THE GRENFELL-BAINES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENT

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Editors:Professor Karim HadjriDes Fagan

Compiled and designed byDes Fagan

Published by GBA PressISBN 978-0-9929673-0-1

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IntroductionArchitecture at UCLan was established in 2009 through the BSc (Hons) in Architecture. Then in 2013 the Master of Architecture (MArch) was introduced, followed in 2014 by the Foundation Entry course. Our students’ work is focussed on the needs and challenges of the North West region of England, examining concepts of rural development, waterfront regeneration and food production. Yet it is also outward looking through the exploration of contemporary architectural and urban issues through international field trips, buildings and site visits, and live projects.

This Year Book presents the work produced by students from our courses. The Foundation Entry course, an introductory pathway for prospective students, has been a successful addition to our Architectural Studies programme. Foundation students produced some very exciting proposals for a Serpentine Pavilion Exhibition Space as part of their final major project.

This year’s Degree Show celebrates the work of our fourth Part 1 graduating cohort. The BSc final year projects presented in this book, engaged students with the rural culture in Skippool/Little Thornton through rural/agrarian projects that provide a sustainable future to local rural villages by for example harnessing local agrarian practices.

The Master of Architecture (RIBA Part 2 candidate course status) has been developed with strong focus on the processes of urbanisation and the production of architecture, and seeks to create a culture of innovation leading to substantive and topical lines of inquiry and research/practice within both the staff and student bodies. MArch Year 2 projects were driven by students’ ambitions and passion about architecture. We have here a sample of exciting schemes ranging from a Landscape Discovery Centre in the Lake District, to community building and co-habitation in Nicosia, Cyprus. This is our

Introduction byProfessor Karim Hadjri Academic Lead for Architectural Studies

first cohort and we are particularly proud of their achievement.

This book also presents a summary of academic staff research and innovation interests and ongoing work.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the enthusiastic student body who have made this possible through their hard work and resourcefulness, and to the dedicated academic staff and workshop technicians for their continuous support, and valuable direction and guidance. I would also like to thank our friends and partners, the Architectural Studies Advisory Board, RIBA North West, and Lady Grenfell-Baines for their continuous support.

Looking forward to the future, the student body and staff are excited about the new opportunities the move to the School of Art, Design and Fashion from August 2015 will bring to architectural education at UCLan.

Morecambe Site StudyMichael YosiefMArch ArchitecturePrint2014

RIBA Pt I ArchitectureIntroduction

Unique [adjective] – Highly unusual or rare, but not the single instance. Imminent [adjective] – Close in time, about to occur. The now!

The undergraduate course in architecture at UCLAN can be defined by that above, why? This is the first architecture course in the country that deals with the local context in terms of a specific architectural analysis of the dialectic between the Urban(City) and the Agrarian (Country), the two headings that clearly define Lancashire as a distinct location.

As well as coastal proximity and a group of small cities and market towns, Lancashire is predominately agricultural in terms of land usage, and it is from this perspective that the course seeks to engage with urban and rural communities in terms of this land use also with architectural/aesthetic issues that together impact on the quality of life, environmental and cultural conditions as well as local and global ecologies.

The course seeks to redefine a new approach to design thinking. It is predicted that rural society economies and design are set for a significant renaissance, that will be reevaluated in contemporary terms - Cities are designed so why not the countryside?

BSc (Hons) Architecture

You may think that this is a colloquial position. This could not be further from the truth; all issues and conditions are contextualised from a universal perspective with architectural discourse and production emanating specifically from macro socio/political/economic and cultural perspectives. Not only are we required to provide building for an ever expanding population, we also need to ask how are we going to feed this growth and importantly can we provide this in a sustainable manner?

So finally what does this all mean? It means that this course gives students the opportunity to engage in important global issues from a local perspective, here and now, as well as this being an architectural engagement that is both unique and imminent!

Ronny FordBSc Hons Architecture Course Leader

RIBA Pt I ArchitectureAs an introductory year to architecture, the first year studio takes a polemical position of object and space. It seeks to develop the student in the wider field of production associated with architecture, from chairs to pavilions to small scale dwellings, but more broadly aims at developing the student as a critical social agent in architecture, focusing on their creative development over the two semesters. The students are encouraged through the craft of making to explore their ideas in physical form and co-creative design practices.

Semester one concentrated on the relationship to ‘splintered’ seaside towns, to arrive at transient pavillions, while examining the nature and relationship we have to the agrarian context; and how, once properly defined through ‘free play’; space and alternative forms of new values and new productions of ideas may be accommodated into disused and depleted tourist-rural settings.

Semester two concentrated on putting in to an urban context these forms of free play, and how the agrarian bio-economy could be placed into a tight urban setting to create ‘short circuits between the two’ in the form of an artisan’s house.

Simon Kay-JonesYear One Leader

James DysonVicky JolleyYear One tutors

1 Year One

David SethArtisans House

Final model photographs

Atessa GhiassiHouse for a VoyeurConceptual and detailed models

Fadi ObaidHome for a PianistExplorations with materials (Left)

Leonie HolickiFold - Oragami

modelmaking (RIght)

David Seth Pavillion

Detailed Model(Right)

Attessa GhiassiSoundscape BuildingModel and sections(Left and below)

Sunhaib RadwanWedgeConceptual Model(Below)

David SethArtisans House

Semester TwoFinal model photographs

Fadi Obaid Pavillion Project

Montage drawing(Right page)

Amy HaoZoomorph

Conceptual Model(Right)

Karolina JuskevicPier

Montage Model(Below Right)

RIBA Pt I ArchitectureRIBA Pt I ArchitectureThe second year is an introduction to the discipline of architecture, isolating and intertwining fundamentals. Students explore how architecture concentrates and conveys natural forces through means specific to the discipline. Studies focus on fundamentals realised artistically and practically.

This year examined interdisciplinary sources such as art, science, and philosophy for the purpose of establishing the content architecture shares with other forms of knowledge and how that content, expressed through architecture, contributes to human well-being.

The first semester was spent in Liverpool, discovering the complexities of a large sprawling urban grain, subsequently deciding upon a strategy for an intervention - an ideas store. In the second semester, students moved North to the Lancashire Coast, where they forged designs for boat museums, visitors centres, observatories and geological laboratories in the transient landscape of the coast.

Des FaganYear Two Leader

David SimisterLaura SherlickerYear Two Tutors

2 Year Two

Savannah WrightSunderland Point Observatory and

Hostel (Right)

The intention of the Sunderland Point Observatory is to allow the public to visit a functioning place to stay and learn about stargazing and space travel. The form of the scheme takes from the idea of a ‘vertical pier’, where at different levels an observer is able to view different constellations according to the time of night and orientation they are viewing.

Matthew CharnleyMuseum and Art Gallery, Glasson Docks Interior render

Stephen BaileyMuseum of GlassonCross section and Interior views (Above and right page)

Oliver HattonSkippool Creek

Museum and Visitor Centre (Above)

Nathan EdgeSkippool Creek Boat Museum Interior / Exteriror views.

Skippool creek, hidden port on the River Wyre, infamous tor smuggling, press-gangs and piracy in the eighteenth century, survives today in an eerie twilight, bathed in the mist and mud. The Skippool Boat Museum provides workshop and boat building facilities in a dramatic landscape. The museum houses the 25m tall ‘Sceptre’ yacht and allows for the docking of guest yachts and boats for temporary exhibition.

Nosheen AslamSunderland Point

Geological museumSection

(Below right)

Matthew CharnleyMuseum and Art

Gallery, Glasson Docks Exterior render

(Right)

Silva Kin ChowGlasson Museum Visitor CentreExterior view

Nik PsomiadisSkippool Nature Reserve and WetlandsExterior View

The Skippool Nature Reserve and Wetlands provides space for viewing the rich and varied wildlife that the mudflats and wetlands adjacent to the River Wyre provide habitat for. The building is low and flat in response to the site, reflecting the horizontality of Skippool with its sweeping vistas and wide horizons.

RIBA Pt I ArchitectureRIBA Pt I Architecture Located in Morecambe, the first semester project induces an engagement with framing as an imminent architectural condition of analysis that raises questions of de-territorialisation. Essentially the site is liminally challenging in terms of its proximity to the coastal edge and the sea, the established promenade and the planned town configuration as well as the negotiation of a site four kilometres in length.

The Ichthyic Centre proposes potential functions ranging from fish and shellfish sea farms to an associated seafood/fish market. The facility is also an opportunity to house support facilities to aid in educating and supporting coastal food production as a major contribution to the local economic profile of the town and its historic associations with the sea. Other wider social issues in terms of the human condition and thresholds of acceptance in relation to how capitalism affects certain societies are addressed. This is exacerbated by practices such as human trafficking and immigration that were highlighted by the death of 21 illegal Chinese immigrants who drowned working as cockle pickers in the bay in February 2004.

Skippool Creek close to the Fylde coast was once a bustling 17th century port that preceded both Preston and Liverpool. The project aim was to engage with communities and link local villages with the estuary via historical and present maritime activities by engaging with local traditions. In offering students alternative typological design options related to present day categories such as leisure, culture, micro-industry and agriculture, the goal was to explore with project outputs as not merely an illustration or vision, but as a demystified distillation on the contemporary urban predicament.

Ronny FordYear Three Leader David RaynorYear Three Tutor

3 Year Three

Zain AliMorecambe Fish MarketSemester One

Zain AliSkippol Yacht ClubSemester Two

Sameerah Aumjaud Ichthyic centreSemester One

The main aim of this project was to fully integrate the scheme within the surroundings and to capitalise on the multiple assets of the site. Following the concepts put forward by the theory of organic architecture, the design was aimed to be as close to nature as possible. From a plan view, the Ichthyic centre follows the pattern of growth of an oyster, with a very asymmetrical and prismatic pattern, giving the impression of the building growing out from the landscape.

Charlotte Carless2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

Sameerah Aumjaud Skippol Boat Club Semester Two

Inspired by the stunning fragmented characteristics of Skippool, the scheme is based upon the concept of fragmentation. The shape of the yacht club has been inspired by the different fragmented shapes of the fields surrounding the site. Alberti’s theory of lineaments has also been used to root the concept. This resulted in rearranging the different fragments so that they would create the perfect assembly to fit the site’s characteristics and surrounding views.

Mohammad AzzouzMorecambe Fish MarketSemester One

Thie propsal is to build a fish market in Morecambe . The design aims to support the idea of a new industrial revolution that will put Morecambe on the map as the biggest seafood producer in the world, creating new jobs for future generations. The education centre incorporated in the scheme also educates the public on the history and methods of fishing.

Mohammad AzzouzSkippol Yacht ClubSemester Two

The proposal is to build a Yacht Club in Skippool. The design aims to put Skippool back on the map as a major tourist attraction in Lancashire. The Yacht club design emphasises consideration of the local wildlife and points towards convergence with the environment that surrounds it.

The design aims to capture the dynamic and translucent qualities of fluids and the interconnected circles represent the molecular structure of water. Each component responds to a specific programmatic requirement offering a 360 degree view of the site. The building is wrapped with a versatile skin which creates an optical illusion and illuminates in the dark.

Simran BalamdasMuseum of Traditional and Contemporary Boat Building Semester Two

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Is doloreserepe quas vi

Charlottte Carless2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

The project proposes a scheme to help regenerate Morcambe Bay. The site was situated in a challenging environment on the waterfront of the bay. The project meshes Gothic styles with biblical references in an attempt to attract community groups through the iconography of religious art and architecture.

Charlotte CarlessBlackpool and Fleetwood Yacht ClubSemester Two

The project entailed the redesign of Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club. The project’s design meshes together art and science to find a langauge between architecture and astronomy. The design references Renaissance art and archi- tecture but retains modern facilities for the use of occupants and the public.

Ashleigh ColeRuralcultureSemester Two

The project focuses on a rural/agrarian scheme which addresses global polemics via the microcosm of the local, regional and Lancastrian dynamic. The site is situated in Skippool. The centre considers the broader requirements of the area, providing a catalyst to link the village of Little Thornton with the river Wyre. This in turn generates a strong connection linking the village to Blackpool, Fleetwood Yacht Club and the river itself.

Niall CoxAquacultureSemester One

This project will be located in Morecambe on the coast, dealing with a very specific liminal status. The location invokes an engagement with framing that induces questions regarding deteritorialisation, as beyond the built frame condition there is the site, but beyond that still there is the ‘outside’. The sites occupy a fold that is liminally challenging - proximity to the coastal edge, the sea, the established promenade and the existing town plan configuration.

Niall CoxYacht ClubSkippolSemester Two

On the site of the existing boat club the proposal is to design of new facility impoving the visibility of the existing. The new boat club will also more clearly define an architectural interaction with the river. The proximity of the boat repair yard can catering provide short term accommodation for those awaiting repairs or for vessels temporarily moored up in the creek.

Alex Foxon The Fish FarmSemester One

The proposal is for a fish farm in Morecambe with educational facilities and a market. I placed the market in the centre of the town to create a feature for the public. The market also has views into the processing area, so the public can view thow their fish are processed as food. I choose to have a large white curved building so it would stand out from other buildings, and to reflect the Midland Hotel which is nearby.

Alex Foxon The Yacht ClubSemester Two

The proposal is for a new building for the existing yacht club in Skippool Creek, with sleeping accommodation and a restaurant. I focused on capturing the view of the surrounding area especially the river. I chose to place my restaurant and yacht club facilities in the water, to create a sense that the building is part of the river and again to capture views.

Morecambe Aquatic Centre proposes a fish farming facility on Morecambe Bay. It will range in function from fish and shellfish farms to processing and sale to the associated seafood/fish market. The Centre also gives opportunity to house education facilities to promote support of coastal food production along with seminars and exhibitions to inform people about the contribution the centre will bring to the local community.

Huzaifah HanifMorecambe Aquatic CentreSemester One

Huzaifah HanifSkippool Yacht Club RetreatSemester Two

The Skippool Yacht Club Retreat is designed to create a gathering place for boating enthusiasts and to engage the people of Skippool in a place to visit and make use of. The purpose of the Yacht club is to provide yacht enthusiasts a place to sail, where their boats can be raced and repaired. The fragmented nature of the retreat gives a domestic scale to the club, generating a welcoming environment for everyone to experience. The feature viewing tower offers views to the races, the sunset and across the site.

Matthew KeefeMorecambe Icthyic Centre for Aquaculture and ResearchSemester One

In order to provide a robust infrastructure for the regeneration of Morecambe across multiple platforms - economically, culturally, environmentally and socially - the edge-condition of the coast between the town and the bay has been traversed by an array of concrete piers each programmed independently; organised at specific height levels to facilitate industrial and leisure activities around the tidal patterns throughout a 24hour period. Morecambe Ichthyic Centre – a research hub and industrial centre for seafood growing and harvesting – forms the nucleus of this, along with an open-air fish market, power-generating tidal barrages and fish hatchery.

Matthew KeefeSkippool Cidery & MicroBrewerySemester Two

Reconnecting the villages of Little Thornton and Skippool with the River Wyre in Lancashire, this design creates a managed, productive landscape downhill to the water’s edge and a cluster of agricultural-vernacular inspired microbrewery buildings, providing a new social locus for the community. Organised in three masses and thematically-linked to the alchemical process of brewing itself, the Brewery, Restaurant and Bar buildings are each materially evocative of Solids, Liquids and Gases respectively. The double-height bar space is clad in pneumatic panels and incorporates a continuation of the orchards ‘through’ the building, whilst offering views up into the Brewery and out over the river jetties.

Morecambe bay has some of the most varied and plentiful fishing and shellfish populations in all of Britain. The center proposes functions ranging from fish and shellfish farms to an associated sea food/fish market. The center is also an opportunity to house support facilities to aid in the education and support of coastal food production to help bolster both the economic profile of the town and the historic associations the town has with the sea.

Antonis KyprianoSea Farming and FIsh Export Centre Semester One

Ommoluptas I2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

Antonis KyprianoSkippool Yacht ClubSemester Two

The proposal is for the design of a new facility expanding the status of the existing building. The new boat club will also have a more clearly defined architectural interaction with the river and the boat repair yard. The boat yard can provide short term accommodation for those awaiting repairs or for vessels temporarily moored in the creek.

Emma LeverAquaculture & Ichthyic Centre Semester One

The development of an Aquaculture Centre in Morecambe would provide a much needed focal point and attraction for the town. The centre would provide a fish market, restaurant, and research and education facility. The main focus of the design was to re-establish one of these lost attractions, a pier, back in Morecambe. The design focused on two piers – one public and one private. The private long pier stretches all the way out into the bay, to the deeper water, allowing farming to continue and not be dependent on tides in order to bring the produce back to the town. The slightly higher public pier, allows people the opportunity to ‘promenade’ and enjoy the fantastic views across the bay.

Emma LeverThe Brewery TowerSemester Two

The site at Skippool is set within the Fylde countryside, near to a number of small towns and villages, all of which have the traditional elements you would expect to find in any English village: A pub, church and village green. This typology was in mind when I came up with my brewery design. The brewery tower mimics a traditional church spire and being visible from afar and a noticeable landmark. The cricket club next to the site would be the ‘village green’. Beer production would begin at the top of the tower and work its way down through the various stages of production, flowing from one level to the next.

Julius PjaulokasIchthyic Centre Morcambe Semester One

The Ichthyic Centre proposes a fish processing building on one side, and public area (which includes restaurant and fish market) on the other. I started the scheme with the intention of protecting the shore from rising water levels and storms with a combination of heavy and light structures. Developing this further, I chose to refine the scheme using a ‘sail’ shape and solid heavy elements with open areas for circulation and protection.

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Is doloreserepe quas vi

Julius PjaulokasNano Brewery,SkippoolSemester Two

The Nano Brewery is intended to effect a low-tech contemporary vernacular aesthetic style. The choice of timber construction with wooden baffles forming part of the facade is intended to fit into the rural context. The design has developed to emphasise the views to the cricket fields and the river Wyre, filled with piers and boats.

Jack RandallMorecambe Nautilus ComplexSemester One

This project aims to revitalise the once bustling port, the town of Morecambe that has fallen to disrepair in the advancement of the modern era. The link between the once vibrant shipping industry and the town has been broken by the advance of time. An injection of new industry may revitalise this town and the areas around it.

Jack RandallApothecary’s BrewerySemester Two

The idea behind this design is to provide on-site research into the brewing processes of the past by delving into historical records, recipes and stories to uncover hidden or lost processes. Through this process it will be possible to reconnect with the forgotten elements of an ancient craft that has influenced both medicinal and theological fields.

Aadil SidatMorecambe Nautilus ComplexSemester One

The design proposes an Icthyic Centre and Fish Market. This provides central support facilities for the community- aiding in education, business, research and the rebuilding of this traditionally fishing orientated town. Morecambe has one of the most plentiful fish and shellfish populations in Britain and is most famous for shrimps that are appointed by Her Majesty the Queen. The project aims to address global polemics via the microcosm of local regional and Lancastrian dynamism.

Located in Skippool, this year we engage in a rural/ agrarian project addressing Lancastrian dynamics. The scheme proposes a sustainable long-term future for the local village harnessing the context with emphasis on site. The scheme is a local history museum of traditional boat building with related workshops and boat building facilities, allowing for students to study historical and contemporary timber boat building techniques. The museum houses temporary exhibitions, and permanent boat exhibitions. The design is influenced by the existing typology of exhibiting boats horizontally and vertically.

Aadil Sidat Skippol Boat MuseumSemester Two

Wei Wei TangSkippol Boat ClubSemester Two

On the site of the existing boat club, the new facility aims to expand the status of the old club by providing space for community functions. The new boat club clearly defines an architectural interaction with the water. The proximity of the boat repair yard influences form. Short term accommodation for those awaiting repairs or with vessels temporarily moored up in the creek is also provided on the site.

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Is doloreserepe quas viThe best way to predict the future is to create it

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Zain AliSameerah AumjaudMohammad AzzouzSimran BalamdasCharlotte CarlessAshleigh ColeNiall CoxAlexander FoxonHuzaifah HanifMatthew KeefeAntonis KyprianoEmma LeverJulius PjaulokasJack RandallAadil SidatAdam SweeneyWeiWei Tang

List of Third Year students BSc Hons Architecture 2014/15

RIBA Pt II ArchitectureIntroduction

The Masters in Architecture (MArch) programme at UCLan focuses on design innovation and contemporary architectural dialogue to challenge student thinking and prepare students for practice. Study themes focus on the paradoxical regional challenges of our rural and urban futures in both local and global contexts. Solutions are inspired by study of international precedents, and emerging global strategies and technologies for architecture in a climate of change.

The programme guides students through a series of complex and challenging design projects, with briefs ranging from abstract charrettes to live projects.

Students are encouraged to engage in architecture as a discursive subject, ultimately expressed in an independent project selection for the final year design thesis. With involvement from architects across the UK in a variety of teaching activities, the resulting projects are both challenging, creative and connected to the real world.

Jenni Barrett MArch Course Leader

Anthony DalbyDes FaganEhab KamelAdam EvansMArch Tutors

4 MArch Architecture

The Masters in Architecture degree at UCLan is in its infancy, but its first graduating cohort have coalesced the energy and enthusiasm of the student and staff team into an exciting reality.

Ways that architecture can engage in regional tourism was introduced as a study theme at the beginning of the year. Year five brought sunshine to Morecambe through their urban strategy and propositions inspired by the study trip to Bilbao. Whilst this project tackled declining tourism in an urban context, the Semester 2 project required an entirely different approach.

This project, a live project commissioned by Impact International, required students to consider architecture and tourism in a rural context, balancing the local impact of proposals intended for an international market. Students explored the client’s business model and aspirations with some fantastic results. The client selected Tom Boardman as the deserving winning designer.

Our first portoflio of final year projects is diverse, ranging from a Marine Biology Research Lab + Fishmarket in Great Yarmouth, to a synthesis of fashion and architecture in Dubai. Students have been challenged by a series of design charrettes, competitions, reviews and seminars to fuel their thinking. They have been further motivated by the support and feedback from the profession.

RIBA Pt II ArchitectureYears Five and Six

In particular, February’s *fresh architecture exhibition was hugely successful in providing the space for academics, professionals and students to discuss their work.

Local practices also joined us to share the benefit of years of experience at the Detail Studio. With this support and the commitment of the staff team, the MArch programme promises a fresh, long and exciting future.

Jenni Barrett MArch Course Leader

Morecambe has declined since the mid-twentieth century and seen its soul gradually fade away. The town is still famous for its views of the Lakeland mountain across the sands of Morecambe bay and its amazing sunsets making it a beautiful and peaceful location worth visiting. The core strategy indicates that through tourism, housing renewal and heritage led regeneration, Morecambe will be reinvented as a visitor destination, drawing on its natural and built heritage.

The proposal seeks to regenerate part of Morecambe in order to boost tourism. The concept will include; high rise residential apartments, urban parks, alternative street layouts and a theatre complex with educational facilities. The main focus of the design orientates around the performing arts school which will provide a base for students and adults of all backgrounds and ages to practice the performing arts.

Fahim AdamThe School of Performing ArtsMorecambe

Joshua AllligtonGALAVA Landscape and Cutural Discovery Centre

This project looks at creating a cohesion between the three disparate users that make up the Lake District National Park. The locals, the tourists and the National Park staff. Even though the needs of each may not be entirely aligned, they all share a common interest. The Lake District Landscape. It looks to re-establish the definition of the Lake District as a Cultural Landscape. Living off the land, discovery of new patches of wilderness and preserving what makes the Lake District so unique as a Cultural Landscape. Man must be allowed to reconnect to this rural playground, otherwise this chapter in the great story of the Lake District landscape will remain forever blank.

Laura BirkettLongridge Retirement VillageLancashire

The brief for the scheme derives from my work at Bramley-Pate and Partners, for South Ribble Borough Council specifying and altering bathrooms for the elderly and disabled. From undertaking surveys and meeting the clients face to face I saw firsthand the unsuitable conditions these people were living in and also how lonely and isolated some of them were. This project aims to propose a solution; a means of bringing elderly people into a suitable, homely environment helping them to integrate in society once more.

Mohammad ChaudharyFruitage over River ThamesLondon

This project is designed in tandem with the proposed South Bank regeneration. The scheme celebrates that journey with a foot and cycle crossing between Vauxhall and Chelsea. The scheme aims to achieve a synergy in harmony with the crossing. The habitable bridge provides a place where fresh daily produce will be transported by barge - celebrating the heritage of London with trade connections from all around the world. The bridge aligns with the planning of the new proposed development which has established a need for connection across the water with Chelsea, true to the heritage of trade across the iconic River Thames. Take a break and enjoy the produce.

Ommoluptas I2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

NEO is a proposal for a New Spaceport situated in the UK. The UK government has identified space tourism as a significant source of future revenue in an industry that is projected to be worth £400billion by the year 2030. The chosen site is adjacent to Newquay Cornwall Airport and St Mawgan RAF base. The project name derives from the Greek word “New” as the Spaceport forms a gateway to a new frontier of human evolution. Newquay is a fitting site as historically it was a ”gateway” to new inhabitants to the UK.

Joe CookNEO Spaceport Newquay

Rebecca LovellMarine Research Laboratory and Fish Market, Great Yarmouth

The Market Gates shopping centre was opened in 1976 in the town centre of Great Yarmouth. It currently incorporates and outdoor bus station, multi storey car park and 15,000 square metres of retail area. The centre itself however has fallen on hard times in recent years, going into administration once in 2012 and once again in 2014. This project aims to bring back the fishing industry to Great Yarmouth, allowing it once again to become part of the culture of the town. This will be achieved by creating a marine biology research lab for the marine stewardship council that will focus on the study of local fish stocks. This will be complimented by a local-scale fish market to sell to the general public locally caught and grown produce, rejecting the current models brought to Great Yarmouth by supermarkets.

Sylwia MazurekHigh Fashion Architecture - Mechanics of the Eclectic SkinDubai

The thesis explores the relationship of skin to the body both as aesthetic and structure. It identifies similarities in the ‘fashion’ of high rise buildings of Dubai, developing a critique on the methodologies of cladding structures by signature architects. The scheme proposes a skin system able to adapt and conform to the skeltal core structure of high rise buildings.

Atargatis, named after the Syrian Goddess of protection and wellbeing, is a place where one can seek aquatic treatments to improve their health or for those that wish to celebrate living in proximity to the coast. Studies state the importance of architecture, nature and wellbeing in promoting good health and improving-cognitive functioning. New flood defences need to allow us to engage with the environment and be a part of recreational and aquatic therapeutic architecture.

Emma McQuillanAtargatisAquatic Therapy Centre

Ommoluptas I2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

Building a contemporary mosque in Bolton, England as an antidote to Islamophobia. The project explores the contemporary issues of Islam in the west and investigates the development of the western mosque architecture particularly in England.The centre is a collective space and seeks to exist as a living entity. It requires active participation from local communities (both Muslim and non-Muslim. The proposed program serves both a secular and religious purpose. It is hoped the centre will act as a centre of exchange and continuous cultivation of Islamic and British culture.

Sohail MusaIslamic Cultural Centre & MosqueBolton

Stephanie NuttallCancer Treatment CentrePreston

The Preston Cancer Treatment Centre provides a space for patients that engages directly with the landscape surrounding it, generating a sense of tranquillity and calm antithetical to traditional hospital layouts. A signficant glazed frontage offers long-reaching views across the green opposite. The out-patient clinic is centered around an external courtyard that punctures the North facade. The waiting areas are focused on the courtyard, creating a bright, engaging space.

Manchester’s monument to the computer pioneer is this building. A centre for the study of big data, its upper floors accommodate scientists, programmers and administrators. The public move beneath in a shared realm where knowledge is transferred through human peer-to-peer networking. Inspired by Turing’s investigations into the processes of life, the form was generated through a hand-coded genetic algorithm relying on chance and selection over many generations to approach its goal. Its series of paths was then interpreted as the basis of the building shell.

Andrew PaulStrange Generations: The Alan Turing InstituteManchester

Martin QuintPeace of Mind CentreGlasgow

The Seven Lochs Wetland Park, located on the outskirts of Glasgow’s City Centre, aims to offer a retreat from the harsh city life and offers a sense of escape into this urban oasis. The project will be a treatment centre for certain mental health disorders as well as offering facilities to the public which promote health and well-being. The twisting nature of the structure makes it a spectacle in the park to raise awareness for mental health as well as representing a metaphysical twist in the victims of PTSD and the building twisting them back into shape. Preserving the wide variety of wildlife is a fundamental goal of the Seven Lochs Wetland Park so the building will be lifted above the ground and stretched over part of the loch in order to reduce the building footprint.

Urban trauma is defined as an event (such as conflict or catastrophe) which has damaged, disrupted and changed not only the infrastructure of a city and physical environment, but also the cultural and social networks. Cyprus is an island which has been divided by war, leading to an intervention by the United Nations creating a buffer zone across the middle of the country. The buffer zone in habits around 3% of the country stretching 180 kilometres. This zone has begun to be repopulated in allocated sections allowing for more than 10,000 people to live and work within it. Trauma causes displacement and this displacement then causes lack of ownership. The land once had an owner, but in the case of Cyprus, this has not been the case for over 40 years. This thesis will focus on how to repopulate after a traumatic even using Cyprus to examine post-traumatic habitation.

Keith TaskerPost Traumatic Co-Habitation,Cyprus

Chris ThomasThe Catalyst Gateway

Leeds

The scheme is a station for the HS2 high speed rail link located in the South Bank of Leeds. The station will provide all the necessities for the community of the South Bank and Leeds by developing strong links with London. In addition it is creating a station which can provide for the people by developing it into a central hub. The new station is embedded in the city and provides strong connections back to the existing station and the rest of the city. Leeds will be improved with these links, with additional focus on creating a new environment with green space alongside.

Leo TindellThe [E]merging Arts RefugeNicosia, Cyprus

The key driver for the design project stems from the current fraction in Cyprus and in particular the divided capital city of Nicosia, a country separated by war and conflicting cultures with the enforcement of a United Nations Buffer Zone running the length of the country for over 40 years. The design seeks to be socially responsive to provide an un-discriminating space where younger generations can go to discover their own identity and express themselves in whatever form they wish, creating their own spatial identities, providing a form of escapism from the physical scar that the demilitarised zone impacts on their everyday life. The refuge provides exhibition spaces, artist and performance studios open to the public to observe live work environments, bi-communal offices as well as interaction zones and open-air social and performance environments.

The Windermere project confronts criticism of high rise building by placing a tall tower in the Lake District National Park. It is built tall in order to answer the problem of population growth. It turns it’s back on horizontal expansion (traditional, slow re-housing of people living in National Parks) creating high density temporary ‘holiday’ quarters enabling people to venture into the hills without spoiling them through sprawling habitation. The project aims to question government policy on avoiding building tall in rural areas and to stem the selfish and ignorant individual expansion of low level single-family housing.

Dorota MoskalLake District High Rise Living, WindermereYr 5

Tom BoardmanMerewood Visitor

Centre Windermere

Yr 5

The proposal performs as the new standalone Impact International office space and welcome centre as well as the emphasised gateway portal to the journey through the woodlands further into the site. The separation from the current Merewood hotel offices provides dedicated office space for the 60+ staff at Impact whilst also acting as the public image of Impact. This enforces what the company stands for and their working ethos within the community whilst creating transparency of the business and its internal environment within the community.

Michael YosiefMindfulness and Wellbeing CentreWindermereYr5

The strategy for this project is to create mindfulness and wellbeing spaces in Oakthorpen Woodland, which is owned by Impact in Windermere. As impact are moving office from the Lake District the client this strategy proposes to keep the hotel running after the relocation. My strategy will deliver a mindfulness and wellbeing retreat for tourists and city workers who can join in sessions of meditation and body healing activities on the site.

Moluptae pellecume doluptatur? Ommoluptas nectur?

Is doloreserepe quas vi

When we build, let us think that we build for ever

Fahim AdamJoshua AllingtonLaura BirkettMohammad ChaudharyAntish ChennigadooJoseph CookRebecca LovellSylwia MazurekEmma McQuillanSohail MusaStephanie NuttallAndrew PaulMartin QuintKeith TaskerChristopher ThomasLeo TindellMohammed Ali Ahmed (yr5)Tom Boardman (yr5)Dorota Moskal (yr5)Michael Yosief (yr5)

List of students MArch 2014/15

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RIBA Pt I & Pt II Architecture

The intention of the Critical and Cultural Context Modules are to directly support the various lines of inquiry and exploration within the Design Studio. Rather than a canonical approach, this year we have taken a more discursive, lateral and panoramic approach to the way we think about theories and concepts within architecture.

Understanding cultural context and critical theory is the heart of what makes a successful architectural inquiry, and it is within this stream of Modules from Foundation entry through to MArch exit we question, test, and make sense of theoretical discussions via a pluralistic framework.

From heavyweight social thinkers such as Lefebvre, Bhabha and Gadamer to more contemporary writers on architecture such as Borden, Till and Rendell, we work within a field that envelops sociology, geography, cultural studies and anthropology to feed directly into what is traditionally called history and theory of architecture.

Adam Evans Subject Leader in Architectural History, Theory + Culture

5 Critical and Cultural Context

Students typically undertake the writing of at least one critical piece of coursework in each year. This starts at foundation level with the introduction and evaluation of key architectural movements, and moves through to a critical building and text analysis in first year, before students address a critical question in second year choosing from architectural topic areas of consumption, revolution, hapticity, rhetoric, digital and the liminal. In third year the exploration becomes more fine-tuned with a close reading of a particular architectural agenda or project comparatively interrogated via a relevant critical theory.

During the Master of Architecture, theoretical inquiry becomes bespoke and students choose to explore theories that relate to their emerging studio work, as a primer for the final year Written Thesis. The Thesis is typically 12000 words, is supported by a research methodologies Module, and works hand in hand with the Design Studio Thesis.

Following the submission of a working title and abstract, each student is allocated an appropriate supervisor to work with in order to develop their critical discussion. As

RIBA Pt I & Pt II Architecture

well as texts, we encourage the use of film, art and other spatial practices to act as agents for interrogation.

As well as support the trajectory of the Design Studio, this stream of modules exposes students to the socio-political, economic, and spatio-cultural drivers that make up the world of architecture - from the sweeping iconic gesture to the spatio-material actions of the everyday, and encourages students to position themselves within the complexities of the architectural world, where criticality is of paramount importance.

SPR1: Healing the Liminal Space: A Student Project on the Nicosia Buffer Zone10th March 2015Professor Karim Hadjiri

SPACE PRACTICE RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES

The SPR group completed the semester two lecture series with talks varying from graffitti and squatters to the nature of ephemerality and technology. Lively debating sessions between staff and students followed the talks.

SPR3: The Permanent and the Ephemeral in Architecture 16th April 2015Anthony Dalby

SPR2: Subcultural Thirdspace: Territory, Occupation and Spatio-politics of Graffiti Culture26th March 2015Adam Evans

SPR:4 Technology VS Art1st May 2015Des Fagan

SPR:5 Aller Anfang ist schwer - All beginnings are hard and so this is the middle and the end. 19th May 2015Ann Vanner

Resuscitating the Cultural Landscape, as an Architectural Playground within the Lake District National Park - George Joshua Allington - Year 6 MArch

Man has forever appropriated himself in places of needs and desires. Whether that is for resource, power, agricultural or cultural needs. This ‘ownership’ over ‘space’ has been instrumental in how the human race has urbanised and developed, cultivating the landscape to fulfil their needs.

With recent figures from the World Health Organisation showing that 54% of the world’s population is living in cities, a figure set to increase to 85% by 2050, you might forgive the building industry if it appears to be focusing on the urban environment. In his book ‘Landscape and Englishness’ David Matless is keen to dispel the apparent divide between the importance of the rural, in comparison to the urban, arguing that “the rural need to be understood in terms relative to those of the city and suburb, and approached as a heterogeneous field.” Surely then, rural function will become an escape from the modern day trials and tribulations of urban life? Why then have we seen the need to anaesthetise nature? Are we applying a basic primordial instinct to ‘control’ and ‘preserve’? Has the landscape become a synthesised product of urbanisation?

The landscape has always been synonymous with our ‘Englishness’. Agriculture and the countryside have been in the past as patriotic symbols, from World War propaganda posters to the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. These images of ‘Deep England’ romanticise the archaic, untouched and prospering perception of the countryside, no more so than in the Lake District National Park. Romanticised by artists, poets and writers alike, it has forever been a hub of creative and natural inspiration. But is the Lake District a product of cultivated intervention or an evolution of its own wild instincts?

“Lakeland” is made up of a series of complex layers, balancing the increase in economic demand from the tourist industry whilst also maintain a clasp on the cultural heritage and ‘conservation’ of the area. Over the years visitors have become a catalysts for huge economic and cultural changes to the Lake District and new values, demands and restraints have been placed on the National Park because of this rise. It still clings to the romantic notion of the area, whilst trying to embrace the evolving requirements of man. Just how much of the landscape has been cultivated for man’s own needs rather than being left to its wild, inspirational and natural self? Can the two opposing industries co-exist within The Lakes or are their needs too disparate to flourish?

ESSAY & DISSERTATION - BSc Hons Architecture / MArch

The BSc Hons and MArch essay (in final year dissertation) offers students the opportunity to undertake a sustained enquiry into a topic of particular interest to them and to develop their own modes of writing and presentation. Where appropriate the timing of the dissertation allows for topics explored to inform their projects. Students are given the opportunity to develop their topics and written proposals before discussing with individual specialist tutors. The following are examples of work submitted by students within the Architectural Studies programme.

Travelling with Actor Network Theory through exploration within an architectural framework - Mohammed Ali Ahmed - Year 5 MArch

Over the last two decades (1990-2014) Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has cultivated into a complex stratagem of standpoints, often including topics, which seem impertinent to the original context. It has become an imperative phenomenon, which has urbanised into a thought-provoking domain predominantly for science and technology studies, with architecture ensuing in the next line of enquiry for discussion. A few architectural researchers have already started exploring the prospect of actor-network theory in the hope of refining their own understanding of architecture as a sociotechnical network and also as a process. Some ANT ‘scholars’ have delved into the field of architecture, a terrain yet little explored by social scientists, to test and fine-tune their own theoretical implementations.

I will base my findings in accordance to Latour’s ANT. The three main points of interest for discussion will be, the cultural and social influence, the lack of distinction between the human, the natural and the technological; and finally the equality between human and non-human relationships. This will allow exploration for relationships between these networks, and lead to discussions and analysis of differences, which can be determined within various scenarios and outcomes.

I aim to show how these conventions between architecture and actor-network theory can result in a genre of rationalising the complex interactions between people and things, and between matter and meaning, that will contributes to new architectural research.

Ontology of the Occasion: Pleasurable or Cultural? - Jack Randall - Year 3 BSc Hons Architecture

The Occasion of a work of art is a theory developed by Hans Georg Gadamer in the field of Phenomenological studies. By exploring, the extract ‘The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative’ this essay aims to cut to the meaning of this theory in terms of architecture, and by applying the aspects of this theory to three works of renowned Architect Peter Zumthor, determine whether this Occasion is best shown within the context of a building designed with a cultural function or a pleasurable function.

Hans Georg Gadamer was a leading academic in in the fields of Phenomenology and Ontology, studying under and then working alongside Martin Heidegger. He is regarded as the founder of the modern Phenomenological and Ontological studies and schools of thought, picking up where ancient philosophers such as Plato left off. Phenomenology is defined as the study of phenomena; the occurrences of everyday, and how these occurrences appear from the first person perspective. Ontology takes this one-step further and looks into the nature of being in this first person perspective and the effects of phenomena on our interpretation of reality or existence.“Occasionality means that their meaning is partly determined by the occasion for which they are intended, so that it contains more than it would without this occasion’In the extract, ‘The Ontological Foundation of the Occasional and the Decorative’ from the larger book ‘Truth and Method’, Gadamer talks of ‘the occasion’, which is the situation or moment in time in which a work of art, be it a painting, poem or architectural design is developed. At this point, the situation becomes an integral part of the piece of art, linking not just the time but the cultural beliefs, schools of thought and interpretation of phenomena that are woven into the very subconscious of the creator or creators. It is inevitable that the eventual viewer will not exist in the same occasionality, the same instance of time, as the artwork and so their view of said art will be tempered by the changes of cultural views and priorities. This leads to a different interpretation each time the art is observed. This very difference gives meaning to the art, for it can preserve a snapshot of a time that will never be again, that is more vivid than any photograph. Though an interpretation may be effected by the viewer’s own conscious or subconscious link to his or her own culture, it still offers a glimpse into that which was before, thus bringing one closer to the past and to a better understanding of it.

An exploration of Ignasi de Sola-Morales ‘Weak Architecture’ with a discussion of context and an evaluation of ‘Weak Architecture’ in relation to contemporary design - Charlotte Carless - Year 3 BSc Hons Architecture

The human concept of reality is always bound to a time and location. Therefore our constant reality is an engagement with other times and locations. Even our momentary experience is qualified by our previous experiences in other times and locations. The philosophical notion of weak ontology was put into circulation by Gianni Vattimo with his suggestion that the contemporary condition is brought about through liberation. Liberation sought about by weakening the traces of the tradition in which one is being placed. An existence which is fragmented and Vattimo’s weak thought is best defined as an attempt to reconstruct rationality in a post-modernist way. Our contemporary, globalised situation can be read in terms of plurality, our cultures mix, people travel and opinions are shared amongst each other. We are forced on a daily basis to mediate the difference and contradiction of opposing thought and we constantly redefine ourselves by comparison to others. Stability seems to have slipped leaving our experience of existence a “plural, multiform, complex experience.” This piece of work strives to determine how we define our global situation with the proposition of weak ontology and weak thought. Ignasi de Sola-Morales evaluates the works of French and German thinkers such as and Manfredo Tafuri who concludes that “the contemporary experience can no longer be read in any linear form.” (Hays, 2000, p616). He suggests that understanding the modern situation is done through a process in which “the diverse, plural experience of the twentieth-century architecture allows us to unstitch and unravel the intrinsic complexity of the modern experience itself.” (Hays, 2000, p616). The basic premise of this theory is the idea that there is no longer a single, normative and universal foundation for philosophical debate and this has resulted in a crisis of reason. Sola-Morales asks the question “what role is accorded to architecture in the aesthetic system of contemporary weak thought?” (Hays, 2000, p616). He is looking to determine the reasoning behind the loss of a globalised system in architecture and highlighting the illusion that modernity still participates in the idea that it is possible to discover and absolute reality. This reality within art, science, and social, with a political axis is to be constructed on the basis of a universal rationality. Sola-Morales sets his stance on the notion of “absolute reality” (Hays, 2000, p617) suggesting the system enters into crisis as a result of the inability to establish a system that can flow universally, naming it as the real crisis of the modern project and the “critical situation of our contempora-neity” (Hays, 2000, p617).

BEAUTY & THE BEAST; BRUTAL BRITAIN; A REVOLUTION INTO REVOLT Savannah Wright - Year 2 BSc Hons Architecture

Architecture is but the process of a responsive evolution towards an idealised revolution; to design is a constant and perfected process; to practice architecture is to be God; the act of giving shelter, of protecting fellow men and women, listening to the needs of those that approach you – one might say architects are but the biggest hypocrites; believing not in a celestial creator as many; but in the ‘Natural Selection’ of materiality, structure and form. Only the most finesse survives to be built; a repetition of the familiar, that which long since the introduction of Modernism has become the drôle – white boxes, smooth surfaces, minimal, liminal and sweet. So is the aspiration of society, of the modern man; Utopian visions of white cities, of ecological sustainability and uniformity are commonplace. The collective vision of many.

But what of the collective vision of the individual? Of the few? Change is unwelcome, the grotesque is despised; and the future is impersonal and clinically cold and calculated. We design to fit in with the societal acceptance of that which is beautiful, our forms do not please us, they please the tutor, the professor, the examiner; striving above our reach, evolving gradually until the architect is a machine designed for design and nothing less, nothing more. Yet, to an architect of brave worth; Alison and Peter Smithson, are the originators; the bold and the brash; and the Britain of the 1960s and the 1970s was on edge as it balanced itself on the hinge of architectural evolution - Revolution is to challenge; it frightens when it rears its ugly head; but why did Britain shy away from its evolutionary path? Was it weak? Was the vision obscured? Or was society stubborn in its warm place of familiarity? Why, today, do the remnants of this incentive lay as masses of despised concrete, heralded as taboo? Was there ever a method in the Brutalism that gripped Britain? Or was it purely for the sake of rebellious revolution?

Within the School staff recognise the value of research, knowledge transfer and scholarship alongside teaching as major components within our activities. The School endorses and encourages the use of research-informed teaching. The research activities of the staff teaching on the courses are wide ranging and feed into the architecture curriculum development and delivery.

Reearch Activity

Professor Karim HadjriProfessor in Architecture

6 Research

Adaptive Systems for Elderly Residents

Professor Karim Hadjri is currently leading an international project to find new ways of helping older Professor Karim Hadjri is currently leading an international project to find new ways of helping older people remain in their own homes using smart technology to aid independence, care delivery and people remain in their own homes using smart technology to aid independence, care delivery and better connect them to their communities. The three-year €1 million venture will work with people better connect them to their communities. The three-year €1 million venture will work with people who are over the traditional retirement age of 65, with a particular focus on the over 80s, to find new who are over the traditional retirement age of 65, with a particular focus on the over 80s, to find new and innovative ways of adapting a person’s home so that they can live independently for longer and and innovative ways of adapting a person’s home so that they can live independently for longer and avoid going into residential care as well as making it easier for them to access public services such as avoid going into residential care as well as making it easier for them to access public services such as health and social services. health and social services.

The UCLan research team from the Grenfell-Baines School of Architecture, Construction and The UCLan research team from the Grenfell-Baines School of Architecture, Construction and Environment and the Centre for Citizenship and Community in the School of Social Work, will explore the Environment and the Centre for Citizenship and Community in the School of Social Work, will explore the relationships between a person’s living environment and the design of care delivery. This will involve relationships between a person’s living environment and the design of care delivery. This will involve working with older volunteers to, for example, explore smart technology such as sophisticated alarm working with older volunteers to, for example, explore smart technology such as sophisticated alarm systems that can monitor the opening and closing of doors, fall sensors, specialist lighting and talking systems that can monitor the opening and closing of doors, fall sensors, specialist lighting and talking devices to aid visual impairment, gadgets that monitor health information and even direct video links devices to aid visual impairment, gadgets that monitor health information and even direct video links to a resident’s GP.to a resident’s GP.

Building Information Modelling to Support Process and Data Management Innovation

The Architectural Studies Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Development have recently acquired a KTP project. A 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Frank Whittle Partnership and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to the company at an exciting stage in its development and growth and for UCLan to bring knowledge and experience from industry to architecture and architectural technology students.The project is led by Dr Abdul Ganah. The £130K project ‘Building Information Modelling to Support Process and Data Management Innovation’ will last 2 years and started in October 2014.

Preston Bus Station Competition Entry (Left)

Students from all years were invited to take part in the International Competition for the re-design of Preston Bus Station. MAKE architects and Wayne Hemmingway joined forces with UCLan Architecture staff for the month long project. Students took part in design charettes used to define outline strategies for the competition entry. The competition announcement is due in mid June 2015.

Tom BoardmanWinner, Merewood Live ProjectCompetionModel

Merewood Live Project (MArch) Client: Impact International

Live Project for global learning and development consultancy, exploring site and business model opportunities at Merewood Country House + Hotel, on a sensitive site in Windermere, Cumbria.

Living Building Challenge (MArch) Client: Martin Brown, Fairsnape

Exploring the potential of the US based Living Building Challenge (LBC) environmental standard and values to be applied to UK-based architectural and educational projects.

*fresh architecture exhibition (MArch)

MArch students exhibited their semester work in an evening of discussion and celebration of the Masters in Architecture at UCLan. The students received valuable feedback from an interdisciplinary array of practitioners and academics to guide them in the final months of their design theses.

OIKOnet

Recent funding from EU includes OIKOnet, a global multidisciplinary network on housing research and learning, where Karim Hadjri is leading the work package on Housing Research. Research will identify critical issues related to contemporary housing studies such as sustainable design and house preservation. It will also produce textbooks on the subject and provide entries on the digital platform OIKOpedia. OIKOnet is a follow-up of the OIKODOMOS virtual campus. Total project value €700k.

The newly appointed committee members for The Architecture Society of UCLan have ambitious plans to establish a varied diary of events for the upcoming academic year. This past year, the Architecture Ball was organised by the incoming members in the space of a week. The event was well attended - the Architectural Ball of 2016 (with a full years preparation) should stretch further, perhaps reaching out to other courses for a Creative Arts Ball.

The cogs are spinning, branding, colour themes, clothing manufacturers, sponsorships, residential, workshops are all in the works.

There has been no better time for the student society to step up and provide support to students on the course. With ambition and participation we hope every student finds the time to get involved!

Architecture Society

Oliver HamiltonArchitecture Society of UCLan & First Year Student

7 Student Society

Field Trips & Site Visits

Students take part in field trips each year to International destinations - this year, MArch students travelled to BIlbao and second and third years travelled to Venice and Edinburgh. Trips are integral to the course, as they provide an opportunity to experience different cultures and exemplary architectural practice outside the UK.

Ommoluptas I2009Archival PrintHammer-papir1980 x 2060mm

Foundation Entry

Award for outstanding performance [UCLan] Zak Crosby McCann

BSc (Hons) Architecture

Best final design scheme (UCLan nomination for RIBA President’s Bronze Medal) [Cassidy+Ashton] Aadil Sidat - Skippool Boat Museum

Grenfell-Baines Award for outstanding performance at Part 1 [BDP] Emma Lever

Redrow award for most improved performance at Part 1. [Redrow] Antonis Kyprianou

Redrow award for most improved performance in Professional Studies. [Redrow] Simran Balramdes

Masters of ArchitectureMasters of Architecture

Best final design scheme (UCLan nomination for RIBA President’s Silver Medal) [AHR] Best final design scheme (UCLan nomination for RIBA President’s Silver Medal) [AHR] Josh Allington - Josh Allington - GALAVA Landscape and Cutural Discovery Centre

MArch Part 2 Prize for Innovation in Technology [Urbahnstudio – Graham Patterson] MArch Part 2 Prize for Innovation in Technology [Urbahnstudio – Graham Patterson] Sohail Musa - Sohail Musa - Islamic Cultural Centre & Mosque

Grenfell-Baines Award for outstanding performance at Part 2 [BDP] Grenfell-Baines Award for outstanding performance at Part 2 [BDP] Keith TaskerKeith Tasker

Best contribution to the ethos of Architecture at UCLan [Croft Goode] Best contribution to the ethos of Architecture at UCLan [Croft Goode] Fahim AdamFahim Adam

Best Dissertation [UCLan] Resuscitating the Cultural Landscape: An Architectural Playground in the Lake Best Dissertation [UCLan] Resuscitating the Cultural Landscape: An Architectural Playground in the Lake District National ParkDistrict National ParkJosh Allington - Resuscitating the Cultural Landscape: An Architectural Playground in the Lake District Josh Allington - Resuscitating the Cultural Landscape: An Architectural Playground in the Lake District National ParkNational Park

Degree Show - Award Winners 2015

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