BSc Architecture UG8
Fig. 8.1 Sonia Magdziarz Y3, ‘Bahia Honda Summer Camp’. The main challenge posed by the site is the constantly shifting weather conditions. The project investigates ways of creating an architecture that contradicts the tradition of designing a hurricane-proof building as a fixed structure on land. The building suspended form the bridge above the water, undergoes transformations in line with the dynamics of the weather. Experiences are provided by the openings, closings and shifting of the elements, which correspond as much to changing weather as activities. Importantly, rain and light play a fundamental role, being architecturally harnessed to serve as signs for the kids to follow. Interaction with a building becomes almost a hide and seek game between kids and the weather. Figs. 8.2 – 8.5 Patrick Dobson Perez Y3, ‘Launch
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2015
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Complex 34’ Located in the middle of a stretch of abandoned NASA launch sites from the glorious age of space travel. The building memorialises the Apollo I disaster in which three astronauts burned to death on this launch pad. This architectural investigation aims to preserve the memory of the astronauts on that fateful day by creating a relationship between solid and void; between substance and memory. Visitors undertake a vertical ‘pilgrimage’ up the voided tower, simulating the experience of an astronaut entering the insular world of the command module before departing Earth. The tower is constructed through a bespoke jump-forming device which is able to reconfigure to the form of each cross-section of the tower with the device left as an inhabitable space at the summit of the tower and becoming a ‘relic of progress’.