ImageTitle: Image

It is the place, use of and potential of imagery as the generator of architectural form and for aesthetics that this paper will explore.

The primary areas of consideration in this design will be the nature of the relationships between imagery and architecture, how students might use the seemly non architectural to generate the architectural.

How images can be reinvented, reconfigured and reconsidered in the production of architecture will be a central theme for the student to develop and use to inform their own designs, providing the opportunity to explore and expose alternative methods to bring an architecture into being.

This programme will ask students to look at various strategies for developing their own methodologies for inventing the exterior, the bounder of space, of architecture. The generators of form and surface are unlimited and only bound by imagination.

Programme: Design a library.

Production: The use of traditional plan, section, elevation and 3D drawing will be expected to convey design intentions. The use of any graphic medium that will aid in developing ideas and for conveying design intentions will be strongly encouraged. Key to the project will be the extensive use of modelling as a tool to develop ideas. A finished model will be expected as part of the final submission.

Explore: Alternative approaches and theories on how architecture can and has addressed the outer membrane of buildings, including disciplines outside of architecture. The role and place of ornamentation and what it might mean to openly attempt to decorate.

Objective: To develop students awareness of the different paradigms that have informed architecture. To better understand how to generate architecture. To address and investigate individual approaches to design and design generators.

Aim: To attempt to help/encourage students to become aware of and understand how it is that they personally go about making architecture. To enable them to embark on a reflective and critical process on how they think about architecture through the process of creating architecture. To address contemporary issues of design with regard to the treatment of the exterior of buildings.

Tutor: Sean McMahon

Takasumi Inoue: external render

Takasumi Inoue: internal render

Takasumi Inoue: external render

Takasumi Inoue: internal render

Takasumi Inoue: external render

Cynthia Yim: internal render

Cynthia Yim: external render

Cynthia Yim: internal render

Tom Caddaye: external render

Cynthia Yim: internal render

Tom Caddaye: model

Tom Caddaye: render -foyer

Fang Yuan: internal render Fang Yuan: external render

Fang Yuan: external render

Fang Yuan: external render

Helen Walter: physical model

Helen Walter: exploded axon

Helen Walter: facade detail model

Helen Walter: physical model photo montage

Safuraa Abdul Razak: internal render

Safuraa Abdul Razak: external render/montage

Safuraa Abdul Razak: internal render

Sam Hunter: exploded perspectives

Sam Hunter: sectional elevation

Sam Hunter: elevation

Sam Hunter: internal render

Mohammad Afiq Shazwan Abdul Samat: eternal elevation

Mohammad Afiq Shazwan Abdul Samat: exploded perspective

Mohammad Afiq Shazwan Abdul Samat: external renders

Yoshia Kashima: external render

Yoshia Kashima: exploded axon/ structural system

Yoshia Kashima: external render/ montage