GROUP E: Matthew Stewart & Natalie Newey Matthew Stewart is a designer, researcher and writer. His student work received the RIBA CLAWSA prize and runner up in the AR Global Architecture Graduate Award. Matthew has worked with architectural practices in China, South Korea and India on various projects. Natalie Newey is a Senior Lecturer, First Year Leader and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in community engagement in the design process.
Students: Beth Allen, Polina Bouli, Mia Briscoe, Katie-Anne Brown, Yu-Tang Chou, Irgel Enkhsaikhan, Sodueari Graham-Douglas, Matthew Heyna-Francis, Kate Hubert, Aiste Jurgeviciute, Maheer Khan, Faisal Muti, Anna Pawlik, Lavinia Pennino, Zuzanna Sliwinska, Nikoleta Tareva, Midia Veryani, Maciej Worosilak Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Nouha Hansen, Rafaella Christodoulidi and Marco Catena
GROUP F: Corinna Dean & Juan Piñol Corinna Dean is a teacher, critical urbanist and curator with an interest in how the urban is communicated, experienced and lived out across cultures. She holds a PhD from the LSE Cities Programme, a collaborative doctoral award with Tate Modern. She launched ARCA, the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture. Juan Piñol studied architecture in Colombia, where he taught and worked on master planning and large housing schemes. In the UK he has worked on historic buildings, as well as design and construction of new residential and office buildings.
Students: Estera Badelita, Smit Baradiya, Eylem Bekam, Navpreet Bolina, Kevin Ferenzena, Joseph Humbert, Sabrah Islam, Manjot Jabbal, Susann Kerner, Daria Kushnir, Omar Khan, Esther Oluwo, Darina Procopciuc, Kenza Salami el Idrissi, Hiloni Sheth, Yana Stoyanova, Catalina Stroe, Reiss Young, Tamas Zuberecz, Egle Zuikaite Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Anett Beko and Tom Benton
House for Sculptor OUR STUDENTS WERE asked to design a series of live, work and semi-public spaces for a sculptor of their choice, on small sites off Deptford High Street. In preparation for this we conducted group research into Depford’s unique history and urban form, with a wider programmatic analysis of Deptford High Street. Threshold spaces were explored as both physical and social concepts to be introduced to design proposals. An emphasis was placed on research into their sculptor’s particular working process, spatial requirements and daily routine refined through trips to studios spaces in London. The results were eclectic: a house-cum-brick Swiss mountain for Picasso and his goat; a sorting office studio for Stuart Hogarth; Deptford market junk façades for Tony Cragg; ‘Peeping Tom’ gizmos for Rebecca Horn and an ethereal house of translucent walls for Naum Gabo.
Gallery of the Future FOR THE FINAL project students were asked to respond to the Deptford site as a space for the Gallery of the Future. Imagining a scenario 30-40 years from now, the students made a selection of what the content would consist of, what might become obsolete or endangered. Or imagine hypothetical scenarios such as online communication becoming debunked, replaced by a return to an analogue means of producing and consuming information – what would such changes mean for buildings as we know them? Museums and public galleries play a central role in society, not just through engaging with objects but they have become public spaces, spaces in which to question our identity as 21st century citizens. Students responded with designs encompassing an adaptable relief response which enabled existing buildings to display artefacts, a cultural ethnicity museum which displays cultures of threatened minorities in light of regeneration schemes in the area, and a gallery of endangered plants.