MArch STB: The Team

The Tall Buildings programme started in 2002 with a research and teaching studio headed by Dr Antony Wood. He is now in Chicago as a professor and as head of the CTBUH. The Nottingham team is headed by David Nicholson-Cole course director of the M.Arch in Sustainable Tall Buildings.

We are supported by an excellent team of experts, some of whom come a few times each semester for a tutoring day.

Studio Leaders:
David Nicholson-Cole - still running the course
Dr Philip Oldfield - has departed to Australia Sept 2015

Uni of Nottingham staff helpers:
Dik Jarman
John Edmonds
John Ramsay
Chunxiao Lu
Samantha Worrall
Xianfeng Wu

External experts:
David Leonard (Leonard Design )
Dirk Krolikowski (Rogers Stirk Harbour)
Lukasz Platkowski (Gensler)
Akshay Sethi (Gensler)
Steve Fernandes (Arups)
Prof Joana Gonzales (AA School)
Ivan Jovanovic (BDSP)
Paul Simovic (KPF)
Prof Ken Shuttleworth (Make)
John Prevc (Make)
Jason Seward (Red Fire)
Jason Pomeroy (J Pomeroy Studio)
Prof Antony Wood (Chicago IIT, CTBUH)
Andrew Chapman (Brewster Bye)
Tom Rhys Jones (Jefferson Sheard)
Milind Khade (Zaha Hadid)
Steve Nicholson (Delta Energy)

PhD Student helpers in Uni of Nottm:
Noura Ghabra (PhD on Tall building facades in arid climates)
Yuri Hadi (PhD on Social spaces in tall buildings)

Xianfeng Wu (PhD on Education spaces in tall buildings)

[As time goes on, we will add face-photos and mini biographies to this page.]

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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Model IBJune 22, 2015 at 12:05 PM
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