Preview _ Architecture at Ravensbourne 22-23

Welcome to the Department of Architecture at Ravensbourne University London, an exciting community of students and tutors that engage, critically investigate, and innovate in the built environment.

We want you to question the future of housing, work, culture, life, and how we respond to the climate emergency and social urgencies. Our inner community might be small, but our network is worldwide; students and staff with professional and personal links in almost every country and culture.

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

BA (Hons) Architecture

BA (Hons) Interior Design Environment Architectures

BA (Hons) Urban Landscape Architecture

Admissions

+44 (0) 20 3040 3998 admissions@rave.ac.uk

This is ‘Architecture at Ravensbourne’.

Ravensbourne University London Architecture

Interior Design Environment Architectures

Urban Landscape Architecture

Shape society and the environment through your creative vision.

Taking a non-traditional approach to architecture education, our graduates thrive in the working world having built strong foundations, developed multidisciplinary skills and having accessed unparalleled opportunities in a design and technology specialist institution. Our students benefit from outstanding teaching from senior industry experts as well as direct contact with the architecture industry embedded into their learning.

Working on contemporary, challenging and future-facing projects, our students are tasked to shape environments, re-imagine spaces and create structures and spaces that meet social, economic and ecological needs.

Academic Year 2022 - 2023

Programme Director

Alberto Villanueva

Course Leader BA Architecture

Luke Murray

Year 1 Leader

Eleonora Antoniadou

Year 2 Leader

Andrew Ó Murchú

Year 3 Leader

Professional Practice & Tech Leader

Hwei Fan Liang

Contextual Studies Lead

Dr Kristin Dean

Tutors & Lecturers

Andy Costa

Antonio Abreu

Chiara Toscani

Darren Stacey

Dhara Bhatt

Elisavet Hasa

Eftychios Savvidis

Hakan Yildiz

Hannah Barnsley

Jasmine Singh

Kate Rushe

Kay Sedki

Louis Riches

Mariza Dauti

Merseille Mongaba

Morgan Lewis

Nikolas Kourtis

Ola Sobczyk

Panos Papadimatos

Polina Pencheva

Qudus St Patrick

Tia Shaker

Tim Jeffery

Tom Budd

This is Architecture at Ravensbourne

Alberto Villanueva, Programme Director

From design and materials to context, culture and experience, our community interrogates beyond the traditional challenges faced by architects and designers, but the function across creative economies, designing realities for better possible futures. Our students have developed their professional identities around design, technology and creativity in an environment of filmmakers, photographers, games-, fashion-, graphic-, product- and music designers. We contribute a creative, thorough, and forward-thinking approach to shaping the future of the architectural profession and those impacted by design. We want to empower our networks to proactively seek change through a shared community founded on collaboration.

From investigating the body and experimenting with scale, dimension and materials; to interventions proposed in the urban context influenced by historical narratives of the city and the life of its inhabitants; to propositions examining the future urban ecologies of London’s local communities. By designing and planning the structures and spaces in which we live, work and play, our students are equipped to positively shape the daily experiences and interactions experienced within the world around us. The design of a public space, new or existing buildings and landscape affect the behaviours, actions and health and well-being of the people who use them.

The materials and methods used in construction have significant environmental implications and the overall appearance and character of a building can shape the desirability of a neighbourhood or city. This has led us to understand that we need to continuously evolve, adapting to key societal discourses of the time and questioning the future.

‘Architecture at Ravensbourne’ is a perpetual work in progress and we believe that is what makes us distinct. We embrace a future that requires confidence and humbleness in equal measure: our students can shape the future and work with inquisitiveness and kindness. This has been a journey of accepting that ‘we don’t have all the answers’, but we invite you to work with us to discover them.

This is ‘Architecture at Ravensbourne 2022-2023’, a year of discovery, learning, reflection and making, but also enjoying and experiencing as part of a diverse and inclusive community.

We are proud of the journey we have taken so far and welcome you to be an active agent in shaping the future of architectural education and therefore, the architectural profession. Please join us in celebrating all the efforts and ideas of our students this year.

Year 01

Year Leader Eleonora Antoniadou

Semester 1 “Embodied Space”

Students during Semester 1 had to work with the theme of Embodied Space and experiment with its different applications. The human body was the starting point of their studies and an active element of understanding scale and spatial relationships. Based on a framework of analysing and redefining the interactions between body, material and movement, students were invited to explore and design a wearable object adjusted to the body and inspired by it.

For the creation of their wearable object, students were introduced to folding techniques and have worked with paper as the main material of their experiments. Using the outcome of the folding experimentations they were asked to create a modular system and be able to use it for the creation of the wearable object.

In the second part of the Semester students were introduced to city design and used their modular system to propose a sitespecific pavilion. During the semester we have talked about the relationships of garment and shelter, body and motion, city and user, function and form, and through productive dialogue students produced a wearable object and a site-specific pavilion which were presented as an exhibition on December 12th.

Workshops

Throughout the term students took part in a series of exercises including workshops on “Ergonomics,” and another on “Stairs”, in addition to “Super Skill” workshops I and II.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions of students’ work followed a series of workshops titled “Super Skills,”exploring interdisciplinary methods and innovative techniques integrating communication skills in the students’ design strategies.

Semester 2

“All Together Now”

Students during Semester 2 worked with the theme: “All Together Now” designing co-living and co-working spaces focusing on re-using part of an existing structure in Hackney Downs Studios whilst addressing its larger physical and social context. Hackney Downs Studios’ building used to be a print works and now is home to a diverse community of artists and creative, independent businesses.

It is located between Dalston and Clapton in the heart of East London and next to the park. During the first two weeks students worked on exploring the Hackney Downs Studios building and the surrounding area, collect information and create an understanding of the existing condition through a series of maps and diagrams.

They had to undertake environmental research and study sun and wind path, light and shadows as well as noise. Soon after that they had to choose a topic from their broader Site Survey and focus on analysing it. Some of the topics are: Scale, Boundaries, Voids, Circulation, Connections, Destinations, Users, Uses, Views, Visual Connections, In-between Spaces, Transitional Points, etc.

Responding to the theme, “All Together Now: Co-Living and Co-Working,” students were called to develop a program that brings the two uses together. They had to choose a scenario of two users, from numerous scenarios given, and analyse their daily activities, work habits, hobbies and relationships, and develop a building program concluding with bubble diagrams and volume diagrams.

The outcome of this journey is to propose an extension to the existing building, with respect to the existing elements, that will respond to their Concept (through their Design Tools), will address their building program and in harmony with the environment and surroundings. To communicate their ideas, they must present orthographies drawings (floor plans, elevations and sections) in scale as well as a physical model and axonometric drawings or sketches.

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Exercise:

You are called to work individually and study an existing iconic house, through drawings and models and recreate the house’s plan views, elevations and build a physical model. The reproduction process will help you understand better the house and its details, but the main goal of the exercise is to give you an advanced understanding on how you draw a correct plan view and elevation of a building. What are the main elements that you have to include and how do they look like? Through building a replica of a physical model of the chosen house you will firstly practice your model making skills but also you will practice your understanding of transforming a 2D drawing into a 3D proposal.

Year 02

Semester 1

This academic year, the Year 2 Design + Technology studio will locate itself in the Brick Lane area of Spitalfields – centred on the Truman Brewery – and use design as a tool to shape and experiment with possible alternative futures. What does the term ‘atmosphere’ mean, and how do we understand its usage with respect to architecture and design? As a starting point in the year, we will begin by understanding atmosphere at two scales.

a. The Earth’s atmosphere and its climate.

b. The affective atmosphere that produces a space’s sensorial qualities (how a space makes us feel).

We will explore how these two notions can be understood as interconnected. A recent planning submission to ‘develop’ a site at the Truman Brewery is the subject of controversy amongst some members of the local community and other stakeholders. We will investigate these diverging points of view and deploy design as a discursive process within the theme of atmospheres, exploring a range of visions for the future. Much of our work this year will situate itself around the questions of this new ‘development’, which will play a role in transforming existing atmospheres, both climatic and sensorial.

This new construction will produce carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere, further warming the global climate. While we think through this issue, we should also be aware that carbon emissions mean different things to different people. In the collective poetry of Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna of the Marshall Islands and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), they proclaim ‘you think you have decades before your homes fall beneath tides, we have years, we have months before you sacrifice us again’. These countries have advocated for over a decade to minimise global temperature increases to 1.5 deg. C. to ensure their citizens do not lose their homes. Yet, the recent report from the Climate Change Committee in the UK showed that construction emissions are continuing to rise.

Our work this academic year will operate in this space and pose questions to think through this complex issue. For whom is the proposed ‘development’ at the Truman Brewery? What atmospheres might alternative architectures produce – both civic and climatic? In the context of the climate crisis, what does an appropriate form of ‘development’ look like? How can urban policies; city, borough and neighbourhood plans; and planning procedures control for, and mitigate the negative impacts of climate change? And as Charlotte Malterre-Barthes provocatively asks, should there be ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’?

Semester 2

This semester you will connect your design projects across atmospheric scales – from considering the environmental implications of construction materials in landscapes far away, to the spatial qualities of streets, facades and interior rooms which these materials end up finding themselves specified in. Climate change requires new ways of thinking about the fundamental relationship between humans and our environment – you will design a Health Care Centre which may be imagined as a stage for the re-imagining of this relationship. As architects and interior architects we must also appreciate the vulnerability that health care spaces can produce in their users. It is your role to develop the spatial atmospheres of your proposal so that it may lift the spirits of those undergoing care.

What kind of Health Care Centre should we have in the 21st century?

All work across the semester is individual. This will be a semester that challenges you to synthesise your existing knowledge of architectural design into a coherent building proposal, with a clear architectural concept and ambition for an architecture of health which lifts the spirits of its users. While you will encounter many new areas of knowledge in architectural design – particularly as you negotiate the challenges of working with complex existing contexts and buildings – these will be focused on fundamental principles. This will prepare you to engage in much more complex work in your final year. This semester, in particular, will require you to become a more independent designer.

Year Leader Andrew Ó Murchú

Excerpts From Module Briefs for Year 2 2022-23

Art Therapy Centre

My final proposal is a mental health centre that focuses on art therapy and traditional therapy. These photographs show my final design through my model and floor plans.

The main architectural feature is the geometrical staircase that flows up the building. Its bright colour and changing angles inspire patient’s creative side for their art therapy.

Lionti

Pet Therapy Centre

My Pet therapy is a public health care centre. I decided to create a pet therapy for children and young adults with mental problems. The rate of depression is very high in London, this is why, my pet therapy centre will be opened for people of any ages, in order to fight their difficulties with their new four-legged friends. I want to create a refuge where they feel comfortable, in order to find emotional and practical support. My aim is to use pet therapy and the support of specialists in my centre to overcome mental disorders, promote awareness for patients through animal care. Forming new friendships and solidifying existing ties through group activities.

I would like a strong presence of light and nature within the design because they give a sense of serenity. Furthermore, after a careful demographic analysis of the area, I realised that due to cultural and religious beliefs and because of the presence of different ethnic groups such as Muslims, one of the most common in the area, the hygiene of animals must be taken into consideration. Due to this, I opted for animals not to remain in the centre overnight, instead, each morning, volunteers and clients will bring their own dogs to the centre, which can change on a daily basis.

Camila Zuniga

Elena

Hermit Hospice

Hospital, origin from Late Latin: “hospitale” means “guesthouse “, a commercial building for the needy. Hospitals not only heal people physically or mentally after the crisis but also teach the audience how to prevent it. Just like the old saying in China, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.

Hermit Hospice is a community hospital aiming at health care for everyone in the community, harking back to the notion of a ‘shelter for the needy’ as in traditional French hospitals.

Based on Plato’s The Republic, education was not limited to youth. It wasn’t just the mind that was affected by learning, but also physical education, and trying to balance them.

Jing Sum Fan

Holistic Healing

My project initially was greatly inspired by Japanese home architecture, where they utilise pathways and routes in the home as important transitional spaces as well as rooms being flexible to change and repurpose. My clinic focuses on holistic healing and eastern medicines such as the use of herbs and meditation. I wanted to incorporate these natural elements into my building through material use and its connection with natural sources such as sunlight and plants.

Jimeng Wang

Vittor Lima

Pet Therapy Centre

Right to the city is a term coined by Henri Lefebvre in 1968, and ever since it has been debated in academic circles and beyond. Right to the City is a term to define many things, one is access, be it to education, culture or fresh air. It is also the slogan for social campaigns for reclamation from private ownership of open spaces within the city and its return to the local community. Brick Lane is populated by several different communities from across the globe. Visiting the area can be a sensory overload, with its rich history, food, street art and culture. Today is hard to define who is the community of Brick Lane and who represents them, one thing that is obvious is the lack of community-focused spaces or activities led by the community.

Layla Mae Sreeraman

Health, Light, Nature

These are the images of my final model for of my health care centre that would be in Brick Lane.

The geometric façade is made of concrete, which allows the sun to create various shadows and play with the light throughout the day. Then to contrast the façade I used thin balsa wood to show the two floors where there would be a day-care centre and a therapy/ workshop are for children of all ages.

Year 03 – Dissertations

Module Leader Dr Kristin Dean

As a student of architecture, the major part of the architectural education has been about the design of buildings, spaces and places. Yet, as anyone who has ever tried to explain a design realises, architecture is not only about images and models, but words too. In Words and Buildings (2004), Adrian Forty explored the relationship of language to architecture and design, observing that the critical language through which a work of architecture’s qualities is explored is no less a part of architecture than the idea conceived by the designer or artisan; but this relationship can be—and has indeed been—both challenged and challenging. This duality is the challenge for students taking part in this year’s dissertation module.

(Ray, 2017)

The dissertation provides an important opportunity to investigate a subject of personal interest that relates to a student’s main area of study. Students may never have a chance again to investigate and develop a subject of interest in such great depth. Most importantly, it is a place where students have the opportunity not only to learn about architecture, but also to contribute to what we all think about it. It is an opportunity to explore the beliefs and aspirations that inform design, and to present those thoughts to others.

Students will present the results of their study in the form of a dissertation. Through this work, students are to demonstrate their abilities to frame appropriate questions and produce soundly judged conclusions about histories and theories of architecture and related arts, technologies and human sciences. Engagement with high-quality resources is the foundation for the construction of sound conclusions. Critical analysis of those sources is essential in the composition of a meaningful argument, well supported through excellent referencing using the Ravensbourne Harvard system. The dissertation will carefully select, and even create original illustrations in order to support, and best demonstrate claims made through the body of text.

Photograph view of “Lawrence Weiner” (1978) Renaissance Society, Chicago (Buchloh, 2021)

A dissertation is architecture made of words. It is a way of conceiving and producing architecture through sentences, paragraphs and considered argument.

Lawrence Weiner (1969) “Statement of Intent”

Who Killed the Ornament?

Matei Tolescu

The aim of this dissertation is to highlight the parallels in the rejections of ornamentation in the work of Adolf Loos, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, between the 1900s and 1930s. Emphasizing why the death of the ornament was a product of the political and economic environment. There is a focus on contextualizing whether concepts effectively answered the material problems of their time, finding that modernism should be understood as an interesting footnote in history, which however has no relevance today.

Puebla de los Ángeles: An Indigenous and Spanish Collaboration in Architecture

Erin Sanchez

From the 16th to the 18th century, Spain colonized Mexico, initiating a process of hybridization across cultures. This essay demonstrates how images specific to Puebla de Los Ángeles became assimilated within a solitary nationalist symbolic system, which frequently served to conceal continuing cultural, ethnic, and social diversity. After analysing pre-colonial and colonial period artistic expressions the Aztec identity or the ‘Mexican’ identity can be evaluated.

Communism vs Capitalism: Housing as a Tool of the Powerful

Kristiana

Genca

This dissertation explores how contrasting socio-economic regimes have produced visually similar products. Through the investigation of socio-political discourse and visual analysis of precedents in London and Moscow, this dissertation explores the causes and characteristics defining standardized housing architecture in each ideology. This analysis highlights that even in contradicting socio-political regimes, the lifestyle of the middle class is impacted by the system’s ideological aspirations.

Boom and Bust: Post-War Architecture and Economic Control in Detroit and Turin

Beyza Cagiran

This dissertation compares the consequences following the downfall of automobile production Turin, Italy and Detroit, USA. The narrative of both cities begins with economic boom emerging from Fordist production, but then a later bust, symptomatic of globalization, resulting in the abandonment of related manufacturing facilities. Yet this dissertation assigns differing conclusions to these two cities: economic policy decisions allowed Turin to regenerate quicker than Detroit, demonstrating the interrelationship of architecture and national economic policy.

Architecting Digital Space: Importance of Architectural Design in Horizon Forbidden West

Bradley Sanders

From the 80s, all the way up to the present day, it is clear the evolution of game design has a substantial influence on society and culture. This dissertation traces the evolution of architecture’s representations within game space, demonstrating the digital and physical world now near collision. It probes: how do architectures contribute to the form of virtual spaces, and what processes are pivotal to their creation?

Vertical Gardens: New Utopian Models in Milan and Eindhoven

Erica Cosimi

In 2014, Vertical Gardens materialised in Milan for the first time. The main purpose of these gardens was experimental: could they impact upon carbon capture in this major urban center? This dissertation critically analyses Stefano Boeri’s lofty environmental targets, and identifies a set of unforeseen negative consequences. It finds that the new towers benefit the ecology of the surrounding environment, but pose significant challenges to the social and economic landscapes.

Breathe (in the Air): Under the Canopy with Mycelleum and Bio-fabricated Architecture

Bailey Davis

This dissertation explores the design, ecological and economic consequences of using biomaterials—algae, spider silk, and mycelium—in architecture. The paper is built upon theoretical foundations first laid by theories including Fredick Jameson and William McDonough, and attempts to find the cause for the lack of bio-fabricated architecture, with theoretical comparisons to The Crystal Palace and The Rouge Ford Factory.

Urban Cemeteries as Shared Habitats for the Living and the Dead: Design Principles for London’s Remembrance Gardens

Kadi

Diawara

London’s acute lack of burial space is no news to anybody living in the capital — the issue has been widely publicised by the country’s biggest tabloids and acknowledged and addressed by government bodies such as Greater London Authority. Now that London is faced with the task of relieving the burial crisis, just like it has 200 years ago, perhaps now is the perfect time to right the wrongs and, taking lessons from the past, lay the foundations for the future. This paper was able to critically evaluate a range of historical, practical and theoretical sources, examine examples from around the world, namely Sydney, Oslo and London, apply findings in context and from there synthesise design principles for constructing London’s new urban burial spaces.

ANT for Experiential Architecture: Soane’s Museum Challenging Phenomenological Theories

Afifa Hakim

This thesis employs visual analysis through the lens of actor-network theory (ANT) to clarify experiential architecture against contemporary phenomenology (Latour; Law; Bachelard; Zumthor; Pallasma). The main focus of this dissertation will be on Sir John Soane’s Museum as a case study to analyse the structure and test the theoretical framework of ANT, as an antedote to other phenomenological alternatives, to define experiences in Soane’s Museum.

Reconciling Aesthetics in the World of architecture: The Influence of Carlo Scarpa

Viola Pica

This dissertation analyses Carlo Scarpa’s past encounters and experiences and how the latter have positively impacted his career as an architect. Through the research of valuable books, by carrying out interviews with one of Carlo Scarpa’s students, and by personally visiting the Venini Light Gallery and observing other works of his, I intend to re-evaluate criticisms about his career as being “anachronist” and “too far outside the norm” for his time period. This dissertation intends to develop an awareness of how Scarpa managed to elevate his architectural expressions and how he managed to develop an architectural style that reflected his interpretation of the cultural and historical moment.

Paris + Copenhagen = Hackbridge? The 15-Minute City

Leonardo Paja

This paper analyses Paris and Copenhagen, which have been adopting the 15-Minute City concept. It then applies these ideas to Hackbridge, an automobile suburb in the UK. Hackbridge is analysed and diagrammatically mapped. This essay concludes with a solution for Hackbridge, based on the approach of Copenhagen, effectively demonstrating its translation into a 15-minute suburb and improve the living standards for residents.

Curative Architecture, in the Places that Need it Most

Hannah Stockton-Turner

The interplay between architecture and psychology has been gradually acknowledged over recent years. This dissertation explores the reconceptualisation of the interrelationship of environmental space on hospital patients. In addition, it examines the plethora of scientific evidence regarding the benefits of curative spaces, in particular, research conducted by Roger Ulrich. In comparison to my intimate experience as in inpatient at the Royal London Hospital. Motivated to ultimately explore curative architecture to improve the experience of London hospitals and to discover the advantages that the built form offers to the psychological and physiological well-being of the patients.

Students at Ravensbourne University’s Department of Architecture

Y1 ARCHITECTURE

Soheir Abbas

Brooke Adjei

Hagar Abou Zaid

Shlok Adurkar

Aniqah Ahmed

Muhammad Ahmed

Nuraya Alaoui

Saif Ahmad

Abdulla Alkhalifa

Fatimah Altameemi

Benazir Askaryar

Rhiannon Atkins-Wright

Ayman Ayaz

Fahima Begum

Juanitta Blake

Tristano Bolla

Damian Bolohan

Oscar Cardenas

Amelia Carter

Christian Catano Meneses

Pietra Davis

Liava Djaf

Malek-Youcef Djitli Bellouz

Maryann Egbe

Aya El Enezi

Maria Faqiri

Amirarshia Farajpour

Bradley Fenton

Gabriella Gambaro

Hiroshi Gioia

Swastik Giri

Haris Hussain

Tabbishe Ibrahimzadeh

Kamran Iqbal

Kristina Isallari

Kyal Le

Davina Lewis

Alicia Likosso

Enes Macit

Muhammad Malik

Jonathan Mitchell

Vasiliki Ioanna Nasaki

Martina Nikolli

Deborah Ogunfowokan

Quentin Okonyia

Jasper Osler

Rom Janzelle Panganiban

Isa Pela-Aliyu

Krisha Pellen

Evelina Porja

Abiramy Rajaratnam

Vadim Rotaru

Melina Shafiee

Safa Shah

Niruksiga Sithamparanathan

Shanley Sookarry

Alina Stoian

Jake Stuart

Aaron Thomspon

Robert Trojan Alcantara

Elias Turksoy

Kacper Turski

Shaquil Way

Jimena Ygnacio Canchihuaman

Husnaa Yousaf

Ruicheng Zou

Y1 LANDSCAPE

Peace Eweka

Marshell George

Gabija Paplauskaite

Adrian Pascual

Y1 INTERIORS

Boluwatife Adejumo

Mayisha Afzal

Vanesa Balogova

Nok Chan

Wai Chong

Elena Cuculescu

Anna Catarina Cunha

Alyssia Elliott-Lawrence

Camile Gomes

Sapphire Gordon

Shahzoda Isomova

Jacqueline Jakobczyk

Aya Kamal

Chloe Mitchell

Deyvid Moreira

Aiymgul Muratbay

Nikol Neykova

Poramut Ninopa

Samuel Pelc

Giulia Revoli

Anabel Reyes Custodio

Agnieszka Rudy

Rania Saeed

Fabiana-Maria Stan

Klaudia Sudol

Brooke Thompson

Kiara Vasconez

Harleigh Wallace

Florentine Wheelwright-Hirth

Y2 ARCHITECTURE

Henrietta Adetunji

Kevin Agolli

Raihan Ahmed

Saad Ali

Hauwa’u Aliyu

Abdullah Al-Taie

Aditya Bhuptani

Alfie-Paul Brade

Jake Burchill

Laura Calderone

Javian Carvalho

Lisa Danquah

Justine Enyan

Jing Fan

Ulric George

Seidy Guillen Reyes

Matilda Harvey

Raneek Hobson

Mohammad Hussain

Mubashar Iqbal

Syeda Jannat

Alexander Jones

Olawale Labulo

Rees Lacdao

Michael Lamptey

Vittor Lima

Elena Lionti

Mame Mboup

Robert Michael

Madalina Moraru

Jose Navarro

Van-Anh Nguyen

Ayirioritse Okorodudu

Daniel Oliva

Nana Owusu

Omar Paddam Sanchez

Anisa Predut

Zafar Rakhda

Shana Remezan

Jake Sarcher-Hall

Sean Sichenga

Jegure Somorin

Karma Sood

Layla Sreeraman

Vasunan Thananjeyan

Chun Tsang

Abigail Vaz

Jimeng Wang

Spiridhula Xega

Y2 INTERIORS

Ali Al-Toufaili

Ragavee Anantharajah

Abdul Azim

Siria Bellotto

Rajbir Chana

Laurence Chapman

Helen Dodaki

Mahya Hajivandi

Emily Knight

Aaria Martis

Maria Mois

Vanessa Molina Nacato

Paola Moro

Malaika Mughal

Mark Murariu

Iustina-Stefania Neagu

Jlyn Nicolas

Enis Simsik

Ariana Sinanaj

Isobel Stubbs

Tina Ullah

Larisa Ungureanu

Dayana Vlaykova

Camila Zuniga

Y3 ARCHITECTURE

Justine Aguilar

Arefa Ahmed

Ediz Ali

Alpha Bangura

Nneyen Bradshaw

Beyza Cagiran

Cedrick Cayabyab

Nicole Chambers

Alex Chan

Erica Cosimi

Bailey Davis

Kayla Del-Mundo

Afifa Hakim

Reis Harriott

Kosara Ivanova

Alibek Kaya

Perniya Khan

Samuil Kolev

Senad Kurtaj

Lorena Malaj

Bewaji Oyesanya

Leonardo Paja

Stephanie Peralta

Ricerdas Plunge

Kushal Poudel

Raaed Rizza

Erin Sanchez

Y3 LANDSCAPE

Gabby Spencer

Bradley Sanders

Alicja Slawinska

Sonu Thapa

Iliana Todorova Terzieva

Matei Tolescu

Y3 INTERIORS

Rushna Ali

Reinis Bajelis

Veronica Balzano

Urmi Bari

Dimitri Desrois

Kadidiatou Diawara

Yanislava Dyulgyarova

Raisa Fahmin

Catalina Ganta

Kristiana Genca

Khizran Khan

Yuanyuan Lin

Farihah Miah

Angelika Olejarka

Amirah Omer

Chayakan Ongsantipap

Blinera Osmani

Kanokpong Pharayath

Viola Pica

Candace Sobers

Hannah Turner

Nyala Whyms-Smith

Amanda Zi Tran

Obinna Udeh

Danielle Van Zyl

Deividas Versulis

Anjenete Villorante

Jiahao Zou

Year 03 – Design

Semester 1

“A Place in Nature”

Negotiated Brief is a Year-3 design module which introduces students to live projects through a selection of competition briefs chosen under a driving theme. A Place in Nature, as the theme suggests, explores place-making in a natural setting where we rediscover the aesthetic and material relationship between architecture and Nature in its sublime expressions, contrasts, and diversity and re-imagines how we dwell on Earth. Students can choose from three competition briefs for interventions at three diverse natural settings (in England, Latvia and Iceland) with different requirements and objectives, to investigate and to respond to. Work is developed individually through two studio components.

Competition 1 * Ouse Fen Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire

Where the River Great Ouse spills into the Cambridgeshire Fens, a reed bed is coming to life. A project led by Hanson and the RSPB is transforming a working sand and gravel quarry into Ouse Fen nature reserve. When it is complete, Ouse Fen will boast the biggest reed bed in the UK. The Design Concrete 2023 Competition invites you to propose an imaginative design for the Ouse Fen Nature Reserve exploring the aesthetic and structural potential of low carbon concrete within this biodiverse setting.

Competition 2 ** Painter’s Lake House, Latvia

Beside Lake Černoste near Rēzekne in Latvia, you are invited to propose a design for a residence to function as a home and workshop for two painters. In a country considered the greenest in the world, the proposed design is expected to create a dialogue with the landscape, use natural light, and to consider the relationship between the space(s) for painting, and for dwelling. In this competition you are encouraged to use timber with an understanding of local vernacular and building techniques. The winning design will be considered for construction, so demonstration of realistic construction method or assembly systems is vital.

Competition 3 ** Movie Pavilion, Iceland

In Children of Nature (1991), Icelandic director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson captures fascinating shots of Iceland’s captivating landscapes. Jointly celebrating Icelandic landscapes and cinema, this competition invites you to propose a design for a movie pavilion at a cinematic setting near Reykjahlíð village, surrounded by Lake Mývatn, Krafla Volcanoes and the Drekagil ‘Canyon of Dragons’. The competition emphasises that the pavilion should reflect the essence of Icelandic cinema, its distinctive character, and unique history, with the central focus being a small movie theatre capable of hosting up to 50 visitors. Understanding and responding to the landscape’s expression and materiality is essential, as well as learning from local architectural vernacular.

Semester 2

“Future Ecologies”

To design contains within it a desire to enact positive change – to make things different and to make a difference. With this in mind your project will identify and explore key questions or challenges about the future of how we can live and flourish in the changing nature of cities, responding to your investigations with an architectural design proposal focusing on landscape or building. We use ‘ecologies’ in its broadest sense to mean ‘things in relation to each other and to their place’ – with the understanding that your proposals will be framed by your own enquiries, positioned in relation to one another by discourse, and situated in specific understandings of place.

We follow our university’s namesake river to two urban settlements within the borough of Lewisham. The area of investigation contains three elements: Catford – a local town centre, Ladywell – an urban village, and the stretch of the Ravensbourne River connecting the two. Each of these present similarities and contrasts, with all undergoing an evolution and re-appraisal of identity, character and role.

Having undergone successive transformations over 165 years since the railway was built, Catford is subject to a major aspiration to re-route the South Circular road and revive its town centre. However questions remain over whether this infrastructural shift will happen, and how much of its built fabric will be retained or replaced. Ladywell retains a bucolic village-like character but also extends ambiguously to the urban high street, large ‘meanwhile’ sites and new developments, while many of its historic civic buildings have fallen out of use. The role of urban watercourses like the Ravensbourne River are being re-valued for their importance to local health and wellbeing, ‘green infrastructure’ for biodiversity, sustainable water cycles and in mitigating urban overheating.

Within the area there are multiple situations of flux and change for you to engage with – contributing to the ongoing discourse on the future of this part of south east London through your analysis and appraisal, conceptual response and design proposal.

What kind of architecture will you provide for this future?

* Competition by the Concrete Centre

** Competiton by Buildner

Year Leader Hwei Fan Liang & Kay Sedki

Urmi Bari

Get to Know Strangers

Taking into consideration the cost of living crisis and affordable housing, this project addresses the future of dwelling through a radical approach of intergenerational communal living. This is about building a community, that learn to live with one another, creating bonds socially to provide this hierarchy of living through co-housing from sharing kitchens to gardens and distributing responsibilities, thus allowing the young and old to co-exist.

The design consists of combining three adjacent buildings from the retail unit accessed via Lewisham High Street to the main building, Sainsbury’s Depository and the extension work office building, consisting of flats and a shared kitchen unit and ground floor utility space.

Angelika Olejarka

The Enlightenment

Providing you with a sense of belonging, being wanted and welcome, irrespective of whether you are religious or not, the sustainable community design project gives you all that and more.

The St. Mary`s Church is a combination of spaces that evoke constant emotions throughout the process of its exploration. The sense of being lost and curious about what you will find next are the most common effects caused by the curvy labyrinth, which has been created through the use of bendy walls. This project ensures that the focus of the Church reaches far beyond the de facto prayer and worship. The Church’s design offers diverse activities and spaces for everyone who wants to become a part of its community.

Hannah Turner Restoration

Nurses are striking the NHS is falling, patients are suffering. Focusing on the helpers/ healers wellbeing improves the patients’ health. If their own physical and psychological health is jeopardised through their negative working conditions with limited resting spaces, how do they provide help to the Lewisham Hospital patients ?

The restoration of the Ladywell Playtower provides a therapeutic space for nurses to work, rest and live. Allowing nature to grow externally and internally enhances the healing and thereby reduces negative psychological health.

Kristiāna Genca Play at the Playtower

Once Ladywell Playtower was a bathhouse and a home to the local swimmers and gymnast club, however, for the past 20 years the graceful Victorian building has been left neglected. Play at the Playtower project aims to reawaken the fading charm of the Grade II listed historic structure by exploring the future of work. Inspired by the changes brought by the global pandemic, this project explores how work and private life can co-exist in the same space.

As a response, a multi-facility sports centre and a co-working area for parents were designed. In addition to the restoration of the old Playtower building, new extensions were added without disrupting the existing street facade image and destroying the flora. A tennis court extension was placed at the back of the building on top of the existing foundation with its shape mimicking the language of existing architecture.

Events

Project Showcase at Morris+Company

Students had the opportunity to prepare for their forthcoming end of year exhibition with a showcase of their FMP work at Morris+Company. We were delighted to be joined by architects and designers who participated in informal close conversations of the projects.

Visit to the Zaha Hadid Foundation

We visited the newly established Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell. Students were offered a tour of the old offices and the current exhibition ‘Zaha’s Monsoon: An interior in Japan’. We look forward to future collaborations with the Foundation.

Project Mapping Workshop

Students developed their representational skills using new digital tools in projection mapping. Students mapped digital motion graphics onto their physical models, morphing physical model space into dynamic animated space using light. Thank you to Blanca Regina for her support.

Y3 Design Review at Gensler, London

Year 3 students presented and discussed their final major projects at early design concept stage with practitioners at Gensler’s London office, and also had a chance to look around the office.

Events

Trip to Cambridge

Students from all years took part in a day-trip to one of the UK’s most historical cities, Cambridge. Students visited some of the key buildings of architectural merit in the city, including guided tours at Kettles Yard House and the Stirling-nominated Cambridge Central Mosque. There were examples of exciting ways of working with architectural heritage - including the recently converted Entopia Building and the remarkable Judge Business School.

Trip to Porto

The students in the Department of Architecture in years 2 and 3 took a field trip to Porto. Amongst studying the formal qualities of Alvaro Siza’s work – the Porto School of Architecture, the Leça Swimming Pools and the interior of the Roberto Ivens House – students also explored the city’s historic urban fabric and learned about the architectural logic behind OMA’s Casa da Música.

Super Skills Exhibition

Showcasing the work of Year 1 students produced as part of the Communication Skills series in Semester 2.

Trip to Grymsdyke Farm

Visit to the Grymsdyke Farm and artist workshops where students explore different methods and techniques for producing ‘artefacts’ under the theme of Genius Loci.

Events

Prospect / Refuge

Endless rolls of paper and graphite during “Prospect / Refugre” a workshop on placemaking in a natural landscape for Year 3 students in Semester 1 led by James Fox and Harry Bix of FFLO.

Farshid Moussavi Honorary Fellow

Ravensbourne University London

Department of Architecture 2022 – 2023

Acknowledgements

Thanks to our friends, guests and collaborators who have contributed to our success this year

Aaran Sian (Soundings)

Ashwin Goyal (Alford Hall Monaghan Morris)

Aska Welford

Betty Owoo (BeFirst)

Bruna Montuori

Chris Stobbart (EngineersHRW)

Elaine Toogood (The Concrete Centre)

Eleni Diana Elia

Elliot Rogosin

Emma Colthurst

Evgenia Vlachaki

Guan Lee (Grymsdyke Farm + Material Lab)

Hannah Fothergill (Studio Fothergill)

Harry Bix (FFLO)

James Fox (FFLO)

Jasmine Low

Jenny Kingston (muf architecture/art)

Joe Singleton

Jon Wright

Lance Monfort (Atelier Ten)

Margarita Andreeva (MATT Architecture)

Maria Davidkova

Michaela Winter-Taylor (Gensler)

Nelton Barbosa (Pollard Thomas Edwards)

Nick Evans (Vabel)

Nick Hunter

Nikos Nikiforos

Oliver Redmond

Piotr Smiechowicz (MATT Architecture)

Richard Jacob (Gensler)

Sakellariou Angeliki

Stefano Paiocchi

Tiana Lea

Todor Demirov (Countryside)

The Conrete Centre

Gensler, London

Hackney Downs Studios

Morris+Company

Zaha Hadid Foundation

Saatchi Gallery

Royal Institute of British Architects

Honorary Fellow

Farshid Moussavi

Honorary Doctorate (2022)

Idris Elba

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