I would love to study at The Manchester School of
Architecture as it is consistently well at equipping students with the best
possible start to working in Industry and becoming a successful architect , and
I believe studying at the school would enable me to fully pursue my focus and
direction as an architect. The school also has an outstanding reputation and
history, educating the likes of Architect ‘Giant’ Norman Foster. In my home
city of London I’ve witnessed all types of architectural developments and
redevelopments, including Commercial, Industrial, heritable and housing
developments. This has allowed me to gain a great understanding of the architectural
trends around me. As the school is situated near to the city centre of
Manchester, which like London has also experienced a lot of architectural
growth in the past few years, being a student at the Manchester School Of
Architecture, I will be able to witness more developments in the city of
Manchester and gain a better understanding of the emerging architecture and how
to approach my designs. I will also be able to benefit from the facilities at two
well accredited and resourced universities.
A building that I have recently visited is the London Aquatics
Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, designed by Zaha Hadid. It was
interesting to see how the design had been accustomed for the general public
after the games. The design was not only pleasing to the eye due to its weird
curvature and simple use of colours, which gives it quite a futuristic feel,
but it was also clearly well thought through so that the wings used for the
games to increase the capacity, could be taken down without it having a
detrimental effect on the identity of the design. The fact that the centre was
designed socially so that it had a purpose beyond the Olympic Games that the
public could experience, I think is amazing.
Zaha Hadid is in fact my favourite architect. Her design
style and work is very unique, yet modern and contemporary. She makes great use
of abstract shapes and simple, yet vivid colours to make her designs
fascinating as well as eye-catching. She is also known to design in a way that
takes influences from the culture and politics in the locations of her architecture,
for example the Heydar Aliyev Centre which is a cultural venue in Baku,
Azerbaijan, is said to somewhat resemble the Soviet Palaces. The Heydar Aliyev
Centre is a work of architecture that I would love to experience, as it has a beautiful
but seemingly complicated structure and it would be wonderful to compare it
first-hand to the Soviet Palaces as it is suggested to do so.
