Level 6 Portfolio 2020/21

Level 6 Portfolio 2020 | 2021 Architecture + Urban Planning University of Dundee

Cover Page Veera Kivela Y5

BioPhilic Design Joanna Laing Y3 2

CONTENTS Introduction

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Selected works Page 8 ADAS

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Class lists Page 100

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Photo Etching Lorna Scanlan Y4 5

LEVEL 6 PORTFOLIO 2021 Level 6 Portfolio is an annual publication dedicated to the celebration and promotion of student work in architecture at the University of Dundee. It is important this year more than ever to look back on our work as a testament to our collective strength.

We have explored captivating ideas and conceived spaces much greater than the confines of our makeshift studios. This year we have designed nostalgically. We have designed for something we cannot ourselves experience. In our sketches and renders produced from our bedrooms, we have kept alive the memory of social, interactive spaces.

Design has become our escapism: we can imagine uninterrupted walkways without sanitising stations and barriers, and live vicariously through our 1:100 scale people.

As we make our gradual return to normality, it is important to look back on this year as evidence of our unwavering perseverance. We have learned new technologies and techniques that we can bring forth into an increasingly digitised world. We have developed an unparalleled sensitivity to home and the working environment. Or at the very least, we have been able to reach the end of the academic year with a body of work to be immensely proud of.

And for that, we commend you.

Thank you for your submissions once again this year and the best of luck for the years ahead.

Editorial Team Lucy Taylor Marcus Myles Ellena Leslie Ross Robson Rachael Smith Andrew Dennison

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Lucy Taylor

Marcus Myles

Ellena Leslie

Ross Robson

Rachael Smith

Andrew Dennison

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Concrete Site Model Clemie Eleady-Cole Y3 8

SELECTED WORKS 2021 9

Catholic Church of the Resurrection Kuba Duda Y3 10

Exploded Isometric Kuba Duda Y3 11

Ideal Villa Axonometric Drew Rumgay Y2 12

Room with a View Jay McAllister Y4 13

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The abstraction is a rendered conclusion which ought to challenge one’s perception of the ground by exposing pockets of the unknown, In-between spaces or places stuck in transience.

According to Michel Foucault, such space is known as a ‘Heterotopia’, a space between reality and imagination.

The Notion Distorion - A Heterotopia Emilia Chegini & Wei Zheng Lim Y4 15

Typology Study Emma Sjöholm Y3 16

Design Process Emma Sjöholm Y3 17

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The INC Sam Morman Y4 19

Broughty Ferry Elevation Finlay McCallum Y1 20

Structural Model Andrew Dennison Y3 21

A Knowledge Surface Kamen Rusev Y4 22

Broch Study Evan McColll Y4 23

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Mill Street Intervention Tam Dougan Y5 25

The ’Other’ and the morphology of absence Building a feminist neighbourhood in Dundee Gendered space is built upon ideas of archaic stereotypes, tropes of traditionally understood femininity or masculinity, with disregard to the actuality of gender fluidity and the non-binary behavioural patterns of humans. It is a historically applied concept of oppression and silencing, a way to exclude and ignore minorities, to pave way for the prevailing paradigms. The dreams of spaces of refuge, places out of the reach of men, have crystalised into forms of the likes of the 13th-century Béguinages, Christine de Pizan’s protofeminist manifesto “The book of the City of Ladies,” or later Alice Constance Austin’s plan for a feminist neighbourhood in Llano del Rio, California. They found form in sexed spaces, like the buildings feminist groups took over in the 1970s across the American landscape of capitalism and individualism. The aim was to create genuine spaces of inclusion, whether it lasted for two weeks or generated something more permanent. If the city is the mirror image of the body that occupies it, should the modern city change to respond to the cultural shift, that has brought previously silenced voices into the forefront of the architectural discourse?

The French philosopher Henri Lefebvre discussed everyman’s right to the city but failed to note the reality of who was deprived of the power to belong to the public sphere and whether women were perceived as a part of the dialogue. Moreover, psychoanalyst and philosopher Michel de Certeau argued, that ‘belonging’ was an end result of active participation in the everyday life, creating intimate connections with the surrounding built environment, walking through the city as the flâneur – or flâneuse – the anonymous metropolitan explorer. The questions of power and fear, as well as the right to the city are important when discussing the realities of exclusion women face in their everyday lives in the cities they inhabit.

They do not carry the invisibility cloak of anonymity that most men do when roaming the streets. Nonetheless, Virginia Woolf, among other women, found freedom in the city: “to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.”

Taking space within the man-made world has always been an act of defiance, a challenge against the seeming rationality of the masculine hegemony, and the unleashing of the previously domesticated chaos. In philosopher Jacques Derrida’s poststructuralism, femininity and Otherness – defined by Foucault as formally and socially othered people and understood by feminist scholars, like Mary McLeod, as women and children – is absence, indescribable spatiality of something that “cannot be represented.” While women have had to endure the consequences of being Othered and excluded from the excitement of the public life, the potentialities linked within the identity of an Othered person has provided opportunities to explore new ideas, concepts, and typologies in the architectural landscape. A few iterations of new morphologies were proposed by Michel Foucault and the

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Situationists. Foucault’s heterotopia and his disregard for the everyday, and the Situationist’s hedonist projects of desire and mass culture were novel but lacked inclusivity.

The authentic and inclusive feminine architectural space defies the predetermined domestication of the woman that reigns in the built landscape of our cities, yet finds space in its surrounding environment, and copies its masculine counterparts to fight for its emancipation. It is not pleasure-seeking, but a rational idea of community, safety, and heterotopia. In this research paper, I attempt to discuss the links between gendered space – its history and the way it has engrained our expectations of cities, streets, and housing – and the fear and anxiety experienced by the women that trace imaginary maps of safety amidst hostility. I also aim to suggest a typology of safety and respite, one that embodies the architecture of parasitism and self-sufficiency. Through ideas of cities, the flâneuses that roam the streets, and demystifying Otherness, I explore the question: is there such a thing as morphology of a safe feminist – or a non-sexist – city, or is it the role of women to merely make space for themselves within the urban landscape of man?

The case study used to investigate these ideas is situated in the industrial estate of Blackness, in Dundee, but is intended to be a universal one, one that can be seen taking space across its respective cities’ spaces of fear. It is a demonstration of communal living taking over individualistic dreams of hostile privacy and toxic expectations of nuclear families. The hybridised mat housing structure, spreading across the post-industrial brownfield sites is also intended to show, that women can utilise some of the Master’s tools - the tools of oppression, the segregation and reactionary violence, that have been used to divide and conquer, reclaimed to understand togetherness - to take up room and distort the city into one of safety, a stage to voice their grievances with their community.

Thesis Abstract Veera Kivela Y5 27

1:200 Model Jasmiina Knaapi Y3 28

Strategy Plan Jasmiina Knaapi Y3 29

Tentsmuir Ben Fraser Y2 30

Tentsmuir Ben Fraser Y3 31

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Didactic Making Ross Robson Y3

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THE SENSORY GARDEN The first courtyard is the sensory garden. This garden is a place for patients, visitors and staff to enjoy and experience through all five of their senses; sight, touch, smell, sound and taste. This garden provides a space for the users to experience a heightened sense of being. By activating all five senses, they are stimulating their minds.

These gardens are particularly enjoyed by young children and those with sensory processing issues including autism and other disabilities such as dementia. The sounds, sights and smells keep those within the garden calm and interested, whilst allowing them to interact with their surroundings.

THE TEA GARDEN The second courtyard is that inspired by the Japanese Tea Garden.

The primary take away from researching these gardens was the journey through the garden is equally, if not, more important than the destination. Winding paths surrounded by a plethora of colours, textures and sounds can evoke the imagination. The tranquil setting allows the user to fully submerge themselves with their natural surroundings. The looping path provides a journey around the garden, whilst directly leading back to the starting point. This will help ease any sense of reorientation among the users, deescalating potential stressors.

THE REFLECTIVE GARDEN Finally, is the reflective or contemplative courtyard. As the name suggests, this space in comparison to the previous, is a space for reflection and contemplating. It is more structured and less ‘organic’ than the past two. This encourages the user to stop and think introspectively. This space can provide a sanctum for understanding and coping with the anticipation and initial stages of the grieving process. The reflective pool becomes something of a abstracted element, reflecting the surrounds and creating an alternative reality within its depths. Water also helps create a sense of calm.

Garden Studies Ellena Leslie Y5 35

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Elevation Helen Stout Y3 37

Therapy Plan Study Mirka Borek Y3 38

Programme Mirka Borek Y3 39

Local Ground Studies Laura Moldovan Y4 40

The Media Store Laura Moldovan Y4 41

Entry Hall Morgan Oxer Y1 42

Model Sabrina Benkalfa Y1 43

Subjective Space; Crombie Marcus Myles Y4 44

An abstract from the Subjective Space series, understanding and mapping space in which influence and forms our being and thinking. The study follows the theory that space is a subjective conception, that we all have individual connections too. Crombie acts as a thinking machine for me. The walk has atmospheric lighting conditions, framed views and plays with the enclosure of the subject, all of which prompt thought and reflection through sensory stimulation. Several artefacts were produced as a method of mapping this connection by following the David Hockney joiner technique.

Subjective Space; Crombie Marcus Myles Y4 45

Crombie; 1 Marcus Myles Y4 46

Crombie; 2 Marcus Myles Y4 47

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Crombie; 4 Marcus Myles Y4 49

Crombie; 5 Marcus Myles Y4 50

Crombie; 7 Marcus Myles Y4 51

Micro-Macro-Rayon Liga Ramata Y5 52

Micro-Macro-Rayon Liga Ramata Y5 53

A Woman’s’ Place Preethika Chandran Y3 54

A Woman’s’ Place Preethika Chandran Y3 55

Creative Spaces; Site Plan Drew Rumgay Y2 56

Creative Spaces; Long Section Drew Rumgay Y2 57

Tenement Study Evan McColl Y4 58

Part Elevation Evan McColl Y4 59

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MOLA Craig McCracken Y4 61

Level 0; Fitness Helen Stout Y3 62

Centre for Elderly Wellbeing; Exploded Axonometric Glenn McKerracher Y3 63

Crematorium Interior Rachael Smith Y5 64

Crematorium Interior Rachael Smith Y5 65

Design Diagrams Osman Nasir Y3 66

Bridge Through the Trees Chloe Docherty Y3 67

MOLA Lorna Scanlan Y4 68

MOLA Lorna Scanlan Y4 69

A Centre of Didactic Making Ross Robson Y3 70

Volumetric Connections Ross Robson Y3 71

Woolworks; The Indoor Street Marcus Myles Y4 72

The Ideal Villa Archie Read Y2 73

Studio 190; Weaving Studio Andrew Dennison Y3 74

Weaving Studio Axonometric Andrew Dennison Y3 75

Reclaimed Space Marcus Myles Y4 76

Ploughed Field Section Chelseigh Buchanan Y4 77

Panama City has tripled in size during the last 25 years as a result of rapid and unplanned urbanization from canal income. Its geographic location, combined with a lack of adequate land use planning, deficient drainage systems, and weak local governance, all make it a city highly exposed and vulnerable to the impact of floods and rising sea levels. By re-establishing an urban wetland in the suburb of Juan Diaz, flooding can be reduced and much needed public space acquired.

The aim of Studio C was to explore the unique interaction between operational landscapes and humans. Focussing in on the Vertical Farm fragment of the master-system gives an opportunity to redefine urban agriculture; a building which traditionally prioritises the output over the inhabitants. However, in line with the Studio ambitions, I can explore the exciting relationship people may have when interacting with such an object. As you can see in the adjacent image, people are pushed to the outside, optimizing the space inside for production. The cotton can be viewed during each of it’s growth stages through the mesh cladding which also facilitates ecology from below to grow up the façade.

Structure played an important roll in efficiently building dense and skywards. Exploring the re-use of existing discarded structures will continue in this journal as an attempt at sustainability: avoiding single use. Jack-Up Oil Rigs were selected as the main re-used structural element with it’s embodied carbon and efficient height. This give the building it’s unique shape. Programme was also investigated to create an efficient logistical strategy new to existing urban agricultural settings.

Automation in this sector could pose interesting precedents for future developments.

MOLA Craig McCraken Y4 78

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Roseangle Community Church Lucy Taylor Y3 80

Workspace Streetscape Anna Szczerba Y1 81

Site Field Study Chelseigh Buchanan Y4 82

Community Church Model Lucy Taylor Y3 83

Kenneth Frampton’s observation that ‘Good architecture works at three levels; distant, intermediate, intimate’ was a guiding principle within Architecture + Society.

The architecture of our communities is rarely discussed. Walter Benjamin argued that we receive architecture – unlike painting – in a state of distraction: we never notice our ambient environment until it starts to change. Yet architecture is the art that gives form to social groups. It gives them a spatial quality and thereby makes them visible; it is therefore one of the great humanist discourses through which we collectively contemplate the human condition.

As the City of Dundee continues its regeneration of the central waterfront ‘Architecture + Society’ addresses the City’s assertion that the central waterfront development is a catalyst for further urban enhancements – from water’s edge to our area of interest - the periphery.

We strived to understand and consider peri-urban contexts as critical tools for in parallel design strategies. Through a mix of new contextually and culturally appropriate landscape and building proposals, we composed a new vision for city edges. These proposals utilise the edges of Camperdown Park, its interface between the city and rural hinterland, to test ideas through research by design.

Group Masterplan Architecture + Society Y5 84

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Polycarbonate Render Brendan Kerrisk Y3 86

Westfield Lane Part Elevation Brendan Kerrisk Y3 87

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EMBASSY: PRIVATE

UNION

EMBASSY: PUBLIC

ACCOMMODATION

The Condensation Of Seperation: N2047 The Border Wall of Diplomacy This design proposal seeks to establish an alternative to Nation-state border walling, a project it finds is pursued by Nations in reaction to waning sovereignty, experienced as a symptom of globalization. Globalization was sold on the promise of the eradication of divisions, a welcomed exchange for the benefits of furthered interconnectivity and collaboration, yet, paradoxically, the opposite has materialized.

The ground work for a new border condition is laid which will see key populations from either side of the border condensed in an inhabited border wall, reterritorializing the borderlands as a space of democracy, diplomacy, and agency. This is instantiated along the politically charged border between China and Hong Kong–a border that is facing dissolution by 2047. This new border apparatus of which the ChinaHong Kong border becomes but one instance seeks to resist the hegemony of the neoliberalist system. This is enacted through various operational scales from that of the individual body, to the collective and finally to the transnational.

The Condensation of Separation offers a radical alternative to the concept of the border, outlining a model for greater democracy in the form of scaler offerings of diplomacy.

Ground + Earth Laura Porter Y5 89

Atmospheric Bath Emma Sjöholm Y3 90

Concrete + Timber Model Emma Sjöholm Y3 91

Axonometric Nick Puxley Y4 92

Bay Elevation Ross Robson Y3 93

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Gaps of Uncertainty Tam Dougan Y5 95

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Dundee Aerial Sketch Robbie Lyall Y2

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A word from the new committee: This past year has set a precedent like no other. From our usual bustling social events, to filling lecture theatres, everything was moved online. There was no manual for running a uni society during a pandemic, however I highly praise everyone’s involvement in the committee last year, without them we wouldn’t have been able to host our most attended lecture series, we wouldn’t have been able to raise funds for the Gordon Lamb Charity Fund - we wouldn’t have had ADAS. Looking forward, we have the hope of more in-person events, that are safe and welcoming to students both new and old. We have yet another exciting year of guest speakers ahead of us, continuing the legacy that has come before us. For future plans, we are beginning to set in motion exciting events - adhering to the guidelines set out by the Scottish government - with the return of the Summer Ball being the biggest event we are aiming for, and the light at the end of the tunnel for most students.

I’m eagerly looking forward to the year ahead and working with the new members of the committee. Whatever happens, we will continue to bring students together and provide as many exciting opportunities as possible!

Jay McAllister Student President of the School of Architecture & Urban Planning 2021/22.

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ADAS T-Shirt Competition Winner Andrew Dennison Y3 99

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beloved adeyemi nohman ahal hada najiba ahmad oluwatimilehin akinmade naia ammane marcus arbon eilidh bauchop jose benito sabrena benkhalfa joseph brown callu caldwell joshua campbell lok cheung pei-gun chou charlotte convery hollis crowe lewis duncan daniel ellington emma fostier stephanie gallacher miruna georgescu luca hall david hannan oliver helgesen colm horgan abigail humphries taylor hunt ben hunter louisa hutcheson jagoda ignac botagoz issatayeva zuzanna kaminska callum kane anastasios karas morgan kearey rachel keenan moritz kraus timur kushalioglu long lai alex leslie emily lightfoot agata ludwiczak morgan macintosh abdul mahdi finlay mccallum hollie mchugh logan mclean conor mcmahon finn millar angus nelson morgan oxer lucy park nejc petric thomas robertson miara sajid regina saraiva dias silva de franca salla siitonen hugo skarin kyle smith ryan smith julia smolinska selina sode vanina stefanova charlotte stewart iona stewart josie strachan anna szczerba iona townend sarah youd gamuchirai zozi

edgar badarau maya barnes dylan barrowman catriona buchanan joan bugler-lamb emily campbell katy carswell yijun chu joel codd patrick corsame naomi davidson shane docherty atlanta dolman garbhan donnelly costin dragu megan forbes benjamin fraser giorgio gilardoni mairead hammond tara hart marion howitt callum hunter james hutt sam jowett niki kefala liv kleivene natalia kojlo yixuan li morgan lisk franciszek maj tavonga mamwa ceri mcewan dale mckenna victoria mcmahon harvey mcmillan anna melihova chloe migaud inger mikkelsen aasmundhavn caitlin millar jennifer mitchell david orbang alberto ortiz abad joe parker eden penman kaitlyn phillips charlotte prince chun que archie read alistair rice jack richiardi alexander ritchie emma robertson drew rumgay hamish scrivener-anderson yining shang mia slater arran stowe zoe till karl tjus lok wan christopher wood tianchen zha adrian zielinski

himat athwal hannah baillie chloe barker james batty mateusz bierut scott birtles mirka borek ewan bunkell emma burns andrea casono cheuk chan preethika chandran aidan cummins francisco de inza andrew dennison jamie deuchars lewis devaney josh dickson chloe docherty kyle donaghey mohammad dp dr hj mohd isham jakub duda clementina eleady-cole robert fowler gilian fronda finley fyfe daniel georgiev caitlin gray oiartza guerrero luke hibbert erin hickman benjamin hoskins khadeeja imthiaz maria kabaaga brendan kerrisk magda kilijanek jasmiina knaapi joanna laing immanuel lavery jia lin hope livingstone ka mak sharleen mardani frederike marx reece mccallum liam mcdougall conan mcghee jordan mckee glenn mckerracher alexandra meckler renan millares emma morrison osman nasir wing ng ngoc nguyenova niall penman kenny phillips nathan retallick ross robson melisa ruzgar beatrice ryan trisha santos eleanor scott jack scott andrew shields connor simmons emma sjoholm cameron smith helen stout lucy taylor

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julia baeck chelseigh buchanan yuk chan emilia chegini sam chen yuren chen king chung joshua coniah kerr cuinier cameron devine hemant ginda oliviya gospodinova laura greenshields xinwei guo jing he qianyang he rozalina hristova ye han hu lynsey isles jessica jackson joseph jacob joshua jewitt yue jiang simba kanchefu zicong kong sofia-lyn kouni lucie lange siyu lei ching sum leung jiahui li zhuolun li wei zheng lim yun liu jay mcallister evan mccoll craig mccracken callum mclean yu mei anna moldenaes laura moldovan sam morman marcus myles thao nguyenova sean noon carlton oke katie phillips mayya potvar nicholas puxley gong quanzhou kamen rusev lorna scanlan tejas shankar robert smith innes stewart nurul safuhah suhaidi hio lam tam matthew thomson yijing wang natasha whitehall kirsty wilson huiting xie xin yang leong yu yu zhang zengyan zhang annan zhao zhishan zhong shiyao zhu

architecture + urban planning joshua adjodha euan angus jamie dickinson katherine doherty thomas dougan cameron duncan-cox melissa green katrina mcqueen mishell parodi waheeda rasool elliot reilly nina wyganowska architecture + society steven anderson lewis chalmers katarzyna dudzinska laura leithead ellena leslie deni mcelroy rachael smith richard stalker ramsay taylor erika varha jianhua zhu (andrew) ground + earth jenna craig mahnoor habib yiwen huang (kane) christopher macinnes laura ellie porter calum ramsay alberto visentin macro micro jack buchan jiamin deng yin jiahao wu junfeng hafsa malik nico stalker lucy troughton rooms + cities aqsa hasware maizatul mohd hussain mahi jain veera kivela paul kyriou liga ramata weilin zhi (william)

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