The Bartlett School of Architecture - End of Year Exhibition Opening

The annual celebration of student work from The Bartlett

School of Architecture, UCL.

One of the world’s biggest architecture degree shows sees over 500 students present an incredible range of inventive, creative and visual work, from models and drawings to films, multimedia installations and computer fabrications. This year's exhibition will take place at 140 Hampstead Road, with the opening party at the UCL Quad as usual. The Show will be opened by Spanish architect Carme Pinós.

Exhibition party & speeches
Friday 26 June 2015, 19.00
Main Quadrangle of UCL, Gower Street, London WC1

Exhibition party & speeches
Friday 26 June 2015, 19.00
Main Quadrangle of UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

Exhibition open to the public
Saturday 27 June – Saturday 11 July

Family activities
Saturday 27 June
140 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2BX

 

 Opening times
Saturday 27 June, 10.00 – 20.30
Sunday 28 June, 10.00 – 17.30
Monday 29 June, 10.00 – 20.30
Tuesday 30 June, 10.00 – 20.30
Wednesday 1 July, 10.00 – 15.00
Thursday 2 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Friday 3 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Saturday 4 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Sunday 5 July, 10.00 – 17.30
Monday 6 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Tuesday 7 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Wednesday 8 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Thursday 9 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Friday 10 July, 10.00 – 20.30
Saturday 11 July, 10.00 – 20.30

  

Bean Buro Architects Hong Kong is our main sponsor for Unit 0's exhibition space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Founded in 2013, the studio is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice led by Lorène Faure and Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, with a network of British and international collaborators to providing architecture, interior, installation, furniture and product design services. 

The diversity of the practice with its collaborators reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to the exchanges of global cultural narratives, incorporating overlapping design disciplines specializing in the social, economical and political production of urban spaces. 

We believe architecture is an emotional, spatial experience constructed by both the user and the author. Our design methodologies stem from the observation, speculation and analysis of contextual narratives. These narratives, or ‘stories’, generate dynamic exchanges of historical, environmental, cultural and social factors, resulting in highly inventive interventions while preserving plenty of intellectual wit. 

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Bean Bruo Architects are members of Horhizon Design Research Network (www.horhizon.com), of which its members are direct affiliates with renown European architectural schools, university institutes and cultural organisations. Through the network Bean Bruo collaborates with specialists in the industry, such as engineers, manufacturers, and contractors, in order to consistently explore industry innovations and apply new knowledge and skills into our projects.

 

 

 

Wallbrook Solar Credit Union City of London//Sam COULTON [Y3]

This project proposes the setting up of a Credit Union to look after the interests of the low-paid cleaners in the City of London who work through the night. Their bank sits inside the first large park in that part of town, protected all around by a thin, inhabited wall of poche spaces. The rays and energy from the sun are collected by giant metal `flowers' in the park, with the light and heat then funnelled down into spaces for sleeping, banking, and socialising below the ground. Drawing on proportional analysis of Wren's St Paul's and St Stephen Wallbrook, a cluster of alabaster domes also transmit sunlight to the Credit Union, and the Wallbrook River is excavated to enhance the park's biodiversity.

The Royal Astronomical Society Museum Regent Street//Kelly FRANK [Y3]

The stuffy Royal Astronomical Society in Burlington House has lost the capacity to make the subject exciting and relevant to citizens. In this age of popular science, with films and television programmes on the wonders of the universe, what could make more sense than a new astronomical museum and research centre in Regent Street, sitting behind a retained commercial street-front so as to encourage shoppers to drop in? On the preserved façade, various mechanical cast-iron objects pop through to provide echoes of earlier devices like telescopes and orreries, while also alluding to the tradition of rich decorative details in London's older buildings. At the rear, a public garden includes an open-air amphitheatre for the dissemination of the latest astronomical discoveries.

Silk Wedding Dress Farm//Michelle HO [Y3]

There are few forms of human ritual as important as those attached to the clothes we wear. Beginning with an analysis of how the gentlemen's tailors operate in Savile Row, an approach to architecture which includes woven and threaded spaces emerged during the course of research. As part of the lively multicultural garment district next to Finsbury Park Station, a new silk farm is inserted, with the worms being bred in tall, elegant timber lattice towers. Overhead shading is provided by thin webs of spun silk cables, under which customers can peruse and choose their favourite wedding dress for that special day. These dresses will also become cherished heirlooms to be passed down the generations.

The Peerless Pool Pleasure Garden Old Street//Katja HASENAUER [Y3]

On the former site of a popular 18th-century bathing pool, an extensive new pleasure garden is provided for the enjoyment of today's public in this part of London. Small theatres, water landscapes, and bags full of optical trickery are all employed within the gardens to bring back sensuousness and playfulness into what is otherwise a tough urban site. Illusions are combined from Italianate and Chinese cultures, such as the water-gardens of Suzhou, with names like 'The Garden of Matter' and The Garden of Falling Skies'. Buildings and plants become fused together in a delirious and joyous riot of forms, materials and colours. To the south, the gardens also incorporate the gravestones of the previous cemetery as a memento mori.

Pop-Up High Street//Jessica HODGSON [Y3]

The Loughborough Estate in Brixton is one of the poorest and toughest areas in London, and so, to help to improve its social and economic potential, this project envisages the provision of communal gardening and retail facilities such as 'pop-up' shops, greenhouses, youth centre, allotments, park spaces, etc. Many of the temporary units can come and go depending on whatever demand there is from small local entrepreneurs, or else spring into life when a festival-type ritual is taking place. Meanwhile, the main permanent elements in the scheme are to be constructed out of brick by local residents, using many different types of bonds and jointing, thereby acting also as a skills training exercise through its very creation.

Billboard Farm//Tomiris KUPZHASSAROVA [Y3]

The large advertising billboards within our cities could be redesigned to be occupied behind by greenhouses, affordable apartments and community facilities. This is proposed here, firstly, for the iconic signs on Piccadilly Circus, and secondly for a busy roundabout on the fringe of the City of London. The light and heat that is being produced anyway by the billboard signs is to be redistributed as a kind of financial subsidy that supports the lifestyle of poorer local residents who have apartments in the spaces behind or who grow edible plants in the new greenhouses. Fragmented signs also provide a more sensuous visual appearance for the billboards, reinvigorating what has become a rather dull aspect of the urban scene.

Brick and Bread Bakery//Shirley LEE [Y3]

Bricks and bread are the very stuff of life in the suburbs of London, and not least in Golders Green, where the bread-making rituals of time-honoured Jewish tradition can still be found. Of similar size, yet of different material and purpose, bricks and bread happen to share a common process for their production, that of baking. So this scheme proposes that these baking activities should be combined into one hybridized building sitting between a row of semi-detached dwellings and a former music hall venue, the Golders Green Hippodrome. The two tall chimneys for the brick-making and bread-making act as practical and symbolic references to the domestic rituals which take place each day in the houses around.

The Red Nest//Mateir MITRACHE [Y3]

What happens if we were to view the city solely from its rooftops, tracing the unique routes and haptic experiences of the parkour artist? No longer tied to street-based solutions, a range of new possibilities emerge, such as for instance in the desire to improve medical treatment within the city. The use of drones to distribute emergency blood supplies would be 5 times faster and 9 times cheaper than using ambulances or motorcycle couriers, so this project imagines the old historic buildings in a busy London hospital -- the venerable St Bart's --being retrofitted with vertiginous landing pads to accommodate the good-hearted 'mosquitos' which would be buzzing over our heads in their efforts to save lives.

Barnes Boating House//Angelica CHEN [Y2]

On a thin sliver of land situated between the River Thames and a small reservoir, a new boating house is provided for those citizens who like messing about in boats on the river -- while facing in the other direction, a look-out tower enables ornithologists to spot rare waders and other species that nest within this tranquil bird reserve area, which is memorably named the Leg of Mutton Nature Reserve. A tough but bold form of architecture is thereby introduced into the flood-prone riverside landscape of west London, while the everyday rituals of preparing, launching, and removing the various rowing boats creates an exciting visual dynamic for the scheme.