Transferred from: UA Design School
The 2023 Bartlett Summer Show takes place as scheduled to celebrate the vibrant, radical, and innovative work of Bartlett School of Architecture undergraduate and graduate students. Here we will appreciate creative, innovative and thoughtful projects that explore what architecture is and what its possibilities are.
“X射线：体现的城市，伦敦白教堂” 照片：Sophie Percival
The works come from nearly 900 students across five Bartlett College architecture projects that explore a variety of themes, including ecology, sustainability, spatial equity, and the social potential of architecture. These inspiring projects are presented in the form of models, drawings, films, multimedia projects, immersive environments, and digital fabrication.
This year's exhibition takes on an expanded dual format, with works on display at the Bloomsbury House as well as in a digital exhibition space. Visitors are presented with a wide variety of student works that encourage a profound discussion about the future of architecture and the role it plays in shaping the world we live in.
From more than 900 entries, we selected the award-winning works of the undergraduate students majoring in architecture in the 2023 Summer Exhibition.
Architecture BSc, Year 1
A world of fragile parts
A World of Fragile Parts
“相似并不等于同一；而是相似。 正投影不是正投影；绘画不是写作，建筑也不会说话。 ” 罗宾·埃文斯 (Robin Evans), The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries
The title of the project is taken from an exhibition held by the V&A in Venice in 2016 that explored the idea of reproduction, digital preservation and reproduction in the foundry courses related to the V&A.
Calling for the use of historical lenses and a new look at the museum's form, the project provides students with an inspiration to advance the project and explore how architecture can re-evaluate its role, pivotal place, and practice in wider society through painting and production. These methods use plaster casting as an exploratory technique to capture unique moments in the life of the original object.
The project focuses on fragments/sections that introduce students to ways of thinking and designing in a rich spatial way.
Elliot Woolard, A World of Fragile Parts
Karina Lacraru, The Sightlines of The Three Graces
Karina Lacraru, The Sightlines of The Three Graces
Stanislav Luo, Where Material has been Removed
William Li, A World of Fragile Parts
This is a study of mold casting that deepens the understanding of positive and negative spaces. This relationship can be understood through the casting and dissection of the hand.
William Warwick, A Study of Voids
Yury Balabin, Artefacting
Broken casting negatives form a series of artifacts that are unintentional by-products of the casting process. The broken pieces represent the fragility of the male mold manufacturing process.
X-rays: embodied cities, corners
X-Ray: The Embodied City, Corner Sites
This year, for architectural projects, the brief asked us to investigate how buildings can be designed to promote health and well-being. Health and well-being should be seen as something that encompasses living and inanimate, medical and non-medical elements, and architectural forms. This is explored through both traditional and alternative practices, covering the mystical, secular and spiritual elements of architecture, whether morbid or healthy. We can connect health to the active and inactive activities of our bodies, including the food we grow and eat, the air quality and the particulate matter we breathe, and the flora and fauna around us.
As we learn to diagnose the city, our site, and its surroundings, we stand in the shoes of an architect-surgeon, while we dream of an alternate reality, envisioning what a site can accommodate or become to help the occupants and the wider city. The project is carried out on three levels: one-on-one physical activity and occupation, architecture as body, and architecture within a specific city. Corner locations have been selected for the following items.
Botanical Recovery Centre,Brant You
The project proposes to establish a plant rehabilitation center for local residents to rehabilitate their arms through planting. The plants are planted by the patient and then placed in a grid that forms part of the wall.
Chau Tran，The Rhythm Retreat: Harmonising Architecture
The external world of sound emphasizes the intricate relationship between mind and soul, shaping our emotional and physical experiences. The project immerses visitors in the experience of listening, recording, and performing sounds.
Yuhan Wu，Water Therapy Clinic
The project is based on the concept of hydrotherapy and strives to push the boundaries of space and bodily experience. It constitutes a speculative exploration that delves into the realm of the imagination.
X-rays: embodied in the city, parking lots
X-Ray: The Embodied City, Car Parks
Rosina Hooper, An Architecture for Death
The design aims to fill the void occupied by liminal souls after death: bridging the gap that exists between the end of life and the funeral.
Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize, BSc
A Song of Ash and Fire
Wai Ki (Winki) Chan，Architecture BSc,UG3, Year 3
The project traces the origins of the Yellow Peril and addresses anti-Chinese sentiment in American history by building a monumental civic complex honoring the Queen Mother of the West in the abandoned gold-mining town of Bodie Ghost Town. Spanning the entire town, the complex expresses the Empress Dowager's core ideals of life, death, creation, and destruction, resulting in a hybrid site that includes a temple, crematorium, funeral home, cemetery, and a restaurant, Taoyuan. As a haven and holy place for Chinese immigrants in the United States, the Queen Mother of the West symbolically protects immigrants who "go to the West". The proposal also sees the Bodi site as a place of salvation, offering redemption to past victims. Inspired by the Chinese custom of worshipping ancestors,
Longitudinal Section
Sectional view of the Queen Mother Temple and Pan Tao Restaurant.
Masterplan of New Bodie
Bodi's master plan in 2100, by which time the complex was fully completed.
Queen Mother’s Temple
Interior view of the temple prayer pool.
Peach Restaurant
In the Pan Tao Restaurant, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of the Queen Mother every year.
Columbarium
Details of the columbarium, where the workers of the project are buried. Since the project spans a 3,000-year time period, they will be able to "witness" the completion of the project.
Bartlett School of Architecture Medal, BSc
Year 3 Portfolio Prize
Inprunetta Birth Center
Esme Dowle, Architecture BSc, UG3, Year 3
The Impruneta Birth Center is located in Imprunetta, south of Florence. The town is world-famous for its natural Galestro clay. This fertile land is culturally and industrially significant. The historic Terracotta statue of the Virgin Mary is worshipped, and the lavish harvest festival marks the change of seasons. In the age of rapid technological development, it is easy to lose the sensitive relationship between body, mind and space. The immersive nature of clay environments can make us more aware of our tactile boundaries and the impact that contact with these surroundings can have on our physical and emotional well-being. If understanding the process of childbirth and childbirth can be experienced through skin-to-skin contact with loved ones, how can building surfaces stimulate positive human emotional hormonal responses? Inspired by Columbino technology, a new method of building production has been created: interlocking ergonomic forms provide new building units, load-bearing cellular systems direct hot water and radiate heat to the production space, and changes in texture guide residents to interact with glass surfaces.
The Birth Suite
The sunken birthing pool is located in the centre of the suite and can accommodate all birthing participants: midwives, midwives and midwives.
Plan
Section
Communal Clay Baths
Galestro Clay's detoxifying minerals are great for your health and provide a soft, malleable bed for a social pool.
Breaking Waters
Purified water is sprayed from the fountain, diluting the clay bath water. The staircase leading to the surface of the water takes the form of a ceramic vessel with different glaze textures that can give the user a range of tactile sensations.
Narinder Sagoo Drawing Prize (Runner-up)
Crazy celebrations
Chi Yung (Matthew) WangArchitecture BSc, UG3, Year 3
Wild Celebration is a juvenile offender rehabilitation center dressed up in the style of an art school. Located in the heart of Rome, this school is built in part by children who use soft materials that do not require sharp or dangerous tools. The process of building can promote cooperation and will also further enhance sociality and friendship. Gardening, basket weaving, the production of picture book art, the maintenance of architectural green spaces, and the creation of imagination are key activities to accomplish this self-driven healing. The school's schedule includes both traditional subjects such as physics or literature as well as more unusual things such as preparations for the Spring Festival, which will be celebrated at the end of May, when the weather in Rome is usually mild and sunny. During the festival, children dress up as characters from local fairy tales and use natural materials such as bamboo, rammed earth, paper and flowers to help build buildings and celebrate the arrival of spring.
The Wild Dream’s Playscape
A cross-sectional display of Matt's dream playground.
Sectional Collage Sketch
Personal interpretation and speculation of the picture book "Midnight Bazaar".
Ground Floor Plan
Section
Watering System
The landscape is set on the second floor, where the manual watering system and the doors made by the students meet.
Bartlett School of Architecture Medal, BSc
Year 3 Portfolio Prize
Convoys Wharf Indigo 油漆工厂和学习中心
Pasathorn SrichaiyongphanichArchitecture BSc, UG4, Year 2
The Convoys Wharf Color Factory & Learning Center, a Grade II listed warehouse renovation project, presented a challenge to the developer's proposed master plan. The building aims to benefit the local and wider community by reviving the site's history and translating it into contemporary needs. The app aims to provide employment opportunities for the unemployed, create a space for experimentation for local residents, and also provide a new tourist destination for Deptford.
The design process was designed to integrate the proposed building into the existing structural framework, maintaining the integrity of the warehouse. This aims to maximize interior space by using horizontal trusses as the main spiral structure connecting the proposed building, creating a dynamic and uninterrupted interaction between the old and the new. This both celebrates the site's history and creates a bespoke space for visitors and staff to revitalize the abandoned building.
Final Physical Models
Final building model scale: 1:250
Fragment model scale: 1:50
Visitors’ View: Entrance
The view of the building's entrance, taken from a visitor's perspective, shows the interrelationship between the polycarbonate roof, skywalkway, farmland, and reservoir.
Staff View: Pigment Factory From The Side
Visitors on the second floor and staff on the ground floor: uninterrupted interaction between public and private spaces.
1:250 PLAN
The plan shows that the proposed building will be integrated into the existing spiral structure by wrapping the building's mass around the columns of the warehouse.
1:100 Long Section
This section shows the production line arranged according to the column position and the spiral structure.
Nic Pauwels
Architecture BSc, UG6, Year 3
Rainham’40: From a Pavilion2pix
Nic Pauwels,Architecture BSc, UG6, Year 3
The proposal focuses on the concept of hybrid architecture, i.e., architecture built physically and digitally. An architecture that focuses on generating digital outputs through physical input navigation.
The design explores the use of the structure's façade/skin as a new production medium by deploying a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) pix2pix. The "labels" (training images) will be anamorphic projections throughout the festival, and each audience member (wearing a real-time transition VR headset) will participate in the process of reconstructing these labels. Their reconstruction will transform images of the site's previous structures. Colors and forms become professional, changeable, and dependent on the viewer's position.
Although digitization tends to replace physicalization, the proposal wants to redraw a new relationship between the two. Although accidents or accidents may mostly exist in the physical world, through the fusion of the two, one may create a digital space that is consistently unique. Through their shingles, people create a digital world that is directly connected to and completely dependent on the physical world.
Test Animation: Reaching the Point of Converted Resolution
The stills show the view (frame 50/100) ;(top) when you reach Resolve Perspective 03 without transitioning, (center) the first stage of transition, and (bottom) the final transition.
Approaching the Pavilion: Resolved Perspective 01
Entering the pavilion, the central frame is overlaid with real-time transitions seen through the V3 headset. When flashed, it shows all three stages of the transformation: rendering, flattening the vector image, and the final transformation of the gateway structure.
The Street Approach: Down Coldharbour Lane
The rendering was taken from a street approaching the festival. As far as the eye can see, you will see the gift shop (left), the portal (center), the V3 stall (center in the foreground), and the exhibition space (right).
Ground Floor Plan /First Floor Plan/ Section
Rainham ’40: From Pavilion2pix
Animation runs through the central festival program. Approach the festival along Coldharbour Lane, then walk through the pavilion, then to the café/restaurant, loop back to the exhibit area, and finally leave through the gift shop
Donaldson Medal
Are you still confused?
Eoin Shaw,Architecture BSc UG6, Year 3
Today, "confused" may be seen as synonymous with "confused" and imply that something is not understood. However, before order and reason gained the recognition they have today, confusion meant something more wonderful, like a person lost in the woods, in awe of not knowing where he is.
In architecture, a discipline obsessed with certainty and logical aesthetics, can lead to disorientation and confusion, which is not something that is usually desired or valued. But in an age of uncertainty, why should architecture remain so fixed, certain, and sensible? Is there a way for architecture to move away from the expectation of reason and logic and embrace its recurrent absurdity? Can architecture play a role in confusing people? Can this process and results create an intellectual adventure into the unknown?
To solve this unknown, the project created a methodology that left us all unanswered in the design, architecture, and its representation. The project provokes a joyful and deliberately irrational process, contrary to the general architecture of reason. In this way, a building is created, and it has a real miracle even for its architects.
The Bewildered View
The confusion is first explored through images. Using CNC-cut acrylic lenses, the edges are blurred by rendering iterative designs in an attempt to undermine our understanding of landscapes such as the Rainham Marsh.
Constellation of Stones
From moments of order and disorder, the plan reveals the spatial extent from gliding to sprawling, from continuous enclosures to broken rock forests. In this program, more than 200 individual gemstones are labeled with numbers and material codes.
Stories from the Rocks
This series of renders moves rapidly through various spaces in the rock, showing up at different times of the day and year. The annotation reveals the story of how the rock was used.
The Other Side
The rock sits on a carbon fiber bubble, as shown in the embroidery section. These bubbles then exist in the form of ghostly imprints on the double-sided CNC acrylic tabletop, like X-rays passing through this miniature landscape.
Rocks on Top
At the top of the acrylic table, all 200 unique rocks are 3D printed and then inserted into the table. Then the roof falls on it. This precise digital production creates a strange contrast to the tacky aesthetic of the embroidery sections.
Year 3 Portfolio Prize
Laying the groundwork: Designing unfinished works
Kate Elsa Rose Mackenzie TaylorArchitecture BSc, UG6, Year 3
Through a detailed exploration of the translated manufacturing process, the project laid the groundwork for the construction test site. Nestled in a desolate marshland, the treated landscape provides a clue to the permanence of the locate: at all times, there is enough design to support future buildings, but not enough to diminish the potential.
PF2: Groundworks Plate
One of eight CNC-engraved aluminum plates at a scale of 1:200.
A Kit of Parts
A scan of the CNC woodblock can be transferred directly to the resin cap located on the ground to be manipulated.
Plan of the Workshops
The 1:100 fragment floor plan shows the timber and metal shop, the partially covered assembly space, and the individual work cells. Construction work has been going on, so there are still certain incompleteness in the plans.
Up Towards the Timber Workshop
A Series of Prints Showing Rendered Views Through the Site
Environmental Design Prize
Shrine of the Truulists
Kai Cosmo Donald Mckim, Architecture BSc, UG7, Year 3
Is autonomous political rule an effective building strategy for a warm world in the future?
The project envisions and predicts a future world in which our dependence on vast global supply chains will decrease, signaling a return to a more seasonal, traditional way of life.
The project is a central hub for the practice of non-groundless farming, a recreation of a village blacksmith and union bar where new self-practicing identities flourish.
Its goal is to achieve all this through the use of solar furnaces. While the seasonality of casting production may initially fall short of expectations, the convenience of electricity supply that we have enjoyed in recent years has been a luxury that has deprived us of a livable planet. While the mass adoption of this technology will certainly erode the convenience of existing lives, there will be a fervent anticipation of the nostalgic awe forged by nature's cycles, like a good harvest or the return of migratory birds.
The aim is to create fertile soil from which to form a healthier social structure, and we believe that we need to heal our relationships with each other before we can positively repair our relationships with the planet.
Plan
The building is arranged around a solar stove in the center, just like people are surrounding the fireside.
Long section AA
As metal forging becomes seasonal, eagerly awaited, and sacred, the ruins of sprawling commercial buildings bear witness to a shift towards a simple pace of life.
Section CC
The heliostat is located in the center and is flanked by a classroom and bar, a section that showcases the more mundane procedural elements of the work.
Section BB
This section shows a subtle approach to the ecology of the site, the screw foundation (screw pile = no excavation required for construction), and the arrangement of the floor slabs that reflect the flow of the land.
Courtyard View
The view shows a non-combustible courtyard around a solar stove, a bar garden under the clouds, and a foundry in the sun.
Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize, BSc
The subversive gaze of tourists
Flurry Grierson, Architecture BSc, UG8, Year 3
To explore how the experience of architectural spaces can be enhanced by manipulating the visual gaze, the Italian shoe studio's gallery of factories and shops was proposed to be built in the ruins of an ancient Roman aqueduct. The picturesque landscape as a man-made building provides one of the earliest visual focal points for visitors, and on these foundations constructs a contemporary spatial "framework". The building samples and guides fragments of the Italian landscape, which does not mean the landscape itself, but its pictures with the impressions left by the artist.
The architecture assumes a departure from standardized retail. Through the manipulation of spatial configuration, materials, lighting and circulation, it is hoped that new emotions will be evoked through this project.
The growing popularity of online shopping and digital platforms means that physical retail spaces must adapt and deliver experiences that cannot be digitally replicated.
The final resolution of the building was achieved through animation, in which the perfect gaze of the iPhone lens contrasts with imperfect imaging of the human eye.
The quality of the space in the project is constantly changing. The results of a visitor's gaze can be reflected in a short period of time before the innocent human eye can assess it.
Narinder Sagoo Drawing Prize
Seven: For eternity
Scarlet Fernandes, Architecture BSc, UG11, Year 3
More infectious diseases are spreading due to climate change. A dying king fears the afterlife because of his sins and the witchcraft he used to achieve his status. He has seven years left to live, just as we have seven years left on our climate clock. His sins had accumulated to the point of no return. Atonement was no longer an option, and eternal life became his only salvation from eternal curse.
Seven alchemists were tasked with finding the elixir of life. Desperate, the king received the elixir from a cunning alchemist, but he suffered from radiopoisoning that led to his death. In response to this, houses, tombs, and spaces for the preparation of elixirs were built. Due to the radioactive nature of his body, his grave will be protected and a message will be sent to the future so that it will never be disturbed.
Conceptual Exploration: Alchemists
Nestled in Regent's Park, the outline of the park's topography is reminiscent of alchemical symbols, and the king sets out on a search for the elixir of life. In doing so, he fell down a deeper rabbit hole of immorality and corruption.
The Dining Room’s Elixirs
Under the protection of the dragon's claw, the elixir was granted to the king and his alchemists as a reward for their efforts.
Proposed Ground Floor Plan
The plan is shrouded in a veil of high secrecy and includes a carefully concealed route for the discreet transport of test subjects, which is essential for crafting the legendary elixir of life.
Interior Perspective: The Elixir Chamber
Alchemists manifest in the building, displaying the elixir of life to onlookers in the main chamber. This highlights the far-reaching significance of the elixir in alchemy.
The Grand Exterior
The plan incorporated bioluminescence into the architecture as a way to warn intruders about radiation leaks from the King's Mausoleum. Failed alchemical material seeping out of the roof is faintly visible.
Victor Kite Design Technology Prize
textile mill
Sammy Vincent Doublet, Architecture BSc,UG12, Year 2
Small textile mills and workshops produce, repair shawls and garments for export to the locals. Sandwiched between a main road over a flood levee, the industrial shed follows the sloping terrain and eventually lands on the banks of the Graven River, an important trade route.
Using a "worsted" fabric blend of harvested water reed fibres and imported cotton wool, the mill aims to elevate the artisanal approach to textile weaving. Through the dialogue between the artisan and the customer, the textile becomes a record of the personality and life of the settlement.
The three core processes of textile manufacturing: carding, spinning and weaving are all located in units from the road to the riverbank. Connecting them are systems of warp, thread and fibre that are lifted from the machine to the customer's line of sight by means of a tapestry of healds, healds and shafts. This keeps the yarn continuous throughout the structure from opening to weaving.
In a busy production process, users will find pleasure in the order of the process, as light passes through the porous surfaces formed by these top warp and weft yarns.
Ground Floor Plan
Long Section
Interior Views
Contextual Axonometric
Designing through Model Making
Activism Prize (Runner-up)
Roman monuments
Cosmin Ticus,Architecture BSc, UG14, Year 3
As an archive of Roma heritage, the project seeks to discuss Serbian Mandated Heritage (AHD) while considering the adaptive reuse of Yugoslav architectural heritage. It generated a technical discussion of reuse at three different scales: use, spores, and supplementation. The project focuses on Belgrade's Roman heritage and population by addressing the different attitudes of residents towards culturally significant sites and structures as a result of forced settlement.
The site is a fragile memory of the Museum of the Revolution, an ambitious project abandoned after the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 40s of the 20th century. Only the basement level was cast, consisting of a black box documenting political vicissitudes, causes, and effects, to this day. It is currently used as a shelter by disadvantaged minorities. The proposal was a call to help the Roma, both to celebrate their traditions and to address the forced evictions and widespread discrimination they faced.
Topographic Optimisation Study
Investigate the creation of architectural elements using leftover materials from the site.
Plans
Spomenik Reconnection Detail
Internal Views
A Romani Nonument
The short film depicts the daily lives of two young Roma siblings, highlighting the age group most affected by forced evictions in Belgrade. The storyline is a game of hide and seek, full of Roman traditions and childhood themes.
Environmental Design Prize
Synthetic Earth
Phoebe Rachel HampsonArchitecture BSc, UG14, Year 3
Paul Pignon, who co-founded Radio Belgrade Electronic Studios in the 70s of the 20th century using the Synthi 100 imported from England to the heart of Yugoslavia, returned to Belgrade and was nearing retirement with the hope of spreading his spirit and passion for autonomous music creation. He hopes to capture the spirit of '80s new ideas, experimentation, and freedom through unconventional methods of music production and underground activities.
The project is located in an oasis in Belgrade, thirty minutes from the outskirts of the city center. The building sought to apply synthesizer ideology to rammed-earth construction and the technique of sorting aggregates, in which lightweight steel and timber power elements emphasized heavy acoustic walls, allowing the building to change over time and operate like a synthesizer.
The project was documented in a three-act film documenting 40 years of change. It starts with Paul and his synthesizer, then shows live – a place where music is made, and ends on the day of the DEV9t festival to enjoy the principles of electronic music production and broadcasting in an anthropomorphic building.
Synthesising Earth
An animated film showing the longevity and reuse of abandoned storage facilities after Paul Pinion's return to Belgrade.
Initial Material Tests
Apply synthesizer ideas to sort aggregates.
Plan Drawings
Section Drawing
The orthogonal profile emphasizes the balance between the thick acoustic rammed earth wall and the lightweight wood-steel power elements.
Synthesising Earth: Final Rendered Images
Bartlett School of Architecture Medal, BSc
Victor Kite Design Technology Prize
Tapping into the Rhythm: The Brain as a Drawing Tool
Ariel Alper, Architecture BSc,UG21, Year 2
"Tapping into Rhythm" is a case study that explores the brain as a drawing tool. Using a digital plotter, the project records and generates line drawings based on real-time brainwave data, aiming to create a new language for landscape and site design.
Located in the archaeological area of Fissole in Tuscany, the project emphasizes its connection to the history of the site and attempts to visualize our intangible reactions, emotions and connections to external stimuli through a series of paintings. By incorporating the historical stimuli associated with the site, the project is able to encode human experiences and memories into physical space.
Drawing inspiration from the ancient performances on the site, the project is an archaeological archival and restoration workshop that respects the history of the site and uses drawings as a guiding tool to enable the design language to evolve from the rhythmic patterns of the record.
The project celebrates history while staying faithful to the acts of the archaeological site, bringing together hidden fragments and memories to create new narratives and perspectives.
The Brain-Machine
A series of tests showed that the brain-computer generates line drawings in real time based on brain waves.
Generating a Design Language
Listen to previous performances that use brain waves to generate line drawings.
The Design Process
Use the resulting drawings to design the roof in the proposal.
Final Drawings
The final plan and section of the proposal.
Excavating Rhythms: Final Film