Birmingham School of Architecture and Design Grad Show Gazette 2016

BSoAD

Jamie Green MArch Architecture

2016

Birmingham School of Architecture & Design

Welcome to our annual end of year show at the Parkside building which this year includes the work of Interior Design, Product Design and Furniture and Lifestyle Products students alongside Architecture and Landscape for the first time in the reconstituted and named, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. The new School also includes Design Management and Design and Visualisation, whilst a number of our courses also have international programmes in Hong Kong, China, and India, all of which has given the School a new critical mass, evolved our philosophy, and brought exciting new opportunities.

Although the disciplines joining us from the School of Fashion, Textiles, and Three Dimensional Design have only been with us since August 2015, I’m proud to say that already it feels like one School, a tribute to all of the team and their much vaunted collegiate nature. Whilst on one hand we will be redefining these new courses in the context of a School of Architecture and Design, we are also exploring overlaps and multi-disciplinary opportunities for all of our students within this exciting range of disciplines that explore design through the scales. Our revered CoLab live project module will no doubt take on a new vibrancy, as will other areas of the curriculum such as History and Theory, Technology, and Professional Studies.

David Wang BA (Hons) Product Design

Cinema Square, Knowledge Hub Masterplan. image; Irena Dumitrascu and Samuel Mann

Our Enterprise activity has been the other stand out story this year with two major projects attracting national and international attention through our Co-Lab Consult enterprise vehicle. Firstly, Knowledge Hub, a masterplan design which aims to stitch the area around BCU’s city centre campus together via a cohesive public realm strategy by linking the area from Aston University and Innovation Birmingham down to Digbeth, and secondly, SteamHouse, a proposal to convert the former Typhoo factory into a cross innovation / collaborative working hub which will bring business, practice, and academia together in an exciting new model. Knowledge Hub was presented at the international property fair MIPIM by the Vice Chancellor Cliff Allan (along with project partners Node Urban Design) on the Birmingham City Council stand, whilst SteamHouse received £14 million of funding in the recent Government budget.

As ever, our Graduate Shows are eagerly anticipated and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. The School has been alive with an incredible atmosphere this year with students utilising the whole of the Parkside building as well as their studios, and especially the workshops to make some amazing models. It’s been fascinating to see them switching between hand drawing, CAD, and physical model making with such ease and enthusiasm to truly explore design processes.

I’d like to thank the staff team and visiting tutors for their incredible efforts this year at embracing change whilst ensuring that it is “business as usual”, and especially the staff who have joined the School who have been fully committed to the new challenges ahead.

We are also blessed to have so many friends and generous supporters, not least the 50 or so practices that welcomed our 2nd Year BA Architecture and Landscape students into their practices for our two week work placement scheme. The students always learn a great deal and enjoy it so much that some of them don’t want to leave!

Finally, a thankyou to our generous sponsors of prizes and events. There are far too may to mention here but special thanks to Ibstock who continue to sponsor the M.Arch trip to New York (there is a special Retrospective event at the Show to celebrate circa 30 years of this trip), and to Niyaa People for being the main sponsor of this year’s Summer Ball at the Botanical Gardens.

I hope that you enjoy the work and incredible talent on display and take the opportunity to network with staff, students and colleagues, and enjoy one of the best nights in the local Architecture and Design calendar.

Thank you.

Professor Kevin W Singh Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

The School organises a number of social and academic events to expand the discussion of architecture and design beyond the campus.

These events bring the professional and local community in to the debate with our staff and students.

Events this year Practice Placement Evening Event Concrete Workshop with The Concrete Lady (Rhiannon Hodgeon) Space Jam with Backpack Studio Architecture + Design Summer Ball, Botanical Gardens, (sponsored by Niyaa People and Interface) Lecture Series This year our public lectures have diverged into three different open series co-organized by BSAS, the Landscape department and a Materials Lecture Series. This has seen us host numerous guest speakers from a range of backgrounds varying talk on broad themes of housing, landscape infrastructures, collaboration and materiality.

Katy Marks, Citizen Design Bureau Robert Sakula, Ash Sakula Architects Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects Piers Taylor, Invisible Studio Chris Lefteri Jakki Dehn Ian Hunter Margaret Pope Scin Gallery Claude Cornier Kim Wilkie Andrew Charleson Work Placement For the third year running we’ve been able to provide our 2nd Year Architecture students with a two week work placement, a scheme which has already proved to be incredibly valuable and popular, so much so that the scheme was over-subscribed this year. Students went to a range of local and national practices including Hopkins and Partners, Gensler, Populous, and Hawkins Brown. Towards the end of May we hosted an employer evening to say thank you to the supporting practices and giving them a chance to meet with this years placement students and be reunited with the graduating year who undertook placement last year.

Landscape students also embarked on this scheme for the first time and in the future we plan to run it for our other degree programmes including Interior Design.

Birmingham Student Architecture Society The Birmingham Student Architecture Society - BSAS as it is known is a not-for-profit group set up in 2012 by a collective of the school’s students. As a student-led organisation, BSAS’s agenda is to bring together undergraduates, postgraduates and staff to facilitate debate on architecture, design and culture while encouraging social interaction between the various groups of the school and those from the practicing architectural community. In the past BSAS has organised film screenings, guest speakers, first year workshops and social events.

Acknowledgements Finally we would like to take this opportunity to thank our supporter, who without this would have not been possible; thank you to Mike Duff, president of the BAA for his continued support of BSAS and the BCU CELT department for their funding, Samantha Evans and Sarah Ives from BSAS for all your efforts in organising the architecture talks and Jackie Norton in organising the Materiality Series, We’d also like to thank Dal Shoker from Niyaa people and Andrew Raisen from Interface for their generous support for the End of Year Ball.

Newspaper design Tom Tebby Copyright © 2016 Birmingham City University for information about BSoAD visit bcu.ac.uk/architecture-and-design follow us on Twitter @BCU_BSoAD All photography Greg Milner, poster designs Tom Tebby

Dan Dixon BA (Hons) Product Design

Michael Grubb BA (Hons) Product Design

Alex Round BA (Hons) Product Design

Beau Birkett BA (Hons) Furniture and Lifestyle Products

Tom Harwood BA (Hons) Furniture and Lifestyle Products

Dragos Alexandru BA (Hons) Interior Design

Harriet Lehky BA (Hons) Interior Design

Charlotte Joseph BA (Hons) Interior Design

Sydney Davies BA (Hons) Interior Design

Sarah Tipton BA (Hons) Interior Design Aron Trono BA (Hons) Interior Design

Emraan Mayow BA (Hons) Architecture

Maham Tahir BA (Hons) Architecture

Will Radburn-Todd BA (Hons) Architecture

Michael Daw BA (Hons) Architecture

Train Station Modelling

1:10 Scale

Sarah Ives BA (Hons) Architecture

Although the models I have made have created the atmosphere I wanted to achieve, I think I could still push it further.

I feel that the boundaries aren’t being blurred enough to create my desired effect.

Aqsa Mahmood BA (Hons) Architecture

Samantha Evans BA (Hons) Architecture

Stefan Munteanu BA (Hons) Architecture

Nathan Onions BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

Claire Corre BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

Owen Morgan BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

Yuan Shi BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture

James Lamb PG Dip Landscape Architecture

David Cook PG Dip Landscape Architecture

Ula Bujauskaite PG Dip Landscape Architecture

Adam Wattus MArch Architecture

Gurveer Bhachu MArch Architecture

Razvan Pop MArch Architecture

Tim Rushton MArch Architecture

CROSS SECTIONS

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Callum Sohal MArch Architecture 0m

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Jasjeet Bassi MArch Architecture

John Burton MArch Architecture

Andrew Wilkins MArch Architecture

Mike Day MArch Architecture

Aluminium Tectonics

Memorabilia

Pop Music Archive To assist with the design process, a meeting was organised in order to scan in memorabilia that would be used in the exhibition.

Figure 12.1 (Top) Finished 1:2 model prototype with supporting structure digital removed.

Figure 12.2 (Bottom Right) 1:2 model prototype as presented at the summative review.

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Modern Gazetteer

Overleaf Figures 13.1 and 13.2 show the proposed arrangement of cladding clusters suspended beneath the entrance overhang.

Figure 12.1 Mann, S (2016)1:2 Prototype Edit [Edited Photograph] Figure 12.2 Mann, S (2016)1:2 Prototype [Photograph]

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Of the UK housing stock is responsible for the annual carbon emissions. It is amongst the least energy efficient in Europe

Pocket Park

EXISTING HOUSING STOCK

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Co.LAB Collaborative Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary architecture & design initiative within BSoAD. We focus on ‘live’ projects and research where our students and staff engage with real clients, delivering outcomes across a range of scales and formats.

This year, Co.LAB set up cross-departmental projects within the ADM faculty to develop new strategies in collaborative practice. There has been a continued focus on making with our metalwork, craftsmanship and fashion collaborations whilst we introduced two new projects exploring the cultural heritage of the city through public art and music using archival work.

This year students from both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes participated from BA (Hons) Architecture, BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture, MArch Architecture, BA (Hons) Art & Design and MA Zero Carbon Architecture & Retrofit Design.

Co.LAB is also working on a numerb of larger scale projects with our consultancy initiative - using academic expertise alongside skills of our staff and students to help inform new design strategies for our partners.

We are working with the University to contribute to the cultural and creative development of Eastside’s regeneration area using the STEAM agenda as its primary focus. The Knowledge Hub featured on the front page of the Birmingham Post and was presented at MIPIM in April.

Wyre Forest Explorations

WARWICK BAR SITE PLAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN -

Minerva Works

Digital Fashion

4.0 INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT

MINERVA WORKS ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE

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Elective projects this year: Wyre Forest explorations Aluminium Tectonics Modern Gazetteer: Public Art Zero Carbon Birmingham Music History Digital Fashion Minerva Works Economy Design Mentoring Pocket Park

partner: Wyre Forest Landscape Partnership partner: Ash & Lacy partner: Eastside Projects, Civic Society partner: BCU Research partner: Birmingham Music Archive partner: BA (Hons) Fashion Design partner: MAAP partner: St. Edmunds Secondary School partner: Node

Extra-curricular events: Concrete Workshop Birmingham Space Jam

partner: The Concrete Lady partner: Backpack Studio

Consultancy Projects: Knowledge Hub STEAMhouse

partner: BCU and Node partner: BCU, Birmingham Production Space

find us online: w: birmingham-colab.org fb: facebook.com/birmingham.colab tw: @bham_colab bl: http://liveprojectsnetwork.org/

A selection of student work from courses which complete later in the year.

These include: MA Interior Design MA Product Design MA Design Management MA Design and Visualisation MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

Mengru Li MA Interior Design

Yibo Li MA Interior Design

Ziqiao Wang MA Product Design

MA Design Management

Site visit, MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

Jonathan Mark Bradbury MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design

Students lime pointing, MA Conservation of the Historic Environment

Mengya Liu MA Design and Visualisation

Pei Hu MA Design and Visualisation

Ayesha Kaur BA (Hons) Architecture