This yearbook showcases the innovative and

creative projects by Architecture + Design

students of the UEL School of Architecture
and the Visual Arts.

‘Cerussite’ is part of the work ‘Alive’ by Stratis Georgiou and Palak Jhunjhunwala
in RAQS Media Collective’s ‘Twilight’ Exhibition, at The Whitworth Art Gallery
AVA Architecture + Design Yearbook 2018

Publisher
University of East London

Editor
Dr Anastasia Karandinou

Graphic Design
Studio Jon Spencer

Showcase Edition
June 2018

ISBN 978-0-9935963-6-0 (printed version)

ISBN 978-0-9935963-7-7 (digital version)

University of East London

School of Architecture and the Visual Arts
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 Contents

Acknowledgements p2
Mission Statement p3
Welcome p5
Introduction p6
Research, Awards, Projects, Conferences p8
Field Trips p36
Open Studio Event p40
Lecture Series p44

Foundation p50
BSc Architecture Year 1 p60
BSc Architecture Year 2 & 3
Unit A p76
Unit E p86
Unit G p94
Unit H p102
MArch Architecture Year 4 & 5
Unit 2 p112
Unit 4 p124
Unit 5 p132
Unit 6 p140
Unit 8 p148
Unit 9 p158
Unit 10 p168
BSc Architecture Design Technology (ADT) p176
BA Interior Design p208

Masters Programmes
MRes p222
MA Achitecture and Urbanism p226
MA Interior Design p230
MA Landscape Architecture p244
PhD in Architecture + Design p256

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 Collaborators AVA A+D

We would like to thank the many organisations,
companies and individuals who we have had the
pleasure of collaborating with, including:
ARB/Architects Registration Board
Alberto Moletto (Move Arquitectos, Chile)
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NLA/New London Architecture At A+D we foster a broad and inspiring education to
Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna, Italy establish a rich foundation for a creative professional
life. Our Architecture and Design programmes
Pell Frischmann
challenge assumptions and set new agendas for
PRL/ Place research Lab
design in the 21st century.
Ramboll We balance the development and support of
Our staff teach at the highest level and maintain
an enquiring research approach to physical and
intellectual contexts. We embrace real situations with
passion and creativity. We believe that a depth of
enquiry and poetic experimentation develops from
the experience and understanding of making, drawing

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Alejandro Aravena RIBA/Royal Institute of British Architects our students’ talents with the understanding that and materials in well-crafted output. We believe that
RIBA research Architecture and Design is contextual, socially Architecture and Design is thought, experienced and
ArchitectScripta
constructing and political. We believe that the design built.
Article 25 Rasti Bartek (Partner at Cundall)
conversation in studios between students and staff Our school acts as a forum for ideas and thought
ARUP Scott Whitby Studio across models and drawings is central to creative across a wide range of disciplines. We host a national
ATER Pordenone, Italy Studio Bark development. and international lecture series which acts as a
Shanghai Giao Tong University, China Our students are encouraged to undertake study magnet for theorists and practitioners to contribute
Bamboo Bicycle Co.
trips internationally in each year of study to deepen to the discussion and debate in the school. We have
Birkbeck, University Of London University of Hasselt, Belgium
an understanding of people and places. Our teaching extensive workshops and facilities for the creation of
BBAA/Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici e Social Life
balances a respect and understanding of the past and real and digital artefacts.
Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna, Italy Hackney City Farm the present with an inspirational, poetic and innovative
British Council Newton Fund ECOBUILD Sustainable Design stance towards the future.
Ca’ Foscari/University of Venice, Italy SRI/Sustainale Research Institute
Camden Council STO Foundation
Collide Theatre The Building Centre
Creekside Education Trust The Design Museum
David Levitt (Levitt Bernstein Architects) The Courtauld Institute Of Art
Sustainability Research Institute IUAV/University of Architecture of Venice, Italy
Emilio De La Cerda (Pontificat Catolic Universidad, Kazan State University of Architecture and
Chile) Engineering, Russia
Engineers Hrw Guangzhou School of Architecture and Urban
Erasmus+ Planning, China

Grimshaw Architects Akmei Metropolitan College of Athens, Greece

ATER Pordenone, Italy Tony Fretton Architects

muf architecture/art C+S/Cappai Segantini Architects, Italy

Heatherwick Studio University Finis Terrae of Santiago, Chile

InTeA srl, Venezia William Paton Community Garden

Leaside Wood Recycling Project Witherford Watson Mann Architects

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority Young Vic Theatre

Les Ateliers
LLDC/London Legacy Development Corporation
London Borough of Newham
Museum of Architecture
Welcome

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s

edition of the Architecture and Visual Art Yearbook. This
year’s book is full of a wide range of very creative and
inspiring ideas and projects developed by our highly
talented students. We strive to offer our students the
best experience possible and ensure they are ready

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for the workplace. We do this by working closely with
employers and architecture practitioners. Our staff are
fully engaged in high impact applied research which
transforms lives and society.
We are so delighted with the recent appointment a
number of very high profile visiting professors to the
College of Arts, Technology and Innovation. Those
appointments include Professor Patrik Schumacher –
the Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, Professor Chris
Williamson, and Professor Roger Flanagan.
We are an award winning School and members
of our staff were amongst the group of talented
young architects “Assemble” who were awarded the
Turner Prize for 2016. Staff have also been active on
international completion wins including Rosa Rogina
and Armor Gutierrez Rivas who were part of the team
winning the competition for the design of the Venice
Biennial Montenegrin pavilion 2018.
Architecture and Design is a flagship subject for the
University and I am thrilled with the quality and standard
of this year students’ work. This yearbook presents a
comprehensive profile of our students, reflects creative
thinking, and a holistic approach to design.
I am grateful to my colleagues who have worked very
hard to develop a rich diversity of talents. I take this
opportunity to wish all graduates a very successful and
bright future.
We hope you will remain in touch with us as your
forge ahead in your careers, remembering that it all
began at the University of East London!

Professor Hassan Abdalla PhD FRSA PFHEA

Pro Vice-Chancellor & Dean
College of Arts, Technology and Innovation
 History and Innovation Subject Leader A+D

What it means to unfold history forwards
On a hot summer afternoon in East Anglia I had my first
drive in a new Tesla fitted with autonomous (driverless)
technology. Harvest had just taken place and with
hands off the controls the car skilfully navigated the
twists and turns of the country lanes between wheat
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can extend and enrich our society by integrating with
our values. At the moment I would argue that there has
never been a more important time to be studying and
bringing forward ideas. It seems very clear that we are
in a period of rapid change and with so many nations
failed or spiralling towards failure the need to harness
the RIBA programme and on their own account. In
particular we mention Sir Robert Mc Alpine, British
Land and AHMM for their continued mentoring and
sponsorship of student competitions. It is through
debate and collegiate working across university and
practice that agendas for change might emerge. In
This book is by necessity the briefest compilation
of many ideas, the briefest glimpse into our unfolding
of knowledge and values. It witnesses the very best
output of human endeavour.
I would like to thank all of you who beat on, boats
against the current, harnessing innovation and

fields. I was reminded of the test postulated by Alan
Turing in the 1950s (Manchester University) in which
machine intelligence gains a complexity to imitate
human intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) is
developing in a number of fields with opinion divided
about whether AI extends or threatens human thinking
and our democracy. As well as constructing our lives
in the context of intelligent machines human thinking
is also subject to threatening macro forces such as,
climate change, big data, political regimes, chemical
weapons in Salisbury and military action in Syria.
There can be no better time to reassess what it is that
drives the best of human endeavour and distinguishes
it. One thing that is clear is that humans are at their
best when their capacity for creativity and innovation
is unleashed in a supportive context of freedom of
thought and enquiry. I am reminded of our ethos here
at UEL to “enrich lives in the context of society and
nature”. Innovation takes place in a context and we
can think of this as its own short, medium or long term
history. So, as creatives, how do we relate to history?
In his novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald ends the
book with a reflection on the central character Gatsby:
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic
future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us
then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster,
stretch our arms further . . . And one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back
ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1926)
This invisible force bearing us back into the past is
surely what we have to fight against. I would argue that
as creatives we are unfolding history into an unknown
future. It is through our creative endeavours and
innovations that we assist the past to unfold embedded
with our human values. Only in this way does innovation
not attempt to replace the past but to unfold the past
forwards. It is precisely in this approach that innovation
change through innovation linked to a virtuous value
system has never been more apparent. Surely it must
be this constant struggle that defines human thinking
at its best.
Universities therefore have a key role to play leading
innovation in the 21C. Here at UEL I am indebted to
our students and staff who have worked ceaselessly
throughout the year to research and make proposals
for such a wide variety of project work and to provide
a supportive environment for this innovation to be
nurtured. The complex nature of our work however
means that we have to work across boundaries.
I am therefore delighted to be a part of the new
department of AVA which brings together the
architecture and design programmes with the visual
arts programmes. This new clustering will allow many
new synergies to enrich our work. In the light of this
new clustering I am delighted by the many varied
activities of students and staff.
I am also very grateful for the support given to us
by many sponsors and practitioners. In particular
I would mention the STO foundation, sponsors
our international lecture series, who have through
international practitioners visiting the school done so
much to enrich the design conversation of the students
and staff. I would also like to thank the practitioners
who contribute to the national lecture series including
the Architecture Society lecture series, the Detour
Ahead and the Art Lecture series. These lecture series
have considerably enriched the thinking that drives
our work. I would like to thank the students who have
assisted with these societies including the president of
the student society Daniel Kiss, with Dalcimaria Nunes
Cardoso, Nick Franklin, Andrei Rudi Szepocher, Fabio
Jose Magalhaes, Andreea Camelia Ciuc and Julian
David Roncancio Luna.
We are also very grateful to the practitioners who have
been mentoring students and offering placements on
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this way the school acts as a forum for the development unfolding history forwards to an unknown future.
and exchange of ideas.
The opening of the June Showcase coincides with Carl Callaghan BA (Hons) Dipl RIBA
a research conference on heritage, Tangible and Subject Leader Architecture and Design
Intangible Heritage(s): Design, social and cultural
critiques on the past, present and the future.   Staff
have been active on international completion wins
including Rosina Rogina and Armor Gutierrez Rivas
were part of the team winning the competition for the
design of the Venice Biennial Montenegrin pavilion.
Armor was also on the team winning the new Singapore
airport (KPF and Heatherwick Studio). UEL alumni
and staff member Wilf Meynell (Studio Bark) has won
Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018.
Students have also been successful with Product
Design Student Laurica Carusato winning the Green
Seas Trust completion to clear up beaches. Cathal
Abberton won the British Journal of Photography
Single Image Breakthrough Award, Mark Lawrence MA
Fine Art graduate has won a Scottish National Portrait
award, Helen Pritchard won an Evening Standard
Contemporary Art Award and Doreen Fletcher was
nominated for an Evening Standard Contemporary Art
Award. Interior Design students made a group entry to
a competition in Italy for the restoration of a castle.
The Architecture programmes have been revalidated
by the ARB and I would like to thank all the staff for
their work revalidating and enhancing Visual arts
programmes.
At the core of our teaching philosophy is the
relationship developed between staff and students.
Students are taught in small groups, one to one, in
studios, in workshops, and lecture halls. Our project
work follows a systematic pattern of investigation,
experiment and innovation.
I would like to thank the students and staff for their
work this year, and to wish those students leaving the
school every success. Please stay in touch with us.
 Modern Maypole
International Design Competition
Senior lecturer Alex Scott-Whitby has won a
prestigious international design competition to
create a ‘Modern Maypole’ in central London.
His firm, ScottWhitbystudio, shared the accolade
with engineering company WhitbyWood, founded by
his father, Mark.
The two companies will construct the ‘Modern
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Maypole’ – a complex tower of 32 golden maypoles
representing the 32 London boroughs – for the 2019
London Festival of Architecture from 1-30 June.
The structure will form a contemporary focus for
public events and activity outside the church of St
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Mary-le-Strand – the site of London’s largest and
long-lost maypole, which was erected after the
restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and towered
over the 17th century city.
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Alex said, “We are delighted, humbled and
tremendously excited to have won the ‘Modern
Maypole’ competition. As a team it means a great
deal to all of us to have been tasked with the honour
of creating a new structure on this hugely important
London site.  back at pedestrians as they arrive out of St Paul’s
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“We hope that what we create will become a place for
Londoners to meet, visitors to explore and a marker
point that will help London forge its new identity.”
Modern Maypole
Each of the golden poles is held in place by
‘tensegrity’ – a term coined in the 1960s by Kenneth
Snelson and Buckminster Fuller whereby the
structure stands thanks to the compressive strengths
of the anodized aluminium poles and the tensile
strengths of coloured steel wires acting in unison.
After the 2019 Festival, the poles will be donated to
schools and community organisations across the
capital, forming a legacy of civic beacons in London
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for years to come.
The international design contest was launched
in June 2017 and was open to architects, artists,
designers and engineers. ScottWhitbystudio and
WhitbyWood saw off competition from a field of 32
entries to win the commission.
For this years festival Alex’s Studio is working
alongside world renowned engineers Arup to create
an innovative reflective gateway structure outside
St Paul’s Cathedral (Pictured) which will be in place
for the duration of the summer. The structure is
made up of over 300 highly reflective aluminium
poles that will hopefully reflect an image of St Pauls
Underground station.
 St Pancras Church Alumni Acievments
The Portico project: John Betjeman Conservation Award 2017 Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018

Alan Chandler’s practice won the Society for the
Protection of Ancient buildings John Betjeman award
for conservation repair, working ion the Grade 1 listed
Inwood designed Greek revival church of St Pancras
in Euston.
The approach responded to William Morris’s key
proposition: ‘The building is a document of its time
and of its making’ – here he asks us to respect
the legibility of a buildings life for all to read and
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SPAB’s Betjeman Award judge Rachel Morley said:
“We were incredibly impressed by the time and effort
which was given to understanding the construction
of the Portico – the development, alterations,
inefficiencies and unique details, as well as the
materials used. This informed and justified every step
of this complex suite of repair and re-engineering
works. The detail of the work throughout was
exquisite. We were especially pleased with the team’s
forward-looking approach – not only developing a
At a ceremony in April Studio Bark were announced Studio Bark’s founding Director, Wilf Meynell,
as Sustainability Architect of the Year 2018. “We teaches Technical & Environmental Studies to both
were honoured to be up against such prestigious degree and masters students in Architecture.
practices at the Architect of the Year Awards last
night. It feels great to have our efforts recognised www.studiobark.co.uk
alongside other designers who are also passionate
about the environment”.

understand. How we do this requires us to ‘repair
not restore’, and when we do repair we need to
be sensitive to how that repair is made and how it
influences our comprehension of the whole – to
‘straighten out’ or leave ‘as found’?
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recipe for this rare form of terracotta to inform future
repairs, but also supporting the craftspeople that
possess these skills. Overall, we found this to be
an exceptionally thorough and thoughtful project”.
The project was also shortlisted for the King of
Prussia Gold Medal 2017

AJ Small Projects Award 2018 shortlist
Holloway Lightbox is a photography studio, a
screenwriter’s retreat and a flexible family space
located in the rear garden of the client’s Victorian
terrace home. In a nod to the couple’s respective
professions (photography and film), a series of
handmade coloured tiles create a playful ‘pixelated’
façade. The series of final photographs, showing
the transition from day to night have been taken by
the client.
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The Lightbox was built by architecture students
from UEL as part of Bark Live Build and UEL’s annual
Construction Week. A huge thank you to to all those
who contributed, including Lauretta, Athena, Alvin,
Moiz, Sahand, Zi Xin, Nor Amirah, Mohamed, Mary,
Thomas, Madihah and Afiqah.
Live workshops:
a philosophy of engagement
Technical Workshops are in themselves
architecturally ambiguous events. Real events in real
time, they are constructed situations. The line, and
the drawing, which marshals it into order, normally
precedes the making of structures with material.
Within the Workshop, this is not so, and the line
loses its pre-eminence, drawings become simply
notations of actions, explorative tools to investigate
how it fits, where it is placed, the sequence of
actions. Workshops rely on both verbal and
malleable strategies to generate the constructed
situation between the participants and their task.
What advantage does this give?
Primarily, the development of material resolution
through making confronts the student with the
inertia and sloth of material substance. The student
cannot assume that the mastery of matter is the
responsibility of others. In the very conception of
a design the qualities and properties of materials
must be grasped and understood in order to make.
Lines are the intermediaries between ‘thought’ and
‘make’, and their significance as substitute matter
needs to be understood. An Architect seldom builds
their own work, but to begin an immersion into the
act of building is the only means by which the line
can become relevant and purposeful.
With thanks to those who made the Construction
week 2017 happen:
Studio Bark
Wilf Meynell, Nick Newman and Steph Chadwick
(www.studiobark.co.uk)
London Play and West Green Primary School
Nic McEwan and Max Muller (www.londonplay.org.
uk)
Thames View Infants Academy and SRI
Sam Jelliman (www.uel.ac.uk/sri)
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Engineers HRW
Chris Stobbart (www.ehrw.co.uk)
Matter Architecture and Greenleaf School
Roland Karthaus (www.matterarchitecture.uk)
Matter Architecture and The Limes
Roland Karthaus (www.thelimes.org.uk)
Stratis Georgiou
UEL Robotics lecturer
Dr Aurore Julien
Environmental lecturer
Philippa Battye
Witherford Watson Mann
Beats learning and MUF Architecture/Art
Katherine Clarke and Mark Lemanski (www.muf.
co.uk)
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 Capital Architecture

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Karl Marx,
Harald Trapp (UEL) and Robert Thum (Hochschule
Trier, Germany), initiated and organised the research-
project “capital architecture”. This international and
multidisciplinary cooperation includes the research
of MArch unit 9 (Harald Trapp, Brian Hoy) and will be
documented in various publications and exhibitions.
Using London as a starting point, the first exhibition
in the European Academy of Art Trier investigates
the relevance of Marx for the analysis of architecture
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“capital architecture” is scheduled to be shown in
the LUCA (Luxembourg Center for Architecture) and
the new gallery of the architectural magazine arch+
in Berlin. The research on London´s Workingmen´s
Clubs, including some of unit 9-students´ drawings,
has been invited to be part of the international
exhibition “An Atlas of Commoning”, which will start
in the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin this
June, continues 2018/2019 in the USA (Pittsburgh,
Detroit, New Orleans, San Diego) and concludes

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today. Video-interviews with experts (Massimo in South America in 2020/2021 (Buenos Aires, Sao
De Angelis (UEL), Mario Carpo (Bartlett), Alois Paulo, Montevideo, La Paz, Lima).
Hahn (University Trier), Anna Minton (UEL), Patrik
Schumacher (Hadid Architects), Douglas Spencer
(AA)), a series of photographies (Immo Klink) and
architectural diagrams (unit 9, UEL) on London´s
Workingmen´s Clubs and the spatial installation
„Akkumulator“ (Harald Trapp, Robert Thum)
comment on the contemporary production of space.
 Student Competition Broadgate
UEL Architecture students take centre stage in
innovative paid project to design a £300,000 Welfare
space in Central London.
Architecture students at the University of East London
(UEL) have played an important, behind-the-scenes
role in the rapid and impressive transformation of
Broadgate, a 32-acre office and retail estate in the
City of London.
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Located near the high-speed Crossrail’s Elizabeth
line, set to open in December 2018, Broadgate, at
100 Liverpool Street, will offer office space, shops,
rooftop dining and public spaces – all designed and
built according to the highest ecological standards.  daily safety inductions, training and meetings.
But what about the countless engineers, builders,
plumbers, carpenters, labourers and other trade
professionals who are turning this exciting vision into
a reality? UEL’s Architecture students helped create
an inspiring environment for these essential workers.  The students even utilised an unused Italian
It all started in 2017, when Sir Robert McAlpine, a
leading UK construction and engineering company,
approached UEL Senior Lecture Alex Scott-Whitby
with an invitation for students to participate in a
competition to design and build welfare facilities
for workers to use during the construction phase of
redevelopment at Broadgate.    of Broadgate, and the site’s history, including
The brief required students to look at ways to provide
welfare provision such as toilets, hot and cold water
for washing, changing facilities, drinking water and
somewhere to eat and rest. They were asked to come
up with ideas which would exceed expectations
while also safeguarding the health and well-being of
workers.
Sir Robert McAlpine worked with UEL and British
Land, which owns the Broadgate site, to select a
winning design from three shortlisted teams of UEL
students.
There were good ideas from each of the teams, so
the decision was made to interview and appoint five
students from across the three teams to deliver the
project. 
The UEL undergraduate and postgraduate students
selected – Kirk Slankard, Robin Philpot, Darlyn
Norlay, Nuno Lopes and John Francis Benedicto –
worked closely with Sir Robert McAlpine’s framework
design manager Jeff Tidmarsh, and contractor
Avondale. Avondale sponsored the students’
employment for six months effectively paying off
their final years study.
The welfare facilities, at 1 Finsbury Avenue, opened
in October 2017. The space featured a canteen,
kitchen, secure storage, showers, toilets and
washing facilities for men and women, offices for
supervisors, a multi-faith room and an auditorium for
One of the quirkier ideas from students was to
repurpose fire doors to create walls, dining tables,
benches and the auditorium.
restaurant on the ground floor of 1 Finsbury Avenue
to set-up a one week public exhibition in June under
the aegis of the London Festival of Architecture.
‘Reflections on Broadgate - past, present and
future’ showcased the students’ experience, the
work of architects employed on the redevelopment
photographs of the original construction of
Broadgate.
The exhibition culminated in an open evening which
celebrated the achievements and opportunities of
the project, with content put in a catalogue that drew
together reflections from a divergent group of people
involved with the estate over the past forty years.
UEL students described the experience as “an
assault course in architecture and construction”
and said they valued the opportunity to grow in
professional and personal confidence by tackling
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real-life challenges, deadlines and collaboration
under pressure. 
And cooperation between UEL and the Broadgate
partners continues, with a new competition,
announced earlier this year, offering architecture
students paid three-month placements to work as
part of a small team in Broadgate which is finding
ways to enhance public and private space within the
area’s buildings.
This Broadgate student team project will be unveiled
in June, to again coincide with the London Festival
of Architecture, and is currently employing an ex-
UEL graduate student Abdul Elmi to design a new
exhibition which will open as part of the London
Festival of Architecture in June this year.
The new opportunity is offered in partnership
with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris architects,
ScotttWhitbyStudio, British Land, and Sir Robert
McAlpine.
 Cities in Transition
A research collaboration between UEL and the Middle Eastern Technical
University, Ankara October 2017 and beyond.
With over 3 million Syrian refugees in, this newly
added population is roughly equal to the total
population of 17 different cities in Turkey. Many of the
newcomers do not have access to public services
and basic comfort conditions, and language is a
major barrier to finding common ground between
new and existing populations and opportunities.
 
The wider context of rapidly changing demographics
in Europe and concerns over cohesion impacts on
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how we propose architectural and urban strategies
that will bridge perspectives of the new comers
and residents of the cities. Urban spaces can
be produced regarding the needs and habitual
practices of the new comers’ using the approach
of participatory design. The key achievement of the
workshop was to bring together researchers from
a wide range of disciplines and fields to consider
a common issue. The selection process achieved
a mix of researchers that provided a stimulating
collaboration enabled by the workshop.
 
In order to formulate adequate research projects
around this target, our workshop focussed on two
key questions:
1. Can spatial interventions support social cohesion?
2.  How can fragile neighbourhoods be helped to
feel invigorated by new populations, rather than feel
threatened or overwhelmed?
 
Three engagement strategies were developed by
the research collaborators with NGO’s and Syrian
refugee groups to explore ways of engaging local
Syrian voices and perspectives within the framework
of how NGO’s are currently supporting people to first
feel secure, then to find ways to work and play within
a new urban context.:
The ‘On proverbs’ project explores everyday activity
and social habits of sharing coffee to establish a way
to open opportunities for conversation and exchange
that moves away from formal ‘question and answer’-
using the sharing and translation of Turkish and Arabic
proverbs, the differences and similarities of shared
cultural knowledge establishes a starting point for
common ground, and the collection of these shared
proverbs provides the material for a publication that
belongs to both communities. The use of proverbs
is a verbal heritage – this became profound as there
were real issues of illiteracy among refugee women,
the ability for literate participants to support those
without reading or writing skills becomes a new and
unexpected aspect of this ongoing project.
 
‘Drawing as communication’ engages with the
children of the incoming and existing community to
develop drawing as a vehicle for exploring what is of
value to refugees who hold a strong sense of their
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homeland (even though some of them were just born
before they left Syria), and local children who have a
different perspective on their common surroundings.
Drawing provides an articulation of ideas that are
difficult to verbalise, and the results have a beauty
that transcends written language and provides
the basis for understanding how the provision of
physical spaces or resources can be prioritised
and communicated to all the people sharing a
neighbourhood.
 
The ‘Daily life’ research involving interviews with
female refugees in collaboration with a local NGO
(ASAM) will build a strong body of information that
will support direct physical interventions that can
be achieved by architecture students or NGO’s to
create small scale but effective and useful physical
change in the community of Onder-Ulubey.
 
Ongoing projects between METU and UEL are in
progress, with Tate Modern hosting the first research
collaboration in May 2018
www.citiesintransition.agency
Photo by Catalina Pollak
 Migrating Proverbs
‘Migrating Proverbs’  is an interdisciplinary action
research project that investigates the use of social
and cultural practices as tools for the engagement,
cultural exchange, and development of social
integration processes between Syrian refugees and
local communities in Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey.
Social and cultural practices are at the heart of our
cultural identity, especially those that are articulated
through language, both written and spoken. These
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practices shape and reflect the way we think,
understand the world and communicate. This is
especially relevant to refugees, where their social
practices enable the continuity of their journey and
the sustainability of their stay. It reminds them of their
past; but it is also the way in which they claim the
future.
The research explores ways in which language can
act as a tool for revealing the refugees experience
of place, and their articulation of identity and locality
towards the new host territory. More specifically, it
makes use of proverbs, as a dense cultural artefact
that can be exchanged, translated, represented
and put into circulation, to explore the way in which
new participatory strategies of engagement can: i)
improve the understanding of the refugee’s condition
of place; ii) generate spaces of exchange in order to
build community capacity; and, iii) enable spaces of
empathy by building ‘common ground’ interaction
between local and refugee communities.
‘Migrating Proverbs’ is an on-going research
developed by Catalina Pollak Williamson and Reem
Charif  in collaboration with  Ela Aral (METU)
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and  Deniz Altay  (Cankaya University) – a
collaboration that resulted from the Newton
Funded International  Conference  Cities in
Transition organised by UEL and METU in Ankara in
October 2017. 
The work-in-progress of this research was presented
at the TATE Exchange as part of the ´Who are we? Art,
Migration and the production of Democracy´; and will
take part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial ´School
of Schools` as part of its public program.
 Drawing as Communication
Cities demographics change rapidly. Different ethnic
groups, refugees, migrants move between places.
Apart from wars and other crises, urban planning
and development processes sometimes also force
people to leave their neighbourhoods and homes
and move to new locations. Within this broader
context, a number of conversations took place in the
Cities in Transition workshop, in Ankara.
Through the ‘Drawing as communication’ workshop
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we attempted to develop some communication
methods for understanding of the local conditions
and the everyday living of the Syrian refugees
in Ankara. The workshop was led by a team of
researchers from the UK and Turkey, including
the UEL colleagues: Dr Anastasia Karandinou, Dr
Bridget Snaith, Israel Hurtado and Kyriaki Nasioula,
coordinated by Dr Gul Kacmaz.
The workshop was a drawing and playing activity
with Syrian children 8-11 years old. The workshop
took place in the ASSAM centre, in collaboration
with representatives from ASSAM, from METU, a
psychologist who works with ASSAM and translators.
The aim was to engage in a conversation with the
children; by conversation we mean a verbal and non-
verbal interaction, through drawing and playing. We
refrained from asking the children questions that
could relate to traumatic experiences, hence we
did not ask them where they live, or where home is,
or to draw us their family. Our aim was to start with
very open questions, which would allow the children
to gradually let us understand fragments of their
everyday lives. One of the questions we asked, was,
for example, to draw us their favourite food. This then
allowed us to discuss with them follow up questions,
Drawing of Europe, by an 8 year old Syrian boy.
such as who prepares this food, where, with whom
they usually eat together, what other foods are typical
in their family/ environment (if the child mentioned
family), etc. Another question we asked the children
was to draw their favourite place; real or imaginary.
Some children drew a playground with swings,
flowers, trees. Other children drew boats and fish.
They said they like the sea and they mentioned the
seafront places they used to visit with their families
in Syria. One very young boy drew an abstract shape
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very passionately and then stopped. When asked
what this is, he said that he wanted to draw Europe –
where he wants to go – but that he doesn’t know how
to draw it/ what it looks like.
Some of the drawings led to conversations such as
where they most like to play, with whom, what kind
of games, etc. This started gradually revealing to
us the relationships with the neighbours, the way
in which public space is used, differences and
similarities with regards to where and how children
are allowed to play in different families and cultures.
Other discussions over the drawings revealed to us
how different children perceive their life in Turkey.
Even though some children moved to Turkey when
they were very little, or even unborn, some of them
perceive Syria as home – even if some of them
remember very little of it. They may be familiar with
Syria through photos and their families’ discussions.
The notion of home and belonging, although not
addressed in a direct way, emerged through the
discussion with the children. Similarly the theme of
different cultures living close together and the issue
of language as both a barrier and an opportunity for
communication.
 British Council Newton Institutional Links Fund
Building Capacity for Sustainable Development of the Built Environment
A UEL research team led by Dr Heba Elsharkawy,
Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Programme
Leader for BSc (Hons) Architectural Design
Technology, with Dr Sahar Zahiri, Research
Associate, and Mr Jack Clough, Research Associate
are aiming to develop education for sustainability
in Egypt. Together with partners from Ain Shams
University’s Faculty of Engineering in Cairo are
running a British Council Newton Institutional
Links funded project titled ‘Building Capacity for
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Sustainable Development of the Built Environment’
(BC-SDBE), which has been running since 2016 and
has gone from strength to strength.
The significance of this project is that sustainable
development is a key pillar for the socio –economic
welfare of Egypt. The country is growing rapidly,
and the demand for building in the civil and
residential sectors has left a clear gap in terms of
the professionals available to deliver sustainable
development in the built environment. The
education sector needs to modernise to ensure
that sustainability principles and theory are solidly
embedded in their curricula, which in turn will embed
sustainable design in practice.
The project aims to build capacity for education
and research in Egypt, by ‘training the trainers’ and
enhancing their knowledge and skills surrounding
key sustainability themes through three UEL
designed training courses. In March 2018, the
research team hosted 10 academic researchers from
Ain Shams University at UEL’s Docklands campus
for an intensive two week training programme.
This programme focussed on Low Carbon Design
Strategies. A combination of problem based
learning workshops, guest lectures, fieldtrips and
environmental design software training provided the
academics from Egypt with new ideas and examples
of the best practice in sustainability; from urban scale
developments to building scale projects.
By equipping the academics from Ain Shams
University with new found knowledge and skills
the project will eventually improve sustainability
education in Egypt as these academics take these
ideas, disseminate them onto colleagues and their
students and eventually embed these ideas in their
curricula and training. The total number of academic
staff from Egypt trained now stands at 17, with a
further aim of having 30 trained in total!
The great success of this programme has been due
to stakeholder engagement – The UEL researchers
run a series of stakeholder events in Cairo before
each training event, which allows detailed discussion
surrounding the barriers and requirements of
education for the built environment in Egypt, and
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involves Academics, Industry and Students to
develop a balanced idea of what is missing in
Architecture and Engineering education currently.
These ideas are then used to tailor the researcher
training programmes to maximise their impact.
The project also encourages a global outlook, the
UEL research team successfully delivered their first
International Conference for Sustainable Design
of the Built Environment in December 2017, which
showcased the latest developments in themes
such as Sustainable construction and design,
Energy efficiency, Education for sustainability. The
conference attracted a large international audience
from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East with
112 papers published in the proceedings. The
conference provided an incredible opportunity for
knowledge exchange, partnerships to be made and
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the dissemination of research results.
Closer to home; The UEL project team are also
working with the London Borough of Newham.
The research team have monitored the building
performance of social housing blocks in Newham
that have experienced problems relating to thermal
comfort, damp and energy efficiency. This data
has then been used to develop a building model
using the industry standard DesignBuilder software
to investigate the retrofit solutions available to
alleviate the problems. As a result of the research
efforts, Newham Council can now take an informed
retrofit approach to improve the quality of life of the
residents and improve the overall energy efficiency
and sustainability of these social housing blocks and
similar residential blocks across the borough.
The Architecture Student competition 2017
 Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss ‘I don’t like nature’
Community definitions of nature, and the use of urban
from East London greenspace for health & wellbeing

Edited by Anna Minton, Programme Leader of Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI, course leader for Landscape and green space in the city has been linked to
UEL’s MRes Architecture programme, together Architecture, will be working  this summer  with UEL reductions in chronic stress, to improved health, and
with Alberto Duman, Dan Hancox and Malcolm research internship winner, Anna Peters, a student to longer life expectancy overall, (Van den Berg, et
James, Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment on the  MA Professional Landscape Architecture al., 2007; Mitchell & Popham, 2008), yet people from
and Loss from East London’, will be published by (Conversion),  to develop a joint paper for publication ethnic minorities, who often suffer greatest health
Repeater Books in September 2018. and conference presentation, exploring ethnicity inequality, are typically under-represented as users
and the use of parks for health & wellbeing. of parks and other green spaces in the UK,  and may
The impact of global capital and foreign investment well not be gaining health benefits claimed for parks
on local communities is being felt in major cities Advocates of the biophilia hypothesis assert as a result (CABE 2010, Snaith 2015).
across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was that people have an instinctive need and love for
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awarded to the British capital, East London has been nature,  (Kellert, 1993; Wilson, 1984)  and so the Through case study research, the team will show
at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing presence of nature in cities is fundamental to human how values and beliefs about urban greenspace
top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic health and wellbeing.    Since 2008 over half the in different ethnic groups can mean some spatial
history. At the centre of this has been the local world’s population have been living in cities, reflecting configurations of ‘nature’ will have greater benefits
government, Newham Council, and their daring a trend toward increased urbanisation.    As global for some than for others.    While designers and
proposal: an “Arc of Opportunity” for developers to biodiversity continues to decline, incorporating managers are seeking inclusion, exclusionary values
transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. The proposal nature in the design of urban space is becoming are unintentionally embedded in production and
was outlined in a short film, London’s Regeneration increasingly important.  management of UK greenspaces. 
Supernova  which was  shown to foreign developers  
and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The idea of ‘nature’ in biophilic arguments is, This work will argue for a more complex and nuanced
however, extremely broad.    This paper argues that understanding of nature and biophilia in inclusive
The book brings together twenty-seven assuming universal appeal, of ‘nature’ in any form, spatial design.
leading artists, writers and academics whose while failing to interrogate what ‘nature’ means
contributions address the “Regeneration Supernova” to different people can be unhelpful, and at worst
of East London. could be harmful.    For example, access to parks

While the sweeping changes to East London

have been keenly felt by locals, the symbolism
and practicalities of these changes - for the local
area, and the world alike - are overdue serious
investigation.  Regeneration Songs  is about how
places are turned into simple stories for packaged
investment opportunities, how people living in those
places relate to those stories, and how music and art with UEL’s Department of Sound Engineering. The
can render those stories in many different ways. album, entitled Music for Masterplanning was the first
  output of the Leverhulme award and  Regnereration
The idea for the book originated in 2015 when Songs is the second. 
Alberto Duman and Anna Minton secured a grant for
Alberto to work as Leverhulme artist-in-residence The book will also include a download code for Music
at UEL’s MRes Architecture Programme, subtitled for Masterplanning  and a 32-page glossy insert
‘Reading the Neoliberal City’. Following a Freedom detailing the artists involved.
of Information request, Alberto had obtained a
copy of the Regeneration Supernova film shown
in Shanghai, but the film was silent. The aim of the
Leverhulme project was for Alberto to work with
artists and musicians across the ‘Arc of Opportunity’
area to record an album’s worth music tracks to go
with the film, which was produced in collaboration
 Ventri Architectus

Renée Tobe was Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow

at the British School at Rome January to March
2018. Her research was entitled  Ventri Architectus,
reproducing classical idioms of power and culture
in film. It will be published as a chapter in the
book  The Oxford Handbook on the Reception and
Dissemination of Classical Architecture, (OUP, 2018).
She presented this work at the BSR, the American
Academy in Rome, and the Architectural Association
in a one-day symposium on Architecture and Film.
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 16th Venice Architecture Biennalle

Armor Gutierrez Rivas and Rosa Rogina, UEL
invited to represent Montenegro at the 16th Venice
Architecture Biennale
MArch Unit 8 leaders Armor Gutierrez Rivas and Rosa
Rogina have been recently appointed to deliver the
concept and content for the Montenegrin Pavilion at
the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Armor and
Rosa will be part of an interdisciplinary team - three
architects, a landscape architect and a sculptor -
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There are three interrelated parts of the Montenegro
presentation at the 16th International Architecture
Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: THE BOOK,
THE EXHIBITION and THE NETWORKING, each
one taking a specific angle in approaching the
overarching theme of emerging resilience. All three
elements vary in scale, materiality, duration and
methods of dissemination. Together, they act as a
vibrant framework underpinning an open-ended
discussion on the theme within and beyond the

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who won the brief following an international call. actual pavilion. The exhibition will culminate in a
Their chosen theme is ‘emerging resilience’. publication of a glossary that acts as a handbook or
a survival kit for the era of new spatial realities.
Montenegro’s exhibition for the 16th International
Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia The Venice Architecture Biennale opens on 26 May.
strives for multidisciplinary integration of results of
contemporary ecological research and collaborative
practices in urban design and spatial planning.
The exhibition will critically analyse the idea of
architecture as an expanded practice through simple
and understandable messages, overwhelming
branding power of the site-specific installation and
tactility of specifically in-situ crafted models as an
identification tool, accompanied by a publication and
networking, engaging not only famous architects as
guests but also the general public.
 Project Cerussite
Project ‘Cerussite’ is inspired by the formation of
the homonymous crystal. The emerging forms are
highly intricate and ordered at the same time. Light is
refracted through the crystal differently, from opaque
to translusent, depending on the concentration of
the consisting elements. These qualities, namely the
complex order and variations of translucency, were
the elements that gave rise to the pavilion. On top
of a wooden base, robotically 3d printed elements
made out of PLA plastic form a ‘crystal’ growth,
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aiming to create a large-scale assembly in space.
This assembly is used as a 3d ‘deep screen’ on
which videos for Manchester’s industrial history were
projected.
‘Cerussite’ was part of the work ‘Alive’ at Raqs
Media Collective ‘Twilight Language’ exhibition at
The Whitworth, from September 2017 till February
2018. It was designed and made by Stratis Georgiou,
Senior Technician at UEL, in collaboration with
Palak Jhunjhunwala. The School of Architecture,
Computing and Engineering of UEL provided design,
consultation and robotic fabrication services.
Architectural advisors, Rupali Gupte and Prasad
Shetty. Photo credits, Fabio Galicia.
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 Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Sharjah study trip
BSc Architectural Design Technology
In February 2018, the Architectural Design
Technology students set off to the United Arab
Emirates for a one week study trip organised by their
programme leader, Dr. Heba Elsharkawy. The study
trip was an eye-opening experience to the students
as it facilitated visits to many significant case
studies in the UAE that demonstrated the diverse
technologies and design approaches adopted in
such a hot and arid climate.
The students visited DEWA (Dubai Electricity
and Water Authority), the largest sustainable
governmental building in the world to have
achieved LEED platinum certification for design
and construction. The building manager presented
the sustainability aspects of the building and
accompanied the students to a guided tour of the
project.
FIELD TRIPS
Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has
been another destination for the group to appreciate
the advanced building technology implemented in
such a mega building. They were also able to visit
one of the top viewing platforms and see a lot of
Dubai’s districts and buildings from above. Atkins
also hosted the group at their offices for a tour and
a presentation of their newest major project, Dubai
Creek Harbour, an iconic waterfront development
with its tower of 928-meter high to be completed by
2020. This was followed by a visit to the construction
site and tours of one of the residential towers under
construction where the group visited pent houses.
ADT field trip to the United Arab Emirates
Zaha Hadid Architect’s Bee’ah Building in Sharjah
still under construction was also visited by the group
with engineers onsite explaining the impressive steel
framed structure with insitu exposed concrete central
dome. The group then visited their counterparts at
the American University in Sharjah where they spent
time with architecture students who presented their
design projects.
The subsequent visit was to Abu Dhabi where the
group met with Foster and Partners architects at
Masdar City, the first sustainable city in the world.
The architects guided the group throughout the
city demonstrating the incredible contemporary
vernacular design approaches embedded
within the masterplan and the various buildings,
from residential, to offices, to sports centre and
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commercial. This visit was followed by a tour of The
Souk, Abu Dhabi’s Central Market, designed by
Foster and Partners. The design provided a modern
version atmosphere of the traditional souk combining
shops, courtyards, alleys, and food courts
The new Louvre museum, designed by Jean Nouvel,
was another major destination in the trip with its
unique and responsive design of its 23 gallery
spaces covered by a 180-metre diameter dome.
The final destination in Abu Dhabi was the Sheikh
Zayed Grand Mosque where the group had an
unforgettable experience in one of the largest and
most impressive mosques in the world.
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Above: Unit 1o field trip to Barcelona. Below: Unit 9 field trip to Havana. Above: Unit H field trip to Porto. Below: Unit G field trip to Thanet.
 Our unique opportunity for visitors, fellow staff and
students to see work in progress and share the
diversity of architecture at UEL

Like every year, we had the Open Studio Event and
Lectures in the AVA Building, in the beginning of
February. The event welcomed invited guests, all
students, members of staff and people who were
interested in our architectural studies.
The Open Studio Event was again a unique
opportunity to see work in progress and to share
the diversity of architecture at UEL. The event was
organised in such a way that each Unit or Group
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the RIBA Stirling Prize (for Burntwood School in
2015) and the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building
Award (for New Scotland Yard in 2017). Established in
1989, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris makes buildings
that are satisfying and enjoyable to use, beautiful
to look at and easy to understand. The practice has
received public, client and media acclaim for its
work on education, commercial, residential, arts and
masterplanning projects around the UK, the US and
internationally.

presented their ongoing work to an invited panel

of guests in their own studio space. As such, it was Invited Open Jury Guests
both, a ‘mid-term exhibition’ with work in progress Morning Session
and a vital platform for discussion about academic Maliha Haque, David Bass, Jeff Tidmarsh, Gillian
work in architecture. Horn, Moto AURAA Kawakami, Luke Tozer, Laura

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Furthermore, invited guest lecturers gave a lunchtime
and evening lecture.
Wilf Meynell and Nick Newman from Studio Bark
Mark, Heidi Moxon, Jerry van Veldhuizen, Simon
Tucker.
Afternoon Session
Simon Tucker, Wilf Meynell, Jeff Tidmarsh, Virginia

EVENT
talked about the Bark Live-Build 2017. Rammou, Anurag Verma, Laura Mark, Moto
Studio Bark presented a few of their latest projects, Kawakami, Claire Pollock, Maliha Haque, Russell
featuring their latest summer live-build project using Curtis, Heidi Moxon, Neba Sere, David Bass.
a modular plywood construction system, named
U-BuildTM. The house was built in just 10 weeks
by a team consisting of 10 UEL students across 5
years of architectural study. Filmed for a new series
of Grand Designs and designed through parametric
coding, the system explores the possibilities of ‘true‘
self-build, looking to empower unskilled workers and
omit construction waste.

Launch of the Innovation Competition for UEL

Students and Alumni.
British Land Developers, Allford Hall Monaghan
Morris Architects (AHMM), Scott Whitby Studio
Architects and Sir Robert McAlpine Main Building
Contractors along with the University of East London,
were pleased to announce the annual competition
for the Broadgate Estate. The competition was
open to students of the college and any alumni who
graduated in the last three years.

Lecturer Paul Moneghan of Allford Hall

Monaghan Morris Architects (AHMM)
Paul Monaghan is a founding director of Allford
Hall Monaghan Morris. His projects have been
recognised as exemplars of outstanding design and
collaborative creativity, winning awards including
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 Architecture Society Evening Lectures

10/10/2017 23/01/2018 24/04/2018

Pedro Jervell Andrew Waugh Tamsin Green
SKREI Waugh Thistleton Architects Heatherwick Studio

17/10/2017 20/02/2018 08/05/2018

Enriqueta Llabres-Valls Declan McCafferty Shin Egashira
RUTA Architects Grimshaw Architects

24/10/2017 27/02/2018
CJ Lim Artur Carulla
Studio 8 Architects Allies and Morrison

02/11/2017 13/03/2018
Camillo Botticini Holly Lewis
Camillo Botticini Architect We Made That

LECTURE

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SERIES STO Lectures

07/11/2017 27/11/2017 05/12/2017

Laura Andreini Francisco Mangado Maria Caludia Clemente,
Archea Associati Mangado & Asociados Francesco Isidori
Labics
21/11/2017 28/11/2017
Sergei Tchoban Jo Berben, Luc Vanmuysen
SPEECH/Tchoban Voss a2o Architecten
Architecten

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FOUNDATION

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Architecture and Design
Keita Tajima Programme Leader

The course aims to provide a broad range of experiences in the

culture of spatial design. “Thinking through making” is at the
core of this course, which is a tradition of architecture and design
at UEL. We aspire to make the foundation studio into a creative
laboratory where students will explore, discuss and cultivate
individual creativity and critical thinking through studentship. Our
aim is to stimulate students to find joy and enthusiasm in making
and designing through the framework supported by experienced
and enthusiastic tutors.

Keita Tajima

Foundation
Keita Tajima (Programme Leader) Takuro Hoshino
Sharone Lifschitz, Catherine Phillips, Catalina
Pollak, Fernanda Palmieri, Keith Winter, Laura
Evans, Anna Cooke, Karen Marsh
Foundation in Architecture and Design is a gateway
to the culture of design. The course aims to provide
a broad range of experiences in the culture of spatial
design. “Thinking through making” is at the core of this
course, which is a tradition of the architecture school
at UEL. We aspire to make the foundation studio into a
creative laboratory where students will explore, discuss
and cultivate individual creativity and critical thinking
through studentship. Our aim is to stimulate students
to find joy and enthusiasm in making and designing
through the framework supported by experienced and
enthusiastic tutors. Each module in the foundation
program is set to provide briefs to enable students to
discover their talents, and develop them further to be
ready for their challenge as a first year student in a
specific field of design.
2017 – 2018
We started the year by building up a series of skills and
experiences through drawing and making from a scale
of a pencil to a body, and exploring the relationship
between a body and space at the end of first semester.
The workshop with a choreographer stimulated the fresh
discovery of the movement of a body, and provided
students with further insight into the spatial relationship
between a body, movement and space. The workshop
allowed students to document and experiment in full-
scale drawings and paintings. Students have further
investigated these issues through a series of spatial
investigations in full-scale physical models.
PORTO, PORTUGAL
Students: Caparas, Amira Baqer, Dilnaz Mohammed, Vatsal Javiya, Muhammad
Marta Macczak, Amy-Chloe Leeshue-Booth, Yasmin Benrakad Tawfik, Sinan Al-Marsumi, Jack Tunstall, Sarah Alkhazraji, Alghaliah M J
Imlahi, Jydsen Ombao, Match (Suet ) Fong, Maria Zegheru, Daniela H B Alsiri, Sara Trevain, Alison Richards, Merad Husain, Salar Rostam,
Nunez Paco, Mohammed Ahmad, April Adrien-Greenwood, Sadiq Benyamin Chaharston
Lawal, Sumaya Sheikh-Ali, Batul Lopez, Riyad Hossain, Ciprian Luca,
Florentina-Nadina Ivanescu, Timothy Johnson, George Ionescu, Visiting Crits:
Mahabub Alam, Mourtada Baboukari, Oscar Frith, Ainsley Moffat, Takako Hasegawa, Kyriaki Nasioula
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Abdulmajiid Omar, Nauma Patel, Timothy Eves, Michael Ngam, Daniela
Sarsoza , Sebastian Craven, Joel Shroader, Dahir Osman, Alex Crooks, Special thanks to:
Rasa Kundrotaite, Sue Hafizoglu, Muayad Tuma, Ashia David, Tyler Ivana Sehic, Mark Sowden, Rhianon Morgan Hatch,
Mitchell, Vukasin Radonjic, Stefana Grigoriu, Candice Chance, Anisa Carsten Jungfer, Alan Chandler, Eastbury Manorhouse, Tamara
Abdulahi, Wajeeha Nazir, Louisa Tulloch, Fortune Hove, Carmel Horbacka , Garry Doherty
Eastbury Manor House
The main project sets in Eastbury Manor House in
Barking, students had an opportunity to collaborate
with Barking and Dagenham council as a part of
art residency programme. The aim of the project
was to observe and reveal a memory of the house,
and propose an intervention as a response to their
observations. Students have observed, surveyed, and
draw out its historic residue by means of sensing its
atmosphere, texture smells, light conditions. Design
proposal requires coherent development process
through 3 consecutive briefs (site observation,
conceptual development, final development). On the
course of the design process, students developed
and tested through collages, series of different scale
models and drawings.
Field trip
The trip to Porto, Portugal was intended to provide a
brief yet rich introduction to the art and architecture.
Students spent four days absorbing the culture of
art and architecture ranging from medieval to the
contemporary.
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 Previous page  f.1 Workshop lead by Ivana Sehic, exploring the space Form and Material study: f.6 Exploring a form and a space with clay slab,
between bodies Timothy Eves f.7 Exploring a negative and positive form with plaster and fabric,
Maria Zegheru f.8 Exploring a form and a space with stretchy fabric, April
Drawing a process f.2 Analytical drawing of hamburger, Rasa Kundrotaite
Adrien Greenwood f.9 Extracting clay to create a space with light, George
f.3 Layer drawing of aeroplane toy, George Ionescu f.4 The imaginary
Ionescu
city scape, Maria Zegheru f.5 Analytical drawing of cleaning product, Maria
Zegheru
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f.4 f.5 f.7 f.9

 f.10 Foundation studio f.11 Drawing a movement, Group (Sarah T, Jack,
Rasa, Dilinaz drawing by Rasa Kundrotaite) f.12 Fragments of body parts in
clay responding to the movement, Group (Sarah T, Jack, Rasa, Dilinaz image by
Sarah Trevain) f.13 Workshop lead by Ivana Sehic, reconstructing a movement
by absence f.14 Materialising a space between bodies, Group (Dahir, image
by Tyler Mitchell) f.15 Materialising a space between bodies, wood and
string, Group (Alghaliah, Maria, Carmel, Ciprian, image by Maria Zegheru) f.16
Visualising a movement and a space between Group (Nadina, Wajeeha, Ainsley

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,Sebastian, Sue, image by Wajeeha) f.17Materialising a movement, Group

(Sarah T, Jack, Rasa, Dilinaz, image by Sarah T) f.18 Measuring a body by
strings to represent a volume of inbetween space, Group (April , Muayad ,
Muhhamad T, Amira , Sumaya )

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 f.19 Spaptial collage, Mohamed Ahmad f.20 Paper lithography print of
material studies, Vukasin Radonic f.21 Eastbury Manor House model, George
Ionescu f.22 Silver card relief print, Muhammad Tawfik f.23 Silver card
intaglio print, Wajeeha Nazir f.24 Spatial collage, Rasa Kundrotaite f.25
Cubic form studies in card and plaster, Mahabub Alam f.26 Porto Trip f.27
Photoshop cube form developments, Sara Trevain f.28 Silver card intaglio
print, Sue Hafi zoglul f.29 Spatial collage, Jack Tunstall
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 Memory of a place : Eastbury Manor House: f.30 Rear view of Eastbury
Manor House f.31 Proposed observatory on the tower, Sarah Trevain f.32
Axonometric of exisitng roof structure , Maria Zegheru f.33 Proposal collage,
Riyad Hossain f.34 Proposed tea house, Yuamin Xiao f.35 Proposed
staircase reading room, Mourtada Baboukari f.36 Re-composing a set of
fragments of Eastbury Manor House, Rasa Kundrotaite f.45 Re-imagining
Eastbury Manor House, Timothy Eves
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ARCHITECTURE
Through the professionally accredited Part 1 and
Part 2 programmes, our students develop a rigorous
and strategic understanding of context encompassing
social and environmental, physical and non-physical
concerns, enabling them to make engaged and critical
architectural proposals.
around them, to consider occupiers and users,
buildings and spaces with an approach that is both
critical and poetic. The supporting strands of History
and Theory, Technical and Professional Studies,
Computing and Representation, inform and enrich an
integrated design approach. Students test and apply

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and spatial structures, on people and place. Our to a personal architectural proposition; this forms the
location in East London gives unique opportunities to basis of the architectural education. The technical
BSc (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) understand, critique and reimagine how regeneration teaching instils an appreciation of site and context,

Programme Leader: Christian Groothuizen and redevelopment impact upon existing places
and communities, bringing case studies from across
the art of construction, economy of structure and the
nature and complexity of materials, using knowledge-
Europe and beyond back into a critical reflection on based lectures and analysis of precedent as a route
MArch Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) London and its future. At the core of this education to integrate this understanding in the unit-based
Programme Leader: Dr Harald Trapp are our design units in Years 2 & 3 and 4 & 5, each of design proposals. Our hands-on approach to a poetic
which provides students with a particular thematic and materiality is characterised by exploratory model-
methodological approach to design, and as a whole making in all years and 1:1 construction particularly in
contain a diversity that stimulates critical awareness. Years 1 and 4.
The design units operate as autonomous research The aim of the MArch programme, in Years 4 & 5,
History & Theory teaching staff: Elaine Stowell (ARB) teams and consist of two tutors and between 16 to 20 is to stimulate students to become critical agents in
Dr Renée Tobe Paolo Vimercati (Grimshaw)  students. Supporting the design units is a framework of the social production of space. Enriched by practical
Claude Saint Arroman Andrew Kesson (Grimshaw) teaching in essential technical, theoretical, regulatory experience after their degree, postgraduate students
Miho Nakagawa Elyse Howell-Price(Grimshaw) and practical knowledge that enables a fully integrated expand their technical, professional and theoretical
Stylianos Giamarelos Alexander Grigull (Grimshaw)
design process. Students must construct with both knowledge. Their competence creatively converges
Huda Tayob Alfonso Padro, (HKS)   
materials and ideas, and in final year BSc and MArch in a design-process that challenges the boundaries
Laura Evans Roland Karthaus, (Matter Architecture)  
Vanessa Vanden Berghe Daria Wong (Daria Wong Architects) are expected to develop their design proposals as a of architecture in its social, economical and political
Christoph Hadrys (urban design) Chie Shimizu, (Weston Williamson)  personal thesis. context. Within this process students transform
Dr Bridget Snaith (landscape) Tom Westwood (Waugh Thistleton Architects)  In Year 1 the teaching is centred on a sequence of complexity into elegance, animate aesthetics and
Alan Chandler (heritage) Tahera Rouf (RCKa) design projects that work through from the scale of the organise space for social use.
Maria Segantini (heritage) body to the scale of the city. The year aims to provide Preparation for professional practice integrates
Aurore Julien (environment) Guests and thanks: a broad platform for exploring creativity and introduces essential technical, philosophical, regulatory and
Fulvio Wirz (computing) Paul Appleton
a set of skills and standards that range from surveying practical knowledge as baseline skills that enable
Carolina Bartram
and technical drawing, to sketching and model the final thesis at BSc and MArch to critically extend
Technical Studies teaching staff: Catherine Du Toit
Hwei Fan Liang Lily Jencks making. Embedded within the schedule of projects beyond the RIBA requirements. Decision making
Michele Roelofsma Diana Periton are lectures, seminars and practical workshops that and technical innovation develop from and relate
Christian Groothuizen provide an introduction to the social concerns of to wider socio-political contexts, grounding the
Alan Chandler architecture, knowledge of historical context, and design work and the critical task of detailing to make
Aurore Julien understanding material properties and capabilities. tangible connections to wider architectural ideas. The
The year is structured to guide every student along professional Architecture programmes at UEL produce
Computing & Representation teaching staff:
these first steps on the path to becoming an architect, directed, responsible and socially aware graduates
Janet Insull
building confidence and developing a strong sense of that understand architecture as a beautiful, radical tool
Sibyl Trigg
Carine Posner purpose and direction. to make ‘place’ and engage with the complexities of
In Years 2 & 3 the design units lead an iterative social and environmental interaction.
Professional Studies teaching staff: design process that is driven by creativity, imagination
Paolo Vimercati (Grimshaw) and critical self-reflection. The course is designed to
Stephanie Schultze-Westrum  educate students to think seriously about the world
Paul Bussey (AHMM) 
Seán Hogan (ARB) 
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 FIRST YEAR
Students: Visiting Crits:
Abdinasir Mohamed, Adrian Moussaid, Ahmed Bahsoon, Ahmed Hoiyat Tsoi, Anastasia Karandinou, Rosaly Kortz, Moni Rahman,
Omar, Alaina Williams, Alexander Lynch, Alfred Hatch, Alma Odoleanu, Joseph Little, Orlaith Phelan, Colin O’Sullivan, Tomas Phonetal, David

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Community Connection Auguste Tashan, Avnish Koon Koon, Barnabas Madzokere, Bren Heald,
Cassius Cracknell, Chevignon Mills, Christos-FoivosPapapostolou,
Grinaway, Will Lindley, Mitesh Patel, David Bass, Mohamad Hafeda
, Ramsey Yassa, Renee Tobe, Sara L’Esperance, Naomi Gibson,
Daniel Kwaku Poku-Davies, Daryl Ignacio, Dayanara Mabad, Demha Muzzammil Dadabhoy, Claude St. Arroman, Isaac Cobo, Chris
Ahmed, DimanaGandeva, Dominika Kupczyk, Dylan Cutting, Eugene Groothuizen, Keita Tajima, Stephanie Schultze Westrum, Iain Jamieson,
Yu Jin Soh, Gabriel Llonor, George Moldovan, Glenn Altarejos, Gustavo Tomas Pohnetal, Olivia Paine, Adam Cheltsov.
Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma, Yasar Shah, Silva, Guy Mukulayenge, HamidahAdesanya, Hanna Tweg, Hannah
Reem Charif, Sibyl Trigg, Charlotte Harris, Michael Cornelius, Hannah Sullivan, Harry Zimmerman, Hayat El-Hadi, Jamal Special thanks to:
Putman,Toshiya Kogawa, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch, Uddin, Jared Kaleta, Jessica Corelli, Julian Imossi, KalinPetrov, Lee Mark Sowden, Casten, Mark Lamanski, Paul Karakausevic
Janet Insull, Renee Tobe. Aglae, Leticia Martins, Mandeep Rooprai, Mariam Touray, Matthew
Burford, Matthew Meyjes, Meryem Milaslioglu, Natalia Labuzinska, Instagram:
NathaliaCardona De Castro, Richard Okyiri, Rositsa Vangelova, Sachini www.instagram.com/uel_first_year_architecture
H Palliyaguruge, Shivani Pradhan, Solara Kiros, Spencer Dela Cruz,
Stefanos Troullides, Suha Kardaman, Suphawadee Maneerat, Teodora
Manolescu, Theodor Bjerke, Vanessa Pimentel Pinto Ferreira, Vanessa
Uffot, Victor Velev, Yessica Rincon Toro, Ying-Ying Amy Zhuang, Yohan
Ismael, Zahraa Shaikh, Zaira Banaag, Zeena Ismail.

Inhabited Window (De Beauvoir, Regents Canal) Community Connection (De Beauvoir)
The first part of the year consisted of a series of studies In January students travelled to Amsterdam, and
where students developed spatial thinking and design Utrecht. They continued their study of connecting
tools focussed the theme ‘Connecting Spaces’. The spaces, this time focusing on thresholds, as articulated
main site for the year was De Beauvoir Town and the in Modernist and contemporary Dutch architecture.
environs of the Regents Canal in Hackney, London. Returning to our site in Hackney, the main project
Their first brief of the year investigated the space of the of the year generated proposals for the De Beauvoir
window, and how this could be ‘inhabited’. community, to connect the community and particular
Working in groups and predominantly in timber, users or user-groups inhabiting the site. Designs were
students constructed prototypes of the inhabited for a programme of shared workshops for a community
window space at 1:1 scale that aimed to connect the of makers. They integrated students’ earlier thinking
territory of the Canal with the open areas around the on thresholds to the public, urban connections of the
adjacent De Beauvoir Estate. community to the canal, and the 1:1 relationship of
material and spatial construction to inhabitation.
Making Home (Weald and Downland)
Students visited the Weald and Downland open Air
museum near Chichester, West Sussex. There, they
conducted a measured survey of timber-framed
houses and spatial studies exploring the relation of
the buildings’ construction to their inhabitation, in
preparation for their design proposal. The project
was shared with Technical studies, which allowed
students to spend more time on these studies and
the subsequent design for the site: a temporary, two
level, 16 square metre home for a makerworking at the
Weald and Downland Open Air museum. This project fy.00
challenged students to explore a defined space in
greater depth, and at a tangible scale. The earlier
theme of the ‘inhabited window continued in the design
brief for the makers home.

DE BEAUVOIR, HACKNEY LONDON

 Inhabited window 1:1 scale. personal window stories developed inoto group
spatial structure for a chosen site along the Regents Canal in De Beauvoir,
Hackney  fy.01 Together but apart, technical description of movement,
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Eugene Yu Jin Soh  fy.02 Wondering Views 1:1 group construction  fy.03
Wondering Views testing  fy.04 Speculative collage, George Moldovan  fy.05
Site testing collage Rosita Vangelova  fy.06 Speculative collage, Hanna
Twig  fy.07 Inhabited window shadow and body testing, group work  fy.08
Structural study, Hanna Twig  fy.09 Spatial study of suspended structure, Dylan
Cutting  fy.10 Together but Apart speculative group testing (what if?)
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 Making Home: A new space for the Weald and Downland museum. A
small temporary home as a space to live and study in  fy.11Weald and
Downland building study: timeber construction as framework Rrichard
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Okyiri.  fy.12 Speculative model of a second life for the mill structure,
Zeena Ismail.  fy.13 Study model, Theodor Bjerke  fy.14 Proposal model
reimagining the wooden detail, Theodor Bjerke  fy.15 Spatial light drawing,
Hannah Sullivan  fy.16 Time analysis section, Auguste Tashan  fy.17 Proposal
structure, Alfred Hatch.  fy.18 Light study of Weald and Downland,
Suphawadee Maneerat  fy.19 Sectional explorations  fy.20 Journey
within a space, Yessica Rincon Toro.  fy.21 Proposal model, Stefanos
Troullides  fy.22 Explorative drawings and proposal collage, Leticia Martins

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 Connection Space/Threshold Space: Studies during the First year trip to
Amsterdam including the Open Air school and the Apollo School by Hertzberger.
Students explored thier observatiosn through analytical drawings and casting
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of fragments of the threshold conditions discovered  fy.23 Open Air vertical
layers, Ahmad Bahsoon.  fy.24 Fragement model of Miralles Town House,
Ulticht Dayanara Mabad  fy.25 Speculative threshold conditions, Adrian
Moussaid.  fy.26 Staircase study at Apollo School, George Moldovan  fy.27
public layering, Zeena Ismail  fy.28 Light well study at Schroder House,
Rosita Vangelova  fy.29 Analysis of Fragement model, Daryl Ignacio  fy.30
courtyard as gap space, Alma Odoleanu  fy.31Analysis of threshold casting,
Sachini H Palliyaguruge  fy.32 Vantage points as journey, Barnabas Madzokere
fy.33 Fragements as sequence, Julian Imossi

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 Community Connection: A public space for a community of makers that
share parts of their work space with each other, and parts of their building with
the local community.  fy.34 Program analysis Collage, Cassius Cracknell

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fy.35 Speculative proposal collage, Cassius Cracknell  fy.36 Fragment

journey proposal collage, Hanna Twig  fy.37 Proposal Plan, Yessica Rincon
Toro.  fy.38 Spatial visualisation, Alfred Hatch  fy.39 Concept collages, Alfred
Hatch  fy. 40 proposal section, Alfred Hatch  fy.41proposal axonometic,
Yohan Ismael  fy.42 and 43 Proposal collages, Yohan Ismael  fy.44
Composite drawing of unexpected moments, Eugene Yu Jin Soh  fy.45
Prposal model, Alfred Hatch  fy.46 Proposal axonometric of journeys and
layers, Eugene Yu Jin Soh

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 Technical and Computing studies work with the design module in first year,
aiming to push student’s design projects further through technical details,
material studies.  fyts.1 Structural and joint studies, Weald and Downing

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Museum, Yohan Ismael  fyts.2 Section, plan and Axonometric of structural

framework, Auguste Tashan  fyts.3 Inhabited section of Making Home
proposal, Kalin Petrov  fyts.4 Laser model cut out and drawing of Weald and
Downing proposal, Zahraa Shaikh  fyts.5 Laser cut model of Weald and
Downing Proposal, Alfred Hatch

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 Students: Visiting Crits:
Y3: Aaron Williams-Grant, Abdulaziz Ghbaya, Angelle Dimech, Anna Schabel, Brian Cumming, Christopher Thorn,

UNIT A

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Dalciamaira Nunes Cardoso, Daniel Kiss, Kiesse Andre,
Makinde Otesanya, Marianne Gallagher, Nelton Bordonhos Barbosa,
Yasmine Pala
Y2: Ben Roder, Daniella Marchant, Delrich Biyoulou, Israa Salim,
RELATIONAL STATES Julia Skiba, Kurt Arenas, Luciana De Souza, Lyes Hamidi,
Mouniratou Traore, Nisha Anwar, Omar Harrak, Ying Pang
Unit A Website:
www.uel23ua.blogspot.co.uk
Carsten Jungfer, Fernanda Palmieri
Felix Xylander-Swannell, Gregory Ross, Harald Trapp, Heidi Moxon,
Keita Tajima, Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma,
Moto Auraa Kawakami, Mo Wong, Nick Green, Reem Charif,
Rob Pyecroft, Sufiya Patel, Tak Hoshino, Tara Cranswick
Special thanks to:
Ana Stoeckermann, Ben Brewer, Jake Ferguson, Janin Walter,
Marie Murray, Max Tobias, Melanie Humann, Neele Reimann-Philipp,
Rainer Johann, Roey Hunt

Unit A is interested in the morphology of the city by
investigating relationships between space, programme,
materiality and time. The unit agenda engages in
domains between architecture and urbanism and
is based on an understanding of architecture as
contextual response, critically questioning pre-existing
conditions and found spaces within the city. If space is
the outcome of collective action and therefore a “social
product” (Henri Lefebvre), How exactly is space made?
What are the factors driving the process? What roles
do participants play? We will set out to get a better
understanding of underlying principles contributing
to urban change and to the formation of new types of
collective space.
Spaces in the city are continuously negotiated,
altered and adapted and are therefore in constant state
of change. While the predominant reproduction of
space follows rules of demand and supply, space in the
city becomes increasingly commodified. Conditions of
uncertainty however, including economic decline and
political inactivity, produce spaces that fall out of the
cycle of predominant spatial reproduction for periods
of time. As a result of becoming obsolete, residual
spaces emerge within the urban fabric in the form left-
overs, vacant or unused territories.
At this stage residual spaces become available to
alternative modes of spatial production. New actors
are attracted by unknown opportunities and new uses
emerge. Most of those processes are of experimental
nature and can be described as temporary and in-
between uses, that provide a critical reinvention
for the urban neighbourhood and local economy.
“Pioneers” tend to claim vacant territories through
“Space is not a thing among
direct occupation and unconventional approach; by
other things, nor a product
extending their activities to attract a wider community a
among other products:
new network of social relations across the new spatial
arrangements becomes established. This form of
rather, it subsumes things
alternative production of space is widely recognised produced and encompasses
for generating social value in local communities. While their interrelationships
it occurs in parallel to established cycles of urban in their coexistence and
regeneration, once the process of spatial stabilisation simultaneity - their relative
begins, the fundamental incompatibility of long-term order and/or relative
goals between the two, however, becomes apparent. disorder”
Dalston, one of London’s most rapidly changing
Henry Lefebvre
and diverse area in East London was chosen as study
area for the year. Questions arising from the described
conflict became the starting point for students’
investigations and their proposals set out to experiment
with alternative modes of spatial production for project
sites surrounding Ashwin Streets’ ‘Cultural Quarter’,
currently also considered by Hackney Council for
future development.
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 a.1 Exploring relationships between existing spatial conditions within the
Dalston study area. Composite drawing by Nelton Bordonhos Barbosa, Daniel
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Kiss, Marianne Gallagher, Nisha Anwar, Angelle Dimech, Kiesse Andre, Israa
Salim, Abdulaziz Ghbaya, Makinde Otesanya, Luciana De Souza, Ben Roder
a.2 ‘The Dalston Collective Rebellion’ is a proposal consisting of 4 buildings
that host art residencies, a workshop and integrate the existing performance
space (Oto projects) creating a cluster, that shares an accessible open space
and aims to maintain opportunities for experimentation across the fields of arts &
culture with reference to spatial production methodologies utilised at Holzmarkt
and ZK/U Berlin), Daniella Marchant a.3 ‘The Yard Workshop’ propagates to
increase interaction between resident artists of V22 and the local community.
Rammed earth wall-construction uses ground and rubble from building waste,
by Nisha Anwar

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1. An artist from Cafe Oto walking to a music workshop event

2. Father walking his kid to a crafts workshop
3. Person grinding metal in the yard
4. People working in the wood workshop
5. Crafts workhop for kids
6. Family walking towards Kingsland Shopping Centre
 a.4 The Yard Building: Following a careful analysis of relationships between
spatial and functional transformations of the V22 yard, Angelles’ urban strategy
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reconfigures a series of new open and accessible yard-like spaces by inserting
new programmes related to creative learning, that integrate with and may
support the existing artist community, Angelle Dimech a.5 The Bake House
Project builds on the success of the Knuckles Bakery in the Bootyard and
proposes to extend this programme to the community by providing access
to ‘baking infrastructure’ and spaces to learn about health and well-being,
especially for Dalstons’ children, Israa Salim a.6 ’Dalston Underground’ is a
proposal to re-activate the obsolete Eastern Curve Tunnel to provide new spaces
to local organisations including the Eastern Curve Garden and Cafe Oto, Julia
Skiba

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 a.7 Oto Hall: Following on from a careful analysis about the multi-layered role
Cafe Oto plays in Dalston’s regeneration and community networks, the urban
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strategy for this project embraces existing and proposed opportunities of cultural
and experimental collaboration at both local and global scales by propagating
a set of distinct performance spaces with high degrees of adaptability, Nelton
Bordonhos Barbosa

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 a.8 40FT Brewery. The new building establishes a permanent basis for the
local brewery and reconnects the urban fabric via a freely accessible ‘artificial
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landscape’, Kiesse Andre a.9 ’Dalston Super Circus’, a witty contribution to
the critical discourse about regeneration, is a vertical array of spaces optimised
for interaction, that sets out to reconcile the spectacle of the Everyday within
the contested territories of Dalston, Marianne Gallagher a.10 Eastern Curve
Green House and community Kitchen, Daniel Kiss

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UNIT E
‘Durability’:
Edges and Adaptability
Isaac Cobo i Displas & Claude Saint-Arroman
Unit E’s research this year focuses on issues about
adaptability and questions the role of architecture in
improving relational connectivity. The medieval part
of Avignon is isolated from the rest of the town not
only through the historic wall that encloses it, but also
because of the alienating motorway conditions at the
external edge of the same wall. This results in a city
within a city which is more accessible to visitors arriving
by train than to car dependent local communities who
rely on these arteries to circulate through the region it
overlooks. Over and above its architectural heritage,
Avignon is a vibrant cultural centre that hosts students,
young and elderly couples as well as small businesses,
performing art venues and summer festivals. Historical
records demonstrate that its edges were once
occupied, and the students are investigating ways in
which the everyday can permeate more fluidly all year
around at the edge between centre and outskirts, as
they once did.
We understand the design process as a multi-
layered discourse consisting of physical model-
making, bespoke drawing techniques and reference to
theory, in order to communicate readings of contextual
qualities of urban/architectural conditions. The idea of
‘junction’ was explored this year as means to reconcile
local and trans-local scales and to test strategic design
interventions with the aim to unlock new opportunities
by speculating on new forms of connective architectural
typologies.
AVIGNON, FRANCE
Students: Visiting Crits:
Y3: Ahmed ASHOUR, Alford DYETT, Vikrant JAYENDRAKUMAR Andrew Fortune, Sakiko kohashi, Mark Rist, Lauren Patten
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PANCHASARA, Paul MARSHALL
Thanks to:
Y2:Michael ADEDOKUN, Alan ALAVI WALY, Chelsea ANDERSON, Unit 9 and Harald Trapp for allowing Unit E to share their unit space
Vanessa CAMPANELLI, Amin ESRAFILI, Daniel HARRIS, Max IVANESCU, with us, and Paula Tosas Auguet.
Martin KOCABEY, Shahzy MAZHAR, Olive ODAGBU, Alexandre
PALUS, Rebecca SHAW, Adrian SIRBOIU, Katharine STEVENS, Andrei Website:
SZEPOCHER, Keeme ZAIN AHMED HA BIN www.uelunite.com
Special thanks to: Instagram:
Maliha Haque @unite_uel
Students started this year with a study of durable
construction details, to understand the principles and
debates surrounding adaptability and resilience to
time and weathering. They subsequently analysed
villas by Le Corbusier to assess relationships between
design and context, and degrees of flexibility. Prior
to going to Avignon, students analysed maps to
understand regional environmental conditions. On
site, they surveyed their sites, and did several montage
workshops to broaden their intuitive approach to their
site and to reflect on briefs that would benefit the
area, in terms of social economics and/or in terms
of 21st Century industries. Upon their return, they
complemented their site analysis with an analysis
of historic records gathered through local archives,
while capturing in plaster cast a moment of specific
architectural importance drawn from the villas and the
site. They and are now working on early massing while
deepening their site analysis.
“I like my city, but I can’t say exactly what I
like about it. I don’t think it is the smell. I’m
too accustomed to the monuments to want
to look at them...I like certain lights, a few
bridges, café terraces, I love passing through a
place I haven’t seen for a long time.”
Georges Perec
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Wine, Food & Art Outside the Rampart- Turning a non-place into a social
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place, YR 2 Vanessa Campanelli:  e.2 Final Proposal of ramp bridge  e.3
North-west elevation  e.4 South-east elevation  e.5 Ground floor plan within
site context  e.6 View from the bridge  e.7 Interior rendered view

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University of East London

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University of East London
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 Theatre by the water - YR 2 Szepocher Andrei Rudi:  e.8 Ground floor
proposed plan within site context  e.9 West Elevation  e.10 Render of
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proposed theatre  e.11 View of the theatre by the water.
Natural Energy Research Centre - The building is design to accommodate
the research of renewable energy and its installment in homes of the homes
of the local residence. The spaces require took precedence from the Polish
Academy of sciences Research Centre in Jabloma. The building will involve the
local public. They will be able to view the lab working spaces and research at the
libraries. There is also an open space for events. YR 3 Alford Dyett:  e.12 East
Elevation  e.13 Picture of internal Model at 1:50

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Section - 1 : 200

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e.11 e.13
 A City Walk - A development of urban spaces of recreational activities reviving
a dead space, YR3 Ahmed Ashour:  e.14 Sectional Collage of proposed

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promenade section e.15 Proposal at night

Bird Observatory, An Interface with Nature- that is focused on the local
environment. More specifically, the birds located in the area, and helping them
thrive. The environmental centre will also be open to the local community
for various activities. Tourism will also be a major factor. As it will help fund
the activities that happen within the centre. YR3 Paul Marshall:  e.16 Long
section  e.17 Render of the proposal  e.18 Proposal collage of a moment of
the building along the hill attached to the site.  e.19 Villa Stein-de-Monzie (le
Corbusier)– View from Moment This photoshopped render/collage shows the
view the user would receive once getting to the balcony.
e.16

e.14

e.17

e.15 e.19 e.18

 Students: Visiting critics and guests:
Y3: Abu Abdul Mahzar, Akiko Higuchi, Simone Russell, Jamie Osborne, Anurag Verma, CJ Lim, Harald Trapp, Ian Troake, Jayden Ali, Jeff

P97  BSc Architecture  Unit G

UNIT G
Luke Fowler, Michael Gonzalez Jaramillo, Raquel Vieira, Sajat Rai.
Y2: Aaliah Tailor, Adam Emmerson, Alex Jovanovic, Alex Malden,
Andreea-Camelia Ciuc, Fabio Magalhaes, Filippos-Pavlos Perrakis-
COASTAL ECOLOGIES Kollias, Julian Roncancio Luna, Maja Oparnica, Marcelina Nowak,
Maria Ruiz Vela, Naghma Butt, Nick Franklin, Roberto Lopato Ricorico,
William Fullick.
Tidmarsh, Katherine Clarke, Ken Rorrison, Mirsad Krasniqi, Olga Lucko,
Virginia Rammou, Wilf Meynell, Will Beeston.
Special thanks to:
Dan Thompson, Jon Spencer, Nick Dermott, Sam Causer, Tony Child,
The Walpole Bay Hotel, Turner Contemporary and Thanet Visitor
Information.

Website:
Hwei Fan Liang, Christian Groothuizen www.uel-unIt-g.blogspot.co.uk

Between the built-up townscape of Margate and the
sea, lies a wide strip of land that includes under-used
lawns and carparks, a steep chalk cliff face, concrete
sea defences, and a sandy beach that reappears and
disappears with the tides. Coastal paths at the top and
bottom of the cliff run along this wide edge, and ramped
roads and stairs cut across it. This coastal territory
was the site for Unit G to propose architectures that
responded to: the provision of habitats for biodiversity
and local ecology, local social needs, and weather,
climate change and a sense of place.
Margate was developed as a sea-bathing resort in the
19th Century, it thrived as train and ferry connections
brought crowds of day-trippers and holidaymakers
from London. However, as foreign holidays took over
the town’s fortunes faded, alongside its built attractions
such as the lido and sea baths. The town has a long
connection with artists including JMW Turner who
settled there after leaving London and believed the
skies to be “the loveliest in Europe”. More recently many
creative industries have chosen Margate to relocate to,
as London becomes increasingly expensive, bringing
opportunities as well as potential problems to the
existing residents.
Historically storms have brought major periodic
change to the townscape, and as the town seeks to
revive and redevelop, projects along the coast need
to consider more extreme weather events as well as
everyday weathering and the passage of time. This
piece of coastline is part of both the Thames Estuary
and the North Sea and is an important habitat for
marine wildlife including large expanses of chalk reef.
Each student developed an individual brief,
proposing hybrid programmes relating to people and
nature; some students immersed themselves in the
immediate and surrounding landscape to draw out
an understanding of the relationship between town
and sea, whilst others focused on themes including
ecology and resource use, art as a means of social
connection, and developing new industries that might
offer local employment and skills. Several proposals
identified existing users including the Thanet Coast
Project volunteers, local kite-surfers and the Walpole
Bay Swimmers.
Unit G are interested in temporal, material and spatial
qualities of architecture – to make proposals that are
oriented around inhabitation, narrative and human
experience. We are interested in taking a cinematic g.1
approach – exploring how film and photography can
inform and represent architectural process and spatial
concept, and to understand our proposals over time.

MARGATE & SOUTH-EAST ENGLISH COAST

 Before going to the edge of the land and sea we grounded ourselves with
a short project developing an imagined interior space, explored in model and
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animation. These were inspired by interpretations of precedent buildings or
Turner paintings, and for some students acted as anchoring concepts for the
main proposals.
g.2 Entropy Observed: “The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire” recast as
nature’s inevitable reclaiming of manmade spaces (Jamie Osborne).
g.3 “Seascape with a Squall Coming Up” viewed from an occupied sea-wall,
with memories of longing and waiting (Luke Fowler).  g.4 Imagined space using
natural elements from “Fishing upon the Blythe-Sand, Tide Setting In” (Akiko
Higuchi).  g.5 Sunlight study in the living room of Ken Rorrison’s North House
(Filippos-Pavlos Perrakis-Kollias).  g.6 Structures for “Rocky Bay with Figures”
(Raquel Vieira).  g.7 Jon Broome’s bathroom (Fabio Magalhaes).
g.8 Revealing the garden at Juergen Teller’s studio (Naghma Butt).
g.2
g.4 g.5
g.7
Descriptions of sites used a wide range of techniques including animation
and orthogaphic drawing, to include seasonal, tidal, diurnal, textural and
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inhabited aspects as well as physical and topographical. We also met with three
‘voices’ of Margate who each gave a description of the town that together wove
a rich narrative encompassing its ecological, urban and social stories - and its
many and varied connections with East London.
Previous page:  g.1 Looking West over the Walpole tidal pool at low tide;
Looking over the pool from the North-West seaward corner (Nick Franklin).
g.9 Seasonal beach study, Walpole Bay (Fabio Magalhaes).  g.10 and
g.12 Day and night animation and axonometric of Art Deco lift (Andreea-
Camelia Ciuc).  g.11 Cliff studies, Palm Bay (Julian Roncancio Luna).  g.13
Walpole tidal pool emptied for its twice-annual draining (Nick Franklin).  g.14 g.10
Rendezvous site observations (Maria Ruiz Vela).  g.15 Cliftonville Bowls Club
plan and section (Alex Jovanovic).
g.9
g.3 g.11 g.12
g.6 g.13 g.14
g.8 g.15
 Proposal progammes responded to a range of possibilities for future industry g.22 Educational facility including student-run bar and space for Thanet
and economy in Margate, including council-supported intiatives to revive the Coast Project public activities, view from the sea towards proposal inhabiting
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town through art, holistic health and recreational sports tourism, employment
skills and training in hospitality, catering and modern agriculture, and small-scale
manufacturing using locally abundant seaweed. Birdwatching and swimming
activities animate the land and sea.
g.16 and g.17 The Art Community Centre, studio model interior and
promenade approach (Maja Oparnica).  g.18 Walpole Bay Cliffside Diving
Centre with vertical training pool, development collage (Adam Emmerson).
g.19 Greenbay Spa, sketch view of lower pool area and treatment rooms (Alex
Jovanovic).  g.20 Haeckels seaweed processing and facilities for Walpole Bay
Swimmers, massing model (Fabio Magalhaes).  g.21 Surf School with new pier,
cafe and community hall, development model (Naghma Butt).
cliff face (William Fullick)  g.23 The Stack Cave kite-surfing club and café,
knapped flint elevation (Filippos-Pavlos Perrakis-Kollias).  g.24 Hanging clifftop
birdwatching centre, early massing study (Julian Roncancio Luna).
g.25-27, 30 A Canopy for the Arts: seafront artists’ studios, gallery and
multi-purpose venue close to the Turner Contemporary; allowing views through
to the sea from a new sheltered sculpture garden and landscaped access
down to the seafront. Early sketch and model studies, view from shared studio
into double-height venue (Maria Ruiz Vela).  g.28-29, 31-32 Thanet
Coast Ecology Centre and Walpole Bay changing rooms: shutters enable the
building to transform between defensive storm state and open to the sea-view, g.22 g.23
the stepped chalk gabion sea defence replenishes the chalk reef. Section and
interior model with open shutters, massing models includng bird-watching tower
and swimming shelter (Nick Franklin).

g.24 g.25

g.16 g.17 g.26 g.27

g.18 g.19 g.28 g.29

g.20 g.21 g.30 g.31 g.32

 The Seaweed New Material Factory and Studios carve into the chalk cliff Beneath the derelict Cliftonville Lido lie the listed remains of the Clifton
adjacent to the Newgate Gap, creating a ramped roofscape and walkways Baths, here imagined and pieced together through historic photos and maps.
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protected by weather-attenuating kinetic screens of small concrete blocks. The The Cliftonville Cookery Association aims to connect the town to its agricultural
factory manufactures new materials from seaweed grown and harvested in the surroundings and provide food education and catering training to improve
shallow bay, connecting with local creative industries and cement factory to the everyday lives of families and raise local employment. A new public realm
make products ranging from food and textiles to self-healing concrete wave- terraces down from the street to the beach, echoing the colonnades of the Lido
dissipating blocks.  g.33 cliff-top level plan,  g.34 seaweed studies,  g.35 and excavating to reveal remnants of the original structures.
processing through the Newgate Gap (animation),  g.36 sketch studies and
g.38 Historical photo-collage of Georgian Clifton Baths,  g.39 elevation of
walkway with view towards the sea (Akiko Higuchi).
the 1920s Cliftonville Lido,  g.40 proposal long section with retained structures,
The Palm Bay Project comprises new land and sea-based farming practices g.41 promenade views in three eras,  g.44 proposed view from bar over
and ecology centre.  g.37 looking down onto the ecology touch tanks, revealed circular chamber, originally built for storing bathing machines (Luke g.38
and view of covered market and community spaces sheltered in a ‘biome’ Fowler).
constructed of post-consumer recycled plastic,  g.42 the proposal maintains
the existing Friend’s Gap access to the beach, and re-homes the waterski
and boat club,  g.44 view of protective shell from clifftop approach (Jamie
Osborne).

1. multipurpose room 11. distribution warehouse

2. shared office 12. glass shelter
3. administration 13. coffee / ice cream shop
19.
4. pantry 14. walkway connected to the gap
5. machinery room 15. Newgate Gap bridge
6. workshop 16. lower promenade
7. communal space 17. slipway
8. restaurant 18. coastal cycle trail
9. seaweed lab 19. existing playground
10. storage 20. main entrance
21. workerʼ s entrance

13. 16.

18.
g.39

12.

10.

9.
11.

6.
2. g.34
1. 2.

7. 2. 8.
2. 20.

21.
4.
2.
3.
5.

17.
2.
14.

15.

GF plan /

g.33
1:400
Newgate gap, Margate
seaweed new material factory
g.35 g.40 g.41

g.36 g.42 g.43

g.37 g.44
 Students: Visiting Crits:
Year 2 Andrew Houlton, Colin O’Sullivan (Cass ), Charlotte Harris (Cass, UEL)

P105  BSc Architecture  Unit H

UNIT H
Halima Ali, Salem Almutari, Nylda Amchaoui, Sena Bektasoglu, Oliver
Brown, Taha Faour, Rabia Gok, Tholl Inciong, Athman Mohamed,
Valerie Morgan, Ioana Talpos
City Yard Year 3
Naim Bin Ariffin, Nazifa Islam, Bibblav Limbu, Yen Chie Miaw, Hayden
Mills, Legend Morgan, Elizabeth Olowu, Harry Phillips, Hashea Pinnock
Christopher Storie , Mo Woonyn Wong (Moct Studio, CSM ) Punya
Sehmi, Adam Cheltov, Phillipa Longson
Special thanks to:
The Cass studio 2 with Colin O’Sullivan, Colin O’Sullivan and Charlotte
Harris (Cass, UEL) Christopher Storie , Pedro Jervel (Skrei ), Andrew
Yuen, Mark Sowdon, Harald Trapp, Michele Roelofsma, Christoph
Hadrys

Keita Tajima, Sophie Roycroft

The unit seeks to engages with context particularly Two urban study: In London - with Hackney Wick as
in neighborhood scale in relation to the city scale. We our main project site, and in Florence, as a subject for
are interested in the city’s incomplete condition as a ideas of permanence and durability - and of urban form
source of imagination, and its urban transformation as acting as an imprint of the memory of the city. As a unit
a means to develop urban and architectural strategies. we will be making design proposals for a new cultural
This year unit H is basing our studies in Hackney institute on four sites in Hackney Wick. These will be
Wick and Fish Island in east London, & working around first and foremost urban proposals that seek to work
a theme of yards. We have been exploring urban within and contribute to existing historic yards and the
strategies and architectural interventions within the wider urban grain.
historic grain of the city, & design proposals that test
relationships between existing yard spaces and ideas
on the public nature of architecture.
Hackney Wick has undergone enormous change
over the past centuries: From peripheral marshland,
to connected industrial centre at the turn of the C20th,
and not least through development in the past decade,
since London’s successful bid to host the 2012 Olympics
brought funds and focus to this corner of the city. We
are interested in questioning the value and durability
of this place and its ex-industrial urban landscape, in a
time where the city fabric, skyline and neighborhoods
are being rapidly transformed and replaced - in no
small part by luxury new housing developments. The
students have been asked to explore how the historic
urban fabric can respond to growth and changing
conditions, whilst also retaining a sense of character
and permanence.

h.1

FLORENCE, ITALY
 Previous page h.1 Yard space sketch, Yen Chie Miaw. Urban investigation Florence, Italy:  h.10 Axonometric exploring the urban
sequence from Loggia dei Lanzi to Accademia, Halima Ali  h.10 Unit h at
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Site investigation: Hackney Wick and Fish Island  h.2 View towards new
San Miniato  h.12 The view from Loggia dei Lanzi, Halima Ali  h.13 Urban
developments in Hackney Wick, Ioana Talpos  h.3 History of Hackney wick
sequence through a series of piazza and portico in Florence, Naim Bin Arfin
through yard space, Ioana Talpos  h.4 Urban section cutting through main
h.14 Collage to explore the interface to the yard space, Harry Phillips  h.15
infrastructures and the Peanuts factory site, Hayden Mills  h.5 Analytical
Strategy development of a yard city throguh massing, Harry Phillips  h.16
axonometric of Peanuts factory building, Halima Ali  h.6 Detail obsevation of
Exploring the spatial quality of gallery tower, Yen Chie Miaw  h.17 Collage
existing studio space in Peanuts factory, Halima Ali  h.7 Detail obeservation
to explore a yard with towers, Yen Chie Miaw  h.18 Collage view to test new
of Queen’s Yard, Harry Phillips  h.8 Local resouces sampling and testing, unit
incision to Oslo house, Elizabeth Olowu  h.19 Internal view towards the yard in
h students with Pedro Jervel (SKREI), image by Ioana Talpos  h.9 Testing on
gallery tower, Yen Chie Miaw
residual resources for bespoke bricks and their patternations, Harry Phillips

h.2 a3

h.7

h.4

h.5 h.6 h.8 h.9

 h.20 Proposed first floor plan of Institure of yard culture, Harry h.28 View from gallery space towards the yard, Legen Morgan h.29 View
Phillips  h.21 Exploded axonometric showing a series of yard space within into yard passagae, Legend Morgan h.30 A series of sections demonstrates
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proposed Institure of yard culture, Harry Phillips  h.22 View of proposed yard threshold conditions in relation to art gallery and studio space, Hayden Mills
space and gallery tower, Yen Chie Miaw  h.23 Internal view of proposed h.31Internal view of Book yard, Naim Bin Arfin h.32 Section through Book
upcycling workshop towards Hackney Wick station, Tholl Xander  h.24 yard, Naim Bin Arfin
Proposed axonometric demonstrates upcycling process, Tholl Xander  h.25
Proposed ground floor plan for the institute of upcycling, Tholl Xander  h.26
Internal view of the gallery space  h.27 Section through proposed gallery and
studio space, Halima Ali 

h.10 h.11

h.16 h.17

h.12 h.13

h.14 h.15 h.18 h.19

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h.21
h.20

h.22
h.25
h.23

h.27
h.26
h.24

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h.28
h.29

h.30
h.34

h.32
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MArch Architecture
(ARB/RIBA Part 2)

P115
 Students: Visiting Crits and Guests:

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Y5: Faddah Alaskar, Gunes Bagdali, Amber Benjamin, Michael Eve, Maija Viksne, Sarah Bland, Vanessa Lemes, Margit Craft and Carl

UNIT 2
Lisa Ha, Dionysis Karamitsios, Muhammad Hatim Mohd Amin, Boon Turner Architects, Keita Tajima and Sophie Roycroft (in Florence),
Wei Phum, Filippos Tympas, Filip Wojtasik Antony Rifkin and Steve Walker (Allies and Morrison)

Y4: Lina Al-Huro, Zhi Chung (Steve) Chang, Anil Can Colak, Maria Website:
Civic Engagement Iliopoulou, Kingsley Kerson, Odaine Phipps, Ozan Sahin, Ze Rou Yong www.march-unit2.blogspot.com

Christoph Hadrys, Uwe Schmidt-Hess

with Tony Fretton

MArch Unit 2 addresses urban and architectural

conditions in locations undergoing critical change and
over the years, has worked in North Africa, Scandinavia,
East London and other places in Europe.
Through a combination of research and creative
practice, we propose interventions, which respond to
urban challenges and introduce elements of cultural
and imaginative vigour. The Unit explores extremes of
interrelated scales, from urban geographies through to
building and detail qualities. In this process, strategies
formulate responsiveness to global contexts, site
conditions, understanding of scales, architectural
sensibilities, as well as structural and material realities.
We aim to create social, spatial and time-based “While it is natural and necessary for
habitats and environments. architects to concentrate on the building
This academic year our design investigations and itself, the bright light of this focus
projects focused on strategic sites in the centre often eclipses the surrounding world,
of Woolwich in South-East London. Within this darkening the very horizon that grants
location Unit 2 explored UEL‘s guiding theme of Civic the building its standing. Anyone who
Engagement in two ways: firstly, as a more inclusive
stops to think about it knows perfectly
social practice that allows a variety of people to
well that individual settings are always
participate and secondly, as an architectural form that
interconnected with and dependent
engages with the city as a whole.
on the horizon that transcends them,
Each student chose a strategic location for a
responsive and imaginative proposal. We explored
sewn into the fabric of rooms, buildings,
ways in which sharing and living together can be part of streets, towns, and nature”
2.1
a unique and synergetic urban life. David Leatherbarrow, 2002

WOOLWICH, SOUTH-EAST LONDON

 2.1 On the previous page, map of Woolwich in South-East London, showing

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different student sites and open space strategies, based on a drawing by Amber
Benjamin
2.2 Inhabitable park, culture and community building, by Filip Wojtasik  2.3
Interior perspective, by Filip Wojtasik  2.4 to 2.5 Proposed housing landscape,
by Lisa Ha  2.6 Abstract residential flat pattern, by Lisa Ha

2.4

2.5

2.2

2.3 2.6
 2.7 Public space, culture centre, housing and hotel, by Faddah Alaskar
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2.8 Public in-between space, by Faddah Alaskar  2.9 to 2.10 Co-operative
housing and office spaces, by Michael Eve  2.11 Extendable housing and work
spaces, by Michael Eve

2.9

2.10

2.7

2.11
2.8
 2.12 to 2.15 Proposal for a public space, housing, community centre and
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adult education, by Dionysis (Dennis) Karamitsios

2.13

2.14

2.12

2.15
 2.16 to 2.19 Newly integrated intervention within an existing urban block,

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P124  MArch Architecture  Unit 2

adult education, workshops and learning facilities as well as childcare, by Boon

Wei Phum

2.17

2.18

2.16

2.19
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Y4: Alexandros Koutougias, Ilyas Demirci, Ioanna Oikonomou, Kai Xin Monika Bilska, Carine Cohen, Michela Falcone, Palak Jhunjhunwala,

UNIT 4
Yeo, Ludmila Olei, Mohamad Wassim Ajouz, Moustafa Can Gokpinar Vicenzo Caputo, Tommaso Casucci

Y5: Ali Kaptan, Anastasis Troullides, Anees Imtiaz, Gideon Seglah, Special thanks to:
Liang Liang He, Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz, Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman Rasti Bartek (Cundall) for his structural engineering consultation.
Modular waterfront

Fulvio Wirz, Stratis Georgiou

The unit’s agenda investigates how a large- The idea of ‘junction’ was explored this year as
scale project can give rise to a glocal (global-local) means to reconcile local and trans-local scales and
approach. With fabrication labs (FABLAB) operating to test strategic design interventions with the aim to
around the world providing manufacturing processes unlock new opportunities by speculating on new forms
and collaborative digital design platforms becoming of connective architectural typologies.
increasingly accessible to designers and contractors,
can architectural design and construction framework
be updated to give rise to a new regional approach?
Naples is a city whose economy is heavily based
on touristic development. The coastal area of Via
Caracciolo has a prominent and iconic role for the
city having to negotiate the needs of local community
and the ‘pressure’ of global tourism. The waterfront of
Naples is missing a cohesive plan to reconstitute an
intimate bond between the city and its most important
resource: the sea.
Students developed a modular design system which
can dynamically adapt to different scales: the urban
one set by the masterplan of the waterfront and the
architectural one of the attractor buildings. Fourth year
students worked individually on a smaller scale whereas
fifth year students explored collaborative workflow
defining common strategies for the masterplan prior
to developing their individual work. We understand
the design process as a multi-layered discourse
consisting of physical model-making, bespoke
drawing techniques and reference to theory, in order
to communicate readings of contextual qualities of
urban/architectural conditions.

4.1

CHIAIA, NAPLES, ITALY

 4.1 Birds eye view of NEA-Polis 2.0 Performing Arts Center by Anastasis
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Troullides.  4.2 Proposal for a master plan formed by the interconnection of
cultural centers around the Chiaia waterfront, where the lines intersecting within
the study area are forming walk paths. This continuous approach interacts
with the modularity of the hexagonal grid to form the final coastline and the
transitions from the city. Team project NEA-Polis 2.0 by Anastasis Troullides
and Gideon Seglah.  4.3 Diagram of master plan formation at Naple’s port.
The project focuses on the redesign of one of the piers of the port with the
adjacent land being redesigned with residential and retail uses. Team project
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by Ali Kaptan and Anees Imtiaz  4.4 Extension of the Chiaia waterfront with
the creation of artificial sandy beach, something that the area used to be, thus
connecting the city back to the sea and it’s past. The master plan is completed
by three cultural attractors, one theatre, one contemporary museum and a
visitor’s centre for Neapolitan Food Culture. Team project by Nur Bahirah Abdul
Rahman, Liang Liang He and Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz.
4.2 4.3
4.4
 4.5 A component design study by Gideon Seglah based on a hexagon,
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further tessellated and rotated in order to form directionality and continuous
patterns.  4.2, 4.7 Ali Kaptan is using circle packing patterns to form the
organisational plan of his proposal, a Performing Arts Center. The circles are
pinched down from their centres to column shaped elements, in different
heights, forming a multi-levelled vast landscape on the rooftop which is planted.
The proposed center is an extension to the existing Pallazo dell’Immacolatella
which is converted to a Cultural Center.  4.8, 4.9 Component development
and aggregation studies by Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman. The size and height of
each component adapts to the programmatic uses.  4.10, 4.11 Anastasis
Troullides developed a diamond-shaped component, comprised of triangles,
thus creating a stable form. The aggregation is formed by three different scales,
each adapting to the programme of the Performing Arts Center

4.5 4.8

4.6
a.4 4.9

4.7 4.10 4.11

 4.12 Interior view of Contemporary Art Museum designed by Nadzirah Hanis
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Fairuz.  4.13 Restaurant view of Neapolitan Food Culture Visitor Center by Nur
Bahirah Abdul Rahman.  4.14 Re-interpretation of the traditional Mediterranean
roof, covered with terracotta shingles. The components of the building are single
ruled surfaces, variating in size and height. The top layer of them are covered
with terracotta shingles, connecting the building to the surroundings and the
city. Performing Arts Center by Ioanna Oikonomou  4.15, 4.16 Longitudinal
section and exterior view of the Stazione Zoologica Marine Life Research Center.
The proposed building is an extension to the existing aquarium that exists in
the park, with the first hosting mainly research activities and an augmented
reality exhibition space. The building is half immersed in the sea, not only for
conceptual reasons, but mainly for environmental and ones arising from the
programme needs, as specimens stored within require stable thermal conditions.
4.17 Exterior view of Performing Arts Center by Anastasis Troullides.

4.12 4.15

4.13 4.16

4.14 4.17

UNIT 5
Venice city culture hub
Carlo Cappia, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Tangible/Intangible Heritages
The pressure of a massive tourism, that is completely
unaware of the fragile dimension of the city, is actually
one of the most evident and crucial problems for
Venice both in terms of security control of monuments
and people while, on the other hand, it represents an
economic issue in terms of costs to control/clean/
preserve the city as well as a human cost for the erasure
of the local economies of craftsmanship. One of the
provocations the studio will explore is to guide the
tourists through special experiences for understanding
the city and its tangible and intangible heritages. The
Cultural Hub will be a place/time where people will be
instructed on how to use and appreciate the city, a sort
of a journey through a contemporary space, where
they will see historical facts and the creation of crafted
objects and people at work.
The site is located in Venice in the area of the
“Giardini” where the first Art Exhibition has been held
in Venice in 1894. At present, this area is used as the
ticketing area during the Biennale Exhibition and it is
generally used only during the period of the Biennale
Art and Architecture. Over the years, the site has been
recognized in the mental maps of the Venetians as the
place of art and exhibitions. One of the main goals of
the project is to find the way to obtain the continuity of
use of the space during the whole year. It will require
the change of the current programme in terms of time,
accessibility, activities, cultural diversification and it
may introduce the process of education. The site is
VENICE, ITALY
Students: Visiting Crits:
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Khalida Ahmed, Aylem Boyraz, Wagner Carvalho, Mathew Carney, Alan Chandler, Tony Fretton, Anna Minton, Alex Scott-Whitby, Mauro
Yaprak Cetinkaya, Savvas Charalambous, Matthew Jolly, Umut Dogan, Bono, Matteo Benigna
Gulsen Karpazli, Patrizio Montalto, Chido Thomas, Shady Nasir, Yusra
Osman, Waqaar Shah, Dilay Vursavus, May Uriraypal, Mobasher Special thanks to:
Ahamed Hilde Bailer (UAA), Mike Davies, Roey Hunt, Step Haiselden
Website:
www.uel23ua.blogspot.co.uk
incessantly one of the most interesting in this part of the
city owing to the presence of an original community of
Venetian people still inhabiting the area and following
their traditions. The research agenda will focus on
thresholds as spaces and times of investigation to
question the concept of building a CULTURAL HUB in
contemporary and, at the same time, to put in place
a strategy of adaptation/transformation of the city. At
the same time students are asked to look critically at
some examples of existing structures proposing a new
vision/concept for an open centre of cultures.
The design of the landscape in relation to the building
proposal will be will be crucial.
“Territories cities and buildings can be
read and re-written as texts, where “...the
networks are many and interacts, without
any one of them being able to surpass the
rest; this text is a galaxy of signifiers, it has
no beginning; it is reversible; we gain access
by several entries, none of which can be
authoritatively declared the main one... ”
R. Barthes, S/Z, Turin, 1973
 Wagner Carvalho  5.1 Structural diagram  5.2 Exploded axonometry  5.3
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Restaurant axonometry  5.4 Users sheet  5.5 Schemes  5.6 Physical model
5.7 Program

5.1

5.2 5.3 5.6

5.4 5.5 5.7

 Wagner Carvalho  5.8 Conceptual collage  5.9 Elevation, Patrizio Montalto
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5.10 Physical model of the project  5.11 Physical model of the project

UEL-March Architecture - Venice

5.8
Conceptual collage - Sequence of walls

Secret gardens
Conceptual collage

Unit5#UEL#Wagner Marques

5.10

5.5
5.9 5.11
5.6
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Shady Nazir 5.12 Site analysis 5.13 Sections and elevations 5.14

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Masterplan 5.15 Exploded axonometry

7 C D

8 T H E L I T T L E V E N I C E PIAZZA SAN
5 MARCO

�he history of �eni�e begins aro�nd ��� ���� �he �rst

2 6 people to settle in the Venetian Lagoon were fright- I B

ened men coming form the nearby Italian mainland.

For centuries these people had enjoyed prosperous H
lives in a chain of splendid cities of the Roman Empire F
strung along the north-eastern shores of the Adriatic.
SITE INTORUCTION
�ith a �ity as �lled �ith to�rist attra�tions as �eni�e�
E
it’s hard to know where to begin.The sitePerhaps
is located the best
on the Eastern side of Venice in the area of the Giardini whwhere the first art exhibition has been
way is to simply get lost for aheld few hours in
in Venice wandering
1894. At present this area is used as ticketing area during the Biennale Exhibition and it is fenerally
through its enchanting little used only during the period of the Biennale Art and Architecture. Over the years, the site has been recognized in
streets and passage-
3
3 the mental maps of the Venetians as the place of art and exhibitions. One of the main goals of the project is to
�ays� strolling beside its �anals�
find and �nding
the way its se�ret
of obtaining the continuity of use of the space during the whole year. It will require the change of the
SITE �orners� �o �atter �here thiscurrent
e��loration
programta�es yo��
in terms of time, accessibility, activities and cultural diversification. The site is incessantly one of
the most interesting in this part of the city owing to the presence of an original community of Venetian people still
it�s easy to �nd yo�r �ay ba�� to �ia��a �an Mar�o
inhabiting the area and following their traditions.
and the �rand �anal� Most of the best sights yo��ll
want to visit lie around these two landmarks. As men-
tioned in the brief� the best �ay to red��e the density
4 BIENNALE EVENTS
of tourism in the city is to create a new attraction on
G
the East coast of the city to be the new cutural hub
With a city as filled with tourist attractions as Venice, it’s hard to know where to begin. Perhaps Piazza San Marco Biennale 1.6km 20mins
the best way is to simply get lost for a few hours wandering through its enchanting little streets and Piazza San Marco Basilica Del Salute 600m 08mins
of Venice. My idea is to bring different islands in the
26th MAY 11th MAY 22th JUN 28th SEP 20th JUL 29th AUG
passageways, strolling beside its canals, and finding its secret corners. At every turn, you’ll see Rialto Bridge Piazza San Marco 500m 07mins Veneto region under one roof for25th theNOVpeople to ex-24th NOV 01th JUL 07th 0CT 05thAUG 08th SEP
something worth remembering with a photo. No matter where this exploration takes you. This map Rialto Bridge Biennale 2.2km 28mins plore more. Each pavilion will represent one island of
is showing the most touristic places in Venice and the distances between each attraction point.
As well as its showing the relation and distance between the Site and each one of those spots.
Biennale Basilica Del Salute 2km 25mins the above list and other services to be included. city
to be the new cutural hub of Venice. My idea is to
bring different islands in the Veneto region under one
roof for the people to explore more. Each pavilion
VENICE ARCHITECTURE VENICE ART VENICE DANCE VENICE MUSIC VENICE THEATRE VENICE CINEMA
will represent one island of theEXHIBITION
above list and otherEXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXHIBITION EXHIBITION

Areas accessible by Vaporetto

services to be included. city to be the new cutural
A vaporetto is another name for a hub of Venice. My idea is to bring different islands in
water bus in Venice. For the visitor
to Venice you have 2 options to the Veneto region under one roof for the people to
get around, walk or by water explore more. Each pavilion will represent one island
of the above list and other services to be included.

1 Rialto Bridge 2 Piazza San Marco 3 Basilica Di Salute 4 La Biennale

Areas accessible by Motoscafo
A motoscafo is a name called
5.14
for private taxis or small private
boats used by Venetians to get
around in the city of Venice

Areas that are not accessible

A GIUDECCA PAVILION B VENICE PAVILION
Lagoon C MURANO PAVILION D BURANO PAVILION
Lagoon E LIDO PAVILION F VENICE
Lagoon LIBRARY G SHOP/CAFE H WORKSHOPS
Lagoon I RESTAURANTS
Lagoon
by any means of transport
1 Exhibition spaces 4 Exhibition spaces 8 Exhibition spaces 12 Exhibition spaces 7LFNHWRIÀFH 20 Library 23 Gift shop 28 Workshops 32 Toilets
2 Toilets 5 Toilets 9 Toilets 13 Toilets 17 Exhibition spaces 21 Toilets 24 Cafe 29 Toilets 33 Storage space
3 Exit 6 Storage space 10 Storage space 14ThisStorage space 18 Toilets 22 Storage space 25 Toilets 30 Toilets 34 Pizzaria
5 Basilica San Marco 6 Palazo Ducale 7 Torre Dell Orologio 8 Venetian Arsenal Public transport landing stops 5.12 7 Exit
This diagram is showing pedestrian cir-
culation around 11theBallroom
site via bridges
that connects all the islands.
diagram is showing the Va-
15poretto
Cinemacirculation around the19 Exit
canals in Venice.
This diagram is showing the context
around the site and the relation be- 26
This diagram is showing the land-
Staf room
scape 31 Exitaround
and green spaces
In this diagram you can see the
35Biennale
Restaurant
parametre with the 30
tween the site and the Biennale. 27 the site,area
Lounge which is the Jiardini Della 36different
Seating pavilions
space representing
Biennale 30 countries. SCALE: 1:5000 @ A2 N

SCALE: 1:500 @ A2 N

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UNIT 6
Autonomous non-standard
space
Isaie Bloch, Jakub Klaska
Vacant space in Prague has undergone a huge
transformation during the past approximately half
a century. While the central planning and shortage
economy during communism produced a huge
amount of vacancies in the historic core, the current
political-economic system has been mainly producing
vacancies through real estate speculation and
overbuilding. Unlike most other former communist
territories, Czech Republic has never truly undergone
major modernist planning ideas. Resulting in a rather
organic urban tissue filled with singular architectural
oddities. For the new owners and managers of
property, particularly in the highly lucrative part of
the city, it was very hard to resist the pressure of
commercial interests and the prospect of financial
gain, causing many cases of speculative development
to emerge. This resulting in a major lack of socio
- cultural projects. These speculations have now
become characteristic of Prague’s vacancies. Many
vacant plots of land, as well as empty solitary buildings,
are being underused simply in the interest of exploiting
the invisible hand of the market. Unit6 will tackle those
neglected and derelict spots in the city, which are of
no interest to the municipality and developers due
to their lack of financial development potential. As a
result of all those vacant buildings, a lack of affordable
housing and a high demand for cultural projects
arose. People have taken this matter in to their own
hands and started autonomous social initiatives. Both
squatters and hipsters have been trying over the past
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
Students: Visiting Crits:
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Y5: Saina Motahari, Rohaine Dailey, Rachelle Ann Salazar, Dimitar Harald Trapp, Gilles Retsin, Mark Lemanski, Carl Callaghan, Maria
Dimitrov, Michael On, Kyri Loizou, Billy Webb, Stephanie Intsiful, Garvan Segantini, Tony Fretton, Chiara Zaccagnini, Michela Carla Falcone,
Joseet. Katherine Clarke
Y4: Loic Adam, Kingsley Boateng, Jana Dockalova, Ng Kean Jhun,
Hani Saab, Iara Silva, Andreas Stadlmayr, Francesco Ubiali.
two decades to infill the need for cultural programs into
those existing physical spaces. In majority organised
as fully autonomous groups, they manage to counter
the establishment looking for profit trough speculation.
Unfortunately those actions are constantly under treat
of being physically evicted, constantly resulting in short
term cultural projects.
Unit6 is interested in mixed used program with social
agency and space for innovative technologies. So
to create a more permanent non-linear platform for
culture in Prague.
Conceptually, the unit will start speculating on new
Spatial behaviour and Production methods in order
to produce heterogeneity and differentiation through
tectonic operations. These initial chunks will be abstract
yet architectural objects. After this in depth research,
students will have to re-evaluate the established part to
whole relationship in correspondence to their building
program.
6.1
 During the first term, students will focus on the topological organisation of
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surfaces and volumes. This in depth study starting from given references will
allow them to have a deeper understanding of how geometries are formed
and what their inter-relationships are. The references are sub divided in
multiple categories and strategies. Such as: Aggregation 6.2-3, Directional
delamination 6.13, Multiple surface pealing 6.1, Single surface pealing 6.6,
Surface pinching 6.4 and Volumetric pinching.
In this first part of the term, students are asked to work from a given
references and produce a perfect digital replica. This will increase both
modelling skills, spatial skills and design skills. Once the duplicate has been
produced they will create iterations of their chosen reference.
6.2
A successful iteration will always include the core qualities (such as:
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delamination, pealing, multi directionality, pinching, etc) of the initial reference
but will make large steps forward in terms of spatial organisation and design
ambitions. All iterations need to have a human scale and need to include
concepts of enclosure, surface vs volume 6.7, transitions, part to whole
relationships 6.8, circulations, directionality, etc. These iterations can be either
overall massing strategies or architectural chunks 6.5. By doing so students
will be able to step away from the original object and come up with a catalogue
of operations and spatial conditions which will later allow them to iterate those
further into architectural proposals.
Student work by: Stephanie Instiful, Andreas Stadlmayr, Rachelle Ann Salazar,
Billy Webb, Ng Kean Jhun, Kyri Loizou, Saina Motahari.
6.6
6.3 6.5 6.7
6.4 6.8
 6.9 Michael on `s library of surfaces. These pieces were formed after an
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in depth study of surface delamination principles. The aim of this study was to
create a variety of complex surface models using a minimum of operations on
the geometry. 6.10 Michael On proposes a physical and virtual Crypto Auction
house in order to reach financial and social autonomy. As new technology has
given us the abilities of anonymous cryptocurrencies to facilitate payments
without government or other 3rd party interference. The current advances being
made with this technology and the advent of true decentralization are more
important than ever before due to the increasing stranglehold which regulators
have on traditional financial transactions 6.11 Short section, cutting through
robotic fabrication space and digital workspaces. 2 Sets of undulating surfaces
converge together in order to produce a semi-continuous
relationship of programs. Where the design space interacts with the
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fabrication space without physically connecting to each other. Rohaine Dailey.
6.12 Garvan Joseet `s proposal tackles the urban sprawl by offering a
high dense co-housing and co-working scheme. The strong topology of the
surounding park continuous within the multiple floors of this large building. In
doing so housing and working spaces get organised throughout the proposal.
A vast glazed curtain wall facing the park reduces the energy consumption of
the building on the long run. Making this scheme financially and ecologically
attractive for the client being the local government. 6.14 Autonomy is best
served when all parties receive mutual benefits. Quote by Billy Webb. Proposing
a scheme where Amazon would fill this void between commercial property
developers and creative individuals.
6.11
6.12
a.4
6.9 6.13
6.10 6.14
 6.16 Interior view into the robotic fabrication lab in the creative hart of
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Vltavska Prague. The aim of the project is to reach autonomy trough production
by offering a platform where enthusiasts and professionals can produce and
exhibit their work. This would be achieved by stimulating robotic fabrication
alongside analogue building methods. The proposal aims to tap into the existing
creative culture in Prague, offering fabrication facilities to those wanting to push
their ideas without having to go on board with an industrial partner. This would
allow the individual not only to design his work but also to be involved in the
actual fabrication of the work. Thus avoiding the linear current workflow into a
more organic relationship between conception and production.
6.17 Kyri Loizou `s proposal aims to give more autonomy to the next
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generation by allowing parents to be more involved in the educational cycle
of their own and others children in a new typology for a Primary School. As
a collective, they will lead the decision making process of subjects taught to
their children and the facilities required. As the primary users they would be
partially responsible for the teaching and running of the school combined with
space for parents to work alongside their children. The vertical school offers a
radical reaction to both the urban sprawl as well as the often so rigid divide of
subjects, age groups and spatial organisation of primary schools. Rather then
being layered horizontally the proposal aims to stack a series of boulders which
are interconnected by a spiralling bleed-out space which aims to create more
communal space throughout the whole building.
a.4
6.16 6.17

UNIT 8
Market as a space of civic
encounter
Armoro Gutierrez Rivas, Rosa Rogina
Unit 8 perceives architecture as a social and political
practice, and therefore promotes mobilisation of
architectural thinking and making as a tool to engage
with current matters of concern, both local and global.
It explores how can architectural design process be
expanded beyond its conventional role and be utilised
as a tool for a wider social, economical and cultural
change. The unit looks more closely into territories of
spatial and/or social tension and attempts to unpack
and address these complex contemporary conditions.
By balancing in between identified real-world context
and radical imagination, the students are encouraged
to use the identified tension as a main driver for their
design proposal.
With a focus on Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
this year we are exploring how the architectural
typology of a market, that was historically proven to
be a place in Sarajevo where different cultures come
together, can be utilised as attempt to revive pre-war
condition of city’s successful cultural heterogeneity.
Already from ancient times, marketplaces were vital
nodes in the emergence of cities. With trade being one
of the oldest embodiments of collective urban activity,
markets designated places where processes of
exchange of goods were fused with political decision-
making. However, with the ongoing economic changes
and the evolution of ways in which people perform
commercial activity, there is new sense of urgency to
reinvent the notion of shared urban space as a catalyst
of heterogenic coexistence.
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Students: Special thanks to:
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Y5: Jinesh Amarasinghe, Yousef Bouzid, Athena Hylton - Thompson, Amer Becic, Emina Camzic, Senka Ibrisimbegovic (University of
Azlan Mohamad Johar, Jamie Simon, Siok Yee Tan Sarajevo), Dunja Krvavac
Y4: William Barnett, Travis Daisley, Richard Davies, Austin Joseph, Jian
Jun Lim, Kate Skinner, Ee Hui Tiew, Bjørn Selvon Bhola Wang, Nurul
Nadhrah Zainal
Visiting Crits:
Tom Atkinson, Hester Buck, Rodrigo Garcia Gonzales, Ed Jackson,
Isabel de la Mora
Taking as an example Sarajevo ́s Markale market
and its role as fatal place maker during the 1425 days
of the Sarajevo siege, the unit looks into how public
environments, both open and enclosed, can play a
key role to promote inter-ethnic and inter-cultural
relationships in post-combat communities. Students
are asked to challenge the exisiting typology of a
market by developing a hybrid program that introduces
a secondary use to it, in order to resolve an identified
socio-spatial problem of their interest. While building
on Lefebrve’s idea of civic rights to change ourselves by
changing the city, the unit searches for a new typology
of an enclosed market and supporting facilities that
play a leading role as facilitator of this restoration.
“The right to the city is far more than the
individual liberty to access urban resources: it
is a right to change ourselves by changing the
city. It is, moreover, a common rather than
an individual right since this transformation
inevitably depends upon the exercise of a
collective power to reshape the processes of
urbanization.” 8.0
Henri Lefebvre
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day, Kate Skinner, Y4.
Reconnecting Hastahana: Hybrid Market-Park as Healing Ground by Jian
Jun Lim, Y4. The project questions how to improve the stagnant Hastahana
park in relation to its function, usage perpetuation and urban role as a public
realm.  8.1 Section ambience collage  8.2 Aerial view of the proposal showing
proposed connections with the neighbouring urban fabric  8.3 Mapping of
events - accommodation of existing and future functions  8.4 Exterior view
highlighting the threshold in between the building and the adjacent park  8.5
Interior view of the market space featuring the proposed connection between
the lower and upper park levels.

8.3

8.1 8.4

8.2 8.5
 A Common Trading Ground by Austin Joseph, Y4. The project proposes a
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dedicated space in the form of a market where merchants can produce goods
in a suitable workspace from which they can also sell, adopting a similar trade
strategy as the one existing in the Old town.  8.6 Watercolour drawing of
the existing riverside including the site and the surrounding buildings along
the Miljacka river  8.7 Drawing showing the public realm permeability and
interconnections between programs at ground floor  8.8-9 Sections of the
new proposal in relation to the existing building  8.10 Diagrams of activity
changes during the day  8.11-12 Ambience collages of interior and exterior
public gardens

8.8

8.6 a.4
8.9

8.11

8.7 8.10 8.12

 A Food Journey by Siok Yee Tan, Y5. The project researches the traditional
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culture of food production at a domestic scale in Sarajevo and transforms its
processes into a public journey through with both locals and visitors can engage
with its elements.  8.13 Exploded axonometric view explaining structural
strategy  8.14 Axonometric view of individual food processes  8.15 Detailed
section through one of the process volumes  8.16 Volumetric study with plaster
and resin cast models

8.15

8.13 8.14 8.16

 The City as a Theatre by Nurul Nadhrah Zainal, Y4. The project explores
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how a hybridity program of market and theatre can recreate social and cultural
interaction, with deep-rooted history and significance to the city. The proposal,
on a macro scale aims to become the socio-economic hub for and by the
people of Sarajevo, and on a micro scale to provide the immediate residents
living close to the site a space to gather and acquire sustenance.  8.17 Interior
collage showing overlays of program  8.18 Collages of proposed ambiences
8.19 Cross section through the atrium highlighting deployable elements and
relation to the external space.
8.20-23 Casting of Sarajevo site model, done in collaboration with the
School of Architecture, University of Sarajevo during the unit trip.

8.20

8.17 8.18 8.21

8.22

8.19 8.23
 Students: Visiting Crits:

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Y4: Crocker-White James; Dahya Sonam; Gamouri Saman; Hahn Ryan; Robin Phillips, Conibere Phillips Architects; Emily Walkden, Simpson

UNIT 9
Krackovskaja Jekaterina; Susmani Michael Haugh; Sara Yllner, White Arkitekter; Robert Thum, Hochschule
Trier; Tony Fretton, Tony Fretton Architects; Isaie Bloch, UEL; Stratis
Y5: Bahreyni Toossi Caveh, Castro Paredes Leonardo Vladimir, Georgiou, UEL
Hadzikostas Marios , Gibre Daniel, Lamin Amin, Lim Hoi Yee,
Social Club - Reproductive Manandhar Rajib, Paine Olivia, Slankard Kirk, Stennett Troy, Tan Kai Special thanks to: Ruth Cherrington, Immo Klink, Alan
Space for the Gig Economy Xin, Yildiz Simay Chandler, UEL; Aurore Julien, UEL

Website:
uelunitnine.wordpress.com
Harald Trapp, Brian Hoy

After dealing with the productive city last year, Unit 9 On the other end of the spectrum, a changing
is interested in the social reproduction of the working communist state like Cuba has to introduce
population, its activities and specific architectural intermediate elements to negotiate between a
typologies. To design is a new type of social club which developing individualistic and the socialist society.
tries to overcome the isolation and individualisation Revitalising the tradition of the Social Club in Havana
of the contemporary equivalent to the proletariat, might complement the new production-model of the
the “entrepeneurs” of the gig-economy or the forced cooparativos, which have recently been introduced to
communitarianism of the socialist society of Cuba. support private economic initiative.
Such an architectural typology, that aims at combining In both societies, the Social Club should stimulate
critical education with recreation would derive from a and improve the selected area and work as a commons
long tradition of Working Men Clubs in England and the in its urban environment, to create a new shared place
constructivist Soviet Workers Clubs, which probably for meeting and exchange. The building should not only
represent the most successful translation of the have a high programmatic intensity, but is supposed to
theories of Karl Marx into architecture. complete, reveal and challenge the morphology of the
The notion of the club implies the communal neighbourhood within which it is situated.
ownership by its members, as well as the cooperative
management and operation of its activities. The
traditional Workers Club served not only as a place of
recreation, but also as a generator for political activity.
The Social Club hybridizes communal living rooms,
performance spaces, adult education, daycare centre,
sports facilities and cafeteria/bar, including the exterior
space to engage with the urban context.
The sites for the Social Club are either in East London
or in Havana. The deprived areas of East London
have replaced the working class neighbourhoods of
industrial capitalism and are the home of workers in the
so-called gig-economy, which lack spaces and places
to build a community.

9.0

EAST LONDON, UK / HAVANA, CUBA

 (Previous page: A single place of activity which could attract users of all
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ages by connecting activities and daily habits to create continuous interaction,
Havana, Marios Hadzikostas 9.0 composite drawing showing program, views
and materiality)
Homepage: a ‘sociable’ media club providing an architecture of locality
and community whose premise questions the internet culture of today, taking
inspiration both from the local ‘club’ and the global ‘hub’, Havana, Olivia Paine
9.1 aerial view evolving with technology  9.2 courtyard view of multi-
directional nodes  9.3 exploded axo exploring part and whole  9.4 - 9.6
incremental growth sequence

9.2

o.paine24@hotmail.co.uk
OP
PO
oliviapainearchitecture.com
Multidirectional Nodes - Courtyard Panorama 07850228114

9.4

A Flexible Module - Future Development Visuals

9.5

A Flexible Module - Future Development Visuals

9.1 9.3 9.6

 Social Engine: a project connecting self-employed delivery drivers’ productive

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and reproductive spaces, providing a hybridisation of recreation and services,

East London, Kai Xin Tan  9.7 sectional axo showing high programmatic
intensity  9.8-9 construction phase axo showing concrete frame phase 1 &
lightweight steel phase 2  9.10 section across the highway/flyover with new
link bridge proposal  9.11 delivery driver internal view  9.12 external view
approaching the club  9.13 relief model exploring form and geometry

9.10

9.7 9.11

9.8 9.9 9.12 9.13

 A single place of activity which could attract users of all ages by connecting A communal living room where locals can socialise and conduct their daily
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activities and daily habits to create continuous interaction, Havana, Marios activities, sheltered from high temperatures or extreme weather conditions,
Hadzikostas  9.14 street view showing access through the block  9.15 view constructed from inexpensive materials using local construction methods,
of ramp from board game area looking over football pitch  9.16 view from Havana, Leonardo Castro Paredes  9.18 internal view of the ground floor
boxing ring showing ramp as auditorium
The Roo Community: a social club providing a platform for Deliveroo drivers
to gather as well as co-working space and accommodation for a wide variety
of needs, East London, Hoi Yee Lim  9.17 perspectival section showing the
activity in the accommodation space and the co-working space in relationship
with the surrounding landscape

9.17

9.14

9.15 9.16 9.18

 A club for bicyle taxi drivers with a porous ground floor,
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Havana, Rajib Manandhar  9.19 exploded axo  9.20 aerial view
Construction Workers’ Club exploring social interaction
between public, semi-public and private spaces at different
levels, East London, Sonam Dahya  9.21 view looking down on a
hosted tournament
A ‘skills bank’ offering training and eduction to the local
population, Havana, Caveh Bahreyni Toossi  9.22 night view
9.23 elevation 3
1

A club for pigeon fanciers constructed from an adaptable

system developed from vernacular elements, Havana, Kirk
Slankard  9.24 elevation  9.25-26 combinatoric axos

2 3

HOSTED EVENTS

Level Heights

9.20 9.24 9.25

As you climb up the levels to
the building areas such as host- 2
ed events such as card tables 1
tournaments can be seen creat-
ing not just a social interaction
around the table but people inter-
acting with the levels above.

As there are more private mem-

EHUV RQ WKH WRS ÀRRU WKH\ FDQ
also interact with this space
creating a private space around
them to be semi-public.

9.19 9.21

SO
I UNIT 9 I SONAM DAHYA I HARALD TRAPP / BRIAN HOY I

9.22 9.23 9.26 2

1

1 3 5
0 2 4 10m
HAVANA SKILLCLUB
1:200@A3
FRONT (WEST ELEVATION)
Drawing: Anna Razumovskaya

UNIT 10
Fair Futures
Mark Lemanski and Jenny Kingston with
Katherine Clarke, muf architecture/art
Unit 10 focuses on the intersection of the lived and
the built space, which is approached simultaneously at
small and large scales: the scale of human interaction
and the scale of political decision making. It draws on
different disciplines in its engagement with the real life
factors that shape our environment. Previous topics
included housing estate regeneration in Hackney, co-
housing in Thamesmead, and productive uses in Old
Oak Common.
Fair Futures started with a visit to the property bubble
ruins and innovative urban think tanks in Madrid.
The unit brief asks for a socially and economically
sustainable mixed use design on a site close to the
university. North Woolwich is a place of extremes that
has lingered on the doorstep of regeneration, which
has proven both a curse (it remains economically
deprived) and a blessing (it has been spared by
speculative development).
LONDON AND MADRID
Students: Brewery North Woolwich, Elizabeth Sanders/LB Newham Regeneration
P171  MArch Architecture  Unit 10
Y4: Bianca Baidoo, Tawhid Chowdhury, Victor Dairo, Olajide Falusi, Manager, Fola Kalesanwo, LB Newham Regeneration, Alba Daja/
Ibrahim Odunsi, Giuseppe Podestà, Sofia Katsarou, Asma Ikram former Unit 10 student, Emma Koffie/Royal Docks Learning & Activity
Brahimi Centre, Alex Paveley/artist, Jody Tableporter/LB Newham and Royal
Y5: Camille Boulle, Beth Carter, Max Davie, Sara Erfantalab Evini, Mary Docks Regeneration, Paul Clarke/GLA Royal Docks Team, Axel
Folorunso, Mustak Miah, Talha Siddiqui, Anca-Elena Zahan Feldman/Objectif, Jennifer O’Riordan/Designer, Diana Ibáñez López/
Create & RCA
Visiting Critics:
Alex Marsh/GLA Regeneration, Joy-Caron Canter/Royal Docks Input Madrid:
Learning & Activity Centre, Maja Sporrong/Good Hotel London, Alberto Nanclares/Basurama, Raquel Congosto/Madrid, a medias,
Joss Taylor/Bow Arts Trust, Robert Baffour-Awuah/GLA Royal Docks Jorge Toledo/Ecosistema Urbano, China Cabrerizo Sanz/Imagina
Team, Hadrian Garrard/Create, Jenn Merrick/founder of Earth Station Madrid, Carlos Arroyo/Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos
Students will respond to aspirations of site owners
Create -an arts organisation- and Newham council,
balancing conflicting needs of artist live/work space,
a community provision, productive uses, and the
Mayor’s Good Growth programme. The work is
informed by research that muf has been carrying out
in the area, allowing students to engage with a range of
stakeholders and decision-makers.
 “If the event would has taken place in the week-end in the morning,
I would have stayed, now my child is asleep and it is too late for a PROVIDING AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE
NURSERY
week day.”

Event at the Bow Arts, floating boat Workshop.

Workshop test event 10.1 held at Bow Arts Trust site R.A.W Studios
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examining overlapping uses  10.2 Drawing showing the relationship of Time / Money
Capacity
Cost of
childcare
Parents
Contribution

listed railway turning circle to proposed arts space, Bianca Baidoo.  10.3
Examination of the development of North Woolwich through time, Bianca All parents contribute
to the running of
childcare. Parents

Baidoo.  10.4 Axonometric showing relationship of semi transparent facade =

who work and have
money pay for the
majority of the child-

to arts space circulation, Bianca Baidoo.  10.5 Research by Beth Carter care and contribute
small tasks such as
laundry, making the
illustrating the relationship between unemployment, time and money in the Af-
childrens lunches

single mother demographic in North Woolwich. Beth’s proposal interrogated fordable

childcare makes it Working Mother
ways that the building’s construction could reflect its social aspirations, such as
economical for un-
employed mothers
to gain skills and

10.6-7 a facade system constructed on site with local job training allowing for work

varying degrees of shading and privacy.  10.8 A view from the adjacent cycle KNITTED FACADE
lane showing artists’ workspaces and accommodation targeted at artists with DEGREES OF PRIVACY By contributing
childcare for other

children, Beth Carter. mothers, workless

mothers can gain

= free childcare from

other mothers while
they work or attend
training to gain
skills. This can make

10.1 working economical-

ly viable

10.5

TURNTABLE
INTER-RELATIONSHIP
10

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10.4
10.6
TECHNICAL STUIDIES : DETAILS
ROTATING FACADE PANELS, WALL PANELS &
EXTERNAL VIEW
VIEW FROM PIER ROAD
CLOSED PANELS HALF OPEN PANELS OPEN PANELS

Closed panels provide a lot of privacy, while Half open panels provide some privacy, while Open panels still provide some privacy from
Panels connected
thetoholes
solarin the panels allow a restricted visibil- also allowing a slight connection between in- some angles but people on the balconies can
sensor which thenityrotates
of the activities happening in the building side and outside engage with the activities outside
the panels mechanically

This graphic illustrates the mixture of user group

and their cohesion within the listed turntable
space. With users accessing the open bar, in-
teracting and maximising the use of the space. 20

10.2

10.7
FACADE
INTER-RELATIONSHIP Facade panel build up Facade panel connection and rotation detail Facade panel in plan
USER GROUPS
The open ability of spaces continues on the resi-
dential floors. The purpose of the residential is to
form as relaxed utopia for the independent artists,
again proposing a range of living styles opening
choice for the artists. The balconies allow for the
residents to interact with one another. The verti-
cal garden to act as a subtle buffer from the pol-
lution generated on pier road, reducing sqm used
to create a garden for each dwelling, this encour-
ages residents to utilise the turntable as a spread
out space, as they have the opportunity to merge
with existing residents within north Woolwich

ANALYSIS

oolwich and its current

al to understand it was
ial history, where work-
y was celebrated. Over
divided, with the resi-
ustrial area segregated
ny barriers are evident
ricting free pedestrian
the town, Thames bar-
to the Thames and also
evident whilst on site.
orth Woolwich seeks to
cing and restoring the
s to the rest of London.

FUTURE
PRESENT Wall panel build up
PAST
Window seat detail ground floor

37

10.8
10.3 10.4
 Projects were tested through presentations to prospective clients 10.9

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17

and adapted according to feedback on emerging designs. Camille Boulle

proposed a local currency 10.10 to encourage a circular economy in North
Woolwich. Her proposal for a community cafe, co-working spaces, mixed 16

tenure co-housing 10.11 used public realm and open space to link different
built elements. Sectional relationships were exploited to imbue spaces with
activity 10.12, 10.14. A simple palette of materials underlined spatial and
15

programmatic overlaps 10.13. Max Davie proposed a masterplan 10.15 1 Old North Woolwich terminal

2 Elevated river walkway

for the site linking productive uses (such as brewing) to live/work spaces. The 3 Southern entrance with enlarged public space

reduction of productive space in North Woolwich 10.16, 10.19 informed 4 Bike lane and ferry traffic overspill lane

the proposal for an interlocking series of spaces for living and working 10.17 5 Micro artist live work spaces

grouped around an internal street 10.18, both giving respite from traffic and 6 Elevated private garden serving micro apartments

allowing for spill from the adjacent workspaces. 7 Medium-sized artist live-work spaces
13
8
8 Light industrial spaces with residential above
11 12
9 North Woolwich foot tunnel 2001 2016

10.9 10 Heavy industrial spaces 8

10.16
13

age 11 Row of breweries

18 residential industrial commercial
10
12 Ttap room / community rooms

13 Residential tower
14
mmunity which must 8
14 Pub, co-working spaces above, residential tower 78 London’s stock of productive space is being lost
d supported.
and ensure a right
15 Northern entrance with enlarged pedestrianed 1 50% of london’s insustrial space and an estimated 1.47 million square metres
1 of commercial office space has dissapeared since 2001
public space 10
Pound (like the Bristol 9 4
5
16 Earth Station brewery
l economy is sustain- 76 65 The problem 1
nk to the money in cir- 3
17 St John’s Green
o go to the local gro- 4
he grocery store would
19
10.15
s also using the New’s 18 Royal Victoria gardens
2
19 Existing level access to Thames foot path

Proposal 19

10.10
medium artist studio 42 sq m
2
2 bed flat above

small artist studio: 28 sq m

1
micro apartment above

medium artist studio: 42 sq m

3
4 bed duplex apartment opposite

Vertical and Horizontal connections

Section model - zoom ins

10.11 Pattern of artist Live-Work accomodation

A variety of artist Live-Work accomodation is offered to establish a mixture

10.17 10.18
of artist’s practices of different sizes and career stages. The greater the
PROJECTION OF THE SECTION diversity, the more fruitful the ???

Exploded axonometric
Proposal 30

Paternity leave

Josh is returning from the park with his baby. He has become a familiar face amongst
some of the more community minded residents in his first couple of months on
paternity leave.

The proposal 3

1- Glass Roof
2- Steel trusses
3- Flat roof
4- Pitched roof
5- Atrium and circulations

10.12 10.13 6- Curtain wall facade

10.14 site industry 10.19
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 An aquaponic farm which supports a cafe below artists workspace and

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living was proposed by Sofia Katsarou 10.20. The tectonic language of the
surrounding industrial uses is interpreted and adapted to move from productive
space to cafe 10.23. The building is supported by its surrounding public spaces,
the street and the turning circle becoming spectacle for the passer-by 10.22,
10.21. Temporary housing for North Woolwich’s young homeless population and
a bakery as a route back into work by Ibrahim Odunsi 10.24. The courtyard of
a youth club and residential accommodation by Sara Erfantalab Evini 10.25. 0.3 PROPOSED FUNCTION DIGRAM
Olajide Falusi’s section of a preforming arts space with cafe opening up views
to the river Thames 10.27. Protruding window sectional detail by Tawhid
Chowdhury exploiting views in residential proposals 10.28. Varying occupations
and activities in winter gardens proposed by Mary Folorunso 10.29. The unit
playing a game of basketball in El Campo de Cebada one of the grass roots GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR
reclaimed public spaces visited as part of the unit trip to Madrid 10.26.

OFFICES, WORKSHOP AND RESIDENTIAL UNITS

1: Shared social space for occupants of the apartments.
2: Shared kitchen facilities for occupants of the apartments.
3: Apartments for artists.
4: Apartments for artists.
5: Artists computer and meeting room.
6: Office for farm management.
7: Artist workshop for wood and metal cutting.
8: Access to farm.
9: Cold room storage for farm. 2
10: Restaurant.
11: Reception area.
12: Plant room : Air handling units and water tanks to be located here.
13: Activated public realm.

10.24 10.25

10.21

Winter Garden Precedent

Nykredit Headquarters By Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Spatial Understanding_ Artist Winter Garden Architects
Location: Copenhagen
5 ‘ suspended meeting boxes’

My winter garden will be a hub for my artist it will

be and ‘leak out’ space where they can meet up,
RESTAURANT ATMOSPHERE 10.22 work in groups, exhibit their work or socialise.
The hub will be made out of timber frame and will
10.26 10.27
be fully glazed. The glass structure will allow inter-
action between the user in the hub and the resi-
9 dents walking or working in their flats. It will cantile-
ver over the entrances on the ground floor creating
8
a shelter space for the entrance and smoking area.

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BSc (Hons)
Architectural

P179
Design
BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology (ADT) programme has
gone through some exciting developments this year.
We have been very keen on developing the subject specific
knowledge and employability skills to support our students who
aspire for a rewarding career in this field.

Technology The students have had an all round experience from working on
their design projects in studio, to field trips to major developments
under construction in London, to visits to renown architectural
practices such as SOM, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Cullinan Studio.
This year, we also organised study trips to Venice and Dubai. The
LEVELS 1, 2 & 3 ADT trip was an eye-opening experience to the students as it facilitated
visits to many significant projects in the UAE that demonstrated the
diverse technologies and design approaches adopted in such a hot
and arid climate.
Dr Heba Elsharkawy, Programme Leader
Our year 3 students also learned specialist environmental softwares
(Integrated Envrionemntal Solutions - IES) which is widely used in
industry and they also used environmental monitoring equipment in
their research projects on real life case studies.

Heba Elsharkawy (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA)

 Students: Y3: Abrar Alhashmi, Ardeshir Boloki, Adelino Fernandes Batista, Aleek
Y1: Chinedu Okerezi, Jonny Chapi Enriquez, Giulia Ficini Hussain, Ramone Jheeta, Ahmet Kilinc, Habib Sahel, Farooq Sheikh,

A+D Technology
Jawad Serroukh, Mohammed Farhat, Simren Dosanjh, Oussama Nefzi,
Mishal Pussewela, Victor Naranjo Cardenas, Oliver Egerton-Smith,
Connor Minihane, Adit Jaganathan, Shahid Siddique, Tala Aflatouni,
Nana Owusu, George Fahmi, Rebecca Adeboye, Rokhiya Tounkara,
Sustainable design of Luis De La Cruz, Wilson Chaby, Rebekah Springer, Gharsanai Pacha,
Michael Aregbesola, Noela Dalipi
buildings
Ahamed Reyasul Hassan
Special thanks to:
Dr. Sahar Zahiri, Bertug Ozarisoy, Muhamed Umar, Stephen Taylor
Architects, Rasheed Dauda (Architect), Newham Council, and the
Chartered Institute for Architectural Technologists (CIAT)

P181  BSc ADT

Y2: James Banda, Mandy-Liza Lehnert, Rashed Mirza, Mazin
Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Mr. Alfonso Senatore, Dr. Mohamed, Constantin Olariu, Rimants Reiniks, Dean Rose, Jozsef
Haitham Farouk, Miss Ipek Kuzu Seregely, Ainsley Walters

In Year 1 ADT, we worked on an Artist in Residence
design project following an architectural design
foundation phase where we designed an artists’s
personal space to live and work in, on a site at UEL
campus overlooking the Royal Docks. The project
aimed to develop our technical understanding of a small
residential structure, building materials, construction
processes, sustainbility and technical details. We
also went on a fiield trip to Venice to observe and
understand the design and construction technology of
different building typologies such as Scarpa’s Querini
Stampalia Foundation, Santa Maria Qioriosa dei Frairi,
Basilica St. Marco, and Fondomenta de terranova,
Murano.
In Year 2 and 3 ADT, we worked closely with
Newham Council as a client, on a live project; a mixed
use development on Plashet Road. consisting of a
community centre, nursery and 30 one-bedroom and
two-bedroom flats. We undertook site surveys, case
study research, climate and site analysis and capacity
studies to understand how the design could provide
the facilities needed within the design brief. Within our
technical design proposals, we tackled key strategic
questions; what could be the most effective building
form and fabric for the chosen site (environmentally
and economically)? What are the priorities for building
users’ health, comfort and wellbeing?
We also enjoyed learning Revit software, Sefaira
and Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES-VE
for environmental analysis). We used monitoring
equipment namely the thermal imaging camera,
luxmeters and data loggers in our final year research
projects. Both, the design and research projects helped
us become more competent with design development
processes including the analysis and interpretation
of the project site and developing project-specific
research methodologies.
We had an incredible site visit to Dubai and AbuDhabi
where we visited several completed projects as well as
developments under construction and met with project
architects from Foster and Partners, SOM, Zaha Hadid
Architects, and Atkins. We visited Burj Khalifa, Masdar
City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Aldar Central Market, the
Louvre Museum, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, DEWA
(the most sustainble office building) and we also met
with our counterparts at the American University in
Sharjah.
We visited SOM offices, Zaha Hadid Architects Office,
and Cullinan Studio this year. We had the opportunity
to meet lead architects at those renown practices and
we observed their exciting studios where we learned
about several of their major design projects.

LONDON - DUBAI
 Year 1 Artis in Residence design project:  adt.01 Ground floor plan of
design project, Giulia Ficini.  adt.02 3D laser-cut model of the project, Giulia
Ficini.  adt.03 Sefiara daylight analysis, Giulia Ficini  adt.04 Design project.
adt.05 3D physical model, Giulia Ficini.  adt.06 3D model of design project,
Jonny Chapi.  adt.07 Ground floor plan, Jonny Chapi  adt.08-9 Sections
AA and BB in design project, Jonny Chapi.  adt.10 3D physical model.
adt.11 Phtoshop model on site.
P182  BSc ADT

P183  BSc ADT

adt.02 adt.06 adt.07

adt.01 adt.02
adt.05
adt.01 adt.03 adt.08 adt.09

adt.06 adt.11
adt.04 adt.04
adt.05 adt.10 adt.11
 Year 1 Artist in Residence project, adt.12 3D physical model, George
Fahmi adt.13 Section George Fahmi adt.14 Sefaira daylight analysis,
George Fahmi adt.15, adt.16 3D model and floor plan of design project,
George Fahmi adt.17, adt. 18, adt.19 3D model of artist in residence
project, Jawwad Serroukh adt.20, First flloor plan, Jawad Serroukh
adt.21&adt.22 South elevation demonstrating appropriate shading and
north elevation demonstarting openness to natural daylight for the artist’s studio
. adt.23 Interior shot of the design project, Jawad Serroukh
P184  BSc ADT

P185  BSc ADT

adt.18

adt.13 adt.17 adt.19

adt.12 adt.13

adt.15 adt.21
adt.14 adt.16 adt.20 adt.21

adt.15 adt.16 adt.22 adt.23

 Year 1 Artist in Residence project; adt.24 Floor plan of the artists’
residence, Michael Aregbesola adt.25 East Elevation. adt.26 Sefaira
daylight analysis adt.27 Section AA demonstarting the footpath overlooking
the Royal Docks. adt.28 &adt.29 Ecotect solar analysis, and model on site,
Michael Aregbesola. adt.30, adt.32 Cross sections, Tala Aflatouni adt.31
Laser cut 3D model adt.33 Sefaira daylight analysis. adt.34 3D model
interior and exterior snapshots, Tala Aflatouni
P186  BSc ADT

P187  BSc ADT

adt.30 adt.31

adt.24 adt.25 adt.32 adt.33

adt.26 adt.27

adt.28 adt.29 adt.34

 Year 1 Artist in Residence project; adt.35 Floor plan of design , Connor
Minihane adt.36 3D model, Connor Minihane. adt.37 Model on site, Oliver
Egerton-Smith adt.38 Section AA, Connor Minihane. adt.39 &adt.40
3D model (laser-cut and SketchUp.), Shahid, Siddique. adt.41& adt.42
Floor plan and elevation of design project, Oussama Nefzi adt.43 Technical
detail, Jonny Chapi. adt.44, adt.45&adt.46 Hand drwn sketches
at UEL campus and in Venice, Tala Aflatouni, Jonny Chapi, Oussama Nefzi.
adt.47&adt.48 Venice study trip.
P188  BSc ADT

P189  BSc ADT

adt.41 adt.42

adt.35 adt.36 adt.43 adt.44

adt.37 adt.38 adt.45 adt.46

adt.39 adt.40 adt.47 adt.48

 Year 2 design project: Community centre and nursery at Plashet Road;
adt.49 North elevation of community centre and nursery, Dean Rose
adt.50 Working drawing, section AA adt.51 Sectional perspective adt.52
& adt.53 Exterior snapshots. adt.54 Working darwing, floor plan. adt.55
Wall section, Dean Rose adt.56 Sectional perspective illustrating the
environmental strategy, Abrar Alhashmi.
P190  BSc ADT

P191  BSc ADT

adt.39
adt.52 adt.53

adt.40
adt.49

adt.50 adt.54 adt.55

adt.51 adt.56
 Year 2 design project: Community centre and nursery at Plashet Road;
adt.57&adt.58 Entrance to the community centre, Aisley Walters. adt.59
Technical detail of wall and foundation, Ainsley Walters. adt.60 Ground floor
plan of design project, Ainsley Walters. adt.61 Section in the community
centre and nursery. adt.62 Working drawings, elevations. adt.63-64
Nursery playground and project 3D, Ainsley Walters
P192  BSc ADT

P193  BSc ADT

adt.61

adt.57 adt.58 adt.47 adt.45

adt.48

adt.49 adt.62

adt.59 adt.60 adt.63 adt.64

 Year 2 design project: Community centre and nursery: adt.65 & adt.68
Technical details 1:5, Jozsef Seregly adt.66 3D model of echnical detail,
Mandy-Liza Lehnert. adt.67 Working drawing, plan. adt.69 South elevation
demonstarting horizontal louvers, Mandy-Liza Lehnert. adt.70 Project
elevations, Rashed Mirza. adt.71 Floor plan of community centre and nursery,
Constantin Olariu.

P195  BSc ADT

P194  BSc ADT

adt.56

adt.65
adt.52 adt.57
adt.70

adt.67
adt.66

adt.54

adt.68 adt.69
adt.55 adt.71
 Year 2 design project: Community centre and nursery at Plashet Road:
adt.72&73 Entrance to the community centre, James Banda, Constantin
Olariu. adt.74&adt.75 South elevation and section through the project,
James Banda. adt.76 South and west elevation, Mandy-Liza Lehnert.
adt.77 Wall section detail, Constantin Olariu. adt.78 Communiity centre
entrance, James Banda. adt.79 Main entrance, Jozsef Seregly
P196  BSc ADT

P197  BSc ADT

Redevelopment of the former Upton Centre

adt.72 adt.60
adt.73 adt.76

Roof Level
6000

First Floor
3000

Ground Floor
0

Street Level
-1000

South Elevation
1 1 : 100

adt.74 adt.78

Rev Description Date

Roof Level
6000
CODE SUITABILITY DESCRIPTION

First Floor STATUS PURPOSE OF ISSUE

3000

Ground Floor
0
PROJECT
Street Level
-1000
Redvelopment of Plashet Road

adt.75 adt.77 adt.65

adt.79
TITLE
North Elevation
2 1 : 100 South & North Elevations

CLIENT

Newham Council
 Year 3 design project: Mixed-use development at Plashet Road adt.80
Site plan of project, Abrar Alhashmi. adt.81 Perspective of the project.
adt.82 South elevation illustrating shading systems. adt.83 Working
drawing east elevation adt.84&adt.85 Nursery and residential facades.
adt.86&adt.87 Section and plan (working drawings), Abrar Alhashmi
P198  BSc ADT

P199  BSc ADT

adt.84 adt.85

adt.80 adt.66
adt.81 adt.86

adt.82

adt.83 adt.87
 Year 3 design project: Mixed-use development at Plashet Road adt.88
Perspective illustaring the residential block and community centre, Adelino
Batista. adt.89 Wall section detail, Abrar Alhashmi. adt.90 3D of a technical
detail, Abrar Alhashmi. adt.91 Ground floor plan of community centre and
nursery, Adelino Batista adt.92 & adt.93 Exterior and inetrior shots of the
cafe. adt.94&adt.95 Environmental strategy and wall section detail, Addelino
Batista
P200  BSc ADT

P201  BSc ADT

adt.92

adt.88 adt.93

adt.91

adt.89 adt.90 adt.94 adt.95

 Year 3 design project: Mixed-use development at Plashet Road adt.96,
adt.97 3D model renders, Habib Sahel adt.98 Residential floor plan,
Adelino Batista adt.99 Community centre and residential tower block, Ahamed
Hassan. adt.100&adt.101 North elevation and section, Ahamed Hassan.
P202  BSc ADT

P203  BSc ADT

adt.96 adt.97 adt.99

adt.100

adt.98 adt.101
 Year 3 design project: Mixed-use development at Plashet Road adt.102
Interior of the sports hall demonstrating CLT structure and louvers, Ahamed
Hassan. adt.103 Ground florr of community centre. adt.104 Technical
detail in wall envelope. adt.106&adt.107 West and south elevations,
Ahmet Kilinc adt.108 Community centre entrance and residential block
above. adt.109 East elevation illustrating louvers for solar protection.
adt.110&adt.111 Technical details, Adelino Batista, Ahmet Kilinc.
P204  BSc ADT

P205  BSc ADT

adt.106

adt.102 adt.107

adt.103 adt.108 adt.109

adt.104 adt.105 adt.110 adt.111

 Year 3 design project: Mixed-use development at Plashet Road adt.112
Wall section detail, Ahmet Kilinc. adt.113 South facing perspective. adt.114
Ground floor plan - working darwing, Ahmet Kilinc. adt.115-116 Coutyard,
Ahmet Kilinc. adt.117 Sports hall demonstrating external shading device Abrar
Alhashmi. adt.118 View from teh bridge, Ahamed Hassan. adt.118 View
from the bridge, Ahamed Hassan. adt.119 Interior of the cafe, Ahmet Kilinc.
adt.120 Wall section detail, Aleek Hussain.
P206  BSc ADT

P207  BSc ADT

adt.115 adt.116

adt.117
adt.113

adt.118

adt.120
adt.112 adt.114 adt.119
 Year 3 Research project: adt.121 Integrated Environmental Solutions
solar analysis of students’ accommodation at UEL, Adelino Batista. adt.122
SNewham Dockside building Suncast analysis, Ardeshir Boloki. adt.123
Thermal imaging of a Victorian terraced house to be retrofit, Aleek Hussain.
adt.124 Room heating load at UEL student accommodation. adt.125 &
adt.126 Rendered daylight illumination - daylight study, Abrar Alhashmi.
Year 2 & 3 Dubai study trip adt.127 At Burj Khalifa’s viewing deck.
adt.128 Construction site visit, Atkins Dubai Creek Harbour development.
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adt.129 Masdar City with Fister and Partners Architects. adt.130 A guided
visit to Aldar Central Market, Abu Dhabi adt.131 The Louvre Museum tour
and visit. adt.132 The visit to SOM office in London. adt.133 Bee’ah
Headquarters project designed by Zaha Hadid Architects construction site visit.

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BA

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Interior Design
Year 1, 2 & 3
Camillo Botticini and Pete Cobb Programme Leaders The BA Interior Design programme is designed to educate students
to become spatially aware in their approach, to consider occupiers
and users, context and function that is at once both critical and
emotive in its expression.

Design is taught in parallel to a range of studies including

representation and computing, technology, design history and
theory & professional practice to prepare students for a successful
future in the industry.

We aim to provide an educational and creative framework that

enables students to become exceptional designers. The idea of
‘designing’ and ‘making’ is always central to the course’s activities
and ethos.

Interior Design
Sabina Andron, Camillo Botticini, Pete Cobb,
Anastasia Karandinou, Kyriaki Nasioula, Janet
Insull, Bruce Irwin, Giovanni Petrolito, Keith Winter
The BA (Hons) Interior Design programme, running
for its fourth year at UEL has seen a significantly high
achievement in our recent graduates with seven 1st
class honours degrees.
A trip to Milan kickstarted the first semester for the
entire BA, with visits to Prada Foundation by Rem
Koolhaas, a residential scheme by Portaluppi and the
stunning central Gothic Cathedral.
In 1st Year, students are challenged to redesign their
own studio ranging from proposals that reinvent the
space for new functions. In addition they design and
build a 1:1 shelf in the workshops in order to house
their studio equipment. The main design project was a
re-imagining of various rooms in a new Eastbury Manor
House Museum, a 450 year old Tudor building in the
heart of Barking. The clients were National Trust and
local Borough Councils. We were lucky to have Tamara
Horbacka, chief curator of Eastbury Manor, to join us
for critqiues at the end of the project.
In 2nd and 3rd Year two projects combined both
group and individual work. Firstly, ‘Arches’, a project
involving the refurbishment of the overground arches
that cross through the infrastructure of the local area at
Druid Street, London. The project is at the same time
an urban and interior design challenge. Occupying the
thresholds under the arches, the project was seen as
an opportunity to produce new interconnected spaces.
We worked to preserve the existing features of the
brick arches, while creating various spatial sequences
through the addition of new levels, floor excavations
MILAN, ITALY
Students: Y1: Crystal Stewart, Rosa Sheaves, Carolina Iacovenco,
Y3: Elif Cevirme, Francis Katenga, Dilem Bulut, Catalina Anton, Natasa Melika Mirabadi, Faezeh Alimonad, Jessica Pembroke, Oliwia Zurek,
Ferenczova, Maureen Ivan-Wuche, Natasha Priest, Sophie Robinson, Joanne Dean, Delmarie Coates, Lara de Jesus Alcantara, Lian Nasseri,
Vincent Terang, Gabriele Burbaite, Laisha Marker, Syria Jackson Alisa Insoi, Tanya Riseborough, Tannah Nansubuga, Onur Derin,
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Brandy Palmer
Y2: Claudia Lazar, Nayden Hadzhiev, Christina Inoke, Carlos Torres,
Zena Emanuel, Amber Ali, Sonia Islam, Gizem Sarilmaz, Helen
Adefoiye, Alvin Tampon, Whitney Green, Kevser Intze
and new design elements. The students proposed new
functions such as an art gallery, a gym, a wellbeing
centre and accessible social spaces.
In the second project ‘Living the Model’, the students
worked to re-design a house by a well-known architect
and build models betwen 1:20 and 1:50 scales. The
aim of the exercise was to insert a boutique hotel
within the existing buildings, whilst preserving the
original features of these iconic spaces. The large
models of both existing and proposed designs allowed
for detailed analysis of exemplary spaces, and also
enabled the production of comprehensive photography
and expressive digital collages.
In addition, an exciting side-project saw a competition
entry submitted for a Sicilian castle to house an art
hotel. A selection of 2nd Year students led by Giovanni
Petrolito sought to reveal the dramatic potential that
lies in the disjointed existing ruins.
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Natasha Priest  id.4 Bedroom section in Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier,Shajna
Islam, Carlos Torres  id.5 Design Proposals for Eastbury Manor, Melika
Mirabadi.  id.6 Perspective view of intervention in Shodhan House by Le
Corbusier, Andrea Catalina Anton  id.7 Section of proposed kitchen and

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reception area in Saltzman House by Richard Meier, Nayden Hadzhiev  id.8

Section of general proposal in Y_house by Steven Holl, Dilem Bulut  id.9 Model
of general proposal in Y_house by Steven Holl, Dilem Bulut, Elif Cevirme

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 id.10 Perspective view of social space in Goestch-Winckler House by Frank
Lloyd Wright, Sophie Robinson  id.11 Perspective view of proposed exhibition
area in Shodhan House by Le Corbusier, Andrea Catalina Anton  id.12
Perspective view of bedroom proposal in Maison Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas,
Vincent Terang  id.13-14 Perspective view of cafe proposal in Eastbury Manor
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House by Rosa Sheaves  id.15 1-point perspective view of cafe proposal
in Eastbury Manor House by Crystal Stewart  id.16, id.18 Experimental
Collages by Alisa Insoi  id.17 View of studio proposal model by Delmarie
Coates

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Materials Palette, Crystal Stewart  id.22 Materials Palette, Rosa Sheaves
id.23 Materials Palette, Delmarie Coates  id.23 Materials Palette, Brandy
Palmer

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 id.25 Perspective view of bedroom proposal in Villa Savoye by Le
Corbusier, Natasha Priest  id.26 Concept collage for Arches’ Project, Carlos
Torres  id.27 Exploded model of proposal in House of N by Sou Fujimoto, Zena
Emanuel, Claudia Lazar, Alvin Tampon  id.28 Section of proposal in Shodhan
House by Le Corbusier, Andrea Catalina Anton
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id.25 id.27

id.26 id.28
 id.29 Night model view of proposal in House of N by Sou Fujimoto, Zena
Emanuel, Claudia Lazar, Alvin Tampon  id.30 Night model view of proposal
in House of N by Sou Fujimoto, Zena Emanuel, Claudia Lazar, Alvin Tampon
id.31 Studies on existing furniture in Goestch-Winckler House by Frank Lloyd
Wright, Sophie Robinson, Charlotte Williams  id.32 Longitudinal section of
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proposal in Goestch-Winckler House by Frank Lloyd Wright, Sophie Robinson
id.33 Model of Arches’ project, Natasa Ferenczova  id.34 Model of Arches’
project, Elif Cevirme

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Masters Programmes

P225
 MRes
Architecture
Reading the Neoliberal City

P227 MRes
Anna Minton Programme Leader

Anna Minton, author of Big Capital and Ground Guest lecturers are a key component of the course
Control, also published by Penguin, is the Programme and include politicians, leading industry figures and
Leader on the MRes Architecture. This multi- activists. We have an ongoing collaboration with
disciplinary course, sited within the architecture Sian Berry, chair of the housing group at the Greater
department, welcomes applicants from a wide range London Authority. During 2016, Anna was awarded
of backgrounds. While situated in London’s Docklands, a Leverhulme Artist in Residence grant to work with
the global impact of these processes, which are Alberto Duman who was artist in residence on the
relevant across the world, provides the context. MRes.
The course is comprised of four modules: Reading For more information contact:
the neoliberal city; Psychogeography and Situationism; Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture & Programme
Ethical Development and the Digital City. Topics for Leader a.minton@uel.ac.uk
study include the housing crisis and the privatisation
of cities, investigating the financialisation of the urban
environment, polarisation and the consequences
for citizens in terms of trust and fear. The modules
on Ethical Development and the Digital City focus on
potential alternatives to the neoliberal city and the
modules on Psychogeography and Situationism and
the Digital City are also offered to Diploma students
choosing Critical Writing for their Theory component.
Anna is joined on the academic team by Tony Fretton,
principal of Tony Fretton architects, who is a thesis
supervisor and Debra Shaw, Reader in Cultural Theory,
who teaches on the Digital City module.
 Students:

P229  MA Architecture & Urbanism

Zehra Cansu Alp, Faryal Sahar, Venkata Kishore Damireddy, Abdullah

MA Architecture
Bin Musa Abdulsheikh

and Urbanism
Fulvio Wirz Programme Leader
Stratis Georgiou Digital Fabrication and Robotics
Tutor

The MA in Architecture and Urbanism has

been focusing on three main strands of research:
Computational architecture, Urban Design and
Heritage. The flagship Computational architecture
builds upon UEL legacy of world-leading form
generation through computational design explored
through the work of the university’s late senior lecturer,
Paul Coates. This involves using parametric and object-
oriented design methodologies seamlessly with rapid
manufacturing and visualization techniques available
within the school.
MA students developed their projects following a
shared agenda with MArch Unit 4 working on a coastal 倀爀攀猀瀀攀挀琀椀瘀攀 嘀椀攀眀

stretch of the Gulf of Naples. Students have been

working in teams on a masterplan developing a shared
modular design system which can dynamically adapt 刀漀漀昀

to different scales: the urban one of the waterfront and

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the architectural one of the attractor buildings which

have been individually developed during the second 䜀爀漀甀渀搀 䘀氀漀漀爀

term.
Topics like Advanced Architectural Design,
Parametric Urban Design, Digital Manufacturing have
been developed across the year following a common 倀爀攀猀瀀攀挀琀椀瘀攀 愀渀搀䔀砀瀀氀漀搀攀搀 瘀椀攀眀猀

digital platform which simulates the state of the art EXTERIOR SCENE

of design processes in contemporary architectural

practices. The goal was to experiment new possibilities
for architectural spaces and cities connecting the
design to advanced fabrication techniques and
sustainable strategies in order to generate a research
leading to a secure impact in the industry.

URBAN DESIGN
Open Studio
Christoph Hadrys
The Urban Design course is the design intensive
masters for alternative urbanisms at the University of
East London. It is set up to develop both intellectual
and practical skills for urban designers and architects.
Through interrelated design and theory projects, we
search for alternative solutions to complex urban
conditions.
The course sets out to explore and develop new
forms of urban practice in cities undergoing critical
change, where conventional thinking struggles
to respond to uncertainties and the necessity for
imaginative thinking. It aims to prepare students to work
with different geographical settings, urban agendas
and economies through design projects. We engage
directly with communities, sites and contexts, to be
able to develop both practical and innovative urban
designs, from the scale of regions and cities, all the
way through to neighbourhoods and building scales.
This approach is informed by local and international
urban practice, but also emphasizes students‘
individual interests, abilities and intuition, to explore
and develop new forms of urbanism. Asking questions,
like who is building cities and how to build cities, allows
us to open our understanding about finer visible and
invisible forces. We research diverse methodologies,
like the use of tolerances and time-lines, to enable
more dynamic and generative urban processes,
allowing a much wider range of people to take part in
building cities.
The course provides a platform for the individual
student to develop an expertise and an approach to
sustainable urban design through the development
of urban design strategies and research. As more and
more emphasis is put on the importance of sustainable
developments by governments and professional
bodies, such knowledge and skills will be of increasing
usefulness to the students in their professional lives.
The programme prepares for work in the public as well
as in the private sector.
The masters course has two fully integrated parts:
The design intensive studio and the theory component
comprising Masters and Professional MArch (ARB/
RIBA Part2) students.
The Urban Design course welcomes students as
fellow innovators in a programme that is both visionary
and hands on in seeking to develop urban futures that
are sustainable, distinctive and enjoyable.
“The neatness of architecture is its seduction;
it defines, excludes, limits, separates from the
“rest” - but it also consumes. It exploits and
exhausts the potentials that can be generated
finally only by urbanism, and that only the
specific imagination of urbanism can invent
and renew “
Rem Koolhaas , SMLXL
Students:
Emre Calis, Parvin Aktar, May Thu Kyaw
Y4: Kingsley Asare Boateng, Anil Can Colak, James Crocker-White,
Travis Gideon Daisley, Iara Sofia De Jose E Silva, Kingsley Buah
Kerson, Jian Jun Lim, Viraj Patel, Odaine Coswayne Phipps, Ozan
Sahin, Ze Rou Yong
Urban Design Studio
The design component aims to prepare students to
work with different urban situations and agendas.
In the beginning of each academic year, students
engage in a five week induction project, to familiarise
themselves with the teaching and learning environment
of the course. During that time, we develop design
tools and principles, by testing and refining them in
various locations.
For the main design project, individual students focus
on one site of their choice, for the rest of the academic
year. This focus allows very deep explorations of a
range of scales and involved urban design issues.
Students formulate objectives, briefs, programmes and
spatial aspirations of their design work. Throughout the
course, we engage in workshops, presentations and
tutorials.
Open Studio
This academic year, students select the location and
topic of their design, theory and research project
themselves. The course offers a rich platform for
students’ visions for cities.
We formulated strategies that respond to global and
site conditions, understanding of scales, architectural
sensibilities and local communities, to create social,
spatial and time-based habitats and environments.
Y5: Nur Bahirah Abdul Rahman, Gunes Bagdali, Marie Camille Boulle,
Rohaine Dailey, Nadzirah Hanis Fairuz, Daniel Gibre, Lisa Quynh Ha,
Stephanie Intsiful, Ali Kaptan, Boon Wei Phum, Troy Stennett, Filippos
Tympas
Website:
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Urban Theory Component
The theory component welcomes Masters students
and also 4th and 5th year MArch students. The course
is ‘hands on‘ and it works in close collaboration with the
design component. A lot of urban issues are difficult to
explore purely on a visual basis. This has to do with the
abstract level of scale and complexity. For example,
we can do models of buildings and they will partly tell
us spatial and social relationships. In urban design
that is different. We can do models of a city, but it is
not that easy to understand the underlying forces, that
are shaping cities. Concerning issues like migration or
globalization, physical models might tell us very little.
We have to read, write and talk, to gain a more holistic
understanding of urban issues.
Students attend weekly lectures on distinct urban
topics, followed by seminars. The fields of studies range
from urban history, theory, interpretation and practice
to science. We explore complexities of cities through
discussions, writings, readings, lectures, drawings,
student presentations, movies and excursions. The
theory component is assessed through a 4000 - 5000
word essay on an urban topic that the students select
and research themselves. The studies in urban theory
are set up to help articulate a critical context and vision
for students’ design and thesis work.
 Students: Special thanks to our guest tutors and external
Likhitha Alla, Eshika Keer, Pooja Patidar, Evan Tan Ming En Fatima Zahra critics:

MA
Hadj Dr Aghlab Al-Attili, Carl Callaghan, Manjit Dhillon, Will Jennings, Dr
Dragan Pavlovic, Prof Christine Schwaiger, Reem Sharif

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Tutors:

Interior Design
Sabina Andron, Camillo Botticini, Pete Cobb, Dr Anastasia Karandinou,
Kyriaki Nasioula, Giovanni Petrolito.

Dr Anastasia Karandinou Programme Leader

Design of any scale responds to – and in parallel leads the train arches around London are being increasingly
– cultural, political and social change. Our everyday refurbished and reused. The need for space in the
living changes rapidly. Changing demographics and city centre turns them into sought-after sites for a
the emergence of new technologies shift the way in range of functions and businesses. Additionally, the
which we inhabit, use and share spaces. What is the specific qualities of their structure, as well as their
role of design in the rapidly changing contemporary geometry, materiality and location makes them quite
world? What is home in a future of densely populated unique, particular and challenging sites. The arches
city centres? What is the shop of the future – when that we focused on this year are those of the London
e-commerce is changing the role and the experience Bridge area. The students researched, reflected,
of the high street? What is the office of the future when discussed and decided on the specific function that
patterns and media of collaboration change? What they proposed, and designed new typologies and
is the library of the future? What is the school of the combinations of programmes, having considered the
future – in times of an overload of information, and of history, current life and people of the place.
numerous online resources and social networks? How For further information please visit: www.uel.ac.uk/
can design activate what is important about physical postgraduate/courses/ma-interior-design or find us at
proximity and interaction? How does contemporary www.instagram.com/uel_interiordesign.
design responds to the above issues and re-thinks
established typologies? How can the historic context
and typologies be studied and re-activated in new
ways?
Through our new MA programme in Interior Design
we address the above questions in a rigorous,
experimental and creative manner. We challenge the
limits of the role of the designer and we explore how
design pertains to different aspects of our everyday
living. Political and cultural debates are re-articulated
and expressed through a hands-on poetic and creative
making approach.
This year’s main design project dealt with the broadly
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ma_id.6-7: Eshika Keer

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ma_id.8-9: Fatima Zahra Hadj

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 ma_id.10-13: Pooja Patidar
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3D visualisation of the Design proposal

Photo of the Interior Model

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3D visualisation of the Design proposal

Design Proposal (Interior)

3D visualisation of the Design proposal

The Making Process

3D visualisation of theproposal
of the Design Plaster Model
The Making Process of the Plaster Model

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MASTERS

P247  Landscape Architecture

Professional Landscape The MA Professional Landscape Architecture programmes at UEL

Architecture
span practice and academia.

We are firmly grounded in professional practice. We are taught by

practitioners, work on live projects, and include work shadowing in
Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI Programme Leader our programmes.

At the same time, we require a rigorously critical and creative

outlook, pushing our students to challenge accepted norms, and
their own assumptions about what landscape is, what nature is, what
beauty is, and what contemporary practice should be.
We engage with theorists, with environmental and social concerns,
and we carry out our own investigations and research.

Landscape has extent. Travelling through it we are aware of

continuity, and of change. There are moments where one place
becomes another, where traces of the past intersect with the
present, where the people, and other things we see, seem different,
particular. Physical and social processes are at work, and we learn to
read these forces and how to engage with them creatively. Inevitably
we bring our own memories and meanings.

As landscape architects we also bring authorship, introduce new

ideas, perhaps revealing for others the things we read there. Unlike
architecture, the material we build with is alive. It is the ground we all
stand on, the water we drink, the food we eat, our environment, and
the place where we meet each other.

Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI


MA (Conversion)
PG Diploma/MA
Coastal Processes
Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI, Magda Pelka
The Landscape Architecture programmes are taught
through design modules, and theory modules. Theory
provides an underpinning of critical thinking and
professional knowledge to support the students own
developing ideas. This year design studio moved out of
London to Kent’s coast, to Folkestone, to engage with
a landscape in flux - both physically and socially.
At Folkestone, the chalk downlands meet unstable
mudstones, and longshore drift erodes the cliffs.
Historic photographs show landscapes now vanished,
fallen into the sea. The culverted Pent stream brings
silt to the harbour, and floods the lower lying streets at
the valley bottom. Tidal flooding is threatened, as sea
levels rise. Dredging the harbour, fortifying the cliff and
protecting the coast is a constant task.
For many people Folkestone is a space of deprivation,
with few jobs, low incomes, limited facilities, but
change is at hand here too. Thanks in part to high
speed train links, the town is now reinventing itself as
a desirable cultural hub, a short hop from London. This
process has been supported by the intervention of
local benefactor/ investor Roger de Haan, once owner
of SAGA, the town’s largest employer, instigator of its
art Triennial, and initiator of plans for one thousand new
homes that have outline permission to be built on the
beach.
FOLKESTONE, BARCELONA, LONDON
Students: Thanks to Visiting Critics and Professional Review
PG Diploma: Lisa Peachey, Johnny Williamson Group:
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MA (Conversion) Mat Dagorn Proctor,Jon Diss, Shannon du Kate Digney (Levitt Bernstein), Zeltia Vega Santiago, Eduardo
Hasky,Panna Elek, Harvey Erhard, Louise Fitzgerald, Josh George, Carranza, (Gustafson Porter Bowman) Ceylan Belek Ombregt, Eike
Katerina Rafaj,Elizabeth Rasmussen, SeireTakeda, Tomomi Yamahara Selby (Martha Schwartz & Partners), Tom Lonsdale (Placecraft),
Richard Peckham (Shape), Andrea Dates (Townsend), Fenella Griffin
Special thanks to: (Untitled Practice), Susan Lowenthal (WSP)
Folkestone Seafront Company, Acme Architects, Diane Dever
Camlin Lonsdale, Land Use Consultants Thanks for student placements to:
Atkins, BDP, Farrer Huxley Associates, Groundwork, Gustafson Porter
Bowman, Jon Sheaff Associates, Levitt Bernstein, Martha Schwartz
and Partners, Outerspace, Shape, Tyrens UK, Untitled Practice
Our conversion year/PG Dip design students have
been asked to respond to this dynamic setting through
a range of studio projects, interpreting, mapping, and
proposing interventions that respond to their own
agenda for change. The MA students were challenged
to explore professional ethics in theory, and landscape
planning at a town wide scale in design. Their final
designs for different sites were informed by individual
theory options, and their own exploratory studies.
Our landscape theory series for conversion year /
PG Dip students was founded on material concerns
in the first semester - ground, water, people, plants,
and on cultural concerns in the second semester,
accompanied by focussed technical studies for
planting design and hard materials. A visit to the
Landscape Institute drawings collection at MERL in
second semester provided a starting point to a study
on the use of drawing in Landscape Architecture, with
the module culminating with student placements in
practice.
“Everything is always changing. Everything l.1
is now, and has always been .. becoming
something else. We ask .. what is now in
terms of what has been. We ask: What are
the dynamics of the process?”
Ian McHarg
 Previous Page:  l.1 MA student Nic McEwan worked with young people from
Folkestone Academy to develop a map of their Folkestone landmarks, as part of
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mapping social infrastructure in the town.
Semester One, In ‘Meeting Point’ Conversion year/PG Dip students identified
modelled and drew places of difference/ change, then visualised proposals
meeting points, bridging the divide  l.2 Coronation Parade, identifying the
arches to make meeting easy,Tomomi Yamahara  l.3, Coronation Parade
tidal pool, where land meets the sea, Lisa Peachey.  l.4 Folkestone Harbour
wind organ, Katerina Rafaji.  l.5 Modelling change,inspired by sheet piled
development site. Steel and plaster, Anna Peters. In the second project, ‘Green’,
Conversion year / PG Dip students developed proposals for a small cliff top park
at Wear Bay Road, above Coronation Parade.  l.6 Analysis and early sketch
proposal, Mat Proctor  l.7 Perspective sketch and elevation, Jonny Williamson
l.8 Plan view, Mat Proctor.

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 In Second Semester, Conversion Year/ Pg Dip students worked in groups
to map different aspects of Folkestone’s landscape from the inner harbour to
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the Lower Leas Coastal Park, behind the Seafront Development Company’s
proposed 1000 beachfront homes. They developed their own agenda in
response to the place, analysed relevant aspects, prepared conceptual
diagrams and a spatial strategy. From this preparatory work, all the students
developed illustrative and technical drawings, spanning scales from 1:1000 to 1:2
l.9 Hand drawn site analysis, Harbour Square, Seire Takeda.  l.10 Concept
and strategic masterplan, phasing proposals, Harvey Erhard.  l.11 Harbour
Square shared space with pedestrian priority, visualisation, Tomomi Yamahara.
l.12 l.14 Folkestone Harbour as a productive landscape. Reedbeds occupy
the square and surround the Grand Burstin, purifying water for Oyster production
in the inner harbour. Illustrative masterplan,and section, Lisa Peachey  l.15
Active, sociable, colourful movement routes, re-connecting town to sea, with all
the fun of the fair. Visualisations, Anna Peters.

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 l.15 A walkable, activated, green harbour front.Illustrative masterplan, Panna
Elek.  l.16 Land use & urban character mapping, Josh George.  l.17 Harbour
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Square. Water droplets inform this general arrangement plan and paving pattern
design, Katerina Rafaj.  l.18 Seating design, Lisa Peachey.  l.19 Sea colours
in coast tolerant colour themed planting plan, Seire Takeda.
Masters students took a strategic overview of the town’s open spaces in
term one, then chose a site for term two, responding to their findings. Nic
McEwan tackled bioremediation at a former Gasworks site, providing visual
access and connecting desire lines in a part of town deficient in open space
l.20 Bioremediation strategy,map of town facilities.  l.23 Gasworks wall
elevation, Nic Mcewan. Erika Alexovics looked at Folkestone’s Victorian heritage,
and sought to celebrate historic landmarks along the coast, as a focus for
new features and uses.  l.22 New sitting terrace beneath the Leas Pavilion,
visualisation  l.24 Proposed pier, detail design, Erika Alexovics.

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 l.24, l.25 New groundform and planting designed and built by 2017-18
Landscape Architecture students. Bug hotel byJ onny Williamson. Thamesview
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Primary School, Construction fortnight, the first two weeks of term one.  l.26
Parc del Clot, Barcelona, one of the programmed sites visited in this year’s
foreign study trip.  l.27 Conversion year/ PG Dip theory students view Geoffrey
Jellicoe’s plans and sketchbooks, at the Landscape Institute drawing collection,
Museum of Rural Life, Reading.
Part time MA (Conversion), year one  l.28 Small park study, Thames Barrier
Park, Louise Fitzgerald. Longitudinal planting study - winter to spring  l.29
Shannon du Hasky,  l.30 Jon Diss,  l.31 Liz Rasmussen

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 PhD in
Architecture +
Design
Dr Renee Tobe
The School of Architecture, Computing and
Engineering developed a strategic research voice
for REF 2014 based on key areas of practice within
Architecture and the Built environment. This responded
to the UEL research theme of Sustainability Science
and Technology and Social Equality and Justice,
Human Rights and Security.
  Three areas of overlapping interest frame the
selection of potential PhD Scholars: Smart Cities and
Heritage (how the city of the past is fundamental to the
city of the future), Sustainable Cities and Construction
(material and technical provenance and purpose
for social benefit), together with Resilient Cities and
Civic Engagement (practice based education for the
direct benefit of stakeholders – the University in the
community).
  PhD and Masters programmes play a critical role
in the development of a louder, sharper voice on this
in relation to Urban Design, Policy, Heritage and the
definition of what sustainable architecture is or should
do.
Sample of students and topics:
Wei Shi: An investigation into energy
consumption behavior and lifestyles in UK
homes: Developing a smart application as a tool
for reducing home energy use.
The research hypothesizes that domestic building
occupants’ energy-related behaviours and their
socio-demographical characteristics have not been
thoroughly considered for optimizing domestic energy
performance. To address the research problem,
correlations between above-mentioned factors and
home energy performance are investigated by adopting
a mixed sequential research methodology where a
questionnaire survey and focus group interviews were
conducted to collect and analyse quantitative and
qualitative data. According to the research findings, a
great number of energy use patterns are significantly
correlated to energy performance, such as the use of
heating controls, thermostat and ventilation schedules.
Additionally, occupants tend to use more heating in the
winter due to health issues or for the comfort of their
children. The research aims to develop the design
specifications of an innovative smart phone application
that may help improve occupants’ energy-related
behaviours.
Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Prof.
Hassan Abdalla, Mr. Alan Chandler
Bertug Ozarisoy: Optimising Occupants’
Thermal Comfort in Post-war Housing
Developments in Northern Cyprus: Passive
Cooling Strategies for Retrofit
Problems on mass housing estates are currently a
topic for research on energy and policy interventions
in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
Modern residential tower block developments
often have inefficient energy performance and lack
consideration of the climatic features of the building
site. The aim of the research is to develop passive
design strategies which are energy-efficient and
cost-effective for the retrofit of the existing residential
building stock. The research adopts a ‘quantitative’
research design primarily using building performance
evaluation modelling and simulation of prototype
buildings, thermal imaging and a questionnaire survey
distributed to the occupants of one of the existing
prototypes. The selected residential tower block is
modelled using Integrated Environmental Solutions -
Virtual Environment (IES-VE) software where extensive
dynamic thermal simulations have been produced
to test feasible retrofit strategies to improve thermal
comfort and energy performance.
Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Mrs. Maria
Segantini, Prof. Darryl Newport
Hashem Taher: Vertical Green Systems as a
way for Adapting Climate changes 2050 - 2080
It is expected that London will face increasing risks of
flooding, overheating and drought, through hotter drier
summers and warmer wetter winters. In response, the
Mayor of London adopted new policies for encouraging
the use of living roofs and green walls. Greenery
systems are considered as promising solutions for
improving energy and thermal efficiency of buildings
as well as reducing pollution, encouraging biodiversity
and water runoff, reducing Urban Heat Island (UHI)
effects and improving the microclimate overall. The
research aims to illustrate the potentials, limitations
and impact of vertical greenery systems and green
roofs on energy and thermal performance of buildings
and urban heat island effect in temperate climates by
2050 and 2080. The research is undertaken through
an extensive review of the literature and modelling
and simulations of green walls and green roofs when
used as a passive design strategy to enhance energy
savings in buildings.
Supervision team: Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Prof. Darryl
Newport
Fatemeh Rostami: A Place for Culture;  Case
Study: Yazd, Iran  in investigating traditional Iranian urban places.
This research explores how the notion of an urban
place is defined by its inhabitant’s memories and
everyday activities with a particular case study; Yazd,
a traditional Iranian desert city. It is assumed that
social studies of Iranian cities can contribute a new
approach in investigating traditional Iranian urban
places. Researchers and urban designers argue
that Iranian cities are on the periphery of losing their
architectural and urban identities while facing modern
urban problems because of inconsistent relevant
procedures in analysing urban places, both traditional
and new. In the absence of this, some research has
been done studying the physical forms of the cities.
However, at the present time, the social studies have
not been given serious consideration. This research
attempts to fill this gap. The city of Yazd, a UNESCO
heritage site, has been chosen for this study because
of its extreme contrast of forms of development that
exist between the Historic, Old, and New parts. These
areas are still active and occupied by the locals, which
provide opportunities to study older and new parts of
the city from its local’s stances. Inductive approaches
have been applied in conducting mixed methods
used for data collections. Three distinct districts of
Yazd were chosen to be examined in detail: Fahadan
located in the Historic Fabric, Nasr Abad situated in the
Old fabric, and Safaieh in the New fabric. Since the city
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has been mainly formed and occupied by Zoroastrian
and Muslim people, both communities are considered
in this study. The inhabitants of the selected areas
were surveyed and interviewed to examine their
life stories and day-to-day activities. Locally trained
architects and professionals were also interviewed to
have their thoughts about the present state of the city.
This information is combined with the researcher’s
experiences of living within the selected areas to see
how the place is used. The results of the data gathered
show that the meaning of an urban place is defined
by both similar and different factors within selected
areas while socio-cultural relationships exist between
different parts of Yazd. The results indicate that the city
needs the existence of Historic, Old, and New fabrics
because each section answers specific desires and
daily needs of the locals. It is assumed that social
studies of Iranian cities can contribute a new approach
Researchers and urban designers argue that Iranian
cities are on the periphery of losing their architectural
and urban identities while facing modern urban
problems because of inconsistent relevant procedures
in analysing urban places, both traditional and new.
In the absence of this, some research has been done
studying the physical forms of the cities. However, at
the present time, the social studies have not been
given serious consideration. This research attempts to
fill this gap. This research concludes that in analysing
traditional Iranian urban fabric, their social fabrics must
be investigated using multiple social approaches.
Supervision team: Dr. Renée Tobe, Mr Roland
Karthaus
 PHD.1 Bertug Ozarisoy: The solar calculation of the building envelope
between May and September within adjacent buildings of base-case residential
tower block development in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.  PHD.2 Hashem
Taher  PHD.3 Wei Shi  PHD.4-5 Fatemeh Rostami
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PHD.1

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