Th e Department of ArchitectureFaculty of Architecture and History of Art

University of Cambridge1-5 Scroope TerraceCambridge CB2 1PX

UK

www.arct.cam.ac.uk

Welcome to the catalogue for 2010-11. It has been an exhilarating year, primar-ily due to the initiative and creativity of quite an extraordinary cohort of stu-dents. Th e idiom of “work hard, play hard” is particularly apposite: very eff ective fundraising initiatives (parties) organised by the students generated a budget that made the end-of-year exhibition in London possible, whilst also creating a strong entrepreneurial and community spirit in the department. At the same time, the overall quality of student work this year is better than it has been for many years. Th e scale, complexity, subtlety, and detail reveals a sophistication that is palpable in the models and drawings, and the success of the work is re-fl ected in the comments and grades awarded by the external examiners. Th e exhibition and this catalogue will give you a fl avour of the spatial, tectonic and environmental explorations and a hint of the intellectual rigour and academic research that underpins them.

Th e accomplishment of the student work is to a large extent thanks to the com-mitment and skill of the studio teachers, and we are very lucky to be able to ap-point such pioneering practitioners and skilful design teachers. We are sad to say goodbye to three of them: Meredith Bowles, Jay Gort and Piers Taylor have been Design Fellows running very successful studios in third year for 3 to 6 years. We wish them every success in their new ventures.

Th is year we received confi rmation that the RIBA has validated our new Part 2 course, the MPhil in Environmental Design, which means that we have a full complement of RIBA/ARB Part 1, 2 and 3 professional degrees. Elsewhere our graduate and postdoctoral community continues to expand, with numbers ex-ceeding undergraduates, building on our top ranked research and initiating high profi le conferences and events.

Next year promises to be just exciting as we plan launch a Yale-Cambridge stu-dent exchange programme, announce our new Visiting Professorship in Sus-tainable Urban Design, and appoint a Mellon Fellowship in Architecture and Land Economy.

I wish this year’s 3rd year every success for their future: they have made waves here and I suspect they will continue to do so.

Professor Koen Steemers, Head of Department

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Th e scale of Th e Dairy, our new venue, provided challenging opportunities that provoked ambitious curation from the team; bringing more work to London than ever before and celebrating the Department's strengths and its dedication to forward thinking design with a strong grounding in theoretical and histori-cal studies and a critical approach to built form and its environments. We must thank Mary-Ann Steane for creating such a constructive happy and helpful dy-namic in the undergraduate studio.

Th anks too, to all the studio teachers for their guidance and support. In particu-lar we would like to thank Koen Steemers, head of department for his creative support for stuent endeavor. Th e exhibition has been fi nancially dependant on a series of fundraising parties around Cambridge and within department. Th e gras will grow back and our gratitude to everyone in the department still stands. Th e generosity of our material and fi nancial sponsors is hugely appreciated and without them the exhibition would be impossible.

Th ank you very much indeed. Stan Finney, Alan Baldwin and Clive Tubb our support staff and friends; their concerted eff orts, support and patience has been a delight.Most of all we would like to thank the Students of 2011. It is their year of dedication and toil on display and they who curated, catalogued, built, ac-counted and negotiated. To lead such a brilliant group has been an honour, a pleasure and terrifi c fun, thank you.

Eleanor Hill, Tom Leahy, Isabel PerryHeads of Exhibition 2011

YEAR 1 AS FOUNDTh e overarching theme of the year was based around the concept of As Found, a term that implies realism, anthropological thinking and attention to context. Th is approach was used as a vehicle to build up the students’ ability to closely observe and question given situations and conventions whilst encouraging them to creatively recycle and re-invent ideas, materials and spaces. Th rough three main projects that increased in scale and complexity we developed observational, representational and design techniques and set out to explore the following questions: How do you fi nd? How do you store what you fi nd? And how do you display and communicate your fi nd through architecture? Each project was sited in a diff erent location, prompting the students to investigate and understand the impact of context to architectural design.

We started the year by discovering and examining patterns of eve-ryday life as they unfold in public space.

In COLLECT the students were asked to identify ‘indigenous ac-tivities’ in Cambridge and to construct a vehicle for their collection. Th is introduced the students to a wide range of investigatory tech-niques including mapping, orthographical drawing and allowed them to test their individual interpretation of the brief in the city.

STORE requested the students to design a hidden underground archive in Cambridge to house their indigenous collection in and encouraged them to investigate interior volumes and light through section drawings, collages and cast models.

Th e main project DISPLAY looked at the opportunities and con-fl icts generated by merging a theatre and an exhibition space to a new type of cultural venue- a ‘Museum of Movement’ - and chal-lenged the students to integrate their designs into the culturally di-verse urban context of Dalston. Physical and social context, public interaction, disposition of space, construction and materiality were explored through site videos and models as well as sequential, or-thographical and detail drawings

Tutors:

Julika Gittner ,Tom Housden, Pippa Nis-sen, Freddie Philipson, Ingrid Schroder

Students:

Naomi Black, Joshua Bristow, Yoanne Chan, Song Eng, Felix Faire, Victoria Gramm, Sam Green, Matthew Gregorowski, Holly Gupta, Zahra Haider,Tom Hamilton, Seb Harrison, Will Haynes, Joe Hibbert, Rebecca Howe, Liusaidh Mac-donald, Max Martin, Alisa Matjuka, Lydia Mills, Dominic Murray-Vaughan, Laurence Neal, Lucy Norfi eld, Lara Orska, Nimesha Paranagamage, AndrewPercival, Rachael Roberts, James Rogers, Heather Rouse, Minty Sainbury, Sofi a Singler, Chloe Spiby Loh, So-hanna Srinivasan, FionaStewart, Steve Sze, Sonia Tong, Yeshe Verhagen, Adam Walls, Frances Williams, Wil-liam Woodhead, Emma Woodward, Oliver Young

Laurence Neal & Chloe Spiby Loh, Matthew Gregorowski & Emma Woodward, Oliver Young & Nimesha Paranagamage, Joshua Bristow & Sonia Tong

Joshua Bristow, Sohannah Srinivasan

William Haynes, Adam Walls, Samuel Green, Laurence Neal

Sohannah Srinivasan, William Woodhead, Max Martin, Matthew Gregorowski

Oliver Young, Minty Sainsbury

Joe Hibbert, Seb Harrison, Francis Williams

Samuel Green, Nimesha Paranagamage, Rachel Roberts, William Haynes

Lara Orska, Nimesha Paranagamage, Adam Walls

Chloe Spiby Loh, Emma Woodward, Fiona Stewart

Sonia Tong, Dom Murray-Vaughan

Samuel Green, Joe Hibbert, Joshua Bristow, Rebecca Howe, Yoanne Chan

Joe Hibbert, Matt Gregorowski, Lucy Norfi eld

“Th e line between art and life should be kept as fl uid, and perhaps indistinct,as possible.” Allan Kaprow “A gallery is constructed along laws as rigorous as those for build-ing a medieval church. Th e outside world must not come in, so windows are usually sealed off . Walls are painted white. Th e ceiling becomes the source of light. Th e wooden fl oor is polished so that you click along clinically or carpeted so that you pad soundlessly, resting the feet while the eyes stare at the wall.”Brian O’Doherty ; Inside the White Cube, Th e Ideology of the Gal-lery Space Allan Kaprow’s statement made in the early 1960s exemplifi es an at-titude that prevails in the way that many artists work today but jars with the way that art is treated and viewed in the design of galler-ies. Th e art gallery is oft en generic, hermetic, timeless and precious with no real contextual relationships between art and place. Studio 1 has been exploring the latent potential of the spatial void that is the art gallery. A void continually fi lled with ever-changing art work that represents contemporary culture but does little to es-tablish a direct dialogue with a context beyond the hermetic cura-torial space – except perhaps the media coverage that might follow art shows. Th e studio explored the production and dissemination of art and investigated the dense and layered fabric along the Regents Canal in the east of London. Projects took advantage of the canal side locations whereby water became a valuable asset to the making and display of art. Propositions involve the local community as well as the rich arts infrastructure of the area and provide spaces that both connect with and challenge their locale while transporting the im-agination elsewhere.

Tutors:

Miraj AhmedGregory Ross

Students:

Sebastian BaileyNatalie CarderRobin FarmerClaudia FragosoJenny GutteridgeAndy HalesTh omas HartJoanna HylandEva JohnsonStephen MassiahJames SmithBen StrakBob Winslow

Y2 S1INTO THE VOID

Jennifer Gutteridge, Robert Winslow, Robin Farmer

Benjamin Strak, Joanna Hyland, Claudia Fragoso

Jennifer Gutteridge, James Smith, Claudia Fragoso, Benjamin Strak, Sebastian Bailey, Robin Farmer

Robin Farmer, Th omas Hart

Joanna Hyland, Andrew Hales, Natalie Carder, Sebastian Bailey, Robin Farmer, James Smith , Benjamin Strak

Th is year saw the continuation of an informal study that started last year in Studio 2, exploring the potential of interstitial sites that are a result of major pieces of infrastructure cutting through the existing city grain. Incisions made by bridges, viaducts, and rail tracks invariably generate left over spaces that are diffi cult to ren-der as usable due to issues of ownership, maintenance or physical constraints. But on closer inspection and especially when located within regions of urban intensity, these stretches of void activity can be seen as opportunities to re-establish relationships long sev-ered or establishing new ones by taking advantage of the confl uent nature of these circumstances where two or more systems meet at one point. Th is year we chose Regent’s Canal as both the area of study and infrastructure.

Th e sites for the two projects developed this year are located in the vicinity of Whitmore Bridge, where the canal passes though the London Borough of Hackney. Th is area still maintains a fair amount of its industrial character and is home to one of East London’s most culturally varied communities, characteristics that emerged as ref-erence points at the research stage and crucially articulated the thinking behind most of the proposals. Th e work was also informed by a survey of urban responses to water edge conditions during a study trip to Venice.

Th e fi rst project -a new public link- served as a scoping exercise and preamble for the main project, which was located on the facing side of the canal. Th e brief for the latter was inspired by one of the local boating clubs and evolved into a community centre based on canal activities such as narrow boating and kayaking. Th e resulting pro-jects illustrate an engaging variety of scenarios of how the current trend of residential developments could be enriched by introducing other more site-specifi c typologies along the canal edge.

Tutors:

Nikolai DelvendahlEric Martin

Students:

Hannah BakerPaddi BensonDaniel CurlessJenny GrevesonEleanor GriersonPaul HicksRosalijn JonesJohnny LuiJennifer MaierMarther RawlinsonNadia Sanchez-MartinKyeong Hee SeoJoseph SmithNicholas Tsao

Y2 S2RUESIDUAL DOMAINS

Johnny Lui, Nadia Sanchez

Jenny Greveson, Eleanor Grierson

Hannah Baker, Rosy Jones

Nick Tsao, Paul Hicks

Paddi Benson, Johnny Lui

When Regents Canal was built, tow paths were only required on one side, on the other warehouse walls would plunge straight down into the water, using all the space available and creating a hard ur-ban junction with the water. Th e detail is robust and direct making simple utilitarian buildings and landscape features. Due to their isolation and particular function they have developed an architec-tural language of their own. Making the canals public is putting this character into question. By looking at the canal as an open green space as well as a dense urban location, the studio has considered what is appropriate to keep, reinforce or cultivate, and what needs to change in order to make the place more open to the people who live there, without destroying what is special.

Working at the scale of a ‘House’ and a ‘Palazzo’ the studio has ex-plored the particular conditions of the canal in two projects; an art-ist’s studio at the lock near Broadway Market and a music venue adjacent to the gas works.

In December we visited Snape Maltings with architect Steve Tomp-kins, engineer Sam Price, and acoustician Raf Orlowski to hear how they worked with the material and spatial qualities that the malt-houses provide as spaces for the making and performing of music. Th e relationship to landscape and the proximity to the water is an intrinsic quality of the site. By working with the existing character of the canal sites in Dalston, also rich in industrial heritage, the mu-sic venue brief suggested an alternative location to the established London music venues and was conceived to enable more people locally to participate, to encourage new audiences, young perform-ers, school groups and others. Further precedent studies informed a discussion as to whether the performance space should be a refi ned space or something more raw depending on the acoustics desired. As with the artist’s studio in project one, we explored how the vari-ous spaces would provide musicians the opportunity to engage or disengage with the canal and the city at diff erent stages during the creative process.

Tutors:

Sarah HareStephen Smith

Students:

Mathew Bailey Hafsa BellAlexandra ButterworthEmily CarmichaelKaiyil GnanakumaranRichard GreenJessica JuppKatherine NolanEbanie PowellShocichi SadoTomas SchularPradeepa SivasanthiranMiranda Stern

Y2 S3URBAN WATERWAY

Shoichi Saddo, Tomas Schular, Matthew Bailey

Hafsa Bell, Alexandra Butterworth, Katherine Nolan

Jessica Jupp, Miranda Stern, Richard Green

Kaiyil Gnanakumaran, Pradeepa Sivasanthiran, Matthew Bailey, Shoichi Saddo

Emily Carmichael, Richard Green, Alexandra Butterworth

Ebanie Powell, Hafsa Bell, Shoichi Sado

Th e settlement of East Tilbury lies in the Th ames Estuary, north of the river. Built from the 1930s onwards by Bata, the Czech shoe company, to provide factories alongside worker housing and com-munity facilities, it is part of the long lineage of ideal towns built by industrialists eager to secure the mutual benefi ts of happiness and productivity.

East Tilbury today is a strangely dissonant place. Whilst parts of it are almost completely generic in their suburban quality, there is much that is extraordinary – a topography which includes a coher-ent collection of Modernist housing, and which is dominated by the scale and abstraction of its vast, empty factory buildings, poised on the edge the Estuary landscape. In the context of the inevitable decay of Bata’s utopian vision, Studio 1 set out to explore some pos-sible futures for this unique place.

Th e studio has focused on speculative scenarios for the re-invention of the ‘Factory Gardens’ at the heart of the town. Th e existing fac-tory buildings have an undoubted power - a sublime quality which is partly given by their decay and emptiness - but are threatened by inaction and the trappings of their architectural heritage. Some students have explored how these buildings might be re-purposed, whilst others have speculated how new buildings might play a cata-lytic role in the re-invention of the wider estate. Th e work of the studio is anchored by a wider context of change – which includes a recently-consented expansion of East Tilbury itself, and the immi-nent development of London Gateway, which will become Europe’s largest port, just along the A13 – and aims to consider the very pragmatic question of how to work with an economy of means. Th e resulting proposals - spanning a spectrum of scales, from region to room – aim to articulate an ongoing role for architectural imagina-tion and innovation amongst the fragments of its former ambition.

Tutors:

Jay Gort Nathan Jones

Students:

Jakob BenjaminNadine CoetzeeSarah CookStephanie CrombieAlice FergusonTh omas GeogeAndrew Gibbs Daniel MiodragIshbel MullHeenali PetalJulia PhillipaVictoria Turton

Y3 S1

Daniel Miodrag, Nadine Coetzee, Andrew Gibbs, Alice Ferguson, Ishbel Mull

Jakob Benjamin

Nadine Coetzee, Sarah Cook

Julia Phillips, Sarah Cook, Nadine Coetzee

Nadine Coetzee, Daniel Miodrag

Heenali Patel

Ishbel Mull, Heenali Patel

Jakob Benjamin, Andrew Gibbs, Nadine Coetzee, Ishbel Mull

Andrew Gibbs, Alice Ferguson

Th omas George, Ishbel Mull, Daniel Miodrag

Sarah Cook, Daniel Miodrag

Jakob Benjamin, Heenali Patel, Alice Ferguson, Sarah Cook, Stephanie Crombie

Th is year Studio 2 designed towers for a site in central London located above the new Crossrail transport interchange at Totten-ham Court Road Station. Our work is concerned with the appar-ent disjunction between the strategies employed in the design of tall buildings and those informing smaller proposals. While we understand the latter as responding to the nuances of materiality, inhabitation and context, towers seem to require an entirely alien set of design skills that prioritise formal expression and technical resolution at the apparent expense of a more subtle engagement with the everyday. Fundamentally towers are seen as vulgar. Th is year we opened our discussion to an interrogation of this vulgarity, questioning how these infl ated buildings are fashioned, and explor-ing how they operate within an urban context. We have embraced the need to defi ne a formal ambition from the outset, and we have used the material and structural strategies driven by this ambition to explore how these big moves shape space, and might come to ac-commodate an unexpectedly diverse range of programmes.

Given our location, our work has engaged with not just the site’s immediate surroundings, but also with the new connecting fab-ric of transport infrastructure beneath. Th is has prompted us to reevaluate what constitutes a ground condition and to welcome new versions of the experience of the city and interpretations of the public realm. Th e presence of Crossrail has given the project a degree of added economic viability, however this has not been our primary focus. While starting as a mixed-use / hotel / residential tower, each programme has been developed as a means of revealing new possibilities and new readings of the site.

Th e proposals work at three critical scales, that of the larger city and skyline, the programmatic arrangement and relationship to the im-mediate site, and the spatial qualities of a series of selected spaces or rooms within the buildings. Diff erent preoccupations have driven each scheme and the areas of emphasis vary accordingly.

Tutors:

Ingrid SchröderNuria Lombardero

Students:

Liam Ashmore James EdmundsAlastair GreigEleanor HillTh omas LeahyLaurence LumleyFinbarr O’DempseyOliver PartingtonDaniel PeacockIsabel PerryLouis Persent

Y3 S2U N D E S I G N

Louis Persent, Finbarr O’Dempsey

Isabel Perry

Th omas Leahy

Alastair Greig, Daniel Peacock

Louis Persent

Eleanor Hill, Alastair Greig

Liam Ashmore

Daniel Peacock

Laurence Lumley

James Edmunds, Oliver Partington

Finbarr O’Dempsey, James Edmunds, Oliver Partington

Oliver Partington

Tutors:

Piers TaylorMeredith Bowles

Students:

Jan AliJoanna BarnesChloe FawcettPhilippa Griffi thsWilliam HardyLara KerrisonSebastian LomasViresh PatelGuy RochezGreg StorrarMichelle Wu

For the third year in succession, Studio 3 have been working in Ely, in the fens north of Cambridge. Th is year we have been working in the heart of the city, designing a new civic building for the East Cambridgeshire District Council and a new town hall for Ely. We worked on 2 distinct sites: Th e market square in the heart of the historic fabric of the city, and a larger, more open grained site that bridged medieval fabric with suburban sprawl and needed a com-prehensive strategic masterplan before any new intervention could be designed.

We worked with Turner prize nominated artist Tim Knowles on an introductory project allowing us to get under the skin of the fabric of the city and go beyond fi rst impressions. We designed recording devices which inventively measured texture, terrain, and topogra-phy, before producing our own material analysis of the city, allow-ing us to experience and communicate the fi ner grained view of Ely. Before developing resolved proposals we a had deep understanding of the city at a range of scales.

Th roughout the year we looked at reimagining what a new town hall could be - addressing issues of democratic transparency and public accessibility in an age of political accountability and local-ism. We also examined how issues of sustainability could inform decisions about building plan and form, and how diff erent struc-tural systems might be called on for a variety of non domestic scale spaces.

Final proposals demonstrated how new interventions need not be meek or apologetic to belong in a rich medieval context, how the informal and personal could sit alongside the formal and collective, how public life could be accommodated in a government building, and how craft ing beautiful spaces can be carried out on local au-thority budgets with everyday materials.

Y3 S3RAW MATERIALS

Philippa Griffi ths, Chloe Fawcett, Guy Rochez

Lara Kerrison, Sebastian Lomas, Greg Storrar

WilliamHardy, Philippa Griffi ths, Sebastian Lomas, Viresh Patel, William Hardy, Joanna Barnes, Viresh Patel, Joanna Barnes

Jan Ali, Greg Storrar, Chloe Fawcett, Philippa Griffi ths, William Hardy, Michelle Wu

Guy Rochez, Lara Kerrison, Michelle Wu, Joanna Barnes

Greg Storrar, Jan Ali

Joanna Barnes, Michelle Wu, Guy Rochez, Philippa Griffi ths, William Hardy

Guy Rochez, Viresh Patel, Jan Ali, Philippa Griffi ths

Sebastian Lomas, Guy Rochez, William Hardy

Lara Kerrison, Jan Ali, Joanna Barnes, Viresh Patel, Chloe Fawcett

Jo Barnes, Viresh Patel

Th is has been an incredible year for ARCSOC. Th e scale, quantity and ambi-tion of all our endeavours have only been possible due to the commitment of our current committee and ARCSOC members.

Our Life Drawing team worked hard to prevent the discontinuation of classes by bringing them back into the department.

Th e Design Charette, organised by Spencer De Grey, gave the opportunity for collaboration between years.

ARCSOC Talks have organised a series of high calibre guest speakers ranging from high profi le Architects and Th eorists to recent graduates.

Th e Ents Team have done an incredible job hosting two very successful Caba-rets as well as other events throughout the year. Th ese eff orts have enabled us to move our 2011 Exhibition to an exciting new venue to mark our fourth London show.

Th ere are many achievements and eff orts that I haven’t mentioned above, but the enthusiasm of ArcSoc 2010-2011 has meant that the year has been an excit-ing and thoroughly enjoyable time.

Th ank you and good luck for next year.

Oliver and Nadine

TALKSTh is year we have been very privileged to host a variety of interesting speakers within the broader fi eld of architecture. Th e talks have both inspired the studio work going on in the department as well as showing the scope of opportunities available beyond conventional practice, extending the net outside the limits of Cambridge to architects from London to Basel. Th e talks this year have fea-tured, and we would like to thank, Studio Weave, Glowacka Rennie, vPPR, the Klassnik Corporation, Sara Muzio, Simon Frommenwiler (HHF Architekten), Nathan Dunne, Niall McLaughlin, Rod Heyes (Caruso St. John), Renzo Piano Studio, Kate Darby, Florian Beigel and Philip Christou (ARU), 815agency, Daisy Ginsberg and House of Jonn.

LIFE DRAWINGArcSoc’s weekly life drawing classes provide a break from studio work, allow-ing time to concentrate solely on drawing and capturing form. Th e sessions are led by local artists or occasionally by ArcSoc committee members themselves. Th erefore the class is directed, but variation in materials, pose and length of drawing are all encouraged. We aim to provide an opportunity for ArcSoc members to strengthen their drawing skills and explore diff erent mediums and methods; this can then inform architectural drawings. Th ere has been some diffi culty with funding this year due to university cut-backs, but we are deter-mined to keep life drawing as an integral part of ArcSoc.

ENTSTh e whole department has united this year to host two spectacular cabarets and numerous club nights to raise money. We have combined our developing architectural understanding to decorate the Architecture Department accord-ing to the nights ‘CORNUCOPIA’ and then ‘DYSTOPIA’, with many hundreds of people coming to experience the spaces and the events taking place there. Our resident djs have been joined by many others, as well as dancers and per-formers to off er parties that draw people even from outside Cambridge. Th ese events have been a vital source of fundraising this year, as have the nights held at a Cambridge club about three times a term. We have a growing reputation as an Ents team and are very much looking forward to next year’s fun and fund-raising.

THE SOUTH BANKDESIGN CHARRETTE 2011

Since 1950 many cultural facilities have been developed on the South Bank of the Th ames, but this has been a rather random process. Th e concept of cultural buildings on this bank of the river goes back to the 16th and 17th centuries.

London is currently one of the pre-eminent, if not the pre-eminent, cultural city in the world and many of the buildings south of the river refl ect this pre-eminence. Students are invited to investigate the physical setting for these im-portant venues. How could the setting be improved, made more coherent and refl ect the incredible signifi cance of the institutions themselves?

Looking at the stretch of the river from Vauxhall Bridge to Tower Bridge, the students where asked to devise a broad strategy for the infrastructure, the space between buildings, the landscape and even new buildings? Th e Char-rette took place over a weekend beginning with a lecture by Spencer De Grey on the ‘Public Realm’. Th e students worked intensively in groups comprised of both undergraduates and diploma students.

LED BY SPENCER DE GREY: JANUARY 28TH - JANUARY 31ST 2011

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Westminster

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Clapham High Street

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONSBecoming an architect in the UK usually takes around seven years. Students progress through a three-part scheme laid out by the ARB (Architects’ Regis-tration Board) and RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). Th e Cambridge undergraduate (BA) degree confers exemption from the ARB/RIBA Part 1 ex-aminations, aft er which students usually spend a year working as an architec-tural assistant before proceeding on to a Part 2 course. Our MPhil in Environ-mental Design in Architecture (Option B) is such a course, although students may choose to study a Part 2 course at another school. Aft er a further year of work students proceed to a Part 3 course, such as our Postgraduate Certifi cate in Professional Practice in Architecture. It is therefore possible to complete all your architectural qualifi cations in Cambridge. Th e following pages give an overview of our courses as they have run in the 2010-11 academic year, together with information about how to apply. It is worth noting that all our courses are updated regularly, and the most up-to-date details can be found on our website (http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/).

STUDYING ARCHITECTURE AT CAMBRIDGE

Th e three-year BA (Hons) undergraduate course in architecture at Cambridge carries exemption from ARB/RIBA Part 1 which is the fi rst stage in qualifying as an architect. Th is means that the course diff ers from most others at Cam-bridge in that it must be studied as three continuous years. It is not possible to study another course fi rst and then switch to architecture without starting again at the beginning. Th e benefi ts of studying in Cambridge are obvious. Th e University is one of the best in the world, the beautiful surroundings house outstanding libraries and teaching is traditionally done in small groups called supervisions. Moreover every student at Cambridge must be a member of a college which in turn provides a living environment and the chance to make friends with students studying other subjects.

Th e architecture course at Cambridge is unashamedly academic in its ap-proach. Like other architecture schools elsewhere the core of the teaching is carried out in studios. Projects are set throughout the year and students are

DEPARTMENTAL INFORMATION

required to produce models and drawings to communicate their design ideas. Th e department provides studio desk space together with workshop and com-puter facilities. Students are supervised on their projects individually, twice a week typically. Studio work is time-consuming and architecture probably requires more hours per week than any other course in the University. Studio work however accounts for 60% of the overall marks each year. Th e remain-ing 40% is made up from lecture courses that cover the rest of the academic curriculum. Students attend small group supervisions on these courses and are required to complete essays and coursework.

Students are expected to master the technical subjects but they are also expect-ed to acquire a much deeper understanding of architectural theory and his-tory than is generally required in other schools. As a whole the course aims to foster the skills that will enable an individual to continue to learn and develop throughout his or her future career.

Full information about the undergraduate admissions process can be found on the University’s undergraduate admissions website: at http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/.

APPLYING

A-LEVEL SUBJECTS

Th ere is no prescribed combination of A Level (or equivalent) subjects re-quired for the Architecture course. Applicants with backgrounds in either the humanities or the sciences have been successful, although a combination of arts and science subjects is considered the best preparation. Th e majority of applicants have studied Art or History of Art, which provides a better prepa-ration for the course than subjects such as Design Technology and Technical Graphics. Mathematics at A Level (or equivalent) is also encouraged. Students who do not off er two mainstream academic subjects may fi nd themselves at a disadvantage.

Any off er of study will generally require students to attain A*AA or AAA grades. A strong interest and commitment to the discipline is essential.

Off ers are regularly based on examinations other than A-levels (e.g. Scottish Highers and Certifi cate of Sixth Form Studies, the European and French Bac-calaureates, Arbitur, Maturita, the Irish Leaving Certifi cate and the Advanced International Certifi cate of Education off ered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate).

PORTFOLIO

All applicants are expected to show a portfolio of recent work at interview but this isn’t expected to be work of an architectural nature (e.g. plans, sections etc).

Admissions Tutors will want to see something that will illustrate your interests, experience and ability in the visual and material arts. Normally drawing and painting forms the basis of the portfolio but other media such as sculpture and photography may also be included. It’s usually suffi cient for three-dimensional work to be exhibited in photographs.

A sketchbook with ongoing drawings is extremely helpful and applicants are encouraged to take one to the interview. It may be in any media (pencil, charcoal, crayon etc) and should include a variety of subject matter. Th e work can be material prepared for school-leaving examinations but creative work executed outside formal courses is also welcome.

Enquiries

All enquiries about admission requirements and procedures should be ad-dressed to the Admissions Offi ce at one of the Cambridge colleges. Many col-leges hold open days several times during the year where it is usually possible to talk to the Director of Studies for Architecture who will answer specifi c questions.

OPEN DAYS

Th e Department participates in the main University open days each year (usu-ally on the fi rst Th ursday and Friday in July) at which potential applicants can meet staff and view an exhibition of student work. Enquiries about the date and timetable should be addressed to the Faculty Offi ce Secretary. Information is also available via the University’s website, and those wishing to attend should register at http://www.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/events/.

YEAR 1Th e fi rst year of the architecture course provides an important introduction to the course as a whole. Th e year ends with an examination for Part IA of the Architecture Tripos aft er which students can opt to move to other courses within the University. Th is is rare, however: most architecture students stay for all three years.

STUDIO

Studio work is based on a series of projects that progressively introduce the student to the conditions and possibilities of architecture. Th ese typically start with smaller-scale, more abstract exercises and work up to a more complex building project at the end of the year.

Th e emphasis is on understanding and developing profi ciency in traditional modes of architectural representation – models, collages, perspectives, eleva-tions, plans and sections. At the same time students are expected to master ba-sic CAD skills like MicroStation and Photoshop and to use these in their studio presentations. Students are expected to develop skills in judging architecture and to learn how to present their ideas to an audience through presentations to their peers and visiting critics.

Studio days are timetabled twice a week throughout the year and at the end of the year students present their completed portfolios for marking. Th e portfolio carries 60% of the overall marks.

ROME

Th e fi rst year travels to Rome for a week in the Easter holidays. Th is trip in-volves visits and lectures on the famous buildings of the city and its surround-ings. Th e resulting sketchbook is part of the portfolio submission at the end of the year. Th e trip is subsidised but students are expected to contribute a certain amount towards the costs (the amount varies between years but is likely to be between 15-25%). Additional funds are sometimes available from the colleges.

LECTURES AND WRITTEN PAPERS

Th ere are fi ve papers in the end-of-year examinations:

Paper 1: Introduction to architectural history.

Paper 2: Introduction to architectural theory.

Paper 3: Fundamental principles of construction.

Paper 4: Fundamental principles of structural design.

Paper 5: Fundamental principles of environmental design.

Th e fi rst-year architectural history course covers the history of architecture

from the beginning of civilisation to the nineteenth century.

Architectural theory provides an introduction to the development of architec-tural theory from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Th rough a series of site visits, lectures and coursework fi rst-year building construction aims to introduce students to the building site and a basic under-standing of building materials.

Coursework includes a small design project integrated with the studio pro-gramme. Structural design introduces students to basic structural calculations. Exercises are set on building and testing structures to destruction.

Environmental design sets out bioclimatic design principles and includes the calculation of lighting factors, fabric heat losses and reverberation times to-gether with a basic introduction to building physics.

All papers carry equal marks and are taught through lecture courses through the fi rst two terms of the year. Students are also given supervisions–typically by their Director of Studies – for which they are expected to produce essays and carry out basic reading.

YEAR 2Th e second year of the architecture course builds on the fi rst. Th e year ends with an examination for Part IB of the Architecture Tripos. Th is year is much more challenging than the fi rst year and students are expected to have devel-oped ways of working that allow them to keep up with the pace.

STUDIO

Depending on numbers, the second year off ers a choice of two or three studios following comparable design programmes. Projects are set ranging in scale from mapping studies and interior interventions to a reasonable-sized building at the end of the year.

Th e emphasis is on integrating the technical skills learnt in the fi rst year and in the ongoing lectures courses with the studio output. Students are expected to demonstrate a greater awareness of social issues and theoretical frameworks and to be able to understand how their designs would be built. Th ey are ex-pected to be able to use a proper CAD package such as Rhino, Vectorworks or MicroStation to produce drawings and to have developed the ability to criticise

their own work and that of others.

As in the fi rst year, studio days are timetabled twice a week throughout the year and at the end of the year students present their completed portfolios for mark-ing. Similarly the portfolio carries 60% of the overall marks.

LECTURES AND WRITTEN PAPERS

Th ere are fi ve papers in the end-of-year examinations:

Paper 1: Essays on the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and design.

Paper 2: Th e history and theory of architecture, urbanism and design.

Paper 3: Principles of construction.

Paper 4: Principles of structural design.

Paper 5: Principles of environmental design.

Th e second-year architectural history course draws on the specialist knowl-edge of researchers in the Faculty and invited lecturers. A number of topics are covered in more depth, ranging from Islamic Architecture to Narratives of the Modern City. Architectural theory is similarly based on the research of those within the Faculty. Topics are based around the idea of the city and have in-cluded the urban design and history and theory of garden design. Second-year students must submit two History/Th eory essays during the year. Th ese essays address topics related to the History/Th eory lecture courses and help prepare students for the dissertation they will complete in the third year.

Second-year building construction works systematically through the range of options available to the modern architect. Th e fi rst term looks at interiors and the second focuses on the design of structural elements and the building enve-lope. Structural design introduces students to more complex decision-making issues in structural design including the design of steel and concrete structures, while Environmental design builds on the fi rst year by looking at how the techniques learned can be applied to particular building types and situations. Constriction, Structures and Environment coursework based on studio work is submitted as part of the portfolio at the end of the year.

As in the fi rst year, all papers carry equal marks and together count for 40% of the fi nal mark. Subjects are taught through lecture courses throughout the year. Students will typically have a lecture on each subject each week during term.

Students are also given supervisions – typically by the subject lecturers – for which they are expected to produce essays and carry out basic preparation.

YEAR 3Th e third year of the architecture course is the culmination of the course. Th e year ends with an examination for Part II of the Architecture Tripos leading to a BA (Hons) degree and Part 1 ARB/RIBA. Students in the third year are ex-pected to be able to demonstrate that they have mastered all the various aspects of the course so far.

STUDIO

Students are given a choice of studios in their third year. Th ird-year studios will vary in their approach but all will require the students to produce a design for a building at the end of the year which may be sizeable and clearly demonstrates an understanding of the theoretical and technical aspects of architecture.

Students are expected to demonstrate a high level of technical competence and be able to model their building in CAD.

As in the second year, studio days are timetabled twice a week throughout the year and at the end of the year students present their completed portfolios for marking. Th e portfolio again carries 60% of the overall marks.

DISSERTATION

Students are required to write a 7,000-9,000 word dissertation in their third year. Th e choice of subjects is wide and limited principally by the availability of a supervisor who is competent in the particular topic. Recent dissertations have focused on subjects raised in the diff erent lecture courses: in the lectures on environment, structures and construction as well as in the history and theory lectures, and on issues that have emerged from work in the studios.

Lectures and Written Papers

Paper 1: Advanced studies in the historical and theoretical aspects of architec-ture and urbanism.

Paper 2: Management, Practice & Law.

Paper 3: Advanced studies in construction technology, structural analysis and environmental design related to case-studies.

Paper 4: Architectural Engineering.

Th e third-year architectural history and theory course off ers a wide range of specialist topics. Students are generally expected to attend all the lectures but only have to answer questions on three topics in the exam.

In the third year there are three technical courses which are each one term long. Th e fi rst of these courses is on aspects of professional practice. A joint structures, environment and construction course is based on case study buildings. Students are taken to visit two buildings during the Lent term and lectures are given by members of the design teams working on these buildings.

Students are required to keep Case Study Notebooks through the term which count towards the marks for the examination.

In the third year the papers carry 20% of the overall mark. In addition to the weekly lectures students are also given supervisions –typically by the subject lecturers– for which they are expected to produce essays and carry out basic preparation.

A joint course with the Engineering Department takes place in the Michaelmas term, Architectural Engineering, which is wholly marked on coursework. Stu-dents worked back and forth between design and analysis, a reciprocity which reinforces the relationships between subjective (“design”) criteria and objective (“technical”) criteria, making the designs more robust, plausible and elegant.

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREESTh e Department has an unusually broad research base, and welcomes applica-tions from graduates to undertake research towards an MPhil or PhD. Unlike, for example, many North American Universities, the University of Cambridge does not off er a ‘Graduate Programme’. Instead, it admits those applicants whose research interests match those of any member of the academic staff who is available and willing to act as the research student’s supervisor.

Graduates wishing to undertake research in areas related to the MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture may be required to register for this degree and, subject to a good performance, will then be formally accepted to begin research towards a PhD. All research students are required to attend the Department’s postgraduate training sessions. Candidates for the PhD must normally pursue supervised research in residence in Cambridge for at least 9 terms (3 years). Th ey are required to submit a fi rst-year paper aft er 3 terms of

research and, subject to satisfactory reports from their Assessor and Supervi-sor, candidates are then registered for the PhD degree. Th eir dissertation must be submitted within 12 months of completing 9 terms of research.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Entry requirements are considered on an individual basis. Applicants are gen-erally expected to have a fi rst-class or high 2.1 honours fi rst degree and, where appropriate, a Master’s degree. Th ey are strongly advised to make preliminary enquiries about the standard expected and about the possibility, in principle, of undertaking research in the specialist area of their choice.

APPLICATIONS

All potential applicants for graduate study should consult the Board of Gradu-ate Studies website for information about the applications process and funding opportunities: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offi ces/gradstud/.

Th e applications should be accompanied by some written work (such as an essay) and a statement of the applicant’s research interests. Applicants with design experience should also submit some evidence of their drawn work (A4 size or equivalent).

ENQUIRIES

Preliminary enquiries should be directed to the Department Secretary. Our Graduate Studies Prospectus can be found on the University website, http://www.cam.ac.uk/.

MPHIL IN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURETh e issue of environmental design in architecture has, in recent years, assumed great signifi cance. Our MPhil course, fi rst established in 1987, remains at the forefront of this fi eld. In addition to the one-year intensive research degree, we have recently launched an additional option for those studying the course. Option B is a two-year course, including three terms’ placement in a practice. Along with the degree of MPhil in Environmental Design in Architecture, this option is prescribed and validated at Part 2 level by the ARB and RIBA.

Students who gain suffi ciently high marks in either option may apply to pro-ceed to study for a PhD degree. More details of both options of the course and the application procedures can be found on the Department’s website (http://

www.arct.cam.ac.uk/Arct/Courses.aspx).

Option A

Th is course is open to students from a wide range of academic backgrounds and off ers them the opportunity to acquire and develop skills and to pursue interests in this fi eld. Th e course works on a broad front, with equal empha-sis being placed on the architectural, engineering and scientifi c aspects of the subject. Th e course themes are wide-ranging. At the extreme, they focus on the impact of buildings upon the global environment (through their demand for ever-diminishing sources of energy and the consequences of pollution and global warming) and, at the other, on the quality of the internal environment. Th ese problems are addressed by emphasising the theory and application of the passive or bioclimatic approach to environmental design.

Alongside these themes attention is paid to the history of environmental design – “from Vitruvius to the Environmental System”. Th is establishes a background for understanding the approaches of contemporary practice. It also permits students to develop interests in the relationship between environmental design and more traditional themes in the history and theory of architecture.

In the fi rst two terms students attend regular seminars dealing with topics such as climate, building, physics, case studies and historical aspects of environmen-tal design. Other lectures in the Departments of Architecture and Engineering are also available. During this phase four 3,000-word essays have to be present-ed as well as a design project and report which is used as a vehicle to demon-strate the application of principles covered in the seminars.

In the second phase of the course students develop one of their essay topics as an area for personal research, in preparation for their 20,000-word thesis. During this phase students oft en carry out fi eldwork in buildings in the UK or abroad. An alternative to practical work may be theoretical work on mathe-matical models and analysis, or more historical and descriptive work or design research.

OPTION B

Th is is a new post-graduate research degree combining rigorous research methodology, practice and design. In the fi rst two terms students attend the same weekly seminars as students studying the MPhil (Option A), and will present three essays, short design projects and pilot studies leading to their design thesis. Aft er the end of the Lent Term students spend 9 months in a

placement in an architectural practice, working 80% full time, during which they gain experience germane to their design thesis. Th ere will be a three-way contract between student, practice and the University. During this placement period students will also work on the major output which is a design thesis in-corporating a written academic paper and a comprehensive design project. Th e students attend recall days at regular intervals. Students then return to Cam-bridge for one fi nal term, at the end of which they submit the completed design thesis. Th is must be both a substantial piece of written academic research and a design for a building resulting from that research work.

Th e design work must satisfy the criteria for ARB/RIBA Part 2. Th e nine months spent in practice during the course does not count towards the two years required in practice for Part 3 but obviously the experience gained in this year will be of benefi t in those examinations.

MST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNInterdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment is a part-time postgraduate course aimed at practising designers with at least three years work experience. It is open to architects, engineers, and all those involved in the commissioning, design, construction and management of projects in the built environment. It is off ered jointly by the Departments of Architecture and Engineering. Th e course aims:

• to equip professionals for strategic decision making, inventive problem solving and team leadership

• to develop skills in eff ective collaboration and communication, partic-ularly between clients, consultants, contractors, specialists and occupi-ers

• to provide a strategic overview of the production of the built environ-ment including current challenges faced by the construction industry such as global climate change and sustainability.

Th e course is part-time and lasts two years. During that time, students spend seven separate residential weeks studying in Cambridge at 3-4 month intervals. Each of these residential weeks comprises an intensive programme of formal lectures (from leading practitioners and university academics), workshops and seminars, and a week-long design project.

Studio design work is undertaken in small interdisciplinary teams, supported

by design tutors and culminating in a design review. Each of the residential weeks is based around a theme. Th ese are currently: Interdisciplinary under-standing and teamwork; the client, the user and the design team; sustainable construction; infrastructure and landscape; the structure of the industry; and urban design and sustainable communities. One week is given over to man-agement training. Between the residential weeks, and away from Cambridge, students undertake four written assignments: one 5,000-word case study; two 3,000-word essays; and in the second year a 15,000-word thesis.

Students receive supervisions for their assignments from specialists within the University.

College Membership

Students on the course become members of Wolfson College, which was estab-lished specifi cally for graduate and mature students.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Applicants should generally have an upper second class honours degree or better, although alternative experience or qualifi cations may be taken into ac-count. Overseas students must demonstrate a good command of the English language and meet the requirements of the University’s Board of Graduate Studies in this respect. Details of the course fees, dates and the application procedure can be found on the website http://www.idbe.org/.

MST IN BUILDING HISTORYTh e new Master of Studies in Building History is a part-time postgraduate course aimed at people wanting to pursue a career in the analysis and assess-ment of the signifi cance of historic buildings. It is off ered jointly by the Depart-ments of Architecture and History of Art in collaboration with English Heri-tage. Students are expected to come from a wide variety of backgrounds, not necessarily related to be studied. Th e course aims:

• to provide individuals with a detailed understanding of the history and development of buildings

• to train students in the recording of historic buildings

• to equip students to carry out research in all aspects of the historic environment.

THE COURSE

Th e course is part-time and lasts two years. In the fi rst year students attend three two-week residential courses, consisting of lectures, visits, workshops and seminars. Th ese are examined in a further week-long course in the summer. Courses are delivered by leading experts in each fi eld from within and outside the university. Students are required to record and analyse a historic structure and write a research proposal. Th e second year is spent on a 6-month place-ment with a heritage organisation (it is up to the student to fi nd the placement) and the completion of a dissertation on an approved topic of research..

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Applicants should generally have an upper second class honours degree or better, although alternative experience or qualifi cations may be taken into ac-count. Overseas students must demonstrate a good command of the English language and meet the requirements of the University’s Board of Graduate Studies in this respect. Details of the course fees, dates and the application procedure can be found on the website: http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/mst-buildin-ghistory/.

ARB/RIBA Part 3 Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice in ArchitectureAn intensive course of three taught sessions (2 days in September, 3 days in March/April and 3 days in July) is delivered through a mix of lectures, semi-nars, debates and workshops. Students are grouped into Study Groups to meet and work on set problems and are also assigned a Professional Studies Advisor. Th e course is validated and prescribed as an ARB/RIBA Part 3 qualifi cation.

ELIGIBILITY

Th e course is open to graduates who have been awarded exemption or who have passed the ARB/ RIBA Part 1 and 2 examinations, and who have complet-ed the mandatory periods of practical experience. Candidates can register for the course in their second year of practical training experience providing they will complete the required period before the examination.

EXAMINATION

To be eligible for the examination for Part 3, candidates must have obtained

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