Design Yearbook 2017

Studio 5 - Material Poetics
James Longfield & Amy Linford
Material qualities are central to the production of architecture, both technically, in terms of the pragmatics of construction, and through the
social meanings, rituals and memories they embody. Our studio encouraged students to engage with material as the ‘stuff’ of architecture,
real, rather than rendered, the thickness, thinness, density, weight of building elements, and the effect these qualities have on the sensory
experience of occupation.
Through the studio each student has explored a specific material through hands-on investigations, and through a year-long engagement with
Scarborough as a site of reflection and production. Students’ projects have addressed materiality as a way of thinking about building design
and detailing as a thoughtful and critical process of material assembly which emerges out of the pragmatics and poetics of material contexts,
cultures and politics.
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Left - Ho Yin Chung
Right, top to bottom - Lilly Street, Aishath Rasheed, Lilly Street