MArch STB: March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Paul Simovic (KPF) visits Tall Building Studio 27.3.14

27 March 2014: We were honoured to have Paul Simovic from KPF join us for the day. Paul was the team leader for Heron Tower in Bishopsgate, London. This Shell site of ours is also one that KPF are involved with, although the primary master plan is by Squire. We started the day with a Show and Tell, followed by double 40 minute tutorials with each group. We also had Phil, Michael Photiou and Noura with us for the day.

Jay and Biying Show and Tell


Wanzhuo Show and Tell	Kachi Show and Tell

Fan and Yue in the Show and Tell

Suvir of Apogee Show and Tell

Tutorial with Harsh and Khushboo

Fan group tutorial

Jay group tutorial


Jay group tutorial	Kachi Santosh group tutorial

Sonal & Maryam tutorial

JJ group tutorial

Apogee group tutorial

All the tutorials ran nearly to time, everybody got plenty of feedback, and we got Paul safely back to Beeston station!

Friday, March 21, 2014

Tutorials 20th March '14 with Prof John Owen

20th March 2014: Sean Lu started the day with a lecture on Tall Building structure. We had a visit from Prof John Owen from Civil Engineering in the afternoon for the tutorials.

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Show and Tell

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Ning shows the ZEN group project	Fan shows the Fan group project

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During the afternoon, Prof John Owen joined us from Civi Engineering

Tutorials

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Tutorials with Ivan 13th March 2014

13 March 2014: We had a visit from Ivan Jovanovic of Chapman BDSP, who tutored all the schemes, and delivered a lecture during the lunch hour.

Jay's group kick off the Show and Tell in the morning


Phil comments on Jay's group design	Ivan has a closer look at Jay's group design

Ivan has a closer look at Jay group's design	Phil and Noura study the design of JJ, Sanjiv, Hitesh

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Zen explain	Ivan questions Zen

Zen's master plan model	Harsh+Khushboo master plan model

oooo	At the middle of the day, Ivan delivered his regular lecture on Environmental Strategies

Ivan, on Environmental Strategies. I reckon the guys have got the message now.

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Introduction

The Masters course in Sustainable Tall Buildings: (STB) introduces tall buildings as a strategy for urban sustainability and densification for the 21st C. It explores advanced concepts of urban and social living, smart structures and systems, vertical landscaping, construction, and bioclimatic design for super-tall skyscrapers.

The course is the first of its kind, and runs at the University of Nottingham, England, and is accredited by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The Faculty of Engineering decided to merge it with the all purpose MArch Design unfortunately (in 2015), but the taught modules continue.

In 2011, we took part in the Isover international student competition for the vertical Passivhaus skyscraper, New York, with three teams in the finals. In 2012, we had 2 groups of students as semi-finalists in the international CTBUH competition, one of which came 4th.

In the year 2013-2014, we were designing towers in Tianjin, Rotterdam, Singapore and London. Two of our designs won first and second prize in 2014, and we won first prize in 2015, with many teams in the semifinals.

In the years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, we are designing 'Pocket Towers' in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, in first semester, and High rise clusters in London in the second semester.

This blog is about the whole Tall Building design studio, not only the STB course.

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[Note for New Applicants: The course has now been merged with MArch Design. So you cannot enter as MArch STB, but if you complete all the credits required for the degree of MArch STB, you can graduate with STB degree.)

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