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Copyright © 2013 Northumbria University PressAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photographic reproduction or otherwise without permission. Further copies can be obtained from Northumbria University Press. Design + Editorial:Benjamin ElliottKelly MacKinnonChris BrownEmily ScullionAlastair Speak Department of Architecture and the Built EnvironmentFaculty of Engineering + EnvironmentEllison BuildingNorthumbria UniversityNewcastle-Upon-TyneNE1 8STT: 0191 227 4453F: 0191 227 4561 For more information please look at the following web addresses:http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/architecturehttp://www.northumbriaarchitecturesociety.co.uk/http://architecture-northumbria.tumblr.com/

This publication is more than a catalogue of 78 student projects, it is the culmination of up to 6 years of learning, research and development. Thousands of hours of study have produced a group of graduates charged with diverse abilities, skills, and personalities. Northumbria Projects 2013 showcases the talent and dedication of this years graduating part 1 and part 2 architects and the school’s commitment to the highest standard of architectural education.

Introduction

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering + Environment:Glen McHale Head of Department of Architecture and the Built Environment:Kevin Thomas Director of Architecture:Benjamin Elliott Professor of Research Informed Teaching in Architecture:Paul Jones Champion of Teaching and Learning + Programme Leader M Arch:Peter Holgate Programme Leader BA(Hons) Arch:Stephen Roberts Programme Leader BA(Hons) Interior Arch:Paul Ring Architectural Staff:Andrea CoutureJonathan BoneKelly MacKinnonLewis PrestonManuel CrescianiOliver JonesProfessor Ruth Conroy-DaltonSebastian MesserSteve MillerWill CampbellZaid Alwan External Examiners:M Arch:David Page : Page \ Park ArchitectsProfessor Flora Samuel : Sheffield UniversityRoger Stephenson : Stephenson: ISA StudioBA(Hons) Arch:Alex Wright : University of BathDavid Simister : AedasRoger Stephenson : Stephenson: ISA StudioBA(Hons) Interior Arch:Andrew Stone : London Metropolitan University

Welcome to Northumbria Projects 2013, the yearbook of the architecture programmes at Northumbria University. This publication serves as a record of the work of those students graduating in the summer of 2013, and evidences a thriving and diverse range of thinking and production within our architecture courses. The architecture staff members at Northumbria are focused on the provision of quality teaching and learning, and in developing students’ skills and knowledge in order to achieve their full potential. As a result of this dedication, and coupled with the provision of excellent studio space, Northumbria has engendered an exceptional ‘studio culture’, where students learn and develop through on-going dialogue with staff and peers alike. This studio culture reflects authentic practice, and prepares students well for a life in architecture. A key feature of the course is a constant engagement with practice on both local and national levels, with notable practitioners visiting to engage in studio reviews, presentations and learning activities. Staff members themselves comprise a selection of architects who have worked for national and international award-winning practices. Taught modules are therefore underpinned by both practical experience and theoretical credibility derived from Northumbria’s growing reputation for research. High standards of scholarship are thereby achieved in a friendly, supportive and student-centred environment. These factors, along with the strong links with practice, have served to maintain an exceptional record for graduate employment, with 85% of the 2012

degree course cohort either finding employment or going on to further study within 6 months of graduation (unistats.com). In the sixteen years since the undergraduate architecture programme commenced at Northumbria, both architecture courses have grown in stature and are now highly respected in the wider academic and architectural communities. The quality of the courses can be seen in the comments of the external examiners which have consistently reported that there is an extremely high level of dedication, enthusiasm and support from the staff; this is evidenced year on year with excellent student satisfaction ratings in the National Student Survey results, with the programme at Northumbria having the highest overall satisfaction score for all architecture courses in the country in 2013 (unistats.com). This success can also be seen through the achievements of the students, with four student projects being shortlisted in the international RIBA presidents Medals competition in recent years, along with several other national level award wins recently being achieved by students including the RIBA Hadrian Medals, 3D Reid, NAA, NDC, BCO and APS regional and national awards. Northumbria’s student centred and inclusive approach is demonstrated through all graduating students being afforded the opportunity to feature in this publication. This is a clear testament to the high quality levels of learning and creativity permeating the work of all of our students.

Benjamin ElliottDirector of Architecture

Foreword

Contents

Foreword

Peter Beacock

Awards and PrizesRIBA Presidents Medals Silver Award 2013RIBA Postgraduate Hadrian Medal 2013RIBA Presidents Medals Bronze Award 2013RIBA Undergraduate Hadrian Medal 2013Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios prize for outstanding undergraduate design projectNorthumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prizeNorthumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prizeRyders prize for best postgraduate projectRyders prize for best undergraduate projectTrada NETTA PrizeIbstock Design PrizeCapita Symonds prize for overall highest mark in the Built and Natural EnvironmentLive Theatre project prizeBD Magazine - Class of 2013, Top five Part II students in the UKWISE CompetitionRIBA Forgotten Spaces North East 2012

BA (Hons) ArchitectureYear OneYear TwoStudy Trip - RomeYear Three Young Lit + Phil Lindisfarne AD Gefrin and Yeavering Bell The Sill Blyth

Master In ArchitectureYear OneStudy Trip - MadridYear Two Live Theatre South Shields Lindisfarne Silt Island

Interior Architecture Year OneYear Two

Extra Curricular Studies

Acknowledgments and Index

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‘I believe that the staff and students at Northumbria have achieved something very special.’

Professor Flora Samuel

(Head of the University of Sheffield School of Architecture);

Peter Beacock

The production of Northumbria Projects 2013 coincides with the retirement of Peter Beacock, our outgoing Head of Architecture and the principle originator of Architectural Studies at Northumbria University. Peter has steered the embryonic course into an exemplary suite of Undergraduate and Masters studies, recently adding Interior Architecture, which will see its first cohort

graduating in 2014. The subject discipline has grown to over 300 students across its programmes, which consistently compete and excel when measured against established Schools of Architecture for quality of work, graduate employability, student satisfaction and subject league tables. Peter’s expertise, efforts and knowledge have been instrumental in Architecture becoming central to the

academic activities of both the Faculty and University, for which he deserves our sincerest gratitude.

Paul RingProgramme LeaderBA (Hons) Interior Architecture

Awards + Prizes 2013

RIBA Presidents Medals Silver Award Nominees 2013

RIBA Postgraduate Hadrian Medal Shortlist 2013

RIBA Presidents Medals Bronze Award Nominees 2013

RIBA Undergraduate Hadrian Medal Shortlist 2013

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios:Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prize

Ryder prize for best postgraduate design project

Ryder prize for best undergraduate project

Trada NETTA prize

Ibstock design prize

Capita Symonds prize for overall highest mark in the Built and Natural Environment

Live Theatre project prize

BD Magazine - Class of 2013, top five Part II students in the UK

WISE Competition

RIBA Forgotten Spaces North East 2012

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RIBA Presidents Medals Silver Award Nominee 2013; Carl Harper

The Restorative Aquaculture of Silt Island (see page 194-195)

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RIBA Presidents Medals Silver Award Nominee 2013; Leanne Stamp

Manufactured Landscapes (see page 204-205)

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RIBA Postgraduate Hadrian Medal 2013

Winner:(1) Jonathan Dennis

Shortlisted:(2) Carl Harper,(3) Leanne Stamp, (4) Neil Sedgley

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RIBA Presidents Medals Bronze Award Nominee 2013; Thomas Savage

In Praise of Nests and Other Things (see page 128-129)

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RIBA Presidents Medals Bronze Award Nominee 2013; Justin Chu

The four [g]ospels (see page 68-69)

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RIBA Undergraduate Hadrian Medal Shortlist 2013

Winner:(1) Justin Chu

Shortlisted:(2) Robert Whalley,(3) Thomas Savage,(4) Alex Spicer

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

Winner:(1) Robin Eadie

Runner-up: (2) Miten Mistry

Shortlisted:(3) Daniel Mossman,(4) Will Monaghan,(5) Emma Bramley,(6) Justin Chu,(7) Alex Spicer

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Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Shortlisted:(2) Jamie Bugler (3) Julia Lee(4) Jenny Oman(5) Will Monaghan(6) Elin Jones

Winner:(1) Simon Ward

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Winner:(1) Louisa Heyworth

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Ryders prize for best postgraduate project

Winner:(1) Carl Harper

Runner-up:(2) Leanne Stamp

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Winner:(1) Justin Chu

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Trada NETTA Prize

Winner: (1) Alice Hamlin

Runner up: (2) Emma Bramley(3) Laurence Misick

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Winner : Maurycy Olsweski

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Capita Symonds prize for overall highest mark in the Built and Natural Environment; Adrian Yiu

The Blyth Museum of Sustainability (see page 134-135)

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Live Theatre project prize; Jon Dennis

Reviving the Mysteries of Newcastle’s Quayside (see page 156-157)

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BD Magazine - Class of 2013, Top five Part II students in the UK; Carl Harper

The Restorative Aquaculture of Silt Island (see page 194-195)

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‘Polyport 2013’MArch Year 1

The communal gardening project proposes transforming the former yard of the Harland and Wolff Ship Building Company in Belfast, reconnecting the site to the city centre and providing a neutral space in which some of Belfast’s 50,000 people of pensionable age can meet and

work together on a common hobby.

At the heart of the scheme is the pleasure of social gardening. The shortlisted design incorporates a series of community gardens that would allow elderly people to interact with populations of all ages, including a communal allotment space and a market place to sell the produce.

The team also proposed a waste-to-energy operation adjacent to the gardens which would help to resolve Belfast’s increasing landfill project, providing clean energy to Belfast city centre and nourishment of the gardens with compost produced as a by-product of the process.

WISE Competition Sean Normington, Emily Scullion, Sam Sedgewick, Tom Sykes - Honourable Mention Forgotten Spaces Competition, North East 2012 Matt Drury - 3rd place

‘The Augmented Distillery 2012’MArch Graduate 2012

Derived from extensive historical research into Pudding Chare and its proximities, the thesis is derived from collective memory of the site, recollecting forgotten memories from the sites past to inform a new narrative through re-interpretation and adaption.

The distillery recollects the former architecture of St John’s Street which currently lies vacant within Newcastle’s ‘Grainger Town’. Selective memories of former architecture, inhabitants and events are re-layered, to re-instate a nexus of forgotten spaces which have became lost amongst the dense urban fabric of the city.

The distillery reprises the role of a former spirit merchant and distiller, Mr Samuel Stokoe, whose premises formerly occupied the site during the 19th century.

The part one programme at Northumbria equips students with the skills necessary to thrive in architectural practice. Architecture is a complex subject, and students develop the ability to think critically, independently and creatively through engagement with two design projects in their final year. This programme is prescribed by the ARB and validated by the RIBA.

These projects form a balanced portfolio and provide vehicles for learning the associated elements of theory, technology, management and sustainable design. This approach constructively aligns the assignments to the studio projects, helping the students to engage with these essential aspects of architecture.

Architecture can be a difficult and daunting subject, but one which can be immensely satisfying and rewarding in both study and practice. The work of the architecture staff and students at Northumbria centres upon critical themes and questions which can be seen to be explored and demonstrated through the work of the final year students.

Central to this work is the philosophy of architecture being fundamentally about people and our interactions with each other within our environments. This translates into considerations of contextual awareness; to be conscious of the world in which we exist and will therefore operate as architects. Architecture is not an isolated object, it is part of a continuum of the physical, historic and cultural fabric of human existence, and it is this foundation which forms the starting point for inquiries within the student projects.

This examination, and the resultant understanding, provides the material by which the narratives of the projects are defined. These themes are then developed through a process of exploring the experiential nature of space as framed by the authentic craft of building.

This iterative design process encourages sensitive, appropriate and considered scheme proposals, which emerge from, and contribute to, the spirit of their place.

Ben Elliott : Programme Leader

BA (Hons) Architecture

Image: Alastair Speak

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Year 1 intends to lay the foundations for architecture students by establishing core understanding in theoretical knowledge and practical skills essential for further development. Throughout Year 1 authentic studio based projects are undertaken within the local context of Newcastle where students embark on a range of enquiries and design challenges.As a central vehicle for learning, the studio project is supported by a range of integrated modules covering key

areas which include; history and theory, communication, management and practice, technology and environmental design. During Semester 1 students observe, investigate and record a series of allocated sites. Drawn and crafted studies form a repository of information from which the student group draw upon throughout the academic year. Through a series of authentic project briefs, Semester 2 engages the students in the acts of

modifying, developing and creating additions and adaptations with a clear connection to place, underpinned by an appreciation of cultural context.

Images:(1) Steve Alton(2) Rebecca Illingworth(3) Katie Hammond(4) Paul Justin(5) Bradley Alsop

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Year Two consolidates and expands the core learning and practical skills gained in Year One. It offers an opportunity to be inquisitive and experimental with an accumulating body of architectural knowledge. The pace and structure of the studio based projects encourage deeper exploration of the design process, building confidence with a range of communication methods and nurtures a

broadening architectural vocabulary. This personal advancement is predicated upon the development of critical thinking skills. Coherent streams of information are generated by aligning the content of supporting modules with thematic ideas contained within studio projects. This fosters new architectural interests and provides a strong provenance for testing

new ideas and concepts.

Images:(1) Gerald Narciso(2) Bridge project(3-4) Barthelemy Vautravers

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Study Trip Rome

The three days’ Study Trip to Rome took place in February 2013. The whole Y2 Architecture students participated with enthusiasm and interest to what was perceived as the contemporary version of the ‘Grand Tour’.Of course this was a great opportunity to see some of the most famous architectures of the Eternal City, like the Pantheon, the Colosseum and S. Peter’s Basilica.

However, the visit did not only focus on the Ancient Roman period; on its second day it was indeed extended to Rome’s Modernist heritage, with particular at-tention to the Olympic structures of Pier Luigi Nervi (RIBA Gold Medal in 1960). The final day was all about the Contem-porary production: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI (RIBA Stirling Prize 2008), Renzo Piano’s auditorium and Richard Meier’s Ara Pacis.

Finally, the visit coincided with a rather exceptional event: the resignation of the Pope. This unplanned circumstance pro-vided the extra flavour to a very valuable student experience.

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A New Northumberland National Park visitor centre and youth hostel

In conjunction with the Northumberland National Parks Association and the Youth Hostel Association, the architecture students at Northumbria University were asked to design a visitor centre set in the rich historic context of Northumberland. The current facilities at Once Brewed on Hadrian’s Wall are substandard and do not provide accommodation of the quality which befits an area of such wide and varied appeal. The visitor centre will be a modern-day education centre which will house both permanent and temporary exhibitions and interactive learning facilities across a range of themes which will serve as a focal point in the Northumberland National Park. The

centre will also provide accommodation for visitors as an expansion of the YHA’s existing facilities on the site. Choices of sites were offered - highlighting the diverse activities and attraction of the wider National Park, and the students were asked to expand on the NNPA brief to include the exhibition on a theme significant to the history of the area. Through the hard work of the NNPA and the YHA, funding has now been secured to take the project to the next stage of design and a huge step closer to the realisation of the new visitor centre. Northumbria University architecture would like to thank Georgia Villalobos of the NNPA and Nicky Watson of the appointed architects JDDK for their continued help and support with this project.

The Literary & Philosophical Society (Lit & Phil) is the largest independent library outside London, housing over 150,000 current and historic books, with the collection covering every field of interest.

The Society was founded early in 1793 as a ‘conversation club’, with an annual subscription of one guinea. The subjects of the conversations - and the books that supported them - were wide-ranging, but above all the society sought to share knowledge.

The Young Lit + Phil proposals will provide a place embodying the ethos of the original L&P, but in a more accessible manner, particularly encouraging people to engage with subjects (such as literature

Young Lit and Phil - Newcastle upon Tyne

Image : Ben Elliott

and philosophy) who may not have had a chance to do so before.

Community groups from all over the region will be encouraged to use the YL+P as a learning resource, and the YL+P will re-establish the act of thinking and the pursuit and exchange of knowledge as a rewarding pastime, and crucially, as a social experience; the subjects are not ‘high-brow’, but are issues that concern all of us and that we can productively contribute to.

Crucially, the young L&P will be for the exchange of knowledge and the chance to challenge and debate.

Image: Ben Elliott

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As Newcastle’s largest and longest established industry, the decline of shipbuilding in the 1980’s had a significant impact on the City. A library dedicated solely to shipbuilding will archive the redundant material and provide a facility for members of the community to easily trace their heritage. The building in itself is a representative of the city’s rich industrial past.

Heather A Graham

The Young Lit & Phil Library maintains the original atmosphere of solitude with a contemporary twist. The new library is dedicated to children from 0-12 years old. It is a space for story telling, fun reading and education. The proposal brings life to the area.

Tonnae Kwong

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Laurence Misick

Manga is a complex and traditional form of Japanese comics which have grown exceedingly popular in western culture. One of the fastest growing sectors of the existing Gateshead Library, the manga collection is sorely underdeveloped.

The introduction of a designated manga library in the burgeoning creative community of Gateshead, Tyne & Wear,

is aimed to generate interest and attract youth visitors to this emerging social hub.

Runner-up - NETTA TRADA prize

Awards

A Venue for the Spoken Word

Unlike the existing building, The Young Lit & Phil has an informal, social setting. The glass box proposal aims to ‘open up’ the institution, permitting views through the building to engage with it’s surroundings.

With respect for the historic setting, the architecture appears low lying and unobtrusive during the day. At night, the architecture glows, illuminating the society’s presence within the city. A beacon perched on the river bank, the architecture becomes a destination and draws visitors back to Castle Garth.

Ashley Murray

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There are almost two million people in the UK that are suffering from blindness. This means that out of every thirty people one person is suffering from sight loss, yet only one small library for the blind exists. The purpose of this project was to design a library for the blind for The Literary & Philosophical Society. The idea was to create a building that can be explored and understood through all the

senses; a place where the visually impaired can feel comfortable from the moment they first visit. The concept of the library is orientated around texture, shapes, acoustics and proportions.

Winner - 2013 Ibstock Design Prize

Maurycy Olszewski

Awards

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Located South of the Tyne, the library grows organically from its surroundings, its material and form born of the city that encompasses it. The scheme creates a hub of philosophical debate and study, with the evolution of philosophical thought plotted as a journey from darkness into light, creating an existential experience for all ages.

Matthew Wardle

The Forgotten Read Library has a fully recycled book collection, donated through book banks located around the City. The partly excavated layout of the building influenced the structural principle with a monolithic concrete frame responding to the mass removed in excavation whilst an opposing lightweight lattice frame supports the exposed fabric. The design incorporates recycled material to create a modern vision of library design.

Daniel Woodbridge

Image: Jamie Nicholson

The heugh + priory + the ouseCastle point + scar jockeyEmmanuel head + sheldrake pool The Lindisfarne Gospels are a masterpiece of early medieval European book painting. The book represents the golden age of design and craftsmanship in Northumbria, and has survived for over a thousand years in almost perfect

condition. The detail, intricacy and beauty of its decoration are outstanding. The Gospels have returned to the region in the summer of 2013, on loan from the British Library and displayed in Durham, but for this project the students were asked to consider the possibility of returning them to the place of their creation; the holy island of Lindisfarne.

Lindisfarne - The Gospels

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A dwelling has to be ‘Protective’, an office ‘practical’, a ballroom ‘festive’ and a church ‘solemn’ Genius Loci

Tides rise and fall creating physical barriers of seclusion to the island. Once a location for pilgrimage and hermitage, the scheme brings back the emotion, allowing members of the public to reflect and learn in their own space, as pilgrims once did.

The scheme consists of a procession, channeling people through the lime kilns [hostel+visitors space] into the sea and branching into solemnly atmospheric spaces.

Justin Chu

Winner: Ryders prize for best undergraduate project Nominated: RIBA presidents medals bronzeShortlisted: RIBA Hadrian medalShortlisted: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

Awards

Model: Justin Chu

‘The staff have an amazing ability to engage with the students……’

David Simister (creative director, Aedas);

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Situated on the remote north easterly point of Holy Island, the visitors centre and hostel lie hunkered down within the inhospitable dunes, shielding the Gospels from the forces of nature.

The thick stone walls enclosing both the hostel buildings and the visitors centre allow for the life of the community to continue in this exposed and isolated

Winner: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

location, much like the original priory on the island over 1,000 years ago.

Robin Eadie

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In modern times the fishing industry has overtaken the island’s religious heritage, remnants of fishing jetties sit alongside the priory ruins, a juxtaposition of the cultures on the island. Holy island is a coastal nature reserve and the architecture respects its environment, delicately touching the ground, spanning land and sea in the vastly changing tidal landscape. The building intends to enhance the connection with the island, with only the exhibition spaces inwardly focused, the powerful environment has a vast impact upon people’s experiences.

Robert Eaton

Holy Island’s harsh and enrapturing nature induced an intrinsically protective, insular building with a primitive nature that connects with the raw elements of the site.Directional in nature, the buildings allow visitors to navigate by their procession towards the Emmanuel Head beacon in what otherwise is a vast expanse of land, engulfed by the treacherous mist and wind.

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The vessels create refuge nodes dispersed along the tumultuous coastline, resonating with historic pilgrimages to the place of origin of The Lindisfarne Gospels. The return of The Gospels to Northumberland prompts the creation of new visitor centre facilities to house such a precious piece of history.

Dispersal of form originated from the hermit nature of the island and St. Cuthbert’s presence and lifestyle. The elongated form embodies a journey along the island, constantly exposing and defending the occupant to nature.

Suzanne Hinds

During the viking raids on Lindisfarne in 793 A.D, the jewelled cover of the Lindisfarne gospel was lost. The scheme involves the design of a museum and visitor centre for the manuscript along with its replacement cover produced in 1852.

The building concept derives from a shipwreck remain following the attack.

The timber frame is reminiscent of sail masts.

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St Aidan, the first inhabitant of the island, and St Cuthbert regularly took to the Farne Islands for prayers of meditation.

The significance between the Farnes and their connection to Lindisfarne forms the concept and axial arrangement of the scheme. Alignment of the visitor centre and youth hostel allow the user to experience the journey.

Broken down into a series of nodes, the building placement in the landscape forms a visual connection between the islands. The series of buildings, anchored by the Lindisfarne Lime Kilns, climax with view to the Farnes and a space of contemplation housing the precious Gospels manuscript.

Maxwell Los

Symmetrical and geometric. Three buildings have been created from the grid pattern; semi public, public and the gospel chamber. The Gospel chamber is central and the key focal point. A courtyard has been formed around the gospel chamber to emphasise the protection of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Located at Castle Point on the south east tip of the island, the visitor centre mirrors the location of the Lindisfarne Priory on the south west point, providing shelter for people and animals in an exposed location. The layout of the building relates to local vernacular Bastle Houses, which took the form of shelter on the ground floor and living areas on the first floor. This scheme draws parallels by utilising the ground floor as the hostel and placing the visitor centre on the first floor.

Shortlisted: Northumberland National Park Association:‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Jenny Oman

Awards

The Hermit, Visitor Centre and Youth Hostels

The scheme aims to create an experience similar to that of St. Cuthbert in order to educate the visitors about the gospels.

Pilgrims from all over the world visit Holy Island, reaching the island via ‘Pilgrims way’. The scheme axis form a pathway that creates a public/private divide. Along this pathway is a tunnel which provides a dark, isolated and spiritual place, lit by four light wells symbolising the four gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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The design concept came from the historical collection of Saint Cuthbert’s Beads. With many of the beads being found on Saint Cuthbert’s Island, they were believed to be holy and were collected and used on rosary beads.

This nautilus shell form was used to create the master plan of the design, with the visitors centre at the focal point. Separate

youth hostel rooms are provided, with each lowered into the ground by 0.5 metres to become part of the landscape.

Madeline Wallace

Image: Johari Jappar

Gefrin field site + battle stoneOld yeavering beckTorleehouse woodsSt. gregorys hill Located just north of Wooler, the Anglo-Saxon site of Ad Gefrin provides a wealth of significant historic artefacts and events. From Mesolithic flint workings, wood henges and standing stones, Bronze Age ceremonial relics through to significant battles of the border reivers in the

middle ages, the site’s greatest historic significance is perhaps as the northern palace of Edwin of Northumbria and the location where his Roman missionary Paulinus carried out mass-conversions to Christianity. Crowned with the largest hill fort in Northumberland, Yeavering Bell stands overlooking the site of Ad Gefrin, and together these sites provide an expansive, windswept landscape, rich in history.

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Inspired by the hill fort walls, land art and the surrounding footpaths the visitor centre sits in the adjacent valley to Yeavering Bell with the hostel the other side of the river. The embedded visitor centre displays artefacts from the Ad Gefrin site and Iron Age hill fort, as well as aiding the crossing of the river.

Angus Donaldson

Carved out of the steep bank lies the opening of a precession, down through the levels are reflective of the changes over history and these journey down into a grave. These voids progress down into the landscape, but maintain a sheer height from within. The towers provide their connection to the outside, and the visible chare is a direct link to its setting.

The burial towers exhibit the remains of the Ad Gefrin artefacts. They are representative of its past landscape and paying homage and acts as a marker in the Northumberland landscape

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The visitor centre and youth hostel is situated within the fascinating landscape of Yeavering Bell, the ‘hill of the goats’, a distinctive mountain that has been culturally significant since the Mesolithic Period. The centre creates a new landmark within this richly woven landscape, drawing on alignments with ancient monuments. A series of rammed concrete retaining walls create sheltered terraces

Alice Hamlin

Awards

which house the museum, visitor facilities and youth hostel, acting as a base from which visitors can explore and discover the surrounding landscape.

Winner - NETTA TRADA prize

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Sited in the hills surrounding the mountainous Yeavering Bell, the hostel and visitor centre look over the historic site of Ad Gefrin in the low lands below. The site amalgamates the ethos of pilgrimage and community in a series of linked journeys, each with their own specific destination. Rest, learn and view.

Bradley Harrison

Inspired by land art and the topographical landscape, the design creates a link between the public footpath and the Iron age findings at Yeavering Bell.

A North facing design allows for optimum exhibition lighting, creating an ideal environment for the viewing of artefacts. A raised form creates an open space around the building, maximising circulation around the site.

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Nestled at the foot of Yeavering Bell is the Old Palace, an early form of the Bastle house. This defensive structure provided refuge from attack during the Border Reiver Period. Preserving the history and knowledge of the Border Reiving families is the focus of the museum and visitor centre. Self-sufficient structures provide refuge for cyclists and walkers from the wilderness

Louisa Heyworth

of the Cheviots. The tower rises out of the mountain like a beacon, which opens views across the history steeped landscape. The accommodation marks the route up Yeavering Bell following the contours of the mountain.

Awards

Winner - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prize

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The ‘thin places’ are places in Celtic mythology, where the boundary between the heavens and earth, between past, present and future are thin. They are places for reflection, peace and meditation. Yeavering Bell visitor centre is inspired by the thin places, and the ancient spirituality of the mountain itself.

Becky Iwnicki Johari Jappar

Ad Gefrin is without doubt one of the most special places within the Northumberland National park. A panoramic outlook of the region is best observed from The Spine Centre.

The visitor centre and associated accommodation nestle in it’s natural surroundings and are particularly fashioned to promote an intimate

reconnection with history, the landscape and beyond.

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A dramatic landscape dominates the small hamlet of Kirknewton, Northumberland, wherein lie the remains of a twin-peaked Iron Age hill fort. The building was designed to lend sympathy to the fort’s historical origins. Roof heights create different experiences throughout the building as well as offering natural light into the spaces. A heavyweight embedded structure is designed to make

Elin Jones

Awards

the exhibition space feel enclosed, whereas the lightweight structures feel open and spacious. The building’s set into the landscape, while the imposing rooftops provoke curiosity.

Shortlisted -Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Sarah Mc Namara

Yeavering Bell Visitor Centre

The idea of sanctuary, ceremony and seclusion link the site with the building and the building with its occupants. The design calls upon influences from Richard Long and uses the natural contours of the site to define its position within it. It’s form is based on the site’s Anglo Saxon heritage. The notion of gathering and meeting is reiterated throughout the design. Upon entering the building there is a procession, creating a ceremonial experience as you walk through it. The two separate buildings are linked by nature through the trees. The roof of the structure becomes a canopy atop the building, with the library floor stretching above the structure, in to the trees.

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Will Monaghan Awards

3 buildings mark the landscape, dotting along the way. A place to pause, a place to visit, a place to stay. Between two frosted peaks, amongst the Cheviots, a visitor’s centre rests, a vestibule of our patchwork history. Beyond, a place to rest, a shelter a moment to pause before continuing our recovery of landscape. The eventual destination. The horizon glimmers, a winged silhouette glides above, silence.

Shortlisted - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Shortlisted - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

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Through the Trees

It is believed that the ancient poem ‘Beowulf ’ was inspired by the Northumbrian landscape. The dark, mysterious and emotive narrative has played influence on the scheme, marrying material and structure.

Gottfried Semper’s theory ‘Stereotomics’ divides the primitive structure into four basic elements;

1) Earthwork2) Hearth3) Framework4) Light-weight enclosing membrane

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Ad Gefrin's historical spirits flow mysteriously, forever passing by the watchful goats. Exposed & untamed, the environment evokes a beautiful turbulence. Outside, a disposition of slender trunks in a forest of columns stand tall amongst the battering elements. Inside, contemplate upon the landscape and be excited by precariousness.

Runner-up - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

Shortlisted - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prize

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Johannes Whittmann

The proposal is formed as an eight-shape ramp which tells the story of Ad Gefrin and exhibits the major artifacts from the Ad Gefrin archaeological investigations in 1949. The building has a strong connection to the surrounding landscape and nature, the roof structure was inspired by local rock formations. The centre provides accommodation for visitors as a YHA facility incorporating a bridge and viewing platform over the valley.

Existing yha + visitor centre site, once brewedSteel rigg, once brewedWalltown cragsThirlwall castle, greenhead The projects located around Hadrian’s Wall considered the potential to house and exhibit the Vindolanda tablets. These fragments of thin, wooden leaf-tablets are the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. These precious relics provide an insight into life at the fringes of the Roman Empire, and an important stepping stone in British history.

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Resting alongside Hadrian’s Wall, the scheme takes reference from the surrounding landscape, reflecting the rock formations and layers of earth that sit adjacent.

Inside, the visitor centre will exhibit Vindolanda tablets as well as the provision of a facility to educate on Roman life and the Northumberland National Park.

Emma Bramley

Located by the ruined Thirlwall castle, the sill visitors centre and youth hostel is a representation of the landscape.

Together, they create a journey along Hadrian’s wall, stopping at each one of the 17 wall forts along the way.

The height of the structural fins is representative of the North/South

positioning of the forts on the map. The distance between each structural fin is proportionate to the miles between each fort.

Runner up - NETTA TRADA prize

Shortlisted - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project.

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The scheme has been heavily influenced by traditional building forms and materials which allow the building to sit comfortably within the context of the site. The visitors centre is based around a vernacular courtyard which uses its pitched roof to help lead people to the rugged landscape beyond. Like many of the Northumberland farmsteads, the building’s aesthetics are defined by its engineering.

Runner-up - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

Joshua Dobson

The youth hostel and visitor centre is designed to represent a continuation of Hadrian’s Wall on the site that it once stood. This is achieved by taking features from the wall to shape and style several of the designs key concepts, including the building’s footprint, height and materiality.

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Laurence Elsdon

The scheme has evolved from the topography of the site. The two approaches reveal the scheme in different manners.

From the south the building is burrowed into the terrain, delicately legible, leaving an unblemished view of the Whin Sill across the Quarry Lake.For those hiking along the wall path from

the crest of the Whin Sill the building creates an enticing, comforting glow across the Quarry Lake.

Julia Lee

The Vindolanda Tablets, found through excavation, will be exhibited in the new visitor centre to celebrate the important history of the world heritage site, Hadrian’s Wall.

Stratification of spaces emphasises the stratification of history and reflects the experience of excavating and delving into the past. This encourages further

exploration of the rich history buried beneath the site.

Awards

Shortlisted: Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize.

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Joseph Marshall

The scheme, nestled between the quarry and crags at Walltown in Northumberland, is comprised of a visitor’s centre and youth hostel. The form is based on the structural linearity of the crags.

The mass of the building appears to embed itself within the landscape.

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The building is divided by the Hard Rock Trail, dramatizing the surrounding landscape.

The craggy rock face acts as a backdrop for the vindolanda tablet exhibition. Aiming to educate the visitors on the site’s history, as well as it’s geology.

As you travel through the site you become

immersed in the ground, as the crag peels back, an exciting and ever-changing environment awaits, ready to be explored.

Awards

Shortlisted: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios:Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project.

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The Sill is a visitor centre housing the Vindolanda Tablets by Hadrian’s Wall. Spaces have been created to reflect the sense of adventure and discovery of those who have travelled the wall throughout the ages. Two simply formed linear buildings are set within the landscape engulfed by the nature of the site allowing natural wildlife to thrive.

Christie Rowan-Smith

The Visitor Centre and Youth Hostel take influence from the linear nature of the surroundings. It follows the Pennine Way and Hadrian’s Wall Trail, with the Whin Sill creating a finishing point for the buildings.

A series of black timber buildings are easily distinguishable among the landscape, defining a path.

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Harriet Smith

The Sill provides a physical gateway destination and a base for all seasons in Northumberland National Park. It consists of a visitor centre and youth hostel, each made up of individual buildings.

The design aims to promote exploration of the outdoor landscape, environmental related education, sustainability and conservation.

Varun Soni

Hadrian’s Wall creates a path, a journey through the landscape as it snakes through the ever changing scenery and presents a unique way to experience Roman History. The wall creates a meaning of protection, boundary and definition within the site. It creates a scar within a beautiful landscape. The building provides a journey through the history of the site where a time line of events can be experienced as visitors begin to ascend through the landscape as they ascend through history.

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Awards

Winner - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ visitor centre prize

The exposed physical landscape drives a strong linear concept, with the scheme responding directly towards the surrounding context. The overall masterplan mirrors the Hadrian’s Wall longitudinal axis.

The building disperses into the terrain, enabling the overall form to be recognised before entering, adding to the visitors journey and interpretation of the living landscape.

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Ben Warnock

Steel Rigg, Exhibition Centre and YHA Facility

The Project consists of two developments which form a connection with the landscape and each other.

The location of the 9 Vindolanda Tablets act as guides that lead the guests around the exhibition before reaching the open

café in which they have the space for reflection.

The design is simple yet sharp. It compliments the surroundings through it’s materiality and provides views of the Sill.

Catherine Wheater

Within the Barren Landscape of Northumberland National Park lie numerous outcrops of natural beauty. The Visitors Centre was a conceptually driven design aiming to mirror the landscape’s subtleties, occupying the ‘in between’ spaces that nature has already formed.

The building takes inspiration from the surrounding environment, touching on the landscape, tantalizingly close to the edge of what there is to explore beyond.

Blyth battery + beach frontBlyth quay staithes + the high light Blyth has a rich industrial past which at its height boasted one of the largest shipyards on the north east coast, and before it was a major focus for the export of salt and coal. The power station has now been demolished, replaced by a series of wind turbines along the harbour wall, but fragments of the old staithes still remain along with the old high light. To the other side of the modern port of Blyth lies Blyth beach – popular for recreational activities and still littered with extensive coastal defences from both world wars. Students were asked to consider this more recent industrial heritage and how these might be developed in the visitor centre.

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Amongst the beautiful coastline of the North East sits the small industrial town of Blyth. Detached from Northumberland’s coastal ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ and not supported by the National Trust and other organisations, the dunes and beaches of Blyth are left to be preserved and maintained by local volunteer groups. Intended to be the first of many

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throughout the region, this proposed conservation centre is designed to change this.

The museum extends the Blyth Battery experience making it more enjoyable for tourists and local people. The Youth Hostel will be adjacent to the museum, reading like an extension of it.WWI trenches influence the layout of the buildings helping visitors experience the atmosphere of life during war time. Exhibitions explore the poetry, literature, photography and music of WWI and

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WWII and the integrated youth hostel acts as a hub for creative exchange.

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Footsteps to Power

Footsteps to Power is located in the coastal town of Blyth, Northumberland. The building sits on the estuary’s edge, exhibiting a range of sustainable technologies and off‐grid energy sources. The building comprises an education centre and a youth hostel offering the chance to experience living off‐grid.

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The Blyth Battery Museum emerges from the dunes allowing glimpses of the sunken, defensive structure. The internal atmosphere is removed from current realities to focus solely on the information and mood set by the exhibition. The accommodation is situated north of the museum, mostly buried underground with a central social hub and three accommodation pods pushing out from the dunes.

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The project is located on the outskirts of Blyth. A distinct change in visitors and uses occurs between winter and summer. This is highlighted by the project, which switches functions (for its human inhabitants) between bird-watching in winter and spring and water sports in summer and autumn. The scheme provides for both human and avian occupants to take temporary ‘roost’, each during their season.

RIBA Presidents Medals 2013 - Bronze Medal Nominee

Shortlisted - RIBA Hadrian Medal

Shortlisted - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prize

Ryder Prize for best undergraduate - Runner-up

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The Genetorium

Mans need for energy has been Blyth’s staple employment for centuries, from coal mining in the 17th century to renewables in the 21st. The Genetorium aims to reconnect the fragmented waterfront with the town, whilst capturing its past. In combining rehabilitation and exhibition, treatment becomes destigmatized for the 1 in 10 miners suffering with mining related illness.

Runner up - Ibstock design prize

Shortlisted - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios: Prize for outstanding undergraduate design project

Shortlisted - RIBA Hadrian medal

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The Blyth Shipworks scheme occupies the mothballed and soon to be closed Alcan ship unloading facility, which was an essential part of the aluminium smelting process in nearby Lynemouth. The Shipworks scheme aims to spark regeneration in Blyth, address the skills gap between Blyth school leavers and it’s emerging off shore engineering industry, whilst also attracting leisure tourism to the area through Tall Ship boat building and highlight the key role the North East played in shipbuilding on the world stage.

Shortlisted - RIBA Hadrian medal

Shortlisted - Northumberland National Park Association: ‘the sill’ alternative visitor centre prize

Robert Whalley

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The Blyth Museum of Sustainability

This project is a live- demonstration of sustainable living located in an urban context. Visitors will experience a new healthy life style; exploring the meaning of life by participating in practical activities. It will serve as a congregation point; reconnecting local communities thus aiming to regenerate the town.

Capita Symonds prize for overall highest mark in the Built and Natural Environment

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Hollie Welch

The visitor centre mimics both the natural and man made forms within its surroundings. Each exposed structure behaves as a living canvas, welcoming the aesthetic changes imposed by the relentless force of the weather and cyclic nature of the tide.

The programme will encourage quality outdoor learning and experience which will further knowledge of the oceanic environment.

The Part Two programme at Northumbria widens the range of learning opportunities afforded at Part One level. The over-arching strategy is a clear move from tutor - led teaching to self - directed learning, with all modules in the upper year being taught at Master’s level. This programme is prescribed by the ARB and validated by the RIBA.

Complex design projects again provide learning vehicles for the taught modules in the lower year. These modules cover a deeper understanding of building technologies, authentic scenario - based assignments which cover practice, management and law, and a broader exposure to cultural, artistic and social influences on the profession, underpinned by appropriate research skills. Students are encouraged to develop inquiries of personal and professional interest, in order to shape their own learning throughout the course.

The central philosophy of contextualism, in all its forms, remains at the heart of the programme. The course structure allows flexibility for a variety of student learning

and outputs. Regional engagement is promoted via a choice of project sites which challenge the student to develop imaginative yet authentic proposals. However, the programme avoids parochialism by developing transferable scholarship and skills, such as high level inquiry, complex problem setting and critical evaluation, which can be applied to national and international contexts.

The programme seeks to synthesize peer and dialogical learning, collaborative and individual inquiries, social and ethical concerns, and design pluralism, in order to generate complex design proposals that demonstrate understanding of current architectural issues, originality in the application of subject knowledge and, where appropriate, test new hypotheses and speculations. In less than six years, the Master of Architecture programme has established itself as one of the best in the country, with clear aspirations to improve from year to year.

Peter Holgate : Programme Leader

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The first year of the Master of Architecture is an exploratory year.

Across the academic year, students’ design projects addressed one location at three scales:

Strategically = urban scaleTactically = building scaleOperationally = 1:1 scale

Initially working in groups, they analysed their chosen sites to identify inherent narratives and potential programmes, before engaging directly with the site to record or make visible a physical observation. Those speculative briefs are developed as individual, design proposals during the second semester exploring the connections between people – both physical and social – and their

relationship with, and use of, the site over time.

In 2012-13, the starting points for the students’ projects were the “Titanic Quarter”, the failed redevelopment of the Harland And Wolff docks in Belfast; “Silt Island” and South Gare, the liminal landscape of the Tees estuary; historic South Shields at the mouth of the river

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Tyne; and the temporary return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to Durham from the British Library in London.

The students are “embedded” in these communities. They are encouraged to find ways to engage with their “clients”, to present and discuss their observations and speculations with those for whom their proposals are intended.

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The Open Source Space Project, Silt Island, Teesmouth

After first visiting the site, Mark observed his shoes and trousers were stained red. Returning with his dog, Minty, he collected samples of the pigment from the Marram grasses. This material, Iron II Oxide, is carried on the wind from the blast furnace at Coatham.

Mark constructed a jugaard device incorporating a colour wheel and analogue spectrometer, to reveal the “hidden” colour(s) of the site.

Iron II Oxide (a component of Thermite, an explosive used in fireworks) also gives the planet Mars its rust red colour. According to the Augustan historian, Livy, Campus Martius (the Field of Mars) to the north of Rome, which had belonged to the King, was harvested following the revolution and the grain thrown in to the river Tiber, where it settled and formed islands.

Sited on a peninsula formed by silt in the Tees Estuary, Mark proposed a facility for rehearsing manned Mars missions, affording opportunities for high-G training and rocket testing inspired by the UK-based SpaceX and by Copenhagen Suborbitals – a not-for-profit, open-source space project.

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Biophilia, South Shields

Located between the eastern edge of the town and the coast, the site comprises of parkland sloping steeply down to the dunes and thence the North Sea. Dividing this site into linear jardin potager of between 1 & 1.5 acres, for groups of 30 to 40 terraced houses, Fabian proposed “community share

allotment” to generate all of the fruit and vegetables sufficient for all of the households each year. These allotments can be maintained by 120 hours of labour per week from the local community.

Four biomes act as fish hatcheries and nurseries and as greenhouses housing aquaponics growing tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and salad crops utilising the

nutrients in fish waste. Seasonal changes bring new varieties to harvest in the permaculture garden. Excess fruit and vegetables are soldin the market place.

Dawn breaks. The sun burns through the clouds. Flowers blossom, bringing colour and fragrance to the morning air.

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With it’s strong talent for building restoration, Madrid was the perfect city for Year 2 Interior Architecture Students and Year 5 Master of Architecture students to visit. An exploration of the city’s finest building interventions and adaptive reuse was in order.The week long visit took in the likes of Herzog and de Meuron’s transformation of a former power station to the sculptural and apparent law of gravity defying, CaixaForum. There was also a visit to the alteration of the old municipal slaughterhouse into the cultural centre - the Matadero and the converted brewery, by Aranguren & Gallegos, to the MuseoABC museum and underground gallery.The visit also offered students the opportunity to become immersed in art and culture. Jean Nouvel’s addition to the Museo Reina Sofia gave host to Picasso’s masterpiece, the Guernica, whilst the important extension of the Prado by Rafael Moneo represented great Spanish artists such as Velázquez and Goya.Students were also free to make their own pursuits and even went as far as the UNESCO world heritage city of Toledo.

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Preface - Memory Theatre

Live Theatre was founded on Tyneside in 1973 by Geoff Gillham, Val McLane and amongst others, actor Tim Healy. The company originally toured its work regionally to non traditional theatre settings, such as community halls and working men’s clubs, but the aim was to create a venue committed to creating plays with a regional identity for North East audiences and, in particular,

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for people who didn’t usually go to the theatre. Over 35 years later, the company has a fantastic, well equipped theatre in which to perform its plays, but the mission to create work which is challenging, popular and relevant to all, remains as important as ever

Students have developed propositions for the broader site upon which it the Live Theatre resides, developing an event space and cultural hub for the city riverside.

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Trinity Chare: A Palimpsest

Visitor Centre, Exhibition spaces & Local information Centre

The site is located within the medieval town wall of Newcastle Upon Tyne. The project aims to reveal the site’s hidden memories; presenting to the public the chare, courtyard, and urban pattern.

The proposed functions were developed following a study of the sites potential visitor activity and resulted with an additional tourist attraction.

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‘this is one of the best schools of architecture in Britain………. it is relatively young, has excellent staff, attracts high calibre of students and very importantly, has the right size of year classes.’

Roger Stephenson (formerly Stephenson Bell Architects)External examiner in Architecture at Northumbria University

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The Last Gap on the Quayside

The development brings together the rich and listed heritage of the site, with a modern function and recalls on the historic lofty bonded warehouses that lined the chares for centuries. The new building creates a retail arcade running north from the Quayside, connecting the street front to the backlands of the city.

The mixed-use development will create a centre for the modern guild and craftsman and the neutrality of the scheme evokes memories of former structures, but without stylistic references to the past. It will provide functional and specific spaces for design, development, prototyping, producing, retailing and exporting garments and shoes all from the banks of the Tyne.

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Reviving the Mysteries of Newcastle’s Quayside

Live Theatre is a charitable organisation located within the historic heart of Newcastle’s Quayside that promotes and supports young playwright talent. The proposed scheme aims to revive Newcastle’s lost medieval Guilds by providing workshops for creative artisans that will raise revenue for the theatre to continue its charitable operations. The workshop units aim to attract young creative individuals and craftsmen including; jewellery makers, web designers, graphic design, print makers, pottery, metal smiths, and glassblowers; who will bring activity, trade and diversity that has been lost from the area. A modern interpretation of pageant carts from medieval theatre will provide a facility that can be used to transform the Quayside, facilitating a variety of events and taking performance out onto the street.

Shortlisted: RIBA Hadrian medal

Jonathan Dennis

Awards

Model: Jen Naden

‘The standard of the school practice is excellent, creative and thorough.’

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The development of a performing arts school on the current vacant plot of No.57 Quayside, Newcastle, is proposed in order to generate a renewed and continual source of income for Live Theatre and act as an extension of the existing art programmes in the quayside area. The School will generate income through its taught programs and draw attention to the Live Theatre and its facilities, both

physically and through awareness, consequently acting as catalyst for the associated services.

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The brief calls for a development to support the client’s existing theatrical programme.

The aim of the project was to create a mixed-use development for creative and performing arts, designed around a new Chare. The building improves connectivity between the Quayside waterfront and existing client operations – improving public realm spaces through courtyards, chares and open spaces.

The principles of construction have been inspired by the unique works of WIKIHouse CC, which are based on the principles of low cost, high quality architecture. The process uses CNC cut plywood to create sustainable low cost structures.

Shortlisted: RIBA Hadrian medal

Neil Sedgley

Awards

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South Shields has it all; transport links with Tyneside and Northern Europe, a rich historical, religious and cultural context, an attractive coastline and a quayside of huge potential, a traditionally diverse population, and a market square ripe for redevelopment.

However, these points don’t all join up –

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unemployment is high, and despite the best efforts of the local council, the town has stagnated over time. How can interventions be made that capitalise on these positive factors, and contribute towards a thriving and inclusive community? Thesis projects consider this question and develop propositions for the broader site.

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The River Tyne is cleaned through a dredging project excavating Tributyltin contaminated sediment from shipyards into barges and a trawling project to collect debris from the river. Located in South Shields this scheme redevelops the brownfield site while celebrating the industrial character and history of the area. The barges are planted on site to Phytoremediate the Tributyltin. A

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system of gantries, following the sites geometries, transports the barges within a pattern based on the footprint of the Old Holborn neighbourhood. Trawled debris is thermally decomposed into bio-char and used as fertilizer. Mature plants are harvested and processed into biofuels. The cleaned sediment is returned to the dredged sites to re-establish biodiversity.

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The South Shields RNLI Academy is a manufacture and education centre for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to facilitate the training of the charity’s 31,000 volunteers. The proposal is set on the empty Middle Docks site on the South Shields Riverside and will incorporate links with local colleges and businesses to teach visitors about the RNLI; train the RNLI volunteers in essential lifesaving skills and facilitate the Construction of the essential RNLI Lifeboat fleet. Creating a RNLI Academy within the area will not only generate savings for the charity but will allow for additional education and jobs to be introduced into South Tyneside; assisting with the councils plan of ‘Achieving a better future’.

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The proposal is a joint venture between South Tyneside Council and National charity, Phoenix Futures. The scheme is aimed at tackling the current high levels of alcohol consumption within the region and provides a North East base for the charity and community facilities. Residential accommodation and private therapy facilities are provided for people suffering with more severe levels of

addiction. This involves structured therapy and full time recovery programmes. The proposal aims to create a secure community environment which includes learning and activity facilities alongside shops, galleries and cafes. The complex is designed to encourage hobbies and interests giving people a passion for working and sense of routine whilst promoting the growth of a positive social community.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are masterpieces of early medieval European book painting. The book represents the golden age of design and craftsmanship in Northumbria, and has survived wars and the ravages of time for over one thousand years in almost perfect condition. The freshness, intricacy and beauty of its decoration are outstanding. The Lindisfarne Gospels, produced in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, provide a focus for pilgrimage, even for those outside the Christian faith.

The Gospels represent a crucial point in the development of the identity of a nation. They seek to unite elements of diverse cultures whose presence on the island now known as Britain came

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about through a turbulent history. In the summer of 2013, the gospels will be returning to the region for the first time since they were seized during the dissolution of the monasteries in the early 16th Century.

The thesis projects look to provide a museum to house the Lindisfarne Gospels. Projects freely interpret the notion of ‘museum’. The Gospels are currently to be returned to Lindisfarne for only three months every seven years, but momentum is building for the gospels to permanently reside in their place of origin.

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Conceived by the monks from Iona in the late seventh century on the tidal Island of Lindisfarne, the Gospels produced ‘In honour of God and St. Cuthbert’ present one of the most exquisite and perfectly preserved pieces of medieval art.

This thesis proposes a Repository for the Lindisfarne Gospels and other objects of Anglo-Saxon art, installed within the Norman Priory built on the site of the first wooden church, in which the gospels were brought to life. The architecture of the Repository is derived from a typological study of Christian churches, the architectural language is borrowed from Anglo-Saxon art.

Alongside the Repository, the project proposes a new masterplan scheme for Holy Island as a response to the Peregrini Action Plan 2013.

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The proposal is a reaction to the campaign to return the Lindisfarne Gospels to the north-east every 7 years. The structure exhibits the Gospels on the site they were written, within an environment which is sympathetic to the artistic and cultural traditions of the society that created them. Returning the Gospels to Holy Island/Lindisfarne aims to enhance the cultural, religious, and artistic heritage of the region

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but also offers a unique opportunity to create an initiative that would tackle many of the social and economic limitations faced by the island community.

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The Lindisfarne Gospels are set to return to the North, but they will not rest solely in one place. The project proposes that Lindisfarne should be the home of the Sacred Manuscript. Lindisfarne will be a permanent repository for the majority of the year, however it is important that the Gospels continue to move on a journey, as they have done throughout it’s lifetime. Traveling between three main locations; Lindisfarne, Durham and Chester Le-Street. Once every four years the book will move off the island to an exhibition in a temporary repository at Durham, a plate at Chester Le-Street lies waiting for their return.

The estuary containing the mouth of the Tees, and the surrounding landscape, is one of the most interesting in the country. There is a juxtaposition of manmade and natural landscapes perhaps unlike anyway else in England. The industry is predominantly heavy engineering, with enormous smelting works and oil infrastructure colonising the landscape. In complete contrast are a number of nature reserves and SiIt that support rare fauna and animal species and exist at a completely different scale.

South Gare - Silt Island

Ships the size of small cities travel up the Tees, importing and exporting good and services that are redistributed nationally and internationally. These ships have altered the landscape by dragging sand and silt from the North Sea and depositing it as new landscapes; these sand banks have also become a haven for wildlife. This new land is interesting in that it also provides an opportunity for habitation. The new island is positioned at the mouth of the Tees and can therefore support a vast array of programmes, from wildlife reserves, to industry, to new human settlement.

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The Heterotopian Isle of Fish

The design proposal is a reaction to the North Sea’s decreasing fish stocks which are a National and European problem.

The fish hatchery and processing plant encourages sustainable fishing through the introduction of a fisheries management structure, where local communities are

encouraged to take ownership of the fishing grounds and be responsible for restocking.

The structure’s form is directly influenced by the environmental forces which will act upon it. The exposed location means that the building needs a defensive outer skin, to protect the community and processing units housed within.

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Drawing upon the observation of severe coastal erosion within the region, the scheme seeks to research sustainable means of prevention.

Retaining the areas heritage in power production, the proposal will introduce the UK’s first full scale osmotic power plant. This will feed and replenish salt marsh ecosystems aiding the prevention of coastline erosion.

The concept for the building captures the progressive nature of the gare with a projecting laboratory capable of tracking the tide and recessive coastline. This is complimented by smaller beach labs that can be closed down, offering protection from the harsh environment.

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Artifact of the Anthropocene

The term Anthropocene suggests humans and things are being absorbed into an endless round of production and consumption, transforming nature into commodities without replenishing nature’s self-reproductive powers. With advancements in technology humanity will, before long, be able to ‘engineer’ the planet to take control of key planetary systems to optimise them for human habitation and prevent ecological collapse.

This project highlights the notion of anthropocene and man’s control over nature through the concept of restoration. Applying a new and advancing technology known as protocells, the building cleanses the estuary combating the effects of industry. Protocells are an artificial cell system able to self-maintain and self-reproduce. The building transforms into an anthropogenic landform as the carbon dioxide is filtered from the river.

‘Your students are incredibly well looked after and nurtured. This has been a strength of the school during the four years I have examined.’

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Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre

The Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre is located in the area of Coatham Sands in the Tees Estuary. The landscape has a backdrop of heavy industry which contrasts greatly with the shoreline of salt marshes and beaches. The site of the building comprises of SSSI, polluted land and non SSSI. The development sits on a varied topography of undulating rises and falls which are due to years of slag being dumped on the site by nearby industry.

The building will provide accommodation for researchers that need to stay on site and a visitor centre to encourage the wider community to be involved with the area. The building provides the necessary requirements for scientists to monitor, manage, research and ultimately improve the local area and the habitats and biodiversity onsite. It will also research the effects of climate change on the area and make predictions to prepare for the future.

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Restorative aquaculture of Silt Island

The scheme cross-programmes a seaweed farm and a fish processing facility. The Tees currently suffers high levels of toxicity from decades of pollution leeching from the contaminated land and watercourses. By farming laminaria digitata, a species of seaweed which is a particularly effective phytoremediator, the pollution is filtered

and extracted, collected within the structure of the plant, specifically the bottom half of the roots. That is disposed of through incineration. The top half of the seaweed is used in a number of different industries including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and as a health food, consequently providing work for local communities.

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Nikki Hoggarth

Sanare - Marisque

The tidal Teesmouth estuary is the maritime gateway to a plethora of post industrial towns. Once a vast delta of sand flats and marsh land, the influence of the industrial revolution has choked the rivers’ mouth into an impenetrable narrow jaw of slag concrete. The last remaining steel works on Teesside continues to release up to six million tonnes of carbon dioxide pollution into the atmosphere per year.

The Sanare - Marisque project responds to the growing concern of greenhouse gasses and their effect on our climate and the increasing recognition of CCS (Carbon Capture & Storage) as a means of mitigating carbon emissions from anthropogenic activity. Inspired by the Reiner Pilz concept of ‘up-cycling’, the scheme’s objective is to transform the waste carbon dioxide flue gas from industry into minerals for reuse, wiring the landscape to demarcate new territories and bringing industry and leisure together in symbiotic harmony.

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Ash Lahouidek

Restorative landscapes ~ Healing through phytoremediation’ The thesis project consists of a multi-use building which includes a visitors centre, a perfume distillery and a research/ education faculty. The proposal aims to re-generate the local community by providing sustainable employment for local people, working to combat the issue of pollution and contamination on the

site. There are two main components to the proposal: The first requirement is mitigating pollutant concentrations in contaminated soils, using plants with the ability to contain, degrade, eliminate metals and its derivatives, through the process of ’ ‘phytoremediation’.

The project provides a distillery, distilling metallophyte plants and extracting oils used to create perfume and advance research in . The proposal seeks to achieve an educational continuum, providing the facilities and the opportunity to research, educate and learn about pollutants and contaminants that are leached out into sea and on land.

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Lisa Rogan

The Isle of the Dead

The Isle of the Dead is a non-religious crematorium located on a new island on South Gare at the mouth of the Tees Estuary. South Gare is an area of reclaimed land where there is a juxtaposition of heavy, industrial and natural landscapes. The industry sits alongside a number of nature reserves and SSSI that support rare fauna and animal species. The cemeteries in the surrounding residential areas are reaching full capacity. Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council is proposing to offer alternative burial facilities to Brotton Residents within the surrounding villages and in particular to Skelton Cemetery. Locating the project on a new island in the bay of South Gare will create intertidal habitat and contributes to reducing the impact of coastal squeeze on the area.

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Leanne Stamp

Located in the North East of the UK, situated within Teessides industrial coast, the project highlights and explores the impacts and solutions surrounding coastal erosion, climate change and ocean acidification.

The project develops a new artificial reef system as way of reducing current coastal erosion rates

whilst protecting and enhancing marine environments. The proposal imagines a standardised research and building system that can be implemented around Europe.

This studio based programme is concerned with the rehabilitation of buildings, be they old, new, forgotten, redundant or in disrepair. It is concerned with the manner by which interiors are conceived and integrated into the existing host site, with an emphasis placed on the recognition of built fabric and site narratives as precursors to the development of an adaption. The programme uses the design project as the central vehicle for learning and is designed to stimulate and provoke imaginative responses to the re-use and adaption of existing architectural space.

Interior Architecture is studied jointly with Architecture in Year One where key principles and processes are examined and exploited within the context of the interior. Students benefit from this associated relationship, working together within a broader studio culture where ideas and attitudes towards Interior Architecture are discussed and acted upon.

Thereafter the curriculum is entirely subject specific, with Year Two using

the design project to test strategies for adapting and occupying existing buildings. Year Three design projects present opportunities for a deeper critique of the subject and are both directed and self-initiated. Alongside studio projects, students examine both academic and practical aspects of Interior Architecture such as its history and theory, as well as associated construction, sustainable design and management principles. These subjects are critically aligned to studio based project work, and provide valuable preparation for work in practice.

This coming academic year sees the programme’s first graduating cohort, which we are delighted to announce. The summer show will take place June 2014.

Paul Ring Programme Leader

Interior Architecture

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Year One

This introductory year establishes the territory and the processes associated with the subject. Studio based design projects are central to the curriculum and they develop in length and complexity as the year progresses. Students are taught applicable techniques and approaches and are encouraged to develop their creativity and practical knowledge through project work and supporting contextual studies.

Projects are explorative and are a vehicle for developing knowledge, skills and attitudes to the interior. Understanding, recording and manipulating existing space informs the studio activities with projects ranging from small to medium scale. Students understand the spaces we occupy and how they relate to and are used by society.

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This exploratory year is again centred on the studio based design project as the principle vehicle for learning. Interior Architecture students work with autonomy from Architecture and develop a body of knowledge on approaches to interior interventions and the relationship between the host site and the adapted interior. Design projects range from medium to large scale and will focus

on key areas of site history, narrative and context, re use, adaptation and environmental and technological attitudes towards the occupation of an existing structure.Projects focus upon regional and urban environments, including live projects with the National Trust and Seaton Deleval Hall. Studio activities develop an approach to user needs and the

fabrication of space with cross programme briefs for social and cultural venues.

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The students’ at Northumbria are encouraged to develop inquiries of personal and professional interest, in order to shape their own learning throughout the course and enhance studio culture. These extra-curricular activities could be part of their own individual learning journey which informs their studio work or attending RIBA events, external exhibitions or as a group activity organised through the University Architecture Society (ArchSoc). For the cohort of 2013 activities involved visits to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a site visit to see the progress of the new Steven Holl building at the Glasgow School of Art; through to charrettes with the RIBA, workshops with Baltic 39, the ArchGRAD programme and performances and exhibitions with GUTS Festival of the North East and Love Architecture Festival 2013.

Extra Curricular Studies

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Year One

During Induction Week, Year 1 students visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Despite less than favourable weather, the trip provided an excellent opportunity for students to roam an established open air gallery and explore award winning architecture; The Underground Gallery design by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts Council Sculpture building by Tony Fretton

Architects. Students returned from the trip having bonded as a year, enthusiastic about the prospect of the coming academic challenges. Will Campbell

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‘A Northern Soul’

This unique event saw the northern schools of architecture come together for what promises to be the first of many collaborative events.Hosted by Manchester School of Architecture and supported by Aedas, Ibstock, Stockport Council and RIBA Bookshops.

Students from architecture schools across the North West, North East & Yorkshire came together for a one day design charrette, held at the Hat Museum in Stockport on Friday 3rd May.

12 Northumbria students from fifth and second year amalgamated with involved university students to form mixed teams to compile a design presentation focusing on central Stockport near the A6.

Fabian Danker played a key role within the winning team, a scheme that brought attention back to the Mersy River through sustainable energy and a visionary water infrastructure.

The creation of a dam provided an energy resource as well as a watersports platform, boosting tourism.

Participating Northumbria Students:

Postgraduate:

Alastair SpeakFabian DankerSean NormingtonLaura BrownDaniel GoodrickeKimberley WhitfieldJamie NicholsonJake BoardmanSam Sedgewick

Undergraduate:

Alfie Stephenson-BoylesCharlotte SnellAbby TidswellMatthew Chamberlain

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BxNU/ BALTIC 39Northumbria Architecture Workshop

The Northumbria Architecture Workshop involves young people with architecture and the built environment whilst still at school, with the goal of encouraging them to look at, question and think creatively about their environment. Northumbria Architecture Workshop delivered a series of three exploratory

workshops which were offered to schools in North East for pupils aged between 15 - 17. The workshops were inspired by the BALTIC’s major spring exhibition “Sources in the Air”, a retrospective of the work of Croatian artist, David Maljkovic. Nine students and three teachers from the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle took part in the architectural workshops considering themes of: INSPIRATION, ABSTRACTION and REINTERPRETATION Four first year M/Arch Architecture

students from Northumbria University designed and delivered the Workshops which took place between 23rd May and 13th June. Workshops Designed and Delivered by;Chris Brown, Laura Brown, Lucy Furniss, Peter Noel.Special Thank you to; Sebastian Messer, Roger Candy (Northumbria University) Christine Egan-Fowler (RGS) Sara Cooper (Northern Architecture) Vicky Sturrs (BALTIC)

REVISITING FORM was organised by BALTIC curator Alessandro Vincentelli and Sebastian Messer, Northumbria University. The conference took, as its starting point, the BALTIC’s major retrospective exhibition of Croatian artist, David Maljkovic.

During the morning Owen Hatherley, architectural critic and writer, talked about abstraction and figurative sculpture in political, memorial art. Agata Pyzik, author of forthcoming book “Sexy But Poor”, discussed the erasure of social and cultural landmarks in former Warsaw Pact countries and the rise of the new left in politics in those countries.

After lunch, Sebastian and Alessandro discussed some of the themes raised by the Maljkovic exhibition, which was followed by a presentation of “Animate Landscapes” (Pamphlet Architecture 32) by Matt Ozga-Lawn, Stasus, who discussed his working practices and research aims. Nic Clear, Head of Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich, discussed architecture in relation to science fiction, particularly the utopian/ dystopian tradition, explored by his post-graduate students in Unit 15 at the Bartlett, University College London, and at Greenwich.

The seminar concluded with Sebastian chairing a panel discussion with Nic Clear and Matt Ozga-Lawn about the future of architectural design, practice and education.

Revisiting Form was followed by No Sleep Till Zagreb at the NewBridge Project organised by curator, Hannah Marsden, with Sebastian Messer. This post-seminar event comprised a screening of “Unfinished Spaces”, a documentary film about the construction of the Schools of Art in Havana, Cuba, and a DJ set of 60s and 70s Europop and funk music originating in Yugoslavian and Mitteleuropa, accompanied by period photographs of modernist/ Brutalist architecture.

BxNU/ BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtRevisiting Form: Architecture, Socialism, Modernism

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The G.R.A.D. Programme

archiGRAD, the Northern Architecture G.R.A.D. programme, offers an alternative experience to paid, graduate employment, enhancing the participants’ skills, CV and portfolio. By identifying design-based solutions to real-world problems, the G.R.A.D. Programme has filled a “consultancy gap” for our 25+ “clients” to date; who have included local arts and community organisations, charities and schools. archiGRAD help our clients to identify and articulate a brief for a professional consultant or to develop conceptual proposals and graphic presentations with which to seek grants or

facilitate fund-raising.

The G.R.A.D. Programme aims to retain talent in the region by providing unique opportunities not normally available to recent graduates. Undertaking “Live Projects”, the GRADs work directly with the client’s representatives, developing team management and motivational skills, as well as receiving peer support and mentoring. Around 60% of participants in archiGRAD go on to paid, graduate employment within 4 months of joining the Programme.

The archiGRAD Summer School started in 2012 providing six weeks office-based experience primarily aimed at architecture students in intermediate years of study. As a direct consequence of their participation in the archiGRAD Summer School, a number of GRADs were offered part I Architectural Assistant positions.

archiGRAD is hosted by +3 Architecture, and is supported by Northumbria and Newcastle Universities and the Northern Architectural Association. GRADmag is sponsored and produced by NBS.

Gateshead Space Invaders

Gateshead Space Invaders was a year long project instigated by GRAD, Rachel McDonagh, and funded by NE Generation, to work with teenagers and young adults. The project aimed to increase the participants’ awareness of the built environment and how their activities could influence it. Through workshops, activities and trips, participants from different backgrounds were brought together on a number of projects and exhibitions.

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GUTS: Festival of the North East Love Architecture - We Are archiGRAD!

GUTS was a site-specific, multi-media performance, staged in the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, written by Peter Dillon (Dept. of Media and Communication Design) and directed by Fiona McPherson (Department of Arts). The performance leads the audience around the building and integrates historic photography and film, contemporary interviews and animation to describe a fictional, future New Newcastle in which a megalomaniacal developer hopes to transform the City Centre to a gated, eco pleasure complex for the rich. archiGRAD worked with the Northumbria University Visualisation Centre to produce an animation of this dystopian vision for the pivotal scene in the Gothic library.

As part of the Love Architecture Festival 2013, archiGRAD presented their first retrospective exhibition of posters, models and videos from some of the projects undertaken by the 115 participants since the G.R.A.D. Programme’s inception. We are grateful to Balfour Beatty Construction Services UK for sponsoring the “We Are archiGRAD!” exhibition, to Quillam Brothers’ Teahouse for providing the venue, and to +3 Architecture for sponsoring the opening night.

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in a word: OUTSTANDINGDavid Simister (AJ June 2013) in summing up the Architecture Degree Show

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Guangyirg BaoTom BoweyEmma BramleyJames Bugler

Justin ChuAga CiechanowskaTim CorrighanJonathan CrillySeb Cunningham

Adam DalbyFabian DankerJonathan DennisJoshua DobsonAngus Donaldson

Robin EadieRobert EatonAndy EdwardsRafaella EliadouLaurence Elsdon

Simon FeatherJudith Forster

Zachary GouldHeather GrahamLaura Griffiths

Alice HamlinCarl HarperBradley HarrisonStephen HartLouisa HeyworthSuzanne HindsNikki Hoggarth

Becky Iwnicki

150-151184-18525,34,10726,108

20-21,22,25,29,32,68-69,70-71106124168-169188-191

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Johari JapparElin Jones

Tonnae Kwong

Ash LahouidekJulia LeeDan LeoverKin LeungMaxwell Los

Joseph MarshallSarah McnamaraEmma MilnesLaurence MisickMiten MistryWilliam MonaghanDaniel MossmanAshley Murray

Jen Naden

Maurycy Olszewski Jenny Oman

Henrietta Pissarro

Caitlin ReadBethany RoebuckLisa RoganChristie Rowan-SmithLeah-Alwyn Ruff

Thomas SavageMark ScottNeil SedgleyBridget ShawMatthew SimpsonHarriet Smith

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Varun Soni Alexander SpicerLeanne Stamp

Solila TranBella Tubbs

Maddy WallaceSimon WardMatthew WardleBen WarnockHollie WelchRobert WhalleyCatherine WheaterJohannes WittmannDaniel Woodbridge

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External ExaminersProfessor Alex Wright: University of BathAndrew Stone: London Met / CASSDavid Page: Page + Park ArchitectsDavid Simister: Aedas ArchitectureProfessor Flora Samuel: University of SheffieldRoger Stephenson: Stephenson Bell Architects

Visiting ProfessorsProfessor David Howarth: DRDH ArchitectsProfessor Steve McIntyre: FaulknerBrowns Architects

BA (Hons) ArchitectureChris Smiles: Marks Barfield ArchitectsDavid Morton: Northumbria UniversityIan Crow: Ryder Architecture Jack Carter: Renzo Piano Building WorkshopJonathan Bone: Jonathan Bone ArchitectJonny Flavin: Ryder ArchitectureJonny Seebacher: Ryder ArchitectureKris Eley: Mitchell Taylor WorkshopLeighton Cooksey: FaulknerBrowns ArchitectsLynsey Elliott: Elliott ArchitectsMark Todd: Feilden Clegg Bradley StudioMark Clasper: Ryder ArchitectureNicky Watson: Director, JDDK ArchitectsPatrick McMahon: Ryder ArchitectureRichard Collis: Feilden Clegg Bradley StudiosSteve Miller: Miller PartnershipStuart Palmer: SP ArchitectsSimon Brookes: North East Institute of Mining and Mechanical EngineersSuzanne Blair: Ryder ArchitectureWill Mawson: Mawson Kerr

Master of ArchitectureProfessor Chris Underwood: Northumbria UniversityClare Overton: Admin to Director, Live TheatreProfessor Dave Greenwood: Northumbria UniversityIwan Peverett: Northumbria UniversityHazel Juggins: Research and Business Services, Northumbria UniversityJim Beirne: Director, Live TheatreDr Lee Pugalis: Northumbria UniversityLucy Winskell: Pro - Vice Chancellor Business + Engagement, Northumbria UniversityMartin Hulse: Grit & PearlMartin Purves: Northumbria University

Index

Dr Michael Hill: Northumbria UniversityDr Mike Jeffries: Northumbria UniversityPeter Sharpe: Art and Architecture, Kielder Water and Forest ParkRoger Candy: Research, Business and Innovation, Northumbria UniversityProfessor Ruth Conroy Dalton: Northumbria UniversityTherese Lewis: Northumbria University

Friends and Contributors to the courseAllan Haines: EDICCTAled Williams: Higher Education AcademyAmanda McManus: RIBA North EastAndy Mace: ArupsAmy Tomlinson: RIBA North EastAndie Harris: Heritage Skills InitiativeBen Couture: JardineCoutureBill Gething: Sustainability + ArchitectureBjorn Wittenberg: AutodeskCarl Turner: CT ArchitectsCarol Botton: Northern ArchitectureCheryl Moore: National Trust Christian Derix: AEDAS R&DProfessor Christian Freska: University of BremenChristophe Hoelscher: University of FreiburgCraig Wilson: Northumbria UniversityDarren Kearns: St. Gobain GlazingDavid McLean: Robert Gordon UniversityDolan ConwayDouglas Barber: The Quality of Life PartnershipElaine Stowell: Architects Registration BoardElizabeth Turner: TRADAErnie Garner: NU EstatesFiona Brettwood: Halsall Llyod PartnershipGareth Slavin: NU EstatesGeorgia Villalobos: NNPAJames Southern: MH Southern &Co LtdProfessor Jane Matthews: Curtin UniversityJan Stafford: Northumbria UniversityJohn Ruddick: IbstockJonathan Baker: Ryder ArchitectureJon Kemp: FaulknerBrownsJulian Gregson: Lifschutz Davidson SandilandsKaren Dickson: OrangeboxKathryn Banfield: Heritage Skills Initiative

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Kathryn Smith: NU Library and Leaning ServicesKen Oliver: Tata SteelKen Smith: IbstockLorraine Farrelly: University of PortsmouthMalcolm Fraser: Malcolm Fraser ArchitectsMark Hudson: FaulknerBrownsMark Pippard: Laing O’RourkeMatthew Birchall: Buro HappoldMohsen Kohannejad: South Tyneside CouncilMonica Loughlin: Northumbria Student ServicesPaul Anderson: Laing O’RourkePaul Evans: NU Library and Learning ServicesPaul Glaister: WorkpatternPeter Barker: BIM AcademyRichard Killick: Laing O’RourkeRichard Williams: VELUXRobert Mawson: Stride TreglownRonnie Graham: Ryder ArchitectureSimon Logan, BBC Radio NewcatleSteven Clarke: Hopkins ArchitectsProfessor Steve Lockley: BIM AcademyProfessor Thomas Albrecht: Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht ArchitectsTim Bailey: XSite Architecture

Northumbria University Architecture Society 2012 (ArchSoc)Alex Spicer - PresidentVarun Soni - Secretary Maxwell Los - TreasurerRichard Taylor - 1st year representativeOlivia Needham - 1st year representativeVicky Stewart - 1st year Interior Acrhitecture representativeMatthew Cowley - 1st year Interior Architecture representative Alex Furniss - 2nd year representative Megan Carmichael - 2nd year representativeFrankie Paul - 2nd year Interior Architecture representativeAndrew Kemp-Dillon - 2nd year Interior Architecture representative Jamie Bugler - 3rd year representativeAnnabella Tubbs - 3rd year representative Sarah Mc Namara - 3rd year representative Sean Normington - 5th year representative Chris Brown - 5th year representative Nikki Hoggarth - 6th Year representative Leanne Stamp - 6th year representative

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Over a five year period Northumbria has achieved the highest average student satisfaction scores of all architecture courses in the country; achieving 100% student satisfaction in 2013.

National Student Survey 2013

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Over a five year period Northumbria has achieved the highest average student satisfaction scores of all architecture courses in the country; achieving 100% student satisfaction in 2013.

National Student Survey 2013

Model: Joe Ecob