Terms starts, students weigh up options

23 Sept 2013: The term has started, and it has been most useful to have the exhibition on show. Above, the first batch of MArch Part2 (Dip Arch) students are checking out the exhibition - they are considering the opportunity for a project in Tianjin, China, that includes a 10 day visit to meet the chinese students taking part in the same project. 

The one year MArch students called round on Monday evening, and asked many questions. Some of these are MArch Technology or Urban design so will not be able to do Tall Buildings, but for the MArch Design students, it is one of 6 choices available to them. The first term will be projects in Rotterdam and Singapore.

Summer Exhibition 2012

Fisheye lens view of most of the 2012 exhibition

June 2012: The Tall Building studio have a 'room of our own' in Paton house of the University, so we can put an exhibition up, and will leave it there until the start of the 2012-2013 session - so that the incoming students can see the work on the wall. This page will take a permanent place as a Tab at the top of this website.

Here is Nirav's poster for the door to the exhibition. Then, starting from the door and moving in clockwise direction, we have some of the best schemes pinned up.

Above: Elephant and Castle: Udayan and Wezha's Migrant tower, and Sian Hodgson's Vertical Farming tower, and then the University triple tower by Deepika and Rishika.

Above: Elephant and Castle: The University triple tower by Deepika and Rishika, and the Flexitower by Nirav, Sayali and Pelin.

Above: Elephant and Castle: The Green Core tower by Veronica and Alejandro

Above: The Singapore rain-catching Roofscraper twin tower by Jue Shi and Pelin

Above: Views of the first semester work, with the Roofscraper (Singapore) by Jue Shi and Pelin, the Sikkas tower (Abu Dhabi) by Mimi and Alejandro, the Oasis tower (AD) by Aaron and Clarissa, the Aviary tower (SP) by Owen, Anh Nguyen and Yiwei Ding, Vertical Villages (SP) by Nirav and Jin Huang, and the Floating Clouds tower (New York) by Jing Huang, Chen Hu and Yu Miao.

Above: Another view of the first semester work, and in the foreground, the Elephant and Castle Healing Tower by Noura, Jing Huang and Rong Xu.

Exhibition preparation

15 June 2012: The external examiner is due on Wednesday, so the Tall Building studio has been converted into an exhibition space. First, we coated all the walls with black cloth. We have used this for many years, as it bring out the bright colours in the presentation, and conceals the wide variety of pinning surfaces underneath. The Studio has a many decorative plaster features on the wall, and a miscellaneous patchwork of fibreboard pinning panels between the features.

Here are Nirav, Rishika, Deepika and Pelin helping to put up the black cloth.

 Pelin Gurkan pinning up her Singapore RoofScraper project from first semester.

Nirav and Soni (Jue Shi) preparing some title sheets and the poster for the exhibition.

Antony Wood visits exhibition

Antony, DNC, Ankur, Phil, Suruchi

19 July 2011: Antony Wood, who was the member of staff here who created the Tall Buildings design studio, visited the University to be awarded his PhD in Architecture. He has earned this through a distinguished record of publication and service to architecture at the CTBUH. He spent part of the morning with us, viewing the exhibition and finding out how we had run the course this year - 12 months ago he visited us to award our course at Nottingham the first official professional accreditation as a center of Tall Building teaching.
   He met two of our current STB students, Ankur and Suruchi Modi (who won the prizes in London March 2011 and Prague May 2011).
   Antony is on a short trip to England with his entire family, and will be returning to Chicago soon. Immediately after this meeting, we had to take down the exhibition (sadly), but we have kept all the drawings and models in case there's another chance for a show of the work. Phil took off for the airport to spend a couple of weeks at the Venice Tall Buildings Summer School.

AJ Footprint covers our exhibition

http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2011/06/21/nottingham-degree-show/
21 June 2011: The Architects' Journal Footprint page (Hattie Hatman's sustainability blog) is focused on the University of Nottingham end of year show. The are not only covering the Tall Buildings (although that was perhaps the original reason for coming up), so Laura who wrote the article and took the photos has done her best to take it all in. With 1,000 students there is so much to see, and the work of the final years, 3rd and 6th, is of course all displayed for the examiners, its all on show, not curated.
   The work of the 1st, 2nd, 5th yrs and Masters are highly selective so they are easier for the visitor to take in. We in the Tall Buildings unit have done our best to provide examples of sustainable design (the only designs in the entire school to be validated by PHPP), and other units focus on sustainable design. But Laura was disappointed that some of this commitment still did not show in the majority of schemes in other units or years.
   As far as I can see you can subscribe to Hattie's blog without having to be an AK subscriber, so please sign up!

Three of our Persian students, Arash, Soha and Fahimeh discussing the exhibits in our exhibition.

June 2009 Exhibition

June 2009: Our Exhibition in the SBE. We had a great location in the Studio building and were able to put up almost all the schemes.

(In this view, the scheme on the wall is the Trinity Arts Tower).