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Liverpool School of Architecture

LSA BA3_21LSA M.Arch5_21LSA MA MSC PHD

BA & M.Arch x 3

Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Head, Liverpool School of ArchitectureDr Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Deputy Head of School, Dr Fei Chen acting Deputy Head of School

BA Alex Dusterloh, BA Director of StudiesBA1 Year Lead Lucretia RayBA2 Year Lead Anna GidmanBA3 Year Lead Richard Dod

Emma Curtin Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*) LeadSandy Britton Studio Pen and Inc LeadRichard Dod Practice North Studio LeadBen Devereau Urban Creative Studio LeadDr Nick Webb and Dr Ataa Alsalloum Heritage Related Design Studio Leads

M.ArchDr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez Programme Director M.Arch 4 Year Lead Dr Katerina AntonopoulouM.Arch 5 Year Lead Jack Dunne

Dissertation Dr Patrick Zamarian

PGT Programmes Asterios Agkathidis Programme Director

PGR Professor Carl Hopkins, Departmental Director of Postgraduate Research

MA Architecture Programme Lead Asterios Agkathidis MSc CRESTA Programme Lead Professor Stephen Sharples MSc BIM Programme Lead Dr Adonis Haidar MSc MA Sustainable Heritage Management Programme Lead Dr Ataa Alsalloum

Research Professor Iain Jackson, Departmental Director of Research/Knowledge Exchange

Collated by Sandy BrittonEdited by Sandy Britton and Colleagues Book Designers – Lucy Frontani, Carnegie Book Production, Sandy Britton, LSACohort photographs – Martin WinchesterImages students’ and colleagues’ own unless otherwise credited Funding for this publication was generously provided by University of Liverpool School of the Arts 2021 publication sponsored by Swedish WoodThis collection represents cross section of the 2020 2021 graduating students’ workAll students were invited to contribute

Published in 2021 by Liverpool University Press

ISBN 978-1-910911-23-5

No part of this book may be reproduced or store electronically without the prior permission of the publisher

© Liverpool School of Architecture 2021 All rights reserved

The collaboration between LSA and LUP was initiated in 2016 by Marco Iuliano, Sandy Britton and Anthony Cond

http://www.liv.ac.uk/architecture and https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/Instagram @livuniarch Twitter @LivUniArchitecture

Many congratulations to the class of 2021. It has been another challenging and exciting year of working together to support our students. You should all be very proud of yourselves for overcoming the challenges of 2020/21. We have enjoyed working with LSA students on the family scheme, the mentoring scheme, podcasts, social media takeover and momentum collective to name just a few. Thank you to all those who participated, we hope to continue working with you and get even more to join in the fun. Another exciting journey awaits and the RIBA will always be there, cheering you on as you race towards your dreams. We wish you all the best in whatever you decide to do next

Lifa Zvimbande Regional Director RIBA NW

Thank you to all the contribitors to our 2021 Yearbook.

Students, staff, guests and to all the efforts it represents.All of which has created and emerged from this unique year.

We hope that the book helps to contextualise and celebrate all that has continued to be our LSA school and community despite us being separated and largely isolated.How incredible to see a snapshot of it all together – the whole very much greater than the sum of the parts.

Thank you to all those students who have acted as ambassadors for the School in your pursuit of good architecture, a good architectural community and a fairer world.

Thank you Soumyen from all of us.An epic five years. Head of school 2016 to 2021.

We are delighted to bring together this LSA 2021 Yearbook. Congratulations!

http://www.liv.ac.uk/architecture

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Contents x 5 4 x Contents

Research 299ArCHIAM: Centre for the Study of Architecture and Cultural Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb 300Acoustics Research Unit 302Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture (ESTA) Research Group 304Architectural and Urban History Research Group 306Architectural Heritage 308Urban Form and Social Space 310Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts 312Research and Research Led Events 314Heritage Events 315Publications 316Swedish Wood: Sponsors of LSA21 yearbook print 324

Post Graduate Research and Taught Programmes 329Post Graduate Research 330Graduating PHD Students 331Current PGR Students supervisors and PHD research title 332Post Graduate Taught Programmes 334MA in Architecture 336MSc Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability in Architecture (CRESTA) 348MSc Building Information Modelling (BIM) 350MA in Sustainable Heritage Management 352Creative Workshop 354

Extra Curricular Events 357City of Fragments 358Liverpool School of Architecture X TU Budapest, Architecture and Urban Studies 360Tactical Urbanism Now! Competition 362Tracing the Past Lecture and Workshop Series 3642021 What’s Next? 366LSA Community 368LAS Liverpool Architectural Society 369BLAC (Black Led Architectural Collective) 370LSA Climate Crisis Group 372Femin.AE 374Queer Students of Architecture 376ASOC 378Architecture FC 380Guest Lecture Series 2020–2021 382Student Led Series 384Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment 3852021 Robert Maxwell Memorial Lecture 386

Acknowledgements 388Year of 2021 Graduating BA Students 3922020 2021 BA3 Students 394LSA 2021 Summer Degree Show and Prize Giving / BA Prizes 395Year of 2021 M.Arch Students 396M.Arch Prizes / Alumni / Sponsors 397Whole school photo 2021 398Staff 2021 400

ContentsHead of School Address 6The new LSA on its way! 8

Introduction to BA 10 BA1. Year Lead Lucretia Ray 12 BA2. Year Lead Anna Gidman 16BA3. Year Lead Richard Dod 22Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*). Lead Emma Curtin 24Studio Pen and Inc. Lead Sandy Britton 54Practice North. Lead Richard Dod 94Urban Creative. Lead Ben Devereau 132Heritage Related Design Studio. Lead Dr Nick Webb and Dr Ataa Alsalloum 168Professional Studies in Architecture 206

Introduction to M.Arch 210M.Arch4. Year Lead Dr Katerina Antonopoulou 212M.Arch4 Studio 1: Re-activating Tenement Housing in Budapest 214M.Arch4 Studio 2: Space and Narrative 216M.Arch4 Studio 3: Just Space 218M.Arch4 Studio 4: Topologies of Water 220M.Arch5. Year Lead Jack Dunne 222ARCH 500 223M.Arch Dissertation 224M.Arch Dissertation: Sustainable Conservation Design Guide 225M.Arch Dissertation: Biomimicry as a Tool for Minimizing Energy Consumption and Improvement of Thermal Comfort 226M.Arch Dissertation: Green Belt Development: Power Relations Among Stakeholders in the Planning Process 227M.Arch Dissertation: Becoming Venetian Again 228M.Arch Dissertation: What is Feminist Architectural Practice in the UK Today? 229

M.Arch Thesis Projects 231Trash Haus 232The Sýndestry – An Antidote To Loneliness 236Kendal’s Hive 240Frontier: Between Natural and Built Environment Reorganizing The Vernacular In Mati 242The Machine of Change 246Madness of the City 248What is Comfort? 252Bangkok, Sustainable Urban Development 256Finding Individuality within Collective Housing 260Food Delivery by Bicycles – Hong Kong as a Bike City 262Bird Embassy 264Flying Fisheries: A Future for Coastal Fishing Towns 268Re-Threading Knowledge 272Olympic Carnival 276A-Culture University 278Metamorphosis 280Horsepower: Rehabilitation through Riding 282Venice Biennale 2021 284

Spotlight: Breathing enclosures 288Three words 296Keep calm and carry on! 297

6 x BA & M.Arch BA & M.Arch x 7

At the end of the 2019–20 academic year few had envisaged that the pandemic would continue to play such havoc with our lives. The enthusiastic planning and preparation over the summer for a return to campus had to be set aside as the infection numbers surged in Liverpool. Outside of the periods of lockdown, however, we managed to give students access to the MArch studios and some face-to-face teaching took place in Year 1; Year 3 and the MArch students had access to the workshops, and Year 2 students were provided model-making material. Looking forward, while some teaching – such as large-scale lectures – are likely to take place online, the experience of the past two academic years has reminded us of the central importance in architectural education of the ‘design studio’, as a setting for face-to-face teaching and peer-to-peer learning. I would like to thank my academic, technical and administrative colleagues for working so hard to ensure that students receive high-quality design education under such challenging circumstances.

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission took place earlier this year; 66 outputs and three Impact Case Studies involving all academics on teaching and research contract were returned. In addition to journal outputs and monographs, the School was able to include three design outputs, marking an important evolution in our research landscape. This year also saw the establishment of a collaborative agreement with the London School of Architecture. From 2021–22 their students will receive a University of Liverpool degree; we are also exploring other areas of collaboration, including postgraduate teaching and research.

A highlight of the academic calendar was the inaugural Robert Maxwell memorial lecture delivered by Prof Kenneth Frampton. The online lecture was a huge success with over 500 attending internationally, from China to the United States. I am also delighted to announce the gift of the Robert Maxwell Archive to the University of Liverpool library by the family.

Head of School Address Professor Soumyen BandyopadhyayHead, Liverpool School of Architecture

Prof Robert Kronenburg decided to retire earlier in the academic year after over 25 years of engagement with the School. Robert was the Head during 2004–9, a very important period of transition for the School. A world-leading researcher on the history of innovative design and its impact on human experience, Robert was a significant influence on shaping the School’s design agenda. We will miss Robert in the School, although he will remain associated as a Professor Emeritus.

Over the past year the School has been undertaking its own curriculum review – especially of the key strands of design, humanities, professional practice and technology. We aim to take full advantage of the recently expanded staffing and their diverse research strengths to introduce more diversity into the BA Architecture and MArch programmes. In doing so we will also address important aspects of the University’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda. To support this, several international honorary visiting professorial appointments are being made.

In October I will be completing my five-year tenure as Head of School. I am delighted that Prof Ola Uduku, more recently based at the Manchester School of Architecture, will be taking over from November 2021. Prof Uduku is internationally recognised for her work on the history of educational architecture in Africa, and the issues related to social infrastructure provision for minority communities in the cities. Much has been achieved in the past years, a testament to the School working together towards shared goals and aspirations. We have achieved financial stability and expanded accommodation to afford a healthy staff-student ratio and the promise of desk space for all students in the design studio. This, for a large school of architecture, is an important achievement. The promised new building, currently in RIBA Stage 3 design, will add extraordinary quality and enhance visibility of the School’s distinguished existence. Successful revalidation by the RIBA/ARB, a robust research-led ethos and excellent NSS results have pushed up our league table standing. I would like to thank all colleagues for the excellent support they have given me in leading the School.

LSA x 9 8 x LSA

In 2019, O’Donnell and Tuomey (ODT) won the competition to refurbish and extend the new Liverpool School of Architecture. During the process the judging panel worked in dialogue with students and University representatives, awarding the commission to the Irish practice, chosen over the thoughtful submissions of the other finalists – Grafton, Eric Parry, Carmody Groarke, Haworth Tompkins and 6A.

Despite the pandemic, last year successful developments have been made with both the design and the procurement of the extension, including constant dialogue among all the stakeholders. The University is showing continuous support to the project, and ODT’s architects are working painstaikingly to grant planning permission from Liverpool City Council by 2021.

It is very encouraging to observe the LSA project following its most recent stage of development and watch it grow out of the initial embryonic idea, apparent in the competition winning design, into an exciting and mature building. What is particularly stimulating is the manner in which the new extension is expressed as the latest in a series of three buildings accommodating the School, each reflecting the architectural period in which they were built. The sequence progresses from the formality of the Georgian terrace addressing Abercromby Square, through the less rigid 1930s building at the centre of the composition, to the dynamic informality of the ODT addition, forming a key element of the heart of the University Masterplan. The three buildings express the primary activities each contains – offices/workshops/studios – and are woven together by a diagonal circulation system, linking the major spaces both in plan and at the variety of existing floor levels in section.

The construction and the materials used in each of the three building elements provide a demonstration of how architecture can proudly express the preoccupations and ethical philosophies of the eras in which they are designed and constructed. The new LSA has the potential to be a remarkable building both for the University and the School of Architecture: truly exemplary architecture at the focus of the academic community.

The new LSA on its way!Michael Wilford and Marco Iuliano

LSA Competition: 2014–2019

Competition committee: Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Professor Fiona Beveridge, Dr Marco Iuliano (director), Professor Nicholas Ray

Jury: Dr Maria Balshaw, Professor Kenneth Frampton (chair), Professor Juhani Pallasmaa, Professor Michael Wilford

Expected building completion: 2025

BA x 11

own interests and develop individual strengths but also make them aware of the complexity and multiplicity of architectural design. For many students the accredited BA degree is the first step towards practice and membership of the architectural profession. But it is also a Launchpad for careers in a wide range of associated professions and areas of work.

This year, there were 220 students in our BA3 cohort, working in 5 different studio groups across various sites in Liverpool. Students were taking ‘informed actions’ in response to a range of architectural design problems. They have tackled issues surrounding context, community, housing and identity in a variety of settings. While the projects are differing in scale and location they can also be connected by shared objectives, which include: The need to relate buildings and the spaces between them to human needs, as well as an understanding of the relationship between people, buildings and their specific environment. There were some common themes of reuse, regeneration and re-imagination, which are informed by current issues and contemporary practice.

This year will be remembered for the continued impact and response to COVID-19, which curtailed many of the activities across the programme. Many plans had to be aborted, adjusted or reconsidered but all staff and students in the BA responded with imaginative and creative solutions to the many challenges. Additional tutorial sessions, extended teaching days and use of various digital platforms mean that students were supported during all stages of the academic year. However, we all missed the studio space and the importance of working alongside our peers in a shared creative environment. It is difficult to teach or learn about architectural space in a virtual environment but these new ways of working and communicating are reflected in current practice and our graduates are well prepared for this and the future.

Throughout the year, the dedication from staff was matched by the resilience, imagination and creativity of our students, who managed to maintain the high level of academic standards throughout, as is evidenced by this publication. We are confident that their rich architectural education, including their most recent experiences, prepare them well for their future careers.

We wish them the very best of luck and look forward to welcoming many of them back for the MArch or further postgraduate studies.

10 x BA

The BA undergraduate course at Liverpool School of Architecture equips graduates with creative and critical thinking across a range of subjects and specialities. It not only provides students with professional proficiency for architectural practice but instils true competency in its graduates.

Over the three years, students are provided with the essential skills, knowledge and understanding to develop a conceptual and critical approach to architectural design. They have the ability to combine the aesthetic aspects of design with the technical requirements of building construction. They understand the relationship between people and buildings, the needs of the user and how buildings contribute to their local context.

From the start of the course, students gain technical expertise, knowledge of practical requirements, drawing conventions and professional conduct. Their graphic ability in architectural representation is clearly evident in the quality of their final submissions. But they also demonstrate their understanding of how technologies can contribute and enhance architectural design.

Alongside these essential skills, students gain vital knowledge of history, theory, socio-economics and the cultural context of architecture. This critical historical awareness is crucial to the proper understanding of architecture as a creative act. Much of this knowledge is explicit in the design work, while some is perhaps more tacit but must not be forgotten. All projects are based on appropriate principles, developed using a coherent and rigorous process that results in a considered architectural proposal.

We have the advantage of being a large school, with a great number of staff and students. As a result the course is not an architectural monoculture or insular habitat. It reflects the diversity and multiplicity of practice and design more widely. One of our aims is for our graduates to become design leaders and creative collaborators rather than think of themselves as isolated geniuses.

The large size of the course also allows us to offer a diverse and rich choice of pathways in all stages of the programme. Students have the opportunity to choose and follow their preferred route and this approach is in keeping with RIBA stated aim to develop a diverse education offer. The variety of studios and the many assignment options presented, allow students to pursue their

Introduction to BAAlex DusterlohDirector of Studies

BA x 13 12 x BA

We always start small in first year: this year we started even smaller – constructing orthographic drawings of a pepper and representing a moveable hand-held household object. The students were then asked to establish a position (or manifesto) and design an exhibition stand that expressed it. By the end of Semester 1, the students had designed their first building, to celebrate a Liverpool Life, at the St James’ cemetery by the Anglican Cathedral. In Semester 2 we looked at an urban site, close to the university, for a 2-phase project of a café and community engagement centre, with an emphasis on low energy.

We were fortunate to able to meet once a week in the Studios (which were tidy!) and worked together on activities to develop foundational architectural skills to complement the design projects running alongside. We all enjoyed the opportunity to see people during face-to-face teaching. We did discover people look very different sat at a desk behind a screen to real life and masked, with some mistakes in identity.

BA1 students, you have been wonderful and have made this year a real joy. Many of you have lived and worked in the same small room and most of the time, kept smiling. Your progress has been fantastic, you’ve done so well through very difficult personal circumstances and a constantly changing timetable. You have had to settle, isolate, relocate, and return regularly throughout the year. We have been impressed by your resilience, good attitude and hard work. We’re very proud of you – keep exploring, testing, thinking, experimenting and making models out of found materials! Enjoy 2nd year, we wish you well.

We’ve not met you all face-to-face yet, as some students (and colleagues) have been online for the whole year. We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool in September. Bring your favourite mug!

The BA1 team.

BA1Lucretia RayBA1 year lead

BA1 studio staff Paul Bower (deputy lead)David RaynorJane CadotJon MaleDr Junjie XiYisi (Lewis) Liu Luke Bushnell-WyeMarcus SchofieldMichael BaldwinMonika KoeckDr Niall O’HareRoland KeoghSuliman Alla

Special thanks SotA technical team Martin WinchesterNicola Howorth

Thank you to all the BA2, BA3, MArch4 and MArch5 students who helped at BA1 reviews

Many of the 1st years spent their first few weeks of life in Liverpool isolating in their accommodation, so our observational sketching exercise around Liverpool was somewhat curtailed. However the restrictions gave rise to some beautiful drawings.(Clockwise from top left – Anastazja Szczeplek, Eleanor Ventress-Burke, Katie Cooper)

BA x 15 14 x BA

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Clockwise from top left: 1 Connecting and Harmony, Ioana Silvia Branzuca (prize winner); 2 Circulate, Escalate, Aviate, Educate, Chelsea Humado (prize winner); 3 The History of Gaming, Katie Bryson; 4 A Silhouette of Time, Evan Cheng (prize winner); 5 Sanctuary and Retreat,Sarah Dinsmore

From top left: 1 Collaborate, Katie Cooper; 2 Allegro, Oliver Langdown; 3 Gridded – Framed, Wong Ching Bosco (prize winner); 4 A place to discover together, Ed Kamal; 5 Bouldering Graveyard, Nicola Yu

BA2 x 17 16 x BA2

Due to the global pandemic we worked online this year which was difficult for all of us, but not without silver linings. We split the year into a series of shorter projects to maintain momentum beginning with an all year project designing elevations to fill gaps within the city. A film project followed, with many beautifully reflecting the absence of people within the city and architectural experience of living in isolation. Students then moved into studios for three projects. First was a small scale off grid building set in natural landscape with a focus on low energy. The second set in an urban context and the third concerned heritage and reuse of existing buildings. The addition of a renovation project reflects the change in how we view our existing building stock and the role architects must play to reduce energy use.

For the first time in the history of the school we were excited to invite women only architects as guests to our reviews! We were also delighted to welcome guest speakers, the highlight being ‘Fire’ by Mira Hammad, a barrister on the current Grenfell case. Her talk was profoundly informative and deeply sobering.

There have been many different stories and experiences this year for all of us. Some have lost family and friends, taken care of the sick, relocated or isolated. It’s not been easy but we’ve done it. As usual we would like to thank our fantastic team of tutors. We would also like to thank our guests as well as students from senior years who joined us for online student led reviews. Most of all however, we would like to thank our students.

Students, silver linings were mentioned. You learned more than we imagined possible without attending the studio. Your digital skills improved due to working online, and the change seen in your involvement in reviews has been absolutely incredible. We are really proud of you and what you have achieved despite the situation. Keep making models out of recycled materials and make sure you run your reviews in future! We wish you all the very best of luck in your final year.

BA2Anna GidmanBA2 year lead

BA2 studio staff Studio 1 Dr Patrick ZamarianHanan BarakatPhil OwenBen PrinceStudio 2Dr Andrew CromptonMatthew ArmittPeter FarrallJames NichollsStudio 3Anna GidmanMichael BaldwinDr Niall O’HareNick WildeStudio 4Alex DusterlohJames CrawfordPhil OwenMarcus Schofield

Special thanks Hanmei ChenTed RuffellMartin WinchesterHuge thanks to the BA3, MArch 4 and MArch5 students who attended our student led reviews

Elevate Bold StreetBeth Mallard

‘East & West’ film stillsYifan Liu, Ziqian Guo and Yuhao Fei

BA2 Studio 2 x 19 18 x BA2 Studio 1

Studio 1 Projects by studio 1 this year included a small Youth Activity Centre with activity room and dormitories set in the beautiful landscape of Delamere Forest. This was followed by a larger scale media library including exhibition space, library and study rooms located in in Kensington, Liverpool. The third and final project for studio 1 concerned semi derelict Allerton Manor also in Liverpool. Students were asked to suggest and design new uses for the building such as spa, theatre and gallery.

Kensington Media LibraryRhys BennettPriize winner

Delamere Forest Activity Centre Yenny Weng Mei

Allerton ManorYichun Tang

Kensington Media LibraryJosh Pemberton

Delamere Forest Activity CentreZivoin Ristic

Studio 2 Studio 2 began with a Bird Tower and café set in the magnificent grounds of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The second larger urban project was a memorial library for ASJ Tessimond with archive, meeting rooms and study areas. Finally, the re-use and heritage project saw a reimaging of St Philips Neri church for a new use suggested by students, highlights being a swimming pool, planetarium and butterfly farm.

Bird TowerSamantha Evans

Bird TowerCharlie Fletcher

St Philips Neri Amazon StationYilun Zhu (prize winner)

ASJ Tessimond Memorial LibraryHenry Omotosho (prize winner)

Bird TowerYilun Zhu

BA2 Studio 4 x 21 20 x BA2 Studio 3

Studio 3 Students in studio 3 visited the Hilbre tidal island in the Dee Estuary and designed a small residential meditation retreat in semester 1. Their city project was a larger scale art gallery in the Tempest Hey area of Liverpool including gallery spaces, workshop and cafe. The year concluded with a community café and exhibition space for the Red Triangle Karate club in an existing derelict courtyard in Everton as a way to kick start regeneration of the many derelict buildings in the immediate area.

Studio 4 The first project of semester 1 for studio 4 was a lifeboat station for the RNLI located on Ainsdale Beach North of Liverpool. This included a boat hall, sleeping accommodation, control room and related facilities. The second larger project was located in Tempest Hey near the studio 3 art gallery and focused on how offices might be designed following the pandemic. The year finished with design ideas for the derelict Lady Emily’s Tower set in the picturesque landscape of Gwrych Castle in Wales with views of the sea.

Red TriangleEmma Loughnane (prize winner)

Hilbre Island Communal SolitudeLanhui Jiang

Art GalleryZuzanna Staniecka

Red TriangleGrace Limani

Moorfields route to Ryley’s GardenslLouis Marchini

Lady Emily’s TowerKarolina Adamiec (prize winner)

Ainsdale RNLI stationRyan Farrell aboveLewis Bushell below

BA x 23 22 x BA

This year BA3 studios based both their design projects around a single location or theme in order to encourage a rigorous exploration of place or topic. There were community-based projects – often involving local groups – and programmes which included the adaptive re-use of existing buildings. These projects, coupled with our guest lectures and supporting modules, have addressed the fabric of the city and a range of key issues within the profession and architectural education.

Members of the graduating class of 2021 have spent half of their time at university in various forms of lockdown – with limited or no access to the School – but have still successfully risen to the challenge of a demanding course under difficult circumstances. There may have been personal moments of despair or disappointment but, as a collective group, enthusiasm has remained undimmed and the pursuit of excellence – as evidenced in this publication – has been relentless.

They have also – in conjunction with MArch5 – achieved the highest rate of National Student Survey (NSS) return at the University for our School this year. We usually perform well here however this year have scaled new heights and look forward to hearing your comments.

Many congratulations. You should be proud of your academic achievements and resourcefulness. We wish you well and hope to meet up soon in better times.

BA3Richard DodBA3 year lead

Faye LewisYouth ZoneL8 Skate and CreatePractice North

Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*) x 25 24 x Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)24 x Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)

Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)Our design process focuses on people’s everyday experiences of architecture and how we may better engage with the communities and places we encounter, especially in the context of current unfolding political, economic and environmental crises.

Architecture demands a negotiation of shared space and global resources; and is therefore a political practice. Our design decisions impact the health and experience of people that use our designs, and have implications for the wider environment and the opportunities of communities around the world. We want to design responsible buildings that work well and feel special for the people that use them.

This year our projects focused around the theme of food. Like architecture, food is intertwined into our everyday lives and intrinsically linked to spatial politics and the built environment. In semester 1 working with timber technologies students designed a community centre which would support an imagined donor apple cider making project for Sefton Park. In semester 2 we worked with existing 20th century buildings on our university campus exploring strategies for their creative re-use to support teaching and learning accommodation and sustainable food projects based on each student’s own research.

We adapted our briefs and studio approach to support remote learning. This included investing in visitors to enrich the student experience, continuing our tradition of working with social enterprises. We had speakers related to timber technologies, the theory and practice of sustainable food, and people working on the current Campus Masterplan. Our established Practices and Precedents Trip evolved into an online event with talks and discussion with four architects from different types of practice and an academic context. These guests then joined us for crits, introducing an element of exchange which helped to contextualise their critique. In spite of the difficult circumstances and new modes of working students have responded, as ever, with an exciting range of intelligent, creative and delightful projects.

Emma Curtin (lead) Ranald Lawrence Michael Southern Dominic Walker Hazel Weir

Guest Critics Dan Gibson Casper Jones Dan Hasler Andrea Ku Maurice Mitchell Peter Mitchell Geoff Rich Wei Shan Chia Laura Stafford Bo Tang May Tang Steve Taylor Dominic Walker

Special GuestsUlrike Eghartner Patrick Fleming Dan Gibson Geoff Rich Carolyn Steel Steve Taylor Becky Vipond

Students Emmeline BlellockSiqi ChenXiaochi ChenSean DaviesRyan EvansJoshua ForrestJennifer FosterSophie HicksZhenhao JinSamuel KadiriThomas LeadsomJu-Young Lee

Stefan LewisHaowen LiYangxi LiuSu LiuCharlotte LynessMengjie LyuJiaru MaKelly MorrisDominic O’DeaKatarzyna PiechulaAnamol PoudelZhichuan Qin

Zhixuan SongGrace Stanton-KennaSimeng SunYining TangAnan TianJunhao WangShichong WeiAmber WilliamsonKai WuZipeng Xiao Jiahe Yang

Yiran YeXinyuan YueJiayu ZhangWenyi ZhangXinyi ZhaoJiaxin ZhengJianfeng ZhouDazhen Zhu

Chasing an Urban Farm Utopia – Sefton ParkAnan Tian Computer Rendering

Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*) x 27 26 x Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)

Junhao Wang

Life in the Building – Sectional Perspective Drawing / Restaurant ScenarioFood Wonderlandcgi


Ye Yiran

Sectional Perspective, Exploded Diagram / Elevation of project and concept diagram and massing diagramHome, sweet homePhotoshop


Li Haowen

AA Section / Detail Section of the AtriumSustainable Food Centrecgi


Anan Tian

A celebration after class – EE building in University of Liverpool Remodeling project"Welcome an Join Us!"If Tea Could TalkHand drawing

Anan Tian Nominated for the RIBA Bronze Medal and Charles Anthony Minoprio Prize for Best set of Rendered Drawings during the 3rd year programme in architecture.


Amber Williamson

Stitopia / Freedom of Flexibility / The Seed of Knowledge Planting the Seeds of KnowledgePhotomontage


Lyu Mengjie

Section – AA' & BB'Aquaponics and Human livingcgi / Model 1:500 / Model

Jennifer Foster

Proposal In Context and Collaged Views – Supermarket Interior / Main EntranceA Student's SitopiaDigital Sketch / Photoshop CollageWinner Shepard Robson Jicwood Prize


Qin Zhichuan

Development of the facade and new street elevationLittle Sitopia Communitycgi

Katarzyna Piechula

Exterior view / South ElevationUniversity Tomato Palacecgi


Jin Zhenhao

Atrium View / Inside the GreenhouseCoffee Experience and Study Communitycgi

Winner Jonathan Falkingham MBE/Urban Splash book prize for outstanding model


Xinyuan Yue

Renovation building for campus community in Liverpool / Sectional Perspective and Environmental Strategy Axonometric AnalysisHow the food spirals upwardcgi


Siqi Chen

Site Analysis / Plan and ElevationThe Sunken Plazacgi


Wu Kai

Reflection streamline – one facade near the lakeSefton Mirrorcgi

Stefan Lewis

A perspective view and section showcasing main functions and sun anglesAlsop CoffeePhotomontage

The renovation of the electrical building at University of LiverpoolGreen pacemakercgi


Dominic O'Dea

Hydroponic City / Brownlow Hill ElevationVertical City FarmPhoto Collage / cgi

Jianfeng Zhou

Night view of glazing facade in platform area / Perspective section of platformHome of Organiccgi


Sean Davies

Eye Level Perspective / Elevation and SectionFoods Made With Formulascgi / Photomontage

Zhixuan Song

cgi / Model


Xiao Zipeng

Greenhouse & atrium and design theory & conceptCeilings, Floating Farms, and Democracy Dreamingcgi / Photomontage & Diagram

Studio Pen and Inc x 55 54 x Studio Pen and Inc

Studio Pen and IncDear Studio Pen and Inc. How well you’ve done to cope with a studio which is site and people specific whilst most of you never set foot on it nor met them in person. You have done well to work entirely online, maintaining good humour and professionalism, achieving some excellent and creative responses and developing digital skills and personal resilience throughout this whole time of COVID restriction. So you are well placed to enter the work place and evolving digital workspace. Thank you for keeping at it, for smiling and for getting there in the end.

Thank you to all of you who have helped throughout the year and for those with dedication to end-of year activities, for coordinating with each other and individually making this year a success. From your tutor team.

Studio Pen and Inc. in 2020–21 continued to work with live clients Safe Regeneration and #destinationbootle as part of its liveable cities and fragile futures studio agendas.

People and place being key

Students were to re-imagine our understanding of Safe Regeneration its unique context and its existence and growth as a connected creative inclusive community contributing to fragile future survival and growth. Each student developed a guiding manifesto.

Our two projects took place on Safe’s Bootle site nestled alongside the historic Leeds Liverpool canal. The site occupied by Safe Hub; the former St Marys School, the Lock and Quay pub and a host of mature trees the site of Bootle Music Festival and, what feels like lay lines. It is an unexpected oasis and one where its community comes together and plan to settle.

In semester one our focus centred on ‘housing the ritual activity of bathing’. First exploring ritual, material, context and transitions in this small project designed to feed into second semester’s wider but equally attentive community living ask.

We asked students to explore their senses and the feeling of spaces through form material and qualities of light and although most could not be at site students explored their own spaces following time and testing transitions.

In semester two the underpinning manifestos and spirit of the work of semester one were developed into imagining extra care community, dwelling and public realm for a connected, protected and flexible community integrating its older members into its heart. Blue-sky fragile futures agendas (social economic and environmental) underpinned the work with playfulness, experimentation and thoughtfulness.

Guest teachers, speakers, and rigorous precedent study enhanced specialist knowledge of place and context.

At the end of the year, students were given the opportunity to share their work in a site specific exhibition running along railings on the edge of the Leeds Liverpool canal.

Safe Regeneration has a generous and inclusive leadership and community and once again, it was a privilege to work alongside them.

Sandy Britton (lead)Sarah Green Tony LeesPietro Pezzani Giles Wheeldon

Guest Critics Dave King shedkm Luke Cooper Architectural EmporiumSimon Cadle Turner Works Ardi Rexhepi Ford Rexhepi Architects Sue Stringfellow Sian Atherton Harrison Stringfellow Jane Cadot Francesca Piazzoni LSADave Gilkes DK Architects

Consultants Dr Hanmei Chen Dr Stuart Geesite model Chris McVerry Horatio Byrne

Special GuestsAlyson Cummins Trevor Skempton Steven MetcalfLaura Mark Kelly Harrison

Special thanks toBrian Dawe and Kerry Traynor of SAFE regeneration

54 x Studio Pen and Inc

Amer Balan Sam Beckwith Flint Milly Bracher Tom Byers Horatio Byrne Yuhui Cao Xinyi ChenYiying Dai Matthew Davies Joe Dwine Keerthivarman Engur Mohan

Jake Gittins Cara Grime Ryder Gulli Xin Hu Sophie Kebell Hanning Li Sijia Li Shiyun liuXingyu LuMeghan McIntoshXiangfei MengDiana Mihaila

Radoslaw NicgorskiBecky OldroydIzzi PowellOlivia RichardsBonnie RussellAlistair SearchZhijian ShanYitian TanRuying WangYanfei WangHeather Woof

Ruilin XieRundong YingJiarun YangHongyi ZengEnchang ZhangJingjing ZhangZheng ZhangJunping ZhouYingfei Zhuo

Students

Figure and ground Jake Gittins


Heather Woof

Sectional Perspective of apartmentsFrom Connections to Interactionsmixed media

Winner John Rankin Prize for outstanding sketch designs prepared to prescribed BA3 programme


Matthew Davies

Site Axonometric / Site PlanTaking a stroll down Memory Lane – Living in Naturecgi

Bonnie Russell

Concept plan / Sectional elevation Musical resting Home mixed media


Li Hanning

Project aerial view Back to Farm Lifecgi

Xie Ruilin

Allotment Garden – view from garden to the entrance and ground floor plansInto the GardenPhotomontage / cgi

Winner Jonathan Falkingham MBE/Urban Splash book prize for landscape proposal


Diana Mihaila

Ground floor plan featuring the Alzheimer's centre and public spaces facing the canal / Visual briefHEART OF BOOTLE / The Ritual of BathingMixed Media

Jake Gittins

Genius locicgi

Tom Byers

Axonometriccgi


Zhang Jingjing

A Building System – isometric of co-living partRecreation & Continuity – living in the communitycgi

Dai Yiying

Visual briefRed ribbon communityPhotomontage


Sam Beckwith Flint

The One: A typical one-bed apartmentVillage at the point of convergenceDigital Modelling with AutoCAD and Photoshop

Wang Yanfei

Box house – Internal and external perspectivesVitality Box Housing Community for the ElderlySketchup model

Amer Balan

The Canals OpportunityWhole life communityPhotomontage


Sam Beckwith Flint

The Many: Proposal for Bootle's new Extra Care VillageVillage at the point of convergenceDigital modelling and Photoshop

Emily Bracher

MasterplanNestled in Bootles Branchescgi


Radoslaw Nicgorski

Shared & Dining garden plan and visualPocket Naturecgi


Sophie Kebell

Bootle Music Festival / Canal sideThe Winter Gradens of Waverly StreetPhotoshop Render

Winner Sikorski Memorial prize for Interior Design

Meghan McIntosh

Visual Brief / A View at NightRise Marina, Centre and ParkPhoto Collage / Photoshop Render


Jake Gittins

Sectional Perspective / Detail ElevationA Home from Home Mixed Media

Winner Swedish Wood Prize 2021 for Bath House project ‘Split’ (not shown here)

Alistair Search

Into The Village / Extra Care ElevationBootle Retirement Care Villagecgi


Yingfei Zhuo

Section and Aerial View of the CourtyardCourtyardcgi

Ying Rundong

Renderings of aerialSharing Spacecgi

Jiarun Yang

Section and perspective drawingCloud Nest Communitycgi

Zhijian Shan

Internal ModelsVA Garden Home Bath houseMixed media


Xiangfei Meng

Overhead perspective viewBeing take care of in the greenMixed media


Keerthivarman Engur Mohan

The community and Indoor Green Space Safe Bootle Care Homes cgi

Heather Woof

Axonometric of masterplan / VisualisationFrom Connections to Interactions / Community Gardenmixed media


Yuhui Cao

Aerial view of The CommunityNorwegian Forests' Extra Care Community cgi

Cara Elizabeth Grime

View of communal gardening courtyard nestled between dwellings and residents socialising outside mews dwellingsCrescent Mews Dementia CareComputer Generated Image

Sijia Li

Ground floor planSAFE Extra Carecgi


Rebecca Oldroyd

The Many – An extra care facility focusing on creating a community The One – Meeting individual needs within the wider community The Community of Carecgi

Tom Byers

Extra Care Facility landscape and planThe Village GreenPhotoshop Render


Horatio Byrne

Bootle Located – A project overview exploring the connection of Bootle through a pocket parkBiophilia and Social Interaction: Bootlecgi

Joe Dwine

One WayBath housePhotomontage


Junping Zhou

A sketch above the terrace and Collage of conceptRest Above the HorizonHand Drawing / Photomontage

Enchang Zhang

Community Rejuvenation and Exploration Based on CRCCCommunity Rejuvenation and Exploration Hand drawing, cgi, Mixed media, Model

Enchang Zhang

Extra care model Mixed media


Jiarun Yang

Aerial viewCloud Nest CommunityHand drawing, cgi, Mixed media

Studio Pen and Inc x 93

Genius loci haikuRyder Gulli

Thankyou to our end of year team X

Bootle Festival 2021: Exhibition making and hanging: Sam Beckwith Flint, Keerthivarman Engur Mohan, Cara Grimes, Diana Mihaila, Megan McIntosh, Heather Woof

Showreel: Sam Beckwith Flint, Heather Woof, Ruilin Xie

Year book: Radoslaw Nicgorski

Book of Letters: Becky Oldroyd, Cara Grimes, Radolsaw Nicgorski, Jake GIttins and all contibutors without whose work there would be nothing to show

92 x Studio Pen and Inc Canal side exhibition

Practice North x 95 94 x Practice North94 x Practice North

Practice NorthThis year Practice North focused attention on a neglected city block at the top of Princes Avenue in Toxteth. The sites for both our projects were adjacent to each other, easy to reach from the University at a time of travel restrictions and had the potential to form an integral part of an exciting architectural context with a rich embedded history. A central consideration of the project briefs throughout the year was to design buildings which related strongly to the context and acted as catalysts for the regeneration of the surrounding public realm. We were encouraged to think on an urban scale rather than solely in terms of designing a single building in isolation.

Our Semester 1 project required live-work accommodation for a community of artists. The theme of ‘creating from home’ was particularly resonant for us during this time since we were becoming ever more familiar with designing from our student accommodation rather than studio. Co-living proved to be a stimulating area of study with a greater emphasis on shared existence and radical ways of live-working than conventional housing.

We started Semester 2 with practitioner workshops on structural timber and urban design place-making. These proved to be influential for many in their final designs and ended in great spirit with book prizes being awarded for various categories of achievement. Our project this Semester was to design a Youth Zone as a means of injecting activity into the area and exploring the typology of community buildings. The program was to provide education, leisure and activity spaces that would facilitate youth interaction and the development of life skills. This proved to be an enriching project which gave us to a good understanding of how community architecture can shape ordinary lives.

Our studio was run by people who we never met in person. Even so we experienced regular contact, enriching talks and the exchange of ideas over the year which translated into an engaging learning experience. We will always remember this and hope to meet up one day soon.

Gregory Niedzwiecki

Richard Dod (Lead)Jane MoscardiniDan WiltshireAlex Turner

Special GuestDave KingMike HutchisonJaimie Ferguson

Guest Critics Lee BennettPat BorerGraham BurnJames CrawfordJasmin EastwoodJo EdmundsPeter FarrallBeatrice GalileeLucretia RayRiccardo MonteShankari RajTom JarmanBen LeachDr Christina MalathouniDr Torsten Schmiedeknecht

Special ThanksRanald LawrenceStuart GeeLSA Workshop Team

Students Ryan AtkinsJingyi CaoJingyuan ChenSheng ChenYanhao ChenGiovanni CicognaHolly CroneXinyue CuiJai GhataoreIsabelle GouldYuqian GaoMichael Grabowski

Yue HeMyles HolmesRuwen HuXiaoan HuNadia JenkinsFaye LewisJialin LiJialin LiuJiawei LiuJess MainElla MulhallDonia Mursi

Gregory NiedzwieckiLydia O’NeillHannah PayneSam PierceHarshini RajagopalTash RodgersSzymon Stefanski Sam StonehamEthan UrquhartTian WangYixuan Wang

Becky WardYunxuan XiaoEn YangJiayi YangJingwen YangYihui ZhaoYuqi ZhouHuanzhong Zhang

Toxteth Fun Palace IsometricGiovanni Cicogna

Practice North x 97 96 x Practice North

Jai Ghataore

Front entrance / Full redevelopmentThe Biophilic Hub cgi

Jingwen Yang

Aerial view / External viewThe Direction & The Art Factorycgi


Jingyi Cao

Section / Aerial viewThe Sheltercgi

Jiayi Yang

Perspective / Aerial view on market dayThe Sunken LandHand drawing / cgi


Harshini Rajagopal

Rialto Youth Centre Entrance / Cafe and Lounge Iridescent LinearityPhotoshop rendered SketchUp image

Ryan Atkins

Street view / Courtyard viewToxteth Transition Youth Zonecgi


Ella Mulhall

Outdoor view of performance and cafe spaces / View from Lift LandingToxteth Youth and Community Centrecgi

Winner Sikorski Memorial Prize for interior design

Ella Mulhall

Section through building / Perspective of entrance areaToxteth Youth and Community Centrecgi


Rebecca Ward

Perspective of Multi-use Hall / Interior sketchCorridors Youth ClubImage of a digital model, rendered on Procreate

Tian Wang

Master plan / External viewYouth Villagecgi


Yixuan Wang

Entrance and Public Square – opposite the churchThe Bridgecgi

Faye Lewis

Atrium View / Art Zone – Ride in Youth Zone L.8 Skate and Create cgi / Model


Szymon Stefanski

Barkley Street Elevation / Plan / Aerial viewRiding highMixed media

Jialin Liu

Sections of the youth centre ‘CLOUD’CLOUDcgi


Jingyuan Chen

Elevation / The youth centreQuartet cgi

Yanhao Chen

Perspective / Aerial viewYouth Citycgi


Jialin Li

Plan, section, and elevation / Exterior and interior viewsGlowing Up Youth Centrecgi

Winner Jonathan Falkingham MBE/Urban Splash book prize for outstanding CGI

Yunxuan Xiao

Street View / Exploded axonometricThe RISEcgi


Grzegorz Niedzwiecki

Berkeley Street Reimagined / Functional SchemeThe Organic Youth Centre / The Sunken CourtyardPhotomontage, cgi

Hannah Payne

Islands and Squares / ParadiseThe Rialto Youth ProjectPhotomontageNominated for: AJ Student Prize Part 1Winner Liverpool Architectural Society Student Awards 2021


Yihui Zhao

Perspective of Main EntranceYouth Homecgi

Xinyue Cui

A view of the oval / Ground Floor PlanThe ovalMixed media


Holly Crone

Entrance / 1:200 SectionsThe DomePhotoshop image

Yuqian Gao

Central Atrium / First Floor PlanThe Circlecgi


Ethan Urquhart

Multi-use hall / Contextual aerial viewBerkley Square Youth CentreCollage render / Digital drawing

Michael Grabowski

Aerial View / Exterior PerspectiveThe Beacon cgi


Giovanni Cicogna

Toxteth Fun Plaza Visual / Aerial viewToxteth Fun PalaceAdobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, 2D CAD

Tash Rodgers

A View from Berkley Street / A View from the GardenThe Wellness Youth Collectivecgi


Jess Main

External and interior perspectivesMulti-use Toxteth youth3D Rendered Model

Nadia Jenkins

Section, External view and main entranceApex Youth Centrecgi


Xiaoan Hu

Corner view and view from Hampton StreetYouth3 Centrecgi

Isabelle Gould

Section / Sports hall and library interiorsToxteth Youth Collectivecgi


Myles Holmes

Perspective section / View from Upper Stanhope StreetBuilding Block Youth Centrecgi

Huanzhong Zhang

Entrance perspective / Aerial viewWalking in the Forestcgi


Sam Pierce

Youth Zone interior / Aerial viewYouth Streetcgi

Ruwen Hu

Social area interior / External activity areaBox Paradisecgi

Urban Creative x 133 132 x Urban Creative

Urban CreativeTwo years ago, I asked some first years why they wanted to be an architect.

This year, in a time of extraordinary isolation when many found themselves only tethered together by technology they explored whether these same ideas still held true.

A challenge to practice and a celebration of ideas discovered along the way, the Urban Creative Studio was created to offer students the opportunity to explore their relationships to architecture, and to examine their positions within wider contemporary culture.

We seek to nurture each individual’s critical thinking and intellectual curiosity, creating a shared resource of new and frequently unfamiliar cultural creators. Not limited to traditional artists we talk of all people and movements active and responsive to the world we experience, amongst whom we want the students to begin to identify themselves. We actively encourage the students to define their personal architectural agenda or manifesto, and push them to make these positions intrinsic to their design decisions.

In the first semester we responded to the postponement of the Liverpool Biennial by imagining a Festival in Prince’s Park. Each student designed a unique temporary pavilion, to stand for six months and then be removed, leaving no trace. In the second semester, the focus moved from ephemeral to the permanent with a design for an art foundation in Toxteth, Liverpool. The design drivers were always their manifestos, and each had the freedom to evaluate and modify the brief, resulting in a rich and exciting diversity of design proposals.

The students have come through a tough year with some creative individual projects. We hope that they have learned things about design and about their own interests that they will be able to take with them on whatever path they choose to follow next.

Ben Devereau (studio lead)

Luke Bushnell-WyeAnthony MackayMartin Shutt Keith Webber

Special Guests Giles Smith of AssembleAnna Couch and Sean Swarbrick of Plan-itHan Mei Chen and Ted RuffellStuart Gee

Special thanks Rhianna BradyMartin WinchesterAlex DusterlohThe Technical TeamAll the teaching colleagues who have made this year possible, against the odds.

132 x Urban Creative

Hamaad AkramWalid Al JaberThomas AntrobusBai ZhongxuanChen MingChen NuoMatthew CollierDominic CrumpDeng YuchengJacob DowneyFang Haotian

Fu HouweiGao FanGlenda GaspardBeth GoughLuke HicklingElizabeth HodgsonWilf HortonHu AnboHayley KiruiAlex KnightWill Lambert

Liu ZehaoTom LockleyLyu JiahengNiamh McNameeMegan Mew-McAdamPeter MitchellAli Orchard-MitchellJake OwenHolly PeplowAmelia Perez BravoSu Yangmin

Sun PuyuanTong YanWang HaoZhang JinyuZhang ZixuanZhang XiaofengZhao ZhujunYueying ZhongZou Dengyu

Students

Urban Creative: Exploring A ManifestoHolly Peplow


Yueying Zhong

Aerial view to the building with landscaping / Interior view to the central winter garden (in summer and winter)Ducie St Art FoundationIllustration / Rhino model with Photoshop rendering


Nuo Chen

Local Journey / Public JourneyIR•REGULARcollage

Winner John Rankin Prize for Sketch Designs prepared to a prescribed BA3 programme


Yucheng Deng

Foundation Building / Yard For Liverpool BiennialYard For Liverpool Biennialcgi


Houwei Fu

Pavilion for Mark Manders, Axonometric DrawingCoherence and Collapse — Pavilion for Mark MandersCAD Line Drawing

Houwei Fu

Two-point perspective rendering from the Kingsley roadCoherence and Collapse — Liverpool Biennial Foundation cgi


Luke Hickling

encouraging collaboration, celebrating innovation – a section of the gallery, study space and archive / Sampling and remixing – an elevation derived from its function and contextOpen Source Symbiosiscgi

Matthew Collier

Concept Sketch / Ducie Street SectionCar Parks to Cultural CentresHand drawn sketch / AutoCAD drawing, edited in Photoshop


Zixuan Zhang

At the entrance of the art foundation / View of the foundation on the Kingsley RoadBlending InMixed media

Thomas Lockley

Princes Park Pavilion – Detail ModelReduce Remove Expose – Princes Park / Exploded Structural Axonometric – Ducie Street Reduce Remove Expose – Ducie StreetModel / Computer Generated Image


William Lambert

Perspective Section / Interior Gallery ViewOccupying Process: A Framework for Art and PeopleDigital Drawing and Collage / Digital Collage


Pete Mitchell

A celebration of vandalism – How to exhibit art that disappears? / Development ModelIn Defence of a Viruscgi / Model


Jacob Downey

Visualisation of Ducie Street Art Foundation and Urban Realm / Art Foundation – 1:50 Model Reclaiming Ducie Street Hand Drawn Digital sketch / Model


Holly Peplow

Rear Wild Garden Render / Art Gallery RenderThe Hierarchy of Excess: A Study in Materiality and Accommodation at the Ducie Street Arts Foundationcgi

Winner Ian Ritchie CBE RA book prize for Background Research


Niamh McNamee

Roof Plan – Axis from site tangentU connecting Princes Gate House via garden, breaking the Granby grid, encouraging interactions. Model – showing natural light from new facade in existing terrace houses / Acknowledging the Experience of the Granby CommunityExperience GranbyComputer Drawing and Physical Model / Photo collage

Alistair Orchard-Mitchell

Worm's Eye Axonometric / Perspective SectionGranby GreenMixed media / CAD drawing


Jake Owen

The Granby Walkways – Site of the Biennial Foundation Building / Overhead Walkway and Sunken PathwaysThe Granby Walkwayscgi


Dengyu Zou

Master Plan / Section of The Biennial GalleryDream Wildcgi


Hayley Kirui

Serial view of central courtyard / 1:20 Detailed SectionGTDT Community CentrePhotomontage

Dominic Crump

The Purge State – an alternate world where the Toxteth riots took a turn for the worst / Isometric Section Exploring The UnderworldPhotomontage


Megan Mew-McAdam

Courtyard render – a collage render of the internal courtyard space / Gallery concept collage – an early conceptual collage for the biennial gallery spaceBiennial Foundation BuildingPhotoshop collage


Walid Al Jaber

Manifesto PostersImposed MeaningDigital Drawing

Hamaad Akram

Manifesto PostersREJECT EXCESSPhotomontage / Digital Drawing


Elizabeth Hodgson

From Design to Reality / Blue Sky Thinking PosterRevelations. The Granby Creative Centre for the ArtsMixed Media / cgi Collage

Heritage Related Design Studio 169 168 x Heritage Related Design Studio168 x Heritage Related Design Studio

Heritage Related Design StudioOur studio focuses on architectural interventions in the context of significant built heritage, whether building a dialogue between old and new as adjacent yet separate designs, creating a new extension attached to an existing building, considering a design solution within the footprint of the existing building itself, or a combination of these options. Working with existing buildings forms a significant proportion of an architect’s workload, therefore it is particularly important that students explore designs in these contexts as part of their education. Our ethos is to encourage creative and innovative design ideas whilst respecting and adding value to the existing historic built context.

This year we concentrated on one site for both semesters, working amongst the remains of St Luke’s Church in Liverpool which was bombed in World War Two. Retaining the same site helped us to deepen our knowledge across the year. We also had access to a detailed laser scan survey produced as part of a previous piece of research at the LSA. These decisions were particularly beneficial to those not physically based in Liverpool due to the pandemic.

Our studio scenario was to work with the Bombed Out Church Garden Bar, the current custodians of the site, to consider design ideas for a temporary ‘meanwhile’ design in semester one to increase site use and income, the function of which was decided by individual students. Semester two saw us switch to the design of a permanent Art Hub on the site, with a scenario that the meanwhile design would be in place until construction of the permanent design commenced.

We are very proud of the efforts of our students in this difficult and unique year. The work shown in this yearbook is a testament to their creativity, skill, and perseverance.

Dr Ataa Alsalloum (lead)Dr Nick Webb (lead)Stephen GrahamDavid Raynor

Guest Critics Dearbhail KeatingRebecca MeadowcroftDavid OldhamPeizheng ZhuClaudia BriguglioProf Iain JacksonLucretia Ray

Special Thanks Heather McGrath-AlcockDr Stuart GeeAnna GidmanJohn HinchcliffeKatie JonesProfessor Robert KronenburgDorian ProudfootDennis RodwellTed Ruffell

Yinzhe CaiJiaming ChangWeining ChenEmma Chrystie-LoweBeth ClarksonOwen CornesSamuel DaleChaohao DengYilin DengTom DuttonBeca EllisZidong FanDiya FengWei FengFeijie Gu

Yuqing HanIsrar HashimiKate HaughtonRyan HeadleyLauren HeatheringtonJhaerosa HisarzaEmma Hobson-WhiteJames LangloisGuangyuan LiFangqing LinDanyang LyuGeorge MannixKittie PatrickIsabel PiercyEllie Platt

Kellan RakkarKris RamosJasmine SalopMirta SilvestriBen StephensonCorey Teece-MillingtonBingyao WangHaiyi WangTianyu WangQuancheng WuYangan XiaCai XiaoYiyin XuPeilin YangJiahui Zhang

Students

James Langlois1:50 Internal Elevationcgi

RIBA Presidents Bronze Medal Nomination – Part 1

Heritage Related Design Studio 171 170 x Heritage Related Design Studio

Wei FengMultifunctional Hall / Isometric DrawingArt Hub at St Luke's Church, Liverpoolcgi

Swedish Wood Prize 2021 runner upWinner Sikorski Memorial prize for interior design

Mirta SilvestriAxonometric View of ‘The Pod’ / Section Through Art CentreA Peek InsideMixed Media


Lauren HeatheringtonConcept Collage / Gift Shop VisualisationIn a Bombed-Out FashionMixed Media

Samuel DaleSite Isometric / Conceptual Collages Unearthed Media Hub Saint Lukescgi / Mixed Media


Diya FengRendering Inside the Church / Site History CollageSt. Luke's Church Regenerationcgi / Mixed Media

Rebeca EllisSt Luke’s Urban Craft Collective /The Old and New at St Luke’sArt Hub at the Bombed Out ChurchComputer Collage


James LangloisArts Centre Worms Eye Projection / Perspective ViewThrough the Looking Glasscgi / Photomontage

Yinzhe CaiSection Drawing with Details / VisualisationArt Hub at St Luke’scgi

RIBA Presidents Bronze Medal Nomination – Part 1Swedish Wood Prize 2021 Runner up


Danyang LyuPerspective Section / VisualisationNew Life of ChurchMixed media

George MannixHomeless Shelter Construction / South Elevation Showing Delicate ExtensionHope at St Luke's / Be Bold at St Luke's cgi


Jiaming ChangSection / Isometric SectionArt Hub at St Luke’scgi

Ryan HeadleyCourtyard Perspectives / Studio Moment VisualBlooming Artscgi


Kris RamosGround Floor Plan / Exploded AxonometricArt Hubcgi

Quancheng WuGaze / Multifunctional Hall in the Early MorningWithin the Chancelcgi


Guangyuan LiSection / AxonometricInheritance and Development of St Luke's Churchcgi

Beth ClarksonIsometric / Development ModelA New PerspectiveMixed Media / Physical Model


Yangan XiaNew Courtyard and Workshop / Long SectionArt Hub in St Luke's Bombed Out Churchcgi

Iasmina SalopVisualisations / Entry Foyer DetailSt Luke's Art Havencgi


Thomas DuttonSections / VisualisationsSensory Heritage at the Bombed Out Churchcgi

Yuqing HanVisualisation / Long SectionSt Luke’s Art Hubcgi


Ben StephensonInterior SketchSt Luke’s Temporary InterventionHand Drawing

Owen CornesNave Drawing StudyMeanwhile at St Luke’scgi

Cai XiaoVisualisation of Roof CaféArt Hub at St Luke’scgi

Feijie GuVisualisationsMeanwhile at St Luke’scgi


Ellie PlattVisualisation / SectionThe Art Withincgi

Tianyu WangDetailed Elevation and Isometric / Before and After VisualisationSt Luke’s Art Hubcgi


Weining ChenArtistic ElevationRISE: Art Hub at St Luke’s Churchcgi

Fangqing LinChancel Drawing StudyMeanwhile at St Luke’scgi

Corey Teece MillingtonInterior ElevationHistory Within Heritagecgi

Yilin DengIsometricHeritage Related Designcgi


Isabel PiercySite Isometric / VisualisationCollaborative Creatives at St Luke’scgi

Kate HaughtonLong Section / Serial VisionStacked Inside St Luke’scgi


Kittie PatrickDetailed Elevation / Concept SketchNave Studioscgi

Peilin YangPerspective Section /VisualisationsRenaissancecgi


Bingyao WangVisualisation / North ElevationArt Hub at St Luke’scgi

Emma Chrystie-LoweSectional IsometricLiverpool Wellness Centrecgi

Jhaerosa HisarzaSite SketchGrowing Under the Same RoofHand Drawing


Emma Hobson-WhiteViews North and South / Perspective SectionCelestial Bridgecgi

Winner Jonathan Fallkingham MBE/Urban Splash book prize for outstanding drawing

Zidong FanExploded Isometric / Elevation StudiesThe Rhythm of St Luke’scgi


Jiahui ZhangVisualisation / Long SectionArt Hub at St Luke’scgi

Kellan RakkarTemporary Elevation / Massing StudiesThe Sound of Liverpool in St Luke’scgi / Physical Models

BA x 207 206 x BAUrquhart

Tom Byers RIBA prize winner

Houwei Fu

Elizabeth Hodgson RIBA prize winner

Bonnie Russell

Piechula

Cara Grime

Professional Studies in Architecture

“What does an Architect actually do?”

A selection of posters Prizes sposored by RIBA


M.Arch_21


Our MArch Programme ambitions to provide an environment of intellectual discussion about current discourses in architecture and culture. We aim to promote creativity, innovation, imagination and experimentation in our studios, which we want to relate to a stronger integration of history and theory, technology and urban, structural and environmental design, but also to the use of new design methodologies, hands-on seminars and the active inclusion of new technology, media and formats in the design process. Our tutors have strong research and professional backgrounds, to grant that our students are competent and confident in all areas of the profession and scales of intervention, from urban design to the technical development of the building. Our design schemes explore both local and international issues: working with real projects in the UK context allows input from national stakeholders to the briefing and review process, but equally important is to reinforce global citizenship, acknowledge the international nature of our cohorts and develop the skills to work in different contexts on site and remotely. Our successful international field trips, design competitions, collaborations with different universities and the diverse range of our exchange programme further support this vision.

Unique to the MArch at Liverpool, it very successfully offers a dynamic structure to support collaborative practice, alternating individual and group work, introducing the students to the opportunities and responsibilities of both methods. Our programme also wants to be led by the students own interests, with brief-making and a personal exploration of a wide range of media and resources as part of the design process, strongly supported by seminars and guest lectures delivered by world-class tutors, academics and practitioners. The broad range of design investigations provides a stimulating and highly rewarding learning experience, and the freedom allowed in the programme enables the student to develop a personal perspective towards design, which frequently informs their professional career. Our graduates have an excellent record of employment in both internationally renowned offices and small-scale specialist practices.

Dr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezProgramme Director M.Arch

Introduction to M.Arch

Special thanks to our guests and contributors

M.Arch4 x 213 212 x M.Arch4

Budapest: Remote Discovery

The first year of the MArch operates at the intersection of architecture and the city. The studio is structured through a series of interlinked stages (ARCH401 and ARCH402 in semester 1 and ARCH403 and ARCH404 in semester 2), where students work through critical architectural projects that traverse the full range of scales, from the urban strategy to the design of an urban building, to its finest technical details.

This year the city of our study was Budapest, Hungary, which we could not visit due to the COVID-19 travel and health and safety restrictions. Therefore, the theme of the studio, Remote Discovery, focused on developing the tools to engage with a place we cannot visit. How can we explore, read, represent, and design for a city we cannot physically experience? What are the media that architects have in their hands today to understand the multiple realities of cities at a distance? What are the material, cultural, political, economic, and environmental capacities of the city that we can unmask and reprogram in this manner, and how can we develop interventions that release them and make them productive in new ways? Throughout the year we engaged with local agents; we studied the city’s deep history through text, maps, photographs and videos; we drew and re-drew its multiple layers; and, we modelled its endless potential. Under this framework, the four studios developed different methodologies and programmatic approaches. Ultimately, Budapest became trope to enquire what a Central European city is and how it may be reimagined in the context of complex contemporary challenges.

Alongside the studio, taught modules in Urban Design Theory, Practice Management & Contract Law, and Sustainability in Practice, provided further support to students’ academic development, while Research Methods in Architecture prepared them for the writing of their dissertation in the second year of the programme.

M.Arch4Dr Katerina AntonopoulouM.Arch4 year lead

M.Arch4 staffDr Katerina AntonopoulouValentino Capelo De SousaRonny FordJames JonesProfessor Richard KoeckJohanna MuszbekPietro PezzaniDr Francesca PiazzoniDr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezDr Spyridon Stravoravdis(structural and environmental support)

Guest CriticsDr Sebastián Aedo JuryDr Sophia BanouDr Melinda BenkőJocelyn FroimovichDr Hamid KhaliliAlexandros Kallegias Dr Matyas GutaiAnna PageProfessor Nicholas Ray João Prates Ruivo Oliver Schulze Jonny Shaw Neil SwansonSamu SzemereyDominika Tihanyi

Special GuestsEszter BabarczyZoltán ErőOliver Schulze Michael Wilford

ARCH405 Practice Management & Contract LawJack DunneARCH406 Urban Design TheoryDr Fei Chen, Dr Francesca Piazzoni, Dr Yat Shun Kei, Dr Junjie Xi

ARCH410 Sustainability in Practice Dr Stephen FinneganARCH480 Research Methods in ArchitectureDr Andrew Crompton, Dr Stephanie Koerner, Dr Yat Shun Kei

Re-activating Tenement Housing in Budapest: Co-Live / Co-WorkWill Millward, Simon Montinari, Jason Norris, Scott Tonkinson


The recent pandemic-related lockdown is just one of many events that force us to reconsider our relationship to our home and neighbourhood. Automation, corporate restructuring and the ‘flexible’ work models of the gig economy have long been redefining what spaces of work could be. In the last decades one would find it difficult to differentiate a cafe from an open office, or our living room for that matter.

When discussing housing as part of a global economy, the urban phenomenon is ubiquitous: soaring real estate prices, unregulated rent structures have either displaced communities or pushed us to reconcile with having smaller and smaller flats in exchange for the ‘inner city experience.’ As more and more activities, traditionally confined to our private homes, found spaces in public spaces, our domestic realm seemingly expanded.

As the scalar thresholds between public and private realms overlap or disappear, the spatial, typological hierarchy of the city needs to be reassessed. How do we redefine the units of sociability through the means of architecture? Will that ultimately transform our housing infrastructure?

If we look at the turbulent history of housing types in Budapest, they tell a story of coexistence, class, mobility and displacement. Beyond the examples mentioned above, the studio aimed at analysing global and local events that have impacted the complex architectural negotiations between the domestic and the urban. By widening our field of vision in time and space, we identified global patterns and genealogies in city living as a way to speculate around local challenges of today’s housing in Budapest.

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M.Arch4 Studio 1 Re-activating Tenement Housing in Budapest: Patterns of a New Local

Johanna Muszbek & Pietro Pezzani

Students namesAdam Bradley BrightJames Francis BuddAbigail Burton-DaddCatriona ButtersMolly-Ann FitzpatrickJane Emma GeorgiEirini KafaYao LiLance Rey MacadangdangWilliam John MillwardFarah Amalina binti Mohd AriffSimon Martin MontinariJason Alexander NorrisDaniel Rankine-GayleLaura Emma RobertsHelena Kate SarneyKa Ho TangScott James TonkinsonCharlotte Audrey Whittingham

Boarding School of Performing ArtsTechnical SectiondrawingEirini Kafa, Yao (Leo) Li

Boarding School of Performing ArtsModel Elevation modelEirini Kafa, Yao (Leo) Li

The brief that we tackled this year required ‘tactical interventions,’ which ‘may vary significantly in scope, size budget, and support. However, they all shared the common goal of rethinking the public space with an innovative approach.’ Our site for this was Budapest, a ‘dreamed-up city’ as some have argued, caught between the East and the West on the edge of the European Union. It is a city that creates affordances that require us to look with a sense of imagination – articulated by a narrative approach to architectural and urban design as well as appreciation for spaces and places that have shaped our sense of immersion by creative acts such as storytelling, scenography and imagination.

The studio aimed to combine a methodology by which literary and cinematic narratives can provoke a rudimentary framework for the design of architecture within the urban environment. In utilising specific literary texts and films the studio called students to think and apply narrative in a ‘literary not literal’ manner etc., via appropriate text and film references.

This studio sought to be experimental; required from students to pick up unusual tools and techniques; self-taught or through peer-to-peer learning under the guidance of the instructors. It prompted students to think cross-disciplinary and place themselves at the intersection of architectural design, digital moving images and creative arts/communication. The aim was to play, experiment and innovate, but with rigour, method and intellectual depth.

The starting point was a number of contextual texts and films situating the city in different times and place, all of which however are set in the city or relate to a specific area of Budapest.

M.Arch4 Studio 2 Space and Narrative: an exploration of city narratives and spatial immersion through literature & film

Ronny Ford & Professor Richard Koeck

Students namesHasanain Ali Al-JawadFariha ArefinRia AulakHarley BryantEdward Michael CowperthwaiteRachel Marie CummingsKenneth Weston ElliottThomas Eissa KhosravanifarHana KoubkováHo Fung LeeRachael Anne McCarthyKeith Muzingaye NdlovuBrion O’ReillySian Louise OpieAshni PatelConnor James RowlandAbdullah Ihsan Zafarullah

Special Guest Dr Hamid Khalili


A New Collective Axonometric and Section drawing Thomas KhosravanifarA New Collective The Park drawing Thomas Khosravanifar

Spatial and social inequalities intensify the marginalization of vulnerable people across the globe. While injustice is especially perpetuated at the policy level, how built environments are designed can also facilitate oppression. Architects can be complicit in producing exclusionary urbanisms. At times they create spaces that remain hostile to vulnerable groups, for example, by satisfying the needs of “standard” users while neglecting those of “others.” At other times, architects end up perpetuating inequalities while seeking to navigate complex, and often conflicting dynamics: as they answer their clients’ briefs (at risk of being removed from the process), address expectations of other parties (planning authorities, local individuals, and communities), or even as they try to operate with the interests of future generations in mind.

There is then no doubt that how spaces look and function can facilitate social exclusion, and that architects play a role in advancing inequalities. But can design also serve as a tool of empowerment for marginalized groups?

The studio examined this question by focusing on Budapest, a city where gentrification processes, rising housing prices, and the commodification of history intensify the marginalization of vulnerable groups—e.g., lower income residents, precariously housed people, and racialized minorities.

Three themes of inquiry were proposed: Inhabiting, asking who inhabits Budapest, and what are the different needs of these people. Marketing, asking who has the right to profit from the image of Budapest, and by trading what. And Trespassing, asking how physical and symbolic boundaries across Budapest affect the social reproduction of privileges (e.g., Danube, railways lines, UNESCO designated “historic” areas).

M.Arch4 Studio 3 Just Space

Dr Francesca Piazzoni & Valentino Capelo

Students namesSimon Alexander BainesAdarshini BurrunMan Hin ChengAdam Daniel ClarenceIsabel Miriam DaykinLuke David FawcettAnnette Wambui GathingoGabriela GrodnyZhengcheng HeFinnegan HulbertPhilippa Kirsten Ruth MackKudzai Kurewa MatsvaiAngus Timothy ParkinVictoria Lucy RobertsonCallum Davies SkinnerStanley SmithXinyue TianJia-Hao YangZhengyang Zhao

Dynamis Award for Sustainable construction – winner Simon Baines, runner up – Gabriela Grodny

Sampled SpaceExploded axonometricdrawing Callum SkinnerSampled Space1:100 modelmodelCallum Skinner


Budapest is internationally known as one of the great spa cities in Europe. Historically, water has deeply shaped the land in this region. Numerous natural hot springs pour out over 80 million litres of richly mineralised water every day. These hot springs have created a marvellous geological world underneath the city: a wonderful network of elongated caves lined with intricate filigrees of crystal formations, which present unique ecological characteristics and precious free geothermal energy. Likewise, the Danube river, which runs through nine European countries, bisects the city into two main areas. A substantial part of the city, including its river banks, is actually Unesco protected, and an application was filed seeking protection for its underground unique ecology too, where much is still to be explored.

Despite water being a crucial agent in structuring Budapest’s geology (karst topography and ecology), the city has neglected to celebrate its presence, its essence, and its natural laws. Water has been subsumed within the city’s activities, however there is a clear disconnect between the underground and above ground topologies: they speak a very different morphological language. In this context, we asked: is there a way to celebrate the presence of water in the city?

The aim of this studio was to investigate the role of water in shaping the city of Budapest and its architecture. Relevant topics included understanding water as a cultural object; water as an opportunity to unpack the layers of the city; the meaning of the geometrical vocabulary of water and karst; and, the architecture of the bath house.

M.Arch4 Studio 4 Topologies of Water: reappropriating the interface between water and the city

Dr Katerina Antonopoulou, Dr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez & James Jones

Students namesJester James AbayariDaniel Aston-ClarkeGemma Gwendoline BartleKiran Singh BirringYashna Devi CalleechurnFarokh DamaniaFfion Jane DouglasConor Ian FosterOliver Rowan HamiltonJames HoleBonnie JacksonHolly Aleshia Knight-ParfittYuchun LinCalum James LukeJonathon McDonaldKrishan PatelMohamed Abdelrahman Gouda Shehata (exchange)Ismail TamimiCallum Ross

Winners PS Tyson Prize for best 4th year engagement with technology: James Hole, Connor Foster, Ffion Douglas, Holly Knight-Parfitt

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In the second year of MArch (year five of the overall Architecture course) students explore specific individual interests with the objective of developing their personal direction at the outset of their careers. The Climate Agenda is foremost in their thinking and is encouraged in both 5th year Studio modules. The first semester begins with a design project, this year began with site visits to Runcorn to underpin the module – which led to the task of designing a series of expedient infrastructure projects on a number of optional sites. (Although unable to travel abroad this year, we had the most obvious choice for investigation locally– Runcorn has two major road bridges, a railway bridge, a major river frontage and a canal, and is a main stop for the London train – so is ideally suited for infrastructure proposals). The module was led by award winning practice Ian Ritchie Architects – which exposed the students to the rigours of first class design and research possibilities. The intention of this module is for the students to develop a set of their own design criteria and principles in order to test them in proposals.

In parallel, students write a 10,000-word dissertation on an architectural topic of their choice, following on and developing from their initial proposals which they carried out as part of their dissertation preparation in year four. This dissertation writing finishes in January of the final year, thereby preparing the students academically and freeing up their schedules to focus wholly of their thesis design project.

The second half of year five is entirely taken up with the student’s final project, for which the students choose, under staff guidance, an individual or group design project. These projects tend to be both ambitious and creative, and demand a great deal from the students, both within the group dynamic and individually. As the final act of the students’ architectural education the Thesis project comprises of a complex academic, graphical and verbal presentation, and this is further underpinned by a written project report to which each student contributes equally. This years topics included public assembly, household waste management, fisheries and wellbeing through the process of Virtual Reality ( the latter embryonic project achieving runner up in the Liverpool Architectural Societys Wellbeing Pavilion competition – in times of Covid).

M.Arch5Jack Dunne M.Arch5 year lead

M.Arch5 staffThesis and Thesis report Jack Dunne, Dr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez, Peter Farrall, Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Johanna Muszbek, Ronnie Ford, Dr Katerina Antonopoulou, Peter Farrall, Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Kei Yat Shun (Juliana), Professor Iain Jackson

Visiting ProfessorsIan Ritchie, Hans Van De Heijden

Arch 504-Dissertation Every member of full-time staff at the School of Architecture

Year Critics Ian RitchieHelen RobertsMike CuniffNeil SwansonRachel Stevenson

Guest TutorsJonny Shaw, Gordon TalbotVisiting ProfessorIan Ritchie TutorsDr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez, Jack Dunne, Peter Farrall, Dr Katerina Antonopoulou

Lead by Ian Ritchie Architects, ARCH500 presented the opportunity for student consideration of the New Town of Runcorn, amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Investigating and identifying the missed opportunities of the New Town, we derived concepts of expedient infrastructure which would catalyse an architectural process of urban redefinition. These concepts consisted of a proposed artefact, built-form or landscape, based upon a network understanding of the existing infrastructure; including transport, education, economy, wellness, food and culture.

Considering 4 potential site locations, we responded to the immediate context of Runcorn and recognised its potential for success. Intervention examples included a wellness centre that engaged with the iconic Brindley Theatre and adjacent canal, a unified transport network using autonomous vehicles, the transformation of Shopping City into a hub for education and the proposal of a new street and urban park within the heart of the old town, connecting a fragmented community within an inclusive environment.

The guidance and professional experience of Ian Ritchie Architects, permitted engagement with concepts of procurement, feasibility, and financial strategy, injecting a tangible perspective to the MArch programme. We completed the module having benefited from new skill sets, a deepened understanding of architectural consequence and gained insight into the opportunities of architectural expedience, providing invaluable preparation ahead of the Thesis module.

ARCH500 Lauren Clancy

“Unique to the MArch at Liverpool is a liaison with a distinguished Architectural practice who take the lead on the ARCH500 module in Semester one – setting the brief, undertaking the tutorials and also marking the final outputs (all in liaison with the MArch staff ). This is a 9 week, 30 credit module, and for the third year running Ian Ritchie Architects worked with our 49 no. fifth year students, who formed 16 teams, in a variety of groupings from one to four students. Jonny Shaw and Gordon Talbot were the main contributors to the studio teaching, alongside their practice head and our Visiting Professor Ian Ritchie who attended crit sessions.”

Jack DunneChristian Ward

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In the course of their studies, architecture students tackle tasks of increasing scope and complexity. This applies not only to their design work but also to their academic writing as they progress from drafting short history essays to preparing comprehensive reports on urban studies and technological subjects. The culmination of these efforts is the dissertation in the first semester of the final year, which is expected to meet the highest standards of intellectual and academic rigour.

The dissertation offers students the unique opportunity to pursue an interest entirely of their own choosing. It is effectively a one-year project as it builds on the research methods module of the previous semester. At the end of the fourth year, each student is paired with a suitable supervisor, who will offer guidance and support on the project. The process itself remains entirely driven by the students’ own initiative, resulting in outputs of usually good and sometimes exceptional quality.

It is a testament to the maturity and resourcefulness of our students that the ongoing Covid crisis with its never-ending series of lockdowns and social distancing rulings has not deterred them in the slightest from fulfilling their ambitions. In previous years, students would often use the summer months to carry out on-site investigations overseas. Others would stay in the United Kingdom and spend their time in archives and libraries to gather information for their dissertations. The present cohort of students was deprived of such opportunities. Instead, they became highly proficient in sourcing their data online and processing it in the solitude of their own homes. While the crisis has thus changed the nature of their dissertations, it has not affected their quality. As a module leader, I am always proud of my dissertation students and the work they produce. Never have I been prouder than in this particularly challenging year.

M.Arch DissertationDr Patrick ZamarianM.Arch Dissertation Module Co-ordinator

Dissertation TutorsDr Katerina AntonopoulouDr Fei ChenDr Daveed ChowDr Andrew CromptonBen DevereauDr Jiangtao DuPeter FarrallDr Stephen FinneganRonny FordAnna GidmanDr Adonis HaidarDr Marco IulianoProf Iain JacksonDr Yat Shun KeiProf Richard KoeckDr Stephanie KoernerDr Ranald LawrenceDr Haniyeh MohammadpourkarbasiJohanna MuszbekDr Francesca PiazzoniDr Giamila QuattroneLucretia RayDr Torsten SchmiedeknechtDr Nick WebbDr Junjie XiDr Patrick Zamarian

M.Arch Dissertation: Sustainable Conservation Design Guide

Lauren ClancyM.Arch5

Dissertation Tutor Dr Stephen Finnegan

Approved Document Part L 2019 and the UK’s net-zero carbon emission targets for 2050 seek to attain sustainable development through the reduction of fuel and power by restricting thermal transmittance. With a ‘fabric-first’ approach to operational energy reduction, current guidance fails to sufficiently address the 80% of 2050 housing stock already constructed, which includes heritage, traditional and listed structures. Historic England’s recent decision to withdraw its advice on Grade II listed structures suggests a curtailment of the importance given to conservation. Prompted by the lack of sustainable methodologies applicable to early RIBA Plan-of-Work design stages, Lauren drafted a design guide responding to the operational carbon contributions made by traditional construction. Upon reviewing existing legislation and literature, she consulted with specialists and channelled her findings into the production of a framework that avoids the failures of current guidance. Supplying a systematic seven-step approach informing a definitive process of application, Lauren’s guide allows for case-by-case implementation with impact assessment. Industry testing confirmed its potential to tackle the climate crisis and re-structure the relationship between sustainability and conservation. Lauren’s research suggests a way to achieve higher standards for the sustainable retrofit of traditional structures, in accordance with government ambitions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Diagram demonstrating deciduous tree principles, featured in the proposed design guide.Lauren Clancy, based on Heywood’s 101 Rules of Thumb For Low Energy Architecture of 2019


M.Arch Dissertation: Biomimicry as a Tool for Minimizing Energy Consumption and Improvement of Thermal ComfortKhrystyna KurovetsM.Arch5

Dissertation TutorDr Daveed Chow

A method that learns from and simulates the strategies utilised by natural organisms is called biomimicry. Biomimicry promotes the fundamental idea that an ecosystem is not something to be exploited; instead, it is something that can teach us to solve human problems by potentially saving non-renewable resources in the world. Khrystyna’s dissertation investigates whether the implementation of biomimetic principles might result in reduced energy consumption whilst at the same time providing sufficient thermal conditions which rely less on mechanical ventilation. For her study, she used Revit 2020 to create a three-dimensional model of a typical modern mid-rise residential building in Dubai, and Insight to subject this model to a series of simulations. Initially, Khrystyna modelled her case study in its current state and simulated it to calculate the yearly energy loads. After reviewing extensive literature on the topic, she integrated biomimetic principles into the design. Her new design proves to reduce the annual energy consumption, making it less dependable on the use of air conditioning.

Axonometric Revit model showing balconies receiving less energy due to overhangs and screens.Khrystyna Kurovets

M.Arch Dissertation: Green Belt Development: Power Relations Among Stakeholders in the Planning ProcessFelicity Joy MorrisM.Arch5

Dissertation Tutor Dr Fei Chen

Green belts are meant to be preserved for public well-being and environmental benefits. Felicity’s dissertation investigates the debates and planning actions surrounding their release for urban development in England. Her investigation focuses on two case studies: one is the Kings Moat Garden Village housing estate in Chester, the other the high-speed railway HS2. Both developments involve, or will involve, the removal of green belts. Felicity’s research demonstrates the power relations among stakeholders in the planning negotiation process for these two projects. Library research, a general survey, and interviews with relevant stakeholders who have influenced the planning process have allowed her to gain valuable insights into the ways in which the various groups exercise their opportunity space and maximise the impact of their interests in the development process. Her results show that whilst there is a general consensus that green belts should be protected, this consensus is compromised by the fact that politically and financially powerful stakeholders are able to influence planning decisions to a greater extent than others.

The plan shows Kings Moat Garden Village within the Cheshire Green Belt, illustrating how development sites encroach on the outer fringes of green belts and erode their borders. Felicity Joy Morris


M.Arch Dissertation: Becoming Venetian Again

Emily MarchM.Arch5

Dissertation Tutor Dr Aikaterini Antonopoulou

Cities across the globe are witnessing an erosion of their idiosyncratic qualities. This process is happening concurrently with the increased mobility of people of all socioeconomic classes, which has radically changed our relationship to the city. Venice is a case in point as it is struggling to maintain its heritage against, not only the sea, but the largely uncontrolled masses of tourists who descend on it daily. Apart from tourism, universities are the last remaining large enterprises in the historic centre of the city. Their student population has a fluid identity as they are both producers and consumers of creative urban landscapes, mediating between tourist and resident groups. Emily’s dissertation uses a comparative dialogue between Venice and the two case studies of Barcelona and Edinburgh to illustrate the powerful interplay between creativity, tourism, planning, and ‘studentscape’. Her study highlights opportunities for synergy between these different city-making agents, which could help Venice to achieve a balance between its ecological crises, its human populations, and its economy.

'No Grandi Navi' (No Cruise Ships). The message is clear: Venetians want to reclaim their city, but how? By taking advantage of its creative institutions and student population, Venice could propel itself into a new renaissance and become Venetian again.Emily March

M.Arch Dissertation: What is Feminist Architectural Practice in the UK Today?

Anna HarrisM.Arch5

Dissertation Tutor Dr Francesca Piazzoni

The built environment can be seen as inherently political. As space is created through existing power systems, a patriarchal, racist, and classist society is likely to produce built environments that reinforce these inherent biases. There is a growing awareness amongst scholars and practitioners of architecture of the extent to which design processes tend to reflect societal inequalities, and particularly the way in which built forms reproduce patriarchal values by ignoring the needs of women. Since the 1970s, feminist academics and designers have been challenging existing power structures in the built environment and exploring ways to create more diverse and inclusive spaces. As feminist architectural movements gain traction across the UK, however, little attention has been given as to how such movements reflect on the production of space. Anna’s research explores how the feminist discourse in architecture has evolved over the past few decades and how its shifts have affected professional practice. Drawing on an extensive review of historic literature on feminist spatial theories as well as interviews with feminist architects, Anna considers the impact that fourth-wave feminism is having on architecture. She concludes by setting out a number of key factors of what she terms to be contemporary feminist architectural practice.

Poster for an event hosted by the Matrix Feminist Cooperative, who pioneered feminist architecture in the UK.Matrix Open Archive


M.Arch Thesis Projects

The design thesis forms the culmination of a two-year process in which students will have undertaken various investigations into urban and architectural scale and form, advanced building technology and statutory requirements, as well as the cultural context of architecture. By this point the aim is for each student to have developed an architectural position based on a solid understanding of current urban and architectural issues and the developments that have historically informed these.

Jack Dunne Programme Director

Trash Haus 232

The Sýndestry – An Antidote To Loneliness 236

Kendal’s Hive 240

Frontier: Between Natural and Built Environment Reorganizing The Vernacular In Mati 242

The Machine of Change 246

Madness of the City 248

What is Comfort? 252

Bangkok, Sustainable Urban Development 256

Finding Individuality within Collective Housing 260

Food Delivery by Bicycles – Hong Kong as a Bike City 262

Bird Embassy 264

Flying Fisheries: A Future for Coastal Fishing Towns 268

Re-Threading Knowledge 272

Olympic Carnival 276

A-Culture University 278

Metamorphosis 280

Horsepower: Rehabilitation through Riding 282

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Trash HausGeorge BrandonStephanie LewisMatthew MageeDaniel Reid

Ever-increasing urban populations, excessive consumerism habits, and the subsequent ‘throwaway culture’ has caused the issue of household waste to become a key challenge of the 21st century.

With current methods of household waste management relying heavily on high energy industrial-scale operations – resulting in increased landfill, waste incineration, or mass-waste export overseas – it is evident that change is needed.

If sustainability can be defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs’, then the extract-produce-use-dump material and energy flow model of the current system simply isn’t sustainable.

This thesis seeks to explore the design, performative, and social potentials of alternative, localised, and community-led methods of household waste recovery in favour of the current, exhausted industrial processes.

The thesis therefore proposes the design of communities centred around the processes of recycling waste; ‘closed-loop’ resource management; and the reuse of recovered materials.

Through a critique of current arrangements of dwellings and settlements, as well as applying a philosophy of living around the idea of waste, new opportunities and constraints can be presented to adapt the ways of living familiar to us today, whilst ultimately reforming communities of the future.

The response is a phased system informed by pre-existing environmental targets that creates a new all-encompassing vision, ultimately concluding with the final proposal – Trash Haus.

The first phase of the project introduces a ‘plug-in’ approach of integrated waste processing systems embedded within existing housing typologies and traditional lifestyle trends, with support provided by a network of fixed and kinetic infrastructures that accommodates the reuse of recovered materials.

The continual supply of household waste by means of these parasitic urbanisms to the community craftspace – Trash Lab – is the primary means of processing locally gathered waste and provides material required for the eventual construction of Trash Haus.

With the inception of Phase 2, Trash Haus seeks to seamlessly integrate the processing of household waste. A reinterpretation of traditional household spaces into the relative activities allows for a hierarchical reorganisation that optimally supports the systems required to efficiently process waste material into craftable components for use within the new closed-loop community.

The organisation of individual Trash Haus units into a terrace arrangement generates a shared ground level colonnade – the Maker’s Corridor, that promotes social interaction through the crafting and trading of household waste material, generating a heightened sense of community.

Thesis TutorDr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezJohanna Muszbek

Thesis Critics Professor Soumyen BandyopadhyayNeil SwansonIan Ritchie

Special thanks Special thanks to our thesis tutors Dr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez and Johanna Muszbek for their knowledge and endless support throughout this project

Winner of Architects Journal Student Prize

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The Sýndestry – An Antidote To LonelinessLoneliness has become an ever prevalent problem within society, which has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. The current iteration of therapeutic architecture is one that does not suit someone who could need treatment for loneliness as it is acutely tied to issues with sociability. Therefore for the treatment to start, they must have to be comfortable with others, which is where the issue itself lies. This has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic as the in person therapies have had little remit in which to operate when people can not see one another. With the rise of digital technologies, society is able to communicate when it is apart from one another. Yet these conversations via text on smart devices leave people with a dopamine deficiency which in turn can lead to mental health issues and a retraction from society, moving towards loneliness. However, virtual technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality have a different effect on the brain, making people perceive the interactions that happen within them as reality.

Using the basis of monasteries and heliotropic healing, this thesis created an architecture that fully utilised virtual reality within it. The resulting building, named the Sýndestry, housed activities in order to reduce isolation, mitigate loneliness and create solitude through the use of virtual reality and light therapy. Allowing for an architecture that can help people with loneliness through these technologies whether they are inhabiting the physical space of the building or not. This created a new way of approaching the therapy associated with loneliness as it will enable those who struggle in social situations to build up their comfort in order to eventually be able to tackle the underlying issues of loneliness.

Callum Allison Christian Ward Joseph Watkins

Thesis Tutor Jack Dunne

Thesis Critics Jack DunneDr Katerina Antonopoulou Helen Roberts from Feilden Clegg Bradley StudiosMick Cunniff from Jeffrey Bell Architects

Special thanksThank you to Jack Dunne for your continued support throughout this project and many thanks to Dr Katerina Antonopoulou for your feedback during critiques.

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Kendal’s HiveThe ever-present boarded up shops that populate the UK’s high streets are a clear indicator of the current state of decline that urban centres are experiencing. Now is the appropriate time to be considering the regeneration of the country’s high streets.

Conventional brick-and-mortar retail stores have been fighting a losing battle against online retail. Major high street brands have struggled to adapt and evolve over the last two decades, leading to the demise of Woolworths, BHS, Debenhams and many more. These companies often hold prominent positions on high streets as department stores. Typically, they would be housed in the largest retail units and pay less rent due to the number of people they attract. Consequently, this now an emerging problem. As retail giants go into liquidation or reduce their high street presence, they leave behind huge empty stores which are not easy to fill.

The COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the world in 2020 and into 2021 has sped up the decline of urban centres across the UK, specifically within the retail sector. The pandemic forced the country to go into multiple lockdowns, with all but key retail being forced to close to help slow the spread of the virus.

To revitalise the high street, this thesis project intends to create a catalyst through the realisation of a social and economic hub. Many councils and local authorities across the country are trying to work out how to do just that. Studies have illustrated that there is a demand for more interactive and experience-driven activities on the high street.

Office space plays a key role on high streets as it brings a regular group of users to the high street. There has been a growth in ‘co-working work culture’. This co-working model allows for more flexible office space and lease agreements. More diverse groups of people are choosing to live in city centres, therefore, the demand for affordable housing has increased. There is a distinct lack of city centre primary schools, This is a contributing factor when analysing why many young families move out of city centres. Primary schools are great catalysts for social hubs as they include a vast range of user groups, from the school children to their parents, grandparents and community groups who use the school facilities out of hours. Having a diverse mix of uses can bring back meaning and purpose to the high street.

Pearce ChapmanCharlotte Sumner

Thesis Tutor Peter Farrall

Thesis Critics Rachael StephensonHans van de HeidjdenDr Yat Shun KeiRonny Ford

Special thanksCBRERider Levett BucknallSheppard Robson Montagu Evans

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Frontier: Between Natural and Built Environment Reorganizing The Vernacular In Mati

Our thesis titled Frontier: Between Natural and Built Environment, is creating boundaries through the use of architecture at the scales of city planning and individual buildings. This report outlines the design and decision-making process for how these boundaries are formed to clarify the divisions between natural and built environment.

The 2018 fire in Mati, Greece served as the initial point of interest for a thesis and the opportunity to understand how political interests and negligence – manipulation of land use laws contributes to a chaotic urban development in rural areas. As a result of this, the rural areas are left vulnerable to natural disasters that are amplified due to climate change. The thesis aims to introduce a masterplan for Mati with clear boundaries defining the natural and built environment, as well as the design process undertaken to be standardized and used for other rural areas. At a smaller scale we intend to further develop the architecture of a boundary with a focus on the agriculture and touristic industry.

Objectives:1.Strategically design and reorganize land use in rural areas for mixed-use efficiency, in a natural and man-made disasters context.2.Introduce the cycle of actions (prevention, management, trauma, and recovery) from large-scale disaster events.3.To protect the use of agricultural land in rural areas from illegal developments by combining industrial programs with tourism.4.Establish boundaries through architecture to frame different programs and clarify their divisions.5.Develop a masterplan design process and approach to architecture that could be applied to other areas which exhibit similar circumstances.

Vernacular architecture is characterized by the use of local materials, knowledge, culture, and history of each region for the design of space. Usually this is done without the supervision of professional architects. In the case of Mati however, the contemporary ‘vernacular’ development has been the root of the problem since there was extensive unsupervised construction of houses in a legally forested area. If the urban planning of Mati were done correctly by a professional it would have incorporated the risks of flooding, fire, and soil erosion.

Therefore, this thesis project recentres the combined role of the architect and urban designer as the primary figure in the development of regional architecture in rural areas and rejects some aspects of vernacular development. In a changing climatic condition, vernacular developments cannot be left unsupervised since the environmental challenges are no longer the same as in the past.

Berariu Alessandra-IoanaGeorgiou PanayiotisWei Zhuo

Thesis Tutor Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

Thesis CriticsNeil SwansonIan Ritchie

Special mentions or thanks Thank you to our tutor, Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay for his patience, support, and critical insight throughout the completion of this thesis. Thank you to all the in-house tutors and guest critics who have contributed to developing our ideas. Thank you to Katerina Antonopoulou for her insight knowledge to the Greek construction industry and Greek lifestyle

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The Machine of ChangeBenedict Thompson Andrew Gordon Kavindu De Saram

The subject of this thesis looks to utilise an architectural language, in order to counteract our societal fractures caused by disinformation and a lacking confidence in our current social infrastructure.

The aim of the proposed structure is to provide platforms for grassroots societal movements. As well as supporting community interaction, debate, and discussion of relevant topics and form consensus.Thesis Tutor

Jack Dunne

Thesis CriticsJack DunneDr Katerina Antonopoulou, Helen Roberts Mick Cunniff

Special thanksJack Dunne for his guidance and to the workshop staff for helping out with models when we had restricted access to the workshop

Plans / External VisualsAndrew Gordon

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Madness of the CityKate JohnstoneLauren Clancy Lauren Greensill Emma Hartley

In recent years, the social attitude towards mental health has shifted. With conversations surrounding mental illness growing, the healthcare model and its architecture is comparably stagnant. Through the interrogation of the ‘urbanicity’ effect and current mental health care typologies, the direct correlation between mental illness and the city is dissected. Therefore, we question whether the city could become a solution to the UK’s current mental health crisis.

Our three design strategies will address this through an urban scheme with our Journey of mental health referral, a masterplan and the Stepping Stone, our new mental health typology all with the final aim of destigmatising mental heath in our Mad City of Manchester. The Stepping Stone comprises of five key elements the Gateway and Café, the Sanctuary, the Day Centre, the Acute in Patient ward and the Crèche with family Accommodation. The function of these key spaces is displayed through their architectural language. The Gateway and Sanctuary are spaces of reflection and therefore take a more sculptural form, creating landmarks within the masterplan for legibility, to make mental health more visible. The Café, Day Centre, Acute In-patient ward and Crèche display a sophisticated and well mannered architecture that responds to the more clinical functions of these spaces.

Throughout the design, connection to nature is emphasised with a series of courtyards, terraces and the Sanctuary, to support traditional therapy with green healing. The Stepping Stone centralises around user interaction and their unique mental health requirements, in accordance with protagonist flow.

This holistic mental healthcare provision in a city-centre setting is unprecedented and therefore challenges both the current healthcare and architectural models. Although this typology would require significant funding, specialist consultation suggests that an intermediary healthcare intervention with this approach could provide sorely needed support to the current failures within the UK psychiatric health care model.

Thesis TutorPeter Farrall

Thesis CriticsRachel StevensonProfessor Hans van der HeijdenRonny FordJuliana Kei

Special thanksJack Dunne, Dr Katerina Antonopoulou, Dr John Whitehead, Dr Michael Farrall, Rhiannon Corcoran, Graham Marshall

Winners Sikorski Memorial Prize for Interior Design in MArch programme

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What is Comfort?Felicity MorrisEmily Niven Joseph Willoughby

Modern minimum housing standards inversely become the maximum to a developer, due to economic ecosystems. We believe the position of architects should be stronger, challenging standards and making them more dynamic, therefore harder to exploit. Initial standards introduced in the UK had ambitious intentions. Their stipulations were better than what is currently being built, and initiated the notion that dignified and comfortable living was the responsibility of collective society and government. The challenge facing designers today is how to change the status quo when things are fine. Making everything just about bearable however, does not constitute comfort, nor good architectural design. We began our thesis research during COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, when the weaknesses of our home environments became magnified. We developed a methodology for challenging standards by creating a human-centred approach to designing domestic architecture, with comfort at its core.

Our research by design approach disrupts the norm of domestic architecture through the creation of a dynamic manual, whereby changing parameters and protagonists alters the hierarchy of comfort. We identified obstacles of the home that restrict our behaviours most, namely the kitchen, bathroom and sofa. The main disruptor comes from using public counterparts of these domestic programmes as design catalysts, with provocative outcomes. The kitchen is exploded throughout the home, catering for public picnics and intimate dinner dates. The bath floods the plan, creating an amphibious lounge, obscured from the street by environmental phenomena. The sofa weaves through surfaces and datums, spreading its softness all over the house. Disrupting these intrinsic components of UK homes enables us to challenge the pre-conceived notions of domestic architecture, to influence a new form of design with inherent comfort. The power of designing through disruption allows us to reimagine everything, then extract findings to use to lobby government to redefine standards. The stigma surrounding the term “social housing” in the UK places a mark of disgrace on the typology. From the inception of the Welfare state, successive governments have abdicated responsibility for housing people, resulting in mass production through super-standardisation. Our terraced street testing ground enables us to distil from the extravaganza an agenda for government, that could be placed in front of the ministry of housing presenting an opportunity for a new approach to housing in Britain.

Thesis Tutor Dr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezJohanna Muszbek

Thesis Critics Professor Soumyen BandyopadhyayIan RitchieNeil Swanson

RIBA Presidents Silver Medal nomination

Winners Charles Reilly Medal

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Bangkok, Sustainable Urban DevelopmentBentoon Boon-Itt Ioana Bucuroiu Tolulope Ogunjimi

Focusing on the city of Bangkok, our thesis addresses the unsustainable urbanization of metropolis cities.

As a major economic hub that continues to grow rapidly, the city has become increasingly disconnected from nature, designating more of its land towards commerce and high density living at the expense of its green spaces. The result is numerous environmental challenges that are progressively worsening and an overly simplified approach to the zoning of the city, facilitating the marginalisation of Bangkok’s informal workers.

Our proposal challenges the current development of the city, establishing an alternative model of urban park that questions the city’s zoning, its relationship with its waterways, and demonstrates how a balance between urbanisation and afforestation can be struck. The proposal looks to carefully transform a piece of disused industrial land situated within the heart of Bangkok and return it back to the city as a new form of urban park that integrates learning, work, and leisure with nature.

The proposal focuses on environmental and social sustainability, utilising existing warehouses on site and introduces sustainable ecological industries such as Sericulture and Swiftlet Bird’s Nest farming. Street typologies found within Bangkok have been reinterpreted within the warehouses to create spaces that are familiar and reflects how the city operates. The wider complex allows nature to reclaim the site, reintroducing a variety of land typologies such as forest, agricultural plots and wetlands that assist with mitigating the effects of flooding.

Thesis Tutor Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

Thesis CriticsNeil SwansonIan RitchieJohanna Muszbek Dr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez

Special thanksWe would like to thank Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay for his guidance and support throughout the thesis, the thesis critics for their feedback and the Liverpool University workshop team for the technical assistance.

Winners Liverpool Architectural Society Student Awards 2021

Architects Journal Student prize for Sustainability Nomination

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Finding Individuality within Collective HousingLei JiaminChi-Yao Lin

There are many famous well designed single-family houses around the world, yet low-cost homes such as social housings are usually designed with less attentions and, naturally, more cost restrictions. To make mass housing more visually appealing, comfortable, and practical for residents, it is important to enhance the poorly designed and lack of identity projects by introducing individuality and flexibility aspects, which makes collective housing desirable and similar to the preferred single-family houses.

Our thesis rethinks the starting point of housing projects in such a way that they work with individuality and flexibility and can accommodate different groups and types of people and backgrounds. How can we learn from the current mass housing projects and houses to improve collective living to provide a critique and a solution for the future housings in the urban fabric?

The proposed idea is to create a new type of community and living spaces in East London, Hackney Wick, which contains the features of collective housing but with individuality and flexibility. The project aims to design affordable collective housing targeting users across a wide range of diversities, ages, gender, ethnic backgrounds, and professions, where people share the public spaces and communal areas. However, the users are still able to maintain and prioritize individuality, flexibility, and privacy as well as being able to communicate and create a bonding with the neighbours and the community that they live in together to bring in social interaction.

Key Objectives1. to provide affordable and sustainable homes2. to provide adaptable and flexible homes3. to embrace indoor and outdoor living4. to emphasise on social inclusion and economic integration

Adaptable and flexible home units were created with the user being able to choose what kind of typology they prefer and fit best for their lifestyle. Partitional walls were also provided in all the unit types which gives them the freedom to create different spatial conditions under different situations mentioned in the previous chapters. This approach would be different from the traditional housing units that are currently in the urban city and hope to be a suitable solution for the community. Each unit typology has its own unique ‘in-door-outdoor space designed to encourage more social interaction between neighbours, friends, and families especially in a situation such as the pandemic where it is difficult to gain access to outdoor spaces. It is a solution for residents to embrace indoor and outdoor living.

Thesis Tutor Dr Katerina Antonopoulou

Thesis CriticsJack DunneIain JacksonMichael CunniffHelen Roberts

Special thanksDr Katerina Antonopoulou

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Food Delivery by Bicycles – Hong Kong as a Bike CityKwan Yee SiuJoshua So

‘Food Delivery by Bicycles – Hong Kong as a Bike City’ is an urban intervention that narrates the city overcoming the challenge by rethinking the urban’s mobility.

Hong Kong, as a high-density city and population continue to grow, encountered many challenges with the quality of urban life. Further, Hong Kong is a “city without ground”, with abundant existing elevated walkways above ground connecting different spaces.

The thesis aims to introduce cycling into the city, provide a better environment for riders and make cycling a fundamental part of the transportation network throughout the city. Cycling in Hong Kong is currently considered a recreational activity. We explored several potential sites throughout the research to introduce bike through structure, and cycle lanes in Hong Kong as the main challenges of applying new cycling routes on existing car lanes seem to confound in its complexity. Therefore, integrating new features into the existing urban context will create a new system. The new cycling pattern will integrate / extend onto current elevated walkways as they are well-designed and have a great connection between places. The new pattern will allow bicycles to play a critical role in making Hong Kong a better place to travel, live and overcome the limitations of the current automotive-dominated transport system.

The design strategy focuses on the following key elements:• Embrace cycling as a type of transportation• Provide riders with equal public welfare as other workers• Address Traffic Congestion• Shorten current travel time• Improve accessibility & mobility

A cycling culture spreads across the city’s far achieves by time and attracts the whole demographic range. Moreover, the network will allow cyclists to travel safely and conveniently. Hence, it will develop into a healthier and less congested city.

Thesis TutorDr Yat Shun Kei

Thesis CriticsPeter FarrallRonny FordProfessor Hans van der HeijdenRachel Stevenson

Special thanksDr Yat Shun KeiPeter FarrallRonny Ford

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Bird EmbassyTin Shing Tim TsoiZhenhao XuQinxian ZhengTianli Zhang

The current social dynamic between birds and human is one of exploitation. The birds are either isolated in rural spaces or be subjugated in urban areas. With the dynamic spatial shift due to COVID-19, humans have reduced their activities in urban cities. This phenomenon is shown in the Liverpool coastal regions where various birds are moving into the mainland. Furthermore, the variety of office and commercial high-rise buildings are left vacant. With a vacuum in the urban area, we see wildlife conquer back the urban area, which leads us to rethink the hierarchy between wildlife and humans.

This thesis focuses on developing an embassy framework that redefines the wildlife bird and human relationship. To accomplish this, the thesis, as such, is split into two phases, rural habitation research and urban integration. The phrase one will develop an understanding of the current natural habitation of Liverpool regional birds and their environmental and physical preference. Furthermore, we have also looked at the minimum disturbance distance for the bird to cohabit with humans. This disturbance distance research aims to remove the exploitive aspect of human and bird interaction by preserving the natural ecosystem’s integrity. This datum of habitation and bird lifestyle is collected through on-site research and literature-based analysis from online sources. Using this data, we have constructed an array of small-scale building infrastructure that is ideal for birds to inhabit and identified spatial disturbance distance for the human and bird’s comfort.

In phase two, we use the small-scale building infrastructure prototype to develop urban infrastructure in a near-vacant high-rise building, the West Tower in the Liverpool Coast. The redevelopment of the West tower focuses on five critical spatial areas based on the bird’s daily activities. A series of cohabitation spaces are developed through these activities. These spaces function as the embassy for the human and the birds. By connecting the two species through their respective activities, these embassy spaces provide a new interactive dynamic between the avian and human without damaging or confining the avian’s ecosystem. The program and building form is designed through various experiments and testing with physical and digital modeling and sketches.

As a result, this thesis produced a skyscraper design incorporating a series of cohabitation that functions as an embassy and a framework for future possible interactive embassy space where bird and human interaction is not exploitive but with respect and equality. The West Tower’s redesign has fully embraced this concept and provides a possible new outlook of wildlife cohabitation building in modern urban society.

Thesis Tutor Dr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezJohanna Muszbek

Thesis CriticsProfessor SoumyenNeil SwansonIan Ritchie

Special thanksAll the tutors and workshop staff who helped us during our time at the University of Liverpool

RIBA Presidents Silver Medal nomination

Winners Frank Horton Prize for Intriguing Connections in Architectural Design

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Flying Fisheries: A Future for Coastal Fishing TownsMatthew SharpScott MillingtonEden Harris

The impact of ‘Brexit’ on Britain’s coastal towns, and in focus, the fishing industry in said towns, is one of the most fiercely debated parts of Britain’s exit agreement made with the EU. Promises were made detailing a return to the golden era of Britain’s typological ‘seaside town’ once departed from the EU, and a return of full control over waters and fishing grounds that are currently shared was detailed in the exit strategy manifesto. The agreed deal, however, proceeded to uncover the reliance Britain’s fish exportation sector has on being connected with Europe. With the issues and delays caused by border control regulations, the industry was forced into a cessation. The importance of being connected with not only Europe but also the rest of the world for the exportation of perishable goods has been put under the spotlight.

By figuratively imaging an overhaul of the obsolete and unsustainable transportation technologies accompanying Britain’s exportation industry, this thesis project details a new infrastructure associated with an efficient and sustainable transportation alternative, which aims to uncover more effective ways in which the movement of goods can be explored for both cross country and cross-world situations. Proven effective, the infrastructure will also begin to correspond with the way in which people travel in a commercial sense. The scheme developed particulars how perishable goods can be distributed in conjunction with public transportation by providing a new hybrid transport hub aiming to create an effectual time model for both fish exportation and public movement by utilising the practicality and positioning of Britain’s coastal fishing towns. The proposal encourages innovative solutions for balancing public and private space. The design project is a ‘blanket’ approach for all coastal towns, but scenarios the UK’s largest fishing town of Peterhead as its basis for the experimental architectural proposition.

Thesis TutorsDr Rosa Urbano GutierrezJohanna Muszbek

Thesis Critics Ian RitchieNeil Swanson

Special thanks Thank you to Rosa and Johanna for their patience and guidance, especially under the online learning circumstances.

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Re-Threading KnowledgeAnna HarrisEmily HughesSelena Raile

The primary objective of our thesis was to reimagine the UK fashion industry by providing a viable closed-loop textile production system, which is ethical and sustainable. It acts as a critique of the garment industry, key issues of which are overconsumption, labour exploitation, and the devaluation of clothes.

Manchester has historic links to the cotton industry. Our project includes the regeneration of Medlock Mill, and proposes a future for the building that celebrates its heritage as a cotton mill. By locating this medium-scale industrial project within the urban realm, we aim to reconnect consumers with the textile production process, and increase understanding about its environmental costs.

The conceptual design of the project is based on the idea of “breaking the grid”, which represents dismantling the existing exploitative systems within the industry. We developed this concept by analysing the work of artists Annie Albers and Lubaina Himid.

The massing of the project is based on breaking apart the form of Medlock Mill, representing the traditional industrial typology. This creates a fluid courtyard space inside the buildings, from where the public can visually connect to the recycling process. The tensile structure and knitted playground are tactile references to the function of the development. We have reimagined traditional factory chimneys, normally associated with air pollution, as part of our environmental strategy for natural ventilation.

Our project is educational but fun, attracting members of the public to the retail, playscape, and exhibition areas, and allowing them to engage with process of recycling. This will increase awareness among consumers about the impact of fashion on the planet, and we hope that, small though the intervention is, it will harness the growing momentum of the sustainable and ethical fashion movement. Workshops provided will teach people the skills to make, mend, or embellish their own clothes, and encourage creative participation by students at the University, and members of the wider public.

The buildings exhibit a variety of uses for waste fabric, including Fab-Bricks, and insulation made from denim. These are positioned where the public can see and touch them. Another reference to textiles in the buildings is the woven effect of the perforated brick façades. These materials have been optimised to diffuse lighting through the building.

Thesis Tutor Jack Dunne

Thesis CriticsHelen RobertsMick CunniffDr Katerina Antonopoulou

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Olympic CarnivalJess ArnoldOwen Brown

The Olympic Carnival reimagines an Olympic games scenario where the sporting activity is no longer the sole positive legacy. Currently cities bid to host the games in hope of increasing exposure and tourism, these benefits are short-lived and long-term benefits are limited. As the driving factor of cities’ desires to host the games is the long-term legacies, why are economic resources focused on short-lived sporting facilities and infrastructure and why is so little done in the way of designing for the post-games situation?

Olympic Carnival proposes change in the architectural language of the Olympics, carefully considering the ‘mass event’ and facilitating the crowds yet also foreseeing its impact on the urban fabric. The crowds have proven to be an interesting and stimulating tool for design and architectural inventions have been expressed through a concept of compression and expansion as a proactive way to respond to the nature of these crowds at the games.

Whilst many Olympic Games have proved there will always be a crisis of some kind to respond to (London 2012 was greatly downscaled after the 2008 financial crisis) Paris 2024 is situated at an intersection of three great crises, economic, social, and environmental and is ideal for exploration.

By studying the local conditions of sites this thesis stresses the importance for inclusivity during and after the event. Today’s big cities are too complex to be treated by a single design strategy, instead a proposal of individually crafted fragments which reflect the complexity and specificity of the city act as vital components in achieving a long-lasting positive reflection of the games. These fragments are stacked into a single piece of architecture mediated by well-designed landscapes. This method allows for greater exploration through the human scale rather than proposing a masterplan of the whole event.

Ultimately this thesis leads to the conclusion that the Games can be used for positive urban change, if they are readdressed to focus on creating positive long-lasting legacies to the environment they are occupying. An improved model could be implemented upon large scale events moving forward, acting as a catalyst for improved economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

Now is the time to address our relationship with large scale events and the impact they have on the local environment and to ensure they are utilised as a vehicle for sustainable legacies, as the Olympic Movement commits itself.

Thesis Tutor Dr Aikaterini Antonopoulou

Thesis CriticsMichael CunniffJack Dunne Iain JacksonHelen Roberts

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A-Culture UniversityShi Yifan This thesis project is planned to be delivered as the A-Culture University in the

periphery of Liverpool city. The project contains three main components: urban agriculture and aquaculture, including allotments, growing sheds, vertical farming, saltwater fishing, freshwater fishing, and on-site markets. There are pedagogic facilities, including research-oriented laboratories and general teaching facilities such as classrooms, lecture theatres, workshops, and a national seed bank serving the North of England. The last part is a waste management system that powers the entire project, where food waste re-entered the urban life cycle to produce new food.

The design emphasis of the thesis project will not only support the production of food products but more importantly, as a place for scientific research and learning that will enhance the growth of farming food production in the peripheral areas of cities. The university will provide students with high-tech and immersive learning experience and hopes to encourage more young people to participate in the research and development of urban farming through these courses. A-Culture university is set up for the future where the farmers will be the essential participants and builders of our urban life.

As the profile of high-tech food production and agriculture is getting to be a viable proposition, the integration of urban farming and educational facilities will provide practical solutions and theoretical support for addressing issues like global food shortages, food production transition, food safety and food waste.

This project is committed to providing new ideas for the urban farm to fit into the urban framework, serving public food, and bringing multiple values in terms of education, culture, economy and environment.

Thesis Tutor Ronny Ford

Thesis CriticsRachel StevensonProfessor Hans van der HeijdenDr Torsten Schmiedeknecht

Special thanksRonny Ford

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MetamorphosisCristina-Raluca Alexe

The project started from the idea of urban islands – an archipelago of disconnected areas of the city which were underused, derelict or overgrown. The thesis focuses on developing one of these urban islands, namely the industrial port area. The port island benefits from a liminal condition, sheltering the city to the west and facing the Black sea to the east. The decision to intervene on this site is based on what the city needs in order to become a better place to live in and visit and how it faces the rest of the world on a global playing field. The result of the analysis is the creation of a poetry festival – an event to attract an international audience outside of the busy summer season. Poetry is embedded into history of the city of Constanta. The poet Ovid’s exile to the city gives it a new lease of life in the present moment, by introducing a poetry foundation dedicated to him and a design inspired by his work. The poetry foundation supports the poetry festival in April and holds events all year round. As an institution, it also engages with other venues across the city to maximise the use of local resources.

The final proposal combines poetry and functionality in an unapologetical design which utilises local craft and materials to embed it into the site, while metaphysical considerations link it to other international cultural spaces such as Athens and Rome, resulting in a fresh approach to Romanian architecture for the present moment, a catalyst and sign of things to come.

Thesis Tutor Ronny Ford

Thesis CriticsProfessor Hans Van der HeijdenRachel StevensonPeter FarralDr Torsten SchmiedeknechtDr Yat Shun Kei

Special thanksThanks to my family and my partner for supporting me through my Masters degree.

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Horsepower: Rehabilitation through RidingTamsin Gamble The thesis builds on from the work of the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA),

by creating a combined horse riding and physiotherapy centre which seeks to utilise equine-assisted therapies to help those with physical and mental disabilities, injury, and mental illness. It seems a missed opportunity that RDA centres are not connected to physical therapy, counselling, or outpatient services. For some participants, the process of beginning to ride may not be immediate, and they may require physical therapy or the use of a mechanical horse to begin with. Once able to ride, it is important to continue these additional methods of therapy to improve overall physical strength and balance, which aids the individual both in and out of the saddle. Currently, an individual may have to travel to several different centres to access these services, which is time-consuming and laborious. The accessibility of these locations for certain disabilities can also vary. My project proposed to contain all of these services under one roof, enabling an individual to access multiple therapy practices within one location.

Traditionally, RDA centres tend to follow an agricultural typology of large steel framed barns, designed for the functionality and comfort of horses rather than humans. Having volunteered at some of these centres, I believed more could be done to improve user experience and accessibility. There was also the question of how we can better provide facilities not just for participants, but also their carers. I therefore chose to steer away from this traditional typology, and instead create a centre that could balance the needs and comfort of both humans and horses. The resultant form is based on the courtyard model, largely inspired by Roman Villas, with the building orientating itself around a series of courtyards of varying formality, privacy and scale. The central element of the design is the outdoor arena, bordered by the vast 20x60m indoor riding arena; upholding the concept that horse riding is fundamental to all activities within the centre.

Thesis Tutor Dr Torsten Schmiedeknecht

Thesis CriticsRonny FordRachel StevensonProfessor Hans van der Heijden

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Venice Biennale 2021

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2021, runs until 21 November 2021 and is titled How Will We Live Together? Curated by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis, the open question seeks inspiring solutions and new ways of thinking about collective space in the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities.

The Garden of Privatised Delights, presented by the British Council is currently on display at the British Pavilion. Manijeh Verghese and Madeleine Kessler, founders of Unscene Architecture, have curated the exhibition which explores the debate around privatised public space. Each room of the pavilion delves into a different spatial type, such as the pub, playground or high street and has been developed by a group of designers/researchers, in collaboration with Unscene Architecture. The result is a highly interactive and immersive exhibition which encourages visitors to engage with the installation rather than viewing it from a distance.

Alongside hosting the pavilion, itself, the British Council run a fellowship scheme where students are invited to live and research in Venice, splitting time between invigilating the pavilion and conducting independent research around the Biennale’s theme. The scheme offers a unique opportunity to meet and collaborate with a diverse cohort from various UK Universities and Institutions plus opportunity for international research and collaboration.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the fellowship programme will instead be formed of a digital offer where fellows form research groups to digitally consider who has agency to decide how we will we live together, and what possible solutions can be created to address current international challenges.

Images courtesy of Vicci Nelmes, British Council ArtsTolulope Ogunjimi

The University of Liverpool, a British Council Venice Fellowship Partner. supporting LSA MArch students to the Venice Fellowships Programme.

MArch students Tolu Ogunjimi, Luke Fawcett and Bonnie Jackson were selected as members of the 2021 cohort after a competitive application process, first by the University of Liverpool and then the British Council.

The scheme offers a unique opportunity to host the pavilion and to promote international arts collaboration and research.

Spotlight:Breathing enclosures

Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

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Ever since the construction of Winslow House (1893), when Frank Lloyd Wright realised that the wall had the potential to become more than just the edge of a box, Modern architecture paid especial attention to the problem of engaging with its surroundings. This engagement mainly took the form of extending out, where the outside was seen as an extension of the interior organisation of spaces. However, as the walls came down or metamorphosed, the building’s edge also drew in the surrounding environment – both practically and symbolically. Many of the late-Moderns became interested in the important design implications this introduced, as well as the need for reassessing the role of tectonics. The present article is concerned about this breathing in.

Spotlight: Breathing enclosures

Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

AtmosphereIn describing a church in San Juan (1951) designed by the German-Puerto Rican architect Henry Klumb, David Leathbarrow describes a series of parallel piers or fins as a “breathing wall”, introduced to separate the nave from the exterior.1 In the exuberant tropical climate of Puerto Rico, these fins, placed at an angle of 45 degrees, allows the sea breeze and diffused light to enter the building, and yet they isolate the interior from external distractions and provide an atmosphere of intimacy and introspection. The modulated environment thus drawn in contributes to an atmosphere and a setting supporting the building’s performance and intended role.

In the latter half of the 1950s the Dutch architect, Aldo Van Eyck designed the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage (1960) that sought to redress the lack of a human element in the early post-war architecture that he and the other Team 10 members had criticised. This seminal work of Modern architecture is organised on a regular square grid and houses accommodation and support facilities for the children. Here the undifferentiated northern light is provided extraordinary modulation along the corridors using a combination of clear glass panels and glass blocks – the latter deployed as full-block ‘walls’, with roughly cut half-block ‘strips’ employed as separators flanking the circular columns. This enhanced modulation offered by a rudimentary technique makes us aware of both the rhythm of the grid and the degrees of translucency offered by the glazed enclosure. The carefully choreographed exterior façade draws in the city too. Van Eyck was guided by his conviction: “a house must be like a small city if it’s to be a real house, a city like a large house if it’s to be a real city”2. Thus, the interior of the building has several points of interaction marked by miniaturised urban insertions, providing a constant symbolic reminder of the sanctuary’s urban situation. This symbolic dimension of the situation is also present in Charles Correa’s Gandhi Memorial Museum (designed 1958, inaugurated 1963), which follows a similar square-grid arrangement but with non-existent façades (Figure 1 & 2). The environment drawn in emphasises the dark stone-clad horizontal plane, and the fragile vernacular structures of the Gandhian campus are expressed


through lightweight infill panels with fixed-louvered windows. The square-grid remains legible in the ceiling.3

SituatednessOur cities of constructed landscapes and built environments are made up of familiarities and frozen habits. The sense of situatedness allows the inhabitants and users of buildings a “dimension of familiarity” – the “possibility of recognizing themselves at home”, and at the same time “challenging them to new modalities of being in the world”.4 However, situatedness “rendered as appropriate atmosphere”, inevitably modified and modulated by the resistance offered by the building’s enclosure, also helps us to negotiate these

new unfamiliarities by adding to and foregrounding the architectonic setting designed for the intended role. This contribution is usually both experiential and symbolic. Le Corbusier’s High Court in Chandigarh, for example, illustrates the use of his patent tectonic device, the brise-soleil, to connect distant topographic features – mountains, intervening landscape and the horizon – as part of Le Corbusier’s attempts to integrate the new city with its natural surroundings (Figure 3). The calibrated external landscape thus drawn in also accentuates the understanding of the role of the courtroom settings as sites to mete out justice by measuring and situating ‘truth’.5

Porosity and reciprocity Klumb’s church allows the air and light to pass through the building via its double row of pier-filters – one flanking the nave and the other limiting the lateral extent of the nave on plan, in a manner perhaps only possible in the architecture of the tropical region, giving the building a high degree of porosity. This is something that also happens in Le Corbusier’s Mill Owners’ Association building in Ahmedabad, where two different types of brise-soleil are employed at the front and back. The deep front façade consists of a series of angularly positioned louvres interrupted in the middle by a rusticated, cavernous entrance up a ramp, enhanced further through the strong Ahmedabad sun (Figure 4). The rear façade is completed by another screen – a much shallower

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and delicate one, which frames and draws in the view of River Sabarmati (Figure 5). The unexpected positioning of the toilets within the central ‘pavilion-hall’ close to the river’s edge, held between two interlocking curved walls and pierced by a central column, add a symbolic aspect to this, drawing the water up and through the building, as it were. It reminds us of a giant machine fragment – perhaps a water mill associated with the textile industry, the raison d’être for the Association building. In the unrealised site plan, Le Corbusier intended to reverse the composition of the orthogonal

and curvilinear elements found inside (Figure 6). Within the building, curvilinear elements are held in place by an orthogonal grid. The landscape proposal contained diagonally placed orthogonal service blocks within a pronounced curvilinear wall (attaching recognisable elements from his other Ahmedabad buildings). In employing reciprocity between the building and its site at the Mill Owners’ Le Corbusier proposed to symbolically both ground the building and construct a site on virgin land.6

Tectonic latencyGood architecture presents the atmosphere in a state of the ordinary, and the tectonic setting in unnoticed readiness, like serviceable equipment, as Leatherbarrow tells us: “when a setting works as it should, all of its parts coexist in a condition of shared latency or silent readiness”.7 This echoes Hans-Georg Gadamer’s understanding of our state of good health; we only realise we have a body when the body and its parts are overstretched during ill-health.8 Kahn’s understanding of servant and served spaces and components allude to this notion of readiness and latency. This latency of the tectonic could be likened – to an extent – to the recessive nature of the horizon, characterised by a “sort of withdrawal”, as Leatherbarrow suggests, “that is well known to anyone who has embarked from a seashore, for no matter how far one sails away from a port the horizon is always further ahead, seemingly soliciting but always outpacing further transit”.9

William Curtis, in discussing Mies van der Rohe’s designs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT, 1950s) in Chicago observed that,

The local fire codes required that steel be coated in a layer of fireproofing, so that in order to express the structure ‘honestly’, the architect had to adopt the artifice of an extra veneer of steel around the fireproofing casing. At the corner of the buildings, this led to a curious detail in which the recessed core of steel was hinted at in a cut-away involving a steel veneer over concrete fireproofing, itself overlying the actual structure within the wall.10

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Notes1 Leatherbarrow, D. 2009. Architecture Oriented Otherwise. New York: Princeton Architectural Press,

pp. 21–42.2 van Eyck, A. 1962. Steps Towards a Configurative Discipline. In Forum August 1962.3 AlDallal, E.; AlWaer, H. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 2016. Site and Composition: Design Strategies in

Architecture and Urbanism. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 129–151.4 Perez-Gómez, A. 2020. Engaging the Lifeworld in Architectural Design: Phenomenology and

Hermeneutics. In Britton, K. C. & McCarter, R. (eds.), Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton, pp. 94–102.

5 AlDallal, E.; AlWaer, H. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 2016. Site and Composition, pp. 23–45. 6 Ibid., pp. 101–128.7 Leatherbarrow, D. 2002. Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography.

Cambridge (Mass.) & London: MIT Press, p. 174.8 Gadamer, H.-G. 1996. The Enigma of Health. Stanford: Stanford University Press.9 Leatherbarrow, D. 2002. Uncommon Ground, p. 172.10 Curtis, W. J. R. Modern Architecture Since 1900. London & New York: Phaidon, p. 401. 11 Baker, L. 1986. Houses: How to Reduce Building Cost. https://www.lauriebaker.net/images/

stories/files/houses.pdf. Accessed 27th June 2021.

Photo credit: Frontispiece – Claudia Briguglio (ArCHIAM); Figure 5 – Iain Jackson; Figure 7 & 8 – James Traynor

While Mies’ approach to detailing has been variously praised for its structural clarity or Mondrianesque abstracted quality, it also reveals architecture’s interesting position vis à vis technology. First, it achieves the expressive honesty through artifice, making the structure recede allowing the expression of a selective set of characteristics, and then, it reveals the inner steel core through the gaze of a cut-away section and the veil of a steel veneer, alluding to an ongoing dialogue between the latent structure, the material appearance of the architectural enclosure, and the atmosphere it helps generate. At a time when fashionable architects have consigned architecture to a discussion of unitary and fragmented forms, seductive appearances and increased digitisation of most aspects of its production and procurement, all underpinned by a particularly deterministic approach to technology, Mies’ example reminds us of a key aspect of technology’s role and a fascinating window of opportunity.

Laurie Baker, the British architect who ran a highly unconventional ‘practice’ in India (1969 onwards), had devoted substantial attention to the development of low-cost building technology alternatives for all. Thus, one might find it paradoxical to search for technology’s recessive nature within Baker’s architecture. This was made possible through a fruitful dialogue between enclosure and structure; the interplay between what was recessive or latent background and what was being foregrounded became fluid and more intensely interwoven. Averse to using large volumes of concrete in his buildings (and he designed hundreds!), Baker introduced to Kerala the rat-trap bond, a double wall construction that offered enhanced structural strength and significantly reduced construction cost by optimising use of material (brick) and mortar.11 In the many variations of this low-cost construction system Baker created delicate and porous yet strengthened screens for his building enclosures, plying and fusing the qualities of enclosure and structure into a single entity (Centre for Development Studies, 1970–71, for example; Figure 7 & 8). This fusion is effected by light, in turn enticing the brick enclosure to radiate its warmth and colour, expanding manifold its material aura. Porosity – and the resultant ambiguity between inside and outside, ushers in nature in more than one way. In this expanded and stretched materiality the structural tectonics is present

yet latent; space is given a renewed density and gravity. The recycled light-weight terracotta filler tile inserts that reduce the cost of roof construction, also add to this rhythm and atmosphere, where enclosure is fused, and space moulded into a simple and yet highly expressive plasticity.

Figures 7 and 8

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Prof. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay took over as Head of School in November 2016 and has led LSA through a turbulent five years, during which the School completed a REF cycle, had a full RIBA visit, renewed its ARB prescription, gained validation from the Malaysian Architects Board LAM, was subject to an internal periodic review, staged a competition for an extension to our building, and had to deal with the fall out of the Corona Virus Pandemic. For Soumyen this was in addition to conducting his own research and teaching, overseeing staffing, and managing the daily grind that a Head of School is subjected to, being pulled in all directions by staff, the university and students.

Being faced more than once with difficult situations and (at times unreasonable) demands from above and below, Soumyen stayed calm, collected and courteous, steering the School through choppy waters in his inimitable and admirable Zen manner.

Soumyen has been an extremely dedicated Head of School, always keeping both the well-being of staff and the development of LSA at heart. Thankfully for all of us, he also kept his sense of humour throughout, allowing him to see things in perspective when the going got tough.

Owing in no small part to Soumyen’s leadership we are in a much better place than we were five years ago, and despite the many challenges facing higher education, LSA can look forward to a bright future.

So here’s a massive thank you to Soumyen, wishing you all the very best for the next phase of your career when your term as HoS comes to an end in November.

Dr Torsten SchmiedeknechtJuly 2021

Keep calm and carry on!

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Thank you Soumyen from all of us.An epic five years. Head of school 2016 to 2021.

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Research

ArCHIAM: Centre for the Study of Architecture and Cultural Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb

During the pandemic the Centre has continued to work via the online platform, delivering several public lectures and taking part in conferences and roundtable discussions. ArCHIAM members were a key contributor to the University’s recently concluded inaugural Virtual Fellowships programme in Heritage. Along with another member of the Heritage research group (Webb), ArCHIAM members Dr Alsalloum, Prof Bandyopadhyay and Dr Quattrone supervised five of the seven fellowship recipients, resident in Ghana, India, Lebanon and Syria.

The Centre has continued to work with international institutions such as the Getty Conservation Centre (Los Angeles) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Geneva) on aspects of heritage education and training. The ODA funding support has allowed us to continue work in India on problems of tourism planning and waste management at Srirangapatna in Karnataka. An AHRC-funded follow-on project is proposing landscape restoration and environmental conservation measures for the Hugli River region north of Kolkata, India. Internal funding has continued to support work on the intangible heritage of Syria within its diasporic community in the UK, the architecture and urbanism of the Deccan Sultanate of Bijapur, India, and the interactions between built heritage, cultural practices and the riverine landscape of Srirangapatna, India. A virtual museum for the Omani heritage site of Harat Al Bilad, Manah, is under development and expected to make an important difference to how heritage is represented in the Gulf region.

The interventions realised at the Misfat Al-‘Abriyin mountain oasis in Oman were formally inaugurated by the Undersecretary for Heritage at the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism in November 2020, for which ArCHIAM had collaborated with the local cooperative, and the Omani consultant and contractor. This led to a design submission and an Impact Case Study for the recently concluded REF exercise. Following this, we have continued to work with the rural community cooperative in Oman to further develop tourism products and their management. At present, the Centre is supporting franchisees to develop the gift shop and its products, and the expansion of the cafe facility.

Members of groupProfessor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay Dr Giamila QuattroneDr Ataa AlsalloumDr Mary SheppersonDr Konstantina GeorgiadouClaudia BriguglioMatina Vrettou

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Harat Al-Bilad, Manah, view towards Burj al-Juss©Mario Santana Quintero, Getty Conservation Institute, 2018

Harat Al-Bilad, Manah, virtual exhibition layout©ArCHIAM, 2021

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Acoustics Research UnitProfessor Carl Hopkins Head of Acoustics Research Unit

Members of groupProfessor Carl HopkinsDr Pyoung Jik LeeDr Gary SeiffertProfessor Barry Gibbs

The Acoustics Research Unit (ARU) is internationally recognised for its research into airborne sound and structure-borne sound in the fields of engineering acoustics, building acoustics, room acoustics, audio acoustics, psychoacoustics, speech intelligibility, privacy and security, human vibration (including vibrotactile stimuli), environmental noise and industrial acoustics (sonic cleaning).

Ziwei Song (PhD student) and Dr Pyoung Jik Lee carried out investigations into the effects of noise on medical staff in intensive care units (ICUs) in China during the COVID-19


pandemic. Noise levels were measured in four ICUs over a 24 hour period and the noise sources were identified. Online questionnaire surveys were conducted to analyse the self-rated vocal perception of ICU nurses that wore face masks. A total of 100 nurses took part in the survey. Voice-related parameters were measured using a wearable voice monitor. For this, a non-invasive accelerometer was attached to a participant’s neck during working hours. The noise levels in the ICUs exceeded the recommended values from the World Health Organisation with the most frequent voice symptom being dryness in the throat, followed by difficulty in being heard. The voice levels of the nurses were not significantly influenced by the background noise levels.

Dr Gary Seiffert, Prof. Carl Hopkins and Prof. Barry Gibbs ran an online vibroacoustics masterclasses sponsored by the EPSRC-funded UK Acoustics Network (UKAN) along with University of Salford and Hoare Lea. The experimental work was filmed in the ARU and the resulting lectures and experimental demonstrations were successfully delivered to 50 participants online and are available as an online resource.

During the year the ARU continued to provide CPD training courses for the Institute of Acoustics and consultancy services to industry.

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Mechanical mobility measurement on an aircraft pump for the UKAN online vibroacoustics masterclass

Nurse with wearable voice monitor in a Chinese hospital

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Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture (ESTA) Research Group

Professor Steve Sharples

ESTA’s research includes low/zero carbon architecture, life cycle analysis, operational/embodied carbon, climate change, daylight, buildings and climate in different cultural contexts, soil-structure interactions, the structural integrity of masonry and steel-concrete composite structures, digital design and construction and innovative material technologies. ESTA researchers are also teachers, and they relate their research to undergraduate and postgraduate lecture and studio design programmes.

ESTA’s work is characterized by its broad scope and interdisciplinary nature. Asterios Agkathidis has collaborated with Robert Gordon University and the University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck on timber robotics and he also spoke on digital design and fabrication techniques at Anglia Ruskin University. Dr Han-Mei Chen investigated the circular economy and climate change mitigation and has developed techniques to reclaim bricks. Dr Daveed Chow co-operated with Shaanxi Province Scientific Department on maximising the solar potential for urban planning and is also working with Northwestern Polytechnical University on the development of urban areas in plateau regions of western China based on solar accessibility. Dr Jiangtao Du works with Tsinghua University on innovative window systems and circadian rhythms and with the National University of Civil Engineering in Vietnam


on housing environmental quality and health. Dr Stephen Finnegan is Director of the Zero Carbon Research Institute www.zcri.co.uk,which is working with industry to help develop Net Zero Carbon (NZC) buildings by 2050, and he has been appointed NZC Strategic Advisor by Liverpool City Council. Dr Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez has long term research and design links with the Association of Ceramic Tile Manufacturers of Spain, and she has investigated novel and sustainable uses for ceramics in Architecture. Dr Ranald Lawrence’s study of the Victorian Art School was supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and led to the publication of a book. Dr Haniyeh Mohammadpourkarbasi has been analysing the environmental performance of heritage structures in Ghana and has collaborated with Ecospheric Ltd on the retrofit of a pair of 127 year-old Victorian townhouses in Zetland Road, Manchester, where she considered the whole-life carbon of the project. Professor Steve Sharples collaborated on a study of how outdoor air pollutants affect the indoor air quality in a high-rise building in Suzhou, China, and he and his research colleagues presented six papers at a major international conference on passive and low energy in Architecture at A Coruña, Spain. Dr Spyros Stravoravdis has consulted on numerous building environmental performance projects with major global firms (Fosters, HOK, SOM, Frank Ghery, Atkins, Autodesk) and local governments.

Group members Asterios AgkathidisAsterios AgathidisDr Han-Mei ChenDr Daveed ChowDr Jiangtao DuDr Stephen FinneganDr Rosa Urbano GutiérrezDr Ranald LawrenceDr Haniyeh MohammadpourkarbasiDr Spyridon Stravoravdis

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Dr Stephen Finnegan has undertaken a carbon analysis of the Paddington Village development in Liverpool’s Knowledge QuarterMartin Birchall

Dr David Chow gave an online lecture at the Chinese Agricultural University in Beijing on building performance and climate changeChinese Agricultural University

Dr Jiangtao Du is investigating environmental quality and health conditions in Vietnamese housing National University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam

Dr Haniyeh Moham-madpourkarbasi undertaking a thermal analysis of the KNUST university library in Kumasi Ghana, West AfricaDr Haniyeh Moham-madpourkarbasi

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Architectural and Urban History Research GroupBarnabas Calder Liverpool has a long tradition of diverse, innovative

architectural history. At the moment we have leading specialists in topics ranging from Modernist architecture in sub-Saharan Africa to comfort conditions in Elizabethan grand housing, from Chinese urbanism to the history of architectural education, and the neglected architectural history of mental health provision.

The relationship between our research and our teaching has always been strong. We are currently using our research to help students to develop a sophisticated understanding of perhaps the two biggest challenges facing humanity today: preventing runaway climate change, and improving social justice and equality.

Our history teaching in the first two years of the undergraduate school explores the long history of humanity’s relationship with energy, and how energy has always been the key determining factor in our architecture. Liverpool is an ideal city in which to trace and discuss the impact that fossil fuels had on architecture over the centuries from 1600, and students’ coursework has carried the same question round the planet exploring an impressive range of places and building types.

In second and third year, students have the chance to explore topics of their choice since 1900 in greater depth. The existing coverage is international, and we’re excitedly exploring ways of spreading it further using our wide range of staff expertise. We aim to embed in the teaching and coursework a profound engagement with issues of equality and diversity, including foregrounding our research expertise in the complex interactions between colonialism and modernity.

It promises to be another exciting year ahead.

We wish every good thing to our outgoing group head, Professor Neil Jackson, in his ongoing research activities and in his retirement life. Thanks for everything you did for us all, Neil!


Architectural and Urban History Research group members Dr Barnabas Calder (lead)Dr Patrick Zamarian (co-lead)Dr Andrew CromptonDr Marco IulianoProfessor Iain JacksonProfessor Neil JacksonDr Yat Shun KeiProf Rob KronenburgDr Ranald LawrenceDr Christina MalathouniProfessor Simon Pepper Professor Nicholas RayProfessor Mark SwenartonDr Torsten Schmiedeknecht

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The Gate of All the Nations, ParsaGgia: CC-BY-SA 3.0

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Architectural HeritageProfessor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay

The Heritage research group includes individuals and clusters of researchers whose work continues to focus on both the built and intangible heritage, nationally and internally.

Dr Ataa Alsalloum has been working on the interaction between tangible and intangible heritage – especially focusing on Syria, and has delivered public lecture and workshops. The long-term aim of the project is to highlight the importance of safeguarding such rich but highly endangered patrimony. The online workshops were aimed at children within the Syrian diasporic community in the UK.

The work of Dr Nick Webb, Dr Alex Buchanan, Dr James Hillson and Dr Sarah Duffy into English medieval vaulting has continued this year, with focus switching to dissemination and outreach as funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) concludes in August 2021. The team have therefore given a series of lectures and workshops at the case study sites, which you can read about in the events section of this yearbook. They are also finalising all digital data for inclusion in the publicly accessible Archaeology Data Service, as well as hosting a symposium bringing together scholars from around the world to discuss and share research into gothic vaults. The book ‘Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture’ will be published by Routledge on 30th July 2021. To date, the team have scanned almost 500 bays of vaulting across 14 case study cathedrals, churches, abbeys and priories, tracing over 5,000 ribs and recording over 15,000 measurements.

Dr Christina Malathouni was the lead author for the Impact Case Study on twentieth century architectural heritage. She has written to Historic England in support of a listing application for a post-war mental health facility and is currently an external (ICOMOS) reviewer for the forthcoming World Monuments Watch (2022).

The ArCHIAM research centre has continued its work on architectural and urban heritage research and management in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Another Impact Case Study with a focus on vernacular heritage was led by Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Dr Giamila Quattrone. Members of the Centre also delivered several online public lectures, keynotes and participated in online roundtable discussions. More details are provided on the Centre’s feature page.


Architectural Heritage research group members Dr Ataa AlsalloumProfessor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay (lead)Claudia BriguglioDr Alexandrina Buchanan (History)Dr Barnabas CalderDr Sarah DuffyDr Konstantina GeorgiadouDr James HillsonProfessor Iain JacksonDr Richard KoeckDr Christina MalathouniDr Giamila QuattroneDr Mary SheppersonMatina VrettouDr Nick Webb

Heritage group members contributed to the University’s recently concluded inaugural Virtual Fellowships programme in Heritage. Dr Alsalloum, Prof Bandyopadhyay, Dr Quattrone and Dr Webb supervised five of the seven fellowship recipients, resident in Ghana, India, Lebanon and Syria.

Ottery St Mary choir and naveNick Webb

Preston Bus Station, LancashireChristina Malathouni

Online workshop with kids aged 7–11 years, Shadow Play Theatre, Dr Ataa Alsalloum

Urban Form and Social SpaceDr Fei Chen The Urban Form and Social Space (UFSS) group investigates

the production and transformation of urban form, as well as the social and political dynamics of public space. Including five female academic staff and more than ten PhD students, the group carries out research to enrich debates in design and planning.

In 2020/21, the group has fully engaged in research-led, hybrid teaching while also achieving some amazing results in research.

The group has collectively delivered the Year 4 module Urban Design and the Year 2 module Urban Studies last year. The former drew their expertise in urban design theories, public space production and design governance to help students’ masterplan projects in studio. The Year 2 module covered urban history from various cultural contexts, urban design and urban regeneration for sustainable development, particularly in the global south. Both modules have reflected the extremely diverse research topics of group members and moved away from a merely Western perspective to embrace diversity and inclusion.

The group members also led and contributed to Architectural history modules and studio teaching in Year 1, Year 3, Year 4, and Taught Master Programmes. This year the Year 4 studio focused on the city of Budapest, in collaboration with the local universities and institutions and explored the city remotely through diverse methods and scales. The group has actively involved in diversification of the curriculum.

From a research perspective, the group has published 4 journal articles, 2 book chapters, and 6 conference papers as well as contributions to international research events, academic publication as editors and reviewers, and public engagement (see the special mentions and publication lists).


Group members Dr Katerina AntonopoulouDr Fei ChenDr Yat Shun Juliana KeiDr Francesca PiazzoniDr Junjie Xi

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VR representation from downtown Athens, screenshot from Banoptikon. Banoptikon, http://banoptikon.mignetproject.eu

Children playing at the water collection point in KarailWasila Fatima Nilia, Fahim Hasan Rezve

Hong Kong Pavilion in London Design BiennaleHong Kong Design History Network, image by Jimmi Ho

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Centre for Architecture and the Visual ArtsProfessor Richard KoeckDirector of CAVA

Dr Marco IulianoResearch Director of CAVA

Dr Katerina AntonopoulouAssociate Hamid Khalili, AssociateMonika Koeck, AssociateLes Roberts, AssociateIan Cant, AssociateTerence Heng, AssociateLuo Shan, AssociateJuliana Yat Shun Kei, AssociateTuba Kocaturk, Research FellowMarina Guo, Research FellowGary Warnaby, Research FellowChristopher, Post-DoctoralAlastair Eilbeck, PhD StudentIan G. Costabile, PhD StudentAlexandros Kallegias, PhD StudentZhuozhang Li, PhD StudentWuwu Ran, PhD StudentJemma Street, PhD Student

CAVA | The Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts is a practice-based and multi-disciplinary at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. Currently thirteen PhD students and a growing number of Postdocs, Research Associates and Research Fellows are working in the critical intersection of space, media and culture in the context of digital, networked spaces and spatial practices with particular emphasis on their social and economic impact.

2021 has been a remarkably successful year for CAVA and its researchers.

CAVA started a collaboration with the School of Engineering with 3 PhD studentships attached, funded by Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory Consortium (200k) and supervised by Dr Marco Iuliano.

Monika Koeck won with her films M’Hamid Oasis Morocco (in collaboration with ArCHIAM), Coronavirus Pandemic: Making Safer Emergency Hospitals (in collaboration with Cambridge University) and Left Behind over a dozen of international film awards, e.g. the 2020 TVE Global Sustainability Film Award; the 2020 Impact DOCS Awards; the 2021 ARFF/Berlin, and the 2021 Istanbul International Architecture/Urban Films Festival.

Prof. Richard Koeck gave a large public SotA lecture (March 2021), entitled History and Future of Immersive Experiences, with invited panellists from world-leading theatre and film/animation companies Punchdrunk and Aardman. The event proved to be a considerable success, attracting a several hundred strong audience from 30 different countries.

We recently completed a Liverpool City Council commission (EU-funded), in collaboration with e.g. CAVA researchers Alastair Eilbeck and Jemma Street a ground-breaking new digital heritage experience. The “RIBA Liverpool Architecture Tour” combines a progressive web app walking tour and augmented reality exhibition of Liverpool that invites users and visitors to “walk my city”. Our Colin Rowe lecture series in collaboration with RIBA will resume in 2021/22.

Last year, CAVA won a large AHRC UK-China Research Industry Creative Partnerships grant. We are currently developing a highly innovative cinematic experience that is responsive/interactive, AI-driven, spatially immersive, using with real-time and non-linear storytelling features. We hope to develop a future model for immersive family entertainment experiences in China and globally.

To follow this up, again with partners the Shanghai Theatre Academy and Aardman, CAVA has recently won a second AHRC grant to translate elements from their location-based experience in Shanghai into a digitally innovative remote experience. In both grants, we are working on the famous Aardman brand Shaun the Sheep, whose latest film received a nomination for an Oscar® (2021).

CAVA is expanding; we are pleased to welcome Dr Juliana Yat Shun Kei, Dr Christopher Baker, and Dr Hamid Khalili to our growing team of expert researchers.


Yang Song, PhD StudentGönül Budancamanak, PhD StudentNemeh Rihahi, PhD StudentPooya Sanjari, PhD StudentDaniel Wiltshire, PhD Student Aniello Boriello, PhD Student Mariam Yasmin Gulamhussein, PhD Student

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Salle des fêtes of the 1900 Paris World Fair. Prof. Richard Koeck’s Lecture Addressing the History and Future of Immersive Experiences, Liverpool 2021.Public Domain. Published in Neurdein frères and Maurice Baschet. Le panorama, Exposition universelle. Paris: Librairie d'Art Ludovic Baschet, 1900.

New Media Performance Innovation: International Expert Workshop, Shanghai Theatre Academy. Shanghai 2020.

The Web Application of ‘RIBA Architectural Tour of Liverpool’.

Official poster of Coronavirus Pandemic: Making Safer Emergency Hospitals (2020)

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Urban Form and Social Space EventsDr Fei Chen Dr. Chen’s article on China’s strategy to contain COVID-19 published in The Conversation last year was the third most read articles (82,000 times) among Liverpool scholars and republished in Scroll and Prevention Web. Dr. Chen was interviewed by journalists from CNN and Thomson Reuters Foundation on China’s new design policies and intangible heritage respectively. Dr Chen has submitted a £300k grant application to Leverhulme in collaboration with Computer Scientists in UoL and aboard on the machine learning approach to urban morphology.Dr Aikaterini Antonopoulou Dr Antonopoulou’s project ‘Mass Mediation: unpacking the space of the city through the representation of crowds,’ is funded by SOTA’s RDIF, which seeks to investigate the representation of different forms of mass assembly in the contemporary city through design-led research.Dr Juliana Kei Dr. Kei was invited to speak at the “Upgrade Yourself” event hosted by the Somerset House, London (3 June 2021), which targets at young people (18–25) who want to work in the creative industries. Dr Kei is awarded a research grant from Lord Wilson Heritage Trust to investigate former Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong (with Daniel Cooper). She also curated the Hong Kong pavilion in London Design Biennale (1–27 June 2021).Dr Francesca Piazzoni Dr. Francesca Piazzoni organized the "Heritage Justice” Conference Series with the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. She was selected to attend the British Academy “Virtual Sandpits Symposium”. Dr Piazzoni received the RIBA Research Grant for the project “Designing Care: Countering the Urban Exclusion of Older Women”, in collaboration with Dr. Darlington-Pollock from Geography. They will investigate the spatial preferences of older women across the Liverpool City Region.Dr Junjie Xi Dr Xi was awarded £9,811 from the university's ODA Research Seed Funding to investigate informal settlements in Karail (Dhaka). This project is further funded by the Spanish embassy in Bangladesh through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

ArCHIAM Events Quattrone, G. Preserving Heritage, Sustaining Development and Empowering Communities in the M’Hamid Oasis, Morocco. ENGAGE NETWORK 1st International Conference. June 2021.Georgiadou, K. Palimpsest of contested cities: cultural identity and urban form. CIRICE 20_21 9th International Conference. June 2021Shepperson, M. The Iran-Iraq War as Iraqi Heritage: Considering the case for recording, preservation and presentation. British Institute for the Study of Iraq. Public lecture. May 2021.Alsalloum, A. Intangible Cultural Heritage of Syria. Public lecture. April 2021.Bandyopadhyay, S. Heritage Management. 3rd International Conference on Heritage of China. Keynote. April 2021.Vrettou, M. Career Pathways. PLACED Academy Insights. March 2021.Bandyopadhyay, S. Cosmopolitan Muscat: The Story of an Indian Ocean Port Town. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Public lecture. January 2021.Bandyopadhyay, S. Complexity and Contradiction in Cultural Landscape: Possible Approaches to Heritage Management in Chandannagar. Uncharted Hugli – INTACH Hugli Seminar Series. December 2020.Bandyopadhyay, S. Managing Heritage in India and Oman: Approaches, Current Work, Future Opportunities. Virtual Roundtable at Nazarbayev University. November 2020.Bandyopadhyay, S. Gulf Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Urbanism (GESU). Contribution to roundtable event organised by Harvard University. October 2020.

Research and Research Led Events Heritage Events

9 April 2021 Public Lecture: Intangible Cultural heritage of SyriaSOTA Library / Zoom

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Syria: Shadow Play Theatre. Online workshop with kids 7–11 age group Gorton Stephenson Studio / Zoom

25 April 2021

Intangible Cultural heritage of Syria: Al-Ḥakawāty WorkshopOnline workshop with kids 7–11 age groupLocation of event: Ataa’s house / Zoom All workshops were in collaboration with the Syrian-British Cultural Centre in Liverpool.

2 May 2021

25 April 2021 Intangible Cultural heritage of Syria: Arabesque WorkshopOnline workshop with kids 11–17 age groupGorton Stephenson Studio / Zoom

Dr Ataa Alsalloum

All activities were filmed and recorded by Monika Koeck

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ESTA publicationsWang, Y., Agkathidis, A., & Crompton, A. (2020). Parametrising historical Chinese courtyard-dwellings: an algorithmic design framework for the digital representation of Siheyuan iterations based on traditional design principles. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 9(4), 751–773Zhou, R., Lu, Y., Wang, L.-G., & Chen, H.-M. (2021). Mesoscale modelling of size effect on the evolution of fracture process zone in concrete. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 245Wang, Y., Zhang, S., Chow, D., & Kuckelkorn, J. M. (2021). Evaluation and optimization of district energy network performance: present and future. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 139Huai, C., Xie, J., Liu, F., Du, J., Chow, D. H. C., & Liu, J. (2021). Experimental and numerical analysis of fire risk in historic Chinese temples: a case in Beijing. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, Williamson, A., & Finnegan, S. (2021). Sustainability in heritage buildings: Can we improve the sustainable development of existing buildings under Approved Document L?, Sustainability, 13(7), 1–29Urbano Gutierrez, R. (2020). Material Landscapes. Area, 172, 4–11Lawrence, R. (2020). The Victorian Art School. Abingdon: RoutledgeLiu C, Mohammadpourkarbasi H & Sharples S (2021) Evaluating the potential energy savings of retrofitting low-rise suburban dwellings towards the Passivhaus EnerPHit standard in a hot summer/cold winter region of China, Energy and Buildings, 231Du, J. & Sharples, S. (2021) A dynamic analysis of the impact of air pollution on the daylight availability in an open-plan office in London, Light and Engineering, 29(1), 94–103

Urban Form and Social Space publications Istrate, A., & Chen, F. (2021). Liveable streets in Shanghai: definition, characteristics and design. Progress in Planning. doi:10.1016/j.progress.2021.100544Dr Aikaterini AntonopoulouAikaterini Antonopoulou, Mass Representation: Unfolding Conflict through the Filmic Representation of Crowds in Crisis Athens, in eds. Pilav, A., Schoonderbeek, M., Sohn, H., Staničić, A., Mediating the Spatiality of Conflicts, International Conference Proceedings, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment: BK Books.Aikaterini Antonopoulou, Urban Silence and Informational Noise: A Study on Athens’ Invisible Structures, in eds. Dorrian, M. and Kakalis, Ch. The Place of Silence: Experience, Environment and Affect, London: Bloomsbury, pp. 47–58.Dr Juliana KeiKei, J. Y. S. (2021). “Building the Globe: The Other Tales on the Thames Bankside” Journal of Architectural Education, 75(1), 49–59. doi:10.1080/10464883.2021.1859886Kei, J.Y.S. (2020) “Almost no Archive” ARCH/TECTURESARCH/VES, Society of Architectural Historians Great Britain Annual Symposium 2020, 17 July 2020.Dr Francesca PiazzoniPiazzoni, F. (2021) The Other Bangla-Town: Marginality at the Center of Rome. Migration Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v18i1.1053Piazzoni, F. (2020) Visibility as Justice. Immigrant Street Vendors and the Right to Difference in Rome. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X20956387Piazzoni, F.; Jamme, H.; (2020) Private Uses Make Public Spaces Street Vending in HCMC, Vietnam, and Rome, Italy. In J. Ross ed. Routledge Handbook on Street Culture. London, Routledge. 159–169.Dr Junjie XiJunjie Xi. 2021. “A Story from Karail.” SUJS 2021: Sino-UK Joint Symposium on Post Novel Covid-19 Pandemic: A Reconsideration for the Built Environment, Tongji University & University of Nottingham, sponsored by: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) & British Council (BC), 28–30 August 2021. Shanghai and online

Publications: Papers ArCHIAM PublicationsGeorgiadou, K., 2021. Palimpsest of contested cities: cultural identity and urban form. Eikonocity, CIRICE Edizioni.Colmenares Fernández, M., Domínguez Martínez, O., García Hermida, A., Gómez-Gordo, R., Moreno Adán, C., Osés, S., Peña López, R., Quattrone, G. 2021. Ouled Youssef: An Old Ksar in the M’Hamid Oasis. INTBAU, Spain (ISBN: 978-84-09-18989-2).Jha-Thakur, U., Khosravi, F., Quattrone, G., Bandyopadhyay, S., Magedera, I., & Garikipati, S. 2020. Exploring the role of strategic environmental assessment in cultural heritage tourism planning: a case study of the Srirangapatna-Mysore region in India. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 39(2): 138–150, DOI:10.1080/14615517.2020.1841595.Shepperson, M. 2020. An architectural analysis of the Sealand building at Tell Khaiber. Iraq, 82: 207–226.Carter, R., Wengrow, D., Ahmed Saber, S., Hamarashi, S. J., Shepperson, M., Roberts, K., Lewis, M., Marsh, A., Gonzales Carretero, L., Sosnowska, H., D’Amico, A., Sagan, W. and Lockyear, K. 2020. The later prehistory of the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: further investigations at Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani, Iraq, 82: 41–72.Bandyopadhyay, S., Quattrone, G., & Briguglio, C. 2020. Misfat al-‘Abriyin, Oman. Designing for Sustainable Heritage Tourism Development: Master Plan and Implementation [Design].Monika Koeck (directed). 2020. Misfat al-‘Abriyin, Oman. Running time: 9 minutes 30 seconds [Film].

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This paper investigates the dynamic behaviour of stacked reinforced concrete beams using experimental modal analysis and finite element methods. Finite element models of five different junctions were developed with surface-to-surface and edge-to-surface contact conditions between the beams. It was shown that the interaction between the beams could be approximated using a normal contact stiffness which is independent of the shape of the junction and follows a lognormal distribution. The models were experimentally validated in terms of eigenfrequencies and mode shapes. To assess the suitability of the model it was found to be essential to verify the spatial-average response. This was achieved by introducing a new descriptor, the Partial Modal Vector Ratio (PMVR) as a supplement to the Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) for the validation of the FEM models. PMVR is a time efficient approach to identify appropriate models and can be used as a supplementary criterion to MAC when there are correlation issues caused by the interaction of the beams.

Filippoupolitis, M., & Hopkins, C. (2021). Experimental validation of finite element models representing stacked concrete beams with unbonded surface contacts. Engineering Structures, 227. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111421

FEM model – example mode for unbonded beams in contact


For some industrial applications it is necessary to assess the acoustic properties of porous materials at high temperatures; hence, airflow resistance measurements on fibrous materials have been carried out at temperatures up to 800°. A comparison of a high temperature test rig and a test rig satisfying the requirements of ISO 9053-1 indicated no significant difference between the two rigs at room temperature. For measurements in the high temperature test rig at and above 600° there were changes in the sample thickness that could be linked to the onset of crystallisation. This meant that regression analysis had to establish relationships between the sample mass (rather than bulk density) and the specific airflow resistance (rather than airflow resistivity). Power law regression for AES, basalt wool and rock wool

Publications: ARU Publications

Dr Pyoung Jik Lee carried out a study to understand attitude of people towards noise inside their homes in London during the lockdown. Tweets from the social media platform were collected during the lockdown and the same periods in 2019. Additionally, subjective responses to outdoor and neighbour noises were collected through a questionnaire survey. Tweets about noise complaints during the lockdown were more than twice of those before introduction of lockdown. A substantial increase in talking/shouting, and TV/music activities were observed among the neighbour noise sources. Similar findings were obtained from the survey. The respondents answered that the perceived outdoor noise level decreased but perceived neighbour noise level increased during the lockdown. The outdoor noise annoyance ratings were revealed to be significantly lower than those before the lockdown. In contrast, neighbour noises were more frequently heard and annoyance ratings increased compared to the pre-lockdown period. In particular, talking/shouting and TV/music were most annoying. Furthermore, neighbour noise was more annoying than outdoor noise during the lockdown. This suggests that neighbour noise is more problematic than outdoor noise during lockdown.

Attitudes towards outdoor and neighbour noise during the COVID-19 lockdown: A case study in LondonPyoung Jik Lee and Jeongho Jeong ARU PublicationJournal paper,April 2021Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier, Netherland 2210-6707

Experimental validation of finite element models representing stacked concrete beams with unbonded surface contactsDr Marios Filippoupolitis and Professor Carl HopkinsARU PublicationJournal paper, Engineering Structures2021

Airflow resistance measurement of fibrous materials at high temperatures for acoustical applicationsGary Seiffert ARU PublicationJournal paper, Applied Acoustics. Volume164 July 2020, 107255.

show that, on average, the specific airflow resistance is proportional to T0.7 (where T is the absolute temperature in Kelvin) at temperatures where there has been no reduction in sample thickness or other material change due to temperature. For fibrous materials, these results provide more evidence that the temperature-dependence is mainly determined by the air viscosity. Measurements on AES at 20° indicate negligible change in the specific airflow resistance when measured with flow velocities between 0.5×103 and 1.83×10-3 m/s but significant differences at 800°. Thamasha Samarasinghe1, Carl Hopkins1*, Gary Seiffert1, Jilly Knox2

1 Acoustics Research Unit, School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZN, United Kingdom2 Morgan Advanced Materials Plc, Thermal Ceramics, Tebay Road, Bromborough, Wirral, CH62 3PH, United Kingdom


In the period following the Second World War, the Architectural Association (AA) became the only British school of architecture of truly global renown. It was one of only two schools in the world which fully embraced and promoted the pedagogical ideals put forward by CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) — the other being Walter Gropius’s Harvard Graduate School of Design — and emerged as an admired example for architectural education in other countries. The book traces the history of the school from the end of the war until the mid-1960s, when it surrendered its position as the pacemaker in British architectural education in order to safeguard its institutional independence. Alvin Boyarsky, who became chairman in 1971, remodelled the AA as a postmodern, ‘internationalist’ school and detached it from its modernist, British origins. In keeping with this (and partly as a result of it), there has been no research into the AA’s postwar history, which remains dominated by myths and half-truths. The book replaces these myths with an in-depth account of what really happened.

The Architectural Association in the Postwar YearsPatrick Zamarian Monograph30 October 20209781848224063Lund Humphries, London

1951 Festival Café (Nigel Grimwade, first-year sketch design, Architectural Association, 1949/50) AA Archives

Cover – Final Jury, Architectural Association, 1962AA Archives / Courtesy of Julyan Wickham

The Victorian Art School Ranald Lawrence BookSeptember 20209780367896430 Routledge, Abingdon

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferation through the major industrial centres of Britain. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, together with earlier examples in Manchester and Birmingham demonstrate an unprecedented concern for the provision of plentiful light and air amidst the pollution of the Victorian city. As theories of design education and local governance converged, they also reveal the struggle of the provincial city for cultural independence from the capital.Examining innovations in the use of new technologies and approaches in the design of these buildings, The Victorian Art School offers a unique and explicitly environmental reading of the Victorian city. It examines how art schools complemented civic ‘Improvement’ programmes, their contribution to the evolution of art pedagogy, the tensions that arose between the provincial schools and the capital, and the role they would play in reimagining the relationship between art and public life in a rapidly transforming society.The architects of these buildings synthesised the potential of art with the perfection of the internal environment, indelibly shaping the future cultural life of Britain.

Corridor, Glasgow School of Art.Studio, Glasgow School of Art. Ranald Lawrence

Publications: Books


Peter Farrall and Stephen Brookhouse, (University of Westminster) Authored following their programme of CPD lectures on fees given as part of the RIBA Core CPD programme. Feedback from delegates, as wellas interviews with a variety of practices provided much of the information and best practice examples

The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today’s skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent never explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels.

Brave and brilliant, Barnabas Calder’s Architecture is a global history and a call to arms – William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History, University of Oxford

Finally a book to replace Pevsner's standard history of architecture. Calder retells the story of architecture for the climate change generation. – Dr James W. P. Campbell, Head of Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge

Through this prism, our time of crisis suddenly makes so much sense – Joe Giddings, Architects Climate Action Network

Within these insights into the past, lie the future solutions to building in a climate crisis. – Simon Sturgis, Founder, Targeting Zero

Partly a hymn or elegy to the world that fossil fuels made, partly a warning of the disasters they are bringing… Calder makes a simple and important point – Rowan Moore – Observer

Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate EmergencyBarnabas Calder Book10 June 2021 London: Pelican ISBN 0241396735Special mentionsThis book has profited immensely from teaching much of the material to students at Liverpool, and discussing it with students and colleagues.

F X VelardeDominic Wilkinson and Andrew CromptonBook23 October 2020 Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 978-1-789-62814-2

Fees, a Good practice guide RIBA PublicationsPeter Farall and Stephen BrookhouseBook1 February 2021RIBA Publishing978-1-85946-930-9

Swedish Wood: Sponsors of LSA21 yearbook print


Post Graduate Research and

Taught Programmes

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Post Graduate ResearchProfessor Carl HopkinsDepartmental Director of Postgraduate Research

The Liverpool School of Architecture (LSA) is an internationally recognised centre for research in and around the built environment. A research culture is embedded in the school which performed excellently in the last research assessment exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014). The school was the highest ranked department submitted solely as a School of Architecture with a top six place for research intensity, a top ten place for grade point average and a top three place for research outputs, with 80% of our publications rated as world leading or internationally excellent. This ensures that our research-active staff are able to provide expert supervision in a range of research areas. Our students regularly publish their research at International and National conferences as well as in peer-reviewed journals.

The LSA currently has over 70 postgraduate research students that are registered for full-time or part-time study. These students are mainly based in Liverpool and XJTLU. PhD and MPhil studies can either be registered in the School of Architecture or the School of Engineering depending on the research topic and the preference of the candidate.

Gulnaz Aksenova The dark side of ecosystem orchestration: an empirical investigation of building information management in the digital built environment sector

Supervisors: Tom Elfring, Arto Kiviniemi, Martin Simpson

Fahad Alyami The impact of passive façade design treatments on the thermal performance of office buildings in Saudi Arabia for Current and Future Climates

Supervisors: Steve Sharples, David Chow

Marios Filippoupolitis Detection of trapped survivors in collapsed reinforced concrete buildings using structure-borne sound transmission

Supervisors: Professor Carl Hopkins, Siu-Kui Au

Hussein Hussein Transformable spatial-bar structures: An algorithmic design and evaluation framework to develop Free-Form Transformable Structures (FFTS)

Supervisors: Professor Robert Kronenburg, Asterios Agkathidis

Maria da Gloria Lanci da Silva Translating Cities: urban spaces in contemporary art mapping practices

Supervisors: Marco Iuliano, Les Roberts

Mustapha Munir Development of a Building Information Modelling Asset (BIMAsset) Value Realization Model

Supervisors: Stephen Jones, Stephen Finnegan, Arto Kiviniemi

Zuhair Nasar ParaSIM: a hybrid technology-enhanced framework to learning energy modelling in architectural design education

Supervisors: David Chow, Tuba Kocaturk, Nick Webb

David Nixon Ship Versus Shore. British naval actions in the age of sail against Atlantic and Channel French coastal fortifications and their consequences

Supervisors: Professor Iain Jackson, Simon Pepper

Paul Robinson An Exploration into the Relationship Between Spirituality and Urban Design with Specific Reference to the City of Phnom Penh in Cambodia

Supervisors: Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Dr Christina Malathouni

Roy Sigalingging Applying the Passivhaus Standard to Terraced Housing in Jakarta – Analysis for a Hot and Humid, Tropical Climate

Supervisors: David Chow, Steve Sharples

Wan ‘Iffah Wan Ahmad Nizar Little streets and hidden routes: a study on alleys of Kuala Lumpur city centre

Supervisors: Fei Chen, Professor Iain Jackson

Mohammed Abuhussain An assessment of the Saudi residential buildings envelope code under the current and future climate change scenarios: the case for Jeddah in the hot and humid climate region

Supervisors: David Chow, Steve Sharples

Mohammad Alshenaifi Optimising the performance of passive downdraught evaporative cooling (PDEC) towers for Saudi housing: investigating the impact of architectural form


Yara Ayyad Outdoor thermal comfort and airflow in relation to urban form in Amman, Jordan: A residential setting analysis


Graduating PHD Students

Virtually MA PhD MSc: image courtesy of Martin Winchester

Current PGR Students supervisors and PHD research title

Da Huo Landscape Design that can Support Active Ageing-in-Place in Suzhou at Community LevelQian Lin The Living Conditions of the Elderly: A Comparative Study of Suzhou Old City and Suzhou Industrial ParkMeng Lou Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage Buildings Based on Socio-Cultural Values: A Case Study of ShanghaiNan Ye Individual practice in the context of collectivism: a historical review of private architectural offices in China 1949 onwardsDaniel Wiltshire Developing an architecture for lifting technologies in flood resilient homesJemma Street Urban Grit and Civic Pearl: Understanding the Impact of Liverpool’s Built HeritageHeather Alcock Beyond the Village: Port Sunlight’s global influenceRim Yassine Kassab The Old Cities in the MENA region between destruction and reconciliation Xiaohan Chen Mapping Chinese Architectural Criticism in the People’s Daily and Architectural Journal from 1949 to 1966Gonul Budancamanak Challenges and Opportunities: Experiential Architecture in the age of Spatial Storytelling through Immersive TechnologiesYisi Liu The Use of Virtual Reality in Exploring the Non-linear Interpretations of Literary ArchitectureAlastair Eilbeck Future Passenger: Mobile, Outdoor, Locative Media – A Study of Mixed Reality Narrative, Interface and Content for Public Transport Said Al Mashrafi Effective Local Community Participation for Sustainable Tourism Development in Omani Rural DestinationsZainab Al-Majidi Digitally aided documentation and analysis of historic vaulted structures in IraqYifei Li Industrial Heritage Redevelopment: A Study of Culture-led Urban Regeneration Strategy in ChinaChitraj Bissoonauth This Distinction Between Acting to Understand and Understanding to ActDaniela Pico Perez Landscape Translations: Architecture Design Strategies For Recovering Obsolete Productive Spaces In Shanghai, ChinaDeyan Quan A Parametric Form Language for Fibre Reinforced Concrete Prefabricated Façade Elements Using 3D Printed FormworkFatemeh Taherysayah Strategies for integrating empirical approaches to embodied experience into architectural design processes.Guillermo Sanchez Sotes Autopoiesis in Architecture and Urbanism: A Discourse AnalysisYaqin Zuo The Promenade and Yi bu yi jing: Movement, Discovery and Scenery in Le Corbusier’s Villas and the Traditional Chinese Literati GardensAbdulwahab Abdulmajeed A New Vision of Housing in Saudi Arabia: The Parametric Modular Unit Razan Simbawa From One Slum to Another: A

Study of Informal Settlements and Health in Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaNoor Ragaban Dwellings and Dwellers’, Correlation, Influence and Impact: A Case Study of Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaYuyang Wang Parametric generation of Chinese courtyard housing based on computational interpretation of traditional design principlesKhalid Bazughayfan Managing design issues in the planning systems of Saudi Arabia.Tianyin Xia Multifaith Space DesignPooya Sanjari Shahr-e Farang in the early 20th century in IranKunlun Ren Design Research on the Potential Restorative Impact of University Campus Environments Based on The Theory of Restorative EnvironmentHao Deng Urban Corners: An Everyday Urbanism Approach to Culture-led Urban Regeneration in China—A Case Study of Guangzhou City, 2006–Present. Abeeha Awan Mobilizing a Community through Gamification Nemeh Alrihani Mixed Reality Experiences: Integrated Digital Representations of Tangible & Intangible Cultural Heritage and Immersive Technologies Applications for Improving Visitors Experiences of Heritage ContextsAniello Borriello Development of novel resilient and sustainable cladding panels for building systemsWidad Alis British Malaya: Colonialism and Architecture in the Federated Malay States, 1875–1941.Khaled Alhamad Geo-Politics, Cultural Imperialism & Eurocentrism in the Management of Kuwait’s Heritage: “Oriented” ValuesNan Yang A Design Research on Contemporary Vernacular Architecture that can facilitate the Rural Development in ChinaYang Song Design and Assembly:Augmented Reality, Immersive Design and Assembly WorkflowQuanqing Lu Urban transformations of Suzhou Historic City, 1949–1976Wuwu Ran Immersive Experience Happening in Augmented Space: How to place an immersive experience in the urban public space?Mariam Gulamhussein Our homes: components to space. Developing sustainable modular homes fit for the future.Siqi Deng Actualizing Chinese Conceptions of Space: Theories and Strategies for the Design of Resonant ArchitectureTsun Shun So A comparison of the impact on psychological restoration, physical activity and public satisfaction between ground-level green spaces and green roofs: case study in Hong KongAlessia Frescura Subjective evaluation of floor impact sounds in lightweight buildings

Steffi Reinhold Characterisation of steady-state and time-varying structure-borne sound sources using a reception plate to predict in situ sound pressure levelsXiaoxue Shen Impact sound insulation from heavy impacts on lightweight floorsZiwei Song Effects of acoustic environments in ICUs on staff Nazmiye Yilmaz The Effects of Sound on Perceived EnclosureLewis Jones Recycled Ceramics: Innovations in the Production of Sustainable Architectural Surfaces.Mohammad Alabbasi Robotic fabrication of concrete components for efficient housing construction in Saudi ArabiaChenfei Liu Passivhaus EnerPHit standard retrofitting of the existing rural dwellings in Hunan, a hot summer/cold winter climate region of ChinaJiangyang Zhao The application of robotic technology in traditional manufacture of Chinese timber structureLyndon Ship Assessing the ambient environmental conditions of bedroomsMuhammet Tosun Data-driven generative design for spatial organisation for existing SME buildingsBekir Huseyin Tekin Human-Centred Therapeutic Environments: A New Framework for Biophilic DesignPuyue Gong BIM-based Design Strategies for Improving the Overall Quality of Healthcare EnvironmentXi Chen The energy retrofit of the existing residential building stock in Jiangsu ProvinceNuodi Fu Advanced ventilation strategy for improving indoor air quality in high-rise buildings by accommodating the various outdoor environmental conditionsAlexandros Kallegias Design for energy efficiency on HE campus using data as part of an integrated design processWei Zhao A new adaptive thermal comfort model for rural low-income residents in China and its impact on energy consumption and house designing

Sinan Celal Dadagilioglu Utilisation of BIM for a process management model in energy-efficient refurbishment of domestic building stock in the UK: a novel decision support systemMehmet Arif Aktog Energy Optimisation During AEC Conceptual DesignAbdulaziz Alsharif Investigation of the Urban Heat Island in Makkah city Saudi Arabia and its impacts on energy consumptionBushra Obaid Obaid Alderbi Al-Ali The whole life thermal and carbon impact of dragon board MgOSIP house in the UKRowena Creagh The embodied energy impact of the UK’s post-war buildings Tom Johnston The Development of Research Instruments to reach Net-Zero Carbon (NZC) in UK SMEs: An application for Zoological Gardens, Nature Reserves, and Amusement ParksMengfan Jin Large-scale rapid energy modelling of buildingsDilek Arslan Prefabricated Retrofit Elements for EnerPHit in Low Rise Apartments in Hot Climates of TurkeySean Durney The Carbon Impact of the Cultural SectorYashika Narula The impact of whole life carbon on the creation of Net Zero Carbon (NZC) homes in the UKXi Zhang Perceived environmental qualities and occupants’ wellbeing in Chinese office buildings: survey and experimentHongrui Li An investigation into effects of perceived outdoor environmental qualities on psychological restoration among Chinese universityEbaa Khalid I Khan Adopting passive house principles in a hot dry climateNurcihan Bektas Assessment of Thermal and Urban Micro-climate of a Traditional Settlement in TurkeyRoberto Cruz Juarez Adobe as a passive solution for sustainable construction planning considering climate change in Puebla, Mexico

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Post Graduate Taught Programmes

The Liverpool School of Architecture has a long and distinguished history of teaching and research and offers students an exciting, research-led environment in which to pursue their Master’s studies. We offer four Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate degrees: the MA in Architecture (MA/ARC) the MSc in Climate Resilience and Sustainable Architecture (MSc CRESTA) and the MSc in Building Information Modelling and Digital Transformation (MSc BIM-DT) and the MA in Sustainable Heritage Management (MASHMA), which will run in 2021–2022 for the first time. All Programmes share some common modules allowing discourse and exchange between the different disciplines. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, our academic year started in January 2021 and will be completed in January 2022, which means that the current students will have the possibility to meet the new cohort which will start in September 2021. All semester 01 modules were delivered online, but we were able to return to face to face teaching in semester 2. This year’s PGT cohort consisted of 54 students from various countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Egypt, Kuwait, Spain, Kenya, Hong Kong, Turkey, Venezuela, Niger, Zambia and the UK.

Asterios Agkathidis PGT Lead Architecture

Online review session in Parametric Fabrication 1, an elective module for all our PGT programmes.Asterios Agkathidis

Students Afshana Ali Asim Ali Aleena Anna Alphy Samyah Obaied R Asaqrah Mary Itunuoluwa Ayeni Swatilekha Banerjee Rethu Bharatha Rathinam Cheng Bi Hande Gul Bilek Obafemi Abdul-Hamid Bisirodipe Jordan Joseph Caldwell Yuhan Chen Eleanor Clarkson Lucy Susan Coleman Lucia Corrochano Fraile Fatemah A A M M

Dashti Chelsea Dillon Chenxiao Feng Jinwen Gao Yiping Guan Hao Hu Pattanan Inharwararak Jinbi Jiang Venkatesh Kalidoss Aman Mahmood Khan Diya Manoj Kulkarni Vaishnav Kuttipulikkalidom Tianyang Li Xufan Li Yuxian Li Zhuoyu Lu Geremis Javier Luces Velasquez Kunal Shanker Mathur Xianglin Meng

Tasbih Alaa Mokbl Kshitij Nigadikar Zili Qiu Poojapriyam Ravi Lin Shen Deyu Sun Maxine Tai Kittimanus Tangdham Dengwei Tao John Samuel James Tipping Haobo Wang Taige Wang Zhuo Wang Xiaopeng Wu Wenhao Yang Chang Zhang Xi Zhang Zixin Zhang Shaodong Zheng Zefeng Zhuang

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Students

The MA in Architecture is designed for graduates and architects in practice wishing to further specialise in architectural design, develop their design and technical skills or follow a design research/research path to a PhD. Students may choose from a range of academic, research-based topics in specific areas that reflect their experience and interests, such as architectural theory, virtual reality and environments, climatic design, environmental assessment, parametric modelling, digital fabrication, BIM, urban planning and sustainable design.

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, our academic year started in January 2021 and will be completed in January 2022, which means that the current students will have the possibility to meet the new cohort which will start in September 2021. All semester 01 modules were delivered online, but we were able to return to face to face teaching in semester 2. This year’s PGT cohort consisted of 24 students from various countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Turkey and the UK.

MA in ArchitectureAsterios AgkathidisProgramme Director

Studio TutorsAsterios AgkathidisJuliana Kei

Guest CritiquesCarlos Bausa Martines(Zaha Hadid Architects)Yorgos Berdos(University of Edinburgh)Marianna Cavada(University of Lancaster)Kyriakos Chatziparaskeuas (Heatherwick Studio)

Afshana Ali Hande Gul Bilek Lucy Susan Coleman Chelsea Dillon Chenxiao Feng Yiping Guan Rana Gunel Hao Hu Pattanan Inharwararak Jinbi Jiang

Tianyang Li Zhuoyu Lu Kunal Shanker Mathur Zili Qiu Lin Shen Maxine Tai Haobo Wang Zhuo Wang Wenhao Yang Chang Zhang

Nan Zhang Xi Zhang Shaodong Zheng

Online review session in Design 1Asterios Agkathidis

Online introduction in Design 2Asterios Agkathidis

Face to face tutorial, Design 2Asterios Agkathidis


Afshana AliHilbre Islands visitors centre Algorithmic branching, form finding processRendering

Chelsea DillonHilbre Islands hotel spaPerspective viewPhotomontage

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Hande BilekHilbre Islands visitors centreForm finding process / Perspective viewDiagrams / Rendering

Jinbi JiangHilbre Islands visitors centreForm finding processRendering


Lin ShenHilbre Islands visitors centreForm finding process / Perspective viewRendering

Lucy ColemanLake District spa hotelForm finding process / SectionPhotographs / Drawing

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Shaodong ZhengHilbre Islands spa hotelPhysical model / Floor planPhotograph / Drawing


Zhuoyu Lu and Xi ZhangHilbre Islands hotel and spaPerspective viewRendering

Tianyang Li and Chang ZhengHilbre Islands spa hotelForm finding process Photograph


MSc Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability in Architecture (CRESTA)

There is little doubt that the environmental threat posed by climate change to people and the buildings they use will only grow in the coming decades unless action is taken now. This action includes upskilling built environment professionals in their knowledge of how to design or redevelop buildings that can adapt to climate change.

The MSc programme in Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability in Architecture (CRESTA) has been specifically designed to provide expertise for graduates and professionals who want to enhance their knowledge of resilient built environments in a changing climate. CRESTA modules are taught in a variety of ways – traditional lectures, design projects with studio tutorials, computer workshops, learning from building case studies and field trips. The assessment strategies reflect this variety of teaching approaches, and include A3 poster submissions, 10-page analytical reports, short essays, a sustainable architectural design project and a research dissertation.

The MSc programme values and encourages equality, diversity and inclusivity in its student cohort as a way of achieving a dynamic, stimulating and rewarding learning environment for all. One of the most encouraging aspects of the cohort, year-on-year, is the high percentage who are female – typical representing 65% to 80% of the group. Diversity can be seen in the wide variety of academic backgrounds and the range of nationalities accepted for admission to the MSc – from interior design and landscape architecture to geography and civil engineering, and from South and Central America, via the Gulf, to India and China. The relatively small size of the teaching groups encourages inclusive and supportive attitudes that are underpinned by modules, lectures and assignments that relate to climate resilience and sustainability issues in the student’s own country.

Professor Steve Sharples

Climatic analysis of converted shipping container for cold climateAleena Anna Alphy

Climatic analysis of converted shipping container for hot humid climateVenkatesh Kalidoss

Otterspool Zero Energy Tree CafeKittimanus Tangdham

Dynamis Award for Sustainable construction – runner up – Kittimanus Tangdham

Dr David ChowDr Jiangtao DuDr Haniyeh Mohammadpourkarbasi


MSc Building Information Modelling (BIM)

The rapid evolution of digital technologies is coinciding with a set of economical, societal and environmental challenges facing architects and engineers in the current AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry. To respond, a wide range of digital technologies and methods in design and construction are emerging that have transitional impact on the way practitioners create, communicate and interact. These transitions are blurring lines between the different disciplines within the AEC industry and urging more collaborative and integrated work throughout the design, construction and operational stages of building projects. BIM is emerging as a new method, process and technology to automate information flow across disciplines, and facilitate collaboration, integration and coordination throughout a project lifecycle.

Through a combination of formal lectures, seminars, presentations, tutorials and group-based learning sessions and modules guided and delivered by academic staff, researchers and leading practitioners from the AEC industry, the program will introduce students to the theoretical, methodological, practical and technological aspects of BIM. Students will be able to investigate the transitional impact of BIM on the project delivery throughout its lifecycle, in order to understand the true potential of BIM on project, organisational and industrial levels, and the limitation and challenges that confront practitioners when implementing BIM. Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to undertake team-based tasks and activities similar to those which BIM specialists would take in real practice. They will be introduced to several research methods and techniques, and will undertake various types of research in order to scrutinise the impact and limitations of BIM in its real-life context, examine the interoperability among the various BIM software, and investigate the role of BIM technologies and methods in facilitating design coordination and supporting sustainable design and energy-efficient solutions throughout project stages.

The programme will allow students to broadly and deeply experience the various BIM software, and a wide range of software and hardware technologies, together with different related concepts such as common data environments and cloud-based systems, big data, and smart cities. All of these technologies and concepts will enable students to understand the wider context of BIM and the future opportunities of its implementation in the AEC industry and beyond.

Dr Adonis Haidar MSc BIM Programme Lead

Students Asim AliMary Itunuoluwa Ayeni Obafemi Abdul-Hamid Bisirodipe Jordan Joseph CaldwellYuhan ChenLucia Corrochano FraileAman Mahmood KhanYuxian LiGeremis Javier Luces VelasquezKshitij Nigadikar Deyu SunDengwei Tao John Samuel James TippingTaige Wang Zixin ZhangZefeng Zhuang

BIM for Clash detection –examples of hard clashes

Traditional vs BIM-based Design Coordination

Issues to resolve in BIM Implementation

Using BIM to detect clashes in the design stage


MA in Sustainable Heritage Management

LSA has launched a new MA in Sustainable Heritage Management.

This MA is fully recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), the UK’s leading body for building conservation practitioners and historic environment experts. The course also follows the educational guidelines of ICOMOS, UNESCO and Council of Europe.

Our MA is an exciting and innovative programme, which aims to equip students with the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary skills and knowledge needed to master aspects of sustainable heritage management theory and practice. The programme will provide students with the chance to apply learning through a range of research and practice-based projects with a wide range of regional, national, and international partners not only via placement opportunities, but also by providing them with opportunities to engage with heritage experts via different teaching and learning activities.

As an inclusive and comprehensive course, it is a cross-departmental Master with contribution from History, Philosophy and Archaeology.

Due to the comprehensive and interdisciplinary nature of our programme, we are welcoming students from different relevant backgrounds, including but not limited to, architecture, planning, history, archaeology, civic design, philosophy, management, social policy.

The optional placement offered in Semester 2, may involve work experience in a library, museum, historic property, or other cultural institution. Some of our heritage partners, who offer placements, are the National Museums of Liverpool, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, National Slate Museum Wales, Victoria Gallery & Museum, and Port Sunlight Village Trust.

After successful completion of this IHBC recognised Master course, graduates will be able to either work in practice or continue their education towards a PhD.

Dr Ataa Alsalloum

A resident learning how to re-point a traditional boundary wall with lime mortar, Port Sunlight Village Trust

Conservation Trainee Anna Dembrika with Galkoff tiles, National Museums Liverpool

Heritage management plan, Misfat Al-Abriyin, Oman, ArCHIAM

Special thanksDr Seán O'Reilly, Director of IHBC Dr Aylin Orbasli, External Reviewer Dr Laura Hanks, External Reviewer

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/taught/sustainable-heritage-management-ma/module-details/

National Slate Museum’s courtyard, National Museum Wales








Creative Workshop

During the pandemic the technical team developed new and novel ways to support the architecture students with their work. This year has been an unprecedented period of time and the team have been based on campus over the past 14 months.

Request and collection processes were introduced which enabled students to remotely tap into the range of technical facilities that they had previously been able to simply drop into at any time during the day. Laser Cutting, 3-D printing, the CNC router, purchasing materials for collection or for laser cutting, plotter printing, scanning, the workshop even provided a brand-new service which allowed a student to submit a request for a component to be hand made for them by a member of the technical team. A positive that has come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is that many of the new processes, procedures and systems introduced by the technical team could be kept in place when we return to normality.

This has been very productive and we have seen some fantastic finished models made by the students. The pandemic has highlighted the creative skillset of the SOTA technicians and it has also seen the team work collectively together to provide the necessary support requirements for the students.

The whole team really enjoyed building shared site models for the BA3 studio groups. These proved to be a useful and valued resource.

The technical team also developed material boxes that provided the students with free model making materials, this was very useful t during lockdown because non-essential shops were closed.

The technical team have certainly made the best out of the worst of times and we can’t wait to see you all back in the workshops again. We have missed you all.

Stephen Bretland and Stuey Carroll

Fintan Dineen Technical team leaderStephen Bretland Workshop coordinatorStuey Carroll Technical coordinatorMatt Howarth Workshop supervisorChris McVerry Workshop supervisorRob Lymer-Dennis TechnicianLara Gerrard TechnicianKevin Erkens TechnicianJames Myles TechnicianAdam Yenson TechnicianChris Weston Technician

Technical Team

Site model made by the technical team for Practice North BA3 studio. CNC routed plywood base, laser cut facades, hand-made plywood buildings.Practice North BA3 studio plywood site modelLara Gerrard

Site model made by the technical team for HRDS BA3 studio. CNC routed polystyrene base, 3D printed church building.HRDS BA3 studio routed and printed site modelLara Gerrard

https://twitter.com/LivUniArchTechs Our model making gallery can also be viewed on the architecture student intranet pages.

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/school-of-the-arts/architecture/technical-facilites/model-making-gallery/

https://twitter.com/LivUniArchTechs

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Extra Curricular Events

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City of Fragments URL: https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/city-of-fragments/

City of IsolationWinner, 1stAdam BrightLucy Bone-KnellXhesika BicakuElla WestAlicja BoroniecIoana Bucuroiu

Nation of Isolation2nd AwardCallum HewittCharlotte WhittinghamGeorge BrandonLubomir OndoMelanie HoPeter MitchellOlivia RichardsZuzanna Staniecka

No Hope street3rd AwardMatthew MageeDaniel Aston-ClarkeAnan TianAlaa Al-ShamahiIbrahim AlbusaidiAlina AngelovaAlice AntoszkiewiczRia AulakOluwabukunmi Awofisayo

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to remain physically apart. Challenges, however, can also mean opportunities. And architects know that well. At the Liverpool School of Architecture, we turned the necessity of working online into a chance to experiment with new forms of creativity. During foundation week, we ran the City of Fragments Lab: a three-day collective design studio organized in groups of students from all years. Over 400 students came together to design fragments of a larger city that was then assembled. While making friends, and familiarizing themselves with design software, students envisioned a wide range of urban forms addressing pressing challenges such as COVID-19, climate change, and social justice.

Week One: Whole school challengeconceived by Alex Dusterloh and Dr Francesca Piazzoni

Combined model renderMartin Winchester

https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/city-of-fragments/

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In the context of discovering Budapest from afar, MArch4 has worked closely with Dr Melinda Benkő, in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. Dr Benkő was a regular critic in the MArch4 reviews; her research expertise was invaluable in shaping the students’ projects. The two schools also came together in two online workshops, on the 9th of March 2021 and on the 17th of April 2021, where students presented their work and gave feedback to each other. The conversations raised pertinent questions on the future of the contemporary city, the role of public space, and the agency of design.

Liverpool School of Architecture X TU Budapest, Architecture and Urban Studies

Dr Katerina Antonopoulou

9 March 2021, 17 April 2021

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MArch4 Year LeadDr Katerina Antonopoulou

OrganisersJohanna MuszbekDr Melinda Benkő

Topologies of Water: Post-Industrial CatalystsFfion Douglas, Conor Foster, James Hole, Holly Knight-Parfitt

Re-activating Tenement Housing in Budapest: A Day in the Life of HavannaWill Millward, Simon Montinari, Jason Norris, Scott Tonkinson

Just Space: Musical EcosystemsCallum Skinner, Stanley Smith, Jia-Hao Yang

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As part of the urban exploration of Budapest in the context of ARCH401: Critical Position + Urban Proposition, the MArch4 students engaged with a live international architectural competition. Organised by Terraviva under the theme of ‘Tactical Urbanism Now!,’ the competition asked participants to reimagine public space and to come up with new urban scenarios promote social exchange, community activities and citizens interaction through the implementation of multifunctional designs.

Callum Skinner, Stanley Smith, and Jia-Hao Yang have won the 2nd prize with a fascinating proposition. The project, Musical Ecosystems, draws from underground music venues in Budapest, which allow marginalised groups to express themselves, and proposes a system of transportable and adaptable structures that can unfold in the city and give space to impromptu performances.

Callum, Stanley, and Jia-Hao have developed their work in the context of Studio 3, Just Space, ran by Dr Francesca Piazzoni and Valentino Capelo. The studio looked at the role of design in addressing spatial and social inequalities in the city.

The Liverpool School of Architecture has funded the registration of all MArch4 students to the competition.

See all the winning and shortlisted projects here: https://www.terravivacompetitions.com/tun2020_results/

Tactical Urbanism Now! Competition

Dr Katerina Antonopoulou

September – December 2020

MArch4 Year LeadDr Katerina Antonopoulou

Studio 3 Lead Dr Francesca PiazzoniValentino Capelo De Sousa

OrganisersTerraviva Competitions

Musical Ecosystems: Competition Boards 1 and 2Callum Skinner, Stanley Smith, Jia-Hao Yang

https://www.terravivacompetitions.com/tun2020_results/

https://www.terravivacompetitions.com/tun2020_results/

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Tracing the Past, an AHRC-funded collaboration between staff in the School of Architecture and the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, explores the use of digital techniques to investigate the design and construction of vaults in England during the Middle Ages.

Tracing the Past Lecture and Workshop Series

Dr Alex BuchananDr Nick Webb

ParticipantsNantwich St Mary ChurchChester CathedralLincoln CathedralWells CathedralExeter CathedralEly Cathedral

Special thanksLauren Burton and Rhianna Brady – preparation of workshop packsFilomena Saltao – Arts Marketing, Recruitment and Events

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https://www.tracingthepast.org.uk/2021/04/06/talk-and-workshop-series/

Since 2014 we have surveyed fourteen sites using terrestrial laser scanning, allowing us to generate highly accurate 3D models of the vaults. By analysing the geometry of these models, we attempt to understand the technical processes through which these historic works of architecture were designed and built by medieval masons.

To align with our upcoming book Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture, Dr Nick Webb and Dr Alex Buchanan launched a dissemination series at which we introduce our findings of each site via an online lecture, followed by an online workshop where participants use a ruler and compass to recreate medieval vault design processes.

Weekly talks and workshops took place between May and July 2021, hosted in conjunction with St Mary’s Church, Nantwich, and the cathedrals of Chester, Lincoln, Wells, Exeter and Ely.

Orthophoto plan of the choir vaults at Wells cathedral

Online workshop. Drawing by Aleta Doran, artist in residence at Chester Cathedral.

https://www.tracingthepast.org.uk/2021/04/06/talk-and-workshop-series/

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2021 What’s Next?

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Richard Dod Whats Next? Careers Days remain a popular fixture in the School calendar for the graduating years. BA3 students, in particular, are keen to understand the educational and workplace opportunities available to them following graduation and a number of MArch5 students seek out refresher advice sessions as they prepare to re-apply for jobs in professional practice.

Our first Careers Day builds core knowledge and understanding. There are on-line talks on the MArch, MA and MSCs by Course Directors and Year Leads; Visas for Non-EU citizens; employability skills; Yearout and PEDR; and CV graphics and portfolios. Students may book an online session to show their CV and portfolio with one of a choice of practitioners. The second Careers Day provides follow-up sessions or an opportunity to catch-up for those who were unable to attend the first time.

Both Careers Days include talks from practices. This year we hosted instructive sessions from MGMA and Studio Mutt who run successful local practices. We also introduced a new session entitled ‘How I found work’ where 6 recent graduates explained how they managed to get a job after university and their experiences of working in practice. Realistically this could only have been achieved by on-line means since our speakers joined at the end of a working day and from different cities. It was a popular session and likely to feature again next year, even if we are back on premises.

There has been understandable concern from some students during this year regarding their employment prospects. It is reassuring therefore to see, at this time of writing, an unprecedented influx of enquiries for our graduates.

James Crawford

SpeakersAsterios Agkathidis, UoL, PGT LeadKaterina Antonopoulou, UoL, Head of 4th YearMatt Ashton, MGMA ArchitectsJack Dunne, UoL, Head of Fifth YearPeter Farrall, UoL, RIBA Professional Services advisorChris Fawn, UoL, International Advice & Guidance LeadDave King, ShedKMMoira McCaul, UoL CareersLucretia Ray, UoL, Professional Studies advisorAlex Turner, Studio Mutt

Special ThanksWilliam Barker, Atkins GlobalClaudia Cockerill, Windsor Patania architectsMax Mika, Alison Brooks architectsJenna Patel, University of BathJonni Woo, Haworth TompkinsMaddie Woodhead, AEW Architects

Guest reviewersJane Cadot, UoLLuke Cooper, Architectural EmporiumJasmin Eastwood, Bridge architectsSarah Green, Another Architecture + InteriorsRoisin Hanlon, ABW architectsStuart Pavitt, Sheppard RobsonBen Prince, Prince ArchitectsRichmal Wigglesworth, Sheppard Robson

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LSA Community

Our LSA community is strong, both inside and outside the school, locally and internationally. It is connected and alive. Within the School of Architecture, we encourage students to take active roles in their educational, social, and professional development. ASoc is our longstanding student led Architecture Society, who continue to organise social events and guest lectures, as well as promote and support activities in the school. This year we have established student led groups, providing opportunities for collective voices encouraging activism, influence and change, as well as supporting a culture of empowerment. The groups provide a network to voice out and act on issues and identities that students care about and offer opportunities to get to know people across different year groups who share similar interests. This academic year saw the formation of four groups, all conceived and developed by students : Black Led Architecture Collective, LSA Climate Crisis, Femin.AE (Women in Architecture) and Queer Students of Architecture. A fifth group exploring mental health in architecture have also recently formed. We also have a football club, Architecture FC. The groups this year have been supported through platforms such as guest lecture series and are, through their own unique determination, developing momentum and recognition in professional arena and are influencing change. We look forward to what happens next.

As a professionally accredited school, our links through alumni and active students and staff engagement with the professional community are wide and deep. Our graduates practice and return as critics, guests or employers of further graduates. They engage in mentoring, attend guest talks and events and generally remain part of a growing family. Our proactive alumni team help us stay connected around the world and across the decades. Together we organise public events and opportunities to exchange knowledge and experience.

So too does the school’s active engagement to architectural groups as well as professional bodies in the city and region enhance our community, notably the Liverpool Architectural Society (LAS), Liverpool Young Architects (LYA) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) North West and even our colleagues at LJMU. These links provide many opportunities for our students, such as the RIBA’s student mentoring scheme the LAS’s Honan Scholarship and LYA’s building tour and lecture series. We thank these groups for their reciprocal attention.

Dan RobinsonPresident

www.liverpoolarchitecture.com

The Liverpool Architectural Society (or LAS for short) is a historic society dating back to 1848 making it one of the oldest architectural societies in the world and is also the Merseyside Branch of the RIBA.

The LAS is open to people of all ages to join, Members of the committee include Chartered Architects, Academics, Students and People with a general interest in Architecture.

The LAS arrange events, such as visits to local buildings, architectural film screenings, lectures, seminars, forums and social events throughout the year.

In late 2020 the LAS launched our Competition ‘ The New Normal’. We are currently in the process of producing a book showcasing the work, along with this years shortlisted LAS Student Award schemes.

In the forthcoming year, we hope to restart our events programme and we are also looking forward to working with the Liverpool Architectural Festival to arrange some special events.

Due to the pandemic, the LAS have not been able to run the Honan Scholarship for Students but hope to launch the 2021 application process later in the year as things hopefully get back to normal.

Visit our Website LiverpoolArchitecture.com and follow us on social media for details of forthcoming events.

In what is the 172nd year of the LAS is has been a privilege to review the shortlisted student schemes, judging is one of the final events of our yearly calendar, and with all that has happened within the last 12 months it’s a nice way for us to finish. The LAS members, as always, have been impressed by not only the quality of the work, but also the varied approaches taken by individuals to their projects.

The LAS would like to wish all students good luck for the future and we hope to see many of you at our events as you continue your journey into architecture.

LAS Liverpool Architectural Society

http://Femin.AE

http://www.liverpoolarchitecture.com

http://LiverpoolArchitecture.com

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BLAC (Black Led Architectural Collective)

Last summer, the world watched on in horror as Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, murdering him in broad daylight.

The aftermath of this horrific event brought to the surface the multitudes of racial inequalities that have become ingrained into our society as a result of systemic racism, and architecture was no exception.

BLAC started to ensure that the fight that began last summer was not in vain, and that we as an architecture school continue to strive for a fairer and more equitable environment for Black students. We want to ensure that Black Lives Matter does not just become another empty slogan, but a starting point for real, tangible change.

“You can kill the revolutionary, but you cannot kill the revolution!” – Fred Hampton

Kudzai Matsvai (President)

Building UnnamingBLAC’s biggest campaign this year has been to get our building name removed after it was discovered the first and second Lord Leverhulme were involved in colonial-era atrocities in the Congo. The journey has not been easy, and is far from over, but we as a collective will not stop until the University removes the current building name of the School of Architecture.

Bonnie Jackson

Stephen Lawrence Day 2021This year, BLAC were very proud to host a symposium in honour of Stephen Lawrence day. Along with five incredible panellists, our founder was able to discuss Stephen’s legacy, as well as how far we have come and how far we have yet to go in the fight against racism in our profession.Edward Cowperthwaite

@blaccollectiveUOL

Special thanks BLAC would like to extend our gratitude to our fellow EDI groups QSofA, LSA Climate Crisis and Femin.AE who have all been incredible allies this year and stood with BLAC in all we have tried to do.We would also like to thank the members of staff – especially Nick Webb, Julianna Kei, and Anna Gidman – who have stood with the members of BLAC throughout the year and helped us in our fight to make a difference. We dedicate this group to the lives and memories of every Black person who has lost their lives to the evils of systemic racism, especially George Floyd and Breonna Taylor whose deaths last year ignited change. May your deaths not be in vain.

Co-founder and vice presidentDaniel Gayle

MembersMyah PhelanKiran BirringMolly FitzpatrickBonnie JacksonEdward Cowperthwaite Hayley KuriAminah Gardner Elaf AbdalrahmanAminah Graham

http://Femin.AE

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LSA Climate Crisis is a student led group within the Liverpool School of Architecture. Our aim is to address the climate emergency through architectural education.

In this we actively encourage ourselves to think more about environmental sustainability and make it an integral part of the design process rather than an addition at the end.

Our group have three main aims:

1. Awareness : The built environment in the UK accounts for 45% of total Carbon Emissions, and it is crucial as architecture students to understand the impact the construction industry has on the planet.

2. Attitude : Our attitude to sustainability is integral if we are to design responsibly, and we encourage both students and staff to be more conscientious in the way we design.

3. Educate : If we are to make changes within the industry, we must understand how to make sustainable design decisions so that we can take this knowledge with us when we go into practice.

Over the past year we have accumulated 50 group members and put together an Instagram page which showcases student work and provides tips for better environmental design in the studio. We have also put together a zine article which highlighted work and reviewed climate conscious documentaries. Additionally, we have also hosted a guest lecture with Dr Joe Jack Williams from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios who gave us an excellent talk on embodied carbon and alternative sustainable materials.

We have also been collaborating with the workshop technicians in an attempt to make the model making process better for the environment, reducing less waste and reusing scrap materials. We hope to open up a scrap material repository room within the school in the coming year.

LSA Climate Crisis GroupJamie Hole, LSA Climate Crisis Student Lead

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Conor Foster

Jamie Hole

Deputy-LeadFfion DouglasInstagram LeadHolly Knight-ParfittZine LeadRia Aulak

Special thanks Dr Joe Jack Williams, FCBStudiosJames Myles, Workshop Technician

Zine Issuu: https://issuu.com/lsaclimatecrisisgroup/docs/lsa_climate_crisis_zine_april_2021_issuuEmbodied Carbon Guest Lecture: https://stream.liv.ac.uk/6x5uvd4w@Architectureforchange

https://issuu.com/lsaclimatecrisisgroup/docs/lsa_climate_crisis_zine_april_2021_issuu

https://stream.liv.ac.uk/6x5uvd4w

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Femin.AE are a student-led collective striving to provide a platform and recognition to the work of women within architecture and highlight issues of sexism within the field. We are using our social media presence, @Femin.AE on Instagram, to showcase the work of women in the profession and current students within the school. We hope to shine a light on those traditionally underrepresented in the curriculum and inspire students and practitioners alike to challenge their own assumptions about who can be an architect.

In a profession historically dominated by men, and with women comprising just 27% of chartered architects in the UK at current, we want to create a network to support and encourage female-identifying students. The suffix in our group’s name stands for Activism, Education, Architecture and Equality –these are our main areas of focus.

Femin.AE hold regular meetings (virtually for the moment) in which any members can raise a matter they wish to discuss. This can range from changes they would like to see happen within the school, a book they wish to recommend, or a guest lecturer event they would like us to organise. We hope to be able to hold some in-person events as soon as COVID-19 permits, and have had some very successful online guest speaker events in the meantime.

After a successful first year due to the input of our team, we would love to engage some new members to also be a part of creating the change they want to see within the profession.

Femin.AE

Philippa Mack(President and Co-founder)Bonnie Jackson(Vice-President and Co-Founder)

Graphics Co-ordinator & Group MemberGemma BartleDigital Contributor and Group MemberYashna CalleechurnAnna HarrisHolly Knight-ParfittMolly-Anne FitzpatrickGroup MemberAnastazja SzczeplekNicole BullworthyPhoebe Leech Myah Phelan

Special thanks Special thanks to Urbanistas North West for their wonderful insights at Femin.AE’s first guest speaker event in Feburary. An ardent discussion was had revolving around women’s representation within the profession, and many enlightening personal insights from attendees were shared.Thanks go also to Charlie Edmonds of Future Architects Front, who hosted a passionate talk at the request of the student-led EDI groups focusing on how to create grassroots-change within the architectural profession.The formation of our group would not have been possible without collaboration from key members of staff Nick Webb, Juliana Kei, and Anna Gidman. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Architects Who Inspire UsPhilippa Mack

@Femin.AE

Members of Femin.AEBonnie Jackson

Femin.AE logo by Gemma Bartle

http://Femin.AE

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Formation of the student led EDI group “Queer Students of Architecture” (QSofA) marks a progressive step towards promoting the visibility of queer-identifying people, who are historically under-represented in the school, architectural curriculum, and the wider profession. Establishing such a student body is no small feat, least of all during a pandemic, however despite restrictions mandated by COVID-19 online meetings have provided a safe space for both forward-thinking discussions and a means of socialising and connecting. By bringing queer identities within architecture to the forefront at an educational level, we are working to normalise and reduce the stigma surrounding sexuality in the profession.

As a group we created a zine in celebration of LGBTQ+ history month. The focus of the issue was ‘queer space’ – environments that have an important and contested history. Defining such a space is unique to each individual: one approach was to consider queer space in reference to the form of place-making that allows LGBTQ+ folk to find one another, e.g. gay bars, however other ideas were also explored through use of historical precedents and rumination of lived experience.

Whilst recognition and equality for the LGBTQ+ community has progressed, there are still barriers to be unworked and it is in respect, and recognition, of these difficulties that the value of queer space is rendered.

Alongside the groups’ collective work we were also fortunate to have a guest talk by Danni Kerr. RIBA Role Model and advocator for LGBTQ+ rights, Danni openly discussed her personal life experience, offering emotive and enlightening insights into how one may mediate gender and sexuality with the profession of architecture.

It has been a successful year, owed to all members of QSofA, and we are always excited to welcome more people to join in next year’s activities.

Queer Students of ArchitectureBonnie Jackson (Co-founder) & Daniel Aston-Clarke (Co-founder)

Closets Are For ClothesBonnie Jackson

Special thanks Special thanks to Danni Kerr for her guest talk in March 2021. Her willingness to share lived experience in such a candid and unabashed manner proved to be insightful, as well as deeply touching. Thanks go also to Charlie Edmonds of Future Architects Front, who hosted a passionate talk at the request of the student-led EDI groups focusing on how to create grassroots-change within the architectural profession.The formation of our group would not have been possible without collaboration from key members of staff Nick Webb, Juliana Kei and Anna Gidman. Thank you for your ongoing support.

LGBT LeedsPhilippa Mack

@QSofA.Liverpool

Zine Contributor & Group MemberPhilippa Mack Nicole BullworthyPhoebe LeechEdward Cowperthwaite Lydia O’NeillLYA Representative & Group MemberKudzai Matsvai


The Liverpool Architectural Society or ‘ASOC’ is an internal social and academic society ran by students, for students. Offering enhanced opportunities and experiences for students at the school, ASOC usually runs a full calendar of events throughout the year inviting students of all years to gather, socialise and share their common interests. Although the society is of the school, this does not mean that its connections stop there, ASOC runs alongside the newly implemented student-led groups and with several external architectural organisations including the RIBA, Liverpool Architectural Society (LAS) and Liverpool Young Architects (LYA). This means that many events held in Liverpool and across the country become available to students as part of the shared events calendar.

ASOC strives to create fun, relaxed and accessible events for all in the school of architecture, championing friendships and academic relationships alike in upholding the one-of-a-kind personality of our school. Ranging from highly coveted guest lecture speakers to animal costume themed bar crawls, the various annual ASOC events have achieved cult status within the school, and you need only ask the students wandering the corridors for more reasons to attend!

2020–21 was an especially tough year for ASOC and all regarding the developments of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, but despite setbacks surrounding physical events the society was able to continue various interesting virtual guest lectures from unique industry experts and assist other on-going affairs within the school. The society looks forward to continuing its full calendar of events as soon as we can do so in collaboration with the wider student group and school community.

ASOCMatthew Magee Emily Niven


Thankyou Matthew Magee and Emily March for all your hard work with ASOC.Congratulations on graduating from MArch and all your achievements along the way. You and your team have made a big difference to our LSA community both within and outside of our school. Good luck you’re hard acts to follow.

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/Film archive https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/filmarchive/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/filmarchive/


The Architecture football team has progressed even further throughout this year. It was a pleasure to see the amount of interest the team received, with over 30 architecture students participating from a variety of years. Every player on the team shares the same vision of having fun whilst wanting to win, which creates a friendly but also competitive atmosphere.

On the pitch we achieved some great results. The league season commenced in November, with a derby against the Engineers. It was a great game ending in a 3-3 draw, but that would be the only game of the league campaign. Once restrictions were lifted, we were placed into a four team group, with the top two going through to a Champions League style group, which was always going to be tough. However, not to be underestimated, we went unbeaten and secured a place in the next round of group games. After winning our first game in the champions league style group, we went on to lose the next two, sadly eliminating us.

The football team strives to create a fun and relaxed environment, enabling architecture students to build relationships across years and learn from like-minded individuals. The team has allowed members to be able to come together at training and matchdays and share memories with their friends. This is what football is all about.

Architecture FCMichael GrabowskiCaptain

Architecture FC Michael GrabowskiHoratio ByrneThomas ByersGeorge MannixRhys BennettSam ColeJake OwenJoe DwineSam DaleDominic CrumpHarvey Munro Tom Barlow-KayJake GittinsWill LambertZivoin Ristic Jacob NuttallDaniel GayleAdam ClarenceLuke AustinCharles Thadwald

NON-ARCHITECTSAaron DaviesBen HamiltonJosh DavisRu WhelanCameron PepperAlex Holmes


Thursday 11th February 2021David LomaxHow CLT Can Save The World

Thursday 18th February 2021UrbanistasNWWhere did everybody go?

Monday 22nd February 2021 Anna PageThe Swiss Genossenschaft: Cooperative Housing

Thursday 25th February 2021Dr Joe Jack Williams, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios The hidden carbon of building – Embodied Carbon

Thursday 4th March 2021Lesley Lokko Sacred Cows

Wednesday 10th March 2021Richard KoeckPublic Lecture: History and Future of Immersive Experiences

Thursday 11th March 2021Danni KerrYour Name's not on the List: The Failure of Space as Social Mediator

Thursday 18th March 2021Martin Prince-ParrotPark-onomics: The Value of Healthy Places

Thursday 22nd April 2021Kenneth FramptonReflections on the predicament of Architecture: seven points in retrospect

Thursday 6th May 2021Ali Mangera, MYAA ArchitectsArchitecture, Culture & Identity in a Globalised World

Thursday 13th May 2021SymposiumAddressing EDI Issues in Architectural Education at the LSA

Thursday 20th May 2021Stephen Lawrence Day 2021

Guest Lecture Series 2020–2021

Open Guest Lecture Series supported by the School of The Artswww.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/Film archive https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/filmarchive/

November & December 2020Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment

12th November 2020Neil PinderPOWER

19th November 2020Dr Burçak Özlüdil, Associate Dean, Albert Dorman Honors College, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA)Madness and Architecture: An Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums

23rd November 2020Anna PageSecular Retreat, Peter Zumthor: The Process of Making

26th November 2020Professor Matthew Smith, University of StrathclydeSocial Psychiatry and Preventing Mental Illness in the USA 1939–1980

30th November 2020Stephanie ImbeauProcession

3rd December 2020Karen Flatt, Architect & Studio Director, IBI Group Nurture and Nature – Approaches to Mental Health Design

10th December 2020Stacey Charlesworth, Design Director, ADT Workplace, Chris Pickup, Studio Associate Director, IBI Group) Architecture and heritage for mental health in the community

17th December 2020Round tableMental health for all: the role of architecture, design and place

16th December 2020David Rapp‘Elements ‘ Screening 32 minutes and Q and A

7th January 2021David Nixon The International Space Station

http://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/filmarchive/

Guest Lecture Series x 385

Student Led Series

384 x Guest Lecture Series

A student led series – guest invited and hosted by each of our newly formed student led groups to introduce their aspirations funded by LSA and facilitated by Guest lecture Series team

Historical and contemporary perspectives on mental health and the built environment

November-December 2020 – a special series convened by Dr Christina Malathouni

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/events/guest/historicalandcontemporaryperspectivesonmentalhealthoverview/



386 x Guest Lecture Series

2021 Robert Maxwell Memorial Lecture

Reflections on the Predicament of Architecture: seven points in retrospect

Kenneth Frampton’s presentation advanced a critique of the current malaise in architectural education and of the equally debilitating state of contemporary practice. These aspects are evident in the current postmodern tendency to reduce architecture either to design of spectacular sculpture at a gargantuan scale or to the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology in order to favour the maximization of profit. Both of these Neoliberal impulses have deprived modern architecture of its former ameliorative character, namely, the formulation of the building task in a socio-ethical and spatially innovative manner. The lecture attempted to trace the subtle ideological shifts and the changes in nomenclature that have accompanied our currently unsustainable degradation of the megalopolitan environment.

Thursday 22 April 2021 6PM GMT [1PM EDT]

Introduction Soumyen Bandyopadhyay University of Liverpool

Mark Swenarton University of Liverpool

Lecture Kenneth Frampton Columbia University, New York

Conclusion Marco Iuliano University of Liverpool

Kenneth Frampton

Woodcut: Celia Scott

BA & M.Arch x 389 388 x BA & M.Arch

AcknowledgementsThank you to the large teams of people who support the BA and the M.Arch and PGT programmes for your dedication and hard work. Programme Leads, Year Leads and Studio Leads and Studio Teaching TeamsHistory and Theory: Dr Barnabas Calder, Dr Ewan Harrison, Professor Iain Jackson, Professor Neil Jackson, Dr Marco Iuliano, Dr Christina Malathouni, Professor Nick Ray, Dr Patrick Zamarian, Dr Peter Richmond, Dr Neal Sahsore, Dr James HillsonEnvironmental Science: Professor Steve Sharples, Professor Carl Hopkins, Dr Daveed Chow, Dr Stephen Finnegan, Dr Pyoung-Jik Lee, Dr Haniyeh Mohammadpourkarbasi, Dr Ranald Lawrence, Dr Stuart Gee (Studio Consultant), Dr Stephanie Koerner, Dr Jiangtao DuTechnology: Dr Giamila Quattrone, Ted Ruffell, Claudia Briguglio, Alex Dusterloh, Peter Farrall, Dr Hanmei Chen, Dr Adonis Haidar Practice Management: Jack Dunne, Peter Farrall Internationalisation: Ronny Ford and Charlotte FaircloughUrban Studies: Dr Fei Chen, Dr Ataa Alsalloum, Dr Francseca Piazzoni, Dr Junjie Xie, Dr Yat Shun KeiExperimental Officer in Design Computing: Martin WinchesterLibrarian: Nicola Howorth and Lisa HawksworthConsultants: Ted Ruffell, Dr Stuart Gee, Greg Beattie, Dr Hanmei ChenTechnical support team: Fintan Dineen, Stephen Bretland, Stuey Carroll, Matt Howarth, Chris McVerry, Rob Lymer-Dennis, Lara Gerrard, Kevin Erkens, James Myles, Adam Yenson, Chris Weston School Receptionist / Operations: Rhianna Brady and Lauren BurtonBuilding Manager: Fiona GillmoreOperations Support Team: Andrea Alfonso, Pauline Mitchell, Henry Brindle, Janet Rothwell, Denise Burns, Rhianna Brady, Lauren BurtonStudent Experience Team: Hollie Byrne, Jane Lloyd, Melanie Williams, Jackie Bracken, Cathy Rees, Isla Kennedy, Joanne Fairburn, Jan Storey, Christopher Readitt, Elaine Jones, Phill Franey, Nicky McCarthy, Emily Kelly, Janet Wood, Sam Bird, Juan Caicedo, Charlotte Fairclough, Karen Felton, Charlotte Wilson, Vicky Chapman, Josephine Wilkin, Cathy Piggott, Amy GerrardFinance Team: Samantha Hankin, David SummersgillResearch and Impact Team: Daniel Brown, Amanda Dentith, Pamela Heald, Stephanie Kehoe, Nathan Yearsley, Kirsty Harland, Peter Pimblett, Gill PrescottMarketing, Recruitment & Events Team: Brian Beckwith, Jonny Davis Le Brun, Elizabeth Farrar, Alys Jones, Filomena Saltao, Helen ThomasSchool of the Arts Leadership: Peter Buse (Dean), Steve Winterton (Head of operations), Supported by Tracy Mann

All our PT studio tutors who, along with guest critics, brings practice based research into our teaching.Practices include:5 Plus Architects, ABW architects, AEW Architects, Alison Brooks architects, Another Architecture + Interiors, Architectural Emporium, Architecture519, ARCSR, Atkins Global, Bridge architects, Carl Turner Architects, Cb3 design architects, Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Condy Lofthouse Architects, CW2, David Miller Architects, DK Architects, Donald Insall Associates, Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios, Ford Rexhepi Architects, Gibson Architects, Hans Van der Heijden Architect, Harrison Stringfellow, Haworth Tompkins, Heatherwick Studio, Hinchcliffe Heritage, Ian Ritchie Architects, Jeffrey Bell Architects, John Coward Architects, Landscape Projects, Liverpool University Estates, London Met, Merseyside Civic Society, MGMA Architects, Michael Wilford Architects, Neri and Hu, Nudge Group, Port Sunlight Village Trust, Prince Architects, Purcell Architects, Riccardo Monte Design, Safe Regeneration, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, shedkm, Sheppard Robson, Squash Nutrition Liverpool, Studio Mutt, Suliman Alla Studio, The Orchard Project, The World Around, Urban Splash, Walmers Yard, Whitby Wood, Wilkinson Eyre, Windsor Patania architects, Witherford Watson Mann, Zaha Hadid Architects

Visiting ProfessorsIan Ritchie CBE RAProfessor Nicholas RayHans Van der HeijdenMichael Wilford CBE

With key guests Dave King, shedkm architects

Guest Critics BA1 Thankyou to all the BA2, BA3, MArch4 and MArch5 students who helped at BA1 reviews

Guest Critics BA2 Thankyou to BA3, MArch 4 and MArch5 students who attended our student led reviews

Guest Critics BA3Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)Guest Critics Dan Gibson (Gibson Architects)Casper Jones (Liverpool John Moores)Dan Hasler (The Orchard Project)Andrea Ku (Friends of Sefton Park)Peter Mitchell (Fielden Clegg Bradley) Maurice Mitchell (ARCSR, London Met)Geoff Rich (Fielden Clegg Bradley)Wei Shan Chia (CW2)Laura Stafford (5 Plus Architects)Bo Tang (ARCSR, London Met)May Tang (Heatherwick)Steve Taylor (Liverpool University Estates)Dominic Walker (Witherford Watson Mann)Special Guests Ulrike Eghartner (Manchester University) Patrick Fleming (ETH Zurich)Dan Gibson (Gibson Architects)Geoff Rich (Fielden Clegg Bradley)Carolyn Steel (Author of Hungry City & Sitopia)Steve Taylor (Liverpool University Estates)Becky Vipond (Squash Nutrition Liverpool)

Studio Pen and IncGuest CriticsSimon Cadle (Carl Turner Architects) Luke Cooper (Architectural Emporium) Dave Gilkes (DK Architects) Dave King (shedkm) Ardi Rexhepi (Ford Rexhepi Architects)Sue Stringfellow, Sian Atherton(Harrison Stringfellow)Jane Cadot, Lucretia Ray, Dr Francesca Piazzoni (LSA)Special GuestsAlyson Cummins (Alyson Cummins.com)Tevor Skempton (Merseyside Civic Society)Steven Metcalfe (Sefton Council)Laura Mark (Walmers Yard)Kelly Harrison (Whitby Wood)Brian Dawe, Kerry Traynor (Safe Regeneration)

Practice NorthGuest Critics Lee Bennett (Sheppard Robson)Pat Borer (Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT))Graham Burn, James Crawford (Studio Mutt)Jasmin Eastwood (Bridge Architects)Jo Edmunds (shedkm)Beatrice Galilee (The World Around)Riccardo Monte (Riccardo Monte Design)Shankari Raj (Nudge Group)Tom Jarman (Urban Splash)Ben Leach (AHMM)Peter Farrall, Lucretia Ray, Dr Christina Malathouni, Dr Torsten Schmiedeknecht (LSA)Dave King (shedkm)

Urban Creative Guest Critics Adam Booth (Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios)Tim Wenham (Architecture519)Roisin Hanlon (ABW Architects)Keven Lester (Cb3 design architects)Tringa Kelmendi (Sarah Wigglesworth Architects)Matt King (Wilkinson Eyre)

Heritage Related Design StudioGuest Critics Dearbhail Keating (John Coward Architects)Rebecca Meadowcroft (Purcell Architects)David Oldham (Condy Lofthouse Architects)Peizheng Zhu (Neri and Hu)Claudia Briguglio, Professor Iain Jackson, Lucretia Ray (LSA)Special ThanksHeather McGrath-Alcock (Port Sunlight Village Trust)John Hinchcliffe (Hinchcliffe Heritage)Katie Jones (Bombed Out Church Garden Bar)Dorian Proudfoot (Donald Insall Associates)Dennis Rodwell (Heritage Consultant)Dr Stuart Gee, Anna Gidman, Prof Robert Kronenburg, Ted Ruffell (LSA)

Guest Critics M.Arch 4th year critics Guest CriticsDr Sebastian Aedo Jury, Dr Sophia Banou, Dr Melinda Benkő, Jocelyn Froimovich, Dr Hamid KhaliliKallegias Alexandros, Dr Matyas Gutai, Anna PageProfessor Nicholas Ray, João Prates Ruivo, Oliver Schulze, Jonny Shaw, Neil Swanson, Samu Szemerey, Dominika TihanyiVisiting ProfessorMichael Wilford CBE

Special thanksEszter Babarczy, Zoltán Erő, Oliver Schulze

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390 x Studio Communities & Contested Spaces (CCS*)

Critics M.Arch 5 Michael Cunniff (Jeffrey Bell Architects, Manchester)Ian Ritchie, Gordon Talbot, Jonnathan Shaw (Ian Ritchie Architects, London), Helen Roberts (Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios, London), Rachel Stevenson (David Miller Architects, London), Neil Swanson (Landscape Projects, Manchester & London)Hans Van der Heijden (Hans Van der Heijden Architect, Amsterdam)Jonny Shaw, Gordon Talbot (Ian Ritchie Architects)Thesis CriticsProfessor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Professor Iain Jackson, Dr Katerina Antonopoulou, Dr Yat Shun KeiRonny Ford, Dr Torsten Schmiedeknecht

Guest Critics MACarlos Bausa Martines (Zaha Hadid Architects)Yorgos Berdos (University of Edinburgh)Marianna Cavada (University of Lancaster)Kyriakos Chatziparaskeuas (Heatherwick Studio)Guzden Varnlioglu (Economic University of Izmir)

Careers and employability event contributorsThank you for supporting this event – to RIBA NW, RIBA North and everyone involved in RIBA mentoring programmeSpeakersAsterios Agkathidis (LSA), PGT Lead, Katerina Antonopoulou (LSA), Head of Fourth Year, Matt Ashton (MGMA Architects), Jack Dunne (LSA), Head of Fifth Year, Peter Farrall (LSA), RIBA Professional Services advisor, Chris Fawn (LSA), International Advice & Guidance Lead, Dave King (ShedKM)Moira McCaul (LSA)CareersLucretia Ray (LSA)Professional Studies advisorAlex Turner (Studio Mutt)

Special ThanksWilliam Barker (Atkins Global)Claudia Cockerill (Windsor Patania architects)Max Mika (Alison Brooks architects)Jenna Patel (University of Bath)Jonni Woo (Haworth Tompkins)Maddie Woodhead (AEW Architects)

Portfolio reviewersJane Cadot (LSA)Luke Cooper (Architectural Emporium)Jasmin Eastwood (Bridge architects)Dave King (shedkm)Sarah Green (Another Architecture + Interiors)Roisin Hanlon (ABW architects)Stuart Pavitt (Sheppard Robson)Ben Prince (Prince Architects)Richmal Wigglesworth (Sheppard Robson)Luke Cooper (Architectural Emporium)

Thankyou to all our students who have been an amazing help in the life of the school throughout the year.

Particular thanks to:Year and Studio RepsMArch5: Matt Magee, Saden Alabbassi, Saira Ahmed, Georgiou Panayiotis MArch4: Molly-Ann Fitzpatrick, Sian Opie, Pip Mack, Yashna CalleechurnBA3: Xinyuan Yue, Zhixuan Song, George Mannix, Iasmina Salop, Jialin Li, Faye Lewis, Keerthivarman Engur Mohan, Radoslaw Nicgorski, Jake Owen, Ming ChenBA2: Charlie Fletcher, Imogen Campbell, Katrina Fung, Madeline Gallant, Myah Phelan, Qianye Hu, Renee Ojikutu, Weronika Gawlik, Yanjie Huang, Yilun Zhu, Yue Dai, Zuzanna StanieckaBA1: Gemma Humphray, Win Lathavit T., Mahanoor Javaid, Nicola Yu

Student Group Founders and Leaders: BLAC: Kudzai Matzvai, Daniel Gayle, Climate Crisis: James Hole, Ffion Douglas, Holly Knight-Parfitt, Ria Aulak, FeminAE: Philippa Mack, Bonnie Jackson, QSoA: Bonnie Jackson Daniel Aston-Clarke, Architecture FC: Michael Grabowski

GTA Software Support: Christina Alexe, Emily Niven, Matt Magee, Toby Boon-Itt, Tolulope Ogunjimi, Saden Alabbasi, Ioana Bucuroiu, Kate Johnstone, George Brandon

LivuniarchInstagram: Dilek Arslen and Holly Knight-Parfitt Twitter: Anna Gidman

Website Rebuild and Catalogue assistance: Dilek Arslan, Farokh Damania, Yuhao Fei, Katrina Fung, Alice Garner, Stephanie Hopkinson, Felicity Morris, Huw Morris-Jones, Alexander Murthy

ASOC committee: Matthew Magee, Selena Raile and Emily Niven

M.Arch yearbook assistance: Matt Magee, Saden Alabbassi, Georgiou Panayiotis

Thank you to all those students who have acted as ambassadors for the school in your pursuit of good architecture, a good architectural community and a fairer world.

Special thanks – Thank you to all the contributors, checkers and encouragers to this publication – you rock. Catalogue of work 2021 https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/catalogue21/

LSA Virtual Degree Show 2021 x 391 390 x BA & M.Arch

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BA x 393 392 x BA

Virtually BA3: image courtesy of Martin Winchester

Year of 2021 Graduating BA Students



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Hamaad Akram, Walid Al Jaber, Thomas Antrobus, Ryan Atkins, Zhongxuan Bai, Amer Balan, Sam Beckwith Flint, Emmeline Blellock, Emily Bracher, Thomas Byers, Horatio Byrne, Yinzhe Cai, Jingyi Cao, Yuhui Cao, Jiaming Chang, Jingyuan Chen, Ming Chen, Nuo Chen, Sheng Chen, Siqi Chen, Weining Chen, Xiaochi Chen, Xinyi Chen, Yanhao Chen, Emma Chrystie-Lowe, Giovanni Cicogna, Bethany Clarkson, Matthew Collier, Owen Cornes, Holly Crone, Dominic Crump, Xinyue Cui, Yiying Dai, Samuel Dale, Matthew Davies, Sean Davies, Chaohao Deng, Yilin Deng, Yucheng Deng, Jacob Downey, Thomas Dutton, Joseph Dwine, Rebeca Ellis, Keerthivarman Engur Mohan, Ryan Evans, Zidong Fan, Haotian Fang, Diya Feng, Wei Feng, Joshua Forrest, Jennifer Foster, Houwei Fu, Fan Gao, Yuqian Gao, Glenda Gaspard, Jai Ghataore, Jake Gittins, Bethany Gough, Isabelle Gould, Michael Grabowski, Cara Grime, Ryder Gulli, Yuqing Han, Sayed Hashimi, Kate Haughton, Yue He, Ryan Headley, Lauren Heatherington, Luke Hickling, Sophie Hicks, Jhaerosa Hisarza, Emma Hobson-White, Elizabeth Hodgson, Myles Holmes, Wilf Horton, Anbo Hu, Ruwen Hu, Xiaoan Hu, Xin Hu, Nadia Jenkins, Zhenhao Jin, Samuel Kadiri, Sophie Kebell, Hayley Kirui, Alexander Knight, William Lambert, James Langlois, Thomas Leadsom, Ju-Young Lee, Faye Lewis, Stefan Lewis, Guangyuan Li, Hanning Li, Haowen Li, Jialin Li, Sijia Li, Fangqing Lin, Jialin Liu, Jiawei Liu, Shiyun Liu, Su Liu, Yangxi Liu, Zehao Liu, Thomas Lockley, Xingyu Lu, Charlotte Lyness, Danyang Lyu, Jiaheng Lyu, Mengjie Lyu, Jiaru Ma, Jessica Main, George Mannix, Meghan McIntosh, Niamh McNamee, Xiangfei Meng, Megan Mew-McAdam, Diana Mihaila, Peter Mitchell, Kelly Morris, Ella Mulhall, Donia Mursi, Radoslaw Nicgorski, Grzegorz Niedzwiecki, Dominic O’Dea, Lydia O’Neill, Rebecca Oldroyd, Alistair Orchard-Mitchell, Jake Owen, Kittie Patrick, Hannah Payne, Holly Peplow, Amelia Perez Bravo, Katarzyna Piechula, Samuel Pierce, Isabel Piercy, Ellie Platt, Anamol Poudel, Isabel Powell, Zhichuan Qin, Harshini Rajagopal, Kris Ramos, Olivia Richards, Natasha Rodgers, Bonnie Russell, Iasmina Salop, Alistair Search, Zhijian Shan, Mirta Silvestri, Zhixuan Song, Grace Stanton-Kenna, Szymon Stefanski, Ben Stephenson, Samuel Stoneham, Yangmin Su, Puyuan Sun, Simeng Sun, Yitian Tan, Yining Tang, Corey Teece-Millington, Anan Tian, Yan Tong, Ethan Urquhart, Bingyao Wang, Hao Wang, Junhao Wang, Ruying Wang, Tian Wang, Tianyu Wang, Yanfei Wang, Yixuan Wang, Rebecca Ward, Shichong Wei, Amber Williamson, Heather Woof, Kai Wu, Quancheng Wu, Yangan Xia, Cai Xiao, Yunxuan Xiao, Zipeng Xiao, Ruilin Xie, Yiyin Xu, En Yang, Jiahe Yang, Jiarun Yang, Jiayi Yang, Jingwen Yang, Peilin Yang, Yiran Ye, Rundong Ying, Xinyuan Yue, Hongyi Zeng, Enchang Zhang, Huanzhong Zhang, Jiahui Zhang, Jiayu Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Jinyu Zhang, Wenyi Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Zixuan Zhang, Xinyi Zhao, Yihui Zhao, Zhujun Zhao, Jiaxin Zheng, Yueying Zhong, Jianfeng Zhou, Junping Zhou, Yuqi Zhou, Dazhen Zhu, Yingfei Zhuo, Dengyu Zou

2020 2021 BA3 Students

External PrizesSwedish Wood Student Architect Award – winner Jake Gittins, runners up Weng Fei, James Langlois, Zhang WenyiSheppard Robson Jicwood Prize – Jenny Foster

Liverpool Young Architects 2021 Drawing Prize Liverpool – winner Faye Lewis, runners up Anan Tian and Mengjie LyuLiverpool Architectural Society Student Awards 2021 – Hannah Payne

BA3 Book Prize donated by Ian Ritchie for best background research – Holly Peplow

BA3 Book Prizes donated by Jonathan Falkingham MBE for: best rendered drawing – Emma Hobson-White, best CGI – Jialin Li, best landscape – Ruilin Xie, best model – Zhenhao Jin

School of the Arts Academic Achievement Award winner – Hannah PayneSchool of the Arts Academic Achievement Award runner up – Radoslaw NicgorskiGraham Saunders Memorial Prize – Sam Beckwith-Flint and Becky WardRIBA Project Management Poster Award Prize – Elizabeth Hodgson and Tom Byers

BA3 Endowment PrizesDavid Thistlewood Dissertation Prize – Radoslaw NicgorskiCharles Anthony Minoprio Prize – Anan TianSikorski Memorial Prize – Wei Feng, Ella Mulhall, Sophie KebellJohn Rankin Awards – Chen Nuo, Heather Woof

Emma Holt Travel Scholarship – Hannah Payne Emma Holt Travel Scholarship – Radoslaw Nicgorski Emma Holt Travel Scholarship – Holly PeplowDavid Inman Fund – Sophie KebellDavid Inman Fund – Ellie Platt

Competition Entry Selection – Presidents Medal and Architects JournalRIBA Presidents Bronze Medal – part 1 – James Langlois and Anan TianArchitects Journal Student Prize – part 1 – Hannah Payne

BA Prizes

LSA 2021 Summer Degree Show and Prize Giving

The LSA 2021 Summer Showcase and Prize giving is a celebration of work and achievements throughout the School with particular focus on graduating years in BA and M.Arch.Thank you and welcome to our prizegiving day guest: Professor Ola UdudkuThank you to everyone who made this happen.Particular thanks to Martin Winchester, Lucretia Ray and Anna Gidman and students: Dilek Arslan, Holly Knight-Parfitt, Huw Morris-Jones, Farokh Damania, Katrina Fung, Yuhao Fei, Alice Garner, Stephanie Hopkinson, Alexander Murthy.

Catalogue of work 2021 https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/catalogue21/

website https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/ BA x 395

BA2 PrizesJohn Rankin Awards – Karolina Adamiec and Zivoin RisticBest sustainable response in BA2 – Rhys Bennett Best Imagination and Creativity in BA2 – Yilun Zhu Best Design Proposal in BA2 – Henry Omotosho Best Portfolio in BA2 – Emma Loughnane

BA1 PrizesSchool of the Arts Academic Achievement Award – winner Evan Cheng, runner up Ioana-Silvia BranzucaBest sustainable response in BA1 – Louise Mongan Best Imagination and Creativity in BA1 – Chelsea Humado Best Design Proposal in BA1 – Tima Malikov Best Portfolio in BA1 – Ching Bosco Wong

https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/catalogue21/


M.Arch PrizesLiverpool Young Architects 2021 Drawing Prize – winner Felicity Morris, runners up Callum Allison and Emily NivenLiverpool Architectural Society Student Awards 2021 – Tololupe Ogunjimi, Ioana Bucuroiu, Bentoon Boon-Itt

Norwest Holst Prize – Simon Montinari P S TYSON Prize – James Hole, Conor Foster, Ffion Douglas, Holly Knight-ParfittDynamis Associates Prize 1st place – Simon Baines Dynamis Associates Prize 2nd place – Kittimanus Tangdham Dynamis Associates Prize 3rd place – Gabriela Grodny

M.Arch5 Endowment PrizesTarn Dissertation Prize – Lauren ClancyFrank Horton Prize – Tin Tsoi, Qinxian Zheng, Tianli Zhang, Zhenhao XuSikorski Memorial Prize – Lauren Clancy, Lauren Greensill, Emma Hartley, Kate JohnstoneBuilding Management Prize – Emily Niven

Competition Entry Selection – RIBA dissertaton and Presidents MedalArchitects Journal Student Prize – George Brandon, Stephanie Lewis, Matthew Magee, Daniel ReidRIBA Presidents Dissertation – Anna Harris3DReid Architects Journal nomination – George Brandon, Stephanie Lewis, Matthew Magee, Daniel ReidArchitects Journal Student Prize for sustainability – Tololupe Ogunjimi, Ioana Bucuroiu, Bentoon Boon-IttRIBA Presidents Silver Medal – part 2 – Tin Tsoi, Qinxian Zheng, Tianli Zhang, Zhenhao XuRIBA Presidents Silver Medal – part 2 – Felicity Morris, Emily Niven, Joseph WilloughbyCharles Reilly Medal – Felicity Morris, Emily Niven, Joseph Willoughby

Thanks to our sponsors who have generously contributed to the prizes:

Ian Ritchie CBE RA, Jonathan Falkingham MBE FRIBA. LAS (Liverpool Architectural Society) Sheppard Robson, RIBA North West,

University of Liverpool Alumni, School of the Arts, LYA (Liverpool Young Architects), Swedish Wood, Dynamis Associates

Sponsors

Alumni

Big THANK YOU as always to our growing alumni family for your continuous support as critics, and by participating in our events and lectures – this year online – and staying in touch from around the world.

Year of 2021 M.Arch Students

M.Arch x 397 396 x M.Arch

Virtually MArch photo courtesy of Martin Winchester

Overleaf virtually the whole school photo 2021 by Martin Winchester

George Brandon, Stephanie Lewis, Matthew Magee, Daniel Reid, Callum Allison, Chris Ward, Joe Watkins, Pearce Chapman, Charlotte Sumner, Wei Zhuo, Panayotis Georgiou, Alessandra Berariu, Andrew Gordon, Benedict Thompson, Kavindu De Saram, Lauren Clancy, Lauren Greensill, Emma Hartley, Kate Johnstone, Felicity Morris, Emily Niven, Joseph Willoughby, Tololupe Ogunjimi, Ioana Bucuroiu, Bentoon Boon-Itt, Jiamin Lei, Chi-Yao Lin, Kwan Yee Siu, Joshua So, Tin Tsoi Tin Shing, Qinxian Zheng, Tianli Zhang, Zhenhao Xu, Scott Millington, Matthew Sharp, Eden Harris, Anna Harris, Emily Hughes, Selena Raile, Jess Arnold, Owen Brown, Yifan Shi, Christina-Raluca Alexe, Tamsin Gamble

Thank you to our LSA21 book print sponsor Swedish Wood

Good luck year of 2021 from all of us

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