INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL REGENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

(IARD)

Design studio 7

The MA/ MArchD in International Architectural Regeneration and Development explores the sustainable development and regeneration of the built environment.

Based on our ‘3R’ approach of being ‘Research-led, real-life based and resource-sensitive’ we explore the creative, adaptive reuse of the existing built environment through context-led, well-researched and sensitive design interventions. We produce innovative ways in which heritage sites can be developed for contemporary use whilst respecting their diverse intangible and tangible values.

The course has a global focus and students are introduced to a network of international organisations in the field. They gain skills in:

critical thinking and analysis
field research and creative design
project management
working in different cultural contexts

Alice Latham

Valuing the existing: The image explores the existing conditions of the building to allow for a comprehensive value analysis of existing site, which helped to later inform the design moves for the project’s intervention.

Regrowth of a building: The sectional perspective explores how the industrial scale of the building has been utilised to allow for an internal botanical garden, which grows edible plants to be used in the adjacent teaching kitchens.

Edible garden: This image aims to capture the environmental conditions within the indoor garde., The proposed new roof structure allows for diffused light to flood the plants below and the ventilation design allows for the humidity inside the building to be carefully control for optimum plant growth.

Elina Savvas

The ‘Remakery’ Hub

The project focuses on introducing upcycling initiatives in the old power plant building as a way of addressing issues present in the city of Nablus, such as unemployment, poor waste management system and lack of social cohesion.

Section and Technical Details of The Remakery Hub

Emily Holland

Regenerative Roots

Agricultural land in Nablus is degrading. Approximately 100% of the agricultural waste created is sent to landfill. To combat this, the project focuses on composting with ancillary programs of grafting, growing and selling, that provides skills workshops local people and farmers to spread awareness of soil health.

Perspective View of The Regenerative Roots

Perspective view of The Outdoor Street Market

Foteini Kapsi

Due to the political conflict between Palestine and Israel, children in Nablus, grow up under military occupation, terror and violence. A new children’s activity centre aims to bring hope into the lives of the children, by offering them a safe hangout spot for them to learn, play and exercise. Through various activities, the project provides children with a sense of normality, carefreeness and innocence that all children should be able to experience.

Giselle Pei Yre Goh

Sustainable Education Hub

An Education Hub transformed from Former Power Plant in Nablus, Palestines. The Education Hub provides workshops of Organic Farming techniques, Aquaponics system, Renewable energy, Rainwater Harvesting, and etc to stimulate the concept of sustainability in the local area.

The Facade of The Sustainable Education Hub

Perspective View of The Sustainable Education Hub

Hussein Ali

Heritage and Culture Education Centre

My project focuses on rebuilding the past for the future of Nablus, through reviving, protecting & transferring cultural knowledge through the restoration and maintenance of heritage. I proposed a Heritage & Culture Education Centre which reintroduces traditional trades & practices and provides self sustainable economic opportunities to the local community.

Joelle Yui Yi Tung

The Proposed Masterplan in Eastern Nablus

Summary of Regeneration Project.jpg — The Brief Storytelling

Louisa Marley

The Endangered Plant

The Endangered Plant aims to offer protection and regeneration to plants, bat and bird species native to Palestine, through growing spaces accessible for education on environmental diversity.

Perspective View of The Endangered Plant

Mansur Bello

The building concept is centred on creating a sympathetic contrast between the dirty textured look of the existing surfaces and materials with the newly incorporated building elements to emphasize the primary function of the intended building use, which is the upcycle/repair of public waste items into new re-usable and sellable products.

Mini Coker

Nablus Reuse Park

Nablus Reuse Park brings back community pride to a former power plant, the project provides facilities that allows locals to participate in plastic recycling processes to tackle waste management issues in Nablus, enabling locals to inclusively learn, work, earn and play through recycling.

Samuel Huntley

The project aims to tackle the declining bee population in Palestine by proposing a research centre within the redundant Nablus power plant. The project was formed around the idea of research teach make and sell to reach a wide audience.

Perspective View of Contrasting Old and New

Shivani Patel

The project aims to tackle the declining bee population in Palestine by proposing a research centre within the redundant Nablus power plant. The project was formed around the idea of research teach make and sell to reach a wide audience.

Stefania Czapor

Perspective View of The Traditional Craftmanship — Perspective View of The Traditional Craftsmanship

Reclaiming lost space and identity for the people of Palestine

The Centre of traditional craftsmanship, based in the derelict Touqan Palace, reinvigorates Nablus’ dwindling traditional pottery and tile craft production. An honest approach to regeneration has been taken, using alternative modern materials and techniques to follow the eroded contours of the building, highlighting where intervention has occurred.

Perspective View of The Ceramic Painting Studio

Thomas Hyde

The Plastic Pandemic:

A Community Driven Relief to Reduce and Reuse Nablus’ Plastic Waste.

The project responds to Nablus’ minimal amount of plastic recycling, aiming to create new plastic products, such as external cladding, to ultimately reduce and reuse plastic waste.

Prassana Venktesh

The East Nablus Co-operative

Addressing Socio-cultural deprivation in Nablus through a skill share co-operative

The project seeks to develop a skill-share hub/co-operative focusing on food in the old power station of the city of Nablus by training locals in food production, dairy farming while also seeking to create a dairy/ food co-operative for the city.

Perspective View of The East Nablus Co-operative

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Yuliya Kaize

The Skills Hub

This adaptive re-use project introduces a proposal for social learning and networking space. Here, local citizens are taught relevant and transferable business and ICT sector skills. The project’s main mission is to help create smart communities where the smart use of technologies and strengthening of interpersonal connections benefits individuals, businesses and the city. The building itself contributes to environmental sustainability of the project by incorporating existing constructions and the landscape of Nablus.