Year 4
MArch Design Realisation Module Coordinators: James O’Leary, Dirk Krolikowski
Thanks to all the structural consultants who have worked with individual students to realise their projects, and to Max Fordham, environmental consultants to all units Thanks to Saint-Gobain for sponsoring the Design Realisation Saint-Gobain Innovation Award 2017
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
Lecturers Damian Eley (ARUP Structures), Joanna Pencakowski (RSHP), Mario Pirwitz (JSWD), Hareth Pochee (Max Fordham), Evan Greenberg (AA/UCL), Jan Guell (NIKKEN SEKEI), Sara Klomps (Zaha Hadid Architects), Laura Hannigan (AKT II), Xavier de Kestelier (Foster + Partners), Ho-Yin Ng (AL_A), Tim Lucas (Price & Myers), James O’Leary (The Bartlett), Dirk Krolikowski (The Bartlett/ DKFS Architects) Practice Tutors Unit 10 Jon Kaminsky (Hawkins\Brown), Unit 11 Rhys Cannon (Gruff Ltd), Unit 12 James Hampton (Periscope), Unit 14 Dirk Krolikowski (The Bartlett/ DKFS Architects), Unit 15 Max Arrocet, Raffael Petrovic and Ho-Yin Ng (AL_A), Unit 16 Ralph Parker (HONEY), Unit 17 James Daykin (Daykin Marshall) and Simon Tonks (RSHP), Unit 18 Anna Woodeson & Robert Haworth (LTS Architects), Unit 19 Jakub Klaska (Zaha Hadid Architects), Unit 20 Justin Nicholls (Fathom Architects), Unit 21 Tom Holberton (Rick Mather Architects), Unit 22 Pedro Gil (Studio Gil Architects), Unit 24 Michael Tite (Michael Tite Architecture Ltd.), Unit 25 Jerry Tate (Tate Harmer), Unit 26: Tim Sloan (Levitate) 324
The Design Realisation (DR) course provides the opportunity for all Year 4 Masters students to consider how buildings are designed, constructed and delivered. Students are asked to reflect upon their relationship with technology, the environment and the profession. This is explored through an iterative critical examination of the major building design project taught within the context of individual design units in Year 4. Students are supported by an extensive lecture series, seminars and cross-unit crits. The course bridges the worlds of academia and practice, engaging with many renowned design practices and consultancies. A dedicated practicebased architect, structural engineer and environmental engineer support each design unit, working individually with students to develop their work throughout the duration of the programme. This year, we have seen some excellent work in DR across a wide variety of media, scales of practice and diversity of approach. This has made it exceptionally difficult to select the winner of the DR Innovation award, kindly sponsored again by Saint-Gobain. This year the prize is shared between five exceptional students, whose response to DR has been genuinely innovative and packed with wonderful design ideas. This year’s Design Realisation Innovation Award goes to: Patrick Horne, Unit 11; Ryan Blackford, Unit 14; George Courtauld, Unit 14; Laurence Blackwell-Thale, Unit 11; and Eleanor Sampson, Unit 11. Patrick Horne’s project outlines a series of interventions into the existing fabric of a traditional Venetian canalside palazzo. Each of the key programmatic functions benefits from the exploration and understanding of the pre-existing construction of the building. Inventive adaptations of existing ‘temporary works’ technology are utilised to create permanent inhabitable propositions. Ryan Blackford’s proposal ‘hacks’ the Stephansdom in central Vienna and weaves a sophisticated narrative around foreign powers manipulating European politics via cyber warfare. The observations and deductions are precise, inventive and unexpected. They surprise through the thoroughness and quality of documentation that materialises the boundary between virtual and physical politics. George Courtauld’s DR work synthesises the notion of music as a communal act of sharing experiences with advanced airship technology. In a time when we are losing cultural infrastructure, this project aims to tap into the democratisation of music, culture and our city streets through technology. It reinvents the opera as a semi-fictional tale that could change the way we cherish European culture.