Mackintosh School of Architecture students and recent graduates have dominated the 2020 A&DS-RIAS awards, which were announced last night, scooping the A&DS Urban Design Award, the Sustainable Design Award, the AD&S Award for Best 3rd Year student and the RIAS-Andy MacMillan Drawing Award.
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| Estate of Change – Dana Cherepkova’s Stage 5 City Study |
Recent Stage 5 graduate, Dana Cherepkova, won the A&DS Urban Design Award for her Stage 5 City Study: Estate of Change. Announcing the award the judges said:
“This project exhibited relevance, analysis of context and quality of design solution. The regeneration of social housing estates is one of the major architectural challenges of our era, with similar issues existing internationally but requiring solutions based in local context and cultures.”
“The project relates to its wider city context and addresses the issue of integrating large residential blocks into a new and richer environment. Issues such as climate change, sustainability and social cohesion are explored at a detailed level with specific solutions suggested.”
“Presented in a clear and concise way, this project shows how a neglected and uninspiring physical environment can be transformed into a place of wellbeing and joy, where people would actually choose to live.”
Dana was also commended in the A&DS Sustainable Design Award, which was won by recent Stage 5 graduate, Guro Vold.
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| From Guro Vold’s Stage 5 City study – a response to the expanding city |
Of Guro’s work the judges said
“This project tackles the landscape of industry and enterprise with an elegant building proposal formed through a modular and circular approach to materials and construction.’
“It challenges norms and establishes a prototype that could be applied in a variety of locations. The attention to detail and creative thinking around supply, form and construction is particularly strong and well-handled.”
“The proposed suite of materials, details and construction techniques are combined to form a dramatic section and distinctive form that is beautifully articulated and represented.”
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| Lily Whitehouse’s Stage 3 design: Amphibious |
The Award for Best 3rd Year student went to recent Stage 3 graduate Lily Whitehouse for Amphibious, her creative response to a speculative design brief for a residential centre and performance space for Sistema Scotland at Balloch on Loch Lomond. Commending Lily’s design the judges said:
“From the moment of encounter of this project from a trout’s perspective, one is reeled in. ‘Amphibious’ draws reference from Aldo Rossi’s floating Theatro del Mondo, as it co-exists, momentarily, periodically, on land and on water.”
“This is a contextually considered project, which draws on the memory of place (Balloch’s history), and people (childhood journeys and adventures), and yet is not nostalgic. The presentation carries the narrative of the brief coherently: as something wistful and optimistic”
“This was a rich and evocative proposal, presented earnestly and with sensitivity.”
Stage 3 graduate, Linda Ledina, was Highly Commended in the same category.
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| Andrew Law Zi Hang’s Stage 5 City study, Apocalypse: Antwerp and the Ark |
The RIAS-Andy MacMillan Drawing Award went to recent Stage 5 graduate Andrew Law Zi Hang for his City Study: A Provocative Story of an Apocalypse: Antwerp and the Ark.
The judges felt that the combination of theatricality and atmosphere which this project communicates make it a worthy winner of the RIAS Andy MacMillan Drawing Award. “It is an exemplary set of drawings which provide a clear narrative, delivered with great skill and imagination. Every sheet very rich in detail, beautifully rendered and could easily be part of a publication.”
“I am delighted that the work of our talented students has been recognised in the 2020 RIAS-AD&S Awards,” says Professor Sally Stewart, Head of the Mackintosh School of Architecture. “This has been a particularly difficult year for our students and my congratulations go not just to our worthy award winners, but to all our students who have risen to the challenges and created some remarkable work.
See more details of the award-winning projects on the GSA Graduate Showcase 2020:
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