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WSA On Display 2020

WSA On Display 2020

  • Part I – BSc
    • Year 3
      • Unit 01: Alternative Arrangements
      • Unit 02: The Frontier Town
      • Unit 03: Freshwater and Limits
      • Unit 04: The Productive City
      • Unit 05: Reconfiguring Public Space
      • Unit 06: Blitz
      • Unit 07: Rural
      • Unit 08: Love For One’s Own Home
      • Unit 09: Let the Tide do the Work: A Peoples Palace
      • Unit 10: Grow
      • Unit 11: Archiving Place
      • Unit 12: Zen Dojo
    • Year 2
      • Butetown: Library And Third Space
      • City Centre: School Of Design
      • City Road: Youth Centre
      • Llandaff: Fine Art Gallery
      • Penarth: Respite Centre
      • Pontypridd: Performance Space
    • Year 1
      • Within
      • Beyond
    • Vertical Studio
  • Part II – M.Arch
    • M. Arch Year 2
      • XI Infrastructure Urbanism
      • XII Value
      • XIII Liveable Urbanism
      • XIV Environmental Imagination
      • XIX Growing Structures
      • XV Local Adaptation
      • XVI Craft
      • XVII Verticality
      • XVIII 1.5 degrees
      • XX Designing Histories
    • M. Arch Year I
      • Design in Practice
      • Reflective Practice
  • Masters Programmes
    • MA Architectural Design
      • Unit A – EMUVE Palermo 2020 refugees and migrants
      • Unit B – Synergetic landscapes
      • Unit C – Circular landscapes
      • Unit D – Questioning the Ambivalence of Urban Commons
      • Design Workshops
      • MA AD Lecture Series
    • MA Urban Design
      • Gentrification: Cardiff
      • Community: East London
      • Learning at MA UD
    • MSc Computational Methods in Architecture
    • MSc Sustainable Building Conservation
      • About the course
      • Part A – Whitchurch Hospital Studies
      • Part B – Whitchurch Hospital Proposals
    • MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
    • MSc Sustainable Mega Buildings
      • About the Course
      • Sustainable Service Systems for Mega Buildings
      • Sustainable-Mega Buildings Design
  • PhD/M.Phil Research
    • International Research Community
  • The Curation Process

M.Arch 2

MArch II is organised around the ‘Design Thesis’. The Design Thesis proposition should demonstrate research which underpins it in all respects, considering cultural, social, formal, political, technological, contextual, tectonic, environmental, historical, philosophical, economic and other relevant aspects. In synthesising an approach to these facets of the discipline, projects will proclaim architectural positions. The main project of the ‘Design Thesis’ may be supplemented by preparatory work or a ‘primer’ project which may substantiate and help in
defining the design hypothesis or question. A Thesis describes a reasoned argument. A research-led architectural proposition should set out a clear and cogent argument. It should demonstrate the reasoning and evidence which support it. It should show coherence of purpose through a systematic and methodical approach.

Yen Ah Kom

“Remaining Cool” The extreme climatic conditions in Morocco which reach an average temperature…

18 July 2020 - 18 July 2020

Jason Moore

“Thermal Evolution“ Thermal Evolution, seeks to solve the problem of extreme temperature reached…

18 July 2020 - 18 July 2020
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UNIT XIII: GROUP WORK

UNIT FOCUS Liveable Urbanism is a group of researchers and masters’ students from…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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JACK COWDREY

“THE CITY OF INNOVATION” Reacting to Kochi’s socially and environmentally unsustainable economic growth,…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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SHANNAN KAMALANESON

“REVIVE THE WATERWAYS” The invasive Water Hyacinths have contaminated the waterways of Kochi; reducing biodiversity,…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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KRISTAN LACY

” LIFE BETWEEN THE MARGINS IN KOCHI “ The project aims to address…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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BECKY MAYO

“THE COOPERATIVE CITY” The city of Kochi is rapidly transforming into a commercial…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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ELIZABETH MILLER

“Living with the Urban Monsoon” This thesis aims to increase resilience to floods,…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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PARISHA PATEL

“Ārēāgyattinreyumṁ sandhustiyūteyum keācci [Kochi of Health and Well-being]” Non-communicable diseases account for 61.8%…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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ZIYAAD OOZEER

“[RE]CONNECTING KOCHI” As per TomTom’s Congestion Cities Ranking, India is represented in the…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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ALEKSANDER WAGA

“The Urban Regenerative Network” Kochi is a city of water, where commerce and…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

“LESS BAD” Publication

Sustainability is one of the most important elements in the production of architecture…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

DAYANA ANASTASOVA

“Calypso’s Hacienda: Architecture of the land & the sea” This design thesis explores…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

MICHAEL BRIDGEMAN

“Bio-Beacon” Beacons have historically acted as icons and warnings to society. These take…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ROSE BURGOYNE

“The Ginnick: Mobilising the Carbon Army“ The Carbon Army has been mobilised to…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ALEX COX

“Tir Ha Mor (Land & Sea)“ The Isles of Scilly is a drowned…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

JACQUES DOODY

“Dreamland: Samson” Dreamland seeks to dispell the negative attitude that is commonly associated…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

FRAN HEAVER

“The Scilly Republic – A Pirate Climate Nation“ The Isle of Scilly rebel…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

KONSTANCA IVANOVA

“Landscape Terroir: Reimagining the genius loci of an island” The project is entitled…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

RYAN JAKES

Following dissertation research into public-private partnerships, where top-down planning meets bottom-up practice, a…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ELLIE JOHN

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8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ESTERA KELNER

“A seed of change” Feeding the mind, feeding the community, a collaborative initiative…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

LAURA SELWOOD

“A 100 percent sustainable, self-build, co-housing scheme“ I am hoping to solve the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

EDWIN CHAN

“Colyn Caerdydd (The Pivot of Cardiff)” Callaghan Square sits on the opposite end…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

BETHAN HICKS JOHN

“Crafting the Algorithm“ This thesis attempts to create a framework that expresses non…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

George Morgan

“MATERIALS MATTER” This thesis investigates the role of the material that makes the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

EFSTATHIOS DAMTSAS

“One Central Tower: The Portal to Wales” To meet the challenges of the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ANTONI MING HAM IP

“Porth Teigr Tower” Porth Teigr Tower is a multipurpose highrise building at the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

MADDIE WELLHAM

“The Craft of Misrepresentation” Entitled the Craft of Misrepresentation, the thesis explored the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

TOM KIMBERLEY

“THE MARKS OF MAKING AND THE MAKING OF MARKS” The thesis explores the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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