Unit 8

LING FUNG (GRACE) CHAN 2020-21 YEAR 3 Bedding In At the Edge of Origin: A New Museum for Shekou First Class Honours A study in stone seven ways, this City Museum tells the story of Shekou, Shenzhen, through the life-cycle of its bedrock: granite. The […]

IVY ARIS 2020-21 YEAR 3 Where’s North from Here? First Class Honours The processes of papermaking, printing, and archiving are brought together in this new home for Westbourne’s society of self-publishers. Led by the collaborative principles of the ‘zine’ and constructed entirely from paper, the […]

CHELSEA DACOCO 2020-21 YEAR 3 Can You See Me Now? The Westminster Guild of Filmmakers investigates the authenticity of what is seen. Drawing on research into the mechanics of the human eye and the filmic production, the building looks to recreate ways of seeing, both […]

ANDREI DINU 2020-21 YEAR 3 The Westminster Faith Exchange First Class Honours A new headquarters for the multi-faith congregations of the WFE, a council that promotes inter-religious community engagement in London. The building challenges the way we interpret contemporary spaces for worship, acknowledging the distinctions […]

PARIN NAWACHARTKOSIT  2020-21 YEAR 3 And the Truth will Set You Free First Class Honours A radio station and open-education media centre for the congregation and broadcast of the voices of the community. At the location of the former Royal Doulton clay pipework manufacturing plant, […]

TOM KEELING 2020-21 YEAR 3 Urban Prosthesis First Class Honours An aquatic filtration facility and leisure centre looks to revive London’s interconnected cultural, fluid, and infrastructural networks. Taking cues from biological processes and metaphors, the project embraces the potentials of a metabolic architecture; a new […]

MATTHEW SIMPSON 2019-20 YEAR 3 An Ode To Apollo First Class HonoursPortfolio Prize A centre for research in acoustics and musical production for the creative and scientific studies of sound. Home to aesthetes and acousticians alike, a series of experimental and inhabitable music chambers explore […]

PEIXUAN (OLIVIA) XU 2020-21 YEAR 2   Beyond the Visible The Portfolio Prize A cinema and media art centre for visual and acoustic experimentation, welcoming filmmakers, media artists, and the public. An ode to superstitious beliefs, the building explores how cinematic techniques can offer experiences […]

MAX HUBBARD 2020-21 YEAR 2 Red Sauce and Refuge A café complex at the centre of London’s law district offers a last bastion to the demise of the ‘greasy spoon’ and the community that it fostered. Tutors: Greg Storrar, Farlie Reynolds

LIBBY STURGEON 2020-21 YEAR 2 Disrupted Choreographies A riverside community arts centre wedged between two iconic London bridges serves as a testament to the reclamation of public river space and the future pedestrianisation of the city. Tutors: Greg Storrar, Farlie Reynolds

ANTHONY TAI 2019-20 YEAR 3 Co-workers Café: An architectural hack for a surveillance society First Class HonoursBartlett Medal An internet café, veiled in skins of digital glitch-induced anonymity, presents differing interpretations to the passer-by, the street-view car, and the satellite. Learning from known glitches of […]

JAMES DELLA VALLE 2019-20 YEAR 3 Between The Frame First Class HonoursBartlett MedalEnvironmental Design Prize A photography gallery laments the death of timber construction in the post-fire-raged city of Chicago, slowly rotting like the ‘vinegar syndrome’ of the negatives it displays. The architecture left standing […]

CIRA OLLER TOVAR 2019-20 YEAR 3   In the Shadow of the Sun First Class Honours A municipal library constructed from kiln-cast glass gives light the voice of a storyteller, casting a new socially-minded architecture upon the streets of Chicago. Bridging the gap between the […]

NATALIA SYKOROVA 2019-20 YEAR 3   Eco-anxiety Centre and Extreme Temperature Shelter First Class Honours Chicago’s new home for mass eco-therapy shape-shifts to meet fluctuating demand in tune with the city’s ever-increasing extreme temperature events. Responsive fast- and slow-twitch building skins react to environmental change […]

KATE TAYLOR 2020-21 YEAR 2 Tempering the Mundaneum A repository for the lost narratives of musical history, this public-facing archive resists the reclusive nature of the City of Westminster and offers new insights into the handling of musical artefacts. In an age where music can […]

THEO SYDER 2019-20 YEAR 3 Reactive Rehab: A physiotherapy centre for animate rehabilitation First Class Honours Rehabilitation is seen as a concrete process within the American Healthcare system. Embedded in an urban landscape central Chicago, this Physiotherapy Centre challenges that status quo, deploying a dynamic […]

VITO (ZIXI) CHEN 2019-20 YEAR 2 Between Stasis and Anti-Stasis: An architectural duel of market and music A food market for downtown Chicago that integrates adaptive performance and recording spaces for Jazz musicians, reviving the street culture lost to the sprawling of the city. Through […]

RAFIQ SAWYER 2020-21 YEAR 2 Amplifying a Stateless Truth Victims of geopolitical conflict are offered a safe place in the city; food, temporary accommodation, and workspace, in this new embassy for the stateless. Tutors: Greg Storrar, Farlie Reynolds

MICHALIS PHILIASTIDIS 2020-21 YEAR 2 Observations in Residence A thinktank for the research of residential living in London’s Westminster. Projecting forward the history of housing typologies, the adaptable building reconfigures to accommodate residencies in speculative models of urban living. Tutors: Greg Storrar, Farlie Reynolds

SUNNY SUN 2020-21 YEAR 2 Shifting Therapies A facility for Art and Dance therapeutics negotiates the space between bank and river in Westminster, London. Responding to exacerbated post-covid physical and mental health problems in the city, the building creates a new safe space for the […]

YUTO IKEDA 2020-21 YEAR 2 Institute for Prototypical Housing In this showroom and laboratory for future homes, radical approaches to new construction methods are fabricated, tested, and promoted. Facing off against the Houses of Parliament, the building is a new landmark for London’s changing built […]

ALICE GUGLIELMI 2020-21 YEAR 3 Thames Habitat Frameworks Nestled on the Victoria Embankment between river, bridge, railway and street, this environmental monitoring station looks to reframe our relationship with the city. Responding to the circadian rhythm of the site, the building shifts with the tide […]

MILON THOMSEN 2019-20 YEAR 3   To See The World in a Grain of Sand First Class Honours Like education, architecture must change. And so, this primary school – a teller of truth – is also an environmental observatory. As virtual reality learning erodes established […]

MARIIA SHAPOVALOVA 2019-20 YEAR 2   Phototrophia, or: The Gallery of Reappropriated Light A photography gallery capturing and exhibiting Chicago’s cultural identity. Exhibition spaces interlink with immersive spaces animated by sunlight carefully modulated by the multi-layered building envelope, casting a dialogue between visitors, exhibits, and […]

MARTINS STARKS 2019-20 YEAR 2 Where the Spirits Come to Play A mixed-use community centre on the fringes of Chicago’s L-train line offers a space to reignite the unity and intergenerational ties within the Algonquian people, previously exiled from their native lands. Through the shared […]

DIANA MYKHAYLYCHENKO 2019-20 YEAR 3   The Generative Architecture of Predictive Hydrology, or: how I learned toreverse the flow Making Buildings Prize A riverside clubhouse and rowing school sited on Wolf Point peninsula celebrates the legacy of the Chicago River. The river links the Great […]

HARRISON MADDOX 2019-20 YEAR 2 The Institution for Gun Violence Extrication and Education An educational opportunity centre for Chicago, providing overnight accommodation, therapy and learning facilities, and employment junction for those seeking escape from gun violence prevalent in South and West Chicago. The Institution will […]

LEO (SUPAWUT) TEERAWATANACHAI 2019-20 YEAR 2 Synecdoche Chicago: A Mesocosm for a stained city In a ‘false-field’ landscape in central Chicago, a research laboratory harbours the experimental study of a heavily polluted river, broadcasting environmental changes through a building fabric that stains and cleanses. Directly […]

JACQUELINE YU 2019-20 YEAR 2 Depot Clubhouse: A dressed architecture for social acupuncture A parcel depot and community centre established to support the poor and vulnerable residents of Chicago attain more comfortable and sustainable means. Hybridising the programmes of job centres and institutions of social […]

TIA DUONG 2019-20 YEAR 2   The Cast School of Culinary Craft A plant-based culinary school in the heart of Chicago’s former meat-packing district champions new sustainable means of food cultivation and preparation. Addressing the history of the site and the contention of the programme, […]

MARIE FAIVRE 2019-20 YEAR 2 Wolf Point Theatre A tripartite theatre shared by the local communities of three predominantly segregated ethnicities in inner city Chicago; black, hispanic and white. Constructed as a place of cultural exchange, the building hosts shared front of house spaces and […]

MACIEJ ADASZEWSKI 2018-19 YEAR 2 The Helsinki Timber Academy An academy that inspires students through its form and experimental approach to timber construction. Central to the vision of the building is the intersection between the digital and analogue worlds of Finnish craftsmanship, built on a […]

PHILIP LIU 2018-19 YEAR 2 Mark Agency A six-room hostel situated in central Helsinki sells short, tailor-made dreams for guests seeking immersive cosplay experiences: the chance to escape from the ordinary and transform into someone else. “A Guest + A Host = A Ghost” – […]

GEORGIA GREEN 2018-19 YEAR 3 Studies in Finnish White The project proposes a new typology for civic institutional buildings that is more akin to a church where the space can be described as sublime. This is most appropriate in Helsinki, (Finland) where dramatic solar patterns […]

CHARLOTTE EVANS 2018-19 YEAR 3 The Building as a Doula In Finland, community midwife training has been abolished since 1972 and is currently not provided within the publicly-funded system. With a reverse shift in development towards more home births, the Doula Institute aims to promote […]

ANI DOSHEVA 2018-19 YEAR 2 Finnish Tango : A Phantom Trace Following the tradition of frozen-lake Tanssilavas, the Finnish tango dance centre sits on a scenic island in south Helsinki. The design of the different spaces has a series of specific moments carefully curated to […]

IMOGEN RUTHVEN-TAGGART 2018-19 YEAR 3 Forging Impressions in the Positive “Water appears not only in its destructive aspects, but manifests its cathartic, purifying, transformative, and regenerative capacities”– Bill Viola A proposal for a bereavement centre in Helsinki, appropriating jewellery making techniques to develop a permanent […]

OCIAN HAMEL-SMITH 2018-19 YEAR 2 Baby Fever: A City Oasis A sacred realm for the Finnish child, born within a carved spatial landscape, inherently warped in scale; its inhabitants can be giants. Through a visual language of mass and void, seen and hidden, we are […]

DILARA KOZ 2018-19 YEAR 2 Following the Swan of Tuonela A shipwreck as a hypothesis. In the poem, ‘Un coup de dés (jamais n’abolira le hazard)’: A throw of the dice (will never abolish chance) by Stéphane Mallarmé, the space of the double spread becomes […]

ANNA DIXON 2020-21 YEAR 2 The Lost Living Museum Public collection displays and an archival research centre form this new home for the disputed artefacts of London’s alternative histories; the beginnings of a new cultural quarter in the City of Westminster. Tutors: Greg Storrar, Farlie […]

ALESSANDRO ROGNONI 2018-19 YEAR 3 “Finns Just Eat Marinated Reindeer” Two architectural proposals for Kotipizza, the largest Pizza fast food in Finland, now slowly expanding in Europe and exporting its most famous recipe: pizza with reindeer (named after Silvio Berlusconi, to which the above statement […]

BERTIE BROWN 2018-19 YEAR 2 City Sami Sample Scape One of the many eccentricities of Finland: Inari Sami Rapper named Amoc.Just like Finland, he has taken many Western cultural influences in order to strengthen his personal and communities’ identity. His use of this urban music […]

HUGO LOYDELL 2018-19 YEAR 3 The Ludo-haptic Research Studio The ‘Ludo-haptic Research Studio’ traverses the divide between Ludology, the study of the users experience within a videogame and the haptics and sensory phenomena we are familiar with in our reality. To facilitate the research, the […]

MILES ELLIOTT 2018-19 YEAR 3 Stories Told by the Fire A less carbon-intensive alternative to cremation is being introduced in Europe. Alkaline Hydrolysis, or ‘flameless cremation’, is a process where the body is broken down using lye and heat. With the flame no longer present […]

BIJOU HARDING 2018-19 YEAR 3 The Seven Brothers: Frozen Relations My building proposal is for an independent theatre, housing different renditions of the famous Finnish novel The Seven Brother by Finland’s national author Alexis Kivi. The theatre will be adaptable to fit the needs of […]

LOUKIS MENELAOU 2018-19 YEAR 2 Building Sisu “But Tom was different. He had sisu.” Something that makes the Finns eccentric is their sisu, an ability to be able to overcome hardships in life through resilience and persistence, self-marginalisation and contemplation. A rehabilitation centre for social […]

ALISA BARABOSHKINA 2018-19 YEAR 2 The Rune Library A Library for learning ancient Nordic language of Runes in Helsinki Finland informed by the symbols. Building translates spacial qualities from meanings embedded in the ancient letters as well as using a systematised method to transform the […]

DAN JOHNSTON  2017-18   YEAR 3 House of Heads The project start with the forensic reconstruction of the splash: the death scene of Holden in the film Sunset Boulevard. The methodology through this project was to re-create, reconstruct and fabricate the splash. To take it apart […]

GRANT BEAUMONT 2017-18   YEAR 3 An embedded hop drying house The ‘LA Hop Drying House’ explores the journey of hop processing that takes place within the building’s drying floors, market place and soaking spaces in the centre of the Arts District- Each developed as isolated […]

GEORGE BRAZIER  2017-18   YEAR 3 DTLA’s Gig Economy Guild Spatialising the anthropogenic sublime. A monument to an ever-changing industry that’s scattered across Downtown Los Angeles. Building a guild for gig economy workers, block by block, member by member. The gig economy is scattered and ever-changing. […]

NEGAR TAATIZADEH   2017-18    YEAR 3 In  Absentia Reinventing an architecture formed and shaped by the poetry of wind. Both the building and its fictional inhabitant are awaiting the elimination of President Trump’s 2016 travel ban from Iran to America. Wind continues to perform as […]

THEO BRADER TAN   2017-18   YEAR 3 2019ERS Caravaggio’s Fight Scene with Fruit. An investigation of the spatial lie within the filmic punch. The project focusses on a fight scene from 1999’s ‘Fight Club’. The actors’ fist never impacts each other, it is the perspective of the […]

ARTHUR WONG 2017-18   YEAR  3 Caffeinated Analogue Mechanical Organism Drinking a coffee, using a car and inhabiting a building: rituals of energy transformation performed by the Angelenos. The coffee shop houses these rituals in the spirit of Post-Coffee, Post-Car, and Post-Gentrification; three themes derived from […]

BASIL BABICHEV  2017-18   YEAR 2 The Museum of Ancient Recipes The architecture responds to an international amalgamation of culture, seeking to restore a direct relationship between local geography and tradition. Recipes change as they are passed down and forgotten by family generations. The building methodology […]

AMANDA DOLGA  2017-18   YEAR 2 “Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. [..]We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards […]

KAI MCLAUGHLIN  2017-18   YEAR 2 Los Angeles Museum of Glitches April 2016, The iconic 6th Street Bridge is destroyed. However, within Google maps, the bridge exists in a glitched state between built and destroyed. Here the past and the present still survive together, separated only […]

MARIA JONES DELGADO  2017-18   YEAR 2 La Sagrada Lavanderia de Cochineal La Sagrada Lavanderia de Cochineal. A cathedral-like laundromat and fabric dyeing space. The programme observed and took inspiration from the contrast of the dying industry of the American laundromat in comparison to its glamorised […]

IRIS LOU  2017-18   YEAR 2 Eavesdrop Speakeasy: Bronzeville Jazz Hub The Eavedrop Speakeasy explores jazz infused with the public space. It uses interactive structures to gather people and to re-build the vitality of the neighbourhood. Its goal is to provide comfort and equality to its […]

JAHBA ANAN  2017-18   YEAR 2 “Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world and this mediation takes place through the senses.” —Juhani Pallasmaa L.A. Refracted Materialising the Gaze. A series of study objects and drawings attempting to unpick and physically encapsulate the […]

VICTOR CHOW  2017-18   YEAR 2 Living in the joy of the false perfection The currency contraption. This project explored and dissected the physicality and materiality of currency. It recreated the 10 note with a perspectival device, looking at how much the Queen’s face can deviate […]

CARLOTA NUÑEZ-BARRANCO  2017-18   YEAR 2 The Stack residency for film editors Los Angeles is a city lived through films. Films that tell how spaces are walked through and inhabited; how the existence of architecture is dependent upon the position of the camera; and how the […]

GEORGIA MAY JAECKLE 2016-17  YEAR 3 Between the Haptic and the Optic ‘It is sharp and yet lands in a vague zone of myself. It is accurate yet muffled. It cries out in silence. Odd contradiction, a floating flash.’ – Roland Barthes Through the obsolescent, […]

FELIX SAGAR 2016-17  YEAR 3 Object Hallucinations Through practicing object-triggered ‘free association’, the project questions whether the flickering-up and passing-away of consciousness during object perception can be used in architectural design. Objects are not objective: could we see six of Sigmund Freud’s desk objects as […]

OSCAR MAGUIRE 2016-17  YEAR 2 Twisting, Turning and the Dance of Learning Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ uses the predictable, mechanical rhythm of the industrial machine as a framework for choreographing comedic performance. The success of the gag is tied to the precision and accuracy of […]

JOE JOHNSON 2016-17  YEAR 2 Rhythmicised Soundscapes Stemming from R. Murray Schafer’s research into industrial soundscapes, both projects seek to reintroduce spontaneity and chance into their acoustic environments. The first, a series of acoustic devices implanted into Otto Wagner’s Hietzing Station in Vienna, attempts to […]

ALEKSANDRA KUGACKA 2016-17  YEAR 3 Hotel Unheimlich Nested in-between the walls of two family houses The Unhomely Hotel challenges the notion of home. To dwell in this hotel is to occupy the fringes of inhabitation. Secret mechanisms, out of sight ornaments, strangely familiar shadows – […]

ELLIE MANOU 2016-17  YEAR 3 Wearing in, Wearing Out Konstantin Stanislavsky and his system of method acting cultivates the “art of experiencing” with which he contrasts the “art of representation”. An investigation of the parallel, intersecting and merging worlds. The merging and intersecting of two […]

FLORNCE HEMMINGS 2016-17  YEAR 2 Unfurling Subjects, Invertd Objects Using the logic of mechanisms in the body, such as sockets, to dictate how contraptions move once taken off the body. The drawing aligns the misfit of the actuality of the body’s surface form over the […]

HOHGUN CHOI 2016-17  YEAR 3 Part Time – Art Time The project chooses to see binocularity as an opportunity of translation between the human and architecture in Vienna. A sculpture for opening the eyes. The Kunst-Bunker responds to Vienna’s obsession with the ornate and the […]

LOLA HAINES 2016-17  YEAR 2 Museum of Baroque Theatre “The sense of sight gives no less assurance of reality of its objects than do the senses of smell and hearing, while neither our imagination nor our senses could ever assure us of anything without the […]

MAXIM GOLDAU 2016-17  YEAR 2 When Chichi Met Semper Upon arrival at the Semperdepot, where the faculty of conceptual arts is based total interaction housed around the glorious atrium was expected but not found. However, it was found in the aula in form of a […]

THOMAS CHU 2016-17  YEAR 3 House For a Conductor Project 1 attempts to recreate the moment and atmosphere on the night of 16th of November 1848 in Guildhall, London, when Chopin played his last public performance. By comparing historic paintings of Guildhall, I was able […]

Christina Garbi 2016-17  YEAR 3 Inflatable Casting: A Cathedral of Water To investigate the concept of positive and negative space, and the transition between the two, I experimented with inflatable casting. Balloons filled with water, which occupy the void within a draped fabric arranged on […]

FREDDIE HONG 2015-16  YEAR 3 Click on the image to see more A Bath of Mnemonic Vectors A re-territorialised Japanese bathhouse in Hoxton translates the symmetries and asymmetries of shared memories into measurable architectural units. The project involves the author’s and his mother’s memories of one specific […]

JUN HAO CHAN 2015-16  YEAR 2 Weather – Negotiating the Boundary “The house had a desolate look. The door was shabby, and nearly destitute of paint, and the windows were obscured by dirt … When I entered the gallery and looked at the pictures I was astonished, and the […]

ISAAC SIMPSON 2015-16  YEAR 3   Click on the image to see more Discovered Misreadings A host for the production, conservation and dissemination of the Survey of London, the building is constructed as a palimpsest of conflicting cartographic systems that encourages conversations between architecture, historians and future […]

CARMEN KONG 2016-17  YEAR 3 Palinka Hotel Project 1 designs a shop that uses architecture and light as packaging for 3 flavours of chocolate. Customers walk through the shop differentiating the taste of each chocolate through their perception of the colour ‘red’. Building project: a […]

MILLIE GREEN 2016-17  YEAR 2 The Climbing Library Deriving from an initial exploration of a counterpoint that is abstract to the analytical order and linear thought of lawyers at Lincolns Inn Fields, existing in an alleyway adrift from its surroundings through tactile surfaces that cling […]

JAMES HEPPER 2015-16  YEAR 2 Click on the image to see more Inhabiting the Space of Desire “Granted there is a wall, what’s going on behind it?” Jean Tardieu, quoted in Georges Perec, ‘A Species of Spaces’ Founded from a discovered interplay between facades, the project […]

RORY TURNER 2015-16  YEAR 2 Click on the image to see more Caravaggio Dreams of Sushi When Caravaggio dreams of sushi, a restaurant emerges; etched-out from the darkness ofthe void, an architecture in honour of the art of sushi.Cantilevered fins thrust out over Regent’s canal, on the […]