First Year Architecture Studios BA Architecture
Florian Brillet has worked in international practices, including Dominique Perrault and Jean Nouvel. His own practice focuses on public art commissions and furniture design.
Paolo Cascone is Senior Lecturer and an AA-trained architect whose work sits at the intersection of environmental engineering and sustainable construction.
Alison Gwynne is an architect whose practice focuses on producing beautifully crafted buildings with a strong concern for their environmental impact.
Jisoo Hwang is a researcher, educator and an ARB-registered architect. Working with practices including RSHP, Jisoo’s experience spans various project from inception to completion.
Rim Kalsoum has worked on social housing and council-led projects with particular consideration for place-making. She is a member of several research groups which focus on architecture post-conflict.
Paol Kemp is an architect who works at OMMX. He has contributed to various projects from conception to completion including private homes, exhibition design and competitions.
Neil Kiernan is an architect and educator for 1st and 2nd year at UoW. He has a continued and developing interest in the research of gender, space and architecture.
Jenny Kingston is an architect and urban designer with muf architecture/art working mainly on public realm schemes in rapidly changing areas of London.
Jaqlin Lyon is an architectural designer and jewellery maker engaged in cultural and curatorial practice. She has taught and worked in both London and Melbourne.
Matei Mitrarche is an architect and visualiser whose design studio focuses on the residential, hospitality and educational sectors. He teaches at UoW and The Bartlett where he studied.
Bongani Muchemwa is an architect who has worked with high profile UK practices like RSHP. He tutors design at UoW and The Bartlett, UCL, and is a trustee of arts charity BEAM.
Richa Mukhia is a director of award-winning architectural practice M.OS Architects. She has extensive experience in the private and public sector with a particular interest in housing design, public realm and community engagement.
Natalie Newey is Senior Lecturer and SFHEA. She has extensive experience working in practice and is particularly interested in engaging students in community and environmental issues.
Paresh Parmar is an architect and director of Studio PYP which specialises in private residential projects with a strong emphasis on understanding people, spatiality and sustainability.
Emma Perkin is the co-director of award winning Emil Eve Architects. Emma has taught 1st and 2nd year BA at UoW.
Gabriele Pauryte is an architect at muf architecture/art. Her work is driven by socially-engaged practice and how the climate emergency is discussed in professional and educational circles.
Rofayda Salem is a scholarship holder and PhD student at UoW. She is an author on the topic of Islamic architecture and passive solutions.
Conor Sheehan is the co-founder of Studio MASH, a design practice working across the fields of architecture, installation, interiors, graphics and events.
Richard Watson is a tutor, artist and product designer whose work has been exhibited at UoW and the Architectural Association.
Jerome Wren is a senior architect at Carmody Groarke. He works primarily in the cultural and commercial sector with a focus on material innovation and adaptive re-use.
Carine Woiezechoski is an architect and environmental consultant with experience in sustainability and environmental design, both in practice and academia in the UK and Brazil.
First year students had another successful year, and their enthusiasm for architecture continues to inspire their tutors and fellow students.
Semester One was spent thinking about the future of food through the lenses of the climate crisis, a growing population, and increasing social isolation. A series of workshops, designed to build skills and interrogate the themes of the semester, guided and inspired students to engage in four short briefs. Students moved from drawing the rituals of mealtime at 1:1 through to their own food memories in model form, and on to an in-depth study of vernacular living spaces from around the world. They then proposed a food future to investigate and constructed full-scale fragments for a feast event in Ambika P3 to finish the semester on a high.
The Semester Two briefs were all based in Brick Lane, a rapidly changing, culturally rich area of London. Students designed live-work spaces in response to various themes including care, bricolage, ecological restoration, and the tradition of craft and making. The featured projects detail some of the students’ responses, which are a testament to their commitment to designing innovative site-specific architecture.
GROUP A: Conor Sheehan & Gabriele Pauryte
Students: Aisha Abdi, Noah Abela, Yahia Alali, Omar Azegah, Taranvir Bansal, Danai Bitrou, Lisa Bugarcic, Soraya Benelhadj Djelloul, Maame Frimpong, Yordan Kostadinov, Michaela Koufou, Salma Mazrui, Harold Ng, Shoon Oo, Aymila Sak, Mahir Salehin, Cem Uyal, Mohammed Yaqub
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Conrad Areta and Isabel Atkinson
Live Learn Restore
As a studio, we question our relationship with the land and resources, moving away from the consumer-driven mindset which depleted the earth of life and biodiversity. Working together, we evolved the idea of reciprocity as the basis for our architectural experiments in Brick Lane, which has a rich tapestry of cultures and communities. Each project endeavours to help start a community, strengthen an existing one or revive one that has been lost, with idea of regenerating the land for the mutual benefit of nature and humans.
GROUP B: Richard Watson & Jaqlin Lyon
Students: Maryama Abdi, Clevy Bento, Yoana Bozhinova, Tianran Chen, Marija Denisko, Iris Fani, Adam Ferrari, Mohammed Al-Gburi, Janelle Glen, Tharsatheepa Lohanathan, Lilia Melliani, Sarah Tolba, Fatemeh Ghalichehbaf Vosoughi, Anthony Effah-Yeboah, Syeda Zaman, Eralba Malci, Junhao Wang
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Nicholas Hasbani and Pranjal Bafna
A Maker in a Studio in a Home in a City
The process of making has always been integral to the practice of design – it is often a way to translate thoughts and ideas into something tangible where a dialogue between maker and material is established. This studio asked students to consider design in its totality – from the furniture to the façade – while tackling a hybrid programme for a home and studio. Blurring the boundaries of public/private, the studio questions the limit of domestic spaces in an active urban city to uncover unexpected crossovers and overlaps, working together towards new functional typologies.
GROUP C: Jenny Kingston & Jerome Wren
Students: Clarissa Alie, Eva Apsalone, Owen Burrell, Ramisha Din, Viona Drejta, Melis Eroz, Vanessa Fiscutean, Fiona Gyamfi, Aryan Mahootchian Asl, Dania Marafi, Viktoriia Mikheeva, Mohammed Mir, Amna Ola, Danilo Pinheiro, Julia Sliwinska, Zanda Timberlake
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Milan Lad and Tonia Constantinou
Bricolage
At the heart of bricolage lies resourcefulness and opportunism. The bricoleur finds different uses and invents a new future from that which may be salvaged. For this project, the students have been asked to combine the architectural, cultural and societal potential of re-use and bricolage within the design of a live/work building. he purpose is to question how things are made and where they come from, and propose a new built situation which belongs to a specific part of the city, both in terms of construction and community.
GROUP D: Rim Kalsoum & Florian Brillet
Students: Dilay Bakici, Sofiia Bernovska, Artem Chistiakov, Ethan Coyle, Nilsu Eken, Robert Finaru, Camila Gonzalez Estrada, Maria Gutierrez, Luisa Hurtado Moreno, Anshika Jain, Kaneez Latif, Jasmine Long, Helene Oppegaard, Narmeen Parvaiz, Keli Prenga, Ahmad Sajwani
Many Thanks To Our Peer Assisted Learners Oscar Lavington and Kitty Emery Rainbird
A Temporary Place to Live and Cook in Brick Lane
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered our lifestyle dynamics, affecting how we live, work, travel and socialise. Residential spaces regularly now double as offices, schools and gyms, as well as needing to provide family space without physically expanding in size. The brief asked students to develop a temporary residence and workspace for a chef and their family in Brick Lane. Drawing from their personal experiences, and research of their site and client, the students generated an innovative and exciting brief. Final proposals included a vertical market, a drive through restaurant for taxis, and a 3D-printed food waste restaurant.
GROUP E: Matei Mitrarche & Richa Mukhia
Students: Maria-Alessandra Andrei, Shatha Al-Busaidi, Mandy Fahmy, Anmoldeep Gill, Carina Gusanu, Marcus Handley, Angela Helm, Maliha Ibrahim, Elif Kale, Ines Mccallum, Sabina Metaj, Ainaz Mokhtari, Rivka Rabinowitz, Mehnaz Rahman, Reuben Ratsma, Ezra Salvane, Jessica Wakeham, Jake Wright
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Adrian-Calin Paul and Jane Ezechi
Work Home City
This semester, we looked at the challenges and opportunities of city-oriented manufacturing, analysing how it can stimulate innovation, mitigate climate and environmental impacts, and foster economic and social inclusion. After careful analysis of the socio-political contexts of their sites around Brick Lane, students designed a building for a maker specialising in a particular urban micro-industry. Students were tasked to re-imagine how spaces for family living, varied working and local engagement can co-exist. Projects explored the boundaries and thresholds between things, people, programme, spaces, and privacy and publicity.
GROUP F: Paol Kemp & Natalie Newey
Students: Amina Bentchakal, Nehir Cakmakci, Flavia Furnica, Nikita Gadzhilaev, Deni Haxhosaj, Shih-Lin Hung, Malak Jadid, Maria Kausar, Sofia Kulinkina, Arkel Margjeka, Saabir Mumin, Tanawat Raveng, Benedetta Rossi Stavropoulou, Isa Samad, Ya You
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Elis Reah and Mohammed Raja
Material Living
Circular Living and Circular Materials are our subjects this term, explored through the lens of artists whose work is driven by materials. Students designed a work-live space with a community outreach programme for their chosen clients on a site off Brick Lane. The artists’ working methods, routines and material interests generated the initial concepts for proposals, while local assets and community groups inspired the links between artists and the area around the site.
GROUP G: Neil Kiernan & Jisoo Hwang
Students: Meryem Bennati, Julia Sampaio Castanheira, Nadeen Elboushi, Abid Husein, Eunice Ng, Samuel Kamara, Izbel Kayim, Yaroslava Krasnoslabodtseva, Jiji Monzer, Caroline Mukane, Kezi Ozdemir, Mattia Philipson, Noor Rizk, Fernando Henzel Santini, Volodymyr Shvets, Selinay Umar
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Sarah Gardner and Blessing Sulaiman
Re-Work Live-Work Brick Lane
Researching existing craft makers’ working practices alongside the rich complexities of Brick Lane,
students were asked to design a building for a creative-maker to live, work and sell their products from in the Brick Lane neighbourhood. They researched, questioned and challenged examples and ideologies of how we live and work: public/private; inside/outside; boundaries/thresholds; all of which helped students to formulate a client brief and select the right site for their live-work design. Material investigations focused on sustainable and circular practices to develop experimental, robust and yet mindful architectural responses.
GROUP H: Paolo Cascone & Rofayda Salem / Paresh Parmar & Carine Woiezechoski
Students: Isabelle Abdel Massih, Jida al Farra, Ilir Asllanaj, Clara-Marie Brophy, Khaled Bucheeri, Rohan Card, Rania Dehy, Nandini Dhir, Filippa Eklund, Gloria Entee, Yaqout Jalila Ez-Zaoudi, Marko Georgiev, Natali Georgieva, Constance Gollas, Yasmin Gumus, Jannat Islam, Jahsiah Johnson, Parampreet Kaur, Sana Shafique, Helena Westphalen Cavicchioli
Claudio Fagnani, Rose Halliwell, Yassin Kazemizadeh, Zaynab Khan, Lily Macaskill, Nouha Manai, Hava Mandirali, Licenia Nagles Gomez, Nikol Nikolaeva, Grace Ogunkolade, Abigail Ogura, Naomi Onochie, Libby Pawson, Dara Rangelova, Jeydan Rashid-Grant, Azra Samiha Reza, Zara Shafiq, Shabiha Shahid, Renata Tabanova, Abinaya Tamilarasan, Freya Young
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Angelina Chatzidimitriou and Kristina Veleva
Bio-Brick Lane
As an environmental design-led studio, we design by understanding and responding to the environmental conditions. The students were asked to design a sustainable live-work building that would benefit the local and wider community and respond to its environmental parameters. Rigorous site research and investigations allowed students to generate a concept and programme around predefined themes, manufacture or wellness to serve Brick Lane’s bustling community of residents and businesses. he proposals considered passive strategies, circularity of materials, and energy generation.
GROUP J: Alison Gwynne & Bo Muchemwa
Students: Simona Alam, Tiago Azevedo, Narek Gambarian, Sofia Livshits, Alisha Khan, Ty Mean Lim, Oliver Mencfeld, Kashish Puri, Aristote Raffeneau, Thomas Ralph, Sarah Ribeiro, Maira Shahid, Garima Singh, Kiril Stamenov, Ivan Zahrebeniuk
Many thanks to our Peer Assisted Learners Katrina Green and Nylda Hamchaoui
Visible Stitching
Inspired by the Japanese fabric mending technique of Sashiko, where visible cloth repair-work results in a revisioned and renewed clothing product, we have reframed the idea of ‘Cradle-to-Cradle’ design; transforming waste materials into something desirable whilst acknowledging the past. Students explored the possibilities of live/work/share studio spaces, where intense personal productivity is closely allied with the desire to promote, educate and inspire others. They researched a specific maker to understand the technical, social and scientific realities of their creative techniques, then went on to develop a unique architectural language and material approach tailored to the work of their maker.
Archive of First Year’s work from previous years:
