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Liverpool School of Architecture 2019 BA3 M.Arch5 2019 BA3 M.Arch5 Liverpool School of Architecture Liverpool School of Architecture LSA BA3_19 LSA M.Arch5_19 BA and MA BOOK COVER 2019 TO USE.indd 1 7/2/2019 2:42:15 PM Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Head, Liverpool School of Architecture Thanks Dr Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Deputy Head of School BA Alex Dusterloh, BA Director of Studies Thank you to every single person who has contributed to the BA1 Year Leads Ben Devereau and Lucretia Ray journey of the School throughout the year. To make this year BA2 Year Lead Anna Gidman what it has been and to help the school continue to thrive as BA3 Year Lead Richard Dod your school. Colleagues and students. Emma Curtin Studio 1 Lead Marco Iuliano Studio 2 Lead Thank you to our Alumni new and old for your tireless Sandy Britton Studio 3 Lead support, attending critiques, lectures and events and for Richard Dod Studio 4 Lead keeping the LSA family name alive and well around the world Ronny Ford Studio 5 Lead and for bringing your stories back to share. Johanna Muszbek Studio 6 Lead University of LiverpooI in London Johanna Muszbek, Academic Lead BA3 London Our 2019 Summer degree show and prize giving in Liverpool M.Arch and London and this book are a celebration of the work and Jack Dunne Programme Director achievements throughout the School. M.Arch 4 year lead Peter Farrall M.Arch year lead Jack Dunne Thank you to everyone whom made this happen. Dissertation Professor Robert Kronenburg said at his Summer Degree Professor Robert Kronenburg show leaving speech ‘its all about the people‘. MA and PGT programmes Asterios Agkathidis Programme Director That and the Architecture. PGR Professor Carl Hopkins, Departmental Director of Postgraduate research Research Professor Iain Jackson, Departmental Director of Research/Knowledge Exchange Collated by Sandy Britton Edited by Sandy Britton and Colleagues Book Designers – Lucy Frontani and Srishti Kadu, Carnegie Book Production Studio, degree show and Cohort photographs – Martin Winchester Back page poster by John Gray Images students’ and colleagues’ own unless otherwise credited Funding for this project was generously provided by University of Liverpool School of the Arts This collection represents cross section of the 2018 2019 graduating students’ work All students were invited to contribute Published in 2019 by Liverpool University Press ISBN 978-1-910911-16-7 No part of this book may be reproduced or store electronically without the prior permission of the publisher © Liverpool School of Architecture 2019 All rights reserved The collaboration between LSA and LUP was initiated in 2016 by Marco Iuliano, Sandy Britton and Anthony Cond http://www.liv.ac.uk/architecture twitter @LivUniArch BA & M.Arch x 3 Contents Head of School Address 6 Winstanley & York Road: An Idealistic Proposal The competition for the new Liverpool School of Architecture 8 for Affordable Housing 296 Dialogue for healing 300 Introduction to BA 14 A Blueprint of the McDonaldland: Hong Kong McAlley Hand Book 304 BA1 16 Elephant & Castle air pollution research laboratory 308 BA2 18 M.Arch Moments 310 History Syllabus and Essays 20 Study Abroad – International Exchange Programme 312 Architectural History and Energy 22 Guest Feature 2019 Professor Robert Kronenburg 314 BA3 24 Studio 1 26 Research 322 Studio 2 64 LSA Research groups 324 Studio 3 100 Research seminar series 325 Studio 4 136 Architectural and Urban History Research Group 326 Studio 5 180 Architectural and Urban History Research Group 328 Studio 6 214 Architectural Heritage 330 London Design Lab – BA3 in London 226 Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts 332 ArCHIAM: Centre for the Study of Architecture and Cultural Introduction to M.Arch 231 Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb 334 M.Arch4 232 ESTA: Climate Change and Low Carbon Construction 336 M.Arch5 234 ESTA: Daylighting and ceramics 338 M.Arch Dissertation 236 Acoustics Research Unit 340 Ideological Expression and Execution in the Urban Landscape; Acoustics Research Unit 342 Helsinki (Finland) through the period of Russian Occupation (1809–1917) 238 Post Graduate Research 344 The Role and Relevance of Craft in UK Architecture 240 Current PGR Students supervisors and PHD research title 345 M.Arch Thesis Projects 242 Post Graduate Taught Programmes 347 The Grand Vacation 244 MA in Architecture 348 Birmingham Engineering College 248 Students 348 Cofleidio – Embracing Bethesda 252 Creative Workshop 362 Fort Regent Intergenerational Campus 256 Events 364 Gwnïo’r Wythïen | Stitching the Seam 260 International Women’s Day 366 The Gaff 264 PlatFORM 372 Mental Health: breaking down barriers and Housing Symposium. London Santiago de Chile Shanghai/Suzhou 374 de-institutionalising mental health through an urban sanctuary 268 Summer in Venice 2019 376 Historic Artefact and the Lived City | Reinvigorating Dubrovnik After ISLAND 378 Old Town 272 LSA Spring School 2019 380 The Inverted Pier 276 Guest Lecture Series 2018–2019 386 The Plastic Recycling Network 280 2018 2019 BA3 Students 389 The spectacle of plastic recycling 284 Integrating Industry – a Plastic Recycling, Research and BA Prizes 390 Education Centre on the docks 286 M.Arch Prizes 390 John Summers 4.0 288 Acknowledgements 391 A Clean Slate: Returning Industry to the Scarred Landscape Sponsors 391 of Blaenau Ffestiniog 290 Degree Show and Prizegiving 396 Institution and the Urban Figure 294 4 x Contents Contents x 5 Head of School Address Professor Soumyen The Liverpool School of Architecture is one of the oldest in London. M.Arch Year 4 have investigated Chester, while Bandyopadhyay university schools of architecture in the United Kingdom Year 5 have spent Semester 1 working on industrial and Head, Liverpool founded originally in 1895. Actively involved in Liverpool and infrastructural sites in Hamburg. As has been a strong School of Architecture the city’s ongoing renaissance, the School, consistent with its tradition at Liverpool over the past twenty years, Part 2 centenary-long tradition, continues to offer an international students have continued to combine collaborative co- outlook through its teaching and research. production alongside individual work. This has resulted in some excellent work in the Year 5 Design Thesis, where This has been a busy year filled with events and activities. concerns have ranged from institutional to housing to social This year we have received five-year continued ARB agendas, the adaptive reuse of post-industrial landscapes prescription and unconditional RIBA validation of our to alternative ways of engaging with heritage sites. The first Part 1 (BA Architecture) and Part 2 (M.Arch) programmes. cohort following the BA Year 3 pathway in London have RIBA has commended the School on the approaches taken graduated this year and there is much enhanced interest for to deal with a significantly large cohort of students, the the coming academic year. An expanded satellite exhibition University’s investment in accommodation and staffing, as has taken place at our Finsbury Square campus presenting an well as the digital app we have developed to provide effective expanded exposition of the work of the School. and immediate feedback to students. We also had a very successful outcome from the University’s own Internal A highlight of the year has been the international Periodic Review. We have also made excellent progress with competition to select the architectural practice to design our national ranking, improving our position on all relevant the addition to the traditional home of the School, the league tables. Leverhulme Building on Abercromby Square. Through a three-stage shortlisting and judging process, to which As always, we have remained focused on providing both staff and students and the wider University have architectural education that is underpinned by world- had the opportunity to contribute, an independent jury class research. Imparting design education via a diversity headed by Prof Kenneth Frampton have chosen the of methodological approaches, forms an important part practice, O’Donnell and Toumey for the project. The jury of this commitment. Researching the spatial implications also included Maria Balshaw, Juhani Pallasmaa and Michael of contemporary cultural, economic and socio-political Wilford. The extension will form an important focus of an concerns has shaped design investigations. ambitious campus master planning, a process to which, The six ‘Design Studios’ in BA Year 3, have continued to again, the School made an important contribution. All this pursue distinct trajectories of investigation, at diverse will contribute towards sustaining and building further locations and varying scales. Sites have ranged from the the community and the environment we call the Liverpool imaginative reuse of parts of the Liverpool’s docklands and School of Architecture. Anfield areas to the appropriation of high-rise structures 6 x BA & M.Arch BA & M.Arch x 7 The competition for the new An initial long list of 18 practices was arranged in three Liverpool School of Architecture categories to ensure architects with diverse experience and backgrounds, at different stages of their career would have a chance to compete: internationally established professionals Marco Iuliano, Can an architectural competition identify not only the (including Pritzker Prize, EU-Mies van der Rohe award and Nicholas Ray and best professionals, but also give them the opportunity to Alan Berman RIBA Gold medal winners); those with a strong background