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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

Postgraduate Taught Programmes

Student work from Postgraduate programmes

About the unit

Challenge Our cities are struggling with the effects of the increasing urban population…

13 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Learning at MA Urban Design

Lectures The lecturers of MA Urban Design are all experts in their fields…

11 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Regain building - example of environmental design in buildings

MSc Environmental Design of Buildings

Gain knowledge and expertise to specialise in the design of comfortable and healthy…

10 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

URBAN COMMUNITY: An Olympic legacy proposal

Strengthening the sense of cohesion: The potential of walkable street designs and cultural…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Designing an Affordable and Equitable City for Everyone

Designers can design some public areas and facilities like chairs or cafe bar…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

The experience of Unit members

Yupeng Ye “This research-design methodology I learn here is a powerful tool that…

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

CAUKIN Workshop

A workshop for EDB, MEGA and MAAD students in collaboration with CAUKIN studio. This was…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Workshop on Reflective Writing

The purpose of the workshop was to help students to develop some techniques…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

UNIT LEARNING REFLECTION

Yuchen Wang I have learned a lot From this ADR course through this…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Introduction to Design Research Workshop

The workshop aimed to discuss potential answers to the Research Question “How do…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Workshop on Presentation Skills

The objective of this workshop was to guide students to present their work…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Systems Thinking – Sharing Perspectives

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Animating Architecture

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Participatory Architecture for Community Empowerment

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Students and staff contemplating repairs to olosseum, Rome

Programme Description

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) accredited course aims to be unique…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Students in PPE at base of Whitchurch Hospital red brick water tower

Module Structure

In addition to the modules covered in this exhibition the course includes: ART501…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Environmental Design Application Module

Façade study for a day lounge in a residential care home for dependent…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Investigation of built environment

This module focuses on the introduction of methods and techniques by which building…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Student Life – Field Trips and Study Groups

Navarra University (Spain) – March 2020 The study trip in Spain is a…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Diagram showing unintended consequences of retrofit of traditional buildings

Retrofit of small-scale traditional buildings – Neil Golding

The establishment of a whole house analysis framework and process to design out…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Passive Design Module

Passive design is an approach to environmental design in which emphasis is given…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Section through traditional building showing how retrofit could be achieved

Challenging Part L – Anthony Gwynn

Are the Building Regulations fit for the purpose of upgrading traditional, historic and…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Urdd Gobaith Cymru - Gwersyll Yr Eglwys Newydd

Whitchurch Hospital Proposals – Posters

Following a study trip to Rome where the students were asked to contemplate…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Open veranada in Foochow, China

Veranda Style in Foochow- Hantao Wang

The emergence of Veranda Style in Foochow: based on the former British Consulate…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Renovation of Whitchurch Hospital

Whitchurch Hospital Proposals – Reports

Following a study trip to Rome where the students were asked to contemplate…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

About Unit EMUVE Palermo 2020 refugees and migrants

The European research project EMUVE (Euro Mediterranean Urban Voids Ecology), hosted at the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

YIJUN CHEN

The EMUVE is developed under a very complex background, and there are deep…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Earth mortar in stone wall

Earth Mortars- Joe Moriarty

The mortar particle size distribution of a Welsh vernacular farmworkers’ cottage in the…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

YIZHE HUANG

Architectural brief Introduction: Santa Chiara as an existing stakeholder in the Albergheria district,…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

YONGGEN YU

Introduction Context The Site is in the center of the Alberghria area. This…

7 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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