BSc Year 1 Design Aditya Aachi, Zahra Ahmad Akhoundi, Mayu Akashi, Peter Alexander, Sarah Alfraih, Silvya Aytova, Ioana Barbantan, Byron Bassington, Amanda Bate, Victoria Bateman, Beatrice Beazley, Charmian Beedie, Natalie Benes, Matthew Blaiklock, Julian Bond, Sarah Bromley, Naomi Bryden, Chris Carver, Peter Charalambous, Sheila Clarkson Valdivia, Philip Cottrell, James Crick, Sarah Custance, Alpa Depani, Rory Donald, Canzy El-Gohary, Costa Elia, Ed Farndale, Lois Farningham, Anna Field, Helen Floate, Kim Senwelo Foster, Stephanie Gallia, Thajinder Ghai, Mark Goddard, Antonia Hazlerigg Amanda Ho, Adam Holland, Momo Hoshijima, Brian Hoy, James Hughes, Jade Hutchinson, Yea Jin, Alexander Kalli, Tom Kay, Thomas King, Benjamin Kirk, Chloi Kletsa, Danielle Kudmany, Rosanna Kwok, Janice Lee, Christopher Lees, Wise Leung, Xiaojing Li, Kara Melchers, Elizabeth Mitchell, Negin Moghaddam, Tayvanie Nagendran, Emily Norman, Gordon O’Conner Read, Neil Oddie, James Palmer, Kuljinder Pank, Luzy Paton, Maxine Pringle, Tia Randall, David Rieser, Georgina Robinson, Benedetta Rogers, Luke Rowett, Savpreet Seehra, Elizabeth Shaw, Oliver Sheppard, Deena Shuhaiber, Anthony Staples, Alastair Stokes, Sarah Syed, Christopher Thompson, Spencer Treacy, Natalie Tsui, Andrew Walker, Simon Walker, Elizabeth Watts, Peter Webb, Bethany Wells, Dominic Wilson, Amy Wolfe, Saman Ziaie.
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 personally 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, constructed or represented through models or drawings that tackle a range of scales and experiences. These include the analytical study of an object; the critical mapping of a place; a critical survey and sectional drawing; and 12 installations along Regents Canal that respond to different notions of ‘floating’, ‘sinking’, ‘drifting’ and ‘mooring’. These initial investigations bring together all the skills developed through the year into a building, the ‘annex’. Sited along the Canal between Camden and Kings Cross it responds to an existing condition and explores the mundane character of canals in London versus the exotic character in Venice.
Year 1 Design Director: Frosso Pimenides. Coordinator: Patrick Weber. Tutors: Rhys Cannon, Dean Griffiths, Jonathan Pile, Mette Ramsgard Thompson, Gavin Rowbotham, Matt Springett, Tomas Stokke.