BA (Hons) Architecture | Design Studio Five
Elantha Evans & Alison McLellan Yr3: Zuhra Daud, Dominika Fiodorow, Ryan Hahn, Yagmur Karaca, Fatemah Mohammadi Araghi, Farah Mohd Azhari, Daniel Phillips, Thomas Roots, Mazamir Seyedeh Booshehri, Vasiliki Theocharous, Huzaifah Wazifdar, Zehra Yumsak
Yr2: Aylem Boyraz, Buyi Femi-Balogun, Danyal Hayat, Andreea Istratescu, Tommy Jiho Kim, Florida Koci, Patrycja Kurasinska, Joanna Leung, Sana Mir, Mohammed Rash Ruslan, Victoria Stan, Maciej Tomaszewski, Saori Uno, Magda Welcz, Maggie Wu
DS05: Wandering Wapping Wondering London: the Expanding City / Does expansion mean outwards?
Wapping is a territory with great potential to be expanded culturally and historically. Dialogues between past and present, people and places, industry and social change are explored; possible urban influence and human-scale experience of space enjoyed. Architectural propositions respond intelligently to the historical, cultural and social context of the area, developed through careful research and individual student reinvention of the briefs. In considering Wapping’s historical position as an economic trade centre, a local industrial hub and key in England’s defence, we asked: what is the possibility now for a new industrious society, how can it be manifested within architectural proposals, and how can Wapping’s rich microcosm of history and culture be celebrated? The sites and the subsequent projects interlock with a simple urban strategy which assumes a new TFL River Boat Pier and an accepted need for the re-invigoration of the existing River Walk and Wapping High Street. Clarity in social agenda and programmatic function is seen as key in connecting history and memory of place with existing built fabric and social needs. How can one
draw from the past and look to the future? Who is the building for and why is it important? What can be understood from individual user needs and collective interactions? Is the building a machine for a process or a house for activity? The two main design projects this year were interwoven with shorter, sharpening exercises focussing on particular observations and representations relating to thresholds and dialogues between people and places. Semester 1: A Coaching Inn and its Outposts Semester 2: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor... Dialogues 1: O n your doorstep? A real place, represented Dialogues 2: A nywhere, somewhere? An imagined place, suggested Dialogues Revisited: #ds05londonvenicedialogues Dialogues Reconsidered: Reading spaces, drawing on detail
Guest Critics: Clare Carter, Phaedra Corrigan, John Griffiths. David Hawkins, John Ng, Anthony Powis, Giles Smith, Jane Tankard, Emma Thomas 64
(top) Mazamir Seyedeh Booshehri: Déjà Vu; (bottom) Daniel Phillips: Expanding Wapping