Research Book 2008-2013

The University of SheffieldSchool of Architecture

Research 2008 - 2013

General Introduction by Prof. Peter Blundell Jones 4Research Locations, Funding & Dissemination 10 SSoA Research Development 2008-2013 12

Architectural History,Theory & Education 15

Introduction by Prof. Flora Samuel 16

Prof. Peter Blundell Jones 18Dr. Florian Kossak 22Dr. Jo Lintonbon 26Dr. Rosie Parnell 30Prof. Flora Samuel 34Dr. Tatjana Schneider 38Dr. Renata Tyszczuk 42Dr. Stephen Walker 46

Architecture, Science & Technology 51

Introduction by Dr. Rachel Cruise, 52Prof. Jian Kang & Dr. Mark Meagher

Dr. Hasim Altan 54Dr. Rachel Cruise 58Prof. Steve Fotios 62Prof. Jian Kang 66Dr. Mark Meagher 70Dr. Chengzhi Peng 74Dr. Michael Phiri 78Prof. Fionn Stevenson 80Dr. Tsung-Hsien Wang 84

Community Participation & Future Practice 89

Introduction by Prof. Doina Petrescu & 90Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth

Dr. Nishat Awan 94 Prof. Irena Bauman 98Dr. Cristina Cerulli 102Prue Chiles 106Dr. Teresa Hoskyns 110Dr. Lucy Jones 114Prof. Doina Petrescu 118Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth 122

A Way Forward by Prof. Fionn Stevenson 152

Postgraduate students 2008 - 2013 127

Research Groups 2013 134

Future Direction for Research Clusters 137

CONTENTS

The Research Assessment Exercise of 2008 confirmed the School´s position as a world class centre for architectural research, with 35% of the staff rated as 4* (world leading), the highest percentage score achieved by any School of Architecture, and 70% of the research graded in the 4* or 3* (internationally excellent) categories. Following on from excellent ratings (Grade 5) in the two previous RAEs, these results make Sheffield the only School in the UK to have achieved and maintained this level of research performance, the culmination of a long history with contributions from generations of scholars, researchers and students.

Background History of the School

Although the school was founded as long ago as 1908, it was dedicated largely to training local practitioners for its first forty years and remained very small. From 1928 it was run by Stephen Welsh as an offshoot from Charles Reilly’s larger and more important school in Liverpool, and it was housed in a studio in the tower of Firth Court. Welsh was the first professor, but he was promoted to that rank only in 1948, less than a decade from his retirement. There was from the beginning some research connected with the school, such as the book on vernacular architecture by C.J. Innocent who taught in it, published by Cambridge University Press in 1916. There were later conn-ections with archaeological work, especially through Alec Daykin who worked with Colin

Renfrew, but the main business was to teach architecture in the Beaux Arts manner starting with drawing technique and the orders.

Growth, Expansion and Building Science

The late 1940s and 1950s brought a great expansion and the first presence of students from abroad, including from Malaya and Africa. The second professor John Needham, present from 1957, instituted a more modernist view of architecture and presided over an enlarged faculty, with new departments of town planning, landscape, and building science. It was in the latter that physical, quantitative research began, prompted by Leslie Martin’s call at the Oxford Conference of 1958 for architecture to become more scientific. When the school moved into the Arts Tower in 1965 there were substantial laboratories for measurement of light and sound, and experimental work organised by Professor John Page, physicist by training. Even though Building Science ceased as a separate department and was reabsorbed into the school in the 1990s, this kind of research has continued ever since, notably with environmental work by Professor Steve Sharples, fire protection work by Professor Roger Plank, and lighting and circulation studies by Professor Peter Tregenza. It is most strongly represented today by Professor Steve Fotios’s work on lighting and perception, and by Professor Jian Kang’s work on acoustics and soundscapes.

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Ecological Concerns

From at least the 1980s there was also work in an ecological direction, initiated by Cedric Green who built a group of solar houses in Gleadless, and continued by Robert and Brenda Vale who built and published extensively. The ecological side of the school’s work is led by current Head of School Professor Fionn Stevenson, also Co-director of the University’s Royal Academy of Engineering Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Building Design. Ecological arguments are also much more widely shared now as a general cultural concern with sustainability, recently expressed as the developing Building Local Resilience platform under Professor Irena Bauman, which is closely linked to the interdisciplinary Sheffield Urban Institute. There is general agreement across the school that energy use needs reducing and climate change must be met imaginatively. There is also concern that often in the past measures to accomplish this in architecture have been treated as add-ons, not part of a more general philosophy. Stevenson’s leadership in the area of building performance evaluation is helping to ensure this is no longer the case. Learning in this area is currently being exported to Poland and throughout the EU through her Marie Curie BuPESA project.

Coming of the Computer Age

As well as his work in the 1980s with ecological issues, Cedric Green was also one of the first to engage the use of personal computers in architecture, and in a parallel manner this was also the province of Bryan Lawson, who developed the Gable system, a leading methodology of its time and an unprecedented grant earner. Development in this area has continued ever since, and current work includes projects on urban modelling and climate change by Chengzhi Peng, explorations on responsive surfaces and the use of computers in architectural education by Mark Meagher, and work by Tsung Hsien Wang on geometry and building information.

Emphasis on Research

Lawson was made the first ever Professor of Research and subsequently held the headship of the school through the 1990s. Though educated as an architect, he had gained his PhD in psychology, and he pioneered research programmes about building uses and the reactions of clients and users, which paved the way for a deeper critique of the architect’s role and task. As head he insisted on all staff members being research-active, which not only increased the intellectual

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level of the school but also made it a leader in the newly-instituted Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). He argued that anyone teaching should be articulate about their position and able to justify it, whether in appropriate publications, or in buildings of a standard to invite publication or serve as experiments publicly reported. Under Lawson the number of books published by staff members increased greatly, and the research environment initiated by him has continued to evolve. Currently, the school is frequently placed among the top architecture schools of the UK and Europe, and considered a world class centre for architectural research.

The Studio System

Design work is the staple in any school of archi-tecture, and Sheffield first achieved a national reputation in the 1980s with student work by repeatedly winning the RIBA President’s Medals. This was achieved under the alternating headship of Professors David Gosling and Kenneth Murta by concentrating resources on the final year ‘thesis project’ and bringing in a veritable flying circus of architects from London to tutor it, who cons-tituted almost a ‘Who’s Who’ in architecture of that period. In retrospect this reflects both the importance of keeping a provincial school current and vibrant by contact with the metropolis, and

the role of the medals as earner of reputation and means of legitimation. But there were at that time very few staff publications, few PhDs outside the Building Science areas, and if student designs were in some sense experiments, they were hardly subject to rigorous testing. By the mid 1990s, the year-long self-chosen solo student project was looking tired, and with increasing student numbers, resources had to be spread more evenly. So in the upper school a thematic studio system was instituted working with contrasting topics, allowing a range of special-isations related to staff research expertise. The school still wins at the President’s medals, and if less spectacularly than before it probably reflects the greater concern for research process rather than polished product.

Participation and Social Engagement

The emphasis on research was also a priority for Lawson’ successor Professor Jeremy Till. Under Till, concern for users and worry about the way they had been expropriated grew, and there was much interest in participation, including a lecture series by international exponents including Lucien Kroll. This was organised by Peter Blundell Jones, who had been Professor since 1994. This further coincided with the arrival of Doina Petrescu among the staff, now also Professor. Along with Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, the French

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award winning practice of which she is a part, she has engaged in forms of participatory practice that empower ordinary people to take a hand in their environment, as well as seeing curating as a form of practice. Along with Blundell Jones and Till, Petrescu co-edited the book Architecture and Participation, published by Routledge in 2005. This theme in the school’s research was part of a widely shared critique around the millennium of the way architecture is practised and buildings procured. It led to the emergence in 2007 of the research group Agency, working under the strap-line ‘transformative research into architectural practice and education’. In 2008, Agency organised an AHRA international con-ference which led to the edited book Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures. Reflecting the same interests, the international peer review journal field: was established, publishing five volumes to date. A parallel result of these activities was Till’s award winning book Architecture Depends, published in 2009 and Spatial Agency of 2011, co-authored with Nishat Awan and Tatjana Schneider, the result of an AHRC research project on Alternative Praxis.

Architectural Pedagogy and Live Projects

A parallel concern with architectural pedagogy, challenging the assumed dominance of the architect, resulted in teaching innovations by

Ruth Morrow, who later moved on to a chair in Belfast. This continues in studies by Rosie Parnell and others about the engagement of users in the design process and in the processes of decision making. Although notable as a strong theme only in the last decade, experience of practice had in fact been a longstanding issue in the school, dating back to the Headship of George Grenfell-Baines, founder of Building Design Partnership (BDP), in 1973. He argued to the then Vice-Chancellor that architects should train like doctors, and he went so far as to open a branch of his firm in Sheffield to turn the students’ year-out into a formal teaching vehicle. Office-based learning is vulnerable to fluctuations in the construction industry but we continue to explore new variations on this theme as the cost of architectural education becomes prohibitively expensive .

In 2000 Prue Chiles set up BDR (Bureau of Design Research) which has completed over 60 funded projects in the Sheffield region, often working with marginalised communities and involving citizens in the process of regeneration. BDR also gained a reputation in research through the design of schools, but most importantly it helped set up a series of live projects for current students that has now become routine in the school. These offer experience of construction, engagement with clients, and social links with the city.


Research led teaching

Over the years, the School has developed a research led teaching agenda. This has been reflected in the design and theory curricula at all levels, but has particularly been emphasised in the post-graduate teaching. With currently over 80 PhD students and 100 Taught Masters students from the UK, Europe and further afield, the School has one of the largest cohorts of architecturally based research students in the UK, reflecting its pre-eminence in the field of architectural research. The Graduate School embraces these Doctoral and Taught Masters programmes, fosters links between post-graduate students and research staff, and supports the flourishing research culture within the School. Our postgraduate research is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research.

Research by design

We noted above that student design projects are often in a sense research experiments, and a crucial development over the last ten years has been the institution of PhD by design pioneered by celebrated practitioner Professor Sarah Wigglesworth, a move that should help to de-mystify design and set it on a more secure and rational disciplinary footing. The school is at the

forefront of promoting research in practice, working with practitioners to develop the skills necessary to demonstrate the value of archi-tecture. Former Head Professor Flora Samuel has recently initiated the RIBA Report on Research Practice in Housing, the RIBA Practice Research Guide and the SCHOSA/RIBA Review of Academic Architecture Research, all intended to promote and facilitate research in practice. Samuel also leads the AHRC funded Cultural Value of Archi-tecture in Homes and Neighbourhoods project, a critical review of ways in which architectural value might be proven. We believe that the evidencing of value is key to the future of the profession.

Architectural Humanities

Teaching in the humanities has long been important at Sheffield, and it is one of the remaining schools that still expects students to write dissertations at both BA and M Arch levels, reaching a consistently high level in that part of the President’s Medals. Until the mid 1990s the history course followed a comprehensive and Banister-Fletcher-like chronological form, but this was reformed by Professor Blundell Jones to a more open structure of case studies, partly in despair at ever achieving comprehensiveness, partly to achieve greater depth and to penetrate beyond purely periodic and stylistic classification. There has also been an increasing concern with

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place, including contextual studies like the continuing Sheffield 1900 study, an international lecture series on cities, and the initiation of a conservation course by Jo Lintonbon. The social and psychological side of architecture has steadily increased in emphasis, laying foundations both for more rigorous undergraduate dissertations and for PhD studies, which have blossomed both in number and variety of topic.

The growth of East-West studies over the last 20 years reflects both the keenness of East-Asian students to come to us, and the effect of our more global and anthropological outlook. But at the same time traditional work in architectural history has continued, with monographs on Scharoun, Häring, and Asplund by Blundell Jones, on Otto Steidler by Florian Kossak, on Helen Chadwick and Gordon Matta-Clark by Stephen Walker, and on schools by Mark Dudek. An invited lecture series ‘Architecture and Movement’ of 2011 has led to the forthcoming eponymous book edited by Blundell Jones and Mark Meagher with Routledge, including contributions by six other staff and three current or former students. Professor Flora Samuel, Head of School for the last four years, arrived with a glowing reputation for her works on Le Corbusier and Aalto, and has added two further volumes to her study on the former. As the first Head under the newly formed Faculty of Social Sciences, she has also initiated a large interdisciplinary study on

the topic of the home, which embraces and expands the school’s focal interest in the relationship between architecture, place, and society.

All these research strands have been re-organised within three research clusters: Architectural History, Theory and Education, Architectural Sciences and Technology and Community, Participation and Future Practice. These lines of inquiry combine as a research platform for the whole school, Building Local Resilience. This acts as a catalyst and a distinctive brand for our research in the fields of sustainable communities and the built environment. It provides support and connections between research groups and external collaborators.


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As we attempted to organise and map all the research undertaken at SSoA it became evident that the body of our research is interdisciplinary by nature. It cuts across many standard classifications and is dynamic, changing over time.

These lines represent past diagrams and mappings of our research clusters, tracing the relationships between individual research projects over the period of five years.

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Architectural Science

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ArchitecturalHistory, Theory & Education2008–2013

ArchitecturALHISTORY, THEORY& EDUCATION


Like the School of Architecture itself, the study of Humanities at Sheffield is distinctive and prioritises critical practice. History and theory is significant insofar as we can learn from it: insofar as it can inform our practice, our pedagogy, or our way of interpreting the world for the better.

Too many studies of architecture are written with the assumption of a hegemonic point of view. It is for this reason that we take keen interest in issues of methodology: in what goes into our histories, and why we teach what we do. Perhaps this is why so much effort has been focused on exposing narratives or viewpoints that were traditionally neglected, as well as critiquing the current state of architectural education. It also explains why the group has such strengths in the issue of gender (Petrescu, Wigglesworth, Parnell, Hoskyns) and widening participation (Cerruli, Chiles, Parnell, Petrescu).

The AHRC funded ‘Spatial Agency’ project by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, and Jeremy Till is a good example of bringing alternative narratives to the fore. This won the 2011 RIBA President’s Medals Award for University Based Research, providing the first ever overview of alternative forms of practice and ‘other ways of doing architecture.’ Further examples of alternative and critical histories include Florian Kossak’s work ‘Otto Steidle: Urban Architect’ and the ‘Urban (Hi)Stories’ undertaken jointly with Stephen Walker. Topics of rising importance are postcolonialism and diasporic experience (Awan); governance, democracy and public space (Hoskyns); and cultural perspectives related to environmental change (Tyszczuk, Jones). Such work includes interdisciplinary collaborative projects and has resulted in a number of media

outputs and publications including Tyszczuk’s co-edited book ATLAS: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (Black Dog Publishing, 2012) and her British Academy funded book on ’Stories of Climate Change’ (Ashgate, 2014)

We place an emphasis on critical approaches to historical and theoretical research. Stephen Walker’s work on Gordon Matta Clark, for instance, works with critical theory to explore the implications of theoretical research for architecture. Awan’s recent work on the ‘topological’ employs theoretical tools to explore relations and analyses of spatial practice.

The Humanities group is fluid and our members cross over into other interdisciplinary groupings, such as Building Local Resilience, Home, and Conservation and Regeneration. We are unusual in being part of a Social Science Faculty, and we benefit increasingly from interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines. Central to the development of our work has been the distinguished and distinct voice of Professor Peter Blundell Jones, best known for his writings on Scharoun, Häring and modernist case studies, whose recent work has developed a strongly anthropological angle. Focused building analysis is also at the heart of Flora Samuel’s examination of neglected but important aspects of Le Corbusier’s work.

The school has a strong tradition of evidence-based design led by Emeritus Professor Bryan Lawson. This influences our practice through our interest in participatory action research, visible in the pedagogical work of Rosie Parnell, for example, and in the emphasis we place on creating

Architectural History, theory & education: INtRODUCTIONProf. Flora Samuel

1 R. Tyszczuk with researchers at Open Space Research Centre, Open University and the Ashden Trust.

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accounts of architecture that are purposeful. Such ideas underpin the recently funded AHRC ‘Cultural Value of Architecture in Homes and Communities’ project, which focuses on creating a framework for the evaluation of architecture as a cultural asset.

The humanities group also has close links with the city and locality. For many years we have contributed to the renewal of the city region and further afield through our ideas, our research and our participatory practice. Jo Lintonbon’s history of the development of Sheffield city centre is a good example, as is the contemporary research by design undertaken by Prue Chiles and Cristina Cerruli.

One of the school’s strategic priorities is to develop links between practice and academia. The majority of the humanities group members are, or have been, practising architects. We believe that developing discourse and ideas in writing is a valid form of practice, and our members are known internationally for strategic leadership within the discipline. field:, the Sheffield-based research journal established by Renata Tyszczuk and Doina Petrescu, is a case in point.

Across the school we attempt a critical integration of architectural education, research and practice, but this is emphasised particularly in our post-graduate teaching. The AGENCY Research Centre, formally established in 2007, has this as its central aim. Going beyond research-led teaching, members of AGENCY have pioneered collabora-tive, teaching-led research methodologies as well as researching and experimenting with different pedagogical formats and spaces. Focusing on the emergence of the student’s own agency, the

AGENCY Research Centre enabled the student-led conference ‘Ecology’ in 2009. Other inno-vations have included a post graduate module, ‘Reflections on Architectural Education’, co-created by Rosie Parnell and Jeremy Till, in which students are guided through their own action research projects, performing interventions in the school based on the critical knowledge they develop.

Teaching at Masters level includes the annual Theory Forum, a conference with international speakers developing their work together with staff and students. Through such events students are exposed to research interests in the school such as Agency (5th AHRA -Architectural Humanities Research Association- international conference organised by the AGENCY Research Centre, 2008), ‘Home’ (organised by Flora Samuel, 2011), and ‘Urban Blind Spots’ (organised by Florian Kossak, Tatjana Schneider and Stephen Walker, 2012). These events are the origins of the book Agency, Working with Uncertain Architectures published by Routledge in 2010, and a more recent one has led to the forthcoming Architecture and Movement (Blundell Jones, Meagher) with the same publishers.

Aside from the themed content, there is also focus on the methodologies of the speakers and the question of what constitutes research rigour. It is not just historical knowledge that we wish students to take with them into employment, but a critical attitude, a questioning the boundaries of architecture, a capability of communicating its importance to a non-expert audience, and a challenging of established norms. This, in our view, is the fundamental purpose of humanities education.


Selected Research Outputs

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘The Architecture and Operation of the Imperial Chinese Yamen’ in Jonathan Simon, Nicholas Temple and Renée Tobe (eds.) Architecture and Justice: Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013): 131-150.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Ideas of Folk and Nation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture’, in Timothy Baycroft and David Hopkin (eds.) Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century, (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012): 69-98.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘The Photo-dependent, the Photogenic and the Unphotographable: How our Understanding of the Modern Movement has been Conditioned by Photography’ in Andrew Higgott and Timothy Wray (eds.) Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012): 47-60.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Learning from Scharoun, revisit to school at Marl of 1960-68 by Hans Scharoun after the successful campaign to save it.’ The Architectural Review 232(1389)(2012): 67-77.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Wales Institute for Sustainable Education, criticism of the new building at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, by David Lea and Pat Borer.’ The Architectural Review 229(1367)(2011): 035-041.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Rehabilitacion del Ayuntamiento de Utrecht 1997-2000’ in Josep M. Rovira (ed.) Enric Miralles 1972-2000, (Barcelona: Fundacion Caja de Arquitectos, 2011): 263-276.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Hans Scharoun and the Interior’ in Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, Trevor Keeble and Brenda Martin (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today, (Oxford and New York: Berg publishers, 2009): 159-169.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Gunnar Asplund’s National Bacteriological Laboratories, Solna, Stockholm, 1933-1937’ in The Journal of Architecture 15(4)(2010): 379-395.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Admirably perverse: tectonic expression and the puzzles of Galerie Goetz.’ in Architectural Research Quarterly 13(3-4)(2009): 220-230.

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘The Lure of the Orient: Scharoun and Häring’s East-West Connections’ Architectural Research Quarterly 12(1)(2008): 29-42.

Prof. Peter Blundell Jones

East Royal TombsQing Dynasty, ChinaLooking back along spirit path towards sacred mountain.

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In the age of brand and image, I am interested rather in substance. Thinking beyond the box of technical and economic imperatives, I want to understand how architecture works, how it at once reflects and helps constitute society. This is less a matter of fitness for purpose or fulfillment of functions than of its capacity to hold meaning and frame rituals, for our habits and beliefs are both supported and constrained by our buildings. To put it another way, if reality is a social construct, architecture plays its part through the social construction of space. I find that I need to keep up with and to extend my established areas of expertise while also working on new ones, and that I learn from supervising PhDs as well as from undertaking regular pieces of architectural journalism for The Architectural Review and other journals. Over forty years I have gradually moved from writing detailed studies of modernist heroes like Scharoun, Häring and Asplund to ranging across a longer history and a larger world, considering buildings beyond those traditionally designated as architecture, and borrowing both theories and examples from anthropological sources. I have increasingly turned to deep readings of buildings within their social context and to making comparative case studies between contrasting cultures and periods, so to complement my two volumes of Modern Architecture Through Case Studies I am at work

on a larger and wider ranging book Architecture and Ritual. Also, with Mark Meagher I am editing a collection of essays on the neglected topic Architecture and Movement and extending the territory of Architecture and Participation by considering both current participative work and vernacular sources, including studies of building rituals. A growth PhD area in collaboration with Jan Woudstra has been East-West studies, at once for its ritual forms, its carpentry traditions, and the varied forms of modernisation that have developed across East Asia. We have been exploring traditional Chinese architecture, which is of special interest as the main independent civilisation to rival Greece and Rome, but was unfairly neglected due to cultural distance and prejudice against wooden construction. Since the school started a conservation course, I have also been writing and lecturing about conversions and extensions, encouraging the view that sites are most usually palimpsests, collections of layers, rather than perfect monuments. With the conservation students, Jo Lintonbon and I have also been extending year by year the ‘Sheffield 1900’ study and 1:500 scale model, embracing an ever larger area of the city. As far as we know, it remains the only such systematic analysis to take on every street and building rather than drawing an arbitrary line between architecture and mere building.

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East Royal Tombs:Qing Dynasty, ChinaProgressive stages of entry to tomb of Shunzhi Emperor.

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Hans Scharoun, Marl School Germany 1960–1968, aerial view.

Hans Scharoun, Marl School Germany 1960–1968, plan.

Hans Scharoun, Internal street in the school at Marl, Germany, 1960–1968, (under restoration). An architecture that privileges daylight, movement and place-making and was described in a revisit for the Architectural Review.


Image Credit: Scharoun Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Image Credit: City of Marl



Florian Kossak ‘Temporary Urbanism: Its relevance and impact on teaching urban design’. Urban Design Journal, 122(2012): 15-16.

Florian Kossak, ‘Productive Exhibitions: Looking backwards to go forwards’, in Jonathan Hale, Laura Hourston Hanks and Suzanne Macleod (eds.), Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions. (London: Routledge, 2012): 213-222.

Florian Kossak, ‘An Architect’s Tagwerk: notes on Otto Steidle’s work between the urban and the rural’, Architectural Research Quarterly 14(4)(2011): 327-340.

Florian Kossak with AGENCY and Fram_menti, ‘Taking Place’ Exhibition, WAVE11, IUAV, Venice, 2011.

Cristina Cerulli, Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu and Tatjana Schneider, ‘Agencies of Live Projects for a (trans)local cultural production’, in: aaa/RHYZOM (eds.), Trans-Local-Act (Paris: aaa, 2010): 172-210.

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (eds.) Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (Critiques series) (London: Routledge, 2009).

Cristina Cerulli and Florian Kossak (eds.) Agency and the Praxis of Activism, field: 3(1) (2009).

Florian Kossak, ‘Exhibiting Architecture: The Installation as Laboratory for Emerging Architecture’, in Sarah Chaplin and Alexandra Stara (eds.), Curating Architecture and the City (London: Routledge, 2008): 117-128.

Florian Kossak, SSoA Centenary History Exhibition, exhibition and curation design, (Western Bank Library, University of Sheffield, 2008).

Florian Kossak, SHIFTS – Projections into the Future of the Central Belt, research, exhibition design and book publication, (The Lighthouse, Glasgow; Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 2007-08).

Dr.Florian Kossak

Urban (Hi-) Stories Glasgow, Gorbals Street ca 2000: Today the Victorian Building is still standing, the social housing has been blown up.

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My research centres on the many ‘histories’ through which architecture is produced, the mediation of these ‘histories’ and the investigation of concrete examples, people and practices, involved in such histories. Specific foci are 19-20th Century history and theory of urbanism and urban design, and contemporary issues in urban development. There are three interrelated strands of investigation:

Research about the production of and experimentation with architecture by architects and other spatial agents. One example is the project ‘Otto Steidle – Urban Architect’, embracing research based on my extensive collaboration with and work on the German architect Steidle (1943-2004). While my previous research was characterised by a very personal engagement, the current project aims to evaluate Steidle’s oeuvre and his contribution to the development of German and European architecture from a critical distance, in order to produce a long overdue monograph, which positions his work in architectural history.

Research into the perception and mediation of cities and our life within them. One example is the project ‘Urban (Hi)Stories’ that I undertake with Stephen Walker. Originating from the Urban (Hi)Stories lecture series, the project is engaged with transforming the ways in which, or the tools with which, citizens and architects might understand cities more broadly. It investigates the dialectic between alleged subjective and objective, of the position of the amateur versus the professional, and tests the portrayal by the former against the orthodoxy of the latter. It does this through a concrete investigation of world-wide city case studies including Berlin, Tokyo, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Rome, Las Vegas, Lagos, and Mumbai.

Research into the conditions for a just development of cities and our urban environment. One example is the project ‘Urban Blind Spots’ that I undertake with Tatjana Schneider and Stephen Walker. On the one hand, blind spots are typically situations and topics that are obscured by other themes. They fall outside of our radar because they are considered neither topical nor pressing enough to be addressed by policy or planning. On the other hand, blind spots can describe necessary places of informality that allow for indeterminate, unregulated, informal, non-prescribed, and open uses. The research project Blind Spots examines both aspects.

A project that potentially combines all three strands of investigation is ‘Radical Urbanism’. This is a term and concept used in fields such as planning, human geography, sociology, and critical theory to describe a politically-engaged interpretation of the built environment that seeks to achieve social and spatial justice. This critical discourse is largely absent from the field of architecture and urban design. What is missing is an analytical and propositional position that would give answers to the question of how such social and spatial justice might be manifested through built space and architecture. Radical Urbanism aims to fill this gap. First it looks at historical transformative experiments in architecture and urban design from the Avant-garde of the 1920s to the politically, socially, and ecologically motivated positions of the 1960s and ‘70s. Second, it investigates contemporary expressions and positions in architecture and urban design concerned with informal urbanism, bottom-up approaches, and collaborative production of built environments. A particular focus is the tactical and ‘opportunistic’ approaches of user-led developments in the Global South.



Otto Steidle’s ‘Nomad’s Tower’ at the 7th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2000.

“The telescoping, brightly coloured Nomad’s Tower was also a personal statement, it reflected and epitomized Steidle’s life and work. As architectural object it was a paradox - vehicle, tool and house in one; it combined movement and stasis, mobility and settlement; appropriation and invention; working and living. The tower itself could be viewed as an embodiment of the penultimate urban building typology whereas the actual agricultural utility vehicle and mobile tool epitomised the work on the field and in the country. But more importantly it was a statement for openness, open for interpretation, open for adaptation and change.”

Florian Kossak, ‘An Architect’s Tagwerk: notes on Otto Steidle’s work between the urban and the rural’, Architectural Research Quarterly, 14 (4) (2011): 335

Steidle + Partner, Competition Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 1991, 3rd Prize

“Steidle’s [approach to] urban architecture can be seen in the great number of urban masterplans and buildings on a scale where these buildings become urban quarters in themselves. Examples for the former would be commissioned designs and competitions for Stuttgart-Pragsattel (1990-91), Potsdamer Platz (1991), Berlin-Adlershof (1993-94), Hamburg-Billwerder (1995), or those such as the Olympic Village in Turin (2002-06) and in particular the Theresienhöhe (since 1997).”

Florian Kossak, ‘An Architect’s Tagwerk: notes on Otto Steidle’s work between the urban and the rural’, Architectural Research Quarterly, 14 (4) (2011): 331-332

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Taking Part - Transformative Practices in the City, IUAV, 2011“Taking Part was a collaboration between the Sheffield University based AGENCY Research Centre, the multidisciplinary Veneto based practice Fram menti, a small group of students from Sheffield, a large group of students from IAUV in Venice and a variety of participants, from city officials to residents, from the city of Vicenza. … The workshop investigated what it means to ‘know’ a place, both as an individual and communally, as an ‘expert’ and a ‘non-expert’, and how that knowledge informs design and urban planning.”

Agency and Fram_menti, Taking Part - Transformative Practices in the City, in E. Gianni (ed.) W.A.V.E 2011 (Venice: IUAV/Marsilio). 23

Urban Blind Spots Theory Forum, 2012




Jo Lintonbon, ‘A tectonic and architectural appraisal’, in James Pallister (ed.) Eastside Story: Westfield, Issued with Architects’ Journal, (2012): 95-100.

Jo Lintonbon and Robert Blundell (3xa Design), ‘Tomorrow’s Townhouse’. Proposals published in Design: The Key to a Better Place 2012, (Mike Gazzard Publications, 2012. Exhibited at the Building Centre, 2011).

Neil Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples, Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town, (Reading: Spire Books, 2010).

Jo Lintonbon, Robert Blundell and Matthew Bradshaw (3xa Design), ‘Site Life’. Published in Property Week (online edition; 01 October 2010).

Jo Lintonbon, ‘Identity and memory: experiencing local history through the built environment’, paper presented at Architectural Design and Global Difference Conference: The multiple faces of identity in the designed environment (September, Nottingham Trent University UK, 2009).

Jo Lintonbon, ‘The nineteenth century high street in Sheffield: A spatial and architectural analysis’, paper presented Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution Conference, (September, University of Wolverhampton UK, 2009).

Selected Funded Research Projects

Cultural Value of Architecture in Homes and Communities, 2013– PI Prof. Flora Samuel, Co-Is Nishat Awan, Sophie Handler and Jo LintonbonAHRC, £50,000

A spatial and historical analysis of the origins and impact of speculative commercial property development: a pilot study in Leeds 1840–1920, August 2009–University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences Devolved Fund. Grant Award, £1,200

Dr. Jo Lintonbon

Reconstructing the nineteenth century High Street, Sheffield Paper presented at the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution Conference. (September, University of Wolverhampton UK, 2009)Original drawing by Jo Lintonbon

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I am fascinated by the everyday spaces that we inhabit and the influences that affect the continual renewal and adaptation of space and place. As an architect I am interested in how and why things are made. I work within an architectural history framework and continue to pursue interests initiated during my research degree and informed by my professional practice.

My PhD thesis considered the historical development of shop typologies and the role of commercial architecture in transforming the high street. The study charted the emergence of different forms of retailing, and documented the relationships between business practice, social practices and buildings. By reflecting on those long-term social and economic processes that have shaped our built environment, I believe we can contextualise and interpret the present. I am currently investigating the forces that have historically influenced or directed built form, addressing, for example, customary practices and typologies, construction, scale, ownership, finance, and political agency. I am looking particularly at the emergence of commercial building forms from the Victorian period onward, with the aim of better understanding the influences, powers and controls that have shaped, and continue to shape, our buildings and cities.

I am also interested in the relationship between conservation and regeneration and the balance that exists between the preservation of our built and cultural heritage, along with its remaking and renewal into viable and sustainable places. Conservation, context and community-led regeneration implies a sustainable approach to heritage management, and I am interested in case studies that demonstrate this. Likewise, I am concerned to broaden our understanding of the interaction between conservation and design philosophies, as these continue to exert a significant impact on the ways we relate to our built and cultural heritage.

My research with Professor Neil Jackson (University of Liverpool) investigated the development of Saltaire in West Yorkshire. A British Academy small research grant in 2003 enabled us to explore the form and planning of the model industrial town founded by Titus Salt in the 1850s. This study, Saltaire: Building Morphology and Social Hierarchy, was shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Research Awards: Outstanding University-led Research in 2006 and was published in an expanded form in 2010.



Characteristic Italianate housing, Saltaire

Niel Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples, Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town, (Reading: Spire Books Ltd, 2010)

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Sheffield 1900 study focused on the main shopping streets.


Image credit: Peter Lathey



Laura Healey Malinin and Rosie Parnell ‘Reconceptualizing School Design: Learning Environments for Children and Youth’ in Children, Youth and Environments 22(1)(2012): 11-22.

Rosie Parnell,‘The Potential of Children’s Architecture Education?’ in Architectural Research Quarterly 14(4)(2011): 297-299.

Rosie Parnell and Maria Patsarika, ‘Young People’s Participation in School Design: Exploring Diversity and Power in a UK Governmental Policy Case-study’. Children’s Geographies. Special Issue, Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth: Gender and other Socio-Cultural Differences. 9(3-4)(2011): 457-475.

Rosie Parnell and Lisa Procter ‘Flexibility and Placemaking for Autonomy in Learning’ in Educational and Child Psychology. Special Issue: Optimal environments for learning: The interface of psychology, architectural design and educational practice, 28(1)(2011): 77-88

Rosie Parnell, ‘A Space for Learning, the Next Step - education or participation?’ in Rachel McAree and Alice Clancy (eds.) A Space for Learning (Dublin: Irish Architecture Foundation, 2010): 7-11.

Rosie Parnell, Vicky Cave and Judy Torrington, ‘School Design: Opportunities Through Collaboration’. Co Design 4(4)(2008): 211-224.

Selected Funded Research:

Children Transforming Spatial Design: creative encounters with children. 2013 – 2015.PI Rosie Parnell, with RAs Jo Birch, Maria Patsarika, Masa SornLeverhulme Trust £231,000

Architecture for Everyone Legacy Evaluation, 2011.PI Rosie Parnell, RA Maria PatsarikaStephen Lawrence Charitable Trust/RMJM

Pupils Pass it On: The Sorrell Foundation, 2010PI Rosie Parnell, RA Maria Patsarika.Rapid Research Fund, HEIF, £10,000

RIBA HSE Research, 2010Rosie Parnell with Dan Jary, Leo Careand Howard EvansRIBA HSE Research Fund £10,000

Involving Users in the School Design Process, 2006-2010PI Rosie Parnell, RAs Maria Patsarika, Vicky Cave, Lisa Procter.EPSRC, £243,000 FEC

Dr. Rosie Parnell

Architecture for Everyone A visual brief at Park Hill.

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My research focuses on design participation, children’s environments, and engaging young people in architecture through design and learning processes. This work is concerned with: the transformative potential of interactions between young people and designers; the support and development of young people’s voices and their contribution to the changing built environment; and the transformative potential of exploring architectural education in schools.

The research has been funded by charitable organisations (the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust) as well as from the EPSRC, allowing me to build research teams who have worked directly with designers, the construction industry and lay design participants. Research strategies have included action research and case studies, focusing on qualitative mixed methods in order to observe, describe and understand the experiences of others, and the impacts of their actions. ‘The Change Project’, involving both teachers and youth workers, supported the co- development and implementation of learning programmes related to architecture and the built environment. It both helped us identify the positive impacts of using the built environment as a vehicle for learning, and demonstrated its effects on design-based learning and teaching principles. ‘Designing New Schools’, on the other hand, allowed the researchers to build a picture of user participation in school design, not by facilitating the processes themselves, but by mapping the work and experiences of others. A similar approach is being taken in the most recent project, ‘Children Transforming Spatial Design’,

and live case studies are central to both. Each project includes observations of engagement processes and design dialogue, positioning the research findings critically within the international and trans-disciplinary context of participatory practice and theory.

All the research projects have resulted in on-line resources to support good practice, as well as theoretical papers and chapters directed towards an academic audience. The research has also given rise to invited training roles, and invited talks and keynotes at conferences for design, construction and teaching professionals. For example, I have provided facilitation training for RIBA client design advisors on behalf of CABE, children’s design engagement training for Partnerships for School’s (PfS) regional communications networks, and presented at the PfS national school design conference. My research has led to invitations to advise on projects such as ‘Future-Building School’ (UK/Netherlands Research Networking and Exchange), ‘Therapeutic Living With Other People’s Children’ (Heritage Lottery Fund), ‘Children in Regeneration’ (ECORYS) and to judge competitions related to children’s design engagement (Open City, PfS). Expertise and experience in working with children in research and outreach contexts also led to consultancy work for the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, membership of the Gallery Development committee for Eureka! national children’s museum, and a student research collaboration with the Hepworth Gallery.



Students and staff explore the environment to develop their own critical capacity and ideas for an art installation in their school.

Student collage of thoughts for a new school.

Above:Students evaluating their current school environment.

Below:Students working in thematic groups to present thoughts for their school.

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Top: School designs in progress being presented to students and staff.

Bottom:Exploring the environment on the Architecture for Everyone Programme.



Flora Samuel and Inge Linder Gaillard, Sacred Concrete and the Churches of Le Corbusier (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013). Shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Medals for University Based Research. 2013.

Flora Samuel, Housing Research in Practice, (London: RIBA Report, October 2013).

Flora Samuel, RIBA Practice Research Guide, (London: RIBA, October 2013).

Flora Samuel ‘Unité Marseilles’, in David Chipperfield and Kieron Long (eds.), Common Ground a Critical Reader (Venice: Massilio, 2012).

Flora Samuel, ‘La cittadella orfica della Sainte-Baume’, in Domenico Luciani (ed.) Il luogo e il sacro. Contributi all’indagine sul linguaggio simbolico dei luoghi (Treviso: Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, 2012): 178-189.

Flora Samuel, ‘Extension Stories’ in Adam Sharr (ed.), Architecture and Culture (London: Routledge, 2012): 96-105.

Flora Samuel and Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Le Corbusier, Scharoun and the Architectural Promenade’, Architectural Research Quarterly 16(2)(2012): 108-124

Flora Samuel, Elements of the Architectural Promenade (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010).

Flora Samuel, ‘Taste’, in Allison Dutoit, Juliet Odgers and Adam Sharr (eds.) Quality Out of Control (London: Routledge, 2010).

Flora Samuel, Le Corbusier in Detail (London: Architectural Press, 2007) translated in Japanese and Chinese in 2010.

Selected Funded Research

Cultural Value of Architecture in Homes and Communities, 2013– AHRC, £50,000

Home Improvements, 2012-AHRC Knowledge Exchange Project £250,000.Please see http://www.shef.ac.uk/architecture/research/homeresearch/home_research_projects/home_improvements/index

Home Theory Forum, 2010Faculty of Social Sciences Research Seed funding, £1,500

Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade, 2010British Academy, £5,000 for copyright fees

Prof. Flora Samuel

Flora Samuel and Inge Linder Gaillard, Sacred Concrete: The Churches of Le Corbusier (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013). Shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Medals for University Based Research, 2013.

F L O R A S A M U E L – I N G E L I N D E R - G A I L L A R D

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In the words of Michael Sorkin ‘Everybody has the right to architecture’. My main concern is the way in which architects have become peripheral to discussions of the built environment. I believe that widening participation is vital for the rejuvenation of the often exclusive and excluded architectural profession in the UK. The challenge I face in my work is the democratising of architecture while retaining quality. I love well-crafted buildings.

My aim, for some years, has been to give voice to excluded narratives. Le Corbusier was my first target, as accounts of his career have spawned so many erroneous myths about what he thought made good architecture, myths which have then become enshrined in our culture. These myths have been the subject of a series of books, the last of which, Sacred Concrete and the Churches of Le Corbusier, has been published this year. I hope that they provide affirmation to those who sometimes find the more standard texts difficult to relate to.

My method in rewriting Le Corbusier’s history - via archival research and close examination of his architecture and writing - has been to examine his work in the terms of the culture within which he was working. I believe that research rigour is a political issue. Historians who don’t make their particular take on history clear are assuming that we all buy into the same hegemonic vision. We should never rely on people being in the know, as it excludes.

When I came to Sheffield nearly five years ago I found myself, for the first time, in an environment that would support my interest about the way

architects have become peripheral to the design of the home. A particular source of support is the Home research group and our evolving Building Local Resilience Platform.

In September 2013 I was awarded £250K by the AHRC for the ‘Home Improvements Knowledge Exchange’ project, together with Co-Investigators from Edinburgh and Kingston University and collaborative input from the RIBA. The aim of this pilot project is the fruitful exchange of ideas between volume house builders (in this case Taylor Wimpey), academia, and small to medium sized architectural practice. Three collaborative projects have been funded via our Ideas Lab: one between Sheffield and Ash Sakula on the theme of self build; one between Edinburgh and Urbed on the theme of parking, and one between Kingston and Satellite Architects on the theme of public realm. Our industry partners from Taylor Wimpey, Design for Homes and Radian have had a central role in their conception.

As a member of the RIBA Research and Innovation Group I am particularly interested in supporting research in architectural practice. The Home Improvements project therefore includes a survey of housing research in UK practice and the creation of a guide to research practice. A strong influence on my work as an educationalist is my belief that practitioners need to become better at research in order to be able to articulate the value of good architecture to non-professionals, and indeed to themselves. This will be the subject of my next book.



Above:Corridor in the nursery school of the Unité Firminy. Image credit: Flora Samuel © ADAGAP Paris and DACS London 2014

Right:Window in south wall at Le Corbusier’s Chapel at Ronchamp. Image credit: Flora Samuel © ADAGAP Paris and DACS London 2014

Home Improvement ProjectMeeting at the RIBA,September 2013

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Top left:Stair to the pulpit at Le Corbusier’s Chapel at Ronchamp.Image credit: Flora Samuel © ADAGAP Paris and DACS London 2014

Top right:Handle to the East door of Le Corbusier’s Chapel at Ronchamp.Image credit: Flora Samuel © ADAGAP Paris and DACS London 2014

Bottom:La Tourette Isometric StudyDrawing by Flora Samuel




Tatjana Schneider, ‘The Paradox of Social Architectures’ in Kenny Cupers (ed.) Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture (London: Routledge, 2013): 257-270.

Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, ‘Invisible agency’ in AD/ Scarcity (London: Wiley, 2012): 38-43.

Tatjana Schneider, ‘The Obsolescence of the ‘Architect Superspecialist’, in the Nordic Journal of Architecture (2)(2012): 58-63.

Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, ‘Beyond Building’, in Architecture Today (218)(2011): 10-14.

Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, Spatial Agency. Other ways of doing architecture (London: Routledge, 2011).

Alistair Parvin, David Saxby, Cristina Cerulli and Tatjana Schneider, A Right to Build. The next mass house building industry (London: 00:/, 2011).

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker (eds.), Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (Critiques series) (London: Routledge, 2009).

Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, ‘Beyond Discourse. Notes on Spatial Agency’, in Footprint (4)(2009): 97-111.

Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till (eds.) ‘Alternate currents.’ field: 2(1)(2008).

Tatjana Schneider,This building should have some sort of distinctive shape. The story of the Arts Tower in Sheffield. (Sheffield: PAR, 2008).

Dr. Tatjana Schneider

Clockwise from top left: Some traces of the outputs of the research project ‘Alternative Architectural Praxis’ (2006-2010): The book Spatial Agency (co-authored with Nishat Awan and Jeremy Till), a volume of field: (co-edited with Jeremy Till), the flyer for conference ‘Alternate Currents’ (2007, co-organised with Jeremy Till), an article published in Architecture Today (co-authored with Jeremy Till), the flyer for a conference organised at the RIBA in London entitled ‘Changing Practices’ (2009, co-organised with Jeremy Till), an article in AD (co-authored with Jeremy Till), a flyer for a project on collaborative and participatory examples of spatial production conducted in collaboration with CABE (with Melanie Bax, Sarah Considine and Adam Towle) and the presentation of

‘Spatial Agency’ in the RIBA’s yearbook.

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My work is concerned with the social and economic mechanisms behind the production of space. I am interested in an understanding of architecture as a collaborative, empowering and essentially political discipline. This focus takes various expressions: sometimes it is formulated either visually or in written form as a critique against normative intellectual and pedagogical tendencies; in other instances, it is expressed through direct spatial interventions. Occasionally, it takes activist dimensions.

Together with members of the workers’ co-operative G.L.A.S., of which I was a co-founder, I explored and developed strategies for spatial interventions and frameworks for a critical praxis. Probing the assumptions on which design decisions are normally made, G.L.A.S. worked with community groups, associations and individuals on socio-spatial alternatives to top-down decisions that had simply been dropped on neighbourhoods. We tackled issues such as housing stock transfer, privatisation of local facilities such as swimming pools, the M74 motorway extension in Glasgow, as well as the implementation of standardised poor-quality PFI school buildings.

Whilst G.L.A.S. actively drew on alternative histories of the production of space, it was the AHRC funded project ‘Alternative Architectural Praxis’ (2006-2010), which I initiated with Jeremy Till, that further contextualised the importance of working in ways that challenged hierarchical, solely economical and service- driven operations of architecture.

Working on this research project, we quickly realised, however, that talking about ‘alternatives’ marginalised the powerful and inspirational examples of spatial praxis that we had begun to collect. From this dissatisfaction and the desire to devise a vigorously propositional term, we coined the concept of ‘spatial agency’ to describe a form of praxis that is ethical as much as it is socially transformative; a praxis that is motivated by ecological, political, pedagogical, and professional agendas in order to explicitly address unjust development, inequality, and exploitation.

Taking the consequences of the concept of spatial agency seriously has huge implications for pedagogy as well as on (spatial) practice itself, and much of my writing, teaching and working in recent years, both inside and outside of academia, deals with this and continues to push the boundaries towards the implementation of a more radical, but essentially social, production of space.

This emphasis is present in my contributions to the projects of the Sheffield based AGENCY research centre as well as the collaborative and predominantly transdisciplinary work with many partners locally and globally.

My research projects have won international awards, specifically A Right to Build (winner of RIBA Research Award for Practice Based Research, 2012); Spatial Agency (winner of RIBA Research Award for Outstanding University Located Research, 2011, with Jeremy Till) and Flexible Housing (winner of RIBA Research Award for Outstanding University Located Research, 2007, with Jeremy Till).



‘Lost in Kings Cross’ was a project by G.L.A.S. in 2002. During the course of a day, we worked with a group of boys from the local Bangladeshi community centre on making visible local knowledges and uncovering hidden networks of support and surprise. These were collected and displayed not only on billboards, but passers-by could also add information to our live and human signpost.

A poster made by G.L.A.S. against the extension of the M74 motorway on the south side of Glasgow. The poster was published in glaspaper02 alongside interviews with and reports by individuals, community and environmental groups opposing the extension.


StemCure: An interdisciplinary approach, 2013Garrett Brown, Andy Chantry, Anastasia Lavda, Claire Lewis, Tatjana Schneider.2022 Futures Proof of Concept, TUoS £20,000

Alternative Architectural Praxis, 2006-2010Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy TillAHRC, £189,000

RHYZOM: Local Cultural Practices, Translocal Communication, 2009-2010aaa (co-ordinator), Agency/TUoS, PS2/Plaforma Garanti/ Public Works. European Commission, total €380,000/ TUoS €46,500

Community Developed Housing, 2010Cristina Cerulli and Tatjana Schneider. Partner: 00:/ Architects, RA: Alastair Parvin.KT Rapid Response grant, TUoS £9,764

Collaborative and Participatory Stories, 2010Tatjana Schneider, Partner: CABE RAs: Melanie Bax, Sarah Considine and Adam Towle. KT Rapid Response grant, TUoS £9,387

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As part of the annual summer school at the Università IUAV di Venezia members of The Agency Research Centre conducted a 3-week workshop in collaboration with the Veneto based multi-disciplinary practice Fram_menti. The workshop tested and practised participatory action research in the context of the Quartiere Laghetto Dal Verme just north of the historic city centre of Palladian Vicenza. Over the course of the workshop, the students developed not a masterplan, but a userplan: a device and tool that is shaped by those actually living and working in the area, and that can take in the multitude of possible futures.

‘ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE DISSOLVED UNLESS THEY…’ was a poster made by Sam Brown, Alastair Parvin and myself to support a debate on possible futures for architectural education. It formulates a series of points that engage critically with present conditions, myths, restrictions, and give pointers as to how things have to change in order to make schools of architecture relevant in wider social, political and economic discourse.

ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE DISSOLVED UNLESS THEY...… abandon mono-vocationalism

After the collapse of the construction bubble, architecture schools must prepare their graduates to apply design thinking and architectural intelligence in sectors beyond just the property / construction sector.

… promote informed generalism

Invite as much knowledge as possible from other disciplines, such as economics, engineering, agriculture, politics, activism, geography, psychology, sociology, computing... Architecture is an amalgam of all these things.

… encourage students who want to openly debate what is happening.

Escapism is ammoral at best, immoral at worst..

… realise that the game has changed.

Graduates must now leave with more than just a portfolio of beautifully drawn imaginary buildings, designed to take to interviews at Architecture �rms.

... change the measures of success.

No more prizes for drawing trout farms on mars. There is more than one way to measure success.

… take responsibility.

Architecture is not art. Art is art. Design affects more than cultural discourse, and is more than social ‘engagement’. Architecture is always connected to social justice.

… teach an expanded view of architecture and design.

“No longer associated only with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood as the human ability to plan and produce desired outcomes.” – Bruce Mau

… let each student shape their own education.

The purpose of education is to �nd the work that fascinates and ful�ls you, and help you turn it into your life’s work. Schools ought to enable, respond and even structure its curriculum around student initiatives, and provide on-request tutorials on learning skills such as coding or business planning.

… no longer assume their graduates will be employees.

From now on, the successful schools will be those whose graduates are just as likely to use their thesis projects to start an enterprise / initiative as they are to use it to seek employment from an existing company. Schools must help them prepare for this.

… act as incubators for designers, architects and ideas they produce.

Supporting people and projects after they have graduated.

… become fablabs and drop-in institutions.

Provide intellectual forums and workshop facilities for would-be designers, inventors and activists who wish to attend the school for 7 minutes, 7 hours, 7 weeks or 7 months – not just those who wish to attend for 7 years.

… open their students and the public to an understanding of architecture’s economics and politics.

Not just its past and present practice.

… act as agents for positive change in their host cities.

Why do those who live next door to architecture schools never set foot inside them?

... see their role as producing not just each new generation of graduates

but also each new generation of ideas.

… become open clubs (peer to peer social networks) for their students and alumni.

A school is not really a building; it is a network of people. It should open doors for you and your ideas.

… seek to provide access to role models of all genders, races and backgrounds.

Architecture is still very male, white and middle-class, both in education and in practice. It’s not your fault if you are one (or all) of those things, but imagine all the great designers you’re not meeting and working with because of it. Imagine how much emptier design discourse is because they’re not here. It shouldn’t be like that, and it doesn’t need to be.

… champion drop outs.

… actively encourage and promote those students with the bravery to change their mind. A good architecture school should help students do this, even if it’s bad for the bottom-line. Isn’t that the ultimate purpose of education?

… nurture an open sense of purpose.

“Architecture is peripheral to the most important social aims. I wish it was less peripheral. That’s why I’m an architect.” – Cedric Price (formerly graf�tied on a wall in the Arts Tower)

… no longer see themselves as schools of architecture,

but as ?

…




Renata Tyszczuk, Joe Smith, Nigel Clark, Melissa Butcher (eds.) ATLAS: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2012). Book launch event: ‘ATLAS: new maps for an island planet’ with Open Space Research Centre, Southbank Literary Festival, Queen Elisabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, March 2012.

Renata Tyszczuk, ‘Future Worlds: to-ing and fro-ing’ in Tyszczuk et al. (eds.) ATLAS: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2012): 132– 139.

Robert Butler, Eleanor Margolies, Joe Smith and Renata Tyszczuk, (eds.) Culture and Climate Change: Recordings (Cambridge: Shed, 2011).

Renata Tyszczuk and Stephen Walker, ‘Editorial: Ecology,’ in field: 4(2010): 1-3.

Renata Tyszczuk, ‘l’utopie architecturale du roi bienfaisant’ in Antoine Hatzenberger (ed.), Utopies des Lumieres (Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2010): 77– 106.

Renata Tyszczuk, ‘Open Field: Documentary Game’, in Suzanne Ewing, Jérémie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie (eds.) Architecture and Field/Work, Critiques series (London: Routledge, 2010): 92–100.

Peter Blundell Jones, Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker, ‘Before and After Agency’, in Footprint 4 (2009): 113-122.


Renata Tyszczuk and Joe Smith, ‘The Interdependence Day Project: Mediating Environmental Change,’ The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 3(6)(2009): 37-42.

Renata Tyszczuk, ‘Interdependence UK_ Open City’ exhibition at IABR/ Parallel Cases, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, (design tutor – Studio Six MArch students University of Sheffield), September 2009.

Dr. renata tyszczuk

Anthropocene Unconformity Detail from a drawing on geological map 2011; published in ATLAS.

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My research looks at the ways in which society accommodates change and the corresponding cultural, political and intellectual shifts. A commitment to environmental issues underpins my integrated research, practice and teaching.

Over the last five years (2008-2013) my work has been concerned with addressing the priorities and challenges presented to humanities and social science research in addressing global issues, in particular climate change. I am engaged in this interdisciplinary and expanding area through collaborative research with colleagues in the fields of climate science, journalism, human geography and the arts, for example with the ‘Interdependence Day’ and ‘Culture and Climate Change’ projects. My contribution is concerned with the transdiciplinary field between architecture and philosophy. I am seeking to understand the place of architecture in cultural transformations and transitional periods. I am investigating the concepts of sustainability, environmental futures, planetary limits and globalization from a humanities perspective.

This also relates to my British Academy funded project to write a history of architecture and environmental change that charts a dynamic and changing relationship between culture and environment, and reframes architecture as a provisional practice (British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 2013-2014).

My research practice across these areas is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and experimental. In much of my work I have sought to combine

thinking and writing about global environmental change issues with creative arts practice and public engagement. I am interested in investigating the communicative aspects of architecture by working across different media: text, sculpture, performance and film.

At the School of Architecture I have initiated and sustained strategic debate about the integration of research and teaching in architecture and have actively participated in the development of the School’s research strategy as founder member of the AGENCY Research Centre, a forum for research activities related to transformative research into architectural practice and education.

This is also shown by my co-founding (with Doina Petrescu) and editing the architecture journal, field:. Since 2007 field: has nurtured a distinctive voice and gained international recognition as an open access international peer-reviewed academic journal. One of the more recent issues was ‘Ecology’, in December 2010, which I co-edited with Stephen Walker (www.field-journal.org).

All of these research activities, in different but related ways, have sought to advance understanding and debate about environmental change in a time of crisis and concern, and to place these issues within the context of wider political, social, and cultural transformations.



Future HarbinWorkshop in Harbin PRC, September 2011.

Studio Six Mapping workshop in Nowa Huta, Poland, November 2007.

Mappa Mundi installation The Map Room, Royal Geographical Society, London 2007, published in ATLAS.


British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 2013 – 2014£117,000

Interdependence Day, 2006–2012Co-founder with Dr Joe Smith, Open University (OU), with project partners nef (new economics foundation), OU and TUoS.ESRC/NERC, DEFRA and OU funded.

Culture and Climate Change, 2009–Co-founder of the project and joint book series editor with Joe Smith, OU and Robert Butler, editor ‘Intelligent Life’– The Economist). Ashden Trust/Open Space Research Centre, OU funded.

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INTERDEPENDENCE UK_OPEN CITY: Map drawn by Studio Six –‘Architecture and Interdependence’, from a film exhibited at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, IABR Parallel Cases’ exhibition, 2009




Stephen Walker, Helen Chadwick: Constructing Identities Between Art and Architecture (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).

Stephen Walker, ‘Reviewing the Handmaid’s Tale’ in Architecture & Culture, 1(1-2)(2013): 113-128.

Stephen Walker, ‘Centre or Periphery? The Architecture of the Travelling Street Fair,’ in Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem and Ruth Morrow (eds) Peripheries, (Critiques Series) (London: Routledge, 2012): 54–66.

Stephen Walker, ‘The Field and the Table: Rosalind Krauss’ ‘Expanded Field’ and the Anarchitecture Group’ in Architectural Research Quarterly, 15(4)(2011): 347-57.

Stephen Walker, ‘Viral Architecture, “Viral Landscapes”: the impact of modern science on Helen Chadwick’s art’ in Leonardo 43(5)(2010): 425, 458–463.

Stephen Walker, Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture, and the Attack on Modernism (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009).

Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker, (eds.), Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures, (Critiques Series) (London: Routledge, 2009).

Peter Blundell Jones, Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker, ‘Before and After Agency’, in Footprint 4 (2009): 113-122.

Stephen Walker, ‘Clear Zones’, invited contribution to The Arsenal of Exclusion / Inclusion, curated by Interboro Partners, NY, shown at Open City, the 2009 International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam.

Stephen Walker, ‘Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et ad inferos’, in Architecture &, (01)(2008): 4-6.

Dr. Stephen Walker

Ilkeston Waltzers

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My research area broadly encompasses architectural and critical theory and examines the questions that theoretical projects can raise about particular moments in architectural and artistic practice. A developing methodology has brought together aspects of theory with a broad range of practical work including Medieval Breton architecture, ring-roads and the work of contemporary artists. In particular, I have worked on the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, about whom I have published a monograph with I. B. Tauris, and articles in journals such as Grey Room, The Journal of Architecture, and The Journal of Visual Culture. This work has been supported by two grants from the British Academy. I have been invited to give lectures and presentations at Internationally renowned institutions, including the Getty Centre/San Diego Museum of Art, the Barbican Art Gallery London, and the Rotterdam Architectural Biennale.

Tauris also published my monograph on the artist Helen Chadwick, the result of support from the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, which funded my archival work on the Helen Chadwick collection in the HMI Archive, and from an AHRC Study Leave Grant. Matta-Clark trained as an architect but never practised; Helen Chadwick, while working as an artist, maintained a wide-ranging, well-

researched interest in many aspects and periods of architectural history, from Classical Greek (especially Athenian, as her mother was from that city), to Rococo, to the severe Neo-classicism of Boullée, to Picturesque landscape architecture, the architecture of the Welfare State and contemporary Deconstruction. Both artists’ enduring interest in architecture continues to provide a stimulus and a challenge to those studying and practising architecture today.

Following the completion of my manuscript on Chadwick, I have been developing my research interests and approach in a more collaborative way. In addition to the collaborative aspects of my teaching, I was involved in the organisation of the AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) international conference on ‘Agency’, held at the University of Sheffield (November 2008); I was a founder member of the AGENCY Research Centre, School of Architecture and have been writing and editing articles and collections as part of this group. Recently, I have been developing a project on the architecture of fairgrounds. In support of this work I have been awarded a grant of £1300 from the Faculty of Social Science Devolved Fund and £10,000 from the RIBA Research Trust.



Top:Ilkeston Gallopers

Bottom:Pimlico, Ilkeston Fair

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Above:Ilkeston Skelter


Architecture,Science &Technology2008–2013

Architecture,science &Technology


The major focus of Architectural Science research at the School is the sustainable and environmental performance of the built environment, but recognising the importance of interdisciplinary work in addressing these issues, research connections now reach out to other disciplines. Interdisciplinary work creates links with scientific and engineering specialists from the reduction of carbon emissions in the construction, maintenance and running of buildings, through to the design, construction and specification of structures. Other concerns are building performance and energy consumption, designing for climate change, and creating high quality urban environments.

As we recognise that an important aspect of tackling climate change is to challenge and change our attitude to energy use, such collaborations are not just scientific. In fact most research in our Architectural Science research also has social relevance and impact, oriented towards issues that affect the way that people use and occupy buildings in relation to technical perspectives. Most funded projects involve stakeholders from industry, local and national government bodies, as well as commercial practices. A wide range of external funding sources has been found to support the research, including numerous grants from EU bodies, the EPSRC, and the Department of Health.

Acoustics is a diverse subject with many research areas. The group, led by Professor Jian Kang, is concerned with architecture and environment-related acoustic fields. Its work includes

computer simulation and auralization, soundscape and acoustic comfort, social and psychological aspects of sounds, acoustics of long spaces, sound absorption and insulation, auditorium and recording studio design, industrial and environmental noise prediction and control, and large scale urban noise mapping.

Steve Fotios joined the School of Architecture in 2005 to pursue lighting-related research in the footsteps of predecessors Professors Tregenza and Sharples. The Lighting Research Group explores diverse issues related to visual psychophysics – experimental studies of how a change in lighting affects visual performance and visual perception. The lighting laboratory has set up apparatus for investigating spatial brightness, detection of pavement obstacles, and inter-personal judgements: recent field trials have included studies of environmental perception and visual fixations. Current work targets pedestrians’ needs after dark, and has contributed to new lighting guidance documents including the 2012 revision of BS5489-1.

Roger Plank at the School of Architecture and Ian Burgess at the Civil and Structural Engineering Department forged strong links between the two Departments, producing joint teaching ventures such as the MEng in Structural Engineering and Architecture, the only degree course in the UK where students can graduate with entry into either profession. This interdisciplinary relation-ship has been maintained and developed through the appointment of Rachel Cruise in 2010.

ArchitecturE, Science & TECHNOLOGY:INtRODUCTIONProf. Jian Kang, Dr. Rachel Cruise and Dr. Mark Meagher

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More recently, the School has been involved in the Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Building Design, a collaborative initiative between Civil and Structural Engineering and Architecture, with support from the Royal Academy of Engineering. It aims to develop cooperation, outreach, research and education dedicated to integrating the principles of sustainable design.

The Sustainable Design, People and Performance Group, led by Professor Fionn Stevenson, aims to ‘close the loop’ towards the production of a more sustainable built environment. Its research investigates how design intentions can be improved through feedback from innovative and cross disciplinary building performance evaluation. There is particular emphasis on understanding how people interact with technology and on promoting sustainability through place and user-centred evaluation of buildings, products and processes. The Group builds on the internationally recognised work of its members, who are at the leading edge of research which informs policy and practice at every level.

The past decade has seen a growing interest in the capacity of built spaces to respond to change: climate change, technological change, and the ageing of the human body and society. The Digital Design and Performance group (DD+P),consisting of Mark Meagher, Chengzhi Peng, Michael Phiri, and Tsung-Hsien Wang, conducts interdisciplinary research into dynamic aspects of buildings and the environment, proposing innovative metho-

dological frameworks to enable investigations of complex problems. Its research projects reflect the diverse expertise of its members: Parametric Modelling, Physical Computing, Mixed Reality Modelling, Integrated Environmental Modelling, Digital Fabrication, Data Visualisation, Evidence Based Design Systems, Environment-People Sensing and User Modelling, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Pervasive & Locative Social Media, and the Internet of Things. Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU), led by Dr. Hasim Altan until 2013, is a long-established Research Centre that grew from the Building Energy Analysis Unit of 1998-2007 established by Ian Ward. It aims to promote sustainable environ-mental design of buildings through monitoring, modelling, and simulation in practice. It also provides low energy and carbon design advice, and provides resources to the building industry as part of knowledge transfer and exchange platforms. The Centre is being re-evaluated in light of organisational changes in the school.

Research groups under the theme of Architectural Science include:

– Acoustics Group– Lighting Research– Steel and Composite Structures– Sustainable Design, People and Performance – Digital Design and Performance Group (DD+P)– Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU)



Hasim Altan and H.F. Alshareef ‘An Evaluation of the Total Energy Consumption of Educational Buildings: Prototype Case Studies in Saudi Arabia’, Paper presented at the First Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Simulation for Real Performance (November, Shanghai, China, 2012).

Hasim Altan, Z. Emankaf, Y.K. Kim and M. Refaee. ‘Design of HVAC Systems for Deprived Community Houses in Yorkshire and the Humber Region in the proceedings of the 33rd AIVC Conference and 2nd TightVent Conference, Optimising Ventilative Cooling and Airtightness for [nearly] Zero-Energy Buildings, IAQ and Comfort, (October, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012): 215-221.

Hasim Altan, M. Refaee, L. Han and M. Noguchi. ‘Measured Indoor Environment and Energy Consumption Compared to Accepted Standards: A Case Study Home in South Ayrshire, UK’, paper presented at International Conference on Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes (August, Glasgow, Scotland, 2012).

Hasim Altan and M. Refaee. ‘Air Temperature and CO2 Variation in a University Office Building with Double-skin Facade’, in the proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on Cleantech for Sustainable Buildings (September, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011): 511-516.

Hasim Altan, ‘Energy Efficiency Interventions in UK Higher Education Institutions’, Energy Policy Journal 38(12)(2010): 7722-7731.

Hasim Altan and J. Mohelnikova. ‘Solar Control Glass’, in Solid State Phenomena Journal 165(2010): 1-6.

Hasim Altan, Ian Ward, J. Mohelnikova, F. Vajkay. ‘An Internal Assessment of the Thermal Comfort and Daylighting Conditions of a Naturally Ventilated Building with an Active Glazed Facade in a Temperate Climate’, Energy and Buildings Journal 41(1)(2009): 36-50.

Hasim Altan, Ian Ward, J. Mohelnikova, F. Vajkay. ‘Daylight, Solar Gains and Overheating Studies in a Glazed Office Building’, in International Journal of Energy and Environment 2(2)(2008): 129-138.

Hasim Altan ‘Sustainability Design vs. Energy Performance’ paper presented at The Oxford Conference A Re-Evaluation of Education in Architecture (Oxford: WIT Press, 2008): 177-182.

Dr. Hasim ALTan

Daylighting simulation

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In the past five years, I have continued to promote energy efficiency in buildings and to provide environmental design and sustainability advice and resources to the building industry in related areas, as part of Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) and Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), through the ‘Building Environments Analysis Unit’ (BEAU) Research Centre in the School of Architecture. As its representative, from 2007-2013, I submitted many research proposals to funding bodies in the field of ‘Building Energy Research and Environments’, and as someone passionate about Building Simulation Practice and Simulation in Design, I co-founded two national Building Simulation networks; (1) IBPSA-England and (2) CIBSE Building Simulation Group (BSG). We continuously promote best practice in using computer simulation codes for building-related applications to improve the accuracy of predicting performance, with the aim of designing healthier and more comfortable and buildings with optimum energy efficiency.

My research activities are in the areas of energy efficient and sustainable building design, environmental modelling and building performance simulation, and post occupancy evaluation (POE) of building energy use and environments, including daylighting, indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort studies. I led a work package with a focus on ‘Building Fabric and Technologies’ in the ‘BIG Energy Upgrade’ programme, also known as Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities (EIDC),

a large partnership project partly funded (£14.9 million) by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This is part of Europe’s support for regional economic development through the Yorkshire and Humber ERDF Programme 2007-13. Furthermore, I was involved in the ‘Wireless Friendly and Energy Efficient Buildings’ (WiFEEB) project funded (€2.1 million) by the EU FP7 Marie Curie Actions Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP). This project brings together a cross-disciplinary team with expertise in antenna systems, electronic communications, radio wave propagation modelling, civil engineering (materials), energy efficiency, and architecture. The aim is to develop a wireless-friendly energy-efficient building using modern civil engineering techniques and materials, while allowing radio propagation tailored to the needs of the occupier but involving low energy consumption.

Working closely with the building industry and research councils to develop low energy and low carbon buildings, the team in BEAU promote research, teaching and consultancy in all activities. At the same time we have engaged in cross-disciplinary projects involving other disciplines such as Sociological Studies, Management, Psychology, Computer Science and various Engineering departments (Civil, Materials, Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, etc). The overall goal is to undertake research involving socio-technical studies related to the built environment.

ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY


Energy Simulation Modelling

Integrated Design Simulation & Performance Evaluation


Green Wall Systems, 2012-2013PI Hasim AltanKTA Collaborative R&D project funded by EPSRC, £34,969

The BIG Energy Upgrade: Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities (EIDC) 2011-2014PI Lenny Koh, PI Steven Banwart, Co-I’s Hasim Altan et al, as part of a large consortium led by Kirklees Council, total £14.9millionEU/ERDF, £375,798

TPSI - Tall-Building Projects Sustainability Indicator, 2011-2012PI Hasim AltanKTA Proof of Concept project funded by EPSRC, £53,699

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Top:Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities

Bottom:Sustainable Social Housing Design




Rachel Cruise, Editorial, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Structures and Buildings, 166(4)(2013): 163-164.

Rachel Cruise ‘The Fall‘ in Phil Ayres (ed.), Persistent Modelling – Extending the role of architectural representation (London: Routledge; 2012): 119-131.

Rachel Cruise and Anna Paradowska, ‘The Non-Destructive Measurement of Residual Stresses in Stainless Steel Roll Formed Sections’ in the proceedings of Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures (September, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2010): 697-705.

Rachel Cruise and Leroy Gardner, ‘Harnessing strength enhancements due to cold-forming of stainless steel sections’ in the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures: Recent innovations and developments (June, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2008)(2): 915-922.

Leroy Gardner and Rachel Cruise, ‘Modeling of residual stresses in structural stainless steel sections’ in The Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 135(1)(2009): 42-53.

Rachel Cruise and Leroy Gardner, ‘Strength enhancements induced during cold forming of stainless steel sections in Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 64(11)(2008): 1310-1316.

Rachel Cruise and Leroy Gardner, ‘Residual stress analysis of structural stainless steel sections’ in Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 64(3)(2008): 352-366.

Selected External Grant Funding

Royal Academy of Engineering: Conference grant, June 2010PI Rachel Cruise, £670

Science and Technologies Facilities Research Council: Neutron beam time at ISIS to measure residual stresses in stainless steel sections, 2008PI Rachel CruiseBased on the last RAE the beam time is equivalent to: £36,000

EPSRC Summer project: Measuring residual stresses in stainless steel sections, 2008PI Rachel Cruise, £1,000

Royal Society: Conference grant, 2008PI Rachel Cruise, £740

Dr. Rachel Cruise

An imperfection rig, designed by Cruise, to measure imperfections in steel structural sections.

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I believe that the methods we use to design our built environment influence its performance. The way the material world is perceived and modelled inevitably determines how buildings are constructed and evaluated. There are some big challenges facing the construction industry which demand a cross-disciplinary mutual understanding of the world’s material resources. Construction professionals from every discipline need to understand both the potential and the limitations of different design methodologies to tackle current challenges effectively.

I studied for a degree and a diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and a PhD in Structural Engineering at Imperial College London, exploring the influence of production routes on the behaviour of stainless steel structural members. The results of this research changed the Structural Design Code for stainless steel members, thereby increasing two-fold the structural efficiency of the most commonly produced type of stainless steel cross-sections (UK National Annex). Studying two disciplines, Architecture and Structural Engineering, has given me insight into the different ways we perceive and model materials, and this is reflected in my teaching interests and research focus.

In teaching students of architecture or engineering I try to instil the skills that allow the successful communication of ideas between professions. This is, in my view, fundamental to the future of both professions. I am currently the Architectural Director of the MEng in Structural Engineering and Architecture at the University of Sheffield. I am also currently the Academic Leader of the Sheffield RAEng Centre of Excellence in

Sustainable Building Design, a centre formed between the Sheffield School of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering. It is recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering for the creation of interdisciplinary professionals and interdisciplinary research.

My current research combines technical research into the importance of manufacturing processes derived from my PhD, with a social and contextual understanding of technical resolution in the widest possible sense. In The Methodology of Construction (Cruise, 2007- long listed for the Sir Nikolaus Pevsner RIBA International Book Award for Architecture) I explored the difference between products that originated through two different sewing systems. Through the development of software simulating the construction of dry stone walls, I investigated a construction system accepting irregularity rather than requiring homogeneity of construction components (Cruise and Ayres, 2004). My most recent publication ‘The Fall’ (Cruise, 2012) relates data collected about the shape and construction process of the Tower of Pisa to the way gravity as a concept has been modelled over time. Through this comparison, I explore the sophisticated understanding of the craftsmen and master builders of the Tower and the contextual nature of different models of gravity.

I am passionate about the way our understanding of the material world influences how we design and construct our built environment, so it is vitally important that we understand the methodologies and interrelations between construction professionals, as well as developing that criticality in students, so that we can influence how the construction industry develops.



Measuring residual stresses in stainless steel sections at the particle accelerator, ISIS.

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The ductility of material in a press-braked stainless steel angle.




Ásta Logadóttir, Steve Fotios, Jens Christoffersen, Søren Stentoft Hansen, Dennis D Corell, Carsten Dam Hansen, ‘Investigating the use of an adjustment task to set preferred colour of ambient illumination,’ Colour Research & Application 38(1)(2013): 46-57.

Steve Fotios and Deniz Atli, ‘Comparing Judgements of Visual Clarity and Spatial Brightness Through an Analysis of Studies Using the Category Rating Procedure’ in Leukos 8(4)(2012): 261-281.

Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP). Professional Lighting Guide PLG03:2012. Lighting for Subsidiary Roads: Using white light sources to balance energy efficiency and visual amenity. Rugby; ILP.

Tharinee Ramasoot and Steve Fotios, ‘Lighting and display screens: Models for predicting luminance limits and disturbance’ in Lighting Research & Technology 44(2)(2012): 197-223.

Steve Fotios and Goodman T. ‘Proposed UK Guidance for Lighting in Residential Roads’ in Lighting Research & Technology 44(1)(2012); 69-83.

Ásta Logadóttir, Jens Christoffersen and Steve Fotios, ‘Investigating the use of an adjustment task to set preferred illuminance in a workplace environment’ in Lighting Research & Technology 43(4)(2011): 403-422.

Steve Fotios and Chris Cheal, ‘Predicting Lamp Spectrum Effects At Mesopic Levels. Part 1: Spatial Brightness‘ in Lighting Research & Technology 43(2)(2011): 143-157. ‘Part 2: Preferred Appearance and Visual Acuity‘ in Lighting Research & Technology 43(2)(2011): 159-172.

Steve Fotios and Chris Cheal, ‘Stimulus range bias explains the outcome of preferred-illuminance adjustments’ in Lighting Research & Technology 42(4)(2010): 433-447.

Steve Fotios & Kevin Houser, ‘Research Methods to Avoid Bias in Categorical Ratings of Brightness‘ in Leukos 5(3)(2009): 167-181.

Steve Fotios, Kevin Houser and Chris Cheal, ‘Counterbalancing needed to avoid bias in side-by-side brightness matching tasks‘ in Leukos 4(4)(2008): 207-223.

Prof. Steve Fotios

A residential street after dark, lit by sodium lamps as has been the tradition in the UK. Fotios’ research of perceived safety, obstacle detection and interpersonal judgements has demonstrated that lighting of whiter appearance leads to better vision after dark and to lower energy consumption.

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The lighting research group in the school of architecture aims to explore issues related to visual psychophysics – experimental studies of how a change in lighting (such as a change in luminance or spectral power distribution) affects visual performance and visual perception. One element of this work is spatial brightness, an evaluation of the amount of light in a space: if we can tune the spectral power of lighting to improve spatial brightness, then the illuminance can be reduced to maintain the same light level, a direct route to energy saving.

My study of spatial brightness has included an extensive study of methodology, the procedures, evaluation modes, visual field characteristics, and language used in research. This work is now leading to a new best practice guide from the Commission Internationale De L’Éclairage on measurement of spatial brightness. My desire to focus on methodology before outcomes led me to set up ‘LumeNet’, a new international forum for PhD students of lighting.

Many working environments require display screens and these can suffer disturbing reflections from light sources and windows. One of my projects investigated the factors contributing to such reflections in order to establish a new model for predicting how to avoid them; it also promoted a new approach to resolving the issue – design the lighting first, and then consider the display screen, for display screens are likely to be replaced more rapidly than the lighting. This work contributed to Lighting Guide LG5:2011 Lighting For Education from the Society of Light and Lighting.

My current research targets road lighting for pedestrians. Recent work has examined how lamp spectrum affects spatial brightness and the detection of pavement obstacles, leading to a new system for characterising the relationship between lamp spectrum and illuminance (Institution of Lighting Professionals. Professional Lighting Guide PLG03:2012. Lighting For Subsidiary Roads: Using White Light Sources To Balance Energy Efficiency And Visual Amenity) . This in turn formed the basis of new guidance in the British Standard for road lighting (BS5489-1:2013).

I collaborate with City University and UCL on the EPSRC-funded MERLIN project (‘Mesopically Enhanced Road Lighting: Improving Night-vision’). This project has the aim of identifying the critical visual tasks for pedestrians after dark, and using these to guide the setting of appropriate light levels for design. The work in Sheffield has developed novel procedures for research. Two approaches are used to identify the critical tasks: one is to explore the reassurance gained from lighting but without priming respondents with the notion that lighting matters, and avoiding emotional language such as fear-of-crime. The other is to use eye-tracking apparatus to record which objects a pedestrian looks at, but to combine this with a second (distraction) task to identify which observed objects were important. One alleged task of road lighting is to enable the identity of other pedestrians to be recognized. We have argued that this is not the critical task: rather it is the recognition of their intention – do they present a threat? A new approach to experimental analysis has been developed, including investigation of how lighting affects the evaluation of emotion from faces, body postures, and gaze direction.



Graph of test results from a study of disturbing reflections on screens. Luminance threshold predicted by the Ramasoot and Fotios model versus the experimental results for a wide range of screens and viewing conditions.

External Research Funding since 2008

MERLIN: Mesopically Enhanced Road Lighting: Improving Night-vision, 2011–2015.EP/H050817, £417,000 Collaborative project with UCL and City University: total award £1.200,000

Lighting for the classroom of the future; acceptability of screen glare, 2008–2009PI Steve Fotios and Rosie ParnellEPSRC ref EP/F029276/1, £31,009

Street Lighting: A metric for specifying white light, 2008–2010EPSRC ref EP/F035624/1, £172,936

Group photo of attendees at LumeNet 2012, the international workshop for PhD students of light and lighting established by Steve Fotios.

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Shutter mechanism designed to permit 300 ms exposure to a simulated pavement for obstacle detection experiments.

Setting up an apparatus for simultaneous (side-by-side) evaluations of different types of lighting.




Hui Xi and Jian Kang ‘The acoustic environment of intensive care wards based on long period nocturnal measurements‘ in Noise and Health, 14(60)(2012): 230-236.

Knut Veisten, Yuliya Smyrnova, Ronny Klæboe, Maarten Hornikx, Marjan Mosslemi and Jian Kang ‘Valuation of green walls and green roofs as soundscape measures: including monetised Amenity values together with noise-attenuation values in a cost-benefit analysis of a green wall affecting courtyards.’ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 9(11)(2012):3770-3788.

Xin Qin, Jian Kang and Hong Jin, ’Sound environment of waiting areas in large general hospitals in China’ in Acustica/acta acustica - European Journal of Acoustics 98(5)(2012):760-767.

Mei Zhang, Jian Kang, and Fenglei Jiao, ‘A social survey on the noise impact in open-plan working environments in China’ in Science of the Total Environment, 438(2012):517-526.

Qi Meng,, Hong Jin, and Jian Kang,‘Prediction of subjective loudness in underground shopping streets using artificial neural network.’ in Noise Control Engineering Journal, 60(3)(2012): 329-339.

Jian Kang, Qi Meng and Hong Jin, ‘Effects of individual sound sources on the subjective loudness and acoustic comfort in underground shopping streets’ in Science of the Total Environment (435-436)(2012): 80-89.

Hongyuan Mei and Jian Kang, ‘An experimental study of the sound field in a large atrium’ in Building and Environment 58(201):91-102.

Hui Xie, Jian Kang, and G Mills, ‘Sound power levels of typical medical equipment in Intensive Care Units’ in Acustica/acta acustica - European Journal of Acoustics, 98(1)(2012):651-658.

Hui Xie and Jian Kang, ‘Sound field of typical single-bed hospital wards’ in Applied Acoustics 73(9)(2012):884-892.

Jin Yong Jeon, Pyoung Jik Lee, Jin You and Jian Kang, ‘Acoustical characteristics of water sounds for soundscape enhancement in urban open spaces.’ in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(3)(2012): 2101-2109.

Michael Barclay, Steve Sharples, Jian Kang, and Richard Watkins, ‘The natural ventilation performance of buildings under alternative future weather projections’ in Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 33(1)(2012): 35-50.

Prof. Jian Kang

The recording of birdsong for psychological experiments.

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My specialism is acoustics and I have worked intensively on several aspects, with research outputs that have been applied in industry and in practical construction projects. These include: computer simulation and auralization in room acoustics and in urban acoustics; urban soundscape in relation to acoustic comfort and human perception; acoustics of long spaces; window/ventilator systems for optimum acoustics, ventilation and daylighting performance; sound absorption materials especially non-fibrous absorbers; and speech intelligibility, especially in underground stations and dining spaces.

Other specialist areas include large-scale noise mapping for urban environments including industrial noise prediction; hospital acoustics; acoustics and sustainability in the built environment; acoustics in ancient performance spaces; physical scale modelling in architectural and environmental acoustics; sound insulation, especially at low-frequencies; environmental noise barriers; acoustics of auditoria and recording studios; and acoustics in school buildings.

I have also carried out research in a wide context, including, acoustic education for architects, architectural education in general, especially

comparison between China and the UK; and in relation to sustainable building/urban development.

I have published 3 books, over 200 refereed journal papers and book chapters, and over 400 conference papers and technical reports. I have been principal investigator for over 60 research projects funded by EPSRC, AHRC, Royal Society, British Academy, British Council, DTI, Nuffield Foundation, Hong Kong TDG, China NSF, Acoustical Society of America, German AvH, industry, etc.; and have been a consultant on over 70 major acoustics and noise control projects in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong and China. In particular, my work on acoustic theories, design guidance, and products has brought improvements to the noise control in underground stations/tunnels and soundscape design in urban areas.

I am the Editor in ‘Environmental Noise’ for Acta Acustica united with Acustica - European Journal of Acoustics. I am also currently the chair of the WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) ‘Environmental Acoustics Network’, the chair of the EU funded COST Network on ‘Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes’, the joint chair of the EPSRC funded ‘NoiseFutures’ network, and the Chair of the Technical Committee on ‘Noise of the European Acoustics Association’ (EAA).



Top:Measurement for the scattering coefficient of vegetation.

Bottom:Sound transmission through hedges.

Right:The Sound Environment for Critically Ill Patients in NHS Hospitals.


Urban sound planner (SONORUS) 2012-2016EU, £480,000

Holistic and sustainable abatement of noise by optimized combinations of natural and artificial means (HOSANNA), 2009-2013EU, £500,000

Soundscape of European cities and landscapes, 2009-2013EU, COST £500,000

The sound environment for critically ill patients in NHS hospitals, 2009-2011NHS, £100,000

Auralization, 2006-2010EU, £300,000

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GIS information of Assen with sensor nodes for research on the effect of urban morphology to sound distribution.

Mapping of sound levels of traffic noise at a mesoscale with different urban morphologies.




Mark Meagher, David van der Maas, Christian Abegg, and Jeffrey Huang ‘Dynamic ornament: An investigation of responsive thermochromic surfaces in architecture’ in the International Journal of Architectural Computing 11(3)(2013): 301-318.

Mark Meagher, Julien Nembrini, and Adam Park. ‘Analyzing the performance-based computational design process: A data study.‘ Paper presented at Design Modelling Symposium (Berlin, 2013).

Julien Nembrini, Mark Meagher, and Adam Park ‘Usage patterns of scripting interfaces for building performance assessment at early design stage’ in the Proceedings of 13th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association, (August, Chambéry, France, 2013).

Julien Nembrini, Mark Meagher, and Adam Park. Julien Nembrini, Mark Meagher, and Adam Park ‘Analyzing the design use of scripting interfaces for building performance simulation’ in the Proceedings of CISBAT: Clean Technology for Smart Cities and Buildings (September, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland 2013).

Mark Meagher and Rachel Cruise, ‘Digital and Material Communities’ organisers of 2 day conference (School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, 2011).

Mark Meagher Dynamic Ornament: The Design of Responsive Architectural Environments. PhD thesis, (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010).

Mark Meagher, David van der Maas, Christian Abegg, and Jeffrey Huang ‘Dynamic ornament: The design of responsive surfaces in architecture’ in the Proceedings of ACSA Southeast Regional Meeting (March, Portland, USA, 2009).

David Van Der Maas, Mark Meagher, Christian Abegg, and Jeffrey Huang ‘Thermochromic information surfaces: Interactive visualization for architectural environments’ in the Proceedings of the 27th eCAADe Conference (September, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009).

Mark Meagher, David Van Der Maas, Christian Abegg, and Jeffrey Huang ‘Dynamic ornament: Climatically responsive surfaces in architecture’ in the Proceedings of CAAD Futures (Montreal, Canada, 2009).

Julien Nembrini, Guillaume Labelle, Nathaniel Zuelzke, Mark Meagher, and Jeffrey Huang ‘Source studio: Teaching programming for architectural design’ in the Proceedings of CAAD Futures (Montreal, Canada, 2009).

Selected Research Grants

EPFL Provost’s Innovation Grant, Switzerland 2007-2010 For Mark Meagher, Dynamic Ornament: The Design of Responsive Architectural Environments. PhD research, 150,000 CHF

dr. mark meagher

Three different printed circuit board patterns that were used to produce wall panels that dynamically visualise changes in indoor air quality.

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My research is grounded in a critical approach to the computer as a creative tool for design. Having become aware of the limitations of commercially available computational design tools, I see a creative role for the architect in shaping the software and hardware that are used to realise their design intentions. I seek to understand in detail how architects use scripting, particularly in the early stages of design. My recent research has focused on understanding the role of code in the design process: the use of text-based commands as a means of describing architectural geometry and associated data.

I began my career in research at the Harvard’s Center for Design Informatics in 2002, and in 2006 joined the newly-established Media and Design Lab at EPFL. At EPFL I completed a PhD on the use of architectural ornament as a precedent for the visualisation of sensor data in buildings.

Since arriving at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture in 2011 I have had the pleasure of collaborating with colleagues in the Digital Design and Performance Group and elsewhere in School of Architecture and the University. My research at Sheffield is closely integrated with teaching, particularly in the Computational Design module sequence that I developed with Chengzhi Peng and Adam Park. I currently supervise five PhD students in the School of Architecture.

The concept of open-source software and hardware is central to my research in computational design methods. Open-source is important because it provides possibility for modification: a process by which designers can adjust existing solutions to meet novel

requirements. The nature of this process of modification is one of the topics that I’m most interested to pursue in my research. Version control software provides a detailed record of the process, and using the Version control logs, it is possible to study the roles of software creation and modification in the early stages of design. I am currently involved in a research project with Julien Nembrini of Universität der Künste in Berlin to analyze an extensive database of design modifications in response to environmental simulation, data that provides allows us better to understand the process of parametrically adjusting a design in response to simulation feedback.

Information visualisation is a research method that I use extensively in carrying out this data analysis. Visualisation is an essential tool for making sense of very large data sets, and using code enables a vast array of visualisation techniques. I am also interested in the role of web-based visualisation as a mirror of group activity.

I have written about the experiential and poetic potential of responsive buildings and landscapes, the obsolescence of digital hardware and software, and the significance of change over time for our understanding of digital culture. Currently I am in the process of editing with Prof. Peter Blundell Jones a collection of essays on the topic of architecture and movement that looks at the experience of movement in buildings and landscapes, and the means available to the designer for communicating this experience; the book will be published by Routledge in 2014.



A functioning prototype that uses printed circuitboards to selectively heat a thin epoxy sheet painted with a pigment that becomes transparent with changes in termperature. The resulting pattern was used to visualize changes in indoor air quality over time. The dimensions of the viewable surface are 64cm x 76cm.

Three different printed circuit board patterns that were used to produce wall panels that dynamically visualise changes in indoor air quality.

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A student project by Tengfei Xue from the module ‘Introduction to Computational Design’, illustrating the use of code (Processing/Anar+) to produce parametric geometry, to run simulations and to visualize simulation results. This figure shows an analysis of the slope and orientation of each face.

Visualization of one student’s computational design process during the 24 hours preceding a final assignment submission. Each rectangle represents a code compilation in Processing corresponding to a unique version of the script. Script versions are arrayed along concentric circles representing named scripts. Several measures are depicted such as the number of simulation runs between versions (black arrows), the amount of paramter adjustment between versions (green arrows), the amount of code modification between versions (blue and red arrows).


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Chengzhi Peng ‘Designing Innovative Learning Spaces in Higher Education at a Turning Point: Institutional Identities, Pervasive Smart Technologies and Organizational Learning’, in Richard Baskerville, Marco De Marco and Paolo Spagnoletti (eds.) Designing Organizational Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discourse (New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer, 2013): 217-244.

Chengzhi Peng and Adam Park ‘Mapping Urban Interstitial Spaces through Performing the City’ in Leonardo 46(5)(2013): 491-492.

Chengzhi Peng and Amr Elwan ‘How Hot Can the University Campus Get in 2050? Environmental Simulation of Climate Change Scenarios at Urban Neighbourhood Scale’ paper presented at the 4th Annual Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (April, San Diego, USA, 2013).

Chengzhi Peng ‘Learning from a new learning landscape: Visualisation of location sensing data in the Augustine House Experiment’ in The British Journal of Educational Technology 44(5)(2013):795–809.

Chengzhi Peng and Amr Elwan (2012) ‘Bridging Outdoor and Indoor Environmental Simulation for Assessing and Aiding Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Design’ in Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research MIT, 6 (3)(2012):72-90.

Robert Gaizauskas, Emma Barker, Ching-Lan Chang, Leon Derczynski, Michael Phiri and Chengzhi Peng ‘Applying ISO-Space to Healthcare Facility Design Evaluation Reports’, in the proceedings of the Joint ISA-7, SRSL-3, and I2MRT Workshop on Semantic Annotation and the Integration and Interoperability of Multimodal Resources and Tools, (May, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012): 13-20.

Chengzhi Peng ‘uCampus: Can an open source 3D interactive virtual campus modelling platform support institutional learning and innovation?’ International Journal of Architectural Computing 9(3)(2011): 303-324.

Amr Elwan, Chengzhi Peng and Mohammed Fahmy ‘Towards a unifying visualization modelling platform for supporting climate change conscious urban neighbourhood design’ in the proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Congress, (May, Linkoping, Sweden, 2011): 612-619.

Dr. Chengzhi Peng

Sheffield University campus Climate change scenario 2050s on uCampus 1.1.

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In September 2008, I was awarded a major research grant by the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme to investigate how a Web-based interactive visualisation modelling platform can facilitate participative and collaborative planning and design of future learning spaces. This project not only delivered the ‘uCampus’ system but also led to a subsequent benefit realisation project in collaboration with the Canterbury Christ Church University on the ‘Augustine House Experiment’ (AHE). Through uCampus and AHE, I looked further into the connection to be made between Web-based architectural modelling and data visualisation. The nature of this connection is multi-faceted and dynamic, partly because it is continuously defined and redefined by the evolving digital world, and partly due to the expanding scope of scholarly communication in architectural research and design.

One aspect of such connection is through semantic annotations in architectural and city modelling and writing. To investigate how 3D virtual modelling and natural language writing can be interlinked, I have been collaborating with the Natural Language Processing Group led by Professor Robert Gaizauskas at the Department of Computer Science in Sheffield. The idea is to explore a new digital pathway for scholarly communication of advanced building and city studies via interlinking openBIM and ISO-Space as the semantic annotation standards.

A breakthrough in this linkage could lead to the next generation of content-rich architectural and city models with new capabilities of realising new forms of knowledge-dissemination and sharing.

The recent advance in environmental modelling has made simulation of urban micro-climatic conditions at an urban neighbourhood level feasible on a personal computer. Since January 2010, I have been working with PhD student Amr Elwan to develop a modelling framework of coupled outdoor-indoor environmental simulations incorporating climate change scenarios. The aim is for the simulation workflow to achieve what we call ‘climate change conscious urban neighbourhood design’ supported by 3D Web-based virtual neighbourhood modelling as the visual communication platform.

In November 2010, I was joined by Adam Park as a RECITE PhD student to start exploring the effects of locative media and performative interactions on participative mapping or modelling of the contemporary urban context. We were awarded a grant by the ‘Festival of The Mind’ 2012 to launch the ‘Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Interactive Story Trail’ project. The outcome was a smartphone application ‘Port of Sheffield’ (Android and iOS) designed for public use as an interactive audio walk along the historic Sheffield-Tinsley Canal. Ultimately, this could turn into an innovative approach to community engagement in city regeneration planning and design.



Visualisation of the iBorrow notebook tracking data in the Augustine House.

Selected Research Outputs (cont.)

Felasari S and Chengzhi Peng ‘Enhancing a Virtual City with Collective Memory: A Pilot Study of Jalan Malioboro in Yogyakarta’, Presented at the 28th eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) Conference Future Cities, (September, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2010).

Chengzhi Peng, Darren Roberts, Panagiotis Patlakas, and Puja Basu ‘Developing a Web-Based 3D Visualisation Modelling Platform to Support Innovative Planning and Design of Learning Spaces: A Case Study of the University of Sheffield Campus’ presented at the 10th International Conference on Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, (July, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2010).

Selected Research Grants

Sheffield and Tinsley Canal Interactive Story Trail, 2012With Adam Park (PhD student), The Blue Shed, Sheffield Theatres.The Festival of the Mind Project Fund, University of Sheffield. £4,750

Enhancing Post-Project Evaluation of NHS Estates with Annotated 3D Interactive Navigation (A3DIN): Jordanthorpe Health Centre Case Study. 2011-2012With Professor Robert Gaizauskas and Dr Michael Phiri.Research Stimulation Fund, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. £1,675

Rethinking a City´s Theatres, Digital Creativity and Innovation (RECITE), 2010-2013.With Professor Steve Nicholson, Dr Frances Babbage, Dr Carmen Szabo, Dr Steve Maddock and Dr Daniela Romano.Cross-cutting Directors of Research and Innovation Network Scholarships in Digital World, University of Sheffield. £185,000

The Augustine House Experiment (AHE), 2010With Phil Poole at the Canterbury Christ Church University.JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, Benefits Realisation Phase 1b. £15,000

A Web-Based Interactive Visualisation Modelling Platform to Effect Participative and Collaborative Planning and Design of Future Learning Spaces. 2008-2010JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, Call II: Large-Scale Institutional Exemplars. £297,344 Awarded (Total Project Cost: £371,679 with Institutional Contribution: £74,335)

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Port of Sheffield Interactive audio walk along the historic Sheffield-Tinsley Canal with Adam Park.

3D Web-based University of Sheffield campus modelling on uCampus 1.1.




Michael Phiri and Bing Chen, Sustainability and Evidence-Based Design in the Healthcare Estate, (Springer, 2013).

Michael Phiri, et. al. ‘Evidence-based health care design: refurbishment or reconfiguration of the health care estate to enhance compliance with standards and tools to optimise innovation’ in proceedings of the 1st IBEA Conference (October, London South Bank University, 2011): 340-360.

Michael Phiri et. al. ‘Evidence-Based Design at a Time of Austerity: Do Building Standards and Tools Reflect the Reality of Designing for Dementia, the Elderly, Children and Refurbishment or Reconfiguration?’ in the proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC11) (September, Manchester, UK, 2011): 190-208.

Michael Phiri et al (2011) ‘Design strategies and environmental assessment methods in health care: Lessons from UK’s BREEAM’, in Architectural Journal, 19(2)(2011):159-163. www.aj.org.cn

Michael Phiri et. al. ‘Quality Innovation and Evidence in Health care Physical Environments in England & Sweden – Establishing a Collaborative Roadmap’ in the proceedings of 3rd Annual Conference of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC10)(September, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010): 6-16.

Michael Phiri, ‘The impact of soft computing on building norms and certification systems in engineering,’ in the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing (Stirlingshire, UK, 2011): 1-15.

Adrian Popplewell and Michael Phiri (2009) ‘Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 08-01 Acoustics: Has the cure worked, and where do we go from here?’ presented at Euronoise, (October, Edinburgh, 2009) and published in Acoustics Bulletin 35(3)(2010): 38-41.


POE Evaluations, 2011Balfour Beatty Capital Projects, £24,000

Nurturing an Evidence-Based Learning Environment which supports the Innovative Design of Healthcare Facilities or similar (EBLE), 2010EPSRC funded HaCIRIC, £154,050 + £3,550

Environmental Kite Mark, 2009Macmillan Cancer Support, £49,951

POE Evaluations, 2008Macmillan Cancer Support, £43,659

Dr. Michael Phiri

IDEAs tool/Gallery is displayed using two window panes on a screen: 1. CHALLENGES & CONSIDERATIONS and 2. PRECEDENTS to help us understand the concept of a ‘place’ where human activities commonly occur or are accommodated.

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The health care research group within the School of Architecture now directed by Michael Phiri has worked on an evidence-based approach to health care design for nearly three decades. During that time it has attracted research funding from a variety of sources including the UK Department of Health, NHS Estates, EPSRC, the Irish Health Services Executive, and Macmillan Cancer Support. The group has worked on three main areas. First, it has conducted basic research into the impact of the designed environment on health outcomes for patients and on the effectiveness of staff. By analysing and cataloguing the available research worldwide, it produced a database for the Department of Health through NHS Estates funding.

Second, the group has conducted post-project and post-occupancy evaluations of health care buildings and drawn lessons from these for future theory and practice. This work has primarily been done in the UK and Ireland with funding from both governments and Macmillan Cancer Support.

Third, the group has developed a series of design tools to assist both architects and clients of health care buildings. Many of these are in widespread use in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

and have been widely published. They include ASPECT, AEDET, and IDEAs, all of which are freely available on the Internet.

The group’s work calls for the development of a design process based on scientific research evidence and best practice that can aid the production of original and innovative design solutions. Its aim to produce ‘Healing Architecture’ refers both to the capacity of architecture to promote healing in the people it accommodates, and to the need to restore to architecture a more humane and appropriate role. It responds to practitioners’ need for a rigorous evidence-base to support decision-making.

There are two main aims:

1. Develop a Centre of Excellence in Europe for Healing Architecture incorporating the theme of Evidence-Based Architectural Health care Design to foster the role of architecture in improving health and wellbeing.

2. Study the development of health care planning information, guidance, and design tools, considering their impact first on the organisations (commissioners, regulators and providers) of health and social care, and second on the recipients of this care.




Fionn Stevenson, Isabel Carmona- Andreu and Mary Hancock ‘The usability of control interfaces in low-carbon housing’ in Architectural Science Review 56(1)(2013): 70-82.

Fionn Stevenson, (2012) ‘Developing occupancy feedback to improve low carbon housing’ in Shauna Mallory-Hill, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser and Christopher G. Watson (eds.) Enhancing Building Performance, (London and New York: Routledge, 2012): 120-129.

Isabel Carmona-Andreu, Fionn Stevenson, and Mary Hancock, ‘Low Carbon Housing: Understanding Occupant Guidance and Training’, paper presented at the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (September, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012)

Fionn Stevenson and Hom B. Rijal ‘Developing occupancy feedback from a prototype to improve housing production’ in Building Research and Information 38(5)(2010): 549-563.

Fionn Stevenson and Adrian Leaman, ‘Evaluating housing performance in relation to human behaviour: new challenges’ in Editorial, Building Research and Information 38(5)(2010): 437-441.

Adrian Leaman, Fionn Stevenson and Bill Bordass, ‘Building evaluation: practice and principles’ in Building Research and Information 38(5)(2010): 564-577.

Fionn Stevenson, ‘Post-occupancy evaluation and sustainability: a review’ in Urban Design and Planning 162(3)(2009): 123-130

Fionn Stevenson, Andrew Roberts, Sergio Altomonte, ‘Designs on the Planet: a workshop series on architectural education and the challenges of climate change’, paper presented at the proceedings of the 26th Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, (June, l’Université Laval Quebec, Canada, 2009).

Fionn Stevenson, Gerry Humphris, Lesley Howells, ‘Promoting Wellbeing in Palliative Care’ in World Health Design 2(1)(2008): 57-63.

Fionn Stevenson and Hom B. Rijal ‘The Sigma Home: towards an authentic evaluation of a prototype building,’ paper presented at the proceedings of the Passive and Low Energy Architecture (October, Dublin, Ireland, 2008).

Prof. Fionn Stevenson

The Sigma Home (by Stewart Milne Group for BRE)The first holistic evaluation of a Code for Sustainable Homes ‘Zero Carbon’ prototype in 2008.

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I am passionately interested in sustainable design in order to address climate change, and the ecological approach this requires. My philosophical approach lies close to Roy Bhaskar’s ‘critical realism,’ a belief in an underlying physical reality that is nevertheless viewed from multiple standpoints, and thus always imperfectly perceived as a whole. My aim is to develop a deeper causal understanding of this reality within the built environment. I am particularly interested in the tacit knowledge that people develop in relation to buildings, and in how this might be discovered and used in design through occupancy feedback in order to make buildings work better. A key aim is to reduce wasteful resource consumption in buildings at every level, and to find new ways to do this, working with the designers and users of buildings.

My research also aims to situate the sustainable design of architecture within a bioregional context, integrating people, processes and place. My background as a community housing architect helped me to set up a platform from which to explore how sustainable design can work with occupants, through co-generating and co-evaluating sustainable housing concepts and technologies. My professional experience has allowed me to specialise in low energy design, user engagement, and the ecological specification of materials and products. This has established my approach to evidence-based design and building performance evaluation (BPE). I try to develop a greater understanding of the way people interact with technology and applied principles of design in relation to specific physical

and cultural environments. This perspective has resulted in my distinctive contribution to the understanding of BPE through a holistic case study approach, integrating the sociological, cultural, and technical analysis of innovative building design, and designing new methodological tools for this purpose.

In 2011, I joined The University of Sheffield and set up the new ‘Sustainable Design People and Performance’ research cluster as well as working with the ‘Home’ research cluster. I am now driving the UK research agenda for domestic BPE by developing and shaping new research programmes for various UK government bodies and NGOs, and continuing to investigate new interdisciplinary avenues for carrying out work in this area.

My unique BPE approach resulted in the first holistic evaluation of a Code for Sustainable Homes ‘Zero Carbon’ prototype in 2008 – the ‘Sigma Home’. I then helped to set the UK BPE agenda through the £8m TSB BPE programme (2010-14) and garnered world-wide interest by guest-editing the International Building Research and Information journal Special Issue: ‘Housing occupancy feedback; linking behaviours and performance’ in 2010. I am currently evaluating the performance of LILAC co-housing as compared with private developer housing by Urban Splash in Leeds through the EU Marie Curie project ‘BuPESA’, as well as investigating the barriers and opportunities for collective custom-build housing as part of the AHRC ‘Home Improvements Knowledge Exchange’ project.



Poor window control can mean the difference between seventeen air changes an hour or just one.

Selected Funded research

Building Performance Evaluation for Sustainable Architecture, 2013 EU Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship BuPESA, Host Supervisor, £247,388

Home Improvements: Motivating Collective Custom Build, 2013 AHRC, Principal Investigator, £39,806

Lancaster Co-housing Initial Occupancy Study, 2012TSB (funded with Leeds Metropolitan University), Principal Investigator, £60,102

AIMC4, 2009Lead Academic in a consortium, includingCrest Nicholson, Barratt Homes, Stewart Milne Group, H+H Celcon and BRETSB, £288, 000 (overall project value £6.5 million)

Embedding a capability for post-occupancy studies of buildings, KTP, 2008Lead Academic, in association with Architype Architects LtdTSB, £111,394

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BUILDING RESEARCH & INFORMATION BUILDING RESEARCH & INFORMATION

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Automated housing environments need careful designed interactivity with the occupant. Image Credit: Kate Fewson



Tsung-Hsien Wang, ‘Tessellating Freeform Surfaces with Boundary-Driven Analysis’, in the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (May, Singapore, 2013): 873-882.

Tajin Biswas, Tsung-Hsien Wang, and Ramesh Krishnamurti, ‘From Design to Pre-Certification using Building Information Modeling’, in Journal of Green Building 8(1)(2013): 151-176.

Tsung-Hsien Wang, Jihyun Park, and Andrew Witt, ‘Integrated Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment Methods for Occupant Comfort and Productivity’, in the proceedings of the International Conference on Cleantech for Smart Cities & Buildings-From Nano to Urban Scale, (September, RPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland, 2013): 487-492.

Ramesh Krishnamurti, Tajin Biswas, and Tsung-Hsien Wang,‘Modeling Water Use for Sustainable Urban Design’, in Communications in Computer and Information Science (242)(2012): 138-155.

Tajin Biswas, Tsung-Hsien Wang, and Ramesh Krishnamurti,‘Data Sharing for Sustainable Assessments: Using Functional Databases for Interoperating Multiple Building Information Structures’, in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (April, India, 2012): 193-202.

Tsung-Hsien Wang, ‘Procedural Reconstruction of NURBS Surfaces for Architectural Exploration’, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (April, Yulin, Taiwan, 2009): 597-606.

Tajin Biswas, Ramesh Krishnamurti and Tsung-Hsien Wang, ‘Framework for Sustainable Building Design’, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (April, Yulin, Taiwan, 2009): 43-52.

Dr. Tsung-Hsien Wang

Pattern-based surface tessellation using Archimedean tiling– snub square pattern (3.3.4.3.4).

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With my major research interest in architectural geometry construction from a parametric and generative perspective, I concentrate on computational approaches of investigating (1) architectural geometry performance and manifestation, and (2) building information interoperability and sustainability evaluation. The aim is to treat performative-geometry synergy as the basis for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, such as architectural geometry optimization, digital fabrication, building performance simulation and analysis, sustainability evaluation, and building information interoperation.

‘Architectural geometry performance and manifestation’ investigates algorithmic processes and principles for constructible architectural geometries. The objective is to explore a computational framework that would afford customisable architectural geometry computation; for instance, incorporating machinery and material constraints during the form-finding process would render the constructability of the proposed geometric configuration. The proposition examines (1) underlying architectural geometry construction with featured conditions, (2) physical constraints from manufacturing processes and material properties, and (3) an iterative and integrative design process combining (1) and (2).

‘Building Information Interoperability and sustainability evaluation’ aims to investigate cloud computing as a technological information platform, and to explore integrated building information modeling (BIM) solutions for building

performance simulation and fluid building data exchange using Software as a Service (SaaS) approaches. The potential application is to look at the network as a pool of accessible portals to various configurable computing resources and to examine how this platform can support the AEC industry to tackle increasingly complex building information inter-operability issues across multi-disciplinary professions. The proposed tasks include the implementation of building information exchange protocols, client-to-server interaction, building performance simulation, and sustainability evaluation.

Prior to joining the University of Sheffield in 2012 I was a doctoral researcher and adjunct instructor in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. With a background in both architecture and computation, I introduced new courses (Parametric Modeling/Design and Building Information Modeling for Sustainable Design) over the years 2009-2012. In all courses, my research interests in architectural geometry construction and building information interoperability for sustainable design have been coupled with current industry trends.

Additionally, I also worked in architecture and technology firms, such as Skidmore, Owings and Merril LLP and Gehry Technologies, and was invited to give guest lectures and workshops in USA and Taiwan. This experience has inspired my research in computational architectural geometry and at the same time has enabled me to connect my research with real-world practice.



Sustainable Building Information Modeling for LEED.

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Project LEED Nav Automating LEED certification using BIM.



Community Participation & Future Practice2008–2013

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & FUTURE PRACTICE


The School of Architecture is well known inter-nationally for driving forward a research agenda concerning the relation between architecture and society, with particular emphasis on the social and political aspects of architecture and design research. It enquires into what forms future architectural practice might take by involving agency and community participation, and how design might assist civic society and community cohesion. This work has involved a number of practice-based research projects realised as designs, buildings, exhibitions and public events, as well as academic work resulting in design primers/guidelines/books and networks of knowledge exchange, both national and inter-national. Our goal is to use our design ability and managerial knowledge to change methods of practice, to improve places, to empower comm-unities, and to suggest new roles for the architect and for academic institutions. These projects have influenced policy and guidelines, top-down and bottom-up, both locally and internationally, and increased public participation in governance, planning and design processes while demon-strating the highest quality of design. The design of buildings and environments is a key element of the architectural discipline, yet design has been less well represented at a research level. Our department leads the way internationally, with an active design research culture embedded in its programmes and its staff activities. We believe that to promote the highest standards, design must be accorded the same status as any other research activity, and we expect a design

project to possess an equivalent rigour, depth and methodological accuracy to that of any academic department.

In general, our practitioner academics use their practice-based projects as the locus for their research. Frequently their agenda arises out of the brief and parameters relating to the project and aims to develop the existing expertise or interests of their practice (such as Teresa Hoskins, Theatre in the Park, Chichester, 2013; Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, Sandal Magna School, 2010; Doina Petrescu’s projects with Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée Passage 56 in Paris 2010 and R-Urban in Colombes 2011; and Prue Chiles Architects, Hillsborough Bowling Pavilion, Sheffield, 2009). Sometimes research parallels the development of design proposals, attracting support and collaborators, or even additional funding. Outputs range from designs, data, and articles, to reports and books.

In other scenarios funding is acquired through grant capture from one of many funding bodies. So, for example, the Technology Strategy Board, a Government-backed agency, promotes specific pieces of research that can be carried out in practice (Irena Bauman, Design for Future Climate Change: Adapting Commercial Buildings, which studied fabric efficiency improvements to Church View, a former Art School being converted into startup businesses in Doncaster, 2010). Knowledge transfer funding requires alliances of practices and academics, while the UK funding Councils, aimed purely at academia, are increasingly

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & FUTURE PRACTICE:INTRODUCTIONProf. Doina Petrescu and Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth

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interested in commercial or industrial spin-offs. We have been successful at winning grant funding through these sources for design research within the department (Sarah Wigglesworth and team, Design for Wellbeing, EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC grant for exemplar designs for older people, 2013). Similarly, one of Prue Chiles’ current research projects ‘Photovoltaics for Future Societies’ (EPSRC funded) uses collaborative design research to engage communities in Stocksbridge in transforming emerging technologies.

The school possesses a wide range of University Teaching Practitioners (UTPs). These people are visiting teachers who run or are working for commercial practices outside academia. The knowledge transfer from practice into academia is valued in the teaching studio, and UTPs are expected to embed design research into their own praxis. The facilities and expertise available in the University can help UTP’s to advance their own specialisms in rigorous and methodical ways. The SSoA has some of the leading design research practitioners in the UK and the world. Reinforcing our commitment to design research, in 2003 we established a PhD programme of Research-by-Design, followed in 2008 by a Masters in Architectural Design (MAAD) which can lead on to a PhD.

The School is leading the debate internationally about new forms of socially and politically engaged practice. Our research has contributed to the critical framing of the contemporary participatory approach in architecture, which

made a spectacular return into public pro-grammes in recent decades. These phenomena required critical investigation, while the development of improved participative practices was seen as benefitting from the support and legitimation provided by research.

The discussion on participation at SSoA started in early 2000s with a series of events and lectures which led to the publication of Architecture and Participation, a book edited by Blundell Jones, Petrescu and Till (Routledge 2005) and continued with other projects and publications, including Awan, Schneider and Till’s book Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture (Routledge 2011) and Petrescu and Trogal’s forthcoming book The Social Production of Architecture, springing from the School Forum series held in 2012.

The school is well known for directly engaging with communities and local government both through research and research-led teaching and by playing an active role in the city of Sheffield. The work of Bureau Design + Research (BDR1) has pioneered participation for more than a decade. In addition to their design research, advice and consultation work, BDR also explored the possible connections of live projects with future practice, offering students support to develop further the collaborations with communities that had started as live projects.

More recently, Reimagining Portland Works (PW): Alternative Futures for Sheffield’s Industrial Heritage (2010 ongoing), a Knowledge Transfer

1 BDR are Leo Care, Prue Chiles and Howard Evans, with research assistant Anna Holder .


project conducted by Cristina Cerulli and PhD candidate Julia Udall in partnership with Little Sheffield Development Trust, helped a local community to imagine a sustainable future for a key example for the city’s small-scale heritage industries. Encompassing an appraisal of business models, legal structures, and ownership and management options, it led to the production of a resource pack which documents future planning and provides guidance for other groups. A joint venture involving staff and students from UoS (Architecture, English, Journalism, Management, TRP), it points towards a broader spectrum of architects’ involvement in civic projects.

Engagement with the city is supported by our emergent Live Works, a new initiative intended to become a Laboratory for Participatory Action Research in education, outreach, practice and research. It will enhance the research-led learning environment of our school whilst at the same time offering an advisory service to local partners. The Live Works is also the outreach arm of the Building Local Resilience SSoA’s research platform, facilitating locally relevant and engaged research with communities, developing design-research and participatory methodologies.

The critical inquiry into contemporary practice in architecture is also being pursued through the topic of housing, by the research group Home2 . This work promotes and explores the value of architecture in the study and design of the home, exploring novel forms of engagement and blended

methodologies that encourage autonomy, wellbeing, and a sustainable built environment.A significant project is the AHRC Home Improvements Knowledge Exchange, coordinated by Flora Samuel (2012-2013). In this collaborative project3 the university group aims to improve the quality and value of new housing by assisting communication and knowledge exchange between volume housing builders and architectural practices. Two publications will be issued: the Housing Practice Research Report and the Research Practice Guide for Architects.

Another thematic strand is the Design of Learning Environments . This has been pursued by Sarah Wigglesworth and Prue Chiles within the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ program through a number of design outputs including Wigglesworth’s award winning Sandal Magna Primary School project and Chiles’ s Ballifield Primary School in Sheffield. Chiles also developed a school prototype for displaced children in the border territories between Afganistan and Northern Pakistan and undertook theoretical research on the topic for her forthcoming book School Building: Key Issues for Contemporary School Design (Birkhauser, 2014). With new research staff, new thematic strands will be developed in the next few years including humanitarian practice research, spatial justice, and global development which all address ways of tackling the challenges of the future.

3 Collaborators are: Edinburgh University and Kingston University, RIBA and the Housing Industry (represented by Taylor Wimpey, Design for Homes and Radian)

2 Home Research is : Caroline Butterworth, Cristina Cerulli, Prue Chiles, Lee Crookes, Ed Ferrari, Lucy Jones. Flora Samuel, Fionn Stevenson, Craig Watkins, Sarah Wigglesworth.

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Left and above:BDR holding a participatory event to elicit issues and ideas from the community around Mount Pleasant park to explore ways of creating a more successful multi-cultural park relevant and safe for everyone.

A sponsored research and design competition to design a small neighbourhood of green homes in Norfolk Park, by BDR. Image credit: Howard Evans



Nishat Awan and Phil Langley ‘Mapping topological deformations of space as diffused migrant territories’ in Space and Culture 16(1)(2013): 229-245.

Nishat Awan ‘Agential Exchanges: Thinking the empirical in relation to productivity’ in Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen (eds), CPUL City: Making urban agriculture happen, (London: Routledge, 2013)

Nishat Awan & Cressida Kocienski, ‘A PARLIAMENT OF LINES: Marking the limits of visibility in a Common Assembly’, FUSE Magazine 36(2)(2013): www.fusemagazine.org

Nishat Awan ‘Fragen der Handlungsfähigkeit beim Nahrungsanbau’ in, Kathrin Bohn, Nishat Awan & Kristian Ritzmann (eds.), Spiel/Feld Urbane Landwirtschaft: Praxisorientiertes Entwerfen und Ökologische Bildung (Berlin: Stadt & Ernährung, 2012): 14-19.

Nishat Awan ‘Re-mapping Kurdistan’ in, Melissa Butcher, Nigel Clarke, Joe Smith and Renata Tyszczuk (eds.), ATLAS: Geography, architecture and change, (London: Black Dog, 2012): 42-47.

Nishat Awan, Border Town group show and publication, Detroit Design Festival, USA (2012).

Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till (2011) Spatial Agency: Other ways of doing architecture (London: Routledge, 2011). Winner of the RIBA President’s Research award 2011. www.spatialagency.net

Nishat Awan, COMMON ASSEMBLY. Deterritorializing the Palestinian Parliament. Exhibition at the Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland (16 September - 28 October 2011), Nottingham Contemporary, UK (28 January – 15 April 2012) & The James Gallery, CUNY, New York (2012).

Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Nishat Awan (eds.) TRANS-LOCAL-ACT: Cultural Practices within and across (Paris: aaa peprav, 2011).

Nishat Awan and Tatajana Schneider, ‘Other productions of space’ in, Silvia Forlati, Anne Isopp with Astrid Piber (eds.) Wonderland: Manual For Emerging Architects, (Wien: Springer, 2011): 330-335.

Nishat Awan ‘Words and objects in transposing desire and making space’, Architectural Research Quarterly 12(3)(2009): 263-268.

Funded Research Projects

Cultural Value of Architecture in Homes and Communities, 2013- PI Prof. Flora Samuel, Co-Is Nishat Awan, Sophie Handler and Jo LintonbonAHRC, £50,000

Dr. Nishat Awan

Research trip to the Jordan Valley with Decolonizing Architecture Artist’s Residency

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My research interests lie in three overlapping strands. The first is based around issues of migration and diasporas, a long-term interest that was consolidated in my PhD, entitled ‘Diasporic Urbanism’ (University of Sheffield, 2011), which is to be published (Ashgate, 2014). The second is an interest in sites of conflict that emerged from my PhD research into the Kurdish situation. I have explored this area in a residency with Delfina Foundation and Decolonizing Architecture in Palestine (2011), and will be further develop this area through a new research project based in Lahore, Pakistan. The final strand ties together the other two and is an interest in methodology, in particular thinking about the relationship between architectural practice, activism, and research (Spatial Agency, 2011). My interest in design methodology has emerged from my teaching on the MA in Architectural design course, as well as through research positions I have held at the University of Sheffield (2009) and the Technical University Berlin (2011).

My future research plans include a project that maps the shifting edges of Europe, focusing on how this creates different types of spaces and

modes of diasporic belonging and citizenship. This work has begun with a research-led design studio as part of the MA in Architectural Design, on the topic of Border Topologies, involving the study of different types and scales of border conditions in two sites in Europe. The larger research project will work towards analysing and defining the mutable boundaries of contemporary Europe and will situate the importance of borders in topological thinking.

A second research project, due to start at the end of 2013, is conceived as the beginning of a long-term engagement with the relationships between urban space, dissent, and popular culture in Pakistan. This project will be undertaken as part of OPENkhana (www.openkhana.net), a collaborative that works between architecture and art practice, of which I am a founding member. The overarching interest of OPENkhana is in new technologies and in the use of a variety of media, including film and computational design. The theoretical focus of our work is based on our diverse understandings of topology that derive from our different backgrounds: topology in narrative, in mathematics, and in the social.



Research trip to Jerusalem with Decolonizing Architecture Artist’s Residency.

Research trip to Jerusalem with Decolonizing Architecture Artist’s Residency.

Diasporic UrbanismMapping migrant spaces and subjectivities in London.

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Migrant territories in LondonThe re-territorialisation of space by migrants according to regional affiliations in Turkey.




Irena Bauman, How to be a Happy Architect (London: Black Dog Publishing; 2008).

Peter Blundell Jones, ‘Bauman Lyons Architects Tower Works’, in Architecture Today 236(2013): 38-47.

Fionnuala Costello and Jan-Carlos Kucharek ‘Warming up – Climate Change Adaptation project by Bauman Lyons’ in RIBA Journal 118(10)(2011):62-64.

Rachel Unsworth, Sue Ball, Irena Bauman, Paul Chatterton, Andrew Goldring, Katie Hill and Guy Julier, ‘Building resilience and well-being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks’ in City: Analysis of Urban Trend, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 15(2)(2011): 181-203.

James Pallister and Susan Dawson ‘Medieval Massing’ Bauman Lyons Architects, The Terrace, Lincoln‘ in Architects Journal, 228(4)(2008):32-43.

Irena Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Planning must help us change our lifestyle,’ in Arkitektur DK 57 (1) (2013):18-23

Bauman Lyons Architects, ‘Yorkshire Fast Forward - Digital Media Centre, Barnsley’ in Building Design Magazine - Special Issue: Public Buildings, 13 (2007):10-13


Management before Fabric, 2011PI. Irena Bauman TSB, £100,000

Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Church View, 2010PI. Irena BaumanTSB, £100,000

Prof. irena bauman

Market Town adapted to Climate Change One of seven scenarios for 2050 from Market Towns of the Future Study.

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I joined the school in 2011 on a part time basis. My research is practice-based and is likely to remain so, as my interests are in bringing practice, research, and teaching closer together. I am interested in research because I believe it to be the key to socially and technically relevant practice. It is an activity that enables us to refresh teaching content and pedagogy so that new generations of architects will be able to contribute to a world unlike the one we were educated for.

Although architects claim, and rightly so, that research is practically a daily activity in the process of delivering design projects, academia demands much greater research rigour than that exerted by the majority of practitioners, and it provides an all-important theoretical framework that practitioners often lack altogether. Teaching exposes us to questions and innovations that we might otherwise be unaware of. There is a fertile ground at the intersection of academia, teaching, and practice for disruptive ideas that give rise to interesting architectural research.

My main research interests concern the future, more specifically the impact of major societal changes on the built environment and on architectural practice, and the ways architects can contribute to developing some resilience to these changes at neighborhood and building levels. My research interests embrace both social and technical adaptations since these are interdependent, and both are essential aspects of social resilience. This reflects also the project-based interests of my practice.

My early research projects were undertaken within Bauman Lyons and were commissioned by the Regional Development Agency (RDA). ‘Future of Market Towns’ research aimed to establish possible economic and social futures for market towns in Yorkshire. A second research project, ‘Distinctive Futures’, investigated the distinctiveness of places through study of six English and Welsh market towns. While working on these studies I became aware of the limitations

of the architectural discipline to address the complexities of urban futures. To address this issue I therefore set up a Community Interest Company ‘Leeds Love it Share It’ with other academics from disciplines of geography, urban design and cultural practice. Together we carried out ‘Margins within the City’, funded by the RDA, an action-research project investigating under-utilised resources of skills, social networks and physical assets in the deprived community of Richmond Hill in Leeds. We also looked at the potential of these underutilised resources to offer alternative models for community-led regeneration.

These early research projects were concerned with the social aspects of adaptation and resilience, whereas in two projects funded by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) I investigated the technical solutions to climate change by developing adaptation strategies, to overcome problems with increasing overheating without resorting to mechanical cooling. One applied to a commercial building, the other to a national museum. This research identified the social adaptations required in large institutions to enable them to understand and implement climate change adaptation strategies. I am currently developing new research interests which reflect those of Bauman Lyons, about the likely impact of converging Building Information Modelling (BIM), parametric design and digital fabrication methods on the potential for co-design and co-production with users, and on architects becoming makers again.

At SSoA I am establishing with my colleagues a research platform for Building Local Resilience and within this platform I am working on ‘Retrofitting Neighborhoods – Designing for Resilience’ a book commissioned by RIBA Publishing. Through it I am exploring the emergence of new types of social clients, and how architectural practice is adapting in response to their values.



Built Project - Phase 1 of Tower Works Holbeck, Leeds

Built project - The Terrace Lincoln

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Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Church View, Doncaster Project shortlisted for RIBA President’s Awards for Outstanding Practice-located Research 2013




Alastair Parvin et al., A Right To Build: The next mass-housebuilding industry, (London, UK: 00:/, 2011).

Cristina Cerulli, Tatjana Schneider and Adam Towle (eds.) Come and Collaborate with Me, (Sheffield: PAR, 2011).

Cristina Cerulli and Julia Udall, Re-imagining Portland Works, (Antenna Press, 2011).

Cerulli, Cristina, ‘What now? Reflections on what public housing has been and could become’ in Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Lasse Johansson, (eds.) Estate (London: Myrtle Press, 2010): 132-150.

Cristina Cerulli, ‘Mutually, Commonly‘ iIn Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, and Nishat Awan (eds.), TRANS LOCAL ACT Cultural Practices Within and Across. (Paris, aaa/peprav, 2010): 287-298.

Cristina Cerulli et al., ‘Agencies of Live Projects’ by Agency in Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Nishat Awan (eds.) TRANS LOCAL ACT Cultural Practices Within and Across. (Paris, aaa/peprav, 2010): 287-298.

Cristina Cerulli, and Anna Holder, ‘Acting from the bottom up: Stories of designers and communities’ in Fiona Hackney, Jonathan Glynne, and Viv Minton (eds.) Networks of Design. (Florida, Universal-Publishers, 2009): 29-34.

Cristina Cerulli and Sarah Bell, ‘Emerging Community Food Production And Pathways For Urban Landscape Transitions’ in Emergence: Complexity & Organization an International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems, (Special Issue: Emerging Sustainability) 14(1)(2012): 31-44.

Cristina Cerulli and Julia Udall, ‘Collective Production and Action: the Re-imagining Portland Works Project.’ In the proceedings of the 34th ISBE Conference Sustainable Futures: Enterprising Landscapes and Communities. (November Sheffield, UK, 2011).

Cristina Cerulli, ‘Learning to work in networks: Episodes of Social Entrepreneurship in Architecture’ presented at the 2nd International Social Innovation Research Conference - ‘Partnerships, Hybrids and Networks (September, Said Business School, University of Oxford, 2010).

Dr. Cristina Cerulli

Festival of the Mind Exhibition/ Event PosterImage Credit: Human Studio


My work is underpinned by a strong commitment to rebalancing the normative culture of the architectural profession and architectural education through challenging and questioning established norms. My approach to research is intrinsically collaborative, trans-disciplinary and co-operative. Within SSoA I teach across programmes, am involved in several funded research projects, and participate in the AGENCY research centre. With Mark Parsons I co-founded Studio Polpo (2008), an innovative social enterprise architecture practice that brings together research, practice and teaching, each facet critically questioning and informing the other. Studio Polpo won the invited competition for a ‘new exchange programme for talented emerging architects between the UK and Finland for 2012’ organised by the Architecture Foundation, the Finnish Institute in London and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Studio Polpo was also shortlisted for New Start Magazine’s Better Places National Awards, run by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), and it won several grants to carry out action-research as part of of its practice.

We combine Critical Management with Social Innovation as a model for diversifying practice. This applies not only to Studio Polpo as a social enterprise, but also to the setting up of the Social Enterprise Research Exchange (SERX) within the University of Sheffield (now the Social Innovation Programme in the University of Sheffield Enterprise), and the pioneering of a social enterprise agenda within MArch management teaching in the UK.

A project that exemplifies my research approach is ‘Reimagining Portland Works: Sustainable Future for Sheffield Industrial Heritage’. The main aim was the development and implementation of a framework for collective production and action, where engaged scholarship, community activism, and community economic development converged to save a historic site from speculative redevelopment. As a direct consequence, Portland Works was reconstituted as an Industrial Provident Society for the benefit of the community and was purchased through the first community share issue in Sheffield.

Collaborative and self-procured models of housing are another central feature of my work through professional practice, teaching, research and knowledge transfer. With Tatjana Schneider I co-ran an MArch design studio, Housing + (2008-10), that looked holistically at the production of housing with an emphasis on collective production (see the book Come and Collaborate with Me). In 2011, I worked on a knowledge exchange project into community-led housing with colleague Tatjana Schneider, and Alastair Parvin and David Saxby of Architecture 00:/ . Our book A Right To Build, which emerged from that project, won the 2012 RIBA President’s Awards for Outstanding Practice-located Research. More recently I was co-investigator in the ‘Motivating Collective Custom Build’ project, a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Ash Sakula, and Design for Homes. We reviewed research and emerging practice to support the development of collective custom-build. With Studio Polpo, I am currently designing a new build and refurbishment co-housing scheme in Sheffield.



Studio Polpo briefing workshop for Shirle Hill Co-housingBriefing Cards.

Studio Polpo briefing workshop for Shirle Hill Co-housing Exploring massing and siting of new houses.

Portland Works first workshop Group Discussion within Re-Imagining Portland Works project workshop (2010).

Selected Research Awards

RHYZOM: Local Cultural Practices, Translocal Communication, 2009-2010European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture. Partnership: AAA (coordinator), Agency /UoS, PS2/Plaforma Garanti/ Public Works. Total €380,000/ UoS €46,500

EmergeNET Network Project, 2007-2011PI Cristina CerulliEPSRC ‘Emergence Ideas Factory,’ £9,429.60

Emerging Sustainability, 2007-2009PI Dr. Sarah Bell, UCL; CoI Cristina Cerulli, Dr A. Espinosa, Hull Business School, Prof. F. Griffith, Warwick University, Dr. A. Heppenstall, University of Leeds, Dr. Robin Durie, Exeter UniversityEPSRC Emergence Ideas Factory. £458,934.30

Reimaging Portland Works (Partner Little Sheffield Development Trust), 2010PI Cristina Cerulli, RAs: Julia Udall, Jordan J. Lloyd, Charlotte Morgan KT Rapid Response GRANT, TUoS £ 9,500

Community Developed Housing, 2010Cristina Cerulli and Tatjana Schneider and partners 00:// architects, RA: Alastair Parvin.KT Rapid Response grant, TUoS £ 9,764


Collaborative embroidered map at the Changemakers’ Fayre, Hub Westminster (2011).

Members of Portland Works Industrial Provident Society celebrating the purchase of the building through community shares.




Prue Chiles, (Ed.) School Building: Key Issues for Contemporary School Design (Basel: Birkhauser, 2012).

Prue Chiles, Is “Building School for the Future” good enough? – the process and the product in building our childrens’ future (Ireland: PLACE Education, 2012).

Prue Chiles, Andrew M Cox and Leo Care, ‘Exploring Students’ Group Work Needs in the Context of Internationalisation Using a Creative Visual Method’ in the International Journal of Higher Education 1(2)(2012): 21-32.

Prue Chiles, Simona Latimer and Daniela Petrelli “’Faulty Tower.’ Beauty contests and workplace–re-design at the School of Architecture” paper presented at the Aesthetics of Management, International conference, (Gothenburg, June, 2011).

Prue Chiles, ’Architecture, Internationalisation and intercultural expectation’ in Robert Mull, Peter Beacock and Geoffrey Makstutis (eds.) Intercultural Interaction, Engaging in Architectural Education, (London; ASD Projects London Metropolitan University for CEBE, 2011): 44-50.

Leo Care, Prue Chiles and Doina Petrescu, ‘Live Projects abroad, building networks for internationalisation’ in Robert Mull, Peter Beacock and Geoffrey Makstutis (eds.) Intercultural Interaction, Engaging in Architectural Education, (London; ASD Projects London Metropolitan University for CEBE, 2011): 22-26.

Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth ‘Field Diaries’ in Suzanne Ewing, Jérémie Michael McGowan, Chris Speed and Victoria Clare Bernie (eds.) Architecture and Field/Work (Critiques series) (London: Routledge, 2010): 129-137.

Prue Chiles and Anna Holder ‘What if–technology blended with people and place’ in ‘Growing by Degrees – Universities in the future of Urban Development.’ (London: RIBA Futures Publications, 2009): 32-33, 41-44.

Prue Chiles and Leo Care, ‘A Vocabulary of Engaging Practices: Reflections on the Work of the Bureau of Design Research’ in field 2(2008): 83-93.

Prue Chiles ‘The Future is a Foreign Country’ in Florian Kossak (ed.) ‘Shifts – Projections into the Future of the Central Belt’ (Glasgow: Lighthouse publications, 2008): 142-149.

Prue Chiles

A Solar Future for StocksbridgeSolar Energy in Future Societies research project–working with residents of Stocksbridge on what a solar future might be.


My work seeks to strengthen the connection between people and design in academic, lived, pedagogic, and practice-based communities. Projects are centred around action-research and practice in architecture, testing ideas through making, reflection, research, and consultancy. Two interwoven enterprises, the bureau-design+research (BDR) and the architectural practice Prue Chiles Architects are both participatory and embedded in the city and the region. Our mainly collaborative work would not have been possible without my long term colleagues in practice and consultancy; Howard Evans, Leo Care and Claire Kemp. Between 2008 and 2012 our field of interest gained a clearer perspective through funded interdisciplinary projects with colleagues from other departments of the University. Distinct themes of collaboration and co-design have emerged through our reflection on the meaning and uses of models and drawings. My own research concerns communication as a key skill of the architect in today’s world, in order to achieve better design for everyone. I am developing ways to write about design, reporting on work from the interdisciplinary research projects, PhD students’ work, and my studio work. The work is based on ethnography and practice theory – with narrative (theory) as the overarching structure. Three main themes of my work are:

1. The Design of Learning Environments: this involves working with local and central government and with industry on ‘Building Schools for the Future’. We have sought creative and sustainable ways to carry out small design and building projects involving pupils in the process of design. ‘Consultancy for Barnsley BSF school buildings programme’– funded by Creative Partnerships, involved working with head teachers to help them play a greater role in the commissioning and design of new advanced

learning centres in Barnsley, one of the flagship boroughs for successful new schools. I led the publication of ‘Redesigning Learning’, which records this innovative process. I also helped design ‘Imagine’–a data-base and matrix of world-wide best practice in school buildings commissioned by Balfour Beatty. There were 126,000 hits on the website in the first year with many validations. All this work is included in a book commissioned and funded by Birkhauser.

2. Community-led regeneration: this research consultancy work is concerned with working and engaging with communities to transform their futures and all of it is participatory. Major projects involve community visioning and neighbourhood strategies in Sheffield, Canklow, and West Central Rotherham. It was published by CABE as exemplary case studies in 2009.

3. New and Sustainable Futures: research in this area is intended to develop new participatory processes that can transform emerging technology, for example a large EPSRC funded interdisciplinary project for solar futures. A project on the future of universities became part of the ‘RIBA Futures’ publication. Between 2008 and 2012 the School of Architecture moved out of the Grade 2 Listed Arts Tower to the Crookesmoor building, then back into the restored Arts Tower. In the role of user-client, I led a team from the department to work in a participatory way with the users, the architects, and the estates department. Involved from vision to completion, we sought to open up the Arts tower as a 21st century university building. We also commissioned the furniture for the Architecture and Landscape departments. This was an unusual and generous collaboration with the University’s Estates department, culminating in an interdisciplinary research project to analyse the process and the different roles taken by individuals in the university.



Top:Earlham School, Forest Gate, London 2009/10 - Sustainable toilets and corridor. Showing how the sustainable technologies work using large colourful graphics.

Right:Working with children on models for their new sustainable toilets.


Photovoltaics for Future Societies, 2011-2015PI Alistair Buckley (Physics) Co-I’s Prue Chiles (Architecture) Nicky Gregson, (Geography at Durham) Matt Watson (Geography)EPSRC, £1,200,000

Inhabiting Space, 2011PI Susie Reid (Russian), Co-I’s Prue Chiles (Architecture) and Kate Pahl (Education),HEIF, £10,000

Imagine: School Design, 2008-2010PI Prue Chiles, Co-I’s Leo Care, Howard Evanswww.imagineschooldesign.org/Balfour Beatty and PfS, £45,000

A new school prototype for displaced children in the border territories between Afganistan and Northern Pakistan. 2010Knowledge Transfer Award with the University of Mardan, Northern Pakistan and Sheffield teacher Ramon Mohamedhttp://pukhtoonschoolsproject.wordpress.com/

Feasibility and visioning document for an Innovative new use for the Sawmill site in Eccleshall Woods, promoting the use of local timber. 2008Won in competition South Yorkshire Forests, £32,000


Development on ‘Steve the Autonomous Machine’Funded by the UoS Festival of the Mind and exhibited in Sheffield Cathedral.

Hillsborough Pavilion




Teresa Hoskyns, ‘Redrawing the Maps’, an invited talk on mapping Occupy London, to accompany the John Berger exhibition in the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House. (2013). See also Teresa Hoskyns, Redrawing the Maps. A pamphlet. (London: Bread, Print and Roses, 2013). See: www.breadprintandroses.org

Teresa Hoskyns and Mat Churchill, Chichester Festival Theatre Pavilion, a 1400 seat temporary theatre to house the theatre during renovation of their main theatre (Chichester, 2013).

Teresa Hoskyns, ‘Mapping Social Forums’, invited workshop at the World Social Forum (Tunis, 2013).

Teresa Hoskyns, ‘Occupy London’, an invited Counter Mapping Strategies workshop for City Action Mapping Day (November, Tent City University, London, 2012).

Teresa Hoskyns with Taking Place, ‘The Other Side of Waiting’, a series of art/architecture pieces for the new perennial wing at Homerton Hospital, London. Funded by the Arts Council (London, 2011).

Teresa Hoskyns, ‘The Empty Place’ an invited talk on the social parliament, for Decolonising Architecture (Palestine, 2011).

Teresa Hoskyns and Mat Churchill, ‘Portable Theatre‘ a 1200 seat theatre for Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park (Completed May 2009) and touring Peter Pan production in San Francisco and Orange County, California (2010).

Teresa Hoskyns ‘Temporary theatre’ for Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury to replace the theatre during refurbishment (2010-11).

Teresa Hoskyns with Pharmocopiea, British Museum and UCL, ‘Dose’ and invited workshop. Funded by UCL Public Engagement (2009). ‘Dose’ at the Girls Behind Bars exhibition (London, Our Space Gallery, 2011), See: www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/08/women-prison-art-exhibition-together

Teresa Hoskyns ‘Democracy as a spatial practice’, in Daniel Pavlotis (ed.) With Silence Implying Sound: An Anthology of Architecture Theory, (Sydney: Sydney University Press 2009).

Dr. teresa hoskyns

Regents Park Estate, Camden, London, 2005.


In the twenty-first century we are experiencing a unique moment for democracy, influenced by globalisation, the Internet, political thinking, and activism. My research explores democracy’s changing relationship with public space. It is a complex relationship that is continually shifting as different practices of democracy are embraced by governments, by resistance, and in forms of spatial practice.

For my PhD research by design (currently in press with Routledge), I examined diverse models of democratic political philosophy, and discussed how different concepts of citizenship in representative and participatory democratic models are played out in public space. I aimed to show that participatory democracy is spatial and can be considered through spatial practices. I examined two distinct positions in contemporary democratic theory: the agonistic model advocated by Chantal Mouffe, and the civil society model theorised by Jürgen Habermas, and I linked these to spatial practices.

My method of research by design examines theory to reflect on collaborative spatial practices. It involves changing from a theorist to exploring situations from particular positions, as my role

moves from architect, to actor, to activist, producing space through writing, performance, discussion and events. The practices include site-specific theatre, the feminist art/architecture collective ‘taking place’, and participatory political democratic practice at world, European and city levels through participation in social forums.

Democratic public space takes on multiple forms, but there is a lack of articulation in democratic and spatial theory and in public policy about what constitutes democratic public space. This can lead to the erosion of hitherto important democratic public spaces. My current research builds on my previous work by developing methods to identify and categorise democratic forms of space. This should enable architects, planners, local governments and citizens to develop, protect and produce ‘models of public space’. As part of this I am collaborating in a cross-disciplinary research initiative ‘ShOPPS, Shaping Our Public/Private Shopping Spaces’, which examines the redevelopment of Sheffield city centre.



Democracy Village, Parliament Square, 2010.

Top:Theatre in the Park, Chichester, 2013.

Bottom:Amazing, Performing the Agon, GLA, 2010.


Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 2009.

Peter Pan in Orange County, 2010.




(N.B Lucy Jones was formerly Lucy Cartlidge).

Lucy Jones, ‘Living-with Others, Living with an ‘Eco-Home’: from frustration to Transformation in Eco-Development,’ Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (Published online, September 2013).

Lucy Cartlidge, ‘Witnessing in Architectural Education’ paper presented at The 2011 China – UK – Korea Trilateral Conference on Architectural Design Education in the Media Era (September, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2011).

David Adams, Chris Leishman, Craig Watkins and Lucy Cartlidge, Understanding Builder to Builder Residential Land Transactions. (London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2009).

Lucy Cartlidge, ‘Home Zones – Ideal Places?’ Presented at Urban Design and Physical Form, Why can’t the future be more like the past? 23rd Congress of the Association of European School of Planning (AESOP), (July, University of Liverpool, UK, 2009).

Lucy Cartlidge, ‘Sustainable living? Experiences and perceptions of ‘making’ eco-homes in England’ presented at Unequal Places – Planning and Territorial Cohesion, The UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, (April, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, 2009).

Lucy Cartlidge, ‘The ‘making’ of eco-homes in England’ presented at Geographies of Sustainable Lifestyles 1: Conceptualising Consumption, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (March, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2009).

Lucy Cartlidge, ‘The making of eco-housing and the coming-into-being of lived sustainability’ presented at Urban and Rural Design and the Built Heritage, The UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference (March, Queen’s University, Belfast, 2008).

Dr. Lucy Jones

Students engaged in 1:1 scale building with timber shingles.


My research explores the dynamics of policy-making, the processes of making, and material practices, in the transition to a more ecological and sustainable built environment. Taking a relational approach, my research seeks to understand the connections between the values of architects, planners, communities and building users, looking also at the shifting regulatory system, technologies, and technical systems of production. The intended end-product is a ‘greener’ building.

My most recent empirical work involved interviews with policy-makers, practitioners, communities and interest groups in relation to three case studies. These represented the range of current eco-home developments: from the speculative development of large eco-housing estates by volume housebuilders to a development led by an environmental idealist, or to the one-off, architect-led, self-built eco-home using novel construction techniques. The research provides a contextual understanding of the complexities and contingencies which underlie the realisation of a sustainable built environment. It demonstrates how eco-homes and their effective environmental performance continue to be developed long after the builders have left, through the attitudes and practices of the inhabitants, including those shaped by the eco-home itself.

My emerging research direction explores the use of renewable construction materials, and aims to provide insights into the pathways to acceptance and affordance by volume house-builders. My passion for mainstreaming renewable materials led to my appointment as a Director of ‘Earth Building UK’ (EBUK) in 2012. With EBUK, I am involved in developing new accredited training in earth-building construction and promoting earth as a contemporary construction material. This desire for architects to engage in making and in developing a deeper understanding of materials has led to the introduction of two new teaching modules. ‘Materials for Low Impact Building’ – the Autumn module – presents the theory, whilst the Spring module invites students to explore building possibilities with materials at 1:1 scale. As I have a disciplinary background in both planning and architecture, my research approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on socio-technical theories from sociology and material geographies, and gaining the dwelling perspective from anthropology. As a result I value alternative research paradigms, and actively pursue the co-production of research with external partners in seeking to create a fairer and more sustainable built environment.



The tools of making a cob building, EBUK post-conference tour.


Bursary for Training to attend The Analysis of Qualitative Data and Introduction to Framework in NVivo at NatCen Social Research 2012ESRC, £860

Faculty of Social Sciences REF Environment Workshops and Seminars Fund, 2012To host the Procure, Produce, Perform – Affordable Sustainable Housing Conference in January 2013 with Associate Professor John Quale, University of Virginia as keynote speaker, £2,564

Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2009Travel Grant awarded for paper $145

Studentship Award, 2005-2009Award Number, PTA-031-2005-00374ESRC 1+3, £68,000



The Wintles, Shropshire A development led by an environmental idealist.



Doina Petrescu, ‘Gardeners of commons, for the most part, women’ in Peg Rawes (ed.), Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature, Subjectivity (London: Routledge, 2013): 261-274.

Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, Anne Querrien ‘Making a Rhizome or Architecture after Deleuze-Guattari’ in Hélène Frichot (ed.), Deleuze and Architecture, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013): 262-275.

Doina Petrescu, ‘A mad theory of veils and a passion for folds: delirious constructions, masturbatory practices and animate forms’ in Olaf Knellessen, Insa Härtel, Helge Mooshammer (eds.), Bauarten von Sexualität, Körper, Phantasmen: Architektur und Psychoanalyse/ Ways of building sexuality, bodies, phantasms: Architecture and psychoanalysis (Zurich: Hochparterre, 2012): 156-176.

Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou ‘R-Urban resilience’ in Renata Tyszczuk, Joe Smith, Nigel Clark, Melissa Butcher (eds.) Atlas: Geography Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (London: Black Dog, 2011): 64-71. Republished in Elke Krasny, Hands-on Urbanism 1850-2012. The Right to Green, (Vienna: Turia + Kant Verlag, and (in English) Hong Kong: MCCM Creation, 2012).

Doina Petrescu, ‘Relationscapes: mapping agencies of relational practice in architecture’ in Traceable Cities, special issue of City, Culture Society 3(2)(2012): 135-140.

Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Nishat Awan (eds.) Trans – Local – Production: Cultural practices within and across (Paris: aaa-peprav, 2010).

Atelier d’Architecture Autogeree, EcoBox/Self-Managed Eco-urban Network in Mohsen Mostafavi (ed.) Ecological Urbanism (Harvard: University Press, 2010): 510-511.

Doina Petrescu, ‘Jardinières du commun’ in Multitudes 42 (2010): 43-51 (in French/ English).


Antonio Negri, Doina Petrescu, Anne Querrien, Constantin Petcou ‘Qu’est ce qu’un lieu biopolitique?’ in Multitudes 31 (2008), republished in Norvegian and English in Eurozine (www. eurozine.com) and Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin.

Prof. DOINA PeTrESCU

Passage 56 Eco Interstice, Paris, 2009Image Credit: aaa


My research focuses on three main strands – Gender and Space, Participation in Architecture and Culture & Resilience, all with a strong international dimension. I try to multiply the relationships between research, teaching, and socially engaged practice, and to broaden the scope of the architectural discourse by bringing cultural, social and political issues to inform the design and thinking processes in architecture. I am aiming for ‘creative’ research methodologies that cross approaches from different disciplines: architectural theory and design, contemporary arts, social sciences, political philosophy, and feminist theory. I value collaborative and networked research, the collective sharing of information and experience, and most of my projects are realised through group work and collaborations. I am interested in knowledge transfer and in the ‘use value’ of research: its impact, its applicability and accessibility to both academics and non-academics. For this reason my publications cover a wide spectrum, including academic books and refereed journals, as well as publications and catalogues which address a broad public and are distributed in non-academic contexts. I am co-founder of the AGENCY research centre and with Renata Tyszczuk initiated the peer-reviewed architectural journal field:.

Concerning my first strand Gender and Space, my research and teaching work has been widely published (ie. Rotterdam Biennale of Architecture 2009, chapters in Relational Architectural Ecologies, Routledge 2013, Architecture and psychoanalysis, Hochparterre 2012, Multitudes n°42/ 2010) and I have been invited for lectures and keynotes on related topics in various institutions including the UCL Bartlett, IAPIS Stockholm, KTH Stockholm, and the University of Ulster.

The second and third strands - Participation in Architecture and Culture & Resilience - are closely related to the practice-based research I developed

as co-founder of atelier d’architecture autogérée (aaa), an internationally recognised research-led practice pioneering participative and resilient architecture. With aaa, I have developed participative methodology and design tools that allow a multiplicity of urban actors to be involved in decision-making, planning, construction and the management of collective and public spaces in the city. I believe that more democratic and critical approaches are becoming increasingly important in addressing the complexities and dynamics of change in contemporary urban environments. They resulted in a number of projects with design components interpreted within and beyond physical space: creative partnerships, governance processes, but also buildings and spatial designs. Recent projects include ECObox and Passage 56 as well as the trans-local networks PEPRAV and Rhyzom. Currently aaa is developing R-Urban, a participative strategy of urban resilience in metropolitan Paris, through a pilot project supported by the EC innovation programme Life+.

aaa is a laureate of a number of prestigious international prizes (i.e. Zumtobel Award 2012, Curry Stone Design Prize 2011, European Prize for Urban Public Space 2010, Prix Grand Public des Architectures contemporaines en Métropole Parisienne 2010). Related to aaa’s work, there are significant research outputs (eg. six EC funded projects, the most recent being R-Urban EcoNomadic School, Rhyzom and PEPRAV European Platform for Alternative Practice and Research on the City) and publications and reviews in important professional and international refereed journals such as A+U, Ecologik, Abitare, Arhitectura, Multitudes, Springerin, Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Domus, Art Forum, EcoRev.



Passage 56 Process DiagramImage Credit: aaa

Passage 56Eco Interstice, Paris, 2009Image Credit: aaa


Eco-Nomadic School, 2011-2013Grundtvig, EC lifelong learning programme, Partners: AAA (coordinator), Agency/Uos, FCDL, myvillages.com Total €74,000/ UoS € 20, 000

R-Urban: Participative strategy of development, practices and networks of local resilience for European cities, 2011-2015Life+ EC programme for Environment Policy and Governance, Ile de France Region Partners: AAA /City of Colombes/ Public Works. Total €1,500,000

R-Urban: Research Action on the implementation of a participatory project, 2011-2013French Ministry of Ecology, Total € 30, 000/ UoS €3,000

RHYZOM: Local Cultural Practices, Translocal Communication, 2009-2010 European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture. Partnership: AAA (coordinator), Agency /UoS, PS2/Plaforma Garanti/ Public Works. Total €380,000/ UoS €46,500


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Sarah Wigglesworth, ‘“WLTM Caring Contractor”: the dating game of Design and Build’ in Architectural Research Quarterly 16(3)(2012):210-217.

Sarah Wigglesworth (ed.) Around and About Stock Orchard Street (Abingdon, Routledge, 2011).

Sarah Wigglesworth, ‘Humility and Participation: architect as social agent provocateur’, in Jonathan Harris and Richard J Williams (eds.) Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press + Tate Liverpool, 2011).

Sarah Wigglesworth, ‘Against All Odds’ exhibition of SWA’s work, (Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, June 2011). See: http://aaoproject.org/

Sarah Wigglesworth, ‘Heroism and Disappointment’ in Alan Berman (ed.) A Red Trilogy–Three Seminal Buildings (1958-1968) (London, Frances Lincoln, 2010): 134-137.

Sarah Wigglesworth, Habiter Ecologique: quelles architectures pour une ville durable?, Stock Orchard Street represented in exhibition (Cité d’Architecture et du Patrimonie, Paris, 13 May–1 November 2009).

Sarah Wigglesworth, Ecological Living, Catalogue accompanying the exhibition (Paris, Actes Sud/Cité d’Architecture et du Patrimonie, 2009).

Sarah Wigglesworth, Green Architecture for the Future, Stock Orchard Street represented in exhibition (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 29 May - 18 December 2009).

Sarah Wigglesworth, Green Architecture for the Future, Stock Orchard Street in Kjeld Kieldsen and Michael Holm (eds.) (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009).

Selected Funded Research:

Design for Wellbeing: Ageing and Mobility in the Built Environment, 2013-2016PI Sarah Wigglesworth (Architecture), Co-I’s Malcolm Tait (Town and Regional Planning), Sarah Barnes (ScHARR), Lee Crookes (Town and Regional Planning).EPSRC/EPRC/AHRC, £642,082

Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth

All images are of Sandal Magna Community Primary School, Wakefield, by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, completed 2010.Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer


My research derives principally, though not exclusively, from my work in practice, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, in which we are committed to research and innovation across a wide range of areas. We aim to improve our knowledge and expertise as practitioners and theorists while adding value for our clients and enriching the quality of our product.

Our interests lie in exploring:

- sustainable solutions to building design- post-occupancy evaluation once our buildings are handed over- testing new technical solutions- the role of the clients and users throughout all design stages, and - new processes that lend fresh insights to our projects.

The precise focus of our research frequently originates with issues we encounter during the daily practice of architecture. Examples include: research into procurement reform (Procurement Reform Group with RIBA) and building contracts; exploring sustainable solutions to building design, such as Sandal Magna School and Takeley School (winner of RIBA Eastern Region prize, 2013); investigating the use of new technologies – for example the use of cross-laminated timber and brickwork; new prototypes of housing such as co-housing and housing for older people; retrofitting such as exploring systems for environmental upgrading of existing buildings; and finally, working with client and user groups to develop appropriate design solutions.

Depending on the project, the output of these studies varies and ranges from buildings to exhibitions, lectures and publications. Some examples include the book Around & About Stock

Orchard Street (Routledge), which, as a volume of essays, explores the context and reception of the buildings at 9/10 Stock Orchard Street, (colloquially known as the Straw House & Quilted Office). This publication was commended winner of the President’s Medals for Practice-based Research in 2012.

An important built output has been Sandal Magna Community Primary School. This is a new low carbon school, based on our Exemplar Primary School design for the DfES’s Building Schools for the Future programme. It is predicted to be one of the lowest carbon schools in the future and simultaneously assists the school’s sustainability curriculum. This project is currently subject to an energy study being undertaken as part of a PhD at the University of Nottingham. The project has won RIBA Network Awards in the following categories: Gold Award; Sustainability Award; Best Public Building in the Yorkshire Region. It has been shortlisted for the Wood Awards, 2011, and Brick Awards, 2011. It was a finalist in the categories Best Public Building (£3m-£50m) Award, the Environmental Award and the Education Award for the British Construction Industry Awards, 2011 and was longlisted for the Stirling Prize (2011).

I am interested in exploring aspects that form the context of practising, which includes the legal, contractual and relational aspects of the work. My about essay on contracts appeared in the Journal of Architecture in Spring 2013.

An interdisciplinary research grant funded jointly by EPSRC, ESRC and AHRC was awarded in 2013 to a team in which Sarah Wigglesworth is Principal Investigator. The research aims to design exemplary environments used by older people that ensure their mobility and wellbeing.



View of entire school complex at dusk.Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer

Children playing on the amphitheatre steps, ventilation tower, library and ICT rooms in background.Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer

View of Hall and bell tower across timber deck.Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer


Library windows provide a place for children to play in small groups. Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer

Learning taking place in a small group room.Image credit: © Mark Hadden, photographer



post graduate students2008–2013


to equip students with the knowledge and skills for international careers in academia, research, practice and other commercial and professional fields where an advanced understanding of the built environment is an advantage.

With a tradition of innovative education, our Graduate School encourages student-led initiatives and exchanges in research and education. We have a lively postgraduate student society, GAS, which organises social events and seminars, film nights and lunchtime research meetings. The Graduate School also organizes informal meetings and formal public presentations for PhD students; focused events such as the ‘Visual Methods Symposium’ for PhD by Design students; and other research cluster activities such as the ongoing East-West seminars, ‘Lines of Flight’, the Home Group; and international events hosted by the Graduate School such as 7th Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium in October 2010 and ‘Procure, Produce, Perform: An International Conference on Affordable, Sustainable Housing’ in January 2013.

Our students continue to win prizes for their work. For example, Steve Parnell won the RIBA President’s Award for best PhD thesis in 2012, and Lakshmi Priya Rajendran won the prize for the best PhD paper at the LCSS (London Centre for Social Science) 2013 ‘Conference on Methodological Choices and Challenges’, King’s College London and the Graduate Scholar Award for the Space and Flows Conference 2013, at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam.

With currently over 80 PhD students and 100 Taught Masters students from the UK, Europe and further afield, the School has one of the largest cohorts of architecturally based research students in the UK, reflecting its pre-eminence in the field of architectural research. The Graduate School embraces these Doctoral and Taught Masters programmes, it fosters links between post-graduate students and research staff, and supports the flourishing research culture within the School.

Our postgraduate research is intrinsically inter-disciplinary and is open to students with an interest in any aspect of architectural research. These include histories, theories, practices and politics of architecture, environmental design (lighting, acoustics and the thermal environment), sustainability and structures, design processes and user behaviour, computer-aided design, emergent systems and complexity, socio-technical systems (particularly related to sustainable energy technologies) urban design and development, community design and participation, places and place-making, children’s environments, feminist approaches, and transformative education. The Graduate School is aligned with the School of Architecture’s broad intellectual ethos, emphasising social and environmental respon-sibilities for, and contribution to, the design, production, use and understanding of the built environment. The aim of our PhD programmes is

POST GRADUATE STUDENTS 2008–2013:INTRODUCTIONDr. Stephen Walker


Common Grounds A 2 day colloqium organised by Anna Holder and James Benedict Brown.

POST GRADUATE STUDENTS 2008 - 2013


SSoA PhD Research 2008 -

(in alphabetical order)

COMPLETED PhDs:

Abdelmonem, Mohamed M. GamalThe Architecture of Home: An investigation of the practice of home in the hawari of old Cairo 1800-2009Supervisor Dr. Renata Tyszczuk and Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2010)

Awan, NishatDiasporic urbanism: concepts, agencies & ‘mapping otherwise’Supervisor: Prof. Doina Petrescu(Completed 2011)

Becerra, AxelRestoration of the architectural design of Morelia, MexicoSupervisor: Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth(Completed 2010)

Blacksell, Ruth ElizabethTypography After Conceptual ArtSupervisor: Dr. Stephen Walker(Completed 2013)

Brkovic, MartaSmart Schools for Smart Children: Translating innovative sustainable school design practices from England, Germany and Spain to Serbia.Supervisor: Prue Chiles and Dr Rosie Parnell(Completed 2013)

Chang, Ching-LanWayfindingSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios(Completed 2009)

Chen, BingA Communication Platform in Sustainable Student Accommodation DesignSupervisor: Dr. Adrian Pitts and Prof. Jian Kang(Completed 2009)

Davoudian, NavazThe role of lighting in definition of spacesSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios(Completed 2010)

Du, JiangtaoAnalyzing and predicting daylight levels for vertical surfaces and adjoining spaces in atrium buildingsSupervisor: Prof. Steve Sharples(Completed 2011)

Elwan, Amr Fawzy AbdelazizArchitectural Redesign of Existing Buildings in the City Context of CairoSupervisor: Dr. Chengzhi Peng(Completed 2013)

Feng, LuInterface between interior and exterior spacesSupervisor: Prof. Jeremy Till(Completed 2008)

Ferreira De SouzaA Place-Theoretical Framework for the Development of IT in Urban SpacesSupervisor: Dr. Chengzhi Peng and Dr Stephen Walker(Completed 2008)

Felasari, SushardjantiEnhancing Virtual City with Collective Memory to Support Architectural Urban Design LearningSupervisor: Dr. Chengzhi Peng(Completed 2013)

Ghaziani, RokhshidChildren’s and teachers’ voices: a framework for school designSupervisor: Dr. Rosie Parnell and Prof. Bryan Lawson(Completed 2009)

Giwa, TeslimEnvironmental Profiling as an Assessment Method for Sustainability in Residential Buildings in NigeriaSupervisor: Dr. Chengzhi Peng(Completed 2013)


Gohardoust Monfared, IdaSustaining sustainability in green office buildingsSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios(Completed 2012)

Hsie, Tung-ShenUtilising climate maps in the planning process: A GIS-based approach to urban morphology parameterisation and urban wind field studiesSupervisor: Dr. Ian Ward

Huang,Hsin-YinGoing Native: British diplomatic, judicial and consular architecture in China (1867-1949).Supervisor: Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2010) Ibraheem, Mostafa A.Y.Cultural shifts in spatial configurations: Cairene domestic space 1798 - 1940Supervisor: Dr. Rosie Parnell and Prof. Bryan Lawson(Completed 2010)

Kim, In-SungIn the middle of conscrescent dynamics of time and architectureSupervisor: Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth(Completed 2010)

Kim, Young-YunBuilding Tradition in England and Korea.Supervisor: Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2009)

Li, JianqiangPredicting the potential for natural ventilation of buildings in the urban environment.Supervisor: Dr. Ian Ward(Completed 2009)

Li, XuemeiThe Life Bridge: an Anthropology of the Origins of the Wind and Rain Bridge in Southern China.Supervisor: Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2008)

Meng, YanAcoustics simulation and auralization in urban spacesSupervisor: Prof. Jian Kang(Completed 2008)

Mohd-Ali, ZurainiThe Development of Architectural Conservation in MalaysiaSupervisor: Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2012)

Panyakaew, SattaUsing agricultural waste as an insulation material in ThailandSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios(Completed 2011)

Parnell, SteveArchitectural Design magazine 1954-1972Supervisor: Prof. Peter Blundell Jones(Completed 2012)

Patsarika, MariaStudent involvement in school design: An exploratory study of young people’s participationSupervisor Dr. Rosie Parnell and Dr. A James (Completed 2011)

Pirooz Far, AmirConstruction technology paradigms in architectureSupervisor: Dr. Olga Popovic-Larsen and Prof. Roger Plank(Completed 2008)

Pourmosavi, Seyed NaderUrban renewal policies (A critical analysis of urban renewal policies in Iran, 1286-1400 AH/1907-2020 AD)Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Walker(Completed 2011)

Radhi, Hassan M. AliA systematic approach for low energy buildings in BahrainSupervisor: Prof. Steve Sharples(Completed 2008)



Ramadan, Mohamad Fahmy Abd El-AleemInteractive urban form design of local climate scale in hot semi-arid zoneSupervisor: Prof. Steve Sharples(Completed 2010)

Ramasoot, TharineeLighting for the Classrooms of the FutureSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios(Completed 2010) Sakantamis, KonstantinosGeneric architectural products for small rail-linked passenger interchangesSupervisor: Dr. Olga Popovic-Larsen(Completed 2008)

Samsuddin, IsmailArchitectural studies in Higher Education. Enhancing sustainability and longevity of a city identity through a balance curriculum structure of contemporary and vernacular architectural studiesSupervisor: Prof. Bryan Lawson(Completed 2008)

Selim, Gehan Mohamed El-SayedRemaking urban spaces in Egypt: A study of Bulaq Abul Ela Planning Schemes 1960-2005Supervisor Dr. Renata Tyszczuk(Completed 2011)

Sheta, Wael Ahmed MahmoudKeeping cool in Cairo: Thermal simulation of passive cooling in dwellingsSupervisor: Prof. Steve Fotios and Prof. Steve Sharples(Completed 2012)

Sutanto, AgustinusLet everyday life become a work of art!: A comprehensive study of architecture– the city and everyday lifeSupervisor: Prof. Sarah Wigglesworth(Completed 2008)

Trogal, KimCaring for Space: Ethical Agencies in Contemporary Spatial PracticeSupervisor: Prof. Doina Petrescu(Completed 2012)

Walker, Stephen JMajor and minor architectural issues in the work of Gordon Matta-ClarkSupervisor: Prof. Jeremy Till(Completed 2008)

Wang, Li NanA computational framework for information modelling in the early stages of architectural designSupervisor: Dr. Peter Szalapaj(Completed 2009)

Wungpatcharapon, Supreeya Participation and Place-making in ThailandSupervisor: Prof. Doina Petrescu(Completed 2011)

Xie, HuiThe sound environment in critical careSupervisor: Prof. Jian Kang(Completed 2011)

Yu, Chia-JenChange acoustic noise in urban areas - A study on residential districtsSupervisor: Prof. Jian Kang(Completed 2008)

Yu, LeiSoundscape evaluation and ANN modelling in urban open spacesSupervisor: Prof. Jian Kang(Completed 2009)

Zhang, YufanA study into how the occupants of naturally ventilated buildings use environmental control strategies to modify their internal environment.Supervisor: Dr. Ian Ward(Completed 2008)



Common Grounds meeting organised by Anna Holder and James Benedict Brown

Black and white imagesMAUD students in Copenhagen.

Colour imagesCommon Grounds colloqium.


PhD Mapping by Jordan J. Lloyd

Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid

Sustainability and DevelopmentEU and Kyoto

Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy

Occupation and Commoning

Contested Territories

Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth

Post-Occupancy Evaluation

Occupant Survey Design

Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale

Community Participation

Social Capital

Process

Narrative

Socio-Economic Inequality

Housing Justice

Site Specificity

Experiential Approach

Double Mediation of Object

Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory

Medium and its Message

Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation

AcousticsClimate Change

Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art

Sustainable School Architecture

Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action

Architect-in-Residence

VernacularSocial Housing

Indigenous Communities

Housing

Environmental Performance

Acoustic Environment Evaluation

Daylighting and Thermal Comfort Guidelines

Housing Methodologies

Self-Build

Radical Architecture

Participatory Building

Urban Marginality Reading

Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space

Environmental Psychology

Revolutionary Practice

Indoor Soundscape

Indeterminancy and Constant Disequilibrium

Trust; Familiarity and Routine in Buildings


Non-Deterministic Approaches to Social Interaction

Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory

Virtual Learning Environment

Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography

Actor Network Theory

Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft

Quality of MaterialsHolmes

Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design

Decision Making Culture

Comprehensive Anticpatory Design-Science

Interdependence / Complex Adaptive Systems

Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping

Self-Identity and Built Environment

Home Definitions in Immigration

Rezaei Rashnoodi

Building Lifecycle Assessment

Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting

Visual PerceptionStreet Lighting

Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma

Spectral Power Distribution

Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban

Politics of Spatial Production

Self-Organised Knowledge

Autopoietic Spatial Processe

Vardy

Urban Morphology

Urban Sound Environment

High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.

Mixed Thermotechnical Mode

China HSCW Climatic Zone

Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran

Empathy as Emotional Engagement

Ward

Interpersonal Judgment

Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi

Immersion and Illusion as Sensory Engagement

Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

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MINDMETHOD

and construction of socially-motivated projects in UK urban environments. Empirical research investigates the innovations taking place through activist and socially-entrepreneurial practice which open up possibilities for a changing ‘mix’ of built environment actors.KeywordsSocial Innovation; Management; Design Ethnography; Actor Network TheoryCase Studies

Nick Holmes

P. Blundell Jones (2007)Emanuel Vincent Harris, Architect, 1876-1971Harris was an important architect in Britain, particularly between the wars. His reputation took a nose dive because of the rise of Modernism but I seek to resurrect it by showing the strength of

and Leeds Civic Hall.KeywordsNeo-Classicism; Expert Planning; Quality of Materials; Use of Artists and Craftsmen

Junjie Huang

R. Parnell and C. Cerulli (2006)

Children’s Social Interaction in Nursery Environments

Hyunju Jang

L. Jones (2011)

Standards to Increase Energy

Like Jiang (2011)

J. Lintonbon & P. Blundell JonesRoads and Urban ImagesInvestigating how the evolution of road

standards and forms motivated by the progress of techniques and the change

the urban structure and landscape, along with how rules attached to road have contributed to form the order of urban activities.Keywords

Image

Neil Johnson

J. Kang & A. Hathaway (2006)The Acoustics of Microhydro Power

Hassan Khalifehei

P. Chiles (2009)Developing Strategies for a Sustainable Future in Isfahan

Youngki Kim

H. Altan (2006)Adapting UK Housing to Climate ChangeThis research represents the detailed attempt that has been undertaken to project the energy consumption and overheating consideration in the UK housing through various future climatic weather data projections from 2020s up to 2080s and sensitivity of construction methods.KeywordsClimate Change; Energy Consumption; Thermal Comfort and OverheatingCase StudiesBradford

Derong Kong

P. Blundell Jones (2010)The Dong Oral Architecture in Southwest ChinaThe Oral architecture is a development process to reproduce the Dong architectural activity, letting people participate and observe phenomena

to apprehend the meaning of things. It is built on the relationships between people, activity and building. The series of activities that relate to building are the motivation to construct the relationship and promote the process.KeywordsCarpenters; Architecture and Phenomena among the Dong PeopleCase StudiesGuizhou, China

Jordan J. Lloyd (2011)

Twitter: @jordanjlloydD. Petrescu & R. Tyszczuk (2011)Adaptive Design CapacityProposing a Strategic Design-led methodology for better decision making cultures. It is based on a comprehensive understanding of contemporary behavioural and complexity science, and applied to ‘wicked problems’ today.KeywordsStrategic Design; Design and Decision Making; Behavioural Psychology; Complexity Science; Comprehensive Anticpatory Design-Science

Alona Martinez-Perez

T. Schneider and S. Walker (2011)Edge City

Reinhard Neubauer

J. Kang (2006)Subjective Estimation of Airborne Sound Insulation

Shuntaro Nozawa [email protected]. Lintonbon (2011)Hygienic SuburbsThe aim of this research is to illustrate

correlations of housing plans and plot forms between English and Japanese suburban estates built in the post-war period from the perspective of domestic

hygiene to highlight ‘inherent’ features embedded in the suburban landscape, and to interpret their meanings.KeywordsSuburban Built Form; Housing; Estate Design; Comparative StudyCase StudiesLondon, Manchester, Birmingham, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya

Binh Khanh Nguyen

H. Altan (2010)TPSI - Tall-building Projects Sustainability Indicator

Adam Park

Twitter: @adam_parkC. Peng (2010)Context-AwareThis project is investigating how participation in emerging ‘locative’ art practices (such as promenade theatre, audio trails, and urban treasure hunting) might change the way in which people articulate their relationship with local ‘interstitial’ urban sites; how people remember these places and reimagine their future. KeywordsArt Practice; Sense of Place; Mapping; Performance; Local IdentityCase StudiesLiverpool, Manchester, Hull, Bradford,

Oscar Armando Preciado

S. Fotios (2007)Low-Energy Design in Northwest Mexico by Thermal Simulation

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran

S. Walker & R. Parnell (2011)Locating ‘Self’ in the Contemporary Built EnvironmentDrawing insights from current research on self-identity-place from

Human Geography, Phenomenological Philosophy and Social Anthropology, this thesis strives to reveal the relevance of these insights for architectural practice

‘self’ in the contemporary world from architectural dimensions.KeywordsSelf-Identity and Built Environment; Architecture and Multi-Disciplinary Approach; Self-identity and Public Realm; Environmental Behavioural Psychology and Public spaces; Individual and Group identity

Priyanto Octavianus

C. Peng (2011)User Preferences of Visual Comfort in Higher Education Learning Spaces

Shima Rezaei Rashnoodi

F. Samuel & R. Tyszczuk (2011)The Image of Home for Migrants

and the image of ideal home for Iranian

of shaping new home and constructing identity.Keywords

Case StudiesIranian Diaspora

Ali Mohammad Sami Kashkooli

H. Altan (2008)A Critical Building Lifecycle Assessment Methodology for Building Designers and Decision MakersThis research introduces a new

methodology to calculate some key factors such as the total building lifecycle energy and carbon to be applied to design and decision making. It

strongly supports the concept of multi-disciplinary decision making, as well as micro-detail assessment to reach more realistic results.KeywordsBuilding Lifecycle Assessment; Methodology, Semi-Quantitative; Design and Decision Making.

Wael Ahmed Mahmoud Sheta

S. Fotios (2007)Keeping Cool in Cairo: Thermal simulation of passive cooling in dwellings

Kim Trogal

D. Petrescu (2006)Caring for Space: Feminist ethical agencies in art, architecture and urban practiceThis research explores how care, as an ethical way of acting, is already present in a number of contemporary, spatial practices, but not often discussed in these terms. The research sets out to explore what care means in spatial practice and looks to examples we can learn from.KeywordsEthics of Care; Commons; Dialogue; Generosity; Gifts; Gestures; Hospitality; Interdependence; Mutual Aid; Proximity; Radical Pedagogy; Transformation; Transversality; Trans-Locality

Julia Udall

D. Petrescu, R. Tyszczuk (2010)Tools to Create Agency in Contested Urban SpacesTools are associated with craftsmanship, using head and hand to develop knowledge over time, often as a communal activity. How can we develop architectural tools that enable the multiplicity of political positions, contesting claims and concerns that bear on a particular site to be

recognised and use them to shape this space according to these desires?KeywordsTools; Transformation; Agency; Micropolitics; Matters of ConcernCase Studies

Jemima Unwin

S. Fotios (2011)

Pedestrian ReassuranceThe aim is to place lighting in the context of other environmental factors by answering the following research questions: 1) Does lighting have any

2) If so, which lighting characteristics matter?KeywordsEnvironmental Psychology; Lighting; Visual Perception; Quantitive /Qualitative Method Comparison; Space Syntax

Maria Van Elk

F. Samuel & T. Schneider (2011)Does the Appropriator Shape Space or does Space Shape the Appropriator?

Gloria Vargas Palma

F. Stevenson and H. Altan (2011)The Temporality of Thermal ComfortMy research focuses on people’s short-term thermal history. The aim is

spaces on people’s thermal sensation and adaptation when they move from one place to another in short periods.KeywordsThermal Comfort; Transitional Spaces; Thermal History; TimeCase StudiesUnited Kingdom and Mexico

Sam Vardy

D. Petrescu (2007)Self-organised Spatial Practices

notion of spatial self-organisation, that begins to re-politicise the production of urban space. Spatial self-organisation is developed as an autopoietic, performative assemblage that activates particular forms of social relations, knowledges and spaces.KeywordsAutopoietic Spatial Processes; Performativity; Politics of Spatial Production; Social Relations; Self-Organised Knowledges Case StudiesStudies in Newcastle upon Tyne, Copenhagen, London, Paris and Hamburg

Bo Wang

J. Kang (2007)Urban Morphology and Noise DistributionThe general aim is to integrate urban acoustic methods with urban

is to compare the urban noise environment of typical low and high density urban areas, and to further analyse the correlation between urban morphologic indices and noise distribution indicators.KeywordsUrban Morphology; Urban Sound Environment; Noise Mapping; High Density Cities; Parametric StudyCase StudiesUnited Kingdom and China

Xi Wang

H. Altan & J. Kang (2008)Investigations of Adaptive Thermal Comfort within Low-Energy Building in Chiniese Climatic Zones

with two focuses on the ‘Hot Summer and Cold Winter’ zone looking at two prototypes of Chinese low-energy residential buildings with adaptive thermal comfort. Simulations based on

regional low-energy building design and further research focus.KeywordsChina HSCW Climatic Zone; Low-Energy Buildings; Adaptive Thermal Comfort; Prototype Simulation; Mixed Thermotechnical ModeCase StudiesYichang City, Hubei province, China

Rosie [email protected]. Szabo, F. Samuel & S. Nicholson (2010)Exploring Subjective Reality: Audience as subject, site as context and performance as methodologyEmploying performance as methodological approach, my research aims to explore the relationship between artist directed experience and

capture and transform the ‘threshold of imagination’: the point at which artist direction becomes audience perception.KeywordsConstructivist and Postmodern Approach to Practice; Immersion and Illusion as Sensory Engagement;Empathy as Emotional Engagement;

Supreeya Wungpatcharapon

D. Petrescu (2006)Participation and Place-making in Thailand

Biao Yang

S. Fotios (2011)Interpersonal Judgment and LightingMy research is to investigate recognition of facial expression. I am now studying interpersonal judgments made

about the intent and identity of other

street lighting. Past work has focussed on facial recognition but we do not consider this to be the appropriate target.KeywordsInterpersonal Judgment; Street Lighting; Spectral Power Distribution; Pedestrians in Residential AreasCase StudiesResidential areas in the United Kingdom

Hongseok Yang

J. Kang (2009)Acoustic Treatment Using Natural Means in Urban Open Spaces

Ming Yang

J. Kang (2008)Sounds in Natural and Urban Soundscapes

Supakit Yimsural

P. Blundell Jones (2005)Social Construction of Auspiciousness in the Thai Houses

Juri Yoshimi

H. Altan (2010)

The objectives of the research are to

walls in the UK climate and to investigate

to system variation, building types and climatic conditions. This will help us to establish guidelines to optimise the

KeywordsVegetated Walls; Green Walls; Thermal Performance; Thermal Comfort; Energy SavingsCase Studies

Yang Yu

C. Peng (2011)Fusion of Physical and Digital Representations in Architecture: A mixed reality modelling approach

Sahar Zahiri

H. Altan (2009)Developing Sustainable School Design in Iran: A thermal comfort approach in secondary schools in Tehran

Noushin Zand Vosoughi

C. Cerulli (2009)Using Traditional Iranian Town Squares as a Model for Sustainable Urban Design

Shuyou Zhang

R. Tyszczuk & F. Samuel (2011)Representation of Spatial Legends‘...A desk is no place to think on the large scale’ – I cannot be imprisoned. As an architecture PhD student who is into spatial critical thinking, I prefer not locking myself indoor whilst researching and making comments on an unknown city / space / public space. Instead, I walking, feeling and observing.KeywordsSpace; Walking; MappingCase Studies

Research Cluster Mapshef.ac.uk/architecture/research @SSoA_news

Larger circles indicate more Case Studies in that geographical region.

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PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND

Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid


Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy



Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth



Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale


Social Capital

Process

Narrative


Housing Justice

Site Specificity



Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory


Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation


Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art


Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action




Housing





Self-Build




Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space



Indoor Soundscape





Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory


Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography


Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft


Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design




Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping



Rezaei Rashnoodi


Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting


Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma


Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban




Vardy

Urban Morphology


High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.



Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran


Ward


Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi


Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

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Annie-Brient N Aboagye

C. Cerulli (2012)Equitable Housing for Key Workers, Takoradi, GhanaHousing for key lower income workers must stimulate the Ghanaian government to work towards either increasing housing supply and therefore increasing price elasticity of demand until prices are reduced favourably or directly regulating housing costs, in order to heavily restrict market dependency of house prices in favour of the low-income workers likely to be

economic activity.KeywordsSocio-Economic Inequality; Housing Justice; PoliciesCase StudiesTakoradi, Ghana

Sukaina Adnan Almousa

S. Walker & M. Meagher (2011)Temporary Architecture: Tracing narrative and the body/mind journey ininstallation artThe study is about the temporary space, exploring it as a space-time event from which belonging, perception, memory and behaviour in the permanent environment would change. It follows the embodied journey through the event tracing the remains of disappeared spaces in their sites and in the spectator’s mind and body.KeywordsTemporary Spaces; Performance Theory; Medium and its Message;Deleuzian Event; Spatial Recall

Deniz Atli

S. Fotios (2010)Brightness Perception and Spectral Power DistributionPhysical measurements of illuminance level in interior spaces are not always

the same with how much bright is it percieved because of human

the spatial brigthness interior space.KeywordsSpatial Brightness; Visual Clarity; Experimental Design

Michael Barclay

J. Kang (2008)

VentilationThe Acoustic and climatic environmental

techniques adapted for a number of

noise mapping and climate modelling. This is done so that a comparison of

KeywordsNatural Ventilation; Acoustics; Climate Change; Simulation

Ruxandra Berinde

R. Tyszczuk & S. Walker (2011)Moving Images of HomeThe project discusses several

a phenomenological tool of inquiry into the domain of perceived, experienced and recollected familiar space. KeywordsSpace Perception; Memory; Film; Phenomenology

Ruth [email protected]. Walker (2004)Typography after Conceptual ArtThe use of typography and acts of publishing in 1960s/70s Conceptual Art: How these can be discussed in relation to experimental typographic practices and debates of the 1980s/90s and how the legacy of text-based Conceptual Art continues to underpin contemporary

practices and discourses that straddle the disciplines of Art and Typographic design.KeywordsConceptual Art; Publishing as Art; Text-based Art; Text ArtCase StudiesNew York, London, Coventry

Marta Brkovic

P. Chiles (2010)Smart School for Smart ChildrenI have been researching exemplary sustainable schools in England, Germany and Spain in order to develop a sustainable school paradigm for Serbia. For participation in schools, I have developed the game S`Spector - Sustainability Inspector utilised as a research tool.KeywordsSustainable School Architecture; ParticipationCase StudiesEurope; particularly England, Germany Spain and Serbia

Carolyn Butterworth

D. Petrescu (2010)Performing Surveys, Making SitesTesting performative models of survey that enact the site, recontextualising

so doing the survey becomes, not only a more insightful document of site that gives value to subjective and ‘marginal’ knowledge, but also a dynamic propositional tool that actively changes the site through incremental co-created changes over time.KeywordsPerformativity; Action Research; Live Architecture; Interdisciplinary; Site-

ResidenceCase StudiesInitially a house, then a street, then a

Diego González Carrasco

P. Blundell Jones & F. Samuel (2010)Social and Cultural Factors in Social Housing: The Aymara People in ChileInvestigating the changes in the way of inhabit of the Aymara community in Arica, northern Chile, from the traditional house to state social housing solutions after the migration processes to the large coastal cities.KeywordsArchitecture; Vernacular; Aymara; Social HousingCase StudiesArica y Parinacota Region, Chile, South America

Hui-Ju Chang

P. Blundell Jones (2007)Victorian Japan in Taiwan: Transmission and Representation of the ‘Modern’ among the Architecture of Japanese Authority

Shen Chen

J. Kang (2011)Integrated Building Environment SimulationSimulations based on real case studies to generate residential models via a generic algorithm, and through simulation of those cases and models about the acoustic environment, combined with daylighting and thermal comfort to give optimising guidelines in urban structure in residential areas in in Southeast China.KeywordsResidential Urban Structure; Environment Performance, Acoustic Environment Evaluation; Daylighting and Thermal Comfort GuidelinesCase StudiesSu-Zhe-Wan region in Southeast China

Jianyu Chen

P. Blundell Jones (2009)Carpenters and Architects: Roles in early Modern architecture and collegiate education in SE China

Michael Coates

F. Samuel & P. Blundell Jones (2012)Radical Architecture: Housing and Self-BuildAn investigation of the relationship between radical architectural movements and practices in 1970s England. I am looking at the potential relevance of this period of upheaval in the history architecture in enabling an alternative set of methodologies for housing and building practices, including self-build, cooperative societies, in England today.KeywordsSelf-Build; Radical Architecture; Housing Methodologies; Participatory Building; Revolutionary PracticeCase StudiesEngland/UK, 1970s onwards

Rully Damayanti

F.Kossak (2011)Youth Reading of Urban Space in MarginalityExploring how youth read the city, in this case is ‘urban kampung’, the marginal area inside central city in Indonesia. The dialectic reality of reading and

urban elements.KeywordsUrban Marginality ReadingCase StudiesUrban kampung in Surabaya, Indonesia

Papatya Nur Dökmeci

J. Kang & S. Fotios (2009)Indoor Space Soundscaping: Architecture, sound environment and psychoacousticsThe aim is to form a new approach, ‘indoor soundscaping’ and establish its framework by including 3 aspects; objective analysis, subjective assessment, and built entity. The analysis of these aspects will lead to design the methodological factors of indoor soundscaping, so that it can be used in enclosed environments.KeywordsIndoor Soundscape; Enclosed Spaces; Architectural Acoustics; Psychoacoustics; Spatial Analysis

Dragos Descalu (2010)[email protected] is a visiting researcher from Technical University of Cluj NapocaRelational Architectures: Stimulating social interaction through architectural public spacesA non-deterministic approach to stimulating the appearance of social interaction in architectural public spaces. The research focuses on building trust in in and through buildings, and the role of assuring constant disequilibrium in the use of these spaces.KeywordsArchitecture and Society; Non-Deterministic Approaches to Social Interaction; Trust; Familiarity and Routine in Buildings; Ambiguity; Indeterminancy and Constant DisequilibriumCase StudiesEuropean Context with key case studies in: London, Paris and Bucharest

Ahmed A.E El-Astal

R. Tyszczuk & F. Kossak (2011)New Prospects for Low Cost Housing In the Gaza StripThis study develops an approach to lower the cost of housing along the Gaza Strip in Palestine, to enable more people of limited income to own their own houses. The developed approach

Planning and Design, Procurement, Execution, and Evaluation.Keywords

Cost Housing; Regenerative Housing Development; Land use Optimisation

Amr Fawzy Abdelaziz Elwan

C. Peng (2010)Architectural Redesign of Existing Buildings in the City Context of Cairo

Mustafa Ersalici

H. Altan (2009)RES and Hybrid Energy Station Scenarios for Northern CyprusAccording to the potentials of renewable energy sources, it is aimed to modelling

regions of Northern Cyprus. The main target is to design a hybrid energy station which is the most suitable, long life, economic, sustainable, environmental friendly and to achieve design optimisation.KeywordsRES and Hybrid; Sustainability and Development; EU and KyotoCase StudiesThe Mediterranean, Cyprus

Rafael Mauricio Eufrasio Espinosa

F. Stevenson (2011)

Interest Vertical Houses in Mexico

Fani Molki Fariba

P. Chiles (2011)New Paradigms for the House in Iran

Maryam Fazel

S. Walker (2011)New Media Architecture Interface in Everyday Life: Live montage

new media mobile devices on site and through Deleuzian event base exploration of ever day life trying to examine the double mediation experience of an object of reality simultaneously with its image of virtualthrough the eyes of spectators

awareness pervasive media devices. Approaching the interface between new media and place while emphasising on the centre role of double Mediation on users perception of place, human behavior and on place itself as the main setting. Keywords

Experiential Approach; Double Mediation of Object, Mobility; Image

Sushardjanti Felasari

C. Peng (2009)(C)ollective Memo(R)y (E)nh(A)nced Vir(T)ual C(I)ty – CREATIExploring the relational study of cities and collective memory with a focus on digital representations of urban spaces and instances of collective memory, and how the two representations may be connected to form a virtual social world in which e-learning about urban historyand design may take hold.KeywordsCollective Memory; Virtual Learning Environment; Urban Design

Carl Fraser

D. Petrescu & T. Schneider (2011)Occupation of the Neo-Liberal Public Realm The research traces how the public realm is transformed by the act of protest, exploring how these occupations activate contested territories in neo-liberal urban environments. From the realisation of contemporary stages of commoning

these dwindling urban landscapes.KeywordsPublic Space and Democracy; Riot; Occupation and Commoning; Contested Territories; Power; March; Ooccupation

Chomchon Fusinpaiboon

P. Blundell Jones (2010)Modern Architecture in Thailand from the 1930s to 1950s

Teslim Abiodun Giwa

C. Peng (2007)

Assessing Sustainability inResidential Buildings in Nigeria

Ida Gohardoust Monfared

S. Fotios (2007) A Review of Occupant Survey Methodology in Post-Occupancy Evaluation StudiesThis study reviews four key factors

design, respondents attentiveness, temporal nature of occupants’ response, and the response bias in the context of sustainable design.KeywordsPost-Occupancy Evaluation; Occupant Survey Design; Response Bias; Temporal Variation

Vera Hale

Twitter: @cavecoopP. Chiles & R. Parnell (2011)Community Led DesignImpact study of short term intervention/ training for communities to engage in the built environment. A collaborative PhD with the Charity the Glass-Hous.KeywordsCommunity Participation; Democracy; Process; Policy; Social Capital; NarrativeCase StudiesUnited Kingdom

Tingting Han

F. Kossak and P. Chiles (2011)Conservation Plans for Historical Areas in ChinaThis research looks into China’s rich resource base and a long history of heritage compared to a national,

Plan. This PhD project explains the phenomenon and background during this process, before advancing some feasible alternatives on the based on data with an integrated design project.KeywordsConservation Plan; Heritage Survival; Inheritance; Cultural Concepts; Finance; ParticipationCase StudiesChina

Yiying Hao

J. Kang (2010)Urban Design & Planning with Soundscape Approaches

Anna M. Holder

Twitter: @annamholderC. Cerulli (2009)Initiating ArchitectureExploring the changing processes of project initiation, with a focus on the collaborative commissioning, design

Researcher Index A-Z


Alphabetical by surname


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SPAIN

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MEXICO

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EGYPT

CYPRUS

IRAN

PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND

Drawing Jordan J. Lloyd – jordanjlloyd.me


Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid


Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy



Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth



Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale


Social Capital

Process

Narrative


Housing Justice

Site Specificity



Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory


Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation


Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art


Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action




Housing





Self-Build




Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space



Indoor Soundscape





Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory


Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography


Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft


Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design




Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping



Rezaei Rashnoodi


Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting


Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma


Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban




Vardy

Urban Morphology


High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.



Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran


Ward


Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi


Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

ENVIRONMENTSOCIETY

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Nick Holmes



Junjie Huang



Hyunju Jang

L. Jones (2011)


Like Jiang (2011)




Image

Neil Johnson


Hassan Khalifehei


Youngki Kim


Derong Kong







Reinhard Neubauer





Binh Khanh Nguyen


Adam Park








Priyanto Octavianus













Kim Trogal


Julia Udall



Jemima Unwin

S. Fotios (2011)



Maria Van Elk


Gloria Vargas Palma



Sam Vardy



Bo Wang



Xi Wang








Biao Yang




Hongseok Yang


Ming Yang


Supakit Yimsural


Juri Yoshimi

H. Altan (2010)





Yang Yu


Sahar Zahiri




Shuyou Zhang




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DENMARK

gERMANY

FRANCE

SPAIN

UNITED KINg Do M

MEXICO

CHILE

gHANA NIg ERIA

EGYPT

CYPRUS

IRAN

PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND

Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid


Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy



Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth



Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale


Social Capital

Process

Narrative


Housing Justice

Site Specificity



Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory


Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation


Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art


Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action




Housing





Self-Build




Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space



Indoor Soundscape





Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory


Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography


Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft


Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design




Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping



Rezaei Rashnoodi


Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting


Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma


Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban




Vardy

Urban Morphology


High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.



Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran


Ward


Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi


Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

ENVIRONMENTSOCIETY

MINDMETHOD






Deniz Atli




Michael Barclay

J. Kang (2008)





Ruxandra Berinde





Marta Brkovic


Carolyn Butterworth






Hui-Ju Chang


Shen Chen


Jianyu Chen


Michael Coates


Rully Damayanti






Ahmed A.E El-Astal






Mustafa Ersalici




F. Stevenson (2011)


Fani Molki Fariba


Maryam Fazel







Carl Fraser





Teslim Abiodun Giwa

C. Peng (2007)





Vera Hale


Tingting Han



Yiying Hao


Anna M. Holder






SERBIA

HUNg ARY

DENMARK

gERMANY

FRANCE

SPAIN

UNITED KINg Do M

MEXICO

CHILE

gHANA NIg ERIA

EGYPT

CYPRUS

IRAN

PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND


Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid


Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy



Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth



Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale


Social Capital

Process

Narrative


Housing Justice

Site Specificity



Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory


Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation


Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art


Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action




Housing





Self-Build




Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space



Indoor Soundscape





Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory


Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography


Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft


Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design




Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping



Rezaei Rashnoodi


Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting


Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma


Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban




Vardy

Urban Morphology


High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.



Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran


Ward


Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi


Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

ENVIRONMENTSOCIETY

MINDMETHOD


Nick Holmes



Junjie Huang



Hyunju Jang

L. Jones (2011)


Like Jiang (2011)




Image

Neil Johnson


Hassan Khalifehei


Youngki Kim


Derong Kong







Reinhard Neubauer





Binh Khanh Nguyen


Adam Park








Priyanto Octavianus













Kim Trogal


Julia Udall



Jemima Unwin

S. Fotios (2011)



Maria Van Elk


Gloria Vargas Palma



Sam Vardy



Bo Wang



Xi Wang








Biao Yang




Hongseok Yang


Ming Yang


Supakit Yimsural


Juri Yoshimi

H. Altan (2010)





Yang Yu


Sahar Zahiri




Shuyou Zhang




SERBIA

HUNg ARY

DENMARK

gERMANY

FRANCE

SPAIN

UNITED KINg Do M

MEXICO

CHILE

gHANA NIg ERIA

EGYPT

CYPRUS

IRAN

PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND

Fazel

Almousa

Barclay

Blacksell

Brkovic

Coates

Damayanti

Dökmeci

Descalu

RES and Hybrid


Ersalici

Berinde

Felasari

Public Space

Democracy



Power

Occupation

March

Riot

Butterworth



Response Bias

Time

Gohardoust Monfared

Hale


Social Capital

Process

Narrative


Housing Justice

Site Specificity



Image

Mobility

New Media on Site

Policy

Transitional Spaces

Performance Theory


Deleuzian Event

Spatial Recall

Simulation

Natural Ventilation


Phenomenology

Film

Space Perception

Memory

Textbased Art

Text Art

Conceptual Art

Publishing as Art


Education

Participation

Performativity

Action Research

Live Architecture

Interdisciplinary

Local Action




Housing





Self-Build




Enclosed Spaces

Psychoacoustics

Spatial Analysis

Space



Indoor Soundscape





Ambiguity Design

Collective Memory


Conservation

Inheritence

Finance

Aboagye

Social Innovation

Management

Design Ethnography


Holder

Neo-Classicism

Expert Planning

Han

Craft


Urban Image

Traffic Rules

Road Standards

Jiang

Energy Consumption

Thermal Comfort

Chen, S.

Kim

Kong

Carrasco

Strategic Design




Lloyd

Perception

Human Behaviour

Suburban Built Form

Estate Design

Nozawa

Identity

Place

Art Practice

Performance

Mapping



Rezaei Rashnoodi


Sami Kashkooli

Trans-Locality

Transversality

Generosity / Gifts

Ethics of Care

Transformation

Comparative Study

Dialogue

Radical Pedagogy

Fraser

Trogal

Micropolitics

Agency

Tools

Udall

Lighting


Space Syntax

Unwin

Thermal History

Vargas Palma


Spatial Brightness

Atli

Urban




Vardy

Urban Morphology


High Density Cities

Noise Mapping

Parametric Study

Wang, B.



Wang, X.

Park

Priya Rajendran


Ward


Yang, B.

Green Walls

Vegetated Walls

Yoshimi


Khalifehei

Nguyen

Sheta

Johnson

Zahiri

Van Elk

Neubauer

Yang, M.

Preciado

Eufrasio Espinosa

El-Astal

Fariba

Yimsural

Fusinpaiboon

Martinez-Perez

Jang

Yu

Walking

Zhang

Wungpatcharapon

Huang

Octavianus

Giwa

Elwan

Chang

Zand Vosoughi

Hao

Chen, J.

Heritage

ENVIRONMENTSOCIETY

MINDMETHOD






Deniz Atli




Michael Barclay

J. Kang (2008)





Ruxandra Berinde





Marta Brkovic


Carolyn Butterworth






Hui-Ju Chang


Shen Chen


Jianyu Chen


Michael Coates


Rully Damayanti






Ahmed A.E El-Astal






Mustafa Ersalici




F. Stevenson (2011)


Fani Molki Fariba


Maryam Fazel







Carl Fraser





Teslim Abiodun Giwa

C. Peng (2007)





Vera Hale


Tingting Han



Yiying Hao


Anna M. Holder






SERBIA

HUNg ARY

DENMARK

gERMANY

FRANCE

SPAIN

UNITED KINg Do M

MEXICO

CHILE

gHANA NIg ERIA

EGYPT

CYPRUS

IRAN

PALESTINE

CHINA

INDo NESIA

JAPAN

S. KOREA

TAI WAN

THAILAND



Research groups2013

Future direction for research clusters


In June 2013, the SSoA staff gathered once again at a Research Away Day to consider our future research interests. The posters on the following pages are a declaration of our intentions made on that day. They reflect continuity of our research interests as well as new ideas developed in response to changing social and environmental context, our interests in promoting design led research, practice based research and action research, and in integrating our research knowledge with our teaching.

SSoA Research Development2013 Onwards


Architecture, Science & Technology




Sandal Magna School,

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

Students working to present thoughts for their new school design, EPSRC project, PI Rosie Parnell

CAU Children’s Architecture Unit

Cherry Lane, Mark Dudek Associates

All Saints School workshop,

BDR

The Children’s Architecture Unit (CAU) brings together researchers and practitioners who are working to further understanding of children’s built environments and support children’s con-tributions to the design process. The CAU builds on the expertise within the School of Architecture in developing award winning schools architecture, cutting edge re-search and internationally acclaimed learning environment publications.

Earlham Primary School toilet transformation workshop, Prue Chiles Architects

Sustainable schools as third teacher

Children transforming spatial design

the value of good design in early years and school buildings

School designs for the Aga Kahn Education Development Board

Children’s Architecture UnitCAU brings together researchers and practitioners who are working to further understanding of children’s built environment and support children’s contributions to the design process.


participation

the other

urbanism

ecologies

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Future [applications in progress]NORFACE - Architectures of Welfare Future Works - Stories of Change Citizenship at the Edge CurrentLiveLab [2013]Children Transforming Spatial Design [2013]Fairground Architecture [2013]PastEco-Nomadic School [2011]Rhyzom [2009]PEPRAV [2006]Alternative Architectural Praxis [2006]

DISSEMINATION / NETWORKING / EVENTS

Future (long-term)2nd AGENCY International conference [2015]PhD symposium (home) [Feb 2014]PhD symposium (international) [Aug 2014]

Future (short-term)Establish a blog [Dec 2013]Monthly seminars [from Autumn 2013]Establish away day [from Autumn 2013]

PastSpatial Agency (book) [2012]AGENCY (AHRA conference) [2008]Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (book) [2009]field: the free journal of architecture [2007-]

re-defining practice & education

methodological innovation alternative histories

contemporary theory & culture

social & political production of space

RESEARCH TOPICS

Feminist theory and practice, participation in architecture, contemporary theory, politics and poetics of space, activist praxis

and education, culture and resilience [DP]

The contemporary city, experimental practice, reframing sustainability [RT]

Production and political economy of the built environment; reframing of architectural practice; spatial agency; alternative

praxis; alternative histories of the production of space; social appropriation of space; collaboration [TS]

Urban history, contemporary urbanism, urban design, experimental mediation of architecture [FK]

Knowledge in design processes, emergence and complexity, non conventional practice, management and procurement [CC]

Performative methodologies, Liveness, Materialising Cultures [CB]

The transformative potential of interactions between young people and designers; support of young people´s voices and their

contribution to the built environment; and the transformative potential of exploring architectural education in schools. [RP]

Contemporary theory, art and architecture. Urban histories, theories, and the contemporary city [SW]

Activist practice; co-production, commoning and economies; architectural and spatial tools; craftsmanship and making [JU]

Social production of space; organisation and initiating in spatial practice; participative social & material practices of urban design; creative methodologies for researching, learning and making [AH]

Ethics, feminist theory and practice, alternative economies, pedagogy [KT]

Diversity, post-coloniality and geo-politics in spatial practice and theory. Creative research methodologies, including the topological

as method. The intersection of culture and technology [NA]

New futures and and co-production in architecture and urbanism. Re-defining contemporary architectural practice. Architecture and

ethnography of home environments; architecture and the history of ideas. Research by design. [PC]

The architectural profession, gender and architecture [SWi]

Public space, public realm, public sphere. Civil society. Theatre and performance. Feminist theory and practice. Social and

political production of space. Political philosophy and cultural geography [TH]

AGENCY projectsAGENCY affiliated projects

TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITY

Future (long-term)Establish students advice bureau [2014]Future (short-term)Develop catalogue of methodologies [Summer 2014]CurrentElephant in the Room [2013]PastCommonwealth Café [2012]Urban Blind Spots Theory Forum [2012]Taking Part IUAV Summer School [2011]Ecology Theory Forum [2009]EcoRoof [Live project 2009]Cultural Agencies [Live project 2009]Remote Control [Live project 2009]Lines of Flight (group) [2007-]IYO [Live project 2006]

RESEARCH GROUPS 2013 & FUTURE DIRECTION FOR RESEARCH CLUSTERS

AGENCYThe AGENCY Research Centre, initiated in 2007 within the Sheffield School of Architecture, functions as an umbrella for research activities related to the transformation of architectural education and practice.


CRAE

Centre for

sharing the learning & teaching developments we’re all involved in and ideas we have

Research in

Architectural

Education

providing mutual support for these developments and for their possible funding and dissemination

telling the outside world what we’re doing and giving this work a collective identity anchored in the School

engaging our students in learning and teaching developments and related dialogue

host AAE Conference

map what we do and what we have done

resource bank on front page of website

research group website

conference attendance

internal seminars

applying for external funding

mentoring / buddying through seminars

student L&T research forums

collaboration with other departments

academic papers / writing-up projects

Centre for Research in Architectural EducationThis is a proposal for a new research group on pedagogy.


Design and Digital Performance Group develops innovative methodological frameworks to enable interdisciplinary investigations of complex

problems in the built environment addressing major societal challenges

DD+P

Categories of Digital Tools

Innovative Methodological

Frameworks

Visualisation

Data Processing

Simulation

Fabrication

Modelling

PhD

MSc

Funded Research

WorkshopsIndustrialPartners

International &National Network

Modules

SensingPost Occupancy Evaluation P.O.E

Public Engagement

Sustainability Assessment

Performance Evaluation

Supportive Integrated Design Process

xx Industrial Partnerships

xx Funds received

xx PhD Thesescompleted

xx Modulesoffered

Complex Problems &Societal Challenges

Sustainable Living Aging

Society

Climate Change

Innovative Manufacturing

Design & Digital Performance Group (DD+P) 2013

DD+P Group MembersDr. Mark Meagher x Dr. Chengzhi Peng x Dr. Michael Phiri x Dr. Tsung-Hsien Wang

x Sukaina Almousa x Choong Yew Chang x Amr Fawzy Abdelaziz Elwan x Maryam Fazel x Sushardjanti Felasari x Christina Georgiou x Phil Langley x Adam Park x Cahyono Priyanto x Aiman Mohd Rashid x Choo Yoon Yi x Yang Yu


Design and Digital Performance GroupDD+P develops innovative methodological frameworks to enable interdisciplinary investigations of complex problems in the built environment addressing major societal challenges.


Fablab NetworkFablab Network would facilitate research and development through prototyping across research projects and clusters.


East-West Studies, Prof. Peter Blundell Jones and Dr Jan Woudstra (Landscape)

This group involves a dozen or so PhD students from both departments as well as visiting scholars working on East Asian topics: these have so far been concerned with architecture and landscapes in China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and Malaysia. Its research work is shared through frequent seminars and publications.

View from a pavilion in the garden Jichang in Wuxi, China

The aims are threefold:

1. to gain a better understanding of traditional types of East-Asian architecture within its own social, cultural and and constructive traditions. Ancient Chinese architecture is the major alternative world culture to Greece and Rome, built on a quite different world view and philosophical foundations, so it presents an alternative view of how culture and history can be constructed.

2. All East-Asian countries were subjected to processes of modernisation and adoption of an architec-ture called ‘modernist’, but in different ways and at different times giving rise to complex histories. The main lesson is that the Bauhaus model now regarded as universal and central to architectural education was far from being the starting point. In Japan the first school of architecture was started in English by Josiah Conder, a Gothic Revivalist out of Burgess’s London office.

3. The dominant building discipline was carpentry and the designers were carpenters, who thought differently from architects, so we are investigating carpentry traditions and methods.


East-West StudiesThe cluster will continue research on East Asian topics concerning architecture and landscapes.


LIVE

What is Live Works?

• AnewinitiativecomprisinganEnterpriseTeachingCentre,SocialEnterpriseCompanyandaresearch-leddesigngroup

• A‘shopwindow’forSSoAinSheffieldCityCentrewherelocalpeopleandorganisationscanlearnaboutourcivicengagementactivities,suggestandcollaboratewithusonLiveProjects.

• Acommunityfacilitywheregroupsandorganisationscanaccesssupportwithdesigning/re-designing:resources,buildings,places,spaces,neighbourhoodsandtowns.

• AteachingbasethatoffersSSoAstaffandstudentstheopportunitytoworkwithclientsfromthecommunityattheinterfaceofresearch,teachingandpractice.

Areas of Interest & Key Research Questions

• CivicEngagement:Howcanacademiadevelopmeaningfulandproductivecivicengagement?

• NeighbourhoodPlanningSupport:Howcanarchitectssupportcommunitiesincreatingneighbourhoodplans,providingdesigntrainingandbuildingsocialcapacity?

• TheFutureoftheCityandHighStreets:Whatarethealternativesforourcitycentreandhighstreets?

Achievements

• Securingstart-upfundingtosetupLiveWorks

• GainingsupportfromwithinfromUniversityofSheffieldEnterprise[USE]andUniversityEngagementteam

• AcceptedtodeliveraworkshopsessionatIEECconferenceon12thSeptember

Aims & Objectives

• Developabasefortestingandexploringarchitectureandurbandesigncivicengagmentactivities

• EstablishandleadaTUoSresearchandguidancegroupincludingTRP,LandscapeandLaw.

• EstablishLiveWorksatthecuttingedgeofconnectedcommunitiesresearch

ActivitiesResearchbyDesignCollaborative‘researchbydesign’throughLiveProjects

CivicEngagementExhibit/makeavailabletothepublicfourteenyearsofLiveProjectmaterial

OfferandshowcasetheextensiveskillbaseofSSoAgraduatestothecityandwidercommunity

GraduateEmploymentProvideopportunitiesforemploymentofSSoAgraduatesandyear-outstudentsonLivecommissions,exploringalternativeroleofthearchitect

EnhancedTeachingoftheCurriculumLocateUGandPGTparticipatorylearningactivities,e.g.workshops,events,exhibitions,inthecitycentre,closingthegapbetweenstudentsandlocalpeople

InternationalisationKnowledgewillbedevelopedonhowsituatedpracticecanbenefitinternationalprojects,throughactinglocallyinSheffieldandelsewhere

WORKS

Live WorksLive Works is a new initiative comprising Enterprise Teaching Centre, Social Enterprise Company and research led design. Live Works will support research collaboration with non-academic partners such as industry and civic society.


the materials library

• helpsarchitecturestudentsunderstandthenatureofthematerialsthattheywillspecifyandusewithinthebuiltenvironment.

• thematerialslibraryisanincreasinglyimportantresourcethathelpsstudentsandprofessionalsunderstandhowmaterialsareprocessedfromsourcetositeandhowthisimpactsonthecarbonfootprintofthebuildingindustry

• willbuildlinksbetweenstudents,theuniversity,localindustrialpartners,anddesignpractitioners

What’s in a name?• ‘Library’feelsstatic-thecollectionweaimtobuildwillbetheretoactivelysupport

teaching.• Weproposea‘laboratory’forstudentstoexplorethenatureofmaterialsandhow

buildingsgotogetherasacreativespace,hence

Funding• Over£30,000fundinghasbeenawardedfromtheFacultyDevelopmentFundandthe

AlumniFund.• AbidtotheWhiteRoseEnterpriseunitwillseekfundingtopayforstudents’timeto

participateinMatLab’sestablishment

Benefits to SSoAMatLabwillsupportboththelecture and studio-basedteachingoftechnologybyhelp-ingstudentsunderstand• theimpactmaterialchoicehasonabuildingandthewiderenvironment• manufacturingprocesses• detailingandconstruction• theaestheticimpactofmaterialchoices• connectingwithprojects–MatterReality,LiveProjectsBettertechnicalknowledgewillalsoimprovetheiremployability.

Links with other departmentsThestudyofmaterialsisnotlimitedtoarchitecture.MatLabwillbuildonSSoAdualcoursesbybecominganopenresourceforSSoA,landscape architecture, andcivil engineering

Links with industry• architecturalpractitioners• manufacturersofcurrentandfuturematerialsandcomponents• RIBAYorkshire/SheffieldSocietyofArchitectsContinual Professional Developmenteventsalsoprovideamodelfortheself-fundingofthefacilityonceestablished.WecanalsouselinkswithAlumniinpracticetosourceinnovativesamplespanelsandcasestudies.

Research potentialTheMatLabwillbeaplacewherebest practicewillbeexhibitedandcelebratedthroughcasestudiesdiscussingwhyandhowmaterialshavebeenused.Thesewillcomefrom• designstudiostafforalumniwritingaboutnewwork• studentprojectsandprecedentstudies.• newmaterialsdevelopedintheUniversityofSheffield

MatLab

CaseStudiesStaffpracticeworkStudentprecedentstudiesAlumnipracticeworkUoSresearch


The MatLabProposed Materials Library will support research across research clusters.


SSoA Research: Sustainable Design People and Performance Group

The Sustainable Design, People and Performance Group is focused on ‘closing the loop’ towards the production of a more sustainable built environment. Research is undertaken to investigate how design intentions can be continuously improved throughfeedback from innovative and cross disciplinary building performance evaluation.

There is particular emphasis on understanding how people interact with technology and promoting sustainability through place and user-centred evaluation of buildings, products and processes. The unit builds on the internationally recognised work of its members who are at the leading edge of research which informs policy and practice at every level.

Members

Fionn Stevenson (Convenor) Irena BaumanSarah WigglesworthPrue ChilesLucy Jones

Magdalena Baborska- Narozny (Senior Research Fellow)

Gloria Vargas (PhD student)Rafael Espinosa Eufrasio (PhD student)Ziyad J Frances (PhD student)

Thinking about resource use and behaviour…

Current projects EU Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship BuPESA, Host Supervisor, £247,388Resilience themes: social learning through social media, systematic design feedback through evaluation of building performance and usability, saving energy, water, low impact living, participatory action research

AHRC, Home Improvements: Motivating Collective Custom Build,£39,806 (with Ash Sakula architects and Design for Homes)Resilience themes: using video to advocate people building their own homes, new financial models for using land to build on, collective build as a societal multiplier

TSB, Lancaster Co-housing, Lancaster Co-housing Initial Occupancy Study (with Leeds Metropolitan University), £60,102Resilience themes: evaluating the use of shared living facilities, identifying robust procurement and construction processes for collective building, evaluation of user interaction with new technologies in housing

Planned projectsAHRC Connected Communities bid, The Terrace HouseResilience themes: design tools to help people adapt the terrace house to suit their needs for the future, identifying incremental design moves which effect big changes, understanding the affordances of the terrace as adurable typology for living in, participatory action research

Understanding how people use their homes… ESRC Platform bid, InCREASE: Fostering resourcefulness in civil society (with Leeds and Hull Universities) Resilience themes: designing with limited resources, adapting buildings to climate change, developing local economies through retrofitting of buildings, community empowerment through collective endeavour, designing to facilitate changes in behaviour to help minimise resource use

Leverhulme Trust, Sustainable Living (with Town Planning and Landscape)Resilience themes: building in forgiveness – the notion that people will put up with a degree of discomfort providing they can have what is most important and meaningful to them, investigating the connection between social imaginaries and the willingness to protect the environment and social relationships, developing community recognition, connectivity

Sustainable Design People and Performance GroupSDPP will continue its research focus on closing the loop towards the production of a more sustainable built environment.


Acoustics Group School of Architecture

Contact: Professor Jian Kang ([email protected])

Urban noise mapping

Urban soundscape

Acoustics and sustainability

Acoustic tests

Acoustic products

Architectural acoustics

Sheffield

bp

on relationships between ear, human being, sound environment and society

Neural network analysis of soundcape

Subjective evaluation of acoustic comfort

Dummy head listening test

Window system which can reduce external noise, but allow natural ventilation an daylighting

The sustainability of wind farms may be affected by its noise …

Various noise barriers may have the same acoustic performance but their environmental impact could be very different…

Reduce noise by vegetation

Greek theaters

Underground stations

Dining spaces

Sound transmission & Sound absorption of

various materials

Sound power Scale modeling

Acoustics GroupThe Acoustics Group will continue their research into sound and acoustics in the city.


Steve Fotios: Lighting Research, 2013The Lighting Research Group will continue their research into lighting in the city.


Home Research GroupHome Research Group is interested in promoting and exploring the value of architecture in the study and design of the home.


a way forward

The Changing Research Landscape

Until recently higher education in the UK has benefitted from a regime which allowed researchers to pursue relatively well funded and independent research in a scholarly fashion. For us in the school this meant being funded internally by the University to generate time for critical reflection and relatively unfunded activism with a big impact, running alongside larger externally funded projects. This landscape has now changed. The removal of government funding for the majority of teaching and move towards full fee status has effectively removed this historic subsidy of research by teaching as Universities and others now compete on a financial basis to attract students. This has led to the government encouraging researchers to engage with other forms of external funding and to make efficiency gains by developing larger bids with consortia including the public sector, industry and non-governmental organisations.

These changes are reflected in our own school’s drive towards greater engagement with practice-based research and other forms of industry collaboration as well as building a new school-wide Building Local Resilience research platform to help generate critical mass. At the same time it is essential that independent scholarship is protected, in both the arts and sciences, to ensure that research findings remain relatively impartial and unbiased in relation to their funding sources. New forms of independent income are required to help sustain this activity beyond the reduced research council funding and the school is rising to this challenge through exploring other forms of income generation which can once again cross-subsidise scholarship and research that does not immediately attract external funding.

Rebalancing the Research Agenda

2008 saw capitalism’s main pillar of support – the financial system – seriously challenged, with a resulting global austerity and debt in developed countries, the like of which has not been seen since the 1930s. In many countries, elements of the welfare state are being rapidly dismantled in a highly political way in order to attempt to reduce the burden of bank-incurred debt. At the same time society is facing almost unimaginable challenges in relation to coping with and mitigating exponential changes in our global climate. For many, there is a recognition that this calls for a permanent rebalancing of society’s use of resources rather than a return to the earlier profligacy. This is the new context for research in our School. It requires ingenuity, and radical as well as incremental visioning, to address this challenge.

The global financial crash of 2008 has provided a wake-up call for researchers, just as it has for others, in terms of the new ‘austerity’ and ‘uncertainty’ – researchers are required to be more agile, responsive, and able to do more with less. Climate change and the squandering of natural resources have led to the call for a new resilience in society. This in turn requires research processes to be more resilient themselves, entailing a rebalancing of the research agenda towards greater impact, leverage, applied research, industry collaboration, and civic engagement.

The school’s emphasis on critical practice-based research and activism in a social context enables us to address the above imperatives directly. A good example is our planned Live Works which will combine research-led teaching with applied

Prof. Fionn Stevenson


research as an extension of our current Live Projects activity. Another example is the AHRC ‘Home Improvements’ knowledge exchange project which has produced close collaboration with three leading architectural practices – Satellite Architects, Ash Sakula Architects and Urbed – developing new knowledge in housing related to collective custom build, parking, and the public realm. The R-Urban project, based in a mixed northern suburb of Paris, represents a unique form of civic engagement through research-based practice, demonstrating the potential to transform neighbourhoods and provide capacity-building for greater resilience. A new practice-based major project on Design for Wellbeing, Ageing and Mobility in the Built Environment extends our school’s expertise on working with young people to a new demographic area that is increasingly important as it grows larger each year.

The applied building science research in the school is also increasingly related to civic engagement including the EPSRC MERLIN lighting project which is working to improve street lighting through visual psychophysics, and urban acoustic research through our leadership of the EU Cost network HOSANNA, whose work examines the role of greenery in attenuating traffic noise. A strong socio-technical methodology is exemplified in the EU Marie Curie funded BuPESA project, which is developing new building performance evaluation tools in relation to innovative housing typologies –directly involving the occupants.

In addition to the major research projects mentioned above, there are others that form a continuous thread of highly energised action research and research activism to feed the

school’s learning and teaching strategies. New research projects are developing in relation to digital design, visualisation, and fabrication, as well as in broader spatial pedagogy. With all these elements in place, the school’s research strategy is poised to address the prospective EU and Research Council ‘Grand Challenges,’ including sustainable welfare, climate change, housing, energy, environments, and infra-structures, in a more resilient way.

The Difficult Whole

Schon, in the The Reflective Practitioner, talks about the ‘difficult whole’ that is the bringing together of the many disparate aspects of architecture – which includes space, humanity, technology, and the environment. Inter-disciplinary research is a key means of achieving this ‘difficult whole’, but in many ways research is still at the stage of ‘multi-disciplinary’ work where researchers from different disciplines undertake different, and often rather siloed ‘workpackages’ with a single research project. Architecture, uniquely, offers a discipline which can integrate the working processes of different disciplines through the synthesis of design – this is at the heart of our research endeavour.

The school is in a strong position to lead on interdisciplinary research, with its internal expertise well balanced across design, technology, history, building science, social science, urbanism, digital programming and systems, as well as pedagogy, management and building conservation. Its unusual situation within a large Social Science Faculty with thirteen different departments brings the benefit of being able to work with colleagues in planning, landscape, geography and education amongst others.


For many years our school has had a strong building science research base, but it is only recently that we have realised the enormous potential of working more closely with our colleagues in the Faculty of Engineering. The recent joint success of our school and the department of civil engineering in being named as one of only four Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design by the Royal Academy of Engineering bodes well for future collaborative research as well as current teaching in this area. This collaboration is already being developed through joint support for our postgraduate research programmes.

Researching for an Uncertain Future

So, what is the prospect for research in archi-tecture in our school for the coming decade? There is clearly a need to deal more with probability than certainty as exemplified by the recent shift in reporting on climate change and economics. More than ever, architecture must develop the capacity to address continuous and rapid change in societies and in the environments they inhabit. New forms of feedback must be developed to improve the resilience and robustness of design. This can help ensure that our creative building proposals are more evidence-based and that speculative design is more informed in relation to the Grand Challenges of our time.

At the same time there is a need to accept that the solutions generated by architectural research may be provisional and subject to continuous and rapid revision. The architecture of permanence is dead– durability is now achieved through adaptability and the capacity of researchers, designers and buildings to co-develop, together with their occupants and clients, means to deal with unpredictable change. This calls for a new language of architectural research, opening a huge opportunity for practice-based research.

One role that architectural research can play in terms of increasing resilience is to articulate narratives still largely excluded from design – the unheard voice of the anonymous occupant, the rights of other species on our planet, the requirements of the elderly, mothers and children, and the need to protect and regenerate our natural resources. All this involves an ethics of care in our research. A new, more accountable architectural professionalism allied with new forms of architectural research can provide a robust ethical basis from which to creatively tackle the increasing uncertainty in our dynamic world, to provide a built environment more in harmony with it.


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