London Metropolitan Architecture School- Postgraduate Unit 5 2019/20

Framing the collective The communal areas fit in the void spaces between the arrangement of the units with columns and beams highlighting the thresholds. The frame vs. solid language is explicit and allows continuity of tactility throughout the interior. Varying floor finishes and the use of furniture as translucent walls also signal where the collective boundary ends and the private units begin.

London Metropolitan Architecture School- Postgraduate Unit 5 2019/20

Published on Jun 29, 2020

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This year’s programme considered the implication construction methods and materials have on the landscape, exploring the tectonics of timber construction to form tactile and expressive collective housing, buildings with a civic gravitas and urban gardens. Precedent studies looked at individual houses focussing on constructional language and the scale and sequence of interior/exterior rooms. The precedents and supporting seminars will encompass 15th and 16th Century English Tudor houses and concurrent Japanese houses such as Sumiya, Kyoto; The English Arts and crafts of C.F Voysey, as well as contemporary examples such as Colin St John Wilson and Peter Aldington. The Timber Mansions project looks at two key opportunities in design, namely sensitive and high-quality design of spaces suitable for later living, and using timber as a primary structural material to create a lighter building footprint.

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