BSc Architecture 1st Year
1st Year Poetic Pragmatism: 1st year is about four projects, acclimatising to University, thinking about what architecture can mean. Reciprocal The title of this year’s project was chosen to suggest a reliance between different parts of a design and design process – ‘a mutual correspondence’. The abstract sculptural intent was twinned with ‘real life’ technical resolution as part of an investigation into the art and craft of architecture. To this end it is organised as a joint project with engineering students and with groups typically comprising of two students from each of the disciplines - architecture and engineering, who literally construct their design. Instrument
Studio Co-ordinator: Martin Gledhill
This project developed the foundation skills inherent in project 1 and proposed the idea of designing a display enclosure for an object – in this case an unusual musical instrument from a well-known collection in Brussels. Students were asked to respond to the nature of the instrument almost as if it were a client. In order to simplify some of the constraints, the ‘cabinetto’ displaying the instrument was not exposed to the weather and was constructed from timber.
From top: Mimi Burt (Instrument), John Swiss (Instrument), Pearson Brown (Instrument) , Polina Pashonina (Cappella), Nuria Yagoubi, Mimi Barr, Matt Man Luke Perry, Ushara Dilrukshan (Reciprocal), Polina Pashonina (Cappella, Alexander Daniel (Cappella)
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