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About the Faculty of Design and Architecture
Location Bournemouth | Courses BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch | Head of school Jennifer Scott/Ed Frith | Full-time tutors 12 | Part-time tutors 15 | Students 350 | Staff to student ratio 1:10
Undergraduate
Joshua Crooks
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Studio/unit brief N/A
Project title The Future Parliament
Project description Addressing the decline in public trust in politics, this project seeks to reintroduce open communication and exchange of ideas currently missing from the UK’s political system and to reconnect the public with the democratic process. The proposal is for a new kind of parliament building, one that breaks down the barriers between the public and the political elites while decentralising power from Westminster. Situated within a dysfunctional urban road within the centre of Bournemouth, the parliament aims to empower local councils, promote inclusivity and eliminate hierarchies. Politicians will reside within the building in a bid to establish personal connections with their constituents, fostering involvement and dismantling the traditional structures that favour the privileged few.
Tutor citation The student has produced a sensitively targeted brief, and dealt with urban and social issues in a creative and proactive manner that situates environmental discussions and development of solutions right in the centre of communities. Jennifer Scott
Postgraduate
Edan Turner
Course MArch
Studio/unit brief Thesis Design Project
Project title Industrial Imaginings
Project description This project is situated in Manning Heath, a neglected, nondescript extremity of Poole, Dorset, which was once home to the painters Augustus John and John Everett Millais, as well as Romany encampments. Its inhabitants were eventually displaced, John’s house was demolished and the encampments moved to smaller locations. What remains has provided the opportunity for an architecture that embodies this inhabitation of the in-between, a not-quite-solid entity. The project aims to create a richness of experience not extinct on the site but drawn from its rich past, and to entwine these strands into a cogent future potential for the community, serving a projected innovator hub for experimentation and economic opportunities.
Tutor citation Edan has excelled in a very original narrative that draws in a historiography of a site that included industrial estates, gravel extraction, artist Augustus John and traveller communities. The proposal drew from topographical scanning, colour research and an understanding of the social impact of these various factors. Its lightweight ephemeral architecture aims to ground the intervention while still being flexible and changeable through time. Jennifer Scott