ARU Architecture Yearbook 2021/2022

BA/BSc Architecture Yearbook 2021-22

anglia ruskin university School of Engineering and Built Environment

This yearbook presents a selection of work produced during the 2021-22 academic year at the Anglia Ruskin School of Engineering and Built Environment, across the courses of BA (Hons) Architecture and BSc (Hons) Architecture.

COVER IMAGE Drawing of first-year pavillion by student Graciela Subba, 2022 EDITING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN James Taylor, Yasmina El Chami, Carla Molinari © Anglia Ruskin University 2021

CONTENTS

A Year of Projects BA ARCHITECTURE First Year Second Year Third Year

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A YEAR OF PROJECTS It is my pleasure to introduce you to a record and celebration of the work produced during 2021/22!

The fact that the end of year show is held physically this year is a matter of great pleasure and also testament to the hard work and resilience of our students and the staff who have worked tirelessly to inspire and bring the best out of them.

This really has been a team effort.

Much has changed over the last year which should be celebrated. Our Architecture course has been awarded RIBA Part 1 Full Status, unconditionally; a magnificent achievement.

This gives further credibility to our degrees and offers greater career prospects to our students. The Architecture course is also prescribed by the Architects Registration Board which means that our graduates have been started off on a firm foundation to becoming a registered architect in the UK. Our Architectural Technology course has been re-designed in order to maintain its relevance and currency within the everchanging world of the built environment; it still maintains its CIAT accreditation whilst our RTPI accredited MSc in Town Planning continues to inspire and develop those dedicated to the planning of our urban environments.

Alongside all of this work our students have continued to produce some fascinating and inspiring work which I very much hope you will enjoy at our Annual Exhibition and within the Yearbook.

All of this would not have been possible without a dedicated and hardworking group of staff and eager, enthusiastic students.

Thank you all.

Mark Tree, Deputy Head of School

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Alenka Noakes, Y3 student

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According to the mission statement of the SoA, the distinctive curricular underpinnings of Architecture at ARU originate from the prescient legacy of John Ruskin who established the Cambridge School of Art in 1858, which grew into Anglia Ruskin University. Ruskin’s mission, complementary to that of an art critic, and arts and crafts champion, was to reconnect lay people with nature through education and to ultimately eliminate the detrimental effect of human activity upon the planet. In our present time of climate emergency, and geopolitical and ethical crises, we believe that the challenges that Ruskin sought to address have never been greater, nor more current.

Situated within the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Architecture draws from the multi-disciplinary expertise available, underpinning the importance of teamwork.

As the programme has developed, four distinct elements have grounded the BA (Hons) Architecture, as it is today and going forward, both firmly at ARU and within the academic position that it takes as a subject: ARU’s active curriculum framework; The formalization of Live Briefs as design teaching vehicles in all design modules; The crosspollination between our curriculum and EBE’s research agenda on future resilient cities and communities; ARU’s distinctive geolocation.

These four distinct elements are integrated into each of the three years of the BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture at ARU, and we are proud to present some excellent student results from all the three years.

This year work noticeably demonstrates our students’ great aspiration to engage morally, ethically, politically, aesthetically, sustainably, and technically with both practice and with their pursuit of Part II, and ultimately to play a key role in confronting the contemporary ongoing crises and uncertainties related to the built environment.

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FIRST YEAR

BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture Year 1 addresses fundamental questions spanning from the arts, or the poetic – conceptual and abstract creations and their representations – to the techne, or the poietic – reallife scenarios of designing and building 1:1. The first year has seven assignments that increase in complexity and duration.

In Design Studio A1, students: 1. Appreciate and Re-construct the human anatomy Familiarity with metrics and rules originating from its anatomy to practise its everyday activities, is the focus. This is married up with ideas and abstractions, with techniques and crafts necessary to turn ideas into ‘built form’. The first one-week exercise asks students to make a mask to introduce their unseen inner world to their peers.

2. Thinking, Experimenting on Assembling Elements Design is constrained to its geometric and volumetric qualities and choreographs objects following an invented rule. The rule allows for difference and repetition, mutation and orders a seamless assemblage. Iterative processes of model making, representing, negotiating and communicating are deployed, to connect ideas, rules and artefacts through crafting, exclusively manually.

3. Thinking and experimenting in a real-world context The interconnectedness of design elements, ideas and representations to a full-scale built form in a physical context, through iteration and refinement of all minute details towards its buildability, is the focus. Form-finding software with hardware deploying fabrication techniques foster the creative process.

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Students

Kwabena Asamoah Calum William Joseph Balmain Luana Bardales Versace Maxwell Berg Liviu-Constantin Botezatu Shivangi Brhambhatt Kyeisha Bright Lucy Chambers Brian Ezequiel Condori Valdivia Scott Dwomoh Edmond Chimenum Efo-Emesiobi Anas Essaid Caitlin Harris Emil Jakub Kwasniewski Orlando Johan MacHay Vasco Julia Zena Mahfooz Zarha Malik Theo McKay-Cook Ruth Catherine De Henzy Mee Stefania Maria Millan Pereira Mina Nazari Jack Newman Belinda Osaro Ekoma Nevita Marlyn Seecharran Rajveer Rahul Chohan Singh Jessica Smith Graciela Alexis Subba Reece Tapp Darell Zunda

4. Building Full Scale 4a. Refining and building a full-scale pavilion for ARU Campus is a work-based learning, hands-on experience where multidisciplinary learners collaborate.

4b. Para_site The project is about a self-isolating individual who lives in a para_site of a London suburban family house. The small-scale dwelling is an experimentation on inhabitation that does not compromise any of the qualities of architecture in its entirety.

Investigations focus on the drastic changes of the pandemic in our revised appreciation of inhabitation and social spatialities.

Teaching Staff

Maria Vogiatzaki Ana Cocho-Bermejo Emma Nsugbe Leila Davis James Taylor

Collaborators & Guests

Tabitha Binding, TRADA and Timber Trade Federation Toby McLean, TRADA and Timber Trade Federation Reuben Brambleby, ARU

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Masks

REECE TAPP, CALUM BALMAIN, LUCY CHAMBERS, GRACIELA SUBBA

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REECE TAPP, EMIL KWASNIEWSKI, KYEISHA BRIGHT, CAITLIN HARRIS, THEO MCKAY-COOK, EDMOND EFO EMESIOBI, JACK NEWMAN, MINA NAZARI, SCOTT DWOMOH, JULIA MAHFOOZ

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Line, Point, Surface and Volume

GRACIELA SUBBA, REECE TAPP, RAJVEER SINGH, JACK NEWMAN

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SHIVANGI BRHAMBHATT, EDMOND EFO EMESIOBI, KYEISHA BRIGHT, JESSICA SMITH, JACK NEWMAN

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Rabbits

JESSICA SMITH

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LUCY CHAMBERS, STEFANIA MILAN, CALUM BALMAIN, JACK NEWMAN

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Pavilion DESIGN PROPOSALS Year 1 2021-22 Design Studio A1 and A2

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Pavilion

JACK NEWMAN

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GRACIELA SUBBA

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CALUM BALMAIN

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Pavilion

EMIL KWASNIEWSKI

Pavilion

MINA NAZARI

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Para-Site

MAXWELL BERG

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Para-Site

GRACIELA SUBBA

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BELINDA OSARO EKO

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Para-Site

REECE TAPP

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SECOND YEAR

BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture The consequences of Brexit, the social fears and spatial changes resulting from the pandemic scenario, the growing awareness of social justice and decolonisation issues, and the environmental and political crises that characterise our time, suggest the necessity to reconsider how we design and conceive our act of inhabiting spaces.

Hashim Sarkis, describing his theme for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, wrote: ‘We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together How will we live together?’.

Focusing on the London area of Haringey, and with the support of planners and designers from the Haringey City Council, Year Two students were called this year to answer the same question, considering new ways and opportunities of living together.

In the first trimester, students investigated the traditional urban fabric of Haringey, and redesigned a terraced house working across the fictional and the real, the abstract and the material, to compose different ideas of home. Each project started from the collision of two different ideas of the home as embodied in precedent projects extracted from the history of domestic architecture.

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Students Muqeet Abdul Thaslima Begum Nicole Cook Dipesh Devidas Kanje Oliver Falcus Poshan Ghale Andreea-Elena Hangu Jamie Hardcastle Tanvir Hassan Harry Hubert Ilya Kava Jehu Jyari Ines-Ella Larwood Smith Toan Le Quang Jay Marchant Halima Mohammed Louis Moody Ellie Oliver-Fitch Kyle Scott Julia Smolareck Kieran Sullivan Mihai-Flavius Ursan Ayman Kadhim Chloe Mujaranji

In the second trimester, the theme of collective living was further explored, considering alternative options for revising domestic spaces and merging them with public and communal needs. Students were asked to critically relate with the context, to investigate the tangible and intangible features of the site, to develop a sustainable and inclusive design agenda informing their spatial strategies.

Using a broad variety of media, students explored opportunities and design ideas for reinterpreting domestic spaces, focusing on programme polemics, relationships between public and private domains, environmental strategies, social claims, and finally suggesting new answers to the question ‘How will we live together?’.

Teaching Staff Carla Molinari Yasmina El Chami Francesco Zuddas Sara Usai Collaborators & Guests Reuben Brambleby, ARU Keg Rodney, Haringey Council Oneka Shamiso, Haringey Council Richard Truscott, Haringey Council Elena Pelayo, Make Architects Marco Spada, University of Suffolk Kieron Peaty, Studio Forty Marco Fiorino, Cowper Griffith Architects

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Collision Homes

HARRY HUBERT, POSHAN GHALE, NICOLE COOK, THASLIMA BEGUM, KIERAN SULLIVAN

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POSHAN GALE, THASLIMA BEGUM, HARRY HUBERT, ELLIE LOUISE OLIVERFITCH, KIERAN SULLIVAN

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Maze-Rena

HALIMA MOHAMMED Maze-Rena is a space for artistic and theatrical expression that builds and promotes interactions between the people within and outside the space/ structure.

The social agenda of this project is to design a multi-purpose building that provides both accommodation and a space for upcoming performers and actors to practice and showcase their talent for free. It is also a structure that creates an interaction/ interactions between the public and private spaces, the private and public users and the users and the building.

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Haringey Students Place HARRY HUBERT

A place designed to make a positive impact; Haringey Students place provides accommodation for 12 students. The surrounding area features traditional Victorian houses and brick towers, with very little greenery. This is where students place will contrast and bring modern design and greenery to the once rundown site. The building will provide housing for university students a place for students of all ages to socialise, study and relax.

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Green Pods

ELLIE OLIVER-FITCH The pods are a scheme designed to rehouse, rehabilitate and reintegrate the population of people without a bedded down contract back into society. The structure is designed to slowly invite the inhabitants to grow from the ground up much like the schemes need to grow fresh produce, interact with others whilst keeping their private spaces at the very top.

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Future Gardens

JAY MARCHANT

Future Gardens is a social housing project based in the heart of Tottenham. This housing is targeted at young families to support the large youth population of Haringey. The design is made with local context in mind as the site is a conservation area. However, it is made to stand out.

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Urban Wave POSHAN GHALE

Maintaining the public status of the existing site, the objective of the “Urban Wave” project is to accommodate and facilitate the needs and requirements of musicians who would like to come practice and perform their music live to the public for a modest period of time.

As well as bringing together the diverse population with the bilingual language of music, the project also aims to complement its surrounding environments such as the river, natural vegetation, and the existing foot traffic circulation.

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Shelter in the Nature

ILYA KAVA

Building shown is a rest centre for exhausted people looking to find psychological shelter and just a calm place to rest and enjoy nature. This place is right next to Alexandra Park surrounded by trees with the entrance from main road.

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The Brick House MIHAI URSAN

The Brick House is a project that focuses on improving the social aspect of old age living.

The public/communal area of the building is strategically positioned on a commonly used public footpath to encourage the public to enter the building and to socialise with the residents of the care home.

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Urban Studio

KIERAN SULLIVAN The Urban Studio is a residential project which aims to house artists who specialise in the craft of Street Art and Graffiti. The project is designed to give these aspiring artists the chance to work and refine their craft, experiment with new techniques, collaborate with other artists.

Ultimately they will be able to display their work in an exhibit like environment surrounding the structure, free for everyone to explore and admire their work and promote the street art industry in a positive way, to paint over what has been seen as a largely disruptive and antisocial craft in a new light.

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Reflection Studios TOAN LE QUANG

Reflection Studio is designed for students, especially architects, who need a large area to work with drawings and models and to work in groups. The main goal is to create a building that can easily be transformed into a beautiful and rich environment for shared experiences, new discoveries, and knowledge-attempting. The organic form of the roof is the main inspiration for the building’s shape.

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Youth Centre

THASLIMA BEGUM The project’s social agenda is creating a safe centre for young people to seek refuge and recreation. This influenced my design to create a place for young people, in an area where youth crime is very prominent. It is designed to be a safe haven with a design that does not fit in with the context with the idea to draw the attention of young people.

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Culture in the Landscape JAMIE HARDCASTLE

The project recognises the importance of bringing together culture and the landscape with cultural, social, economic, and environmental sustainability at the forefront. The building creates a space for young people to learn the crafts of the culture in Haringey whilst having a connection with the external environment.

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Community Camp JEHU KYARI

The community camp is designed for disadvantaged youths, that live in poverty and are easily influenced by crime, to visit in the weekends or in the holidays. This building is located in Bruce castle park, Haringey. Although this park is extremely huge and aesthetically pleasing, not a lot of people come here. Placing my building here will help gather more people together and populate the park. My purpose for this community camp is to help the youth engage in entertaining activities, preventing them from participating in illegal activities.

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THIRD YEAR

BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture Climate change, and consequent sea level rise, together with global population rise, increased urbanisation and our over harvesting of the worlds limited resources, have created our perilous situation. Our lifestyles and habits are unsustainable and we now need to utilise our technical ingenuity and creative skills to visualise and instigate positive changes.

We need to think global and act local.

Aiming for zero carbon buildings the students were asked to design a live/work public project of 4-5 stories within a dense urban settlement, encouraging waterways, walking, cycling, and integrating natural habitats and biodiversity into the infrastructure of the city.

With some of our 3rd year students still spread across the globe in various stages of lockdown we again decided to choose a relatively well-known site they could all access remotely, a site that would unify their work with a collective challenge to imagine what Post Pandemic Cities may be like.

The calm quiet underutilized waters of the Royal Docks offered just such a challenge, with the added opportunities offered by the closure of London City Airport and the Excel Centre.

The students were asked to design their project development within a new water-based City of 50,000 inhabitants within the entire 4km length of the Royal docks.

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Students Harry Parsons James Everett Joe Robson Matthew Hardiment Malaika Ibraimo Javier Ortega Garcia Mariana Fernando Reis Harry Marsh Awwal Kazeem Tricia Jipus Ayse Gültekin Lumbani Muwowo Ludovica Masini JP Ada Drew Macdonell Alenka Noakes Filip Nadratowski James Taylor Jason Kidgell Kellie Gillies Reka Pustzai Anthony Carter Toosha Atta

Following the urban writings of Jan Gehl, Leon Krier, Kevin Lynch and other visionaries of Future Cities, the students worked through a variety of scales whilst deciding their site, client, and project. The collective work offers a glimpse at a possible post Pandemic City.

The projects explore a range of current critical issues related to water, waste, energy and food, health and well-being, sustainable organic food supply, rewilding, city farming, horticultural playgrounds, intergenerational design, waste management, alternative technologies, caring for the vulnerable, urban accessibility, sea level rise, flood defense and the complex contradictions between desiring a slower paced lifestyle, and the inevitable relentless drive for technological advancement.

Teaching Staff Howard Gilby Alistair Barr Collaborators & Guests Odysseas Diakaklis, Prior and Partners Suzanne Brewer, Suzanne Brewer Architects Clare Murray, Levitt Bernstein Architects Jonathan Allwood, Barr Gazetas Tuan Vu, Scott Brownrigg/Jacobs Alison Pooley, Centre for Alternative Technology Jenny Peterson, RIBA East Kieron Peaty, Studio Forty Emma Nsugbe, Hopkins Architects Lee Richardson, 3BM Max Fraser, Atomik Architecture Emily Mai Fitch, Southend Borough Council Tom Foggin, RH Partnership Architects Peter Greaves, Make Architects

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The Urban Centre for Advanced Technology JOE ROBSON

Human abuse of earth’s finite resources and catastrophic levels of carbon emissions has triggered climate change, and consequent melting of the ice caps, sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events across the world. A Change in our lifestyles and habits across the globe is now urgently needed if we are to reverse or slow down these trends which threaten the nexus of water, energy, food and consequently our survival on Planet Earth. T he Built environment contributes 40% of these damaging emissions. We therefore need new tougher regulatory systems that ensure we can achieve the zero carbon cities with resilient infrastructure planned in such a way as to allow for adaptation and change. Presented here for approval is the first such exemplar City ‘The Adaptable City’ Which is to be regulated and monitored to improve on building regulations targets and legalise products and systems that are proven to be zero Carbon, and similarly callout and ban products which are proven to be not. This new authority is government backed and expert led by the U-CAT - THE URBAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.

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Eco-University LUDOVICA MASINI

‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ (Nelson Mandela,2003) A new city, a city in which students and nature are the protagonists. It’s a university city with access to public spaces and residentials. However, it is not a conventional university campus.

The students are all Erasmus students and they live with host families, local people from which they can learn the culture of the place as well as improve their knowledge of the language and meet new people.

Traveling, along with learning about and embracing diverse cultures, beliefs and habitats, is necessary to ensure the long-term vitality of our planet.

This city is based on the concept of ecotourism and ‘learning by doing’ (John Dewey).

A particular type of ecotourism.

It will be within an urban context such as that of London, Royal Docks and it underlines the idea of biodiversity given that today there is a reduction in biodiversity in the world and an increase in deforestation.

Here is possible to admire a landscape as natural as possible, considering the context, in which students are active contributors, while studying, they learn how to take care of the plants and the technologies used with the help of the local people.

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Horticultursit playground JAMES TAYLOR

An urban scheme that establishes a community of horticulturists on the Royal Docks, whom will live amongst nature and thrive on the biophilic design.

The community will have a ‘playground’, which contains the facilities and technologies to collaborate, discover and experiment with the science and art of cultivating and propagating fruits, vegetables, flowers, ornamental planting, herbs and medicinal plants.

The Horticulturist Playground will have a strong emphasis on education, where through research and experimentation, the community will teach and educate others on the importance of plants for the survival of mankind, and the intrinsic link between water,

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Wild Attachment ALENKA NOAKES

The proposed vision for the development is to create a sustainable, self sufficient city. The design aims to introduce a wild wetlands which will expand over the entire docklands waters. The wetland will provide a safe and managed habitat to encourage wildlife and biodiversity to grow and become part of the built environment. They will become part of the natural infrastructure, providing essential protection against climate change, floods, droughts, and pollution. The wetland is vital for the health and well-being of the community which will be encouraged to make use of the wetlands. The local community will be inspired to educate themselves on the importance of nature and wilderness in the city.

This will be implemented by the construction of 5 structures to the North of Millennium Mills. All of which will be constructed by the community, made entirely from re-used and recyclable industrial materials. These structures will provide a place for education, discovery, wetland protection, public connection and creation. The importance of these structures are imperative. They will allow the community to become educated and involved in the new, nature focused built environment which surrounds them. These 5 structures will connect to the restored Millennium Mills which will become the hub of the city.

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NemNar

TOOSHA THAMYA ATTA NemNar is a city that represents multi cultural living.

The aim of this project is to build a city that attracts people form all around the world and from multiple backgrounds and cultures to create a respectful understanding, loving community growing intellectually by joy.

This city is not just any city, this city will be alive throughout all the year, there will be a program that covers every single country in the world, introducing their cultures, food, music, languages, festivals, history, art, clothes, etc. This city is for everyone in the world and for every age because it is never to late to learn and see new things.

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Fluid City

JAVIER ORTEGA The biophilic city in which its inhabitants live as part of the ecosystem, modifying their eco-behavior, a place where the river flows like a street and building flow like rivers.

Floating ground floors that adapt to rising water as an anti-flood system. On the roofs, the new London Exhibition Park is created at a level above the 7.5-meter quay connected by bridges.

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Coda Docks

LUMBANI MUWOWO A city in which all the diverse activities of life are harmonised through sound. Mu­sic as a means of education and growth, sound as a means of treatment and ther­apy, melody enhancing economy and har­mony defining lifestyle. This community will house artists, musicians, sculptors, craftsmen of various kinds and more, all in pursuit of a better way of life orches­trated through sound.

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The Wooden City ANTHONY CARTER

Wooden City project seeks to address the UN aims for city planning for the future as well as meeting the strategic objectives of the London Plan and its desire to rethink the City of London in a new and dynamic way. It aims to deliver a bottom-up community based approach which delivers ‘iconic’ but ‘sustainable’ buildings which address the needs of the people who live, work and educate themselves in the city, delivering a new economic and most importantly ‘sustainable’ city vision for the future. Connecting people with each other and to their environment, with sustainability, inclusivity and accessibility at its heart. Its inclusive and fully accessible aims are designed to create a healthier and more sustainable environment for every member of society thus reducing marginalisation.

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Etsaw

DREW MACDONELL An emerging collective of craftsmen, artists and engineers have sought to create a city based on the principles of circular waste. Focusing on the education of individuals through apprenticeship programmes, to develop the contemporary understanding of waste management, utilising waste in its many forms to create work, housing and environmentally rich spaces Aiming to bring awareness to the immense availability of waste, and its potential use to create a healthier society and built environment.

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Synergy Alliance JASON KIDGELL

Synergy Alliance is a collective that aims to provide and promote a community to demonstrate sustainable urban living is possible.

Working with nature not against it to allow a flourishing synergistic environment.

To provide a world leading centre in research and to educate in a new way of sustainable urban living.

To be a living museum to teach by action the interaction between man and his built environment, to provide a template to other developments around the planet.

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MALAIKA ZEINAB IBRAIMO

PATRICIA LEE JIPUS

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REKA PUSZTAI

HARRY PARSONS

JAMES EVERETT

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