Kent School of Architecture - End of Year Show Catalogue 2011 by University of Kent

REGIONerate Last year the work of the School focused on the

Margate Regeneration Partnership). For the latter

theme of Reduce – Reuse – Recycle: a variety of

project our students were the subject of an ITN

interpretations on the subject of sustainability.

news report.

This year, EXIT:11 concerns itself with regeneration – or rather REGIONeration, because

The School has had a particularly eventful year,

much of the project work undertaken by students

with a series of reviews substantiating the status

of Kent School of Architecture (KSA) has located

of our academic provision. Prescription of our

itself in the immediate region of Kent. Our sites

awards by the Architects’ Registration Board

(and clients) were based in Canterbury (KSA

(ARB) was confirmed in November 2010, while

Studio building for the University of Kent, and

successful unconditional continued validation of

City of Palimpsest for Canterbury CC), Chatham

our programmes by the Royal Institute of British

(Museum for the Corps of Royal Engineers and

Architects (RIBA) was undertaken in January

Medway Council), Dungeness (Art in Romney

2011. Both reviews are quadrennial, and both

Marsh) and Margate (Dreamland Trust and

affirm our professional recognition in the UK

Fort Road Hotel for Thanet District Council and

and Europe. In addition, a University Periodic

INTRODUCTION Programme Review in May 2011 corroborated

University to undertake a year of study under the

the findings of the external bodies that our

University “Study Abroad” initiative. We will

programmes continue to be appropriate and

be strengthening our international credentials

of high quality. A Humanities Faculty report

with further collaborative programmes as the

in 2010 recommended, among other things,

year progresses. The School achieved another

the appointment to KSA of a new professor.

internationalisation benchmark with our hosting

Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou joined the

of the Architecture and Humanities Research

School in January as our Professor of Sustainable

Association (AHRA) annual conference in

Architecture. Professor Nikolopoulou, who was

November 2010, attracting a worldwide field of

previously at Bath, lost no time in establishing

contributors and delegates.

a research centre in her area of expertise, and in addition to the existing Centre for Research

One of the most important roles of architectural

into European Architecture (CREAte), a second

intervention must be to enhance the quality

centre has now been approved – the Centre for

of life of those whom it touches. We deal in

Architecture and Sustainable Environments

the invention of new environments hitherto

(CASE). Further appointments to KSA this year of

unimagined, the resuscitation of existing

two researchers in the field will support Professor

buildings and urban settlements, and the

Nikolopoulou and CASE.

careful enhancement of our towns, cities, rural environments and landscapes to provoke

The series of new appointments will be

surprise, delight and wonder.

fundamental in developing a more profound interest in strategies for sustainability in the

This catalogue depicts the project work of our

project work undertaken by our students, while

students: that is its raison d’être. But you can

concurrently extending our research credentials.

also gain insights into the methods by which the

If the enthusiasm demonstrated in this year’s

students learn, and discover something about

EXIT:2011 show is anything to go by, our staff

the excellent staff at KSA without whom the

and students will take on this opportunity with

many successes of the past year would have been

both hands to fashion innovative design projects

impossible.

which are relevant to the people of Kent – our immediate region - but whose lessons will be

Last year, Kent School of Architecture again

applicable globally.

moved up the University league tables. That encourages us to strive to improve in everything

While the region has been the focus, our activities

we do. The body of work in the EXIT:2011

and liaisons have extended internationally. One

yearbook is the best yet produced by our

of our undergraduate students is studying in Lille

students. I hope that you enjoy it.

under the Erasmus exchange programme, while two other pioneering M.Arch students head to the

Professor Don Gray.

USA and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

Head of Kent School of Architecture 1

M ARCH (MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE) From the perspective of the MArch (Pt 2

Over time, Royal Charter, storms, sedimentation,

programme) at Kent School of Architecture it

the establishment of a full-time Navy, smuggling,

never seems that we are far from the ‘edge’. The

inland navigable waterways, sea defences, land

north and south Kent coasts are both only a few

reclamation and changing agricultural practices

miles from Canterbury, and as they converge

have shaped the landscape and its practices and

on the Isle of Thanet from bordering London

lead to Romney Marsh’s changing and declined

and East Sussex, they constitute (somewhat

significance.

contentiously) the longest ‘edge’ of any county in the country.

Home to more sheep than people the area draws in excess of 600,000 visitors a year in search of

Geologically and geographically our ‘edge’ has

nature, the picturesque and the ‘alternative’.

always been on the move, and so, literally and

Most people today would associate specifically

metaphorically, has human engagement with it.

with the Dungeness Peninsula, one of the

Our fascination with ‘edge conditions’ and their

largest shingle banks in the world, a constantly

ephemeral context is therefore perhaps a natural

moving fluid of tiny sharp-edged stones. It’s

consequence.

home to some of the rarest insects in the UK,

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an almost extinct fishing industry, declining In the final year of the MArch students develop

gravel extraction industry, ranges of the MOD,

their own interests and agenda as aspiring

WW1 era aircraft-detecting concrete ‘Sound

architects through a year-long thesis project over

Mirrors’, a small-gauge passenger railway, two

three terms and two design modules. This year

Nuclear Power stations, with their associate

Stage 5 looked at one of Kent’s very particular

army of pylons striding off towards the National

‘edge conditions,’ Romney Marsh and the

Grid, radiating a field of Electro Magnetic

Dungeness peninsula. Just over the Kent County

Force invisible to the eye; several generations

Boundary, in East Sussex, we were compelled to

of Lighthouse; a collection of railway carriage

include the mediaeval fortified hill town of Rye,

beach huts once the retirement houses of

which looks out across the marsh and peninsula.

railway workers, now occupied by artists and

Together they constitute a single Site of Specific

alternative-thinkers in search of the legacy of

Scientific Interest (SSSI).

one of Dungeness’s most famous residents, the film maker Derek Jarman (dis), whose home and

At one time much of the marsh was part of a

garden at ‘Prospect cottage’ is now joined by

lagoon formed around the mouth of the river

contemporary rebuilding and extensions of old

Rother, and maritime industry and tactical naval

beach huts by notable architects Simon Conder

importance supported and defined its urban

and NORD (both invited critics to the MArch this

settlements: the Ancient Town and Cinque Port of

year). There is indefinable energy, an element of

Rye, its sister Cinque Port of New Romney, and

wonder, and otherworldliness about Dungeness,

New Romney’s ‘Limb’, Lydd .

and disconcertingly, an element of Purgatory too. Our students were offered a choice of sites in

M ARCH (MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE) New Romney, Lydd, Denge Marsh, Dungeness,

Superficially dismissible as being ‘context-

Camber and Rye. Design responses included

less’ we believe that with careful sensory

a Monastery at Fairfield, and a Samuel Beckett

consideration, the real challenge of places like

Theatre designed around a Lookers Hut on

Romney Marsh and Dungeness, at this level of

Romney Marsh; a Museum of Obsolescence, Gio-

architectural education at least, is to distil their

Tours Centre, Flying Club Air Museum, WWII

genius-loci into something tangible enough to

crashed-Wellington Bomber ‘Visitor Centre’,

respond to meaningfully and site-specifically.

and Museum of Sound on Denge Marsh; a Crematorium, Elemental Beach-Comber Foleys,

Michael Richards,

residential School of Architecture, a ‘Doomsday

MArch Programme Director

Vault’, whole-life tariff Prison, Entomology Centre, and an Art School, all on the Dungeness

Stage 5 Tutors: Keith Bothwell, Tim Carlyle,

shingle; a Centre of the Rehabilitation of MOD

Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Chris Gardner, Ben

personnel in Lydd ; and a combined School and

Godber, Howard Griffin, Michael Richards,

Camber Sands Visitors Centre at Camber; a Story

Brendan Woods. Stage 5 Guest Critics: Gerry

Telling Centre, Spa for Cancer Out-Patients,

Adler, Pierre d’Avoine, Simon Conder, James

a ‘Maison Folie’, and a Carpentry and Joinery

Cregan, Don Gray, David Haney, Andrew

Workshop Centre in Rye.

Henderson, Michael Holms Coats, Alan Pert,

Art in Romney Marsh, Gilbert and Paul, Romney

local resident Andrew Logan, in Bermondsey,

Marsh Countryside Partnership, St Nicholas

London; and another, a local-interest Television

Church New Romney, Simon Ashworth, Simon

Studio in Margate.

Conder Associates.

M ARCH

Stage 5 Collaborators: All Saint’s Church Lydd,

Fashion and Art Museum inspired by artist and

STAGE 5

Chris Seaber, Nick Weaver, Thomas Wensing. On separate trajectories one student designed a

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1 The Death of the Individual

Philip Baston “Si vis vitam, para mortem”– Sigmund Freud

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Basant Chopra The new begining.........................

1 Internal Ark Perspective

5 Age Of Responsibility

9 Sculpture Garden Perspective

2 Inaugurate Anthropocene

6 Anthropocene Ark Sections

10 Robust Quarantine

3 Internal Gallery Perspective

7 Anthropocene Ark Roof Plan

11 Anthropocene Ark Block Plan

4 Earth Life Expectancy

8 Festering Sore

M ARCH

STAGE 5

Marc Furminger Nothing happens without warning it is just that the signs are often obscure or opaque. Fundamentally, sustainable development is a notion of discipline. It means humanity must ensure that meeting present needs does not compromise the ability of future generation to meet their needs. Future generation is the most important thing.

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1 R ye Context

4 Design in context

2 Short Section

5 StoryTelling Space

3 Interior of walkway

Caroline Gingell Rye is a town with a story â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the aim of my final design project is to appreciate this story - the fiction that the town presents to its visitors of a world gone by and the reality and in so doing creating a new story - an extra chapter that bridges the two, the new to the old and the insider to the outsider. The last two years have flown and who knows what will come next but I look forward to the new challenges and wish all of you MArchers the very best.

1 MDP – Interactive Model

5 MDP – Chapel Long Section

2 MDP – Chapel Section

6 MDP – Cloister Analysis

3 MDP – Site Plan

7 MDP – Perspective Section

4 MDP – Chapel Section

8 MDP – Graphical Programme Analysis

M ARCH

STAGE 5

Matthew Gisbey This year I have attempted to challenge St.Augustine’s idealistic scheme of monastic architecture. ‘Unwrapping the cloister’, establishing a physical and spiritual relation between the monks and the public through a linear organisation of spaces, light and transparency.

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1 The Forgotten Ruin of the Looker’s Hut 2 Building Section With Facade Closed 3 Building Section With Facade Open 4 Internal Perspective of the Main Stage

Morgan Grylls A huge thank you to Mike Richards for the invaluable help and support. Kevin Smith for always going above and beyond. Brian Wood for a rainforest’s worth of prints. Gordana Fontana-Giusti and Gerry Adler for all the opportunities and advice and Stage 5 - I couldn’t have done it without you!

M ARCH

STAGE 5

1 The Listening Wall 2 Approaching the Listening Wall and open-air amphitheater 3 Wall behavior on sound waves. Reflections are focusing into a single point of high intensity. 4 The wall’s convex back surface tends to disperse sound waves.

Eleni Hadjikyriacou 5 years of studying in Canterbury. Still can’t believe it’s over. It has been a long journey coming to an end. Great challenge, great experience. I wish all the best to all my MArch friends and hope we will meet again!

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1 Fig Ground of Rye

4 Fig Ground of Rye Industry

2 Steet Montage of Joinery School

5 V iew of Proposed Garden

3 Fig Ground of Rye Green Space

6 Fig Ground of Rye Residential

Ryan Hilton This thing should come with its own health warning. That being said, the MArch has been the best two years of my academic life. Will never forget all of the late night bench ball sessions and of course the campus shop lottery. I don’t think I could have come all this way without the help of my fellow comrades. Big shout out to my creative wing man and team HARBOUR –HARBOUR!

1 V iew South

4 Pod Lifting

2 Modular Transport System

5 Pod Montage

3 V iew North

6 South Elevation

M ARCH

STAGE 5

Alex Jackson

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1 psychogeographical map of dungeness

I just woke up from a very bizarre dreamâ&#x20AC;ŚWith buzzing Gisbeeees and Lovely,

Evi Papadopoulou

Lovely Jujus; Kimkimberleys and Blonde Princes; oh-so tall Hiltons and slow Shisha-smoking Umus; Messy, messy Terrys and deejaying El Presidente Wittricks... Sweet Lakshmys and Chopra salsa kings; prolific tea-drinking Gingells and strong, silent insect-obsessed Neils; dreamy Jackson [hello] sailors and lean, mean Grylls machines... Even a few Dougie Hausers and guitar-playing Furmingers; not to mention the crazy duchesses of Lavender Mews and the mad mad model making Phil- Philsâ&#x20AC;Ś

STAGE 5 2

4 Energy

2 Cell

5 Support

3 Secure

6 Alternative

M ARCH

1 Prisoner

180 Energy Drink Cans. Skoobies. B&Q. Technology? Small Plastic People. Shop? Bench Football. Brucey Bonus. Anthropologists? I Need More Light Bulbs. Can You

Benjamin Prince

Help Me On Studio Max? Michael Richards. Works. Detective Mittens. Can We Shoot People In The Marlowe Building? Concrete Fashion. J-Dawg. Bagels. Studio Rave Up. Uncle Jim. Dinner Is Served. Google It. Cardboard Models. Eliot Balcony Beer. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re The Birdman. High 5!

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1 School elevation and roof plan 2 Camber Primary Concept 3 Dune zip lines to beach 4 Pre-school concept

Umar Qureshi â&#x20AC;&#x153;With great respect for the surroundings and by adopting a humble approach to design I do my best to meet the needs of a brief. This project was a culmination of thorough research into the needs of the local community and its surrounding towns. By providing both social and educational services in my programme with a hint of play, I produced a building that could give Camber Sands a fun and respectable reputation which will ultimately benefit the local people , God Willing.â&#x20AC;?

1 Lydd Aero Club

5 Interior 2

2 Long Section

6 Interior 3

3 Interior 1

7 Kinetic component

4 Concept

8 Interior 4

M ARCH

STAGE 5

Lakshmi Radhakrishnan My proposal for the Major design Project is an Aero club at Lydd Airfield. The design expands the current aero club programmes by creating more flexible space for aviation courses that provides options of indoor and outdoor activities. Design aims on creating a landmark building in the flat site at Lydd airfield. A lot has been studied and understood during the course of this project and a special note of thanks to my tutors who have helped during challenging times.

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Neil Rigden The entomological centre is a study ground for insects, flora and fauna species of the Dungeness foreland. The centre is formed by a collection of study and exhibition rooms that are suspended on columns, forming a low footprint to the site. The centre is also designed to be a stimulating journey through the building via a staircase that constantly changes in height and direction. Thank you for all the help and good luck to everyone.

1 Proposed, Maison Folie Sectional Perspective 2

M ARCH

STAGE 5

2 Proposed, Maison Folie Detail Section 3 Proposed, Maison Folie Sectional Perspective 4 Existing Alleyway Perspective

Julien Soosaipillai

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1 Proposal perspectives 2 Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio elevation 3 Main building elevation 4 Site Model

Chris Terry

Artists In Movement This developing artists centre situated in Dungeness was inspired by the isolated and unique environment the site possess and the movement within it. The proposal aims to put the artist in a controlled state of isolation by creating a safe and healthy environment for them to work in.

1 Model

5 Model

2 Section

6 Model

3 Model

7 Render

M ARCH

STAGE 5

4 Sketch

Jonathan Cerowski How to sum up half a decade spent in a Brutalist box? A big thanks to all of those who helped me (you know who you are), and to all those Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been fortunate enough to help in return. And to all the graduates who keep saying this is the end, more and more I have the suspicion it is just the beginning. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

STAGE 5 Design and Decency-

M ARCH

1 Rehabilitation Centre Strategy

Kim White

With a keen interest in humanitarian development, the theme I chose for my 5th year was Social Exclusion. The intention of my design project was to improve the lives of local marginalised, socially disadvantaged groups. Through the provision of conventional and alternative therapies, the Rehabilitation Centre for the Armed Forces at Lydd Camp offers emotional and psychological support to veterans suffering from combat related mental trauma. 21

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1 East Elevation 2 Main Section 3 E xterior Perspective 4 Cast Site Model 5 Library

Matthew Wittrick Never go to war without a creative wingman. Big love goes out to all of the MArch for all of your support, for putting up with font obsession and excellent music taste. Thanks also to the undergrads for being generally brilliant and for making KASA such a success. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been emotional. Take it easy chickens.

STAGE 5 M ARCH

1 Pool Water Tower

Konstantina Xiroutsikou Two years of great memories and knowledge that will always have a special place in my heart. I hope someday I will see you all again. Thank you!

BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE Alongside their design projects, students join a module called ‘Modernisms’ which explores directions in twentieth-century architectural history and theory; towards the end of the year they submit an essay on the subject. The final module, ‘Options’, gives every student an opportunity to develop their own personal architectural and design interests in a structured way, by submitting a building appraisal study, a history or theory dissertation, or an interdisciplinary project which involves both the creation of an artefact and a supporting text. This module has always resulted in a very wide In their final year our undergraduate Architecture

range of different types of work, and also ensures

students undertake two major design projects,

that every student has a strong opportunity to

combining these with written or interdisciplinary

develop and express a personal voice.

work that provides an opportunity for research and engagement with the history and theory of architecture. In the Autumn term ‘Modular’

Modular: a beach hotel in Broadstairs

module, each student designed a hotel for the

seafront at Broadstairs in Thanet, building up

During the Autumn term Stage 3 Architecture

a complex and varied structure from modular

students designed a large beachfront hotel in

components and exploring the use of systematic

Broadstairs. Our first activity was to divide into

design from small-scale details up to modelling

small groups and carry out an analysis of the

of a large building. ‘Urban 2’, the second and

urban context; then we were required to divide

larger project which takes place during the Spring

a large section of the beach into two or three

and Summer terms, involved the design of a

adjacent hotel sites and design our own hotels

new museum for the Corps of Royal Engineers

on them. It was a formidable task to provide

on a site in central Chatham. This came with

reasonable transport and pedestrian access

a demanding brief that required students not

arrangements, in addition to coordinating the

only to plan a succession of exhibition spaces for

design of shared facilities across the adjacent

specific exhibits, but also to plan fully functioning

hotels.

library, archive and workshop spaces in some

The principal part of this project was the design

detail. All our stage-three design projects this

of a modular residential unit which could be

year demanded a high level of enquiry and

stacked vertically and horizontally. We looked

analysis into urban sites, and talks and lectures

into the history of modular design in the late

are provided from experts on the various themes

twentieth century and experimented with a

concerned.

vocabulary of modular forms at different scales.

BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE Urban: a new museum for the Royal Engineers

This was a challenging project because our site

in Chatham

was located not only in the empty backlands of the High Street but also at the interface between

At present the large and varied collection of

two levels, and along one of the major traffic

the Corps of Royal Engineers is housed in a

spines of the town. We plotted the landmarks of

converted laboratory building on the edge of the

the Medway towns and designed schemes that

garrison at Brompton and away from the town

related closely to their immediate urban context

centre. Our project rebuilt the museum and its

but which also conveyed our feelings about

substantial archive in an empty town-centre

military service and commemoration worldwide.

plot immediately to the south of Chatham High Street. Designing our museums required us to

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

look carefully at ways of displaying exhibits

Stage 3 Architecture Co-ordinator

that varied in size from a medal to a tank, and to construct a visual and theoretical narrative that would ensure that a visit to the museum would become a coherent experience.

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1 Urban Lobby 2 Urban Main Facade 3 Urban Massing 4 Urban Perspective

Ali Abdulla Life changing experience and a beautiful journey in a great University. My studies at KSA changed me, made me grow as a person, and helped me see life in a different perspective. It was a challenging course but extremely rewarding. I would like to thank everyone at the school, especially Chris Seaber, Howard Griffin and Tim Brittain-Catlin â&#x20AC;&#x153;What it lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to doâ&#x20AC;? Aristotle

1 Urban Elevations

5 Urban 3D Perspective Views

2 Urban Plans 3 Modualr Technical Strategies

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Modular Walkway Perspective

Jennifer Aldridge AWESOME 3 YEARS! Thanks to everyone who made it amazing:)

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1 ACM Day Time Interior

5 Urban 2 Roof Plan

2 ACM Night Time Interior

6 Urban 2 Interior

3 Modular 3D Model

7 Section Through Urban 2 Building

4 Modular Roof Plan

Oluwatoni Alebiosu Been a long three years, and now its time to breathe

1 Royal Engineers Museum Section

5 Modular Hotel Room Module

2 Royal Engineers Museum Massing Model

6 Modular Hotel Section

3 Royal Engineers Museum Digital Model

7 Modular Hotel Plan

4 Royal Engineers Museum Medal Exhibit

8 Modular Concept Sketch

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

Sam Alexandre Context and content have been the driving design forces behind both design modules this year. By allowing the two to work in tandem, influencing every decision, I feel the result is architecture that responds to both the user and its surroundings.

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1 Modular floor plan

5 Urban interior perspective

2 Modular external perspective

6 Urban section

3 Modular elevation 4 Urban external perspective

Rhoda Antwi I have learnt a lot from being here at Kent Uni that I hope to take further in my career life. In doing these various projects I have been able to improve and broaden my skills. Thank You Kent Uni for this opportunity and I hope the best for everyone in the future.

1 Urban Atrium roof

5 ACM night time

2 Urban Interior

6 ACM day time

3 Urban Interior 2

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Urban Interior 3

Azmah Arzmi Practically made the studio my home from day one!

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1 Urban Interior Perspective

5Urban + 15.00 to +18.00 Floor Plan

2 Urban Exterior Perspective

6 Urban Long Section

3 Urban West Elevation

7 Urban Interior Perspective

4 Urban Ground Floor Plan

8 Urban Short Section

Sam Ashdown What a 3 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; life at University of Kent School of Architecture has been, I have learnt and developed my skills so much, and had the pleasure of working with a great bunch of people! ...Welcome to the Jungle!

1 Urban Interior Persepctive

5 Urban Section

2 Urban Floor Plan 3 Urban Model

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

r Plan

4 Urban view approaching building

Louise Billingham Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hard way to live. Deke Leonard

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1 Modular Plan 2 Modular Perspective View 3 Urban Perspective View 4 Modular Perspective 5 Urban Perspective View

James Bishop

6 Urban Plan

1 Section 2 Elevations 3 Digital Model

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Plans

“There is a path to form, followed by all (natural) things, Even crystals and

Zahra Bobb

geometrically shaped ones, which allows each to develop according to its own inner plan, while on the other path (the geometric), things have their forms bestowed on them from without, which contradicts this innate tendency... There is no other way forward but consciously to act as nature acts, consciously ordering things in the way that allows their individuality to unfold, while this unfolding also serves the life of the whole. This whole is the form (Gestalt) of our life.” Hugo Häring (October 1925) 35

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1 Urban Sections 2 Urban Model 3 Urban Exterior Perspective 4 Urban Perspectives

Karl Bowers “Monumentality in Architecture is enigmatic, it cannot be intentionally created; a structure that attains a sense of timeless, eternal perfection while simultaneously making places for contemporary social and cultural life…” Louis Kahn, 1944

1 Sketch of Urban Proposal 2 Model of Modular Hotel Proposal 3 Movement Analysis for Interdisciplinary Project

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Model of Urban Proposal 5 Urban Ground Floor Plan

Stephen Brennan CREATED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

1 Modular Masterplanning 2 Urban 3 Modualr Construction 4 Modular Hotel Interior 5 Urban Visitors Map

Danielle Broadbent “Where there is tea there is hope” Sir Arthur Pinero

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1 Urban Atrium and Gallery Section 2 Urban Museum Perspective 3 Urban Interior Perspective 4 Urban Top Gallery Lighting

Kristina Buchtova Architecture has always been my dream career, and the KSA has helped me get a step closer to achieving my goal. I enjoyed every aspect of my student experience, from the friendships created in the architecture studio, to the long scary nights before a crit. Thank you!

1 Marlowe Cafe Entrance Project

6 Royal Engineers Project Outline Perspective

2 Whitstable Champagne Bar Project

7 Urban Site Plan

3 Adapt and Extend Cinema Project

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Modular Hotel Project 5 Royal Engineers Project Sections

Bruce Buckland The last three years for me have been about discovering the world of architecture and figuring out my place in it. My designs may have remained within the current Iconist fashion, but my own principles in architecture definitely have not. I look forward to moving on to the next stage in this discipline and being able to impliment everything I have leant in the real world.

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1 Urban Internal Looking Out 2 Urban External Perspective 3 Urban Elevation from Rhode Street 4 Urban Exterior Perspective 5 Urban Exhibition

Thomas Bucknall

6 Urban Precedent Sketch You know you were a Kent architecture student when… ...”going out to eat” was a trip to essentials. ... you could stay alive without sunlight, talking to people, and food, but contemplated suicide when omnicron didn’t print your work out. ...upon hearing ‘supermodel’, you imagined an acrylic laser-cut model.

1 Urban Perspective

6 Urban Perspective

2 Urban Foyer Perspective

7 Urban Exterior Render

3 Urban Library Perspective

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

4 Urban Plans 5 Urban Gallery Perspective

David Burchell Be immune to criticism, and to praise there is no difference. Burn the mirrors, break tradition, swallow your pride and they will listen. Dismiss obsolescence, administer a lethal interjection. Access this petition for your own annihilation. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to face defeat, just turn the page and chase the dream. Nothing stays the same for long, So follow me Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m moving on! ;)

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1 Modular Elevation 2 Modular Room Interior 3 Modular Three Dimensional Model 4 Modular Construction Sequence 5 Urban Interior

Edmund Cheung

6 Indisciplinary From the first day of drawing up plans with a drawing board and scale ruler, to moving on to AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max, and finally reaching the end of my degree; so much has happened. It has been full of stress and so many challenges. After all, the result is not the most important thing; the experience Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gained through the course is far more valuable. Thank you everyone for making my university life so memorable.

2 Urban Sketch Model 3 Urban Final Model

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

1 Urban Unit Modules

4 Urban Tower Development Model

Emma Clinton ‘If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?’ T.S. Eliot

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1 Modular Plan 2 Sketch for Urban 3 Concept model for Urban 4 Urban Plan

Ellie Collins

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon Where we together weathered many a storm Laughin’ and singin’ till the early hours of the morn. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could sit simply in that room again Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

Bob Dylan’s Dream

1 Modular double room layout

5 Urban structure system

2 Modular 3D section

6 Urban Museum approach from ramp

3 Modular lobby entrance

7 Urban Museum approach

4 Modular hand drawn internal view

8 Urban internal ramp in atrium

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

9 Urban long section

Morna Currie Everything to excess.

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1 Urban elevation

5 Urban library

2 Urban section

6 Modular void

3 Urban Interior Perspective 7 Modular elevation 4 Urban sketch

8 Modular rear elevation

5 Urban wine bar entrance

Jasmine Davey I have got to know so many wonderful and talented people over the past few years, Greatly enjoyed the number of us listening to Harry Potter story tapes to make it through the last termâ&#x20AC;Ś. And smiled like a proud mother through final crits!! Well done you!!! Thank you for the memories.

1 Urban cafe sketch

6 Urban precedent sketch

2 Urban section

7 Urban exhibition sketch

3 Urban exhibition render

8 Modular photomontage

4 Urban exhibition sketch

9 Urban massing

BA (HONS) ARCHITECTURE

5 Urban green roof

Daisy De La Haye You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t design your life like a building, you just have to live it and it will design itself.

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1 Urban Proposal Perspective 2 Urban Proposal Contextural Section 3 Urban Proposal Gallery Perspective View 4 Interdisciplinary Investigation Methodology 5 Interdisciplinary Proposal

Matthew Dennis Messy, carnage, banter, snake bite, jagerbomb, bam, make that a double, lads, beeaauuttiiffuull, valid, dubious, fffffwwe, standard, here she is, are just a few words, phrases and sounds I have come to learn and use in the last and best three years of my life with the best people.

1 Royal National Theatre Interdisciplinary Photograph 2 Urban External Render 3 Urban Exhibition Space

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Keith Diplock

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1 Urban Elevation 2 External Perspective 3 Section 4 Plan 5 Construction Detail

Edward Drysdale

1 Urban Sectional perspective 2 View from High Street of Urban Proposal 3 Birds eye view of Urban

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4 Urban Elevation

Alissa El Assaad I think to myself, has it been three years already? Time sure does fly by… What have we learned we ask ourselves…? ‘NOTHING!’ and we burst out laughing. But when I look back, I realise I have learnt more in these past 3 years than most of my life. Not only about architecture, but about myself. I’m going to miss you all dearly. Oh those endless studio nights.

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1 Urban Plan 2 Urban Views 3 Urban Main Elevation

Roope ElojĂ¤rvi Plans. Everyone needs a plan. You got to be the man with the plan. A plan will take you forward in life. Work hard and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll accomplish it. Sometimes it may be difficult and everyone else doubts you, but you know that you can do it. So just do it! Work hard and reach the sky!

1 Form and Structure Model

5 Model for Modular

2 Graffiti on the Marlowe - Interdiciplinary 3 Model for Modular

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4 Photomontage for Royal Engineers Museum

Mark Eszlari Architecture not only offers a great opportunity to learn to design buildings but also influences the creativity of students’ life, swinging in studio 1 before a crit... My most fulfilling project was Interdisciplinary allowing me to explore how graffiti could become a positive act by repainting the Marlowe Building’s façade. I could only suggest the return of the beloved Chris Seaber to improve the school! A great many thanks to all tutors and staff but especially Jeff Smith, Howard Griffin, Kevin Smith, Enzo, Brian, Dell!,

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1 Urban Plans

5 Urban Section 3

2 Urban Perspective

6 Urban Section 4

3 Urban Section 1 4 Urban Section 2

Alexandra Ewan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.â&#x20AC;? Louis Kahn

1 Urban Elevation

5 Urban Isometric

2 Urban Plan

6 Urban Construction Detail

3 Modular Unit Perspective

7 Urban Elevation

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4 Modular Elevation

Elizabeth Fleming It is such an accomplishment to realise how much your drawing, creativity, thinking and technical skills have developed over the three years undergraduate degree. I have learnt to create a concept, progress and adapt a design and experiment with spaces. My communication and knowledge of sustainable design has also improved greatly. Overall it has been the best years of my life and I am extremely proud of my achievements.

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1 Modular Hotel Rooms 2 Site Sketch Urban 3 Elevation Urban 4 Section Urban

Charles Fowler Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

5 Urban Museum Gallery Space

1 Urban - view from cantilever

5. Urban Section

2 Urban - proposal in context

6. Urban Foyer Render

3 Urban - view of proposal

7. ACM Night render

4 Urban Section

8.Urban proposal in context

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Natasha Gandhi As Chris Seaber always said we WORK hard, we PLAY hard. What a crazy three years it has been! Thank you to all the people iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met along the way.

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1 Urban Interior 2 Urban Interior 3 Urban Section 4 Urban Section

Sesen Ghezai

1 Interdisciplinary Final Artefact 2 Interdisciplinary Final Artefact 3 Urban Isometric

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4 Modular photo montage

Sarah Harvey The past 3 years have been thrilling, frustrating, hectic but most definitely enlightening all at the same time. I have developed many skills from computer design and presenting to modelling and most usefully; time management. I look forward to using these skills in the workplace and hopefully developing them further.

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1 Urban Contextual View 1

4 Urban North-Facing Elevation

2 Urban Staircase to External Public Space 5 Urban Public Library 3 Urban Contextual View 2

6 Urban Galleries

Rebecca Hill I would like to take this opportunity to thank my tutors, family and friends for their support and encouragement over the last three years. I have met some great people who I have created many memories with that I will not forget in addition to learning and developing valuable skills that will be vital to my career.

1 Urban Interior Perspective

5 Section through Urban Museum

2 Urban Interior Perspective

6 Urban Exterior Perspective

3 Gorund Floor Plan

7 Urban Back Elevation

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4 Urban Front Elevation

Jamie Hissey Struggling with Construction details for the last three years, a wise Mexican enlightened me to ‘Just never forget the UNDERLAY UNDERLAY!’ Kent School of Architecture, you’ve been good to me. Essentials prices on energy drinks, you have not.

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1 Urban Interior Perspective 2 Urban Section 3 Urban External Perspective

Nicholas Howe One lesson I have learnt from uni is to never go to the bar with Adam Nightingale

1 Urban Perspectives 2 Section through Main Exhibition Space 3 Internal View

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4 Long Section

Lee Jesson The above images show the culmination of my degree, the final project, Urban. Although I have chosen only to show this, every project along the way has also been important. Architecture for me is about extending our knowledge and no one man can profess to know it all, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure we can get close. Every step along this journey of learning leads to better architecture, and this is a journey I wish to continue.

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1 urban: concept sketch 2 urban: material- site and proposal 3 urban: approach from South 4 urban: primary, secondary, tertiary moves in plan 5 urban: short section through courtyard to High Street

Joanna Jones

6 modular: interior view of twin room urban II: The primary aim of my urban scheme was to create a public space of open enclosure in a town which is predominantly made up of the contrast between streets and vast open spaces. Thank you everybody, both tutors and friends for such a fantastic three years!

1 Textile Museum on Site 2 Textile Museum Render, View from the Site Entrance 3 Textile Museum, Section with Construction Elements

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4 Modular Housing Project Render

Deniz Kayimbasioglu I would like to thank all my tutors who has made this a rather challenging and enjoyable experience to me. I believe being part of KSA has added a lot to me both as a student and as a person. Special thanks to Prof. Don Gray, Chris Seaber, Chris Gardener, Henry Sparks and Ben Martin. I also would like to thank some of my class mates who were there for me during the rough times and helped me overcome my struggles.

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1 Urban Elevation 2 Urban Section 3 Urban Concept 1 4 Urban Concept 2 5 Urban Concept 3

Sophie Kesterton I believe that architecture should be built for the future and if we do not stretch the limitations and boundries set before us, we will never learn and develop within our field. This is why my approach to design is quite conceptual and abstract, but in doing so helped produce a far more interesting piece of architecture for my final Urban project.

1 Urban- Section B-B 2 Exterior Perspective 3 Atrium Render

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4 Library Render

Tarunjeet Khabra Design is the greatest form of expression.

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1 Modular - Elevation of housing and hotel complex in Broadstairs 2 Interdisciplinary - Analysis of Art Galleries 3 Urban - Circulation Model 4 Urban - Elevation of museum for the Royal Engineers in Chatham 5 Urban - Keep of Fort

Alastair King

6 Urban - Fort Searchlight Tower Ideas that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it into my proposals: Planting the cliffs in Broadstairs with strawberries and selling them in the hotel restaurant, calling them Broadberries for the Modular project, and devising an Indiana Jones style assault course, as a means of circulation for visitors attempting to get through the Royal Engineers Museum for the Urban project.

1 Urban - Long Section Through the Building 2 Modular - Interior Visulalisation 3 Urban - Interior Visulalisation

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4 Urban - Section Through the Building 5 Modular - Section Through the Building 6 Urban - Construction Development

Katarzyna Kwiatek

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.â&#x20AC;? Ludwig Mies van der Rohe KSA has been the foundation for me to place these bricks. I had a chance to learn new skills, practice with professionals and open my mind to the world of art. It was not easy, however, these three years at uni would not be so fulfilling without the friendships formed. All the memories made will be kept alive in my heart forever.

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1 Interdisciplinary Perspective 2 Urban External Render 3 Urban Perspective Section 4 Interdisciplinary Projection

Sharmini Mahendrasingam

5 Urban Internal Render 6 Urban Section â&#x20AC;&#x153;The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.â&#x20AC;? -Chris McCandless

1 Urban Front Perspective 2 Urban Section 3 Movement Diagram

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4 Urban Perspective 5 Courtyard Perspective

David Matthews It’s a game of Dave’s dangerous 7’s... it’s a good game, it’s a fast game, it’s a fast game, it’s a good game, to my left...

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1 Urban East Elevation 2 Urban Perspective or Main Entrance 3 Urban Section Through Making Shard 4 Urban Interior Perspective of Making Shard 5 Modular Perspective from Beach

Edward Nash

6 Modular Section Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Ed Nash. Exhibited here are some of my recent works. My designs are bold, dynamic and engaging, but most importantly are based on a creative and intuitive design process. I WILL be creating the skylines of tomorrow!

1 Urban Section

5 Urban Internal Perspective

2 Urban Diagramatic

6 Urban External Perspective

3 Urban Development

7 Urban Internal Perspective

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4 Urban External Perspective

Adam Nightingale Monday_ Contemplation and realisation of mammoth task in hand. Tuesday_ Stress levels rapidly increasing as does energy drink consumption Wednesday_ General wellbeing and personal hygiene levels at inconsiderate level Thursday_ Extreme consumption of caffeine causing severe cold sweats and shaking Friday_ Pin up of work prior to public humiliation.... Extreme alcoholic abuse to body followed by severe intoxication. Night ends at Ockabasi Kebab House Saturday_ Hangover. 75

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1 Modular Section 2 Modular Exploded Perspective 3 Urban Atrium Gallery 4 Urban Elevation 5 Urban Outdoor Display

Jason Noble

6 Urban Perspective The way I approach each project generally depends on the project itself, but no matter what approach I take, my interest in Japanese design frequently appears in some form, which I feel has become as much a part of my style of work as any of my other design skills.

1 Urban Interior View 1 2 Urban Interior View 2 3 Urban Interior View 3

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4 Urban Exterior Perspective 5 Urban Long Section 6 Urban Exterior View

Ross Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell

My final design project Urban 2 explored the creation of a place within architecture as opposed to a concentration on space or form. This involved creating a building that linked the private and public spaces creating a new place within the run-down town of Chatham. This project was a result of the work I have done throughout my degree, what I have learnt and reflects my personal interests and ambitions in architecture.

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1 Urban Orthographics 2 Urban Floor Plans 3 Urban Orthographics 4 Urban Orthographics

Robert Owen

2 Modular Exterior 3 Urban Exterior

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1 Modular Interior View

4 Urban Exterior

Kristie Papaleontiou

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1 Urban External Perspective 2 Urban Interior Perspective 3 Urban Interior Perspective 4 Urban Development Sketch

Ben Pearson-Clarke I just canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to be a policeman!

1 Urban Facade Study 2 Modular Approach 3 Urban Approach

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4 Modular Elevation From the Beach 5 Urban Front Elevation

Joanna Pope My three years at Kent School of Architecture have proved to be some of the most challenging and demanding of my life so far, yet also some of the most exhilarating! The experience has created happy memories and friendships that will last a lifetime (even those of us leaving the studio at 8am having been there for over 24 hours). I cannot believe it’s all over! Now then….where is my bed… zzzzzz.

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1 Urban Renders 2 Urban Proposal in Context 3 Proposed nterior View 4 Proposed Interior View

Lucy Reader “Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.” Arne Jacobsen

1 Urban Section

5 Urban exterior view

2 Urban Ground floor plan Detail

6 Urban exterior view

3 Urban interior view of gallery

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4 Urban interior view of gallery

Jessica Ringrose â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything newâ&#x20AC;? Albert Einstein Coming to architecture school was something I chose to do on a whim, it turned out to be the best decision I ever made. During the last three years I have made many mistakes but I have benefitted from each and every one. I will leave UKC with more skills, more experience, more friends and more passion than I came with. Thankyou!

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1 Front Section

5 Side Section

2 Charcoal sketch of fountain regeneration

6 Internal Exhibit view

3 External view

7 Internal Exhibit view

4 North West Elevation

8 Back Elevation

Laura Robertson ‘If you dream it, you can do it’ Walt Disney

1 ModularFirst Floor Plan for

5 Ground Floor Plan Urban

2 Front Elevation Modular

6 Fourth Floor PLan Urban

3 Roof Plan Modular

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4 Modular Units

Emmanuella Sackey My modular building juts out of the cliff with light shafts that gives light to the back rooms. It consists of units that are non rectilinear geometry. My urban building consist of an organic form my building grows out of the site like a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seed gemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The building is cracked into two parts though out the building. The two splits the form the planes form the ramps in my building my building is a big ramp which allows people to travel up through the building without using stairs or lifts.

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1 Aerial View of Museum

5 Museum Long Section

2 Museum and Public Square

6 Museum Displays

3 Museum on Site

7 Approaching Museum Richard Street

4 Approaching Museum from Rhode Street

8 Museum from the East

Alfonso Saco Díaz Para Titi y Juanjo. ... it’s better to burn out because CAD never sleeps ...

1 Origami Roof Study 2 Concept Model for Restaurant 3 Digital Rendering for Cinema Interior

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4 Fabric Formed Plaster Cast

Aneesah Satriya Having a lifelong passion for making objects and working with her hands, Aneesah seeks to integrate the various fields of arts and crafts into the architectural design process. She believes that Architecture should be innovative, hands-on and practical.

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1Moduler Single Module

6 Urban Courtyard 3D Max

2 Modular Floor Plans

5 Urban East Facing Elevation

3 Urban Front 3D Max

7 Urban Atrium Space 3D Max

4 Urban South Facing Elevation

Edward Seaman I have now finished the Part 1 and enjoyed my time at Kent University, I plan on continuing the course to become a fully qualified architect.

1 Royal Engineers Museum

5 Urban Design Development

2 Urban Plan

6 Final Interdisciplinary Casts

3 Urban Gallery Section

7 Prototype Interdisciplinary Casts

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4 Urban Sketch Model

Rosie Seaman The past three years at KSA have gone incredibly fast and I have gained an enormous amount from my time here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; firstly an utmost appreciation for sleep and an unhealthy craving for 35p energy drinks, however most importantly a brilliant group of friends, remarkable memories and a great amount of knowledge from some inspirational tutors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all of which keeps me passionate about architecture.

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1 Modular Perspective Sketch

5 Urban Diagramatic Analysis

2 Urban Ground Floor Plan

6. Urban External Render

3 Urban Basement Detail

7 Urban Section

4 Urban Proposal and Site Model

Matthew Shanley Pack of Scalpel Blades: £0.98 White Foam Board (3mm): £3.95 Essentials Energy Drink: £0.35 Architecture Degree: Priceless For everything else there’s Ben Martin. Thanks guys for a great three years, loved every minute, even all the late nights!

5 1 Long Section Through Main Gallery Space and

5 Internal Alcoves

Library 2 Internal Library

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3 Northern External Library 4 Eastern External Main Entrance to Museum

James Shaw In my time at Kent I have made some life long friends and learnt valuable lessons, both in life and in architecture. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have asked for more with regards to this course and think that all the tutors have gone above and beyond in developing a students passion in architecture. I love seeds. x

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1 Urban Elevation 2 Local Area 3 Landscape Model 4 Modular Elevation

Nicholas Shearon Whoever wants to know something about me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as an artist which alone is significant â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. Gustav Klimt

1 Urban Section 2 Modular Building Facade 3 Modular Isometric of Units

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Maria Skoutari â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The more that our ideas are increased, or our conceptions extended upon any subject, the greater the number of associations we connect with it, the stronger is the emotion of sublimity or beauty we receive from it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Archibald Alison & Richard Payne Knight

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1 Urban Cross Sections

5 Urban Interior views.

2 Urban Reception

6 Urban Perspective view.

3 Urban Balcony 4 Urban Back View

Sarah Smith Creativity is not only a form of expression it is a way of lifeâ&#x20AC;¦

1 Modular Interior Rendering 2 Urban Concept Renders 3 3D Renders of Floors and Construction Details

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4 Urban Mass Models

Adam Speller â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.â&#x20AC;? Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the USA.

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1 Sketch of Yorkshire Sculpture Park interior

5 Final Urban model

2 Interdisciplinary “ The ruin of memory” 3 Sketches of Libeskind’s Jewish museum 4 Close up photo of Urban model

Holly Spilsbury Fantastic course. Amazing people. Beautiful town. Thanks for an unforgettable experience!

4 1 Development Image 2 Urban Ground Floor Plan 3 Urban North East Facing Elevation

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4 Urban Section A

Studying architecture at the University of Kent has been an incredibly memorable

Hannah Tollinton

experience. I have realised the importance, of passion, commitment and dedication and learnt many invaluable skills throughout the three years. I have also developed an appreciation for a variety of architecture styles and a particular interest in Deconstructivist Architecture. The styleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to form and emphasis upon distortion and dislocation has subsequently influenced the design for my Urban 2 Project.

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4 1 Urban North Elevation 2 Urban Exterior Perspective 3 Urban Context 4 Urban West Elevation

Kelsey Tomlinson Studying Architecture at UKCâ&#x20AC;Ś Undoubtedly the best experience of my life shared with some incredible people. These last three years has been so much fun, I have accumulated many treasured memories and funny stories to look back on, as well as making some great friends I know I will keep in contact with. I wish everyone the best of luck in the future.

1 Modular View of External Walkways

5 Urban Long Section

2 Modular Front Elevation

6 Urban Gallery Interior

3 Modular View of Hotel Entrance

7 Urban Perspective Section and Elevation

4 Modular Short Section

8 Urban View of Seating Area

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Philippa Tranter Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really enjoyed studying architecture somewhere where I have a panoramic view of Canterbury Cathedral when walking home from Uni each day. However, I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appreciated the filling of my brain with Photoshop and AutoCAD shortcuts and with dimensions of walls, bricks, doors, etc.

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2 1 Urban exterior view 2 Urban view from public courtyard 3 Urban view from side stairs

Verda Uzdil â&#x20AC;&#x153; The Architect, by his arrangement of forms. realises an order which is a pure creation of his spirit; by forms and shapes he affects our senses to an accute degree and provokes plastic emotionsâ&#x20AC;? - Le Corbusier

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4 1 Urban North Eelvation 2 Urban Perspective 3 Modular Perspective 1

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4 Modular Perspective 2

Generic complaint about a diet of energy drinks, all-nighters, the price of food in

David Vander

Essentials, scalpel cuts, waiting 20 hours for a render, napping on the sofas, campus watch, paying a fortune to make it ‘glossy’, Vousden’s jokes, Nash’s dancing, and a mutual feeling of ‘I just thought it was all going to be like Barcelona’ However, all moaning aside- it’s been a fun 3 years, and I hope everyone has enjoyed themselves and does well for the future. 101

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4 1 Urban Museum in Wider Context

5 5 Urban Exploded Model

2 Urban Medal Room & Memorial Exhibit 3 Urban Exterior Render 4 Urban Diving Exhibit

Alex Vousden amazing, phenomenal, inspiring, intellectual â&#x20AC;Ś

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words that describe Alex Vousden

5 1 Urban North Elevation

5 Urban Context Section

2 Urban Temporary Exhibtion Space 3 Urban Experience Exhibit

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4 Urban Restaurant

Liana Wake These are images from my final Urban project to design a Royal Engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum in Chatham. My concept was derived from the Royal Engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in constructing fortifications in the town. I wanted to create a mechanical, industrial feel for the building with an observation tower.

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1 Urban Transverse Section 2 Internal Render of Museum Medal Exhibit 3 Urban Museum External Render 4 Modular Internal Cliff Stair Render

Lauren Walker

Hello all! Thank you for all being so welcoming when I was the new girl (especially Jasminge Davey and Quiche Diplock) for taking me under their wing and making my two years at Kent fabulous and vodka-infused! Having studied elsewhere for my first year, I truly appreciate what a fun, laid-back and friendly atmosphere there is at Kent and you all made me so glad I braved the move. Well done to us all for crawling to the finish line. Best of luck.

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1 Urban Massing Model 2 Urban Ground Floor Plan 3 Landscape Ventilation Section

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4 Urban Detail

James Warner The best three years of my life, although tiring and exhausting, has been dedicated to this degree to which I have learnt so much. Good luck to everyone in the future and the real world!!!

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7 1 Modular Sequence

5 Urban Lighting

2 Urban Circulation

6 Urban Gallery

3 Urban Temporary Gallery

7 Modular Section

4 Modular Sequence

Timothy Waterson “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” - Dr. Emmett Brown

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4 1 Urban Exterior Perspective

5 5 Urban Interior Perspective

2 Urban Exterior Perspective of Office 3 Urban Section

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4 Urban Interior Perspective

Joe Wheeler Three years has flown by, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, but it was definitely worth it, I had a great time with a great bunch of people and a big thank you to everyone who helped me get this far.

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4 1 Urban Museum Elevation 2 Urban Library Elevation 3 Urban Museum Interior 4 Modular Hotel Room and Modular Perspective

William Wickers Ultimately, with every project I work on I am keen to escape boundaries where possible and keep creativity and innovation at the heart of every design.

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1 Urban North Facing Elevation

5 Landscape Masterplan

2 Adapt and Extend Daytime 3ds Model

6 Urban 3DS Montage

3Urban West Facing Elevation

7 Modular Plan in Context

4 Modular Elevation

8 Urban Model

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Jack Wilson Most things you’ll work at for days on end. Some things you’ll pick up during lengthy discussions. On occasion things will just appear out of thin air. And hopefully more often than not these things will be Architecture. Thank you University of Kent. Thank you Architecture. Here’s to the future.

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6 5 Modular Exploded Isometric

2 Urban Terrace Vtiew

6 Urban Museum Screen

4 Urban Detail

Danielle Witter

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1 Urban Cross Section 3 Urban First Floor Plant

6 1 Urban Best Street Perspective

5 Urban Public Gallery

2 Urban Public Stairs

6 Modular Beach Front View

3 Urban Public Entrance

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4 Urban Gallery Entrance

Alex Woolgar My days were spent being annoyed by Dave Matthews, drinking copious amounts of cheap energy drinks, being overly tired and playing golf with a two foot plastic golf club in studio 3. The studio was a place of highs and lows but all in all a great place to be, with some memories I will never forget.

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1 Urban Exterior Perspective 2 Urban Interior Perspective 3 Urban Interior Perspective 4 Urban Exterior Perspective

Joseph Worrall After 3 years of hard work, sleepless nights and sending my student loan straight to Essentials I have come to the end of my degree. The work shown above is the end result of my final project, a museum for the Royal Engineers in Chatham. I would like to thank all the staff involved in my time at Kent and wish everyone the best of luck for the future!

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This year’s Stage 3 comprises 11 Interior Design

“Man dwells when he can orientate himself within

students and 7 Interior Architecture students.

and identify himself with an environment, or, in short,

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when he experiences the environment as meaningful. In Term 1 Stage 3 Interior Design students

Dwelling therefore implies something more than

undertook an exhibition design project in the

‘shelter’. It implies that the spaces where life occurs

main entrance hall at the Victoria and Albert

are ‘places’, in the true sense of the word. A place

Museum; a fore runner to the proposed new

is a space that has character. Since ancient times

furniture gallery space on level 6 as the basis

the genius loci, or ‘ s p i r i t o f p l a c e ‘ has been

of the ‘Event’ module AR508. In the main this

recognized as the concrete reality man has to face and

was a very successful project with high levels of

come to terms with in his daily life”

attainment and results. Genius loci. Towards a phenomenology of Architecture

Stage 3 Interior Architecture students undertook

Christian Norberg-Schulz

the design of the new Boilerhouse Yard Gallery at the V and A as the basis for the ‘Speculate’

The results for Stage 3 Genius Loci Module were

module AR525. In the main these projects

generally very good and in several instances,

produced a more mixed outcome but with some

excellent, which I hoped would be reflected in

interesting results.

the Major Projects, entitled ‘Canterbury City of Palimpsest’

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Throughout the spring term all Stage 3 students

Looking ahead to next year and perhapsbeyond,

worked as a group on a programme of ‘adaptive

I sincerely look forward to enjoying the

resuscitation’ with a variety of old, obsolete

opportunity to help further improve the teaching

and in most instances, historically important

and learning outcomes of the Interiors courses at

buildings within the City (walls) of Canterbury.

KSA University of Canterbury and fulfilling my

In essence this is a master planning and curatorial

task of shepherding the students towards the

exercise aimed at producing a co-ordinated series

EXIT gates in 2012

of resuscitated buildings with new programmes for reuse, which could significantly enhance the

Stephen Donald

provision of contemporary culture offered by the

Programme Director

City of Canterbury. Overall the results of the Stage 3 students’

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collective and individual endeavours are quite astonishing. Their projects shine like contemporary diamonds in the historic fabric of the host City of Canterbury and they should be extremely proud of themselves, again I certainly am!

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1 Concept Image 2 Major Work Interior View 3 Major Work Interior View 4 Interdisciplinary Photo

Caroline Barton

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1 Major Work Perspective

4 Major Work Perspective

2 Major Work Section

5 Major Work Elevation

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3 Major Work Perspective

Zoe Dennis All the Lucozade/Pro Plus/Red Bull/Dirty Essentials Energy Drinks/Relentless/ coffee did the job. Well done everyone.

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1 Major Work Balcony 2 Major Work Exhibition 3 Major Work 4 Major Work Entrance to Gallery

Rebecca Eacott

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1 Major Work Plan

4 Major Work Short Section

2 Major Work Short Section 5 Major Work Long Section

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3 Major Work Long Section

Jessie Hacking “The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn’t take”

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1 West Section

4 Pavilion View Sketch

2 Facade Montage

5 Window Seating View

3 E xploded Isometric of Warerhouse

Laura Hale It’s been long, it’s been difficult, but at least at times it’s been fun. Thanks to all the friends I’ve made, to those tutors who gave me confidence in my work and mostly, to my parents for supporting me regardless. NB. Sleep is overrated anyway...

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1 S tage 2 Paradox Research

5 Major Work Basement Level

2 Interdisciplinary Pictures

6 Major Work Ground Level

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3 Major Work Concepts 4 Major Work Sections

Cecilie Laybourn Mine Damer og Herre... it’s been three delightful years that have passed us so fast. Whilst being hard at work we have had some great times ‘off-duty’. It’s been a pleasure. In each module, it was charged head on, in some cases imaginative (Picture1) and others more challenging as we were faced with realistic measures (Major Project). Numerous amounts of thank you’s: Taseer, Mor & Far & Soes, min anden halvdel and of course “y’all”. Lots of foreign love... Cc

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1 Sectional Perspective of Water Tower

5 Furniture Exhibition at V&A

2 Perspective of Water Tower and Reservior

6 Perspective of Restraunt at

Conversion 3 Plan of Water Tower and Reservior Conversion

Top of Water Tower 7 Perspective of Theatre

4 Furniture Exhibition at V&A

Philippa Marchant It has been the best and most challenging three years of my life. Thank you to all my tutors and friends who have helped me through, and of course Kevin and Ezno. P.s. Enzo, I love you ;-p

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1 Major Work Long Section

5 Entrance

2 Major Word Short Sections

6 Interior View Theatre

3 Canterbury Tannery

7 3D Section

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4 Bleacher Seats

Myrto Mitsiou It was an exciting experience.

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1 Major Work Best Lane Render

5 Major Work Exploded Isometric

2 Beany Institute Best Lane Photomontage

6 Major Work Best Lane Elevation

3 Beany Institute New Bar Render

7 Major Work Construction Detail

4 Major Work Proposal Section

Graham Murphy So much has changed over the last three years, so much has been lost and gained and all the experiences and challenges I’ve faced have helped me develop both as a person as well as a designer. The experience this course has given me both etducationally and socially cannot be defined by words but by the memories I’ll take away from it, and now I’m watching, waiting to see what life has to throw at me next.

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1 Major Work Longitudinal Section

5 Conseptual Study for Major Project

2 Major Project Perspective

6 V&A Temporary Exhibition Pavilion

3 Birdwatching Hotel , Day

7 V&A Museum Installion

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4 Conseptual Project for Major Project 8 Birdwatching Hotel, Night

Antoana Petkova As a designer, my main objective is to solve problems. Having said that, it is very personal how one chooses to achieve this. I believe that no object, material, space, or building is too useful as a separate entity. Combining them in a story or a journey can be the solution one is looking for.

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Vicky Philippou

Interior Architecture is truly a marriage of three distinct design disciplines: interior design, architecture, and industrial design. Interior design focuses on the selection of interior materials, finishes, and furnishings; architecture on the design of building forms and systems;and industrial design on the design of manufactured products. The education that I gained made me realise what exactly is Interior Architecture by experimenting these three disciplines.

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3 Major Work: Stage View 4 Major Work: Sections

Lucy Rankin I

Barcelona

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1 Modular Study Room

5 Event Images of Model

2 Modular Construction Detail

6 Interdisciplinary: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Art of Lightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

3 Urban Interior Perspective 4 Urban Plan and Section

Katie Richards Q.Which Italian architect is the first to run away when things get iffy? A.Scarpa. Thanks to my family, friends and members of staff that have helped to make these three years possible and so enjoyable.

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1 Major Work Roof Top Terrace

4 Major Work Section

2 Major Work Ground Floor Lobby

5 Time line of Visual Merchandising Interdisciplinary

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3 Sketch of V&A Museum

Zeina Shuhaiber

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1 Tuna, Interdisciplinary

5 Interior View, Major Work

2 Photomontage, Event

6 Elevation, Major Work

3 Milk, Interdiscipinary 4 Section, Major Work

Zoe Smithson I have loved my Uni experience and have made some very special friends for life. To the Interiors Girls: WE MADE IT and I am so proud of us all. I couldn’t have got through the last final push without Jasmine texting me ‘Are you up yet?’ every morning! I am excited for the next stage of my design career, and wish everyone good luck for the future. Now we can celebrate!!

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1 Major Project: Outside View Render 5 Major Project: Exterior Photomontage 2 Major Project: Interior Render

6 Major Work: Proposal Section

3 Major Project: Basement Render

7 Major Work: Proposal Section

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4 Major Project: High Street Render

Laura Vitoria ... And now I can sleep :)

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1 Proposed Elevations Major Work 2 Existing Site Image 3 Proposed Model, Major Work 4 Proposed Model

Zoe Williams These are elevations and images from my major work project where the brief was to selected a disused building in the city of Canterbury and transform it into something that better suits its purpose. I designed a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education centre for drama and art.

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1 Countryside Gallery 2 Lounge

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3 Mezzanine Level 4 Single Studio Flat

Penny Wong At lastâ&#x20AC;¦I have crawled through these 3 years =DD

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ANDOR GOMME COLLECTION Kent School of Architecture is delighted to announce that the collection of architectural books of the late Professor Andor Gomme, a leading architectural historian and a former president of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (see obituary by Christopher Wakeling, “Andor Gomme 19302008”, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain’s Newsletter, 66, Winter 2008/9, pp. 9-10), has been very generously donated to KSA by his wife Susan Gomme and their family. Earlier in the year, Mrs Gomme had contacted her friend Professor Jan Pahl in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kent, who in PRIZES

turn asked Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin whether we might be interested. With the general support of the whole school, Howard Griffin, the staff liaison with the university library, together with Dr Manolo Guerci, took the matter at hand,

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and secured this marvellous donation, which virtually doubled the university’s collection of architectural books overnight. The Gomme’s collection is made of some 3.500 books, some of which rare editions, featuring a very interesting range covering Britain, Germany, France, Italy and America. A bookmark selected by Mrs Gomme will now be produced and presented to her during an ad-hoc event within the end-of-year show programme. In recognition of this fine donation, Kent School of Architecture is now awarding a travel bursary to assist dissertation students with their research. The “Gomme Travel Award” will also be presented at the end-of-year show together with other prizes across the school.

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The EXIT Committee grew in numbers compared to the previous year. The success of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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show infected the students with a desire to be involved with the creation and curation of the show. Whilst students from across the school have been involved with the design and installation of the show, it is primarily down to the hard work and effort of the few EXIT committee members. The EXIT committee worked throughout the spring and summer terms to conceive the theme of REGIONerate, focussing on the commonality of design projects throughout the school set in the local region. Chatham, Dungerness, Margate and, of course, Canterbury were all used as sites for design projects in all years. The styling of the show permeates into this catalogue and the EXIT committee have been heavily involved with the layout and paste up of pages and content. Without their continued and often self-disadvantageous efforts, neither possible. Stage 5: Jonathan Cerowski, Caroline Gingell, Ben Prince Stage 3: Louise Billingham, Stephen Brennan,

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the show nor the catalogue would have been

Ellie Collins, Nick Howe, Philippa Marchant, Graham Murphy, Lucy Rankin, Zoe, Smithson, Laura Vitoria KASA: Deborah De Boer, Matthew Shanley Staff: Victoria Friedman, Kevin Smith Thank you one and all! Howard Griffin, EXIT Committee Chairman

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M ARCH STAGE 4 Blow-Up Stage 4 commenced the year by reopening the investigation into the photo-filmic murder mystery of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film ‘Blow-Up’. This year we widened our investigation to include Peter Yates’s contemporaneous 1967 film ‘Robbery’. These films literally overlap in use of location, both heavily influenced two subsequent San Franciscolocated films; Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 film ‘The Conversation’; and Yates’s own 1968 film ‘Bullitt’. Some Stage 4 students then travelled to San Francisco whilst others remained in London to better understand and record the locations where all four of our key films were made. Pinhole photography and photogrammetry were used to define a 3D envelope for ‘camera space’ that might be interpreted to provide an enclosure for a life-size camera obscura to be put back into CATALOGUE 2011

the film location that generated it.

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Dreamland In the spring term students formed into groups and stepped bravely into Dreamland, a decommissioned leisure complex; primarily known for its amusement park with iconic ‘scenic railway’, once amid a collection of other fairground rides, combined Cinema/restaurant/ Ballroom, together with a park and animal menagerie cages (zoo). In teams our students

Stage 4 Students:

produced alternative masterplans and then broke out to develop their individual interests.

Matthew Armitt, Stephen Athanasiou, Louisa

We asked that they retain the rollercoaster and

Clifford, Deborah De Boer, Isabel Diez De

not become embroiled in the huge complexities

Ulzurrun, Scott Douch, Conal Gallagher, Tzi

of the existing cinema’s interior, but rather

Man, Julian Messent, Jo San Ong, Christos

consider how they might imagine and configure

Papazacharias, Raz Rahmani-Shirazi, Dhoopa

their choice of several cultural intuitions onto

Shah, Matthew Stanley, Richards Stevens,

Dreamland, with particular concern for the

Mohammed Syeed, David Taylor, Charles

qualities of the resulting urban landscape.

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Stage 4 Collaborators:

Keith Bothwell, Nick Brown, Tim Carlyle, Stephen

Dreamland Trust, El Blason, Grontmij Landscape

Games, Chris Gardner, Howard Griffin, Michael

Architecture, Guy Holloway Architects, Margate

Holms Coats, Michael Richards.

Renewal Partnership, Revolver Entertainment,

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Stage 4 Tutors:

SOM San Francisco, Thanet District Council, UC Stage 4 Guest Critics:

Berkeley Department of Architecture, US General Services Administration San Francisco Federal

Doug Brown, James Cregan, Pier Del Renzio,

Building, Virginia Tech WAAC.

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BA ARCHITECTURE STAGE 2 in which schoolchildren and other visitors can learn to understand and interpret the woodland and its rich fauna and flora – alongside professional artists commissioned by SVA – and its possibilities for inspiring creative work and recreation. Running parallel with Landscape, as part of their Climate studies, students developed environmental strategies for the educational building as well as designing solar shades to The expressively arcaded brick ‘Pump House

prevent summer overheating in offices in the

No 5’ at Chatham Maritime supplied both

Marlowe building. The principles of structural

the inspiration and the site for Stage 2’s first

design were investigated and tested in Form and

design project of the year – Adapt and Extend

Structure by the construction of model bridges.

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scale of the larger docklands context. Concurrently in the Autumn term, skills in Advanced Computer Modelling were developed, which were applied in making virtual models illustrating the students’ solutions to the Adapt and Extend brief. The historical and theoretical aspects of the Post Enlightenment Interior were presented in a weekly lecture series that focused on critical periods and themes since the late eighteenth century. In the Landscape project students explored an unfamiliar rural context in Kings Wood near Challock, to develop ideas for a new educational building for Stour Valley Arts (SVA). Adapted from a real brief for this local arts charity, the task was to create internal and external spaces 142

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BA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE BA INTERIOR DESIGN STAGE 2 in February and subsequently successfully completed the Synthesis + Metamorphosis (AR 524) and Suspension of Disbelief (AR 505). modules in April. Overall the Stage 2 students will spend the whole of Term 2 working on a ‘live’ project in Margate titled, ‘An Art Hotel For Global Nomads’. This is a very significant KSA outreach project and we have been working in close collaboration with Thanet District Council and Margate Regeneration Partnership represented by Nick Dermot; (TDC) and Sophie Jeffrey; (MRP). Both There are 9 students at level Stage 2: 5 studying

attended the initial on site briefing sessions

Interior Design and 4 studying Interior

in January and the final crits of Paradox and

Architecture.

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completed the Term1 design module ‘Process and Fragment ‘(AR 535) Interior Architecture: 4 students successfully completed Term 1 design module: ‘Adapt and Extend’ (AR 529) Overall, the 9 students worked as an amalgamated group throughout Term 2 on the modules, Paradox and Symbiosis (AR 504 + 523), on a ‘live’ project in Margate titled, ‘An Art Hotel For Global Nomads’. “On Margate Sands I can connect Nothing with nothing”. T S Elliot The Wasteland They successfully completed the modules, Paradox (AR 504) and Symbiosis (AR 523) 144

BA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE BA INTERIOR DESIGN STAGE 2 invited 4 eminent practitioners and theorists as guest lecturers. We were very fortunate to have excellent lectures and tutorial days provided by Fred Scott, Ben Kelly, Calum Storrie and Kevin Brennan We have also established that the teaching input and learning outcomes of CT + M lectures, whilst still producing an essay, should moreover function as a ‘joined up’ thinking exercise with the overarching results informing the students’ understanding of the subject which in turn should support the ongoing nourishment of their evolving design skills. It should also be noted that Stage 3 students February; and the ‘Metamorphosis and Synthesis’

were encouraged to attend these lectures and an

and ‘Suspension of Disbelief’ (AR 524)+505)

encouragingly high proportion have elected to do

modules in April.

so.

They expressed a great enthusiasm and This was reflected by the hosting of an exhibition of the Stage 2 students work in The Dior Visitor / Tourist Information Building in Margate, coinciding with the opening of the Turner Contemporary Gallery.

Additionally this

project produced a great deal of valuable media

Stephen Donald, Stage 2 Interiors Co-ordinator STAGE 2 INTERIORS

admiration for the students’ efforts.

coverage in local newspapers and TV for KSA. The students should be very proud of their work and themselves, I certainly am! In January I overhauled the Contemporary Theories and Manifestoes lecture series, making it more subject specific, indicating that the students should study the work of eminent practitioners and relate this to a series of selected methodologies or subject specific topics. I also issued a revised reading list and 145

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beginning students a hands-on experience of “construction,” albeit of a temporary nature. Students were given a limited palette of materials to work with: bamboo sticks, plastic pipe, plastic sheeting, and cardboard. They learned about structures the hard way, by testing their ideas in full-scale, erecting their huts in one day in front of the Marlowe Building, and spending the night in them in groups. The one week annual Stage One trip, this year to Paris, followed immediately. We visited some of the most important historic and contemporary sites in Paris, including the Quai D’Orsay Museum, the National Library of France, Parc de

At KSA we are fortunate that every year our

la Villette, and Versailles. Students took careful

incoming student body is progressively higher

photographs and filled their sketchbooks, with

in academic standing. This year, my first at KSA,

tutors giving talks and guidance at each site.

as Stage One Coordinator I was privileged to teach a group of students with a higher average

The next design project, titled “Diversions,” was

incoming UCAS score than the average for the

an exercise in manipulating human circulation,

University.

using the Kent campus as a laboratory. Students

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studied sites they had documented for the Teaching in first year is divided between cultural

communications (“Folio”) module, such as the

context, communications, technology, and design

Rutherford bridge, by documenting current

studio, the latter being the place where all that is

movement patterns, and then designing poetic

learned is brought together. Although all aspects

interventions channelling people’s movements

of architecture are introduced, the emphasis

through tectonic and sculptural elements. One

in first year is upon creative synthesis. To this

project is currently under consideration by Kent

end, art projects play a major role in the learning

Creative Campus for actual execution.

experience. Students were also busy with their cultural

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We began the year with presentations of their

context module run by Gerry Adler, “House and

summer projects: the “social hub,” an analysis

Housing,” analyzing an iconic house via model

of a public gathering space; a shoebox filled with

and essay. Within five months of beginning the

items associated with the student’s hometown;

programme, students produced professional-

a drawing and essay describing their earliest

quality architectural models. In the “Folio”

childhood spatial memory. Presentations were

module, run by Howard Griffin, students learned

very relaxed, giving students the chance to

how to communicate through the entire range

get to know each other immediately. The first

of hand drawings, as well as digital media. This

design studio project, repeated from last year,

year they were introduced to using the internet

was a hut-building exercise, designed to give

to promote their work and ideas. On “freehand

Fridays,” students travelled around Kent to

a lecture on the importance of poetic concepts in

assigned sites to make free-hand observational

his own work, showing a beautiful collection

drawings. Artist Patrick Crouch also taught

of his own concept models. Additional design

students life drawing.

lectures were given by local Kent architects in the first year programme: Rebecca Hobbes on

In the technology module, “Enlightenment,”

Kent gardens of Sissinghurst and Dixter, Kate

principles of natural and artificial lighting as

MacLean on concept models, and Henry Sparks

well as other environmental aspects were taught

on traditional English farm building groupings.

by Keith Bothwell and Chris Gardner. With the visiting engineer Ben Godber, students were

The Stepney Farm project consisted not only

introduced to basic structural principles, through

of designing the three buildings—community

fun projects such as “bricks and sticks,” using

centre, crafts centre, and barn—but also arranging

materials ranging from toothpicks to gumdrops,

them on the site and designing gardens, paths,

by making structures tested to “failure” limit.

and other landscape features relating to the farm. Farm were remarkably sophisticated for first year,

first buildings, for Stepney City Farm in East

showing mastery of basic interior space planning,

London. They began with an all-day field trip

building massing and façade design, as well

visiting the Farm, the thirteenth-century St.

as landscape planning and urban analysis. The

Dunstan’s Church across the street, the immediate

Stepney City Farm Trustees have been presented

area of Stepney Green, and the Thames riverfront.

with the best work of the class, and are currently

The Farm, founded in the 1970s, is a thriving

considering prize winners. The second cultural

place, attracting children and adults from all

context module, History of Western Architecture,

over London, yet their existing buildings are in

run by new staff member Manolo Guerci,

dire need of replacement. Students understood

now has additional focus on essay-writing, as

that their designs would provide welcome design

part of understanding important monuments

suggestions for how the site might be further

and traditions. Chris Gardner led the second

developed. On the field trip, they experienced

semester technology module, “Enclose,” where

a landscape observation workshop, a drawing

students learned basic construction detailing and

workshop, and a tour of the area. The Farm is

structural technology, in close coordination with

located in one of the largest green areas in East

design, so that in their first building project, they

London, and thus part of city government plans

included building details and structural sections.

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The final student projects for the Stepney City In the second semester, students designed their

to increase bio-diversity. In conclusion, I would like to thank all of the The Stepney City Farm project was further

tutors for making this first year such a success,

enhanced by studio workshops, one on concept

especially the students themselves, who proved

models given by artists Karen Ay, Helene Kazan,

more than equal to the demanding tasks

Julie Mecoli, and Steve Smith, and two on site

presented to them.

planning and design by landscape architects Eleanor Atkinson, Jade Goto, Emma Less, and

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already in my head. However as I look back and read past blogs I begin to notice new things about the way I process my thoughts and realise new ways in which I can document information and collate my thoughts. I have really enjoyed completing my web folio and placing all these different web components together whether it be through a blog, a youtube video or individual pieces of work. I eagerly anticipate Architecture Stage 2 and all that it will have to offer. Nathaniel Baidoo, on reflective blogging

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RESEARCH Academic research at the Kent School of Architecture reaches a worldwide audience. In November 2010 we hosted members of AHRA – the Architectural Humanities Research Association – for their prestigious annual conference, held this time on the theme of Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture. A related book including essays from leading thinkers and writers on architecture from Britain and across the world, edited by Dr Gerald Adler, Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin and Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti, will be published later this year. Our research base was boosted with the arrival of Marialena Nikolopoulou, our first Professor of Sustainable Architecture, who will be building up a new specialist team over the coming year. Research in this field will be organised through CASE, the Centre for Architecture

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and Sustainable Environment, which we have recently established. The centre will also

Members of the School continue to pursue

provide support for Keith Bothwell’s research

our interests in the public space of cities,

into passive environmental control of buildings

representation in architecture, and the history

Together with CREAte, the Centre for Research

and theory of British and German twentieth

in European Architecture, CASE will develop

century architecture. In 2012 the School will host

new international academic partnerships as well

an conference entitled New Directions in the

as organising lectures, publications and events.

Gothic Revival Studies Worldwide, the major international academic event celebrating the

With the arrival of Dr David Haney and Dr

bicentennial of A.W.N. Pugin.

Manolo Guerci last year, our research staff now number six. David Haney book’s When Modern

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Was Green published last year, and his specialist

Director of Research

interests include the history of modern landscape architecture, urban agriculture, alternative settlements, and the history of ecological design. Manolo Guerci is a well established writer on the Strand palaces in London, the palaces of Rome, and the early modern period. 150

AHRA CONFERENCE 2010: SCALE In November 2010, the Centre for Research in European Architecture (CREAte) at the Kent School of Architecture hosted the 7th Architectural Humanities Research Association International Conference on the subject of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;scaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Speakers and delegates came from throughout the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, and from as far as the Middle East, the Americas and the Antipodes. Papers were presented by leading academics and professionals in their fields which addressed scale in the post-humanist age, in design practice, technology, psychology, sociology, literature and the arts. The opening address was given by Sir David Chipperfield CBE (of David Chipperfield Architects), who was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Kent in November 2010. Keynote speakers included Nathalie de Hannah Higgins, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois; Robert Tavernor of the London School of Economics and architect Nathalie Rozencwajg of RARE, London and Paris.

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Vries of MVRDV, based in the Netherlands;

Papers from the conference are due to be published by Routledge in the forthcoming book Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice in Architecture, (edited by G. Adler, T. BrittainCatlin and G. Fontana-Giusti) due in autumn 2011. Conference organisers wish to thank Victoria Friedman, Scale conference secretary, for her kind and most competent work.

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MPHIL / PHD PROGRAMMES The programme provides a high quality education for PhD students. Its main aim is to foster excellence in postgraduate architectural research. Offer to the research students this year included: quality supervisions delivered by senior school staff, regular weekly seminars for PhD students centred on studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; research, university graduate school training provisions in general and transferable skills, cross departmental supervisory collaboration, external supervision where necessary and overall pastoral care. Students form a lively group of researchers that is gradually making their mark at the University of Kent and wider. Individually, they have presented good quality research in our weekly seminars attended by supervisors and relevant experts. Students are also active externally, as they attend conferences and present papers CATALOGUE 2011

nationally and internationally. Most of our PhD students also teach at some point of their studies, as this has proved to be beneficial for both the young researchers and for the School. The recipients of the University Scholarship teach throughout their three years of study. Students participate as critics, and regularly exhibit at the end of the year show. Gordana Fontana-Giusti Director of Graduate Studies

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STUDENTS & TOPICS Carolina Vasilikou Microclimatic characteristics of small urban spaces in historical European city centres: the impact of urban geometry on environmental diversity in temperate climates. The scope of the research is to examine the

Small urban spaces in historical city centres are

microclimatic characteristics of small urban

investigated as important urban components,

spaces in historical European city centres

which

and

microclimatic and spatial diversity of the urban

environmental diversity when such spaces are

fabric, provide a more comfortable experience of

integrated in urban design.

the urban environment and therefore contribute

investigate

the

potential

creation

could

potentially

influence

the

to the current debate on urban form and More specifically, it focuses on the link between

sustainability.

architectural and geometrical properties of small spaces in their urban context and their microclimatic performance. The study will identify major three-dimensional typologies of small urban spaces and will monitor their environmental conditions through case studies comparative results for different temperate climates. The expected results will show the correlation between

spatial

identities

each

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in Northern and Southern Europe to provide

three-

dimensional type with environmental diversity. Moreover, the range of thermal conditions that can be experienced in both regions will be investigated, using the urban context, use of space as well as the degree of enclosure and environmental performance of surrounding facades as microclimatic determinants.

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STUDENTS & TOPICS Timothy Oluseun Adekunle Role and Benefits of Building Information Modelling in the Delivery of Low Carbon Prefabricated Homes Thermal performance can be described as a

Since the UK governments target is to make all

level to which a material or structural element

new homes to meet level 6 of Code for Sustainable

of a building limits heat loss. High thermal

Homes by 2016, there is need to develop a better,

performance building is regarded as an energy

faster, environmental benign and economical

efficient building and it is always regarded as a

means to build. The research focuses on the use of

building with low U-value. Thermal performance

engineered timber product as a material to build

can determine to an extent the occupantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; comfort

low-carbon prefabricated homes because timber

within an enclosure and architecture is meant to

is sustainable, renewable and can store carbon

improve the thermal comfort of occupants.

over its lifespan. This work intends to study three prefab timber buildings in the UK.

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Prefabricated buildings are factory-produced

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buildings under a regulated-environment. It

The data will be collected through interviews,

has been known over the years that all timber

manufacturersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

reports,

buildings create a problem of overheating

questionnaires,

observation

especially during summer and it is important

measurement during case study visits to assess

to study how this problem can be solved. The

thermal and environmental performances of

research aims to study thermal performance

these buildings. The data analysed will help to

of timber as timber emits low-carbon, has low

understand energy efficiency of prefab timber

embodied-energy,

construction

homes in summer and winter. The research

can be improved to meet both thermal and

outcome will help to identify how to improve

environmental requirements to build low-carbon

thermal performance of prefab timber buildings

prefab homes in the UK.

in the UK.

and

timber

semi-structure and

direct

Tordis Berstrand Splitting

and

Doubling:

The

Dialectics

Contemporary Dwelling in the Works by Kurt Schwitters,

Gordon

Matta-Clark,

and

Gregor

Schneider A refuge or a point of departure more than a

forward becomes a vertical jumping in place

place to actually stay, the concept of dwelling is

(on the spot) as on a trampoline, is a way to

changing. The home like an embrace, enclosing us

circumvent the issue. Then the home is no longer

when we return and projecting us into the world

either one of two positions, inside or outside, this

when we depart, outlines its two movements. The

side or that side. But a destination that we must

first draws a concave profile, a cave, the second

seek out, from within, while remaining in the

a convex profile, a bow. Together they execute

same spot, wherever we come to find this.

the dynamics of a catapult and throw us into the world. Increasingly, it seems this is a oneway

Out of ourselves or split between – like the ‘I’

journey with no return, no embrace. Where do

splits the sentence and draws a line. The cutting

we go when we go home?

is over, all over the house, keeping it together, and without, inscribing the subject in time. The

world fuels the contemporary problem of

object is silent, repeating its message, of things

dwelling. The home as interior in the middle of

left behind on the way. Half as good or double

an exterior – are we inside, on the outside, in

as ordinary, the house divided – a home and not

between, or maybe deeper inside as inside of

a home – means nothing more than a little less

ourselves? Rotating the direction of our catapult-

predictable.

style dwelling, so that the horizontal moving

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like a string. The folding is endless, from within The perceived dichotomy between home and

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STUDENTS & TOPICS Itab Shuayb Enabling the built environment for individuals with disabilities through inclusive design in selected Universities in the UK and Lebanon The aim of this research is to raise awareness

I have also submitted an article (in Arabic) to a

about the needs of disabled individuals and their

local Lebanese journal at the Lebanese Physically

experiences in accessing the built environment

handicapped Union which will be published in

at the two campuses, University of Kent and

mid of June 2011.

American University of Beirut- Lebanon. In addition, I have presented my research at the The research is adopting the inclusive design

Department of Architecture at the American

approach. Inclusive design is the design of

University of Beirut. This presentation has raised

products and environments to be usable by all

important issues about disability, architectural

people, to the greatest extent possible, without

barriers, Disability discrimination Act, inclusive

the need for adaptation or specialized design.

design

and

many

other

important

issues

concerning the research.

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I am in my second year where I am currently on a fieldwork trip to Lebanon. During this year, I have

The American University of Beirut policy makers

been affiliated to the Department of Architecture

and its provost has valued this kind of research

and Design at the American University of Beirut,

and he is waiting for the outcome results to be

Lebanon where I have started collecting my data.

presented to the University policy makers, so

So far, I have access audited six building at the

they take an action plan that aims at improving

American University of Beirut, interviewed 10

the accessibility at university built environment.

students and staff members with disabilities, and currently I am interviewing education providers and architects who have worked and designed buildings at the American University of Beirut.

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Gian Luca Amadei

Lindy Weston

Urban burials: the integration of burial grounds within

Architecture and the Sacred – The Chartres Cathedral

the planning for British cities in the 21st century When the first Burial Act came into force in 1852,

Keith Bothwell

it banned any intramural burial in London and implemented new suburban necropolises to serve

The

Architecture

the

Passively

Tempered

the city. In 1857 the Act was then integrated with

Environment - (Focus: Office Buildings in the UK)

a section that forbade the re-use of graves in any burial ground in the capital or the country. Enobong Equere These combined legislations had a significant impact on London necropolises, as on one hand

Cultural adaptation towards sustainable housing

the 1852 Act provided new burial grounds for the

development: a case study of southern Nigeria

capital, and on the other the 1857 Act set a limited lifespan for those necropolises. Today, as a result London’s cemeteries are reaching full capacity

Chris Munday-Chanin

and becoming obsolete as burial grounds. Electric Architecture – 21st century design in a post Great interest in London Victorian necropolises

fossil society

has been raised by contemporary scholars such addressing their concerns over the deteriorating

Emmanuel Odugboye

state of architectural heritage held in these cemeteries, as well as their relevance as landscapes

The effects of ventilation strategies on the performance

and recreational grounds for the capital. Marginal

and occupancy wellbeing in healthcare buildings in

attention though has been given over addressing,

Nigeria

MPHIL/PHD

as James Stevens Curl and Ken Worpole, in

which relevance Victorian necropolises have in the context of the future planning for London. How they could inform future typologies of cemeteries, and which role and relation they have with the contemporary city. As London’s Victorian necropolises are gradually reaching capacity, they are also fulfilling their prime function as burial grounds and started to adapt, by incorporating other functions such as: nature reserves, heritage sites, and incubators of local culture and subcultures. 157

MA ARCHITECTURAL VISUALISATION skills by introducing Autodesk’s Maya; software commonly used in the film and animation industry. Working alongside MSc Computer Animation and MSc Digital Visual Effects students, a series of exercises based in ‘digital’ film sets required the students to concentrate on camera technique, compositing and final output of their work. The MA course runs throughout the year and students are currently engaged with their major 2010/11 saw the start of our MA Architectural

project work, due to be submitted at the end of

Visualisation course, taught in co-operation with

the summer vacation. Given the strength of the

the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. The

work submitted so far, the attainment of this

course is designed to allow students with an

inaugural cohort promises to be high.

architectural or similar background to specialise in the communication and visualisation of

Howard Griffin

architectural and urban spaces. In September,

Programme Director

the students engaged with their first taste of 3D Studio MAX Design, using it to create both CATALOGUE 2011

architectural and non-architectural environments. Exercises in lighting, materiality, animation and organic modelling energised the class to create realistic yet dynamic images and films. The course is primarily focused with the moving image and, to this end, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts begin to develop students’

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STUDY ABROAD Erasmus and ENSAP This year as every year we have been pleased to host at least one Erasmus exchange student from our established Erasmus partner School in Lille, France, the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille (ENSAP). This year Charles undertook a blend of modules largely centred in the MArch programme Witnessing first-hand the benefits of study abroad this year we have added the option of a’ term abroad’ to the MArch programme and sent our first Erasmus pioneer, Julien, to Lille for the Autumn term of his Stage 5. He returned in the Spring to feedback his cultural experiences to the Stage 5 design studio.

Study Abroad and Virginia Tech

have not been limited to Erasmus, and we are delighted to announce that KSA have joined the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) consortia of overseas schools of architecture. Virginia Tech has its

STUDY ABROAD

But our advances in study abroad opportunities

metropolitan ‘graduate’ Washington-Alexandria Architecture Centre, (WAAC) located in Old Town Alexandria, immediately adjacent to Washington DC. As part of the 2010/11 MArch USA Fieldtrip, a party of MArch students were hosted by VT WAAC students and given an opportunity to learn more about their unique facility. For 2011/12 KSA will send two Stage 5 MArch student pioneers there for a whole ‘year abroad’. 159

COMMUNICATIONS The ability to communicate is an essential skill in every architect and designer. Our graduating students this year have learned to develop and harness these skills. I must congratulate our third year students for creating such a diverse and dynamic presentation of their projects. In particular I must applaud students those third year students who have amply illustrated that the pen and paper, paint and canvas and even needle and thread are appropriate media to

communicate their designs and ideas. However, I must also pay tribute to the sterling work by

of the previous year. Piloting the new Personal

our fifth year students, particularly using digital

Development Plan software for the Unit for the

media and the ‘UNREAL’ games engine.

Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (UELT), MyFolio, the students were able to blog and

The Interdisciplinary Option in Stage 3 this year

dissect their learning, enabling them to benefit

has produced another feast of visual media,