MArch Design Realisation Dirk Krolikowski, James O’Leary
The Bartlett School of Architecture 2014
We would like to thank our lecturers: Damian Eley (Arup Structures) Andrew Sedgwick (Arup Services), Joanna Pencakowski (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), Sara Klomps (Zaha Hadid Architects), Xavier De Kestelier (Foster + Partners), Hareth Pochee (Max Fordham), Klaus Bode (BDSP/AA), Thomas Vietzke (Zaha Hadid Architects), Daniel Bosia (AKT), Jan Guell (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), Susan Ware (The Bartlett), Simon Allford (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris) Dirk Krolikowski (The Bartlett / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), James O’Leary (The Bartlett) Thanks to our practice tutors: Simon Dickens (Youmeheshe), Sara Klomps (Zaha Hadid Architects), John Lyall (Lyall, Bills & Young Architects), Manja Van Der Worp (Nous), James Hampton (Studio Egret West), Justin Nichols (Make), Daniel Wright (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners), Tom Holberton (Rick Mather Architects), Soma, Pedro Gil (Studio Gil Architects), Dean Pike (Dean Pike Architecture), Peter Vaughan (Asif Khan), Michael Tite (The Bartlett / Walters & Cohen Architects), Anne Schroell, Joseph Mackey, David Hemingway (Niall McLaughlin Architects) Thanks to all the Structural Consultants that have worked with individual Units to realise their projects, and to Max Fordham, Environmental Consultants
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The Design Realisation course provides the opportunity for all Year 4 MArch Architecture students to consider how buildings are designed, constructed and delivered. Students are asked to reflect upon their relationship to technology, the environment and the profession. This is explored through an iterative critical examination of the major building design project, taught within the context of individual design Units in Year 4. Students are supported by an extensive lecture series, seminars and cross-unit crits. The course forms bridges between the world of academia and practice, engaging with many internationally renowned design and consultancy practices. A dedicated practice-based architect, structural engineer and environmental engineer support each design Unit, working individually with students to develop their work throughout the duration of the programme. We award the Design Technology Prize for the project with the most potential for developing innovative processes and systems in architectural design. The prizewinner is provided with financial and in-kind support from The Bartlett to extend the scope of the research initially developed through the Design Realisation programme. In 2013 the winner was Andrew Walker, who presented his work at the ACADIA conference in Canada in November 2013 and exhibited in the Innovation in Technology Prizewinners’ Exhibition at The Bartlett in January 2014. Andrew’s work explores the relationship between spatial definition and spatial perception, through the development of highly articulated armatures that dynamically change the edge conditions of the space they occupy over time. Highly crafted and responsive, Andrew’s work spans the realms of kinetic intelligent architectures, drawing machines, coded space, digital manufacturing, space perception, memory and afterimage. The Design Technology Prize this year goes to Marcus Stockton, for his ‘SÄNTIS:MET/GEOstn’ project, an off-grid, user deployable mountainside base in the Swiss Alps. The project aims to create a cluster of research spaces that are designed to tackle extreme levels of exposure to wind and snowfall. It addresses the temporary nature of camps and remote inhabitation, specifically looking at the environmental implications of how sites are erected and abandoned. As the project is completely off-grid, ingenious methods are deployed to tackle waste and sanitation systems for the base. A further constraint is the fact that all building materials for the project need to be hauled up the mountain by the occupants, necessitating a complete re-assessment of archetypal building elements from foundations upwards, resulting in an inventive and unique response to non-standard site conditions.