Course: Year 3
Year 3 is the culmination of years 1 & 2. Students are given the opportunity to deploy understanding, knowledge and abilities to develop an ambitious and resolved architectural design in response to a unit brief. In the year 20/21 there has been a highly diverse range of units, 12 in total, covering a wide breadth of architecture.
This year’s units focused on locations in Wales or worked internationally from Wales. They have covered the urban, rural, political, social, economic, environmental and poetic. The outcome has resulted in a range of projects from small to large scale, from Cardiff Queen Street to the seaside of Barry Island, the Brecon Beacons, Pembroke Dock and Kochi in India. Regardless of location, each of the units is underpinned by the ethos of the WSA, Grounded Creativity.
Unit tutors are drawn from practice and from the school, with students selecting their unit of choice at the beginning of the year following the design briefs set by each unit team.
The work from this year’s units is tectonically rich and rigorous in research. We applaud the students’ response to the challenging conditions in which they have been working which is exemplified by a body of work that is ambitious and thought-provoking.