ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN (AAD)
CONFECTION
This year, students were invited to consider Architecture as a Confection. To view design through the eyes of a Chef, rather than that of an Architect. The modern mantra of truth to materials is absurd to a Chef, yet they use ingredients, a recipe, and tools to produce exquisite objects, not only to the tongue but also the eye. The aesthetic is important. An approach that engages with contemporary fabrication techniques, including 3D scanning and 3D printing. We can make it, but how do we design with it?
MArch
Amit K. Gupta
Trace: A timeless state in the infinite space, showing the reflection of life and after. Changing, moving, evolving and modifying continuously as an everlasting wheel of time. Connected through bridges, organisms sustaining on transcendence.
MArch
Farah Gassoumi
Golden Cavallon: A myth of a Cat taking over the throne of King Arthur, building a territory. A kind of brightness enchanting the eyes to open all wider, warming the soul, bringing golden vivid essence to the hues of the ordinary.
MArch
Harini Patel
The Glowing Breakfast Café: Inspired from the jelly fish and its living environment, a walk through this glowing objects around. Creating the impression of a underground galaxy almost creating illusions in the mind.
MArch
Paulina Ostatek
MArch
Sherine Zaiady
Submerged Cave: False Ceiling - Height=0.8m, composed of timber sections @20mm thickness, coated with reflective Black with flexible Declan sheets of thickness @100mm and connected and hanged with steel C channels. Tubes of artificial seawater suspended between two brass weights are attached to the surface to light up space without electricity. A wool cap ensures a regular stream of oxygen.
Bioluminescence Reflection: Ingredient 1Habitats 1,2 Inhabiting zooxanthellae (fluorescent coral reef) and glowing Alvibro bacteria. Laminated tinted glass, @10 mm thickness. Freshwater Heated to@ 20 Degrees Celsius via 5w tank heater. Oxygenation=9.1 mgl of dissolved oxygen. Tank is Embedded in the wall, Height=1, fixed at 0.4m high above the ground. Light is reflected on Declan black reflective wall.
Layers of lit shadows: Sub-Recipe 10: Water ripple reflection and Alvibro bacteria light from ceiling reflections on black reflective Declan floor inside the black box observatory.
MArch
Sofia Racheva
Visible Sound & Audible Light: The design of the café is inspired by an owl and its phenomenal ability to make sense of space. The architecture has control over the parameters, such us air, sound, and light. Making them visible and tangible, it promotes profound multisensory experience.
MArch
Sonal Sanish
A Place of celebration: The project is inspired from the colors and interactive characteristics of macaws and also from the viscous nature of sugar oozing out through layers of cupcake, trying to balance when suspended. The project is making the Turl street alive with its vibrant colors and by interacting with the users, seeping through windows, which makes an hearten experience of walking through the street.
MArch
Trushar Tarasariya
MArchD
Andrew Ho
Pixelated Hostel-Three-dimensional Mosaic Architecture:
A “Beehive” hostel for six people inspired by the property of pixelated vision from the compound eye of honeybees. Every element uses identical units to form mosaic architecture to transform the experience of the two-dimensional pixelated perception into the three-dimensional world.
MArchD
DhruvkumarMArchD
The Synthetic Swarms
Combining the optical and tactile qualities of wasps and confection techniques, Synthetic swarms have suggested a recipe for architecture that gives a series of provocative outcomes around parts of the city and futuristic visions towards the development of the concept of project. Outcome amplifies the illusionary and theatrical nature of the drone swarms and relation to context and time with the process of development.
MArchD
Emma Huang
Artificial Garden
Artificial Garden is an interactive vibrant garden created by Hummingbird lovers. The garden is divided into three parts: moisture courtyard, Hummingbird bath, and greenhouse. Garden located at the cross of Ship Street and Turl Street. The garden acts as a sensory interactive environment that allows people and hummingbirds to come together to produce an unexpected symphony of colour, light and sound.
MArchD
Ivy Au
The Amphibious Spa
A frog-inspired spa providing one-person tranquil relaxation. Frog skin qualities are extracted into the architectural skin using neoprene with bespoke connection methods. Each stage of the spa sequence is designed as a ritual of itself, with areas designed to allow frog-like perspective.
Priscilla Mensah
MArchD
A ‘LIVING’ ROOM: The pet shop consists of a perforated façade imagined to be created by a boa/python snake. Offering moments of visibility into the pet shop allows you to see glimpses into the interior spaces—a room for one (the pet shop owner). The ‘living’ room feels alive due to the snakes moving through and living in the perforated façade/walls. Some spaces are occupied and others unoccupied to reveal the qualities of the snake and the surroundings. From the epiphyte choice (tillandsia caput - medusae), I began to be interested in the Greek mythology of medusa. If a pet shop were created for a medusa-like owner, how would it look? An isolated area of her own where she can be with her snakes.
MArchD
Rajesh Revathi
The Woven Pulp “Tea House” of rejuvenation: The project features a Japanese Tea House, where one goes through the experience of purification, healing, spirituality, and meditation along with the ritual of tea creating a feeling of oneness with the universe.
MArchD
Serene Law
Enchantée and Cantilivered Table:
The furniture garden is an environment constructed and defined by the furniture within it. Each different piece lends it's own atmosphere to the space depending on the time of the day. The elegant models are based on intricate sugar work that reflects a rigorous research into the varied techniques of glass making.
MArchD
Surena Chhatwal
Sweet Ascensions Thermal Tower:
The Tower contributes to the skyline of the city of spires. The structure utilises the principles of passive heating and ‘Trombe’ walling to create thermal columns within the city, attracting birds and spectators to the tower.
Contributors
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Tutors, Lectures, Workshops and Guests
Joel Chapell
Lousie Cann
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MArchD Students
Subrena Chhatwal
Yusuf Aydin
Priscilla Mensah
Emma Huang
Ivy Au
Andrew Ho
Michael Bladen
Revathi Rajesh Unnithan
Dhruvkumar Prajapati
Serene Law
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Masters in Architecture Students - Direct Entry
Amit Gupta
Farah Gassoumi
Harini Patel
Mustafa Sofu Ucler
Paulina Ostatek
Robbert Kooiman
Shaivyaa Rohit Hasija
Sherine Zaiady
Sofia Racheva
Sonal Chirakkal Sanish
Trushar Tarasariya