To celebrate completed work on the AHRC funded interdisciplinary Wastes and Strays project the University of Brighton is co-hosting a series of exhibition events with Newcastle University and the University of Portsmouth of academic research and student architectural design work on the Urban Commons.

The exhibition events are taking place at the following venues:

Tuesday 10th May 2022, 11:00-16:00, Wylam Brewery, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PZ.

Monday 16th May 2022, 11:00-16:00, Clifton Observatory, Bristol, BS8 3LT.

Thursday 2nd June 2022, 11:00-16:00, The Open Market, Brighton, BN1 4JU.

Tuesday 7th June 2022, 11:00-16:00, Frere Road Community Centre, Norwich, NR7 9UT.

All are welcome.

For more details on the project please see the blog post

Following an intensive LabWeek, development studies for the forthcoming live-build pavilion structure were unveiled earlier today in the School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton. I have written about the project previously here.

With the summer opening of Brighton’s Wastes and Strays Pavilion fast approaching, the shortlisted projects have been developed as a series of laser cut 1:3 scale models by groups of students from the BA Interior Architecture and Product Design courses.

An announcement will follow once the university judging panel have selected the proposal which is to be taken forwards into the next stage of development prior to fabrication. We are indebted to ongoing support from our project sponsors James Latham PLC and Josh Mitchell, Lewes-based furniture maker and director at 10 Tables.

The wider AHRC-funded Wastes and Strays interdisciplinary project is bringing together expertise from the Universities of Brighton, Newcastle, Sheffield and Portsmouth. Detail on the wider research investigation can be found here.

Exploratory work has been underway since October for the design-make commons pavilion which the studio has been invited to design.

Propositional work has been developed through a series of design and fabrication workshops, reviews and many hours spent in studio working through drawn and modelled iterations.

In December we look forward to welcoming our client Alex Zambelli, from the AHRC-funded Wastes and Strays research group (which I have written about previously here) and timber specialists from industry, for the stage 1 judging of the studio proposals. We will then be determining which aspects of the work will be taken forward into the next phase of design development and prototyping.