• Name: Nadezhda Yordanova
• Year: 5th year MArch at Manchester Metropolitan University
• Atelier: Advanced Practice
• Education: BA Architecture at Sheffield Hallam University
• Skills: Revit, Photoshop, illustrator, AutoCad, Presentation and Layout
• Interests: I have always been interested in sustainable design and minimizing the impact of the buildings we create. My aim is to become a chartered Architect and tackle issues such as climate change through my designs. For me, architecture is much more than what can be produced in a software package – I believe that a well-designed building should suit its context, environment and the people who are going to inhabit or use it.

• Name: Mohammed Amine Mouaqit
• Year: 5th year March
• Atelier: Advanced Practice
• Skills: Autocad, Sketchup, Archicad, Photoshop
• Interests: My aim is to be a leader in sustainable design as an architect. I want to raise awareness on how beautiful sustainable architecture can be with the use of aesthetically innovative materials. I am in the belief that environmental-friendly design is key to the future of our planet and I am willing to conceptualize examples on how this can be done.

• Name: Giorgos Porakos
• Year: 5th Year Master of Architecture
• Atelier: CPU AI
• Education: UWE Bristol
• Skills: Sketchup, Rhino, Autocad, Lumion, Vray, Photshop, Illustrator, Indesign
• Interests: I am a technical-minded architectural student focusing mainly on the relationship between engineering and aesthetic within the field of architecture. My interest is to research, observe and understand buildings technical resolution and how this creates a coherent building project. Also lately, I have developed additional interests in 3D visualization and computational design.

• Name: Christina Markaki
• Year: 5th Year Master of Architecture
• Atelier: U.S.E.
• Education: Leicester School of Architecture, DMU
• Skills: Preferred Autodesk software: AutoCAD, preferred 3D software: Rhino, all the Adobe programs from 2D to 3D animation.
• Interests: I am a methodological student working with conceptual, abstract and experimental concepts that can be transform into architecture. Designing while minding the future users’ feelings and senses is what interests me the most as well as Deconstruction and fragmentation as a theoritical background of creating designs. My aim is to continue entering competitions around the world that represent my ideologies. At the moment, I am taking part in a competition in Italy as my final project for this semester.

• Name: Effimia Athanasakopoulou
• Year: 5th year March
• Atelier: CPU AI
• Skills: Autocad, Sketchup, InDesign , Photoshop, Revit
• Interests: I am interested in computational design, how data is used and analyzed but also how we can use coding to generate a design, shape, form.

• Name: Nuwar Darwish
• Year: 5th Year Master of Architecture
• Atelier: Advanced Practice
• Education: UPM university, KSA.
• Skills: AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion, Adobe illustrator
• Interests: I have always been interested in conceptual architectural designs and sustainability, as well as utilizing sensational experiences to places and taking in consideration the user’s emotional and physical experiences, and social aspects to bring people together while designing. My goal is to be a certified architect that will help to enhance the perspective of a “built environment”.

The BA students have met with the collaborators. Adding to our previous meeting with the BA and explaining them our project briefly, the collaborators have also introduced the project to them in details, mentioned set of goals, vision and mission and the main aim of forming this organization and the outcome they are looking forward with working with all of us BA students and March students. Moreover, the BA students engaged and all of their questions were answered clearly from the collaborators in order to have a better clearer vision of the next step.

A photoshop workshop was held on teams and mainly led by the MArch students Nadezhda Yordanova and Christina Markaki.
Where they have explained to the BA students how to use photoshop starting from the basic tools on how to navigate through the program using each tool for a certain purpose going more into detailed explanation on how to add textures, materials, trees, and people to an elevation. BA students have engaged and learned new skills and techniques using photoshop and all of their questions have been answered clearly in order to use this program by engaging all students in our next step in the project.

An InDesign workshop was held on teams and mainly led by the MArch students Giorgos Porakos and Effimia Athanasakopoulou.
Where they have explained to the BA students how to use InDesign starting from the basic tools on how to navigate through the program using each tool for a certain purpose going more into detailed explanation on how to add landscape/portrait/ two faces pages, setting up a master page and applying its properties to other pages, text, shapes, add page numbers, import an image or a pdf file and export the InDesign file into a different format. BA students have engaged and learned new skills and techniques using InDesign and all of their questions have been answered clearly in order to use this program by engaging all students in our next step in the project.

Three members of the group started brainstorming and searching for inspirations for the ceiling design of the project. After exploring, sketching and discussing different options, the members have decided and settled on a design that mixes up between two styles which are the exposed ceiling with stripe lighting, and adding a stripe of wooden hangings with vegetations in order to provide the space with natural touches in addition to merging the color theme of walls and furniture into the ceiling.

We added some additional alterations to enhance the function of the building. We combined religious and cultural symbols into a pattern to create for the design of the shutter and used linear lighting to highlight the circulation of the building. The foldable reception area and food stands are designed to take up minimum room when they are not in use, the reception can be folded into the wall and the food stands can be stored in the basement.