Unit C - Building Stories
This is Tomorrow.
The Power of Stories allows us to Imagine Our Future.
The Power of Stories can Transform the World -they bring us into contact with worlds unknown to us and open our eyes to possibilities not yet imagined. For us, as designers, compelling ways of telling stories are the tools we use to powerfully communicate our ideas and visions.
As architects we are storytelling dreamers, we imagine a building and then we will it into the present through our drawings, written words, spoken words, sketches and hand gestures.
As a studio team, we imagined and designed buildings for our future in Oxford.
The future is unknown and it was yours to define.
First we worked at the scale of a character in their room and then designed a home for the character. Next we designed a city building which the character visits from time to time.
It starts with a word …
A character and their room
… and becomes a home …
A home for a character
… which spreads into the city …
A city room for your character
… and becomes a public place
The city building as a character
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Studio Leader + MPL Tutor: Hannah Durham
Technology Tutor: Sam Chisholm
Design Tutor: Marc Tuitt
Structural Tutor: Alex Johnston
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Alexander Brouillard
Christopher Coyne
Bella Feinstein
Grace Kirpal
Holly Gray
Kirsten Lilly
Ann Parkyn
Virali Patel
Francesco Petrillo
Alysia Sparkes
Maria Sorina Trandafir
Lars Van De Crommert
Jayden Wood
Julia Zarzecka
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Aisha Almansouri
Eric Cugnet
Pelin Eskiocak
Fiori Koustas
Everson Mendes
Sandra Niczyporuk
Verity Rennie
Rucha Thakurdesai
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Joel Chappell
Charlotte Cubitt
Anna Deligianni
Lou-Adelaide Feliu
Mike Halliwell
Lucy Monk
Dr Emma Rowden
Sharvaree Shirode
Paul Bavister
Gabe Edyvean-Heard
Telma Ferraris
Anna Hooper
Anna Mill
Laura Mark
Robin Nicholson
Aisha Almansouri: The Plant Sanctuary - A city building with a greenhouse that provides information about rare plants, as well as allows the public to germinate their own seeds to take home. The building stores many seeds to reserve for the future shortage of rare medicines.
Alexander Brouillard: One year after the 2050 World Expo, the British pavilion remains permanently on New Road. Exhibitions within are displayed in a mixed reality environment. Based on user aspirations, they are offered a multisensory exploration of their desired field of study.
Alysia Sparkes: A Home for Artemis - A den like home for a wildlife Rehabilitator who needs space for the squirrels, beavers and cats she resides with.
Ann Parkyn: The Flowers mémoire - At a time where biodiversity is becoming more of an all time low, this exhibition provides a space to store and preserve crucial seeds from the botanic garden and display replica glass sculptures of flowers and plants to raise awareness and “preserve the memory” of the endangered greenery.
Bella Feinstein: Nestled by the Oxford Canal is a home for an artist.
Christopher Coyne: A home designed for a plant lover.
Eric Cugnet: The Semester 2 Project continues Desmond’s story, a public stone masonry workshop, gallery and exhibition space for the stone sculptures. The scheme also includes a sculpture garden and water wheel.
Everson Mendes: The Jericho Community Centre brings the locals together in a multi-purpose hall for different activities, the building has some adjacent supporting spaces including an industrial kitchen for party events, a boat storage for kayaks, a café area on the first floor and a meeting room.
Fiori Koustas: The centre uses herbs from the Oxford Botanic Gardens to make herbal tea, coffee, soap, medicine and skin care products.
Francesco Petrillo: The meat industry is harming for the environment. This building includes a traditional lab, a space to 3D print the different cuts of meat and a shop. The top floor is private and used by the scientists for research purposes.
Grace Kirpal: Due to the severe climate changes Henry has found a way of maintaining power over the working class with his fresh air company, creating products to help people survive.
Holly Gray: Public detachment to artefacts and active learning of history instigated a need for Oxford's public to have an engaging building centred around the preservation of archaeological history. The building focuses on archaeology as a study and interest, also serving as an interactive method of engaging with history and arts.
Jayden Wood: A home for a plant enthusiast in Oxford.
Julia Zarzecka: Design of a house for a Dj Ox, which grows her own bonsai juniper (visible on the facade of the building), out of which she produces the gin. During the night she hosts virtual parties streamed online in the fluorescent room. When the party goes on the facade is enlightened by fluorescent lights as well.
Kirsten Lilly: A theatre designed to peacefully and naturally facilitate the initial conversation and relationship between the strong local public voices and the budding student politicians of Oxford.
Lars Van De Crommert: A brand-new Carillon with 38 bells built to celebrate Oxford University's 1000th anniversary by connecting it to Metaverse. Whilst they are ringing the bells art would be being made in the Metaverse.
Maria Sorina Trandafir: The building focuses on turning poetry reading into a social experience for the population of Oxford across all different age groups.
Pelin Eskiocak: The city building is a place for travellers that aim living new experiences and be multicultural. The cinema, bookshop, and restaurant are the responsible components of the functionality of the building.
Rucha Thakurdesai: This bespoke domestic musical home is designed for the client/character: the perfectionist musician (teacher and aspiring rock and ambient-fusion band member). The bespoke elements include the anechoic chamber, foley-artist room and subterranean studio, encompassed in the locally sourced limestone envelope.
Sandra Niczyporuk: Tamara starts to work on stage design for the new Dance Theatre in Oxford. The main derivative for the Dance Theatre was to design an inclusive space, taking down boundaries, opening creative and cultural life to the streets.
Verity Rennie: In the future we will revert back to using vintage cars because they can be repaired and fixed more easily. This vintage car garage is beside the old Jericho canal wharf where canal boats are repaired. The garage will be a hub of inventive creativity.
Virali Patel: A home full of secrets, where therapy meets machinery, nothing is as it seems, the unfamiliar is hidden discretely behind the familiar, the only hints are our senses that pick up the differences.