About the Show

Loughborough University Architecture (LU-Arc) is delighted to share the creativity and originality of our students.

We are particularly excited for this year as it marks the graduation of our first MArch cohort. Studying architecture can be a challenging endeavour, notwithstanding pioneering the path for a new course. Well done to our inaugural graduates.

The theme of our final year for our BArch is Diversity. Diversity is celebrated through student-selection of a design lab with its own distinct approach to architecture.

AAA Lab (Architecture Anthropocene Age) focuses on the social, cultural and economic impacts of the dawn of the Anthropocene Age; the Health and Well-being lab explores holistic approaches to human health, comfort and happiness; Laboratory Conferta works with found objects, stories, and memories at a site to explore how architecture can speak meaning to its users and the wider city; the Meta-Tectonics lab examines new construction methods and innovative building materials towards speculative futures; and ‘SusLab’ is immersed in collaborative research to explore materials, technologies and societal trends that can be used to drive environmental innovation.

The studio of our MArch finalists has focused on the Architect Entrepreneur, the development of a new breed of architectural practice I practice. The lab critically examines the practise of architecture (what we do) disrupting our unsustainable patterns of consumption and confronts the practice of architecture (who we are) through the ethical and cultural role of the architect. The lab operated in Refshaleøen, an industrial islet in Copenhagen, Denmark.

We hope you enjoy the diversity of the work as much as we do and join us in wishing them all the very best in their future journeys.

Robert Schmidt-III