Year 4

Andranik Kazaryan

Foundation

The Foundation is the furthest outpost in Jezero crater on Mars, collecting all human knowledge incase of major catastrophe. It brings together people of all nations and races from Earth to live in cohesion and further accumulate knowledge.

Year 4

Mohammed Al-Ali

F/reed

Digitalizing the vernacular architecture of the Marsh Arabs located in Southern Iraq Marshes by exploring the visual element of reed shelters and how it resembles their way of life. The project attempts to recreate a language that celebrates the marsh arabs traditions in virtual space.

Anas Bousmer

Dismantling The Idea of A Walled City

The country of Morocco has witnessed an unprecedented change in its society in the past few decades. The project is set inside the medina wall of Marrakech, it will analyze how Globalization has touched Morocco through the historical process of colonization. The restructuring of urban spaces and the preservation of cultural and historical sites have contributed to the country’s economic dependence on the expansion of the tourist industry at the expense of local communities and certainindustries. Culture has become a commodity that is profitable and thus countries like Morocco continue to present an inauthentic and static experience for visitors that perpetuates stereotypes within the medina wall.

Global organizations like UNESCO dictate what needs to be kept and preserved in order to continue the funding and maintenance of the medina by “enhancing its authenticity and purity”. The fortress wall that separates the medina from the new city intensifies the stereotypes that have been perpetuated and the contrast between the East and the West is further exaggerated. The new modern constructions outside the wall were meant to bring a stark contrast between the modernity of the French colonialists and the perceived backwardness of the Arabs and Berbers that resided in Morocco.

Wuraola Bolarinwa

Nirvana

Countless to say, architecture is vastly orientated around the importance of appearance within our built environment. However, according to philosophy, what is imperative is how the spaces within them affect the existence of its users. Within the realm of architecture, the built environment, just like those who inhabit them, has a soul; and the spaces within them can evoke and manipulate the emotions of its users.

Natalie laking

Sara Tomljenovic

Emerging The Landscape of Unseen

The project entitled invisible, metaphysical elements of human body and environment. It became a journey of self engagement and with others based on natural and invisible principles of human, represented as Aura. Journey follows the water above the surface and it deepens to underground caves and tubes to feel earth energies amd restore self.

Shervan Chan

Elliott Afoke

Dalston Hub : A Vertical Market

The Dalston Hub is the beating heart of Hackney, run by traders’activist, the vertical market proclaims a new social order and system of measure of trading in the expression of retaining and saving Ridley Road unique characters and culture.

The project explores how Gentrification races through Dalston: luxury high rise developments on nearby Dalston Lane, Ridley Road Market faces mounting interest from developers to regenerate the market into luxury flats, retail and offices; which currently see the market threatened with demolition, growing inequality suburbs and skyrocketing rents. 

Kelvin Siow

Pop-litical: A Celebration of Manipulation

Today we live within a society that finds authority through celebrity culture. A remarkable array of political, cultural, and economic activities are dictated by the actions of a handful of ‘celebrity’ stakeholders. This thesis explores the interplay of the presentational strategies and the dominance of celebrity-politicians.

This thesis, entitiled The Spectacular Pop-litical : A Celebration of Manipulation aims to represent & normalise the celebrification of politics through media oppression and totalitarian tactics. Ultimately, this project is a statement to portray the reality of the real world shift towards a celebrity-driven society.

The narrative is based on the G7 Summit reimagined in the form of a festival in St. Ives, Cornwall. Central to reinforcement and normalisation of Pop-litical oppression is the full transparency of the elements of the festival that would traditionally be considered ”behind the scenes

Wee Kee Goh

The Ocean Regeneration Alliance (O.R.A)

The Ocean Regeneration Alliance becomes a beacon of hope in the South China Sea and seeks to create regional peace through cooperative ocean protection efforts. Reassessing our relationship with ocean plastics and oil rigs, and turning our problems into potential solutions.