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<strong>Leeds</strong> schooL <strong>of</strong> ARCHITECTURE
CONTENTS<br />
Foreword<br />
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<strong>BA</strong>(Hons) <strong>Architecture</strong><br />
Year One<br />
Common Ground<br />
Extreme Change<br />
Futurists<br />
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7<br />
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MArch MA <strong>Architecture</strong><br />
Abstract Machines<br />
Crash Test<br />
Urban Studio<br />
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FOREWORD<br />
In 1962 Umberto eco published <strong>The</strong> open Work. Addressing issues <strong>of</strong><br />
‘form and indeterminacy in contemporary poetics’, the book marked<br />
a turning point in the understanding <strong>of</strong> the relationship between the<br />
<br />
mechanisms <strong>of</strong> its reception. <strong>The</strong> ideas it proposed provoked lively<br />
reactions – supportive or vitriolic, all intellectually curious. <strong>The</strong>y also led<br />
eco to systematically address semiology and structuralism in his later<br />
works, and to propose a semiotic approach to architecture.<br />
eco interprets architecture as a system <strong>of</strong> communication that ‘starts<br />
from existing architectural codes, but actually rests on other codes<br />
that are not those <strong>of</strong> architecture’. <strong>The</strong> architect, he observes, ‘must<br />
<br />
<strong>of</strong> those functions does not belong to the architectural language, rather,<br />
it is external to it’. And indeed ‘what architecture gives form to (a system<br />
<strong>of</strong> social relationships, a way <strong>of</strong> dwelling or <strong>of</strong> being together) does not<br />
belong to architecture’. (U. eco, La struttura Assente, Milan: Bompiani<br />
2002 (1968), p. 233-34).<br />
half a century later, eco’s words resound familiar, but also dated,<br />
even ‘unfashionable’. And yet, because architecture and its discourse<br />
are not a fashion, and because the architectural ‘functions’ that eco<br />
refers to are not exclusively linked to modes <strong>of</strong> use, performative<br />
<br />
and communication, it is topical to reconsider, here and now, the<br />
original formulation <strong>of</strong> architecture as an open work.<br />
determined by many external agents, affected, transformed, open more<br />
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<strong>of</strong>ten unpredictable, architecture is always already challenged in its<br />
environmental, cultural, social and political positions. Yet, uncertainty<br />
is not allowed to the architectural Project, buit or unbuilt, as it performs,<br />
again and again, that de-cision that makes it possible – that make it take<br />
a position. <strong>The</strong> openness <strong>of</strong> the artwork to chance and to interpretation<br />
(and, in architecture, to inhabitation) is made possible by the multiplicity<br />
and plurality <strong>of</strong> its agents (both architects and non architects), and<br />
by the process <strong>of</strong> their interactions. But underlying this openness,<br />
and indeed enabling it, while provoking different interpretations, are<br />
the very elements that organize architecture as a form <strong>of</strong> structured<br />
<br />
interpretations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> open Work explored mainly serial music, experimental literature,<br />
media and new forms <strong>of</strong> visual arts. <strong>The</strong> pages that follow here present<br />
unbuilt works <strong>of</strong> architecture that ‘give form’ to ideas and agendas for<br />
the present and the future <strong>of</strong> the european city – the main focus <strong>of</strong> this<br />
year’s work. Abstract machines, crash testing and choreographies <strong>of</strong><br />
social participation are the tools that were imported into architecture to<br />
address the wider situations <strong>of</strong> extreme climatic, economic and social<br />
<br />
architectural project.<br />
Teresa stoppani<br />
head, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Leeds</strong> school <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong><br />
May 2013<br />
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<strong>BA</strong>(HONS) ARCHITECTURE<br />
We see the city as a landscape <strong>of</strong> possibility: utilising the synergy <strong>of</strong><br />
new technologies, with the heritage and myths <strong>of</strong> the existing city, to<br />
create new futures that are sustainable and socially just.<br />
We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series <strong>of</strong><br />
interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to the building skin<br />
and the room itself.<br />
Many <strong>of</strong> the projects we do are directly linked to making – either things<br />
or policy or methodologies. from the action research <strong>of</strong> the futurist<br />
Unit, where the downfall <strong>of</strong> Yorkshire coastal regions is tackled, to<br />
the extreme change Unit where parametric modelling allows the<br />
development <strong>of</strong> complex component driven façades, to the Venice<br />
group, where process, materiality and texture is key - we engage in a<br />
creative way with the limitations imposed and possibilities presented by<br />
technologies and material.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following is a celebration <strong>of</strong> work from all years. We hope that,<br />
through this book, you are able to share in our thoughts and ideas.<br />
Des Fagan RI<strong>BA</strong> March <strong>BA</strong>rch<br />
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YEAR ONE<br />
<strong>BA</strong>1 <strong>of</strong>fers a year <strong>of</strong> experimentation and<br />
curiosity, where we challenge the meaning<br />
<strong>of</strong> architecture in order to propose new<br />
spaces. <strong>The</strong> year provides a foundation for<br />
intuitive investigation, supported by skills<br />
need to analyse, propose and communicate<br />
ideas. We begin by examining the everyday<br />
object and how we ‘see’ in order to provide<br />
a critical dialogue between real, imagined<br />
and the void in-between. Risk taking is<br />
encouraged and opportunities explored via<br />
making, drawing, printing, sculpting and<br />
<br />
Projects undertaken in semester one<br />
examine the city <strong>of</strong> <strong>Leeds</strong> as an environment<br />
that can be ‘read’ and transformed via<br />
small-scale architectural interventions.<br />
In semester two we visited Marrakech<br />
and skipton, where we examined the<br />
peculiarities <strong>of</strong> the marketplace and the<br />
notion <strong>of</strong> trading.<br />
Claire Hannibal<br />
Geraldine Booth<br />
Ian Fletcher<br />
Lesley Millard<br />
Craig Stott<br />
Adebanke Adenisa, Nushoor Almahoozi, ehab Almarsumi, samer Bannourah, samuel Bedford, Adit Bhatnagar, Jack<br />
Biddle, Alexander couth, Wayne croasdell, Graham davey, Joseph earley, Benjamin Goldie, Zahra hagnajat, Bethany<br />
hamer, Leslie-Andrew hardt, Jack hartley, Ayah hatahet, Rebecca hodgson, Nathan hopwood, faisal Ibrahim, Yusef<br />
Iqbal, eve Jackson, hannah Johnson, Mathew Kan, sammy Kawook, William Kent, Kamila Kudlata, Grady Lancaster,<br />
Amin Mahdmina, Adam Maqsood, Nicholas Mierzejewski, florence Mujaji, Alex Murray, Moreen Mutesi, Lincoln Myers,<br />
Paul ojeil, Agnesa osmani, Piotr Pich, Varvara Polti, James Ratcliffe, Joesay Reynolds, Aimee Rogers, Lucy Rymer, santa<br />
sangar, Nils schmidt-hansen, Matthew shepherd, Abigail stone, Victoria Tainty, hannah Thomas, Laurynas Vaskevicius,<br />
Bethany Walker, Zachariah Wall, Anastasia Whitehead, corey Wilson, Rizwan Younis,<br />
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JAMES RATCLIFFE<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders<br />
JOSEPH EARLEY<br />
Panopticon<br />
JACK BIDDLE<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders<br />
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LAURYNAS VASKEVICIUS<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders<br />
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LUCY RYMER<br />
collections and curiosities
LAURYNAS VASKEVICIUS<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders<br />
LUCY RYMER<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders<br />
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LAURYNAS VASKEVICIUS<br />
city Instrument<br />
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MATTHEW SHEPHERD<br />
city Instrument<br />
ZAHRA HAGNAJAT<br />
city Instrument<br />
JAMES RATCLIFFE<br />
city Instrument<br />
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JOSEPH EARLEY<br />
city Instrument<br />
JACK BIDDLE<br />
hagglers, hawkers and Traders (above and below)<br />
AGNESA OSMANI<br />
collections and curiosities (above and below)<br />
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COMMON GROUND<br />
common Ground was the title <strong>of</strong> the 2012<br />
architecture Biennale curated by david<br />
<br />
his curatorial role are broadly in sympathy<br />
with the aims <strong>of</strong> this design studio.<br />
We are strongly interested in the idea <strong>of</strong><br />
the everyday how this relates to the ground<br />
between buildings, the spaces <strong>of</strong> the city<br />
and the relationship <strong>of</strong> architecture to the<br />
political, social and cultural structure <strong>of</strong><br />
the city. <strong>The</strong>se ideas are to be investigated<br />
through theoretical studies and writings<br />
and the application <strong>of</strong> the pre-conceptual<br />
models and paintings. our interest is also in<br />
the realization <strong>of</strong> architectural ideas at many<br />
scales from the urban up to the full-scale<br />
model or 1:2.<br />
Venice was chosen as the study area<br />
because <strong>of</strong> the publication <strong>of</strong> a recent book<br />
<br />
Venice as a sign, a real abstraction a series<br />
<strong>of</strong> remote images. <strong>The</strong> book discussed<br />
how a city could be explained through the<br />
naratives <strong>of</strong> visitors and migrants to this new<br />
global city. Very few <strong>of</strong> the inhabitants <strong>of</strong> the<br />
city are born in the area or Italy. <strong>The</strong>ir stories<br />
tell <strong>of</strong> another city unknown to the tourist a<br />
place that has not yet become an image <strong>of</strong><br />
itself and its beauty.<br />
Sarah Mills & Dennis Burr<br />
2nd Year (2nd Semester): samah Anjum, Anna Athanasiou, Jacob Bojcun, Remi connolly-Taylor, francis cullen, Gurjina<br />
dugal, Phil Goss, dave hallam, Benjamin higginbotham, George Kerridge, Lucas Leandro, danielle Levitt, daniel Lomax,<br />
William McMahon, felipe Palmer c.P. de faria, danny Pound, Abdullah Rehman, Matthew Riley, delbert st Marthe,<br />
Arpeeta Thakur, sophie Thompson, Karina Withers. 3rd Year: Basma Ajoor, Nathalia Azevedo, Melanie Backhouse,<br />
Jordan Blacker, Abdulrahman Bucheeri, Benjamin courtenay, Lauren di Pietro, Jonathan evans, Mitra hadian, Adam<br />
hegab, Ryan holdsworth, Jiyan Khalaf, Ryan Lawlor, Joseph Myerscough, danny Patel, Matthew Redding, hina shah,<br />
samuel spence, chantelle stewart<br />
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SAM SPENCE (3rd Year)<br />
fLIGhT: Venice to chioggia<br />
Conceptual image <strong>of</strong> approach to Chioggia Centre for Visual <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
16
SAM SPENCE (3rd Year)<br />
fLIGhT: Venice to chioggia<br />
Facade study<br />
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RYAN LAWLER (3rd Year)<br />
desalination Plant, Venice<br />
<strong>The</strong> Desalination Plant <strong>of</strong> San Giacomo in Palude provides the surrounding residential districts and agricultural areas with<br />
clean water bringing life to the area. Lightweight Timber Truss towers clad in a mass <strong>of</strong> solar panels hold desalinating<br />
equipment that extract sea water and using solar energy produce clean water that is then stored in silos encased heavy<br />
weight brickwork towers that keep the silos at a cool temperature. <strong>The</strong> tower’s research and learning facilities help aid the<br />
<br />
their own clean water.<br />
SAM SPENCE (3rd Year)<br />
fLIGhT: Venice to chioggia<br />
<br />
ds left by the old cement silo<br />
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JACK BOWN (2nd Year)<br />
Boat Builder<br />
Perspective section (top)<br />
Model, tracing paper and wire mesh<br />
Psychogeographic Map Venice<br />
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<br />
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<br />
REBECCA TURNER (2nd Year)<br />
Psycho-Geographic Map <strong>of</strong> Venice<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
images.” Guy Debord<br />
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SOPHIE THOMPSON (2nd Year)<br />
<br />
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BENJAMIN COURTENAY (3rd Year)<br />
Nuclear fusion Anaglyph 3d<br />
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JOHN EVANS (3rd Year)<br />
Jewish Library and Museum<br />
<br />
<br />
independent and close in secondary internal zones allowing fr independent environmental conditions and management<br />
<br />
<br />
conforming to the ideals <strong>of</strong> the master plan.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> city <strong>of</strong> Venice established a boundary to prevent the Jewish Community entering the city after curfew. <strong>The</strong>y were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>The</strong> archive and depository will house approximately 5000 book and ancient documents; 2500 <strong>of</strong> which are historic<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
bringing together a diverse mix <strong>of</strong> Jewish heritage and culture into one accessible volume. Education facilities and a cafe<br />
and function room which can be used by the local community for events and celebrations will also be incorporated into<br />
the building fabric thus furthering the notion <strong>of</strong> common ground within the building.<br />
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LAUREN DI PIETRO (3rd Year)<br />
community college on Isola dei saloni, Venice.<br />
concept Image (above)<br />
<br />
<br />
I will create a sensitive response to the domain <strong>of</strong> public and private use that will:<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Volumetric site Model (left)<br />
This is part <strong>of</strong> a volumetric study using models to understand spatial and aesthetic qualities <strong>of</strong> my design. <strong>The</strong> model is<br />
<br />
ADAM HEGAB (3rd Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Vivaldi concert hall, cannaregio, Venice<br />
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JOSEPH MYERSCOUGH (3rd Year)<br />
Wholesale Meat & fish Market, Venice:<br />
<br />
outdoor farmers marker serving the southern district <strong>of</strong> the island. Featuring a large concrete & bamboo meat market<br />
<br />
community space for a new 21st century healthy lifestyle for the island.<br />
HENRY SCHOFIELD (2nd Year)<br />
Venetian Boathouse & Automated dry-dock facility<br />
<br />
<br />
the storage and restoration <strong>of</strong> up to 20 gondolas at a time. <strong>The</strong> exoskeletal framework allows residents and pedestrians<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Fondamenta Misericordia to observe the rebirth and preservation <strong>of</strong> the one <strong>of</strong> Venice’s greatest heritages. At the<br />
<br />
resolving the logistical nightmare <strong>of</strong> boat storage; one <strong>of</strong> Venice’s greatest issues since its creation.<br />
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WILLIAM McMAHON (2nd Year)<br />
Low Density Isolated (top)<br />
High Density Isolated<br />
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EXTREME CHANGE<br />
“Humans and all other living beings<br />
<br />
processes and phenomena <strong>of</strong> the natural<br />
<br />
have a pr<strong>of</strong>ound effect upon it. All forms<br />
<strong>of</strong> nature an all forms <strong>of</strong> civilisation have<br />
<br />
in space and over time that determines<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and culture have coevolved and developed<br />
<br />
Michael Weinstock,emergence<br />
<br />
Thompson regarded the material forms <strong>of</strong><br />
living organisms as a diagram <strong>of</strong> the forces<br />
acting upon them. <strong>The</strong> studio questioned<br />
the validity <strong>of</strong> this analogy when extended to<br />
architecture. This led to an exploration <strong>of</strong> the<br />
interactions <strong>of</strong> systems/process ecologies<br />
subject to climate. <strong>The</strong> studio asked ‘could<br />
valid contextually generated architecture<br />
emerge from this line <strong>of</strong> enquiry?<br />
Keith Andrews & Vernon Thomas<br />
“Would that the wind had form”<br />
hermann Melvile, Moby dick<br />
<strong>The</strong> studio’s focus lay in the exploration and<br />
exploitation <strong>of</strong> symbiotic relationships latent<br />
within a sit subject to extreme environmental<br />
conditions. Granada in southern spain was<br />
chosen as the locus <strong>of</strong> our activities, being<br />
<br />
<strong>The</strong> increasingly onerous climate provided<br />
a spur, facilitating a morphogenic approach<br />
2nd Year (2nd Semester): Jamie Aldus, dali Alnaeb, dean Bartlett, Justin Bilinskas, Michael Bland, Jack Bown, chloe<br />
Burbidge, Phillipa Burgin, francesca cameron, Karly chung, Robert cresswell, Ryan daniel, chris delahunt, Josh<br />
elleray, Jubal Green, Jake hinchcliffe, Mohamed Mahmood, callum Muir, christopher scarffe, edward shallcross, Lottie<br />
smith, Jennisfer stalker, Laura Tsang, Jake Woods. 3rd Year: Michael Akinola, Josh cottrill, stewart craven, helen<br />
davies, Victoria Gaskell-fawcett, Jack ford, Jack Green, danielle Landrum, Bradley McArdle, Yuen Ngai, Luke sach,<br />
Kane sanders, Jack sanguinetti, harry sharp, Gemma Walker, Kimberly Ward, Kirsty Williams<br />
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VICTORIA GASKELL (3rd Year)<br />
convert and sewing school<br />
<strong>The</strong> integration between public and private begins from the moment the public enter on to the structure. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
linking them through sound and light.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> York Flood Observatory<br />
Christopher Delahunt<br />
C3331714<br />
CHRIS DELLAHUNT (2nd Year)<br />
York flood observatory<br />
JACK BOWN (2nd Year)<br />
York flood observatory<br />
<strong>The</strong> section displays the main entrance/lobby into the underground spaces from the rear <strong>of</strong> the building; then moving<br />
<br />
then cuts through the staircase moving up into the secondary water garden and private access to the research facility.<br />
<br />
NASTASSIA RUESCHER (2nd Year)<br />
Live Work space - development models<br />
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JAKE WOODS (2nd year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> York house <strong>of</strong> Time<br />
Time itself controls every aspect <strong>of</strong> modern life within the<br />
<br />
physical interaction within a space?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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KIRSTI WILLIAMS (3rd Year)<br />
Albaycin community hub<br />
Due to the changing angles and<br />
orientation <strong>of</strong> each <strong>of</strong> the separate<br />
<br />
a different quality <strong>of</strong><br />
(Above)<br />
Tessellations allow differing degrees<br />
<strong>of</strong> transformation and directional<br />
movement. (Left)<br />
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LUKE SACH (3rd Year)<br />
Ritual Bathing space, Granada<br />
Exploded axonometric (above)<br />
Section (left)<br />
SEMESTER 2: EXT<br />
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YUEN CHAK NGAI (3rd Year)<br />
<strong>Art</strong> & craft exhibition centre:<br />
<br />
<br />
JACK GREEN (3rd Year)<br />
Pottery Workshop<br />
KIMBERLY WARD (3rd Year)<br />
silk factory facility<br />
35
DANIELLE LANDRUM (3rd Year)<br />
Granada ceramics Workshop<br />
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DANIEL POUND (2nd Year)<br />
<strong>Art</strong> and sculpture gallery, Granada<br />
Internally based in geometric patterns<br />
SOPHIE THOMPSON (2nd Year)<br />
flamenco Pavilion<br />
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CHARLOTTE FULLER (2nd Year)<br />
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JACK FORD (3rd Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> art <strong>of</strong> making: Luthiery archives & workshops<br />
<br />
production. Luthiery represents an activity where an archaic and seemingly romantic mode <strong>of</strong> making is sustained<br />
through the communication abilities <strong>of</strong> technology. Yet the work itself directly engages the senses and mind as a whole.<br />
<br />
deliberate dissection that these sub elements can be separated.<br />
<br />
<br />
these luthiers attempt to combine the precision <strong>of</strong> science with the elegance and resourcefulness <strong>of</strong> art to create highly<br />
<br />
<br />
construction and implements them for use as building components. In turn spaces exhibit a sense <strong>of</strong> craft <strong>of</strong> the bespoke<br />
<br />
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FUTURISTS<br />
“…We are interested in diurnal cycles:<br />
temporary re-purposing <strong>of</strong> buildings,<br />
urban spaces - the deployment <strong>of</strong> new<br />
technologies and art/branding, together with<br />
issues <strong>of</strong> sustainability and disposability this<br />
raises: the assumed constant need for reinvention…<br />
This year, we have focused upon the UK<br />
seaside and what has happened to this<br />
ailing tourist destination. In a period <strong>of</strong><br />
recession, why are we not returning to the<br />
domicile shore for our holiday - is it a matter<br />
<br />
<strong>The</strong> threshold between water and land is no<br />
longer clear – the UK is dissolving without a<br />
strategy to contain it.<br />
What can we do to reinvent our coast?<br />
do we defend, retreat or attack?.....”<br />
Des Fagan & Simon Warren<br />
2nd Year (2nd Semester): <br />
fowler, charlotte fuller, hannah Geskes, christie Gustave, Tony Kangah, Besart Redenica, Bradley Rhodes, olivia<br />
<br />
Morales Valovirto, orlander Watson, eleni Zormpa. 3rd Year: Besnik Abdiu, Joseph Bradley, dan calverley, Valbona<br />
canolli, Launa cowan, Lauren heys, Luke hirst, Ayesha Iqbal, Kathryn Neal, Michael Powell, Michael Quan, Kathy Roe,<br />
charles Ryan-hicks, daniel sargeant, samuel Taylor, Andrew Thompson, Lee Wade, Gaven Webb,<br />
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Michael Powell 3rd Year<br />
forgotten Victoriana, scarborough<br />
42
KATHY ROE (3rd Year)<br />
‘everything happens on the edge’<br />
<br />
ANDREW THOMPSON (3rd Year)<br />
Boat recycling yard, scarborough<br />
44
LORNA COWAN (3rd Year)<br />
A centre for coastal Retreat<br />
<strong>The</strong> centre develops and implements an ecosystem monitoring program that focuses on climate change, carbon recycling<br />
and hydromatic components. It educates the population <strong>of</strong> scarborough about the program, as well as visitors,<br />
thereby encouraging more people to visit the seaside town.<br />
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MICHAEL POWELL (3rd Year)<br />
concept sketch<br />
<br />
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MICHAEL POWELL (3rd Year)<br />
freehand sketch<br />
Pass the towers and up to Scarborough Castle<br />
DANNII LEVETT (2nd Year)<br />
Biodiversity Tower, scarborough<br />
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NASTASSIA RUESCHER (2nd Year)<br />
Halifax Library (top) and Intervention<br />
48
LUKE HIRST (3rd Year)<br />
sketch, scarborough<br />
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MICHAEL BLAND (2nd Year)<br />
sea Pavilion (above)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
grungy steel structure.<br />
HANNAH GESKES (2nd year)<br />
War Memorial Library, halifax<br />
GEORGE KERRIDGE (2nd year)<br />
deep sea Museum<br />
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GAVEN WEBB (3rd Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Problem (top)<br />
We are faced with with a looming global crisis; the expiration <strong>of</strong> our fossil fuel supplies. This is an industry that will fail<br />
<br />
from cars to trains to planes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> solution<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
usable Ethanol.<br />
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HENRY SCHOFIELD (2nd Year)<br />
Aerial <strong>Art</strong>s Academy halifax<br />
Halifax’s once world renowned Aerial <strong>Art</strong>s community has since retired. Inspired by Peter Cook’s “London Eight” and<br />
<br />
Bringing tightrope walking and aerial performance into Piece Hall’s community. Yoga and Meditation spaces feature<br />
throughout the building in order to enhance the spiritual experience one must take in order to gain physical balance and<br />
successfully tightrope walk.<br />
BRADLEY RHODES (2nd Year)<br />
halifax Textile Learning centre<br />
LEILA DJALALVANDI (2nd Year)<br />
creative <strong>Art</strong>s Training facility, halifax<br />
CONNOR <strong>BA</strong>CKHOUSE (2nd Year)<br />
Manuals Library, halifax<br />
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LUKE HIRST (3rd Year)<br />
sketch, scarborough<br />
<br />
DAVE HALLAM (2nd Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> spires<br />
JOEL RODERICK (2nd Year)<br />
halifax democracy space<br />
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CHRIS DELAHUNT (2ndYear)<br />
steampunk scarborough<br />
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MARCH | MA ARCHITECTURE<br />
<strong>The</strong> future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the<br />
challenge for the 21st century Architect, to imagine not only the future,<br />
but to envision ways <strong>of</strong> getting there - from here.<br />
We see the city as a landscape <strong>of</strong> possibility: utilising the synergy <strong>of</strong><br />
new technologies, with the heritage and myths <strong>of</strong> the existing city, to<br />
create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. <strong>Architecture</strong> is<br />
not only building to us, but a concretisation <strong>of</strong> the needs and dreams <strong>of</strong><br />
the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as<br />
a nested series <strong>of</strong> interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to<br />
the building skin and the room itself.<br />
our approach is research based design. design teaching is studiobased<br />
allowing students to specialise within the frame <strong>of</strong> the RI<strong>BA</strong>/<br />
ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book<br />
based research but research by design. This research is based on the<br />
<br />
underpins new work and new dialogues.<br />
We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making -<br />
either things or policy or methodologies. from the action research <strong>of</strong> our<br />
Urban studio, where real life community design projects are realised to<br />
the Abstract Machines studio where parametric modeling allows the<br />
development <strong>of</strong> complex component driven facades, we engage with<br />
the possibilities created by new technologies and material. <strong>The</strong> crash<br />
Test studio engages with urban policy and sustainability in a creative<br />
way to produce closed cycles cities.<br />
Simon Warren<br />
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ABSTRACT MACHINES<br />
<strong>The</strong> work <strong>of</strong> the studio is proposition based<br />
and evolves from a negotiation between<br />
‘culture’ and research in computation<br />
and tectonics. We begin by examining<br />
the ideas that underpin <strong>Architecture</strong>’s<br />
phenomenal and corporeal expression.<br />
We have an interest in data mapping the<br />
<br />
diagramming their interrelations. <strong>The</strong> aim is<br />
to devise performative diagrams that modify<br />
ecologies <strong>of</strong> systems to a desired end.<br />
having looked at the why and what one<br />
<br />
expression <strong>of</strong> the performative diagrams. To<br />
do this students are encouraged to explore<br />
formal solutions through computational<br />
simulations and physical modeling.<br />
<strong>The</strong> principle thematic driver for M(Arch)<br />
01 & 02, academic year 2012-13 has been<br />
‘extreme climate’. This has focused the work<br />
<strong>of</strong> the studio on the derivation <strong>of</strong> a range<br />
<strong>of</strong> architectural responses to ameliorate,<br />
in a sustainable manner the effects <strong>of</strong> a<br />
harsh climate. <strong>The</strong> projects are largely<br />
based in spain, (principally Granada)<br />
and Marrakech, Morocco with site visits<br />
being undertaken early in the academic<br />
year. We have continued to build on the<br />
computational and tectonic grounding <strong>of</strong><br />
2011-12 visits the Institute for computational<br />
design (Icd) at the University <strong>of</strong> stuttgart<br />
run by Achim Menges and the ‘fabricate’<br />
conference (2011) with students attending<br />
the ‘Prototyping <strong>Architecture</strong>’ March 2013.<br />
Keith Andrews & Vernon Thomas<br />
5th Year: charanjeev Bamrah, Richard Berry, harry hewlett, Richard Laycock, chris Lazenby, dan Mason, simon<br />
Murphy, Alex Warren, Nick Wright. 6th Year: Tessa henshaw, christopher Lunn, Matthew Mudd, fatima Radhi, Peter<br />
shovlin, Anuj shishodia, Guy stewart<br />
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ALEX WARREN (5th Year)<br />
Pneumatic earthquake<br />
defense shelter<br />
<br />
in Granada by Seismologists<br />
<br />
<br />
used in the aviation industry<br />
and high performance textiles<br />
used by NASA and the U.S<br />
<br />
a simple pneumatic shelter<br />
became a structure that could<br />
<br />
entire streets and absorbing<br />
<br />
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MATTHEW MUDD (6th Year)<br />
Women’s sanctuary, Marrakech<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
response to the climate in Marrakech.<br />
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HARRY HEWLETT (5th Year)<br />
Adaptable shading system, Granada<br />
<strong>The</strong> system uses layers <strong>of</strong> perforated material that align in different arraignments to create varying levels <strong>of</strong> shading<br />
RICHARD LAYCOCK (5th Year)<br />
environmentally Reactive canopy, Granada<br />
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NICK WRIGHT (5th Year)<br />
form and structure experimentation, Granada (top)<br />
<br />
<br />
This moved on to a large scale market and performance space canopy.<br />
A musical gateway to the Albaicin, Granada (bottom)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
spaces create a public square linking to the Albaicin.<br />
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TESSA HENSHAW (6th Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> oasis Project<br />
<br />
<br />
energy harvesting. <strong>The</strong>se drivers resulted in a scheme that proposes closed loop energy and water systems to support<br />
a series <strong>of</strong> spaces which celebrate the delight <strong>of</strong> water in order to raise awareness <strong>of</strong> its value.<br />
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CRASH TEST<br />
Do you dress for the ride or for the crash?<br />
We think that the towns and cities are<br />
heading for a big stack, and we must dress<br />
accordingly: climate change, resource<br />
<br />
virtualisation, immigration, global trade,<br />
<br />
<br />
places.<br />
We need to adapt to the future, and make<br />
<br />
these possible crashes, visualise them and<br />
design futures accordingly, allowing the<br />
<br />
absorbed.<br />
This year, we have developed mycelium<br />
<br />
sites, ensured a food resilience should the<br />
<br />
potential for future development, created<br />
a quarantined society safe from pandemic<br />
attack, established bottom-up open source<br />
small scale housing initiatives and created<br />
<br />
textile manufacturing.<br />
over the last two years, we have<br />
investigated some <strong>of</strong> the most problematic<br />
<br />
Aire Valley, to the forgotten mill towns <strong>of</strong><br />
Lancashire, settling on the commuter town<br />
<br />
with districts as far away as Berlin and<br />
Tokyo. We have documented shrinkage,<br />
decay, despair, we have modelled and<br />
<br />
our intention is to discover, document,<br />
describe and discuss adaptation and<br />
resilience in post-industrial towns and cities.<br />
Des Fagan & Craig Stott<br />
5th Year: claire Burrell, Jack davey, John evans, Lawrence ferguson, Paul hansell, charlotte haughton, Thomas<br />
Lamping, Aimee Major, huy Nam Nguyen, Ben Parish, Jose Antonio Rogriguez, susan Thomas, Joseph Walton.<br />
6th Year: <br />
<br />
Bradley spencer, Imran Zulfqar<br />
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LAWRENCE FERGUSON (5th year)<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong> As <strong>Art</strong>ifact (above)<br />
Admiring an architectural proposition in its various elements. <strong>The</strong> garish and contrasting colors aim to express the forms<br />
<br />
PAUL HANSELL (5th Year)<br />
Post capitalist Vertical Airport<br />
<strong>The</strong> airport works like an envelope over Friedrichstraße train station creating a central hub in Berlin city center for<br />
<br />
densities <strong>of</strong> the capitalist city <strong>of</strong> Berlin. <strong>The</strong> vertical airport powers itself from large mechanical machines all fueled by<br />
<br />
to allow it to move away from the platform to allow for safer landings for larger airships.<br />
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BRADLEY SPENCER (6th Year)<br />
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<br />
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AIMEE MAJOR & PAUL HANSELL (5th year)<br />
Model <strong>of</strong> facade system on Thyssen Krupp headquarters, essen, Germany<br />
<br />
contemporary building façades display any <strong>of</strong> the intricacies human skin has evolved. <strong>The</strong>y <strong>of</strong>fer little more than a barrier<br />
<br />
improve in every aspect.<br />
<br />
<br />
to make air conditioning redundant with the use <strong>of</strong> a weather station on the ro<strong>of</strong> which sends signals to a computer that<br />
steers the rotation <strong>of</strong> the facade slats. <strong>The</strong> facade provides a screen that reduces solar gains when there is direct solar<br />
radiation but allows daylight in when there is not.<br />
MATT RILEY (6th year)<br />
d3 Unbuilt Visions competition sPecIAL MeNTIoN<br />
Transient <strong>Architecture</strong>: <strong>The</strong> Mobile Autonomous collating Laboratory<br />
<br />
accommodating E.U scientists researching into climate change and its effect upon bird migration. <strong>The</strong> laboratory had<br />
<br />
<br />
hostile areas where little infrastructure exist. <strong>The</strong> trapezium shaped module allows the lab to take a variety <strong>of</strong> forms which<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ventilation requirements within varying climates. <strong>The</strong> laboratory is self sustaining as it harvests solar and wind power<br />
whilst collecting rainwater and utilising natural light.<br />
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CLAIRE BURRELL (5th year)<br />
Resilient Residences: flood Resistant housing on the Mersey estuary (left)<br />
<br />
<br />
according to the water level.<br />
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SALIH GULERCAAN (6th Year)<br />
<br />
and pesticides to produce bigger crop yields and quicker harvesting times.<br />
JOHN EVANS (5th Year)<br />
Rapid Response emergency flood housing<br />
<br />
families displaced by natural disaster can adapt to a<br />
<br />
<br />
It demonstrates how rapid response housing can address<br />
<br />
and sustainable home which not only has the ability to be<br />
rapidly mobilised in emergency scenarios but also has<br />
scope for permanence in an ever changing world.<br />
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LUCI BERRY (6th Year)<br />
<br />
Heterogeneous Agriculture is introduced to<br />
<br />
vessel for the distribution <strong>of</strong> the food produced.<br />
MARK SMITH (6th Year)<br />
Reclaiming fashion<br />
<br />
power over society could play an important role<br />
in making sustainability desirable.<br />
<br />
ecological cost associated with the global<br />
consumption and waste <strong>of</strong> fashion by reducing<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
manufacturing heritage.<br />
<br />
<strong>of</strong>fering a fresh approach to engaging with<br />
issues <strong>of</strong> social education and employment<br />
<br />
<br />
provide a range <strong>of</strong> both skilled and unskilled<br />
<br />
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VICKY McQUEEN (6th Year)<br />
Carmageddon:<br />
<br />
“Carmageddon”. <strong>The</strong> day that the dominance<br />
<strong>of</strong> the internal combustion engine ends and the<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
meaning only the rich can afford to drive.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are a large number <strong>of</strong> commuters within<br />
<br />
introduced to maintain connections with other<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
transportation costs. Taking a cradle to cradle<br />
<br />
<br />
reused as catalysts for new industries.<br />
<strong>The</strong> building is designed from the concept <strong>of</strong><br />
<br />
<br />
redundant multi storey car park structures.
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EXPLODED<br />
AXONOMETRIC<br />
01. Clinic al rese arch va c cine entranc e<br />
02. Clinic al va c cine test rooms (hospital<br />
p atients)<br />
03. Und erground c ar p ark<br />
04. Clinic al va c cine test rooms (he althy<br />
volunte ers)<br />
05. Plastic production fa ctory<br />
06. Plastic products assembly w arehouse.<br />
07. Exhibition sp a c e<br />
08. Le cture sp a c e<br />
09. Sle e ping rooms<br />
10. Exchange sp a c e<br />
11. Interchange sp a c e<br />
TIM ROBINSON (6th Year)<br />
Networks <strong>of</strong> Viral Trauma<br />
<br />
a microscopic virus could cause such panic and dissolution. <strong>The</strong> harrowing imagery circulated through media sources<br />
heightened mine and the public’s distress. But was this a media tactic to enslave us in a fear driven society. Or was this<br />
a real threat that could create a shift in the way we live our lives.<br />
<br />
I looked around the tube train; calculating the number <strong>of</strong> people I had come into contact with on this shot 20 minute<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
to help the survival <strong>of</strong> an ordinary citizen?<br />
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UR<strong>BA</strong>N STUDIO<br />
<br />
to enable all its citizens to meet their own<br />
<br />
without damaging the natural world or<br />
endangering the living conditions <strong>of</strong><br />
<br />
there will be no sustainable world<br />
without sustainable cities.” Herbert<br />
Girardet<br />
By thinking about the strategic urban design<br />
<strong>of</strong> the city and understanding the resources<br />
within communities the city can be made<br />
more resilient, egalitarian and coherent.<br />
Urban studio situates its explorations<br />
in neglected places <strong>of</strong> the North’s postindustrial<br />
cities. We consider global<br />
imperatives and local issues together.<br />
We explore their interconnection and<br />
consequence <strong>of</strong> each on the other. This<br />
becomes the genesis <strong>of</strong> the student’s<br />
personal interest or manifesto. Using the<br />
<br />
suppose and propose we make urban<br />
design strategies for city and community.<br />
<strong>The</strong> urban strategies generate and<br />
contextualise the students’ architectural<br />
propositions.<br />
Part <strong>of</strong> our ethos is group working,<br />
developing collaborative practice both<br />
inside and outside <strong>of</strong> the University. This<br />
means that every student will work in a<br />
<br />
to a ‘live project’. students in the current<br />
cohort have either designed a children’s<br />
centre following the earthquake disaster<br />
in haiti in 2010 or developed a urban<br />
framework for hunslet which we combined<br />
with a ‘Live Project’ for new ‘bogs’ and<br />
community proposal to extend the Grade2*<br />
listed Garden Gate public house.<br />
Through being ‘out there’ with our projects,<br />
our students are helping raise money for the<br />
haiti children’s centre. Two students from<br />
this group achieved an honourable mention<br />
in the international competition ‘shelters<br />
for All’ and through this exposure are now<br />
collaborating on ‘sisal as a building material’<br />
with American post graduate students. our<br />
work in hunslet has led to two students<br />
being commissioned by RI<strong>BA</strong> Yorkshire<br />
to make a stop motion video for the RI<strong>BA</strong><br />
Awards. Another group has been contacted<br />
by hunslet based Voluntary Action <strong>Leeds</strong><br />
to discuss possibilities for reusing their<br />
building. finally <strong>Leeds</strong> city council has<br />
invited the cohort to present their hunslet<br />
urban framework strategies.<br />
<br />
5th Year: Kelela Blake, Rachael Branton, Andy clapham, hamid dhorat, Josh dyson, Adam fulton, haroulla Georgiou,<br />
Neil Graham, Joe Morizzo, Trim Murati, harvey Mudhar, Gareth Roberts, daniel Wallace, Jason Yeung, Yue Zheng,<br />
Anthea Zhu. 6th Year: emily Blowers, Nick Bullen Brown, Rob carter, Andrew court, Alex durie, steven duquemin, david<br />
heeley, Jonathan hounslow, sarah hutton, charoula Kassimati-Antonopoullou, Natalie Ledward, simon Lewington,<br />
Michael Townsend<br />
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5th YEAR UR<strong>BA</strong>N STUDIO<br />
hunslet Pop Up Tea sheds community engagement<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
to generate curiosity and promote conversations between the local population and us as designers.<br />
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RACHAEL BRANTON, HAROULLA GEORGIOU, JOE MORIZZO, YUE ZHENG (5TH YEAR)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Garden Gate Picture house<br />
<br />
which will bring the community together and provide <strong>Leeds</strong> Brewery with a possible secondary income. Increasing the<br />
popularity <strong>of</strong> the public house is essential to it becoming the hub <strong>of</strong> the local community. In doing so we are interweaving<br />
<br />
development.<br />
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ANDREW CLAPHAM, NEIL GRAHAM, DANIEL WALLACE, JASAN YEUNG, (5th Year)<br />
Garden Gate cider Tower<br />
A tower is built to the back <strong>of</strong> the Garden Gate pub in order for <strong>Leeds</strong> Brewery to produce cider from apples in the<br />
orchards. <strong>The</strong> vertical tower maximises the small site and allows for a gravitational cider making process. <strong>The</strong> design<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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TRIM MURATI, HARVEY MUDHAR, HAMID DHORAT (5th Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> idea was to create a space where it would accommodate many different activities occurred during, the day, the<br />
week, the month and the year. This space would almost be the central point <strong>of</strong> hunslet. Activities like music from folk to<br />
urban, different comedians, performances, annual event and private hire occurring at all times. This space we design<br />
<br />
origami is a good way <strong>of</strong> making seating, acoustic panels, stages that change according to what is happening inside<br />
the space. We looked at folding, retracting and compressing systems using the art <strong>of</strong> origami.<br />
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JOSH DYSON, ADAM FULTON,<br />
GARETH ROBERTS (5th Year)<br />
Place for the People<br />
<strong>The</strong> Main Hall is the main feature <strong>of</strong><br />
the Place for the People. Essentially<br />
what we endeavored to produce<br />
was the perfect versatile space.<br />
<br />
<br />
alongside the Garden Gate to<br />
<br />
their own. This space is intended<br />
to be the catalyst for rebuilding<br />
the lost community spirit and it will<br />
<br />
community meetings and speed<br />
dating amongst other events.<br />
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EMILY BLOWERS, NATALIE<br />
LEDWARD (6th Year)<br />
haiti: house <strong>of</strong> hope - sisal Lakau<br />
<br />
<br />
PAUL UNETT (6th Year)<br />
ship Breaking facility, hull<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
too costly for ship owners to sell their ships to yards for breaking. Soon ship owners began to bribe corrupt African<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
inhumane working conditions and the pollution <strong>of</strong> the oceans.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ministry <strong>of</strong> Defence is looking for innovative proposals to preserve the HMS Illustrious which is due to be decom<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ship breaking and educational facilities for Naval <strong>Architecture</strong> and Marine <strong>Design</strong> university courses.<br />
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ALEX DURIE, ANDREW PYE, MICHAEL TOWNSEND, THOMAS WOODCOCK (6th Year)<br />
haiti: house <strong>of</strong> hope<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
EMILY BLOWERS (6th Year)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Game-board - <strong>The</strong> city<br />
Creating a strategic board game that involves players trying to progress to one side <strong>of</strong> the board while trying to block<br />
<br />
autonomy. It was a valuable experiment and was interesting to see how creating a simple game allowed people to be fully<br />
engaged in a situation and from that learn much more effectively. Within the second and third game players had created<br />
strategies and used alliances with players for mutual gain.<br />
<strong>The</strong> above images shows the routes taken by each player and how they directly relate to other players. Developing this<br />
analogy I wanted the urban area <strong>of</strong> Holderness road to become the game board where interaction <strong>of</strong> the individuals<br />
<br />
for the future.<br />
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<strong>The</strong> society <strong>of</strong> Architectural Knowledge (soAK) was formed in 2013<br />
within the <strong>Leeds</strong> school <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> to promote cross-studio<br />
learning, encourage student participation in the running <strong>of</strong> the school<br />
as well as creating student-led events which showcase student’s work<br />
and ideas to future employers.<br />
<strong>The</strong> founding member committee, consisting <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> dedicated<br />
students [Rachael Branton, Graham davey, Lauren di Pietro, Victoria<br />
Gaskell, harry hewlett, Joe Morizzo, Andrew Thompson, sophie<br />
Thompson, Gaven Webb and Yue Zheng] have worked hard to ensure<br />
that the running <strong>of</strong> the society has been as smooth as possible, from<br />
inception through its current infant stages.<br />
soAK has created this yearbook with support from the West Yorkshire<br />
society <strong>of</strong> Architects, whom we would like to thank for their generous<br />
donation, without which this book would have never been possible.<br />
I would also like to personally thank the staff at the school and all<br />
students who have supported the society from the very beginning.<br />
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