FutureUrbanism

Future Urbanism is a design forum for developing and critiquing ideas of place, environment, culture, technology and sustainability to define future space.

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Louise Weston MArch 1
A project rethinking material circularity and building reuse. This is a systematic deconstruction and coding of building components from the former HMRC offices adjacent to Saltaire World Heritage Site to evaluate how they might be reconfigured to propo…

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Matthew Graham M.Arch 2

Equalising the Heritage Deficit
Societies are becoming heritage impoverished due to increasingly expansionist urban growth out-pacing the rate at which we preserve. At global and regional levels heritage generation has remained largely static, while…

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Fearghal Rooney, MArch1

What is the future urban condition or Ireland and to what extent does policy on tax shape the urban landscape?
A polemical project which explores the impact of logistics and distribution on the Irish landscape.

#urban #landscape #distribution #jeffe…

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Karthic Vivehananthan

Mapping building typology, use, vacancy, obsolescence and value within Central Belfast to explore an architecture of prospective preservation adhering to UNESCO Principles and ambitions from ‘A Bold Vision for Belfast’. 

A critique of theories concern…

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An exploration of potential futures and past heritage through digital twinning. The project envisages the finished plan of UNESCO heritage site, Crespi d’Adda and reimagines it’s past and future through technology. Resulting architecture is an exploration of surface and mate…

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Rolandas Laurinavicius MArch 1

Future sources of energy need to be renewable and this shift needs to happen as a matter of urgency, but not without consideration of what happens to the materials after their lifespan. Currently wind turbine blades typically go into landfill …

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Louisa Evans MArch1

A witty but calculated and considered take on improving thermal performance in listed (and existing) buildings, through textile, pattern and fashion. Using the protected worker housing of #PortSunlight as a site for intervention, ideas about value and ma…

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Image credits to @matthewgraham4439 for drawing all the footprints of heritage buildings in Belfast. can you guess which feature?

Preparations for celebrating our work on exploring heritage and decarbonisation this year…

…to be continued with our colleagues @americanuniver…

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One ‘ell of a misalignment 😆🙄

It’s that time of year folks, pay attention to your portfolio layouts!

#units #dunkeld #scotland #SpringBreak #pedantry #Architect #MArchPortfolio #graduate #design #graphics #alignment #PortfolioLayout

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This tome proves it! The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Designs now available and on the digital shelves @QUBLibrary, featuring @lscoucill (@QUBarch) + @lucaknorr (@MSArch_Research), ed. @HeathcottJoseph (@TheNewSchool)
https://t.co/YRtUBv9Byk

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What's your favourite infrastructural typologies?

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It's good to know it's not just us a little obsessed with #infrastructure, #landscape, #architecture and #design. #Research

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#gioponti #milan #fieldwork #structure #engineering #architecture

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Extreme heritage in focus

#heritage #industrialarchitecture #19thcentury #crespidadda #unescoworldheritage
#futureurbanism #team

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Monument to Sandro Pertini, Aldo Rossi (1990).
#milan #architecture #aldorossiarchitect

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Future Urbanism does Milan #duomomilano #milan #qub #architecture

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Hello! My name is Louise! I am a MArch 1 student and one of the members of Future Urbanism @louise_weston @qub.moa

The UK’s top 5 import markets compromised 47% of total construction material imports last year. 18% of all imports are from China.
I have been researching ho…

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Hi, I’m Danny, an March1 student studying future urbanism at Queens University Belfast @qub.moa @danny_bittles

My project seeks to address the ever-increasing problem of vacant spaces within our high street environments. The high street is in trouble and intervention on bo…

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Hi! I'm Valentin, I'm a MArch 1 student and a member of the Future Urbanism studio.

Belfast is filled with empty and unused space, space that was previously occupied by heritage buildings which have over time disappeared. These sites, spread across the city but particularly…

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Hi! I'm Louisa.

My project derives from the role craftsmanship plays in the compositional variety of the housing at Port Sunlight, and the aesthetic importance of this as an offering of respite from the mass production upon which the village was founded (and which came to …