Sunday 19 December 2010

Floral Tectonics Pavilion of Eastern Herbs



Floral Tectonics Pavilion of Eastern Herbs
Design team: Amy Shun Ting Wong, Chiok-Junn Li, Sarish Younis

This pavilion was inspired by Marco Polo's fascination with crane birds and the curing powers of herbal medicine on his discovery in China. The form is inspired from the beautifully, lightweight curvature of a crane birds wings, sweeping over people's heads and souring high into the sky. The program held within the pavillion is the celebration of the preventive cures of chinese herbal medicine.




Wednesday 20 October 2010

RIBA President’s Bronze Medal Nomination / best design portfolio at Oxford Brookes University / Mike Bell 3rd year










RIBA President’s Bronze Medal Nomination
Michael Bell (Unit E, Oxford Brookes University), The fantasy world of Montparnasse – Celebration of hybridized garden and office, 2009-2010


This project explores the symbiotic relationships of gardens and offices through the narrative of a mysterious exploration into the filmic spaces as experienced by a girl named Ophelia (inspired by the main character in Pan’s Labyrinth). Sited in the brutalistic Montparnasse Office Tower in Paris (commonly known as one of the ugliest office tower in Europe), Ophelia explores a hidden fantasy world of living willow trees concealed within the void spaces of the office tower. Ophelia’s exploration is driven by the prophecies from her dreams that foretold fragments of curious spaces depicting a world inhabited with spirited trees and wonderful architectural forms. She was lead on into a mystical journey to eventually discovering portals and entry points hidden within the office interior that allowed her to mediate into the fantasy world.

Digital Flora: Urban Agriculture Bridge / Viral Shah 3rd year






Digital Flora: Urban Agriculture Bridge / Viral Shah 3rd year
The project addresses  a contemporary interpretation of the ‘Inhabitable Bridge’. Providing spaces for urban agricultural growth, public and retail food market, organic food restaurant and cafe, viewing platforms, and most significantly, staggered docks for floating restaurants, below the structure, that will take people along the River Seine to see the sights of Paris.

Unit E PUBLICATION 2010



http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/media/Yearbook2010.pdf

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Leslie Jones Memorial Prize (RIBA) 2010 / Michelle Evans 3rd year







Leslie Jones Memorial Prize (RIBA) 2010 
Michelle Evans (Unit E, Oxford Brookes University), The ritualistic veins of a winery – Celebration of wine tasting, 2009-2010


The project attempts to investigate cross programming the wine making process with the visitor routes, a winery allows visitors to celebrate and indulge in the art of winemaking through all the different stages. The ritualistic circulation system blurs the boundaries between public and private, ascend and descend, external and internal, sin and sacrament. The roof is integrated with transparent pipes (the veins of the architectural body), servicing and pumping crushed grape juice from the core (interception heart) to various levels of the topographical building. The building makes use of the natural slope of the landscape through a gravity flow system within the winery to minimise energy use and the need for hydraulic systems.

Camille and Enri / The Digital Garden of Sins / James C J Simcock






Berman Guedes Stretton Architects Prize 2010 / For creative originality in Design / Anna Bear 2nd Year





Berman Guedes Stretton Architects Prize 2010 
For creative originality in Design
Anna Beer (Unit E, Oxford Brookes University), Pinnacle moment– Celebration of garden
The water garden attempts to experiment a spatial boundary between land and water. The organic symmetrical form commemorates the 8m water rise in the 1910 Paris floods. A meteorological research laboratory not only celebrates Paris’ rich academic history, but also regulates and displays the weather conditions, and warns of severe climatic changes.



Unit E in BLUEPRINT






Edmund's project from Unit E  was choosen as one of the best student projects in Britain by Blueprint magazine.

'An inhabitable bridge for performing arts. Seeking to blur the boundary between artist and voyeur anyone using the bridge was to become a part of its exhibition, the performance itself. Taking its cue from a brief of semi-living architecture the bridge became a series of separate organisms each in constant flux between introversion and extroversion imitating the life of plants, slowly gathering energy so as to present themselves to the world. ‘Organism’ has become one of the architectural trends recently. Among those looking at similar approach to organism, this semi-living architecture proposal suggests a new definition of ‘organic architecture. Mami Sayo'




Link: Blueprint

Fluid Dynamic Particle Fields: Dandelion Wishing Platform