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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

Unit 07: Rural

TUTOR: TOM SYKES
Unit 7’s brief focused on Rural settlements and their future. Students were called to research the qualities of rural life, and later identify a personal theme that would evolve into a hypothesis for an improved rural community. The hypothesis was then developed into an architectural thesis and was finally tested on a village in South Wales as an architectural brief.

Ananth Balakrishnan

Mindfulness Focusing on providing a space to help combat the rising problem of…

1 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Petya Atanasova

People and Productivity “Fochriw-A tale about People and Productivity” is about creating a…

1 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Judith Deak

Creativity and Dynamism Semi permanent community hub, where transportable plug in leisure/educational caravans…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Nick Cross

Alternative agricultural technologies Striving to degrow and rehumanize conventional agricultural practices while educating…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Hana Rowlands

Cultivation Exploring sustainable agricultural methods to support predicted future populations. “The ‘rural’ is…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Branwen Morus

A Stitched Community An exploration into how a return in industry can help…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Eleni Vlataki

Reactivating the community This project is about giving Fochriw a global character and…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Emily Chance-Hill

Rituals and Identity This project’s aim is to revitalise the identity and character…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Freya Rix

The Value of Unproductivity This project is an intervention to cater for the…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Motao Wang

Village of Healing In this project, Fochriw becomes the “Village of healing”, inviting…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Anna Jones

Social Awareness Bringing awareness and helping to provide domestic abuse support in rural…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Anait Melkonyan

Nostalgia This project focuses on using memories of the people living in Fochriw…

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020
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