Undergraduate Architecture - London Metropolitan University

Ben Brooksbank / Redevelopment in Barbican at London Wall/Wood Street/Monkwell Street, by Church of St Giles, Cripplegate / CC BY-SA 2.0

UG Architecture Studio 01: The City: After the Office

Jillian Jones, Andrew Budd, Kieran Wardle

Studio 01 will be exploring a new future for the City of London no longer dominated by the office. Developing new housing models and public buildings that provide the social infrastructure for new residents of the City.

UG Architecture Studio 02: Back to Front

Charlotte Harris and Colin O’Sullivan

As the need for alternatives to building anew with unsustainable material becomes increasingly urgent, Studio 02 will continue to explore the themes of tolerance and compromise, through appropriation of existing structures and vacant sites, from innovative imaginative insertions to ambitious adaptations, that offer something other to the city.

Between Beach and Highway: Split screen image of the extreme ends of the London site, Royal Docks (Photograph by Jane McAlister)

UG Architecture Studio 03: How will we live in urban cities and rural areas post-Covid?

Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Jane McAllister and Rita Elvira Adamo (Academic Facilitator for Calabria Project)

Lockdown! "It’s reminiscent of the post-apocalyptic horror film, 28 Days Later. For many cafes, pubs, shops and restaurants, the pandemic could be terminal... Others cite London as a social, cultural and economic drain on the life of our country. They believe that declining big cities give us an opportunity to revive towns, to end the suburban commuter crawl, restore lost industries, embrace home-working and cut carbon emissions." (BBC4, 29 July 2020)

The block and the street, lino print, Alex Butterworth.

UG Architecture Studio 04: rework, reuse, redefine

Jennifer Gutteridge, Katherine Nolan, Alex Butterworth

Studio 04 will consider the architecture of city-making at the scale of the building. We will explore how urban areas have been left vacant during the pandemic, as people work from home. How can we transform existing office buildings to activate the city?