Oxford Brookes Architecture Exhibition
28th May 2010

I went to the end of year exhibition at Oxford brookes University where my sister, Amy is studying for a Diploma in Architecture for part 2 accreditation from RIBA / ARB. All levels of Archiecture students were exhibited on different floors and the third year undergrads and first year diploma students were the most impressive. The first year diploma students were split into units of roughly 15-20 students and each unit tackled a different issue. The unit I focused on duriong the exhibition was DS2 Place-nomics, which looked at solutions to social problems and the downfalls architects are currently suffereing as a result of ignoring the real needs of communities and environments. This was the unit Amy studied in and her work focused on community housing around a theatre. The work was very impressive and beautifully and very imaginativly exhibited. For example the DS2 unit chose to display each individuals work in an A1 strip from floor to ceiling with a blind covering the entire length which had major facts and information effecting the project printed onto it, as you read the facts and lifted the blind the work was revealed. There were many beautiful models, a model for one unit was created of the whole area but visitors to the exhibition could chose which project from the unit to place on the site. There was another whivh had each project projected onto the site with shadows showing the passing of a day, each day there would be someone elses project displayed.

It was quite an imtimidating exhibition to go to only a week before your own Landscape Architecture exhibition opened!!
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