Architecture Programmes Review 2018

Architecture 2018 BA(Hons) Architecture & Master of Architecture Projects Review

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Architecture 2018 BA(Hons) Architecture & Master of Architecture Projects Review

Contents BA(Hons) Architecture

3 First Year 5 The Anatomy of Buildings 7 A Place for Crafting 13 Second Year 21 Contextual Studies 23 Experimentations 25 Third Year 33 Weather or Not 35 Comprehensive Design Project 39 Master of Architecture 77 Year 1 Urban Design 79 Year 2 Urban Design 91 Specialist Study 112 Housing 116 Thesis Project 131 Study Tours 154 Lancashire and Yorkshire 155 Berlin 157 Gdansk 159 Edinburgh 161 External Engagement 163 Live Projects 165 Exhibitions and Events 170 Research 174 Architecture Society 178

Welcome This is a year of anniversaries for Architecture at LJMU. In September 1958 the ‘Liverpool College of Building’ had its first intake of Architecture students. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in Liverpool’s 2008 European Capital of Culture year, and in that same year we moved into the newly completed John Lennon Art & Design Building, which brought the multiple programmes of the then recently formed Liverpool School of Art and Design into one bespoke building for the first time. 10 years on and the School continues to invest in new technologies with a new virtual reality suite under construction this summer, and continues to form new collaborative links, in the UK with RIBA North, and abroad with the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.

Last year we received an unconditional five year validation from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and the Malaysian Board of Architects (LAM) and unconditional four-year prescription from the Architects Registration Board (ARB). The RIBA Visiting Board commended; • Architecture staff for their collegiate approach to course delivery and strong commitment to the student experience.

• The School of Art and Design for its continuing civic engagement with the city region through strong links to its cultural institutions.

• Architecture Programmes for their focus on urban design projects across a range of scales evident in the work of MArch students.

At undergraduate level during the last year Liverpool and the North West region have been used as a contextual laboratory to test concepts that have a local flavour with global implications, whilst the postgraduate studios undertook explorations further afield. Programmatic ambitions emanate from a thorough analysis of, and intuitive response to place. The over-arching ambition of our Programmes is to create graduates with artistic flair who engage in divergent, creative and critical thought processes and who are also technically skilled and grounded in the demands of the professional role of the architect.

We have continued to run a rich schedule of academic events throughout the year. Over last summer staff and students curated ‘A New Cathedral 1960’ an exhibition of selected entries for the architectural competition for the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. In September, we hosted a two day conference ‘Doing Dementia Design 2017’ in collaboration with Liverpool Dementia Action Alliance.

In October and February we ran workshops abroad in Gdansk and Berlin, the former forming the basis of most for the MArch Urban Design studio work this year. We exhibited drawings and models from the these studios as ‘Transitions’, and from the undergraduate studio ‘Weather or Not’, in January. In recent months staff and students helped curate and guide the public around ‘Shouldn’t Throw Stones – The View of a Night Watchman’ an exhibition in the former Pilkington Glass Headquarters buildings in St Helens.

In May we built an installation for Liverpool Light Night festival in response to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, giving viewers an alternative interpretation of the distorted places found in Lewis Carroll’s literature.

I would like to thank our student Architecture Society, for continuing to organise such a rich variety guest lectures and social events. I would also thank the guest tutors and critics that play such a vital role in enriching our studio culture. Thank you, also to our catalogue sponsors, we take pride in our links with them and their support. Finally congratulations to all our graduating students, whose work you will find within these pages, we wish them well for the future. It is never possible to capture the full vibrancy of the School but I hope the contents of this document provide a taste of its creative energy.

Ian Wroot, Architecture & Urban Design Programmes Leader May 2018 Liverpool John Moores University - Architecture 2018

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The BA(Hons) programme is thoughtfully balanced to address the creative and technical demands of the profession. Taught principally through a studio environment that is seamlessly underpinned and informed by lectures and workshops addressing architectural design theory, practice issues, and structural and environmental building technologies. The over-arching ambition of the programme is to create graduates with artistic flair, who are technically skilled and grounded in the demands of the professional role of the architect.

The learning and teaching environment is progressively informed by pedagogic research in the creative field. While teaching the curriculum, the programme also develops less tangible skills in students, such as communication, presentation and self-motivation. A key ambition is to create independent thinkers, adept at resolving problems with creativity and originality.

A broad educational experience is offered within which students develop diverse, rigorous and creative approaches to design issues that explore and test appropriate resolutions in relation to contemporary and anticipated contexts.

Design projects form the backbone of teaching. They are primers to a creative and critical thought process.

As students progress through the Degree, the design projects gradually become larger in scale, more complex and ambitious in their intentions. At Degree level the city of Liverpool is predominantly used as a contextual laboratory to test concepts that have a local flavour with global implications.

BA Staff Gary Brown Ed Butler Ming Chung Mark Doyle David Heathcote Joanne Hudson Caspar Jones Philip Lo Robert MacDonald Anthony Malone Gladys Masey Athanassios Migos Mike Ollis Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki Jamie Scott Charlie Smith Simon Tucker

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The First Year Programme endeavours to introduce to the student the fundamental skills necessary to engage in their architectural education.

This challenge requires a balance between objective tasks such as the reading and representation of ideas via drawings and other media, developed as a new language, and the instilling of a mindset where research synthesis feeds the students’ interpretative faculties in their exploration of the year’s thematic concerns: Light, Space and Form.

In order to nurture haptic representational and exploratory capabilities, students were encouraged to learn, practise and conduct hand-drawing and physical model-making as a necessary means to immerse themselves in the design process. A number of dedicated Studio Workshops ran in parallel to studio tutorials to support this ambition.

First Year

In The Anatomy of Buildings, students conducted their studies in small groups and concluded with work that demonstrates their research, analysis and understanding of a seminal building. There was an expectation that compositional and theoretical stances derived from their studies would be presented as part of their team enquiry.

The first semester concluded with Archifilm; students were asked to firstly investigate three fundamental architectural conditions: obelisk, enclosure and aedicule by resorting to a kit of parts: columns / beams, planes, (walls and floors) ramps and stair elements.

This initial stage served to further their enquiry through thematic interpretations for a Playhouse or Temple / Shrine. These open typologies motivated students to explore places (space making) whilst devising their own narratives. Explorations were conducted with the aid of photography and film making techniques.

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The single project of the second semester builds from experiences and skills acquired from the first semester, with design objectives being recapitulated more comprehensively and ambitiously.

In this respect, A Place for Crafting, introduced to the students the processes of integrated design: the research of a subject (craft), the exploration of context (the street and the corner) and the integration of design and technology. The project provided an opportunity for students to focus on their chosen subject and they were actively encouraged to arrive at their own interpretation; this served as a catalytic directive for their design.

Students were asked to consider the act of building as an activity integral to design. Therefore, technology, construction, materiality and lighting studies were conducted with the aim to enrich space making as a conscious experiential enquiry.

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The year is a vital stage in the transition from fundamental understandings of the subject towards a personal critical position, achieved with the completion of the Degree.

To enable this there is more freedom in Second Year to explore radical conceptions and challenging contexts.

There are opportunities for students to be experimental and explorative in architectural design thinking, production and representation. The complexities of the city become the setting for the investigation and application of ideas. The acts of researching, understanding and applying, as techniques within a design process are demonstrated and practiced.

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Students are introduced to principles of design at this scale through lectures, studio workshops, a detailed study of an urban space, and the Workshop Abroad to a European city.

A strategically significant site in close proximity to Liverpool city centre was provided, although the specific boundaries of students’ explorations were fluid and could be delineated as project work developed.

Initially the students worked in small groups, which reinforces the importance of collaborative working.

Initially they researched and analysed the area of investigation, and then designed a masterplan strategy for the regeneration of the site. Emphasis was placed on thoughtful consideration and articulation of massing in three dimensions so as to define urban squares, spaces and their landscapes, and on imagining the activities and programmes that would animate them.

Each masterplan evolved from a conceptual idea derived from the group’s interrogation of fabric and space within the city, aligned with consideration of sustainability and an understanding of permeability and relationships between public and private realms. The groups sought to present a coherent vision for a revitalised fabric of streets, squares and spaces, and the massing that defines them, based on clear thematic principles.

These masterplans provided the framework and context for the second stage of the design work, in which each student chose an urban space or structure within the masterplan to develop at a larger scale. These designs considered ways in which such an element within an urban composition can become a place of activity and intervention. Students were encouraged to explore how their designs would be experienced by those who move through them, via eye-level studies, and propose how people would meaningfully occupy those places over time.

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The second semester of Second Year is a period during which students are actively encouraged to make experimental architectural investigations. They are given significant creative freedom to explore their own understanding of what constitutes ‘architectural design’, and students have numerous opportunities to be conceptual and abstract in their design thinking, process, production and representation.

The studio tutors each offered a different project brief, and students could choose their preferred options.

However, these briefs are seen very much as launching pads, which students creatively interpret when defining their project’s trajectory, potentially transgressing the boundaries of architecture and venturing into other disciplines and fields. Research conducted during the early stages of the project is drawn together as an essay, to crystallise students’ initial explorations and signal the transition to design studies.

Each studio project group devised and established their challenges and objectives for research, interpretation, developmental studies and potential design responses.

Some projects creatively interrogate a given building type, others explore design much more through process rather than programme. In some instances a site was given, in others the site was determined as part of the creative exploration of the project, or alternatively, the project was explored in an abstract context. Studio Workshops during this semester were themed to complement the students’ experimental development of their project work.

There were five projects in total: Design for Migration The Library of the Future Repetition and Difference The State We’re In Temporary Architecture

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Design for Migration

Migration is a phenomenon occurring in both the natural world and in human societies. Migration and Design considered selected aspects of migration including permanence and transience, place and dwelling, and migration as journey. Students explored examples, processes and patterns of migration in order to discover connections and symbiotic relationships between design and the natural world and to inform ‘design for future migrations’.

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The Library of the Future

Are libraries needed when a world of information can be held in the palm of one hand? Libraries have a rich history spanning thousands of years, but in the recent past debate has raged over their future – particularly due to the growth of digital information. In the last two decades the concept of “what is a library?” has changed more than in the previous two millennia. As a civic building libraries form an important part of the public realm of towns and cities, providing spaces for a collection of activities as diverse as meeting, playing, relaxing, conversing, debating, socialising, seducing and sheltering, as well as reading. The project explored the theoretical boundaries of a building type straddled between digital and civic space.

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Repetition and Difference

This project anticipated an exploration of the potential of spatial permutations meaning that all things were possible. It proposed an emphasis on processes as the producers of serial things, and upon an exploration of folding that develops edges and thresholds perceptually and conceptually through real and virtual models. There was a series of abstract explorations to initiate the project which constituted creative processes as formal play. Methodologies of testing the potential usefulness of particular selected spatial formats were researched and developed. The selected spatial formulations were developed into tectonic forms through these methodologies.

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The State We’re In

Liverpool is a trading city. It is a major port for imports and exports, based on a modern and highly mechanised containerisation model. However the river is not the only potential border. Where does ‘there’ end and ‘here’ begin? The boundary between any two ‘things’ - states (sovereign), states (of matter) - is A not THE definition in many cases. In the resolution of the project students responded to theoretical investigations on the nature of boundary. From here they were free to propose a construction based on the typology of their choice.

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Temporary Architecture

This opportunity has its origins in a ‘live’ project sited in Liverpool, a temporary structure proposed as a catalyst for regeneration. The reality of manufacture, construction, dismantling and reconstruction was at the forefront of the design agenda. Experimentation was fundamental to the development of this building type, not only in terms of structure and construction, but also in terms of social interaction. Likewise consideration of the methods of transportability was also integral to the design process.

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Architecture is conceived of as emerging from and responding to a holistic context of contemporary cultural, programmatic and environmental issues. The aim of the year is the synthesis of these diverse elements into a holistic experiential matrix. The year is split by two projects in both of which this integrated aim is emphasised.

The initial project is a small but complex proposition undertaken over a ten week period as preparation for the major Comprehensive Design Project which takes up the remainder of the academic year.

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Climate change, weather and architecture

Following from the idea that ecological conscience and literacy should become a central tenet of design education, this project required students to interpret climate change, interact with weather phenomena and consider how design could be embedded within a broader system. Knowing that climate is a constructed notion, how could we re-shape it and its implications for our holistic understanding of the world, our ways of building and living in it? How could we address climate change in a more encompassing way, elaborating the fundamentals of meteorology, aerography, hydrology, or even gravity?

The fact that ecology and architecture start to share responsibility in the implications of climate change means that future solutions will need to respond to both architectural needs and ecological imperatives: how do we design for uncertainty? And, how could we continue to occupy an environment that is consistently inconsistent? If architecture seems to have a significant impact in maintaining climatic balance, is there a way to envision a more aggressive and radical (architectural) response to climate change? And if ‘safeguarding’ the climate became the new goal of architecture, could climate itself become the resource and tool of this architecture?

In an attempt to address climate change, extreme weather phenomena and the dramatic shifts in water levels, this project asked studentsto imagine an observation centre of climate change; a weather station.

In 2015, floods affected the Lake District National Park. Storm Desmond, the 3rd major storm to affect the Lake District in a decade, broke the UK’s 24-hour rainfall record with 341.4mm (13.4in) of rain (Honister Pass, Cumbria). Situated in Keswick, three site options were suggested, including a hill, a lake and a river location.

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The final project is termed the Comprehensive Design Project (CDP). This aptly describes its objectives ‘to pursue a design project proposal that is comprehensively researched, developed and resolved in a holistic manner through the presentation of drawings and models.’ This is an option project and briefing primers are presented by design tutors as directional aids. Students select one of these to pursue whilst developing their own ‘unique design character’. Design drives the project and supporting studies such as history and theory, technology and practice, and materiality and detailing are synthesised into the design process. Studio work with one to one tutorials and regular reviews underpin the project.

The six primers and examples of project work are presented in the following pages.

Dance and Drama School In the beginning, we are simply infused with movement - not merely with a propensity to move, but with the real thing.

This primal animateness, this original kinetic spontaneity that infuses our being and defines our aliveness is our point of departure for living in the world and making sense of it. […] We literally discover ourselves in movement. We grow kinetically into our bodies. In particular, we grow into those distinctive ways of moving that come with our being the bodies we are. In our spontaneity of movement, we discover arms that extend, spines that bend, knees that flex, mouths that shut, and so on. We make sense of ourselves in the course of moving”. (Maxine Sheets Johnstone, 1999.)

The aim of the project was to research, develop and design a new building for Dance and Drama for the students and staff of LJMU Dance and Drama courses. The new facility was proposed as being located opposite the Everyman Theatre in the gap site currently occupied by an intensive porta-cabin set up off Hope Street. The building should fully utilise the concept of movement to both orchestrate and display itself: it is movement that should create the spaces and the spaces should reciprocally display this movement. The tectonic matrix should be conceived of as a series of temporal event platforms with an ‘nth’ potential of becoming. The fluxes and flows of exchanges between these main event platforms should also be conceived of as eventful encounters.

Possible spaces may include: a large dance studio perhaps capable of being opened to be an external/internal performance platform with audience; a black box theatre with a back stage area; a number of medium sized multipurpose studios for dance or drama practice; a number of smaller seminar practice rooms; prop store; costume store; scenery and model workshop; staff rooms; changing rooms and technical support and finally a feature cafe/ reception in which daily life is performance and could also accommodate staged events.

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Make Space The Maker can be seen as an extension of society. The issues with which he wrestles are not his alone. They are everyman’s. He participates in the conversation of his field and the broader conversations of his culture. The current of ideas passes through him and returns to the body politic with whatever charge he puts on it. – Peter Korn The North has historically been shaped by the acts of invention and making. The First Industrial Revolution (1.0) harnessed these acts, transforming urban, rural and social landscapes with new connections, mechanisation, and ultimately mass-production. Canals and rivers were instrumental in enabling this transformation, connecting people, places and markets, and forming critical trade routes, along which new towns grew and cities expanded.

Now, the internet and new digital tools are facilitating a new Industrial Revolution (4.0). As digital sharing, manufacturing technologies, and the Maker Movement develop, the way goods and services are made and distributed is being redrawn, without the rigid hierarchies of the past – resonating with Walter Gropius’ vision for the Bauhaus as ‘a new guild of craftsmen, without class distinctions.’ Similarly, the once industrial waterways are being re-purposed to again act as conduits.

This project asked how the creative energy of the past can be re-established within a 21st Century context. The intention was to research, develop and design a creative hub - a place of invention, making, and creativity, engaging with both the historical and social contexts of the site and city. It was suggested that the programme could include (but not be limited to): event spaces, gathering spaces, studios, makerspaces, exhibition/gallery spaces, FabLab workshop, public internal/external spaces, a canal boat workshop. The site was located in Liverpool’s North Docks, adjacent to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Stanley Dock Branch. The site area was bounded to the west by Great Howard Street, a key arterial route from the city centre, and to the east by the Merseyrail Northern Line viaduct.

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Hermitage and Monastery The genesis of this project is the Hermitage in the Hoggar Mountains, Sahara Desert. The intention of this brief was to explore designing an isolated utopian project on a natural island landscape, Hilbre Island; a utopian architecture in a utopian location during times of extreme social change globally.

A hermitage is a utopian architectural project supporting a community of hermits: it is especially remote, a refuge, a haven, a sanctuary, a sanctum, a hideaway, a hideout, hiding place or a shelter.

The hermitage could be described as a place where hermits live in groups and alone, far from society; it is a selfsufficient settlement in terms of slow spirituality, energy, food and water, power and the ecosystem. It could also be considered as an experimental utopian community which sets out to explore human future living in the sciences and the arts.

Seeking inspiration from driftwood, seaweed, shells, seals, bird life, water, sand, cast iron, and observatories, the programme for this brief was based on the idea and concept of a living and creative Monastery. Spaces could include: dwelling for the hermit; spaces for the disciplines of hermits; spiritual spaces for contemplation; spaces for meditative creative activities; spaces for observation of nature; space for sustainable foods and fishing, etc.

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Liverpool School of Architecture Education in architecture was in the past based on an apprentice system, embedding students in practice. During the nineteenth century, offering an alternative to university education on one hand and to industrybased apprenticeships on the other, the polytechnics were placed at the intersection between science and art, technology and craft, making and research. The university based system became gradually disconnected from the stated intentions of the profession.

Whilst the studio has been the focus of architectural education, recent studies have been examining how it should evolve to reflect the reality of architectural practice. Intending to overcome the dichotomy between the architectural profession – which is a collaborative field with team-led initiatives – and architectural education – which is often devoid of such partnerships – schools of architecture are incorporating design-build projects into their curriculums as a pragmatic solution oriented towards addressing such differences. The idea of universities becoming “flexible armatures for various activities beyond their immediate institutional demands” enhances an understanding of the School of Architecture as a public amenity, and an urban extension. Following from this, how could the academic environment contribute towards a new understanding of architecture as an opportunity to incrementally investigate spatial opportunities? How could an education space embrace interaction with craftsmanship, real clients and real social economic contexts in order to remove the abstraction from architectural education?

This brief intended to develop an understanding of the School of Architecture as a new environment, addressing the usual characteristics of an educational space and responding to the ‘emerging approaches’ of thinking, learning and doing architecture. Conceived as a microcosm and first experience of a building that is “perceptually comfortable” and “emotionally resonant”, the Liverpool School of Architecture will be the merger of the School of Architecture of the University of Liverpool and the Architecture Programmes of Liverpool John Moores University. The location for this brief was the current car-parking at the Dukes Dock, between the Albert Dock and the Echo Arena. The brief allowed a diversification of spaces laid out inside and outside of the building, and encouraged an understanding of the School of Architecture as a place open to the phenomena of social gathering. In embracing the ‘urbanity’ of an educational building, this brief asked to expand the potential of an education building to become a space where city and architectural community could interact.

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Material Considerations The point of departure for this brief was an exploration of the qualities of materials of construction, along with the techniques and craft of making buildings in a specific place.

Programmatic use was developed through the project, but it was a point of consideration that some buildings change use, and yet remain good pieces of architecture.

These ideas relate to some of the philosophical writings of Wittgenstein, who has been paraphrased to say ‘the meaning lies in the use’.

This brief looked at the qualities of design that make buildings that persist in time, and retain their value whilst their use, and the world around them changes.

Architects can now choose from a wealth of materials and methods of construction, far more varied and complex than the palette available 100 years ago when English cities such as Liverpool had their largest period of growth. Traditional materials such as brick have qualities that are well documented and continue to be utilised today. However, economic pressures make traditional construction methods relatively expensive and alternate technologies are being constantly developed. Some of these technologies and larger scales of construction are visible in Liverpool’s active commercial docks where various large modern storage buildings continue to be constructed, and this project commenced with a survey of the wider docklands area.

‘Ten Streets’ is a recently defined area of historic warehousing just north of Liverpool city centre. Liverpool City Council and other interested parties, such as the owners of the Titanic Hotel, currently have ambitions for this area to become a new cultural and creative district. The intention of this brief was for students to develop their own appropriate programme of uses for a site they selected within the Ten Streets District. This programme was established through a study of the social and spatial context of this particular place, combined with consideration of personal interests and ambitions.

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Natural History Museum ‘Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.’ Rachel Carson The natural world has been a source of inspiration and wonder for the human race for millennia; yet it is only in recent decades that we have become deeply aware of its fragility. Nature can be both immensely powerful and robust, but at the same time is susceptible to ruinous human influences.

This project was considered as - in an abstract sense - an encapsulation of nature set in the artificial environment of the city, to inspire and enthuse people about the natural world. The Natural History Museum’s own stated purpose was to challenge the way people think about the natural world - its past, present and future - and focused on three key themes: origins and evolution, the Earth and diversity of life, and sustainable futures.

Within the region of the Northern Powerhouse, there has been a proliferation of outposts of institutions that have previously only had a presence in the south, and predominantly in London. These include Tate, the BBC and the Imperial War Museum. The northern outpost of the museum is not (only) a collection of skeletons and fossils.

It was expected to make a fundamental contribution to the debate about the future of the natural world, evolution, etc., in the context of numerous, largely anthropocentrically driven, environmental challenges.

The theme and the specifics of the programme were established during the research stage of the project.

Composed from more than gallery/exhibition spaces, the programme considered the balance between public spaces, and more private spaces that might be dedicated to associated activities such as archives, active research, analysis and study. The balance between internal spaces and external spaces was creatively explored as well, such as habitat gardens and external public realm, for example. Two sites were offered: a city centre location, on Water Street in Manchester and Pomona Island, between Manchester city centre and Salford Quays.

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The MArch programme focuses on sustained scholarly activity underpinned by the research interests of staff.

It engages in the strategic theme of Urbanism and is concerned with identifying the value of design thinking and practice in new urban contexts. It addresses questions around dwelling, health and well-being and public space, in a range of contexts, driven by an ambition to produce visionary strategies for sustainable urban futures. To this end the first year of the programme introduces the students to contemporary urban design theories and practice. Locating project work within Merseyside and abroad, students are encouraged to engage with cultural organisations, regional stakeholders and statutory authorities with the aim of producing creative, socioeconomically engaged architectural proposals. Students then follow strands of enquiry around the theme of dwelling in the city. Alongside this each student undertakes a year long Specialist Study as the basis for individual research proposals that aim to nourish their endeavours in the final year. The final year of the MArch offers opportunities for more in depth explorations emanating from group urban studies. Programmatic ambitions for thesis projects evolve from a thorough analytical and intuitive response to place.

Our students address realistic scenarios and engage with a range of collaborators in their project work. At times they work on ‘live projects’ developing ideas for clients of local organisations engaging with a wide range of external advisors and guest critics from professional practice. We host symposia and conferences to inspire and nourish their studies. At Masters level project work is often located outside of the UK, addressing global issues with reference to international best practice.

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The Master of Architecture programme has a long-term engagement with Second Tier Port Cities, through both research and project work. Urban Transitions and the Spatial In-Between continues this series of investigations by focusing on Liverpool and Gdansk. Once seen as “Cities on the Edge” (Davies, 2008) and conceptualised as “cities with rebellion running through their veins” (Groom, 2008) both have undergone much spatial, cultural and socio-economic change over the past decade.

Currently, both Liverpool and Gdansk are experiencing major investment and redevelopment of their port infrastructures.

Our five study areas for the Year 1 MArch projects, sit either in-between or on the edge of these future visions and reveal spaces where opposing conditions of global and local interests are exposed as unique and increasingly divergent.

Both ports historically supported mass local employment however as shipping infrastructures evolved and economic decline accelerated they became fragmented, with diminishing relationships to proximate territories. These ‘spatial Inbetweens’ provide an array of contingent economic, social, cultural and spatial issues, rife for investigation.

In Liverpool the two sites are directly north of the city centre, in an area targeted for future development by the city council.

They border the World Heritage Site, the Ten Streets district with its Spatial Regeneration Framework, and the longstanding but recently updated Liverpool Waters masterplan. The northern site has been brownfield, open land for many years and addresses the Stanley Dock branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the Tobacco Warehouse which is currently being developed into residential accommodation.

The southern site is the full extent of the retail park including Cost Co and the now closed Toys-R-Us unit, with students encouraged to consider the potential for new connections from the city centre into the north docklands.

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Aidan Finlason, Peter Gorton, Jessica Hughes Reconnecting Wellbeing: Liverpool

1 in 6 workers in Great Britain suffer from mental health issues; anxiety, depression and stress being the most common. Finding the right balance of relaxation, fitness and healthy eating is key to a persons well-being. Our design proposal focuses on Health and Wellbeing for the general public and mental health sufferers alike, especially those who suffer from Autism and Dementia.

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paths and sensory direction informed the scheme and followed theories attributed to planners such as Kevin Lynch. Autism-friendly design requires a design framework involving sensory, cognitive and mobility cues. As a part of this framework one-way circulation is important so people can move between activities as seamlessly as possible.

The proposal, via the careful consideration of the creation of atmospheres and the placement of, and interaction between paths, landmarks and edges, aims to promote independence and ultimately quality of life.

Eleri Barnett, Gemma Copp, James Taylor Urban Kitchen: Gdansk

Urban Kitchen proposes a hierarchy of work, play and livng, whilst encouraging interaction through communal farming incorporating allotments and greenhouses. The scheme encourages a journey around the site through three different sections; Grow, Process and Eat and contains one of three existing ruins - Wisloujscie, Duo and Steffen - within each. Pedestrians and cyclists are able to learn about the production of food grown through Aquaponic sciences, with opportunities to look inside the factories, before buying the food, testing and resting in the

many public spaces. The incorporation of enclosed and open spaces, major streets slicing through the site, minor paths that cut across, and archways through buildings, were influenced by three theorists; Rem Koolhaas, Kevin Lynch and Gordon Cullen. The proposal not only opens up views from around the site back to the existing ruins, in an attempt to celebrate them, but also generates sight lines to major landmarks that surround the island.

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Joshua Heale, Denis Kolozali, Aaron Williams Olowianka Cultural Cohesion: Gdansk

Gdansk is rapidly evolving, once a key sea trading city it is now morphing into one of Europe’s most favoured tourist destinations. With this, a divide is being cast between local and visitor. The aim of Olowianka: Cultural Cohesion is to reverse this division and bring people together through culture and experience on the Olowianka Island. The island will house a number of cultural venues including a library, gallery and exhibition space, rowing club, food market, marina and a Gdansk Architecture centre. These venues will be complemented by enhanced green public spaces 82

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including a new park. This will ensure that the tranquillity of the island is preserved whilst creating a hotspot for interaction between locals and tourists, therefore generating a cohesive island for all to enjoy.

Eddie Gough, Daniel Hales, Jack Manners Wyspa Rekreacyjna: Gdansk

The scheme intends to re-imagine the under used Philharmonia Baltyka area in Central Gdansk. Located on an island east of the Motlawa River the site includes the large Philharmonic Theatre, a distinctive rowing club, water pumping station, and a number of derelict buildings as well as pockets of secluded wasteland.

The proposal responds to the high density residential developments in the area surrounding the island. Wyspa Rekreacyjna attempts to create a recreational ‘breathing’ space for these rapidly increasing residential areas. It

provides the area with a series of parks and a number of buildings to house events such as music concerts, theatre and food markets. The large public square provides a centre, not only to the island, but to the city as a whole; connecting the new residential enclaves to the tourist heartland across the river.

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connections, navigational paths and sensory aspects that showcase movement between different atmospheric spaces.

Jessica Hughes, The Three Edge Conditions (5, 6) The scheme was derived from an exploration of the edge being designed through three different conditions; viewing the canal from a height, interaction at canal level and overhanging above the canal. The spatial arrangement has been developed from the masterplan which followed a Lynchian approach.

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Liverpool Nexus and Vauxhall Village Individual Projects Nathan Reynolds, Nexus Station (1, 2) This scheme explores the relationship between the elevated walkway, train station and the public square.

Following a grid pattern the walkway creates public green spaces and viaducts are opened up.

Akeem Taylor, Nexus Canal (3) Nexus Canal explores the relationship between the canal and the walkway in order to improve flow, connectivity and permeability. The canal is re - instated via an in/out door market area and a performing arts centre.

Enes Gonultas, Nexus Square (4) The square is informed by a grid arrangement derived from the masterplan. The square spills out from markets along the viaduct in a distinct arrangement of public green areas and seating. A central water feature anchors the scheme.

Ben Pond, Vauxhall Sports Centre (5, 6) Designed to encompass cultural and social activities, with a 24-hour sports centre as a focal point, connectivity and flow are key to its success. To enable this, key views are both retained and opened up by the new interventions.

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Reconnecting North Liverpool Individual Projects Anith Athirah, Adaptable Water Square (1,2) The scheme connects Albert Dock & Princes Dock to our proposed square. This square forms part of a wider blue/ green network and is located just below the elevated cycle road. During hot days, the adaptable water square is transformed into a space for entertainment. Yet, when the rain comes, it changes into an area for water catchment and establishes a continuous blue link to the waterfront.

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Mariam Said, Gardenscape (3,4) The gardenscape seeks to highlight the importance of circulation and interaction. Visitors are taken on a journey, across the plaza, via a landscaped bridge. At the heart of the scheme is the desire to introduce nature and soft landscaping into an otherwise hard urban environment.

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Urban Kitchen: Gdansk Individual Projects James Taylor, Ruin Wisloujscie / Grow (1, 2) The space is intended to be arranged in a way that provides an explanation of the proposed processes of the ‘growth’ element of the masterplan. Explored through different levels, the evolution of plant life is shown both above and below ground.

Eleri Barnett, Ruin Duo / Process (3, 4) This strategy retained the existing ruin, Ruin Duo, to create a new identity within the ‘process’ stage of the masterplan.

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Factory. The design centred around exposing the historic ruin, creating a sunken performance platform and connecting interior and exterior spaces via level changes.

Gemma Copp, Ruin Steffen / Eat (5, 6) The third ruin, Ruin Steffen, has been fully restored to its original character. Designed around the idea of visual surprise; from enclosed spaces that meet narrow routes along the water’s edge to ending the journey with an open, public space, light is also used to structure the space.

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Aaron Williams, Liquid Square (3) Liquid Square is located at the split between the higherdensity cultural centre of the island and the low-density soft landscaped area to the east. The scheme bridges the gap between these contrasting zones whilst maintaining a clear distinction between the two typologies. A flexible public space is created that will advocate a dynamic atmosphere during both day and night.

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It crystallises the centre point of the island and acts as the districts core. This adaptable space will house events such as food markets, and music festivals.

Eddie Gough, Antigone (3) The city of Gdańsk has a rich and troubled political history.

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Daniel Hales, The Unrestricted Edges (4) The scheme provides common ground for people to gather and engage in social and cultural exchange. New spaces with a strong urban character that link to the surrounding island areas are created. Unrestricted Edges, becomes a place for people to inhabit and connect.

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Both years of the Masters Programme share the European and local sites for their urban design project. Whilst MArch Year 1 look at more tightly defined areas, previously described, the final year groups have free rein to develop proposals across a spectrum of scales and agendas. As with much of our studio teaching, a response to place is the point of departure for design work which incorporates contextual concerns, whatever way these concerns may ultimately take the projects.

The cataloguing of the MArch Year 2 urban design projects has been loosely clustered into four themes: Biocycles, Stitching, Connectivity and Densification. The proceeding sample of work is arranged in this sequence and demonstrates the breath of approaches, with projects from both project locations of Gdansk and North Liverpool included. The Liverpool site is an amalgamation of the Year 1 sites incorporating additional lands around the railway, and similarly in Gdansk the Year 1 sites are expanded to allow a broader strategic approach. All project site areas are edge-of-centre conditions where historic districts, some recent development and empty brownfield space address each other in unresolved ways.

As in previous years the completed student projects evidence the parallels and transferable knowledge possible between Liverpool and the other European port cities visited (Genoa, Hamburg, Marseille, Porto, Rotterdam).

Social activation of waterside areas, local and sustainable movement networks, celebration of culture and the creation of dense urban neighbourhoods with new employment are all reoccurring strategies utilising the particularities of the ‘Second Tier Cities’ we have studied over the last 5 years.

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Jack Hutton, James Morris, Ben Robinson The Baltic Symbiosis This is an exemplar proposal for an environmental village, intended to educate, sustain and enrich the Gdansk Dockland.

Through plastic harvesting, recycling and incineration for energy production the masterplan seeks to rectify a global issue of marine waste, and brings large scale processing, research and manufacture back into the former shipyards of Gdansk.

The Baltic Trial will be the first of its kind, tackling the huge island of plastic floating around the Baltic Sea and its disbursements that wash up on the surrounding shorelines. The process will involve specialist boats trawling the ocean, with the collected plastic brought back to the north end of the Gdansk Dock. It will then be sorted and processed into thermoplastics & thermosetting plastics. The sorted thermosetting plastics will continue down the dock to the furnaces where they will be melted. The by-product carbon monoxide is captured and naturalised with a series of tubular photo-bioreactor algae plantations and mixed with oxygen, resulting in the formation of carbon dioxide. The CO2 is then compressed and stored in purpose built containers before being pumped around the island to feed a series of vertical farms.

The array of vertical farms will mass-produce hemp providing Gdansk with a new manufacturing industry.

Research and development into hemp will insure the plant is used to its full capability, studying its many uses from genetically modifying the crop, to new and revolutionary products for manufacture. Implemented successfully, the trial could be replicated around the world across the multiple plastic gyres.

The architecture of the whole campus is a manifestation of this technologically led, green utopian vision.

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Vicky Bray, Ollie Davies, Andy Stout Organic Integration By transforming Gdansk into a model city in the fight against global warming, the strategy aspires to restore the historical role of the city as one of the leading members within the Hanseatic League.

The scheme looks into the future, becoming the first of many cities to provide refuge from the immediate dangers caused by climate change: focussing on extreme weather, increased sea levels and generating energy from renewable sources. By adapting to the current issues of flash flooding and storm surges within the area, the city embraces and integrates flood water into its daily life.

The reintroduction of the ancient moat and bastion, in its existing location, now provides protection from flooding - reimagining its former defensive use, and creating a futureproof city.

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Patson Makangadza, Demetrius Anglin Park Innowacji Technologii Kompleks The scheme creates a defined urban master plan to link the two major landmarks of the Solidarity Centre and the World War II Museum. This link is formed by a well-defined city park replacing nondescript brownfield land and the scheme redevelops the surrounding districts without losing the character of their urban grain. The park also links to the waterfront and acts as a divider, and artery, between building types & uses.

The shipyard no longer consists of declining heavy industries but has been redesigned for high-end R&D companies, and the new southern districts consist of large residential properties, adding to the two large apartment blocks already in existence. These districts create a strong edge to the city park and add value. The waterfront is renovated adding more buildings along its edge and becomes more accessible with a pedestrianised walkway. All these changes have been implemented to improve the environment and quality of life, bringing new employment into Gdansk.

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Aaron Clarke-Rogers, Joel Roderick, Ian Wong Imperial Shipyard By reinstating the bastion wall as a route and demarking the old shipyard boundary, the rich layers of history in this district are revealed and become important features of the master plan.

Buildings of less historic significance and poor condition are demolished, with some being reinstated as new buildings.

By adding new structures to historic buildings they become more architecturally complex and manifest the changing fortunes and history of the district. In years to come these new structures will become another layer of history, a reminder of another set of memories. Although the functions may change in the future, the aesthetic of the newer structures will then become the historic marker, and the whole project is engaged with ideas of memorial and historic reference.

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Eleana Orr, Lorena Morales-Martin, Matthew Usher Symbiotic City ‘Symbiotic City’ is a new approach for Gdansk to create a network of interconnected, mutually beneficial communities to assist in sustainable expansion. Unique districts of daily activity surround the historic core, and each contains a unique monthly activity to bridge the gap between further settlements and the city centre. By using parasitic and symbiotic forms for the proposals, we are able to retain all the existing buildings and heritage, unifying the built form into a coherent whole.

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Joe Dean, Chris Shaw, Stephen Stanley Tetnic (Arteries) An area to the south east and within the historic fortifications of Gdansk has become dilapidated and unkempt. Research on the area showed that it lay within a flood risk zone and therefore was not as attractive to developers due to the implications of dealing with potential flooding, in terms of defensive engineering and associated costs.

The envisaged masterplan scheme embraces the high water table rather than try to repel it. The project reintroduces the historic canal network that had been filled in and introduces an additional new sequence of new canals. This enlarged network, working with the river, would serve as a transport system that connects to three new transport hubs at the edges of the city’s main arteries. The hubs combine rail, tram, boat and car parking and these, with associated congestion polices, would reduce the number of cars entering the inner city. A new tram line runs west to east through the proposals and would serve a new education quarter at the edge of the fortifications. The proposals encouraged boat, tram, bike and walking as key modes of transport in the inner city. A series of locks creates a reservoir which could be kept intentionally low when flash flooding is anticipated and then filled with the flood water from the neighbouring areas to assist a wider flood management strategy.

The architecture takes maximum advantage of the attractive and extensive waterside frontages created.

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Nicholas Gilmovitch Unity 4.0 The masterplan strategy explored ‘Industry 4.0’, the fourth Industrial Revolution, utilising advanced smart technologies and automation.

The project brings a significant community of thinkers, makers and innovators into the heart of Gdansk, with education, R&D and new manufacturing facilities.

The scheme creates a linear spine defining the centre of a new education quarter. The visitor will experience an open and closed series of intervention spaces and installations that interact with the occupiers of the space, such as internal educational spaces or external art exhibits. Along the route users encounter key locations such as numerous new Industry 4.0 institutions along with historical and cultural buildings like the Solidarity Centre and the historic shipyard.

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Radu Fulgheci Manufaktura Gdansk’s Shipyard has played a critical part in the city’s development over the centuries, changing its name and lines of production to suit those who held power over the city. The cradle for the Solidarność trade union and social movement, its spirit now seems all but gone, evoked only by the few remaining buildings dating from its golden age. Despite all economic and social crises, past or present, Gdansk must embrace its heritage, its industrial legacy, and capitalise on its creative and innovative people in an effort to help build a better future.

The following proposals form a new masterplan for the regeneration of the former Imperial Shipyard, located north of the City Centre, on the edge of the Martwa Wisła river. It establishes a comprehensive framework that aims to reintegrate industry and manufacturing into the core of the city and generate a new hybrid urban typology. The proposals focus on small scale high-tech industries, mass-customisation and batch production made just-in-time, while also integrating four pioneering companies focusing on future technological solutions for energy production and use, robotics, and autonomous aerial public transportation. The result creates a thriving, dynamic community of thinkers, makers and innovators in the heart of Gdansk.

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Khelsea Robinson, Terri-Anne Timmins Pinfield, Fiqryn Md Shahrodin Shed City The area of Vauxhall in Liverpool needs reconnecting. Neighbourhoods need reviving.

This proposal to replace the retail park with a new District Centre will create a new community focus, providing a reason for residents to stay in, or come into, the local area. The proposal for a District Centre will put money back into the local economy, expand on the city centre and occupy the ‘in-between’ space that is separating this part of North Liverpool from the city centre. The proposal will provide a good location for small local business with affordable rents and should give rise to a local live-work community, whilst tackling the housing crisis with dense affordable city living.

This District Centre will provide green space, a cultural edge, new transport links, pedestrian access and new housing, which will all combine to create community interaction. Interaction between existing and new residential districts will help solve the problem of segregation between communities in Vauxhall at present, which is partially due to spatial isolation. The proposal will bring people together and will provide this area with a new identity.

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Liam Dolman, Sarah Kassim, Harriet Powell-Hall The Axis The proposal is based upon movement and access. It will create a point of arrival at the heart of the planned area with the new Great Howard Street Station, along with a network of pedestrian friendly routes throughout the scheme. It is proposed to create a ‘gateway’ through the site running from East to West, opening up the northern docks and the Waterloo Tunnel that connects the site with Edge Lane, further out of the city centre. Along with the various adjacent live projects including Liverpool Waters, and Ten Streets, this proposal will fully reconnect and revitalise this prominent area of the city. It will create a spine of north-south pedestrian movement, linking two new public gardens within the masterplan. These gardens act as anchor points within the scheme, encouraging people to walk in-between the two, discovering new active spaces on that journey. To the west of the scheme the historic street layout will be brought back, further improving pedestrian connectivity.

In totality the proposal will create a Northern City Hub by reconnecting industry, workers, commuters, tourists and creating a valuable place for people to live, work and socialise.

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Xueyi Hee, Audrey Wong The Music Street of Gdansk This project is located off Na Stepce, starting at the waterfront in the old town of Gdansk. The main objective of this development is to create a new ‘village’ as a tourist attraction as well as to accommodate the locals.

The intention is to encourage interaction between all parties, to boost cultural awareness within the community, and lead to more integration between the various ethnic groups already in the wider area. The key development of this project is a street that sits between the abandoned warehouses left during WWII, which will be known as The Music Street. This new pedestrianised route measuring 200 metres long will link historic buildings and new cultural institutions to form a vibrant spine to the new local district centre.

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Amy Cassidy, Carly Mensah Labyrinth of the Senses This project explores and tests how designing an island dedicated to sensory experience can work, where the senses that are usually overlooked are heightened or removed, in isolated or in multi-sensory zones. Along the spine of the proposal visitors will pass through a fragmented urban area, to a denser more characterful area through to the retreat zone, accessed through a gateway bridge over water. The whole scheme is structured by an underlying grid pattern which organises the positioning of all new elements and is variously intensified or opened up to suit the project intentions.

The resulting design creates a labyrinth of the senses for visitors to navigate through and heighten their sensory experiences that they are not always conscious of.

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Daniel Li, Shannon Richards, Brandon Batey Granaria Island The project is about the growth of an enclave. From informal settlement to established self-sufficient city.

Initial ideas of an anarchist society and their informal settlement developed into a project concerned with the organic development of a distinctive place from loose beginnings into a recognisable urban form.

Early ideas for the project to provide a refuge for subcultural groups, were refined and retained. Marginal groups would congregate at metaphorically underground locations that were discretely hidden, and develop alternative means of community expansion.

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Qendrim Gjata, Joe Barker, Joel Barnes Centrum Kreacji Since 2003 Gdansk has benefitted from the financial support the European Union has provided to Poland. A mass of new infrastructure has been implemented across the Pomorskie region; world class universities, an excellent transport system. Some of the newest software engineering companies began operating from the region, and ultimately transformed a state left damaged from the effects of communism into a contemporary metropolitan area that rivals most European cities.

This change has come with costs however. An influx of immigrants from countries to the east has led to discrimination by Polish locals and left the city’s districts relatively segregated, in contemporary terms. The infrastructure of Gdansk is, like its population, fragmented. The devastation of World War Two left the city in ruins and its reanimation has led to a sharp contrast in building styles and its urban landscape. Whilst it is clear that the city has the potential to develop in a variety of fields, it currently fails in retaining the younger population, who instead leave to the capital or Western Europe. Gdansk’s population is stagnating, critically affecting its economy whilst damaging the cities cultural image.

This project aims to restore the image of Gdansk and provide identity by providing the means to excel in industries that have a solid base in the city.

Boosting the city’s already vast network of creative industries, the project will densify the existing urban mix, concentrating these industries in the proposed new development and providing space for young professionals to be creative without restrictions. The aim is to create a place which is appealing to live and build a career, giving young people in particular opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t have.

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The Churches of F. X. Velarde

by Matthew Usher F. X. Velarde, a prolific Merseyside architect, lived at a pivotal time in modern British history. From the start of the 20th century and through the years of World War One and Two, the arts and economics of Europe were drastically altering. This was also a period in which ecclesiastical architecture began to diverge away from the traditional form it had once held. The churches of Velarde are incredibly unique within this era; however, there has been little study undertaken into his work. This, coupled with poor practice and unfortunate circumstances throughout the last fifty years, means there are few records of his work. As one of his churches has been demolished (Ward, 1998) and another is in danger of irreparable damage (Historic England, 2005e), a detailed recording and analysis of Velarde’s work is of the upmost importance in order for his life’s work to be remembered and learned from in the future.

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… a detailed recording and investigation into three of Velarde’s Merseyside churches has been conducted. This firstly aims to create a platform for further analysis through measured surveys and a full photographical record of the interiors and exteriors of the buildings, offering insights into themes within the churches to emerge. From this, the only full record and study of the churches in question has been created. The three churches were chosen as they are not only some of Velarde’s finest work, but also exhibit different elements of his career and style. The first, St. Monica’s Church in Bootle, was Velarde’s third commission in his career and is typical of his early work. It was designed and built before World War Two, and is wholly unique. The church is widely regarded as one of his best, with bold and unique forms internally. … It is also one of his most iconic, described by Pevsner as “an epoch-making church for England” (Pevsner, 1969a, p.93). … The west end of the church soars above any of the surrounding buildings, dominating as strongly as it would have done when it opened (figure 1). Yet, it does not detract from the area, a sentiment expressed by Reilly in his 1936 article in the Manchester Guardian.

Perhaps this is due to fact that each wall runs perpendicular to the surrounding network of roads, seeming to fit the church within the space. In fact, Velarde’s own sketches emphasise the angular form of the west end.

The tall tower is immediately recognisable and is viewable from almost any direction. ... This tower is reminiscent of Dominikus Böhm and his abrupt large westwerks of St. Kamillus in Monchengladbach, as well as Notkirche St. Josef in Offenbach. It is also similar to Velarde’s previous church of St. Gabriel’s in Blackburn. Three large Herbert Tyson Smith angels adorn the west façade, each one placed above a series of pairs of Romanesque semi-circular arched windows. This series of windows continues along either side of the nave, sat between each flying buttress; however, only the top window retains the rounded arch whilst the lower windows are rectangular.

Externally, the large rectangular west tower succeeds in partially hiding the pitched roof, as do the flying buttresses. The exterior used 2 inch “greyish bricks from Hadley, Shropshire” (Historic England, n.d[a]).

The external aspect of St. Monica’s is iconic, and the inside is just as unique and recognisable as a Velarde design. Typical of his larger churches, he utilised a wide, open nave, fostering a sense of space and seclusion from the outside world. The external rectangular form is repeated internally by the use of a flat ceiling, broken up by longitudinal ribs (Historic England, n.d [a]). Many of the ceilings in Velarde’s churches are flat in the middle section, with slight angles in the ceiling at the clerestory walls to allude to a pitched roof, and St. Monica’s does not follow this trend. The ceiling continues from the west side of the nave through to the sanctuary, creating a nave and sanctuary that are entirely rectangular in section. The external buttresses continue internally, spaced 3775mm apart, and passages are then cut through the internal walls, creating aisles. The

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north and south aisles differ dramatically in size, a common trait of Velarde; the north aisle is 1190mm wide and the south is 3415mm, accommodating pews (figure 2). Each internal buttress is then adjoined to the next through another rounded arch, perpendicular to the arches forming the aisles. A pair of smaller, narrow windows sit above the arch in the clerestory. In his 1936 article in the Manchester Guardian, Reilly compares the metalwork of Högalid church in Stockholm to that in St. Monica’s, but it seems that the internal aisle form is the most immediate similarity. It is likely that Velarde was influenced by this church, either during his 1923 trip to Stockholm whilst studying at the LSA (Kerrod, 2015) or through his education under Reilly. This form and design seems to hint at modernism, but it is more of modern design applied onto a traditional plan.

Here, Velarde follows the ideals of the liturgical movement in some aspects and defies in others. He placed the choir in a gallery above the sanctuary on the south side, freeing space up within the nave (Ward, 1998, p.98). To connect the choir to the body of the church, Velarde used a bay of 21 Romanesque round-headed windows, reflected on the opposite side to illuminate the sanctuary. The congregation also enters into a large narthex and one that is connected wholly to the nave, separated only by a high rounded arch. These design choices enhance views towards the original position of the altar which was a core ideal of the liturgical movement. The choice in metalwork design separating the nave and sacristy, a low altar rail that is thin on the horizontal plane, enhances this aspect. On the other hand, Velarde also chose to have pews throughout the south nave, where 940mm wide columns obstruct views towards the altar. This obstruction was partially rectified through the 1984 -1985 re-ordering of the church.

One of the most iconic and divisive sections of the church is the east end of the sanctuary, which has been decorated to a degree seldom seen in Velarde’s work. Six gold painted pilasters run from floor to ceiling, and are accompanied by gold painted statues by W. L. Stevenson of Liverpool (Historic England, 2005f). A decorative canopy hangs above the altar and tabernacle from the ceiling, an imitation of a baldacchino. The canopy is painted along the edges and has geometric shapes underneath, an element Velarde attempts to include often within his work. This section is incredibly ornate and is particularly impressive when illuminated by the 21 windows on the north wall. Drawings by Mrs. W. G. Holford, a Rome scholar in decorative painting, sit between the two layers of glass in these windows (Historic England, 2005f). Together, this creates an effect Reilly described as “quite decorative and delightful and the breadth of the windows”, and the sanctuary area as a “glimpse of another world”. ...

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A creative exploration into the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Lake District: The style and detailing of George Bankart and Simpsons of Kendal.

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by Eleana Orr A study looking at design and detail in Arts and Crafts Architecture. It is a creative exploration into the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Lake District, delving into the style and detailing of George Bankart and Simpsons of Kendal. The research explored the growth and development of this iconic movement during the late nineteenth century, and the motivations and inspirations for some of the principal persons involved in its success.

The Arts and Crafts house is essentially collaborative and by its nature involves many craftspeople.

Some of these often marginalised people have featured in this study such as George Bankart. In this investigation the research was developed and formulated through visits to Arts and Crafts houses in the Lake District, explorations of appropriate archives and reading about the subject matter of the Arts and Crafts movement.

In the UK there is a lack of funds for heritage and conservation buildings. It is leading to our older buildings of heritage falling into disrepair, whilst new ones are being built quickly and cheaply.

There should be better funding to preserve our architecture and invest in the skills and services of people who can help maintain these buildings and re-introduce crafts into modern architecture.

It is our job as future architects, designers, craftsmen and women, to challenge modern architecture. Through collaboration and utilisation of the traditional skills which the Arts and Crafts movement promoted, architecture can represent the creativity of individuals, in one form.

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The Master of Architecture programme has a long-term engagement with the architecture of housing, through both research and project work. It has long since been identified that there is a crippling housing crisis in the UK. However, despite widespread recognition of the problem, solutions to this complex web of issues – which include affordability, shortage, supply, design and sustainability – remain scarce. These issues in contemporary housing form the basis for the principal building design project of the second semester for the MArch Year 1. The alignment of student research and projects to contentious, real-world challenges is deliberate, as these students will shortly be practicing within this enviroment.

The political context of this critical aspect of the built environment forms the backdrop for consideration of how to address the pressures and demands of providing for the residential needs of future generations. The cohort was divided into three groups, which then explored these issues across a diverse range of scales, densities, contexts, typologies and narratives. Common themes wove through the projects however, such as sustainability and the fundamental issues faced in addressing the challenges posed by Britain’s chronic housing shortage. The six week design project is supplemented with environmental, structural and interior design studies culminating in the production of a detailed physical model.

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In Cohousing We Trust: towards alternative living cultures Cohousing is a housing development movement that started in the late 1960’s in Denmark, where it is called Bofaellesskaber or ‘living communities’. Whilst it began as a solution for reducing housework through shared communal services, it is currently considered as a well-established housing model seen to improve social relations and develop a sense of community. In the UK, the 2011 Community Right to Build Act intended to facilitate a DIY and communitarian ethos. Following this path, solutions based on shared living – or co-living providing an alternative to affordable high-quality housing seem to be on the increase. Recently, seeking to define new types of affordable accommodation, the draft London Plan published in November 2017 set minimum criteria for co-living developments.

This project was focused around Ducie Street, Granby. What is specific about this neighbourhood is that it is part of Granby Community Land Trust (Granby CLT), a non-profit communitybased organisation run by volunteers. Shortlisted as a finalist in this year’s BSHF-UN World Habitat Awards, Granby CLT manages collective housing and public space, including community meeting space. They have initiated community-led urban regeneration. This project asked students to re-think the existing terraced housing, thus developing alternative typologies from single to four bedroom houses and developing higher density designs for the currently empty plot along Ducie Street, proposing private houses and/or flats together with shared facilities and spaces.

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The main feature of this scheme is the existing façade symbolising the heritage of the Granby Street area, promoting the ideology set by the Granby CLT- ‘reuse and recycle’. The existing façade has been constructed of buff brick maintaining a consistency towards the other terrace houses within its context. Therefore, with the surrounding area being of brick construction the scheme is respecting the existing whilst contrasting the material palette by its colour, the proposed being red brick.

With the design having a double façade the relationship between the existing façade and the proposed dwellings is the focus of this structure and façade investigation. How the two respond to each other structurally is integral to this design because the three-metre space between the two is used for balcony space on the first floors. This scenario is experienced on the first floor within unit type D.2, the garden space is created by a balcony constructed within the second façade spanning across to the first. Therefore unit type D.2 will be explored into further detail as to how this connection is established, as well as how the two façades respond to each other through their proportions and openings.

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Intricate Minglings: the architecture of work-home

The work-home has existed worldwide for thousands of years, from the Japanese machiya to the English longhouse and craftworkers’ top-shops. The contemporary city, however, tends to ignore this typology despite the fact that an increasing number of people are engaged in forms of home-based work. This dismissal of home-based practices can, in part, be attributed to late 19th century planning reforms which continue to hold influence today.

In today’s context of the information revolution, environmental crisis and growing support for the principles of ‘mixed-use’ as the rationale for functional zoning declines, this building type is ideal for rediscovery.

Against this backdrop of changing planning practices and the appreciation of diversity, this brief asked: can we re-popularise the work-home typology? Can the conditions be created to support an intricate mix of uses that would encourage local social networks and stimulate the local economy, therefore creating a platform for the way buildings are designed and developed in the future?

This project is centred round the Webster Triangle in Wavertree, in close proximity to Smithdown Road.

Once home to vibrant streets and a close-knit community, this inner city area fell into dereliction, in part due a series of failed Government initiatives including the Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI).

This brief asked to imagine an alternative future for this disinvested urban fragment by questioning and understanding the nature of the work-home both historic and current in order to produce an intricate mix of spaces that promote urban resilience and sustainability.

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The typology of the urban villa has a chequered history; drawing its precedents from Roman country estates and the farm villas of Palladio, it sought to bring the illusion of the grand country residence to the city. The ‘modern’ villa can be traced back to John Nash’s Cronkhill, Shropshire 1802, which reinterpreted a classical country estate as a large family house. An increasingly popular housing type in the expanding cities of the 19th century, it fell out of fashion after WW1 as the costs of running a large building with domestic staff became prohibitive. The legacy of urban villas persisted, often retrofitted as houses in multiple occupation, sub divided into bedsits for students and the poor, until rediscovered in the 1980’s particularly through the auspices of the Berlin IBA. The new urban villa typology reborn in Berlin was no longer the large house of the wealthy merchant but a high density apartment block.

This project sought to examine the possibilities that exist within the physical form of the urban villa for variety. How many variants of apartment types can be incorporated into one clearly defined block? How can they be inter-related to generate the opportunities for community? The location for this project was Rock Park in Birkenhead, one of the finest villa estates, developed for the growing number of middle class merchants. Overlooking the Mersey with views toward Liverpool city centre, this development begun in 1836 and in the 20th Century began its slow process of decline and decay, exasperated by the development of part of the beach for the Tranmere Oil Terminal in 1960.

Today there are a number of available sites adjacent to the slipway and on the site of the hotel, the adjacent beach is a SSSI, the park and slipway are in a conservation area and are listed whilst some of the vacant areas have Tree Preservation Orders. Recent renovations of the original villas and the opening of a restaurant adjacent to the pier have raised the possibility of the area once again becoming a desirable place to live.

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The Thesis is the major project of the Masters Programme and provides the opportunity for students to explore in depth, ideas through the medium of architectural proposals.

Extending from the Group Urban Design undertaken at the start of the year, each student develops a project brief which they then take from concept to detailed resolution.

All aspects of the final year programme (history and theory, practice management and law, technology and environment) are linked to the Thesis which becomes the vehicle for individual exploration.

The type of project is determined by the nature of the Group Urban Design and by the personal agendas of each student. Students are encouraged to engage with real issues raised during the group work whilst simultaneously challenging established norms and preconceptions. A critical re-appraisal of established building types and inventive approaches to the generation of new forms are encouraged, with the Thesis becoming the opportunity to explore ideas through the design.

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Anglin, Demetrius Algae Innovation Centre The Thesis is based on the exploratory use of algae in architecture using biomimetic principles. Biomimicry is the study of the laws of nature and applying these laws into solving sustainable issues.

The design includes environmental strategies using algae, which is used for research and development purposes in the building. Public facilities to create awareness include a roof garden to interact with nature; linking it to the park from the Gdansk masterplan. There are open/transparent and solid/private spaces, which divide the building and form part of the experience for visitors. These are carefully located in areas where staff have their own private space and the public can take a secure route through the building observing the way it operates.

Bray, Victoria Seed Sanctuary The building is intended to enable research to help struggling countries maintain the reproduction of the natural world. By doing so this can help build stronger relationships with other countries and could potentially help with the current issue of integration of immigrants within the city of Gdansk and Poland. Developed from the literal concept from the sacred geometry - the Seed of Life has influenced the theoretical ideas driving the spatial arrangement of towers and hierarchy of spaces within the design. The exploration investigates the relationship and importance of the historic bastion wall and its defensive qualities. The proposed use of the bastion wall is to protect the city that is vulnerable to climate change and flooding. This creates a link with the research carried out within the proposed facility. The integration of the wall enhances the idea of a protective layer protecting both the Seed Bank and the City of Gdansk.

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Cassidy, Amy Monastic Debauchery In order to understand a Monastic way of life you must confide in history. You must allow the Christian beliefs to become your mentor. The Cistercians themselves believe the architecture of their space is to be constantly updated with the evolution of design to the times. Following the idea that “nothing stays the same”.

The thesis intends to resurrect the Trappist Monastic Life by merging a brewery and a monastery as a labyrinth of contrasting spaces that encourage the youth of today and future generations to re-engage with an ordered life.

The thesis takes on the challenge of designing to Hans Van Der Laans theory of Proportional Space to the plastic number (7), whilst incorporating modern materiality and aesthetics in design. The cell size (4m), wall size (571 mm), colonnade ratios and the overall dimensions of the chapel derive from the Van Der Laan Theory of architectonic space.

Exploring the idea of “minimal” being tranquil and “maximal” being chaotic; architecture is expressed in terms of materiality to represent the pilgrimage journey from the sceptic to the believer, from the brewery to the monastery.

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Clarke-Rogers, Aaron Gdansk Archive A subterranean city archive layered through with memories of the Imperial Shipyard. The archive combines the layers of memory through different scales, from the architecture of the building to the artefacts collected within it. The reinstated bastion wall and the shipyard workers boundary are celebrated throughout the project, creating large voids through the archival spaces.

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Davies, Oliver A Haven for Healing: through ritual + nature The scheme has been developed in response to the masterplan, where an agroforestry system has been designed to replenish the flood damaged soil. This idea of natural healing is replicated in the proposal for a retreat in which visitors can heal the mind and body through engagement with the natural surroundings.

The retreat acts as an escape for the stressed person, largely local industrial workers, from the fast-paced, modern way of life – focussing on the prevention/recovery of circulatory and cardiovascular disorders. In exchange for accommodation and therapy, the person becomes a hand to the centre; healing of the mind/body is promoted through rituals (associated with navigation, harvesting and production), natural remedies and nature itself.

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Dean, Joseph Crafted: Routes to Inclusion A Jewellery School for Lower Town Gdansk; to contribute to the regeneration of the area, focusing on inclusion and entrepreneurship. The project provides a destination on the Tętnic Masterplan, influenced by both existing and historic waterways. Gdansk is known as the ‘Amber Capital of the World’. Amber, an ancient tree resin which fossilised to form a glass, prompted an exploration of glass and resin and how architecture can embody the nature and qualities of a material. The various characteristics of amber are expressed through the architectural experience of this crafted form. The project builds upon the area’s history in traditional arts and crafts to provide a centre of excellence.

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Dolman, Liam Lock & Quay Creative The design intention is to extend the cultural, artistic and aesthetic appeal of Liverpool to the area directly north of the city centre. This will be achieved through the creation of a multi-access point route, which will encourage and facilitate the movement of people from the tourism hubs of the city centre, such as The Three Graces, Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery, along a traffic-free, tree-lined promenade, which runs parallel to the Leeds-Liverpool canal. Their journey will ultimately lead them to the proposed art gallery which will exhibit a constantly changing series of sculptures, with space that can be used for artists, meetings, and educational presentations. Furthermore, it will offer a relaxing space where people can enjoy food and drink whilst admiring the views of the famous locks, canal and the Stanley Dock complex.

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Fulgheci, Radu Space & Reverie Concepts of verticality and vertical movement through space become the focus of the project, developed from an interpretation of Gaston Bachelard’s oneiric house. The proposed building is generated as a sequence of spatial experiences, with functions that support and excite the creative process of the human intellect. The ground floor spaces are public and semi-private, facilitating and promoting the interaction between user and passer-by, these are an exhibition gallery and lecture theatre; spaces for social and commercial exchanges; as well as an internal urban public square. Above, the spaces’ typologies change, supporting functions with different levels of openness and privacy – a public library for design and technology; a research laboratory focused on developing new materials and technologies; a collaborative work hub for the exchange of knowledge; and an art and design studio for liberal creative expression with tech media. At the very top, symbolising the attic in Bachelard’s model, spaces become highly intimate and are designed for individual use, sheltering one’s self from the world and its infinite distractions – this is the space for clear and focused day-dreams. Below the ground is the cellar, the antithesis of the attic space, in which endless reveries become tangible realities. The movement between these spaces becomes a journey, a phenomenological experience, and is achieved through two architectural elements: the staircase and the ramp. The staircase permits circulation across multiple levels at once, as it coils and twists within a large atrium; the ramp, guides the movement in and around the spaces, alternating between inside and outside, rising imperceptibly until it meets the stairs. Along the journey, various types of public spaces are generated, both inside and on the building edges, sheltered by the secondary envelope.

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Gilmovitch, Nicholas The Process Spine An advanced manufacturing facility specialising in the production of Electric Motorcycles and their components. Situated in the heart of the old Gdansk Shipyard at the end of the Solidarity Freedom Road and grounded by its surrounding industry. The scheme aims to provide a 21st century reworking of an industrial factory, an expression in monumentality. Its roots come from Industry 4.0 under a strand of advanced manufacturing, specialising in addictive manufacturing. Designed to give customers a visual experience in the real production process with complete transparency and opportunities for real time input and customisation of the finished product.

Gjata, Qendrim Terrarium This project will provide the city with a place where people could escape their climate for something more exotic, where they could grow plants that would only be possible in tropical areas. A combination of tower and tropical glasshouse create an innovative, highly engineered, landmark.

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Hee, Xueyi Centrum Muzykoterapii Gdańska Centrum Muzykoterapii Gdańska - The Music Therapy Centre is located at the waterfront of the Na Stępce Canal. It sits in an abandoned warehouse of 731m2 which was ruined during WWII. The Music Therapy Centre is designed in such a way that the historic facade is left untouched and a new building is inserted within. As stated in the urban masterplan the objective is to encourage more cultural activity in Gdansk, the project aims to share and grow connections between people through music. This project consists of three building blocks varying from one to four storeys in height. The main spaces included are; bistro/cafe, terraced sitting area, gallery/music library, internal courtyards, roof garden, therapy studios, workshop and an indoor performance space.

Li, Daniel Culture Forum The following scenario is envisaged; Poland has departed the EU over disagreements about deforestation and judicial reform. This has caused a large divide between the residents who voted to leave or remain. In defiance, those who voted to remain stage a squatting protest on Granaria island, Gdansk.

The project aims to i) Unite members of opposing political views through discussion, recreation and acitivies. ii) Integrate residents of the informal settlement into mainstream society. iiii) Improve sanitation and urban design. iv) Open up opportunities for job prospects, v) Aid mental and physical health, and overall quality of life of the informal settlements.

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Hutton, Jack Vertical Mutation HempCo is a fictional global corporation specialising in the production of genetically modified hemp for various uses, in particular hemp oil. The sustainable process, set out in the urban design stategy, involves removing ‘dead’ plastic from the world’s oceans, melting it to a gas state & converting the resulting gases to Co2 which is then used to sustain hemp growth.

This project proposes a state of the art biomolecular facility that will engineer the hemp’s DNA in order to maximise its potential yield and uses.

Architecturally the project explores organic form and the challenges that verticality represents. The workings of the building, structural elements, services, and circulation are clearly visible. No space is permanent, the project is inspired by the Metabolist architectural movement of the 1970’s, creating a structure that mutates.

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Mensah, Carly Metropolis of the Arts This thesis project seeks to explore a contemporary approach to art gallery design, by creating a further extension of the Labyrinth of the Senses Masterplan. The project explores themes of deconstructivism, palimpsest and interior urbanism in order to create a sensorial experience for the visitors, and find an approach to art gallery design that challenges the standard perception that has been prominent historically. The gallery will house temporary contemporary art exhibitions in Gdansk, combined with a winter garden. This project seeks to juxtapose these two elements, and ideas of old vs. new, light vs. heavy, natural vs. man-made are carried through the project, The layout and form of the buildings as well as the use will contribute to creating these contrasting experiences. The form of the gallery is designed to create a “miniature city within a grid” with circulation elements acting as streets and each gallery space a pavilion style separate entity from the other.

Md Shahrodin, Mohamed Fiqryn Vauxhall Terminal Vauxhall Interchange will be a rail station feeding the needs of a growing Liverpool. It sits adjacent to the future developments of Liverpool Waters, Ten Streets and Liverpool North­Point, which will be a new business district with development opportunities for the city. The station will connect the local rail network to the new HS3 route providing a new inter-city connection for Liverpool. The new high-speed train (HS3) will be an important gateway into the city, and the terminal will introduce the city to the visitors, with an open façade providing framed views of significant city vistas for disembarking passengers. The station will provide multiple uses as it will have green spaces for people to relax and children’s play areas, public facilities, cafe, restaurant, offices, hotel, and residential accommodation within the urban block. It will be a station for everyone, not only for the train commuter.

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Morales Martin, Lorena House of Mirrors Today our civilisation is working towards innovative, planet rescuing, environmental strategies; nevertheless, something is missing for human evolution to fulfil its full potential. Perhaps we are too focused on our physical surroundings, and blinded to the more obscure aspects of our ethical progress. The impact of Economy, Technology and Politics on our psyche is huge, and yet we have ambiguous relationships with these forces, which this project aims to reflect.

Come all to the House of Mirrors, souls and the soulless, all are welcome in these reflective cell prisms. You may find affinity throughout the journey or you may want to reflect on the surrounding behaviours. Let the building guide you through the 21st century distractions all the way to its aspirations, be tempted and experience the maze of illusionary frames. Reality or fantasy this building gives a glimpse of the innermost existential desires of our century.

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The Baltic Symbiosis Island is run by automated and robotic machines, meaning it needs a constant fuel source. Biofuel is the answer and this design project augments the island masterplan with a small-scale prototype biofuel Energy Centre run on hemp seeds and stems. An Innovation Centre will encourage more business investment into this sustainable future technology, along with showing HempCo’s promising research projects of today and those to come. 2050 is the start of a green world......

HempCo’s renewable energy demands means there will be a need for various industrial activities at the base of the vertical building footprints. This could interrupt the utopian natural landscape which contains the vertical farms. A way to maintain the landscaped environment of the vertical farm field is to design the factories and energy centre to be below ground and keep it hidden.

Designing view ports and thresholds where the public can encroach on the industry spaces means there is a great opportunity to investigate how material can manipulate light, along with how shadows can affect spaces creating different atmospheres, in a project fully engaged with landscape design.

Powell-Hall, Harriet Axis Project Exchange Station A train station on multiple levels. It is not simply a program of movement but for meeting people, to create a thriving hub where people can gather, socialise and feel free to explore the rich urban form around the site. Understanding of context is vital in this scheme as the Axis sits above the Grand Arch and train line which becomes a striking feature for wayfinding as well as acting as the core for circulation.

Richards, Shannon Coexist This design focuses on the journey to prayer and on prayer as a ritual and as a routine, however it does not start from the front door of the mosque, it starts when the call to prayer is heard around the state and at the entrance to the gardens.

An observer will experience heightened senses such as the symmetry of the flowers, the fragrance from the citrus trees, the texture of the walls just before entering the prayer room, the sound of trickling as the carpet of water flows beneath their feet.

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Robinson, Benjamin Hemp Valley Meadow Visitor Centre Hemp Co. a fictitious Trillion Dollar corporation formed to address ocean waste. The prototype infrastructure planned for the development of Ostrow Island (Gdansk Shipyard) will bring new revenue and business to the city of Gdansk, providing a new industrial age. With billions being injected into the area, this experimental island will be the first of its kind.

The system is revolutionary and will gain interest from all over the world, as it can be implemented worldwide to combat ocean plastic. With this interest there is a need to inform and educate. The design proposal is for a visitor facility. It will give the general public access and insight into the process being undertaken on the island.

Aiming to educate the public on the issues of ocean plastic and ways of reforming and reducing our waste being dumped in our oceans. It will explain the hemp product that is being grown around them and the benefits the plant brings to society. Situated on the boundary of a new mulit-acre park scape, the proposed visitor centre will act as the gateway to the island and the park.

Robinson, Khelsea The Gateway The thesis project is an attempt to create a gateway building providing the surrounding area with an identity and encouraging the growth of an emerging creative edge. The contrasting sides of the building provide different environments which draw in a wide spectrum of people with the ultimate goal of improving the education and wellbeing of the surrounding communities through creative media provision.

The building consists of two opposing sides/characters, one commercial and the other creative. The commercial side with its familiar food courts and brand name restaurants will draw in people from all social circles, and once they enter the building the creative side will entice visitors across the bridges to experience the activities inside.

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Roderick, Joel The Theatre of Evolving Recollection To imagine the site frozen at a specific point in time; in a half ruined state where the new theatre structure becomes a support for the old fabric of the block, where a palimpsest of history is preserved, intact albeit in a somewhat unconventional manner.

Reimagining and re-choreographing the dilapidated warehouse building as an immersive theatre that is built up of storytelling chambers that relive the individual and collective memories of both directors, actors and the audience merged as one, will help to retell cosmological ideas of the past, the present and the future.

Stanley, Stephen Floating Theatre The masterplan vision developed into an overall scheme that encouraged an active water transportation network, creating an environment looking towards to the future and the progressive effects of climate change. The waterway network would provide an alternative strategy to current flood defence systems and future changes with rising sea levels.

From this waterway system the individual thesis developed. The initial concept of a moveable and floating architecture was formulated. Located on the islands set within the historic river entrance, this is the most logical position for the floating vessels as it would act as the heart of the arterial network. Travelling the waterways of Gdansk, creative performances will be received and witnessed, as floating upon transient vessels events will arrive at unique spaces at the river’s edge. The vessels then return to a central hub and join their counterparts, forming a collective of arts orientated pods.

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Stout, Andrew A City on the Edge The thesis engages with the ideas of integration and boundaries, not only on a literal level with socially engaging activities but also on a meta-physical level engaging the idea of thought and representation through design. The scheme draws inspiration from Chinese philosophical thoughts such as ‘Yin and Yang’. It aims to intertwine both the public and private realms through series of geometrical forms allowing for the public to experience space through either the physical, visual or imaginary journey of space.

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Wong, Audrey Poland Music Academy This project offers a wide range of music facilities and a space for local performance. It aims to provide a proper educational space that helps to enhance musical culture in Gdansk.

The overall idea of the scheme is to bring the sense of rhythmic journey into the building routes, at the same time utilising the proposed landscape features to connect the new buildings into the program. A courtyard not only acts as a separation between public performance and private education, but also creates a sense of connection from all the existing circulation routes around the site.

Timmins Pinfield, Terri-Anne Residential Reconnection The project area had a rich history of lively residential communities, but they have declined over the years. The housing crisis is changing the circumstances of many people, who are looking for solutions to their housing problems, and more people are moving back into Liverpool. The city is seeing more and more families seeking to move back into the centre and there is great potential for Vauxhall to create a new vibrant community.

The proposal will house families whilst also reconnecting the surrounding communities through creative industries. This scheme design allows for families to live and work in the same place within a vibrant local neighbourhood.

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Usher, Matthew Intergenerational Interaction This proposal aims to address the issue of loneliness within the elderly demographic, a problem which will become ever more important in ageing populations throughout the world. The project consists of sensitively designed residences organised around a meandering winter garden. Interaction is encouraged at multiple levels and intensities, allowing residents to live at their own comfort levels. A nursery is located at the ground floor of the building and shares common spaces with the residents to enrich the lives of both parties. The building has been designed to ergonomically and spatially suit young and old in playful ways, opening up sight lines and connecting spaces to integrate social interaction within the architecture.

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Buildings define physical space and to comprehend the implications of architectural design there is no substitute for the direct sensory experience of exploring places.

Each year of both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes contains structured study trips which are co-ordinated with our studio work and lecture series to reinforce teaching with exemplars of good architecture.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire The First Year trips provide an introduction to some fundamental qualities of internal and external spaces, visiting noteworthy projects across the region. This year visits included; the Piece Hall in Halifax, pictured; Blockholes, Lancashire Wildflower Trust; and the Magna Science Centre in Rotherham, which previously won the RIBA Sterling Prize for best building.

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The annual BA Workshop Abroad takes our students to a European city, and this year visited Berlin. Learning through studying buildings and urban spaces experientially is a fundamental part of our students’ architectural education, and the trip is structured so as to meaningfully inform concurrent studio project work. The itinerary took place over four full-day walking tours of the city, and included an excursion out to Potsdam to visit Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower and Sanssouci Park.

Berlin proved to be a fascinating place to experience, particularly its history and the impact of critical reconstruction on its urban design, the richness of Berlin’s buildings and urban spaces – both contemporary and historic, and the city’s creative energy. The trip took place early in the second semester, so that on return to Liverpool these multi-faceted studies could directly inform the students’ studio project work, in which they were generating architectural design proposals across a diverse range of briefs and contexts.

Some of the Workshop’s highlights included: the Bauhaus-Archiv museum, Kaiser-Willhelm Church, Jewish extension to the Berlin Museum, Chapel of Reconciliation, Neues Museum, Dutch Embassy, Tchoban Foundation, Holocaust Memorial and Museum, Akademie der Kunste, various IBA housing projects, the East Side Gallery, and an evening visit to the Reichstag.

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The location for this year’s MArch study trip was Gdansk in Poland, a city infamous in and ravaged by history, the site of the first shots of the Second World War, the birthplace of Solidarity and location of one of Europe’s largest shipyards. Almost entirely rebuilt as a facsimile of its historic self after wartime damage, the centre has become a booming tourist destination for city breaks, whist a few hundred meters away bomb sites untouched since 1945 linger with their gaunt ruins. In the background the ever present cranes of the shipyard, now largely derelict the nineteenth century core of this vast area has been subject of numerous stalled development proposals.

Three study areas were identified for students to develop their masterplan proposals and this formed the focus of the week long study trip. Interspersed with fact finding and social events visits to a number of key buildings were arranged: The Solidarity Centre, The Museum of the Second World War and the Shakespeare Theatre.

Light relief was provided by a trip to the beach and walk along the pier at Sopot, part of the Gdansk tricity region. To assist with the students understanding of the urban context lectures were delivered at the Gdansk Technical University by local architects and the president of the Polish Institute of Town Planning.

One of the most bizarre events of this successful visit was the boat trip around the docks and out to Westerplatte (the location of the first shots of the Second World War), on a mock pirate galleon.

A combination of tourist ersatz, Soviet era social housing, wartime bomb sites and new apartment complexes provided a rich environment for the students’ projects.

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The BA(Hons) 3rd year travelled to Edinburgh for a 3 day study tour in late February. The trip was timed to support the spatial development and technical design phases of their Comprehensive Design Projects, and included a number of building visits particularly relevant to the scale and ambitions of the concurrent studio work.

A range of exemplar historic and contemporary buildings were visited, particularly looking at the typologies of museum, gallery, education and maker-spaces, being especially relevant to the CDP briefs of the year.

Scaled plans and sections of many of the buildings visited were provided to aid students’ comprehension of space, correlating between drawn and physical environments.

The main all day walking tour commenced in picturesque snowy conditions which by mid-afternoon had developed into a full blizzard. As a group we were very appreciative of the warmth, hospitality and two detailed presentations that we received from Reiach and Hall Architects at the end of the day. The presentations from this multi award winning practice gave a detailed insight into their working methods, describing the connections they find between conceptual art and their own design work, along with their rigour through every aspect of the design process.

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This year we introduced an innovative approach to the teaching of Management, Practice and Law in the MArch Programme, which provides an introduction to the professional aspects of architectural practice as described by our RIBA validation.

Using the strong civic connections and professional relationships of the Architecture Programme staff 5 different projects with genuine clients, outside of the university, were set up prior to the academic year and then taken forward and developed by final year student groups with the support of a link tutor. The projects ranged in scale and ambition from a mobile structure through to urban master planning tasks, but all shared the common thread of having real clients with real needs, benefiting for the time, energy and enthusiasm of our student and tutor groups.

Appreciating the role of Liverpool John Moores University within our city, and the commercial realities of private architectural practice, the Live Projects met the criteria of being for not-for-profit clients. The projects, working within the curriculum, had an initial 3 month duration and provided the clients with valuable design support, which otherwise would not have been afforded within the financial constraints of each specific situation.

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Live Projects Bootle Library

Sefton Council asked us to look at various aspects of the design of Bootle Library.

In the current environment of public sector austerity, public libraries are under severe pressure across the UK, but in Bootle the library performs a number of important community functions beyond the traditional definition. Consequently the council had secured funding from a range of multiple sources, enabling a modest capital investment.

The project included monies from an Arts Council programme for re-imagining libraries, here as part of the successful ‘Human Library’ project, investment from Barclays Bank ‘Digital Eagles’ programme and some council maintenance budgets.

All these funds had tight deadlines by which they had to have been spent, and issues of design programme, procurement and delivery become important for the LJMU design team.

The student group developed new interior plans, including a new meeting room, new external signage designs and a proposal for future expansion with a large internal mezzanine and staircase. The design work was completed by December 2017 and the new internal layout and external signage were subsequently procured and installed in the Spring in accordance with the students design work.

We are grateful to Andrew Farthing, Lesley Davies and Valerie Holt from Sefton Council for enabling the project by forming the client team with whom we worked over the 3 month duration of the project.

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Court Hey Park

The students were tasked to generate proposals to meet aspirations broadly outlined in the ‘Expression of Interest Prospectus – A new way forward for Court Hey Park’ Knowsley MBC. These were to provide transformational design ideas for Court Hey Park exploring the potential for urban parks to incorporate activities that enhance public health and wellbeing and generate income for the upkeep of urban parks of this nature.

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Christopher Birtles, Environmental Management Officer, both from the Environmental Sustainability Service department at Knowsley MBC. We would like to thank Natalie, Chris and their colleagues for the advice and feedback given during the production of these proposals.

It is hoped that the ideas outlined will nourish a debate upon the possible transformation of our parks into active and productive landscapes and safeguard these crucial natural habitats and recreation amenities for future generations.

Granby 4 Streets Community Market

Community involvement in urban regeneration has proven to play an important part in local public affairs. Granby4Streets Community Land Trust is a non profit community-based organisation run by volunteers. As a locally driven, controlled and democratically accountable structure, the CLT has achieved several housing renewals, owns a workshop (that won the Turner Art Prize 2015 with Assemble), and runs a successful community street market.

The CLT’s vision for Granby Market is to host an expanded monthly street market and events space, running down the length of Granby Street and intending to reinvigorate the development of local shops and businesses. The design ambition of this project was to imagine small-scale architecture that could be considered as a feature of the public realm, such as a market stand, event spaces, sitting surfaces, planters, information points.

The LJMU design team attended the monthly market during the autumn and after investigation, survey and briefings they made comprehensive proposals for a mobile market unit. This was presented for public consultation at the last market of 2017 and procurement opportunities with construction material sponsors have been initiated.

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Homebaked Community Land Trust (CLT) is a membership organisation set-up by local people to collectively confront the issues facing the stagnated development of Anfield by developing buildings, housing and spaces for the community.

Homebaked CLT is a sister organization to Homebaked Cooperative Bakery. At the core of their endeavour is the principle of creating social, cultural and monetary value that stays in the neighbourhood and is invested back into it to benefit everyone.

The CLT wish to develop one of the terraces adjoining the bakery on Oakfield Road. The LJMU LIve Project focused on the conversion of a currently derelict terrace into a habitable live/work space. Whilst the future of the whole terrace block remains unclear, and this feasibility study considered only one unit, the proposals could envisage the saving and development of the whole block. The project focused on creating i) a flexible office/community space at ground floor, ii) a ‘baker in residence’ space and a health and wellbeing room (for community use) at first floor, iii) specific proposals for the entrance, window treatment and external works to promote ‘the terrace,’ providing an appealing and welcoming frontage with clear signage.

It was appreciated that the available budget would tightly constrain the project possibilities, but innovation in the construction approach and local or self-build procurement was explored by the student group to maximise the potential of the project.

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The council were not at all helpful in this situation but they were apprehensive to offer any advise or speculative advise on the terms of an imaginary licence (how they may have perceived it)

The email was sent to all three members of the Homebaked team but we never did receive a reply from them. We took from this that the team were reluctant for us to discuss anything with the council and so we decided the best way forward was to design the layout and the elements to the current legislation for a public building with regard to access (part M) and fire (part B). This covered us as designers as we are now safe in the knowledge that the building would meet the requirements for public use and any subsequent use.

We didn’t feel it was our place to discuss this with them and they offered that we contact the licensing department to discuss the terms of the licence with them first. Again we attempted to discuss the terms in a hypothetical sense but they were reluctant to offer any information until they knew an address. As a design team we did nit want to put into jeopardy the verbal agreement set up between the council and Homebaked so we decided to contact the Homebaked team to ask for permission to give the particulars of the site address etc.

Another body we tried to involve ourselves with was Liverpool City Council. Although Carolyn had been in negotiations with the council regarding the terms of the licence that was granted (verbally) we wished to feel out a few of the terms up front so as we could design to the council terms. We attempted to contact the planning department at first and asked if we could discuss what planning might be applicable to the temporary licence but they declined to comment until they knew the address and more details of the licence.

Other organisations

I dealt with the emailing of clients, students and lecturers, design of furniture and pricing of works, I also followed up the client request of a phased pricing leaving the upstairs element out of the project (Joe also contributed with repricing the corten shutters with cheaper alternative, this quote was forwarded to the client).

Nikita also dealt with precedent studies and pricing of furniture, electrical heaters and the kitchenette.

Hee dealt with precedents of fold away furniture, secret storage solutions and later in the project she priced a lot of the works.

Khelsea dealt with the access element, producing drawings and prices for the ramp options to access the house, later in the project she drew up the Gantt chart.

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Make North Artist Studios

Make North Docks, a creative-led organisation, required a design for the expansion of their facilities. “Make is a place to share skills, make, fix and create; to learn and to teach; to try and tweak. It’s a place to collaborate and create; a magnet for creatives, makers, dreamers and doers with workshops for members, studios for residents and events for our community.”

Located in the ‘Ten Streets’ area of north Liverpool this is the second venue for the organisation following on from the success of the original base within the Baltic Quarter. The Events Manager outlined a scope of work for the expansion of facilities at their North Docks premises to include; reconfiguration of the internal arrangement of the studio, event and social spaces, creation of additional artist spaces and provision of new access to bar area.

There were various sources of limited funding available to cover construction costs, but the aim was to increase the revenue potential of the venue to help fund the expansion. Budget constraints would require innovation in construction and procurement to maximise the impact of the project. The students formed a ‘virtual practice’ with key roles and responsibilities assigned by themselves to generate a design, procurement route, programme and budget for the scheme.

A series of client meetings took place to work through the process and a final report was presented to the client directors.

The students developed key team working skills and explored the multitude of other activities involved in delivering a building which they analysed in their post project evaluations.

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Exhibitions

A New Cathedral 1960 Dominic Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer, organised and curated this successful exhibition last year.

The exhibition showcased the unrealised designs for Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. In addition to some of the original 1960 design competition drawings, students form our Programmes made scale models of some of the more notable entries, which formed part of this public display.

The exhibition took place as part of the Cathedral’s Golden Jubilee celebrations.

It was one of the major architectural competitions of the post-war period and attracted international attention, with 299 entries from around the world.

Many entries were from up and coming architects of the new post 1945 generation (Denys Lasdun, Clive Entwistle, Hidalgo Moya, Archigram), these were set against a number of more traditional designs. Numerous overseas entries were received (the competition conditions stated that British and Commonwealth architects were eligible), particularly from Canada, Australia and South Africa. A few individuals in Europe and the United States also qualified with an entry from Eero Saarinen’s office.

The exhibition created a new archive pulling together material from the RIBA Library and the archives of individual practices who entered the competition, including: the A1 panels of plans, sections and elevations submitted by; Denys Lasdun, Oliver Hill, Clive Entwistle, Myles Wright, P. Gilby, H. Wharfe, Archigram, Arthur Bailey (Third Prize), C.H.R. Bailey (Second Prize), in addition to the winning entry by Frederick Gibberd.

Building of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s design began in October 1962. Less than five years later, on the Feast of Pentecost, 14 May 1967, the completed cathedral was consecrated.

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Urban Design and Weather or Not Exhibitions Our January exhibition presented the urban design proposals of our MArch Programme studio to a wider audience.

This year our presentation of propositions for the Vauxhall area of Liverpool coincided with both discussions around the Ten Streets District of North Liverpool and some nascent proposals for HS2 train line stations in Liverpool.

The projects set in Gdansk were a demonstration of the similarity of issues between the city and Liverpool. Stemming from the ‘Second Tier Cities in Europe: Why invest beyond capitals’ research published by LJMU’s European Institute for Urban Affairs, our study of Gdansk is part of a programme of studio based research which has brought together exemplars and lessons from cities around Europe. Sharing similar concerns to Liverpool. Porto, Marseille, Rotterdam Hamburg, Genoa and now Gdansk have all been studied and this work over a number of years is intended to be brought together as a singuar document to conclude the process.

To conclude the BA(Hons) first semester design project we took advantage of the gallery spaces within the School of Art and Design to also hold a public exhibition. Not just of the drawings but design artefacts, models and process work which had contributed to a very successful design studio based around Keswick in the Lake District. Details of that project can be found elsewhere in this catalogue, and images of the exhibition installation are shown here.

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Light Night Installation Light Night is the city’s one night arts festival; including largescale light projections, live music, workshops, spoken word, art, crafts, theatre, street performance, walking tours, dancing and late-opening exhibitions taking place right across the city centre. LJMU takes part in this event, and this year Architecture Programme staff developed a brief in the form of an internal competition open to all years of architecture students.

The brief, ‘What if fairy tales existed?’ was an invitation to imagine, design and built an abstraction that develops from a dream. It asked for an installation to imagine how a space between daydream and dysto­pia can be inhabited. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the winning proposal of Vidal Wesley Jackson and Harry Jones was a colourful cube that was built as a maze.

Brief development and organisation Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki Ian Wroot Architectural Synthesis and Construction Vidal Jackson and Harry Jones Fabrication Gary Nall John Jones Martin Gee With the help of Emily Karras Stephanie Ralph Jay Talbot Matt Quinlan Ricky Wong Andrea Nobrega Administration Lesley Swift Paula McNaulty Lynn Halliday

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Shouldn’t Throw Stones ‘Shouldn't Throw Stones - The view of a Night Watchman’, was a project by artist Kevin Casey.

Part documentary photography, part archival representation and recording, and part 'making ends meet,' as Casey's 'night job' became his 'day job'.

Casey has been documenting the former Pilkington Headquarters (now Alexandra Business Park) for the last two years. Initially, employed solely to provide night-time security, Casey's experience as a photographer and film-maker meant he looked at this task, and the environment in which it immersed him, in a different way. Patrolling the former HQ's endless corridors and subterranean rooms, scanning its repetitive Modernist facades and crumbling interiors whilst contemplating its unknown future - Casey saw an opportunity to document a landmark with a deep local and global significance and connection to a compelling past.

Jo Hudson, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at LJMU, co-curated the exhibition, contributed essays and text to the website and exhibition guide and was responsible for organising and managing exhibition tours. Other staff and students at the university were also involved in facilitating these tours, helping to invigilate and manage this particularly interesting venue whilst the show was open to the public.

The following staff and students of LJMU facilitated the exhibition tours: Jo Hudson Anthony Malone Dominic Wilkinson Samarah Buckley Gemma Copp Sophie Edwards Lucy Helliwell-Wilson Amira Farag

Alex Farragu Jack Jefferson Harry Jones Eleanor Kemp Emily Karras Catherine Parsons John Roberts

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Over half of the Architecture staff are research active. Taken collectively, their work encompasses a rich and diverse scope of subjects, which include: urbanity and human immersion; sustainability and design process; regional Modernism and Liverpool’s Twentieth Century architectural history; materiality and culture; international transport infrastructure; (re)production and use of wastelands and derelict urban spaces; alternative approaches for housing design; housing for dementia; methods and tools for low energy building design with user oriented building simulation software; the design of libraries in a changing society and culture; analysis of cognition in the creative process, in particular cognitive bias, judgment heuristics, and the validity of design quality indicators; and pedagogy and the student experience in creative programmes.

There is a deliberate strategy to interweave research and teaching within the programme, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This manifests both through how research informs teaching to inspire and nourish our students’ learning, but also how studio teaching and emergent project work can contribute to published research in a range of contemporary fields and problems in wider contexts – an approach that has been termed ‘teaching-informed research’. For example, the MArch programme has established a long-term engagement with the architecture of housing, and several staff are research active in this field. Also, urban design project work in the MArch programme is this year completing a five-year strategy of studying Second Tier port cities across Europe, including Marseille, Genoa and Gdańsk, which share similar concerns to Liverpool. Out of these projects, a coherent body of ‘research through design’ has been developed on the particularities of urban regeneration in such places. This work has been disseminated through public exhibitions, and the aim now is for a collective publication celebrating the culmination of the five year study.

Pedagogic research by staff feeds directly into enriching teaching and learning within the programme.

Some projects have also secured funding, including studies into both curriculum enhancement and retention. These focused on different aspects of our students’ learning experience, such as enhancing the integration of design and technology learning through computer modelling, and understanding students’ experience of induction and transition in their programme.

Research in the Architecture programme is also integrated with City Lab – an experimental art, design and research studio, which enables action led research and innovation within the built environment by collaborating across a range of cutting-edge themes to explore the intersection of art, architecture, ecology, design and science. This is one of the five Labs that reside within the School of Art and Design’s ART LABS research centre, which collectively offer contemporary and innovative approaches to professional research, practice-based research and advanced study; a robust collaborative structure aims to support the work of individual researchers, research partnerships and research students.

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Research STEPHEN BOWE

BRIAN HATTON

JOANNE HUDSON

Dr. Stephen Bowe is interested in Material Culture and has undertaken long-term research in this field. His research outputs have included multiple publications based on extensive research on Mulberry Trees, which has also appeared in Woodland Heritage and features the Shimakuwa mulberry from the Izu Islands. The research contained within the book was disseminated further in the form of limited edition hand-bound publications (printed on Mulberry paper) during an exhibition at the Liverpool School of Art and Design.

His current research projects feature an investigation into handwriting and its decline in society in conjunction with the luxury men’s retailer Dunhill and their famous hard goods manufacture with particular reference to writing instruments. The overall study of the marketing and promotion of Dunhill throughout the world will include publications in the form of a limited edition book, film and exhibition.

Brian Hatton has written and published 320 articles about Art and Architecture. In 2008 he guest-edited the special issue of Architectural Review - Liverpool: Work in Progress, and was keynote speaker at the AJ/AR conference Designing For Liverpool.

He is currently working on a project to start a Liverpool Architecture Biennial. At LJMU he organised and spoke in the 2013 Architecture symposium ‘Starchitecture’ and the 2014 symposium ‘Film, Space and Architecture’. His current research interests include a project to publish a videodisk of Dan Graham’s Pavilions, and a book on his Graham Foundation/CCA research topic, ‘Wandering in the Open Plan’.

Dr. Joanne Hudson’s research is located at the intersection of Architecture, Planning and Geography and focuses principally on the relationship between spatial planning practices and the production, (re)production and use of wastelands and derelict spaces, and affordable housing strategies. Her current research is focused on how we can realise and utilise the potential of ‘informal spaces’ at various levels and spatial scales through the development of coordinated systems of land use planning, creative design and community capital. Her housing research investigates relationships between community groups, and designers and the role that new design strategies have in providing viable affordable housing for the future. It will contribute to critical (re) understandings and (re)readings of the city and will reassess the way we value our urban environment.

GARY BROWN Gary Brown’s research interests are centred on inter-relationships with the urban environment, how we perceive it and reciprocally design and intervene in it. These research interests are usually directly linked to and folded back into design studio practice. Gary’s recent interests (and outputs) have been related to ‘balanced asymmetry’ emerging from an interest in Japanese aesthetics and ‘edge phenomena’ influenced by Snohetta’s Opera House and relating to Liverpool’s geographic political and urban disposition.

Brown, G. (2017). ‘The Edge of Creation’, Competitive Territories & Design of Networks 013, edited by Maccia, F,D. and Sepe, M. Rivista Monografica, online, pp: 159-164.

Hatton, B. (2017), ‘This Think Called Crit. . .’ In Stoppani, T., Ponzo, G. and Themistokleos, G. (eds), This Thing Called Criticism, Routledge / Architectural Humanities Research Association.

DAVID HEATHCOTE Dr. David Heathcote’s current research is focused on the international history of motorways, the architecture of South Yorkshire, the relationship between wartime industrial / military architecture and design, the development of Brutalist architecture and the study of art in situ as part of the education of Designers. He has published the books Autostrada Interstate: A History of Motorways and The Heritage Shell Guide to South Yorkshire, supported by Carnegie.

The guide continues the work of Betjeman and Piper’s Shell County Guides. He is completing a paper on mid-20th Century Factory Architecture which has developed into a project entitled Unsung Modernists, about industrialists in East Anglia and their work on glues, aviation and prefabrication 1935-1956.

Hudson, J. and Perysinaki, A.-M. (2017). ‘Learning from Increments: Towards a Sustainable Design Strategy for Housing.’ In Martindale, K. A., Dixon, D. (eds.), RIBA President’s Awards for Research Shortlist 2017, London: RIBA Publishing, pp: 203-230.

Hudson, J. (2017). ‘Producing the urban: The spatio-temporal qualities of urban vacancy and the production of the informal city.’ Presentation at The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy and the Post-Crisis City conference, 1-3 March, Trinity College, Dublin.

Heathcote, D. (2017). Shell Heritage Guide to South Yorkshire. Norwich: Canterbury Press.

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ROBERT MACDONALD

ALIKI-MYRTO PERYSINAKI

CHARLIE SMITH

In February Dr. Rob MacDonald addressed the Winter Reception of the Building Research Establishment. LJMU are partners with the BRE, Loughborough University and Halsall Lloyd Architects in developing a Dementia Friendly home conversion on the Watford Innovation Park. Rob’s paper, titled “Laughter is the Best Medicine”, intended to demystify mental health, reduce stigma associated with the subject by encouraging thoughtful engagement, and break down barriers within in the design and building professions. He has been invited to make a film about The English Terraced House in Toxteth and a major feature film by Danny Boyle set in Lime Street Station. Rob published two book chapters about The Environment and Dementia.

His future plans concern “The Design of Dementia Friendly Neighbourhoods”, monitoring the BRE Dementia Home, publication of Volume Three of Design for Dementia, and complete a successful RIBA Research Award of £10,000. As a Design Champion, Rob is developing a “Therapeutic Creative Drawing Recovery Project”, working with MerseyCare Recovering Mental Patients.

The Club Liverpool Recognition Award was presented to Rob in The Anglican Cathedral Lady Chapel by The Lord Mayor his Worshipful Councillor Malcolm Kennedy, for contributions to The Doing Dementia Design Conference. “The award meant a lot to me because it recognises my contribution to the organisation and development of a high profile International conference in Liverpool.

The Dementia Conference was economically important, along with other Liverpool conferences, because they create wealth for the City Region.”

Dr. Aliki-Myrto Perysinaki’s research focuses primarily on the influence of sustainable development on the architectural design process. She develops a critical understanding of architecture - as process and profession – through what she defines as ‘complexity’ and ‘complex design process’. In addition to publications and presentations at international conferences in this field, her current work examines the links between sustainability and tradition, the transformation of urbanscapes due to climatic change and the potential of alternative housing typologies to provide affordable design. Aiming to address the housing crisis and drawing upon materials generated for student presentations and exhibitions, her work is intended to impel a critique of current housing standards, policy and residential form. By dealing with different scales, Aliki’s research aspires to observe the evolving character of the architectural profession in leading intra-disciplinary conception and negotiation through a project’s process.

Dr. Charlie Smith’s research focuses on learning and teaching pedagogies and the student experience in creative programmes.

His work this year has primarily focused on students’ experiences of working in small groups, of student peer reviews as part of the creative process, and the influence of learning space design on student-tutor power dynamics and learner engagement. He is also pioneering an approach to research that is informed by studio teaching, in which student projects become a central part of the methodology. This explores deeper meaning signified by the work in the wider contexts of design, theory and policy, and is particularly suited to contentious building types.

Through this approach Charlie publishes research on library architecture, focusing on how digitisation and new programmatic challenges are affecting these civic and cultural landmarks; with many libraries facing closure this is a highly relevant field of inquiry, with impact across society.

MacDonald, R.G. (2017). ‘Home for Life: The Design for Dementia Home’. Building Research Establishment BRE, Conference Paper at The University of Loughborough, School of Art & Design, Development of Collaborative Research with ‘The Persona’ Project, 28 April.

Perysinaki, A.-M. (2018). ‘Quelle vision pour la mise en place du développement durable en architecture? Le processus complexe du projet’, Exhibition at Matières à réflexion: les thèses de la Villette s’exposent, 13 March-12 April, ENSA Paris-La Villette.

Perysinaki, A.-M. and Hudson, J. (2017). ‘Learning from Increments: Towards a Sustainable Design Strategy for Housing.’ In Martindale, K. A., Dixon, D. (eds.), RIBA President’s Awards for Research Shortlist 2017, London: RIBA Publishing, pp: 203-230.

Perysinaki, A.-M. (2017). ‘Re-enchanting architecture.

L’impact de la réglementation liée au bâtiment et au territoire sur le processus de création en architecture’. Presentation at Bernardo Secchi Working Seminar 2017 _ Urbanism of hope. Designing horizons of expectations/Urbanisme de l’espoir.

Projeter des horizons d’attente, 20 September, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL.

MacDonald, R.G. (2017). ‘Demystification of Mental Health: Why the Design for Mental Health Matters to us all.’ Review of New Mental Health Hospital, published online by Merseyside Civic Society Web Site.

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Smith, C. (2018). ‘Take the Red Pill: A Journey into the Rabbit Hole of Teaching Informed Research’.

Charrette, 4(1), pp: 126-135.

Smith, C. (2017). ‘The Influence of Hierarchy and Layout Geometry in the Design of Learning Spaces’.

Journal of Learning Spaces, 6(3), pp: 59-67.

Smith, C. (2017). ‘Are We Throwing Out the Books with the Bathwater? Dilemmas over New Directions in Library Design’. The International Journal of the Book, 15(3), pp: 1-10; also presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing and Libraries, 7 July, Imperial College London, UK. Smith, C. (2017). ‘Mind the Gap! Students’ Expectations and Early Experiences of Higher Education.’ Innovations in Practice, 11(1), pp. 2338; also presented at the Learning and Teaching conference, 14-15 June, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Smith C. (2017). ‘The Influence of Digital Media on the Design of Libraries’. In Baker, D. and Evans, W. (eds). The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age, Kidlington Oxford: Chandos Publishing, pp: 45-48.

SIMON TUCKER

DOMINIC WILKINSON

IAN WROOT

Dr. Simon Tucker’s research interests focus around the environmental design of buildings and the built environment. His current research explores aspects of HumanComputer Interaction and User Experience in relation to Building Performance Simulation.

Related work includes the application of design patterns and pattern language to the design of low energy buildings. Other recent research has been on low environmental impact housing design, post disaster housing, climate change and building design, and the hygrothermal properties of ecological building materials. He is a regular reviewer for peer reviewed journals and conference papers.

This year Dominic curated an exhibition of entries from the 1960 Architectural Competition for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. This project showcased a selection of submissions for what was one of the major architectural competitions of the post-war period and attracted international attention, with 299 entries from around the world. Many were from up-and-coming architects of the new post-1945 generation (Denys Lasdun, Clive Entwistle, Hidalgo Moya, Archigram); these were set against a number of more traditional designs. Numerous overseas entries were received (the competition conditions stated that British and Commonwealth architects were eligible), particularly from Canada, Australia and South Africa. A few individuals in Europe and the United states also qualified, with an entry from Eero Saarinen’s office. The exhibition created a new archive pulling together material from the RIBA Library and the archives of individual practices who entered the competition, including: the A1 panels of plans, sections and elevations submitted by: Denys Lasdun, Oliver Hill, Clive Entwistle, Myles Wright, P. Gilby, H. Wharfe, Archigram, Arthur Bailey (Third Prize), C.H.R. Bailey (Second Prize), in addition to the winning entry by Frederick Gibberd. As part of the Metropolitan Cathedral’s 50th anniversary celebrations this exhibition, funded by a Heritage Lottery grant, was visited by over 120,000 people from 70 countries.

In recent years Ian’s research and practice has focused on the housing procurement and construction and in particular the exploration of offsite and self-build manufacture technologies. He is currently working with Knowsley Development Trust to utilise such technologies in their Phase 8 Development programme specifically to design and develop a construction systems that can be manufactured and constructed by young people who possess low skill levels and who could also have forms of learning disability or difficulties. He is also leading a project to research and prototype Modular Adaptations to Housing for residents with physical or cognitive impairment, through the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory, which is a partnership between Liverpool John Moores University, University of Liverpool and Lancaster University and part-funded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

VINCENT WALSH

Dr. Vincent Walsh is a multidisciplinary researcher, specialising in urban agricultural systems. He was awarded the Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management, Nick Reeves Award for Arts (2010) and the Green Apple Award (2015) for the best sustainable food project in the UK. His research was chosen as one of the 100 Big Ideas that will change the future by the Research Council UK. As a transdisciplinary theorist, with an interest in biological and technological infrastructures, he focuses on the emergence of urban cultures, capable of becoming resilient beyond climatic and economic disturbance.

With ten years experience of developing Wilkinson, D.E. (2017). A New Cathedral 1960, innovative commercial and community food Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University. projects across temperate and tropical climates, his projects incorporate arts and sciences. Forming novel techniques with interconnectivity for decentralised urbanism, Vincent’s research uses resilience methodologies to create integrated alternative food production and urban distribution systems.

Wroot, I (2017) Editor; ‘AMPS Proceedings Series 8.

Government and Housing in a Time of Crisis: Policy, Planning, Design and Delivery’. ISSN 2398-9467

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Architecture Society The school has a very active student architectural society. The society organises various events throughout the year that bring the whole student body together. This year there was a series of well attended nights out, bringing students from across the Programmes together. The society lecture series included a diverse range of speakers from across the UK. This year’s Architecture Ball was an extremely well organised and civilised event held at the Royal Liverpool Building on the waterfront, with 160 people attending the event. Coming just a couple of days after the final submission of CDP and Thesis projects, it was a particularly well appreciated opportunity to celebrate, wildly, the end of the academic year, and for some students the completion of their studies.

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