BA3
2023
Third Year Studio
Third Year Studio
Students
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BA3 Overview
Students conduct a critical analysis of their chosen site and define an “urban fragment”—an area extending beyond a single building, enclosure, or indoor space. This fragment incorporates portions of a broader environment while addressing specific site conditions related to both its existing and historical context. The urban fragment encompasses interior and exterior elements, expanding the scope of an interior architecture project to include streets, underground spaces, and adjacent areas. The project’s “interior” is not confined to one room, but it is conceived as a network of interconnected spaces and proximities, each defining the other through a system of spatial and social relations.
BA3 Studio
Location: Leeds, England
This year, we continued exploring the interior as the intersection of multiple spaces, histories, uses, and times. The architectures of our projects are not confined to the interior of a single room, space, or program, but shaped and informed by adjacencies, frictions, proximities, indoor and outdoor conditions, and in-between spaces, along with fragments of buildings, streets, and landscapes. Set around three churches in Leeds—St Agnes United, St James the Great, and St Richard’s, Ramshead Hill—the proposals insert new briefs into existing structures. The projects intersect, add, cut into, remove and replace architectural elements and activities while engaging with the social and physical fabric of each site.
Staff
Elena Del Carmen Palacios Carral, Matthew Haycocks, Lola Lozano Lara, Lara Rettondini
Second Year Studio
Second Year Studio
Students
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BA2 Overview
Students are encouraged to explore their identity as creative practitioners. Emphasising experimental methodologies and a willingness to fail, we view testing and learning from mistakes as essential to evolving design practice. By pushing boundaries and stepping outside comfort zones, students embrace risk and foster growth, resilience, and adaptability. This year focuses on developing critical thinking, adaptability, and the confidence to embrace failure, empowering students to define their own design paths with creativity and courage.
BA3 Studio
Location: Leeds, England
This studio engages with the practice of adaptive reuse through two architectural design investigations at micro and macro scales. These projects involve analysis and spatial intervention in existing structures; from a vernacular timber-framed tool shed to a Grade-listed 18th-century stone manor house. Emphasis is placed on making as an essential mode of architectural inquiry, supporting the iterative development of design proposals from conceptual exploration through to tectonic and material resolution. Hands-on methodologies such as material testing, physical model-making, and site-responsive experimentation, serve as tools for generating design responses.
Staff
Jennifer Chalkley, Matt Haycocks, Will McMahon, Maryam Osman, Rozita Rahman
First Year Studio
First Year Studio
Students
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BA1 Overview
We draw on the history of collaborative practice and creative knowledge sharing to shape new, undefined possibilities in design. Next year’s first year will be a shared experience, where Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Landscape Architecture combine to define a new methodology for teaching and learning spatial practice.
BA3 Studio
Location: Leeds, England
Students have been readdressing the poor reputation of Leeds famous back-to-back housing through a live-work brief. The project responds to the lack of affordable housing which the country is currently facing.
Design proposals include:
01 Establishing a vibrant street of makers;
02 Clever planning of small spaces to provide more than one function;
03 Resculpting the interiors to provide more effective natural light, ventilation and safer staircases;
04 Providing outside space at roof level;
05 Repurposing the external end of terrace stores/yards into community spaces.
Staff
Matt Haycocks, Joan Love, Maryam Osman, Clea Sun, Emma Wheeler, Ash Wilson