As a core tool for the Y6 Thesis projects, the initial research and project intentions were collated into design manifestos which were intended to underpin the project throughout the year. A range of projects are seen below presenting the detailed and critical research underpinning the proposals.
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM + TOBIAS MACKRILL // THE RETENTION CENTRE
The Retention Centre seeks to nurture arrivals by granting them the facilities to overcome barriers to vital, resourceful and existential equality, such that they can make an informed, voluntary decision to remain. The project aims to foster the bilateral exchange of skills, experiences and cultures to emphasise how symbiosis between native and foreign populations will lead to mutual prosperity. View project here
SAMANTHA MOONEY // THE SOUK OF SAN SIRO
Concept
The Prada Group have commissioned the The Souk of San Siro: a state of the art facility which demonstrates how a circular economy can be achieved through the reuse, up-cycle and re-sale of unwanted, unsold or worn out clothes, reducing reliance on raw materials. View project here
JAIMIE CLAYDON // WORK IT OUT
‘Work It Out’ is a start-up incubator and neighbourhood regeneration plan encouraging social integration and local economic growth through knowledge exchange, start-up facilities and digital manufacturing, recognising Milan’s underrepresented existing network of entrepreneurs and a generational shift in workplace design expectations. View project here
EMILY GLYNN // ARRIVE WITH TROVARE CASA
Exploring Destinations of Escape
Trovare Casa, a new mode of travel agency, translating directly to ‘finding home’, aims to provide a meaningful platform to aid those in the process of arriving, playing on the ideals of a ‘holiday’ to create a temporary escape and destination and change the narrative of migration. View project here
CLARE MCKAY // RECLAIMING LUXURY
The project speculates on the creation of a new ‘neighbourhood luxury’; taking the functions of the everyday and elevating them to become spatially and temporally luxurious. Drawing from the context, three forms of luxury are conceptualised – dining, bathing, and imagining – each interpreted in multiple forms of private, semi-private, and collective luxury. View project here
FARHANA JIWA // THE SAN SIRO CHARTER
The San Siro [Design] Charter sets out guiding principles for the project through a critical analysis of the CIAM 4 and Athens Charter. The building programme challenges and rethinks the ideal of a ‘Functionalist City’ through the its four functions: Habitation, Leisure, Work and Connectivity. View project here
