Tall Building Crit of 12th December

12 December 2013: It's the day for the December crit of the Tianjin group (Fifth years). They have another month before exhibition and portfolio.


Alfie show us his residential tower with its emphasis on courtyards, terraces and social spaces.


Chris shows us his tower, as a place for spiritual retreats, meditation, worship or just a hotel for calm tourism.


James has a tower for recycling of modern consumer goods, particularly computers, phones and laptops, with exchanges for selling precious metals.


Philip N has a residential tower that also includes vertical farming, with an emphasis on valuable pharmaceutical plants.


Giulia has a three school tower


Haniyyah's Dance academy tower


Laura's plans for bicycling towers are developing well, although we advise more dwelling units in the towers.


Alex's vertical air cleaning tower is looking good.


The Rotterdam group showed us their programme for the week. This seems like a good idea to plan the work week out, and to have a system for work transfer if jobs get done too quickly or are taking too long. They even remember to include instructions to sleep, eat, re-charge phones and laptops!

Students in Tianjin, China

15-25 October 2013: Eight of our students are on a field trip to Tianjin, China. It's a large coastal city SE of Beijing. They have a tall building site in the new developing district (shown in the model, above), and have a small part of this to master plan. The project is a cultural exchange with Tianjin university whose students are also doing a tall building project on the same site.

The Nottingham students have greater freedom with the brief, to pick a research agenda to add complexity to their tall building design. Here is the total group at Tianjin.

Having done the hard work, the group found time to do a bit of tourism in Beijing before returning home on 25th October. The cost of the flights is sponsored by the Jason Pomeroy Studio, Singapore. They all touched down safely in the UK on the evening of 25th October.

Briefing for Tianjin students

10 Oct 2013: Phil is briefing the 8 MArch Pt2 students who will be going to Tianjin next week.



MArch Pt2 students preparing for their flight to Tianjin, China. It's near Beijing, but is on the coast. The site is one urban block of a massive new development.