The Architecture and Philosophy Centre
Architecture: BArch
Aminah Shujahat
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Atelier 02: Learning Neighbourhoods
Project
The Architecture and Philosophy Centre aims to connect communities by generating shared emotional experiences through space. By using physical space to create emotional reactions, these shared responses cross the boundaries of community, thus bringing visitors together. This, with a flexible learning curriculum centred around student and public shared learning creates an environment for ownership of studying.
Sitting between four key communities: The Northern City Centre, the Southern City Centre, Lenton and the Park Estate, each building has been designed in response to the community it faces. Playing with the contrast between commercial and residential communities, relationships such as public and private, served and servant and formal and informal dynamics are expressed spatially.
Each block has been designed to reflect the community which it faces. In the Architecture Block, integration from the City Centre is embraced through an open plan, where space is defined by level changes - meaning there is no physical barrier between different activities taking place.
The Philosophy block, however, embraces the privacy of residential communities. Using served and servant spaces to create a permeable threshold between public and private, individual and group study collide to replicate the individual home and collective community seen in The Park Estate and Lenton.
The Northern and Southern blocks embrace integration, combining residential spaces and formal learning spaces to create an overlap between public and private study.
