2016: Architecture + Spatial Design

Architecture + Spatial Design :

Elizabeth Akamo : Home + Identity – Invisible Citizens Architecture + Spatial Design

‘Yeah, I live here, but its not my home’ focuses on the sense of displacement and isolation felt by those marginalised in society. This spatial intervention, located in an easily accessible space at King’s Cross, transfers this sense to the visitors with its conceptual exploration of social disengagement and loneliness.

The wooden pillars lining the path of the underground passage create an intense experience and feeling of disorientation, confusing the ideas of safety and danger. The displaced tiles make suspended seating, leaving openings for view of the underground maze.

This experience will encourage the visitor to think about home, displacement and marginalisation.

Progression: BA Architecture | University of Kent

Zhaniya Alimzhanova : Biomimicry Architecture + Spatial Design

Following the principles of the Burning Man festival, I have designed a temporary structure for people visiting Botany Bay. The inspiration for the concept comes from termite mounds, in which tiny living organisms work together as a social group in order to produce a massive living space. Similarly, people at the beach start building a biomimetic construction from nothing, and after a short period of time set it on fire and let it burn into the sea. It is not only the structure that people build, but also a strong community filled with passion and synergy.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Lou-Elena Bouey : Shaping The Spiritual Architecture + Spatial Design

Is there a common architectural language between the world’s main religions?

In a context of increasing xenophobia following numerous terrorist attacks around the world, I wanted to create a space of neutral spirituality, inspired by the patterns found between different religious architectures. It aims to bring together, in harmony, people of all beliefs; inviting the users to reflect on the world and themselves.

Situated at the heart of London, almost floating above the water, it provides shelter from the hustle, noise and chaos of the city, opening itself only to the curious and openminded, its entrance revealed at the rhythm of the river’s tide.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Alexandra Boyko : Interactive Public Architecture Architecture + Spatial Design

My theme, Interactive Public Architecture, was inspired by the Oslo Opera House by Snohetta. In this project I wanted to explore the idea of interactive architecture and negotiate the boundaries between the inside and the outside activity.

I designed a space that promotes free entertainment as well as provides enclosed, private spaces in public. It is located in the northern part of Hyde park and is aimed at the park’s general public. The façade of my design is accessible.

It is covered in grass and can be used as a recreational area. In real life my construction would be made out of concrete, wood and plastic.

Progression: BA Architecture | Kingston University

Finn Crawford : City B612 Architecture + Spatial Design

Inspired by the story of ‘The Little Prince’, City B612 is an exploration and thus a demonstration of how common perspectives of architecture and the urban environment can change when processed by the mind of a child. From following a nine-yearold’s journey through the city of London, this project draws from the observations the child makes regarding key locations of the city which are believed to represent various aspects of the people within. These observations then culminate into series visualisations to form an image of how an inexperienced imagination can perceive London and to allow more adult minds to reflect on how they themselves could have previously viewed the city.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Katarzyna Dabrowska : Unfixed State of Nostalgia Architecture + Spatial Design

Memories can be only taken back by the creativity of reconstruction.

To start capturing the nostalgic past we need to consider it as a continuity of where we are at now.

Fluid, almost vague looking form represents the flow and continuity throughout time. By exposing selected views the viewer is able to explore the unknown surroundings, make a connection with a place from the past and bring it back into memories. The project was based on the development of materials with a strong focus on casting in plaster and additional plastic manipulations.

Progression: BSc Architecture | UCL

ZhaoJing Deng : Biomimicry with Light Architecture + Spatial Design

This theme was inspired by the book Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn.

My idea is about how the function of animals influence our daily life.

The shadows will have lots of forms when the sunlight lights up different materials on the floor. I chose Paternoster Square to be my final site – this is a financial area. The building I want to design is a garden which provides an area for people to take a breather.

Specifically, I used the wings of butterfly and the butterfly effect to developed my form, then I made the top with burned plastic. The shape of the biomimetic pattern will be transformed into a beautiful shadow when the sunlight hits it.

My final proposal is a semi-open space with indoor garden.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Nata Dzhmukhadze : Adaptation – Living Architecture Architecture + Spatial Design

Throughout my childhood, I’ve always found contentment by looking at the behaviour of nature – the idea of biomimetic architecture has always fascinated me. My final outcome was influenced deeply by my investigation of the spider web, and imitates its structure. While developing my final outcome, I’ve come to an idea of connecting our earth to something even more magical and mysterious – space. I wanted my design to be educational: it consists of an exhibition room on the ground floor and a planetarium on the upper level. I have decided to place my structure in a quiet, empty space in Hyde park, so that people can fully harmonise with nature.

Progression: BA Architecture | tbc

Bee Eldridge : Architecture The Influence of Colour and + Spatial Light on Our Perception of Design Functional Spaces

I am fascinated by colour and the way it reacts with light. For this project I have used light and colour to transform a space, altering how it is perceived and experienced.

The space is an abandoned warehouse in Wapping, Tobacco Dock, a once thriving area. I have created a journey around the site, which utterly transforms the internal spaces, bringing it back to life by introducing mixtures of colour, reflections, patterns and shadows.

These constantly vary as light levels change, meaning the space is no longer static, but continually changing. Providing a unique and personal experience for each and every journey and provoking different reactions, interactions and perceptions. For my final model I have used coloured transparent acrylic enhanced by lighting, to convey the ever changing atmospheric mood of the space.

Progression: BA Interior Architecture | Oxford Brookes

Giovanna Fava Mitrani : Home Away From Home Architecture + Spatial Design

Based on my experience away from my home country, Brazil, my theme is to use architecture beyond its purely aesthetic and functional qualities but as a way of discovering comfort in a new environment. I have chosen to contrast the use of bricks in London with the use of tiles and colour in Sao Paulo.

The proposal is located in East London as it is my current home, and especially as it has a history of being a home for immigrants. I have explored plaster, wood and mosaic to create the form and atmosphere, and used maps as inspiration for my patterns.

Progression: tbc

Rony Hamze : Traffic Architecture + Spatial Design

Traffic in the city started to increase over time, getting from point A to point B is becoming a more difficult task. With some simple adjustments to our road systems we could increase the majority of traffic movement by 50%. Using my craftsmanship and basic sketch knowledge I was able to create a design that fits all my major key targets (vehicles/ cyclists/pedestrians) with plastic tubing and cardboard I was able to recreate the site location at Blackfriars Bridge.

Progression: Aviation Engineering | Australian College of Kuwait (Results Pending)

Nicholas Hasbani : Sense + Immersive Architecture Architecture + Spatial Design

The senses of sight, sound and touch encourage people to flow and discover instinctively. The space evolved into one of connection and immersion, allowing the experience to be one of primal intuition. The multiple levels, colours, lights, textures, shapes and ambiance will fuel one’s appetite for knowledge of the new and the unknown.

Coloured materials reflecting, refracting and projecting light allow the user to experience illusions and to be bathed in colour, evoking personal emotion.

Guiding people from the area in and around the front of the Royal Festival Hall (e.g. tourists, skaters and local office workers) will create a communal space where users will mix and explore together.

As each minute passes, the sun sets, giving the users opportunities to bask in new lights, new shadows and new experiences.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Holly Hatfield : Refugee Theatre Architecture + Spatial Design

When researching communities recovering after a crisis, I found that Calais’ Syrian refugee camp, ‘The Jungle’, had a theatre – a place that gave users an escape from the world around them. My proposal is a theatre in London, allowing refugees to integrate with new communities through storytelling. Speakers’ Corner, a symbol of free speech in London, is the ideal location. I have dug down to create amphitheatreesque seating inspired by ancient Syrian theatres. The addition to the site is a metal and latex roof, signifying rubber refugee dinghies, thousands of which have been left along Mediterranean coasts.

Progression: BSc Architecture | UCL

Jollie Johnson : Biomimicry Architecture + Spatial Design

My project is based on Biomimicry which is the design and production of materials, structures and systems that are modelled on biological entities and processes.

My final outcome was developed from beehive structures but I wanted to create something that was more abstract but still a strong structure. I have used wood, acetate and lichen to create my model which represent the wood glass and wall plants I could use were the structure made full size.

My design is located in an shopping centre pavilion so that people have somewhere to sit eat and socialise as there isn’t a place to do so.

Progression: tbc

Yibeijia Li : Narrative Architecture + Spatial Design

“Narrative is often seen as a form of representation bound with sequence, space and time. But it is also regarded ‘as structure, a particular way of combining parts to make a whole’ or as narration, as the process or the activity bound effects on a perceiver.”

– Sophia Psarra.

A remarkably thin and permeable structure provides the most ephemeral interpretation of an outdoor temporary shelter. Within these geometrical surroundings the lights are manipulated by the structure but still keeps its nature, feels like every moment is a story.

Rectangles sized to the human body, introducing guests in the liminal space or maybe confusing them between the rational and abstract, and this is my storytelling.

Progression: tbc

Maximilian Master : The Loop Architecture + Spatial Design

The Loop is a multi-faceted proposal which seeks to address the issues of food sustainability, urban isolation and a shortage of suitable development land. The location for this proposal is the M25 orbital motorway, a 117 mile long ring which encircles London like a noose. By moving this road below ground the subsequent reclaimed space can be used as the site for a series of agriculture based communities. Individuals living within The Loop will thrive in an environment that fosters powerful community ties and enables residents to escape the anonymity of the city.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Harry Mortimer : Finding Function in Negative Space Architecture + Spatial Design

I wanted to find a way to give negative space a function, and therefore give a use to something that doesn’t exist. My final outcome is a stepped intervention in Paternoster Square which solves the problem of a lack of seating.

I created voids in the ground, and raised areas to be utilised as seating for the people who eat lunch in Paternoster Square on a daily basis. My final model is not complicated, it was created using only one technique: Plaster casting. This successfully, and simply, gave my final model the aesthetic I wanted.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Aleksandra Mukanaeva : Sensory Spaces Architecture + Spatial Design

My project Sensory Spaces is a reflection on people’s behaviour in an interactive way. For better understanding of the concept I have made a cross-sectional model of the garden at the Victoria & Albert Museum where my proposal is located. The main idea is that people sitting at the fountain are curious about others who walk under the water. They are moving through the pavilion down to the exhibition hall under the pond. The whole point is to direct the audience to go through the layers of perception and make them experience different stages during their journey, through the green sunny pavilion, using the pathway to reach the underground mysterious halls.

Progression: BA Interior + Spatial Design | Chelsea College of Arts

Onkunya Ruengworadakul : Live Like a Nomad Architecture + Spatial Design

Nomads are people who constantly move from place to place. Through researching a nomadic lifestyles, the outcome emerged as a mobile living unit. Cheaper than hotels, and more private than hostels, the unit will accommodate anyone who wants to stay short-term.

Tourists travelling in London can choose to stay in many locations economically. Business people who have the need to move around London can choose to stay in this accommodation as well. There are four sites which can be selected across London: Hammersmith, Canary Wharf, Bloomsbury, and Kings Cross. The individual unit can be booked online, and the unit will be delivered to the selected location.

Progression: BA Spatial Design | London College of Communication

Peter Salman : Contamination Architecture + Spatial Design

The theme in consideration for my project was contamination. I aimed to investigate a visual mechanism with the idea of eliminating the ‘invisible’ threat of diseases.

I explored contamination through the rusting of steel and copper for the façade, all the way through to growing my own bacterial cultures.

The pavilion aims to draw users in off the street through the explosive form, symbolising how viruses can break out at any time. The germs are filtered into the agar-lined ceiling from the hospital, creating a living roof aimed at instigating a sense of empathy in the user for the sickness within the building.

Progression: BA Architecture | Oxford Brookes

Yuxuan Shi : From Moganshan Road to Hackney Wick Architecture + Spatial Design

When I first visited Hackney Wick, I got the same feeling as I do on Shanghai’s Moganshan Road.

Both areas are post-industrial zones. Cheap and large interior spaces attracted more and more artists, who transformed the postindustrial zones to an artistic area and made buildings shiny again.

So what is the next step? When developers found the cultural value of this area, they started destroying old factories and built modern apartments. In this project, I transformed the roof of the original building as the individual landscape, integrated the space and designed a community centre above an original building.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Rebeca Thomas : Perception of Architecture Architecture + Spatial Design

A bridge that changes perception through movement, manipulating light and sensory aspects. Casting shadows as the roof pieces move, it changes its own image, and of Southbank Centre, whilst celebrating the surrounding cultural community.

The design of a new level explores layering within the site providing new access points, unifying the three main buildings. Influenced by Architects including: Calatrava, Fujimori and Heatherwick, this design is modern yet remains organic, creating a contrast between the Modernist and Brutalist Architecture, through design materials opposing that of the Southbank.

This bridge acts as a passage and an attraction where people can see over the River Thames. The motion of the bridge is governed by wind, ultimately powering the structure.

Progression: BA Architecture | University of Sheffield

Isabella Yurtsever : Mobile Architecture – Rebuilding Communities Architecture + Spatial Design

At the beginning of this project, I aimed to answer the questions: What is home? What is community?

Do these things have to be solely physical or can they be mobile? For decades architects and designers have been exploring the potential of a portable environment. I began to explore this potential in relation to how mobile architecture can rebuild homes and recreate a sense of place for those affected by disasters. I responded by designing a mobile floating home, consisting of a pre-cut metal caging that would be delivered flat-packed to a flood site. Once the structure had been slotted together, a tensile, waterproof skin would be stretched over the outside to create shelter.

With climate change increasing water levels, this concept could be applied worldwide, and used by any victim in need of urgent shelter.

Progression: BA Architecture | Central Saint Martins

Sakshi Zanwar : Lost in Time‌ and Now? Architecture + Spatial Design

My model is an attempt to design a vibrant dance floor in a cool club in North Greenwich, London. At the front will be an elevated platform with a circular dance stage for performers and dancers who want to be noticed. Small circular mini dance floors will surround the elevated platform providing opportunities for merrymakers to celebrate with their groups of friends. The mirror above is an attempt to accentuate the overall ambience by taking the revellers to a state of trance and imparting a feeling of being ‘Lost in Time’. This model is wooden and also uses transparent and mirrored acrylic sheets. In the real world, I would use wood, metals and glass to bring my vision to life.

Progression: tbc