Year 1 Studio - Integrated Sustainable Neighbourhood
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Roudaina Alkhani
r.alkhani@westminster.ac.ukDr. Roudaina Alkhani, FHEA is the Co-Course Leader of the BA Designing Cities and Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design teaching BA and MA modules. She is the Founding Director of the practice Platforms for sustainable cities and regions with many years of experience in Europe and the Middle East. Educated architect and planner, Roudaina has a strong interest in multidisciplinary approaches bringing together sustainability aims, planning, architecture, urban design, strategic approaches, and design thinking to create opportunities and better places. Affiliate of UN-Habitat's Planners for Climate Action and a chartered Architect MAA of the Danish Association of Architects.
Read More...Mireille Tchapi
m.tchapi@westminster.ac.ukDr. Mireille Tchapi (Ph.D. urban design, MArch, MA-social science) is a licensed architect (Paris) and doctor in urbanism (University of Tokyo). She joined the University of Westminster to work on the research project - "London creative communities toward sustainability". With an interdisciplinary spirit, her research interests and areas of competence cover urban design, sustainable urbanism and environmental transition, public space, urban identity & memory, urban ecology, landscape, perception, environmental psychology, wellbeing, urban morphogenesis, participative design & grassroots, and Asian studies (Pacific Asia context, Japan, Singapore).
Read More...Riccardo Fregoni
r.fregoni1@westminster.ac.ukArchitect ARB, Riccardo Fregoni is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster and an Architect at Broadway Malyan working on major cultural, education, residential and mixed-use schemes as well as large-scale master plans projects. Riccardo has expertise in project conception, design development, optimization, and construction stages having diverse professional experience across the UK, Japan, Italy, and the middle east. He is particularly interested in sustainability and environmental design.
Read More...Nouha hansen
n.hansen@westminster.ac.ukArchitect ARB, RIBA Nouha Hansen is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster and an architect at Allies and Morrison Architects working on large-scale masterplans and landscape design projects in the UK and the Middle East. Nouha graduated from the University of Westminster with First Class Honours and Distinction. She has a special interest in the cross-overs of architecture, landscapes, and the arts and how these reveal unusual and joyful interpretations for understanding and shaping spaces and their uses. Nouha has a sensitive approach to design and an interest in the well-being and happiness of people and the environment. She uses design as a creative strategy to influence spatial experiences and life quality.
Read More...More Canal - Reinforcing the Ecological and Urban Potentials of the Regent’s Canal at Broadway Market. We design sustainable and integrated neighbourhoods benefitting from London as our City Lab. Under the title More Canal, we focused on the Regent’s Canal at Broadway Market between Hackney and Tower Hamlet. The work explored the ecological and health potential of the Canal in North London, and unpacked the canal and waterways that have historically shaped the city’s spatial structure, and its ecology, economy, and society. The students worked in groups to assess the qualities, specific potentials and needs of the area using site-appraisal and urban mapping methods and engaging with city debate and policies. They developed creative sustainable urban strategies using the canal’s multiple opportunities as a spine for ecological, social and economic revival and for stitching the neighbourhoods together around the canal. Meanwhile the students explored the unique architectural, urban and ecological experience and the industrial typologies. The students then developed individual architectural and urban design propositions based on sustainability principles with varied themes: Readapting the gasholders site, re-wilding and hanging farms, reuse of underused spaces, pocket parks, and green links, community hubs, recycling stations, and many more. A series of key lectures, site visits and skills workshops helped the students develop and communicate their projects.
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