Unit 9 is a design studio within the undergraduate architecture programme at the Bartlett UCL. Led by Jessica In and Chee-Kit Lai, the Unit has developed a continued interest in the performative aspects of new technologies and their expressive potentials for the design and representation of architecture.
The featured work of the Unit’s students are diverse, wide-ranging and speculative – including projects that explore overlays and intersections between physical, fictional and virtual places and landscapes; of architectures resulting from societal changes in economy or politics; to projects that re-imagine the body and its associated cultural rituals.
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
Tutors: Jessica In and Chee-Kit Lai
Students:
Krina Christopoulou – Cartography Library of Places that never were
Krina Christopoulou – Las Pozas, the Border of Reality
Ed Taft – Museum of Hong Kong’s Lost Urban Fabric + Cinema archive
Ed Taft – Fictional Reconstruction of Kowloon Walled City
Eugene Tan – Virtual Utopia
Nandinzul Munkhbayar – Calligraphy, Ice and VR Landscape
George Proud – Bitcoin Bank
Ivo Tedbury – Ghost Landscape
Alex Balgarnie, Interactive Floor
Eugene Tan – South Korean Women’s War Musuem
Ian Lim – Tomb of the [Un]Known Soldier
Yunzi Wang – Personalising Death (Eco-coffin)
Jaejun Kim – Flight Device
Freddie Hong – Capoeira Device
Thomas Chu – Interactive Scanning + Tattoo Device