Metamorph | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024jess.georgelin.20@ucl.ac.uk The Centre for Lepidoptera research sits on the Turo de la Rovira hill overlooking Barcelona. A feedback system was developed as a way of rethinking rapid prototyping tools, where the final outcome was a product of the tool’s process, rather than a fixed outcome. The maker-object system involves objects that are both observers and observed, such as the interpreting apparatus that allows
Untitled Monuments | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024wentong.feng.21@ucl.ac.uk Nestled within the historical site of Barcelona’s 1888 World Exposition, ‘Untitled Monuments’ is a cultural center dedicated to film conservation and restoration. It uses a unique methodology where film acts as a generative script, determining the survival of image pixel points based on specific parameters. The site, Palacio de les Belles Arts, though demolished, remains significant to Barcelona’s cultural heritage
Scaling Skalisma | Athens, Greece| Unit 21 | 2019 Click to see Design Realisation Situated in modern Athens, the building is a cross-programming of a public bathhouse and a community theatre, and I explored the use of natural stone processes of carving (skalisma) and finishes at different scales within the project. Both programs date back to Ancient Greek architecture that had striven to bring society together, while using marble and other
A Vegetarian Restaurant for Turin | Turin, Italy | Unit 21 | 2018 Click to see Design Realisation Click image to zoom–> The current mayor of Turin has plans to make it the world’s first ‘vegetarian’ city: as part of its five-year plan are initiatives such as educational projects and the introduction of a weekly meat-free day. This proposal is an architecture to promote and further this scheme. The
HUSET på SÖDER | Stockholm, Sweden | Unit 21 | 2017 Click to see Thesis Huset på Söder is a town hall that aims to represent, give voice and encourage political participation of the younger population of Stockholm. The project is influenced by the socio-political differences between the more traditional, mature and conservative Kungsholmen and the younger, outgoing and liberal Södermalm (often shortened to “Söder”). The proposal aims to create
FRANK’S HOUSE | Stockholm, Sweden | Unit 21 | 2017 Click to see Design Realisation I am interested in the dialogue that exists between the crafts of freehand drawing and digital fabrication. Freehand drawing and digital fabrication inform one another and as skills are acquired in digital manufacturing, instinct is altered in freehand drawing. The symbiosis of these processes results in a physical form that is true to
ACHIVING THE ANTHROPOCENE | Stockholm, Sweden | Unit 21 | 2017 Awarded Distinction for Design & Distinction for Thesis Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th Year work ‘The Anthropocene’ has been proposed to describe the current geological age we are within. Humankind has mindlessly archived contemporary behaviours, manifesting within the Earth’s geology itself. On the field trip to Stockholm, this relationship between humankind and
MARSEILLE MUSIC AND CULTURAL CENTRE | Marseille, France | Unit 21 | 2016 Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th Year work Marseille is characterised by its transiency and cultural diversity seen in its importing and exporting activities that take place in the coast and expand in the mainland. The concept behind the proposed scheme for Marseille has been developed through the experience of the city as a
UN IMMEUBLE MEUBLE / A MOVABLE IMMOVABLE | Marseille, France | Unit 21 | 2016 Awarded Distinction for Design & Distinction for Thesis Awarded The Bartlett School of Architecture Medal Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th Year work Approaches to conservation: Mutable values, fixed regulations The 1964 Venice Charter extended the previous notion of the “historical monument” to include “not only great works of art but also to more modest works of the
UUSI KALLIO COMMON + URBAN QUARRY | Helsinki, Finland | Unit 21 | 2015 Awarded Distinction for Design & Distinction for Thesis Awarded The Bartlett Medal Click to see Thesis Click to see 4th Year work Uusi Kallio Common + Urban Quarry The proposal for Uusi Kallio Common + Urban Granite Quarry, Helsinki was inspired by initial research into the unique geological and cartograpic composition of Finland. Finland,