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About the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Location Bournemouth • Courses BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch • Head of school Christian McLening • Full-time tutors 5 • Part-time tutors 10 • Students 150 • Staff to student ratio 1:20
Undergraduate
Keisha Pearce
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Unit Coastal Bournemouth
Project title The Graffiti Box
Project description The project sees the creation of an arts centre focused on graffiti. The concept is the making of a piece of graffiti that can be considered as an artform, then introducing it into an interior setting to encourage people to perceive it differently, thus challenging viewers, as well as the artist’s practices. In the building there are residences where artists and like-minded people can stay to create and view work – aiming to create a cultural hub in Bournemouth where people can express themselves. Also, by allowing people to interact with the waterfront, it regenerates the area and draws tourists and locals together through public art gallery, workspaces and cafés.
Tutor citation A wonderful project that reconciles the challenging height differences around the site. Keisha’s solution introduces a ramp which intersects and liberates itself from the box, taking the public from the cliffs into the building, along the ramp and out into the public domain of the beach. Catharina de Haas
Postgraduate
Adam Radwanski
Course MArch
Unit Performative Landscapes
Project title The Ecotechnic Landscape: A Nomadic Living History
Project descriptionThe Ecotechnic Landscape explores what could be achieved when combining contemporary techniques of construction and manufacture through a more hand-crafted approach. Shaped by traditional making processes, such as wood turning and leathercraft, and guided by the narrative of classic Slavic folklore, the intervention seeks to be a sympathetic reflection of the chaotic past of the Blue Pool, Wareham. These factors culminate to make a new landscape across the wilderness on the Purbeck peninsula, providing space to rejuvenate skills and knowledge. Components from the landscape’s industrial heritage are rejuvenated to serve the new, a reminder of how this place came to be, and show how these artefacts of a bygone age may find themselves useful again. The intervention is an active node form, which a network of activity, observation and experimentation may expand to enhance the surrounding context.
Tutor citation Poetic fabrications on a fascinating, challenging but inspirational site, this project works at many levels from the pragmatic swing of the axe to the mythological narrative, beautifully and exquisitely drawn out and modelled. It represents a remarkable journey by a remarkable student, in which the scheme becomes an educational centre for working with the environment to make and learn. Ed Frith, Kirsten Tatum, Channa Vithana, Jen Scott and Wynne Leung
