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YEAR ONE

COMPILATION

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 1 -

Work carried out at Manchester School of Architecture 2015-2016

First year focused on the relationship between music and architecture, our first project stipulated that we design a listening chamber on the Rochdale Canal for a specific song with the proviso that its dimensions don't exceed the span of a human arm. I chose to emulate the echoic nature of a choral cathedral aria in a space no larger than a phone box, the ensuing project was an investigation into amplifying acoustics and maximising echo, the final listening chamber is an ode to Manchester's industrial past by appropriating the form of one of its no longer existent chimneys to create the necessary internal reverberation.

Subsequent projects involved the design of a transient home and artist's studio, through which the relevant themes of anthropometrics and ergonomics were explored. The final project for the year engaged a Manchester based digital platform, Manchester District Music Archive, and we were given the task of designing their new home. The brief was extensive and called for three primary programmes, an archive, a repository and a performance building, I decided to allocate each programme a dedicated building thus profiting from the existing site geometry and invigorating an inert space between each of the buildings, creating a harmonious collective and enhancing the public realm.

YEAR ONE

COMPILATION

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 1 -

Work carried out at Manchester School of Architecture 2015-2016

YEAR ONE

COMPILATION

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 1 -

Work carried out at Manchester School of Architecture 2015-2016

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 1 -

Work carried out at Manchester School of Architecture 2015-2016

YEAR ONE

COMPILATION

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 3 -

Atelier Common Ground

Atelier Leaders:

Stephen Connah

Ronan Connelley

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 3 -

Atelier Common Ground

Atelier Leaders:

Stephen Connah

Ronan Connelley

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 3 -

Atelier Common Ground

Atelier Leaders:

Stephen Connah

Ronan Connelley

BA [hons] ARCHITECTURE

Year 3 -

Atelier Common Ground

Atelier Leaders:

Stephen Connah

Ronan Connelley

CANTEEN AEDICULE

THE URBANISM OF THE POSTWAR CAMPUS

The UMIST Campus is a rare example of a complete postwar campus in a British urban centre. A cohesive cluster of campus buildings designed according to common ‘canons of design’ created in the UMIST Campus a total modernist environment. These urban principles which governed the design of the campus established codes and constraints which reconciled truth to building technology with expression of form; ensuring that the campus would retain a sense of continuity across time and in the hands of different architects.

The White City which rapidly superseded the postindustrial squalor of Manchester’s inner city industrial belt presented a bright vision of modernity, contributing to the city’s title of ‘Shock City’ of the modern age. Tall monumental buildings interspersed amongst low perimeter buildings created a varied skyline and visible symbols of a new Manchester; a technopole of faith in science and technology. At the time of its construction, the campus represented more than the estate of an emerging university, but furthermore a standard bearer for urban renewal in the postwar period. This is a history which today is fated to fade following the departure of the university to a consolidated facility, abandoning the campus to extramural market forces to determine its future.

THE URBANISM OF THE POSTWAR CAMPUS

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Project site

Former university campus

Manchester City Centre

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Project site

Former university campus

Manchester City Centre

CANTEEN AEDICULE

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Fieldwork Report

benjamin-carter
Feb 1, 2022
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Updated: Feb 27, 2022

This document records the urban condition of university colleges and campuses visited between Spring and Winter 2021. It forms the foundation of a wider study into the spatiality of the university campus which examines the relationships between higher education, architecture and urbanism.

1 - Campus Case Studies (see also, posts below)

2 - Site Sketchbooks

3 - Site Photographs

4 - Fieldwork Itinerary

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Spaces of Edification - Fieldwork Document

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