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Excited to kick off our next studio brief for the RCA MA Architecture programme today. This year we investigate ‘Phase Change’ in cities and their edgelands - searching for ‘Thin Places’ where futures (climatic/technological/ecological) feel closer. taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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DIY Forensics Y2 Project | Joe Horgan - - - DIY Forensics investigates how communities can document and contest sewage pollution along the south coast through civic science. Beginning with Man Mind, a men’s mental health group whose sea swimming ritual is threatened by polluted water, the project follows the issue to the Budds Farm Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO). In response, open-source tools and environmental media expand into coastal infrastructures that turn lived experience into evidence. By making pollution visible across sites of use and discharge, the project asks how architecture can encourage environmental monitoring, challenge official records and support communities who rely on the sea. The third proposal is a civic science hub beside Portsmouth Lifeboat Station. Working with the existing station, the proposal creates a shared courtyard for fundraising and community events, extending its culture of coastal care towards environmental threats. The hub supports education and access to monitoring equipment, alongside spaces for handling samples. A public forum brings community groups and researchers together, helping local knowledge connect with institutional testing and expertise. Its kit library includes an aerial photography kite for documenting sewage plumes and changing surface conditions from above. Developed in response to coastal no-fly zones, the kite offers a cheaper and more convivial alternative to drones. Carrying a small camera, it extends ground-level fieldwork to the scale of the shoreline. #architecturestudent #drawingarchitecture #citizenscience taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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DIY Forensics Y2 Project | Joe Horgan - - - DIY Forensics investigates how communities can document and contest sewage pollution along the south coast through civic science. Beginning with Man Mind, a men’s mental health group whose sea swimming ritual is threatened by polluted water, the project follows the issue to the Budds Farm Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO). In response, open-source tools and environmental media expand into coastal infrastructures that turn lived experience into evidence. By making pollution visible across sites of use and discharge, the project asks how architecture can encourage environmental monitoring, challenge official records and support communities who rely on the sea. The second proposal places a series of lifeguard towers along Southsea Beach, where pollution is experienced through disrupted routines of swimming and care. Acting as telepresent receivers of conditions at Budds Farm, the towers translate remote discharge data into local warnings while supporting continued access to the sea through lockers, showers and sheltered gathering spaces. Each tower also contains a small kit library, allowing swimmers and civic science groups to borrow monitoring equipment directly from the beach. One of these tools is the horizontal water sampler. It can be lowered and triggered at a chosen depth, collecting pollutants stratified through the water column. Built from standard components for £57.88, it offers an open-source alternative to specialist samplers costing more than £500. #architecturestudent #citizenscience #drawingarchitecture #lifeguardtower taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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DIY Forensics Y2 Project | Joe Horgan - - - DIY Forensics investigates how communities can document and contest sewage pollution along the south coast through civic science. Beginning with Man Mind, a men’s mental health group whose sea swimming ritual is threatened by polluted water, the project follows the issue to the Budds Farm Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO). In response, open-source tools and environmental media expand into coastal infrastructures that turn lived experience into evidence. By making pollution visible across sites of use and discharge, the project asks how architecture can encourage environmental monitoring, challenge official records and support communities who rely on the sea. The first proposal is a public gantry over the Budds Farm CSO. During fieldwork, I had to wade through contaminated ground to record the outfall. The gantry replaces this risk with a safe walkway. Fixed camera points and marked transects support repeatable documentation and sampling, while a kinetic façade functions as a public evidence bank. Developed through a media and material experiment, the 1:1 prototype tests how this system can move environmental data beyond hard-to-read industry formats and make it publicly legible. Sediment chromatographs made from samples collected at Budds Farm are folded into kinetic nodes and animated by E. coli data collected at Southsea by an existing civic science group. The further each node opens, the higher the concentration recorded that week. At full extension, safe limits were exceeded. #architecturestudent #kineticfacade #citizenscience #architecturemodel taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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Phantoming Waves Y2 Project | Riichiro Yamamoto - - - Phantoming Waves investigates charged landscapes along Kochi’s coastline, Japan, an area threatened by the predicted Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami. The project begins with the question of how memories, objects, and places might be cared for before they become debris. “In 2026, fifteen years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, a group of researchers in Kochi began walking along the coast, recording the living archives of the region before they disappeared. They called themselves the Guardians. Their work connected rescued objects to memories, digitised fragile traces, and gathered environmental data from the coastline. By 2056, as the predicted earthquake came to be felt as an imminent future and people continued to leave Kochi, the Guardians’ walk had become valued as a sacred practice known as Nai no Do.” Situated in this future scenario, the project envisions Nai no Do as a new pilgrimage route through a landscape shaped by geological time, depopulation, and anticipation. Along the route, critical pieces of architecture guide how people walk, listen, perform rituals, and leave traces. These architectures do not attempt to prevent disaster. Instead, they create situations in which memory must be actively carried, repeated, and cared for by human hands. The final outcome is a film narrated by future pilgrims recalling their experience of walking Nai no Do. Their testimonies describe encounters with rescued objects, seismic sounds, tsunami stones, high-ground shrines, and personal memories awakened through ritual. The film is visualised through a series of 3D Gaussian Splats, capturing landscapes, objects, and traces as unstable digital fragments. Through this combination of pilgrimage, architecture, testimony, and digital image-making, Phantoming Waves asks how architecture might help future generations remain in relation with places that are disappearing, and with disasters that have not yet happened but are already shaping how people live. #architecturestudent #gaussiansplat #ue5 #kochi taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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Phantoming Waves Y2 Project | Riichiro Yamamoto - - - Phantoming Waves investigates charged landscapes along Kochi’s coastline, Japan, an area threatened by the predicted Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami. The project begins with the question of how memories, objects, and places might be cared for before they become debris. “In 2026, fifteen years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, a group of researchers in Kochi began walking along the coast, recording the living archives of the region before they disappeared. They called themselves the Guardians. Their work connected rescued objects to memories, digitised fragile traces, and gathered environmental data from the coastline. By 2056, as the predicted earthquake came to be felt as an imminent future and people continued to leave Kochi, the Guardians’ walk had become valued as a sacred practice known as Nai no Do.” Situated in this future scenario, the project envisions Nai no Do as a new pilgrimage route through a landscape shaped by geological time, depopulation, and anticipation. Along the route, critical pieces of architecture guide how people walk, listen, perform rituals, and leave traces. These architectures do not attempt to prevent disaster. Instead, they create situations in which memory must be actively carried, repeated, and cared for by human hands. The final outcome is a film narrated by future pilgrims recalling their experience of walking Nai no Do. Their testimonies describe encounters with rescued objects, seismic sounds, tsunami stones, high-ground shrines, and personal memories awakened through ritual. The film is visualised through a series of 3D Gaussian Splats, capturing landscapes, objects, and traces as unstable digital fragments. Through this combination of pilgrimage, architecture, testimony, and digital image-making, Phantoming Waves asks how architecture might help future generations remain in relation with places that are disappearing, and with disasters that have not yet happened but are already shaping how people live. #architecturestudent #gaussiansplat #ue5 #kochi taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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Phantoming Waves Y2 Project | Riichiro Yamamoto - - - Phantoming Waves investigates charged landscapes along Kochi’s coastline, Japan, an area threatened by the predicted Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami. The project begins with the question of how memories, objects, and places might be cared for before they become debris. “In 2026, fifteen years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, a group of researchers in Kochi began walking along the coast, recording the living archives of the region before they disappeared. They called themselves the Guardians. Their work connected rescued objects to memories, digitised fragile traces, and gathered environmental data from the coastline. By 2056, as the predicted earthquake came to be felt as an imminent future and people continued to leave Kochi, the Guardians’ walk had become valued as a sacred practice known as Nai no Do.” Situated in this future scenario, the project envisions Nai no Do as a new pilgrimage route through a landscape shaped by geological time, depopulation, and anticipation. Along the route, critical pieces of architecture guide how people walk, listen, perform rituals, and leave traces. These architectures do not attempt to prevent disaster. Instead, they create situations in which memory must be actively carried, repeated, and cared for by human hands. The final outcome is a film narrated by future pilgrims recalling their experience of walking Nai no Do. Their testimonies describe encounters with rescued objects, seismic sounds, tsunami stones, high-ground shrines, and personal memories awakened through ritual. The film is visualised through a series of 3D Gaussian Splats, capturing landscapes, objects, and traces as unstable digital fragments. Through this combination of pilgrimage, architecture, testimony, and digital image-making, Phantoming Waves asks how architecture might help future generations remain in relation with places that are disappearing, and with disasters that have not yet happened but are already shaping how people live. #architecturestudent #gaussiansplat #ue5 #kochi taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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How to See Inside an Invisible Building Y2 Project | Angel Chase - - - What is an invisible building? In the UK much of the migrant experience is unseen by the public, no more so than in places like Harmonsworth; an Immigration Removal Centre. It is a space like several other such centres that exist beyond the observation of the public, academia, social services or independent humanitarian bodies. The architecture and inhabitants of these places are kept out of sight; whether due to distance, hostility, confidentiality or security, these buildings and their inhabitants are invisible. The project works to evidence this phenomena through cartography and then a 3D reconstruction of one such invisible building. Harmonsworth has only been documented through testimony and limited photographs. Using those and some unreliable floor plans, the project assembles a 3D model of the entire centre. The process of investigation and spatial reconstruction is documented in an accompanying methodology handbook, so the project could act as a template for analysing and revealing the architecture of other such hidden places. The film represents a methodology developed over the last year that uses architectural modelling as a way to see inside a physical space. #architecturestudent #3dreconstruction taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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How to See Inside an Invisible Building Y2 Project | Angel Chase - - - What is an invisible building? In the UK much of the migrant experience is unseen by the public, no more so than in places like Harmonsworth; an Immigration Removal Centre. It is a space like several other such centres that exist beyond the observation of the public, academia, social services or independent humanitarian bodies. The architecture and inhabitants of these places are kept out of sight; whether due to distance, hostility, confidentiality or security, these buildings and their inhabitants are invisible. The project works to evidence this phenomena through cartography and then a 3D reconstruction of one such invisible building. Harmonsworth has only been documented through testimony and limited photographs. Using those and some unreliable floor plans, the project assembles a 3D model of the entire centre. The process of investigation and spatial reconstruction is documented in an accompanying methodology handbook, so the project could act as a template for analysing and revealing the architecture of other such hidden places. The film represents a methodology developed over the last year that uses architectural modelling as a way to see inside a physical space. #architecturestudent #3dreconstruction taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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How to See Inside an Invisible Building Y2 Project | Angel Chase - - - What is an invisible building? In the UK much of the migrant experience is unseen by the public, no more so than in places like Harmonsworth; an Immigration Removal Centre. It is a space like several other such centres that exist beyond the observation of the public, academia, social services or independent humanitarian bodies. The architecture and inhabitants of these places are kept out of sight; whether due to distance, hostility, confidentiality or security, these buildings and their inhabitants are invisible. The project works to evidence this phenomena through cartography and then a 3D reconstruction of one such invisible building. Harmonsworth has only been documented through testimony and limited photographs. Using those and some unreliable floor plans, the project assembles a 3D model of the entire centre. The process of investigation and spatial reconstruction is documented in an accompanying methodology handbook, so the project could act as a template for analysing and revealing the architecture of other such hidden places. The film represents a methodology developed over the last year that uses architectural modelling as a way to see inside a physical space. #architecturestudent #3dreconstruction taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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Bodies of Water: Finding Solace in the City Y2 Project | Maya Vahidi - - - Comprising approximately sixty percent of the human body, water occupies a uniquely intimate position within our existence. It is through this intrinsic affinity with water that we have, for millennia, sought seas, rivers and lakes as places of rest, renewal and refuge. Yet these valued landscapes have become increasingly contaminated through decades of infrastructural neglect, environmental mismanagement and political failure. As climate change exacerbates profound inequalities in access to safe spaces for cooling, polluted waterbodies emerge today as landscapes simultaneously defined by risk and necessity. Informed by extensive research, mapping, drawing, filmmaking and a series of intimate interviews with wild swimmers, the project proposes a distributed network of hybrid river infrastructures embedded across London’s waterbodies. A water-testing laboratory and wild swimming facility form a prototype for a broader guardianship model, stewarded by river guardians responsible for the care and monitoring of defined stretches of river corridor. Integrating environmental monitoring, passive strategies of ecological remediation and practices of wild swimming within a single architectural framework, the project seeks to attune swimmers to the changing conditions of rivers, fostering more tangible relationships with the work needed to sustain them. Ultimately the project offers a provocation for how urban waterways might be understood and protected in the near future, arguing that lasting forms of stewardship are not born through obligation, but through the deeply personal and lived experience of water itself. #architecturestudent #riverlea #wildswimming taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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Bodies of Water: Finding Solace in the City Y2 Project | Maya Vahidi - - - Comprising approximately sixty percent of the human body, water occupies a uniquely intimate position within our existence. It is through this intrinsic affinity with water that we have, for millennia, sought seas, rivers and lakes as places of rest, renewal and refuge. Yet these valued landscapes have become increasingly contaminated through decades of infrastructural neglect, environmental mismanagement and political failure. As climate change exacerbates profound inequalities in access to safe spaces for cooling, polluted waterbodies emerge today as landscapes simultaneously defined by risk and necessity. Informed by extensive research, mapping, drawing, filmmaking and a series of intimate interviews with wild swimmers, the project proposes a distributed network of hybrid river infrastructures embedded across London’s waterbodies. A water-testing laboratory and wild swimming facility form a prototype for a broader guardianship model, stewarded by river guardians responsible for the care and monitoring of defined stretches of river corridor. Integrating environmental monitoring, passive strategies of ecological remediation and practices of wild swimming within a single architectural framework, the project seeks to attune swimmers to the changing conditions of rivers, fostering more tangible relationships with the work needed to sustain them. Ultimately the project offers a provocation for how urban waterways might be understood and protected in the near future, arguing that lasting forms of stewardship are not born through obligation, but through the deeply personal and lived experience of water itself. #archistudent #archviz #wildswimming taken in Royal College of Art School of Architecture by @rca_ads13
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