MArch STB: December 2015

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Graduation December 2015

Pro Vice Chancellor Karen Cox opens graduation in the Conference Centre (because the Sports Centre is being rebuilt)


Ren (Trong), Robin, Sifan, DNC, Teng, Eric	DNC with Teng Li, CTBUH winner


Sifan Guo with DNC	Nhan Le Trong with DNC

Huzaifa Chawhala with his family

STB Graduates, Teng Li, Sifan Guo, Xuan Luo, Preetika Verma, Nhan Le Trong, with DNC

DNC and Xuan Luo

Eric, Robin, DNC and Jackie


DNC and Xuan Luo

Friday, December 11, 2015

10 December end of term review

10 December 2015: The last Thursday of term, and an end of term review. Huzaifa Chawala, one of our graduates from 2015 is visiting as a reviewer. Akshay Sethi is visiting us from Gensler.

Huzaifa and Akshay meet Marionne and Laxman for their Hong Kong project.

Friday, December 4, 2015

Milind from Zaha's and Steve from Arups

3 December 2015: We had a visit from two specialist, Steve Fernandes, structural engineer from Arups, and Milind Khade, one of our alumni and now a senior architect at Zaha Hadid Architects. We also had Noura Ghabra and Xianfeng Wu tutoring. Steve started the day with a lecture on structure, and at the end of the day, Milind did a lecture on his work with Zaha Hadid.

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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