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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

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Andy Chapman visits the studio

10 March 2016: Andy Chapman, one of DNC's best alumni from 2008, now living and working in Leeds, visited the studio for a day. His design for a tower in Canary Wharf was used as the signature graphic for the launch of the Masters of Architecture in Sustainable Tall Buildings, in 2009.

Andy with AASK

Andy with ZOG

Samantha and Noura with AASK

Samantha and Noura with LYX

Andy with LAX

Andy with REM

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Semester one final review 19 January

19 January 2016: Final Review of the semester. We had Huzaifa as a guest, shortly before he returns to India. There is always a sense of celebration and relief at the final crit: we do not spring nasty surprises on the students. Guillermo Guzman joined us for the afternoon.

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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