DS(R)
The Institute of the Book
DS(R) encourages students to apply individual creative and design research processes developed during undergraduate studies and specialisation in year 1, to a given brief in year 2. The brief challenges students to form a comprehensive building proposal for a live site anchored in research and concept development and authentic to the student’s own creative voice.
This year, based on one of four live Oxford University sites, the projects began with the choice of a ‘Needful’ Book’ relevant in some way to the student’s past, interests or aspirations. Over the course of the year, concepts drawn from the book were interrogated and evolved through research and reflection, creative process, and site and context analysis, to form a narrative-led brief for an Oxford Institute dedicated to themes arising from the reading of both the book and the city.
Tutors.
Mike Halliwell, Dr Emma Rowden, Scott Sworts (Tech), Hannah Durham (MPL)
Students.
Ang Wan Chee, Nisha Attra, Carla Cabrera-Fernandez, Freek DeVries, Sam Evans, Abbie Henderson, Yu Khiew, Devin Maisuria, Akshay Mantri, Ashlea Mason, Damia Binti Oon, Niamh Roseway-Jones, Caroline Walsh, Oscar Ka Yu, Patch Yu
Visitors.
Celia De Villiers, Katherine Llewellyn, Kylie Monsma, Hannah Day, Toby Smith
The Waiting Room
Abbie Henderson
Design Development - The Waiting Room - Abbie Henderson
BOOK: The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
PROJECT: Art and Craft School at Oxford
Akshay Mantri
The incremental school is designed to make its users go through a journey of re-interpretation of their self-worth. The design is developed as a schism between the narcissist and the echoist metaphorical nature of the site surroundings.
Concept Collage - Art and Craft School at Oxford - Akshay Mantri
Design Development - Art and Craft School at Oxford - Akshay Mantri
BOOK: The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life – Thomas More
PROJECT: The Oxford All-way, designing for the everyday of Oxford City.
Ashlea Mason
This project focused on everyday rituals and how our city and public spaces are incorporated into them. The Oxford All-way is primarily a thoroughfare, identifying the existing use of the site and designing to suit the city’s everyday needs and rituals.
Everyday objects - The Oxford All-way, designing for the everyday of Oxford City - Ashlea Mason
BOOK: Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez
PROJECT: Oxford City Press
Carla Cabrera-Fernandez
The OCP is an alternative printing press to the OUP that enables the inhabitants of Oxford to print the only Truth that exists: their own. Merging analogue and digital printing processes, the press acts as a living museum linking modern and historic creative processes.
Oxford City Press - Oxford City Press - Carla Cabrera-Fernandez
Exploded Isometric - Oxford City Press - Carla Cabrera-Fernandez
Design development - Oxford City Press - Carla Cabrera-Fernandez
The Conaro - Piscopia Studioli
Caroline Jane Walsh
Flooding - The Conaro - Piscopia Studioli - Caroline Jane Walsh
Conceptual Collage - The Conaro - Piscopia Studioli - Caroline Jane Walsh
BOOK: The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
PROJECT: Oxford Playscapes
Damia Binti Oon
Looking into bridging the gap between childhood and adulthood, the project explores the idea of creating a ‘play-spectacle’ and a space of meeting point for both adults and children to play and learn from each other.
A Young Architects Dreams - Oxford Playscapes - Damia Binti Oon
Concept drawings - Oxford Playscapes - Damia Binti Oon
BOOK: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
PROJECT: In Pursuit of Flavour
Devin Maisuria
Communities drive culture and architecture materialises social and cultural progress. Food is the ultimate connector of people and connecting people forms communities. In Pursuit of Flavour is a cultural journey that explores the symbiosis between architecture and food within the community of Oxford
Internal render - In Pursuit of Flavour - Devin Maisuria
Bioplastic study - In Pursuit of Flavour - Devin Maisuria
BOOK: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
PROJECT: The Plural Zone
Freek DeVries
In a world where everyone’s reality has started to exist separately alongside one another there is a need for convergence. A quarter of congregation and realization that the universe is dissimilarly the same for all involved. Take it or leave it
All plans - The Plural Zone - Freek DeVries
BOOK: Junkspace and Running Room – Rem Koolhaas
PROJECT: A Library for Reading in - Park End Street Oxford
Yu Khiew
Exploring the notion of “a filter from Junkspace”:- the magnetism of silence that can pull users away from materialistic gluttony. The library is a place for the mind, to read, to pause and meditate. It acts as a filter from noises, distractions, and materialism.
Concept development prototype - A Library for Reading in: Park End Street Oxford - Yu Khiew
Design Development models - A Library for Reading in: Park End Street Oxford - Yu Khiew
Partial section - A Library for Reading in: Park End Street Oxford - Yu Khiew
BOOK: The Book of Dust – Phillip Pullman
PROJECT: The Clutch of Life – The Bricklayer’s Crematorium
Niamh Roseway-Jones
Harnessing the consciousness of memory through touch, this project transports us back into otherwise forgotten memories and emotions. Embodying moments lost through death, The Clutch of Life harnesses clutch as a tool to recreate our experience of the built environment.
Concept drawing- The Clutch of Life: The Bricklayer’s Crematorium - Niamh Roseway-Jones
Absorbed in Your Surroundings - The Clutch of Life: The Bricklayer’s Crematorium - Niamh Roseway-Jones
BOOK: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
PROJECT: The Story of a Wall – Hythe Bridge Pub and Boathouse
Nisha Attra
Reconnecting the isolated Oxford Canal community with the city of Oxford through a fragmentation and distortion of their fading shared history and memory embedded within a humble car park wall.
Exploded axo - The Story of a Wall: Hythe Bridge Pub and Boathouse - Nisha Attra
Sketch Interior Perspectives - The Story of a Wall: Hythe Bridge Pub and Boathouse - Nisha Attra
Sketch concept development - The Story of a Wall: Hythe Bridge Pub and Boathouse - Nisha Attra
BOOK: Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire – Jan Morris
PROJECT: The Hong Kong Institute Oxford
Oscar Ka Yu
A cultural vessel that preserves the traces and remains of Hong Kong, the institute will be the shelter of Hong Kong culture and identity. Through storage and exhibition, the final death of Hong Kong shall never come.
Concept collage - The Hong Kong Institute Oxford - Oscar Ka Yu
Model - The Hong Kong Institute Oxford - Oscar Ka Yu
BOOK: East of Eden – John Steinbeck
PROJECT: The Oxford Ops
Patch Yu
The Oxford Ops is a museum and gallery hosted by the Jam Factory, located in the gateway of Oxford - Frideswide Square. The building celebrates the hidden stories of women in Oxford based on the methodologies derived from the Book – East of Eden.
Concept development collages - The Oxford Ops - Patch Yu
Render - The Oxford Ops - Patch Yu
BOOK: The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
PROJECT: The Osney Jig - Legacy through Craft: The Master and The Concept
Sam Evans
The Osney Jig is an institution for Masters and Apprentices of craft supported by the Q.E.S.T foundation. The Jig acts as a capsule for legacy, heritage, and the practice of ‘Bottega’ through Master to Apprentice, nurtured by a site program designed around the circular narrative of legacy through teaching.
Bottega fragment model - The Osney Jig - Sam Evans
Concept collage - The Osney Jig - Sam Evans
BOOK: The Plague – Albert Camus
PROJECT: The Oxford Institute of Time Trading
Ang Wan Chee
Providing a fair-trade system of exchange between the University and the community of Oxford, the Institute offers a new platform and alternative social hierarchy based on time and skills sharing in place of monetary wealth.
Design Development model - The Oxford Institute of Time Trading - Ang Wan Chee
Exterior perspective - The Oxford Institute of Time Trading - Ang Wan Chee