BSc Year 1 Design William Armstrong, Khalid AlSugair, Nichola Barrington-Leach, Nicholas James Blomstrand, Laura Brayne, Robert Burrows, Anton Chernikov, Giulia Cerundolo, Vinicius Machado Cipriano, Pasara Chaichanavichkij, Jia Chen, Gladys Yan Yi Ching, Haeseung Choi, Joseph Dejardin, Thomas Dichmont, Nicholas Elias, Yuan Gao, Maria Goustas, Joseph Gautrey, Alicia Gonzalez-Lafita Perez, Joshua Green, Emilia Hadjikyriakou, Frances Heslop, Alexander Holloway, Eleonora Christina Hadjigeorgiou, Katherine Hatch, Yugiao He, Stanley Ho, Kate Holt, Amelia Hunter, Azuki Ichshashi, Keiichi Iwamoto, David Jones, Kar Yeung Rina Ko, Bethan Knights, Lingyi Kong, Titilope Ebun-Olu Lucas, Rebecca Lane, Ka Man Leung, Lydia Lim, Christopher Haiman Leung, Yee Yan Lau, Daniel Lane, Stefanos Levidis, Thandiwe Loewenson, Peivand Mirzaei, Chritopher Mobbs, Grace Ugo Alache Mark, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch, Claire Morgan, Sarah Martin, Shireen Mohammadi, Hyder Mohsin, Rushda Ilham Morshed, Risa Nagasaki, Mei Zhi Neoh, Laura Neil, Sabina Nobi, Bayan Okayeva, Stefano Passeri, Michael Pugh, Francesca Pringle, Simone Persadie, Matteo Imran Perretta, Joseph Paxton, Adam Peacock, Emma Roberts, Charlotte Reynolds, Rupert Rampton, Manuel Ribeiro, Lucy Rothwell, Samson Simberg, Cho-Hee Sung, Hugh Scott Moncrieff, Sang-Soo Ha, Megan Townsend, Camille Thuillier, Rebecca Thompson, Jaymar Vitangcol, Yuchen Wang, Angela Ningyi Wang, Christopher Worsfold, Max Walmsley, John Han Owen Wu, Imogen Webb, Linlin Wang, Kirsty Williams, Clarissa Yee, Emily Yan, Sandra Youkhana, Mika Zacharias, Yuan Zhao, Alexander Zhukov.
The main intention of Year 1 Design is to explore ‘ways of seeing’: understanding and interpreting objects/places/events and learning 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 and imagination are cultivated through a series of design projects which tackle a range of scales and experiences and are constructed or represented through models and drawings. The year started with an analytical study of a found object and a critical mapping of a place in Bow, in East London. This was followed by a group installation set on eight sites around Bow Church each exploring the term ‘field’. A measured architectural section of a critical part of Bilbao and Hastings explored a special quality of the chosen site. These initial investigations bring together all the skills developed throughout the year. They are distilled into a building project – a Crofters Residence in Hastings. Each student works individually on his/her own program brief. These range from a fly fishing centre to a gingerbread man bakery, from a pottery to a laundrette, from a fisherman’s spa to a beach glass blowing studio, from a pine tar workshop to a dead letter office.
Year 1 Design Directors: Frosso Pimenides and Patrick Weber. Tutors: Susanne Isa, Lucy Leonard, Joe Morris, Brian O’Reilly, Jonathan Pile, Renee Searle, Toby Smith, Nikolas Travasaros
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