UNIT B
Unit B continues to explore approaches to creating more human centric urban environments. This year students have proposed alternative visions for the northern edge of the Bishopsgate Goods Yard redevelopment, a huge scheme which seems to largely ignore neighbouring Brick Lane. The site is a rich mix of markets, immigrant groups, and the historic city of London - a nexus of diversity within a global city. The projects aim to adaptively reuse existing structures on site to create spaces which better reflect and serve the vibrant local communities surrounding them.
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Aditya Aachi
Diego Grisalena
Ting-Ting Ruotsalainen
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Dr Julie Futcher
Jonathan Moberley
Elliot Nash
David Shanks
Brian Hoy
Dave Probert
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Year 2 Students:
Zara Ellahi, Ege Ersoy, Javi Goicoechea, Athina Jordanou, Alp Noyan, Victoria Raptis, Haoxiang Yang, Mia Yates
Year 3 Students:
Antonia Arbert Guila, August Bjoennes, Alexander Brouillard, Lupascu Camelia, Diogo De Almeida Monteiro, James Hubbard, Hannah Lee, Miguel Castillo, Elle Packham, Lauren Pickard, Emily Reynolds, Jasmine Siligardi, Adi Sukumaran, Davina Vadher
YEAR 02
Victoria Raptis - Ceramic Zen - The fast-paced environment of London contributes to feelings of anxiety and stress from noise, lights, and traffic. Ceramic Zen is a pottery studio targeting new coming immigrants to London, through art therapy. Making art as a form of expression is a type of psychotherapy that may be calming and meditative, bringing about a sense of peace to immigrants suffering from discrimination, financial instability, or cultural adjustment. The ceramic studio is centered around the kiln, built from bricks of a historic wall, to which the building is attached.
Victoria Raptis
Ege Ersoy - THE LONDON RAKI DISTILLATION CENTER - The aim of my design will be to create a distillery unique to the area and the UK as a whole. This distillery will aim to provide a genuine rakı experience. However, there is already a rich alcohol culture on site which should be respected and integrated into design. This will be achieved with the combination of traditional Rakı elements like food, music and nature. Rakı is a drink with an entire cuisine devoted to it. Rakı serving is never a solo act. The focus of the rakı table is not the food but the atmosphere of lovely conversations
Ege Ersoy
Javier Garcia Goicoechea - INBETWEEN FESTIVE - In between festive is my approach towards dealing with a gentrified area such as Brick Lane. The project focuses on the numerous festivals occurring in the area, and reinventing the way people experience festivals – making the street a performance space in itself. The building consists of 4 floors featuring an amphitheatre and an inflatable on the top two floors. The outdoor spaces have been created to make the most out of the surroundings: Brick Lane, the railway line, and the car park behind the building. The space within the two bottom floors has been condensed prioritising adaptability and the venue/festival concept – a concept which has driven my project from the start to its resolution
Javier Garcia Goicoechea
Javier Garcia Goicoechea
Javier Garcia Goicoechea
Athina Jordanou - The ‘Agora’ - My project was inspired by Cyprus, my country. In Cyprus, people love to cook and eat. We have many traditional foods that we cook in a traditional way. I wanted to pass these unique experiences to people by creating a project that will achieve that. The ‘Agora’ offers variety of traditional products and goods, as well as food to taste. The main element of the project is the traditional Cypriot oven, also known as ‘fournaki’. It is used to cook mainly meat and bread. By taking advantage of the heat that the oven creates, I created an eco-friendly building where people can buy, eat, smell and gather inside, gaining the Cypriot experience of eating and cooking.
Athina Jordanou - The ‘Agora’ - My project was inspired by Cyprus, my country. In Cyprus, people love to cook and eat. We have many traditional foods that we cook in a traditional way. I wanted to pass these unique experiences to people by creating a project that will achieve that. The ‘Agora’ offers variety of traditional products and goods, as well as food to taste. The main element of the project is the traditional Cypriot oven, also known as ‘fournaki’. It is used to cook mainly meat and bread. By taking advantage of the heat that the oven creates, I created an eco-friendly building where people can buy, eat, smell and gather inside, gaining the Cypriot experience of eating and cooking.
Alp Noyan - The Great London Bath - The Great London Bath is a modified Turkish bath that goes against and with gentrification. Being situated in between the City of London and Brick Lane, the scheme brings together two groups that live and work side by side but don’t acknowledge each other; the prospering City of London and Eastern London. The project brings together and separates the two groups in many ways, spatially and socially. However at the end of the day, the public bath strips users of all social distinctions, as status doesn’t matter when all that is covering your naked body is a towel.
Alp Noyan
Alp Noyan
Mia Yates
Mia Yates
Mia Yates
Mia Yates
YEAR 03
Jim Hubbard
Jim Hubbard
Antonia Sofia Arbert Guila - The Holistic Aromatherapy Healing Center - Local issue of common mental health disorders within migrants of Tower Hamlets is addressed. The design focuses on aromatherapy as its alterna- tive treatment for anxiety and depression within the migrant community more specifically Asian immi- grants.
Antonia Sofia Arbert Guila
Antonia Sofia Arbert Guila
Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes 19128842@brookes.ac.uk Unit B Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes - “LE PAS DE DEUX” - When was the last time you turned off your phone? As soon as we have nothing to do, we instinctively reach for our phone. Are we afraid of being bored? It appears to me that we do not want to live in the present, and as soon as we get bored, we distract ourselves. Le Pas de Deux (dance for two) aims to create authentic real-life interaction between people. A co-traversed journey forces the users to engage all senses to make their way through the building, and thereby creating prfound and meaningful interactions. - “FROM IRL TO URL” - Envision a world where the boundaries between reality and dreams become indistinguishable. As technology evolves at immense speed, our connection with the tangible world gradually fades. With digital platforms becoming ever more immersive, we spend more time communicating on the internet than engaging in real life interactions. This project envisions a dystopian future where Artificial Intelligence dominates the workforce, we suffer the fatal consequences of global warming, and virtual reality becomes our escape from a bleak reality.
Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes
Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes
Gjermund August Lia Bjønnes
Alexander Brouillard - The Institute Against Eviction (IAE) - Brick Lane is under threat of gentrification. Redevelopment projects proposed by the government do not align with the needs of the locals, who face rising rent and the threat of eviction. In comes the IAE: An institution built for and ran by the locals of Tower Hamlets. The Institute aims to provide a community gathering space, where the movement to privatize their neighbourhood can take hold. A voice is given to locals within the auditorium. The funds to privatize will be provided by commercial services facing the street, while the process to acquire freehold in the neighbourhood will require consultation with solicitors and lawyers. These spaces are provided within the building.
Alexander Brouillard
Alexander Brouillard
Camelia Lupacu
Hannah Lee 19053435@brookes.ac.uk Unit B Hannah Lee - Project 1: Edge Conditions A plan study of busy vs quiet times in The Covered Market in Oxford. Project 3: Into the Unknown A kiosk that plays tricks on the user. It allows the user to use the building to navigate and lead them to the tranquil space. Project 4: What Makes an Intersectional Women’s Refuge? This building responds to issues with intersectional feminism and abuse and harassment against women within the city. From a passers-by perspective, this seems to be a children’s nursery, but much more can be found once the right people are filtered through...
Hannah Lee
Hannah Lee
Miguel Moncloa
Elle Packham - Beyond the Boundary - In light of the cost-of-living crisis, the entire world has been affected with unwanted increases in their financial outputs. This has made living increasingly unaffordable, particularly for single mothers. This project proposes a mixed-use development of residential, commercial, and co-working spaces which will function through energy saving and producing architectural intervention (ie. water towers, piezoelectricity and biogas) to decrease living costs allowing for single mothers to focus on themselves and their families without the financial stress.
Elle Packham
Elle Packham
Elle Packham
Lauren Pickard
Lauren Pickard
Lauren Pickard
Emily Reynolds - Throughout the year I have focused on two projects.Firstly ‘Foraging in the city’, this project aimed to bring nature into the city, more specifically Foraging. The project aimed to connect people back to nature and to more deeply understand the ways in which mushrooms can be used as well as wine. Secondly I focused on reuse in the fashion industry ‘Upcycling in the city’ in order to reduce the damage caused by fast fashion to the environment. raising awareness and teaching ways to Upcycle clothes using plants and flowers from a wildflower meadow which will be added to the area.
Emily Reynolds
Jasmine Siligardi
Jasmine Siligardi
Adi Sukumaran - Shoreditch Houseplants - Shoreditch Houseplants is a houseplant retailer and education centre which seeks to reorient the way in which buyers currently approach the houseplant market away from the ‘influencer approach’ and toward a more meaningful and sustainable relationship with the natural world. This is achieved through the education of buyers – from the delivery of houseplants and conservation efforts to the growing requirements and relevant potting / propagation techniques for the houseplants they might purchase. This builds buyer confidence and thus encourages independent exploration and decision-making, free of external trends and influences.
Adi Sukumaran
Adi Sukumaran
Adi Sukumaran
Adi Sukumaran
Davina Vadher
Davina Vadher