BA3
2025
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: Bradford, England
Bradford, shaped by its industrial past, is now evolving through cultural and spatial transformation. Third-year students developed proposals aligned with the city’s goals of ecological sustainability and public health, contributing to its City of Culture 2025 ambitions. Focusing on Bradford’s northern centre and the City Village initiative, students explored connections across key districts to enhance urban wellbeing, biodiversity, and social cohesion.
Live projects remain central to our curriculum, bridging design with real-world impact. This year’s projects include Garnett’s Field in Otley and St Richard’s Church in Leeds, fostering community-led, ecologically sensitive spaces through collaboration, critical thinking, and socially engaged design practice.
Staff
Catherine Burrage, Trudi Entwistle, John MacCleary, Matt Machouki, Emma Oldroyd, Mohammad Taleghani
Second Year Studio
Second Year Studio
BA2 Overview
Distinct methodologies drive a range of approaches for students to explore, focusing on future-based speculation, adaptive reuse, and community involvement. Projects focus on repurposing existing buildings, prioritising material preservation and the transformation of spaces over complete demolition. Each approach investigates creative models of restorative and sustainable practices, considering the origins of materials, the processes of construction, and their life cycle beyond the building’s use. Through these methodologies, students reimagine architecture as a dynamic, evolving practice that connects past, present, and future in meaningful ways, reflecting an enduring commitment to our responsibility as caretakers of the environment.
BA2 Studio
Location: Otley, England
In the first semester, second-year landscape architecture students explore ways to increase the resilience of a diverse upland landscape, Otley Chevin. Students study the landscape, and its relationship with settlements around It and the people who live there. They consider the Design impacts using methodologies including Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment. The work in this semester is complemented by technical studies in planting and construction.
In the second semester students grow their skills through understanding the urban and semi-natural environment of a neighbourhood and developing strategic proposals for its evolution. They then explore how physical change is achieved in the public realm and how their designs can be realised on the ground. The work in this semester is underpinned by work studying the history of landscape architecture and its social contexts.
Staff
Tom Bliss, Catherine Burrage, Trudi Entwistle, Alia Fadel, Amy McAbendroth, John Maccleary, Emma Oldroyd, Chris Royffe
Students
Clémence Braud, Jack Dean, Laure Desproges-Gotteron, Eveline Edmunds, Katie Edwards, Sufiyaan Farid, Iyla Leith, Joseph Malley, Callum Parry, Kabir Rahimi, Sebastian Rea, Finn Stevenson, Poppy West
First Year Studio
First Year Studio
Students
Moridiat Adebayo, Gloria Aina, Alistair Allen, Ruby Ava Fleur Walton,Sophie Balance, Lucy Butler, Harry Edward Wilson, Jamie Ellam, Roisin Grace Camplin, Abigail Grace Rickels, Theo Jeans-Cunard, Glebs Jeremejevs, Leo Johnston, Leoni Lee, Archie McIntyre, Madeline Milnes, Jenny Nuttall, Ged Rooney, Cody Sam Gledhill, Sa'Arah Shamoon, Lia Shu, Ruby Tallant, Reicela Visocka, Courtney Marie Wilson, Amelia Wing, Olivia Rachel White
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.
Studio: From Place Exploration to Spatial Design and Placemaking
Location: Leeds, England
First year students start their creative journey with an introduction studio to the concept of place. It aims to develop a heightened awareness of the environment, its character, and the natural and human processes which shape its evolution. Aiming to stimulate students’ creativity and spatial thinking, they made initial exploration of the three-dimensional nature of design by developing a project from concept to resolution, in the form of abstract modelling into landscape design.
The creative journey extends to the following studio focusing on designing a dynamic and meaningful Place for People with an emphasis on the value of urban landscape to boost biodiversity and people health and wellness. Students develop an understanding of the value, meaning, technical resolution, and construction of softscape and hardscape materials. In addition, they design to achieve high experiential qualities, multisensory stimulations, and practical applications of both tangible and nontangible materials in landscape architecture design.
Staff
Catherine Burrage, Nicola Clarke, Trudi Entwistle, Alia Fadel, John Maccleary, Matt Machouki, Emma Oldroyd