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About the School of Design
Location London SE10 | Courses BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch | Head of school Anastasios Maragiannis | Full-time tutors 12 | Part-time tutors 14 | Students 427 | Staff to student ratio 1:17
Undergraduate
Philipp Osmakov
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Studio/unit brief A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
Project title New Hebden Bridge
Project description New Hebden Bridge connects the local train station to the high street, bridging over the River Calder and the Rochdale Canal, and orchestrates a new formal entrance to the town. Along its 200m-length, it provides a hotel, town archive and retail spaces for visitors. This inhabited bridge is modular and adaptable, with a main street elevated by a wooden structure, and plug-in units suspended along it. Its main element is a ‘tall passage’ inspired by twisting passageways of unplanned urban centres from medieval London to Renaissance Venice.
Tutor citation Philipp’s sensitive and skilful proposal for a new pedestrian bridge-building in Hebden Bridge demonstrates a maturity in both thinking and making. An intelligent alliance is created between the life of this dynamic town, the stunning landscape and research into ‘in-between’ public spaces. Vsevolod Kondratiev-Popov, Jonathan Walker
Postgraduate
Charles Truman
Course MArch
Studio/unit brief Troubling Matters (Unit 20)
Project title Cephalopod Arcology
Project description This project is a marine research facility situated on the coastline of El Hierro, the most remote island of the Canaries archipelago. The complex is dedicated to providing habitats for cephalopods, serving as a research centre for marine biology and interspecies communication. By using innovative, soft-robotic technology, the Arcology creates a self-contained, self-sustaining, soft-bodied architecture that minimises the human footprint. The environment allows it to adapt form and colour as a communicative interface. Powered by wave-inflation pumps, its networks dilate and contract in a morphodynamic flow.
Tutor citation Charles has provided a manifesto for positioning humanity alongside nature that offers hope for the future and opens possibilities for new learning and construction. He repurposes methodologies from other life forms with existing technologies and so furthers interspecies understanding. Jake Moulson, David Hemingway
