1999 First Year

1999 Work

FIRST YEAR STUDIO

The first year studio introduces the student to a wide range of architectural issues which contribute to the quality of our built environment. The First group of projects was designed to to investigate the notion of an architectural situation. People and Places explored given places and activities and the question of how we use drawings to represent architectural settings. Creating a Scene then asked the students to imagine a place for a given event and to design a set for a scene from a play.
A Day at the Races took its starting point from the world of horse racing to provide an inspiring setting for the design of a small scale space inhabited by one of the variety of characters to be found at the races. This project completed the People and Places series and anticipated the second term's projects concerned with approaches to materials and sequences of spaces.
In the first of the second term projects, Sequences: Light and Materials, the students studied precedents as a means of developing their understanding of a wide range of material languages. The second project, Material Imagination, asked the students to explore the relationship between material and space, both as a physical and poetic phenomenon, by constructing an object that characterises two spaces ('cellar' and 'attic') and the connection between them. Gap House culminated the second term's investigations into materials and spatial sequences by presenting a specific programme of accomodation.
RICREATORIO

Following the Rome study field trip in the Easter vacation, the students undertook a workshop and site survey for the final project of the year, in the small hill town of Genazzano, 50km south of Rome. The Ricreatorio, a project for a small scale theatre and outdoor performance space, was sited adjacent to the fifteenth century Colonna palace: like People and Places, the Ricreatorio explored how we make a simple space for a human event.

Staff
David Dernie, Christian Frost, Helen Grassly, Selina Mason

With special thanks to
The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects
who generously funded the workshop in Genazzano
Without their support the Ricreatorio
project would not have been possible

With thanks to
Peter Carolin, John Sergeant, Peter Sparks, Mario Ricci
Chantal Wilkinson, Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Steve Unwin
Taina Rikala, Pippa Nissan, Mary Ann Steane, Jamal Badrashi
John Burrell, John Hinton, Olly Smith, George Voyais, Koen Steemers

First Year
1st Year
Structures Project

Tripos Studio 1
Tripos Studio 2
Tripos Studio 3
Tripos Studio 4
Tripos Studio 5

Diploma Studio 1
Diploma Studio 2
Diploma Studio 3
Diploma Studio 4

	The first year studio introduces the student to a wide range of architectural issues which contribute to the quality of our built environment. The First group of projects was designed to to investigate the notion of an architectural situation. People and Places explored given places and activities and the question of how we use drawings to represent architectural settings. Creating a Scene then asked the students to imagine a place for a given event and to design a set for a scene from a play. A Day at the Races took its starting point from the world of horse racing to provide an inspiring setting for the design of a small scale space inhabited by one of the variety of characters to be found at the races. This project completed the People and Places series and anticipated the second term's projects concerned with approaches to materials and sequences of spaces. In the first of the second term projects, Sequences: Light and Materials, the students studied precedents as a means of developing their understanding of a wide range of material languages. The second project, Material Imagination, asked the students to explore the relationship between material and space, both as a physical and poetic phenomenon, by constructing an object that characterises two spaces ('cellar' and 'attic') and the connection between them. Gap House culminated the second term's investigations into materials and spatial sequences by presenting a specific programme of accomodation. RICREATORIO Following the Rome study field trip in the Easter vacation, the students undertook a workshop and site survey for the final project of the year, in the small hill town of Genazzano, 50km south of Rome. The Ricreatorio, a project for a small scale theatre and outdoor performance space, was sited adjacent to the fifteenth century Colonna palace: like People and Places, the Ricreatorio explored how we make a simple space for a human event.
Staff David Dernie, Christian Frost, Helen Grassly, Selina Mason With special thanks to The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects who generously funded the workshop in Genazzano Without their support the Ricreatorio project would not have been possible With thanks to Peter Carolin, John Sergeant, Peter Sparks, Mario Ricci Chantal Wilkinson, Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Steve Unwin Taina Rikala, Pippa Nissan, Mary Ann Steane, Jamal Badrashi John Burrell, John Hinton, Olly Smith, George Voyais, Koen Steemers