Sura Hadi

Masters of Architecture: Urban Design (M.Arch) Course Director: Colin Fournier, ADDipl (Hons) RIBA SADG Professor of Architecture and Urbanism c..uk Working on the topic of urban change with a focus on London. Of interest are the past and current, but mainly the future mutations of the city. The course recognizes that there is no fixed definition of urban design: it can mean the design of the city as a whole or, more restrictively, of discrete elements within it. The course is operated by the Bartlett School of Architecture, internationally known for its innovative approach to design, along with key contributions from other prestigious departments within the Bartlett and UCL, in particular the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, the Planning Department and the Development Planning Unit, thus drawing on the unique expertise in design and urban research to be found in the School as a whole. The course also enjoys excellent relations with the leading urban design practices in London, many of which are represented by participants in the lecture series and at design crits during the course. Urban Design Project: East Greenwich Marsh Supervisor: Fabian Neuhaus (f..uk) Cities are products of time which embodied in the physical world, and the survival of identities conveys a sense of security and continuity. “East Greenwich Marsh” is a vision of the peninsula that presents a spontaneously growing pattern in an order that includes complementarities between all layers added and the existing old layers, bringing back the value of the waterfront by regenerating the former riverside walk which highlights few identity elements left from the past, reminding us of the immersed industrial heritage and life behind the shadows of giant gasworks. The project is a continuation of shots of live communities, or building barges with kids playing on the riverside or in the streets; it brings back life to communities that now seem to be gone forever. It also includes linking the area socially and culturally, taking the meanings of the past and adding the meanings of “now” with appreciation to the achievements of its forerunners. It is a promise that future will save “East Greenwich Marsh’s” present. Urban Design Report: Metamorphosis: Evolution of Identity Supervisor: Fabian Neuhaus (f..uk) Metamorphosis: Evolution of Identity is a survey of cities as products of time, as they connect to past and future and expressed in a series of events and circumstances that kept transforming the city from one state to another. Illustrated by selected case studies including Dubai, London, and the New Town in Prague, it presents some extreme examples of sudden change, and non changing cities, and cities that have evolved gradually through history and still evolve in a natural layering of time. The aim of this research is to achieve a broader understanding of the process of transformation and the natural sequence of growth changes that a city must experience to allow change to occur in a direction that maintains quality in growth while still being life enhancing. It also helps to understand to which extent we should allow change to our city spaces and when to conserve them.