2011 architecture yearbook
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LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYSchool of Architecture
2011 YEARBOOK
ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO UNDERGRADUATEpage 9
URBAN STUDIOpage 10
VENICE / CAMBRIDGEpage 32
PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIESpage 62
CHANGEpage 80
INTRODUCTION TO POSTGRADUATEpage 100
ANGELUS NOVUSpage 102
CRASH TESTpage 108
URBAN STUDIOpage 123
PRACTICE BASEDpage 132
INTRODUCTION
Leeds School of Architecture
BA(Hons)Architecture
We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilizing the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just.
Research is embodied in everything we do. This is research based on the practice of architecture where the deep understanding of situation underpins new work and new dialogues.
The following is a celebration of work from this years students. We hope that, through this book, you are able to share in their thoughts, ideas and designs.
Des Fagan RIBA March BArch
Course Leader
BA(Hons) Architecture
Philosophy
We believe that a sustainable approach to architecture is key.
Our designs are influenced by the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ text be McDonough and Braungart
We promote self build and real build projects for students to design and construct.
We aim to propose ideas and designs that address the difficulties faced by Holbeck
Site
Holbeck is a district of Leeds just a few minutes walk from the City Centre.
Holbeck was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Leeds, but has suffered significant decline. Since the 19th Century, many of the industrial buildings and warehouses have been demolished or fallen into disrepair. The district is now home to some of the highest rates of crime and social deprivation in the country.
URBAN STUDIOSimon Warren, Des Fagan, Simon NorthAim>
SEMESTER ONE
Ashley BallUrban Beauty> Disperse
Harvinder MudharUrban Beauty
Sam GildingHolbeck Regeneration
Claire BurrellHolbeck Creative Arts Village
Richard LaycockHolbeck Strategy
James NortonHolbeck Masterplan
Chris FosterHolbeck Micro Brewery
Claire BurrellCreative Arts Village
Georgina Robson
Genenan AntoineHolbeck Garden Restaurant
Andrea GhirawooLeeds Southern School of Contemporary Dance
Ashley BallSpeakers’ Corner and Discussion Forum
John EvansHolbeck Revitilisation Centre
Harry HewlettHolbeck Brewery and Beer Farm
Dan CalverleyPoetic Cinema
Richard LaycockProduction, Education, Community
MimiUrban Dance Centre
Sam GildingHolbeck Gallery
Aimie Griffiths
SEMESTER TWO
Jack DaveyHolbeck Leisure Centre
Yuen NgaiParking Meters
Joshua Boydell-SmithOld Chapel Live
Besnik AbdiuHolbeck Site Model
Harvinder Mudhar, Raymond Soko, Zoltan DeakWeaving Holbeck to Leeds Through Sustainability & Health
Karl BraidwoodHolbeck Regeneration
Zoltan DeakScuba-diving Centre
MimiHolbeck Spa
Andrew BatesGreen Route
Harvinder MudharHolbeck Health Spa
William BoardHolbeck Spa
Joe WaltonHolbeck Spa
Andrew BatesHolbeck Spa
Yue ZhengCencept Models
Joshua Boydell-SmithOld Chapel Live
Rachael BrantonHolbeck Urban Spa
Aimee MajorSensory Spa
Matthew BakerHolbeck Spa
Proposition
This unit combined Level 2 and level 3 students. The intention of the unit was to study the processes of architecture through the media of art, poetry and music and to explore the possible relationship between a specific form and a resultant architectural form. Three themes were explored through the year ; rising water levels, the ordinary within the extraordinary and the future of the map. Mapping was considered as a powerful and sometimes individual act, by editing out that which is thought of as unimportant, but also allowing for others reinterpretation.
Sites
A field trip was undertaken to Venice and an Urban Design Study was undertaken in three chosen areas of Venice. Sites were chosen in these areas by the students along with a choice of two briefs (Glass Blowing School or a Gondola Building School). A volumetric project was then set to look at the appropriateness of form in an urban context.
In the second semester a project was set in Cambridge. A new map library was set to house an existing collection of historic and ordnance survey maps. A choice of three sites was provided, one on the flood plain near Darwin College, one near the Architecture School and one adjacent to the existing Main City Library.
The Unit resisted the idea that libraries might be little more than a virtual experience and did not dwell on the justifications of programme but used the spatial possibilities it implied as an opportunity for design.
VENICE & CAMBRIDGESarah Mills, Dennis BurrAim>
SEMESTER ONE
Alex WarrenMusic Therapy Centre
Trim MuratiVenice Site Plan
James BromleySite Study
Tom BooenSite Study
Benjamin AllanVenice Volumetrics
Chris ParaskosMasterplan Model
Trim MuratiGondola Making Process
Trim MuratiScale Model
Patrick JervisBoat Building & Design School
William BoardVenice
Alex PasseyRehabilitation Centre
Karl LentonVenice
Karl LentonElevation
Lawrence FergusonVenice
Tom BooenVolumetrics
SEMESTER TWO
Adam FultonLibrary Study
Danny PatelLibrary Study
Trim MuratiIntuative Response
Tomos CopeIntuative Response
Ashley BallDevelopment Work Catalogue
Antonia FrondellaCambridge Map Library
Vahagn MkrtchyanCambridge Map Library & Depository
Alex WarrenCambridge Map Library & Depository
Chris NewboldCambridge Map Library & Depository
Nick Hart-WoodsCambridge Arts Library
Nick HigsonCambridge Arts Library
Amirreza GostaryfardCambridge Map Library
Adam FultonCambridge Map Library
Ashley BallCambridge Arts Library & Gallery at Kettles Yard
Gary WhitechurchCambridge Arts Library
Vahagn MkrtchyanInterior
Chris NewboldSite Context
Ellie ArcherScale Model
Karl LentonCambridge Map Library
Karl LentonMap Library Interiors
Proposition
We are interested in investigating the potential of post-industrial cityscapes, and this year has been spent exploring opportunities for experienced, remembered and imagined voids and edges. Our studio takes a contextual approach that explores layers and palimpsests and we are particularly interested in model making as a tool to investigate ideas and scale. Students have been challenged to create their own briefs through a critical reading and understanding of place – this year we have explored options as diverse as algae farms, stitch-and-bitch, spas and travelling theatre-scapes.
Sites
Semester One> Williamson tunnels, LiverpoolEducational Space The eccentric millionaire Joseph Williamson created a labyrinth of tunnels in Edge Hill, Liverpool to provide employment opportunities to men returning from the Napoleonic War. A triumph of technology, this extensive network of tunnels provides the setting for the Educational Space project. In-depth analysis of both the site and wider context provided an understanding of local need and the identification of an appropriate educational space. ‘Space-changing devices’ were employed to generate a language that could initiate positive transformations.
Semester Two> NewcastleLeisure City
‘It is estimated that leisure activities now account for 35 percent of our waking time, 9.7 percent of our
personal consumption expenditures, and 6.9 percent of our GDP. In this world of flexible work hours, discount flights to all corners of the earth, and the ability to download almost every single movie, television
show or song ever recorded, we have become a society of leisure aficionados and pleasure connoisseurs.’ The Why Factory
The challenge was set to create a productive leisure industry.
PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIESClaire Hannibal, Lesley Millard,Aim>
SEMESTER ONE
Amy FeatherstoneIntuative Response
Lauren ConnollyIntuative Response
Andreah DohertyLiverpool
Hannah CawthorneEdge Hill Rehabilitation Centre
Besnik AbdiuWilliamson Tunnels
Amanda KenyonWilliamson Tunnels
Amanda KenyonWilliamson Tunnels
Nixie Mae EdwardsWilliamson Tunnels
Andreah DohertySite Section
Aaron MorrisWilliamson Tunnels
Chris NewboldCentre For Digital Arts
SEMESTER TWO
Amanda KenyonDevelopment Models
Kirsty RaineGateshead
Hannah BraidLeisure City
Emily DowWilliamson Tunnels
Tom EddisonHoney Farm
Sarah WardropeWilliamson Tunnels
Dan CalverleyExtreme Sport Restaurant
Sam StalkerTravelling Theatre
Genenan AntoineThe Canny Brewery
Amanda KenyonFinal Model
Proposition
“Mutability is the epitaph of worldsChange alone is changelessPeople drop out of the history of a life as of a landThrough their work or their influence remains”
The Manchester Man
G Linnaeus Banks 1876
PARKING/ CHANGEKeith Andrews, Dan KellyAim>
SEMESTER ONE
Matt GrindeyHydrogen Fuel Cell Production & Research Centre
Joshua Boydell-SmithPaul Smith Autumn Winter Collection
Ron Graham
SEMESTER TWO
Harry HewlettRuncorn Contaminants
Lee SalimRuncorn Disaster
Tom RawsonMapping Constellations
Tim SmyrkRuncorn Disaster 2033
James BromleyMeat Slaughter
Benjamin AllanRuncorn Disaster
Ross CouperAutomotive Education Centre
Nick WrightLeek
Patrick JervisBio-Steel Research & Development Centre
John EvansRuncorn Military Rehabilitation Centre
Tom BooenLeek Old Peoples Home
Jonny WrynneWindermere
Harry HewlettRuncorn
Ron Graham
POSTGRADUATE CONTEXT
The future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the challenge for the 21st Century Architect, to imagine not only the future,
but to envision ways of getting there - from here.
We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. Architecture is not only building to us, but a concretisation of the needs and dreams of the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series of interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to
the building skin and the room itself.
Our new approach is research based design. The Studio is unit-based allowing students to specialise within the frame of the RIBA/ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book based research but research by design.... This research is based on the practice of architecture; where the deep understanding of situation, underpins
new work and new dialogues..
We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making - either things or policy or methodologies. From the action research of our Urban Studio Unit, where real life community design projects are realised to the Abstract Machines Unit where parametric modeling allows the development of complex component driven facades, we engage with the possibilities created by new technologies and material. The Crash Test Unit engages with urban policy and sustainability in a
creative way to produce closed cycles cities.
Proposition
Angelus Novus was a watercolour painted by Paul Klee in 1920. Walter Benjamin a philosopher owned the painting and saw it as depicting the ‘Angel of history’. With its face turned resolutely to the past, it perceives the future manifest as linear catastrophe, which keeps piling the avant-garde of the moment upon the established and known. The wreckage, of the one impacting on the other, measures our progression into the future.
The proposition of the unit is to ask what constitutes redundancy and to speculate on various strategies and techniques of re-animation .There are three parallel strands of investigation:
• The history, programme and cultural context of the original edifice.• The speculative development and testing of the new programs/scripts.• The nature, rational and techniques employed in the existing construction, the nature rational and techniques of the proposed intervention.
Sites
Year 01 (2009-10)
The Units attentions were focused on the disused Holbeck Viaduct connecting the centre of Leeds to the suburbs
Year 02, (2010-11)
The Units interest focused on Wakefield & The Five Towns. The Unit generated research and proposals contributing to the Five Towns Regeneration, initiated by Yorkshire Forward and carried on by the municipal authorities and BEAM.
ANGELUS NOVUSKeith Andrews, Vernon ThomasAim> Recycling/ Transformation/ Fabrication Strategies
Chris StowThe Employment Line
Alex McCannWakefield Craft Brewery
Chris StowThe Employment Line
Alex McCannWakefield Craft Brewery
Richard CopperwheatZeppelin Terminal
James WakelingIs Cannabis The New Coal?
Richard CopperwheatZeppelin Terminal
James WakelingIs Cannabis The New Coal?
James StoreyMoblie Music Centre
Catherine GaultBurberry Foundation Centre
Paul StaffordWakefields obe(CITY)
Mark CrosbyHariboLand
Proposition
The Globalised City is a network of flows and interdependent landscapes. These landscapes are characterised by flows of global commodities, ideas and technologies.
The networks these produce, if managed correctly, can produce life-enhancing synergies.
Sites
Through studying Stoke-On-Trent, Barrow-in-Furness and the area of South Leeds, the Crash Test Unit has developed a series of propositions designed to instigate Closed Loop Urbanism: Waste Equals Food.
CRASH TESTClaire Hannibal, Des Fagan, Craig StottAim> Synergetic Urbanism
Adam Leigh-BrownThe Grange
Andrew GoodwinCybernetic Subterfuge
Marcos LosadaMarine Solutions
Claire Brooks-StephensonGyro Town
Louise HartleySensity: Emergent Media City
James BaronUp Project
Greg FrymanAlgae L-Systems
Victoria WoodEndosymbiont
Lauren MintoftBuilding Resilience
Laura SherrattPreparations For The Inevitable
Philip CarterMake Power Not War
Patrick HelegwaExer Tri City
Greg BlomBiocyclical Networks
Jonathan PyleThe Resilient Edge
Natalie Alice HallBarrow’s Arc(ology)
William InglisLibertarian Globalized Space
Andrew JenkinsAn Industrial Evolution
Christopher HartshorneHarvest From The Sea
Morgan GrennanAquatic (Re)Birth
Alastair ShelleyThe Information Archive
Sally PorrittThe Sustainable Sea
Sian EdwardsAge Of Nostalgia
Matthew WrayHybrid Ecologies
Proposition
“A ‘sustainable city’ is organised so as to enable all its citizens to meet their own needs and to enhance their well being without damaging the natural world or endangering the living conditions of other people, now or in the future...there will be no sustainable world without sustainable cities.”
Herbert Girardet
Urban Studio investigated post-industrical cities in the North of England and looks at how they might be regenerated in the context of a global imperative for cities to become sustainable.
Sites
The main focus of study was the east coast city of Hull which has both natural resources and legacies from traditional industries that together provide the potential for regeneration and the sustainable development of the city and region.
Urban Studio is also involved in ‘live’ programmes that implement the ethos of the Unit. One such current ‘live’ project is in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti, with the design and development of a sustainable earthquake proof orphanage.
URBAN STUDIOTony Rees, Simon Warren
Mike AllanBransholme Construction Skills Centre
Laura CrowtherLiving Memorial
Jenna CunninghamDive Dock: Hull
Lucy AnderssonQuayside Hostel & Watersports Centre
Thomas StubleyLonghill Longlife
Emma KingRenewable Energy Port
Francesca GarlandPlug and Play Centre
Sam RawlingsSiemens Academy
Ben ClareThe Water_Culture Experience
Kristopher JonesA Global CO2nference
Martin SutcliffeThe Timber Yards
Daniel GoodsonSociety’s Ignored Population
Dominic HusbandUrban (re)connection
The Part-Time Students have been working on self-directed projects, based on individual interests. The projects are all buildings in an Urban context, usually set in the town or city that the student is based.
PRACTICE BASED
PRACTICE BASED
Matt QuinnBeyond The Wall
Sarah LunnThe Music Project
Emily CainChildrens Therapy Centre
Adam GrahamRehabilitation Facility
Daniel PearceDaemon Innovation
Neil MonkPreston City Hall
ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011Designed by Ashley Ball