Interior Architecture - Year 1

Tutors

Liz Ellston

l.ellston@westminster.ac.uk

Liz Ellston is BAIA Yr 1 Lead, architect, lecturer, arb examiner and environmental communicator, with a fascination for psychology of architecture and the interior. Her experience from over 25 years in design and other disciplines feeds back into her pedagogy, encouraging various ways of learning and approaches.

Inan Gokcek

i.gokcek@westminster.ac.uk

Inan Gokcek is an interior designer and architectural designer running Studio Anares in Hackney. Whilst he works on various types of projects from architecture to interior design, Inan is also a collector of cultural artefacts which he upcycles and uses in his projects.

Jo Hagan

j.hagan@westminster.ac.uk

Jo Hagan is an architect and principal of USE Architecture – a design studio driven by the fine line between pragmatism and pretension. He has taught in most of the major London schools over the past 30 years and supplants this with a passionate engagement with contemporary culture.

Jo Meehan

j.meehan@westminster.ac.uk

Jo Meehan is a part-time visiting lecturer and RIBA architect. Interested in the interface of domestic and civic space, she works on large-scale public housing retrofit projects and small-scale sustainable interventions. She is an associate of MAS_architecture studio and co-founder of Audible OKR.

Sylwia Poltorak

s.poltorak@westminster.ac.uk

Sylwia Janka Poltorak is a set and installation designer. She graduated from The Bartlett School of Architecture with the Archigram Award for cheerfulness in design. Cheerfulness, vitality and longevity drive her practice and as ‘Lobster Architect’ she investigates atypical design methods that sustain well-being. She cofounded studio CUNST in 2023.

Henning Stummel

h.stummel@westminster.ac.uk

Henning is a practicing architect with extensive and international teaching experience. His work explores innovative and sustainable solutions, whilst also seeking tranquillity and poetry. Projects have been internationally recognised with awards and publications.

Anastasia Tsamitrou

a.tsamitrou4@westminster.ac.uk

Anastasia is a part-time visiting lecturer in Architecture & Interior Architecture, archaeologist and architectural designer at Pilbrow & Partners working mainly in high-end residential projects. She also teaches Material Studies emphasising biomaterials and sustainability where she focuses her research.

Guest Critics

Catherine Byrne
Sue Phillips

Acknowledgements

Fabrication Lab: David Scott, Giada Gonzalez, Erika Boguckaite and Krista Zvirgzda-Zvirgzdina

Thanks

Peer-Assisted Learning Assistants: Nylda Hamchaoui, Qubbie Hai Yuan and Saima Rouf YN Studio – Alex Smith and the Bradbury Works team, Makerversity – Louisa Clark and Team, Mûll Club – Charlotte Rudkin-Wilson

IN FIRST YEAR students are introduced to underlying concepts and principles associated with the discipline and learn fundamental processes, skills and techniques relevant to conceive, develop, resolve and communicate spatial design proposals. Students are set a range of assignments and short projects, such as: personal collage and timelines; constructs to investigate qualities of light and drawing conventions; group precedent study to understand intent and architectural representation, measuring and surveying of people and spaces. Challenged to address the subject of Balance, in terms of student wellbeing, firstly by surveying their space - Regent Street campus - and then design a transformable piece of Unitecture for students to inhabit and use as a stand alone spatial environment, within selected area on campus. In the second semester, students individually reordered the interiors of Bradbury Works, Dalston, for a specified Maker with a critically relevant programme of specialised repair, repurposing, modification and upcycling of ‘stuff, waste, existing buildings and lifestyles’. Inspired by their visit to the Museum of the Home, the environs and community of Dalston, burdened by consumer waste, but strong community potential, fuelled students’ site and context investigations. While developing an understanding of re-making and reuse practices, circular design, they iteratively investigated materials and techniques to create spaces that engaged with the community and reuse

Interior Architecture - Year 1

Avleen Hunjan

Laiba Gohar

Viktorija Minseviciute

Anna Samoenko

Olivia Stylianou

Angelina Constantinides

Hyejeong Hwang

Kathrine Giacomini

Liliya Chylikina

Carla Canestro

Lily Thompson

Ann-Sophie Frosch

Isabella Pacelli

Grace Fallows