BSc Unit 8 Yr 2: Craig Allen, Carmelo Arancon, Ross Fernandes, Dalina Gashi, Ben Harriman, Katherine Hegab Gaafar, Louisa Danielle Hodgson, Julian Zi Liang Huang. Yr 3: Aditya Aachi, Beatrice Beazley, Natalie Benes, Sarah Custance, Edward Farndale, Adam Holland, Christopher Lees, Tia Randall, Georgina Robinson, Chris Thompson.
The Explorers In the 19th century, a man called Monturiol dreamed of a refuge, a place where he could go to be free of the dense and dirty city of Barcelona in which he lived. To achieve his dream he built a vessel - the first of its kind - that would let him inhabit an element that one had previously only been able to visit for short periods of time. Unit 8 took Monturiol and his dream as the starting point of the year, letting each student go off on a journey of discovery along which they defined and designed the tools needed to inhabit their own utopian worlds. We looked hard for the new, personal and original, generated architectures which contained layers of history, myth, place and time, and dealt with scales ranging from the microscopic landscapes of Soho to the almost infinite horizon of Montserrat.
Johan Berglund and Rhys Cannon
Clockwise from top left: Ben Harriman, Stereoscopic Viewing Instrument, London, installation view; Carmelo Arancon, Gallery of Light, London, section; Dalina Gashi, Masked Space, London, installation view; Louisa Danielle Hodgson; Ross Fernandes, Urban Arts Institute, Barcelona, faรงade study; Julian Huang, The institute of Bathymery, Barcelona, ground floor plan; Edward Farndale, Borough Market Beadle Headquarters, London, model; Craig Allen, Whispering Gallery, London, model; Katherine Hegab, Chocolate and Ceramics Workshop, section, Barcelona.