I am thrilled that the work developed with my students from the Architectural Design Studio, BA (Hons) Architecture and Design at the University of Portsmouth, has been featured in an article by the renowned online architecture and design magazine, Dezeen.
Fifteen architecture and design projects by students at University of Portsmouth
The Portsmouth School of Architecture embraces the importance of integrated and research-informed design, emphasising interdisciplinary collaboration.
The school encourages exploration of the relationships between architecture, interior design, engineering, conservation, landscape and urban design and across the creative disciplines – this approach enables students to develop comprehensive solutions that address complex challenges, integrating diverse perspectives and expertise.
By encouraging a wide range of design approaches, the school fosters a holistic view on social, cultural and environmental sustainability – students are empowered to develop impactful designs that are responsive to the context and environment, actively engaging with the values and aspirations of communities while embodying a critical design ethos.
The BA (Hons) Architecture course merges theory and practice to interrogate various ecologies such as environment, culture, economy, political and aesthetic – students gain expertise in design, construction, sustainability and history and theory, engaging in practical projects and acquiring industry experience.
The BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design course explores how interior architecture can enable attitudes of care for people, buildings, communities and the environment.
‘Thinking through making’ underpins the course through projects concerned with the environment, materiality and adaptive reuse.
Project: Isthmus
Tutors: Leago Madumo and Gregory Martinez de Riquelme
Student: Daniel Febvre
Based within Gosport, the overarching brief within this project is ‘coastal resilience’.
With a rich heritage and relation to war, Gosport is still fighting, economically and socially – and with five military bases, it has little access for public use whilst exponentially growing as a colourless, sub-urbanised and inaccessible town, making out-commuters more prevalent.
This project aims to tackle issues revolving around housing; design must spill into the urban periphery, integrating a vivid urban network and creating interdependent communities.
Catering for the diversity of urban growth, while actively solving issues surrounding health, transport and coastal resilience and bringing life back into Gosport and Fareham’s regions through subjective pigmentation.
