Andreas Stadlmayr (MArch Unit 6)

AVA Architecture + Design Yearbook 2019

Publisher
University of East London

Editor
Dr Anastasia Karandinou

Graphic Design
Studio Jon Spencer

Showcase Edition
June 2019

ISBN 978-1-9996099-0-0 (printed version)

ISBN 978-1-9996099-1-7 (digital version)

University of East London

School of Architecture and the Visual Arts
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Andreas Stadlmayr (MArch Unit 6) www.uel.ac.uk

 Contents

Acknowledgements p4
Mission Statement p5
Welcome p7
Introduction p8
Research, Awards, Projects, Conferences p10
Field Trips p45
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Open Studio Event p46
Lecture Series p50

Foundation p54
BSc Architecture Year 1 p70
BSc Architecture Year 2 & 3
Unit A p84
Unit B p94
Unit E p102
Unit G p110
Unit H p120
MArch Architecture Year 4 & 5
Unit 2 p132
Unit 5 p132
Unit 6 p150
Unit 8 p158
Unit 10 p168
BSc Architecture Design Technology (ADT) p176
BA Interior Design p212
BSc Product Design p230

Masters Programmes
MRes p242
MA Achitecture and Urbanism p246
MA Interior Design p250
MA Landscape Architecture p266
PhD in Architecture + Design p278

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 Collaborators
We would like to thank the many organisations, companies and
individuals who we have had the pleasure of collaborating with, including:
6a Architects
Adam Khan
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Akmei Metropolitan College of
Athens, Greece
Alberto Moletto (Move
Arquitectos, Chile)
Alejandro Aravena
aLL Design
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
ARB/Architects Registration Board
ArchitectScripta
Architecture for London
Article 25
ARUP
Assael
ATER Pordenone, Italy
Auraa Studio
Bamboo Bicycle Co.
BBAA/Soprintendenza ai Beni
Architettonici e Paesaggistici di
Venezia e Laguna, Italy
Bell Phillips Architects
Birkbeck, University Of London
British Council Newton Fund
Buckley Gray Yeoman
Burrell Foley Fisher
C+S/Cappai Segantini Architects,
Italy
Ca’ Foscari
Camden Council
Child Graddon Lewis
Collide Theatre
Conibere Phillips Architects
Cottrell Vermeulen
Creekside Education Trust
Daria Wong Architects
David Levitt (Levitt Bernstein
Architects)
Davy Smith Architects
East Architects
ECOBUILD Sustainable Design
AVA A+D
At A+D we foster a broad and inspiring education to Our staff teach at the highest level and maintain
establish a rich foundation for a creative professional an enquiring research approach to physical and
life. Our Architecture and Design programmes intellectual contexts. We embrace real situations with
challenge assumptions and set new agendas for passion and creativity. We believe that a depth of
Emilio De La Cerda (Pontificat Purcell Architects design in the 21st century. enquiry and poetic experimentation develops from
Catolic Universidad, Chile) Ramboll We balance the development and support of the experience and understanding of making, drawing
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Engineers HRW Rasti Bartek (Partner at Cundall) our students’ talents with the understanding that and materials in well-crafted output. We believe that
Erasmus+ RCKa Architecture and Design is contextual, socially Architecture and Design is thought, experienced and
Fletcher Priest Architects Rees Architects constructing and political. We believe that the design built.
Grimshaw Architects RIBA/Royal Institute of British conversation in studios between students and staff Our school acts as a forum for ideas and thought
Guangzhou School of Architecture Architects across models and drawings is central to creative across a wide range of disciplines. We host a national
and Urban Planning, China RIBA research development. and international lecture series which acts as a
Hackney City Farm Russian for Fish Our students are encouraged to undertake study magnet for theorists and practitioners to contribute
Hasa Architects Scott Whitby Studio trips internationally in each year of study to deepen to the discussion and debate in the school. We have
Hawkins\Brown Shanghai Giao Tong University, an understanding of people and places. Our teaching extensive workshops and facilities for the creation of
Haworth Tompkins Architects China
balances a respect and understanding of the past and real and digital artefacts.
Hayhurst and Co Skidmore Owings & Merrill
the present with an inspirational, poetic and innovative
Heatherwick Studio Studio Bark
stance towards the future.
HKS Social Life
InTeA srl, Venezia SRI/Sustainale Research Institute
IUAV/University of Architecture of STO Foundation
Venice, Italy Studio Bark
Kazan State University of Studio RHE
Architecture and Engineering,
Sustainability Research Institute
Russia
Tate Hindle Architects
Knox Bhavan Architects
The Building Centre
Leaside Wood Recycling Project
The Courtauld Institute Of Art
Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
The Design Museum
Les Ateliers
The Hackney Pirates – Literacy
LLDC/London Legacy
Pirates
Development Corporation
Tony Fretton Architects
London Borough of Newham
University Finis Terrae of Santiago,
MaccreanorLavington Architects
Chile
Max Architects
University of Hasselt, Belgium
Morris+Company
Vabel
muf architecture/art
Vine Architecture Studio
Museum of Architecture
Waugh Thistleton Architects
Museum of London
what if: projects ltd
NLA/New London Architecture
William Paton Community Garden
Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna,
Witherford Watson Mann
Italy
Architects
Pell Frischmann
you&me Architecture
Penoyre & Prasad
Young Vic Theatre
Pitman Tozer
PRL/ Place research Lab
 Welcome

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s

edition of the Architecture and Design Yearbook. I
hope that you enjoy the work that is on show at this
year’s impressive exhibition. This year’s book is full
of a wide range of very inspiring and creative projects
developed by our talented students in partnership with

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leading architecture practices. By closely working
with leading employers and practitioners, we strive
to offer our students the best experience possible to
ensure they are ready for the workplace and capable
of providing solutions to global challenges. Our highly
regarded staff are engaged in high impact applied
research which transforms lives and society.
We are extremely proud to be situated as an anchor
institution at the heart of east London and, for the
last forty years, have been at the forefront of working
in collaboration with local urban design practices
and community stakeholders in order to develop a
distinctive offer in Architecture and Design.
I am thrilled with the quality and standards of this
year’s students’ work which presents a comprehensive
profile of our students, reflects creative thinking and a
holistic approach to design.
This year has been a milestone in the history of
the University of East London by welcoming a new
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Amanda
Broderick, introduction of Vision 2028 and its
transformational projects, launching a new brand, and
establishing Career Zones in partnership with world-
class organisations just to name a few.
My very sincere thanks to those colleagues,
practitioners and alumni who continue to work together
to make architecture the flagship area that it is.
I take this opportunity to wish all graduates a very
successful and bright future. We hope you will remain
in touch with us as you forge ahead in your careers,
remembering that it all began at the University of East
London.

Professor Hassan Abdalla PhD PFHEA FRSA

Executive Dean of the College of Arts,
Technology & Innovation

Photograph © Madeleine Waller

Collaborative project Year 1 BSc Architecture V&A Museum of Childhood, ‘Physical Sketches’ workshop
 Architecture Art and Design
after Unity
The Play of Assembly and the Assembly of Play (1)
Notre Dame
The burning roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is
one of the most powerful and disquieting of images.
Newsreel at the scene captured the disorientation
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and helplessness felt by onlookers and was broadcast
live around the world. I suspect the experience of loss
evidenced in so many faces was not for a quantity of oak
and glass and lead, but for a connection to a distant past
when there seemed to be a unity of art and science, of
belief and religious practice and of work and material.
This sense of cohesion can be experienced not only
in the high art of Cathedrals but in many indigenous
vernacular structures around the world created before
the advent of what we think, very broadly, as modern
life. To our divided contemporary lives the mediaeval
period thus appears overwhelmingly as a cohesive
experience of unity.
Unity as a play of assembly
But unity is very much a putting together, a composite,
or assembly. When we think more closely about the
cathedral, it is a work by many over many hundreds of
years. The cathedral is the moment at which the arts
of many periods can be experienced simultaneously
in playful relationship. Gadamer argues that this play
relationship in a work of Art is the mode of being of the
work (2). We think of the play of light, of shadow, of
content, of colour, of material, of the design process
and we could also think of this play as a kind of theatre
or play as performance.
Holistic thinking
In contrast to this cohesive world of experience, the
tendency toward separation as a modus operandi
of academic thought has proliferated since the 17C
largely due to the success of science and mathematics
to unravel apparent mysteries and to explain the world
around us.
Fighting against this tendency to deconstruct,
fragment, quantify and explain has been a more holistic
understanding which looks for relationships between
apparently disparate events and how they interact and
are experienced.
Universities have a key role to play in leading new
holistic thinking in the 21C. Thinking about our work
here at UEL in Architecture Art and Design we are
well placed to benefit from the close proximity of
the arts programmes operating in the department
of Architecture and Visual Art (AVA). Throughout
this academic year staff have been revisiting their
programmes to explore how a closer clustering of the
programme groups could benefit and enhance the
student experience and to more closely align these
programmes to each other and the world of practice.
This new clustering will allow many new synergies to
enrich our work. In the light of this, I am delighted by the
many varied activities of students and staff both within
their programmes and working across programmes.
In Architecture, for example, in response to the
housing crisis, students have been experimenting with
housing design both here in the UK and internationally,
in both in the post graduate and undergraduate
programmes.
In Interior Design students collaborated with the
Hackney Pirates on this community-engaging live
design project. The UEL MA Interior Design students,
led by Dr Anastasia Karandinou, designed and built
a real-scale interactive stage-set; an imaginative
immersive environment for the Hackney Pirates
performances.
BSc Architecture students exhibited their work in the
Front Room Gallery at the V&A Museum of Childhood,
Bethnal Green. Their projects titled, titled “Playing
with Buildings” included a series of 1:1 prototypes of
spatial designs, models, and drawings of the designs,
photography and film.
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 and who visit for
crits and reviews. These lectures 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
Julian Roncancio with deputies Andreea Camelia, Alex
Malden and Aaliah Taylor.
We are also very grateful to the practitioners who have
been mentoring students and offering placements on
the RIBA programme and on their own account. In
particular we mention Sir Robert Mc Alpine, British
Land 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 way
the school acts as a forum for the development and
exchange of ideas.
The opening of the June Showcase coincides with
the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and the Royal
Albert Docks Education and Enterprise Festival.
It has been a strong year for staff success and in
particular I would mention the RIBA President’s Award
for Research in Ethics and Sustainability 2019 won by
Roland Karthaus, with contributors: Anthony Hu, Lucy
Block, Agata Korsak (Matter and UEL) Rachel O’Brien,
Lily Bernheimer, Richard Barnes (consultants).
Performance Artist Eliza Soroga (International Arte
Laguna Prize) and Dr Anastasia Karandinou (Senior
lecturer, University of East London) led a 4-day cross-
disciplinary workshop in Athens, exploring visible
and invisible boundaries, thresholds, territories and
dynamics in public space, through body-movement
exercises, photography, filming, and a range of
analysis and composition methods.
The Play of Assembly and the Assembly of Play
At the core of our teaching philosophy is the relationship
developed between staff and students and the play
of the design process. 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. I am reminded that our word
University derives from the Latin Universitas meaning
Head of Department A+D
whole or community. Our community is made of
Students, Staff and Alumni. Please stay in touch with
us.
Could Architecture, Art and Design after Unity be
understood as a manifesto? Could the use of “after”
be thought of as “in search of”? Architecture, Art
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and Design in search of Unity. If so, could this new
kind of unity really be a holistic play of assembly?
This introduction is not therefore simply a plea for
interdisciplinarity but an encouragement to situate the
play and experiment of the design process within the
broadest possible thinking.
This book is by necessity the briefest assembly of
many ideas, the briefest glimpse into our unfolding
of knowledge and values. It assembles our playful
experimentation and playful experimentation is the
very best output of human endeavour.
Notes
1. The title of the introduction is a reference to:
Wilson, Colin St John, The play of use and the use
of play, Architectural Reflections p 55 Butterworth
Architecture 1992.
2. “When we speak of play in reference to the work of
Art, this means neither the orientation or state of mind
of the creator or of those enjoying the work of art, …,
but the mode of being of the work itself.” (my italics)
Gadamer, Hans – Georg, Truth and Method, 1960
Play as the clue to ontological explanation, this
translation p101 Sheed and Ward London 1975.
Carl Callaghan BA (Hons) Dipl RIBA
Head of Department Architecture and Design
 An inclusive research environment
by Alan Chandler
The research environment within Architecture at
UEL is purposefully framed in order to offer a clear
pathway for development within all our area of
research. Its structure provides strong connectivity
between Masters level through doctoral study to
Early Career Researchers, facilitated through the
management of major grant capture. Sharing key
values around public engagement, real-world
solutions and sustainable resolutions to research
RESEARCH
questions is embedded into teaching programmes
at all levels as well as research.
Within Architecture this begins as Masters students
work with researchers on live projects (the RIBA
Presidents research award winning Fabric formwork,
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as one example) or on prototyping innovative
construction or engaging with NGO’s such as
Article 25 on the resolution of real world challenges
in providing buildings for communities in post-
disaster or environmentally vulnerable situations).
PROJECTS
Our technical workshops in wood, metal, casting
and reprographics are essential components of the
hands-on approach that underpins our commitment
to student engagement in research practice revolving
around technical innovation (e.g. prototyping test
structures for disaster relief NGO Article 25, with
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projects in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Sierra Leone, Nigeria
and to support local community action research,
realising built projects for community groups,
Healthcare Trusts, Local Authorities and Schools.
Our student construction collaboration with Studio
Bark, an alumni architecture practice delivered two
completed buildings for clients using their prototype
self-build system and helped secure their award of
‘Sustainability Architect of the year 2017’. In total,
UEL Architecture students have built six buildings
with Studio Bark, as part of their MArch RIBA Part II
technical studies.
The Architecture MRes led by Anna Minton has
also encouraged research development through
its reading of the Neoliberal city within critically
acclaimed and influential publications such as
‘Ground Control’ and ‘Big Capital’ (Minton), its
community engagement and its PhD-level research
in London, Brighton and the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
Our Researchers have worked with industry partners
such as Natural England, Historic England, The
Victoria and Albert Museum, Environment Agency,
Heatherwick Studio, the Royal Institute of British
Architects, ARUP, the Serpentine Gallery, Royal
Society of Arts, the Ministry of Justice, humanitarian
relief NGO Article 25, the IUCN, Groundwork
London, The London Boroughs of Hammersmith and
City, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham and
Newham, Poplar HARCA, the RSPB, the Olympic
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Development Authority, London Wildlife Trust,
City University, Doka GmbH (Austria), Helix GmbH
(Germany) and the Institute for Sustainability.
Architecture staff engaged in external academic
collaborations include Anna Minton (visiting
Professor Newcastle University), Alan Chandler
(External Examiner Edinburgh University and visiting
Professor of Heritage Universidad Catolic, Santiago
de Chile) and invited exhibitor (Courtauld Institute
Biennial), Renee Tobe (awarded a Paul Mellon Rome
fellowship), Roland Karthaus (Visiting Professorship
at IUAV Venice), Chandler (PhD co-supervision at
IUAV), and Harald Trapp (research partnerships
with Hochschule Trier) realised exhibitions, events
and publications commemorating the bicentenary
of Karl Marx. Karandinou, Snaith, Pollak, Charif
and Chandler collaborated with the Middle Eastern
Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), and Minton
co-hosted a conference on the London Housing
crisis with Birkbeck University (London).
Research, teaching and building are interlinked and
focussed on architecture and environmentally aware
design can bring positive and equitable benefits to
people and places.
 The Production of heritage - a critique of building
conservation published by Routledge Summer 2019
by Alan Chandler and Michela Pace
Heritage and building conservation is rapidly
becoming a subject attracting publications and
conversations – few major urban regeneration
schemes fail to utilise its rhetoric to establish the
credentials of the proposal, sell its unique qualities
or bolster notions of establishing a grounded ‘public
realm’. How well is this resurgence in ‘heritage’
understood or debated? Can the current publications
on Conservation and Heritage provide roadmaps
to navigate this double-bind of using the past to
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underpin the future? Do practitioners who invariably
steer heritage based development understand the
intangible aspects of a project? How do community
voices contribute to the scope, intent and benefits of
heritage based development?
We are entering a political-social moment where the
role of the State in underwriting heritage protection
is disengaging from the physical reality of heritage
sponsorship, maintenance and development.
From public bodies such as the National Trust to
local initiatives running and maintaining parks and
amenities, heritage custodians are increasingly
reliant on voluntary or community support to sustain
themselves and their ‘assets’. However negative
this shift appears, there is also the opportunity to
reconsider how communities engage with their
inheritance and how that built inheritance can
meaningfully contribute to its locality and social
fabric. The Heritage industry is a global phenomenon
and as with any industry there is a business
model, a means of production, shareholders and
the production of surplus that frequently gains
ascendancy over the rights of the individual, the
community and its identity.
The key question is how communities can become
engaged in the complex set of issues around
heritage significance and how professionals can
inform this understanding. This spans across
social identity, cultural awareness and tolerance,
inclusivity, common history, technical conservation
and capturing grant funding. How are these facets of
heritage related within an easily communicated set
of ideas that can empower not simply preservation
or resistance to change, but the development of
heritage as a social benefit? We demonstrate through
case studies in London, Santiago and Shanghai that
redevelopment can secure preservation without
compromising on common community needs and
identities.
This book is aimed at two constituencies –
communities and heritage professionals:
For Communities whose environment has a built
history that does – or could - play an increasingly
important role in their identity and everyday
activities there are no publications that support their
understanding of the value heritage brings to a place,
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and how that value can be articulated to form the
basis for inclusion and sympathetic development.
For Professionals, heritage is usually treated as
either a technical exercise, frequently assuming
that historic buildings require ‘curation’ as though
they were museum objects. Another, equally
technocratic view is in the role ‘Sustainability’ plays
in historic buildings - the mechanics of ‘retrofit’ and
energy efficiency. For us this is a partial, exclusive
reading of the issue, missing the cultural context and
participation that is increasingly vital to sustain the
role of historic buildings and places in society.
To speak with two voices of ‘community’ and
‘profession’ equally, the book is structured through
five case studies that open the complexity of heritage
to community groups who care for their historic
environment, and to elaborate on the social value of
heritage including (but beyond) pragmatic, technical
conservation issues. Each case study speaks
about a different facet of heritage value – as urban
identity, as a commodity, as a technical construct,
as an intellectual and ethical framework that can
underpin community involvement in shaping historic
environments for contemporary participation.
What do we ‘inherit’? What is its value to us? Is
that value universal or culturally conditioned? How
easy is the generally accepted notion of history as
a ‘common good’ open to exploitation for ulterior
motives? How can communities articulate their
defence of historic places in a way that secures their
role in future development? We explore these issues
through the lens of philosophy, ethics, analysis
and material craft – a unique approach to a unique
moment in history.
 UEL Architecture exhibit at
V&A Museum of Childhood
Year 1 BSc Architecture from the University of East
London have been invited to take over the Front
Room Gallery at the V&A Museum of Childhood,
Bethnal Green, with a year long show of their work,
titled “Playing with Buildings”. The commission
included a series of 1:1 prototypes of spatial designs,
models, and drawings of the designs, photography
and film.
The museum’s upcoming renovation project,
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overseen by Architects De Matos Ryan, includes
opening up of physical and visual boundaries within
the museum, improving internal movement and
accessibility of spaces, relocating teaching spaces,
as well as enhancing connectivity between the
museum and its local environment, spatially and
programmatically. This exhibition is the final one in
the current Front Room Gallery.
Initiated by Teresa Hare Duke, from the Museum
of Childhood, this collaborative project involved
the V&A, UEL Architecture, visual and performance
artists, engineers, and local primary and secondary
schools.
Students worked from a brief that thematically ties
in with the V&A’s ambition to change the physical
and conceptual approach to the museums teaching
spaces and expand its approach to learning in the
museum. The designs for new Playful spaces for
learning were kick-started in a series of workshops
that took place in the museum. The projects were
designed and build at UEL, with additional input of
engineers and specialists, and installed in the gallery
in February 2019. Participatory design included
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students facilitating workshops with local school kids
at the Museum of Childhood, after installation, to
test and scrutinize the designs. The workshops were
documented by photographer Madeleine Waller, and
the images form part of the exhibition. The exhibition
is due to run till March 2020.
© Madeleine Waller
 Interactive theatre stage set design
Hackney Pirates and UEL MA Interior Design collaborative live project
The UEL MA programme in Interior Design
collaborated with the Hackney Pirates on this
community-engaging live design project. The UEL
MA Interior Design students, led by Dr Anastasia
Karandinou, designed and built a real-scale
interactive stage-set; an imaginative immersive
environment for the Hackney Pirates performances.
The Hackney Pirates’ initiative is an after-school
learning programme, and aims at helping children
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develop their imagination, reading and writing skills.
They welcome children referred by local schools,
and offer them an engaging experience that
enhances not only their reading and writing skills, but
also their imagination, confidence and participation.
Story tellers, performers and educators take children
through an imaginative journey; an interactive
theatrical performance, where children take part in
adventures into the sea and deserted islands. At the
end of the interactive performance
This design collaborative project was about
transforming a conventional teaching room into a
magical environment for children to take part in a
performative and interactive storytelling, reading
and writing workshop. The children attend an
interactive theatre performance and take part in an
imaginary journey, an immersive experience, guided
by the storyteller. This excites their imagination and
creativity; children then evolve the story further,
verbally and in writing.
The environment designed by our UEL students was
used for the Hackney Pirates events on the 18th
- 22nd of March 2019, which was held in the UEL
CASS building in Stratford.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnFF04zY5I
The design project of the stage set, as well as the
video art, is done by the following group of MA
Interior Design students: 
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Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Birce Gural, Felicia
Ivanciuc, Parisa Oreizi, Yuvraj Singh Panwar, Ishita
Pathak, Sophie Savvidou, Lasata Shrestha, Esra
Tekagac, Garima Thakkar, Sahar Youssef, Fatima
Zahra Hadj.
The sound design was done by Lalvin; the music by
Lalvin and remixed extracts from Night Owl by Broke
for Free.
The project was supported by
UEL’s  Civic  Engagement team. Special thanks to:
Jude Williams, Anthony Mensah, Aaron Piper, from
The Hackney Pirates, to Gail May, Aisha Labefo-
Audu, Joanne Molyneux, Natalie Freeman, from the
UEL  Civic  Engagement team, to Francesca Zanatta
from the UEL Department of Early Childhood and
Education, to Carl Callaghan, Head of Architecture
UEL. Many thanks also to: Clare Qualmann, Liselle
Terret, Gordon Kerr, Lavinia Mihoc, UEL.
 Civic Engagement and Volunteering Award
Platinum Civic engagement award to all MA Interior Design students
All MA Interior Design students received the Platinum
Civic Engagement and Volunteering award for their
work on the Hackney Pirates stage set project.
The Hackney Pirates is a well-established charity
organisation which helps hundreds of children each
year develop their reading and writing skills, as well
as their imagination, confidence and participation.
The stage set the UEL students designed and built
was used by the Hackney Pirates for the Interactive
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theatre performances and educational activities they
deliver for children from the local communities. More
than 200 children attended the events this March,
and additional events will be scheduled in the near
future. This project benefited the local communities
by offering a magical imaginative and interactive
environment for numerous children from local
schools.
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Photos of the stage set testing; from the rehearsals of the Hackney Pirates’ interactive theatrical performance.
Designed by the MA Interior Design students.
 Anna Minton at the OECD Global Forum in Paris
May 20th 2019
Anna was invited to speak about the housing crisis in
the UK to the OECD Global Forum in Paris, May 20th
2019. She shared a platform with:
- Leilani Farha, Special Rapporteur on adequate
housing, Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, United Nations, Canada
- Juha Kaakinen, CEO, Y-Foundation, Finland
- Jonathan Rector, CEO, Habitat for Humanity
The debate took place before an audience of
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approximately 600. The OECD Forum is attended by
4,000 participants from 73 countries and is covered
by 300 journalists from around the world.
Anna also participated in a debate on monuments for
women at the Design Museum, to mark International
Women’s Day.
In November she travelled to Miami to speak at the
Creative Time Summit. Creative Time operates at the
intersection of art and politics to provide strategies
for social change in local and global contexts.
There were 700 participants at the Summit and
12,000 people tuned into 44 screening sites, from
Bangladesh to Sydney.
Mentoring Schemes for Part I students
UEL Mentoring Scheme
The scheme gives Year 2 students a first insight into
the professional life of an Architect, including visits
to building sites and conversations about portfolios/
CVs/cover letters. Simultaneously they are setting
foundations for a professional network. Mentees
and mentors are supported by UEL’s Centre for
Student Success to get the most out of the sessions.
The mentees independently communicate with the
mentors and set their own agendas.
We are immensely grateful to the mentors and would
like to thank the following practices for letting one or
several of their staff take part and to the individuals
for taking time out of their busy working life to make
this possible!
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Burrell Foley Fisher -
6a Architects - Haworth Tompkins Architects - Davy
Smith Architects - Hasa Architects - Rees Architects
MaccreanorLavington Architects - Morris+Company
- Tate Hindle Architects - Karakusevic Carson
Architects - Conibere Phillips Architects – HKS
RIBA Mentoring Scheme
This is the third year UEL is participating in the
RIBA Mentoring Scheme. The scheme gives Year 3
students and practitioners opportunities to discuss
the role and work of architects today. The students
benefitted immensely from the insight into daily
practice, contract administration, the specificities
of small and larger practices, thoroughly prepared
guided tours to building sites but also discussions
about their portfolios and interview skills.
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We would very much like to thank the RIBA and the
following practices for taking part and individuals for
taking time out of their busy schedule to make this
possible!
Bell Phillips Architects - Child Graddon Lewis -
Fletcher Priest Architects - Penoyre & Prasad -
Pitman Tozer - Skidmore Owings & Merrill - Studio
Bark - Vabel - Waugh Thistleton Architects - Vine
Architecture Studio - you&me Architecture
If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please
email: s.a.schultze-westrum@uel.ac.uk
 Redesigning Prison:
The Architecture and Ethics of Rehabilitation
RIBA President’s Award for Research in Ethics and Sustainability 2019
Since 2011, UEL lecturer Roland Karthaus and his
practice Matter has been applying architectural
research to improve the environment of prisons for
the people and communities they serve. Spanning
two major projects, the work has developed an
evidence base and practical proposals for design
measures to support health and wellbeing, reduce
reoffending and make the state assets of land
and buildings more effective in supporting the
rehabilitation objectives of the prison service.
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The work has been widely published in journals,
international press and radio, presented at numerous
talks and conferences and has contributed
significantly to the debate about what prison is for.
In 2018 the work won an RIBA President’s award for
Research and is being promoted by the Ministry of
Justice as a best practice case study on Europris –
the Europe-wide justice sector network. Matter is
currently working on a third major research project,
with Rachel O’Brien to explore how ‘open’ prisons
could be expanded to help solve the current crisis in
closed prisons.
The architecture of prisons has been studied and
theorised in the past, but mainly to understand
the negative role of architecture in physical and
psychological punishment and constraint. The role
of prison, however is not only to punish and secure,
but to rehabilitate – a concept fraught with ethical and
practical difficulties, as well as being antagonistic to
its other roles. As the prison service suffered over the
past decade with under-investment, overpopulation
and poorly designed infrastructure, violence in
prisons has risen amid an emerging crisis: prison
is no longer fit for purpose. Whilst being sent to
prison is a punishment, the conditions within prison
today are not intended to be mentally nor physically
punishing and their failure in supporting people back
into law-abiding life is staggering. In a typical year,
just under half of all people released from prison
will re-offend with an annual cost to the taxpayer of
around £14 Billion. Appalling conditions have been
highlighted in some prisons and in many violence
and drug and alcohol abuse has spiralled upwards.
Our approach to this problem was to ask questions:
What might a rehabilitative prison environment look
like? How might we help the prison service shift
towards that goal? At the outset we felt that the
answers would lie as much in organisational change
as in the architecture and so we applied our design
thinking to the whole system that locks people up
and builds the prisons in which to lock them. At
every level, we aimed to challenge the ‘security-
first’ approach by pointing out the inherent costs and
lost opportunities and demonstrated better ways to
tackle problems instead. In both projects we worked
with commissioners and prison management teams
to facilitate culture change. We worked with many
front-line officers and prisoners to understand
how they experience both the system and the
architecture. In doing so, we aimed to demonstrate
that consultative design provides richer, better
and more sustainable answers than hierarchical
decision-making.
Research lead:
Roland Karthaus, UEL and Matter Architecture
Contributors:
Anthony Hu, Lucy Block, Agata Korsak (Matter and
UEL)
Rachel O’Brien, Lily Bernheimer, Richard Barnes
(consultants)
Supported by:
The RSA, RIBA, Ministry of Justice, Scottish Prison
Service
Funders:
The Tudor Trust, Garfield Weston, RIBA Research
Trust, Innovate UK
Published:
Architects Journal, Building Design, Financial Times,
Radio 4, Wired, The Journal of Architecture, RIBA
Journal, Architecture Today, FX Design Curial, The
RSA, Housing Today, Russellwebster.com
Project 1
RSA Transitions: Building a rehabilitation culture
Policy paper, feasibility study and research-
in-action to develop a new social enterprise
model for rehabilitation and resettlement around
prisons. Appointed as part of a small RSA team,
we undertook an extensive collaborative design
process with stakeholders from across the justice
sector. Working on site with HMP Humber, we
developed a pilot project as proof of concept that
re-purposed the surrounding land and supported
officers, management and prisoners to manage the
necessary organisational and cultural change.
A Community Interest Company was established to
take forward the pilot project locally and a phased
masterplan and business plan were developed for
implementation and fund-raising.
The suite of reports published by the RSA in 2014
covered several related strands of the project, under
an overarching policy paper.
Project 2
Wellbeing in Prisons: A design guide
Evidence-based, user-tested design guide to
improve the health and wellbeing of people in prisons.
Matter’s research team used environmental
psychology to determine design measures that will
improve the prison environment for staff, visitors and
prisoners alike. User focus groups, walking studies
and survey responses from 305 prisoners in Britain’s
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newest prison HMP Berwyn helped prioritise the
measures.  To achieve this the team designed and
implemented what is believed to be the world’s first
electronic survey of the effects of prison architecture
completed by a large group of residents within a
prison.
The design guide serves several related purposes:
to establish a method for connecting evidence
with specific design measures; to set a baseline for
the demonstration of benefits arising from design
improvements; and to make specific proposals for
how prison design should be improved. These have
contributed to the Ministry of Justice’s baseline
model for commissioning the new wave of modern
prisons, focused on rehabilitation.
Project 3
The 21st Century Open Prison
Forthcoming.
Projects are published in full at:
www.matterarchitecture.uk/research/
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 British Council Newton Institutional Links Project
Mitigating Overheating risks in London’s housing: Existing and New-built
The UEL research team led by Dr Heba Elsharkawy,
Reader in Architecture and Programme Leader for
BSc (Hons) Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 1) and
BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology, Dr
Sahar Zahiri, Research Associate, Mr Jack Clough,
Research Associate, Mr Wei Shi, Architectural
Assistant and UEL PhD graduate, and Mr Bertug
Ozarisoy, PhD Researcher have worked closely
with Newham Council and the Building Research
Establishment (BRE) over the last three years on
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evaluating and assessing building performance
and thermal comfort of housing. The research
team monitored the building performance of social
housing blocks in Newham whose occupants
experienced problems relating to thermal comfort,
damp and energy efficiency. This data was then
used to develop a building model using specialist
environmental software to investigate the retrofit
solutions available to alleviate the issues and
reduce home operational energy. As a result of
the research efforts, Newham Council can use this
retrofit approach to improve the residents’ quality
of life and improve the overall energy efficiency and
sustainability of these social housing blocks and
similar prototypes across the borough.
As for the research undertaken in collaboration
with the BRE; Dr. Heba Elsharkawy and Mr Bertug
Ozarisoy, PhD Researcher, had been successful in
securing a UEL Graduate School funded research
internship in summer 2018 at the BRE. The aim of the
research was to investigate the performance of the
building materials used to design affordable housing
units. The research involved running extensive
monitoring on one of the BRE Innovation Park’s
state-of-the-art prototype buildings, Userhaus.
The researcher occupied the new prototype for 4
weeks to gain a full occupant’s experience. The
study included monitoring both indoor and outdoor
environmental conditions concurrently with the
application of Integrated Environmental Solutions
(IES) software for building modelling and simulation
to assess energy performance and overheating
risks of this new built. The research project resulted
in a journal publication published in Energy and
Buildings journal in 2019: ‘Assessing overheating risk
and thermal comfort in state-of-the-art prototype
houses that combat exacerbated climate change in
UK’.
Second International Conference for
Sustainable Design of the Built Environment –
SDBE 2018, funded by British Council Newton
Institutional Links Project
Following the successful first international conference
in December 2017 (SDBE 2017), the Second
International Conference for Sustainable Design
of the Built Environment (SDBE 2018) was held at
The Crystal, London on 12-13 September 2018. The
conference was a unique opportunity for academics,
researchers, architects, urban designers, engineers,
building consultants and professionals to meet
and share the latest knowledge, research and
innovations on low carbon building design, building
performance, simulation tools and energy efficient
building-related technologies. The event theme was
‘Research in Practice’ which focused on sustainable
design, building energy performance, sustainable
planning of neighbourhoods and cities, emphasising
a balanced approach to environmental, socio-
economic and technical aspects of sustainability.
The conference facilitated a forum to raise
awareness of state-of-the-art strategies and best
practice across the world of integrating sustainable
design approaches in the built environment. The
event included renowned keynote speakers; Prof.
Phil Jones (Cardiff University), Prof. Ashraf Salama
(University of Strathclyde), Prof. Sean Smith
(Edinburgh Napier University), Mina Hasman (SOM),
and Paulo Flores (ZHA), as well as technical seminars
to promote the knowledge exchange surrounding
the conference themes. The event attracted a large
international audience from Europe, Africa, South
America, Asia and the Middle East with 112 papers
published in the conference proceedings.
University of East London – Ain Shams
University Dual Degree Programme Validation
The Newton BC-SDBE project resulted in the
development and successful validation of three dual
degree undergraduate programmes by University
of East London at Ain Shams University (ASU) in
Cairo, Egypt in August 2018. The validation event and
partnership was witnessed by the Egyptian Minister
of Higher Education. The dual degree programmes
are: Environmental Architecture and Urbanism,
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Building Engineering, and Computer Engineering
and Software Systems. The fourth SDBE training
programme was held between 14 and 22 January
2019 at UEL where twelve academics from ASU
representing the three newly validated programmes
attended. The focus of the training was on the quality
assurance processes in the UK higher education,
particularly at UEL. It is hoped that the programmes
will help develop more sustainability aware graduates
and a future workforce that can support the delivery
of Egypt’s Sustainable Development Strategy 2030
which will boost sustainability and socio-economic
growth in Egypt.
 Relational States of Dalston
Collaborative Research Project in Partnership with the Local Borough of
Hackney and UEL

This research project was initiated by unit leaders
Carsten Jungfer and Fernanda Palmieri and is a
result of connecting studio teaching methodology
with a live project context by fostering collaborative
architectural and urban design practice; During the
2017-18 academic year, students engaged pro-
actively with East London’s socio-spatial context by
investigating Dalston’s highly conflicting modes of
spatial production. The London Borough of Hackney
became interested after seeing this work at the end
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internship scheme allowed to further expand the
scope of the project with the help of a student working
as co-researcher. Currently further exhibitions are
planned with Hackney Council to showcase the
latest version of the drawing.
co-researchers: Angelle Dimech, Dalcimaira Nunes
Cardoso, Julia Skiba, Kiesse Andre, Marianne
Gallagher, Nelton Bordonhos Barbosa, Nisha Anwar

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of year exhibition, which kick-started a collaborative
partnership between UEL and the Council’s planning
department. Under the supervision of the lecturers,
seven Unit A students have contributed as paid
co-researchers to the ongoing project to date,
allowing them to gain valuable experience as young
professionals in their field.

The outcome of stage 1 is a large spatial drawing

(3,2 x 2,3 metres), which was produced over a two-
week summer workshop. Students utilised prior
knowledge of the area and carried out additional
on-the-ground analysis, interviews and surveys,
covering a wide selection of local stakeholders and
their respective networks.

During the next stage, the drawing was then

exhibited at the Print House Gallery, 18 Ashwin
Street in Dalston between 8th Oct and 5th Nov 2018.
The opening was attended by cross section of the
community and the research outcome was seen
by hundreds of visitors. During this time a series of
collaborative drawing workshops were held with the
stakeholders that had previously been interviewed.
Feedback from these sessions was then brought
back into the drawing to further advance depth and
scope of the research.

Phillip Glanville, the Mayor of Hackney and his

planning team attended a formal presentation
event delivered by the co-researchers. The Mayor
of Hackney noted that the collaboration between
UEL and the Council was as a unique approach and
potential model for future partnerships fostering
unconventional knowledge transfer, critically needed
in context of current public debates relating to social
impact of urban development and gentrification.
Between January and March 2019, the UEL student
 Cork House wins two RIBA awards
The Cork House, Eton, designed by Matthew Barnett
Howland at MPH Architects has won 2 RIBA awards
including the special sustainability award for RIBA
South 2019. The directors of MPH are Matthew
Barnett Howland, UEL teaching alumni, Catherine
Phillips, senior lecturer at UEL, and Dido Milne, who
also contributed to the project, as well as Oliver
Wilton at the Bartlett. The design for the house was
born out of a research project into the structural use
of cork granted by Innovate UK for the study of Full
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Building Lifecycle.
The RIBA South head of the judges for the awards
commented about the project:
Designed with immense attention to detail, Cork
House is a structure of great ingenuity. Sited
within the area of a Grade II Listed mill house
dating back to the early nineteenth century, the
Cork House beautifully reflects and respects the
natural surroundings in form and construction. The
‘whole-life approach’ to sustainability truly sets this
project apart. Designed, tested and developed in
partnership with The Bartlett School of Architecture
UCL, MPH Architects have delivered a project that is
the first of its kind.
An entirely cork construction, with solid structural
cork walls and roof, the building emits next to zero
carbon. The biogenic construction of prefabricated
cork blocks and engineered timber is carbon
negative at completion and has remarkably low
whole life carbon. All the components can be reused
or recycled, and the expanded cork blocks have
been made using by-product and waste from cork
forestry and the cork stopper industry. Internally, the
biophilic elements such as the exposed cork and oak
flooring captures the light and creates a wonderfully
tranquil sensory experience. In summer the skylights
open to bring a sense of lightness to the space and in
winter the snug interiors emanate a sense of warmth
and protection. As sustainability becomes integral to
all construction, this development pushes us further
to look beyond the requirements and aspire to really
integrate ourselves with nature.
The inventiveness lies within the structure’s ease
of assembly. The whole house is ‘designed for
disassembly’ and can be constructed by hand. An
incredible feat by the architects to achieve such a
delicately intriguing home that sits humbly amongst
its surroundings, is sustainably sound and can be
easily assembled. As the first of its type, it is truly
exciting to think what this project could inspire
within the architectural world. MPH Architects and
the collaborative team, which includes not only The
Bartlett School of Architecture UCL but also The
University of Bath, Amorim UK, Ty-Mawr the BRE
and consultants Arup and BRE, have really done
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something special with this project. The detailing is
very clever, and the structure draws upon ancient
inspiration, harking back to a time when humans and
nature were more intertwined.
Form, function and footprint are all equally
considered and respected. This is a truly well
thought through, carefully researched project that
has created a home that inspires those that are lucky
enough to visit. A noble, momentous model to aspire
to.
Internal area 44 m²
Contractor Matthew Barnett Howland (assisted by
M&P Construction)
Structural Engineers Arup
Fire Engineering Arup
Whole Life Carbon Assessment Sturgis Carbon
Profiling LLP
Cork machining and fabrication B-Made at The
Bartlett UCL
Cork CNC machining Wup Doodle
 Highgate Bowl
HASA Architects win the RIBA London award 2019

The architects have made some highly effective,
very low cost small-scale interventions to transform
a derelict horticultural glasshouse at Highgate
Bowl near the top of Highgate Hill in North London,
bringing this forgotten piece of the city back into
public use as a community garden and versatile
event space.
These sensitive interventions take the form of new
external and internal pathways, as well as rooms
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‘If we create it, they will come’ said the client with a
quiet confidence of someone who, after a number
of disappointments and false starts on this magical
site has realised that something very special is in the
offing.
Charlotte Harris, a founding director of the HASA
Architects is a Senior Lecturer at the University of
East London.

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and furniture pieces that guide visitors through the
large open bays of the restored but still fragile glass
house that existed on the site. Roof glazing has been
restored or replaced, some with frosted glass and
the metal framing simply cleaned and repainted in
dark grey.

A very effective white oiled CNC cut birch plywood

internal ‘skin’ has been used to create vertical and
horizontal joinery components which reference the
original structure’s frame and panel construction as
they step down with each bay across the inclined
site, providing a buffer zone to the facade and
informing a horizontal datum at chest height, except
for two large new plywood sliding doors which could
form a canvas for graphics.

Some are structural, others have a multiplicity of

functions, some utilitarian, used to create tables
and a central stage/performance area and some
processional, for example ramps directing you
through the space. The plywood forms a robust
interface to protect the fragile structure from
human use and create a visual contrast to the dark
glasshouse framing. Simple vertical linear lighting is
installed into recesses behind the plywood verticals
which could interplay with their reflection in the glass.
The use of one material throughout creates
continuity, reinforcing the connection between each
bay of the glasshouse while the new plywood subtly
contrasts with both the old glasshouse and the highly
visible landscape.

The brief for the project has been created organically

with both the client and the architect ‘feeling their way
into it’. Sensitivity and lightness of touch is evident
throughout much of the architectural installation –
much has been achieved with relatively small means.

Photographs © Simone Bossi

 Black Barn by Bark Studio receives
RIBA East Award 2019

Studio Bark received the RIBA East Award for the
‘Black Barn’ project; a rigorously environmental
‘paragraph 79’ family home inspired by the
vernacular architecture of rural Suffolk.
It reads as a floating sculptural form surrounded
by wild grass meadow. The striking form evolved
from environmental considerations including
solar heat gain, shading and passive ventilation,
establishing a dialogue with the seasonal and
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a pleasing advancing geometry, like when plotting
a paraboloid, which also gives the impression of
movement, yet in a still space.
Once downstairs the architects have fully exploited
the feeling of being in the ground, which contrasts
nicely with the feeling of floating above the ground
that one has on the floor above. Eye level downstairs
is only just above ground level, and your eye skims
across the meadow in winter looking out of the

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diurnal rhythms of the site. The design is a modern windows. In summer you will be delightfully invisible
yet sensitive interpretation of the black agricultural once the summer grasses have reached full height.’
barn – a typology that has scattered the East Anglian
countryside for centuries, and references the (RIBA awards, www.architecture.com)
site’s historic context as a poultry farm. Shou Sugi
Ban timber cladding to the exterior and exposed
structural timbers within, reference this vernacular
language through a contemporary reimagining.

‘Approaching this building from a tree lined country

road reveals a very modest face to what turns out
to be a house full of intrigue and hidden depth. A
black clad single storey building on first view, with a
small entrance that leads into a well-designed, but
compact hall, it reveals some of its secrets at the
entry by a long view, straight down the inside of the
building, into a large expanding space and beyond
into the East Anglian landscape.

A simple rectangular plan, with mostly cellular

accommodation in the low, back portion of the
main floor and similar cellular accommodation on
the floor below, all of the complexity and trickery
is contained in the treatment of the roof where it
is exposed above the house’s main, wonderfully
large space. It is placed at the opposite end to the
entrance. Contained by a fully glazed end wall, with
a large balcony space beyond, one is able to look
over the enclosing field from what has become a first
floor vantage point, achieved because the land falls
away beneath the length of the building. Back behind
the glass wall the main space of the house contains
a kitchen, dining, living and enclosed children’s play
space, and a stair that leads down to the level below,
then out into the landscape. It is this large, multi-use
space that is the heart of the house and contains
the geometric trickery of a series of progressively
flattening scissor trusses. In combination they give
 Studio Bark Box House
CNC-Cut ‘Box House’ is a blueprint for future assisted self-build housing
The Box House is one of 10 pioneering self-built
houses, built at Graven Hill in Bicester: a development
which will eventually comprise 1900 Custom and Self
Build (CSB) homes. The Graven Hill development I of
national significance, a ‘vanguard’ project helping to
meet the government’s commitment to doubling the
number of CSB homes by 2020. Box House featured
on the new Grand Designs spin-off (known as Grand
Designs: The Street) in April 2019.
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CSB housing is a spectrum, from true ‘Self-
build’, where the client physically builds the house
themselves, to ‘custom build’, where the client has
design input to an externally procured construction.
The young clients for this site were stuck in the
middle. They did not have the budget to pay for an
external contractor, nor the specialist skills to lead
the build process themselves.
As a direct response to this brief, Studio Bark
developed an innovative system of flat-pack timber
building boxes, known as U-Build. The box modules
were simple enough to be built by the client, but
complex enough to perform many requirements
of the building envelope, and meet the stringent
tests of the structural warranty provider. The flat-
pack U-Build system is modular, flexible and can be
‘nested’ onto standard sheets of plywood, resulting
in minimal wastage.
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The two bedroom, 95 sqm house took around 100
cutting hours in total. The project was constructed
solely using manual handling techniques by the
client with the assistance of Studio Bark and a small
team of architecture students.
 Dr Renée Tobe
Research
Renée Tobe was appointed Honorary Professor for
her contribution to ARTPolis at Kazan State University
of Architecture and Engineering, Russia, November
2018 where she participated in a conservation
project that digitally surveyed an 18th century theatre
building before designing proposals for renovation of
this heritage building based on conceptual themes
and spoke on UK Regulations for Urban Planning.
A Post Card Tour of Rome, a Fellows Lunch talk at
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the Paul Mellon Centre looked at a particular film,
Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect, (1987)
and a particular place, Rome, in which the film is set.
The narrative is presented as a series of vedute, the
travellers’ views, maps and postcards of monuments
of Rome, using the Greenaway film as a premise to
explore the  urb. The filmmaker  originally intended
to trace a route through the city, structured like a
Situationist  dérive, by using tourist postcards, each
of which  connected a monument in the foreground
with another in the distance.
A Post Card Tour of Rome
Renée delivered a keynote talk, Who Owns the
City: The Constantly Evolving Mediated Surface at
the Architecture and Landscape Study Day, British
Film Institute, London, UK, February 2019. When the
city in question is London in the Swinging Sixties,
Michelangelo Antonioni, director of Blow-up (1967)
felt it is owned by the photographer making the news
by documenting it. In film, cities tell us where we are,
and where we are going. Cities are our living rooms,
we occupy them, and buildings, however substantial,
provide silhouettes; backdrops against which our
lives unfold.
Anamorphosis and Catoptrics, Keynote Speaker,
British Academy-funded Research Symposium,
Vision, Perspectiva and Shifting Modalities of
Representation, University of Huddersfield, West
Yorkshire, UK, May 2019. The event forms part
of a British Academy funded project: ‘Lorenzo
Ghiberti’s 3rd  Commentary: Translation and
Outline’.  Continuing the theme: is what we see
the truth, this talk examined optics as resolution
to the dichotomy between science and faith. In
the 1640s Emmanuel Maignan, a French monk in
residence at Trinitá dei Monti, the Minim Monastery
in Rome, created an anamorphic wall painting
in an upstairs gallery. This was when Galileo
Galilei was placed in house arrest by the Pope for
presenting a heliocentric solar system that was not
only heretical as it contradicted Holy Scripture but
philosophically ‘foolish and absurd’. This paper
begins by questioning the philosophical meaning
and concludes with a technical examination of how
catoptrics and anamorphosis operate through a
student workshop where we created an anamorphic
image in the studio, a momento mori appropriate to
our own era.
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Participants: Tashan Auguste; Ahmed Bahsoon;
Naghma Bhutt; Andreea Ciuc; Fouleymata Coulybaly
Farhad; Alex Malden; Olive Odagbu; Julian Ronancio
Luna; Andrei Szepocher
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Catoptics and Anamorphosis
The Architecture Student competition 2017
 Re-Inventing thresholds in public space
Participation in Athens Video Dance Festival

Performance Artist Eliza Soroga (International Arte

Laguna Prize) and Dr Anastasia Karandinou (Senior
lecturer, University of East London) led a 4-day cross-
disciplinary workshop in Athens, exploring visible
and invisible boundaries, thresholds, territories and
dynamics in public space, through body-movement
exercises, photography, filming, and a range of
analysis and composition methods.

The outputs of this workshop were exhibited at the

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9th International Dance Film Festival ‘Athens Video
Dance Project’, held in Athens on the 18th- 20th
January 2019. (www.athensvideodanceproject.gr)

The exhibiting participants were: Ismini Georgiadou,

Nelli Kritikopoulou, Eftyxia Maria Kondyli, Renata
Tsioulou, Kleanthis Pagkalos, Leto Martinou-Kyritsi.
The workshop was supported by the Athens Video
Dance Project, the Athens School of Fine Arts, the
UEL, and the Booze Cooperativa.

For more information please visit:

elizasoroga.com/Workshops

Above: In.cubation Ismini Georgiadou, Nelli Kritikopoulou, Leto Martinou-Kyritsi

FIELD TRIPS

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 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, at the end of January.
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
presented their ongoing work to an invited panel
of guests in their own studio space. As such, it was
both, a ‘mid-term exhibition’ with work in progress
and a vital platform for discussion about academic
work in architecture.
OPEN STUDIO
Furthermore, invited guest lecturers gave a lunchtime
and evening lecture.
Dr. Andrew Higgott talked about Recreating the
EVENT
House – Modernism’s Great Invention
Andrew Higgott is an architectural historian and
teacher, who co-ordinated the teaching of the history
and theory of architecture at UEL from 1995 to 2011.
His most recent book is Key Modern Architects: 50
Short Histories published in 2018. Further books are
Mediating Modernism and Camera Constructs.
Andrew talked about the Modern house. The
revolutionary architectural movement of Modernism
is the water we still swim in, and perhaps its
outstanding achievement was to transform the
idea of the house, of how people could live in a
new and better way. Many of its architects invented
completely original forms of domestic space: a
new relationship to nature and to life itself could
be achieved by discarding tradition in favour of
expressing an authentic response to human needs
and desires. The lecture analysed and compared
houses by Schindler, Mies, Rietveld, Le Corbusier,
Eames, Bo Bardi, and others, to understand their
unique and relevant achievements in re-making the
house.
Chris Williamson of Weston Williamson talked
about Creating Civilised Cities
Chris Williamson is co-founder and partner of Weston
Williamson. Their design work is all about the people
who use it; how they will inhabit and experience the
buildings, places and artefacts. The practice takes
a whole life approach, considering how designs
will adapt, retain their relevance and continue to be
enjoyed for years to come.
Chris is a registered architect with over 35 years’
experience in practice and 30 years in infrastructure,
which includes the design and masterplanning of
stations, high speed rail, complex interchanges,
underground, overground and light rail stations.
Clients include High Speed 2, Crossrail, London
Underground, Network Rail, Docklands Light
Railway, London Overground, Transport for London,
Dubai Transport Authority and the Malaysian
Transport Authority.
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Chris leads the studio’s Transport Oriented
Development (TOD) initiative proposing city growth
around high speed rail. He has spoken at conference
and events promoting TOD and sustainable city
development linked to rail both in the UK and abroad.
In addition, Chris plays an active role in various
professional organisations. He is a registered Project
Manager and a member of the Royal Town Planning
Institute and the Institute of Collaborative Working.
A council member for the RIBA, he is their current
Vice President for International Affairs, helping to
promote the association as a global membership
organisation.
Chris talked about a series of recent innovative
projects that reflect the diversity of Weston
Williamson. The work is grounded in current urban
dynamics and future speculations.
Invited Open Studio Guests
Morning Session
Camilo Ameral, Peter Smith, Andrew Higgott, David
Bass, Jeff Tidmarsh, Claire Pollock, Claire Dale-
Lace, Luke Tozer, Simon Tucker, Neba Sere, Alfie
Padro, Daniel Rees, Ibrahim Buhari, Robin Phillips
Afternoon Session
Camilo Ameral, Eirini Garoufalia, Andrew Higgott,
David Bass, Jeff Tidmarsh, Chris Williamson, Claire
Pollock, Melina Rantanen, Alfie Padro, Daniel Rees,
Robin Phillips
P48  OPEN STUDIO EVENT

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 Architecture Society Evening Lectures

05/02/19 26/02/19 19/03/19

Edge Design Workshop, FNFC Wilf Meynell & Tom Bennett Paul Karakusevic
Architects, LOM Architecture + Studio Bark Karakusevic Carson Architects
Design, ScottWhitbyStudio

19/02/19 18/03/19 26/03/19

Andy Puncher Dr. Yasumori Alicja Borkowska
pH+ Utsunomiya University (Japan) YOU&ME

LECTURE

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SERIES STO Lectures

13/11/2018 27/11/2018 04/12/2018

Joe Morris Wim Eckert Sergey Kuznetsov
Morris + Company E2A Chief Architect of Moscow

20/11/2018
Aldric Beckmann
Beckmann-N’Thèpè Architectes
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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)
Tutors: Takuro Hoshino Emma Tubbs, Catherine
Phillips, Catalina Pollak, Fernanda Palmieri, Brian
Hoy, Irina Georgescu, Phillippa Longson, Maria
Venegas, Christopher Storie, Paul Tecklenberg,
Imogen Ward, Aleks Catina
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.
2018 – 2019 brief yet rich introduction to the art and architecture.
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.
Trip, Oxford. UK
Students: Hassan, Gabriel Rebec-Permo, Roland Vata, John Paul Nasayao,
Patryk Filuk, Ahmed Khan, Jake Dacosta Augustin, Yoana Arnaudova, Kacper Lesniak, Gertrude Teca Nsamba, Filip Szypula, Jennifer
Zoe Kalou, Harry O’Connor, Leah Walton, Le’Quan Bailey, Mahbubur Glowacka, Julia Florian, Jocille Bonsu-Ofori, Karen Uribe Orozco,
Rahman Tahmid, Rushaun Buchanan, Adrian Marfo Jake Dagger, Orinkleo Heta, Tayibat Mustapha, Shimoon Mohammed
Stephanie (Aua) Balde, Josephine Nyanteh, James Hancock, Robert
Venning, Daniel Harvey, Esra Karakoc, Hamda Jama, Simran Maria Visiting Crits:
Pires, Solveiga Murauskaite, Joseph Monroy, Farouk Ademola Carsten Jungfer, Yeojoong Yang
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Okesanjo, Nehal Khan, Allan Paragioudakis, Alejandra Iglesias Garcia,
Henry (Chatdanai )Theerathada, Ralph Nasrallah, Silvia-Mihaela Special thanks to:
Gramada, Musfica Rahman, Muhammad Imran Al Madani, Adrian Ivana Sehic, Mark Sowden, Michelle Roelofsma
Grant, Michael Molloy, Balla Ngom, Georgia Louis, Slobodan Pejic, Carsten Jungfer,
Reece John-Baptiste, (Nelly) Natacha Dibaud, Claudiu Cazan, Naim
Design Project
The final design project was set in UEL dockland
campus. Students observed something they had not
seen nor experienced from this very familiar place,
and explored a series of spatial narratives and possible
scenarios. As a conclusion, they were asked to design
an intervention as a response to the current condition
and their personal observations in the UEL campus,
that will make contributions to the university campus
as a public place. The proposed intervention could
be either temporary or permanent. On the course of
the design process, students developed and tested
through collages, and through series of different scale
models and drawings.
Field trip
The trip to Oxford, UK was intended to provide a
Students spent four days absorbing the culture of art
and architecture ranging from the medieval to the
contemporary.
fn.1
 Previous page fn.1 Workshop lead by Ivana Sehic, exploring the
space between bodies and movement.
fn.2 Documentation of various ways of holding a camera by Ralph Nasrallah
fn.3 Drawing demonstrating a way of using a lighter by Claudiu Cazan fn.6
Experimental print through movement of wheel by Kacper Lesniak fn.7
Exploring the various forms through ways of holding camera by Ralph Nasrallah
fn.8 A series of sketch models by Ralph Nasrallah fn.9 Exploration of light by
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clay model. Alejandra Iglesias Garcia fn.10 Exploration of layered paper object
by Kacper Lesniak fn.11 Materialising a movement, group work model, photo
by Claudiu Cazan fn.12 Materialising intersection by strings by Josephine
Nnyanteh

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 fn.13 Foundation students in the print studio making silver card and paper
photo-lithography prints  fn.14 Work in progress - figure ground collage,
Roland Vata  fn.15 Paper photo-lithography print of material investigations,
Sivia-Mihaela Gramada  fn.16 Plaster cube, Alejandra Iglesias Garcia  fn.17
Pin-hole photograph of UEL campus, Michael Molloy  fn.18 Siver card
intaglio print and card printing plate, Alejandra Iglesias Garcia  fn.19 Spatial
collage, Jennifer Glowacka  fn.20 Paper photo-lithography print of material
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investigations, Mahbubur Rahman Tahmid  fn.21 Axonometric cube wireframe

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drawing, Kacper Lesniak  fn.22 Photogram inversion and photogram, Simran
Maria Pires  fn.23 Spatial collage from fragment, Le’Quan Bailey

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 fn.24 Speculative collage for open museum by Ralph Nasrallah  fn.25
Idea sketch for open museum by Ralph Nasrallah  fn.26 Wind driven mobile
by Ahmed Khan  fn.27, 28 Wind mapping device and drawing by Ahmed
Khan  fn.29 Group work, Body and space mapping large 1:1 drawing  fn.30
Group work, Body and space mapping large 1:1 drawing  fn.31 Group work,
Body and space mapping, axonometric drawing by Hamda Jama  fn.32
Group work, photo by Hamda Jama  fn.33 Group work, diagram of uses
by Silvi-Mihaela Gramada  fn.34 activitiy mapping near student residence,

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Kacper Lesniak  fn.35 Yoana Arnaudova fn.36 Hamda Jama  fn.37

Kacper Lesniak  fn.38, fn.39 Claudiu Cazan  fn.40 Alejandra Igresias
Garcia  fn.41 Light corridor. John Paul Nasayao

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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

ARB/RIBA Part 1 and 2 Our teaching is centred on the interface of social learned knowledge, practical skills and critical enquiry

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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 - Heba Elsharkawy 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: Isaie Bloch 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: Guests and thanks: teams and consist of two tutors and between 16 to 20 is to stimulate students to become critical agents in
Sabine Andron Elena Lledo and Danielle Purkiss (Morris + Company)  students. Supporting the design units is a framework of the social production of space. Enriched by practical
Fay Brauer Emma Graham and Michelle Tomlinson (Hawkins\ teaching in essential technical, theoretical, regulatory experience after their degree, postgraduate students
Christoph Hadrys Brown)   and practical knowledge that enables a fully integrated expand their technical, professional and theoretical
Miho Nakagawa Emma Hilton-Grange (Daria Wong Architects)  
design process. Students must construct with both knowledge. Their competence creatively converges
Renée Tobe John Stiles (Bell Phillips Architects)  
materials and ideas, and in final year BSc and MArch in a design-process that challenges the boundaries
Vanessa Vanden Berghe Jonathan McDowell (Matter Architecture)  
Louise Scannell (Weston Williamson)  are expected to develop their design proposals as a of architecture in its social, economical and political
Technical Studies teaching staff: Raphael Lee (Auraa Studio) personal thesis. context. Within this process students transform
Hwei Fan Liang Jennifer Killick (RIBA)  In Year 1 the teaching is centred on a sequence of complexity into elegance, animate aesthetics and
Michele Roelofsma Grant Dyble and Sarah Holt (ARB)  design projects that work through from the scale of the organise space for social use.
Christian Groothuizen Paul Appleton  body to the scale of the city. The year aims to provide Preparation for professional practice integrates
Aurore Julien Teoman Ayas  a broad platform for exploring creativity and introduces essential technical, philosophical, regulatory and
Marek Glowinski Carolina Bartram 
a set of skills and standards that range from surveying practical knowledge as baseline skills that enable
Jeff Tidmarsh Catherine Du Toit 
and technical drawing, to sketching and model the final thesis at BSc and MArch to critically extend
Alan Chandler Kate Godwin 
Lily Jencks  making. Embedded within the schedule of projects beyond the RIBA requirements. Decision making
Computing & Representation teaching staff: Diana Periton are lectures, seminars and practical workshops that and technical innovation develop from and relate
Janet Insull Philip Turner  provide an introduction to the social concerns of to wider socio-political contexts, grounding the
Jennifer O’Riordan Sebastian Wood architecture, knowledge of historical context, and design work and the critical task of detailing to make
Paul Nichols  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
Professional Studies teaching staff:
these first steps on the path to becoming an architect, directed, responsible and socially aware graduates
Hwei Fan Liang
building confidence and developing a strong sense of that understand architecture as a beautiful, radical tool
Stephanie Schultze-Westrum 
Roland Karthaus  purpose and direction. to make ‘place’ and engage with the complexities of
Jeff Tidmarsh  In Years 2 & 3 the design units lead an iterative social and environmental interaction.
design process that is driven by creativity, imagination
and critical self-reflection. The course is designed to
educate students to think seriously about the world
BSc (Hons) Architecture
(ARB/RIBA Part 1)
 FIRST YEAR
Playful Thresholds
Kristina Hertel, Michele Roelofsma, Reem Charif,
Alan Chandler, Charlotte Harris, Toshiya Kogawa,
Renee Tobe, Janet Insull
Playing with buildings
This year, First Year Architecture was invited to
collaborate with the V&A Museum of Childhood on a
live project, which was focused on the theme ‘playful
learning’.
Students designed and constructed a series of
1:1 prototypes that form the exhibition “Playing with
Buildings” that opened at the Museum in February this
year. This exhibition will run in the front room gallery of
the Museum in Bethnal Green until March 2020.
Spaces for Playful Learning continued in term 2 as
the overall theme for this year’s studies, with Bethnal
Green the site for the main design project.
An exploration of playful thresholds
The project started with a series of spatial explorations
of thresholds; between bodies, between bodies and
space. This extended into investigating the public
galleries of the museum through a workshop with a
performance artist, in which students tested threshold
conditions with their own bodies. These physical
sketches defined sites for intervention and inspired the
designs for new threshold spaces for the museum that
students subsequently constructed as prototypes at
scale 1:1.
‘Schools are like cities’ (H. Hertzberger)
Conversations and studies around the theme of
thresholds and learning spaces were expanded in
the field trips to London and Amsterdam, with visits
LONDON & WUPPERTAL, GERMANY
Students Critis and Colaborators
P71  BSc Architecture  First Year
Dahir Osman, Maria Zegheru, Jack Tunstall, Jydsen Ombao, Ciprian V&A, Teresa Hare Duke, Thomas Haynes, Eliza
Luca, Harby Franco Fernandez, Lewis Curtis, Delrick Adikari, Busthana Soroga, Aliki Kylika, Madeleine Waller, Jose DeMatos,
Nusren, Junicila Cardoso Santos De Oliveira, Ahmed Abuelmeaza,
Sarah Alkhazraji, Tyler Mitchell, Riyad Hossain, Vukasin Radonjic,
Anat Talmor, Angus Morrogh-Ryan, Brian Hoy, Chris
Stobbard, Takako Hasegawa, Yasar Shah, Shabnam
Mateusz Sass, Izaak Sallows, Pavlos Giannopoulos, Elena Laouini, Noor, Charles Brown Cole, Tomas Pohnetal, Sib Trigg,
Aya Nasr, Lewis Smith, Amna Zaidi, Ainsley Moffat, Rasa Kundrotaite, Craig Bamford, Will Lindley, Mo Woonyin Wong,
April Adrien-Greenwood, Dilnaz Mohammed, Vatsal Javiya, Marta Juan D’Ornelias, Anastasia Karandinou, Keita Tajima,
Macczak, Arif Khalifah Khalid, Georgios Kastanidis, Georgia Hoggins, Carsten Jungfer
Saedan Sarah Bader I, Yulia Tanana, Christos-Foivos Papapostolou,
Nauma Patel, Mourtada Baboukari, Muayad Tuma, Michael Ngam, Special thanks to:
Match Suet Fong, Alten Gomes, Ali Mohammed, Shuhada Binti Sabri, Teresa Hare Duke and UEL workshop staff
Czerrina Salayog, Haleema Ahmed, Mariam El Mouhahidi, Seyed
Mohammad Ali Rezvani, Abdulmajiid Omar, Timothy Eves, Mahabub Instagram:
Alam, Muhammad Tawfik, Florentina-Nadina Ivanescu, Daniela www.instagram.com/uel_first_year_architecture
Sarsoza , Rahat Kamal, Louis Linnemann, Aleksandra Hoffmann, Aliriza
Arincioglu, Luke Milsom, Maria Guerra Moreno, Sumaya Sheikh-Ali,
Mohammed Hamza Ahmad, Sue Hafizoglu, George Ionescu, Oscar
Frith, Thomas Joy, Nazia Begum, Irina Orza, D’andre Clarke, Kiana
Shokrani Chaharsoghi
to schools and educational spaces in both cities. In
Amsterdam, Year 1 visited Hermann Hertzberger’s
Apollo School, an outstanding example of a design that
employs the concept of inhabited thresholds.
Client study
After completing the installation of the exhibition at the
V&A in early February, students facilitated 3 workshops
with local primary schools, held at the museum, with
the school pupils scrutinising, testing and expanding
the students’ design ideas. This was an opportunity for
them to directly engage with, and observe, their client
for their forthcoming main design project.
Extended space for playful learning
Inspired by the 1:1 prototypes, the ambition of term 2’s
design project was to erode existing boundaries and
the public conception and experience of the museum
as an institution for learning. Students worked on one
of three sites with differing proximity to the Museum of
Childhood, designing a space for playful learning that
mediates spatially and programmatically between the
museum, and the local and wider community.
fy.00
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P73  BSc Architecture  First Year

Medusa’s Raft fy.01 studying the body as a threshold condition fy.02 detail
of threshold negotiations through drawings fy.03 group dynamics fy.04
new thresholds tested in the museum through body sketches fy.05 vertical
crossings fy.06 Portals of the imagination fy.07 study drawing of the
threshood between 2 spaces fy.08 mapping irregular objects at the 1:1 scale,
inventing tools for recording.

fy.02 fy.02 fy.05 fy.06

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 fy.09 Tap at the top ,1:1 device for transforming the Museum of Childhood

P75  BSc Architecture  First Year

P74  BSc Architecture  First Year

trusses into a narrator or history fy.10 test model for Tap at the top
fy.11Study Model for a curious maze for childhoog discovery. fy.12, Rattling
Railings, 1:1 device for making the museum railings inviting fy.13 Study
drawigns for Cadence, 1:1 device for revealing the hollow water tubes of the
museum fy.14 Cadence fy.15 Using Cadence fy.16 Peek of childhood
fy.17 Rattling Railings fy.18 Testing of Rattling Railings in time.

fy.18

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P76  BSc Architecture  First Year

fy.21 study models fy.22 Maze. Exploded axonometric showing maze

interior fy.23 axonometric of Age as a Gauge fy.24 Sectional axonometric
of Peek of Childhood fy.25 Testing Peek of Childhood

fy.06

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P78  BSc Architecture  First Year

Mirror fy.28 Ergonomics of Lotus Mirror, testing the positions of a child and
adult view point y.29 testing the unexpected views in the museum - collapsing
ground and sky fy.30 Sound study of the Museum’s Atrium fy.31Rolling in
time - 1:1 device for collective engagement to create rythms on the museum
floor fy.32 Pieces for Rolling in time fy.33 Through the looking glass - a 1:1
space only for children protesting the museum’s adult rations

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P81  BSc Architecture  First Year

Study of the changing connections of the South London Gallery, Michael Ngam
fy.36 Analysis of Horizon at Utrecht University Campus , Czerrina Salayog
fy.37 Study of Playful Threshold at Apollo School Amsterdam, Rahat Kamal
fy.38 Proposal studies, inspired by Wlamer Yard, Mateusz Sass fy.39
Comparing Apollo School thresholds with Hofjes in Amsterdam, Haleema Ahmed

fy.41 Studies from urban walk in London, Mateusz Sass fy.41

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 fy.40 Massing models, 3 interations, Mateusz Sass fy.41 Internal view
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of urban cabin - lasercut model, Mahabub Alam fy.42 Site study of spaces
around the Museum, Mateusz Sass fy.43 Proposal collage, Mateusz Sass
fy.44 Study model and collage, Riyad Hossain fy.45 Study model and
proposal collage, Shuhada Binti Sabri fy.46 Proposal sketches for Space for
playful learning, Mateusz Sass fy.47 Proposal collage, Rahat Kamal fy.48
Propositional urban section, Rahat Kamal,

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 Students: Huda Tayob (UCL), Keith Winter, Kiesse Andre, Kristina Hertel,
Y3: Amin Esrafili, Chardae D’acres-Hylton, Halima Ali, Ioana Talpos, Marianne Gallagher, Nelton Barbosa, Mo Wong (MOCT Studio), Tak

UNIT A

P85  BSc Architecture  Unit A

Maxim-Dan Ivanescu, Nylda Hamchaoui, Xander Tholl Inciong
Y2: Ahmed Bahsoon, Cassius Cracknell, Daniel Kwaku Poku-
Davies, Daryl Ignacio, Dominika Kupczyk, Eugene Yu Jin Soh,
Hannah Cornelius, Jared Kaleta, Matthew Mayjes, Natalia Labuzinska,
PLACE OF EXCHANGE Spencer Dela Cruz, Tashan Auguste, Teodora Manolescu,
Valerie Morgan
Visiting Crits:
Alan Chandler, Angelle Dimech, Bethany Mindham (London Borough of
CARSTEN JUNGFER, FERNANDA PALMIERI Hackney), Blanka Hay (LBH), Cory Defoe (LBH), Dhara Bhatt (East),
Hoshino, Tamara Stoll, Reem Charif, Rosa Rogina, Rozkar Ali
Special thanks to:
Andrew Woodyatt (Rio Cinema), Carmen Nasr (Hackney Priates),
Daniel O’Sullivan (London Borough of Hackney), Douglas Racionzer
(Hackney Co-operative Developments), Jan Baes (AE-Architecten),
Kuo-Chieh Liang (Bootstrap Company), Marva Antoine (Tropical Isles
Carnival Group), Oliver Windling (Vortex Jazz Club), Sam deVocht &
Marie-José Van Hee, Suzanne O’Connell (The Decorators)

Henri Lefebvre understands the formation of space
as the outcome of collective action and therefore as
“social product” itself. Unit A is interested in processes
that relate to the production of space by investigating
found conditions and urban morphology. Our agenda
engages across the domains of architecture and
urbanism and embraces a design approach that
is critically responding to pre-existing contexts by
interrogating spatial, historic and social fabric of the
city.
Following last years focus on Dalston’s cultural
quarter surrounding Ashwin Street, we initiated a
collaborative partnership with the Local Borough of
Hackney and carried out a funded research project
together with five unit A alumni over the summer.
‘Relational States of Dalston’ investigates socio-spatial
conditions between local stakeholders within its urban
context. Findings from the research lead to this years
subject of interest: Ridley Road Market
While Dalston town centre has transformed
considerably over recent years, the study area Ridley
Road Market has retained original patterns of use and
respective character. The market itself is a community
asset, both in cultural and social terms that provides
civic and inclusive space within the town centre. As
street-market it has always been a place of conflicting
needs and desires, though new kinds of pressure
seem to emerge as a result of ongoing change that
contribute to an increasing vulnerability.
During the first term students analysed chosen
everyday moments of exchange across the street-
market, which helped them to build an understanding
of relationships between space and activities. Students
interacted with a wide range of stakeholders and from
here developed individual responses in form of critical
briefs and building programmes.
The proposed strategies agree to support the
existing market by introducing complementary
programmes, such as educational and cultural uses.
As a collective, students speculate that extended
territories for formal and informal encounters, new
civic infrastructure, shared and adaptable spaces, are
required to help Ridley Road Market to maintain its
critical role as a place of exchange. At the same time
those will provide opportunity for the market to evolve
from within to ensure a sustainable future serving East
London heterogenous demographic.

a.1

DALSTON, LONDON & GHENT, KORTRIK

 a.1 Urban strategy drawing by Eugene Yu Jin Soh, introducing a new public
realm and green space to Ridley Road Market in combination with a cultural
P86  BSc Architecture  Unit A

P87  BSc Architecture  Unit A

and educational programme a.2 ‘We-House’ is a building proposal that
provides spaces for Hackney’s Youth to expand opportunities for collaborative
learning between a wide range of stakeholders including Hackney Pirates,
Tropical Isles Carnival Group and Vortex Jazz Club, Eugene Yu Jin Soh a.3
‘Re-imagine’ is an alternative proposal to re-use and re-design the existing
‘Ridley Road Shopping Village’, currently controversially debated between its
off-shore investment owner, evicted traders and activists from the ‘Safe Ridley
Road Shopping Village’ anti-gentrification campaign. The sustainable proposal
for a mixed-use hub for community groups and traders promotes synergies
derived from sharing of space, proximity and opportunity for knowledge transfer,
Daryl Ignacio.

a.2 a.3
 a.4 ‘Weaving Action’ is a strategy for the corner site at the Eastern end of
Ridley Road Market that understands context as multi-layered fabric of social,
P88  BSc Architecture  Unit A

P89  BSc Architecture  Unit A

cultural and urban activities. The building consists of a waffle-slab deck that
provides sheltered areas for flexible programmes below and spaces for dancing,
meeting and working above, Tashan Auguste a.5 ‘Ridley’s Culture Hub’ is an
infrastructural proposal that provides a new gateway and accessible facilities
to the market and wider community. Dwelling space, public facility and gallery
during daytime; Performance space at night, Dominika Kupczyk a.6 ’Hub.East’
is an adaptable concept for working and living delivered as self-build. It reflects
on the rich history of Ridley Road Market as a place of continuos renewal, by
Daniel Kwaku Poku-Davies.

a.4

a.5 a.6
 a.7 ’Dalston Eco-Hub’ builds on the understanding of Ridley Road Market
as metabolising organism. The building acts as infrastructure to the market and
P90  BSc Architecture  Unit A

P91  BSc Architecture  Unit A

floats above its service area, comprising a good waste recycling facility, an
international food-market, a cooking school, areas for food production and a
bio-digester generating sustainable energy, Xander Tholl Inciong a.8
’Pirates Cooking School’ supports children to learn about food and well-being,
Ioana Talpos a.9 ’Ridley’s Highline’ is a linear piece of infrastructure floating
above the narrow row of shops along the railway line. It connects both market
and wider community by providing spaces for growing food, learning and
opportunities for volunteering, Spencer Dela Cruz a.10 Following an in-depth
study of spaces of ‘sociablity’ along the market, ’Ridley’s Social Hub’ is a
proposal that acknowledges the importance of opportunity for social encounter
and exchange. The building comprises a range of community spaces that are
arranged along a playful journey that invites users to interact and socialise,
Halima Ali.

a.8

a.7 a.9
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a.10

P93  BSc Architecture  Unit A

 Students: Visiting Crits:
Y3: Chelsea Anderson, Cristian Deiana, Nick Franklin, Metin Kocabey, Keith Bell - LOCi Architecture, Ying Wen Teh - Nicholas Szczepaniak

P95  BSc Architecture  Unit B

UNIT B
Alex Malden, Shahzeb Mazhar, Marcelina Nowak, Maja Oparnica,
Maria Ruiz Vela, Katharine Stevens, Andrei Rudi Szepocher
Y2: Hamidah Adesanya, Lee Algae, Oliver Brown, George Moldovan,
Alma - Bogdana Odoleanu, Richard Okyiri, Hannah Sullivan, Stefanos
Penzance / Pennsans Troullides, Jamal Uddin
Architects, Samson Adjei, Chris Williamson - Weston Williamson, Jeff
Tidmarsh - Sir Robert McAlpine, Mark Whitby - WhitbyWood, Renee
Tobe, Carl Callaghan, Scott Licznerski, Tom Whittaker
Special thanks to:
Great Western Railways, Patricia Brown, Susan Stuart, and The Admiral
Benbow Public House.

Stephen Baty, Alex Scott-Whitby

As a new studio we looked at the historic harbour of The ambition was for each student to learn to look
Penzance and its connections by rail, sea and road. closely, translate ideas, develop interests and gain a
We observed and recorded in detail to understand this set of skills relevant for practice. The student projects
historic place. A place where the land ends and the sea that have emerged are testament to this.
begins. A place derived from the Cornish language
word ‘Pennsans’ meaning ‘a holy headland’.
We undertook three projects over the course of the
academic year, each related to the other. The first was
set in Greenwich at Indigo Jones Queens House and
was used to prepare the students for the year ahead.
We learnt to look closely, discuss ideas, acquire skills,
gain confidence, research precedents, and formulate
a design thesis.
With sponsorship from Great Western Railways we
then travelled by sleeper train to Penzance travelling
overnight and arriving into Isambard Kingdom Brunel
station terminus. For the second project we explored
Penzance and headland with purpose. We walked
from the north coast to south coast in the rain, wind ‘We must discover things and let them
and sun. We recorded site, clarified the brief, initiated
unfold their own forms’
a response and researched relevant precedents to
inform architectural proposals to reinvigorate the town. Hugo Haring

The third project was concerned with creating an

architectural proposal in Penzance and was progressed
through three iterations; concept, development
and technical. At each iteration the proposal was
reviewed and refined by the studio and invited critics.
The process placed an emphasis on model making,
drawing to create a contextual architectural response.
 b.1 Maja Oparnica b.2 Cristian Deiana b.3 Maria Ruiz Vela
b.4 Cristian Deiana b.5 - b.6 Nick Franklin
P96  BSc Architecture  Unit B

P97  BSc Architecture  Unit B

On site observatinoal drawing

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 b.1 - b.2 Richard Okyiri b.3 Maja Oparnica b.4 Cristian Deiana
b.5 Katharine Stevens b.6 Cristian Deiana b.7 Alma - Bogdana Odoleanu
P98  BSc Architecture  Unit B

P99  BSc Architecture  Unit B

b.8 - b.9 Nick Franklin

b.6 b.7

Gutters

Engraved patterns in the granite

b.3

Photograph of the site (right) c. 1897

58

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99

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 b.1 Richard Okyiri b.2 Stefanos Troullides b.3 Maja Oparnica
b.4 Alex Malden b.5 Andrei Rudi Szepocher b.6 Nick Franklin
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P101  BSc Architecture  Unit B

b.7 George Moldovan b.8 - b.9 Maja Oparnica b.10 Maria Ruiz Vela

b.6 b.7

b.3

b.4

b.1 b.4 b.8 b.9

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84

b.2 b.5 b.10

 Students: Special Thanks to:
Y3: Andreea-Camelia Ciuc, William Fullick, Alexander Jovanovic, Maliha Yasmin

P103  BSc Architecture  Unit E

UNIT E
Roberto Lopato Ricorico.
Guest:
Y2: Michael Adedokun, Glenn Altarejos, Matthew Burford, Dylan Andrew Fortune, Marco Zudini, Anibal Puron,Roger Llimargas, Laura
Cutting, Thomas Dulieu, Suha Kardaman, Avnish Manyer, Jose Abellan, Jose
Abandoned Urban Koon Koon, Gabriel Llonor, Dayanara Mabad, Suphawadee Maneerat, Maria Llaquet,Paula Tosas, Robert Brown arch, Enrique Moragas Eng
and Jeff Tidmarsh Eng
Landscape Adrian Moussaid, Vanessa Pimentel
Pinto Ferreira, Mandeep Rooprai, Victor Velev, Alaina Williams,
Contributors:
Constantin-Adrian sirboiu. Office Eng LLAQUET, Estudio RICARDO BOFILL, RCR ARCHITECTS,
Isaac Cobo i Displàs BAROZZI AND VEIGA ARCHITECTS, COCO ARCHITECTS
Sakiko Kohashi

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Unit E this year will be based in Barcelona, where Barcelona Olot (Last year’s Stirling Prize winner), CS

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we will try to resolve a challenging urban, social and Barozzis and Beiga, Cerda, Gaudi, Enric Miralles,
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architectural, problem. Barcelona’s aim is to become Ricardo Bofill and Carme Pinos, all based in Barcelona.
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for the import/export industry only. In the late 20th and new in terms of architecture and in terms of
century that changed, and the focus was on working representational techniques. We therefore designed F

on a new skyline and opening the city to the seafront through the qualities of various traditional model
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leading to a rapid growth in construction which resulted making and drawing materials (clay, timber, metal,
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in some areas being left unattended and forgotten. etching, sketching and analogue photography...) DI
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working class areas versus the high end architecture, and environments. We will also explore new building CS

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focused on tourism, is very obvious and needs designs through contemporary materials; and
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a prompt architectural response. Unit E’s goal is contemporary computer techniques positioned in
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providing a social response to this area, for the local contrast and interfaced with the old.
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communities. Our work will be based on one of the most In the same process, students design new
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controversial junctions of the city, where Barcelona architecture that connects old buildings, within a
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has lost its identity. We will study the ‘Pla Cerda’, one hypothetical program that integrates past, present and MD

of the referenced urbanism plans renowned worldwide
for its functionality and efficiency. The chosen site is at
the edge of it.
We will analyse and compare similar a situation
in Kings Cross, London, where existing factories
have changed and the area has been renovated to
give response to people’s needs. We will produce a
comparative analysis so that both cities can learn one
from eachother.
This year we are exploring this through the contrast
of different architects of the past and present. Some
of our references will be: RCR architects, based near
future through materiality. Unit E does this on the basis
of speculative proposals on sites that contain existing
historic fragments or memories.
In the first term we will educate the eye by exploring
The Extension of Barcelona: Pla Cerda
fragments of London with analogue cameras, learning
‘The first plan for the extension of Barcelona
the techniques of a dark room and different drawing came from a Catalan civil engineer, Illdefons
techniques both in 2D and 3D, controlling the scale and Cerdà 1856.
the proportions. The students have each been given a Cerdà’s plan was revolutionary for its time, as
site to study. The complexity of the site will depend on it focused on planning for hygiene and ease VISIT WWW.UELUNITE.COM
level 2 or 3. A different brief will be given for each site. of mobility and transportation in a grid like INSTAGRAM @UNITE_UEL
This year UEL focuses its attention on housing. Our structure’.
case study will be ‘Walden 7’ by Ricardo Bofill.

EL POBLENOU, BARCELONA
 e.1 Site Map of Barcelona, highlighting the ten sites that were studied by
students of Unit E.
P104  BSc Architecture  Unit E

P105  BSc Architecture  Unit E

e.2 Alaina Williams, image of Canopy with compact camera and using dark
room, to explore space light and atmosphere. We were analysing the area of
Kings cross and St Pancras to be used a template for our sites in Barcelona
e.3 Andreea-Camelia Ciuc, “Momentum drawing” of the space translated from
observation of the image to a careful detail drawing in CAD.

e.2 e.3
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y, the movements and
ghout the building.

hadow, significance
Dynamic Architecture

e.4 Andreea-Camelia Ciuc, ‘De-cluttering the ruins’ hand drawn Light and shadow, significance
and identity, the movements and
axonometric of proposal. e.5 Dylan Cutting, 1:1000 paper model excerise
P106  BSc Architecture  Unit E

P107  BSc Architecture  Unit E

flows throughout the building.
of existing site. e.6 Dylan Cutting, 1:1000 paper model exercise of initia
installation tower proposal on existing building.

e.7 Alexander Jovanovic, Identifying the light qualities of Walden 7 Plaster

Model e.8 Alexander Jovanovic, Visit to the Walden 7, Students captured
moments that the felt revealed the qualities of the design most. This image
alongside the plaster model (e.7) identifies the effect of light on Walden 7.

Shaped by light

Privacy while creating internal

spaces filled with natural light.

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Second Year Portfolio

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and enhances the internal space.

Filtering light continuously transforms

Aperture
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e.5 e.6 e.7 e.8

ovements and
, significance

the building.
cture
 e.9 Roberto Lopato Ricorico, Walden 7 in 3D Rhino model before being
3D printed. e.10 Roberto Lopato Ricorico, North-West elevation of proposal.
P108  BSc Architecture  Unit E

P109  BSc Architecture  Unit E

e.11Roberto Lopato Ricorico, South-West elevation of proposal.
e.12 Roberto Lopato Ricorico, Proposal: 3D drawing .e.13 Dayanara
Mabad, Collage using white volume inspired by Walden 7to identify any relations
between the two spaces. e.14 Alaina Williams, First floor digital momentum
collage of the proposal showing activity with the indoor cafe and outdoor
market. e.15 William Fullick, Digital Collage of Internal space “momentum”of
the graffiti school, using walls us a canvas, showing different levels, and light
qualities. e.16 Alexander Jovanovic, Digital conceptual image of the proposal
showing view from the new park.

Streets Within Structure

e.12 e.13
White volumes from Walden 7 cut out pictures to manipulate the view

e.9

e.15
e.10
Reflections

e.16
e.11 e.14
 Students: Visiting critics and guests:
Y3: Ben Roder, Dan Harris, Daniella Marchant, Fouleymata Coulibaly, Anthony Powis, Bruce Irwin, Dhara Bhatt, Jayden Ali, Punit Babu,

P111  BSc Architecture  Unit G

UNIT G
Julia Skiba, Lissette Shaw, Luciana de Souza, Mouniratou Traore, Richard Hall, Shahid Hussain, Suren Prabaharan, Alan Chandler,
Vanessa Campanelli Jeff Tidmarsh, Mark Lemanski, Stephanie Schultze-Westrum.

Y2: Amy Zhuang, Barnabas Madzokere, Bren Heald, Daniel Meier,
Productive City, Wild City Giannina Sedler, Guy Mukulayenge, Hanna Tweg, Hayat El-Hadi,
Nathalia Cardona de Castro, Sena Bektasoglu, Solara Kiros,
Taha Faour
Web: www.uel-unit-g.blogspot.co.uk
Hwei Fan Liang, Christian Groothuizen
Special thanks to:
Paul Lincoln (Golden Lane Residents’ Association), Amin Taha and
Jason Coe (Groupwork), Dann Jesson (East), Caroline Nash, Darryl
Newport, Richard Lindsay and Stuart Connop (UEL Sustainability
Research Institute).

This year Unit G explored ways of evolving a
productive city – in which we engage with the
processes of food, energy and resource production.
We looked for imaginative architectural propositions
that could contribute to a viable, sustainable urban
future. We also questioned how this more productive
city could be more ‘wild’, challenging our relationship
with urban nature as well as offering space for play and
informal occupation.
London is a city of consumption, relying on
frictionless flows of imports from the rest of the country
and far beyond. Its population density makes true self-
sufficiency a remote possibility, but as the social and
ecological costs of our current culture of consumption,
supply and waste increase, we propose that localised,
distributed production is a crucial part of a viable,
sustainable urban future.
Our location for the exploration of these proposals is
an area close to Old Street where the City of London
meets the Borough of Islington. It has a richly layered
history of uses, most notably a dense fabric of mixed
industries in the 18th Century which included distilleries
and breweries, timber yards and furniture works.
The present-day context includes creative and tech
industries, restaurants and cafes, Whitecross Street
market, schools, community and leisure facilities. The
proposal sites are on either side of Golden Lane, within
and adjacent to post-war housing blocks – the Golden
Lane Estate, and the Peabody Whitecross Street
estate.
Students developed individual projects that respond
to present day social needs and readings of the city,
set against future scenarios and possibilities – each
weighted towards a personal position on integrating
production into the city, providing habitats for humans
and other species, or giving value to the role of the wild
in urban living.
g.1

LONDON, GRANADA AND ALMUÑECAR

 We began the year with a series of studies ranging across different ways and and passersby (Solara Kiros). g.3 Talking with residents (Fouleymata Coulibaly).
scales of looking and describing - studying the domestic and public spaces of g.4 Unfolded circulation (Daniella Marchant). g.5 View through (Giannina

P113  BSc Architecture  Unit G

P112  BSc Architecture  Unit G

the Golden Lane estate, looking for natural and social ecologies in London and
Granada, and walking the productive landscapes around Almuñecar.
Golden Lane Estate studies: g.2 Social interactions between neighbours
Sedler). g.6 and g.7 Volumes of viewing and Noise along a route (Hayat
El-Hadi).
g.8 Occupying historical basements (Bren Heald). g.9 Atmospheric section
(Fouleymata Coulibaly). g.10 and g.11 Swimming pool views and reflections
(Giannina Sedler). g.12 Crescent House stairwell (Lissette Shaw). g.13 Estate
observations survey sketch (Daniella Marchant). g.14 Photographic section
(Hayat El-Hadi). g.15 Gradations of privacy in Great Arthur House (Dan Harris).
Previous page: g.1 Sketches of Spain (Daniella Marchant).

g.8 g.9

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g.2 g.3 g.12

g.4 g.5

g.13

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 Speculative proposals for the Golden Lane Estate explored the potential for a Proposals grew from students’ individual concerns about the present
more productive, more wild and more occupied landscape. and future of urban living, with a range of focus including making space for

P115  BSc Architecture  Unit G

P114  BSc Architecture  Unit G

community and young people, accommodating and incorporating wildlife, food

g.16 Wilding rooftops and hard paved ground for biodiversity (Daniella
waste, provision, and storage, localised energy, and intensive urban farming.
Marchant). g.17 Social infrastructure for edge spaces, inspired by Flores &
Prats Edificio 111 (Hanna Tweg). g.24 Urban bird sanctuary making use of nearby rooftops to create a range
of ‘island’ habitats for London’s endangered birds, an RSPB visitor centre and
Granada: g.18 Pages from Inventory of Ecologies (Julia Skiba). g.19 and
facilities for lunchtime market visitors - façade studies and archipelago strategy
g.22 Shadows and activities across the day, and g.20 Moss studies (Giannina
(Barnabas Madzokere).
Sedler).
Site studies: g.21 and g.23 Impressions of plants and Impressions of
place (Fouleymata Coulibaly). g.24 Neighbouring elevational studies (Solara
Kiros).

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g.22 g.23 g.24

g.16 g.17 g.25

 “The Kitchen” project reduces food waste - through upcycling for a A fairytale gingerbread house in an urban forest is the focus for food and
community grocery, cooking and communal dining, and generating energy from office paper waste upcycling, and free play space g.31 Elevation in Golden
P116  BSc Architecture  Unit G

P117  BSc Architecture  Unit G

biodigesters. g.26 Spaces transform over the day from informal shelter to
dining room, g.27 Approaching views, and g.28 W-E section (Solara Kiros).
g.29 and g.30 Extending the scope of the existing nearby district energy
networks, this fatberg-fuelled CHP energy centre mines the sewers for high-
calorie deposits. Combining infrastructure provision with community needs, the
proposal also incorporates a replacement adult learning centre, games court
and estate storage around a new public square (Dan Harris).
“City Playground” responds to social absences - loneliness, lack of
nature, and lack of varied provision for play. g.32 Approach to bike shop
and guestrooms from Golden Lane, and approach to library and cafe from
Whitecross St (Fouleymata Coulibaly).
Lane context, g.33 Section through play ramp, raised workshop and occupied
undercroft g.34 Isometric in context showing greenhouses, play ramp and
forest (Amy Zhuang).
g.35 Drawing conversations about observations and possibilities across
the sites, inspired by East’s “hairy drawings” (Hanna Tweg and Hayat El-Hadi).
g.36 Hortus Conclusus is a medicinal production and learning centre, making
connections to nearby medical teaching and the fashion college, with gardens
inspired by the Charterhouse cloister (Hayat El-Hadi).
g.35 g.35 and g.39 Responding to the near-future scenario of
inconsistent food supply and cost, the Nourishing Communities project increases
community food resilience by providing space for growing, learning about and
preparing food, offices for sustainable food organisations, storage larders and a
public orchard (Mouniratou Traore).
g.35 g.36

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g.32 g.33 g.34 g.43 g.44

 Previous page: g.40 to g.44 Located on the edge of the City of London, g.55 to g.58 The Hop Garden revives the historic local ecologies of
the high-rise Vanilla and Saffron farm proposes to bring high economic yield manufacturing, bringing together hop growing, cooperage, collective brewery

P119  BSc Architecture  Unit G

P118  BSc Architecture  Unit G

crops into sustainable urban production, creating a landmark structure and and pub for the London Brewers Alliance. g.55 and g.57 model and sliced
enabling a new kind of public space (Lissette Shaw). sections designed around programme and process. g.56 early collage, g.58
in the brewery and amongst the hops (Julia Skiba).
This page: The Ecotherapies centre and Scent factory explores how
architecture can promote mental well-being through human scale, materiality g.60 and g.61 Urban Seed Testing Fields proposes a new site for the RHS
and provision of nature - including inaccessible wild pockets and garden to test and promote seeds for urban biodiversity. Making use of surrounding
terraces for people. g.45 and g.47 entrance courtyard and circulation, g.46 rooftops and ground conditions as the testing fields, the centre includes a
sequence of spaces collage, g.48 plan set in gardens producing plants for covered public space to attract visitors from Whitecross Street market, and
essential oils, g.49 exploration of wilderness in the city (Hanna Tweg) accessible propogation roof garden. g.59 programme collage, and g.62
sketches exploring desire lines across the roof (Daniella Marchant).
g.48 and g.48 The Moss production facility and air quality research centre
repurposes the former primary school to grow panels of moss on a commercial
scale. This new kind of factory promotes localised greening and air-pollution
reduction, creating cool mossy public spaces as well as spreading out into the
surrounding city. g.52 and g.53 classroom interior, g.54 moss permeability
g.55 g.56
site survey (Giannina Sedler)

g.46

g.45 g.47 g.48 g.57 g.58

g.49

g.50 g.51 g.59 g.60

g.52 g.53 g.54 g.61 g.62

 Students: Visiting Crits:
Year 2 Adam Cheltov, Tony Fretton, Charlotte Harris, Christoph Hadrys,

P121  BSc Architecture  Unit H

UNIT H
Harry Zimmerman, Kalin Petrov, Theodor Bjerke, Zahraa Shaikh, Andrew Houlton, Francesca Leibowitz, Phillipa Longson, Legend
Yessica Rincon Toro, Sachini Palliyaguruge, Leticia Martins, Jessica Morgan, Carlotta Novella, Catherine Spence, Colin O’Sullivan,
Corelli, Alfie Hatch, Rositsa vaugelova, Zeena Ismai, Julian Imossi, Christopher Thorn, Mo Woonyn Wong
Zaira Ramos Banaag
City Land Process Year 3 Special thanks to:
Nisha Anwar, Fillipos-parlos-Perrakis -kollias, Stefania Loaiza , Israa The students from Cass studio 2, Aurora Carapinha and Rute
Salim , Aaliah tailor , Julian Roncancio Luna, Olive Odagby , Naghma Sousa (University of Evora), Pedro Jervel, Francisco and Flora Di
Butt , Omar Harrack , Bibblav Limbu Martino(Skrei), Armando Quintas and staff from CECHAP, Adrian
Forty, Matthew Barnett-Howland, Catheirne Phillips , Mark Sowdon,
Keita Tajima, Rhianon Morgan-Hatch Zoe Hodgson, Gaynor Zealy, Daryl Brown , Reem Charif, Michele
Roelofsma, Kevin Adorni

The territory of Alentejo, a region in the south of Students have worked with the one of three sites
Portugal, has formed the focus of our investigation for with differing conditions and resources (city extension,
the year. Its land expresses both the past memories urban room, city void). Through investigation into
and the present activities on its surface; deep holes of the networks of resources in the region; earth, lime,
marble quarries, dotted lines of olive trees, half exposed cork, ceramics, wheat, stone (marble, granite),
cork trees, acres of vine productions and in between, olive oil, cheese and wine, they have uncovered the
cattle and pigs, portraying the relationship between makers, processes and associated architectural and
people and natural systems. We are interested in how urban/rural qualities that have assisted with a wider
materials of the land can be re-thought and formed to understanding of the cultural make-up of the region.
express a specific spatial sensibility and experience, Students have investigated and proposed models of
enriching our architectural approach to the city and educational/cultural spaces and infrastructures that
design of spaces whilst revealing the intricacies of a act as a medium to enrich the relationship between the
place. city, its inhabitants and the landscape.
The cities and towns of Alentejo, and their
inhabitants, have a cultural identity formed by an
embedded relationship with their surroundings. The
knowledge of their land and its resources is a product
of their interconnected rural, agricultural and industrial
heritage. However, with rural populations decreasing
due to migration towards the Portuguese cities, we
have examined the potential space that is left behind,
using this void as a catalyst for future speculation. Our
re-imagining of this territory comes at a particularly
poignant time in Portuguese history, where its
inhabitants have the potential to shape its future -
safeguarding the genuine, vital energies of the region.

h.1 h.2

Evora, Redondo, Vila Viçosa , Portugal

 Previous page h.1 Map of 3 cities (Evora, Redondo, Vila Viçosa) in Alentejo Redondo : h.13 Abandoned olive oil factory facade in Redondo, etching
in Portugal, Jessica Corelli h.2 Material assembly model by unit h students by Jessica Corelli h.14 Joao, One of the remaining pottery makers and his
P122  BSc Architecture  Unit H

P123  BSc Architecture  Unit H

workshop in Redondo h.15 Axonometric showing hidden city yard in former
Vila Viçosa : h.3 Formaer railway station in Vila Viçosa and their architectural
olive oil factory in Redondo by Jessica Corelli h.16 City square strategic
remains h.4 Site observation drawing for formaer railway station in Vila Viçosa
cast model by Rositsa Vangelova h.17 Proposed space for honey maker in
by Leticia Martin h.5 Drawing to imagine Italo Calvino’s invisible city by Yessica
Redondo, internal view by Jessica Corelli h.18 Kintsugi inspired repairing
Rincon Toro h.6 Exploring spatial sequence by mono print. Zeena Ismailh.7
experiment by Kalin Petrov h.19 Light cutting through between new structure
Proposal for sculpture workshop, sketch view by Zeena Ismail h.8 Structural
and old walls, section by Yessica Rincon Toro
model exploring waste marble block and timber frame by Julian Imossi h.09
Proposed passage fo rammed earth wall towards scuplture workshop view by
Zeena Ismail10 Proposed olive oil making facility in Vila Viçosa intenal view by
Fillippos Pavlos Perrakis-Kollia Ss h.11 Proposed sculpture workshop at former
railway station plan by Zeena Ismail h.12 Proposed horse stable and riding
facility section by Julian Imossi

a3 h.4
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h.7 h.8 h.12

 Redondo: h.20 scaled and 1:1 handmade tiles by Yessica Rincon Toro for proposed architectural fragments to create a journey through landscape by
h.21 Proposed internal view, Julian David Roncancio Luna h.22 Proposed Alfred Hatch a34 view by Alfred Hatch a35 View to Quinta Da Malagueira by

P125  BSc Architecture  Unit H

P124  BSc Architecture  Unit H

elevation, Yessica Rincon Toroa23 Proposed Dye garden model by Kalin Petrov Alfred Hatch a36 Axonometric view of the proposed community barn within
a24 Survey sketch by Kalin Petrov a25 Proposed Dye garden axonometric by Quinta Da Malagueira by Nisha Anwar a37 View to the proposed community
Kalin Petrov barn by Nisha Anwar
Evora and Quinta Da Malagueira : a26 Existing rural farming landscape,
etching by Stefania Ortiz Loaiza a27 Exploration of spatial and material quality
of rammed earth, group work ,photo montage by Aaliah Tayor a28, 29 Model
for proposed community kitchen garden and community space by Zaira Ramos
Banaag a30 Axonomentric view of community kitchen and olive oil making
facilities by Stefania Ortiz Loaiza a31 Section by Alfred Hatch a32,33 Model

h.13 h.14

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h.20

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UNIT 2
City of People
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
habitats and environments.
This academic year our design investigations and
projects focused on deprived neighbourhoods in
Shoreditch in East London. Within this location Unit 2
explored the guiding theme City of People.
SHOREDITCH, EAST LONDON
Students: Visiting Crits and Guests:
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Y5: Lina Al-Huro, Zhi Chung (Steve) Chang, Tawhid Chowdhury, Anil Mark Lemanski, Jenny Kingston, Alan Chandler, Aurore Julien, Amor
Can (Anil) Colak, Maria Iliopoulou, Kingsley Kerson, Odaine Phipps, Gutierrez Rivas, Claire Dale-Lace, Luke Tozer, Simon Tucker, Neba
Ozan Sahin, Michael Susmani, Kai Yeo, Ze Rou Yong Sere, Alfie Padro, Daniel Rees, Ibrahim Buhari, Robin Phillips
Y4: Ismaila Abubakar, Valeriya (Lera) Burmistrova, Larisa David, Nurina
(Erin) Ghizan, Ewelina Krol, Eleftheria Lampropoulou, Lenny Lew,
Christina Nika, Kunishige (Kuni) Shirai
MA A+U: Kai Xin Tan
Large scale social and commercial developments
have delivered rather simplistic forms of social
inclusion, urban life and diversity, because they have
not sufficiently integrated people into city making. We
searched for alternatives to the current state of play
and experimented with forms of urban inhabitation that
are co-designed, built and managed by people. Each
student chose a strategic location for a responsive
and imaginative proposal. We explored ways in which
sharing and living together can be part of a synergetic
urban life.
“Cityspace... our performance as spatial
beings takes place at many different
scales, from the body, or what the
poet Adrienne Rich once called ‘the
geography closest in‘, to a whole series
of more distant geographies ranging
from rooms and buildings, homes and 2.1
neighbourhoods, to cities and regions,
states and nations, and ultimately the
whole earth - the human geography
furthest out . “
VISIT
Edward Soja, 2000
WWW.MARCH-UNIT2.BLOGSPOT.COM
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different student sites and open space strategies, based on a drawing by Larisa
David
2.2 Experiential mapping, case study housing Vanbrugh Park Estate, Ze Rou
Yong 2.3 Proposed technical section community and sports centre, by Ze Rou
Yong 2.4 Proposed housing landscape experiential drawing, by Ze Rou Yong

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Design explorations house intervention Vanbrugh Park Estate, by Lenny Lew 2.7
to 2.8 Housing, library, community centre and workshops, by Kingsley Kerson

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2.11 to 2.13 Housing, library, kindergarten and community spaces along
Grand Union Canal, by Eleftheria Lampropolou

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UNIT 5
The Happy City
Home. A threshold between the private and the
collective.
Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
A successfully vital city development can be
measured on its capacity to attract very diverse
inhabitants to facilitate social cohesion, inclusiveness
and collaboration. The verb ‘to inhabit’ comes from the
Latin ‘habitare’, which relates to ‘habere’, to own. In
this respect, there is an intrinsic meaning of ownership
related to the topic of housing.
The Unit investigates the Canada Water masterplan
to test innovative hybrid typologies of housing and to
5.1
CANADA WATER, LONDON , UK
Students: Associates & Invited Guests:
P143  MArch Architecture  Unit 5
Y4:Alessandro Antinucci, Ahmed Ayman Ashour, Lokesh Emmidi, Sadaf Mauro Bono, Pell Frishmann Engineering, Camillo Botticini,
Fatima, Pinnok Hashea, Joshua Yim, Jagjeet Kumar, Hu Lee Min, Botticini&Facchinelli Architects, Tony Fretton, Tony Fretton Architects,
Michael Rhemz, Lipika Roi, Daniel Rolando Teran, Yozdzhan Terzi, Waie Owen Hopkins, Sir John Soane Museum, Roland Karthaus, Matter
Zainal Moin Architecture, Alex Scott-Whitby, Scott-Whitby Studio
Y5: Mustafa CAN Gokpinar, Fahria MWohamed, Viraj Patel, Patrizio
Montalto, Hani Saab, Eehui Tiew, Bjorn Wang
Intervention spatial arrangement 5.1 Case study model 5.2 Existing 5.21 Courtyard perspective 5.22 Section 5.23 Facade elevation 5.24
master plan 5.3 New master plan 5.4 Physical model 5.5 Tower render Plan layout 5.25 Furniture layout 5.26 Section 5.27 Model perspective
5.6 Layout exploration 5.7 Spatial arrangement 5.8 Study diagrams 5.9 5.28 Plan, Section & axonometric 5.29 Facade perspective 5.30 Exterior
Floor plan 5.10 Acoustic Consideration 5.11 Section 5.12 Elevation 5.13 render 5.30 Walkway amd courtyard perspective 5.31 Spatial arrangements
Process diagrams 5.14 Activity map 5.15 Plan 5.16 Section 5.17 Section 5.32 Garden perspective 5.33 Exploded context 5.34
typologies 5.18 Structural axonometric 5.19 Facade 5.20 Plan & context
promote a strong relationship between the private
and the collective space, through the design of live-
work affordable, intergenerational housing complexes
for people to generate potential long-term affection
to the place. Starting with the re-design of a housing
prototype, we proceed analysing the structure of the
Canada Water masterplan, to then develop a small
part of it at the detail scale of its structure, layout and
materiality.
5.3 5.4
“If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant
true insight and responsibility. Education
must lead us from irresponsible opinion to
true responsible judgement”
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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UNIT 6
Just Do It
Isaie Bloch, Jakub Klaska
The Residential typology has become the most
lucrative product to build by private developers due to
a continuous increase in demand, in a city where land
ownership is very centralised. In London itself where
Unit6 will be operating this year, 200k buyers every year
remain unsatisfied as they are unable to purchase a
home due to a lack of quality and affordable residential
properties. This trend has unfortunately created a very
robust mass of buyers which are causing a dramatic
housing price increase. As property prices are as
well no longer in any conjunction with the actual value
of the built structure; we Unit6, will aim to find more
sustainable and alternative routes for the production of
residential typologies. In order to do so we will promote
and combine two rather continental European building
concepts which have yet to find their way into the UK
market. Being Self-built & Co-Housing strategies.
We will re-invest in the actual value of the built
property by focussing on intelligent tectonics in direct
relation with their fabrication logic. investigating a model
for designer led construction. Through both digital
and traditional construction methods we will engage
with the construction logics and turn them into clear
design drivers. We will aim to develop a more relevant
model for co-housing in which designer and other
inhabitants of the schemes, become both contractor
as well as construction managers. This system would
not only allow the architect to redeem his role as an
entrepreneurial creative, but would simultaneously
contribute to transfer of skills and knowledge in an age
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Students: Visiting Crits:
P151  MArch Architecture  Unit 6
Y5: Loic Adam, Wassim Ajouz, Kingsley Boateng, Jana Dockalova, Ng Teoman Ayas, Carl G Callaghan, Martin Gsandtner, Armor Gutierres,
Kean Jhun, Alexandros Koutougias, Ludmila Olei, Iara Silva, Andreas Christoph Hadrys, Fulvio Wirz
Stadlmayr, Francesco Ubiali, Matthew Victor Carney.
Unit 6 argues for an architectural ontology based on sharpening the
Y4: Sabrina Azman, Punit Babu, Eugene Goh, Paul Joseph, Anjum tension between architecture and its parts. Investigating the production
Khan, Paul Marshal, Nadhira Patel, Ekramul Robbani, Amirah Suhaimy, of space trough geometrical studies. Increased computational
Haakon Askim Vatne capabilities enable us to push our understanding of architecture as a
relationship of objects into an unexpected new domain of complex and
well crafted space.
where education becomes unaffordable. The territory
for our investigations and deployments this year will
be across London. Where we selected a number
of neglected sites which have not been touched by
corporate real estate development.
Through an in depth engagement with digital
form finding, appropriate fabrication methods and
innovative organisational logics we will aim to deliver
spatially ambitious well-crafted propositions which will
elevate the standard of living in this metropolis. Piece
by Piece! We will sequence the design process through
a number of defined milestones as to gradually build
up the complexity of the proposals. Supported by our
own research and skill sets as well as those of invited
guest lecturers, we will be particularly focussing on
tectonic qualities and performative objectives in direct
relationship with communal living scenarios.
6.1
 During the first term, students will focus on the topological organisation By doing so students will be able to come up with a catalogue of operations,
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of surfaces and volumes in relation to low tech building techniques. This in spatial conditions and building methods which will later allow them to iterate those
depth study starting from given references will allow them to have a deeper further into complex yet feasible architectural proposals.
understanding of how geometries are formed and what their inter-relationships
6.5 Chunk model , exploring heterogenious articulation and organisation
are. The references are sub-divided in multiple categories and strategies. Such
trough the use of both recycled (for structural purposes) and reclaimed bricks
as: Nesting 6.1 6.9, Interlocking 6.2, Aggregating 6.4 6.6 6.12, Pealing
(ornamental). In order to create a proposal which follows a circular economy.
6.10 and Pinching 6.3 Student work by: Andreas Stadlmayr, Kinglsey Boteng,
Sabrina Azman
Ng Kean Jhun, Sabrina Azman, Wassim Ajouz, Nadhira Patel, Jana Dockalova.
6.7 Following this years Self Build agenda. Alexandros Koutougias develops
This initial exercise will simultaniously increase both modelling skills, spatial
skills and design skills. Successfull iterations will always include the core qualities
a serie of articulated beams which can be fabricated and assembled on
of the initial reference, human scale, semi-enclosure, circulation, directionality, site by the residents themselves. Using only planar sheet material and a
etc. 2nd hand CNC router.

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hands-on first term exercise. As to produce a 1/5 facade panel inspired by Young elements following a diamond structural grid.
& Ayata`s work 6.9 Amirah Suhaimy speculates on a building process 6.11 6.14 6.15 Andreas Stadlmayr believes that today’s society no longer
directly connected to its users skills and their specific needs. The has an awareness of how to use resources appropriately. Building materials, land
inhabitants being automotive engineers would deploy their professional resources, or everyday resources such as water, food and energy are wasted. The
skills in the production of fiberglass nodules which would be nested in result is a direct and indirect impact on the quality of our environment and quality
a more standardised steel structure built alongside Hackney`s railway of life. He therefore propose an alternative architecture based on the Cradle to
arches. 6.11 Interior visualisation of Francesco Ubiali`s proposal for an inter- Cradle principle, which reconsiders the actual construction of a building and
generational co-housing scheme 6.13 Conceptual drawing by Kingsley Boateng promotes an active use of the building. The architecture embraces digital design
explaining the relationship between the role of contractor and user as builder. The methods and low tech numerical fabrication in order to achieve a sustainable and
first being contracted to build the armature of the building. While the inhabitants long-term solution to raise London’s standard of living.
contribute permanently to the production of all interior fittings and amenities.

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UNIT 8
Benidorm, a question of
belonging
Armor 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 Benidorm, Spain, this year we are
investigating the inherent relationship in between
housing crisis and mass tourism. By looking into the
specific case of of Benidorm, the unit seeks for a new
housing typology that bridges the gap in between the
local and the holidaymaker.
Benidorm, a city that was only a hundred years ago a
fisherman’s village of 3000 people, is today better known
as the Mediterranean New York with more skyscrapers
per squared meters than any other city in Europe. The
redevelopment of Benidorm was considered to be a
successful urban scheme that due to its high density
and all-inclusive offers affordable to everyone is able
to accommodate over 12 million tourists every year.
BENIDORM, SPAIN
Students: Visiting Crits:
P159  MArch Architecture  Unit 8
Y4: Afiq Abdullah, Giorgos Andreou, Guillermo Cano, Mitul Brian Hoy, Cartsen Jungfer, Mayuko Kanasugi, Andy Puncher, Clare
Chudasama, Nik Hazrul Haiqal, Dominique James Richards, Sam McDermott, Harald Trapp
Y5: William Barnett, Sonam Dahya, Travis Daisley, Richard Davies,
Saman Gamouri, Ryan Hahn, Austin Joseph, Jekaterina Krackovskaja, Special thanks to:
Jian Jun Lim, Shady Nazir, Ioanna Oikonomou, Kate Skinner, Nurul Jose Maria Torres Nadal, Francisco Pomares Pamplona, Patronato
Nadhrah Zainal Municipal de la Vivienda de Alicante
However, for the local people the proliferation of all-
inclusive mass tourism here has been the subject of
much debate over the years. Today, the city sees little
interaction between modern holidaymaking and local
people or culture, with the architectural typology of all-
inclusive gated hotels and apartments foregrounding
this social, spatial and economical division.
While building on Ricardo Bofill’s The City in the
Space utopian studies for an adaptable, multifunctional
and flexible community, students in Unit 8 are asked
to design flexible housing schemes that allow owners
to adapt their houses to seasonal tourism and act as
a shared platform facilitating a greater cross-cultural
interaction when needed.
“British tourist moans her Benidorm holiday
was ruined by ‘too many Spanish people’
8.0
Freda Jackson, 81, said she cried at the end
of her two-week trip to the popular holiday
destination through travel operator Thomas
Cook in May this year”
Mirror UK, 13 Aug 2018
 Previous page: 8.0 Drawing documenting observations on the ‘authenithic‘
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inauthentic and ‘inauthentic‘ authentic experience in Benidorm, Nurul Nadhrah
Zainal Y5.
Re-imagine Community: Home sharing as social practice by Jian Jun Lim, Y5.
The project explores co-living as urban antidote to monocultural mass tourism
and Airbnb gentrification in Benidorm. 8.1 Exploded axonometric diagram
- program proposal 8.2 Overall urban intervention and developement 8.3
Sectional perspective - internal courtyard 8.4 Internal courtyard in summer
8.5 Internal courtyard in winter 8.6 Street elevation in summer 8.7 Arcade of
cultural alley

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the potential of re-densification of Benidorm by considering how a parasitic
housing scheme could reimagine the planning rules for Benidorm’s ‘open city’.
8.8 Phase 04 project expansion 8.9 Site section 8.10 The street at podium
+1 8.11 Exploded axonometry of the proposed structural system 8.12
Section showing the relationship in between existing and symbiotic intervention

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 Vertical Vineyard by Ryan Hahn, Y5 (left page). The project examines

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Benidorm’s urban pockets in between gated hotels and tourist attractions

as reclamed spaces for shared housing schemes, incorporating a return to
Benidorm’s agricultural roots, as an artery connecting reurban pockets in
between gated hotels and tourist attractions. 8.13 Single unit model 8.14
Pedestrian view 8.15 Typical unit sections 8.16 Section through the scheme
showing the relationship in between interior and exterior spaces.
The Legend of Benidorm: An Urban Acupuncture by Sonam Dahya, Y5 (right
page). By channelling people away from the already overpopulated beach, the
project aims to take some pressure off the beachfront and encourage people
to divert into these new pockets of spaces. 8.17 Benidorm’s historical beach
context graphic timeline

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My home, our hotel by Austin Joseph, Y5 (left page). The project challenges
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Transforming the traditional notion of home through hosting
the adopted methodology to designing all-inclusive hotels in Benidorm as
privately
Austin gated communities and supports the revival of local economy by
Design Brief
transforming the traditional notion of homeif through
The city of Benidorm, famously known today as a holiday
hosting. 8.18 Map of all
not the entire property to tourists or locals wishing to
the facilities
destination amongst thewithin
working the scheme
class Brits, has in the8.19
past Scheme
indulgeadvert 8.20
on this unique Ground
holiday floor
experience, withplan
spaces
70 years rapidly transformed from its simple origins as a returning to their prior use as a segment of the resident’s
- streets
fisherman’s village as corridors
of 3,000 people to one of the biggest home whilst not being used by tourists. With each let room NO BORDERS
coastal resorts in Spain and wider. With its consistent mild being unique from one another as ultimately being part
weather and south-facing beaches, once discovered for
its vacation qualities and spatial potential to expand, the
of someone’s home, each ‘hotel room’ will differ in décor
and offerings, being defined by the individual resident
LET THE CITY BECOME YOUR HOTEL
city quickly evolved into a long narrow stretch of over 100 themselves. Collectively the let rooms, from different
The happiest place on Earth by Nurul Nadhrah Zainal, Y5 (right page).
hotels with a capacity to accommodate more than 5 million apartments over several sites are to form a hotel run by the
The project is an inexplicitly idealistic theme park – derived from a literal
tourists every year. local residents themselves.

The interpretation
Old Town of Benidorm, of thenowterm Disneyfication
protected by the – The
andproject
an adaptable
challenges the housing scheme to
adopted methodology
municipality as a heritage site, has seen the least amount of
pre-packaged
change over the past century.into a single
Traditionally, location. 8.21designing
to accommodate Aerialall-inclusive
containing perspective
the
hotels as privately gated communities
majority of its8.22 Internal
visitors needs in terms of
somecourtyard perspective
of the cities earliest tourists, permanent residents facilities, victuals and entertainment that prevent the needs
would subdivide their homes either on a temporary or to exit the hotel. Instead, the project looks to provide the
permanent basis, to earn extra money by renting out part of expected facilities, however spread across the several
their homes. However, following the arrival of large hotels sites and additional locations in and around the old town.
stretching along the coastline with a lower cost to offer, As a result, tourists staying in the subdivided units will be
including a now famous all-inclusive package, the city saw a required to travel to the nearby amenities spread across this
major decline in the popularity for permanent residents to
let a segment of their properties.
area encouraging interaction with local trade and the city
itself. I wish to discover which of the required facilities the
8.21
old town already has to offer, mostly targeting struggling
Nowadays, ‘lazy Brits’ tend to be content with their all- businesses due to decline of tourists venturing out of their
inclusive packages in gated high rise hotels, very rarely hotels. I aim to establish a relationship with them and define
venturing out of the grounds unless heading to the city a contract, including them into a network of necessities the
centre for clubbing and cheap booze or down to the beach hotel will require to function as an all-inclusive hotel.
to top up their tans. These actions have greatly affected
local businesses and commercial activity outside of the
hotels, forcing them to lower their offers to tempt tourists
to spend money in their establishments. At the same time,
with tourism being the dominant industry in Benidorm
and large hotels now reaching maximum capacity in peak
seasons, there is a high increase in the number of external
investors purchasing properties and renting them through
Airbnb, which is being greatly opposed by local residents.

The project attempts to give back the control and ownership

of the holiday rental in Benidorm to local residents through
a flexible residential scheme amongst several vacant sites
in the Old Town, with a potential for further expansion
across other available plots in future years. Apart from
offering additional homes to local people, together with its
surrounding local businesses that wish to join the scheme,
the proposal acts as an alternative ‘all-inclusive hotel’
scattered across the city.

The project mirrors traditional methods for gaining extra

income through temporary subdivisions of the residential
units with intention to let. With the seasonality of Benidorm
reaching peak tourism during the summer, the projects 8.18 8.19 a.4
flexibility permits owners to comfortably let out a segment

8.20 8.22
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Y4: Sarah Serrano-Bello, Alexandra Goodey, Ezgi Guzeloglu, Sadhana Kate Macintosh and Dawsons Heights residents Graeme Raeburn,

UNIT 10
Kollu, Moses Lutakahana, Nuriyah Malik, Wadzanai Mhuka, Lahari
Parvathaneni, Sahar Pathan, Aaron Williams-Grant.
Y5: Khalida Ahmed, Mobasher Ahmed, Bianca Baidoo, Victor Dairo,
Peripheral Vision Umut Doogan, Olajide Falusi, Asma Ikram Brahimi, Sofia Katsarou,
Chido Montogizo, Ibrahim Odunsi, Giuseppe Podestà.
Mark Lemanski and Jenny Kingston with
Katherine Clarke, muf architecture/art
Evelyn & Luke Oakley, Rosie & Raf Rundell, Jennifer Killick/ RIBA,
Carla Smyth/ LLDC, Gwenael Jerret/ LLDC & Public Practice, Patrick
Harrison/ Poplar HARCA/View Tube Cafe, Axel Feldman/ Objectif,
Ailbhe Reynolds/ Karakusevic Carson Architects, Sahra Hersi/ artist
& architect, Sarah-Beth Riley/ Studio Egret West, David Williams/
O’Donnell Tuomey Architects, former Unit 10 students Beth Carter,
Mary Adetayo, Kenneth Awele Okafor & Robbie Campbell/ Collado
Collins Architects, Andrea Mueller, Aurore Rapin/ Yes We Camp, CASS
MASS

Unit 10 focuses on the intersection of the lived and As the concept of home ownership is now beyond
the built space, which is approached simultaneously at the reach of most young Londoners, many students
small and large scales: the scale of human interaction focused on designing for rental accommodation and
and the scale of political decision making. It draws on its inherent challenge of designing economically
different disciplines in its engagement with the real life whilst allowing for personal adaptation and community
factors that shape our environment. building, allowing for non-traditional habitation forms
Starting with our personal experience of housing, such as flat shares and patchwork families.
followed by a detailed look at Dawsons Heights by Kate
Macintosh, students developed individual briefs for
communal housing on one of the last remaining sites of
the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in dialogue with the
public sector client of a concurrent competition for the
site. Students engaged with a range of stakeholders
in the process to gain insights into the spatial and
social fabric of the site, and explored different housing
delivery models and how these are driven by different
ideas of what London should be — the idea of housing
as a home and city as a mixed place, vs. housing as
investment and city as market. We investigated the
financial forces feeding the London Housing Crisis,
and looked at interventionist pieces of policy such as
the London Living Rent that try to counter it.
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London & Ivry-Sur-Seine, Paris

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A high density scheme 10.9 by Sofia Katsarou 10.1 foregrounds the

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Balcony Elevation: User relationship

place of nature in the urban environment. Interstitial shared public spaces allow
for overlapping of different types of inhabitation10.2. Image from Moses
Lutakahana 10.3 of Nuriyah Malik presenting our case study models of
Dawsons Heights 10.6 to its architect Kate Macintosh. Research graph from
Aaron Williams-Grant 10.4 showing the correlation between the decline in
social housing provision and the rise of house prices. Olajide Falusi’s model of
his childhood window 10.5 shared his experience of reading by moonlight.
Explorations of lived experience led Khalida Ahmed 10.7 and Wadzanai Mhuka
10.6 to project how occupation could be read on a facade or through section.
Nuriyah Malik proposed interlocking typologies with one beds and two beds 10.6
accessed from the same deck, drawing on Dawsons Heights.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEW HOMES PER YEAR REAL HOUSE PRICES

SOCIAL RENTED HOUSING:

400k 400k
social rented homes are commonly known to be owned by a local au-
thority or registered affordable housing providers. these organisations
charge rent guided by the governments outlines through the national

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administered in a particular area.

SHARED OWNERSHIP:
REAL HOUSE PRICES 150k 150k
typically an occupier could or will buy/mortgage a share of the new
build property from a housing association. The remaining share will
be owned by the association meaning the occupier will pay rent on this 100k 100k
share, the same would apply with other landlords. An occupier can buy RECESSION YEARS
up to a 75% share in a property.

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fairly new, the help to buy government shceme is to aid homebuyers
who financially cannot afford the asking prices for a deposit. This can be
a new or an older property. The loan provides up to 20% of the cost of a
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new build property. The loan can be repaid in anytime within 25 years.
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spaces are considered as one habitable room. The building achieves a
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TYPES OF HOUSING
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 Unit 10 visiting Ivry-sur-Seine as part of study trip to Paris 10.10. Flat
P172  MArch Architecture  Unit 10

P173  MArch Architecture  Unit 10

typologies using a hexagonal module by Alexandra Goodey 10.11, the
communal outdoor space 10.12 Modular flat plans
becomes the foreground of the “Urban
Hive”. Her project combines flat Final
typestypologies
to produce a mix of provision on each
floor, disrupting the module grid2 with offset outdoor amenity on balconies.
Bed Maisonette First Floor 2 Bed Flat
d Flat
Sarah Serrano-Bello’s project 10.13, explores how shared terraces at height
and Studio Flat

can encourage a sense of community. Differing typology arrangements and

1. Entrance/Cloaks 1
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7 2. Kitchen
hen 2. Kitchen 6 2
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circulation types were explored by Aaron Grant-Willams 10.14 within singular
2 3.
4.
Dining
Sitting
4.
5.
Sitting
Double Bedroom
uble Bedroom
uble Bedroom blocks. Mobasher Ahmed cuts through initial massing to exploit light and
5.
36.
Double Bedroom
Toilet/Shower Room
6.
7.
Double Bedroom
Bathroom
3

hroom
maximise views 10.15. The potential of circulation to be exploited as social
7. Double Bedroom
2/3

6
(Maisonette) 5

space was explored in many projects including Sahar Pathan’s scheme which
6

aims to tackle loneliness in the city through a complex series of shared walkways
7
4

10.16. 4

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2 Bed Maisonette Ground Floor Studio Flats

udio Flats
1. Entrance/Cloaks
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1 2. Kitchen
1
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Dining 3. Dining 6
6 4. Sitting
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Double Bedroom 5. Double Bedroom 6. Toilet/Shower Room
Toilet/Shower Room 6. Bathroom 3

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DEVELOPMENT.
Massing + Circulation routes 10.13
gh FORMING THE IDEA

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10.11
from massing the idea, the diagrams show the trade of thought as to how the plans would effect
and change the language of the housing blocks. Each diagram illsutrates how the housing block
would work and the appearence in density. The white arrows in the diagrams shows the internal
movement.

CORE (BLOCK CIRCULATION) furthering on my development, I started to

ous COMMUNAL SOCIAL SPACES make myself more and more in tuned with
the idea of spliting my building by calling
on 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT
the main body of the design, the warm
PRIVATE SPACES
space, whilst the access deck will act like
1 BEDROOM APARTMENT the cold space.
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to
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from now on, i started to rotate the design

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he so that it can act on the surround environ-
ment as aswell as its sun path.
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cts
as
furthering on my development, I started to
make myself more and more in tuned with
the idea of spliting my building by calling
will the main body of the design, the warm
space, whilst the access deck will act like
its the cold space.
PPlaying around with the idea of sun and
views taking over the design strategy, i
deicded to make this focal point for this par-
ticular design.

After experimenting with the range of op-

tions in which the environment and its sur-
rounding ooer to my design, i have gone for
By taking this concept across my design a mix of all the diierent conditions which
from now on, i started to rotate the design apply to my building and site.
so that it can act on the surround environ-
ment as aswell as its sun path.

b.4 10.12 10.15 10.16

PPlaying around with the idea of sun and
views taking over the design strategy, i
deicded to make this focal point for this par-
ticular design. THE LIVING SPACE THE I
 Ezgi Guzeloglu’s masterplan is designed to offer both public and semi public

P175  MArch Architecture  Unit 10

P174  MArch Architecture  Unit 10

communal spaces with the architect of the block responding to the shared
conditions c.1. The City Mill River adjacent to the Pudding Mill Lane site is
incorporated by Ibrahim Odunsi’s stepping down public realm c.2. Balconies
and deck access are used as social communal space in both Guiseppe
Podesta’s linear blocks c.3 and Asma Ikram Brahimi’s scheme c.4. Bianca
Baidoo tackles issues of mental health and childhood obesity with her provision
of a variety of play and social spaces interspersed both vertically and horizontally
in the scheme c.5. Chido Montogizo presenting at Open Jury c.6 image Lahari
Parvathaneni. Water harvesting system and growing space within circulation in
Sofia’s scheme c.7. Mobasher exploring terraces and balconies in combination
c.8. Communality at every level Nuriyah Malik c.9.
PROPOSED WATER SIDE RENDER

c.1

c.6

c.7
c.2

DIVERSE LANDSCAPES

The nature loop cutting through the building would be open to the public. It would offer areas
to sit and relax as well as undertake community activities such as exercise classes, gardening, c.8
educational trips for students. The nature loop extends on the roof of the building, additionally
offering views of the juxtaposition between the urban fabric of London and the natural Olym-

c.3 pic Park. Lastly the facade would be utilised as growing space for all residents. They would be
managed and maintained by the residents under the guidance of the community centre.

c.4

c.5 c.9
BSc (Hons)
Architectural

P177
Design BSc (Hons) Architectural Design Technology (ADT) programme has
gone through some exciting developments this year.

Technology
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.
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

LEVELS 1, 2 & 3 ADT

such as SOM, Bond Bryan, and Cullinan Studio.
This year, we also organised a study trip to Paris. The trip was an eye-
opening experience to the students as it facilitated visits to many
significant projects.
Dr Heba Elsharkawy, Programme Leader
Heba Elsharkawy (BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, MCIAT)

A+D Technology
Affordable Housing
Dr. Heba Elsharkawy, Alfonso Senatore, Dr.
Haitham Farouk, Michele Roelofsma, Dr. Michael
Adaji
In Year 1 ADT, we worked on a Professional’s Retreat
design project following an architectural design
foundation phase where we designed a personal
space for an architect 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 Paris to observe and understand
the design and construction technology of different
building typologies such as Grande Arche, Fondation
Louis Vuitton, Centre Pompidou, and teh Louvre
Museum.
In Year 2 and 3 ADT, we worked closely with Newham
Council as a client, on a live project; an affordable
housing development consisting of a convenience
store and 24 two-bedroom and three-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? How can the
design comply with the Building Regulations?
London - Paris
ADT Students: Y3: James Banda, Mandy-Liza Lehnert, Rashed Mirza, Mazin
Y1: Winta Kahsay, Mohamed Ahmed, Ashia David, Constance Amissah, Mohamed, Constantin Olariu, Dean Rose, Jozsef Seregely, Ainsley
Danielle Billett, Nnamdi Ajaelu, Iqraa Shahbaz, Marius Rotaru, Sosan Walters
Khalid, Michael Valencia Imbaquingo, Serge Ilunga, James Harris,
Mathulan Paramanadan, Abdoul Dabare, Ouninioluwa Majemuoluwa Special thanks to:
Rotimi, Charlie Markley, Thomas Stroud, Gergely Toth, Markuss Dr. Sahar Zahiri, Bertug Ozarisoy, Niall Healy, Chris Stobbart, Newham
Sunins, Ionela Dragu, Aisha Dirie, Louisa Tulloch, Merad Husain, Joel Council, and the Chartered Institute for Architectural Technologists
Schroeder, Gloria Yeboah, Mishal Pussewela (CIAT)
P179  BSc ADT
Y2: Chinedu Okerezi, Jonny Chapi Enriquez, Giulia Ficini www.uel.ac.uk/Undergraduate/Courses/BSc-Hons-Architectural-
Jawad Serroukh, Simren Dosanjh, Oussama Nefzi, Victor Naranjo Design-Technology
Cardenas, Oliver Egerton-Smith, Connor Minihane, Adit Jaganathan,
Shahid Siddique, Tala Aflatouni, Nana Owusu, George Fahmi, Rebecca
Adeboye, Rokhiya Tounkara, Salem Almutairi, Michael Aregbesola,
Noela Dalipi
We also enjoyed learning Revit software, Design
Builder and Lumion. 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 two great events to help us learn more about
the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
(CIAT) and our profession. The first event was a CIAT-
RIBA joint event organised to get us and students
studying architecture to learn more about future
careers in both disciplines. Seven RIBA and CIAT
professionals talked to us about their personal learning
journey and work experience starting from architectural
assistant position to directors. The second event was
a Professional Insight event organised by the CIAT
where we met with the CAT memberships director, Vice
President Technical, and MCIAT professionals.
We also visited Bond Bryan, SOM, and Cullinan
Studio this year. We had the opportunity to meet lead
architects at those renown practices and observe their
exciting studios where we learned about several of
their major design projects.
 Year 1 Architectural Design Technology Foundation Phase adt.01 Freehand
sketch, Nnamdi Ajaelu adt.02 Ergonomic study, Louisa Tulloch. adt.03
Freehand sketch, Sosan Khalid adt.04&05 Freehand sketches, Danielle
Billett. adt.06 Freehand sketch Thomas Stroud. adt.07 Axonometric, Louisa
Tulloch.
Year 1 Design Project: The Professional’s Retreat adt.08, SketchUp
model, Ionela Dragu. adt.09 Shading device study and detail, Ionela Dragu.
adt.10 Laser cut model, Ionela Dragu. adt.11 Ground floor plan, Ionela
P180  BSc ADT

P181  BSc ADT

Dragu. adt.12 Technical detail, Ionela Dragu.

adt.08

adt.01
adt.02 adt.09 adt.10

adt.03 adt.04 adt.03

adt.02
adt.05

adt.05 adt.06 adt.07 adt.11 adt.12

 Year 1 Design Project: The Professional’s Retreat, adt.13 Sketch Up model,
Markuss Sunins. adt.14 Section, Markuss Sunins adt.15 Ground floor plan,
Markuss Sunins. adt.16 Technical detail, Markuss Sunins. adt.17 Solar
shading study, Markuss Sunins
adt. 18, Mezzanine floor plan, Thomas Stroud. adt.19&20 3D model,
Thomas Stroud adt.21, North elevation, Thomas Stroud adt.22&adt.24
Sections, Thomas Stroud. adt.23 Technical detail, Thomas Stroud
P182  BSc ADT

P183  BSc ADT

adt.19

adt.13 adt.14 adt.18 adt.20

adt.14
adt.15 adt.15 adt
adt.21 adt.21
adt.16 adt.22

adt.15
adt.16 adt.17 adt.23 adt.24
 Year 1 Design Project: The Professional’s Retreat; adt.25 Section, James
Harris. adt.26&27 Sketch Up model, James Harris. adt.28&29 Technical
details (manual and Sketch Up), James Harris.
adt.30 Section BB, Ouniniolowa Rotimi. adt.31 Sketch Up model,
Ouniniolowa Rotimi. adt.32 Mezzanine floor plan adt.33 Section
persepective, Ouniniolowa Rotimi. adt.34 3D model, Gergely Toth. adt.35
Solar shading study, Gergely Toth. adt.36 Daylight analysis, Gergely Toth.
P184  BSc ADT

P185  BSc ADT

adt.30 adt.31

adt.25 adt.26 adt.32 adt.33

adt.27 adt.34

adt.28 adt.29 adt.35 adt.36

 Year 1 Design Project: The Professional’s Retreat; adt.37&38 3D model
(laser cut and Sketch Up) Danielle Billett adt.39 Ground floor plan, Danielle
Billet. adt.40 Section BB, Danielle Billett. adt.41 Technical detail, Gergely
Toth. adt.41& adt.42 First floor plan Gergely Toth.
adt.43 3D model, Mohamed Ahmed. adt.44 Ground floor plan,
Mohamed Ahmed. adt.45, 46&47 Paris study trip.
P186  BSc ADT

P187  BSc ADT

adt.43

adt.37 adt.38

adt.39 adt.40 adt.44 adt.45

adt.41 adt.42 adt.46 adt.47

 Year 2 & 3 Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing Development; adt.48
Site survey, Ainsley Walters. adt.49 Site analysis, land use, Ainsley Walters
adt.50 Site analysis accessibilty study, Jonny Chapi.
adt.51 Climate analysis, solar study, Oussama Nefzi. adt.52 Climate
analysis, wind diagrams, Dean Rose. adt.53 Environmental design strategies,
Oussama Nefzi. adt.54& 55 Capacity studies, Oussama Nefzi, Jonny Chapi.
P188  BSc ADT

P189  BSc ADT

adt.51

adt.48 adt.52 adt.53

adt.54 adt.55
adt.49 adt.50
 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; Connor
Minihane, Jenga House adt.56 Section perspective, adt.57 3D Model
adt.58 Typical Floor plan adt.59 Ground Floor Plan.
adt.60 & adt.61 Exterior views,Giulia Ficini adt.62 South elevation
adt.63 First Floor plan, Giulia Ficini.
P190  BSc ADT

P191  BSc ADT

adt.39
adt.60 adt.61

adt.56 adt.57 adt.62

adt.58

adt.59
adt.63
 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; Giulia Ficini
adt.64 Interior shot of the reception area adt.65 construction drawing
plan adt.66 Technical details 1:5 Green roof and wall section adt.67
Environmental strategy diagram
adt.68 Typical Floor plan, George Fahmi. adt.69 & adt.70 project
3D, George Fahmi. adt.71 Fifth Floor plan, Michael Aregbesola adt.72 &
adt.73 3D Model, Michael Aregbesola.
P192  BSc ADT

P193  BSc ADT

adt.68

adt.64 adt.65 adt.69 adt.70

adt.49 adt.71

adt.66 adt.67 adt.72 adt.73

 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; Jawad
Serroukh adt.74 Entrance to the Project, adt.75 Site plan adt.76
Technical details 1:5 adt.77 3D model.
adt.78 First floor plan (construction drawing). adt.79 Balcony
view. adt.80 Roof garden adt.81&adt.82 Section BB & Section CC
(construction drawings)

P195  BSc ADT

P194  BSc ADT

adt.56
adt.78

adt.74 adt.70
adt.79 adt.80

adt.75

adt.66
adt.81

adt.76 adt.77 adt.82

 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; Jonny Chapi
Enriquez adt.83 Exterior view highlighting the threshold between the building
and the landscape adt.84 Site plan. adt.85 Typical floor plan (construction
drawing)
adt.86 Exploded perspective adt.87 East elevation adt.88 Technical
details 1:5 adt.89 West elevation adt.90 South elevation
P196  BSc ADT

P197  BSc ADT

adt.86

adt.83 adt.84 adt.76

adt.60 adt.87

adt.88 adt.78
adt.89

adt.85
adt.74 adt.90
 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; Oussama Nefzi
adt.91&adt.92 Aerial view of the project showing proposed connections
with the neighbouring urban fabric adt.93 Section BB adt.94 South
elevation
adt.95 Section perspective adt.96 Technical details 1:5 adt.97
Environmental strategy diagram adt.98 Typical floor plan (construction
drawing)
P198  BSc ADT

P199  BSc ADT

adt.95

adt.91 adt.66
adt.92 adt.96 adt.97

adt.93

adt.94 adt.71
adt.98
 Year 2 design project: Hathaway Crescent Affordable Housing; adt.99
Perspective illustaring the residential block , Oliver Egerton-Smith. adt.100
Exterior view, Giulia Ficini. adt.101 Aerial view of the project, Victor Naranjo
Cardenas. adt.102 Exterior view showing the main entrance, Tala Aflatouni.
adt.103 Ground floor plan, Victor Naranjo Cardenas
adt.104 Exterior view of the residential block, Jawad Serroukh. adt.105
Green Roof detial 1:5, Shahid Siddique. adt.106 Section BB (construction
drawing), Giulia Ficini. adt.107 Exterior view, Chinedu Okerezi. adt.108
P200  BSc ADT

P201  BSc ADT

Environmental strategy diagram and section perspective detail, Jonny Chapi
Enriquez. adt.109 Exterior view, Giulia Ficini. adt.110 South elevation,
Michael Aregbesola. adt.111 Exterior view, Tala Aflatouni.

adt.104 adt.105

adt.106 adt.107
adt.93
adt.99 adt.100

adt.101 adt.108 adt.109

adt.102 adt.103 adt.110 adt.111

 Year 3 design project: Hathaway Crescent Mixed Use Development; Ainsley
Walters adt.112 adt.113 3D model renders, adt.114 Residential first
floor plan (construction drawing) adt.115 Exterior view adt.116 South
elevation adt.117 Section 1-1 (construction drawing) adt.118 & adt.120
Technical details: External Balcony & Foundation 1:5 adt.119 Environmental
strategy diagram
P202  BSc ADT

P203  BSc ADT

adt.115

adt.112 adt.113 adt.116

adt.117 adt.118

adt.114
adt.98 adt.119 adt.120
adt.101
 Year 3 design project: Hathaway Crescent Mixed Use Development; Jozsef
Seregely adt.121 Typical floor plan (construction drawing) adt.122 South
elevation adt.104 Technical detail in wall envelope. adt.123 Exterior
view adt.124 Convenience store entrance and residential block above.
adt.125 Aerial view of the project adt.126 & adt.129 Technical detail
1:5 adt.127 3D model render adt.128 3D of a technical detail adt.130
Interior of the living room.
P204  BSc ADT

P205  BSc ADT

adt.123 adt.106 adt.124

adt.125 adt.107
adt.126

adt.121 adt.127 adt.128

adt.122 adt.129 adt.130

adt.111
 Year 3 design project: Hathaway Crescent Mixed Use Development;
Constantin Olariu adt.131Exterior view of the project adt.132 Courtyard
view adt.133 Typical floor plan (construction drawing) adt.134 South
elevation adt.135 & adt.137 Technical details 1:5 adt.136 Exterior view
adt.138 Interior view of a bedroom. adt.139 3D physical model, Michael
Aregbesola. adt.140 3D physical model, Oussama Nefzi.
P206  BSc ADT

P207  BSc ADT

adt.134

adt.131 adt.132 adt.135 adt.136

adt.137 adt.138

adt.133 adt.139 adt.140

 Year 3 design project: Hathaway Crescent Mixed Use Development; Mandy-
Liza Lehnert adt.141 &adt.142 Exterior views of the project adt.143
First floor plan adt.144 Exterior view. adt.145 & adt.147 3D printed
model, Mandy-Liza Lehnert, Giulia Ficini adt.146 South elevation adt.148
Site visit to King’s Cross Central (KXC) redevelopment adt.149 Presentation
delivered by King’s Cross Central (KXC) redevelopment team adt.150 The
visit to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP’s (SOM) London office adt.151 CIAT-
P208  BSc ADT

P209  BSc ADT

RIBA Mentoring Event

adt.144 adt.145

adt.141 adt.142 adt.146 adt.147

adt.148 adt.149

adt.143 adt.150 adt.133

adt.151
 Year 3 design project: Hathaway Crescent Mixed Use Development; Dean
Rose adt.152 & adt.153 Exterior views of the project adt.154 Ground
floor plan (construction drawing)adt.155 West elevation adt.156 Site
plan adt.157 South elevation adt.158 Typical floor plan adt.159 &
adt.160 Interior views of living room and bedroom, Jozsef Seregely.
P210  BSc ADT

P211  BSc ADT

adt.155 adt.156

adt.152 adt.153 adt.157

adt.158

adt.154 adt.159 adt.160

BA (Hons)
This year was a new start for a new BA (hons) Interior Design team. From the outset we were
challenged to establish a strong identity in Year 1, 2 + 3 through process-led projects. Punctuated
throughout the year with 3-week ‘Blast Briefs’ and 10-12 week ‘Main Briefs’, the goal was to grow
a confident set of artistic designers, bold in their use of graphic representation. Blast Briefs were
about generating fast content without procrastination through a catalyst of literary references,
such as ‘Exercises in Style’ by Raymond Queneau (1947), ‘Library of Babel’ by Jose Luis Borges

Interior Design
(1962) and ‘Species of Spaces’ by Georges Perec (1972). Main Briefs immediately followed
these and looked at developing typical interior design projects through techniques of spatial
analysis, collage, model-making, photo-transfers, drawings and artistic impressions. Some
project locations were on campus, while in Year 02 + 03 they reached West London, Cheltenham
and as far as Penzance.

Dr Keith Winter Programme Leader
In late November we had the opportunity to visit the 16th Architecture Exhibition at the Venice
Biennale. This was a key moment for our entire BA student cohort to get close to innovative
designs, notably experienced through 1:1 installations and stunning models of various scales.
In February we held an event in the AVA Atrium called ‘Hyper Now or Slow Release’ that saw
the launch of our Year 03 ‘Live Projects’, inviting four design offices to become the mentors for
our student groups. FNFC Architects, LOM Architecture + Design, Edge Design Workshop and
ScottWhitby Studio formed our talented industry professionals who presented their work and
supplied a current live brief for the students to plug into. Students were tasked not only with
satisfying a UEL submission requirement, but also with sharpening their design and graphic skills
in accordance with the offices, which produced a dynamic and high-energy flurry of productivity
towards the end of the year. Projects included a Neo-Baroque Crypt, co-working containers, a
community centre and a co-living site.

In Term 02, Year 01 students developed ideas of their ‘Dream Bedroom’ through plan, section
and axonometric, which eventually manifest into a 1:1 representation of a corner of their design.
This exercise produced compelling installations and material applications. The construction
of these large works gave our students confidence to use power tools in the workshops and
learn how to build in the studio. The results culminated in lettuces mixed with pink plaster, glue-
gun tiles, dialectics of disgust vs satisfaction, fear of holes, feathers and petals and oil painted
metals, AXO’s and ISO’s, floor-plans and psychos - we had it all in this brief. Year 02 had a unique
take on ‘Co-Work’ in the fast-gentrifying area of London Fields in Hackney. In Arch 389 there are
currently seven separate tenants selling vintage furniture and clothes. Year 02’s were tasked with
re-ordering and mapping out proposals to bring coherence to a frantic and busy shop.

One of the hardest things to learn as a designer is how to get ideas onto paper. By pitching
various forms of oppositions against each other, such as public and private uses, beautiful
and ugly, dark and light drives, our students were able to map out their first concepts into a
diagrammatic graphic language. This allowed individuals to extract meaningful knowledge from
themselves, opening up everything in their lives to be available for content. I believe this has led
to a strong and visible identity in our current Interior Design cohort, one that we as a tutorial team
are very proud of.

Dr Keith Winter

@id_ba_uel
 Students:
Y1: Demha Ahmed, Alghaliah MJ H B Alsiri, Lily Dadson,
Interior Design
Inci Devecigiller, Bianca Franga, Amber French, Atanaska Hadzhiyska,
Asma Ibrahim, Nahed Idris, Roisin King, Gizem Kose, Batul Lopez,
Rachel Mcdowell, Melissa Mustafa, Wajeeha Nazir, Daniela Nunez
Paco, Aleksandra Piate, Alison Richards, Mavish Rizvi, Dilara Sert,
Nafisa Tailor, Elif Tintas, Sara Trevain, Dijle Ucrak, Diana Vysniauskaite,
Man Wong.
Sabina Andron, Joshua Beaty, Maliha Haque, Janet
Insull, Claudia Palma, Keith Winter
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FIELD TRIP: VENICE, ITALY
Y2: Crystal Stewart, Rosa Sheaves, Carolina Iacovenco,
Jessica Pembroke, Joanne Dean, Delmarie Coates, Lian Nasseri, Alisa
Insoi, Tannah Nansubuga, Onur Derin, Mohamed Hamidi
Y3: Claudia Lazar, Nayden Hadzhiev, Christina Inoke, Carlos Torres,
P215  BA Interior Design
Zena Emanuel, Amber Ali, Sonia Islam, Gizem Sarilmaz, Helen
Adefoiye, Alvin Tampon, Whitney Green, Kevser Intze, Elham Saneifard
Thanks:
Anya Gordon Clark, ZAP Architecture (Pol), Federico Nassetti, Jason
Pritchard, CAKE Industries (David), LOM Architecture + Design,
ScottWhitby Studio (Ming + Alex)
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 id.1+2 Crypt Bar design and doors section, Nayden Hadzhiev id.3+4
Jubilee Pool model, Carlos Torres id.5 Co-Living Bar collage, Whitney Green
id.6 Co-Living visual, Sonia Islam id.7 Plaster tests, Sara Trevain id.8a
Dream Bedroom Axo, Sara Trevain id.9b Model experiment, Mavish Rizvi
P216  BA Interior Design

P217  BA Interior Design

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 id.10 Year 03 Final Crits id.11 Year 01 construction team id.12 Exercises
in Style, Roisin King id.13 Library of Babel graphic tests, Rosa Sheaves
id.14 Hyper Now or Slow Release publication, Carolina Iacovenco id.15
Crypt Section, Amber Ali

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P218  BA Interior Design

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Existing Old Historical Baroque - Style

Church 1:50

Contemporary treatment to Crypt,

Proposal 1:50

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 id.16 Workshop Containers Co-work Section, Claudia Lazar id.17
Workshop Containers Co-work Visual, Claudia Lazar id.18 1:1 Wall, Melissa
Mustafa id.19 Photo Transfer, Wajeeha Nazir id.20 2-Point Perspective,
Rachell McDowell id.21 Library of Babel model, Sonia Islam
P220  BA Interior Design

P221  BA Interior Design

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WORKSHOP CHELTENHAM
Claudia- Maria Lazar

ARTISTIC IMPRESSION
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 id.22 Research Book, Dilara Sert id.23 Collage, Melissa Mustafa id.24
HyperNow or Slow Release publication, Joanne Dean id.25 Co-Work, Arch 389
Visuals + Logo, Carolina Iacovenco id.26 Co-Work, Arch 389 collaged section,
Rosa Sheaves id.27 Jubilee Pool, Plinth study, Carlos Torres id.28 Library of
Babel Section, Crystal Stewart
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P223  BA Interior Design

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 id.29 Collage, Nahed Idris id.30 1:1 Corner Wall, Mavish Rizvi +
Nafisa Tailor id.31 Collage, Wajeeha Nazir id.32 Collage, Demha Ahmed
id.33 Collage, Alex Man Wong id.34 1:1 Corner Wall, Lily Dadson + Dijle
Ucrak id.35 Axonometric Dream Bedroom, Nahed Idris id.36 Co-Living
Axonometric, Zena Emmanuel id.37 Post Year 03 crit party

P225  BA Interior Design

P224  BA Interior Design

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 id.38 Model at Year 03 Crit, Sonia Islam id.39 Co-Work Plan, Melissa
Mustafa id.40 Crypt Garden Entrance Visual, Christina Inoke id.41 Collage
and Analysis, Dream Bedroom, Rachel McDowell id.42+44 Model of
Jubilee Pool Gift Shop design, Gizem Sarilmaz id.43 Model of Jubilee Pool
Office, Carlos Torres id.45 1:1 Light design for Crypt, Nayden Hadzhiev
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P227  BA Interior Design

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 id.46 1:1 Wallpaper tests, Asma Ibrahim id.47 Changing the Square
Model Visual, Elham Saneifard id.48 Co-Work Containers Plan, Elham
Saneifard id.49 Crypt, TED talk visual, Nayden Hadzhiev
P228  BA Interior Design

P229  BA Interior Design

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BSc (Hons)

P231  BSc Product Design

Product Design
Andrew Wright Programme Leader
The Product Design Programme encourages students to explore,
question and understand people and problems with the key
objective of providing responsive solutions that will improve and
better an indivdual’s or a group’s life and experience.

Address social and enviromental questions and look at issues

within context.

Only by undertaking primary research, working with a chosen

user group, are students really able to appreciate and
understand problems faced by their users.
 Studients: Website:
Year 2 : Emily Pedder. Hayat Ali. Juan Gonzalez. Katja Seifert. Laura- www.uel.ac.uk/Undergraduate/Courses/BSc-Hons-Product-Design

Product Design
Monica Carusato. Melanie Villacis-Freire Nayan Chavda. Pranto
Sakhawat. Olusegun Salako.

P233  BSc Product Design

Year 3 : Fayaz Chowdhury. James Edmunds. John Binks. Joseph
Crump. Namuun Mandal. Oyinda Olagunju. Sam Ikhuoria. Trix Inciong.
Innovation through Evaluation Emily Hodgkinson. George Davis. Sebastian Potter.

Andrew Wright/Mathew Brown/Greg Bolland

The Product Design Programme encourages

students to analyse and assess social and
environmental landscapes to identify opportunities for
improvement.
By identifying issues, students undertake primary
research to emphasise and identify with their key
users, forging a direction for the development of their
final designs.
During their journey, students will explore ideas
in 2 and 3 Dimensions in parallel to understand and
fully represent their design concepts, becoming
more refined on their iterative journey of exploration.
Encouragement to understand and identify form and
function, alongside technical material explorations,
helps with the realisation of the final designs, pieces
that can be manufactured and realised commercially.
The construction of test rigs and jigs on a basic level
enables in-depth analysis and evaluation directly with
the user, presenting solutions influenced by the client
or user’s direct input.
By integrating the contextual and marketing elements
of the programme to support the design projects, a
richer more conclusive outcome is achieved through a
body of work that theorises and then directly questions
the issues identified central to the user.

COLOGNE, WUPPERTAL, GERMANY

 Project completed by Emily Hodgkinson. A handheld fidget device designed
for adults suffering from OCD and related Anxiety Disorders. p.d .1 shows a
product breakdown of all the internal components within the product. p.d .2 is
a Solidworks generated technical drawing specifying dimensions and tolerances

P235  BSc Product Design

P234  BSc Product Design

for manufacture. p.d .3 is a CAD model of the mould which would be needed
for the injection moulding process used to make the parts. p.d .4 is the final logo
and tag line for Pulse p.d .5 shows two people holding prototype models of the
Pulse device at the Central London BFRB Support Group

p.d .4

People with OCD and Anxiety commonly use ‘Fidget Pulse was taken to Central London OCD Support
Devices’. These are often unfit for purpose and not Group and Central London BFRB Group where primary
overly effective as the intended user group is usually research and feedback was gathered which vital in
children. ensuring the device would be effective and suitable for
Pulse is an ergonomic handheld fidget device which the desired user groups.
has TENS Machine components to electrify two areas of
the product. If switched off, it acts like a standard fidget
device with moveable parts and stimulating surfaces.
Discretion is key in this project, therefore skin-colour
tones was the preferred surface finish.

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MATERIAL:
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DATE FINISH:
07th April 2019 Soft Touch Plastic Drawing NO. 1 A3
SCALE: 2:1 SHEET 1 OF 3
SOLIDWORKS Educational Product. For Instructional Use Only.

p.d .2 p.d .5
 Project completed by George Davis. A compact dining table that
retrofits into a kitchen drawer space. p.d .6 shows an exploded view of
the casing unit that allows the product to be installed into a kitchen drawer.
p.d .7 MultiFlex being used in a kitchen environment. p.d .8 a selection of
P236  BSc Product Design

P237  BSc Product Design

images of the final model being constructed. p.d .9 shows an example of a GA
drawing produced for the product. The hinge for the table’s leg is shown in this
GA drawing.

With the increase of multigenerational households

there is an increased importance keeping spaces as
inclusive as possible while keeping them appealing to
everyone in the household. This is evident in smaller
homes where the kitchen space is becoming less
accessible due to a lack in attractive inclusive design.
MultiFlex is a dining table which can be used in kitchens
of all sizes while also functioning as a lower work surface
for seated food preparation. The mechanism of the table p.d .8
allows for the surface to be retracted into the drawer for
compact storage.
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SOLIDWORKS Educational Product. For Instructional Use Only.

p.d .7 p.d .9
 Live project completed by students George Davis & Emily
Hodgkinson for GreenSeas Trust. An informative bin designed
to educate people on the issues of plastic waste in the ocean.
p.d .10 GA Drawing of the final design. p.d .11-pd. 12 The bin
P238  BSc Product Design
in construction. (Manufacture of the Fibre Glass Mould) p.d .13
Visualisation of the final design with graphic details.
p.d .10
p.d .11 p.d .12
‘Over the last few years, plastic waste has increased
at a staggering rate. A significant part of this comes from
careless littering and improperly disposed of rubbish.‘
GreenSeas Trust approached Product Design
students to come up with a practical solution designed
around their vision to educate people on the issue of
Plastic Waste in the Oceans and promote responsible
disposal of rubbish.
‘Throw Marine Life A Lifeline’ was the phrase the trust
wanted to be at the centre of the design and therefore
the life ring shape was adopted as the base of the
P239  BSc Product Design
design.
This bin was launched on Blackpool Promenade near
to the RNLI Lifeboat Station and Blackpool Tower on the
5th June 2019 (World Environment Day).
p.d
.12
p.d .13
 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: work alongside UEL product design students to design
Working with a local charity – Every One Every Day in and manufacture their own products. The final artefacts
Barking & Dagenham were then sold commercially through local community
P240  BSc Product Design

P241  BSc Product Design

During term 2, Level 5 BSc (Hons) product design
students worked in collaboration with a local community
based charity in Barking & Dagenham called ‘Every
One Every Day’. The students immersed themselves
into a ‘design-a-thon’ event which was organised by the
charity and offered local residents the opportunity to
shops in the borough. The students worked closely with
the residents and imparted their product design skills
and knowledge which was a very rewarding experience
for the students. Throughout the project, there was
a strong emphasis towards digital design tools and
processes for batch volume manufacture.

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Masters Programmes
 MRes
Architecture
Reading the Neoliberal City
Anna Minton Programme Leader
‘Adverts on hoardings all over London portray a city
populated by smart-looking people in luxury balcony
apartments. This is the destination of choice for foreign
investors and the oligarchs, billionaires and super-
rich who make up the so-called ‘alpha elites’, who
are attracted by the UK’s favourable tax environment.
Entire neighbourhoods in the ‘alpha’ part of London…
have changed out of all recognition...Estate agents
refer to these centrally located ‘super prime’ areas as
the ‘golden postcodes’. They have long been wealthy
places, but in the past, like most of London, they were
also mixed areas. Now multimillionaire Ultra High Net
Worth Individuals have displaced even the wealthy
from Kensington; they in turn displace others to
suburban areas, creating a domino effect that ripples
throughout the city…placing pressure on housing and
prices around the country.’
Big Capital: Who is London for? (Penguin 2017)
P245 MRes
Anna Minton, author of Big Capital: Who is London Guest lecturers are a key component of the course studentship, is investigating whether community-
for? (Penguin 2017) and Ground Control: Fear and and include politicians, leading industry figures and led housing might provide a solution to the housing
happiness in the 21st century city (Penguin 2009/12), is activists. This year speakers included James Murray, crisis and Luke Okende is researching the impact of
the Programme Leader on the MRes Architecture. This Deputy Mayor for Housing at the Greater London participatory processes to improve slum conditions in
multi-disciplinary course, sited within the architecture Authority and Daniel Moylan, former advisor to Boris Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
department, welcomes applicants from a wide range of Johnson when he was Mayor.
backgrounds. While situated in London’s Docklands, For more information contact:
the global impact of these processes, which are The MRes provides a pathway to PhD study, with two Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture & Programme
relevant across the world, provides the context. former MRes students currently doing PhDs with us. Leader
Martyn Holmes, who is the holder of the UEL PhD a.minton@uel.ac.uk
The course is comprised of four modules: Reading
the neoliberal city; Critical Writing and Professional
Practice; Ethical Development and the Digital City.
Topics for study include the housing crisis and the
privatisation of cities, investigating the financialisation
of the urban environment. The modules on Ethical
Development and the Digital City investigate potential
economic alternatives. The module on Critical Writing
focuses on high level writing skills, through written
assignments and the study of critical writing about
the city, from Situationism to Psychogeography. The
modules on Critical Writing 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 Debra Shaw, Reader in Cultural
Theory, who teaches on the Digital City module.
 Students: Space-filling solids in modular buildings project by Long Li: au.1 North

P247  MA Architecture & Urbanism

Ghader Bahman, Long Li, Kai Xin Tan au.2 Ground level view.

MA Architecture Visiting Crits:

Daniel Widrig

and Urbanism Special thanks to:

Giuseppe Gallo (University of Palermo)

Fulvio Wirz Programme Leader

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
au.1
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.
Topics like Advanced Architectural Design,
Parametric Urban Design, Digital Manufacturing have
been developed across the year following a common
digital platform which simulates the state of the art
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
“Most architects think in drawings, or
sustainable strategies in order to generate a research
did think in drawings; today, they think
leading to a secure impact in the industry.
on the computer monitor. I always tried
to think three dimensionally. The interior
eye of the brain should be not flat but
three dimensional so that everything is
an object in space. We are not living in a
two-dimensional world.”
Frei Otto

au.2

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 Part 2) 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:
Abdul Azeem Rahim, Daniel Arockia Doss, Ghader Bahman,
Muhammed Hamza, Sharik Ibrahim, Gokul Menon, Marziyeh
Mirhassani, Ashhar Mohammad, Fajar Basheer, Michael Nonso,
Adebayo Ogunbiyi, Nishant Patel, David Paul, Mohammed Rayees,
Sarah Rotowa, Shahid Shaikh, Kai Xin Tan, Nitty Varghese, Phyo Thant
Zin
Y4: Ahmed Mohamed Ayman Ashour, Larisa David, Sadaf
Fatima, Nurina Ghizan, Alexandra Goodey, Paul Joseph, Elefteria
Lampropoulou, Lenny Lew, Christina Nika, Sahar Pathan, Ekramul
Robbani, Erdjan Ruci
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: Kingsley Asare Boateng, Anil Can Colak, Travis Gideon Daisley, Iara
Sofia De Jose E Silva, Ryan Hahn,
Austin Joseph, Kingsley Buah Kerson, Jian Jun Lim, Viraj Patel, Odaine
Coswayne Phipps, Ozan Sahin, Bjorn Wang, Ze Rou Yong
Blog: www.ma-ud.blogspot.com
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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: Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Aisha Labefo-Audu (UEL,
Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Birce Gural, Felicia Ivanciuc, Parisa Civic Engagement/Volunteering/Noon Centre), Alfonso Senatore,

MA
Oreizi, Yuvraj Singh Panwar, Ishita Pathak, Sophie Savvidou, Lasata Anna Minton. Also special thanks to the following colleagues for their
Shrestha, Esra Tekagac, Garima Thakkar, Sahar Youssef, Fatima Zahra support with the Hackney Pirates live project: Anthony Mensah, Aaron

P251  MA Interior Design

Had Piper, from The Hackney Pirates, Joanne Molyneux, Natalie Freeman,

Interior Design
Special thanks to our guest tutors and external
critics: Dr Kat Martindale, Dr Keith Winter, Carl Callaghan, Melissa
Bennett (Museum of London), Reem Sharif, Graham Thompson,
Jude Williams (Hackney Pirates CEO), Lily Eastwood (Hackney
Pirates), Dr Francesca Zanatta (UEL, Department of Early Childhood
Dr Anastasia Karandinou Programme Leader & Education), Gail May (UEL, Director of Civic Engagement; Civic
from the UEL Civic Engagement team, Clare Qualmann, Liselle Terret,
Gordon Kerr, Lavinia Mihoc, UEL.
Additionally, special thanks David Spence (Director of Transformation),
Alex Werner (the lead curator for the new museum), and Finbarr
Whooley (Director of Content), from the Museum of London for their
valuable time and conversations on initiating this collaborative project.

MA_ID1: Interactive stage set design for the HAckney Pirates performances. Group
work. Photo by Esra Tekagac

Design of any scale responds to – and in parallel leads
– cultural, political and social change. Our everyday
living changes rapidly. Changing demographics and
the emergence of new technologies shift the way in
which we inhabit, use and share spaces. What is the
role of design in the rapidly changing contemporary
world? What is home in a future of densely populated
city centres? What is the shop of the future – when
e-commerce is changing the role and the experience
of the high street? What is the office of the future when
patterns and media of collaboration change? What
is the library of the future? What is the school of the
future – in times of an overload of information, and of
numerous online resources and social networks? How
can design activate what is important about physical
proximity and interaction? How does contemporary
design responds to the above issues? 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.
Hackney Pirates Live project – Interactive
Theatre Stage set design:
live project. Our MA students designed and built a real-
MA_ID1
scale interactive stage-set; an imaginative immersive
environment, which hosted the events organised by
the Hackney Pirates in March 2019. The design project
of the stage set, as well as the video art, was done by
our MA Interior Design students, led by the programme
leader, Dr Anastasia Karandinou. The sound design
was done by Lalvin, UEL Sound Design student. The
project was supported by UEL Civic Engagement team.
Museum of London moving to Smithfield Market
– Reinventing the Threshold between the museum
and the city:
Museums and cultural organisations are increasingly
concerned with the issue of social inclusion. How is a
museum of the 21st century addressing the broader
public and not only a small specific part of the society?
The vision of contemporary museums is to make sure
that all citizens feel welcome, and that the museum
exhibits, curation and relevant events and facilities are
relevant to their everyday living. How does a museum
become a vital part of the city life? In this context, the
students redesigned the derelict Engine Building,
situated next to the entrance of the new Museum of
London (currently relocating to the Smithfield Market).
The students redesigned the programme and form
of the building; and this project was a medium for
reinventing the threshold between the museum and
the community.
For further information please visit: www.uel.ac.uk/ ID 1

The UEL MA programme in Interior Design collaborated postgraduate/courses/ma-interior-design or find us

with the Hackney Pirates on this community-engaging on Instagram at #UEL_MAinteriordesign. MA_ID1
 MA_ID 2, 3, 4: Interactive stage set design for the Hackney Pirates
performances. Group work. All MA students received a Platinum award for
their Civic engagement and volunteering, in a ceremony held in Stratford in
March 2019. More than 200 children from local schools attended the interactive
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performances led by the Hackney Pirates, and explored the immersive interactive
installation - stage-set - designed by our students.

MA_ID3

MA_ID3

MA_ID2 MA_ID4
 MA_ID 5: Group work; Birce Gural, Lasata Shrestha MA_ID 6, 7:
Lasata Shrestha MA_ID 8, 9, 10: Birce Gural MA_ID 11: Lasata Shrestha Sectional Elevation
MA_ID 12: Birce Gural.
The engine building has been re-interpreted as a threshold between the
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P255  MA Interior Design

museum and the city. Both students have redesigend it as a small performance
centre; Birce for music and Lasata for spoken word. Both proposals aim to
create an informal interactive hub for the local community. In both cases,
activities ‘spil out’ and inform the character of the neighbourhood.

MA_ID5 MA_ID6 MA_ID11

The PlayGround //section

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MA_ID9 MA_ID10 MA_ID12

 MA_ID 13, 14: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima
Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh
Panwar. ‘Displayz’ creative exercise for analysing and understanding the place.
Students re-enacted, performed with their bodies ideas drawn from the site.
P256  MA Interior Design

P257  MA Interior Design

Hiding/ revealing; opening/ closing; opening up the ‘blind’ previously derelict
building. MA_ID 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20: Sahar Youssef. The Engine
building redesigned as a small community film house for documentaries, films,
short films, produced by indiipendent producers or in collaboration with the
Museum of London and local artists/ communities.

MA_ID13 MA_ID14 MA_ID19

MA_ID15 MA_ID16

MA_ID17 MA_ID18 MA_ID20

 MA_ID 21, 22, 23, 24: Esra Tekagac MA_ID 25: Sophie Savvidou,
Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous, Esra Tekagac MA_ID 26: Birce Gural, Fatima MA_ID9
North Elevation
Zahra Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha,
Scale 1:50
Parisa Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 27, 28: Esra
P258  MA Interior Design

P259  MA Interior Design

Tekagac.
The Engine building redesigned as a gallery with transformable interior. The
folding ‘ribbon’ becomes a display element, seating, circulation, and links the
various areas of the gallery.

MA_ID21 MA_ID22 MA_ID27

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MA_ID23 MA_ID24

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MA_ID25 MA_ID26 MA_ID28

 MA_ID 29, 30: Sophie Savvidou MA_ID 31: Parisa Oreizi MA_ID
32: Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous MA_ID 33: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra
Hadj, Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa
Oreizi, Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 34: Birce Gural MA_ID
35: Sophie Savvidou MA_ID 36: Parisa Oreizi

P261  MA Interior Design

P260  BA Interior Design

MA_ID29 MA_ID30 MA_ID35

MA_ID31 The PlayGround //displayz

MA_ID32

MA_ID33 MA_ID34 spilling out MA_ID36

 CASTED PLASTER MODELS
INTERPRETITION OF THE ARTIST’S WORK

MA_ID 37, 38: Yuvraj Sing Panwar MA_ID 39: Yuvraj Sing Panwar,
Ishita Pathak, Parisa Oreizi MA_ID 40: Ishita Pathak MA_ID 41, 42:
Garima Thakkar MA_ID 43, 44, 45, 46: Ishita Pathak MA_ID 47:
Felicia Ivanciuc

P263  MA Interior Design

P262  BA Interior Design

CASTED PLASTER MODELS

MA_ID43 MA_ID44
MODEL

MA_ID37 MA_ID38 MA_ID45 MA_ID46

MA_ID39 MA_ID40

MA_ID41 MA_ID42 MA_ID47

Adding transparency to the solidity of current building
Scale- 1:100
 EXPERIMENTATION WITH THE NAKED EYE ON COLOURED LENSES

MA_ID 48: Parisa Oreizi MA_ID 49: Sophie Savvidou, Dina Husam
Jameel Al-Qusous, Esra Tekagac MA_ID 50: Birce Gural, Fatima Zahra Hadj,
Felicia Ivanciuc, Garima Thakkar, Ishita Pathak, Lasata Shrestha, Parisa Oreizi,
Sahar Youssef, Yuvraj Singh Panwar MA_ID 51: Esra Tekagac MA_ID 52,

P265  MA Interior Design

53: Dina Husam Jameel Al-Qusous MA_ID 54: Garima Thakkar, Ishita
P264  BA Interior Design

Pathak MA_ID 55: Students after the rehersals with the Hackney Pirates
MA_ID 56, 57: Students received their Civic Engagement and Volunteering
Platinum award MA_ID 58, 59: designing andmaking one to one details;
group project by Birce Gural and Esra Tekagac; sketches and drawings by Esra
Tekagac MA_ID 60, 61: Students in the wood and metal workshops

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MAKING PROCESS- STAND

MAKING PROCESS- ROLLER AND HANDLE

MA_ID50 MA_ID51 MA_ID58 MA_ID59

Concept: Old Vs New, Metal & Brick:

MA_ID52 MA_ID53 MA_ID60 MA_ID61

MA Professional

P267  Landscape Architecture

Landscape The MA Professional Landscape Architecture programmes at UEL,
span practice and academia, investigating landscape at all scales.
We are firmly grounded in professional practice. We are taught

Architecture
by practitioners, work on live projects with real clients, address
current issues, and include work-shadowing placements in our
programmes.

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

outlook. We push our students to challenge accepted norms, and

MA PLA, PG Dip Landscape their own assumptions about what landscape is, what nature is,
what beauty is, who the landscape is for, and what contemporary
practice should be.
Architecture, MA PLA We engage with theorists, with environmental and social concerns,

(Conversion) 1 & 2
and we carry out our own investigations and research.

Landscape has extent in space and time. Travelling through it

we are aware of continuity, and of change. Physical and social
Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI Programme Leader processes are at work, and we learn to read these forces and 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, the
air we breathe, our part of the ecosystem and the place where we
meet each other.

Dr Bridget Snaith CMLI

 MA/
PG Diploma/
MA(Conversion)
Wandle Valley
Dr B Snaith, G Woodfall, M Pelka
The Landscape Architecture programmes are taught
through design practice modules, and landscape
theory modules. Theory provides an underpinning of
critical thinking and professional knowledge to support
the students own developing ideas explored in studio.
This year our focus was urban rivers. Our field visit
took us to Lyon, a city investing in riverside public
spaces, and incremental regeneration of disused
industrial wharves. We were hosted by BASE
landscape architecture, France’s largest landscape
practice, gaining insight, through presentations and
tours, of significant BASE projects, including Saone
riverside walkways and Parc Blandan with its Rampart
Wave.
In landscape theory we reviewed a range of
contemporary approaches to river restoration and flood
risk managemen, visiting projects across London. In
studio we investigated the RIver Wandle, a tributary of
the Thames, fifteen miles of which is rare chalk stream
habitat in good condition.
The Wandle Valley though largely built, contains a
fragmented network of over 40 green spaces, and 12
nature reserves, many linked by the riverside Wandle
Trail. It is a landscape with a rich history, vulnerable
ecology and hydrology, but with significant capacity to
support a growing population as green infrastructure.
LONDON & LYON
Students: Thanks to:
PG Diploma: Sin Yee (Miki) Wong, Jonny Williamson; MA (Conversion) Visiting Professionals: Andrea Dates (Townsend), Martyna Dobosz
P269  Landscape Architecture
Year 1: Meg Callow, Pernille Coulthard, Jon Diss, Louise Fitzgerald, (BDP), Noel Farrer, Nicola McEwan (Farrer Huxley), James Fox (fflo)
Nathalie Foster, Shannon du Hasky, Caroline O‘ Farrell, Anne-Marie Fenella Griffin (Untitled Practice), Ulrich Hoffman (AECOM), Richard
Osei Sarfoh, Elizabeth Rasmussen, Lewis Reynolds, Jackie Shallcross, Peckham (Shape), Sam Perry (LUC) PRG: Fenella Griffin (Untitled
Sarah Toplis, MA (Conversion) Year 2: Mat Dagorn Proctor, Panna Elek, Practice), Susan Lowenthal (WSP) Tom Lonsdale (Placecraft) Eduardo
Harvey Erhard, Josh George, Anna Gower Peters, Katerina Rafaj, Seire
Takeda, Tomomi Yamahara, MA: Lisa Peachey, Karen Wong.
Carranza (Gustafson Porter Bowman).
Thanks for student placements to:
Special thanks to:
Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust, Nick Durston, Sue Morgan, Lysanne
AECOM, BDP, Bowles & Wyer, Fabrik, Gustafson Porter Bowman,
Jon Sheaff Associates, Levitt Bernstein, Land Use Consultants,
Horrox, SWBA, LDA Design. Outerspace, Townsend.
We worked alongside the Wandle Valley Regional
Park Trust, who are developing new models for
coordinated management of some 900 hectares of
landscape space across four Borough boundaries.
WVRPT aims to provide environmental benefits,
support sustainable economic growth, and build social
capital and resilience for its growing communities. In
term 1 Masters year students undertook landscape
scale assessment of the valley across Wandsworth,
Merton and Sutton, developing strategies for future
greenspace and urban intervention in key locations.
Conversion year students made proposals for a
Regional Park HQ at the mouth of the Wandle in
Wandsworth.
In term 2 both years came together to imagine future
developments for the river and adjacent communities
at Colliers Wood and Poulter Park /Mill Green in the
context of London’s predicted population growth and
climate changes - increased flash flooding, reduced
water supply, increased heat, and uncertain food
security.
“.. it was necessary to think of a ruse, a way
to take control of this site, and to begin its
transformation..”
Michel Desvignes, on Lyon, Intermediate Natures (2009)
L.1
 Previous Page: L.1 Y1 student Jon Diss Vision for increased biodiversity and
community facilities at Poulter Park
P270  Landscape Architecture

P271  Landscape Architecture

Semester One, In ‘Place Poem’ Year 1 & 2 students identified modelled
and drew ‘words’, in the landscape of Morden Hall then visualised proposals
L.2 ‘Amplify’ soundscape, L.3, ‘Align’ sculptural panels, Anna Peters L.4
‘Flow’ model, L.5 ‘Glade’ sketch, Katerina Rafaj. L.6 ‘Glimpse’ Rhino model,
Josh George. Right: Term 1 MA/ Year 2 Landscape Planning/ Masterplan L.7
Designations as part of Landscape Character Assessment report, Panna Elek,
L.8 Masterplan Charette Colliers Wood, Mat Dagorn Proctor

L.6 L.7

L.2

L3 L.4 L.5 L.8

 Left Year 1 Term 1, Conversion Year/ Pg Dip students developed designs
for the Wandle Valley Regional Park Trust ‘front of house’ pocket park at
P272  Landscape Architecture

P273  Landscape Architecture

Wandsworth Causeway where the river meets the Thames. L.9 Urban
orchard skate park, Caroline O’Farrell. L.10 Biomes playable landscape,
Louise Fitzgerald. L.11 Occupied signs, Meg Callow. This Page Term 2 Year
1 & Year 2 students undertook mapping and analaysis of different aspects
of place, at Colliers Wood and Mill Green L.12 Materiality, Lisa Peachey &
Jonny Williamson. L.13 Lynch Analysis, Anna Peters L.15 Mill Green Historic
development . Following on from mapping and analysis, students identified
strategic moves for their major design L.14 Strategy for Wandle Park, Colliers
Wood, Sin Yee (Miki) Wong.

COLLIERS WOOD
Materiality

CERAMIC STONE WOOD OTHER

13. C19th rural gothic style

12. Mid C19th weatherboard house, wood carving, Christchurch 17. Early C20th cast iron
1. C20th English Brick Bond, Abbey Mills 70 Christchurch Road
street lamps,
Station Road
3. C19th (1897) decorative
brickwork, Singlegate

Tooting
Towards
Primary School
18. C21st floor tiles,
Gort Scott
2. C20th Flemish bond decorative 16. C19th Iron cupola, seating areas
brickwork, Singlegate 14. C21st engraved wooden benches 15. C21st Wayfinding, Singlegate Primary School
Primary School 8. C12th flint, ashlar stone and brick wall, Gort Scott seating areas cyclepath posts
from remains of Merton Priory
7

4. C20th tiles made in traditional

medieval method, Abbey Millls
19
19. C21st window design with coloured
panels, Colliers Wood Library

11
10. C20th Flint work on

L.9
9. C19th Rural Gothic arch - created in the

L.12 Style stone carving,

Christchurch
style of the
original flint work
11. Portland Stone,
Colliers Wood station
20. C21st glass frontage, Sainsburys
6. C21st enamel bricks,
Gort Scott seating areas 16
3
2
14

17

9
13

18 8
14
6
7. C20th ceramic tiles,
Colliers Wood
Community Centre
21. C21st cladding - Marks and Spencer
12
15

20

21

10

0m 20 40 80 4

Scale 1:2000

L.13

L.10 L.11 L.14 L.15

 Design proposals Year 1 L.16 A William Morris inspired renewal of Wandle
Park Colliers Wood, Jackie Shallcross L.17 Colliers Wood 2029, design

P275  Landscape Architecture

P274  Landscape Architecture

strategy and visualisation of mediterranean Riviera with colonnade referencing

Merton Priory L.18 Poulter Park, greater biodiversity, and increased activity for
residents, Jon Diss
Right Year 2 L.19 A sustainable landscape of learning healing, and
agriculture inspired by Merton priory, Lisa Peachey. L.20 Food forest for Mill
Green, Katerina Rafaj L.21 Colliers Wood 2050 Hospital replaces superstore,
Merton Priory excavated, and landscape with increased wetland to mitigate
flood risk at Colliers Wood, Seire Takeda.

L.20 L.21

L.16 a.4

L.17 L.19

L.18 L.20 L.21

 L.22, L.23 Merton Abbey Mills 2029-2070 Sainsbury’s superstore
retained, car park converted to cultural centre, and new park created connecting

P277  Landscape Architecture

P276  Landscape Architecture

Merton Priory & Merton Abbey Mills, Tomomi Yamahara. L.24 Cultural event
centre, wetlands and urban agriculture, Karen Wong.
Right: Construction fortnight live projects L.25 South Wimbledon Business
Alliance greening strategy L.26 Laser cut waymarkers, Wandle Trail broken
links, Earlsfield.
Study visit Lyon L.27, Rampart Wave play structure, Parc Blandan, BASE
Landscape Architecture L.28 Visit to BASE office, Lyon
Year 1 theory modules L.29 Case Studies: Patterns of use North Park,
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Meg Callow. L.30 L.31 Longitudinal planting
study, planting plans, Pernille Coulthard.

L.22 L.26
L.25

L.27

L.23 L.28 L.29

a.4
L.24 L.30 L.31
L.31
 PhD in
Architecture +
Design
Dr Renee Tobe
Doctoral research in architecture at UEL is as
transdisciplinary as the practice of architecture itself.
High level impact studies that examine smart cities, and
intelligent design with contextual analysis mean that we
work with both the Sustainable Research Institute and
colleagues from humanities. International experts in
city design, moving image, sensory perception, retrofit
housing, natural environment, and philosophy guide
students through individually developed research
projects. The intent of the doctorate is to produce high
quality researchers across the different strands of the
built environment, that support students’ own concerns
as well as funded research investigations.
Esra Alhamal
Title: Significance of Islamic patterns in interior design
Supervisory Team: Alan Chandler; Hassan Abdallah
Jack Clough
Title: The feasibility of Wetland Agriculture in Lowland
Britain
Supervisory Team: Richard Lindsay; Stuart Connop;
Darryl Newport
Chris Groothuizen
Title: Resonant Objects
Supervisory Team: Michael Pinsky; Gary Doherty
Christoph Hadrys
Title: City Book and City Wall; an Exploration of
Generative Urbanism
Supervisory Team: Karen Rainey; Eric Great-Rex
Martyn Holmes
Title: Towards a new housing paradigm; does
community-led housing as a participatory pathway
provide the framework for a radical new housing
paradigm?
Supervisory Team: Anna Minton; Alan Chandler
Jerushah Jardine
Title: Evidence for surface-pattern change in peat bogs
as a result of external pressures
Supervisory Team: Richard Lindsay; Stuart Connop;
Darryl Newport
Shaherah Jordon
Title: Exploring the role of Behaviour Change
Interventions in the Adoption of Electric Vehicles
Supervisory Team: Paula Vandergert; Stephanie
Sandland; Darryl Newport
Muhammed Umar Khalid
Title: An Investigation into the treatment and modelling
of municipal solid waste incineration air pollution
control residues
Supervisory Team: Darryl Newport; Chloe Molineux;
Anca Ciupala
P279 PhD
Charles Lawrence Wei Shi
Title: How and why science influenced the founding Title: An investigation into energy consumption and
and structure of modern Freemasonry and why it is a lifestyles in UK Social Housing; improving retrofit
perfect microcosm of the same impact on the upper delivery and outcomes
echelons of society at that critical time in British social Supervisory Team: Heba Elsharkawy; Alan Chandler;
history. Hassan Abdallah
Supervisory Team: Renée Tobe; Darryl Newport
Hashem Taher
Lukangaka Okende Title: Using Urban Green Systems as an Approach for
Title: A vision for a future without slums in the Future Climate Change Adaptation in London.
redevelopment of Sub-Saharan African cities; Case Supervisory Team: Heba Elsharkawy; Darryl Newport
study: Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic
Republic of Congo Michael Wood
Supervisory Team: Debra Shaw; Bridget Snaith; Title: Perceptions of noise pollution on health and
Roland Karthaus wellbeing in urban environments
Supervisory Team: Paula Vandergert; Darryl Newport;
Bertug Ozarisoy Anca Ciupala
Title: Optimising Occupants’ Thermal Comfort in
Post-war Housing Developments in Northern Cyprus:
Passive Cooling Strategies for Retrofit
Supervisory Team: Heba Elsharkawy; Maria Segantini;
Darryl Newport
Fatemeh Rostami
Title: A Place of Culture; a narrative-ethnographic-
grounded approach for analysing traditional Iranian
cities Case study: Yazd, Iran.
Supervisory Team: Renée Tobe; Roland Karthaus
Combined MA & BA Interior Design field trip to the Venice Biennale
University of East London
School of Architecture and the Visual Arts
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