MArch STB: John Owen

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

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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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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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Engineer specialists visit the studio

Friday, March 21, 2014

Tutorials 20th March '14 with Prof John Owen