BSc Unit 2 Yr 2: James Crick, Edward Farndale, Stephanie Gallia, Lucy Paton, Benedetta Rogers, Elizabeth Shaw, Deena Shuhaiber. Yr 3: Pascal Bronner, Jacqueline Chak, Anabela Chan, Tammy Chow, Chris Day, Andrew Friend, Elie Lakin, Safia Qureshi.
Isolated and Insulated Landscapes This year Unit 2 took the concept of 'island' as an extraordinary starting point for our 'passport', 'quarantine' and final building projects. Our journey took us to two physical islands - Eel Pie and Malta. Eel Pie Island has a very colourful history. Originally a stop over point for Henry VIII to eat eel pie on his way to Hampton Court it always attracted a strange crowd. The windup radio was born on Eel Pie, when Trevor Baylis connected an old radio, a mechanical clockwork mechanism and some wires to a bicycles dynamo. The island, immortalized in George Harrison's song 'Cockamamie business', has nowadays a reputation as an enclave of artists and eccentrics. In the middle of a remarkably clear and unpolluted expanse of the blue Mediterranean sea lies the archipelago of Malta, consisting of mainly three islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino - The Greeks called it the island of honey. The islands are inhabited by around 400 000 people, of which 55 000 are ex-pats, and about 150 000 cars. Our projects this year were generated through site exploration, documentation, research and physical testing. Our architectural responses explored different time scales - ranging from the slow drying of the Maltese saltpans to the 30 seconds it takes to light up a firework.
Sabine Storp and Agnieszka Glowacka Top left: Tammy Chow, Pick-Your-Own Farm and Lodgings, Gozo, exploded axonometric; right:Edward Farndale, Pie and Mash Restaurant, Eel Pie Island, section. Middle: Edward Farndale, Rabbit Club, Malta, model. Bottom: Tammy Chow, Pick-Your-Own Farm and Lodgings, Gozo, model.