lower maintenance costs and bring Nottingham closer to its aim of becoming zero-carbon.

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LOGAN RUSSELL logan.russell111@gmail.com, @lbr_architecture

THE GIN STATION The process of distilling gin has generally been resource intensive, not only due to the distillation process itself, but also due to the importation of ingredients, transport and carbon emissions as a result of this. The proposal is to reuse an existing site, transforming it from a petrol station into a sustainable gin distillery. A botanical garden and landscape will grow the primary ingredients, reducing the impact of emissions due to transportation associated with the gin-making process. Alongside this, there will be elements of teaching and touring, encouraging public engagement and providing a new public realm within the creative quarter through urban interventions. The project will also aim to cast a light on the impact of Covid-19 on our social spaces, rethinking how we socialise through the development of 1:1 artefacts. Creative re-use will be a large part of the scheme, from the collection of water, the recycling of glass bottles in the scheme, to composting organic matter.

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TOPOGRAPHICAL ARCHITECTURE Unit Lead: Amanda Harmer, Matt Strong Assistant Tutors: Sam Critchlow

YEAR 3

Ravneek Baht Tom Birch Caleb Brown Katerina Charalambides Francesca Dove Thomas Frost Ziad Haddad Jessica Hollis Bronwen Lewis

Samuel Lodder-Knowles Emily McAlister Dylan Traves Milena Wloch

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Maryam Al Balushi Rose Beresford Andree Booree Chunni Feng Luke Ferguson Sammy Followell Emily Gibson Rebecca Grattage Oz Moller Alexandru Mosoarca

Miruna Porosnicu Ryan Shadlock Ciaran St Clair Sophie Ting Holly Rose Unwin

TOPOGRAPHICAL ARCHITECTURE We work with a process driven by observation and imagination. Through this process our aim is to create architecture deeply rooted in an understanding of place; to create rich, interesting and exciting work that ‘belongs’ in its context whilst possibly challenging it. Students are encouraged to find their own lines of interest and enquiry to develop architectural ideas to carry throughout the year. The work starts with a speculative approach which develops a richness that can then be carried into complete architectural projects which have an understanding of function, materiality, environmental approach and physical context. We focussed on the route of the River Leen in Nottingham. The Leen runs from Newstead Abbey, down to the Trent. It is a narrow river that has varied physical characteristics and a rich urban history. As part of the narrative stream of units, we start each year with a consideration of texts. This year we worked with Georges Perec’ “Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris” and with Alice Oswald’s poem ‘Dart’. These provide a way of considering places narratively.

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RAVNEEK BAHT ravneek.baht@yahoo.com, @ravneekb.arch

A LITERARY RETREAT IN THE MEDIA CITY We live in a Media City where invisible digital connections have become more relevant than traditional city features. Cities have become spaces dictated by flows, rather than by places. An increasing sense of anonymity and depersonalisation has resulted. Reading and writing will renew a sense of identity and community within the fragmented modern city of Nottingham. The retreat will provide writers with a unique source of inspiration from it’s ‘Edgeland’ location at Bobbers Mill Bridge. Urban energy is brought into the scheme with the inclusion of the laundromat and rooftop skate park. Readers will be able to find cosy refuge-like spaces, in the more traditional sense of retreat. Marginalia were a key driver to the design, specifically the idea of places ‘where the thinking happens’. Another design driver were the processes of erosion and weathering, with the plan layout inspired by a river’s impact on underlying rocks, with a central prevailing library occupying the river, and retreat spaces such as the rocks.

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TOM BIRCH t.birch7@icloud.com, @teb.architecture

TOWARDS AN URBAN PASTORAL This project proposes a solution to society’s growing disconnect from the natural world as our lives shift towards a more technology-mediated, interior and solitary existence. Nottingham, and in particular the River Leen, is leading the way in reversing this disconnect through a series of nature recovery networks, linking urban and rural areas. However, a dilemma arises when the City is faced with the ever-present pressures of urban expansion and population increase. How can the construction of 16,450 new homes by 2026 fit into this nature recovery agenda? ‘Towards an Urban Pastoral’ aims to resolve this dilemma, drawing on the pre-enclosure, pastoral philosophies of temporary withdrawal, communion with others and a sensitivity to the aesthetic and affective properties of the landscape to create a sustainable garden community model, inhabiting the industrial hinterlands along the River Leen.

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CALEB BROWN calebrown1999@gmail.com

URBAN SANCTUARY The Urban Sanctuary aims to provide a place of refuge for people in Nottingham. This refuge includes a spiritual retreat centre and a bell tower which combine to also act as a bird sanctuary. These three architectural interventions aim to provide a ‘sanctuary’ for people in the complete sense of the word. The spiritual retreat centre invites people to slow down and to undertake a journey of meeting with God. Moments along this journey through the scheme include the Garden of Eden; The Flood; The Tabernacle; The Prophets; and The Temple. As people explore these moments, there is chance to reflect on who God is and to meet with Him both personally and communally. The bell tower helps to mark different prayer times throughout the day, providing a structure to the way of life at the retreat centre. The aim is that people who visit the Urban Sanctuary will feel spiritually refreshed as they go back to normal life again in the city of Nottingham.

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KATERINA CHARALAMBIDES katerinacharalambides@outlook.com, @archi.katch

EMPLOYING CIRCULARITY IN THE AIMS OF POSITIVE CHANGE This project has been designed to help the fashion industry evolve from its current bad traits and move into a more circular, sustainable, and positive environment. The building consists of three different functions: activism spaces, workshop spaces for the local community and a factory for a firm employing a circular fashion ecosystem. Activists will have the opportunity to gather in these spaces in order to organise protesting, conduct debates and promote the activities on site from the rest of the two functions. The local community has a rich history and knowledge upon the textile industry of which will now be of use to an attempt to educate how to circulate clothing and promote this shift. Lastly, as more firms are currently shifting towards sustainable production, this firm will also satisfy the idea of clothing being reutilized after the end of use. All three functions are unique in their own way but still communicate and work together towards a positive shift in the future of fashion. Within a circular economy, waste is controlled from the very start and sustainability is crucial; principles of which have been further applied into the design. The building accommodates various ways of renewing energy, sustainability, and reusability. Additionally, the existing building on site plays a vital role on further expanding the idea of circularity. The trace of the building has been used to form an internal courtyard, a void and a ghost that would appreciate and celebrate the presence that it once acquired. This courtyard will have multiple purposes for all three functions. 142

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FRANCESCA DOVE @frankiearchitecture

THE LAND OF THE PEOPLE The Land of the People tells the tale of the slow recovery of a “worthless” plot of land. The story imagines a community manifesto for a half a century’s worth of reclamation on one of Nottingham’s derelict sites, establishing the importance of common land for local people. In a day and age where unscathed landscapes are preyed on, we face an increasing pressure on our common land. Investors and developers claim these territories and monetarise them; but what about the value that the land could have to the local people? Situated on a brownfield site of a former dye-works factory in Basford, the land has been branded as “worthless” due to a history of contamination. But what if this privatised plot of land were to become part of the community’s landscape? Would people treat the soils and cultivate the land? Would they establish the territory and build their own metropolis? Or perhaps they would leave the land for nature to reclaim the ground which was once its own…

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ZIAD HADDAD ziadhaddad12@gmail.com, ziad.architecture

APOTHECARY OF THE SOUL My scheme is a hybrid between a Maggie’s Centre and a series of wig and emollient workshops dedicated to compliment and aid the mental health of cancer patients. In essence, the journey through the building walks patients through accepting the difficult circumstances that they are going through and aims to invoke a greater sense of appreciation for the handmade. The industrial aspect of the scheme adopts manufacturing wigs through taking in hair from a public hair parlours, which is then knitted (or ventilated) onto a lace net which is also manufactured on site. This links back to Nottingham’s heritage as being both a medical and lace powerhouse. The project goes beyond and invites the patients to make their own emollient and other hair care products from honey, water, and essential oil; all of which are also sourced on site via an integrated apiary and a planting scheme. The scheme will also integrate temporary accommodation for individuals who wish to stay before or after their therapy as a mean to engage them further with the different activities of the building.

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JESS HOLLIS jessica.hollis@hotmail.co.uk

A BIO-MATERIAL SHOE FACTORY Within the 21st century context; this thesis proposes evoking declarative semantic memory, or place-memory, to order to locate a community with the evolving narrative of place. Focused on the post-industrial Forest Fields and Basford, the project explores how local identity can be re-defined, and brought into the everyday experience of communities. In an area which has particularly felt the socio-economic decline as Wa result of de-industrialisation, the approach aims to restore the sense of pride and belonging present throughout Nottingham’s rich industrial era, particularly during the textiles production of between the 1800s and 1900s. Through the adaptive re-use of the former Guy Birkin Lace Factory, place memory will be celebrated, whilst facilitating the development of the local community surrounding it. The programme; a biomaterial shoe factory will connect the textiles heritage of the city, into the modern day context proposing a sustainable alternative to textiles production.

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EMILY MCALISTER emilyrmcalister@gmail.com

BOBBERS BOBBIN Bobbers Bobbin is a process led fashion centre for aspiring environmentalists, which aims to promote, educate and establish sustainable fashion habits, through clothes making, clothes maintainance and clothes shopping, whilst providing a safe space for our environment responsible teenaged community. Todays society is highly consumerist, so much so, clothes are deemed a neccessity. Online clothes sales skyrocketed above hygiene and medical purchases during the pandemic; a time where only essential items should be bought. Therefore to tackle the environmental impact of fast fashion, the experience of shopping needs to remain. This project is inspired by Bobbers Mill, the old dyeworks industry which existed in the neighbouring site and works to merge retail and industry, ensuring all clothes are produced ethically, all wastewater is filtered and all fabrics used are recycled.

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DYLAN TRAVES dylantraves2000@gmail.com

THE RIVER TO RECOVERY The River to Recovery project is located on the site of the former Old Basford Bleachworks. It focusses on using different types of hydrotherapy and swimming, as holistic treatments for mental and physical symptoms of long-Covid. The surrounding memorial park is navigable by both water and land. Its reedlands are dotted with plinths for reflection and meditation. Its users are both local residents on their constitutional local park walk, and urban wild swimmers, who venture out into the landscape making use of the naturally filtered river water from Day Brook. The River to Recovery Swimming centre contains two functions: The Hydro Clinic treats sufferers of Long Covid with courses of hydro and physiotherapy. The Public Swimming Pool and Lido prepares adults and former clinic patients for wild swimming. Whilst its light timber sawtooth roof structure takes inspiration from the former architecture of the old bleachworks, its southward facing slopes allow pool water to be heated via solar thermal panels.

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GHOST STORIES Unit Lead: Mani Lall, Assistant Tutors: Charlie Simpson, Smara Ghinita, Clement Laurencio Matt Poon

YEAR 3

Amrik Aujla Chris Baker Rares Comanescu Sophie Forrester Erica Hawking Daisy Holder Menekse Kucukbalaban Rohin Kumar Olivia O’Driscoll

Amelia Terry Miljed Torrente

YEAR 2

Eden Andrews Monica Burman Eleanor Crunden Ioana Enache Arya Flisher Andong Guo Karen Mak Renjitha Michael Adaugo Nkwocha Antigoni Pavlou

Elliot Reid Zak Samak Timothy Wheeler Yin Yin

GHOST STORIES Question, consider, explore & conjure…The Intangible…what and where are the Ghosts? What is implied yet so ethereal that it is beyond immediate deﬁnition yet suggests, contains and proposes so much? To develop an understanding of the Unit and projects through exploratory Investigations of intangible elements, which reveal and suggest proposals for further investigations and tectonic responses. Exploratory methods that will unravel the topographical tapestry, expose events and reveal intimacies that are the essence of place, object and dialogue. What are the mythological, ritualistic and temporal signiﬁcances of this place and time, which could be explored to develop a nuanced investigation and proposal? Where could the delicate threads of the glimpse or the moment lead to? Questions such as these and similar shall instigate initial explorations, to unravel the weave and initiate a dialogue that will reveal moments within projects. Finally, to propose and develop a body of work which becomes the overarching narrative through which these investigations, explorations and proposals have been considered, revealed and presented.

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CHRIS BAKER @chrisbakerartandarch

CONCLAVE OF THE PUPPET MASTERS In response to the increasing prevalence of Mass Surveillance, this project is a narrative based exploration that asks “What lies at the meeting point of gods and men?” The project speculates along several themes bringing references from infamous secret societies such as the Illuminati, Freemasons and the order of Skull and Bones, as well as investigating ancient mythology and religion from across the world. The proposal is an observatory for and a convocation of the most powerful, yet anonymous, people in the world. It will provide spaces to facilitate silent observation of the heavens and the earth, at the macro and the micro scale, as well as a meeting chamber in which the imagined council members will debate how they will alter the fate of the world, based on their observations. The proposal allows us to witness those who bear silently witness the daily lives and intimate moments of people that are perhaps not as private as we may like to believe.

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COMANESCU RARES-STEFAN rarestefancomanescu@gmail.com

UNIVERSAL DEPOSITORY OF SENSORIAL DATA A metaphor of the concept of library that is creating a parallel between the way that we store physical forms of information and the methods through which our brains manage to store memories, a reason for the arrangement of the library into areas dedicated to the five senses. The building functions as a library where, besides reading and borrowing written resources, visitors get the chance to add their input to the collection, by making their own offerings of books, recordings, pictures or simply their mere existence in the context of the built element. In addition, a small part of the building is inhabited by the son of the last bishop that lived within the grounds of the Old Bishops Palace. He fulfills the role of a librarian that actively influences the visitor’s exposure to information and constantly updates the buildings informational resources, be them visual, auditory, olfactive, gustative, tangible or intangible.

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ERICA HAWKING ericahawking@hotmail.co.uk, @erica_h7x_design

The act of being able to enter an altered state of perception is triggered by the consumption of legal psychedelics/potions. These will aid the manifestation of lucid dreaming and enhance the vibrance of dreams. By doing this, one can use their own drive as a healing tool within an ever changing and digitally influenced society.

THE ELIXIRCOSM The Elixircosm is a retreat and monastic landscape for the extraction of the psyche and the reattachment with one’s own desires which lie behind the physical barrier of consciousness. This is, the unconscious world which exists parallel to the physical world but encapsulates the individuality of oneself. These desires can then be used as a therapeutic tool for healing the mind within an increasing digital world. The world is a continuous cycle of adaptations, resulting in a continual demand for society to evolve to new ways of living. Our growing relationship with digital technologies is a mandatory part of daily living but it could be asked, is technology consuming our individuality? We are a colony of cloned figurines which aspire to what society wants us to be, not what we want to be as individual entities. This project endeavours to address this societal issue whilst working with the beliefs of Druidry which are centred around the natural world and natural/holistic medicines.

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In the words of Charles Darwin (1809), “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”.

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DAISY HOLDER Daisyholder8@gmail.com, @Daisys.archandart

CRUCIBLE OF PASSION I believe a core issue with the original purpose of the site of The Bishops Palace (head of the largest diocese in England), that stretches over our society, is that we as people are prevented from living our most honest and natural lives. This being a life driven by emotion, or ‘a life driven by the passions’, as put by philosophiser, David Hume. Fear of judgment, and societal expectations have overshadowed the true purpose of our own existence, feeling honest emotion and striving to evoke positive emotion in ourselves and others. In response, I wanted to create a space free of judgement, that celebrates the passions and encourages people toward emotion driven existence. Theatre is a rare typology where freedom of emotion and expression is encouraged. Performers make themselves vulnerable in order to draw out emotion from the audience. My design gives form to this dichotomy between performers and audience, one guiding the other toward liberation and celebration of passion. A journey from dark and solitude to light and beauty that manifests the notions of ecstasy and connection.

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ROHIN KUMAR rohinpk@googlemail.com

THE BUREAU OF GENETIC CURIOSITIES Set in the ruins of The Bishop’s Palace in Lincoln, under the shadow of the cathedral, marks the beginning of a new institution A juxtaposition against the symbolism of the natural law that the Cathedral represents, The Bureau of Genetic Curiosities seeks to challenge the natural order for the betterment of humankind. This institution stands monolithic against the Cathedral, a series of functions contained within separate volumes that fragment down the ruins. For the public, a journey lies within to a gallery for the exhibition of future genetic potentialities, privately, a playground of science where curiosity is free to be explored.

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OLIVIA O’DRISCOLL oodriscoll31@gmail.com

BATHING FACTORY However detrimental our actions, nature will always overcome them. We must learn from our old attitudes of indulgence shown to have visibly failed in the past and move forward with nature not against it. Our bodies natural response to architecture will change as we become more absorbed in the natural world. The Bathing Factory observes body in space, water in motion and cyclical processes in nature. Here bodies are cleansed and stripped in turn exacerbating skin drying and therefore decay. In time, bodies begin to decay with the site. The water is distilled boiled and mixed into the soap mixture to be laid on the floor of the existing ruins capturing an instant trace of the history. The soap is dried using passive ventilation then delivered back to the start of the site, to be pulled through the Bathing Factory once again.

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AMELIA TERRY amelia_grace_terry@yahoo.co.uk

THE FREDA CENTRE As years pass since the Holocaust, perhaps our most drastic experience of genocide in humanity, I fear that there is a disconnection between our generation and the lessons of antisemitism. It is important today, when leaders still misuse power, to remember how severe destruction can become. The Freda Centre - named after a survivor I spent time with duing the Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassador programme - does not intend to shame the Nazi’s, nor purely honour the Jews, but it cries for the understanding of humanity; to consider each and every participant as an individual in their own right. The chambers place you within the perspectives of both the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust, and only then can we reach restoration and come as far away from the possibility of it ever happening again.

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TOPOGRAPHICAL ARCHITECTURE Unit Lead: Margaret Mulcahy, David Short Assistant Tutors: Sam Critchlow

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Megan Rees Olivia Stobs-Stobart Vhinossh Veloo

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Georgia Adlam Amelia Campbell Adara-Cristiana Cheles Benjamin Crawshaw Saffron Fellows Joel Gallery Eleanor Gardiner Francisco Guerrero Harshi-Tara Halai Joanna Holland

Matthew James Ana Kraljevic Chloe Pitts Edward Record Hannah Ribera-Edwards

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TOPOGRAPHICAL ARCHITECTURE The units ethos focuses around themes of observation and imagination, aiming to create designs that are rooted within the context of their surroundings, producing work that considers both the macro and micro components needed to situate itself within the community. Working through creative workshops students design through an iterative process of making and drawing. Working via the hand provides a slower pace, allowing space to think, question and adapt. Exploring both the conceptual theming and the practical analysis leads to more considered and thoughtful architecture that works both functionally and aesthetically.

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ELLA COHEN ellaizziecohen@icloud.com

“TEACH A MAN TO FISH” The aim of the project is to combat child poverty and food insecurity by teaching the children of Radford the importance of self-sufficiency. This was inspired by Banky’s mural which appeared on Ilkeston Road, depicting a young girl hula hooping with a bike wheel. Banky’s mural enabled us to take a deeper look into the poor quality of life for children in the area. The removal of the mural foreshadows the life of Radford Boulevard Infant School, located at the junction of Ilkeston Road. Built in 1887 by George Thomas Hine, formally full of life, opportunities and children, it is now up for demolishment after being deemed “surplus to requirements”. This project simultaneously protects both the building and its occupants. The scheme involves teaching children how to grow and cook their own produce, whilst learning valuable life skills that will prepare them for adult life. This is especially targeted at children who are at risk of crime and social exclusion, from age 5-16. The scheme involves an after school club, apprenticeship programme, residential care and activities with the garden at the heart of it all.

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SILA OLCAY sila00@hotmail.co.uk

INEVITABLE PSYCHOSIS IN A CAPITALIST SYSTEM The project explores the complexity of the human psyche through the effects of mundane and monotonous factory working environments. It investigates how our current repetitive lifestyles within a capitalist system neglect our creative, conflicted and complex minds, pushing the majority into true insanity and disassociation. This chaotic downfall is explored through the narrative of a disobedient lace factory, initially representative of logic and order. Over a 10-hour working day, the factory descends into a reckless carnivalesque, transforming from a rigid industrial centre to a lawless free-for-all. It embodies the extraordinary, encompassing hedonism, greed, chaos and leisure. Although a highly bizarre narrative, this is not far from reality with increasing numbers of exploited workers across the globe from textile workers in Leicester, to salarymen in Japan.

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EMILY PETTY epetty100@outlook.com

THIRSTY WORLD As a tribute to Thomas Hawksley, a Nottingham-based engineer who provided the city with clean, uncontaminated water in 1832, this project aims to reinstate an appreciation of water within society. Water from the river Leen is pumped into a raised reservoir, filtered vertically and fed into small bathing tanks. These provide opportunities for people to submerge themselves and have meaningful, spiritual experiences within the water. ‘Cathedrals of Utility’; this heavy brick structure relates to Victorian Pumping Stations, emphasising the utmost importance of water. A vast, nave-like space inhabits the central building, enclosed by cloisters, inhabited walls and two corresponding side chapels, which create a continuity of façades along the street. A sensitivity has been applied to the two pre-existing buildings on site; a former picture house is restored to screen water-related educational films, whilst a bleach works is used as an advocate for clean water for all. By providing a base for a water-related charity, it enables the site to have a widerreaching impact.

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TALAAYAH GUNAYDIN talaayahg@gmail.com

FROM FARM TO TABLE Arguably, one of the biggest obstacles in the way of Nottingham’s ambition to become the first carbon neutral city in the UK by 2028, is its large agriculture industry. The global agricultural industry emits almost one third of all greenhouse gases and the way in which we consume food has become a big threat to biodiversity. In order to tackle these issues, this project aims to design an Urban Farming Institute for local/aspiring farmers to learn about sustainable urban farming and local good production. The institute will include greenhouse farms demonstrating different methods of vertical farming, a restaurant and a farmer’s market. Part of the students’ programme will involve taking visitors on a tour around the scheme, conducting workshops in the farms in an attempt to reconnect people to the origins of their food as well as nature. My aspiration for the project is to act as a catalyst to popularize urban farming, reduce the city’s agricultural carbon footprint and contribute to creating healthy food systems.

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OLIVIA STOBS-STOBART oliviastobsstobart@gmail.com

LIFE AFTER CRIME Life after crime is a building project centred around creating a nurturing and supportive environment to stabilise the lives of exconvicts directly after their prison sentence. Often viewed as outcasts, ex-convicts in britain are rarely given a second chance, which results in a 75% re-offender rates within nine years of release. The aim of this building is to provide short term rehabilitation, helping and guiding ex-convicts to get their life back on track. This vulnerability will be emphasised through light, taking these ex-convicts on an emotional journey. With architectural inspiration drawn from the japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which emphasises that they must acknowledge their imperfect past but have the wisdom to focus on the future.

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HOPEWORLD ‘21 Unit Lead: Alison Davies Assistant Tutors: Richard Woods, Dan Greenway

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Joseph Baldacchino Lauren Chapman Edward Cooper Eve Isherwood Alicia Lodge Harry Monaghan Ella Doris Stoneham-Bull Grace Thomas Holly Watkins

India Wilkinson Isabel Wretham Julie Yuanxin Li

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Isabelle Barnes Jacob Bently Bonnie Coburn Cecilia Lopez-Cotarelo Garcia -Romero Jasmine MacLeod Isaac Mowbray Aisan Sinclair Holly Slater Georgia Tempest

Holly Tout Rosa Wilde Wai Lun Wong (Eros)

HOPEWORLD ‘21 Unit 5A is concerned with the optimistic post-war moment, building a better tomorrow. This year our studies are based in Milton Keynes, the last and most ambitious of the post-war, New Towns programme. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first of the housing exhibition sites pioneered in Milton Keynes, this year Unit 5A imagines a next-generation exhibition site: HOPEWORLD ’21. Under the HOPEWORLD banner, we focus on environmental responsibility as we confront the current climate emergency, but also social responsibility, and response to this unique place. HOPEWORLD explores both new build and creative re-use projects, acknowledging that the most sustainable building is the one that already exists, urban responsibility to this unique cityscape and routes to zero-carbon design as well as many other concepts. Working alongside a range of local contributors we offer real world context, approached with creative interpretation. Welcome to HOPEWORLD!

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JOSEPH BALDACCHINO Josephbaldacchino457@outlook.com

VERTICAL FARM MK AN URBAN AGRICULTURAL HUB FOR MILTON KEYNES Vertical Farm MK is a centre for food production, distribution and education that seeks to alleviate food poverty in Milton Keynes and promote alternative methods of farming to conventional ones. Conventional, mono-level, farming methods are incredibly inefficient in use of land and water. Considering the climate emergency Vertical Farm MK promotes alternate methods of farming in an urban setting. With hydroponics and urban farming, crops are grown hyper-locally, reducing food miles and using water and space more efficiently. The farm is the centre of a distribution network, using Saxon Court’s proximity to the MK cycle routes. Combining this programme with the creative re-use of Saxon Court (former MK council offices) breathes new life into an institutional symbol, attaching it to up-and-coming technology, whilst saving a significant amount of embodied carbon from being wasted.

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LAUREN CHAPMAN @l.chapman.architecture

50 YEARS OF FULLERS SLADE - THE SUBURBAN RENAISSANCE The Suburban Renaissance is a project addressing the superficial positive aspect of regeneration, and how it can too often be a catalyst for gentrification and loss of existing communities. In 2016, MKcommunity foundation released a Vital Signs Report which revealed that on average, men and women from the most deprived areas in Milton Keynes will die 6.5 and 6.3 years younger than those from the most affluent areas. As a result, Fullers Slade was identified as one of seven areas in desperate need of regeneration. A drawn out regeneration process has meant that residents have lived in limbo as to whether they will lose their home to demolition. The project recognises the importance of the existing community and presents an approach that doubles the housing density without the demolition of any existing homes. The public realm has been redesigned to further enrich the existing community cohesion and neighbourly interaction between residents.

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EDWARD COOPER Edward Cooper

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EVE ISHERWOOD eve.isherwood16@gmail.com

DENSIFYING THE GRID Culminating from the classic infrastructure that forms the basis of the town’s unusual urban grain, the incredibly low density of Central Milton Keynes presents itself as an opportunity to provide ‘marginal’ social provision for those deemed an outcast from societal norms. This project, therefore, strives to inject life into the ‘in between’ spaces found in Central Milton Keynes. A series of strategies across 4 scales, S, M, L and XL, will aim to target these issues and provide much needed social housing and community provision for all. The primary focus of the project, is the XL site, which takes the standardised dimensions of a parking space and reclaims them with a mews street typology designed for the human scale. Based upon the principals of many low-rise, high-density housing schemes, the units may be tessellated in a number of variations to slot into the existing surface level parking conditions. At the L scale, community provision is provided along the boulevard central reservation using a zoning system that relates to the needs of each urban centre.

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ALICIA LODGE alicia.lodge20@googlemail.com

ALL ROADS LEAD TO CMK MARKET Central Milton Keynes Market established itself in 1979 alongside the unprecedented grade 11 listed Shopping Building. Despite neighbouring an influx of national retail stores the market has continued to demonstrate resilience, appropriating underpasses and beyond to cater for its growing popularity. This scheme has taken upon the playful attitude of the City Club; a 1970’s proposal for a vast leisure complex within Milton Keynes. The project strives to continue Milton Keynes legacy of individuality by providing a permanent hub for local makers and traders, who lead the market to success. Through co-working design spaces, various workshops, and educational material recycling facilities the community are welcomed into the ‘Makers Club’. The project also explores a solution to the existing urban realm through re-purposing the existing elevated road, introducing three tiers of public interaction. Through this the market is reintroduced as a destination with day to night potential.

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HARRY MONAGHAN harryfmonaghan@gmail.com

MELLISH COURT Mellish Court is a residential tower block located in Bletchley, Milton Keynes. At 18 storeys, it is the tallest building in the New Town. As it was built prior to the development of Milton Keynes the building was not subject to the meticulous planning laws which typically restricted the height of buildings to being ‘no taller than a tree’. Having stood for decades, Mellish Court is now falling heavily into disrepair. This scheme is making the case not to demolish Mellish Court. Due the various environmental and social impacts consequences associated with demolition it was my belief that reinvigorating the current structure would be more beneficial overall. The flats are extended by a free-standing system of winter gardens. Floors have been ‘clustered’ into groups of three to create microcommunities with shared terrace spaces. The building’s connection with its surroundings with a new community cluster at the base of the building

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ELLA DORIS STONEHAM-BULL @el_doris_sb

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EDEN WORKSHOPS Milton Keynes, despite its’ afluent ‘new-towns’ connotations, has an astonishingly hight rate of poverty, affecting 1 in 4 children (st. Marks Meals 2019). Naturally, poverty expresses itself via hunger and malnutrition. Following on from my P2: THE PLOTAGER PLAN- a scheme which repurposed some of CMKs 21,000 car parking spaces into allotment beds as an act of advocacy, it felt right to further explore the realms of urban food production. Aligning with the idea that the greenest building is the one which already exists, I decided to curate a creative-reuse project, with the rather fitting Milton Keynes Food Centre (due for demolition). The EDEN WORKSHOPS encompasses three aspects, sharing aims to eradicate hunger and reconnect communities with food: TO EMPOWER - creating a co-operative living arrangement TO EDUCATE - initiating a ’School for Food’ encouraging learning through environmental + social conscious education act its centre TO EAT- to provide food (specifically veg!) for MK, from an individual meal to city wide scale, using new and traditional yield methods.

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GRACE THOMAS gracethomas1999@icloud.com, @thefeministarchitect

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MKCE- THE MILTON KEYNES CENTRE FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Climate change is the biggest threat the earth faces right now and yet little to nothing substantial is being done to address it. We have less than 7 years till irreversible damage is done and so we must act, and we must act now. This project aims to roadmap how a circular economy model can be adopted and used as a framework for all future architectural builds. The circular economy store will demonstrate how Milton Keynes can become the leading example in transforming a city into a circular economy system. It also plays a wider role in educating the construction industry to build zero or negative carbon. Finally, with both collaborative working space and shop space for sustainable business’, it advocates for the retrofit of all Milton Keynes houses to achieve zero carbon by 2050. ADVOCATE, EDUCATE, DEMONSTRATE! Until the climate emergency is resolved, nothing else will matter.

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HOLLY WATKINS watkins3131@gmail.com, @watkinsarchitecture

ALTRUISTIC CONNECTIONS Based in the new town of Milton Keynes, the Altruistic Connections project reimagines the revolutionary concept of Pooleyville - the egalitarian monorail city of North Bucks which never came to be. Following the proposed route of a prospective Milton Keynes mass transit route, the monorail will unite all suburban wards to the town centre and will aim to disrupt private vehicle ownership. Connecting this route will be various transit hubs. Due to Milton Keynes uniform street layout, these stations will fit on all main roads in the town centre and will connect to the iconic porte cocheres. These transit hubs will deliver essential amenities such as affordable grocery stores, pharmacies, post offices and food banks and can be customised to target areas where they may be needed most. Fully realised, Altruistic Connections will create a new vein of life through Milton Keynes, improving social inclusivity and quality of life for all citizens.

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INDIA WILKINSON indiawilkinson1@hotmail.com

COMMUNITY AND PRIVACY Covid-19 has shown us a world in which we are able to work from home, leaving thousands of offices abandoned across the country. The combination of empty office blocks and permitted development should have been a step forward in solving the housing crisis, yet we have been left with open prison cell flats. My thesis project provides an alternative solution to isolated accommodation in Milton Keynes. Community and Privacy explores the relationship between public and private space. Housing must have privacy, where residents feel most at home, but we also have a desire to be part of a larger community. These homes are connected through public realm, encouraging small communities to circulate around ‘courtyards in the sky’. The lower level of Sentry House is occupied by a variety of independent businesses, with the intention that residents living in the homes above would work in the cafes, shops, and restaurants.

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ISABEL WRETHAM https://layiw48e6.myportfolio.com

THE GATEWAY TO MK Milton Keynes is a new town located in Buckinghamshire. As an innovative new town, it aimed to provide classless, affordable residency for half a million people. It is regarded as one of the forerunners in pioneering homes for the future, including 1960’s self-built homes, prefabricated modular homes and hopes to introduce WikiHouse systems by September 2021. Two major concerns in Milton Keynes are the rising urban population and the increase of homelessness, (exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic). This leads one to question how the town is going to provide good quality houses for all, while the country is in a major recession? The project will involve a creative reuse of the Old Bus Station at Elder Gate, currently being used by the Milton Keynes Winter Night Shelter organisation, offering facilities and opportunities to help the less fortunate get back on to their feet.

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JULIE YUANXIN LI liyuanxin0405@gmail.com

CITY CLUB FOR EVERYONE Milton Keynes was the last and most ambitious of the New Towns Programme: ‘an adventure in social construction’ famous for its radical grid plan. Yet this postwar utopia has untapped potential: its main streets are criticised as sterile when they should be bustling. How to respond to the environmental and social responsibility of place becomes the focus of this project and the ethos of unit 5A. City Club for Everyone turns Midsummer Boulevard - the axis of Central Milton Keynes- into a public-transport-served, public realm, and situates a celebratory cultural node at its end. Building is conceived as a transformative force that regenerates public space. City Club has the chance to become more than a place of cultural architecture; it can become the city’s new Public Living Room. The node connects the city to nearby Campbell Park, creating welcoming spaces that everyone can enjoy. By introducing a folded public square and a viewing tower, it offers different visual levels and opportunities for public life.

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NUTURING THE CITY Unit Lead: Adam Swain-Fossey Alistair Guthrie, Joeseph Augustin

YEAR 3

Henry Chart Edward Cox Emma Demicheli Mixon Foo Abhishek Goswami Aadam Hussain Nicholas Jefferson Jaroslaw Krzystek Matilda Lahiff

Erin McCaffray Thomas Perring Aura Gabriela Tache Lauryn Thomson Christopher Tsoi Freya Woolley

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Faiza Abdelhamid Ryan Andrews Hannah Asante-Appah Sarah Avery Ellie Booker Natasha Claus Lucy Greenhow Thomas Hall Natalie Magnuszewski Imogen Prescott

Gianluca Ribi Hio Vong Emma Wilkinson Jack Winstanley

NUTURING THE CITY This year the unit explored the idea of uncertainty, through the adaption/ reuse of the existing built environment and through the use of ‘time defined’ interventions. Placing a definition of time on our architecture helps define our response and consideration to the process and occupation of buildings. Working within the recently vacant Inland Revenue Centre (Castle Meadows Business Park), provides an opportunity to reuse / repurpose a city ‘quarter’. The campus was built for a single occupier, a model which is diminishing in validity now and is now mostly empty. How do we integrate the campus within the wider city, and also provide an area with vitality that creates a sustainable community?

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HARRY CHART @chart.architecture

FARADAY FIELDS PRIMARY SCHOOL The Faraday Fields Primary School aims to integrate education and nature in order to deal with the modern day phenomenon of Nature-Deficit Disorder. The phrase coined by writer Richard Louv describes a separation between humans and nature, in particular children. This comes at a time when mental and physical health in children is at its worst but nature can acts as an antidote to this given its ability to enhance learning, manage attention disorders and reduce stress. Additionally a closer connection with nature can aid environmental awareness in the next generation and give them a greater understanding of stewardship. The project’s screw pile foundation system allows the built environment to co-exist with the wildness of the site. The sheltered outdoor classrooms and open hall space encourage teachers and children to explore the outdoors and use it as a tool for learning. The site also lends itself to being well connected to a residential community so it offers a green gathering space within a suburban context.

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EMMA DEMICHELI emma@demicheli.com

FEEDING FUTURE CITIES An urban farm located in the centre of Nottingham with the aim to inspire a more local and plant based food system while creating a community hub with a social focus as well as an educational focus on the matter. Given the current global issues we are facing there is an ever increasing need to align design and the built environment with nature. The project looks at how food production can be integrated within our cities today through the development of urban agriculture and vertical farming, and how local farming solutions can impact our production and consumption habits. The overarching themes of the project focus on adaptation and reuse of the existing built environment, sustainable design and working with the natural environment to tackle the effects of climate change.

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MIXON FOO foomixon@gmail.com, @mixon.foo

THAMESMEAD FLOATING COMMUNITY CENTRE The aim of this project is to create a floating community centre and park for the ‘British Community’ within Thamesmead. Thamesmead was one of the first places in London to promote waterfront living in 1960s but 60 years on that vision hasn’t been fully realised. Through the floating community centre and park it will promote a better relationship to the water for the community and that responds to the threat of future flooding within the River Thames The key areas focused within the project are: LEARN TO SWIM, COMMUNITY HUB PUBLIC REALM FLOATING HOMES SERVICES

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NICK JEFFERSON nickjefferson076@gmail.com

ASSISTED LIVING: WELLBEING WITH NATURE Situated within the city of Hull, this assisted living complex of 36 dwellings, aims to embed nature back into the urban realm by implementing lush gardens and organic design through the adoption of a biophilic design approach. The gardens draw from Japanese design and envelop the site providing a tranquil and engaging environment for the residents which compliments the natural materiality of rammed earth, oak cladding and lime mortar which dominate the architecture. This is in conjunction with the sweeping green roofs which ebb and flow into the landscape evoking the organic design philosophy. The addition of a public aspect integrates the site within the city which takes the form a ceramic workshop which creates garden pottery to be sold back to the public or reintegrated back into the gardens. A rammed earth kiln used for the workshop, acts as the ‘heart’ of the scheme with social seating surrounding this central space allowing sociability between the residents and public.

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ERIN KATE McCAFFRAY erinkatemcc@outlook.com

SNEINTON’S FUNGI FARM Sneinton’s Fungi Farm strives to emphasise the importance of mycology. Commonly referred to as the ‘Forgotten Kingdom,’ this project aims to reconnect people with fungi. The project focuses on three mycological processes: growing the fruiting mushroom, using Mycofabrication to create materials out of fungi and using Mycoremediation to reduce Nottingham city plastic. Located inside of the gallery spaces, fungi digest plastic waste and the community is invited to watch and learn about this process. There is also a classroom, workshop, museum, and archive space to help the curious learn about the weird and wonderful fungi capabilities. The site uses vertical space to grow the fungi in a fruiting tower. The project is located in an area of regeneration interest. The Sneinton market is at the forefront of Sneinton’s creative identity. and the fungi farm replaces the existing fire damaged market site.

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TOM PERRING tom.perring98@gmail.com

THE TIMBER EXCHANGE My brief for this project outlined a demise in the connectedness of people and nature. Long and complicated supply chains mean that we no longer see or particularly understand the journeys that products take to reach us, or the origins of materials we take for granted. This project therefore strives to embody the spirit of reconnection; both of cities to the forest and of people to their products. The Timber Exchange acts as a node for these connections, using the canal to connect with nearby forests through journeys to harvest timber, and public forest replanting programmes, planting the saplings grown at the Timber Exchange. The building looks to engage the public with the process of converting timber through watching and assisting in the process. It is hoped that by shortening the supply chain, and providing a point at which consumers can interact directly with producers that the sharing of knowledge will contribute to the sustainable use of timber in the long term.

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AURA GABRIELA TACHE aura.tache98@gmail.com, @AurArchi

THE BREATHING HEALTH CARE CLINIC “The Breathing Building” project is a clinic that treats respiratory conditions providing an environment that cares for the body, mind and spirit through reconnecting the patient with the surrounding natural environment as part of the healing process. This project blends the new technologies with the traditional elements and biophilic design. It evokes the romanticised healing retreats of the past by reestablishing a connection with nature as part of the recovery process. The building becomes a living entity with elements that suggest its use and functionality through subtle forms (biomimicry, geometrical shapes inspired from the lungs’ morphology) and practical components (natural ventilation mechanisms). The idea of a breathing building is achieved through the use of earthen breathable materials (rammed earth) and natural ventilation systems (the central atrium and glass towers).

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LAURYN THOMSON thomsonlauryn@gmail.com

THE FORUM OF FOLKLORE Folklore is a living heritage that forges connections between the past, present and future. This project aims to create places for the community to gather, interact and forge collective experiences and memories through active participation of folklore traditions and performances. The city centre site sits adjacent to the Castle and historic core, the architectural vision re-purposes an existing empty college concrete roof structure as sculpture workshops and a living folklore museum. It adds several new architectural interventions including a ‘Bell Tower’, a beacon to view and ring bells across the city, the ‘Endless Arcade’, a covered street for regular processions that also reconnects the castle to the city, and the ‘Village Hall’, a flexible space for community and double-sided performance theatre for traditional festivals.

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CHRISTOPHER TSOI PUI NGAI laypnt@nottingham.ac.uk

THE ART COMMUNITY Nowadays designing products, or even creating a brand to earn a living is not a privilege for actual organisation or companies anymore. With the help of social platforms, it is getting easier and cheaper to display and promote your work and creation to the world. However, it gets saturated at one point and some artists may find it difficult to reach their target audience. Therefore, this design scheme acts as a platform for them to display their work and products physically to their potential clients. For the public, this centre would be for them to have a taste of Art and even participate in workshops with whole-hearted creatives. The conceptual drawing on the next page shows the irony of the current society, people follow the “hype” blindly . My design intention is to provide a platform for the local creatives, as I strongly believe people should not be blindly supporting the “hype” or “trendy” or big brands’ stuff, small brands could produce amazing work that’s deserve to be seen.

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FREYA WOOLLEY freyawoolleyy@gmail.com

THE NATURAL DYE HOUSE The scheme developed as a result of investigating the destructive environmental footprint of the fast fashion industry. In particular, the vast pollution caused by the dyeing processes. The project aims to offer a sustainable and natural solution to dyeing by using plant materials to colour fibres. There is a strong focus on reducing waste, with strategies such as composting and recycling coloured water to irrigate plants implanted in the scheme. The project is not solely focused on production but is also open to the public with a shop to purchase fabrics, a workshop to learn new skills, and a cafe to enjoy the produce grown on-site. The project occupies a derelict corn warehouse in Nottingham. The city historically had a thriving textile industry so, the project aims to reconnect with the cities lost manufacturing industries.

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ADAPT/ADEPT Unit Lead: Nils Jaegar, Mark Alston Assistant Tutors: Liz Bromley, Sam Diston

YEAR 3

Bethany Blewitt Catriona Deacon Riley Dixon Jennifer Kendall Pearl Lin Jade Lindo Kieran Massey Alara Oxturk Joanne Rees

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Alexander Adams Lauren Andrew Evangeline Barrow Adriana Dvorakova Martina Enriquez Kenneth Huelgas

ADAPT/ADEPT The world is changing around us at an accelerating rate and in virtually all areas of life. These are a result of climate change, population growth, technological developments, as well as societal and political shifts. Such developments also affect how we live, work, and play. We modify our behaviour in response to these changes. Shouldn’t our buildings also be able to respond to these many changes? Shouldn’t they actively help us save energy? Shouldn’t they actively support and enhance our wellbeing? The recent lockdown period showed us that our homes may need turn into offices, classrooms, workshops, gyms and other facilities within minutes. However, only very few homes are able to facilitate these activities and spatial demands. Through research and design activities, Unit 5C seeks diverse adaptive solutions to personal the problems of today and tomorrow, with the promotion of environmental sustainability and the health and wellbeing of building occupants at the centre of this endeavour.

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BETHANY BLEWITT bblewitt07@gmail.com

HEALTH FOR ALL: LEARNING FROM THE PANDEMIC Day by day The UK is increasingly becoming an ageing population. As with many wealthy countries, the health system is in place to allow for the treatment and prolonging of life. However, the care for these is often very segregated from the rest of society. The aim with my project is to incorporate as many aspects of health into one thriving scheme to encourage interaction. It is also aimed at tackling aspects of the health system which have been identified through the current pandemic. I aim to do this by incorporating adaptive elements that allow all aspects to continue to function in any and all conditions and situations. My project involves a gym, nutritional cafe with open cooking facilities, and a care home with different levels of security for different needs. The care home provides facilities for residents who are suffering with dementia (as 25.3% of Covid-19 deaths in March and April 2020 were in patients with underlying dementia) as well as residents just utilising the facilities. All ages and sufferers coming together in one integrated environment

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CATRIONA DEACON catrionadeacon@gmail.com

A JOURNEY OF REVITALISATION The mental and physical wellbeing of university students is a growing concern in the UK, with 15000 students reporting mental health difficulties in 2017. This issue is exacerbated by a lack of campus areas and amenities designed with wellbeing in mind. The project aims to explore these issues and the ways in which designers can use architecture as a tool to reduce the impact of poor mental and physical wellbeing through the design of a wellbeing centre on the Jubilee Campus. The wellbeing centre aims to create a journey of revitalisation for students and faculty members, cultivating an environment that ultimately lessens the effect of common mental health difficulties and encourages positive personal development. The building takes the user on a ‘journey’ through a series of spaces and experiences, providing opportunities for contemplation, rejuvenation and connection with others. Fostering a sense of community is central to the design.

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RILEY DIXON eayrpd@nottingham.ac.uk

A SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS The idea for this project is founded upon the belief that the arts are, as a subject, undervalued in the UK education system when compared to STEM and the humanities. The idea here was to create a school that would specialise in the teaching of the arts to GCSE and A-Level students who’s natural talents and abilities lied in the creative. I believe by making a specialised school such as this, a personalised, rather than standardised, education can be delivered, where there is no hierarchy of subjects. The resulting design incorporates art studios, performance space, music space and more into the school. There are also classrooms intended for more conventional lessons to be taught, however these are adaptable, with rotating wall units allowing the space to open up into the adjacent class and the corridor, broadening the definition of what it can be used for. Overall, this achieves the original aim of creating a suitable space in which a creative education can be delivered to creative students.

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ADAPTIVITY IN THE CLASSROOMS

3600 Rotation Storage Solutions

Link Classrooms

Ultimate Flexibility Fold Away Walls

Blackboard on one side, display on the other

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JENNY KENDALL Jennykkendall@hotmail.co.uk, @J.K_architecture

TLC | THE LENTON CENTRE The project entitled “TLC” is a community focused development encompassing a sustainable housing scheme and a retrofit of an already well-loved community centre. TLC aims to improve the standard of wellbeing and social interaction seen within new urban developments as these communities deserve better. In line with Unit 5C’s sustainable and adaptive approach, this project works with the existing Lenton Centre structure, maximising the limited space through the novel use of adaptive features, enabling the building to meet the user’s needs. The brownfield housing scheme aims to rebalance Lenton’s student dominated population and provides spaces for a mixed community to meet. To make the houses affordable for Nottingham council, an adaptive plan is used which minimises building cost and material waste. Bringing the two schemes together, Bruce, the community biodigester, helps integrate the residents and community centre visitors through sustainable energy sharing.

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JADE LINDO @Lindo.arch | Jadelindo@icloud.com Jadelindo@icloud.com, @Lindo.arch

FESTIVAL ISLAND | LONDON Re-developing Festival Pier in London to create Festival Island, a ‘state of the art Transport Hub’ and London’s first on water biodomes. Working with Transport for London and protecting the River Thames. Building on water to combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change proposes a new way of building on water instead of land. The key Design Drivers behind this project has been the adaptation of the Island at Low and High Tide. Creating a naturally occurring waterfall as the Thames rises and falls twice a day. The River Thames currently has 125 species and Festival Island aims to enhance the natural habitats of marine ecology by providing a safe habitat. Can the River Thames be home to over 1000 species by 2050?

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KEIRAN MASSEY kjamassey@hotmail.com

UNIVERSAL ARTS NEXUS UAN is a creative arts centre with the aim of bringing all members of society an opportunity to explore their creative potential through any branch of the arts. Divided into three departments: Tactile Arts, Musical Arts and Performing Arts, the establishment hopes to provide facilities for learning and exploring all artistic media, from dance to blacksmithing to classical composition. This includes individual and group classes, along with opportunities to practice and experiment on your own. The building itself is designed to adapt to the varying needs of its attendees. Some spaces change to support different levels of collaboration between artists. Some spaces adapt to either accommodate the teaching and learning side of the centre, or the performance and exhibition of the skills developed there. At the buildings centre is a hub that transforms to support multiple forms of performance and exhibition events.

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ALARA OZTURK layao3@gmail.com, @alaraozturkvisuals

F.L.I.S. WELLBEING RESORT, MATLOCK,UK The idea is inspired by the axes of the ley lines and creating a hierarchy between the axes. The project will aim to arouse curiosity from outside, therefore attract interest. By supporting the social factor, the users will have a unique experience through journeys. Where each journey is rich by the number of designed spaces and circulations to enhance it. The centre of the space is determined by the intersection of ley lines on site, where the energy is most powerful,therefore chosen to be used as the collective experience area thus users belonging to the site will increase.

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JOANNE REES jm.rees295@gmail.com

NOTTINGHAM WELLBEING CENTRE The world is currently facing a mental health epidemic. Increasing awareness of health and wellbeing, and the importance of seeing all aspects of our lives as considerations is vital to building a stronger, healthier society. This design provides cohesive care for social, physical and mental health. It creates a community for the vulnerable and engages with the general public. It provides users with care and control at an individual or group scale. The spaces are designed to adapt to their needs. Inspired by Maggie centre’s, this project is an expanded version of the individual focus health centre rather than just caring for cancer patients. This project presents a more holistic approach to how care can be provided and how architecture can facilitate improved wellbeing. Primary user groups are those expecting, new parents, medical professionals, those suffering poor mental health, the elderly and students. These are identified as those most at risk.

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