‘Bartlett School of Architecture Year 1 Experience’
The Bartlett School of Architecture Year 1 has, like in previous years, made a series of film about the students experiences during their year 1 at the Bartlett.
The Bartlett’s BSc degree program aims to develop a creative, diverse and rigorous approach to architecture and design from the outset. Year 1 is centered on the design studio and is taught to the year as a whole. Students observe, draw, model and design, based in the School’s design studios and workshop from the first week onwards.
The main intention is to explore ‘ways of seeing’; understanding and interpreting objects/events/places and learning to look beyond the visible into the unseen and ‘absurd’ qualities of things. In this way, a place can also be seen as something with its own identity, which each student can personally interpret.
The importance of ‘character’ and personality is emphasized throughout the design process whether it concerns analysis, site interpretation or architectural vision. A number of recording techniques are used as a way of clarifying the subject rather than as purely graphic representation.
Through being aware of the possibilities and limitations of various techniques, each student learns to express and then develop critically and appropriately, through their own intuition, an idea for an architectural proposition.
The videos shown are from the first project to the group installation, the trip to Porto and the final building project sites in Vauxhall.
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