Honours, Commendations, Prizes and Exemplary Projects 2019–20

This exhibition presents the work of the seven students who were awarded the AA Diploma with Honours in the 2019-20 academic year alongside those who received Commendations, Awards & Prizes as well as the Exemplary Projects completed at the end of Third Year as well as from the Postgraduate Programmes.

As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the AA continues to operate remotely, and for the first time, this annual exhibition will take place online as a series of showreels to showcase the best projects produced from the previous academic year. In addition, you can watch the Honours presentations by the seven recipients and view their projects as an augmented reality installation, overlaid on your location wherever in the world you might be via an Instagram filter designed by Jane Ching Yee Ling, AA Dipl(Hons) 2020.

Click on the following links from your smartphone to launch the filters in Instagram: Filter 1, Filter 2; and see an example of the Instagram filter in use in Bedford Square!

The recipients of the AA Diploma with Honours are:

Christopher Kokarev
Diploma 1
Vertical Asclepeions: Reinstalling an Architecture of Public Care

Jane Ching Yee Ling 
Diploma 3
Hostile By Design

Buster Ronngren
Diploma 11
passage to a city when

Russell Royer 
Diploma 12
The Choreum

Hafizah Mohd Nor
Diploma 14
Gotong-Royong: An Autonomous Floating Settlement in Brunei

Efim Leonov
Diploma 15
Farmorama

Matthew Ho
Diploma 16
Urban Nomadism - The City as a Space of Exclusion

The recipients of the AA Diploma with Commendation are:

Alex Yuen
Diploma 1
Archive in Exile: At Home in the Liminal World

Abhinav Jain
Diploma 2
The Sacred Neverland: A vessel for our collective fictions

Tammy Amornkasemwong
Diploma 2
Civic Tourism

Jocelyn Tang
Diploma 3
Dams on the Nile - A Narrative of Ecocide

Jack Isles
Diploma 4
Measuring The Indian Ocean Dipole

Noah Gotlib
Diploma 4
Crumbling Land: The Erosion of the Jeffersonian Grid

Henry Jiao
Diploma 5
Mise en Scène Quotidienne

Aarohi Taralbhai Bakeri
Diploma 6
Remediating Farmscapes

Karim Fouad
Diploma 6
A Transitory Conservation: Erasure and Monumentality in the Nile Delta

Georgia Sophia Hablützel
Diploma 7
The Distant; Unsettled Land in Britain

Oratai Taechamahaphant
Diploma 7
Forest of the People: A Manuscript of Care for the Estuary Community

Ainhoa Schapira Perez
Diploma 8
The Health Retreat “Water is good, air is better, but light is best of all”

Yuki Terado
Diploma 8
Parasitic Vertical Living

Chloe Hudson
Diploma 9
(An Alternative) Public London Charter

Maria Bessarabova
Diploma 9
Architecture of Submersion

Aoi Phillips 
Diploma 10
Blue Borough - Spaces for the Coexistence of Identity and Policing

Jake Parkin
Diploma 10
Focusing Interactive Space

Jae Whan Kim
Diploma 11
Observatory µ - Urban Archaeology of Dust

Gréta Tekla Gedeon
Diploma 12
Extended Forest

Hexuan Yu
Diploma 13
Hetero-

Julian Bächle
Diploma 14
Commoning Dessau - A Proposal for a Self-Sufficient Settlement

Sean Gwee
Diploma 15
A Love Letter to the Lighthouse in the Expanded Field

Chak Hin Leung
Diploma 16
Jugaad

Jasen KOK Zi Xian
Diploma 17
Right to the City

Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard
Diploma 17
The Undressing of the “Ghetto Plan” – A Tale about Nakedness

Lydia Liu
Diploma 18
Reinstating the Vernacular - a material strategy for affordable housing

Nicole Ng
Diploma 18
The Possibility of an Island in the AA; or how to deschool ourselves

Marion Delaporte 
Diploma 19
It was not Birmingham that made buttons, it was buttons that made Birmingham

Yoav Caspi
Diploma 19
Wayring: Birmingham's Plan for Walk

Kwang Yi Goh
Diploma 20
Freemasons Road Conveners' Trust: Preserving Informal Community Spaces

Xuecheng Wang
Diploma 20
2020: The Fall of A Profession

Antonin Hautefort
Diploma 21
Phenomena Introspectus

Ignatio Bhaskara Putra Tenggara
Diploma 21
Sana Terrae "Magenta Shadow Caster"

The recipients of Awards and Prizes for 2019–20 are:

AA Prize
Georgia Hablützel
Diploma 7
The Distant; Unsettled Land in Britain

AAF Travel Award
Sebastian Cornwell 
Experimental 15
A Platform for the People

Alex Stanhope Forbes Prize
Antonin Hautefort
Diploma 21 
Phenomena Introspectus

Alexander Memorial Travel Prize
Paula Martin Rivera
First Year 
It's Oh So Quiet

Brian Henderson Prize
Boji Hu
Diploma 21
EXCEPOLIS – Parasite Cities

Communications & Media Studies Annual Prizes
Sindi Dojaka
Communication and Media Studies Year 1
Translation of Objects through Drawing

Communications & Media Studies Annual Prizes
Yuyi Jiang
CMS experimental level term 2
Cellar door

David & Beverly Bernstein Award
Marcel Rofatto
Housing and Urbanism
Transposing diagrams to space: alternatives for contemporary complexity

Dennis Sharp Prize
Moad Musbahi
Diploma 14
Spolia, Or the Accumulations of Heritage

Dennis Sharp Prize
Calvin Po
Diploma 3
Counter-Mapping the Biopolitics of the Irish Border(s)

Denys Lasdun Award for Excellence in Architecture
Hyunuk Kim
Experimental 5
Wellness Exhibition

Environmental & Technical Studies
Alison Chen
Experimental 17
Landing the Earth Casted Pools Below the Vault

Environmental & Technical Studies
Ignatio Bhaskara Putra Tenggara 
Diploma 21 
Sana Terrae "Magenta Shadow Caster"

Henry Florence Studentship
Maria Bessarabova
Diploma 9
Architecture of Submersion

Henry Saxon Snell Prize
Christopher Daniel Maxim Kokarev
Diploma 1
Vertical Asclepeions: Reinstalling an Architecture of Public Care

History and Theory Studies Writing Award
Daphne Esin
First Year
Cobblestones and Façades in Renaissance Paris

History and Theory Studies Writing Award
Qi Zhu
First Year
In the Radiance of the Fire Pearl - Rebirth via Ming Tang

History and Theory Studies Writing Award
Ferial Massoud
Experimental 5
Adjusting the Dial: Territorial Accelerations in Colonial Algeria, 1954-1962

History and Theory Studies Writing Award
Tzu-shuo Wu
Experimental 6
A City Inside-out House

Holloway Trust Prize
Sarah Ashley deVries
Diploma 12
Let’s Talk Shit: Revealing Ugly Truths

Howard Colls Studentship
Chan Kai Qing Audrey
Diploma 12
The End of the Pier

Jane Chu Travel Award
Shutian Zhou
Diploma 3
Letters to Mr Tadpole

Julia Wood Foundation Prize
Laure Segur
Foundation
The Invisible Havelock Estate

Mike Davies Travel Award
Matthew Lin
Experimental 6
Highway House

Nicholas Pozner Memorial Prize for Single Best Drawing
Craig W R Mitchell
Diploma 13
Taking Refuge

Peter Sabara Travel Award
Yixia Xu
Diploma 7
Anonymous Reality: Lucid Terrain

Ralph Knott Memorial Prize
Russell Matthew Francis Thomas Royer
Diploma 12
The Choreum

Student Choice Diploma Honours
Ignatio Bhaskara Putra Tenggara 
Diploma 21 
Sana Terrae "Magenta Shadow Caster"

William Glover Prize
Henry Jiao
Diploma 5
Mise en Scène Quotidienne

The nominated exemplary projects at the end of Third Year and from the Postgraduate Programmes are:

Bolurin Michael Adedipe
Experimental 1
Garden Politics

Beatrice Boselli
Experimental 2
Cão sem plumas

Alexandria Peralta
Experimental 3
Rejuvenating Tonyamang’s Cacao Forest: An agroforestry settlement

Dajeong Yoon
Experimental 4 
Bypass Landscapes: A moving life

Sonia Syed
Experimental 5 
Reconstructing Conservation

Iunia M. Borsa 
Experimental 6 
Jungle House

Zou Zhongshan 
Experimental 7
Care for the Existing

Nikitas Papadopoulos
Experimental 8
"No Para Venta"

Jeff Yu-Fu Huang 
Experimental 9
A Manual for Urban Surgery

Judi Diab 
Experimental 10
A Cross - Cultural Limbo

Andrea Agostini 
Experimental 11 
Domesticity in the Anthropocene: From Primitive hut and over-protective house, to an in-between

Jang Hee Lee 
Experimental 12
Case Study House #17B ver.2020: Case Study House #17B ver.2020: from Nuclear Family to Commune

Jungwoong Park 
Experimental 13 
The Museum of Future Plants

James Emery
Experimental 14 
Alchemy of the Tún

Sebastian Cheng Ge Cornwell
Experimental 15
A Platform for the People

Edouard Joiris de Caussin
Experimental 16
The Choreography of Sand

Alison Chen
Experimental 17
Landing the Earth Casted Pools Below the Vault

Margherita Canali 
Experimental 18 
Grow-Rise (Feeding the city and the soul)

Marina Samvelyan 
Housing and Urbanism
Living With Bigness
: Towards a Vision for White City

Marcel Rofatto 
Housing and Urbanism
Transposing diagrams to space: alternatives for contemporary complexity

Wojciech Mazan
Projective Cities/Architecture and Urban Design
Proximal Relations: Forms of Settlement, Dwelling, and Territory in the Opole-Silesia, Poland

Lance Monfort 
Sustainable Environmental Design
Designing for the Tropics: Activated Facades for High-rise Residential Building Typologies in Manila, Philippines

Allen Kwun Pui Lai 
Sustainable Environmental Design 
Breathable Density – Passive Cooling for Highrise Living in Hong Kong

Daniel Kiss, Swadheet Chaturvedi 
Landscape Urbanism
Dynamic Domains of Antarctica

Fun Yuen, Yukie Takasu, Archit Mathur 
Emergent Technologies and Design
Multi-Level Ecology

Medha Bansal, Saumil Nagar and Kai Yeh 
Emergent Technologies and Design 
[In]Dune

Evangelos Polykandriotis (Greece), Giulia Arienzo Malori (Mexico), Shiri Dobrinsky (Israel), Tao Yu (China) 
Design Research Laboratory
TROPOS

Katya Popova
History and Critical Thinking
Opposition Space

Wyatt Armstrong, Hilla Gordon, Ciro Romer, Nasia Pantelidou and Shengning Zhang 
Design + Make
Woodland Cabin

Patrick William Leslie Birch 
Design + Make 
Ground to Crown: Advocating for the Latent Potentials of Neglected Fibre Composites

Aijin Ying
Spatial Performance & Design 
When it comes to the materiality in interactive art, digital or physical?

Nasha Nabiel Bahasoean
Spatial Performance & Design
Lawik Bakaba

Image credit: Jane Ching Yee Ling