Bartlett Unit 9 2022/23 Summer Show Booklet

Architecture BSc

The Bartlett Summer Show

Unit 9 2022/23

Booklet design by Nathan Cartwright & Annika Siamwalla

Festival

Chee-Kit Lai, Jessica In, Doug John Miller

The Festival has been a part of human life since antiquity. Reflecting the social and economic changes in our world, festivals consolidate social groups from small (e.g. the family unit) to large (tribes and towns). They provide a temporal microcosm from which our relationships – between ourselves and with the spaces we inhabit –become distilled, intensified and amplified.

Recognising the intangible cultural heritage, practices, representations, knowledge and skills, as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated herewith, this year UG9 considered the festival as a transgressor of everyday routine, a departure from the ordinary that allows for a requestioning of ones individual and collective values.

In Term 1, UG9 explored the festival theme through the design of an intervention on the site of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, considering the age of commercialised leisure, dedicated entertainment spaces and venues. After the Unit’s Field Trip to Berlin, in Term 2 the Festival theme was reconsidered alongside Berlin, a city which has cultivated individual expression yet maintained a collective contribution to culture and society. Our architecture navigates the complex spatial conditions of the city and the opportunities that these relationships bring. Drawing upon the Unit’s continuing interest in Ecology and Technology, our architectural proposals address concerns around the climate crisis, urban development, culture and legacy, through inventiveness, creativity and as an active stimulus for the imagination.

Cover illustration from 3D Scanning workshop at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens lead by Thomas Parker Unit 9 group photo from Berlin, Germany. January 2023. i. ii.

Unit Tutors

Chee-Kit Lai

Jessica In

Doug John Miller

Year 3 Students

Myles Green

Ina Ioan

Sze Chun Liu

Yingqi (Izzy) Shen

Annika Siamwalla

Ilinca Stanescu

Mateusz Zwijacz

Year 2 Students

Nathan Cartwright

Wentong (Iris) Feng

Adam Klestil

Sean Ow

Kai Pentecost

Andrew Seah

Consultants

Y3 Technical Consultant: Donald Shillingburg

Computing: Thomas Budd

3D Scanning: Thomas Parker

Sponsors / Tour

Panopus Printing PRS Ltd.

Tonkin Liu Architects

Critics

Vitika Agarwal

Richard Aina

Bamidele Awoyemi

Nichola Barrington-

Leach

Alex Borrell

Barbara Campbell-

Lange

Nat Chard

John Cruwys

Alex Fox

Maria Fulford

Grey Grierson

Tamsin Hanke

Will Jeffries

Kyriakos Katsaros

Andre Sampaio Kong

Constance Lau

Stefan Lengen

Anna Liu

Joerg Majer

Ana Monrabal-Cook

Doug John Miller

Giles Nartey

Elliot Nash

Thomas Parker

James Robinson

Narinder Sagoo

Ellie Sampson

Gurmeet Sian

Ben Spong

Tom Ushakov

Manijeh Verghese

Chee-Kit Lai, Jessica In, Doug John Miller

‘Supernatural’

Yingqi (Izzy) Shen, Year 3

The Social Impetus

Sze Chun Liu, Year 3

The R43 Mesocosm

Ilinca Stanescu, Year 3

Annika Siamwalla, Year 3

The Sonic Motorcycle Centre

Myles Green, Year 3

Visualising Landscape(s) 2023-2423

Ina Ioan, Year 3

What Lies Beyond Omelas?

Mateusz Zwijacz, Year 3

The Loophole Cemetery

Kai Pentecost, Year 2

Wentong (Iris) Feng, Year 2

A Post-Orgy Playground

Nathan Cartwright, Year 2

The Hammam of Secular Non-Duality

Andrew Seah, Year 2

The Cloud Agenda

Sean Ow, Year 2

The Intertwined Kreuzberg Fusion

Adam Klestil, Year 2

Berlin Fieldtrip

The ‘Supernatural’

The proposal questions the symbiotic relationship between human and nature, to what extend can our building be “supernatural”? It uses Tegel as a testbed to explore innovative timber construction methods with the assistance of augmented reality (AR) technology. The data collected within this project will thus be fed into the 2050 Tegel airport vision to create the future sustainable hub of Berlin. isabella.shen.20@ucl.ac.uk

Yingqi (Izzy) Shen

Y3

The Social Impetus

Sports have long been acknowledged as an effective bonding medium between individuals, as people of contemporary societies become increasingly segregated, so do its relevance. Sited in Tempelhof, Berlin, the project speculates on the role architecture plays in encouraging social interactions between users. Rather than optimising athletic performances, this multi-sports centre focuses on maximising participation, as steppingstones to potential friendships.

Sze Chun Liu

christopher.liu.20@ucl.ac.uk

External axonometric view

Internal perspective view

Proposed long section

Physical model

External axonometric view

The R43 Mesocosm

Set in 2035, the proposed project is an ecological DNA research centre and manufacturing facility for robotic bees. While the spaces and programme aim to facilitate for the manufacturing and testing of this new technology, the actual building facades, columns and structures will allow and encourage, through strategic design, the inhabitation of real bees, arguing for the importance of nature preservation and denying the complete prevalence of the digital.

ilinca.stanescu.20@ucl.ac.uk

Ilinca Stanescu

3.4

3.3

3.2

Techno [re]Barn

The project creates immersive dancefloors in an abandoned barn situated southwards of the Berlin airport, blurring the boundaries between music, architecture, and art. Techno music transforms the space, distorting perception and reconnecting people and places.

anni.siamwalla.20@ucl.ac.uk

Annika Siamwalla

The Sonic Motorcycle Centre

Situated in Mitte, the central district of Berlin, the building brings together bikers and observers to engage in a celebration of the intense sounds of the motorcycle. The building proposes a new mode of motorcycle performance. Through the acoustic design of the motorcycle track that weaves its way through the building, different sonic environments are activated by the rider for specific performative requirements. As the motorcycle travels through the building the sonic environments respond to the bike and perform their own song. myles.green.20@ucl.ac.uk

Y3

Myles Green

Visualising Landscape(s)

2023-2423

The project explores old visual crafts through new AI technologies, merging them into an art and research centre on a small island in North-West Berlin. A machine learning methodology is developed by collecting visual imagery data about the site from the past, and by allowing the AI to make predictions about what it may look like in the future. Having these future site predictions, the building begins to adapt to them by relying on self-sustaining building technologies.

Ina Ioan

ina.ioan.20@ucl.ac.uk

What Lies Beyond Omelas?

Situated in Tempelhof Field, at the intersection of Berlin’s three greatest utopian projects, is a proposal for a heterotopian town that challenges the notion of space ownership and instead suggests that the right to space can only be expressed through occupation. As time passes, the town, constructed with straw bale, gradually decomposes and enriches the former airport’s brown site, creating the groundwork for a future post-man era and site rebirth.

Y3

Mateusz Zwijacz

mateusz.zwijacz.20@ucl.ac.uk

The Loophole Cemetery

The proposal provides a legal loophole, allowing for the effective spreading of ashes back into German nature via a connection to the river Spree which runs through Berlin.

Y2

Kai Pentecost

kai.pentecost.21@ucl.ac.uk

The Intertwined

A culturally infused community centre in Berlin that aims to address the refugee crisis by fostering the integration of isolated refugee into the local community. Located in the heart of Berlin, it confronts the traumatic history by establishing a multicultural haven that celebrates diversity and promotes healing and reconciliation among different ethnicities. It serves as a unifying space where culture converge, forge connections, and mutually enrich one another through shared experiences and learning opportunities.

Y2

wentong.feng.21@ucl.ac.uk

Wentong (Iris) Feng

A Post-Orgy Playground

Decompression emerges within Berlin’s counterculture as an opportunity to challenge the tenets of capitalism, offering a primal landscape for recalibration within the club scene. By bridging hedonism and post-consumption ideologies, this project explores the concept of a postcapitalist comedown while immersing individuals in a progressively natural and sensory-specific environment, suggesting new socio-spatial typologies in a speculative era beyond consumption.

nathan.cartwright.21@ucl.ac.uk

Nathan Cartwright Y2

The Hammam of Secular Non-Duality

The proposed bathhouse hyperbolises and subverts the spatial syntax of gender stereotypes in traditional Turkish spaces. Sited in Kreuzberg, Berlin, and embedded in its landscape, the building is a field of relationships between plural circulations. Moments of intersection and confluence of the entwined paths provide avenues for interactions within an interconnected whole, responding to the GermanTurk diasporic community’s growing desire for more inclusive spaces within traditional heterotopias.

Y2

Andrew Seah

andrew.seah.21@ucl.ac.uk

The Cloud Agenda

Nestled on the eastern riverbank of Plänterwald Forest, The Cloud Agenda arises as a curative proposition to the water stress imperilment in Berlin. Guised as a performative ecosystem, the research centre is an architectural testbed for urban cloud seeding operations, merging ecological principles of the biotic pump with marvels of hygroscopic cloud seeding technology to conceive an architecture that actively restores the climate and in turn constructs its own microclimate.

sean.ow.21@ucl.ac.uk

Sean Ow

Y2

Kreuzberg Fusion

The project is a proposal for a compact nuclear fusion power plant within the urban context of Berlin, speculating on the advancements in plasma physics research and the return of nuclear power as a base load energy source for Germany.

adam.klestil.20@ucl.ac.uk

Adam Klestil Y2

Unit 9 2022/23

The Bartlett School of Architecture

Booklet design by Nathan Cartwright & Annika Siamwalla