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CONTENTS 

Foreword 

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BA(Hons) Architecture 

Year One 

Common Ground 

Extreme Change 

Futurists 

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MArch MA Architecture 

Abstract Machines 

Crash Test 

Urban Studio 

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FOREWORD 

In 1962 Umberto eco published The open Work. Addressing issues of 

‘form and indeterminacy in contemporary poetics’, the book marked 

a turning point in the understanding of the relationship between the 

 

mechanisms of its reception. The ideas it proposed provoked lively 

reactions – supportive or vitriolic, all intellectually curious. They also led 

eco to systematically address semiology and structuralism in his later 

works, and to propose a semiotic approach to architecture. 

eco interprets architecture as a system of communication that ‘starts 

from existing architectural codes, but actually rests on other codes 

that are not those of architecture’. The architect, he observes, ‘must 

 

of those functions does not belong to the architectural language, rather, 

it is external to it’. And indeed ‘what architecture gives form to (a system 

of social relationships, a way of dwelling or of being together) does not 

belong to architecture’. (U. eco, La struttura Assente, Milan: Bompiani 

2002 (1968), p. 233-34). 

half a century later, eco’s words resound familiar, but also dated, 

even ‘unfashionable’. And yet, because architecture and its discourse 

are not a fashion, and because the architectural ‘functions’ that eco 

refers to are not exclusively linked to modes of use, performative 

 

and communication, it is topical to reconsider, here and now, the 

original formulation of architecture as an open work. 

determined by many external agents, affected, transformed, open more 

 

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often unpredictable, architecture is always already challenged in its 

environmental, cultural, social and political positions. Yet, uncertainty 

is not allowed to the architectural Project, buit or unbuilt, as it performs, 

again and again, that de-cision that makes it possible – that make it take 

a position. The openness of the artwork to chance and to interpretation 

(and, in architecture, to inhabitation) is made possible by the multiplicity 

and plurality of its agents (both architects and non architects), and 

by the process of their interactions. But underlying this openness, 

and indeed enabling it, while provoking different interpretations, are 

the very elements that organize architecture as a form of structured 

 

interpretations. 

The open Work explored mainly serial music, experimental literature, 

media and new forms of visual arts. The pages that follow here present 

unbuilt works of architecture that ‘give form’ to ideas and agendas for 

the present and the future of the european city – the main focus of this 

year’s work. Abstract machines, crash testing and choreographies of 

social participation are the tools that were imported into architecture to 

address the wider situations of extreme climatic, economic and social 

 

architectural project. 

Teresa stoppani 

head, The Leeds school of Architecture 

May 2013 

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BA(HONS) ARCHITECTURE 

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of 

new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to 

create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. 

We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series of 

interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to the building skin 

and the room itself. 

Many of the projects we do are directly linked to making – either things 

or policy or methodologies. from the action research of the futurist 

Unit, where the downfall of Yorkshire coastal regions is tackled, to 

the extreme change Unit where parametric modelling allows the 

development of complex component driven façades, to the Venice 

group, where process, materiality and texture is key - we engage in a 

creative way with the limitations imposed and possibilities presented by 

technologies and material. 

The following is a celebration of work from all years. We hope that, 

through this book, you are able to share in our thoughts and ideas. 

Des Fagan RIBA March BArch 

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YEAR ONE 

BA1 offers a year of experimentation and 

curiosity, where we challenge the meaning 

of architecture in order to propose new 

spaces. The year provides a foundation for 

intuitive investigation, supported by skills 

need to analyse, propose and communicate 

ideas. We begin by examining the everyday 

object and how we ‘see’ in order to provide 

a critical dialogue between real, imagined 

and the void in-between. Risk taking is 

encouraged and opportunities explored via 

making, drawing, printing, sculpting and 

 

Projects undertaken in semester one 

examine the city of Leeds as an environment 

that can be ‘read’ and transformed via 

small-scale architectural interventions. 

In semester two we visited Marrakech 

and skipton, where we examined the 

peculiarities of the marketplace and the 

notion of trading. 

Claire Hannibal 

Geraldine Booth 

Ian Fletcher 

Lesley Millard 

Craig Stott 

Adebanke Adenisa, Nushoor Almahoozi, ehab Almarsumi, samer Bannourah, samuel Bedford, Adit Bhatnagar, Jack 

Biddle, Alexander couth, Wayne croasdell, Graham davey, Joseph earley, Benjamin Goldie, Zahra hagnajat, Bethany 

hamer, Leslie-Andrew hardt, Jack hartley, Ayah hatahet, Rebecca hodgson, Nathan hopwood, faisal Ibrahim, Yusef 

Iqbal, eve Jackson, hannah Johnson, Mathew Kan, sammy Kawook, William Kent, Kamila Kudlata, Grady Lancaster, 

Amin Mahdmina, Adam Maqsood, Nicholas Mierzejewski, florence Mujaji, Alex Murray, Moreen Mutesi, Lincoln Myers, 

Paul ojeil, Agnesa osmani, Piotr Pich, Varvara Polti, James Ratcliffe, Joesay Reynolds, Aimee Rogers, Lucy Rymer, santa 

sangar, Nils schmidt-hansen, Matthew shepherd, Abigail stone, Victoria Tainty, hannah Thomas, Laurynas Vaskevicius, 

Bethany Walker, Zachariah Wall, Anastasia Whitehead, corey Wilson, Rizwan Younis, 

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JAMES RATCLIFFE 

hagglers, hawkers and Traders 

JOSEPH EARLEY 

Panopticon 

JACK BIDDLE 


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LAURYNAS VASKEVICIUS 


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LUCY RYMER 

collections and curiosities



LUCY RYMER 


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city Instrument 

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MATTHEW SHEPHERD 


ZAHRA HAGNAJAT 


JAMES RATCLIFFE 


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JOSEPH EARLEY 


JACK BIDDLE 

hagglers, hawkers and Traders (above and below) 

AGNESA OSMANI 

collections and curiosities (above and below) 

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COMMON GROUND 

common Ground was the title of the 2012 

architecture Biennale curated by david 

 

his curatorial role are broadly in sympathy 

with the aims of this design studio. 

We are strongly interested in the idea of 

the everyday how this relates to the ground 

between buildings, the spaces of the city 

and the relationship of architecture to the 

political, social and cultural structure of 

the city. These ideas are to be investigated 

through theoretical studies and writings 

and the application of the pre-conceptual 

models and paintings. our interest is also in 

the realization of architectural ideas at many 

scales from the urban up to the full-scale 

model or 1:2. 

Venice was chosen as the study area 

because of the publication of a recent book 

 

Venice as a sign, a real abstraction a series 

of remote images. The book discussed 

how a city could be explained through the 

naratives of visitors and migrants to this new 

global city. Very few of the inhabitants of the 

city are born in the area or Italy. Their stories 

tell of another city unknown to the tourist a 

place that has not yet become an image of 

itself and its beauty. 

Sarah Mills & Dennis Burr 

2nd Year (2nd Semester): samah Anjum, Anna Athanasiou, Jacob Bojcun, Remi connolly-Taylor, francis cullen, Gurjina 

dugal, Phil Goss, dave hallam, Benjamin higginbotham, George Kerridge, Lucas Leandro, danielle Levitt, daniel Lomax, 

William McMahon, felipe Palmer c.P. de faria, danny Pound, Abdullah Rehman, Matthew Riley, delbert st Marthe, 

Arpeeta Thakur, sophie Thompson, Karina Withers. 3rd Year: Basma Ajoor, Nathalia Azevedo, Melanie Backhouse, 

Jordan Blacker, Abdulrahman Bucheeri, Benjamin courtenay, Lauren di Pietro, Jonathan evans, Mitra hadian, Adam 

hegab, Ryan holdsworth, Jiyan Khalaf, Ryan Lawlor, Joseph Myerscough, danny Patel, Matthew Redding, hina shah, 

samuel spence, chantelle stewart 

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SAM SPENCE (3rd Year) 

fLIGhT: Venice to chioggia 

Conceptual image of approach to Chioggia Centre for Visual Arts 

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Facade study 

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RYAN LAWLER (3rd Year) 

desalination Plant, Venice 

The Desalination Plant of San Giacomo in Palude provides the surrounding residential districts and agricultural areas with 

clean water bringing life to the area. Lightweight Timber Truss towers clad in a mass of solar panels hold desalinating 

equipment that extract sea water and using solar energy produce clean water that is then stored in silos encased heavy 

weight brickwork towers that keep the silos at a cool temperature. The tower’s research and learning facilities help aid the 

 

their own clean water. 



 

ds left by the old cement silo 

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JACK BOWN (2nd Year) 

Boat Builder 

Perspective section (top) 

Model, tracing paper and wire mesh 

Psychogeographic Map Venice 

 

 

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REBECCA TURNER (2nd Year) 

Psycho-Geographic Map of Venice 

 

 

 

 

 

 

images.” Guy Debord 

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SOPHIE THOMPSON (2nd Year) 

 

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BENJAMIN COURTENAY (3rd Year) 

Nuclear fusion Anaglyph 3d 

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JOHN EVANS (3rd Year) 

Jewish Library and Museum 

 

 

independent and close in secondary internal zones allowing fr independent environmental conditions and management 

 

 

conforming to the ideals of the master plan. 

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The city of Venice established a boundary to prevent the Jewish Community entering the city after curfew. They were 

 

 

 

The archive and depository will house approximately 5000 book and ancient documents; 2500 of which are historic 

 

 

 

bringing together a diverse mix of Jewish heritage and culture into one accessible volume. Education facilities and a cafe 

and function room which can be used by the local community for events and celebrations will also be incorporated into 

the building fabric thus furthering the notion of common ground within the building. 

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LAUREN DI PIETRO (3rd Year) 

community college on Isola dei saloni, Venice. 

concept Image (above) 

 

 

I will create a sensitive response to the domain of public and private use that will: 

 

 

 

Volumetric site Model (left) 

This is part of a volumetric study using models to understand spatial and aesthetic qualities of my design. The model is 

 

ADAM HEGAB (3rd Year) 

The Vivaldi concert hall, cannaregio, Venice 

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JOSEPH MYERSCOUGH (3rd Year) 

Wholesale Meat & fish Market, Venice: 

 

outdoor farmers marker serving the southern district of the island. Featuring a large concrete & bamboo meat market 

 

community space for a new 21st century healthy lifestyle for the island. 

HENRY SCHOFIELD (2nd Year) 

Venetian Boathouse & Automated dry-dock facility 

 

 

the storage and restoration of up to 20 gondolas at a time. The exoskeletal framework allows residents and pedestrians 

of the Fondamenta Misericordia to observe the rebirth and preservation of the one of Venice’s greatest heritages. At the 

 

resolving the logistical nightmare of boat storage; one of Venice’s greatest issues since its creation. 

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WILLIAM McMAHON (2nd Year) 

Low Density Isolated (top) 

High Density Isolated 

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EXTREME CHANGE 

“Humans and all other living beings 

 

processes and phenomena of the natural 

 

have a profound effect upon it. All forms 

of nature an all forms of civilisation have 

 

in space and over time that determines 

 

 

 

 

and culture have coevolved and developed 

 

Michael Weinstock,emergence 

 

Thompson regarded the material forms of 

living organisms as a diagram of the forces 

acting upon them. The studio questioned 

the validity of this analogy when extended to 

architecture. This led to an exploration of the 

interactions of systems/process ecologies 

subject to climate. The studio asked ‘could 

valid contextually generated architecture 

emerge from this line of enquiry? 

Keith Andrews & Vernon Thomas 

“Would that the wind had form” 

hermann Melvile, Moby dick 

The studio’s focus lay in the exploration and 

exploitation of symbiotic relationships latent 

within a sit subject to extreme environmental 

conditions. Granada in southern spain was 

chosen as the locus of our activities, being 

 

The increasingly onerous climate provided 

a spur, facilitating a morphogenic approach 

2nd Year (2nd Semester): Jamie Aldus, dali Alnaeb, dean Bartlett, Justin Bilinskas, Michael Bland, Jack Bown, chloe 

Burbidge, Phillipa Burgin, francesca cameron, Karly chung, Robert cresswell, Ryan daniel, chris delahunt, Josh 

elleray, Jubal Green, Jake hinchcliffe, Mohamed Mahmood, callum Muir, christopher scarffe, edward shallcross, Lottie 

smith, Jennisfer stalker, Laura Tsang, Jake Woods. 3rd Year: Michael Akinola, Josh cottrill, stewart craven, helen 

davies, Victoria Gaskell-fawcett, Jack ford, Jack Green, danielle Landrum, Bradley McArdle, Yuen Ngai, Luke sach, 

Kane sanders, Jack sanguinetti, harry sharp, Gemma Walker, Kimberly Ward, Kirsty Williams 

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VICTORIA GASKELL (3rd Year) 

convert and sewing school 

The integration between public and private begins from the moment the public enter on to the structure. They are 

 

 

 

linking them through sound and light. 

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The York Flood Observatory 

Christopher Delahunt 

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CHRIS DELLAHUNT (2nd Year) 

York flood observatory 

JACK BOWN (2nd Year) 

York flood observatory 

The section displays the main entrance/lobby into the underground spaces from the rear of the building; then moving 

 

then cuts through the staircase moving up into the secondary water garden and private access to the research facility. 

 

NASTASSIA RUESCHER (2nd Year) 

Live Work space - development models 

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JAKE WOODS (2nd year) 

The York house of Time 

Time itself controls every aspect of modern life within the 

 

physical interaction within a space? 

 

 

 

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KIRSTI WILLIAMS (3rd Year) 

Albaycin community hub 

Due to the changing angles and 

orientation of each of the separate 

 

a different quality of 

(Above) 

Tessellations allow differing degrees 

of transformation and directional 

movement. (Left) 

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LUKE SACH (3rd Year) 

Ritual Bathing space, Granada 

Exploded axonometric (above) 

Section (left) 

SEMESTER 2: EXT 

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YUEN CHAK NGAI (3rd Year) 

Art & craft exhibition centre: 

 

 

JACK GREEN (3rd Year) 

Pottery Workshop 

KIMBERLY WARD (3rd Year) 

silk factory facility 

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DANIELLE LANDRUM (3rd Year) 

Granada ceramics Workshop 

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DANIEL POUND (2nd Year) 

Art and sculpture gallery, Granada 

Internally based in geometric patterns 

SOPHIE THOMPSON (2nd Year) 

flamenco Pavilion 

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CHARLOTTE FULLER (2nd Year) 

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JACK FORD (3rd Year) 

The art of making: Luthiery archives & workshops 

 

production. Luthiery represents an activity where an archaic and seemingly romantic mode of making is sustained 

through the communication abilities of technology. Yet the work itself directly engages the senses and mind as a whole. 

 

deliberate dissection that these sub elements can be separated. 

 

 

these luthiers attempt to combine the precision of science with the elegance and resourcefulness of art to create highly 

 

 

construction and implements them for use as building components. In turn spaces exhibit a sense of craft of the bespoke 

 

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FUTURISTS 

“…We are interested in diurnal cycles: 

temporary re-purposing of buildings, 

urban spaces - the deployment of new 

technologies and art/branding, together with 

issues of sustainability and disposability this 

raises: the assumed constant need for reinvention… 

This year, we have focused upon the UK 

seaside and what has happened to this 

ailing tourist destination. In a period of 

recession, why are we not returning to the 

domicile shore for our holiday - is it a matter 

 

The threshold between water and land is no 

longer clear – the UK is dissolving without a 

strategy to contain it. 

What can we do to reinvent our coast? 

do we defend, retreat or attack?.....” 

Des Fagan & Simon Warren 

2nd Year (2nd Semester): 

fowler, charlotte fuller, hannah Geskes, christie Gustave, Tony Kangah, Besart Redenica, Bradley Rhodes, olivia 

 

Morales Valovirto, orlander Watson, eleni Zormpa. 3rd Year: Besnik Abdiu, Joseph Bradley, dan calverley, Valbona 

canolli, Launa cowan, Lauren heys, Luke hirst, Ayesha Iqbal, Kathryn Neal, Michael Powell, Michael Quan, Kathy Roe, 

charles Ryan-hicks, daniel sargeant, samuel Taylor, Andrew Thompson, Lee Wade, Gaven Webb, 

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Michael Powell 3rd Year 

forgotten Victoriana, scarborough 

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KATHY ROE (3rd Year) 

‘everything happens on the edge’ 

 

ANDREW THOMPSON (3rd Year) 

Boat recycling yard, scarborough 

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LORNA COWAN (3rd Year) 

A centre for coastal Retreat 

The centre develops and implements an ecosystem monitoring program that focuses on climate change, carbon recycling 

and hydromatic components. It educates the population of scarborough about the program, as well as visitors, 

thereby encouraging more people to visit the seaside town. 

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MICHAEL POWELL (3rd Year) 

concept sketch 

 

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MICHAEL POWELL (3rd Year) 

freehand sketch 

Pass the towers and up to Scarborough Castle 

DANNII LEVETT (2nd Year) 

Biodiversity Tower, scarborough 

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NASTASSIA RUESCHER (2nd Year) 

Halifax Library (top) and Intervention 

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LUKE HIRST (3rd Year) 

sketch, scarborough 

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MICHAEL BLAND (2nd Year) 

sea Pavilion (above) 

 

 

 

grungy steel structure. 

HANNAH GESKES (2nd year) 

War Memorial Library, halifax 

GEORGE KERRIDGE (2nd year) 

deep sea Museum 

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GAVEN WEBB (3rd Year) 

The Problem (top) 

We are faced with with a looming global crisis; the expiration of our fossil fuel supplies. This is an industry that will fail 

 

from cars to trains to planes. 

The solution 

 

 

 

usable Ethanol. 

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HENRY SCHOFIELD (2nd Year) 

Aerial Arts Academy halifax 

Halifax’s once world renowned Aerial Arts community has since retired. Inspired by Peter Cook’s “London Eight” and 

 

Bringing tightrope walking and aerial performance into Piece Hall’s community. Yoga and Meditation spaces feature 

throughout the building in order to enhance the spiritual experience one must take in order to gain physical balance and 

successfully tightrope walk. 

BRADLEY RHODES (2nd Year) 

halifax Textile Learning centre 

LEILA DJALALVANDI (2nd Year) 

creative Arts Training facility, halifax 

CONNOR BACKHOUSE (2nd Year) 

Manuals Library, halifax 

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LUKE HIRST (3rd Year) 

sketch, scarborough 

 

DAVE HALLAM (2nd Year) 

The spires 

JOEL RODERICK (2nd Year) 

halifax democracy space 

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CHRIS DELAHUNT (2ndYear) 

steampunk scarborough 

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MARCH | MA ARCHITECTURE 

The future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the 

challenge for the 21st century Architect, to imagine not only the future, 

but to envision ways of getting there - from here. 

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of 

new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to 

create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. Architecture is 

not only building to us, but a concretisation of the needs and dreams of 

the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as 

a nested series of interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to 

the building skin and the room itself. 

our approach is research based design. design teaching is studiobased 

allowing students to specialise within the frame of the RIBA/ 

ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book 

based research but research by design. This research is based on the 

 

underpins new work and new dialogues. 

We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making - 

either things or policy or methodologies. from the action research of our 

Urban studio, where real life community design projects are realised to 

the Abstract Machines studio where parametric modeling allows the 

development of complex component driven facades, we engage with 

the possibilities created by new technologies and material. The crash 

Test studio engages with urban policy and sustainability in a creative 

way to produce closed cycles cities. 

Simon Warren 

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ABSTRACT MACHINES 

The work of the studio is proposition based 

and evolves from a negotiation between 

‘culture’ and research in computation 

and tectonics. We begin by examining 

the ideas that underpin Architecture’s 

phenomenal and corporeal expression. 

We have an interest in data mapping the 

 

diagramming their interrelations. The aim is 

to devise performative diagrams that modify 

ecologies of systems to a desired end. 

having looked at the why and what one 

 

expression of the performative diagrams. To 

do this students are encouraged to explore 

formal solutions through computational 

simulations and physical modeling. 

The principle thematic driver for M(Arch) 

01 & 02, academic year 2012-13 has been 

‘extreme climate’. This has focused the work 

of the studio on the derivation of a range 

of architectural responses to ameliorate, 

in a sustainable manner the effects of a 

harsh climate. The projects are largely 

based in spain, (principally Granada) 

and Marrakech, Morocco with site visits 

being undertaken early in the academic 

year. We have continued to build on the 

computational and tectonic grounding of 

2011-12 visits the Institute for computational 

design (Icd) at the University of stuttgart 

run by Achim Menges and the ‘fabricate’ 

conference (2011) with students attending 

the ‘Prototyping Architecture’ March 2013. 

Keith Andrews & Vernon Thomas 

5th Year: charanjeev Bamrah, Richard Berry, harry hewlett, Richard Laycock, chris Lazenby, dan Mason, simon 

Murphy, Alex Warren, Nick Wright. 6th Year: Tessa henshaw, christopher Lunn, Matthew Mudd, fatima Radhi, Peter 

shovlin, Anuj shishodia, Guy stewart 

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ALEX WARREN (5th Year) 

Pneumatic earthquake 

defense shelter 

 

in Granada by Seismologists 

 

 

used in the aviation industry 

and high performance textiles 

used by NASA and the U.S 

 

a simple pneumatic shelter 

became a structure that could 

 

entire streets and absorbing 

 

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MATTHEW MUDD (6th Year) 

Women’s sanctuary, Marrakech 

 

 

 

 

response to the climate in Marrakech. 

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HARRY HEWLETT (5th Year) 

Adaptable shading system, Granada 

The system uses layers of perforated material that align in different arraignments to create varying levels of shading 

RICHARD LAYCOCK (5th Year) 

environmentally Reactive canopy, Granada 

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NICK WRIGHT (5th Year) 

form and structure experimentation, Granada (top) 

 

 

This moved on to a large scale market and performance space canopy. 

A musical gateway to the Albaicin, Granada (bottom) 

 

 

 

spaces create a public square linking to the Albaicin. 

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TESSA HENSHAW (6th Year) 

The oasis Project 

 

 

energy harvesting. These drivers resulted in a scheme that proposes closed loop energy and water systems to support 

a series of spaces which celebrate the delight of water in order to raise awareness of its value. 

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CRASH TEST 

Do you dress for the ride or for the crash? 

We think that the towns and cities are 

heading for a big stack, and we must dress 

accordingly: climate change, resource 

 

virtualisation, immigration, global trade, 

 

 

places. 

We need to adapt to the future, and make 

 

these possible crashes, visualise them and 

design futures accordingly, allowing the 

 

absorbed. 

This year, we have developed mycelium 

 

sites, ensured a food resilience should the 

 

potential for future development, created 

a quarantined society safe from pandemic 

attack, established bottom-up open source 

small scale housing initiatives and created 

 

textile manufacturing. 

over the last two years, we have 

investigated some of the most problematic 

 

Aire Valley, to the forgotten mill towns of 

Lancashire, settling on the commuter town 

 

with districts as far away as Berlin and 

Tokyo. We have documented shrinkage, 

decay, despair, we have modelled and 

 

our intention is to discover, document, 

describe and discuss adaptation and 

resilience in post-industrial towns and cities. 

Des Fagan & Craig Stott 

5th Year: claire Burrell, Jack davey, John evans, Lawrence ferguson, Paul hansell, charlotte haughton, Thomas 

Lamping, Aimee Major, huy Nam Nguyen, Ben Parish, Jose Antonio Rogriguez, susan Thomas, Joseph Walton. 

6th Year: 

 

Bradley spencer, Imran Zulfqar 

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LAWRENCE FERGUSON (5th year) 

Architecture As Artifact (above) 

Admiring an architectural proposition in its various elements. The garish and contrasting colors aim to express the forms 

 

PAUL HANSELL (5th Year) 

Post capitalist Vertical Airport 

The airport works like an envelope over Friedrichstraße train station creating a central hub in Berlin city center for 

 

densities of the capitalist city of Berlin. The vertical airport powers itself from large mechanical machines all fueled by 

 

to allow it to move away from the platform to allow for safer landings for larger airships. 

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BRADLEY SPENCER (6th Year) 

 

 

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AIMEE MAJOR & PAUL HANSELL (5th year) 

Model of facade system on Thyssen Krupp headquarters, essen, Germany 

 

contemporary building façades display any of the intricacies human skin has evolved. They offer little more than a barrier 

 

improve in every aspect. 

 

 

to make air conditioning redundant with the use of a weather station on the roof which sends signals to a computer that 

steers the rotation of the facade slats. The facade provides a screen that reduces solar gains when there is direct solar 

radiation but allows daylight in when there is not. 

MATT RILEY (6th year) 

d3 Unbuilt Visions competition sPecIAL MeNTIoN 

Transient Architecture: The Mobile Autonomous collating Laboratory 

 

accommodating E.U scientists researching into climate change and its effect upon bird migration. The laboratory had 

 

 

hostile areas where little infrastructure exist. The trapezium shaped module allows the lab to take a variety of forms which 

 

 

 

 

 

ventilation requirements within varying climates. The laboratory is self sustaining as it harvests solar and wind power 

whilst collecting rainwater and utilising natural light. 

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CLAIRE BURRELL (5th year) 

Resilient Residences: flood Resistant housing on the Mersey estuary (left) 

 

 

according to the water level. 

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SALIH GULERCAAN (6th Year) 

 

and pesticides to produce bigger crop yields and quicker harvesting times. 

JOHN EVANS (5th Year) 

Rapid Response emergency flood housing 

 

families displaced by natural disaster can adapt to a 

 

 

It demonstrates how rapid response housing can address 

 

and sustainable home which not only has the ability to be 

rapidly mobilised in emergency scenarios but also has 

scope for permanence in an ever changing world. 

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LUCI BERRY (6th Year) 

 

Heterogeneous Agriculture is introduced to 

 

vessel for the distribution of the food produced. 

MARK SMITH (6th Year) 

Reclaiming fashion 

 

power over society could play an important role 

in making sustainability desirable. 

 

ecological cost associated with the global 

consumption and waste of fashion by reducing 

 

 

 

 

manufacturing heritage. 

 

offering a fresh approach to engaging with 

issues of social education and employment 

 

 

provide a range of both skilled and unskilled 

 

 

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VICKY McQUEEN (6th Year) 

Carmageddon: 

 

“Carmageddon”. The day that the dominance 

of the internal combustion engine ends and the 

 

 

 

meaning only the rich can afford to drive. 

There are a large number of commuters within 

 

introduced to maintain connections with other 

 

 

 

transportation costs. Taking a cradle to cradle 

 

 

reused as catalysts for new industries. 

The building is designed from the concept of 

 

 

redundant multi storey car park structures.

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EXPLODED 

AXONOMETRIC 

01. Clinic al rese arch va c cine entranc e 

02. Clinic al va c cine test rooms (hospital 

p atients) 

03. Und erground c ar p ark 

04. Clinic al va c cine test rooms (he althy 

volunte ers) 

05. Plastic production fa ctory 

06. Plastic products assembly w arehouse. 

07. Exhibition sp a c e 

08. Le cture sp a c e 

09. Sle e ping rooms 

10. Exchange sp a c e 

11. Interchange sp a c e 

TIM ROBINSON (6th Year) 

Networks of Viral Trauma 

 

a microscopic virus could cause such panic and dissolution. The harrowing imagery circulated through media sources 

heightened mine and the public’s distress. But was this a media tactic to enslave us in a fear driven society. Or was this 

a real threat that could create a shift in the way we live our lives. 

 

I looked around the tube train; calculating the number of people I had come into contact with on this shot 20 minute 

 

 

 

to help the survival of an ordinary citizen? 

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URBAN STUDIO 

 

to enable all its citizens to meet their own 

 

without damaging the natural world or 

endangering the living conditions of 

 

there will be no sustainable world 

without sustainable cities.” Herbert 

Girardet 

By thinking about the strategic urban design 

of the city and understanding the resources 

within communities the city can be made 

more resilient, egalitarian and coherent. 

Urban studio situates its explorations 

in neglected places of the North’s postindustrial 

cities. We consider global 

imperatives and local issues together. 

We explore their interconnection and 

consequence of each on the other. This 

becomes the genesis of the student’s 

personal interest or manifesto. Using the 

 

suppose and propose we make urban 

design strategies for city and community. 

The urban strategies generate and 

contextualise the students’ architectural 

propositions. 

Part of our ethos is group working, 

developing collaborative practice both 

inside and outside of the University. This 

means that every student will work in a 

 

to a ‘live project’. students in the current 

cohort have either designed a children’s 

centre following the earthquake disaster 

in haiti in 2010 or developed a urban 

framework for hunslet which we combined 

with a ‘Live Project’ for new ‘bogs’ and 

community proposal to extend the Grade2* 

listed Garden Gate public house. 

Through being ‘out there’ with our projects, 

our students are helping raise money for the 

haiti children’s centre. Two students from 

this group achieved an honourable mention 

in the international competition ‘shelters 

for All’ and through this exposure are now 

collaborating on ‘sisal as a building material’ 

with American post graduate students. our 

work in hunslet has led to two students 

being commissioned by RIBA Yorkshire 

to make a stop motion video for the RIBA 

Awards. Another group has been contacted 

by hunslet based Voluntary Action Leeds 

to discuss possibilities for reusing their 

building. finally Leeds city council has 

invited the cohort to present their hunslet 

urban framework strategies. 

 

5th Year: Kelela Blake, Rachael Branton, Andy clapham, hamid dhorat, Josh dyson, Adam fulton, haroulla Georgiou, 

Neil Graham, Joe Morizzo, Trim Murati, harvey Mudhar, Gareth Roberts, daniel Wallace, Jason Yeung, Yue Zheng, 

Anthea Zhu. 6th Year: emily Blowers, Nick Bullen Brown, Rob carter, Andrew court, Alex durie, steven duquemin, david 

heeley, Jonathan hounslow, sarah hutton, charoula Kassimati-Antonopoullou, Natalie Ledward, simon Lewington, 

Michael Townsend 

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5th YEAR URBAN STUDIO 

hunslet Pop Up Tea sheds community engagement 

 

 

 

 

to generate curiosity and promote conversations between the local population and us as designers. 

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RACHAEL BRANTON, HAROULLA GEORGIOU, JOE MORIZZO, YUE ZHENG (5TH YEAR) 

The Garden Gate Picture house 

 

which will bring the community together and provide Leeds Brewery with a possible secondary income. Increasing the 

popularity of the public house is essential to it becoming the hub of the local community. In doing so we are interweaving 

 

development. 

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ANDREW CLAPHAM, NEIL GRAHAM, DANIEL WALLACE, JASAN YEUNG, (5th Year) 

Garden Gate cider Tower 

A tower is built to the back of the Garden Gate pub in order for Leeds Brewery to produce cider from apples in the 

orchards. The vertical tower maximises the small site and allows for a gravitational cider making process. The design 

 

 

 

 

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TRIM MURATI, HARVEY MUDHAR, HAMID DHORAT (5th Year) 

The idea was to create a space where it would accommodate many different activities occurred during, the day, the 

week, the month and the year. This space would almost be the central point of hunslet. Activities like music from folk to 

urban, different comedians, performances, annual event and private hire occurring at all times. This space we design 

 

origami is a good way of making seating, acoustic panels, stages that change according to what is happening inside 

the space. We looked at folding, retracting and compressing systems using the art of origami. 

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JOSH DYSON, ADAM FULTON, 

GARETH ROBERTS (5th Year) 

Place for the People 

The Main Hall is the main feature of 

the Place for the People. Essentially 

what we endeavored to produce 

was the perfect versatile space. 

 

 

alongside the Garden Gate to 

 

their own. This space is intended 

to be the catalyst for rebuilding 

the lost community spirit and it will 

 

community meetings and speed 

dating amongst other events. 

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EMILY BLOWERS, NATALIE 

LEDWARD (6th Year) 

haiti: house of hope - sisal Lakau 

 

 

PAUL UNETT (6th Year) 

ship Breaking facility, hull 

 

 

 

too costly for ship owners to sell their ships to yards for breaking. Soon ship owners began to bribe corrupt African 

 

 

 

inhumane working conditions and the pollution of the oceans. 

The Ministry of Defence is looking for innovative proposals to preserve the HMS Illustrious which is due to be decom 

 

 

 

ship breaking and educational facilities for Naval Architecture and Marine Design university courses. 

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ALEX DURIE, ANDREW PYE, MICHAEL TOWNSEND, THOMAS WOODCOCK (6th Year) 

haiti: house of hope 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMILY BLOWERS (6th Year) 

The Game-board - The city 

Creating a strategic board game that involves players trying to progress to one side of the board while trying to block 

 

autonomy. It was a valuable experiment and was interesting to see how creating a simple game allowed people to be fully 

engaged in a situation and from that learn much more effectively. Within the second and third game players had created 

strategies and used alliances with players for mutual gain. 

The above images shows the routes taken by each player and how they directly relate to other players. Developing this 

analogy I wanted the urban area of Holderness road to become the game board where interaction of the individuals 

 

for the future. 

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The society of Architectural Knowledge (soAK) was formed in 2013 

within the Leeds school of Architecture to promote cross-studio 

learning, encourage student participation in the running of the school 

as well as creating student-led events which showcase student’s work 

and ideas to future employers. 

The founding member committee, consisting of a number of dedicated 

students [Rachael Branton, Graham davey, Lauren di Pietro, Victoria 

Gaskell, harry hewlett, Joe Morizzo, Andrew Thompson, sophie 

Thompson, Gaven Webb and Yue Zheng] have worked hard to ensure 

that the running of the society has been as smooth as possible, from 

inception through its current infant stages. 

soAK has created this yearbook with support from the West Yorkshire 

society of Architects, whom we would like to thank for their generous 

donation, without which this book would have never been possible. 

I would also like to personally thank the staff at the school and all 

students who have supported the society from the very beginning. 

 

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