William Board
M A r c h 0 1
The first year of the MArch course has concentrated on the exploration of the use of Film in Architecture. Joining the Cinematic Commons studio group at Leeds School of Architecture.
The course has led me to study two cities, London and Mumbai. In London I looked at the construction of the Crossrail project. The affects it is having creating new public spaces and the affects of the building of the infrastructure. It focuses on Liverpool Street Station and the excavation of a graveyard and other Archaeological finds when digging the new ticket halls.
In the second semester I studied the implications of street Hawkers in Mumbai.
M A r c h 0 2
The final year thesis project was also based in Mumbai. The design project is a large infrastructural project, investigating the problems with much of the existing infrastructure in Colaba, situated at the southern tip of Mumbai.
Exploring your own position on Architecture is a changing, dynamic experience that is constantly evolving from influences within the architecture school, the outside world and personal experiences. Over the past two years during the March course I have been particularly interested in the analysis of everyday activities, how these can inform architecture and the role of them in a city wide context. These occurrences have been enhanced by my studies being based in Mumbai, India where the infrastructure of the city has to cope with the mass of people. Through studying various articles on this a description of the city being Kinetic has been influential. The kinetic city is the ‘temporal articulation and occupation of space’ (Rahul Mehrotra). The kinetic city is not just the architecture of the informal, but where the boundary between informal and formal are blurred and the spatial limits of the city are expanded to include unimagined uses.