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Over time, Royal Charter, storms, sedimentation,
programme) at Kent School of Architecture it
the establishment of a full-time Navy, smuggling,
never seems that we are far from the ‘edge’. The
inland navigable waterways, sea defences, land
north and south Kent coasts are both only a few
reclamation and changing agricultural practices
miles from Canterbury, and as they converge
have shaped the landscape and its practices and
on the Isle of Thanet from bordering London
lead to Romney Marsh’s changing and declined
and East Sussex, they constitute (somewhat
significance.
contentiously) the longest ‘edge’ of any county in the country.
Home to more sheep than people the area draws in excess of 600,000 visitors a year in search of
Geologically and geographically our ‘edge’ has
nature, the picturesque and the ‘alternative’.
always been on the move, and so, literally and
Most people today would associate specifically
metaphorically, has human engagement with it.
with the Dungeness Peninsula, one of the
Our fascination with ‘edge conditions’ and their
largest shingle banks in the world, a constantly
ephemeral context is therefore perhaps a natural
moving fluid of tiny sharp-edged stones. It’s
consequence.
home to some of the rarest insects in the UK,
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an almost extinct fishing industry, declining In the final year of the MArch students develop
gravel extraction industry, ranges of the MOD,
their own interests and agenda as aspiring
WW1 era aircraft-detecting concrete ‘Sound
architects through a year-long thesis project over
Mirrors’, a small-gauge passenger railway, two
three terms and two design modules. This year
Nuclear Power stations, with their associate
Stage 5 looked at one of Kent’s very particular
army of pylons striding off towards the National
‘edge conditions,’ Romney Marsh and the
Grid, radiating a field of Electro Magnetic
Dungeness peninsula. Just over the Kent County
Force invisible to the eye; several generations
Boundary, in East Sussex, we were compelled to
of Lighthouse; a collection of railway carriage
include the mediaeval fortified hill town of Rye,
beach huts once the retirement houses of
which looks out across the marsh and peninsula.
railway workers, now occupied by artists and
Together they constitute a single Site of Specific
alternative-thinkers in search of the legacy of
Scientific Interest (SSSI).
one of Dungeness’s most famous residents, the film maker Derek Jarman (dis), whose home and
At one time much of the marsh was part of a
garden at ‘Prospect cottage’ is now joined by
lagoon formed around the mouth of the river
contemporary rebuilding and extensions of old
Rother, and maritime industry and tactical naval
beach huts by notable architects Simon Conder
importance supported and defined its urban
and NORD (both invited critics to the MArch this
settlements: the Ancient Town and Cinque Port of
year). There is indefinable energy, an element of
Rye, its sister Cinque Port of New Romney, and
wonder, and otherworldliness about Dungeness,
New Romney’s ‘Limb’, Lydd .
and disconcertingly, an element of Purgatory too. Our students were offered a choice of sites in
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Superficially dismissible as being ‘context-
Camber and Rye. Design responses included
less’ we believe that with careful sensory
a Monastery at Fairfield, and a Samuel Beckett
consideration, the real challenge of places like
Theatre designed around a Lookers Hut on
Romney Marsh and Dungeness, at this level of
Romney Marsh; a Museum of Obsolescence, Gio-
architectural education at least, is to distil their
Tours Centre, Flying Club Air Museum, WWII
genius-loci into something tangible enough to
crashed-Wellington Bomber ‘Visitor Centre’,
respond to meaningfully and site-specifically.
and Museum of Sound on Denge Marsh; a Crematorium, Elemental Beach-Comber Foleys,
Michael Richards,
residential School of Architecture, a ‘Doomsday
MArch Programme Director
Vault’, whole-life tariff Prison, Entomology Centre, and an Art School, all on the Dungeness
Stage 5 Tutors: Keith Bothwell, Tim Carlyle,
shingle; a Centre of the Rehabilitation of MOD
Gordana Fontana-Giusti, Chris Gardner, Ben
personnel in Lydd ; and a combined School and
Godber, Howard Griffin, Michael Richards,
Camber Sands Visitors Centre at Camber; a Story
Brendan Woods. Stage 5 Guest Critics: Gerry
Telling Centre, Spa for Cancer Out-Patients,
Adler, Pierre d’Avoine, Simon Conder, James
a ‘Maison Folie’, and a Carpentry and Joinery
Cregan, Don Gray, David Haney, Andrew
Workshop Centre in Rye.
Henderson, Michael Holms Coats, Alan Pert,
Art in Romney Marsh, Gilbert and Paul, Romney
local resident Andrew Logan, in Bermondsey,
Marsh Countryside Partnership, St Nicholas
London; and another, a local-interest Television
Church New Romney, Simon Ashworth, Simon
Studio in Margate.
Conder Associates.
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Fashion and Art Museum inspired by artist and
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BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE Alongside their design projects, students join a module called ‘Modernisms’ which explores directions in twentieth-century architectural history and theory; towards the end of the year they submit an essay on the subject. The final module, ‘Options’, gives every student an opportunity to develop their own personal architectural and design interests in a structured way, by submitting a building appraisal study, a history or theory dissertation, or an interdisciplinary project which involves both the creation of an artefact and a supporting text. This module has always resulted in a very wide In their final year our undergraduate Architecture
range of different types of work, and also ensures
students undertake two major design projects,
that every student has a strong opportunity to
combining these with written or interdisciplinary
develop and express a personal voice.
work that provides an opportunity for research and engagement with the history and theory of architecture. In the Autumn term ‘Modular’
Modular: a beach hotel in Broadstairs
module, each student designed a hotel for the
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During the Autumn term Stage 3 Architecture
a complex and varied structure from modular
students designed a large beachfront hotel in
components and exploring the use of systematic
Broadstairs. Our first activity was to divide into
design from small-scale details up to modelling
small groups and carry out an analysis of the
of a large building. ‘Urban 2’, the second and
urban context; then we were required to divide
larger project which takes place during the Spring
a large section of the beach into two or three
and Summer terms, involved the design of a
adjacent hotel sites and design our own hotels
new museum for the Corps of Royal Engineers
on them. It was a formidable task to provide
on a site in central Chatham. This came with
reasonable transport and pedestrian access
a demanding brief that required students not
arrangements, in addition to coordinating the
only to plan a succession of exhibition spaces for
design of shared facilities across the adjacent
specific exhibits, but also to plan fully functioning
hotels.
library, archive and workshop spaces in some
The principal part of this project was the design
detail. All our stage-three design projects this
of a modular residential unit which could be
year demanded a high level of enquiry and
stacked vertically and horizontally. We looked
analysis into urban sites, and talks and lectures
into the history of modular design in the late
are provided from experts on the various themes
twentieth century and experimented with a
concerned.
vocabulary of modular forms at different scales.
BA (Hons) ARCHITECTURE Urban: a new museum for the Royal Engineers
This was a challenging project because our site
in Chatham
was located not only in the empty backlands of the High Street but also at the interface between
At present the large and varied collection of
two levels, and along one of the major traffic
the Corps of Royal Engineers is housed in a
spines of the town. We plotted the landmarks of
converted laboratory building on the edge of the
the Medway towns and designed schemes that
garrison at Brompton and away from the town
related closely to their immediate urban context
centre. Our project rebuilt the museum and its
but which also conveyed our feelings about
substantial archive in an empty town-centre
military service and commemoration worldwide.
plot immediately to the south of Chatham High Street. Designing our museums required us to
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look carefully at ways of displaying exhibits
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that varied in size from a medal to a tank, and to construct a visual and theoretical narrative that would ensure that a visit to the museum would become a coherent experience.
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Louise Billingham It’s a hard way to live. Deke Leonard
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Emma Clinton ‘If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?’ T.S. Eliot
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Matthew Dennis Messy, carnage, banter, snake bite, jagerbomb, bam, make that a double, lads, beeaauuttiiffuull, valid, dubious, fffffwwe, standard, here she is, are just a few words, phrases and sounds I have come to learn and use in the last and best three years of my life with the best people.
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Nicholas Howe One lesson I have learnt from uni is to never go to the bar with Adam Nightingale
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David Matthews It’s a game of Dave’s dangerous 7’s... it’s a good game, it’s a fast game, it’s a fast game, it’s a good game, to my left...
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Alfonso Saco Díaz Para Titi y Juanjo. ... it’s better to burn out because CAD never sleeps ...
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Rosie Seaman The past three years at KSA have gone incredibly fast and I have gained an enormous amount from my time here – firstly an utmost appreciation for sleep and an unhealthy craving for 35p energy drinks, however most importantly a brilliant group of friends, remarkable memories and a great amount of knowledge from some inspirational tutors – all of which keeps me passionate about architecture.
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Lauren Walker
Hello all! Thank you for all being so welcoming when I was the new girl (especially Jasminge Davey and Quiche Diplock) for taking me under their wing and making my two years at Kent fabulous and vodka-infused! Having studied elsewhere for my first year, I truly appreciate what a fun, laid-back and friendly atmosphere there is at Kent and you all made me so glad I braved the move. Well done to us all for crawling to the finish line. Best of luck.
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BA (Hons) INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE BA (Hons) INTERIOR DESIGN
This year’s Stage 3 comprises 11 Interior Design
“Man dwells when he can orientate himself within
students and 7 Interior Architecture students.
and identify himself with an environment, or, in short,
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when he experiences the environment as meaningful. In Term 1 Stage 3 Interior Design students
Dwelling therefore implies something more than
undertook an exhibition design project in the
‘shelter’. It implies that the spaces where life occurs
main entrance hall at the Victoria and Albert
are ‘places’, in the true sense of the word. A place
Museum; a fore runner to the proposed new
is a space that has character. Since ancient times
furniture gallery space on level 6 as the basis
the genius loci, or ‘ s p i r i t o f p l a c e ‘ has been
of the ‘Event’ module AR508. In the main this
recognized as the concrete reality man has to face and
was a very successful project with high levels of
come to terms with in his daily life”
attainment and results. Genius loci. Towards a phenomenology of Architecture
Stage 3 Interior Architecture students undertook
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the design of the new Boilerhouse Yard Gallery at the V and A as the basis for the ‘Speculate’
The results for Stage 3 Genius Loci Module were
module AR525. In the main these projects
generally very good and in several instances,
produced a more mixed outcome but with some
excellent, which I hoped would be reflected in
interesting results.
the Major Projects, entitled ‘Canterbury City of Palimpsest’
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Looking ahead to next year and perhapsbeyond,
worked as a group on a programme of ‘adaptive
I sincerely look forward to enjoying the
resuscitation’ with a variety of old, obsolete
opportunity to help further improve the teaching
and in most instances, historically important
and learning outcomes of the Interiors courses at
buildings within the City (walls) of Canterbury.
KSA University of Canterbury and fulfilling my
In essence this is a master planning and curatorial
task of shepherding the students towards the
exercise aimed at producing a co-ordinated series
EXIT gates in 2012
of resuscitated buildings with new programmes for reuse, which could significantly enhance the
Stephen Donald
provision of contemporary culture offered by the
Programme Director
City of Canterbury. Overall the results of the Stage 3 students’
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collective and individual endeavours are quite astonishing. Their projects shine like contemporary diamonds in the historic fabric of the host City of Canterbury and they should be extremely proud of themselves, again I certainly am!
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Laura Vitoria ... And now I can sleep :)
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beginning students a hands-on experience of “construction,” albeit of a temporary nature. Students were given a limited palette of materials to work with: bamboo sticks, plastic pipe, plastic sheeting, and cardboard. They learned about structures the hard way, by testing their ideas in full-scale, erecting their huts in one day in front of the Marlowe Building, and spending the night in them in groups. The one week annual Stage One trip, this year to Paris, followed immediately. We visited some of the most important historic and contemporary sites in Paris, including the Quai D’Orsay Museum, the National Library of France, Parc de
At KSA we are fortunate that every year our
la Villette, and Versailles. Students took careful
incoming student body is progressively higher
photographs and filled their sketchbooks, with
in academic standing. This year, my first at KSA,
tutors giving talks and guidance at each site.
as Stage One Coordinator I was privileged to teach a group of students with a higher average
The next design project, titled “Diversions,” was
incoming UCAS score than the average for the
an exercise in manipulating human circulation,
University.
using the Kent campus as a laboratory. Students
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studied sites they had documented for the Teaching in first year is divided between cultural
communications (“Folio”) module, such as the
context, communications, technology, and design
Rutherford bridge, by documenting current
studio, the latter being the place where all that is
movement patterns, and then designing poetic
learned is brought together. Although all aspects
interventions channelling people’s movements
of architecture are introduced, the emphasis
through tectonic and sculptural elements. One
in first year is upon creative synthesis. To this
project is currently under consideration by Kent
end, art projects play a major role in the learning
Creative Campus for actual execution.
experience. Students were also busy with their cultural
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We began the year with presentations of their
context module run by Gerry Adler, “House and
summer projects: the “social hub,” an analysis
Housing,” analyzing an iconic house via model
of a public gathering space; a shoebox filled with
and essay. Within five months of beginning the
items associated with the student’s hometown;
programme, students produced professional-
a drawing and essay describing their earliest
quality architectural models. In the “Folio”
childhood spatial memory. Presentations were
module, run by Howard Griffin, students learned
very relaxed, giving students the chance to
how to communicate through the entire range
get to know each other immediately. The first
of hand drawings, as well as digital media. This
design studio project, repeated from last year,
year they were introduced to using the internet
was a hut-building exercise, designed to give
to promote their work and ideas. On “freehand
Fridays,” students travelled around Kent to
a lecture on the importance of poetic concepts in
assigned sites to make free-hand observational
his own work, showing a beautiful collection
drawings. Artist Patrick Crouch also taught
of his own concept models. Additional design
students life drawing.
lectures were given by local Kent architects in the first year programme: Rebecca Hobbes on
In the technology module, “Enlightenment,”
Kent gardens of Sissinghurst and Dixter, Kate
principles of natural and artificial lighting as
MacLean on concept models, and Henry Sparks
well as other environmental aspects were taught
on traditional English farm building groupings.
by Keith Bothwell and Chris Gardner. With the visiting engineer Ben Godber, students were
The Stepney Farm project consisted not only
introduced to basic structural principles, through
of designing the three buildings—community
fun projects such as “bricks and sticks,” using
centre, crafts centre, and barn—but also arranging
materials ranging from toothpicks to gumdrops,
them on the site and designing gardens, paths,
by making structures tested to “failure” limit.
and other landscape features relating to the farm. Farm were remarkably sophisticated for first year,
first buildings, for Stepney City Farm in East
showing mastery of basic interior space planning,
London. They began with an all-day field trip
building massing and façade design, as well
visiting the Farm, the thirteenth-century St.
as landscape planning and urban analysis. The
Dunstan’s Church across the street, the immediate
Stepney City Farm Trustees have been presented
area of Stepney Green, and the Thames riverfront.
with the best work of the class, and are currently
The Farm, founded in the 1970s, is a thriving
considering prize winners. The second cultural
place, attracting children and adults from all
context module, History of Western Architecture,
over London, yet their existing buildings are in
run by new staff member Manolo Guerci,
dire need of replacement. Students understood
now has additional focus on essay-writing, as
that their designs would provide welcome design
part of understanding important monuments
suggestions for how the site might be further
and traditions. Chris Gardner led the second
developed. On the field trip, they experienced
semester technology module, “Enclose,” where
a landscape observation workshop, a drawing
students learned basic construction detailing and
workshop, and a tour of the area. The Farm is
structural technology, in close coordination with
located in one of the largest green areas in East
design, so that in their first building project, they
London, and thus part of city government plans
included building details and structural sections.
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The final student projects for the Stepney City In the second semester, students designed their
to increase bio-diversity. In conclusion, I would like to thank all of the The Stepney City Farm project was further
tutors for making this first year such a success,
enhanced by studio workshops, one on concept
especially the students themselves, who proved
models given by artists Karen Ay, Helene Kazan,
more than equal to the demanding tasks
Julie Mecoli, and Steve Smith, and two on site
presented to them.
planning and design by landscape architects Eleanor Atkinson, Jade Goto, Emma Less, and
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I started off seeing blogging as a bit pointless, we were told that the blogs were primarily for ourselves so I didn’t get why I had to write down what was
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the trip, students were given ample time to sketch at the various sites that we visited across the city. They were encouraged to photograph, but thoughtfully, so that shots were made to capture analytical points, not just collect a mass of travel snapshots. Staff shared their knowledge of architectural and social history at each site, explaining to students the significance, and guiding them in their visual observations. The students filled their sketchbooks with sketches, both descriptive and analytical, and upon return to Canterbury, these were evaluated in the
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context of the communications module, “Folio.” As Britain’s “European University,” Kent is blessed by its close high-speed connection
David Haney , Stage 1 Co-ordinator
to the Continent, particularly to Paris. This
year’s first year students took advantage of this proximity, spending a week in the “City of Light.” Paris is of course one of the world’s richest cities in architectural gems. In stark contrast to London and other British cities, Paris is renowned for its large-scale urban design interventions, the Grands Boulevards, as well spaces. As such, the stage one Paris trip included not only architecture, but also urban design and landscape objects for study. Recognizing the importance of the Palace of Versailles and its grounds as a paradigm for planning and design,
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as the many former palace grounds and green
The group consisted of 22 students from all stages of the university curriculum, from stage 1 to PhDs. The limited number and the
students also were given an entire day to make
variety of age and experience made this group
careful sketch studies there.
a very lively and most attentive one. One of the PhD students assisted me in the every-day
We began the trip with a pleasant journey on the
organization while in Rome, which made things
Eurostar, and immediately began with a walking
much easier.
sketch tour of the Marais, spending time in the Renaissance Place des Vosges, one of the first
Visits started in the morning between 9.30 and
urban squares in Europe, and observing the many
10am, and generally lasted until 6pm with one-
Baroque “Hotels” in the quarter, in fact large
hour lunch break. A free afternoon was also
aristocratic homes, known for their innovative
given.
spatial planning. The first day finished with a
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As well as showing the students the many
of Paris at night from the rooftop. Throughout
remarkable sites and buildings listed below, I
was also able to organize an important meeting
original building and the green of the plane trees
with the responsible of international relations of
on the approach road.
the Faculty of Engineering/Architecture of the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, with a view of
Musical evenings of various kinds, including
building up a partnership with Kent, at Erasmus,
one in Scharoun’s acoustic and architectural
Ph.D. and research levels.
masterpiece, the Philharmonie, presented welcome interludes to the otherwise unrelenting
The visit to Rome featured major Renaissance
schedule of building gazing.
and Baroque palaces and churches; the Ancient Roman Forum; the E.U.R. Quarter, conceived by
Keith Bothwell, Stage 2 Co-ordinator
Mussolini for the 20th anniversary of Fascism in 1942; the Ara Pacis by Richard Meier and Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI (Museum of art and architecture of the 21st century)
A small group of students from stage two packed a great number of building visits In Week 6 of the 2010/11 Autumn term Stage 4
architectural heritage the city provides a compact and rich catalogue of styles and approaches.
areas in terms of architecture, cultural, urban
May. Berlin’s renaissance as a capital city was accompanied by a twenty-year building boom unparalleled elsewhere in Europe, that has only recently slowed. Together with its earlier
of the MArch Programme at KSA undertook a field trip to San Francisco CA and Washington DC. The purpose of our trip was to develop and understanding of both San Francisco and Washington DC and their surrounding
and landscape conditions. We visited a series Two highlights of the tour offered contrasts
of cultural museums, monuments, parks, and
in scale and approach to the task of adapting
other institutions during our visit. We were also
existing buildings. The masterful, monochrome
concerned with these cities as locations in many
reconstruction of the Neues Museum by David
seminal films of the late 1950s/1960s/1970s. Part
Chipperfield and Julian Harrap creates the
of our trip was dedicated to seeking out and
perfect foil for the beautiful ancient treasures it
visiting the original locations used in the making
contains and especially for Berlin’s most precious
of these films in connection with the interests of a
possession, the exquisite bust of Nefertiti.
concurrent coursework module undertaken in the
Also on the banks of the Spree, a delightful
MArch Stage 4 design studio during the Autumn
reinterpretation of the fire station, by Sauerbruch
term.
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Manolo Guerci, Lecturer in Cultural Context
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Michael Richards, MArch Programme Director
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