BA (Hons) Interior Architecture | Third Year
Julia Dwyer, Dusan Decermic, Lara Rettondini, Steve Jensen Students: Ziad Abuzeid, Tobi Agunbiade, Bane Alsabawi, Esma Al-Sibai, Qays Anis, Bhavini Asawla, Iliana Capsali, Alessandra Catello, Basak Ejder, Chloe Farrell, Noor Habbab, Jack Haggerty, Elaine Hardy, Daniel Jones, Gurtej Kaur, Jerrymore Kisekka, Alice Ly, Daniel Manoharadas, Lara Matar, Katherine Mathew,
Thalia Moros, Sara Narramore, Nikolas Nikolaou, Wulan Purnamasari, Zain Said, Sara Samra, Maryam Sheikh, Dajana Skoric, Jessica Taliadoros
Interrogating Brixton Third year began with an interrogation of the ‘found’: the cultures, spaces and materials offered up by a city neighbourhood which inform and help to generate design projects. Brixton was the subject of investigation this year: students‘ early studies led to the creation of taxonomies of aspects of the town centre which were brought together to form a patchwork of material and cultural inspirations. Vacant or part-used urban fragments in and around Brixton’s railway viaducts and markets are the sites for projects in which students have addressed gaps they have identified in Brixton’s cultural and social life. Following this year’s exploration of connections between the systems and processes of making and the generation of interior space, an interest in making and learning spaces has emerged, with projects for film, CGI animation, architecture, photography, dance, fashion and stage craft schools, and spaces for architectural ceramicists, photographers, mural
painters, textile printers, sound artists, craft makers and analogue filmmakers, many of which integrate learning spaces into them. A scattering of new institutions is proposed: the Market Traders’ Centre, a Colour Institution, a centre for the study of Water, and another for the study of Sound. Existing cultural hotspots in Brixton are augmented by ideas for a post-gig musicians’ club and a belly dancing performance space. Social needs for all ages are addressed in projects for an urban growing space, a centre for homeless young people, a cultural space for the fit elderly, and a youth centre. Other projects bring new uses into existing: a photography magazine joining with Photofusion, and an arts plaza being added to the recreation centre. The year’s projects form a valuable register of students’ readings of a London town centre, which are understood through their ideas for interior spaces which respond to contemporary conditions.
Guest Critics: Camelia Ali Zaki Ewiss, Luca Beckerson, Helen Brewer, Matthew Grand, Monica Langfeldt, Malcolm McGregor, Gary Nash, Adriana Vela Alonso, Maria Veltcheva 18
Dajana Skoric: Market Traders Building