Studio 2 Diploma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2021-2022

The proposal “The Nature of things: Fragments in a Landscape” responds to an initial brief of generating ‘living structures’ from simple and repetitive material and structural assemblies or architectonic fragments. Visiting the site of New Lanark, the author of the proposal started to take the measure of the terrain by making simple interventions in the landscape, exploring the strategies of conceptual and land art to develop a speculative methodology of design by research. A deep understanding of place, atmosphere and the history of New Lanark as built artefacts in the valley landscape was explored in a series of photographic studies and paintings.

As the proposal developed to reimagine the past, present and future of the site and its utopian beginnings as a model community, a series of interventions were placed on the site. An exhibition and event hall, an artist’s residence, a new bridge and landscape interventions along the paths around the valley and site all express a negotiation of fragment and place. A sheltered lookout bench in the forest is an assemblage of masonry, timber, steel and terracotta, the movement of water over the building components and down into the river below a reminder of its eventual ruin.

Studio 2 Diploma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2020-2021

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Studio 2 Diloma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2020-2021

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Studio 2 Diploma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2020-2021

In the transformation of the Great Northern Warehouse in Manchester and reflecting on the state of UK politics, the project proposes a devolved English Parliament and other civic and cultural programmes. The project is careful when possible and bold when necessary, proposing structural alterations to a few large civic spaces for assembly and gathering and an infrastructure of stairs, lifts and other tecnical and welfare services. The new assembly hall is carried by two new timber belfast trusses to support the existing roof by selectively removing elements of the existing tighter grid of beams, vaults and columns.

Studio 2 Diloma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2020-2021

“What effect does designing across scales have on architecture? And how are the different scales related to each other? The project built on a detailed research of Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeia proposing strategies for making new buildings and transforming existing buildings on a partly disused industrial site in Nottingham. Kate’s project was selected for a public exhibition in Nottingham @uon_architecture_part2.

Studio 2 Diloma Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2021-2022

In his Diploma Thesis Project, Max Hargrave explored ideas of Coherence & Contradiction studying European City Structures in Milan, Barcelona, Paris, Edinburg and other cities. His response to the research was a robust cross wall tenament system, which he later tested with numerous contradictions and possible future unforseseen alterations on an empty post industrial site in Edinburg.