Dip Unit 12 Yr 4: Eva Baranyai, Geraldine Booth, Ben Clement, Harriet Comben, Sebastian de la Cour, James Hampton, Ann Leung, Emma Neville. Yr 5: Anton Ambrose, Jennifer De Vere-Hopkins, Laura Dewe Mathews, Misa Furigori Gonzalez, Louise Heaps, Lina Lahiri, Bilal Mian, Tobiah Samuel, Paul Thomas, Olga Wukounig.
About Time Our project this year, a Public House, is a Time Machine and a Weather Station. Public House The most private of spaces, a house familiarly houses an individual or a family. But we also speak of the House of Commons, the house of correction, the curry house, the art-house, the hothouse, and many other houses. This year, our project is such a public house. It is a house to house a society. Time Machine References to C20 modernism dominate contemporary architecture and earlier periods are largely ignored. As a creative stimulus, narrative resource and knowledge base for C21 architecture, Unit 12 focuses on earlier centuries as well as those more recent. Seen in this light, architecture, as a discipline and as a building, is never complete; it is a compound of many moments, not one. Weather Station Instead of the familiar opposition of weather and architecture, weather is a principal material and weathering is a principal process of the Public House. Weather can be man-made and electromagnetic as well as natural, while weathering is not simply decay. It can be protective, as in the rust coating on Corten steel, and positive, drawing attention to the wider environment and the possibility and potential of change. For Unit 12, weather is a positive and initiating architectural force. Technical support: Chris Davy. Critics: Abi Abdolwhabi, Constance Lau. Consultants: Prashant Kapoor (Price and Myers), Rutger Snoek (Michael Hadi).
Elizabeth Dow and Jonathan Hill
Clockwise from top left: Tobiah Samuel, Misa Furigori Gonzalez, Louise Heaps, Jennifer De Vere-Hopkins.