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About Leeds School of Architecture
Location Leeds • Courses BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch • Head of school Sarah Mills • Full-time tutors 15 • Part-time tutors 5 • Students 200 • Staff to student ratio 1:10
Undergraduate
Jake Lord
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Studio/unit brief Abstract Machine (AD3.1 and AD3.2)
Project title Ropewalks Cinematic
Project description The proposal aims to bring film to the community of The Ropewalks, Liverpool through screenings and film schools. The building is separated into two sections: ‘real’ versus ‘imagined’. Above ground is a contemporary horseshoe-shaped film studio with spaces for film production. Below ground is private, with an auditorium hosting screenings to selected members. A tartan grid inspires vaulted ceilings, allowing the spaces to be arranged in a way also influenced by cinematic sequence. Public spaces circle the studios on the ground level and users can move from public to private without the building becoming labyrinthine.
Tutor citation As architecture, the scheme riffs on the lucid deployment of articulated grids, generating both determinate and indeterminate architectural promenades. It attempts to construct different series of spatial experiences just as one edits and splices film. Keith Andrews
Postgraduate
Amy Ferguson
Course MArch
Studio/unit brief Cinematic Construct of New Commons
Project title Undoing Legislation within Occupied Commons
Project description This project revises a crucial civic architectural typology in Hong Kong to support and protest on behalf of the preservation of cultural, historical, or socially essential acts. Karaoke, dai pai dong food stalls and mahjong have key links to Hong Kong’s evolving identity but face legislation banning them from the street. The proposal suggests infrastructures of transitions, laboratories of protest and parasitic platforms can surround Shui Wo Streets Municipal Service Building in Kwun Tong to unveil or hide certain acts, creating an epicentre in which to protest against legislation through legal and illegal cinematic moments.
Tutor citation Amy has used an exceptional range of filmic studies and switched from working with found footage to stimulating 3D virtual spaces to create new footage that is similar but alienated from the original scene. This is exceptionally evocative. Doreen Bernath and Sarah Mills
