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Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design London Metropolitan University

Summer Exhibition 2011

Introduction 2 Live Projects 6 Lectures, Events & Exhibitions 18 ASD Life 24 Level 0 30 First Year 36 Undergraduate Studios 45 Diploma Units 79 Applied Technology in Architecture 119 Integrated Design Studies 127 Duty of Care 131 RIBA Part 3 134 Masters Courses 136 Research & PhD Programme 150 Staff, Tutors & Consultants 158 Students 158

Introduction
Last year I looked forward with some trepidation to a period of great change and uncertainty for higher education, the profession and society. My worries were accurate but these pressures and the changes they are provoking have generated new opportunities for ASD, our students and for practice. The challenge now is to curate these opportunities with clarity and ambition. Since January I have been asked to look at ways that ASD can work more closely with the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Media and Design. In February we staged a joint show entitled At First Sight where the work of the two Faculties shared one space and a natural dialogue began to emerge. Out of this conversation fascinating possibilities are developing. The two Faculties share a deep commitment to the importance of socially engaged forms of practice and to the transformative power of things that are made carefully and well. Care to a wider society and care for production is a powerful combination particularly as we enter a period, in this country, defined by increasing carelessness. During next year we will be exploring how we can share each others expertise and resources. The Cass has a strong craft tradition and amazing workshops. A stronger association will strengthen ASDs commitment to making. The possibilities are very exciting. Next year the two Faculties will also work together on live projects for Aldgate and for High Street 2012. London projects will become the natural meeting place for diverse disciplines that span in scale from the artifact to urban design and the projects will be a laboratory for future disciplinary alliances and inventions. Within ASD there have also been exciting changes. In October we launched our new MA Spatial Planning & Urban Design, delivered in partnership with Design for London. Mark Brearley, Head of DfL and our new Visiting Professor leads the course together with Lara Gibson. The first group of students has engaged enthusiastically, defining a new territory that is neither architecture nor planning but both. Earlier in the year the University launched a call for new Professors. After a very competitive process we were delighted that Maurice Mitchell was made a Professor and that Phil Christou was made an Associate Professor. These positions recognize and strengthen the important work that Maurice does in areas of rapid change and scarce resources and the role ARU plays in leading the Design as Research agenda in the UK. This year the established Research Units were joined by strong new areas such as Work Home lead by Dr Frances Hollis and Musarc lead by Joseph Kohlmaier.

Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design Spring House 4044 Holloway Road London N7 8JL www.londonmet.ac.uk/architecture Designed by Polimekanos Printed by Greenprint

There have also been many live projects linked to design units. Students from the MA Architecture and Digital Design Systems and Unit 4 are the UKs only University team in the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe to design and build a self-sufficient house powered by solar energy. Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Torange Khonsari and their students in Studio 3 have also been busy, building an outdoor theatre in Germany, three community and trade centres near Kolkata and leading a project in Liverpool. The resourcefulness of our students has been a strong theme this year. Prompted by the grim economic situation students have been generating their own projects and setting up new forms of practice. Students from Unit 6 were part of the BD Class of 2010 for the classroom they built in India and last month three students from the Free Unit were the winners in the RSA/AF Resourceful Architect awards. The harsh economic context facing the practices associated with the Faculty has not stopped them being equally successful. Five of the practices delivering design units won major awards in the Architects of the Year with Deborah Saunt of DSDHA winning the Architect of the Year award and Education Architect of the Year. External changes have also driven our exhibition and lecture programme. In the autumn, Kieran Long and I curated the Rip it Up and Start Again series. Six lectures focused on the past and six on the future with the series culminating in a PechaKucha night in the Gopher Hole. The whole series can be viewed at www.ripitupandstartagain.org. The theme concluded with an exhibition of Mark Prizemans extraordinary photographs of London from the early 1980s, London Before You Knew It, which asked the question what are the new sites and opportunities for the future? So as we move into next year the possibilities are tantalizing. Without change architects and designers are redundant. These are tough times but the extraordinary students and staff you will see represented in the show are ideally placed to lead the processes of change in practice and society with care and compassion. In fact it is our duty. Professor Robert Mull, Dean

ASD Projects
ASD Projects are: Cheryl Appleby, Anne Markey, Robert Mull, Jen Ng, Shamoon Patwari, Stefanie Rhodes and Bo Tang

ASD Projects is a live projects office and RIBA Chartered Practice embedded within the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design at London Met. We provide a supportive professional environment that allows students and staff to undertake consultancy commissions and research projects as well as providing project management support to live projects carried out by students as part of their course work. Live Projects & Research ASD Projects have been supporting London Mets successful bid to take part in the Solar Decathlon 2012 competition to be held in Madrid next year. London Met is one of just 20 institutions from around the world and the only UK university chosen to take part in the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe competition to design and build a self-sufficient house powered only by solar energy. The Projects Office has been working with Team Heliomet, a group formed of students from the MA in Architecture Digital Design Systems and Unit 4. Specialist input is provided by students from the MSc in Architecture, Energy and Sustainability and students from

Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Media and Design and the Faculty of Computing as well as from construction industry professionals. Bo Tang and Shamoon Patwari of ASD Projects continued to work on the designs for a variety of projects in India during the year. A De-centralised Wastewater Treatment System (DEWATS) is the final phase of the Kuchhpura Sanitation Upgrading Project in Agra. Construction was completed in October 2010. DEWATS is the first such system in Agra, and has generated much interest in the local press. Students and ASD Projects staff have made two trips to Sierra Leone in the past year, spending four weeks undertaking physical and cultural surveys of two communities in collaboration with NGO CESO. Bo Tang and Shamoon Patwari have prepared designs for a primary school for the community of Kaningo, where construction began in September 2010. ASD Projects and Public Works collaborated with London Met Business School and an Indian social enterprise, Banglanatak, to deliver three community and trade centres in villages near Kolkata as part of a wider cultural and touristic development programme funded by a European Union programme Investing in People. Torange Khonsari of Public Works and of ASD Studio 3 designed three buildings that were constructed under the supervision of Tobi Sofela, an ASD graduate. Future phases of the project are also planned.

1 Team Heliomets model at Construmat fair, Barcelona 24 De-centralised Wastewater Treatment System (DEWATS) planted with Caynha, Agra

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5 Community Building near Kolkata 6&7 Studio 3, Millfields Primary School workshop 8 Ivor Leigh School community meeting 9 Ivor Leigh Memorial Primary School in Karingo, Sierra Leone

ASD Projects is supporting Project Odessa Strategies for Transition: a 10 day multidisciplinary workshop in September 2011, to be based at Kuyalnik sanatorium on Odessas northern fringe. The workshop is a collaboration between Unit 10 run by Signy Svalastoga, ASD Projects, Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Kuyalnik Sanatorium. This research based workshop will involve a series of specialist seminars, workshops and site explorations including walks, site precision drawings, observation and mapping, diagrams, lectures, seminars and workshops hosted by invited guest experts in the elds of architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, engineering and urbanism. Jen Ng of ASD Projects is currently working with Torange Khonsari and Sandra Denicke-Polchers Studio 3 to consult Millfields Primary School on their play spaces following completion of a live project in 2009. In March 2011 Studio 3 students consulted 78 year olds at Millfields Primary School on design proposals for Toys, by placing these objects in the playground. The results of the consultation informed designs for a reading room requested

by the school, and forms the basis for producing a playground masterplan for the school. ASD students live projects work was presented during the year by Sandra DenickePolcher and Anne Markey at the Healthy Design, Creative Safety research symposium at Sheffield University and at the Live Projects 2011 colloquium at Queens University, Belfast. Live projects will also feature in a CEBE and SCHOSA funded book due to be published by ASD Projects later this year called International Interactions, Examining Research into Alternative Practices in Architectural Education. The publication develops experience of practitioners and teachers involved in architectural education beyond the traditional studio environment.

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CPD & Capacity Building ASD Projects, with the Architecture Foundation and Pippa Gueterbock of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA), curated the third International Architecture Student Festival (IASF) last Summer as part of LFA 2010. 19 interventions and events from 14 institutions including RMIT in Melbourne, Innsbruck University and First Year students from ASD, were developed for public locations on High Street 2012 and in the Bankside Urban Forest area in Southwark. ASD Projects were asked by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the RIBA Education Forum to co-ordinate a national academic programme linked to the Primary Capital Programme and Building Schools for the Future. The project offered school children an opportunity to be actively involved in design, and cultivated links between higher education institutions and local schools. An exhibition at the RIBA in September 2010 documented the programme. The fifth Schools Design CPD course took place in November 2010, run by ASD Projects and the Institute of Education, in partnership with the RIBA. The course covered various aspects of schools design and procurement through lectures, participatory workshops, and a site visit to Westminster Academy. RIBA and ASD Projects Office ran a third refresher course in September 2010 for architects wishing to return to practice.

The three-day programme included a practice visit to Ash Sakula, a site tour by East, social events and seminars. A fourth Return to Practice Course is planned for September 2011. ASD Projects were partners of the International Women in Architecture conference in 2010, chaired by RIBA president elect, Angela Brady. London Met hosted two events in October 2010: a Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) funded student workshop led by Sumita Sinha, Course Leader of MA Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources, and an evening reception at The Womens Library with a talk by its architect Clare Wright. A further workshop led by Sumita Sinha on Participatory Design, also funded by CEBE, is planned for 1st July 2011 at The Womens Library as part of their Visible in Stone programme. Between October and December 2010, Stefanie Rhodes of ASD Projects took the first cohort of seven Free Unit students to study at Korea National University of Arts (KNUA) in Seoul. The British Council funded programme was visited by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou of ARU and included two international symposia. The reciprocal visit was made to London in April 2011, when the Korean students were accompanied by their academics for a 10 day workshop to participate in the Urban Laboratory, developing designs based in Seoul and London.

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10 Schools Ideas Project Exhibition at RIBA 11 High St 2012 Ideas Stall at the London Festival of Architecture Summer 2010 12 Schools Design CPD Workshop 13 Returners Course CPD 14 Participatory Design Workshop, International Women in Architecture Conference 15 Free Unit at the Fish Market, Seoul

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Architecture Research Unit aru.londonmet.ac.uk

In addition to the ongoing building design projects Florian Beigel, Philip Christou and the research staff at the Architecture Research Unit have been working on during the past year, they have written and designed a new book titled, Architecture as City, Saemangeum Island City. (see image and caption) The book presents the design process and discusses the architectural design concepts of the ARU Saemangeum Island City urban design as research project. The ARU Saemangeum project was shown in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 People Meet in Architecture exhibition directed by Kazuyo Sejima. Current Projects The working relationship that ARU has had with Paju Book City in Korea since the late 1990s continues. The 2nd phase urban design is taking shape. A number of Korean film, computer software companies and book publishers are planning to build at Paju. ARU has been invited by Seung H-Sang, Director of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale (opening Sept. 2011) to design one of the 13 urban follies to be built in the centre of the city Gwangju, South Korea. The ARU folly is titled, Seowonmoon Lantern. In the UK design projects at Hadspen Estate in Somerset are ongoing. The Gardeners House detail construction drawings are currently being made. With Crispin Kelly and Baylight properties, ARU is continuing to work on Crispins neighbourhood shared space ideas, working on the design of a hamlet with productive shared gardens. Seowonmoon Lantern, Gwangju, Korea ARUs intention is to strengthen and raise the quality of the public spaces of the city where ever there is an opportunity. The site for this urban folly is on the south pavement of Jebong Street situated along the North-East section of the former city wall of Gwangju. This is a lively place, particularly the 36 meter memory pavement from the former Seowon East Gate of the ancient city wall, to the monument making us thoughtful about the18 May 1980 citizens

uprising in Gwangju in the place of the former MBC Broadcasting House. Between the monuments is a busy bus stop always with people waiting and looking across the street to the Chonnam Girls High School. The setback in front of the Kim Jae Gyu Police Academy building forms an informal public gathering place fitted with raised timber platforms with built-in benches that are shared by the students and members of the public. They inspire ideas of theatre and performance of the everyday and have a lot of potential to attract people. Older citizens take a rest observing people passing by, and some students meet here and wait for their friends. Clearly it is a place of exchange from busses to bicycles or motorcycles. We are thinking we can heighten the attraction of this place by designing an odd tower house a small stage tower. The folly could potentially have many unpredictable uses such as musical performances, a rendezvous place where one can sit and wait for the bus. We also would like to incorporate a small space in the upper part of the tower for magpies and other birds to nest and give good fortune to the citizens. The little stage tower is composed of a base (socle) with a four corner post frame with two ring beams. The frame has two levels, a piano nobile (3.0m high), and a clerestory at the top (1.2m high). Stiff L shaped elements of different proportions are placed in each of the 8 wall panels (4 piano nobile wall panels and 4 clerestory panels) to provide lateral stability to the frame. The Youl Hwa Dang Book Hall Building at Paju Bookcity is an exposed in-situ cast concrete building with many reliefs in the external wall surfaces. The quality of the concrete is excellent. We think it might be very good to construct the little tower with in-situ concrete. We like the monolithic single material aesthetic. The tectonic L shaped elements are expressed in reliefs on the concrete surface.

1 Architecture as City, Saemangeum Island City by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, Architecture Research Unit, London, published by Springer-Verlag Vienna New York, 2010, 160pp., hardcover, isbn: 978-3-7091-0367-8. Available to purchase online at: http://www.springer.com 2 Installation view, Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 People Meet in Architecture, Architecture Research Unit Saemangeum Island City project (photo: Bumsuk Chung). In late August 2010, as part of the Venice Biennale, Hans Ulrich Obrist made a video interview with Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, titled: NOW INTERVIEWS, that can be viewed online: http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmNcwgHsc4&fe ature=related. More recently another web-based video interview was made by Pilar Pinchart, titled: close up, Florian Beigel + Philip Christou, Landscape Infrastructure, see: http://skfandra-tv.tumblr.com/ post/5067142607/beigel. Watch out for San Rocco issue No.2 of, The Even Covering of the Field, that will have a little piece by ARU 3 Seowonmoon Lantern, Gwangju, ARU initial design concept model and timber viewing platform on the left. photo: Philip Christou 4 Design study of shared space hamlet project for Crispin Kelly, Baylight Properties, May 2011. Sketch: Florian Beigell

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Previous page Seowonmoon Lantern, Jebong Street elevation. Drawing: Bumsuk Chung 6 Erechtheum, Acropolis, Athens. Photo: Philip Christou 7 Tectonic relief of the public facade of Youl Hwa Dang Book Hall Building, Paju Bookcity, Korea. Photo: Philip Christou 8 Seowonmoon Memory Lantern, South elevation 9 Seowonmoon Lantern, design study. sketch: Florian Beigel, Philip Christou, January 2011 10 Seowonmoon Lantern, view looking west along the Jebong Street footpath. Drawing: Alex Bank 11 Mr. Kang Un-tae, mayor of the Gwangju City and Seung H-Sang, the Co-Director of the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 are looking at ARU Seowonmoon Lantern project in the exhibition as a part of the Urban Folly Projects Ground breaking ceremony, May 2011

Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, Urban Folly Projects, Korea Directors: Seung H-Sang, Ai Wei Wei; Urban Folly Curator: Kim Young Joon; Architects: Florian Beigel, Philip Christou, Alexander Bank, Tom Bates, Bumsuk Chung; Korean coordinating & support team: Jong Hwan Ahn, Young Eun Shin; Exhibition dates: 2 September 23 October 2011

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Public lecture series, symPosia, debates & exhibition oPenings

EvEryday Extraordinary
Monday lunchtiMe talks, hosted by diana cochrane

1316 September 2010 Musarc Field Studies 2010: Summer school exploring the city through listening and recorded sound 1517 September 2010 London Met Return to Practice Course 30 September 2010 David Jolly: Ephemeral architecture 2 November 2010 Participatory design day 45 November 2010 Schools Design Workshops: London Met Schools Design CPD Course at RIBA 10 December 2010 Musarc Christmas Concert St Bartholomew the Great 10 February 2011 An Architectural Exchange between Britain and Portugal: Nuno Grande and Paulo Providncia, debate moderated by Kieran Long

16 February 2010 Symposium: Introducing the Workhome 8 March 2011 Shared Spaces and Shared Conversations: Undergraduate Celebration Day, chaired by Elly Ward 8 March 2011 Cottrell & Vermeulen: School architects under attack 10 March 2011 Kim Jong-Kyu (Metropolitan Architecture Research Unit, Seoul): Built, being built, unbuilt 15 March 2011 At First Sight: a conversation (CASS/ASD) 24 March 2011 Post Works: Stage City performance and architecture

31 March 2011 Pub Talk: spatial settings to eat and drink (MA&DE at London Met) 6 April 2011 Professor Peter Carl: Architecture and the phenomenon of horizon 7 April 2011 Musarc concert Chambers 07/04/2011 12 May 2011 Mark Prizeman: London before you knew it 23 June 2011 ASD Summer Exhibition 2011

18 October 2010 Maurice Mitchell: Shifting places 25 October 2010 David Kohn of David Kohn Architects 22 November 2010 Supplementary Cinema: Hockney + Whiteread 29 November 2010 Frances Holliss: Work, Home, City

6 December 2010 Rufus Willis of Cottrell and Vermeulen: Finished? Architecture as process not product 28 February 2011 Sabine Storp: About conceptual models 21 March 2011 Patrick Lynch: Landscape and portrait

28 March 2011 Florian Beigel & Philip Cristou, Architecture Research Unit 11 April 2011 Joseph Kohlmaier: Variations on a theme. The mediumship of sound in architecture

Right heRe Right Now

a series of Tuesday lunchTime Talks, chaired by Geoff shearcrofT/aoc

19 October 2010 Studio 1 presents: Practice Architecture & Studio Superniche 26 October 2010 Studio 2 present: Charles Holland of FAT on Thornton Heath Library

2 November 2010 Studio 3 present: Public Works on relational architecture practice 23 November 2010 Sarah Wigglesworth of SWA presents: Sandal Magna Community Primary School

17 March 2011 Studio 5 present: Matthew Darbyshire 22 March 2011 Sadie Morgan of dRMM presents: Keep on moving

London Before You Knew It exhibition opening. Photo: Mark Prizeman

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Exhibitions, AsD GAllEry

230 September 2010 National Schools Ideas Project: Exhibition co-ordinated by ASD Projects (Gallery 2, RIBA) 30 September 14 October 2010 David Jolly: Ephemeral architecture 10 December 2010 25 January 2011 The Anatomy of Orford Ness: An exhibition by Diploma Unit 7

310 February 2011 The Second City: Studies on Porto and its peripheries. An exhibition by Diploma Unit 2 16 February 4 March 2011 Introducing the Workhome 825 March 2011 Cottrell & Vermeulen: Four Schools 15 March 13 April 2011 CASS/ASD: At First Sight: a conversation (Unit 2 Gallery, Central House)

1228 May 2011 Mark Prizeman: London before you knew it 24 June 7 July 2011 ASD Summer Exhibition 2011

Metropolitan architecture & Design exchange

MA&DE is a registered student society, committed to enhance the social and cultural experience within the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design. This years activities were planned in line with the programme established in the previous academic year. We organized the exhibition The Second City, in collaboration with Diploma Unit 2, which was displayed in our schools gallery. It included a film screening of a students conversation with lvaro Siza, recorded in Porto during a study trip. In parallel to the show, we continued the Exchange lecture series initiated in early 2010. An Architectural Exchange Between Britain and Portugal complemented the exhibition with a book launch and a conversation between Portuguese and British architects and critics: Nuno Grande, Paulo Providncia and Kieran Long. It was a highly attended and inspirational evening! Our activities extended beyond Spring House and Eden Grove. We established a collaboration with a media partner, Design Exchange Magazine, to organize an event that will hopefully become a series of Pub Talks Spatial Settings to Eat and Drink. Assuming the local pub as a place of encounters and exchange of ideas, we invited emerging designers, artists and architects to present and discuss projects

about food and drink, the two key ingredients to start a good conversation. The multidisciplinary group of participants included Niall Gallacher (House of Jonn), James Gilpin, Nicolas Henninger(EXYZT), David Knight, Lisa Ma and Nicola Read (815 Agency). The vivacious set of presentations was followed by a cheerful break and a debate moderated by David Kohn, a tutor at FASD. We are also faithful to the tradition of organizing the End of Year Party, on the night of the exhibition opening. In the next academic year, we will be looking for active collaborators, so if you wish to get involved, please contact us. We appreciate every students suggestions and ideas. Holloway Roads The Bailey pub has long been a semiofficial haunt for London Met architecture students, yet on Thursday night (31 March 2011) it stepped up a notch to official venue with Pub Talk, a series of lectures about food, drink and architecture. Architectural Journal, 7 April 2011
Images: Pub Talk at The Bailey, 31 May 2011, Photo: Paulo Moreira

Anatomy of Orford Ness (Diploma Unit 7), Photo: David Grandorge

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Rip it Up and StaRt again

12 Lectures on Architecture And the city

Rip It Up and Start Again is a lecture series curated by Robert Mull and Kieran Long to place the work of the school in relation to broader debates about the city. The events consisted of presentations, responses from invited guests, and reactions from the audience. From 7 October to 16 December 2010 the events ran contemporaneously with seismic political and economic shifts. In this time of institutional change, the series questioned our critique of contemporary architecture and urbanism, considering the new circumstances and asking what we would put in its place. The first half of the series, under the rubric of Rip It Up looked critically at how architecture

and urbanism have failed British cities in the last decade. The second half, called Start Again, looked at the things that we think present an ethical and meaningful approach to architecture and the city, as well as considering in detail works of architecture that represent the things we like in contemporary architecture. To invite responses to the series, a PechaKucha night was held at the Gopher Hole in Shoreditch. Students and lecture attendees were invited to air their views by showing 20 slides for 20 seconds per slide. The night also launched a website to provide a living archive of the series and associated events: www.ripitupandstartagain.org

7 October 2010 INTRO WHAT IS THE CITY FOR? Peter Carl 14 October 2010 RIP IT UP #1 WHAT IS THE CONTEMPORARY CITY MADE OF? Owen Hatherley 21 October 2010 RIP IT UP #2 THE END OF THE THAMES GATEWAY DREAM Mark Brearley (Design for London), Geoff Shearcroft (AOC) 28 October 2010 RIP IT UP #3 CITY AS SHOPPING OPPORTUNITY LIVERPOOL Paul Domela (Liverpool Biennial), Torange Khonsari (Studio 3)

4 November 2010 RIP IT UP #4 THE POLITICS OF REGENERATION BELFAST David Brett, Mark Hackett (Forum for Alternative Belfast), responses from Fran Balaam and Michael Corr (Pie), Lara Gibson (Design for London) and Ines Weizman 11 November 2010 RIP IT UP #5 The Troublemakers: Independent practice and its targets This Is Not a Gateway, Practice Architecture, The Cineroleum Collective 25 November 2010 START AGAIN #1 STARTING AGAIN Professor Peter Carl, David Kohn, Anne Markey, Maurice Mitchell, Maria Smith

2 December 2010 START AGAIN #2 THE AFTERLIFE: PREPERATIONS FOR ONCE THE ARCHITECT LEAVES THE SITE Liza Fior (Muf Architecture/Art) 9 December 2010 START AGAIN #3 THE IDEA OF CITY Florian Beigel and Philip Cristou (Architecture Research Unit) 16 December 2010 START AGAIN/YOURE DOING IT RIGHT #4 SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE CITY Dann Jessen, Julian Lewis, Judith Lsing (East) and Sam Jacobs (FAT)

PECHAKUCHA NIGHT 2 March 2011 01 Fiona Scott (Gort Scott) High Street London 02 Priscilla Fernandes and Harriet Haseler (Unit 12) Small interventions in the Big Society: Explorations into the local along the A11 03 Liam Morrisey (MA Spatial Design and Urban Planning) The only way to affect change is to effect change 04 Frank Farci and Barnaby Hughes (Studio 9) Belfast An Lon Dubh 05 Lucy Dinnen and Henry Jones (Unit 8) Smart Cities: The future of urban planning?

06 Jon Goodbun (rheomode) Re-imagining the possibility of planning or, how to become an urban ecologist 07 Tom Randall Page (Diploma Unit 5) Why buildings shouldnt look like fish 08 Gary Poon (Diploma Unit 10) Consumption, waste and the periphery 09 Jonas Lundberg (UFO) Parametrics, parametrics, parametrics 10 Paulo Moreira (ASD PhD) Tear it down and start again

11 Nicola Read (815agency) Playfulness and the city: Events in the void 12 Nina Gerada (Diploma Unit 10) We must kill the father or, 20 ways to Rip It Up 13 Elly Ward (Studio 2) Big shed society

Images: PechaKucha night at the Gopher Hole. Fiona Scott (Gort Scott) presenting her PechaKucha (left)

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1 Early morning gathering of Unit 1 in the Piazza Ges Nuovo in Naples, Italy, 12 November 2010. The large cloistered gardens of the Monastero Di Santa Chiara are just behind the buildings on the piazza on the left of the photo. The students are waiting to meet an architect in Naples, Professor at the Architecture School in Naples and an old friend of ASD, Ferruccio Izzo, who gave an impassioned and highly informative tour of several monastery cloisters in the ancient center of Naples. Photo: Philip Christou 2 Adam Gelniak making measurements with other Unit 1 students of the ruined remains of a colonnade in the Ancient Roman courtyard garden of the Casa dArgo in the archaeological excavation at Heraculaneum, November, 2010. One has to imagine these

houses before the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD to have been brightly coloured, lavish (sometimes garish) holiday houses of nouveau riche families from Naples. The edge of the Mediterranean Sea was within 20 meters of this courtyard. Photo: Philip Christou 3 Studio 7 on the bus to Agra from Delhi, November 2010 4 Unit 4 exploring the wonderful lava-formed landscape of Cappadocia 5 Unit 5 visit a gondelier workshop in Venice 6 Unit 6, Vanessa Lee, Rebecca Johnston, Victoria, Timberlake, Rachel OGrady, Jonathan Weaver and Oliver Beardon involved in a creative workshop session with women and children in a calm shaded open space amongst the goats in the peri-urban village of Kutchhpura, India. Unit 6 has been working since 2006 on live

projects with the Indian NGO CURE, inserting internal toilets, constructing a waste water treatment plant and a tea room with a view of the Taj Mahal, paving streets and pathways and supporting diverse livelihood programmes in this historic settlement on the outskirts of Agra 7 Studio 1 with MJ Long at Porthmeor Studio in St Ives 8 Unit 7 students looking out to the sea at night whilst staying on Orford Ness 9 Unit 8, trip to Dsseldorf. Workshop with students of the Dsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and the TU Delft. Henry Jines of London Met introducing their groups scenario game themes 10 Work Home Project symposium Introducing the Workhome, February 2011 11 Studio 5 at Stockholms Woodland Cemetery.

Studio 5 travelled to Finland and Sweden in December 2011 in the grip of the most severe winter in living memory. In Helsinki we discovered Aaltos work and visited the office of Huttunen Lipasti Pakkanen Architects. We visited buildings by Aalto, Pietel and the Sirns in the Otaniemi Campus and the brutalist architecture of Ruusuvouri in nearby Tapiola. After arriving in Stockholm on the overnight Baltic ferry, we met architect Johan Celsing, who showed working drawings and models of his new building at Stockholms Woodland Cemetery. We later explored Lewerentz and Asplunds masterwork in a blizzard, quite certain we were the only living souls there 15 The Free Unit in Texas on their way to Marfa 13 Studio 1, urban modeling

workshop, London 14&15 Unit 12, field trip to Istanbul. Arrival by sea to Constantinople, across the Bosphorus under the watchful gaze of Atatrk to disembark beneath the Mackerel fishermen of the Galata Bridge; A day of procession along the Divan Yolu starting with breakfast and hippies at the pudding shop, Friday prayers at Suleymaniye Camii and a steep ascent of the city walls leading to meze and Raki with the Istanbul intelligentsia; Finally a pilgrimage from the bustle of the bazaar into the maze of the Valide Han directed by a dervish to the rooftop for the midday call to prayer, sailing up the Golden Horn past the shipyards and climbing through the hillside cemetery to the tomb of Eyp for a nice cup of tea

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16 Studio 6 at Eyjafjallajkull 17 Level 0 and Level 1 students swap ideas and projects during a design workshop run as part of Celebration Week 18 Unit 7 visited Orford Ness on the Suffolk Coast from 2022 October 2010 19 Unit 4 descending into the Rose Canyon 20 Unit 4 takes an overnight bus to the region of Cappadocia 21 Studio 1, house walk in London 22 Daniel Wainwright and Patrick Fryer of Unit 7 and their tutor David Grandorge visit the Culham Science Centre on 18 February 2011 to see the Joint European Torus (JET), the most advanced fusion reactor in the world to date. This will be supplanted by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) that is currently under construction in the south of France 23&2 4 Studio 8s study

trip (November 2010) combined visits to Ljubljana in Slovenia, and to nearby Venice, Italy. In Ljubljana, the students surveyed a number of Joze Plecniks urban fragments, identifying how his eccentric architecture contributes to the public space of the city. The resulting drawings and observations of these precedent studies were later collated into booklets as a collective study of exemplary urban interventions. In Venice, apart from battling with unusually high waters, we studied the specific urban and spatial qualities of the venetian palazzo and campo typologies; we also visited the Architecture Biennale during its last few days 25 Unit 8: five unit members playing the Celebration Week scenario game on the Sector T and E map 26 Regent Street Windows Project

work in progress. Unit 11 was invited by the RIBA to participate in this years Regent Street Windows Project. As part of a new Urban Constitution for an imagined Free State of Soho, propositions engaging with the contemporary notion of Exchange within the scale of a city block were presented in the windows of Banana Republic on Sohos western boundary 27&28 Unit 2 study trip: We visited Porto in October, December and February. We visited buildings by Tvora, Siza and Souto de Moura (Lea da Palmeira, Vila do Conde, Viana do Castelo) and architecture schools (FAUP and Guimares). We tasted local gastronomy and wine at Quinta de Bero (Fafe), a lesson on Portuguese culture and vernacular architecture. We sang on the bus. We had dinners in

cheap and ugly restaurants (ugly in a good way). We went to the nicest bars, danced in old houses turned into night clubs and organized a PechaKucha event to interact with local creative professionals. Ah, and right at the end of the trip in December, we met Siza! 29&30 MA Spatial Planning and Urban Design students on their whistlestop roadtrip of planning and design in BelfastNewcastle-Redcar-Whitby-ScarboroughLiverpool-Port Sunlight-Milton-KeynesWelwyn Garden City 31 Unit 5 site visit up Deptford Creek at low tide

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32&33 Studio 7 at Fatipur Sikri, the ancient capital of India, November 2010 34 Studio 2 have been on a range of road trips this year, exploring pre- and post-suburban buildings, sited in all manner of parks. For our Grand Tour we drove through the big infrastructure and epic sheds of Northern Europe, staying at Ghent, Rotterdam and Duisburg. This photograph captures our dawn raid on the Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer (Aalsmeer Flower Auction) in full swing. The third largest shed in the world, on the outskirts of Amsterdam, it houses the daily exchange of 20 million flowers. Challenging our optimistic notions of a productive architecture. its crude construction facilitates a vast, energy-intense, global industry. Whilst providing moments of pure sci-fi joy for tourists, it left us with

a lingering impression that maybe, just maybe, modern life is rubbish. Photo: Hasan Abbas 35 Extended Degree (Level 0) visit to Edinburgh, 711 May 2011: on the first day we visited Miralless New Parliament, whose impressive combination of wild imagination and control is best observed in the details. Then, after a long but rewarding ascent through Holyrood Park we reached Arthurs Seat. On the stone that marks the highest point in Edinburgh, at 860m above the sea, a student inscribed London Metropolitan Architecture Year 0 was here. Beautiful. We looked out to all directions and tried to grasp with one gaze as much as possible of the city and its history. From there on everything seemed less arduous. Wherever you go in Edinburgh, you are exposed to many of the

citys architectural layers simultaneously. We looked at the New Towns planning sequences, sketched buildings (Adams Register House, Tron Kirk, St Giles, the Old College, the Scott Monument), explored the labyrinthine Old Town and found its hidden courtyards, we walked along the Water of Leith with its picturesque views. On the last evening the two groups reunited at Humes grave and walked up to Calton Hill. We spent a few hours there, sketching the idiosyncratic projects, enjoying the views to the city and unwinding in the sunshine. One of us said out loud what we were all thinking: dont want to go back 36 The Free Unit. The Seoul Seven taking part in an overnight project swapping workshop in a traditional Korean Hanok 37 Studio 5 at the Celsing archive,

Stockholm. Photo: Max Burgess 38 Studio 4, boat trip to the Golden Horn 39&40 Studio 4 on Valide Han rooftops 41 Unit 11 on the High Line. The Unit visited SoHo in New York City in November 2010 as a counterpoint to our studies of Soho in London to investigate density, innovation and preservation, and the evolution of retail and public space 42 MA Spatial Planning and Urban Design student at workshop 43&4 4 Unit 3, Poetry at the rivers edge, a series of walks developed with artist Ashley McCormick. Take me to the river procession: Agata Podgajna, Madgalena Prus, Louise Ducy and Fiona Davies. The group built a float with children of Arc in the Park, following a story they heard about St Lukes church being built on a raft so it would remain in a case of the neigh-

bourhood flooding. The raft was carried from St Lukes church, past the docks, under the flyover and eventually released into the Thames 45 UG Interior Architecture students drawing Venice 46 Musarc Christmas Concert, December 2011. The audience and the choirs conductor Cathy Heller Jones interact with Kite & Lasletts Candescence installation in the nave of St Bartholomew the Great. The weather balloon responds to touch and sound, illuminating the auditorium and playing the sounds back to the audience through four speakers positioned around the perimeter of the space. Photo: Yiannis Katsaris 47 Undergraduate Studio 3, mobile outdoor event space for Kronberg, Frankfurt. Project in collaboration with student Craig Harrison-Smith and the Projects Office

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Tutors: Aleks Catina, Hector Arkomanis, Inigo Minns, Ivana Sehic, Nick Wood, Onkar Kula, Carl Fraser, Manuela Barczewski, Nicholas Brooks, Rose Nag, Gonzalo Perez Coello

Level 0 of the Extended Degree introduces students to the principles of design and architecture. On a year-long pathway towards the First Year we lay a foundation for the accumulation, development and application of practical and academic skills. Our students are encouraged to observe the world closely; to measure, capture and narrate; finally, to propose and build. The outcome of a years work can be described as a progression towards openness. The development of practical and conceptual skills aims to broaden the students engagement with the spatial disciplines. First, students begin to share the richness they perceive in the social and material reality of the city. The starting point for their own design interventions is conceiving and making devices which amplify qualities they have identified around them. Device proposals drawn or built draw attention to elements

and possibilities inherent in the daily life of the city, yet often dismissed or overlooked. Our primary concern is to enable novel ways of seeing through empirical learning, close observation and attention to detail. Openness, as the prerequisite of exploration, is the guiding principle of the work. This attitude translates from a conceptional standpoint to the quality we strive for in the representation of our ideas. The students are introduced to a wide array of means of representation (drawing, photography, testing, making) which help describe the richness of the everyday. At this level, the process of designing remains a lucid affair, descriptive of the students own path towards an understanding of their participatory role in the modern city.
Critics: Sabine Storp, Chi Roberts, Jane Mcallister, Diana Cochrane, Viktor Jak, Andy Stone, Giulia Bonali

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Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Diana Cochrane, Ian Ferguson, Thomas Hillier, Pedro Gil, Jane Mcallister, Chi Roberts, Gareth Stokes, Tania Lopez Winkler Visiting tutor: Mark Prizeman

One Level 1 students are presented with a series of briefs that deal with many scales of architecture, from tiny, personal details to urban spaces and their communities. Their challenge is to begin to develop their own voices and approaches to orchestrating the elements of architecture and to be able to communicate their design ideas through drawings and other visual media. With each project we explore and discuss the practice and inspirations of contemporary architects and designers not just big guns but also those who live, work and react to the cities that we all know and share. In Semester A, we start out with small things and are learning to find complexity and magnificence in the familiar and ordinary. We focus on 8 sites in our local area, Highbury, and all the contradictions these embody for both private and public interaction. In Semester B, we step up in scale and start dealing with the complex interactions of space and community that occur in a London neighbourhood. Our chosen neighbourhood is Seven Sisters, an area in flux, transformed from a rural satellite of London to a densely diverse urban neighbourhood with 8oo languages spoken. Throughout its recent history, each community that has occupied Seven Sisters has left its own mark on the area by adapting, re-interpreting and adding to the built environment. We are looking at three distinct sites, each occupied by very different communities. These are complex places. We are not designing for ourselves but exploring and recording the communities that already occupy them. We have met with representatives from the various communities; market traders, bodybuilders, artists, historians & charities. We are searching for qualities and ambitions that already exist, however modest, and imagining future possibilities that both develop these as well as offering up new possibilities for transformation. We are taking into account both public and private elements and exploring how the relationship between these two types of activities can be exploited to benefit existing

communities as well as offering new types of interaction. Two Wards Corner Market site Wards Corner indoor market is located at the intersection of Tottenham High Road and Seven Sisters Road, just above the Seven Sisters tube station. The market building was originally the Wards Department Store, which closed in the 1970s. In the last decades, it has emerged as a Colombian cultural hub, with Colombian restaurants, stores, butchers and barbers. Haringey Council is currently working towards redeveloping the market and surrounding shops. This has provoked a huge response from local residents wanting to preserve the market and has led to a court battle between the locals, developer and Council. Three Fountayne Road site The Fountayne Road site is an industrial stretch of warehouses in an out of the way location between Tottenham Hale and Seven Sisters tube stations, bounded by railway lines and retail parks. The large, cheap spaces and its hiddenness have made it appealing to an enormous variety of uses. All kinds of peripheral communities have moved in and adapted the buildings to their needs mostly in an adhoc way. Four Markfield Park site The Markfield Park site is bounded by the Overground, the Lee River and residential neighbourhoods. Along the edge of the park are the remains of a Victorian sewage treatment plant. The concrete foundations make long cuts across the landscape. The pump house has been preserved and is now the Markfield Beam Engine Museum. Next to this, the Markfield Project is a charity-run event and play space. Until recently, the area was derelict and overgrown but has now received funding for regeneration.

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Tutor: Chianna Roberts

Part time Architecture and Interior Architecture undergraduate courses students can take the Architecture and Interior Architecture courses in the part time mode. The standard route takes five years. Part time students are fully integrated with the full time students at all levels and in all subjects. Part time students come from a wide range of backgrounds; those who wish to change careers and those who are developing their previous education and experience in a new direction.

1 Zoe Arnold, Part time Architecture Year 3 (Studio 2) 2 Chris Heal, Part time year 4 (studio8), city view 3 William Beeston, Part time year 3 (Studio 8), Royal VIctoria Hospital, strategic drawing explaining my proposal to reconnect the hospital with Dunville Park and the wider neighbourhood 4 Max Burgess, Part time year 3 (Studio 5), Rural Campus; 1:200 Model. Final scheme a small rural outpost campus of an art institution. Set in a secluded field in West Sussex the campus is divided into three parts; small administration building, a flexible studio space and accommodation for twenty people. All three buildings exist under one barn-like roof 5 William Beeston, Royal Victoria Hospital, detail section showing the structure of the new building as well as how the new space connects with the existing building and courtyard 6 Max Burgess, Rural Campus; 1:20 Model of accommodation. An image of the entrance to a bedroom located on the east part of the site. A walkway runs the length of the bedrooms, the black clad walls are broken with openings revealing the tree line behind the building

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Studio 1 Urban Interior

Tutors: Viktor Jak, Emily Greeves with David Leech

House and city as path and place This year the studio has considered ways in which the composition of space within a domestic interior and across the interior of an urban block might enable domestic and working life to co-exist or overlap in close proximity. We began the year with a project to design the interior of an artists studio house, considering the various demands for privacy, proximity and light that might be present with this pattern of occupation. The House as Path and Place, an essay by the Austrian architect Josef Frank, became our starting point for exploring the placement and interrelation of spaces, routes and views through the interior. On a series of walks through London we visited 19th century and contemporary studio houses and studied their spatial organisation in relation to patterns of use at different times in the life of the building. On our studio trip to Amsterdam and Brussels we continued to study the range of spatial strategies around mixed programmes of living, and making or viewing art, visiting houses with gallery spaces, art galleries with domestic accommodation, and purpose-built blocks of artists studio apartments. Urban analysis & urban gestures The main design project was located in three partially-demolished urban blocks in Hackney, Shoreditch and Clerkenwell. Students started by investigating spatial possibilities for densifying and completing the block as a whole, considering the scale, shape and gestures of the urban block towards surrounding streets. We then returned to ideas of path and place and developed the block from within, making conceptual models to articulate void spaces of courtyards and passages, inspired by Rachel Whitereads sculptures of spaces inside, between and underneath. Block proposals were further tested in model and section against questions of economy and the dimensions, space and plot division suited to different uses.

City buildings & generous rooms In the final project, each student developed a detailed architectural proposal within part of their urban block, working with their own programmatic ideas for a combination of public or commercial uses, and spaces for living and work. The emerging proposals attempt to create characterful, generous building and block typologies that expand the possible range of uses and proximities, and complement the existing, flexible building types found in these parts of London.
Collaborators: Francis Holliss Consultants: Gerry Corrigan, Price & Myers, David Hawkins, Max Fordham Critics: Fran Balaam, Aleks Catina, Michael Corr, Anna Crosby, Colin Davies, John Glew, David Grandorge, Andy Jackson, Simon Jones, Lewis Kinnear, Richard Lavington, William Mann, Martin Nssn, Dingle Price, Bernd Schmutz, Anna Tenow Thanks to: Brad Lochore, MJ Long, Zomerdijkstraat Ateliers, KNSM Atelierstaad

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Studio 2 Productive Parking

Tutors: AOC Geoff Shearcroft, Tom Coward, Vincent Lacovara

Sociologists have long recognised a correlation between urbanisation and the development of voluntary associations. The nineteenth century saw a rapid expansion in Englands cities and the subsequent rise of the charities, reform movements and members clubs that still define much of todays civic society. The recent economic crisis has encouraged the government to promote voluntary associations as an alternative to the cost intensive state. And here lies a paradox. The rise in UK living standards has led to a process of decentralisation; the better off we are, the more space we want. The traditional compact city actively encouraged new associations that relied upon physical proximity to overcome the new anonymity of a large populace. Todays low-density cities rely instead upon media connectivity and private transportation, increasing the potential for isolation. In short, our political leaders are trying to encourage a type of civic society that has historically relied on a different type of city to the contemporary situation. Studio 2 has explored this contradictory position, proposing buildings to accommodate the voluntary associations of the twenty-first century in a post-suburban context. Our site for the year has been the Thames Valley, the 215 mile long, town-of-towns defined by the catchment of the River Thames. Civic life here occupies the retail park, the business park, the office park and the ever-present car park. A landscape of tin sheds, black tarmac, thermoplastic paints and robust shrubs provide a backdrop for Saturday farmers markets, Sunday car boot sales and Friday night loitering in pimped up Peugeots. We believe these commercial parks are the civic spaces of our

time, and deserve the same level of study that previous generations have dedicated to the Greek agora, the Roman forum and the Georgian square. The parks of the Valley provide a fertile landscape, rich with symbolism, stories and associations. As a studio we have taken road trips through the Valley and the parks of northern Europe, allowing insightful comparative study. Each student has focused on one park for the year, becoming an expert in its form and use. Their parks then provided the context for the years three design proposals: a new Conservative Club, a strategic development plan for the park as a whole and a new headquarters for a voluntary association. The studio has explored architectures that are appropriate to these suburban parks, to create buildings that may be popular, participatory and, most crucially, productive. The ambiguity of this last adjective has been explored throughout the year formally, environmentally and socially. Seeking appropriate methods of representation we have studied Constable, Hokusai, Caulfield and Opie, first imitating, then appropriating their techniques. Taking apart clichd notions of sustainability we have sought to gain an informed understanding of a buildings ecology and developed designs that actively contribute to make a better place.
Critics: Pierre dAvoine, Jaime Bishop, Jon Buck, Dominic Cullinan, David Dunster, David Grandorge, Will Haggard, Owen Hatherley, Cathy Hawley, Graham Haworth, Charles Holland, James Hulme, David Kohn, Kieran Long, Jane McAllister, Mark Prizeman, Simon Tucker, Elly Ward, David West Consultants: Abigail Matthews (Momentum), Jim Grace (Synergy)

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Tutors: Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Torange Khonsari

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In the current environment where the traditional architectural client is hard to find, Studio 3 Live Projects studio continues exploring alternative ways for creating architectural projects from initiating projects to partnering with cross disciplinary projects. This year the studio worked on a series of different scale projects in Liverpool, in areas suffering from shrinking cities syndrome. We worked in West Everton and Bootle. These areas needed fresh thinking to bring people back, going beyond conventional regeneration methods. Working closely with the arts organization Liverpool Biennial and community organisation West Everton Community Centre, who have been actively working in these localities for many years, Studio 3 students worked to give real but innovative solutions that our two clients requested. Students were asked to design, build and negotiate in Liverpool. Students learnt to initiate and negotiate their own projects, like Nicolo Spina for Milans Design Festival, where he negotiated free material from local industries, used local craftsmen and had his furniture pieces shown as part of the festival. Third years had the harder task of designing a housing scheme for housing association Plus Dane Group that is not about high density but about creating desires to attract people to shrinking areas of the city. The project was about creating a lifestyle and not just efficient houses. Throughout the year Studio 3 students helped initiate, develop and build the following projects: modular garden for West Everton Community Centre temporary event structure for Everton Park for Out of the Blue Festival floating allotment structure on the Leeds & Liverpool canal pilot housing scheme for new ways of sustainable living to be engrained within the community (including allotment gardens, contemporary localised industry, local community initiatives, collective food growing).

In this context, Studio 3 continued to explore the possibilities of using recycled materials and designing with Re-use to develop a contemporary design language, which expresses the temporary nature of the projects. As in previous years, the developed projects have the potential to be realised, e.g.: Lauren Campanys Nomadic Pub is a mobile structure for Everton Community, introducing a new social space for the community to replace the public houses, which have been closing and then demolished. This has given rise to private drinking at home and created new social problems in the area. We intend to help West Everton community to raise funds and realise the Nomadic Pub.
Clients: Liverpool Biennial, Millfield Primary School (London) Squash Nutrition (Liverpool), West Everton Community (Liverpool) Consultants & critics: Ros Diamond, Gemma Drake, Kay Hartmann (KLH), Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers), Sam Levine, Anne Markey, Lucy OReilly, Jen Ng

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Studio 4 Istanbul a story of living +

Tutors: Sabine Storp, Inigo Minns

This year studio 4 used site and precedent research combined with explorations into narrative ideas to explore new definitions of living. The focus of our investigation was Istanbul, a city constructed on many layers of history, containing traces of brilliant memories but also everyday lives, domestic rituals, habits and secrets. As one of the worlds most populous cities, on the border between East and West, it is defined by uncertainty, constantly stretched by its own possibilities. In the first project of the year Orhan Pamuks Istanbul Memories of a City was taken as a departure point to create a personal memoir that incorporated spatial or architectural interpretations of existing narratives found in Istanbuls literature, film, or paintings. The discoveries made were then used to inform

proposals for innovative living structures within the Turkish community in London. The memoir was later combined with site research made in Turkey to create a Living Manual that became the foundation for the principal project of the year. The complexities of the contemporary urban environmental and social phenomena recorded were seen as challenges to the traditional forms, materials and underlying geometries of Istanbul architecture. Using the manual as a guide new constructions were imagined that were both sympathetic to the existing fabric of the city, whilst also aiming to reshape the living conditions and possibilities of its future.
Critics: Ben Farnsworth, Will Fisher, Adam Furman, Marina Pestana, Safia Qureshi, Caspar Rodgers, Patrick Weber, Tristan Wigfall, Paolo Zaide

1 Daron Christie Han, site model 2 Negar Shaghaghi Istanbul diagram 3 Luis Ortega, court yard view 4 Daron Christie Han, filmmaker studio, drawings 5 Wun (Leila) Yee Ku, beekeepers house, model 6 Zhihao Arthur (Huang), cooking school Istanbul, model 7 Jonas Zukauskas, Kurdish living 8 James Faulconer, pavilion in the park

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Studio 5 Learning and Living

Tutors: Nina Lundvall, Simon Jones, James Payne

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Against the backdrop of student demonstrations against proposed changes to higher education, Studio 5 decamped from London to the countryside. The experimental educational campus of the twentieth century, exemplified by Black Mountain College in the United States or Ulm School of Design in Germany, was to be our model for learning and living. A place not for dropping out, but to re-consider the relationship of students and educators to society, the city and the landscape. Our first exercise in the economy of making things was to design an outpost building, a simple shelter for two people to spend short periods of time in on the site and plan a future rural campus. Initially students designed these basic constructions from a palette of standard timber sections, ply and roofing felt with only limited knowledge of our site for the year. Later we visited this collection of fields, set within a steep and sheltered valley in West Sussex. Surrounded by vestiges of ancient woodland, we experienced living simply with limited resources and spent a cold November night there under canvas and around a fire. The logistics of moving everything necessary for one night on and off the site was demanding and informed the next exercise to design storage systems as a place to keep things in the outpost and future campus buildings. During the study trip, we visited the Otaniemi Campus on the outskirts of Helsinki

in temperatures of 16C and travelled by ship to Stockholm where we visited a reconstruction of Ralph Erskines tiny box house and studio he built for himself and his family. We were also privileged to visit the studio of Johan Celsing and the amazing archive of his father Peter Celsing. Through study of building and furniture precedents we explored simple construction through sequential axonometric drawings to demystify the construction process. The qualities of materials, jointing methods and details were investigated through drawings, models and furniture prototypes. For the final projects, students applied this research to the living and learning spaces of the proposed campus. The settlement of such simple and rigorous construction onto the topography aims to create new settings for creative experimentation. One that treads lightly to preserve the special qualities of the site.
Critics: Peter Karl Becher, Philip Christou, Matthew Dalziel, John Glew, David Grandorge, Takeshi Hayatsu, Aidan Hodgkinson, Mike Lee, Michael Levy, Michael Marriott, Paulo Moreira, Sam Penn, Vasiles Polydorou, Mark Prizeman Consultants: Step Haiselden (Tall Engineers), Jonathan Cook (Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects), Neil Daffin (Max Fordham) Thanks to: Pekka Pakkanen (Huttunen Lipasti Pakkanen Architects, Helsinki), Johan Celsing (Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, Stockholm)

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Studio 6 Extreme Environments

Tutors: Denis Balent, Gianni Botsford

Last year we were looking at places that what would previously have been considered to be uninhabitable, but are now being considered for development. We tested the nature of architecture in the ancient city of Ghadames in Libya in the heart of Sahara, with proposals based on direct observations of material and technological developments, environmental agendas, and local context in an extremely hot environment. This year we proposed to investigate a cold, extreme environment. The environment we were looking at is that of Iceland, bordering on the Arctic Circle. A cold environment that forces a certain way of life, with long summer days of perpetual light, continuously dark winters, The Polar Nights and the Aurora Borealis. An environment with extremes of glacial flow, continuous volcanic activity, snowfall and geothermal heat bubbling below the surface, with temperatures ranging from 24 to +24 degrees centigrade. Iceland has recently been linked to two effects on a great scale. The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokul had far reaching external impact on the whole of the world, stopping flights and disrupting many lives. The recent economic crisis has internally affected the Icelandic economy leading to dramatic changes to its currency, the local GGDP, inflation, un-employment and its will to stabilise its economy and join the EU. In order to overcome this, Iceland is currently looking inwards and is developing new ideas to bring its economy back to a state of growth through reinstating original industries fishing, marine technologies and geo-thermal research and development, and this will involve working and living in harsh environments outside the main conurbations. About 81 per cent of total primary energy supply in Iceland is derived from domestically produced renewable energy sources. This figure will increase and the country will be totally energy independent in a very short time. We have begun the year with an investigation into methods of control and

intensification of daylight and sunlight. This has been followed by an intense initial building project to develop digital and environment techniques of modeling and representation through casting, solid physical and computer modeling. This project has looked at the climatic and social issues in this extreme environment, and developed architectural rules required to overcome them. The techniques developed will be used to analyse the architectural and spatial effects of the proposals. Students will be asked to develop the project on the basis of gathered and researched information of a given site in Iceland, and will be encouraged to allow the outcome to emerge through the process of investigation, rather than design. We have established the use of advanced computational techniques and use of environmental software within the studio and we have continued with the input from the UKs leading environmental engineers. We have researched and investigated the issues at local scale, from infrastructure to vernacular architecture to propose alternative models.
Critics: Kate Darby (Kate Darby Architects Sigrun), Nate Kolbe (Superfusion Lab), Andrew Yau (UFO), Hiroshi Takeyama (GBA), Luke Royffe, Murray Fraser, Sam Maclean Consultants: Toby Maclean (TALL Engineers), Dr Alan Harries (BDSP), Giulio Antonutto (Arup Lighting), Jeff Shaw (Arup Lighting)

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Studio 7 Agra Pathways: the Mughal and the Modern

Tutors: Bob Barnes, Annika Grafweg Looking at the urban typology and topography of Old Agra, Studio 7 has used existing maps from the British Museum, the Geographic and Asiatic Societies in London and made new maps ourselves in India, we have studied the multi storey haveli, an indian courtyard house typology, as well as the history of Agra in words and pictures. The Walking City The main project is a residential workshop in Agra, to be sited along a walk through the old centre. We have identified and located the extraordinary and neglected Mughal monuments buried within the fabric of the city. The residential workshop is the place where a new caliber of product, appealing to modern tastes but made with traditional craftmanship, will be produced, and sold to passing and resident visitors and locals alike. The building will also establish a new type of accommodation for visitors, simple and convenient a place to eat, drink chai and relax, a small haven in the hot dusty city, a caf, rooms to rent, toilets hamams and showers. The workshop will produce a new series of bags destined for an exclusive crafts gallery in London called FLOW, facilitated by our NGO partner in Agra, CURE, the Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence. Themes for the Studio Climate issues including monsoon and seasonal change of wind direction Recycling resource mapping Courtyards and their micro climates Walking in the city Illegal Settlements Meeting people Listening Site selection Site Survey and Measurement Monument Survey and Measured Drawings Cultural exercise tourism/visitors and locals Making bags out of recycled materials. Sketching Photography
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1 Michael OHanlon, section through garden studio and workshop, with elevation of refurbished haveli on left 2 Samanthn Horn, measured drawing of haveli door Agra 2010 3 Josh Ovenden, ergonomics of bag repair in India 4 Simon Campbell, Wazirpura Womens Centre perpective view from Tant Square 5 Samantha Horn, unfolded elevation of courtyard 6 Samantha Horn, section through bathhouse and dairy 7 Emily Broom, Punja Madrasa bicycle workshop and accomodation section

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Studio 8 More stories about buildings and cities

Tutors: Daniel Serafimovski, Kalle Soderman with Pierre dAvoine

Our intention this year, has been to create/ narrate some stories about buildings and cities.* In The Emotional City (2008), Adam Caruso describes the urban environment as a precise emotional condition ... an embodiment of culture, of peoples ambitions and desires .... Buildings and the city spaces they create can be thought of as stories: they reveal things about the people, society and conditions that create them and serve as a platform for the unfolding of everyday life and the imagination. Studying specific qualities of Georgian London, the urban interventions of Joze Plecnik in Ljubljana and the palazzo and campo typologies in Venice, served as a prelude to designing building ensembles for sites in Londons Farringdon/Clerkenwell area. Etudes and Interludes We started the year with a number of etudes or studies. Urban Observations included photographic studies, sketching and measured drawings of particular qualities in and around Canonbury Square. A subsequent Model Space project involved studying the brick gallery pavilions by sculptor Erwin Heerich, interpreted as carefully crafted 1:50 plywood models. An appropriation of these spatial models served as the basis for the initial design project (Interlude 1): the proposal of a Gallery Pavilion for the walled garden of the Estorick Collection in Canonbury Square. Through careful considerations of scale and context, the proposals redefined the courtyard space and entrance sequence to the Estorick itself, as well as the museums presence onto the street. Studies of Architecture as Urban Infrastructure Our study trip (Interlude 2) combined visits to Ljubljana, Slovenia and to nearby Venice. Joze Plecniks idiosyncratic insert projects in Ljubljana, built between 1920 and 1957, work as an ensemble of urban fragments a building, a pavilion, a bridge-piazza, a staircase, a column-lampost, etc. Treated as the sum of scattered episodes, his architecture becomes a series of infrastructural elements within a larger context, in a manner capable of defining a specific urban identity. The students

surveyed a number of Plecniks eccentric works, later collating the resulting drawings and observations into booklets as a collective study of exemplary urban interventions. The Plecnik surveys and later studies of other infrastructural projects including works by Palladio, Vasari, Le Corbusier, Stirling, the Smithsons, Siza and ARU (Precedent Studies, Interlude 3) became instrumental for the students towards defining an attitude to their own sites in London. Building Stories The process of site selection for the final project (Chamberworks) and initial site observations, played an important part in the development of the students urban design strategies. Five related sites in Farringdon were chosen, each for their particular qualities and design opportunities. This part of London was identified for its topographical qualities, richness of character and public spaces. Students designed building ensembles combining aspects of public and private space city structures that provide places for cultural production, social encounter and live/work inhabitation. The scale and scope of the projects depended on the size and character of each site. Nolli-type figure ground maps of the area, recording all the publicly accessible spaces, and timber site models for the testing of volumetric ideas, were key tools for developing design strategies, while sketching was encouraged throughout the year as a way of thinking. We have been encouraging proposals for urban figures with inherent infrastructural qualities formally distinctive buildings that provide generous public spaces and engage with the city in a manner defining a sense of place. The proposals are seen as an ensemble of projects that emphasize the contextual qualities and enhance the areas specific urban identity.
*The studio title makes reference to the Talking Heads album More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978) Critics & contributors: Peter Becher, Alan Conisbee, Max Fordham, David Grandorge, Thomas Goodey, Viktor Jak, Ioana Marinescu, Jane McAllister, James Payne A special thanks to Tadej Glazar, Damjan Prelovsek and Klemen Kusir for their generous assistance during our study trip to Ljubljana

1 Beckeresque photographic studies of one of Joze Plecniks pavillions at the Zale Cemetery, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Photos: Chris Heal & Hoseong Moon 2 Studio 8 Study Trip to Plecniks Ljubljana, Slovenia. Matthew Shepperd, sketch of the tall interstitial window space of the reading room at Plecniks National and University Library 3 Model spaces: studies of gallery pavillions by sculptor Erwin Heerich, at Insel Hombroich. 1:50 Plywood Models (model workshop with Thomas Goodey) 4 Gallery Pavillion project for the Estorick Collections Walled Garden, London (inspired by previous spatial studies of Erwin Heerichs architectural sculptures). James Retieff, timber model showing the Estorick Collection with proposed Courtyard Pavillion 5&6 Jenny Martin, Courtyard Gallery Building, St Johns Street Infill Site. Street view showing proposed brick building replacing the current shed structure on the site & view of proposed interior courtyard as a new public city space

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Studio 9 Blackbird
Tutors: Fran Balaam, Michael Corr

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laden with yellow blossom has tossed a cry over Belfast Lough.1 We visited Belfast in November, and took over a studio space in a shop on the Falls Road. From here students engaged with and researched West Belfast and the community. Students were asked to propose a new type of public architecture for the gaeltacht. An Cheathr Ghaeltachta is not just about language, but about the community and regeneration of the area. Students chose from five sites, identified as key areas for the development of the area, and we worked with members of the gaeltacht steering group and local residents, in a series of workshops and presentations. Through these processes and individual research, students developed their own programmatic ideas, looking at strategies for the area, relationships with surrounding places, and the type of buildings that could be a part of it. Projects included: A language exchange building; a hospital retreat space; a place to stay, reinterpreting hotel typologies; an education and viewing space in the bog meadows. As with the Kodak project, An Cheathr Ghaeltachta is a live project, and the students work is contributing to the continuing development of ideas and proposals surrounding its growth. The work will be presented as part of the first exhibition in the new Culturlann gallery space on the Falls Road, and at the annual Fleadh Feirste lecture in November 2011.
1 Anon c.800 translation; David Green and Frank OConnor. The blackbird is seen as a symbol of hope for Belfast. Critics&collaborators: Clive Dutton, Lucy Musgrave, Ciaran Mackel, Dongah OhArgain, Jake MacSiacais, Mark Hackett, David Brett, David Kohn, David Grandorge, Cristina Monteiro, Ioana Marinescu, Anne Wynne, Olly Wainwright, Alex Smith, Tim Rettler, Charlotte Kokken, Phil Greenwood, Jane McAllister, Richard Hall, Yuli Sung, Martin Waters, Lara Gibson, Darran Crawford, Kevin Hong

7 Julia Utko, ensemble of artist studio tower buildings, Holborn Viaduct site. Perspective view of the towers with raised podium space in foreground 8 James Retieff, artist residences, gallery and piazza, St Johns Gardens corner site. 1:300 Timber site model with proposed terrace of row artist-houses and the corner gallery building 9 James Retieff, artist residences and gallery, St Johns Gardens corner site. Pencil drawing of proposed terrace of row artist-houses and its relation to the street topgoraphy 10&11 Moon Hoseon, hybrid mixed-use building, St Johns Street Infill site, clay model studies, 1:300 incorporating existing industrial shed as a market space; section drawing 1:100, hybrid urban building embedded within the city fabric 12 Nancy Bodson, ground floor plan of gallery tower building, Clerkenwell Street gap site, showing relation between the two proposed buildings on the site and the public space connecting the streets through the site 13 Chris Heal, gallery space and artists studios embedded within the void at Farringdon Lane; the openings within the lower gallery space allow a glimpse onto the passing trains 14 Chris Heal, areial view showing proposal for new gallery/artists workshop space embedded within the void at Farringdon Lane; the building makes use of the existing disused pedestrian bridge as its public foyer, while providing a new city room to this part of the city

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Interior Architecture Studio 1 Diving, Dinosaurs and Darn Victorians

Tutors: Steve Jensen, Olga Reid

Crystal Palace is located in South London. It could be seen as a metaphor for the rise and fall of the British Empire. A hub of converging boroughs, the centre of the once furturistic and adventurous Victorian empire. It now sits atop Sydenham Hill, majestic views across London all but forgotten. The town pedals on its heroic past, its present in limbo, future unknown. The triangular town, a mix of estate agents, pubs, thrift shops and empty buildings and plots. A Victoria wonderland; Grand Prix racing; the first life size depiction of dinosaurs; the first television studio; the largest aquarium in the world; the FA Cup final; the peoples palace, a pneumatic railway and the first fatal car crash in the UK! This once courageous, proud community seems to be happy to slowly drift into invisibility, its past affording a complacent attitude, turning its back on the present and more importantly the future. The bravery of its ancestors and their passion for future technology to explore the world with a real sense of enjoyment and curiosity, seems to have been totally forgotten and ignored. Crystal Palace has a history of people coming together, at events, which required physical interaction, exhibitions, curiosities, races, events, now only a few intrepid sports people strive to achieve at the soon defunked National Sports Centre. After 2012 what will be left? Our Task The drive to enhance public space and broaden local engagement is our priority. There still remain pockets of estranged land and vacant buildings, which could be developed to provide improved links and amenities for the local community. It will be the people living and working locally who are best placed to pinpoint hidden sites and who can also outline the need of the neighbouring area. We asked to nominate an existing local site, build a case for what the community really needs and propose ideas for how this could be translated into a conceptual design scheme.

We must consider accessibility, sustainability, inclusivity, and cost relative to the site, possible multi-programming and durability. It will unearth places not previously regarded as profitable or worthy of development. It is about regeneration via a diverse grass roots approach, ideas for local people based on the context of our research and investigation. Project 1 A Toe In the Water Students were asked to design a temporary visitors centre in one or part of the disused pavilions dotted around the National sports centre in Crystal Palace Park. The host building will act as a shell, a container and structural spine to allow the interior spaces to exist. Explore the relationship with the host, its limitations and its positive points. Project 2 Mouth to Mouth Students were be required to write their own brief determining the points made above. They were required to find their own site, investigate, research and survey to produce a set of as existing drawings. They must create a scenario, which their project can exist within. Not only should they think about the brief, but also their client and their projected audience. Speed and decision-making are essential to development. Project Group Love Thy Neighbour Having finalised their individual project students were then placed in groups of 6 or 7 and were challenged to connect their ideas and physical sites in some way. To create a network or village of ideas and thoughts. This connection might manifest itself at any scale, as a piece of urban planning, a piece of furniture or even a sound installation. The key to the project is communication and dialogue. Collective knowledge to define a place.
Critics: Kevin Lyons, Steve Hayes

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Interior Architecture Studio 2 Its a Dogs Life

Tutors: Kevin Haley, David Chambers

The UK is limping out of recession, the buzzword is austerity and the population is living with a drop in disposal income. Against this backdrop collaborative consumption is on the rise. Swapping, bartering and lending are being reinvented for the digital age and the way we consume is changing in the process. As part of Its a Dogs Life, the title of this years design brief, Studio 2 has been exploring the rise of collaborative consumption on the Isle of Dogs. The area of east London is home to rich and poor alike. Underprivileged local residents mix with a swathe of white-collar commuters, who rush into the towers of Canary Wharf each and every weekday morning. Towards the end of last year we examined how these low-living local inhabitants and highflying commuters co-exist on the Isle of Dogs. Building on this exploratory research and a trip to Venice, Studio 2 have created designs that demonstrate how collaborative consumption could enrich the lives of those living and working on the Isle of Dogs. My Beautiful Launderette Studio 2s first design brief was to create a 24-hour launderette on the Isle of Dogs. The site selected for the brief was Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar. Launderettes are a traditional form of collaborative consumption. It is where cash-poor local residentsand timepoor workers already come together to clean their clothes. Studio 2 was required to examine the launderettes current function, intensify its use and increase its appeal to 21st century collaborative consumers. As students Marrianne Louca, Maria Nygren and Su Mon Aye explain, We found a resident, one of the many Bangladeshis who live in the area, who aims to have his own restaurant but cant afford it. He lives with his young family in a two-floor flat so we thought a good option for him would be to have his own guerrilla restaurant on one floor as well as a launderette. This meant that people from the city and local residents could enjoy an innovative way of dining whilst doing their laundry.

Research Collaboration Studio 2s second task required everyone to conduct one part of the Isle of Dogs site analysis as well as investigate an existing example of collaborative consumption, such as Zopa, Swap It Baby and Bartercard. In each case, the findings were presented and circulated to the rest of the studio. Comprehensive Design Project From this collective pool of knowledge, each student was then asked to develop their own brief for the final comprehensive design project. Obtaining the right work-life balance has proven a popular design theme for Studio 2. Hara Anastasious George Greens School mix and match, located on Manchester Road, provides offices for groups of mothers to set up their own businesses alongside a kindergarten for their children. She says, Lots of mothers with young children are not in employment. The main issue on my project is to combine a place where mothers can look after their children and work at the same time. On the flip side, Maria Nygren has created The Academic Playhouse, a centre where career driven women can experience temporary motherhood. As Nygren explains, the statistics show that in the UK nearly half (49%) of women earning more than 100k p.a. are childless by the age of 40. The playhouse teaches these career driven Canary Wharf women about motherhood whilst providing a positive role model for the children and giving existing mothers the opportunity to find employment.
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Unit 1 Baukunst, the art of building

Tutors: Florian Beigel, Philip Christou

Diploma Unit 1 and ARU have been discussing, debating and thinking about the architectural design of the city for a number of years now. We have designed buildings with a sense of civility that make a contribution to the quality of the public realm of the city. This year we have taken this agenda further by working on questions concerning the language of architecture. As in previous years, we will have studied the works of building artists at the scale of the building and the city from today, previous generations and by master builders in ancient times. We are looking for a continuity of architectural thinking. Students have been working in the context of two archaeological sites in Italy Herculaneum and Paestum. South of Naples on the lower slopes of Mount Vesuvius along the coast of the Bay of Naples is a densely populated unregulated and dispersed urban condition. The archaeological excavation of the Roman settlement of Herculaneum (buried in 79 AD) finds itself in a dense contemporary city interwoven with intensive greenhouse farming. Further south along the Italian coast is

the Ancient Greek walled city of Paestum, with three well preserved Doric temples. Paestum is in an agricultural district with little population. The strong relationship that the ancient city makes with the mountains to the east and the Mediterranean Sea coast to the west is the point of departure of most of the projects. Students are attempting to make architectural connections/proximities of time between the ancient and contemporary city fabric. In addition to this, they have tried to develop spatial strategies that promote a working coexistence between agriculture, archaeology and the contemporary city. Designing the city on the slope of a volcano has given the idea of the shrinking city a sense of urgency in some of the work.
Critics: Alex Bank, Peter Beard, Sam Casswell, Dominique Cullinan, Gunter Hainzl, Cathy Hawley, Rex Henry, Niall Hobhouse, Andrew Houlton, Adam Khan, Robert Mull, James Payne, Stephen Taylor Collaborator: Alex Bank Consultant: Andy Greig

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1 Exhibition at ASD showing the film of Alvaro Siza in conversation with Unit 2 2 Inga Trausnadottir, study of potential re-use of Porto city wall 3 Sophie Roycroft/Tom Benton, model of new landscape beneath the ring road that marks the border between Porto and Matosinhos with beach caf and cultural centre in the park 4 Kieran Brash, seamans chapel in the Quinta da Conceicao overlooking the docks at Matosinhos

Unit 2 The Second City: Portos Centres and Peripheries

Tutors: Patrick Lynch, Alun Jones, Paulo Moreira There is a second city. Unreal, imaginary, made of demolished houses and never realised projects and yet all of them present. The majority of an architects work has to do with this second city; and it is never wasted effort Architecture is risk, and risk requires impersonal desire and anonymity, starting with the fusion of subjectivity and objectivity. After all, with progressive distancing the I. lvaro Siza Porto is famous as a city of architects attuned to the nuances of history and for reconciling this with the traditions of modern architecture. We thought that this is something that British architecture can learn from, so we decided to get to know more about the city and its architecture. In the first semester we studied a washhouse from the 1990s built by Paulo Providncia in the city centre beside the old docks, and the Quinta da Conceicao, a park landscape built by Fernando Tvora in the 1960s at Matosinhos beside the new docks. We took these projects to be exemplary of ways of dealing directly with questions of use and technology, and they revealed to us also indirect ways of confronting questions of collective sociability and the problems of use and situation that functionalism cannot capture. We worked with the sculptor Hilary KoobSassen on ways of representing the material and tectonic qualities of topography and built ground, the reconciliation of which typifies both traditional and modern Porto architecture. Students proposed small-scale adjustments to the park and to the city centre of Porto, which sought to reveal the deeper social issues surrounding the road engineering that afflicts the old town and the new docks. This work was re-presented to Porto in a crit and seminars at F.AU.P and Guimares (schools built by Siza and Tvora). Then the students met lvaro Siza to discuss some of his projects for recuperating Porto, sites that we had identified as places in need of architectural care. Siza was very generous with his time and articulated his own frustrations as an architect and all left the encounter refreshed. We then produced an exhibition at ASD and a publication, which documented the research and first design projects along with a film and transcription of the meeting with Siza. Alongside this event the architect Providncia and the Porto critic Nuno Grande came to talk at our school in February. The work of the unit has focussed since then on collaborative approaches to five areas of central Porto and to the beach-park junction between Porto and Matosinhos. Students returned to Porto to interview local residents and architects and established programmatic briefs for design interventions based upon local knowledge as well as a situational and typological approach to urban problems. We are used in Unit 2 to thinking long-term and to seeking to uncover remnants of ways of thinking about human habitat that has survived the 20th and 19th centurys obsessions with technology and the alienating freedom that it produces at the expense of the city. Our responses to the urban and social problems of Porto and Matosinhos suggest ways in which technological impositions can be absorbed meaningfully into enduring human habitats. We have become used to only thinking in terms of urban renewal, but change doesnt simply mean making things new again, sometimes cities need to be made old again. A better word to use when thinking about the profound effects destruction and rebuilding has upon our lives is what Siza calls recuperar. To recuperate means to bring back to life but also back to consciousness. The idea of the second city inspires recuperation of the citys risks and failures, the progressive distancing of the I, bringing closer the other.
Thanks to: London Emanuel de Sousa, Ricardo Duque, David Knight, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Mariana Pestana, Mariana Rodrigues, Max Fordham, Joseph Rykwert, David Evans, Colin OSullivan, Sandra Martin, Simon Henley, Kieran Long, Bruno Silvestre, Jay Merrick; Escola de Arquitectura, Universidade do Minho: Rodrigo Brito, Jorge Correia, Joo Rosmaninho, Andr Tavares; Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto Jorge Carvalho, lvaro Domingues, Ren Ito, Ana Leite Fernandes, Pedro Levi Bismark, Antnio Madureira, Teresa Novais, Pedro Polnia, Paulo Sousa, Lus Tavares Pereira, Ernst Tide Huesser, Nuno Travasso; Special thanks to: lvaro Siza, Paulo Providncia, Nuno Grande

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Unit 3

River Edges
Tutors: East Judith Lsing, Dann Jessen, Julian Lewis

The River Thames is Londons largest wild space. Dividing the City into two, it is edged at its eastern reaches with ports, piers, jetties and wharves. Whilst industry has made use of, and often created, these edges, this long realm of mud, steel and concrete has always remained inaccessible, out of reach, restricted in use. In some cases, the river reaches seem more like a string of islands, adjacent but disconnected. Unit 3 has embraced this condition, and made work, which engages with it in the short and long term. We have used the newly launched East London Green Enterprise District manifesto as a masterplan background to help test opportunities for re-use and rediscovery of the place. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. W.B.Yeats The unit has employed documentary, research, discussion, speculation and imagination to understand the nature of the Royal Docks, and how to work with this fragmented place.

We have worked with the Artist Ashley McCormick to engage locals into joining a walk to the river and share stories with them. We also travelled to Lisbon to collaborate with the City Municipality of Lisbon, the University of Lisbon and Design for London on a project by the Tejo that addresses similar issues as the main project in London. In the final project, students have designed a special building for the local community in The Royal Docks, and a public space to go with it. These are both new companions to a wharf or other self-contained industry, a new city constellation and a place to visit. We imagine approaching these as new City entrances, perhaps from the riverside for once, like at Hampton Court Palace, where pleasure seekers arrive by boat.
Critics: Mark Brearley, Lara Gibson, Biba Dow, Marianne Christiansen, Signy Svalastoga, Robert Mull, Joao Rafael Santos, Peter Carl, Peter Beard, Rod Heyes Consultants: Richard Hall, Tobias Goevert, Ashley McCormick, Jane Wernick

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Unit 4 Merchants of Ecological Delight

Tutors: Nate Kolbe, Eva Diu, Toby Burgess, Jonas Lundberg

In the face of the most exacting energy target in the world of eliminating all carbon emissions in non-domestic buildings by 2016 or by 2020 as in the UK Green Building Council report as well as the loss of a public domain in our cities, UNIT04 carries on its agenda of exploring the overall relation between computation, environmental contingencies, fabrication and the overall ecology of building and architecture. Unit 4 will continue its examination and formation of current and future tendencies in spatial production dictated by developments in parametric modelling, digital manufacturing, and off-site production. Unit 4 is attempting to exploit passive solar design, future carbon legislation and emerging material science and generation and production techniques as a spring board for architectural invention and innovation. We are pursuing a multi-dimensional post-Euclidean architectural space requiring alternative forms of architectural representation for its generation, description and production. We intend to holistically address questions of people, nature and technology embracing an overall architectural ecology via an architectural agenda and spatial concern avoiding the pitfalls of either single minded technocrat design solutions or reactionary ones rejecting all scientific and technical progress. Basically, what other material and spatial affects could become integral in defining a sustainable

building production and architectural industry in the face of extreme environmental contingency as well as new energy and carbon legislation. Unit 4 are participants in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 event, and will be constructing a 70sqm fully solar powered house in Madrid in September 2012, integrating advanced digital design and fabrication processes into the units curricula on a live project. Unit 4 is searching for a new aesthetic and delight in climatically responsive architecture. John Ruskin in his essay The Sea-Stories: The Nature of Gothic talks of variety as being one of three signifiers of delight in architecture, the other two being irregularity and intricacy. Architecture and construction still largely follow the serialized principles of 20th century mass-production which often stand in stark contrast with the parameters of delight, if we are to believe Ruskin, as well as the endless differentiation found for example in natural systems.
Workshops: Iain Maxwell, Thomas Tong, Toby Burgess, Kengo Skorick, Andrea Marini, Arthur Manou Mani Thanks to: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012, Paul Scott (AKT structural Engineers), Alan Harries (BDSP), Wes McGee (FabLab), Taubmann School of Architecture, University of Michigan, Holz 100, MetWorks, Students and staff of the ASD, Low Energy Architecture Research Unit, Quentin Langley, Dean Bove, Dalila Salguiera, Charlotte Gorse (Sir John Cass Faculty of Media Art and Design)

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Unit 5 ART/HOUSE /POWER

Tutors: David Kohn, Silvia Ullmayer

Unit 5 embarked on an ambitious research project this year that cut across several issues affecting the future of London and similar cities: How climate change might be affected by bringing energy production into the centre of cities? What might such facilities look like and what uses will they situate themselves amongst? How and where will artists and makers work if development forces them to the city margins? What possibilities might there be for bringing spaces of human creativity and energy production together out of mutual interest and benefit to the city? How can architecture allow creativity to be housed in comfort? We chose an extraordinary site, Deptford Creek, a tributary of the River Thames just upstream from the more famous Greenwich, home to the Prime Meridian. It has a comfortably derelict appearance that attracts Chinese Mitten Crabs, aggregate barges, artists and Black Redstart. Recently however, the seemingly inexorable property boom meant that even the Creek became, albeit briefly, prime real estate. Next door to the Laban Centre (Herzog de Meuron, 2003) the catchily named Creekside Village is currently under construction and due for completion this year. Including 800 residential units and 220,000 square feet of commercial space the development represents

a serious change to the density and fortunes of the area. Around a further fifty property freeholds surround the Creek. If it had not been for the credit crunch the fortunes of many of the local property owners might also have been seriously changed. But the market has stalled and the cranes stood still and everyone, from developers to local residents, has had a moment to reconsider the future. Our research was wide-ranging: from discussions with Jane da Mosto of Venice in Peril about strategies to protect saltwater marshes and Rainer Zimmann of Arup on the latest trends in gasification and anaerobic digestion plants, to surveys of artists colonies and visits to boatbuilders in both London and Venice. Out of the research emerged a diverse range of proposals for the Creek that offer alternative visions of the future where new developments purify the water of their neighbours, waste recycling plants provide luxurious levels of comfort for local studio spaces and nature is palpable all around.
Consultants: Nick Bertrand (Creekside Education Trust), Rainer Zimmann (Arup), Jeremy Climas (Max Fordham LLP), Michael Hales (Michael Hadi Associates) Critics: Michael Pawlyn, Simone ten Hompel, Ro Spankie, Robert Mull, Peter Carl, Emily Greeves, James Gallie Thanks to: Liza Fior, Spazio Legno Venice, Jane de Mosto (Venice in Peril), Irne Scalbert, Space Studios

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Unit 6 Walking city Agra Affinities, Mediations and Perambulations

Tutors: Maurice Mitchell, Francesca Pont, Bo Tang The studio explores how urban landscape is inhabited, made and remade through personal and collective acts, events, memories, and experiences. It cuts through the surface to expose the undercurrent of silent issues that constitute everyday making processes. Green, sustainable and loose-fit local technologies and spatial strategies are explored and manipulated to address individual student led programmes drawn from group exploration during immersion in an unfamiliar fast moving situation. By engaging communities of occupants in everyday conversations in space and time so as to evoke in contemporary discourse their changing physical and cultural landscapes the studio enables people provoked projects by design. This academic year, there were two field trips in October and November. 5th years travelled to Agra in October and studied the Kutchhpura upgrading live project (KSUP) carried out jointly with Indian NGO CURE and FASD Projects Office. They designed and built a tea terrace canopy on a roof overlooking the Taj Mahal as part of CUREs Heritage Walk programme. They then investigated the Old City and helped set up the study areas for the whole year. 4th years; after a preliminary project in London (Finding Community in Walworth) travelled with degree studio 7 to Agra in November to investigate four settlements in Agra: Gokulpura a dense area straddling the line of the old Mughal Wall and a very smelly canalized drain to the south of the Old City; Old City North, the site of the old riverside Custom House built next to the stables of Emperor Shahjahan and a crumbling block of old havelis overrun with monkeys; Wazirpura, a declining urban village beset with religious divisions but containing nuggets of Mughal craftsmanship; and Sikandra on the main national highway, the Grand Trunk Road on the north western edge of Agra adjacent to the vast tombs of Emperor Akbar and Empress Miriam. Agra used to be known as the city of the waterfront garden. These gardens are now buried in a sea of human activity. A cacophony of sights and sounds assault the senses. People, vehicles and animals weave their way along roads and railway tracks, over bridges and through narrow openings. The average tourists comes, visits the Taj Mahal and leaves. The crude colonial insertion of railway lines across the old city and the current competition between the tourist and steel industries for the increasing shortage of ground water combine with the ordinary bustle of life to propel Agra into the modern world of hybrid disjointed landscapes. Each of the settlements studied are however distinct in character, culture, history, and urban grain. By surveying the physical landscape and consciously interacting with local people students built a physical and cultural picture of each settlement. Student proposals have grown out of these investigations.
Collaborators & consultants: Ed Parham (Space Syntax), Renu Khosla, Manish Kumar, Rajesh Kumar (CURE India) Catherine Chapman (ADL Traffic) Critics: Bob Barnes, Annika Grafweg, Lucy Peck, Peter St John, Vicky Wagner, Reem Charif, Richard Brown, Caterina Polidoro, Rumana Kabir, Steve Newman (HTA), James Lord (HTA)

1 Inga Wolanczyk, memory map of her first days travels through the urban village of Wazirpura, Agra 2 Damien Doonan, Reid, sketch proposal for a commercial edge to the urban village of Wazirpura, Agra. Part of his project to reverse the spiral of decline 3 Jonathan Weaver, existing section through sales kiosk, Sikandra South, Agra 4 Victoria Timberlake, sketch map showing first impressions of Wazirpura, Agra 5 Rachel OGrady: perspective sketch of women collecting water, Sikandra North, Agra 6 Oliver Beardon, watercolour elevation of existing crumbling haveli, Old City North, Agra

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Unit 7 Other Landscapes: A Cathedral of Power

Tutors: David Grandorge, Colin Wharry It was as if I were passing through an undiscovered country, and I still remember that I felt, at the same time, both utterly liberated and deeply despondent With each step that I took, the emptiness within and the emptiness without grew ever greater and the silence more profound. W.G.Sebald on Orford Ness in The Rings of Saturn
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Orford Ness is an austere and fragile landscape situated on the coastline of Suffolk. It is Europes largest vegetated shingle spit currently measuring 901 hectares, though, due to addition and erosion, its size and shape have varied over time. Its scarred surfaces and dispersed collection of buildings, but a few steps from becoming ruins, are the physical remnants of a secretive and sometimes violent history. From the early twentieth century until the end of the Cold War, Orford Ness accommodated a series of military occupations and experiments. The most significant of these was the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment use of the site for the testing of the detonators and outer shells of nuclear weapons. The Ministry of Defence relinquished control of Orford Ness in 1993 and the landscape is now managed by the National Trust as a National Nature Reserve. There is public access to the site but it is strictly controlled. Extensive surveys were made of this sublime landscape: its buildings, paths and territories. The experimental laboratories on the AWRE site were translated in 1:50 models that veered between states of simulation and interpretation. Carefully made rendered 1:20 section drawings described their internal light, the weathering of surfaces, deterioration of material and the weight of shingle bearing down on their thick concrete walls. Students made initial proposals for Orford Ness that addressed the extent of access and the means by which its territories are navigated and perceived. Design tactics of removal, adjustment and addition were employed to

make building and landscape proposals that might enhance or amplify the experience of those visiting its territories. The major design proposal for the year was for a nuclear power station. Extensive research was made into the benefits and problems inherent in producing electrical power with fissile material. Precise drawings were made of the major components of AREVAs European Pressurised Reactor and turbine hall. This work was augmented by research into and proposals for the infrastructure that would enable the constructional and operational phases of the power station including access roads, bridges and docks, a secure site boundary, routes for pylons and cooling water and sea defences around the edge of the Nuclear Island. The design of the nuclear power station was undertaken at a strategic scale and in detail. Thought was given to how the ensemble of buildings or overarching form would be perceived in a horizontally emphatic landscape from strategic points. Thought was also given to the internal life of the nuclear complex and how, through design, we might achieve a symbiotic relationship between human and engineering scales. Finally, detailed design was undertaken on buildings defined by engineering and architectural principles including turbine halls, warehouses, workshops, waste stores, refectories and offices. We do not think of nuclear energy as a panacea to anthropogenic climate change, but regard it as necessary in addressing energy security both in the UK and worldwide until fusion energy becomes a commercial reality.
Critics: Matthew Barnett-Howl, Peter Karl Becher, Prof Peter Carl, Prof Steve Cowley, Prof Tom Emerson, Max Fordham OBE, Simon Jones, Dr Helen Mallinson, Catherine Phillips, Daniel Rosbottom, Bob Sheil, Will Wiesner Consultants: Alan Conisbee (Structure), Max Fordham OBE (Servicing and Environment), George Gingell (Nuclear Power) Thanks to: Prof Steve Cowley (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy), Jason Geen & Ian McDonald (YRM Architects), Duncan Kent (National Trust, Orford Ness), Helen & Michael Mallinson

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Unit 8 Smart Cities and Low Carbon Economies

Tutors: Raoul Bunschoten, Dirk Lellau

An International Building Exhibition as Urban Incubator in the Royal Docks, London On Monday, 30 May 2011, the initial assessments of the International Energy Agency showed that the global CO2 emissions of 2010 are far worse than expected. The impact of the financial crisis has been much less than predicted. The world is now on the way towards a temperature increase of more than two degrees Celsius. The main directions taken to reduce carbon emissions and to prevent a catastrophic rise in global temperature has been through diplomatic channels, economic measures, and through technology. None have had significant results. It is time that cities, city governments and the people living in cities now the majority of the earths population become the fourth, and hopefully more effective direction through which to reach the targets the EU, the Peoples Republic of China, and others have set. Cities can become the incubators we need to test and demonstrate how wholesale reductions can be achieved. These incubators need a critical mass of planning, construction and lifestyle change. The unit has worked on the Royal Docks in London to create initial, low carbon Urban Incubator concepts for London, and has planned an International Building Exhibition (IBE) as an architectural showcase. The students have developed prototype projects for this IBE and extended them into a trans-European Incubator, linking London to the Ruhrgebiet area in Germany to address the densest parts of Europe as potential further incubators. The basic assumption has been that London needs an increase of people in order to create an effective low carbon economy, and that as part of this increase around 100,000 new inhabitants could be settled in the Royal Docks area. This influx of people, combined with new projects for industry, culture, and social services forms the core of the incubator. In order for the incubator to become a low carbon, or even energy producing city plan it has to become a smart city a theme currently pushed by multinational companies such as IBM, Cisko, Siemens, Philips and Accenture all of whom are claiming

to have the best solutions for smart cities to become low carbon pilot-projects. The students of Unit 8 have researched what these companies offer and how they operate, and have then proceeded to develop alternative concepts of smartness by devising energy-based masterplans as well as more detailed energy strategies, speculating on developments that may not necessarily be opposed to the visions of the large companies, but such that address more directly the cultural, social, economic and political aspects within which these would take place. Each project shows in its own way how large-scale programmatic requirements combine energy efficiency and renewable technologies with innovative masterplanning techniques and architectural methods.
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Unit 9 Reciprocity and Interdependency

Tutors: Stephen Taylor, Pepijn Nolet

Unit 9 has again been working in places of urban concentration the village and the town focusing upon the essential qualities of human habitation: community, proximity, formality, intimacy, exchange and consolation. Within these structures we have continued our interest in architecture and variation; how our observations of ordinary scenes, history and normative programs can inspire us in our efforts to add, extend and continue the physical fabric of particular places. We looked at conditions where architecture and urban design combine to form the public realm and how architectural themes repeat, adjust and vary against the topographical landscape of their setting. This year the unit based its studies in the historic towns and villages of the Avon Valley. We visited amongst others Bradford, Avoncliff, Freshford and not least the city of Bath. The Avon Valley between Bradford and Bath presents all four forms of ground transport that record the development of modern industrial life: road, rail, river and canal. At different points in history each has been an essential element of infrastructure to the connected economy of its towns. Sleeper Town Today many small rural settlements have lost their financial imperative to the pull of bigger cities. Multinationals and the globalisation of manufacturing have led to lost employment and a decline in the socio-economic possibilities and vibrancy within their communities. Half a century of market driven planning with little long term sustainable vision has squandered the spaces of work within these towns to housing. The converted barn, workshop and yard result in a monofunctionality where the close to hand interdependency of work, home, services and facilities has become inevitably frayed or lost entirely to the sleeper town.

The Geography of Work The last fifteen years with the ever increasing sophistication of information technology and the internet highway can be seen as the latest form of infrastructure that links physical places, reconnects the specificity of local culture and as such is capable of reshaping the geography of work. We studied examples where the workplace is embedded within the urban fabric and where industry is part of the town. Where work and home, embroiled in a vision of mutual interdependence, tradition and cultural pursuits are entwined within wider economics and services. The making of things locally is born of resource, opportunity and economic necessity. This years program looks at reciprocity and interdependency. Students have developed mixed programs that engender enterprise and work through the juxtaposition of functions and facilities that not only exploit the character and conditions in which their projects lie, but which are mutually beneficial to the environment, the individual and the wider community.
Critics, collaborators & consultants: Florian Beigel, Peter Carey, Jamie Dean, John Glew, David Grandorge, Julian King, Tanya von Preussen, Andrew Stone, Unit 4

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Unit 10 Transitions Odessa and London Articulations of Urban Edges

Tutors: Signy Svalastoga, Joerg Maier We continued our investigations on cities in transition, where conventional thinking struggles to respond to the uncertainty and where there is a necessity for imaginative thinking. We returned to Odessa for a third consecutive year with the conviction that what we can learn from an (for us) uncommon urbanity and a city that has undergone systemic change, can be invaluable in setting out an approach to our own uncertain economic, material, social and environmental conditions. This time we worked in parallel with an edge territory of Odessa and London, developing urban strategies for both, and a detailed proposal either in Odessa or London. Projects We started the year with a series of exercises and workshops, drawing from the personal and the common, in order to develop precision, play, sensibilities and intuition. We used our London site as the field for initial processes and experimentations before embarking on our visit to Odessa to investigate the city and our second site. Methods Gaston Bachelard: knowing must ... be accompanied by an equal capacity to forget knowing. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge ... The moment of looking at the world or a specific task as if neither has been encountered before, that is the creative instant and frame of mind We develop tools and exercises that aim to generate fresh approaches and individual concerns across a range of scales with workshops and short projects. The unit continue to work on further development, of its concept of tectonic and tolerance across all scales of the years work. These guides the work through its various stages in constructing, building and testing in order to develop judgements for the proposals made. Re-configuring, re-making and re-articulating: We looked at inspiring architecture from Latin America, Japan and Scandinavia as well as Eastern Europe, not in a typological sense, but as examples of bold interplay between topography, landscape and architecture, including material use, re-use and mis-use. We also emphasize the development of intuition and process to test and develop new forms of architecture and urbanisms in practice as well as questioning the current state of play, in seeking to develop architectural and urban futures that are both socially, economically and environmentally sustainable, distinctive and enjoyable. Odessa Kuyalnik Estuary This year the whole Unit worked on one large site, the territory to the north of the city, including the Kuyalnik Sanatorium and Lake, and the Sleeping District a largely derelict industrial area. Our intention was to focus on development framework strategies and projects that can safeguard these territories against privatisation, by proposing audacious and bold intervention that can benefit the local inhabitants, the city and beyond. London Lea Valley Tottenham Marshes We focused on the Tottenham Marshes, the surrounding industrial and urban conurbations for our London fieldwork, strategic and detailed projects, in collaboration with Design for London and the local boroughs. Workshop September 2011 Project Odessa Strategies for Transition is a 10 day multi-discipline summer workshop based at Kuyalnik Sanatorium on Odessas Northern fringe. The workshop is a collaboration between the Unit 10, ASD Project Office, Odessa State, Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Kuyalnik sanatorium.
For more information and booking details contact office.asdprojects@gmail.com

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Unit 11 The Free State of Soho

Tutors: Deborah Saunt, David Hills, William Haggard, Thomas Greenall

In 1854 a lethal outbreak of cholera took hold in the centre of London. At the time, Soho housed 432 people per acre, making it at least ten times denser than today, and it became a breeding ground for the deadly bacteria. This was detected by simultaneously overlaying maps of urban phenomena alongside ground level investigations. As a result of this dialectic methodology, Soho proved to be the site of a revolution in urban development, revealing this hidden menace. An exponential expansion of cities was then made possible on a global scale. Sohos contradictory character encompasses high-life, low-life, dandyism, and big business. There are alleys serving the sex trade alongside privately owned shopping streets and an evolving form of architecture that parodies Sohos qualities. Big block redevelopments are hollowing out a series of smaller freeholds into super-sized plots to create the large open floor plates demanded by the corporate property market, while beneath the ground the Crossrail scheme is preparing to bring hundreds of thousands of people through Soho every day. These changes echo the disruption caused by Regent Street, which was shaped to isolate the poverty of Soho. In 1825, John Nash stated my purpose was that the new street should leave out to the east all the bad streets.

Concerned by the possibility that current development will alter the uniquely contradictory character of Soho, Unit 11 have declared a state of emergency. Deploying similar mapping methodologies to those used in 1854, contemporary characteristics have been identified and utilised to propose a new Urban Constitution for an imagined Free State of Soho. Studying SoHo in Manhattan as a counterpoint, we investigated the New York loft building typology. Using a kit of standard building components, this type has proven its adaptability to light industrial, commercial, retail, and residential programs with minimal changes. The units propositions are based on the concept of Exchange, both on the scale of the whole district, with proposals for 6 cities exploring future urban models, and on the scale of the individual block, with proposals for new exchange buildings across Soho. The Units work was presented in the windows of Banana Republic on Sohos western boundary as part of the Regent Street festival.
Critics: Peter Carl, Oliver Cooke, Daisy Froud, Martyn Hooke, Will Hunter, Helen Mallinson, Alicia Pivaro, Charles Walford Collaborators:, Banana Republic, Raoul Bunschoten, Brian Carter, The Crown Estate, Renee Epps, Antonia Faust, RIBA London, Fabian Jabro, Kyle Johnson, Jaffer Kolb, Andrew Meyers, Peter Murray, William Murray, Michael Samuelian, Related, The Soho Society, Stanhope, Marc Turkel Consultants: Jeremy Climas, Rich Spens, Peter Laidler

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Unit 12 The Local Agenda: Community and Learning Along the A11
Tutors: Wai Piu Wong, Rufus Willis, Richard Cottrell The Coalition government introduced us to many new ideas and terms including Free Schools and Localism. Free Schools saw the end of the 2.2 Billion BSF spending programme, and in its place an initiative that allows any interest group to build their own school; in the same entrepreneurial spirit the Localism Bill asked individuals and private institutions to be more engaged in their public sphere and bring positive benefits to local communities. As a practice based unit with expertise in public consultation and school building, we consider the Unit with its freedom to research, engage and speculate as the best place to examine the status-quo and test our ideas about learning in the city, play and the public realm, and community engagement. Moreover, as students and practitioners of Architecture and Urban Design, to do so in consideration of our roles in the Political, Social and Economic spheres of the City, as much as being active agents in reshaping it. Five out of the initial sixteen Free Schools are faith schools, so this year we made Religion the fourth sphere. For many faith schools are a contentious subject, but as Architects our view must be that religion is a social fact, and its manifestation to be found in customs, ceremonies, religious places and sacred spaces, is something to be embraced and worthy of investigation. Hoping for the richest context to un-pack and speculate on the ideas of Localism and Free Schools, Our site was the A11 from Aldgate to Bromley-By-Bow, a 3km long strip that included Whitechapel High Street and much of what is known as High Street 2012. This slice of East London offered a palimpsest of religious building typology and monuments of successive immigrant groups, symbol-laden from the Huguenots through to the Bangladeshi and Somali communities of today. In the first semester we walked, talked (and stalked), gathering information and stories along the edge and into the urban blocks and housing estates; mappings were made of the lived worlds and physical topography, and the results compiled into a book. A similar intensity and rigour was given to public consultation, and projects in the first semester beginning with a small exercise examining the relationship of thresholds on the High Street and the congregations that passed by, sought to develop small interventions with end-users in mind. The first semester ended with the Outdoor Classroom project; small external buildings developed from many conversations exercises that aimed to test the Localism agenda by empowering congregations, local residents and communities. The main project speculated on the strip as an all-through school with a distributed campus working with the local communities. Students were encouraged to develop subject based departments that would be buildings in themselves. Using the group research, and drawing on their deep understanding of the context and the needs of the people, the aim was to ensure appropriate decisions be made about programme, construction and material choices. Linked together loosely and sometimes more directly, this series of curriculum buildings grows from genuine local needs, and as such can be read as one way of re-thinking the Free School model. Through the year the unit has actively engaged with year 2 pupils at Krishna Avanti School in Harrow, collectively designing an outdoor classroom/tree-house to be constructed this summer by the students.
Critics: Jaime Bishop, Peter Carl, Fleet Architects, Richard Henson, Krishna-Avanti Year 2 & Ms Clarke, Anna Ludwig, Sam Tisdall, Brian Vermeulen Collaborators: Bhaktivedanta Manor, Adam Redgrove, Engineers HRW, Krishna-Avanti Primary School, Tim Rettler, London Development Agency, Unit 10

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Tutors: Robert Mull, Peter Carl, Catrina Beevor

The Free Unit helps students make their own projects. Students develop contracts with the unit defining their aims and methods and they choose ten project friends to help guide them throughout the year. For Christmas they develop a gift project for their friends and in March and April swap projects for a day and participate in a one-week drawing workshop. Free unit projects at their best are the first stage of the students future practice rather than the final stage of their education and students initiate live projects and establish practices that carry them beyond graduation. This approach is exemplified by Sam of RARA, Bara and Vernes, Free Unit winners of the RSA Resourceful Architect awards. This year seven students (the Seoul Seven) within the unit spent ten weeks working in Seoul as guests of the Korean National University of the Arts and two students spent the year working in Texas to design a new Colonia on the Mexican Border. Otherwise the projects are as varied as the students:
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Thanks to: Stef Rhodes, Mark Smith, Haewon Shin, Nicholas Boyarsky, Pliny Fisk, Peter Lang, Blanca, the Colonia Unidas and all at KNUA

Alex has been working in Zurich to develop a new base for Dignitas in a disused area of the Airport. His project has received funding and will now go ahead. Alpa has been investigating how to empty a place in order to fill it. Selective demolition and cutting of the Moorfields Highwalk renders it reusable as public rooms. Amanda has been investigating how to humanize the brutal apartment typology of Seoul by introducing new spaces and reworking the landscape around them.

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Bara and Marta have been designing a new Colonia in Texas working with Texas A&M University and the woman who lead Colonias Unidas. The project will continue with Bara and Marta presenting to the Colonia this summer. Bene has developed the idea of the urban smudge, a type of public space defined by its soft edges which she uses to redesign the Se-Un arcade in Seoul.

5 Priscilla Fernandes, temporary dining space and public realm improvements beside the burntout building of the Harley Grove Sikh Sangat Gurwara, Bow 6 Mary Sarpong, outdoor classroom and monument to old St Leonards Church buried beneath the A12 7 Priscilla Fernandes, from Roman Road to Tower Hamlets Cemetery, a historically important North-South connection re-visited 8 Patrick Hammond, Spiegelhalter jewellers refused to move resulting in Wickhams Department Store being built around it 9 Andrew Barkley, sectional perspective of proposed study room on Osborne Street for Whitechapel Gallery

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1 Alpa Delpani, placing her contract in Seoul 2 Vernes Causevic, (top) a model of Srebrenica drawn from local memories; (bottom) the interactive model of the Space for Exchange: a sustainable return to Srebrenica being used on the site 3 Alex Scott-Whitby, a new home for Dignitas embedded within Zurich airport 4 Benedetta Rogers, the urban smudge reoccupying the Se-Un Arcade in Seoul 5 Bara Safarova, her contract to design a new Colonia on the Mexican border 6 Silviya Aytova, her travelling arts pavilion under construction in Sofia 7 Marta Cavatorta, the gift project ready for sending to Blanca at Colonia Unidas in Las Lomas 8 Zoe Berman, the productive courtyard in Vauxhall 9 Jonathan Buckland, Bognors new seafront 10 Amanda Rashid, working with and linking two apartment blocks in Seoul 11 Victoria Cooper, study of retaining walls in Seoul

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Applied Technology Making Buildings

Tutors: Carsten Vellguth, Chi Roberts, Rex Henry, Maurice Mitchell

Applied Technology in Architecture is a core module concerned with making buildings delivered through lectures, presentations, factory visits, and workshops. Students have accesss to specialist external consultants and lectures that contribute to the development of a design project. Three components make up the module: The first, deals with the physical, thermal or financial constraints required for a given building design. Students generate a set of working drawings and architectural details appropriate to these constraints, calculating thermal performances, construction costs, and construction sequence. The second, is a logbook of construction technologies made on a field trip to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth. The Centre is based in a decommissioned slate quarry and promotes the use of alternative energies and building techniques. The third, is Prototyping Architecture, supporting the work of the units, through the development a constructed prototype of an architectural detail or a 1:1 component. Rapidly Deployable Structures This years project investigates the strategies necessary to realise a pre-manufactured, kit-based warehouse in a post disaster situation suitable for storing aid supplies. The projects were organised across four countries in which recent desasters have taken place. Haiti, Pakistan, Gaza, Sierra Leone.

The aftermath of a disaster calls for thoughtful responses by the built environment to aid the response and recovery. Built structures can be extremely effective if their lifecycle and usability is adaptable and flexible enough to serve many purposes throughout the different stages of recovery. A primary demand in the initial relief stages is for warehouse capacity and storage facilities. NGOs require secure and efficient warehousing and storage strategies, for a variety of goods from refrigerated medicines to dry foods to construction materials. Climatic concerns such as hurricanes, earthquake aftershocks, and flooding combine with scarcity of construction materials, and destroyed or fragile infrastructures, to create a highly challenging context in which warehouses are both more needed and more difficult to construct. The response must also carefully consider cost implications specific to disaster response, for example a high demand for transport and subsequent rises in fuel costs, as well as material costs where resourcesmay be considerably depleted. (Article 25 brief)
Consultants: David Bennett, Luisa Brotas, Andrew Cainen, Ian Constantinides, Robin Cross, Catriona Forbes, Max Fordham, Lee Franck, Jonathan Mawer, Shamoon Patwari, Joan Randle, Alex Reddington, Franck Robert, Bo Tang, Jane Wernick, William Whitby, Nate Kolbe, Colin Davies, Chris Hosegood, Gabriel Djijali With grateful thanks to: ARTICLE 25, ARUP Associates, Centre for Alternative Technology Wales, Brick Development Association , Buro Happold, Centre of Alternative, City Universitys Civil Engineering, Davis Langdon & Seah, Hanson Heidelberg Cement, HG Mathews, LondonMet Polymer Centre, Malling Pre-cast Products, Metropolitan Works, SAPA Profiles Uk Ltd , the ASD workshop, TECHRET

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Prototyping Architecture Students were invited to develop an aspect of their current design project, or declare an area of interest to explore and examine in detail, and making a series of prototypes informing the design development of the project as a whole. Attention was to be paid to the means of production and the assembly of the components on, or off site. Invention, innovation and blue sky thinking is encouraged. Boldness, experimentation and the extension of the possible are rewarded. The final prototypes were well resolved and developed by students into considered architectural assemblies, representing the well-researched and integrated work of the Applied Technology module.

Projects from top to left bottom right: Esther Worthington, concrete handrail; Damien Doonan/Josephine Venning, Scraffito wall; HG Matthews, brick works; Emily Beaumont/James Decent, brick development; Robert Chandler/Nick Himmels, cast concrete window panels; Henry Jones, switch grass modular jointing node; Extruder, Polymer Centre; Fiona Davies, leaf/concrete panel; Christopher Pendrich, corregated concrete panel; Anna Nenaseva/ Christopher Perry/David Rieser/Steven Watson, solar decathlon; Rhiannon Cowell, digital formwork/concrete panel; Unit 12, Play structure; Nick Silk, integrated lighting gantry; Alex Hargreaves, salt battery

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Integrated Design Studies Communicating Design

Tutors: Carsten Vellguth, Rex Henry

The Integrated Design Study plays an important part in developing and communicating the concepts and design strategy underlying a comprehensive design project. The project is assessed through four lenses: 1. Cultural context and communication; 2. Management, practice and law; 3. Environment and sustainability; and 4. Construction, materials and structures. To simulate the dynamic, interdisciplinary and fast changing nature of contemporary architectural practice students are encouraged to work with external consultants, developing methods of gathering information and encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The Process Diary is a record of all aspects of the design process. It contains research files, records of all presentations, meetings, tutorials with consultants and unit tutors. received during the development and resolution of the design project. The Integrated Design Report is an illustrated report of 6,000 words, outlining the way the comprehensive design project has addressed and resolved the integration of each of the four key areas of the module.
Consultants: Angela Brady, Jonathan Cook, David Darby, Max Fordham, Andy Greig, Micheal Hales, Dirk Lellau, Gordon MacLaren, Johnathon Mawer, Jay Merrick, Angie Pascoe, Shamoon Patwari, Tomaz Pipin, Frank Robert, Mark Smith, Colm Tamney, Bo Tang, Daniel Wedler, Alan Conisbee, Jane Wernick, Rainer Zimmann

Sara Oxley, Between Cities, Herculaneum, Italy

Projects from top to left bottom right: Ana Areia Soares, reflective lightwell; Luke Obray, concrete frieze; Louis Jobst, oak steps; Patrick Judd, Bevellelled openings; Dennis van Kampen, Folding balustrade; Joseph Little, acient floor; Tsuyoshi Wada, in-situ concrete; Douglas Eckford, Barnaby Miller, corner detail

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Robert Grover, city of fragments, Paestum, Italy

Ed Blake, The Paladium, London

Matt Wickham, swimming pool and hotel, Porto, Portugal

Lucy Dinnan, Beckton Smart City

Fatima Gholizardeh, Lanfranc Secondary School

Michele Barlow, adding value, Caledonian Ward London

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Duty of Care a questioning of different working practices and professionalism

Elixabete Marin, Odessa

Threading through the Faculty, four core modules address the wider context of working within and practicing Architecture and Interior Architecture in contemporary society locally, nationally and internationally. By engaging with a broad range of practitioners, students gain an understanding of how their designs would become a reality working alongside other professionals and interested parties. They gain insight into their responsibilities and liabilities, what might constrain them legally and how such constraints can become opportunities to exercise their creativity and management abilities.

Introduction to Architecture and Interior Architecture

Tutors: Jane McAllister, Diana Cochrane Assistance from: Robert Mull, Chi Roberts, Angie Pascoe Contributing practitioners: Bethany Wells, Pierre DAvoine, Assemblage, Peter Barber, Gollifer Langston Architects, Deborah Saunt, Dominic Cullinan Thanks for practice visits to: Ash Sakula Architects, MAKE, Havistock Associates, Hawkins Brown, Cotterel Vermeulen

The exploration of a Duty of Care starts in first year with students working in groups to develop their own blogs, setting themselves up as emerging design offices/practices, and gaining first hand experience of collaborative working whilst developing communication skills and beginning to articulate their chosen specialisms. Then in workshops, students offer their own interpretations of the values placed upon a designers role in different professional and public contexts.

Faisal Ali, Bakery and restaurant, Bradford On Avon

Vasiliki Tsavdaridou, Photgraphic Gallery, Soho

Patrick Fryer, Resurrection of Dormant Nuclear Landscape, Orford Ness

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Module leader: Gordon Maclaren Assistants: Sebastian Hicks, Angie Pascoe

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Module leader: Angie Pascoe Seminar tutors: Angie Pascoe, Jillian Jones, Alex Ely Writing workshops: Chris Foges, Will Hunter Contributing practitioners: Robert Mull (ASD Projects), Alex Ely (mae), Jillian Jones (drdharchitects), Andrew Matthews (Proctor and Matthews Architects), Graeme Sutherland (Adams and Sutherland), William Mann (Witherford Watson Mann Architects), Roz Barr (Roz Barr Architects Ltd.), Mark Brierly/Lara Gibson (Design for London)

In second year there is a more detailed examination of regulatory frameworks, planning issues and processes and their associated involvement with local political and economic agendas. Taken with an appreciation of wider, global influences and concerns, and differing cultural imperatives, students are enabled to examine the impact that these may have on both design outcomes and the organization and management of practices. Students own experiences of design, architecture and urban developments are discussed, from which some strong reflective pieces are produced. Extract from an essay by Maria-Alexandra Radeanu: Furthermore, the origin of architecture from which, as in the case of a work of art, architecture begins and from which it extracts its existence is in the site. Therefore, architecture has in Heideggers opinion a so called ante nature: it absorbs its scents from the soil upon which it stands, but also from the physical, historical and cultural context For the second part I have chosen to analyze an ongoing project in my hometown: Iasi, Romania Palas a project which, in my opinion relates and fits perfectly to the issues raised above. The project overview, as presented on the official website for the development states that The PALAS ensemble, developed by

the IULIUS GROUP company in Iasi, introduces the lifestyle center concept on the mixed-use developments market in Romania Did I mention that the actual site is (still) a public space? Therefore, the municipality should tend to its (public) features, and not lease it for practically nothing, (which is actually) to the detriment of the community. The land belongs to all residents of the city and it is not normal for someone appointed to manage the benefit of all to dispose of it as his own estate. According to the Romanian Law, our city should have 3 times more green space than it does now ... therefore to triple the area of green space, the mayor decided to concrete part of the land. Looked at from another angle, the public part of the project, ie one who serves community interest refers to housing. Who can afford the rent in an apartment in the palace? Dwelling cannot properly happen if we are forgetful of our relation to our world. Construction of edifices alone cannot suffice; we must take into consideration the spaces in which we build: In the third year students reflect and evaluate how their studio design projects are located within current legal and regulatory requirements. The IDA (Integrated Design Audit) submission is designed to enable the student to demonstrate a co-ordinated understanding of these issues alongside contextual knowledge and technological proficiency in relation to the development and resolution of their major design project.

In the 1st year of the Professional Diploma, architecture students are offered the opportunity to debate different forms of practice and the potential of an architects legal, as much as, moral Duty of Care, in context with invited professional codes of conduct and practice. Panel presentations are given by current practitioners and professionals from related disciplines, and the principals or directors of small, medium and large scale, London-based practices are invited to present their differing approaches or architectural positions. Wide-ranging discussion ensues from the students interrogation of the practices work, particularly with regard to contemporary concerns and current political developments and their impact on the construction industry and the realisation of architecture. This ranges from the evaluation of consultation processes, through relationships between clients and contractors and different forms of procurement and building contracts, to an appreciation of large-scale urban strategic and master planning policy and risk assessment. In this way, the students are enabled to place their own experiences of working and their current Unit design work within the broad context of current and future practice. Each one then goes on to develop their own advocating position through a series of shared presentations to produce a final essay. For this essay, primary research is actively encouraged by engaging with those involved or affected by particular developments and where students carry out interviews with concerned individuals and professionals. Writing workshops run by journalists and writers from various architectural publications support this. A list of the titles of the submissions gives a good idea of the range of subjects investigated: Stepping up. Embracing the role of the architect as enabler in order to fulfil duty of care to the community Moving towards a non standard standardisation

Tate Modern by Herzog and de Meuron: A New Type of Public Space An Architects Duty of Care The Creation of Sustainable Communities Through Socially Conscious Design How might Architects ensure public safety and mitigate hooliganism when designing stadiums? The Royal Docks Out with the old, in with the new? The Bridge Academy in Hackney by Building Design Partnership How did Sergison Bates manage to survive in the current climate and how did they provide duty of care to their client of the Finsbury park social housing project? Public Consultation in Design: The Architects Duty of Care Social Polarization and Architecture The Procurement of Academy Schools and their Expenses Does the architect have a duty of care to ensure the longevity of his built architecture and to conserve the built environment? Young Practices and Public Architecture. Improving Space Standards in New Housing The flexibility of the Masterplan case study the Olympic village. Dalston Junction What is the Architects duty of care to the community, what weight is this given and how does this manifest in practice? The Architects design and social housing What makes the design of social housing look right? Guidance and Regulation in the Architecture Profession: The Effects on Design Outcome. Long Life Housing Localism: the next chapter. How must practice adapt to maintain a duty of care to the future profession? Advocating Architecture. The Chelsea Barracks: The Duty is yours, Your Royal Highness

Finally students understanding of the range of contextural practice conditions, from the development of a brief to planning, legal and regulatory frameworks and realisation, is tested within the IDS (Integrated Design Study) submission at the end of 5th year, arising from the students final designs within their chosen design Units.

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RIBA 3: Examination in the Practice of Architecture

Course leader: Gordon MacLaren Professional studies advisor: Angie Pascoe

Candidates for this course come from the smallest local or more craft-based endeavours to those working in high-profile design practices involved in multi-million pound schemes across the world. All have had to deal with the changing circumstances of the global recession which has proved a tough training ground for new professionals particularly having to deal with the knock-on effects within the construction industry, the political changes which have been brought to bear on planning processes, as well as the impact of other environmental and government initiatives. The course team have responded to these changing circumstances, continually appraising and revising the evening lecture series and organising seminars which provide a forum for candidates to explore their differing work, academic and life experiences. Candidates are encouraged to work in study groups where they have the opportunity to share their knowledge of the many different ways of working in practice,

and also to discuss the evolution of different forms of contracts and agreements which have emerged in response to changes in the economic climate and professional working environments. Candidates can now sit RIBA 3 examinations immediately after having completed RIBA 2 if they already have the approved 24 months experience half of which is now possible to take outside of the UK. There is also a shift to broaden the acceptable range of work experience that can be signed off by professionals working in related fields, in preparation for the final RIBA 3 examination and ARB registration as an architect. The course has grown to over 80 students and results remain very positive with no candidates failing their summative Viva Voce examination last year. The introduction of New Joint Criteria by the RIBA and ARB will make the course yet more contemporary and global over the next decade.

Examination scenario exploring new ideas for designing for education and the potential impact of political changes upon practices in the future

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MA Architecture and Interior Design

Course leader: Andrew Stone

The MA AID is a design based and research orientated course. It encourages students to develop their design knowledge and abilities through intensive project investigations and to contribute to, and be stimulated by discourses around Architecture and the Interior. It is one of a group of design based MA programmes in the faculty, which focuses on specialist approaches within the wider discipline of design. Students on the course come from a variety of architectural and spatial backgrounds where traditional roles are increasingly blurred and design skills and knowledge need to be critical and responsive. The course seeks to harness the students diverse interests and experience in questioning and testing architectural and design ideas. The course is a combination of design based research and taught specialist modules. Design projects are undertaken in a choice of postgraduate units, a history and theory course and a wide range of optional modules.

The structure enables students to establish a substantial body of work that, together with the students underlying personal areas of inquiry form the basis for the development of their thesis project. The thesis is an ambitious piece of work. It articulates the students original engagement with design issues and ideas. It is the opportunity to demonstrate an individual and rigorous application of design thinking; it may be the development of a specific insight or position, a detailed understanding of a specific aspect of architecture, a critical or analytical review or an extended design proposition. Recent topics include, Haunting Architecture, On Flexibility, The Architectural Language of the Threshold in London and Paris, Re-use and Thickness. Graduating students typically return to practice, continue their professional studies or extend their investigations through the facultys design based PhD programme.

2 1 Hanna Talje (Unit 7), Orford Ness texture plan 2 Hanna Talje (Unit 7), Orford Ness port 3 Pauline Dellemotte (Unit 11), facades 4 Sina Zekavat (Unit 1), section showing the lift connection between the Roman level and the post eruption land above 5 Emanuele Mozzo (Unit 4), digged house

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MA Architecture and Digital Design Systems

Course leaders: Iain Maxwell, Thomas Tong, Toby Burgess, Jonas Lundberg

The research of MAADDS is technique and studio based and carried out by using field studies, specialist consultancy, computational workshops, hands-on design workshops as well as a prototyping workshops based on our close collaboration with the prototyping lab at Metropolitan Works. This year we will actively pursue and develop a range of industrial and academic research collaborations related to fabrication and production with the aim in producing large scale prototypical output (see workshops). One of the most notable anticipated collaborations this year is with Super manoeuvre and the University of Michigans Taubmann School of Architecture. Informed by developments in parametric design, new material research, new modes of fabrication and production as well as, evolving concepts of space, students will explore intricately and/or reciprocally associated design information and phenomena in both a parallel and iterative manner by exploiting the opportunities afforded by generative and parametric modelling techniques and digital manufacture and production. Our aim is a formally driven production of architecture reciprocally linked to the set of parameters and relationships that informs it. We strive for a speculative, innovative and sustainable architectural discourse exploiting localized production facilitating for increased mass customization and we aim at highly data, site and context specific architecture with an inherit capacity for redeployment and re-adaptation across a range of scales. MAADDS is preoccupied by design based research drawing on a vast resource in digital design and production techniques ranging from modelling to high end simulation and fabrication; however we see the material output of the work as the gauge of its success. MAADDS actively teaches workshop based design and computational techniques and a range of methodologies for design with the objective nurture and develop design talent. We aim for a more contextual and integrated mode of design, in which the rationality sought

for in the industry, is forged by the analytical and procedural experimentation afforded by largely speculative projects. MAADDS are participants in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 event, and will be part of the team constructing a 70sqm fully solar powered house in Madrid in September 2012, integrating advanced digital design and fabrication processes into the units curricula on a live project.
Workshops: Kengo Skorick, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Andrea Marini Thanks to (Solar Decathlon Europe 2012), Paul Scott (AKT structural Engineers), Alan Harries (BDSP; Wes McGee (FabLab), Taubmann School of Architecture, University of Michigan, Holz 100, MetWorks, students and staff of the ASD Low Energy Architecture Research Unit, Quentin Langley, Dean Bove, Dalila Salguiera, Charlotte Gorse (Sir John Cass Faculty of Media Art and Design)

1 Parametric fabrication by KUKA robots 2 Alvin Chu, attractor systems masterplanning tool 3 Relaxed wool model by Jooyun Cho 4 Parametric bent wire physical prototype 5 Johan Siim, fluid simulation in Processing 6 Johan Siim, FLUIDCITY 7 Yijing He, dynamic particle simulation in Processing 8 Jooyun Cho, wet wool system

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MA Architectural History, Theory and Interpretation

Tutors: Colin Davies, Helen Mallinson, Joseph Kohlmaier, Hector Arkomanis, Aleks Catina, Robert Harbison

This course differs from others like it in being committed to the understanding of architecture through direct experience as well as through academic enquiry. An interdisciplinary approach aims to link architecture to the rest of culture, and it is a course which never forgets that it is taking place in the middle of one of the worlds great cities. The structure of the course is clear but flexible. There are four modules that every student takes: Histories, Theories, Interpretations and the dissertation, a period of directed independent study which results in a long essay. Besides these core modules, there is a range of options, such as Poetry and Architecture, Concepts of Space, Cinema and the City and the Question of Technology from which students make individual choices. Writing, used as a tool of discovery as well as a medium of communication, has always been key focus of the course. 200 words is the name of a long-standing informal seminar group in which current students, ex-students and

tutors share their experience of buildings, places and cultural events by writing 200 word pieces. MA AHTI appeals to graduates who want challenging and adventurous study and is ideal for students with academic ambitions who wish to continue their researches on MPhil and PhD programmes. It is also intended for architects who want to strengthen their cultural or intellectual base by reading, thinking and formulating ideas about architecture, its history and potential. New Course: Writing About Architecture A new companion course called Writing About Architecture, the first of its kind in the world, has been validated this year and will start in September. It shares certain modules with MA AHTI but offers a practical, vocational approach which concentrates specifically on writing and on the media in which writing is a core skill.
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MA Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

Course leader: Sumita Sinha

MA Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources is an emergent area within the practice of architecture, which is now becoming increasing relevant in the complex world of today. It examines and extends knowledge of the physical, socio-economic and cultural influences on the built environment. The dynamics of situations where resources are scarce and where both culture and technology are in a state of rapid change are studied in detail. In tune with the recent calls to understand the context in which the resourceful architect of today and of the future will be practicing, this course seeks to understand the transformed nature of employment, ethics, exchange and environment. Apart from complementary lectures and seminars, special site visits and events are included within the course such as visits to relevant exhibitions (such as Eco-build), a building materials recycling plant and projects funded by micro-credit. Students are expected to carry out self-directed research while participating and presenting their work in studio environment and lectures. Students come from many different countries, bringing an international view of the practice of architecture, which helps the understanding of global issues and also enables students to learn from each other. Invited critics come not only from the architectural world but also include stakeholders from the wider community, giving the design projects a touch of the real world. This year our field trips have been to India to cities and squatter settlements of Delhi and Mumbai, including Asias largest informal settlement, Dharavi. In India, we met community advocacy specialists such a human rights lawyer, Indias oldest and women only trade union (SEWA) and people from government set-up and independent community organizations. Student design projects, taught within the Diploma studio units, are based in Agra, India and South Africa and range from community centres, re-use of organic waste to crche facilities. The core module, Changing Places, open to Diploma students as well as the MA, included

new lectures on ethics and participatory design as well a visit to the Building Materials recycling centre in Willesden. This year, Changing Places essays about the role of the development practitioner included varied topics such as smart cities, NGOs, participatory actions, community gardens as well as several live projects in different countries students are working in. A participatory design workshop was organized with help from Women in Architecture and Architects for Change (Royal Institute of British Architects) in October 2010. Based on the success of this workshop and student feedback, we were awarded a research grant from the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) to progress the research on this design methodology. This grant will be used for a CPD certified summer seminar and workshop day in July 2011 and a publication about participatory design. The MA celebration day, which included presentation from students of this course, was held in March 2011. A further book, Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources, which includes work from the MA and new research on this subject, will be published this autumn by Earthscan.
We would like to thank the following people and organisations for their contribution to the course, in no particular order: Nicole Kenton and International Institute of Environment and Development, Nabeel Hamdi, Melissa Kinnear, Sarah Ernst and Architecture Sans Frontires, Robert Mull, Signy Svalastoga, Peter Carl, Ines Weizman, Maurice Mitchell, Robert Barnes, Francesca Pont, The Charity Bank, Vinod Shetty, Anil Sawan and the Acorn Foundation, Sanjay Kumar and Archana Toppo from SEWA, Kushpreet Bajwal, Shrashtant Patara and the late Pratibha Patara, Development Alternatives-Delhi, Nupur Barua, Amit Kowli, Nasser Golzari, Yara Sharif, Anne Markey, Angela Brady, Pamela Edwards, Royal Institute of British Architects (Women in Architecture and Architects for Change), Ashok Lall, Joao Wrobel, James Lloyd-Mostyn, Sandip Shaw and Capital tours, London Met India office, Andy Roberts and Carole Baker from CEBE, Sarita Kaur and her family in Kalyanpuri, John McKenna and the Powerday recycling plant; and the many kind people who live in areas of rapid change and scarce resources without whom our trip and research would not be possible

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MSc Architecture, Energy and Sustainability MSc Integration of Renewable Energies in Buildings
Course leader: Dr Luisa Brotas

What we seek is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world, with clean water, air, soil and power, that is economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed. William McDonough These two courses seek to empower students by giving them a critical understanding of the problems associated with adaptation to climate change and its mitigation through the rational use of energy. They will enhance current design vocabularies/techniques and challenge the student to contemplate a holistic approach towards low carbon building design and the integration of renewable energy in buildings. The courses show how to reduce the environmental impact of buildings while promoting occupant comfort and health. Skills are developed in a range of different approaches to evaluating environmental conditions and predicting the effects of design solutions. These may include data collection

and interpretation methods, environmental monitoring, computer-based simulations and post occupancy evaluation of the interaction of people with the built environment. These studies are particular relevant as large discrepancies have often been shown between predicted and real energy consumption. Emphasis is also given to refurbishment and upgrading of existing buildings as they have an important role to play in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from buildings and ensuring that they can meet the challenge of climate change. Integrated sustainable design goes beyond the construction process and needs to envisage the whole life cycle of the building.
Lecturers: Prof Fergus Nicol, Prof Mick Hutchins, Dr Axel Jacobs, Dr Eulaia Cunill, Eliza Southwood, Graham Phillips, Jon Walker, Adrian Leaman, Chris Martin, Anis Abou-Zaki, Asif Din, Paul Hannent, Becca Hotopf, Gilles Alvarenga, Davide Frasca, Luzanne Smith

9 1 Sungsoon Lee, Shading analysis of Stapleton House, Energy Comfort and Buildings 2 Christopher William Lawrence Watkins, An investigation into air quality in dwellings with low levels of infiltration, MSc thesis 3 Gilles Moreira Alvarenga, Combined cooling and dehumidification to achieve thermal comfort, MSc Thesis 4 Swanand Mahashabde, Vegetation to curb noise, Stapleton House, Energy Comfort and Buildings 5 Ariz Moriones, Artificial light analysis in LEARN, Daylighting and Energy Efficient Artificial Lighting 6 Gabriela Santiago, LEgarden Complex, Low Energy Architecture 7 Daniela Canzi, Daylight analysis in LEARN, Daylighting and Energy Efficient Artificial Lighting 8 Sujal Pandya, Pop Up City, Low Energy Architecture 9 Gabriela Marrero, Hotel Mar Chiquita, Low Energy Architecture

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MA Cities, Design and Urban Cultures

Course leader: Dr Ines Weizman

Authoritarian regimes tumble when fear disappears. Fear is one of those things that drains away so fast and in such an accelerated mode that one is left wondering whether it was ever there and if so, why did it linger for so long. In what the media described as the Arab spring, entire peoples overcame their fears gathered in the streets and squares of Tunesia, then Egypt, soon after in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia to give voice to their disagreement with their governments, which had perpetuated injustice, violence, corruption and poverty. One of the most potent acts of demonstrating the fundamental act of regime change was that of sweeping and cleaning the streets and squares where the demonstrations took place, making these open urban spaces their own. This had the effect of pubic space which in the case of authoritarian regimes is the space of the sovereign and its ceremonies into a common space, a shared space of imminence unregulated by the state. Public space is a relation between people mediated by the state. It was in turning the public space into a common ground that the revolutions of the Arab world have either succeeded (Egypt), yet to be decided (Syria), or failed (Bahrain). In their insistence to stay, to camp as we have seen in the circle of tents beautifully framed by the giant roundabout of Cairos Tahrir square otherwise an arena of government propaganda props people meant not to occupy but to transform and undo public space.

In 2010/11 the MA Cities, Design and Urban Cultures analysed and speculated about possibilities for critical spatial practice. The idea was to understand critical spatial practice as a form of intervention in the city that takes into account the multiple political, cultural and economical and urban realities. Critical spatial practice knows how to mobilize forms of knowledge and expertise in creating transformations in the public realm. Nourished by change, it has a dynamic condition of networked intervention. As such critical spatial practice is also a relational practice in which a multiplicity of actors operate in a multivalent political field: NGOs, local associations, developers, dissidents, aspiring politicians and celebrity do-gooders. A particular critical analysis and research, inspired and investigated in the design project in Diploma Unit 8, concerned smart cities a concept which seems not only to promise a particular superiority over other presumably less intelligent city concepts, but also the privatisation of decision-making on the level of the city. We asked how to understand urban intervention beyond the professional and epistemic boundaries of architecture? And we looked also at those figures in history: dictators, power brokers, liars and cheaters that have managed to induce change without drawing a line.

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MA Spatial Planning and Urban Design

Course leader: Lara Gibson Visiting Professor: Mark Brearley, Design for London

The MA in Spatial Planning and Urban Design, taught in collaboration with Design for London, aims to revive the notion of the plannerarchitect and bring propositional planning back to the forefront of urban place shaping. It operates at the threshold of planning, urban design and architecture. It is conceived to speculate new spatial planning and urban design practice, and respond to social, economic, environmental and political realities with a particular focus on London. Throughout the year, students gain a variety of insights into the world of planning and urban design through guest lecturers from a wide range of public and private sector organisations, as well as case study reviews, workshops, exhibitions and events, and site visits across London and the UK. Teaching is based around conversation groups and seminars that encourage the students to develop their roles as proposition makers and respondents, through the practice of steering, influencing, encouraging and designing. Students have the opportunity to study in a design unit, which this year has included those run by East Architects, the Architecture Research Unit (Florian Beigel & Philip Christou), DSHDA, Robert Mull and the Free Unit, Signy Svalastoga, Raoul Bunschoten, Stephen Taylor Architects and Maurice Mitchell. This year student proposals included the design and planning of a new train station in Ercolano, Italy, and a recovered tram for Odessa, Ukraine. Other projects propose an employment and training institute for Bradford upon Avon, and an uncovering of the process of the proposed Neighbourhood Plans through documentary and film making. A key component of the course is a design thesis, informed by the theory and practice of spatial planning and urban design. Research and thought towards the thesis begins at the start of the course, and continues for 18 months, allowing for reflection on what has been gathered throughout the period of study, practice and design work. Thesis topics this year have included the identity

and development at Kings Cross, the attempts of urban branding through planning and the role of character, and the potential of major infrastructure projects to initiate successful future development.
Module tutors: Levent Kerimol (Design for London; Julia Atkins (LMU Faculty of Applied Social Sciences) Visiting teachers: Vincent Lacovara Critics: Tobias Goevert, Matthew Murphy, Fenna Haakma Wagenaar (Design for London); Fred Manson (Heatherwick Studios), Will Steadman (London Thames Gateway Development Corporation) Guest lecturers: Julia Bray, Edmund Bird (Transport for London); Peter Bishop, Mark Powney (London Development Agency); Nick Bullock, Paul Campbell, Jamie Dean, Esther Everett, Eleanor Fawcett, Richa Mukhia (Design for London); Graeme Collinge (Genecon); Andrew Drury (HATC); Chris Hall (GVA Grimley); Leigh Herrington (London Borough of Croydon); Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds); Kay Hughes (Olympic Delivery Authority); Lewis Kinneir (Carmody Groarke); Chris Lloyd (AZ Urban Studio); Michelle May (Olympic Delivery Authority); Sule Nisancioglu (London Borough of Haringey); Jamie Ounan (House Consulting); Ruth Potts (New Economic Foundation); Will Steadman (London Thames Gateway Development) Corporation: Steve Tomlinson, Fenna Haakma Wagenaar (Design for London); Finn Williams (London Borough of Croydon); Rob Whitehead (London Development Agency) 3

1 All scales of planning and urban design are explored 2 Liam Morrisey, reintroduction of tramline in Odessa, Ukraine 3 Christian McDonald, site study, Ercolana, Italy 4 SPUD lectures with guest speakers 5 Matthew Charlton, building boundaries along the Royal Docks DLR, London

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2 Lucy Pritchard, Building topography: landscape infrastructure for the Western European city. This PhD is using design as research in order to test artificial topographical features as a potential new order of city-landscape. The project begins with the medieval grid-plan Bastide town of Monpazier, and seeks to clarify the way in which landscape infrastructure might reinvigorate a sophisticated condition of both differentiation and reciprocity between development and cultivation. At intervals equivalent to five minutes walk north from the town four new areas of densification are proposed; a landscape infrastructure related to the towns outline gives architectural character to the topographic conditions found at each interval. Image: View across new topography to Monpazier, its valley an the chateau.

PhD Programme

In March, a conference devoted to the nature of PhD by Practice, under the rubric, Innovacion y Poiesis, was held beneath the pines, in the brick and concrete Arena of the Open City, hosted by the Universidad de Catolica, Valparaiso. The question inevitably had to take account of the nature of architectural knowledge within the modern university derived from that conceived by von Humboldt in the beginning of the nineteenth century invaded by one or another version of the Bauhaus. Fernando Perez pointed out the latent conflict between innovation now largely the province of technology, its modes of production, funding and research and the know-how related to making, characteristically understood in terms of the crafts, guilds and their incorporation in civic praxis. The Bauhaus, even in its very name, sought to recall this medieval culture of making, but through art, the vexed milieu of form, space, colour aesthetics which has long since been co-opted by the forces it sought to influence or even tune towards a species of salvation. Accordingly, the conference considered a spectrum of possible directions of research/practice. Of course the Open City itself continues to inspire as an example of research in architecture through poetry and making; and this provoked Fernando to inquire into the relation of poesia and poiesis, whose (Latin and Greek) similarity of spelling suggests a proximity that remains more of a challenge or hope than a developed understanding.

It would be useful to distinguish innovation from creativity; but the question of a fruitful context for creativity and its understanding seems to be haunted by the recurring struggle which first appeared with Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution. Creativity is an odd concept in our culture, veering between individual genius and such terminology as the creatives who are expected to regenerate depressed parts of cities through their life-style and attitudes, or perhaps according to the use of the creative arts in therapy. This touches on the fundamental issue an understanding of creativity that is both honest to human circumstances and possibilities but also to their profundity, their ethical orientation. A desideratum that appears with the earliest writings on cities, its persistence might be tragic but its current relevance is undeniable. The possibility that a deep and differentiated urban context is most likely to provide fruitful conditions for civic creativity, for the making of which practical wisdom plays a significant role, suggests that the understanding of such contexts is fundamental. As the city, therefore, so research in a faculty of architecture. As a form of interdisciplinary understanding in a university, practical wisdom offers orientation within the ever-burgeoning areas of specialisation and expertise. A PhD programme that takes seriously practical wisdom acknowledges the claim of what is common-to-all.

3 Julia King, Incremental Cities. This research investigates the relationship between the capacity of residents to share the social and built infrastructure that binds individuals as collective entities and the building processes which are appropriate for the incremental development of low income housing within Delhis resettlement colonies. It seeks to identify the advantages and disadvantages of different types of building construction and the extent to which the building of resettlement colonies and their occupation and use is incremental in the sense that it was built or initiated and gradually extended and adapted by the inhabitants themselves to suit their own requirements. Image: Incremental Housing in Resettlement Colony, Delhi, Plan of a typical house at most evolved state of incremental growth. Note the temple/prayer space.

1 Bo Tang, Negotiating shared spaces in Indian slums: the role of amenity buildings and effect of the post-hoc introduction of infrastructure in the creation of public spaces in informal settlements. The objective of this PhD by Design Project will be to develop an understanding of the role and structure of public spaces within urban slum settlements in India. Live case study projects in Agra and Mumbai will explore how the post-hoc introduction of infrastructure and amenity buildings could be used as a catalyst for upgrading public spaces, and hosting cultural expression and identity in slum communities. Image: secular and sacred space in Baban Seth Quarry settlement, Mumbai, India.

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7 Paulo Moreira, the endo-colonial topography of Luanda, Angola: from the gradual nucleation to the latent dissolution of Chicala. Is there an alternative way of thinking urbanity that integrates the formal and informal topographies which contributed equally to the destiny of Luanda, instead of subjugating the latter to the neoliberal policies pursued by Angolan authorities since the end of civil war, in 2002? The image represents a colonial and a post-colonial monument (Fortress and Mausoleum), mediated by the three nuclei of Chicala (in the continent and the island). By studying the public dimension of the self-built settlement, I expect to give concrete evidence that there is a reciprocal relationship between private and collective history. 8 Peter Chomowicz, Continuity and Change: Social and Spatial Processing, Doha, Qatar: What is the spatial organization of a stratified society? How is globalization and rapid urbanization affecting social and spatial segregation? Are the urban centres that experience massive migrations of financial and human capital atomizing into increasingly insular spatial and social strata? And if so, how is individual identity expressed in the creation and experience of formal and informal, public and private space in the midst of social and spatial transformation? 9 Rex Henry, constructive montage, proposal for new stone circle, newlyn: a constructive montage of past and present, telescoping one through the other (benjamin) suggests a mapping of the modernist city that is deeply prehistoric. the persistence of memory revealed in Penwiths lithic remains is a record of things strangely familiar, simultaneously ancient and modern. the conspicuous and conscious juxtaposition of this material, its repetition in new artefacts, forces an anthropological time jump that exerts a claim upon the present. The recent research concerns the merry maidens stone circle, approx 2500bc (but possibly much earlier), its associated outliers, the pipers (or fiddlers), Goon Rith and the adjacent Tregiffian entrance grave (its use spanning a possible 2500 years, approx 30001500bc). the circle, also known as Dans Maen or Stone Dance, carries within its folk names the echoes of its use as a gathering, ceremonial and trading site brought together by dance.

4 Patrick Lynch, Architecture and Sculpture, sectional sketch and collage of the entry to a public library at Victoria showing the integration of sculpture with architecture as a 3-dimensional stone fresco, a staircase handrail and as coloured light falling from the upper south facing caf terrace: research into the articulation of ideas about cultural orientation, as a mode of representation. 5 Jane Clossick, The depth structure of a London high road: a study in urban order. Research and methodology development drawing of Tottenham Hale, drawn from imagination and personal experiences. Drawing is the first in a series, intended to explore the relationship between physical forms of streets, buildings, scale and social/political organisation in three case study areas, which represent urban typicalities along the A10 high road: Tottenham Hale, Dalston and Bishopsgate 6 Tomaz Pipan, A contest between infrastructural urbanism and civic life in Pearl River Delta, envisioning new civic reality and sustainable urban form. A once deeply agricultural people, whose civic life was rooted in the natural and ancestral worship, came face to face with an infrastructural order of economic efficiency. Within this split character the Chinese rural-urban landscapes exist as a negotiation between the Civic Life (the remnants of traditional understanding of space) and the contemporary Production Space. Apart from the obvious problems these landscapes face, they reveal a staggering propensity to accommodate change and flexibility. While the West is struggling to define and engineer this elusive spatial quality, the Chinese rural-urban areas have it ingrained as an intrinsic quality that enables them to survive. Image: Schizophrenic Landscapes of Pearl River Delta

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Designing the Workhome: from Theory to Practice

Research fellow: Dr Frances Holliss Co-investigator: Prof Colin Davies

The two year AHRC-funded Knowledge Transfer project Designing the Workhome, was successfully completed in February 2011. This was marked by an exhibition and symposium, Introducing the Workhome, and the launch of an on-line, open-access design guide, precedent database and pattern book based on the design of a series of exemplary workhome types. The website, www.theworkhome.com provides an essential resource for designers and legislators interested in design for home-based work. Since the launch, the Workhome Project has continued its investigation into the architecture of home-based work through research, design and consultancy. It has been part of two teams placed second in architectural competitions, the first led by Cazenove Architects in the Salford House 4 Life competition, the second led by Fluid for the development of Brentford waterfront. Its work has been exhibited in Lisbon as part of Carl Turner Architects MUDE Home from Home exhibition.

The Workhome Project was contacted by Downing Street prior to the 2011 Budget for advice on changes to planning and fiscal policy changes aimed at removing obstacles to home-based work in the UK. In partnership with Newlon Housing Trust, Warwick University and the University of Central Lancashire, the Workhome Project is currently developing a base-line study of home-based work in social housing, in response to the Coalition Governments pledge to lift the ban on social tenants starting businesses in their own homes.
Research assistant: Angela Lee with Edouard Rochet, Alan Benzie, Sara Dabouni, Craig Harrison-Smith, Andrew Parry

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Musarc
Directors: Joseph Kohlmaier, Esther Waterfield, Je Ahn

Musarc is a research and event platform at the ASD exploring the relationship between architecture and sound. It provides and environment for architects to engage with sound not just as an acoustic phenomenon, but as a tool for research and a way to engage with places through listening. Since Musarc was founded in Novmber 2008, we have collaborated with numerous artists and composers on a series of performances, lectures, exhibitions, teaching programmes and commissions. We are a unique hybrid organisation in that we act both as a performing group as well as a research and commissioning body. Today, our ensemble has grown to more than 45 members and is becoming known as the architects choir. We still rehearse every week in the heart of the architecture school, working on a broad repertoire including traditional choral works, contemporary music and challenging work exploring performance and music, some of which we commission. This time last year, Musarc performed three new works written for the ensemble by young composers as part of On air, a series of workshops and a concert during the London Festival of Architecture. In September, Musarc ran its first major teaching programme, Field Studies, a series of lectures and sonic capture field-trips in London led by composers and sound artists Marc Behrns, Justin Bennett and John Levack Drever, which was reviewed in the Wire magazine in December. In late summer, the choir was chosen as one of six UK amateur ensembles to be paired with a young composer as part of Sound and Music, the PRS Foundation and Making Musics Adopt a composer scheme. The result, Jessica Currys piece The story goes roughly as follows will be premiered on 1 October 2011. The performance will be accopmanied by a publication with essays and photographs by Yiannis Katsaris documenting our collaboration with the composer. In December, we performed for the second time at St Bartholomew the Great, alongside architecture/art duo Kite & Laslett who brough their installation Candescence to the church,

a glowing and singing weather balloon that responds to sound and touch. Over the last year, Musarc has been working with Sound and Music, and Media and Arts Partnership on Ways of Hearing, a national programme of research and knowledge exchange focused on listening. Practitioners from a broad range of disciplines are engaging in an exploration of how sound impacts on our understanding and shaping of the city. Musarc are acting as the London hosts for a series of events in this programme, with the Arnolfini and The Architecture Centre in Bristol, and Lumen and Opera North in Leeds. For next year, we have ambitious plans to develop new events, research projects and teaching programmes, a series of lectures and new ways for architects to get involved in the work we do. A new post-graduate history and theory teaching module looking at the question of sound and sensory psychology in relation to architecture will run for the first time in February 2011.
Choir conductor: Cathy Heller-Jones Singing technicians: Phillip Bell, Judy Rees, Simon Hayes Artists, composers and collaborations in 2010/11: Marc Behrens, Sam Belinfante, Justin Bennett, Tom Chant, Jesica Curry, Benedict Drew, Yiannis Katsaris, Kite & Laslett, John Levack Drever, Neil Luck, Benjamin Oliver Sound equipment sponsors: Sound Technology Ltd www.musarc.org www.field-studies.org www.soundandmusic.org/projects/ways-hearing

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Unit 6 Oliver Beardon Harry Cassell Giselle Casio Damien Doonan Filiz Erol Rebecca Johnstone Dorota Kozaczuk Vanessa Lee Juliana Mejia Rachel OGrady Lucy Schofield Sofie Slinning Victoria Timberlake Josie Venning Jonathan Weaver Inga Wolanczyk Unit 7 Kamlesh Bava Ash Bonham Nicola Chan Samuel Chisholm Martin Eriksson Patrick Fryer George Gingell Sarah Heidborn Luke Jackson Sara Jonasson Claire Osborne Chris Pendrich Rebecca Roberts Elliot Sully Eduard Swift Hanna Talje Daniel Wainwright Rebeckah Wootton Hamid Reza Zendehpir Unit 8 Lucy Dinnen Ayoung Gu Hyeonji Jang Henry Jones Ricardo Poyato Prez Xavier Segura Andrs Unit 9 Faisal Ali Regina Avancini Emily Beaumont Alfred Bentil Kristopher Bilet Matthew Dalziel James Decent Chris Foley Oliver Frayssineau Patrick Judd Martin Hammond Nike Himmels Brenda Leonard Nicola Nash Thomas Rowlands Nick Silk Giovana Valmaggia Unit 10 Roberto Castellazzi Danny Ceurvels Eva Cmarova Dalina Gashi Christina Gerada Alex Hargreaves Rosemary Hervey Bethan James Katherine Johnson

Dong Wook Jung Donna Macfadyen Liam Morrisey John OLoughlin Gaia Pelizzari Gary Poon Emma Rutherford Punya Sehmi Lisl du Toit Esther Worthington Unit 11 Ana Margarida Areia Soares Georgina Bister Edward Blake Sally Boucher Pauline Dellemotte Nicola Ibbotson Matthew Lambert Nicola Malcher Sze Ming Ng Tomasz Romaniewicz Hamida Pangeshiri Graham Read Adam Summerfield Tomas Szczebiot Vasiliki Tsavdaridou Ross Warren Harry Wilkins Unit 12 Andrew Barkley Jonathan Williams Patrick Hammond Hattie Haseler Elena Stellin Antoine Carrier Priscilla Fernandes Tina Jadav Saya Takahash Amelia Watkins Mary Sarpong Fatemeh Moradi free Unit Silviya Aytova Michelle Barlow Charlotte Zoe Berman Jonathan Buckland Vernes Causevic Marta Cavorta Yuk King Chan Victoria Cooper Alpa Depani Tommy Down Amanda Rashid Benedetta Rogers Sam Potts Bara Safarova Alex Scott-Whitby Masters Programme MA Architecture and Interior Design Kristoffer Bilet Pauline Dellemotte Lisl Du Toit Hyeon Jang Bo Rim Jun Dong Jung Fatemeh Moradi Emanuele Mozzo Gaia Pelizzari Elena Stellin

Saya Takahashi Hanna Talje Anca Trestian Giovanna Valmeggia Sina Zekavat MA Cities, Design and Urban Cultures Ricardo Poyato Xavier Segura Andrs MA Architecture of rapid Change and Scarce resources Tatum Lau Juliana Mejia Juan Oneja MA Architecture and Digital Design Systems Jooyun Cho Alvin Chu Yijing He Johan Siim Wen-lan Yuan MA Spatial Planning and Urban Design Matthew Charlton Peter Croft Matthew Dalziel Margaret Dewhurst Ayoung Gu Bethan James Dorota Kozaczuk Christian McDonald Liam Morrisey Nicola Nash Sze Ming Ng Emma Rutherford MA Architectural History, Theory and Interpretation Charles Chambers Chris Hughes Christine Kanakidou John Leetch Sara Prat Soto Catherine Tidnam Esther Waterfield Laura Whiting Jeannine Wickens MSc Architecture, energy and Sustainability & MSc Integration of renewable energies in Buildings Anastasia Angeloudi Batu Ayhan Nadine Boehm Daniela Canzi Andrew Coker Athanasios Didangelos Elena Fortunato Rajvinder Kaur Kalsi Sungsoon Lee Swanand Mahashabde Gabriela Marrero Aritz Moriones Elisavet Palaiologou Sujal Pandya Mariusz Ropiak

Veli Sanli Gabriela Santiago Aikaterini Tourna Ioanna Zavitsanu rIBA part 3 William Adams Kristofer Adelaide Niko Ancona Lukas Barry Giles Blight Alexia Bodouroglu George Bunkall Sam Casswell Cristiano Ceccato Adnan Celikovic Cathy Chapman Chris Chapman Ming Cheng Stephen Chown Nicholas Chrispin Marian Coleman Chris Collins Dan. Cox Alastair Crockett Alex Davis Sophie Davison Adolfo Despradel Christian Dimbleby Ashleigh Donaghey Ben Fallows Gidon Fuehrer Haakon Gittins Martin Goodfellow Ellen Hadden Kathleen Hallquist Eimear Hanratty Sana Hasan Takuji Hasegawa Joanne Hemmings AndreW Holter Caroline Hull Debbie Humble Yasmine Hunt Sarah Hutchison Gwilym Jones James Johnson Alia Khonji Lewis Kinneir Yasemin Kologlu Angela Lee Janice Lee Rebecca Lee Arthur Lo Joseph Mackey Tom Manwell Joel Rocky Marchant Sakiko Marui Clodagh Mccallig Bernard Mcdonagh Cian Mckay Pete Mcmahon Roger Meyer Alex Milani Ben Monteagle Craig More Azadeh Mosavi Ali Mowamed Bernard Murray Grainne Nestor Will Notley Aya Okada Louise Ollerearnshaw Colin Osullivan Camilla Parsons Alastair Parvin

Ben Paterson CamillA Pitt Chris Prosser Patrick Quinn Chris Radley Tom Randle Ummar Rashid Thidaa Roberts Luis Rojano Tom Routh Patrick Skingley Kristina Tafa Ross Tredget Marco Vanucci Adrien Vick Marian Ware John Weir Steve Westcott Paul Westwood Tom Westwood Colin Wharry Sam Whatman Kirk Wilde Eva Willoughby Julia Wolfe Ronald Chi Wong Joao Wrobel Richard Yates PhD Bo Tang Jane Clossick Julia King Patrick Lynch Paulo Moreira Peter Chomowicz Tomaz Pipan Lucy Prichard Rex Henry Kieran Long Kirsten Jeske Natalia Alonso (MPhil) Nagaham Salam Azdeh Montasami

Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design Summer Exhibition 2011