144 BA Architecture | Design Studio (Three) Three THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF the creative user to design discussions and the idea of a ‘questioning and incomplete’ approach is fundamental to the processdriven methodology of this studio. Architecture is made by use and design and hence the creativity of the user ‘either produces a new space or gives an existing one meanings and uses contrary to established behaviour’. ( J. Hill) Studio teaching encourages the student to assume authorship and shape the reading and outcome of the design brief. This year, the projects involve a new blueprint for a city that is continuously in process and requires the formulation of innovative design strategies that amplify these qualities. This city is dependant on the users’ experiences and will be explored through design experiments leading to a Gatehouse and new definitions of ‘Institute’. The Gatehouse to a City in Process The exploration star ts with site studies and the surroundings of the listed Great Por tland Street Station that will be examined on two scales. The first approaches the built environment of the masterplan as a series of ecological systems, each with their own material qualities and metabolic schedules. The latter discusses issues of site through par ticipatory processes and individual experiences where notions of psychogeography and situationist constructs result in new urban navigational strategies. These transient, process-driven and shifting ideas of use and site generate alternative approaches to document overlooked aspects of the city. The proposed Gatehouse, embedded within this juxtaposed labyrinthean blueprint will serve to fur ther create new readings and meanings of this area of London. The Institute as Creative User The individual interests identified in the architectural conversations and design experiments in semester one will be extended to challenge existing notions of institution. The creative users’ ability to question established ideas and existing practices apply to both the architecture and the inhabitants. Hence changes and shifts are embraced through programme and use. Ideas of stability, rituals and recurring patterns of behaviour generally associated with institutions will be examined, and existing social and cultural prejudices, inequalities and biases foregrounded and given a presence. The Institute as Creative User will recast cultural and social, material and spatial, sustainable and ecological qualities and discourse. Constance Lau & Stephen Harty Guest Critics: Alessandro Ayuso, Irgel Enkhsaikhan, Nada Maktari, Gabriele Pesciotti and ZiHaoWong who have contributed as mentors, critics and assistant tutors. Your time with the studio is much appreciated. Constance Lau is an architect and teaches undergraduate to doctorate level at Westminster and the National University of Singapore (NUS). Research interests are explored through the techniques of montage and notions of dialectical allegor y. Narrative as an ongoing dialogue in architectural design is further articulated through publications, especially projects in the book Dialogical Designs (2016). Stephen Harty is a practicing architect and director of Harty and Harty, an agency that specialises in arts sector projects including galleries and artist studios. He studied at The Mackintosh School Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, The Bartlett and the AA. Students: Seher Bayrakci, Tilda Blomqvist Lyytikainen, Iman Dagnoko, Luiza Garavelo, Mina Gohary, Miruna Grigore, Emerald Sky Henley, Sami Kassim, Jan Macbean, Anisa Mini, Aleyna Pekshen, Emir Sirkeci, Rhianna Stir ton, Mohammed Talat, Kirill Vilshenko Special Thanks: To team alumni: Irgel Enkhsaikhan, Eadan Filbrandt, Hannah Ismail, Nada Maktari and Momchil Petrinski for their time and encouragement as por tfolio mentors. )Jan Macbean: (top) The Urban Theatre of Printing and Making ; (bottom) A Gatehouse to a Path of Tactility DS(3)3: Science Fiction, Metabolism and Supertrees @uow_ds3.3 and @ds3.3_20.21wip
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