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UG Architecture Studio 02: Spaces of Birth – Spaces of Death

Studio brief

In our continuing efforts to understand the changing nature of our cities and the needs of their inhabitants we will look closely at small adjustments and larger infrastructural change to some of their least examined places. You will propose small temporary structures and later, larger more permanent buildings that respond to your individual and collective findings.

The theme of our year will centre on research by AAD Cities Research Group, University College London and Glasgow University who are investigating the places where people give birth and die: usually hospitals and birth centres.

You will propose changes and additions to these spaces so that the profound transitional journeys of birthing and dying are made better for those experiencing them.

Field trip

In October the studio will travel to Venice and visit the 2023 Architecture Biennale. We will spend a long period carefully examining the works included and trying to grapple with the issues raised by Lesley Lokko, the current curator.

Assemblage

Students are invited to consider assemblage as a form of map making and as a conceptual framework for proposals. The process of mapping, which includes reviewing through collaborative workshops, is on an equal footing to the artefacts made. In a sense, you will construct (pre-field trip) and reconstruct (post-field trip) the site in the studio, and as a group you will derive new insight into the location. This process will lead to your individual design proposals which will explore new spaces in relation to a wider and shared landscape. 

You will develop your own techniques in making, capturing the qualities of a particular location. Through modelling, sketching, montage and writing you will begin to be propositional.  We encourage you to be more deliberate and conscious in this creative act, drawing out architectural interventions that offer something special to the locations you have been recording. With ideas and ways of working gathered from investigations in Venice, you will be encouraged to develop strategies of conglomeration and projects that allow for spaces to deliberately conflict and converge; propositions that have the capacity to absorb additions, creating a social architecture with the potential for activities to take place within and around a building. 

silhouette of child against window through Indian fabric

Details

Course
Tutors Colin O’Sullivan
Charlotte Harris
Where Goulston Street
When Tuesday and Friday

Architecture studios

 
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green and white sectional model of a building in a domestic setting with back of bentwood chair

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
silhouette of child against window through India fabric

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
collage of maps and photos of people pushing a wooden object

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.
Top of red sandstone tenement buildings in Glasgow showing the bay windows and turrets.

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
View out from the 18th storey of a high-rise building.

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.