2010 Page 1 – 1 BArch Year 6 Continuity in Architecture Catalogue 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 – 3 Introduction from Head of School 4 – 17 BA (Hons) · Year 1 – 3 82 – 89 Research 4 – 5 Introduction 82 – 83 Architecture Research Centre at MIRIAD 6 – 9 Year 1 84 – 85 MA Architecture+Urbanism 10 – 13 Year 2 86 – 89 MARC · Manchester Architecture Research Centre 14 – 17 Year 3 18 – 81 BArch · Year 5 & 6 90 – 111 The School and the City 18 – 19 Introduction 90 – 91 msa squared International Collaboration & Exhibition 92 – 93 msa² · Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards 2010 22 – 29 Continuity in Architecture Year 5 & 6 96 – 97 MADF · Manchester Architecture & Design Festival Archaeology’s Places and Contemporary Uses · Venice 98 – 103 The Courtyard Project at the Manchester Museum Experiments in Urban Narratives · Manchester 104 – 107 Events month 108 – 109 mssa · the Manchester Student Society of Architecture 30 – 33 Emergent Urbanism Year 5 110 – 111 EASA 34 – 39 [Re_map] Year 6 International Workshop · Hannover 40 – 43 Prototype Year 5 44 – 47 Material-Space Year 5 48 – 53 Emergent Topographies Year 6 MAD-MAN 54 – 59 Displace Year 5 & 6 Heterotopia sequences workshop · Salerno & Naples, Italy 60 – 65 Biomimetics Year 5 & 6 Extreme Environments · Cornwall 66 – 71 msa Projects Year 5 & 6 Collaborations and Impact · Manchester City Council 72 – 75 Part-Time · Flexible Provision 76 – 77 BA · Humanities 78 – 79 BArch · Humanities 80 – 81 BArch · Technology · Climate Change, Proposition & Detail Page 1 Table of contents msa 2010 Catalogue 2010 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 2010 review of the msa The school continues to be a popular and Student success this year includes the Kohn highly respected destination for the study of Pedersen Fox / Architecture Foundation Student – the catalogue summarises the breadth architecture in a city with a rich tradition and Travel Award won by Nandi (Marshal) Han, of activity within the school illustrating vibrant contemporary architectural scene. The citations for Andrew Cook and Emma Robinson in the virtuosity of our graduates and the quality of teaching, research and the value the international AIA/ACSA Green Communities of our graduates to the profession all feature competition, a winning entry in Corus 09 for contemporary development of a rich significantly in evaluations of the school in the UK Romulus Sim, the winning entry in the UCAL spectrum of related initiatives. The context of architecture education. cityLAB international competition ‘Working Public msa is diverse and dynamic, engaged The vitality of student projects and Architecture’ by Peter Millar, Stuart Wheeler, programmes within the school continue to reflect Jamie Potter and Andy Wilde and an award in the with its professional context in the a wide variety of approaches to the challenge Nationwide Housing Award 2009 for Anthony ‘original modern’ city and its role in an of designing in the twenty first century and it is Campbell and James West. gratifying to see this reflected in successful entries Student success in competitions is parallelled international community of research to international design competitions focussed on by an active student society (mssa) with a and pedagogy in architecture. climate change and emergent urban conditions. commendably extensive array of visiting lectures, social events and competitions. INTRODUCTION BY Colin Pugh · Acting Head of School msa staff have continued to effect valuable The easa010 (European Association for The school remains open to dialogue with a collaborations with European partners thereby Students of Architecture) conference that will variety of stakeholders in the evolving discourse demonstrating our commitment to an enriched take place in Manchester (July – August 2010) centred on design and the built environment. The student experience within a dynamic international received continued support from the msa, msa hosted the regional RIBA Climate Change culture. This has resulted in enhancing the value nurturing relationships within the international event this year and continues to be active with of study trips in the undergraduate bachelors’ pro- field of architecture education. other schools in our regional RIBA context as we gramme and extending the range of collaborative The estates development within the Faculty develop the quality, diversity and value of our projects and partners in graduate units. of Art and Design (MMU) has evolved, delivering programmes for future students within the subject. msa continued its commitment to the refreshed workshop capacity during this academic Welcome to this window on the msa as we Manchester Architecture and Design Festival session. This is being fully utilised in an innovative celebrate the vision of our graduates. (MADF), incorporating a variety of student project that will result in the construction of led projects and workshops into the festival ‘the reflective room’ – a ‘live’ project acting as a calendar, celebrated in an exhibition at CUBE summer pavilion for the Manchester Museum – a (Centre for Understanding the Built Environment). huge thank you to Neil Thomas from atelier one ‘Hiveminds’, an inaugural symposium organised for his invaluable professional support. by MA Architecture+Urbanism, was also held at CUBE as part of the festival. Page 2 – 3 Introduction from the Head of School msa 2010 BA(Hons) INTRODUCTION The Bachelors’ programme at the msa continues within a pedagogic culture that provides diverse representation of their experience, understanding, to be one of the most popular in the United rather than singular points of reference and ideas and projects. The school is well supported Kingdom, with a rich mix of students from more support. Design teaching is complemented by by workshops that support manual and digital than 10 EU countries and in excess of a further programmes in the humanities and technologies model making, filmmaking and visualisation as 25 worldwide. The popularity of the programme relevant to architectural study developed across well as more specialised processes. It is important and diversity of the student population reflects the three year programme. to acknowledge the invaluable contribution made universal recognition of the value of gaining an Design is the core activity throughout the by a diverse body of workshop and other support undergraduate award at the msa. programme and the city context forms a recurring staff to the success of the programme. Design in all years is taught within a context for projects that encompass intimacy and Students benefit from exposure to a wide range framework of lectures and tutorials with publicity. Students are supported in developing of ‘in house’ lecturers, associate lecturers, teaching supporting workshops that absorb cultural and their personal capability to explore and interpret a assistants and, importantly, guest speakers and technological issues and complemented by a design agenda that is both relevant and vital to the visiting critics from architecture and its related range of study visits and trips at least one of circumstances of our contemporary ecology. professions, whose contribution this year is which has an international destination. Students Students are introduced to a wide range warmly appreciated and acknowledged here. are encouraged to become independent learners of processes and media to develop the Alexandr Valakh Biomimetic energy museum for Castlefield Layers of history and energy extraction through the ages Page 4 – 5 BA(Hons) Introduction BA(Hons) YEAR ONE The underlying agenda for Year 1 this year has For the first week in November we visited with materiality and colour, be political, and been for the investigation and proposal of a Amsterdam and Rotterdam, attending as many of be beautifully crafted. It was a great chance to number of varying scale interventions within the the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale events as we discover new opportunities within the Faculty of city, addressing the broad issue of sustainable food could. In groups we island hopped, consumed art, Art and Design. production and urban agriculture. Simultaneously, and examined public spaces, through the medium Finally, for the whole of semester two the we asked the students to fundamentally challenge of sketching, diagramming and filmmaking. students took part in the MARKET PRACTICE their preconceived understanding of the built We also had the opportunity to meet up with project. Set in 2020 after some proposed policy environment, and ask themselves why and how Patricia Ruisch (a BArch external examiner here changes regarding the possible compulsory they might study architecture. at the msa) at the Academie van Bouwkunst (The purchase of abandoned land, and land banked by Term 1 kicked off with the Mancunian Flaneur Amsterdam Academy of Architecture). Patricia developers, we inhabited the redundant Gaythorn project during freshers’ fortnight. Through kindly invited us to a preview of the graduation Industrial Estate, sited inbetween the Mancunian sketching, diagramming, photography, filmmaking exhibition at the school, and 40 of us attended a Way and Whitworth Street West arches. and research, all 189 fresh-faced architecture lecture at the school that evening. The project required the students to do work students immersed themselves to discover some To help support all of these new challenges, individually and in groups to: architectural treasures of Manchester. the Graduate Teaching Assistants have delivered [1] create a group strategy for the creation