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 T: 0191 227 4453 F: 0191 227 4561 Find us on Twitter: Northumbria Architecture @NUArchitecture Northumbria Interior Architecture @UNNIntArch Northumbria Architecture Society @ArchSocNU http://www.northumbriaarchitecture.com http://www.northumbria.ac.uk Cover Image | Jessica Leggett, The Belt Transect Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment 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 Certicate 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 4 5 Northumbria University Department of Architecture and the Built Environment 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 Certicate 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, Sheeld 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 eort, 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