BSc2

Course Director

Dr Ed Green

For the WSA BSc Year2 Architecture cohort, our focus this year has been on designing in context. To design in context is to design in response to the interrelated conditions in which something occurs. An architectural response to context would suggest that new buildings - or works to existing ones -should respond to the physical surroundings, history, beliefs and needs of a particular place. From this perspective, adaptation has been at the centre of our activities this year.
Year 2 is a transitional year, building on the foundational skills acquired in year 1 with core design skills and abilities. The importance of understanding context before adaptations are proposed has been emphasised. We began by developing understanding of place through careful analysis of a collection of towns throughout the county of Monmouthshire – the location for our year of study.
During semester 1, design work focused on ‘housing’. Between semester1 and semester2, we proposed adaptations for Cyfarthfa castle and ironworks – a live client and an historic industrial setting of international significance, and in need of a transformed identity. Semester 2 design work developed a range of medium scale ‘public’ projects – civic and community architecture designed to adapt and transform the urban contexts we have been working in.
Throughout the year, projects have included both new-build and retrofit elements – blurring the boundary between adaptation and creation. A rich body of work has been produced by the Year2 cohort. A key aspiration has been that all design outcomes, regardless of any project-specific aims, should be zero carbon, energy positive, and exemplars of good placemaking.

“If what we see and experience, if our country, does not become real in imagination, then it never can become real to us, and we are forever divided from it... Imagination is a particularizing and a local force, native to the ground underfoot.” -Wendell Berry

PLACE FOR LIFE; MÉDIATHÈQUE

PLACE FOR LIFE; MÉDIATHÈQUE

Abdullah Al-Obaidly

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Subterranean Médiathèque

Subterranean Médiathèque

Tom Robert John McLellan

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Rural Housing Development

Reconnecting Castle and Community

Nick Wade

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Subterrain Mediatheque

Exploration of light and space

Sophie Hillyard

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Raglan Housing Project

Strengthening the multi-generational community through local heritage engagement

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Subterranean Library

Raglan's Athenaeum

Iwan James Gibbs

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Public Project

Workshop and Studio of Art Conservation

Hinako Hotta

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Creative Centre for Usk - Catalyst for Change

Gallery and Studio Space

Emily Gray

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Made in the Moment

Made in the Moment

Ethan Harris

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Restoring Usk's Goods Yard

Restoring Usk's Heritage

Annabel Harris

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Usk Housing Project

Housing For Single Parent Families

Annabel Harris

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Usk Art Studio and Gallery

A retrofit redevelopment in the heart of Usk, aiming to bring artists, residents, and visitors together in one creative space

Emmanouil Polydakis

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Community Repair Gallery

Community Repair Gallery

Emily Prust

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A Catalyst for Change - Pottery Studios

Public Creative Space

Cecily Peto Bostick

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A palace for the people of Caldicot

Public community project set in a discarded Lloyd's bank

Sahar Alhakkak-Martinez

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The Potters' Quarter

The Potters' Quarter

Kenneth Dhillon

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Re-imagining small settlements

A Palace for the people of Caldicot

Tia Sharp

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Art Centre

Public Project at end of High Street

Benjamin Kulagowski

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Housing around a Courtyard

Housing around a Courtyard

Benjamin Kulagowski

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Caldicot Dancing centre

Caldicot Dancing centre

Mia Huang

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Intimacy of Art

Pottery courtyard for the community of Caldicot

Sam Gittins

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Zen Arts Centre

Zen Arts Centre

Peiyu Ou

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Connecting Caldicot

Community Arts Centre

Keelan Hollis

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Housing Development in Caldicot's Centre

Housing Development in Caldicot's Centre

Ella Rolls

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Metal Workshop & Youth Centre in Caldicot

An arts centre that re-introduces the lost metalwork skills of the past and provides non-academic pathways to the young

Ella Rolls

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Places for Life - A Public Project

Castle Arts Medieval Heritage Centre

Charlie Hewitt

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Rebirth of Caldicot

Existing Structures

James Rowe

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Democratising the Forest

Democratising the Forest

Eliya Akov

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The Crafts House

The Crafts House

Eleni Polydorou

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A Walking Cidery

A Walking Cidery

Sofia Lambert-Jones

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Suspended Gardens

Community Garden in Abergavenny

Mara Voicila

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Melin Cibi

A Community Visitor Centre in the shadows of the Black Mountains showcasing local produce and craft beer.

Alys Gwynedd

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Productive Landscape Brewery

Productive Landscape Brewery

Cerys Goldsworthy

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Housing Project

Housing Project

Yuhan Ma

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Public Project

A visitor and educational centre for hempcrete production

Emily Jones

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Skirrid Bike Centre

Connecting the town and people to the landscape through cycling

Martha Spencer Jones

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Housing with Care

Housing for Small Settlements

Freya Kirby

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The clay kiln market

A regeneration of the high street

Adeba Rahman

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Reinventing the Marketplace for Chepstow

Embracing the changing nature of the High Street.

Dimitar Dimitrov

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AGORA

The Meeting Place

Lakshmi Sunil Vishnu

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The Hive Community

Public project

Allisya Maryanto

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CurvaNest residences

The housing Project

Allisya Maryanto

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Chepstow Central Market

Chepstow Central Market

Demirkan Byuyukoglu

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Chepstow Market Square

Reviving Chepstow's High Street

Chun Rui Huang

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Komorebi

Affordable Housing for Carpenters

Chun Rui Huang

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PUBLIC project

Art Market: A place to sell artwork

Rand Hamadah

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Cycling and Landscape with See-Feel-interact

Cycling in Landscape

Srivrinda Ladha

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A Market Place for Chepstow

A Market Place for Chepstow

Freya Kirby

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Chepstow Marketplace

A public project to improve the reputation and utility of the highstreet

Vansh Shah

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The Eden

The Eden

JaeHyun Byeon

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Places for Life - a public or community project

A productive high street for Chepstow

Adem Corney

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A Colourful Market Hall for Chepstow's Highstreet

Adaptive Re-Use of an Existing Brutalist Building

Inanna Heslop

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Craftstow Market

High Street Regeneration

Kimberly Yong

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The Beaufort Square Centre

The Beaufort Square Centre

Ore Balogun

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Community Craft Market

Reviving the welsh towns high street

Roan Kitto

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Housing for small settlements

Mixed family housing

Kohana Bardolivala

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The New Gateway to Monmouth

An Education Building for the Hereford College of Arts

Paco Chan

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Monmouth School of Contemporary Design

Public Design Project

Kirsty Mah Lerchundi Mboengho

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Places for life: a public or community project

The Hereford School of Arts - Pottery school

Kohana Bardolivala

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Public Project

Ceramics school design

Bethany Clarke

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Hereford College Musical Theatre school Monmouth

Hereford College Musical Theatre school Monmouth

Maisy Sykes

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Public Building Project

Metalworks School

Wilhelm Salaveria

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Monmouth Public Project - Art and Photography College

A new location for the Hereford College of Art

Rebecca Clery

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