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The Faculty of Environment and Technology annual Degree Show features inspiring graduate projects from across the faculty including. 

This Tumblr brings together examples of this work from the Architecture department. 

You can filter the work below by programme by following the links:

BSc(Hons) Architecture

BA(Hons) Architecture and Planning

BEng(Hons) Architecture and Environmental Engineering

BSc(Hons) Architectural Technology and Design

BA(Hons) Interior Architecture

MArch Masters of Architecture

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Jonathan Rhys Jones - Urban-ism Unit

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Ben Mitchell -  Experiential Construction College at the Eden Project

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Liam Fudge - Ringwood Brewery

Quidhampton Quarry sits on the outskirts of Salisbury, a large unused site that will now take the form of an “Industrial Park”. Designed in the style of Capability Brown’s Romantic Landscapes, the green parkland walkways will guide visitors past contemporary industrial follies, such as solar arrays and wind turbines, to an employment complex where the public can interact and sample the site’s multiple produce.

The staple of the site will be Ringwood Brewery, sat proudly on the edge of a lake, emulating the manor house of the Romantic Landscape. The brewery will be designed using architectural theory “Form Follows Function”, meaning the process will be represented in the design, allowing the public to understand ale production. The public bar space will sit amongst the large copper fermentation tanks which reach up to 40oC, immersing visitors in the brewery process occurring around them through physical interaction as well as visual communication.

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Ian Jack Sivyer - The Aquaponic Industry

The proposal is for a mixed-use development encompassing an aquaponic industry (with full processing and exportation facilities) alongside a community kitchen, café and library. The building presents two faces; the industry of aquaponics and the community. 

The industry is focused on growing, processing and exporting the food whereas the community aspect is focused upon education and facilitating the relationship between sustainable food and consumer. The hand-picking in the allotments, the fishing, the preparing, the cooking – it’s about being in touch with the food and the source. The aquaponic industry becomes the ��exportation hub’ of sustainable food grown via aquaponics. The high protein food is exported to the local hospitals and schools, feeding back into the masterplan and wider aims to create a healthy city.

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Haolin Wang -  Wetland Centre for Flooding Research and Education

Wetland Centre for Flooding Research and Education is going to establish a starting point of experiment in the field of flood resistant building for Salisbury. The building architecturally is trying to bring people into a journey that explores the history and importance of water in Salisbury as well as an appreciation of the power of climate change the journey of the user finishes at the banks of the River Nadder where the visitor is there exposed to a live example of this entity. In my building, the engaging learning spaces encouraging visitors to dive into a multitude of educational activities with a principle focus on River Nadder's life. There are Interactive Classrooms supporting water research and learning; Open Wet Laboratories encourage interaction with water, seining, wildlife observation, oyster gardening; A viewing Tower responding to the Salisbury City centre view especially Heritage Water; Exhibition Spaces exhibiting history and importance of water in Salisbury.

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Stuart Ashford

Situated in the heart of a redundant quarry, this proposal and supporting masterplan locates the epicenter of the ‘chalk-and-cheese’ arable and pastoral landscapes of Wiltshire. The scheme responds to local qualification and skills shortages by drawing upon the concept of Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) to correct social behaviours amongst local youths. The principle building is informed by biophilic design and the prominence of the vernacular courtyard farmstead. An agricultural, educational and social space are united by a central atrium exhibiting a rotary milking parlour, ensuring that the dairy herd remain a viewable entity at all times. This is accompanied by an on-site residential scheme for students and an anaerobic waste digester to serve the surrounding communities.

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Richard Bridges - Architectural Department Building

This project involved the design of a new architectural department building for the University of the West of England. The site is located alongside Bristol’s floating harbour and includes the Bristol architecture centre building. In this project the architecture centre has been refurbished and extended.  The extensions involve adding new form over the top of the existing building. A double façade has been added at the front of the building to merge the building’s extensions in with the existing building.  The façade has rotating louvers inside it, which creates a heating and cooling management system on the front of the building. The louvers rotate to provide solar shading to the users inside and will also collect heat from the sun and distribute it into the ventilation stack. Vents at the top of the stack are used to control the temperature of the air in the ventilation stack within the façade. Automated windows help control the temperature of the building and provides natural heating and cooling. The rotating louvers also allow the building users the choice of privacy or interaction with external elements whilst undertaking their academic their studies.

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Lauren Winfield - POD

The requirement for a Lifeguard rescue pod that had the ability to be relocated to other beaches made it necessary for robust detailing to ensure that the structure could withstand the elements endured on the exposed beach. The focus on the detailing and the need for precise connections between each element was a challenging part of the project but one which I enjoyed and developed new skills from.

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With an existing building on the site, and the decision to keep the structure without the new design, the connection between the new and the old was an important aspect of this façade project to me. To integrate these two spaces a perforated aluminium `wave' façade falls across the front of the building, cloaking both the new and the old structures.

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Lloyd Gordon - Adjacent Building

The 4 images are the three stages of my studio design work. The first is a concept sketch of the existing land adjacent to the Architecture Centre at this point i had no idea what the form or function of the project was going to be.The second image is the project with the form and function confirmed by my tutor. I encountered a few challenges working in 3D,and in context. I learnt so much about drawing odd shapes, previous to this i would normally draw with just straight lines because of my limitations with using the drawing software (Revit) The 3rd image shows the design at the final stage and is a populated rendered scene, showing the building's private

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Oliver Evans -  Facade

The brief given asked of us to address the issue of designing a new building on an empty plot of land in Bristol by the Arnolfini (Harbour side), whilst keeping the facade of the Architecture Centre on the site 'untouched'. To address this issue I placed the new building behind the Architecture Centre tying the original facade back to the concrete structure of the new build with anchor ties. New openings were formed on the south elevation of the original structure. This along with the U-Channel Glass cladding system with varied translucencies of the panels frames the views outside. The from of the building was depicted by its location - the courtyard allows for light and air to flow freely into the lower levels. A block work wall sits on top of concrete slabs which creates the external envelope while the glazing system is either hung/or supported by steel angles which are tied back to the concrete frame through thermal breaks.

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Diana Dungyova - European Centre for Jazz

Located in the northern quarter of Valby’s regenerative masterplan lies the European Centre of Jazz. A landmark for the city of Copenhagen, the building will serve as a central focus to the city’s vibrant jazz culture. Its linear promenade morphs into a three dimensional form, where the pedestrian street brings life and soul to the thriving place.

The material pallet chosen for the exterior continues into the shared internal space, suggesting that the public spaces within the building are open and inviting to the visitors, stimulating spontaneous performances and integrating imperfection.

Inspired from the way water makes its way through rock, the building is shaped around music and sound, which pierces the monolithic volume, creating a space for the public areas. These link together, allowing the building’s spirit to flow out onto the adjacent public square and the entire masterplan, aiming to intrigue the visitor using the vibrant life from within.

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Roberta Vasnic -  Copenhagen Luthier Centre

Denmark is facing a mass migration of people moving from the country side or from other countries to the city of Copenhagen. The question of “who is it affected by this migration?” raises a sensitive debate and it refers to a bigger issue: how can we integrate them?

Statistics has shown that children are affected by this process of moving and most of them suffer from culture shock, depression, stress, anxiety and the fear of “not belonging”. How can we leave our future in the hands of a generation disturbed by these struggles?

Copenhagen Luthier Centre offers a programme of integrating these frustrated youth culture and maltreated immigrants into society through a series of workshops, music and dance classes that is focusing on cultural exchange between individuals.

The centre’s name reflects the process of “manufacturing” or “repairing” musical instruments. Copenhagen Luthier Centre is a factory of creating a better and creative new generation, following the concept of “children as musical instruments”.

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Geraint Phillips - National Danish Jazz Centre

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Paula Bisordi Huwel 

The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of spaces as they appear in experience; it’s the study of the importance of human perception, intuition and phenomenal experience in the built space.

The proposal of this project is to include all the senses to find an architecture that allows the reconstruction of the experience, where occupants are not mere spectators, but participants of their own environment.

This project seeks to connect the built space with nature, this dialectic between the inside and the outside arises to create an integrated experience with the environment.

Creating an architecture based on thought has a therapeutic consequence. Therefore, the building will be based in art therapy. Emotional and existential surroundings can allow us to construct spaces where creative experiences, healing emotions and making take place. The idea that each sense will have a different level of intimacy was utilised to create an emotional journey through the spaces, thus creating stimulating environments.

Understanding the essence of each space through sensory design (textures, materials, light, shadows, perspective) will create a memorable encounter with the environment. Hence, touching the ultimate poetic depth of the space.

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Marcus Still - Reinvention of Built Inheritance

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Gabriella Togni - House: Provide space for; contain or accommodate

Public buildings such as libraries, parks, and city halls, can define a community’s identity by installing a greater sense of pride in the local way of life. Civic institutes can foster a frequent and meaningful contact between citizens, encouraging an increasingly diverse population to use local facilities and discuss public matters.  In response to the city of Bath’s sparsity of resident focused infrastructure, there is a need to provide a space for the local resident which encourages connectivity away from tourism, and hence promotes a ‘sense of place’. Priority should be given to the local people and the public services they require, to express the character of place, neighbourhood and region. As such the brief is to create a ‘House of Bath’ to anchor the local community, bringing them together by providing resources, gathering places and forums for open communication. The governing theory behind the scheme will be Critical Regionalism. This Regionalism will not involve copying the city’s vernacular type as is the current city policy. Instead the design will condense the artistic potential of the region, while reinterpreting cultural influences coming from the outside.