First year students had another successful year, and their enthusiasm for architecture continues to inspire their tutors and fellow students. Semester One was spent thinking about the future of food through the lenses of the climate crisis, a growing population, and increasing social isolation. A series of workshops, designed to build skills and interrogate the themes of the semester, guided and inspired students to engage in four short briefs.

Students moved from drawing the rituals of mealtime at 1:1 through to their own food memories in model form, and on to an in-depth study of vernacular living spaces from around the world. They then proposed a food future to investigate and constructed full-scale fragments for a feast event in Ambika P3 to finish the semester on a high.

The Semester Two briefs were all based in Brick Lane, a rapidly changing, culturally rich area of London. Students designed live-work spaces in response to various themes including care, bricolage, ecological restoration, and the tradition of craft and making. The projects on the following pages detail some of the students’ responses, which are a testament to their commitment to designing innovative site-specific architecture.

Tutors
Conor Sheehan, Gabriele Pauryte, Richard Watson, Jaqlin Lyon, Jenny Kingston, Jerome Wren, Rim Kalsoum, Florian Brillet, Matei Mitrarche, Richa Mukhia, Paol Kemp, Natalie Newey, Neil Kiernan, Jisoo Hwang, Paolo Cascone, Rofayda Salem, Paresh Parmar, Carine Woiezechoski, Alison Gwynne, Bongani Muchemwa