BSc Year 1 Design Craig Allen, Carmelo Arancon, Jacob Attwood-Harris, Zahra Azizi, Aminah Babikir, Emma Bailey, Jan Balbaligo, Nicole Barcley, Alisia Bourla, Chris Burman, Kathrine Cannon, Rachel Sung Cha, Stephanie Pui Chung, Jason Claxton, Ben Dawson, Jonathan de Wind, Canzy ElGohary, Ross Fernandez, Kim Foster, Kathrine Fudge, Dalina Gashi, Kevin Green, Min Gu, James Gunn, Rachel Wanyu Guo, Chiara Hall, Daniel Hall, Ben Harriman, Kathrine Hegab, Laura Herriotts, Danielle Hodgson, Julian Huang, Michael Hughes, Alice Iu, Lewis James, Laurie Jameson, Sophia Jones, Antony Joury, Basil Jradeh, Anastasia Kaisari, Marina Karamali, Nattakorn Kointarangkul, Rina Kukaj, Anthony Lau, Daniel Lauland, Na Li, Meng Liu, Vincelt Jialun Mao, Kate Marrinan, Anna Mill, Caroline Mok, Jay Morton, Nathaniel Mosley, Chantanee Nativivat, Dos Bodin Nilkkamhaeng, Gregory Nordberg, Gordon O'Conner-Read, Alyssa Ohse, Paniz Peivandi, Marcos Polydorou, James Purkiss, Tingting Qin, Ayeza Qureshi, Justin Randle, Ned Scott, Catrina Steward, Amy Sullivan-Bodiam, Daniel Swift Gibbs, Ashmi Thapar, Richard Thebridge, Emilia Tsaoussi, Freddy Tuppen, Afra van 'T Land, Jen Wang, Gabriel Warshafsky, Joseph Wegrzyn, Christopher Wong, Ai Yamauchi, Ruofan Yao, Jung Yoon, Jennifer Young.
The main intention is to explore 'ways of seeing': understanding and interpreting objects/events/places and learning to look beyond the visible into the unseen and 'absurd' qualities of things. In this way a place can also be seen as something with its own identity, which each student can interpret. 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 or drawings. These include the analytical study of an object; the critical mapping of a part of Istanbul; and a group installation in and around the main quadrangle of UCL, all of which respond to different notions of 'museum', 'theatre', 'panopticon' and 'market'. An architectural section through a key part of their installation explores a special quality of the site and the event. These initial investigations bring together all the skills developed throughout the year into a building - the 'annex' to a UCL department or society. Sited in the heart of Bloomsbury it responds to the existing condition and explores moments of density and intensity.
Year 1 Design Director: Frosso Pimenides. Coordinator: Patrick Weber. Tutors: Luke Chandresinghe, Stuart Munro, Brian O’Reilly, Jonathan Pile, Gavin Rowbotham, Matt Springett.