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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

City Road: Youth Centre

Studio tutors: Amanda Spence, Rob Thomas

City Road in the Roath area of Cardiff stretches from the old Royal Infirmary at its junction with City Road in the south, up to the five-way junction with Albany Road, Mackintosh Place, Crwys Road and Richmond Road – known as Death Junction – to the north. The bustling street is one of the most diverse and multicultural in Cardiff. It has a long and fascinating history, and has been constantly in a state of evolution since its early days as a dirt track through farmland marking the edge of the city.

A youth centre will enable a large group of people to share activities with each other and the wider community. In addition to providing a welcoming, secure and inspirational environment that extends beyond the walls of the building, students will be challenged with considering factors such as education and life skills, commercial sustainability and low / zero carbon construction and operation.

Proposal elevation

Angeline Ng

The Motion Youth Centre Using ‘Play’ as the principle concept, The Motion Youth…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Scheme model in context

Daniel Stone

Making Space Across the country Austerity has forced schools to rethink those subjects…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Exterior perspective in context

Ahmed Ahmed

Pontypridd Youth Centre A community village focused on the multicultural Youth of Plasnewydd,…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
City Road atmosphere

Studio Gallery

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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