BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Year 2 BSc Architecture
Stefania Boccaletti, Yota Adilenidou, Carine Berger, Mohataz Hossain & Filomena Russo
Stefania Boccaletti studied, practised, and has taught Architecture in Italy, Canada and England. Throughout her career as a practitioner and academic, she has developed an interest in the impact of digital tools on the design and fabrication process in the field of architecture.
Yota Adilenidou has studied in Greece and USA and holds a PhD from The Bartlett, UCL, and has taught in Greece and UK. Her practice focuses on the research of computational methodologies and digital fabrication for the evolution and activation of matter and form.
Carine Berger is an architect, researcher and educator specialised in environmental design. She bridges academic and professional practice in the UK and Brazil, with particular expertise in sustainable urban farming systems.
Mohataz Hossain is an educator, sustainability expert and researcher in the field of integrated environmental design, technology and energy-efficient architecture, with a special focus on users’ comfort and wellbeing.
Filomena Russo is an educator and doctoral researcher with a MPhil degree in Environmental Design in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She is a registered qualified architect in Brazil and the UK, and has practiced sustainable architecture in the UK and internationally.
YEAR 2: Spatial Poetics and Human Comfort in the Age of Climate Change
Students: Isabelle Abdel Massih, Clara-Marie Brophy, Rohan Card, Rania Dehy, Nandini Dhir, Marta Filippa Eklund, Gloria Entee, Yaqout Jalila Ez-Zaoudi, Claudio Fagnani, Marko Georgiev, Natali Georgieva, Rose Halliwell, Jahsiah Johnson, Parampreet Kaur, Yassin Kazemizadeh, Zaynab Khan, Lily MacAskill, Nouha Manai, Licenia Nagles Gomez, Nikol Nikolaeva, Grace Ogunkolade, Naomi Onochie, Jeydan Rashid-Grant, Azra Samiha Reza, Sana Shafique, Shabiha Shahid, Renata Tabanova, Helena Westphalen Cavicchioli
Based on concepts of transformation and application, second year students developed skills to incorporate both intuitive- and evidence-based tools into their design. An evidence-based approach equipped students with tools to implement environmental design principles on top of which they could playfully develop their design proposals.
Four briefs introduced students to increasingly complex scenarios and provided them with the opportunity to learn new digital and analogue tools for understanding, simulating and representing the urban and environmental context with analytical precision. The data underpinning these exercises constituted the foundation for the development of their design proposals.
In the first brief, students were asked to analyse the historic urban area of The Strand – specifically a row of houses at 152-158, located between Somerset House and King’s College. They were required to communicate both the urban character and key environmental parameters, such as light and shadow, air pollution, wind, temperature patterns and noise pollution. The outcome of Brief 1 was a 3D Skin Space / 2D Mass re-evaluation strategy based on environmental data, which informed the design of a new inhabitable deep skin. This was further developed in Brief 2 through hybrid material strategies using AI and material prototype experiments.
Briefs 3 and 4 examined the climatic challenges that London is about to face through a live project with the University of Westminster’s Centre for Teaching and Education Innovation (CETI), retrofitting unused ground-floor shops in Hoxton’s Alexander Fleming Halls of Residence. The aim was to transform these spaces into a vibrant creative hub to foster collaboration and innovation among students, staff and alumni. Students were tasked to design proposals to address the environmental challenges London will face in 2080, meeting the client’s needs while also regenerating the site environmentally.
Guest Critics: Samuel Calkins, Mirella Dourampei (Zaha Hadid Architects), Zahra Jahangiri, Nikoletta Karastathi (The Bartlett), Nate Kolbe (London Met / Superfusionlab), Shneel Malik (The Bartlett), Sahar Nava (The Bartlett), Thomas Parker (The Bartlett), Annarita Papeschi (The Bartlett), Nadia Ramadan, Edoardo Ripamonti, Rofayda Salem, Graeme Williamson (The Bartlett), Suha Valiyaveettil
Special thanks: Nikoletta Karastathi (The Bartlett), Tabatha Mills
Archive of Architecture and Environmental Design Year 2’s work from previous years:
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2018-2019
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2019-2020
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2020-2021
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2021-2022
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2022-2023
BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Y2 2023-2024
