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Alexia Nomikou

Six Stations: An alternative route to London

The project investigates the relationship between Welwyn Garden City and London and proposes a path with six stations that act as a method of slowing down the pace of its users and enable them to perform stationary activities. The project illustrates different architectural elements at multiple scales that aid the interaction with the path.

Cherry Hoi Ki Yeong

Recreate a pedestrian friendly environment in central Milton Keynes by cultural regeneration

Re-purposing the car park & surrounding vehicle access road into an art center, with the fully permeable public space on the ground floor.

The main goal of cultural regeneration would be to deploy the activities throughout on the street level to reclaim the car access area.

Freesia Chiu

Regenerating the town via a series of cooperative hubs - resolving the community needs and increasing the social interaction.

To remedy the issues and foster social interaction in Peterborough, a proposal of cooperative hubs is introduced. The hubs provide nursery services, working skills workshops and spaces for neighbour activities. This proposal aims to regenerate Peterborough both architecturally and economically.

Jade Lim

Domesti-City

This project looks at the recentralisation of different elements of the domestic life as found in a ‘classic’ nuclear family home, to create a new form of inhabitation within the city.

Jia Chi Yap

Plug & Play

Plug & Play design proposal is to integrate playing and learning area with living dwelling. Dwelling is being attached by different pods of play area, learning area, planting area, childcare area and so on. Those pods provide an alternative learning environment that promotes play, learn and provide parental support facilities for the children.

Leslie Oloo

Crafting the ‘new’ New Town : experiments of the arts as domestic ritual in regenerating post-industrial Harlow

Crafting the new New Town is a commentary on developer-led vs local regeneration by the arts and crafts community of Harlow. It envisions a scenario where Parndon Mill Artists’ regenerate  permitted-development run Terminus House in the Town Centre, reviving Harlow. 

Siti Norlyana Binti Mustapah

Connecting Neighbourhood Fragments in East Kilbridge

The site is at East Kilbride, has a significant condition which it is known as the “Roundabout City”. The road network was designed in an era when everyone was expected to own and use a car.

A proposal of the design strategies involves re-purposing the selected roads without disturbing the main vehicular circulation. There are two types of proposal strategies that will be introduced to this project which are independent & combined strategies. Independent strategy have separate proposal of promenades and bridges meanwhile the combine strategy is a combination of separate elements of independent strategy. It is combined by Urban Agora in the centre of roundabout.

Martyna Felus

A New Life of The Old Industrial Town

The project introduces a new Industrial Estate typology on the existing site, which will redefine the concept of domesticity by providing facilities allowing for social care and connecting the industrial estate with its beautiful surroundings.

Rebecca Day

Re-Creating the Inn

The project aims to reunite the residents of Crawley with those commuting through Crawley by re-creating elements of the traditional coaching inns, which were once an essential part of Crawley's identity.

Tim Emery

‘Will Billionaires Save Us? – Hatfield’s New Phalanstery’

A critique of corporate greed in a society increasingly reliant on goods and services provided by online corporations. It questions whether the will of personal freedom and expression may be the most important counter to infrastructures of control seeking homogeneity, whilst masquerading as corporate utopias.

Vanesa Gecheva

Challenging the spatiality of day-to-day social reproduction

The project negotiates a new understanding of domesticity through redefining the morphology of 1970s housing estate and the spaces where social reproduction takes place resulting in a patchwork of interconnected ground floor social infrastructure.

William WONG Wing ON

Re-connecting Corby

An architectural intervention to facilitate urban cultural exchange within the main city centre;Represented in 2 phases, the community led catalyst and residential wing co-existing to celebrate and ensure the cultural diversity and representation of corby through engagement with the consumerism and production of local goods and services.

Wilson Yip

Common Ground-New Form of life within 800m Neighbourhood in Stevenage

Stevenage is a new town designed in 1946, which planned with the neighbourhood unit concept. The problem of Stevenage is over relying on the car, the existing 800m-radius social infrastructure are broken down. My project is to reinstate the 800m-radius walkable neighbourhood, the facilities and program are going to redistribute within the territory.

Unit Tutors:

Elena Palacios Carral

Lola Lozano Lara

Sam Nelson

Emily Priest

Liam Ashmore

Guest Critics:

Aoife Donnelly
Bruno Silvestre
Ioana Piniara
Jeremy Lecomte
Ruth Lang
Wynn Chandra
Nadia Mendez
Mary V Johnson
Manijeh Verghese
Valerio Massaro
Shumi Bose
Rory Sherlock
Aylin Tarlan

Students:

Freesia Chiu

Rebecca Day

Timothy Emery

Martyna Felus

Vanesa Gecheva

Jade Lim

Siti Norlyana Binti Mustapah

Alexia Nomikou

Leslie Oloo

William Wong

Jia Chi Yap

Cherry Yeong

Wilson Yip