Architecture

Course Structure

1. [\'MArch Studios 2016-17*Cultural Shift: Intensifying heritage through architectural interface. How can history, technology, culture, landscape and innovative thinking inform design and regional cultural identity? How can social ideas and built outcomes have a meaningful relationship? Can architecture be a tool for a more equal distribution of Knowledge and Culture? How can Culture and Knowledge be produced, stored, channelled and disseminated in a time where their very nature seems to blur?In 2016/17, Studio 1 will investigate the future role of architecture in defining the interface of contemporary cultural exchange within a heritage environment. Studio 1 will work with the Hampshire Culture Trust within the context of Winchester and through a number of challenging thematic studies and collaborations with English Heritage, (possibly) Winchester School of Art and Hampshire County Council Architects Practice will investigate Architecture that produces innovative spaces for knowledge and cultural exchange for the next 10, 25, 50 or even 100 years.MArch 2 Studio, Tutors (Studio 1): Tina Wallbridge, Pablo Martinez Capdevila\', \'The Architecture & Landscape. This studio will be exploring and experimenting with Urban Hinterlands, parks, landscapes and ruins at the periphery. The studio is the Lab, the seeds are about speculation, growth, invention and entrepreneurialism - small changes which can lead to revolutions. Adaptable, incremental, contextual, controversial \\x96 the studio will experiment and explore how programs, briefs, buildings and public space can adapt to the changing contexts, social/environmental/technological interactions in the hinterlands. Initial experiments: Hilsea Lines, Portsmouth. MArch 1: Worthing Station, UK with Future Spaces (Make), Design SouthEast, Adur & Worthing Council. MArch 2: HYPOthesis, thesis dissertation and studio research will be used to define individual or group site(s).MArch 1 & 2 Studios, Tutors (Studio 2): Nick Timms, Paula Craft-Pegg, Darren Bray\', \'The Emergent Studio: Architecture of, on and around the Edge. The Emergent Studio explores the idea of making architecture within cultural contexts that are not \\x91our own\\x92; always in a location that in some way exemplifies an edge condition. Our theoretical platform for exploring these conditions has been, and continues to be, rooted within phenomenology, drawing from the writings of the humane Nordic modernist tradition, in informing our methodologies of interrogation and design. The adoption of the principal of \\x91Ethical Praxis\\x92 informs our ethos of providing transformational learning opportunities driven from a phenomenological perspective, supported by our research activity.MArch 1 & 2 Studios, Tutors (Studio 4): Roger Tyrrell, Greg Bailey, Darren Bray\', \'Making, Understanding and Doing (MUD): Portsmouth: The Island City "Going Dutch". This studio continues to reflect on Portsmouth\\\'s response to climate change induced rise in sea levels with the objective of designing resilient and sustainable responses. Infrastructures and their impact on developing Urban and Architectural visions are salient. Studio MUD focuses on direct engagement with design as a way of understanding the issues, materiality and challenges of the urban and architectural proposition, design process and implementation. This year we aim to undertake some particularly exciting work alongside a range of external experts and mentors including the Eastern Solent Coastal Partnership developing alternative design proposals for the Southsea Waterfront.MArch 1 & 2 Studios, Tutors (Studio 5): Francis Graves, Walter Menteth\', \'Tactical Urbanism. Tactical Urbanism will investigate, in a radical and provocative way, how a university environment will change in the future and create alternative and hypothetical social scenarios as starting point for your design project. The aim is not to create a futuristic environment but to challenge the current paradigms and try to address the real problems and issues that our society will face in a near 2050 future.MArch 1 Studio, Tutors (Studio 6): Guido Robazza, Roberto Braglia\', \'Latent Dynamics: Material Voids. Studio 7 frames the design process by investigating hidden opportunities and energies that may emerge through the investigation of three different scales: starting from a close up to the Micro (detail, materials, prototyping), continuing to a wider shot of the Macro (urban context, waterfront, connections) and then exploring the Meso (material voids, empty buildings and their environs). A continuous journey reciprocating among the above scales, through field trips in Liverpool and Lisbon. The studio explores abandoned structures, their possible transformation, opportunities to enhance society and connect the City to the coast. The studio works vertically, setting at its core the sharing of knowledge, experience and strategies among tutors and students across both years, making 1:1 structures, exploring extreme scenarios balancing the pragmatic and the imaginative, expanding our horizons, while mastering intricate elements of the profession.MArch 1 & 2 Studios, Tutors (Studio 7): Martin Andrews, Phevos Kallitsis*Please note: studio offers may change due to staff and student numbers.\']