BSc Unit 4 Yr 2: Lik San Chan, Tammy Chow, Isabel Crewe, Richard Hardy, Ric Lipson, Geraldine Ng, Nancy O'Brien, Kyna So. Yr 3: Yee-Lain Billing, James Davies, Lida Kokorelia, Emily Mann, Vanessa Salambassi, Andrew Scrace, Tsuyoshi To.
Dangerous Futures This year we looked at the transforming city; the process of transformation is the key operation in contemporary urban culture and perhaps the only constant. We asked: How does the transformation of cities influence architecture? How do the processes of transformation that shape new urban society inform the new urban matrix? How do they redefine architecture and the notion of public space? Even though Berlin was an isolated city, its recent development has produced a boom in modern urban transformations with architectural, cultural and political shifts. Because of recent history and technological/social development, the city of Berlin seems to have a variety of processes expressing transformations; the integration of Eastern and Western Europe and the evolution of the European megalopolis have begun to create a sense of new national identity in the new German capital. Public spaces (Alexanderplatz, Potsdamer Platz, Checkpoint Charlie etc.) have always been connected to changes in political, cultural and architectural trends in Berlin. The design proposition for the unit was therefore to be sited in the public spaces of Berlin’s ‘dangerous futures’.
Stewart Dodd and Vesna Petresin Robert
Clockwise from top: Yee-Lain Billing, Tammy Chow, Lida Kokorelia, Vanessa Salambassi.