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Unit 08: Love For One’s Own Home

Tutors: Fani Kostourou, Sepehr Zhand

This studio focuses on the intersection between architecture, music, and love. It uses music genres that has been born in unloved urban settings (South Bronx -American hip-hop, East London – grime, Parisian banlieues – French rap), to research, design and reimagine housing for disadvantaged populations. It is structured in three parts. The first part [CARTOGRAPHY] invites students to ‘learn by doing’; conducting research and drawing bodily cartographies that link the lived and built space in different urban housing projects around the world based on the music genres that emerged in or associated with them. In the second phase [NARRATIVE], students theoretically and graphically synthesize the previous cartographies into case-specific narratives that build a case for how we ‘learn from places’, while informing the individual briefs for the following and main project. The last part [DESIGN] develops large-scale individual design proposals for a new urban housing scheme that accommodates disadvantaged populations in the currently under-demolition Robin Hood Gardens estate site in Poplar, London. Each student proposes their own brief and design response to it.

Unit Instagram
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Study Trip Video (Ksenia Davydova)
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B48ZpXHpel3/?hl=en

Ray Yiu

City Within A City

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Augusta Fiseryte

Future Memory
music genre: hippie rock

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Desislave Asenova

Bringing Lone Parents Together
music genre: montage

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Ksenia Davydova

Re-imagining the Adverse Environment

29 June 2020 - 16 July 2020

Delyan Georgiev

Acid Living
music genre: acid house

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Cameron Edwards

Mind Over Matter
music genre: punk

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Arnaud Latran

Re-gen
music genre: french rap

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020

Miltiadis Christodoulakos

People Come Where People Are
music genre: new orleans jazz

29 June 2020 - 15 July 2020
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