BARBICAN

We will produce small, highly resolved architectural projects responding to the continuing themes of Studio 2. We will engage particularly with the experiential and phenomenological implications of an architecture of both ‘individual’ and ‘community’ and will take inspiration from the work of selected film makers, artists and writers.
Each student will form the functional and emotional brief for the architecture of a small museum building of unique typology, inspired by a chosen ‘curator’ and addressing the value placed on everyday objects and spaces in contemporary life and their role in shaping the human condition within the context of an imagined urban location at the Barbican Estate in London.
Maia Guppy-Hall
Christina Chen
Simeon Chua
Michaela Prunotto
Hao Yu Chen
Felix Garner Davis
Nina Holden
Daniel Ji
Saran Kim
David Liu
Carla Mileo
Sheng Wen Qin
Tang Wen Xuan
Fan Zhang
Ben Kronenberg
John Gatip
Jeremy Bonwick
Lucy Jenkins

London, my London.
Shared in your name and lived under your spell
Lost in the flickering flame of a dream that took us there
New beginnings on sites of devastation

Brutal beginnings. of hands – held pitted and weary
When in cabinets their stories are told
whispers heard through the aural shelter
Earning respect, no matter skin or language

The Barbican saw our lives performed
at once impromptu and mundane
Secrets shared through visions of terrains exposed and re-framed
London fragments of a ruin again. yet eternally modern.

Now, in lo-fi gardens we find ourselves
With all our monsters conserved. dirty and beautiful
Forever surrounded by disturbances - minor but lucid
So our solace, for now, is contained – in four-squares

In the chapel of our Barbican forever
Regina embodied looms above us, in pearls + sadness
Barbican, we wont forget but now our journey continues
Meet us at the airport. A Modern Babylon is beckoning.