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Location Loughborough | Courses BArch, MArch | Head of school Robert Schmidt III | Full-time tutors 12 | Part-time tutors 14 | Students 240 | Staff to student ratio 1:10
Undergraduate
Lily Taamallah
Course BArch
Studio/unit brief AAA – Architecture in the Anthropocene Age
Project title Reclaiming the Domestic: A Centre for Making
Project description This project merges the rich history of women’s labour with the urgent need for gender equality through the construction of a transformative experience to uplift and honour women’s craftsmanship, resilience, and creative spirit. It includes a theatre where the memory of female ammunition workers in Woolwich is upheld and celebrated; a factory where the idea of women’s craftsmanship is renewed in a contemporary setting; a sanctuary offering a space for therapy and rest during the day; and a shelter for protection and support at night or during crisis.
Tutor citation Lily’s work exemplifies a committed socio-political conscience, deployed with bold, stimulating yet sensitive design solutions that tackle the issue of gender inequality within the envelope of a sophisticated and welcoming architectural language. Matyas Gutai
Postgraduate
Daniel Jordan
Course MArch
Studio/unit brief The Architect Entrepreneur (DSM2)
Project title The Phyto-Factory
Project description The Phyto-Factory is a mixed-use factory based in Refshaleøen, a heavily contaminated area of reclaimed post-industrial land near central Copenhagen. The project explores ‘urban phytoremediation’ – the process of using plants to remove toxic contaminants from the built environment. The project establishes a new urban forest, at the heart of which sits The Phyto-Factory, retrofitted within a historic shipbuilding warehouse to process timber and biomass as phytoremediation byproducts. The factory encompasses the urban forest as a key design driver, elevating spaces and walkways above the remediating factory floor.
Tutor citation This project takes a complex site and ambitious programme to come up with a solution that is not only operationally plausible but also exemplifies a design sensibility – and skills of visualisation and composition – that are simultaneously elegant and bold. Robert Schmidt III
