Third Year Studio

Integrative Architecture

“This studio will search for an integrative architecture; the ‘architecturalization’ of the urban and the making of ‘urban assemblages’.  We look for an architecture that needs not compete as a form against the force and complexity of the city.  Instead, an architecture that allows the city to be inclusive and shared, to behave as an organism that is healthy and ages well like a cedar tree.  An architecture that negotiates, includes and takes time as one of its most essential ingredients.  An architecture that fully measures the climate crisis and the critical situation of our one and only planet.  An integrative architecture.” 

Professor Nasrin Seraji and Dr. Tao Zhu, ‘From Architectural Urbanism to Integrative Architecture’,

University of Hong Kong (2020)

In the Second Trimester of Third Year the students continued and expanded their study of Public Space in Rathmines.  The focus shifted to a slightly larger scale, exploring the complex interface between architecture and urbanism, and investigating how a significant public building can be integrated into the existing physical context and make a new piece of city.