2011 ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK

2011 YEARBOOK

LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY School of Architecture

ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO UNDERGRADUATE page 9 URBAN STUDIO page 10 VENICE / CAMBRIDGE page 32 PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIES page 62 CHANGE page 80

INTRODUCTION TO POSTGRADUATE page 100 ANGELUS NOVUS page 102 CRASH TEST page 108 URBAN STUDIO page 123 PRACTICE BASED page 132

INTRODUCTION

Leeds School of Architecture

BA(Hons)Architecture

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilizing the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just.

Research is embodied in everything we do. This is research based on the practice of architecture where the deep understanding of situation underpins new work and new dialogues.

The following is a celebration of work from this years students. We hope that, through this book, you are able to share in their thoughts, ideas and designs.

Des Fagan RIBA March BArch

Course Leader BA(Hons) Architecture

URBAN STUDIO Simon Warren, Des Fagan, Simon North Aim>

Philosophy We believe that a sustainable approach to architecture is key.

Our designs are influenced by the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ text be McDonough and Braungart We promote self build and real build projects for students to design and construct.

We aim to propose ideas and designs that address the difficulties faced by Holbeck Site Holbeck is a district of Leeds just a few minutes walk from the City Centre.

Holbeck was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Leeds, but has suffered significant decline. Since the 19th Century, many of the industrial buildings and warehouses have been demolished or fallen into disrepair. The district is now home to some of the highest rates of crime and social deprivation in the country.

SEMESTER ONE

Ashley Ball Urban Beauty> Disperse

Harvinder Mudhar Urban Beauty

Claire Burrell Holbeck Creative Arts Village

Sam Gilding Holbeck Regeneration

James Norton Holbeck Masterplan

Richard Laycock Holbeck Strategy

Chris Foster Holbeck Micro Brewery

Claire Burrell Creative Arts Village

Georgina Robson

Genenan Antoine Holbeck Garden Restaurant

Andrea Ghirawoo Leeds Southern School of Contemporary Dance

John Evans Holbeck Revitilisation Centre

Ashley Ball Speakers’ Corner and Discussion Forum

Harry Hewlett Holbeck Brewery and Beer Farm

Dan Calverley Poetic Cinema

Richard Laycock Production, Education, Community

Mimi Urban Dance Centre

Sam Gilding Holbeck Gallery

Aimie Griffiths

SEMESTER TWO

Jack Davey Holbeck Leisure Centre

Yuen Ngai Parking Meters

Joshua Boydell-Smith Old Chapel Live

Harvinder Mudhar, Raymond Soko, Zoltan Deak Weaving Holbeck to Leeds Through Sustainability & Health

Besnik Abdiu Holbeck Site Model

Zoltan Deak Scuba-diving Centre

Karl Braidwood Holbeck Regeneration

Mimi Holbeck Spa

Harvinder Mudhar Holbeck Health Spa

William Board Holbeck Spa

Andrew Bates Green Route

Andrew Bates Holbeck Spa

Joe Walton Holbeck Spa

Yue Zheng Cencept Models

Joshua Boydell-Smith Old Chapel Live

Rachael Branton Holbeck Urban Spa

Aimee Major Sensory Spa

Matthew Baker Holbeck Spa

VENICE & CAMBRIDGE Sarah Mills, Dennis Burr Aim>

Proposition This unit combined Level 2 and level 3 students. The intention of the unit was to study the processes of architecture through the media of art, poetry and music and to explore the possible relationship between a specific form and a resultant architectural form. Three themes were explored through the year; rising water levels, the ordinary within the extraordinary and the future of the map. Mapping was considered as a powerful and sometimes individual act, by editing out that which is thought of as unimportant, but also allowing for others reinterpretation.

Sites A field trip was undertaken to Venice and an Urban Design Study was undertaken in three chosen areas of Venice. Sites were chosen in these areas by the students along with a choice of two briefs (Glass Blowing School or a Gondola Building School). A volumetric project was then set to look at the appropriateness of form in an urban context.

In the second semester a project was set in Cambridge. A new map library was set to house an existing collection of historic and ordnance survey maps. A choice of three sites was provided, one on the flood plain near Darwin College, one near the Architecture School and one adjacent to the existing Main City Library.

The Unit resisted the idea that libraries might be little more than a virtual experience and did not dwell on the justifications of programme but used the spatial possibilities it implied as an opportunity for design.

SEMESTER ONE

Trim Murati Venice Site Plan

Alex Warren Music Therapy Centre

James Bromley Site Study

Tom Booen Site Study

Benjamin Allan Venice Volumetrics

Chris Paraskos Masterplan Model

Trim Murati Gondola Making Process

Trim Murati Scale Model

Patrick Jervis Boat Building & Design School

William Board Venice

Alex Passey Rehabilitation Centre

Karl Lenton Venice

Karl Lenton Elevation

Lawrence Ferguson Venice

Tom Booen Volumetrics

SEMESTER TWO

Adam Fulton Library Study

Danny Patel Library Study

Tomos Cope Intuative Response

Trim Murati Intuative Response

Ashley Ball Development Work Catalogue

Antonia Frondella Cambridge Map Library

Vahagn Mkrtchyan Cambridge Map Library & Depository

Alex Warren Cambridge Map Library & Depository

Chris Newbold Cambridge Map Library & Depository

Nick Hart-Woods Cambridge Arts Library

Nick Higson Cambridge Arts Library

Amirreza Gostaryfard Cambridge Map Library

Adam Fulton Cambridge Map Library

Ashley Ball Cambridge Arts Library & Gallery at Kettles Yard

Gary Whitechurch Cambridge Arts Library

Ellie Archer Scale Model

Vahagn Mkrtchyan Interior

Chris Newbold Site Context

Karl Lenton Cambridge Map Library

Karl Lenton Map Library Interiors

PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIES Claire Hannibal, Lesley Millard, Aim>

Proposition We are interested in investigating the potential of post-industrial cityscapes, and this year has been spent exploring opportunities for experienced, remembered and imagined voids and edges.

Our studio takes a contextual approach that explores layers and palimpsests and we are particularly interested in model making as a tool to investigate ideas and scale. Students have been challenged to create their own briefs through a critical reading and understanding of place – this year we have explored options as diverse as algae farms, stitch-and-bitch, spas and travelling theatre-scapes.

Sites Semester One> Williamson tunnels, Liverpool Educational Space

The eccentric millionaire Joseph Williamson created a labyrinth of tunnels in Edge Hill, Liverpool to provide employment opportunities to men returning from the Napoleonic War. A triumph of technology, this extensive network of tunnels provides the setting for the Educational Space project.

In-depth analysis of both the site and wider context provided an understanding of local need and the identification of an appropriate educational space. ‘Space-changing devices’ were employed to generate a language that could initiate positive transformations.

Semester Two> Newcastle Leisure City

‘It is estimated that leisure activities now account for 35 percent of our waking time, 9.7 percent of our personal consumption expenditures, and 6.9 percent of our GDP. In this world of flexible work hours, discount flights to all corners of the earth, and the ability to download almost every single movie, television show or song ever recorded, we have become a society of leisure aficionados and pleasure connoisseurs.’

The Why Factory

The challenge was set to create a productive leisure industry.

SEMESTER ONE

Amy Featherstone Intuative Response

Lauren Connolly Intuative Response

Andreah Doherty Liverpool

Besnik Abdiu Williamson Tunnels

Hannah Cawthorne Edge Hill Rehabilitation Centre

Amanda Kenyon Williamson Tunnels

Amanda Kenyon Williamson Tunnels

Nixie Mae Edwards Williamson Tunnels

Andreah Doherty Site Section

Chris Newbold Centre For Digital Arts

Aaron Morris Williamson Tunnels

SEMESTER TWO

Amanda Kenyon Development Models

Kirsty Raine Gateshead

Hannah Braid Leisure City

Emily Dow Williamson Tunnels

Tom Eddison Honey Farm

Sarah Wardrope Williamson Tunnels

Dan Calverley Extreme Sport Restaurant

Sam Stalker Travelling Theatre

Genenan Antoine The Canny Brewery

Amanda Kenyon Final Model

PARKING/ CHANGE Keith Andrews, Dan Kelly Aim>

Proposition “Mutability is the epitaph of worlds Change alone is changeless People drop out of the history of a life as of a land Through their work or their influence remains�

The Manchester Man G Linnaeus Banks 1876

SEMESTER ONE

Matt Grindey Hydrogen Fuel Cell Production & Research Centre

Joshua Boydell-Smith Paul Smith Autumn Winter Collection

Ron Graham

SEMESTER TWO

Harry Hewlett Runcorn Contaminants

Lee Salim Runcorn Disaster

Tom Rawson Mapping Constellations

Tim Smyrk Runcorn Disaster 2033

James Bromley Meat Slaughter

Benjamin Allan Runcorn Disaster

Ross Couper Automotive Education Centre

Nick Wright Leek

John Evans Runcorn Military Rehabilitation Centre

Patrick Jervis Bio-Steel Research & Development Centre

Tom Booen Leek Old Peoples Home

Jonny Wrynne Windermere

Harry Hewlett Runcorn

Ron Graham

POSTGRADUATE CONTEXT

The future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the challenge for the 21st Century Architect, to imagine not only the future, but to envision ways of getting there - from here.

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. Architecture is not only building to us, but a concretisation of the needs and dreams of the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series of interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to the building skin and the room itself.

Our new approach is research based design. The Studio is unit-based allowing students to specialise within the frame of the RIBA/ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book based research but research by design.... This research is based on the practice of architecture; where the deep understanding of situation, underpins new work and new dialogues..

We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making either things or policy or methodologies. From the action research of our Urban Studio Unit, where real life community design projects are realised to the Abstract Machines Unit where parametric modeling allows the development of complex component driven facades, we engage with the possibilities created by new technologies and material.

The Crash Test Unit engages with urban policy and sustainability in a creative way to produce closed cycles cities.

ANGELUS NOVUS Keith Andrews, Vernon Thomas Aim> Recycling/ Transformation/ Fabrication Strategies

Proposition Angelus Novus was a watercolour painted by Paul Klee in 1920. Walter Benjamin a philosopher owned the painting and saw it as depicting the ‘Angel of history’. With its face turned resolutely to the past, it perceives the future manifest as linear catastrophe, which keeps piling the avant-garde of the moment upon the established and known. The wreckage, of the one impacting on the other, measures our progression into the future.

The proposition of the unit is to ask what constitutes redundancy and to speculate on various strategies and techniques of re-animation .

There are three parallel strands of investigation: • The history, programme and cultural context of the original edifice.

• The speculative development and testing of the new programs/scripts.

• The nature, rational and techniques employed in the existing construction, the nature rational and techniques of the proposed intervention.

Sites Year 01 (2009-10) The Units attentions were focused on the disused Holbeck Viaduct connecting the centre of Leeds to the suburbs Year 02, (2010-11) The Units interest focused on Wakefield & The Five Towns. The Unit generated research and proposals contributing to the Five Towns Regeneration, initiated by Yorkshire Forward and carried on by the municipal authorities and BEAM.

Chris Stow The Employment Line

Alex McCann Wakefield Craft Brewery

Richard Copperwheat Zeppelin Terminal

James Wakeling Is Cannabis The New Coal?

James Storey Moblie Music Centre

Catherine Gault Burberry Foundation Centre

Paul Stafford Wakefields obe(CITY)

Mark Crosby HariboLand

CRASH TEST Claire Hannibal, Des Fagan, Craig Stott Aim> Synergetic Urbanism

Proposition The Globalised City is a network of flows and interdependent landscapes. These landscapes are characterised by flows of global commodities, ideas and technologies.

The networks these produce, if managed correctly, can produce life-enhancing synergies.

Sites Through studying Stoke-On-Trent, Barrow-in-Furness and the area of South Leeds, the Crash Test Unit has developed a series of propositions designed to instigate Closed Loop Urbanism: Waste Equals Food.

Adam Leigh-Brown The Grange

Andrew Goodwin Cybernetic Subterfuge

Marcos Losada Marine Solutions

Claire Brooks-Stephenson Gyro Town

Louise Hartley Sensity: Emergent Media City

James Baron Up Project

Greg Fryman Algae L-Systems

Victoria Wood Endosymbiont

Laura Sherratt Preparations For The Inevitable

Lauren Mintoft Building Resilience

Philip Carter Make Power Not War

Patrick Helegwa Exer Tri City

Greg Blom Biocyclical Networks

Jonathan Pyle The Resilient Edge

Natalie Alice Hall Barrow’s Arc(ology)

William Inglis Libertarian Globalized Space

Andrew Jenkins An Industrial Evolution

Christopher Hartshorne Harvest From The Sea

Alastair Shelley The Information Archive

Morgan Grennan Aquatic (Re)Birth

Sally Porritt The Sustainable Sea

Sian Edwards Age Of Nostalgia

Matthew Wray Hybrid Ecologies

URBAN STUDIO Tony Rees, Simon Warren

Proposition “A ‘sustainable city’ is organised so as to enable all its citizens to meet their own needs and to enhance their well being without damaging the natural world or endangering the living conditions of other people, now or in the future...there will be no sustainable world without sustainable cities.”

Herbert Girardet

Urban Studio investigated post-industrical cities in the North of England and looks at how they might be regenerated in the context of a global imperative for cities to become sustainable.

Sites The main focus of study was the east coast city of Hull which has both natural resources and legacies from traditional industries that together provide the potential for regeneration and the sustainable development of the city and region.

Urban Studio is also involved in ‘live’ programmes that implement the ethos of the Unit. One such current ‘live’ project is in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti, with the design and development of a sustainable earthquake proof orphanage.

Mike Allan Bransholme Construction Skills Centre

Laura Crowther Living Memorial

Lucy Andersson Quayside Hostel & Watersports Centre

Jenna Cunningham Dive Dock: Hull

Thomas Stubley Longhill Longlife

Emma King Renewable Energy Port

Francesca Garland Plug and Play Centre

Sam Rawlings Siemens Academy

Ben Clare The Water_Culture Experience

Kristopher Jones A Global CO2nference

Martin Sutcliffe The Timber Yards

Dominic Husband Urban (re)connection

Daniel Goodson Society’s Ignored Population

PRACTICE BASED

The Part-Time Students have been working on self-directed projects, based on individual interests.

The projects are all buildings in an Urban context, usually set in the town or city that the student is based.

Matt Quinn Beyond The Wall

Sarah Lunn The Music Project

Adam Graham Rehabilitation Facility

Emily Cain Childrens Therapy Centre

Neil Monk Preston City Hall

Daniel Pearce Daemon Innovation

ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011 Designed by Ashley Ball