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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

Tag: sustainability

Kristiana Ustuba

Lace/Place Clones, a border town in Ireland, a small knot on the edge…

13 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

About the unit

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

13 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Photo of the group from the WSA and IIA

UNIT XIII: GROUP WORK

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

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Cover image showing the site from the water

SHANNAN KAMALANESON

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

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Cover image showing a visual of the site

ZIYAAD OOZEER

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

9 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
Cover image showing a conceptual image of the proposal

ALEKSANDER WAGA

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

9 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
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
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

Arno Decorte

The Welsh Respite Centre for Young Carers Caregivers are individuals who must bear…

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

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

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
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

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

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
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

Timothy Gwilt

WSA Public City Lab This proposal is the design of an outpost for…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

GERAINT PHILLIPS

“De-Carbonising Exisiting Buildings in Rural Wales” The principle aim of the thesis is…

7 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Material Matters, led by Antonio Capelao and Mark Zudini

The Cork House and the Cork Studio Responding to the Cork House and…

7 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
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