Architecture BA (Hons) | Design Studio (Three) Five
Bruce Irwin & Catherine Phillips Yr3: Mariam Abdallah, Dalia Abdelgadir, Laura Antoni, Andros Antoniades Zeid Bushnaq, Alexander Farmer, Gemma Hale, Nachida Kara, Zornitsa Kovacheva, Patrycja Kurasinska, Nuriyah Malik, Omar Manshi, Yev Oleynick,
Sahar Pathan, Elliot Roworth, Rishi Shah, Philip Springall, Kubra Taskiran, Maciej Tomaszewski, Conor Wilson, Robert Wong
DS(3)5: The New Gallery: Rhythm and Variation Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Hans Haacke 1
Unit (3)5 invited students to design a new contemporary art space for Old Oak Common, north west London. Old Oak Common is a very large area to the north and west of Wormwood Scrubs. The area falls along the proposed High Speed Rail line and is slated for a massive “regeneration” scheme over the next 10 to 20 years. Working with tutors, each student developed a detailed personal brief with clear programmatic, spatial, material and community objectives. This brief was informed by site analysis, drawing and making, research into a chosen artist’s work and process,
building precedents, personal research, the study trip, and outside experiences related to culture and the city. From the simple common brief each student has developed a highly personal and specific proposal based on observation, research and the trajectory begun in term 1. We explored a variety of materials including timber and glulam structures, concrete, plastic and glass. Material exploration in studio workshops formed an important part of our process. Students developed means of forming spaces using an iterative design process. Drawing, material and model research from the first term served as a starting point, from which we extended, elaborated, and developed an initial spatial concept into a fully imagined building proposal. Unit (3)5 encouraged students to give particular attention to the use and control of light within their design proposals. We explored variation and rhythm to enrich the proposed interior and exterior experience and to link spatial and structural concepts. 1
Guest Critics: Luisa Alpalhao, David Connearn, Francois Lefranc, Hwei Fan Liang, Marco Godoy, Michiko Sumi, Carlos Jimenez Cenamor, Diego Delas, Leonor Serrano Rivas, Matthew Barnett Howland, Edward McCann, Nic Tuft, Jane Tankard, Julian Williams, Constance Lau
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H aacke, Hans. ‘Museums, Managers of Consciousness’, Art in America, no. 72, February 1984 (pp. 9-17)
Thanks to Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Marisa Saenz Guerra Arquitecto, Madrid. Elliot Roworth: Site Relief