BSc Year 1 Design Leander Adrian, Zahir Ahmad, Mark Attmore, Karen Au, Aminah Babikir, Emma Bass, Janinder Bhatti, Jane Brodie, Emi Bryan, Joel Cady, Xueting Snow Cai, Keti Carapulli, Yu-Wei Chang, Ko Wei Gabriel Cheung, Joanne Clark, Jason Claxton, Olivia Crawford, Alexandra Critchley, Alisan Dockerty, Daniel Dodds, Lucinda Dye, Pooh Eamcharoenying, Kenzo Ejiri, Daryl Fitzgerald, Katie Fudge, Theo Games Petrohilos, Victor Hadjikyriacou, Alevtina Golovina, Tamsin Hanke, Ben Hayes, Kaowen Ho, Imogen Holden, Theo Jones, Sonlia Kadillari, Matilda Keane, Thomas Kendall, Joyce Lau, Paul Leader-Williams, Young Woo Lee, Hong Jin Leow, Stafanos Levides, Joanna Levy, Keong Lim, Meng Liu, Jialun Vincent Mao, Nur Md Ajib, Richard Moakes, Chiara Montgomerie, Charlotte Moon, Saturo Nakanishi, Lucy Ottwell, Byeong-Ju Park, Sungwoo David Park, Dhiren Patel, Olivia Pearson, Nicola Perret, Chi Philip Poon, Felicity Price-Smith, Isabelle Priest, Tingting Qin, Rida Qureshi, Dimple Rana, Harriet Redman, Louise Robson, Francis Roper, James Sale, Alistair Shaw, Young Song, Jack Spencer-Ashworth, Alex Sprogis, Cathrine St Hill, Claire Taggart, Martin Tang, Eryk Ulanowski, Ellen Utomo Thomas Vie, Anthony Whittaker, Rain Wu, Suyang Xu, Yan Yan, Congjing Yao, Michelle Young, Tim Yue, Jingru Zhang, Yuan Zhao.
The main intention of Year 1 Design is to explore ‘ways of seeing’: unerstanding and interpreting objects/places/events and learing to look beyond the obvious and visible into the unseen and often ‘absurd’ qualities of things. In this way a place can also be seen as something with its own identity, which each student can interpret in a different way. The importance of ‘character’ and ‘personality’ is emphasised throughout the design process, whether it concerns analysis, site interpretation or architectural vision. Inventiveness an imagination are cultivated through a series of design projects which tackle a range of scales and experiences and are contructed or represented through models and drawings. The year started with an analytical study of and object, a critical mapping of a place along the River Fleet, and a group installation set on eight sites along its course, all of which respond to different notions of ‘receptacle’, ‘well’, basin, and ‘repository’. A measured architectural section of a critical part of Palermo explored a special quality of the chosen site. These initial investigations bring together all the skills developed throughout the year into a building project – a ‘Live – Work – Vessel’. Sited along course of the River Fleet in London this building responded to the existing condition of the site and it explores moments of the past.
Year 1 Design Director: Frosso Pimentides. Coordinator: Patrick Weber. Tutors: Luke Chandresinghe, Lucy Leonard, Brian O’Reilly, Jonathan Pile, Renee Searle, Toby Smith.