BA Architecture Degree Show Catalogue 2018 by Central Saint Martins

Catalogue 2018

BA (Hons)

Architecture

Contents BA (Hons) Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 1

Introduction 06 BA (Hons) Architecture Stage 1 10 Stage 1 Introduction 12 Stage 1 Design Studios Stage 2 and 3 34 Stage 2 Introduction 36 Stage 3 Introduction 38 Studio 1: The Yard 56 Studio 2: Other Spaces / Social Places 74 Studio 3: Second Nature 92 Studio 4: Obsolescence 110 Studio 5: Productive Exuberance 128 Studio 6: The Island 146 Studio 7: Radical Arts, Critical Architecture 164 Studio 8: Lonely City 184 188 196 208 212

Contextual Studies Dissertation Technical Studies Professional Practice Making Week

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Live Projects Public Lectures

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Acknowledgements Admissions

2017â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 has been an exciting and eventful year, both inside the college and out. The last twelve months have been a period of change, refinement and consolidation. Alex Warnock-Smith Course Leader

Introduction

BA (Hons) Architecture Alex Warnock-Smith Course Leader

As another fast-paced, intense and extraordinarily productive year has come to a close, this catalogue records and celebrates the creativity and industry of students and staff during 2017-18.

Making and Building: We support not only the development of radical ideas, but also the radical potential of making and building. Endowed with a kaleidoscopic array of creative disciplines, extensive workshops and specialist technicians, our art school environment encourages us to place emphasis on the practical and organisational arts of building and constructing which hold powerful, and often neglected, potential. We draw reference from the first Principal of the Central School, the architect William Lethaby, who sought to promote the ‘practical arts’ through builderly workable skills, drawing on vernacular adaptation and pragmatic crafting knowledge: “Train us to practical power, make us great builders and adventurous experimenters.” Rethinking the Profession: We share a commitment to the importance of socially engaged practice. We want to ask how, as a profession, we can start to reclaim political and social agency; how students can form critical and independent positions which produce conscientious practitioners– practitioners not only concerned with the formal aspects of architecture but also the social, political, economic and environmental forces which shape it. Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Engagement: We believe that architecture is always political. The space of the city is charged and shaped through the play of multiple dynamics and tensions. 6

Stage 1, led by Ruth Lang, Amanda Hopkins and Stuart McKenzie, is an intense introduction to the study of architecture and emphasises personal and social creative exploration – experimenting with the tools and techniques of architecture, re-discovering the immediate and broader environment and re-imagining how one might intervene in it materially and spatially. Led by Gregory Ross, Stage 2 is driven by the development of a integrated approach to architectural design, combining technical, theoretical and aesthetic concerns: a way of thinking and designing spatial and architectural projects that hold transformative potential for the context in which they are situated. Working in vertical studios with final year students, Stage 2 benefits from exposure to advanced levels of production and critique, while maintaining the space to develop skills and take bold, experimental risks. In Stage 3, led by Oscar Brito, students engage directly with the complexity of the city as an experiential space, developing individual, multi-scalar design theses that explore the relationship of social, political and economic structures to spatial structures. Supported by the intellectual and theoretical agendas of the course, graduating students develop a position on the role of the architect, and put forward challenging architectural proposals that have real agency. Eight design studios in Stage 1, and eight vertical studios between Stages 2 and 3, present different agendas and methodologies within and across the years of study, exploring radically different approaches to the architectural project. 2017-18 has been an exciting and eventful year, both inside the college and out. The last twelve months have been a period of change, refinement and consolidation. We have undertaken a detailed reflective review of our structure and syllabus – a healthy and constructive exercise through which we have addressed our own pedagogical ‘architecture’.

We have taken the opportunity to scrutinise who we are and what we are doing as an architecture course in a world-leading, critically engaged art school – what it means to study, learn, and teach architecture today. This has allowed us to build upon the core values of Spatial Practices at CSM, consolidating our commitment to the present and to the role of architecture as a mode of critical enquiry and experimentation – a way of making sense of the past whilst we embark on constructing the future. Labour, including the politics and patterns of creative production, has been a pressing and common concern this year as we address the city, the discipline and the profession. During 2018, the Spatial Practices programme at CSM collaborated with Oliver Wainwright, architecture critic for The Guardian newspaper, to host the second series of ‘Fundamentals’ public debates, subtitled ‘The Way We Work’.The debates focussed on issues of labour and cultures of work in architecture and construction industries, addressing sold-out audiences of professionals, students and general public alike, and culminating in a lively two-day symposium with international contributions from Who Builds Your Architecture (New York University and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); The Architecture Lobby and Peggy Deamer (Yale University); Counter Conducts (Escola de Cidade, Sao Paolo) and Reinier de Graaf (OMA), as well as Adam Kaasa (RCA), Concrete Action, the Precarious Workers Brigade and other participants from UAL.

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BA (Hons) Architecture at Central Saint Martins is poised at a unique moment in the context of architectural education in London. The course is swift developing a reputation for challenging the norms of architectural pedagogy and education, rethinking the boundaries of architectural practice and the profession, and for an intellectual commitment to engaging with ‘real-life’ sites and situations.

Intervening in these complex dynamics demands design approaches that are open to more democratic forms of space-making. The how and what of architecture continues to be our chief concern – how we act and what we produce, and this catalogue illustrate many such experiments.

As course director, it only remains for me to say a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to the course this year, for the hard work, passion, dedication and good humour that comes together in our thriving creative community. We hope you agree that the work and ideas gathered here and produced on the BA (Hons) Architecture at Central Saint Martins represents an undeniably exciting and optimistic future for architectural culture and learning!

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Supported by the intellectual and theoretical agendas of the course, graduating students develop a position on the role of the architect, and put forward challenging architectural proposals that have real agency. Alex Warnock-Smith Course Leader

Stage 1

Introduction to Stage 1 Ruth Lang, Amanda Hopkins, Stuart McKenzie Stage 1 Leaders

Stage 1 Leaders Ruth Lang Amanda Hopkins Stuart McKenzie Studio 1 Stuart McKenzie Studio 2 Tom Fox Studio 3 Charlotte Grace Studio 4 Douglas Murphy Studio 5 Rubén Everett

Studio 7 Sakiko Kohashi Studio 8 Donald McCrory Stage 1 Students Ilham Abdulahi Blu Affleck Akraam Ahammed Nadera Ahmed Najd Al Bulushi Layane Al-Madani Diana Al-laham Ahmed Alattar Shinya Ali Issa Almannai Yara Alsharif Yasemin Aslan Aadhila Azar Shenique Bass Yanice Begar Serra Bilgincan Ashley Bissell Bareera Borhan Emily Brown Alice Cabecadas Elif Cecen Chun Man Chan Si Jeoi Chan Shikha Chawda Hongyi Chen Junyu Chen Lefeng Chen Justin Cheung Leona Chulani Blanka Ciborowska Charlotte Cocking Charlie Cockrell Charlie Cole Finn Crawford Zhaojing Deng Tea Dimitrova 10

Melissa Eagleton Mariam Fawaz Elizabeth Ferial Valentin Fomin Chet Foster Lily Foster-Grellis Paolo Garcia Sarah Ghulam Zac Grego Anika Guha Sasha Guminilovych Tong Hao Emilie Harvey Nicholas Hasbani Timothy Hatch Jake Hines Alexandru Hosu Wilber Ilett Kamran Ayyoob Iqbal Kaloyan Todorov Ivanov Izzy Jaggs Amelia Jhangir Perona Jiang Tharim Lubaba Adelaide Kenny Abdo Khanachat Tiffany Ki Nesrin Kianni Gwanghoon Kim Wan-Chi Lai Katrina Larsen-Kittle Joseph Law Isabel Liu Sut Kuan Lo Hubert Mikolajczyk Rebekah Mithinji

Alice Mohan Ka Cheng Mok Jeet Mori Elena Newell Mingzi Niu Steven Op Sevgi Oskar Belinda Parker Alex-Linh Pham Decarla Phillip-Riley David Plaskitt Maximilienulysse Remondiere Adam Riley Anna Roumpaki Denisa Sandu Nimra Shahid Juanxi Shen D’relle Small George Smith Jonathan So Phoompathai Sutjaritworakul Julia Trudu Hui-Tzu Tsui Naomi Velez Nikita Velichko Wei-Tse Wang Tim Webster Terrence Wu Hongtai Yang Kai Hang Yang Euphenia Zeng Meilin Zhang Daniel Zhuo Laura Ziemele Fatima Zoughy

Thank you: Eddie Blake, Ash Fridd, Tom Atkinson, Nina Gerada, Peter Hinchliffe, Alex Holloway, Sean Rafferty, Alicia Argüelles, Georgie Day, Laura Evans, Amritt Flora, Sam Brown, Georgia Steele, Alaistair Steele, Valerie Palmer, Tilly Beck, Allan Atlee, Sam McElhinney, CherngMin Teong, Conrad Cherniavsky, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch, Ana Alonso Albarracin, Ed Crooks, Kate Tiernan, Rachel Lillie, Viv Eades

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As the first phase of architectural education, Stage 1 establishes the key values, skills and working practices from which to explore the many considerations of designing for the built environment. Students join Central Saint Martins with a broad range of talents, which are augmented and developed over this first explorative year. The course is structured to enable inferences to be drawn between the historical and the contemporary, the personal and the societal, the theoretical and the applied. In providing, from the outset, the opportunity to apply and test the multi-faceted requirements of architectural practice within real world scenarios, students are encouraged to consider their burgeoning talents in a manner that reaches beyond the academic: aesthetics and ethics become part of the question. We value the development of personal interests, positions and characteristics, and the first year of study seeks to nurture and stimulate a confident yet conscientious approach to design and research practice. Situated within the environment of a vibrant, exhilarating and internationally leading art school, BA (Hons) Architecture is able to call upon a breadth of disciplines and practitioners, aware of the many and broad means by which we might consider architecture in terms of spatial, tectonic, social and experiential design. The varied practices and practitioners at Central Saint Martins provide support for developing new talents; in representation and making, in guiding the first tentative steps into contextual analysis, and in understanding the rigours of practice. Design studies remain at the core of all student activity, complemented by fruitful and diverse formats of teaching and learning, including not only lectures but also seminar sessions, exhibition visits, guided walks, tutorials, debates and group projects. Work may be developed independently, but never alone. Over the course of the year, the design briefs confront ever-more complex issues, shifting scales between the human body and that of the city. Student projects highlight political issues and social intentions; others focus on environmental concerns, often confronting the material demands of architectural design. Such challenges call upon the three inter-related modes of study introduced in parallel to the design studio – professional practice, technical resolution, and contextual enquiry. Initially these modes are discussed individually, before being integrated by students into refined and rigorously considered design proposal. The courage and dedication evident in the students’ early work enables these concerns to be synthesised into a fertile grounding for their future studies, and in their establishment as architectural practitioners in their own right.

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01 / Finn Crawford S01, Sectional study for a pattern cutters’ studio in King’s Cross. 02 / Diana Al-Laham S01, Model study of canal side womenswear fashion studio. 03 / Yasemin Aslan S01, Conceptual montage for a proposed hairdressing studio in CSM’s Granary Building. 04 / Abdo Khanachat S01, Initial concept image for a proposed womenswear studio. 12

05 / Julia Trudu S01, Development technical section of a ceramics studio proposed for next to the Regent’s Canal. 06 / Chun Man Chan S01, Section of knitwear design studio by the St Pancras Cruising Club. 07 / Diana Al-Laham S01, Model study of canal side womenswear fashion design studio. 07

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01 / Zac Grego S01, Final model of a canal side furniture designers’ studio. 02 / Mingzi Niu S01, Section of 4D artists’ studio above the mainline railway corridor at King’s Cross. 03 / Paolo Garcia S01, Diagrammatic analysis of possible structural arrangements of canal side knitwear studio. 14

04 / Mingzi Niu S01, Exploded axonometric of 4D artists’ studio above the mainline railway corridor. 05 / Jonathan So S01, Section through textile designers’ studio next to St Pancras Cruising Club at King’s Cross. 05

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01 / Ryan Chen S01, Internal atmospheric studies for a proposed photography design studio. 02 / Brian Yang S01, Analysis of possible occupation on the canal side towpath at Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross. 16

03 / Diana Al-Laham S01, Analytical taxonomy of womenswear fashion design studio at CSM. 04, 05 / Wilson Wang S01, Models examining atmosphere and material testing for a textile design studio.

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01 / Mel Eagleton S01, Sectional site model photographs from Making Week. 02 / Charlotte Cocking S01, Testing inhabitation through plan drawing for a furniture design studio. 03 / Terrence Wu S01, Technical elevational study in pencil 18

of a proposed acting studio next to the Regent’s Canal near King’s Cross. 04, 05 / Hubert Mikolajczyk S01, Model studies for an installation on a small public space near the Regent’s Canal.

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01 / Charlie Cockrell S01, Sectional model on site for a fine artists’ studio above the mainline railway at King’s Cross. 02 / Isabel Liu S01, Concept montage for a proposed bakery in CSM. 03 / Wilber Illett S01, Test model for an underground character animation studio. 04 / Wan-Chi Lai S01, Section of a 3D fine artists’ studio with external exhibition space.

05 / Tiffany Ki S01, Sketches for a proposed installation in the entrance of CSM’s Granary Building. 06 / Tim Hatch S01, Concept models for an elevated graphic design studio located near King’s Cross. 07 / Max Remondiere S01, Structural model studies of columns for a proposed innovative pattern cutting studio.

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01 / Junyu Chen S01, Exploded axonometric of canal side character animation design studio. 02 / Adelaide Kenny S01, Exploded axonometric of a graphic design studio analysing the relationship of spaces. 03 / Hongtai Yang S01, Elevation and section of a proposed ceramic studio. 04 / Layane Al-Madani S01, Elevational composition study of jewellery design studio at King’s

Cross. 05 / Perona Jiang S01, Section of a 3D fine artists’ studio analysing spatial relationships. 06 / D’relle Small S01, Conceptual montage for a proposed textile design studio. 07 / Max Chen S01, Internal atmospheric studies for a photographic studio. 08 / Hubert Mikolajcyk S01, Model installation study by the Regent’s Canal. 09 / Brian Yang S01, Model study for a photography studio.

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01 / Anika Guha S01, Concept sketches of a textile design studio above the mainline railway at King’s Cross. 02 / Blanca Ciborowska S01, Site axonometric for a photography studio over the King’s Cross mainline railway. 03 / Alice Mohan S01, Site plan of a character animation studio near Regent’s Canal, King’s Cross. 24

04, 05 / Serra Bilgincan S01, Internal studies for a proposed canal side jewellery studio. 06 / Charlotte Cocking S01, Inhabited sectional study for a canal side furniture design studio at King’s Cross. 07 / Aadhila Azar S01, Section exploring wall thickness for a photography studio by the St Pancras Cruising Club.

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01 / Charlotte Cocking S01, Inhabitated sectional study for a canal side furniture design studio at Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross. 02 / Isabel Liu S01, Concept montage for a proposed bakery in CSM. 03, 04 / Charlie Cockrell S01, Internal studies for a canal side fine artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studio. 26

05, 06 / Wilson Wang S01, Elevational and sectional studies for a textile design studio. 07, 08 / Timothy Webster S01, Development model of a proposed canal side fashion print studio.

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01, 02 / Steven Op S01, Atmospheric model studies for a fashion print studio. 03 / Jeet Mori S01, Technical section of a proposed acting studio next to the Regent’s Canal. 04 / Alex Pham S01, Plan identifying the process of a proposed salmon smokery in CSM’s Granary Building. 05 / Tharim Kazi S01, Section through a proposed vertical sauna in CSM. 28

06 / Finn Crawford S01, Exploded axonometric analysing material for a pattern cutters’ studio at Kings Cross. 07 / Zhaojing Deng S01, Sectional model of a proposed knitwear design studio investicating structure. 08 / Zhaojing Deng S01, Development model of a proposed canal side knitwear design studio. 07

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01 / Gwanghoon Kim S01, Exploded axonometric of a jewellery studio next to the Regent’s Canal at King’s Cross. 02 / Yara Al-Sharif S01, Analytical plans of pattern cutters’ studio. 03 / Yanice Begar S01, Measured taxonomy of equipment for a knitwear designer. 30

04, 05 / Nadera Ahmed S01, Programmatic research analysing the equipment in CSM’s fashion studios. 06 / Julia Trudu S01, Development technical model of a ceramics studio proposed next to the Regent’s Canal near King’s Cross. 06

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01 / Katrina Larsen-Kittle S01, Internal atmospheric studies for a high level swimming pool above ‘the crossing’ in CSM’s Granary Building. 02 / Bareera Borhan S01, Measured movement studies of a butcher for a proposed butchery school. 03 / Euphemia Zeng S01, Mixed media section analysing the relationship of a proposed photography studio with the existing context. 32

04 / Kate Hao S01, Exploded axonometric drawing of a proposed furniture design studio. 05 / Crystal Mok S01, Site plan of a character knitwear design studio next to the Regent’s Canal, King’s Cross. 06-09 / Becki Mithinji S01, Measured taxonomy analysing the process of tailoring for a menswear design studio. 10 / Mel Eagleton S01, Site mapping drawing analysing local inhabitation.

Stage 2

Introduction to Stage 2 Gregory Ross Stage 2 Leader

Stage 2 Leader Gregory Ross

Stage 2 or the second undergraduate year is a great period in a student’s architectural education – they have just enough skill, newly acquired, combined with enough openness to be genuinely experimental and creative in their design process. In the design studio, which forms the core of the year, we nurture an experimental spirit, guiding students with just enough structure to enable them to continue to develop their projects with a measure of control and criticality whilst maintaining the necessary space to allow for personal interpretation and direction.

Technical Studies is integrated with design studio activities: technical precedent studies are chosen by the design studio tutors and all studios require 1:50 scale sectional models as part of the portfolio submission. The 1:50 scale section allows students to develop a fragment of their project at which spatial and material qualities, as well as structural and constructional design, are expressed and explored. We actively try to break the artificial distinction between technical development and design development, encouraging students to view these as parts of a whole – essentially design, applied from a different point of view or scale.

Stage 2 Students Huda Al-Yaqobi Leen Alidelbi Lamya Fahad S Alsheaibi Ogechukwu Maria Goreti Amuta James Andrew Annis Sabina Balcaityte Alberto Bautista Hernaez Alexander Berger Sandhofer Anna Konstantinovna Bolotova Lou-Elena Bouey Tre-Vaughn Wayne Caines Camillo Cavarretta Lauren Sarah Cowl Lawrence Joson Del Rosario Laurianne Tra My Ducasse Laura-Larisa Dumitru Esma Duzgun Agata Dydak Marta Escribano Cunat Jerry Florez Vasquez Mariia Galiullina Narinder Kaur Gill Beata Halka Sean Danial Douglas Hamilton Zuliya Heydarova Hengmo Hu Weihang Hu Yuqi Huang 34

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Building on drawing and modelling skills acquired in first year, Stage 2 includes a substantial media curriculum in the form of a digital drawing and modelling course which ranges from CAD and three-dimensional modelling, to cross-platform working where students are encouraged to work across a range of digital software tools to help them construct high quality forms of representation and final portfolios.

Yasin Hassan Hussein Hayden David James Amirali Kalantari Krystian Filip Kliber Arina Kondrashova Max-Antoine Lalande D’Anciger Lucia Lanzalaco Pham Duc Minh Le Holly Rebecca Le-Var Yibeijia Li Ivana Linares Parra Yu Sum Kristy Lo Laurene Marie Alice Lucy Weining Luo Maximilian Chandra Master Murtaza Mohebi Harry Charles Stockton John Mortimer Adam Joshua Muscat Katherine Anne Nelson Izabel Ortenblad Sigaud Isabell Young Park James Charles Parkes Jacob Phil-Ebosie Dominika Elzbieta Pilch Charles Henri Ashley Plet Gareth Angelo Pontipedra Milo Joseph Pyrah-Bernstein

Miroslav Radu Joud Mustafa A Reda Yu Ren Laura Barrero Robles Marie-Helene Isabelle F. Rynwalt Leena Sahloul Jalal Aleksander Subzali Sajan Jerick De Castro Seruelas Morgane Sandrine Lara Sha’ban Yuxuan Shi Enija Skeltona Jiaqi Sun Jevgenija Tocilina Tiphaine Christine Marie Varigas Tanavej Vejaphan Bixuan Wang Jessica Paige White Hiu Ying Wong Tongtor Wongtanapruk Jhineil Kerri-Gaye Wright Xing Yang Yichen Yang Zhicheng Yang Mat Lam Yeung Jia Qing Yue Isabella Mary Yurtsever Runlin Zhao

This past year has seen the introduction of ‘vertical’ design studios, in which Stage 2 students work with or alongside final year students on similar studio briefs. We are already seeing the positive results of this – peer-to-peer learning occurs more naturally, and second year students acquire skills and develop their critical awareness to a higher level, above previous horizons. All in all, this has been a successful and enjoyable experiment, which the course and faculty hope to consolidate and improve in the coming years. I’d like to thank the all the design studio tutors and Stage 2 students for joining in and rising to the challenge – it’s been a great year, laying new and exciting foundations for the future.

Stage 3

Introduction to Stage 3 Oscar Brito Stage 3 Leader

Stage 3 Leader Oscar Brito

Stage 3 of BA (Hons) Architecture is the most intense part of the student journey. The explorations from previous stages are now consolidated and enhanced with a critical perspective based on extensive research, rigorous analysis and reflective experimentation, on the relation between architecture and its cultural and physical context and how these may reciprocally influence each other.

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The programme of Stage 3 is designed in order to support our students to further defining their own concerns and professional approaches related to architecture and spatial practice. Four strands of study are tightly intertwined: the Design Studio, including research, analysis, conceptualization and design development; Contextual Studies, which yields a substantial, original and rigorous dissertation; Technical Studies, which enables the development of design proposals and addresses the material, structural and environmental concerns that inform it; and Professional Practice, focussed on helping students with the development of their unique career paths in the imminent future. All these strands are woven together by each graduating studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; individual constructions of their own position, as future practitioners. Stage 3 emphasises the development of a critical understanding of the strategic role that architecture may have in the development and implementation of site-specific conceptual, programmatic, spatial and material agencies. Through the integration of spatial, theoretical and technical investigations, the aim of Stage 3 is to promote the development of conceptual, contextual and methodological approaches to construct the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; individual position as strategic designers, empowering them as active and critical agents in an increasingly complex social, economic, political, and professional scenario. Stage 3 Students Dalia Maryam Amellal Valentina Antollini Sarah Mathilde Clementine Aulombard Sooyoung Bae Roxane Baillet Ben Jamie Ken Bradford Sean Ying Ho Brown Krittika Burintaragoht Tanit Elizabeth Cabau-Wolf Tze Wei Brenda Chang Ziwei Cheng Taekeun Cho Niall Joseph Coleman Cinla Illiyyin Narin Deger Xiang Ding Ziyang Dong Roya Edde Jinming Fan Alece Justine Foden Rafael Garcia Turegano 36

Filippos Nikolaos Georgeoglou Isabella Haddad Domingos Roshna Kamal Hassan Peng He Shijia Huang Shu-Ming Hung Alexia Iborra Wicksteed Alba Imeri Zeena Jamil Elnaz Karoubi John Anthony Langran Marie Anne Therese Le Rouzic Keun Lee Shutong Lin Louis Simon Lupien Sijie Lyu Mariam Saja Fouad Madi Aslihan Belis Memik Lucy Sky Moore-Clube John Theodore Moran

Sersah Namoglu Jennifer Billie Nibbs Maria Papadimitriou Ophelie Dimitra Juliette Prevesianos Taro Sakamoto Takeuchi Amar Sall Lok Yi See Jiesoo Shin Dahlia Subasi Belen Toker Xavier Ulibarri Meade Christopher John Wall-Hayes Qinxue Wang Tang Xiao Riichiro Yamamoto Zixin Yao Dahye Yi Kaidan Zhao Rafaela Zincone Albieri Muhammad Ashraf Zul Parquear

We promote a direct engagement with the context of investigation and the varied situations, narratives, conceptual or material approaches put forward in each of the eight vertical studios, which in turn inspire outcomes that venture beyond immediate preconceptions. Students develop a detailed design-research project exploring the potential effect that architecture, as an expanded practice, may have in generating exchanges between different spatial, social, economic and cultural conditions that compose and characterise the contemporary phenomena.

Studio 1

The Yard Gregory Ross, Ashley Fridd Studio 1 Tutors

Studio Tutors Gregory Ross Ashley Fridd

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Stage 2 Students Leen Alidelbi Oge Amuta Sabina Balcaityte Alberto Bautista Hernaez Alexander Berger Sandhofer Narinder Kaur Gill Zuliya Heydarova Ivana Linares Parra Charles Plet Miroslav Radu Joud Mustafa A Reda Stage 3 Students Tanit Cabau-Wolf Taekeun Cho Ziyang Dong Rafael Garcia Turegano Keun Lee Jiesoo Shin Riichiro Yamamoto Thank you: Grace Richardson (Technical Tutor), Jason Chan (Support Tutor), Miraj Ahmed, Serhan Ahmet Tekbas, Thomas Atkinson, Ruben Everett, Marta Granda Nistal, Carsten Jungfer, Flavie Karoukis, Carlotta Novella, Tom Raymont, Luiz Rocha Pereira Queiroz Conceicao, Emory Smith, Amarasri Songcharoen, Alex Sutton, Keita Tajima, Alex Warnock-Smith Isabel Albiol Estrada, William Dickinson, Lara Smithson, Georgia Jacob, Karina Lee, Abdul Mohammed, Rebecca Price, Catriona Robertson

This year Studio 1 investigated yards and spaces of making. Inspired by ideas that emerged from a survey of contemporary maker spaces and working yards in London, students’ design projects speculate on visions of future forms living and making in the city. Central to the design projects is a focus on the potential of the yard, as a shared space and a place of activity, to integrate the often-hidden cultures of making into the public realm and to activate and enrich our civic space. We started with a walk in Dungeness, an endless terrain of indeterminate spatiality, reading the landscape through physical experience, drawing and sampling. We searched for a line in the landscape, identified boundaries and thresholds, and looked for spatial definition amongst the scattered artefacts on the pebble flats. Our tool of investigation was forensic methods of drawing and sampling, recording fine details while simultaneously mapping the broad spatial terrain. This resulted in some beautiful large format drawings, which capture the quality and details of this open and expansive landscape. We took tactile samples – models and casts – which interpret and convey the material sensibility of the place. Intervening directly into this landscape, students were challenged to define and create a yard and a form of minimal dwelling for living and working, carefully deploying physical and time-based interventions to create a sequence of internal and external dwelling and making spaces in the landscape. Having established methods of reading and representing a site, of ordering sequences of spaces and spatially defining the yard, we brought these methods back to the dense post-industrial urbanity of London, focusing on a goods yard and the last remaining open site in the King’s Cross masterplan. We embarked on a collective master-planning exercise, which allowed each student to define an individual site in relation to a common public space – a new urban yard. Individual projects then responded to the urban yard and developed strategies for internal yards as various scales within their buildings. Studio 1 continues to experiment with methods of making in the studio: we use modelling as a primary tool for design development and spatial investigation. The workshop is where we translate between mediums, work iteratively, make discoveries and create collaboratively. We use the studio as a drawing space, a place to reflect on what has been made and to develop future projections. We treat drawing as a physical object too – something to be worked on endlessly, revisited and refined. We believe that establishing an attitude to the things we actually make ultimately embeds itself in the kinds of spaces we produce.

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01 / Charles Plett S02, ‘Dungeness Shelter’ 1:50 tonal section. Digital print on wallpaper. 02 / Ziyang Dong S03, ‘Yard Survey Canalside Studios’, 1:500 pigmented plaster cast. 03 / Ziyang Dong S03, ‘Yard Survey: Canalside Studios’, 1:500 scale model (left) hybrid 3D print & laser cut positive (right) silicone negative plaster and hemp mould. 04 / Riichiro Yamamoto S03, paper chasing spatial moment, 1:50 scale, digital print on wallpaper. 05 / Rafael Garcia Turegano S03, ‘Yard Survey: Perserverance Works’, 1:200 hybrid plan and elevation, digital print on paper. 40

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01-04 / Tanit Cabau Wolf S03, ‘Finding the Vernacular’ explores and takes inspiration from the vernacular at different levels, from materials, making, site (Dungeness and King’s Cross), history and context. My project asks “How do I take inspiration from the vernacular, proposing a project which reflects it, but also challenges and re-invents it?” The proposal is a makers’ space that re-instates a disused railway line, to ship in hulls of narrow boats 42

and carriages to be fixed or fitted out on site and then redistributed using the transport network. Using the site’s distinct terraced and linear character to propose a design that negotiates these difficulties but also enhances its unique qualities of landscape in the city. The proposal has a dual program, addressing the needs of making, whilst at the same time offering a space to live. 04

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01-07 / Riichiro Yamamoto S03, ‘Circular Café-onomy’. A majority of public waste is transported outside of the Kings Cross and either recycled or thrown into a landfill. Kings Cross should be a circular economy instead of the current one-way system. The first step toward the circular economy is to educate people about the production, consumption and incineration/recycling process. Coffee is a great example of a ubiquitous product with the clear 44

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production process. It is also consumed by a wide range of people every day. Coffee grounds are a recyclable waste material and have been receiving attention as a potential material resource. This project aims to provide Kings Cross with a pedagogical example of the circular economy and sustainability by creating an interactive recycling plant of coffee waste, which is gathered from all over London.

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01-05 / Ziyang Dong S03, ‘Celebrating Fashion’ is a platform for the customer and designer, a making space for craft and a sharing community to celebrate fashion events. Located near King’s Cross, the site has the potential to connect users of various backgrounds and business opportunities. With physical closeness to Central Saint Martins and its world class fashion courses, ‘Celebrating Fashion’ engages designers and industry people with visitors interested in fashion—it uses fashion to encourage students and industry to 46

encounter one another in a co-working space and to build up bonds. 06–08 / Jiesoo Shin S03, ‘Beer Laboratory’ The project aims to aid the interaction between new residents of the KX masterplan and the existing local community. To support this idea, this maker space performs a dual role: it is a space of production and research as well as also a socialising space. The project borrows from the established culture of the public house—a social meeting place that becomes an indoor and outdoor room for the community.

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01-05 / Takeun Cho S03, ‘Tiny Farm’, a hybrid garden and maker space in the city, creates a new green pedestrian link between Caledonian Road Station and King’s Cross. Processes involved in growing and nurturing plants inspire the design of the spaces as well as the types of making processes available—there are kilns in the protective earth and light filled greenhouses where floriculture is practiced within indoor yards. Artefacts, such as pots, pedestals and paving made at the farm begin to populate the new route and perhaps even the connecting parks nearby. 48

06-11 / Keun Lee S03, the ‘Synergetic Studio Village’ is a complex of small design and making studios. The project aims to improve the working environment of small design studios by integrating making and studio spaces. The space is planned to encourage the collaboration: separate design studios are connected under overtly covered, and coloured, protective ‘umbrella’ roofs which provide opportunity for spilling out of activities, interaction and unexpected results. The architecture seeks to achieve a harmony of a lightness and informality.

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01-05 / Rafael Garcia Turegano S03, The ‘King’s Cross Light Art School’ consists of facilities for artists who create artworks and installations in which light is the main material. The main challenge is to design spaces for experimentation with natural and artificial light, therefore, the project becomes an investigation on spaces that allow the artists to control the light conditions of their working spaces. At the same time, the building itself becomes a canvas for artists to play around with. The architecture creates and celebrates the Yard as a making and social space within the city. 50

06 / Alberto Bautista Hernaez S02, ‘Double Yard’. 07 / Narinder Kaur Gill S02, ‘Co-Making Student Space. Design students studying the same course but at different universities lack a place to co-make. The main work space environment will be open access to the public who will be able to watch the production of products later to be displayed and sold on site. It will provide makers with subject specific equipment who will also have access to a canteen, smaller office like rooms for project meetings and a private outdoor courtyard for students to enjoy during breaks.

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01–02 / Alberto Bautista Hernaez S02, ‘Double Yard’ is a place activated by entrepreneurs, free-lancers and students who make. Intense activities within the building spill out and activate two new public yards for King’s Cross. In the first yard the architecture merges with the landscape in and creates a new elevated green place for people to enjoy. This elevated soft yard space gently surrounds and overlooks a second harder public Yard which is there for the everyday use makers, inhabitants and people passing by. See also previous page, image 06.

03-05 / Zuliya Heydarova S02, ‘Bio Lab’ is a space focusing on the production of environmentally friendly and sustainable materials made from plants. The place will be used by specialists who are skilled in biology and in ecology and local residents who are interested in strengthening their communities by developing their ecological awareness. There is a hierarchy of yard spaces and different levels of privacy. The space includes a main workshop that will be open to the public to attract passers-by as well as private spaces such as research zone, equipment room and garden.

06-08 / Oge Amuta S02, ‘Performative Yard’ casts dispersed symbols of ritual (the temple) and performance (the ancient theatre) in the public space. These symbols and their associated set of spaces, each with an individual moment and feeling, are linked through a processional route. The theatre takes you on a journey and awakens a ‘déjà vu’ moment, ‘like you’ve seen and been there before’. By using predominantly mud–concrete, brass–copper and a green-emerald glass, everything feels surreal, like you’ve stepped away from reality and into a fantasy world.

Joud Mustafa A Reda S02, ‘ReMake’ is a bridge between academic studies and professional practice for recent design graduates. Subsidised affordable studio space and well-equipped workshop facilities are open to both graduates and local residents—resulting in a sharing of skills and creative spark. The building is organised around an internal yard and studios open onto the public space. Sustainablity is implicit through re-use and the value placed on materials—the materials ‘store’ is in fact an exhibition space, immediately visible from the entrance. 53

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02–03, 09 / Ivana Linares Parra S02, the ‘Makers Playground’ is an open space where the community is free to take part in the process of making and focusing mainly on letting children create or contribute to the process. People learn from each other and enable children to design their imaginary playgrounds and turn them into reality. The building is formed of four main spaces: an exhibition and office space; a drawing space; two workshops—a public one to test prototypes, and a private one, for staff members to build the playgrounds which will be exhibited and used. 54

01, 04 / Charles Plet S02, ‘Kings X Hacks’ was informed by my Hackspace survey, identifying a self-resilient management revolving around co-working, mutual respect and a strong sense of community. This proposal aims to provide an infrastructure where maker-specific workshops can develop and expand over time, together with communal space for interaction. Management of space is controlled and decided by makers themselves, who know best about the requirements for different types of making. A community will form through the ongoing co-building of workshops.

05 / Alexander Berger Sandhofer S02, ‘Communal Backyard’ is a semi-shared mixed-use project that offers a unique image of a self-growing backyard in the city. The project engages with the local community by incorporating publicly accessible space facilities and yard space. The vision of the private area is to combine office, maker and academic space in an open and transparent way thus facilitating communication and access. The canteen a shared space for public and the employees and promotes use of the communal backyard.

06-08 / Sabina Balcaityte S02, ‘2 Seconds Gallery’ is a mix of photography studios and exhibition space. The sculptural exterior creates shadows, frames, views and inspires an elegant photography. The building is seen from the trains and creates three main public experiences: the long view from Eurostar with screen façade; the close-up view from the underground allowing commuters; the one to one experience of walking through the spaces. To catch the best sense of the project, you must take a train and explore the building through movement. 55

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Stage 3 Students Valentina Antollini Sarah Aulombard Brenda Chang Alba Imeri Louis Lupien Sersah Namoglu Dahlia Subasi Belen Toker Thank you: Federico Wulff, Mikel Azkona Uribe. Our guest crits: Matthew Brown, Amanda Callaghan (All Architects), Lara Belkind, Nick Woodford, Andre Hoelzle, Jack Idle, Chris Kennedy (Kennedy Woods Architects), Francesco Montagnani (SOS Ballaro), Carlotta Novella, Benjamin Perrot, Sabrina Puddu, Duarte Santos, Katherine Spencer, Carlos Villanueva Brandt, Paolo Vimercati (Grimshaw Architects), Francesco Zuddas, Place Department at London Borough of Croydon: Anisha Jogani, Matthew Rust, Tom Shelby, Technical Tutors: Matthew Duckett, Amanda Sexton (Make Architects) Our engagement with Palermo is the product of collaboration with the MArch Unit EMUVE at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff. 56

(social) space is a (social) product Henri Lefebvre (1974) The Production of Space

Studio 2 explores how architecture, as an extended practice, could facilitate inclusive processes of social and urban regeneration. Studio 2 promotes the development of strategic engagements with the complex interactions between multiple agents, networks and processes related to specific physical and cultural contexts and their contingent situations. The design investigations of Studio 2 are focussed on the role that urban, architectural and temporal interstitial conditions could have as terrains for urban and social cohesion. We understand the production of social space as a process in which local and emergent communities might develop their civic identity and their rights to the city. We approach the production of architecture as a process, and not just as an outcome. We have been exploring how the principles of tactical placemaking and tactical urbanism could be reframed and expanded as comprehensive strategies for the development of incremental programmatic and architectural interventions. This year, our studio agendas have been developed and tested, in two different yet somehow similar contexts, both affected by issues of social inclusion of marginalised local and migrant communities and processes of top-down and bottom-up regeneration: Croydon in London, UK; and Albergheria in Palermo, Italy. Croydon is a large southern borough of London. It is one of the most populated metropolitan areas, with a rich ethnic diversity but with social issues that triggered some of the biggest riots in London in 2011. The headquarters of the UK Visas and Immigration are located at Croydon, often making it a mandatory place of passage for migrants and refugees. A particular aspect of Croydon nowadays is the spatial and temporal gaps between the different models and stages of urban development. Palermo, the capital of Sicily, Italy, is a city with complex urban and cultural issues, product of the layering of different cultural exchanges and historical circumstances. The social, urban and architectural fabric of its historic centre is still affected by war damages and decades of institutional disinvestment. The recent exponential increase of the migration flux from Africa and Asia, represents a huge challenge for the local resources, but also a great potential for a proactive approach towards processes of social inclusion and urban regeneration. The design proposals of Studio 2 have been informed by immersive contextual investigations, that combined hands-on, empirical experimentation and tactical on-site actions to reveal and understand the specific social, economic, political, material, spatial and urban issues and potentials that characterise the context of intervention. The design approach of Studio 2 emphasises an engagement in processes of consolidation and production of social and contextual networks, and how these could promote the social inclusion and the urban agency of marginalised local and migrant communities. The design proposals of Studio 2 have been developed as a series of strategic and tactical interventions of an incremental material and temporal scale, in order to develop a specific contextual relevance and sustainability.

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01-03 / Louis Lupien S03, ‘Open Croydon’ This proposal is not a project, but an investigation based on comprehensive research, analysis and experimental processes. The study has been developed as a series of attempts at trying to bring life into Croydon’s New City, an urban area that was designed following the principles of modern urban planning, conducting multiple experiments in order to explore the complexity of this part of the city. Croydon’s New City is surrounded by many upcoming master-plans that are promising (again) to reshape Croydon for the better, stands centrally within this regeneration context with its gaping voids between its towers: underused car parks.

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An area that could potentially find its life through reclaiming the plurality of realities that exist within the two Croydons, the walking and the driving one, offering a new, inclusive sense of place for the dislocated local social agents that are being threatened by the topdown redevelopments. The centrally located parking, a redundant flagship of the modernist post-war ideals, could provide with a set of opportunities to foster the intensity of Croydon to animate this area, reconnecting it with its past (both modernist and pre-war) by celebrating its monumental structures whilst creating a comfortable, wind free, user generated sense of place, rehabilitating this part of Croydon to “a state of completeness that may have never existed”.

04-07 / Alba Imeri S03 ‘The Performative Factory’. This proposal is performance spaces for local organisations, supporting the about a public assembly that would allow residents to have visibility participation and involvement of local and transient communities of Croydon’s formal and informal performances that characterise (such as refugees), blurring the boundaries between actors and its lively urban scene. This proposal investigates the potential spectators. The Factory allows the audience to peer into the world relation between Croydon’s explicit and implicit landmarks such as of performance arts and productions from the exterior and from 02/ Alba Imeri S3, ‘The Performative Factory’ Fairfield Halls (a large theatre under reconstruction), and the stock within, through a layering of materials and spaces. The Factory offers This proposal is aboutspaces a public that would performance for local organisations, supporting the of neglected (carassembly parks), exploring how toallow respond to the a multiplicityspaces of performative devices, from its facades being used residents to have of Croydon’s formal and and and transient communities post warvisibility ‘failed urbanism’. This proposal is aninformal investigation on how participation for projections to involvement its base used of as local an outdoor amphitheatre and existing urban fabric and its residual can be activated skateboarding turf. blurring These spaces enable the creation of aactors public and performances that characterise livelyurban urbanspaces scene. This (such as refugees), the boundaries between as settings forthe happenings performances, space in anThe unutilised area as well asaudience facilities toto accommodate proposal investigates potentialand relation betweencontributing Croydon’s to spectators. Factory allows the peer into the placemaking processes. The Performance Factory holds multiple creative activities of the neighbouring colleges.

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3(a)The entrance to the private area where you can meet with someone who can direct you to the desired help. 3(b) Private rooms in which a woman can have 1:1 meetings with actors in Croydon, including Crisis, Refuge, the sexual health clinic and the police service amongst others.

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01, 02 / Katie Nelson S03, ‘Women of Refuge’ refers to any and all women seeking help, safety, shelter and guidance in the setting of Croydon. The proposal is split up into five ‘rooms’ each demonstrating a layer of the recovery process relating mainly to that of psychological, physical and sexual violence against women. These steps in the process are taken from Neinke Helder’s ‘Sexual healing project’ and are as follows: Physical touch, Confrontation, Bodily awareness, Security and Comfort. Arguably the most important of 62

these steps is ‘Physical touch’ which lies in the public realm. The Journey begins with a long sheltered and winding walk through the air, a public walk way made of timber shrouded in greenery, emphasising the need for physical touch in the recovery processes both through the public realm and sensation of material. It was my hope to find a way of dealing with traumatic events outside of the unwelcoming and generic environments that often characterise the public provision, making recovery a journey and not a destination.

03-05 / Belen Toker S03, ‘CR-room’ Shared Offices Project is a social enterprise that aims to encourage, motivate and empower the youth of Croydon, nurturing their involvement in activities and social networks related to making, technology and enterprise. By bringing the youth and the business communities to shared spaces and facilities, the project aims to use public spaces as places of social vibrancy where social and motivational interactions might happen between different user groups. ‘CR-room’ offers a grid system made

of glulam columns and beams, which will be filled out in time with modular CLT pieces that will be available to order on the website of the project, allowing the users to customize their office spaces and even submit their own designs. Connecting the wood structure with steel joints, and using modular CLT boards to create the boundaries of the office spaces, the building offers a lego-concept where each piece can be added in and taken out, allowing it to be moved to another place once the lend is over. 63

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03-05 / Kristy Lo S02, ‘Zero Waste, Zero Discrimination’ aims 02 to support the inclusion of increasingly marginalised communities such as homeless people and smokers. The design of the proposed building emphasise an internal and external environmental 01, 02 / Ivy Wong S02, ‘The BeeHive’ is an investigation on the performance. Internally, it would enable an environmental cycle of Croydon’s Saffron Central, an urban farm. The proposal intends to potential relations between apparently disparate ecological and how a cigarette could be recycled to support urban farming, and reinforce the potential that Queen’s Gardens might have to further social subjects that face environmental displacement in the urban therefore, food production that would provide job and support to support these displaced beings by providing a structure that would conditions, homeless and bees. The chosen site, Queen’s Gardens, the local homeless population. The proposal also aims to attenuate foster a productive relationship between them that, at the same time, 6 / Kristy Lo S02, ‘Project Title’. A complete cycle of a cigarette to less. Emphasizing the more benefiting perspective of these two acis a central location at Croydon adjacent to the main institutional stereotypical prejudices against its two main user groups, as both could promote their of interaction with larger communities. Thisand project a plate food. Providing pleasure for smokers offering jobs tions – Second hand smoke to support the crops to grow with the landmarks of the area, already host supporting structures and are subject to environmental discrimination. The use of modular aims to facilitate ecological interactions that could foster and social a skill and set for the homeless in Croydon. This will help attenuate help of the homeless. The combination of the high-tech elements of 6 / KristyaLo S02, ‘Project Title’.and A complete cycle of environment. a cigarette to less. Emphasizing the more benefiting perspective of these two ac- and construction techniques as services for the homeless population, with Croydon Nightwatch, architecture, sustainable materials a more inclusive sustainable urban the common stereo typical view of these two groups of users. An my design completed the ‘Green’ original concept. Dust Absorbers plate tions – Second hand smoke to support the charity providing evening meals; and for the urban bees, awith theof food. Providing pleasure for smokers and offering jobs wellthe as crops the usetoofgrow dust with and pollution absorbent materials enhance unwelcomenesss as acts of discrimination is always experienced and transparent solar panels reduces the electricity needs as well and a skill set for the homeless in Croydon. This will help attenuate help of the homeless. The combination of the high-tech elements of by these two groups of users which in this multi-function building, as the polluted air around the structure. the common stereo typical view of these two groups of users. An my design completed the ‘Green’ original concept. Dust Absorbers 64 the tension will be eased. unwelcomenesss as acts of discrimination is always experienced andwill transparent solar panels reduces the electricity needs as well Designed for the community of Croydon, this project aim to EL

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01-03 / Sarah Aulombard S03, ‘The Nest’. What does it mean to flee your home to seek safety? What does it mean to be a refugee? Today, 50% of the world’s refugees are women and girls. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of international migrants has increased by 41 per cent to reach 244 million. In Croydon, over 52% of the population is composed of women and people of ethnicities other than “British White”. This project aims to offer women refugees and migrants the opportunity to connect, exchange and empower each. The Nest provides a safe and inclusive environment for women 66

to speak up about their issues via a free program of workshops hosted in collaboration with local volunteers. The program includes English classes, women’s education and citizenship preparedness which are crucial to a healthy cultural integration. The building offers flexible levels of privacy with a double-skin facade and timber louver panels adjustable at the users’ discretion. While being a sustainable solution, the double-skin timber facade provides the users with the best possible experience and comfort.

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this proposal explores potential thatasthe collective in the main workshop isthe a social space as much a learning space forinvolvement the students making may have as an agent of social inclusion, vocational and job skilling, as well as an agent of urban regeneration. The WofT aims to provide support to marginalised groups, such as young locals and unaccompanied migrants, as well as to local makers, creating a social and urban network and programmes to trigger collective city hacking, pride in one’s heritage, skill sharing and an architecture best possible experience and comfort.

05-07 / Brenda Chang S03, ‘The Community Courtyard’. The Albergheria district in the historic centre of Palermo affected by an urban decay produced by war damages and long-term abandonment. There are many structures in a derelict state that contribute to a low civic pride. Besides the material decay, there are other related issues such as a lack of adaptation to the current circumstances that render the structures obsolete, further affecting the possibilities of regeneration. The Community Courtyard is a public social venue which provides a space for gardening, cooking

and learning. It aims to provide a space where locals and migrant communities may interact, celebrate diversity in Palermo and promote a healthy neighbourhood atmosphere. The Community Courtyard is conceived as a social enterprise working as the epicentre of a network of urban farming, providing workshops, education and social spaces to complement the adjacent Centro Astalli, a charity that provides a wide range of support to refugees, whilst collaborating with other local social and cultural enterprises.

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Providing management and training jobs for already skilled people

Economic Regeneration: Aid the generation of training and jobs

Providing training and transferable skills

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for traders and apprentices to be trained by other craftsmen and professionals (FGAmbiente), who can gain experience to find jobs in relevant fields.

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Project Aims

Social Regeneration: Providing leisure space and support for those who need it

Urban Regeneration: Celebrating the existing historical architectural context

Creation of leisure space to satisfy local demands

Creating the conditions necessary to promote pride and care for the built context.

Leisure spaces

for traders and young people, as well as promotional cultural events, where they are exposed to workshop spaces, support classes and an ambitious enviornment

Improving the ecological situation in the area by giving opportunities and hope to locals, something to be proud of

Promoting Existing Local Systems

Redistribution of Recycled and Upcycled Items

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01-04 / Valentina Antollini S03, ‘Piazza Laboratorio’. This project is aligned to the mission and work of the local organisation SOS Ballaro’ that actively intervenes in the degraded public spaces in Palermo by offering adequate structures for waste management, urban furniture and greenery. The proposal is conceived as a series of incremental interventions aimed to regenerate the urban and economic tissue of Piazza San Pasquale in Palermo, which is currently occupied by an informal market that prevents the fulfilment of its role as a key public space in the area. The first intervention is 70

focused on providing an adequate public space for the immigrants that currently run the informal market to perform recreational activities. The second intervention is based on replacing the site’s degraded structures with spaces for productive activities. These interventions follows the examples of Zisa Creativa (Palermo) and Arci Fieri (Catania, Sicily), two social enterprises that engage immigrants with recycling, making and trading activities. The intervention aims to include the current immigrant traders on site in the processes of urban regenration whilst offering them a diversity of job opportunities.

05, 06 / Jerry Florez Vasquez S02, ‘The Flea Market’. The proposed programme is a market space for the traders and craftsmen of the area, as well as workshop facilities. This would function as an informal recycling hub, or an ‘upcycling’ hub, working with the existing entrepreneurial spirit and a local will for recycling. The traders and craftsmen would deal with local materials and clients to reuse and repurpose discarded items ranging from clothes, to white goods and pieces of carpentry. The hub would encourage skilled traders to share knowledge for those looking to

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to teach skills and offer advice for those seeking support

learn the skills of the trade, as well as offering support workshops and life skills classes, collaborating with local organisations such as FG Ambiente, Zero Waste Italy, SOS Ballaro, Moltivolti and the Municipality of Palermo. FG Recycling is a company in Catania that works specifically with the disposal and recycling of electronics and furniture, a common process on site, occurring informally in small workshops and open spaces. This company could also offer professional training as an apprenticeship, in order to give locals the opportunities to find stable jobs. 71

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piazza, for sprawl of the workshops and events from the social pavillion

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01-03 / Dominika Pilch S02, ‘Ballaro’s Women’. The focus of this proposal derives from the lives and stories of many migrants coming into Europe in search of a new life, especially into Italy, Palermo. The project aims to provide help migrant women in a difficult life situation, such as seeking refuge, supporting their integration in the largely diverse community of Palermo. This project will aim to create the catalyst for improving their social and economical possibilities,

providing social support and training in skills such as crafting and carpentry, as well as creating a network of individuals that would foster their empowerment. The proposal creates an articulated arrangements of speces and functions responding to the diverse needs of the women, promoting interactions with the context Ballaro Market and Albergheria.

04-07 / Max Lalande D’Anciger S02, ‘Albergheria Grandioso’. How to work around the tight spaces within the intrincated centre of Albergheria? In what way can the Senegalese community promote their culture? How can a space be designed to accommodate the kids of Palermo? Grandioso is a project with the intention of answering and helping in some way to address these questions. Through the use of parasitic interventions that playfully enhance the architectural features

of the ex-convent of Santa Chiara, a social centre supporting local and migrant communities. The project engages with two local groups, the Senegalese community, giving them the space for their love of music, and the kids of Albergheria, giving them a much needed playground. This project propose an urban playground where the different communities may develop their rights to the city while finding unusual ways of experiencing and activating this urban and social landmark.

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Second Nature Silvana Taher, Inigo Minns Studio 3 Tutors

Studio Tutors Silvana Taher Inigo Minns Stage 2 Students Anna Bolotova Laura Dimitru Yasin Hussein Krystian Kliber Laurene Lucy Runlin Zhao Yuxuan Shi Jane Tocilina Murtaza Mohebi

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Stage 3 Students Fern Burintaragoht Alexia Iborra Wicksteed Rafaela Zincone Albieri Ophelie Prevesianos Ash Zul Parquear Marie Le Rouzic Jinming Fan Emily See Thank you: Ryan Dillon, Conrad Koslowsky, Myongjae Kim, Michela Mangiarotti, George Moussad, David Patterson, Elena Palacios Carral, Theo Spyropolous, Manijeh Verghese

In today’s urban environment, nature plays a distinct but somewhat rudimentary role. It is a beautifying ornament, a security border or in certain moments of conscientious planning, a pocket of green – providing a necessary albeit tenuous link to ‘greener pastures’. If we move beyond the city, we find the discussion of nature in an even more troubled state. Scientists and economists alike have hailed the arrival of the anthropocene – the troubled and current geological age wherein human activity has become the dominant force impacting on the Earth and its ecosystems – with some trepidation. Global warming has been making occasional headlines for well over five decades, and whether scientists have got it 100% right or just a little bit right, one can’t help but wonder if something has gone wrong. Our relationship to nature today is not hard to understand if we delve into the history books. Aristotle wrote “Nature has made all things specifically for the sake of man”. The Bible decreases that man has “Dominion over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”. Centuries later, René Descartes wrote that man is “the lord and possessors of nature”. If these statements were about any other type of relationship, we would undoubtedly agree that this is a relationship in trouble! Studio 3 engages the topic at the scale of architecture, asking why we build the way we build. Is there a way to incorporate natural growth and natural systems into an architectural project, whereby it is not an afterthought, but rather a key formal and programmatic driver of the project. More specifically, what would happen if we imagine ‘nature’ to be our client? How would our buildings and our cities change? This year, the studio focused its work in and around Hampstead Heath. In order to fully engage in the potential rethinking of nature as a driver of architectural production, students were asked to begin by studying a series of urban typologies within this area. Several students chose to work with the domestic, while others opted to work with either production spaces or spaces of consumption. The only prerequisite was that in studying their chosen typology they explore its relation to nature and to any moments of programmatic clash that may occur within the given type. The resulting projects show what architecture can achieve when it puts it mind to the problem of nature in the city.

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‘‘But what is nature? Why is custom not natural? I greatly fear that this nature is itself only a first custom as custom is a second nature.’’

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‘‘Man has a prejudice against himself; anything which is a product of his mind seems to him to be unreal or comparatively insignificant. We are satisfied only when we fancy ourselves surrounded by objects and laws independent of our nature.’’

the predator of the insect that is attacking the plant to help them out in combat.

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“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”

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t h ro ug h t h e wi nd , w h e n p re p a r i n g f o r a ce r t a i n s i t ua t i o n t h e i r s m e l l s a n d h o r m o n e s a re b l ow n i n the wind and it became an

‘‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.’’

George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty

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The greenhouse effect occurs when certain gases in the Earth’s atmosphere (the air around the Earth) entraps infrared radiation. This makes the planet become warmer, similar to the way it makes a greenhouse become warmer. The effect is caused by greenhouse gases; the most important greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are: water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane. When there is more greenhouse gas in the air, the air holds more heat. This is why more greenhouse gases cause global warming. The greenhouse effect is natural. It is important for life on Earth. Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth’s average temperature would be around -18 or -19 degrees Celsius (0 or 1 degree Fahrenheit). Earth would be locked in an ice age. Because of the greenhouse effect, the Earth’s actual average

‘‘ G r e e n h o u s e ’’ a t e r m t h a t a r c h i t e c t u r a l l y m e a n s flourishing nature an engineered boost of agriculture also means the devastating ter m of global war ming.

temperature is 14 degrees Celsius (57 degrees Fahrenheit). The problem is that recently, the greenhouse effect has become stronger. This is because humans have been using large amounts of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide when they are burned. Since carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, it has caused the planet to warm over the past 150 years. About ten thousand years ago, before people started burning large amounts of fossil fuels, there was 260 to 280 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. In September 2011, the figure was 389 ppm. Most scientists say that having 350 ppm or less is safe for the environment and that species on the planet can adapt to this level. Higher levels can make severe problems for animal and marine life that are already being seen today, such as ocean acidification.

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Is mankind Nature?

Ecopsychology

studies on the relationship between man and nature.

Many theories on the starting point of the feeling of disconnection.

Edward Wilson, 1975 & William Allman, 1994. The separation from more-than-human nature is seen as rooted in the very nature of humans.

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Ecopsychology is a field of study on the relationship between man and nature. It advocates the idea of an existing disconnection in the relationship where many theories attempt to acknowledge the starting point. Yet, it is no longer an idea but a factual belief that a disconnection exists. Following the belief that nature creates everything and therefore a manifestation of nature is man. Man becomes part of nature and thus the man-made is also a tangent of nature.

day Men was walking with no set place to go when encountered ‘‘Nature is ahe matter of perception.’’ a wild park. Inside of the park ther My definition One of Nature was an opening in a hill, Men then had to make a choice either to continue into Wilderness or enter this mysterious path.

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Bringing together these two beliefs (the disconnection and that nature produces man who produces natural things), one can justify the other, in the sense that the reason why humans feel disconnected to nature is because of the common belief that the man-made is not natural, it is a problem of perception and misrepresentation.Taking nature as a man constructed term of a concept, the term nature becomes then different points of view over a reality. In conclusion

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01-04 / Rafaela Zincone Albieri S03, ‘The Path’ is based on a personal criticism of the relationship between Mankind and Nature. From the first day visiting Hampstead Heath it’s been possible to notice the ambiguous relationship in which the human being seems to have taken distance of and assumed a place where mankind is some¬thing else than Nature. The area is well known for it’s park,

ponds and hills. Hampstead Heath holds a green reputation, but the park is completely controlled by Men. The proposal involves an underground passage that connects two important stations and extends the Heath. Above the passage a wild forest contrasts with the proposal, in which nature is often framed. The project contrasts the chaos of Nature with Man’s desire for order.

04 Walking further Men found another exit, he was excited because he could go back out again if he wanted to, but he also could decide to stay.

76 Men chose the path. There, he crossed others just like him, confused and intrigued. Men still had the choice to walk back to the wilderness but instead he kept walking to the interior of the path.

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01-05 / Ophelie Prevesianos S03, ‘Freeing Architecture’. When Marcel Duchamps transformed an ordinary urinal into a piece of art he caused a shockwave that still impacts art and architecture to the present day. The already existing and the everyday object became art and revalued with his “objets trouves” (found objects). In opposition to the modernist functionalist planning, my approach 78

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is to revitalize and transform the already existing city - between the past and the future that doesn’t conform to any master plan. In the longest post-war housing of Europe, this project explores ways to create a plan much freer than the typical Corbusier Maison Domino and the possibilities of architectural destruction and decay onto already existing buildings.

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Exchanges between Dunboyne Road estate and the gardens

01-04 / Marie Le Rouzic S03, ‘The suspended gardens of Hampstead Heath’. In a world where the natural environment has been entirely altered by human populations, I propose that we embrace this “manufactured” nature and shed light on the natural processes that have been evolving through a mutual interaction with human activity. A series of interventions, containing hydroponic

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gardens and a production of micro algae, rises up above the modernist Dunboyne Road Estate in Hampstead Heath. These elevated platforms, linked by a privilege pedestrian circulation, reconnect the estate and the city. The introduction of a new ecosystem within the estate blurs the limits between alive and inert, artificial and natural processes. 1

Tomatoes collected and distributed in the market and cooked in the restaurant

Air rich in CO2 from the dwellings

Clean air rich in O2 that can be redistributed in the dwellings

Grey water to which micro-algae have been added to use as fertiliser

Clean reusable water

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Source: Digest of Waste & Resources

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Hampstead Heath Park

PUBLIC INTEREST HOTSPOTS

Green spaces: In Hampstead there is over 790 acres of park and meadows. Nevertheless, considering the past of the Heath, it is noticeable the reduction in its size. The connecting and entry points to the park are strictly delimited by gates and others. There are hardly any indications of the connection there used to be between the area and nature, until the point which it seems somehow an alienated green spot on the map. Other small parks may be found outside the park but they are not used although its potential.

EXPANDING THE VISION

Victorian terraced houses do tend to have a private garden space on the contrary, council estate blocks don’t. Despite having open to the public gardens, they are not used.

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Public Transport: There is a good range of public transport in a 10-minute walk radius distance. The closest underground station is Hampstead, which is on the Northen line. Nevertheless, there is also good Overground connections: Hampstead Heath Overground station and Gospel Oak Overground station. In addition, buses run through the site. Public space: The largest public space in Hampstead is the park. Nevertheless, as you leave the park behind, the amount of public space is reduced and not in use.

The streets: Mansfield Road represents a social and physical division for pedestrians. The value of the properties on the upper side of the road is much higher than in the lower side. This main road is full of cafes and local stores, while in the rest of the streets we find a much more relaxed atmosphere. Pigeons and Wrens are the most common birds in the Heath. Hampstead Heath Overground Station

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As the Camden Council data indicates, the area of Hampstead Heath sees a range of building heights. Nevertheless, the prevailing heights are found between 2 and 5 storeys. This is due to the surrounding conservation areas which are typically 2-4 storey Victorian terraces. These generate a consistent townscape.

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Existing building analysis: The upper side of Mansfield Road, despite traditionally being a working-class housing neighbourhood, inevitably through gentrification from about 1980 onwards it has been transformed, and is now a popular residential area by young professionals. Therefore, we find different building typologies such as Georgian houses to large Victorian terraced housing. Under Mansfield Road, the panorama changes and we find Council Estate housing.

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Demographics: There is a large variety of ethnic groups as well as a wide age range. 55% of the people living in Hampstead was born in England. A 34.9% of the population is Christian and the average age is between 25 and 44.

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The final iteration considers access routes, natural push back and the relationship of the intervention with the above, existing space and the juxtaposition of such a situation with hidden features. Features such as critical infrastructure a city hides below ground.

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A. Framed A window frames the flora hiding behind a wall. However its view is technically not accessible at street level (Dotted Line) due to its height on the wall. Creating a sense of boundary.

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The brick wall is permeated by the window and class door. To the left it opens out and leads into the flora and space behind. Creating viewing points and access ways across the collages facade.

C. Division

Assuming the dotted line represents a street. It becomes the dividing space between both sides and its elements. Aggressively Intersecting human life (built fabric) and natural life alike.

D. Functionality

01-04 / Alexia Iborra Wicksteed S03, ‘Nexus’. There is a silent war. This war is about the constant confrontation between the urban fabric and nature. We have distinctly eradicated nature from our daily routines, to the point that we have had to start to allocate, artificially, a place for parks in the city. Located in Hampstead Heath, ‘Nexus’ wants to resolve the lost connection between nature and Londoners. 82

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This is achieved by the implementation of two programmes: fixed public spaces and privately owned spaces. The grid engages with every element of the urban fabric that it meets. It is for this reason, that it must be both permanent and flexible in it structure allowing an easy assembly and disassembly as well as a huge variety of programme.

A car stands idle. Indicative of how the city must serve the functions we require in our daily lives. However it begs the question of how to best accommodate this factor efficiently and conveniently.

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05-08 / Ash Zul Parquear S03, ‘Mutation City’. Mutation City is A solid mass of organic plant life engulfsurban and a critique of the contemporary space. It seeks to challenge covers a structure and built fabric behind. our current understanding of who the city is for, what it does and Mining Waste Reaffirming the deployment how it functions. To the project first intends to of achieve nature as athis toolagency to hide and cover objects. develop attitude thatKgcomprehends nature, or more specifically How can we access thean 3,565,320 of waste produced by these 7 homeswhat on onenature year? Can a hidden, determine is. This is the projects primary driver and is on site system succeed in lowering costs, creating Absence of Form effective outputs and reinterpret F.our understanding The absence of volume. of the urban spaces?

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to be explored by defining what nature is and how can it be used to reinterpret the city. This logic is then further driven by adhering to the following, “alternatives to the current situation”. This should create a formulaic approach which can guide the project to explore new HIDDEN NATURE design strategies and take what we assume is natural and then flip Thus nature is further revealed to be at the it into something and new.context. mercy of unnatural our intentions in the urban

Even in spaces where we assume it is free. It is cultivated, maintained and used to serve a purpose for us rather than its own self.

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01 / Fern Burintaragoht S03, ‘Second Nature’. The beginning of this project is the theme of second nature. The meaning of this word is the presence of animals and nature. We are the same, even though most people think of themselves as superior to animals. But what if we lack five important factors to make our lives complete? We need water, soil, air, trees and space. 84

These are the origins of everything in this world, our offices, our schools, and our homes. This project takes these five original elements, and re-interprets them. Creating a series of alternatives origins to our own repertoire of park space.

02-05 / Emily See S03, ‘Under Nature’. The lawn is an architectural feature which exists in all types of both urban and domestic spaces. However, when it is publically owned, it often fails to gain the attention it deserves. The concept of my project is to design an interesting lawn, and to address this issue. The basic premise of the proposal is to bring other functions to the site, without loosing

the open space of the lawn itself. The project aims to create a series of underground spaces which provide a series of key programs, while maintaining and enhancing the lawn space, by transforming it into an undulating landscape of curves.

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01-04 / Laurene Lucy S03, ‘The Ballade’. In today’s interlinked global economy, consumers are used to seeing products and produce from every corner of the world in their local malls and stores. However, while products are travelling, often the cultural practise involving them isn’t, losing all their meanings on their way. Creating some space for the consumers to reinterpret the way of

eating or drinking them but also, regularly, generating meaningless consumption. This project is a propositional critique of these trends, contributing to a discussion on bringing the challenge of production into the city focusing on reassemble the rituals and the processes. The depicted processes of producing and serving tea explored in this project are questioning the consumption of our resources nowadays.

05-07 / Yuxuan Shi S02, ‘The fourth bridge in Blackfriars’. There are three Bridges in Blackfriars; the Blackfriars bridge, a new railway bridge and a half disappeared old railway bridge. As infrastructure, these bridges connect the two banks of the river Thames, and water is just an obstacle that needs to be crossed. But, what if we see process as purpose?

What if a bridge does more then just function as crossing? What is we see water as the purpose and ignore the horizontal two sides. The Fourth Bridge tackles these questions and proposes a vertical bridge in Blackfriars connecting water and sky.

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01, 02 / Murtaza Mohebi S02, ‘Second Healer’. Throughout centuries, people of various cultures have relied on what western medicine today calls ‘ alternative medicine’. This term covers a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies. It generally describes those treatments and health care practices that are outside “conventional” Western health care. People use these

treatments and therapies in a variety of ways. Some therapies stay aside of accepted Western medical theory and practice, while others, like chiropractic treatments, are now established in mainstream medicine. Second Healer is a new space, annexed to the Royal Free Hospital, which allows for such treatments.

CLASS ROOM 03, 04 / Yasin Hussein S02, ‘Vegitecture’. A parasite is an organism that grows, feeds and is sheltered by its host while contributing nothing to the host’s survival. A parasite is also an architectural intervention that materializes and transforms the built form. This project explores how people and nature can be brought together using a parasitical structure that lives off of the existing urban fabric.

05 / Anna Bolotova S02, ‘Playscape’. Playground and nature centre integrates into Hampstead Heath landscape. This playground provides an innovative and contemporary take on play spaces through its use of combination of natural and artificial materials. Plants and natural landscapes become the playground.

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Roof Station One

02, 03 / Krystian Kliber S02, ‘Off and Below’. Off and below is a critique on the way we live today. What would happen if we could no longer enjoy the ground plain living with which we are accustomed? With the worlds population spiraling out, this dystopian future may be closer then we anticipate. ‘Off and below’ suggests an alternative form of living; one which takes place 40 meters underground.

04 / Runlin Zhao S02, ‘False Nature’. The project is about three roof stations above our original city, using three different main materials and creating three fundamentally different experiences of light playful spaces. It is called ‘false nature’ because the whole project doesn’t use natural plants at all, but instead creates a new material language to define a ‘second nature’.

Section Stage 3 1:50

Laura Dumitru Studio 3 BA Architecture Portfolio

01 / Jane Tocilina S02, ‘A concrete jungle through the Heath’. Leisure center in Hampstead Heath leading from the city to the depth of the park. Consists of 14 zones that correspond to the leisure activities and relationships between natural and built environments. The key driver of the project is the balance between the two.

Section Stage 1 1:50

Laura Dumitru Studio 3 BA Architecture Portfolio

BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

Vertical Design Studio 3

Activities

05, 06 / Laura-Larissa Dumitru S02, ‘Metamorphosis of Urban Decay’. This project rejuvenates derelict buildings by introducing programmes that will make them functional structures. The bracing structure supporting the old building will then become the new building skeleton.

Studio 4

Obsolescence Mo Woonying Wong, Christopher Thorn Studio 4 Tutors

Studio Tutors Mo Woonying Wong Christopher Thorn Stage 2 Students Mariia Galiullina John Mortimer Maximilian C. Master Harry Charles Stockton Tre-Vaughn W. Caines Jerick De Castro Seruelas, Yibeijia Li Tongtor Wongtanapruk Gareth A. Pontipedra Jacob Phil-Ebosie Tanavej Vejaphan BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

Stage 3 Students Niall Coleman Cinla Deger Shutong Lin Adrian Peng He Tiffany Zixin Yao Vivian Kaidan Zhao Thank you: Keita Tajima, Ivana Sehic, Punya Sehmi, Jeffrey Blaylock, Chloe Phelps, Sophie Roycroft, Carsten Jungfer, Adam Cheltsov, Kunwook Kang, Colin O’Sullivan

Studio 4 continues its examination of the condition of the ‘in-between’, this year addressing the notion of obsolescence in architecture and urban forms. Exposed to the political, economic and social forces that underpin the metabolism of the city, architecture appears perennially slow to react. Studio 4 engaged in this battle against time and desire to speculate on transitional, flexible and ambiguous forms of architecture that embrace obsolescence. Rather than a cycle of demolition and replacement (expendability) or permanence (conservation), the specter of obsolescence inspires a new system in which architecture remains contingent. That is ‘contingency’ beyond the technophilia of physical change and variation to a condition of porosity, openness and ambiguity. Spaces that incorporate the misused or disused as marginal variables, demanding constant interrogation and negotiation; creating spaces and forms that can expand, transform and enhance future uses. Studio 4 began by identifying and cataloging the spatial components of ‘contingency’ through the analysis and interrogation of architectural examples – transitional moments. We developed techniques of drawing as tools for investigation, translation and construction into scale models. This phase produced a series of spatial strategies, lenses through which to examine the site and an index of pliant design devices. The site for our investigation into obsolescence lies along the railway viaduct in London’s Bethnal Green, centering on Three Colts Lane. Extending east from the city fringe, this urban line has seen the propagation of residential and retail-led gentrification. This re-modeling has progressively displaced lower socio-economic production and serving businesses that offer necessary functions for the operation of London. The shelter of the viaduct no longer protects its community of users from the same pressures facing nearby occupiers, with rising rents and the impending wholesale disposal of the arches by Network Rail. Our studies dissected the knotted mass of occupiers nestled together and encrusted around, on and within the viaduct, understanding their operations, interwoven connections, negotiated territories, temporal occupation, relationship to the neighbourhood and the wider city. Through these studies we celebrated and restated their social and economic value whilst speculating on their future existence. The students final proposals imagined strategies and designed contingent structures that integrated existing occupiers and negotiated future uses. The proposals considered a range of responses to obsolescence in Bethnal Green: creating shared space as part of a hybridised building; programming temporal territories within ambiguous, threshold-less space; providing infrastructure as a backbone for supporting changing uses; layering uses vertically to retain the value of the ground plane to businesses; introducing collaborative programmes that add value to existing occupiers; creating modular transformable structures able to shrink, expand and adapt; inventing dissolvable temporary structures that accommodate reuse once obsolete; and providing communal spaces for common exchange and sharing beyond the measures of obsolescence.

Name Lastname Image Credit

Jacob Phil-Ebosie S03, ‘Photo documentation of site’ 93

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Vertical Design Studio 4

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position after fold position on plan after fold on 01 / Adrian Peng He S03, Identifying boundaries between living 02, 03 / Jacob Phil-Ebosie S02, Sound mapping in relation movemnet step movemnet step room and bedroom, kitchen and courtyard spaces at Turnend by to volume and materials in Gaasbeek Chamber Music Hall by Living room view 3d explanation Living room view 3d explanation Peter Aldington. Reconstructing view lines in plan and 2-1 planes in three2-1 Robbrecht en Daem. dimensional models. Detailed drawing translated three dimensional space into unfolded plans. F’

Plans

1:50

plan

04 / Mariia Galiullina S02, Study of transitional moment, exploring the relationship between rooms, levels and divisions of the raumplan in Villa Muller by Adolf Loos. The abstract exercise explored the volume of space experienced when looking through the articulated wall. Section

05, 06 / Jerick De Castro Seruelas S02, Catalogue of volumes extending between levels in Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma.

1:50

Exploring the different volumes of the residential spaces

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The courtyard - In between walls but

Mezzanine platform on the

The courty

third floor -

exposed to the outer environment. A

third floor -

exposed to

Tight space, no freedom to

small space feeling large and free

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Master Bedroom - Slightly Bigger

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Mezzanine platform on the third floor -

Exploring

Tight space, no freedom to

Volumetric

The courtyard - In between walls but

R e l a t i oexposed ns to the outer environment. A small space feeling large and free

95 Exploring

Volumet

Vertical Design Studio 4

Transitional Experiences of three characters in the Pavillon de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Esprit Nouveau,

Character 1(Visitor)

His aim is going to the yard of this pavilion.

Third floor (Roof )

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Floor Two Private Area

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Different Users of the Chamber Music Hall

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Section Drawing 9 - Kitchen and utilary room

Section Drawings 1-4 The musician enters the ground level, through (2) threshold and into the living space.

Section Drawings 5-8 Fellow musicians can meet and prepare in the living space

Section Drawing 9 - Kitchen and utilary room

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Section drawing 12 - Musician begins the concert in front of the public

01 / Maximilian Master S02, Study of transitional space and perceived volume at the main entrance to Tower House by Takamitsu Azuma. 02 / Niall Coleman S03, Reconstructing sectional sequence along a journey between public and private spaces at the Gaasbeek Chamber Music Hall by Robbrecht en Daem. Section drawings 10- 11 - Musician exits the kitchen and continues their 96

way into the Music Hall

13.

03-06 / Tiffany Zixin Yao S03, Study of curved wall and reconstructing the spatial experience from Pavilion de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Esprit Nauveay by Le Corbusier. Speculating thea potential for new continuous spaces through reconfiguring devices discovered in the Pavilion. Section drawing 12 - Musician begins the concert in front of the public

97 Project 1 - Building Studies

Rosso corse motorcycles (motorcycle repair store)

Not occupied

Banned because of illegal gambling

Arches Boxing Gym

KO Gym

opening hour weekdays 7am-9.30pm weekends 10am-3pm

opening hour weekdays 7am-10pm weekends 9am-4pm

opening hour (sunday and monday closed) 10am-8pm

car parking extention 1-3 cars

parking extention

parking extention 1-3 cars

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Garage service

opening hour weekdays 7am-9.30pm

opening hour weekdays 8am-6.30pm

parking extention 1-2 cars / 1 motorcycle (front gate side and

parking extention 1-2 cars (front gate side and

vatican rehearsal recording studio

Final drawing

Vertical Design Studio 4

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01-10 / Adrian Peng He S03, ‘Spot Two Centre’. The viaducts indiscriminant path through the urban fabric leaves awkward, incongruent voids, venerable and attractive to fly tipping, misuse and crime. Spot Two Centre proposes to use Bethnal Greens boxing gym heritage to provide an active surveillance skin that watches From over theto gym boxing

In this spot, it is less road typology here but only the higher residence compared with housing in this area. the dead-end driveway and in-between through footpath for 7-8 storeies residence blocks are able to increase the crime rate. less strangers are on the street, meanwhile, 1 typical criminal dead-end driveway and two through footpaths to the park benefiting AXO DRAWING AND ELEVATION for the criminal. retreat routes

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Beth nal Green is always in contact with Box- ing. Nu m erous boxers, the m ost fa m ous one called Da niel Mendoza, have been associated with the area, a nd the local leisure centre, York Hall, re m ains nota ble for presentation of boxing bouts. Boxing was a way to release the in ner violence not only visually but also physically. To d istill this violence m e m or y of Beth nal Green, the new build ing would take the physical par t to control the cri m e issue at present. To be specific, when I visited Beth nal Green, one of the g y m activities, which m erged the boxing nowad ays, the r u n ning m achine has the fu nction of street sur veilla nce, at the sa m e ti m e, to apotheosize the violence m e m or y.

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129 crimes form 2016 to 2017 happened in spot 3.

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site, deterring crime and protecting community uses. Over time the outer cladding dissolves allowing the internal programmes to expand. The building is raised above the ground and polarised to either end of the site framing a new yard space for the arch occupiers. From back of house service to art

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Spot 2 62 crimes form 2016 to 2017 happened in spot 2.

This spot, which is between viaduct and a demolishing 3-4 storeies high building(a primary school behind), is a through footpath connecting two dead-end carriageways. The east side of footpath end is back of storage for garage. this street arrangement and buildings layout creats a narrow criminal spatial condition. offenders would flee through two sides driveway and carriageway. two side nearest car repair shops’ undesired sound would cover the criminal sound in a way.

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01-06 / Tiffany Zixin Yao S03, ‘The Bridging Hub’. Beyond a geographical divide the viaduct separates the socio-economically different wards of north and south Bethnal Green. The thickened boundary of the viaduct and a disused connection through provides the opportunity to coalesce arts, cultural, educational and religious programmes as a community hub strengthening the connection 100

between the wards. The fluid, continuous and curved spaces create 33 ambiguous and undefined thresholds accommodating different scales of occupation tied into the urban timetable of Bethnal Green.

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1. Construction of the Structure along the Yard. The assembly of the columns, beams and concrete slab floors. Pre-fab panels and facade panels are later installed.

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1. Construction of the Structure along the Yard. The assembly of the columns, beams and concrete slab floors. Pre-fab panels and facade panels are later installed.

4. After 20 years, it’s likely the industries related to the programmes the proposal holds will change. The flexibility of the structure can adapt to the change in requirements by rearranging the column and beam sizes. Technical industries might require officethe space, therefore ceiling height per roomsthe willproposal be reduced per room and more levels. of the 4. After 20 years,more it’s likely industries related to the programmes holds will change. The flexibility

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structure can adapt to the change in requirements by rearranging the column and beam sizes. Technical industries might require more office space, therefore ceiling height per rooms will be reduced per room and more levels.

3. Front Cross-section of the Building showing the activities and programmes within.

4. After 20 years, it’s likely the industries related to the programmes the proposal holds will change. The flexibility of the structure can adapt to the change in requirements by rearranging the column and beam sizes. Technical industries might require more office space, therefore ceiling height per rooms will be reduced per room and more levels.

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It’s important to consider that the industries that occupy the surrounding area might change over the next decade or two, therefore my structure should be able to adapt to the change in requirements of different programmes.

3. Front Cross-section of the Building showing the activities and programmes within.

4. After 20 years, it’s likely the industries related to the programmes the proposal holds will change. The flexibility of the structure can adapt to the change in requirements by rearranging the column and beam sizes. Technical industries might require more office space, therefore ceiling height per rooms will be reduced per room and more levels.

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3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and 3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and social club for mechnics and residents social club for mechnics and residents

4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents 4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents 5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents 5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents

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3. First Floor - Conference Hall for meeting between housing residents and social club for mechnics and residents

4. First Floor - Teaching rooms providing lessons and social care for residents 5. Second Floor - Private Allotments for Housing residents

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mechanics to service the next generation of cars and community spaces for local housing association residents. The buildings robust modular frame allows volumes to be reconfigured over time adapting to future demands in employment and residents organisations. 04

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01-04 / Harry Mortimer S02, ‘Pedway Plus’. The value of the ground is highlighted in the interwoven relationship between taxi repair, hire and storage businesses overflowing from the viaduct along Three Colts Lane. The project introduces a raised structure supporting future uses and businesses ancillary operations above the arches at the level of the station platform, releasing the ground

plane to expand the business operations below. The proposal becomes a piece of infrastructure that can be extended to connect into the surrounding network and plugged into other occupiers. A dialogue between the levels is established through framing views toward the interior space created between the pedway and viaduct.

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05-11 / Mariia Galiullina S02, ‘Brick Market’. The proposal is for a food and tool market that caters both for the community of car repair and mechanic businesses housed under the viaduct, DIY mechanics. The design and arrangement of the market stalls and roofs are used as a field of devices negotiating exchange between users within the market and its relationship with the neighbourhood. 1.Flower shop 2. WC 3.Tire shop 4.Car repairs 5.Viewing platform 6.Loading place 7. Storage 8. Car park 9. Vegetable stalls 10. Food stalls 11. Tool market 12. Bakery stalls 13. Bar

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THE MAIN SPECTACLE OF THE FACILITY IS A GRAND VOLUME DIRECTLY UNDER THE THE LARGER ARCH, DUG 7.5M BELOW GROUND LEVEL. WHAT WAS ONCE A HUMBLE SPACE HAS NOW BEEN ELEVATED TO THAT OF A CATHEDRAL. THIS SPACE IS TO PROVIDE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT USES. IT’S MAIN USE IS TO BE AN EXHIBITION SPACE, WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC TO DISPLAY WORKS THEY HAVE CREATED USING MATERIALS FROM THE FACILITY. ANOTHER USE COULD BE A RETAIL SPACE TO SELL FURNITURE AND OBJECTS MADE BY THE USERS OF THE FACILITY. IT COULD ALSO BE HIRED OUT FOR OTHER EVENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, DURING THE DAY IT COULD BE USED AS AN EDUCATIONAL CENTRE, HOSTING LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS, WHILST AT NIGHT IT COULD HOST A LARGE GATHERING FOR A PARTY OR CONCERT.

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10-16 / Tanavej Vejaphan S02, ‘Knowledge Sharing Academy’. The project investigates the potential for creating moments of intensity and interaction within an ambiguous series of interlocking spaces and volumes. The Knowledge Sharing Academy is linked to the surrounding network of schools and residential estates. Generated to be deliberately undefined it can accommodate

flexible use and adopt multiple meanings. The lightweight framed building straddles the viaduct encouraging exchange and movement across the site.

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01-05 / Jerick De Castro Seruelas S02, ‘Three Colts Children’s Gallery’. Three Colts Lane Children’s Gallery forms an addition to the surrounding network of schools and nurseries in Bethnal Green. The building forms connections though a series of openings and fissures. Amassed layers of materials built-up, added, overlaid and encrusted on the viaduct overtime inform the bricolage approach.

06-08 / Yibeijia Li S02, ‘Bethnal Green Community Kitchen’. Designed as a communal kitchen and dinning space it can be used everyday for the residents of the Bancroft Estate and for festival and religious gatherings for the local community. Connecting through the viaduct to the open space of Bethnal Green Gardens the buildings are staged within a landscape that curates visitors approach

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Studio Tutors Adam Nathaniel Furman Julika Gittner Stage 2 Students Sean Hamilton Amirali Kalantari Arina Kondrashova Minh Le Pham James Parkes Yu Ren Enija Skeltona Jhineil Wreight Zhicheng Yang Xing Yang Candy Yeung BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

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Studio 5 explores architecture – one typology at a time, year by year, site by site – as the spatial manifestation of identity and culture, both individual and collective, in the urban environment. 2017-18 was the year of the Skyscraper Highrises and skyscrapers are the typology of modernity. They have defined the romantic image of the metropolis from its very inception in the late 19th Century, and continue to embody the drama and tumultuous expansion that define our current era of re-invigorated urbanisation. They encapsulate the lofty human urge to free itself from the forces of gravity, whilst also symbolising the raw power of speculation and capital, and in the past, have represented the might of the state, and its ability to provide housing for the people. They are buildings which have complex and intricate relationships with the streets in which they are located, but they are also visual beacons, icons on the skyline that are read as markers of urban identity, signifiers of individual and shared values -or otherwise. They are highly defined machines of incredible efficiency, with tightly prescribed relationships of parts, but they are also amongst the most expressive of buildings forms, with their volumetric similarities generating endlessly comparable variations. “The facades separate artists from the hacks, the radicals from the conservatives, and the poets form the hired guns. They show us that the history of the skyscraper, which is also the history of this century and which is like so much of that history - is a search for identity.” – Ada Louise Huxtable, The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered London is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, one of the most connected, creative, globalised and diverse. It is colourful, full of stories, and peoples. Its cuisines span five continents, and its art comes in a thousand forms. Its architecture fails to ever represent this. In fact it never even tries. London is undergoing the second high-rise boom in its history, and Studio 5 set out to transform its towers into aesthetic beacons of London’s wild and brilliant diversity. Productive Exuberance sees Skyscrapers as potent agents of symbolic and aesthetic, as well as operative change. Rather than inward looking, hermetic tubes of commerce or privacy, the studio investigated bringing together the civic, the symbolic, and the profitable, within the same building envelope, looking at how towers can simultaneously be agents of profit, agents of public service, and agents of celebratory signification. “The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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01-09 / Roxane Baillet S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mind the Tower!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Placed on a border site between the City of London and Tower Hamlets, between the extreme speed of the finance industry and the slower paced smaller trades and residential areas of Tower Hamlets. One thing unites these two areas: they both suffer from an epidemic of loneliness resulting in substance abuse. This project bridges between these two worlds. The tower is both a physical and metaphorical bridge between the rich and the poor, white collar workers and the blue collar workers, 112

the City and Aldgate, the Corporation of London and Tower Hamlets. Mind the Gap! unites by bridging borders, lifestyles and cultures, using the 13 steps of a unique hybrid architecture to create a sense of togetherness. Separated internally into two towers in constant dialogue, the City and Tower Hamlets evolve through their journey as they rise, always seeing each other, and eventually meeting at the top, in the gardens of Valhalla where complete togetherness and mindfulness are achieved.

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01-07 / Sean Brown S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fashion Epicentreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. A tower which brings the entire fashion ecosystem together. From the silkworms that create the fibre for the textiles, to the fashion designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s themselves, all the way to the fashion critics at Vogue, this project is a radical proposal offering a permanent space for production to exist within the city of London, and be represented on the skyline. A skyscraping fashion epicentre, it challenges the notion of what fashion, from production to retail to design, could and will become. Fashion is a deeply influential and necessary part of culture, and should have a space which represents it as such. This tower 114

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provides space for experimentation at all levels which is enabled through the constant fostering of economic exchange. The facade serves as a visual emblem of these interactions and processes. Overlapping, intertwining, expressive textiles and garments produced within the skyscraper are used to generate the facade. This expression continually evolves and grows over time. The communities and individuals that participate in this trade will progressively take over the premises, adding their unique stories and aesthetics to the facade, leaving a strong ad permanent legacy for the area they were once a part of.

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01-06 / Daisy Lyu S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Arkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Ark is a radical proposal to bring the entire gamut of natural, animal, plant, pleasure and food-based processes and experiences back into the heart of the city, and onto the skyline, for everyone, in the most spectacular fashion possible. From petting zoos, to farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s markets, allotments, flowers markets, herbariums, slaughterhouses, community centres, pet centres, aquariums, veterinary clinics, playgrounds, educational areas, its all here, working with, and accelerateing tendencies already existing in the local area, with its thriving small group of community farms 116

and allotments. The form of the tower is a triumphant return to the stimulating image of the hanging gardens of Babylon, the tower of Babel, the coloseum and Roman aqueducts, forms that speak of ambition, endurance and pride in communal infrastructure, as well as hinting at the romance of nature, decay and ruins. The tower has been carefully crafted through an intense technical exploration of the flow of water (the building is a spiralling aqueduct, with water flowing to all parts from a reservoir-pond at the summit) and the material strength of concrete and masonry.

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01-10 / Minh Le Pham S02, ‘Leather Leather Lust Dust’. Taking the local area’s fashion and leathermaking tradition, this project proposes to harness London’s local and visiting wealth, and the burgeoning contemporary passion for crafted luxury items, and bring them together in one self-supporting experiential ecosystem that harnesses the city’s incredible wealth to support and grow ancient traditions in new and unexpected ways. The base is a carefully sculpted and spectacular public realm that creates new routes across the site, and generates thrilling views up through the

building. As guests arrive inside the retail area, they consult with local designers to create their own bespoke products. While the guest goes up the tower to the client hotel, their unique product makes its way up through the building in its spiralling production facilities, eventually being handed to the customer at the ceremonial roofspace. The facade was developed based upon an exhaustive exploration of the folding possibilities of leather, and then this was translated into a language of pleated anodised aluminium panels.

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01-04 / Sean Hamilton S02, ‘Dog City’. Dog’s are man’s best friend. They are scientifically proven to reduce loneliness, stress, depression, and even to significantly reduce levels and incidences of heart disease... London NEEDS more dogs, and some parts of the city are far more equipped for this than others. Aldgate has virtually nowehere for humans to rest and play with their animals, so what better than to institute a Dog paradise on a plot of land that is currently porposed to become just another collection of

brick-gridded luxury highrise apartments. A secret walled garden of rolling hills and play-pavilions undulates through the whole site, rising up and down to accomodate the various needed logistical service, parking, storage, waste and access, and lifts up to become a huge ramp that brings owners and dogs up into every part of the tower, which itself is a mixture of open-air and enclosed spaces of play, rest, medical care, community and training, the form of which has been carefully molded by studying its daylght effect on neighbours.

05-07 / Candy Yeung S02, ‘The Exotic Bazaar’. Building on Brick Lane and Aldgate’s heritage of street, covered, retail and wholesale markets, this project proposes to triumphantly bring back all kinds of markets into one building envelope. Carefully studying both the existing and lost markets of the area, and Hong Kong’s vibrant vertical market buildings, the Exotic Bazaar brings together a wholesale market, pop-up food stalls, fixed mall-type retails spaces, covered stall-markets and residential space, in a proud

megastructural expression of the vitality of London’s retail tradition, at all price points, and catering to all classes. A wide range of colours help accentuate and express across the city the building’s bustling atmosphere, with a range of different types of fritted and coloured glass having been developed through technical studies, and used to clad every shimmering, technicolour square inch of the tower.

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01-09 / Yu Ren S02, ‘The Aroma: Ambrosia’. Eating together is important. Brick Lane and Aldgate have a rich tradition of immigrant communities setting up numerous culinary enterprises that share and popularise their cooking traditions. This project proposes to extend this ecosystem vertically, to provide new space and infrastructures for the continued sharing of food cultures into the 21st century.

The beginning of the 21st Century has seen London’s ethnic diversity explode in a way rarely seen in an city on earth before, and this tower aims to be a catalystic container for spaces that foster the sharing, and entrepreneurial harnessing of, the multitude of food types, traditions, inventions, and ideas that are bubbling up in the multicultural city that is Lonodn in 2018.

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10-16 / James Parkes S02, ‘Hestia’s Skirt’. The United Kingdom has the smallest new households in square meters in the developed world. This project takes Hestia, the greek goddess of the home, as its guiding metaphor, and constructs a new typology of tower for London which is not private, and not public, but an agglomeration of different kinds of domestic and semi-domestic spaces, shared

and semi-private spaces, for families and individuals who wish to live more communaly, but also those have the potential to partake in an expanded range of domestic activities that are no longer possible in the home environment. Organised into “introvert” and “extrovert” villages of three floors each, the tower is lifted up creating a fabric enclosed, semi-concealed space of quiet public interaction.

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01-04 / Zhicheng Yang S02, ‘Seller’s Depot’. Aldgate East is at the junction between London’s most famous markets: Old Spitalfields Market, Brick Lane market, Sunday upmarket, Backyard Market, The Vintage Market and the Boiler House Food Market. Seller’s Depot is a combination of accomodation, storage and workshops for the sellersof all the markets in and around Aldgate. It is separated into 124

four parts, as reflected on the facade. An automatic shelving system is used for storage, creating a bric-a-brac display on the skyline. The workshop spaces are customizable to meet each marketer’s need. By facilitating marketer’s lives, and celebrating them in the cityscape, Seller’s Depot is contributing to the cultural development and integration of Aldgate, bringing communities together through trade.

05-08 / Xing Yang S02, ‘The TMB Tower’. The Top Middle and Bottom is a giant hi-tech disco-ball celebration of how an incomegenerating tower can contain, emphasise and spectacularise functions that are to the benefit of all local residents, with the whole footprint of the plot being turned into a civic plinth for city life to utilise, the middle being a sports centre for the local youth

community, providing dramatic juxtapositions of program, and the top of the tower being an unprecedented sky-amphitheatre for events, plays and performances. The form of the building has been sculpted by aerodynamic and environmental factors, moving dynamically in response to every gust of wind, turning the whole tower into a shimmering festival of light conditions. 125

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01-05 / Enija Skeltona S02, ‘Wonderlust’. A world for children and a place for triggering and fostering the imagination. There has been a trend over recent decades for children’s stories and spaces to be sugar coated to an extreme degree, with happy bright colours and candy-shapes, with all stories having happy endings. The enduring popularity of the brothers Grimm and other older tales, as well 126

as the aesthetics of Tim Burton, are that children respond greatly to the awesome, the strange, the subtly scary ad the mysterious Wonderlust creates a vertical fairytale children’s world that is full of wonder, and designed to be an intriguing and dark forest-themed system of spaces. It is the ultimate lighthouse of strange stories and endless play, inviting children to dream and imagine.

06-08 / Arina Kondrashova S02, ‘’Electropolis”. The car in the city has been demonised for some time now, but what if it were taken as a positive generator in the dense city centre, if cars were occupants in new multi-functional buildings that brought in from around the country in their cars, mingling with every program that makes East London such a dynamic and exciting zone.

09, 10 / Isabella Haddad Domingos S03, “Temple of Leaves”. Taking its cue from London’s great tradition of temperate greenhouses containing plants from around the world in delicate and considered architecture, the Temple of Leaves proposes a vertical garden with a series of filigree-covered zones cantilevered off of a central tower, each with flora from a different region of the planet. 127

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Narratives are a basic human strategy for coming to terms with experience, such as time, process and change. In Studio 6 we use storytelling to examine the context of the Thames Gateway and estuary region, focussing on the site of Canvey Island in Essex. The Thames Gateway describes an area stretching along the River Thames and Thames Estuary, spanning urban, suburban, brownfield and greenfield sites across three ceremonial counties. There has been a long and historically charted inequality in London’s development. To the east of the City of London, the River Thames becomes wide and hard to cross; the flat lands were reclaimed from marsh, making them susceptible to flood. Those communities who settled there lived adventurously and this idea of radical independence and freedom for individual forms of life remains strong in the area. Over time, the shifting shores of the Thames Estuary, the low-lying Canvey Island and parts of the Essex countryside have developed a strong identities and a layered history of cultural narratives. Canvey Island itself is a reclaimed island, built up by filling in parts of the surrounding water bodies, and made fit for habitation and production. In other words, Canvey Island is a deliberate construction. Amar focusses on the dynamic, Riparian landscape of tidal zones; his programme brings together the skills of the older and younger generations, through a programme of maritime and ecological education. The ecological fragility of the Estuary has also been explored by Alece. Chris proposes new version of the Essex ‘Plotlands’ targeted at a new wave of London exodus; his development includes a civic town hall which helps inhabitants learn to reuse materials to construct a new habitat. Ciel has considered the cultural specificity of the Jewish community in Canvey, and both Tang and Taro have been exploring leisure and entertainment facilities, layering pragmatic and cultural uses in lighthouses and parking structures. Roya has extended the London riverboat service from the centre of the city to the Estuary, utilising disused piers to create an artery of connectivity, while Zeena has studied urgent predictions for rising sea levels; her proposal accommodates leisure and hotel facilities, imagining the possibility of a habitable sea defence. Urban regeneration plans rely heavily on the ability to think about a place in a different way, to attract investment, residents, life. Our studio proposes the architect as narrator, engaging with the eclectic, multi-layered experience of the contemporary world – using films, exhibitions, books and buildings to project ideas for the future, and producing architectural propositions that respond creatively to these new stories.

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01-05 / Amar Sall S03, ‘Marina-Ville’. The concept of maritime is etched into the fabric of Canvey Island. Traditional nautical themes still resonate around Canvey, yet over the years, the impact has diminished and now fades into obscurity. Marina-Ville will change that. This proposal, aims to target the distancing generations and regenerate the Marina environment by reviving a forgotten community. Island seniors can help share knowledge of craft and history, through construction and archiving, teaching new skills to engaged youths. In turn, youths will help maintain the area, through 130

the management and development of new skills, helping run the area and preserve the “reviving” maritime tradition. This agenda aims to set up several spaces enforcing a generational bridge featuring Tidal Pool Classrooms (extracting educational potential of the natural environment), Boat and Mechanical Workshops (providing jobs and opportunities such as apprenticeships) surrounded by Tidal Social Spaces. Focusing on The Point of Canvey Island, the proposal will address making and learning within a natural and artificial landscape. 05

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This is the result of experiment looking at how minimal mortar could be used alongside waste material, such as broken bricks, to create an external wall that required less use of harmful or wasteful materials such as cement and concrete. The result resembles an almost ruin like finish and allowed me to see how using a wooden formwork to layer rubble and mortar would result in Air vents provide exits for a perfectly symmetrically sided 6 built up moisture and natural form using materials that are ventilation odd shapes and conventionally ropes provide tensile thrown away or sent to landfill. 7 Guy strength by stopping the ten from twisting

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01-08 / Christopher Wall-Hayes S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Canvey Wick Co-Operativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The Canvey Wick Co-operative builds on the heritage of Canvey Islands plotland history, in which poor Londoners who wished to escape the overcrowded and polluted city bought plots on Canvey Island to self-build. The Canvey Wick Co-operative attempts to recapture the radical self-build spirit of the original plotlanders through a master plan which creates affordable plots on a site which is dilapidated and unused, with the plan allocating space for selfbuild plots, community spaces, and essential infrastructure. 132

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01-04 / Zeena Jamil S03, ‘As the Sea Rises’. The project explores the unexpected reading of the built environment in order to deal with climate change. Set in the Thames Estuary in Essex, the project envisages a system of flood defences known as breakwater that perform multiple functions. In addition to Protecting the island from flooding,the breakwater is designed to catalyse a new form of waterfront occupation that would propose a new relationship between the islanders and their favourite seafront. The proposal

offers the prospect of restoring the native Canvey Island holiday destination through the inhabitation of the breakwater. The structure houses a hotel embedded within the defence system along side public facilities targeting tourists and native islanders. The hotel offers a unique experience to it’s visitors driven by the design constraints of the project : building architecture whiles till maintaining it’s defensive role in the water.

05-08 / Roya Edde S03, ‘Down by the Jetty’. The proposal focuses on the creation of a hotel program on the jetty for both the locals and the tourists of the Thames River. Proposing an extension of the riverboat services from the Woolwich station, it aims to make the jetty a new stop for the tourists and smoothly integrate them into the island. On an urban scale, the jetty becomes a tool for both exposure of the local community and local skills as well as a tool for integration of tourists into the island. The site becomes a

social hub reviving Canvey Island and making it more renowned on a larger scale. Echoing the existing decay site on water, the design of the project thus creates itself. Elements of architecture are synthesised,multiplied and created out of the existing site features. The program is divided into a system of spaces plugged into the jetty in order to integrate the new while preserving the old. The design of the hotel thus centres around building interventions centred in preservation through the use of plug-ins and material coherence.

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1.1 Many of us were taught how to fly a kites by a parent/ grandparents. This shows the programme of the design in action, where the young and old are interacting through the making and flying of kites.

1.2 The celebration of wind and its great potential for energy is evident on a beach. Could this be used to power the building?

1.3 fabrics and objects could be hung to blow and swing with the wind like a wind chime.

1.4 The facade could become kinetic. Wind could stimulate movements by hanging a canopy of shells for example (influenced by Ned Kahn’s wind Veil). This will also produce sounds/ chimes.

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2.2 Sound domes harnessing the water’s beautiful sounds (Influenced by the St Pauls Whispering Gallery, Richard Serras Whispering walls and the ‘listening ears’ in Dungeness).

2.3 ‘The Singing Ringing Tree’ by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu illustrates that there is a potential to the make the structure create its own sounds. Like an instrument.

3 Play 3.1 Make the building playful for both seniors and youths (image from XS architecture vs XL furniture by Worapong Manupipatpong)

3.2 Using natural forms to make the site a playground for all uses (influenced by George Mitchell’s climbing wall and Aldo Van Eyck’s post war playgrounds)

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4.1 Natural materials from the site, could br used to produce the structure and facade (influenced by Design studio Atelier NL use of sand from around the world to produce glass, Agar and Plasticity; seaweed packaging by AMAM) Morgane Shaban

4.2 In contrast to the surrounding industrial structures and harmonising with the site’s natural aspects this shows an organic form (influenced by Santa Fe, New Mexico’s traditional architecture, “Pueblo Revival”)

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01-05 / Morgane Sha’ban S02, ‘The Flying Project’. Through direct engagement with the community on Canvey Island, I discovered the wonderful potential it offered; to bring together the younger and older generation. Whilst uncovering the sites opportunities the project manifested into a space facilitating storytelling, learning and making. From the distinctive nature of narrative, the rich local stories of Canvey Island play an important role throughout the project and became of high value within the design. As the narrator of this story, I responded to the site and its conditions to inform the programme 136

as well as the design. Beaches are one of the few places that wind is celebrated; pin wheels, wind chimes, and of course kites. Many of us have experienced memorable moments shared with a parent or grandparent through the flight of kites. A kite workshop allows the youths an opportunity to learn different craft skills whilst tackling the growing issue of isolation of the elderly. This is a unique collaborative space where Canvey Island’s youths and elderly would be able to learn from each other and flourish within a new cultural platform.

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The myths and legends of Canvey Island was where this project’s journey started. Storytelling will also be the beginning of the kite craft process. The kite folklore, history, tradition, religion and superstition all played a part in the development of the kite as a indigenous art form influencing many cultures. Traditional tales speak of kites as divine scared instruments. Whether its local tales, personal experiences or kite history, this space will encourage the sharing of all stories. 2 designing From the surroundings, the people and the stories exchanged a design will form. This space should encourage creative thinking through hand drawing and computer drawing. The aerodynamics of the kite as well as its illustrated story will be designed in parallel to each other. 3 making While aerodynamic qualities should not be sacrificed the kites aesthetics have always been important for a kite craftsman. Pattern and decoration on paper and fabric is in itself art. Kite painting is a traditional art in Japan. Painting, dyeing, screen printing are some of the techniques that can be used to portray a story or simply create a pattern. 4 assembling The aim is always to make a lightweight structure. The basic essential materials used to do this have stayed the same for centuries; wood, fabrics or paper and string. After a frame is built, the covering is sewn or glued on and then brindled and flown with string. Modern materials can now be used to develop more efficient kites, such as plastic cloths and aluminium rods however this workshop will revert back to and celebrate the traditional ways of kite making. 5 flying Wooden Park and Thorney Bay beach are open windy areas to fly a kite. I considered how the design will not hinder this but celebrate this.

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F 01-05 / Holly Le-VarLittle S02, ‘A Walker’s Passage’. Nature hides Tewkes Pre-School behind the wall. Located in the northern marshlands of Canvey island and one of the stops along the 14.5 mile Benfleet Circular walking route, Tewkes Creek is mysteriously named “England’s little rainforest”. Even with 1,300 species, including 30 on the UK endangered “red list”, the site is surprisingly sparse, with more common sightings of drive-through eateries, oil refineries and dense housing. Fly tipping around these marshlands is crushing the nature and disrupting the minerals needed to preserve it. This presented an

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opportunity to educate incoming visitors and existing residents by shining a light on the precious wildlife hidden behind the wall. In the form of a “Walker’s Passage”, the programme of my final proposal encourages the inhabitant to take shelter via a series of navigational moments. Using the idea of nostalgically “passing through” and the comfort of rituals, 7 actions were applied to guide the user: Wash, rest, reflect, collect, exchange, plan and fill. The narratives of local typologies, poetry and found objects weaved into the facade aim to preserve a sense of imperfect place, and educate those inside.

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The Cost of Living in London 82 Percent Of Londoners don’t know their neighbours occupation.

Average cost for a two bedroom flat in east London is between 500 and 750 pounds a month.

The average 2 bedroom flat in London has only 32 meters squared of habitable space.

T h e Mo d e r n “C opy an d Pa ste” Hou s i ng E st ate “We move homes more frequently, spend a lot less time communicating face to face and are more cautious about who we welcome into our homes” - Martin Scott (Head of Churchill Insurance)

13 per cent of people said they distrusted, disliked or deliberately avoided people they lived next to.

51 per cent said they wouldn’t ask their neighbour for help with anything, while 70 per cent admitted they didn’t even know any of their neighbours’ names.

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Bedroom The upstairs master bedroom was modified by Dawn in-order to improve the meeting in the house. The Powers mainly use their wood powered fireplace to heat the house, burning wood that dawn collects from her job as the owner of a demolition company. By rearranging upstairs so that the chimney ran through the centre of the room it enabled for heat from the fire to also warm the bedroom.

Office Dawn and her Son, Connor, run the demolition business from home. To keep their work away from their rest she converted the unused garage into an office. This has enabled the expansion of the business and allowed her to hold meeting away from the house while not having to travel.

Balcony While working on a demolition job in 2017 Dawn noticed a balcony was being thrown away which she could fit to her house. She took it home and added it to her bedroom. This provided her with a view down her road to the sea-front. “Even in winter it brings a smile to my face.” The brightly decorated balcony is visible from the front of the house and defiantly expresses her character to the street.

Cactus House “When a friend in the community passed away she left behind this cactus. It had been in her porch ever since i had known her and it never grew any bigger. We took it in and put it in our living-room and within a month it was touching the celing! we decided to ask a local carpenter to build us an expandable greenhouse to keep it warm in the winter and leave room for it to grow.” This cactus is one of the first things you see from the street and lead to me knocking on their door. This is Roys Passion, gardening and DIY. It has enabled them to landscape and modify their house and garden.

Doors “when i first saw the house, before I brought it, I thought it looked like a mid-west American church so i took influence from that and tried to make the doors match. I think they make it feel homely and cosy.” The act of ducking through the low arched doors makes the house feel smaller and forms a very friendly and close family atmosphere.

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01-05 / Hayden James S02, ‘The Wall’. The sea wall defines Canvey from its marshy foundations. Dividing marsh from land, the wall creates an interesting condition where the island’s safety from the sea is dependent on a single architecture. Prominently the selfbuild/self-design architecture of Canvey uses traditional construction techniques and is ignorant to its condition making its context invisible from central Canvey. This is unlike many other examples of tidal inhabitation, where the architecture brings water into it’s vernacular. This project aims to produce an exemplar sustainable platform for 140

the islands future inhabitation which encourages continuation of DIY architecture and community while embracing Canvey’s aquatic nature for beauty and vernacular potential. By extruding the language of the sea wall into the marsh, the design rises houses, footpaths and streets above hightide lines and rising sea levels. Through the provision of utilities, foundations and circulation creating your perfect home becomes affordable encouraging long-term residence creating closer ties with neighbours. 05

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Caravan Park is a very interesting housing in Canvey Island, there is numbers of Caravan park around Island. The Caravan park which I choose located in south part of island, it close to the Seafront Walkway on Canvey. On the other side of the park is the Petrochemical industry site, which is most dangerous part of the island. It is kind of in between space in residence area and the industry area of the site. Although it is a caravan park, it still got lot of people living there. All the property on this park could for sell or rent. The price of this type of house is cheaper than the other type of house on the island.

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01-04 / Tang Xiao S03, ‘The Lighthouse’. This project rebuilds a landmark for Canvey island in Thorney Bay area. The new landmark located inside the river, connecting to the coastline by a pier structure. The building itself has several functions, a gallery space, outdoor activity space and viewing platform. Even more, the building has a tide pool. To remember the old lighthouse, on the top of the building is a light navigation structure. This navigation light could be visible in the most place cross both riverside and estuary. As the landmark located on west side of Thorney Bay area, it could see as

an attraction to encourage more people to discover the west side of Thorney Bay. The new landmark also offers a relax and activity space for the resident in the caravan park. Inside the building it has the commercial space which for the restaurant and gift shop. Also when they are leaving they can buy some gift and clam, oyster collects from the tide pool. It also can hold some exhibition from outside the Island. The Viewing platform gives a unique view of the Thames estuary, which could be attracting people come to visit the building.

05-07 / Hengmo Hu S02, ‘Canvey Island Hill’. In late 2016, the first family moved to Canvey Island Hill and they bought a big house there from Stamford, where Europe’s largest ultra-Orthodox Jewish community locates since 1800s. Till the beginning of 2018, 50 houses have been bought by Jewish families.Through spiritual space and activities, my proposal is to provide space with can make them together and to stay in the same place. Through reading space, gathering space and exhibition space and so on, the building is to create space for interactivities.

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01-03 / Bixuan Wang S02, ‘Welcome Station’. This is a Welcome station for traveling at Canvey Island which located at the Benfleet Station. From the result of interactive posters I have collected from Canvey, this location got the most feedback that means it is lack of relaxing space for people to use the waiting time. This Welcome station conclude Cafe, Lobby, Information reception, Canteen, Cafe making, Kitchen, Outside Terrace, Reading room and Quiet space for sleeping and relaxing. A part of the Welcome station is landing on the Eastern Heaven Creek that means the Creek will produce a

changeable viewing with rising tide. And another part of the Welcome station is landing on the ground with a bicycle and walking path. The entrance of this Welcome station is at the first floor that avoid the big amount of people traffic standing at the ground floor to influence the bicycle and walking path. This can provide a convenient environment for people to come and leave. The whole building is built by steel with circular structure. This provide a good visual aspect for viewing distant Canvey Island.

04-06 / Yuqi Huang S02, ‘Visitor Centre’. Based on the engagement strategy results and from interviews, over half of the local and tourist enjoys the seafront the most so that they spend lots of leisure time at the seafront. Therefore, my focus area is around the seafront. My site is located at the small front point where is on the beach and west to the paddling pool. It is clear to be seen from both the eastern and western beach that it can be spotted by the walkers easily. The site is facing the paddling pool and the connection to the surrounding environment is made when the moveable roof move

towards to the paddling pool, creating combinations of enclosure, open-air and framing of views according to position. My design’s aim is to offer the visitor the experience to enjoy and discover Canvey Island’s seafront landscape and identity in a different natural way. Moreover, the strategy is to reinforce and empower the sites characteristics, without damaging it. Depending on site’s position and surrounding facilities, the building is designed to adapt and blend in the natural space.

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‘The architect’s only option is to find a course for revolutionary praxis outside the traditional boundaries of his field.’ – Joan Ockman, Architecture, Criticism, Ideology, 1995 Studio 7 explores causalities between design and alternative political futures. We approach design as a creative and critical tool that connects social practices with building materials to imagine a future of social relationships, built on communication, and forge common goals to empower local communities, resisting their erosion and expulsion. This year’s brief asked the students to envisage new spatial tactics, arrangements and typologies that support cultural production related to radical creative practices. We looked at the specificities of local and international artistic groups that challenge social conventions and existing power hierarchies. Students were invited to take the neighbourhood of Brixton as their context, a diverse and multifaceted area of London with a long and exciting cultural history. The name of the area is synonymous with AfroCaribbean cultural practices, large housing estates, drug dealing and gangs, punk rock and reggae scene, social upheavals, political activism, pulsating markets and nightlife. Yet, the area’s vibrant ambience, the once cheap rents and good housing stock and even the areas notoriety have turned it into a prime development opportunity that threatens the local communities and cultural practices with segregation, increased rents and dislocation while the recent cultural practices and spaces like POP Brixton and Brixton Village are targeting the affluent new classes. While the local planning authorities ‘protect’ the diverse and multicultural character of the area, soaring housing and commercial property prices are forcing the low-income local population to move away, leading to protest demonstrations by numerous collective practices. Can culture build resilience? Is gentrification unavoidable? Can we imagine self-managed, non-hierarchical common spaces of cultural production? The students immersed themselves in Brixton, producing a group installation composed of physical models, in-situ interventions and videos. In order to emphasise the crossing boundaries between body, movement and space the students took part in a performance workshop. They investigated ways in which design can use the body as an instrument of thinking, sensing, drawing and sculpting space. The workshop challenged what is considered notions of the ΄normal’ and the ‘possible’ in design and spatial representation. The proposals on the following pages are cultural spaces built around art practices of social character, engagement and communities of artists; spaces that house radical cultural performances while being critically situated in the socio-political context of Brixton. Through this process, students are awakened and engaged in the process of discovering their own critical practice. Quinxue Wang S03, ‘A Happening Performance Factory’

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01-07 / Lucy Sky Moore-Clube S03, ‘The Brixton Carnival: A Pageant of Protest.’ This project is an architectural manifestation of the radical art of carnivals and protests, which is used to retain and amplify the unique idiosyncrasies of Brixton’s cultural practices in the face of biased, prejudiced and austere regeneration. It is a proposal which offers Brixon’s already prevalent activist voice a platform to 150

inspire, develop and produce a different form of protest which utilises the positive, celebratory nature of Brixton’s carnival history. The roots of carnival stem from a fight in the face of racism and slavery: carnival became a mode of protest. Again, it shall become this along the notorious Coldharbour Lane.

08-11 / Ben Bradford S03, ‘LEAK’. As a society we are processing more and more information into the digital world. Leak is a project that aims to re-engage people with the physical, to remove the filtration and expose the raw, detailed, emotive and even futile

information that the digital doesn’t know of. Leak takes you on a journey of discovery, exploration and exposure. Using poetry as its driving force, it aims to evoke the human and rekindle the relationship with others and ourselves.

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01-05 / Quinxue Wang S03, ‘A Happening Performance Factory’. Happenings, first used by Allan Kaprow during the 1950s to describe a range of art-related event, occur anywhere and are often multidisciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience. Urban public life was itself a kind of Happening. The design is aimed to propose a self-managed, non-hierarchical 152

performance space where artists and local youth collaborate together to produce art productions which are consumed by public outside Brixton. The loop of this economic chain is architecturally defined by oblique functionalism and cinematography ambience.

06-08 / Dalia Amellal S03, ‘Fight Club’. Fight club is a boxing club and drama therapy centre located on the roof of Southwyck House, Brixton. The project offers a safe place to channel aggressive temptations and impulses. The architecture creates a unity by combining the spaces in which these activities occur and playing with the exchange of emotional qualities and perceptions. Fight club

benefits the Brixton youthful community in particular, merging both programs in a derelict context; it constitutes a social hub that aims to rid inhabitants of negative impulses. The project seeks to unify the community of the estate through the implementing purpose and intrigue to the existing architecture.

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01-04 / SooYoung Bae S03, ‘The Zone Of Peace’. This project implements a steady change on anti-social behaviours to be decreased through the application of art therapy. The design of gallery should meet the requirements of planning permission in this premise and the targeted customers, more likely female adults who possess anti social behaviours. The construction of The zone 154

of Peace from a lean approach so that the tasks of solving learning difficulties should be maintained proactive participation such as full efforts from art therapists and raising government funds. After all, this project will encourage to find more practice ways of reducing the level of anti-social behaviours in Brixton.

05-09 / Belis Memik S03, ‘Trust Exchange’. This proposal will push the boundaries of our existing system, proposing a new currency that is void of class systems and privilege. In this talent exchange market, currency is not a valid way to pay, you can only make exchanges happen through exchanging your talents (skills) and knowledges. The market was removing the aspect of currency and educating the

creative sector indirectly, preventing a creative diaspore and tackling with the two main issues on site. The design of the market purely reflects the idea giving its users the right context and the right tools to create (exchange).

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01-03 / Shijia Huang S03, ‘The Weaving Theatre’. The Weaving Theatre is an atypical theatre which include local shops and performance space. The whole project was developed with the focuses of gender issue, trauma, informal therapy, movement etc. The building includes the spaces for different people and can satisfied with different requirement. From public to private, from 156

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quiet and intimate to open and sharing spaces. The theatre was designed based on a process of healing programmatically spatially. Weaving is a service in hair salon for men or women to make their hair look better, which at the same time represents the process of “weaving” the life, to make their life better.

04-07 / John Langran S03, ‘SW9 Symbiotic Brixton’. The aim of this project is to create synergy between two communities that coexist in Brixton through acts of both play and work. The two communities consist of new “hipster” people who have moved to Brixton within the past 10 years and the youth that live on the estates that are susceptible to being enticed into gangs. These groups

were identified because of the gentrification that has been taking place in Brixton over the past 10 years causing a growing divide between the two groups. This in turn makes the youth from the estates more likely to turn to other ways of feeling empowered. This is also Symbiotic Brixton aims to accomplish.

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01-05 / Brian Yue S02, ‘Brixton Writer’s Tea Club’. Taking form as a tea house this project focuses on creating a new urban oasis above bustling activities in the heart of Brixton. Following the axis of Electric Lane, the 5 pavilions house a collective of writers for the production and propagation of their work. These pavilions are categorised in function and form, each having a visual and spatial relationship with

each other, linked together to form a visual story arc. The program mashes together workspace with leisure space to produce a new situation for the exploration in storytelling and writing. This creates an environment of Brixton’s multicultural make up and entrenched through the production of literary works.

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06-09 / Laura Robles S02, ‘Brixton In Progress’. This project focuses on approaching design as a creative and critical tool that aims to connect the material with social practices imagining a future of social relationships. Through dancing we find a resource of social inclusion, this helps to know other cultures and understand them, avoiding discrimination a racism. Spatially this Dance School is

conceived as a fluid building where its curves imitate the movements of a body dancing and at the same time guides you intuitively to the different areas.

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01-03 / Marta Escribano Cuñat S02, ‘Brixton Designers Also, this project creates a public space in the form of a piazza, as Collective.’ The objective of this project is to create a space to bring well as an exposition space. These are free open spaces that have no together the community with local artists and at the same time join rules and everyone is invited to. artists and designers to make collaborations between each other. Art would be a medium to fight against crime, violence and abuse and transmit a message.

04-06 / Jessica White S02, ‘CrickEAT: A Brixton Bug’s Life’. This project aims to uncover the neglected corners of Brixton, introducing a new way life and a new way of eating into the heart of the community. Where the locals can get hands on in the making, it isn’t the usual livestock that they’ll be rearing. By integrating the consumption of insects into their lifestyles as a primary source of

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protein, the people of Brixton will learn how these tiny bugs, will be saving the earth, one leg at a time.

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01-04 / Adam Muscat S02, ‘Softly Softly Brixton.’ Softly Softly Brixton is a psychedelic relaxation space in the heart of Brixton - St Matthews Church. It aims to help re-introduce past soft drug policies which were implemented within Brixton to relax the laws on drugs such as cannabis and other natural substances.

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05-08 / Lou Ducasse S02, ‘The Path’. The Path is a public performance space to empower the local community of Brixton through music performance in an inside and outside relational space. Enhancing creative opportunities and generating a path for experimental rhythm.

09, 10 / Agata Dydak S02, ‘Leftover Pavilion’. The building actively responds to the problem of poverty in Brixton area. Based on he pay-as-you-feel idea, the concept creates community symbiosis, where customers can determine the price in correspondence to their income.

11, 12 / Tiphaine Varigas 02, ‘Listen to the Toaster: The Importance of Rituals.’ This project focuses on rituals, how they are engrained in every day’s life and how twisting our perception of them can lead to a whole new perspective. Cooking and the sound of making food are vital to a person’s life. Scaling up those rituals is what is radical.

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Lonely City Anthony Staples, Daniel Marmot Studio 8 Tutors

Studio Tutors Anthony Staples Daniel Marmot Stage 2 Students Huda Al-Yaqobi James Annis Camillo Cavarretta Lawrence Del Rosario Esma Duzgun Beata Halka Weining Luo Leena Sahloul Izabel Sigaud Jiaqi Sun Yichen Yang BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

Stage 3 Students Orange Cheng Filippos Georgeoglou Shu-Minh Hung John Moran Jennifer Nibbs Maria Papadimitriou Dahye Yi Thank you: David Knight, Sam Potter, Suzanne O’Connell, Emma Tubbs,Jane Hall, Alan Beveridge, Rosalind Peebles, Ruth Lang, Jay Morton, Frank Filskow, Kathryn Timamins, Carlos Jiminez, Stuart McKenzie

Cities offer unparalleled opportunities for the intermingling of people from different cultures and backgrounds, for the cross fertilisation of ideas, for creative expression and moments of communal celebration. They are places of chance encounter, of excitement, awash with stories, surprise and mystery, layered with history. Yet increasingly they are also a cause of isolation, heightened by the presence of so many others in close proximity. Cities can be places of financial exclusion, of social anxiety and cultural alienation. In London, as our population expands, we are living in ever closer proximity to our neighbours yet we are increasingly disconnected emotionally. It is a very distinctive urban phenomenon to be lonely in a crowd. This year, Studio 8 explored architectural responses to the problem of loneliness in the city. Projects focused around Poplar, a marginalised residential pocket of East London. Set against the shiny towers and glossy developments of Canary Wharf, we set about questioning the stereotype of an economically peripheral and socially marginalised inner city, aiming instead to celebrate the locality; its chaotic range of histories and programmes, ethnicities and narratives, economic and urban ecologies. In Project 1, students were invited to delve into Poplar, unearthing stories from its eclectic urban fabric and examining its rich history and potential future development through the production of large-scale detailed line drawings. These highly site-specific pieces of observational research formed the background to Project 2, proposals for co-living communities that explore the potential for shared facilities and the opportunities for architecture to provide the necessary frameworks for individuals and communities to flourish. Each project considers the potential of co-living as a response to growing loneliness in the inner city and the increasing strains placed on our mental and physical well-being. In Studio 8, we are concerned with the radical potential of building as an opportunity to respond to economic, social and political change. Architecture is paradoxically both a reflection of changes in society, and a counterpoint to the speed and transience of the modern digital age. An app may flourish and disappear within the time it takes to produce a building. Our built environment bridges fashions, outlives individuals and survives several generations of technological change. In the information age, architecture plays an increasingly important role in mediating between the abstract world of ideas and the concrete world. We see the craft of buildings as inextricably linked to the production of culture. Buildings reflect the spirit and ideals of the society in which they are created. If architecture is a built embodiment of our wider societal values, what do today’s cities say about our values in the 21st century? MALAM GARDENS

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01-06 / Orange Cheng S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Peach Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. A co-living community for visually impaired artists, creating a series of multisensory spaces to accommodate and celebrate the creative occupants. Colour is used to signify the changes in materials and surfaces to help guide the user; from the public plaza at ground level, into the sunken public gallery, up to the living area and bedrooms. 166

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canal, past Victorian terraces, post-war estates and modernist masterpieces, into Chrisp Street Market, across the A12 and finally emerging amidst the glass towers of Canary Wharf. Each student was invited to identify a fragment of the urban environment. We aimed to produce a series of individually crafted observations, represented through writing, photography and detailed line drawing.

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parents, providing space for communal eating, safe playspace, quite retreat, sleeping and washing. 08 / Lawrence Del Rosario S03, ‘The Artist Colony’. Accommodation and studio space designed for artist residencies. Taking advantage of the green parkland setting, two blocks are arrange in an L-shape around an inner courtyard, maximizing on natural light and controlled views.

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02 / Maria Papadimitriou S03, ‘Asylum Seeker’s Garden’. A temporary home for asylum seekers where the garden and its plants are the permanent residents. Planting, gardening and cultivation are encouraged as therapeutic shared activities within the sheltered walls of the multi-occupancy proposals.

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02, 03, 04, 06 / Weining Luo S03, ‘Shared Retirement Living’. A home for the elderly on the edge of the Poplar Recreational making process Ground. Communal spaces at ground level are conceived tomodel mediate between the park and a quite semi-private interior courtyard garden. Above, the living accommodation includes balconies and shared entrances providing moments for neighbours to talk and live together.

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07 / Yichen Yang S03, ‘The Yang People’. A dense high-rise typology for student housing in Poplar which uses glass facades, shared access galleries and communal facilities to encourage face to face engagement between its residents.

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01-06 / Izabel Sigaud S03, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Dining Room for Poplarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. A communal dining room for Poplar located opposite Chrisp Street Market and alongside the DLR rail lines. A giant roof provides shelter and creates a landmark in the urban setting, beneath which a landscaped public plaza provides a home for the communal life of the local area centred around the growing, eating and sharing food.

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Introduction

Contextual Studies

Shumi Bose Contextual Studies Co-ordinator

Co-ordinator Shumi Bose Stage 1 & 2 Tutors Shumi Bose Francesca Dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aglio Konstantinos Kizis Sabrina Puddu Alex Warnock-Smith Francesco Zuddas

Guests Mike Althorpe Richard Wentworth Tom Wilkinson

Contextual Studies is interested in revealing the concepts and strategies behind the appearances, understanding design as the product of complex systems of relations between different cultural layers. These systems are tightly connected to broader societal and planetary issues, and our dependence upon mechanisms of exchange that condition the conception and production, experience and understanding of design. This strand of the course supports students in exploring the ways in which we derive meaning in and from architecture. Through a thematic exploration of history and theory, students consider the contextual forces that shape architecture as the product of a specific zeitgeist, from the past to the present. Yet Contextual Studies is not simply a didactic study of the historical past; rather it aims to provide students with the intellectual equipment, research skills and analytical tools to understand the relations between cultural, social and political contexts, and architectural production. During the first year, students are introduced to key historical eras, concepts and themes, from the origins of civilisation, through Classical antiquity, the emergence of the architect as a professional figure, to the concerns of industrialisation. This is accomplished through a programme of wide-ranging thematic lectures in the first term, and a strong focus on the rich context of London in the second term, explored through series of guided walks, exhibition visits, seminars and film screenings. Students are encouraged to develop primary observation, secondary research, visual presentation methods, academic writing and verbal debating skills. The second year of Contextual Studies sees a definite focus on the 20th and 21st century discourses in architecture, that is to say, the theoretical and social paradigms which continue to shape the world around us today. An intensive programme of lectures presents canonical buildings and figures from 1850 to the present day, as well as radical, speculative and theoretical developments. Buildings, publications, artworks and other manifestations of architectural production are recognised as vital components to a broad interrogation of disciplinary discourse. Students also engage in close-looking historiographical studies of a range of critical texts, in conjunction with specifically relevant architectural projects, thus developing confidence in discussing complex theoretical positions.

Lectures and debates allow the cohort to critically assess buildings in light of the disciplinary and cultural discourse around them, analysing, comparing and challenging historical narratives, particularly in written form. Beyond historical fact, Contextual Studies sessions are concerned with the propositions around architectural narratives and polemics: who makes these, what and how are their agendas set forth, and what analytical tools can we use to address their impact on practice today? The third and final year of the course gives each student the opportunity to crystallise and aspect of theoretical and critical research, in the form of a substantial written dissertation.The dissertation allows students to stake a position as a practitioner: demonstrating thorough research, interrogating history and theory, contributing original analyses and culminating in the production of an object of unique and individual pride.

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Dissertation Tutors Allan Atlee Eleni Axioti Shumi Bose Oscar Brito Tom Dyckhoff Sabrina Puddu Alex Warnock-Smith

Architecture does not exist in isolation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it is contingent upon a set of relationships within contexts and cultures. Regardless of scale or period, architecture has an indissoluble relation with the culture in which it is produced, and this implies a relation with politics, sociology, philosophy, economics and technology, which may be more or less explicit.

Key to the success of each dissertation is the identification of an astute and compelling research question: these are neither exhaustive narratives nor indulgent polemics, rather they aspire to be academically rigorous contributions to contemporary and forward looking architectural discourse. Self-selected by the individual students and guided by a specialised team of dissertation tutors, topics include an exciting and urgent range of spatial concerns, across various global, political, cultural, socio-economic and aesthetic contexts of architectural production. From intuitive and impassioned beginnings, final year students will progress through the development of theoretical frameworks, historical studies and the selection of visual and supporting materials, to articulate their arguments and to present them as a structured, well designed, formatted and rigorous piece of writing. As the climax of undergraduate studies in architecture, it is deeply satisfying to see students produce a spectrum of architectural dissertations which represent the emergence of highly individual, confident new voices and positions, across a future cohort of spatial practitioners, makers and thinkers. The questions they raise and explore are, at their best, thoughtful, provocative, sincere and exciting contributions to contemporary architectural discourse.

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Adrian Peng He Residential burglary and the civic-spatial configuration: an investigation

Taekun Cho The diversity of contemporary architecture

Shijia Huang How can residential architecture foster a sense of belonging?

Belis Memik Urban planning in Istanbul: local definitions of neoliberalism and alternatives for the future

Daisy Lyu How would a centralised model allow for a more equitable growth of Beijing?

Emily Lok Y See How could Hong Kong continue its development using mixed use strategies? Dahlia Subasi Ageing in the city Zixin Yao Co-Living systems

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Jennifer Nibbs Rethinking transparency

Sky Moore-Clube Out of Context: 1:1 scale architectural preservation in the city Sersah Kombos What can contemporary city design learn from the Ghost City phenomenon Riichiro Yamamoto A wall between Human and Nature Dahye Yi From children: Architecture in Denmark Rafaela Zincone Albieri A tool to design the self

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Valentina Antollini The influence of computational processes on decision making in architectural design

Ziyang Dong What are the values of remaining Hutong districts in contemporary Beijing?

Sarah Aulombard Forensic Architecture: from destruction to reconstruction – an archaeology of the present

Roya Edde Ruins, root shock and genius loci in post-conflict cities Rafael Garcia Turegano Cities by people, for people Alexia Iborra Wicksteed A broken dream, new possibilities

Filippos Georgeoglou The spirit of Cycladic vernacular architecture

Alba Imeri Cultural resilience in the city: reinventing a city of conflict and hope

Marie Le Rouzic Living Architecture

Zeena Jamil Planning coexistence

Keun Lee Changing Architecture: the fourth industrial revolution and the impacts of Artificial Intelligence in the architectural field

Shutong Lin Community resilience in Seven Sisters Mariam Madi Does the Israeli occupation of Palestine use architecture as a political weapon of colonisation?

Belen Toker Beauty Machine

Maria Papadimitriou Participatory architecture and social resilience

Ash Zul Parquear Power Struggle

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Tanit Cabau Wolf Vernacular Architecture and the Balearic Islands: a reflection, a thesis, a claim, an analysis

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Dalia Amellal New social condensers Roxane Baillet How not to kill your chess partner with an ice axe Cinla Deger Fluctuated by Politics Ophelie Prevesianos The Grand Paris: Spectacle or reality

Jiesoo Shin The impact of Parametricism on the environment Vivian Zhao The obsolescence of Carchitecture

Fern Burintaragoht Selective Memory: future possibilities for urban reconstruction in the contemporary city Orange Ziwei Cheng Castle of dreams: the authenticity and purpose of fantasy architecture Niall Coleman High Rise: the only problem? Isabella Hadid Domingo Permeable boundaries: an analytical framework of life within the São Paulo peripheries

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Taro Sakamoto Adaptive architecture: How we could relate to the world we live in

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Roshna Hassan Reflections on high rises: thestigma surrounding high-rise towers Shu Ming (Annie) Hung An investigation on the role and impace of culture-led urban regeneration in Bilbao, London and Taipei John Moran The urban countryside & the rural city Chris Wall Hayes The British and Architecture: a study of national identity and architecture in Britain 1951–1909

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Sooyoung Bae Socio cultural spaces of gentrification: a reading of urban revitalisation in London Sean Brown Architecture of monstrous men Brenda Chang Sense in a quality of life

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Xiang Ding The ritual space of Jewish communities John Langran Architecture in concert Louis Lupien Are great streets romantic streets? Amar Sall Visions of the future in Blade Runner Qinxue Christina Wang Art museums in the late 20th century: mediating the connection between art and its audience

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Technical Studies

Adrian Robinson Technical Studies co-ordinator

Co-ordinator Adrian Robinson Stage 1 Tutors Ruth Chislett Nick Francis Ciaran Malik Honore van Rijswijk Ajay Shah Oliver Stross Ashley Thomas Stephan WassermannFry

Technical Studies in Stage 1 is comprised of two major assignments. A case study component allows for primary observation of existing structures in London, enhancing analytical skills, building familiarity with the core principles of building technologies and promoting an understanding of the successful integration of best design principles. Students are asked to determine the rationale behind building form, site location, use of materials and construction arrangements.

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Stage 2 & 3 Tutors Jeffrey Blaylock Matthew Duckett Orla Kelly David Knight Lottie McCarthy Michela Mangiarotti Greg Nordberg Grace Richardson

Technical Studies operates a dedicated unit of study across all stages, while also integrating closely within all aspects of learning, including studio and contextual work. A focussed, progressive curriculum across three years provides students with a deep insight into the qualities of human environment and material culture. A combination of lectures, practical seminars and workshops allows for a guided and dedicated study of materials, structural behaviours, environmental analyses and construction detailing as part of a substantial grounding in architectural technologies.

This is followed by a detailed technical site analysis which is first developed through contextual studies and making exercises, integrating theoretical and practical knowledge. Students produce a report on sites selected in the locality of Kings Cross, addressing solar orientation, sound and wind profile and micro-climatic effects. This is followed by an analysis of the material context, environmental strategies and construction modelling of their situated design proposals. Students in Stage 2 develop a strong sense of integration of technical studies within their design work. Looking at structural and material technologies across a set of cultural contexts, students carry out precedent studies combined with 3D visualisations, before developing detailed individual site analyses for their own projects. The site analyses involve an investigation of tectonic and environmental factors through a phased sequence of activities: initial analysis, hierarchy and integration. The final technical designs are refined through a 1:50 sectional model to show the constructional development. Detailed and specialised drawings are used to demonstrate structural behaviour and environmental performance. The main focus of Stage 3 studies is a technical thesis where the students develop a theoretical perspective on a technical subject, related to specific areas of interest in their design project. Students begin with explorative research, which is refined into a hypothesis. Such explorations encourage students in developing critical positions for their design work in relation to materials, tectonic form and environmental control. The students are encouraged to be explicit in their research methodologies so that can clearly articulate an iterative, research-led design processes. Alongside dedicated lectures, studio teaching also instigates a strong lead for and integration of technology. This produces design proposals with a depth of thinking and improved clarity in their technical resolution, allowing materials, tectonics and environmental systems to relate more closely to the overriding social agendas in their designs.

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07 / Laurene Lucy S03, ‘The Ballade’. 08-10 / Sabina Balcaityte S02, ‘The 2 Seconds Gallery’.

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Professional Practice

Professional Introduction Practice Gregory Ross Professional Practice Co-ordinator

Co-ordinator Gregory Ross Stage 1 Tutor Stuart McKenzie Stage 2 Tutor Gregory Ross Stage 3 Tutor Gregory Ross

Stage 1 Professional Practice is an introduction to the profession of architecture. Students begin this unit by asking what it means to be a professional, discussing concepts such as the role and agency of the architect. Students are also introduced to more specific professional concepts such as codes of conduct and duties of care, creating individual codes based on their personal experiences. In Stage 2, students examine the professional landscape in more detail including an analysis of the regulatory context – the planning process, Building Regulations, health & safety – as well as learning about professional organisational structures. The dialogue between the profession and studio work is maintained and students develop an understanding of ethics, conduct and professional standards in more detail. Relevant concepts are applied and further queried through design work; this evidenced in the submission of a comprehensive professional report that accompanies their studio output. In Stage 3, students begin to plan for a future in practice developing and refining their previous understanding, further adopting an individual position as a designer and further synthesising this critical position with their creative process and outputs. Students apply learning to both academic work and their emerging professional profiles. The RIBA Mentoring Programme is an important feature of the final year, providing students with the opportunity to shadow an architect in a London-based practice. This introduces students to the professional contexts they are likely to encounter on their year out, encouraging them to build relationships and a vision for their professional development following graduation. A warm and sincere thank you, from students and faculty alike, to all the practices to have accommodated and supported our students in their journey. Critical Practice: Architecture and Professional Experience This year, we are launching a part-time year out course, which is designed as a bridge between BA Architecture (RIBA Part I) and M:ARCH Architecture (RIBA Part II). The course provides Part I graduates with a Professional Studies Advisor to validate Professional Education and Development Records. The course also consists of a short series of evening lectures, which will help students contextualise their experience by looking at the creative and regulatory processes of the architectural profession, examining the circumstances in which architectural projects are created and developed in terms of practical, legal and ethical challenges.

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We treat all of our BA students as spatial practitioners from their first day. Accordingly, Professional Practice is a space for students to reflect upon their own studio output whilst developing a parallel understanding of the professional landscape.Students call upon the CSM Spatial Practice Manifesto - which sets out the spatial, social and political agendas of the overall programme – as a flexible framework. around which they make formative investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of the profession. Our students engage critically with the manifesto, questioning the norms of the existing architectural and spatial practice and going on to contribute to the profession in diverse ways. Collaborative work is integrated across our curricular activity: in everyday studio activity, in explicitly collaborative projects such as Making Week, as well as through extra-curricular Live Projects. Professional practice activities call on students to consciously reflect on and further develop their collaborative working practices both within and beyond traditional disciplinary limits.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Train us to practical power, make us great builders and adventurous experimenters.â&#x20AC;? RIBA Journal Vol 24, 1916 p256 Cited in Rubens G (1986) William Richard Lethaby, The Architectural Press

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Making Week

Gregory Ross Making Week Co-ordinator

Co-ordinator Gregory Ross Guest Makers Andrew Friend, Carlotta Novella, Jeffery Lambert, Juan Montero, Benjamin Perrot Studio 1 Tutors Ashley Fridd, Gregory Ross Studio 2 Tutors Oscar Brito, Clio Capelle

Studio 4 Tutors Mo Woonyin Wong, Christopher Thorn Studio 5 Tutors Adam Nathaniel Furman, Julika Gittner Studio 6 Tutors David Chambers, Kevin Haley Studio 7 Tutors Orsalia Dimitriou, Dejan Mrdja Studio 8 Tutors Daniel Marmot, Anthony Staples Making Week Blog Dalia Amellal at www.makingweek. myblog.arts.ac.uk Thank you: Alex Warnock Smith for his support and a good critical eye; Dr. Mel Dodd, and the Spatial Practices Programme for financial, material and general support; Pete Smithson and his team in 3D Large workshops, specifically Mark Laban and Savvas Papasavva for CNC support with 1:1 modelling & fabrication; William Dickinson and all in the Digital Fabrication Bureau for great support with 1:6 and 1:15 scale modelling; Karina Lee for excellent administrative and pastoral support. 212

Second and third year BA Architecture students, working in their vertical design studios, were asked to design and make prototypes for a single pavilion to house all the design studios for the Degree Show – as well as a system of for the display of work, tailored for each studio space. In keeping with the design approach for Making Week, students started the week working from the detail, modelling a constructional joint at 1:1 scale, and then working up to 1:6 or 1:15. Students were also challenged to work within certain constraints, from material to technical and environmental. All structures were designed and built in sustainable softwood ply, using timber connections wherever possible and considering an easy, glue-free system of assembly and disassembly. Digital fabrication was kept to an intelligent minimum, as well as general machine time, energy use and waste. Re-use, transportation (sizes being restricted to fit a standard van) and storage were also key considerations in evaluating each proposed design.

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Studio 3 Tutors Sylvie Taher, Inigo Minns

Making Week is an intensive, immersive and celebratory event in the middle of the academic calendar: a hands-on, 1:1 scale collaborative design and making project involving MA and BA Architecture students across all years in the Spatial Practices programme.

Fabrication was hybridised such that digital tools were used for complicated and repetitive elements, demanding a higher degree of accuracy whereas traditional analogue carpentry techniques could be used for larger elements. Relative values of skills and technology are contrasted and evaluated through practical experience. The eight design studios work with guest tutors and instructors, designing and making in the north end of the College’s internal ‘street’ and in the 3D Large workshops. Making Week is a highly collaborative, demanding and visible exercise, an almost carnivalesque event which on the final day culminates in a street full of large-scale architectural fragments, a review, a party, and four-day exhibition of the work produced.

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As a transitional junction in the middle of the academic calendar, Making Week in Stage One provides students with an opportunity to translate, in collaboration with industry practitioners, the more academic site readings, mappings and surveys undertaken in studio through the application and development their practical and workshop skills. In one intensively focused, hands-on week, the understanding of the constructional reality of a series of sites around Kings Cross â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which also provide the location for design projects that term â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is translated into a series of large scale sectional models, from which to explore propositional designs and relationship to context. Calling upon newly acquired skills exploring the potential of the workshop facilities available at Central Saint Martins, the process questions the world we see around us, how we might best explore and represent it, and what techniques are most applicable to the purpose. BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

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The research, design and construction process is developed through exploring considerations of coordination, collaboration, communication, project programming, efficient consultation, and presentation, in much the same manner as would be undertaken in the environment of a professional practice. Making at scale not only enables the creation of some spectacular design tools, but also pushes beyond the surface to provide a greater depth of understanding to the physical world at large.

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What began as an academic project for students of Central Saint Martins’ Spatial Practices Programme has been realised as a civic space in the heart of central Croydon. Croydon’s College Square One of the outcomes of “Transient Assemblies”, a curricular project developed by Stage 3 during the academic year 2016-17.

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The academic environment nurtures students and provides a safe space within which to explore and test creative freedoms. However, in preparation for the professional sphere of employment, students on BA (Hons) Architecture are often given the opportunity to participate in Live Projects. Live and Sponsored projects arise from collaborations and partnerships which Central Saint Martins and the University of the Arts London (UAL) is able to negotiate with commercial and industrial partners, many of whom approach the college in the hope of working with some of the most exciting young creative minds on innovative and creative solutions to real life problems and ongoing projects. Such collaborations can yield programmes that are presented to students either through curriculum briefs – worked out in the studio, and intended for the full cohort – or through extra-curricular projects, run on weeknight evenings and outside of programmed hours. Projects range from the production of research for charitable organisations, to designing new retail experiences for food or fashion brands. Live Projects, then, give students a varied range of unique opportunities to apply their ideas and skills – largely confined within the academic realm to scale models and speculations – to existing, real-world design problems with genuine commercial clients. They are exposed to industry expertise, protocols and challenges; they receive expert feedback which differs vastly to that given by tutors and fellow practitioners; they experience at least some of the constraints of the professional realm: live projects may include concerns around absolute timeframes and budgets, client-facing exchanges and not least, a sense of responsibility in balancing the obligations of live projects against the priorities of academic studies. During the year 2017-18, students on BA (Hons) Architecture have worked with Croydon Council, Space10, LATRA and Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH); previous collaborators and clients include Bouygues, Bloomberg, Crisis, Google, Camden Council and Sephora, among many others.

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Tutors Alex Warnock-Smith Jona Piehl Tom Dobson Andrew Belfield Group 1: Subscription Neighbourhood Josh Mallins (MA Architecture) Ivy Wong (BA Architecture) Junlan Zhang (MA Narrative Environments) Orange Cheng (BA Architecture)

Group 3: Guest House Holly Le Var (BA Architecture) Janila Castañeda (MA Narrative Environments) Mark Freeman (MA Architecture) Rafael García (BA Architecture)

Through a team-based approach, students got crucial insight into current housing issues affecting Londoners and first-hand experience of drawing on the multi-disciplinary skillset required when working with real clients. Additionally, each team was required to perform and then draw upon situated social research to understand the needs of young people in Forest Gate. Mixed teams of students and Spatial Practices staff worked together to investigate and propose a range of concepts for the site, adjacent to a new Crossrail station. Each scheme was chosen to represent a typical peripheral neighbourhood offering the potential for affordable co-living; the project culminated in an exhibition of design proposals held in December 2017. The project, with its relatable and urgent concerns, had much resonance with several studio briefs, while the friction of a real client and critical comments from industry professionals provided valuable real-world testing for the students’ innovative design strategies.

welcome to forest gate!

today: film club screening (c1) imparted by magnolia

youth center (c1)

community garden (c2)

street market (c3)

lecture series: preserving cultural heritages imparted by magnolia

textiles workshop imparted by jamie

arts trail led by magnolia

book club led by amanda

beginners garden workshop imparted by magnolia

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CommunicARe help us find morris

magnolia’s cat is missing since last week.

anyone looking for a babysitter? + info here

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join our christmas market!

food, crafts, and live music!

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Here is where the guest house model expands into the wider community. Promoting an incentive for people to engage, weekly/monthly activities and event schedule will be displayed in the form of a facade. This way, a network is formed at a greater scale and partnerships are made between those that would not otherwise meet.

Every symbolic human accomplishment is the result of people working together. With the possibility of being placed in locations around the community, the pod consists of three spatial components (c): learning exchange, peer-to-peer and kick-start. These can be used simultaneously or in isolation. What the users chose to do with these tools, wholly depends on the demand. “..Yeah, the past four months have been great, seeing friendly faces every morning brightens my day..”

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The accessibility of resources and knowledge mitigates feelings of alienation from the existing communities. Knowledge is then able to be passed on casting an even larger network through activities like local night classes, guest-run lecture series, a mentorship curriculum, film and reading clubs.

The act of making creates ownership and worth whilst providing a skill. The peer-to-peer locally run workshops will help create and recover a sense of place between the existing and incoming population. The activities will be designed to answer upcoming community needs and could include gardening, ceramics and wood-work.

Components (c) 1 and 2 are translated into a strategy for expansion and income. Food an arts markets, business and entrepreneurship programmes exhibitions may occur as a resu knowledge and making, answer to other people's needs outsid the community.

“...it’s amazing seeing how other cultures come and shake up our daily routines..”

“I love that we get to see each other every day... shall we go to the concert at the Circle later?

“..Yeah I’m really enjoying it here, seeing friendly faces every morning brightens my day, and it’s amazing seeing how other cultures come and shake up our daily routines..”

“Is it warm there?… I love that we get to see each-other every day now, even for a five minute chat, you know?...

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Gate residents to enhance social experiences – in which

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Communicare/Forest Gate residents share living spaces to enhance social

experiences – in which the AR/Communicare residents from around the world can enjoy

and more. This scenario imagines a group of residents

their daily routines from breakfast to yoga, reading and more. This scenario imagines a

casting a yoga session in the mountains with a top yoga

group of residents casting a yoga session in the mountains with a top yoga instructor,

instructor, while Jake spends time with his girlfriend

while Jake spends time with his girlfriend through AR. We also see two residents con-

through AR. We also see two residents conversing from the Live space to one of their bedrooms. Residents have

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Group 4: Off-Grid Neighbourhood Deheng Liu (MA Narrative Environments) Leonie Dong (BA Architecture) Marta Escribano (BA Architecture) Dominika Pilch (BA Architecture)

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Group 2: Network Living John Moran (BA Architecture) Christian Richards (MA Architecture) Yibeija Li (BA Architecture) Zhe Wang (MA Narrative Environments)

Space10 is the external futures laboratory exponent of IKEA, the large Scandinavian home and lifestyle brand. The 2017–18 live project collaboration between Space10 and CSM sought to examine the growing phenomenon of co-living, in response to the challenges, changes and pressure to contemporary domestic life. A collaboration between undergraduate and Masters students, the project demanded the design of five innovative, experimental co-living scenarios for young people set within the context of Forest Gate in East London. The wider goal of the project was to solicit research thinking and designs that could deliver a meaningfully better and more sustainable way of living.

Design For Peace

Find out more: www.latra.gr www.design4peace.org

Established by LATRA, an innovation studio specializing in circular design, environmental engineering and big-data digital applications for the humanitarian sector, DESIGN FOR PEACE is a series of international knowledge intensive events, which explore how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, can create socially impactful solutions that succeed in addressing global humanitarian and environmental challenges.

facebook: designpeace instagram: design_for_peace

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The DESIGN FOR PEACE Humanitarian Summit involved a series of key-note presentations interspersed with panel discussions, from the world’s most prominent humanitarian, social innovators, entrepreneurs, design pioneers and global makers including Techfugees, Save The Children, British Red Cross, ARUP, LATRA, WAAG Society, Makers Unite, STBY, Urban Projects Bureau and many more. BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

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The Summit was followed by a two day Hackathon dedicated to representatives from the Creative Industries coming up with solutions on creative humanitarian challenges we have identified. Speakers: Alex Glennie (Principal Researcher, Nesta) Josephine Goube (Ceo, Techfugees) Jago Boase (Shelter Technical Advisor, Save The Children) Radmila Fortune West (Refugee Support Restoring Family Links Development And Fundraising Advisor British Red Cross) Charlot Boonekamp (Archipreneur, Better Future Factory) Oscar Brito-Gonzalez (Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins) Marcin Dawydzik (Structural Engineer, Ramboll) Daphne Stylianou (Design Researcher, Stby) Kathleen Aberson (Creative Director, Het Proces) Dr Maria Faraone (Oaa Humanitarian Architect, Oxford Brookes University) Alex Warnock Smith (Founder & Director, Urban Projects Bureau) Gaspard Bos (Founder, New State Of Matter) Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz (Post Doctoral Research Associate, University Of Bath) Anne Kooiman (Lecturer Social Work Education Program, University Applied Sciences Rotterdam) Thami Schweichler (Co-Founder & Director, Makers Unite) Dr Nadia Fayidh Mohammed (Independent Researcher, Specialized In The Mena Region) Charlie Frazer (Director, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network) Iwanna Swart (Curriculum Manager, Aflatoun International) Andy Kyriakides (Digital Development, International Alert) Karien Vermeulen (Head Of Programme, Waag Society) Julia Smith (Research Fellow, Lse Cities) Aris Papadopoulos (Founder & Director Of Innovation, L A T R A) Felicitas Zu Dohna (Foresight Analyst, Arup Foresight, Research And Innovation)

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Tutors Bethany Shepherd Greg Ross David Chambers

Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH) is one of the world’s largest fashion and lifestyle conglomerates, responsible for some of the most recognisable contemporary brands, and a substantial supporter of Central Saint Martins. This collaboration, involving students from Spatial Practices alongside students from the school of fashion, marked 25 years of the brand’s LIFE (LVMH Initiatives for the Environment) programme. The project comprised a challenging and high profile opportunity for the installation of an eco-designed art installation, intended to provide the scenographic backdrop for a week-long showcase at the organisation’s headquarters in Paris.

MA Narrative Environments Students Annisa Lazuardini Erica Jensen Maithilee Surawanshi Rhiannon Williams Concetta Reuss Gwen van den Bout Evegenia Boguslavska Norbert Schwab Eve Chokechalermwat Pauline Chiang

The key criteria for the final design of the installation centred on making a positive environmental impact – reflected through the choice of materials, processes involved in the production of the installation and its ability to be recycled after the show. BA Hons Architecture students worked alongside students from Narrative Environments and post graduate architecture courses through a series of competitive charrettes. Working in teams, students had not only to keep the organisation’s core values at the heart of the design elements, but also develop and apply a range of practical and project-management skills at the highest and most professional level.

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BA Architecture Students Roya Edde Zeena Jamil Sky Moore-Clube Chris Wall-Hayes Amar Sall Dalia Amellal Dahlia Subasi John Moran Tanit Cabau-Wolf Louis Lupien Rafaela Zincone Albieri Jennifer Nibbs

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The winning design ‘Goutez la solution’ proposed an installation that would allow LVMH visitors and guests to taste, touch, smell, view and learn more about the ongoing LIFE programme.

MA Architecture Sebastian Benson Michael Kennedy Hanelore Dumitrache Lena Iltcheva

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Project Direction Oscar Brito (Central Saint Martins)

Croydon’s College Square is a one of the outcomes of “Transient Assemblies”, a curricular project developed by Stage 3 during the academic year 2016-17. We have been working in collaboration with Croydon Council’s Spatial Planning team to design and deliver the College Square Meanwhile Space. What began as an academic project for students of Central Saint Martins’ Spatial Practices Programme has been realised as a civic space in the heart of central Croydon.

Anisha Jogani Matthew Rust Akil Scafe-Smith (Croydon Council’s Spatial Planning Team) Design Team Eleanor Johnson Fiona Hartley Mina Fouladi Olivia Sutherhill

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Croydon’s College Square is a design proposal for meanwhile interventions in the public space aimed to foster placemaking processes by enabling and promoting social and cultural actions. The design proposal consists of a combination of arched thresholds holding a set of plywood volumes that may be arranged in multiple ways in a public space, working as urban furniture and as props for small spontaneous or organised events. BA (Hons) Architecture 2018

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The site for the Croydon’s College Square intervention is at the pedestrianised passage linking George Street and College Road in front of the main entrance to the Croydon College. The site is a recognised as a primary active, public route from George Street into the future cultural quarter in the Fairfield Masterplan – the meanwhile intervention here is crucial in laying the foundations for this as an important and productive space in the masterplan area and encourage changes in the current patterns of behaviour is this near stagnant space. It must also work to create a strong visual link to East Croydon Station in an effort to increase use of the space. Croydon’s College Square has been designed by RIBA Part 1 graduates of BA Architecture at CSM Spatial Practices Programme: Ellie Fox Johnson and Fiona Hartley, Mina Fouladi and Olivia Sutherill, co-ordinated by Stage 3 Leader Oscar Brito.

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Public Lectures

Host Spatial Practices, Central Saint Martins

Throughout the year at Central Saint Martins, the intensive programme of academic learning and exciting professional collaborations are supplemented by intellectual and discursive programmes, including a series of programmatic lectures in the first term of the academic year. In 2017-18, the Spatial Practices Programme responded to Head of College Jeremy Till’s Creative Unions ‘Call to Action’.

Find out more at: http://www.arts.ac.uk/ csm/courses/ourprogrammes/spatialpractices-programme/ lecture-series-/

Creative Unions is an initiative of Central Saint Martins and the other Colleges of University of the Arts London, bringing together events, actions, and voices to demonstrate that creativity must continue to know no boundaries in order to play a role in the current political landscape, and that it must operate across borders – geographical, social and disciplinary. As such, the lecture series included a number of international speakers and luminary figures, each pushing to understand and address social, humanitarian and cultural boundaries through their design practice. Markus Bader, cofounder of the Berlin-based work and action collective Raumlabor kicked off the series, as the programme’s Practitioner in Residence for the academic year. A talk from Territorial Agency, a research cell led by John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Ronnskog, brought territorial and planetary scale to the fore, with their projects on sustainable transformations at a geological level. The Hamburg-based artist Christoph Schafer’s unusual drawings, interventions and initiatives spoke to the idea of collective desires – a notion also addressed in Tom Corden’s presentation of Utopia London, a touching film looking at the idealistic and aspirational social housing projects of yesteryear, particularly relevant in the context of the current housing crisis. Alison Killing of Killing Architects and Grainne Hassett, of Hassett Ducatez, were both invited to discuss their work on migration and refugee predicaments; finally, Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek discussed his work on post-catastrophe and other degraded landscapes.

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Guest Speakers Markus Bader (raumlabor) John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Ronnskog (Territorial Agency) Christoph Schafer (Fabric / PlanBude / Park Fiction) Grainne Hassett (Hassett Ducatez Architects) Alison Killing (Killing Architects) Tom Cordell (Director ‘Utopia London’)

Public Lectures

In this way, the discussions entering, stimulating and animating the school community and especially the students of BA (Hons) Architecture remain radically engaged: immersed in urgent, optimistic and crucial issues facing culture and society at large today, and informed by the very brightest and most exciting practitioners in the expanding field of architectural and spatial practice.

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FUNDAMENTALS

Chaired by Oliver Wainwright

FUNDAMENTALS is a debate and lecture series focussing on the profession – expanded and contested – of architecture. Chaired and developed in collaboration with Oliver Wainwright, architecture critic for The Guardian newspaper, these events are explicitly public and seek to expose multiple viewpoints on major issues affecting the built environment and related activities, and to invigorate discussions within the college with the benefit of broader critical perspectives. Having begun in 2017 by looking outwards, interrogating the larger forces that shape our cities, this 2018 debate series took a long hard look in the mirror to tackle architecture as a discipline, and a profession, taking the following statement as its polemic incentive:

Find out more at: www.fundamentalslondon.uk

The 2018 Fundamentals series, entitled ‘The Way We Work’, comprised of three panel debates on how we learn, work and build, culminating in a symposium on Labour.

The Way We Work: LEARN

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‘Architectural education is in crisis, staggering on as an over-long, overpriced indulgence with a tenuous grip on reality. Architectural practice only survives by running an exploited labour force of overworked, underpaid, precariously employed staff, fuelling an industry devoid of the power it once had. The best projects go to the worst practices, with risk-averse procurement systems leading to work being awarded to global conglomerates and safe pairs of hands. The architectural profession is broken at every level – how can we fix it?’

Public Lectures

The Way We Work: WORK

The Way We Work: LEARN From the rise of live projects and collaborative studios that engage with real development sites, to practice-based models of education that do away with the school all together, how can architectural education evolve to remain relevant? Guests:

Mel Dodd – Central Saint Martins Robert Mull – University of Brighton Deborah Saunt – London School of Architecture Rob Sheil – The Bartlett, UCL

The Way We Work: WORK How can labour practices be reformed to avoid the architect’s exploitation and extinction, or will an unregulated market ultimately correct itself?

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The Way We Work: BUILD

Peter Morris – Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Harriet Harriss – Royal College of Art Patrik Schumacher – Zaha Hadid Architects Lucy Carmichael – Director of Practice RIBA Architectural Workers – campaign group

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Fundamentals Symposium

Find out more at: www.fundamentalslondon.uk

The Fundamentals Symposium critically investigated architecture, education, and the building industry through the lens of ethical work practices. The symposium was an initiative undertaken in partnership with Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil, as part of their Counter Conducts initiative, exhibition and publication.

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Architecture and Capital Is procurement too bureaucratic, risk-averse and a barrier to the best design?

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Guests: Ana Carolina Tonetti – Contra Condutas, Escola de Cidade Ligia Nobre – Contra Condutas, Escola de Cidade Adam Kaasa – Royal College of Art Concrete Action Counter-Conducts A Political Pedagogical Action Book Launch and Drinks Alex Warnock Smith – Chair Architecture’s Labour Force How can labour practices be reformed to avoid the architect’s exploitation and extinction, or will an unregulated market ultimately correct itself? Guests: Kadambari Baxi & Laura Diamond Dixit – Precarious Workers Brigade Shumi Bose – CSM Brendan Cormier – Chair Architects as Workers The work that architects do, whether aesthetic, technical, theoretical, social or administrative is a form of labour, yet rarely framed in this way. Guests:

Peggy Deamer – Architecture Lobby, Yale Reiner de Graaf – OMA Jeremy Till – Head of Central Saint Martins Mel Dodd – Chair

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