img(height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=2939831959404383&ev=PageView&noscript=1")

President’s Medals 2013: Kihzi Island

The President’s Medals have been rewarding the best student ideas and drawings since 1836. This year those projects spanned from the archaeology of the future to the social effect of a socialist city and a civic centre for an island community, with intelligent design development and many beautiful drawings along the way. Of 81 schools that entered, this year saw one, the Bartlett, sweep the board with the excellence of its students’ submissions.

Hangar facility and partial plan (1:200).
Hangar facility and partial plan (1:200).

Silver medal winner and SOM Foundation Fellowship Part II

Kihzi Island, Ben Hayes

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Tutors: Yeoryia Manolopoulou, 
Niall McLaughlin



 

Fragile, desecrated wooden Orthodox churches have a spiritual presence that commands respect, but in the next 10-15 years they will almost totally disappear from the Russian landscape

This proposal is for a museum landscape that will facilitate the restoration and reassembly of 250 wooden Orthodox churches on Kizhi Island in northern Russia. The fragile, desecrated structures have a spiritual presence that commands respect; how­ever, in the next 10-15 years they will almost ­totally disappear from the Russian landscape. This project challenges the programme of the ­existing museum on Kizhi Island, ­radically ­expanding it to include all 250 wooden churches. It proposes a new restoration facility and museum to facilitate the dismantling of the church monuments from their original location, their shipping to Kizhi, their restoration,and open-air curation across the whole island. The facility will contain temporary and permanent structures for the research, storage, preservation and exhibition of each relocated church. The project addresses two problems: it protects and restores this endangered heritage, that today is on the verge of extinction, and it dramatically redesigns the visitor experience on the island.

Left: Kihzi Island 100 years on, an exploration to establish a set of rules and an informed strategy of curation. Right: Street of churches, arranged chronologically.
Left: Kihzi Island 100 years on, an exploration to establish a set of rules and an informed strategy of curation. Right: Street of churches, arranged chronologically.
Typological study of abandoned churches – sectional overlay used as a form finder to help determine the type of enclosure needed during restoration.
Typological study of abandoned churches – sectional overlay used as a form finder to help determine the type of enclosure needed during restoration.

Latest

Study reveals potential to ‘significantly’ ramp up number of affordable homes delivered on rural exception sites by raising awareness of the benefits

Greater awareness of the benefits of the Rural Exception Site policy is needed

Co-founder of Landolt + Brown, a perfectionist, problem solver and deep thinker whose humour and humanity were reflected in his architecture

Perfectionist, problem solver and deep thinker

Want to reimagine a Welsh village museum, design a Chelmsford housing development or pitch for work on an urban regeneration programme? These are the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

Latest: Overhaul of Welsh museum dedicated to former UK prime minister

The Urchin Café was conceived and built as a sculpture for use as a café by Matthew Sanderson. It sits beside a 19th century gothic mansion, home to the Plas-Glyn-y-Weddw arts centre, close to Wales’ Llanbedrog beach. The sculptor teamed up with Mark Wray Architects and structural engineer Fold to realise the scheme

Sculpture and café are combined in the work of sculptor, engineer and architect

Exhibition reveals how political messages and militaristic or nationalistic images and patterns bring propaganda to a domestic level on clothes and fabrics

Exhibition shows the subtext in textiles