MArchI

Year Chairs

Caroline Almond

Arjun Rajah

Our unique ‘Year of Education in Practice’ is spent predominantly in the workplace with three short courses at WSA. Modules connect practice and university to help students adapt and develop as professionals, whilst setting a foundation for explorations in MArch2.
As in previous years, MArch1 worked with a live brief and client to develop briefs, strategies and visions to adapt and reuse the impressive 1920’s Miners’ Welfare in the village of Resolven, Neath Port Talbot to support current and future communities. Originally funded by the wage packets of miners to house education and recreation, including an impressive Art Deco theatre, the Welfare has moved through periods of boom and bust as it attempted to respond to changing needs over a period of a hundred years. Now mostly disused, inaccessible and at risk from fire, it is struggling to be financially viable.
During the first semester, students were challenged with appraising the existing fabric and function in design teams comprising consultant roles to reflect the collaborative nature of architectural practice. Adapting to professional ways of working, teams produced a development strategy and Business Case to test new programmes and ways for the building to re-align itself within the village. Proposals had to be fully costed and sustainably justified to meet the needs of its future users without placing a financial strain on the client or a burden on the environment. Semester two offered scope for individual designers to progress their schematic proposition towards technically integrated designs; each groupwork design diverged into several discrete projects that reflected the interests and ambitions of their authors.
Beyond the pedagogic benefits of working together in new ways, with a live client on an adaptive-reuse brief, MArch1 students’s work has energised the Trustees and contributed tangible outputs. This work has already contributed to funding applications, brief-writing and informed feasibility studies to begin to realise their ambitions of updating the building to better serve the community.

Energy, Environment & People

The ways that architecture students constitute the community of practice

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Experience

Anne-Marie Howick

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Experience

Anne-Marie Howick

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Reflections

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Experiential

Henry Wood

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Functionally

Barney Johnson

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Reflections

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Restoration

Jasmine Hounslow

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Landscape

Annie O'Rourke

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Heritage

Charlotte Woodfield

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Connection

Jasmine Hounslow

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Permeability

Christopher Adams

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Community

Oliver Bekheit

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Accessibility

Poppy Suggett

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Conservation

Connor Bryan

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Reuse

Connor Bryan

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Community

Justyna Matuszewska

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Unearthing the Mines

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Connection

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Refurbishment

Nazheef Basha

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Thresholds

Maisie Atkinson

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Movement

Theodora Filippopoulou

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Way finding

Nikita Lad

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Refurbishment

Nazheef Basha

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Heritage

Tom Limbrick

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The Miners Welfare Center

Avi Ruckhunty

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Regeneration

Tay Yik Teng

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Resolven Community Garden

Sophie Smith

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Community-Engagement

Jonathan Sadler

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Reimaginging Resolven through Healthy Eating

Avi Ruckhunty

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Restoration

Loren Taylor

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Permeability

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Transparency

Algimante Daugelaite

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‘The Drift’ into a New Identity

Loren Taylor

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Adaptability

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Community

Ben Cook

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Community

Ben Cook

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Conviviality

Evangelia Glentze

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Verticality

Hannah Smith

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Expressive form and materiality

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Retrofit

Benjamin Maslin

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The Miners Welfare Center

Adam Summers

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Rokas Vilciauskas

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The Miners Welfare Center

Chinmay Kale

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The Miners Welfare Center

Benjamin Maslin

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The Miners Welfare Center

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The Miners Welfare Center

Tanya Khanna

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The Miners Welfare Center

Prity Chatterjee

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The Miners Welfare Center

Prity Chatterjee

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The Miners Welfare Center

Justyna Matuszewska

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The Miners Welfare Center

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The Miners Welfare Center

Dominic Hart

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The Resolven Miners

Zsófi Veres

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"Adage" is rooted in slow and graceful movements

Jermaine Chok

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Miners' welfare building

Samantha Powell

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The Miners Welfare Center

Zsófi Veres

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Generations

Cameron Jones

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The Miners Welfare Center

Alejandra Alvarez Gutierrez

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The Resolven Miners Welfare (RMW) on teaching and learning opportunities for the community

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Miner's welfare and the New library

Tim Purves

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Connection

Lizzie Eves

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Designing for multiple purposes

Cameron Jones

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