Future societies is taking shape
used his ideas to create furniture and a circular bridge.
“The project focused a lot of working on a range of scales, from a bridge to plant pot,” said Callum.
“It gives me a level of control over every aspect of the building, not just the architecture itself but the products that are in the building and the surrounding environments.”
Tackling gentrification was part of Bahram Yaradanguliyev’s brief. He took a Grade II-listed building in Elephant and Castle, London, and included an extension which includes a theatre.
“The area has been regenerated,” said Bahram. “But that often means community spaces disappear. My extension houses a theatre and there’s library in another part of the building because these are some of facilities local people said are now missing.”
Also on show is master’s student Adel Kameshki’s plan for a grand gurdwara – a Sikh temple – near Loch Tay in Scotland, responding to cultural dialogues between Eastern and Western cultures.
Sophie Baldwin challenged processes of gentrification and housing renewal through a series of plaster casts animated with digital projection.
The students’ work is informed by leading architecture and planning research conducted by the school’s staff. The school aims – by translating research into practice – to equip students not just for their first day in work but to lead the professions they’ll retire from.
Prof Adam Sharr, head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, said: “Every year I’m impressed by the quality of the work our students produce. The range of invention, informed by research, is remarkable, and the talent and ambition on show is fantastic to see.”
The Architecture Degree Show is open to the public from 10am to 4pm until July 6 at Newcastle University’s architecture building.