What do you enjoy most about the course, and why?
The course’s heart is in collaboration. Everyone working together in the studio brews friendships and grows ideas, which rapidly helps you settle in and strengthen your project.
Can you tell us about an exciting project you have completed on your course?
Currently, we are looking at re-developing Liverpool’s Chinatown. This exciting opportunity allows us to better understand and explore the city, but specifically, my projected uses inflated pods as residential clusters. Studio always allows you to push your ideas outside of the box to think radically to achieve more than you originally thought.
Can you tell us about the teaching methods?
Life on the BA programme is divided equally into design and theory. Theory focuses on lecture-based learning, with help developing skills such as technical drawings or structural modelling. The design Studio breaks down the cohort into manageable groups with a tutor who will guide the process and help develop key skillsets.
What extra-or co-curricular activities do you take part in, and how do these affect your student experience?
Besides helping in the past as a Student Representative, and a member of the Architecture Society (to meet new people outside of the year group on the course), I have just returned from my semester abroad in Hong Kong. My time there was tremendously enriching to my life as a student, seeing how other universities function and get the chance to design around a new climate!
If you could go back, what advice would you have given yourself before going to University?
“The best time to start something is 10 years ago, the next best time is today”. In Architecture, there are many times that the variety of opportunities to explore different skillsets can easily become overwhelming. The easiest way to tackle this is have a go now! The faster you try, the quicker you will reach your goal.
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