UCL - “Bartlett Graduate Wins Interior Architecture Award in Global Design Graduate Show”
Congratulations to Matthew Simpson, Architecture BSc, who was recognised in the inaugural online show, created by ARTSTHREAD, i-D/Vice Media and Gucci.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the international Global Design Graduate Show (GDGS) was launched to showcase 2019-20 graduates of programmes across the full spectrum of art and design. Awards were given in a variety of categories, including Interior Architecture.
Matthew’s winning project, ‘An Ode to Apollo’, is a centre for research in acoustics and musical production, platforming both creative and scientific studies of sound. In defiance of the unrelenting roar of the neighbouring elevated-railway, the facility is a prototype in how we might occupy such acoustically-challenged pockets of the built environment. Contained within this architecture of attenuation, a series of inhabitable music chambers celebrate and amplify the weird and wonderful dynamics of sound and space