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UG Architecture Studio 05: Home?

Studio brief

Much of architecture is experienced from the outside.The design of the exterior of a building is a public matter and tells the story of the city or landscape it sits in. In contrast the architecture of the interior and how it could be inhabited is a more intimate and personal design affair. The feeling of home, as the place where we live our lives, is deeply routed in our sense of who we are and what dreams we have for our future.

In our times, the way an interior is arranged for most people, is usually a matter of efficiency, density and economy. Flat pack furniture combined with spaces designed to minimum space standards is typical. The pleasure of a generously sized, well proportioned interior, capable of absorbing ambient environmental conditions in order to convert them into comfortable settings for domestic life, is considered a luxury. Our project this year asks you to imagine and design such a place.

At the start of the year we will focus on studying examples of simply build homes, whose interiors can accommodate a multitude of different types of inhabitation and make the most of their natural setting. In the first term we will study the domestic architecture of two architectural practices from the south and north of Europe to draw inspiration. For our field trip we will visit a range of domestic interiors in London and then each student will design a small house. In the second term the house will be enlarged to fit the needs of a greater number of inhabitants and range of activities.

Our teaching is event and activity based and we will be running frequent day long workshops focusing in fundamental drawing skills in the first semester and more complex two and three dimensional representations in the second.

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

Theo Thysiades
Chris Smith
Spyros Kaprinis
Where Goulston Street
When 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.