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I am happy to share that my team won the International Fabrication Festival 2017 DS Smith First Prize for our pavilion for 'best use of material'!

Team: Sneha Baptista, Amad Hussain, Nouha Hansen Mentored by Colman Architects Our project: In response to this year's FabFest theme Pop-up City, we would like to bring some attention to a very important part of the city; the green spaces! Cities around the world are growing at a rapid speed, and London is no exception. Big cities are popular as they bring together diverse people, ideas and processes making them exciting places to live and work. How can we make sure to maintain a healthy environment? In London, air pollution poses a major health risk causing the early death of up to 9000 people a year due to long-term exposure to NOx gasses and particulate matters. We are curious to reduce the impact of several decades or industry and transport emissions of pollutants into the air, and have been inspired by the WENDY pavilion made of a special nano-material as an adaptable skin and filters the air. The material creates a clean air flow and depicts biomimicry form. This nano material has great potential as the adaptable skin can be fitted commonly throughout the city for example to bus stops to act as cleaning hubs in busy transport spots. We envision that our pavilion can be made of the same material. Our pavilion with its material and with its nature inspired geometry represents how human activity can support nature in providing the best possible environment. FABFEST is an International Fabrication Festival celebrating design and making featuring pavilions designed by students from the UK and around the world. The Festival is hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at University of Westminster and sponsored by the Quintin Hogg Trust, DS Smith and Hawthorn: www.fabfest.london

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Section through the fashion island

1:100

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1:50 Sectional Perspective

Domesticity and Island Life

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Site map 1:500

Testing colours and textures!

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Detail drawing @1:5 in progress...

Exploring the relation between the delicacy of fashion and the human body and the roughness of the Thames River!

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Fashion and the Layers

I envisage the homes to reveal themselves to the city. I have come across a lovely description of domesticity:

Home is an expansion of what is inside of you – bringing that beauty forth into your surroundings and living fully in that beauty daily! ⁃Laurie Raphael

Each home is outlined on the facade by a copper line. The facade is a mosaic, a patchwork of materials, with different transparencies and with different colours. 

Domesticity: How do people live on Fashion Island? Exploration mode on!

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The workshop space

The facade is like a shopfront showcasing clothing in the making and the people making them. It is not just about the finished item displayed on the mannequin or on the clothing rack - it is about the entire process; the time, the thought and the emotion put into the design.

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I imagine an eclectic interior with a variety of materials and textures and simultaneously trying to articulate my thoughts about the relationship between fashion, time, the wall, the screen, the window, the skin, the hidden and the revealed... It’s all coming together!

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Island Manifesto Poster 

I have been wanting to make a poster in this style for a while - so happy I got the chance!

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Reworking of Richard Hamilton’s collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?

I am exploring societal values underlying my project, and how does this reflect in the housing?

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Island life... sketch!

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The algae farm... curious sketch!

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Algae Studio Isometric

Cut-away iso exploring the high tide and low tide lives of the algae studios.

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Sunday Morning

A home that really feels like home...

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Programme diagram of the island

Such an exciting stage of the project, when it starts to grow by itself!

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What is it like to live here?

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Developing the island plan through different processes: As a graphic print.

Sequence of creating.