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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

XIV Environmental Imagination

TUTOR: PROFESSOR WAYNE FORSTER

This Unit was originally founded on the creative potential of architectural science combining with more sensory (phenomenological), and cultural characteristics of place. This was once the default setting in the Welsh School of Architecture, as well as for a number of great architects – Aalto, Corbusier et al – but recently the reversion to the two distinct and separated traditions of the applied sciences verses the humanities. The overall quest of this Unit is to re-kindle and build upon these traditions. Probing architectural design through questions of history, culture and technology. The Unit results to date demonstrate that this integrated creative response may result in great architecture that is attuned to both time and place.

BRIDGET EATON

“The Soft Side of Spike Island” ‘Buildings are used as a popular stage….

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

MARIA HADJICHARALAMBOUS

“The Mystery of Shadows” Shadows or holes in the light can stimulate curiosity…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ELLIE HARDMAN-CHEER

“Music of the Therapeutic Landscape” The design thesis of this project is to…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

MATTHEW HAWES

“Weather, Light & Time: Attuning to place through architecture, weather and landscape.” Can…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ANASTASIJA LADCENKO

“Intimacy with the Natural World” Experience and attuned environments, as well as sustainable…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

MAKSIM POVSTUGAR

The thesis explores home as a building sitting in its historical, cultural and…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

ZICHAN ZHANG

The project is in an Industrial Estate with aims of leading an environmental,…

6 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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