Foundation Course & First Year
7Y First Year students are exposed to architecture by translating visual references, thoughts, intuitions and briefs produced through forms of design, writing and argument. Work from this year’s explorations is collected into the six words: Muses vs Nemeses, In and Out and Primitive Worlds. Muses collected investigations that reacted to exemplary architecture projects, texts from poetry to lyrics, and images by artists and illustrators. Students translated this material into new readings, which took the form of indexical models, projects for buildings and visual essays. Nemeses, in contrast to Muses, collected work that embraced unexpected spaces and inhabitations. Students undertook weekly explorations of the complexity of a design proposal by constantly reacting to a series of unknown, often opposing parameters, including change of scale, programme, tectonics and inhabitation. Following on from this, In and Out were used to construct a design sequence. For this brief, the First Year studio was divided into two large groups, with one designing rooms and spaces from the inside out and the other half focusing on cities, gardens and envelopes. We met in the ‘middle’ to arrange rooms inside buildings and to merge gardens with cities. Primitive gathered the discoveries that question, reconstruct and challenge basic architecture topics and elements. Alternative misuses of basic notions and elements were uncovered through the relentless making of raw models
and drawings. Worlds used hands -on experiments to translate stuff and emotions into a wider culture of architectural positions and projects. These positions then became characters in visual stories constructed by the students, in which the actions and connections are all related to the figure of the architect, the audience and the world. Location Second Floor Head of First Year Monia De Marchi Studio Staff Fabrizio Ballabio Shany Barath Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Max Kahlen John Ng Students Matteo Agnoletto Olukoyejo Olanrewaju Akinkugbe Sophia Alami Gouraftei Maryam Abdulla Salem Mohammed Almana Alfalasi So Jae An Thanas Apilikitsmai Arya Arabshahi Alexander Christian Foss Ball Madalina Barnisca Janos Sebastian Bergob-Sowicz Carolin Adele Bongartz Francesco Catemario Di Quadri Yee Thong Chai Lara Chamandi Jiehui Chen Janice Yan Ji Chow Sze Chai Marco Chui Jeanne Sophie Charlotte Clerc Adolfo Del Valle Dominika Demlova Gian Andrea Diana Elisavet Dimitriou Ali Hussein Mohammed El-Hashimi Caroline Esclapez Raphael Zwi Fogel Giovanni Roberto Franzan Vidhi Goel Omer Hadar Antonin Hautefort Chiyan Ho
Michael Ho Juana Horcajo Rubi Veronika Janovcova Oskar Frederick Johanson Kyung Kuk Kang Mikolaj Robert Karczewski Mizue Katayama Jinah Kim Adi Krainer Chi Tou Lam Ronghua Lei Kevin See-Yat Leung Yixuan Li Mingyi Lim Cho Ying Lydia Liu Li Zhi Loh Yuen Yi Elizabeth Low Ioana Man Julie Mikkelsen Ali Mirzaei Jaeseung Nam Katayoun Nekourouymotlagh Ananya Nevatia Thao Phuong Nguyen Timothy James O’Hare Sahir Jayshil Patel Jonas Phillip Simon Popp Natacha Pradere Olimpia Presutti Celine Elia Lea Lavinia Przedborski Sadia Rahman Nabil Randeree Russell Royer Milivoje Sestovic Raya Shaban Hana Shokr Esha Sikander Irene Squilloni Susanna Steuerman- Kinston Elias Michael Tamer Ao Tan Ines Tazi Tuan Anh Tran Umberto Varricchio Yat Ching Marcus Yau Zhou Yu Jiahui Yuan