Southwark Brick House peeks above a brick wall in Bermondsey

London studio Satish Jassal Architects has completed a home in Bermondsey that integrates an existing brick wall.

Built on the site of a former garage in the Thorburn Square conservation area, the architecture studio aimed to draw heavily on the areas "sensitive" location for the design of Southwark Brick House.

Southwark Brick House sits above a brick wall in Bermondsey

An existing brick wall, which Satish Jassal Architects describe as "intrinsically part of the place", was retained and encloses the site.

The studio wanted to integrate the wall in the home to anchor the home within the site. The house is entered through the wall and it supports one side of the new structure.

An existing wall along the street forms the left side of the house

"We felt it was important that the wall was retained," said Satish Jassal Architects founder Satish Jassal.

"We placed the house below and behind the front wall and on top of the sidewall. By interacting with the wall in this way, we looked to anchor the new house into its place," he told Dezeen.

"The building is pulled back from the street edge and the lower portion of the house is hidden behind the historic boundary wall, which was retained and underpinned."

Parts of the wall can be seen from different points in the home

The wall is visible from within the homes and in the kitchen, it has been left exposed.

The studio chose to use red Ibstock West Loathly Sharpthorne bricks to complement the existing brickwork and integrate the house into its surroundings in Bermondsey.

The architects want Southwark Brick House to be anchored into its location

"The rough and imperfect texture of the bricks gives the building a worn appearance and makes it feel like an established part of the streetscape," said Jassal.

"The red Ibstock West Loathly Sharpthorne bricks used across the building were chosen to compliment, whilst at the same time contrast with, the existing yellow London stock brick wall and the golden tones of the oak-panelled windows."

The interior features golden tones that match the oak-panelled windows

The three-bedroom house has three levels, with a ground floor that was lowered one metre into the ground to give the occupants privacy from neighbouring properties.

This ground floor contains kitchen and dining areas that open onto outdoor terraces.

On the first floor above, living areas feature large bay windows that provide views onto the red and white striped housing estate opposite.

The home's bedrooms are located in a basement floor, which is illuminated by a linear light well.

The staircase cuts through the centre of the building

A blackened steel and glass staircase runs down the core of the house underneath a skylight and timber chandelier.

Two brick wings with double-height oak widow bays have been positioned on either side of the staircase with views of the tree-lined street.

"Elements of the local building vernacular, such as blank gables, flat-edged roofs and vertical timber windows, are acknowledged and incorporated into the façades in a contemporary way to complement the conservation area," said Jassal.

Other recently built brick houses in London include Alma-nac's House-within-a-House, a home with a grey-brick skin.

Photography by Gary Parker and Richard Chivers.

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro builds looping steel Park Union Bridge in Colorado

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has built the 250-foot-long Park Union Bridge in Colorado Springs that connects to the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum.

The bridge connects the museum celebrating America's Olympic and Paralympic athletes, also designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, to the America the Beautiful Park in Colorado.

The bridge connects a park to a museum

Park Union Bridge is 25 feet high (7.6 metres) and spans an active railyard. The bridge by Diller Scofidio + Renfro is part of the studio's design for the museum, which opened in 2020.

Two interlocking loops of steel arch over the bridge to form a window that frames views of the surrounding landscape. At night, the bridge lights up to illuminate the walkway.

A looping steel canopy frames mountain views

"The bridge is an exercise in fitness, both in terms of material and geometry," said Diller Scofidio + Renfro lead designer Benjamin Gilmartin.

"The hybrid steel structure functions as an arch and a truss, elegantly preserving views from Downtown to the majestic ranges of Pikes Peak."

Park Union Bridge is for pedestrians and cyclists

The bridge is designed for pedestrians and cyclists, connecting to local pathways including the Pikes Peak Greenway and the Midland Trail.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro created a modular design for Park Union Bridge, which was prefabricated in Houston, Texas. The deck is made of concrete, with painted structural steel elements and stainless steel cables.

Sections of the 550-ton bridge were then driven up to Colorado Springs in one weekend on self-propelled modular transporters – wheeled vehicles specifically designed to carry large and heavy loads such as cranes and mining equipment.

Modules were welded together on the ground next to the site and hoisted into place over eight hours, in a process carefully choreographed to minimise the time needed to shut the railyard.

The bridge spans an active railyard in Colorado Springs

Stairs wrap around a glass elevator that connects the bridge to the ground on the side of the park.

The US Olympic and Paralympic Museum is composed of four aluminium-clad volumes. It is accessed via a ramp and designed to be completely wheelchair accessible, as is the new bridge leading to it.

The bridge lights up at night

More projects by Diller Scofidio + Renfro include the Tianjin Juilliard School in China and plans for the athletes' village for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Milan.

The photography is by Jason O'Rear.

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Project credits:

Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architect of Record: Anderson Mason Dale Architects
Client: City of Colorado Springs
Structural engineer: Arup
Structural engineer bridge abutments: KL&A
Railroad consultant: Felsburg Holt &. Ullevig and FUHueng
Steel fabricator: KING Fabrication
General contractor: Kewit Construction
Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
Onsite inspector: Terracon

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SOM's inflatable habitats could allow people to "thrive over the long term" on the Moon

Architecture studio SOM and the European Space Agency have created more visuals for Moon Village, a concept for a settlement on the moon made up of inflatable modules.

SOM presented a detailed scale model of Moon Village, which it first announced in 2019, as part of its exhibition Life Beyond Earth at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.

The proposal is for a collection of individual four-level units located in the moon's south polar region that would provide hubs for scientific research.

The units are designed to be inflatable

SOM said that Moon Village could grow over time, evolving from a settlement for research into thriving communities offering wider opportunities such as tourism.

"For SOM, designing a Moon Village meant creating an environment in which humans will be able to thrive over the long term," senior designer Daniel Inocente told Dezeen.

"This is human-centric design."

Life Beyond Earth is on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

The modules are designed to be inflatable so that they could be compressed and transported to the moon by rocket, where they would be expanded to full size.

Each of the units would be built around a hybrid structural design that would include a rigid titanium alloy perimeter frame and a soft structural shell.

A scale model and site plan are included in the installation

This shell would feature a layer to protect from micrometeorites and a layer made of open-foam polyurethane and double-aluminised Mylar for insulation.

"Unlike other inflatable designs, which place structural mechanical systems at their centre, this solution creates an open interior that allows for optimised environmental conditions, air distribution and recycling, as well as visibility, efficiency and mobility," said SOM associate director Georgi Petrov.

The units would have four levels

The habitats would be located in the south polar region because it gets a lot of daylight throughout the lunar year, which would allow the units to harness sunlight for energy.

"Its location was also chosen in part to enable access to undisturbed material from the early history of the Solar System," SOM design partner Colin Koop told Dezeen.

"Material that will help scientists better understand the formation of our world."

Life Beyond Earth includes a scale model for an individual inflatable unit, as well as a site model showing a collection of units that would make up the village.

The installation addresses the biennale's theme for this year that looks towards the future and asks, "How will we live together?"

An interior view of an inflatable unit

The project was informed by European Space Agency director-general Jan Wörner's concept of a Moon Village, an international community he defines as one whose members could live and work alongside each other in space.

As a lunar settlement, Moon Village is intended to encourage collaboration between countries and communities rather than competition.

The modules are intended initially for scientific research

Koop explained that while there is no definitive timeline for the project, it is designed to be realised with existing technologies and those emerging in the near future.

"Just as innovation from the mid-century space race brought us beneficial technology that we otherwise would not have, the Moon Village will enable the research and innovation that will help solve pressing problems here on Earth."

As well as providing a liveable habitat in space, Koop suggested that the project would offer insight into how we might build more adaptable settlements on Earth in the future.

"Designing a self-sustaining settlement on the moon in such a hostile environment will teach us invaluable lessons about sustainable and resilient design," said Koop.

"It will help us prepare for a changing climate and pioneer new methods of building for a variety of environments."

A community of units forming a lunar village

SOM, or Skidmore, Owings & Merill, is a global architecture, engineering and urban planning firm headquartered in Chicago and founded in 1963.

Formed in 1975, The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to space exploration.

Other recent designs for the moon include a similarly expandable and self-sustainable lunar habitat by a startup called Instarz and a human lander designed by Elon Musk for a 2024 mission scheduled to carry the first woman to the moon.

All the images are courtesy of SOM.

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Birmingham City University spotlights 17 architecture and design projects

A self-organising shelter that adapts to environmental stimuli and ceramic tableware designed to stimulate the senses are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Birmingham City University.

Also included is a Russian recreational area designed as a multifunctional park to meet residents' needs, and a chair that explores hair-based discrimination while celebrating black, afro and textured hair.

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Birmingham City University

School: Birmingham City University, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design
Courses: Foundation, BA Architecture, BA Interior Architecture and Design, BA Landscape Architecture, BA Product and Furniture Design, BA Design Management, MArch and MA Landscape Architecture

School statement:

"A vibrant and inspiring learning community, the school identifies strongly with the civic university movement and has a dynamic and growing reputation in practice-led research, enterprise and knowledge exchange, encompassing disciplines across the scales from Product and Furniture through Interiors, Architecture, Urban Design (from September 2021) Landscape Architecture with cross-cutting courses in Design Management and Conservation of the Historic Environment.

"We deliver an outstanding and distinctive student experience and embrace a practice,  research and knowledge-based approach to our teaching demonstrated by our KTPs, our innovative BA (Hons) Design for Future Living in partnership with George Clarke's Ministry of Building Innovation and Education (MOBIE), our transdisciplinary collaborative Co.LAB live projects and Experimental Sustainability Studio initiatives."

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Heirs of Time by Laura Hastings

"Heirs of Time explores how the memories of local communities could be archived, restored and recollected through the 'apparatus of the heirloom'. This thesis explores key themes of time, memory, depth and transformation. Following research and investigation into the changes of a Birmingham high street, the heirloom became a physical manifestation of the built environment.

"Programmatically, underground spaces have been developed to represent long-term, consolidated memories that are not so regularly recollected, functioning as archives and experience rooms. Instead of public-facing, the overground spaces represent short-term memories, those that are regularly made and forgotten."

Student: Laura Hastings
Course: BA(Hons) Architecture
Tutors: Dr Matthew Jones, Matthew Hayes and Rebecca Walker
Email: ljhastings-1@talktalk.net

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Equilibrium 2.0 by Pasha Jeremenko

"Equilibrium 2.0 explores self-organising architecture and its adaptations to environmental stimuli. In an extreme climate, conventional architecture cannot sustain itself, which causes the architectural paradigm to shift – from static to dynamic.

"The designed shelter adapts itself to external conditions by working together with nature in its response. The equilibrium between the synthetic and the organic opens up more opportunities for evolving architecture. The evolution, in this case, appears in the form of the technological assembly of machines."

Student: Pasha Jeremenko
Course: BA(Hons) Architecture
Tutors: David Capener, Amrita Raja, Bea Martin, Rob Annable and Ian Shepherd
Email: pasha.jeremenko@outlook.com

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How can the music industry rebuild in a post-pandemic environment while securing its future and maintaining its culture? by Azita Maria Rushton

"Access talent is a music industry tour programme that aims to create a supportive, coherent and connected professional journey for young music enthusiasts. The programme comprises three courses taught by industry professionals, hosted in grassroots music venues located in areas of high deprivation in the UK otherwise forgotten by industry and government.

"The programme features an initiative that offers opportunities provided by industry sponsors to work and study within the music. This concept was designed to address threats to the British music industry's ecosystem, such as poor creative careers education, inequality in music education and lack of support for grassroots music venues."

Student: Azita Maria Rushton
Course: BA (Hons) Design Management Level 6 Top-up
Tutors: Nicholas Irvin
Email: azita-maria.rushton@mail.bcu.ac.uk

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How can design innovation and digital technology be used to create the shopping experience of the future? by Nontawat Nowarit (Addy)

"Neo – X is the integration and utilisation of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in brick-and-mortar stores to reinvigorate retail shopping experiences of the future. The project explores the challenges and opportunities of how AR could be used in retail to enhance window shopping experience and entice customers to come back into physical stores after the pandemic. The concept demonstrates the promising use of AR in window shopping and how it could become a part of the new and enhanced in-store experiences of the future."

Student: Nontawat Nowarit (Addy)
Course: BA (Hons) Design Management Level 6 Top-up
Tutors: Nicholas Irvin
Email: Nontawat.Nowarit@mail.bcu.ac.uk

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Box For Life by Luke Reynolds

"The Box For Life project is a national tiny home community network designed to bring the tiny home movement to urban cities. I have developed both the ultimate tiny home that can be purchased at an affordable price and a flagship community site on George Street in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.

"It combats the growing economic issue that sees struggling young people attempt to juggle work and social lives whilst reaching for the property ladder. The project aims to increase 'urban opportunity' for people in a tiny home and sustainable living communities and attract a new generation of tiny dwellers."

Student: Luke Reynolds
Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design
Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges
Email: Ljwreynolds@gmail.com

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The Emporium of Possibility by Georgia Ruscoe

"This project aims to prepare for a post-pandemic world and become the key to the escapist dream-world that people so deeply desire. Its spatial strategy will disregard hierarchy and instead focus on forming an economy built on human communities.

"It enhances creative potential through the freedom of exploration, epistemic emotions and knowledge production. Providing people with the opportunity to explore their entrepreneurial aspirations whilst combating social and environmental issues. Its goal is to move away from fast output and stop the machine age, centring on the human again by forming an age of experience and creative exploration – something that cannot be automated."

Student: Georgia Ruscoe
Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design
Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges
Email: georgiaruscoe@gmail.com

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Comfort  Valley Murmansk by Linyun Jiang 

"Comfort Valley is a large recreational area outside the city centre of Murmansk, Russia. This innovative design provides an opportunity to identify and implement a vibrant multifunctional park area revitalisation that can meet local residents' needs, increase the connection between people and the site, and enhance the community environment. It utilises the natural and climatic conditions of the Arctic with sustainable technical innovations in the form of warming huts dotted through the landscape, connected with green infrastructure."

Student: Linyun Jian
Course: BA (hons) Landscape Architecture, LI
Tutors: Lucas Hughes, Eccles Ng, Dawn Parke and Rasha Sayed
Email: Linyun.Jiang@mail.bcu.ac.uk

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Regeneration Design in Tuanjie Village by Shiyun Huang  

"This landscape-led urban redevelopment creates public space for residents to live, entertain and relax. There is a diversity of activities, forming active street venues which address nighttime and daytime uses. The Unity Village will be a "new life", a "new symbol", and a "new landmark".

"Inspired by the symbolic language abstracted water-towns in the Yangtze River Delta, a new symbol of a Central Park with a series of dynamic connected spaces is created. It is a new landmark integrating traditional and contemporary characteristics, enlightened by the abstract artistic conception of courtyard and landscape forms."

Student: Shiyun Huang
Course: BA(Hons) Landscape Architecture 
Tutors: Lucas Hughes, Eccles Ng, Dawn Parke and Rasha Sayed
Email: Shiyun.Huang@mail.bcu.ac.uk

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Dolcio by Katarzyna Kozlowska

"Dolcio is a collection of experimental ceramic tableware developed in response to the study of gastrophysics – the scientific analysis of how our experience of food and drink is affected by our senses and surroundings.

"Carefully composed, this series of dessert plates stimulate the senses through colour, form and texture, increasing the sweet taste of puddings and creating a more positive and mindful eating experience. By using rounded tableware, users can reduce the amount of sugar used in dishes without compromising on the taste, therefore helping to promote healthier eating habits."

Student: Katarzyna Kozlowska
Course: BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design
Tutors: Richard Underhill, Malcolm Hastings, Brian Adams and Natalie Cole
Email: Katarzynakozlowskadesign@outlook.com

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Zewadi by Katy Thompson

"Inspired by personal experiences growing up in a predominately white town and the Black Lives Matter movement, this chair explores hair-based discrimination and how design can celebrate black, afro and textured hair. Zewadi was designed as a functional and educational furniture piece, intended to initiate conversations surrounding this underrepresented issue.

"Zewadi uses textured black cork and rounded forms to represent black hair, whilst its throne-like scale brings empowerment to its users. Additionally, the gap in the headrest not only highlights the user's hair but also reduces the risk of friction damage."

Student: Katy Thompson
Course: BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design
Tutors: Richard Underhill, Malcolm Hastings, Brian Adams and Natalie Cole
Email: Katyt1998@gmail.com

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Cardboard Products for the Design Museum by Thomas Whiskens

"Taking inspiration from the ecological principle of the edge effect, the project questions and explores how design can respond to uncertainty with creativity and dynamism while recognizing its role in Fairbourne's narrative.

"The proposition is to create a community-owned visitor destination, together with enabling landscapes, aimed at changing the collective mindset for Fairbourne, encouraging a vision for the territory as having multiple future identities and uses beyond the engineered utility topography.

"The spectrum of landscape systems and settings draw on the unique characteristics of the existing estuary topography, from the engineered edge of the seawall, through the shifting edge of marsh and wetland to the relic uplands."

Student: Thomas Whiskens
Course: Foundation/BA Product Design
Tutors: Myles Cummings, Tom Tebby, Andrew Trujillo and Anastasiya Luban

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LAxArch – Canal Side Regeneration Project by Matthew Harris

"This Landscape and Architecture project was based on a location within Birmingham's sprawling canal network. The challenge was to rejuvenate an area of the Grand Union canal in Digbeth, rethink the landscape for people using the site, and provide a kiosk to find information or buy products. This piece of work shows a section through the site."

Student: Matthew Harris
Course: Foundation/BA Architecture
Tutors: Myles Cummings, Tom Tebby, Andrew Trujillo and Anastasiya Luban

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Grow your own highstreet by Anita Brindley

"Imagine if our cities could become closed-loop systems where all construction materials are produced and harvested just a few metres away from the site. This scheme aims to achieve this by reforesting our high streets. Through reforesting, timber becomes a local and sustainable material source that, during its growth, absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

"Over time, the timber grown on the high street can then be harvested by locals and used to develop the local surroundings. The high street no longer becomes made up of static objects but encompasses the active processes related to the community and ecology which inhabit and support its construction."

Student: Anita Brindley
Course: MArch Architecture (RIBA Pt.2), unit: Extinction Rebellion Architecture
Tutors: Professor Rachel Sara and Elly Deacon Smith
Email:  anitalb24@gmail.com

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The Pleasure Gardens by Chloe Luvena Dent

"Inspired by the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea – one of the major exhibitions organised by the post-war Labour government during the Festival of Britain in 1951 to give the British a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of WW2.

"The thesis uses hedonistic ideas of pleasure based on Jeremy Bentham's theories to create contemporary pleasure gardens as a response to the isolating and disengaging social constraints of Covid-19. Envisioned as a series of raised platforms above London, 'socially undistanced' moving gimbals, as well as ornate festival structures embedded within landscaped gardens, create an ambient and fun urban experience."

Student: Chloe Luvena Dent
Course: MArch Architecture (RIBA Pt.2), unit: arena
Tutors: Alessandro Columbano and Valeria Szegal
Email: chloedent09@gmail.com

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Fairbourne 2070 – The New Gold Rush by David Mahon

"Given its position on a low-lying salt marsh, Fairbourne can no longer be protected from flooding with rising sea levels and increased risk of storms due to climate change. Fairbourne 2070 – the new gold rush is a project to relocate and design a new Fairbourne that is resilient to climate change and fit for social demands of the year 2070 and beyond, using the principles of a circular economy.

"The new gold rush does not take resources from the landscape. It reuses those that have already been extracted and replenishes those that have been depleted."

Student: David Mahon
Course: MA Landscape Architecture
Tutors: Russell Good and Dr Sandra Costa
Email: davidedwardmahon@outlook.com

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Fairbourne – Landscape at the Edge by Sam Rule

"Taking inspiration from the ecological principle of the edge effect, the project questions and explores how design can respond to uncertainty with creativity and dynamism while recognizing its role in Fairbourne's narrative. The proposition is to create a community-owned visitor destination, together with enabling landscapes, to change the collective mindset for Fairbourne, encouraging a vision for the territory as having multiple future identities and uses beyond the engineered utility topography.

"The spectrum of landscape systems and settings draw on the unique characteristics of the existing estuary topography, from the engineered edge of the seawall, through the shifting edge of marsh and wetland to the relic uplands."

Student: Sam Rule
Course: MA Landscape Architecture
Tutors: Russell Good and Dr Sandra Costa
Email: sam.rule@outlook.com

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Forest Hub by Gertruda Blazaityte

"Forest Hub is a wood innovation centre bringing researchers, students, businesses, and local residents together to collaborate and share their passion and knowledge to build a healthier and more sustainable urban city. Forest Hub also provides the local community with a space to connect with nature – both indoors and outdoors along with private and spacious studios designed for multiple uses.

"The concept focuses on sustainable and innovative design solutions by using Biomimicry where biological strategies are being used to improve building’s energy efficiency and create a multi-sensory forest-like journey that brings the user closer to nature."

Student: Gertruda Blazaityte
Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design
Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges
Email: blazaitytegertruda@gmail.com

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