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Studio 03: From Kitchen Cabinet to Public Room

Studio brief

Site & Method: Our study is situated at the intersection of Britannia Street and the defunct subterranean railway station cutting, once serving Kings Cross Thameslink station. Through drawing and model making, we begin a detailed horizontal and vertical diagnosis of the site. We explore many cultural and material grounds enveloping occupancy, ravine, bridge connections and cuttings. These become a testimony to the passage of day, night, weather, maintenance, cleaning, patching up, reuse, making do, and occasional replacement. From our observations, we ask, how does the neighbourhood situate their lives, and how, as architects, should we respond? 

SEM A: Kitchen Cabinet: Tribune or Vestibule  

A proposal for a small-scale vestibule situated within the edge of the site, transcending the underground and the above-ground conditions.  Working at 1:50, your propositions guide this design process across new thresholds and envelopes between, above and below, connecting an assemblage of lives and activities through food.  

SEM B: Public Room: Festive Condenser

Propositions: Your observations from SEM A will initiate and direct the Public Room as a Festive Condenser. Food growing in the city and its distribution to the neighbourhood could be a fresh investigation of localism, celebrating and embracing food exchange to nurture nutrition knowledge and welfare.

Project: Our site is complex in terms of competing interests in land ownership and use. Given the challenges of ground conditions, the presence of the subterranean defunct railway station will require careful consideration, with temporary lightweight, provisional structures as a prelude to more long-term constructions. Stories will be buried in and around the area that can feed the brief, and adjustments will be made to reveal connections to give the neighbourhood a sense of place.

We encouraged you to research existing ventures such as the local example, “Cook For Good” part of a community centre on the Priory Green Estate Housing Estate or the Hackney School for Food. Through discussion and making, we help you define the brief resulting from your research and develop detailed schedules of accommodation from built examples. 

A black and white photograph showcasing a building featuring a prominent window

Image by Studio 3

Details

Course
Tutors Jane McAllister
Andrew Houlton
Where

 

 Goulston Street
When Tuesday and Friday
   

 

Architecture studios

 
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UG Architecture Studio 01: Building and Belonging

Holly Jean Crosbie, Kieran Wardle, Owain Williams

Exploring identity, place and belonging through proposing a new cultural anchor in a coastal town
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UG Architecture Studio 02: Spaces of Birth – Spaces of Death

Charlotte Harris and Colin O’Sullivan

Times of birth and death represent the two most momentous times of our lives, and those of our families and friends. Often, the spaces where these events are played out are ill considered and show scant regard for what is happening inside, and here too, people’s power and agency is often disregarded. We will make proposals that suggest an alternative to the current norms. “I have now decided that…….. I’d like my death to be as interesting as my life has been.” David Bowie
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UG Architecture Studio 03: SCHOOL OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE - Pedagogy of Play

Jane McAllister, Alex Somerville

Overview “The difference between play and what is regarded as serious employment should be not a difference between the presence and absence of imagination, but a difference in the materials with which imagination is occupied.” John Dewey ‘SCHOOL OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE’, will establish a sustainable platform to foster long-term knowledge exchange and growth for the village of Belmonte, Calabro. It will combine new industries with the everyday, initiate forms of playful governance.
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UG Architecture Studio 04: The New Tenement

Fran Balaam, Ingrid Petit

This year the studio will design a new housing typology for Glasgow: A new tenement. We will look at the specific spatial characteristics of a home in the 21st Century city in a housing crisis, and how, in a commodified housing market, a typology can create a sense of community. We will help you develop a close understanding of materials, tectonics and construction methods with proposals that are practical, robust and tied to how people live
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UG Architecture Studio 05: Home?

Theo Thysiades, Chris Smith, Spyros Kaprinis

As the world and our environment is quickly changing around us and our lives are increasingly becoming more complex, we will ask you to think about and design a simple house whose interior is a kind of sanctuary, a place you can feel at home.