UNIT N - THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LOSS
We have experienced many destructive mass social and natural events during the 21st century. Our unit will investigate environmental questions from archaeological, palaeontological and historical understanding of lost architecture to generate poetic tectonics. The Unit encourages students to engage with new understandings of loss through ‘making’ and ‘rethinking’. Students will reflect and recreate simultaneously at the scale of the artefact, using tools and the synthesis of the landscape to study the methods and materials from which architecture is produced and how these can be drawn from, and to continue to respond to the place.
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Michelle Lam – Unit Leader
Tom Jelley – Unit Tutor
Alex Chalmers – Tech Tutor
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Lottie Ambler
Angelina Bosi
Richard Evans
Lauren Garfield
Robin Miles
Barbara Poczatek
Rainier Ramos
Hester Smith
Sean Taylor
Simge Tezcan
William Vernon
Tilly Warburton
Truta Adrian
Kajana Chaounthara Gnanan
Hannah Fagerbakk
Clara Feibusch
Sindre Frøyen Stensløkken
Raphael Haque
Yasmin Jones
Mahir Kabir
Mikolaj Zielinski
Adrian Truta: Tomb of 167 - 167 deaths, names no one remembers anymore. Nested in the wilderness of Trehafod, the project seeks to give a funeral to the people whose lives were taken by the Valley, and act as a memorial in their sake.
Barbara Poczatek: In semester 1, my project brief was about a Welsh cheese called Caerphilly; a popular snack for Welsh coal miners to eat at work. Its salt content was said to help replace minerals lost during hard physical labour. This led me to design a space where the Rhondda Valley community could learn and experience the making of the traditional Caerphilly Cheese.
Clara Feibusch: Metamorffosis llygredd (Welsh for the Metamorphosis of Pollution) - This intervention serves a threefold purpose; providing opportunity to improve the health of the residents of Pontypridd in a multitude of ways, creating a unique playscape for young children to explore their physical and artistic being simultaneously, and to act as a petition to the wider world - now is the time to do better. The main space of the building comprises treated cardboard tiles which are written on by the children using ink produced from particulate matter air pollution around the vicinity of the building - these tiles are removed on a regular basis and can be installed just about anywhere. Through the metamorphosis of pollution to art a campaign to draw attention to the issue of poor air quality and rapid climate and environmental degradation worldwide begins.
Clara Feibusch: Metamorffosis llygredd (Welsh for the Metamorphosis of Pollution). - This intervention serves a threefold purpose; providing opportunity to improve the health of the residents of Pontypridd in a multitude of ways, creating a unique playscape for young children to explore their physical and artistic being simultaneously, and to act as a petition to the wider world - now is the time to do better. The main space of the building comprises treated cardboard tiles which are written on by the children using ink produced from particulate matter air pollution around the vicinity of the building - these tiles are removed on a regular basis and can be installed just about anywhere. Through the metamorphosis of pollution to art a campaign to draw attention to the issue of poor air quality and rapid climate and environmental degradation worldwide begins.
Hannah Fagerbakk: dŵr HOUSE dŵr (Welsh) i.e. WATER: liquid that forms from the seas, lakes, ri¬vers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms (Oxford Languages) This project is created to benefit the local community of Trehafod by bringing people together through art, culture and social interactions. In addition to this, it is a flood-response measure. Because the site is located on the Rhondda River, flooding will occur, and the architecture will have to adapt. dŵr House is a mobile structure. Whenever the river floods, parts of the building will rise with it. This is accomplished by incorpo¬rating decks beneath the building.
Hannah Fagerbakk: dŵr HOUSE dŵr (Welsh) i.e. WATER: liquid that forms from the seas, lakes, ri¬vers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms (Oxford Languages) This project is created to benefit the local community of Trehafod by bringing people together through art, culture and social interactions. In addition to this, it is a flood-response measure. Because the site is located on the Rhondda River, flooding will occur, and the architecture will have to adapt. dŵr House is a mobile structure. Whenever the river floods, parts of the building will rise with it. This is accomplished by incorpo¬rating decks beneath the building.
Kajana Chaounthara Gnanan : The Sight Loss Community Hub A community hub dedicated for the visually impaired and low visioned individuals, in Pontypridd/Rhondda/Trehafod. The building offers services in which they can learn the every-day life skills to live independently and be part of the existing football community. The hub emotionally supports and resolves the lack in emotional support, care and rehabilitation services given to this minority. The individuals who are approaching blindness will be prepared for the future.
Adrian Truta: Tomb of 167 - 167 deaths, names no one remembers anymore. Nested in the wilderness of Trehafod, the project seeks to give a funeral to the people whose lives were taken by the Valley, and act as a memorial in their sake.
Nick Zielinski: An extension of the river terrace shaped by a diagonal projection of the local stone’s geometry. The proposal will be the new flood emergency response centre in the town of trehafod, and aims to be an integration of a public community space and government building.
Rainier Ramos
Rainier Ramos
Sindre Frøyen Stensløkken
Raphael Haque: Psalms for the Excommunicated celebrates those who, in 1662, were cast out from the Church of England and from public positions for their refusal to conform to the Book of Common Prayer. Anabaptists were a key people subjected to such practices and preached in secret. This building embodies their sacred practices and revives such beliefs projecting their chanting across the Rhondda Valley.
Raphael Haque: Psalms for the Excommunicated celebrates those who, in 1662, were cast out from the Church of England and from public positions for their refusal to conform to the Book of Common Prayer. Anabaptists were a key people subjected to such practices and preached in secret. This building embodies their sacred practices and revives such beliefs projecting their chanting across the Rhondda Valley.
Richard Evans
Richard Evans
Robin Miles
Sean Taylor: Songs Of Wales - Due to the Locally residing Mining heritage park and its strong history of Brass bands. I wanted to design a place to encourage and attract people from all over the Uk To play, Watch, Be inspired by The brass bands that will play in this Space. Being placed so close to the Heritage park the Music made by the bands has been designed to be heard from the park adding to the experience.
Robin Miles
Robin Miles
Lottie Ambler: Improving respiratory problems in early years through naturally resourced treatments. A comparison between current industry drugs tailored to respiratory health issues and organically grown treatments utilised within the nursery. Providing advanced benefits such as health and education. There's a strong contrast between past rhondda valley health problems and todays.
Barbara Poczatek: In semester 1, my project brief was about a Welsh cheese called Caerphilly; a popular snack for Welsh coal miners to eat at work. Its salt content was said to help replace minerals lost during hard physical labour. This led me to design a space where the Rhondda Valley community could learn and experience the making of the traditional Caerphilly Cheese.
Hester Smith: Hex House There is a chronic lack of social housing for young adults in Wales and specifically in Rhondda. Hex House tackles this need for housing, utilising a design strategy that can be duplicated across the country.
Nick Zielinski: An extension of the river terrace shaped by a diagonal projection of the local stone’s geometry. The proposal will be the new flood emergency response centre in the town of trehafod, and aims to be an integration of a public community space and government building.
Robin Miles
Sean Taylor: Songs Of Wales - Due to the Locally residing Mining heritage park and its strong history of Brass bands. I wanted to design a place to encourage and attract people from all over the Uk To play, Watch, Be inspired by The brass bands that will play in this Space. Being placed so close to the Heritage park the Music made by the bands has been designed to be heard from the park adding to the experience.
Simge Tezcan: The Colour Therapy Retreat - Based on the historical mental difficulties of the miners, the project wants to treat the mental health problems that still exist in the region with colour therapy. Architectural colour therapy takes place with the colour projection of the building to the environment.
Sindre Frøyen Stensløkken
Yasmin Jones: Italian Culinary Arts Exhibition and Restaurant - The history of Italian ‘bracchi’ cafes in South Wales is brought to the contemporary world with the proposal of a culinary school that serves traditional Italian dishes to the public by a robot controlled food cart.