DABE BArch Architecture and MEng Architecture and Environmental Desig ARB/RIBA Part 1 Yearbook 2020

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ARB/RIBA Part 1: Vertical Design Studios Year 2 and 3 University of Nottingham

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COURSE DIRECTOR: BArch Architecture David Short COURSE DIRECTOR: MEng Architecture & Environmental Design Alisdair Russell DEPUTY COURSE DIRECTOR: BArch Architecture Margaret Mulcahy DESIGN STUDIO 2 LEADER: Year 2 Farida Makki DESIGN STUDIO 3 LEADER: Year 3 Alisdair Russell UNIT LEADERS: Alisdair Russell Jim Hutcheson Pete Russell Ros Diamond Farida Makki Amanda Harmer Matt Strong Mani Lall Alison Davies Adam Swain-Fossey PUBLICATION UNIT CO-ORDINATORS: Year 2 Jessica Ellis Grace Thomas Sarah Hunter Jessica Hollis Alastair Walker Oliver Skelton Josephine Hamill Georgie Grantham Erica Hawking India Wilkinson Hannah Wolowacz PUBLICATION UNIT CO-ORDINATORS: Year 3 Katherine Searle Chris Bennett Christina Scullion Daniel Taylor Imogen Clarke Pranay Patel Amelia Williams Olivia O’ Callaghan Ella Rogers Ryan Williams Leah Gowing PUBLICATION SUPPORT: Tilisha Franklin Ventsislav Videlov © 2020 Department of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Nottingham / individual authors, unless otherwise stated.

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

Department of Architecture and Built Environment The University of Nottingham

CONTENTS VERTICAL DESIGN STUDIOS 2 AND 3 Unit 1A: Forgotten Places - Margate Unit 1B: The Janus Condition - York Unit 2: Design + Build - Nottingham and South Africa Unit 3A: City Scenes - Dagenham & Barking Unit 3B: Brink Territories - Grimsby and the Lincolnshire Coast Unit 4A: Poetic Narratives - Hull Unit 4B: Ghost Stories - Westminster Unit 5A: 100 years of Council Housing - Nottingham Unit 5B: Nurturing the City - Liverpool

Cover illustration, from top left; Frederick Nicholls (Unit 1A), Eric Okoro (Unit 1B), Freya Woolley (Unit 2), Daniel Taylor (Unit 3A), Tom Washington (Unit 3B), Josh Godley (Unit 4A), Edwin Malaikkal (Unit 4B), Ella Rogers (Unit 5A), Ten Streets Model (Unit 5B).

BArch Architecture David Short

K100 Architecture - 3 Year Programme The Bachelor of Architecture Part 1 is one of the top architectural undergraduate courses in the UK. This is testament to the hard work and dedication of both our students and staff working in studio and beyond. The quality of work produced across all three years has improved almost incrementally each year. This year is no exception. The results are excellent with again over 90% of our graduating students receiving a 2:1 or 1st class degree. Even more remarkable this year when one considers the exceptionally difficult circumstances within which the teaching and working had to be done.

There are many events that stand out.

The celebration of 100 years of Council Housing in the UK with a weeklong series of lectures, seminars and design charettes.

A one-day symposium on Climate Change in the Spring Semester.

Sam Kerin’s third year thesis project ‘The Coventry Ring Road Press’ was awarded the Bronze Medal Commendation for design excellence at Part 1 level.

This follows our successes in 3 out 4 of the previous years; a success rate beaten by only one other UK School of Architecture.

I have had the real privilege of being able to look at portfolios across all three years of the course at the year end. It is always staggering to see the depth and diversity in the body of work as well as the real quality at the top end across the range of studio units working both individually and collectively.

MEng Architecture and Environmental Design Alisdair Russell

K230 Architecture and Environmental Design MEng - 4 Year Programme As an alternate route to the traditional RIBA Part 1 qualification students may also choose to study the K230 MEng programme accredited by both RIBA & CIBSE. In addition to the studio, technical and humanities components of the BArch, the MEng through an additional year of study offers students with a high level of technical ability the opportunity for in depth study of building services / environmental engineering. In the increasingly complex world in which we live which requires an ever greater understanding of how buildings function and perform environmentally; the additional year of study not only provides a heightened level of awareness of the technical performance of buildings, but it also offers students a dual pathway to either continue to study towards being a Chartered Architect (RIBA Part 2 & Part 3), or the first step towards becoming a Chartered Building Services Engineer (CIBSE).Indeed some of our students will ultimately decide to gain both qualifications for breadth of experience and employability.

The K230 programme is largely common in study with the K100 programme, the first 1.5 years of the programme are essentially identical with all students across both programmes studying together in studio and sharing humanities and certain technical modules. In the second semester of year 2 and the first semester of year 3 K230 students have a `sandwich year` of engineering where they step out of studio for 1 year to focus on the acquisition of engineering skills before rejoining the final year and a half of the course, again essentially common to both programmes sharing the vertical studio and breadth of studio choices with BArch peers.

BArch + MEng, Part 1: Design Studio Year 2 and 3

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Liz Bromley, UoN Matyas Gutai, University of Loughborough Christopher McCurtin Corstorphine & Wright Guvenc Topcuoglu, Pin Architects Matthew Drewitt, AHMM Andy Edwards, Heatherwick Studio Sophie Barks, Hopkins Tilisha Franklin, UoN Ventsislav Videlov, UoN Eric Atkinson, UoN

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FORGOTTEN PLACES - MARGATE The seaside town of Margate in Kent was for over a century one of the most important holiday destinations in the UK. Akin to many of its counterparts Margate attracted holidaymakers from across the UK and in particular London. During our heyday of industrial prosperity it would serve as a mass destination and a welcome reprieve from the harsh working conditions of many of our industries, during the holiday fortnight when factories would close and revellers would flock to the coast. Over this 150 year period it continued to grow and enjoyed success and prosperity, with its beautiful wintergardens, Pier, Lido`s and its celebrated Dreamland funfair it became one of the key UK holiday destinations.

Sadly Margate`s days of success are long gone, with the rise of cheap flights and holiday package deals in the 1970s and 80s Margate rapidly became an anachronism, cast adrift with no sense of purpose or indeed investment this once grand seaside town rapidly experienced a severe level of urban decay. Four decades of decline saw Margate deteriorate into a shadow of its former self, the grand pier no longer exists, the wintergardens are a magnificent ruin, the once sparkling and vibrant Dreamland became abandoned, hotels and businesses closed and Margate rapidly changed from being successful, wealthy and prosperous to becoming a ghost town; with some of the highest levels of poverty and Urban decay in the UK, a pattern echoed by most contemporary seaside towns, Southend, Blackpool and Colwyn Bay to name but a few.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Claudia Adams Ross Barber Sian Bahia Cameron Bryan-Smith Adam Bridson Teigan Busby Hugo Dell Benjamin Foxley Ella Nartey Frederick Nicholls Shreya Patel Katherine Searle Susanna Small Samuel Tilbrook Olga Zinkevica MEng yr 4 Daniah Al Mounajim Carlos Gomes

Tutors Alisdair Russell Stuart Buckenham Andrew Cross

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As London has continued to expand and become exorbitantly expensive as a corollary of the global financial market, affordable housing provision has decreased to crisis levels, the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society have been decanted to Margate and other formally proud and successful coastal towns. This has had the net result of Margate’s vast network of former hotels and guest houses in adjacent Cliftonville becoming bedsit land, and home to the long term unemployed, ex-offenders and tenants with substance abuse, mental health and other issues supported by the state with little chance of bettering themselves, a problem exacerbated by the lack of facilities or job opportunities in the town. Indeed Cliftonville is within the top 3% of deprived areas in the UK. o As All is not lost though, there is beauty amongst the decay and a sense of cultural renaissance has been in progress over the last decade and indeed Margate`s now thriving arts scene may be its saviour. a century one

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Where London has negatively impacted upon Margate in its role as overspill town/sink estate, conversely this flight from London has formed the catalyst for its regeneration, where London`s financial successes have similarly forced many of London`s artists out of the City and to Margate. Famously the home of artist Tracy Emin, Margate has been coined `Shoreditch on Sea`, where like its London counterpart in the 1990s the creative classes now sit cheek by jowl with Margate`s still very present sense of urban decay. Priced out of London, artists and other creatives have flocked to Margate in recent years for its affordability, proximity to the City and bohemian atmosphere. Notably a favoured destination of Turner for its majestic skies Margate gained the Turner Contemporary gallery by celebrated architect Chipperfield in 2011, and indeed will be the location for this years Turner Prize. The beautiful beaches are once again thriving in the summer months and thanks to Red or Dead`s Wayne Hemingway, Dreamland has been restored and regained its glitz. Margate is becoming something of a destination once again with its seafront possessing at least a veneer of success, buoyed by the prosperity of the more salubrious neighbouring towns of Whitstable and Broadstairs. Moreover Margate has also become part of the London Commuter belt, attractive to many for its blend of affordability and the beauty of its location.

Margate can be seen then as `on the up` once more, however the question, the focus of study for the year is in questioning the socio-economic sustainability of the town.

An increasing sense of cultural focus and employment allied with the recovery of British seaside towns in the summer months has provided a much needed catalyst for its rebirth and we will be concerned with looking at ways to provide Margate with long term sustainability.

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Simon Adams Agnes Castro Charlotte Earnshaw Jessica Ellis Natasha Fenton George Gunn Ziad Haddad Jessica Hayes Afton Kenneth Amelia Maddox Grace Thomas Milena Wloch Wai Wong MEng yr 2 Hoi Lai MEng yr 3 Amy Cureton Alice Kimpton Ayris Saner Amber Walker

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Margate Kitchen Garden

| Sian Bahia

sian.bahia98@gmail.com

A project designed for the community, run by the community it aims to bridge the gap of a disparate town, promoting social harmony and economic growth for a formerly thriving seaside town.

The Margate Community Masterplan has taken a string of allotments and gardens along the high street and developed them into a Community Kitchen Garden, built on the historical premise of a Victorian Walled Garden located in Cliftonville West, the 12th most deprived local area in the UK. The community ensemble taps into Kent’s longstanding history as the ‘Garden of England’ and focuses on the twin problem of food waste and food poverty, utilising surplus food from farms, local supermarkets, produce grown on site and food bank donations to service the buildings.

Comprised of a Food Hall, Teaching Kitchens, Community Hall, Garden Rooms, Distribution Centre and courtyard gardens, the scheme places a strong emphasis on mental health and wellness, sustainable living and an integrated community, three things which having learned from the pandemic are earning more value and emphasis within society.

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The Viewpoint

| Adam Bridson

AdamBridson@yahoo.co.uk My final third year project explores architectural interventions in Margate, aimed at regenerating the high street and sea front.

As with many English seaside resorts, Margate suffers from a summer dependent seasonal economy. As well as this the tourist industry has declined greatly since the 1970s, with the introduction of package holidays and cheep air travel. This rapid decline in income has left areas in Margate to feel outdated and unwelcoming, especially further into the center. It is therefore important to find an attractive solution for the economy by creating an all year long reliable industry whilst simultaneously creating a unique and exciting tourist attraction. It is for this reason I intend to introduce an oil rig decommisioning facility along Margate harbour arm.

With the rapid decline of oil within the continental shelf of the north sea, many oil and gas rigs are being abandoned , left to slowly degrade into the sea. The chemicals released will significantly damage the local sea life and the English ecosystem as a whole.

My project aims to revolutionize the decommissioning process, allowing Margate to tap in to the large revenues within the industry.

Alongside this a tourist attraction will be created, as people come too see metal giants harbouring at Margate.

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Margate’s Harbour Arts

| Hugo Dell

hugodell0@gmail.com

This project explores the education and youth deficit prevelent in Thanet. Margate has little to no higher education, with only an academy and no university or college in the local area. However with an emerging art scene, Margate is slowly putting herself on the map as an arts hub as well as a seaside resort. The recent introduction of the Turner Contemporary at the base of the Harbour Arm and acclaimed artists such as Turner and Tracey Emmin calling Margate home has propelled Margate onto the scene without a strong educational centre to cultivate this development. With this in mind Margate’s Harbour Arts could provide the staple of youth desperately needed in the off-season. It is an art college located near to the Turner Contemporary, on the first stop of the High-street tram and by the ferry pier. Deliberately located on the tram line, the intention for Margate’s Harbour Arts is for it to grow into a multi-campus art collage dotted around Margate’s centre, linked by the City-loop tram.

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Margate Electric Vehicle

| Benjamin Foxley

Ben.threefoxleys@gmail.com

This project aims to promote and develop the uptake of the electric vehicle in the UK through the design of a small scale innovation and manufacturing centre in Margate, Kent. The project worked with small, luxury electric vehicle company, Lightning EV, to develop an innovative UK first centre dedicated to the electrification of the automobile. The design aims to develop a highly streamlined manufacturing process whilst retaining the high end hand built elements of the vehicles whilst also heavily integrating the process into the fabric of the building create a sense of occasion and experience for users of the building that will further promote the electric vehicle and high tech manufacturing in the UK. This project, in conjunction with past projects in Margate, aims to address the areas high youth unemployment by integrating public facilities into the building. This will help inspire visitors and promote the uptake of engineering and manufacturing to the younger generations of Margate and the surrounding area. This will hopefully inspire more young people in the area to pursue careers in high tech manufacturing and engineering.

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The Margate School of Architecture | Ella Adiki Nartey ella.nartey@btinternet.com

The re-purposing of Arlington House (a 1960’s residential tower block) into the Margate School of Architecture, alongside the Construction lab (P2), form the Margate Creative Campus which aims to reduce Margate’s economic reliance on tourism, to encourage arts and education led regeneration by providing appropriate STEAM skills provision and to solidify the town’s position as a cultural destination. Drawing from my own experience of architectural education, the school encompasses a socially driven design and pedagogy, seeking to address some of the criticisms surrounding architectural education culture. Combining a residential and educational typology intends to promote a healthier work-life relationship, further enhanced by the provision of social spaces, break-out opportunities and permeable and flexible working environments, encouraging the restorative power of regular breaks, whilst discouraging isolation and competition. The school’s curriculum is embedded within real-world applications, aided by the retrofit typology promoting sustainability and re-use from the offset. The exposed building structure performs as a valuable teaching tool and the in residence schemes (including artists, architects and RIBA professionals) offer increased accessibility to a range of creative disciplines, whilst breaking down the barrier between education and the real world, not just through high visibility but also taught curriculum modules. This collaborative and holistic teaching approach, facilitated through the design, will allow Margate to attract and retain creative talent, as well as, taking a proactive role to engage students, staff and members of the Margate Community through community builds and live project initiatives with the intention to regenerate and ‘CoCreate’ Margate together.

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Plastic Fantastic Fashion Centre | Frederick George Nicholls freddienicholls04@gmail.com

As a third-year architect, this project encompasses the knowledge I have accumulated throughout my architectural studies; from sustainability to structure, concerning the fundamental role design plays in the regeneration of urban areas through industry.

My thesis project documents the development of the creation of ‘The Plastic Fantastic Fashion Centre’, which aims to return industry to Margate following its economic decline. Whilst a main feature of the centre is the creation of new sustainable fashion for the high street from the recycling of waste plastic, another key aspect is the inclusion of public realms within the building. These enable citizens to observe and understand the various processes within the factory.

The investigation of an ‘Industrial Utopia’, whereby the introduction of sustainable industry into urban areas catalyses regeneration, provides insight into how this centre can return Margate to its pre-1970 success as a bustling tourist hotspot and mining town.

Utilising the creative minds of Margate’s citizens within the sustainable fashion industry, and providing community buildings boosting employment, the centre redefines industry and how it is perceived; providing longevity and economic prosperity to Margate.

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Crafting a Sentient Landscape

| Shreya Patel

shreyadinapatel@gmail.com

Margate: a seaside town that once captured the hearts of British holidaymakers as a go-to for pleasure-seeking and summertime holidaying. Following a devastating blow to the seaside tourism industry, Margate found itself declined and unable to regain its footing in the same way other seaside towns did. In recent years, Margate has made a conscious and concerted strive back to regeneration and appears to be making several positive steps towards a better future. But several of the recent developments in Margate could suggest something far more harmful than a so-called ‘culture-led regeneration’.

The project not only addresses the social instability within Margate but the pressing environmental future of coastal regions. With coasts neglected in favour of the rapid development of cities, which is worsening the present environmental condition, coasts are not only lagging behind in the race of urban development but being neglected in ensuring their adaptation to climate change.

Crafting a sentient landscape is an opportunity to investigate the development of coastal regions and how there may be a lost opportunity to answer to both the social and environmental crises they are facing. Through a deep dive into resource efficient agriculture, such as a seaweed processing centre for the creation of fertiliser, desalination practices both active and passive and a focus on creating a sustainable process and adaptive technologies; the project aligns itself towards reimagining Margate as a pioneer in future-proofing coastlines worldwide.

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Victoria Road Primary School

| Katherine Eve Searle

katiesearle@ymail.com

A “good education... can transform lives for the better” (Education Endowment Foundation). Yet both in Margate and on a nationwide scale there are issues with schooling which must be addressed, socially and architecturally. There are a limited number of school places, lack of funding and lack of resources. The achievements of disadvantaged pupils are often inferior compared to their affluent classmates. And for those with special educational needs (SEN), the absence of genuine inclusion rooted in the design of a onesize-fits-all learning environment precludes sufficient educational outcomes.

The design for a new primary school in Margate aims to tackle some of these issues. It is a mainstream school, but the architecture tries to aid the “genuine inclusion” of children with SEN. The design is especially considerate of the needs of autistic children, who make up nearly half the number of children with SEN in Kent. Above all else, the design expresses a feeling of warmth, security, and inclusivity for children in Thanet. A sensitive design approach aims to achieve a sense of belonging and self-worth.

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Admin/offices Medium/varying levels of stimulation High stimulation Library Low stimulation

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“A view towards the sea�

| Susanna Small

susanna_small@hotmail.com

It is well acknowledged that in Britain we have a shortage of social housing for those who cannot afford to purchase their own property on the market. Approximately 277,000 people across the nation are homeless, usually because they can no longer afford to privately rent their previous home.

Looking towards the future, it is clear that in our modern society there is not simply one group of people who require social housing. The houses that the government are aiming to provide need to cater for occupants from all walks of life. It is no longer a case of building homes as quickly and as cheaply as possible. New social housing must be designed for anyone from young people attempting to get a foot on a rung of the property ladder, to old people who need a safe and secure home to live in, to homeless people who need a roof over their head after living on the streets.

There is also an immedite need for good quality sustainable housing that is future-proofed and responds to the current global climate crisis. Building more sustainably will also be more cost effective in the long-term as the construction costs will be offset by the potential energy cost savings in the future.

Therefore, this project provides the residents of Cliftonville with a new social housing development along the coastal promenade that creates a pleasant and sustainable development, inspiring neighbourly relationships and an element of coliving within a total of 54 sea-facing dwellings and a range of community ammenities.

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Gentrification or Rejuvenation?

| Samuel Tilbrook

samueltilbrook123@gmail.com New Brutalism is often misunderstood, Corbusier’s ‘le beton brut’ meant to represent something greater than the aesthetics of a building. Similarly, Margate has lost its way. The once thriving seaside destination has all but been forgotten by those who used to holiday there. The rapid decrease in visitors, rising unemployment and an ever-growing number of vulnerable residents, the town has become a “no go zone”, cementing itself among the most deprived areas of the UK. However, there remains hope. Since the opening of the Turner Contemporary in 2011 the town has established itself amongst the art world. With an influx of creatives moving into Margate due to lower living costs, the establishment of a new creative industry is on the horizon, but at what cost? My project looks to the creative repurposing of local Brutalist icon Arlington House. The new development will focus on providing the existing community with the tools required to benefit from Margate’s inevitable gentrification.

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Private Spa & Public Leisure Centre

| Olga Zinkevica

olga.zinkevica1@gmail.com

This project focuses on bringing the history of Margate back in the form of a spa retreat and a public leisure centre, in order to improve Margate’s economy. The site that has been chosen for this scheme has a rich history involving sea bathing. In 1824 Clifton Baths were constructed containing storage for 20 to 30 bathing machines, seven hot baths, showerbaths, and hip baths.

On top of those remains, the Lido was constructed in 1926. It had facilities such as restaurants, cafes, and bars on different levels, as well as, the outdoor swimming pool.

The design process involved extensive analysis of existing Clifton Baths and the Lido remains and their incorporation with the new elements of the development. The scheme accommodates both the local people and the visitors. It includes public, private, and shared facilities. Spa retreat offers unique experiences, such as the Russian Sauna and Seaweed baths making it a desirable place for the visitors. The public is able to enjoy the enclosed pool, outdoor sunbathing space, and the outdoor seawater pool.

Spaces, such as the exhibition, a small shop, and a restaurant on several levels activate the promenade making it an inviting space.

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The Hybrid Eco-Port

| Daniah Basil Al Mounajim

daniah.al@yahoo.com

Following the development of overseas travel privileges, the once successful seaside towns began to feel more and more isolated and unsupported by socio-political and economic development. It became easy to forget the value of seaside assets and their architectural achievements. This project puts these issues, along with a study of the UN Sustainable Development goals, on the forefront of developing a new masterplan and architecture for the forgotten Port of Ramsgate. Following a study of the site, it was determined to develop this unused port into a marine focused masterplan, bringing in industrial zones, that can aid in increasing employment, educational and research zones, and public tourist operations, that reintroduce travellers to this town.

These priorities helped in developing the main building proposed on the masterplan to be a cold plasma co-pyrolysis waste-energy production station, that works to collect and use plastic from the North Sea to create bio-oil for all ships that use this port.

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The Winter Gardens Research and Development Centre

| Carlos Gomes

carlosgomes.arch@gmail.com

The ethos of the project is to revitalise products and materials in a sustainable manner, with the help of new technologies, offering them a new life that will differ entirely from its original purpose. It made sense to find a building and reuse it for this scheme.

The Winter Gardens were once one of Margate’s biggest attractions and were crucial for its economy. As of lately even though the building is still used it is no longer the landmark it once was. With a framework of reducing and eliminating waste it seemed appropriate to reutilise a structure that was once a key attraction in the town, bringing it back to its old status but with a different outlook focusing on sustainability and reinvention. The scheme is split into 3, research, prototyping and performace. The prototyping being driven by the work done in research and the research being informed and adjusted according to the tests done with scale prototypes. The original performance space and the revitalised amphitheatre at the core of the scheme can either function as a standalone spaces or interact with each other as well as the research and/or prototyping areas in the case of talks or conferences.

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Margate School of Contemporary Dance laysga@nottingham.ac.uk

The Margate School of Contemporary Dance is orientated towards providing a fun and memorable experience for young people from across the country. The School hosts a programme encouraging students from outside Margate to partake in the contemporary arts. The structure consists of 3 large teaching dance rooms that - thanks to the internal flexible partitions - can host dance lessons for up to 100 students at one time (5). The ground floor of the project is orientated around social interaction through the large partial outdoor canteen (11) and creative dance viewing spaces (10). A large grand staircase (4,8,13) runs along the height of the building, allowing for public access through the building without the interference of teaching or dance shows. From the full height windows to the large outdoor courtyard (3) and seating areas, the building’s complex design takes full advantage of the enchanting views out to sea. The 130-seat dance theatre (1) allows the students of the school to perform in live ticketed dance shows for the people of Margate, contributing to the regeneration of the once lively and vibrant sea-side town.

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Margate Centre for Boat Design and Repair

| Charlotte Earnshaw

layce1@nottingham.ac.uk AN ARCHITECTURE TO CELEBRATE THE RICH, YET FORGOTTEN NAVAL HISTORY OF MARGATE, UNITING IT WITH THE CURRENT MIGRATION OF CREATIVE TYPES INTO MARGATE. The intention behind the design is to draw together a live RNLI boat repair line and a naval design university together on one site encouraging a shared learning process in the hope of inspiring a more practical approach within the students. A public central spine creates a unique space where framed views of both the lifeboat repair process and the yacht design process act like an exhibition, engaging and educating visitors. The Turbine Hall’s paired back materiality acts as a blank canvas - inviting the bustle, sounds and smells of activities to fill it. The provision of a public space is important in encouraging greater communication not only between the students and workers but also with the public of Margate. The program will aid in closing the divide between Margate’s locals and the migrating creative types through a provision of education - providing opportunity for Margate’s local population to engage in skills workshops

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Margate Art Foundation School

| Jessica Ellis

layje2@nottingham.ac.uk

Conceived as an attempt to tackle Margate’s high unemployment rates amongst those aged 18-24, Margate Art Foundation School provides young adults the opportunity to broaden and develop their artistic skills, preparing them for a career in the creative sector. The school is designed as a series of blocks connected by a winding corridor and central square for gathering and socialising. This layout allows each classroom to have access to exterior courtyard or terrace space, providing students with an inspiring and engaging work space. Timber frame construction and cladding creates a blank canvas space for students to personalise, with built in shelving and storage throughout.

The school also encourages community integration, with a public gallery space for students to exhibit their work, and evening classes in ceramics and landscape painting (top right), to involve the wider community.

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Margate’s Metal College

| Natasha Fenton

laynef@nottingham.ac.uk

MARGATE’S METAL COLLEGE The concept for this project was to reintroduce a new arts college to support the growing arts scene in Margate. Metal was the gap in the arts community that I achieved to fill with Margate’s first metal making college. This would hope to bring the community together through short courses, taster days and a degree in silversmithing. This college would also have the potential to run with the Turner Gallery for exhibition collaborations, highlighting the metal sculptures and their artists. The building consists of three parts designed for different functions; the workshop, the studio space and the exhibition space. This would include additional facilities such as the cafe, library and a shop to sell artists work.

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Classic Car Electrification Facility

| George Gunn

laygjg@nottingham.ac.uk To combat high levels of unemployment in Margate due to the seasonal tourism economy, I propose a classic car restoration facility, which could take on a number of apprentice’s throughout the year, providing them with transferable skills used in future careers. The main process happens in the workshop building, making use of the secure courtyard in the centre of the site for jobs requiring outdoor space. A dilapidated chassis can enter the facility from the East, and emerge from the other side a gleaming example of modern British technology.

Viewing platforms are publicly accessible throughout the day, to attract enthusiasts and visitors to the facility, with a number of work spaces being opened at the weekends and holidays to allow for a closer look.

There is a new route linking the cliff-top to the lower promenade, and the Visitors Centre is sat within the cliff, directly overlooking the workshop and courtyard. Staff and client meeting spaces are positioned beneath the busiest spaces, to give a more private and secluded feel.

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Margate School of Biomimicry

| Ziad Haddad

layzh2@nottingham.ac.uk

A concoction of the arts and sciences inspired by nature is what this place gives to the community. The design process behind the building was initially based off of the animal cell, which then slowly grew into a holistic structure that served the functions of the design study. Inspired by both futuristic & Modern architecture from future systems and Eric Mendelsohn, this building hints an insight to what extrapolating Modernist British seaside architecture could look like in contemporary Britain. The approach to the arrangement of spaces tended to revolve around the circulation of people around the building rather than massing as an emphasis on the spatial experience and journey of the user.

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Margate’s Printworks

| Jessica Isabelle Hayes

layjih@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk Margate’s printworks proposes a print and textiles-based educational program , specialising in the production of bespoke and personalised boat sails. The print facilities and activities will partner with the local printmakers, ‘HELLO PRINT STUDIOS’ and yearly ‘Pushing Print Festival’, to create a strong creative narrative to the building’s program. The large space required for the assembly and production of sails, will also function as a nightclub for students and locals to extend its usage by widening the buildings audience.

The High-tech form of the Proposal’s external design references the sail and mast forms of sail-boats. Main precedence include the steel skeletal structure of Foster + Partners Renault Distribution centre and The Schulumberger Cambridge Centre by Hopkins Architects.

The cross functional program was inspired by the philosophies of the Fun Palace by Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price; the building’s kinetic abilities assist in its activities, encouraging the user to interact with and within the space. The atrium’s sail production mechanisms integrate this concept, allowing the space to cross function as both a sail production exhibition and nightclub. The weaving tower is a main focus point of both functionality and experience, referencing the textiles-based function but mirroring the Lighthouse and Lido tower of its immediate surroundings.

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Margate’s School of Ceramics and Sculpture

| Amelia Maddox

layarm@nottingham.ac.uk

FORMING MARGATE’S ART FRONT THROUGH SCULPTURE AND CERAMICS My project aims to nurture Margate’s growing art culture through providing a School of Ceramics and Sculpture to work alongside the pre-established schools of fine art in the seaside town. Placed adjacent to the Turner Contemporary, the design works towards transforming the seafront of Margate into a creative destination for artists, students and tourists alike. The building provides productive work spaces and interchangeable exhibitions, integrating professionals, students and visitors via a journey through the building from start to finish.

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The Margate Stem College For Women

| Grace Thomas

laygt1@nottingham.ac.uk

WHAT IS FEMINIST ARCHITECTURE “Feminist architecture does not exist- at least in nothing like the same term as, to give two comparators, feminist sociology or feminist art. Feminist architecture’s existence is for the most part not a material practice, but a set of discourses” - Richard. J. Williams, author of Sex and Buildings My project aims to combat these issues of oppression and create spaces that are inclusive for all by designing through the use of feminist architecture.

My Rules for Feminist Architecture- Flexible design and programme, Strongly connected to the local physical, social and economic environment, Every user has an equal experience, Be a celebration of women, Designed for equal opportunities, Accept a level of subjectivity

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The Textile Creative Re-use College

| Alice Kimpton

layak7@nottingham.ac.uk

The Textile Creative Re-use College is a concept for a textile design college with an emphasis on sustainability. The project’s aim is to further project Margate into the artistic world as well as assisting the town’s socioeconomic hardships. The design of the college was angular glazed frame which maximises daylight for working students which is controlled through kinetic architecture. The kinetic architecture includes louvres on the top and sides of the glazed structure controlled by a building management system to regulate the internal environment. An important element of the project was the environmental considerations which includes a double facade to aid ventilation of the college as well as minimising solar gain. I was inspired by textile works and aimed to integrate this within the college’s architecture through ‘weaving’ and ‘interlocking spaces’. This main focus was achieved through a central atrium where all spaces are accessed, as well as enclosing open areas within the expansion. .

CAFE SEATING AREA OVERLOOKING THE ATRIUM

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Margate School Of Culinary Arts layaw7@nottingham.ac.uk

Margate School of Culinary Arts Located along the coastline between Cliftonville and Margate sits the Margate School of Culinary Arts.

The curved section of the building following the cliff line is a great contrast from the Turner Contemporary located further down from the site. Its sweeping facade is covered in a timber cladding to make the building blend naturally into the site. It also acts as a barrier of privacy as the school occupies the top two floors.

The school is a mix of public and private with the school occupying the two above floors whereas the bottom floor consists of a food hall and a kitchen where the public are able to join classes and improve their culinary skills, dabbling in the art before fully committing to the schools year long diploma.

The food hall invites both the students and the local community to serve dishes to the public and allows everyone to gain key experience for the future. It opens out onto a landscaped plaza which holds weekly food markets and connects the school to the Contemporary.

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BArch + MEng, Part 1: Design Studio Year 2 and 3

THE JANUS CONDITION

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Aidan Hurley, Islington Architects Boyd MacAfee, MacAfee Design Steve Banks, Groundworks Architects Israel Hurtado, Israel Hurtado Architects

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THE JANUS CONDITION - YORK Janus is the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. He is most commonly represented looking in two directions simultaneously – both to the past, and to the future. As such, Janus embodies the notion of change – representing a present which enables the transition from our past to our future. Our Unit considers the role of architecture in these terms.

Architecture and society exist in an on-going cultural continuum. The work of this Unit is concerned with introducing contemporary interventions harmoniously into their immediate physical, as well as larger sociohistorical contexts. To achieve this, we research the historical, physical, cultural, and social circumstances of each project, integrating this information with a considered response to the programme.

This year has provided the Unit with the opportunity to study in detail a geographically and historically significant site in an urban context. We have focussed on the city of York, within sight of the Gothic Minster, the Norman Castle and the ancient ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey.

Our task has been to reconnect York with its incredible past, whilst envisioning a future for the city which is vital, vibrant, and relevant to the 21st century. This has been a significant endeavour on behalf of the students in relation to our Unit theme of continuities, and 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.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Ariel Benson Rebecca Clarkson Oliver Gaston Fiona Hazlitt Zeina Krayim James Lawn James McIlroy Nana-Yaw Mensah Luke Newsham Eric Okoro Andrew Paterson Henry Richards Dylan Stewart James Westwood Joseph Willoughby Jacob Woolley MEng yr 4 Christopher Bennett Zeina Krayim

Tutors Jim Hutcheson Ben Okrafo-Smart Steve Riley Alex Lipinski

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The objective of Project 1 is to ‘set the scene’ for Projects 2,3 and 4, principally through the identification, analysis and assessment of the context with a view to using this information as the foundation for the design exercises which follow.

As an entire Unit we assess the cultural, philosophical and geographical location and context, looking specifically at the potential for continuities inherent in the existing condition. These may be apparent in the physical fabric of the site; latent (in a sense ‘absent’) but which can be inferred through the contextual conditions; or they may be related to the historical development of the site and it’s physical evolution in response to evolving physical, social, environmental or other circumstances.

In order to fully understand the opportunities and constraints which characterise the site, the Unit examines the historic structure and evolution of the site; the quality and configuration of the public realm; the quality, value and relevance of the existing built fabric; the wider planning context of the site; the topographical context; the functional disposition of existing elements; relevant climactic considerations; the impact of movement patterns, and so on. Finally the physical context is represented through an extensive series of drawings and models.

This information is presented on the form of drawings, diagrams and maps of the city and its broader context; photographic surveys of the site, the existing fabric and the surrounding area and interpretative graphic information. From this resource, an extensive database of information is constructed which is made available to the Unit during the delivery of Projects 2, 3 and 4.

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Eve Bailey Nadia Barakat Thomas Bird Phoebe Bowen Helen Charter Lizzy Clarke Omar El Hadidi Eloise Lodder Ava Martin Ellis Owen Hardeepak Singh Panesar Jo Rees Tanya Todorova MEng yr 2 Will Alderton Hannah Fisher MEng yr 3 Monique Eaton Sarah Hunter Jo Rees

This year Unit 1B travelled to Seville, where we enjoyed a stunning variety of historical buildings from the Moorish Alcazar and Casa Pilatos, to the Gothic Cathedral and the Baroque splendour of Iglesia del Salvador. Contemporary highlights included the newly completed Caixa Forum by Vasquez Consuegra and the Triana Ceramics Museum by AF6. Great architecture, great company, and a hugely enjoyable trip!

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York Spa+Wellness Center

| Ariel Benson

arielnatasha@googlemail.com I brought my appreciation of different architecture styles, my passion for nature and my compassion for societies growing awareness of mental wellbeing into my final year project. I wanted to create a nurturing and healthy environment for individuals to escape the stress and pressures of everyday life through a series of harmoniously working spaces. My final project consisted of a serene, atmospheric spa located at basement level, a gym and healthy eating restaurant at the entrance and counselling/ group therapy rooms at the top floor. The building had to respond to both a unique ‘zig-zag’ pattern of one neighbouring façade alongside another parallel, liner street edge design. As a result, with two very different adjacent frontages it became a challenge to respond accordingly to the surrounding streets, whilst still creating a distinctive, functioning structure. However, despite the added challenge I believe my design overcame the initial design difficulties to create a tranquil space for the residence of York in Yorkshire. Therefore, through using levels to provide privacy and the use of nature to create a calming environment each function within the design is a necessity for a healthy body and Wmind; relaxation, a balanced diet, exercise and good mental health.

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York Digital Media & Performing Arts Centre

| Rebecca Clarkson

reclarkson1@gmail.com Project two saw the development of ‘York Civic Centre’, a council hub and public library situated at the northern-most edge of York’s currently derelict St. George’s Fields site, located at the confluence of the Ouse and Foss rivers. Project three, ‘York Digital Media and Performing Arts Centre’, is a continuation of this scheme, developing the south side of the same St George’s Fields site.

The project is concerned with the creation of a new multi disciplinary arts hub which, together with project two, provides the city of York with a new civic and cultural destination.

York is a city rich in history, with its historic cultural assets well celebrated not only by locals, but by the 6.9 million tourists who visit each year. However whilst it is a city famed for its history, in the past decade its reputation as a city for the digital media arts has gained significant momentum, leading to its designation as a UNESCO City of Media Arts in 2014. The York Digital Media and Performing Arts Centre will further advance the city’s impressive art scene as well as educate and engage the public in the arts, helping York to hit its UNESCO 2025 targets. The Centre proposes to: Increase engagement in the arts • • Create an iconic Media Arts destination venue, contributing to York’s cultural tourism sector Keep talented graduates in the city (& attract others) • • Enhance visibility of media arts in the city • Create a Northern Capital for digital media arts • Be animated at night with the potential for external digital projections, offering a constant reminder of the city’s creativity

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The York Confluence Sustainability Centre | Oliver Gaston oli.gaston.og@googlemail.com This project, for my Year 3 Studio Thesis, identifies the current issues regarding the environment, lack of public knowledge on sustainability and the redundant urban spaces within York City Centre. I have addressed these key issues by implementing a scheme that will not only be a facility for professional sustainable researchers, but also for university students and the wider public community to promote sustainable lives for the future. I have tried to achieve this by demonstrating sustainability in a visual learning experience, from watching researchers work to seeing energy being made through hydropower.

The brief that I created for this project was devised by analysing the current issues, stated above, and determining what building typology would benefit the wider community of the city. I therefore decided to implement a sustainability centre to aid researchers, students and the public population; with the proposed clients being the University of York and The Carbon Trust. I have named the facility ‘The York Confluence Sustainability Centre’ due to the chosen site and function.

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Residential Rehabilitation Centre

| Fiona Hazlitt

fiona.hazlitt@btinternet.com

The Residential Rehabilitation Centre transforms the lives of homeless and vulnerable people in York. The scheme is split into two wings. In the residential block there are two types of accommodation. The en suite rooms have a shared kitchen and social space, on the same floor is a supervisors room. This is because the residents in these rooms may need more assistance. On the floor above are one bedroom flats that are each spread over two floors, with private roof terraces above them. On the ground flood is a shop and two workshops. These provide places for the residents to work and learn skills that will enable them to get a job in the future.

The day centre has facilities for non-residential vulnerable people in York, as well as some public facilities. The community cafe allows residents to social with others and reintegrate back into the community. In addition, they are able to work in the garden and kitchen to learn new skills that they can carry into the future. The medical treatment rooms and counselling rooms help rehabilitate the vulnerable people and they are able to overcome the issues that made homeless.

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The Confluence Sports Centre

| James Lawn

jlawn303@gmail.com Over the past decade, the obesity crisis has worsened. The majority of adults (64%) in 2017 were classed as obese by the NHS/ Public Health England (NHS, 2019). This is particularly prevalent in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, with over 70% (NHS, 2019). I envisage a new Watersports Centre that will re-activate the York populace, and catalyse a region-wide awareness about the crisis.

The Confluence Watersports Centre can lead the way regionally to provide an excellent modern facility to begin tackling the crisis. By working with the community from the very beginning, the Centre can meet their needs the best, and target the problem at its root by changing attitudes towards exercise and sport and offering the facilities the community want to engage with.

Throughout time, the rivers in York have played a hugely significant cultural role in York’s development into the city that it is today. The confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss has been a strategically important site for Roman through to Medieval settlers and a key space in the city.

The proposed scheme will remain conscious to the importance of waterways in the City, and will reinvigorate the public use of the site, restoring it to being a positive addition to the context.

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York City Hall

| James McIlroy

jwilliam.mcilroy@gmail.com York City Hall proposal is key for the development of York and allowing it to keep up with its inhabitants evolving needs. The building serves 2 primary purposes; 1- to act as a citizens forum and strengthen the relationship between the governors and the governed 2- house the main council functions required within the city (Council chambers, Mayors office etc...)

Now more than ever a city hall is necessary in York due to the current acting council chambers (the Guildhall) being both inaccessible to the public and due to be converted to a private function space. Throughout York City Hall, transparency between the governors and governed has been a top priority. Allowing the people of York to have a greater insight into how their city’s being governed by the elected council whilst simultaneously amending the lack of public access during the period of governing held in the Guildhall.

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St George’s Centre of Flood Protection & Sustainability

| Nana-Yaw Mensah

nanayawkmensah@gmail.com The risk of flooding has become a serious threat for the City of York. Historically the rivers Ouse and Foss flowing through York have been instrumental in the success of the city; providing a defensive role for the Roman settlers, facilitating trade, propelling industrial growth and operating as a major influence in the evolution of the city’s urban grid. With this increase in the risk of flooding, these two bodies of water have started to become a detriment to the city. The government have thus called upon the creation of a new department, the Ministry of Flood Protection and Sustainability to develop a new programme; the York Flood Alleviation Scheme.

This project aims to transform St George’s Field, an inactive and detached space on the periphery of the city centre into an active space for the community. This programme will bring different members of the community to come together and allow important discussion to take place between the people, government officials and researchers. A united front to tackle the water based dilemma that the city faces.

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Health and Wellness Centre

| Luke Newsham

Luke.newsham@outlook.com In today’s society, it is common to view our physical and mental health separate from one another – we go to the gym to maintain our physical health, and then meditate or practice mindfulness to help with our mental health and emotional wellbeing. We seem to be comfortable with working on and getting help for our physical health in social settings, however, we mostly manage our mental health alone. If we do not take our mental health seriously, we can then become ill requiring additional help such as a referral to therapy, or even hospitalization. In addition to this, the two are more intertwined than we previously thought, where a healthy mind helps keep a healthy body and vise versa. I believe our mind and bodies should be seen as one, where we can work on different aspects in one space depending on the day and how we feel. We should be able to maintain and get help for both our mental and physical health as easy and accessible as today’s fitness only gyms.

My project is a new typology, a large-scale health and wellness centre that has these principles designed directly into the way the building functions. Visitors can decide what area they want to focus on from day to day, be it their cardio fitness or mental wellbeing through group meditation. With the rise of mental health issues year on years, such as anxiety and depression, the way we view and our mental health needs to change, where we understand as a society the importance of keeping ourselves healthy, body and mind.

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York City Fashion & Textiles HQ

| Eric Okoro

eric.okoro@ymail.com The proposal for a new textiles and fashion base in the City of York is rooted in the city’s 18th century history which saw a clothing production boom in York and Lancashire as a result of the industrial revolution. Beyond this was a spark in the architectural language of the city as buildings such as the Assembly rooms and Mansion House were erected, cementing York as the ‘Social Capital of the North’ Unfortunately, this textile boom evolved into the ‘Evil of Sweating’ which refers to ill treatment of the workforce behind garment production through inadequate pay, compulsory and unpaid overtime and inhumane working environments. Recent cases such as the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza emphasize how time has frozen in welfare considerations of the industries workforce. This event saw garment workers forced to return to work against their will as complaints were raised due to cracks appearing in the building. The result was a building collapse which saw the loss to a thousand lives.

London fashion-week co-exists with others held in Milan, Paris and New York to form ‘The Big Four’ fashion weeks. It is an opportunity for world-renowned designers and artists to display their latest illustrations and as was seen by Stella McCartney in 1995, can be an opportunity for students to announce themselves to the illustrative world of art and fashion.

Overall Aims: X Provide opportunity for textile processing X Attending to the well-being of garment workers and admin staff X Sustaining the objective of The York Equality Strategy by providing opportunities for youth not in education or training X Continuing Europe’s fashion presence in England beyond London through exhibition

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Urban Agriculture Research Centre | Andrew Paterson a9paterson@yahoo.com It has been estimated that 70-80% of the human population will be living in cities by 2050. Across the world, fertile land is being built on to expand cities whilst forests are being cut down to grow crops. It is forecast that global food production will need to increase by 70% in developed countries and 100% in developing countries by 2050 to match current population growth. Urban agriculture has an important role to play as there is simply not enough land area to expand conventional farming alone. Food crops need to be grown in the cities where they are consumed, but research in this field is ongoing, and requires a new building typology. 72% of the UK’s land is used for agriculture - one of the highest figures in Europe - and yet we import almost half of our food, a contributing factor to climate change. This is unsustainable and solutions need to be implemented to tackle the problem. The scheme serves three user groups; a team of scientists, students from the University of York and the local community. Together this group of people will develop new and existing growing technologies with a focus on reducing water demand and increasing crop density.

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Sensory Rejuvenation Hub

| Henry Richards

henry99richards@outlook.com

This Mental Health Rejuvenation Hub sits at the end of the confluence site in York, where the river Foss and Ouse meet each other.

The building is designed around human experiences, and sensual sensation. It aims to encourage mental healing through activities which hone in on psychological awareness with sensitivity to sight, sound, smell, touch and taste, as well as providing proved methods of therapies alongside.

Visitors of the building have the option to stay in one of the suites, and can receive the fully sensual experience over the period of a week. Other visitors of the building may chose to use the facilities independently. The concert hall which has its own entrance points and foyer acts as an evening hub for the city and for guests to enjoy throughout their stay.

Other facilities include tactile and visual galleries, a range of cuisines in the restaurant which spans several floors with options of indoor or outdoor dining, a culinary classroom, a library with separate ‘quiet’ rooms, social spaces, internal outdoor courtyard, meditation and yoga suite, water therapy/spa, as well as various bars and cafe’s. Further treatment options such as individual psychiatry sessions in one of the psychiatry suites, as well as acupuncture are also available.

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The North Yorkshire Design and Media Centre

| James Westwood

jdwestwood7@gmail.com My site is situated between Piccadilly and the River Foss. The site was once a booming hub for manufacturing and trade in York through its use of the canalised River Foss. However, today it is underutilised and feels very isolated from the rest of the city and its tourism. Due to the rising age of skilled traditional workers in the UK, there is a growing need for the younger generation to pick up and learn the dying trades.

The building houses areas for teaching, manufacturing and assessing that link well with York’s heritage. Skills and courses ranging from stained glass, stone carving, jewellery, timber and metal work are available. Alongside the traditional skills, the building also provides dedicated areas for skills related to modern design and manufacture using computer based products as well as game design and other multi-media design specialisms. The design in plan is arranged specifically to help clearly distinguish between these facets of the building. The West of the site houses the Traditional design and manufacturing elements and the East side of the building is where the Modern Media and Manufacture is located.

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York Mental Health Treatment Centre

| Joseph Willoughby

jrewilloughby@outlook.com York City Council have stated in their 2019 - 2023 plan that they will actively tackle loneliness and depression among the elderly.

Although this is a serious problem, the ONS (Office for National Statistics) found that 16 - 25yr olds make up the majority of people suffering from ADL (Anxiety, depression and loneliness) from mild to the most severe cases. The programme aims to address the Council’s pledge and to expand upon it, so the services extend to a wider age range.

Through my research I found that there was a serious problem among people relapsing into maladaptive behaviours, which contributes to ADL. The University of Cambridge have compiled a data base of doctor and patient testimonials that supports many papers that suggest doctor - patient relationships are fractured. This is particularly the case with people on medication or who have been institutionalised.These people often feel that they are “drugged up” and “not rehabilitated and introduced into society”with an overarching feeling of disconnection. The Programme aims to mend this relationship by providing doctors another method of treatment in addition to previously used practices. This also engages the patients with the wider community and allows them to make meaningful relationships. The scheme also aims to re-connect people with ADL in the community after life in an institution.

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York Environmental Research Centre

| Jacob Woolley

jacobwoolley04@gmail.com “If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”

(Attenborough, 2018) Climate Change has became a key issue within modern day society. If we continue neglecting Climate Change heat-waves, wildfires, storms, rising seas, shifting crop patterns and the spread of disease will start to become more common across the globe.

To combat this we must adapt to meet the needs of the modern word. The University of York Environmental Research Centre aims to combat the climate crisis through scientific exploration and catalysing social and cultural change.

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The Peninsula York

| Christopher Bennett

c.a.bennett@outlook.com A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT INNOVATION HUB The world is facing unprecedented challenges to overcome the climate emergency and enable the increasing global population to be supported. The transport industry accounts for 24% of global carbon emissions, and therefore developing sustainable forms of transport is crucial to combating the climate crisis. Based in York, on the peninsula between the River Foss and the River Ouse, the scheme references the historic importance of York within the transport revolution. The building aims to continue the development of transport, with the intention of advancing technology to enable a more sustainable future.

The building comprises of four main functions: an exhibition of future transport and technology to engage the public; a laboratory space to research and develop hydrogen storage technology; an education space to inform the public and act as a centre for sustainable summits and conferences; and finally a cafe and event space to help embed the building into the local community and draw the public towards the building. By providing connections between these functions and the surrounding context, public outreach can drive forward development and enable the building to act as a catalyst for education and collaboration.

The design aims to help reconnect the peninsula to the rest of York by framing views towards historic landmarks across the city; creating a public square and pedestrianised boulevard at the conclusion of Tower Street; and enhancing the river edge. A basin created on the bank of the River Foss increases the connection to water, referencing the river trade of the past, and the hydrogen technology of the future. The hydrogen storage and fuel cell technology being developed in the laboratories will be utilised within the building to balance the sustainable energy supply and building demand throughout the year, enabling the building to be carbon neutral while becoming an exhibit and research programme in itself.

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York Agri-Tech Institute

| Zeina Krayim

krayimzeina@gmail.com The proposed design project lies in York’s city centre, between a commercial and residential area and overlooks the River Foss and the Castle Gateway Area, which is a strategic site as it is the ket entry point to the city, and is surrounding by historically important buildings such as the Clifford’s Tower, York Castle Museum and the Crown Court. The aim of the design project is to activate the Piccadilly neighbourhood by accommodating public functions in the building, such as a public exhibition space and cafe to attract more people to the area. The project also proposes a connection bridge to the Castle Area to increase the permeability and movement between the Piccadilly neighbourhood and the Castle Area. The York Agri-Tech Institute will provide the city of York with a research institute that revolves around agricultural innovation (agri-tech) which will focus on improving and preserving York’s natural resources to promote social, environmental and economic sustainability. The design project also proposes an on-site power plant, which will generate biogas through anaerobic digestion from the collected residential and commercial food waste around the site to provide the building with the required heat and electricity.

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Medieval Culture Forum

| Eve Bailey

layeb3@nottingham.ac.uk

The brief for this project required a Medieval Culture Forum to be designed in York, in which I decided to focus on creating a space which would educate the community about the medieval history of York, and the wider area of Yorkshire by exhibiting artifacts and feature interactive learning zones. It is to be situated on the existing car park for Clifford’s Tower, sitting adjacent to the York Castle Museum, which features many access points and already has a high footfall. The proposed design will also contain a private preservation and research centre, as well as a public library and cafe. Due to the close proximity to Clifford’s Tower, the planned information centre will also be relocated into my design, as well as the creation of the bridge over the river, to bring the alternate sides together, with materiality inspirations from the nearby historically significant features.

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York Medieval Forum

| Nadia Barakat

laynsb@nottingham.ac.uk Located in the cultural hub of York, the Medieval Cultural Forum aims to showcase the rich Medieval history of York and act as the public extension to the University of York’s archaeology department which is currently based just steps away at King’s Manor. The project is inspired by the historic city walls erected in York by the Vikings and the towers along the wall used for defensive purposes. The Forum houses various exhibition spaces in the three towers, each celebrating an important area of Medieval life- technology, arts and craft, and religion, and a digital exhibition from the Archaeology Data Service and their archives. Other spaces include interaction spaces, such as flexible seating area and seminar rooms, which allow members of the public can interact with historians or King’s Manor staff. The Medieval Cultural Forum will act as the meeting ground between local institutions and the public and provides spaces for all ages, including children, to attract locals and tourists alike. The building is inspired by the typology of the surrounding buildings, including the ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey, and the courtyards found around the site inspire the various types of outdoor spaces within the building.

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York - Reconnect

| Thomas Bird

laytb4@nottingham.ac.uk

Located just east of Cliffords Tower (the only remains of York castle) this building aimed to drive the regeneration of Piccadilly rd which runs parallel, focusing on introducing new public spaces and connections to existing pedestrian axis in order to increase human activity. The building achieved this using a form which was permeable to pedestrian movement, allowing a connection between the road and its riverside courtyard, River Foss and ultimately Cliffords Tower, therefore allowing a connection of movement but also helping better connect the user to the sites medieval past. The building housed many functions related to medieval craftsmanship including a dry dock for shipbuilding and large workshop for restoration works. Its public functions include multiple exhibitions, performance spaces and archery ranges. The activity created by these spaces is visible externally, to animate the new public spaces and reinforce connections to the site’s significant history.

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Medieval Hub for York

| Phoebe Bowen

laypb1@nottingham.ac.uk

This project centres around a historical hub within the city of York, focused on celebrating York’s rich medieval history through the community and public interaction. It houses a visitor centre, providing a catalyst to the city and a resource for tourists, in addition to an exhibition, highlighting medieval culture and its’ prevalence in York. It is closely linked to the existing provisions in the city, and at its core encompasses a development of the University of York’s centre for Medieval studies, a world-renowned department calling for expansion and growth.

It is located on a site neighbouring Clifford’s Tower, the York Crown Courts and now museum. The scheme aims to recognise the importance of the areas vast history which is currently secondary to the site, and to work in conjunction and with respect to current masterplanning to transform the area into a thriving gateway to the heart of the city.

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Geology Museum and Research Centre layhc14@nottingham.ac.uk

The centre is strategically placed within the dense vegetation of York’s Musuem Gardens, sitting in close proximity to the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey; representing York’s heritage. Extended from the existing limestone wall, the building forms an enclosed public space for interaction and education.

Working in conjuction with the nearby musuem and York College, the centre provides a space for students and the public to immerse themselves into York’s history. Multiple labs offer space to carry out research, with permeable barriers to the courtyard and musuem increasing interaction between spaces. Accompanied by research areas, a cafe and exhibtion spaces, all with glazing that highlights nearby landmarks.

Drawing inspriation from the surrounding typologies and built fabric, the primary aim of this propsoal is to provide a unique and modern, educational environment for the public and students in the evolving city of York.

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A Medieval Culture Forum for York

| Lizzy Clarke

layec5@nottingham.ac.uk York was chosen as the location for the projects this year. Because of the rich history evident in its architecture, it was particularly endearing. The last project of the year encapsulated this best for me, which was the task of designing a medieval culture forum. Deciding to locate it in the museum gardens next to the ruins of an old Medieval Abbey, meant that it was important that the building had to be designed carefully to respect and compliment the site.

The museum and the university next door both having medieval departments meant that the uses of the building were developed in order to work alongside what was already on the site and what happened there. The building developed from the idea of having two ‘wings’: one educational and one for public engagement, with a multi functional hall in the middle to bring the two together.

It was interesting to design a building which was so connected to its environment, and create a hub for different types of people to use to learn about the history of the place they are in.

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Revealing the Process

| Omar El Hadidi

layoe@nottingham.ac.uk Within its ancient encircling walls, York’s medieval streets and buildings are beautifully preserved in the historic heart of the city. Strategically located at the confluence between the Ouse and Foss rivers, York was a significant trade hub throughout history. Looking more specifically at the district surrounding the site, the Fishergate and Skeldergate areas were once the city’s primary trade and manufacture centre.

I drew inspiration for the programme from the historic context. From the intricate stained glassworks of the York Minister to the waterfront warehouses that once formed the town’s thriving trade epicentre; York contains a rich history in manufacture and trade that is yet to be celebrated. The primary aim behind this proposal is to create a Medieval Culture Forum designed to celebrate York’s seemingly neglected history of trade and manufacture. The aim is to create a hub to allow the public to gain hands on experience as well as learn and exhibit.

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Medieval History at the heart of York

| Eloise Lodder

layel1@nottingham.ac.uk The city of York has a rich and unique Medieval history, which has remained influential and visible to the present day. To keep the ever evolving and modernising city which we see today connected with its past, the Medieval Culture Forum provides a dynamic environment for learning and leisure to take place, prominently situated within the ‘Eye of York’.

The scheme, which sits within a re-landscaped urban plaza and cluster of Museums, addresses the River Foss with a lowered public seating area to its East and faces the well known site of Clifford’s Tower to its West. With exhibition and performance halls, study areas, eateries and workshop spaces, visitors can immerse themselves through multiple media into Medieval crafts and history, with artifacts documenting York’s pivotal role in the Political and Trading timelines of Medieval England.

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Medieval Culture Forum

| Ava Martin

layam22@nottingham.ac.uk

The brief for this project asked for a Medieval Cultural Forum in York. It was my aim to design a museum which displays the rich history that York has in stained glass. The York Minster has the largest amount of medieval stained glass remaining to this day and York has so much more medieval history in stained glass elsewhere. It was also my intention to create sufficient spaces for stained glass workshops (production and conservation) and for conference rooms where people can walk in and learn about the culture from professionals.

The design itself will feature modern stained glass in its structure but present the medieval stained glass inside, making use of natural light. The West facade has a glass front wrapping around the shape of Clifford’s Tower opposite, with stained glass exhibited on this glass wall, people obtain a view to the tower through the exhibits themselves.

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York Cultural Forum

| Hardeepak Singh Panesar

layhs7@nottingham.ac.uk

Situated on the bank of the River Foss and opposite Cliffords Tower, the York Cultural Forum displays furniture, manufacturing techniques and tools, both historical and contemporary, to the public. The Forum also offers a workshop where the public can learn how to make furniture and work with timber as well as offering the opportunity to sell their work. Surrounded by grand cultural landmarks, this structure helps to rejuvenate the otherwise quiet site by increasing connections with the city centre to the north and by introducing new bridges over the River Foss. The building in conjunction with its surroundings re-invigorates this area of York and helps it become a cultural hotspot loved by both tourists and locals.

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A Posse Ad Esse

| Tanya Todorova

layttt@nottingham.ac.uk

The scheme creates a contemporary and vibrant culture centre. The complex multi-use public building has an open and inviting identity, accommodating experts as well as general public and visitors. It supports the work of local groups and provides facilities for different types of users. The scheme introduces the public to the history of Medieval York. This is provided through practical workshops and lecture series.

There are two exhibition spaces – one for stained glass production and one for ceramic production. They display the work that the society is completing in the workshop spaces. The lecture theater is able to cater for at least 100 people in total, allowing the users to learn about the history of Medieval York.

The library provides learning materials as well as private study spaces.

There are cafĂŠ and roof garden, which act as a meeting place for visitors.

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Medieval Research and Education Centre

| Monique Eaton

laymte@nottingham.ac.uk

The aim of the building is to create an addition to the Castle Museum, that focuses more on the medieval aspects of York’s history, as well as creating a space for people to learn, research and teach. The centre will become an inviting hub for all those interested in York’s medieval past, whether they live locally or afar.

The surrounding buildings on the site are either civic or industrial and residential. The building creates a connection between these two very different architectural styles. Echoing the shapes and size of the civic building, but having a light-weight construction and essence, to allow visual connectivity and legibility through and around the building.

The main spaces are a library, cafe, event space, conservation studios and offices, making it accessible to both the general public and specialists.

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Medieval Conservation Centre

| Sarah Hunter

laysh14@nottingham.ac.uk The brief called for a medieval culture forum in the centre of York - the specific site and function of the proposed building was not specified. I chose to use the site of the existing Clifford’s Tower Car Park, due to its sensitive and fascinating history. I used its historic context to define the functions of the spaces I wished to provide, in an attempt to revitalise this prominent area of the former York Castle.

The proposed design creates a connection with Clifford’s Tower opposite, both visually and functionally. The building provides a unique space for York’s growing Jewish community to celebrate their faith, and a connected memorial exhibition aims to remember those fallen victim to acts of anti-Semitism in both medieval and modern history. Other exhibition spaces will inform visitors of the stories of former inmates at the Victorian prison which stood on the site only 100 years prior. The library and archive spaces allow interested members of the public to conduct further research on the subject, and the conservation studio will preserve old documents/records for exhibition and archival storage.

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Design + Build

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Lois Plaistow; Steve Wickham; Malcom Dugdale; Dan Cooper; Alex Frehse; Laura Davison; Tahir Cartella; Rebecca van Beeck; Jenny Clemence; Ben Kilburn; Ricky Stoch; Tim Heath; John Edmonds

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DESIGN + BUILD - NOTTINGHAM & SOUTH AFRICA “The design+build studio is a multi-course vertically integrated studio group that studies architecture and design through a process of making at 1:1 scale. As a studio group we work across scales, across courses, and across disciplines to find and develop exciting design ideas.

The studio believes in the contribution that design-thinking, and architecture can make to global problems as well as the incremental improvement in everyday life that is possible through good design.

We pursue an agenda of service learning, where our own educational journey can produce mutually beneficial outcomes beyond our immediate studio community.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Lori Hodson Payal Patel Gopalakrishnan Mamparambath Christina Scullion MEng yr 4 Hebda Abdalla

Tutors As technology, generational change, and specialization have moved architecture (and the rest of the world) further and further away from the processes of making, this studio is interested in the inventive spirit and aggressive problem solving that makers, builders, do-ers display in their everyday lives. We will undertake a series of projects that aim to bridge the gap between maker and architect, between builder and architecture.

Peter Russell Mike Hawkins Sam Diston Aleks Stojakovic John Newbery John Ramsay

The studio will be non-traditional in the context, content, delivery and outputs. Our projects are based in realistic, useful problem solving across scales, and we seek to demonstrate the value of design thinking applied to real situations and built objects.�

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Project Joubaton, 2010; Project Limpopo, 2011; Project SA3, 2012; Project Aga Sikolo, 2013; Project Kagiso, 2014; Project Tshela, 2015; Project Myemyela, 2016; Project Mothopong, 2017.

U2 Design + Build

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Kiran Benning Aman Birdi Bethany Blewitt Henry (Harry) Chart Ella Cohen Tonica Constaninou Catriona Deacon Alice Dean Simran Dehal Emma Demicheli Elliot Jackson Jessica Hollis Keira Kicks Menekse Kucukbalaban Jade Lindo Benjamin Lyons Kieran Massey Erin McCaffrey Alara Ozturk Megan Rees Jessica Sheppard Amelia Terry Maria Tulea Maria Vangelova Vhinossh Veloo Freya Wiltsire Freya Woolley MEng yr 2 Faiza Abdelhamid Klaudia Rudzionek Charlotte Sawyer Connie Sharp Hio Cheng Vong Unit 2 Studio

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Jubilee Aquatic Research Centre

|Heba Abdalla

hebabdalla1@hotmail.com Climate change’s devastating effects will impact the lives of every animal, plant and person. Rising sea levels, warming oceans and hotter climates means that fish stocks are reducing in size. As the inevitable happens, humans must find a way to sustain food supplies, while simultaneously not contributing to the problem. Therefore, the University of Nottingham’s very own aquatic research centre is key in the research of sustainable food research, whilst producing its own energy through anaerobic digestion for the building, and the campus. The University of Nottingham is an ideal site for this endeavor, as it ranks at 8th place for research in the UK, and 1st place for environmental sustainability in the world.

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Exposed primary and secondary steel beam roof structure to hold up ETFE cushions

Exposed ETFE roof on top floor with concrete beams between walls for structure

Transparent glass wall panels to separate rooms from ETFE, with a void for ETFE cleaning

Diving journey starts here Translucent glass wall panels to separate toilets from ETFE and create privacy, letting light through.

VISITORS being taken on a scuba diving tour of the pool Scuba suits have light torches attached to them

OFFICE with views into lab and testing pool space PRE-TREATMENT TANK

AQUATIC PLANTS GROWING POOLS

Concrete protruding rock face to simulate deep ocean environment Lighting on rock for safety and visibility

LABORATORY 1 Producing and testing supplements to aid the growth of aqautic plants in climate change conditions

‘THE TRENCH’ SCUBA DIVING POOL (40m)

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: All key spaces will be glazed so that visitors can observe the activity, but not disturb (e.g. labs, pool space, waste plant, scuba pool). The SCUBA POOL will allow visitors to use it as it will be the DEEPEST POOL IN THE UK, but only under the supervision of the lab staff to ensure fish are not disturbed, as these fish are part of lab staff’s research.

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Design & Build Studio

| Kiran Benning

layktb@nottingham.ac.uk

The project aims to design a studio for UoN students based in the Limpopo region of South Africa situated alongside our NGO partner, the Thusanang Trust.

The design accomodates both tutors and students permanently and will be used to strengthen our relationships within the community.

The core concepts that characterise my scheme emerged after considering key moments I wanted users to experience: the glint of Eastern dawnlight awakening occupants naturally, the Southern-facing windows framing the forest and illuminating the studio and workshop, the sun setting as the cohort gathers around the braai. There was a perceptible correlation between these moments and the movements of the sun. This culminated in a design intention to maximise utilisation of the sun’s movement implicitly and explicitly throughout the day aligning the architecture with our natural circadian rhythms and the specific types of light required in certain spaces. I envision a campus ethos that compartmentalises buildings by their functions: accomodation, work and recreational.

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Design & Build Studio

| Amandeep Birdi

layab10@nottingham.ac.uk This project focused on creating a design studio in the Limpopo region of South Africa for UoN students of the design a build studio to use during the creche project. The aim is for the studio to strengthen the link between the University of Nottinghan and the Thusanang Trust.

My design takes inspiration from the circular design of traditional rural South African architecture which paired nicely with the curved contours of the site.

My buildings are split into three main categories: work, leisure and rest with a central courtyard acting as the main circulation space which links them all.

Accessibility was also important to me and so all areas have 1:12 ramps. The glazing in the dormitory spaces frames the breathtaking views out over the trees and help to create a calming atmosphere to allow the students to rest and relax. I wanted to give the students a communal space for them to interact outside of studio so I designed a common room for students to relax together in the evenings. The space not only has a games room but a laundry space and a cinema room which could come in useful for interim reviews.

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| Bethany Blewitt

laybkbl@nottingham.ac.uk

This project in part of the Design & Build Studio, it is based in the Limpopo region of South Africa with the aim to house groups of students and staff to travel over to complete projects in future years. The studios also have the ability to provide training for locals to further strengthen links between UoN and the communities within the Limpopo region who they are aiming to help.

My Project has been designed around nature, the aim is to reduce the links between urban and rural construction. Bringing as many natural features into the design as possible, creates a welcoming and unique environment for one to enjoy. The circulation has been kept external with Latte Pole shading and mass vegetation growing over and surrounding these areas. This provides a link between the public and private aspects of the building which have been separated. This maintains privacy and allows for the communal Braai area to be kept at the heart of the design.

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| Harry Chart

layhc15@nottingham.ac.uk

Workshop

Studio

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Mess Braai

Staff apartments

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B The scheme is fundamentally four fingers which slope down the site following the grid of the trees on the other side of the road. The countours of the slope intersect the grid and have in turn established a number of square modules of varying sizes. The rotated modules mean each living space has a generous entrance away from the external stairway and a small private balcony area which cannot be seen from any other dwellings. The spaces between the fingers are intended for either circulation or congregation. Opening up the gap between the work and communal fingers offers a space where the studio and workshop can overflow but still connect with the inside. Blurring the threshold encourages those working in these spaces to connect with the surroundings, particularly out to the south.

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‘Hidden Peaks’

| Ella Cohen

layec8@nottingham.ac.uk

This design proposal is a permanent ‘home’ in South Africa for the Design & Build Unit. Hidden within the eucalyptus trees that surround the site, it is a space that can be used to host partners, and develop deeper and more meaningful partnerships.

The building is split into 5 levels which work alongside the 15 degree slope of the site. The first level features a series of interlocking public spaces. The second level features a social space with a fireplace at its heart and a water tank for rainwater harvesting. The third, fourth and fifth level are private spaces at the back of the site. Each level is connected by an oversized staircase that also acts as informal seating.

The overall façade is inspired by the neighbouring landscape, mountain ranges such as Blyde River Canyon, Lebombo Mountains, and Drankensberg. My aim was to create a bold yet organic looking space that sits within the trees, just as how mountain peaks do. The use of rough concrete reflects the rough façade of mountains whilst the douglas fir cladding creates a sense of warmth and softness which compliments the forest behind.

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| Tonia Constantinou

laytc4@nottingham.ac.uk

The core concepts of my design are driven from the unique aspects of the site. I was captivated by the beauty of nature of the site, enclosed by a forest of eucalyptus trees. Through the design there is a direct correlation with nature, in an attempt to ‘bring’ nature within the interior. Moreover, I wanted to create a space surrounded by nature with multiple windows framing the forest, creating views that inspire users.

From the very early stages of my design, it was fundamental to categorize the different spaces of the scheme into zones. Furthermore, the design consists of three zones : administrative, work, sleep-social placed in such a way that create a central courtyard space in between the zones. The courtyard acts as a threshold link between the three zones. The central courtyard has been designed with an amphitheatre shape that creates a sense of enclosure and frames the beauty of the surrounding nature. The aim was to create an exterior space that will encourage people to spend time outside, enjoying nature. Moreover, as soon as the sun sets people will gather around the braii in the center of the courtyard.

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| Catriona Deacon

laycd@nottingham.ac.uk

The aim of this project is to create a design and build studio in Limpopo, South Africa. The studio will act as a permanent ‘home away from home’ for the University of Nottingham Design and Build Studio, with a focus on reinforcing relationships with partners within the area.

The design was generated from a desire to forge a connection between interior and exterior, allowing designers to move through and take inspiration from the environment that they are designing for. A network of circulation paths weaves through the building, creating a journey which accentuates views and establishes a relationship between the scheme and the landscape. The natural slope of the site is used to illustrate boundaries between different areas; public spaces situated towards the top of the slope and private spaces towards the bottom, creating a clear divide between work and rest.The central courtyard space, characterised by its views into the forest, is a focal point in the design.

Secluded and tranquil, it provides a sanctuary in which one can relax, recharge and socialise.

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Design & Build Studio

| Simran Dehal

laysd13@nottingham.ac.uk

The project aims to design a centre for both accommadation and a studio/ workshop space within Tzaneen area in South Africa. This facility targets the Thusanang Trust as well as those from the University of Nottingham.

Within my scheme, the buildings are integrated within the slope and follow the topography contors of the site. The surrounding area and the site therefore provides the central driving principles within my design. The roofs of the individual buildings slope to allow access for all, as well as additional external space for individuals to enjoy. Both the slopes and building entrances feed into the heart of the design, this being a large courtyard of timber decking, encouraging interaction and communicating with others.

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Design & Build Studio

| Jessica Hollis

layjahol@nottingham.ac.uk

The project is for a design-research studio based in the Limpopo region of South Africa. The space is to be used for UoN Design and Build students and tutors, as well as the Thusanang Trust, an NGO partner of the University.

The permanent facility will act to strengthen existing partnerships in the local Tzaneen area.

The connection between the ‘design’ and ‘build’ elements of the studio is the conceptual framework for my project. The spaces are arranged over the characteristically sloping site, with an elevated walkway bridging the design studios and workshop. A main circulation route runs diagonally down the slope, transitioning from public exhibition spaces, teaching spaces, eating areas, workshop and the studios towards the private staff and student dormitories in a separate block. The landscape between the buildings acts as a social hub, and the oversized staircases create informal meeting places.

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Residential Studio Complex

| Jade Lindo

layjl16@nottingham.ac.uk

layjl16@nottingham.ac.uk

I was inspired by bright Art Deco, I wanted to create a studio complex that is high tech and has a futuristic feel. My studio complex is fun and vibrant a space where students want to be.

The main complex (studio space, workshop, office, kitchen and dinning space) Is held together by a grid-shell. The grid-shell provides shading for the sunken chill space below, and connects all the main spaces together. The main ethos behind my design is to be seen whilst working, playing and eating, no matter where you are in the main complex you are omnipresent.

The images presented show the main complex at night with the new added features of colourful artificial light which projects onto the complex.

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Design & Build Studio

| Erin McCaffray

layekm@nottingham.ac.uk

Students will be travelling to continue their studies of architecture while living on the site so my initial concept proposed separated spaces for living and working.

Although clearly distinct, there would also be a sense of connection and unity between these spaces created by the homogeneous roof and the bridge. It was also important for me that students had spaces they could enjoy inside and outside that were shaded and comfortable given the hotter climate. I created sociable outdoor spaces with varying levels of shading such as the rooftop bar, reading nets, rooftop herb garden and mess hall for users to wind down after a day of work. The main circulation through the build connects to the existing path for easy access to the existing creche facilities and road while enabling views of the surrounding forest area while travelling through between spaces.

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Design & Build Studio

| Alara Ozturk

layao3@nottingham.ac.uk

In this project, I focused on horizontal and verticals. By doing this I aimed to use the disadvantage of the slopey topography of the site as an advantage. The buildings on main road level are specifically lower and multi-storey building such as the student dormitories are located on the lower part of the site. This has provided a better blending on site especially when looking from the main road level. This has also naturally created a lower central area which has been used as a courtyard. When dealing with a sloping site, the boundary becomes an important factor in designing units which would have a communal area. In my project I tried to provide visible limitations in the middle courtyard area by the outside surfaces of the buildings. The site leads user to the courtyard space which is the center of the communal area and every unit looks at the central garden space. I took my inspiration for the main courtyard area from the South African culture. Some of their population lives in the countryside and some in city, but they all believe they have a connection because of their inevitable influence on each other since they have a very connected historical background. The main communal courtyard area that has access from each unit represents the cultural position, removing barriers in between each unit, showing how close they actually are even though they seem like they are separate units.

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| Jessica Sheppard

layjrsh@nottingham.ac.uk Studio South - This project aims to create an accessible, sociable, and unique studio/workshop complex in the South African province of Limpopo.

My scheme focuses on the division of public and private spaces, using the sites sloping nature as a tool for separation. The lightest areas (at the top end of the slope) are accomodated by spaces where most time is spent, for example, the design studio. Darker areas at the bottom of the site are then utilized for the dormitories, this means that they would retain a calmer atmosphere. Reduced lighting in this area is useful as it is a space primarily used for sleep.

A central courtyard is another device splitting up the public and private spaces.

Across my plan, the main spaces have pitched roofs (glazed at each end), this welcomes sunlight in opening up the room and creating a nice space for activities. The circulation spaces are predominantly glazed on both sides (with sliding latte-pole shading0, forging a connection to the natural world around. These spaces are grass-roofed and other core materials (brick and timber) have been selected in order for the building to sit effortlessly within its surroundings.

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| Zoe Socratous

layzs2@nottingham.ac.uk For our ‘Studio South’ project, we were asked to propose a scheme for a designresearch studio in rural South Africa that would be used by our studio, as well as university researchers and colleagues from the University of Johannesburg.

The space would become a permanent home in the area, as it would be used by the landowners for 8 months of the year and the studio for the remaining 4.

For my proposal, I divided the spaces into two main components: public and private. I thought it would be important for a project of this function to have a separation of the two because of the long working hours during the day and the much needed rest in the evening. Work and social came as the two subcomponents for the same reason. The working and main public areas are centrally placed, while the private areas can be found on either side of the main builldings.

Pictured below are the staff apartments going down the sloping site, the firepit area that along with the deck and mess hall hold the heart of the site and the floor plan showing the ground levels.

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Design & Build Studio

| Amelia Terry

layat6@nottingham.ac.uk This project is for a permenant base in Limpopo, South Africa, for our UoN design-build students to inhabit each year whilst building their creche design.

It provides dorms for students, staff apartments for tutors and the Thusang Trust parter to the University. There is a studio and workshop space, aswell as mess hall, and other shared sociable areas.

My design inspiration focuses on bee-hives - a cooperative, productive hierarchy and also an emblem of industry, hardwork, teamwork, and charity.

Aswell as acting as a natural element, the building provides both public and private spaces for each individual, in the thought that everyone has their own imaginative space, which they can come together and share. My design radiates around open outdoor spaces, creating various public and private “hives�, whilst also ensuring that the buildings on a sloped site all have enough light. The buildings materiality is a contemporary twist on bamboo structures, using bamboo for its strong and eco-friendly nature, and glass.

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Design & Build Studio

| Maria Tulea

laymctu@nottingham.ac.uk

In this project, we have been given the opportunity to design a studio based in the Limpopo Region of South Africa, which could potentially get build in the future as a ‘permanent home’ for us, the DB2 Unit and our NGO partner, the Thusanang Trust.

The scheme blends the buildings into the landscape, connecting with the slope and the surrounding forest. It is designed in such a way that from the top of the slope, only the roofs can be seen with the intention to conserve the calmness of the scenery. In contrast, from the bottom, the whole scheme is taking shape, each building being clearly distinguished from each other. The access path is a journey itself, composed of ramps and stairs, guiding you towards the different levels. The large size of the steps enables the users to rest on them and admire the breathtaking eucalyptus forest. The complex is a permeant home which feeling is brought through the bunk houses. Their size and wood texture adds familiarity to its users and hence comfort. The materials used for the rest of the components are a combination of timber and white pigmented rib patterned concrete which mimics the colour of the eucalyptus tree trunks.

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Design & Build Studio

| Freya Wiltshire

layfw5@nottingham.ac.uk

The brief for this project was to design a permanent base for the unit during the annual visit to South Africa where the students and staff can stay and work. I aimed to create three distinct levels for work, living and accommodation, but create overlaps with mezzanines and dorm pods.

Key to my design was keeping the views and circulation routes running parallel through the building as to link all three levels. Due to the South African climate the exterior spaces are as, if not more, important than the interior ones, therefore I have included balconies and covered outside spaces that can be used during the day.

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Design & Build Studio

| Freya Woolley

layfw4@nottingham.ac.uk

The brief was to design a studio based at the Mountain Fly Fishing Farm in Magoebaskloof, South Africa. The property will be used by the landowners for 8 months of the year as part of their hospitality business, and by the design and build studio unit for 4 months of the year as our home away from home.

The overriding aim of my building was that I wanted it to be like a treehouse, nestled within the vegetation.

By elevating the building, the views are of the attractive foliage of the trees, rather than the trunks. My aim was for the building to be fun and playful, like a children’s treehouse, hence the use of outdoor walkways and additional features (such as the reading net and swings).

The 3.6m x 3.6m grid was designed to raise my building, with the timber columns referencing the vertical nature of the trees – you will also note that I created spaces within the grid where there is an opportunity for planting trees.

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CITY SCENES

3A Contributors

Farrokh Aman, Sergison Bates/ Natural Selection Dominik Arni; Pierre d’Avoine, Pierre d’AvoineArchitects/StudioDA Thomas Back, Caruso St John; Carolina Bartram, Arup Nadine Cenoz; Lorenzo De Chiffre, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Kate Handford; Aidan Hodgkinson, Aidan Hodgkinson Architects Tamara Horbacka, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Summer Islam, Material Cultures; Ebrina Koster, Hopkins Cornelis Knuth, Sergison Bates; Ishbel Mull, Muf Jo Sharples, Editional Studio/ Sheffield University; Emily Shiga Caruso St John Karin Templin Renzo Vallebuona Vast Architekten/Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

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BArch + MEng, Part 1: Design Studio Year 2 and 3

CITY SCENES - DAGENHAM & BARKING This year Unit 3A’s theme is the theatre of the city. We have investigated the scenography of urban places, to design spaces and buildings to act as catalysts to transform their contexts. The unit has developed projects for performance, focussing on the idea of atmospheric space, developed through scenographic concepts. The interplay between the city and scenography has been much explored from theatre set and opera, to film and city spaces.

The Mundane and the Spectacular. We began by investigating a typology of Urban Tropes such as canopies and arcades, , animated by everyday use, exploring them by juxtaposing theatrical spectacle and ‘the performance of the everyday’. We looked at how the mundane can become spectacular by the momentary, making full scale Set Pieces, drawn from the tropes, which were tested by the Dagenham Arc theatre’s after school group.

Continuing our research in how to develop towns sustainably, using the themes of performance and the city at different scales, this year our projects have investigated how to activate places within the mixed, changing environment, of Barking and Dagenham east of London. It is one of the regions fastest developing areas, with new tracts of high and denser private housing appearing at great speed. Simultaneously it is one of London’s most deprived areas, has a fast growing immigrant community, and has one of the UK’s highest under 30 age groups proportional to its population.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Vitul Agarwal Sebastian Camp Alexia Christoforou Immie Clarke Yasmine Dahim Nida Hannan Olivia Heading Chloe Marples Maria Michail Pamela Naidoo Ramanan Nathan Daniel Taylor Phoebe Turner

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Barking Cultural Center

| Vitul Agarwal

vitulagarwal@yahoo.in The theme of my project is ‘City as a Theatre’. It is a cultural center inspired by and created for the ethnic communities residing in Barking. The space is designed to be used by them to share their ‘cultural’ and ‘theatrical’ aspects. At a bigger scale it would even work as a communal link between Barking and London’s other boroughs.

The center adapts to MAT- like architecture and has three fragments to it - Educational, Theatre and Workshop with unique plazas and an open roof terrace.‘Cultural’ and ‘Architectural’ aspects of Bengali and Bangladeshi community play a big part in the development of my project. The scheme adapts to the use of terracotta bricks and clay render from Bengali Architecture.

Surrounded by dense trees on one side and river Roding on the other, Barking cultural center has an island like feel to it giving this public space a very private atmosphere. It has an identity and purpose of its own where communities can come together, learn, interact, and celebrate with each other.

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Kingsley Hall Community Centre | Sebastian Camp sebastian_camp@outlook.com Kingsley Hall Community Centre is a regenerative project focused around re-purposing and consolidating the facilities on the original site. With the site having a low architectural value and being extremely fragmented, with much of the exterior space being used for parking, it was a matter of densifying the urban block into a community hub while responding to a number of existing facilities that held some nice qualities. In addition, the social aspects of Kingsley Hall are astronomical as it sits as a central community ‘island’ in the Becontree Estate; one of the largest in Europe to this day. A place to socialize, a community cafe, a nursery and a church are some of the functions the original Kingsley Hall boasts so maintaining this in the new centre was extremely important so as to continue to act as a catalyst for human interactions right at the heart of the community. With the theatre being the new focal point, it is important to engage as many of the local residents as possible and allow the productions to be a culmination of all their skills, whether that be designing and building the set pieces in the workshop, the costume design or the performing itself.

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River Roding Warehouse Island

| Imogen Clarke

immie667@gmail.com The project is situated in Barking along the banks of the River Roding. Barking is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing boroughs of London and was once a heavily industrial district, owing much of its character to the historic industrial warehouse typology.

This project seeks to explore this vernacular warehouse form in a contemporary manner, focusing on three main types of inhabitation. The first, an industrial, dynamic theatre space acting as a framework for installations, activities and a free-standing performance area. Secondly, CLT live/work units have been designed to be inserted into the warehouse form and adapted to suit the needs of the inhabitants. Lastly, workshop/studio spaces provide collaborative and communal work areas for local artists and makers.

The spaces aim to provide an alternative community within Barking town. Providing flexible workspaces and co-living homes which retain artists within London - addressing the shortage of affordable creative workspaces. As well as accommodating change in an area of low cultural engagement and activity.

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Barking Cultural Arts

| Yasmine Dahim

day0910@btinternet.com The final project proposal aims to introduce an Arts centre at the edge of Barking’s town centre, a scheme that falls in line with the borough’s ambitions for cultural growth. The urban strategy of the design seeks to create an urban block with a permeable perimeter, as well as incorporating a key connection between the town centre and surrounding suburban areas, in turn providing this new sheltered public space.

The proposal creates a multiuse block that is aimed to house a variety of artists such as musicians, performers, dancers, painters, sculptors etc with the aims of making this cultural hub in which these artists are able to share their innovative ideas and be surrounding by inspiration. The design of this urban block then reflects this idea of an inward looking building promoting an openness within the arcade facades.

The arcade that runs through the urban block aims to give the public a space in which they feel comfortable to mingle within the heart of the arts hub. Also incorporating this idea of a new lively route connecting the residential areas to the city centre as well as an entrance point that gives people a flavour of the rich culture that barking has to offer.

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Performance and Exhibition Hub

| Nida Hannan

n.hannan288@gmail.com Based in Barking, London, my thesis scheme is located along the River Roding. The vast riverside urban development and lack of creative community centres make the location suitable for a ‘Performance and Exhibition Hub’. The site’s island-like attributes cater to a heavily landscaped proposal, forming a welcoming park-like atmosphere in the otherwise concentrated high-rise urban area.

Inspired by van Eyck’s ‘Amsterdam Orphanage’, a tartan grid was used to strategically arrange landscaping and three mat-like buildings with repeating units. The grid is visible throughout, from the gabled roof to the patterned timber cladding and corridors.

Landscaping is continued in courtyards and the accessible green roof, whilst curtain wall facades, skylights and glazed trusses blur boundaries between internal and external spaces, allowing light to fill the rooms to create a comforting ambience. The timber framed structures have distinct functions: ‘Café and Exhibition’ displays performance-related artwork; ‘Performance Centre’ includes black box theatres and a central double-height auditorium; and ‘Back of House’ fulfils private functions including rehearsals. The spread of external spaces including the stage and seating collectively create an aesthetic and practical bustling attraction.

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Theatre Set & Costume College

| Olivia Heading

olivia-heading@hotmail.co.uk Barking and Dagenham’s College for Theatre Set and Costume Design, offers specific apprentice training, therefore, facilitates an exploration of different, exciting employment opportunities for the borough’s young, and rapidly increasing population.

The college consists of a series of buildings with individual characters across an entire urban block, located between old and new parts of Barking’s fragmented town. The scheme is made a viable piece of the town by incorporating existing buildings and considering spatial continuity, opposing the large island developments emerging in the area. The plan of the scheme reverses what is usually regarded as the front and back of house in a theatre, with placement of its studios and workshops along the main street and its theatre set back. This encourages visitors to experience the work behind the productions, the main focus of the college. The three courtyards created within the campus also have distinct characters, paved and planted in different ways to achieve varying atmospheres across the space. The scheme offers opportunity in Barking to create new opportunities for the town both socially and in terms of urban form by focusing on smaller, contextual, human-scale design.

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The Becontree Music School

Pamela Naidoo

pamelacnaidoo@gmail.com A platform to accommodate the growing artistic talent in the borough, The Becontree Music School sets the stage for collaborative and socially enriching musical teaching and performance.

Barking and Dagenham is the 3rd most deprived borough in London and with over 26,000 pupils of primary education age, the young demographic are owed a scheme which supports their determined potential. The Becontree Estate has a history of untapped potential with the housing scheme set up as ‘homes fit for heroes’ after WW1 and housing of the east London slums.

The budding energy of the estate is felt throughout it and will continue to grow with the education of the next generation of young people in the area.

In support of the NPME (National Plan for Music Education) while working with the LBDD Music Education Hub, the ethos of the historic Kingsley Hall beats through the Becontree Music School. With a median age 8 years below the national average, the innovative Becontree Estate community are the driving force for creative and academic growth.

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Barking Warehouse Park

| Ramanan Nathan

ramanannathan13@gmail.com The scheme contains 3 main warehouses, used as: a theatre, a manufacturing workshop, and a performing arts school. These work in unison to provide a scheme that provides cultural enrichment in Barking, whilst embracing its fishing and boat manufacture history. The end of the site features two timber structures, which are beacons that place the site in the area from its wider context.

Each warehouse form shares the same timber structural system but have been bespoke to their own uses using different types of cladding; with the main theatre being clad with charred timber. The scheme focuses on sustainability, through its use of recycled, recyclable and natural materials in its structure and envelope.

The site’s vastness makes landscaping a key feature of the scheme, which works to provide smaller intimate spaces between the buildings, whilst leaving an open ground in front of the theatre which can be used as an outdoor performance venue, or for other purposes.

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Kingsley Hall Community Centre

| Daniel Taylor

dpg.taylor@gmail.com This project focuses on the renewal of an urban block in the heart of the 1930’s Becontree estate in Dagenham. Despite several decades of economic decline the local residents have made the Kingsley Hall site a thriving focus for the local population, with high social interaction and a full programme of activities. In contrast the quality of the buildings and public spaces is extremely low. This project therefore envisages a sensitive programme of new architecture to bring additional cultural activities to the site while striving to enhance the collective memory through the refurbishment and integration of several existing buildings.

An open welcome is provided by the two storey building on the street frontage serving as a community centre and doubling up as foyer for a new 112 seat cinema and 296 seat theatre with a back of house support space, capable of hosting performances in its own right.

The project retains a human scale and offers permeability through the site to all the accommodation by being arranged around two connected courtyards, one designed for people to spill out from the cafĂŠ for conversations, interaction and events with the other providing a quiet refuge by the re-located GP surgery and new well-being centre.

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Central Hovering Pseudo-Monolothic Theatre

| Jessica Adebisi

layja5@nottingham.ac.uk This project was to design a theatre/ performance space for the local community. The site is located at the corner of london road, at the edge of busy barking town centre meeting the entrance of quiet bariking park. My design concept is to connect the park and Town Centre at the edge of the street through internal courtyards that raps around a central performance space, creating movement towards the edge of the town centre and bringing people in the community together, protecting the pseudo monolothic theatre above the glazed exhibiton space with 3 spacial buildings around it. The space surrounding the theatre consist of 2 courtyard; C1 towards the park next to the main entrance,the glazed exhibition, the restaurant and kiosk bar, having an informal performance space which draws the community towards the building and C2 surrounded by the workshop , the glazed exhibtion and theatre shop a more relaxing courtyard with seating space for outdoor workshops.

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City Scenes

| Vanshika Halan

layvh@nottingham.ac.uk

The site sits at the heart of Barking and Dagenham and currently serves as a community centre in the Becontree estate (a large public housing estate constructed in the interwar period).

The project aims to design a performance theatre and its urban space, with an understanding of internal and external spaces. As a community centre it also aims to bring together the local people and celebrate their remarkable heritage.

The intention was to develop the design into a more welcoming and modern building and to bring more attention to the abandoned back side of the existing building. Attention was given to having clear distinct spaces and to counter the monotomy of the repetitive cubical form of the estate by proposing a more complex cluster of blocks.

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Town Centre

| Jiachen Hu

sayjh2@nottingham.edu.cn In this project, we are asked to design a performance space in Town Centre of Barking.

The site is located in the corner of London Rd and North St. I tried to keep the consistency of the street-scape and reduce the overwhelming influence of the large scale construction across the street (ASDA & apartment). By looking through the morphology of the local buildings, the rough shape came out, with regular and solid shape facade in the side of main streets and irregular and transparent in the backstreet side.

A classical and monumental cylindrical performance space with dome structure roof inserting into the construction and be the highlight part.

Modern theatre may have sophisticated audiences and require new experience. Considering the age groups, occupations and race in the community, my concept about the performance space would be a immersed theatre. A round theatre allows better interactions.

In further design development, I did test about the material as well as textures and light to create a memorable and cosy atmosphere.

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Barking Performance Centre

| Oluwaseyi Joseph

layoj@nottingham.ac.uk Located in Barking Town Centre, London, the aim of this project was to design an accessible urban structure suitable for performances that could be used by a variety of age ranges and create a space for the community. With the site being in its current barren state- in the midst of a predominantly residential area- there was an opportunity to create something brand new which could add a unique presence that would help redefine and repurpose the area.

My approach was to create a small complex that would utilise the site effectively and encourage the activity of the market to continue further down to my building and the park opposite my site. I wanted the outdoor courtyard spaces to be welcoming for all members of the public and engage them in any activities as they pass by. It consists of a main building which houses the performance space itself, and two complementing structures, one pavilion on the park and an amphitheatre for more informal and casual performances, joined with a cafe at the back of the site.

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Kingsley Hall

| Felix King

layfk@nottingham.ac.uk

The project’s aim was to design an engaging performance space for the Arc Theatre youth group and a community centre. This proposal would create a new social hub and heart for the beacontree estate, Dagenham.

This proposal aims to rebuild the existing surgery and Kingsley Hall on the site whilst refurbishing the interior of the gymnasium.

Each of the three buildings are tied together through a series of garden spaces with the main garden oasis at the centre. The layout and quality of these garden spaces are directly linked to the buildings specific use.

The buildings and central garden oasis are all linked through a series of high-level walkways which in turn create courtyards in each area.

There are two exterior staircases which allow the public to access the towers on the surgery and performance space. The towers create a beacon, standing out from the low lying 1920s housing of the area

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Theatre As City: Performance Place

| Crystal Kwan

layhyk@nottingham.ac.uk Our main individual design project is to design a smaller ‘studio’ version of the performance building with a public foyer and hall, and its urban space.

The design was developed both by modelling its overall form in its context, as a complex of internal and external spaces, and by developing the particular qualities and atmospheres of its performace space and foyer.

My chosen site location is Kingley Hall Becontree Estate, Barking and Degenham. The site is not well laid out and for the most part of the buildings are unattractive and physically obsolete. It is also surrounded with many architectural barriers that limits people with disabilities from obtaining the good and services that are offered. Therefore, my main intension is to improve social interaction between local people of different culture and nationality. Redevelop the site with a clearer direction indicating the way to approch to the site, without having architectural barriers which seems to be less welcoming. In the design, I created the performance space as a distict brick form so that it is more noticable and unique compare to the surrounded building. More open and public route were there as well to create a better flow.

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Theatre for Barking

| Nana Kwarteng

laynak@nottingham,ac.uk

The brief for this project was to design a small theatre/performance space for a local community, which in this case was Barking Town Centre, East London.

One of the key characteristics of the town centre in Barking was the almost uneasy contrast between the commercial side of the town centre and the residential side which, for me, gave the place a sense of fragmentation.

It was this fragmentation which became the main driver behind my design. My aim was to play with the functions and form of traditonal theatre spaces in order to break up the form and in a sense, deconstruct it, to create a ‘family’ of forms, rather than one building block. The individual forms make up different functions of a theatre such as the performace space itself, a box office space, the green rooms for the actors and a cafe for the visitors. In this way, each building block becomes a fragment of a theatre, thus relating to the fragmented nature of the town centre itself. .

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Kingsley Hall

| Raissa Machado

layrm7@nottingham.ac.uk

This project consists of a performance, arts and community centre in the borough of Dagenham, London. This area is known for having been the scenario for Becontree Estate which was a project of low rise housing for those returning from the war during the 1920’s. Each house would have a front and back garden and there was big sense of community among the neighbors.

On the existing site there is a community and church centre, Kingsley Hall, which has great importance for the locals considering it provides different rooms to rent and make events. With this in mind, the idea was to keep Kingsley Hall’s essence but integrated to the project.

That way, the design forms an U shape and in one of the “wings” Kingsley Hall was incorporated to the building creating a complex of community, performance and arts centre. The scheme promotes the concept of two different courtyards linked by an arcade and each one has a different function. The one on the main road, which leads to the performance and arts centre and Kingsley Hall entrances, consists more of a courtyard with sitting areas and a welcoming space for the visitors coming from the street. The one on the back is an intimate space dedicated to small food markets and live shows for the public.

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Theatre for Dagenham layos2@nottingham.ac.uk

Kingsley Hall is a church and community centre in the Becontree estate in Dagenham, a low rise 1920’s housing estate built following the garden city model.

The scheme aims to introduce a theatre onto the site, creating a cultural and communal centre for the estate, as well as improving the existing programme of the community hall. The project deals with mixing new and built elements, and using humble materials to create interesting spaces.

There was also a strong need for public space in the area. A new pedestrian street was created through site along with a courtyard between the theatre and hall which outdoor activities could take place in. An area of wasteland to the north of the site was converted into a kitchen garden for use by the local community, restoring part of the function of the site as allotments before the existing hall was built in the 1970’s.

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City as theatre

| Lizzie Stephens

(layes6@nottingham.ac.uk)

The brief for this project was to design a theatre for the performers of the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham in London. The site where this building is situated lies in Barkings Town Centre right next to a crossroads. The urban strategy for my project was titled Colonnade and Two Blocks. The idea behind this was that by creating two seperate block forms that are wrapped in a colonnade of arches a sheltered space is then created between these two forms. This space can be accessible to the community whilst also being sheltered from the hubbub of the road congestion. The grid like layout of the arches is then carried through the courtyard and internal layout using walls, vegetation and internal arches.

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Kingsley Hall Performance centre

| Finley Swain

(layfs2@nottingham.ac.uk) This project, situated in the Becontree Estate in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, looked at the revival of a community centre, with importance placed upon a performance and theatre space. The Becontree Estate holds great historical value, built for people returning from the First World War, and with an emphasis put on green spaces such as parks and gardens. For this project I wanted to return some of this green space that has been lost and paved over throughout the years, giving a open community walkway with patches of grass and trees to connect both sides of the site. Green walls are used along the front and rear of the site.

I decided to also work with an existing structure on the site; extending upwards from it and utilising an inverted pitched roof to create the main performance space. The new steel structure that allows this was left exposed internally. Also included in my scheme is community workshops, to allow for classes and to help in creating theatre sets, an information/ticket building at the front of the site, and a pavillion cafe/bar. A clear distinction between the existing brick structure and the new buildings is made through use of materials. Black steel columns and stained red steel cladding were used not only for this clarity, but also to represent a sense of pride and community in the project, as these are the principal colours of the coat of arms for Barking and Dagenham.

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Kingsley Hall

| Alastair Walker

(layaw10@nottingham.ac.uk)

Kingsley Hall is the nucleus of the Becontree Estate, Dagenham, the largest social housing project in Europe, built between 1921 and 1935.

The project’s aim was to design an atmospheric performance space for the Arc Theatre youth group and a community centre maintaining and improving the programme of the existing Kingsley Hall. The Front of House garden is an informal recreation area, planted with low maintenance grasses and meadow flowers that contrasts the monotony of turfed public parks. The repeated gabled roof form mirrors the existing shed truss structure and the orientation is derived from the shed which interlocks with the complicated geometry of the site and anchors the proposal, forming a Winter Garden backbone for Kingsley Hall.

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BRINK TERRITORIES

3B Contributors

Alan Beveridge, Associate at RCKa Luke Bryant, Assistant Architect Anna Mill, Partner at Anna Mill Design Dan Lee, Architect Tony Staples , Associate at RCKa Athanasios Varnavas

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BRINK TERRITORIES - GRIMSBY AND THE LINCOLNSHIRE COAST “He shall see the damp fog, white and fleecy Students like wool, enveloping the whole marshes with a mantle; and he shall remember the tale of the valley of Devno, and, hiding himself in bed, dream restlessly of the ague, and fancy he sees the fever-fiend. Yet there is no lack of ancient men and women, who have spent their long lives in this marsh.”

Description of the marsh at Skegness from The Gentleman’s Magazine, July – December 1857.

Burgh-le-Marsh and the Neighbourhood, Lincolnshire by T. W. de Drax: SITE + INTEREST To find places and people on the edge, forgotten and ignored, always by water. Every year we observe through a particular lens.

This year the PLACE is the LINCOLNSHIRE COAST, and the LENS is the BRINK condition.

Origin of the word BRINK 1. the edge, border, or verge of a steep place the brink of the precipice 2. the highest point; top the sun fell below the brink of the hill 3. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) the land at the edge of a body of water 4. the verge of an event or state the brink of disaster UNIT ETHOS + METHOD Taking the outline brief that we set the students we encourage Firstly: An original and expressive brief development around a specific interest rooted in ‘the place’ socially, physically, economically, culturally, and ecologically.

Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Charlotte Adams Tom Barrett Megan Boon Bethany Dunnett Sabriha Nadia Hussain Oliver François Einar Kvam Tom Lawrence Pranay Patel Sofia Margarita Rondón -Morocoima Laura Vickers Tom Washington Maxwell Willis Alison Ngo Suet Wong MEng yr 4 Polina Sali

Tutors Farida Makki Negin Ghorbani Ashmi Tharpar Anna Mill Mike Reade

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Final Design Specifications 1:5 Scale

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The above drawing is a 1:5 scale axonometric of the intended artefact considering it was placed on an A4 page.

handrail, the artefact composes the main project, however the project also proposes tiling sequence to encircle the handrail.

The final design of the project was also made considering the weight of the artefact after its completion.

Materiality

[ Project Proforma Extract In More Detail ] Project Description • Project Description : Artefact • Functional Description : Handrail • Visual Description : Integrated concrete

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• Materials : Concrete + Jesmonite tiles with terrazzo flakes possibly • Material Type : Multiple materials, most involve casting and mixing, materials which change physical state; from liquid to solid.

• Fabrication Process (Broad Description): 1. CNC Carved foam to create handrail negative

2. Casted concrete 3. 3D Printed tiles to create silicone moulds 4. Cast jesmonite and terrazzo flakes into silicone moulds 5. Assemble proposed pieces The following chapter of the project explains the production process of creating this piece described with the above measurements and specifications.

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Directed deep research and analysis And finally: An original and imaginative design response that embraces creative sustainable solutions and tectonic craftsmanship.

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Jake Barker-frost Kira Botham Lucy Brice Holly Clarke Joelle Eldridge Kaan Gun Josephine Hamill Tabitha Harvey-Crowe Joseph Horgan Lucy Kemp Jennifer Kendall Karen Klimaytys Pearl Lin Rebecca O’Brien Logan Russell Sophie Shaw Yuhan XU Jiawei YAO

MEng yr 2 Jasmine Amini Sammy Followell

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Hidden Homes

| Charlotte Adams

charlotte.adams08@outlook.com Hidden Homes is a community focused on combatting homelessness by prioritising individual mental health and wellbeing. It focuses on integrating the community of Grimsby and the homeless community to abolish the us and them stigma which appears both with homelessness and mental health.

Hidden Homes provides therapy in forms of art, gardening and talking, to the homeless population as well as giving them a permanent or temporary residence while they are attending sessions. It also provides the public with facilities that can be hired for community use, for example yoga, scouts, karate classes etc. The three types of housing; Dormitory, Assisted and Individual are all designed with real characters and their needs in mind, creating an empathetic design.

Hidden Homes is designed to be an unintimidating structure and unimposing on the environment as not to overwhelm those using the facilities, and create a calming, atmosphere for the clients and residents. Nature is very important in the healing process and therefore there is an emphasis on the garden spaces which provide a cottage garden, vegetable patches, a meadow area, and grassy areas for the community to use.

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Theatre for Social Change

| Megan Boon

megboon@hotmail.com

My thesis project is situated in Grimsby, where research shows anti-social behaviour is of some of the highest levels. A solution for this is very difficult but is the challenge I would like to tackle through theatre. My project proposes a child’s respite centre through a cultural experience of the theatre, to help tackle anti-social behaviour and build community bonds. The community can use theatrical methods to challenge and explore the injustice they may face in everyday life, as well as learning practical skills, contributing to tackling Grimsby’s skills shortage. The primary aim is to provide a safe space for children of different highlighted issues in Grimsby; children who have lost their way and contributed to high levels of anti-social behaviour, children in care, children who are carers for their guardians, or county lines children who have been exposed to drug gangs. The secondary aims are to provide; suitable theatre spaces for expression, catering to different age ranges and a space that the children can make and call their own, therapy spaces, whether this be one to one counselling or group sessions, to address the root of a child’s issues, a small residential element to house children potentially travelling from a distance and workshops to build a set of skills for each child.

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The Clay House

| Bethany Dunnett

beth.dunnett@gmail.com

The Clay House is an eating disorder clinic utilizing pottery in the recovery process. The Clay house faces the stigma surrounding eating disorders and receiving treatment at a clinic. It attempts to do this by creating a therapeutic environment for the patients and using pottery, the building, and the landscape as part of the therapy process.

The aim of having a pottery program which is also open to the public is to reduce the stigma attached to the eating disorder retreat, whist also enabling patients to gradually integrate back into public life, creating an easier transition.

The building is designed so that the top floors are rooms further away from the public path are private spaces, and you move through the building the spaces become more social and open. As the patient recovers, they will feel confident to “move through the building” as use the different spaces.

Landscape theories such as “prospect-refuge theory” have been applied, a theory which suggests that a safe “refuge” overlong an open space reduces Cortisol levels in patients.

The Clay House aims not only to be a functional retreat center, but a place of delight and healing for patients.

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AGUAFUTURA

| Sabriha Nadia Hussain

sabriha_h@hotmail.co.uk

When initially preparing a brief for this project I wanted to think of a concept which combined my love for science and art; subsequently, I began to look at innovative material research that resolved modern day issues. My whole project aims to tackle the widespread plastic pollution problem by creating a research hub dedicated to the research and development of bio materials based off recycled fish waste and apple pectin which can act as a plastic alternative. The material which I am basing my project off has a cyclical life cycle in which it decomposes when it returns to water; hence, it is an environmentally friendly material alternative.

By creating a solution for this problem at a smaller city scale in Grimsby, with a brief entwined into its history and development, we can locally provide the fish waste to recycle whilst creating a new public realm. Overall, I hope to make a positive impact on a smaller city scale but also environmentally at a larger global scale.

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Opera Nautica

| Oliver François Einar Kvam

oliver.kvam@gmail.com

My thesis project for this academic year involves a possible early stage of redeveloping Grimsby, capitalising on its potential for being a bridge between its rich local fishing culture and performing arts. An opera house rises above the waters where the southernmost tip of the Alexandra Quay meets Riverhead Square, the current boundary of the town’s social and commercial zone.

In doing so, Grimsby’s social hub begins being drawn out towards the neglected docklands, framing views across the water.

Within, the dual-purpose opera house and academy of performance and song weds nautical culture with traditional operatic music.

Utilising its multitude of stages of varying size and external social spaces – potentially hosting future maritime festivals – it will create opportunities to revive Grimsby’s dwindling cultural scene and provide an alternative route of artistic education for its youth.

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The Power of Food as a Social Rehabilitator

| Tom Lawrence

pktlawrence@aol.com

The idea for my project comes from trying to work with issues that Grimsby is facing, such as food poverty and homelessness, and try to unite these two issues into one community-based centre. I will be working with the ideas that food holds meaning and can also elicit emotions and exert power over people. The food environment can be a critically important social meeting place, with food preparation providing companionship and occupation for those finding themselves isolated and living on the edge of society.

The point behind my building will be to bring different people from society together and provide food engagement activities, food bank facilities and medium-term accommodation for the homeless. To summarise, the building will be a centre in Grimsby providing accommodation for the homeless, a renewable food bank and community garden plus food learning spaces to provide an inclusive environment dealing with issues of food poverty and homelessness.

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NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE

| Pranay Patel

pran.patel.45@gmail.com

The river front building is a culinary focused smokehouse in Riverhead Square, Grimsby. Its main aims are to celebrate Grimsby’s maritime past, along with its award-winning smoked fish, whilst also catering to the current ‘at-risk’ population who are in need of a way out from the cycle of homelessness, drug abuse and unemployment that has been triggered by the degradation of the town since the decline of the fishing industry following the Cod Wars. It therefore contains facilities to cook and train people who will hopefully become chefs, whilst also providing them with cheap on-site accommodation and garden facilities as an incentive to stay off the streets and focus on their job with fewer problems to worry about. The kitchens work alongside the smokery and serve exquisite food to the restaurant that overhangs the river, whilst the bar and tiki huts allow people to also enjoy the building socially with a drink or two. This all works under a sustainability scheme of locally sourcing fish from rivers, sourcing waste wood chips and sawdust from saw mills for the smokery and then delivering fish waste, food waste and ash to a nearby orchard to fertilise the soil.

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Water Detoxification Medi-Clinic | Sofia Margarita RondĂłn Morocoima sofirondon1@gmail.com

Water treatment medi-clinic designed to detoxify the human body through the use of purified medicinal waters and tackle a culture of hyper-medication in the UK. This project originates with research conducted by the University of Hull on the Humber Estuary which found high levels of pharmaceuticals and house-hold medicines in the water. Located in the heart of Grimsby, this scheme attempts to redefine the public’s perception of health.

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SEANOWATE

| Polina Sali

(shal.polina@gmail.com The ocean plastic cached by the fisherman and waste plastic brought by the citizens is recycled into water garden that becomes a public space as well as an underwater algae farm. Collected plastic is also recycled into the furniture that is used in interior, while the plant and crops growing in the park can be a source of food for the occupants. Collected algae is then used efficiently in bio-plastics and textiles, with waste algae water recycled for public use or energy. Produced materials are then used in testing for material innovation and research, scene sets and costumes. Once not used, they can be composted and become fertilizers for the garden.

Project becomes part of the University of Grimsby Fashion school, in collaboration with Coxton Theater, which is proposed to become a theatrical platform for raising sustainability issues.

This project aims to attract knowledge-driven tourism, culturally developing the area. This centre can become a space for global discussions and knowledge trade on textiles sustainability and the role of plastic in our life.

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Seaweed Biofuel Research Centre

| Laura Vickers

lauravickers100@me.com

My building investigates the two key areas of research still needed to make seaweed biofuel a viable process. I felt that Grimsby needed a brand-new industry to reverse the social issues it has acquired since the loss of its fishing livelihood in the 1970s. With Hornsea Windfarm on its doorstep, the only English government-proposed site for seaweed cultivation for biofuel, it felt right to provide Grimsby with a UK base for seaweed biofuel research so that the town can be involved with this new and exciting industry from the beginning. Its nationally central location makes it ideal for nationally-significant research and conferences.

I have also incorporated a public realm so that seaweed science and the people of Grimsby can mix.

The building has lab spaces, a biofuel production plant to power the building with seaweed biofuel, an outdoor floodable conference space, an ‘underwater’ conference theatre, teaching facilities and a public realm consisting of floodable seaweed gardens, a brasserie and an ‘underwater’ amphitheatre.

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AIR-CADEMY

| Tom Washington

tomwash@gmx.co.uk AIR-CADEMY seeks educate the unemployed youth of Grimsby in wind power technologies to produce a skilled workforce to maintain the growing Hornsea offshore wind farms. The facility also conducts research into new technologies to secure Grimsby’s future at the forefront of the industry. Wind power is becoming an increasingly vital part of Grimsby’s economy and AIR-CADEMY engages with local communities through its public outreach by accommodating visitors.

The facility is separated into two buildings and a tower. The ‘On-shore’ building is where the more formal education is carried out, with workspaces and classroom blocks, and the practical learning occurring on ‘Training Island’, containing workshops, a diving pool and a boat house providing access to the off-shore wind farms. The ‘On-shore’ building also contains laboratory space, with a wind tunnel to test new technologies. The Radar tower is used to gather weather information for the laboratories, however, is also used as a view point for visitors and an abseiling tower.

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City Nautica

| Maxwell Willis

willmax_10_10@hotmail.co.uk In the year 2170, rising sea levels and extreme weather events threaten coastal settlements around the world. Ever increasing concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere and the unpredictable melting of the ice caps has created uncertainty in humanity’s future. This radically changing environment has brought with it a new landscape and logic that requires adaptation on both a social and architectural level.

City Nautica is a speculative project depicting a prototype community that exists within and responds to a worst-case scenario future in which the town of Grimsby is flooded as a result of the changing global climate. The development of a once prosperous fish dock hopes to reclaim an area that would otherwise be lost to the North Sea with the purpose of housing displaced residents of Grimsby. A water-resilient structure with clip-on components allows the community to grow and adapt organically over time in order to keep up with a rapidly changing external condition. With a resource-conscious ethos and co-living strategies, City Nautica proposes a different way of life which is required to survive in a hostile environment.

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MISSING LINK

Alison Ngo Suet Wong

alison.ns.wong@gmail.com

Missing Link is a child therapy centre and market connected through urban farming. The concept of the building is to provide a sustainable programme which works as a solution towards a social, economical and environmental issue in Grimsby. The project aims to provide a better solution towards children’s mental health through green therapy and therapy through farming, which produce from farming would be sold in the market to boost community engagement, market culture and job opportunities.

The idea works as a sustainable cycle as both typologies feed into one another creating a symbiotic relationship between both programmes.

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Appraising the Kasbah

| Jake Barker-frost

layjb10@nottingham.ac.uk

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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The determination of value is one which is divulged with layers of reasoning, it becomes the fundamental cause to the work we do and the lives we live.

The allocation of Grimsby’s port to a free port region both incentives business to the site and the collation of priceless items to legally avoid the billions of tax that must be payed often becoming unappreciated and under maintained away from viewing eyes acting as cash sink and not being appreciated as they should. The buildings goal is to be the centre of goods handling and distribution, supplying the surrounding businesses using their existing architectural features in order to rid the site of loading vehicles to allow the public access to view the most incredible works that enter the site intern funding the proper maintenance of the art work, artefacts, etc. that stored within the heart of the building.

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Restoration

| Kira Botham

laykb4@nottingham.ac.uk The purpose of archiving is to preserve, restore, digitise, analyse, and share.

My proposal is to restore Grimsby’s memories of the war back to their rightful place, using traditional and modern methods to bring them back to life and show Grimsby something of which they can be proud. The building therefore has to provide all the functional requirements of an archive as well as offering itself as a monument at which to reflect on the past, a celebration of Grimsby’s heritage and an attraction capable of reviving the town’s fledgling culture.

The design is divided into three components, that of reception, research and staff. It is designed to have minimal effect on the existing courtyard, allowing the current industrial works to continue privately, while the reception’s ‘shop front’ welcomes the public and bridges allow circulation throughout. The two supporting builds reflect the surroundings through the use of reclaimed brick and corrugated steel and the reinterpretation of the existing architectural style.

Together they frame the central research structure, a dramatic block showing the nature of the past as the foundation on which we build. At its centre, at the base of the triple height void space, is to be the new memorial: a place to inspire remembrance and respect for those lost.

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Grimsby Colour Collection

| Lucy Brice

laylb12@nottingham.ac.uk

The Grimsby Colour Collection; formed of found objects that belong to the town, the archive is a collection of colour. People collect items and bring them in, adding them to the colour collection by tying them on themselves, creating a live, evolving archive of the Grimsby colour palette.

Resident artists work in the archive in their own designated studio space. They are able to use paint from the factory, using Grimsby’s very own colour palette in their work.

The paint factory above gives something back to the community; using new technology, objects can be sent up to the factory to be scanned for their colour code, which determines the paint colour. This paint can be any type; watercolour, acrylic, varnish, emulsion to name a few, serving all of Grimsby’s artists, from the primary school age to those who restore and repaint the boats in the Shipyard.

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Theatre of Memories

| Holly Clarke

layhc13nottingham.ac.uk The Theatre of Memories, draws out individual’s personal archive of memories and helps people rediscover Grimsby’s rich heritage. The design is inspired by memory functions in the brain and methods of triggering memories. Theatrical ‘trigger’ environments within the building are tailored to trigger different senses and areas of the brain involved in memory function, which will then trigger different memories and emotions in the user. The user is encouraged to record their evoked memories and give them to the building via a pneumatic tube system that runs throughout the whole building. The recorded messages are archived and displayed in a gallery space for others to learn from. The pneumatic tube system, attached to structural tree-like structures, resemble the neuron structures in the brain and their message carrying functions.

The building sits within an area known as the Kasbah, at the heart of Grimsby Docks. Once an area thriving with the success of the fishing industry, now a poorly maintained, uninviting area of decaying derelict buildings.

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Voices of the Tides

| Joelle Eldridge

layje3@nottingham.ac.uk

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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The tides keep coming in and going out, just like the fishermen.

Voices of the Tides is an archive that will seek to act like a book or series, with the main ‘storyline’ being that of Grimsby’s fishermen. A long and arduous profession, the archive will seek to acknowledge and treasure the acts of perseverance of being one of Grimsby’s fishermen. Though the treasure may not seem ‘beautiful’, it is treasure through its revealing of Grimsby’s people’s strength and endurance when times are tough. Stories to inspire hope.

The building will have a central auditorium (a ‘sound heart’) and the journey sequence will be of travelling underground ‘through the past’, up and around the auditorium via the chronologically ordered exhibition, to reflect in the present PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION in the roof garden and wax walled memory room (a growing exhibition room encasing on the walls in wax written responses relating to Grimsby’s industry), to end with the future plans in the highest exhibition room. Here a lift can take the viewer back down to the entrance hall, or they can go up to the viewing platform. The cafe will sit on the ground floor (with a first floor mezzanine), with access from four points so it can always be reached relatively directly.

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Kasbah Retrospective

| Kaan Sinan Gun

layksg@nottingham.ac.uk

Grimsby was once a busy city, dealing with the fishing trade at it’s highest point in Lincolnshire. The Kasbah is a series of buildings that grew to meet the demands of the trade; warehouses, smokehouses amongst others. The trade diminished with the Cod wars and Grimsby fell into decline.

The history that is stored in the Kasbah is not known to many of the city residents. The Kasbah Retrospective aims to inform people about places like the Grimsby Kasbah - places rich in history that have been forgotten about - by archiving and exhibiting maps, photographs, and films.

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Kasbah ArchICE

| Josephine Hamill

layjh20@nottingham.ac.uk

The Kasbah ArchICE is an exhibition and research centre, that showcases the archival qualities of ice. The nearby North Sea cold water corals will be preserved in ice by using the modern technique known as cryopreservation.

This preserves the corals for future possibilities such as medical advances or repopulating vital habitats in Grimsby.

The archive centre is open to the public, situated in the heart of the Kasbah Region, where the fishing industry was once the largest in the world. The Kasbah ArchICE connects the past, present and future of Grimsby, by remembering the unique site context and use of traditional ice storage techniques to conserve precious biological specimens for future generations.

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The Kasbah Archive

| Tabitha Harvey-Crowe

layth6@nottingham.ac.uk

The Kasbah Archive is set within the Kasbah area of Grimsby Port. Following the decline of its fishing industry, the Port now supports a Modern Fish Market, processing fish imported from overseas and passing the fish waste onto the Kasbah Archive, where it is used to cultivate plants and artwork. The Kasbah Archive’s aim is to transform the Kasbah Area into a nature-oriented creative hub where occupants are able to connect to their heritage through activities designed to promote wellbeing.

The building aims to manifest the effect of the changing environment due to the dependence of the fishing industry on environmental change. Its external appearance changes with the weathering of its Cortensteel cladding and development of flora and fauna over the seasons. The shadows cast through the perforated screen and other glazing shift throughout the day, encouraging occupants to acknowledge sunlight – a vital component in the cultivation of plants. Building blocks are separated by external pathways, forcing occupants to engage with the outside environment and exposing them to the elements.

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Lost at Sea

| Joseph Horgan

layjaho@nottingham.ac.uk

The Lost at Sea project proposes a Memorial Arboretum, celebrating the lives of those who put Grimsby on the map. Since the ‘Cod Wars’, fishing territories were restricted and the fishing industry in Grimsby crashed, taking the ‘Kasbah’ down with it. Now, the majority of the buildings have been left to rot, untouched for decades. However, their skin still tells a story of what was, each different, each unique. The scheme looks to create an archive of these memories. It uses unopposing architecture with minimal site impact, using pre-fabricated, CNC machined ply. A series of pathways under, over and around the buildings were created to guide visitors around the historic site. This is complemented with an archive of treasures and stories of the past, as well as the suspended ‘Capsula mundi’ pods that utilise local fish waste to fertilise and grow the memorial trees.

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Imprint of Time

| Lucy Kemp

laylek@nottingham.ac.uk Definition of ‘Imprint’=’to mark a surface or experience a memory that cannot be forgotten’.

Photos from Grimsby’s library and from visitors themselves will be collected before creating prints from them in the Lithography technique. These will then be stitched into to create pieces of art which can be displayed in the gallery.

The activity will encourage people to react to the person/place. The photos will be both old & new, celebrating Grimsby’s history whilst acknowledging it’s current state. The fabric these photos are printed on will also be sourced from Grimsby to add even more history to the art. The collaborative museum will act as a documentation through time where both static snap-shots & lively artwork intertwine. Groups of people will be invited from the public to produce the artwork in workshops, which will then be added to the collections & showcased.

These people will be both old & young to add to the journey of memories within the building.

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An Autobiography of Grimsby

| Jenny Kendall

layjk4@nottingham.ac.uk

BRIEF | An Autobiography of Grimsby is an archive of storytelling and a celebration of traditional and digital methods of communication. Inspired by the diary of Harry Miller, a 14 year old Grimsbarian in WW1, the archive provides a place for residents to rediscover Grimsby’s past while also providing a space for the digital stories of today to be remembered in the future.

The Archive will take visitors on a journey through time as they travel through the building learning about different stories of Grimsby. The building is split so that the traditional methods of storytelling are underground and digital methods are above ground. Throughout the project spaces are designed acoustically to compliment both the technology and stories being displayed.

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Grimsby Music Archive

| Karen Klimaytys

laykk7@nottingham.ac.uk

Elton John’s song writer grew up in Grimsby and wrote a song about it in 1974, highlighting his childhood and memories of growing up there.

Subsequently, records were very popular around this day and age, with the height of popularity being in the 1900s. So, lets take this archive back to the classical days and celebrate the traditional ways of enjoying music, one record at a time.

By using the exsisting site materiality to produce a “voice” for Grimsby through piano construction. Inspired by Elton John and the increasing popularity of vinyls, this is the Grimsby Music Archive.

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The Fisherman’s Toolbox

| Pearl Lin

laypyli@nottingham.ac.uk

The Fisherman’s Toolbox aims to archive the tools and machinery used for fishing, it’s history and the future of the fishing industry in Grimsby.

Through a series of five spaces, the visitor will experience and learn about the stages of the fishing process and the instruments and tools used in each phase. At the end of the journey, the eatery will provide a rest stop for the workers of the Kasbah and of the trawlers, as well as a place to gather for the public.

During the day, hands on workshops based on the stages of the fishing process will take place to connect the local community with the Kasbah. For example, weaving throw nets, making knots, growing bait etc.

Engaging with the community will reconnect the docks with the town and contribute towards the regeneration of Grimsby.

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Aquascaping Allotments

| Rebecca O’Brien

layro1@nottingham.ac.uk

A GRIMSBARIAN SEAWEED ARCHIVE Knitted into Grimsby’s desolate Kasbah area, the Aquascaping Allotment Archive demonstrates a commitment to the preservation and cultivation of local marine phycology, whilst paying hommage to the town’s fishing and docking heritage.

The building will aim to capture and preserve the seaweed species present in the surrounding North Sea to create a snapshot into Grimsby’s watery world, with various scale phycology cultivation, aquascaping and seaweed pressing spaces available to submerge Grimsbarians in an interactive and engaging community experience.

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Every ‘Body’ Must Live

| Logan Russell

laylr6@nottingham.ac.uk

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The human body is, arguably, the most complex and advanced archive. It holds numerous series of information, from our memories, blood type, down to our genetic makeup and DNA. We are constantly on the brink of scientific and technological discovery which is why I have incorporated elements such as interactive exhibits and organ samples which enhance the experience and truly immerse the visitors in the installations and the archive.

Each space represents a different part of the body and illustrates how the organ or system works. There is a focus on the KS1-4 curriculum with additional higher level information.

In these testing times as covid-19 has had a global impact, inspiring young people and demonstrating the importance of our health services as well as educating people on human biology is more important than ever.

I hope that the exhibits in my building, as well as the building itself will inspire a generation of young people to take up scientific careers.

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The Ice Factory Archives

|Sophie Shaw

layslsh@nottingham.ac.uk

Grimsby ice factory produced crushed ice in order to preserve the fish caught off the shore of the UK and Iceland. The building was active up until 1990, before the fall of the English fishing trade. The factory has huge historical significance to Grimsby’s fishing heritage. Without it there would of been no way to supply the fishing boats and merchants with enough ice to preserve their fish. The success of Grimsby is owed to the factory.

Working alongside the Great Grimsby Ice Factory Trust, an archival space dedicated to the history and process of ice making in Grimsby will be constructed at the heart of the Kasbah. The archival space is designed to be a microcosm of the Ice Factory. The overarching aim is to restore the machinery that is currently lost to the ruins of the factory. These machines will be restored and used in demonstrations. The spaces will echo the behaviour of ice and exhibitions will be left to melt away and regrow as such that water does.

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ARCHIVE OF OCEAN TIDE AND MOON

| Yuhan XU

sayyx1@nottingham.ac.uk

The project is an archive of ocean tide and moon, which can remind local people and tourists with natural phenomena of the ocean. Grimsby is a coastal city, human activities here will be influenced by the change of tide. Especially in areas which are near ports. So for people who live and work here, it’s important to have a place that helps them learn the knowledge of tides and how the moon gravity affects the form of tides.

It is a space which include an archive of the data, an exhibition hall of the knowledge of the tide, a lunar observatory and a tea house. People can socialize and learn at the same time. They can not only intuitively understand the ebb and flow of the tides here but also understand the influence of the moon by reading and observing.

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Undersea Paradise

| Jiawei YAO

zy21998@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk

The project is an archive about endangered whales, located in the Kasbah of Grimsby. It aims to provide the biological experts with a database of extinct and endanfered whales in both physical and virtual ways, and at the same time, also offers a venue to the marine animal protection organizations, to hold some activities to the public.

The design concept is to create an immersive feeling of being under the sea and make contrast between massive structure at bottom and light structure at top. The canopy, inspired by the whale’s swimming gestures, is adopted to several spaces for different functions.

Furthermore, the people cann be surrounded by plants, which creates a natural and relaxing context. People can experiece a series spaces by moving between undergroundn annd aboveground, which is similar to the feeling of swimming in the sea.

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POETIC NARRATIVES

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Sam Critchlow, Rayner Davies Architects Barbora Bott, Studio Bott Jonathan Marfleet, Morris and Company Luke Harmer, Harmer Fitz Jessie St Clair, Harrison Stringfellow

BArch + MEng, Part 1: Design Studio Year 2 and 3

POETIC NARRATIVES - HULL “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 it’s context whilst possibly challenging it.

Students are encouraged to find their own lines of interest and enquiry in order to develop architec¬tural ideas to carry throughout the year. The work starts with a speculative, ‘conceptual’, approach which develops a richness that can then be carried into complete architectural projects which have a clear understanding of function, materiality, environmental approach and physical context.

Part of the narrative stream of units we start each year with a consideration of texts.

This year we worked with the internationally renowned work of local poet, Philip Larkin.

Specifically his poem ‘Here’ which provided a starting point for understanding our city, Hull. Formed where the river Hull meets the River Humber, near the coastal edge of the East riding of Yorkshire, Hull is in some ways a remote city. It has a clear relationship to that surrounding landscape that many cities do not and it’s links to fishing, sea trade and the former slave trade give it a rich narrative history that leads to a strong identity.”

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Emily Butterworth Karen Chan Andrew Muk Hang Chan Isabell Stefanie Czech Joshua Godley Mariela Harbalieva Catherine Lock Francesca Palomba Megan Rowley Sarena Shah Aiysha Dk-Siti Shariful Livia-Andreea Soare Amelia Williams Alice Wright Shuying Xiong MEng yr 4 Amy Jackson Catherine Lock

Tutors Amanda Harmer Matt Strong David Short

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Field Trip - Berlin 2020 Year 3 and 4

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Tom Birch Caleb Brown Katerina Charalambides Rahsaan Corbin Francesca Dove Natasha Dye Ana Franchini Tom Frost Georgina Grantham Talayaah Gunaydin Bronwen Lewis Sam Lodder-Knowles Hannah Matharoo Emily McAlister Sila Olcay Emily Petty Olivia Stobs-Stobart Dylan Traves Yunyang Ma MEng yr 3 Yida Hou

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Voices of Hull

| Emily Butterworth

layeb2@nottingham.ac.uk A celebration of the culture of Hull through the promotion and exploration of written and spoken word.

The project is based on the discovery of Hulls creative past of poets, writers, actors and more. This was recognised in 2017 when Hull won the city of culture. The festival reinvigorated this creative spark but unfortunately this was only temporary. My project aims to provide a permanent home to celebrate the creative culture of Hull, as well as allowing those who are entertained to learn, write and perform themselves.

The project will provide a home for existing writers, performers and even groups, for example the Larkin Society. The building physically wraps learning and writing spaces around the performances to create a safe space in the hopes of encouraging new people to get involved in the process and help tackle issues such as ‘The Literacy Crisis in Hull’.

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Lasting Impression, Hull’s Peace Centre

| Ching Sum Karen Chan

laycscha@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk I am Karen Ching Sum Chan; I am from Hong Kong and I moved to Unit 4A since the beginning of year 3. My final project is based in Hull Upon Kingston, and the building is called Hull’s Peace Centre. Hull has been referred to as “The Forgotten City” for many years.

During World War II in 1941, “The Hull Blitz” transformed it into one of the most bomb-damaged cities in the UK. However, none of the social media paid attention to Hull as the city has since lost its popularity. It is a disgrace to the residence in Hull.

My design approach aims to bring back the public awareness to Hull by passing on the historical knowledge to the future generations and to promote the idea of peace to our society. Therefore, the Peace Centre consists of Historical Education and Memorial function.

Negative and Positive space is the architecture form the design looks on. The negative areas from the subject are significant as they are symbolic to Lost and Memories from the war, which is the positive space. It architecturally presented by pushing and pulling the shape of the building blocks. The contrast between light and shadow then serves as importance devise to accentuate a peaceful setting.

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The Hospice for the Living

| Andrew Muk Hang Chan

laymhch@nottingham.ac.uk This project is designed for cancer patients for all genders to have a community to share and support with each other. Being in a hospice could sound sacry to many people who are going through tough treatments or walking their final stage of their lives.

Therefore, the Hospice for the Living aims to create a positive environment for them and their loved ones by integrating green space into every corner of the building so that the nature can act as a psychological effect to improving their mental health and even physical health which eventually prolong their lifetime and heal from their illnesses. The building is seperated to two main sectors to serve to daily visitors and stay-in patients who will benefit from the 24-hour care provided. The hospice will host activities for anyone to join and provide a place to establish relationships with other people so that they would feel like home. In the architectural design, I am focusing on balancing the sensitive threshold between public and privacy by the use of timber screens. The integration of multiple courtyards is also a main feature to shorten the distance between patients and the nature.

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The Maker’s Basilica

| Stefanie Isabell Czech

cz.isabell@gmail.com This scheme tackles the growing societal issue of loneliness often classed as an ever worsening epidemic. It takes inspiration from ancient Roman basilicas, which through a combination of law courts, entertainment spaces, markets, etc. culminated into the ultimate public building. I aim to focus every move around fostering interactions and a stronger sense of belonging. This is done through bringing together the maker’s community and the public by using crafts and repairs as the outlet to get together and set the foundations for a circular economy promoting the value “repair don’t replace”.

Hull has a rich industrial past, and particularly a strong connection to water. Now, the site is empty, yet the surrounding area has been given a new lease at life with an urban regeneration program resulting in a creative scene with many local crafts-oriented people. Yet, these emerging neighborhoods lack a community building at their center. This project aims to serve that purpose.

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Activism Is Brewing

| Josh Godley

joshgodley98@gmail.com Activism Is Brewing combines a people’s parliament and an ale brewery. Ale brewing has been a constant throughout the city’s history yet in the current landscape this deeply rooted narrative has been almost completely lost and I wanted to reinstate this industry by introducing a brewery back into the landscape. The production of ale is a systematic process in which ingredients are collected, treated, combined and then left to develop and mature creating a final singular product. In the same way, in order to be affective, a protest movement must combine the ideas of many and boil them down into a clear set of demands which can be taken forward. Through paralleling the different processes of brewing ale with the stages of forming a social movement, the scheme creates exciting architectural environments which nurture appropriate forms of social interaction to re-engage the population and empower their political voice effectively.

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The House of Zarathustra

| Mariela Harbalieva

mariela.harbalieva98@gmail.com The project is about reliving and rethinking our current religion and belief by going back in time to one of the first creeds, which became a foundation for some of the biggest religions currently - Zoroastrianism.

Nietzsche was one prolific philosopher who believed that we have to go back to this time and wrote about it in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s famous statement “God is dead”, which initially appears in his work “The Gay Science”, later becomes part of his book Thus Spoke Zarathrustra. What he declares is that there is a crisis in our Western culture, which we must face and transcend in the deathwatch of the irreversible disintegration of its traditional base.

The monastery hopes to unravel a debate about the cosmological system of this religion, a motif old as our world, the battle between good and evil. This happens through a variety of places and the darkness or lightness of a space. Why is this story important? A story is the simplest unit of useful information with regards to action and perception that you can be offered. We mostly use language for is to tell stories. To tell stories about the way that people аct so that we can derive information, not about what the world is made of. In some fundamental way we aren’t really interested in that. Instead we want to know how to act.

The fundamental question they explore is: how should we act?

That’s why the aim for this is to go back to the most simple and old foundation of all religions, but through the lenses of Zoroastrianism and understand how the good and bad are part of our lives.

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House of Buoys

| Amy Jackson

amsbearjackson@gmail.com This project combines the worlds of drag queens and circular sustainable fashion. It provides opportunities for drag queens to share their art by performance, as well as their expertise in sewing and clothes making with the public to promote the repair and reuse of clothing to discourage fast fashion. It will also have a safe place to help support LGBT+ individuals within Hull, and accommodation in the style of a “House” with a resident mother, to create a family environment. The site for the project is an existing grade II listed building, that is approached from a drag point of view, starting with the observation of the difference in how men and women walk, from the shoulders and hips respectively. This key move drives the design of the project, and creates a space for an internal greenhouse. To be respectful to the grade II listed building and how it sits in the context, the process of becoming more flamboyant is gradual and becomes the most “drag” away from the street. Drag queens are often painted to be confidant and outrageous on the outside but this can hide a sometimes different reality underneath; the building reflects that with a more sensitive internal environment.

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A Sweet Union

| Catherine Lock

Cath.lock97@gmail.com To form a Union is the action of joining together. The overarching aim of this project is to provide a space to support the development of modern trade unions and to resurrect a forgotten Hullensian treasure, Needlers Confectionery. The two functions coexisting bring the Trade Union back to the factory floor and attempt to re invigerate the sense of community lost in the era of the individual. The building itself houses the factory and offices for Needlers Confectionery and the facilities for 3 trade union start-up offices, a debate chamber with viewing gallery and a communal canteen. The interaction points between the two functions exist throughout, both direct (the canteen) and indirect (meeting rooms overlooking the factory) aiming to signify and encourage a mutual appreciation.

A combination of traditional sweets, like marshmallows and flying saucers, and civic characteristics of the surrounding architecture, like The Guildhall colonnade and tower, have informed the architecture. The building is frequented by so many different people, factory workers, trade union workers, factory visitors, protestors, and they will all make different journeys through the building. Some experiencing the same spaces very differently.

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The Speakeasy

| Francesca Palomba

francescapalomba@live.co.uk The Speakeasy is a building which empowers the people of Hull through the celebration of speech.

The Speakeasy is a space for people to find their voice and to ‘speak easy’. The building contains a variety of outlets to celebrate speech while also listening to those whose voices are not heard. The spaces accommodate for people with varying levels of confidence to all speak out and to be lead on a journey of finding their voice and gaining the ability to speak easy. Everyone prefers expressing their thoughts through different means; privately or publicly, through speech, music or poetry. This is why The Speakeasy offers private talking booths, speakers corner cafe, radio station, podcast recording studios and a jazz studio and performance space.

By night, the secret speakeasy bar is a place for locals to enjoy an evening out with drinks, cocktails and live music which is performed by the building’s jazz club.

The functions aim to bring the people of Hull together while also tackling issues such as social anxiety and loneliness.

The Speakeasy is the evolution of a visitor’s speech journey. From private recordings to radio broadcasting. The Speakeasy takes you on a personal journey of finding your voice and flourishing. This notion of evolution inspired the building’s forms; as the shape of the building progresses from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, the celebration of speech becomes more open with an increasing audience.

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Mindfulness Mill

| Megan Rowley

megan.rowley1705@gmail.com Hull has a culture of allowing its heritage to decay and be forgotten. This project reminds the people of Hull of the prosperous milling community which grew along the River Hull, and contributed towards the entire city’s economic growth.

To help resurrect this history, the project will include a working linseed mill with space for growing the crop itself. This mill typology will act as the financial support for the dual aspect of my project, a Buddhist Centre, since Dharma Practitioners rely on layman generosity to subsidise there lifestyle. To thank the community for their support, the Buddhists in residence will provide mental health aid based on their faith such as yoga and mindfulness classes. They will also use the products from the mill to provide both cooking and sewing workshops. All of which will give those suffering from mental health conditions a chance to train their mind to control their low mood, meet others going through similar experiences, and to give them something new to focus on.

My project was influenced by the strict symmetry in Buddhist architecture and my design priorities were to incorporate colour (important in Buddhist prayer); a sense of grounding and ascension (meditation practise); and to the linen produced on site architecturally. This architectural language also had to blend with the classical architecture which defines Hull’s street-scape.

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The Land of Green Ginger Community*

| Sarena Shah

sarena.shah@virginmedia.com A new community within the city of Hull fuelled by the events that took place when Hull was awarded city of culture in 2017, and the narrative of ‘The Land of Green Ginger’. A series of six buildings derived from each of the acts that took place in 2017 aim to connect the city across a newly derived route, spanning from the Queens Gardens in the West, to the Scale Lane Swing Bridge in the East. Each building aims to reintroduce typical village components and explore how to bring magic to the mundane, integrating dual functions to create a sense of intrigue. Fundamental to the route is the connection between the buildings and the fruit and vegetable garden, with the intention that the buildings will be self sufficient and all of the processes being maintained by The Land of Green Ginger Community. As a result the route is connected by areas of hard and soft landscaping, heavily featuring tiles drawing from my IDA project.

I have also drawn on a project by Studio Weave called ‘Learning without borders’, based in Hull. This project is aiming to bring in new models of education that are not currently utilised and my project hopes to tie into this. *Title derived from 2017 city of culture events and story by Noel Langley, Graphics inspired by acts and book from the event as produced by ‘Absolutley Cultured’ and Illustrated by Katy Riddell, Planting Illustrations inspired by Angela McKay

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Pub and Glass Blowing

Act 4: Longhill Burn Tile Workshop and Repair Cafe

Act 2: The Golden Nose of Green Ginger Community Centre and Multi Faith Rooms

Act 5: Micropolis Apothecary and Glass Recycling

Act 3: Voices Park Post Office and Post Masters Residence

Act 6: Land of Green Ginger Unleashed Grocery Store and Wood Workshop

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A pier for protests

| Aiysha Shariful

aiysha.shariful@gmail.com The building is the base of operations for Extinction Rebellion. It is a place for them to carryout research into more sustainable ways of living and renewable energy. The building would be a medium for them to interact with the general public, educating them on current matters on climate change. It would create a platform to hold demonstrations, carryout workshops and lectures, as well as displaying installations. The main driving forces behind the design was the idea of modularity and impermanence for future change, as well as solidity and rigidity against flooding. The site of the building is Victoria Pier, Hull, where the Humber meets River Hull. The pier in the past was a ferry terminal and was alot more lively than it is in its current state. I wanted to reinstate the pier back to when it was full of people and activity. I used the form of the old pier, bringing back the double storeyed bridge and long curved forms, and building up from there. The building situated on land houses the community gateway, the more public functions like the event spaces and canteen are situated on the bridge. The main facilities for research and residence are raised on columns above the pier.

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Polaris Sleep Catcher

| Livia-Andreea Soare

livia.soare@yahoo.com Hull Stellar Sleep Clinic In modern times, sleep has started to be seen more and more as a ‘necessary’ sin for the active man. In contrast, there is insomnia, that affects constantly on third of people, partly because of the light pollution, poor sleep hygiene or ignored underlying mental issues. The proposal seeks to offer help for those encountering difficulties sleeping, as well as bring visitors closer to astronomy, to the influence of the stars and Moon on our life.

The scheme is formed of 2 elements, the sleep clinic and the astronomical observatory. The former has the phototherapy as its core. The clinic will be ready to accommodate patients with chronic forms of insomnia for the required time intervals; or it will be used as a walk-in centre in the morning/evening for people trying to get over short-term insomnia and jet lag, regulate their sleeping cycle or endure easier the night shifts. The set of rooms will act as lightboxes that will produce full-spectrum fluorescent light at different lux intensities and with different colours. The centre relates again to the oneiric through an astronomical observatory that wishes to integrate Hull citizens into the domain of observing the sky. In Hull, a port city, the stellar influence is greater than on the mainland, owing to the naval history when the North Star, Polaris, was the helpful guide.

The unconventional appears from the building as a sensorial stimulating journey that seeks to regulate the circadian rhythm and create a bond between Hull’s people and the sky. In this way, the design helps the Hull inhabitants to find the real silence that can be found only in the night.

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The Untied Tongue

| Amelia Williams

ameliarhw@btinternet.com Kingston Upon Hull was awarded the city of culture in 2017, and in the same year, was labelled as one of the worst places in the UK for women to live by the National Centre for Social Research. The violent crime rate in Hull was 129% above the national average in 2019, with 101 reported sexual assaults occurring on the High Street alone. This project therefore aims to provide a safe haven for women escaping abuse and establish a space in which they can confidently regain their voice.

The popularity of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam, which Hull hosted in 2019, inspired the incorporation of popular culture into the project. It is hoped that this will ignite an open conversation in an attempt to shatter the stigma around abuse.

The project witnesses the fusion of both a women’s refuge, and a performance space. The refuge provides accommodation, childcare facilities, and therapy spaces, which encourage the use of both writing and performance poetry as a form of therapy. The complimentary performance space provides a social area, the facilities to host poetry readings and a secure platform for women to share their stories and unite through collective expressionism.

Advocating for change, The Untied Tongue demands that the silent are heard.

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The Three-Day Millionaire

| Alice Wright

wright615a@gmail.com Set in Hessle road, this project is located at the centre of Hull’s historic trawling community. Governed by the distinct rhythms of deep-sea trawling and united under perilous working conditions and uncertainty, Hessle road developed a unique sub-culture that I have striven to commemorate in this design. In particular, my project addresses the superstition of the ‘three-day millionaire’ where three weeks of monotonous and gruelling trips to the Arctic and the mundanity of the everyday was interspersed with three days of riotous celebration at the trawlermen’s temporary return. I endeavoured to recall the vitality and dynamism of these flamboyant celebrations through the design of my performance space. Whilst to reflect the “close-knit community” of Hessle road in the design of the textile studio, I drew direct inspiration from both the physicality of the 20th century residential context and the less tangible memories and folk lore of community life on the ‘Road’.

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A life of theatre

| Shuying Xiong

laysx@nottingham.ac.uk After World War II, Hull was in ruins .Residents are indifferent to religion and their desire for spiritual protection has become increasingly prominent.I began to consider whether the traditional church can be replaced with a building more accepted by contemporary people, a place to accommodate life and death, marriage, and communication. One which is open and welcoming but equally encourages those who wish to remain in the shadows or on standing on the edge, looking in.

People will re-visit the stories of the city under the bright lights, communicate with strangers, and party; however, for those who are unwilling or unable to integrate into social activities, they may inadvertently walk into the shadows by stealing the sounds and views to share the happiness of others. Or maybe walk into the confessionals and hear the voices of the past, leaving behind what they wish to say, to heal their scars.I hope people will stay here inexplicably. People come here to find solace and seek refuge for the soul. People perform funerals here, bury the past and troubles, and at the same time greet new life and hope.

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A School for Mariners

| Tom Birch

layteb@nottingham.ac.uk

A School for Mariners aims to revitalise the dying craft of traditional boat building in Hull, providing training, education and accommodation facilities for sea-farers.

Exploring the notion of ‘haptic’ architecture, I looked to create a rich, intimate experience akin to the meticulous, detail focused process of constructing the vessels.

Drawing key influences from the haptic qualities of boat building, I have created a retreat for the boat builders, providing a sanctuary from the outside world.

The strong axis through the site formed by the adjacent Fishermen’s institute has been used as a springboard to create a series of secluded courtyard-like spaces that encourage the visitors to ‘slow down’, distancing themselves from the busyness of the city and immersing them in the present experience.

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Boat-Building: Building Community

| Caleb Brown

laycwbr@nottingham.ac.uk

Our brief for project 4 was to design a boat building school that would combine practical and theoretical teaching in the art of boat making. This was a continuation of our project 3 brief which was to build a centre where the public could come and learn about Hull’s maritime history, and a place where research on changing marine conditions could be carried out. As these two projects complemented each other, I wanted to create a sense of continuity between them. I designed three separate buildings (one for project 3 and two for project 4) that each had three main interlocking volumes which lined up with different axis of the site. These buildings surrounded a wet dock and a courtyard which would act as the centre of this community. The overriding concept is that through the process of building boats, the school will help to build the community of Hull.

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A City of Mariners

| Katerina Charalambides

laykc5@nottingham.ac.uk

‘A City of Mariners’ is a project designed to honour the great history and pride of Hull’s Mariners. Individual structures are placed next to or stacked on top of one another, assembling a city-like atmosphere. With an aim to provide an industrial but innovating structure to the city, this project combines colours, textures and surfaces that resonate to its history; viewed as a reminder that what happened in the past is what will shape the future Mariners of Hull. The materiality and fenestration of the individual structures have been carefully selected to emphasize a transition from history to the future.

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The New Excavation: Boats on Stilts

| Francesca Dove

layfd@nottingham.ac.uk Concreted over by a car park, the site is a dismembered part of Hull’s High Street and the River Hull. To reignite the site with a sense of place and purpose, this project proposes a complete reconstruction of the landscape to reveal those layers of history left behind from Hull’s sea-faring industry.

Excavated into the ground, part of the maritime school sits within a dry dock. Leading from the high street, a raised platform takes visitors into an open gallery space, elevated on stilts. Arches perforate the brick shell and steel columns rise up to support it, creating a language of notions to the site’s history and its industrial narrative. A lightweight polycarbonate clad covers the classroom spaces above, exposing the tectonic quality of the steel frame. Raised platforms lead out onto the wet dock, in which three boathouses sit above water. Stilts hoist the buildings up and the river is allowed to take over the site; the buildings appear to float like boats on water. Inside the clad canopy structures, boats are constructed and led out into the water; just as they have done for centuries along the River Hull.

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The Modern Mainsail

| Natasha Dye

laynfd@nottingham.ac.uk

Inspiration for the The Fishing School for Mariners came from scenery of fishing boats lined up in docks creating a sea of white mainsails. The design pulls key references from the historical presence of the fishing industry still highlighted along the High Street of Hull.

Although the structure initially progressed through more complex variations, it ultimately ended with a precise regular formation, comprised by using a 2000m x 2000m grid with three buildings, separated by use: education, workshop and accommodation.

The design required sufficient space for a wet dock and multiple workshop spaces, which led to calculating the limitations of facade windows. With the aim to reduce glare and to create a constant light level throughout the buildings, the design finished with North facing roof windows to maximise daylight.

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The Blaydes Boat-Building School

| Ana Franchini

layaf7@nottingham.ac.uk

Since 1787 Hull has been providing training for the next generation of Sea-Farers and continues to do so today. The Blaydes family were prominent shipbuilders, merchants and political leaders in Georgian Hull whose 18th-century townhouse is located on a site adjacent the school’s. The house is currently owned by the University of Hull. As an educational building, one of the priorities of my design was to allow for multiple views of the spaces and activities within, therefore making encouraging the Mariners as they are motivated to see and show their work in progress. The functions of the building are separated into two main volumes; one being dedicated to learning and the other to making. The third volume that connects the other two is glazed, allowing for a visual connection with the exterior and better integration with its immediate context.

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The ‘Even Keel’

| Georgina Grantham

laygagr@nottingham.ac.uk An Even Keel describes the notion of proceeding along a smooth course.

With such a turbulent history, Hull’s maritime industries have inevitably dwindled, its heyday just a distant memory echoed in the abandoned warehouses and vacant docks. The Maritime Mystery is an oppurtunity to stabilise Hull’s course and restore the pride of Hullensian folk. To the left the first and last stages of modelling the Keel which clearly indicate how the Keel form has maintained a central role in the developement of the scheme from concept to realisation.

Below, the timber materiality is evident in the River Elevation. Various FSC Timber Species have been selected for their unique weathered qualities which relate to the public/private function of each ‘Keel’. A focal point of the scheme is the ‘Learning Keel’ which is an entirely Public Space (seen below in Section). The lower ground level is connected to the Fisherman’s Institute through a tunnel, inspired by the Urban Myth of the Monks of Meaux Abbey who would meet in secret Chambers underground in the 12th Century.

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Boats in the Sea

| Talaayah Gunaydin

laytg8@nottingham.ac.uk Our brief was to design a school in Hull for boat building. For this project, I drew inspiration from old maritime photographs of Hull and explored the conceptual ideas of ‘boats in the sea’, volumes within a grid and verticality. I wanted the building in elevation to embody the visual landscape of boats in the sea and made use of maritime materiality like timber and steel derived from boats and sheds in boat yards. The floor plans of the design follow a strict grid format which is made three-dimensional with timber structuring in the physical building.

The “three-dimensonal grid” is made of glass making it a “glass box” within which timber volumes are placed, conveying the theme of volumes within a grid.

Conceptually, the “glass box” depicts the sea and the timber volumes depict the boats.

Environmental sustainability also plays a large role in the design as photovoltaic panels are installed within the glass facades and the glass ceiling of the “three dimensional grid”/ “glass box”.

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Apprenticeship Acadamy for Mariners

| Bronwen Lewis

laybnl@nottingham.ac.uk The key focus for the apprenticeship academy for mariners is taken from the principles of apprenticeship teaching.

The key priorities for the design are the concept of overlooking different spaces with a range of people working within them, learning from others during their journey through the site throughout the day; and the consideration of placement and the relationship between the more practical learning with the theoretical learning. Apprenticeships are different from the standard teaching in colleges and schools which is more structured, therefore exposure of this grid within the building is explored as a form of pushing the boundaries of education and the concept of apprenticeships showing all aspects of teaching. The use of two grids and the use of split levels explores the contrast in methods of teaching with a central atrium space with the connection routes between them.

The central atrium binds these different forms of teaching and learning as a celebration of collaboration and overlooking all spaces.

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The Shipwright’s Academy

| Sam Lodder-Knowles

EPYSL2@nottingham.ac.uk

Set on the banks of the River Hull, this project aimed to bring forth a maritime cultural revolution, and will ultimately become part of a larger campus of associated buildings. Undertaking an in-depth study into existing boathouses, I identified a link to ecclesiastical buildings, abbeys in particular, which further links to the eventual campus. Sectional exploration lead me to look toward Japanese religious architecture. This exploration also became relevant due to the shared respect for timber between Japanese architecture and boat-building.

Using the prominent and complex roof-forms as influence, I accentuated them in the scheme and utilised dark grey pan tiles in the roofs and in a ground layer in the walls.

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Propelling the Future Generation of Mariners

| Emily McAlister

(layem5@nottingham.ac.uk) The propeller is considered a key feature in the growth and development of maritime history. This project uses the concept of the propeller’s physical qualities and capabilities within a fishing school, to propel the future generation of mariners into newer and brighter ideas. Three distinct fins are proposed in this project, to provide for the social, the focused and the practical, which are needed within this workshop based, school environment. Angular circulation lies at the centre of the site, where staircases and platforms rotate and rise around the inside of each ‘fin’. All this rotation occurs around a central ‘hub’, used as the social core for meeting people. Throughout this project, the curving roofs juxtapose the angular forms and detailing, reflecting how a propeller flows elegantly, whilst also aggresively cutting through the air. The project lies on the riverside in Hull, beside a dry dock which will soon be populated with the famous Arctic Corsair. The proposed wet dock lies right beside this, creating a relationship between the two, using both physical pathways as well as symmetry.

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Maritime Mystery No More

| Sila Olcay

layso4@nottingham.ac.uk

This project started with the idea of ‘Maritime Mystery NO MORE’; the idea that the mystery surrounding Hull’s maritime industry needed to be debunked. This would be achieved through exposing the active workplaces within the school to the public, re-establishing relationships between the public and Hull’s once very successful maritime industry. Deciding to return to the core essence and meaning of a school: “Schools began with a man under a tree, who did not know he was a teacher, discussing his realisations with a few others, who did not know they were students” - Louis Kahn. This quote led to the idea of a central, vertical form within the plan which would act as the ‘tree’; a place enclosing the private educational spaces. A vertical solid form dominates the rest of the site with the horizontal plane hosting public spaces; these spaces forming a natural grid, almost like fallen leaves.

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Controlled Playfulness

| Emily Petty

layep9@nottingham.ac.uk

My theme for this project is one of controlled playfulness, with the concept of heavy walls which restrain seemingly multiplying, chaotic forms. Iron oxide stained concrete walls allow the site to sit effortlessly in its red brick context, whilst the lightweight, timber structure reflects traditional boat building materials.

Large walls encircle the dock, creating a crisp space in which homage can be payed to Hull’s maritime history. An important aspect of the design was to allow for public engagement, whilst maintaining the essence of a functional site. A timber seperation creates distinct public and private domains, whilst enabling a visual connection with the site’s dock and working areas.

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Connecting the Sea and Sky

| Olivia Stobs-Stobart

layos3@nottingham.com

I started this project with the desire to connect the sea and the sky using the building as a a key component through the architectural langauge. I took my primary inspiration from seascape photographers and martime muesems that had created images and buildings through this inter-relationship. My building is comprised of one main building, split into three different sections all that hold different functions. There is a smaller secondary accomodation building that is connected through the wet dock. I took advantage of using sub-lower levels as a way of connecting the sea through up into the building, while hvaing large extending roofs bringing the building into the clouds. Not only did I want it to reflect the natural landscape, the building needed to compliment it’s surrondings.

I did this through the use of industrial materials, including brick and wood.

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Boat-Building Colony

| Dylan Traves

laydrt@nottingham.ac.uk

The Hull-based project focussed on creating a boat-building community between the High Street and the River Hull. The project took inspiration from Viking boatbuilding colonies that were found across East Yorkshire in the 9th century. By using smaller buildings rather than larger structures it allowed me to create various routes through the site connecting communal outdoor spaces.

Timber pillars were then used to enclose parts of the community shielding the public from boat-building activity whilst still being permeable to workmen. This vertical language also corresponded to the various docking posts found in the River Hull to the east of the site.

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Connecting Past, Present and Future

| Yunyang MA

sayym1@nottingham.ac.uk Both projects completed in the second Semester aim to celebrate the maritime culture of Hull. Not only do they seek to build on successful industries of the past but they hope to provide more opportunities for young people to be familiar with Hull’s rich heritage and potentially find a related job. The group project is for organzations, officers and researchers to explore the future of Hull. This project is more for students to learn boat building skills.

Learning, living and practicing spaces are carefully designed and well generated with a similar language to create a cohesive school. The interactions among those spaces can be easily understood by form. The spatial quality is formed with particular attention to different materials and structural systems.

The exposed structure presents the idea of a school which specialises in construction and the inclusion of a wet dock identifies it as a space related to the maritime industry.

The shift from traditional materiality in the group project (the Fisherman’s Institute) to a modern and tranparent display in this project (the Maritime Mystery) implies the development ambition and idea of connecting the past with the present and the future.

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GHOST STORIES

4B Contributors Nitesh Magdani Ross Burns Abi Cotgrove George Newton Tudor Jitariu

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GHOST STORIES - WESTMINSTER 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.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Lulwa Alsharhan Oni Aluwanayomi Anna Anderson Julia Khawandi Edwin Maliakkal Matthew Needham Joshua Nicholas Olivia O’Callaghan Zoe Robinson Wen Shi Alice Smith Devon Walker Mateusz Wiechowski

Tutors Mani Lall Smaranda Ghinita Charleh Simpson Matthew Poon

The sites chosen this year are in and around Westminster. Taking into consideration the cultural and historical significances of the context, as a starting point for explorations of the tangible and intangible.

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Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Amrik Aujla Chris Baker Tong Chengtong Rares-Stefan Comanescu Sophie Forrester Abhishek Goswami Erica Hawking Daisy Holder Aadam Hussain Ahmad Kakar Jaroslaw Krystek Rohin Kumar Rui Li Ching Ching Mak Olivia O’Driscoll Lily Oldfield Rinor Pireva Miljed Torrente MEng yr 2 Estella Haynes Miljed Torrente

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Academy Bo

| Anna Anderson

ab.anderson@live.com Academy Bo is an educational institution which strives to teach and train students in studies and activities that shape careers with environmentalist purpose. The name ‘Bo’, is an abbreviation of the word ‘Bhodi’, which comes from the Bhodi tree, the tree which the Buddha was sat underneath when he reached true enlightenment. This tree has been recognised as a symbol of natural built space which human beings can dwell underneath and connect with the earth to reach meaningful answers eg. how do we work towards solving climate change? So, this building project on the site of Westminster will take forward this concept and focus the design and function around nature’s elements to connect with environmentalist purpose.

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‘The Ministry of Thought’

| Julia Khawandi

juliakhawandi@hotmail.com Technological ameliorations are a compelling notion, enslaving humanity to ‘sculpt’ their entities. Modern society is captivated by the endless possibilities of technology; emulated by the nature of the predominantly technologically focused world we inhabit today. So much so, that we have become dependent on this technology that is fundamentally shaping our human existence. It is no secret that no one dares to look further into the consequences behind our technological addiction; the invasive phenomena remains undisclosed and concealed to the general public. What is the tangible purpose of our attraction to technology? My project targets the truth behind these riddles; ‘ The Ministry of Thought’; a street replicated by the government, in the City of Westminster.

The project attracts the public through technological and interactive displays, unknowingly extracting/manipulating their data which feeds into the private sectors of the street; a govern-mentally run experimental lab. It is vital for the public’s perceptions, thoughts, and actions to match the governmental rules; in order to avoid chaos of the governmental system.

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The Fifth Orchestration

| Edwin Davis Maliakkal

edwin.maliakkal@gmail.com The design and the process of exploration are highly influenced by the philosophies of deconstructivism. In that, I have tried to explore what architecture could be rather than what it is. There are many underlying ideas that start to feed into the project which then becomes the project itself. However, the three main ideas that define the project are hierarchy, corruption, and the embodied mind.

We live in an age where one could experience space both through physical and virtual realities. Our cognition extends beyond our bodies. Our surroundings become an extension of our minds. We become the space we experience, and the words of Winston Churchill could not have been more true, “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us�. With this in mind, my project becomes an exploration into this hyper-real mindscape, where space is constantly calibrating itself to accommodate the endless shifting sensations and moods of the perceiving subject. And thereby, becomes a dance between the observer and the observed.

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The Ministry of Sin

| Matthew Needham

matthew.jneedham@hotmail.co.uk This world explores a narrative of sin; the lies and truth behind our behavior. It investigates a life of ever increasing surveillance in which we passively accept. The city of Westminster is plagued by sin and the project vehemently burns on this; it is an inferno ignited by immorality. The project seeks the intangibles of what it means to sin; the pleasure, the pain, the passion that it evokes.

It probes the hunger we have for the 7 deadly sins: greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, and the most deadly of all - pride. Sin creates a beautiful chaos - one we have become consumed by. Our society has normalized sin, it inscribes itself into our daily lives; each person a tapestry of dancing deceptions, depicting a fable of fateful sins. The Ministry of Sin is the governing flesh of our fallacious bodies, the spaces within it revealing glimpses of occulted truth and corporal purgatory. Sin is not just an act, a movement or a motion within space - it is a transgression of the soul against divinity, one which only the Ministry’s bloodthirsty blazes can heal.

As the project incinerates the vices of Westminster it inscribes a new chapter in its historic history. Its last chapter. The epitaph.

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The Mender’s Parliament

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The site of Westminster has adopted a historic timeline of decay, chaos and restoration in which structures from it’s ar chitectural past have fallen into decay and disregard. War and self inflicted fire outbreaks have dealt permenant damage to it’s integrity, the pride of it’s monuments and it’s changing landscape. The religious sacrilty of the Abbey and the po litical governing power of Parliament have crucially undergone a continuous cyclical progression of life and death where features are regenerated to be born a new over the centuries of existence.

Ultimately, through metamorphosis a new identity is born within the site to symbolise the rebirth of politics to adapt the inadequacies of the site and become the antithesis of destruction.

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The Consortium of the Self

| Olivia O’Callaghan

oliviajocallaghan@gmail.com The Consortium of the Self endeavors to heal the neurosis that plagues London’s Westminster through therapeutic architecture and by reconnecting the Higher and Lower Selves. One of the main methods of doing this by engaging with Dionysus who is the personification of the Higher Self, and with Apollo who represents the Lower Self. Altars to these deities therefore become introspective as well as characteristic with the deities themselves such as the large and flamboyant nature of Dionysus and his altar.

The architecture is a therapeutic tool in that it aims to dissolve boundaries through transparency in materiality to heal the agoraphobia of the neurotic as well as create introverted spaces to provide solace to their anxiety. The design encourages socialising as a way to reject the sense of “otherness” felt when staring into Westminster’s crowds by embracing community around a central nucleus. The design also aims to create views along the Thames and directly at Parliament and through engaging with the river, encourage healing via biophillia.

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The Mind Palace

| Alice Smith

aliceagsmith@gmail.com My project is a newspaper publishing house, where the newspaper is written, printed and then distributed, with both public and private libraries containing newspaper archives. Located in Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the river Thames. The river was at London’s conception and has borne witness to all the memories and experiences of the people of Westminster, whilst also becoming a part of them. There are river entrances and the newspapers are distributed by boat, to reflect past merchant ships that would bring and take away news and stories. Stories of the past connect and influence our experience of today. Events become stories, the preachers and the politicians acting like modern day storytellers. The media gives voice to the politicians and preachers, it shares stories of the site and its people. Memory is a store of information, fragments of past, present and future. The news becomes part of our memory. It can be activated and manipulated through what we are told or experience. Information is power, controlling it can provide influence over people. There is a hierarchy within the building and a divide between private and public represents this.

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The Chapel of Introspection

| Devon Walker

devonjay7@gmail.com In the 21st century it seems a lot of people are so caught up in this busy, modern lifestyle that is so separate from the more natural lifestyle our ancestors would have lived. We no longer base our daily objectives around these natural qualities but around work and the built environment. It is easy to say that a lot of modern-day humans have lost touch with a connection to themselves.

This project proposes the implementation of a building scheme on the Parliament Square site, Westminster. The proposed ‘Chapel of Introspection’ will be a space for people to explore their mind through the practice of meditation and contemplation. The building uses phenomenology to create moments and act as a therapeutic setting for the visitor.

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Monument to Nature

| Mateusz Wiechowski

mateow.mw28@gmail.com Potentially being the greatest threat modern human civilizations are facing, climate change is a growing issue, which requires a social shift. The scheme looks at establishing a Monument to Nature, in a form of the House of Nature as an extension to the current parliament. The scheme seeks to establish another area of governance, which concerns itself purely with environmental issues.

House of Nature strives to be a place where creative solutions are both discussed but also implemented, through legislation and enforcement by housing an environmental extension of the Supreme Court. House of nature also welcomes the public through the gallery and botanical gardens facilities, aimed to warn, advise and remind the public about nature and its vulnerable state. Seeking to immerse the public in the natural beauty of the botanical gardens and educate them in the gallery spaces. All together working towards changing the human’s attitudes towards the environment and combating the climate change emergency.

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The Icarus Falls Museum

| Chris Baker

(Laycb6@nottingham.ac.uk)

The project, in its broadest sense, aims to provide a space for learning. But what does it mean to learn?

Why do x strive to learn new things? What is there to gain? This project began with a series of questions, each often prompting more questions than answers, but eventually, a path became clear.

These questions directed the project to a focus on learning through Myth, Legend and Storytelling.

There are explorations of several key Greek myths and their links to the project, focussing on myths that act as metaphors for events that repeat throughout history, in particular linking these myths to events in the history of Westminster, Parliament and The Monarchy.

I set out to design spaces to fit the narrative of a famous story from Greek mythology, that of Icarus and Daedalus’ flight from the labyrinth and the fall of Icarus.

I felt that this story had strong parallels with modern society and with key points in our history.

The design fits the format of a museum and went through several iterations, however, each building was comprised of a series of exhibition spaces. At first each space closely represented an important scene from the story of Icarus.

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The Palace of Thieves

| Rares Stefan Comanescu

layrsc@nottingham.ac.uk

Hidden in College Garden, through the landscape and architecture of Westminster, a building places its visitors in an ideological position that perceives possession as an abstract matter and teaches how it can be influenced, introducing the uninitiated visitor into the art of stealing.

The building imposes a process of dematerialization and abstraction of the concepts that define one’s personal rational system. The circulation pattern divides the concept of possession into ideological and material through a sequence of workshops and lecture rooms, at the same time connected and separated by a series of walkways, stairs and bodies of water.

The ideological and material journey through the building culminate in the library, a sacred space where stolen objects and ideas are openly displayed.

Also, overlooked by the library, stands the result of the whole journey through the building, a seat at the table of thieves.

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Cult of Eden

| Sophie Forrester

(laysef@nottingham.ac.uk)

This project centres around a secretive society within the heart of Westminster.

Their aim is to re-interpret the ancient texts hidden within Westminster Abbey and then share this new knowledge with the public traversing the site. The key to this reinterpretation is the taking of psychedelic mushrooms, after reading the texts, and then contemplating this new-found knowledge in reflection pods: which lift users helically up and down through the mesmerising central tower.

The project has a main site and a smaller satellite site which conceals a hidden entrance to the Abbey Library. Here books can be stolen and taken through an underground tunnel to the main building. Learning and reflection takes place individually in reading rooms and in psychedelic pods, later it occurs in a group setting, such as in an anechoic discussion chamber.

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The Transcending Self

| Erica Hawking

layeh8@nottingham.ac.uk . RETREAT . RENEWAL . REFRESH .

Is there space in your day where you can focus on yourself? Can you retreat to a private refuge which offers prospect, outlook and closure? Located in Westminster, London, this project provides a densely urban landscape with a retreat where one can learn the journey to self transcendence by providing an escapism from the city whilst remaining within the city. The design incorporates greenery which can provide a natural calming atmosphere and water which symbolically refers to the cleansing and renewing of the soul. These are methods in which one can help to push back personal boundaries, break through the rituals/patterns of the day and focus on oneself. The facilities within the building educate individuals on self centring and crown chakra balancing, promote health and well-being and provides sense stimulations to provoke a transcending experience. The site of Victoria Tower Gardens allows the building to be cocooned within greenery, allowing a barrier to be created between the pollution and chaos of the city and the calmness of the retreat. Mirroring water surfaces, timber faรงades and a dense tree canopy help to add mystery and interest whilst keeping the ethos of the building as a sensory retreat.

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An Institute of Cognizance

| Daisy Holder

laydh10@nottingham.ac.uk

This project looks into the rigidity and exclusivity of the relationship between Parliament and Westminster Abbey. How this close mindedness is reflected onto society as a whole and onto individuals. An Institute of Cognizance within Westminster aims to fracture this system, encouraging the community to become more aware of themselves and others on a religious, spiritual, historical and personal level. Taking inspiration from the meanings behind the Sacred solids and the notion of an alchemical transition, using alternative methods of learning, people can begin a journey to enlightenment. I believe That encouraging a culture of inclusivity, awareness and acceptance is what Westminster as a site needs to break its currently stagnant and oppressive influence on society.

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The Theatre of War

| Rohin Kumar

layrk4@nottingham.ac.uk

Martial arts, an ancient form of war used throughout history. Now in the modern world, adapted into sport, where people come to learn the spectacle of martial arts, not the weapon of war it once was. Uniting these two sides evokes thoughts of the theatre of war, turning ancient violence into a performance. Combining these theatrics with old oriental shadow theatre, creates a dramatised imitation of martial arts through the contrast of light and shadow.

This dojo is designed to teach professionals and newcomers alike, the spirit of martial arts, both physically and mentally, and to create theatre and entertainment, to the people of Westminster.

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Violence discussion

| Rui Li

sayrl2@nottingham.uk,ac

Violence, a world problem which is the cause of panic, nervousness and injury.

It comes in the form of multiple variants including bombs, guns, knifes and even media and language. People never really know the extent in which violence can affect oneself and the soul until they have physically experienced and witnessed it. To see violence can be the route of trauma, instability and anger.

It is therefore easy for a soul to express and demonstrate the notion of fear and anger in society. This can be easily provoked by language.

The building is a soul house, a monument, a museum centred around violence, a school and a stage of theatre.

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Asylum Education and Research Centre

| Olivia O’Driscoll

layoo2@nottingham.ac.uk

MENTAL ILLNESS - uncovering the past to aid the future Mental illness is a common issue of today, which holds horrors in its past. The previous attitude towards the ill was barbaric and unapologetic. Asylums were closed in the 1980’s erasing the history of Doctors using patients like Guinea Pigs. My project stands for these horrors, exposing them to Westminster. The education facility I have designed sits on the bank side of Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster, London. The research centre hangs over the river, clinging on to and feeding off the public space. The education facility architecture aims to create an interactive experience reflecting the horrors of asylums. Designing with sound notes the damages that have been inflicted upon the eye as a receptor in patients. The sound is created within the space by interaction, performance and conversation. The laboratory ‘Parasite’ allows for scientists to observe the public to apply to medical advancements in the field. Here, the relationship between the doctors and the patients has been challenged and changed.

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Centre for Self Actualisation

| Lily Oldfield

laylro@nottingham.ac.uk

Further building upon the explorations of the site of Westminster, this project centres around a facility for learning - learning about yourself. It is intended that those who enter, as individuals with mind, body and soul, go through a progression of experiences and emerge having gained insight to their purpose and wellness journey. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a motivational theory which sits at the core of the centre’s philosophy. It proposes a five-tier model of human needs, depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

These are: physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. I decided the name of the building to be A Centre for self Actualisation, as this is the highest goal of the philosophy and a potential for all visitors to work towards in their experience of Westminster.

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Technological Archive Museum

| Miljed Torrente

laymt9@nottingham.ac.uk

How has technology shaped us? What events in our past have changed the way we interact with it today? The museum is dedicated to exploring, celebrating and questioning the marvels of technology over time, through it’s exhibition spaces, lecture theatre, to it’s interactive user area to educate and inspire all who enter. The architectural journey through the building correlates to the historical journey of the automotive revolution. The darker, smaller exhibition spaces on the ground floor are used to represent the past, but as you ascend into the first floor, lighter more open museum and interactive space symbolise the present and future technologies. Voids and angular overlaps represent a glitch - the ideas of the past seeping in to influence the actions of our lives today.

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100 YEARS OF COUNCIL HOUSING

5A Contributors

Richard Woods, Urban Fabric Architects Dan Greenway, Evans Vettori Architects Chris Matthews, author: Homes & Places Richard Pulford, Cullinan Studio Ana Moldavski, Surman Weston John Grindrod, author: Concretopia, Outskirts, How to Love Brutalism Jenny Clemence, Evans Vettori Architects Dan Lucas and colleagues at NCH, and all our tenant and resident contributors

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100 YEARS OF COUNCIL HOUSING - NOTTINGHAM In 1919 the ‘Addison Act’ first enshrined local authority housing provision into UK law. This academic year U5A has been celebrating this centenary in collaboration with Nottingham City Homes, and local historian and author Chris Matthews.

Different generations of council housing across the last 100 years encapsulate some of the key architectural ideas of the 20th Century: from the inter-war garden city movement, to post-war, high-rise system building and its high-density, low-rise reaction. Initial research examined some of these responses to typology, and charted its rise and fall and potential renaissance.

Subsequent projects have included housing densification and urban reordering in local neighbourhoods, the design of schools and community facilities in support of residential communities for year 2 students, and an open brief for year 3 students to ‘grow their own’ thesis from the research undertaken.

Recognising that the climate emergency is the other significant concern of our times, advocacy throughout the year has been for projects that knit into inherited urban fabric, and that creatively re-use existing buildings and brownfield sites, using resources wisely.

The ethos of the unit is premised on the conviction that architecture is at its most potent when tackling real world challenges.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 Raymond Ho Au Yeung Kajal Bains Lucy Beech Ellie Bonwick Tom Bristow Charlotte Broszek Freya Chitty Georgina Henwood Henri Kopra Ella Rogers Rachel Scott Joseph Spencer Mia Springer Ryan Williams Robert Winslade MEng yr 4 Rachael Milliner

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One hundred years since the act of parliament which first addressed the failure of the free market to provide decent homes for all, the housing crisis continues to be a national conversation politically, culturally and in architectural discourse. The students have responded energetically to these challenges, and their work demonstrates that addressing real world issues does not inhibit an imaginative and poetic response.

With particular thanks to Dan Lucas at NCH and all our local contributors. y, culturally and in architectural discourse.

100 years of Council Housing collage and timeline: Freya Chitty and Rosa Wilde

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Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Joseph Baldacchino Charlie Brackpool Stephen Bromage Elise Mu Cao Poppy Casson Alicia Lodge Harry Monaghan Ella Stoneham-Bull Holly Watkins India Wilkinson Isabel Wretham

Unit 5A field trip to Rotterdam

MEng yr 2 Imogen Prescott Isaac Ugbeikwu Rosa Wilde MEng yr 3 Edward Cooper Alejandro Corral-Mena Eve Isherwood Mark Kovacs-Biro Julie Yuanxin Li Amy Wilkinson

Collaborating with local residents: NCH tenant Janet Storar MBE shows us round her neighbourhood

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A Home for all Levels of Consciousness | Tom Bristow Tombristow51@gmail.com

This project is an eco-housing and tourist scheme set in the borders of the David Attenborough nature reserve. It consists of 3 unit types, of which different flood defence strategies have been considered. The first 2 use a lock-based system whereby in the event of a flood the building can be raised up a storey height to its secondary entrance level; the Custodians (protectors of the site) live within these units. The other unit type is a stilted holiday lodge (for short stay visitors), which branches out across the lower wetter parts of the reserve where such a lock-based system couldn’t be possible, mainly due to the gradients at play on site. Anchoring the site to the north is a community dome of which houses a cafe, Shared Custodian allotments and a sky-high viewing area. With the premise being the dome itself could be booked as a wedding/party venue. All confluence together to create a new form of urbanscape or environmental management, a community, a shared mindset. A mindset whereby people can immerse themselves within nature and all it offers, allowing individuals to connect to the flora and fauna around them anchoring themselves in the world they call home.

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Dangerous Independence

| Kajal Bains

kajalbains79@gmail.com Nottingham’s Creative Hub for Women.

The idea behind this project was to provide a space for women to create, to educate and to support each other.

The creative industry, much like many others, “isn’t representative of the society it serves”. Gender bias has affected the places we live in and the art we consume. In order to try to work toward equity in the Arts, the hub comprises of 4 main functions; a contemporary gallery, a museum, workspaces and event spaces. It gives the opportunity to showcase talent, share knowledge, and learn about the rich history of female creatives both around the world and locally. Nottingham has always been very involved in feminist movements throughout history, and it’s past in lace, in particular, really roots it within the spirit of this project.

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TALKS// PERFORMANCES// WORKSHOPS// STALLS AND MORE

LORNA FINLAYSON// ADENKA DANCE GROUP// // DR JENNY HUBBALL

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Dense Urban Farming

| Lucy Beech

lucyb1723@gmail.com

The growth and densification of urban areas is forcing new ideas on how to live. Nottingham is one of the UK’s largest and fastest growing cities making it ideal for testing new methods of urban farming. ‘The world’s oldest allotments’ located in St Ann’s, are a successful example of integrating farming and lifestyle. This project aims to bring back local farming whilst tackling the issue of space.The scheme is two-fold. A hub located in Nottingham City centre will feature a vertical urban farm. The produce grown will create food for the ‘food market’ and community kitchen located on the same site. Fish will be sourced from the River Trent and flour from Green’s Windmill will also be sold at the ‘food market’. The community kitchen will not only feed those in need, but also educate people on healthy eating and combat isolation. To encourage this sustainable lifestyle further, unused spaces across Nottingham such as blank façades, windowsills and rooftops will provide a platform for communities to grow their own produce and reduce the chain of waste.

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‘Dance on Prescription’

| Ellie Bonwick

elliebonwick@gmail.com My final project is a response to loneliness amongst the elderly with a community approach using one of my personal passions, dance, as a form of alternative medication for the over 65s in Nottingham. In recent years, the government has released a ‘Loneliness Strategy’ in which they recommended social prescribing. GPs can begin to prescribe activities such as day trips, painting, music, and dance in replacement of traditional medications.

My scheme is a ‘dance on prescription’ facility with studios, social spaces, performance space, a research facility to develop social prescribing and communal living facility for dance teachers and researchers. The site sits North of Nottingham City in Old Basford and sits within a residential area where overlooking and privacy proved to be an issue.

Creating an earth buried structure which appeared as a raised walkable landscape became the key idea behind my scheme. The use of natural materials both internally and externally helps the structure to merge into the landscape but equally the large scale inward facing façade is both dynamic and impactful.

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Water for Wellbeing

| Charlotte Broszek

charlotte.broszek@btinternet.com A retreat and wellness centre for mental health patients. Flood resilient structure and landscape using water for its therapeutic qualities, in aid of non-medicated methods of treatment.

Throughout my 3rd year studies I have focused on water and the alternative ways we can inhabit flood prone land. My project 2 looked at pre-fabricated floating communities, tackling the housing crisis in a flood zone 3 area. The project respected the landscape, it did not fight against the changing conditions. My thesis project is also in flood zone 3, but explores how to temporarily invite water into the site to work with the function of the scheme. The programme of the facility follows mind, body and nature methods of treatment. The changing landscape of therapeutic water features are beneficiary to the patient’s wellbeing and recovery.

Connection to the landscape is in integral element to the scheme. Solutions like these should be considered in the current climate crisis.

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Lost & Found

| Freya Chitty

freyachitty@gmail.com Lost & Found: A response to One Nottingham’s 2020 sustainable strategic programme and the government’s current ambition of ‘RetroFirst’, in line with the circular economy. The new scheme has taken a disused 1930s Art Deco Barton bus depot, located in a hidden area of the city centre. The programme’s intension is to provide the most vulnerable people in society (addicts), particularly the homeless, with progressive mid term ‘housing’ accommodation and medical support. Inspired by the author Johann Hari’s book ‘Lost Connections’, the scheme focuses on reconnection at different scales - urban, architectural and social. Residential units known as ‘threshold progression pods’ have been integrated within the addiction recovery programme, aiming to rehabilitate, educate and reintegrate its users back into society. Each part of the building is specific to these requirements. The existing bus depot houses the intense 28 day programme, providing access to the therapy rooms, workshops and 1:1 spaces in the new building. The upper two floors contain later stage communal living spaces, supporting families of the addicts and those ready for co living. The west end of the new building is a reimagined indoor market, reconnecting the site with its historic purpose. Both the existing building and new represent the ‘progressive’ journey, towards a new life and reintegrating back into society.

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A Festival of Local Autonomy

| Georgina Henwood

ghenwood13@gmail.com

A Festival of Local Autonomy is a ‘Hub and Spoke’ project in Nottingham to the South of the Meadows adjacent to Victoria Embankment. The scheme empowers residents to make changes in their communities.

The ‘Hub’ is a Community Centre and Construction Training Facility, where residents are trained to build the ‘Spokes’ - communityled social housing and amenity infill projects. These are prefabricated and coordinated at the ‘Hub’.

The ‘Hub’ operates in 3 states: ‘Dormant’, ‘Festival’ and ‘Active’ which align with the development stage of the ‘Spoke’ infill sites. In each state the ‘Hub’ changes slightly to facilitate different activities, but the use of each building continues throughout each state.

- Dormant | The ‘Hub’ acts as a public square. Workshops are used for home repairs and small personal projects.

- Festival | Celebration of the start of a ‘Spoke’ project, bringing people to the ‘Hub’.

- Active | Apprentices are trained through prefabricating components for infill sites in the workshop and courtyard.

After the active state, the houses are delivered to the ‘Spoke’ sites throughout the Meadows and assembled.

The ‘Hub’ has a mixed-use programme, collecting complementary uses to attract a wide range of people from throughout the Meadows. These include housing, day-care and retail.

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The Invisible Castle

| Henri Kopra

henri.kopra.97@gmail.com

This project considers the radical refurbishment and remodelling of the Victoria Flats in central Nottingham: a substantial high-rise development completed in the early 1970s and now reaching the end of its original lifespan. The proposal is considered against a modernist grille at all scales from city to doorknob. The aim of the project is not to fetishise post-war high-rise, but to draw attention to the fact that it forms a key part of our existing (deteriorating) housing stock representing a community of more than 1,200 residents and many tonnes of embodied carbon. Embracing the AJ RetroFirst principle, the scheme upgrades the existing fabric and integrates renewable energy generation. Individual homes are remodelled within the existing structural system to provide dual aspect living, spatial interest, private outdoor space, and scope for more a varied occupant demographic. A publicly accessible rooftop park, meanwhile, reconnects the resident community to the city.

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Pride of The Meadows

| Ella Rogers

ellalaurenrogers@gmail.com

The Pride of The Meadows project is located in The New Meadows, a 1970s Radburn-style housing estate in Nottingham. In response to the celebrations marking the Centenary of the Addison Act, the scheme recognises some of the great past achievements of social housing whilst implementing appropriate changes to cater for today’s society, including the demand for affordable housing suitable for the non-nuclear family and for single occupancy.

Exploring an atypical model of cohousing allows for this whilst promoting healthy and social living environments in an age of increasing isolation. This can be seen, for example, where a proportion of the space allocated to each resident has been dedicated to communal space, acting as ‘the streets in the sky’; common ground which encourages interaction and a great sense of community.

The project consists of three scales - co-living homes, the Meadows community living room and extension into the public realm each interweaving to support social sustainability by encouraging the development of community and public connections.

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Lenton Green

| Rachel Scott

racheljscott32@gmail.com My Thesis Project: Mental Well-Being in Student Housing With half of young people in the UK now going to University, the need for more student accommodation has increased including in Nottingham where 1 in 8 people are students. Furthermore students are particularly vulnerable to mental health issues so Lenton Green hopes to provide students with accommodation that supports strategies to aid mental health whilst creating a welcoming community.

One key strategy is moving the study space out of the bedroom and adjacent to the living space using my IDA projects study furniture.

Another strategy is to get the students involved in activities beneficial not only to their mental health but also the local community like the ‘from farm to table’ initiative where student learn about sustainable agriculture and includes cooking lessons with the food they’ve grown.

The accommodation has two levels with a double height space above the communal area and the bedrooms have south angled façades for privacy and maximum sunlight. The Communal Hub accommodates most amenities on site including a private mental health office operated by the health clinic neighbouring the site. Additionally the maisonettes can be rented out in the summer by families and school trips making sure the projects cost-effective to build.

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A Forgotten Community

| Joseph Spencer

joe.r.spencer@gmail.com

My scheme aims to tackle homelessness on a local scale to Nottingham through providing support which covers three key aspects: housing, employment and healthcare. All three have been found critical in the successful long-term rehabilitation of the homeless.

The scheme is located within the existing community of Sneinton Market which is located to the east of the city within the Creative Quarter. The area is growing in popularity and has seen a recent increase in investment, however there are two plots on the site which still require redevelopment.

The issue of employment would be tackled through the creation of jobs from additional retail units which would become part of the existing market. There would also be a job centre to help find jobs elsewhere within the city. The issue of healthcare would be overcome through the provision of consultation and treatment rooms as well as larger spaces for group therapy. Finally, housing would be provided for both long term and short-term emergency stays depending on an individual’s circumstances.

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The Pepper Project

| Mia Springer

miagrace@virginmedia.com The Pepper Project is an arts centre focused on regenerating the local area through Arts. Based in a conservation zone the project aims to create new energy and find reason to celebrate the once bustling medieval alleyways of Nottingham. The Project also aims to bring the historic cave networks back to the forefront of city life and public interest by connecting to the existing caves below the site and utilising the space. Internal design is centred around open circulation and focused on cross fertilisation of activities – views across the building allow artists and the public alike to be constantly inspired by one another and experience a range of disciplines.

The project has four focuses, the first of which is residency which also acts as part of the regeneration programme, encouraging an arts community within the city. Creation and display/performance are the second and third focuses. The final focus is external interaction, to spread the arts beyond the boundaries of the building so that the public can be immersed in the creativity without having to enter the building or divert their journey – including the whole city in the regeneration project.

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Rediscovering Home

| Ryan Williams

ryanfwilliams1@gmail.com

As life expectancy increases nationally, the needs of our elderly population are increasingly diverse in nature, both in terms of mental and physical illness as well as the level of care they require. The reputation of residential care within the UK is poor; often considered isolating and oppressive, this project seeks to re-imagine what a care home and surrounding community could look like for our elderly.

Set on a brownfield site next to St George’s Church in the Meadows, Nottingham, the scheme aims to create a wider community than just the care home and its residents; the additional inclusion of assisted living and social housing seeks to encourage socialisation between different demographics, aided further by the secure interconnectivity of the three buildings through elevated walkways.

The newly built community centre, public amenities and plaza space, in conjunction with the existing church and the nearby Recreation Ground, intend to attract the wider community to the site, creating a convivial ambiance that showcases the elderly as an important facet of the community, rather than isolating them. The three buildings aim to encourage impromptu meetings between neighbours and all residents, as well as providing continuous connection to the outdoors, and exposure to natural materials. The buildings respond to the homely and friendly context of the Meadows, both in terms of scale and architectural language.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

| Rachael Milliner

Millinerrachael@gmail.com

Our cities are wildly unsustainable and we are all accountable to strive for better urban models - but how do we do this without erasing existing culture and vibrancy in the cities we love?

WW1 brought us the Addison Act, WW2 brought us New Towns and now the Climate Emergency is calling for a new scheme: Green Cities. Using Nottingham City as a test bed this project explores the possibilities of reintegrating nature in our cities; exploring sustainability at 3 scales; city, block and building.

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A patchwork blanket of urban farming, wild flowers and life covering the roofs of the city centre connected by a highline through the city. Greener cities provide better quality of life for residents whilst also having tangible carbon reduction impacts, combats the urban heat island effect, improves air quality, reduces pressure on storm drains and brings back lost biodiversity.

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The Greta Thunberg Academy Primary School layjdb@nottingham.ac.uk

The brief for this project was to design a new-build primary school for the Meadows in Nottingham, with the brief instructing to assume there is demand for such a primary school in the area.

I decided initially choose a pedagogy of a vertical learning school in which classes are mixed by age.

Focus was given to promoting collaboration between age groups, children and classes and a sustainability mindset within the school that makes the children aware of the need to care for the environment .

The vertical learning aspect developed into a circular learning focus. This is to say each year group is partnered with another, with year five mentoring the youngest year group and so on. This is explained in the adjacent diagram.

The site has a rigid triangular geometry that posed an interesting design challenge. Numerous trees also line the site boundary; I used the trees to act as a buffer between the proposal and its context. They soften its impact on the surroundings and so allowed for flexibility in terms of the proposal’s organisation and its arrangement on site.

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Meadows Embankment Free School

| Stephen Bromage

laysdb@nottingham.ac.uk This project arose from a brief to develop a small primary school on a brownfield site within Nottingham’s Old Meadows. However the allure of the beautiful River Trent was too great to ignore and the school soon became the lynchpin of a scheme to transform the staid Victorian embankment of one of Britain’s great waterways and use it to connect communities across the city.

The school’s ecological pedagogy uses its context to enhance education including using the rewilded banks of the Trent, the river itself, and a wooded area to be planted on the vacant brownfield site - as classrooms. The school itself is concieved as if it were a flock of ducks sitting on the river bank, with the “Mother Duck” housing the school’s hall, kitchen, and central functions watching over her smaller “Ducklings” - classrooms from Reception to Year 6, as well as an art room shared between the whole school and a boathouse which doubles as a landing stage, allowing pupils to commute from across the Trent and its connected man-made waterways and marinas.

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Wilford Meadows Primary

| Eve Isherwood

layei@nottingham.ac.uk The ethos of Wilford Meadows Primary draws upon principals found within both Forest Schools and Eco-Schools to promote and practice sustainable living at school and in the community. The school has a triangular footprint that hugs the site boundaries, creating a central courtyard space for play. The triangular nature of the school lends itself to form 3 separate wings that have 3 distinct functions; the learning block, the entrance block and the community block. Each wing varies in storey height defined by the space function and hierarchy. Externally the design steps up and down to create a series of usable roof spaces, terraces, overhang play spaces and covered circulation routes.

The learning block is designed as a ‘stepped terrace’, providing a series of south facing external garden terraces directly connected to each classroom.

The school is constructed entirely from timber with an exposed timber glulam frame providing a structural rhythm throughout. Vertical timber cladding is then slotted into the structural grid as the facade treatment whilst ply lines the interior. This frame continues externally as a trellis structure on all roof spaces.

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Meadows Montessori Primary

| Alicia Lodge

Layal8@nottingham.ac.uk

This project began with a focus upon Montessori teaching which allows children to develop learning skills at their own pace, in particular assisting the higher than average proportion of children in the Meadows whose first language isn’t English. Situated between the communities of the new and old Meadows the site was identified as a potential point of interest, introducing community allotments into the form of the building has supported this. The design has evolved with a sustainable ethos including a roof garden for children to grow produce to be used within the school and encouraging sustainable access with bike lanes.

The form of the building has taken inspiration from the existing triangular site to produce learning environments that ‘don’t fit into boxes’ expressing further the individuality of the school and its students.

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The Greta Thunberg School for Alternative Learning

| Ella Doris Stoneham-Bull

layeds@nottingham.ac.uk

Having dyslexia myself, I felt inclined to design an environment for all those living with this ‘learning difference’ (believed to be 10% of the population).

The average school system is heavily centred on read-and-write principles, aspects which often prove to be a struggle for dyslexics! It is prevalent to design learning spaces which embrace our strengths as opposed to making the world a more challenging place. The School for Alternative Learning is situated on the Nottingham Embankment in the diverse Meadows community, encompassing ‘Extinction Rebellion’ traits, providing the local vicinity with primary education.

My manifesto imagines a ‘Classroom Rebellion’ with a stage-not-age pedagogy.

Breaking down the conventional and instead creating a dynamic, adaptive ‘Learning Landscape’, using architecture to trigger intrinsic curiosity and wonder.

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Blue Meadows Academy | India Wilkinson layiw1@nottingham.ac.uk In the UK, there are over 100,000 children that have been diagnosed with Autism, as well as social and mental needs. 30% of these children need an education outside of mainstream schools. In and around Nottingham there are limited spaces in specialised schools for these children. This scheme aims to provide a place for up to 48 children, local to The Meadows.

The design needed to be safe, have specialised comfort and facilities for external agencies, creating a ‘hub’ for learning between the ages of 5 and 16.

These areas are separated into private and public, creating a clear routine for the students, where the circulation is laid out in a series of green roof walkways.

Not only does this provide shelter walking through the school, it also separates quiet areas from those that can get loud.

Through the use of soft landscaping, paired with plenty of external activities and views, this school is tailored specifically for children with Autism.

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BArch + MEng, Part 1: Design Studio Year 2 and 3

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Joseph Augustin, Heat Island Ltd Rosie Hervey, (Previously Studio Weave) Alistair Guthrie, Head Of Sustainable Building Design, Arup Harjinder Singh, Rogers Stirk Harbour Sash Scott, Sash Scott Architects Percy Weston, Surman Weston

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NURTURING THE CITY - LIVERPOOL The existing environments that are our canvas are not blank; they are a fabric of social/ cultural and performance driven adaptations, modified by changing demands and needs.

The resultant patternation represents the current transition of the space. They are defined by the environmental conditions they are sited within and shaped by the context that they are located within.

The objective of the unit is to create an architecture that is environmental, social/ cultural, and aesthetically pleasing. In doing so provides a meaningful contribution to the environment, location and users.

This year the unit is located in the Ten Streets area of Liverpool.

The area forms an important part of Liverpool’s North Docks, which is steeped in mercantile, maritime and industrial history. The area is characterised by a mix of industrial uses that have, in recent times, become an emerging destination for creative industries which have moved to the area to utilise the affordable premises and strategic location.

Students Design Studio Year 3 BArch yr 3 William Hall George Logan Anthimos Marinou Seong Saw Laura Taylor Larisa Voicu MEng yr 4 Philippa Davies Kamilia Drahman Rosie Fishburn Deeksha Ganesh Leah Gowing Daniel Shefford Ross Wilson

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The unit’s first project required 10 groups to create an individual and unique model of one of the blocks in Ten Streets. This showcases the patch work of adaptation and character that forms the basis of our city’s architecture in the 21st century. The needs and desire of Liverpool’s population can be founded in the opportunity presented by the Ten Streets area as an up-and-coming cultural and artistic hub.

Design Studio Year 2 BArch yr 2 Finley Blake Lauren Chapman Lucy Edmonds Jack Feather Mixon Foo Peter Hughes Nicholas Jefferson Hoang Le Teodora Odrinska Bethany Paige Jones Alice Porter Ella Thomas Lauryn Thomson Christopher Tsoi Hannah Wolowacz Matilda Lahiff Edward Cox Xuanyi Liu Lizhu Pan MEng yr 2 William Carew MEng yr 3 Riley Dixon David Lynn Aura Tache

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Ten Streets Music Hub

| Philippa Davies | Philippa Davies

philippadavies527@gmail.com philippadavies527@gmail.com

Loneliness is something that can affect anyone, whether young, old, living alone or surrounded by others. The Ten Streets Music Hub in Liverpool addresses this issue by bringing people together through music. Music has been at the heart of Liverpool’s culture for generations, with its diverse music history. Situated just north of the city centre, Ten Streets is identified as having the potential to become a renowned creative hub of arts, business, and culture. A new north-south pedestrianised route would activate the streets and encourage people into the area.

The Ten Streets Music Hub sits on this route, inviting people to interact with the building. It will forge connections between people and establish a community, consequently reducing loneliness. The Hub will respond to varying degrees of loneliness and the differing responses people have to this, offering musical experiences ranging from intimate music therapy sessions to public community concerts. As a result, it will act as a catalyst in regenerating the area.

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| Kamila Drahman | Kamilia Drahman

Ten Streets was one of the busiest spots for processing and producing goods in the 1800s since the opening of the docks in Merseyside, Liverpool. Horses were used for transporting the merchandises to and fro, which has given a major architectural influence to the shape of Ten Streets. The sound of a neighing horse and clacking of its hooves filled throughout Ten Streets in everyday life until its downfall era in the late 1900s - the place has become redundant ever since.

This project is related closely to the history of horses, a scheme in bringing the life of horses back to Ten Streets while focusing on social development within the community. As time changes and technology evolves, horses are no longer needed for workforce, instead they are more used as a companion and a medium for therapy.

The project aims people who are both affected and involved in anti-social behavior crime to undergo equine therapy sessions in order to help them improve by building a human-horse relationship and connection. It is also a playful scheme that promotes freedom to both horse and man as well as openness to the public with activities like horseback riding around Ten Streets. Some of the key design of this project is the linear park and riding trail, rooftop paddocks and stables and the shallow pool.

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We are facing a climate crisis that will harm the planet irreparably, and we have been ignoring it far too long. The environmental impact of air travel, which accounts for 2.5% of global carbon emissions, is severely damaging our planet, yet there remain few feasible alternatives to flying when our destination is on another continent. The Liverpool Maritime Hub is an innovative centre for low carbon international travel, connects boats and travellers, enabling people to undertake long distance journeys by sailing. It is located on the Clarence Graving Docks in the Ten Streets area of Liverpool, which was once a major hub for migration by boat to and from the UK. Workshop facilities in the building are available for retrofitting existing boats with the equipment required to be powered by hydrogen, reducing the reliance on fossil fuels in boat engines. The hostel provides a residential facility, allowing crew members to stay on site during training and preparation for departure, as well providing accommodation for people between journeys by sea. A market welcomes the Liverpool community, with stalls filled with goods found all over the world sold by people who have travelled to the city.

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| Deeksha Ganesh HousingName Facility for Ex-Offenders Project Housing facility for Ex-Offenders deeksha.ganesh1698@gmail.com (Personal Email) deeksha.ganesh1698@gmail.com

| Name Deeksha Ganesh

Ex-offenders are often neglected by the society and most of them don’t have anybody to turn to. I wanted to design this beautiful, most amazing space where they felt at home, that they mattered and were not alone because they would be staying with people who had gone through similar experiences, which would help them all bond and heal. A place filled with open green spaces with beautiful views, freedom and opportunities. A second chance at life. They will be in an environment perfected for their well-being, self-growth and healing, surrounded by people who will support them.

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| Leah Gowing Climate | Leah Gowing Climate Refugee Refugee Centre Centre leahgowing7@gmail.com leahgowing97@gmail.com

My project is set in the year 2050 when climate change has begun taking a drastic, but all too likely, hold on the planet. Whole communities will be forced to vacate their homeland due to sea-level rise and unbearable heat and humidity, and will be looking for a new country of residency.

The new Climate Refugee Centre on the docks of Liverpool will change the way refugees enter our country, so that they quickly feel a sense of belonging, an ease from anxiety and they enter a place of opportunity rather than isolation.

They will reside in the Refugee Centre for up to 12 months where they will have access to many supportive facilities including a medical centre, multi-faith centre, education centre, shared office space, workshop, market and performance area.

I believe this Refugee Centre could help improve the successful integration of different cultures into our country to the benefit of both the refugees and the UK as a whole. It would also demonstrate the type of positive policy change that those supporting the Black Lives Matter and the Windrush generation campaigns currently need to see.

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The Santos’ live in Lisbon Portugal. They are in their late twenties & currently have no children.

They have been advised to vacate their home as soon as possible. Due to ongoing global warming, their house will be soon be completely submerged & they have been unable to secure any other accommodation. They are seeking asylum in the UK as they have other relatives living there.

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Iraq – Baghdad

The Hussein family live in Baghdad in Iraq. They are a family of four with some knowledge of the English language. Abida is a teacher & Mostafa works in construction. Yasin is in his third year at school and Majid started this year.

Due to climate change their house has flooded & they have been left homeless with few

Yusuf Ali Somalia - Mogadishu

Yusuf Ali is 25 years old and has lived all his life in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia in southern Africa. His family had very little money but they managed to get Yusuf’s basic education and always strived to keep him safe from the criminal gangs that were common in the city and that were joined by many of Yusuf’s friends during his teenage years.

Most of Mogadishu is now severely threatened by long term flooding due to the rising sea levels caused by global warming - especially Yusuf’s neighbourhood which is close to the port and sea front. Six years ago, Yusuf suffered severe injuries when he was attacked while in one of the more violent areas of Mogadishu - this has left him with damaged leg nerves and significantly impaired mobility. A United nations refugee programme has provided safe transport from some of the most vulnerable African coastal cities to countries less affected by the flooding whose governments have committed to offer asylum to the most severely impacted people. Yusuf is very grateful that he was able to secure a place in this programme, that has brought him to the UK. And to the Liverpool Refugee Centre.

In Liverpool’s new Climate Refugee Centre they can rediscover the identity they lost before entering the UK.

At this point in time they are unable to reside with other members of their extended family.

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Rodrigo & Maria Santos have been running a small Portuguese restaurant called “Cozinha de Maria” They are keen to take the opportunity of having a market unit where they can produce & sell authentic Portuguese delicacies. Their long-term goal being to open up a Portuguese restaurant somewhere in Northern England where other family members have settled.

They both have an excellent grasp of the English language, having worked in the hospitality industry. They are both practicing Catholics and would welcome the multi faith centre facilities.

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Although they have been put on the high priority list, the sheer volume of homeless people due to climate change in Baghdad means that homes need to be found outside of Iraq.

The new temporary facility which has opened in the UK, in Liverpool seems to be what they need to start a new life. It would give the family a new start. They would need help with their

Yusuf speaks English reasonably well and is keen to improve his command of the language.

English & are keen to embrace all the opportunities which would be available to them.

He has no formally recognised qualifications but brings some good practical skills in maintaining and repairing small petrol engines which he would like to improve upon in the Centre’s workshop.

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Both Rodrigo & Maria are keen to embrace a new life in the UK but also to maintain & to share their love of their homeland.

Mostafa is keen to develop his skills and work in the UK construction industry & Abida would be willing to help teach Arabic & to help people’s understanding of the Iraqi way of life. Her

Grandmother taught her the art of weaving palm fronds to make wicker items. A possible venture for the marketplace.

They are devout Muslims and would be keen to use the multi faith centre until they felt

Yusuf is a practicing Muslim and he is keen to worship in the multi-faith centre. He also hopes to get to know other Muslims in the refugee centre as he does not have any friends or family already living in the UK. The Liverpool Climate Refugee Centre is particularly suitable for Yusuf

They both have an excellent grasp of the English industry. They are both practicing Catholics an facilities.

Both Rodrigo & Maria are keen to embrace a new their love of their homeland.

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- large kitchen-diner - additional seating for guests - single floor and accessible - garden (bottom) or viewing window over the Mersey (top) as private space

- ground floor accessible bedroom - private south-facing garden - upper and lower social areas - equal sized bedrooms with window

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Awnings are hung from the beams and columns over the market and the stage (shown dotted) to provide shelter from the rain.

- downstairs communal spaces - private south-facing garden - large master bedroom with sea-view - upstairs south-facing seating area

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St Paul’s Paul’s Eye Eye Clinic Cinic St willgfhall@gmail.com willgfhall@gmail.com

| William Hall | William Hall

My scheme is based upon Liverpool’s history of care for the blind; the city houses one of the most important eye care facilities in the world, St Paul’s Eye Unit.

My design narrates an extension to St Paul’s Eye Unit, a clinic that accommodates for the non-emergency patients. Located in 10 streets, an accessible bordering area of Liverpool, patients can locate and travel to the site without the disorientating bustle of the inner city. The clinic will improve the facilities and increase the capacity of St Paul’s. The scheme integrates solar power, sensory gardens and diffused natural light to save energy and provide a specialised experience for the visually impaired.

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George Logan

GSBLogan@gmail.com GSBLogan@gmail.com

For my thesis project I wanted to combat the huge cultural problem in the UK that is youth violence and knife crime. I was a victim of an unprovoked and almost fatal stabbing in 2017 whilst at university, and soon found out that as in many other parts of the UK, knife crime in Liverpool has soared in recent years, so the issue is very important both to me and to the area.

The project was based around four proven strategies for reducing youth violence as identified by National Lottery research. It has a strong focus on community involvement with a largely self-build design so the community can assist in the build to improve their skills and employment opportunities, as well as reducing costs and instilling a sense of ownership. I looked to work within the framework of the areas planned redevelopment by incorporating creative industries and business opportunities within the scheme, which should also help the build and running of the community centre become less dependent on government funding.

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| LarisVoicu Voicu Rehabilitation Center for Addictions | Larisa laylv1@nottingham.ac.uk laylv1@nottingham.ac.uk

Addiction is a disease that a lot of people have to deal with nowadays and unfortunately, in many cases treatments help people only temporally.

One of the reasons why a lot of people fail staying clean after treatment is because they can not reintegrate into society. The aims of the project are to design a rehabilitation and reintegration centre for drug and alcohol addicts, mainly for young adults as they have the biggest addiction rate, focusing not only in their treatment but also in their reintegration into society. As the site is situated in an urban area in Liverpool, the centre has to take the role of a sanctuary and create a certain environment for the patients. In this way, they can be isolated from the world but at the same time, they would not lose contact with reality.

During the recovery, the main focus should be on each individuals’ experiences and reasons related to the problem. In the same way, it should be reflected in architecture. Architecture can have a great influence on the healing process of patients and their motivation into doing so. The design of the building and the vegetation found all around it, encourage people to experience the building and to embrace its purpose.

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A walkway, created by the overhang of the first floor provides both shelter and shading on the south side of the school. The different coloured timber and brick were chosen to create a playful environment for the primary school

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- U5B Nurturing the isCity The ceiling of the walkway reflective to further enhance the playful spirit of the building. The blue painted timber acts as shading yet still provides enough light for an outdoor study area on the first floor corner. The children are also able to interact with the Truss structure around the site, whilst it also acts as a partial barrier between the pavement and the road. An ambition for this project was to create many ways of moving around the school and many different places to explore on those journeys, and this outdoor study space is one example.

Ten Ten Streets Streets Primary Primary School School layfb2@nottingham.ac.uk (layfb2@nottingham.ac.uk)

| Finley Blake | Finley Blake

Ground Floor Plan 1:100

A primary school which responds to the previous site, which was a petrol station.

The site would have had to have been excavated and decontaminated before construction could commence, due to te large tanks below ground, so therefore I chose to incorporate a long courtyard into the design. This courtyard allows for playful level changes and viewpoints, and helps to bring the school together as a community.

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A School for All Ages

| Lauren Chapman

layljc@nottingham.ac.uk (layljc@nottingham.ac.uk)

The proposed site for the primary school was bound on all sides by roads.

Therefore, the concept behind the design was to create a space that was completely sheltered from its surroundings by forming an environment inside with its own micro-climate and protection from noise pollution and exhaust fumes. The buildings have heavy external walls which wrap around and create a new site boundary, creating small green spaces and school drop off points on the corners as part of the public domain. Inside, the central axis is a gently sloping basin for rainwater or pumped water to run into, creating a shallow pool for children to play in.

To integrate the new school with existing and future developments, after school clubs, lessons and adult learning can take place on school grounds.

Sessions can take place in the North Building which is easily accessible from the entrance to the site, and the route to the specialist practical room is straight forward and can be kept open whilst the rest of the school is locked up after hours. This means that the school can be protected during the day but opened to the public outside of school hours, introducing a feeling of community.

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Primary School School Primary

layph5@nottingham.ac.uk (layph5@nottingham.ac.uk)

| Peter Hughes | Peter Hughes

Primary School based in Liverpool The project is located between Dublin Street and Dickson Street, adjacent to the historic port wall. The surrounding ‘ten streets’ area represents a cultural hub of Liverpool currently undergoing creative redevelopment.

Equally, primary schools should encourage creative personal development; for children to thrive and learn in this way a school must be able to adapt to suit their needs. For this reason my school aims to break down rigid classrooms and provide flexible spaces to all students with opportunities for indoor or outdoor learning. As demonstrated through the learning courtyard and terraced, exterior spaces on each level. There is a focus on integrating the natural environment due to the importance on health and well being in young children, as reflected by learning spaces, the woodland playground and material choice.

A primary school should be fun and is as much about social learning as it is scientific. This school pushes students to engage with one another through a central atrium at the heart of the school. Whilst providing quieter, smaller spaces to ensure everybody can experience a positive environment.

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Nurturing the the City City Nurturing laynwj@nottingham.ac.uk (laynwj@nottingham.ac.uk)

Nick Jefferson Jefferson || Nick

The design encapsulates the concept of ‘active learning’ and utilising the outdoor space within the learning environment in order to provide a more fulfilling and enjoyable experience for the pupils. As a result, each of the classrooms have direct outside access with the reception classrooms having their own designated area and playground for added security and reductions in the impact of nearby external affects such as prevailing winds and noise pollution. The main hall features an intricate geometric timber roof which spans the length of the space to provide a sense of awe and wonder and to add variation to the large, open area which will be very stimulating for the young pupils with the shapes and shadows it casts varying constantly.

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| Bethany Jones | Bethany Jones

The main focus of the school is creating an interactive learning space for all pupils. A lot of this was achieved by creating relationships between indoor and outdoor spaces, and also between classrooms and groups of pupils. Every classroom in the school has at least one view out to one of the outdoor spaces placed around the school site, including a farm, a fantasy garden, and a relaxing green space. The corridors are also lined with floor to ceiling glazing to ensure good light reaches classrooms, and provide an open, communal feel.

The classrooms are also laid out in a different way to most primary schools, as each classroom is equipped for a subject, rather than a year group. This allows children to move around the school during their day and gives them respite from sitting at the same table all day. Each classroom is placed carefully to ensure it is surrounded by appropriate daylighting and views to outdoor spaces.

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Shuttle in in the the forest Forest Shuttle sayxl3@nottingham.ac.uk (sayxl3@nottingham.ac.uk)

| Xuanyi Liu | Xuanyi Liu

This project aims to imitate the hypothetic life in the forest, where people like monkeys shuttle from one branch to another, exploring unprecedent area and live free life in the tree without touching the ground...

I believe knowledge is better learnt rather than taught, and considering primary school students have vigorous energy and curiosity to the world, it could be a good way to design school that boost students’creativity and desire of exploration. I referred to many cases including ishigami’s forest kindergarten and Hangzhou shengli elementary school, from which I learnt to incorporate children’ ergonomic data into design with interesting circulations.

As for the program, I tried to introduce climbing walls, “floating”classroom, intermediate space(with climbing net and common stairs) and many sports court, hoping to fulfill my design purpose...

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Ten Streets Streets Learning Primary Learning Village Ten Village | David Lynn

| David Lynn

laydl6@nottingham.ac.uk (laydl6@nottingham.ac.uk)

The Ten Streets Learning Village provides education for 420 pupils aged 4-11 in the up-and-coming Ten Streets area of Liverpool. The PBL and group-work focused pedagogical approach adopted by the scheme, draws from the key values of the Ten Streets framework: creativity, connectivity and curiosity.

The central atrium space acts as a focal point to the scheme providing passive ventilation, natural light and a sense of drama to the circulation throughout the building. The muted pastel colour scheme and lightweight timber frame structure provides a sense of legibility and tranquillity to the otherwise complex plan.

The scheme aims to become a pivotal intervention within the Ten Streets Framework whilst also respecting the unique character and maritime heritage of such an important region of historical interest.

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Out YYourself School FFree O School ree ut ouself saylp1@nottingham.ac.uk (saylp1@nottingham.ac.uk)

| Lizhu Pan

| Lizhu Pan

This school use the Montessori Method of Education, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children.The Montessori method views the child as the one who is naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a supportive, thoughtfully prepared learning environment. It attempts to develop children physically, socially, emotionally and cognitively.The school divides the course into five stories. (coming of the universe and earth, coming of life, coming of human beings, communication in signs and the story of number). Each story tells different content. Students can learn according to their own hobbies, which greatly improves the students’ freedom. Large-scale public spaces and exhibition halls can encourage students to talk and play freely, and acquire knowledge during play.

The concept of architecture is to string together five stories with a story line. Put the main circulation in the middle of the story line. Children can choose what they want to learn simply and easily.

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Ten Streets Streets Ten

laylbt@nottingham.ac.uk (laylbt@nottingham.ac.uk)

| Lauren|Thomson Lauryn Thomson

‘Ten Streets’ in Liverpool North Docks is an area of preserved old merchant warehouses adjacent to the mostly abandoned docks and was the site for a number of projects this year.

In Project Two, I designed a dynamic new-build housing scheme that incorporated flexible commercial units on ground floor, with a raised landscaped podium garden above, with access to one bed and two bed flats. Each flat has its own private balcony overlooking the pedestrian street.

Within the same area of Liverpool, I also designed a new primary school that allowed children to learn in different ways and beyond a typical formal classrooms, with collaborative open learning and forest schools elements. The aim was to also engage with the surrounding community with usable spaces for after school like an expandable studio and hall with seating.

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