UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM DABE MArch Architecture (ARB / RIBA Part 2) YEAR 5 YEARBOOK 2021
YEARBOOK ORGANISERS
COVER ARTWORK
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Chris Bennett Caty Goulbourn Conor Vale Jenni Wilson
Matt Urry
6TH YEAR UNIT REPRESENTATIVES
Imogen Bryce Ruvarashe Chipato Sheel Kothari Jessica Lawton Rachel Marshall Abigail McHardy Conor Vale Ventsi Videlov Joe Wareham
5TH YEAR UNIT REPRESENTATIVES
Chris Bennett Abbey Dean Lucy Galloway Caty Goulbourn Brady Hull Georgina Lay George Logan Jamie Trevillion Jenni Wilson
CONTENTS YEAR 5 INTRODUCTION CONTRIBUTORS ARCHI-TÊTES REMOTE WORKING
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YEAR 5/6 RESEARCH PROJECTS S1 CONTINUITY S2 LIVEABLE UNIVERSITY S3 FORM, MATERIAL S4 TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION
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YEAR 5 NOTTINGHAM COHOUSING S1 THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE S2 RADICAL INHABITATION, RADICAL RE-USE S3 MORELAND STREET S4 TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION
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YEAR 5 @uon_architecture_part2
INTRODUCTION Each Year 5 student had the choice of 4 different Studio units, for both the Autumn and Spring semesters, each with a unique ethos, aligned by a desire to enhance the built environment and make a positive contribution to architectural discourse. The year commenced with a group research project alongside year 6 students, before the development of a design project acting as a synthesis and conclusion to the research. The autumn semester also included the Design, Culture and Context essay based module and the design of a Milan skyscraper facade during the first of the Environmental Technology modules. The spring semester consisted of individual co-housing projects in and around Nottingham, looking to address the complexities of housing including the urban condition alongside social, historical and functional issues. The primary goal was to create homes - places for people to dwell - that support and nurture good life. Therefore it was important for the design to be for the individual and the collective whilst being generous and flexible, and creating intentional co-housing communities. The studio module was taught alongside and supported by the professional studies and environmental technology modules.
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COURSE LEADER
UNIT TUTORS
MODULE TUTORS
TECHNICAL TUTORS - UON
TECHNICAL TUTORS - ARUPS
Tim Collett
Tim Collett Chloe Lockart Nina Lundvall James Payne Will Pirkis Shaun Young Nick Haynes Laura Hanks Alisdair Russell Kate Nicklin Matt Strong
Jonathan Hale Katharina Borsi Didem Ekici Laura Hanks Mark Alston Paolo Beccarelli Graeme Barker
Mark Alston Robin Wilson Parham Mirzaei Lucelia Rodrigues Renata Tubelo Mark Gillott Lorna Kiamba Graeme Barker Tim Collett Paolo Beccarelli
Maela Allegretti Luca Bocelli Laura Solarino Matteo Lazzarotto Tom Clewlow Stuart Chambers Simon Welbirg Francesco Banchini Hassan Moharram Hasan Yousaf
CONTRIBUTORS
Nottingham Cohousing Jeanne Booth Steven Lane Simon Chiou Caroline Stephens Nottingham City Homes Nick Murphy Joanne Hill Elira Mano Takero Shimazaki Architects Takero Shimazaki Cecile David Jen Frewen Unit3 Toku Oba David Leech Architects David Leech Witherford Watson Mann Architects Vassia Chatzikonstantinou Florian Beigel Architects Philip Christou Editional Studio Jo Sharples Buckenham and Co Architects Stuart Buckenham Commonbond Architects Ben Harris-Hutton Studio Chik Chikako Kanamoto Mae Architects Michael Dillon Naja Hendriksen Adam Hines-Green
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ARCHI-TÊTES
Team 5D
YEAR 1, 5 & 6 INDUCTION PROJECT The ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ project acts as in induction project to bring together approximately 300 students, from both the incoming Year 1 and Year 5 students with the Year 6 team leaders, in a student led two-day design project. Inspired by the drawings ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ by Louis Hellman, Architect turned cartoonist, who created a series of caricatures of architects using elements of their own buildings combined with the architects own facial features, the ‘ARCHI-TÊTES’ induction project evolves this concept for the digital age. Hellman created his first drawing as a competition entry to the Architectural Review in 1984, which he won. He went on to create numerous caricatures of architects, designers, politicians and himself for the Architectural Review for many years, which were published in the book Archi-têtes: the id in the Grid (2000).
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Team 3B
Team 4D
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REMOTE WORKING @uon_architecture_part2
Matt, Ventsi & Tilly introducing an online T-Talk
ONLINE MASTER-CLASS OF 2021 This year saw a balance of distanced in-person learning as well as remote study, presenting unique barriers to our usual collaborative studio environment. From model making on the kitchen table, to Teams calls in the living room, the class of 2021 architecture student has had to improvise and adapt like no other in the face of a global pandemic. That isn’t to say challenge didn’t bring opportunity; online working afforded us the chance to ‘go global’ and have virtual tours of buildings and places we would’ve never otherwise seen, from Sweden to Japan and many between. In March, our usual field trip went virtual, with a number of workshops and tours to enjoy a much-needed break from Thesis. Closer to home, we enjoyed more frequent T-Talks from practices such as: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Witherford Watson Mann, Hopkins and many more.
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Kitchen table model photos
Design studio from home
Vertual festive hangout
Virtual building tour
A little help from family
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S1 YEAR 6
CONTINUITY Unit Leads: Tim Collett, Chloe Lockart
Emily Atkinson Allison Au Imogen Bryce Ruva Chipato Samuel Emmett Kenneth Kong
Joelle Kwuo Jessica Lawton Abigail McHardy Lottie Smith Lin Zhu
Allison Au & Payal Patel
CONTINUITY Continuity is rooted in the premise that what makes people love old buildings is the quality of ‘oldness’, where the age of the built fabric is felt, the quality of being lived in is tangible, and the passage of time evident. Continuity is about revealing ‘oldness’, feeling history, and connecting the present to the past. We are interested in harnessing the emotive potential of existing buildings, and we see architecture as part of a continuum, and therefore always incomplete. The studio methodology consists of a three-pronged approach to develop thoughtful and meaningful interventions: Looking at Oldness –A rigorous understanding and documentation of the existing fabric, physical emotional and historical. Assessment of Significance- A personal assessment of the most significant features, characteristics or atmospheric qualities of the existing building based on in-depth analysis. Designing Interventions – using the findings from the assessment of significance we then develop meaningful interventions, rooted in the history, character and ambience of the existing fabric.
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GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT @uon_architecture_part2
Caty Goulbourn & Lottie Smith
KAZUO SHINOHARA- 10 HOUSES In Studio 1 we carried out a detailed investigation of 10 houses by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara. From 1954-1978 Shinohara designed and built a series of individual houses that embody a chronological evolution from an interest in traditional Japanese typologies to emotionally charged buildings. We focused on his four theoretical constructs: 1. A House is Art, 2. Fissure Space, 3. Naked/Savagery and 4. Progressive Anarchy. Using the studio methodology, we recorded facts of the houses through a series of measured drawings and a 1:50 structural model, then sought to understand the history emotion conveyed in each house through photo essays and sketches. Finally concluding with an assessment of significance in the form of a 1:20 spatial model that captured the key essence and ideas behind the individual house. The 10 houses included: Tanikawa House (1958), Umbrella House (1961), North House in Hanayama (1965), the House in White (1966), Repeating Crevice (1971), Cubic Forest (1971), the House in Higashi-Tamagawa (1973), Tanikawa House (1974), House in Uehara (1976) and the House on a Curved Road (1978).
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 1 - CONTINUITY
Abigail McHardy
Imogen Bryce & George Logan
Ruva Chipato & Rhea Pascual
Emily Atkinson & Abbey Dean
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S2 YEAR 6
LIVEABLE UNIVERSITY Unit Leads: Nina Lundvall, James Payne
Poppy Chinn Tilisha Franklin Phil Hawkins Georgia Hillier Aidan Mwombeki
Matthew Skelding Kate Stephenson Dhwani Vekaria Ventsi Videlov Joe Wareham
Ventsi Videlov, Max Hargrave
LIVEABLE UNIVERSITY S2’s pedagogical methodology links atmosphere and perception with the tactile realities of construction through a blend of research and design. The design process begins with fragments and imaginary spaces as a route into a project; Exploring a detailed vision of a space allows a unique appreciation of materials and tectonic logic without designing everything in detail. In a way, we design the final ‘killer’ view as a starting point, not the end point of the development of a project and brief. The year began with a precedent research project on College and Campus buildings, explored through a set of drawings and spatial/ detail models. Above shows one such example, a study of Cripps College’s Fellow Flat in Cambridge by Ventsi Videlov. From here, sixth year students embarked on their individual research and design projects. Our projects vary widely in their typology and location, but all are developed from rigorous architectural research and demonstrate our passion for making beautiful spaces.
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 2 - LIVEABLE UNIVERSITY
GROUP RESEARCH @uon_architecture_part2
Jennifer Wilson, Matthew Skelding, Joe Wareham
BRITISH UNIVERSITY BRUTALISM “What moves a New Brutalist is the thing itself, in its totality, and with all its overtones of human association.” Reyner Banham This research project was to research and re-present a collection of precedent projects of British University buildings from the 20th century. All of these examples can loosely be described as “Brutalist” - but unlike the widespread misconception that this means these buildings brutalise their inhabitants - they all have an elemental presence and offer a generosity in occupation. They may be beastly, but they are beasts with feelings. For this project we all were (temporarily at least) New Brutalists and found out how spaces, materials and places were put together as whole environments. The work samples featured illustrate spatial, detail and site scale studies.
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 2 - LIVEABLE UNIVERSITY
Jennifer Wilson, Matthew Skelding, Joe Wareham
Kate Stephenson, Larisa-Anamaria Voicu
Jennifer Wilson, Matthew Skelding, Joe Wareham
Poppy Chinn, James Campbell
Ventsi Videlov, Max Hargrave
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S3 YEAR 6
FORM, MATERIAL Unit Leads: Will Pirkis and Shaun Young
Merick Hennrie Ryder Kirk-Newstead Nicole Korta
Sheel Kothari Rufaro Matanda Nikola Matusiewicz
FORM, MATERIAL The studio began by looking at art practices, at the observation, preparation, experiment and discourse that takes place around a certain context. We looked at north-American practices from the 1960s, as well as contemporary artists Ima Abasi Okon, Thomas Demand and Jeff Wall, with talks from Naja Hendriksen and Adam Hines-Green. Groups of students chose a practice, read artist texts and interviews, made performative pieces after Walter de Maria’s text Meaningless Work, and designed building parts in response. The student’s projects build on this, where the context of their practice became the physical site, a reference, or a social action.
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 3 - FORM, MATERIAL
GROUP RESEARCH @uon_architecture_part2
Jaden Morton, Matthias de Veer, Nikola Matusiewicz
ARTIST INFLUENCES ON FORM & MATERIAL To focus our research and to find some common ground between art and architecture, we looked at artists with an interest in form and material. Students then designed parts of buildings, focusing on the elements of buildings for living: a window, loggia, hall, porch, facade. In each case students developed an idea about form, material and construction related to the art practice.
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Precedents
een the internal and external space. The brick exterior e clean concrete materiality in the internal space.
The concrete surround of the fireplace will be a polished to allow the YEAR 5/6 STUDIOconcrete 3 - FORM, MATERIAL daylight to reflect into the room. The precedents show the light qualities that the concrete can produce when polished. This will allow the fireplace to become the focal point of the room.
Areas with Polished Concrete
Areas with Un-polished Concrete Katherine Krysiak, Lucy Galloway
The diagrams above show the decision making process for the location of the polished concrete. The first diagram was the preferred area for the polished concrete as it highlighted the fireplace well. Although the second option framed the fireplace well, carrying on the polished concrete towards the fire created a more warmer feeling. This can be seen in the image on the right.
John Holroyd, Anthimos Marinou, Ryder Kirk Newstead, Merick Hennrie
Sheel Kothari, Nicole Korta, Yun Hao
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F L OO R P LA N
Antoni Nedelchev, Sisir Debnath, Rufaro Matanda
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S4 YEAR 6
TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Unit Leads: Nick Haynes, Laura Hanks
Somera Bano Pooja Chikhlia Bethan Crouch Vaishnavi Gore Rachel Marshall
Rumbi Mukundu Leo Tsakalotos Conor Vale Frank Wood Lucy Wren
Conor Vale, Chris Bennett, Matt Urry
TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION This studio places emphasis on deploying the intrinsic strategic potential of architecture within the city. It investigates the spatial and compositional dexterity of architecture, to locate it within the four-dimensional structure of the city and its natural laws of persistence and transformation. Using considered urban and typological analyses to propel new urban strategy, we task architecture to generate a higher contribution back to the city than by solely responding to surrounding (visual) context, thus forming more tangible and sustainable interventions to the environments we each participate in. ‘Territories of Transformation’ seeks to explore these processes as means to give full voice to the innovative potential of architecture in the environments we inhabit the most: the domains of the city.
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 4 - TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION
GROUP RESEARCH @uon_architecture_part2
Bethan Crouch, Brady Hull, Georgina Lay
BROADMARSH STUDY AREA, NOTTINGHAM In Studio 4 we explored the urban processes that govern the constitution of our cities and provide some clarity to the overarching question “what is the city?”. The objective was to produce a nuanced contribution to the understanding of the role of the Broadmarsh area within the wider pattern of urban dynamics in Nottingham, understanding its significance and interfaces with the urban whole. Our first task was to investigate the position of the Broadmarsh study area within Nottingham’s wider city situation. Identifying and graphically conveying the patterns of urban and architectural change that are manifest as we transition between different study areas. Each group then explored a different area of interest. This included explorations of the role of historical urban artifcats and primary elements, the persistence of the street plan, thresholds, edges and boundaries and patterns of inhabitation.
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YEAR 5/6 STUDIO 4 - TERRITORIES OF TRANSFORMATION
Lucy Wren, Rachel Marshall, Tommy Simpson
Conor Vale, Chris Bennett, Matt Urry
Pooja Chikhila, James Trevillion, Harriet Beale
Conor Vale, Chris Bennett, Matthew Urry
Rumbi Mukundu, Thomas Wickens, Owen Davies
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S1 YEAR 5
THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE Unit Lead: Alisdair Russell
Harriet Beale Owen Davies Sisir Debnath Brady Hull George Logan
Samuel Meier Antoni Nedelchev Joshua Taylor Matthew Urry
THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE In recent years our urban centres have been experiencing unprecedented change. Once thriving magnets for retail and business, changing models over the last 15 years have seen significant decline to the core of many of our towns and cities. We must re-imagine our cities as a vibrant place where people want to dwell and live, if our cities are to remain active and relevant. Two new models of housing have become popular, the first is livework housing, and the second is co-housing or intergenerational living. Both of these models can potentially bring great benefits to the site and indeed to the City. The challenge is to be able to provide housing which is sustainable and adaptable over time so that residents do not need to move over the course of their lives, and to create housing which can support graduates establishing businesses, families with existing or new businesses and also the growing market for `empty nesters` or the young retired who wish to be part of the social and cultural experience of living at the heart of the city.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 1 - BROADMARSH PEOPLE’S COLLEGE
HARRIET ZILLAH BEALE harrietzillahbeale@hotmail.com
THE PEOPLE’S CASTLE Sitting at the base of Nottingham castle, the design uses queues from castle architecture playing on the idea that ‘an englishmans home is his castle’. The architecture is a fusion of new and old, not ignoring what came before but seeing it’s architectural quality and harnessing it. The design is centred around creating homes that are adaptable,vernacular, beautiful and sustainable. Whilst also providing public spaces that allow for flexibility of use and encourage community engagement and interaction as well as providing spaces for retreat and sanctuary in the middle of the city centre.
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OWEN DAVIES @ogwynnd.architecture
WALNUT TREE LANE COHOUSING Building on earlier work to reconfigure the Broadmarsh area, this re-use of the People’s College site reconnects fragmented parts of the city. A “plinth” housing public facilities recreates the rock outcrop that once stood on the site, while above this housing suitable for recent graduates is situated along reinstated streets, repairing vistas towards St. Nicholas’ Church and Nottingham Castle. A “stylistic bridge” has been formed between the differing conditions at each end of the site, transitioning gradually from the 20th Century buildings to the South to the Arts and Crafts structures towards the castle gatehouse. 29
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SISIR DEBNATH @sd_arkitecture
CO-HOUSING. PEOPLE’S COLLEGE A co-housing project situated in the centre of Nottingham. Cohousing is a way of living where part of your life and everyday activities are shared with others. At the heart of the scheme there is a creative community where residents engage with co-working in designated workshop spaces with other inhabitants. The vision is to provide a quality environment where people can dwell for a prolonged period of time.
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BRADY HULL bradyhull.myportfolio.com, bradyhull@icloud.com
PEOPLE’S COLLEGE SOCIAL QUARTER The scheme creates a new residential and social quarter within Nottingham, retaining the existing central college building and creating a series of new CLT apartment blocks. These blocks carve out new external courtyards and re-connect historical city routes through the site. Internally, the CLT co-housing apartments feature shared living rooms, winter gardens and screened balconies, with open-able space from adjacent kitchens promoting interaction. Communal spaces at ground floors and the central atrium of the college block provide a range of social facilities and activities on site.
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GEORGE LOGAN @GLogan_Architecture, GSBLogan@gmail.com
NOTTINGHAM CO-HOUSING The scheme connects to the wider Broadmarsh masterplan for the area, continuing the proposed ‘Green Corridor’ through the site, creating a new public square in the middle of the scheme flanked by inviting public facilities and businesses in the central and southern blocks, which house singles, couples and young professionals to the south. To the north of the site, more private housing for elderly and families sits around a large green courtyard. Themes of greening the site run throughout and the historic connections through the site have been recreated. The central block is a redevelopment of a 1970s concrete framed building.
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SAMUEL MEIER laysm17@nottingham.ac.uk
THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE The Peoples College is an ambitious and expansive co-housing project situated in the heart of Nottingham. The scheme embraces the concept of communal living while implementing additional amenities such as leisure, commercial and workspace within the public dimension to create architecture that is both activates and engages the public realm and the wider community.
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ANTONI NEDELCHEV @ant.ned, arkiant.co.uk
REIMAGINING THE MICRORAION A Microraion represented a social advance where private life was fused with abundant public space and amenities. Old structures are neglected and ultimately replaced by new infrastructures, residential and commercial buildings stemming from the ever expanding elitist densification. The rapid change fails to acknowledge the impacts on the communities who have lived here for generations, limiting social cohesion and reducing the possibility of sustainable urban development. Reimagining the microraion as a Cohousing scheme in Nottingham presents the opportunity to develop a tried and tested platform of ideas for a self-contained community.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 1 - BROADMARSH PEOPLE’S COLLEGE
JOSH TAYLOR @jt__arch
THE PEOPLE’S CASTLE Drawing on the historic farming use of the site, the scheme aims to reinvigorate the site by uniting communities through a series of urban allotments and communal spaces, distributed laterally and vertically throughout the scheme. Sitting at the base of the Castle walls, the arrangement of massing and outdoor space has been used to suggest layers of privacy, derived from the evolution of accessibility to the Castle’s grounds over the last four centuries. Bringing graduates, young professionals, empty nesters and retirees together, The People’s Castle is an exciting concept aimed to bring vitality to the South of the City to stimulate regeneration.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 1 - BROADMARSH PEOPLE’S COLLEGE
MATTHEW URRY @urry_architecture
THE PEOPLE’S HOUSING This scheme looks at societies current position on various issues and aims to tackle them through bringing people together who otherwise wouldn’t meet in their day-to-day lives. Upon a brief embodied carbon calculation, a decision was made to retain the two largest blocks, this allowed for a strategy of varying degrees of thermal insulation (private-warmest, shared-coolest) within the frame. U-Build allows residents to tailor their home while communally self-building it within the existing frame to become integrated in the community. At the end of life, homes can be disassembled, recycled and the structure can be re-purposed again.
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S2 YEAR 5
RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE Unit Lead: Kate Nicklin
Chris Bennett Emily Blanchard Amedeea Caltea Max Hargrave John Holroyd
Lauren Leyva Payal Patel Nora Schmidt Jenni Wilson
RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE The studio tackles two key challenges, the transformative potential of re-using an existing building and a radical approach to inhabitation. Under the theme of inhabitation, the studio carefully considers the idea of home in the city, and how to develop a piece of architecture which enriches the experience of living together in the city. It is imperative that in all instances re-use of a building is considered seriously prior to demolition. The Severn’s House building, part of Broadmarsh, acts as a testing ground for radical ideas about how buildings can be re-used and dramatically transformed. The studio encourages schemes which are bold and that challenge preconceived ideas about how buildings can be re-used, transforming them to become important and valued parts of the city. The studio has a strong social and environmental ethos, but also values the responsibility of the architect to engage with building as an aesthetic discipline, making buildings which are beautiful and engaging.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 2 - RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE
CHRIS BENNETT @c.a.bennett
RETROFITTING A RUPTURE Laying at an influential point within Nottingham, Severns House and Broadmarsh act as a rupture to the city. This more permeable cohousing redevelopment provides spaces for performers and young graduates to develop professionally and personally, creating living spaces that are versatile and connected, both to each other and the city. The scheme incorporates literal and spatial transparency, crucial in adding permeability and perforation at an urban level while creating a connected community at a housing level, and unique moments and glimpses at a personal level. Layers and thresholds are utilised to intertwine privacy, community, and performance. 40
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EMILY BLANCHARD @EB_Architecture
SEVERN’S HOUSE AND DRURY HILL Drawing on the courtyard morphology of Nottingham and the rich history of the former shopping street Drury Hill, the new Severn’s House and Drury Hill scheme centres the co-housing community around courtyard living and offers its streets back to the public realm. The building program provides community spaces and dwellings suited to a wide range of demographics which brings new life into the city site. Each home has their own front door accessed from a shared outdoor space that strengthens community ties and reduces isolation while still providing an individual sense of ownership for each home. 41
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AMEDEEA CALTEA layac26@nottingham.ac.uk
NOTTINGHAM COHOUSING PROJECT The fundamental concepts of this project include presenting a mix of uses, as the site sits in an attractive and central location, where there are many opportunities to establish a diverse and mixed community of residents. Live and Work artist studios, with the possibility of adjustment and spaces for social interactions, might meet the needs of young creative professionals and art students. The key principles of my design are re-using the existing concrete structure, reducing embodied carbon during construction by choosing lower carbon material alternatives, recycling the existing brick façade and integrating CLT, as well.
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MAX HARGRAVE maxtfhargrave@hotmail.com
METAMORPHOSIS OF A LANDSCAPE The proposal undertakes a metamorphosis of the Broadmarsh shopping centre in the centre of Nottingham, carving a civic route out of the existing building ,and creating a collection of distinct objects reminiscent of a Morandi still life. These objects create a landscape of co-housing apartments, with the gaps between them forming communal spaces at differing scales. These spaces create opportunities for interactions between residents, whether it is an event in the central courtyard or a conversation in a shared entrance threshold. It is through these interactions that connections between residents develop, resulting in a co-housing village.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 2 - RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE
JOHN HOLROYD jhholroyd1@gmail.com
SEVERN’S HOUSE CO-HOUSING In this semester, I proposed to retrofit the concrete frame of Severn’s House into Co-Housing for graduates, elderly people and young families. In the design, I proposed to reinstate references to the historic City fabric of Nottingham. This included creating a route to provide access North and South as Drury Hill had done before it demolition for the Broadmarsh development in 1975. My proposal also included opening up the Drury Hill Caves to promote tourism to the City of Caves museum.
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LAUREN LEYVA @ll_architecture
NOTTINGHAM GARDENS The design proposal seeks to radically transform a piece of Nottingham’s city centre, proposing new housing for families and elderly couples with well-connected links to community gardens and food-growing areas. Engaging public spaces include studios, an organic grocery marketplace and a community book-sharing ‘shed’ to offer community experiences on a larger and smaller scale. Each residential block has a shared ‘hall’ for eating together, for children to play and for social occasions. The ‘green’ focus is followed through to the private garden rooms inside each home.
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PAYAL PATEL @designsbypatel
THE CO-HOUSING The co-housing scheme aims to provide public and private spaces for residents to use, through means of circulation that encourages social interaction, incorporating plant growing that increases happiness and well-being, allowing for common spaces that will benefit to build on stronger relations between residents, and allow a sustainable way of living in the city. Audience demographic group - Inter-genetrational community 1. Family with 2 children 2. Graduates 3. Elderly people
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 2 - RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE
NORA SCHMIDT schmidt-nora@gmx.de
OPEN UP3 Three main buildings, including the existing Severns House are framing a vibrant pedestrian ‘Lane’ and ‘The Garden’. The ground floors of the buildings contain public spaces such as artits workshops, a kindergarten, and shops. A new Cave Museum will replace the access to the Caves through the existing Broadmarsh and will give them more popularity. The supporting structure and parts of the façade of Severn’s House will be retained and supplemented by a second skin. Cut-ins with communal spaces and arcades provide communicative zones which, together with the communal spaces on the ground floor, ensure a sustainably lively community.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 2 - RADICAL INHABITATION RADICAL RE-USE
JENNI WILSON jenni.wilson44@gmail.com, @j.wilson.design
LAYERING OF COMMUNITY IN COHOUSING A retrofit of Severns House within the Broadmarsh site presents the opportunity for a new gateway into the main city centre. Through the use of informal thresholds and implied distinctions of space, the new proposal populates the site with a series of secluded pocket gardens, encased by the protective barrier of the ‘garden wall’. The existing structure is reclad in striking green and brass to mirror the Nottingham Contemporary, whilst the intermediate new structures echo the heavy nature of the Georgian context, softening the transition along Middle Hill. The development took an approach of ‘Radical Re-use’ to retrofitting with an emphasis on ‘making’.
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S3 YEAR 5
MORELAND STREET Unit Lead: Matt Strong
Adrianana Belen Calvo Urizar Abbey Dean Matthias De Veer Lucy Galloway Caty Goulbourn Georgina Lay Jaden Morten Tommy Simpson Thomas Willis
MORELAND STREET Studio 3 focused on the ideas of ‘home’ and how our personal intrinsic human feelings of what home means to us influences our architectural approach. By investigating and understanding how various demographics within the co-housing scheme perceive their relationship to home and work, it enabled us to consider housing through a different perspective. The Moreland Street site is sandwiched between the River Trent and the city, creating an informal edgeland condition taken over by light industry. Studio 3 investigated a narrative approach to the historical context of the site, once a lively residential area, the existing terrace houses on the site are the last of many. By engaging in the stories, an understanding of place and sense of belonging can create a deeper connection to identity and the edgeland.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
ADRIANA BELEN CALVO URIZAR @abc.arc
MORE GREEN LAND This co-hosuing projects evolves in the principle of a selfsustainable community that integrates green spaces for gardening or food planting wherever possible. A group of retired couples, young families and young adults form part of the community living at More Green Land. It is located in a light industrial site and to fit within surroundings it is composed by pitched roof residential blocks which each shares one entrance and atrium. The model below shows this entrance which leads to four apartments. The two stories flat at ground floor are occupied by two young families and the top floors by the grand parents/retired couple of each family.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
ABBEY DEAN abbey.dean@btconnect.com, @ald.arch
MORELAND ST GARDENS The Moreland St Gardens scheme is a response to home as a place of safety, interaction and growth. The scheme intends to create a sense of belonging and comfort through physical enclosure and the balance of public and private spaces. To encourage interaction, the existing forgotten terrace houses are restored for community use as a café, forest school and winter garden. Research relating to child-play and environments for growth led to the need for a variety of internal and external spaces for learning and playing that maintain security for the parents. These layers of space create new opportunities and experiences for children as they grow up.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
LUCY GALLOWAY lucygalloway188@gmail.com
MORELAND STREET The intention of this design is to create a co-housing scheme, focused around two different demographics, elderly people (6585) and families with young children. The two demographics will sit within the same site but separately, on the North and South of the site, with the existing buildings creating a vibrant community area between the two. This allows the elderly people to still remain independent, whilst also feeling part of a wider community.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
CATY GOULBOURN catherine@goulbourn.com, @_catyg_design
CRAFTING MORELAND CO-HOUSING The project aims to define the new ‘Moreland’, with an innovative co-housing scheme that leads the way to the further proposed residential developments in the Waterside Regeneration Area. Due to the craftsmen client, the massing has been explored in the form of joints to explore how new can be joined to the existing terrace houses on the site. The exterior of the project is designed to look like a residential version of the large industrial blocks interlocking with each other. Each block has its own material and program variation to create an identity and sense of place.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
GEORGINA LAY georgina_lay@icloud.com, @glay_arch
MORELAND STREET REGENERATION An important idea throughout the scheme is the geometry of the site in combination with the North-South geometry, in order to maximise passive solar heat gain, while sitting comfortably with the existing buildings and features of the site. Shown below are the family homes, the main blocks of which sit with the geometry of the site, with glu-lam framed polycarbonate winter gardens which sit on the North-South axis. These are more temporary structures, designed to be dismantled and reassembled with each generation that occupy the houses, to give a sense of ownership and individuality with minimal carbon impact.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 3 - MORELAND STREET
THOMAS WILLIS
Vectorworks Educational Version
Vectorworks Educational Version
tombobwillis@gmail.com
THE INDUSTRIAL TERRACE My intentions for this project is to design a community within the area that is aimed at promoting a more healthy work / life balance that allows families opportunities to progress in the workplace without compromising childcare and home life. Spaces will be provided both across the site and within the home to help parents to continue work or explore new opportunities, these will be balanced with spaces for children, primarily external, where they and play and explore in a safe and observed environment. The idea of passive observation and small communities of families is a concept that has reduced over the last 100 years and one that I will be looking to promote through my architecture.
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S4 YEAR 5
SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON Tim Collett
James Campbell Yun Hao Katherine Krysiak Anthimos Maranou Rhea Pascual
Scott Pavitt Jamie Trevillion Larisa-Annamaria Voicu Thomas Wickens
SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON Southchurch may not be in the heart of Nottingham city but it is a bewildering and untidy spectacle, with the potential to be exhilarating, liberating and a place for encounter in between. Sitting in the heart of Clifton, a suburban area with predominantly good low-rise detached and semi detached housing, the Southchurch site is the Car Park for the Southchurch Court Residential tower, which is a scheme that Nottingham City Homes are currently working on. the site proposes many different conditions to resolve ranging from the initial question of what can be done with the old parking garages to broader questions addressing the sub-urban conditions that are particular to the site. The studio applies the same principals as ‘Continuity’ as a way of observing and looking at what is around us, using the ‘Looking at Oldness’ methodology, recording facts seeing history and conveying emotion, to create architecture with ambience, character and emotional impact. However, the primary focus of the studio unit is inhabitation, making extremely good homes for a collective of individuals and making a community.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
JAMES CAMPBELL jamcam1888@gmail.com
‘LAYERS OF ASSOCIATION’ ‘Layers of Association’ attempts to re-invigorate the sense of community on the site by creating a new co-housing neighbourhood at the foot of Southchurch Court, providing a rich landscape which champions social & environmental resilience. The tower itself has been transformed into a new landmark for Clifton, becoming the hub for public activity in the area; its function finally reflecting its presence as an architectural monument. The research has allowed the project to develop an understanding for the art of creating good thresholds and the layering of space, re-evaluating the perception of what is private and what can be shared.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
YUN HAO yuner199805@gmail.com
LIVING & WORKING HOUSES Based on research of the history of the selected site, the initial idea of the building design is to use a modern language to transform the traditional Nottingham architecture feature (Nottingham bricks) and to design a building that is garden-like. By working closely with views towards the Victoria park and constrains from the surrounding building designs. The design holds an interesting façade which involves two key construction element of the building- timber and brick. Which also represents the timeline of transferring from the heavy brick to lightweight timber material as well as the connection between the old and the new.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
KATHERINE KRYSIAK kskrysiak9@gmail.com
A TREE-LINED STREET This project uses trees as a driving concept. For centuries people have enjoyed the promenade on Clifton Grove and in the early days of the estate there were more tree-lined streets. Trees provide an overarching environmental strategy for the site and influence the architectural idea. Solid forms are wrapped in light timber structures that link with the garden, adding a layer of transparency and semi-private space that interacts with the dappled light through the canopies. A new tree-lined street to the South-West improves connectivity and creates a safe pedestrian route.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
ANTHIMOS MARINOU anthimosmarinou@gmail.com
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
DOWNTOWN WOODLAND RESIDENCIES The Design Project is located in Nottingham city centre. The project is about a residential live-work scheme between the Mapperly Road and the Cooperation Oaks park. The design proposal is two separate block of flats that sum up ten three bedroom apartments with communal spaces and studio spaces on the ground floor. The main aspects of the design are the connection of the building with the surrounding context environment and the sustainability of the buildings. Furthermore, the practical and comfortable design of the apartment as well as, the connection of the residents with the green landscape.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
RHEA PASCUAL pascual.rcv@gmail.com
BISECTED HOUSE In collaboration with Caty Goulbourn, Bisected House is a threestorey cube located between a point of crossing, concealed by a tapestry of trees. The house sits within an existing concrete frame, by piercing through the space tension is created causing interruptions and hesitations, permeating the otherwise very open ground floor. A stone hearth wall bisects the framework acting as a divisive element for two opposing spaces: the inhabited ‘winter’ space and the open ‘summer’ hall. A root-like extension of the concrete frame, a wooden trellis tethers between boundaries marking “the home is behind, the world ahead”. 64
YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
SCOTT PAVITT @PAVITTS
THE EARTHERN VILLAGE The ambition of my project is to provide a place that celebrates the core design principles of Clifton as it was build in the 1950s whilst providing facilities for like minded people to dwell together and foster a sense of wider community in a time when people have never felt more isolated. By utilising the green roots tethering Clifton to its historic Green Belt past the scheme aims to provide a node to re-invigorate the interest of Nottingham within Clifton, utilising the new transport links to strengthen ties to the city. Whilst utilising historic sustainable building techniques to construct an affordable co-housing and community scheme.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
JAMIE TREVILLION jamie.trevillion@gmail.com
THE GARDEN ESTATE The Garden Estate seeks to establish a greater sense of autonomy within Clifton by exploring the fundamental qualities proposed in Ebenezer Howard’s 1898 Garden City movement by establishing a series of key nodes across the estate that provide public and ‘industrial’ programme. The proposal seeks to find balance between continuity and intervention, acknowledging Clifton’s existing master-planning framework responding to the estates distinctive Wimpey No-fines vernacular and takes the form of mixed use complex that combines an inter-generational co-housing scheme with, community and co-working spaces.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
LARISA ANAMARIA VOICU laylv1@nottingham.ac.uk
SUBURBAN OASIS The project represents a co-housing development, focusing on the use of greenhouses as shared spaces. The apartments have direct access to the greenhouses, representing a way for all the residents to interact. They grow their garden, which will provide shade and privacy from the exterior. The building apartments are each accessed from a smaller greenhouse which serves as an entrance. The greenhouses are made of aluminium frame. They sit on a glulam structure which will be raised 2 Storeys up. The apartments are made of CLT panels and cladded with brick on the external facade, enhancing the architectural language.
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YEAR 5 STUDIO 4 - SOUTHCHURCH, CLIFTON
THOMAS WICKENS thomas.wickens@yahoo.co.uk
INTERSTITIAL VOLUMES A project that discusses the dualities of a distinctly mass produced developers suburbia. Through the exploration of the garden square as a built typology that conjoins the natural rural and urban dispositions, and the English picturesque garden, a dense, low rise suburban block is composed that emphasises the illusion of the countryside. The relationship between courtyard and residence is modulated by programmatically free communal circulation, that conjoins the private and communal use within the scheme.
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