Design Studio (Two) Six BA Architecture
Jisoo Hwang & Sho Ito
Jisoo Hwang is a registered architect who has worked for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Hopkins Architects and Barbara Weiss Architect. She is currently developing individual projects, delivering schemes that span the commercial and residential sectors. Jisoo is a First Year and Second Year Studio Master at the University of Westminster and a MArch Technical Studies tutor at the Architectural Association.
Sho Ito is a registered Architect and the founder of Studio-ITO, working on small residential projects. Sho graduated from the Architectural Association and has worked for RSH+P, DRMM and AHMM across the commercial and residential sectors. He is a First Year Studio Master and a MArch Technical Studies tutor at the Architectural Association, and has previously taught at the University of Cambridge.
DS(2)6: Emerging Forms Of Living
Students: Omer Erginoglu, Iris Fani, Flavia-Ioana Furnica, Nikita Gadzhilaev, Fiona Gyamfi, Deni Haxhosaj, Angela Helm, Maliha Ibrahim, Maria Kausar, Effie King, Sofia Kulinkina, Khadijah Kaneez Latif, Destiny Layokun, Arkel Margjeka, Helene Oppegaard, Volodymyr Shvets
In an era marked by rapid social, environmental and technological transformations, architecture must respond to shifting paradigms of how we live, work and interact. As urbanisation accelerates and global challenges such as climate change and housing shortages intensify, conventional living models are increasingly under scrutiny. Emerging lifestyles – driven by factors like shared economies, remote work, aging populations, and rising ecological awareness – call for imaginative reaction, and radical provocative solutions are vital. Architecture can respond by fostering resilience, community and sustainability while embracing new technologies and social structures.
Cities have always been places of conflict and contest. These conflicts are well studied in their most extreme manifestations across whole cities or states. However, on a smaller scale, there are the mundane and every day conflicts that can be seen at every block, street and corner down the road which have competing pressures for land, resources, identity and ownership.
These contested territories, boundaries and intersections are set against the ongoing erosion of thoughtful spaces. We challenged the students to question if it’s possible for somewhere in today’s cities to not only be the site of interactions between people, but also accommodate their differences and conflicts.
Our studio strongly emphasises ‘design’ in response to provocation. We use drawing, making and thoughtful hypothesis of concepts to incubate and develop personal agendas. We seek to address how communities, identities and characteristics are ever more fragmented and divided due to social-political agendas which generate unprecedented friction within the city. As a studio, we have questioned and challenged traditional notions through typological interventions and insertions that bravely, yet naïvely at times, dispute conventional solutions and shift the pre-existing paradigm. We encourage students to confront contentious issues and re-construct unorthodox readings to propose an ‘alternative’.
Archive of DS2.6’s work from previous years:
