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Streamlines, Vortices  & Plumes in the Blue Lagoon and Bath, MArch Design Studio

University of Edinburgh, 2019-20

Co-instructor: Simone Ferracina

Studio Catalogue

In this one-year Master of Architecture (MArch) vertical studio, students worked with highly calibrated environmental models as a means to develop a conception of architecture as environmental instruments. We worked between the controlled environment of the studio and the curious thermal environments of the geothermally-active Blue Lagoon, Iceland and Bath, England.

Both the Blue Lagoon and Bath are sites of strange, fluid material presence. They are both contexts of ‘thermal asymmetry’-- places of unexpected, visceral climatic variability. The built landscape of the two sites have inverted figure-ground relationships; the Blue Lagoon is an analogical landscape to Bath’s, an extreme version of the curious climatic inversation possible when contrasting thermal conditions (and their associated programmes) meet. Students developed projects that harnessed and recalibrated the thermodynamic underpinnings of both sites, exploring the role of heat sources and material sinks as spatial drivers.  
Blue Lagoon, Iceland
Select pages, studio catalogue
Callum Rennie, Laura Haylock, and Katy Sidwell
James Ma, Steven Shi, Cherie Wong
Jamie Wilson, Kirstin Forsyth, and Fritz Holtgrewe
Final Degree Show Exhibition
amie Wilson, Kirstin Forsyth, and Fritz Holtgrewe
Bulat Gafurov, Heng Zhu, Joshua Siu, Christopher Tolmie
Jamie Wilson, Kirstin Forsyth, and Fritz Holtgrewe