2018 Yearbook
Outreach: Stage 3 Architecture
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1 CLAN proposal by Rebecca Brewer, Katarzyna Popowczak, Ili Nadhira Azizi, Samantha Bryan.
2 Transition Extreme proposal by Vasil Dimov, Hannah Drummond, Deborah Nicol, Agata Renusch, Natercia Roesch, Kirsten Scott.
3 Transition Extreme proposal by Angus Chow, Yasmin Fraser, Beth Milne, Ailidh Morrison, Man Ho Pau, Magdalena Wloczka.
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Urbanism is complex. The underlying rapport between people and place is difficult to conceptualise without any realworld experience. Stage 3 architecture students have been looking at the causal relationships drawn between various spatial contexts and socio-cultural constructs and, with the idea of the community as an extended classroom in mind, undertook a short project with live clients outwith the context of the university. Just as in years that have gone by previously, students worked in small groups to concentrate on one of two projects related to the design of particular spaces and their relationship with an existing building and its users. This year’s clients were CLAN (Cancer Support for All) and Transition Extreme. Creating sensory and therapeutic landscape environments and better interaction between the indoor and outdoor spaces were the remits of the CLAN exercise, whilst the second project on the Transition Extreme site looked to regenerate ambiguous and undefined outdoor spaces into active and more inclusively designed zones for use by
the wider public with both commercial and social value. Graphical material was produced and developed into posters to describe each group’s final proposals. These were then used as part of a series of group presentations by the students to each client at the end of the process. The core objective of the coursework was to train the students to take real urban issues, investigate them through urban design analysis, and to generate ideas that reflected the real needs of a live client. Both projects build on previous outreach exercises undertaken in the past five years which have included working with school pupils at Portlethen Primary School, and the Robert Gordon College in Aberdeen, in addition to residents of the Hutcheon and Seamount tower blocks. The various engagement methodologies and subsequent design outcomes from each of these exercises, including CLAN and Transition Extreme, are being developed for further research and publication in the near future. Dr Quazi Zaman
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