LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYSchool of Architecture

2011 YEARBOOK

ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO UNDERGRADUATEpage 9

URBAN STUDIOpage 10

VENICE / CAMBRIDGEpage 32

PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIESpage 62

CHANGEpage 80

INTRODUCTION TO POSTGRADUATEpage 100

ANGELUS NOVUSpage 102

CRASH TESTpage 108

URBAN STUDIOpage 123

PRACTICE BASEDpage 132

INTRODUCTION

Leeds School of Architecture

BA(Hons)Architecture

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilizing the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just.

Research is embodied in everything we do. This is research based on the practice of architecture where the deep understanding of situation underpins new work and new dialogues.

The following is a celebration of work from this years students. We hope that, through this book, you are able to share in their thoughts, ideas and designs.

Des Fagan RIBA March BArch

Course Leader

BA(Hons) Architecture

Philosophy

We believe that a sustainable approach to architecture is key.

Our designs are influenced by the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ text be McDonough and Braungart

We promote self build and real build projects for students to design and construct.

We aim to propose ideas and designs that address the difficulties faced by Holbeck

Site

Holbeck is a district of Leeds just a few minutes walk from the City Centre.

Holbeck was the birthplace of the industrial revolution in Leeds, but has suffered significant decline. Since the 19th Century, many of the industrial buildings and warehouses have been demolished or fallen into disrepair. The district is now home to some of the highest rates of crime and social deprivation in the country.

URBAN STUDIOSimon Warren, Des Fagan, Simon NorthAim>

SEMESTER ONE

Ashley BallUrban Beauty> Disperse

Harvinder MudharUrban Beauty

Sam GildingHolbeck Regeneration

Claire BurrellHolbeck Creative Arts Village

Richard LaycockHolbeck Strategy

James NortonHolbeck Masterplan

Chris FosterHolbeck Micro Brewery

Claire BurrellCreative Arts Village

Georgina Robson

Genenan AntoineHolbeck Garden Restaurant

Andrea GhirawooLeeds Southern School of Contemporary Dance

Ashley BallSpeakers’ Corner and Discussion Forum

John EvansHolbeck Revitilisation Centre

Harry HewlettHolbeck Brewery and Beer Farm

Dan CalverleyPoetic Cinema

Richard LaycockProduction, Education, Community

MimiUrban Dance Centre

Sam GildingHolbeck Gallery

Aimie Griffiths

SEMESTER TWO

Jack DaveyHolbeck Leisure Centre

Yuen NgaiParking Meters

Joshua Boydell-SmithOld Chapel Live

Besnik AbdiuHolbeck Site Model

Harvinder Mudhar, Raymond Soko, Zoltan DeakWeaving Holbeck to Leeds Through Sustainability & Health

Karl BraidwoodHolbeck Regeneration

Zoltan DeakScuba-diving Centre

MimiHolbeck Spa

Andrew BatesGreen Route

Harvinder MudharHolbeck Health Spa

William BoardHolbeck Spa

Joe WaltonHolbeck Spa

Andrew BatesHolbeck Spa

Yue ZhengCencept Models

Joshua Boydell-SmithOld Chapel Live

Rachael BrantonHolbeck Urban Spa

Aimee MajorSensory Spa

Matthew BakerHolbeck Spa

Proposition

This unit combined Level 2 and level 3 students. The intention of the unit was to study the processes of architecture through the media of art, poetry and music and to explore the possible relationship between a specific form and a resultant architectural form. Three themes were explored through the year ; rising water levels, the ordinary within the extraordinary and the future of the map. Mapping was considered as a powerful and sometimes individual act, by editing out that which is thought of as unimportant, but also allowing for others reinterpretation.

Sites

A field trip was undertaken to Venice and an Urban Design Study was undertaken in three chosen areas of Venice. Sites were chosen in these areas by the students along with a choice of two briefs (Glass Blowing School or a Gondola Building School). A volumetric project was then set to look at the appropriateness of form in an urban context.

In the second semester a project was set in Cambridge. A new map library was set to house an existing collection of historic and ordnance survey maps. A choice of three sites was provided, one on the flood plain near Darwin College, one near the Architecture School and one adjacent to the existing Main City Library.

The Unit resisted the idea that libraries might be little more than a virtual experience and did not dwell on the justifications of programme but used the spatial possibilities it implied as an opportunity for design.

VENICE & CAMBRIDGESarah Mills, Dennis BurrAim>

SEMESTER ONE

Alex WarrenMusic Therapy Centre

Trim MuratiVenice Site Plan

James BromleySite Study

Tom BooenSite Study

Benjamin AllanVenice Volumetrics

Chris ParaskosMasterplan Model

Trim MuratiGondola Making Process

Trim MuratiScale Model

Patrick JervisBoat Building & Design School

William BoardVenice

Alex PasseyRehabilitation Centre

Karl LentonVenice

Karl LentonElevation

Lawrence FergusonVenice

Tom BooenVolumetrics

SEMESTER TWO

Adam FultonLibrary Study

Danny PatelLibrary Study

Trim MuratiIntuative Response

Tomos CopeIntuative Response

Ashley BallDevelopment Work Catalogue

Antonia FrondellaCambridge Map Library

Vahagn MkrtchyanCambridge Map Library & Depository

Alex WarrenCambridge Map Library & Depository

Chris NewboldCambridge Map Library & Depository

Nick Hart-WoodsCambridge Arts Library

Nick HigsonCambridge Arts Library

Amirreza GostaryfardCambridge Map Library

Adam FultonCambridge Map Library

Ashley BallCambridge Arts Library & Gallery at Kettles Yard

Gary WhitechurchCambridge Arts Library

Vahagn MkrtchyanInterior

Chris NewboldSite Context

Ellie ArcherScale Model

Karl LentonCambridge Map Library

Karl LentonMap Library Interiors

Proposition

We are interested in investigating the potential of post-industrial cityscapes, and this year has been spent exploring opportunities for experienced, remembered and imagined voids and edges. Our studio takes a contextual approach that explores layers and palimpsests and we are particularly interested in model making as a tool to investigate ideas and scale. Students have been challenged to create their own briefs through a critical reading and understanding of place – this year we have explored options as diverse as algae farms, stitch-and-bitch, spas and travelling theatre-scapes.

Sites

Semester One> Williamson tunnels, LiverpoolEducational Space The eccentric millionaire Joseph Williamson created a labyrinth of tunnels in Edge Hill, Liverpool to provide employment opportunities to men returning from the Napoleonic War. A triumph of technology, this extensive network of tunnels provides the setting for the Educational Space project. In-depth analysis of both the site and wider context provided an understanding of local need and the identification of an appropriate educational space. ‘Space-changing devices’ were employed to generate a language that could initiate positive transformations.

Semester Two> NewcastleLeisure City

‘It is estimated that leisure activities now account for 35 percent of our waking time, 9.7 percent of our

personal consumption expenditures, and 6.9 percent of our GDP. In this world of flexible work hours, discount flights to all corners of the earth, and the ability to download almost every single movie, television

show or song ever recorded, we have become a society of leisure aficionados and pleasure connoisseurs.’ The Why Factory

The challenge was set to create a productive leisure industry.

PLANE ZERO/ FUTURE CITIESClaire Hannibal, Lesley Millard,Aim>

SEMESTER ONE

Amy FeatherstoneIntuative Response

Lauren ConnollyIntuative Response

Andreah DohertyLiverpool

Hannah CawthorneEdge Hill Rehabilitation Centre

Besnik AbdiuWilliamson Tunnels

Amanda KenyonWilliamson Tunnels

Amanda KenyonWilliamson Tunnels

Nixie Mae EdwardsWilliamson Tunnels

Andreah DohertySite Section

Aaron MorrisWilliamson Tunnels

Chris NewboldCentre For Digital Arts

SEMESTER TWO

Amanda KenyonDevelopment Models

Kirsty RaineGateshead

Hannah BraidLeisure City

Emily DowWilliamson Tunnels

Tom EddisonHoney Farm

Sarah WardropeWilliamson Tunnels

Dan CalverleyExtreme Sport Restaurant

Sam StalkerTravelling Theatre

Genenan AntoineThe Canny Brewery

Amanda KenyonFinal Model

Proposition

“Mutability is the epitaph of worldsChange alone is changelessPeople drop out of the history of a life as of a landThrough their work or their influence remains”

The Manchester Man

G Linnaeus Banks 1876

PARKING/ CHANGEKeith Andrews, Dan KellyAim>

SEMESTER ONE

Matt GrindeyHydrogen Fuel Cell Production & Research Centre

Joshua Boydell-SmithPaul Smith Autumn Winter Collection

Ron Graham

SEMESTER TWO

Harry HewlettRuncorn Contaminants

Lee SalimRuncorn Disaster

Tom RawsonMapping Constellations

Tim SmyrkRuncorn Disaster 2033

James BromleyMeat Slaughter

Benjamin AllanRuncorn Disaster

Ross CouperAutomotive Education Centre

Nick WrightLeek

Patrick JervisBio-Steel Research & Development Centre

John EvansRuncorn Military Rehabilitation Centre

Tom BooenLeek Old Peoples Home

Jonny WrynneWindermere

Harry HewlettRuncorn

Ron Graham

POSTGRADUATE CONTEXT

The future is urban, and probably very different from today. This is the challenge for the 21st Century Architect, to imagine not only the future,

but to envision ways of getting there - from here.

We see the city as a landscape of possibility: utilising the synergy of new technologies, with the heritage and myths of the existing city, to create new futures that are sustainable and socially just. Architecture is not only building to us, but a concretisation of the needs and dreams of the city as a whole. We see the city and its architecture contextually, as a nested series of interventions at scales from the region, via the city, to

the building skin and the room itself.

Our new approach is research based design. The Studio is unit-based allowing students to specialise within the frame of the RIBA/ARB criteria. Research is embodied in everything we do, not just book based research but research by design.... This research is based on the practice of architecture; where the deep understanding of situation, underpins

new work and new dialogues..

We are moving towards projects that are directly linked to making - either things or policy or methodologies. From the action research of our Urban Studio Unit, where real life community design projects are realised to the Abstract Machines Unit where parametric modeling allows the development of complex component driven facades, we engage with the possibilities created by new technologies and material. The Crash Test Unit engages with urban policy and sustainability in a

creative way to produce closed cycles cities.

Proposition

Angelus Novus was a watercolour painted by Paul Klee in 1920. Walter Benjamin a philosopher owned the painting and saw it as depicting the ‘Angel of history’. With its face turned resolutely to the past, it perceives the future manifest as linear catastrophe, which keeps piling the avant-garde of the moment upon the established and known. The wreckage, of the one impacting on the other, measures our progression into the future.

The proposition of the unit is to ask what constitutes redundancy and to speculate on various strategies and techniques of re-animation .There are three parallel strands of investigation:

• The history, programme and cultural context of the original edifice.• The speculative development and testing of the new programs/scripts.• The nature, rational and techniques employed in the existing construction, the nature rational and techniques of the proposed intervention.

Sites

Year 01 (2009-10)

The Units attentions were focused on the disused Holbeck Viaduct connecting the centre of Leeds to the suburbs

Year 02, (2010-11)

The Units interest focused on Wakefield & The Five Towns. The Unit generated research and proposals contributing to the Five Towns Regeneration, initiated by Yorkshire Forward and carried on by the municipal authorities and BEAM.

ANGELUS NOVUSKeith Andrews, Vernon ThomasAim> Recycling/ Transformation/ Fabrication Strategies

Chris StowThe Employment Line

Alex McCannWakefield Craft Brewery

Chris StowThe Employment Line

Alex McCannWakefield Craft Brewery

Richard CopperwheatZeppelin Terminal

James WakelingIs Cannabis The New Coal?

Richard CopperwheatZeppelin Terminal

James WakelingIs Cannabis The New Coal?

James StoreyMoblie Music Centre

Catherine GaultBurberry Foundation Centre

Paul StaffordWakefields obe(CITY)

Mark CrosbyHariboLand

Proposition

The Globalised City is a network of flows and interdependent landscapes. These landscapes are characterised by flows of global commodities, ideas and technologies.

The networks these produce, if managed correctly, can produce life-enhancing synergies.

Sites

Through studying Stoke-On-Trent, Barrow-in-Furness and the area of South Leeds, the Crash Test Unit has developed a series of propositions designed to instigate Closed Loop Urbanism: Waste Equals Food.

CRASH TESTClaire Hannibal, Des Fagan, Craig StottAim> Synergetic Urbanism

Adam Leigh-BrownThe Grange

Andrew GoodwinCybernetic Subterfuge

Marcos LosadaMarine Solutions

Claire Brooks-StephensonGyro Town

Louise HartleySensity: Emergent Media City

James BaronUp Project

Greg FrymanAlgae L-Systems

Victoria WoodEndosymbiont

Lauren MintoftBuilding Resilience

Laura SherrattPreparations For The Inevitable

Philip CarterMake Power Not War

Patrick HelegwaExer Tri City

Greg BlomBiocyclical Networks

Jonathan PyleThe Resilient Edge

Natalie Alice HallBarrow’s Arc(ology)

William InglisLibertarian Globalized Space

Andrew JenkinsAn Industrial Evolution

Christopher HartshorneHarvest From The Sea

Morgan GrennanAquatic (Re)Birth

Alastair ShelleyThe Information Archive

Sally PorrittThe Sustainable Sea

Sian EdwardsAge Of Nostalgia

Matthew WrayHybrid Ecologies

Proposition

“A ‘sustainable city’ is organised so as to enable all its citizens to meet their own needs and to enhance their well being without damaging the natural world or endangering the living conditions of other people, now or in the future...there will be no sustainable world without sustainable cities.”

Herbert Girardet

Urban Studio investigated post-industrical cities in the North of England and looks at how they might be regenerated in the context of a global imperative for cities to become sustainable.

Sites

The main focus of study was the east coast city of Hull which has both natural resources and legacies from traditional industries that together provide the potential for regeneration and the sustainable development of the city and region.

Urban Studio is also involved in ‘live’ programmes that implement the ethos of the Unit. One such current ‘live’ project is in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti, with the design and development of a sustainable earthquake proof orphanage.

URBAN STUDIOTony Rees, Simon Warren

Mike AllanBransholme Construction Skills Centre

Laura CrowtherLiving Memorial

Jenna CunninghamDive Dock: Hull

Lucy AnderssonQuayside Hostel & Watersports Centre

Thomas StubleyLonghill Longlife

Emma KingRenewable Energy Port

Francesca GarlandPlug and Play Centre

Sam RawlingsSiemens Academy

Ben ClareThe Water_Culture Experience

Kristopher JonesA Global CO2nference

Martin SutcliffeThe Timber Yards

Daniel GoodsonSociety’s Ignored Population

Dominic HusbandUrban (re)connection

The Part-Time Students have been working on self-directed projects, based on individual interests. The projects are all buildings in an Urban context, usually set in the town or city that the student is based.

PRACTICE BASED

PRACTICE BASED

Matt QuinnBeyond The Wall

Sarah LunnThe Music Project

Emily CainChildrens Therapy Centre

Adam GrahamRehabilitation Facility

Daniel PearceDaemon Innovation

Neil MonkPreston City Hall

ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2011Designed by Ashley Ball