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Location Coventry | ARB/RIBA courses BSc (Hons) Architecture, MArch Architecture | Head of school Nick Gorse | Full-time tutors 6 | Part-time tutors 31 | Students 285 | Staff to student ratio 1:22 | Bursaries available No
Undergraduate
Joscelyne Theophania Eugene
Course BSc (Hons) in Architecture
Studio/unit brief REhabitarary
Project title Whispers of The Flow
Project description Designs and buildings are becoming more anti-human. To combat this, dwelling must allow communication between the outer world and the inner self. This project proposes a community renewal riverscape that acts as a porous urban space. It seeks to reconnect communities, celebrate humanity and revive life by appreciating the river’s existence beyond the utilitarian. It takes its cues from nature’s whispers, recognising the significance of water in shaping the site’s identity – rooted in the restorative power of rivers. Overall, the project dreams of a future where regeneration is about ‘rehabitation’ and coexistence of mutual respect between site and dweller.
Tutor citation This holistic project addresses the current planetary crisis on multiple scales, from personal to global. It is a spiritual, social and ecological proposal which uses the magic of regenerative thinking to weave all of these together. Hossein Sadri, Tulika Gadakari, Jose Romera Garcia, Iva Stanisheva, Issias Yohanes
Postgraduate
Anjali Kizhakke Vellatt
Course MArch Architecture
Studio/unit brief Thesis Project
Project title Reborn from the Remnants of the Lea
Project description East London, previously famous for art, craft, music and diverse styles of expression and living, is transforming into a sterile version of itself. This has caused cultural displacement and loss of authenticity. Grown out of researching the gentrification taking place across Lea Valley, this project focuses on bringing together the maker community and boat-dwellers. It envisages the Lea Valley as a source of urban mining to tackle unaffordability, community resource pooling and opportunity generation as a green intercession. The site reclaims public land to encompass the unrealised Olympic legacy promises of ‘live, work, grow and expand’.
Tutor citation This project embodies its construction and constant ongoing adaption to changing needs by envisioning a new combined maker and boating community using their pre-existing assets and lifestyle and the river as a conduit of existing material to be urban-mined, seeding self-build practices. Philippa Skipp
