“All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.”
Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn
Architects, in search of an interesting form and external look of the building, often fail to fully understand how their buildings and structures may be able to adapt and maintain in the future to suit their users’ needs. Designing for resilience and flexibility allows buildings and their programmes to be actively adjusted by the users. The physical involvement of the users means that the buildings can learn to change over time, through a life-long adaptation and fine-tuning.
During the last year, we explored architectures as ‘net zero collectives’, responding to the ‘RIBA Sustainable Outcomes 2030 Guide’ and exploring sustainability as an essential design driver of the projects. This year we continued our explorations on contemporary and ever evolving topics of climate change, governance, sustainable buildings and communities, focusing on the themes of ‘resilience’ and ‘transformation’ to explore your buildings as fragile ecosystems for adaptation. We asked students to what extent architects can predict the future of the buildings they design, and how these would adapt to their users and the environments.
Unit 4 is taught by Yorgos Loigos and Alessia Mosci. Matthew Woodthorpe leads the technology module supporting the environmental agenda set by Professor Henrik Schoenefeldt.
Enclosed are a selection of images from the fourth and fifth year portfolios, including:
Daniel Drabble
Ryan Croall
Janice Soares
Robert Ashworth
Shilong Wang
Sokratis Voulgarakis
Unit 4 is taught by Yorgos Loigos and Alessia Mosci. Matthew Woodthorpe leads the technology module supporting the environmental agenda set by Professor Henrik Schoenefeldt.
Enclosed are a selection of images from the fourth and fifth year portfolios, including:
Daniel Drabble
Ryan Croall
Janice Soares
Robert Ashworth
Shilong Wang
Sokratis Voulgarakis