MSA Live 21

Meet Arundika Weerasekera

BSc Arch: SLIIT School of Architecture, Sri Lanka | Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom

Atelier: CPU

Experience: 1yr 3 months (1 yr at …More

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:52

Meet George Williams

BSc Arch: Sheffield Hallam University

Atelier: CIA

Experience: 2yrs (1 yr IBI Group, 1 yr 5plus architects)

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:54

Meet Holly Millburn

BA Arch: University of Kent

Atelier: CPU

Experience: 4yrs (PDD Architects 1yr, Hyphen 1yr, Isabel Manns 1yr, ISS 1yr)

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:54

Meet Kathleen Karveli

BSc Arch: Coventry University

Atelier: CIA

Experience: 3yrs (2 yrs IDP, 1 year Ophir Architecture)

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:55

Meet Michael Walsh

BA (Hons) Arch: Manchester School of Architecture

Atelier: CPU

Experience: 2yrs (2 yrs IBI Group)

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:56

Meet Sam Sayle

BA (Hons) Arch: Nottingham Trent University

Atelier: &rchitecture

Experience: 2yrs (1yr 5plus architects Manchester & 1yr 5plus architects London)

Posted 1 Mar 2021 21:56

Come meet our Collaborators!

First up Ecospheric! Ecospheric focus on pioneering eco developments that save carbon and drive technological change. The built environment sees new …More

Posted 2 Mar 2021 14:54

Next up Rural Solutions!
Selby Stocks is a Senior Architect working for Rural Solutions, who together with Ecospheric are undertaking the design of ‘Little Rissington’, an Arts …More

Posted 2 Mar 2021 14:55

ECOtswolds is an opportunity for students to be involved in a project that will push the boundaries of innovative technologies used in not just this Paragraph 79 project, but as society …More

Posted 2 Mar 2021 14:55

The ECOtswolds team will be focussing on the research and testing of innovative technologies in order to support our live client with their paragraph 79 project in the Cotswolds. The …More

Posted 2 Mar 2021 15:38

Yesterday we had a client catch up meeting with Ecospheric’s Tiffany Chong, who is our main liaison throughout the project. We had a great catch-up and were able to confirm further …More

Posted 5 May 2021 20:02

A Chartered Architect, Jack has a background in sustainable design and healthcare architecture, specialising in Primary & Community Care. During his career, he has fulfilled a pivotal …More

Posted 8 May 2021 23:35

MSA Live begins! The team is finally complete and we were able to meet the BA1 & BA2 Students. We introduced them to the brief, the site, and what we plan to do over the next two weeks.

For …More

Posted 10 May 2021 20:18

To get the creative juices following, the students were asked to draw something they’ve been staring at for the past year working from home! There were some great sketches from city …More

Posted 10 May 2021 20:19

Earlier today, we were joined by chattered architect Jack Davies, who shared his invaluable experience of progressing through architectural education and towards a career that champions …More

Posted 11 May 2021 21:11

James Williams is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sero a hybrid technology and housing company which specialises in developing Zero carbon homes. Sero also supports partners …More

Posted 11 May 2021 21:14

George Edward W

"Phi reflects their design philosophy with ‘smart’ architecture, sustainable and environmentally responsible design, combined with the application of Phi Φ, the golden section, …More

Posted 12 May 2021 14:54

Padraig is a sustainability leader at IBI and has recently relocated from Vancouver to be based in the UK & Ireland. He is at the cutting-edge of sustainable design, specifically the …More

Posted 12 May 2021 15:44

Over the past few days, the students have been working in smaller sub-groups, researching innovative methods that might benefit Little Rissington. We all came back together this morning …More

Posted 13 May 2021 14:50

A great talk, and a really interesting Q&A from our guests Sara & Jeremy this afternoon.

They gave a great insight into Passivhaus Design, through their years of experience and the …More

Posted 13 May 2021 15:42

Kathleen K

Day 4, Food for thought
The team has been getting loads of inspiration from all our talks this week. Our last talk given to us by James Williams from Sero inspired us to look at other …More

Posted 14 May 2021 13:15

Today we were joined by Padraig McMorrow – A passive house certified architect from IBI group.

Padraig talked through the carbon impacts of a building from material selection, …More

Posted 14 May 2021 20:52

Kathleen K

Feedback is important to Us!

As we concluded week 1 we wanted to make sure that our pre-planned session plan reflected our BA students expectations, and make improvements on anything …More

Posted 17 May 2021 12:11

Day 6, Alternative Passive Design Technologies around the world

Asia is placed right next to the equator, which means it has different climatic conditions compared to Europe. So, …More

Posted 18 May 2021 11:15

This week we have begun the process of putting our research findings onto paper. BA students have been sketching out innovative technologies that through our research, we believe the …More

Posted 18 May 2021 15:27

Today we had a Diagram Tutorial from George.

As the students have been modelling and drawing for their diagrams, we took the opportunity to bring all of the work today in a cohesive …More

Posted 20 May 2021 12:18

The research and final diagramming has happened in multiple softwares. Word, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, SketchUp but we made sure to put it all up on our Miro board to go through …More

Posted 20 May 2021 17:02

The team quite enthusiastically expressed their thoughts on the whole project. And we thought this is something that’s worth sharing with everyone! Well, what’s the use of all the …More

Posted 20 May 2021 19:05

The final day was quite hectic; but we were thrilled to see the output of both the publication and the document we did for our client. This GIF shows the spread of sheets (ie-document) …More

Posted 21 May 2021 15:59