MArch STB: May 2016

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Final review of the semester

19 May 2016: final pin up and review of the sustainable tall building studio semester. Reviewers David N-C, Samantha, Noura, Tom Rhys Jones, Ivan Jovanovic. The atmosphere is one of celebration, a good task completed.

LYX: Longqi, Yifan, Xinyu

ZOG: Zazi, Ongky, Ghulam

ZOG with the reviewers

ShLu: Shixuan and Yuan Liu

AASK: Artika and Sara

REM: Rhea, Marionne

All India: Parth, Vivek, Laxman, Sumit

OMY : Ovi and Mei

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

One day before the review, finalising the drawings

18 May 2016: We all hope the printing machines will work in time for tomorrow!! Drawings done, models done… now work all night... but get a bit of sleep before the morning.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Engineer specialists visit the studio

5 May 2016: Services engineer Steve Nicholson visited in the morning, and structural engineer Professor John Owen visited in the afternoon. Stand by for some quickfire consultancy, 20 minutes per group.

Noura and Samantha with LAX group

Steve with AASK group

Steve with LYX group

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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