QUB STUDIO 5

M.Arch 1 students from the Queen’s University Belfast have designed 6 proposals for the Seán McDermott Street site which can be discovered here at Collective Futures QUB. For more information, check out a recorded Symposium with QUB students showcasing their designs.

UCD M.Arch 1

Open Heart City | UCD M.Arch 1 Drawings: https://www.instagram.com/openheartcity/

A film by André Goyvaerts (UCD M.Arch 1 Student) as a contribution to the Open Heart City Project.
Disclaimer: Please note that this film contains sensitive imagery. Viewer discretion is advised. The aim of this film project was to capture and archive the interior of this building. Acknowledging the past history and promoting conversation as to what to do with buildings such as these in the future.

Open heart surgery is sometimes needed – it is invasive and direct, but at the same time it must be precise – it knows what it is doing, and it is performed upon a living organism. It intervenes and works within what it finds to allow that organism to thrive. It is also vital to bring an open heart and generous, creative spirit to the difficult places so often found in the atrophied chambers of our inner cities. Architecture needs to get beneath the surfaces, beyond appearance and form and understand the pulse of the life that keeps the city beating. “Open Heart City, 20“