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Location Falmouth • Course BA (Hons) Architecture • Head of school • Tom Ebdon • Full-time tutors 2 • Part-time tutors 6 • Students 82 • Staff to student ratio 1:22
Undergraduate
Louis Domville-Musters
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Module ARC330 – Final Major Project
Project The Trevithick Museum
Project description The Trevithick Museum brings together a mix of public spaces, making and learning workshops and museum to celebrate the work of one of Cornwall’s great inventors, Richard Trevithick. Buildings at various scales open out onto a shared public space sited in Cambourne, the scheme demonstrating the idea that an understanding of place and history can be used to support aspirations of an historical mining town seeking to change its future narrative. The proposal’s architecture is expressed through a ‘language of making’ – its exposed structure of CLT shows how the building is made. A communal public space mediates between the museum and workshops, conceived as a celebratory space to welcome people, activity and transformation into the heart of the scheme.
Tutor citation A rejection of form-making for form’s sake, Louis’ work seeks to address the imbalance of architectural projects back into the realm of people and places. The project demonstrates the core skills of an architecture student: the ability to listen and understand people and places and to translate that understanding into a compelling piece of architecture that can look back to the history and context of a site and critically suggest a future that is unapologetic in its bright vision. Toby Carr and Tom Ebdon
