MAKING in PRACTICE – Roger Stephenson OBE Guest Lecture Video

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Our Making in Practice lecture series continued on Monday 10th February with Professor Roger Stephenson OBE, founding partner of Stephenson Hamilton Risley Studio.

Roger kindly brought along two car loads of models to present some of his best known projects and tell stories of their role in the design process. Huge thanks to Roger and to Anna Gidman for assisting with this model delivery. Some great questions and participation from the crowd – thanks for coming along!

Catch up on the previous lectures from Ecaterina Stefanescu here and Stanton Williams here.

MAKING in PRACTICE – StantonWilliams – Stephen Setford & Maz Weineck Guest Lecture Video

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Continuing our Making in Practice lecture series on Monday 27th January we were joined by Stanton Williams Modelmakers Stephen Setford & Maz Weineck presented a wide range of past and present projects and insights into their process. We’re pleased to share the full presentation below which was recorded via zoom.

Thanks to Stephen and Maz for their time and excellent contribution and to Dr. Matthew Wells for his assistance in coordinating our speakers. The full presentation from Stephen and Maz can be watched here:

We hope to see you all again at the next one; Roger Stephenson OBE, Founding Partner of Stephenson Hamilton Risley Studios who will be joining up on Monday 10th February at 17.30 in the Hanson Room of HBS.

Catch up on the previous lecture from Ecaterina Stefanescu here. 

MAKING in PRACTICE – Ecaterina Stefanescu Guest Lecture Video

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In the first of our Making in Practice lecture series we were joined Ecaterina Stefanescu who presented her varied community project work and use of models throughout. We’re pleased to share with you her full presentation (almost! We had an audio issue at the start!) which was recorded via zoom.

Thanks to Ecaterina for her time and contribution and to Dr. Matthew Wells for his assistance in coordinating our speakers. We hope to see you all again at the next one; Stephen Setford & Maz Weineck of StantonWilliams who join us on Monday January 27th 2025.

Enjoy!

B.15 Winter Break Closure Dates 24/25

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Hi All,
B.15 will be closed for the winter break from Friday December 13th.
Following the break we will reopen to students Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th January, Closed Friday 10th. 
Normal opening resumes from 09.30 Monday 13th January.
Have a good break and we’ll see you on the other side!
Scott, Lara, Paulina, Teagan and Ken @ B.15

MAKING in PRACTICE – Guest lecture series

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Following on from the themes presented and discussed at MAKING SCALE last year we’re pleased to announce a series of guest lectures on the subject of Modelmaking in practice.

‘MAKING in PRACTICE’ will feature four guest speakers from four varied UK Architecture practices.

Each lecture will begin at 17.30 and take place in the Humanities Bridgeford Street Building where we are based. The lectures are free to attend and open to anyone interested in joining, students, practitioners or public.

Monday 18th November 2024, Room G33                                                                      Ecaterina Stefenescu – Founding Partner of Estudio ESSE and Lecturer at UCLAN Recording now available here

Monday 27th January 2025, Room G33                                                                      Stephen Setford & Maz Weineck – Associate/Modelmakers at Stanton Williams

Monday 10th February 2025, Hanson Room                                                                  Roger Stephenson OBE – Founding partner of Stephenson Hamilton Risley Studio

Monday 24th February 2025, Room G33                                                                          Cassidy Wingrove – Associate/Modelmaker at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

We hope to see you there!

New 3D printer: Fuse+30W SLS powder printer

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We’re pleased to announce that after a successful bidding process last academic year we now have an exciting new type 3D Printer that uses selective laser sintering or SLS printing technology: The Fuse+ 30W.  

This type of 3D printing is a leading additive manufacturing technology that uses a high-powered laser to fuse small particles of powdered material together. The resulting fused powder forms your 3d print whilst the surrounding unfused powder is recycled back into the system. This circulation process is managed by the Fuse Sift station where excess powder is mixed with new before being added back into the printer as part of its own ecosystem. 

Our machine will exclusively use a grey powdered material called ‘Nylon 12’ which is known for its strength and durability, making it suitable for various applications in your model making projects.

The printable build area is 155mm(L) x 155mm(W) x 300mm(H).  

The process of creating SLS 3D parts first involves creating a suitable STL digital file that you will need to discuss with a member of B.15 staff. If accepted, your job will be priced up and added to the queue. Once your print has completed, the process requires a cool down period of around 6 hours before we can manually post-process it by removing all of the unfused powder.

Post-Processing – Cleaning excess powder from prints.

Depending on your design, you may have to contribute to this process. If this is the case or you would like to learn how it’s done, then we will provide instruction on how to do it.  

With this type of technology, it is more efficient and sustainable to group files together and because of this we will be trialling a workflow by running the machine once a week. This will initially be on a Thursday to run overnight and be ready to postprocess from Friday. If demand increases this will be extended to also include another day earlier in the week. Files need to be approved for this process no later than 1pm on Thursdays to have a chance of going on later that day. Post processing can be completed from Friday. 

Should you wish to find out more about this printer or about how it might be used as part of your project, drop in and speak to a member of B15 staff and we’ll happily discuss your project requirements.  

See you soon – Lara

Welcome to the 24/25 Academic year at B.15

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Hello to all new and returning students!

Hopefully you all had a good summer break and are ready to hit the ground running at MSA. As usual we have spent the summer servicing and improving resources across the various spaces here at B.15.

The latest tote bag in the incredibly desirable range of B.15 tote bags has landed. Free to new starters

Updated Induction Procedures

All new students will now be required to complete an online induction video followed by a short questionnaire before booking their in-person tour of the space. These two stages are mandatory before students can make use of the space.

Once completed your induction is valid for the duration of your course.

The induction video, quiz and signup link can be found on your Moodle course home page and via the Making page. It looks something like this:

You can find the updated general users guide here. 

Induction Scheduled Closures

For the following days B.15 will be closed for group induction sessions which may result in reduced access during these times:

Tuesday 24th September, Wednesday 25th September (AM), Friday 27th September (AM)

Monday 30th September (AM), Wednesday 2nd October, Friday 4th October (AM)

Monday 7th October (AM), Tuesday 8th October (AM), Wednesday 9th October, Thursday 10th October (AM), Friday 11th October

Wednesday 16th October

New Kit

Towards the end of the last academic year we took delivery of a new SLS powder printer called the Fuse+. This machine replaces our older Projet360 Powder printer and produces a much higher resolution and durability for 3D printed components. Lara has done a much more detailed write-up about this which we’ll be sharing later this week.

Nearby we have also replaced our Vac former with a new pressure former, the Mayku Multiplier. This will enable much more control during forming and has and increased range of material options.

We have replaced one of the bandsaws in the main B.15 space which includes an uprated ceramic guides for an improved accuracy and a new cross slide angle guide.

New Reference Guides

Sustainable Modelmaking Guide – We have worked with Angela Connelly to compile a new sustainable modelmaking guide to different materials and their environmental impact.

B.15 CNC guide – Teagan has put together this guide for CNC preparation for those wanting to utilise it in any upcoming projects.

We’ll be announcing some more updates and upcoming guest events for the coming year soon.

See you soon! B.15 Team

B.15 Modelmaking Awards 2024 Longlist & Winners

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Congratulations to the winners of this years B.15 Modelmaking Awards! To mark ten years of the awards, ten projects were selected from the extensive range of submissions. This made the process of selection difficult and time consuming with the judges deliberating for almost two hours following inspection of all projects in the shortlist.

Whilst there can only be a limited number of prize winners we consider all participants winners and want to thank everyone who took the time to submit their work for consideration. This scheme has always been about much more than the winning projects but about the celebration of all modelmaking in design work.

The body of work submitted over the years will continue to provide inspiration to future students. Bound copies of these submissions that were included in our MAKE MORE MODELS retrospective display at this year degree show can now be found in the B.15 library. Digital copies can be viewed here.

On behalf of Pete Lee & Nina Criswell from HENN, Maz Weineck & Stephen Setford from Stanton Williams and all of us at B.15 we encourage you all to keep being creative and making in your future work in practice and further education.

For those leaving us please keep in touch and those still studying, see you soon!

Thank you to Stanton Williams and HENN for their continued support and enthusiasm!

The final 10 were:

Jamie Schneider (BA3)
Gordon Wu (BA3)
Ava Tizard (BA3)
Wei Feng (MArch 1)
Francis Richardson and Karolina Olszewska (MArch 2)
Louis Eden Walsh (BA3)
Rowdah Charbak (MArch 2)
Keng Chi Mak (MArch 1)
Theo Fisher (MArch 2)
Eleanor Jones (MArch 2)

B.15 Modelmaking Awards 2024 – Shortlist

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Hi All,

After much deliberation the Shortlist for the this years modelmaking awards has been decided by our sponsors HENN and Stanton Williams. We are awarding ten prizes this year to mark our tenth year with judging to take place in person on the afternoon of June 14th.

A total of 26 students have been selected from a longlist of over 70 submissions across all year groups and courses of MSA. In order of year of study/atelier the shortlisted students are as follows:

BA

Nicolas Ho – BA2

Jamie Schneider – BA3 SKN

Jiaqi Liu- BA3 SKN

Ava Tizard – BA3 SKN

Louis Eden Walsh – BA3 Infrastructure Space

Gordon Wu – BA3 Infrastructure space

Darshil Mistry – BA3 Infrastructure space

Dominic Edwards – BA3 CPU

Shahd Salama – BA3 CIA

Ella Cowie – BA3 CIA

MArch/MA

Sourabh Sahasrabudhe, Dakun Wang, Kyungho Oh – MA Architecture and Adaptive Re-use

Patricia Mock Gris, Rachel Elizabeth Thomas, Jing Yang, Wenjie Zeng – MA Architecture and Adaptive Re-use

Keng Chi Mak – MArch1 &Architecture

Brian Cox – MArch2 &Architecture

Lucy Kendall – MArch2 – &Architecture

Nur Alisa Binta Mohd Fadzil- MArch &Architecture

Rowdah Charbak – MArch2 &Architecture

Alina Iskrytska – MArch1 CIA

Ugne Boskaite & Jasmine Cornish – MArch2 CIA

Theo Fisher – MArch2 Flux

Leila Hooshmand – MArch2 Infrastructure Space

Maxwell Willis -MArch2 Infrastructure Space

Lauritz Kobor-MArch2 Infrastructure Space

Wei Feng – MArch1 SKN

Samantha Cutler – MArch 1 SKN

Francis Richardson & Karolina Olszewska – MArch2 SKN

Congratulations to everyone who has been selected and to everyone who submitted. the full longlist can be viewed here. 

If you have been selected please ensure your work is on display in the show and that you or a representative are present at 19.00 on Friday for the awards presentation.

Good luck to everyone and thanks for taking part!

– HENN representatives Oliver Koch and Nina Criswell judging the 2024 submissions for shortlisting

Celebrating ten years exhibition

Don’t forget to check out the MAKE MORE MODELS B.15 modelmaking awards exhibition in room 516 of Chatham until June 22nd.