Tutors: Theo Molloy, Tom Randall-Page, Ognjen Ristic

Students: Alisha Gupta, Anna Polok, Charlotte Gregory, Claire Innes, Fergus Gregorie, Gemma Lea, Isac Andersson, Joanna Petrova, Lucy Monk, Max Higgs, Nne Owuasu, Shivani Nareshkumar Suthar, Summer Derbyshire, Thomas Gibson, Victoria Osunkoya, Zaim Zawawi

Care Home for the Climate Change Refugees

Alisha Gupta

The care home for climate change refugees aims to assist the elderly population of Fairbourne in this life changing transition by easing the mental strain of climate change through caring for their mental well-being and giving them a sense of community and togetherness so that they are able to overcome this situation as one.

The Modern Stone Age

Anna Polok

Rediscovering the potential laying in the abandoned slate quarry by reopening the mining activity and opening an educational centre focused on research. This place unites students and professionals over the work evolving around the stone in architecture.

Craft Mawddach

Charlotte Gregory

Craft + Care Mawddach creates semi-independent residential living for vulnerable members of the local community, providing them with social stability and bringing the community together. Its craft workshops and activities provide year-round income for local craftsmen and artists as well as opportunities for tourism and education, improving the local economy.

Community Works

Claire Innes

Gwynedd Community Works is designed to engender authentic community engagement on all levels. Supporting local initiatives, as well as hosting public planning workshops, establishes a process of real social change in which every citizen is encouraged to use their voice.

Cregennan Sheep Campus

Fergus Gregorie

The Cregennan Sheep Campus is a site that teaches the existing sheep farmers of Snowdonia National Park, sustainable means of farming for the future. It also has a social core, to allow once secluded communities, to congregate for 

Advocacy Union Building

Gemma Lea

The Advocacy Union Building is a people’s union for internally displaced people in Wales, fighting for better legislation and protection against the rapid flooding caused by climate change. Fairbourne is made the example of “never again”, the union fighting to protect the 52 villages in Wales endanger of flooding and potential eviction.

Activity Centre

Isac Andersson

The activity centre for young climate activists is focused on developing skills useful for direct climate action, which includes activities like cliff-jumping, free climbing, and rappelling. The centre includes an accommodation and dining space, and a learning environment overlooking Fairbourne, bringing a direct link into the theme of climate change.

Planting the seed

Joanna Petrova

The Blue Lake Botanical Gardens community centre and primary school uses education as a tool to combat climate change and provide a place where all walks of life can come together to learn about plants and wildlife and share vital knowledge.

Sustainable Hotel

Lucy Monk

A hotel used to show the public how, by using energy efficient systems within their homes, they can create a more sustainable society, without negatively impacting on their current lifestyles. Profit is used to help relocate the people of Fairbourne.

Goleuwern House

Max Higgs

Goleuwern House is an artist residency aiming to bring stories of humanity into the too-often statistic focused discussion of climate change.

Nature and Nurture Centre

Nne Owuasu

The project focuses on the impact of the climate on the crisis from the perspective of mothers and raises the question of how parents will have to adapt to this situation. Through a series of spaces created theses spaces aim to educate the users whilst creating a harmonious environment for family’s to bond and learn.

Welsh Resettlement Centre

Shivani Nareshkumar Suthar

With the rising issue of Flood in Wales, the Resettlement Centre is designed to provide help to the vulnerable coastal communities in their relocation. The building embodies a communal focus that contains: City exhibition space, Council, Architects Offices, Kids day care and Café. It is a space that celebrates the physical continuation of community’s history by establishing a social unity in the transitory period.

The Eco-Exploratory

Summer Derbyshire

An educational climate-change centre for the children of Wales and England (aged 4-11), with sky-high views over the Mawddach Estuary and hands-on exhibitions. The treehouse café, also creates new beginnings for the evacuees of Fairbourne, bringing them tourism and community.

Renewed Learning Centre

Thomas Gibson

The Renewed Learning Centre incorporated wind tunnel technology, harnessing the powerful local wind to teach people from various backgrounds how to create and manufacture wind powered technologies through two separated purpose-built buildings, the atrium and workshop.

Degrowth Research Centre

Victoria Osunkoya

My project is centred around the ideologies of the degrowth movement. I designed a research centre where local residents, activists, scientists and degrowth thinkers can come together to discuss new approaches for a more sustainable future. My centre includes an exhibition space to exhibit new ideas and products and cave which will have specific plants growing in it that can be used for experimentation of new building materials. There is also the social hub, exhibition bridge, laboratory and auditorium.

Think Tank

Zaim Zawawi

The Cregennen Think Tank is a modular space that focus on interdisciplinary information exchange between researchers about the future of climate change and Fairbourne. The site also provides a hiker’s stop, that will engage the public to the buildings’ programme.