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language. The Unit was joined again by Levitate Architects for the Year 3 Technical Study and by Picture Plane for architectural visualisations. We also collaborated with architectural entrepreneurs ScanLab to explore the creative potential of the 3D scanner.
Venice Biennale In preparation to our second project, also based in London, and continuing our search for new architectural ideas we visited this year’s Venice Biennale, a hub of talent and innovation from all over the world.
Unit 1 is underpinned by a stimulating and nurturing studio environment, where we foster a strong collaborative ethos. We encourage students to be experimental, creative and independent designers, each with their own unique architectural voice.
In Venice and Vicenza we visited buildings, which at the time of their conception and construction were only possible due to their authors’ speculative use of ground-breaking technologies: visual and representational; material and structural; as well as promoting social innovation in accordance to the humanist revolution of the Renaissance. Boom The second project, entitled Boom, focused on the Lea Valley, a physically and socially fluid region, which exemplifies London in a state of becoming. The two sites of the most recent traumas – Tottenham Riots and Stratford Olympics – sit within a short seven-mile stretch of the city. Rich in industrial history and biogeographic diversity – even with the deterministic addition of the Olympic Park – this part of London is rapidly transforming, driven by strong undercurrents while its future is hanging in the balance. Whereas Seed aims at affecting localised change in a highly speculative, fast and experimental way, Boom is the design of a small- or medium-scaled public building which seeks to ‘take root’ in the context in which it is located and draw on cultural, physical, economic, social and historical particularities. In Boom we aim to ‘cultivate’ the technological invention of Seed – the architectural prototype – towards an individual architectural
We would like to thank our critics: Ben Addy, Alessandro Ayuso, Greg Blee, Mark E. Breeze Alastair Browning, David Buck, Matthew Butcher, John Cain, Rhys Cannon, Michele Carrara, Luke Chandresinghe, Emma Cheatle, Ming Chung, Kate Davies, Jo Dejardin, Max Dewdney, Murray Fraser, Stephen Gage, Spencer Guy, Ryan Hakimian, Christine Hawley, Jonathan Hill, Adrian Lahoud, Chee-Kit Lai, Joerg Majer, Ana Monrabal-Cook, Tim Norman, Luke Pearson, Sophia Psarra, David Roberts, Eduardo Rosa, Tim Sloan, Amy Thomas, Kenny Tsui, Nick Tyson, Cindy Walters, Victoria Watson, Andrew Whiting and Paolo Zaide. Year 2 Laurence Blackwell-Thale, John Cruwys, David Flook, Gregorios Kythreotis, Abigail Portus, Ellie Sampson, Saskia Selwood, Elin Soderberg Year 3 Benjamin Beach, Carl Inder, Pavel Kosyrev, Matthew Lyall, Martyna Marciniak, Isabel Ogden, Jasper Stevens, Corina Andra Tuna
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perceived as superficial – we propose cutting-edge structures that not only dazzle but also educate, become vehicles for research and encapsulate a critical architectural position. Our Seeds tap into the undercurrents of the city and perform strategic ‘revelations’.