A preliminary image of the interior proposed for the new Benetton shop in Tehran. we enjoyed the literal, obvious and yet playful games that could be acheived using colour as a central focus, with additional layers and spaces between layers re-interpreted in an attempt to organise public spaces within, below and through the building making it not just a recognisable entity in the city but also usable urban space(s) outwith commercial hours.

Team:

Ulysses Sengupta

Deljana Iossifova

Laszlo Fecske (BAND) ( http://www.b-a-n-d.net/ )

Experiments in transparency and translucency, using layers of the facade to merge with and hint at the functions and movements within the building. This is an ongoing interest for the practice with the subtleties of exterior and interior relationships being explored in ways that are about both ambiguity and connection. With the ongoing interest in facade manipulation in Architecture, we believe that the envelope continues to be about both mediation and communication, with the decorative possibilities acheived as a result of these explorations.

Built Project:

New low energy slab cooled reception and registry buildings (clashing into and in symbiotic relationship with the back of an existing 60’s courtyard block originally designed for this purpose) designed and completed for the University of Kent at Canterbury while Ulysses Sengupta was Project Architect at Cornish Architects in London.  

Please use the link below to contact Cornish Architects directly:

www.cornisharchitects.com

An exceptional piece of work by Robert Buehler as part of his final undergraduate year at The University of Nottingham, Department of Architecture & Built Environment. (B.Arch)

The project involved the merging of virtual (animated), real (filmed) and found (film) material to explore ideas of cities as territories in constant change. It was the beginning of our explorations into emergent systems, parametric urban design and the relationship between identity, memory & urban patterns.

Student: Robert Buehler

Studio Leader: Ulysses Sengupta

More Detail: www.designunit6.com

All credit to SASI Group at The University of Sheffield for this clever take on cartography. This particular collection was shown as a presentation by Professor Danny Dorling called 「Changing perspectives: mapping global injustice by changing the view?」 at the ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’ Exhibition (British Library)

www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/

sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations/changingperspectives/

www.viewsoftheworld.net/

www.worldmapper.org/

A series of investigations by Eric Cheung in Jingdezhen, China

This is a quick early fly through of a project we are involved in (China ). The video was not meant to be of a completed design, but rather an attitude that we brought to the project in the early stages.

Our accepted proposal based on this quick visualisation reflected the main spatial/architectural principles involved:
1) An actual ecological area at the heart of the agricultural/scientific scheme
2) Public access to the new amenity created (a public park)
3) Working with the topography and studied water paths and collection
4) Incorporating/enjoying the abstract patterns created by human intervention in the form of agricultural landscapes
5) Shifting perceptual possibilities through seasonal variance

Produced in co-operation with: Marc Sawan
www.eye-kon.com