Northumbria Projects 2020 Copyright © 2020 University of Northumbria at Newcastle “The School of Architecture at Northumbria University continues to be recognised and respected for its robust All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, pedagogic vision for, and delivery of, learning and teaching. stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photographic reproduction or There is a very strong and coherent teaching team across otherwise without permission. both the BA and MArch programmes who operate in a highly collegiate and effective manner. Design + Editorial: Dominique Gingras There is an excellent and carefully considered balance Jacob Nicol between structured teaching and learning events and Jack Sipocz Oliver Paul independent learning opportunities which enables each student to pursue areas of inquiry relevant to their personal Department of Architecture and the Built Environment ambitions and interests.” Faculty of Engineering + Environment Sutherland Building Northumbria University Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Professor Nick Dunn NE1 8ST Lancaster University
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Contents
This publication is more than a catalogue 6 Special Thanks of over 100 student projects and it is the culmination of more than 7 years of learning, 9 Welcome to Northumbria Projects 2020 research and development. Thousands of hours of study have produced a group of 10 Student Experience graduates charged with diverse abilities, skills, 12 Northumbria Architecture Society and personalities. 16 Vienna Study Trip Northumbria Projects 2020 showcases the talent and dedication of this years graduating 22 Awards 2020 Architecture and Interior Architecture 24 Architecture BA (Hons) students, and the school’s commitment to the 44 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) highest standard of architectural education. 72 Architecture MArch We would like to thank all of the students, sta and contributors to our architecture 90 Undergraduate Architecture courses, as without their help and dedication 92 Architecture BA (Hons) Year 3 throughout each and every academic year, the 94 Of Woods and Water brilliant work in this project yearbook would not have been achieved.
124 Interior Architecture 126 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Year 3 128 Assembly House: Occupy 140 The Old Pottery: Engage 150 Postgraduate Certi cate in Interior Architecture 152 Re-Imagining Gibside
158 Postgraduate Architecture 160 Architecture MArch 162 MArch Studio 01: Urban Stiching 180 MArch Studio 02: Performing Architecture 190 MArch Studio 03: This Enduring Landscape
218 Index
221 Acknowledgements
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Special Thanks
Special thanks are given to the academic sta in Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Dr. Zaid Alwan Leon Amess Architecture and Interior Architecture this year. Environment Martin Purvis Their agility to navigate through a challenging Prof. John Woodward Associate and Visiting Lecturers Matt Dundas and changing landscape to continued their Agnieszka Wir-Konas, Northumbria University Sam Hutchinson commitment and dedication to our students Head of Department of Architecture and the Alison Sykes, JDDK Architects Steve Colvin has been incredible. This brought stability to Built Environment Ben Couture, Jardin Couture Stewart Wilkin those students and allowed them to reach Dr. Simon Robson Bradley Sumner, Carmody Groake their potential, in a year like no other. Chris Brown, Mawson Kerr Architects Professional Support Head of Subject Architecture Claire Murray, Levitt Bernstein Allison Parmley Special thanks also go to academic sta who Paul Ring Craig Gray, Stallan-Brand Amanda Holmes have moved on this year; Prof Ruth Dalton, Darren Hancock, From Works Andrew Bellamy in now Head of the Lancaster School of Programme Leader BA (Hons) Architecture Derek Shepherd, P+HS Architects Barry Errington Architecture, Prof Rosie Parnell has taken up Dr. Alice Vialard Dominic Williams, Ryder Architecture David Young a position at Newcastle University, Valentina Georgi Rennison-Rae, Contents Design Duncan Attwell Beatini has returned to Italy and Prof Bob Programme Leader BA(Hons) Interior Arch Gordon Hudson, Northumbria University Fiona Hackney Giddings has retired, after a long career at Andrea Couture Grace Choi, Grace Choi Architects Lee Proud Northumbria. They each provided valuable Graham Baty, Northumbria University Lisa Smith guidance and tuition to our students, they Programme Leader Architecture MArch Heba Sarhan, Northumbria University Muriel Campion were great colleagues and we wish them well. Sebastian Messer Ian Crow, Ryder Architecture Richie Hutchinson James Parmley, WSP Special thanks go to Dominique Gingras, Jacob Programme Leader PG Certi cate in Interior John Lonsdale, JLA Architects Nicol, Oliver Paul and Jack Sipocz, the student Architecture Lee McLaughlin, Lee McLaughlin External Examiners Editorial team for their time and dedication to Pete Dixon Leighton Cooksey, FaulknerBrowns Architects this publication. Luke Willetts, GT3 Architecture MA Architecture Academic Sta Mark Whiting, Squires Barnett Prof. Karim Hadjri, She eld University The Architecture and Interior Architecture Dr. Alice Vialard Matt Margetts, Edable Nick Walker, Collective Architecture students here at Northumbria University would Andrea Couture Michael Simpson, GT3 Architecture like to express their gratitude to the amazing Ben Couture Nick Walker, Collective BA(Hons) Architecture Technical Support team, without whom so Dr. Ayse Ozbil Torun Nicola Watson, JDDK Architects Jennifer Boyer, Dublin School of Architecture, much of this years work, and the exhibition David Morton Nigel Scorer, Contents Design TU Dublin itself, would not be possible. Dr. Jiayi Jin Otis Murdoch, JDDK Architects Karen Nugent, Page\Park Architects Kelly MacKinnon Paul Crowther, FaulknerBrowns Architects Dr. Rachel Sara, University of West of England Dr. Kyung Wook Seo Philip Miller, Ryder Architecture Dr. Laura Brown Rana Ayman, Northumbria University BA(Hons) Interior Architecture Dr. Lesley McIntyre Robin Cross Patrick Macklin, Glasgow School of Art Dr. Nadia Bertolino Stacey Marshall, EMA Architects Jennifer Boyer, Dublin School of Architecture, Prof. Paul Jones Steve McIntyre, FaulknerBrowns Architects TU Dublin Paul Ring Steve Miller, Miller Partnership Peter Dixon Stuart Franklin, JDDK Architects PG Cert Interior Architecture, Dr. Peter Holgate Stuart Palmer, Studio SP Architects Karen Nugent, Page\Park Architects Richard Watson Tim Bailey, xSite Architecture Sebastian Messer Tom Hewitt, Beamish Museum Shaun Young Will Campbell, FCB Studios Stephen Roberts Will Mawson, Mawson Kerr Dr. Tara Hipwood Dr. Tarek Ahmed Technical Support Tim Ingleby Adam Cosheril Will Campbell Alex Clay 6 7 Foreword Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Welcome to Northumbria Projects
Welcome to Northumbria Projects 2020, our for teaching and end of year exhibitions in annual catalogue of award-year student work the future. Particular thanks must be given to from our courses of Architecture (Part I and Part Ben Couture, Dominique Gingras, Jacob Nicol, II) and Interior Architecture (BA and PGCert) at Oliver Paul and Jack Sipocz for their work to Northumbria University. develop www.northumbriaarchitecture.com which I urge you to visit. It is with great pleasure that we share the work of our Architecture and Interior Architecture The work within this catalogue provides students with you this year and celebrate their an insight into the creative practice of our creative practice. We are exceptionally proud students and continues to tackle issues of of our students and no more so than this year, place, community, ecology, and biodiversity where they have shown great adaptability and with a poignancy that we can appreciate now resilience to produce nal project work that more than ever. The work is agenda-setting, it continues to be complex, rigorous in intent is largely self-determined and it expresses the and rich in execution. control our students hold over their craft, even whilst adapting to remote working conditions. Students adjusted mid-project, they found new ways of working and they rose to the This catalogue celebrates their achievements challenge of a nal year, within a year like no and as such contains a rich variety of ideas and other. As we adjusted to the jolt brought by the speculations on architectural space, place and global pandemic and we moved into a national placemaking. It is an acknowledge of the e ort, lockdown, our students continued to work commitment, learning and creative practice of on their major projects with determination, our students and it is a pleasure to be able to dexterity and resolve. They are a testament to share the breadth of their critical thinking and their generation and they are an example to imaginative expression with you. others who follow in their footsteps.
As the studio became remote and online, so did the 2020 End of Year Show. As with all other Schools of Architecture, this was far from what we would have liked for our 2019-2020 graduates. In the end, our online exhibition became a work of great strength and unity, allowing us to bring the year to a close and celebrate successes and awards with our graduates. This signi cant achievement will now have a lasting legacy, creating an online public platform for Northumbria Architecture that will continue for years to come, in addition Paul Ring to us returning to our Award-winning studios Head of Subject, Architecture
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Student Experience
Northumbria Architecture Society
Vienna Study Trip
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Northumbria Architecture Society 2019 - 2020 The Northumbria Architecture Society (NAS) is celebrating more than 12 years of success, and since being founded by Architecture Students in 2007 the society has organised an award-winning guest lecture series, trips, socials, exhibitions, workshops, competitions and a forum for all enthusiast Architecture and Interior Architecture students
NAS is a society that combines academic and social activities related to architecture for the bene t of its members. The society is run by an annually elected committee of students Committee 2019 - 2020 who each create a promotional poster prior to Marko Sherstylo – President vote day. Voted on by all society members in Wiktoria Skarbek – Secretary attendance, the architecture school is able to Alex Pressley – Treasurer decide which student will be best for each role, Oliwia Kuzma – Events Coordinator ensuring continued innovation and faith from Nick Du y – Events Coordinator the students represented in the society. This Joanna Magrel – Marketing and Social Media year’s committee is dedicated to pursuing new Executive challenges and bringing brilliant new content Isgandar Hajiyev – Lecture Organiser to our members, whether they are students, Mark Evans – Lecture Organiser alumni or associates of the university. NAS has also aided in creating the ‘NAS Networking Group’ for all enthusiastic Architecture and Northumbria Students Union Awards Interior Architecture Students and Alumni, Annual Award for Enterprise 2019 creating a great space to share interests, Academic Society of the Year 2018 connect, and open discussions. Committee of the Year 2018
From the annual lecture series with national northumbriaarchsoc.co.uk and international speakers to discussion rooms, the 48 hour TOGETHER competition, Facebook facebook.com/ and recent project with English Hertiage for NorthumbriaArchitectureSociety/ a new vistor centre at Warkworth Castle, the Twitter @ArchSocNU cumulative outcomes of these events continue Instagram @northumbriaarchsoc to create a place for design, conversation and opportunities for students, tutors and guests.
Meanwhile, the ever-successful social aspect of networking and celebrating our successes goes from strength to strength, with yearly Images | Haworth Tompkins Guest Lecture (top-left) The 2019 TOGETHER 48 Hour Competition (top-right) events such as the PPE Bar Crawl and the Fantasy Architecture - 2019 Lecture Series (bottom-left) Christmas Ball. The Winter Ball 2019 (bottom-right) 12 13 Student Experience Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Warkworth Castle Secrets in Stone Warkworth Castle is an aristocratic forti ed residence once belonging to the powerful Percy family. Located on the banks of the river Coquet, the castle occupies a commanding position above the town of Warkworth.
Warkworth Castle is a popular visitor attraction in the heart of Northumberland, welcoming approx. 50,000 visitors annually. However, it is evident that due to its small size, the site admissions building struggles to cope with these numbers and at times it is overwhelmed.
This competition, hosted by English Heritage, invited students to design a new visitor centre to replace the existing admissions building at Warkworth Castle. The new structure would have to incorporate visitor admissions, retail, catering, an interpretation space, and sta facilities. Students attended a pre-arranged site visit and a project brie ng with English Heritage before proposing their architectural concepts for the new visitor centre.
Example Competition Entries
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Vienna Study Trip November 2019 Year 2 Architecture and Interior Architecture students are joined by Year 5 MA Architecture on a European Study tour each year to enrich their understanding and to support their cultural development as designers. Visits have included Rome, Rotterdam, Berlin, Paris, Madrid and Venice.
Vienna
The city of Vienna is one of Europe’s most architecturally diverse cities, encompassing architecture of the Medieval through to the pinnacle of world renowned high tech design. In the rst week of November 2019, students and sta had the chance to visit some of Vienna’s most famous buildings, museums and galleries during a week-long trip to the Austrian capital. 16 Images | David Ogilvie Image | Alice Vialard 17 Student Experience Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Students could choose between four set architectural gems. During a walking tour groups, each exploring a di erent aspect of of the University of Economics and Business the cities rich, architectural past. Each group campus students visited Zaha Hadid’s neo- had the chance to experience the famous futurist and parametric Library & Learning Austrian Postal Savings Bank (Österreichische Centre along with other key buildings by: Postsparkasse) by renowned Austrian architect Studio of Hitoshe Abe, Estudio Carme Pinos Otto Koloman Wagner, a leading gure in the S.L, NO.MAD Architects and BUSarchitektur ZT Vienna Secession movement, closely related Gmbh. to the movement of Art Nouveau of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Another highlight was the visit to the Museumsplatz; an area within the 7th district which includes Baroque buildings as well as Modern architecture by the architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner. Here, students visited the modern art galleries MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna) and Leopold, home to Austria’s most famous pieces of contemporary and expressionist art.
As well as Vienna’s cultural past, students experienced some of the cities newer
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Awards 2020 Architecture BA (Hons)
RIBA Presidents Medals: Bronze Medal RIBA North Student Award Architect’s Journal Student Prize Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Undergraduate Project Ryder Prize for Best Undergraduate Project Velux Prize The GT3 People Architecture Award
Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project Ryder Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project The GT3 People Architecture Prize Interior Educators National Student Project Award Interior Educators National Student Writing Prize Gagarin Studio Prize for Creative Writing YMCA Award for Socially Responsive Design The National Trust Heritage Adaptation Award Newcastle Arts Centre Interior Architecture Award The Old Pottery, Corbridge Heritage Adaptation Award The Jonathon Spiers Scholorship Award
Architecture MArch
RIBA Presidents Medals: Silver Medal RIBA North Student Award Architect’s Journal Student Prize The Northern Architectural Association Glover Prize for Design Research RIBA President’s Medals Dissertation Medal The GT3 People Architecture Prize
22 Image | Lyndon Jessop, The Coatsworth Urban Rooms 23 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
RIBA President’s Medals Bronze Medal Nomination
Alexandra Valkovicova Museum in the Landscape, Mitford Castle Rings
24 25 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
RIBA President’s Medals Bronze Medal Nomination
Alexander Mackay Mitford Castle Crematorium - A Journey of Mourning
26 27 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
RIBA North Student Award Nomination
Wiktoria Sharbek Mitford Distillery and Visitors Centre
28 29 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
RIBA North Student Award Nomination
Oliver Paul Life in Death, A Crematorium for Bothal
30 31 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
Architect’s Journal Student Prize Nomination
Marko Sherstylo Mitford Castle Crematorium
32 33 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Undergraduate Project Winner
Wiktoria Sharbek Mitford Distillery and Visitors Centre
34 35 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Undergraduate Project Commendation
Alexander Mackay Mitford Castle Crematorium - A Journey of Mourning
36 37 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
Ryder Prize for Best Undergraduate Project Winner
Oliver Paul Life in Death, A Crematorium for Bothal
38 39 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
Velux Prize Winner
Ryan Labuschagne The Decomposition Centre
40 41 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture BA (Hons)
The GT3 People Architecture Award Winner
Aaron Ptohopoulos Demise Through Nature
42 43 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project Winner
Olivia Simpson RePlanting The Old Pottery
44 45 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project Commendation
Milly Muir Westgate House
46 47 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Ryder Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project Winner
Alice Pratten Newcastle Textile Workshop
48 49 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The GT3 People Architecture Prize Winner
Olivia Simpson RePlanting The Old Pottery
50 51 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Interior Educators National Student Project Award Nomination
Alice Pratten Newcastle Textile Workshop
52 53 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Interior Educators National Gargin Studio Prize Student Writing Prize for Creative Writing Commendation Winner
Alice Pratten Alice Pratten Questioning Demolition Questioning Demolition
This essay appraised existing methodologies appraisal of alternative arguments concerning also considered a range of practical aspects A literary appraisal of manifestos from Viollet le on adaptation, reappropriation, demolition building retention and restoration; in turn, the that contribute to any decision-making process Duc, SPAB, Riegl, Boito and of the Athens and and deconstruction, with a primary focus work became centred on arguments for or around whether a building is retained, restored, Venice Charters underpined the work and gave placed upon building a case for deconstructing against demolition. adapted, deconstructed or demolished. Within credence to the appraisal of value systems and abandoned buildings through their value as a the current pressing environmental crisis, an anthology of behaviours around built relics. material bank. Numerous theoretical arguments exist the environmental impact of a buildings The case for deconstruction over demolition is surrounding the fate of a building: objective construction and continuation is rasied and made with rigour and by citing paradigms, the To consider the arguments for and against ones, for example Alois Riegl’s declarative value the work considered the sustainability of the work sets out an approach that could have a deconstruction, the work considered the system; and subjective ones, such as SPAB’s alternatives to demolition in equal measure, major impact upon our attitudes to remnant various manners by which a building can method of determining the virtues of value. In arriving at a position of urgency. matter through a sustainability gaze. 54 be treated, if not demolished, along with an addition to theoretical approaches, the work 55 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
YMCA Award for Socially Responsive Design Winner
Chalotte Allan Fashion for Good- Donation Journey Centre
56 57 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
YMCA Award for Socially Responsive Design Winner
Tom Rickman Wellbeing Through Creating
58 59 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The National Trust Heritage Adaptation Prize Winner
Tom Rickman Walkers Pottery
60 61 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Newcastle Arts Centre Interior Architecture Award Winner
Alice Pratten Newcastle Textile Workshop
62 63 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The Old Pottery, Corbridge Hertiage Adaptation Award Winner
Jasmine Parnell-Murray The Old Pottery’s Hive
64 65 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The Old Pottery, Corbridge Hertiage Adaptation Award Commendation
Jack Sipöcz Corbridge Community Coop
66 67 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The Old Pottery, Corbridge Hertiage Adaptation Award Commendation
Olivia Simpson RePlanting The Old Pottery
68 69 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
The Jonathon Spiers Scholorship Award Winner
Meryem Ozmen Anti-Story; Seaton Delaval Hall
70 71 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
RIBA President’s Medals Silver Medal Nomination
Josh Crosby The Biocyclarium
72 73 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
RIBA North Student Award Winner
Emma Hodgkiss Wilding the Vergelands: The Great North Stage Posts
74 75 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
RIBA President’s Medals Silver Medal Nomination
Jess Leggett The Belt Transect
76 77 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
RIBA North Student Award Nomination
Richard Lamming Down in the Mud
78 79 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
Architects Journal Student Prize Nomination
Adam Novogrodskis Hartlepool Urban Regeneration
80 81 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
Architects Journal Student Prize Nomination
Emma Hodgkiss Wilding the Vergelands: The Great North Stage Posts
82 83 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
The Northern Architectural Association Glover Prize for Design Research Winner
Emma Hodgkiss Wilding the Vergelands: The Great North Stage Posts
84 85 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
RIBA President’s Medals Dissertation Medal Nomination
George Knipe Rural Encounters: Recording the aesthetic and experiential similarities between agricultural structures in contribution to a new ‘Agricultural Design Family’
Agricultural structures receive little attention To this end, this inquiry deploys Ludwig in architectural academia. They belong to Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘family resemblances’ what Bernad Rudofsky might have referred to examine how, in the case of agricultural to as a type of ‘non-pedigreed architecture’. structures, a di erent approach might be Yet to many, agricultural structures remain adopted. Structured around three walks along a constant source of design inspiration, the border between Wiltshire and Hampshire, exemplifying qualities and characteristics and aided by the works of Gordon Cullen, the that are otherwise absent or overshadowed Bechers, and proponents of the picturesque, in the architecture compendium. This inquiry this thesis dissects a number of epistemological posits that insu cient methods of knowledge contentions and research doctrines to arrive conceptualisation and categorisation are at a revised framework of understanding. A partially to blame for this diluted discourse, framework of understanding which o ers and if homogenised ocular-centric design fads perhaps a more resilient, malleable, and useful are to be avoided, these laissez-faire attitudes foundation for contemporary design practice 86 must be confronted. and discourse. 87 Awards 2020 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment Architecture MArch
The GT3 People Architecture Prize Winner
Lyndon Jessop The Coatsworth Urban Rooms
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Architecture
BA (Hons) ARB/RIBA Part I
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Architecture BA (Hons) ARB / RIBA Part I
With extensive input from professionals and The design projects module requires students the chance to work on authentic projects to synthesize and apply creative design skills across a diverse range of sites, this course is and accumulated knowledge to systematically designed to give students the full range of develop, test and propose solutions for skills they’ll need for a career in architecture. complex architectural projects. Set projects propose a range and mix of contexts and We cover the ve themes of architecture; typologies, requiring students to propose design, communication, history and theory, meaningful architectural propositions through technology and environment, practice the critical investigation and evaluation of management and law. Students have the context, narrative and an attitude towards opportunity to take part in a European abstract ideas and concepts. The design eld trip which helps them to assess process addresses authentic complexity historical and contemporary in uences and demonstrates an understanding and on architecture. They complete two major application of technology and environmental projects, typically one rural and one urban in requirements. Students work in a variety of context, allowing them to develop a personal graphical and modelling 2D and 3D media approach to architectural design. Students to develop and communicate their proposals also learn about environment and systems by means of a summative exhibition to integration, constructional, structural design, demonstrate skill in design, drawing, making, environmental and sustainable design, and editing, story-telling and self-management. cultural context.
“…sta here are very positive and enthusiastic. They are also very caring about their students and dedicated to making the department one of the best in the country”
Professor Karim Hadjri She eld University
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Architecture BA (Hons) Of Woods and Water
This year, students have been tasked with Projects creating architectural proposals in and around Theatre: Morpeth Town Centre the historic market town of Morpeth, on Library: Morpeth Town Centre challenging sites along the River Wansbeck. Death and Memorial: Wider Morpeth Museum and Collections: Wider Morpeth In Semester 1, students sought to make Industry: Wider Morpeth proposals for theatres and libraries on riverside sites, for a town lacking the relevant theatrical Tutors and educational infrastructure. The chosen Leighton Cooksey, FaulknerBrowns Architects sites currently marked for re-development Ian Crow, Ryder Architecture provided challenging constraints for students Tim Ingleby to design within. The projects would analyse Shaun Young the theoretical underpinning and signi cance of relevant architecture of the late 20th Associate and Visiting Tutors century to be reapplied in meaningful ways Ashley Dunford, ARUP Architects throughout Morpeth. Collectively, proposals Niall Durney, FaulknerBrowns Architects looked to forge a connection between the Tom Hewitt, Beamish Museum historic context of the town and the poetic Lee McLaughlin, FaulknerBrowns Architects nature of the river, with new infrastructure of Derek Shepherd, P+HS Architects modestly scaled public buildings and public Bradley Sumner, Carmody Groake spaces.
In Semester 2, students designed proposals for museums, crematoria and industrial buildings in historically signi cant sites on the outskirts of Morpeth, developing responses for the varied typological requirements of each proposal. The three sites featured pronounced historical context situated in and around Bothal and Mitford Castles, or amongst Mitford’s disused water treatments. Once again, architectural proposals sought to forge meaningful relationships with the River Wansbeck through physical and metaphorical devices, with a focus on both sustainability and enhancing the landscape.
94 Image | Ahmed Elkamel, Mitford Communal Crematorium 95 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Fatima Alsamahiji Kate Baker Mitford Sister’s Goodbye in the Green Community Centre A Goodbye in the Green. The concept behind this We need to be reminded to design is to create a museum nd healing in nature, as the which would have di erent cycle of life regenerates as spaces that resemble e ortlessly as the seasons di erent people. The site is change. Mitford Crematorium located between Mitford sets aside the complications Castle Ruins and the Saint of the contemporary urban Mary Magdalene’s Church in funeral and focuses on the order to create a journey. emotional and psychical journey of grief. Mitford Castle belonged to the Mitford Family and they By interlacing landscape have a special burial space in forms into building design, the church. The Mitford Sisters the crematorium simply have di erent personalities, provides an organic shelter and the aim is to create a from the elements, to di erent space that would celebrate and enjoy life. resemble each sister and a This journey dissipates into shared central library space to the idyllic landscape of connect them by their shared Mitford Castle, with its 12th love for writing and reading. Century ruins and overgrown treescape.
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Awais Chaudhry Ryan Cole Mitford Islamic Mitford Crematorium Cemetery and Gardens
Mitford Castle, a place An Abstract World of which has been frequently gardens and burial lands destroyed through time gives sits on the site of Mitford birth to an Islamic Cemetery Castle. This proposed world reaching far out with all its is created by long walls glory. branching out through the landscape, meeting the River The name of the Islamic god Wansbeck. The walls create shines 25 meters above the an immediate relationship ground displaying a gesture between the existing ruins of peace. The cemetery and the river, whilst creating guides the users through its a territory of land which peaceable journey towards consists of Abstract Gardens the building’s burial site. and burial lands between The time formulates the the crematorium and the users experience while its di ering chapels. distance slows proceeding. The water puri es individuals before entering, while the continuation of natural light forms a spiritual provision.
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Patrick Connall Seth Daker The Timber Fabrication Mitford Climate Change Facility Memorial
The timber prefabrication Memorials often act as a panel production facility at reminder for people to Mitford is nestled into the consider their actions, to old water treatment site just avoid mistakes made in the o the A1. The industrial past past. This ground scraper is embraced in the design building nestles itself into of the new industrial unit. the landscape, partially The buildings proposed for submerged referencing that the site take on innovative whilst you cannot see climate industrial forms through change it is still happening. both material choice and overall lifespan on the site. There is currently a lack Both buildings look to set an of awareness amongst example for the possibilities the general public of how of using timber as a building detrimental climate change material. Over 70% of both is. The experience will educate buildings are made from visitors and act as a catalyst timber. Furthermore the for change. If the predicted o ce block is constructed trends continue the memorial of panels produced by the will not only stand for the warehouse building. Earth but for the people who visited and didn’t do enough to save it.
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Ahmed Elkamel Natalie Gardner Mitford Communal Bothal Crematorium Crematorium The proposal is a new The concept of Mitford crematorium situated in the communal crematorium is to peaceful Village of Bothal. capture and frame the human The crematorium, built with life cycle represented by three a striking white calcined di erent views that exist concrete block sits seamlessly around the site of Mitford in the landscape capturing castle. Each view represents views of River Wansbeck an aspect of human life from and Bothal Castle. The birth to death in a unique crematorium is a non-secular way. As you experience this space for nal farewells to place, you will be introduced loved ones. The architecture to di erent kinds of contains in uence from atmospheric qualities which both Christian and Jewish re ect a certain view in an architecture from the abstract way. The proposal Dominican Motherhouse, features a modern design, First Unitarian Church, and which creates an outstanding Hurva Synagogue by Louis environment to be in. Large Kahn. The religious ambiguity double-glazed openings of the crematorium allows frame the surroundings in visitors to interpret the space distinctive ways. according to their own beliefs.
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Isgandar Hajiyev Grant Hewitt Mitford Museum of Mitford Earth Building Northumberland Mining The design is based upon Mitford Museum of an industry for producing Northumberland Mining is natural pre-cast construction based on the abstraction of materials such as rammed the Mitford Castle ruins and earth panels and hempcrete fragmenting their “spread” blocks. Materials will be or “declaration” in the produced on site where landscape into the proposal. possible such as growing The underlying motif of the hemp. fragments is to travel and fetch the contextual layers of Another value for the proposal history of Northumberland is to educate. Due to the such as mid-war mining uncommon materials local culture, The Bevin boys, and builders may require training Northumberland bagpipes. on the methods required, The programme is in four which will be provided on parts; a Central Building, a site. A cafe located in the Performance Building, the Corbridge inspired kiln will Mining Exhibition and a Cafe; also be available. The space connected with carved routes will serve guests when they bordered with gabion walls are on workshop days as well as people passing through the local community.
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Ethan Howard Angeliki Ioannidi The Fallen Gallery Mitford Necropolis
The fallen gallery is a social Mitford Castle Necropolis, is history project located on a place that o ers tranquility the Mitford ruins, a historic and calmness, the so- medieval village in the heart called “αταραξία < ataraxia” of Northumberland. The goal as referring to the Greek of the proposal is to turn dictionary. Somewhere for Mitford into a destination, a those in mourning and for the place where people would one’s that seek peace of mind; not only want to visit but stay. even for the one’s exploring Mitford. To achieve this the gallery has lodges in the landscape The structures that form so people can stay and the Necropolis are located explore Northumberland’s beneath the Historical Mitford rural landscape. The project is Castle Ruins that sit on a small titled a social history project hill of 12m height, encircling because the project is as the front whilst highlighting much about the tourist as it is the importance of the Ruins the local. as they become part of the design.
106 107 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Harry Kershaw Oliwia Kuzma The Exploration Centre Life Celebration - Mitford Castle Cemetery The Exploration Centre is an exciting Museum space The Mitford Castle Cemetery that encourages visitors to is designed to function as understand the landscape of an extension to the existing Northumberland. Mitford Cemetery. The proposal aims to root the The building features several cemetery within its context, “shed-like” forms that were to meet the needs that arise designed with the intention from the growing popularity of creating a sense of of Cremation. An emerging familiarity, in comparison trend for celebrating life to the vernacular forms of instead of grieving the agricultural buildings found in loss and profane character the local area. A cantilevered of funerals. Aa well as the space, clad in copper, makes Funeral House the proposal gestures toward the 11th consists of a ceremony Century Bothal Castle and building, columbarium opposing River Wansbeck. and dining building. The Toward the lower end of the proposal features a re ective site lies a Floodplain that facade which blends with the building adopts with a the environment whilst subterranean level built with maintaining privacy during bold, sweeping, concrete the mourners celebration of walls. life.
108 109 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Ryan Labuschagne Rian Lamb The Decomposition Innovative Agricultural Centre Centre
Velux Prize Winner The Innovative Agriculture Centre is a look into the The building provides an future of farming within environmentally friendly the UK, and a blueprint for option for decomposition the rest of the world. The with a series of composting former Northumbria Water towers, decomposing a body Treatment Site has been within six weeks. A central transformed into a state- circulation corridor divides of-the-art complex for the the functional sta spaces research and production with the mourner’s route. of crops using innovative growing techniques. The building represents the ve stages of grief enabling The Innovation centre mourners to connect with supports educational services their emotions. Lavender lines and intensive research, the entrance representing containing state-of-the- isolation. Fire represents art laboratories, high tech the stage of anger while the seminar rooms and a ground- bargaining congregation breaking mock growing space is illuminated by facility. Advances and blue light making use of breakthroughs in research stained glass. A dark tunnel are put into production represents depression and on site within the modular the building culminates in the greenhouse building, garden of acceptance, where where crops are grown, the deceased is laid to rest in harvested and packaged the decomposition module. for consumption across the region.
110 111 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Alexander Mackay John Marcos Mitford Castle Mitford Crematorium Crematorium - A Journey of Mourning Death and memorial are a Cremation and remembrance RIBA President’s Medals Buildings main goal. It is Bronze Medal Nomination a place for practical, but digni ed, disposal of dead FCBS Prize for Best bodies, providing the service Undergraduate Project for the emotional and spiritual Winner needs of the mourners. Separation between the Mitford Castle Crematorium funeral and cremation is formed around a spatial facilities is the main design journey that takes the approach in United Kingdom mourner through the Crematoria, as it is not procession, ceremony, customary for the mourners mortuary and contemplation to witness the co n being to make up the key spaces that placed in the cremator. allow the mourner to grieve. This journey is expressed The scheme is modest, as through an architectural it will be a contemporary language of vaulted arches design, that compliments the and thick brickwork that is assimilation of inspiration inspired by the pre-existing surrounding the area, and ruins of Mitford Castle. integrating local materials. The language explores a spatial hierarchy that takes mourners through spaces of grandeur or intimacy and a material permanence, which explores the functional and aesthetic requirements of the programme.
112 113 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Kevin Mirrezaei Oliver Paul Crematorium of Life and Life in Death, A Journey, Mitford Castle Crematorium for Bothal
The crematorium proposal Ryder Prize for Best aims to resurrect the Undergraduate Project signi cance of the dormant Winner castle ruins function once again. Whilst being RIBA North Student Award respectful to the ruin, an Nomination inspired proposal creates this architectural link between The project aims to explore new and existing. the ceremonial traditions within Western culture With signi cance surrounding life and death, reintroduced, the procession to suggest a spiritually is experienced through connective alternative as the varying moments, creating rate of religion within society a sense of solace. A reduces. A symptom of a crematorium that can be culture emphasising rapid personal, a place to gather pace in life has resulted in a thoughts and a moment neglect of the acceptance to feel safe. This proposal and understanding of death, focuses on key notions to resulting in a short grieving advocate a framed journey, process negatively impacting route or climb up the hill to on well-being. The project a point of signi cance where surveys ritual and memorial loved ones can say goodbye within the rural setting of and let nature take back. Bothal village, to develop principles of life beyond death applied within a Crematorium setting.
114 115 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Aaron Ptohopoulos Brad Roberts Demise Through Nature Morpeth New Public Library The GT3 People Architecture Award Winner Addressing the e ects of climate change on areas in Located around the historical high risk of ooding such ruins of Mitford castle the as Morpeth was the catalyst crematorium breathes the for this project as the town’s nature its around, designed former library was forced to for the purpose of natural close due to ood damage. atmospheres within all The proposal aims to create spaces. The crematorium an accessible library space captures the great landscape taking inspiration from Henri it sits within whilst allowing Labrouste’s Bibliothèque for the ruins to hold its Sainte-Geneviève library. authority over the site. Reading the site and using Allowing mourners time constraints to aid design and space to come to terms decisions was very important with the events, they are to the project. Existing welcome on site throughout characteristics of the site the day allowing them time remain in the nal design within the chapel around such as the old steel frame site. As the environment from the site’s former use as a changes throughout the site, car garage. the atmospheres within the buildings follow, o ering a The site for the library is placed wide range of spaces for a between a historic woodland comfortable condolence to and the River Wansbeck, the be paid. project forms an intimate connection between the river and the wider woodland.
116 117 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Momen Sharafudin Marko Sherstylo The Mitford Museum Mitford Castle Crematorium A museum celebrating the rich history of the site by Architect’s Journal Student linking the museum with the Prize Nomination existing Mitford Castle Wall, as well as The Mitford Church The Mitford Crematorium and Cemetery. The Mitford addresses the issues of land sisters’ exhibition rooms scarcity and the combustion provide captivating insight of traditional cremators with into each of the sisters lives a cremation process involving as well as framing special an alkaline and water solution views directly to the Mitford instead. To complement the church and cemetery. The function of the building, rest of the museum rooms the theme of ageing was provide fascinating views applied through vegetation of the Mitford Castle Wall and facade elements, both inspired by the castle ruins. of which change over time, Finally, landscaping has been short and long term. a huge part of the design The crematorium is situated throughout the site to provide on a wide landscape a memorable journey for the populated with dense tree users of the museum as well ranges, open elds, and a as achieving environmental meandering river. standards.
118 119 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Wiktoria Skarbek Luke Steel Mitford Distillery and Death and Landscape Visitors Centre Death is used to generate Feilden Clegg Bradley dense landscape conditions Studio Prize for Best on site. Each deceased is Undergraduate Project designated a light in the eld Winner that remains illuminated for one year. Power is generated RIBA North Student Award in a Microbial Fuel Cell using Nomination the organic matter of the body. This cycle is succinct The proposal is located in with the human grieving Mitford at the old industrial process. After one year has site. The remaining industrial elapsed the light diminishes, elements are an inspiration to signifying the end of the the construction principles as process. A small amount of well as the thesis, architectural compostable remains are and landscape language of then used as the basis of the building. The building is new life in the plantation. orientated perpendicularly Although the cycle is to the river edge to allow complete, the memory of the better connection between deceased always lives on and the industrial spaces whilst mourners can always revisit a series of bridges placed the tree where the deceased above the process spaces is situated. allow clear views and an understanding of the whiskey making procedure.
120 121 Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Amelia Swaby Alexandra Valkovicova The Final Farewell, Museum in the Mitford Crematorium Landscape, Mitford Castle Rings The concept of death is both troubling and uncomfortable RIBA President’s Medals for people, sparking intense Bronze Medal Nomination emotions throughout the grieving process. The Mitford The story of Mitford Castle Crematorium project aims starts with formation of to deliver spaces which are geological layers. In early 11C, unique and responsive to Normans built their Motte & the di erentiating stages Bailey castle, which consisted of grief and loss, whilst also of massive earthworks and providing a digni ed and wooden palisade. The castle respectful environment for was then upgraded to a shell the mourning and the lost. keep consisting of chapel, This will essentially bridge the cemetery and ve-sided keep gap between the two entities before it was burnt down in of life and death to bring 14C. The whole landscape is them together in a peaceful considered as the museum harmony whilst attempting and consists of hill rings, to present a new outlook visitor center, standing stones on death, acknowledging and forest walk. I the ‘ nal farewell’ to be something of peace rather than anguish.
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Interior Architecture
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Image | Milly Muir, Westgate House 124 125 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Interior Architecture BA (Hons)
Notions of Heritage This design-led, studio based course is a a designer and a future professional. member of Interior Educators, the National Learned Society for the subject. The course The question of heritage is tested through two develops creative, intelligent and meaningful contrasting conditions within our nal year design proposals for existing buildings projects. One proposes change to a Grade II* through investigation of the existing site Listed former Assembly House, built in the as a precursor to a designed intervention. Victorian vernacular during Newcastle’s reign Expressed control over the relationship as a mercantile and industrial powerhouse. between the existing context and a proposed The other, a former pottery works, consisting interior adaptation is supported by studies in of the preserved and ruinous structures as a design, communication, history and theory, Scheduled Monument and Grade II* Listed construction technology, environment and bottle kilns as an assemblage of buildings. management. Through a shared design methodology; Students take part in site visits within live which includes democratised notions of projects and a European study trip to help beauty, community and cultural meaning; the contextualise and expand learning, with the projects test ideas on providence, aesthetic the option of an additional study abroad value, collective memory and worth within an year or year in practice at the end of Year 2, urban or rural setting. to enrich the experience as a subject specialist and as a global citizen.
Students develop a creative portfolio of directed and self-directed design project work which allow a full exploration of interests within interior architecture and building adaptation, while fully expressing an ability as
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Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Assembly House: Occupy
Westgate Road was a street of wealthy Tutors merchants’ houses, standing within orchards Andrea Couture and gardens in its heyday. It has also been Darren Hancock: FromWorks a centre for merchants and craft guilds, Paul Ring recreation and entertainment with taverns, theatres and assembly rooms. From 1716 to Associate and Visiting Tutors 1736 the site worked on was known as the Ben Couture, Jardin Couture Assembly House and its function was for Paul Crowther, FaulknerBrowns Architects public assemblies, mainly for dancing and Sophie Evans, Contents Design card playing. Fragments of Hadrian’s Wall run Nigel Scorer, Contents Design across the subterranean of the site and there Michael Simpson, GT3 Architecture are fragments of Newcastle’s city wall in and Dominic Williams, Ryder Architecture around the environs of the Old Assembly House and Westgate Road. Students The rich history, narratives and remnant Charlotte Allan material culture found on site provide an Erin Bek investigation position for each project and Bethany Ca rey speak of the sites importance to the city’s age Alisha Carrigan as a mercantile and industrial powerhouse. Rob Easton The project proposal is to adapt Assembly Lewis Howard House as a canvas of interior space and design, Iram Kamal to develop a programme which responds Milly Muir to themes of culture, narrative and spatial Alice Pratten anthropology, and to occupy the building Katie Robinson through adaptive reuse.
128 Image | Alice Pratten, Old Assembly House 129 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Charlotte Allan Erin Bek Westgate Printmaking Reveal Cinema Centre The concepts of ‘revealing’ YMCA Award for Socially and ‘collage’ were inspired by Responsive Design Winner the site’s original condition, of peeling wallpaper and The unexpected Italian Style materials of di erent times. Plasterwork is a creative The building itself was a hidden gem within the collage of its own story. existing building at Westgate The function of a cinematic, Road. Historically, Plasterwork exhibition and studio space, designs evolved using is also inherently storytelling. printmaking techniques in the The contrast (and collage) of Renaissance period. The new the old existing brick and the cultural Printmaking Centre insertion of the clean, white will be a social communal interior reminds the visitor environment where the rich constantly of the old and new history of the site is restored and the on-going story of the throughout the space. building.
130 131 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Bethany Ca rey Alisha Carrigan Westgate Road Design Shanti Rooms Centre In the creative hub that is A collaborative creative hub Newcastle centre’s West for communication between End, arts and entertainment female textile, furniture and ourish. Here, a long- architectural designers. Used neglected listed building to repurpose and create has been restored to evoke new buildings in Newcastle, a yoga school of the future, revitalising the area, using combining the mental and locally sourced materials. The physical abundance of yoga. main architectural language Aerial classes are o ered in the is through using an altered purpose-built, double height oor intervention with ramps studio. Traditional yoga and weaving through the spaces. guided meditation are o ered in the old Georgian style rooms, left fairly untouched to showcase the beautiful plasterwork and decoration.
132 133 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Rob Easton Lewis Howard Westgate Rooms The Skinner Burn River Spa This proposal rekindles the celebrations that took place Situated within the heart of in Assembly House between Newcastle Upon Tyne, the 1716 and 1736, by becoming Skinner Burn River Spa aims to a venue for weddings, parties, provide a cultural provision for conferences etc. The scheme pedestrian tra c. In the form includes a journey upwards of a leisure pursuit, the scheme through the building, which allows users to congregate, features an open bar area, enjoy refreshments, and relax ceremony space, dining hall in a restored and reworked and nally, the penthouse Georgian Building. suite. There are also many interactive elements within the design creating a unique celebratory experience.
134 135 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Iram Kamal Milly Muir Head in Space Westgate House
Performing Arts Studio is a Feilden Clegg Bradley captivating entertainment Studio Prize for Best hive in the heart of Newcastle Interior Architecture Project Upon Tyne. The grade II* listed Commendation building has become a revived commercial front, o ering In response to the a variety of live musical regeneration of the local and theatrical experiences, area, this scheme restores The alongside an exclusive Newcastle Assembly Rooms mixology area, and hosting a back to a member’s club whilst futuristic and contemporary integrating a modern retail styled record store arcade. The scheme’s principal feature is a central void that punctures the full height of the design and allows light to ood the space.
136 137 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Alice Pratten Katie Robinson Newcastle Textile Matinée: A Space Before Workshop The Performance
Ryder Prize for Best Historically, 55-57 Westgate Interior Architecture Project Road has been a place in Winner which communities could meet and has many inspiring Interior Educators National features worth preserving. Student The architecture of dance Project Award Nomination requires many elements and styles underpinned by Interior Educators National precision, culture and creative Student Writing Prize thinking. Matinée provides Commendation a facility for dance, rehearsal and socialisation. Combining Gargin Studio Prize the essence of the unique for Creative Writing features of the building with Winner new design and purpose creates a partnership between Newcastle Arts Centre performer and the space. Interior Architecture Award Winner
Newcastle Textile Workshop is an immediate response to the crisis of fast fashion. This collaborative, creative hub will encourage the recycling and upcycling of clothes, bringing the community together with collective work between local designers, students and the general public. The space will educate users on the crisis of waste within the fashion industry and promote sustainable buying, commanding social change.
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Interior Architecture BA (Hons) The Old Pottery: Engage
The Grade II* listed Scheduled Monument Tutors Walker’s Pottery was in production from the Andrea Couture 1840s to the 1910s. It produced a wide range Darren Hancock: FromWorks of utilitarian ceramic goods including re clay Paul Ring retorts (for street lamps), furnace bricks, quarls (large ooring slabs/tiles), salt-glazed sink- Associate and Visiting Tutors stones or troughs, ridge tiles and chimney Ben Couture, Jardin Couture pots as well as salt-glazed sanitary wares. It Paul Crowther, FaulknerBrowns Architects also possibly made domestic pottery and it is Sophie Evans, Contents Design one of the few remaining examples of a Tyne Nigel Scorer, Contents Design Valley rural pottery. Michael Simpson, GT3 Architecture Dominic Williams, Ryder Architecture The projects aim is to develop the Grade II* listed monuments through imaginative and meaningful solutions to create a community Students and visitor provision and experience through Robert Denton interventional space(s) to engage the vistors Katie Evans on the site. Ting Guo Jasmine Parnell Murray The purpose of this intervention is to apply Tom Rickman narrative and meaning to the visitor’s Olivia Simpson appreciation of the space through spatio- Jack Sipocz environmental occupation of the sites Brittany Thompson complete and disrepaired buildings into a coherent collage of spaces.
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Robert Denton Katie Evans Corbridge Arts Centre Walkers Pottery Retreat
The approach aims to Walkers Pottery is a weekend preserve and prolong the retreat for an exclusive set sites history, bringing life back of 8 guests. They will make to the site. Done through a pottery which can then be series of ‘moments’ that allow repurposed back into the for a minute of appreciation. landscaping of the site. Guests This is done through the will then enjoy a two-night architecture by manipulating stay in the accommodation the visitor experience, area. Here they will enjoy a encouraging to stop and banqueting experience, as observe the surroundings. well as having the option to Achieving a connection join communally. between the visitor and site.
The Art Centre enables opportunities for locals and visitors to engage with art. The Centre provides studio, class and exhibition space for local work to be celebrated.
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Ting Guo Jasmine Parnell Murray Glass Art Factory The Old Pottery’s Hive
This is an opportunity to The Old Pottery, Corbridge help local designers improve Hertiage Adaptation Award the creative environment in Winner addition to building their own business within Corbridge. What was once an Old Pottery The original architectural in the 1800’s, the unoccupied structure is a part of the site opens itself up to become heritage of Corbridge; a hive for the creative therefore, this project will be community of Corbridge. The studying the initial building proposal reacts sensitively structure and use new to the existing remains and material contrast to play with features found across the the old forms. site, o ering a place to attend workshops, up-skill and celebrate local art/businesses.
144 145 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Tom Rickman Olivia Simpson Walkers Pottery RePlanting The Old Pottery YMCA Award for Socially Responsive Design Feilden Clegg Bradley Winner Studio Prize for Best Interior Architecture Project Winner The National Trust Heritage Adaptation Prize The GT3 People Architecture Winner Prize Winner
Inspired by the self- The Old Pottery, Corbridge su ciency and high level Hertiage Adaptation Award of craftsmanship of The Old Commendation Walkers Pottery, the scheme aims to provide the local area In today’s environmental with the facilities needed climate it’s more important to showcase these skills. than ever to make small Accommodating Potters, changes towards a cleaner Blacksmiths, and Joiners the planet. This scheme sees The proposal includes everything Old Pottery turned into a Hub needed to pass on these skills of Horticulture for Corbridge, to visitors, while teaching a providing education for those greater appreciation for the already keen on gardening as crafts themselves. well as complete beginners, teaching them the importance of utilising gardens to become more self su cient.
146 147 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Jack Sipocz Brittany Thompson Corbridge Community Walkers Visitor Centre Coop This proposal repurposes The Old Pottery, Corbridge the collection of buildings as Hertiage Adaptation Award a visitor centre for families, Commendation locals of Corbridge and the walking community. The The proposal hopes to community of walkers are not engage the local village in only friendly and social, but the creation of a community- also conscious and respectful led bird sanctuary through of the natural world to which a Ruskin approach towards they love to explore. With this material upcycling, spoliation knowledge the concept of and renewable local materials, the scheme is to encourage in order to preserve the the visitors to aid in human ruins and their form. This connection, environmental function is to help save both consciousness, and education the community and the of the natural world. local ecology that are under threat from the new housing developments within the immediate environment.
148 149 Interior Architecture Post Graduate Certi cate Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Interior Architecture Postgraduate Certificate
This unique 60 credit PG Certi cate programme of Tutorsenvironment, management and communication, study allows Northumbria BA Interior Architecture bene ting from our established design studio graduates to top up their successful UG Degree culture and our student-centered approach to award to satisfy the ARB Criteria for Part 1. learning. As part of a postgraduate community, students share knowledge, techniques This is the only programme of its type and and replicate the way they have worked in benchmarks Interior Architecture at Northumbria architectural practice since their UG graduation. as an innovative discipline, developing a The independently developed thesis projects are community of creative reuse specialists who have supported with design rationale, technological Part I and can work in practice with adaptability. and environmental appraisal reports.
Critical thinking, imaginative enquiry and rigorous design decisions stand at the heart of the programme, with curriculum content that supports a self-directed inquiry and evaluative rationale for contextualised ideas.
The programme is studio based, with a curriculum of study that allows real world examples and experience from practice to shape the method of work and production. It aims to build upon the sensibilities appreciated at under graduate interior architecture with an added architectural dimension of addition or new build to manifest spaces for people.
Students develop ownership of their investigations in design, theory, construction technology,
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Interior Architecture Postgraduate Certificate Re-Imagining Gibside
Interpreting Heritage. Tutors This project work was undertaken in Pete Dixon partnership with the National Trust, as a Tara Hipwood design appraisal of architectural strategies on building reuse and how their selective application could be applied to reimagine the Students ruinous remains of Gibside Hall. Katherine Fung Nicole Peace Drawing upon its rich and animated history, Yves Turmel individual responses interpret the embedded Jenny Wilson historic, genealogical, topographic, narrative and natural contexts of the site to re-interpret notions of heritage, and to resuscitate the hall as a visitor experience with de nition. Speculations include a celebration of the English country garden and creative retreats for artists and writers.
Projects examine the de ned conditional edges of the site to appropriate existing spaces and manufacture new ones that remain within or de ne the extent of the Halls envelop. In this they are both adaptation and addition; new and renewed.
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152 Image | Katherine Fung, Gibside Young Bowes Creativity Roos 153 Interior Architecture Post Graduate Certi cate Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Katherine Fung Nicole Peace Gibside Young Bowes Gibside Retreat Creativity Rooms The Writers Retreat occupies The new learning centre is a the Grade II Listed building gesture of sensitivity. It aims and becomes an educational to provide the ruinous hall centre for aspiring writers with a meaningful function and lmmakers. The scheme that resonates with its natural provides a public sector for surroundings. Inspired by exhibition, library facilities the site’s undulating terrains, and educational talks/ the new timber roofs extend workshops. Public walkways modestly above the existing around the building allow stone envelope to form new visitors to explore the ruins habitable spaces for young and roof top viewpoints. pupils and to harmonise with The viewpoints capture the Gibside’s beautiful woodland landscape and the tower of landscape. liberty encouraging walkers to visit the space.
154 155 Interior Architecture BA (Hons) Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Yves Turmel Jenny Wilson Gibside Hall Arts Centre Gibside English Country Garden Gibside Hall and its grounds have been enjoyed by With the wellbeing of women countless people over the at its roots, in memory of the last few centuries. Notably, Women’s Land Army who in 1817 with William Turner - were billeted here during the acclaimed painter of the time First World War and Gibside’s - visiting and producing a most in uential resident number of beautiful sketches Mary-Eleanor Bowes. Gibside from around the grounds. English Country Gardens pays tribute to women’s This Re-imagining of Gibside independence and promotes Hall is something that mental wellbeing within the celebrates this constant, with local community. Gardens a nod to William Turner. The amongst the ruin become a new use for Gibside Hall is to support network as well as a o er space to express through visitor attraction, with links art and painting the beauty of to Gibside’s rich history of its surroundings while also inspirational women. becoming the subject itself from the proposed folly.
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Postgraduate Architecture
MArch ARB / RIBA Part II
158 Image | JimEmma Stephenson, Hodgkiss, Wildingclickclickjim.com the Vergelands: The Great North Stage Posts 159 Architecture MArch Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Architecture MArch ARB / RIBA Part II
2019-20 sees the continuation of the vertical in the broadest sense to enable our graduates studios structure for the full-time Master of to apply a deep contextual approach; whether Architecture (MArch) programme. They o er they ultimately become architects, or in students the opportunity to tailor their route some other roles or elds. Our graduates are through their MArch to suit their own interests employed all over the world, but an increasing and aspirations. Students can join one studio number have returned to the north east to for both 5th and 6th years, enabling them to establish their own consultancies, to create develop a focussed portfolio of projects; or a critical mass and creative cluster which will to undertake one major project spanning bene t the region in the future. across two years; collaborate on a larger joint project in 6th year; or to switch studios 5th year equips students with the tools to between 5th and 6th year to broaden their conceive of studio as a research methodology experience and the range of work in their with two, semester long projects as preparation portfolio. Opting into one of the three vertical for undertaking the year-long, 6th year Design studios at the beginning of the year provides Thesis. Students also experience research the metaphorical sca olding to support every methods and cultural context modules to student to develop their own, individual, lines develop their criticality. of enquiry and proposition, through supportive dialogue with their peers and studio tutors. The 6th year design thesis is de ned as This is framed within each studios distinctive an independent speculative proposition theoretical and methodological position - as (the design proposal) and is holistic in set out in the provocations detailed overleaf. nature; demonstrating the design, theory, environmental strategy, technical solution All of our vertical studios provocations are and regulatory frameworks for the project. sited in the region to enable extended periods Alongside this horizon-scanning Design of time in the territories of our investigations, Thesis, all 6th year students undertake a repeatedly returning to sites in di erent Student Selected Investigation; a self-directed, seasons and cycles, and to read the unique sustained and academic enquiry. sense of place in a landscape. We aspire to identify, and to identify with, these contexts
160 Image | FrankieRichard Paul,Lamming, The New Down Normal in the Mud 161 Architecture MArch Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
MArch Studio 01 Urban Stitching: Reinventing the Industrial Landscape
Urban Stitching: Reinventing the Industrial Studio Tutors Landscape studio investigates the physical KellyMacKinnon and temporal layering of and around the Alice Vialard abandoned Elswick Lead works site, in Newcastle. Associate and Visiting Tutors Tim Bailey: xsite Architecture Through an unpicking of the sites industrial Will Campbell: FCB Studio past and an understanding of its natural Robin Cross: Special Advisor on Architecture & and manufactured topography, the studio Procurement to the Democratic Government proposes architectural interventions that learn of Myanmar from previous use, narrative and language, Matthew Margetts: EDable Architecture whilst re-evaluating the absence of past Will Mawson: MawsonKerr Architects landmarks. Clare Murray: Levitt Bernstein James Parmley: WSP The work serves as a catalyst for future development of the site and aims to reconnect the Elswick community to the quayside and Studio Members the city; a connection that urban change David Alvan has severed in recent decades. It explores Alex Barnes architectural and urban typologies as a means Barbara Dzavanova to question variation of forms as well as their Liam Hawthorn permanence across a vast urban landscape. It Josh Lockwood researches how environmental remediation Dan Marcus and local economies can shape, change Adomas Novogrodskis and enhance programme and architectural Peter Winterburn expression over time. The studio allows students to develop a thesis project that is self- determined in its response to the site and the interpreted needs of the Elswick community through the site.
162 Image | Dan Marcus, A Pitcher by the Tyne 163 Architecture MArch Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
David Alvan Cowtropolis: Meet Your Meat Cowtropolis is a meat processing and The Toon Beef Abattoir becomes the epicentre educational hub supporting the production, of the scheme; creating jobs for local labelling and consumption of Toon Beef, communities and welcoming public visitors originating from the Cattle grazing at to experience and learn about the slaughter Newcastle’s Town Moor. Cowtropolis will process, as well as discovering the most support and enhance Newcastle’s agri-food adequate and humane treatment of cattle supply sector by promoting its goal: prior to slaughter. Produce local, Consume Local.
164 165 Architecture MArch Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Alex Barnes Elswick Wood Park Elswick Wood Park is not con ned to one classes as a hobby or to gain quali cations in speci c purpose. It will be a park of the city building methods, horticulture or woodland which o ers something unique in its nature management. The main workshops will and location - providing beautiful spaces included, timber (sourced locally) and along the quayside. It is a business - a social eventually on site, rammed earth from local enterprise with charitable status. A concept excavations and thatching – from our reeds in - a way of working with the local community the on-site wheat reed eld. Workshops will to create a better environment, provide be concentrating on the technology of these employment and reach out to those in need. elements, how they work in buildings and Teaching methods of sustainable building junctions by modelling full scale and gaining and architecture in a battle to become a ‘hands on’ experience. carbon neutral. This can be people coming to
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Barbara Dzavanova The Hammam
During the past years baths have become are accessible to the public and communicate inaccessible to the general public and are with the city as if it was its common part. The seen as a luxury only available to certain building is trying to soften the barrier between people. However, this wasn’t the case a locals and tourists, create new lively routes and couple of decades ago. Bathing spaces acted at the same time strengthen the community in as gathering spaces for the community, for the area and provide them with a new meeting celebration and relaxation. The design works place. with the typology of hammam baths, which
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Liam Hawthorn Distilling Knowledge The site, which once housed the famous Elswick Shot Tower, is now the home of Newcastle Gin & Co and their master distiller. The company will produce their local gin and will work alongside a gin school and a community still house. The community still house is a new attraction for the city, in which visitors are guided on a distilling experience, where they get to make their own avoured gin. An annual harvest is also celebrated on the site, in which the public come together and pick juniper berries for their own batches of gin.
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Josh Lockwood The L.E.A.D. Collective: Newcastle’s Leading Entrepreneurial Activity District A project that has the community at heart. Elswick community and quayside waterfront. The L.E.A.D. Collective is a business district The proposal includes a sustainable design designed to bene t Newcastle’s young outlook which implements exible live/ entrepreneurial prospects and contribute to work passive house properties and a large the positive reduction of the brain drain e ect communal complex designed for both visitors in the north of England. and residents to enjoy their business activity Con gured of a series of buildings along a and general well-being. Collaborative work is series of directional axis, the scheme connects something which this proposal seeks to deliver the west of the city centre with the surrounding to create a closer-knit community.
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Dan Marcus A Pitcher by the Tyne The aim of this proposal is to take advantage land due to the Lead Works. This new scheme of an area of abandoned land within Elswick. seeks to solve site issues, remediate the land This land used to be home to heavy industry and occupy it with a brewery and oyster farm and the Lead Works which, over the years, to re-ignite interest and bring together the collapsed. As a result, this area has been cuto surrounding communities in the form of food from the surrounding communities due to and drink. the dangerous level of contamination in the
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Adomas Novogrodskis Hartlepool Urban Regeneration The project is a response to a recent £160m regeneration masterplan launched by the Hartlepool Council aiming to establish Hartlepool as a major regional leisure and visitor destination by utilizing its rich legacy of maritime heritage. The concept for the scheme was to revive the lost art of shipbuilding which once made Hartlepool the leading hub of the industry. The project, therefore, proposes a new avant-garde shipbuilding museum celebrating and showcasing the town’s industrial heritage as well as a shipbuilding institute providing maritime education and training to bring back the lost shipbuilding skills and businesses sparking wider urban regeneration.
Architects Journal Student Prize Nomination
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Peter Winterburn Elswick Kitchen Elswick Kitchen is a community-focused venture which aims to improve the living standards of people within Elswick by tackling the areas high deprivation and poverty rates through job-creation and improving social connections within the wider community. The programme was developed through intensive study and investigation of the local community of Elswick and what challenges they face.
The “Kitchen” itself comprises of an indoor market hall, food hall and function and entertaining spaces with a calming roof garden above. The roof garden is anked by spaces for Islamic prayer. The prayer spaces twist to face Qibla (the direction of the building Ka’bah in the Sacred Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia). The “Kitchen” itself is surrounded by allotments where members of the community can grow food to sell within the market. The site also houses a biomass energy plant, which uses crops that are grown on-site to generate renewable, sustainable energy for homes within the community.
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MArch Studio 02 Performing Architecture
In 2019-20 the Performing Architecture studio The 6th year students’ thesis projects address continued our exploration of the ‘problem of social issues including, ‘community trauma’ the High Street’. The studio shifted focus from in the repeated cycles of ‘slum clearance’ Shields Road and New Bridge Street, Byker, and incomplete ‘utopias’; the lack of non- and Westgate Road, Newcastle, to consider denominational and intergenerational, Coatsworth Road in Bensham, Gateshead and communal, gathering spaces; the importance its hinterland. We set as our initial provocation, of labour, and shared endeavour, to personal “Reimagining the High Street as the Lobby of and community identity. These projects all the City”: consider time as a fundamental aspect of the design process for reimaging social and Coatsworth Road is a comparative success economic relationships through the built story as a local centre in a residential area. It is environment. at the heart of one of the UK’s largest Orthodox Jewish communities, as well as attracting recent graduates with lower house prices Studio Tutors while still within walking distance of Newcastle Jiayi (Jennifer) Jin City Centre. At the north end, there are a Sebastian Messer growing number of Turkish and Lebanese- owned businesses. Mosques and synagogues Associate and Visiting Tutors repurpose rst oor ats, public back lanes Tim Bailey: xsite Architecture are reconceived as communally private zones, Will Campbell: FCB Studio and while these communities occupy the same Robin Cross: Special Advisor on Architecture & geographical space, they each occupy their Procurement to the Democratic Government own version of it. of Myanmar Matthew Margetts: EDable Architecture The studio began with an exploration Will Mawson: MawsonKerr Architects and mapping of the ‘networks (scales and Clare Murray: Levitt Bernstein frames), borders (edges and atmospheres), James Parmley: WSP and di erences (uses and opportunities)’ of Coatsworth Road, before the 5th years gravitated towards a more intensely Studio Members theoretical, and directly physical, engagement Emilie Hakner with as-found materials and the concept of Lyndon Jessop scarcity. Arron Reed Catherine Sinclair
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Emilie Hakner A House of Shadows Cultural identity is important for the di erent The environment of the back lane restricts communities amongst Coatsworth Road, natural lighting, developing the approach of Bensham, to withstand modern in uences, to shadow theatre occupying the urban fabric. preserve tradition and remain distinct. These Shadow theatre makes use of overlapping distinctions and di erences can be explored masses to create new perspectives. This will be by children to develop an understanding of developed to create an architectural language the world around them and to expand their where spaces will be informed by the position inner consciousness. of lighting and mass.
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Lyndon Jessop The Coatsworth Urban Rooms The GT3 People Architecture Prize Winner The Coatsworth Urban Rooms address the frameworks such as Geddes’ city museum issues of community disengagement from and Farrell’s contemporary urban room, the planning process and trauma resulting the scheme aims to empower civic society from dramatic changes to the urban fabric through spaces for dialogue with planners, of Bensham, Gateshead, through providing a artists and architects, and exhibitions of art democratic space to understand and in uence and architecture. the built environment. Building on existing
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Arron Reed The Best of Bensham This thesis proposes an alternative model for tackling the decline of high-streets by promoting inter-generational education, small-scale manufacturing and craft. The site exists in a hinterland, behind residential properties and tired social club buildings, whilst neighbouring the Territorial Army and Regimental Headquarters. This juxtaposition of scales and typologies provides an opportunity to reconsider the use of the high street as more than just convenience retailing. The main insertion, a permanent steel frame forming a covered yard space, allows for assembly and disassembly of workspace units, permitting the building to adapt to needs while maintaining a core set of conditions for craft activities, skill transfer and social interaction. The architectural response re ects this through: the retained load-bearing walls, the new steel frame and canopy roof and the circulation in-between.
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Catherine Sinclair The Gibson Street Baths Regeneration Regenerating the historical Gibson Street Baths Hundertwasser’s 5 Skins Theory creates a to once again celebrate the neighbourhood’s labyrinth through the building creating a series heritage and community, whilst addressing of spaces that provide refuge from everyday local social issues is the centre of this project. life and provides elements that are missing within the neighbourhood, developing a The scheme addresses the issue of a lack of community. The scheme is built around the community in Shield eld, creating a space theory of a circular economy helping to create for a community to grow and develop. a community that is less wasteful.
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MArch Studio 03 This Enduring Landscape: Debatable Edges
The traces and consequences of human expectations, intensi cation of peripheral occupation and activity upon our regional activities and broader environmental damage landscape deliberately inform the studio’s risk destabilising this historic settlement, investigations. Amalgamating the traditional occurrences symptomatic to many larger notions of context with broader readings of settlements. Questions naturally arise of if, place and non-architectural circumstance, where and how architecture should intervene. new narratives are allowed to emerge and unfold across future chronologies. Such investigations collapse time, revealing new Studio Tutors resilient methods of occupancy that remain Lesley McIntyre deeply rooted in region, custom and condition. Stephen Roberts History tells us our landscapes endure; in this new age of the Anthropocene, disconcerting Associate and Visiting Tutors climate predictions and potential ecological Tim Bailey: xsite Architecture bankruptcy we believe this regional landscape Will Campbell: FCB Studio still contains a latent energy; one if harnessed Robin Cross: Special Advisor on Architecture & knowingly and equitably, would sustain a Procurement to the Democratic Government meaningful future. of Myanmar Matthew Margetts: EDable Architecture The studio believes these emerging Will Mawson: MawsonKerr Architects propositions are not absolutes; they exist as Clare Murray: Levitt Bernstein challenging models, methods and scenarios James Parmley: WSP evidencing future possibilities; new forms of harmonious occupation alongside a recalibration of human demand. These, if Studio Members carefully executed, will add to the human Hannah Angus continuum of making place in ancient places, Josh Crosby recording its stories and generating new Emma Hodgkiss meanings. George Knipe Richard Lamming Titled “Debatable Edges”, the studio’s energies Jessica Leggett focused on the ancient Market Town of Shawn Lithgow Morpeth, the county town of Northumberland. Marcus Lou Outwardly benign, the town visibly bears Chloe Waldron the marks and traces of one thousand years Emma Watson of human occupancy. Paradoxically, such Katy Wing Tung endearing qualities and lasting popularity Marcus Wong threatens its future. Ever increasing human
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Hannah Angus Walking the Seams The transformed unseen landscapes and the below the surface, rich with recollections abandoned county lunatic asylum reborn as a of our ancestors provide the guide for this beacon of new hope, a place to commemorate emotive, sustainable community landscape. the past, to build and inform a new future. Designed for our future epochs and evolving The rich history and heritage encapsulated cultures to preserve and protect our past by as a memorial landscape, the former Lunatic learning from our ancestors, before they are Asylum, the ancient woodlands and the lost and forgotten forever. labyrinth of coal mining seams lying deep
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Josh Crosby The Biocyclarium RIBA President’s Medals Silver Medal Nomination The Biocyclarium responds to a lack of the data from monitoring and processing understanding and connection to the natural networks, linking inhabitants and industries world that has lead to the deterioration of to the process of the natural world. Abstract the planet. By seeking to unify disconnected painting dismantles the perceived structure of disciplines by linking research with green the reality, challenging landscape concepts of infrastructure, creating an observable beauty and order to re-imagine these anew. terrestrial network. It functions by collating
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Predicting a future scenario in 2080, where Emma Hodgkiss the use of motorised vehicles on UK roads is Wilding the Vergelands: The Great a bygone era, Wilding the Vergelands explores North Stage Posts the potential re-use of the abandoned A1 road infrastructure as part of a landscape scale Architects Journal Student Prize Nomination ecosystem connecting people, places and nature through mobility. The Northern Architectural Association Referencing the traditional coaching inn, a new Glover Prize for Design Research Winner infrastructure of stage posts line and occupy the Great North Road as an interlaced network RIBA North Student Award Nomination of community nodes, born from the need to provide amenities to forgotten edgeland communities, to pilgrims undertaking the 410 mile journey and as a measurement of distance and vergeland biodiversity.
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George Knipe The Waste Makers The year is 2060 and the UK waste problem has brought the country to a standstill. With no countries left willing to import waste, manufacturing industries are unable to shed their residue. The consumerist wheel has come to a halt.
Out of this mess, people are looking for other ways to consume and produce. In the historic northumberland market town of Morpeth, people have started to turn this problem on its head. Here, the abundance of waste has become an abundance of resource; an asset that will be able to sustain the local community while traditional means of consumerism continue to fail.
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Richard Lamming Down in the Mud
RIBA North Student Award Nomination The Material Interchange and its associated Summer, to walk between the empty gaping pools, channels, and shelters lays east of what maws of doorways that signalled home but was once the centre of Morpeth. In 2060, were now piled high with mud. Some saw a ood events had become so regular that lost existence, and others saw a new potential Morpeth is choked with ood water. People for production that could place a new would tread out across the fen that had grown community, driven by the interchanging of in the surrounding abandoned agricultural materials, craft, and produce. landscape, or across the dry river during High
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Jessica Leggett The Belt Transect
RIBA President’s Medals Silver Medal Nomination This thesis investigates the processes evident within the dune-scape’s coastal conditions, highlighting the importance of revealing the invisible.
The intervention creates insight to the ‘hidden’ processes and histories that lie beneath Bamburgh’s cascading dunes. Through analysis of place and processes of archaeology and geography, the proposal questions the e ect of the Anthropocene on our landscape’s edges, and proposes a ‘belt transect’ in order to measure and bring about awareness to the e ects through the archiving of curios found in the dune. The scheme provides a place to view, experience, measure and analyse the landscape sustainably, providing education and joy of nature, whilst defending its legacy for the future.
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Shawn Lithgow Home Grown: Morpeth Grown Hempcrete Housing The scheme is intended to help with worsening to transport harvested hemp to the building. soil conditions due to intensive farming in The building processes the hemp and turns Morpeth. It does this by using hemp as a cover it into hemp-crete panels to be used in new crop which is rotationally grown in elds to build housing developments in Morpeth. It improve soil health and xate nitrogen. features a large perforated stone tower where the panels are dried for 5 weeks. It sits within a network of lter strips which lter pollutant run-o from elds and are used
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Marcus Lou White Clawed Cray sh Revival Program White clawed cray sh is the only native cray sh in the UK. Cray sh act as an imported character in freshwater ecosystems as they are omnivorous foragers and their position in the river food chain is in the lower level. As a result, their numbers will directly a ect other water species populations.
The proposal is focusing on the population of white clawed cray sh. Factors such as: competition from American signal cray sh, pollution levels and changes in environment, the white clawed cray sh is facing imminent risk of extinction. It is estimated that WCC will be extinct in Britain by 2030 under this level of decline. The nursery is to provide a suitable environment for the WCC to hatch and act as a place of safety at the same time. It is known that the mortality rate is high in their rst year of life, so the centre aims to increase survival rates.
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Chloe Waldron Our Bamburgh The proposal facilitates a shift in societal behaviour necessary for the survival and prosperity of the Bamburgh community within the current climate crisis; residents come together and forgo the constraints of national government legislations. An economy of degrowth and localisation becomes the basis for a new resilient, self-su cient community governed on the principles of consensus.
Operating at two time scales, working in the present to unite and re-skill the community in preparation for daily adjustments in line with a new manifesto, the masterplan then lays the foundations for a strategy of protection against the impending sea level rise.
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Emma Watson The Amazon of the North: Metabolic Settling We had reached an ecological era forcing us to Metabolists was that architecture should ‘stay with the trouble’ of the encounters that create an organic relationship with its context we lacked the capacity to control. We had to - similar to the process of symbiosis - found in engage in the complexity of the world. Floods nature, to create, not ‘resilient,’ but ‘responsive’ became stronger, our defences weaker leaving architecture using adaptive solutions that no choice but to nd rebirth from here. work with natural processes rather than suppressing them. To become Metabolists Settlers, towards a new landscape. The fundamental belief of
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Katy Wing Tung Novel Homes 2220 The Project is about the adaptation of homes in Morpeth in 200 years time. Nature has the ability to evolve and adapt the changing environment, which is called Novel Ecosystem. Novel homes is about how the home changes through time. Dwellings should also be able to be resilient and adapt to changes related to the environment and human activities, as homes are supposed to be a shelter, protecting the residents and the properties. The climate in Morpeth will shift to semi-tropical in 200 years.
This project is about how the landscape of Morpeth, and the lives of those that live there, will change in 2220; how the dwellings in Morpeth can withstand these 200 years time; what type of sustainable materials and resources will be used in a di erent period; how the spacial arrangement will change in 200 years.
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Marcus Wong The 230 years journey to frozen Morpeth The project is a combination of long duration minutes walking distance. By the cycle of city planning by taking into account planting, growing, harvesting and processing sustainable resources and global climate trees, all at close proximity to construct the speculation. A plan by investigation to inspire Architecture. Carbon footprint can now be and de ne “sustainable” by addressing a “visualised” between the ratio of trees within scenario where building resources are gained the nursery site, the architectural site and the within the site as well as from a radius of 10 consumption of time.
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Index A Emma HODGKISS 74-75, 82-85, 158, 196-197 Nicole PEACE 155 Ethan HOWARD 106 Alice PRATTEN 48-49, 52-55, 62-63, 128,138 Charlotte ALLAN 56-57, 130 Lewis HOWARD 135 Aaron PTOHOPOULOS 42-43, 116 Fatima ALSAMAHIJI 96 David ALVAN 164-165 I R Hannah ANGUS 192-193 Angeliki IOANNIDI 107 Arron REED 186-187 B Tom RICKMAN 58-61, 146 J Brad ROBERTS 117 Kate BAKER 97 Katie ROBINSON 139 Alex BARNES 166-167 Lyndon Jessop 22, 88-89, 184-185 Erin BEK 131 S K C Momen SHARAFUDIN 118 Iram KAMAL 136 Marko SHERSTYLO 32-33, 90, 119 Bethany CAFFREY 132 Harry KERSHAW 108 Olivia SIMPSON 44-45, 50-51, 68-69, 147 Alisha CARRIGAN 133 George KNIPE 86-87, 198-199 Catherine SINCLAIR 180, 188-189 Awais CHAUDHRY 98 Oliwia KUZMA 109 Jack SIPOCZ 66-67, 126, 148 Ryan COLE 99 Wiktoria SKARBEK 28-29, 34-35, 92, 120 Patrick CONNALL 100 L Luke STEEL 121 Josh CROSBY 72-73, 194-195 Amelia SWABY 122 Ryan LABUSCHAGNE 40-41, 110 D Rian LAMB 111 T Richard LAMMING 78-79, 160, 200-201 Seth DAKER 101 Jessica LEGGETT 76-77, 202-203 Brittany THOMPSON 140, 149 Rob DENTON 142 Shawn LITHGOW 204-205 Yves TURMEL 156 Barbara DZAVANOVA 168-169 Josh LOCKWOOD 172-173 Marcus LOU 206-207 V E M Alexandra VALKOVIČOVÁ 24-25, 123 Ahmed ELKAMEL 94, 102 Robert EASTON 134 Alexander MACKAY 26-27, 36-37, 112 W Katie EVANS 143 John MARCOS 113 Dan MARCUS 162, 174-175 Chloe WALDRON 208-209 F Kevin MIRREZAEI 114 Emma WATSON 190, 210-211 Milly MUIR 46-47, 124, 137 Jenny WILSON 150, 157 Katherine FUNG 152, 154 Katy WING TUNG 212-213 O Peter WINTERBURN 178-179 G Marcus WONG 214-215 Meryem OZMEN 70-71 Natalie GARDNER 103 Ting GUO 144 N
H Adomas NOVOGRODSKIS 80-81, 176-177
Isgandar HAJIYEV 104 P Emilie HAKNER 182-183 Liam HAWTHORN 170-171 Jasmine PARNELL-MURRAY 64-65, 145 218 Grant HEWITT 105 Oliver PAUL 30-31, 38-39, 115 219 Acknowledgments + Index Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
Acknowledgments Adam Cosherill, Northumbria University Nicolas Irving, GT3 Architects Aitor Frias, AFAB Nicky Watson, JDDK Architects Alberto Sanchez, SMS Arquitectos Northumbria Architecture Society Amanda Khan, RIBA North East Otis Murdoch, JDDK Architects Amy Tomlinson, RIBA North East Paul Reed, GT3 Architects Andrea Cooley, Ibstock Peter Barber, Peter Barber Architects Andrew Belamy, Northumbria University Peter Sharpe, Kielder Art and Architecture Andri Gerber, ZHAW Winthertur Professor Christophe Hoelscher, ETH Zurich Ben & Lynsey Elliott, Elliott Architects Rachel Sara, University of the West of England Brigi Varro, Northumbria University Richard Marsden, BDN Caroline Bos, UN Studio Richard Watson, Northumbria University Clare Hunt, NMRM Hartlepool Richard Williams, VELUX Claire Murray, Levitt Bernstein Richie Hutchinson, Northumbria University Dan Kerr, MawsonKerr Architects Roslyn Adamson, NMRM Hartlepool David Page, Page\Park Sally Brewis, RIBA North East Duncan Attwell, Northumbria University Sarah Sabin, Seymour Architecture Emma Matthews, Architects Registration Board Sean Hogan, Architects Registration Board Emma Thomas, National Trust Seaton Deleval Simon Astridge, Simon Astridge Architecture Fabio Gramazio, Gramazio Kohler Architects Workshop Frank Hindle & Gillian Beauchamp Simon Robson, Northumbria University Gayle Appleyard, Gagarin Studio Sophie Thompson, NORR Architecture George Mokhtar, Turner & Townsend Steve Colvin, Northumbria University Grant Dyble, Architects Registration Board Steve Dickson, FaulknerBrowns Architects Hannah Brindley, Northumbria University Steve Larkin, Steve Larkin Architects Hugh Strange, Hugh Strange Architects Steve McIntyre, FaulknerBrowns Architects Ian Crow, Ryder Architecture Steve Parnell, Newcastle University Interior Educators Stephen Rutherford, Monument Design Ltd James Southern, MH Southern & Co Ltd Stuart Palmer, Studio SP Architecture Jeff Hurst, YMCA Newcastle Tabitha Binding, TRADA Jennifer Boyer, TU Dublin Tim Belden, TRADA Joaquin Perailes, AFAB Verna Armstrong, Northumbria University John Ruddick, Ibstock Will Campbell, FCBS Architects Jonathan Mole, Jonathan Mole Architects Will Mawson, Mawson Kerr Karen Nugent, Page\Park Karim Hadjri, University of Sheffield Kate Aldred, RIBA North East Kathryn Smith, NU Library and Leaning Services Lucy Winskell, Northumbria University Maral Tulip & Tim Bailey, xsite Architects Marianne Partyka, Page\Park Mark Thompson, Ryder Architecture Martin Lydon, Haworth Tompkins Architects Martin Purves, Northumbria University Michal Berkowitz, ETH Zurich Michael Trigg, Dixon Jones Architects Mick Wilkes, National Trust, Gibside Mike Cookson, Northumbria University Mura Mullan, JDDK Architects Image | Lesley McIntyre 220 Muriel Campion, Northumbria University 221 Copyright © 2019 University of Northumbria at Newcastle
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